Geology Senior Theses

During the senior year, guided by a faculty advisor, every geology major performs a year-long senior thesis research project. At the end of the year, each student presents their completed thesis research, often via a PowerPoint and/or poster presentation, and field questions from the audience in attendance.

Completed theses are listed below. Unless otherwise noted, students are 6V电影网 graduates with a BA in Geology

Senior Thesis Guidelines [PDF]: a guide to our senior thesis process

2022-2023 Senior Thesis Projects

  • Samantha Beaton: 鈥淕eochemistry and Isotopic Characterization of the Saddle Peak Oolite in the Neoproterozoic Johnnie Formation, Death Valley鈥 [B.A Scripps]
  • Russell Benoy: 鈥淕eochemical insights into the Hawaiian Mantle Plume from the Newly Sampled Submarine Flank of Kaho驶olawe Volcano鈥
  • Elise Boucher: 鈥淎nalysis of the North Atlantic Subpolar Gyre and Holocene Climate Trends Using Deep Sea Coral 未15N鈥 [B.A Pitzer]
  • Sam Bovard: 鈥淶ircon Trace Element Analysis of the Independence Dike Swarm鈥
  • Dede Chapline: 鈥淧etrographic and Geochemical Analysis of Selected Samples from the Ronald N. Hartman Meteorite Collection鈥
  • Mahren Hudson: 鈥淭he Hunt for Halogens: Halogen Distribution and Patterns in the John Muir Intrusive Suite鈥 [B.A. Pitzer]
  • Augustine Lodise: 鈥淎 Statistical Approach to Stratigraphy: Geochemical and Paleoecological Insights Into Knoll Basin, Nevada, Through the Application of Compositional Data Analysis鈥 [B.A. Pitzer]
  • Eve Paulson: 鈥淏readcrust Bomb Characterization: Investigating Vulcanian Eruption Dynamics at Great Sitkin Volcano, Alaska鈥 [B.S Harvey Mudd]
  • Henry Peterson: 鈥淒iscordant Lava Flows at the Summit of Olympus Mons, Mars鈥
  • Annie Wilson: 鈥淓thnopedology of Owens Valley: Soil Compositions of Medicinal, Artisanal, and Agricultural Pursuits of the Paiute鈥 [B.A. Pitzer]

Alumni Thesis Index

2022

2021-2022 Senior Thesis Projects

Fall Graduates

  • Nolan Clark: "Origins of Widespread, Contemporaneous Granites in the Sierra Nevada Batholith"
  • Matti Horne: "Examining Dimensions of Access in the Geosciences: Advancing Student Engagement and Understanding of Geologic and Paleontologic Concepts Using 3D-Modeled Fossils"
  • Emily Tabb: "Testing Correspondence of Detrital Zircon Age Proportions and Catchment Bedrock Age in Kings Canyon, CA" [B.A. Pitzer]
  • Nate Wire: "Analytical Modeling and Petrology of a Tube-Fed Lava Flow on Mauna Loa, Hawai'i"

Summer Graduates

  • Susannah Budd: 鈥淧aleopedological Study of Late Miocene Age Fossiliferous Deposits in Northeastern Nevada鈥
  • Adrian Chinen: 鈥淶ircon Rare Earth Elements in Granites from the Whitney Intrusive Suite Plutons as Proxies for Crustal Thickening Events鈥
  • Cynthia Hannahs: 鈥淐omparing traditional and remote Geoanalytical Methods with the Steens Basalt: Assessing the Petrologic Interpretation Capabilities of the Proposed Moon Diver Lunar Expedition鈥
  • Rachan Sailamai: "Deformation Around Mission Creek Strand of the Southern San Andreas Fault, California" [B.A. Pitzer]

2021

  • Graham Brady: "Assessing Crustal Influence on Silicic Cordilleran Arc Volcanism in the Mesozoic: Whole Rock and Zircon Trace Element Insights" [B.A. Pitzer]
  • Abby McCarthy: 鈥淭ime Series Analysis of Groundwater Level Change in the Kansas River Alluvial Aquifer鈥 [B.A. Pitzer]
  • Gigi Voss: 鈥淐onstraining the Degree of Dike Emplacement using Strain at Giant Radially Fractured Centers on Venus鈥
  • Daphne Wong: 鈥淯sing a Finite Element Model (FEM) to Better Understand Stress Conditions in Analogue Models of Ring Fault Formation and Caldera Subsidence鈥 [B.A. Scripps]

2020

  • Forest Balemian-Spencer: 鈥淐ontrols on U-Concentration in Andradite鈥 [B.A. Scripps]
  • Matthew Brunstad: 鈥淎nalyzing Lava Channel Morphology Models at Mt. Kilauea Using LiDAR Derived Pre and Posteruptive Slopes鈥 [B.A. Pitzer]
  • Brooke Carlson: 鈥淒etermining Geologic Factors鈥 Control on Earthquake-Caused Home Damage and other Elements at Play: Comparing the 1994 Northridge and 2019 Ridgecrest Earthquakes鈥
  • Caleb Caton: 鈥淎re Modern African Large Herbivore Communities Analogous to Pleistocene North American Communities?鈥
  • Mariah Jenkins: 鈥淭race Element Zoning in Garnet in Kara Mines Skarns, Tasmania, Australia: A Record of Hydrothermal Fluid flow鈥 [B.A. Pitzer]
  • Max Meyers: 篓Effects of Crop Rotation on Water Consumption in the High Plains Aquifer篓 [B.A. Pitzer]
  • Carolyn Nellis: 鈥淪an Gabriel Mountains麓 Debris-Basin Infrastructure Analysis in the Face of a Changing Climate: A Case Study in Glendora, California鈥
  • Gabriel Perry-Freer: 鈥淎 High-Resolution LiDAR Topography Data Assessment of Pahoehoe to A鈥檃 Transition Models in 2018 Mt. Kilauea Basalt Flows篓 [B.A. Pitzer]
  • Carolyn Shultz: 篓Using remote methods to map glacial extent: A case study in the Southern Cascades篓
  • Addison Thompson: 篓Gabbroic Rocks: A Geochemical Window into Late Jurassic Plutonism in the Mojave, California篓 [B.A. Pitzer]
  • Zachary Weiss: 篓Newly Found Anisian Shark Tooth Fauna and its Implication on Vertebrate Evolution and Coastal Marine Conservation篓 [B.A. Pitzer]
  • Katharine Young: 篓Paleoenvironments and Exceptional Preservation of the Early Cambrian Qingjiang Biota篓

