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Theses and Dissertations

These students' research frequently involved the use of UTIG data and/or the supervision by UTIG research staff.

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2024
Name	Thesis Title	Degree	Year	Advisor(s)	#pages
Alfred, Soraya	Modeling post-impact hydrothermal dynamics at Chicxulub crater: insights from geophysical and drilling data	MS	2024	Gulick	77
Chan, Kristian	A framework for characterizing the near-surface heterogenaity of Europa and Ganymede with radar reflectometry	MS	2024	Blankenship	143
Clennett, Edward	Four-dimensional plate reconstructions: linking geodynamic, seismic and kinematic modelling	PhD	2024	Becker
Lockhart, Landon	A mechanistic approach for predicting pore pressure in the Delaware Basin	PhD	2024	Flemings	145
Montiel, Nicholas	Tectonic and magmatic processes during extension in planetary lithospheres: rifting, spreading, delamination, and recylcling on Earth and Venus	PhD	2024	Lavier
Regier, Nicholas	Paleozoic brain evolution during tectonic and climatic transitions in the eastern pre-cordillera of Argentina	MS	2024	Horton	125

2023
Name	Thesis Title	Degree	Year	Advisor(s)	#pages
Heilman, Erin	Numerical modeling of viscoplastic mantle convection with damage rheology to investigate dynamics of plate tectonics	PhD	2023	Becker	125
Puel, Simone	A mixed forward/inverse modeling framework for earthquake deformation problems	PhD	2023	Becker	258
*Voytan, Dimitri	Generative models for seismic imaging and inversion	PhD	2023	Sen
Yan, Shuai	Geophysical investigation of subglacial Lake Snow Eagle, East Antarctica	PhD	2023	Blankenship

2022
Name	Thesis Title	Degree	Year	Advisor(s)	#pages
Banks, Claudia	Sediment dispersal and source-to-sink dynamics in active river systems of the Ecuadorian Andes and foreland basin	MS	2022	Horton
Butler, Kristina	Mesozoic-Cenozoic broken foreland basin evolution in Northern Patagonia, Argentina: integrating sedimentation, magmatism, and subduction dynamics	PhD	2022	Horton
de Braganca, Ricardo	Enhancing full waveform inversion with machine learning optimizers	PhD	2022	Sen
deFabry, Mark	Cenozoic sedimentary response to changing subduction dynamics in the northern Andes of Columbia	MS	2022	Horton
Goliber, Sophie	Controls on terminus change of marinw terminating glaciers in Greenland over the last 40+ years	PhD	2022	Catania	200
Gutierrez, Juan	Autoencoders for seismic model upscaling and facies identification	MS	2022	Sen
Malone, Joshua	Detrital zircon provenance of Paleozoic strata in the Falkland/Malvinas islands: implications for paleogeography and Gondwanan reconstructions	MS	2022	Horton
McCall, Naoma	Geophysical insights of the crater subsurface at the Chicxulub and Ries impact craters	PhD	2022	Gulick	225
Miller, Russell	Dynamic development of the Athabasca Valles outflow system from volcanic facies and 15cm scale roughness	MS	2022	Grima/Gulick	94
Nix, Matthew	Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous shifts in sediment dispersal and accumulation in the proximal segments of the Western Canada Foreland Basin	MS	2022	Horton
*Ramiro- Ramirez, Sebastian	Integrated stratigraphic and petrophysical analysis of the Wolfcamp at Delaware Basin,, West Texas, USA	MS	2022	Flemings	389
Ross, Catherine	Impact crater geo- and thermochronology and K-Pg boundary deposit provenance	PhD	2022	Gulick/Stockli
Schilling, Solveig	A modern distribution of foraminifera to reconstruct environmental change offshore Galveston Bay, Texas	MS	2022	Goff	50
Varona, Gabrielle	Hydrate-bearing sands in the Terrebonne Basin record the transition from ponded deposition to bypass in the deep-water Gulf of Mexico	MS	2022	Flemings	61
Wolfenbarger, Natalie	Terrestrial constraints on the distribution of brine in Europa's ice shell	PhD	2022	Blankenship/Hesse	261

2021
Name	Thesis Title	Degree	Year	Advisor(s)	#pages
*Burnstein, Jacob	Tracking barrier island response to Early holocene sea-level rise: high resolutionstudy of estuarine sediments in the Trinity River paleovalley	MS	2021	Gulick/Goff
Hirtz, Jamie Ann Megumi	Geochronology and provenance of the Belt-Purcell Supergroup of Montana, USA and Alberta, canada: implications for the Early Mesoproterozoic paleogeography of Laurentia	MS	2021	Horton
Kardell, Dominik	The structural and thermal evolution of upper oceanic crust in the western South Atlantic: insights from seismic velocities and hydrothermal models	PhD	2021	Christeson	166
Olsen, Kelly	Investigating trench sediment consolidation and upper plate structures and their links to seismic behavior using active-source 2D seismic data in south-central Chile and Hikurangi	PhD	2021	Bangs	147
Phan, Son Dang Thai	Machine learning algorith for solving some seismic inversion challenges	PhD	2021	Sen	59
Shuck, Brandon	Mechanisms of lithospheric failure during late continental rifting and early subduction	PhD	2021	Van Avendonk/Gulick	357
Wiggs, David	A generalized model to estimate the elastic stiffness tensor of mudrocks based on the full strain tensor	MS	2021	Flemings	55

2020
Name	Thesis Title	Degree	Year	Advisor(s)	#pages
Biemiller, James	Multi-timescale mechanics of an active low-angle normal fault	PhD	2020	Wallace/Lavier	230
Gose, Brooklyn	Kinematic restoration of the Costa Rican convergent margin: exploring the effects of a rough subducting seafloor	MS	2020	Bangs	50
Lawman, Allison	Reconstructing Past Changes in El Nino-Southern Oscillation Variability Using Geochemical proxies From Corals	PhD	2020	Quinn,Partin	143
Mackaman-Lofland, Chelsea	Andean deformation and basin evolution during changes in subduction zone geometry (29-33 degrees S)	PhD	2020	Horton
*Tomiski, Jackson Ray	Unconventional reservoir parameter estimation by seismic inversion and maachine learning of the Bakken Formation, North Dakota	MS	2020	Sen
Tagliaro, Gabriel	Neogene paleoceanography of Western Australia: Rivers, Winds, Ocean Currents and latitudinal Controls Over Sedimentation	PhD	2020	Fulthorpe, Lavier	205
Wu, Xian	Duration of El Nino and La Nina events: mechanisms and multiyear predictability	PhD	2020	Okamura	166

2019
Name	Thesis Title	Degree	Year	Advisor(s)	#pages
Alulaiw, Badr	Fast methods to model the response of fluid-filled fractures and estimate the fracture properties	PhD	2019	Sen	154
*Apango, Fernando	Analysis of hydrocarbon under-filled Miocene deep-water reservoirs, eastern Mexico offshore	MS	2019	Snedden, Chucla, Fisher	100
Barone, Anthony	Anisotropic analysis and fracture characterization of the Haynesville Shale, Panola County, Texas	PhD	2019	Sen	179
Biswas, Reetam	Advanced Methods for subsurface velocity estimation: Trans-dimensional Inversion and Machine Learning	PhD	2019	Sen, Arnulf, Spikes,Grand, Bennett	330
Harding, Jennifer	Crustal accretion at a spreading rate end-member, the Mid-Cayman Apreading Center: insights from seismic data, gravity, and geochemistry	PhD	2019	Van Avendonk	175
Jackson, Lily	Detrital provenance of modern rivers and stable isotope paleoaltimetry of Quaternary volcanic glasses in the northern Andes of Ecuador and Peru	PhD	2019	Horton, Steel, Breeker, Olariu, Baker	226
*Nerozzi, Steffano	Unraveling the morphological and stratigraphic signature of global climate events within the Planum Boreum of Mars	PhD	2019	Holt, Levy, Putzig, Kocurek, Mohrig	108
*Stephens, Ben	Investigating a Tropical Atmospheric Trigger for Abrupt Climate Change	PhD	2019	Morrison,Jackson	166
Sun, Tianyi	Understanding the Role of Stochastic Atmospheric Forcing in Tropical Pacific Decadal Variability and ENSO Modulation	PhD	2019	Okumura, DiNezio, Heimbach, Quinn, Yang	149
*Swartz, John Marshall	Channel processes and products in subaerial and submarine environments across the Gulf of Mexico	PhD	2019	Gulick, Mohrig, Covault, Goff, Passalacqua, Stockli	152
Tong, Xinyue	Earthquakes and slip transients through multi-dimensional and multi-physics thermomechanical modeling	PhD	2019	Gulick, Ghattas, Choi, Taylor	141
Vamaraju, Janaki	Cost Effective Strategies for Problems in Computational Geophysics: Seismic Modeling and Imaging	PhD	2019	Sen, Wheeler, Spikes, Fomel, De Basabe	294

