Alumni of UCLA's graduate program in Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences
As of today, the professional outcomes of 341 alumni of UCLA's EPSS graduate program included:
- 69 university professors
- 85 research or staff scientists
- 29 employed at NASA
- 26 postdocs
- 7 lecturers
- 4 instructors
- 5 PhD students
- a variety of interesting positions in the private sector or in public service
Year | Degree | First Name | Last Name | Thesis Title | Position | Institution | Advisor |
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2024 | PhD | Jordan | Bretzfelder | Wind-Driven Sediment Transport Across The Solar System | --- | Day | --- |
2023 | PhD | Taylor | Dorn | The Transport, Accumulation, and Abrasive Capacity of Sediment in Aeolian Dominated Landscapes on Earth and Mars | Assistant Professor | Front Range Community College | Day |
2023 | PhD | Akash | Gupta | From the Galactic to Atomic Scale: Understanding Planet Formation and Evolution | --- | Schlichting | --- |
2023 | PhD | Justin Takeshi | Higa | Multi-Scale Investigations on the Impacts of Geologic Fractures | --- | Moon | --- |
2023 | PhD | Tyler | Powell | The Influence of Distal Crater Ejecta on Planetary Surfaces: An Investigation of Lunar Cold Spots and Secondary Craters | --- | Paige | --- |
2023 | PhD | Ashley Marie | Schoenfeld | Surface Processes and Tectonics in the Outer Solar System: Insights from the Saturnian Moons Titan and Enceladus | Postdoctoral Scholar | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | Yin |
2023 | PhD | Kevin | Shao | Decadal, Millennial, and Million-Year Erosion Rates in the Easternmost Himalaya | --- | Moon | --- |
2023 | PhD | Francisco | Spaulding-Astudillo | Climate, clouds, and convection on Earth and Titan | Postdoctoral Scholar | UCLA | Mitchell |
2023 | PhD | Yufan | Xu | Forging Experimental Pathways to Planetary Core Convection | --- | Aurnou | --- |
2022 | PhD | Ashna | Aggarwal | Zonal Flows in Planetary Fluid Layers | Analyst | Rocky Mountain Institute | Aurnou |
2022 | PhD | Han | Bao | Seeking Supershear Earthquakes | --- | Meng | --- |
2022 | PhD | Tian | Feng | Navigating Microseismicity Characterization with Backprojection, Matched-filter, and Deep Learning | Data Scientist | Capital One Bank | Meng |
2022 | PhD | Daniel | Fineman | An Experimental Investigation of Mineral Solubility in the System MgO-SiO2-H2O-CO2-NaCl at 10 kbar, 500800 C: Implications for Si, Mg, and C Metasomatism in High Pressure Environments | --- | Manning | --- |
2022 | PhD | Ariel | Graykowski | Properties of Irregular Satellites and Fragmenting Comets | Postdoctoral Fellow | SETI Institute | Jewitt |
2022 | PhD | Richard Allen | Hart | Statistical Study of Lightning-Generated Whistler-Mode Waves Observed by Venus Express | --- | Russell | --- |
2022 | PhD | Heather | Kirkpatrick | Isotopic and Trace Element Investigations of Crustal Processes | Postdoctoral Fellow | Harvard University | Harrison |
2022 | PhD | Sebastian Jian Ernst | Krause | Clumped Isotopes and Cryptic Cycling of Methane: Tracking the Microbial Footprint | Postdoctoral Researcher | University of California, Santa Barbara | Treude |
2022 | PhD | Kaitlyn Anne | McCain | Reconstructing the timing and chemistry of aqueous processing of carbonaceous chondrite parent bodies: A coordinated, in-situ investigation | NanoSIMS Scientist | NASA Johnson Space Center | McKeegan/Young |
2022 | MS | Zachary | Plante | Role of atmospheric dust in controlling Earth's riverine silicate weathering flux | --- | Moon | --- |
2022 | PhD | Lieutauras | Rusaitis | Alfve_nic Wave Resonances in the Kronian and Terrestrial Magnetospheres: Modeling and Observations | Post-doctoral | Goddard Space Flight Center, Catholic University of America | Walker |
2022 | PhD | Simran Singh | Sangha | Characterizing the Deformation Field in Afar from Radar Interferometry and Topography Data | Research Engineer | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory | Peltzer |
2022 | MS | Yingchi | Wang | Formation and modification of wrinkle ridges in the central Tharsis region of Mars as constrained by detailed geomorphological mapping and landform analysis | Geologist | Consulting Company | Yin |
2022 | PhD | Yuqing | Xie | --- | --- | --- | Russell |
2021 | PhD | Lydia | Adair | The Effectiveness of EMIC Wave-Driven Relativistic Electron Pitch Angle Scattering in Outer Radiation Belt Depletion | Lead Mission Operations Engineer | Millennium Space Systems, A Boeing Company | Angelopoulos |
2021 | PhD | Alexandra | Doyle | Analyses of Polluted White Dwarf Stars with Applications to the Geochemistry of Rocky Exoplanets | Postdoctoral Scholar | UCLA Young Laboratory | Young |
2021 | PhD | Jamie Kaaren | Lucarelli | Constraints on dual clumped isotope equilibrium and kinetic effects | Postdoctoral Scholar | UCLA Tripati Laboratory | Tripati |
2021 | PhD | Jeffrey Thomas | Osterhout | Studies of Precambrian microfossils and the search for ancient biosignatures on Earth and Mars | Astrobiologist/Geochemist | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | Schopf |
2021 | PhD | Yi | Qi | Magnetic Reconnection on the Earth's Magnetopause: Identification, Magnetic Flux Transport and Magnetic Entanglement | Postdoctoral Fellow | University of Colorado Boulder | Russell |
2021 | PhD | Krista | Sawchuk | High-Pressure Behavior and Chemical Reactions of Volatile-Bearing Minerals in Earths Mantle | Postdoctoral Associate | Los Alamos National Laboratory | Kavner |
2021 | PhD | Haotian | Xu | A Transdimensional Inversion Method for Multi-mode Surface Waves and Its Application to Antarctica and Mars | Machine Learning Engineer | Viasat Inc. | Beghein |
2021 | PhD | Xu | Zhang | Electron Driven Instabilities around Dipolarizing Flux Bundles in Earths Magnetotail | Assistant Researcher | UCLA | Angelopoulos |
2020 | PhD | Ellen | Alexander | Geochemical Tracers of Crustal Thickness And Their Applicability To The Tibetan-Himalayan Orogen | Postdoctoral Associate | University of Colorado Boulder, Geological Sciences | Harrison |
2020 | PhD | Emily | Hawkins | Experimental Investigations of Convective Turbulence in Planetary Cores | Assistant Professor of Physics | Loyola Marymount University | Aurnou |
2020 | PhD | Chen | Shi | Magnetic Reconnection and Turbulence in the Inner Heliosphere | Assistant Researcher | UCLA | Velli |
2019 | PhD | Kevin Thomas | Coffey | Tectonic Reconstruction of the Southern San Andreas Fault System Using Segments of the Chocolate Mountains Anticlinorium in the San Gabriel Mountains, Southern California, U.S.A. | Lecturer | UCLA | Ingersoll |
2019 | PhD | Kynan Horace George | Hughson | Geologic Mapping and Geophysical Modeling of the Surface of Ceres: Insights into the Structural, Mechanical, and Compositional Properties of the Solar System's Innermost Dwarf Planet | Postdoctoral Fellow | Georgia Institute of Technology | Russell |
2019 | PhD | Erin Janelle | Leonard | Understanding the Ice-shell Evolution on Europa and Enceladus from Geomorphological Observations and Experimental Analogue Modeling | Research Scientist | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory | Yin |
2019 | PhD | Nathaniel Nels | Monson | High-Precision Calibration and Reduction Techniques for Molecular Line Emission in Radio Astronomy & Their Application to the Galactic Chemical Evolution of Silicon | --- | Young | --- |
2019 | MS | Lauren Mae | Santi | Stable and Clumped Isotope Analyses of Last Glacial Maximum Pluvial Lakes to Constrain Past Hydroclimate | Staff Geologist | GSI Environmental, Inc. | Tripati |
2019 | PhD | Emily Foote | Smith | The Bidirectional and Hemispheric Reflectance of Apollo Lunar Soils: Laboratory and Diviner Measurements | --- | Paige | --- |
2019 | MS | Steve Michael | Tomlinson | No Thesis (by Comprehensive Examination) | Aerospace Engineer | Torch Technologies, Inc. | Velli |
2019 | PhD | Wentao (Man-To Hui) | Xu | Studies of Comets and Active Asteroids: From Dynamics to Physical Properties | Assistant Professor | Macau University of Science and Technology | Jewitt |
