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Dissertations & Theses

Listed below are the Geology and Environmental Science MS and PhD graduates for the years 2000 to present. Please contact the Academic Coordinator, Francesca Sirianni (gpsgrad@pitt.edu) if you are a graduate who has been left out, or if you can provide a missing title.
 
2025

Ayo-Bali, Abiodun, MS
Advisors: Capo/Stewart
Master’s Thesis: Assessment of Sediment Geochemistry in La Barra de Santiago Estuary, El Salvador Reveals Unexpected Nickel Contamination

Boothe-Lordon, Tashane, PhD
Advisors: Capo/Stewart
Doctoral Dissertation: Exploring acid mine drainage (AMD) precipitates as a resource for critical metals: Integrating benchtop experiments, field studies, and modeling

Campbell, Clement, MS
Advisor: Bain
Master’s Thesis: Hysteresis in Groundwater/Green Infrastructure Interactions

Hall, Elijah, PhD
Advisor: Elliott
Doctoral Dissertation: Thesis title not available

Prajapati, Rajaram, PhD
Advisors: Bain/Gardner
Doctoral Dissertation: Exploring suspended sediment dynamics: local catchments to global river basins

2024

Butkus, Camille, MS
Advisor: Elliott
Master’s Thesis: Evaluating liposomes as carriers to retain agricultural nitrogen fertilizer

Collins, Evan, PhD
Advisor: Werne
Doctoral Dissertation: A Biomarker-based Reconstruction and Comparison of The Microbial Ecology of Ancient Lake Magadi and Modern Nasikie Engida in the East African Rift Valley

Dobra, Kristi, PhD
Advisors: Capo/Stewart
Doctoral Dissertation: Uptake, isotopic fractionation, and distribution of Ba, Sr, and Mn in Ohio River watershed freshwater bivalves across taxa and time

Glover, Chloë, PhD
Advisor: McQuarrie
Doctoral Dissertation: What controls mountain width?  Evaluating geometry, rate of deformation, exhumation, and landscape response in the central and southern Peruvian Andes

Hill, Memphis, PhD
Advisor: Bain
Doctoral Dissertation: Impacts of Metal Contamination and Reactive Nitrogen on Sediment Microbial Communities in Roadside Freshwater Ponds

Mackey, Justin, PhD
Advisor: Bain
Doctoral Dissertation: "Characterizing lithium resources, operational hazards and treatment wastes from produced waters sourced from the Marcellus Shale"

Schaffer, Camille, PhD
Advisors: Capo/Stewart
Doctoral Dissertation:  Coal mine drainage contaminant trend prediction in an Appalachian basin, USA

2023

Braza, Mary, PhD
Advisors: McQuarrie
Doctoral Dissertation: Geometry, Kinematics, and Exhumation Pathways in the Himalaya: Thermokinematic Models for Western Nepal and Arunachal Pradesh, India

Mark, Samuel Z, PhD
Advisor: Abbott
Doctoral Dissertation: Laminated Holocene lacustrine sediment records of ENSO and PDO-scale climate variability from the Pacific Basin

Matecha, Rebecca Miriam, PhD
Advisors: Capo/Stewart
Doctoral Dissertation: Fluid to Rock Interactions During Deposition, Diagenesis, and Anthropogenic Activities: Application of Stable Barium Isotopes in the Appalachian Basin

McKeeby, Benjamin E., PhD
Advisors: Ramsey
Doctoral Dissertation: Deriving the Thermophysical Properties of Planetary Surfaces Using Off-Axis Thermal Emission Spectroscopy

Rohan, Tyler, PhD
Advisors: Shelef
Doctoral Dissertation: Enhancing Landslide Susceptibility Analysis through Citizen Science, Geospatial Analysis, and Precipitation Thresholds in Urbanizing Environments

2022

Caineta, Júlio  PhD
Advisor: Bain/Thomas
Doctoral Dissertation: Detecting groundwater flows from land to sea: a remote sensing perspective

Copeland, Marja , PhD
Advisor: Bain
Doctoral Dissertation: Interruptions in Streamflow Due To Urbanization And Mining In Southwestern Pennsylvania

Flynn, Ian, PhD
Advisor: Ramsey
Doctoral Dissertation: Modeling of Volcanic Flow Processes on Earth, Mars, and Venus

