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2019
Name: Ash, Elijah
Email: elijah.ash1@gmail.com
Adviser: Jessica C. E. Irving
Specialization: Geophysics
Senior Thesis: Journey to the Not-So-Center of the Earth: Possible Seismic Velocity Anomaly in the Outer-Core Tangent Cylinder
Last known location: Continuing education
Name: Burdick, Jack R. M.
Email: jrmburdick@gmail.com
Adviser: Gabriel Vecchi
Specialization: Climate Science
Senior Thesis: Attribution of U.S. Economic Losses Due to Tropical Cyclones
Name: Del Castillo, Enrique M.
Email: quique0099@gmail.com
Adviser: Blair Schoene
Specialization: Geology
Senior Thesis: A Numerical and Field-Data Evaluation of the Critical Taper Model for Orogenic Wedge Stability
Last known location: Continuing education
Name: Duffey, Kyle
Email: kduffey2215@gmail.com
Adviser: Thomas S. Duffy
Specialization: Geophysics
Senior Thesis: Raman Spectroscopy of Near-Endmember Tourmalines Dravite and Magnesio-Foitite to 24 GPa
Last known location: Baltimore Chesapeake Bay Outward Bound School
Name: DuRussel, Katie L.
Email: katiedurussel@gmail.com
Adviser: Bess B. Ward
Specialization: Geochemistry
Senior Thesis: Estimating Rates of Anaerobic Nitrite Oxidation in the Eastern Tropical North Pacific Oxygen Minimum Zone Through Incubation Experiments
Name: Eyster, Artemis M.
Email: artemiseyster@gmail.com
Adviser: Gabriel Vecchi
Specialization: Climate Science
Senior Thesis: Lianas, Arrested Succession, and Decreased Carbon Storage: Examining the Links Between Topography, Liana Density, and the Persistence of Low-Canopy Areas
Last known location: Conserve School K-12, Land O' Lakes, Wisconsin, United States of America
Name: Fan, Angel S.
Email: kikki.fan@gmail.com
Adviser: Jeroen Trump
Specialization: Geophysics
Senior Thesis: The Effect of Geometries in Curved-Crease Origami Patterned Surfaces on the Acoustics of Spaces
Last known location: Continuing education, Animation and Video Game Development
Name: Getraer, Alec
Email: agetraer@gmail.com
Adviser: Adam C. Maloof
Specialization: Geology
Senior Thesis: Tributary Slopes Record Regional Climate and Constrain Brnaching Angles in U.S. River Networks
Name: Getraer, Benjamin
Email: benjamingetraer@gmail.com
Adviser: Laure Resplandy
Specialization: Climate Science
Senior Thesis: Comparison of GRACE Derived Greenland Mass Wasting To Near Surface Temperature from MERRA-2 Reanalysis
Last known location: USDA Forest Service, Government, Local, State & Federal, Environmental / Sustainability Mgmt
Name: Geyman, Emily C.
Email: emily.geyman1@gmail.com
Adviser: Adam C. Maloof
Specialization: Geology
Senior Thesis: How Do Shallow Carbonates Record Sea Level and Seawater Chemistry?
Last known location: Continuing education, University Center in Svalbard, Masters
Name: Martin, Jake
Email: jakemartin712@gmail.com
Adviser: Laure Resplandy
Specialization: Climate Science
Senior Thesis: An Extreme Value Analysis (EVA) of Extreme Sea-Level (ESL) Events in Hawaii to Evaluate the Hawaii Sea-Level Rise Vulnerability and Adaptation Report
Name: Peng, SiSi (LiQian)
Email: liqianp@gmail.com
Adviser: Satish C. Myneni
Specialization: Geochemistry
Senior Thesis: Environmental Factors Influencing the Formation of Organobromines in Coastal Soils
Name: Peterson, Kimberly A.
Email: kipeterson1501@gmail.com
Adviser: Stephan A. Fueglistaler
Specialization: Climate Science
Senior Thesis: Contributions of Overshooting Convection Over the South Asian Monsoon Region to Stratospheric Water Vapor
Last known location: Renewables Consulting Group, Scientific and Technical Consulting
Name: Tralie, James W.
