Bachelor of Science Research Projects and Theses
Undergraduate students in the BS and BA degrees are required to complete a Culminating Experience, which gives them the opportunity to engage in research in earth and climate sciences topics.
For the BA degree, this may include a Senior Project, which is directed, original research on an Earth Sciences-related problem (ERTH 695) and a Capstone Presentation of the senior project at a poster session or oral thesis defense open to the public (ERTH 690).
For the BS degree, this may include the Senior Project and Capstone Presentation as above OR Undergraduate Research, which consists of research activities including literature review, project design, data collection, and analysis AND a Senior Thesis, to include a written report and oral presentation approved by the thesis committee.
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Name |
Title |
Year |
Advisor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wesley Marical |
Climate Interference in Islamic Egypt |
2022 | Stine |
| Nicholas Modar | The Influence of Climate Change on River Temperatures in the San Joaquin River | 2020 | |
| Behlie Lengel |
Spatial Variability of Coastal Upwelling Along the Gulf of the Farallones |
2019 | Mazzini |
| Jilly Amaya |
Geologic and Hydrologic Considerations for Selection of Green Infrastructure/Low Impact Development: Best Management Pracrticies in Small, Semi-rural Systems |
2019 | Gurdak |
| Mie Vogel |
Effects of Model Spin-Up on Simulated Recharge using the HYDRUS-1D Vadose Zone Model |
2019 | Gurdak |
| Natalie Corkhill |
WRF Simulation of the Severe Downslope Windstorm Associated with the Tubbs Fire, Santa Rosa, CA, October 8-9, 2017 |
2019 | Dempsey |
| Olivia Wilbur |
Pacific Island Groundwater Response to Climate Variability |
2018 | Gurdak |
| Nick Carver |
Effect of Climate on Annual Pinus Ponderosa Growth in Central Sierra Nevada Foothills: Potential for Climate Reconstruction |
2018 | Stine |
| Juliana Matranga |
Evaluating High Resolution Numerical Model Forecasts of Wind Speeds in the San Francisco Bay Area |
2018 | Dempsey |
| Beth Holmes |
Reconstructing the Last Glacial Cycle in the Southern Bay of Bengal |
2017 | Dekens |
| Daniel Sullivan |
Developing Data-Driven Tools to Guide Geothermal Energy Exploration |
2017 | Caskey |
| Joey Verdian |
Influence of Cliff Face Fractures on the Size Distributions of Talus Particles |
2017 | Sklar |
| Nolan Brown |
Analyzing city landscapes using techniques from earth sciences |
2017 | Sklar |
| Mayra Dudrenova |
How does hillslope sediment size vary with rock type? |
2017 | Sklar |
| Ian MacGregor |
Character and Timing of Slip on Northwest-striking Faults in the Northern Santa Lucia Range, Central California Coast |
2016 | Caskey |
| Brandon Swanson |
Thermodynamic Modeling of Five Ultrahigh-Pressure Terranes |
2016 | Leech |
| Nick Christen |
Statistically Evaluating High-Resolution Model Precipitation Forecasts in the San Francisco Bay Region |
2016 | Dempsey |
| Ryan Gundar |
Improving thermobarometric modeling of Himalayan gneiss domes using analysis of garnets |
2016 | Leech |
| Molly McLaughlin |
Evolution of Particle Angularity in Natural and Laboratory Geophysical Granular Flows |
2016 | Sklar |
| Yilin Lu |
Statistical Evaluation of High-resolution WRF-ARW Model Forecast Near San Francisco Peninsula |
2015 | Dempsey |
| John Ball |
A reconstruction of temperature from Sonora Pass, California, 1550–2014 |
2015 | Stine |
| Jennifer Luscombe |
The P-T-t Evolution of the UHP Tso Morari Complex, NW Indian Himalaya |
2015 | Leech |
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Robert Woodford |
Creating Quicksand with Sand from Ocean Beach in San Francisco. |
2015 | Sklar |
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Hannah Mewhirter |
