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Jason Parizek	A comparison of the Toorongo weathering profile, south Australia, and weathered regolith at Santa Margarita Ecological Reserve: Comparing weathering intensity factors derived from non-central principal component analysis B.S. Candidate Advisor Dr. Gary Girty May 9th, 2012, 8:00 am
Jamie Purcell	Physical and Chemical Properties of the Winterhaven Metavolcanic Member: Implications for Igneous Petrogenesis B.S. Candidate Advisor Dr. Gary Girty May 9th, 2012, 8:20 am
Taylor Carrasco	Geometry and Morphology of Cracks in Saprock: Implications for Ground Shaking B.S. Candidate Advisor Dr. Gary Girty May 9th, 2012, 8:40 am
Mike Verrier	Developing a Scientific Procedure for Community-Based Landslide Hazard Mapping and Introducing Landslide Education Methods for Rural Communities in Central Java, Indonesia B.S. Candidate Advisor Dr. Eric Frost and Dr. Dwikorita Karnawati May 9th, 2012, 9:00 am
Anayeli Picasso	Chloride and Nitrate Distributions in Unsaturated Alluvium, Joshua Tree, California B.S. Candidate Advisor Dr. Kathy Thorbjarnarson May 9th, 2012, 9:20 am
Beckie Biagini	Exploring Magnetotelluric Data as a Geothermal Assessment Tool in the Caja del Rio Near Santa Fe, New Mexico B.S. Candidate Advisor Dr. Kim Bak Olsen May 9th, 2012, 10:00 am
Sara Kowalke	Investigating the 2010 Moro Gulf deep earthquake sequence using the continuous back-projection technique B.S. Candidate Advisors Dr. Shou Ma, Dr. Eric Kiser and Miaki Ishii, Harvard University May 9th, 2012, 10:20 am
Emily Allen	Ocean acidification during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum at Contessa Road, Italy: Insights from weight percent carbonate content B.S. Candidate Advisor Dr. Stephen Schellenberg May 9th, 2012, 10:40 am
Erik Haaker	Moving Towards a More Complete late Holocene Chronology of Ancient Lake Cahuilla B.S. Candidate Advisor Dr. Thomas Rockwell May 9th, 2012, 11:00 am
Krishangi Groover	Mineralogy of the Stewart Mine LCT Pegmatite, Pala, California B.S. Candidate Advisor Dr. David Kimbrough May 9th, 2012, 11:20 am
Robert Donohue	Whole Rock Geochemistry of the Peñasquitos Formation, San Diego County California B.S. Candidate Advisor Dr. David Kimbrough May 9th, 2012, 11:40 am
Christopher Kohel	Forearc Basin Analysis of the Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous Eugenia Formation; New Mapping and Provenance Analysis in the Northern Vizcaino Penninsula, Baja California Sur M.S. Candidate Advisor Dr. David Kimbrough April 27th, 2012, 1:00pm
Michael Buga	Paleoseismology of the Southern Clark Strand of the San Jacinto Fault Zone, Southern California M.S. Candidate Advisor Dr. Tom Rockwell April 27th, 2012, 10:00am
Rachel Errthum	The Geochemical Characteristics of the lower Miocene Volcanic and Epiclastic Unit, Picacho State Recreation Area, SE California B.S. Candidate Advisor Dr. Gary Girty December 9th, 2011, 8:00 am
Leah Carrigan	Paleodepth reconstruction through the Pennsylvanian Finis Shale of Texas: Insights from brachiopod oxygen isotopes B.S. Candidate Advisor Dr. Stephen Schellenberg December 9th, 2011, 8:20 am
Julio Morin	Growth Dynamics in the Intertidal Barnacle Megabalanus: Development of a Subseasonal Paleoceanographic Archive B.S. Candidate Advisor Dr. Stephen Schellenberg December 9th, 2011, 8:40 am
Anthony Fisher	Geochemical assessment of mixing advanced treated wastewater and groundwater in the Harmony Grove Basin, Southern California B.S. Candidate Advisor Dr. Kathy Thorbjarnarson December 9th, 2011, 9:00 am
Kaitlin Wessel	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 B.S. Candidate Advisor Dr. Tom Rockwell December 9th, 2011, 9:20 am
Luke Ranieri	Enigmatic new Osagean unit sitting atop Lower Mississippian Joana Limestone at Granite Mountain Island, Middle Range, West-Central Utah M.S. Candidate Advisors Dr. David Kimbrough & Dr. Norrie Robbins December 9th, 2011, 10:00 am
Marck Maroun	Saprock: A long term recorder of ground shaking, Peninsular Ranges, southern California M.S. Candidate Advisor Dr. Gary Girty December 9th, 2011, 11:00am
Robet Widodo	Integrating Wells and 3D Seismic Data to Delineate the Sandstone Reservoir Distribution of the Talang Akar Formation, South Sumatra Basin, Indonesia M.S. Candidate Advisor Dr. Gary Girty September 16th, 2011, 11:00am
Zack Rayburn	Assessing mass change during the transformation of K-feldspar poor tonalitic corestone to saprock: Implications for the general model of the weathering of granitoids M.S. Candidate Advisor Dr. Gary Girty August 29th, 2011, 12:30pm

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