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A

Name: Abramovich, Sigal
Adviser: Gerta Keller
Specialization: Geology, Paleoclimate
Defense Date: October 2002
Thesis Title: Paleoecology and Paleoenvironment of Maastrichtian Planktic Foraminifera: Examples from Low and Middle Latitude Localities
Last known address: Associate Professor, Ben Gurion University, Beer-Sheba, IL

Name: Adhitya, Anita
Adviser: Bess B. Ward
Specialization: Geochemistry
Defense Date: January 2009
Thesis Title: Genetic Investigation of Nitrate Assimilation in Marine Microbes
Last known address: Lecturer Academic Staff, Physics and Astrophysics, University of Western Australia, Perth, AU

Name: Ai, Xuyuan (Ellen)
Adviser: Daniel M. Sigman
Specialization: Geochemistry
Defense Date: January 10, 2023
Thesis Title: On the Role of the Southern Ocean in the Glacial-Interglacial Cycles of the Past 460,000 Years: Changes in Wind-Driven Upwelling and Ocean Front Position Revealed by Reconstructed Surface Ocean Nutrient Conditions and Temperatures
Last known address: Postdoctoral Researcher, Max Planck Institute, Mainz, Germany

Name: Akhtar, Alliya A.
Adviser: John A. Higgins
Specialization: Geology, Paleoclimate
Defense Date: April 29, 2021
Thesis Title: Ca cycling in seawater: insights from isotopic studies of elasmobranch teeth and shallow-water carbonates
Last known address: Postdoctoral Research Associate, The Higgins Lab, The Department of Geosciences, Princeton University

Name: Alexandrovich Lebedev, Sergei
Adviser: Guust Nolet
Specialization: Geophysics
Defense Date: April 2000
Thesis Title: The Upper Mantle Beneath the Western Pacific and Southeast Asia
Last known address: Mallet Assistant Professor of Seismology, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Dublin, IE

Name: Allen, Richard M.
Adviser: W. Jason Morgan, Guust Nolet
Specialization: Geophysics
Defense Date: December 2000
Thesis Title: The Mantle Plume Beneath Iceland and Its Interaction with the North-Atlantic Ridge: A Seismological Investigation
Last known address: Chair, Dept. of Earth and Planetary Science, Professor, Dept. of Earth and Planetary Science and Director, Berkeley Seismological Laboratory, UC Berkeley, CA

Name: Anderson, Timothy A.
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: Franklyn Van Houten, Hollis Hedberg
Specialization: Geology
Defense Date: June 1970
Thesis Title: Geology of the Lower Tertiary Gualanday Group Upper Magdalena Valley, Colombia
Last known address: Retired Petroleum Geologist (LinkedIn)
Keywords: Sedimentology, stratigraphy
Topics: "Whatever strikes their fancy"

Name: Andronicos, Christopher
Adviser: Lincoln S. Hollister
Specialization: Geology
Defense Date: July 1999
Thesis Title: Tectonic Evolution of the Coast Plutonic Complex
Last known address: Associate Professor, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN

Name: Arthur, Michael
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: Alfred G. Fisher
Specialization: Geochemistry
Defense Date: 1979
Thesis Title: Cretaceous-Paleogene Sedimentology and Geochemistry of the Gubbio Sequence, Italy
Last known address: Professor of Geosciences, retired
Keywords: Paleoclimate, paleoceanography

Name: Asheal, Lewis
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: Robert Hargraves
Specialization: Geochemistry
Defense Date: 1979
Thesis Title: Petrogenesis of massif-type anorthosites
Last known address: Professor, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, SA
Keywords: Petrology, geology


B

Name: Babbin, Andrew R.
Adviser: Bess B. Ward
Specialization: Geochemistry
Defense Date: September 24, 2014
Thesis Title: Biogeochemical Controls on Fixed Nitrogen Loss Processes in the Marine Environment
Last known address: Assistant Professor, Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, MIT, Cambridge, MA

Name: Baig, Adam Mirza
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: F. A. Dahlen
Specialization: Geophysics
Defense Date: September 2003
Thesis Title: Wavefront Healing in Random Media
Last known address: Research Geophysicist (LinkedIn)
Keywords: Seismology, wave propagation

Name: Baker, David
Adviser: Jorge Sarmiento
Specialization: Climate Science
Defense Date: January 2001
Thesis Title: Sources and Sinks of Atmospheric CO2 Estimated from Batch Least-Squares Inversions of CO2 Concentration Measurements
Last known address: Postdoctoral Research Associate, The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Boulder, CO

Name: Bao, Huiming
Adviser: Paul Koch (University of California, Santa Cruz), Bess B. Ward
Specialization: Geochemistry
Defense Date: September 1998
Thesis Title: Ferric Oxides Andoxyhydroxides: Oxygen-isotope systematics and paleoclimatic reconstruction
Last known address: Charles L. Jones Professor in Geology and Geophysics, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA

Name: Berry, Robert
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: Robert Hargraves
Specialization: Geology
Defense Date: May, 1976
Thesis Title: Ferric Geology and Volcanic History of the Blue Range Primitive Area, Arizona
Last known address: Consulting Economic Geologist, Centennial, CO
Keywords: Geochemistry, hydrogeology
Topics: "Mining Sector jobs"

Name: Bhattacharya, Pathikrit
Adviser: Allan M. Rubin
Specialization: Geophysics
Defense Date: November 28, 2016
Thesis Title: Examination of the Rate-State Friction Equations Under Large Perturbations from Steady Sliding: A Theoretical and Experimental Study
Last known address: Assistant Professor in the School of Earth, Ocean and Climate Sciences, IIT, Bhubaneswar, India

Name: Bianchi, Daniele
Adviser: Jorge Sarmiento
Specialization: Climate Science
Defense Date: 2011
Thesis Title: Processes controlling the distribution of biogeochemical tracers in the ocean
Last known address: Assistant Professor, UCLA Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences, Los Angelos, CA (Website)

Name: Bilotti, Frank D.
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: John Suppe
Specialization: Geology
Defense Date.: January, 1997
Thesis Title: Venus wrinkle ridges: Structure, distribution, and implications for tectonic evolution
Last known address: Exploration Team Lead, Chevron Gulf of Mexico

Name: Boccaletti, Giulio
Adviser: Samuel G. Philander
Specialization: Climate Science
Defense Date: June 2003
Thesis Title: The Thermal Structure of the Upper Ocean
Last known address: Chief Strategy Officer and Global Managing Director, Water, The Nature Conservancy, Arlington, VA

Name: Brantley, Susan
Email[email protected]
Adviser: David Crerar
Specialization: Geochemistry
Defense Date: 1987
Thesis Title: The chemistry and thermodynamics of natural brines and the kinetics of dissolution-precipittion reactions of quartz and water
Last known address: Distinguished Professor of Geosciences, Penn State, University Park, PA (Website)

Name: Brunelle, Brigitte G.
Adviser: Daniel M. Sigman
Specialization: Geochemistry, Paleoclimate
Defense Date: May 2009
Thesis Title: Nitrogen Isotope Contraints on the Biogeochemistry and Paleoclimatology of The Subarctic North Pacific
Last known address: Project Scientist, Department of Defense, Washington, DC

Name: Bukry, John
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: Alfred G. Fischer
Specialization: Paleoclimate
Defense Date: June, 1967
Thesis Title: Upper Cretaceous Coccoliths from Texas and Europe
Last known address: Scientist Emeritus, United States Geolocical Survery
Keywords: Biostratigraphy, paleoecology
Topics: "Silicoflagellate Paleoecology"

Name: Burky, Alex L.
Adviser: Jessica Irving, Frederik Simons
Specialization: Geophysics
Defense Date: May 3, 2022
Thesis Title: Mapping The Mantle Transition Zone Beneath Eastern North America An Automated Receiver Function Approach


C

Name: Carena, Sara
Email[email protected]
Adviser: John Suppe
Specialization: Geophysics
Defense Date: June 2003
Thesis Title: Imaging Faults in 3-D from Earthquakes, with Examples from Southern California and Taiwan
Last known address: Academic/Scientific Staff/Lecturer, Dept. of Earth and Environment Science, LMU, Munchen, DE  (Website)

Name: Carissimo, Bertrand
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: Raymond Pierrehumbert
Specialization: Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (AOS)
Defense Date: 1987
Thesis Title: The Pressure Drag and Momentum Flux over the Alps during ALPEX
Last known address: Retired, Voluntary researcher at Ecole des ponts (ENPC) (Website)
Keywords: meteorology, fluid mechanics
Topics: “Atmospheric environment”

Name: Casciotti, Karen Lynn
Adviser: Bess B. Ward
Specialization: Geochemisty
Defense Date: September 2002
Thesis Title: Molecular and Stable Isotopic Characterization of Enzymes Involved in Nitrification and Nitrifier-Denitrification
Last known address: Associate Professor, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

Name: Castruita, Madeli
Adviser: François M. M. Morel
Specialization: Geochemisty
Defense Date: November 2006
Thesis Title: Iron Storage Proteins in the Marine Environment
Last known address: Postdoctoral Research Associate, UCLA, Young Hall, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Los Angeles, CA

Name: Chase, Richard
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: Jorma Kalliokoski
Specialization: Geology
Month/Year Ph.D.: April 26, 1963
Thesis Title: The Imataca Complex, the Panamo Amphibolite and the Guri Trondhjemite: Precambrian Rocks of the Adjuntas-Panamo Quadrangle, State of Bolivar, Venezuela.
Last known address: EOAS, UBC, Vancouver (Emeritus Professor)

