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2025
Name: Rio Baran
Email: [email protected]
Advisers: John A. Higgins, Blair Schoene
Specialization: Geology
Senior Thesis: Ca and Mg Isotopes in Natural Settings: From Redwood Leaves to Dinosaur Teeth
Last known address: (LinkedIn)
Name: Isabella Checa
Advisers: Michael Oppenheimer, Gabriel Vecchi
Specialization: Climate Science
Senior Thesis: ”Contra El Agua Nadie Puede“: Multi-Scale Approach To Assessing ENSO Precipitation Anomaly Local Impacts On Coastal Ecuador
Name: Clara Conatser
Advisers: Gabriel Vecchi, Gabriele Villarini (CEE)
Specialization: Climate Science
Senior Thesis: The Effect of the Madden-Julian Oscillation on the Probability of Rapid Intensification of Tropical Cyclones In the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean
Name: Celia Murphy-Braunstein
Adviser: Bess B. Ward
Specialization: Geochemistry
Senior Thesis: Nitrite Oxidation in Oxygen Minimum Zones: Mechanisms And Implications
Name: Lauren Owens
Advisers: Gabriele Villarini (CEE), Stephan A. Fueglistaler
Specialization: Climate Science
Senior Thesis: An assessment of the ability of global climate models to recreate observed trends in the frequency of flooding
Last known address: Hydrology/Water Resources Engineering MS student, Stanford University, San Francisco, CA (LinkedIn)
Name: Ketevan Shavdia
Adviser: John A. Higgins
Specialization: Geochemistry
Senior Thesis: Potassium Availability and Isotopic Fractionation in Arabidopsis thaliana: Exploring Nutrient Uptake Systems
Name: Zane Smith
Advisers: Lucas M. Harris (AOS), Gabriel Vecchi
Specialization: Climate Science
Senior Thesis: Regional Biases in Tornado Detection: Cross-Validation of SPC Reports and MRMS Azimuthal Shear
Name: Jaeda Woodruff
Adviser: Stephan A. Fueglistaler
Specialization: Climate Science
Senior Thesis: Deep Convection Lids: Origins and Implications for Monsoon Onset
2024
Name: Azmi, Farah
Advisers: Chris Greig, Stephan A. Fueglistaler
Specialization: Climate Science
Senior Thesis: Mind the (Adaptation) Gap: The Costs and Challenges of Climate Adaptation in Indonesia
Name: Ban, David
Advisers: Stephan A. Fueglistaler, V. Ramaswamy
Specialization: Climate Science
Senior Thesis: The Robustness of Lightning Proxies for Numerical Weather Prediction and Data Assimilation
Name: Crnkovic-Rubsamen, Laeo
Advisers: Gabriel A. Vecchi, Gabriele Villarini
Specialization: Climate Science
Senior Thesis: Poleward Migration of Observed and Simulated Tropical Cyclone Tracks in the Western Pacific
Name: Madsen, Heather L.
Adviser: John A. Higgins
Specialization: Geology, Geochemistry
Senior Thesis: Influence of Nutritional Environment on Plant Potassium and Organic Carbon Fractionation in Arabidopsis thaliana Plants
Name: Pinkerton, Anna
Advisers: Blair Schoene, Elizabeth Niespolo
Specialization: Geology
Senior Thesis: Geochemistry and U-PB Geochronology of Miocene and Cambrian Units at Mpala Research Center in Laikipia County, Kenya
Name: Shields, Hugh
Advisers: Jie Deng, Luk Deike
Specialization: Geophysics
Senior Thesis: Predicting Global Wave Conditions via Convolutional Neural Network
Name: Sontarp, Ethan J.
Advisers: , Jie Deng, Ian C. Bourg
Specialization: Geophysics
Senior Thesis: Electrical Double Layer Structuring of Alkali Metal Bromide Solutions at the Mica-Water Interface
Name: Villacorta, Sophia
Advisers: Curtis A. Deutsch, Daniel M. Sigman
Specialization: Geophysics
Senior Thesis: Oxygen Deficiency in the Eastern Tropical North Pacific Ocean Over Glacial Cycles: Evidence from Foraminifera-Bound Nitrogen Isotopes
2023
Name: Buchovecky, Benjamin (Ben)
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: Gabriel Vecchi
Specialization: Climate Science
Senior Thesis: Effect of the Plant Physiological Response to CO2 On Tropical Precipitation and the Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ)
Last known location: Research Scientist, Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA (LinkedIn)
Name: Rodrigues, Isabel
Adviser: John A. Higgins
Specialization: Geology, Paleoclimate
Senior Thesis: A Minimally-Invasive, On-Site Identification Method for Lead-Lined Water Service Lines: A Cast Study in Trenton, NJ
Last known location: Environmental Scientist, CDM Smith, Latham, NY (LinkedIn)
Name: Stoebner, Jacob
Adviser: Satish C. Myneni
Specialization: Geochemistry
Senior Thesis: The Four Seasons of Organic Carbon: How Agricultural Practices Impact Freshwater Dissolved Organic Matter
Last known location: Johns Hopkins University, Master’s of Biotechnology Enterprise and Entrepreneurship, Baltimore, MD
2022
Name: Baskind, Abigail
Email: [email protected]
Advisers: Graeme MacGilchrist, Daniel M. Sigman
Specialization: Geochemistry
Senior Thesis: The Role of Source Water Carbonate Chemistry in Setting Outgassing in The Southern Ocean in CHIP6 Models
Keywork: Chemical oceanography, ocean acidification
Last known address: Ph.D. Student at URI Graduate School of Oceanography, Narragansett, RI
Name: Cadley, Galen
Adviser: Bess B. Ward
Specialization: Geochemistry
Senior Thesis: Distribution and Environmental Preferences of Nitrite Oxidizing Bacteria in the ETNP
Name: Cryan, Samuel
Adviser: Bess B. Ward
Specialization: Geochemistry
Senior Thesis: Presence and Abundance of SAR11-Nar Genes in Oxygen Minimum Zones
Name: Kintzele, Jakob
Adviser: Allan M. Rubin
Specialization: Geology
Senior Thesis: Fracture Transport of Ocean Water in Europa’s Cooling Ice
Name: Koran, Isabel
Email: [email protected]
Advisers: Blair Schoene, Alyssa McKanna
Specialization: Geology
Senior Thesis: Iron Oxide-apatite Mineralization in the New Jersey Highlands: Apatite as Coupled Geochronometer and Petrogenetic Indicator
Last known address: Ph.D. student, UC Berkeley, CA
Keyword: Geochronology
Name: Szabo, Hanna
Adviser: Blair Schoene
Specialization: Geology
Senior Thesis: Potassium Fractionation Across Oscillatory Zoning in a K-spar Megacryst, Tuolumne Intrusive Complex CA
Name: Tamama, Yuri
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: Frederik J. Simons
Specialization: Geophysics
Senior Thesis: Tectonics and Seismicity of the Tajik Basin
Last known location: Ph.D. Student in Geophysics at Caltech, Pasadena, CA
Topics: "Careers in geophysics and seismology, happy to help with applications to internships, graduate programs, or fellowships"
2021
Name: Amatya, Amy