Lei, Yanyan, PhD
Advisor: Werne
Doctoral Dissertation: Investigating Biomarkers in Lacustrine Sediments in Mexico and Central America and Developing Calibrations for Regional Paleoclimate Reconstruction

Scott, Wesley, PhD
Advisor: Werne
Doctoral Dissertation: Modern Day and Common Era Climate in Northern Patagonia: A reconstruction using novel organic geochemical proxies

Tisherman, Rebecca, PhD
Advisor: Bain
Doctoral Dissertation: Quantifying Human Impacts on Trace Metal and Sediment Cycles: Evidence from Oil and Gas, Coal Mining, and Land Development in the U.S. and China

2021

Hedin, Benjamin, PhD
Advisor: Capo
Doctoral Dissertation: Coal pollution to critical metals: Recycling rare earth elements from acid mine drainage

Woods, Arielle, PhD
Advisor: Abbott
Doctoral Dissertation: Monsoon Strength and Glaciation in the Peruvian Andes: A Sedimentary Perspective on Tropical Paleoclimate

2020

Al Taweel, Yaareb, MS
Advisor: Harbert
Master’s Thesis: Advanced Analysis of Well Treatment and Microseismic Events for Two Parallel Horizontal Wells in The Utica Shale 

Buford-Parks, Victoria, PhD
Advisor: McQuarrie
Doctoral Dissertation: Quantifying timing and rate of deformation and exhumation in the Central Andes: Insights from thermokinematic and landscape models of balanced cross-sections

Mullins, Angela, PhD
Advisor: Bain
Doctoral Dissertation: Characterizing Sources and Identifying Pathways of Urban Metal Contamination at the Groundwater-Soil Interface

Thompson, James, PhD
Advisor: Ramsey
Doctoral Dissertation: Quantifying thermal infrared emission from active lava surfaces to improve models of effusive volcanism

Wondolowski, Nicholas, MS
Advisor: Shelef
Master’s Thesis: Influence of topography and permafrost condition on changes in Arctic water storage

2019

Chung, Angela, MS
Advisor: Elliott
Master’s Thesis: Assessing Spatial and Temporal Variability of Reactive Nitrogen in an Urban Fluvial System

Cook, Sarah, MS
Advisor: Thomas
Master’s Thesis: Dusting Off the Archives: What archives can tell us about changes in water storage and streamflow due to urban development 

Maxim Alexandra, MS
Advisor: Bain
Master’s Thesis: Quantitative Analysis of Thermophysical Properties of Lava Flows on Earth and Mars

O’Beirne, Molly, PhD
Advisor: Werne
Doctoral Dissertation: Structure and Stable Isotopic Biogeochemistry of Organic Sulfur in the Geosphere: Application of Bulk and Compound-Specific Sulfur Isotope Analysis to Modern and Ancient Euxinic Systems

Simurda, Christine, PhD
Advisor: Bain
Doctoral Dissertation: Urban Soils in a Historically Industrial City:Concentration and Biogeochemical Speciation of Trace Metals in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

2018

Williams, Daniel, PhD
Advisor: Ramsey
Doctoral Dissertation: An Analysis of Proximal Volcanic Ash Emissions

Yu, Zhongjie, PhD
Advisor: Elliott
Doctoral Dissertation: Examining Sources and Dynamics of Soil Nitric Oxide Using Stable Isotopes Techniques

2017

Beauchamp, Nathan, MS
Advisor: Ramsey
Master’s Thesis: Numerical Modeling of the Daedalia Planum Lava Flows, Mars

Ferland, Troy, MS
Advisor: Werne
Master’s Thesis: An Evolution of the Organic Geochemical Potential to Reconstruct Mid-Pleistocene Paleoclimate Adjacent to an Established Hominin Site: Lake Magadi, Kenya

Glick, Emily, MS
Advisor: Bain
Master’s Thesis: Connectivity of the Oriskany Sandstone with the Marcellus Shale: Effects on Shale Gas Operations in North Central Pennsylvania

Griffore, Melissa, MS
Advisor: Abbott
Master’s Thesis: A 4,000 Year Sediment Record of Atmospheric Lead (Pb) Pollution from Laguna Roya, Northwestern Spain

Krippner, Janine, PhD
Advisor: Ramsey
Doctoral Dissertation: Dome Collapse Driven Block-And-Ash Flows on Shiveluch, and Pyroclastic Flows on Mount St. Helens:  Deposit Morphology and Distribution Analysis Using Multi-parameter Remote Sensing - and - Field-Based Methods

