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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Jacob Edman | Ph.D. | 2017 | Earth and Planetary Science | KoBold Metals Data Scientist | Convection and Gravity Waves in the Tropical Atmosphere |
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 |
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 |
Dino Bellugi | Ph.D. | 2012 | Earth and Planetary Science | UC Berkeley Department of Geography, Postdoctoral Researcher | What Controls Shallow Landslide Size Across Landscapes? |
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 |
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 |
David Mangiante | Ph.D. | 2016 | Earth and Planetary Science | Metal and mineral catalyzed organic photochemistry in modern and prebiotic environments | |
Ryan McWilliams | Ph.D. | 2008 | Earth and Planetary Science | Elastic and Inelastic Shock Compression of Diamond and Other Minerals | |
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 |
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 |
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 Cassata | Ph.D. | 2012 | Earth and Planetary Science | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Research Scientist | Systematic variations in argon diffusion in feldspars: Constraints on diffusion lengthscales, diffusive anisotropy, and non-linear Arrhenius arrays and implications for noble gas thermochronometry |
Pamela Kaercher | Ph.D. | 2014 | Earth and Planetary Science | Insight Data Science | Data Science Fellow | Crystallographic preferred orientation and deformation of deep Earth minerals |
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 |
Ian Rose | Ph.D. | 2016 | Earth and Planetary Science | Berkeley Institute for Data Science, Postdoctorial Scholar | True polar wander on convecting planets |
Mei Xue | Ph.D. | 2008 | Earth and Planetary Science | Using Seismic Methods to Constrain Mantle Convection Proceses | |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Leslie Hsu | Ph.D. | 2010 | Earth and Planetary Science | USGS Community for Data Integration Coordinator | Bedrock Erosion by Granular Flow |
Carolina Munoz-Saez | Ph.D. | 2016 | Earth and Planetary Science | Universidad de Chile, Postdoctorial Researcher | Dynamics of Geyser systems, El Tatio, Atacama |
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 | |
Joanne Emerson | Ph.D. | 2012 | Earth and Planetary Science | UC Davis Department of Plant Pathology, Assistant Professor | Assembly of Deeply Sequenced Metagenomes Yields Insight into Viral and Microbial Ecology in Two Natural Systems |
Daniela Rosa | Ph.D. | 2014 | Earth and Planetary Science | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Research Scientist | Multiscale global atmospheric transport and convective precipitation |
Victoria Lee | Ph.D. | 2009 | Earth and Planetary Science | Radiogenic Isotope Geochemistry and the Evolution of the Earth's Surface and Interior | |
Elisabeth Green | Ph.D. | 2007 | Earth and Planetary Science | The influence of geochemical and microbiological weathering on hillslope erosion and landscape evolution | |
Shuai Zhang | Ph.D. | 2016 | Earth and Planetary Science | First-principles Simulations of Minerals in Earth and Planetary Interiors | |
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) |
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 |