Department of Geology & Geophysics

Graduate Student Directory


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OLANIYI AJADI

Ph.D. Geophysics

Thesis Title:     None Yet -- Remote sensing, Seismology, Structure, Geomorphology

Committee Members: Dr. Franz Meyer, Chair
Dr. Catherine Cahill, Dr. Carl Tape, Dr. Peter Webley

 

oaajadi@alaska.edu

 

 

SARAH H. ALBERT

M.S. Geophysics

Thesis Title:     None Yet -- Infrasound, Volcanology

Committee Members: Dr. David Fee

saalbert@alaska.edu

CELSO R. ALVIZURI

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Ph.D. Geophysics

Thesis Title:     None Yet -- Seismology, Geodynamics & Planetary Studies

Committee Members: Dr. Carl Tape, Chair
Dr. Douglas Christensen, Dr. Stephen McNutt, Dr. Michael West
 

alvizuri@gi.alaska.edu

 

KATHERINE L. ANDERSON

Ph.D. Geology

Thesis Title:     None Yet -- Vertebrate Paleontology

Committee Members: Dr. Patrick Druckenmiller

 

klanderson3@alaska.edu

 

 

MATTHEW S. BALAZS

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Ph.D. Geology

Thesis Title:     None Yet -- Natural Hazard Assessment & Climate Schange Adaption

Committee Members: Dr. Anupma Prakash, Chair
Dr. Margaret Darrow, Dr. Franz Meyer, Dr. Gabriel Wolken

mbalazs@alaska.edu


 

TIMOTHY C. BARTHOLOMAUS

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Ph.D Geophysics

Thesis Title:     None Yet -- Glaciers

Committee Members: Dr. Christopher Larsen, Chair
Dr. Martin Truffer, Dr. Erin Pettit, Dr. Michael West, Dr. Shad O'Neel

tcbartholomaus@alaska.edu

Tim's web page

 

A. CODY BEEDLOW

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Ph.D. Geophysics

Thesis Title:     None Yet -- Glaciers, Remote sensing, Quaternary Studies, Sea ice

Committee Members:  Dr. Regine Hock, Chair
Dr. Anthony Arendt, Dr. Andrew Bliss, Dr. John Walsh

Andrew.Beedlow@gi.alaska.edu

 

BONNIE N. BROMAN

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M.S. Geology

Thesis Title:     Investigations of AG-Bearing and Associated Minerals in the Arctic VMS Deposit, Brooks Range, Alaska

Committee Members: Dr. Rainer Newberry, Chair
Dr. Mary Keskinen, Dr. Ken Severin

bnbroman@alaska.edu

 

CHRISTOPHER P. BRUTON

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M.S. Geophysics

Thesis Title:     Artificial Neural Networks for Classification of Volcanic Earthquakes

Committee Members: Dr. Michael West, Chair
Dr. Jeffrey Freymueller, Dr. Stephen McNutt, Dr. Glenn Thompson

cpbruton@alaska.edu

 

 

ULRIKA CAHAYANI

M.S. Geophysics

Thesis Title:     None Yet -- Seismology, Volcano seismology, Tectonics

Committee Members: Dr. Carl Tape, Chair
Dr. Douglas Christensen, Dr. Michael West
 


ucahayani@alaska.edu

 

CHRISTINA G. CARR

Ph.D. Geophysics

Thesis Title:     None Yet -- Glaciers, Permafrost, Tectonics, Geomorphology

Committee Members: Dr. Erin Pettit, Chair
Dr. Ed Bueler, Dr. Martin Truffer

cgcarr@alaska.edu
 

 

ARVIND A. CHITTAMBAKKAM -- GRADUATED SUMMER 2013

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M.S. Geophysics

Thesis Title:     Development of Reservoir Stimulation Model at Pilgrim Hot Springs using TOUGH2.

