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Fall 2019

  • Perri Silverhardt (MS) "Land use Versus Climate Controls on Erosion at a Farmed Headwater Catchment in Central Pennsylvania" Adviser: Roman DiBiase
  • Cathleen Bressers (MS)  "Upper Mantle Structure Beneath the Northern East African Plateau from P- and S-wave Body-wave Tomography" Adviser: Andrew Nyblade
  • Damaris Wyatt (MS) "Constraints from Monazite Petrochronology on the Assembly of the Ivrea-Verbano Zone" Adviser: Andrew Smye
  • Chloe Stanton (MS) "Documentation of Diatom and Cyanobacteria Associated Calcification in a Lacustrine Whiting Event at Fayetteville Green Lake, New York, USA" Adviser: Lee Kump
  • Aoshuang Ji (MS) "Seismic Attenuation Improves the Understanding of Hydrate Saturation and the gas Hydrate Morphology on the South Hydrate Ridge" Adviser: Tieyuan Zhu
  • Abby Kenigsberg (PhD) "Elastic and Mechanical Properties of Smectite-Rich Fault Gouge" Advisers: Demian Saffer and Chris Marone
  • David Yoxtheimer (PhD) "Utilization of the Square Array Earth Resistivity Method for Characterizing Anisotropy in Fractured Sedimentary Rock" Adviser: Andrew Nyblade
  • Judith Sclafani (PhD) "Morphological Diversity in Space and time: A case Study of Strophomenid Brachiopods at the late Ordovician" Adviser: Mark Patzkowsky
  • Thamer Alotaibi (PhD) "Lithospheric Geodynamics of The Arabian Margin" Adviser: Kevin Furlong
  • Virginia Marcon (PhD) "The Effect of Lithology on (Bio)geochemical Weathering: Sandstone to Serpentinite" Adviser: Susan Brantley

Spring 2020

  • Allison Karp (PhD) "The role of fire Ecology in Vegitation Change During the Neogene: New Applications of Molecular and Isotopic Proxies for Vegetation Burning in the Paleorecord" Adviser: Katherine Freeman
  • Austin White-Gaynor (PhD) "Body and Surface Wave Tomography of West Antarctica and Southern Africa: Implications for Lithospheric Architecture, Tectonic Development, and Geodynamics" Adviser: Andrew Nyblade
  • Erica Pitcavage (PhD) "Geochemical Investigations of Continental Rift Magmatism: A case Study in East Africa's Western Rift" Adviser: Tanya Furman

Fall 2018

  • Helen Gall (PhD)  "A Geochemical Approach to Mantle and Crustal Dynamics in Central Anatolia" Adviser: Tanya Furman 
  • Benjamin Madara (PhD)  "Laboratory Studies of Permeability Evolution: Roles of Fracture, Shear, Dynamic Stressing, and Reservoir Rock Properties"  Adviser: Chris Marone
  • Haley Ramirez (MS)  “The Seismic Hazards Posed by Offshore Segments of the Ranong and Khlong Marui Faults”  Adviser: Kevin Furlong
  • David Soto (MS)    “P and S Body Wave Tomography of the Upper Mantle in Central and Eastern West Antarctica”   Adviser: Andrew Nyblade


Spring 2019

  • Cathleen Bressers (MS)  "Upper Mantle Structure Beneath the Northern East African Plateau from P- and S-wave Body-wave Tomography" Adviser: Andrew Nyblade
  • Jared Carte (MS)  "Explaining the Unexpected Variability of Uranium-Series Activity Ratios in Near Surface Soils, State College, PA”  Adviser: Matthew Fantle
  • Jonas Kinter (PhD)  "An Investigation of Seismological Source Parameterization" Adviser: Charles Ammon
  • Matthew Reinhold (MS)  "Constraints on Earth's Thermal Evolution from the Heavy Noble Gas Content of the Mantle" Adviser: Brad Foley
  • Adrianna Rizzo (MS) "Ocean Ecosystem Transformation During Rapid Warming and Sea Level Rise: Examples from the Pleistocene Cariaco Basin (MIS 9-7)"  Adviser: Timothy Bralower
  • Gabriella Rossetto Harris (MS)  "Fossil Evidence for Patagonian Arucaria Sec. Eutacta and its Implications for Conifer Turnover During the Ecocene Initial Isolation of South Americas"  Adviser: Peter Wilf
  • Elena Stiles (MS) "Plant Extinction and Recovery Dynamics Across the Cretaceous-Paleogene Transition in Southern South America"  Adviser: Peter Wilf
  • Timothy Witham (MS) "Ultrasonic Monitoring od Laboratory-Scale Hydraulic Fracturing"  Adviser: Chris Marone
  • Joshua Woda (MS) "Using Citizen Sciences, Stream Methane and a Localized Case Study to locate and Understand Hydrocarbon Related Contaminant Sources in Pennsylvania"  Adviser: Susan Brantley