Department of Geosciences Graduates from 2020 to Present

Ethan Ader, MS Geomorphology; Advisor – Ellen Wohl

• Dissertation – Geomorphic Effects of Increased Wood Loading on Hyporheic Exchange Flow

Victoria Arnold, MS Program 2024; Advisor – John Ridley

• Thesis – Environmental Effects of the 1978 Sunnyside Mine Flood

Michael Baker, PhD Seismology 2020; Advisor – Rick Aster

• Dissertation – Ambient and Teleseismic Elastic Wavefields of the Ross Ice Shelf Antarctica, and Their Application to Crustal Scale Seismic Imaging

Andrew Bolton, MS Seismology 2021; Advisor – Derek Schutt

• Thesis – Evidence for a Rotation in Asthenospheric Flow in Northwest Canada: Insights from Shear Wave Splitting

Randall Bonnell, PHD, 2024; Advisor – Dan McGrath

• Dissertation – Evaluating L-band Radar for the Future of Snow Remote Sensing

John Boyle, MS Hydrogeology 2019; Advisor – William Sanford

Tomalika Biswas, MS Program, Geophysics and Seismology; Advisor – Derek Schutt

Kristen Cognac, PHD Hydrogeology/Hydrogeophysics; Advisor – Mike Ronayne

• Thesis – Effects of Long-Term Pumping on Recharge Processes in an Alluvial-Bedrock Aquifer System
• Dissertation – Evaluating Spatial and Temporal Controls on Recharge Fluxes in a Stream-Alluvial-Bedrock Aquifer System

Hank Cole, MS Seismology; Advisor – Rick Aster

• Thesis – Tidally Induced Seismicity at the Grounded Margins of the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica

Tracey Cotterell, MS; Advisor – John Ridley

• Thesis – Implication of Brecciation and Igneous Geochemistry at the Lamprophyre-Hosted Sapphire Deposit at Yogo Gulch, MT

Valerie Doebley, MS Hydrogeology & Geomorphology; Advisor – Mike Ronayne

• Thesis – Controls on Groundwater-Surface Water Interaction in a Glacial Valley, Northern Colorado

Elizabeth Driscoll, MS Paleoclimatology; Advisor – Jeremy Caves Rugenstein

• Thesis – Tracking the Terrestrial Hydroclimate and Paleoclimate Response to Changes in Atmospheric pCO2 Using Stable Oxygen and Carbon Isotopes: A Proxy-Model Comparison Across Cenozoic Eurasia

Sarah Dunn, MS Fluvial Geomorphology; Advisor – Sara Rathburn

Johanna Eidmann, PhD Geomorphology and Critical Zone; Advisor – Sean Gallen

• Thesis – Analyzing Post-flood Recovery after an Extreme Flood: North St. Vrain Creek, CO
• Dissertation – Exploring New Approaches to Understanding Channel Width and Erosion Rates in Bedrock Rivers, Puerto Rico, USA

Luis Carlos Escobar Arenas, MS; Advisor – Lisa Stright

• Thesis –  Modeling of Channel Stacking Patterns Controlled by Near Wellbore

Marissa Fichera, MS Hydrogeology; Advisor – William Sanford

• Thesis – Numerical Modeling and Hydrochemical Analysis of the Current and Future State of Seawater Intrusion in the Todos Santos Aquifer, Mexico

Julia Grabowski, MS; Advisor – Ellen Wohl

Manny Guerzon, MS Geophysics; Advisor – Dennis Harry

• Thesis – Rift to Drift Transition in the Southwest Australian Deepwater Mentelle Basin

Sarah Hinshaw, MS Geomorphology; Advisor – Ellen Wohl

• Dissertation – Monitoring Heterogeneity and Carbon Sequestration of Restored River-Wetland Corridors

Cece Hurtado, MS; Advisor – Sean Gallen

• Dissertation – Neotectonic Effects of Glacial Erosion and Deglaciation on the Sangre de Cristo mountains and normal fault system, Southern Colorado

Emily Iskin, PhD Geomorphology; Advisor – Ellen Wohl

• Thesis – Beyond the Case Study: Characterizing Natural Floodplain Heterogeneity in the United States
• Dissertation – The Fabric of Wood: Patterns and Processes of River and Floodplain Large Wood on the Merced River, Yosemite National Park, California

Erika Jaski, MS Geophysics & Seismology; Advisor – Rick Aster

• Thesis – Event Detection and Analysis of a Dense Three-Component Near-Summit Seismic Array Deployed at Erebus Volcano

Erinn Johnson, MS Structural Geology; Advisor – John singleton

• Thesis – Structural Analysis Along the Ouray Fault, Southwestern Colorado: Implications for the Kinematic Development of the Late Paleozoic Ancestral Rocky Mountains

Anne Ji, MS Environmental Geochemistry; Advisor – John Ridley

Aaron Katz, MS Fluvial Geomorphology 2024; Advisor – Ellen Wohl

• Thesis – Shifting Sands: Drivers and Mobilization of Fine Sediment on the Cache La Poudre River Following a Wildfire

John Kemper, PhD Fluvial Geomorphology; Advisor – Sara Rathburn

• Dissertation – Process Linkages in Large Watersheds: Connecting Tributary Erosion to Downstream Channel Change and Floodplain Forest Establishment in the Yampa and Green River Basin

Aditya Khare, MS Seismology/Geophysics; Advisor – Derek Schutt

• Thesis – Mantle Velocity Variations Under the Northern Canadian Cordillera Through Body Wave Tomography

