Dissertations from 2024
A History of Fire and Ice on Mars: Using Remote Sensing to Examine the Chemical Origins of Volcanism, Liquid Water, and Regolith-Ice on Mars, Augustus Bates
Petrogenesis of Key Archean Metamorphic Lithologies from the Eastern Beartooth Mountains, Montana, USA, Larry Fisher Cliff-Tuttle
The Sedimentary Response of Foreland Basins to Mountain Building: Insights from Basin Response Time and Multi-Proxy Provenance Analyses in the Pro-Foreland Basin of the Greater Caucasus, Kristoffer Colton Fowler
Unpinning of the Ross Ice Shelf from Ross Bank, in Ross Sea of Antarctica, Ben R. Lindsey
Palynostratigraphic and Paleoenvironmental Analysis of the Paleocene-Eocene Alaminos Canyon Section, Gulf of Mexico, Tiffany A. Nordstrom
Analysis Of Long-Term Spatially Varying Vertical Accretion Rates Within Paleo-Environments And Vulnerable Wetlands Of The Mid-Barataria Diversion Receiving Basin, Louisiana, USA, Michael C. Piorkowski
Coordination Numbers and Grain Texture from Micro-Xray Tomography of Angular Unconsolidated Sediments: Velocity Prediction using Hertz-Mindlin Model., Kwabena Poku-Agyemang
Estimating Crustal Thickness in Northwest Louisiana using the Receiver Function Method, Delton Samuel
Theses from 2023
Palynology of the Gulf of Mexico Stones Field Well WR 508 #1: New Biostratigraphic and Environmental Data of a Deepwater Wilcox Group, Barry G. Boler
Sedimentary Processes and Instability on the Mississippi River Delta Front Near the Wreck of the SS Virginia, Nathan Figueredo
SNOW DISTRIBUTION AND INFLUENCE IN TAYLOR VALLEY, ANTARCTICA, USING REMOTE SENSING, Katherine McNulty, Peter Doran, Mark Salvatore, and Suniti Karunatillake
GEOPHYSICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF UNDERGROUND STORAGE IN SALT DOMES DURING THE CLEAN ENERGY TRANSITION, Joses B. Omojola
COLLAPSE OF THE BINDSCHADLER ICE STREAM AT 11.5 CAL KYR BP VIA MARINE ICE CLIFF INSTABILITY, Anna Sivils
Dissertations from 2022
Seismic Inversion and Modeling for Improving Earthquake Hazard Assessment, Rasheed Ajala
Quantitative Analysis of the Maximum Rate and Minimum Duration for a 200 km Stepwise Retreat of the Bindschadler Ice Stream at ~11.5 cal kyr BP, Matthew E Kratochvil
Archean Metamorphosed Ultramafic Rocks and Chromitites from the Beartooth Mountains, Montana, USA: Insights into Mantle Geochemistry and Tectonics, Rachel M. Gnieski
Connections Between Interglacial Variation and Lithological Variability within Midland Basin Permian Shale Rocks in Martin County, Texas, Helen Rice Hammon
Connections between Interglacial Variation and Lithological Variability within Midland Basin Permian Shale Rocks in Martin County, Texas, Helen Rice Hammon
Sediment Buffering and Recycling on an Annual to Centennial Scale Along the Mississippi River, Nikki E. Neubeck
Hydrological Connectivity Between a Geographically Isolated Wetland and the Upper Floridan Aquifer, Nicholas Priehs
GPS Observations of Subsidence in South Louisiana over Seasonal and Sub-seasonal Timescales Associated with Hydrologic Loading, Nicholas Schuler
Sedimentology, Elevation Dynamics, and Flood Risks of the Fluvial-to-Tidal Transition Zone in the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna Delta, Bangladesh, Leslie Anne Valentine
Theses from 2021
Investigating the impact of meteoric diagenesis on the geochemistry of carbonate eolianites, Eleuthera and Water Cay, the Bahamas, Graham S. Bonnot
Causes and Characteristics of Electrical Resistivity Variability in Shallow (<4 >m) Soils in Taylor Valley, East Antarctica, William S. Gutterman
Palynology and Paleoclimatology of the Chicxulub Impact Crater in the Early Paleogene, Vann Smith
Dissertations from 2020
The Long-Term Outlook of the Mississippi-Atchafalaya Bifurcation: A Convergence of Engineering, Economics, and Deltaic Evolution, Thomas Mitchell Andrus
Seasonal Infilling And Sedimentary Characteristics In Sandy Versus Muddy Coastal Borrow Areas On The Louisiana Continental Shelf, USA, Matthew Barley
Detrital Zircon (U-Th)/He Thermochronology in the Greater Caucasus: Implications for Thermal and Tectonic History Along-Strike, Kate Gutterman
U/Pb Zircon Ages of Felsic Veins in the Sawtooth Metamorphic Complex, Idaho, U.S.A: Implications for Magmatism and Vein Source, Kyle Tollefson