2018
Name	Thesis Title	Degree	Year	Advisor(s)	#pages
Alqatari, Hala	Acoustic full-waveform to elastic pre-stack seismic inversion of the Yakutat Terrane, Gulf of Alaska	MS	2018	Sen, Spikes, Tisato	99
Darnell, Kristopher	Phase Behavior and the Interaction of Multiple Gas Molecules in Hydrate-dominated Geological Flow Processes	PhD	2018	Flemings, Daigle, DiCarlo, Hesse, Mohrig	127
Felikson, Denis	Geometric Controls on the Inland Extent of Dynamic Thinning for Greenland Ice Sheet Outlet Glaciers	PhD	2018	Bettadpur, Catania, Bui, Dawson, Chen	161
Fried, Mason	Dynamic Changes at Tidewater Glacier Termini in Central West Greenland	PhD	2018	Catania, Holt, Walter, Kim, Heimbach	135
Garza Juarez, Pedro A.	Time-lapse Seismic AVAz Inversion in the Stocker Field	MS	2018	Sen, Spikes, Tisato	90
Gutierrez, Mario Andres	Systematic Lithologic Characterization of Pleistocene Mass-transport Deposit, Mississippi Canyon of the Northern Gulf of Mexico, USA	MS	2018	Snedden	102
Liao, Kungpeng	Impacts of lithospheric rheology on surface topography	MS	2018	Becker, Lavier, Hesse	61
Lima, Rodrigo Dias	From Mountain Belts to Continental Margins: Causes and Controls of Rheological Inheritance During Extension	PhD	2018	Hayman, Lavier, Behr, Stockli, Van Avendonk	222
Lindzey, Laura	Boundary Conditions for an Active Subglacial Lake in the David Glacier Catchment, Antartica	MS	2018	Blankenship	60
Lockhart, Landon	Pore Pressure Prediction: From Vertical Stress to Mean Stress to the Full Stress Tensor	MS	2018	Flemings	110
*Muldoon, Gail	West Antarctic Ice Sheet Retreat During the Last Interglacial	PhD	2018	Jackson, Blankenship, Quinn, Young, Ghattas, Heimbach	115
Quartini, Enrica	The distribution of geothermal flux in West Antarctica	PhD	2018	Blankenship, Young, Lavier, Schroeder, Clark	124

2017
Name	Thesis Title	Degree	Year	Advisor(s)	#pages
Arce Perez, Luis Enrique	Neogene Current-Modified Submarine Fans and Associated Bed Forms in Mexican Deep-water	MS	2013	Snedden, Fisher, Chuchla	105
Arora, Khushboo	Influence of Surface Gravity Waves on Sediment Transport and Deposition of Hummocky Cross-stratified Sands on Marine Shelves	PhD	2017	Goff, Wood, Steel, Mohrig, Kim, Southard	121
Borgfeldt, Taylor M.	Crustal Seismic Velocity Models of Texas	MS	2017	Frohlich, Walter, Lavier, Grand	66
Cavitte, Marie G.	Flow Re-organization of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet Across Glacial Cycles	PhD	2017	Blankenship, Ghattas, Quinn, Sen, Siegert, Young	225
Datta, Debanjan	Implementing Extendedcient Global Optimization Methods in Full Waveform Inversion	PhD	2017	Sen, Spikes, Fomel, Grand, Jordan	205
Davis, Joshua	The Breakup of East Gondwana: Insights From Plate Modeling, Basin Analysis, and Numerical Experiments	PhD	2017	Lavier, Lawver, Norton, Dalziel, Gulick	151
*Greene, Chad	Drivers Of Change In East Antartic Ice Shelves	PhD	2017	Blankenship, Dickinson, Heimbach, Jackson, Wilson, Young	168
Lalich, Daniel	Using Radar Reflectivity to Unlock the Climate Record Contained in the Martian North Polar Layered Deposits	PhD	2017	Holt, Levy, Grima, Catania, Kocurek	86
*Liu, Han	Quantification of the Effects of Fracture Properties on Seismic Data	PhD	2017	Spikes, Sen
*Pinkston, F. William	Pore Pressure and Stress at the Macondo Well, Mississippi Canyon, Gulf of Mexico	MS	2017	Flemings, Mohrig, Snedden	107
Stuurman, Cassie	Ridges on Martian Debris-covered Glaciers: Deconvolving Structural and Climate Processes	MS	2017	Holt, Levy, Catania	57
Xu, Jie	Source-to-sink Analysis of the Lower Miocene Strata in the Gulf of Mexico Basin	PhD	2017	Snedden, Fulthorpe, Stockli, Steel, Kim, Blum	273

2016
Name	Thesis Title	Degree	Year	Advisor(s)	#pages
Frederik, Marina C.	Morphology And Structure Of The Accretionary Prism Offshore North Sumatra, Indonesia And Offshore Kodiak Island, USA - A Comparison To Seek a Link Between Prism Formation and Hazard Potential	PhD	2016	Gulick, Austin, Bangs, Lavier, Barnes, McNeill	136
Gooch, Bradley	The Effects of Sedimentary Basins on the Dynamics of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet from Enhanced Groundwater and Geothermal Heat Flow	PhD	2016	Blankenship, Dalziel, Ghattas, Hesse, Young	239
*Ramírez, Sebastián G.	Interactions Between Sedimentation and Deformation in the Kumano Forearc Basin (Japan) and the Malargue Foreland Basin (Argentina)	PhD	2016	Gulick, Horton, Hayman, Milliken, Marrett	271
Ren, Qi	Anisotropic Seismic Characterization Of The Eagle Ford Shale: Rock-Physics Modeling, Stochastic Seismic Inversion, And Geostatistics	PhD	2016	Sen, Spikes, Srinivasan, Fomel, Daigle	107
*Sekhon, Natasha	Multidecadal rainfall variability in the South Pacific convergence zone using the geochemistry of stalagmites from the Solomon Islands	MS	2016	Quinn, Partin, Jackson, Shanahan	71
Thirumalai, Kaustubh	Surface-ocean Variability In The Northern Gulf Of Mexico During The Late Holocene	PhD	2016	Quinn, Shanahan, Gulick, Okumura, Frohlich, Partin	116
*Walton, Maureen Anne LeVoir	Tectonic and Sediment Processes of the Southeast Alaska Margin	PhD	2016	Gulick, Christeson, Haeussler, Horton, Mohrig	239
Wu, Guangliang	Continental Extension in Orogenic Belts: Modes of Extension, Origin of Core Complexes, and Two-phase Postorogenic Extension	PhD	2016	Lavier, Steel, Hayman, Behr, Stockli, Buck	107

2015
Name	Thesis Title	Degree	Year	Advisor(s)	#pages
Anderson, Veronica	Uplift and Exhumation of the Eastern Cordillera of Colombia and Its Interactions With Climate	PhD	2015	Horton	185
Andrews, Lauren	Spatial and Temporal Evolution of the Glacial Hydrologic System of the Western Greenland Ice Sheet: Observational and Remote Sensing Results	PhD	2015	Catania, Cardenas, Hoffman, Jackson, Mohrig	143
Bovay, Ann Caroline	New Models of Early Cretaceous Source-to-Sink Pathways in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico	MS	2015	Steel, Snedden, Mohrig	88
Brothers, Thomas Charles	Morphology of the Planum Boreum Basal Unit, Mars, and Constraints on the Origin, Mars, and Timing of Icy Circumpolar Deposits	PhD	2015	Holt, Wood, Tanaka, Kocurek, Mohrig	99
Curry-Logan, Elizabeth	Modes of Deformation in Ice in Dynamic Regions: Applications to Basal Crevasses and Calving	PhD	2015	Lavier, Catania, Hesse, Ghattas, MacAyeal	103
Frederick, Bruce	Submarine Sedimentary Basin Analyses for the Aurora and Wilkes Subglacial Basins and the Sabrina Coast Contintal Shelf, East Antarctica	PhD	2015	Blankenship, Dalziel, Gulick, Wilson, Young	189
Greenbaum, Jamin	Geophysical Investigations of the Coastal Evolution of the Totten Glacier System, East Antarctica	PhD	2015	Blankenship, Grand, Heimbach, Jackson, Sen, Wilson, Young	118
Hanna, Andrea Jo Miller	Reconstructing Late Holocene Arctic Climate Change Using High Resolution Sediment Records From Simpson Lagoon, Alaska and the Colville River Alluvial Valley	PhD	2015	Goff, Shanahan, Allison, Quinn, Mohrig, Marcantonio	303
Hart, Nicole	Temporal Constraints on ProgressiveRifting of a Hyper-extended Continental Margin Using Bedrock and Detrital Zircon (U-Th)/(Pb-He) Dating, Maulé Basin, Western Pyrenees	MS	2015	Stockli, Lavier, Hayman	419
Montelli, Aleksandr	Seismic stratigraphy and paleo-glaciology of Sabrina Coast, East Antarctica and Bering Trough, Gulf of Alaska	MS	2015	Gulick, Blankenship, Mohrig	69
*Perez, Nicholas	Cenozoic Deformation History of the Andean Plateau in Southern Peru: Stratigraphic, Structural, and Geochronologic Constraints	PhD	2015	Horton	287
Sanford, Jason	The Cretaceous-Paleogene Boundary Deposit in the Gulf of Mexico: Oceanic Basin Response to the Chicxulub Impact and Geomechanics of Reservoir-scale sand Injectites, Panoche Hills, California	PhD	2015	Flemings, Gulick, Snedden	154
Svartman Dias, Anna Eliza	The Evolution of Hyperextended Rifted Margins: Linking Variations on the Width, Asymmetry, and Strain Distribution to Lithospheric Strength and Geodynamic Processes	PhD	2015	Lavier, Hayman, Van Avendonk, Stockli, Buck	232
*Zhao, Zeyu	Efficient Seismic Imaging With the Double Plane Wave Data	PhD	2015	Sen, Stoffa, Frohlich, Grand, Tatham, Nakamura	208

