Committee-Approved Theses/Dissertations

(advisor/s)

 

Faculty chair dissertation committees for students from other disciplines and these are included in the list below)
     Environmental Science and Engineering (ESE)


Dissertations

Benker, S. Christian, Thirty-two (32) Ma magmatic and tectonic history of Big Bend National Park (Anthony & Hurtado)
Dena-Ornelas, Oscar, Fast approximate migration of ground penetrating radar using Kalman estimators, and the determination of the lithospheric structure of Lake Baikal, Russia (Doser and Miller)
Feinstein, Michael N., A proposed epithermal model for the high-grade district, California (Goodell)

Neu, Roene E.M., Studies using a mobile high-shear stress flume: Investigating modern sediments at the mouth of the Rio Grande, and studying ancestral Rio Grande sediments in the El Paso, TX, region (Langford)
Pekar-Carpenter, Katrina 2009, Uranium-series transport at the Pena Blanca uranium district, Chihuahua, Mexico (Goodell & Walton)
Scharman, Mitchell R., 2009, Structural and tectonic investigations on a transpressional system, Chugach metamorphic complex, southern Alaska (Pavlis)
Velarde, Roberto, 2009, Evaluating suspended dust particulate matter (PM) from anthropogenically altererd land in the Chihuahuan Desert (Gill & Goodell)

 Faculty chair theses committees for students from other disciplines and these are included in the list below)
     Masters of Science of Environmental Science (MEsci); Masters of Interdisciplinary Science (MIS)
 

Theses
Clarke, William H,  2009, Reconstructing original eruptive sources of oceanic intraplate volcanoes using Sr, Nd, and Pb isotopes to confirm ambiguous seamount chains in the Pacific Ocean Basin, and investigate mantle source compositions (Konter, Jasper).
Crocker, Lynnette, 2009,Characterization of Mantle/Crust Interactions using Pb Isotope Analyses of Lavas in the Southern Rio Grande Rift, New Mexico (Konter, Jasper)
Lori, Joseph, 20009, Understanding grade control, MacArthur Mine, Yerington, Nevada: An oxidized porphyry center
(Goodell)
Santiago, Claudia, 2009, Investigation of resistivity and conductivity variations at Rattlesnake Springs, Carlsbad Caverns National Park, New Mexico
(Doser)
Thompson, Lennonx E.,
2009, Seismic investigation of the southern Rio Grande rift (Velasco)
Woody, Abby,
2009, Tectonic geomorphology of Puna-Tsang Chhu Watershed, Bhutan (Hurtado)