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Author:

Kuntz, Brad W

Title:

Laboratory, Field, and Modeling Analysis of Solute Transport Behavior at the Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

tracer
porosity
permeability
shale
solute transport
Shale Hills
soil cores
soil weathering
anomalous tailing
mobile-immobile
continuous time random walk
MIM
CTRW
critical zone
bromide

File:

Download Kuntz_MSthesisFinal_corrected.pdf

Committee Members:

Kamini Singha, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kamini Singha, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

West, Nicole R

Title:

Topographic fingerprints of hillslope erosion in the central Appalachians as revealed by meteoric 10be: Toward understanding the evolution of critical zone architecture

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

critical zone
beryllium-10
hillslope erosion

File:

Download NWest_Dissertation_Revisions_Jul18.pdf

Committee Members:

Eric Kirby, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Rudy Slingerland, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Susan Louise Brantley, Committee Member
Douglas Miller, Committee Member

Author:

Del Vecchio, Joanmarie

Title:

A record of coupled hlllslope and channel response to Pleistocene periglacial erosion in a sandstone headwater valley, central Pennsylvania

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

geomorphology
periglacial
cosmogenic nuclides
paleoclimate
critical zone

File:

Download Del_Vecchio_MS_thesis_final_August_v2.pdf

Committee Members:

Roman A. DiBiase, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Susan L. Brantley, Committee Member
Li Li, Committee Member

Author:

Hoagland, Nell E

Title:

Surface water-sediment interactions: Examples from pristine and contaminated catchments

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

arsenic
nitrogen
critical zone
floodplains
gold mining
groundwater-surface water interactions
hyporheic zone
aqueous geochemistry
hydrology
water contamination

File:

Download Dissertation_Hoagland_181121b.pdf

Committee Members:

Susan Louise Brantley, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Susan Louise Brantley, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Matthew S Fantle, Committee Member
Demian Saffer, Committee Member
Jason Philip Kaye, Outside Member
Tess Alethea Russo, Special Member

Author:

Silverhart, Perri

Title:

Land use versus climate controls on hillslope erosion at a farmed headwater catchment in central Pennsylvania

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

erosion
agricultural erosion
critical zone
czo
cesium-137

File:

Download silverhart_thesis_final3.pdf

Committee Members:

Roman Alexander Dibiase, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Susan Louise Brantley, Committee Member
Jason Philip Kaye, Committee Member
Mark E Patzkowsky, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Marcon, Virginia Margaret

Title:

THE EFFECT OF LITHOLOGY ON (BIO)GEOCHEMICAL WEATHERING: SANDSTONE TO SERPENTINITE

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

biogeochemical weathering
critical zone
Shale Hills
87Sr/86Sr
mineral biosignatures
δ13C
porosity

File:

Download MarconDissertation_Formatted_Nov2019b.pdf

Committee Members:

Susan Louise Brantley, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Susan Louise Brantley, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Maureen Feineman, Committee Member
Roman Alexander Dibiase, Committee Member
Li Li, Outside Member
Mark E Patzkowsky, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Ma, Lisa

Title:

P-wave Velocity Structure of the Shale Hills Watershed, Pennsylvania

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

critical zone observatory
critical zone
czo
Susquehanna
Shale Hills
P-wave
velocity structure
shallow subsurface
geophysics
tomography
velocity
2D
two dimensional
seismic refraction
FAST
regolith
sonic logs
boreholes
frost-cracking
dissolution of chlorite
pyrite oxidation

File:

Download LM_ms_thesis_0914.pdf

Committee Members:

Andrew Arnold Nyblade, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Susan Louise Brantley, Committee Member
Charles James Ammon, Committee Member
Mark E Patzkowsky, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Reinthal, Mary

Title:

Utilizing 234U/238U and 87Sr/86Sr to understand the provenance and fate of uranium in Shaver’s Creek, Pennsylvania

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

radiogenic isotopes
uranium
fertilizer
agronomy
CZO
critical zone
Shale Hills
Cole Farm
hydrogeology

File:

Download Thesis_Reinthal.pdf

Committee Members:

Susan Louise Brantley, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christopher Howard House, Committee Member
Timothy Bralower, Committee Member
Lin Ma, Special Signatory
Mark E Patzkowsky, Program Head/Chair