2014
Name	Thesis Title	Degree	Year	Advisor(s)	#pages
Betts, William	Compressibility and Permeability of Gulf of Mexico Mudrocks, Resedimented and In-Situ	MS	2014	Flemings, Cardenas, Reece	122
Cronin, Michael	Core-scale heterogeneity and dual-permeability pore structure in the Barnett Shale	MS	2014	Flemings, Milliken, Hesse	168
Eakin, Daniel	An Analysis of Subduction Related Tectonics Offshore Southern and Eastern Taiwan	PhD	2014	Lavier, McIntosh, Van Avendonk, Barnes, Horton	238
Eddy, Drew	Mesozoic Rifting Along the Eastern Seaboard of North America: Insights From the Seismic Velocity Structure of the Newfoundland Margin and the Northern Gulf of Mexico	PhD	2014	Van Avendonk, Christeson, Lavier, Stockli, Gulick, Shillington	309
Leuro, Erick	Spatial and Temporal Distributions of Accumulation Rates on the Catchment of Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica	PhD	2014	Blankenship, Wilson, Holt, Yang, Sen	92
Sadahiro, Makoto	Analysis of GPU-based convolution for acoustic wave propagation modeling with finite differences: Fortran to CUDA-C step-by-step	MS	2014	Tatham, Stoffa, Sen	72
Schroeder, Dustin	Characterizing the Subglacial Hydrology of Thwaites Glacier Using Airborne Radar Sounding	PhD	2014	Blankenship, Raney, Anderson, Ghattas, Hesse, Mohrig	120
Stephens, Jason	Tectonic and Depositional History of an Active Forearc Basin, Sandino Basin, Offshore Nicaragua	PhD	2014	Fulthorpe, McIntosh, Tatham, Steel, Horton	128
*Swartz, John Marshall	Seismic and Morphologic Analysis of the Gulf of Alaska Yakutat Margin: Evidence for Recent Trough Mouth Fan Growth	MS	2014	Gulick, Catania, Goff	52
Zurbuchen, Julie	Imaging Evidence for Hubbard Glacier Advances and Retreats since the Last Glacial Maximum in Yakutat and Disenchantment Bays, Alaska	Senior Honors BS	2014	Gulick, Goff, Catania	38

2013
Name	Thesis Title	Degree	Year	Advisor(s)	#pages
Alhussain, Mohammed	Fracture Characterization Of A Carbonate Reservoir In The Arabian Peninsula	PhD	2013	Sen, Spikes, Stoffa, Tatham, Osareni, Nakamura	138
Calle Peralta, Amanda Z.	Andean and Pre-Andean Basin Evolution Along the South American Convergent Margin: Insights from the Central Andes of Bolivia (19.5-22 Degrees S)	PhD	2013	Horton, Garcia-Duarte, Stockli, Steel, Flaig	219
Das, Kumar Sundaram	Gas-hydrates Saturation Estimation in Krishna-Godavari Basin, India	MS	2013	Sen, Tatham, Spikes	129
*Delbecq, Katherine	Physical Models of Tsunami Deposition: An Investigation of Morphodynamic Controls	MS	2013	Kim, Mohrig and Johnson	38
Duncan, Mark	The Northeastern Gulf of Mexico: Volcanic or Passive Margin? Seismic Implications of the Gulf of Mexico Basin Opening Project	MS	2013	Christeson, Van Avendonk, Gulick, Spikes	80
Gao, Baiyuan	Pore Pressure within Dipping Reservoirs in Overpressured Basins	MS	2013	Flemings, Snedden, Hess	87
Goktas, Pinar	Morphologies and Controls on Development of Pliocene-Pleistocene Carbonate Platforms: Northern Carnarvon Basin, Northwest Shelf of Australia	MS	2013	Fulthorpe, Austin, Steel, Fisher	73
*Gutowski, Gail	Effect of modeled pre-industrial Greenland Ice Sheet surface mass balance bias on uncertainty in sea level rise projections in 2100	MS	2013	Blankenship, Jackson, Quinn, Lavier	56
Kopp, Jessica	The Effects of Lateral Tectonics on a Fluvio-Deltaic System: An Application to the Ganges Brahmaputra Delta	MS	2013	Kim, Mohrig, Hickson	185
*Lester, William Ryan	From Rifting to Collision: The Evolution of the Taiwan Mountain Belt	PhD	2013	McIntosh, Lavier, Van Avendonk, Horton, Barnes, Liu	222
Smith, Isaac	On the Spiral Troughs of Mars	PhD	2013	Holt, Howard, Kocurek, Mohrig, Kim, and Blankenship	168
You, Yao	Dynamics of Dilative Slope Failure	PhD	2013 (Dec)	Mohrig, Flemings, Ghattas, Germaine, Hesse	129
*Xia, Yu	Dynamics of the Eastern Edge of the Rio Grande Rift	MS	2013	Grand	60
Xue, Yang	Novel Stochastic Inversion Methods and Workflow For Reservoir Characterization and Monitoring	PhD	2013	Sen, Tatham, Fomel, Spikes, Srinivasan, Jin	161

2012
Name	Thesis Title	Degree	Year	Advisor(s)	#pages
Cavanaugh, Shannon	Heat Flow Variability at the Costa Rica Subduction Zone as Modeled by Bottom-simulating Reflector Depths Imaged in the CRISP 3D Seismic Survey	MS	2012	Bangs, McIntosh, Barnes, Tatham	99
Fitch, Justin	Cenozoic Evolution of a Fragmented Foreland Basin, Altiplano Plateau, Southern Peru	MS	2012	Horton, Steel, Holt	97
Graf, Stephen	Pore Fluid Pressure Detection Within the Plate Boundary Fault Interface of the Costa Rica Convergent Margin Using AVO Attributes	MS	2012	Bangs, McIntosh, Tatham, Cloos	89
Hereid, Kelly	El Niño-southern Oscillation Variability During the Little Ice Age and Medieval Climate Anomaly Reconstructed From Fossil Coral Geochemistry and Pseudoproxy Analysis	PhD	2012	Quinn	86
Kopriva, Bryant	Response of Minibasin Subsidence to Variable Deposition: Experiments and Theory	MS	2012	Kim, Buttles, Kerans	55
Merrell, Michael	Pressure and Stress at Mad Dog Field, Gulf of Mexico	MS	2012	Flemings, Hudec, Hesse, Walker	75
Reece, Robert	The Impact of Climate and Tectonics on Sedimentary and Deformational Processes, Gulf of Alaska	PhD	2012	Gulick, Christeson, Horton, Mohrig, Steel, Jaeger	122
Polat, F. Ozcan	Core-Seismic Correlation and Sequence Stratigraphy at IODP Expedition 317 Drillsites, Canterbury Basin, New Zealand	PhD	2012	Fulthorpe, Fisher, Steel	82
Santra, Manasij	Patterns of Infill and Basin-scale Architecture: Tyee Forearc Basin, and Observation from a Segment of New Jersey Passive Margin	PhD	2012	Steel, Goff, Austin	208
*Smith, Andrew	Observations and Models of Venting at Deepwater Gulf of Mexico Vents	MS	2012	Flemings, Fulton, Hesse, Liu	85
*Stadnik Burris, Svetlana	Gravity Studies Over West Antarctica	MS	2012	Blankenship	84
Tao, Yi	Time Reversal and Plane-wave Decomposition in Seismic Interferometry, Inversion and Imaging	PhD	2012	Sen, Tatham, Wilson, Spikes, Nakamura, Christeson	125
Thirumalai, Kaustubh	Statistical Constraints on El Niño Southern Oscillation Reconstructions Using Individual Foraminiferal Analyses	MS	2012	Quinn, Shanahan, Breecker	33
Wagman, Benjamin	The Impact of Subglacial Hydrology on Force Balance for a Physically Modeled Ice Stream	MS	2012	Catania, Mohrig, Buttles	57