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: Frederik J. Simons
Specialization: Climate Science
Senior Thesis: Receiver Function Analysis of the Mantle Transition Zone Beneath Cape Verde
Last known location: High Meadows Fellow at Climate Central (LinkedIn)
Name: Chao, Diana
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: Michael Oppenheimer
Specialization: Climate Science
Senior Thesis: Modeling Past and Future Extreme Weather Correlations across North America
Last known location: Natural Hazards Analyst (Website)
Name: Conrad, Casey
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: Michael Oppenheimer
Specialization: Environmental Science
Senior Thesis: Bowling Green as the Achilles Heel: An Updated Analysis of New York City's Subway System in Response to Predicted Sea Level Rise
Last known location: Master of Science Student at University of California, Santa Barbara, CA (LinkedIn)
Keywords: Geochemistry
Name: Edmonsond, Stacey
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: Adam C. Maloof
Specialization: Geology
Senior Thesis: Were shallow carbonate geochemistry and production different during the last interglacial period?
Last known location: Ph.D. student, Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of Victoria, British Columbia, CA (LinkedIn)
Keywords: Paleoclimate, geochemistry
Name: Grant, Nina
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: Gabriel Vecchi
Specialization: Climate Science
Senior Thesis: Effects of Solar GeoEngineering on Indian Monsoon Precipitation Patterns
Last known location: Atmospheric Science Ph.D. Student, Rutgers University, NJ
Keywords: Geoengineering
Name: Kortum, Grace
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: Gabriel Vecchi
Specialization: Climate Science
Senior Thesis: On Weather as a Driver of Multidecadal Shifts in the Distribution of Tropical Cyclone Tracks
Last known location: Energy Research Analyst, The Brattle Group, New Haven, CT (LinkedIn)
Name: Lynch, Margaret
Adviser: Daniel M. Sigman
Specialization: Geochemistry, Paleoclimate
Senior Thesis: Glacial/Interglacial Changes in Diatom-Bound δ15N in the Atlantic Sector of the Antarctic Zone
Name: McMahon, Emma
Adviser: Gabriel Vecchi
Specialization: Climate Science
Senior Thesis: The Response of the Urban Heat Island to El Niño-Southern Oscillation
Name: Nathan, Levy
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: Bess B. Ward
Specialization: Atmospheric and Oceanic Studies
Senior Thesis: A dive into the Chesapeake Bay: an investigation of the parameters shaping nitrous oxide distribution
Last known location: Research Assistant at Rockefeller University, New York, NY (LinkedIn)
Name: Ueberroth, William
Adviser: Bess B. Ward
Specialization: Geochemistry
Senior Thesis: Environmental Controls on N2O Concentration and Emissions in Global Estuaries
Name: Underwood, Ona
Adviser: Daniel M. Sigman
Specialization: Geochemistry, Paleoclimate
Senior Thesis: Tracing Southern Ocean Nitrate Consumption from Nitrogen Isotopes in Foraminifera Over the Past 1.5 Million Years
Name: Wiggins, John (Wesley)
Adviser: Michael Oppenheimer
Specialization: Climate Science
Senior Thesis: Sea-Level Rise on the Eastern Shore of Maryland: Vulnerability, Adaptation, and Environmental Justice
Name: Zhang, Tyrone
Adviser: Frederik J. Simons
Specialization: Geophysics
Senior Thesis: Evaluating Forecasting Methods for Precipitation using Weather Data collected on top of Guyot Hall
2020
Name: Bartusek, Samuel
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: Stephan A. Fueglistaler, Gabriel Vecchi
Specialization: Climate Science
Senior Thesis: Turbulent influence on the Tropical Tropopause Layer: global convection-resolving model study
Last known location: Ph.D. student, Columbia University, New York, NY (LinkedIn)
Name: Copeland, Charles
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: Amilcare Porporato, Satish C. Myneni
Specialization: Climate Science
Senior Thesis: Dynamics of Coupled Soil Moisture and Plant Capacitance Systems from Daily to Interannual Scales
Last known location: Research Assistant at Salk Institute for Biological Studies (Harnessing Plants Initiative, Plant Phenotyping Team), La Jolla, CA (LinkedIn)
Keywords: Environmental sciences, ecohydrology
Name: Cox, Alex (CEE)
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: Adam C. Maloof
Specialization: Geology
Senior Thesis: Environmental Controls on the Lateral Distribution of Stromatolites
Last known location: Master's of Sciences, MS, Earth Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH (LinkedIn)
Keywords: Civil engineering, environmental engineering
Name: Hagge, Perrin
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: John A. Higgins
Specialization: Geochemistry
Senior Thesis: Ca and Mg Fractionation in C3 and C4 Grasses and Their Implications For Reconstructing Paleo Diets and Serving as Biosignatures
Last known location: Graduate Student
Keywords: Astrobiology
Topics: “Arctic biogeochemistry”
Name: O'Connor, Liam
Email: [email protected]
Advisers: Blair Schoene, Gerta Keller
Specialization: Geology
Senior Thesis: Pinpointing the provenance of Deccan zircons
Last known location: (LinkedIn)
Keywords: Geochronology, paleoclimate
Name: Rusley, Calvin
Adviser: Xinning Zhang
Specialization: Geochemistry
Senior Thesis: Effect of Fe Addition and Oxygen Exposure on Methane Release from Temperate Wetland Soil
Last known location: Graduate Student, Caltech, Pasadena, CA
Name: Wallace, Elizabeth
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: Bess B. Ward
Specialization: Geochemistry
Senior Thesis: Retention and loss of fixed nitrogen in a Pacific oxygen minimum zone
Name: Zielinski, Laurie
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: Thomas S. Duffy
Specialization: Geophysics
Senior Thesis: Evaluation of a Portable Sequentially Shifted Excitation Raman Spectrometer for Applications in Art and Archaeology
Last known location: Geophysicist at USGS
2019
Name: Ash, Elijah
Email: [email protected]
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: [email protected]
Advisers: Michael Oppenheimer, Gabriel Vecchi
Specialization: Climate Science
Senior Thesis: Attribution of U.S. Economic Losses Due to Tropical Cyclones
Last known location: Analyst, Neuberger Berman Insurance-Linked Strategies, New York, NY (LinkedIn)
Keywords: Climate change attribution, natural disasters
Name: Del Castillo, Enrique M.
