Recent Graduates

Undergraduate Students, Class of 2009

David Barandon (B.A., Earth Sciences)
Emily Carruthers (B.A., Earth Sciences, Cum Laude)
Gregory Desmarais (B.A., Earth Sciences)
Karen Godfrey (B.A., Geophysics and Planetary Science)
Meaghan Gorman (B.A., Earth Sciences, minor in Geography)
Christopher Havlin (B.A., Geophysics and Planetary Science, minor in Physics)
Michelle Jordan (B.A., Earth Sciences, minor in Economics, Magna Cum Laude)
Nicole Kahn (B.A., Earth Sciences, minor in Mathematics)
Alicia Kovarsky (B.A., Environmental Earth Sciences)
Sarah Kandrot (B.A., Earth Sciences)
Andrew Knott Jr. (B.A., Earth Sciences)
Shiloh Schlung (B.A., Earth Sciences, Magna Cum Laude)
Adam Shifrin (B.A., Earth Sciences, minor in Marine Science)
Daniel Szulc (B.A., Earth Sciences)

Graduate Students

Lauren Cooper (Ph.D., Plank)
Volatiles in Tonga Arc magmas and their role in unraveling subduction zone processes

Gisela Fernandes (Ph.D., Abercrombie)
Earthquake source properties and wave propagation in Eastern North America

Christine Harrington (M.A., Fagherazzi, Marchant)
Numerical modeling of the hydrology of a subglacial bedrock channel

Nicholas Howes (M.A., FitzGerald)
The impact of wetland loss on inlet morphology and tidal range within Barataria Bay, Louisiana

Douglas Kowalewski (Ph.D., Marchant)
Vapor diffusion through sublimation till: Implications for preservation of ancient glacier ice in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica

Laura Mackenzie (Ph.D., Abers)
A Receiver Function Study of the Central America And Cascadia Subduction Zone Systems

Nahysa Martinez (Ph.D., Murray)
Sources of terrigenous material in the modern Cariaco Basin and in the Cenozoic Arctic Ocean: Using geochemical provenance as a proxy for climatic and paleoceanographic change

Anthony Pollington (M.A., Baxter)
A new method for high-precision microsampling and Sm/Nd dating of zoned garnets

Rachel Scudder (M.A., Murray)
Dispersed ash in deeply buried sediment from the Northwest Pacific Ocean: An example from the Izu-Bonin Arc (ODP Site 1149)

Kate Swanger (Ph.D., Marchant)
Glacial and Periglacial Geomorphology of the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica: Microclimatic Influence on Cold-Desert Landforms

Ellen Syracuse (Ph.D., Abers)
The Global Systematics of Subduction Zones

Mindy Zimmer (Ph.D., Plank)
Water in Aleutian Magmas: Its Origins in the Subduction Zone and its Effects on Magma Evolution