Email: james.tralie@gmail.com
Adviser: Jessica C. E. Irving
Specialization: Geophysics
Senior Thesis: Seismological Analysis of the Mohorovičić and Mantle Discontinuities Below Cape Verde Using Receiver Functions
Last known location: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Aerospace
Name: Walsh, Keeley M.
Email: keelswalshy@gmail.com
Adviser: Laure Resplandy
Specialization: Climate Science
Senior Thesis: Primary Productivity in the Gulf of Alaska in a HighResolution Global Climate Model
2018
Name: Martocello, Donald
Email: donaldem@mit.edu
Adviser: François M. M. Morel
Specialization: Geochemistry
Senior Thesis: H-Aquil: A Chemically Defined Cell Culture Medium for Trace Metal Studies in Vibrios and Other Marine Heterotrophic Bacteria
Last known location: Graduate Studies, MIT-WHOI Joint Program in Chemial Oceanography
Name: McCabe, Erin A.
Adviser: Laure Resplandy
Specialization: Climate Science
Senior Thesis: Mesoscale Processes' Effects on Spatial and Temporal Variability in the Ocean's Biological Carbon Pump
Last known location: Contractor at US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), New York, NY (Linkedin)
Name: McKenna, Shayne P.
Adviser: Thomas S. Duffy
Specialization: Geophysics
Senior Thesis: An Analysis of In Situ X-Ray Diffraction of SiO2 Under Shock Compression
Last known location: Barnstable/Yarmouth, MA (LinkedIn)
Name: Murray, Joshua
Email: joshmurr@mit.edu
Adviser: Blair Schoene
Specialization: Geology
Senior Thesis: A Deterministic Approach to Geochemical Stratigraphy
Last known location: Graduate Studies, MIT
Name: Ogilby, Henry M.
Adviser: Bess B. Ward
Specialization: Geochemistry
Senior Thesis: The Role of Encapsulin Nanocompartments in Anaerobic Ammonium Oxidation
Last known location: Global Data Operations Associate at Flexport, San Francisco, CA (LinkedIn)
Name: Rinaldi, Nicole E.
Adviser: Daniel M. Sigman
Specialization: Geochemistry, Paleoclimate
Senior Thesis: A Ground-Truthing Study of the Nitrogen Isotopic Composition of Enamel Bound Organic Matter in Modern Bison Teeth
Last known location: Graduate Studies, University of Utah (LinkedIn)
Name: Tandy, Hannah T.
Email: hantan1234@gmail.com
Adviser: Gerta Keller
Specialization: Geology
Senior Thesis: Evaluating Carbon and Climate Sensitivities of the NOAA/GFDL Earth System Model ESM2Mb to Forcing Perturbations during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum
Last known location: Graduate Studies, Stanford University
2017
Name: Bechler, Scott M.
Email: smbechler@gmail.com
Adviser: Michael Oppenheimer
Specialization: Climate Science
Senior Thesis: Exploring the Relationships Between Marine Cloud Brightening, the Walker Circulation, and Boreal Summer Asian Monsoon Precipitation
Last known location: Fulbright Fellowship, English Teaching Assistant in Malaysia
Name: Begland, Katherine (Kate) M.
Email: klb@rice.edu
Adviser: Jessica C. E. Irving
Specialization: Geophysics
Senior Thesis: Weak Inner Core Anisotropy Along Polar Paths Under the Western Pacific Ocean
Last known location: Graduate Studies at Rice University, Department of Earth Studies
Name: Hulpach, Kenny M.
Adviser: Thomas S. Duffy
Specialization: Geophysics
Senior Thesis: Interior Structure of Jupiter's Satellite Io Based On Thermal Equation of State Data
Name: Ivanovich, Catherine (Casey)
Email: caseyivanovich@hotmail.com
Adviser: Satish C. Myneni
Specialization: Geochemistry
Senior Thesis: Uncovering the Sources of Elevated Arsenic in Classic Maya Human Remains: Implications from Antiquity to Modernity
Last known location: Climate Science Fellow (High Meadows Fellowship), Environmental Defense Fund, (non-profit) Washington, DC
Name: Kaiser, Christianese S.
Adviser: Tullis C. Onstott
Specialization: Geochemistry
Senior Thesis: Estimating Atmospheric Methane Emission by Mineral Cryosols in the Arctic Region using the Explicit High Affinity Methanotroph (XHAM) Model
Last known location: Taking a year off
Name: Mandelbaum, Sydney A.
