ESS Graduate Student PhD Dissertations

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PhD Dissertations

Dissertations for the following people are available here on-line.

2012 :

Casale, Gabriele
Core complex exhumation in peri-Adriatic extension, and kinematics of Neogene slip along the Saddle Mountains thrust

Cash, Michele
The Plasma Physics Processes that Drive Ring Current Enhancements during Geomagnetic Storms and Substorms

Danilina, Iryna
Thermal-infrared radiosity and heat-diffusion model for estimating sub-pixel radiant temperatures over the course of a day

Kayzar, Theresa
The Complexity of Arc Magmatism: A Geochemical Investigation of Crustal Processes Beneath a Highly Productive Volcanic Center, Kamchatka, Russia

Lundin, Jessica
Self-consistent modeling of ice-sheet evolution and paleoclimate

Matthew, Smith
Hydrated silica on Mars: Global comparison and in-depth analysis at Antoniadi Crater

Toner, Jonathan
Using Salt Accumulations and Luminescence Dating to Study the Glacial History of Taylor Valley, Antarctica

2010 :

Harnmeijer, Jelte
"Squeezing Blood From A Stone: Inferences Into The Life and Depositional Environments Of The Early Archaean"

Henck, Amanda
"Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Erosion in Western China and Tibet"

Martin, Ruth
"Accessing the Records of Methane Passage in Ancient Sediments"

2009 :

Jones, Joshua
"Subband Investigation of Continuous Volcanic Tremor"

Koutnik, Michelle
"Inferring Histories of Accumulation Rate, Ice Thickness, and Ice Flow from Internal Layers in Glaciers and Ice Sheets"

Kunasek, Shelley
"Advances in reconstructing past atmospheric oxidation chemistry using the oxygen isotope composition of nitrate and sulfate in ice cores"

Morgan, Daniel
"Constraining the age and stability of unconsolidated deposits with cosmogenic nuclides in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, AntArtica"

Nemser, Eliza S.
"Episodic Development of Fault-Zone Architecture Investigated Using Small Displacement Strike-Slip Faults"

Ruprecht,Philipp
"The Time and Length Scales of Magma Mixing: The Natural Laboratory of Volcan Quizapu, Chile"

Thelen, Weston
"A Seismological Comparison of Bezymianny Volcano, Russia, and Mount St. Helens Volcano, Washington."

2008 :

Jarvis, Julia C.
"Isotopic Studies of Ice Core and Atmospheric Nitrogen Oxides in Polar Regions"

Koenig, Lora
"Firn Properties Relevant to Passive Microwave Remote Sensing"

Kokorowski, Michael
"Energetic Particle Precipitation Effects on the Electrodynamics of the Coupled Magnetosphere-Ionosphere-Atmosphere"

MacGregor, Joseph
"Development and Applications of a Radar Attenuation Model for Polar Ice Sheets"

2007 :

Finnegan, Noah J.
"Channel morphology and bedrock river incision: Theory, experiments, and application to the eastern Himalaya"

Higman, Bretwood
"Parsing the Onshore Sandy Deposits of Modern Tsunamis"

Koppes, Michelle
"Glacier erosion and response to climate from Alaska to Patagonia"

Lock, Jane
"Interpreting Low-Temperature Thermochronometric Data in Fold-and-Thrust Belts: An Example from the Western Foothills, Taiwan."

Rupper, Summer
"Glacier Sensitivity and Regional Climate: Past and Present"

Schwaiger, Hans Frederick
"An Implementation of Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics For Large Deformation, History Dependent Geomaterials With Applications to Tectonic Deformation"

Vance, Steven
"High Pressure and Low Temperature Equations of State for Aqueous Magnesium Sulfate: Applications to the Search for Life in Extraterrestrial Oceans, with Particular Reference to Europa."

Williford, Kenneth Hart
"Biogeochemistry of the Triassic-Jurassic Boundary"

2006 :

Barberopoulou, Angeliki
"Investigating the damage potential of seismic seiches: a case study of the Puget Lowland, Washington State."

Brummer, Christopher
"Influence of mass wasting on bed-surface armoring, lag formation, and sediment storage in mountain drainage basins of western Washington State"

Fuller, Chris
"Processes Controlling The Structural Morphology Of The Olympic Mountains Segment Of Cascadia And Implications For Subduction-Thrust Seismicity"

Kay, Jennifer
"Physical controls on cirrus cloud inhomogeneity and radiative impacts"

McCausland, Wendy
"Tracking Subduction Tremor in Cascadia Using Regional Network and Small-Aperture Seismic Array Data"

Mitchell, Sara Gran Mitchell
"Late-Cenozoic Topographic Evolution Of The Cascade Range, Washington State"

Paty, Carol
"Ganymede's Magnetosphere: Unraveling The Ganymede-Jupiter Interaction Through Combining Multi-Fluid Simulations And Observations"

Price, Steve
"What Can Ice-Flow Models Tell Us About Changes In West Antartica?"

2005 :

Gran, Karen Bobbitt
"Fluvial Recovery Following Basin-Wide Sediment Loading At Mount Pinatubo, Phillipines"

Hawley, Robert L.
"Borehole Investigations Of Firn Processes"

McDanniel, Shannon
"New Techniques For The Investigation Of Deformation Mechanisms In Flow Of Fine-Grained Ice l(h)"

O'Neal, Michael Aaron
"Late Little Ice Age Glacier Fluctuations In The Cascade Range of Washington and Northern Oregon"

Smith, Benjamin E.
"Characterization Of The Small Scale Ice Sheet Topography Of Antartica And Greenland"

Thomas, Jeremy Norman
"Lightning-Driven Electric And Magnetic Fields Measured In The Stratosphere: Implications For Sprites"

2004 :

Balco, Gregory A.
"The Sedimentary Record of SubGlacial Erosion Beneath The Laurentide Ice Sheet"

Perry, Randall Stewart
"Biological Chemicals in Rock Coatings"

2003 :

Pettit, Erin C.
"Unique Dynamic Behaviors Of Ice Divides : Siple Dome And The Rheological Properties of Ice"