2019 | PhD | Ailin | Zhang | Theories and Applications of Enhanced Earthquake Back-Projection Imaging | Researcher | Alibaba, Chinese e-commerce company | Meng |
2019 | PhD | Cong | Zhao | Statistical Study on Two Types Of Flux Transfer Events Observed By MMS Spacecraft | --- | Russell | --- |
2018 | PhD | Zagid | Abatchev | Development of Specialized Non-Linear Inversion Algorithms, Basis Functions, Eikonal Solvers, and Their Integration For Use In Joint Seismic and Gravitational Tomographic Inversion | CEO | Automated Seismics LLC | Davis |
2018 | MS | Margaret Yexin | Deng | A geological context of the honeycom terrain on Mars and its constraints on its formation mechanisms | Freelance Writer | Design Everest | Yin |
2018 | PhD | Sean | Faulk | Surface-Atmosphere Connections On Titan: A New Window Into Terrestrial Hydroclimate | Studies in Pre-medicine | Scripps College | Mitchell |
2018 | PhD | Amanda Kathryn | Garcia | Precambrian Transitions in Oxygen and Temperature: Insights from Mineralogy, Paleobiology, and Molecular Evolution | Postdoctoral Research Associate | The University of Arizona | Schopf |
2018 | PhD | Mojhgan | Haghnegahdar | Theoretical Study of Tellurium Isotopes in Ore-Forming Systems, and Studies of Doubly Substituted Isotopologues of Methane | Postdoctoral Fellow | University of Maryland | Schauble |
2018 | PhD | Peter Jasura | Haproff | Tectonic Evolution Of The Easternmost Himalayan Collisional System | Associate Professor | University of North Carolina Wilmington | Yin/Harrison |
2018 | MS | Danielle Maxine | Hastings | No Thesis (by Comprehensive Examination) | Physics Teacher | Springfield Public Schools, Westfield, Massachusetts | Margot |
2018 | MS | Jessica Chen | Lin | Geomorphic Controls on Vs30 Distribution in southern California | Geologist/Geophysicist | Jacobs (San Francisco Bay area) | Moon |
2018 | PhD | Zixu (Terry) | Liu | Foreshock Transients: Their Characteristics And Effects On Particle Acceleration | Assistant Researcher | UCLA | Angelopoulos |
2018 | PhD | Christopher | Mcguire | Thermal Conductivity Measurements Across A Pressure-Induced Phase Transition: Application To Heat Flow In Earth's Interior | Postdoctoral Associate | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | Kavner |
2018 | MS | Bryce Akio | Mitsunaga | No Thesis (by Comprehensive Examination) | PhD candidate | Brown University | Tripati |
2018 | PhD | Michaela (Mickey) Nicole | Villarreal | Understanding the Interiors of Vesta and Ceres Through Their Interactions with the Solar Wind | Postdoctoral Fellow | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory | Russell |
2017 | PhD | Jeanine L | Ash | Clumped Isotopes As Tracers From Enzymes To Global Biogeochemical Cycles | Postdoctoral Fellow | Rice University | Young |
2017 | PhD | Nathan | Brown | Using Luminescence Signals From Bedrock Feldspars For Low-Temperature Thermochronology | Assistant Professor | University of Texas, Arlington | Harrison |
2017 | PhD | Alexander Michael | Grannan | Experimental and Numerical Studies of Mechanically- and Convectively-Driven Turbulence in Planetary Interiors | Research Scientist | Argonne National Laboratory | Aurnou |
2017 | PhD | Junko | Isa | Understanding Planetesimal Evolution: Bulk Chemistry, Petrology, and O-Isotope Studies of the Rumuruti Chondrite Group | Postdoctoral Researcher | Kyushu University | McKeegan/Wasson |
2017 | PhD | Michelle Kay | Jordan | Stable Isotope Studies Of Meteorites With Applications To Terrestrial Planet Formation And Evolution | Forensic Scientist | FBI | Young |
2017 | PhD | Michael Joseph | Lawson | The Application Of Luminescence To Tectonics: Improvements To Luminescent Dating And Its Utilization In High-Energy Depositional Environments | Postdoctoral Fellow | NASA - Jet Propulsion Laboratory | Yin/Rhodes |
2017 | MS | Napoleon | Pempena | Experimental determination of quartz solubility in KCl-H2O solutions at 7.5 and 10 kbar and 600-800°C | Educator | Van Nuys, CA | Manning |
2017 | PhD | Matthew Edward | Walker | Insert Tidal Here: A Planetary Evolution Cookbook | Postdoctoral Fellow | Arizona State University | Mitchell |
2017 | PhD | Zheng | Surface Wave Constraints On The Oceanic Lithosphere- Asthenosphere Boundary | Senior Algorithm Engineer | Alibaba Group | Beghein | |
2016 | PhD | Patrick | Boehnke | A Tale of Two Earths: Reconciling the Lunar and Terrestrial Hadean Records | T.C. Chamberlin Fellow | University of Chicago | Harrison |
2016 | MS | M. Oliver | Bowman | No Thesis (by Comprehensive Examination) | --- | Margot | --- |
2016 | PhD | Ivy S | Curren | Kinematic Evolution and Mechanisms of Strike-Slip Faulting in the Solar System: Insight from Analogue Experiments | Postdoctoral Fellow | Weizmann Institute of Science | Yin |
2016 | MS | J.T. | Daniels | Mineralogic controls on the infrared stimulated luminescence of feldspars: an exploratory study of the effects of Al, Si order and composition on the behavior of a modified post-IR | Staff Geologist | Orion Environmental Inc. | Rhodes |
2016 | PhD | Sarah Eileen Maloney | Palaich | Carbon in the Deep Earth: A Mineral Physics Perspective | High School Physics Teacher | Aurora Public Schools | Kavner/Manning |
2016 | PhD | Christopher Jorge | Snead | Ion Probe Measurements of Comet Dust: Investigating Oxygen Isotope heterogeneity in the Solar System | Assistant Professor of Practice | Texas State University, San Marcos | McKeegan |
2016 | PhD | Deborah Anne | Weiser | Maximum Magnitude and Probabilities of Induced Earthquakes in California Geothermal Fields: Applications for a Science-Based Decision Framework | Customer Success Engineer | One Concern | Jackson |
2016 | PhD | Andrew Vincent | Zuza | Tectonic Evolution of the Northeastern Tibetan Plateau | Associate Professor | University of Nevada, Reno | Yin |
2015 | PhD | Jonathan Shuo | Cheng | Characterizing Convection In Geophysical Dynamo Systems | Research Associate | University of Rochester | Aurnou |
2015 | PhD | Xiangning | Chu | Configuration and Generation of Substorm Current Wedge | Research Associate | University of Colorado Boulder | McPherron |
2015 | MS | Kevin Thomas | Coffey | Oligocene-Miocene sedimentary and volcanic strata of the Vincent Gap region, eastern San Gabriel Mountains, southern California, USA, and their tectonic significance | Lecturer | UCLA | Ingersoll |
2015 | PhD | Carolyn Alicia | Crow | The Early Lunar Magmatic And Impact Histories Recorded By Apollo Zircons | Assistant Professor | University of Colorado Boulder | Mckeegan |
2015 | PhD | Ellen Renee | Harju | Aqueous Alteration and Silicon and Magnesium Isotope Measurements in CR and CV Chondrites | Instructor | East Los Angeles College | McKeegan/Young |
2015 | MS | John | Mering | New constraints on water temperature at Lake Bonneville from carbonate clumped isotopes | PhD Candidate | University of Waikato, New Zealand | Tripati |
2015 | PhD | Shantanu | Naidu | Dynamics Of Satellites In Binary Near-Earth Asteroid Systems: A Study Based On Radar Observations | Scientist | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory | Margot |
2015 | MS | Sarah | Nymeyer | \N | Teacher | Florida | Jewitt |
2015 | PhD | Jodie Barker | Ream | Identifying the Magnetospheric Source of Pi2 Pulsations Using Global MHD Simulations | Research Scientist | MIT | Walker |
2015 | PhD | Jennifer Eva | Scully | Curvilinear Gullies, Lobate Deposits And Fractures, And Their Implications For The Geologic Evolution And Hydration Of Vesta | Research Scientist | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory | Russell/Yin |
2015 | MS | Chris | Shi | Documentation of stem anatomy of the Eocene fern, Denstaedtiopsis aerenchymata (Dennsteadtiaceae) by use of confocal laser scanning microscopy ... | Paleontologist | Applied EarthWorks, Inc. | Schopf |
2015 | PhD | Igor | Stubailo | Seismic Anisotropy Below Mexico And Its Implications For Mantle Dynamics | Research Engineer | Caltech | Davis |
2015 | PhD | Jessica | Watkins | Tectonic and Aqueous Processes in the Formation of Mass-wasting Features on Mars and Earth | Astronaut | NASA | Yin |
2014 | PhD | Hao | Cao | Understanding the Interiors of Saturn and Mercury Through Magnetic Field Observation and Dynamo Modeling | Assistant Professor | UCLA | Russell |