Name: Chun, Chang-Min
Adviser: Ilhan Aksay (Chemical Engineering)
Specialization: Geochemisty
Month/Year Ph.D.: April 1997
Thesis Title: Hydrothermal crystallization of barion titanate: Mechanisms of nucleation and growth
Last known address: Corporate Strategic Researcher, ExxonMobil Research and Engineering, Annandale, NJ

Name: Cohen, Harvey
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: Neil Lundberg, Linc Hollister
Specialization: Environmental Science
Month/Year Ph.D.: 1992
Thesis Title: Stratigraphic, Sedimentologic, and Provenance Constraints on Evolution of the Gravina Belt, Northern Southeast Alaska
Last known address: Principal Hydrogeologist,  SSP&A, Rockville, MD (Website)

Name: Connors, Christopher D.
Adviser: John Suppe
Specialization: Geophysics
Defense Date: March 1999
Thesis Title: Studies in Planetary Crustal Deformation: Venus and the Andes
Last known address: William E. Pritchard III '80 Professor of Geology, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA

Name: Crompton, Nyssa
Adviser: Satish C. Myneni
Specialization: Geochemisty
Defense Date: May 2, 2014
Thesis Title: The stability and structure of amorphous ferric oxyhydroxides in the presence of environmentally relevant ligands
Last known address: Scientist I, Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies, New Brunswick, NJ

Name: Cui, Congyue
Adviser: Jeroen Tromp
Specialization: Geophysics
Defense Date: November 8, 2024
Thesis Title: Global Adjoint Tomography with Source Encoding
Last known address: Research Computing, Princeton University


D

Name: Das, Srijan Bharati
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: Jeroen Tromp, Frederik J. Simons
Specialization: Geophysics
Defense Date: May 22, 2023
Thesis Title: Magnetoseismology of the Sun and Inferences of Solar Rotation Using Normal Mode Coupling
Last known address: Astrophysicist at The Center of Astrophysics, Harvard & Smithsonian, Boston, MA (Website)
Topics: "PhD life, postdoc applications, research in general"

Name: Das, Triparna
Adviser: Guust Nolet
Specialization: Geophysics
Defense Date: August 1997
Thesis Title: Crustal Structure of Western North America using Surface Waves and Marine Multichannel Seismic Reflection Data
Last known address: Supervisor, Husky Energy, Alberta, CA

Name: Davidson, Cameron
Adviser: Lincoln Hollister
Specialization: Geology
Defense Date: 1991
Thesis Title: Tectonometamorphic evolution of the Maclaren Glacier metamorphic belt, south-central Alaska
Last known address: Department Chair and Professor of Geology, Carleton College Department of Geology, Northfield, MN (Website)

Name: Davidson, Mark
Adviser: Tullis C. Onstott
Specialization: Geochemisty
Defense Date: April 2008
Thesis Title: Sulfate Reduction in the Deep Terrestrial Subsurface: A Study of Microbial Ecology, Metabolic Rates and Sulfur Isotope Fractionation
Last known address: Consultant, Geosyntec Consultants, Pasadena, CA

Name: Davis, J. Peter
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: F. A. Dahlen
Specialization: Geophysics
Defense Date: January 1986
Thesis Title: Large scale heterogeneity of the upper mantle inferred from measurements of free oscillations
Last known address: Executive Director, Project IDA, IGPP, UCSD, San Diego, CA  (Website)
Keywords: Seismology, applied mathematics

Name: De, Subarnarekha
Adviser: Peter Heaney (Penn State University), Thomas S. Duffy
Specialization: Geophysics
Defense Date: July 2000
Thesis Title: Microanalytical Studies of Carbonado and Synthetic Polycrystalline Diamond
Last known address: Librarian & Mediatech, Dublin, CA (LinkedIn)

Name: Deal, Michael M.
Adviser: Guust Nolet
Specialization: Geophysics
Defense Date.: February 1997
Thesis Title: Tomographic image enhancement in slab regions: Tonga to Japan via the nullspace shuttle.
Last known address: Committee Chair, ExxonMobil Exploration Company, Houston, TX

Name: Deutsch, Curtis
Adviser: Jorge Sarmiento
Specialization: Climate Science
Defense Date: November 2003
Thesis Title: Biogeochemical Constraints on the Modern and Glacial Oceanic Nitrogen Cycle
Last known address: Professor of Geosciences and the High Meadows Environmental Institute, Princeton University (Website)

Name: D'Hondt, Steven
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: Gerta Keller
Specialization: Environmental Science
Defense Date: January 1990
Thesis Title: Environmental change and the planktic foraminiferal response to the cretaceous-tertiary boundary event
Last known address: Professor, University of Rhode Island, South Kingstown, RI (LinkedIn)
Keywords: Micropaleontology, geochemistry

Name: DiFiore, Peter
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: Daniel M. Sigman
Specialization: Climate Science, Paleoclimate
Defense Date: April 2010
Thesis Title: Nitrate Isotope Dynamics in the Southern Ocean
Last known address: Managing Director, Neuberger Berman (Website)

Name: Dorfman, Susannah M.
Adviser: Thomas S. Duffy
Specialization: Geophysics
Defense Date: November 2011
Thesis Title: Effects of Iron Enrichment on the Chemistry and Physical Properties of Deep Lower Mantle Silicates
Last known address: Assistant Professor, Michigan State University, Ann Arbor, MI (Website)
Keywords: Mineral physics

Name: Drever, James (Tim)
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: H. Dick Holland
Specialization: Geochemistry
Defense Date: 1968
Thesis Title: Electrophoresis and the study of clay minerals in Recent sediments
Last known address: Professor Emeritus, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY (Website, LinkedIn)
Keywords: Chemistry, environmental science

Name: Dreyfus, Gabrielle
Adviser: Michael Bender
Specialization: Paleoclimate
Defense Date: August, 2008
Thesis Title: Dating an 800,000 Year Antarctic Ice Core Record Using the Isotopic Composition of Trapped Air
Last known address: Senior Scientist, Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development, Washington, DC
Keyword: Geochemistry

Name: Duan, Jianshu
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: Satish C. Myneni
Specialization: Geochemistry
Defense Date: December 19, 2023
Thesis Title: Terrestrial Natural Organic Matter Probed By Multimodal Spectroscopy
Last known address: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Molecular Environmental Geochemistry Group, Princeton, NJ.
Keywords: Natural organic matter

Name: Dutta, Rajkrishna
Adviser: Thomas S. Duffy
Specialization: Geophysics
Defense Date: September 30, 2019
Thesis Title: High-Pressure Studies of Oxides and Fluorides: Analogs for Ultra-High Pressure Behavior of Planetary Silicates
Last known address: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Duffy Research Group, Princeton, NJ.

Name: Dyer, Blake C.
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: Adam C. Maloof
Specialization: Geology
Defense Date: September 28, 2015
Thesis Title: Stratigraphic Expression and Numerical Modeling of meteoric Diagenesis in Carbonate Platforms During the Late Paleozoic Ice Age
Last known address: Assistant Professor at the University of Victoria, Victoria BC, Canada (Website)
Keywords: Earth history, sea level


E

Name: Edwards, David
Adviser: Satish C. Myneni
Specialization: Geochemisty
Defense Date: June 2005
Thesis Title: Molecular Studies of Hydroxamate Siderophore Interactions with Aqueous and Solid Phase Iron
Last known address: Branch Chief, California Air Resources Board, Air Quality Planning and Science Division, Sacramento, CA

Name: Eichelberger, Nathan W.
Adviser: Nadine McQuarrie (University Pittsburgh)
Specialization: Geophysics
Defense Date: April 22, 2014
Thesis Title: Structural Development of the Bolivian Orocline and Implications for Evolution of the Altiplano Plateau
Last known address: Principal Structural Geologist, StructureSolver LLC, San Rafael, CA

Name: Ekstrom, Eileen Beth
Adviser: François M. M. Morel
Specialization: Geochemisty
Defense Date: January 2007
Thesis Title: Investigations into the Mechanisms of Biotic and Abiotic Mercury Methylation
Last known address: Director, Ecosystem Analytics Inc., Cambridge, MA

Name: Egleston, Erik
Adviser: François M. M. Morel
Specialization: Geochemisty
Defense Date: January 2008
Thesis Title: Biological, Chemical, and Policy Aspects of the Relationship Between Productivity and the Ocean Carbon Cycle
Last known address: Management Consulting, McKinsey and Company, New York, NY


F

Name: Fawcett, Sarah E.
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: Bess B. Ward, Daniel M. Sigman
Specialization: Environmental Science
Defense Date: June 2012
Thesis Title: Nitrate Assimilation by Eukaryotic Phytoplankton as a Central Characteristic
Of Ocean Productivity
Last known address: Associate Professor of Oceanography, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, ZA (Website)

Name: Feigenson, Mark
Adviser: Frank Spera, David Crerar
Specialization: Geochemisty
Defense Date: October 1982
Thesis Title: Aspects of the petrology of oceanic basalts
Last known address: Professor, Rutgers University, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Piscataway, NJ
Keyword: Volcanology, petrology

Name: Fialko, Yuri
Adviser: Allan M. Rubin
Specialization: Geophysics
Defense Date: September 1998
Thesis Title: Fluid driven fracture and melt transport through lithosphere on earth and terrestrial planet
Last known address: Professor, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, LaJolla, CA

