Alumni Yearbook
This page is under construction and currently only represents a limited list of EPS alumni.
| Name | Degree |
Year |
Major | Current Position | Thesis Topic |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elizabeth Niespolo | Ph.D. | 2019 | Earth and Planetary Science | Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the California Institute of Technology in the Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences | Determining Timescales and Paleoenvironments of Quaternary Human Evolution Using Stable and Radiogenic Isotopes |
| Kathryn Materna | Ph.D. | 2019 | Earth and Planetary Science | UC Berkeley Active Tectonics lab | Geodetic and Seismological Investigations of Earthquake Cycle Deformation and Fault Zone Properties |
| 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 |
| William Hahm | Ph.D. | 2019 | Earth and Planetary Science | Postdoc, University of Texas at Austin, Jackson School of Geoscience | Critical Zone Ecohydrology of the Northern California Coast Ranges |
| 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 |
| Noah Randolph-Flagg | Ph.D. | 2019 | Earth and Planetary Science | NASA Postdoctoral Fellow, NASA Ames Research Center | The role of groundwater in volcanic and fault zone processes |
| Stephanie Wuerth | Ph.D. | 2019 | Earth and Planetary Science | Pandora, Data Scientist | Development and Applications of a Carbon-Weather Data Assimilation System |
| Joshua Tollefson | Ph.D. | 2019 | Earth and Planetary Science | Unraveling Neptune's Atmospheric Structure from Multi-Wavelength Observations | |
| Robert Citron | Ph.D. | 2019 | Earth and Planetary Science | Early Mars Geodynamics: Giant Impacts, Super-plumes, and Vast Oceans | |
| William Hawley | Ph.D. | 2019 | Earth and Planetary Science | NSF Postdoc; Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University | The Life and Death of a Tectonic Plate: Imaging the Juan de Fuca Plate with Amphibious Seismic Data |
| 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 |
| Olive Boyd | Ph.D. | 2018 | Earth and Planetary Science | Analysis of Seismic Moment Tensors, In-Situ Stress, and Finite-Source Scaling of Earthquakes at The Geysers Geothermal Field, California | |
| Octavia Crompton | Ph.D. | 2018 | Earth and Planetary Science | Postdoctorial Researcher at UC Berkeley, Civil and Environmental Engineering | Who’s afraid of the Saint Venant Equations? (Everyone, so I replaced it with Machine Learning) |
| Jacob Seeley | Ph.D. | 2018 | Earth and Planetary Science | Harvard University Center for the Environment, Environmental Fellow | Convection, Radiation, and Climate: Fundamental Mechanisms and Impacts of a Changing Atmosphere |
| 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 | |
| Michael Antonelli | Ph.D. | 2018 | Earth and Planetary Science | Ca Isotopes in Igneous and High-Temperature Metamorphic Systems and the Hydrothermal Chemistry of Paleoseawater | |
| Avinash Nayak | Ph.D. | 2017 | Earth and Planetary Science | University of Wisconsin Madison Department of Geoscience, Postdoc | I. Seismic Moment Tensor Analysis of Micro-Earthquakes in an Evolving Fluid-Dominated System, II. Ambient Noise Cross-Correlation for Evaluating Velocity Structure and Instrument Orientations in a Geothermal Environment |
| Jacob Edman | Ph.D. | 2017 | Earth and Planetary Science | KoBold Metals Data Scientist | Convection and Gravity Waves in the Tropical Atmosphere |
| Kristen Fauria | Ph.D. | 2017 | Earth and Planetary Science | Vanderbilt University Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Assistant Professor | Dynamics of pyroclastic density currents and submarine eruptions |
| Tyler Arbour | Ph.D. | 2017 | Earth and Planetary Science | CMET- Center for Microbial Ecology and Technology, Postdoctorial Scholar | Cultivating and Characterizing Electroactive Microbial Communities using Bioelectrochemical Systems and Metagenomics |
| Sean Wahl | Ph.D. | 2017 | Earth and Planetary Science | UC Berkeley Postdoctorial Researcher | Modeling of Planetary Interiors: From Microscopic to Global Scales |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Felipe Orellana Rovirosa | Ph.D. | 2017 | Earth and Planetary Science | Crust-Lithosphere-Asthenosphere Dynamics in Mantle Plume Provinces with Emphasis on the Galápagos | |
| 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 | |
| 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 |
| Brent Delbridge | Ph.D. | 2017 | Earth and Planetary Science | Harvard University Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Postdoctorial Fellow | Constraints on slow slip from landsliding and faulting |
| Heidi Fuqua Haviland | Ph.D. | 2017 | Earth and Planetary Science | NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center planetary scientist | A multi model investigation of the global interior structure of the Moon |
| Seth Saltiel | Ph.D. | 2017 | Earth and Planetary Science | Columbia University, Lamond-Doherty Earth Observatory Postodctorial Research Scientist | The seismic signature of fractures and faults: low-frequency shear anelasticity measurements toward determining stress and frictional conditions of reservoir fractures |