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Thesis Defenses 2012-2013

Michelle Baroldi	Analysis of Major Cations and Anions of Cold Springs in the Cuyamaca Rancho State Park B.S. Candidate Advisor Dr. Kathy Thorbjarnarson Defended May 8th, 2013, 11:40am
Chris Binter	Implementation of the Helgeson-Kirkham-Flowers Model to Study Reservoir Temperature Evolution during CO2 Injection M.S. Candidate Advisor Dr. Kathryn Thorbjarnarson Defended October 30th, 2012, 1:00 pm
Karl Bloor	Seismic geomorphology of Miocene carbonate sedimentation in the Browse Basin, North West Shelf, Australia M.S. Candidate Advisor Dr. David Kimbrough Defended May 8th, 2013, 8:00am
Eryn Braender	Oxygen Isotope Constraints on the Environment and Growth History of Conus adversarius from the Pliocene Pinecrest Sands of Florida B.S. Candidate Advisor Dr. Stephen Schellenberg Defended December 7th, 2012, 9:20am
Dan Cronquist	Delineating Zones of Saline Groundwater in a Coastal Southern California Aquifer M.S. Candidate Advisor Dr. Kathryn Thorbjarnarson Defended December 3rd, 2012, 11:00am
Robert Gallardo	Groundwater Impact Analysis from the 2006 Eruption of the LUSI Mud Volcano, Java, Indonesia M.S. Candidate Advisor Dr. Eric Frost Defended May 8th, 2013, 3:15pm
Kendra Gebhart	Estimating elemental mass changes during the conversion of corestones to saprock: Implications for the mobility and fractionation of the REE in a Mediterranean (hot summer) climate B.S. Candidate Advisor Dr. Gary Girty Defended May 8th, 2013, 9:40am
Kenneth Haase	Determining the Effectiveness of Small Scale Volcano Hazard Mapping and Lahar Education for Rural Villages in Central Java, Indonesia B.S. Candidate Advisors Dr. David Kimbrough, Dr. D. Karanwati, Dr. P. Wilopo Defended May 8th, 2013, 10:40am
Cheryl Johnson	Recycled Groundwater Development at Harmony Grove, San Diego County, CA M.S. Candidate Advisor Dr. Kathy Thorbjarnarson Defended December 14th, 2012, 11:00am
Alexandra Lechnowskyj	Analysis and Comparison of Cold Water Springs – Cuyamaca Rancho State Park B.S. Candidate Advisor Dr. Kathy Thorbjarnarson Defended May 8th, 2013, 11:20am
Faithe Lovelace	First study of corestone-saprock development within NE-block San Jacinto fault, Anza, California: Implications for the genesis of clastic sediment derived from granodiorite – quartz monzodiorite B.S. Candidate Advisor Dr. Gary Girty Defended May 8th, 2013, 1:20pm
Shana McCarthy	A Geochemical Evaluation of Enhanced In-Situ Bioremediation of Chlorinated Ethenes In Groundwater M.S. Candidate Advisor Dr. Kathy Thorbjarnarson Defended December 14th, 2012, 10:00am
William Munson	Correlation of volcanic and plutonic activity in convergent margin arcs: Insight from the age and geochemistry of igneous clasts from the Cretaceous forearc basin Rosario and Valle Groups of the Peninsular Ranges magmatic arc of southern and Baja California M.S. Candidate Advisor Dr. David Kimbrough Defended May 8th, 2013, 2:30pm
Anthony Norton	Calibrating the onset of weathering in saprock: An initial step B.S. Candidate Advisor Dr. Gary Girty Defended December 7th, 2012, 9:00am
Andreas Polis	Evaluation of drill cuttings for determination of formation change using particle-size analysis, San Diego, California B.S. Candidate Advisor Dr. Eleanore Robbins Defended December 7th, 2012, 9:40am
Eman Ramos	Evaluation of Rivertools GIS Software for Stream-Profile Analysis of the Irish Hills, San Luis Obispo County, California B.S. Candidate Advisor Dr. Thomas Rockwell Defended May 8th, 2013, 2:00pm
Brian Rockwell	Linear compositional modeling and the statistical significance of alteration intensity factors, Clark segment, San Jacinto fault zone, Horse Canyon, California: Implications for the illite/smectite to illite transition and the development of fault zones at shallow crustal levels B.S. Candidate Advisor Dr. Gary Girty Defended May 8th, 2013, 1:40pm
Joanna Rose	The use of trace element abundances from Loihi Seamount to investigate the chemical heterogeneity of the Hawaiian mantle plume B.S. Candidate Advisor Dr. Aaron Pietruszka Defended May 8th, 2013, 10:20am
Heather Teets	Groundwater Monitoring Optimization Plan for the Chatham Brothers Barrel Yard, Escondido, California B.S. Candidate Advisor Dr. Kathy Thorbjarnarson Defended May 8th, 2013, 11:00am
Dylan Thomas	Structural architecture of the termination of the Powerline Fault, San Felipe Hills, southern California: A Geometric and Clay Mineral Analysis B.S. Candidate Advisor Dr. Gary Girty Defended May 8th, 2013, 1:00pm
Brian Tillquist	Provenance Investigation of the Early Tertiary “Rim Gravels”: Implications for Cenozoic Evolution of the Colorado Plateau M.S. Candidate Advisor Dr. David Kimbrough Defended December 7th, 2012, 10:00am
Nicole Velasco	The Criticality of Coulomb Wedge and Efficiency of Tsunami Generation M.S. Candidate Advisor Dr. Shuo Ma Defended May 8th, 2013, 8:45am
Erin Voyles	Assessing weathering intensity factors derived from sandy debris flow and sheet flood deposits of the Neogene Bear Canyon conglomerate, SE California, USA M.S. Candidate Advisor Dr. Gary Girty Defended December 14th, 2012, 9:00am
Dawn Wright	Using sieving to deconstruct the regolith: A first attempt B.S. Candidate Advisor Dr. Gary Girty Defended May 8th, 2013, 10:00am