Name: Finkelstein, Gregory J.
Adviser: Thomas S. Duffy
Specialization: Geophysics
Defense Date: May 9, 2014
Thesis Title: Phase Transitions in Selected Silicate Minerals at High Pressure and Room Temperature from Single-Crystal X-Ray Diffraction
Last known address: Research Staff, Princeton University, NJ

Name: Fournier, Alexandre
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: Peter Bunge
Specialization: Geophysics
Defense Date: December 2003
Thesis Title: Incompressible Fluid Flows in Rapidly Rotating Cavities
Last known address: Professor of Geophysics, Institut de physique du globe de Paris (IPGP), Paris, FR (LinkedIn)

Name: Frierson, Dargan (MAT)
Adviser: Geoffrey Vallis
Specialization: Climate Science
Defense Date: September 2005
Thesis Title: Studies of the General Circulation of the Atmosphere with a Simplified Moist GCM
Last known address: Associate Professor, Dept. of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA


G

Name: Garvin, Zachary K.
Adviser: Tullis Onstott, Bess Ward
Specialization: Geochemistry
Defense Date: May 17, 2024
Thesis Title: Assessing the Influence of Hot Spring Proximity on the Microbiology of Surrounding Soils: Spatial Patterns in Metabolisms and Organic Signatures

Name: Gerber , Edwin (MAT)
Adviser: Geoffrey Vallis
Specialization: Climate Science
Defense Date: January 2006
Thesis Title: A Dynamical and Statistical Understanding of the NAO and Annular Modes
Last known address: Associate Professor of Mathematics and Atmosphere/Ocean Science, NYU, New York, NY

Name: Goldman, Johanna A. L.
Adviser: François M. M. Morel
Specialization: Geochemistry
Defense Date: February 29, 2016
Thesis Title: Environmental Factors Influencing Phytoplankton Productivity in the Context of Climate Change
Last known address: Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Washington, Armbrust Laboratory, Seattle, WA

Name: Gonzalez-Mieres, Ramon
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: John Suppe
Specialization: Geology
Defense Date: February 2007
Thesis Title: Thickness-Relief Methods for the Analysis of Shortening, with Examples of Active Detachment Folds and Ramp Anticlines
Last known address: Near Field Exploration Geologist GOM at Chevron  (LinkedIn)
Keywords: Structural geology, oil exploration and development

Name: Gothmann, Anne M.
Adviser: Michael L. Bender
Specialization: Geochemistry
Defense Date: September 1, 2015
Thesis Title: Fossil Corals as Archives of Secular Variations in Seawater Chemistry
Last known address: Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies Physics, St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN


H

Name: Hain, Mathis
Adviser: Daniel M. Sigman
Specialization: Geochemistry, Paleoclimate
Defense Date: September 27, 2013
Thesis Title: Glacial/Interglacial and Deglacial Changes in Ocean Circulation and their Consequences for the Global Carbon Cycle: A Model Study
Last known address: National Oceanography Centre, University of Southampton, United Kingdom

Name: Hall, Alexander
Adviser: S. Manabe
Specialization: Climate Science
Defense Date: November 1998
Thesis Title: The Role of Water Vapor Feedback in Unperturbed Climate Variability and Global Warming
Last known address: Professor/Vice Chair, UCLA, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, CA

Name: Han, Eunah
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: Xinning Zhang
Specialization: Environmental Science
Defense Date: May 06, 2024
Thesis Title: Enzymatic Mechanism, Efficiency, and Environmental Activity of Biological Nitrogen Fixation Revealed by the Natural Abundance of Stable Isotopes
Last known address: Presently looking for a postdoctoral position on East Coast
Keywords: Nitrogen fixation, stable isotopes

Name: Han, Sirius
Adviser: Thomas S. Duffy
Specialization: Geophysics
Defense Date: May 16, 2024
Thesis Title: In situ X-ray diffraction of key high-pressure materials under dynamic compression

Name: Harris, Rachel L.
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: Tullis Onstott
Specialization: Geochemistry
Defense Date: May 1, 2020
Thesis Title: Life on the Fringe:  Surveying the Ecophysiological Tenacity of Methanogens And Anaerobic Methanotrophs in the Oligotrophic Deep Surface Biosphere
Last known address: NASA Postdoctoral Management Program Fellow, Astrobiology Program, Washington, DC (Website, LinkedIn )
Keywords: Geomicrobiology, methane biogeochemistry, astrobiology

Name: Harper, Scott
Adviser: Samuel G. Philander
Specialization: Climate Science
Defense Date: November 2001
Thesis Title: The Influence of Subtropical Forcing on the Density Structure of the Tropical Ocean
Last known address: Program Manager, Arctic and Global Prediction, Office of Naval Research, Arlington, VA

Name: Hastings-Galanter, Meredith
Adviser: Daniel M. Sigman
Specialization: Geochemistry
Defense Date: April 2004
Thesis Title: Studies of Reactive Nitrogen in the Atmosphere Using Global Modeling and Stable Isotope Measurements
Last known address: Associate Professor of Geological Sciences, Brown University, Providence, RI

Name: Hawman, Robert
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: Robert A. Phinney
Specialization: Geophysics
Defense Date: May 1988
Thesis Title: Wide Angle Reflection Studies of the Crust and Upper Mantle Beneath Eastern Pennsylvania
Last known address: Professor, Department of Geology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA

Name: Hawthorne, Jessica C.
Adviser: Allan M. Rubin
Specialization: Geophysics
Defense Date: October 2012
Thesis Title: Observations and Modeling of Temporal Variability in Slow Slip Events
Last known address: Associate Professor, University of Oxford, UK

Name: Hay, Michael Benjamin
Adviser: Satish C. Myneni
Specialization: Geochemistry
Defense Date: June 2007
Thesis Title: Advances in the Molecular-Scale Understanding of Geochemical Processes: Carboxyl Structure in Natural Organic Matter, Organosulfur Cycling in Soils, and the Coordination Chemistry of Aqueous Aluminum
Last known address: Research Associate/NRC Postdoctoral Fellow, USGS, Menlo Park, CA

Name: Heestand, Richard
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: W. Jason Morgan
Specialization: Geophysics
Defense Date: October, 1981
Thesis Title: The effect of hotspots on the oceanic age-depth relation and the effect of a mantle plume on overlying lithosphere
Last known address: Retired

Name: Hellmann, Roland
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: David A. Crerar
Specialization: Climate Science
Defense Date: November 1988
Thesis Title: Kinetics of albite feldspar dissolution to 300 °C
Last known address: Senior research scientist, CNRS  (Website)
Keywords: Water-rock Interactions, fluid-solid interfaces at nm-scale
Topics: "experimental geochemistry, water-rock interactions, TEM & APT fluid-solid interfaces"

Name: Henning, Cara C.
Adviser: Geoffrey Vallis
Specialization: Climate Science
Defense Date: November 2003
Thesis Title: The Effects of Mesoscale Eddies on the Stratification of the Ocean
Last known address: Senior Technical Specialist, ICF International, Fairfax, VA

Name: Herbert, Timothy D.
Adviser: Alfred G.Fischer, Jorge Sarmiento, Robert F. Stallard, and Franklyn Van Houten
Specialization: Climate Science
Defense Date: 1987
Specialization: Paleoclimate
Thesis Title: Eccentricity and precessional orbital climate cycles in a mid-Cretaceous deep-sea sequence: application to quantitative paleoclimatology
Last known address: Henry L. Doherty Professor of Oceanography, Professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Professor of Environment and Society, Brown University (Website)

Name: Hill, Mary Louise
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: Lincoln Hollister, John Suppe
Specialization: Geology
Defense Date: 1985
Thesis Title: Geology of the Redcap Mountain area, Coast Plutonic Complex, British Columbia
Last known address: Professor, Dept. of Geology, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada

Name: Hogikyan, Allison
Adviser: Laure Resplandy, Stephan Fueglistaler
Specialization: Climate Science
Defense Date: May, 2023
Thesis Title: Oxygen, Carbon, Heat: Explorations in Atmosphere-Ocean Interaction

Name: Holloway, Theresa
Adviser: Hiram Levy
Specialization: Geochemistry
Defense Date: November 2001
Thesis Title: Transboundary Air Pollution in Asia: Model Development and Policy Implications
Last known address: Professor, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

Name: Hoppe, Kathryn Ann
Adviser: Paul L. Koch (University of California, Santa Cruz), François M. M. Morel
Specialization: Geochemistry
Defense Date: September 1999
Thesis Title: The Biogeochemistry and Paleoecology of Late Pleistocene Proboscideans from the Southern United States
Last known address: Research Associate, Geology and Paleontology, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

Name: Howes, Bolton
Adviser: Adam Maloof
Specialization: Geology
Defense Date: July 14, 2023
Thesis Title: From Ooids to Extinction: Developing Physical Paleoenvironmental Proxies for Understanding Earth History
Last known address: NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University of Washington, starting Assistant Professorship at Wheaton College in Fall 2025 (Website, Github)

Name: Huang, Kuan
Adviser: Michael L. Bender
Specialization: Geochemistry
Defense Date: March 2013
Thesis Title: Studies of the Oxygen and Carbon Cycle in the Surface Ocean
Last known address: Application Scientist, Picarro, Inc., Environmental Services Santa Clara, CA

