Thesis Defenses 2010-2011 – Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences

Rebecca Tsang	Toward Development of a Long Rupture History of the Northern Imperial Fault in Mesquite Basin, Imperial Valley, Southern California M.S. Candidate Advisor Dr. Thomas Rockwell June 9th, 2011, 1:15pm
Nissa Morton	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 M.S. Candidate Advisor Dr. Gary Girty June 9th, 2011, 12:00pm
Rumi Takedatsu	Estimation of Lateral Variations of the Mohorovičić Discontinuity Using 2D Modeling of Receiver Functions M.S. Candidate Advisor Dr. Kim Bak Olsen May 31st, 2011, 11:00am
Krista Muela	Timing And Style Of Miocene Deformation, Indian Pass And Picacho State Recreation Area, SE California, U.S.A. M.S. Candidate Advisor Dr. Gary Girty May 27th, 2011, 10:00am
Nicholas Godinez	Stratigraphy and petrologic evolution of the Oligocene-Miocene Comondú Group near Bahia Concepcion and Loreto, Baja California Sur, México M.S. Candidate Advisor Dr. David Kimbrough May 20th, 2011, 10:00am
Esteban Bowles-Martinez	Geophysical imaging of the San Andreas Fault damage zone near Little Rock, California M.S. Candidate Advisor Dr. Tom Rockwell May 13th, 2011, 2:00pm
Crystal Replogle	Weathering characteristics within the zone of precariously balanced rocks in Southern California: a probabilistic approach to analyzing corestone-saprock development M.S. Candidate Advisor Dr. Gary Girty May 13th, 2011, 1:00 pm
Erik Gordon	Metamorphic Alteration of the Jurassic Metavolcanic Member, Winterhaven Formation, SE California; Implications for Classification and Interpreting Tectonic Setting B.S. Candidate Advisor Dr. Gary Girty May 11th, 2011, 8:00am
Karl Bloor	Indications of a Geothermal Resource West of Santa Fe, New Mexico B.S. Candidate Advisors Dr. Shuo Ma and Dr. George Jiracek May 11th, 2011, 8:20 am
Tim Pelbath	Using texture and geochemical data to assess the stratigraphic relationships between the Marcus Wash and Rojo Grande units, Picacho State Recreation Area, SE California B.S. Candidate Advisor Dr. Gary Girty May 11th, 2011, 8:40 am
Steven Warner	Geochemistry and Petrogenesis of mid- Miocene Volcanoes from the Ancestral Cascades of Northeastern California B.S. Candidate Advisor Dr. Victor Camp May 11th, 2011, 9:00 am OUTSTANDING THESIS PRESENTATION AWARD
Heather O’Brien	Water Chemistry in Two Multi-Depth Monitoring Wells in San Diego, California: A Comparison of Core Extracted Pore Water Versus Multiple Depth Well Samples B.S. Candidate Advisor Dr. Kathy Thorbjarnarson May 11th, 2011, 9:20 am
William Munson	Investigating compositional variation in Cabrillo Formation conglomerate volcanic clasts, San Diego County, California B.S. Candidate Advisor Dr. David Kimbrough May 11th, 2011, 10:00 am
Daniel Torn	3D Petrel Geomodeling: Proposal for Redevelopment of a Hydrocarbon Reservoir B.S. Candidate Advisor Dr. Gary Girty May 11th, 2011, 10:20 am
Carrie Welker	No evidence for seawater-derived crustal contamination at Loihi Seamount from trace metal abundances and oxygen isotope ratios B.S. Candidate Advisor Dr. Aaron Pietruszka May 11th, 2011, 10:40 am OUTSTANDING GRADUATE AWARD Most influential professor – Aaron Pietruzska
Brianne Rohrer	Indications of release of constituents into groundwater in San Diego County’s South Chollas Landfill B.S. Candidate Advisor Dr. Kathy Thorbjarnarson May 11th, 2011, 11:00 am
Adam Kjos	The Bahia Tortugas fault basement mélange, Baja California Sur, Mexico: a record of forearc extension and orogenic mixing? M.S. Candidate Advisor Dr. David Kimbrough April 29th, 2011, 1:30 pm
Gayatri Indah Marliyani	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”? M.S. Candidate Advisor Dr. Thomas Rockwell April 27th, 2011, 10:00 am
Daniel Heaton	Short magma residence times for Kilauea Volcano based on high-precision Pb isotope ratios M.S. Candidate Advisor Dr. Aaron Petruszka April 25th, 2011, 2:00 pm
Didik Buluade	Fractured Reservoir Identification on Seismic Data Using Seismic Curvature Attribute and FMI Logs in Teapot Dome, Wyoming M.S. Candidate Advisor Dr. Kathy Thorbjarnarson April 25th, 2011, 11:00 am
David O’Leary	Movement of water infiltrated from a recharge basin to wells M.S. Candidate Advisor Dr. Kathy Thorbjarnarson April 25th, 2011, 9:30 am
Evan Martin	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 B.S. Candidate Advisors Dr. Stephen Schellenberg, Dr. Tom Deméré December 10th, 2010, 11:00 am OUTSTANDING THESIS PRESENTATION AWARD
Chris Martin	Geothermal Evaluations in the Rio Grande Rift, New Mexico Using SAGE Magnetotelluric Sounding B.S. Candidate Advisors Dr. Shuo Ma December 10th, 2010, 10:40 am
Marty Koehler	The Accumulation and Distribution of Copper and Zinc on an Agricultural Field Fertilized With Liquid Swine Manure M.S. Candidate Advisors Dr. David Kimbrough December 10th, 2010, 10:00 am
Brian Pierce	Assessing the allogenic and autogenic controls on cyclothem deposition of an epeiric shelf: A case study from the Upper Pennsylvanian Finis Shale of Texas M.S. Candidate Advisors Dr. Jared R. Morrow, Dr. Stephen A. Schellenberg, and Dr. Gary Girty October 28th, 2010, 3:00 pm
John Abeid	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 M.S. Candidate Advisors Dr. David Kimbrough, Dr.Patrick Abbott October 28th, 2010, 10:00 am
Barrett Salisbury	LiDAR and Field Observations of Earthquake Slip Distribution for the Central San Jacinto Fault M.S. Candidate Advisor Dr. Tom Rockwell September 27th, 2010, 10:00 am
Holly Olsen	The early Miocene Quechan volcanics, SE California, U.S.A.: slab-window or continental-margin arc volcanics? M.S. Candidate Advisor Dr. Gary Girty September 27th, 2010, 9:00 am
Lauren Sutton	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 M.S. Candidate Advisor Dr. Gary Girty August 11th, 2010, 1:00 pm
Kathryn Anderson	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 M.S. Candidate Advisor Dr. Tom Rockwell July 15th, 2010, 3:00 pm