Adviser: Stephan A. Fueglistaler
Specialization: Climate Science
Senior Thesis: Potential Sources of Hemispheric Energetic Asymmetry
Last known location: Data Analytics Assistant at Creative Artists Agency (LinkIn)
Name: Santi, Lauren M.
Email: lsanti215@gmail.com
Adviser: John A. Higgins
Specialization: Geochemistry
Senior Thesis: A Calcium and Strontium Analysis of Shark Teeth to Constrain Past Ocean Chemistry
Last known location: Graduate Studies at UCLA, Los Angeles
Name: Suriano, Jana M.
Adviser: Tullis C. Onstott
Specialization: Geochemistry
Senior Thesis: Survival and metabolism of Methanosarcina soligelidi under simulated Martian subsurface conditions
Last known location: Cuba Sustainable Ecosystems Fellow, EDF, Raleigh, North Carolina
Name: Swadba, Kellie E.
Adviser: Thomas S. Duffy
Specialization: Geophysics
Senior Thesis: Wave Profile Analysis of the Behavior of SiO 2 under Shock Compression
Last known location: Graduate Student at University of Chicago (LinkedIn)
Name: Tasistro-Hart, Adrian
Adviser: Adam C. Maloof
Specialization: Geology
Senior Thesis: Astronomically Forced Hydrology of the Late Cretaceous Sub-Tropical Potosí Basin
Last known location: Graduate Studies, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland, Masters in Geophysics (LinkedIn)
Name: Van Brummen, Anna C.
Email: annava@student.ethz.ch
Adviser: Frederik J. Simons
Specialization: Geophysics
Senior Thesis: Calibration and Noise Characterization of a Newly Installed Seismometer at Princeton University
Last known location: Graduate Studies, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland, Masters in Geophysics
Name: Van Cleve, William S.
Email: will.van.cleve@gmail.com
Adviser: Michael Oppenheimer
Specialization: Climate Science
Senior Thesis: Modeling the relationship between climate and conflict: Nigerian intergroup conflict, Boko Haram violence and the Israel-Palestine Conflict
Last known location: Engineering Project Manager at Doosan GridTech, Seattle, Washington (LinkedIn)
Name: Yao, Vivian M.
Email: viviany1213@gmail.com
Adviser: Daniel M. Sigman
Specialization: Climate Science
Senior Thesis: Stable Isotopic Signatures in Symbiotic Bermudian Corals: A study of nutrient and light variability on δ15N in Porites astreoides at Bermuda
Last known location: Graduate Studies at UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Name: Yi, Young (Paul) R.
Adviser: Sonya A. Legg
Specialization: Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences
Senior Thesis: Numerical Investigation of the Dependence of Tidal Mixing by Wave—Wave Interactions on Topographic and Flow Parameters
Last known location: Graduate Studies at Stanford University, Dept. Civil & Environmental Engineering, Program in Environmental Fluid Mechanics and Hydrology
2016
Name: Barker, Ryan T.
Email: rtibarker@gmail.com
Adviser: Blair Schoene
Specialization: Geology
Senior Thesis: U-PB TIMS-TEA Geochronology and a New Chronostratigraphy for the Cañadón Asfalto Basin, Central Patagonia
Last known location: Research Analyst at Hammond Hanlon Camp LLC, New York (LinkedIn)
Name: Beveridge, Alyson K.
Adviser: Frederik J. Simons
Specialization: Geophysics
Senior Thesis: Measuring the Changing Mass of Glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau Using Time-Variable Gravity from the Grace Mission
Last known location: Princeton in Asia (Fellowship) / Impact Intern @ Planet, San Francisco, CA
Name: Campbell, Ethan C.
Adviser: Daniel M. Sigman
Specialization: Climate Sciences
Senior Thesis: Where Three Oceans Meet: Nitrate Isotope Measurements from the South Atlantic Along 34.5°S
Last known location: Graduate Studies, University of Washington, School of Oceanography, Seattle, WA
Name: Campion, Alison M.
