Walter Alvarez - Faculty
Professor of the Graduate School
317 McCone Hall
Berkeley, CA

Phone: (510) 642-2602
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Roy Kligfield (Columbia University) Thesis, 1978: "Continental margin deformation in the Northern Apennines (Italy): A structural study in the Alpi Apuane region." Present position: Adjoint Professor, University of Colorado, Boulder.

Lung S. Chan Thesis, 1984: "Paleomagnetism and tectonic studies of the Scaglia rossa pelagic limestones (Upper Cretaceous-Eocene) from the Umbria-Marches Apennines, Italy." Present position: Associate Professor, University of Hong Kong.

Alessandro Montanari Thesis, 1986: "Event stratigraphy of Cretaceous and Tertiary pelagic limestones from the Northern Apennines, Italy." Present position: Director, Geological Observatory of Coldigioco, Frontale di Apiro (MC), Italy. http://www.acad.carleton.edu/curricular/GEOL/coldigioco/

Kevin G. Stewart Thesis, 1987: "A study of compressional and extensional structures in the Northern Apennine fold-and-thrust belt." Present position: Associate Professor, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
http://www.geosci.unc.edu/faculty/stewart/stewart.html

David M. Bice Thesis, 1988: "Studies in carbonate sedimentation and the tectonic evolution of the Northern Apennines." Present position: Professor of Geosciences, Penn State University.
http://www.geosc.psu.edu/people/faculty/personalpages/dbice/index.html

Mark H. Anders Thesis, 1989: "Studies of the stratigraphic and structural record of large volcanic and impact events." Present position: Associate Professor, Columbia University/Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory
http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/dees/faculty/anders.html

Philippe Claeys Thesis (jointly UC Berkeley and UC Davis), 1993):  "Geochemical and sedimentological record ofimpact events in earth history : Examples from the late Pliocene,Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary and Frasnian-Famennian boundary."Present position:  Professor, Free University of Brussels,Belgium.

Daniel B. Karner Thesis, 1997: "40Ar/39Ar age calibration of the 100,000 year Middle Pleistocene climate cycle." Present position: Associate Professor of Geology, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA 94928
http://www.sonoma.edu/users/k/karner/

Diane D. O'Connor Thesis, 2004: "The Permian-Triassic boundary in the Great Basin, Western U.S.A." Present position: ExxonMobil, Houston