Loren Wimmer
Loren Wimmer
Scenario-Based Seismic Loss Estimation for San Diego County, California

M.S. Candidate
Advisor Dr. Steven Day

Defense May 22nd, 2009 1:00pm

Krista Muela
Krista Muela
Stratigraphy and structure of the Miocene Bear Canyon Conglomerate, Imperial County SE California: Evidence for the episodic growth of the Chocolate Mountains anticlinorium

B.S. Candidate
Advisor Dr. Gary Girty

Defense May 13th, 2009 8:00am

**Best Senior Thesis Presentation**

Jerehme Acosta
Jerehme Acosta
 
Petrology of the Santiago Peak Volcanics, San Diego County, California

B.S. Candidate
Advisor Dr. Dave Kimbrough

Defense May 13th, 2009 8:20am

Justin Kerl
Justin Kerl
Possible relationship of the Iron Mountain metavolcanic assemblage to the El Cajon Mtn ring complex, San Diego Country, California

B.S. Candidate
Advisor Dr. Dave Kimbrough

Defense May 13th, 2009 8:40am

Robert Gallardo
Robert Gallardo
Seismic Anisotropy in the Julian Schist, San Diego CA

B.S. Candidate
Advisor Dr. Robert Mellors

Defense May 13th, 2009 9:00am

Robert Edie
Robert Edie
 
Using XRD Peak Broadening Analysis on Quartz to Identify Shatter Cones of the Santa Fe New Mexico Impact Structure

B.S. Candidate
Advisor Dr. Jared Morrow

Defense May 13th, 2009 9:20am

Dylan Collins
Dylan Collins
Latitunal Controls on the Martian Crater Densities

B.S. Candidate
Dr. Brad Thomson
The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory

Defense May 13th, 2009 9:40am

Peter Winther
Peter Winther
Magnetotelluric Investigation of the Santo Domingo Basin, Rio Grande Rift, New Mexico

M.S. Candidate
Advisor Dr. George Jiracek

Defense May 13th, 2009 10:00am

Frank Forcino
Frank Forcino
Mytilus californianus as an environmental monitor: a case study from central California

M.S. Candidate
Advisor Dr. Stephen Schellenberg

Defense May 13th, 2009 10:45am

Jared Warner
Jared Warner
Biotic Response of Ostracodes to the Middle Eocene Climatic Optimum (MECO; 40.0 Ma) in the Southern Indian Ocean (ODP Site 748)

M.S. Candidate
Advisor Dr. Stephen Schellenberg

Defense May 13th, 2009 11:30am

 
Emily Allen
Emily Allen
Physical and Chemical Characteristics of Unweathered Pulverized Rock along the San Andreas Fault, Little Rock, CA

M.S. Candidate
Advisor Dr. Tom Rockwell

Defense May 13th, 2009 1:00pm

Dale Burns
Dale Burns
The Recent Prehistoric Geochemical Evolution of Summit Lavas From Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii

M.S. Candidate
Advisor Dr. Aaron Pietruszka

Defense May 13th, 2009 3:15pm
 **Best Master Thesis Presentation**

Kean Bliss
Kean Bliss
Evaluation of XRD and Raman peak broadening in shock-metamorphosed carbonates from selected carbonate-target bolide impact structures

M.S. Candidate
Advisor Dr. Jared Morrow

Defense May 13th, 2009 2:30pm

Matthew Sisk
Matthew Sisk
Chemical and Physical Characteristics of Pulverized Tejon Lookout Granite Adjacent to the San Andreas and Garlock Faults: Implications for Earthquake Physics

M.S. Candidate
Advisor Dr. Tom Rockwell

Defense May 8th, 2009 3:00pm

Andrew Gritz
Andrew Gritz
Effect of Heterogeneous Prestress on Near-Field Rupture Directivity

M.S. Candidate
Advisor Dr. Steven Day

Defense March 9th, 2009 11:00am

Rumi Takedatsu
Rumi Takedatsu
Study of crustal structure in the Caucasus and Caspian regions using receiver functions

B.S. Candidate
Advisor Dr. Rob Mellors

Defense December 12th, 2008 9:00am

Jason Ricketts
Jason Ricketts
Crustal Structure of the Caucasus/Caspian region using gravity and receiver functions

B.S. Candidate
Advisor Dr. Rob Mellors

Defense December 12th, 2008 9:20am

Tiffany Schillereff
Tiffany Schillereff
Potential Controls Affecting Gastropod Biomass in the the High Intertidal Zones at Neighboring Locations

B.S. Candidate
Advisor Dr. Stephen Schellenberg

Defense December 12th, 2008 9:40am

Afton Van Zandt
Afton Van Zandt
Southern Coyote Creek Fault to Superstition Hills Fault: New Insight to the San Jacinto Fault System

M.S. Candidate
Advisors Dr. Rob Mellors, Dr. Thomas Rockwell, and Dr. Douglas Stow

Defense December 12th, 2008 10:00am

Matt Burgess
Matt Burgess
Characterizing an Artificial-Recharge Site in a Desert Environment Using Time-Domain Electromagnetics

M.S. Candidate
Advisor Dr. George Jiracek, Dr. Paul Bedrosian (USGS)

Defense December 12th, 2008 11:00am

Steven Stuart
Steven Stuart
Groundwater and Surface Water Interactions at the Tijuana Estuary, San Diego County, California

M.S. Candidate
Advisor Dr. Kathy Thorbjarnarson

Defense October 15th, 2008 2:00pm

Ben Slotnick
Ben Slotnick
Biotic response of Tethyan bathyal ostracodes through the Eocene-Oligocene Transition from the Massignano Composite Stratotype Section (east central Italy)

M.S. Candidate
Advisor Dr. Stephen Schellenberg

Defense September 8th, 2008 2:00pm

Cameron Campbell
Cameron Campbell
Identification of a New Class of Deformation Bands

M.S. Candidate
Advisor Dr. Gary Girty

Defense August 14th, 2008 1:30 pm