The Undergraduate Senior Honors Theses, Master's Theses, and PhD Dissertations shown in this table were completed at the University of Texas at Austin in the field of Geological Sciences. This index encompasses the year 2009 - 2010 and includes links to available abstracts. Dissertation abstracts published prior to 2001 may be found through Dissertations and Theses: Full Text.
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Last Name |
Title |
Date Published |
Degree |
Supervisor |
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| Abbott, S. | Vesicle textures and their implications for processes occurring within a volcanic conduit : HRXCT analysis of white dacite pumice from Popocatépetl Volcano, Mexico | 2011 May | BS | Gardner |
| Ahmed, S.A.. | Will Iraq escape the resource curse? | 2011 May | MA | Fisher |
| Ahn, H.I. | Mineralogy and geochemistry of the non-sulfide Zn deposits in the Sierra Mojada district, Coahuila, Mexico. | 2010 August | MS | Kyle |
| Ahrens, H.E. | Craniodental morphology of the raccoon, procyon lotor, and the relationships of procyonidae | 2010 August | MS | Rowe |
| Aisner, R.E. | Patch-reef and ramp interior facies architecture of the Early Albian Mural Limestone, Southeastern Arizona | 2010 December | MS | Kerans |
| Ali, W.A. | Lithofacies, Depositional Environment, Burial History and Ca lculation of Organic Richness from the Wireline Logs: A Study of Barnett Shale in the Delaware Basin, Pecos Co., West Texas, and Comparison with the Barnett Shale in the Fort Worth Basin. |
2009 May | MA | Fisher |
| Al-Johar, M.M. | Constraining fracture permeability by characterizing fracture surface roughness | 2010 December | MS | Sharp |
| Allan, A.M. | Comparison of Regularization Techniques for the Recovery of Blocky Structures | 2009 December | BS | Sen |
| Al-Nazghah, M.H. | Sedimentology and stratigraphy of the Arab D Reservoir, Qatif Field | 2011 August | MS | Kerans |
| Altobelli, M.C. | Hydration and textural patterns in Balmorhea blue agate | 2011 May | BS | Helper |
| Andrews, B.J. | Recharge, Decemberompression, and Collapse: Dynamics of Volcanic Processes | 2009 May | PhD | Gardner |
| Andring, M.J. | Hydrogeological analysis of groundwater chemistry and sulfate distribution, Blanco and Hays Counties, Texas | 2010 May | MS | Sharp |
| Arauza, S.J. | Rare-earth-element Uptake in Garnet : Testing Competing Models | 2009 May | BS | Carlson |
| Arias Gomez, P.A. | Climate variability over the American monsoon and Amazonian regions during the last decades | 2011 Aug | PhD | Fu |
| Avitt, S.A. | Copper Isotope Analysis of Veins in the Grasberg Porphyry Cu-Au Deposit, Papua, Indonesia | 2009 May | BS | Cloos |
| Baitis, E.E. | Patterns and paleoshorelines of White Sands Dune Field, New Mexico | 2011 May | MS | Kocurek |
| Bande, A.E. | Foreland basin evolution and exhumation along the deformation front of the Eastern Cordillera, northern Andes, Colombia | 2010 August | MS | Horton |
| Barber, B.L. | Natural fracture characterization, Frontier Formation, Wyoming | 2010 May | MS | Laubach |
| Barquero-Molina, M. | Kinematics of Bidirectional Extension and Coeval NW-Directed Contraction in Orthogneisses of the Biranup Complex, Albany Fraser Orogen, Southwestern Australia | 2009 May | PhD | Mosher |
| Bass, B.J. | Seasonal soil moisture dynamics throughout a semiarid valley ecotone using quasi-3D time-lapse electrical resistivity imaging | 2011 December | BS | Cardenas |
| Bellian, J.A. | Laser-Mapping and 3D Reconstruction of the Lower Ordovician El Paso Group Breccia Collapse Breccias, Franklin Mountains, Texas | 2009 August | PhD | Kerans |
| Bens, A.E. | Architecture of deposits formed in a tectonically generated tidal strait, upper Baronia Fm., Ager Basin, South Central Pyrenees, Spain | 2011 May | MS | Steel |
| Black, B.G. | Monetizing stranded gas: economic valuation of GTL and LNG projects | 2010 May | MA | Jablonowski |
