Graduate Student Research Projects and Theses
Name |
Title |
Date |
Commitee Chair |
| Claudia Corona | Climate variability and vadose zone controls on damping of transient recharge fluxes | 2016 | Gurdak |
| Mehrdad Hejazian | Hydrogeochemistry of two contrasting atoll island aquifers, Roi-Namur, Republic of the Marshall Islands | 2016 | Gurdak |
| Larry Alden | Segregation ice fracturing of river bank rock: implications for width of bedrock channels | 2015 | Sklar |
| Omid Arabnia | Particle size reduction in debris flows: scaling from lab to field |
2015 | Sklar |
| Elzie Velasco | Relations between climate variability and groundwater fluctuations in U.S. Principal Aquifers | 2015 | Gurdak |
| Mays Danfoura | Redox dynamics in groundwater beneath low impact development ( | 2014 | Gurdak |
| Gaby Geyer | Vulnerability of recently recharged groundwater in the California coastal basins to NO3- contamination | 2014 | Gurdak |
| Michael Wrigley | ICP-MS and XRF soil metal concentration screening comparison by quantitative analysis | 2014 | Gurdak |
| Zi Zi Searles | Error propagation and uncertainty in predictions of nonpoint-source nitrate contamination in groundwater | 2014 | Gurdak |
| Ryan Corbett | Mathematical modeling of fog water deposition, San Francisco, California | 2014 | Gurdak |
| Geoffrey Roest | Quasigeostrophic Diagnosis of an Explosively Developing Cyclone on the Northern California Coast | 2014 | Monteverdi |
| Zachary Lauffenburger | Land use and climate change controls on recharge, northern High Plains aquifer | 2013 | Gurdak |
| Jennifer Davis | The influence of bed roughness on partial alluviation in bedrock channels | 2013 | Sklar |
| Jonathan Beyeler | The influence of rock properties on bedrock and sediment erodibility in rivers | 2012 | Sllar |
| Michelle Newcomer | Recharge beneath low impact development and the effects of climate variability | 2012 | Gurdak |
| Brian Stozek | Geophysical evidence for Quaternary deformation within the offshore San Andreas fault system, Northern California | 2012 | Grove |
| Christopher Stumpf | A Comprehensive Survey of Buoyancy and Shear Parameters for California Tornadoes: 1951-2011 | 2012 | Monteverdi |
| Eric Donaldson | Geomorphic controls on spatial distributions of cobbles and boulders in stream-channel networks | 2011 | Leonard Sklar |
| Dylan Duvergé | Establishing background arsenic in soil of the urbanized San Francisco Bay Region | 2011 | Jason Gurdak |
| Deborah Shulman | Fluid controlled metamorphism of eclogitic pseudotachylite-bearing shear zones, Flakstadøy, northern Norway | 2011 | Mary Leech |
| James Chayka | Quantitative linkages between watershed conditions and mainstem channel characteristics in Lagunitas Creek, northern California | 2011 | Leonard Sklar |
| Anita Engelstad, | Damping characteristics of wave propagation across the muddy Louisiana shelf | 2011 | Tim Janssen |
| Brent Everett | Pore-scale dual-domain flow and temporal variability in recharge, High Plains Aquifer, USA | 2011 | Jason Gurdak |
| Forrest Horton | Geochronology and zircon geochemistry of greater Himalaya leucogranites in Zanskar, NW India | 2011 | Mary Leech |
| Pariskeh Hosseini | EBSD analysis of partially-eclogitized rocks from the Marun-Keu Complex, Polar Urals, Russia | 2011 | Mary Leech |
| Leah Johnson | Determination of radiocarbon in pore water dissolved organic matter using thermal sulfate reduction | 2011 | Tomoko Komada |
| Isaac Jones | Wave-driven set-up and surfzone circulation at Ocean Beach, San Francisco, California | 2011 | Tim Janssen |
| Amber Kuss | Effects of climate variability on recharge in regional aquifers of the United States | 2011 | Jason Gurdak |
| Sang Pak | Nonlinear energetics of shoaling gravity waves | 2011 | Tim Janssen |
| Leah Feigelson | Slip rate on the Peninsula San Andreas fault, San Mateo County, California | 2010 | Karen Grove |
| William Hassett | Geochemical signature of Himalayan gneiss domes: implications for channel flow | 2010 | Mary Leech |
| Chelsea Reed | Upwelling conditions and sea surface temperature off Northern California during early Pliocene | 2010 | Petra Dekens |
| Dominika Wojcieszek | Pliocene-Pleistocene climate evolution: was the cooling global? | 2010 | Petra Dekens |
| Skye Corbett | A morphodynamic comparision between bedrock and soil-mantle landscapes | 2010 | Leonard Sklar |
| Joshua Goodman | Post-Middle-Pleistocene tectonic development of the Confidence Hills, Death Valley, California | 2010 | John Caskey |
| Max Hubbard | Analyses of high-frequency radar data in central San Francisco Bay | 2010 | Toby Garfield |
| Elizabeth Polito | Student conceptions of weather phenomena across multiple cognitive levels | 2010 | John Monteverdi |
| Jill Marshall | Hillslope rock fragment production: grain size distributions, abundance and climatic influences | 2009 | Leonard Sklar |
| Peter Polito | Experimental investigation of fluvial incision on Titan by low-velocity sediment impacts | 2009 | Leonard Sklar |
| Jonathon Polly | Harnessing natural C isotopses to understand organic matter transformations in estuarine sediments | 2009 | Tomoko Komada |
