People

  • Alumnus
  • PhD Winter 2006

Dissertation
The Mesozoic and Cenozoic Depositional, Structural, and Tectonic Evolution of the Ross Sea, Antarctica

Research Area
Geophysics

Advisor
Bruce Luyendyk

  • Alumna
  • MS Summer '06

Thesis
Beach Asphalt (Tar) Accumulation at Coal Oil Point, CA: Identification of Processes Controlling Temporal Variations

Advisor
Bruce Luyendyk

  • Professor Emeritus
  • Alumna
  • MS Summer 2015

Thesis/Dissertation
Stress drop and its Uncertainty for Earthquakes M3.8-5.5 in Central California and Oklahoma

Research Area
Geophysics

Advisor
Ralph Archuleta & Toshiro Tanimoto

  • PhD candidate

Dissertation
In progress

Research Area
Coastal Sedimentology

Advisor
Alex Simms

  • Webb 1049
Quinlan Dougherty
  • Graduate Program Coordinator
  • 805-893-3329
  • Webb 1006
  • PhD candidate

Dissertation
In progress

Research Area
Geochemistry

Advisor
Matt Jackson

  • Noble 1009
  • Affiliated Professor Emeritus

Bren School of Environmental Science & Management

  • 805-893-7557
  • Bren 3510
  • Alumna
  • MS June 2017

Thesis/Dissertation
Timing and Mechanisms of REE Mineralization at Central City, CO

Research Area
Geochemistry

Advisor
John Cottle

  • PhD candidate

Dissertation
In progress

Research Area
Structural Geology

Advisor
Phil Gans

  • Webb 2015
  • MS Summer 2018

Thesis

EXTREME ENRICHED AND HETEROGENEOUS 87SR/86SR RATIOS RECORDED MAGMATIC PLAGIOCLASE FROM THE SAMOAN HOTSPOT

Research Area

Advisor
Matt Jackson

  • Associate Professor

Seismology, Tectonophysics, Inverse Theory

  • Alumna
  • MS Winter 2011

Research Area
Crustal Evolution and Development

Advisor
Brad Hacker

 

  • Alumna
  • PhD Summer 2023

Thesis/Dissertation
Ross Orogen evolution: Investigating the magmatic record along the paleo-Pacific margin of Gondwana

Research Area(s)
Geochronology, Geochemistry

Advisor
John Cottle

  • MS Winter 2020
  • PhD candidate

MS Thesis
A new species of Pinnarctidion from the Pysht Formation of Washington and phylogenetic analysis of basal pinnipedimorphs (Eutheria, Carnivora)

Dissertation
In progress

Research Area

Advisor
Andy Wyss

  • Post Doc/Researcher

Areas of Research
Structural geology and tectonics

Sponsor
Kristin Morell

  • Alumna
  • PhD 2017

Thesis/Dissertation
Character and significance of volcanism in the lower Colorado River extensional corridor; insight into extensional tectonics

Research Area
Structural Geology, Tectonics, Volcanology, Igneous Petrology

Advisor
Phil Gans

  • Alumna
  • MS Fall 2011

Research Area
Marine Science

Advisor
Dave Valentine

 

  • MS candidate

Thesis
In progress

Research Area
Geophysics

Advisor
Robin Matoza

  • Webb 1030A
  • Alumna
  • MS Spring 2016

Thesis/Dissertation
The Geomorphic Transition between the Santa Barbara and Ventura Fold Belts near Rincon Point, California

Research Area
Geomorphology

Advisor
Ed Keller

  • Professor

Structural Geology, Regional Geology and Tectonics, Argon Geochronology

  • Affiliated Professor

Geography

  • (805) 893-5991
  • Ellison 4810
  • Alumnus
  • PhD Fall 2017

MS Thesis:
Localization of Deformation in a Lower to Mid-Crustal Convergent Margin, Sierra de Pie de Palo, Argentina.

