Department of Geosciences Masters Theses (By Year)

1996

Kathy L. Pagan, Detection of polar stratospheric clouds over Antarctica using AVHRR satellite imagery (Garcia)

1999

R. David Morris, Petrology of Franciscan Complex eclogites from Mendocino County, California: a new locality (Mustart)

2000

Julie Monet, Liqufaction susceptibility in the San Francisco South and Hunter’s Point 7.5-minute quadrangle (Caskey)

2001

Gary Lipari, Thermodynamic and shear parameters associated with verified tornadoes in northern and central California, 1990-1994 (MS: Special Major in Operational Meteorology) (Monteverdi)

2002

Carolyn Randolph, Neotectonic investigation of the southern Rodgers Creek fault, Sonoma County, California (Caskey)

Drew Kennedy, Rapid late Pleistocene uplift and evidence for mid to late Holocene movement on the Serra fault, northern San Francisco Peninsula (Caskey)

2003

Charlotte Hedlund, Hydrogeology and Geochemistry of the Northern Groundwater Basin, San Mateo County, California (LaForce)

Erdmann Rogge, Hydrostratigraphy of the Westside Groundwater Basin, San Francisco and San Mateo Counties, California (LaForce)

2004

Regan M. Long, Northern California shelf circulation during January 2003: possible implications for shelf retention (Garfield)

Anne Marie Scherer, Geographic information analysis of Quaternary marine terraces, Point Reyes peninsula, California (Grove)

Megan Simpson, Background Trace Element Concentrations in the Franciscan Formation San Francisco, California (LaForce)

Peter Gorman, Temporal and Spatial Variability of Hydraulic Conductivity in the Russian River Streambed, Sonoma County, California (LaForce)

Ted Schlaepfer, Documentation of a Tornadic Supercell in the San Joaquin Valley, California (Monteverdi)

Matthew Horrigan, The Etymological Dictionary of Geology (Mustart)

Kasha A. Parker, Surficial sediment distribution and changes in the central San Francisco Bay (White)

Zita Maliga, Hydrological reconstruction of extinct thermal spring systems using Hydrobiid snail paleoecology (White)

Kristin Hepper, A new cold seep locality in the Mesozoic Great Valley Group, Guenoc Ranch, northern California (White)

2005

Chimi Yi, Depositional and deformational history of the Colma and uppermost Merced and Formations, southwest San Francisco (Grove)

Joe Farrow, Lithologic Influence and Experimental Variability in Gravel Abrasion: Implications for Predicting Rates of Downstream Fining of River Bed Sediments (Sklar)

Mary Snow, Sediment supply and transport in tidal marsh channels, Suisun Marsh (Sklar)

Robert Davies, Comparison of Mammuthus primigenius and Mammuthus columbi M3 molars (White)

2006

Chris Baldassari, Geochemical analyses and a hydrogeological investigation to identify sources of groundwater contamination at five northern California landfills (La Force)

Jonathan Boxerman, The Fractal Nature of Tafoni Weather Patterns? (Pestrong)

Glen Leverich, The morphological effect of variable flow discharge on a meandering river model (Sklar)

2007

Eric (Rick) Ford, Burdell Mountain stratigraphy and implications for long-term slip along the East Bay fault system, California (Caskey)

Jeffrey Hansen, Quantifying reach response to episodic large wave events, Ocean Beach, San Francisco, California (Garfield)

Andrew Matthew, Serpentine soils within the Presidio, California: a return to serpentine prairie land (LaForce/Grove)

Robert Humphries, Laboratory simulation of gravel augmentation downstream of dams: the effect of hydrographs on sediment pulse dynamics (Sklar)

Jessica Fadde, 2007, Temporal and spatial effects of gravel augmentation on rivers: a flume study (Sklar)

2008

Matt Gough, An analysis of HF-radar measured surface currents, Gulf of the Farallones, California (Garfield)

Gina Lee, Geomorphic Expression of Differential Uplift, Point Reyes Peninsula, Marin County, California (Sklar)

Bob Sas, Road failures and related hazards along the Blue Ridge Parkway, North Carolina (Sklar)