Committee Members: Dr. Anupma Prakash/Dr. Ronald Daann, Co-Chairs
Dr. Christian Haselwimmer

arvind@gi.alaska.edu

 

 

D. OLIVER DAMMANN

Ph.D. Geophysics

Thesis Title:     None Yet -- Sea ice

Committee Members: Dr. Hajo Eicken, Chair
Dr. Uma Bhatt, Dr. Andrew Mahoney
 

dodammann@alaska.edu

 

JENNIFER L. DAVIS

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M.S. Geophysics

Thesis Title:     None yet  --  Glaciers, Remote sensing, Geomorphology, Permafrost

Committee Members: Dr. Anthony Arendt and Dr. Gabriel Wolken, Co-Chairs
Dr. Anna Liljedahl, Dr. Paul McCarthy

jldavis10@alaska.edu

 

JEREMY M. DAVIS

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M.S. Geology

Thesis Title:     Petrography And Diagenesis of the Nanushuk Fm at Umiat North Slope, Alaska

Committee Members: Dr. Paul McCarthy, Chair
Dr. Catherine Hanks, Dr. Michael Whalen

jmdavis6@alaska.edu

 

NILESH C. DIXIT

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Ph.D. Geophysics


Thesis Title:     Evaluating the Tertiary-Age Nenana Basin for Either Gas or as a Potential Geological Storage Site for CO2 Sequestration

Committee Members: Dr. Catherine Hanks, Chair
Dr. Mohabbat Ahmadi, Dr. Bernard Coakley, Dr. Paul McCarthy
 

ncdixit@alaska.edu

 

 

 

LOUISE M. FARQUHARSON

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Ph.D. Geology

Thesis Title:   None yet -- Quaternary studies, Geomorphology, Sedimentology, Permafrost

Committee Members:  Dr. Daniel Mann, Chair
Dr. Guido Grosse, Dr. Vladimir Romanovsky, Dr. David Swanson

lmfarquharson@alaska.edu

 

SIMON V. P. FILHOL

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Ph.D. Geophysics

Thesis Title:     None Yet -- Remote Sensing

Committee Members: Drs. Martin Truffer and Matthew Sturm, Co-Chairs
Dr. Hajo Eicken, Dr. Christopher Larsen

svfilhol@alaska.edu

 

TYSON J. FORBUSH

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M.S. Geology


Thesis Title:     None Yet -- Geochemistry, Economic Geology, Remote Sensing, Geomorphology

Committee Members: Dr. Rainer Newberry, Chair
Dr. Sarah Hayes, Dr. Paul Layer
 

tjforbush@alaska.edu

 

RACHEL A. FROHMAN

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M.S. Geology


Thesis Title:     None Yet -- Structure, Tectonics, Igneous/ Metamorphic Petrology, Geochronology

Committee Members: Dr. Wes Wallace, Chair
Dr. James Beget, Dr. Richard Koehler

rfrohman@alaska.edu

 

 

VIACHESLAV V. GARAYSHIN

Ph.D. Geophysics

Thesis Title:  None Yet -- Permafrost

Committee Members:  Dr. Vladimir Romanovsky

vgarayshin@alaska.edu

 

JASON E. GECK

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Ph.D. Geology

Thesis Title:     Climate Change Impacts On Glacier Mass Balance And Hydrology:  Case Studies In The Brooks Range and Western Chugach/Kenai Mountains

Committee Members: Dr. Regine Hock, Chair
Dr. Anthony Arendt, Dr. Matthias Braun, Dr. Mike Loso

jgeck@alaska.edu

 

WENYU GONG

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Ph.D. Geophysics

Thesis Title:     Long-term Monitoring of Geodynamic Surface Deformation Using SAR Interferometry

Committee Members: Dr. Franz Meyer, Chair
Dr. Donald Atwood, Dr. Jeffrey Freymueller, Dr. Zhong Lu, Dr. Peter Webley

gwenyu@alaska.edu

 

 

MARJIKE HABERMANN -- GRADUATED FALL 2013

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Ph.D. Geophysics

Thesis Title:  Basal Shear Strength Inversions for Ice Sheets With an Application to Jakobshavn Isbrae, Greenland

Committee Members: Dr. Martin Truffer, Chair
Dr. Jeffrey Freymueller, Dr. David Maxwell, Dr. Erin Pettit, Dr. Carl Tape

mhabermann@alaska.edu

 

JEREMY P. HARBECK

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M.S. Geophysics


Thesis Title:     Effects of a Changing Arctic Sea Ice Cover Upon On-Ice Snow Depths

Committee Members: Dr. Hajo Eicken, Chair
Dr. Uma Bhatt, Dr. Daqing Yang

jpharbeck@alaska.edu

 