Name: Husson, Jonathan M.
Adviser: Adam C. Maloof and Blaire Schoene
Specialization: Geology, Paleoclimate
Defense Date: September 2014
Thesis Title: Constraining Timing and Origin of Unusual Carbon Cycle Dynamics in the Terminal Proterozoic and Middle Paleozoic Eons
Last known address: Assistant Professor, University of Victoria, Victoria BC, CA

 

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Name: Intrator, Naomi
Adviser: Bess B. Ward
Specialization: Geochemistry
Defense Date: August, 28, 2004
Thesis Title: Copper's Role in Marine Denitrification: Phylogeny, Bioavailability, and Particulate Chemistry
 


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Name: James, Thomas
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: Jason Morgan
Specialization: Geophysics
Defense Date: 1991
Thesis Title: Postglacial Deformation
Last known address: Research Scientist

Name: Jewell, Paul
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: Robert Stallard
Specialization: Geology
Defense Date: 1989
Thesis Title: Fluid dynamic and geochemical models of shallow lakes, the Amazon estuary and bedded barite deposits.
Last known address: University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
Keywords: Geomorphology, hydrology

Name: Ji, Qixing (Jimmy)
Adviser: Bess B. Ward
Specialization: Geochemistry
Defense Date: November 18, 2016
Thesis Title: Nitrous Oxide Production in Marine Environments with Strong Oxygen Gradients
Last known address: Postdoc at GEOMAR Helmholtz-Zentrum für Ozeanforschung Kiel, Marine Biogeochemie (Marine Biogeochemistry), Kiel, DE

Name: Jiang, Wei (David)
Adviser: Satish C. Myneni
Specialization: Geochemistry
M.A Date: 2015
Last known address: Director, Acadia Pharmaceuticals, Princeton, NJ

Name: Jorns (nee Losh), Jenna
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: François M. M. Morel
Specialization: Geochemisty
Defense Date: May 2013
Thesis Title: The Response of Nitrogen-Limited Marine Phytoplankton to Increasing Carbon Dioxide
Last known address: Program Manager, GLISA, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI


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Name: Karsh, Kirsten L.
Adviser: Daniel M. Sigman
Specialization: Geochemistry
Defense Date: December 4, 2013
Thesis Title: Physiological and Environmental Controls on the Nitrogen and Oxygen Isotope Fractionation of Nitrate During Its Assimilation by Marine Phytoplankton
Last known address: Postdoctoral Researcher, Antartic Climate and Ecosystems CRC, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, AU

Name: Kasbohm, Jennifer J.
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: Blair Schoene
Specialization: Geology
Defense Date: May 5, 2020
Thesis Title: Calibrating Archean and Miocene Large Igneous Province Emplacement and Geologic Timescales with High-Precision U-PB Zircon Geochronology
Last known address: Staff Scientist, Carnegie Science Earth & Planets Laboratory, Washington, DC (Website)

Name: Kast, Emma
Adviser: Daniel M. Sigman
Specialization: Geochemistry
Defense Date: September 25, 2020
Thesis Title: Development and application of biogenic mineral-bound nitrogen isotope measurements to the million-year timescale
Last known address: Postdoctoral at University of Cambridge, Department of Earth Science / Junior Research Fellow at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, UK

Name: Kearney, Kelly A.
Adviser: Jorge Sarmiento
Specialization: Climate Science
Defense Date: October 2012
Thesis Title: An Analysis of Marine Ecosystem Dynamics Through Development of a Coupled Physical-Biogeochemical-Fisheries Food Web Model
Last known address: Research Scientist, University of Washington, Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean, Alaska Fisheries Science Center, Seattle, WA

Name: Keers, Henk
Adviser: F. A. Dahlen, Guust Nolet
Specialization: Geophysics
Defense Date: July 1997
Thesis Title: Chaotic Ray Behavior and Asymptotic Waveforms in Regional Seismology
Last known address: Associate Professor, Department of Earth Science, Bergen, NO

Name: Keller, C. Brenhin
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: Blaire Schoene
Specialization: Geology
Defense Date: September 23, 2016
Thesis Title: Geochemical Evolution of Earth’s Continental Crust
Presently at: Assistant Professor, Dartmouth College Department of Earth Sciences (Website)
Keywords: Geochemistry, geochronology

Name: Keller, Klaus
Adviser: François M. M. Morel
Specialization: Geochemistry
Defense Date: June 2000
Thesis Title: Trace-Metal-Carbon Interactions in Marine Phytoplankton: Implications on the Cellular, Regional, and Global Scale
Last known address: Professor, Penn State College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, Department of Geosciences, University Park, PA

Name: Khare, Shree
Adviser: J. Anderson/G. Vallis
Specialization: Climate Science, Geophysics
Defense Date: January 2005
Thesis Title: Observing Network Design for Improved Prediction of Geophysical Fluid Flows-Analysis of Ensemble Methods
Last known address: Risk Management Solutions, London, UK

Name: Kinter, James
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: Kikuro Miyakoda
Specialization: Climate Science
Defense Date: August 1983
Thesis Title: Barotropic Studies of Stationary, Extratropical Anomalies in the Troposphere
Last known address: Professor of Climate Dynamics, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA (Website)

Name: Kirschvinki, Joseph
Adviser: Al Fischer, Rob Hargraves, Jason Morgan, Ken Deffeyes
Specialization: Geophysics
Defense Date: June 1979
Thesis: A paleomagnetic approach to the precambrian-cambrian boundary problem. II. Biogenic magnetite: its role in the magnetization of sediments and as the basis of magnetic field detection in animals
Last known address: Nico & Marilyn Van Wingen Professor of Geobiology, Caltech (Website)
Keywords: Geobiology, Magnetoreception, Paleomagnetism, Neurophysiology, Geochemistry

Name: Klonecki, Andrzej
Adviser: Hiram Levy
Specialization: Geochemistry
Defense Date: May 1999
Thesis: Model Study of the Tropospheric Chemistry of Ozone
Last known address: Noveltis, Labège, FR

Name: Klug, Caroline
Adviser: K. Cashman (University of Oregon), Alexandra Navrotsky (University of California, Davis)
Specialization: Geochemistry
Month/Year Ph.D.: April 1997
Thesis Title: Vesiculation and fragmentation of silicic magma as recorded in volcanic pumice
Last known address: Portland, OR

Name: Knapp, Angela Noel
Adviser: Daniel M. Sigman
Specialization: Geochemistry
Defense Date: January 2006
Thesis Title: The Stable Isotopic Composition of Dissolved Organic Nitrogen and Nitrate in the Subtropical Ocean
Last known address: Professor of Oceanography, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX (Website)
Keywords: nitrogen
Topics: “Graduate school, postdocs”


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Name: Langer, Leah
Adviser: Jeroen Tromp
Specialization: Geophysics
Defense Date: January 28, 2020
Thesis Title: Impact of Topography on Coseismic Modeling and Earthquake Static Slip Inversions
Last known address: Mendenhall Postdoctoral Fellow at USGS, Moffett Field, CA.

Name: Lawson, Charles
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: Robert Hargraves
Specialization: Environmental Science
Defense Date: October 1981
Thesis Title: Magnetic and microstructural properties of minerals of the ilmenite-hematite solid solution series with special reference to the phenomenon of reverse thermoremanent magnetism
Last known address: Retired, U.S. Secretary, International Joint Commission, Arlington, VI (LinkedIn)
Topics: "Science policy, international water negotiations"

Name: Lei, Wenjie
Adviser: Jeroen Tromp
Specialization: Geophysics
Defense Date: May 8, 2019
Thesis Title: Global Seismic Full-Waveform Inversion
Last known address: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Geosciences, Princeton University, NJ

Name: Leri, Alessandra
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: Satish C. Myneni
Specialization: Geochemistry
Defense Date: June 2007
Thesis Title: Halogen Dynamics in Environmental Systems: An X-Ray Spectroscopic Study
Last known address: Professor of Chemistry, Marymount Manhattan College, New York, NY (Website)

Name: Li, Liangquan
Adviser: Gerta Keller
Specialization: Geology, Paleoclimate
Defense Date.: February 1997
Title: The Maastrichtian: An integrated multi-disciplinary approach to evaluating climate, sea-level, and the biotic changes in the marine realm
Last known address: UBS, New York, NY

Name: Lin, I-Ching
Adviser: Alexandra Navrotsky (University of California, Davis), Peter Heaney
Specialization: Geochemistry
Defense Date: November 1997
Thesis Title: Thermodynamics and Glass Formation in Fluorozirconates and Related Systems
Last known address: System Administrator, NEC Solutions America, Inc., The Woodlands, TX

Name: Lin, Li-Hung
Adviser: Tullis C. Onstott
Specialization: Geochemistry
Defense Date: November 2003
Thesis Title: Radiolytic H2 and Microbial Communities in the Witwatersrand Basin
Last known address: Professor, National Taiwan University, TW

Name: Linton, Jennifer Anne
Adviser: Alexandra Navrotsky (University of California, Davis), Thomas S. Duffy
Specialization: Geochemistry, Geophysics
Defense Date: October 1997
Thesis Title: Phase transitions in the FETIO3-MGTIO3-CATIO3TENARY field at high pressures and temperatures
Last known address: Staff Scientist, Argonne Nat'l Laboratory, Argonne, IL