Kumar, Dervla, MS
Advisor: Werne
Master’s Thesis: Production of Heterocyst Glycolipids and Glyercol Dialkyl Glycerol Tetraither Membrane Lipids in the Water Column of a Stratified Tropical Lake, Malawi, Africa

Mackey, Justin, MS
Advisor: Stewart
Master’s Thesis: A Chemostratigraphic Study of Regional and Global Controls on Desposition and Preservation of Late Cambrian Shales and Carbonates of the Conasauga Group, Appalachian Basin, USA

McGrath, Monica, MS
Advisor: Stewart
Master’s Thesis: Constraints on the Ptrogenesis of a Proterozoic Talc Deposit in Southwestern Montana: A Petrological Geochemical Study

Pfeil-McCullough, Erin, PhD
Advisor: Bain
Doctoral Dissertation: A Geospatial Investigation of Human Impacted Forests in Southwestern Pennsylvania

Olsen, Josh, MS
Advisor: McQuarrie
Master’s Thesis: Determining Relative Age of Out-of-Sequence Faults: Integration of Foreland Basin Deposits to a Flexural Thrust Belt Evolution and a Case Study in Western Nepal

Strong, Damara, MS
Advisor: Werne
Master’s Thesis: Biogeochemical Analysis of Leaf Wax Fatty Acids from Lake Surface Sediments in Mesoamerica

Tieman, Zachary, MS
Advisor: Stewart
Master’s Thesis: Isotopic Fractionation of Barium in Shale and Produced Water from the Appalachian Basin, USA

Wallrich, Irene, MS
Advisor: Capo
Master’s Thesis: Nd Isotopes Track Rare Earth Element Sources in Acid Mine Drainage, Appalachian Bain, USA

Weidhaas, Nick, MS
Advisor: Abbott
Master’s Thesis: A 25,000-year Lake Level History of Lake Junin, Peru from Stratigraphic and Oxygen Isotope Studies

2016

Ace, Ashley, MS
Advisor: McQuarrie
Master’s Thesis: “Documenting the Geometry and Magnitude of Shortening at the Valley and Ridge - Appalachian Plateau Transition: Lycoming County, Pennsylvania"

Coughlin, Justin, MS
Advisor: Elliott
Master’s Thesis: “Reactive Nitrogen Emissions and Deposition from Unconventional Natural Gas Extraction in the Marcellus Shale Basin"

Hortert, Christopher, MS
Advisor: Bain
“Contaminated Groundwater Flow Control Across an Inverted Groundwater Divide with Three Groundwater Control Devices"

Rossi, Robert, PhD
Advisor: Bain
Doctoral Dissertation: "Characterizing Sources and Dynamics of Metals and Metalloids in Urban Soils"

Zorn, Erich, PhD
Advisor: Harbert
Doctoral Dissertation: “Integrated Analysis and Interpretation of Microseismic Monitoring of Hydraulic Fracturing in the Marcellus Shale​”

2015

Dieterich, Matthew, MS
Advisor: Capo
Master’s Thesis: “Physicochemical Effects of Synthetic Hydraulic Fracturing Fluid on Core Samples of the Middle Devonian Marcellus Shale and Underlying Huntersville Chert, Greene County, Pennsylvania, USA”

Finkenbinder, Matthew, PhD
Advisor: Abbott
Doctoral Dissertation: “Lake sediment records of late Quaternary Paleoclimate Change from Alaska and Newfoundland Developed using Sedimentology and Geochemical Proxies”

Lavin, Sarah, MS
Advisor: Bain
Master’s Thesis: “Estimating the Limits of Infiltration in the Urban Appalachian Plateau"

Pfister, Samantha, MS
Advisor: Capo
Master’s Thesis: “Geochemical and Lithium Isotope Characterization of Ogallala Aquifer and Permian Basin Carbonate Reservoir Waters at an Enhanced Oil Recovery Site, Northwest Texas, USA”

Rak Adam J., MS
Advisor: McQuarrie
Master’s Thesis: “Geometry, Kinematics, Exhumation, and Sedimentation of the Northern Bolivian Fold-Thrust-Belt-Foreland Basin System”

Reath, Kevin, Ph.D.
Advisor: Ramsey
Doctoral Dissertation: “Thermal Infrared Analysis of Volcanic Processes”