MARTIN C. HARRILD

M.S. Geology

Thesis Title:     None Yet -- Volcanology, Remote sensing

Committee Members: Dr. Peter Webley, Chair
Dr. Jonathan Dehn, Dr. Franz Meyer

mcharrild@alaska.edu

 

 

SARAH H. HEINCHON

M.S. Geology

Thesis Title:     None Yet -- Economic Geology, Geochemistry

Committee Members: Dr. Rainer Newberry, Chair
Dr. Mary Keskinen, Dr. Kenneth Severin

 shheinchon@alaska.edu

 

JOANNE K. HESLOP

M.S. Geophysics

Thesis Title:     None Yet -- Geochemistry, Permafrost, Limnology

Committee Members: Dr. Katey Walter-Anthony and Dr. Guido Grosse, Chairs
Dr. Vladimir Romanovsky
 

jheslop@alaska.edu

 

C. RYAN HOLLAND

M.S. Geology

Thesis Title:     None Yet -- Structure, Stratigraphy, Petroleum Engineering, Economic Geology

Committee Members: Dr. Wesly Wallace
 

crholland@.alaska.edu

 

SETH I. HOOPER

M.S. Geology

Thesis Title:  None yet --  Igneous/Metamorphic petrology, Structure, Geochemistry, Tectonics

Committee Members:  Dr. Elisabeth Nadin

sihooper@alaska.edu

 

LAURA K. HUTCHISON

M.S. Geophysics

Thesis Title:     None Yet -- Seismology, Volcano seismology, Geodynamics, Remote sensing

Committee Members: Dr. Michael West, Chair
Dr. Douglas Christiansen, Dr. Jeffrey Freymueller

lkhutchison@alaska.edu

 

ERIC M. HUTTON

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M.S. Geology

Thesis Title:     Sequence Stratigraphy of the Shublik and Otuk Formations

Committee Members: Dr. Michael Whalen, Chair
Dr. Catherine Hanks, Dr. Paul McCarthy

emhutton@alaska.edu

 

 

IBRAHIM ILHAN

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Ph.D. Geophysics

Thesis Title:     None yet  --  Stratigraphy/Structure/Tectonics

Committee Members: Dr. Bernard Coakley, Chair
Dr. David Stone, Dr. Wesley Wallace, Dr. Michael Whalen

iilhan@alaska.edu

 

PETER E. ILLIG

M.S. Geology

Thesis Title:  Geology of the Tetlin Prospect

Committee Members:  Dr. Rainer Newberry

pillig1@alaska.edu

 

 

BENJAMIN M. JONES

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Ph.D. Interdisciplinary - Remote Sensing of the Cryoshere

Thesis Title:     Remote Sensing of Thermokarst Lake Dynamics in Northern, High-Latitude, Ice-Rich Permafrost Regions

Committee Members: Dr. Guido Grosse, Dr. Vladimir Romanovsky, Co-Chairs
Dr. Christopher Arp, Dr. Daniel H. Mann, Dr. David Verbyla

bjones@gi.alaska.edu

 

JOSHUA M. JONES

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M.S. Geophysics

Thesis Title:     Landfast Sea Ice Formation and Deformation Near Barrow, Alaska:  Variability and Implications for Ice Stability

Committee Members: Dr. Hajo Eicken, Chair
Dr. Jenny Hutchings, Dr. Lewis Shaprio, Dr. Thomas Weingartner

joshua.jones@gi.alaska.edu

 

 

ADRIENNE E. KENTNER

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M.S. Geology

Thesis Title:     Gabbroic and Peridotitic Enclaves from 2008 Kasatochi Andesites:  Insights into the roots of active magma systems

Committee Members: Dr. Elisabeth Nadin, Chair
Dr. Mary Keskinen, Dr. Pavel Izbekov
 

aekentner@alaska.edu

 

CHRISTIAN KIENHOLZ

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M.S. Geophysics

Thesis Title:     New Automated Methods for the Compilation of Glacier Inventories

Committee Members: Dr. Anthony Arendt, Chair / Dr. Regine Hock, Co-Chair
Dr. Franz Meyer

ckienholz@alaska.edu

christian.kienholz@gi.alaska.edu

 

APRIL R. KNOX

M.S. Geology

Thesis Title:  None yet -- Stratigraphy, Sedimentology, Structure

Committee Members:  Dr. Michael Whalen


arknox@alaska.edu

 