2014 | MS | James | Eguchi | Experimental Determination Of Calcite Solubility In H2O-NaCl-KCl Solutions At 700°C And 8 Kbar | PhD student | Rice University | Manning |
2014 | PhD | Christine | Gabrielse Lin | Magnetospheric Particle Injections And Their Relation To Impulsive, Localized Electric Fields | Research Scientist | The Aerospace Corporation | Angelopoulos |
2014 | PhD | Hairong | Lai | Interplanetary Field Enhancements: The Interaction Between Solar Wind And Interplanetary Dusty Plasma Released By Interplanetary Collisions | Assistant Researcher | UCLA | Russell |
2014 | PhD | Justin Hao | Lee | Growth And Evolution Of Electromagnetic Ion Cyclotron Waves In The Presence Of Multiple Ion Species In The Earth's Magnetosphere | Researcher | The Aerospace Corporation | Angelopoulos |
2014 | PhD | Shanshan | Li | On The Generation And Expulsion Of Plasmoids In Earth's Magnetotail | Intern | Transamerica Corp. | Angelopoulos |
2014 | PhD | Sebastiano | Padovan | Investigation Of The Interior Of Mercury Through The Study Of Its Gravity, Topography, And Tidal Response | Research Associate | German Aerospace Center (DLR), Berlin | Margot |
2014 | PhD | Emma Sojourner Gage | Rainey | The Thermal Conductivity Of The Earth's Lower Mantle And Implications For Heat Flow At The Core-Mantle Boundary | Senior Professional Staff | JHU Applied Physics Lab | Kavner |
2014 | PhD | Anne Elizabeth | Strader | The Effects Of Static Coulomb Stress Change On Southern California Earthquake Forecasting | Data Scientist/Seismologist | DynaFrax UG, Potsdam, Germany | Jackson |
2014 | PhD | Matthew | Wielicki | Developing Zircon As A Probe Of Planetary Impact History | Assistant Professor | University of Alabama | Harrison |
2014 | PhD | Kaiqing | Yuan | Modeling Three-Dimensional Upper Mantle Seismic Anisotropy With Higher Mode Surface Waves | Quantitative Analyst | FS Investments | Beghein |
2014 | PhD | Xiaojia | Zhang | Excitation Of Electron Cyclotron Harmonic Waves In Earth's Magnetotail | Associate Researcher | UCLA | Angelopoulos |
2013 | PhD | Elizabeth | Bell | The Hadean-Archean Transition: Constraints From The Jack Hills Detrital Zircon Record | Assistant Researcher | UCLA | Harrison |
2013 | MS | Diya | Chowdhury | Surface Processes And Deformation History Of The Eastern Tharsis Rise Region, Mars | Research Scientist | Applied GeoSolutions | Yin/Peltzer |
2013 | MS | Michael | Huh | Experimental Determination Of Fluorine And Hydrogen Partitioning Between Apatite And Basaltic Melt | Specialist | Arizona State University | Manning |
2013 | PhD | Feifei | Jiang | The Magnetospheric Source of the Pre-Existing Auroral Arc | Lead Data Scientist | Salesforce | Kivelson |
2013 | PhD | Jiang | Liu | The Role Of Dipolarizing Flux Bundles In Magnetotail Dynamics | Associate Researcher | UCLA | Angelopoulos |
2013 | PhD | Carolyn (Carrie) Rosemary | Nugent | Solar Radiation And Near-Earth Asteroids: Thermophysical Modeling And New Measurements Of The Yarkovsky Effect | Assistant Professor of computational physics and planetary science | Olin College | Margot |
2013 | PhD | Daniel Anthony | Petrizzo | Development Of Carbonate Clumped-Isotope Paleothermometry For Application To Paleozoic Fossils | Postdoctoral Fellow | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory | Runnegar |
2013 | MS | Dallon | Stang | Provenance, Offset Equivalent And Palinspastic Reconstruction Of The Miocene Cajon Valley Formation, Southern California | Geologist | Aera Energy LLC. | Ingersoll |
2013 | MS | O'Brien | Wolf | Quaternary Deformation Of The Middle Pleistocene Christmas Canyon Formation And Its Implications For Neotectonic Processes Associated With The Garlock Fault And Eastern California Shear Zone. | --- | Rhodes | --- |
2013 | MS | Robin | Zu (Reith) | Structural Geology Of A Central Segment Of The Qilian Shan-Nan Shan Thrust Belt: Implications For The Magnitude Of Cenozoic Shortening In The Northeastern Tibetan Plateau | Director of Global Exploration Division | Ormat Technologies, Inc. | Yin |
2012 | PhD | Matthew | Armentrout | High Pressure And Temperature Equations Of State: A Tool For Insight Into Deep Earth Systems | Postdoctoral Fellow | University of California, Davis | Kavner |
2012 | PhD | Luis Antonio | Dominguez-Ramirez | Seismic Scattering In The Subduction Zone Of The Middle America Region | Associate Professor | Universidad Nacional Autnoma de Mxico (UNAM). in Morelia | Davis |
2012 | PhD | Ye | Gao | On The Response Of Polar Cap Dynamics To Its Solar Wind And Magnetotail Drivers At High Levels Of Geomagnetic Activity | Analyst investment company | lost contact | Walker |
2012 | PhD | Michael David | Hartinger | Energy Transfer Via Solar Wind Driven Ultra Low Frequency Waves In The Earth's Magnetosphere | Associate Researcher | UCLA | Angelopoulos |
2012 | MS | Johanna | Hoyt | Provenance And Detrital-Zircon Studies Of The Mint Canyon Formation And Its Correlation To The Caliente Formation, Southern California | Geologist | Aera Energy LLC. | Ingersoll |
2012 | PhD | Jennifer Eileen | Kissinger | Statistical Behavior Of Quasi-Steady Balanced Reconnection In Earth's Magnetosphere | Principal Data Engineer | SemanticBits | McPherron |
2012 | PhD | Catherine Amy | Macris | Geochemical And Petrological Investigations Into Mantle Minerals From Experiments And Natural Samples | Assistant Professor | Purdue School of Science (IUPUI), Department of Earth Sciences | Manning |
2012 | MA | Katherine | Ramer | --- | --- | deceased | Kivelson |
2012 | MS | Belinda | Roder | Assessing The Potential For Luminescence Dating In The Mojave Desert, California | Geologist | CH2M HILL | Rhodes |
2012 | PhD | Matthew Adam | Siegler | Evolution Of Temperature-Driven Stability Of Ice On The Moon | Staff Scientist | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory | Paige |
2012 | PhD | Rachel Ann | Stevenson | The Aftermath Of The Largest Cometary Outburst In Recorded History - An In-Depth Study Of Comet 17P/Holmes | Staff Data Scientist | Headspace Inc. | Jewitt |
2012 | PhD | Marissa Farland | Vogt | The Structure And Dynamics Of Jupiter's Magnetosphere | Research Scientist (also participating scientist with NASAs Juno and MAVEN missions) | BU Center for Space Physics | Kivelson |
2011 | MS | Sunshine | Abbott | A Search For Terrestrial Evidence Of The Late Heavy Bombardment | Senior Research Assistant | Dyson Research, Malmesbury, UK | Harrison |
2011 | MS | Sarah | Byram | Structural Analysis And Kinematic History Of The Southern White Mountains, Eastern California: Implications For Regional Tectonic History | Geologist II | Chesapeake Energy | Yin |
2011 | PhD | Michael | Calkins | Numerical Simulations Of Rapidly Rotating Boundary-Coupled Flows | Associate Professor | University of Colorado, Boulder | Aurnou |
2011 | PhD | Sara Elsa | Cina | Evolution Of The Central Asian Orogenic System And Himalayan-Tibetan Orogen: Constraints From U-Th-Pb Geochronology, Thermobarometry, And Geochemistry | Field Programs Coordinator | Stanford University | Yin |
2011 | PhD | Kathryn Anna | Dyl | Correlating Oxidation And Oxygen Isotopic Composition To Nebular And Parent Body Processes In Chondritic Meteorites | Research Fellow | Curtin University, Australia | Young |
2011 | PhD | Jonathan David | Hunt | The Silica-Water System Through Raman Spectroscopy, Solubility Measurements, And Thermodynamic Modeling | Managing Consultant | Ramboll | Schauble |
2011 | MS | Robert | Lovdahl | Structural Analyses Of Central Candor Chasma, Mars And Implications For A Tectonic Origin | Senior Staff Geologist | TRC Companies, Inc. | Yin |
2011 | PhD | Michael William | McRivette | The Tectonic Evolution Of The Eastern Kunlun Range And The Central Tibetan Plateau, China | Assistant Professor | Albion College | Yin |
2011 | PhD | Colleen Adriann Eleanor | Milbury | Significance And Implications Of Mars' Crustal Magnetization | Postdoctoral Associate | Purdue University, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences | Schubert |