Spaulding, Richard, MS
Advisor: Harbert
Master’s Thesis: “A Quantitative Assessment of Atmospherically Generated Foam Cements: Insights, Impacts, and Implications of Wellbore Integrity and Stability”

2014

Hillman, Aubrey, PhD
Advisor: Abbott
Doctoral Dissertation: “Lake Sediment Records Examining the Spatial and Temporal Connections of Human Activity and Climate Change in Southwestern China”

Hopkins, Kristina, PhD
Advisor: Bain
Doctoral Dissertation: “From Small Watersheds to Regions: Variation in Hydrologic Response to Urbanization”

Kolesar, Courtney, MS
Advisor: Capo
Master’s Thesis: “Strontium Isotopes Test Long-Term Zonal Isolation of Injected and Marcellus Formation Water after Hydraulic Fracturing”

Misner, Tamara, PhD
Advisor: Bain
Doctoral Dissertation: “Geochemical and Lithologic Response of an Upland Watershed over the Past 800 Years to Landscape Changes in Southern Burgundy , France”

Mur, Alan, PhD
Advisor: Harbert
“Experimental Rock Physics and Applied Geophysical Models for Long-Term Monitoring of Carbon Dioxide Injected Reservoirs”

Pompeani, David, PhD
Advisor: Abbott
“Human impacts on the environment over the Holocene in Michigan and Illinois using lake sediment geochemistry”

2013

Delaney, Daniel , MS
Advisor: Harbert
Master’s Thesis: “Ultrasonic Seismic Wave Attenuation, Petrophysical Models and Work Flows for Better Subsurface Imaging, Energy Exploration, and Tracking of Sequestrated Carbon Dioxide”

Divers, Marion Teresa, PhD
Advisor: Elliott
Doctoral Dissertation: “Sources and Dynamics of Reactive Nitrogen to an Urban Watershed”

Gardiner, James, PhD
Advisor: Capo
Doctoral Dissertation: “Isotopic Investigation of Subsurface Rock and Fluid Interactions: Case Studies of CO2 Sequestration and Gas-Bearing Shale Formations”

Glosser, Deborah, MS
Advisor: Abbott
Master’s Thesis: “Environmental Health and Safety Dynamics of the Marcellus Shale in Pennsylvania”

Hungerford, Jefferson D. G., PhD
Advisor: Ramsey
Doctoral Dissertation: “The Mechanics of Subglacial Basaltic Lava Flow Emplacement: Inferring Paleo-Ice Conditions”

Price, Mark A., MS
Advisor: Ramsey
Master’s Thesis: “Thermophysical Characteristics of Mantled Terrestrial Volcanic Surfaces: Infrared Analogs to Arsia Mons”

2012

Clark, Kaitlin, MS
Advisor: Abbott
Master’s Thesis: “A 1000-Year Oxygen Isotope Record of South American Hydroclimate from Lake Junin in the Central Andes of Peru”

Felix, Joseph, PhD
Advisor: Elliott
Doctoral Dissertation: “Examining the Sources and Transport of Reactive Nitrogen Emissions Using Stable Isotopes Techniques”

Graettinger, Alison, PhD
Advisor: Skilling/Ramsey
Doctoral Dissertation: “Building Ice-Age Askja: Processes, Products, and Paleoclimate”

McGuire, Mary K., MS
Advisor: Anderson
Master’s Thesis: “Distribution of Cogenetic Iron and Clay Deposits in the Central Appalachian Region”

Mohammad, Redha, PhD
Advisor: Ramsey
Doctoral Dissertation: “Using Thermal Infrared (TIR) Data to Characterize Dust Storms and their Sources in the Middle East”    
Purcell, Christopher, PhD
Advisor: Harbert
Doctoral Dissertation: “Velocity Measurements in Reservoir Rock Samples from a Limestone Unit Using Various Pore Fluids, and Integration with Well Logs and Seismic Data”

2011
Chapman, Elizabeth, PhD
Advisor: Capo
Doctoral Dissertation: "Fossil Fuel Related Water-Rock Interaction in the Appalachian Basin, Pennsylvania and New York: A Geochemical and Strontium Isotope Investigation"
 
Hillman, Aubrey, MS
Advisor: Abbott
Master’s Thesis: "A 2500 Year Lake Sediment Record of Drought and Human Activity from Southwestern China"
 