| Bowerman, A.R. | Influences of sea surface temperature and variability of the North Atlantic subtropical high on drought in Texas | 2011 December | BS | Fu |
| Burnett, W.A. | Multiazimuth velocity analysis using velocity-independent seismic imaging | 2011 May | PhD | Fomel |
| Burton, D. | Geologically-based permeability anisotropy estimates for tidally-influenced reservoir analogs using lidar-derived, quantitative shale character data | 2011 May | PhD | Wood |
| Caber, R.H. | Paleocaves and associated features in the Lower Cretaceous Segovia Formation, Western Edwards Plateau, West Texas | 2010 May | MS | Loucks |
| Campos, H.M. | Tectonostratigraphic and subsidence history of the northern Llanos foreland basin of Colombia | 2011 August | MS | Mann |
| Cardona, P.A. | Depositional History of the Taranaki Basin, New Zealand: Linking Sediment Accumulation and Subsidence Rates to Tectonic | 2009 May | MS | Fisher |
| Carlin, J. | Volumetric Analysis of the Bony Labyrinth of Bats : Apparent Reduction in the Evolution of the Vestibular Apparatus | 2009 May | BS | Bell |
| Casteel, R.C. | Modern assessment of climate, calcite growth, and the geochemistry of cave drip waters as a precursor to paleoclimate study | 2011 August | MS | Banner |
| Castillo, L.M. | Integrated Analysis to Optimize Hydraulic Fracturing Treatment Design in a Clastic and Carbonate Formation in Torunos Hydrocarbon Field, Barinas - Apure Basin, Southwest Venezuela | 2009 May | MA | Olson |
| Cessna, J.L. | Formation of mineralogical zonations in ophiolites through reactive porous flow : a modeling study | 2011 May | MS | Hesse |
| Chang, L. | Integration of facies models in reservoir simulation | 2010 December | MA | Fisher |
| Chavez, J.E. | Unconventional Resources: Economic Analysis and Technology to Produce Synthetic Crude Oil | 2009 May | MA | Groat |
| Chu, Chunlei | Seismic Modeling and Imaging with the Fourier Method: Numerical Analyses and Parallel Implementation Strategies | 2009 December | PhD | Stoffa |
| Claeson, K.M. | Trends in evolutionary morphology: a case study in the relationships of angel sharks and batoid fishes | 2010 May | PhD | Bell |
| Clayton, J.L. | Stratigraphy and reservoir architecture of a Permian toe-of-slope ooid fan, Happy (Spraberry) Field, Garza Co., Texas | 2011 May | MS | Kerans |
| Comeaux, R.S. | Black mangrove (Avicennia sp.) colony expansion in the Gulf of Mexico with climate change : implications for wetland health and resistance to rising sea levels | 2010 December | MS | Allison |
| Corbin, C.L. | Geobarometry from Raman microspectrometry of quartz inclusions in garnet | 2010 May | BS | Carlson |
| Cowan, B.D. | Temporal and spatial variability of cave-air carbon dioxide in central Texas, USA | 2010 May | MS | Banner |
| Criswell, K.E. | Comparative osteology and phylogenetic relationships of Lepidosirenid lungfishes | 2011 May | MS | Bell |
| Cross, E.A. | Epitaxial nucleation of garnet in coronal metagabbros from the Adirondack mountains, New York | 2011 May | BS | Carlson |
| Davila-Chacon, A.C. | Sand distribution along shelf-edge deltaic systems : a case study from eastern offshore Trinidad | 2010 December | MS | Wood |
| Doyle, S. | Measuring diffusion coefficients in sandstones using LA-ICP-MS | 2010 May | BS | Sharp |
| Dunckel, A.E. | Thermal Imaging of Microbial Mats Provides Clues to Thermophile Community Structure : El Tatio Geyser, Chile | 2009 May | BS | Cardenas |
| Dunn, E.M. | Coral-based Climate Reconstructions from a Massive Porites Coral from Sabine Bank (Vanuatu) | 2009 August | MS | Quinn |
| Durkee, A.M. | Econometric Modeling of the Impact of Residential Energy Efficiency Retrofits on Home Sale Prices | 2009 May | MA | Webber |
| Eastwood, E.N. | Reconstructing environmental forcings on aeolian dune fields : results from modern, ancient, and numerically-simulated dunes | 2011 December | PhD | Kocurek |
| Egberts, S. | Cranial Morphology of an Exceptionally Preserved Specimen of the Lower Permian Reptile Captorhinus aguti | 2009 May | MS | Bell |
