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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Douglas Allen | Ph.D. | 2008 | Earth and Planetary Science | Development and application of a process-based, basin-scale stream temperature model | |
| Stephanie Wuerth | Ph.D. | 2019 | Earth and Planetary Science | Pandora, Data Scientist | Development and Applications of a Carbon-Weather Data Assimilation System |
| Carolina Munoz-Saez | Ph.D. | 2016 | Earth and Planetary Science | Universidad de Chile, Postdoctorial Researcher | Dynamics of Geyser systems, El Tatio, Atacama |
| 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 |
| Robert Citron | Ph.D. | 2019 | Earth and Planetary Science | Early Mars Geodynamics: Giant Impacts, Super-plumes, and Vast Oceans | |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Ryan McWilliams | Ph.D. | 2008 | Earth and Planetary Science | Elastic and Inelastic Shock Compression of Diamond and Other Minerals | |
| 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 |
| Nestor Cuevas | Ph.D. | 2009 | Earth and Planetary Science | Schlumberger Geosolutions, Integrated EM Center of Excellence Senior Geophysicist | Electrokinetic Coupling in Hydraulic Fracture Propagation |
| 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 |
| Holly Brown | Ph.D. | 2012 | Earth and Planetary Science | Evaluating and Improving the ElarmS Earthquake Early Warning Algorithm | |
| Amanda Thomas | Ph.D. | 2012 | Earth and Planetary Science | University of Oregon Department of Earth Sciences, Assistant Professor | Fact or friction: Inferring rheology from nonvolcanic tremor and low-frequency earthquakes on the deep San Andreas fault |
| Shuai Zhang | Ph.D. | 2016 | Earth and Planetary Science | First-principles Simulations of Minerals in Earth and Planetary Interiors | |
| Micheal Lamb | Ph.D. | 2008 | Earth and Planetary Science | Formation of Amphitheater-Headed Canyons | |
| Jay Perron | Ph.D. | 2007 | Earth and Planetary Science | Formation of Evenly Spaced Ridges and Valleys | |
| Leah Morgan | Ph.D. | 2009 | Earth and Planetary Science | U.S. Geological Survey Research Geologist | Geochronological constraints on Plio-Pleistocene Hominid Evolution in the Ethopian rift |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Maria Brumm | M.S. | 2008 | Earth and Planetary Science | Ground Water in Tectonically Active Areas: Implications for Heat Flow and the Earthquake-Triggered Eruption of Mud Volcanoes | |
| 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 |
| Edwin Kite | Ph.D. | 2011 | Earth and Planetary Science | University of Chicago Department of the Geophysical Sciences Assistant Professor | I. Climate change on ancient Mars. II. Exoplanet geodynamics and climate. |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Ahyi Kim | Ph.D. | 2008 | Earth and Planetary Science | School of Science, Graduate School of Nanobioscience Department of Materials System Science | Investigating Rupture Process of Parkfield Seismicity |
| Andrea Chiang | Ph.D. | 2015 | Earth and Planetary Science | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Postdoctoral Researcher | Investigating Source Processes of Isotropic Events |
| Sean Ford | Ph.D. | 2008 | Earth and Planetary Science | Isotropic Sources and Attenuation Structure: Nuclear Tests, Mine Collapses, and Q |