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Molly Anderson
Received Ph.D Summer 2023
- Major Advisor: Dr. Michael Perfit
- Dissertation Title: Petrogenesis of the 8 Degrees 20 Minutes N Seamount Chain: Modeling Mantle Heterogeneity and Melting in the Near-Ridge Environment
Masoud Asgharianrostami
Received MS Spring 2018
- Major Advisor: Dr. Ellen Martin
- Thesis Title: Development of Northern Component Water during the Latest Cretaceous
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Michelle Barboza
Received MS Summer 2018
- Major Advisor: Dr. Bruce MacFadden
- Thesis Title: Carbon Isotope Analysis of Mammalian Herbivore Teeth from a 10 Million-Year-Time Span, Including the mid Miocene Climatic Optimum, Florida
Megan Borel
Received Ph.D Spring 2023
- Major Advisor: Dr. David Foster
- Dissertation Title: Extensional Tectonics and 3D Development of the Pioneer Metamorphic Core Complex, Idaho
Kyle Bostick
Received Ph.D Summer 2019
- Major Advisor: Dr. Andrew Zimmerman
- Dissertation Title: The Production, Composition, and Stability of Pyrogenic Dissolved Organic Matter
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Peter Chutcharavan
Received Ph.D Summer 2020
- Major Advisor: Dr. Ellen Martin
- Dissertation Title: Ice Sheet Histories and Sea-Level Change during the Last Interglacial and Termination I Inferred from Fossil Corals: An Interdisciplinary Approach
Matthew Conlin
Received Ph.D Spring 2022
- Major Advisor: Dr. Peter Adams
- Dissertation Title: Assessing Storm-Driven Evolution of Coastal Morphology through the Use and Development of Numerous Observational Techniques
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Madison Flint
Received Ph.D Fall 2021
- Major Advisor: Dr. Jonathan Martin
- Dissertation Title: Evaluating Environmental Controls on Nitrous Oxide Processing in Carbonate Aquatic Systems
Shauna Flynn
Received MS Summer 2018
- Major Advisor: Dr. Ellen Martin
- Thesis Title: Weathering during Glacial-Interglacial Cycles Based on Pb Isotopes at Orphan Knoll, NW Atlantic
Jennie Ford
Received MS Fall 2018
- Major Advisor: Dr. Andrew Zimmerman
- Thesis Title: Investigating the Role of EPS in Microbial-Induced Calcite Precipitation
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Jacob Gaddy
Received MS Fall 2023
- Major Advisor: Dr. Thomas Bianchi
- Thesis Title: Spatial and Temporal Cycling of Dissolved Organic Matter in South Florida Treatment Wetlands
- Current Position/Institution: Staff Geologist at Geosyntec Consultants
Luke Grimmelbein
Received MS Summer 2022
- Major Advisor: Dr. Michal Kowalewski
- Thesis Title: Comparative Analyses of Live and Dead Mollusks as a Tool for Assessing Human Impact on Seagrass Ecosystems along the Northern Gulf Coast of Florida
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Jack Hutchings
Received Ph.D Spring 2018
- Major Advisor: Dr. Thomas Bianchi
- Dissertation Title: Molecular Biomarker Approaches to Determining Organic Matter Sources and Degradation States in High Latitude Permafrost-Affected Soils
McKenna Holliday
Received Ph.D Spring 2024
- Major Advisor: Dr. Courtney Sprain
- Dissertation Title: A multidisciplinary Approach to Western North American Landscape Evolution and the Associated Hazards
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Peng Jiang
Received Ph.D Fall 2020
- Major Advisor: Dr. David Foster
- Dissertation Title: In-Situ Chemical and Isotopic Analyses of Major and Accessory Mineral Phases: Method Developments and Applications to the Damara Orogen and East Pacific Rise
Hailey Johnson
Received Ph.D Fall 2020