2011
Name	Thesis Title	Degree	Year	Advisor(s)	#pages
Burnett, William	Multiazimuth Velocity Analysis Using Velocity-independent Seismic Imaging	PhD	2011	Fomel, Stoffa, Sen, Torres-Verden, Eichhubl	136
Campos, Henry	Tectonostratigraphic and Subsidence History of the Northern Llanos Foreland Basin of Colombia	MS	2011	Mann, Horton, Steel, Cardozo	109
Fitz, Guy	Offshore Mapping and Modeling of Miocene-Recent Extensional Basins Adjacent to Metamorphic Gneiss Domes of the D'Entrecasteaux Islands, Eastern Papua New Guinea	MS	2011	Mann, Horton, Lavier	183
Gorman, Meaghan	Coral-based Reconstruction of Surface Salinity at Sabine Bank, Vanuatu	MS	2011	Quinn, Shanahan, Breecker	55
Graham, Emily	Three-dimensional Gas Migration and Gas Hydrate Systems of South Hydrate Ridge, Offshore Oregon	MS	2011	Bangs, Flemings, Tatham	102
Joy, Corey	The effects of pressure variations and chemical reactions on the elasticity of the lower tuscaloosa sandstone of the Cranfield Field, Mississippi	MS	2011	Sen, Tatham, Spikes	97
Martin, Kylara	Geophysical Investigations in the Nankai Trough and Sumatran Subduction Zones	PhD	2011	Gulick, Bangs, Flemings, Moore, Mosher, Lavier	153
Ramirez, Michael	Suspension of Bed Material Over Lateral Sand Bars in the Lower Mississippi River, Southeastern Louisiana	MS	2011	Allison, Kim, Mohrig	122
Rodriguez, Anthony	Regional Structure, Stratigraphy, and Hydrocarbon Potential of the Mexican Sector of the Gulf of Mexico	MS	2011	Mann, Galloway, Fisher	177
Sanchez, Carla	Controls on Sedimentary Processes and 3D Stratigraphic Architecture of a Mid-Miocene to Recent, Mixed Carbonate-siliciclastic Continental Margin: Northwest Shelf of Australia	PhD	2011	Steel, Fulthorpe, Austin, Kerans, Mohrig, Janson	141
*Schneider, Julia	Compression and Permeability Behavior of Natural Mudstones	PhD	2011	Flemings, Mohrig, Cardenas, Day-Stirrat, Germaine	302
Shahin, Alireza	Detection of Production-Induced Time-Lapse Signatures by Geophysical (Seismic and CSEM) Measurements	PhD	2011	Stoffa, Tatham	232
Siks, Ben	Sedimentary, Structural, and Provenance Record of the Cianzo Basin, Puna Plateau-Eastern Cordillera Boundary	MS	2011	Horton, Steel, Milliken	97
Phan, Son Dang Thai	Pre-injection reservoir evaluation at Dickman Field, Kansas	MS	2011	Sen, Srinivasan, Grand	82

2010
Name	Thesis Title	Degree	Year	Advisor(s)	#pages
Comeaux, Rebecca	Black Mangrove (Avicennia sp.) Colony Expansion in the Gulf of Mexico with Climate Change: Implications for Wetland Health and Resistance to Rising Sea Levels	MS	2010	Allison, Bianchi, Mohrig, Wilson	132
Punnette, Stefan	Structural framework and its influence on the Quaternary-age sequence architecture of the northern shelf of Trinidad and Tobago	MS	2010	Mann, Wood, Tatham, Steel	166
Sawyer, Derek	Failure Mechanics, Transport Behavior, and Morphology of Submarine Landslides	PhD	2010	Flemings, Mohrig, Lavier, Hornbach, Nikolinakou, Shipp	137
Worthington, Lindsay Lowe	New Geophysical Parameters for Understanding the Evolution of the St. Elias Orogen, Southern Alaska	PhD	2010	Gulick, van Avendonk, Pavlis, Horton, Cloos, Lavier	241

2009
Name	Thesis Title	Degree	Year	Advisor(s)	#pages
Chu, Chunlei	Seismic Modeling and Imaging with the Fourier Method: Numerical Analyses and Parallel Implementation Strategies	PhD	2009	Stoffa, Sen, Wilson, Tatham, Pestana, Klie	322+
*De Basabe Delgado, Jonas de Dios	High-Order Finite Element Methods for Seismic Wave Propagation	PhD	2009	Sen, Wheeler, Dawson, Engquist, Ghattas	140
Dunn, Elizabeth	Coral-based Climate Reconstructions From a Massive Porites Coral From Sabine Bank (Vanuatu)	MS	2009	Quinn, Taylor, Kerans	107
Sil, Samik	Two-way Traveltime Analysis for Seismic Reservoir Characterization	PhD	2009	Sen, Grand, Tatham, Wilson, Srinivasan	157
Stackhouse, Stanley	Late Pleistocene New Jersey Shelf Sedimentation as a Response to Glacio-eustatic Sea Level Rise	MS	2009	Fisher, Goff, and Steel	58
Strong, Hilary	The Origin and Properties of Mass Transport Deposits Ursa Basin, Gulf of Mexico	MS	2009	Flemings, Day-Stirrat, Mohrig	77
Taboada, Gustavo A.	Tectonostratigraphic evolution of the northeastern Maturin foreland basin, Venezuela	MS	2009	Mann, Fisher, Steel, Escalona	97

2008
Name	Thesis Title	Degree	Year	Advisor(s)	#pages
Aljadher, Ali	Imaging of R3 Profile of Chicxulub Offshore Seismic Data Using Prestack Split-Step Fourier Migration in the Plane Wave Domain	MS	2008	Stoffa, Sen, Tatham	98
*Al Muhaidib, Abdulazia	Pre-stack Inversion for Porosity Estimation from Seismic Data in an Oil Field, Eastern Saudi Arabia	MS	2008	Sen, Tatham, Kerans	107
Carter, Sasha	Evolving Subglacial Water Systems in East Antarctica from Airborne Radar Sounding	PhD	2008	Blankenship, Sharp, Mohrig, Sen, Jackson	241
Contreras, David R.	Defining the Northeastern Boundary of the Supergiant Maracaibo Foreland Basin, Venezuela	MS	2008	Mann, Fisher, Tatham, Escalona	184
Danque, Hunter-West A.	Subglacial West Antarctic Volcanoes Defined By Aerogeophysical Data and the Potential for Associated Hydrothermal Systems	MS	2008	Blankenship, Wilson, Gardner, Holt	112
Diehl, Theresa	Gravity Analyses for the Crustal Structure and Subglacial Geology of West Antarctica, Particularly Beneath Thwaites Glacier	PhD	2008	Blankenship, Childers, Dalziel, Lawver, Sen, Wilson	209
*Elmore, Ryan	Quaternary Seismic Stratigraphic Investigations, Yakutat Bay Region, Gulf of Alaska: Subglacial Drainage Mechanics and Glacial Expanse	MS	2008	Gulick, Mohrig, Catania, Horton	109
Hong, Tiancong	MCMC Algorithm, Integrated 4D Seismic Reservoir Characterization and Uncertainty Analysis in a Bayesian Framework	PhD	2008	Sen, Stoffa, Tatham, Grand, Jackson	191
Hu, Chaoshun	Stochastic Tomography and Gaussian Beam Depth Migration	PhD	2008	Stoffa, McIntosh, Nakamura, Sen, Grand, Fomel	194
Smith, Dan	Regularization and Redatuming Using Least Squares and Conjugate Gradients	MS	2008	Sen, Tatham, Ferguson	86
Vence, Eleine M.	Subsurface Structure, Stratigraphy, and Regional Tectonic Controls of the Guajira Margin of Northern Colombia	MS	2008	Mann, Steel, Horton	128

2007
Name	Thesis Title	Degree	Year	Advisor(s)	#pages
Bansal, Reeshidev	Seismic Characterization of Naturally Fractured Reservoirs	PhD	2007	Sen, Stoffa, Grand, Bangs, Tatham, Ferguson	232
Castellanos, Hugo	Sequence stratigraphy and tectonics of the Guantao and Minghuazhen Formations, Zang Dong Field, Bohai Bay, Eastern China	PhD	2007	Fisher, Mann, Tatham, Steel, Torres-Verdin, and Guevara	242
Chen, Ming-Chu	Seismicity and Tectonics of the Arc Segmentation in the Solomon Island Arc, SW Pacific Ocean and Their Relation to Subducting Bathymetric Features	MS	2007	Frohlich, Taylor, Mosher, Grand	72
Filina, Irina	Geophysical Investigations of Subglacial Lakes Vostok and Concordia, East Antarctica	PhD	2007	Blankenship, Stoffa, Dalziel, Wilson, Sen, Holt	129
Funk, Justin	Cenozoic Tectonics of the Nicaraguan Depression, Nicaragua, and Median Trough, El Salvador, Based on Seismic Reflection Profiling and Remote Sensing Data	MS	2007	Mann, McIntosh, Steel, Gardner	188
Kroehler, Margaret	Tectonics and Sequence Stratigraphy of the Venezuelan Basin, Caribbean Sea	MS	2007	Mann, Christeson, Escalona, Steel, Tatham	108
Pangborn, Emily	Thrust Fault Characteristics Inferred From 3D Seismic Reflection Data From the Nankai Trough Subduction Zone, Southwest Japan	MS	2007	Bangs, Tatham, Wilson, Gulick	97
Sood, Sanjay	Multitaper Spectral Analysis of Wide-angle Refraction Data from Costa Rica for t^* Estimation	MS	2007	Sen, van Avendonk	84
*Soto, David	Structural and Basinal Architecture and Active Strike-slip Faulting of the Eastern Offshore Area of Trinidad	MS	2007	Mann, Fisher, Wood, Steel	96
Xun, Hao	A 3-D seismic investigation of the distribution of gas hydrate and free gas and their relationship to the structure and stratigraphy of Hydrate Ridge	MS	2007	Stoffa, Bangs	163
*Young, G. Russell	Effective Porosity Estimation from 3D Seismic Reflection Data: Marco Polo Field, Gulf of Mexico	MS	2007	Sen, Ferguson, Tatham	163