2019

  • Josh Anderson: 鈥淯sing Deep Sea Corals to Understand Nutrient Distribution in the Deglacial Northwest Atlantic鈥
  • Kurt Crandall: 鈥淲hat can Petrocalcic Laminae tell us about Soil Processes and Paleoenvironments?鈥 [B.A. Pitzer]
  • D鈥橫aia Curry: 鈥淰ariation and Ontogenetic Change in the Humerus of Triceratops (Dinosauria: Ceratopsia)鈥
  • Nico De Toledo: 鈥淎 Comparative Analysis of Beach Volume Change, Shoreline Change, and Back Beach Line Change using LiDAR Data to Quantify and Understand Patterns of Coastal Change in Front of the San Mateo Sandstone at San Onofre State Beach from 2002-2016鈥 [B.A. Pitzer]
  • Grace Hruska: 鈥淭itanite Ages and Cooling History of the Sierra Nevada Batholith鈥 [B.A. Pitzer]
  • Jessie McKenzie: 鈥淒on鈥檛 get Bogged Down by Low Production: A Survey of Wild Cranberry Bogs on Wampanoag Tribal Land in Aquinnah, MA鈥
  • Mudit Murarka: 鈥淎n Exploration of Deep-Sea Scleractinian Corals as Archives of Oceanic Rare earth Element Abundances via Laser Ablation-Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry鈥

2018

  • Brian Donahue: "Precious and Base Metal Content of Sulfide Minerals in the Historic Mines of the Mineral King District, South-Central Sierra Nevada, CA" [B.A. Pitzer]
  • Elizabeth Ellis: "Patterns and Intensity of Continental Weathering under the Early Cambrian Atmosphere: Geochemistry of a new Paleosol from Central Arizona" [B.A. Pitzer]
  • Joshua Grail: "Assessing the Geochemical History of a Neoproterozoic Oolite through Rare Earth Element Analyses"
  • Fiona K盲ch: "Unearthing the Past: Concretions of the Jurassic Fernie Formation"
  • Zane MacFarlane: "Selenium and the Salton Sea: Biogeochemical Cycling and Microbial Reduction in a Shrinking Hypersaline Lake"
  • Trevor Pontifex: "Moving Mountains, Shifting Streams: Modelling Growth of the Mecca Hills, California"鈥
  • Supasiri "Mos" Rittiron: "Stable Carbon and Oxygen Isotopes in Soil Carbonates as Indicators of Paleoecology and Paleoclimate at Mormon Mesa, Nevada" [B.A. Pitzer]

2017

  • Erin Barry: "Understanding ground and surface water interactions along the Santa Ana River, CA"
  • Ben Carroll: "Tectonic Growth of the Mecca Hills from Fluvial and Alluvial Processes"
  • Sarah Granke: "Characterizing beaver-induced differences in stream geomorphology in a small upland stream, Huntingdon Wildlife Forest, Central Adirondacks, NY"
  • Iris Holzer: "Exploring water column chemistry in the Burgess Shale at Marble Canyon, British Columbia" [B.A. Scripps]
  • Alex Lombardo: "Lateral Variability in the Basinal Stephen Formation of Marble Canyon, Kootenay National Park, British Columbia" [B.A. Claremont McKenna]
  • Patcharaporn 鈥淣am鈥 Maneerat: "The Study of Correlation between Uplift, Erosion and Fault Slip Rates in the Mecca Hills" [B.A. Pitzer]
  • Michael Wucher: "Mechanisms of Aqueous Nickel and Hydroxyapatite Reactivity"

2016

  • Jack Albright: "Late-Stage Trachyte Dike Emplacement on Banks Peninsula, New Zealand: A Numerical Modeling Approach"
  • Annika Deurlington: "Identifying a Site to Drill a Third Groundwater Production Well for 6V电影网" [B.A. Claremont McKenna]
  • Zoe Dilles: "Geochronological and Petrologic Constraints on Infrastructural Metamorphic Core Complex Deformation Within Winchell Lake Fold Nappe, E. Humboldt Range, Nevada" [B.A. Scripps]
  • Esme Faneuff: "Defining Development of Channelized Lava Flows of Krafla, Iceland" [B.A. Pitzer]
  • Bryan Gee: "A New Metoposaur (Temnospondyli: Metoposauridae) From the Petrified Forest National Park, AZ, USA"
  • Mark Raftrey: "Low-Flux Magmatism in the Sierra Nevada Arc: A Record From Silici Magmas in the Goddard Pendant Volcanic Suite"
  • Dane Zielinski: "Petrographic and Geochemical Correlations in Ooid Microfabrics of the Johnnie Oolite, Death Valley, California"

