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Alumni 2010-Present
Indications of a Geothermal Resource West of Santa Fe, New Mexico Undergraduate Student Advisors Dr. Shuo Ma and Dr. George Jiracek 2011
Geophysical imaging of the San Andreas Fault damage zone near Little Rock, California Graduate Student Advisor Dr. Tom Rockwell 2011
Fractured Reservoir Identification on Seismic Data Using Seismic Curvature Attribute and FMI Logs in Teapot Dome, Wyoming Graduate Student Advisor Dr. Kathy Thorbjarnarson 2011
Paleodepth reconstruction through the Pennsylvanian Finis Shale of Texas: Insights from brachiopod oxygen isotopes Undergraduate Student Advisor Dr. Stephen Schellenberg 2011
The Geochemical Characteristics of the lower Miocene Volcanic and Epiclastic Unit, Picacho State Recreation Area, SE California Undergraduate Student Advisor Dr. Gary Girty 2011
Geochemical assessment of mixing advanced treated wastewater and groundwater in the Harmony Grove Basin, Southern California Undergraduate Student Advisor Dr. Kathy Thorbjarnarson 2011
Stratigraphy and petrologic evolution of the Oligocene-Miocene Comondú Group near Bahia Concepcion and Loreto, Baja California Sur, México Graduate Student Advisor Dr. David Kimbrough 2011
Metamorphic Alteration of the Jurassic Metavolcanic Member, Winterhaven Formation, SE California; Implications for Classification and Interpreting Tectonic Setting Undergraduate Student Advisor Dr. Gary Girty 2011
Short magma residence times for Kilauea Volcano based on high-precision Pb isotope ratios Graduate Student Advisor Dr. Aaron Petruszka 2011
The Bahia Tortugas fault basement mélange, Baja California Sur, Mexico: a record of forearc extension and orogenic mixing? Graduate Student Advisor Dr. David Kimbrough 2011
Straightening of the northern San Jacinto Fault, California: Is the San Jacinto fault competing with the San Andreas Fault for "Big Kid on the Block"? Graduate Student Advisor Dr. Thomas Rockwell 2011
Saprock: A long term recorder of ground shaking, Peninsular Ranges, southern California Graduate Student Advisor Dr. Gary Girty 2011
Fault zone architecture of the San Jacinto fault zone in Horse Canyon, southern California: implications for focused fluid flow during rupture at shallow crustal levels Graduate Student Advisor Dr. Gary Girty 2011
Timing And Style Of Miocene Deformation, Indian Pass And Picacho State Recreation Area, SE California, U.S.A. Graduate Student Advisor Dr. Gary Girty 2011
Investigating compositional variation in Cabrillo Formation conglomerate volcanic clasts, San Diego County, California Undergraduate Student Advisor Dr. David Kimbrough 2011
Water Chemistry in Two Multi-Depth Monitoring Wells in San Diego, California: A Comparison of Core Extracted Pore Water Versus Multiple Depth Well Samples Undergraduate Student Advisor Dr. Kathy Thorbjarnarson 2011
Growth Dynamics in the Intertidal Barnacle Megabalanus: Development of a Subseasonal Paleoceanographic Archive Undergraduate Student Advisor Dr. Stephen Schellenberg 2011
Movement of water infiltrated from a recharge basin to wells Graduate Student Advisor Dr. Kathy Thorbjarnarson 2011
Using texture and geochemical data to assess the stratigraphic relationships between the Marcus Wash and Rojo Grande units, Picacho State Recreation Area, SE California Undergraduate Student Advisor Dr. Gary Girty 2011
Enigmatic new Osagean unit sitting atop Lower Mississippian Joana Limestone at Granite Mountain Island, Middle Range, West-Central Utah Graduate Student Advisors Dr. David Kimbrough & Dr. Norrie Robbins 2011
Assessing mass change during the transformation of K-feldspar poor tonalitic corestone to saprock: Implications for the general model of the weathering of granitoids Graduate Student Advisor Dr. Gary Girty 2011
Weathering characteristics within the zone of precariously balanced rocks in Southern California: a probabilistic approach to analyzing corestone-saprock development Graduate Student Advisor Dr. Gary Girty 2011
Indications of release of constituents into groundwater in San Diego County's South Chollas Landfill Undergraduate Student Advisor Dr. Kathy Thorbjarnarson 2011
Estimation of Lateral Variations of the Mohorovičić Discontinuity Using 2D Modeling of Receiver Functions Graduate Student Advisor Dr. Kim Bak Olsen 2011
3D Petrel Geomodeling: Proposal for Redevelopment of a Hydrocarbon Reservoir Undergraduate Student Advisor Dr. Gary Girty 2011
Toward Development of a Long Rupture History of the Northern Imperial Fault in Mesquite Basin, Imperial Valley, Southern California Graduate Student Advisor Dr. Thomas Rockwell 2011
Geochemistry and Petrogenesis of mid- Miocene Volcanoes from the Ancestral Cascades of Northeastern California Undergraduate Student Advisor Dr. Victor Camp 2011 OUTSTANDING THESIS PRESENTATION AWARD
No evidence for seawater-derived crustal contamination at Loihi Seamount from trace metal abundances and oxygen isotope ratios Undergraduate Student Advisor Dr. Aaron Pietruszka 2011 OUTSTANDING GRADUATE AWARD Most influential professor - Aaron Pietruzska
The West Bullion-Mesquite Lake Fault Step-Over: Assessment and Comparison With Faults of the Eastern California Shear Zone, Twenty-Nine Palms Marine Corps Base, California Undergraduate Student Advisor Dr. Tom Rockwell 2011
