Thesis Defenses 2007-2008

	Relationships between QuikSCAT Satellite Sea Surface Winds and Sea Surface Temperatures Off California and Northern Baja B.S. Candidate Advisor Dr. Clive Dorman Defense May 9th, 2008, 9:00am
	Miocene volcanic rocks and conglomerates, SE California: Evidence for Neogene reactivation of the Chocolate Mountains anticlinorium M.S. Candidate Advisor Dr. Gary Girty Defense May 9th, 2008, 12:00pm
	Major element variations of Hawaiian parental magmas: Mantle source or melting control? B.S. Candidate Advisor Dr. Aaron Piertruszka Defense May 9th, 2008, 9:20am
	Detrital zircon U-Pb geochronology of Paleozoic prebatholithic rocks in the northeastern Peninsular Ranges of Southern and Baja California M.S. Candidate Advisor Dr. David Kimbrough Defense April 25th, 2008, 1:00pm
	Three dimensional elemental mass transfer during development of saprolite from corestone: Santa Margarita Ecological Reserve, Temecula, California B.S. Candidate Advisor Dr. Gary Girty Defense May 9th, 2008, 11:00am
	Correlation of static and peak dynamic coulomb failure stress with mainshocks, aftershocks, seismicity rate change, and triggered slip in the Salton Trough M.S. Candidate Advisor Dr. Kim Bak Olsen Defense December 7th, 2007, 12:00am
	Elemental Transport and Volume Strain of Fault Core and Damage Zone, San Jacinto Fault Zone, California: Assessing The Influence of Weathering M.S. Candidate Advisor Dr. Gary Girty Defense May 9th, 2008, 8:20am
	Physical, petrological, and chemical trends associated with the conversion of k-feldspar-absent quartz dioritic and tonalitic conestones to saprolite in a meditteranean (hot summer) climate, Santa Margarita Ecological Reserve (SMER), southern California, U.S.A M.S. Candidate Advisor Dr. Gary Girty Defense May 23rd, 2008, 9:00am
	Biotic response of deep-ocean ostracodes across the Paleocene-Eocene boundary M.S. Candidate Advisor Dr. Stephen Schellenberg Defense September 5th, 2007, 3:00pm
	Testing the application and precision of optically stimulated luminescence on dating lacustrine shorelines in the Imperial Valley, southern California M.S. Candidate Advisor Dr. Thomas Rockwell Defense December 7th, 2007, 10:00am
	Geochemistry and U/Pb geochronology of the eastern-most Peninsular Ranges batholith of southern California and northern Baja California; implications for magmatism and tectonics at the onset of the Laramide orogeny M.S. Candidate Advisor Dr. David Kimbrough Defense December 7th, 2007, 11:00am
Lauren Palazzolo	How useful is incomplete information for inferring predation intensity? B.S. Candidate Advisor Dr. Lindsey Leighton Defense May 9th, 2008, 10:00am
	Column Matrix Effects in the Mass Spectrometer and the Effects on Isotope Analyses B.S. Candidate Advisor Dr. Aaron Piertruszka Defense May 9th, 2008, 8:40am
	Geology of Isla Natividad, Baja California Sur, Mexico B.S. Candidate Advisor Dr. David Kimbrough Defense May 9th, 2008, 10:20am
	A Geomagnetic Survey in Santee, California B.S. Candidate Advisor Dr. George Jiracek Defense September 13th, 2007, 3:00pm
	The feasibility of antipodal volcanism as a result of the K/T impact B.S. Candidate Advisor Dr. Jared Morrow Defense May 9th, 2008, 9:40am
	Petrochemical Stratigraphy and Corrleation of Steens Basalt between Catlow Peak and Steens Mountain, Oregon B.S. Candidate Advisor Dr. Vic Camp Defense May 9th, 2008, 11:20am
	A Morphometric Approach to Competition in Ordovician Brachiopods M.S. Candidate Advisor Dr. Lindsey Leighton Defense July 27th, 2007, 3:00pm
	Quantifying the Ecological Response of Brachiopods during the Ordovician Extinction M.S. Candidate Advisor Dr. Lindsey Leighton Defense May 9th, 2008, 1:00pm
	Hydrological investigations of the Santo Domingo Basin, New Mexico using electromagnetic soundings B.S. Candidate Advisor Dr. George Jiracek Defense December 7th, 2007, 9:00am