2015

  • Nicholas Browne, 6V电影网, 鈥淐hemical Zoning in Sphene as a Recorder of Metamorphic Fluid Flow鈥
  • Joanmarie Del Vecchio, 6V电影网, 鈥淢echanisms for valley aggradation in Cow Canyon, eastern San Gabriel Mountains, CA鈥
  • Anne Fulton, 6V电影网, 鈥淚nsights into magma evolution in the islands of the four Mountains, Alaska鈥
  • Robert Goldman, 6V电影网, 鈥淎ssessing Volcanic Caldera Formation Using Elastic Finite Element Models鈥
  • Brytne Okuhata, Scripps College, 鈥淯tilizing hydrology and geomorphology relationships to estimate streamflow conditions on Maui and O鈥榓hu, Hawai鈥榠鈥
  • Gustavo Ruiz, 6V电影网, 鈥淎lteration in the Grant Grove Pluton: Petrogenesis through geothermal modeling鈥

2014

  • Jane Eisenberg, Scripps College, 鈥淪tructure, Composition and Emplacement History of Orbicular Granites and Comb Layering, Sierra and Sequoia National Forests, CA鈥
  • Rachel Havranek, 6V电影网, 鈥淔luid Dynamics and Contact Metamorphism Using Scheelite in California鈥
  • Dulcie Head, 6V电影网, 鈥淚nvestigating Oscillatory Chemical Variation and Birefringence of Garnet in Fluid-rich environments鈥
  • Kyle Metcalfe, 6V电影网, 鈥淢icrobial Liberation of Structurally-Coordinated Iron Clay Minerals and its Influence on Marine Biogeochemical Cycles鈥
  • Natasha Simpson, Pitzer College, 鈥淕eochemical Constraints on Continental weathering Fluxes Under Early Cambrian Atmospheric Conditions, Ogden, Utah and Bornholm, Denmark鈥
  • Alexa Zilberfarb, Scripps College, 鈥淢etamorphism of Cretaceous Sandstones by Natural Coal Fires, San Rafael Swell, Utah鈥

2013

  • Lorelei Curtin, 6V电影网, 鈥淣ew Stratigraphy, Geochronology, and Geochemistry from the Chickaloon Formation, South-Central Alaska: Implications for High-Latitude Climate Variability during the Paleocene-Eocene thermal Maximum鈥
  • Luke Ferguson, 6V电影网, 鈥淎n Analysis of the Olivine Basalt Member of the Powder River Volcanic Field, Grande Ronde Valley, Northeastern Oregon鈥
  • Laura Haynes, 6V电影网, 鈥淚nter-Basinal Paleoclimate Records from Pleistocene Lake Bonneville Marl of the Tule and Bonneville Basins, UT鈥
  • James Muller, 6V电影网, 鈥淭he Malapai Hill Basalt: Joshua Tree National Park, California鈥/li>
  • Ben Murphy, 6V电影网, 鈥淪oft Rocks in a Restless Caldera: The Long Valley Caldera-Fill Sediments鈥
  • Jean-Marc Trutna, Pitzer College, 鈥淢onitoring Carbon Sequestration Containment in Deep Saline Aquifers: Measuring Partition Coefficients for Trace Gases Krypton and SF6 for Otway, Australia and Cranfield, Mississippi Oilfields鈥

2012

  • Shelley Chestler, 6V电影网, 鈥淯sing Numerical Modeling to Explore Intrusion Patterns on Fernandina Volcano, Galapagos鈥
  • Frank Giron, 6V电影网, 鈥淢apping Radiating Dike Swarms within the Navka Planitia,
    Carson, Nepthys Mons, and Lavinia Planitia Regions of Venus鈥
  • Adam Kinnard, 6V电影网, 鈥淥xygen Isotope Signatures of Ore Rocks at Strawberry Mine and Kearsarge Districts鈥擡valuating Shallow Hydrothermal Flow in the Sierran Arc鈥
  • Gabriel Romero, 6V电影网, 鈥淟ower Crustal Melting in Cordilleran Batholiths: Insight from Metamorphic Garnet in the Cucamonga Terrane鈥
  • Callie Sendek, Scripps College, 鈥淯sing structural analysis to assess possible formation
    mechanisms of the gneiss domes of the Harvey Cardiff Domain, eastern Ontario鈥

2011

  • Cameron Windham, Livingston, MT, 6V电影网, 鈥淒etailed mapping of graben-fissure systems within Beta-Alta-Themis, Venus. A chronology of the interface between mantle excursion and crust鈥
  • Logan Schumacher, Seattle, WA, 6V电影网, 鈥淕IS paleo-topographic modeling volume constraint and secondary volume inputs of late Pleistocene age sector collapse, Volcan Baru, Panama鈥
  • Lara Hughes-Stinson, Dana Point, CA, Pitzer College, 鈥淓arly Equid Astragali: A proxy for overall physiological responses to climate and environmental shifts during the Miocene Epoch in Barstow, CA鈥
  • Derek Schaible, Saint Paul, MN, 6V电影网, 鈥淭he Neogene rotational history of the Southern Central Transverse Ranges suggested by paleomagnetic study of the Glendora Volcanics鈥

2010

  • Mark Torres, Pitzer College, 鈥淧aleoclimatic and Paleoenvironmental Interpretations of the Paleocene Goler Formation of Southern California鈥
  • Mark Williams, 6V电影网, 鈥淩econstruction of Pleistocene Long Valley Hydrothermal System using Silica Veins from Little Hot Creek Sinter, Long Valley California鈥
  • Max Willis, Harvey Mudd College, 鈥淭he Relationship Between Normal Fault Ramps and the Distribution and Orientation of Secondary Failure Features鈥
  • John Mering, 6V电影网, 鈥淢icrofabric analysis at a Candidate Global Stratotype Section and Point outcrop of the Kaili Formation, South China鈥
  • Adam Curry, 6V电影网, 鈥淕eochemical Investigation of the Red Cinder Peak Area of Makushin Volcano, Unalaska, AK鈥
  • Katherine Beeler, 6V电影网, 鈥淗ydrothermally-driven Silica Cementation of Sandstones and Conglomerates, Long Valley Caldera, CA鈥

