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 |
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Arianna Gleason | Ph.D. | 2010 | Earth and Planetary Science | Adjunct Professor, Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences Department of Geological Sciences, Adjunct Faculty, Mechanical Engineering, University of Rochester | Elasticity of Materials at High Pressure |
Shuo Zhang | Ph.D. | 2014 | Earth and Planetary Science | Aramco Services Company Geologist | |
Alyssa Rhoden | Ph.D. | 2011 | Earth and Planetary Science | Arizona State University School of Earth and Space Exploration Assistant Professor | The rotation and fracture history of Europa from modeling of tidal-tectonic processes |
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 |
Jasper Oshun | Ph.D. | 2015 | Earth and Planetary Science | Assistant Professor of Geology, Humboldt State University | The isotopic evolution of a raindrop through the critical zone |
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 |
James Watkins | Ph.D. | 2010 | Earth and Planetary Science | Assistant Professor, University of Oregon Department of Geological Sciences | Elemental and isotopic separation by diffusion in geological liquids |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Percy Link | Ph.D. | 2015 | Earth and Planetary Science | AutoGrid Systems Senior Data Scientist | |
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 |
Ian Rose | Ph.D. | 2016 | Earth and Planetary Science | Berkeley Institute for Data Science, Postdoctorial Scholar | True polar wander on convecting planets |
Nichole-Jeanne Schlege | Ph.D. | 2011 | Earth and Planetary Science | Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory Postdoctoral Researcher | |
Zachary Geballe | Ph.D. | 2014 | Earth and Planetary Science | Carnegie Science Geophysical Laboratory Postdoctoral Fellow | |
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 |
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 |
Peter Nelson | Ph.D. | 2010 | Earth and Planetary Science | Colorado State University College of Engineering Assistant Professor (Previous NSF International Fellow, Environmental and Civil Engineering, University of Genoa, Italy) | Bed Surface Patchiness in Gravel-Bed Rivers |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Marisa Palucis | Ph.D. | 2014 | Earth and Planetary Science | Dartmouth Department of Earth Sciences, Assistant Professor | Using quantitative topographic analysis to understand the role of water on transport and deposition processes on crater walls |
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 |
Sarah Godsey | Ph.D. | 2009 | Earth and Planetary Science | Department of Geosciences, Idaho State University | Understanding Water and Solute Fluxes in Diverse Catchments |
Christian Huber | Ph.D. | 2009 | Earth and Planetary Science | Georgia Institute of Technology Assistant Professor | The importance of small-scale dynamics on large-scale magmatic processes |
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 |
Kyung-Eun Min | Ph.D. | 2012 | Earth and Planetary Science | Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology Professor | Eddy-covariance observations of the atmosphere-biosphere exchange of nitrogen oxides |
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 |
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 |