Listed below are the Geology and Planetary Science MS and PhD graduates for the years 2000-2007. Please contact Academic Affairs Administrator Shannon Granahan (granahan@pitt.edu) if you are a graduate who has been left out or you can provide a missing title. We are currently updating our database for theses completed prior to 2000.
2007
Brian Lipinski, PhD
Advisor: Harbert
"Integrating Geophysics And Geochemistry To Evaluate Coalbed Natural Gas Produced Water Disposal, Powder River Basin, Wyoming"
Sherry Stafford, PhD
Advisor: Capo
"Precambrian Paleosols as Indicators of Paleoenvironments on the Early Earth"
Damian Piaschyk, MS
Advisor: Anderson
"Detachment Faults Between the Specter Range and Southern Spring Mountains: A Transpressional Fault Zone Along the Las Vegas Valley Shear Zone, Southeastern Nevada"
Kevin Robinson, MS
Advisor: Rosenmeier
"A Holistic Paleolimnological Study of North-Central Mongolian Lakes"
Lev Spivak-Birndorf, MS
Advisor: Stewart
"Sequential Leaching Of Coal Utilization By-products: Geochemistry and Strontium Isotope Systematics"
2006
Colin Cooke, MS
Advisor: Abbott
"Lake Sediment Archives of Atmospheric Pollution from the Peruvian and Bolivian Andes"
Nathan Stansell, MS
Advisor: Abbott
"Last Glacial Maximum Equilibrium-Line Altitude Reconstruction, Paleo-Temperature Estimates and Deglacial Chronology of the Mérida Andes, Venezuela"
2005
Barbara Hamel, MS
Advisor: Stewart
"Application of Strontium Isotope Ratios as Tracers of Coal Mine Drainage Provenance and Abatement Efficiency in the Omega Mine, Morgantown, West Virginia"
Katherine Walden, MS
Advisor: Stewart
"Neodymium and Strontium Isotope Investigation of the Precambrian Kalkkloof Paleosol, South Africa"
Erich Zorn, MS
Advisor: Anderson
"Meso- and Micro-scale Analysis of Foliated Rocks of the Southern Coast Belt: A Transect from Whistler to Lillooet, British Columbia"
2004
Scott Mest, PhD
Advisor: Crown/Ramsey
"Evolution of the Martian Highlands Geomorphic and Morphometric Analysis of Drainage Basins and Valley Networks & Multispectral Remote Sensing and Field Analyses of Channel Morphology and Bed Deposits of Intermittent Streams in Sub-arid and Arid Regions"
Jessica Bluth, MS
Advisor: Skilling
"Syn-eruptive Incision of Koko Crater, Oahu, Hawaii by Condensed Steam and Hot Cohesive Debris Flows: A Re-interpretation of the Type Locality of 'U-Shaped' Channels"
Daniel Nelson, MS
Advisor: Abbott
"Holocene Paleoenvironmental History from Stable Isotopes in Lake Sediment, North-Central Washington State"
Barbara Osgood-Kutchko, MS
Advisor: Abbott
"Late Holocene Climate Inferred From Varved Sediments: Blue Lake, Brooks Range, Alaska"
2003
William Beatty, PhD
Advisor: Rollins
"The Role of Spinose Ornament in Predator Deterrence and Epibiont Colonization: the Bivalve Arcinella, Pinecrest (Pliocene) of Florida"
Candace Kairies, PhD
Advisor: Capo
"Characterization of Iron Hydroxide Precipitates Associated with Abandoned Mine Drainage in the Bituminous and Anthracite Regions of Pennsylvania"
Jennifer Piatek, PhD
Advisor: Hapke
"Size-dependent Scattering Properties of Planetary Regolith Analogs"
Paul Coyle, MS
Advisor: Anderson
"Structural and Stratigraphic Controls on the Distribution of the Buhrstone Siliceous Iron Ore, Allegheny Plateau, West Central Pennsylvania"
Danielle Deemer, MS
Advisor: Anderson
"Structural History of Transpressional Deformation at a Constraining Bend at the Northern Terminus of the Las Vegas Valley Shear Zone, Mercury, Nevada: Implications for the Formation of the Yucca Mountain Region"
Paula Grgich, MS
Advisor: Harbert
"Delineating the Subsurface: Using Surface Geophysics to Define Groundwater Flow Paths in a Carbonate Aquifer"