Adviser: Adam C. Maloof
Specialization: Geology
Senior Thesis: Constraining the Timing and Amplitude of Proposed Glacioeustasy During the Late Paleozoic Ice Age with a Continuous Carbonate Record in Spain
Last known location: Kimetrica, Research Assistant, Denver, CO (LinkedIn)
Name: Christian, Shanna L.
Adviser: Michael Celia
Specialization: Geology, (CEE)
Senior Thesis: Abandoned Oil and Gas Wells in Pennsylvania: Well Attributes and Effective Permeability
Last known location: Operations Planning Analyst at Caerus Oil and Gas LLC, Denver, CO (LinkedIn)
Name: Dessy, Jay B.
Email: jbdessy@gmail.com
Adviser: Michael Oppenheimer
Specialization: Climate Science
Senior Thesis: Towards Quantifying the Risk of Compound Heat Wave Events: Projections of Frequency and Severity
Last known location: Strategy & Analytics Analyst at Deloitte Consulting, Washington DC (LinkedIn)
Name: Edwards, Collin R.
Email: collin.r.edwards@gmail.com
Adviser: Tullis C. Onstott
Specialization: Geochemistry
Senior Thesis: Mining Metagenomic Data to Understand the Lifestyle of Atmospheric Methane Oxidizing Bacteria in Antarctic Surface Soil
Last known location:Graduate Studies, University Unknown
Name: Forden, Atleigh G.
Adviser: Bess B. Ward
Specialization: Geochemistry
Senior Thesis: Reconstructing Fish Ecology from Otolith Geochemistry: Past and Present
Last known location: Associate at PDT Partners, Princeton, New Jersey, (LinkedIn)
Name: Liu, Weber
Email: weberliu@alumni.princeton.edu
Adviser: Frederik J. Simons
Specialization: Geophysics
Senior Thesis: Analysis of Martian Topography via a Parameterized Spectral Approach
Last known location: Environmental Sciences, (Industry) New York, NY
Name: Lowy, Rebecca A.
Email: ralowy@optonline.net
Adviser: Satish C. Myneni
Specialization: Geochemistry
Senior Thesis: Arsenic Adsorption on Fe-oxides mixed with Mn-oxides: Potential of Fe-Mn Nanocrystalline Coated Calcite Grains for Filtration of Arsenic Contaminated Drinking Water
Last known location: Paralegal, Weitz & Luxenberg PC, New York (LinkedIn)
Name: Myers, Sophia C.
Adviser: Bess B. Ward
Specialization: Geochemistry
Senior Thesis: An Inter-Trophic Examination of Nitrogen Isotopes In the North Atlantic
Last known location: Laboratory Technician, University of Washington (LinkedIn)
Name: O'Brien, Evan M.
Adviser: Jorge Sarmiento
Specialization: Climate Science
Senior Thesis: A Multiple Stressor Model of Climate Change Effects on Growth and Survival of Larval Crassostrea gigas
Last known location: Laboratory Technician, University of Washington
Name: Sarbanes, Anteneh A.
Adviser: Eric Wood
Specialization: Paleoclimate (CEE)
Senior Thesis: Long Term Drought Signature of Standardized Vegetation Index
Last known location: Data Analyst at D+R International, Baltimore Maryland (LinkedIn)
Name: Taneja, Anjali
Email: anjalitaneja94@gmail.com
Adviser: Michael Oppenheimer
Specialization: Climate Science
Senior Thesis: An Examination of Climate Variability and International Migration in Sub-Saharan Africa
Last known location: Graduate Student, Data Science, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, MD (LinkedIn)
Name: Vasques, Ethan M.
Email: ethanvasquez94@gmail.com
Adviser: Michael L. Bender
Specialization: Climate Science
Senior Thesis: A Physiological Approach to Determining Ecosystem Productivity in the Arctic
Last known location: Enterprise Operations Analyst (YEXT), New York, New York (LinkIn)
Name: West, Fiona M.
Email: fm.west673@gmail.com
Adviser: David Medvigy
Specialization: Climate Science
Senior Thesis: The Herbivory Cost of N2 Fixation and its Effect on the Abundance of Nitrogen Fixing Trees in a Tropical Forest
Last known location: GIS Developer at Blue Raster (LinkIn)
Name: Zarakas, Claire M.