Toward Development of a Long Rupture History of the Northern Imperial Fault in Mesquite Basin, Imperial Valley, Southern California

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

Estimation of Lateral Variations of the Mohorovičić Discontinuity Using 2D Modeling of Receiver Functions

Timing And Style Of Miocene Deformation, Indian Pass And Picacho State Recreation Area, SE California, U.S.A.

Stratigraphy and petrologic evolution of the Oligocene-Miocene Comondú Group near Bahia Concepcion and Loreto, Baja California Sur, México

Geophysical imaging of the San Andreas Fault damage zone near Little Rock, California

Weathering characteristics within the zone of precariously balanced rocks in Southern California: a probabilistic approach to analyzing corestone-saprock development

Metamorphic Alteration of the Jurassic Metavolcanic Member, Winterhaven Formation, SE California; Implications for Classification and Interpreting Tectonic Setting

Indications of a Geothermal Resource West of Santa Fe, New Mexico

Using texture and geochemical data to assess the stratigraphic relationships between the Marcus Wash and Rojo Grande units, Picacho State Recreation Area, SE California

Water Chemistry in Two Multi-Depth Monitoring Wells in San Diego, California: A Comparison of Core Extracted Pore Water Versus Multiple Depth Well Samples

Investigating compositional variation in Cabrillo Formation conglomerate volcanic clasts, San Diego County, California

3D Petrel Geomodeling: Proposal for Redevelopment of a Hydrocarbon Reservoir

No evidence for seawater-derived crustal contamination at Loihi Seamount from trace metal abundances and oxygen isotope ratios

Indications of release of constituents into groundwater in San Diego County’s South Chollas Landfill

The Bahia Tortugas fault basement mélange, Baja California Sur, Mexico: a record of forearc extension and orogenic mixing?

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”?

Short magma residence times for Kilauea Volcano based on high-precision Pb isotope ratios

Fractured Reservoir Identification on Seismic Data Using Seismic Curvature Attribute and FMI Logs in Teapot Dome, Wyoming

Movement of water infiltrated from a recharge basin to wells

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

Geothermal Evaluations in the Rio Grande Rift, New Mexico Using SAGE Magnetotelluric Sounding

The Accumulation and Distribution of Copper and Zinc on an Agricultural Field Fertilized With Liquid Swine Manure

Assessing the allogenic and autogenic controls on cyclothem deposition of an epeiric shelf: A case study from the Upper Pennsylvanian Finis Shale of Texas

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

LiDAR and Field Observations of Earthquake Slip Distribution for the Central San Jacinto Fault

The early Miocene Quechan volcanics, SE California, U.S.A.: slab-window or continental-margin arc volcanics?

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

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