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Ph.D. Graduates

Name

Year

Advisor

Thesis Title

Vlad Kaminski

2008

Harbert

Geophysical surveys aimed to save human lives by facilitating safety assessment

Brian Lipinski

2007

Harbert

Integrating geophysics and geochemistry to evaluate coalbed natural gas produced water disposal, Powder River Basin, Wyoming

Sherry Stafford

2007

Capo

Precambrian paleosols as indicators of paleoenvironments on the early Earth

Scott Mest

2004

Crown

Evolution of the Martian highlands: Implications from drainage basin characteristics and valley network morphologies

Lee Beatty

2003

Rollins

The role of spinose ornament in predator deterrence and epibiont colonization: The bivalve Arcinella, Pinecrest (Pliocene) of Florida

Candace Kairies

2003

Capo

Characterization of iron hydroxide precipitates associated with abandoned mine drainage in the bituminous and anthracite regions of Pennsylvania

Jennifer Piatek

2003

Hapke

Size-dependent scattering properties of planetary regolith analogs

Jeff Byrnes

2002

Crown

Lava flow field emplacement studies of Mauna Ulu (Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii, USA) and Venus using field and remote sensing analyses

Ann Kim

2002

Stewart

Fluid extraction of metals from coal fly ash: Geochemical simulation of natural leaching

John Dembosky

2001

Anderson

Paleotectonic restoration of Miocene extensional strain of crystalline rock provinces and terranes in southwestern North America

Brian Peer

2001

Donahue

Holistic analysis of thin sections of early Bronze Age pottery from Babedh-Dhra and Numeira

Steve Schatzel

2001

Stewart

An evaluation of the origin and post-depositional modification of coal mineral matter using rare earth elements and Neodymium isotopes

Amy Hale

2000

Hapke

A time dependent model of radiative and conductive thermal energy transport in planetary regoliths with applications to the Moon, Mercury, and Io

Charles Whipkey

1999

Capo

Atmospheric and basalt weathering cation inputs to soils and the development of secondary calcite and dolomite on the island of Hawaii

Matthew Peitersen

1999

Crown

Downflow width behavior of martian and terrestrial lava flows

Katherine Hakala

1999

Rollins

Late-Quaternary vegetation and climate history near Grass Lake, southern Cascade Range, California

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