Email: claire.zarakas@gmail.com
Adviser: David Medvigy
Specialization: Climate Science
Senior Thesis: Propagating Uncertainy from Plant Traits to Ecosystem Dynamics in a Dry Tropical Forest
Last known location: Climate Science Ph.D. Student and Research Assistant, University of Washington (LinkedIn)
2015
Name: Bolton, Eric D.
Email: eric.didier.bolton@gmail.com
Adviser: David Medvigy
Specialization: Climate Science
Senior Thesis: Parameterizing the Kok Effect: How Light Inhibition of Respiration Affects Ecosystem Carbon Budget Predictions
Last known location: Data Science Intern at The Wall Street Journal, New York, NY (LinkedIn)
Name: Bombieri, Leticia M.
Email: leticiabombieri18@gmail.com
Adviser: Tullis C. Onstott
Specialization: Geochemistry
Senior Thesis: The Importance of Volcanic Rocks and Thin Sediments on Thermal Gradient
Last known location: Senior Associate, PwC / Strategy &, part of the PwC network, United Kingdom (LinkedIn)
Name: Cannon, Joan L.
Email: joancannon94@gmail.com
Adviser: Daniel M. Sigman
Specialization: Climate Science, Paleoclimate
Senior Thesis: Studying Past Atmospheric CO2 Concentrations Using Mass Spectrometer Analysis of Foraminifera-Bound Organic Matter
Last known location: Marketing & Account Specialist at Heliolytics, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Name: Cheung, Tiffany W.
Email: tiffanycheung.hi@gmail.com
Adviser: François M. M. Morel
Specialization: Geochemistry
Senior Thesis: A Mechanistic Study of CO2 Fixation in Marine Diatoms: Effects of Diel Cycling, Temperature and Light Intensity on Thalassiosira Weissflogii
Last known location: Associate Intern, Baker Botts LLP (Washington DC)
Name: Kemeny, Preston C.
Email: pkemeny@caltech.edu
Adviser: Daniel M. Sigman
Specialization: Climate Science
Senior Thesis: Seasonality in the Antarctic Ocean: Late Summer Nitrate Isotope Measurements from the Pacific Sector and a Seasonal Model of the Upper Water Column
Last known location: Graduate Studies, Caltech, Pasadena, CA
Name: Klee, Trevor D.
Email: klevertree@gmail.com
Adviser: Blair Schoene
Specialization: Geology
Senior Thesis: Calculating Mass Balance Per Degree for the Aleutian Crust Using a Novel Method
Last known location: CEO at Trevor Klee, Tutor, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Name: McIntee, Sean P.
Email: sean.mcintee@pwc.com
Adviser: Daniel M. Sigman
Specialization: Climate Science
Senior Thesis: The Concentration and Isotopic Composition of Nitrate in the Water Column Along a Cross-Basin Transect of the North Atlantic Ocean
Last known location: Associate Healthcare Services, Strategy & part of the PwC network, New York, NY
Name: Park, Yuem
Adviser: Blair Schoene
Specialization: Geology
Senior Thesis: Constraining Deformation in the Skymo Lake Area of the North Cascades, WA: Implications for the Rapid Exhumation of Arc Middle Crust Along Strike-Slip Fault Systems
Last known location: Graduate Studies, University of California, Berkeley, Earth & Planetary Sciences
2014
Name: Beale, Andrea M.
Adviser: John A. Higgins
Specialization: Paleoclimate
Senior Thesis: Fluid Inclusions in Marine Halite as a Window into the MG Isotopic Composition of Past Oceans
Last known location: Software Engineering Student at Hackbright, San Francisco, CA
Name: Bluher, Sarah E.
Email: seb368@cornell.edu
Adviser: Blair Schoene
Specialization: Geology
Senior Thesis: An Integrated ChemoStratigraphic Approach to Understanding the Siluro-Devonian Positive Carbon Isotope Excursion
Last known location: Graduate Student, Cornell University, Neurobiology and Behavior, Ithaca, NY
Name: Conner, Charlotte E.
Adviser: Daniel M. Sigman
Specialization: Climate Science, Paleoclimate
Senior Thesis: Using 15N/14N in Diatom Fossils to Understand Changes in Surface Ocean Nutrient Dynamics 2.73 MA
Last known location: Private Equity Associate at KKR, Houston, TX (Linkedin)
Name: Lewis, Lauren A.
