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Current Student Research



Corine Armstrong

Major Advisor: Barb Dutrow
Tectonic Evolution of the San Luis Basin, CO-NM, USA as Determined Through Provenance Studies

Travis Atwood
Major Advisor: Judith Schiebout
A New Paleothermometer and Metabolic Indicator using Isotopologues and Fossil Vertebrates

Chad Phillips
Major Advisor: Jeff Nunn
Investigation of the Effects of Structural Features on Hydrocarbon Migration in Shelby County, Texas

Eric Prokocki
Major Advisor: Anette Engel
The Holocene Evolution and Avulsion History of the Lower Mississippi River: Yazoo Basin, Mississippi

Rhonika Robinson
Major Advisor: Phil Bart
Role of Shelf Morphology in Grounding-line Stability: A Numerical Approach

Matthew Smith
Major Advisor: Jeff Nunn
Use of Ground Penetrating Radar in the Delineation of Produced Waters

Stephanie Welch
Major Advisor: Jeff Hanor
Source(s) of Saline Water in the Mississippi River Alluvial Aquifer, Iberville Parish. Louisiana

 

Recent Graduate Research


Michael Blevins
Major Advisor: Brian Darby
Deciphering Controls on Polyphase Intraplate Deformation in the Ertomiao Region, Lang Shan, North-Central China
(click here for abstract and .pdf)

Marc Cooper
Major Advisor: Gary Byerly
Komatiitic Flows of the 3.3Ga Weltevreden Formation, Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa: Stratigraphy, Petrology, and Geochemistry
(click here for abstract and .pdf)

Clint Edrington
Major Advisor: Mike Blum
Long-Term Subsidence and Compaction Rates: A New Model for the Michoud Area, South Louisiana
(click here for abstract and .pdf)

Angela Green-Garcia
Major Advisor: Annette Engel
Characterization of the Lucinid Bivalve-Bacteria Symbiotic System: The Significance of the Geochemical Habitat on Bacterial Symbiont Diversity and Phylogeny
(click here for abstract and .pdf)

Matthew Garvin
Major Advisor: Mike Blum
Late Quaternary Geochronologic, Stratigraphic, and Sedimentologic Framework of the Trinity River Valley: East Texas Coast