Richard Knox, PhD Fluvial Geomorphology; Advisor – Ellen Wohl

• Dissertation – The Geography of Artificial Levees in the United States

Zack Kornse, MS Fluvial Geomorphology; Advisor – Ellen Wohl

• Thesis – Prioritization of Beaver (Castor Canadensis) Reintroduction Sites within Semi-Arid Grassland Rivers in the Great Plains

Teresa Langenkamp, MS; Advisor – Lisa Stright

• Thesis – Evaluating the impact of deep-water channel architecture on the probability of correct facies classification using 3D synthetic seismic data

Amber Lidell, MS Hydrogeology; Advisor – William Sanford

• Thesis – Low-Cost Data Loggers for Use with the Conductivity Mass Balance Method to Estimate Baseflow at Snowmelt-Dominated Headwater Streams in Northwestern Colorado

Jake McCane, MS; Advisor – John Ridley

• Thesis – Variation in Clinopyroxene Texture, Composition, and Crystallization Depth of Late Cretaceous to Early Eocene Lamprophyric Rocks from Alkaline Calc-Alkaline Magmatic Complexes of Montana, USA.

Andrew McCarthy, MS Reservoir Characterization; Advisor – Lisa Stright

• Thesis – Evaluating Covariance-based Geostatistical Methods with Bed-Scale Outcrop Statistics Conditioning for Reproduction of Intra-Point Bar Facies Architecture, Cretaceous Horseshoe Canyon Formation, Alberta, Canada

Nicole McMahon, PhD Seismology; Advisor – Rick Aster

Eyal Marder, PhD Tectonic Geomorphology; Advisor – Sean Gallen

• Dissertation – From the Colorado Front Range to Global Topography: Evaluating the Roles of Tectonics and Climate on Long Term Landscape Evolution

Anna Marshall, PhD Tectonic Geomorphology 2024; Advisor – Ellen Wohl

• Dissertation – Islands in the Stream: Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Logjam-induced River Corridor Dynamics

Alexander Marr, MS Geochemistry; Advisor – Sally Sutton

• Thesis – Changes in Water Chemistry and Fluvial Geomorphology from Arsenic Contaminated Floodplains of Whitewood Creek and Belle Fourche River, South Dakota.

Skyler Mavor, PhD Structural Geology; Advisor – John Singleton

• Dissertation – Timing, Kinematics, and Tectonic Significance of Strike-slip Fault Systems in the Atacama Desert of Northern Chile and the Lower Colorado River Corridor, USA

Annette Patton, MS Geomorphology; Advisor – Sara Rathburn

Emily Perman, MS Structural Geology; Advisor – John Singleton & Sean Gallen

• Quaternary Alluvial Lineaments in the Atacama Desert, Northern Chile: Morphology, Relationships to Bedrock Structures, and Link to the Seismic Cycle of the Andean Subduction Margin

Wyatt Reis, MS; Advisor – Dan McGrath

Brianna Rick, PhD; Advisor- Dan McGrath

• Dissertation – Cryo-Geohazards in a Warming Climate: Geophysical, Hydrological, and Remotely Sensed Investigations of Glacial Lakes, Outburst Floods, and Rock Glaciers

Patrick Ronnau, MS 2024; Advisor- Lisa Stright

• Thesis – Machine Learning Prediction of Deepwater Slope-Channel Facies Using Core-Analogous Outcrop Observations

Andrew Ruetten, MS; Advisor – Lisa Stright

Rachel Ruthven, MS Structural Geology; Advisor – Jerry Magloughlin & John Sinlgeton

Juli Scamardo, PhD Geomorphology; Advisor – Ellen Wohl

Nikki Seymour, PhD Structural Geology 2020; Advisor – John Singleton

• Magmatism, Deformation, and Mineralization along the Intra-Arc Atacama Fault System, Northern Chile

Christophe Wakamya Simbo, PhD 2024; Advisor – Sally Sutton

• Geological Control on Aquifer Storage and Recovery (Asr) Feasibility and Efficiency in Carbonate Aquifers (Edwards Aquifer and Floridan Aquifer)

Cole Sitar, MS Strutural Geology; Advisor – John Singleton

• Geologic Mapping and Kinematic Analysis of the Independence Mine Shear Zone in the Sangre de Cristo Range, Southern Colorado: Extensional Reactivation of a Laramide Reverse Fault.

Joel Spansel, MS Sedimentology 2020; Advisor – Sven Egenhoff

Siânin Spaur, MS Paleoclimatology; Advisor – Jeremy Caves Rugenstein

• The Hydroclimate and Environmental Response to Warming in the Southwestern US: A Study Across the Mid-Miocene Climate Optimum

Jens Suhr MS; Advisor: Sara Rathburn

• Post-Glacial Alluvial Valley Dynamics of the South Fork Cache la Poudre River Valley at the Colorado State University Mountain Campus

James Van Hook, MS Sedimentology; Advisor – Sven Egenhoff

• Facies Architecture and Depositional Processes Influencing Carbonate Facies Belt Development Along a Low-Inclined Shelf, Huk Formation, Norway, and Komstad Formation, Sweden

Noah Vento, MS 2020; Advisor – Lisa Stright

Isabella Ulate, MS 2024; Advisor – Jeremy Rugenstein

• Thesis – Investigating potential recharge to the Denver Basin Aquifer System from the Front Range Mountain Block using water stable isotope tracers

Lucas Zeller, PHD 2024; Advisor – Dan McGrath

• Dissertation – Understanding daily to decadal evolution of mountain glaciers in Alaska and High Mountain Asia from satellite remote sensing