PhD Dissertation:
Titanite Geochronology and Geochemistry of the Western Gneiss Region, Norway: Constraints on UHP Continental Subduction and Emplacement.=

Research Areas
Geochronology, Tectonics, Metamorphic Petrology, Rheology, Structural Geology

Advisor
Brad Hacker

  • Alumnus
  • MS Summer 2015

Thesis/Dissertation
Tectonic Significance of the Chambers Well Dike Swarm Whipple Mountains Metamorphic Core Complex, CA

Research Areas
Field Geology/Mapping, Geochronology, Structural Geology, Tectonics

Advisor
Phil Gans

  • Alumna
  • PhD Spring 2022

Dissertation
Investigation of conditions relevant to the use of reclaimed water for managed aquifer recharge in two aquifer systems in the United States

Research Area

Advisor
Jordan Clark

  • MS Summer 2021

Dissertation
Insights into the Sea-Level History of the South Shetland Islands from Ground Penetrating Radar on Livingston Island, Antarctica

Research Area
Sedimentology

Advisor
Alex Simms

  • Alumnus
  • MS Fall 2011

Research Areas
Metamorphic Petrology, Tectonics

Advisor
Hacker

 

  • PhD candidate

Dissertation
In progress

Research Area
Geophysics

Advisor
Zach Eilon

  • Webb 2042
  • Alumnus
  • PhD Spring 2011

Research Areas
Geomorphology, Tectonics

Advisor
Doug Burbank

  • Alumna
  • PhD Fall 2018

Thesis/Dissertation
Geochemistry of Molybdenum and Other Variably Chalcophile Elements

Research Area
Geochemistry

Advisor
Roberta Rudnick

  • Alumna
  • MS Summer 2015

Thesis/Dissertation
Paleoceanography of the Eastern Equatorial Pacific: Insights from a new Carnegie Platform stratigraphic record

Research Areas
Climate Change-Climatology, Geochemistry, Marine Geochemistry-Geophysics-Geology, Paleoclimatology, Paleoceanography

Advisor
David Lea

  • Distinguished Professor Emeritus

Metamorphic Petrology, Tectonics, Geochronology

 

  • Alumnus
  • PhD Summer 2015

Dissertation
The Metamorphic and Magmatic History of the Ross Orogen in Southern Victoria Land, Antarctica

Research Areas
Geochemistry, Geochronology, Tectonics

Advisor
John Cottle

  • PhD candidate

Dissertation
In progress

Research Area
Geochemistry

Advisor
Roberta Rudnick

  • Postdoctoral Researcher

Areas of Research
Structural seismology

Sponsor
Zach Eilon

  • Alumnus
  • PhD Summer 2021

Dissertation
Fault accommodation of permanent strain in the northern Cascadia forearc

Research Area

Advisor
Kristin Morell

  • Alumnus
  • PhD Summer 2015

MS Thesis
Reconciling Holocene Alluvial Records in Buckskin Wash, Southern Utah

PhD Dissertation
Along-strike tectonic variability in the central Himalaya

Research Areas
Geomorphology, Neotectonics

Advisor
Doug Burbank

  • PhD candidate

PhD Dissertation
In progress

Research Area
Geochemistry

Advisor
Matt Jackson

  • Professor Emeritus

Marine Geology and Geochemistry, Seafloor Hydrothermal Systems, Mid-Ocean Ridges, Seafloor Volcanism

  • Visiting Researcher

Areas of Research
Petrology, Geochemistry and the evolution of continent

Sponsor
Roberta Rudnick

  • Alumna
  • PhD Spring 2011

Research Area
Marine Hydrothermal Systems

Advisor
Dave Valentine

 

  • Alumnus
  • MS Winter 2013

Research Area
Geothermal and mineral exploration

Advisor
Phil Gans

  • MS Program
  • Lapsed

Thesis/Dissertation
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Research Area
Geomorphology

Advisor
Ed Keller

  • PhD candidate

Dissertation
In progress

Research Area
Paleoclimatology

Advisor
Lorraine Lisiecki

  • Affiliated Professor

Bren School of Environmental Science & Management

  • 805-893?3195
  • MSRB 2312
  • Alumnus
  • PhD Summer 2018
  • MS Winter 2014

MS Thesis:
Monazite Trace-Element and Isotopic Signatures of Ultrahigh- Pressure Metamorphism: Examples from the Western Gneiss Region, Norway

PhD Dissertation:
What Causes Ultrahigh-Temperature Metamorphism? A Case Study fromSouthern Madagascar 

Research Areas
Metamorphic Petrology, Geochronology, Geochemistry

Advisor
Brad Hacker

  • Alumna
  • MS Fall 2006

Thesis
Geometry and Quaternary evolution of a laterally propagating fold and fault system, Santa Barbara Channel, California

Research Area

Geophysics

Advisor
Bruce Luyendyk

  • Professor Emeritus

Igneous Petrology (Ophiolites, Granitic Plutons and Migmatites, Cascade Volcanoes)

 

  • PhD candidate

PhD Dissertation
In progress

Research Area
Geomorphology

Advisor
Kristin Morell

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