Name: Lockwood, Joseph
Adviser: Michael Oppenheimer
Specialization: Climate Science
Defense Date: April 12, 2024
Thesis Title: Modeling Tropical Cyclone Risk in a Changing Climate: Machine Learning, Correlated Hazards, and Socio-Economic Inequalities
Last known address: Postdoctoral ResearcherColumbia University, Data Science Institute, New York, NY

Name: Long, Sean Patrick
Adviser: Nadine McQuarrie
Specialization: Geophysics
Defense Date: September 2010
Thesis Title: The Evolution of Eastern Himalayan Deformation: Geometry and Kinematics of the Himalayan Fold-Thrust Belt, Eastern and Central Bhutan
Last known address: Associate Professor, School of the Environment, WSU, Pullman, WA

Name: Lopez-Oliva, J. Guadalupe
Adviser: Gerta Keller
Specialization: Geology
Defense Date: June 1996
Thesis Title: Stratigraphy of the Cretaceous/Tertiary (K/T) Boundary Transition in Northeastern and East-Central Mexico
Last known address: Investigador, Autonome University of Nuevo Leon, Monterrey, MX

Name: Lueders-Dumont, Jessica A.
Adviser: Bess B. Ward
Specialization: Geochemisty
Defense Date: May 3, 2019
Thesis Title: Nitrogen Isotopes of Otolith-Bound Organic Matter: A New Tool for Trophic Reconstruction Using Modern and Fossil Otoliths
Last known address: Research Associate, Stable Isotope Biogeochemistry Lab, Boston College (Website)

Name: Luo, Yang
Adviser: Jeroen Tromp
Specialization: Geophysics
Defense Date: October 2012
Thesis Title: Seismic Imaging and Inversion Based on Spectral-Element and Adjoint Methods
Last known address: Chevron, San Ramon, CA

Name: Luttrell, Eric
Adviser: Franklyn Van Houten
Specialization: Geology
Defense Date: 1969
Thesis Title: An Analysis of the Silurian Keefer Sandstone
Last known address: Retired
Keyword: Sedimentology

Name: Luxem, Katja E.
Adviser: Xinning Zhang
Specialization: Environmental Science
Defense Date: November 30, 2022
Thesis Title: Comparative Physiology of MO-, V- and FE-Only Based Biological Nitrogen Fixation in the Anaerobic Photoheterothroph Rhodopseudomonas Palustris
Last known address: Jr. Product Specialist for Ion Chromatography at Metrohm International Headquarters, Herisau, Switzerland

Name: Luu, Victoria
Adviser: Daniel M. Sigman
Specialization: Geochemistry
Defense Date: December 3, 2021
Thesis Title: Modern-ocean ground-truthing of nitrogen isotopes in scleractinian corals: A proxy for surface nutrient conditions
Last known address: Marine Resource Management Specialist,  NOAA's Northeast Fisheries Science Center, Woods Hole, MA.


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Name: MacAyeal, Douglas
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: Kirk Bryan
Specialization: Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (AOS)
Defense Date: 1983
Thesis Title: Tides of the Ross Sea
Last Known Address: Professor, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Keywords: Glaciology

Name: MacDonald, William
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: Harry H. Hess
Specialization: Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (AOS)
Defense Date: January 1965
Thesis Title: Geology of Serrania de Macuira, Guajira Peninsula, Colombia
Last Known Address: Emeritus Professor, Geological Sciences, SUNY, Binghamton, NY
Keywords: Structure-tectonics, latin america, paleomagnetism

Name: Maclennan, Scott A.
Adviser: Blaire Schoene
Specialization: Geology
Defense Date: September 27, 2019
Thesis Title: Temporal Constraints on Archean Crustal Geodynamics and Neoproterozoic Glaciation
Last Known Address: Senior Lecturer, University of the Witwatersrand, SA (Website)

Name: MacPherson, Glenn
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: John Suppe
Specialization: Geochemistry
Defense Date: 1981
Thesis Title: Geology and Petrology of the Mesozoic Volcanic Complex at Snow Mountain, Northern Coast Ranges, California: An On-land Seamount
Last known address: Senior Scientist and Curator, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian, Washington, D.C. (Website)
Keywords: Cosmochemistry, early solar system, star formation

Name:  Maest, Ann
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: David Crerar, Robert Stallard, Michael Celia
Specialization: Geochemistry
Defense Date: October 1983
Thesis Title: The Geochemistry of Metal Transport in Low and High Temperature Aqueous Systems
Last known address: Vice President, Buka Environmental, Telluride, CO (Website, LinkedIn)

Name: Mailloux, Brian
Adviser: Tullis C. Onstott
Specialization: Geochemistry
Defense Date: December 2002
Thesis Title: The Role of Aquifer and Microbial Heterogeneity on the Transport and Activity of Bacteria in the Columbia Aquifer, Oyster, Virginia
Last known address: Professor and Co-Chair, Environmental Science, Barnard College, New York, NY (Website)

Name: Magnabosco, Cara
Adviser: Tullis C. Onstott
Specialization: Geochemistry
Defense Date: May 16, 2016
Thesis Title: From Genes to Metagenomes: Exploring Life Underground
Last known address: Professor, Department of Earth Sciences, ETH Zurich, Switzerland (Website)

Name: Manzuk, Ryan
Adviser: Adam Maloof
Specialization: Geology
Defense Date: October 1, 2024
Thesis Title: Reading Earth's Surface History from Image Archives
Last known address: (LinkedIn)
Keywords: Geobiology, computer vision, optical remote sensing, reefs

Name: Mao, Zhu
Adviser: Thomas S. Duffy
Specialization: Geophysics
Defense Date: June 9, 2009
Thesis Title: Single-crystal Elasticity of Hydrous Mantle Minerals
Last known address: Professor, University of Science and Technology, Hefei, Anhui, CN

Name: Marconi, Dario
Adviser: Daniel M. Sigman
Specialization: Geochemistry
Defense Date: May 18, 2017
Thesis Title: Using the Nitrate Isotopes in the Ocean Interior to Explore the Isotopic
Composition of Sinking Nitrogen and its Implications for Marine Biogeochemical Cycles
Last known address: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Geosciences, Princeton University, NJ

Name: Marinov, Irina
Adviser: Jorge Sarmiento
Specialization: Climate Science
Defense Date: January 2005
Thesis Title: Controls on the Air-Sea Balance of Carbon Dioxide
Last known address: Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

Name: Masina, Simona
Adviser: Samuel G. Philander
Specialization: Climate Science
Defense Date: November 1996
Thesis Title: Tropical Instability Waves in the Pacific Ocean
Last known address: Research Division Director, Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici, Lecce, IT

Name:  Matano, Ricardo
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: S. G. H. Philander
Specialization: Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences
Defense Date: October 1990
Thesis Title: A numerical study of the circulation in the South Atlantic Ocean 
Last known address: Professor, Oregon State University, OR

Name: Mateo Fernandez Caso, Maria Paula
Adviser: Gerta Keller
Specialization: Geology, Paleoclimate
Defense Date: July 5, 2017
Thesis Title: Environmental Changes and Timing of Events During the Cretaceous-Paleogene Transition: Assessing Consequences of Deccan Volcanism and the Chicxulub Impact
Last known address: GPS Postdoctoral Scholar, Caltech, Pasadena, CA

Name: McRose, Darcy
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: François M. M. Morel
Specialization: Environmental Science
Defense Date: April 4, 2018
Thesis Title: Trace Metal Uptake and Use in Soil Diazothrophs and Marine Vibrios: Alternative Nitrogenases, Siderophores, and Quorum Sensing OR Efforts of the Very Small to Acquire the Very Scarce
Last known address: Assistant Professor, MIT, Cambridge, MA (Website)
Keywords: Microbiology, trace metals

Name: Mehra, Akshay K.
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: Adam C. Maloof
Specialization: Geology
Defense Date: September 5, 2019
Thesis Title: Reconstructions of Ediacaran Putative Biomineralizers Via a Novel Serial Grinding and Imaging Technique
Last known address: Assistant Professor at University of Washington, Seattle, WA (Website)

Name: Mignone, Bryan K.
Adviser: Jorge Sarmiento and Anand Gnanadesikan
Specialization: Climate Science
Defense Date: May 2006
Thesis Title: Scientific and Political Economic Constraints on the Solution to the Global Warming Problem
Last known address: Science and Technology Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies Program, Brookings Institution, Washington, DC

Name: Modrak, Ryan
Adviser: Jeroen Tromp
Specialization: Geophysics
Defense Date: November 28, 2016
Thesis Title: Acoustic and Elastic Waveform Inversion Best Practices
Last known address: Staff Scientist, Los Alamo National Laboratory

Name: Molodetsky, Irina
Adviser: Alexandra Navrotsky (University of California, Davis)
Specialization: Geochemistry
Defense Date: April 1999
Thesis Title: Energetics of Zirconia Stabilized by Cation and Nitrogen Substitution
Last known address: University Lecturer, NJ Inst. of Technology; Technical Leader and Materials Scientist, Schlumberger Ltd., Princeton Junction, NJ

Name: Montelli, Raffaella
Adviser: Guust Nolet
Specialization: Geophysics
Defense Date: October 2003
Thesis Title: Seismic Tomography Beyond Ray Theory
Last known address: Director, Research Ecosystem (North America) at Arm Ltd, Austin, TX (LinkedIn)

