2019 – 2020 Thesis Defense

Theses Defenses of 2019-2020

Spring 2020 PhD Candidates

Climate-driven coastal morphodynamics along Southeast Queensland, Australia

PhD Candidate
Advisor: Dr. Allen Gontz

Defense: March 27th, 2020 11am
Via Zoom

Neotectonics in San Diego, California: Paleoseismology, Slip Rate, and Offshore Structure of the Rose Canyon Fault

PhD Candidate
Advisor: Dr. Jillian Maloney

Defense: June 3rd, 2020 11am
Via Zoom

Spring 2020 MS Candidates

Elemental mass redistribution and compositional linear modeling: evidence for polygenetic development of regolith, southern California, U.S.A.

MS Candidate
Advisor: Dr. Gary Girty

Defense: January 17th, 2020 10am
CSL 422

Migration Dynamics and Internal Architecture of a Shifting Dune Field Margine, Algodones Dunes, Southeastern California

MS Candidate
Advisor: Dr. Allen Gontz

Defense: May 7th, 2020 10am
via zoom

Mixing of Metamorphic and Plutonic First-Cycle Detritus in the Pleistocene Bautista Beds

MS Candidate
Advisor: Dr. Gary Girty

Defense: May 7th, 2020 10:45am
via zoom

Paleolandform Reconstruction Offshore of the Channel Islands Using Sediment Cores and High-Resolution Seismic Data

MS Candidate
Advisor: Dr. Jillian Maloney

Defense: May 7th, 2020 11:30am
via zoom

Spring 2020 BS Candidates

Reconstruction of Late Quaternary Offsets Along the Southernmost Elsinore Fault Zone Using High Resolution SfM Imagery

BS Candidate
Advisor: Dr. Tom Rockwell

Defense: May 8th, 2020 10am
via zoom

Physical Volcanology of Fragmented Volcanic Rocks in the Miocene Jacumba/Alverson Volcanics, Devil’s Canyon, California

BS Candidate
Advisor: Dr. Vic Camp

Defense: May 8th, 2020 10:30am
via zoom

Ophiomorpha and Gyrolithes ichnofaunal associations, Early-Mid Eocene Delmar Formation, Del Mar North Beach, San Diego, California

BS Candidate
Advisor: Dr. Allen Gontz and Bonnie Bloeser

Defense: May 8th, 2020 11am
via zoom

Geology and Volcanology of the Cerro Siete Colores caldera complex, Mendoza Province, Argentina

BS Candidate
Advisor: Dr. Dave Kimbrough

Defense: May 8th, 2020 11:30am
via zoom

Evaluationg Future Groundwater Sustainability in Kern County, California under SGMA Regulations using MODFLOW

BS Candidate
Advisor: Dr. Matt Weingarten

Defense: May 8th, 2020 1:30pm
via zoom

Quantifying Dry Weather Flow Sources Using Stable Isotopes in San Diego County, CA

BS Candidate
Advisor: Dr. Trent Biggs

Defense: May 8th, 2020 2pm
via zoom

Fall 2019 PhD Candidates

Structural architecture of the Western and Central Transverse Ranges, California, USA

PhD Candidate
Advisor: Dr. Tom Rockwell (chair)

Defense: December 6th, 2019 10:30am
CSL 422

Fall 2019 MS Candidates

Characterization of Paleochannels offshore from the Northern Channels Islands, California USA

MS Candidate
Advisor: Dr. Jillian Maloney

Defense: December 6th, 2019 9am
CSL 422

Gibbsite discovered in fracture rind of spheroidally weathered granodiorite, Santa Margarita Ecological Reserve, southern California

MS Candidate
Advisor: Dr.Gary Girty

Defense: December 13th, 2019 10am
CSL 422

Recognizing the effects of a small scale extensional stepover along the Central break of the Ocotillo Badlands contractional stepover, southern California, U.S.A.

MS Candidate
Advisor: Dr.Gary Girty

Defense: December 20th, 2019 10am
CSL 422

Fall 2019 BS Candidates