YEKATERINA KONTAR

Ph.D. Interdisciplinary Studies

Thesis Title:  Assessment and Comparative Analysis of Best Practices for Effectively Communicating Climate Change and Natural Hazards Science to the General Public and Policy Makers in High Risk Regions in the US and Russia

Committee Members:  Dr. John Eichelberger

ykontar@alaska.edu

 

JILLIAN G. KOOISTRA

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M.S. Geology

Thesis Title:     Geology of the Gil Prospect, Alaska

Committee Members: Dr. Rainer Newberry, Chair
Dr. Mary Keskinen, Dr. Kenneth P. Severin

jkooistra@alaska.edu

 

KACY E. KRIEGER

Ph.D. Interdisciplinary Studies

Thesis Title:     Evolving the Concept of Spatial Anthropogeomorphology

Committee Members: Drs. Andrew Kliskey and Anupma Prakash, Co-Advisors

kekrieger2@uaa.alaska.edu

 

 

DAVID G. LARIMER

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Ph.D. Geology

Thesis Title:     Invisible Gold and Other Elements in the Liese Zone Ore Body, Pogo Deposit

Committee Members: Dr. Rainer Newberry, Chair
Dr. Mary Keskinen, Dr. Elisabeth Nadin,  Dr. Kenneth Severin

dglarimer@alaska.edu

 

SHANSHAN LI

Ph.D. Geophysics

Thesis Title:     None Yet -- Crustal Deformation, Tectonics, Geodynamics, Remote sensing

Committee Members: Dr. Jeffrey Freymueller

sli11@alaska.edu

 

HEMING LIAO

Ph.D. Geophysics

Thesis Title:     None yet  --  Remote sensing, Crustal deformation, Glaciers, Sea ice

Committee Members: Dr. Franz Meyer, Chair
Dr. Jeffrey Freymueller, Dr. Carl Tape, Dr. Brenton Watkins
 

hliao@alaska.edu

 

AMANDA N. LINDOO

Ph.D. Geology

Thesis Title:     None yet  --  Geochemistry, Geochronology, Igneous/Metamorphic Petrology, Planetary Studies, Volcanology

Committee Members: Dr. Jessica Larsen, Chair
Dr. Jeffrey Freymueller, Dr. Pavel Izbekov, Dr. Thomas Trainor
 

alindoo@alaska.edu

 

 

J. ZEBULON MAHARREY

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M.S. Geology

Thesis Title:     Tephrachronologic and Paleo-Tsunami Investigations Into the Volcanic and Seismic History of Lower Cook Inlet Alaska

Committee Members: Dr. James Beget, Chair
Dr. Pavel E. Izbekov, Dr. Richard D. Koehler

jzmaharrey@alaska.edu

 

MARY G. MALEY

M.S. Geology

Thesis Title:     None yet  --  Stratigraphy, Structre, Geochemistry

Committee Members: Dr. Catherine Hanks

mgmaley@alaska.edu

 

DAVID B. McALPIN

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Ph.D. Geology


Thesis Title:     Multi-sensor data fusion for measurement of post eruptive volcanic deformation and depositional features

Committee Members: Dr. James Beget and Dr. Franz Meyer, Co-Chairs
Dr. Jonathan Dehn, Dr. Peter Webley

dbmcalpin@alaska.edu

 

KATHLEEN F. McKEE

Ph.D. Geophysics

Thesis Title:     None Yet -- Volcano Infrasound, Volcano seismology, Seismology, Volcanology

Committee Members: Dr. David Fee

kfmckee@alaska.edu

 

ROBERT W. McNABB -- GRADUATED SUMMER 2013

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Ph.D. Geophysics

Thesis Title:    On The Frontal Ablation of Alaska Tidewater Glaciers

Committee Members: Dr. Regine Hock, Chair
Dr. Ed Bueler, Dr. Roman Motyka, Dr. Erin Pettit, Dr. Martin Truffer

rwmcnabb@alaska.edu

 

JOSHUA K. MILLER

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M.S. Geology


Thesis Title:     None yet  --  Stratigraphy, Sedimentology

Committee Members: Dr. Anupma Prakash and Dr. Michael Whalen, Co-Chairs
Dr. Ronald Daanen, Dr. Christian Haselwimmer

jkmiller3@alaska.edu

 

