Graduate Student Directory
OLANIYI AJADI
Ph.D. Geophysics
Thesis Title: None Yet -- Remote sensing, Seismology, Structure, Geomorphology
Committee Members: Dr. Franz Meyer
CELSO R. ALVIZURI
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
KATHERINE L. ANDERSON
Ph.D. Geology
Thesis Title: None Yet -- Vertebrate Paleontology
Committee Members: Dr. Patrick Druckenmiller
MATTHEW S. BALAZS
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
TIMOTHY C. BARTHOLOMAUS
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
A. CODY BEEDLOW
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
BONNIE N. BROMAN
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
CHRISTOPHER P. BRUTON
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
CHRISTINA G. CARR
Ph.D. Geophysics
Thesis Title: None Yet -- Glaciers, Permafrost, Tectonics, Geomorphology
Committee Members: Dr. Erin Pettit
cgcarr@alaska.edu
ULRIKA CAHAYANI
M.S.. Geophysics
Thesis Title: None Yet -- Seismology, Volcano seismology, Tectonics
Committee Members: Dr. Carl Tape
ARVIND A. CHITTAMBAKKAM
M.S. Geophysics
Thesis Title: None Yet -- Geothermal Reservoir Engineering, Data Collection, Conceptual Modeling and Reservoir Simulation
Committee Members: Dr. Anupma Prakash/Dr. Ronald Daann, Co-Chairs
Dr. Christian Haselwimmer
D. OLIVER DAMMANN
Ph.D. Geophysics
Thesis Title: None Yet -- Sea ice
Committee Members: Dr. Hajo Eicken, Chair
Dr. Uma Bhatt, Dr. Andrew Mahoney
JENNIFER L. DAVIS
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
JEREMY M. DAVIS
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
MICHELLE L. DEAL -- GRADUATED FALL 2012
M.S. Geology
Thesis Title: Origins and Zoning of the Buckhorn Gold Skarn, NE Washington
Committee Members: Dr. Rainer Newberry, Chair
Dr. Ken Severin, Dr. Mary Keskinen, Dr. Robert J. Hickey
KIMBERLY G. DeGRANDPRE
M.S. Geology
Thesis Title: None Yet -- Tectonics, Crustal deformation, Structure, Geochronology
Committee Members: Dr. Jeffrey Freymueller
kgdegrandpre@alaska.edu
CASEY L. DENNY -- GRADUATED SPRING 2013
M.S. Geology
Thesis Title: Identifying Areas of Neotectonic Activity Using Radar Remote Sensing in the Northern Foothills of the Alaska Range
Committee Members: Dr. Franz Meyer, Chair
Dr. Rudger Gens, Dr. Wesley Wallace
NICOLE DeROIN -- GRADUATED FALL 2012
Ph.D. Geophysics
Thesis Title: Methods for Monitoring and Forecasting Volcanic Hazards and Eruptions Using Seismology and other Geophysical Data
Committee Members: Dr. Stephen McNutt, Chair
Dr. Douglas Christensen, Dr. Jeffrey Freymueller, Dr. Michael West
NILESH C. DIXIT
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
LOUISE M. FARQUHARSON
Ph.D. Geology
Thesis Title: None yet -- Quaternary studies, Geomorphology, Sedimentology, Permafrost
Committee Members: Dr. Guido Grosse, Dr. Daniel Mann, Co-Chairs
SIMON V. P. FILHOL
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
ANGELICA L. FLOYD -- GRADUATED FALL 2012
M.S. Geology
Thesis Title: Applicability of Synthetic Aperture for Investigating River Ice Breakup on the Kuparuk River, Northern Alaska
Committee Members: Drs. Anupma Prakash and Anna Liljedahl, Co-Chairs
Dr. Rudiger Gens, Dr. Franz Meyer
TYSON J. FORBUSH
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
RACHEL A. FROHMAN
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
YUNING FU -- GRADUATED FALL 2012
Ph.D. Geophysics
Thesis Title: Loading Deformation on Various Timescales Using GPA and GRACE Measurements
Committee Members: Dr. Jeffrey Freymueller, Chair
Dr. Douglas Christensen, Dr. Jonathan Dehn, Dr. Christopher Larsen
JASON E. GECK
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
WENYU GONG
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
MARJIKE HABERMANN
Ph.D. Geophysics
Thesis Title: Improved Inverse Methods for Ice Sheet Modeling
Committee Members: Dr. Martin Truffer, Chair
Dr. Jeffrey Freymueller, Dr. David Maxwell, Dr. Erin Pettit, Dr. Carl Tape
JEREMY P. HARBECK
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
MARTIN C. HARRILD
M.S. Geophysics
Thesis Title: None Yet -- Volcanology, Remote sensing
Committee Members: Dr. Peter Webley
mcharrild@alaska.edu
JENA E. HECKER
M.S. Geology
Thesis Title: Rheology of Small Martian Volcanoes: Analysis of Young Lava Flows in Central Tharsis
Committee Members: Dr. Robert Herrick, Chair
