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Research students, past and present
 

I've been fortunate to work with a number of fantastic students. The ones on this list did senior thesis work with me. I'm trying to include links to web pages of my former students, so if you want to be included, e-mail me and I'll add your link to the list.  

Senior theses advised

 

Emily Geraci, 2014, Induced Seismicity: Understanding hazard assessment and Colorado’s laws and regulations.

 

Kalyn Green, 2014, Petrographic analysis of a possible shear zone between Irving Formation and Vallecito Conglomerate on Middle Mountain.

 

Kaitlin Askelson, 2013, Kinematic Modeling of the Rampart Range Fault, Colorado Springs, Colorado.

 

Marcus Henderson, 2013, Fry analysis and 3D finite strain of clasts in the Vallecito Conglomerate, southwest Colorado.

 

Elsie Macsata, 2013, Using Two-Dimensional Modeling to Assess Potential Geometries and Kinematics of Faults in the Rio Grande Rift Near Salida, Colorado.

 

Rachel Medina, 2013, An Analysis of GPS and Remote Sensing Data of Soufrière Hills Volcano, Montserrat, during the July 2003 Dome Collapse: Implications for Detection of Ash Plumes and Vertical Deformation.

 

John Steputis, 2013, 3-D Analysis of Pennsylvanian Sinistral Faulting Near Coal Bank Pass, San Juan Mountains Colorado.

 

Reece Hanson, 2012, 3D finite strain and relative viscosity of clasts in the Vallecito Conglomerate, southwest Colorado.

 

Daniel Hosler, 2012, Structural analysis of the Williams Fork Mountains; subsurface analysis near Craig, Colorado.

 

Benjamin Kraushaar, 2012, The dynamics and emplacement of the Heart Mountain Detachment: constraints from anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility and detrital zircon analysis of vertical injectites at White Mountain and Silvergate, Wyoming.

 

Jordan Krider, 2012, Therapeutic geology: the effect of geologic mapping on at risk and underprivileged youth.

 

Joseph A. LaForture, 2012, Contact metamorphism of the La Plata Mountains – a close look into Tomahawk Basin metamorphism.

 

Sabina Kraushaar, 2011, Detrital zircon dating on the Jardine metasedimentary sequence, Archean Wyoming craton, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming.

 

Cole Storm, 2010, Potential pathfinder elements for surface geochemical exploration, West Button Hill, Carlin Trend, Nevada.

 

Tor Stetson-Lee, 2009, Resolving the shear sense of a fault bounding the Vallecito Conglomerate, Vallecito Creek valley, Colorado.

 

Meghan Marsters (now Moore), 2008, Metamorphism of the Vallecito Conglomerate.

 

Daniel Newman (co-advised with Ray Kenny), 2008, Water quality of the Florida River.

 

Rhiannon Kinkel, 2006, Geologic history of Umay-ene, a circular feature on the surface of Venus.

 

Casey Hall, 2006, Structural analysis of the Vallecito Conglomerate at Cave Basin, southeastern Needle Mountains, Colorado.

 

Bettina Warner, 2005, Modeling of permeability in fractured bedrock in Prospect Gulch, San Juan County, Colorado.

 

Jared Vauk, 2003, Simulating the response of a shallow buried salt layer to a bolide impact through analog modeling.

 

Jeffrey Thomas, 2002, Metamorphism of the Uncompaghre Formation, Uncompaghre Gorge, Colorado.

 

Matthew Witt, 2002, An investigation of a phyllite bed on the south side of Vestal Peak, the Grenadier Range, San Juan Mountains, southwestern Colorado.

 

Joshua Cole, 2000, Finite strain analysis of the aureole of the Victory Pluton:  evidence for pluton intrusion mechanisms.

 

Justin Klein, 2000, Reconnaissance study of metamorphism and deformation in the aureole of the Maidstone Pluton, northeastern Vermont.

 

Elizabeth Goeke, 1999, Pressure and Temperature Studies in the Eastern Contact Aureole of the Victory Pluton, Northeastern Vermont.

 

Emily Onasch (now Walsh), 1997, Analysis of Structures and Metamorphism across the Monroe Line Northeast of the Victory Pluton, Granby, Vermont. 

 

Jill Wertheim, 1997, A Study of the Metamorphism and Deformation within the Sillimanite Zone East of the Victory Pluton, Miles Pond, Vermont.

 

Jade Star Lackey, 1997, Garnet Zone P-T-Deformation History in the Contact Aureole of the Victory Pluton: Implications for the Age of the Monroe Fault.

 

Elizabeth Mattox, 1996, Metamorphic and deformational relationships in the Gile Mountain formation adjacent to the Victory Pluton, Northeast Kingdom, Vermont.

 

Cynthia Martinez, 1996, Mantle flow structures in harzburgite of the Troodos ophiolite, Cyprus.

 

Gordon McGrath, 1995, The metamorphic and deformational history of the rocks surrounding the Victory pluton, Northeastern Vermont.

Yanna Minnis, 1994, Field geology and structural analysis of an ultramafic belt near Lowell, VT.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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