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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 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