2006
Name	Thesis Title	Degree	Year	Advisor(s)	#pages
Garciacaro, Emilio	Stratigraphic Architecture and Basin Fill Evolution of a Plate Margin Basin, Eastern Offshore Trinidad and Venezuela	MS	2006	Mann, Wood, Fisher, Steel	84
*Hanzlík-Valentín, Martín	Late Quaternary Seismic Stratigraphy and Structure of the Western Insular Shelf Margin of Puerto Rico	MS	2006	Mann, Ferguson, Pain, Steel	84
Kumar, Chandan	Parameter Inversion for Seismic Anisotropy	PhD	2006	Ferguson, Sen, Stoffa, Tatham, Fomel	127
McDonald, Matthew	The Chicxulub Impact Crater and Oblique Impact	MS	2006	Gulick, Tatham, Christeson, Wilson	94

2005
Name	Thesis Title	Degree	Year	Advisor(s)	#pages
Aitken, Trevor	Cenozoic Stratigraphic and Tectonic History of the Grenada and Tobago Basins as Determined From Marine Seismic Data, Wells, and Onland Geology	MS	2005	Mann, Christeson, Stoffa, Steel	89
Gorney, David	Chronology of Cenozoic Tectonic Events in Western Venezuela and the Dutch Antilles Based on Integration of Offshore Seismic Reflection Data and Onland Geology	MS	2005	Mann, Christeson	103
Kumar, Dhananjay	Analysis of Multicomponent Seismic Data From the Hydrate Ridge, Offshore Oregon	PhD	2005	Sen, Stoffa, Grand, Bangs, Ferguson, Tatham	179
Nordfjord, Sylvia	Late Quaternary Geologic History of New Jersey Middle and Outer Continental Shelf	PhD	2005	Austin, Goff, Galloway, Fisher, Steel, Sommerfield	202
*Shi, Minjuan	Characterizing Heterogeneity in Low-permeability Strata and Its Control on Fluid Flow and Solute Transport by Thermalhaline Free Convection	PhD	2005	Sharp, Galloway, Dutton, Simmons, Zong-liang Yang	229
Sullivan, Sean	Geochemistry, sedimentology, and morphology of mud volcanoes, eatern offshore Trinidad	MS	2005	Wood, Mann, Fisher, Tatham	93

2004
Name	Thesis Title	Degree	Year	Advisor(s)	#pages
Lu, Hongbo	Global and local controls on depositional cyclicity: Canterbury Basin, New Zealand	PhD	2004	Galloway, Fulthorpe, Mann	163
Sena D'Anna, Armando	Modeling and Imaging of Ground Penetrating Radar Data	PhD	2004	Stoffa, Sen, Tatham, Grand, Fokkema, Wilson	223
Wu, Xinxia	Upper Miocene Depositional History of the Central Gulf of Mexico Basin	PhD	2004	Galloway	319

2003
Name	Thesis Title	Degree	Year	Advisor(s)	#pages
Ahmed, Imtiaz	Imaging the lower slope, offshore Nicaragua and Costa Rica using a new residual migration velocity analysis technique in the space-offset domain	PhD	2003	Stoffa, McIntosh	162
*Bermudez, Juan	Sequence Stratigraphy and Depositional History of the upper Cañn del Tule, Las Imagenes, and lower Cerro Grande formations, central Parras Basin, northeastern Mexico	PhD	2003	Buffler (Supervisor), Fisher, McBride, Vega, Lawton	249
*Combellas-Bigott, Ricardo	Depositional Framework and Sequence Stratigraphic Framework of the Middle Miocene Depositional Episode Central Gulf of Mexico	PhD	2003	Galloway
Escalona, Alejandro	Regional tectonics, sequence stratigraphy and reservoir properties of Eocene clastic sedimentation, Maracaibo Basin, Venezuela	PhD	2003	Fisher, Mann	222
*Jaimes, Martha	Paleogene to Recent tectonic and paleogeographic evolution of the Cariaco basin, Venezuela	MS	2003	Fisher, Mann	94
Meckel, Timothy	Tectonics of the Hjort region of the Macquarie Ridge Complex, southernmost Australian-Pacific Plate Boundary, southwest Pacific Ocean	PhD	2003	Mosher, Coffin, Mann, Dalziel, Connelly
Rogers, Robert	Jurassic to Recent tectonic and stratigraphic history of the Chortis block of Honduras and Nicaragua (northern Central America)	PhD	2003	Mann	264
Tuitjer, Eric	Depositional history and paleogeographic evolution of the Pliocene Globoquadrina altispira sequence, Northern Gulf of Mexico	MS	2003	Galloway, Fisher	93
Wang, Chengshu	Velocity Estimation From Seismic Data By Nonlinear Inversion and Characterization of Gas Hydrate Deposits Offshore Oregon	PhD	2003	Sen, Tatham, Bangs, Ferguson, Stoffa	145
Wertz, Karah	From seafloor spreading to uplift: The structural and geochemical evolution of Macquarie Island on the Australian-Pacific plate boundary	PhD	2003	Mosher	168

2002
Name	Thesis Title	Degree	Year	Advisor(s)	#pages
Burger, Robert	Mid-Pleistocene to Present Stratigraphic Responses in a Tectonically-Driven Depositional Setting: Eel River Basin, Northern California	PhD	2002	Austin, Fulthorpe, Galloway, Fisher, and Dalziel	295
Cathro, Donna	Three-Dimensional Stratal Development of a Carbonate-Siliciclastic Sedimentary Regime, Northern Carnarvon Basin, Northwest Australia	PhD	2002	Fisher, Austin, Fulthorpe, Karner, Galloway, Buffler	490
Ghebretensae, Berhane	Late Cenozoic sedimintation and tectonics of the Bada, Dandero-Mahable and Abdur areas, Northern Danakil Depression, Eritrea, Africa	MS	2002	Buffler	167
*Huerta Lopez, Carlos	Determination of soil properties from earthquake data	PhD	2002	Pulliam, Nakamura, Stokoe	222
Loewy, Staci L.	The Arequipa-Antofalla Basement, A Tectonic Tracer in the Reconstruction of Rodinia	PhD	2002	Connelly, Dalziel, Mosher, Van Schmus, Mukasa	162
Miskelly, Thomas	Structural Framework and Depositional Systems of a Complex Rift and Strike-slip Plate Margin: Blocks CI-104 and 105, Ivory Coast, West	MS	2002	Galloway, Fisher, Mann	128
Mukherjee, Anubrati	Seismic Data Processing in Transversely Isotropic Media: A Plane Wave Approach	PhD	2002	Sen, Stoffa, Grand, Tatham, Nakamura	155
Reid, Bradley	Sedimentology and depositional history of the late Cenozoic Gila Group in the central Duncan Basin, Greenlee County, southeast Arizona	MS	2002	Buffler	256
Sylvia, Dennis	Response of the Brazos River Dispersal System to Latest Pleistocene Climatic Variation and Eustatic Change	PhD	2002	Galloway

2001
Name	Thesis Title	Degree	Year	Advisor(s)	#pages
*Al-Aslani, Abdulaziz	3D seismic surface multiple attenuation algorithms and analysis	PhD	2001	Stoffa, Sen, Grand, Nakamura, Galloway
Al-Saleh, Saleh	Processing and imaging of multi-component ocean bottom cable data in the plane wave domain	MS	2001	Stoffa	162
Castillo, Maria	Structural Analysis of Cenozoic Fault Systems Using 3D Seismic Reflection Data in the Southern Maracaibo Basin, Venezuela	PhD	2001	Fisher, Mann, Bally, Marrett, Shipley,Tatham	188
Davis, Marcy	Subglacial morphology and structural geology in the southern Transantarctic Mountains from airborne geophysics	MS	2001	Blankenship, Dalziel	133
*Duncan, Laurie	Latest quaternary stratigraphy and seafloor morphology of the New Jersey continental shelf	PhD	2001	Goff, Austin	226
Griffin, Joy	Alluvial architecture and tectonic setting of the Mangas conglomerate, Tyrone mine area, Grant County, New Mexico	MS	2001	Buffler	121
Jiao, Junro	Residual Migration Velocity Analysis in the Plane Wave Domain: Theory and Applications	PhD	2001	Stoffa	186

2000
Name	Thesis Title	Degree	Year	Advisor(s)	#pages
Liu, Qunling	Post Mid-Cretaceous Sequence Stratigraphy and Depositional History of Northeastern Gulf of Mexico	PhD	2000	Buffler	266
Schlottman, Robert Brian	A path integral formulation of elastic wave propagation	PhD	2000	Grand	98
Stachowiak, John	The Nature and Causes of Backstop Deformation in the Northern Lesser Antilles Subduction Zone	MS	2000	Austin, Stoffa	123
van Gestel, Jean-Paul	Structure and Tectonics of the Puerto Rico-Virgin Islands Platform and Multi-configuration Ground Penetrating Radar Data	PhD	2000	Stoffa, Mann	214