Hughes, Christopher, PhD
Advisor: Ramsey
Doctoral Dissertation: "Improved Mapping Accuracy of Planetary Surfaces Using Super-Resolution of Thermal Infrared Data"
 
Kagy, Holly, MS
Advisor: Skilling
Master’s Thesis: "Interaction of Basaltic Dikes and Wet Lapilli Tuff at Glaciovolcanic Centers: A Case Study of Sveifluháls, Iceland as a Terrestrial Analog for Dike-Cryosphere Interaction on Mars"
 
Lee, Rachel, PhD
Advisor: Ramsey
Doctoral Dissertation: "Thermal Emission Spectroscopy of Silicate Glasses and Melts: Applications to Remote Sensing of Glassy Volcanic Environments"
 
Mercurio, Emily Constantine, PhD
Advisor: Skilling
Doctoral Dissertation: "Processes, Products and Depositional Environments of Ice-Confined Basaltic Fissure Eruptions: A Case Study of the Sveifluháls Volcanic Complex, SW Iceland"
 
Reath, Kevin, MS
Advisor: Ramsey
"Hyperspectral Thermal Infrared Analysis of the Salton Sea Geothermal Field"
 
Simoneau, Elizabeth, MS
Advisor: Skilling
"Eruption and Emplacement Mechanisms and Paleoenvironment of Phreatomagmatic Tephra at Koko Crater Tuff Cone, O’ahu, Hawaii"
 
Steinman, Byron, PhD
Advisor: Abbott
Doctoral Dissertation: "Quantitative Drought Reconstruction in the Pacific Northwest from Lake Sediment Records and Predictive Models"
 
Williams, Lindsay, MS
Advisor: Anderson
Master’s Thesis: "Brittle Tertiary Detachments in the Specter Range, Southern Nevada, and their Implications for Groundwater Flow Southward from the Nevada Test Site"
2010
Brubaker, Tonya Michelle, MS
Advisor: Stewart
Master’s Thesis: "Strontium Isotope Systematics of Coal Utilization Byproducts and Their Interaction With Environmental Waters"
 
Middlecamp, Katherine Marie, MS
Advisor: Elliott
Master’s Thesis: "Isotopic Investigation of Anthropogenic Sources of Atmospheric Nitrogen and Carbon Along Spatial Gradients"
 
Morealli, Sarah Angelina, MS
Advisor: Anderson
Master’s Thesis: "Extension-Related Breccias: Implications for Groundwater Flow From Pahute Mesa to Near Beatty, Nevada"
 
Rose, Shellie, PhD
Advisor: Ramsey
Doctoral Dissertation: "Thermal Infrared Remote Sensing of Active Basaltic Volcanoes: A Thermal and Spectral Deconvolution Approach"
 
Wolfe, Amy Lynn, PhD
Advisor: Stewart
Doctoral Dissertation: "Oxidative Dissolution of Pyrite: A Combined Experimental and Iron Isotope Investigation"
2009
Bird, Broxton Williams, PhD
Advisor: Abott
"Millennial- To Annual-Scale Holocene Climate Change in the Alaskan Arctic and Tropical Andes Inferred from Physical Sedimentology and Geochemical Indicators Preserved in Finely Laminated Alpine Lake Sediment Archives"
 
Scheidt, Stephen Paul, PhD
Advisor: Ramsey
Doctoral Dissertation: "Aeolian System Dynamics Derived from Thermal Infrared Data"
 
Stansell, Nathan, PhD
Advisor: Abbott
Doctoral Dissertation: "Rapid Climate Change in the Tropical Americas During the Late-Glacial Interval and the Holocene"
2008
Carter, Adam Joseph, PhD
Advisor: Ramsey
Doctoral Dissertation: "Quantitative Thermal Infrared Analyses of Volcanic Processes and Products: Application to Bezymianny Volcano, Russia"
 
Cassidy, Brianne Michelle , MS
Advisor: Abbott
"A 94-Year Lake Sediment Record of Industrial Pollutants in the Pittsburgh Metropolitan Area"
 
Kaminskiy, Vladislav F., PhD
Advisor: Harbert
Doctoral Dissertation: "Geophysical Surveys Aimed To Save Human Lives By Facilitating Safety Assessment"
 
LaMoreaux, Kristen, MS
Advisor: Skilling
Master’s Thesis: "Recognizing Ice-Contact Trachyte-Phonolite Lavas at The Mount Edziza Volcanic Complex, British Columbia, Canada"
 