2009

  • Hannah Dietterich Corvallis, OR, 6V电影网, 鈥淭he origin and alteration of metavolcanic rocks in the Saddlebag Lake pendant, Eastern Sierra Nevada鈥
  • Ryan Frazer, Hartland, VT, 6V电影网, 鈥淩eexamining the Shaver Intrusive Suite using U-Pb Zircon Geochronology and GIS鈥
  • Rachel Haber, Scripps College, 鈥淒efining the Origin of Meridiani Planum, Mars鈥
  • Steven Hochman, 6V电影网, 鈥淎ssessment of the Black Lake Shear Zone as a Site of Elzevirian Suture, Adirondack Mountains, New York鈥
  • Amanda Klaus, Scripps College, 鈥淎 3D Seismic Velocity Model of the Las Vegas Basin鈥
  • Samuel Scott, 鈥淢icrobial Reduction of Structurally Coordinated Iron in Common Clay Minerals鈥
  • Andrew Stocker, Claremont McKenna College, 鈥淕eochemistry of the Edwardsville Syenite in the Adirondack Lowlands, New York: Implications for Tectonomagmatic Processes in the Southern Grenville Province鈥
  • Megan Van Ness, Salem, OR, 6V电影网, 鈥淒etermining the intrusive and thermal history of the Grant Grove Granite pluton, Sierra Nevada batholith, California鈥
  • Sam Zipper, Edmonds, WA, 6V电影网, 鈥淓xploring the role of suburban development and confined recharge on contaminant flow in an alluvial fan: A MODFLOW investigation of the 6V电影网 Valley, California鈥

2008

  • Lucas Allen-Williams, 6V电影网, 鈥淢odeling Normal Faults Using Poly3D: Fault Geometry of the Cristianitos Fault, San Onofre, California鈥
  • Bradley Markle, Corvallis, OR, 6V电影网, 鈥淭he Occurrence and Climatic Implications of a Rapid Regression of Lake Elsinore, CA, During the Last Glacial Maximum鈥
  • Michael Toomey, 鈥淩econciling the Effects of Hurricane Cyclicity on Fire Dynamics in Coastal Ecosystems Using the Sedimentary Record of Oyster Pond, Woods Hole, Massachusetts鈥
  • Hal Wershow, Seattle, WA, 6V电影网, 鈥淭ranspression-Induced Structural Deformation in the Southern Mecca Hills鈥

2007

  • Randy Goossen, Harvey Mudd College, 鈥淐ompositional Analysis of Soft Bodied Fossils from the Kaili and Doushantuo Formations of South China鈥
  • Debra Hurwitz, 6V电影网, 鈥淭he effect of edifice loading on the rupture characteristics of ellipsoidal magma reservoirs鈥
  • Brian Kastl, 鈥淜hangay Nuruu, Mongolia: Petrologic and Chemical Evidence for Magma Source Region and Potential Temporal Evolution鈥
  • Sylvan Long, 鈥淭he effect of mechanically heterogeneous host rock layers on magma reservoir failure, host rock stress states, and surface deformation in a simple elastic model鈥
  • Emery L. Mitchem, 鈥淭he Necessity and Application of Geologic Carbon Dioxide Storage鈥
  • Mara Schiro, 鈥淪table Isotope Fractionation in the Middle Cambrian Wheeler Formation, House Range, Utah鈥

2006

  • Seth Kadish, 鈥淧edestal Crater Distribution Between 60掳S and 60掳N and Implications for a New Model of Formation鈥
  • Laura Kerber, 鈥淢inimum Age and Provenance of the Correlated Thomson and Rove Formations of Eastern Minnesota鈥
  • Michael Kittell, 鈥淰olumetric change in glacial ice from 1950 to 2005 at Palisades Glacier, Sierra Nevada Range, CA鈥
  • Rachel Stevens, 鈥淎nalysis of Late Pleistocene Marls in the Tule Valley Subbasin of Lake Bonneville and Tracing Compositional Changes to Climate Variations 18-14.5ka.鈥
  • Rebecca Stillwell, 鈥淭he appearance of axial plane cleavage in Precambrian rocks of the Northern Picuris Range, New Mexico鈥
  • Lisa Venechuk,鈥淭ypes and trends of layered rock outcrops in the Arabia Terra, Mars: Implications for a wet Martian history鈥
  • Justin Wargelin, 鈥淧ossible persistent body of water on Mars鈥

2005

  • Peter Douglas, 鈥淭he Tectonic Implications of the Stratigraphy and Petrology of the Black Marmot Valley, Kharkhiran Uul, Mongolia鈥
  • Nissa Morton, 鈥淎nalysis of Unusually Fine-Grained Deposits on the Government Canyon Alluvial Fan Wrightwood, California鈥
  • Alice Waldron, 鈥淕eophysical Analyses of Cyclone Graben, Canyonlands National Park, Utah鈥

2004

  • Erica D. Bylund, 鈥淕roundwater Fluctuations in the 6V电影网 Basin from 1900 鈥 1985: Implications for Future Water Use鈥
  • Elizabeth A. G. Holley, 鈥淧ressure-Temperature Conditions of Metamorphism in Eclogites, Syros, Greece鈥
  • Phillip Kast, 鈥淣ew Evidence for Post-Cretaceous Faulting in Southeast Mongolia鈥
  • Nobu Koch, 鈥淢apping of Kick鈥檈m Jenny and Kick鈥檈m Jack submarine volcanoes in the Lesser Antilles volcanic arc鈥
  • Danny Lazzareschi, 鈥淔ine-grained Felsic Enclaves in the Cumulate Granite Zone of the Aztec Wash Pluton, Nevada
  • Scott Pelletier, 鈥淎 Phreatomagmatic Basaltic Dike, Langadalsfjall, Iceland: Description and Cooling History鈥

