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Theses Defenses of 2019-2020
Spring 2020 PhD Candidates
Josh Kelly	Climate-driven coastal morphodynamics along Southeast Queensland, Australia PhD Candidate Advisor: Dr. Allen Gontz Defense: March 27th, 2020 11am Via Zoom
Drake Singleton	Neotectonics in San Diego, California: Paleoseismology, Slip Rate, and Offshore Structure of the Rose Canyon Fault PhD Candidate Advisor: Dr. Jillian Maloney Defense: June 3rd, 2020 11am Via Zoom
Spring 2020 MS Candidates
Mario Bermudez	Elemental mass redistribution and compositional linear modeling: evidence for polygenetic development of regolith, southern California, U.S.A. MS Candidate Advisor: Dr. Gary Girty Defense: January 17th, 2020 10am CSL 422
Eleanor Carrano	Migration Dynamics and Internal Architecture of a Shifting Dune Field Margine, Algodones Dunes, Southeastern California MS Candidate Advisor: Dr. Allen Gontz Defense: May 7th, 2020 10am via zoom
Bonnie Flynn	Mixing of Metamorphic and Plutonic First-Cycle Detritus in the Pleistocene Bautista Beds MS Candidate Advisor: Dr. Gary Girty Defense: May 7th, 2020 10:45am via zoom
Luke Johnson	Paleolandform Reconstruction Offshore of the Channel Islands Using Sediment Cores and High-Resolution Seismic Data MS Candidate Advisor: Dr. Jillian Maloney Defense: May 7th, 2020 11:30am via zoom
Spring 2020 BS Candidates
Faith Burkett	Reconstruction of Late Quaternary Offsets Along the Southernmost Elsinore Fault Zone Using High Resolution SfM Imagery BS Candidate Advisor: Dr. Tom Rockwell Defense: May 8th, 2020 10am via zoom
Javaria Aziz	Physical Volcanology of Fragmented Volcanic Rocks in the Miocene Jacumba/Alverson Volcanics, Devil’s Canyon, California BS Candidate Advisor: Dr. Vic Camp Defense: May 8th, 2020 10:30am via zoom
Sarah Doolittle	Ophiomorpha and Gyrolithes ichnofaunal associations, Early-Mid Eocene Delmar Formation, Del Mar North Beach, San Diego, California BS Candidate Advisor: Dr. Allen Gontz and Bonnie Bloeser Defense: May 8th, 2020 11am via zoom
Kyle Armendariz	Geology and Volcanology of the Cerro Siete Colores caldera complex, Mendoza Province, Argentina BS Candidate Advisor: Dr. Dave Kimbrough Defense: May 8th, 2020 11:30am via zoom
Amanda Gateley	Evaluationg Future Groundwater Sustainability in Kern County, California under SGMA Regulations using MODFLOW BS Candidate Advisor: Dr. Matt Weingarten Defense: May 8th, 2020 1:30pm via zoom
Hannah Carney	Quantifying Dry Weather Flow Sources Using Stable Isotopes in San Diego County, CA BS Candidate Advisor: Dr. Trent Biggs Defense: May 8th, 2020 2pm via zoom
Fall 2019 PhD Candidates
Yuval Levy	Structural architecture of the Western and Central Transverse Ranges, California, USA PhD Candidate Advisor: Dr. Tom Rockwell (chair) Defense: December 6th, 2019 10:30am CSL 422
Fall 2019 MS Candidates
Howasta Tahiry	Characterization of Paleochannels offshore from the Northern Channels Islands, California USA MS Candidate Advisor: Dr. Jillian Maloney Defense: December 6th, 2019 9am CSL 422
Mason Einbund	Gibbsite discovered in fracture rind of spheroidally weathered granodiorite, Santa Margarita Ecological Reserve, southern California MS Candidate Advisor: Dr.Gary Girty Defense: December 13th, 2019 10am CSL 422
Jack Brown	Recognizing the effects of a small scale extensional stepover along the Central break of the Ocotillo Badlands contractional stepover, southern California, U.S.A. MS Candidate Advisor: Dr.Gary Girty Defense: December 20th, 2019 10am CSL 422
Fall 2019 BS Candidates