Dr. Jonathan Dehn, Dr. Lori Glaze, Dr. Anupma Prakash
SARAH H. HEINCHON
M.S. Geology
Thesis Title: None Yet -- Economic Geology, Geochemistry
Committee Members: Dr. Rainer Newberry
shheinchon@alaska.edu
SARAH M. HENTON -- GRADUATED SPRING 2013
Ph.D. Geology
Thesis Title: Experiment vs. Nature: Using Amphiboles to Test Models of Magma Storage And Movement During the 2006 Eruption of Augustine Volcano, Alaska
Committee Members: Dr. Jessica Larsen, Chair
Dr. Michelle Coombs, Dr. Jeffrey Freymueller, Dr. Pavel Izbekov, Dr. Kenneth Severin
JOANNE K. HESLOP
M.S. Geophysics
Thesis Title: None Yet -- Geochemistry, Permafrost, Limnology
Committee Members: Dr. Katey Walter-Anthony, Chair and Dr. Guido Grosse, Co-Chair
Dr. Vladimir Romanovsky
C. RYAN HOLLAND
M.S. Geology
Thesis Title: None Yet -- Structure, Stratigraphy, Petroleum Engineering, Economic Geology
Committee Members: Dr. Wesly Wallace
LAURA K. HUTCHISON
M.S. Geophysics
Thesis Title: None Yet -- Seismology, Volcano seismology, Geodynamics, Remote sensing
Committee Members: Dr. Michael West
lkhutchison@alaska.edu
ERIC M. HUTTON
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
IBRAHIM ILHAN
Ph.D. Geophysics
Thesis Title: None yet -- Stratigraphy/Structure/Tectonics
Committee Members: Dr. Bernard Coakley, Chair
Dr. Wesley Wallace, Dr. Michael Whalen
RAYMOND "TODD" JACOBUS
M.S. Geology
Thesis Title: None yet -- Paleobotany
Committee Members: Dr. Sarah Fowell, Chair
Dr. Patrick Druckenmiller, Dr. Paul McCarthy, Dr. David Sunderlin
ELCHIN E. JAFAROV -- GRADUATED SPRING 2013
Ph.D. Geophysics
Thesis Title: The Effects of Changes in Climate and Other Environmental Factors on Permafrost Evolution
Committee Members: Dr. Vladimir Romanovsky, Chair
Dr. Paul Layer, Dr. Sergey Marchenko, Dr. John Walsh
BENJAMIN M. JONES
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
JOSHUA M. JONES
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
ADRIENNE E. KENTNER
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
CHRISTIAN KIENHOLZ
Ph.D. Geophysics
Thesis Title: None yet -- Glaciers, Remote sensing, Geodynamics, Geomorphology
Committee Members: Dr. Anthony Arendt / Dr. Regine Hock, Co-Chairs
Dr. Matthias Braun, Dr. Franz Meyer, Dr. Batuhan Osmanoglu
JILLIAN G. KOOISTRA
M.S. Geology
Thesis Title: Geology of the Gil Prospect, Alaska
Committee Members: Dr. Rainer Newberry, Chair
Dr. Mary Keskinen, Dr. Kenneth P. Severin
KACY E. KRIEGER
Ph.D. Interdisciplinary
Thesis Title: Evolving the Concept of Spatial Anthropogeomorphology
Committee Members: Drs. Andrew Kliskey and Anupma Prakash, Co-Advisors
DAVID G. LARIMER
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
HEMING LIAO
Ph.D. Geophysics
Thesis Title: None yet -- Remote sensing, Crustal deformation, Glaciers, Sea ice
Committee Members: Dr. Franz Meyer
AMANDA N. LINDOO
Ph.D. Geology
Thesis Title: None yet -- Geochemistry, Geochronology, Igneous/Metamorphic Petrology, Planetary Studies, Volcanology
Committee Members: Dr. Jessica Larsen
J. ZEBULON MAHARREY
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
MARY G. MALEY
M.S. Geology
Thesis Title: None yet -- Stratigraphy, Structre, Geochemistry
Committee Members: Dr. Catherine Hanks
DAVID B. McALPIN
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
HEATHER L. McFARLIN
Ph.D. Geophysics
Thesis Title: None yet -- Volcanology/Volcano seismology, Geochemistry, Igneous/Metamorphis Petrology
Committee Members: Dr. Doulgas Christensen and Dr. Steve McNutt
ROBERT W. McNABB
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
JOSHUA K. MILLER
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
SUMMER A. MILLER
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
JACOB R. MONGRAIN -- GRADUATED FALL 2012
Ph.D. Geology
Thesis Title: Depositional Systems, Provenance, and Paleoclimate of the Late Miocene to Pliocene Beluga and Sterling Formations, Cook Inlet Forarc Basin, Alaska
Committee Members: Dr. Paul McCarthy, Chair
Dr. Sarah Fowell, Dr. Paul Layer, Dr. David LePain, Dr. Robert Swenson
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
HIROTSUGU MORI
Ph.D. Geology
Thesis Title: None yet -- Paleontology
Committee Members: Dr. Patrick Druckenmiller, Chair
Dr. Sarah Fowell, Dr. Kris Hundertmark, Dr. Matthew Wooller
HEIKO MUELLER
M.S. Geology
Thesis Title: Interpretation of Sheam Sediments