| Ekdale, E.G. | Variation within the Bony Labyrinth of Mammals | 2009 December | PhD | Rowe |
| El-Azzi, J.A. | Stratigraphic architecture and eustatic setting of slope grainstones associated with peak icehouse conditions | 2010 May | MS | Kerans |
| Ellis, M.A. | Fracture Development and Diagenesis of the Torridonian Applecross Formation, Northwest Scotland | 2009 August | MS | Laubach |
| Erturk, M. | Economic analysis of wind and solar energy sources of Turkey | 2011 May | MA | Jablonowski |
| Ewing, R.C. | Aeolian Dune-Field Boundary Conditions and Dune Interactions Related to Dune-Field Pattern Formation on Earth and Mars | 2009 December | PhD | Kocurek |
| Fidler, L.J. | Natural fracture characterization of the New Albany Shale, Illinois Basin, United States | 2011 December | MS | Laubach |
| Fitz, G.G. | Offshore mapping and modeling of Miocene-Recent extensional basins adjacent to metamorphic gneiss domes of the D'Entrecasteaux Islands, eastern Papua New Guinea | 2011 August | MS | Mann |
| Fong-Ngern, R. | Sequence stratigraphy, sandstone architecture, and depositional systems of the Lower Miocene succession in the Carancahua Bay Area, Texas Gulf Coast | 2011 August | MS | Fisher |
| Gallardo, A. | Trade-offs in electricity planning in Mexico | 2011 August | MA | Groat |
| Garcia-Fresca, B. | Outcrop-Constrained Flow and Transport Models of Reflux Dolomitization | 2009 December | PhD | Lucia |
| Gary, M.O. | Karst Hydrogeology and Speleogenesis of Sistema Zacatón, Tamaulipas, Mexico | 2009 December | PhD | Sharp |
| Goepfert, K.J. | Influence of Pre-eruptive Storage Conditions and Volatile Contents on Explosive Fragmentation of Mafic Plinian Eruptions | 2009 May | MS | Gardner |
| Gomez, C.A. | Clastic Wedge Development and Sediment Budget in a Source-to-Sink Transect (Late Campanian Western Interior Basin, SW Wyoming and N Colorado) | 2009 December | PhD | Steel |
| Gorman, M.K. | Coral-based reconstruction of surface salinity at Sabine Bank, Vanuatu | 2011 May | MS | Quinn |
| Graham, E.M. | Three-dimensional gas migration and gas hydrate systems of south Hydrate Ridge, offshore Oregon | 2011 May | MS | Bangs |
| Gryger, S.M. | Geologic framework of the Sierra Mojada Mining District, Coahuila, Mexico : an integrative study of a Mesozoic platform-basin margin | 2010 December | MS | Kyle |
| Gulden, L.E. | Quantification of the Confidence That Can Be Placed in Land-Surface Model Predictions: Applications to Vegetation and Hydrologic Processes | 2009 August | PhD | Yang |
| Harbor, R.L. | Facies characterization and stratigraphic architecture of organic-rich mudrocks, Upper Cretaceous Eagle Ford Formation, South Texas | 2011 August | MS | Ruppel |
| Hargrove, P.G. | Fault-Related Fracture Systems in the Cambrian Eriboll Formation, Northwest Scotland: A Field and Petrographic Study of a Tight Gas Sandstone Analog | 2010 August | MS | Laubach |
| Harman, C.A. | Quantified facies distribution and sequence geometry of the Yates Formation, Slaughter Canyon, New Mexico | 2011 August | MS | Kerans |
| Hatley, E.R. | Assessing the kinematic significance of the Plattengneis, a major intracrustal transport horizon in the Koralpe, Eastern Alps | 2010 August | MS | Carlson |
| Hauwert, N.M. | Groundwater Flow and Recharge within the Barton Springs Segment of the Edwards Aquifer, Southern Travis and Northern Hays Counties, Texas | 2009 May | PhD | Sharp |
| Hebel, A.K. | Energy-water nexus: sustainability of coal and water resources | 2010 May | MA | Groat |
| Helbert, D.K. | Reservoir Characterization and Sequence Stratigraphy of Permian San Andres Platform Carbonates, Fullerton Field, Permian Basin, West Texas | 2010 May | MS | Ruppel |
| Hiebert, S.F. | Stratigraphic hierarchy and shelf-to-basin architecture of Aptian-Albian Mural Shelf, Cerro Caloso Range, Sonora, Mexico | 2010 December | BA | Kerans |
| Hosgor, E. | Assessing the Impact of Commodity Price Assumptions on Facility Optimization: a Case in Offshore Oil and Gas | 2009 May | MA | Jablonowski |