SUMMER A. MILLER

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M.S. Geophysics

Thesis Title:     Combining Continuous GPS and InSAR Data for the Applied Analysis of Dynamic Aleutian Volcanoes

Committee Members: Dr. Jeff Freymueller, Chair
Dr. Don Atwood, Dr. Franz Meyer

summer.miller@gi.alaska.edu

 

DEMI C. MIXON

M.S. Geology

Thesis Title:  None yet -- Structure, Tectonics, Igneous/Metamorphic Petrology, Geochemistry

Committee Members:  Dr. Wesley Wallace

dcmixon@alaska.edu

 

HILARY A. MORGAN

Ph.D. Geology


Thesis Title:     None yet -- Volcanology, Remote sensing

Committee Members: Dr. Jonathan Dehn, Chair
Dr. Jessica Larsen, Dr. Franz Meyer, Dr. Peter Webley
 

hamorgan2@alaska.edu

 

HIROTSUGU MORI

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Ph.D. Geology


Thesis Title:     None yet -- Paleontology

Committee Members: Dr. Patrick Druckenmiller, Chair
Dr. Sarah Fowell,  Dr. Kris Hundertmark, Dr. Matthew Wooller

hmori@alaska.edu

 

HEIKO MUELLER

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M.S. Geology


Thesis Title:     Interpretation of Sheam Sediments

Committee Members: Dr. Franz Meyer and Dr. Rainer Newberry, Co-Chairs
Dr. Elisabeth Nadin

hmueller2@alaska.edu

 

 

 

MEGAN E. O'SADNICK

M.S. Geophysics


Thesis Title:     None yet -- Glaciers, Remote sensing, Sea ice, Quaternary studies

Committee Members: Dr. Hajo Eicken, Chair
Dr. Erin Pettit, Dr. Martin Truffer
 

meosadnick@alaska.edu

 

MARC OGGIER

Ph.D. Geophysics


Thesis Title:     None yet -- Sea ice, Remote sensing and Glaciers

Committee Members: Dr. Hajo Eicken

moggier@alaska.edu

 

 

JOHN M. PERREAULT

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Ph.D Geology

Thesis Title:     None Yet -- Remote Sensing, Volcanology

Committee Members: Dr. Robert Herrick, Chair
Dr. Jessica Larsen, Dr. Franz Meyer, Dr. Virgil Sharpton

jmperreault@alaska.edu

 

BRIAN K. PERTTU

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M.S. Geology


Thesis Title:     The Structural and Post-Structural Timing and Origins of the Nixon Fork Skarn

Committee Members: Dr. Rainer Newberry, Chair
Dr. Paul Layer, Dr. Wesly Wallace

brian.perttu@alaska.edu 

 

DAVID B. PODRASKY

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Ph.D. Geophysics


Thesis Title:    JAKOBSHAVN ISBRÆ: An Investigation Of Velocity Variations From Hourly To Decadal  Time Scales At Greenland's Fastest Tidewater Outlet Glacier

Committee Members: Dr. Martin Truffer, Chair
Dr. Ed Bueler, Dr. Regine Hock, Dr. Christopher Larsen, Dr. Roman Motyka

dpodrasky@alaska.edu

 

 

KRISTEN E. RAHILLY

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M.S. Geology

Thesis Title:     None Yet -- Volcanology

Committee Members: Dr. Jonathan Dehn, Chair,
Dr. Erin Pettit, Dr. Peter Webley

kerahilly@alaska.edu

 

PRAJNA REGMI

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Ph.D. Geophysics

Thesis Title:     None Yet  -- Remote Sensing/Permafrost, Glaciers

Committee Members: Dr. Guido Grosse, Chair
Dr. Katey Walter Anthony, Dr. Franz Meyer, Dr. Vladimir Romanovsky


pregmi@alaska.edu

 

CELSO G. REYES

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Ph.D. Geophysics


Thesis Title:     Volcanic Tremor at Okmok Volcano, Alaska:  General Parameters Are Determination of Source Location

Committee Members: Dr. Stephen R. McNutt, Chair
Dr. Doug Christensen, Dr. Jessica Larsen, Dr. Michael West

creyes@gi.alaska.edu

 

