MS Spring 2017 Thesis Defense

Theses Defenses of 2016-2017

Spring 2017 MS Candidates

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

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

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

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

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

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

Geology of Devil’s Canyon area, western Salton Trough, San Diego County

BS Candidate
Advisor: Dr. Dave Kimbrough

Defense: December 19th, 2016, 9 am

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

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

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

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