2011 | PhD | Rachel Lofsky | Smith | High-Resolution Near-Infrared Observations Toward Protostellar Objects As Proxies For Solar System Chemical Evolution | Assistant Professor | Appalachian State University | Young |
2011 | PhD | Krista Marie | Soderlund | Investigating Transitions In Planetary Dynamo Models | Research Associate | University of Texas, Austin, Jackson School of Geosciences | Aurnou |
2011 | PhD | Jelena | Tomic | Observations And Modeling Of The Current Deformation In Afar Using Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry | Researcher | ExxonMobil | Peltzer |
2010 | PhD | Paul Ottinger | Hayne | Snow Clouds On Mars And Ice On The Moon: Thermal Infrared Observations And Models | Staff Scientist | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory | Paige |
2010 | PhD | Pamela Suzanne | Hill | Effects Of Bond Environment On Equilibrium Iron Isotope Fractionation In Aqueous Iron Chloride And Iron Sulfide Solutions | Adjunct Professor | California State University, Long Beach | Schauble |
2010 | PhD | Steven Peter | Joy | The Jovian Magnetosheath: Factors Influencing The Size, Shape, And Mirror Mode Content And Distribution | Project Scientist | UCLA | Kivelson |
2010 | PhD | Eric M. | King | An Investigation of Planetary Convection: The Role of Boundary Layers | Sustainable Innovation Director | Nike | Aurnou |
2010 | PhD | George Codi | Lazar | Geochemistry Of Reduced Fluids: Alloys, Methane, And Serpentinization | Assistant Professor | Cal State San Bernardino | Manning |
2010 | PhD | Britney Elyce | Schmidt | Characterizing The Protoplanets : Observations And Geophysics Of Pallas, Vesta And Ceres | Associate Professor | Georgia Tech | Russell |
2010 | MS | Claire | Spafford | Provenance Implications Of Sandstone Petrology And Detrital-Zircon Analysis Of The Mid-Cenozoic Sespe Formation, Coastal Southern California | Science Educator | Buck Institute for Research on Aging | Ingersoll |
2010 | PhD | Qi | Wang | Analysis And Modeling Of Earthquake Interaction | Risk Management Analyst | AIG Corporation | Jackson |
2010 | PhD | Hanying | Wei | The Interaction Between Magnetized Plasma Flow And Unmagnetized Celestial Bodies: Comparison Of Mars, Venus And Titan | Associate Project Scientist | UCLA | Russell |
2009 | PhD | Megan Lee | Cartwright | The Origin, Evolution, And Geomagnetic Impact Of Small-Scale Solar Wind Flux Ropes | Postdoctoral Fellow | SSL, UC Berkeley | Moldwin |
2009 | PhD | Simone | De Leuw | Manganese And Chromium Isotopes: Nebular Processes And Early Solar System Chronology | Operations Manager | Relocity Inc. | Wasson |
2009 | PhD | David Andrew | Galvan | Using Extreme Ultraviolet Images And Total Electron Content To Study The Earth's Plasmasphere | Engineering Specialist | The Aerospace Corporation | Moldwin |
2009 | PhD | Yasong | Ge | Comparative Study On Dynamics Associated With Terrestrial And Jovian Substorms | Professor | Chinese Academy of Sciences | Russell |
2009 | PhD | Benjamin Todd | Greenhagen | Thermal Emission Remote Sensing Of The Moon: Design And Development Of Diviner Lunar Radiometer Compositional Capabilities | Scientist | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory | Paige |
2009 | MS | Michelle | Hopkins | Constraints On Hadean Geodynamics From Mineral Inclusions In >4 Ga Zircons | Lecturer | University of Alabama | Harrison |
2009 | PhD | Xianzhe | Jia | Ganymede's Magnetosphere: Observations And Modeling | Professor | University of Michigan | Walker |
2009 | PhD | Jared Scott | Leisner | Dynamic And Kinetic Plasma Processes At Saturn | Program Scientist | NASA Heliophysics Division | Russell |
2009 | PhD | Jennifer Lynn | Palguta | Hydrothermal Circulation And Geochemical Processing On Carbonaceous Chondrite Parent Bodies | Research Staff | Institute for Defense Analyses | Schubert |
2008 | PhD | Angelo | Antignano | Apatite And Rutile Solubility In Water-Sodium Chloride And Silicate-Bearing Fluids At High Temperatures And Pressures: Implications For Metamorphic Fluids | Technical Team Lead | Exxon/Mobil | Manning |
2008 | PhD | Natanya Maureen | Black | Fault Length, Multi-Fault Rupture, And Earthquakes In California | Risk Analyst | RMS Inc. | Jackson |
2008 | MS | Clinton | Colasanti | An Experimental Study Of OH Solubility In Rutile At 500-900°C, 0.5-2 GPa, And A Range Of Oxygen Fugacities | Senior Geologist | Hecla Greens Creek Mining | Manning |
2008 | PhD | Rebecca M. | Harrington | The Effects Of Faulting Environment On The Seismic Source: Triggering, Source Parameter Relationships, And Energy Considerations | Alexander Von Humboldt Postdoc | Karlsruhe Institute of Technology | Peltzer/Brodsky |
2008 | PhD | Allen Leroy | Husker | Tomography Of The Subducting Cocos Plate In Central Mexico Using Data From The Installation Of A Prototype Wireless Seismic Network: Images Of A Truncated Slab | Associate Investigator | Universidad Nacional Autnoma de Mxico | Davis |
2008 | PhD | Lan | Jian | Radial Evolution Of Large-Scale Solar Wind Structures | Research Astrophysicist | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center | Russell |
2008 | PhD | Ming-Chang | Liu | Short-Lived Radionuclides And Early Solar System Chronology -- A Hibonite Perspective | Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometrist and Cosmochemist | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | McKeegan |
2008 | PhD | Anat | Shahar | Non-Traditional Stable Isotope Fractionation Mechanisms: From Dust To Planets | Staff Scientist | Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington | Young/Manning |
2008 | PhD | Maximilian Jonas | Werner | On The Fluctuations Of Seismicity And Uncertainties In Earthquake Catalogs: Implications And Methods For Hypothesis Testing | Lecturer | University of Bristol | Jackson |
2007 | PhD | David | Berube | Using Ultra Low Frequency Field Line Resonances To Study The Inner Magnetosphere | Assistant Professor | Loyola Marymount University | Moldwin |
2007 | PhD | Stephanie Marion | Briggs | Structural, U-Th-Pb Geochronologic, Thermochronologic, Thermobarometric, And Geochemical Studies Of The Chinese Altai Ranges: Implications For The Phanerozoic Evolution Of The Central Asia Orogenic Sy | Project Geologist | William Lettis and Associates, Augusta, Georgia | Yin |
2007 | PhD | Misa Melina | Cowee | Mass-Loading Of The Jovian Magnetosphere By Io | Scientific Staff | Los Alamos National Laboratory | Russell |
2007 | PhD | Jean E. | Elkhoury | Time Scales Of Stresses In The Earth's Crust And Their Relevance To The Earthquake Process | Senior Research Scientist | Schlumberger-Doll Research Center | Knopoff |
2007 | MS | Yann | Gavillot | Tectonics Of The High Zagros Fold-Thrust Belt, Iran: Constraints On Spatial And Temporal Distribution Of Thrust Faulting Using (U-Th)/He Thermochronology | Assistant Program Specialist, Global Earth Observation | UNESCO | Axen/Horton/Ingersoll |
2007 | PhD | Melissa Katherine | Giovanni | Tectonic And Thermal Evolution Of The Cordillera Blanca Detachment System, Peruvian Andes: Implications For Normal Faulting | Assistant Professor | University of Calgary | Horton/Ingersoll |
2007 | MS | Janet | Harvey | Mapping Active Fault Zones In Southern California Using Master Multispectral Imagery Data | PhD Student | Caltech | Peltzer |
2007 | PhD | Andrew Nelson | Hock | Licancabur Volcano, Bolivia And Life In The Atacama: Environmental Physics And Analogies To Mars | Senior Director, Advanced Technology Programs | Skybox Imaging | Paige |
2007 | PhD | Elizabeth Annah | Jensen | High Frequency Faraday Rotation Observations Of The Solar Corona | Associate Research Scientist | Planetary Science Institute | Russell |
2007 | MS | Jesse | Mosolf | The Detrital Record Of Rapid Neogene Exhumation Of The Cordillera Real, Bolivia | Assistant Research Geologist & Rock Lab Manager | Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology | Horton/Ingersoll |
2007 | MS | Bryan | Murray | Sedimentology, Provenance, And Basin Development Of The Synorogenic Penas And Aranjuez Formations, Northern Altiplano, Bolivia | Associate Professor Geological Sciences | California State Polytechnic University Pomona (Department of Geological Sciences) | Horton/Ingersoll |
