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Theses Defenses of 2018-2019
Summer 2019 MS Candidates
Andrew Wilson	Wedge Plasticity and Coupled Simulations of Dynamic Rupture and Tsunami in the Cascadia Subduction Zone MS Candidate Advisor: Dr. Shuo Ma Defense: August 14th, 2019 1 pm CSL 422
Summer 2019 PhD Candidates
Yongfei Wang	Dynamic Modeling of Pulse-like earthquake and ground motion PhD Candidate Advisors: Dr. Steve Day and Dr. Peter Shearer Defense: August 6th, 2019 3 pm UCSD: IGPP 4301 – Revelle Conference Room
Spring 2019 MS Candidates
Emma Vierra	Characterizing mineralogical and textural changes within the SW damage zone of the Buck Ridge fault, southern California MS Candidate Advisor: Dr. Gary Girty Defense: May 22nd, 2019 9 am GMCS 129 – Gastil Room
Chelsea Blanton	Refining the Spatial and Temporal Signatures of Creep and Co-Seismic Slip Along the Southern San Andreas Fault Using Very High Resolution SfM Imagery, Coachella Valley, California MS Candidate Advisor: Dr. Tom Rockwell Defense: May 10th, 2019 8 am CSL 422
Abbey Warner	Beaches, Dunes, and Blowouts- Using GPR to Relate Coastal Features and Climates, Young Husband Peninsula and Coorong Lagoon, Southern Australia MS Candidate Advisor: Dr. Allen Gontz Defense: May 10th, 2019 8:45 am CSL 422
Mark Korte-Nahabedian	Detrital Zircon-Garnet-Hornblende Provenance Study of the Middle to Late Miocene Stevens Sandstone: Implications for Evolution of the San Joaquin Basin, California MS Candidate Advisor: Dr. Dave Kimbrough Defense: May 10th, 2019 9:30 am CSL 422
Spring 2019 BS Candidates
Christianne Ormsby	Paleoecology as relates to Morphology of an extinct North American canid (Mammalia:Carnivora) BS Candidate Advisor: Dr. Tom Demere and Dr. Allen Gontz Defense: May 10th, 2019 10:20 am CSL 422
Klynt Olver	Using MODFLOW to Simulate the Effect of Hypothetical Injection in the Salton Trough Near the San Andreas Fault BS Candidate Advisor: Dr. Matthew Weingarten Defense: May 10th, 2019 10:40 am CSL 422
Arturo Gregor	Are littoral cells from central California beaches closed systems? Insight from detrital heavy mineral distributions at Andrew Molera and El Capitan Statebeaches BS Candidate Advisor: Dr. Dave Kimbrough Defense: May 10th, 2019 11 am CSL 422
Dianna Jorgenson	Directivity Effect and Surface Wave Comparison of Hawaii Shallow Megathrust Earthquake BS Candidate Advisor: Dr. Shuo Ma Defense: May 10th, 2019 11:20 am CSL 422
Serena Garcia	Comparison Of Directivity Effect On Shallow And Deep Sunda Megathrust Earthquakes BS Candidate Advisor: Dr. Shuo Ma Defense: May 10th, 2019 11:40 am CSL 422
Sarina Mazzone	Stratigraphic Signatures Of Lake-Level Changes At Swallow Lagoon, North Stradbroke Island, Australia BS Candidate Advisor: Dr. Allen Gontz Defense: May 10th, 2019 12:30 pm CSL 422
Eric Surratt	Reconstructing Coastal Events Recorded in Ancient San Diego River Delta Deposits BS Candidate Advisor: Dr. Jillian Maloney Defense: May 10th, 2019 12:50 pm CSL 422
Nick Poser	Characterization of seafloor sediment and morphology offshore from the Northern Channel Islands, California BS Candidate Advisor: Dr. Shannon Klotsko and Dr. Jillian Maloney Defense: May 10th, 2019 1:10 pm CSL 422
Mackenzie Young	Geologic Investigation of the Kirby Hills Fault along the Sacramento River BS Candidate Advisor: Dr. Shannon Klotsko and Dr. Jillian Maloney Defense: May 10th, 2019 1:30 pm CSL 422
Dalia Rodriguez	Sediment transport and deposition of marine sands through the Silver Strand littoral cell BA Candidate Advisor: Dr. Jillian Maloney Defense: May 10th, 2019 1:50 pm CSL 422
Fall 2018 MS Candidates
Kemille Greene	Petrology and Tectonic Implications of Middle Miocene Rosarito Beach Formation Volcanic Rocks, Baja California, Mexico MS Candidate Advisor: Dr. Dave Kimbrough Defense: December 17th, 2018 9:30 am CSL 422
Matthew Skakun	Controls on Paleochannel Morphology on the Continental Shelf Offshore Central Oregon, USA MS Candidate Advisor: Dr. Jillian Maloney Defense: December 17th, 2018 10:30 am CSL 422
Dillon Murphy	Remotely Sensed Migration Maps of the Algodones Dunes Southeastern California MS Candidate Advisor: Dr. Allen Gontz Defense: December 17th, 2018 11:30 am CSL 422
Nicole Fenton	Zircon U-Pb dating of tuff in the Monterey Formation of California by Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry MS Candidate Advisor: Dr. Dave Kimbrough Defense: November 19th, 2018 1 pm CSL 422