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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

Prakhin Assavapanuvat
Received PhD Fall 2024

Major Advisor: Dr. Thomas Bianchi
Dissertation Title:
Mangrove Encroachment of Salt Marshes in Apalachicola Estuary: Impacts on Organic Carbon Burial

DANIEL F. ASTUDILLO MANOSALVA
Received PhD Summer 2024

Major Advisor: Dr. Stephen Elardo
Dissertation Title: The Petrology of the Lunar Interior and Its Early Magmatism Addressed through a Modeling, Analytical, and Experimental Approach

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

Katie Bristol
Received PhD Fall 2024

Major Advisor: Dr. Courtney Sprain
Dissertation Title: Earth's Evolution from Core to Atmosphere: Paleomagnetic and Geochronologic Insights from the Indian Subcontinent

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DENISE BUCKNER
Received PhD Summer 2024

Major Advisor: Dr. Amy Williams
Dissertation Title: Predicting the Mixed Signal of Organics on Mars: Ancient Biotic, Meteoritic Abiotic, or UV-Altered Meteoritic?

PETER CHUTCHARAVAN
Received Ph.D Spring 2022

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

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

JACOB GADDY
Staff Geologist at Geosyntec Consultants

Received MS Fall 2023
Major Advisor:  Dr. Thomas Bianchi
Thesis Title: Spatial and Temporal Cycling of Dissolved Organic Matter in South Florida Treatment Wetlands

NICOLE GRECO
Received PhD Spring 2024

Major Advisor: Dr. John Jaeger
Dissertation Title: Quantitative Grain Size Analysis of Water Column and Sub-Seafloor Sediments in Ice-Proximal Environments as Influenced by Glacial Meltwater and Sediment Discharge

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

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

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

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

BRIAN KELLY
Received PhD Summer 2024

Major Advisor: Dr. Raymond Russo
Dissertation Title: Investigating Rupture Properties of Large Earthquakes for Seismic Hazard Mitigation

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

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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JING LYU
Received PhD Summer 2024

Major Advisor: Dr. Andrew Zimmerman
Dissertation Title: Pyrogenic Carbon in Soil and Comparison of Quantitative Methods

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

ANDREW OBERHELMAN
Received Ph.D Spring 2024

Major Advisor:  Dr. Jonathan Martin
Dissertation Title: Carbon Cycling in the Carbonate Critical Zone

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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