2007 | PhD | Abhishek Bhasker | Tripathi | Three-Dimensional Confocal Imagery And Spectral Analysis Of Ancient Cellularly Preserved Fossils | Manager, Human Certification | SpaceX | Schopf |
2007 | PhD | Robert Francis | Troy | Field Studies Of Ice Supersaturations In The Tropical Tropopause Layer | Senior Mechanical Engineer | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory | Russell |
2007 | PhD | Andrew Alexander Gordon | Webb | Contractional And Extensional Tectonics During The India-Asia Collision | Professor | University of Berlin | Yin |
2006 | PhD | Andrew David | Czaja | Characterization Of The Geochemical Alteration Of Permineralized Fossil Plants Based On Macromolecular Structure And Composition | Assistant Professor | University of Cincinnati | Schopf |
2006 | MS | Sara | Difiori | Tectonic Evolution And Lithospheric Deformation Of The Paredones Area, East-Central Baja California, Mexico | Instructor | El Camino Community College | Axen/Ingersoll |
2006 | PhD | John William | Hernlund | Dynamics Associated With Partial Melting In Earth's Uppermost And Lowermost Mantle And The Stucture And Phase Relationships In Earth's D" Layer | Professor | Tokyo Institute of Technology | Tackley |
2006 | PhD | Carrie Aileen | Menold | The Tectonic And Metamorphic Evolution Of The North Qaidam Ultrahigh-Pressure Metamorphic Terrane, Western China | Professor | Albion College | Manning/Yin |
2006 | PhD | Alexander Clemens | Robinson | Tectonic Evolution Of The Kongur Shan Extensional System, Northeastern Pamir: Implications For The Evolution Of The Western Himalayan-Tibetan Orogen | Associate Professor | University of Houston | Yin/Manning |
2005 | MS | C.Y. (Queena) | Chou | Geochronology And Metamorphic Petrology Of The Eastern Himalaya | Senior Geologist | Consulting Company, Calgary | Yin |
2005 | PhD | Elizabeth Scott | Cochran | Earthquake Rupture Initiation And Fault Structure: I. Triggering Of Earthquakes By Earth Tides Ii. Seismic Anisotropy Near The Hector Mine Rupture Iii. Post-Seismic Displacements Observed With Insar | Research Geophysicist | U.S. Geological Survey | Vidale/Peltzer |
2005 | PhD | Galen James | Fowler | The Compression Of The Geo-Magnetosphere: A Physical Model And The Effects Of Compression | Consultant | MBO Partners (NASA HQ) | Russell |
2005 | PhD | Justin Ibrahim | Simon | High Resolution Geochronology: From Planetary Progenitors To Terrestrial Rhyolites | Planetary Scientist | NASA Johnson Space Center | Young |
2005 | PhD | Jean-Pierre | Williams | Geological And Geodynamical Studies Of The Origin And History Of The Tharsis And Valles Marineris Regions Of Mars | Researcher | UCLA | Paige |
2004 | PhD | Jessica | D'Andrea | The Nyainqentanglha Shan | Lecturer | University of Arizona | Harrison |
2004 | MS | Daniel | Eastmond | Composition Of Modern Sand From The Sierra Nevada: Constraints On Actualistic Petrofacies Of Continental-Margin Magmatic Arcs | Instructor | Citrus Community College | Ingersoll |
2004 | MS | Kristin | Ebert | Exhumation History Of The Orocopia Schist And Development Of Hanging Wall Structures Of The Orocopia Fault, Southeastern California | Senior Geologist | ExxonMobil | Yin |
2004 | PhD | Jennifer M | Garrison | Magmatic Processes At Cotopaxi Volcano, Ecuador: Geochemical And Petrological Constraints, And Inferences For Continental Arc Volcanoes | Assistant Professor | California State University, Los Angeles | Reid |
2004 | PhD | Bernard | Guest | The Thermal, Sedimentological, And Structural Evolution Of The Central Alborz Mountains Of Northern Iran: Implications For The Arabia-Eurasia Continent-Continent Collision And Collisional Processes... | Assistant Professor | University of Calgary | Axen |
2004 | PhD | Michael Andrew | Mischna | Orgin And Evolution Of Volatiles On Mars | Group Supervisor | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory | Paige |
2004 | PhD | Michael Halford | Taylor | The Neotectonic Setting Of Conjugate Strike-Slip Faults In Central Tibet | Assistant Professor | University of Kansas | Yin |
2004 | PhD | Scott Martin | Thompson | Magnetotail Current Sheet Structure And Dynamics From Multi-Point Spacecraft Measurements | Senior Member of the Technical Staff | Charles Stark Draper Laboratory | Kivelson |
2004 | PhD | Jorge A | Vazquez | Time Scales Of Silicic Magma Storage And Differentiation Beneath Caldera Volcanoes From Uranium-238-Thorium-230 Disequilibrium Dating Of Zircon And Allanite | Staff Scientist | US Geological Survey | Reid |
2004 | PhD | Zhenjiang | Yu | Spacecraft Magnetic Field Observations As A Probe Of Planetary Interiors - Methodology And Application To Jupiter And Saturn | Doctor of Philosophy - Dept. of Earth & Space Sciences | Southern University of Science and Technology, China | Russell/Walker |
2003 | PhD | Garrett B | Hazelton | The Evolution, Argon Diffusion Properties, And 40Argon/39Argon Ages Of Detachment-Related Fault Rocks In The Footwalls Of The Whipple And Chemehuevi Mountains,Southeastern California | Earth Scientist | MWH Americas, a global engineering consultancy | Axen |
2003 | PhD | Zhen | Liu | Numeric Modeling And Analysis Of Neotectonics In New Zealand - An Integrated Study Of Faults, Lithosphere Dynamics, Continental Collision And Orogeny, And Coupling Of Surface Erosion With Mantle Proce | Scientist, Solid Earth Group | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory | Bird |
2003 | MS | Kurt | Rucker | \N | Geologist | Pioneer Natural Resources | Bird |
2003 | PhD | Yong Li | Wang | The Plasma Depletion Layer | Research Scientist | NASA Goddard Institutional Depository | Russell |
2003 | PhD | Shunxing | Xie | Constraints On Mantle Structure From Geochemistry, Seismology, And Mixing Studies: A Numerical Investigation Of The Compositional Heterogeneity In The Earth's Mantle | Principal Engineer/Soft-ware Architect | ReachLocal | Tackley |
2002 | PhD | Janet Carol | Green | Testing Relativistic Electron Acceleration Mechanisms | Physicist | NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center, Boulder, CO | Kivelson |
2002 | PhD | George Mitchell | Hathaway | Geology Of The Inconsolable Range, East Central Sierra Nevada, Kings Canyon National Park And John Muir Wilderness, California: Magmatic Emplacement And The Dynamic Evolution Of Composite Intrusions | Professor | Citrus College | Reed |
2002 | PhD | Tamitha Lynne | Mulligan | The Structure Of Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejections And Their Solar Origins | Research Scientist | Aerospace Corporation | Russell |
2002 | PhD | Asmin Vijay | Pathare | The Morphological Evolution Of The Martian Polar Layered Deposits | Research Scientist | Planetary Science Institute | Paige |
2002 | PhD | Steven Eric | Persh | Seismic Investigations Of Core-Mantle Boundary Structure And Source Properties Of Deep-Focus Earthquakes | Researcher | Affiliated with Raytheon | Vidale |
2002 | PhD | Yufang | Rong | Evaluation Of Earthquake Potential In China | Senior Research Scientist | FMGlobal Corporation | Jackson |
2001 | PhD | Shirley Alice | Baher | Subsurface Structures And The Relationship To Northridge Earthquake Damage In Santa Monica | Geophysicist | Air Force Technical Applications Center (FL) | Davis |
2001 | PhD | Kari Melissa | Cooper | Time Scales Of Magma Generation, Differentiation, And Storage: Constraints From Uranium-230-Radium-226 Disequilibria | Associate Professor | University of California, Davis | Reid |
2001 | PhD | Eric Saxon | Cowgill | Tectonic Evolution Of The Altyn Tagh-Western Kunlun Fault System, Northwestern China | Professor | University of California, Davis | Yin |
2001 | MS | Lisa | Gilley | \N | Laboratory Manager | University of Texas, Austin | Harrison |
2001 | PhD | Tung-Shin | Hsu | Statistical Evaluations Of The Associations Between IMF Triggering And Substorm Expansion Phase Onset | Research Geophysicist | UCLA | McPherron |
2001 | PhD | Jessica Lynn | Kapp | The Nyainqentanglha Shan: A Window Into The Tectonic, Thermal And Geochemical Evolution Of The Lhasa Block, Southern Tibet | Senior Lecturer | University of Arizona | Harrison |