Email: [email protected]
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: [email protected]
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, Baltimore, MD
Name: DuRussel, Katie L.
Email: [email protected]
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: [email protected]
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: Community Science Program Assistant, Mountain Studies Institute, Silverton, CO (LinkedIn)
Name: Fan, Angel S.
Email: [email protected]
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: [email protected]
Adviser: Adam C. Maloof
Specialization: Geology
Senior Thesis: Tributary Slopes Record Regional Climate and Constrain Branching Angles in U.S. River Networks
Last known location: Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Specialist at U.S. Forest Service (LinkedIn)
Keywords: Geomorphology, ecology
Name: Getraer, Benjamin
Email: [email protected]
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: Ph.D. Student, Department of Earth Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH (LinkedIn)
Name: Geyman, Emily C.
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: Adam C. Maloof
Specialization: Geology
Senior Thesis: How Do Shallow Carbonates Record Sea Level and Seawater Chemistry?
Last known location: Ph.D. Student, Caltech, Pasadena, CA (Website)
Name: Martin, Jake
Email: [email protected]
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: [email protected]
Adviser: Satish C. Myneni
Specialization: Geochemistry
Senior Thesis: Environmental Factors Influencing the Formation of Organobromines in Coastal Soils
Name: Peterson, Kimberly A.
Email: [email protected]
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: Senior Associate, Renewables Consulting Group, Scientific and Technical Consulting, New York, NJ (LinkedIn)
Keyword: Environmental studies
Name: Tralie, James W.
Email: [email protected]
Advisers: Frederik J. Simons, Gabriel Vecchi, 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: Senior Producer and Animator, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Aerospace (Website)
Keywords: Atmospheric science, seismology
Name: Walsh, Keeley M.
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: Laure Resplandy
Specialization: Climate Science
Senior Thesis: Primary Productivity in the Gulf of Alaska in a HighResolution Global Climate Model
2018
Name: Atkinson, Will
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: Satish C. Myneni
Specialization: Geochemistry
Senior Thesis: The Role of Soil Minerals in Terrestrial Carbon Storage: Linking Field and Lab Studies with Complimentary Spectroscopy Methods
Last known location: Associate for Executive Research Project (LinkedIn)
Topic: “Happy to chat about careers in climate solutions! Or share stories about related topics.”
Name: Martocello, Donald
Email: [email protected]
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 Chemical 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: [email protected]
Adviser: Blair Schoene
Specialization: Geology
Senior Thesis: A Deterministic Approach to Geochemical Stratigraphy
Last known location: Graduate Studies, MIT, Cambridge, MA
Keywords: Computer science, probability
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, Salt Lake City, UT (LinkedIn)
Name: Tandy, Hannah T.
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: Gerta Keller
Specialization: Paleoclimate
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 Student in Geochemistry at UCLA (Website)
Keywords: Geochemistry, oceanography
2017
Name: Bechler, Scott M.
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: Michael Oppenheimer
Specialization: Climate Science (AOS)
Senior Thesis: Exploring the Relationships Between Marine Cloud Brightening, the Walker Circulation, and Boreal Summer Asian Monsoon Precipitation
Last known location: Master’s student at Duke’s Nicholas School (LinkedIn)
Name: Begland, Katherine (Kate) M.
Email: [email protected]
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, Houston, TX (Website)
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: [email protected]
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: Ph.D. Student at Columbia University, New York, NY (LinkedIn)
Keyword: Geochemistry
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 (LinkedIn)
Name: Santi, Lauren M.
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: John A. Higgins
Specialization: Geochemistry
Senior Thesis: A Calcium and Strontium Analysis of Shark Teeth to Constrain Past Ocean Chemistry
Last known location: Geologist at GSI Environmental Inc., Broomfield, CO (LinkedIn)
Keywords: Geology, paleoclimate
Topics: "Industry, environmental consulting"
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, NC
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, Chicago, IL (LinkedIn)
Name: Tasistro-Hart, Adrian
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: Adam C. Maloof
Specialization: Geology
Senior Thesis: Astronomically Forced Hydrology of the Late Cretaceous Sub-Tropical Potosí Basin
Last known location: Ph.D. Student at University of California, Santa Barbara, CA (Website)
Name: Van Brummen, Anna C.
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: Frederik J. Simons
Specialization: Geophysics
Senior Thesis: Calibration and Noise Characterization of a Newly Installed Seismometer at Princeton University
Last known location: Technical Sales Associate, Electro Optical Industries, Inc (LinkedIn)
Name: Van Cleve, William S.