Response of Transient Base Level Signals to Erodibility Contrasts in Bedrock Streams, Joshua A. Wolpert
Dissertations from 2019
Coupled Landscape and Channel Dynamics Across the Ganges-Brahmaputra Tidal-Fluvial Continuum, Southwest Bangladesh, Edwin Jefferson Bomer IV
The Modern Mississippi: Provenance Indicators and Human Impact, Brittney Anne Gregory
Reinterpreting the Tectonic Model of the Southern Part of the Taconic Orogeny through a Provenance Study of Late Ordovician Sandstones, Juan Carlos Guerrero
Multicomponent Model of Crustal Stress at Cajon Pass, Southern California with Implications for Stress Field Heterogeneity, Elliott Conley Helgans
Exploring Planetary Surfaces with Remote Sensing, Donald R. Hood
Structure Beneath the Northern Los Angeles Basins from Teleseismic Receiver Functions, Guibao Liu
Exploring Geochemical Proxies for Identifying Cryptic Sequence Boundaries in the Geologic Past Using Modern Bahamian Analogues, Evan B. Magette
Role of Glaciers in Halting Syrtis Major Lava Flows to Preserve and Divert a Fluvial System, Connor Matherne
Suspended Sediment Transport Revealed by Patterns in Turbidity and Electrical Conductivity Curves in Three Cave Systems in Missouri, USA., Caroline M. Mierzejewski
Spatiotemporal Impact of Snow on Underwater Photosynthetically Active Radiation in Taylor Valley, East Antarctica, Madeline E. Myers
Deltaic Wetland Dynamics from Seasonal to Centennial Scales, Giancarlo A. Restreppo
Rare Earth Geochemistry of Apatitic Fossils from the Middle-Upper Ordovician Southern Margin of Laurentia, Rafael Adrian Villanueva
Theses from 2018
Reconstruction of Antarctic Cenozoic Paleoenvironments Through Palynological Analysis of Subglacial Lake and Ice Stream Sediments, Patrick Baudoin
SH-Wave Seismic Reflection Imaging and Inversion: An Analysis of Architectural and Physical Properties of a Near-Surface Point-Bar, Nathan William Benton
Vertical Sediment Accretion in Jamaica Bay Wetlands, New York, Ryan Christopher Clarke
A Regional Survey of River-plume Sedimentation on the Mississippi River Delta Front, Andrew J. Courtois
The Sedimentology and Origins of a Giant Mass Transport Complex: The Nataraja Slide, Arabian Sea, Sarah Dailey
Topographic Control on Post-LGM Groundings of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet in the Whales Deep Basin, Eastern Ross Sea, Matthew Danielson
Joint Geodetic and Seismic Analysis of Englacial and Subglacial Hydraulic Effects on Surface Crevassing near a Seasonal, Glacier-Dammed Lake on Gornergletscher, Switzerland, Louis Stephen Garcia
Stratigraphic Reconstruction of a Late Pleistocene Bald Cypress Forest Discovered on the Northern Gulf of Mexico Continental Shelf, Suyapa Michell Gonzalez Rodriguez
Groundwater and Thermal Legacy of a Large Paleolake in Taylor Valley, East Antarctica as Evidenced by Airborne Electromagnetic and Sedimentological Techniques, Krista Falcon Myers
Analysis of Fluvial Scroll Bar Development With Surface Wave Inversion: False River, Louisiana, Blake Odom
New Borehole Breakout Derived Stress Constraints and their Implications for Stress Heterogeneity Near High Risk Fault Systems in the Santa Barbara Channel, Southern California, Edward Harris Pritchard
Spatial Trends and Variability of Marsh Accretion Rates in Barataria Basin, Louisiana, USA Using 210Pb and 137Cs Radiochemistry, Samuel Bryant Shrull
An Evaluation of Modified Bed Load Sediment Transport Equations for Enhanced Sediment Transport Quantification in Steep Mountain Streams – Case Study Little Fountain Creek, Colorado Springs, Co., James Emerson Smith IV
Investigating Trace Metal Sequestration of Reducing Environments in Modern and Ancient Settings, Adam Charles Turner
Investigating Uranium incorporation in modern carbonates by sequential extraction: Applied to the Permian - Triassic boundary in Lung Cam, Vietnam, Christopher Michael Wray
Theses from 2017
Boulder Distribution Analysis of Impact Craters in the Tharsis Region and Elysium Planitia, Mars, Nicole Button
When, How, and Why Did the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Retreat in the Ross Sea Since the Last Glacial Maximum Using Foraminiferal And Porewater Geochemistry, Matthew DeCesare
A Palynostratigraphic Investigation of Holocene Coastal Texas Bays: Implications for Future Coastal Change, Shannon Marie Ferguson