Adviser: Blair Schoene
Specialization: Geology
Senior Thesis: Using U-PB Geochronology to Constrain the Formation of a New Jersey Nelsonite
Last known location: Graduate Student, CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy, NY (Linkedin)
Name: Ryan, Kathleen McWilliams
Email: mcw.ryan@gmail.com
Adviser: Frederik J. Simons
Specialization: Geophysics
Senior Thesis: Precision and Accuracy of Global Positioning Augmentation Systems and their Application to Geoarchaeology
Last known location: Graduate Student in Catholic Theology, Washington, DC
Name: Serota, Nathan D.
Email: ndserota@gmail.com
Adviser: Jorge Sarmiento
Specialization: Climate Science
Senior Thesis: Aerosols, Change Points, and the Evolving Land Carbon Sink
Last known location: Senior Analyst at Lightsource BP, San Francisco, CA
Name: Shepherd, Robert D.
Adviser: John A. Higgins
Specialization: Geochemistry
Senior Thesis: Diagenesis in the Great Bahamas Bank: An Analysis of Mg Isotopes in the Sediment Cores from ODP Site 1003
Last known location: Mechanical Engineering Intern at Arconic, Columbus, Ohio (Linkedin)
Name: Southworth, Alan R.
Email: alan.southworth1@gmail.com
Adviser: David Medvigy
Specialization: Climate Science
Senior Thesis: Updates to Leaf Respiration Parameterization: Assessing the Impact of Light Inhibition, Leaf Expansion, and a Warming Scenario for Carbon Budget Modeling
Last known location: Portfolio Manager at GP Energy Management, New York, NY
Name: Sutjiawan, Djohan M.
Adviser: Thomas S. Duffy
Specialization: Geophysics
Senior Thesis: New Constraints on the size of Io's Core
Last known location: New York, NY
Name: Wang, Regina
Adviser: David Medvigy
Specialization: Climate Science
Senior Thesis: A species-specific approach to predicting the timing of deciduous leaf emergence in the United States
Last known location: J.D. Candidate at Yale Law School, New Haven, CT (Linkedin)
2013
Name: Budnick, Andrew S.
Adviser: David Medvigy
Specialization: Climate Science
Senior Thesis: Phosphorus Limitation and the Reduction of the Carbon Fertilization Effect in Tropical Ecosystems
Last known location: System analyst at U.S. Government, Jacksonville, Florida
Name: Burton, Nicholas M.
Email: nburton8813@gmail.com
Adviser: Tullis C. Onstott
Specialization: Geochemistry
Senior Thesis: Temperature-Dependent Methanotrophy in High Arctic Permafrost: Implications for Global Warming
Last known location: Business Manager at Capital One, Small Business Card Acquisitions, McLean, VA
Name: Chen, Christine Y.
Email: ccy@mit.edu
Adviser: Adam C. Maloof
Specialization: Geology
Senior Thesis: Lake Bonneville's Tilted Shorelines Revisited: Implications for Late Pleistocene Climate
Last known location: Ph.D. Student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Name: Eggers, Gabriel L.
Email: gleggers@alumni.princeton.edu
Adviser: Frederik J. Simons
Specialization: Geophysics
Senior Thesis: A Regionalized Maximum-Likelihood Estimation of the Spatial Structure of Venusian Topography
Last known location: Graduate Research & Teaching Assistant at Georgia Tech, (Linkin)
Name: Gronewold, Jeffrey D.
Adviser: Blair Schoene
Specialization: Geology
Senior Thesis: The Implications of Mafic Enclaves on Magmatic Differentiation and Pluton Emplacement: Geochronological and Geochemical Insights from the Bergell Intrusion, N. Italy
Last known location: Front End Developer at Workday, Boulder, CO
Name: Kanno, Cynthia M.
Email: cynthiakanno@gmail.com
Adviser: Satish C. Myneni
Specialization: Geochemistry
Senior Thesis: A Novel Apatite-Based Sorbent for Defluoridation: Synthesis and Sorption Characteristics of Nano-Micro Crystalline Apatite on Limestone
Last known location: Associate at McLane Environmental, LLC, Philadelphia, PA
Name: Mathabane, Nathan P.