| Huber, K.G. | Geochemistry and geochronology of meta-igneous rocks from the Tokat Massif, north-central Turkey | 2011 December | MS | Catlos |
| Hull, D.C. | Stratigraphic architecture, depositional systems, and reservoir characteristics of the Pearsall Shale-Gas System, Lower Cretaceous, South Texas | 2011 August | MS | Loucks |
| Iñigo, J.F.P. | Structural Model and Fracture Analyses for a Major Gas Emplacement in Devonian Sandstones of the Subandes | 2009 August | MS | Laubach |
| Jackson, J.E. | Neogene Intrusions in the Western Central Range, Papua, Indonesia: Petrologic, Geochemical, and Isotopic Comparison of the Miocene Ular Merah and Pliocene Komopa Magmatic Districts | 2010 May | MS | Cloos |
| Jacob, L.R. | Remote sensing, geochemistry, geochronology, and cathodoluminescence imaging of the Egrigoz, Koyunoba, and Alacam Plutons, Northern Menderes Massif, Turkey | 2011 May | MS | Catlos |
| Jiang, X. | Regional-scale land–climate interactions and their impacts on air quality in a changing climate | 2010 December | PhD | Yang |
| Jones, A.A. | Microbe-mineral affinity in sulfuric acid karst systems | 2011 August | MS | Bennett |
| Josyula, S.K. | Modeling adoption of solar photovoltaics and analysis of net metering in the city of Austin | 2011 August | MA | Rai |
| Joy, C.A. | Effects of pressure variations and chemical reactions on the elasticity of the lower Tuscaloosa Sandstone of the Cranfield Field, Mississippi | 2011 August | MS | Sen |
| Kao, J.C.-C. | Deep Water Gulf of Mexico Pore Pressure Estimation Utilizing P-SV Waves from Multicomponent Seismic in Atlantis Field | 2009 December | MS | Tatham |
| Kaylor, A.L. | Fluid inclusion and cathodoluminescence approach to reconstruct fracture growth in the Triassic-Jurassic La Boca Formation, Northeastern Mexico Multicomponent Seismic in Atlantis Field | 2011 Dec | MS | Eichhubl |
| Kelly, E.D. | Unrecognized complexities of metamorphism : crystallization kinetics, reaction af-finity, and geochronology | 2011 December | PhD | Carlson |
| Kent, M.E. | Examining supercritical CO2 dissolution kinetics during carbon sequestration through column experiments | 2011 August | MS | Bennett |
| Kim, T.E. | Transaction cost and host country's opportunistic behavior in oil E&P project | 2011 May | MA | Jablonowski |
| Kloss, T.T. | Evolution of a regionally extensive evaporite removal paleokarst complex : Mississippian Madison Group, Wyoming | 2011 December | MS | Kerans |
| Korkulu, Z. | Wind energy in Turkey : potential and economic viability | 2011 May | MA | Groat |
| Krishnamoorthy, B. | Feasibility study on utility-scale solar integration in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia | 2010 May | MA | Spence |
| Lapierre, N.R. | Challenges to integrating wind energy: a study of ERCOT's ability to integrate substantial amounts of wind energy by 2030 | 2010 May | MA | Webber |
| Levine, J.S. | In situ melt generation in anatectic migmatites and the role of strain in preferentially inducing melting | 2011 August | PhD | Mosher |
| Liu, Z. | GBM & MRJ: Two Oil Pricing Models’ Comparison and Effect on Project NPV Calculation | 2009 May | MA | Lasdon |
| Lovitz, T.D. | Geomorphology and Stratigraphic Evolution of the Giant Foresets, Taranaki Basin, New Zealand | 2009 August | MS | Fisher |
| McAndrews, K.L. | To conserve or consume : behavior change in residential solar PV owners | 2011 December | MA | Rai |
| McDowell, E.A. | Evaluation of Quartz-Inclusion Barometry by Laser Raman Microspectrometry : A Case Study from the Llano Uplift of Central Texas | 2010 August | MS | Carlson |
| McElroy, B.J. | Expressions and Implications of Sediment Transport Variability in Sandy Rivers | 2009 December | PhD | Mohrig |
| Mackey, G.N. | Provenance of the South Texas Paleocene-Eocene Wilcox Group, Western Gulf of Mexico Basin: Insights from Sandstone Modal Compositions and Detrital Zircon Geochronology | 2009 August | MS | Milliken |