ALEC J. RIZZO

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M.S. Geology

Thesis Title:     Fracture Character And Distribution in the Nenana Basin, Alaska

Committee Members: Dr. Catherine Hanks, Chair
Dr. Elisabeth Nadin, Dr. Wesley Wallace


ajrizzo@alaska.edu

 

COLIN R. ROWELL

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M.S. Geophysics


Thesis Title:     None yet --  Volcanology and Infrasound

Committee Members: Dr. David Fee, Chair
Dr. Doug Christensen, Dr. Michael West

crrowell@alaska.edu

 

 

ALEXANDER E. SACCO

M.S. Geophysics

Thesis Title:     None Yet -- Sea ice, Tectonics, Quaternary studies, Permafrost

Committee Members: Dr. Hajo Eicken / Dr. Andrew Mahoney
Dr. Mark Johnson, Dr. G. Carleton Ray

 

aesacco@alaska.edu

 

SUSANA SALAZAR JARAMILLO

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Ph.D. Geology


Thesis Title:   Paleodimatic Interprelation of Late Cretaceous Prince Creek Formation (North Slope) and the Cantwell fm (Central Alaska Range)

Committee Members:  Dr. Sarah Fowell, Chair
Dr. Patrick Druckenmiller, Dr. Paul McCarthy, Dr. Tom Trainor

ssalazar2@.alaska.edu

 

CHERYL M. SANDERS

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M.S. Geology


Thesis Title:     None Yet -- Structure

Committee Members:  Dr. Wesley Wallace, Chair
Dr. Catherine L. Hanks, Dr. Paul McCarthy

csande22@alaska.edu

 

DANIELLE J. SERRATOS

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M.S. Geology


Thesis Title:     None Yet -- Paleontology

Committee Members:  Dr. Patrick Druckenmiller, Chair
Dr. Sarah Fowell, Dr. Paul McCarthy

djdavis4@alaska.edu

 

GRANT T. SHIMER -- GRADUATED SUMMER 2013

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Ph.D. Geology


Thesis Title:     Sedimentology and Stratigraphy of the Nanushuk Formation and Related Foreland Basin Deposits, North Slope, Alaska

Committee Members:  Dr. Paul McCarthy, Chair
Dr. Catherine Hanks, Dr. Paul Layer,  Dr. Marwan Wartes, Dr. Michael Whalen

gtshimer@alaska.edu

 

JILL S. SHIPMAN

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Ph.D. Geophysics


Thesis Title:     Magma System Response to Ediface Collapse:  Petrologic Insights at Bezymianny and Shiveluch Volcanoes, Kamchatka, Russia with Comparison to Mt. St. Hellens, USA

Committee Members:  Dr. Pavel Izbekov and Dr. John Eichelberger, Co-Chairs
Dr. Jonathan Dehn, Dr. Jeff Freymueller, Dr. Jessica Larsen

jsshipman@alaska.edu

 

VIPUL SILWAL

Ph.D. Geophysics

Thesis Title:     None Yet -- Seismology, Geodynamics, Volcano Seismology, Planetary Studies

Committee Members: Dr. Carl Tape, Chair
Dr. Douglas Christensen, Dr. Jeffrey Freymueller, Dr. Natasha Ruppert, Dr. Michael West

silwal@gi.alaska.edu

 

TORGE S. STEENSEN

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Ph.D. Geophysics


Thesis Title:     Satellite to Model Comparisons of Volcanic Ash Emissions in the North Pacific

Committee Members:  Dr. Peter Webley, Chair
Dr. James Beget, Dr. Jonathan Dehn, Dr. Martin Stuefer

tssteensen@alaska.edu

 

 

CARLA S. "SUSI" TOMSICH

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Ph.D. Geology


Thesis Title:     Integrated Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction of the Lower Cantwell Formation Near Sable Mountain, Denali National Park, Alaska

Committee Members:  Dr. Paul McCarthy, Chair
Dr. Sarah Fowell, Dr. Anthony Fiorillo, Dr. David Sunderlin

cstomsich@alaska.edu

 

ERIN D. TROCHIM

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Ph.D. Interdisciplinary Studies -- Remote Sensing


Thesis Title:    Characterizing Watertracks in Headwater Drainage Networks in the Foothills of the Brooks Range

