Alumni Yearbook
This page is under construction and currently only represents a limited list of EPS alumni.
Name | Degree | Year | Major | Current Position |
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Laura Lammers | Ph.D. | 2012 | Earth and Planetary Science | UC Berkeley Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, Assistant Professor | Kinetic isotope and trace element partitioning during calcite precipitation from aqueous solution |
Dylan Spaulding | Ph.D. | 2010 | Earth and Planetary Science | UC Davis Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Assistant Project Scientist | Laser-Driven Shock Compression Studies of Planetary Compositions |
Mark Wenzel | Ph.D. | 2007 | Earth and Planetary Science | Layered Mantle Convection on Mars, and the Electronic Structure of Magnetite | |
Phoebe Lam | Ph.D. | 2006 | Earth and Planetary Science | Marine Particulate Matter in the Twilight Zone: Insights on Iron Cycling and Remineralization of Particulate Organic Carbon in the Ocean | |
Christian Braudrick | Ph.D. | 2013 | Earth and Planetary Science | Stillwater Sciences, Fluvial Geomorphologist | Meandering in Gravel-Bed Rivers |
David Mangiante | Ph.D. | 2016 | Earth and Planetary Science | Metal and mineral catalyzed organic photochemistry in modern and prebiotic environments | |
Sean Wahl | Ph.D. | 2017 | Earth and Planetary Science | UC Berkeley Postdoctorial Researcher | Modeling of Planetary Interiors: From Microscopic to Global Scales |
Qingkai Kong | Ph.D. | 2018 | Earth and Planetary Science | Joint Berkeley Seismology Lab and Berkeley Division of Data Sciences Assistant Data Science Researcher | MyShake – Building a global smartphone seismic network |
Jennifer Frederick | Ph.D. | 2013 | Earth and Planetary Science | Computational Geoscientist and Engineer at Sandia National Laboratories | Numerical Investigations of the Fluid Flows at Deep Oceanic and Arctic Permafrost-Associated Gas Hydrate Deposits |
Benjamin Nault | Ph.D. | 2015 | Earth and Planetary Science | University of Colorado at Boulder Department of Chemistry Postdoctoral Researcher | Observational constraints on upper tropospheric NOx emissions, lifetime, and oxidative products |
John Sanders | Ph.D. | 2011 | Earth and Planetary Science | On the Formation of Cirques by Glaciers | |
Tess McEnulty | Ph.D. | 2012 | Earth and Planetary Science | Red Canyon, Orion Assembly, test, and Launch Operations Engineer | Oxygen Loss from Venus and the Influence of Extreme Solar Wind Conditions |
Benjamin Fildier | Ph.D. | 2019 | Earth and Planetary Science | Benjamin Fildier Guest Postdoctoral Fellow Climate & Ecosystem Sciences Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | Physical Constraints and Modeling Uncertainties on the Intensication of the Global Hydrologic Cycle |
Jenny Pehl | Ph.D. | 2006 | Earth and Planetary Science | Quantitative Rietveld Texture Analysis of Geological Materials | |
Victoria Lee | Ph.D. | 2009 | Earth and Planetary Science | Radiogenic Isotope Geochemistry and the Evolution of the Earth's Surface and Interior | |
Brook Peterson | Ph.D. | 2013 | Earth and Planetary Science | SportsEngine Data Scientist/ Engineering | Rates and Mechanisms of Magmatic Processes: Isotopic and Geochronological Evidence |
Marissa Tremblay | Ph.D. | 2017 | Earth and Planetary Science | Purdue University Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences Assistant Professor | Reconstructing past Earth and planetary surface temperatures with cosmogenic noble gases |
Courtney Sprain | Ph.D. | 2017 | Earth and Planetary Science | University of Liverpool School of Environmental Sciences, Postdoctorial Research Associate | Resolving the timing of events around the Cretaceous-Paleogene Boundary |
Sarah Brownlee | Ph.D. | 2009 | Earth and Planetary Science | Associate Professor, Wayne State University College of Liberal Arts and Sciences | Revisiting the Baja-British Columbia hypothesis: 40 Ar/39Ar geochronology and paleomagnetism of the Ecstall, Butedale, and Smith Island plutons, British Columbia, Canada |
Robert Martin-Short | Ph.D. | 2019 | Earth and Planetary Science | Data Scientist at App Annie | Seismic investigation of subduction in Cascadia and Alaska and Simulating the ability of MyShake networks to detect and locate earthquakes |
Aimin Cao | Ph.D. | 2006 | Earth and Planetary Science | Seismological Constraints on Inner Core Properties | |
Edwin Apel | Ph.D. | 2011 | Earth and Planetary Science | CoreLogic Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Scientist | Shells on a Sphere: Tectonic Plate Motion and Plate Boundary Deformation |
Elizabeth Mitnick | Ph.D. | 2018 | Earth and Planetary Science | Stable isotope fractionation and trace element partitioning in marine, terrestrial, and laboratory-synthesized carbonates | |
Hannah Bourne | Ph.D. | 2018 | Earth and Planetary Science | Stable isotope fractionation and trace element partitioning in marine, terrestrial, and laboratory-synthesized carbonates | |
Jennifer Druhan | Ph.D. | 2012 | Earth and Planetary Science | University of Illinois Urbana Champaign Department of Geology Assistant Professor | Stable Isotope Fractionations in Biogeochemical Reactive Transport |
Christopher Johnson | Ph.D. | 2017 | Earth and Planetary Science | Stress modulation of earthquakes: A study of long and short period stress perturbations and the crustal response | |
Waruntorn Kanitpanyacharoen | Ph.D. | 2012 | Earth and Planetary Science | Chulalongkorn University, Thailand, Department of Geology Assistant Professor | Synchrotron X-ray Applications Toward an Understanding of Elastic Anisotropy |
Eloisa Zepeda-Alarcon | Ph.D. | 2017 | Earth and Planetary Science | Los Alamos National Laboratory, Postdoctorial Research Fellow | Texture Development and Polycrystal Plasticity of Two-Phase Aggregates |
Katherine Hoag | Ph.D. | 2008 | Earth and Planetary Science | The Anomalous Oxygen Isotopic Composition of Atmospheric CO2 and Applications to the Carbon Cycle and Stratospheric Chemistry and Transport | |
David Shimabukuro | Ph.D. | 2011 | Earth and Planetary Science | Sacramento State University Department of Geology Assistant Professor and Graduate Coordinator | The Cenozoic Tectonic History of the Calabrian Orogen, Southern Italy |