| Makechnie, G.K. | Sequence stratigraphic analysis of marginal marine sabkha facies: Entrada Sandstone, Four Corners region | 2010 August | MS | Kocurek |
| Markowski, M.S. | Characterizing groundwater-surface water interactions in a regulated river using electrical resistivity | 2010 May | BS | Cardenas |
| Mehring, P.M. | Petrology of the Coast Range Ophiolite near San Simeon, California: implications for tectonic setting | 2009 August | MS | Cloos |
| Meyer, K.J. | Southwest U.S. paleoclimate over the past 30 ky : insights from speleothem δ18O and growth rate time series | 2011 Dec | BS | Banner |
| Michaelides, M.N. | Depositional and diagenetic processes in the formation of the Eocene Jackson Group bentonites, Gonzales County, Texas | 2011 December | MS | Kyle |
| Mills, S. | Impact of Trace Metal Concentrations on the Luminescence of Hydrothermal Calcite Veins from the Batopilas Mining District, Chihuahua, Mexico | 2009 May | BS | Kyle |
| Mohammed, R.I. | Distribution and development of middle Miocene submarine fans, Taranaki Basin, New Zealand | 2011 August | MS | Fisher |
| Moreno, C.J. | Paleogene sedimentation patterns and basin evolution during Andean orogenesis, Middle Magdalena Valley basin, Colombia | 2010 Aug | MS | Horton |
| Morgan, F.L. | Fracture aperture and spacing patterns in two folded quartz arenites : Cambrian Flathead Formation, Teton Range, Wyoming and Cambrian Eriboll Formation, Northwest Scotland | 2011 May | BS | Laubach |
| Morgan, J.L. | Quantitative seismic geomorphology of a confined channel complex, southern Atwater fold belt, Gulf of Mexico, U.S.A. | 2010 Aug | MS | Wood |
| Nance, H.S. | Controls on and uses of hydrochemical and isotopic heterogeneity in the plateau aquifer system, contiguous aquifers, and associated surface water, Edwards Plateau region, Texas | 2010 May | PhD | Sharp |
| Nicholson, A. | Deposition of the fluvial Ericson Sandstone, Rock Springs Uplift, SW Wyoming: how embryonic Laramide uplift controlled sedimentation | 2010 May | BS | Steel |
| Nittrouer, J.A. | Sediment transport dynamics in the lower Mississippi River: non-uniform flow and its effects on river-channel morphology | 2010 December | PhD | Mohrig |
| Nowinski, J.D. | Intra-meander groundwater-surface water interactions in a losing experimental stream | 2010 August | MS | Cardenas |
| Olori, J.C. | Evolution of skeletal development in early tetrapods : anatomy and ontogeny of Microsaurs (Lepospondyli) | 2011 May | PhD | Bell |
| Olyphant, J.J. | Creation and Degradation of an Aquifer Caused by Land Use Change: Seymour Aquifer, Rolling Plains, Texas | 2009 December | MS | Scanlon |
| Onwuka, A.C. | Econometric analysis of the impact of market concentration on prices in the offshore drilling rig market | 2010 December | MA | Jablonowski |
| Owens, L.A. | Facies and Depositional History of Aptian (Cretaceous) Beaches : a 120 MY Old Record of Fetch and Prevailing Wind Patterns during Transgression of the Texas Hill Country | 2009 May | BS | Kerans |
| Ozkan, A. | Structural diagenetic attributes of the late Williams Fork Sandstones with implications for petrophysical interpretation and fracture prediction, Piceance Basin, Colorado | 2010 May | PhD | Milliken |
| Passarello, M.C. | New methods for quantifying and modeling estimates of anthropogenic and natural recharge : a case study for the Barton Springs Segment of the Edwards Aquifer, Austin, Texas | 2011 May | MS | Sharp |
| Pequeno, M.A. | Albian/Maastrichtian Tectono-Stratigraphic evolution of Central Santos Basin, Offshore Brazil | 2009 December | PhD | Fisher |
| Percy, M.S. | Facies Architecture and Petrology of an Albian Rudist Reef, Medina area, South Texas | 2009 May | BA | Kerans |
| Perez, A.M. | Azimuthal Analysis of Hybrid Gathers | 2009 May | MS | Tatham |
| Perez, N.D. | Late Miocene Sedimentation in the Central Andean Foreland Basin, Southern Bolivia: Constraint from Magnetostratigraphy | 2009 December | BS | Horton |
