BS Spring 2017 Thesis Defense – Department of Geological Sciences

Theses Defenses of 2016-2017
Spring 2017 BS Candidates
Faith Moore	Background Levels for Specific Metals in San Diego Bay: A Geochemical Approach BS Candidate Advisor: Dr. Jillian Maloney Defense: May 4th, 2017, 8 am
Andrew Wilson	Structural Interpretation Offshore Smuggler’s Cove in the Northern Channel Islands, CA BS Candidate Advisor: Dr. Jillian Maloney Defense: May 4th, 2017, 8:30 am
Caleb Adkins	Use of Smectite as a Geothermometer to Determine Emplacement Temperatures of Mount Calavera Dome, Carlsbad, California BS Candidate Advisor: Heather Webb and Dr. Jillian Maloney Defense: May 4th, 2017, 9 am
Keith Kastama	Complex Blowout Dune Subsurface Morphology using Ground Penetrating Radar on Frazer Island, Australia BS Candidate Advisor: Dr. Allen Gontz Defense: May 4th, 2017, 9:30 am
Alex Wood	High-Resolution Drone Imaging of Adobe Falls Region Around SDSU: Use of Geologic Imaging for Assisting Decision Makers Trying to Understand Complex Issues Through Time Involving Geology, Crime, and Critical Infrastructure Protection BS Candidate Advisor: Dr. Eric Frost Defense: May 4th, 2017, 10 am
Tony Faye	The Alberhill clay deposit in the Silverado Formation of southern California – a result of paleosol weathering or K-Pg impact? BS Candidate Advisor: Dr. Dave Kimbrough Defense: May 4th, 2017, 10:30 am
Mia Flores	Detrital Thermochronology: Record of the Local-to-Extraregional Provenance Shift Recorded by the Northern Peninsular Ranges Forearc BS Candidate Advisor: Dr. Dave Kimbrough Defense: May 4th, 2017, 11:45 am
Tyler Henderson	A Test of Provenance Linkage Between Volcanic Clasts of the Upper Miocence Punchbowl Formaion and the Jurassic Sidewinder Volcanics BS Candidate Advisor: Dr. Dave Kimbrough Defense: May 4th, 2017, 12:45 am
Emma Vierra	Spheroidal Weathering of a 108 Ma Cretaceous Gabbro BS Candidate Advisor: Dr. Gary H. Girty Defense: May 4th, 2017, 2 pm
Peter Hopper	Examining Fault Scarps in the Yuha Desert to Determine if they were caused by the 1892 Laguna Salada Earthquake BS Candidate Advisor: Dr. Tom Rockwell Defense: May 4th, 2017, 2:30 pm
Spring 2017 MS Candidates
Diane Cheung-Harris	Geology of the Cahuilla Gold-Silver Deposit and Modoc fault of the western Salton Trough, southern California MS Candidate Advisor: Dr. Dave Kimbrough, Dr. Vic Camp, and Dr. Trent Biggs Defense: May 4th, 2017, 11 am
Kristen Dennis	Asymmetrical Fault Zone Architecture: The case for a different response of lithology to similar transient loading conditions along the San Jacinto fault, SE California, USA MS Candidate Advisors: Dr. Gary H. Girty and Dr. Tom Rockwell Defense: May 4th, 2017, 1:15 pm
Luke Weidman	Assessing the Rose Canyon Fault Zone Architecture, Downtown San Diego, California: Geotechnical Data Synthesis MS Candidate Advisor: Dr. Jillian Maloney and Dr. Tom Rockwell Defense: March 24th, 2017, 9 am
Daniel Peppard	Shallow level incipient pulverization faung with dismembered remnant of a positive flower structure in the San Jacinto fault, southern California, USA MS Candidate Advisor: Dr. Gary Girty Defense: January 17th, 2017, 11 am
Fall 2016 BS Candidates
Matt Geller	Interbedded eolian and alluvial strata analyzed by modified latex peels: Holocene Lake Cahuilla, Carrizo Wash, Anza-Borrego Desert, California BS Candidate Advisor: Dr. Mario Caputo Defense: December 19th, 2016, 8 am
Greg Agyan	Paleopathological Analysis of Perforations on Ammonite Specimens (Placenticeras meeki) found in the Bearpaw Formation (Campanian) of Canada BS Candidate Advisor: Dr. Dave Kimbrough Defense: December 19th, 2016, 8:30 am
Wyatt Bartholomew	Geology of Devil’s Canyon area, western Salton Trough, San Diego County BS Candidate Advisor: Dr. Dave Kimbrough Defense: December 19th, 2016, 9 am
Hugh McManus	A Gravity Survey to Determine Aquifer Geometry in Warner Valley Groundwater Basin, San Diego County, California BS Candidate Advisor: Dr. Kim Bak Olsen Defense: December 19th, 2016, 9:30 am
Fall 2016 MS Candidates
Clint Callanan	Sourcing heavy metals contamination in urban catchments through XRF analysis of streambed sediments: Chollas Creek, San Diego, California MS Candidate Advisor: Dr. Gary Girty Defense: December 19th, 2016, 10 am
David Anthony	Possible Biases in the Amplitude of the Deconvolution-Based Ambient-Field Green’s Functions Revealed by Simulations in the Community Velocity Model for Southern California MS Candidate Advisor: Dr. Shuo Ma Defense: December 19th, 2016, 10:45 am
Shiying Nie	WEDMI: 4th-order Discontinuous Staggered-grid Finite Difference Method for Wave Propagation Simulations MS Candidate Advisor: Dr. Kim Bak Olsen Defense: December 19th, 2016, 11:30 am