2001 | PhD | Paul Andrew | Kapp | Tectonic Evolution Of The Qiangtang Terrane And Bangong-Nujiang Suture Zone, Central Tibet | Professor | University of Arizona | Yin |
2001 | PhD | Emil Lawrence | Kepko | Transient Convection In The Earth's Magnetosphere And The Generation Of Pi 2 Pulsations | Research Astrophysicist | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center | Kivelson |
2001 | PhD | John Fredrik | Leland | The Ages Of Fluvial And Volcanic Landforms Using 10-Be, 26-Al, And 36-Cl Exposure Age Dating | Professor | Glendale Community College | Reid |
2001 | PhD | Heather Ann | Lin | Aqueous Geochemistry At Subduction Zone Conditions: Experimental Constraints | Senior Project Geochemist | Golder Associates | Manning |
2001 | PhD | Thomas Paul (T. Paul) | O'Brien | Empirical Analysis Of Storm-Time Energetic Electron Enhancements | Researcher | Affiliated with Aerospace Corporation | McPherron |
2001 | PhD | Ann-Sophie | Provost | The San Adreas Fault: A State Of Stress Analysis In Central And Northern California | Researcher | Universit de Montpellier | Vidale |
2000 | MS | Jeremy | Boyce | Ar Diffusion In Quartz: Implications For Magma Residence Time Estimates Based On 40-Argon/39-Argon Ages Of Quartz Phenocrysts | Planetary Scientist | NASA Johnson Space Center | Reid |
2000 | PhD | Elizabeth J | Catlos | Geochronologic And Thermobarometric Constraints On The Evolution Of The Main Central Thrust, Himalayan Orogen | Associate Professor | University of Texas, Austin | Harrison |
2000 | PhD | Thomas Kevin | Kelty | Quantifying Relationships Between Sedimentary Facies And Permeability Structures | Associate Professor | California State University, Long Beach | Yin |
2000 | PhD | Michael Andrew | Murphy | Tectonic Evolution Of Southwest Tibet | Professor | University of Houston | Yin |
2000 | PhD | Jennifer Alice | Newbury | Plasma Heating And Thermal Transport In The Solar Wind Near 1 Au | Manager, System Engineer | Northrop Grumman Corporation | Russell |
2000 | PhD | Frank C | Ramos | Processes And Mantle Sources Generating Basaltic Volcanism: Insights From The Isotopes | Associate Professor | New Mexico State University | Reid |
2000 | PhD | Leslie Kay | Tamppari | Viking Era Water -- Ice Clouds On Mars | Scientist | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory | Paige |
2000 | PhD | Xiaowen | Zhou | The Configuration Of The High Altitude, High Latitude Magnetosphere | Researcher | Affiiated with Chinese Academy of Sciences | Russell |
1999 | PhD | Christopher Howard | House | Carbon Isotopic Fractionation By Diverse Extant And Fossil Prokaryotes And Microbial Phylogenetic Diversity Revealed Through Genomics | Professor of Geosciences, director of the NASA Pennsylvania Space Grant Consortium | Pennsylvania State University, NASA | Schopf |
1999 | PhD | Xiao-Xi | Ni | A Vane Model Of Earthquake Ruptures | Researcher | Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, (DICP), China | Knopoff |
1999 | PhD | Mark Ian | Richardson | A General Circulation Model Study Of The Mars Water Cycle | Assistant Professor | California Institute of Technology | Paige |
1999 | PhD | Frank James | Tepley | Plagioclase Isotopic Heterogeneities In Continental Volcanic Arc Rocks | Assistant Professor | Oregon State University | Davidson |
1999 | PhD | Michael J | Vendrasco | Early Evolution Of The Polyplacophora (Chitons) | Professor | Pasadena City College | Runnegar |
1999 | PhD | Stephen Edward | Wood | Nucleation And Growth Of Co2 Ice Crystals In The Martian Atmosphere | Senior Scientist | Planetary Science Institute | Paige |
1998 | PhD | Ben | Castellana | Geology, Chemostratigraphy, And Petrogenesis Of The Avachinskiy Volcano, Kamchatka, Russia | \N | \N | Davidson |
1998 | PhD | Kurt Michael | Knesel | Strontium Isotope Systematics During Melting In The Continental Crust | Visiting Assistant Professor, Geosciences | Trinity University | Davidson |
1998 | PhD | Janet Arlene | Leventhal | Green-Pyronxene Xenoliths Of The Cima Volcanic Field: Geochemistry And Teactomagmatic Implications | Tutoring for high school and college students in math, chemistry, and physics | Santa Rosa Learning Associates | Reid |
1998 | PhD | Hong | Liu | Path And Side Effects On Localized Damage Caused By The 1994 Northridge Earthquake | Researcher | Affiliated with Chinese Academy of Sciences | Davis |
1998 | PhD | Adrienne Momilani | Ono | Solar Reflectance Measurements Of Calibration Targets And Martian South Polar Frosts | Senior Systems Engineer | Northrop Grumman Corporation | Paige |
1998 | PhD | Peter Edwin | Rumelhart | Cenozoic Basin Evolution Of Southern Tarim, Northwest China: Implications For The Uplift History Of The Tibetan Plateau | Africa New Opportunities Project Manager | Exxon Mobil | Yin/Ingersoll |
1998 | MS | Matt | Spurlin | Structural Geology Of The Nangqian-Yushu Thrust Belt In Northwestern Tibet | Senior Geologist | Environmental Consulting Co. | Yin |
1998 | MS | Patricia | Weston | Temperature, Timing Anf Fluid Composition Constraints For High Temperature Fracturing And Hydrous Mineral Formation In Gabbros From Hess Deep | Science Teacher | Mercer Island High School | Manning |
1997 | PhD | Ronald David | Baker | A Numerical Investigation Of Convection And Gravity Waves In Venus' Atmosphere | Chair & Professor of Physics and Director of Adams Observatory | Austin College | Schubert |
1997 | PhD | Deborah Simone | Bass | Residual Water Frost In The North Polar Region Of Mars | Research Scientist, Section Manager, Mission System Engineering | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory | Paige |
1997 | PhD | Pi-Jen | Chi | Dynamic Behavior Of Dayside Magnetic Pulsations. | Researcher | UCLA | Russell |
1997 | PhD | Byeon-Gak | Choi | Ion Microprobe Studies Of Oxygen Isotopic Compositions Of Magnetite In Type-3 Chondrites | Researcher | Seoul National University (SNU), Department of Earth Science Education | Wasson |
1997 | PhD | Xiaobin Bob | Ge | Modeling California Interseismic Crustal Deformation Using Geodetic Observations | Supervisor of Seismic Service | Fusion Petroleum Technologies | Jackson |
1997 | PhD | Kevin Robert | Grazier | The Stability Of Planetesimal Niches In The Outer Solar System: A Numerical Investigation | Scientist | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory | Newman |
1997 | MS | Theresa | Heirshberg | Actualistic Petrofacies Analysis Of The Pliocene-Pleistocene Saugus Formation, Ventura Basin, Southern California: Implications For Provenance, Paleotectonics And Paleogeography | Principal, Geologist | Environmental Bankers Association | Ingersoll |
1997 | PhD | William Bruce | Moore | Lithospheric Thinning By Mantle Plumes: Observational Evidence And Dynamic Models | Associate Professor | Hampton University, School of Science | Schubert |
1997 | PhD | David Russell | Potter | Long-Term Postseismic Relaxation In Southern California: Evidence From A Geostatistical Analysis Of Geodetic | Professor - Geophysics | University of Alberta, Physics Department | Jackson |
1997 | PhD | James Todd | Ratcliff | Thermal Convection With Temperature-Dependent Viscosity: A Numerical Investigation Of The Effects Of Variable Viscosity On Thermal Convection In Geophysical Contexts | Tech Staff | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | Schubert |
1997 | PhD | David Alan | Rothstein | Metamorphism And Denudation Of The Eastern Peninsular Ranges Batholith, Baja California Norte, Mexico | President, Principal Petrographer | DRP Consulting Inc., a Twining Company | Manning |
1997 | PhD | Erik Anthony | Schultes | The Rna Folding Problem And Nonhistorical Constraints In Rna Evolution. | International Science Coordinator | GO-FAIR, Leiden, Netherlands | Schopf |
1997 | PhD | Kelly Ann | West | Perspectives On The Diversification Of Species Flocks: Systematics And Evolutionary Mechanisms Of The Gastropods (Prosobranchia: Thiaridae) Of Lake Tanganyika, East Africa | \N | \N | Marshall |
1996 | PhD | Gerard Talton | Blanchard Jr. | Solar Wind Control Of The Westward Auroral Electrojet | Professor and Undergraduate Coordinator | Southeastern Louisiana University | McPherron |