1999 and Older
Name	Thesis Title	Degree	Year	Advisor(s)	#pages
Bilich, Andria	Global Seismicity Characteristics of Subduction to Strike-slip Transitions	Senior Honors BS	1999	Frohlich, Mann
Clark, Stephen	Along-Strike Variation of a Non-volcanic Rifted Margin: A Concurrent MCS and OBS Investigation of Galicia Bank and the Iberia Abyssal Plain	MS	1999	Austin	73
Faulkenberry, Laura	Sedimentology and Depositional History of the Miocene Gila Group in the Mimbres Basin, Grant Co., New Mexico	MA	1999	Buffler	180
Liu, Faqi	Surface multiple attenuation operators in the plane wave domain: Theory and applications	PhD	1999	Stoffa, Sen	193
Rodriguez, Luis	Tectonic Analysis, Sratigraphy and Depositional History of the Miocene Sedimentary Section, Central Eastern Venezuela Basin	PhD	1999	Galloway, Mann	117
Tsoflias, George	Hydrogeologic characterization of fractured carbonate aquifers employing ground-penetrating radar	PhD	1999	Stoffa	96
Cowley, Shane	Oligocene to recent stratigraphic and tectonic history of the central Solomon intra-arc basin as determined from marine seismic data and onshore geology	MA	1998	Mann	103
Kong, Fanchen	Continental margin deformation analysis and reconstruction-evolution of the East China Sea Basin and adjacent plate interaction	PhD	1998	Lawver	263
Muszala, Stefan	Aeromagnetics of the North Slope of Alaska and magnetics of the Puerto Rico Trench	MA	1998	Stoffa, Lawver, Dalziel	101
Nyffenegger, Paul	Aftershock sequence occurrence rate decay for individual sequences and catalogs	PhD	1998	Frohlich	131
Sen, Vikramaditya	A seismic survey in Antarctica, parallel schemes for seismic migration and target oriented velocity analysis	PhD	1998	Stoffa	102
Tanis, Mehmet	Prestack split-step Fourier depth migration algorithms and parallel implementations on Cray T3E	PhD	1998	STOFFA	191
Akbar, Faruq	Plane wave Kirchhoff depth migration in the 2D and 3D medium	PhD	1997	Stoffa, Sen	199
Babb, Stephen	Tectonics and Sedimentation of the Gulf of Paria and Northern Basin, Trinidad	PhD	1997	Mann, Buffler, McBride, Galloway	200
Barker, Daniel	Structural evolution of Bransfield Strait, West Antarctica	PhD	1997	Dalziel, Austin, Stoffa	273
Buck, Keith	Paleoenvironmental evidence for latest Pleistocene sea level fluctuations on the New Jersey outer Continental Shelf: Combining high-resolution sequence stratigraphy and foraminiferal analysis	PhD	1997	Galloway, Olson	109
*Calderon Macias, Carlos	Artificial neural systems for interpretation and inversion of seismic data	PhD	1997	Stoffa, Sen, Backus	208
*Schuur, Laurie	Sedimentary regimes at the Macquarie Ridge Complex south of New Zealand: Interaction of Southern Ocean Circulation and tectonism	MS	1997	Coffin, Lawver	104
Fitchen, William	Lower Permian Sequence Stratigraphy of the Western Delaware Basin Margin, Sierra Diablo, West Texas	PhD	1997	Buffler	264
Floyd, Jacqueline S.	Tectonics of the Costa Rica Forearc in Response to Subduction of the Seamount Dominated Segment of the Cocos Plate (Honors Thesis)	BS	1997	Backus, Cloos, Shipley, McIntosh	44
*Könneke, Elisabeth	Early development of the Southern Kerguelen plateau (Indian Ocean) from ocean bottom seismograph and multichannel seismic reflection data	MA	1997	Coffin	85
Luhurbudi, Eddy	Processing a High Resolution 3D Survey of the Shallow Subsurface on the Continental Shelf of New Jersey	MA	1997	Stoffa	74
Massell, Christina	The Neotectonics of the Macquarie Ridge Complex, Pacific-Australia Plate Boundary	MA	1997	Coffin, Mosher, Dalziel	101
*McKenna, Tom	Geologic and Hydrologic Constraints on Fluid and Heat Flow in the Over-pressured Section of the Rio Grand Embayment, Gulf of Mexico Sedimentary Basin	PhD	1997	Sharp	241
Phinney, Eric	Seismic Imaging of Oceanic Plateau Accretion Within the Malaita Accretionary prism, Solomon Islands	MA	1997	Coffin, Mann	128
*Teagan, Alison	Post-stack Migration Velocity Analysis of Three-dimensional Seismic Reflection Data	MA	1997	Backus/Shipley	100
Xia, Ganyuan	Prestack migration and AVO inversion	PhD	1997	Stoffa/Sen	216
Carpenter, Danielle	Tectonic History of the Metamorphic Basement Rocks of the Sierra Del Carmen, Coahuila, Mexico	MA	1996	Dalziel, Mosher	118
Chunduru, Raghu	Global and hybrid optimization in geophysical inversion	PhD	1996	Stoffa, Sen	194
He, Leipin	Sequence stratigraphy of the neogene section of the northeastern Gulf of Mexico	MA	1996	Buffler	95
Lee, Duk Kee	The upper mantle structure beneath the Colorado Rocky Mountains andthe East Pacific Rise	PhD	1996	Grand	183
Setiyono, Kriyanti	A comparative study of multiple suppression methods	MA	1996	Stoffa	119
Varela, Carlos	Automatic background velocity estimation in 2D laterally varying media	PhD	1996	Stoffa	211
*Ye, Quicheng	Predicting Shelf Sandstone Reservoir Facies Distribution on Continental margins: Application of Cyclostratigraphy and Forward Modeling	PhD	1995	Galloway/Frohlich	204
Zhou, Ran	High Velocity Zone Beneath the Southern Tibetan Plateau and Fast Global Optimization of Earthquake Source Parameters	PhD	1996	Tajima	180
Al-Abri, Saif	Stratigraphy and structure of a starved late Cretaceous passive margin, SE Australia	MA	1995	Buffler, Coffin	143
Feng, Jianhua	Post Mid-Cretaceous Seismic Stratigraphy and Depositional History, Deep Gulf of Mexico	PhD	1995	Buffler, Behrens, Galloway, Bryant	253
Marton, Gyorgy	Jurassic evolution of the Southeastern Gulf of Mexico	PhD	1995	Buffler	276
Sloan, Benjamin	Eocene sequence stratigraphy of the North Sea basin	PhD	1995	Galloway	214
*Zellers, Sally	Sequence biostratigraphy, seismic stratigraphy, and subsidence/uplift history of the offshore Yakataga Formation, Northeastern Gulf of Alaska	PhD	1995	Lagoe	299
Chen, Jeffrey	Emerged corals and reef terraces: measurement and dating of late Quaternary uplift, Tanna Island, Vanuatu	MA	1994	Wilson, Taylor	67
Fiduk, Joseph	Plio-Pleistocene Evolution of the Upper Continental Slope, Garden Banks and East Breaks Areas, northwestern Gulf of Mexico	PhD	1994	Buffler	311
Ralston, Matthew	Analysis of the COCORP San Marcos Arch Seismic Survey: Line Texas 6	MA	1994	Stoffa	148
Simmons, James	Practical Seismic Inversion	PhD	1994	Backus, Stoffa, Wilson, Garmany, Grand	187
Cunningham, William Dixon	Geological Investigations at the Southern Tip of the Americas: The Development of the Patagonian Orocline and Uplift of the Cordillera Darwin Metamorphic Complex, southernmost Chile	PhD	1993	Dalziel	259
Faria, Eduardo Lopes de	Modeling, Migration and Focusing Analysis in Transversely Isotropic Media	PhD	1993	Stoffa	196
Hoar, Timothy	Altimetric observations of oceanic response to atmospheric forcing	MA	1993	Wilson	61
Jervis, Michael	Optimization methods for 2-D pre-stack migration velocity estimation	PhD	1993	Stoffa, Backus, Porsani, Sen, Wilson	185
Klepeis, Keith	Structural studies of deformation along convergent and transform plate boundaries in the Scotia Arc	PhD	1993	Dalziel, Mosher	232
Moore, James	Tomographic Study of the Lower Mantle Beneath the Indian-South Asian Collision Zone	MA	1993	Grand, Tajima	97
Oh, Jinyong	Basement Structures associated with Mesozoic Continental Breakup along the southeastern United States Continental Margin from Multichannel Seismic Profiles	PhD	1993	Stoffa, Phillips, Austin, Coffin, Nakamura, Wilson	302
Rowell, Philip	The Structural and Stratigraphic Evolution of the Celtic Sea Basins, Offshore Ireland	PhD	1993	Buffler, Kominz, Austin, Coffin, Dalziel	224