- Major Advisor: Dr. Peter Adams
- Dissertation Title: Reusable Geoscientific Software Design and Applications in Coastal Morphology Research and Education
Lauren Judge
Received MS Summer 2021
- Major Advisor: Dr. Amy Williams
- Thesis Title: Biosignature Preservation Potential in Manganese Oxides
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Stephanie Killingsworth
Received MS Fall 2023
- Major Advisor: Dr. Bruce MacFadden
- Thesis Title: Geochemistry of Fossil Shark Teeth as Age Proxies for Neogene Sites of Florida
- Current Position/Institution: K-12 Education & Outreach Coordinator at the Florida Museum of Natural History
James Kowalski
Received MS Summer 2022
- Major Advisor: Dr. Robert Hatfield
- Thesis Title: The Particle Size Specific Magnetic Record of IODP Site U1302/03: Fingerprinting Late Pleistocene Laurentide Ice Sheet Instabilities in the North Atlantic Sediment Record
Kristopher Kusnerik
Received Ph.D Summer 2021
- Major Advisor: Dr. Michal Kowalewski
- Dissertation Title: Freshwater Conservation Paleobiology: Understanding the Historical Ecology of Spring-Fed Fluvial Systems in Florida Using Fossil and Modern Mollusks
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Caitlin Lebel
Received MS Summer 2020
- Major Advisor: Dr. Ellen Martin
- Thesis Title: Larger Benthic Foraminiferal Response to the Eocene-Oligocene Transition in Florida
Ranpeng Li
Received MS Spring 2024
- Major Advisor: Dr. Juliane Dannberg
- Thesis Title: Exploring Mantle Convection Styles through Earth’s History: The Role of Phase Transitions
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Isaac Magallanes
Received MS Summer 2019
- Major Advisor: Dr. Bruce MacFadden
- Thesis Title: Stable Carbon and Oxygen Isotopes Provide New Insights on Climate and Paleoecology during the Late Miocene in Northcentral New Mexico
Krista McGillivray
Received MS Spring 2019
- Major Advisor: Dr. John Jaeger
- Thesis Title: Establishing Spatial Patterns of Late Pleistocene to Modern Glacial Erosion in the Bering-Bagley Glacial System, Gulf of Alaska, from IODP Expedition 341 Site U1421
Jia Meng
Received MS Summer 2018
- Major Advisor: Dr. Raymond Russo
- Thesis Title: Determining Crust and Upper Mantle Structure by Bayesian Joint Inversion of Receiver Function, Surface Wave Dispersion and Rayleigh Wave Ellipticity at a Single Station: Preparation for Data from the InSight Mission
Scott Miller
Received Ph.D Fall 2021
- Major Advisor: Dr. Joseph Meert
- Dissertation Title: Precambrian India from the Hadean to the Proterozoic: Geochemical and Paleomagnetic Investigations of the Singhbhum and Dharwar Cratons
Meridith Miska
Received MS Spring 2023
- Major Advisor: Dr. Paul Mueller
- Thesis Title: Tracing Archean-Proterozoic Crustal Evolution in Northern Michigan Using U-Pb Age and Hf Isotopic Compositions of Detrital Zircons
Laura Mulrooney
Received MS Fall 2023
- Major Advisor: Dr. James Vogl
- Thesis Title: Geochemistry and Geochronology of the Eocene Pioneer Intrusive Suite: Pioneer Metamorphic Core Complex South-Central Idaho
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Carolina Ortiz Guerrero
Received Ph.D Fall 2022
- Major Advisor: Dr. David Foster
- Dissertation Title: Research and Outreach in Idaho’s Geology: Timescales and Conditions for Decoupled Crustal Flow in the Pioneer Mountains Metamorphic Core Complex, and Impacts of Google-Earth Electronic Field Trips in K-12 Environments
Andrew Oberhelman
Received Ph.D Spring 2024
- Major Advisor: Dr. Jonathan Martin
- Dissertation Title: Carbon Cycling in the Carbonate Critical Zone