Integrating Wells and 3D Seismic Data to Delineate the Sandstone Reservoir Distribution of the Talang Akar Formation, South Sumatra Basin, Indonesia Graduate Student Advisor Dr. Gary Girty 2011
Late Cretaceous-Eocene landscape evolution and drainage reorganization along the southwest edge of the Cordillera; insight from volcanic clasts in conglomerates of the Cabrillo Formation and Poway-La Jolla Groups, San Diego County, California Graduate Student Advisors Dr. David Kimbrough, Dr.Patrick Abbott 2010
Chemical and Physical changes within the damage and pulverized zones of the Mojave segment of the San Andreas fault: implications for the origin of pink potassium feldspar grains Graduate Student Advisor Dr. Tom Rockwell 2010
Seismic Hazard Analysis of Kyrgyzstan using Data from the 2006 MW 5.8 Kochkor earthquake Graduate Student Advisor Robert Mellors 2010
The Rattlesnake Valley and Oriflamme Canyon plutons: key temporal markers in the Jurassic and Cretaceous development of the transition zone of the Peninsular Ranges batholith Graduate Student Advisor Dr. Gary Girty 2010
Relocation of earthquakes in the Eastern Greater Caucasus region and its tectonic implications Undergraduate Student Advisor Dr. Rob Mellors 2010
The Smoke Creek Dike Swarm, Northwestern Nevada Undergraduate Student Advisor Dr. Vic Camp 2010
Vertebrae Morphology of Leptoceratops Gracilis Undergraduate Student Advisor Dr. Jared Morrow 2010 Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis Presentation
A new species of the extinct baleen whale genus Hepetocetus (Cetacea, Herpetocetinae) from the San Diego Formation of San Diego, California Undergraduate Student Advisor Dr. Tom Deméré and Dr.Jared Morrow 2010
Seismic Analysis of the Umiat Basin, NPRA, North Slope, Alaska Graduate Student Advisor Dr. Rob Mellors 2010
Boreflow Analysis for Simulated Well Modification: Improving Water Quality in a High Arsenic Production Well Graduate Student Advisor Dr. Kathy Thorjarnarson 2010
Tertiary Volcanism in the Southern Buffalo Hills, Smoke Creek, Nevada Undergraduate Student Advisor Dr. Vic Camp 2010 Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis Presentation Bronze Donor
Testing the Waveguide Effect in the Los Angeles Area using Ambient Seismic Noise Undergraduate Student Advisor Dr. Shuo Ma 2010
Geochemistry of the Alverson Andesite, Volcanic Hills, San Diego County, California Undergraduate Student Advisor Dr. Dave Kimbrough 2010
A Seawater-derived Uranium Signature and Possible Mechanisms of Crustal Contamination in Loihi Seamount Glasses Undergraduate Student Advisor Dr. Aaron Pietruszka 2010
The Accumulation and Distribution of Copper and Zinc on an Agricultural Field Fertilized With Liquid Swine Manure Graduate Student Advisors Dr. David Kimbrough 2010
Bulk and Elemental Mass Change in Development of Granitic Corestone and Saprolite near the Elsinore Fault Undergraduate Student Advisor Dr. Gary Girty 2010
Geothermal Evaluations in the Rio Grande Rift, New Mexico Using SAGE Magnetotelluric Soundings Undergraduate Student Advisors Dr. Shuo Ma 2010
An Examination of the Procrustes Method for Superposition as Used with Fossil Shark Teeth and the Value of Using Comparisons of Tooth Morphology in Determining the Evolutionary Relationships of Sharks Undergraduate Student Advisors Dr. Stephen Schellenberg, Dr. Tom Deméré 2010 OUTSTANDING THESIS PRESENTATION AWARD
The early Miocene Quechan volcanics, SE California, U.S.A.: slab-window or continental-margin arc volcanics? Graduate Student Advisor Dr. Gary Girty 2010
Assessing mass and volume changes in the development of saprock from corestone near the Elsinore fault zone, San Diego County, California: potential implications for ground shaking events Graduate Student Advisor Dr. Gary Girty 2010
Late Cretaceous-Eocene landscape evolution and drainage reorganization along the southwest edge of the Cordillera; insight from volcanic clasts in conglomerates of the Cabrillo Formation and Poway-La Jolla Groups, San Diego County, California Graduate Student Advisors Dr. Jared R. Morrow, Dr. Stephen A. Schellenberg, and Dr. Gary Girty 2010
Miocene growth of a depression in the Chocolate Mountains anticlinorium recorded by the Bear Canyon conglomerate, SE California Graduate Student Advisor Dr. Gary Girty 2010 Outstanding Graduate Thesis Presentation
LiDAR and Field Observations of Earthquake Slip Distribution for the Central San Jacinto Fault Graduate Student Advisor Dr. Tom Rockwell 2010
Timing of extension, NS shortening, and conjugate strike-slip faulting in the evolution of the Chocolate Mountains anticlinorium: Evidence from the Gavilan Hills, SE California Graduate Student Advisor Dr. Gary Girty 2010
The Copper Basin fault, a newly recognized reverse fault in the lower Colorado River region, SE California: Implications for Miocene-Pliocene N-S shortening within the Eastern California Shear Zone Graduate Student Advisor Dr. Gary Girty 2010
Near Surface Infiltration Measurements and the Implications for Artificial Recharge Graduate Student Advisor Dr. Kathy Thorbjarnarson 2010