1996 | PhD | James Godfrey | Gehling | Taphonomy Of The Terminal Proterozoic Ediacara Biota, South Australia | Senior Reseach Scientist - Palaeontology | South Australian Museum | Runnegar |
1996 | MS | Robert | Johnston | Structural Geology Of The Uinta Fault Zone, Utah | Senior Geologist | ExxonMobil | Yin |
1996 | PhD | Gretchen Marie | Lindsay | The Evolution Of Large Scale Solar Wind Disturbances And The Predictabiltiy Of Their Geomagnetic Effects | \N | \N | Russell |
1996 | PhD | Keith I | Mahon | Thermochronological and diagenetic investigations of the Naval Petroleum Reserve at Elk Hills, California | Senior Geologist | Chesapeake Petroleum | Harrison |
1996 | MS | Connie | Mongold | Provenance And Paleotectonic Implications Of Upper Miocene, Pliocene, And Lower Pleistocene Sandstones Of The Los Angeles And Ventura Basins, Southern California | Geologist | Aera Energy LLC. | Ingersoll |
1996 | PhD | Kevin James | Peterson | Developmental Regulatory Mechanisms And The Origin And Early Evolution Of The Animal Phyla | Professor of Biological Sciences, Adjunct Professor of Earth Sciences | Dartmouth College, Department of Earth Sciences | Marshall |
1996 | PhD | Matthew Ross | Saltzman | Extinction And Environmental Change, Late Cambrian, Wyoming And Utah | Professor, School Director | The Ohio State University, School of Earth Sciences | Runnegar |
1995 | MS | Peter | Craig | Cenozoic Development Of The Kuche Foreland Of The Tarim Basin, Xinjiang, China | Geologist | Shell Oil | Yin/Ingersoll |
1995 | PhD | Shangxing (Stephen) | Gao | Seismic Evidence For Small Scale Mantle Convection Under The Baikal Rift Zone, Siberia | Professor of Geophysics | Missouri University of Science and Technology | Davis |
1995 | PhD | Xianghong | Kong | Numerical Modeling Of The Neotectonics Of Asia: A New Spherical Shell Finite Element Method With Faults | \N | \N | Bird |
1995 | MS | Elizabeth | Large | Miocene And Pliocene Sandstone Petrofacies Of The Northern Albuquerque Basin, New Mexico | Consulting Geologist | \N | Ingersoll |
1995 | PhD | Adrian | Lenardic | Thermal/Chemical Boundary Layer Convection with Application to the Geodynamics of Terrestrial Planets | Professor | Rice University | Kaula |
1995 | PhD | Dingan | Xu | Low Altitude Signatures Of Magnetospheric Configuration And Dynamics | \N | \N | Kivelson |
1994 | PhD | Julie K | Bartley | Appoaches Toward Interpreting Precambrian Environments: Actualistic Studies Of Carbon Isotopes And Taphonomy In Modern Microbial Communties | Associate Professor | Gustavus Adolphus College, Dept. of Geology, St. Peter, MN | Schopf |
1994 | PhD | Paul | Belasky | Permian Paleogeography Of The Tropical Pacific Region: A Biogeographic Approach To The Determination Of Longitude | Professor | Ohlone College (Department of Geology) | Runnegar |
1994 | PhD | Candice Joy | Hansen | Seasonal Nitrogen Cycles On Titron And Pluto | Senior Scientist | Planetary Science Institute | Paige |
1994 | PhD | Matthew Thomas | Heizler | \N | Geo-chronologist | New Mexico Bureau of Geology | Harrison |
1994 | PhD | Ronald Jay | Hill | The Influence Of Pressure On Coal Maturation And Oil Cracking And The Changes That Occur In Oil Composition With Increasing Maturity As Simulated By Confined Pyrolysis | \N | \N | Kaplan |
1994 | PhD | Earnest Dean Ii | Paylor | The Western Owl Creek Mountains Strike-Slip Duplex: Implications For The Role Of Displacement Transfer Zones In Foreland Deformation | President | WorldTech International LLC | Yin |
1994 | MS | Peter | Rumelhart | Petrology and provenance of the Modelo Formation, Santa Monica Mountains, California: implications for paleotectonic and paleogeographic reconstructions | Retired | Exxon Mobil | Ingersoll |
1994 | PhD | Philip D | Slack | Teleseismic Investigations Of The East African And Rio Grande Rifts | \N | \N | Davis |
1993 | PhD | Wendy Ann | Bohrson | Alkaline And Peralkaline Magmatism In The Eastern Pacific Ocean: Socorro Island, Mexico | Professor | Central Washington University | Reid |
1993 | PhD | Ming | Cao | On The Ulf Waves In The Earth's Dayside Magnetosphere | Information Systems Manager | Global Information Systems | McPherron |
1993 | PhD | Sheng-Hsien | Chen | Magnetohydrodynamic Flows And Waves In The Earth's Magnetotail | Associate Researcher | NASA | Kivelson |
1993 | PhD | Gregory Kim | Crawford | A Study Of Plasma Waves Arising From The Solar Wind Interaction With Venus | Vice President for the Joint and Services Portfolio in the National Security Engineering Center (NSEC) | The MITRE Corporation | Russell |
1993 | MS | Miguel | Cruz | Quartz Solubility In H2O-NaCl At 15-20 Kbar And 900-1100°C | PhD Student | Stanford University | Manning |
1993 | PhD | Colette Marie | De La Barre | An Investigation Into The Existence Of Asteroids At Saturn's Triangular Langrangian Points | Advisory Board | George Mason University | Kaula |
1993 | PhD | Thomas Fleming | Dorsey, Jr | Sources And Sinks Of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide: An Inventory And Mathematical Model In Support Of Investigations Of Particulate Organic Matter And Microbial Processes In The Function Of The Biologica | Researcher | Cambridge Isotope Laboratories, Inc. | Kaplan |
1993 | PhD | Michael (Mic) Howard | Farris | The Physics Of The Collisionless Bow Shock | Director, Data Science & Decision Analytics | KPMG | Russell |
1993 | PhD | Jeffrey Alan | Fillipone | Structural Evolution Of The Cordilleran Foreland Fold And Thrust Belt In Western Montana | Principal, Senior Geologist | Golder Associates Ltd. (Canada) | Yin |
1993 | PhD | Jeffrey Kirk | Geslin | Evolution Of The Pennsylvanian-Permian Oquirrh-Wood River Basin, Southern Idaho | Geologist | Exxon Mobil | Ingersoll |
1993 | PhD | Marty | Grove | Thermal Histories of Southern California Basement Terranes | Professor | Stanford University | Harrison |
1993 | PhD | Carl Max | Hammond | --- | N?A | deceased | Kivelson |
1993 | PhD | Jamshid | Hassanzadeh | Metallogenic And Tectonomagmatic Events In The Se Sector Of The Cenozoic Active Continental Margin Of Central Iran (Shahr E Babak Area, Kerman Province) | Professor | Glendale Community College, Physical Science Division | Davidson/Wasson |
1993 | PhD | Changming | Ho | Plasma Waves In The Nightside Ionosphere Of Venus | Researcher | Tamkang University - Dept. of Physics | Russell |
1993 | PhD | Toby Brian | Moore | Micropaleontology Of The Early Proterozoic Gunflint Formation | Chief Hydrogeologist and Water Resource Manager | Golden State Water Company | Schopf |
1993 | MA | Bill | Pakula | --- | --- | --- | Kivelson |
1993 | PhD | Steven Michael | Petrinec | Solar Wind Dynamic Pressure On The Terrestrial Magnetosphere | Physicist | Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company | Russell |
1993 | PhD | Herbert Francisco | Rendon | Uniform Asymptotic Synthetic Seismograms And Teleseismic Tomography Of Southern California | Researcher | Fundacin Venezolana de Investigaciones Sismolgicas | Davis |
1993 | PhD | David James | Szumigala | Gold Mineralization Related To Cretaceous Magmatism In The Kuskokwim Mountains Of West-Central And Southwestern Alaska | \N | \N | Reid |
1993 | MA | Yuyao | XU | --- | --- | --- | Kivelson |
1992 | PhD | John Neil | Christensen | The Sr Isotopic Measurement Of Rates Of Tectonometamorphic Processes: Case Studies In Southeastern Vermont, Usa, And The Tauern Window, Eastern Alps | Staff Scientist | Berkeley Lab, Earth & Environmental Sciences | Rosenfeld/Depaolo |
1992 | PhD | Francis Keoki | Chun | A Statistical Study Of Field-Aligned Currents In The Earth's Inner Magnetosphere | Professor of Physics | United States Air Force Academy | Russell |
1992 | PhD | Sergio Alejandro | Cordero | Convection In A Rotating Fluid Hemispherical Shell: An Experimental Study | \N | \N | Busse |
1992 | PhD | Hyunchae | Cynn | Effects Of Cation Disordering In Mgal2O4 Spinel On The Rectangular Parallelepiped Resonance And Raman Measurements Of Vibrational Spectra | Research Staff, Physics Division | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | Anderson |