Email: [email protected]
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: Manager at 8minute Solar Energy, Los Angeles, CA (LinkedIn)
Name: Yao, Vivian M.
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: Daniel M. Sigman
Specialization: Climate Science (AOS)
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: Doctor of Optometry, Atlanta, GA (LinkedIn)
Name: Yi, Young (Paul) R.
Email: [email protected]
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: Postdoctoral Research Associate at High Meadows Environmental Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
2016
Name: Barker, Ryan T.
Email: [email protected]
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, NY (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.
Email: [email protected]
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: Ph.D. student, University of Washington, School of Oceanography, Seattle, WA (Website)
Keywords: Oceanography, geochemistry
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: Ph.D. Student, The Fletcher School and the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, Tufts University, Medford, MA (Website, 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: [email protected]
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: [email protected]
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: Radiology Resident, Columbia University, New York, NY
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, NJ (LinkedIn)
Name: Liu, Weber
Email: [email protected]
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: [email protected]
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, NY (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, Seattle, WA (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, Seattle, WA
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 MD (LinkedIn)
Name: Taneja, Anjali
Email: [email protected]
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: [email protected]
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, NY (LinkedIn)
Name: West, Fiona M.
Email: [email protected]
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 (LinkedIn)
Name: Zarakas, Claire M.
Email: [email protected]
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/Research Assistant, University of Washington, Seattle, WA (Website)
Keywords: Biosphere-atmosphere Interactions, Carbon Cycle
2015
Name: Bolton, Eric D.
Email: [email protected]
Advisers: Paul Gauthier, David Medvigy
Specialization: Climate Science
Senior Thesis: Parameterizing the Kok Effect: How Light Inhibition of Respiration Affects Ecosystem Carbon Budget Predictions
Last known location: Machine Learning Engineer, New York, New York (LinkedIn)
Keywords: Computer science, journalism
Name: Bombieri, Leticia M.
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: Tullis C. Onstott
Specialization: Geochemistry
Senior Thesis: The Importance of Volcanic Rocks and Thin Sediments on Thermal Gradient
Last known location: Associate at Cometa (Variv Capital), United Kingdom (LinkedIn)
Name: Cannon, Joan L.
Email: [email protected]
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 (LinkedIn)
Name: Cheung, Tiffany W.
Email: [email protected]
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: Environmental Litigation Associate, Baker Botts LLP, Washington, DC (LinkedIn)
Keywords: Environmental studies, geochemistry
Name: Kemeny, Preston C.
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: [email protected]
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, MA
Name: McIntee, Sean P.
Email: [email protected]
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: Wolf, Martin (CBE)
Email: [email protected]
Advisers: Gerta Keller, Bess B. Ward
Specialization: Climate Science
Senior Thesis: No Nitrification, No NO3-? Nitrification as a Source of Regenerated Primary Production in the Epipelagic North Atlantic
Last known location: Science Policy, Congressional Staffer Positions (LinkedIn)
Keywords: Atmospheric chemistry, environmental policy
Name: Park, Yuem
Email: [email protected]
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: Data Scientist at KoBold Metals, Berkeley, CA (Website) (LinkedIn)
Topics: Data Science, Climate Technology
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: Data Engineer at Facebook, San Francisco, CA (LinkedIn)
Name: Bluher, Sarah E.
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: Blair Schoene
Specialization: Geology
Senior Thesis: An Integrated ChemoStratigraphic Approach to Understanding the Siluro-Devonian Positive Carbon Isotope Excursion
Last known location: Social Science Research Analyst at Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Baltimore, MD (LinkedIn)
Name: Ammouri (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, New York, NY (Linkedin)
Name: Ryan, Kathleen
Email: [email protected]
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: [email protected]
Adviser: Jorge Sarmiento
Specialization: Climate Science
Senior Thesis: Aerosols, Change Points, and the Evolving Land Carbon Sink
Last known location: Renewable Investments at The D. E. Shaw Group (LinkedIn)
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, OH (Linkedin)
Name: Southworth, Alan R.
Email: [email protected]
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: Full Time MBA, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, CA (LinkedIn)
Keywords: Sustainable Energy, Environmental Studies
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
Email: [email protected]
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: Associate at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, San Francisco, CA (Linkedin)
2013
Name: Budnick, Andrew S.
Advisers: David Medvigy, Adam C. Maloof
Specialization: Climate Science
Senior Thesis: Phosphorus Limitation and the Reduction of the Carbon Fertilization Effect in Tropical Ecosystems
Last known location: Senior Geoscientist, ExxonMobil, Spring, TX (LinkedIn)
Keyword: Public policy
Name: Burton, Nicholas M.
Adviser: Tullis C. Onstott
Specialization: Geochemistry
Senior Thesis: Temperature-Dependent Methanotrophy in High Arctic Permafrost: Implications for Global Warming
Name: Chen, Christine Y.
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: Adam C. Maloof
Specialization: Geology
Senior Thesis: Lake Bonneville's Tilted Shorelines Revisited: Implications for Late Pleistocene Climate
Last known location: O.K. Earl Postdoctoral Researcher, Division of Geological Sciences, Caltech, Pasadena, CA (LinkedIn)
Name: Eggers, Gabriel L.
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: Frederik J. Simons
Specialization: Geophysics
Senior Thesis: A Regionalized Maximum-Likelihood Estimation of the Spatial Structure of Venusian Topography
Last known location: Post-doctoral Fellow, Lunar and Planetary Institute/USRA, Houston, TX (LinkedIn)
Keyword: Planetary science, volcanology
Topics: "Summer research internships"
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 (LinkedIn)
Name: Kanno, Cynthia M.
Email: [email protected]
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: [email protected]
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, Princeton, NJ
Name: Rudnick, Lydia R.
Email: [email protected]
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: Program Manager, New Product Introduction at Impossible Foods, San Francisco, CA (LinkedIn)
Name: Shoenfelt Troein, Elizabeth M.