Laó-Dávila, Daniel Alberto, PhD
Advisor: Anderson
Doctoral Dissertation: "Serpentinite Emplacement and Deformation in Western Puerto Rico and Their Implications for The Caribbean North America Plate Boundary Tectonic History"
 
Mohammad, Redha, MS
Advisor: Harbert
Master’s Thesis: "Geographical Information System Based Analysis of Paleofluvial Systems in the Kuwait Region"
2007
Lipinski, Brian, PhD
Advisor: Harbert
"Integrating Geophysics and Geochemistry To Evaluate Coalbed Natural Gas Produced Water Disposal, Powder River Basin, Wyoming"
 
Piaschyk, Damian, MS
Advisor: Anderson
Master’s Thesis: "Detachment Faults Between the Specter Range and Southern Spring Mountains: A Transpressional Fault Zone Along the Las Vegas Valley Shear Zone, Southeastern Nevada"
 
Robinson, Kevin, MS
Advisor: Rosenmeier
Master’s Thesis: "A Holistic Paleolimnological Study of North-Central Mongolian Lakes"
 
Spivak-Birndorf, Lev, MS
Advisor: Stewart
Master’s Thesis: "Sequential Leaching Of Coal Utilization By-products: Geochemistry and Strontium Isotope Systematics"
 
Stafford, Sherry, PhD
Advisor: Capo
Doctoral Dissertation: "Precambrian Paleosols as Indicators of Paleoenvironments on the Early Earth"
2006
Cooke, Colin, MS
Advisor: Abbott
Master’s Thesis: "Lake Sediment Archives of Atmospheric Pollution from the Peruvian and Bolivian Andes"
2005
Hamel, Barbara, MS
Advisor: Stewart
Master’s Thesis: "Application of Strontium Isotope Ratios as Tracers of Coal Mine Drainage Provenance and Abatement Efficiency in the Omega Mine, Morgantown, West Virginia"
 
Stansell, Nathan, MS
Advisor: Abbott
Master’s Thesis: "Last Glacial Maximum Equilibrium-Line Altitude Reconstruction, Paleo-Temperature Estimates and Deglacial Chronology of the Mérida Andes, Venezuela"
 
Walden, Katherine, MS
Advisor: Stewart
Master’s Thesis: "Neodymium and Strontium Isotope Investigation of the Precambrian Kalkkloof Paleosol, South Africa"
 
Zorn, Erich, MS
Advisor: Anderson
Master’s Thesis: "Meso- and Micro-scale Analysis of Foliated Rocks of the Southern Coast Belt: A Transect from Whistler to Lillooet, British Columbia"
2004
Bluth, Jessica, MS
Advisor: Skilling
Master’s Thesis: "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"
 
Mest, Scott, PhD
Advisor: Crown/Ramsey
Doctoral Dissertation: "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"
 
Nelson, Daniel, MS
Advisor: Abbott
Master’s Thesis: "Holocene Paleoenvironmental History from Stable Isotopes in Lake Sediment, North-Central Washington State"
 
Osgood-Kutchko, Barbara, MS
Advisor: Abbott
Master’s Thesis: "Late Holocene Climate Inferred From Varved Sediments: Blue Lake, Brooks Range, Alaska"
2003
Beatty, William, PhD
Advisor: Rollins
Doctoral Dissertation: "The Role of Spinose Ornament in Predator Deterrence and Epibiont Colonization: the Bivalve Arcinella, Pinecrest (Pliocene) of Florida"
 
Coyle, Paul, MS
Advisor: Anderson
Master’s Thesis: "Structural and Stratigraphic Controls on the Distribution of the Buhrstone Siliceous Iron Ore, Allegheny Plateau, West Central Pennsylvania"
 
Deemer, Danielle, MS
Advisor: Anderson
Master’s Thesis: "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"
 
Grgich, Paula, MS
Advisor: Harbert
Master’s Thesis: "Delineating the Subsurface: Using Surface Geophysics to Define Groundwater Flow Paths in a Carbonate Aquifer"
 
Homsey, Lara, MS
Advisor: Capo
Master’s Thesis: "Geochemical Characterization of Archaeological Sediments at Dust Cave, Alabama"
 
Kairies, Candace, PhD
Advisor: Capo
Doctoral Dissertation: "Characterization of Iron Hydroxide Precipitates Associated with Abandoned Mine Drainage in the Bituminous and Anthracite Regions of Pennsylvania"
 