Name: Moore, Kent
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: Isidoro Orlanski
Specialization: Climate Science
Defense Date: 1984
Thesis Title: On the Organization of Convection along Narrow Cold Frontal Rainbands
Last known address: Distinguished Professor of Theoretical Geophysics of Climate Change, University of Toronto Mississauga, Department of Chemical and Physical Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada (Website)
Keywords: Air-sea-Ice Interaction, mountain meteorology

Name: Morel-Kraepiel, Anne
Adviser: François M. M. Morel
Specialization: Geochemistry
Defense Date: June 1999
Thesis Title: Biogeochemistry of Trace Metals: Mechanisms of Metal Partitioning in Aquatic Systems
Last known address: Research Scholar/Lecturer, Princeton Environmental Institute (PEI), Princeton University, NJ

Name: Murray, Cecil
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: Harry Hess, Robert Hargraves
Specialization: Geophysics
Defense Date: January 1972
Thesis Title: Petrologic studies of zoned ultramafic complexes in Venezuela and Alaska
Last known address: Retired
Keyword: chemistry

Name: Murphy, Jack G.
Adviser: John Higgins
Specialization: Geology
Defense Date: January 6, 2023
Thesis Title: Carbonate Archives of Seawater Lithium: Element and Isotope Ratios, Diagenesis, and the History of Seawater Chemistry
Last known address: Senior Research Coordinator., Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA


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Name: Nachman (nee Schlesinger), Danielle R.
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: Satish Myneni
Specialization: Geochemistry
Defense Date: May 4, 2020
Thesis Title: Salting the Earth: Biogeochemical Cycling of Chlorinated and Brominated Natural Organic Compounds in Coastal Ecosystems
Last known address: Senior Scientist, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Silver Spring, MD
Keywords: Soil chemistry, coastal ecosystems

Name: Newell, Silvia Elena
Adviser: Bess B. Ward
Specialization: Geochemistry
Defense Date: September 2010
Thesis Title: Nitrogen Cycle Processes in Low-Oxygen Marine Environments
Last known address: Assistant Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Wright State University, Dayton, OH
Topics: "Summer internships, job opportunities"

Name: Newman, Dianne
Adviser: François M. M. Morel
Specialization: Geochemistry
Defense Date: June 1997
Thesis Title: Microbial Respiration and Precipitation of Arsenic
Last known address: Gordon M. Binder/Amgen Professor of Biology and Geobiology; Allen V. C. Davis and Lenabelle Davis Leadership Chair, Center for Environmental Microbial Interactions; Executive Officer for Molecular Biology, Caltech, CA

Name: Nissen-Meyer, Tarje
Adviser: Guust Nolet
Specialization: Geophysics
Defense Date: October 2007
Thesis Title: Full-Wave Seismic Sensitivity in a Spherical Earth
Last known address: Associate Professor of Geophysics, Department of Earth Sciences, Oxford University, Oxford, UK

Name: Nisson, Devan
Adviser: Tullis Onstott, Bess Ward
Specialization: Geochemistry
Defense Date: May 2, 2024
Thesis Title: Hydrogeochemical Support for Microbial Habitability in an Ancient Hypersaline, Thermal, and Radiogenic Subsurface Brine in South Africa
Last known address: Postdoctoral Research Associate, The Department of Geosciences, Princeton University

Name: Novoa-Cancela, Enrique Francisco
Adviser: John Suppe
Specialization: Geophysics
Defense Date: November 1996
Thesis Title: Two and three dimensional analysis of structural trends in the Santa Barbara Channel,
California, USA
Last known address: Statoil, Harstadt, NO


O

Name: Ocampo, Ian
Adviser: Thomas S. Duffy
Specialization: Geophysics
Defense Date: July 23, 2024
Thesis Title: Forging the Conditions of Planetary Interiors Using Ultra-Fast Compression Techniques

Name: O'Mullan, Gregory D.
Adviser: Bess B. Ward/Lars Hedin
Specialization: Geochemistry
Defense Date: October 2005
Thesis Title: Diversity and Composition of Ammonia Oxidizing Bacterial Assemblages in Aquatic Environments
Last known address: Associate Professor, Queens College, CUNY, Queens, NY

Name: Onstott, Tullis Cullen
Adviser: Robert Hargraves
Specialization: Geology
Defense Date: January 1980
Thesis Title: Paleomagnetism of the Guyana Shield, Venezuela and its implications concerning Proterozoic tectonics of South America and Africa
Last known address: Professor of Geosciences, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ. Deceased.

Name: Orris, Rebecca
Adviser: V. Ramaswamy
Specialization: Climate Science
Defense Date: June 1997
Thesis Title: A Test of the Consistency of Models and Observations in the Middle Atmosphere
Last known address: PMC Production Team Leader, National Institutes of Health, National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), Washington, DC


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Name: Pardo Juez, Alfonso
Adviser: Gerta Keller
Specialization: Geology, Paleoclimate
Defense Date: December 1997
Thesis Title: Planktic Foraminiferal Turnovers Across the K-T and P-E transitions in the Northern Tethys Realm
Last known address: Professor/Postdoctoral Research Associate, Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, ES

Name: Park, Haewon
Adviser: François M. M. Morel
Specialization: Geochemistry
Defense Date: January 2008
Thesis Title: Cadmium Carbonic Anhydrase of Marine Diatoms: Diversity and Expression
Last known address: Adviser, Environmental Commission, Township of West Windsor, Princeton, NJ

Name: Pauluis, Olivier
Adviser: Isaac Held
Specialization: Climate Science
Defense Date: January 2000
Thesis Title: Entropy Budget of an Atmosphere in Radiative-Convective Equilibrium

Name: Peng, Yajun
Adviser: Allan M. Rubin
Specialization: Geophysics
Defense Date: March 26, 2018
Thesis Title: Seismological Observations and Numerical Modeling of Slow Earthquakes
Last known address: Data Scientist, Google Mountain View, CA

Name: Peng, Xuefeng (Nick)
Adviser: Bess B. Ward
Specialization: Geochemistry
Defense Date: September 23, 2015
Thesis Title: Nitrogen Cycling in Strong Redox Gradients of Marine Environments: Oceanic Oxygen Minimum Zones and Salt Marsh Sediments
Last known address: Assistant Professor, School of the Earth, Ocean, & Environment, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC

Name: Phillips, Benjamin R.
Adviser: Hans Peter Bunge, W. Jason Morgan
Specialization: Geophysics
Defense Date: June 2005
Thesis Title: Global Mantle Convection Models with Mobile Continents
Last known address: Lead, Earth Surface and Interior Focus Area, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC
Keywords: Geodynamics, high performance computing

Name: Phillips, David.
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: Tullis Onstott, Robert Hargraves
Specialization: Geochemistry
Defense Date: January 1989
Thesis Title: Argon isotopic studies of minerals in kimberlites, mantle xenoliths and diamonds from selected southern African localities
Last known address: Professor and Head of the School of Earth Sciences, The University of Melbourne, AU

Name: Plancherel, Yves
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: Jorge Sarmiento
Specialization: Climate Science
Defense Date: 2012
Thesis Title: A Study of the Ocean’s Water Masses Using Data and Models
Last known address: Lecturer in the department of Earth Sciences and Engineering at Imperial College London, UK

Name: Powers, Dennis
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: Van Houten, Fischer
Specialization: Geology
Defense Date: 1980
Thesis Title: Geology of mio-pliocene sediments of the lower Kerio river valley, Kenya
Last known address: Paleomagnetics, paleosols

Name: Pratt, Lisa
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: Alfred G.Fischer
Specialization: Geochemistry
Defense Date: 1981
Thesis Title: A Paleo-Oceanographic Interpretation of the Sedimentary Structures, Clay Minerals, and Organic Matter in a Core of the Middle Cretaceous Greenhorn Formation Drilled Near Pueblo Colorado
Last known address: Retired

Name: Punekar, Jahnavi N.
Adviser: Gerta Keller
Specialization: Geology
Defense Date: November 5, 2015
Thesis Title: Planktic Foraminifera Extinctions and Delayed Biotic Recovery in the Late Maastrichtian-Early Danian: Link to Global Environmental Catastrophes?
Last known address: Assistant Professor, Department of Earth Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, IN

Name: Putnam, Robert L.
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: Alexandra Navrotsky (University of California, Davis) and François M. M. Morel
Specialization: Geochemistry
Defense Date: August 1999
Thesis Title: Formation Energetics of Ceramic Waste Materials for the Disposal of Surplus Weapons Plutonium
Last known address: Chief Scientist, Plutonium Facility, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM
Keywords: Physical Chemistry, thermodynamics


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Name: Ren, Haojia (Abby)
Adviser: Daniel M. Sigman
Specialization: Geochemistry
Defense Date: October 19, 2010
Thesis Title: Development and Paleoceanographic Application of Planktonic Foraminifera bound Nitrogen Isotopes
Last known address: Assistant Professor, Taiwan National University, Department of Geosciences, Taipai, TW

Name: Rose, Catherine V.
Adviser: Adam C. Maloof
Specialization: Geology
Defense Date: May 2012
Thesis Title: Comings and Goings of the End-Cryogenian Ice Sheet: A Stratigraphic Study of the Pre-, Syn-, and Post-Glacial Deposits, South Australia
Last known address: Assistant Professor, Geology School of Natural Science, Trinity College, Dublin, IE


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Name: Samperton, Kyle Michael
Adviser: Blaire Schoene
Specialization: Geology
Defense Date: February 2, 2017
Thesis Title: Portrait of a Pluton: Magmatic Perspectives from the Mid-Crustal Bergell Intrusion, Central Alps
Last known address: Research Scientist
Keywords: Geochronology, geochemistry

