People

  • Alumnus
  • MS Spring 2018

Thesis/Dissertation
Estuarine Response to Disturbance: A Holocene Record of Storm Episodes and Seismicity as Preserved in Coastal Systems

Advisor
Alex Simms

  • Alumnus
  • MS Fall 2023

Dissertation
Late Holocene Environmental History of UC Santa Barbara, Campus Lagoon

Research Area
Geomorphology

Advisor
Ed Keller

  • Alumna
  • PhD Fall 2016

Thesis/Dissertation
Compilation of deglacial benthic stable carbon isotope data for reconstructing ocean circulation change, terrestrial biosphere change, and 3D visualizations

Research Areas
Paleoclimatology, Paleoceanography

Advisor
Lorraine Lisiecki

  • Alumnus
  • MS Winter 2022

Thesis
Distributed Extension across the Ethiopian Rift and Plateau Illuminated by Joint Inversion of Surface Waves and Scattered Body Waves

Research Area
Seismology

Advisor
Zach Eilon

  • Alumnus
  • MS Spring 2015

Thesis/Dissertation
Petrochronology of Ultrapotassic Intrusive Rocks and Associated Rare Earth Element-Bearing Carbonatite, Mountain Pass, California

Research Areas
Geochemistry, Geochronology, Igneous Petrology

Advisor
John Cottle

  • Alumna
  • PhD Fall 2016

Thesis/Dissertation
Geochemical evidence for the incorporation of multiple hotspot components in the Lau and North Fiji Backarc Basi

Research Areas
Geochemistry, Geochronology, Geodynamics, Mantle Processes, Marine Geology/Geophysics/Geochemistry

Advisor
Matt Jackson

  • Lecturer
  • Webb Hall - 2022
  • Alumna
  • PhD Summer 2023

Dissertation
Onset and Deglaciation of Cryogenian Snowball Earth

Research Area
Geology

Advisor
Francis Macdonald

  • Alumna
  • MS Winter 2013

Research Area
Hydrogeology, Fluvial Process Morphology

Advisor
Jordan Clark

 

  • MS candidate

Thesis/Dissertation
Structural and Metamorphic Controls on Gold Mineralization in the Rochford District: A Comparison to the Homestake Mine, Black Hills, South Dakota

Research Areas
Field Geology/Mapping, Structural Geology

Advisor
Phil Gans

  • Alumnus
  • MS Fall 2019
  • PhD Fall 2023

MS Thesis
A probabilistic approach to calculate lags between benthic d18O signals across Termination 1

Dissertation
In progress

Research Area

Advisor
Lorraine Lisiecki

  • Alumnus
  • PhD Summer 2018

Thesis/Dissertation
Investigating mantle isotopic heterogeneity from the micro- to regional scale with high precision mass spectrometry

Advisor
Matt Jackson

  • Alumna
  • PhD Winter 2018

Thesis/Dissertation
The Late Quaternary Evolution of the Southern California Coast: Sea-Level Change, Storms, and Subsidence

Research Areas
Sedimentology, Quaternary Geology

Advisor
Alex Simms

  • Alumnus
  • MS Fall 2015

Thesis/Dissertation
The Holocene History and Facies Architecture of the Nueces Bayhead Delta of the Northwestern Gulf of Mexico

Research Areas
Climate Change/Climatology, Coastal Geology, Quaternary Geology, Sedimentology/Stratigraphy

Advisor
Alex Simms

  • Alumnus
  • PhD Spring 2013

Research Areas
Hydrogeology, Geomorphology

Advisor
Ed Keller

  • Alumna
  • PhD Fall 2014

Thesis/Dissertation
Dissertation: "Studies in Neoproterozoic Paleontology"

Research Area
Early Eukaryote Paleontology

Advisor
Susannah Porter

  • Alumna
  • MS Summer 2020

Thesis
Remote Hydroacoustic and Infrasonic Detection and Characterization of Anak Krakatau Eruptive Activity Leading To, During, and Following the December 2018 Major Flank Collapse and Tsunami

Research Area
Geophysics

Advisor
Robin Matoza

  • Alumnus
  • PhD Fall 2021

Thesis/Dissertation
Remote detection and localization of explosive volcanic eruptions, mass wasting, and ambient noise sources using infrasound: Applications in Alaska and Washington, USA

Research Area
Volcano infrasound geophysics

Advisor
Robin Matoza

  • Webb 2042
  • Alumnus
  • MS Spring 2015

Thesis/Dissertation
Examining the Thermochemistry and Trace Element Geochemistry of Magma Mixing and Hybridization by Exploratory Modeling

Research Areas
Magma Dynamics, Metamorphic Petrology, Continental Dynamics

Advisor
Frank Spera

  • Noble Annex 1017
  • MS Program
  • Lapsed

Research Areas
Geomorphology, Structural Geology, Tectonics, Continental Dynamics

Advisor
Doug Burbank

  • Alumna
  • MS 2014 CSU Fresno
  • PhD Winter 2022

Thesis/Dissertation
Phase-equilibria modeling of magma mixing: Petrogenetic case studies featuring the Magma Chamber Simulator

Research Areas
Magma dynamics, Igneous petrology, Volcanology

Advisor
Frank Spera

  • Alumna
  • MS Spring 2017

Thesis/Dissertation
Recycling of Continental Crust Captured in Pamir Xenoliths 

Advisor
Brad Hacker

  • Alumnus
  • PhD Summer 2012

Research Area
Geophysics

Advisor
Chen Ji

  • Alumna
  • MS Fall 2013

Thesis/Dissertation
Sulfur Isotope Fractionation Accompanies Dimethylsulfide Disproportionation by Methanosarcina sp. Strain MTP4