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Juan Paniagua-Arroyave
Received Ph.D Spring 2018
- Major Advisor: Dr. Peter Adams
- Dissertation Title: Hydrodynamic Processes Associated with the Evolution of Cape-Related Shoals
Michelle Penkrot
Received Ph.D Fall 2018
- Major Advisor: Dr. John Jaeger
- Dissertation Title: The Late Quaternary Continental Margin Sedimentary Record of Glacial Erosion Within the St. Elias Mountain Range, Southeastern Alaska
Victor Perez
Received Ph.D Summer 2020
- Major Advisor: Dr. Bruce MacFadden
- Dissertation Title: Florida’s Chondrichthyan Fossil Record (Eocene-Pleistocene)
Anthony Pivarunas
Received Ph.D Spring 2019
- Major Advisor: Dr. Joseph Meert
- Dissertation Title: Space and Time: Using Paleomagnetism, Geochronology and Numerical Methods to Create and Assess Spatiotemporal Geological Relationships through Earth History
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Caroline Quanbeck
Received MS Spring 2020
- Major Advisor: Dr. John Jaeger
- Thesis Title: Late Pleistocene Sea-Level Change and Reef Response Inferred from Fossil Reefs at Red Bluff, Western Australia
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Harshit Saini
Received MS Summer 2020
- Major Advisor: Dr. Jonathan Martin
- Thesis Title: Controls on Wetland Phosphorus Distribution in Big Cypress Wetlands, South Florida
Alexandra Skrivanek
Received Ph.D Summer 2019
- Major Advisor: Dr. Andrea Dutton
- Dissertation Title: Inferences of Last Interglacial Sea-level Variability from circum-Caribbean Fossil Reefs
- Research Interests: Climate and Ocean Science, Ocean Biogeochemistry, Science Philanthropy, Science Policy
- Current Position/ Institution: Program Scientist / Schmidt Sciences
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Cora Summerfield
Received MS Summer 2019
- Major Advisor: Dr. Elizabeth Screaton
- Thesis Title: Role of Lakebed Sediments in Lake-Groundwater Exchange in Lake Lochloosa, Central Florida
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Carmi Thompson
Received MS Summer 2022
- Major Advisor: Dr. Michal Kowalewski
- Thesis Title: Paleoecology of the Florida Shell and Fill Quarry
Jason Titus
Received MS Spring 2020
- Major Advisor: Dr. David Foster
- Thesis Title: Geologic Mapping and Detrital Zircon U/Pb Geochronology of the Ernie Lake Area of Central Brooks Range in Alaska: Implications for Pre-Mississippian Basement and Brooks Range Architecture
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Derrick Vaughn
Received Ph.D Fall 2019
- Major Advisor: Dr. Thomas Bianchi
- Dissertation Title: Changes in Blue Carbon Burial Rates and Vegetation with Macroclimate Variability in Intertidal Wetlands of Northern Florida
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Yitan Wang
Received Ph.D Spring 2022
- Major Advisor: Dr. Raymond Russo
- Dissertation Title: Lower Crustal Densities from Converted Seismic Body Waves: Development and Applications
Ryan Wilhelmi
Received Ph.D Summer 2020
- Major Advisor: Dr. David Foster
- Dissertation Title: Evolution and Exposure of Precambrian Basement along the Western Margin of the Wyoming Province
Han Byul Woo
Received Ph.D Fall 2021
- Major Advisor: Dr. Peter Adams
- Dissertation Title: The Use of Seismic Interferometry to Identify Crustal Velocity Structure and Other Applications in Environmental Seismology
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Michael Ziegler
Received MS Fall 2019
- Major Advisor: Dr. Bruce MacFadden
- Thesis Title: Paleoenvironmental Analysis of Montbrook: An Unusual Fossil Locality from the Late Miocene in Northern Florida