MASTERS THESES:
2025:
Dowling, Allison R.: "Analysis of Phosphate Grains Within the Asteroid (162173) Ryugu", J. Greenwood, Advisor
Greenless, Mary Clare: "The Alteration of Montmorillonite under Modern-Venus Conditions", M. Gilmore, Advisor
Rodriguez, Adelina: "Genomic and Environmental Insights into the Biogeography of the Western Blacknose Dace, Rhinichthys obtusus", B. Chernoff, Advisor
Speers, Elexis R.: "Mapping Tessera within Alpha Regio: Insights into Crater Ejecta and Tessera Terrain on Venus", M. Gilmore, Advisor
2024:
Avent, III, Wynnie M.: "Morphometric Analysis of Yardangs Surrounding Mead Crater on Venus", M. Gilmore, Advisor
Braunstein, Noah G.: "The Comparison of Mars Analogue Brines in Different Evaporation Settings", M. Gilmore, Advisor
Fenton-Samuels, Kelly A.: "Plio-Pleistocene Ice, Ocean, and Climate Interactions at Icebery Alley, Antarctica", S. OConnell, Advisor
Holguin-Caldera, Daniel: "A Comparative Morphological Analysis of the Genus Planoheterohelix across the Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway during Oceanic Anoxic Event 2", R. Bryant, Advisor
Smith, Bryton A.: "Fossil Evidence Suggests Contraction and Expansion of the Ginkgo Genome", D. Royer, Advisor
2023:
Deahn, Margaret C.: "A Geologic Map of the DAVINCI Probe Descent Imaging Corridor and Touchdown Zone: Alpha Regio, Venus", M. Gilmore, Advisor
Kennedy, Rebekah B.: "Bedrock Geology of the Crystalline Footwall of the Mesozoic Eastern Border Fault, Branford, Connecticut", P. Resor, Advisor
Otaola, Jenna L.: "Topohydrological Influences on Wildfire Severity in the American Southwest", H. Poulos, Advisor
Providence, Aquia: "An Analyis of Lower-Mid Pliocene Ice Sheet Dynamics as Recorded in the Sedimentary Record at IODP Site U1537, Scotia Sea", S. OConnell, Advisor
2022:
Davoren, Thomas F.: "Symplectic Chromite-Ulvöspinel-Pyroxene (CUSP) Inclusions in Apollo 12 Olivine Basalts" , J. Greenwood, Advisor
Stubbs, Katie A.: "Volatile (F, Cl, OH) Concentrations in Lunar Apatites and Britholites as a Measure of Lunar Magmatic Volatile Abundances", J. Varekamp, Advisor
2021:
Anee, Samina: "Evidence for Ice Covered West Antarctica during Late Pliocene/Early Pleistocene Transition", S. OConnell, Advisor.
Brumberger, Haley N.: "Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction of Paulina Lake (Newberry Volcano, OR)", E. Thomas, Advisor.
Tan, Yu Kai: "Out of their Shells: An Orphaned Freshwater Mussel Collection Viewed in 3D Illuminates Biogeography", E. Thomas, Advisor.
2020:
Cauley, Christina N.: "History of Hydrothermal Activity at Paulina Lake, Newberry Volcano, Oregon USA", J. Varekamp, Advisor.
2019:
Butrim, Matthew J.: "Investigating Leaf Economic Strategies Across the End‐Cretaceous Mass Extinction and the Eocene‐Oligocene Transition”, D. Royer, Advisor.
Perkins, Reid P.: "Using the Venus Crater Population to Constrain Tesserae Ages and Resurfacing", M. Gilmore, Advisor.
Wagner, S. Molly: "Venting of Volcanic Hg and CO2 through East Lake, Newberry Volcano, Oregon", J. Varekamp, Advisor.
2018:
Dudley, Jordyn-Marie: "Hydrogen in Eucrite, Angrite, and Ureilite Pyroxene: Implications for Water During the Planetesimal-Embryo Stage of Earth's Formation", J. Greenwood, Advisor.
Hossain, John: "The Effect of Reverse Fault Geometry on Slip Rate Estimates" , P. Resor, Advisor. Now Research Scientist at the New York City Department of Environmental Protection.
Luna, Melissa R.: "Climate Change During the Pliocene: Interpretations from Site 697, the Jane Basin, Weddell Sea, Antarctica", S. O'Connell, Advisor.
McKee, Melissa: "Evaluating the Assumptions of Two Methods for Reconstructing Temperature and CO2 from Fossil Leaves", D. Royer, Advisor. Now a high school educator at The Bronx Zoo.
2017:
Hill, Tessa J.: "Community Ecology of The Massasauga Provincial Park: Novel Approaches within Island Biogeography", K. Diver, Advisor.
McKeeby, Benjamin: "Weathering and Sulfate Formation in Sulfur Springs St. Lucia; A Mars Analogue Site", M. Gilmore, Advisor. Now a Ph.D. student at Univ. Pittsburgh.
2016:
Milligan, Gailynn C.: "Carbon Sequestration in a Tidal Frashwater Wetland in the Mattabessett River, Connecticut", B. Chernoff, Advisor.
Milligan, Joseph N.: "Experimental Constraints on a New Leaf Gas-Exchange Method for Paleo-CO2 Reconstruction", D. Royer, Advisor. Now a Ph.D. student at Baylor University.
2015:
Camfield, Lauren M.: "The 2000 and 2012 Eruptions of Copahue Volcano (Neuquén, Argentina)", J. Varekamp, Advisor.
Gross, Jason L.: "Provenance and Characterization of Pliocene Ocean Sediment in the Weddell Sea, Antarctica: Implications for Paleoclimatic Change", S. O'Connell, Advisor. Now an Interpretive Intern at Mt. Ranier.
Korn, Lisa K.: “Carbonate and Silicate Minerals in a Gullied Crater within Eridania Basin, Terra Sirenum, Mars”, M. Gilmore, Advisor. Project Geologist at HTE Northeast, Inc.
Kowalczyk, Jennifer B.: "Multiple Proxy Estimates of Atmospheric CO2 from an Early Paleocene Rainforest", D. Royer, Advisor. Now a Ph.D. student at Brown University.
2014:
Zareski, James E.: "An East-West Transect Through the Andes at 35o-39o South", J. Varekamp, Advisor.
2013:
Golder, Keenan B.: "Geomorphology of Eridania Basin, Mars: A Study of the Evolution of Chaotic Terrain and a Paleolake", M. Gilmore, Advisor
Harner, Patrck L.: "Potential Martian Evaporites and their Spectral Signatures", M. Gilmore , Advisor
Maxbauer, Daniel P.: "Constraints on Atmospheric CO2 Obtained from Fossil Metasequoia for the Middle Eocene Polar Forests on Axel Heiberg Island, Nunavut, Canada" , D. Royer , Advisor
2011:
Ostfeld, Rosemary: "Bedform Formation in the Glastonbury Meanders of the Connecticut River", S. OConnell, Advisor
Schwarz, Stephen: "Sediment History of the Miocene-Pliocene Weddell Sea Abyssal Plain", S. OConnell, Advisor
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