Alumni Yearbook
This page is under construction and currently only represents a limited list of EPS alumni.
Name | Degree | Year |
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Current Position | Thesis Topic |
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Sanne Cottaar | Ph.D. | 2013 | Earth and Planetary Science | University of Cambridge Department of Earth Sciences University Lecturer | Heterogeneity and Flow in the Deep Earth |
Lowell Miyagi | Ph.D. | 2009 | Earth and Planetary Science | Assistant Professor Geology and Geophysics, University of Utah | Deformation and Texture Development in Deep Earth Mineral Phases: Implication for Seismic Anisotropy and Dynamics |
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 |
Vedran Lekic | Ph.D. | 2009 | Earth and Planetary Science | Associate Professor, University of maryland Department of Geology | Inferring the Elastic Structure of the Earth's Mantle using the Spectral Element Method |
Kathryn Fletcher | Ph.D. | 2009 | Earth and Planetary Science | Interim Department Chair of the Department of Elementary Education, Ball State University, Department of Educational Psychology | Application of U-series dating of pedogenic carbonate and 10Be cosmogenic exposure dating to neotectonic and geochronologic problems |
Leslie Hsu | Ph.D. | 2010 | Earth and Planetary Science | USGS Community for Data Integration Coordinator | Bedrock Erosion by Granular Flow |
Victoria Lee | Ph.D. | 2009 | Earth and Planetary Science | Radiogenic Isotope Geochemistry and the Evolution of the Earth's Surface and Interior | |
Kenneth Ferrier | Ph.D. | 2009 | Earth and Planetary Science | Assistant professor of sea-level geophysics and surface processes in the Department of Geoscience at the University of Wisconsin-Madison | Effects of climate, physical erosion, parent mineralogy, and dust on chemical erosion rates in mountainous terrain |
Christina Lee | Ph.D. | 2010 | Earth and Planetary Science | Assistant Research Physicist University of California, Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory | The Structure of the Solar Wind in the Inner Heliosphere |
Abigail Swann | Ph.D. | 2010 | Earth and Planetary Science | Associate Professor of Atmospheric Sciences and Ecology at the University of Washington | Ecoclimate: Variations, Interactions, and Teleconnections |
Alexander Stine | Ph.D. | 2010 | Earth and Planetary Science | Assistant Professor, Dept. of Earth & Climate Sciences, San Francisco State University | Climate Change at Annual Timescales |
Nicole-Jeanne Schlegel | Ph.D. | 2011 | Earth and Planetary Science | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Sea Level and Ice Group Scientist | Determining Greenland Ice Sheet sensitivity to regional climate change: one-way coupling of a 3-D thermo-mechanical ice sheet model with a mesoscale climate model |
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 |
Leif Karlstrom | Ph.D. | 2011 | Earth and Planetary Science | University of Oregon Department of Earth Sciences, Assistant Professor | Causes and consequences of unsteady crustal magma transport |
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 |
Kelly Wiseman | Ph.D. | 2012 | Earth and Planetary Science | Radius Intelligence, Senior Data Scientist | The Far Reach of Megathrust Earthquakes: Evolution of Stress, Deformation and Seismicity Following the 2004 Sumatra-Andaman Rupture |
Sarah Godsey | Ph.D. | 2009 | Earth and Planetary Science | Department of Geosciences, Idaho State University | Understanding Water and Solute Fluxes in Diverse Catchments |
Laura MacLean | M.A. | 2016 | Earth and Planetary Science | QuakeFinder Research Intern | |
Daniella Rempe | Ph.D. | 2016 | Earth and Planetary Science | University of Texas, Austin Jackson School of Geosciences Assistant Professor | Controls on critical zone thickness and hydrologic dynamics at the hillslope |
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 |
Brook Peterson | Ph.D. | 2013 | Earth and Planetary Science | SportsEngine Data Scientist/ Engineering | Rates and Mechanisms of Magmatic Processes: Isotopic and Geochronological Evidence |
Shuo Zhang | Ph.D. | 2014 | Earth and Planetary Science | Aramco Services Company Geologist | |
Zhao Zheng | Ph.D. | 2014 | Earth and Planetary Science | Halliburton Sr. Microseismic Geophysicist, R&D | Refining Constraints on Seismic Discontinuities and Elastic Structure in the Earth's Upper Mantle |
Pamela Kaercher | Ph.D. | 2014 | Earth and Planetary Science | Insight Data Science | Data Science Fellow | Crystallographic preferred orientation and deformation of deep Earth minerals |
Hyojin Kim | Ph.D. | 2014 | Earth and Planetary Science | Post-doctoral researcher; Global Institute for Water Security; Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, Pennsylvania State University | Water chemistry evolution through the critical zone |
Daniela Rosa | Ph.D. | 2014 | Earth and Planetary Science | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Research Scientist | Multiscale global atmospheric transport and convective precipitation |
Scott French | Ph.D. | 2014 | Earth and Planetary Science | Google Site Reliability Engineer | Global Full-Waveform Tomography Using the Spectral Element Method: New Constraints on the Structure of Earth's Interior |
Zachary Geballe | Ph.D. | 2014 | Earth and Planetary Science | Carnegie Science Geophysical Laboratory Postdoctoral Fellow | |
Mong-Han Huang | Ph.D. | 2014 | Earth and Planetary Science | University of Maryland Department of Geology, Assistant Professor | Crustal Deformation During Co- and Postseismic Phases of the Earthquake Cycle Inferred from Geodetic and Seismic Data |
Andrea Chiang | Ph.D. | 2015 | Earth and Planetary Science | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Postdoctoral Researcher | Investigating Source Processes of Isotropic Events |