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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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 |
Laura Nielson | Ph.D. | 2012 | Earth and Planetary Science | UC Berkeley Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management Assistant Professor | |
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 |
Dino Bellugi | Ph.D. | 2012 | Earth and Planetary Science | UC Berkeley Department of Geography, Postdoctoral Researcher | What Controls Shallow Landslide Size Across Landscapes? |
Sean Wahl | Ph.D. | 2017 | Earth and Planetary Science | UC Berkeley Postdoctorial Researcher | Modeling of Planetary Interiors: From Microscopic to Global Scales |
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 |
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 |
Maxwell Rudolph | Ph.D. | 2012 | Earth and Planetary Science | UC Davis Earth and Planetary Sciences, Assistant Professor | Mechanical Controls on Eruptions |
Carolina Munoz-Saez | Ph.D. | 2016 | Earth and Planetary Science | Universidad de Chile, Postdoctorial Researcher | Dynamics of Geyser systems, El Tatio, Atacama |
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. |
Benjamin Nault | Ph.D. | 2015 | Earth and Planetary Science | University of Colorado at Boulder Department of Chemistry Postdoctoral Researcher | Observational constraints on upper tropospheric NOx emissions, lifetime, and oxidative products |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Rob Porritt | Ph.D. | 2013 | Earth and Planetary Science | University of Texas Institute for Geophysics, Postdoctoral Researcher | Tracing the Farallon plate through seismic imaging with USArray |
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 |
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 |
Leslie Hsu | Ph.D. | 2010 | Earth and Planetary Science | USGS Community for Data Integration Coordinator | Bedrock Erosion by Granular Flow |
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 |