1992 | PhD | Kathleen Ann | Devaney | Provenance Evolution Of Upper Paleozoic Sandstones Of North-Central New Mexico | Instructor | El Paso Community College | Ingersoll |
1992 | PhD | William | Heins | The Effect Of Climate And Topography On The Composition Of Modern, Plutoniclastic Sand | Geologist | Exxon Mobil | Ingersoll |
1992 | PhD | Linda Joyce | Horn | Wave Structure In Planetary Rings | Principal Research Scientist | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory | Russell |
1992 | PhD | David Vandyke | Kemp | A Model For The Subduction Mechanics Of Flexible Lithosphere And Its Viscous Coupling To The Mantle Using Power-Law Rheologies | Research Fellow | California Institute of Technology | Bird |
1992 | PhD | Eric Donald | Wendlandt | Isotopic And Geochemical Studies Of Continental Lithosphere In Cratons And Active Rifts: Xenoliths From The Colorado Plateau And Rio Grande Rift Regions | Hydrogeologist | Montgomery Watson Inc. | Reid/Depaolo |
1991 | PhD | Henry Ozoemena | Ajie | Comparison Of Bone Collagen And Osteocalcin For Determination Of Radiocarbon Ages And Paleodietary Reconstruction | \N | \N | Kaplan |
1991 | PhD | Lee Frost | Bargatze | The Dynamic Response Of The Westward Auroral Electrojet And Polar Cap Currents To Solar Wind-Magnetosphere Coupling | Assistant Researcher | UCLA | McPherron |
1991 | PhD | Anne Elizabeth | Beachey | A Numerical Study Of Fluid Flow Through Fractally-Rough Channels, With Applications To Porous Medium And Fracture Flow | Researcher | Arete Associates | Newman |
1991 | PhD | Tzerhong | Chen | Finite-Strain Analysis In A Fault-Bounded Series Of Folds | \N | \N | Oertel |
1991 | MS | Elizabeth (Liz) | Forshee | Evolution Of A Large Landslide Complex In The Whipple Mountains, Eastern California | Global Risk and Commercial Director - Resilience, Senior VP | Arcadis | Yin |
1991 | PhD | Donald George | Isaak | High Temperature Elasticity And Earth's Upper Mantle | Executive Director, Office of Research and Grants | Azusa Pacific University Azusa | Anderson |
1991 | PhD | Keith James | Jagiello | Determination Of Horizontal Separation On Late Cenozoic Strike-Slip Faults In The Central Mojave Desert, Southern California | Independent Consulting Petrophysicist | Petro Data Integration | Christie |
1991 | PhD | Eric Alan | Jerde | Geochemistry And Petrology Of Hypabyssal Rocks Associated With The Midcontinent Rift, Northeastern Minnesota | Department Chair and Associate Professor of Geology | Morehead State University, Earth and Space Sciences Department | Wasson |
1991 | MA | Michael | Krajnak | --- | --- | --- | Kivelson |
1991 | PhD | Guan | Le | Generation Of Upstream Ulf Waves In The Earth's Foreshock | Project Scientist | NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center | Russell |
1991 | PhD | Anne Marie | Linn | Isotopic And Geochemical Stratigraphy And Paleotectonic Analysis: Mesozoic Great Valley Forearc Basin Of California | Project Director | National Academies of Sciences | DePaolo/Ingersoll |
1991 | PhD | Stephen Tracy | Nelson | Mid-Tertiary Magmatism Of The Colorado Plateau: The Henry And La Sal Mountains, Utah | Professor Geological Sciences | Brigham Young University | Davidson |
1991 | MS | Adam | Norris | Structural Geology Of The Big Horn Mountains, Wyoming | Senior Project Geologist | Geoscience Support Service | Yin |
1991 | PhD | Zhengkang | Shen | Regional Tectonic Deformation In Southern California, Inferred From Terrestrial Geodesy And The Global Positioning System | Researcher - Recall | UCLA | Jackson |
1991 | PhD | Pu (Paul) | Song | The Subsolar Magnetopause And Surrounding Plasma Layers | Professor (Physics Department) | UMass Lowell | Russell |
1991 | PhD | Xue-Min | Yang | Magma Storage And Transport System Of The Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii - A Result Using The Geodetic Data From 1970-1985 | Commercial Spec/Seismic Drilling | Reservoir Management Group Schlumberger | Davis |
1991 | PhD | Tielong | Zhang | Solar Wind Interaction With Venus And Mars | Principal Investigator for the Venus Express Magnetometer (MAG) | Institut fr Weltraumforschung (Space Research Institute) Graz, Austria | Russell |
1990 | PhD | Denise Anne | Battles | The Hydrothermal Evolution Of The Shamrock Batholith, Western Nevada, And The Origin Of Sodium-Rich Alteration In The Western United States | President | SUNY Geneseo | Barton |
1990 | PhD | Gilles Yves A | Bussod | The Experimental Deformation Of Spinel Lherzolite At Subsolidus And Hypersolidus Conditions | Principal Investigator | Los Alamos National Laboratory | Christie |
1990 | PhD | Rosemary | Capo | Application Of Strontium Isotopes To Late Cenozoic Paleoceanography And Stratigraphy | Professor | University of Pittsburgh | DePaolo/Ingersoll |
1990 | PhD | David | Diamond | Structural And Sedimentologic Evolution Of An Extensional Orogen, Silver Peak Range And Adjacent Areas, West-central Nevada | Geologist | Berkeley Livermore Labs | Ingersoll |
1990 | PhD | Robert Paul | Ilchik | Geology And Genesis Of The Vantage Gold Deposits, Alligator Ridge-Bald Mountain Mining District, Nevada | Exploration Geologist and Geochemist | Eastern Goldfields | Barton |
1990 | PhD | Kurt R | Moore | The Role Of Pickup Ions In The Solar Wind Interactions With Venus As Deduced From Observations And Numerical Simulations | Researcher | Affiliated with Universitat Politcnica de Catalunya | Russell |
1990 | PhD | Bonnie Marcia | Packer | Sedimentology, Paleontology, And Stable-Isotope Geochemistry Of Selected Formations In The 2.7-Billion-Year-Old Fortescue Group, Western Australia | Geologist | US Army | Ingersoll |
1990 | MS | Paul | Short | Petrofacies And Provenance Of The Great Valley Group, Southern Klamath Mountains And Northern Sacramento Valley | (Former) Customer Satisfaction Program Manager | Hewlett-Packard | Ingersoll |
1990 | MS | Mark | Sutherland | Petrology and Provenance of Miocene Sedimentary Rocks, Point Sur, California: Implications for Offset along the San Gregorio-Hosgri Fault Zone | Professor | College of DuPage | Hall/Ingersoll |
1990 | PhD | Heather Elizabeth | Trim | Genesis Of Granite-Related Lithophile Element-Rich Mineralization In The Great Basin: Kern Mountains, Nevada, And Birch Creek, California | Engineering Geologist | Regional Water Quality Control | Barton |
1990 | PhD | Ke-Shan | Zou | Seismic Structure Of The Upper Mantle Under The Pacific Ocean | Technical Advisor | Reservoir Services, Data, & Consulting Services | Knopoff |
1989 | PhD | William | Cavazza | Petrology, Diagenesis, Sedimentology And Tectonics Of The Stilo-Capo D'Orlando Formation (Miocene), Southern Italy | Professor | Universita di Bologna | Ingersoll |
1989 | PhD | Kathleen M. | Marsaglia | Petrography, provenance, and diagenesis of arc-related sands and sandstones recovered by the Deep Sea Drilling Project on circum-Pacific, Mediterranean and Caribbean legs | Professor, Chair | California State University, Northridge | Ingersoll |
1989 | PhD | Miguel | Moreno | --- | Professor and Dept. Chair | Los Angeles Trade Technical College | Kivelson |
1989 | PhD | Harlan | Spence | --- | Professor and Director | Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans and Space, UNH | Kivelson |
1989 | MS | Christian | Zarn | Structural Geology Of Glacier National Park, Western Montana | Senior Project Geologist | Consulting Company, Southern California | Yin |
1989 | PhD | Xiaoming | Zhu | --- | --- | San Jose, CA | Kivelson |
1987 | PhD | Jon A | Linker | --- | President | Predictive Sciences, Inc. | Kivelson |
1987 | PhD | Daniel | Winterhalter | --- | Principal Research Scientist | Jet Propulsion Lab | Kivelson |
1980 | MS | Bonnie | Bloeser | Structurally complex microfossils from shales of the Late Precambrian Kwagunt Formation (Walcott Member, Chuar Group) of the eastern Grand Canyon, Arizona | Lecturer | San Diego State University Lecturer (Historical Geology, Petroleum System, Environmental Science) | Schopf |
1980 | PhD | Howard J | Singer | --- | Chief Scientist | NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) | Kivelson |
1979 | PhD | Stanley M | Kaye | --- | Director | Princeton Plasma Physics Lab, NSTX-U Research Program | Kivelson |