Palynostratigraphy and Environmental Implication of Organic-walled Microfossils Recovered from IODP Site U1435, Mitchell Clifford Gregory
Spatial Variability of the Depth to the Magma Reservoir Beneath the Yellowstone Caldera Inferred from Observations of Seiche Loading Induced Strain, Kevin James Gryger
Quaternary River Erosion, Provenance, and Climate Variability in the NW Himalaya and Vietnam, Tara Nicole Jonell
The Relationship between the Timing of Hydrocarbon Generation Between the Bristol Bay Depositional Basin and the Port Moller Area and Southern Portion of the Bristol Bay Basin of the Alaska Peninsula, Claire Rochelle Jones
Evidence of Subglacial Brine Inflow and Wind-Induced Mixing from High Resolution Temperature Measurements in Lake Bonney, Antarctica, Jade Lawrence
Overbank Deposition of Sand and Mud within Two Point Bars Bound by the Mississippi River Levee System: Implications for Coastal Restoration Sediment Budgets, Christopher Magliolo
Investigating Core Shale Depositional Environments of Late Pennsylvanian Cyclothems Utilizing Geochemical Proxies to Test the Superestuarine Model, Bryce A. Mathis
Microseismic Event Characteristics Associated With The Spatial And Temporal Stages of Hydraulic Fracture Growth in Laboratory Experiments, Abigail Arielle Maxwell
Post-LGM grounding line and calving front translations of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet in the Whales Deep paleo-ice-stream trough, eastern Ross Sea, Antarctica, Austin James McGlannan
Shallow Shear-Wave Seismic Analysis of Point Bar Deposits of False River, Louisiana, Martial James Morrison
Sediment Infilling of Louisiana Continental-Shelf Dredge Pits: A Record of Sedimentary Processes in the Northern Gulf of Mexico, Meg Cathlin O'Connor
In Search of Antarctica's Last Vegetation Refugium Within the McMurdo Dry Valleys, David Rau
Modelling and Observational Evidence for the Igneous Evolution of the Elysium Volcanic Province on Mars, David Andrew Susko
Dissertations from 2016
First-Principles Simulations of Structure, Density, and Diffusivity of Silicate and Oxide Melts: Implications for Deep Mantle Magma, Suraj K. Bajgain
Examining the Holocene Paleoenvironment of Okak Bay, Labrador, Canada using Microfossils and Sedimentary Indicators, Jillian Bambrick Banks
Sedimentation Dynamics and Stratigraphy of Middle Breton Sound Estuary, Southeast Louisiana: Spatiotemporal Evidence for Subdeltaic Evolution, Edwin Jefferson Bomer
In Situ Geochemistry of Middle Ordovician Dolomites of the Upper Mississippi Valley: Evaluation of the Dorag Model and New Implications for Dolomitizing Fluids, John Michael Callen
Intracontinental Neotectonics: Case Studies from the Tian Shan Orogen and Kuqa Fold-Thrust Belt, Cindy M. Colón
Geologic Extremes of the NW Himalaya: Investigations of the Himalayan Ultra-high Pressure and Low Temperature Deformation Histories, Dennis Girard Donaldson
Study of Resistivity and Shear Wave Velocity as a Predictive Tool of Sediment Type in Levee Foundation Soils, Louisiana Gulf Coast Levee System, Derek Stephen Goff
Spatiotemporal Distribution of the Himalayan Leucogranite: Implications for Mountain-building as a Function of Indian Slab Dynamics, Hongcheng Guo
Theory and Utility of the Three Isotope Fractionation Relationship, Justin Alan Hayles
Plagioclase Corona Around Garnets: Implications of Pressure-Temperature Paths in Aluminous Gneisses, Anna Atasha Hoffmann
A Geochronological and Stratigraphic Reconstruction of the Middle Barataria Bay Receiving Basin, Joseph Ethan Thomas Hughes
An Empirical Estimate of Post-LGM Grounding-Event Duration in Eastern Ross Sea: Implications from a Comparison with Constraints from New Radiocarbon Dates, Benjamin Krogmeier
Using Wavelet Transforms to Detect Small-Scale Features within the Tuscaloosa Marine Shale, Louisiana & Mississippi, Samiha Naseem
Particulate inorganic carbon flux and sediment transport dynamics in karst: Significance to landscape evolution and the carbon cycle., Randall Lee Paylor
Metamorphic Conditions of Aluminous Gneisses in the Sawtooth Metamorphic Complex, Idaho, USA: Implications for the Middle-Lower Crust, Eleanor Wesley-Anne Smith
Using Tourmaline As An Indicator Of Provenance: Development And Application Of A Statistical Approach Using Random Forests, Erin Lael Walden