Kuhn, Sally, MS
Advisor: Ramsey
Master’s Thesis: "Characterization of Dome Processes at Soufrière Hills Volcano, Montserrat: Synthesis of Infrared Remote Sensing Data with a Multi-parameter Database"
 
Love, Erica, MS
Advisor: Harbert
Master’s Thesis: "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"
 
Misner, Tamara, MS
Advisor: Ramsey
Master’s Thesis: "Multi-frequency, Multi-temporal, Brush Fire Scar Analysis in a Semi-arid Urban Environment"
 
Piatek, Jennifer, PhD
Advisor: Hapke
Doctoral Dissertation: "Size-dependent Scattering Properties of Planetary Regolith Analogs"
 
Wright, Shawn, MS
Advisor: Ramsey
Master’s Thesis: "Thermal Infrared Data Analyses of Meteor Crater, Arizona: Implications for Mars Space-borne Data from the Thermal Emission Imaging System"
2002
Bryant, Elizabeth, MS
Advisor: Capo
Master’s Thesis: "Geochemical Modeling of Coal Mine Drainage From a Bituminous Coal Field in Western Pennsylvania"
 
Byrnes, Jeffrey, PhD
Advisor: Crown
Thesis title not available
 
Fouzan, Alfouzan, MS
Advisor: Harbert
Master’s Thesis: Thesis title not available
 
Hellman, Melanie, MS
Advisor: Ramsey
Master’s Thesis: "Analysis of Hot Springs in Yellowstone National Park Using ASTER and AVIRIS Remote Sensing"
 
Hobbs, Gina, MS
Advisor: Evans
"Characterizing Paleofluids in the Western Valley and Ridge Province of West Virginia: Uncovering the Path of Migrating 'Warm' Fluids"
 
Kim, Ann, PhD
Advisor: Stewart
Doctoral Dissertation: "Fluid Extraction of Metals from Coal Fly Ash: Geochemical Simulation of Natural Leaching"
 
Lydy, Kristen, MS
Advisor: Evans
Master’s Thesis: "Strain Partitioning, Mineralogy, and Anisotropy of Magnetic Susceptibility (AMS) of the Oriskany Sandstone of Northeastern West Virginia"
2001
Dembosky, John, PhD
Advisor: Anderson
Doctoral Dissertation: "Paleotectonic Restoration of Miocene Estensional Strain of Crystalline Rock Provinces and Terranes in Southwestern North America"
 
Minervini, Joseph, MS
Advisor: Stewart
Master’s Thesis: "Radiogenic Isotope Investigation of Sources, Transport, and Deposition of Rare Earth Elements in the Owens Lake Drainage Basin, Eastern California"
 
Pierce, Timothy, MS
Advisor: Crown
"Morphologic and Topographic Analyses of Martian Debris Aprons"
 
Reynolds, Amanda, MS
Advisor: Capo
"Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction of the Permo-Pennsylvanian Dunkard Basin: Geochemical Evidence for Lacustrine Core and Associated Paleosols"
 
Schatzel, Steven, PhD
Advisor: Stewart
Doctoral Dissertation: "An Evaluation of the Origin and Post-Depositional Modification of Coal Mineral Matter Using Rare Earth Elements and Neodymium Isotopes"
2000
Hale, Amy, PhD
Advisor: Hapke
Doctoral Dissertation: "A Time Dependent Model of Radiative and Conductive Thermal Energy Transport in Planetary Regoliths with Applications to the Moon, Mercury and Io"
 
Lauffer, Sharon, MS
Advisor: Harbert
Master’s Thesis: "Fault Sets, Systems and Basins, Yucca Mountain Region, Nevada: A Geographic Information Systems-Based Kinematic Analysis"
 
Pretti, Victoria, MS
Advisor: Stewart
Master’s Thesis: "Geochemistry and Strontium Isotope Composition of Eastern Sierra and Western White-Inyo Mountain Streams: Solute Sources in Sierra Nevada Stream Water"
 
Sleeman, Garrett, MS
Advisor: Donahue
"Holocene Depositional History of Bac Ninh Provence, Vietnam: Effects of Geomorphic Development on Site Distribution"
 
Winters, William, MS
Advisor: Capo
"Hydrogeologic and Geochemical Evolution of a Bituminous Coal Basin, Irwin Syncline, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania"
 
Zimmerman, Sarah, 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"