Research Area
Geomicrobiology

Advisor
Dave Valentine

  • Alumna
  • PhD Summer 2014

Thesis/Dissertation
Antarctic Raised Beaches: Insight on Geochronology, Relative Sea Level, and Coastal Processes

Research Area
Sedimentology

Advisor
Alex Simms

  • Alumnus
  • MS Winter 2017

Thesis/Dissertation
Source Characterization of Micro-seismicity Induced by Hydraulic Fracturing Experiment in Taft, California

Research Area
Geophysics

Advisor
Chen Ji

  • Alumna
  • MS Spring 2011

Research Areas
Structure, Metamorphic Petrology, Tectonics, Geochronology

Advisor
Brad Hacker

  • Alumna
  • PhD Winter 2020

Thesis/Dissertation
Glacial-Interglacial changes in sea level and seawater delta-O-18 gradients

Research Area
Paleoclimatology (IGPMS)

Advisor
Lorraine Lisiecki

  • Noble Annex 1019
  • Alumnus
  • PhD Summer 2014

Thesis/Dissertation
Genesis and Evolution of the Pamir Plateau: a Petrochronologic View

Research Areas
Structural Geology, Tectonics, Geochemistry

Advisor
Brad Hacker

  • Alumna
  • PhD July 2017.

Thesis/Dissertation
Hyperpycnal currents with reversing buoyancy

Research Areas
Sedimentology, Quantitative Stratigraphy

Advisor
Alex Simms

  • Alumnus
  • PhD Winter 2014

Thesis/Dissertation
Regional Benthic Foraminiferal Oxygen Isotope Stacks for the Last Glacial Cycle

Research Area
Paleoclimatology

Advisor
Lorraine Lisiecki

  • Alumnus
  • PhD Winter 2023

Thesis/Dissertation
The Geodynamics of Relamination, Delamination, and Foundering of the Lower Crust

Research Area

Advisor
Brad Hacker

  • Alumna
  • MS Summer 2015

Thesis/Dissertation
New middle Cambrian hyolith genus and species and echinoderm ossicles from the Georgina Basin, Australia

Research Areas
Paleobiology/Paleontology

Advisor
Susannah Porter

  • Alumnus
  • MS Fall 2010

Thesis
Spatial distribution of near-shore gas seepage from sub-sea permafrost in the Laptev Sea Shelf, Arctic Ocean

Research Area
Marine Geophysics

Advisor
Bruce Luyendyk

 

  • Alumna
  • MS Winter 2011

Research Area
Fluvial Geomorphology

Advisor
Ed Keller

  • Alumna
  • MS Fall 2020

Dissertation
Changes in beach deposit characteristics on Joinville and Livingston Islands, Antarctica

Research Area
Sedimentology

Advisor
Alex Simms

  • Alumna
  • PhD Summer 2013

Thesis/Dissertation
Neogene Tectonic Evolution of the NE Pamir margin, NW China

Research Areas
Geomorphology, Tectonic Geomorphology

Advisor
Doug Burbank

  • Alumnus
  • MS Winter 2013

Research Areas
Seismology, Volcanology, Planetary Science

Advisor
Frank Spera

  • Alumna
  • MS Summer 2020

Thesis
Organic Preservation of Vase-Shaped Microfossils from the Late Tonian Chuar Group, Grand Canyon, Arizona

Research Area
Paleontology

Advisor
Susannah Porter

  • Alumnus
  • MS Summer 2018

Dissertation
A Comparative Morphologic Analysis of Hydrocarbon Induced Terrains in the Gulf of Mexico and Offshore Southern California

Advisor
Dave Valentine

  • Webb 1032
  • Alumna
  • MS Summer 2015

Thesis/Dissertation
Seismic Noise Analysis to Constrain Shallow Velocity Structure in the southern San Andreas Fault Region 

Research Areas
Geophysics, Seismology

Advisor
Ralph Archuleta

  • Alumna
  • PhD Fall 2015

Thesis/Dissertation
Cosmogenic 35S as an Intrinsic Hydrologic Tracer for Young Groundwater in Mountain Basins and Managed Aquifer Recharge Facilities

Research Areas
Hydrology, Geochemistry

Advisor
Jordan Clark

  • Alumnus
  • PhD Spring 2023

Dissertation
Mining molecular systems from the marine environment that have biotechnological applications on Earth and beyond

Research Area

Advisor
Dave Valentine

  • Alumna
  • MS Winter 2011

Research Areas
Structure and Stratigraphy

Advisor
Phil Gans

  • Alumna
  • MS Spring 2013

MS Thesis
Using Laser Scanning Technology to Monitor Coastal Erosion

Advisor
Alex Simms

  • Alumnus
  • MS Fall 2013

Thesis/Dissertation
Tectonic Geomorphology of the Gaviota Coast

Research Areas
Geomorphology, Landscape Evolution

Advisor
Ed Keller

  • Alumnus
  • PhD Summer 2021

Dissertation
Estimating Near-Surface Elastic Structure from Low-Frequency Seismic Noise

Research Area

Advisor
Toshiro Tanimoto

  • Alumnus
  • MS Winter 2014

Thesis/Dissertation
Changes in the Indian summer monsoon during the last interglacial: insights from two hydrological proxies

Research Areas
Paleoclimatology, Surface Processes

Advisor
Syee Weldeab

  • Alumna
  • MS Summer 2019

Dissertation
Hot and heterogenous high-3He/4He components: New constraints from proto-Iceland plume lavas from Baffin Island

Research Area

Advisor
Matt Jackson

  • Alumna
  • MS Spring 2012

Research Area
Structure, Tectonics

Advisor
John Cottle

 

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