Email: natethegreat120@gmail.com
Adviser: David Medvigy
Specialization: Climate Science
Senior Thesis: The Sensitivity of Western US Forest Carbon Budgets to Topography, Climate, and Disturbance Regimes
Last known location: Assistant Director Of Admissions at Princeton University
Name: Rudnick, Lydia R.
Email: rudnick.lydia@gmail.com
Adviser: Jorge Sarmiento
Specialization: Climate Science
Senior Thesis: Predicting Potential Geographic Distribution of Siganus Luridus and Siganus Rivulatus, Two Invasive Fish Species in the Mediterranean Sea
Last known location: Energy Analyst at Advanced Microgrid Solutions, San Francisco, CA
Name: Shoenfelt, Elizabeth M.
Email: emshoenfelt@alumni.princeton.edu
Adviser: Satish C. Myneni
Specialization: Geochemistry
Senior Thesis: The Nature of Reactive Thiols on Bacterial Cell Envelopes and their Reactivity with Aqueous HG2+
Last known location: Ph.D. Student at Columbia University, New York, New York
Name: Trost, Emily V.
Email: evtrost@gmail.com
Adviser: Gerta Keller
Specialization: Geology
Senior Thesis: High-Stress Conditions in Early Paleocene Benthic Foraminifera: Evidence from NW Atlantic ODP Site 1050C
Last known location: Associate at Point72, Financial Services, New York, New York
2012
Name: Abrams (Park), Garnet A.
Email: garnetabrams@gmail.com
Adviser: Stephan A. Fueglistaler
Specialization: Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
Senior Thesis: Distribution of Relative Humidity Observed by the VCSEL Hygrometer in the Tropical Troposphere, Interpreted Through Tracers
Last known location: Savage Services, Logistics and Supply Chain, Greater Salt Lake City
Name: Coyle, Owen L.
Email: owen.coyle.in.seattle@gmail.com
Adviser: Bess B. Ward
Specialization: Geochemistry
Senior Thesis: Examining Benthic Nitrogen Dynamics Using a Whole Core Squeezer
Last known location: Teaching Assistant, Afterschool Teacher, and Coach at The Evergreen School
Name: Furchtgott, Jeremy B.
Email: jeremyfurchtgott@gmail.com
Adviser: David Medvigy
Specialization: Climate Science
Senior Thesis: What Caused the Abrupt Increase in Net Global Land Carbon Uptake in 1989?
Last known location: Director at Baron Public Affairs, LLC, Washington D.C.
Name: Gobel, Amy R.
Email: amy.gobel@gmail.com
Adviser: Daniel M. Sigman
Specialization: Climate Science, Paleoclimate
Senior Thesis: Isotopic Evidence for Source Changes in Aerosol Nitrate Deposition in the North Atlantic
Last known location: Johnson & Johnson Vision, Strategy & Deployment Analyst, Jacksonville, FL
Name: Moch, Jonathan M.
Email: jmoch14@gmail.com
Adviser: David Medvigy
Specialization: Climate Science
Senior Thesis: Permafrost and Global Climate Change: Novel Models and Policy Implications
Last known location: Ph.D. Candidate at Harvard University, Graduate Research Fellow, Boston, MA
Name: Nason, Sara L.
Email: nason2@wisc.edu
Adviser: Satish C. Myneni
Specialization: Geochemistry
Senior Thesis: The Effects of Elevated Soil CO2 on Plant Uptake of Metals
Last known location: Environmental Chemist, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD
Name: Nesbit, Jacquelyne N.
Email: jnesbit@gmail.com
Adviser: Blair Schoene
Specialization: Geology
Senior Thesis: Calcite-Graphite Thermometry in the Southwestern most Central Metasedimentary Belt, Grenville Province, Southern Ontario
Last known location: Analyst, XM Value at Qualtrics, Provo, Utah
Name: Shonts, Steven J.
Email: steven.shonts@gmail.com
Adviser: David M. Medvigy
Specialization: Climate Science
Senior Thesis: Constrained Parameterization of the Duel Arhennius and Michaelis-Menton Model of Soil Carbon Respiration for a Central Amazonian Terra Firme Rainforest Site
Last known location: Senior Data Engineer, Solutions, dv01: Investor Tech, New York, New York
Name: Treibergs, Lija
Adviser: Daniel M. Sigman
Specialization: Climate Science
Senior Thesis: Testing the N Isotopes of Marine Particles as a Tool to Study Nitrogen Sources to Flow Cytometrically Sorted Phytoplankton in the Subtropical Ocean
Last known location: Senior Research Technician in Environmental Aquatic Geochemistry, Univ. of Michigan
2011
Name: Eddy, Michael P.