Email: [email protected]
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: Fellow at Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) Washington, District of Columbia (LinkedIn)
Keywords: Iron, dust, southern ocean, diatoms, productivity
Name: Trost, Emily V.
Email: [email protected]
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, NY
2012
Name: Abrams (Park), Garnet A.
Email: [email protected]
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: Senior Consultant, Guidehouse, Greater Salt Lake City, UT (LinkedIn)
Name: Coyle, Owen L.
Email: [email protected]
Advisers: Bess B. Ward, Jorge Sarmiento
Specialization: Geochemistry
Senior Thesis: Examining Benthic Nitrogen Dynamics Using a Whole Core Squeezer
Last known location: Teacher of Computer Science, Science, and Math at the Thacher School, Ojai, WA (LinkedIn)
Keywords: Oceanography, numerical modeling
Name: Furchtgott, Jeremy B.
Email: [email protected]
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: [email protected]
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: [email protected]
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
Keywords: Biogeochemsitry, atmospheric chemistry
Name: Nason, Sara L.
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: Satish C. Myneni
Specialization: Geochemistry
Senior Thesis: The Effects of Elevated Soil CO2 on Plant Uptake of Metals
Last known location: Research Scientist, Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station (Website)
Name: Nesbit, Jacquelyne N.
Email: [email protected]
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, UT
Name: Shonts, Steven J.
Email: [email protected]
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, NY (LinkedIn)
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, Ann Arbor, MI
2011
Name: Eddy, Michael P.
Email: [email protected]
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: Assistant Professor, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN (Website)
Name: McGinnis, Sean J. B.
Email: [email protected]
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, Edmonton, Alberta and Atmospheric Sciences Department, Montreal in Canada
Name: Myhrvold, Conor L.
Email: [email protected]
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, San Francisco, CA
Keywords: Geochemistry, paleoclimate
Name: Wang, Yifeng
Email: [email protected]
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: Business Unit CFO, Finance at the Kraft Heinz Company, Chicago, IL (LinkedIn)
Name: Xu, Nora L.
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: Michael L. Bender
Specialization: Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
Senior Thesis: Bio-optical Properties and Mixed Layer Net Community Production of Southern Ocean Phytoplankton
Last known location: Market Operations Manager, OhmConnect, Portland, OR (LinkedIn)
Keywords: Energy, electricity
Topic: “Energy, electricity, clean tech”
2010
Name: Dee, Sylvia
Email: [email protected]
Advisers: James Smith (CEVE), Greg van der Vink
Specialization: Climate Science
Senior Thesis: The Application of Multi-Variable Geospatial Analysis to an Environmentally Sustainable Reconstruction of Afghanistan
Last known location: Assistant Professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Rice University, Houston, TX (Website)
Keywords: Paleoclimate, hydrology
Name: Hamming, Carl A.
Email: [email protected]
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: Anaconda-Deer Lodge County Planning Director, Anaconda, MT
Name: Hepburn, Christopher R.
Email: [email protected]
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: [email protected]
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, NY (LinkedIn)
Name: Ryan, Darcie E.
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: François M. M. Morel
Specialization: Geochemistry
Senior Thesis: Trichodesmium Response to Ocean Acidification
Last known location: Earth scientist writer, Ph.D. in Oceanography from Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
2009
Name: Bernard, Rachel
Advisers: Jean Prevost
Specialization: Geology
Senior Thesis: The Risks and Behavior of Carbon Dioxide Leakage from Geologic Reservoirs
Last known location: Visiting Assistant Professor at Amherst College, Amherst, MA (Website)
Name: Wall, Meredith
Email: [email protected]
Advisers: Gregory van der Vink
Specialization: Environmental Science
Senior Thesis: Environmentally-Sustainable Poverty Reduction: Rural Road Development in Liberia
Last known location: Marketing Manager at Clif Bar and Company
Name: Millian, Christian C.
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: Gerta Keller
Specialization: Geology
Senior Thesis: A new record of environmental change in the Late Cretaceous from NE Brazil
Last known location: Commercial Lobsterman, Wells, ME
Topics: “Maine!”
2008
Name: Barnhart, Katy
Email: [email protected]
Advisers: Linc Hollister
Specialization: Geophysics
Senior Thesis: Metamorphism of Proterozoic Rocks in North Central New Mexico based on Quantitative Thermobarometry
Last known location: Research Civil Engineer at U.S. Geological Survey (Website)
Keywords: Geomorphology, civil engineering
Name: Chadwick, Jess
Email: [email protected]
Advisers: Linc Hollister
Specialization: Geology
Senior Thesis: Crustal extension as recorded in the metamorphic rocks of the Black Mountains, Death Valley, California
Last known location: Engineering Geologist, Bureau of Reclamation, Denver, CO (LinkedIn)
Topics: “Federal service jobs”
Name: Martin, Raleigh
Email: [email protected]
Advisers: James A. Smith, Satish C. Myneni
Specialization: Environmental Science
Senior Thesis: Urbanization, Aerosols, and Precipitation Modification in Beijing
Last known location: Program Director, National Science Foundation (LinkedIn)
2006
Name: Lesser, Ashley (CEE/GEO)
Advisers: Yin Lu (Julie) Young
Specialization: Geology
Senior Thesis: Failure Analysis of the London Avenue Canal in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina
Last known location: Environmental Quality Analyst, Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (Linkedin)
Topics: "environmental consulting, environmental regulation, contaminated site remediation, environmental restoration" (Contact on Linkedin)
2005
Name: Vermylen, John
Email: [email protected]
Advisers: Thomas S. Duffy
Specialization: Geophysics
Senior Thesis: The Thermoelastic Properties of Hematite with Implications for Galilean Satellite Interiors
Last known location: VP Operations, Banza, New York, NY (Linkedin)
Name: Smith, Laura
Advisers: John Suppe
Specialization: Geophysics
Senior Thesis: Active Deformation of the Jid Fault, Mongolian Altai
Last known location: Director, Antarctic Small boat tour company (Website)
Name: Zwillinger, Rachel
Email: [email protected]
Advisers: Satish C. Myneni
Specialization: Geochemistry
Senior Thesis: Speciation of iodine in soil using synchrotron x-rays
Last known location: Vice President for Water Policy, Repass-Rodgers Foundation, Watsonville, CA
2004
Name: Schweizer, Maia
Advisers: Gerta Keller, Daniel M. Sigman
Specialization: Geology
Senior Thesis: The Paleoenvironment and Trophic Structure of Eocene Lake Messel, Germany: A Stable Isotope Study
Last known location: Chief Commercial Officer, SunDrive Solar, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia (LinkedIn, Website)
Keywords: Astrobiology, paleontology, geobiology
2003
Name: Hakala, Alexandra J.