2003

  • Madalyn Blondes, 鈥淕akkel Ridge spinel peridotites: A geochemical analysis of the slowest spreading mid-ocean ridge on Earth鈥
  • Adam Myers, 鈥淧aleoenvironmental Reconstruction of Holocene Lake Inchiquin, Western Ireland, Using Grain Size, Loss-on-Ignition, and Diatom Analyses鈥
  • Anjani T. Polit, 鈥淧ossible Origin of Reull Vallis, Mars: A Closed Highland Basin?鈥

2002

  • Max Berkelhammer, 鈥淎 Comparative Pedologic Analysis of Evey and Buford Canyons as an Indicator of the Predominant Soil Forming Factors on the North and South Flanks of the San Gabriel Mountains, Southern California鈥
  • Ari H. Berland, 鈥淥n freshwater S2 ice in the upper ductile regime鈥
  • Nina L. Carranco, 鈥淒epositional Environment Analysis of Plant Bearing Fossil Layers in the Blackhawk Formation, Utah鈥
  • Jesse Huff Christensen, 鈥淒evelopment of Anthropogenic & Agricultural Soil Systems: A case study of the 6V电影网 Farm & its surrounding environment
  • Andrew Gordon, 鈥淎nalysis and Interpretation of Macrorhythmic Units of Gabbro-Diorite Interlayering at Arey Neck, Vinalhaven Island, Maine鈥
  • Alex Little, 鈥淥rigin and Composition of the San Mateo Sandstone, San Onofre, California鈥
  • Zach Miller, 鈥淨uaternary Incision of the Arkansas River, Colorado鈥
  • Sven Moller, 鈥淪ilica and Nitrate Retention and Replenishment in Artificial Pond Systems in Upstate South Carolina鈥
  • Daniel Jones Morgan, 鈥淟atitudinal Variation of Ground Ice Indicators in the Arrhenius Region, Mars: Inferences from the Morphology of Impact Craters鈥
  • Emily Samiljan, 鈥淕eoscience Education and Native American Worldviews: An Exploration in Pedagogical Synthesis鈥
  • Daniel S. Tan, 鈥淐haracterization of Ridged Plains Materials, North of Arrhenius Region, Mars鈥
  • Noah Westgate, 鈥淕eochemical Exchanges Across Magmatic Interaction Boundaries within the Vinalhaven Island Pluton, Maine鈥

2001

  • Laura Flores Bauleke, 鈥淭he Development of Deformation Bands in the San Mateo Sandstone in relation to the Cristianitos Fault, San Onofre, CA鈥
  • Matthew Bullock, 鈥淕eology and Geomorphology of Tulik Creek, Umnak Island, Alaska鈥
  • Elizabeth John, 鈥淐yclostratigraphic Analysis of the Cherty Lithofacies, Altamira Shale, Palos Verdes, California鈥
  • Lane Johnson, 鈥淚nvestigation of 1953 Lunar Transient Phenomenon, Clementine Reveals a Crater鈥
  • Garrett F Miller, 鈥淭he Popcorn of Spider Cave: Past and Present鈥
  • Benjamin Mirus, 鈥淪uspended Sediment Load in Proglacial Meltwater Systems of the Mendenhall, Herbert and Eagle Glaciers, Southeastern Alaska鈥
  • Jeffrey Parker, 鈥淟ate Pleistocene tufa near Cottonwood Spring, Joshua Tree National Park鈥
  • Alexandria Plank, 鈥淎ir Circulation Mechanisms in Carlsbad Caverns National Park, Carlsbad, New Mexico鈥
  • Yael Proskurowski, 鈥淎 Paleoenvironmental analysis of in situ fossil tree trunks from the Cretaceous Lower Kirtland Formation, San Juan Basin, New Mexico鈥
  • John Singleton, 鈥淜inematics and Structural History of Brittle Deformation along the Coast Steep Zone near Prince Rupert, British Columbia鈥
  • Andrea K. Stanley, 鈥淎 Detailed Sedimentary Analysis of the Middle Part of the Grinnell Formation, near Going-to-the-Sun Mountain, Glacial National Park, Montana鈥
  • Sean Williams, 鈥淐haracterization of the 2050 Year Old Ignimbrite, Okmok Caldera, Alaska鈥

2000

  • Bethany Bradley, 鈥淎 New Mapping Perspective: Using Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA) Data to Remap Unit Boundaries and Stratigraphy of the Meusae Fossae Formation South of Elysium Basin鈥
  • Mathew Campbell, 鈥淭he Geology of a Subduction Zone Volcano: Okmok Caldera, Umnak Island, Alaska鈥
  • Andrew M. Hite, 鈥淲idth to Height Ratios for Barchan Dunes on Mars鈥
  • Jessica Jager, 鈥淯sing Anisotropy of Magnetic Susceptibility to Determine the Source of the Lower Bonanza Tuff, Colorado鈥
  • Miriam Krause, 鈥淎nalysis of Hellas Rim Geologic Units Using Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter Data鈥
  • Susan Nielsen, 鈥淭he Water of the 6V电影网 Valley Protective Association: A Multi-Variable Study鈥
  • Matt Paxson, 鈥淐oastal Erosion and Land Use Problems on Galveston Island鈥
  • Jason 鈥淩usty鈥 Perry, 鈥淥rigin and Development of Lava Tubes鈥
  • Joel Pliskin, 鈥淢aking the Transition from Internal Combustion Engine to Fuel Cell: A look at the projected impact of diminishing fossil fuel supplies and emission regulations on the automobile industry鈥
  • Philip Skemer, 鈥淐haracterization and Tectonometamorphic History of Ophiolitic Knockers and Ultamafic Matrix in a Cycladic Melange Unit, Syros, Greece鈥
  • Mary (Amy) Vithayathil, 鈥淎ntigorite Dehydration and its Implications for Intermediate Depth Earthquakes鈥