Name: Santiago Ramos, Danielle P.
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: John A. Higgins
Specialization: Climate Science
Defense Date: October 10, 2019
Thesis Title: Potassium Cycling in Seawater and Teleosts: Insights from Stable Potassium Isotopes (41K/39K)
Last known address: Lecturer, Department of Geosciences, Princeton University (LinkedIn)
Keywords: Isotope geochemistry, seawater chemistry

Name: Schneider, Tapio
Adviser: Isaac Held
Specialization: Climate Science
Defense Date: January 2001
Thesis Title: Structural Analyses of Climate Data
Last known address: Theodore Y. Wu Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering, Caltech, Pasadena, CA

Name: Schoenitz, Mirko
Adviser: Alexandra Navrotsky (University of California, Davis)
Specialization: Geochemistry, Geophysics
Defense Date: September 2001
Thesis Title: High-Pressure Mineralogy and Thermodynamics in the System CaO-Al2O3-SiO2-H2O
Last known address: Associate Research Professor, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ

Name: Schuh, Terance
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: Frederik Simons
Specialization: Geophysics
Defense Date: May 2022, MS
Thesis Title: U-CORS: An Underwater Continuously Operating Reference Station to Facilitate Seafloor Geodesy
Last known address: Data Scientist, Radwell International (LinkedIn)
Keyword: Geodesy

Name: Schultz, Patrick
Adviser: Jorge Sarmiento
Specialization: Climate Science
Defense Date: October 2008
Thesis Title: Research the impact of climate change on ocean ecosystems using global climate models and satellite remote sensing data
Last known address: General Manager, Veolia North America, New York, NY

Name: Shi, Dalin
Adviser: François M. M. Morel
Specialization: Geochemistry
Defense Date: June 30, 2011
Thesis Title: Effects of Ocean Acidification on Iron Availability and Requirements in Marine Phytoplankton
Last known address: XMU Chair Professor, State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, Xiamen University, Xiamen, CN (Website)

Name: Shim, Sang-Heon
Adviser: Thomas S. Duffy
Specialization: Geophysics
Defense Date: June 2001
Thesis Title: Stability, Crystal Structure, and Equation of State of Silicate Perovskites
in the Earth’s Lower Mantle
Last known address: Associate Professor, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ

Name: Shudofsky, Gordon
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: F. A. Dahlen
Specialization: Geophysics
Defense Date: September 1984
Thesis Title: Source Mechanisms and Focal Depths of East African Earthquakes and Rayleigh Wave Phase Velocities in Africa
Last known address: Independent Consultant, Eindhoven, NL

Name: Skerlec, Grant
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: Robert Hargreaves, John Suppe
Specialization: Geology
Defense Date: 1979
Thesis Title: Geology of the Acarigua Region, Western Venezuela
Last known address: Head, Seals International (Website)

Name: Sigloch, Karin
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: Guust Nolet
Specialization: Geophysics
Defense Date: March 2008
Thesis Title: Finite-frequency body-wave tomography
Last known address: Research Director, CNRS & Chaire d'Excellence Université Côte d'Azur, Sophia Antipolis, France

Name: Silver, Bianca J.
Adviser: Tullis C. Onstott
Specialization: Geochemistry
Defense Date: April 2008
Thesis Title: The Nutritional and Energetic Constraints on Life in the Deep Biosphere of South Africa
Last known address: Science Teacher, South Orange Maplewood School District, South Orange Village, New Jersey (LinkedIn)

Name: Simon, Joel D.
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: Frederik J. Simons
Specialization: Geophysics
Defense Date: May 11, 2020
Thesis Title: Recording Earthquakes in the Oceans for Global Seismic Tomography by Freely Drifting Robots
Last known address: Postdoctoral Researcher, Princeton University. Director of Data Services, EarthScope-Oceans (ESO).

Name: Sisson, Virginia 
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: Lincoln S. Hollister
Specialization: Geology
Defense Date: January 1985
Thesis Title: Contact metamorphism associated with the Ponder pluton, Coast Plutonic Complex, British Columbia
Last known address: Instructional Professor, The Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Houston, Houston, TX (Website)

Name: Smith, James
Adviser: Jeroen Tromp
Specialization: Geophysics
Defense Date: January 28, 2019
Thesis Title: Seismic Imaging of Underground Tunnels Using Full Waveform Inversion
Last known address: University of Bologna

Name: Smith, Martin
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: F. A. Dahlen, Robert A. Phinney, Jason Morgan
Specialization: Geophysics
Defense Date: April 1974
Thesis Title: Normal Modes of a Rotating Slightly-elliptical Earth
Last known address: Retired from New England Research

Name: Song, Chao
Adviser: Allan M. Rubin
Specialization: Geophysics
Defense Date: September 27, 2024
Thesis Title: Investigating the Physical Mechanism of Low-Frequency Earthquakes Through Seismological Observations

Name: Speziale, Sergio
Adviser: Thomas S. Duffy
Specialization: Geophysics
Defense Date: September 2003
Thesis Title: Elastic Properties of Earth Materials
Last known address: Scientist, GeoForschungsZentrum, Potsdam, Germany

Name: Stackhouse, Brandon
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: Tullis C. Onstott
Specialization: Geochemistry
Defense Date: January 15, 2016
Thesis Title: The Effects of Physical and Biogeochemical Changes on Carbon Emissions from Mineral Cryosols from the Canadian Arctic
Last known address: Engagement Manager / Solution Leader at McKinsey & Company, Houston, TX (LinkedIn)

Name: Stan, Camelia
Adviser: Thomas S. Duffy
Specialization: Geophysics
Defense Date: April 25, 2016
Thesis Title: High-pressure Studies of Analogs with Applications to Materials Science and Geoscience
Last known address: Staff Scientist, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Name: Stoll, Heather
Adviser: Daniel P. Schrag (Harvard), François M. M. Morel
Specialization: Geochemistry
Defense Date: June 1998
Thesis Title: Strontium Geochemistry in the Ocean: Records of Past Climate and Sea Level Changes
Last known address: Professor of Climate Geology, ETH Zürich, Zürich, SW

Name: Stowell, Harold
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: Lincoln S. Hollister
Specialization: Geophysics
Defense Date: 1987
Thesis Title: Sphalerite geobarometry in metamorphic rocks and the tectonic history of the Coast Ranges near Holkham Bay, southeastern Alaska
Last known address: Professor of Geology, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL (Website)
Keywords: Metamorphic petrology, geochronology

Name: Sun, Xin
Adviser: Bess B. Ward
Specialization: Environmental Science
Defense Date: September 9, 2020
Thesis Title: New Processes and Microbes in the Marine Nitrogen Cycle
Last known address: Hutchinson Postdoc Fellow, Yale University, New Haven, CT (Website)

Name: Suntharalingam, Parvadha
Adviser: Jorge Sarmiento
Specialization: Climate Science
Graduation Date: January 1997
Thesis Title: Modeling the Global Nitrous Oxide Distribution
Last known address: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Name: Suwa, Makoto
Adviser: Michael L. Bender
Specialization: Geochemistry
Defense Date: April 2007
Thesis Title: Chronologies for Ice Cores Constrained by their Gas Records and their Implications for Climate History for the Past 400,000 Years
Last known address: Astronaut Candidate, JAXA: Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan (LinkedIn)

Name: Swade, Lucas
Adviser: Jeroen Tromp
Specialization: Geophysics
Defense Date: October 21, 2024
Thesis Title: Global Centroid Moment Tensor Inversion in a Heterogeneous Earth
Last known address: Research Computing, Princeton University

Name: Swanson-Hysell, Nicholas L.
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: Adam C. Maloof
Specialization: Geology
Defense Date: September 2011
Thesis Title: Stratigraphic Records of Paleogeography and Global Change from Two Late Proterozoic Basins
Last known address: Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley, CA  (Website)


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Name: Tam, Chi-Yang
Adviser: Gabriel Lau
Specialization: Climate Science
Defense Date: January 2004
Thesis Title: The Impact of ENSO on Tropical and Extratropical Atmospheric Variability on Intraseasonal and Synoptic Time Scales as Inferred from Observations and GMC Simulations
Last known address: Assistant Professor, Earth System Science Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HKG

Name: Tate, Garrett W.
Adviser: Nadine McQuarrie
Specialization: Geophysics
Defense Date: July 25, 2014
Thesis Title: Structural Deformation, Exhumation and Uplift of the Timor Fold-Thrust Belt
Last known address: Research Assistant Professor and Senior Lecturer, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Vanderbilt University, TN

Name: Tian, Yue
Adviser: Guust Nolet
Specialization: Geophysics
Defense Date: February 2010
Thesis Title: Multiple-Frequency Tomography with Shear Waves and Love Waves
Last known address: Geophysicist, Chevron, Houston, TX

Name: Tobgay, Tobgay
Adviser: Nadine McQuarrie
Specialization: Geophysics
Defense Date: December 2011
Thesis Title: Tectonics, Structure, and Metamorphic Evolution of the Himalayan Fold-Thrust Belt, Western Bhutan
Last known address: Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Texas, Department of Geological Sciences, El Paso, TX

Name: Tortell, Philippe
Adviser: François M. M. Morel
Specialization: Geochemistry
Defense Date: June 2001
Thesis Title: Evolutionary and Ecological Perspectives on Carbon Acquisition in Phytoplankton
Last known address: Professor, Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, CA