| Beth Zygielbaum | Temperature Effects on Ice Strength Properties: Implications for Erosion Resistance on Titan | 2009 | Leonard Sklar |
| Brian Fuller | Feedbacks between biotic and abiotic influences on travertine deposition, Fossil Creek, Arizona | 2009 | Leonard Sklar |
| Heather Green | Neotectonic investigation of the southern Death Valley fault zone, southeastern California | 2009 | John Caskey |
| Terry McGuire | Stratigraphic investigation of the North Westside Basin of San Francisco and northern San Mateo County | 2009 | Karen Grove |
| Kristen Wood |
Hydrogeologic characterization of the Northern Westside Basin, San Francisco, California | 2008 | Karen Grove |
| Matt Gough | An analysis of HF-radar measured surface currents, Gulf of the Farallones, California | 2008 | Toby Garfield |
| Gina Lee | Geomorphic Expression of Differential Uplift, Point Reyes Peninsula, Marin County, California | 2008 | Leonard Sklar |
| Bob Sas | Road failures and related hazards along the Blue Ridge Parkway, North Carolina | 2008 | Leonard Sklar |
| Robert Humphries | Laboratory simulation of gravel augmentation downstream of dams: the effect of hydrographs on sediment pulse dynamics | 2007 | Leonard Sklar |
| Jessica Fadde | Temporal and spatial effects of gravel augmentation on rivers: a flume study | 2007 | Leonard Sklar |
| Eric (Rick) Ford | Burdell Mountain stratigraphy and implications for long-term slip along the East Bay fault system, California | 2007 | John Caskey |
| Jeffrey Hansen | Quantifying reach response to episodic large wave events, Ocean Beach, San Francisco, California | 2007 | Toby Garfield |
| Andrew Matthew | Serpentine soils within the Presidio, California: a return to serpentine prairie land | 2007 | Matt LaForce,Karen Grove |
| Chris Baldassari | Geochemical analyses and a hydrogeological investigation to identify sources of groundwater contamination at five northern California landfills | 2006 | Matt LaForce |
| Glen Leverich | The morphological effect of variable flow discharge on a meandering river model | 2006 | Leonard Sklar |
| Jonathan Boxerman | The Fractal Nature of Tafoni Weather Patterns? | 2006 | Raymond Pestrong |
| Mary Snow | Sediment supply and transport in tidal marsh channels, Suisun Marsh | 2005 | Leonard Sklar |
| Robert Davies, | Comparison of Mammuthus primigenius and Mammuthus columbi M3 molars | 2005 | Lisa White |
| Joe Farrow | Lithologic Influence and Experimental Variability in Gravel Abrasion: Implications for Predicting Rates of Downstream Fining of River Bed Sediments | 2005 | Leonard Sklar |
| Chimi Yi | Depositional and deformational history of the Colma and uppermost Merced and Formations, southwest San Francisco | 2005 | Karen Grove |
| Peter Gorman | Temporal and Spatial Variability of Hydraulic Conductivity in the Russian River Streambed, Sonoma County, California | 2004 | Matt LaForce |
| Matthew Horrigan | The Etymological Dictionary of Geology | 2004 | David Mustart |
| Kasha A. Parker | Surficial sediment distribution and changes in the central San Francisco Bay | 2004 | Lisa White |
| Anne Marie Scherer | Geographic information analysis of Quaternary marine terraces, Point Reyes peninsula, California | 2004 | Karen Grove |
| Kristin Hepper | A new cold seep locality in the Mesozoic Great Valley Group, Guenoc Ranch, northern California | 2004 | Lisa White |
| Regan M. Long | Northern California shelf circulation during January 2003: possible implications for shelf retention | 2004 | Toby Garfield |
| Zita Maliga | Hydrological reconstruction of extinct thermal spring systems using Hydrobiid snail paleoecology | 2004 | Lisa White |
| Ted Schlaepfer | Documentation of a Tornadic Supercell in the San Joaquin Valley, California | 2004 | John Monteverdi |
| Megan Simpson | Background Trace Element Concentrations in the Franciscan Formation San Francisco, California | 2004 | Matt LaForce |
| Charlotte Hedlund | Hydrogeology and Geochemistry of the Northern Groundwater Basin, San Mateo County, California | 2003 | Matt LaForce |
| Erdmann Rogge | Hydrostratigraphy of the Westside Groundwater Basin, San Francisco and San Mateo Counties, California ( | 2003 | Matt LaForce |
| Drew Kennedy | Rapid late Pleistocene uplift and evidence for mid to late Holocene movement on the Serra fault, northern San Francisco Peninsula | 2002 | John Caskey |
| Carolyn Randolph | Neotectonic investigation of the southern Rodgers Creek fault, Sonoma County, California | 2002 | John Caskey |
| Gary Lipari | Thermodynamic and shear parameters associated with verified tornadoes in northern and central California, 1990-1994 | 2001 | John Monteverdi |
| Julie Monet | Liquefaction susceptibility in the San Francisco South and Hunter’s Point 7.5-minute quadrangle | 2000 | John Caskey |
| R. David Morris | Petrology of Franciscan Complex eclogites from Mendocino County, California: a new locality | 1999 | David Mustart |
| Kathy Pagan | Detection of polar stratospheric clouds over Antarctica using AVHRR satellite imagery | 1996 | Oswaldo Garcia |