1999

  • John Bershaw, 鈥淐haracter of a Columnar Jointed Erosional Remnant, Crawfish Lake Quadrangle, Oregon鈥
  • Jamie Elkins, 鈥淲ater Chemistry of the Colorado River, North and South of Topock Gorge鈥
  • Nathaniel Gilbert, 鈥淪tructural Geology of the Crawfish Lake Quadrangle, Elkhorn Mountains, Oregon鈥
  • Heidi Glasser, 鈥淎 Discussion of the Proposed Low-Level Radioactive Waste Site in Ward Valley, California鈥
  • Alexandra Krull, 鈥淔ault Kinematics in the MalPais Sandstones of the Peninsula de Nicoya, Costa Rica鈥
  • Kyle McClure, 鈥淭he Crawfish Lake Volcanics鈥
  • Adam Nealey, 鈥淭ectonics and Volcanism of Italy鈥
  • Heidi Reeg, 鈥淪tructural Variations in Deformed Serpentinites from Sand Dollar Beach, Monterey County, California鈥

1998

  • Caroline Harris, 鈥淕eochemistry of Metamorphosed Mafic Dikes, Tobacco Root Mountains, Montana鈥
  • Karen Jager, 鈥淎n Unusual Lava Flow in the Carson Quadrangle, Venus鈥
  • Bradley J. Thomson, 鈥淭he Thickness of Mare Basalts in Imbrium Basin鈥

1997

  • Alexis Beard, 鈥淯sing Geosciences as a Vehicle for Science Literacy鈥
  • Nathaniel Bush, 鈥淭hree Original Thoughts on Iceland Volcanism鈥
  • Karen Franz, 鈥淭he Effects of Human Use and Development on Land; Sheep Creek Placer No. 3: A Case Study鈥
  • Andrea Gessford, 鈥淟ate Quaternary Mammal Fauna of Sink Cave Calaveras County, California鈥
  • Brian Lehnerz, 鈥淥rigin of Rollovers and Monolines in the Koae Fault Zone, Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii鈥

1996

  • Evan Bilstrom, 鈥淟andsliding in the Klamath River Gorge鈥
  • Brian Cross, 鈥淟andsliding in the Klamath River Gorge鈥
  • Christian Curtis, 鈥淟ooking for a cryptochron: High Resolution Magnetostratigraphy of 15R, 15N, and 16N in Calcareous Marls near Eocene-Oligocene Boundary at Contessa and Massignano quarries in Italy鈥檚 Umbria-Marche Region鈥
  • Stephanie Fisk, 鈥淕eochemical Characterization and Grain Size Analysis of Late Eocene Volcaniclastic Horizons in the Northeastern Apennines鈥
  • Darren Gravley, 鈥淕eology and Petrology of the Topsy Grande-Grenada Butte Corridor, Klamath River Gorge, Southern Oregon鈥
  • Jillian Hirst, 鈥淢ineralogy, Petrology, and Geothermobarometry of Aluminous Archean Rocks in the Spuhler Peak Metamorphic Suite of the Tobacco Root Mountains, Southwestern Montana鈥
  • Victor Kormeier, 鈥淟andsliding in the Klamath River Gorge鈥

1995

  • Robert H. Christman III, 鈥淟andslide Topography in the Klamath River Gorge Near the Oregon-California Border鈥
  • Jennifer Hango, 鈥淢agma Mixing in the Cortlandt Complex: the Genesis of a Norite鈥
  • Arwen Harris, 鈥淎 Petrographic Study of a Precambrian Metabasalt, Laramie Country, Wyoming鈥
  • David Saltzer, 鈥淰olcanology of the Eastern Volcanic Belt in Kamchatcha, Russia鈥
  • Sheetal Singh, 鈥淎 Determination of Hydraulic Conductivity from Geophysical Borehole Analysis鈥
  • Rachel Sours-Page, 鈥淧etrology and Geochemistry of Miocene-Holocene Volcanics Near Mt. McLoughlin in High Cascades of Southern Oregon鈥

1994

  • David Gianni, 鈥淲aters of Destruction, Lavas of Construction: The Geologic History of the Wailuku River, Hawaii鈥
  • Ann Johnson, 鈥淕ravity Survey and Structural Interpretation Across the Blue Ridge Front Near Buena Vista, Virginia鈥
  • Alan Kaufmann, 鈥淲aters of Destruction, Lavas of Construction: The Geologic History of the Wailuku River, Hawaii鈥
  • Brannon Ketchum, 鈥淢agnetic Mapping of Precambrian Greenstones in the Blue Ridge Mountains Near Buena Vista, Virginia鈥
  • Sarah (Avon) Russell, 鈥淰entilation of the Subtropical Gyre of the South Atlantic鈥
  • Geoff Siemering, 鈥淢odeling the Factors Affecting Cadmium Binding to Dissolved Organic Matter鈥
  • Giselle Bei Ow Yang, 鈥淪ubmarine Hydrothermal Vents: Precipitation and Redissolution of the Chloride Anion鈥

1993

  • LeAndra Archuleta, 鈥淢ineralogy, Petrology, and Geochemistry, including Geothermobarometry, of an Aluminous Enclave Rock and Host Rocks Within the Spuhler Peak Formation, Tobacco Root Mountains, Southwestern Montana鈥
  • Matt Cunningham, 鈥淪easonal Influences Upon Icehouse Canyon Steam Chemistry鈥
  • Matt Fouch, 鈥淭heomat Surveying Methodology and a Strain Analysis at Devil鈥檚 Throat, Hawaii鈥
  • Josh Ishimatsu, 鈥淎 Paleomagnetic and Magnetostratigraphic Study of Deep Sea Sediments Drilled off the Southern Kerguelen Plateau, ODP Leg 119, Site 745, Hole B鈥
  • Amy Oilman, 鈥淎nalyzing Storm Water Runoff at Recycling Plants鈥
  • Peter Ora, 鈥淕eology of the Southeastern Flank of Pelican Butte Volcano, Western Klamath Basin, Oregon鈥
  • Elise Parkin, 鈥淩ancho La Brea: An Overview鈥

