People
Thesis
Chronology and Recurrence of High-Magnitude Debris Flows in the Santa Barbara and Montecito, CA Areas
Research Area
Geomorphology
Advisor
Ed Keller
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
Dissertation
Subject-Oriented Finite Fault Inversions and Their Applications
Research Areas
Geodynamics,Geophysics, Seismology, Tectonics
Advisors
Ralph Archuleta & Chen Ji
Areas of Research
Proterozoic (micro)paleontology, paleoecology, and biostratigraphy; geobiology; evolution of early complex life.
Sponsor
Susannah Porter
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
Research Area
Quaternary Sedimentology and Geomorpholog
Advisor
Alex Simms
Dissertation
In progress
Research Area
Advisor
Toshiro Tanimoto
Dissertation
In progress
Research Area
Advisor
Matt Jackson
Dissertation
In progress
Research Area
Geology
Advisor
Francis Macdonald
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
Research Areas
Metamorphic Petrology, Structure and Tectonics
Advisor
Brad Hacker
Dissertation
Testing for Physical Constraints on Intermediate-Depth Earthquake Fault Geometry via Finite-Fault Inversions
Research Area
Seismology
Advisor
Chen Ji
Seismic Source Studies, Strong Motion Seismology
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
Plate Boundary Behavior, Structure and Evolution of Ocean Spreading Centers
Pre-Phanerozoic Biogeology
PhD Dissertation
In progress
Research Area
Geochemistry
Advisor
Matt Jackson
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
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
MS Thesis
Central Asia’s hydroclimate response to Heinrich events 4 and 5s
Research Area
Paleoclimate
Advisor
Syee Weldeab
Sedimentary Petrology, Clastic Diagenesis, Petroleum Geology, Geochemistry
Research Area
Paleobiology
Advisor
Andy Wyss
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
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
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
Dissertation
In progress
Research Area
Geophysics
Advisor
Zach Eilon
Thesis/Dissertation
Rates and mechanics of fold uplift and lateral bedrock planation in convergent foreland basins.Research Area(
Geomorphology
Advisor
Doug Burbank
Dissertation
In progress
Research Area
Geochemistry
Advisors
Roberta Rudnick & John Cottle
Tectonic Geomorphology, Collisional Orogens, Sedimentation and Tectonics, Surface Processes
Research Area
Seismology, Ground Motion Prediction Equations
Advisor
Chen Ji
Sedimentology and Stratigraphy of Active Margins
Dissertation
Withdrawn
Research Area
Seismology
Advisor
Zach Eilon
Dissertation
In progress
Research Area
Geobiology
Advisor
Morgan Raven
Geography
Research Area
Strong Motion Seismology
Advisor
Jaime Steidl
Geochemistry, Hydrology
Dissertation
Joint Study of the 1952 Kern County, California Earthquake
Research Area
Advisor
Chen Ji
Tectonics and Geochronology
Thesis/Dissertation
In progress
Research Area
Advisor
David Valentine
Research Area
Petrology
Advisor
Frank Spera
Thesis/Dissertation
High Frequency Ground Motion from Finite Fault Rupture Simulations
Research Area
Seismology
Advisor
Ralph Archuleta
Dissertation
In progress
Research Area
Organic Geochemistry, Geobiology
Advisor
Morgan Raven
Thesis/Dissertation
In progress
Research Area
Advisor
Stan Awramik
Thesis/Dissertation
Constraining Hydraulic Properties in Oceanic Crust near the Juan de Fuca Spreading Center
Research Area
Geohydrology
Advisor
Jordan Clark
Dissertation
In progress
Research Area
Advisor
Robin Matoza