Adviser: Satish Myneni
Specialization: Environmental Science
Senior Thesis: The Geochemical Distribution and Speciation of Organobromines in Wetland Sediments
Last known location: Senior Fellow, Geologic and Environmental Systems at the U.S. Department of Energy National Energy Technology Laboratory (LinkedIn)
Keywords: Marine biogeochemical cycling, microbial ecosystem dynamics
Topic: “Summer research internships, National Laboratory-based career pathways”
Name: Jarrett, Andrew
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: John Suppe
Specialization: Geology
Senior Thesis: Detachments Folds: An Evaluation of Current Models Applied to the Yakeng Anticline, Western China and a Deep Water Structure, Off-Coast Angola
Last known location: Vice President - Exploration at Verdad Resources, Denver, Colorado (Linkedin)
Name: Levine, Naomi
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: Michael Bender
Specialization: Environmental Science
Senior Thesis: The δ18O of Dissolved O2 in Seawater:Implications for Ocean Respiration and Circulation
Last known location: Assistant Professor, Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA (Website)
Keywords: Marine biogeochemical cycling, microbial ecosystem dynamics
Name: Barrett, Anne-Marie T.
Adviser: Greg van der Vink
Specialization: Environmental Science
Senior Thesis: Natural Disasters: An Analysis of Disaster Trends in the United States: Frequency, Cost and Risk
Name: Shamberger, Patrick (CEE)
Adviser: Goost Nolet
Specialization: Geophysics
Senior Thesis: Interpreting the Amplitude of Seismic Body Waves
Name: Siebert, Asher B.
Advisers: Jorge Sarmiento, Alexey Federov.
Specialization: Climate Science
Senior Thesis: The response of ENSO to global warming
2001
Name: Adler, Jennifer
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: Thomas S. Duffy
Specialization: Geophysics
Senior Thesis: A High-Pressure Study of SrTiO3
Keywords: Physics, chemistry
2000
Name: Hadley, Owen
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: Jorge Sarmiento
Specialization: Climate Science
Senior Thesis: A Descriptive Study of Antarctic Intermediate Water in the Southern Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans
Last known location: Navigation Manager for Alaska and the Pacific Islands, NOAA Office of Coast Survey (LinkedIn)
Keywords: Physical oceanography
Topics: "NOAA, NOAA Commissioned Officer Corps, federal jobs, maritime industry"
Name: Sheffer (Wasserman), Abigail
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: Thomas S. Duffy
Specialization: Geochemistry
Senior Thesis: The Formation of Symplectic Lamellae in Nakhlite Martian Meteorites
Last known location: Senior Program Officer, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Washington, DC (LinkedIn)
1999
Name: Langin, William
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: W. Jason Morgan, Hans-Peter Bunge, John Suppe
Specialization: Geophysics
Senior Thesis: Volcanism in the Far Field of Subduction Zones
Last known location: Vice President Exploration - North America and Brazil at Shell, Houston, TX (LinkedIn)
Keywords: Geology, public policy
1998
Name: Albano, Sarah
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: William Bonini, Jim Smith
Specialization: Environmental Science
Senior Thesis: Sensing the Truth? Remote Sensing and Ground Truth of Mount Pinatubo Lahar Deposits
Last known location: Senior Consultant (LinkedIn)
Topics: “Environmental Consulting”
Name: Hoehler, Matthew
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: William Bonini, Jean H. Prévost, Georgios Deodatis
Specialization: Geological Engineering
Senior Thesis: The Effects of Canyon Topography on Ground Motion at Bixby Creek, California
Last known location: Research Structural Engineer, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), MD (LinkedIn)
Keywords: Engineering, structural
1997
Name: Faber, Joe
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: François M. Morel, Daniel M. Kammen
Specialization: Geology
Senior Thesis: The dissemination of photovoltaics in Kenya : a market characterization and industrial-ecological analysis of lead pollution
Last known location: Financial Services
Keywords: Environmental science, environmental policy
Name: Lindenberg, Karen
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: Guust Nolet
Specialization: Geology
Senior Thesis: Down the drain: a Ground Penetration Radar (GPR) survey of a trichloroethylene (TCE)-contaminated site in Camden County, New Jersey
Last known location: Senior Data Analyst (LinkedIn)
Topics: “Purchasing real estate in California (I'm also a realtor)”
1996
Name: Richardson, Eliza
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: Jason Morgan
Specialization: Geophysics
Senior Thesis: The effects of last squares inverse filters on data from the Southern Sierra passive array experiment
Last known location: Associate Professor, Penn State University, University Park, PA
1995
Name: Levine, Arielle
Adviser: Dan Schrag
Specialization: Environmental Science
Senior Thesis: The effects of El Nino on cash crop production in developing countries
Last known location: Professor, Department of Geography, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA
1994
Name: Cooper, Stacey
Adviser: Peter Heaney, Peter Jaffe
Specialization: Geochemistry
Senior Thesis: The effects of HTMA cations and water on montmorillonite: implications for hazardous waste disposal
Last known location: Health Assessor, Alaska Department of Health, Anchorage, AK
Keywords: Environmental science
Name: Kovatch, Cecily
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: Peter Jaffe
Specialization: Environmental Science
Senior Thesis: Comparison of Experimental and Computer-Modeled Flushing Times for Trichloroethylene-Contaminated Sands, Sandy Silts, and Clayey Silts
Last known location: Innovation Consultant, New York, NY (Website)
Name: Sax, Brian
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: Robert Phinney
Specialization: Geology
Senior Thesis: Study of a local earthquake cluster in the southern Sierra Nevada using small seismic arrays
1993
Name: Coburn, Philip
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: John Suppe, Jason Morgan
Specialization: Geology
Thesis Title: Rifting on Venus: Observations from Stereo Imagery and Implications of the Relationship Between Simple Rifts, Volcanic Rises, and Coronae on Venus
Last known address: High School Science Teacher (LinkedIn)
Name: Henderson, Todd M.