Committee Members:  Dr. Anupma Prakash,Dr. Douglas Kane, Co-Chairs
Dr. Torre Jorgenson, Dr. Vladimir Romanovsky

edtrochim@alaska.edu

 

BARBARA L. TRUESSEL

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Ph.D. Geophysics


Thesis Title:   Rapid Thinning and Collapse of a Lake Calving Yakutat Glacier, Southeast Alaska

Committee Members:  Dr. Martin Truffer, Chair
Dr. Regine Hock, Dr. Christopher Larsen, Dr. Roman Motyka

bltruessel@alaska.edu

 

AMY L. TUZZOLINO

M.S. Geology

Thesis Title:     None Yet -- Economic geology, Igneous/Metamorphic petrology, Geochemistry, Structure, Geophysics

Committee Members: Dr. Rainer Newberry, Chair and Dr. Paul McCarthy, Co-Chair
Dr.. Kenneth P. Severin, Dr. Melanie Werdon
 

altuzzolino@alaska.edu

 

KIMBERLY G. TWEET

M.S.  Geophysics

Thesis Title:     None Yet -- Tectonics, Crustal deformation, Structure, Geochronology

Committee Members: Dr. Jeffrey Freymueller, Chair
Dr. Nicole Kinsman, Dr. Elisabeth Nadin
 

kgdegrandpre@alaska.edu

 

 

GABRIELLE T. VANCE

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M.S. Geology


Thesis Title:  The Influence of Climate and Tectonics on Topography in the Hayes Range and its Foothills

Committee Members:  Dr. Wes Wallace, Chair
Dr. James Beget, Dr. Elisabeth Nadin

gtvance@alaska.edu

 

 

CHRISTINE F. WAIGL

Ph.D. Geophysics

Thesis Title:     None Yet -- Remote sensing, Sea ice

Committee Members: Dr. Martin Stuefer, Chair and  Dr. Anupma Prakash, Co-Chair
Dr. Charles Ichoku, Dr. David Verbyla

 

chris.waigle@gi.alaska.edu

 

RAELENE WENTZ

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M.S. Geology


Thesis Title:     Fracture Distribution and Character in Exposed Cretaceous Rocks Near Umiat Anticline, North Slope of Alaska

Committee Members:  Dr. Catherine Hanks, Chair
Dr. Paul McCarthy, Dr. Wesley Wallace

rwentz@alaska.edu

 

RACHEL E. WESTBROOK

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M.S. Geology


Thesis Title:     None yet -- Palynology

Committee Members:  Dr. Sarah Fowell, Chair
Dr. Nancy Bigelow, Dr. Matthew Wooller

rewestbrook@alaska.edu

 

WILCOX, PAUL S.

Ph.D. Geology

Thesis Title:  None yet -- Quaternary studies, Geochronology

Committee Members:  Dr. Sarah Fowell

pwilcox5@alaska.edu

 

ANNA K. "ANNIE" WORDEN

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M.S. Geology


Thesis Title:     Statistical Approach to Detection of Small Scale Explosive Activity in Thermal Data

Committee Members:  Dr. Jonathan Dehn, Chair
Dr. Douglas Christensen, Dr. Peter Webley

akworden@alaska.edu

 

THOMAS "COLBY" WRIGHT

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M.S. Geology


Thesis Title:     None Yet -- Sedimentology

Committee Members:  Dr. Paul McCarthy, Chair
Dr. Patrick Druckenmiller, Dr. Anthony Fiorillo, Dr. Sarah Fowell

tcwright2@alaska.edu

 

 

JOANNA C. YOUNG

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M.S. Geophysics


Thesis Title:    The Effects of Changing Climate on Central Alaska Range Glaciers: Mass Balance and Meteorological Studies on the Kahiltna Glacier

Committee Members:  Dr. Anthony Arendt, Chair
Regine Hock, Roman Motyka
 

jcyoung6@alaska.edu

 

KURT R. YUENGLING

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Ph.D. Geology


Thesis Title:     Determining Provenance of Glacial Erratics in Northern Lower Michigan to Evaluate Models for Localized Ice Flow Orientations within the Laurentide Ice Sheet

Committee Members:  Dr. Paul Layer, Chair
Dr. James Beget, Dr. Mary Keskinen, Dr. Kenneth Severin
 

kyuengli@alaska.ed