1992

  • Parke Ballantine, 鈥淎 Chemical and Petrological Study of the Ancient Hydrothermal Systems of the Troodos Ophiolite, Cyprus鈥
  • Elizabeth Helen (Lisa) Marlies, 鈥淎 Petrological and Geochemical Study of the Southeastern Flank of Mt. McLoughlin, Cascade Range, Southern Oregon鈥

1991

  • Amy Berger, 鈥淎 Comparative Study of Modern & Pleistocene Environments of Coralline Algae on San Salvador Island, Bahamas鈥

1990

  • Aleta B. Finnila, 鈥淕arnet Producing Reactions Along the Garnet Isograd in Southeastern Vermont鈥
  • Steven McKnight, 鈥淪edimentology and Diagenesis of the El Desestre Unit, Los Banos Formation (Upper Miocene) on El Jamon Ridge, Fortuna Basin, Spain鈥

1989

  • Libby Stern, 鈥淭he Nature of the Albite Porphyroblasts in Hoosac Schist, Chester Dome, Southeastern Vermont鈥
  • Lora Stevens, 鈥淔racture Analysis of Archean Rocks Along the Pipestone Trace of the Burnside Lake Fault Zone鈥
  • Rebekah Ann Westrup, 鈥淗ydrothermal Alteration and Suite Formation in the Black Hill Region of the Big Maria Mountains, Southeastern California鈥
  • Melissa Wilson, 鈥淭he Structure and Petrology of an Outcrop of Orocopia Schist鈥

1988

  • Cara Davis, 鈥淧etrology of Metamorphosed Calc-silicate Rocks from Cascade Canyon, San Gabriel Mountains鈥

1987

  • Peter P. Christiansen, 鈥淢iocene Geology of the Stepladder Mountains, San Bernardino County, CA鈥
  • John Howell, 鈥淟unar Mass Concentrations鈥
  • Kevin T. Lyons, 鈥淧etrology of Parts of the Soquel Member of the Puente Formation, Elephant Hill Area, California鈥
  • Daniel B. Perry, 鈥淢otion on the San Gabriel Fault, East Fork San Gabriel River鈥
  • John-Mark Staude, 鈥淟ower Crustal Xenoliths from a Mixed Magma Dike, Piute Mountains, Southeastern California鈥

1986

  • Michael S. Hall, 鈥淭he Geology of the Bonanza Spring Area, Danby Quadrangle, California鈥
  • Sharon E. Wechsler, 鈥淎 Detailed Analysis of a Tertiary Volcanic Conglomerate in the Bonanza Spring Area, Danby Quadrangle, California鈥

1985

  • Bill Azeredo, 鈥淭he Channels and Valleys of Mars: A Study of the Most Recent Works on Their Origin鈥
  • David Bloom, 鈥淒etermination of Seismic Risk on the Whittier Fault, California鈥
  • Thomas E. Cyr, 鈥淭he Terminal Cretaceous Mass Extinction鈥
  • Colin L. Driscoll, 鈥淐omputer Generated Simulation of Solute Transport: Prediction of Residence Time of Dibromo-Chloro-Propane in Fresno Area鈥
  • Christian A. Mastor, 鈥淢odal Analysis of Shadow Mountain Pluton by X-Ray Diffraction鈥
  • David McLean, 鈥淪tructural Geology of the Northern Shadow Mountains, San Bernardino County, California鈥
  • P.F. Nelson, 鈥淭he Geology of a Shoreline: An Intimate Look at Southern California鈥檚 Coast and Beaches鈥
  • Stephen P. Swope, 鈥淟ate Cenozoic Carbonate Veins of the Northeastern Puente Hills, Eastern L.A. County, California鈥

1984

  • Chuck Barlow, 鈥淎 New Analysis of an Old Concept: Continental Accretion鈥
  • Jeff Jones, 鈥淭race Element Analysis of Three Miocene Tholeitic Coastal Basalts from Oregon and Washington鈥
  • Joe Stagg, 鈥淎 Comparison of Sespe Formation Clasts from the Santa Monica Mountains with Cajalco Tourmaline: Their Significance Pertaining to the Origin of the Santa Monica Mountains Strata鈥

1983

  • David Mohrig, 鈥淪tratigraphic Investigation of a Series of Pyroclastic Rocks鈥
  • Moira Smith, 鈥淎 Study of Some Carbonate Concretions in Miocene Topanga Formation, Santa Ana Mountains, California鈥
  • Ann E. Sturdivant, 鈥淎 Petrographic and Field Study of a Unique Gabbroic Intrusion, Vicinity of Day Canyon, Eastern San Gabriel Mountains, California鈥
  • Dough Yule, 鈥淎 Sedimentological Investigation of Turbidity Current Deposition Soquel Member, Puente Formation, Carbon Canyon, Chino Hills, California鈥

1982

  • Carol D. Buchanan, 鈥淧etrologic and Geochemical Analysis of Precambrian (?) Gneiss, San Antonio Canyon鈥
  • Spencer J. Harris, 鈥淕eology of Evey Canyon鈥
  • LiLi Mezger, 鈥淭ectonic Implications of the Quaternary History of Lower Lytle Creek, Southeastern San Gabriel Mountains鈥
  • Francis W. Robinson, 鈥淎 Detailed Study of the Subsurface Relationship Between the San Andreas Formation, Artesia Group, and Alluvium, Roswell Artesian Basin, New Mexico鈥
  • Eleanor Snow, 鈥淭he Geology of Black Mountain near Stevens Creek, California鈥
  • Denise Toombs, 鈥淎ggregate as an Exhaustible Resource in Los Angeles, Orange and San Bernardino Counties鈥