*Silva, Hercules	Flooding Surfaces, Depositional Elements, and Accumulation Rages -- Characteristics of the Lower Cretaceous Tectonosequence in the Reconcavo Basin, Northeast Brazil	PhD	1993	Buffler	312
Squires, Livia Jo	Reducing Artifacts in Tomographic Velocity Reconstructions	PhD	1993	Stoffa, Backus, Garmany,Sen, Wilson	219
Tanis, Mehmet	A Comparison of migration methods in laterally varying media	MA	1993	Stoffa, Sen, Grand	115
Wood, Warren	Least square inversion of field seismic data for an elastic 1-D earth	PhD	1993	Stoffa, Wilson, Sen, Backus, Shipley	142
Cainelli, Cesar	Sequence stratigraphy, canyons, and gravity mass-flow deposits in the Piacabucu Formation, Sergipe-Alagoas Basin, Brazil	PhD	1992	Buffler	233
Cardimona, Steven	Studies in Seismic Scattering	PhD	1992	Wilson, Frohlich	137
Denny, Walter	Seismic Stratigraphy and Geologic History of Mid-Cretaceous through Cenozoic Rocks, Southern Straits of Florida	MA	1992	Buffler	160
Fitchen, William	Sequence stratigraphy of the upper San Andres Formation and Cherry Creek Tonque (Permian, Guadalupian), southern Brokeoff Mountains, New Mexico	MA	1992	Buffler	154
Kolarsky, Radim	Late Cretaceous-Cenozoic Tectonics and Sedimentation in Southern Central America: Costa Rica and Panama	MA	1992	Buffler, Muehlberger, Mann	351
Lee, Tung-Yi	Cenozoic Plate Reconstruction of Southeast Asia and Sequence Stratigraphy and Tectonics of the Tainan Basin, Offshore Southwestern Taiwan	PhD	1992	Buffler, Brown, Lawver	240
Nagihara, Seiichi	New Studies in Marine Heat Flow Instrumentation and Observations from the Salt Structures on the Texas Continental Slope, Gulf of Mexico	PhD	1992	Sclater	152
Tyburski, Stacey	Deformational Mechanisms along Active Strike-Slip Faults: SeaMARC II Data from the North America-Caribbean Plate Boundary	MA	1992	Muehlberger, Mann, Cloos	194
Winkler, Hugh	Some strategies for nonlinear inversion	MA	1992	Stoffa	98
Beckley, Lila	Recent Sedimentation and Shallow Salt Movement, Northwestern Gulf of Mexico Continental Slope	MA	1991	Buffler, Behrens, Sclater	122
Cambois, Guillaume	Surface-Consistent Processes in the Log/Fourier Domain: Deconvolution, Static Corrections and Amplitude Balancing	PhD	1991	Stoffa, Backus, Brysk, Garmany, Grand, Wilson	219
*Debalko, David	Seismic stratigraphy and geologic history of upper middle Jurassic through lower Cretaceous rocks, Deep Eastern Gulf of Mexico	MA	1991	Buffler	143
Graebner, Mark	Model Parameter Estimation in a Transversely Isotropic Solid	PhD	1991	Backus, Wilson, Stoffa, Garmany, Weglein	288
Kessinger, Walter	Three dimensional seismic imaging of the Costa Rica accretionary margin	MA	1991	Stoffa, Shipley, Grand	153
Lugo Lobo, Jairo	Cretaceous to Neogene tectonic control on sedimentation: Maracaibo Basin, Venezuela	PhD	1991	Salvador, Muehlberger, Mann, Galloway, Brown	219
*Walters, Robert	Emplacement History of an Allochthonous Salt Structure from 3-D Seismic Relection Data, Northern Gulf of Mexico	PhD	1991	Backus, Wilson, Sharp, Sawyer	262
Bernitsas, Nickolaos	Traveltime inversion, modeling and interpretation of fault surface reflections	PhD	1990	Backus	172
Binig-McCann, Cecilia	Seismic stratigraphy of the Gulf of Honduras Area, Northwest Caribbean	MA	1990	Salvador, Rosencrantz, Brown	132
Corrigan, Jeffrey	Geology of the Burica Peninsula, Panama-Costa Rica: Neotectonic Implications for the Southern Middle America Convergent Margin	PhD	1990	Mann, Cloos, McBride	152
Dobson, Laura	Seismic Stratigraphy and Geologic History of Jurassic Rocks, Northeastern Gulf of Mexico	MA	1990	Buffler, Salvador, Watkins	165
Finn, Christopher	Seismic traveltime inversion in three-dimensional heterogeneous media	PhD	1990	Stoffa	272
Fuqua, David Alan	Seismic structural analysis of the Perdido Fold Belt, Alaminos Canyon Area, Northwestern Gulf of Mexico	MA	1990	Wilson, Behrens, Helper	89
Gordon, Mark	Strike-slip faulting and basin formation at the Guaype Fault -- Valle de Catacamas intersection, Honduras, Central America	PhD	1990	Muehlberger, Mann	259
*Lamar, Mike	Geology of pliocene evaporitic rocks, Enriquillo Valley, Dominican Republic	MA	1990	McBride, Mann, Galloway	163
*Macrae, Grant	Salt Tectonism and Seismic Stratigraphy of the Upper Jurassic in the Destin Dome Region, Northeastern Gulf of Mexico (Texas A&M Univ)	MS	1990	Watkins, Buffler	81
Peres, Wagner	Seismic Stratigraphic Interpretation of Oligocene-Miocene Sequence, Campos Basin, Offshore Brazil	PhD	1990	Galloway, Buffler	201`
Riherd, Paul	Seismic investigation of two proposed nuclear waste repositories	MA	1990	Stoffa	243
Albertin, Martin	Interpretations and Analysis of Guaymas Basin Multi-Channel Seismic Reflection Profiles: Implications for Tectonic History	MA	1989	Sclater	127
Boerner, Sean	Experimental Investigation of Packed Spheres under Extention: Application to Sand Box Experiments	MA	1989	Sclater	244
Davis, Scott	Investigations Concerning the Nature of Earthquake Aftershocks and Earthquakes Induced by Fluid Injection	PhD	1989	Cloos, Frohlich	156
*Oberst, Peter Jürgen	Meteroids near the Earth-Moon System as Inferred from Temporal and Spatial Distribution of Impacts Detected by the Lunar Seismic Network	PhD	1989	Nakamura, Hinkley, Garmany, Frohlich, Szebehely	135
Small, Christopher	Geoid anomalies on the global mid-ocean ridge system	MA	1989	Wilson, Sandwell	74
Weimer, Paul	Sequence Stratigraphy and Depositional History of the Mississippi Fan, Gulf of Mexico	PhD	1989	Buffler, Brown, Galloway	233
Wood, Warren	One and Two Dimensional Seismic Velocity Inversion in the Domain of Intercept Time and Ray Parameter: An Example in the Nankai Trough	MA	1989	Stoffa, Shipley, Wilson	168
Badachhape, Abhaya	Mid-Cretaceous unconformities in the East Texas Basin and the Sabine Uplift	MA	1988		76
deZoeten, Ruurdjan	Structure and Stratigraphy of the Central Cordillera Septentrional, Dominican Republic	MA	1988	Mann, McBride, Cloos	299
Dunbar, John	Kinematics and Dynamics of Continental Breakup	PhD	1988	Sawyer, Sclater, Muehlberger, Wilson, Becker, Withjack	171
Gahagan, Lisa	Mapping of Tectonic Features in the Ocean Basins from Satellite Altimetry Data	MA	1988	Cloos, Sclater, Scotese	95
Heubeck, Christoph	Geology of the Southeastern Termination of the Cordillera Central, South Central Hispaniola, Dominican Republic	MA	1988	Mann, McBride, Cloos	333
Mayes, Catherine	Tectonic History and New Isochron Chart of the South Pacific	MS	1988	Sclater, Lawver, Dalziel, Sandwell	117
Meador, Karen	Geologic Evolution of the Northern Newfoundland Basin	MA	1988	Austin, Backus, Brown	111
*Ramirez-Serafinoff, Rafael	Stratigraphy of the Tertiary of the Middle Magdalena Basin (Colombia), Central and Northern Parts	MA	1988	Salvador	119
*Satterfield, William	Late Quaternary sedimentology and evolution of the continental slope, northwest Gulf of Mexico	PhD	1988	BEHRENS, Salvador, Galloway
Zemlicka, George	Source Process Study with the Inclusion of the Effects of Near-source Bathymetric Structure for Submarine Events in the Gulf of California	MA	1988	Tajima, Sclater	183
*Cedraro, Rudulfo	Seismic stratigraphy and depositional systems of the Orinoco Platform area, northeastern Venezuela	PhD	1987	Fisher
Coltrin, Donald George	Seismic Reflection Imaging Problems Resulting from a Rough Surface at the Top of the Accretionary Prism at Convergent Margins	MA	1987	Backus
Corso, William	Development of the Early Cretaceous Northwest Florida Carbonate Platform	PhD	1987	Buffler, Austin, Bebout, Salvador, Schlager, Stoffa	137