Email: meddy@princeton.edu
Adviser: Blair Schoene
Specialization: Geology
Senior Thesis: U-Pb Geochronology from the Pimple Hills near Ogdensburg, NJ: Implications for the Tectonic History of the Losee-Wanaque Composite Arc
Last known location: Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Lecturer at Princeton University, Geology
Name: McGinnis, Sean J. B.
Email: smcginni04@gmail.com
Adviser: Michael L. Bender
Specialization: Climate Science
Senior Thesis: Pushing the 123ka Barrier in Greenland: A Revisition in the Reconstruction of the Disturbed Section of GISP2/GRIP
Last known location: University of Alberta Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Department, Montreal
Name: Myhrvold, Conor L.
Email: conor.myhrvold@gmail.com
Adviser: Jeroen Tromp
Specialization: Geophysics
Senior Thesis: Global Effects of Seismic Wave Propagation from the Chicxulub Asteroid Impact
Last known location: "Uber, Engineering @ Uber | Tech Brand | Eng Blog | Nature | Wildlife San Francisco Bay Area"
Name: Wang, Yifeng
Email: yifeng.wang1@gmail.com
Adviser: Jeroen Tromp
Specialization: Geophysics
Senior Thesis: Geophysics: Imaging a Salt Dome in West Africa based on Spectral-Element and Adjoint Methods
Last known location: Associate Director, Finance at the Kraft Heinz Company, Chicago, IL
Name: Xu, Nora L.
Email: noralxu@gmail.com
Adviser: Michael L. Bender
Specialization: Climate Science
Senior Thesis: Bio-optical Properties and Mixed Layer Net Community Production of Southern Ocean Phytoplankton
Last known location: Analyst at Portland General Electric, Portland, Oregon Area
2010
Name: Hamming, Carl A.
Email: carlhamming@gmail.com
Adviser: Gerta Keller
Specialization: Geology
Senior Thesis: The Cretaceious-Tertiary (K-T) Boundary at Wadi Nukhul, Egypt: Planktic Foraminiferal Turnover and Environmental Changes
Last known location: Powell County Planner, Deer Lodge, Montana
Name: Hepburn, Christopher R.
Email: chepburn10@gmail.com
Adviser: Allan M. Rubin
Specialization: Geology
Senior Thesis: Dynamic vs. Static Triggering: An Evaluation of Aftershock Decay with Distance
Last known location: CFA, Associate at Tishman Speyer, London, UK
Name: Morse, Zachary M.
Email: zmorse11@gmail.com
Adviser: Adam C. Maloof
Specialization: Geology
Senior Thesis: Reinterpretation of the Elatina Rhythmite Fold Structures: Evidence for a Seasonal Slushball Earth and Giant Impact Lunar Formation ~4.4 Ga
Last known location: Trader at Ospraie Management, New York, New York
Name: Ryan, Darcie E.
Email: darcielittlebadger@gmail.com
Adviser: François M. M. Morel
Specialization: Geochemistry
Senior Thesis: Trichodesmium Response to Ocean Acidification
Last known location: Earth scientist writer, PhD in Oceanography from Texas A&M University
1990
Name: Dejesus, Todd H.
Email: toddster90@aol.com
Adviser: Tullis C. Onstott, Robert B. Hargraves
Specialization: Geology
Senior Thesis: 1.0 Ga paleomagnetism and ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar dating of the Amazonian Craton and implications to the assembly of Gondwana
Last known location: Capital Projects and Grants Manager
1972
Name: Logsdon, Mark
Email: mark.logsdon@sbcglobal.net
Adviser: H.D. Holland
Specialization: Geochemistry
Senior Thesis: Studies in the Plutonic Rocks of Eastern Pinal County, Arizona: Mineralogy, Petrology, Fluid Inclusions, and Geochemistry of Chlorine
Last known location: Principal Geochemist, Geochimica, Inc (Aptos, CA USA)