| Petter, A.L. | Stratigraphic implications of the spatial and temporal variability in sediment transport in rivers, deltas, and shelf margins | 2010 May | PhD | Steel |
| Peyret, A.-P. B. | Morphodynamics and geometry of channels, turbidites and bedforms | 2011 December | PhD | Mohrig |
| Phan, S.D.T. | Pre-injection reservoir evaluation at Dickman Field, Kansas | 2011 August | MS | Sen |
| Phelps, R.M. | Middle-Hauterivian to Lower-Campanian sequence stratigraphy and stable isotope geochemistry of the Comanche Platform, South Texas | 2011 May | PhD | Kerans |
| Powell, E.J. | Varying flux controls on timescales of autogenic storage and release processes in fluvio-deltaic environments : tank experiments | 2011 May | MS | Kim |
| Punnette, S.W. | Structural framework and its influence on the Quaternary-age sequence architecture of the northern shelf of Trinidad and Tobago | 2010 August | MS | Mann |
| Quinn, A.E. | Carbon Isotope analysis of the sources and mechanisms of CO2 input and removal from central Texas cave systems | 2010 May | BS | Banner |
| Ramirez, M.T. | Suspension of bed material over lateral sand bars in the Lower Mississippi River, Southeastern Louisiana | 2011 December | MS | Allison |
| Ramnarine, S.K. | Late Cretaceous turbidites, Heidrun field, Norwegian Continental Shelf | 2011 May | MA | Moscardelli |
| Reinhardt, T.P. | Empirical methods for comparing governance structure | 2009 May | MA | Jablonowski |
| Rinehart, E.A. | Effects of channel migration on point bar development in the lower Trinity River, Texas | 2011 May | BS | Mohrig |
| Ritter, S.M. | Risk management strategies and portfolio analysis for electricity generation planning and integration of renewable portfolio standards | 2010 May | MA | Spence |
| Rodriguez, A.B. | Regional structure, stratigraphy, and hydrocarbon potential of the Mexican sector of the Gulf of Mexico | 2011 August | MS | Mann |
| Rosero Ramirez, E.X. | Evaluating enhanced hydrological representations in Noah LSM over transition zones : an ensemble-based approach to model diagnostics | 2009 December | PhD | Yang |
| Sadler, C.E. | Airborne lidar-aided comparative facies architecture of Yates Formation (Permian) middle to outer shelf depositional systems, McKittrick Canyon, Guadalupe Mountains, New Mexico and west Texas | 2010 December | MA | Kerans |
| Sánchez, C.J. | Cenozoic structural evolution of the eastern margin of the Middle Magdalena Valley basin, Colombia : Integration of structural restorations, low-temperature thermochronology, and sandstone petrography | 2011 August | MS | Horton |
| Sanchez, C.M. | Controls on sedimentary processes and 3D stratigraphic architecture of a mid-Miocene to recent, mixed carbonate-siliciclastic continental margin : northwest shelf of Australia | 2011 May | PhD | Steel |
| Sawyer, A.H. | Complexity in river-groundwater exchange due to permeability heterogeneity, in-stream flow obstacles, and river stage fluctuations | 2011 May | PhD | Cardenas |
| Sawyer, D.E. | Failure mechanics, transport behavior, and morphology of submarine landslides | 2010 December | PhD | Flemings |
| Schneider, J. | Compression and permeability behavior of natural mudstones | 2011 December | PhD | Flemings |
| Shahin, A. | Detection of production-induced time-lapse signatures by geophysical (seismic and CSEM) measurements | 2011 May | PhD | Stoffa |
| Shan, N. | Sensitivity of seismic response to variations in the Woodford Shale, Delaware Basin, West Texas | 2010 December | MS | Tatham |
| Shin, T.A. | Tectonic relationships between ultra-high pressure subduction complex assemblages and co-existing granitoids, Sivrihisar Massif, Turkey | 2011 May | BS | Catlos |
| Siks, B.C. | Sedimentary, structural, and provenance record of the Cianzo basin, Puna plateau-Eastern Cordillera boundary, NW Argentina | 2011 May | MS | Horton |
| Sil, S. | Two-way Traveltime Analysis for Seismic Reservoir Characterization | 2009 May | PhD | Sen |