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: John Suppe, William Bonini
Specialization: Geology
Thesis Title: A Gravity and Structural Interpretation of the Los Angeles Basin, California
Last known address: Michael J. Marks Professor of Law, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Name: Peterson, Jamie
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: Cecilia MacLeod, Richard Yuretich, Peter Jaffe
Specialization: Geochemistry
Senior Thesis: Adsorption Isotherms of Mercury on Sediment from the Kirkwood-Cohansey Aquifer System
Last known location: Managing Counsel & Business Integrity Director at HNTB Corporation, Oakland, CA (LinkedIn)
Name: Shea, Daniel Powell
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: Robert Phinney
Specialization: Geophysics
Senior Thesis: Receiver function analysis of teleseismic P waves in southern California and the southern Sierra Nevadas
Last known location: Managing Director, Head of Energy, Fortress Investment Group, NY, NY
1992
Name: Albert, E. Jason
Adviser: William Bonini
Specialization: Geology
Senior Thesis: A tectonic interpretation of the eastern Beartooth Mountains, Montana and Wyoming
Name: Poggi, Sarah
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: Robert Hargraves
Specialization: Geology
Senior Thesis: Shattercones in the Beaverhead Valley Montana
Last known location: Maternal Fetal Medicine Physician
1991
Name: Budney, Sharon
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: Neil Lundberg
Specialization: Geology
Senior Thesis: Mineralogy of Mudstones from the Atrato Basin, Northwest Columbia and the Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica
1990
Name: Dejesus, Todd H.
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: William Bonini
Specialization: Geology
Senior Thesis: K/AR dating and Paleomagnetism
Last known location: Capital Projects and Grants Manager
Keyword: Aqueous geochemistry, environmental science
1988
Name: Anderman, Evan
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: William Bonini
Specialization: Environmental Science
Senior Thesis: A hydrologic study of the Maurice River Basin, New Jersey
Last known location: Photographer, Denver, CO. (Website)
Name: Hohmann, David J.
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: Kenneth Deffeyes, Lynn M. Hubbard (CEES)
Specialization: Environmental Science
Senior Thesis: Analysis of Indoor Radon and Geology of New Jersey
Last known location: Environmental Specialist 2, Ohio EPA Central District, Bexley, OH (Website)
Keywords: Geochemistry, science policy
1986
Name: Royer, Kendrick
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: William Bonini
Specialization: Geochemistry
Senior Thesis: Earthquake Contol and Legal Liability
Last known location: General Counsel, Aera Energy LLC, Los Angeles, CA (LinkedIn)
Keywords: Law
1985
Name: McCardell, Clay
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: Robert Hargraves
Specialization: Geology
Senior Thesis: An Experimental Approach to Pyroclastic Flow Modelling and Ash Loss within the Central Victoria (Australia) Cauldron Sequences
Last known location: President of Explorer Ventures Liveaboard Diving, Casper, WY (LinkedIn)
1984
Name: Fischman, Robert L.
Adviser: Frank Spera
Specialization: Environmental Science
Senior Thesis: A Study of a Peralkaline Ash-Flow Sequence, Gran Canaria
Last known location: George P. Smith, II Distinguished Professor of Law, Indiana University Maurer School of Law, Bloomington, IN
Name: Lovelace, Robert W.
Adviser: Frank Spera, Lincoln Hollister
Specialization: Geology
Senior Thesis: Origins of fluid and gas inclusions in mafic and ultramafic xenoliths from the Volcano Teneguia, La Palma, Canary Islands
Last known location: Capital International, Inc.
Name: Swearingen, Patrick
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: Ahmet S. Cakmak. F. Anthony Dahlen
Specialization: Geophysics
Senior Thesis: An Evaluation of Seismicity and Seismic Risk in the Northern North Sea
Last known location: Partner, Energy Trust Capital, Dallas, TX (Website)
Keywords: Civil & geological engineering
1983
Name: Brantley, Susan *87
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: David Crerar
Specialization: Geochemistry
Last known location: Distinguished Professor of Geosciences, Penn State, University Park, PA (Website)
1982
Name: Diaz, Arthur
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: Jason Morgan
Specialization: Geology
Senior Thesis: Magnetic Anomalies and Plate Tectonics of the Northeast Pacific Ocean
Last known location: Retired former CFO in the oil industry and at two private schools
Name: Furman, Tanya
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: Frank Spera, Linc Hollister
Specialization: Geochemistry
Senior Thesis: Origin of mafic enclaves in the Eagle Lake pluton, Sierra Nevada, USA
Last known location: Professor of Geosciences, Pennsylvania State University, State College PA
Topics: “grad school searches, work-life balance, administrative positions”
1981
Name: Fox, Lydia
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: William Bonini, Frank Spera
Specialization: Geochemistry
Senior Thesis: Compositional variations and implications of petrogenesis of the Kernville pluton, southern Sierra Nevada, California
Last known location: Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Research
Keyword: Civil engineering
1979
Name: Hastings, David
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: David Crerar
Specialization: Geochemistry
Senior Thesis: Soluble vs.Particulate Transport of Iron and Aluminum by Streams in the New Jersey Pine Barrens
Last known location: Professor, retired (LinkedIn)
Keywords: Paleoclimate, chemical oceanography
1978
Name: Selverstone, Jane
Email: [email protected]
Advisers: Lincoln Hollister, Frank Spera
Specialization: Geochemistry
Senior Thesis: P-T-X Relationships in Cordierite Granulites from the Shewold Area, British Columbia
Last known location: Retired
Keyword: Metamorphic petrology, tectonics
1977
Name: Know, Glenn
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: David Crerar