Dobbs, Steve	Linearized Inversion of Plane Wave Seismograms	MA	1987	Wilson	159
*Farrelly, Michael	Depositional Setting and the Evolution of the Pliocene-Basal Pleistocene Section of Southeast Trinidad, West Indies	MA	1987	Salvador, Galloway, Brown	141
Giltner, John	Application of Extensional Models to the Northern Viking Graben, North Sea	MA	1987	Sclater	119
Huston, Daniel	Interpretation of Seismic Signal and Noise through Line Intersection MIS-TIE Analysis	MA	1987	Backus	224
Kautz, Steven	Importance of Cryptic Extension in Scale Models of Normal Faulting	MA	1987	Sclater	73
Laguros, George	Seismic Stratigraphic Analysis of Sedimentation Processes in Pelagic Carbonate Sequences of the Equatorial Pacific: Deep Sea Drilling Project 574	MA	1987	Shipley, Wilson, Davies	99
Newman, Jerry	Site Surveys of the Central and Southern Ninetyeast Ridge for the Ocean Drilling Program, Leg 121	MA	1987	Sclater, Lagoe, Sandwell	106
*Rosenthal, David	Distribution of Crust in the Deep Eastern Gulf of Mexico	MA	1987	Buffler, Backus, Salvador	149
*Ross, Malcom	Maganom: A Computer Program for the Modeling and Interpretation of Marine Magnetic Anomalies	MA	1987	Sclater, Scotese	117
Shorey, Mark	Estimates of Extension in the North Sea Central Graben from Analysis of High Quality Seismic Data	MA	1987	Sclater	135
Simmons, James	Traveltime Inversion for a 3-D Near Surface Velocity Model	MA	1987	Backus	288
Adamek, Scott	Earthquake Studies in the Panama-Costa Rica Region	Ma	1986	Frohlich, Tajima, Mosher	211
Cagle, Clinton	Seismic Stratigraphy of the Central Tonga Arc, SW Pacific	MA	1986	Cloos, Austin, Taylor	158
*Celerier, Bernard	Models for the evolution of the Carolina trough and their limitations	PhD	1986	Sclater	206
Corrigan, Jeffrey	Geology of the Burica Peninsula, Panama-Costa Rica: Neotectonic Implications for the Southern Middle America Convergent Margin	MA	1986	Mann, Cloos, McBride	193
Ebeniro, Joseph	Structure and Crustal type of the Northwestern Gulf of Mexico Derived from Very Large Offset Seismic Data	PhD	1986	Nakamura, Wilson, Sclater, Dorman, Garmany	149
Finn, Christopher	Estimation of Three-Dimensional Dip and Curvature from Reflection Seismic Data	MA	1986	Backus, Wilson, Denham	192
Kim, Woo Han	Gaussian Beam Synthetic Body-Wave Seismograms Using IPGT Method with Optimum Beamwidths	MA	1986	Garmany	54
Renkin, Miriam	Age, Depth, and Residual Depth Anomalies in the North Pacific: Implications for the Thermal Models of the Lithosphere and Upper Mantle	MA	1986	Sclater	118
Stark, Tracy	Information Extraction from Deep Water Seismic Reflection Data: LASE Line 2 <	PhD	1986	Backus	495
Burbach, George VanNess	Intermediate and Deep Seismicity and Lateral Structure of Subducted Lithosphere in the Circum-Pacific Region	MA	1985	Pennington, Sclater, Frohlich, Denham, Carlson	93
Davis, Scott	Investigations of natural and induced seismicity in the Texas Panhandle	MA	1985	Cloos, Frohlich	230
*Guzmán-Speziale, Marco	Triple Junction of the North America, Cocos and Caribbean Plates	MA	1985	Pennington, Matsumoto, Wilson	67
Treadgold, Galen	Modelling and Interpretation of the Oceanic Crustal Structure North of the Puerto Rico Trench	MA	1985	Backus, Phillips, Wilson	190
Walters, Robert	Seismic Stratigraphy and Salt Tectonics of Plio-Pleistocene Deposits, Continental Slope and Upper Mississippi Fan, Northern Gulf of Mexico	MA	1985	Buffler, Backus, Brown	204
Anderson, Richard	Organic Geochemistry of an Oil and Gas Seep in Northern Gulf of Mexico Sediments	PhD	1984	Parker, Scalan	135
Babalola, Olufemi	Seismic Stratigraphic Analysis and Tectono-depositional Evolution of the Unimbricated Ellesmerian Sequence (Mississippian to Lower Cretaceous), National Petroleum Reserve, North Slope, Alaska	MA	1984	Salvador, Buffler, Brown	127
Bowland, Christopher	Seismic Stratigraphy and Structure of the Colombian Basin, Caribbean Sea	MA	1984	Buffler, Rosencrantz, Pennington	248
Carlson, Steven	Investigations of recent and historical seismicity in East Texas	MA	1984
Faust, Michael	Seismic Stratigraphy of the Middle Cretaceous Unconformity (MCU) in the Central Gulf of Mexico Basin	MA	1984	Salvador, Buffler, McBride	164
Greene, Jeremy	Reflection Enhancement of Bubble Pulse and Scattered Noise Attenuation in the North Atlantic Transect Multichannel Data Set, Nares Basin	MA	1984	Wilson, Backus, Phillips	134
Lin, Tung-Hung	Seismic Stratigraphy and Structure of the Sigsbee Salt Basin, South-Central Gulf of Mexico	MA	1984	Buffler, Salvador, Wilson	102
McLaren, James	Model calculations of regional network locations of subduction zone earthquakes	MA	1984	Pennington, Frohlich	157
Onstott, Gregory	Processing and Display of Offset Dependent Reflectivity in Reflection Seismograms	MA	1984	Wilson, Backus	113
Phair, Ron	Seismic Stratigraphy of the Lower Cretaceous Rocks of the Southwestern Straits of Florida, Southeastern Gulf of Mexico	MA	1984	Buffler, Backus, Brown	319
Angstadt, David	Late Cretaceous, Recent Stratigraphic and Geologic History of Southeastern Gulf of Mexico	MA	1983	Buffler, Austin, Backus	206
Burbach, George VanNess	Seismicity and tectonics of the subducted Cocos Plate	MA	1983	Frohlich	115
Castagna, John	Methods for the Analysis of Sonic Log Waveforms	PhD	1983	Backus	324
Lawton, Jeffery	Earthquake Activity at the Kodiak Continental Shelf, Alaska, Determined by Land and Ocean Bottom Seismograph Networks	MA	1982	Latham
Musgrove, Lee Anne	Geophysical Investigation of the Southern Angola Basin, Southeast Atlantic Ocean	MA	1982	Backus, Austin, Muehlberger	179
Pew, Elliot	Seismic Structural Analysis of Deformation in the Southern Mexican Ridges	MA	1982	Muehlberger, Backus, Buffler	102
Ebeniro, Joseph	Surface Wave Studies in the Gulf Coast Area	MA	1981	Wilson, Dorman, Pennington, Backus	217
Ingram, Gregory	Some approaches to the analysis and interpretation of wide-angle bottom loss data	MA	1981	Backus	186
Sanchez-Barreda, Luis	Geologic Evolution of the Continental Margin of the Gulf of Tehuantepec in Southern Mexico	PhD	1981	Salvador, Gose, Muehlberger, Pennington	192
Tsai, Ching-Chang	Limitation of Marine Seismic Profiling for Deep Crustal Reflections and Reduction of Water Bottom Multiples and Scattered Noise from the Rough Basaltic Basement	PhD	1981	Backus, Wilson, Buffler	251
Bertagne, Allen	Seismic Stratigraphic Investigations - Western Gulf of Mexico	MA	1980	Backus, Buffler Brown	171
Huerta, Raul	Seismic Stratigraphic and Structural Analysis of Northeast Campeche Escarpment	MA	1980	Buffler, Backus, Brown	107
Sicking, Charles	Sampling Requirements for Reflection Seismograms in Geophysical Data Acquisition	PhD	1980	Backus, Wilson, Kehle, Bostick	217
Usmani, Tariq	Seismic Stratigraphic Analysis of the Southwestern Abyssal Gulf of Mexico (Univ. of Houston)	MS	1980	Dobrin, Evans, Eisner, Buffler
Winker, Charles	Late Pleistocene Fluvial - Deltaic Deposition, Texas Coastal Plain and Shelf	MA	1979	Baker, Morton, Backus	187
Long, John M.	Seismic Stratigraphy of Part of the Campeche Escarpment, Southern Gulf of Mexico	MA	1978	Kehle, Backus, Buffler	105
*Shih, Tai-Chang	Marine Magnetic Anomalies from the Western Northern Philippine Sea	PhD	1978	Worzell	115
Seekatz, Jeffrey	Stratigraphic and Structural Features of Part of the Sigsbee Escarpment	MA	1977	Koehle, Backus, Worzel	107
Anepohl, Jane K.	Seasonal distribution of living benthonic Foraminifera of the south Texas outer continental shelf	Ma	1976	Young, Ellison, Lamar, Ewing	130