SOME RECENT MASTERS THESES: 

2021:

Anee, Samina: "Evidence for Ice covered West Antarctica during late Pliocene/early Pleistocene transition", S. OConnell, Advisor.

Brumberger, Haley: "Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction of Paulina Lake (Newberry Volcano, OR)", E. Thomas, Advisor.

Tan, Yu Kai: "Out of their Shells: An Orphaned Freshwater Mussel Collection Viewed in 3D Illuminates Biogeography", E. Thomas, Advisor.

2020:

Cauley, Christina: "History of hydrothermal activity at Paulina Lake Newberry Volcano, OR USA.", J. Varekamp, Advisor.

2019:

Butrim, Matthew: "Investigating leaf economic strategies across the end‐Cretaceous mass extinction and the Eocene‐Oligocene transition”. D. Royer, Advisor.

Perkins, Reid: "Using the Venus Crater Population to Constrain Tesserae Ages and Resurfacing", M. Gilmore, Advisor.

Wagner, Sarah Molly: "Mercury and carbon dioxide venting at East Lake, Newberry Volcano, OR USA", J. Varekamp, Advisor.

2018:

Dudley, Jordyn-Marie: "Hydrogen in Eucrite, Angrite, and Ureilite Pyroxene: Implications for Water During the Planetesimal-Embryo Stage of Earth's Formation", J. Greenwood, Advisor.

Hossain, John: "The Effect of Reverse Fault Geometry on Slip Rate Estimates" , P. Resor, Advisor. Now Research Scientist at the New York City Department of Environmental Protection.

Luna, Melissa: "Climate Change During the Pliocene: Interpretations from Site 697, the Jane Basin, Weddell Sea, Antarctica", S. O'Connell, Advisor.

McKee, Melissa: "Evaluating the assumptions of two methods for reconstructing temperature and CO₂ from fossil leaves", D. Royer, Advisor. Now a high school educator at The Bronx Zoo.

2017:

Hill, Tessa Justine: "Community Ecology of The Massasauga Provincial Park: Novel Approaches within Island Biogeography", K. Diver, Advisor.

McKeeby, Benjamin: "Weathering and Sulfate Formation in Sulfur Springs St. Lucia; A Mars Analogue Site", M. Gilmore, Advisor. Now a Ph.D. student at Univ. Pittsburgh.

2016:

Milligan, Gailynn: "Carbon Sequestration in a Tidal Frashwater Wetland in the Mattabessett River, Connecticut", B. Chernoff, Advisor.

Milligan, Joseph: "Experimental Constraints on a New Leaf gas-Exchange Method for Paleo-CO₂ Reconstruction", D. Royer, Advisor. Now a Ph.D. student at Baylor University.

2015:

Camfield, Lauren Michelle: "The 2000 and 2012 Eruptions of Copahue Volcano (Neuquén, Argentina)", J. Varekamp, Advisor.

Gross, Jason Lewis: "Provenance and Characterization of Pliocene Ocean Sediment in the Weddell Sea, Antarctica: Implications for Paleoclimatic Change", S. O'Connell, Advisor. Now an Interpretive Intern at Mt. Ranier.

Korn, Lisa Katherine: “Carbonate and Silicate Minerals in a Gullied Crater within Eridania Basin, Terra Sirenum, Mars”, M. Gilmore, Advisor. Project Geologist at HTE Northeast, Inc.

Kowalczyk, Jennifer Brown: "Multiple Proxy Estimates of Atmospheric CO₂ from an Early Paleocene Rainforest", D. Royer, Advisor. Now a Ph.D. student at Brown University.

2014:

Zareski, James Edward: "An East-West Transect Through the Andes at 35^o-39^o South", J. Varekamp, Advisor.