Coriolis Effects on Wind-Driven Ocean Circulation |
2014 | Stine |
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Andrew Nieblas |
Petrotectonic Study of High-Grade Franciscan Rocks in the Vicinity of Ring Mountain, CA |
2014 | Caskey |
| Ryan Ford | Dry Deposition Patterns and Short-Term Temperature Effects of Anthropogenic Black Carbon Emissions in Northern California | 2014 | Dempsey |
| Malori Redman | Determining the Urban Heat Island Effect in Black Rock City, NV Throughout the Course of the 2013 Burning Man Festival | 2014 | Oliphant |
| Ryan Thorp |
Observations of living-roof carbon, water vapor and heat exchanges using eddy covariance |
2014 | Dempsey |
| Yousef Yousfi |
Discontinuous rating curves in sand-bedded rivers, the roles of bed scour and bedform transitions |
2013 | Sklar |
| Christopher Olson | Influence of chemical weathering on resistance of sediment to mechanical wear | 2013 | Sklar |
| Nicholas Aiello | Constructing the Diagenetic History of a Dinosaur Bonebed near Rudyard, MT Using Calcite, Limonite, Septarian Siderite, and Iron-Rich Septarian Dolomite Concretions | 2013 | |
| Michelle Haskins | Structural and hydrologic implications of jointing in the Werner Creek drainage basin, Catskill Mountains, eastern New York | 2011 | Gurdak |
| Claire Bailey | Communicating geoscience education: using the Mississippi River Delta as a learning tool for San Francisco Bay Area high school students | 2011 | |
| Carl Martin | Early warning geochemical indicators of seawater intrusion, Westside Basin aquifer, San Francisco Bay | 2011 | Gurdak |
| Mae Marcaida | Geochemical and petrographic analyses of balck point nd red cones basals, Mono-Inyo volcanic chain, eastern California | 2010 | |
| Kevin Denton | Paleomagnetic study of the Eocene Caetano intra-caldera tuff, Lander County, Nevada | 2010 | |
| Carla Rosa | Textural analysis of rocks from the Karakoram shear zone, Ladakh, India | 2010 | |
| Steven Dutra | Thermobarometry of Eclogite-Facies Shear Zones in the Lofoten Islands, Norway | 2010 | Leech? |
| Jonathan Beyeler |
The dependence of bedrock erodibility on rock material properties: is tensile strength enough? |
2010 | Sklar |
| Brian Grace | Research and Building of a Self-Regulating Baffle for Fish Passage in Culverts | 2009 | Sklar |
| Steven Woodley | Interpreting Pleistocene coastal terrace deposits overlying the 82 ka wave-cut platform, Point Reyes Peninsula, Marin County, California | 2009 | Grove |
| Molly Cornell | Characterization of anomalous graphite from the Maksyutov ultra high-pressure metamorphic complex, Russia | 2008 | Leech |
| Willie Hassett | Early Miocene granitoids from the Leo Pargil Gneiss dome, Northwest Himalaya | 2008 | Leech |
| Jo Ann Huerto | Effect of grain-size mixture on formation of coarse fronts in debris flows | 2008 | Sklar |
| Andrea Ozzuna | Hydrostratigraphic investigation of the Westside Basin in northern San Mateo County, California | 2008 | Grove |
| Zi Zi Searles | The atmospheric response to warmer than modern sea surface temperatures in coastal upwelling regions during the early Pliocene | 2008 | Dekens |
| Skye Corbett | The role of sequences of channel-spanning potholes in the transient evolution of a weakly dissected bedrock landscape, Henry Mountains, Utah | 2007 | Sklar |
| James Gonzales | The soil geochemistry of three endangered serpentine plant species Presidio of San Francisco | 2007 | White/LaForce |
| Jonathon Perkins | Estimating bedrock incision rates using cosmogenic radionuclides on strath terrace gravels along Bullfrog Creek, Utah | 2007 | Sklar |
| Geza Demeter | Influence of bed roughness on the spatial distribution of incision in a laboratory bedrock channel | 2006 | Sklar |
| Lisa Garman | Tomales Point terraces of Marin County, California, and implication for rate of uplift of northern Point Reyes Peninsula, California | 2006 | Grove |