Committee Members: Dr. Franz Meyer and Dr. Rainer Newberry, Co-Chairs
Dr. Elisabeth Nadin
OWEN K. NEILL -- GRADUATED SPRING 2013
Ph.D. Geology
Thesis Title: Petrologic and Geochemical Tracers of Magmatic Movement in Volcanic Arc Systems: Case Studies From the Aleutian Islands and Kamchatka, Russia
Committee Members: Drs. Jessica Larsen and Pavel Izbekov, Co-Chairs
Dr. Christopher Nye, Dr. Kenneth P. Severin
MEGAN E. O'SADNICK
M.S. Geophysics
Thesis Title: None yet -- Glaciers, Remote sensing, Sea ice, Quaternary studies
Committee Members: Dr. Hajo Eicken
MARC OGGIER
Thesis Title: None yet -- Sea ice, Remote sensing and Glaciers
Committee Members: Dr. Hajo Eicken
JOHN M. PERREAULT
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
BRIAN K. PERTTU
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
DAVID B. PODRASKY
Ph.D. Geophysics
Thesis Title: Observations of Changes in Flow on Jakobshavns Isbrae, West Greenland
Committee Members: Dr. Martin Truffer, Chair
Dr. Ed Bueler, Dr. Regine Hock, Dr. Christopher Larsen, Dr. Roman Motyka
KRISTEN E. RAHILLY
Ph.D Geology
Thesis Title: None Yet -- Volcanology
Committee Members: Dr. Jonathan Dehn, Chair,
Dr. Erin Pettit, Dr. Peter Webley
PRAJNA REGMI
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
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
ALEC J. RIZZO
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
M.S. Geophysics
Thesis Title: None yet -- Volcanology and Infrasound
Committee Members: Dr. David Fee, Chair
Dr. Doug Christensen, Dr. Michael West
ALEXANDER E. SACCO
M.S. Geophysics
Thesis Title: None Yet -- Sea ice, Tectonics, Quaternary studies, Permafrost
Committee Members: Dr. Andrew Mahoney
SUSANA SALAZAR JARAMILLO
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
CHERYL M. SANDERS
M.S. Geology
Thesis Title: None Yet -- Structure
Committee Members: Dr. Wesley Wallace, Chair
Dr. Catherine L. Hanks, Dr. Paul McCarthy
KATHERINE E. SCHAEFER -- GRADUATED FALL 2012
M.S. Interdisciplinary
Thesis Title: Developing a Decision Support System for Emergency Management Services in the Fairbanks North Star Borough
Committee Members: Dr. Anupma Prakash, Chair
Dr. John George, Dr. William Witte
DANIELLE J. SERRATOS
M.S. Geology
Thesis Title: None Yet -- Paleontology
Committee Members: Dr. Patrick Druckenmiller, Chair
Dr. Sarah Fowell, Dr.Paul McCarthy
GRANT T. SHIMER
Ph.D. Geology
Thesis Title: Sedimentology And Stratigraphy of Cretaceous Depositional Sequences in the Colville Basin Near Umiat, Alaska
Committee Members: Dr. Paul McCarthy, Chair
Dr. Catherine Hanks, Dr. Paul Layer, Dr. Marwan Wartes, Dr. Michael Whalen
JILL S. SHIPMAN
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
VIPUL SILWAL
Ph.D. Geophysics
Thesis Title: None Yet -- Seismology, Geodynamics, Volcano Seismology, Planetary Studies
Committee Members: Dr. Carl Tape
TORGE S. STEENSEN
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
CARLA S. "SUSI" TOMSICH
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
ERIN D. TROCHIM
Ph.D. Interdisciplinary -- 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
BARBARA L. TRUESSEL
Ph.D. Geophysics
Thesis Title: Rapid Retreat and Thinning of a Lake Calving Glacier: Yakutat Glacier, Southeast Alaska
Committee Members: Dr. Martin Truffer, Chair
Dr. Regine Hock, Dr. Christopher Larsen, Dr. Roman Motyka
AMY L. TUZZOLINO
M.S. Geology
Thesis Title: None Yet -- Economic geology, Igneous/Metamorphic petrology, Geochemistry, Structure, Geophysics
Committee Members: Dr. Rainer Newberry
GABRIELLE T. VANCE
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
CHRISTINE F. WAIGL
Ph.D. Geophysics
Thesis Title: None Yet -- Remote sensing, Sea ice
Committee Members: Dr. Martin Stuefer
RAELENE WENTZ
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
RACHEL E. WESTBROOK
M.S. Geology
Thesis Title: None yet -- Palynology
Committee Members: Dr. Sarah Fowell, Chair
Dr. Nancy Bigelow, Dr. Matthew Wooller
ANNA K. "ANNIE" WORDEN
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
THOMAS "COLBY" WRIGHT
M.S. Geology
Thesis Title: None Yet -- Sedimentology
Committee Members: Dr. Paul McCarthy, Chair
Dr. Patrick Druckenmiller, Dr. Anthony Fiorillo, Dr. Sarah Fowell
JOANNA C. YOUNG
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
KURT R. YUENGLING
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