People

  • Alumna
  • MS Summer 2020

Thesis
Chronology and Recurrence of High-Magnitude Debris Flows in the Santa Barbara and Montecito, CA Areas

Research Area
Geomorphology

Advisor
Ed Keller

  • Alumna
  • PhD Summer 2020

Dissertation
A thermodynamic and geochemical evaluation of magmatic processes beneath the Samoan Islands and the thermodynamics of crystalline garnet solutions

Research Area
Volcanology, geochemistry

Advisor
Frank Spera

  • Alumna
  • PhD Fall 2018

Dissertation
Subject-Oriented Finite Fault Inversions and Their Applications

Research Areas
Geodynamics,Geophysics, Seismology, Tectonics

Advisors
Ralph Archuleta & Chen Ji

  • Post Doc/Researcher
  • Lecturer
  • Alumnus
  • MS Summer 2016
  • PhD Summer 2021

MS Thesis
Spatial Variability of Saturated Hydraulic Conductivity and Thresholds for Slope Failure at Sedgwick Ranch, California

PhD Dissertation
Short-term Patterns and Processes of Coastal Cliff Retreat, Rill Erosion on Colluvial Hillslopes, and a Sediment Budget for the 2018 Montecito Debris Flows

Research Area
Geomorphology

Advisor
Ed Keller

  • Alumna
  • MS Winter 2013

Research Area
Quaternary Sedimentology and Geomorpholog

Advisor
Alex Simms

 

  • Alumnus
  • MS Fall 2010

Research Area
Geophysics

Advisor
Toshiro Tanimoto

  • Alumnus
  • PhD Summer 2022

Dissertation
The Thermal Evolution of Lower Continental Crust

Research Areas
Geochemistry and Petrology

Advisor
Roberta Rudnick and John Cottle

Awards
Graduate Research Fellowship, National Science Foundation, 2017–2022
Regents in Earth Science Fellowship, UC Santa Barbara, 2017–2018
Fall Meeting Student Travel Grant, American Geophysical Union, 2017
On To the Future Scholarship, Geological Society of America, 2016

  • Alumnus
  • MS Spring 2011

Research Areas
Metamorphic Petrology, Structure and Tectonics

Advisor
Brad Hacker

 

  • Alumnus
  • MS Summer 2017

Dissertation
Testing for Physical Constraints on Intermediate-Depth Earthquake Fault Geometry via Finite-Fault Inversions

Research Area
Seismology

Advisor
Chen Ji

  • Alumna
  • PhD Fall 2021

Thesis/Dissertation
Genomic Insights into the Marine Microbial Response to Oil Spills: Biogeographic Priming, Cryptic Hydrocarbon Cycling, and Substrate Specialization

Research Area
Marine Science (IGPMS)

Advisor
Dave Valentine

  • Alumna
  • PhD Program
  • Alumnus
  • MS Fall 2013

Thesis/Dissertation
Heat and B-10 Enriched Boric Acid as Recycled Groundwater Tracers for Managed Aquifer Recharge

Research Areas
Hydrogeology,Environmental Geochemistry

Advisor
Jordan Clark

  • Alumnus
  • MS Spring 2016

Thesis/Dissertation
Establishing Foraminifera Based Biofacies within Shallow Marine Deposits, Carpinteria Slough, CA. Implications for Southern California Sea-Level Studies

Research Areas
Paleoclimate, Coastal Processes

Advisor
Alex Simms

  • Webb 1049
  • Alumna
  • MS Spring 2022

MS Thesis
Central Asia’s hydroclimate response to Heinrich events 4 and 5s

Research Area
Paleoclimate

Advisor
Syee Weldeab

  • Alumna
  • MS Winter 2011

Research Area
Paleobiology

Advisor
Andy Wyss

 

Sophie Briggs
  • Alumna
  • PhD Fall 2017

Thesis/Dissertation
The magmatic and metamorphic evolution of the Alpine Schist accretionary complex in the Southern Alps, New Zealand

Research Areas
Petrology (Igneous & Metamorphic), Geochemistry, Geochronology, Tectonics

Advisor
John Cottle

  • Earth Research Institute, Ellison Hall
  • Alumna
  • MS Summer 2015

Thesis/Dissertation
Age, Provenance, and Facies Architecture of an arid-land fluvial system in equatorial Pangaea: The Cloud Chief Formation in western Oklahoma, U.S.A.

Research Area
Sedimentology (IGPMS)

Advisor
Alex Simms

  • Alumna
  • MS 2018

Thesis/Dissertation
Petrogenesis of late-stage, high-K magmas within a continental arc: an example from the Ross Orogen, Antarctica

Research Areas
Geochemistry, Petrology, Geochronology

Advisor
John Cottle

  • Alumnus
  • PhD Winter 2017

Thesis/Dissertation
Rates and mechanics of fold uplift and lateral bedrock planation in convergent foreland basins.Research Area(

Geomorphology

Advisor
Doug Burbank

  • Alumna
  • MS Fall 2014

Research Area
Seismology, Ground Motion Prediction Equations

Advisor
Chen Ji

 

  • Alumna
  • PhD Program

Dissertation
Withdrawn

Research Area
Seismology

Advisor
Zach Eilon

  • Alumnus
  • MS Summer 2012

Research Area
Strong Motion Seismology

Advisor
Jaime Steidl

 

  • Alumnus
  • MS Winter 2020

Dissertation
Joint Study of the 1952 Kern County, California Earthquake

Research Area

Advisor
Chen Ji

  • Alumnus
  • PhD Fall 2012

Research Area
Petrology 

Advisor
Frank Spera

 

  • Alumnus
  • PhD Fall 2015

Thesis/Dissertation
High Frequency Ground Motion from Finite Fault Rupture Simulations

Research Area
Seismology

Advisor
Ralph Archuleta

  • Alumnus
  • PhD Winter 2023

Thesis/Dissertation
Saline-Alkaline Lakes of the Eocene Green River Format

Research Area

Advisor
Stan Awramik

  • Lecturer
  • Alumnus
  • PhD Winter 2020

Thesis/Dissertation
Constraining Hydraulic Properties in Oceanic Crust near the Juan de Fuca Spreading Center

Research Area
Geohydrology

Advisor
Jordan Clark

  • PhD
  • Fall 2023

Dissertation
Rapid infrasound propagation corrections using empirical climatologies: Applications in volcano monitoring and systematic reanalyses of multi-year global datasets

Research Area
Geophysics

Advisor
Robin Matoza

  • 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

  • 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

  • Alumna
  • MS June 2017

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

Research Area
Geochemistry

Advisor
John Cottle

  • MS Summer 2018

Thesis

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

Research Area

Advisor
Matt Jackson

  • 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

  • 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

 

  • 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

  • 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

 

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Alumna
  • PhD Spring 2011

Research Area
Marine Hydrothermal Systems

Advisor
Dave Valentine

 

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