Specialization: Geochemistry
Senior Thesis: Biogeochemistry of Bog Iron in the New Jersey Pine Barrens
Last known location: Associate Professor, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL (LinkedIn)
*Topics: “glacial erratics”
1976
Name: Perkins, James
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: Kenneth Deffeyes, Edith Brown Weiss (Georgetown Law), William Bonini
Specialization: Geology
Senior Thesis: An Attempt to Refine the Wilderness Decision-Making System
Last known location: Senior Counsel, Stoel Rives LLP (Website)
1975
Name: Hampson, Jack
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: Lincoln Hollister
Specialization: Climate Science
Senior Thesis: Petrographic examination of metamorphic rocks from the Morse Basin area, Prince Rupert-Skeena map area, British Columbia
Last known location: Project Director, Climate and Flood Risk, Tampa, FL (LinkedIn)
Keyword: Geophysics, geological oceanography
Topic: "Summer Internships with SNC-Lavalin"
Name: Tréhu, Anne
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: Jason Morgan
Specialization: Geophysics
Senior Thesis: Mother Earth Splits a Seam: a computer movie of the evolution of the Galapagos Spreading Center
Last known location: Professor, Oregon State University (Website)
1974
Name: Forde, Trevor
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: Kenneth Deffeyes
Specialization: Environmental Science
Senior Thesis: Aerial Photography of the Sourland Mountain and Rocky Hill diabase, New Jersey
Last known location: Flight Instructor/Captain 50 tons/Consultant (LinkedIn)
Keyword: Volcanoes, water PH
Topics: "Planes/Boats/Trains"
Name: Molnia, Carol
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: Lincoln Hollister, David Waldbaum
Specialization: Geology
Senior Thesis: Geology of East Mountain, Dutchess County, New York
Last known location: Retired from USGS; Coal Geologist
Keyword: Mining
Topics: “What geology was like 50 years ago, especially field mapping before GPS?”
1973
Name: Petty, Susan
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: David Kinsman
Specialization: Geology, Geochemistry
Senior Thesis: The hydrology and sedimentology of the Rock Ridge Lake drainage basin
Last known location: CTO AltaRock Energy, Senior Advisor Cyrq Energy, Seattle, WA (Website)
Keyword: Geohydrology, geochemistry, marine geology, microbiology, thermodynamics
Topics: “Internships, geothermal energy, geothermal energy jobs”
1972
Name: Logsdon, Mark
Email: [email protected]
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
Keywords: Hydrogeology, chemistry
1971
Name: Duncan, Robert
Email: [email protected]
Advisers: Robert Hargraves, Jason Morgan
Specialization: Geochemistry
Senior Thesis: Hotspots in the Atlantic
Last known location: Professor emeritus, Oregon State University
Keywords: Geophysics, geochronology
1968
Name: Gingerich, Philip
Email: [email protected]
Advisers: Glenn Jepsen, Grace Brush, Franklyn Van Houten, Alfred Fischer
Specialization: Geology
Senior Thesis: Pollen stratigraphy of the Polecat Bench Formation, Paleocene, Park County, Wyoming
Last known location: Professor Emeritus of Geological Sciences, Ecology and Evolution, and Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (Website)
Keyword: Biology
Name: Reynolds, Richard
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: Franklyn Van Houten
Specialization: Geology
Senior Thesis: Paleocurrents, petrology, and source area of the Addy quarztite (Cambrian), northeastern Washington
Last known location: Senior Scientist Emeritus USGS; Research Professor, Institute for Rock Magnetism, Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (Website)
Keyword: Paleoclimate, geophysics
1967
Name: Clermont, Kevin
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: Robert Phinney
Specialization: Geophysics
Senior Thesis: A Computer Program for Gravitational Attraction of Arbitrary Three-Dimensional Bodies
Last known location: Robert D. Ziff Professor of Law, Cornell Law School, Ithaca, NY (Website)
Name: John DeYoung
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: William Bonini, Jorma Kalliokoski
Specialization: Geology
Senior Thesis: Heavy minerals of the Cohansey Sand, the Glidden Company, Lakehurst, New Jersey
Last known location: Scientist Emeritus, U.S. Geological Survey
Keywords: Economic geology, mineral economics
1965
Name: Feiss, Paul
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: DIck Hargraves
Specialization: Geochemistry
Senior Thesis: Contact metamorphism at Ascutney Mountain, Windsor County, Vermont
Last known location: Retired
Name: Myers, Allen
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: Sheldon Judson
Specialization: Geology
Senior Thesis: The Damariscotta Oyster Shell Heaps: Some Further Considerations
Last known location: Semi-retired; UCC Pastor; reed organ restorer
Keywords: Oceanography, biogeology
1964
Name: Helz, George
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: H. Dick Holland
Specialization: Geochemistry
Senior Thesis: Solubility of Strontianite
Last known location: Professor emeritus, University of Maryland, College Park, MD (Website)
Keyword: Environomental chemistry
1962
Name: Huebner, J. Stephen
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: Heinrich D. Holland
Specialization: Geochemistry
Senior Thesis: Fluid Inclusion Studies on Sphalerite and Quartz from the Providencia Lead and Zinc Deposits, Zacatecas, Mexico
Last known location: Retired Research Geologist, United States Geological Survey
Keywords: Experimental petrology, mineral physics
Name: Dunne, Michael
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: William Bonini
Specialization: Geophysics
Senior Thesis: Study of Seismic Shear Waves & Wave Amplitudes in the Gulf of Maine
Last known location: Retired
Keyword: Astrophysics
Name: French, James
Email: [email protected]
Adviser: William Bonini
Specialization: Geology
Senior Thesis: The Geology in the Vicinity of Gualapu, The Guahira Peninsula, Colombia
Last known location: Vice Chairman, Dunn Investment Company, Birmingham, AL