Past Student Research

• Dave Allderdice (2000): Interpretation of Anomalous and Previously Unmapped Fransican Complex in the Gualala Block, northern California Coast
• Ingrid Backstrom (2000): Field Technician, Shannon & Wilson, Inc.
• Emily Baker (2002): Lichenometry of the Juneau Icefield
• Kirsten Bannister (1998): Sedimentation, Stratigraphy, and Paleoenvironments of the Lower Members of the Carmel Formation (Middle Jurassic, southwestern Utah).
• Beth Bartel (1998): Maximum Glaciation and Deglaciation History of Clarks Fork Lobe of the Yellowstone Ice Sheet, Wyoming and Montana.
• Cindy Bartlett (1995): Source and Origin of an Ice-rafted Bergmound, SE Washington.
• Kirby Bean (1995): Rock Glaciers of the Miller Mountain area, Absaroka Mountains, Montana.
• Martin Bevis (2005): Glaciation of Ugwi Yamaa Valley, Kharkhiraa Uul
• Margo Burton (2002): The end of The Little Ice Age, Mendenhall Glacier, Juneau, Alaska
  • Concentrations of Cu and Hg within an osyter reef system in Henderson Creek, Southwest Florida.
• Megan Berney-Roberts (2004): Upper Ordovician Rocks of Tavan Har Regions, Southeastern Mongolia
• Justin Brooks (2001): Quaternary Geology of the Tumanmyun Hills, Khovsgol, Mongolia
• Cooper Brossy (2003): Cinder Cone reconstruction at Craters of the Moon National Monument
• Joel Byersdorfer (2002): The History of the Laurentide Ice Sheet During the Last Glacial Maximum, Southwestern Ohio.
• Dan Cadol (2003): Paleoclimate of the Albion Range, southern Idaho
• Deron Carter (1996): The Geology of the Juneau Icefield Research Program's Camp 26 Nunatak, Northeastern Coast Mountains, Northwestern British Columbia.
• Matt Clausen (2000) and Molly Gerber (2000): Geomorphic evolution of the Grande Ronde and John Day Rivers, northeastern Oregon
• Skye Cooley (1996) and Brian Pidduk (1997): Mechanism and Timing of Emplacement of Clastic Dikes in the Touchet Beds of the Walla Walla Valley, South-Central Washington.
• Mary Jane Coombs (2000): Threats to water quality in the deep basalt aquifer, city of Walla Walla, Washington
• Maya T. Del Margo (1996): Detailed facies mapping of Jurassic carbonates in the area around Monte Pietroso and Monte Scocione in the Apennine mountains of Italy.
• Bala Dodoye-Alali (1998): Terrace Correlation from Pedology along the Maury River, Virginia.
• Alice A Enevoldsen (2005): Change in the Magma Chamber of Olympus Mons on Mars
• David Fee (2002): Seismic Study of the Northern South Island, New Zealand.
• Alison Gillespie and Devon Macauley (2001): Interpreting Paleoclimate from soils in Northern Mongolia
• Brandon Gillis (1996): Geology of the Coldigioco-Castellaro Basin in the northern Apennine fold and thrust belt, Italy.
• Ryan Gold (2003): Remote sensing techniques for landslide detection: a comparative study between lidar imagery and photogrametric approaches.
• Tara Gregg (2005): How Deep is the Sandbox? Using Gravity Reconnaissance to Measure Sediment Depth in Cyclone Graben, Utah
• Ronald Griffiths (1996): Raised Holocene Marine Terraces Along the Northern California Coast.
• Jamie Hinderliter (2006): The Big Sink
• Chris Iacoboni (2006): Geomorphology of the Saddle Mountain East Fault, Olympic Peninsula, Washington
• Adam Johnson (2005: Fluvial Quartz Interbeds in the Columbia River Basalts, Blue Mountains
• Pat Kailey (2005): Slope Instability in the Eastern Kharkhiraa Uul
• Chris Kitchen (2002): Southwest Florida Coastal and Estuarine Environment  Response to Sea Level Change Over the Late Holocene.
• Jennifer McIntosh (1998): Geology, Petrology, and Geochemistry of a Portion of the High Cascades in Southern Oregon-Northern California, South of the Klamath River Gorge.
• Ashley Meganck (2004): Volcanic Stratigraphy of Langadalsfjall on the Skagi Peninsula, Iceland
• Emily Mendell (2006): Fossil Forests in the Canadian Arctic
• Della Mosier (1996): Magmatic Differentiation in a Columbia River Basalt Dike, Northeasern Oregon.
• Jenn New (2003): The history of climate change recorded in the glacial sediment of Ohio bogs.
• Jo Nissenbaum (2005): Paleoenvironment of Carboniferous Conglomerate, Kharkhiraa Uul
• Shannon Othus (2006): Volcaniclastic interbeds and their possible involvement in initiation of mass wasting in the Big Sink, Oregon
• Suzy Oversvee (2000): Earthquake Hazards, Walla Walla county
• Ryan Porter (2006): Anisotropic Magnetic Susceptibility of Felsic Flows on the North Shore of Lake Superior, Minnesota
• Jim Riesterer (1995): Mammalian Fauna in the Touchet Beds, SE Washington.
• Kate Ritley (2004): Yardangs and Dome Dunes of Mongolia's Gobi
• Robin Rousu (2000): Watershed Dynamics, southwest Florida
• Samantha Saalfield (2004): Interpreting the Holocene Paleoclimate of Ireland through Chemical Analysis of Lake Sediments
• Peter Sak (1995): Structural Geology in the Indus River Syntaxis, NW Pakistan.
• Ben Schiffer (1995): Geology, Petrology and Geochemistry of a section of the High Cascades south of Mt. McLoughlin, Oregon
• Matt Silver (2002): Wrinkle Ridge Formation North of Orcus Patera, Mars
  • Plan-View Geometry of the Clastic Dikes in the Touchet Beds, Southeastern Washington, and Evaluation of Models for Origin.
• Jonah Stinson (2004): Longitudinal Dunes of the Tavan Har Crater, Southeastern Gobi, Mongolia
• Rob Tonnsen (2000): Tectonometamorphic Evolution of Cycladic Subduction Zone Rocks, Syros, Greece
• Heidi Van Auken (1998): The Changing Walla Walla River: A 200 Year Perspective, with Emphasis on Inundation due to the Construction of McNary Dam on the Columbia River.
• Jacque Vaughan (2004): Texas Bar Landslide near Ukiah, Oregon
• Katie Wagner (2004): Life History and Shell Morphological Variation in a Gastropod Species Flock from Lake Tanganyika, East Africa
• Karl Wegmann (1996): Geology of a Proterozoic Deep Crustal Intrusion, Quetico Provincial Park, Ontario.
• Charlie Woodruff (2001): Hydrothermal Alteration Zones and landscape evolution in the City of Rocks, Idaho
• Morgan Zeliff (2006): Evaluating Geologic Hazards Associated with Faulting on the Olympic Peninsula