Name: Tracey, John
Adviser: Bess B. Ward
Specialization: Environmental Science
Month/Year Ph.D.: September 6, 2022
Thesis Title: Biogeochemistry of Nitrogen Cycling in Low O2 Waters From Oxygen Minimum Zones, Soda Lakes, to Cultures
Last known address: Postdoctoral Researcher, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, NY
Keywords: Chemical Oceanography, Environmental Microbiology
Topics: "Environmental Policy, Biogeochemistry, Graduate School Applications" (Ask Sheryl Robas for contact information)

Name: Tseng, Hsin-Yi
Adviser: Tullis C. Onstott
Specialization: Geochemistry
Month/Year Ph.D.: April 1997
Thesis Title: A tectonogenetic origin for the deep subsurface microorganisms of Taylorsville Basin,
Virginia: Thermal and fluid flow model constraints
Last known address: Technology Commercialization & IPL Advisor, Exxon, Houston, TX

Name: Tuck, David
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: David Crerar, Peter Jaffe
Specialization: Environmental Science
Month/Year Ph.D.: September 1992
Thesis Title: Immiscible displacement of residual tetrachloroethylene from saturated and unsaturated porous media
Last known address: (LinkedIn)
Keywords: Civil Engineering


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Name: van der Lee, Suzan
Adviser: Guust Nolet
Specialization: Geophysics
Defense Date: June 1996
Thesis Title: The Earth’s Upper Mantle: Its Structure beneath North America and the 660-km Discontinuity beneath Northern Europe
Last known address: Professor, Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL (Website)
KeywordsSeismology, data science

Name: Vierbuchen, Rick
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: William Bonini, John Suppe, W. Jason Morgan
Specialization: Geophysics
Defense Date: 1979
Thesis Title: Tectonics of Northeastern Venezuela and the Southeastern Caribbean Sea
Last known address: Retired, Director ExxonMobil International

Name: Vitart, Frederic
Adviser: J. Anderson
Specialization: Climate Science, Geophysics
Defense Date: January 1999
Thesis Title: Tropical Storm Interannual and Interdecadal Variability in an Ensemble of GCM Integrations
Last known address: Principal Scientist, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, Berkshire, England


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Name: Wang, Enning
Adviser: Allan M. Rubin
Specialization: Geophysics
Defense Date: June 24, 2013
Thesis Title: Bimaterial Effects on Earthquake Source Mechanics
Last known address: Geophysicist, Chevron, Houston, Texas

Name: Wang, Jue
Adviser: Thomas S. Duffy
Specialization: Geophysics
Defense Date: September 5, 2014
Thesis Title: Seismic Structure of the European Crust and Upper Mantle Based on Adjoint Tomography
Last known address: Engineer, PolarOnyx

Name: Wang, Xingchen (Tony)
Adviser: Daniel M. Sigman
Specialization: Geochemistry
Defense Date: April 5, 2016
Thesis Title: Nitrogen Isotopes in Scleractinian Corals: Modern Ocean Studies and Paleoceanographic Applications
Last known address: Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry and at Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA (Website)

Name: Wang, Zhen
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: F. A. Dahlen
Specialization: Geophysics
Defense Date: 1995
Thesis Title: Surface wave synthetic seismograms on a laterally heterogeneous earth
Keywords: Applied mathematics

Name: Wittenberg, Andrew
Adviser: Samuel G. Philander
Specialization: Climate Science
Defense Date: June 2002
Thesis Title: ENSO Response to Altered Climates
Last known address: Physical Scientist (NOAA Federal), Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL), Princeton, NJ

Name: Wyatt, Abigale
Adviser: Laure Resplandy
Specialization: Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
Defense Date: May 3, 2024
Thesis Title: Observation and model-based analyses of ocean biological carbon fluxes and ecosystem dynamics
Last known address: Postdoctoral Researcher, [C]Worthy, Boulder, CO. (LinkedIn)
Keywords: Ocean biogeochemistry, chemical oceanography, physical oceanography
Topics: “Carbon dioxide removal, mCDR”

Name: Wu, Wenbo
Adviser: Jessica C. E. Irving
Specialization: Geophysics
Defense Date: January 22, 2019
Thesis Title: Short Period Body Waves Unveil Deep Earth's Small-Scale Structure: From a Subducted Slab to the Core
Last known address: Caltech


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Name: Xu, Hongwu
Adviser: Peter J. Heaney
Specialization: Geochemistry
Defense Date: July 1998
Thesis Title: Structural Effects of Atomic Substitutions in Silicates
Last known address: Staff Scientist, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM

Name: Xu, Xiangtao
Adviser: David Medvigy
Specialization: Climate Science
Defense Date: October 2017
Thesis Title: Understanding Plant Water Stress and The Terrestrial Carbon Cycle in Tropical Ecosystems: The Roles of Plant Hydraulics, Phenology and Competition
Last known address: Assistant Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell, NY
Keywords: Ecology, modeling

Name: Xu, Yan
Adviser: François M. M. Morel
Specialization: Geochemistry
Graduation Date: February 2008
Thesis Title: Novel Metalloenzymes in Marine Phytoplankton: A Link Between Trace Elements and Macronutrients in the Oceans
Last known address: Research Associate, Stanford University


Y

Name: Yan, Yuzhen
Adviser: John A. Higgins
Specialization: Geology, Paleoclimate
Defense Date: October 28, 2019
Thesis Title: Climate Snapshots and Gas Records from Antarctic Blue Ice Records: Implications for the Mid-Pleistocene Transition and the Last Intreglacial
Last known address: Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Rice University, Houston, TX (Website)

Name: Yang, Huiyan
Adviser: Hiram Levy
Specialization: Geochemistry
Defense Date: September 2005
Thesis Title: The Modeling of Tropospheric Photochemistry and Black Carbon Aerosol: Examinations of Radiation, Transformation Concentrations and Emission Reduction Aspects
Last known address: Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Texas, El Paso, TX

Name: Yang, Mary
Adviser: David Crerar
Specialization: Geochemistry
Defense Date: December, 1987
Thesis Title: Raman Spectroscopic Investigations of Hydrothermal Solutions

Name: Yau, Audrey M.
Adviser: Michael L. Bender
Specialization: Geochemistry
Defense Date: September 17, 2014
Thesis Title: Extending Ice Core Records: Studies on the Trapped Air of Glacial Ice From Antarctica, Greenland, and the Canadian Arctic
Last known address: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV

Name: Yee, Donald
Adviser: François M. M. Morel
Specialization: Geochemistry
Defense Date: June 1996
Thesis Title: Cobalt Substitution for Zinc in Marine Phytoplankton
Last known address: Scientist, San Francisco Estuary Institute, San Francisco, CA

Name: Yuan, Yanhua
Advisor: Frederik J. Simons
Specialization: Geophysics
Defense Date:October 3, 2016
Thesis Title: Adjoint Seismic Tomography Using Full-Waveform and Envelope Inversion
Last known address: Senior Researcher, ExxonMobil, Clifton, NJ

Name: Yue, Li-Fan
Adviser: John Suppe
Specialization: Geochemisty
Defense Date: March 2007
Thesis Title: Active Structural Growth in Central Taiwan in Relationship to Large Earthquakes and Pore-Fluid Pressures
Last known address: Structural Geologist, Chevron, Houston, TX


Z

Name: Zhang, Yunqing
Adviser: Isaac Held
Specialization: Climate Science
Graduation Date: June 1997
Thesis Title: On the Mechanisms for the Mid-Winter Suppression of the Pacific Stormtrack
Last known address: Assistant Research Professors, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

Name: Zhao, Kewei
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: Satish C. Myneni
Specialization: Geochemistry
Graduation Date: December 20, 2023
Thesis Title: Calcium Dynamics in Marine Environments: Calcium Speciation in Seawater and Transformation of Amorphous Calcium Carbonates
Last known address: Postdoc at Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, Menlo Park, CA (LinkedIn)
Keywords: Inorganic chemistry

Name: Zhao, Li
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: F. A. Dahlen
Specialization: Geophysics
Graduation Date: 1995
Thesis Title: Studies on the Duality between Normal Modes and Body Waves
Last known address: Chair Professor, Peking University, Beijing, CN (Website)
Keywords: Seismology, Tomography

Name: Zhao, Wuling
Adviser: Jason Morgan
Specialization: Geophysics
Graduation Date: September 1985
Thesis Title: Mechanical studies on the Tibetan plateau, accretionary wedges and continental rifts
Last known address: Retired
Keywords:  Uplift of Tibetan Plateau, Fault block structures of China and east Asia

Name: Zhu, Hejun
Adviser: Jeroen Tromp
Specialization: Geophysics
Defense Date: September 10, 2013
Thesis Title: Seismic Structure of the European Crust and Upper Mantle Based on Adjoint Tomography
Last known address: Assistant Professor, University of Texas, Austin, TX

Name: Zhou, Ying
Adviser: F. A. Dahlen, Guust Nolet
Specialization: Geophysics
Defense Date: November 2004
Thesis Title: Surface Wave Propagation in Laterally Heterogeneous Media with Application to Global Upper-Mantle Tomography
Last known address: Associate Professor, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA

Name: Ziv, Alon
Adviser: Allan M. Rubin
Specialization: Geophysics
Defense Date: September 2001
Thesis Title: Application of Fracture Mechanics to Geophysical Problems
Last known address: Professor, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, IL