1981

  • Susan A. Castle, 鈥淰ertical Deformation in the Greater Death Valley Region in Historic Time鈥
  • Steven C. Clemens, 鈥淗eavy Mineral Analysis of a Granitic Intrusive in the Chuckawalla Mountains of Southern California鈥
  • Darren C. Elsby, 鈥淎 Structural and Geological Analysis of the Harper Hills, San Bernardino County, California鈥
  • Pamela Joan Hale, 鈥淕eology of the Coachella Valley, Including Garnet Hill鈥
  • Margaret J. Kark, 鈥淎 Petrographic Study of 鈥楶unchbowl鈥 Unit 2鈥
  • Graham Mathews, 鈥淐hannel Morphology of the Big Sur River鈥
  • Lorraine Schnabel, 鈥淎nalysis of the Elephant Hill Volcanics, L.A. County, CA鈥
  • Scott Harland Stevens, 鈥淎 Petrographic and Geochemical Study of the Sulawesi Ophiolite, Indonesia鈥
  • Laurel K. Vedder, 鈥淎n Investigation of the Coastal Volcanic Intrusions North of Laguna Beach, California鈥

1980

  • Garry Hayes, 鈥淭he Geology of the Calico Mountains Near Barstow, California鈥
  • Eileen McConnell, 鈥淪ediment Analysis of Puddingstone and San Dimas Reservoirs, L.A. County鈥

1978

  • Rachel Epstein, 鈥淧etrology of Titanomagnetite Bodies in the Anorthosite Massif of the Western San Gabriel Mountains鈥
  • John Estrem, 鈥淕eothermal Exploration鈥
  • M. Jorgensen, 鈥淕eological Applications of the Poisson Process (Part A)鈥, 鈥淕eological Applications of the Poisson Process (Part B)鈥
  • Annabelle Lee, 鈥淎 Study of the Mineral Composition and Physical Properties of some Sandstones from the Soquel Member of the Puente Formation鈥
  • Sorena Svea Sorenson, 鈥淧etrology of the San Onofre Breccia 鈥楳egaclasts鈥, San Onofre Mountain, California鈥, 鈥淧ediform Chromite Deposits in the Alpine-type Peridotites of the Klamath and Coast Ranges of Northern California: A Study in Metallogeny and Global Tectonics鈥
  • Mark E. Conrad, 鈥淭he Petrology of a Portion of the San Dimas Experimental Forest, San Gabriel Mountains, California鈥
  • V. S. Cronin, 鈥淕eology of the Topanga Formation, Northwestern Santa Ana Mountains, California鈥
  • Viki Gomez, 鈥淭he Geological Significance of the Upper Eocene to Lower Miocene Vaqueros-Sespe Formations, Santa Ana Mountains, California鈥
  • Daniel Hempy, 鈥淎nalysis of Sediments from Divers Cove鈥
  • Tom Hoish, 鈥淕eology of the Lazy Daisy Ranch Area, Piute Mountains, Eastern Mojave Desert, California鈥
  • Vicky Lovell, 鈥淎 Review of Sources of Error and Misinterpretation of Ichnological Evidence in Paleoecology鈥
  • Polly L. McCormack, 鈥淭he Great Glen Fault鈥
  • Bob Rees, 鈥淏iomarkers in Petroleum Generation and Exploration鈥
  • Chandler T. Wilhelm, 鈥淒iagenesis of the Navajo Sandstone as Revealed by Scanning Electron Microscopy鈥

1977

  • Scott G. Borg, 鈥淪tratigraphy and Structure of the Great Basin, Western United States鈥
  • Lynn Roberts, 鈥淐auses of the Ice Ages鈥
  • Ray Weldon II, 鈥淕eneral Theory of Metasomatism with an Application to Metasomatism in Carbonate Rocks鈥
  • Karen Weliky, 鈥淭he Geochemical Cycle of Nitrogen During Diagenesis of Marine Sediments; A Study of a Core from Santa Barbara Basin鈥

1976

  • Cory Conrad, 鈥淭he Basin and Range Province; Physiography and Structure Related to Block Faulting鈥
  • Craig Gander, 鈥淧aleogene Conglomerates of the Northern Santa Ana Mountains; a Preliminary Chemical Study鈥
  • Allen Glazner, 鈥淭hree Studies on the Cenozoic Geology of the Mojave Desert, California鈥
  • Cyndi Rebeck, 鈥淥re Provinces of the Western United States鈥
  • Edward Reyes, 鈥淕eology of the Southern California Islands, California鈥
  • Allen Stork, 鈥淔iji, Tonga, and the New Hebrides, Island Arcs in the Southwest Pacific (1872-1969)鈥, 鈥淭hermal Zonation Under Island Arcs鈥

1974

  • Sherman Suter, 鈥淭he Vincent Thrust in the Narrows of the East Fork, San Gabriel River鈥

1969

  • Mike Crandall, 鈥淎 Study of Bedrock Effect on Beach Surfaces鈥
  • Richard Jarrard, 鈥淭rend Surface Identification on of Raised Marine Terraces; Submerged Terraces of the Channel Islands鈥
  • Eric Sundquist, 鈥淭he San Bernardino Mountains; A Study of Topographic Discontinuities

1963

  • Barbara Lowe, 鈥淭he Use of the Two-Circle Goniometer鈥

1961

  • Calvin F. Miller, 鈥淪tudies in Topography: Generalized Contours and Trend Surfaces鈥

1955

  • Olaf van West, 鈥淕eology of the San Bernardino Mountain Foothills, North of San Bernardino, California鈥