Sally Kuhn, MS
Advisor: Ramsey
"Characterization of Dome Processes at Soufrière Hills Volcano, Montserrat: Synthesis of Infrared Remote Sensing Data with a Multi-parameter Database"
Lara Homsey, MS
Advisor: Capo
"Geochemical Characterization of Archaeological Sediments at Dust Cave, Alabama"
Erica Love, MS
Advisor: Harbert
"Utilization of Airborne Thermal Infrared Imagery and Helicopter Mounted Electromagnetic Conductivity to Delimit Abandoned Mine Drainage and Abandoned Mine Pools in the Kettle Creek Watershed in North Central Pennsylvania"
Tamara Misner, MS
Advisor: Ramsey
"Multi-frequency, Multi-temporal, Brush Fire Scar Analysis in a Semi-arid Urban Environment"
Shawn Wright, MS
Advisor: Ramsey
"Thermal Infrared Data Analyses of Meteor Crater, Arizona: Implications for Mars Space-borne Data from the Thermal Emission Imaging System"
2002
Jeffrey Byrnes, PhD
Advisor: Crown
Thesis title not available
Ann Kim, PhD
Advisor: Stewart
"Fluid Extraction of Metals from Coal Fly Ash: Geochemical Simulation of Natural Leaching"
Elizabeth Bryant, MS
Advisor: Capo
"Geochemical Modeling of Coal Mine Drainage From a Bituminous Coal Field in Western Pennsylvania"
Alfouzan Fouzan, MS
Advisor: Harbert
Thesis title not available
Melanie Hellman, MS
Advisor: Ramsey
"Analysis of Hot Springs in Yellowstone National Park Using ASTER and AVIRIS Remote Sensing"
Gina Hobbs, MS
Advisor: Evans
"Characterizing Paleofluids in the Western Valley and Ridge Province of West Virginia: Uncovering the Path of Migrating 'Warm' Fluids"
Kristen Lydy, MS
Advisor: Evans
"Strain Partitioning, Mineralogy, and Anisotropy of Magnetic Susceptibility (AMS) of the Oriskany Sandstone of Northeastern West Virginia"
2001
John Dembosky, PhD
Advisor: Anderson
"Paleotectonic Restoration of Miocene Estensional Strain of Crystalline Rock Provinces and Terranes in Southwestern North America"
Steven Schatzel, PhD
Advisor: Stewart
"An Evaluation of the Origin and Post-Depositional Modification of Coal Mineral Matter Using Rare Earth Elements and Neodymium Isotopes"
Joseph Minervini, MS
Advisor: Stewart
"Radiogenic Isotope Investigation of Sources, Transport, and Deposition of Rare Earth Elements in the Owens Lake Drainage Basin, Eastern California"
Timothy Pierce, MS
Advisor: Crown
"Morphologic and Topographic Analyses of Martian Debris Aprons"
Amanda Reynolds, MS
Advisor: Capo
"Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction of the Permo-Pennsylvanian Dunkard Basin: Geochemical Evidence for Lacustrine Core and Associated Paleosols"
2000
Amy Hale, PhD
Advisor: Hapke
"A Time Dependent Model of Radiative and Conductive Thermal Energy Transport in Planetary Regoliths with Applications to the Moon, Mercury and Io"
Sharon Lauffer, MS
Advisor: Harbert
"Fault Sets, Systems and Basins, Yucca Mountain Region, Nevada: A Geographic Information Systems-Based Kinematic Analysis"
Victoria Pretti, MS
Advisor: Stewart
"Geochemistry and Strontium Isotope Composition of Eastern Sierra and Western White-Inyo Mountain Streams: Solute Sources in Sierra Nevada Stream Water"
Garrett Sleeman, MS
Advisor: Donahue
"Holocene Depositional History of Bac Ninh Provence, Vietnam: Effects of Geomorphic Development on Site Distribution"
William Winters, MS
Advisor: Capo
"Hydrogeologic and Geochemical Evolution of a Bituminous Coal Basin, Irwin Syncline, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania"
Sarah Zimmerman, MS
Advisor: Harbert
"GIS Analysis and Stress Modeling of Tectonic Blocks at Cape Kamchatka, Russia Using Principal Stress Proxies From High Resolution SAR: New Evidence for the Komandorksiy Block"
