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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
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      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

    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
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  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

    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 is awesome.     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     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

    Lexa Skrivanek   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

    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     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

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