| Singh, A. | Facility planning and value of information using a tank reservoir model: a case study in reserve uncertainty | 2010 May | MA | Jablonowski |
| Singh, K.A. | Geometry and nature of modern and ancient mass transport deposits worldwide | 2010 May | MS | Wood |
| Singleton, J.S. | Kinematic and geometric evolution of the Buckskin-Rawhide metamorphic core complex, west-central Arizona | 2011 December | PhD | Mosher |
| Slottke, D.T. | Surface roughness of natural rock fractures: implications for prediction of fluid flow | 2010 May | PhD | Sharp |
| Smith, N.A. | Systematics and evolution of extinct and extant Pan-Alcidae (Aves, Charadriiformes) : combined phylogenetic analyses, divergence estimation, and paleoclimatic interactions | 2011 August | PhD | Clarke |
| Sosa Ceballos, G. | Evolution of Plinian magmas from Popocatépetl Volcano, México | 2011 August | PhD | Gardner |
| Stanley, B.A. | Effects of Dam-Induced Daily River Stage Fluctuations and Sedimentary Architecture of a Large Gravel Bar on Groundwater Flowpaths | 2009 August | MS | Cardenas |
| Strickland, E.D. | Little Buckskin Mountains: a footwall corrugation within the Buckskin-Rawhide metamorphic core complex, west central Arizona | 2010 May | BS | Cloos |
| Strong, H.E. | Origin and Properties of Mass Transport Deposits Ursa Basin, Gulf of Mexico | 2009 December | MS | Flemings |
| Suwannasri, K. | Comparison of fluid prediction success between AVO and bright spot techniques in the Marco Polo field, the Gulf of Mexico | 2011 May | BS | Tatham |
| Swanson, T.E. | Heat transport and tracing within the hyporheic zone of a pool-riffle-pool sequence | 2010 May | MS | Cardenas |
| Szramek, L.A. | Basaltic volcanism : deep mantle recycling, Plinian eruptions, and cooling-induced crystallization | 2010 August | PhD | Gardner |
| Taboada, G.A. | Tectonostratigraphic Evolution of the Northeastern Maturin Foreland Basin, Venezuela | 2009 August | MS | Mann |
| Ukar, E. | P-T-t paths and deformation of blueschist and associated graphite-schist blocks from the Franciscan mélange, San Simeon, California | 2010 May | PhD | Cloos |
| Urquhart, A.S.M. | Structural controls on CO2 leakage and diagenesis in a natural long-term carbon sequestration analogue : Little Grand Wash fault, Utah | 2011 August | MS | Eichhubl |
| Valentin Navarrete, D.A. | Multicomponent seismic interpretation of tight gas sandstones within the Bossier Formation at the Tennessee Colony field, Anderson County, Texas | 2010 August | MS | Tatham |
| Wagner, B.H. | Analysis of salt welding | 2010 May | PhD | Jackson |
| Wehner, J.E. | Water policy informatics : a topic and time series analysis of the Texas state water plans | 2011 May | MA | Pierce |
| Whitman, S. | Partitioning sand transport between channels of a deep river channel bifurcation: implications for river diversion structures and land building in southern Louisiana | 2010 May | BS | Mohrig |
| Womack, K.R. | Re-evaluation of crinoid morphology and proposed relationship of crown groups, with insights from biogeography | 2011 August | MS | Sprinkle |
| Woodward, J.T. | Internalizing the carbon externality: greenhouse gas mitigation financial impact on electric utilities and their customers | 2010 May | MA | Groat |
| Worthington, L.L. | New Geophysical parameters for understanding the evolution of the St. Elias Orogen, Southern Alaska | 2010 December | PhD | Gulick |
| Wu, H. | Superconducting gravimeter for evaluation of groundwater changes in the field | 2011 August | MS | Wilson |
| Wymond, D.T.. | U.S. small hydropower industry : opportunities for development and barriers to success | 2011 May | MA | Bickel |
| Ye, F. | Sensitivity of seismic reflections to variations in anisotropy in the Bakken Formation, Williston Basin, North Dakota | 2010 May | MS | Tatham |
| Zafar, S.D. | Investigation of methods for phosphate determination in high-arsenate solution : El Tatio Geyser Field, Chile | 2011 December | BS | Bennett |