| Christina Polito | Petrology and thermobarometry for Proterozoic eclogites of the Lofoten Islands, Flakstadoy and Vestvagoy, northern Norway | 2006 | Leech |
| Peter Polito | Correlating field and laboratory rates of particle abrasion, Sangre de Cristo Mountains, New Mexico | 2006 | Sklar |
| Curtis Barnes | Periodic spacing of channel-spanning potholes in Navajo Sandstone, Henry Mountains, Utah: implications for bedrock erosion in channels with limited sediment supply | 2005 | Sklar |
| Nasrin Erdelyi | Thresholds of channel network connectivity, Redwood Creek, Marin County, California | 2005 | Sklar |
| Marina Moscorro | Relations between surface creep and microseismicity along strike-slip faults in the San Francisco Bay region | 2005 | Caskey |
| Leslie Pawlak | Uplift and deformation of Late Pleistocene marine terraces across the San Gregorio and San Andreas faults near Bolinas, California | 2005 | Caskey |
| Anne Senter | Quantitative Monitoring after Hydrologic Restoration in Knuthson Meadow, Sierra Nevada, California | 2005 | Sklar |
| Terry McGuire | A small unmapped surficial deposit and its paleogeographical implications, Point Reyes, California | 2004 | Grove |
| Jody Castle | Devil's Slide, A Convergence of Geology and Engineering | 2003 | Pestrong |
| Aaron Laubhan | Evaluation of tectonic uplift and pale-depositional environments using subsurface sediment logs and coastal exposures on the Bolinas terrace, Point Reyes Peninsula, California | 2003 | Grove |
| Mahasringha M. Monroe | Late Pleistocene Uplift Along the Seal Cove Fault Using Emergent Marine Terraces, Moss Beach, California | 2003 | Caskey |
| Joe Petsche | Delineation of Sub-surface Serpentinite Boundaries with the San Francisco Presidio | 2003 | Caskey |
| Simon Barber | Laboratory procedures and grain size analysis of terrigenous and carbonaceous sediment on the fringing reef of Molokai, Hawaii | 2002 | Grove |
| Tandis Bidgoli | Determining the style and rate of uplift from Quaternary marine terraces of the Point Reyes Peninsula, California | 2002 | Grove |
| Jim Neiss | The geochemistry of serpentine soils at Inspiration Point Presidio, San Francisco | 2002 | LaForce |
| Anne Marie Scherer | Petrology of amphibilites from Willits, eastern Blue Ridge, North Carolina | 2002 | Bickel |
| Jennifer Davis | Marine terraces near Bolinas, California | 2001 | Grove |
| Rianda Levin | High-resolution gravity models of subsurface geometry of the San Andreas fault zone near Point Reyes and implications for uplift of the Point Reyes Peninsula, California | 2001 | Grove |
| Eric Larson | The Mussel Rock Landslide: Geologic Controls and Human Impacts | 2000 | Pestrong |
| Obi Nzewi | A Hydraulic Analysis of Well Logs in the Merced Formation | 2000 | Schroth |
| Nathan Smith | Paleoseismic activity of the Stillwater Gap Segment of the Dixie Valley fault: evidence from the tectonic geomorphology of alluvial fans near the Sou Hills, Nevada | 2000 | Caskey |
| Doug Wood | Determination of the Bioavailability to humans of the metals As, Cr and Pb with respect to soil ingestion | 2000 | LaForce |
| Jennifer Barr | Continuation of the Serra fault into southwest San Francisco: Constraints on Deformation on the San Francisco Peninsula | 1999 | Caskey |
| Margaret Robinson | Using Diatoms to Interpret the Paleo-environment of embayment facies within the Merced Formation, San Francisco | 1999 | White |
| Neil Doran | A study of the depositional environment and parent materials of the late Miocene Santa Margarita Sandstone at Point Reyes, California | 1998 | Mustart |
| Andrew Eriksson | Stratigraphy and correlation of the Mio-Pliocene units in the western Los Medanos Hills, California | 1998 | Sullivan |
| Logan Hansen | Glauconitic facies of the Santa Margarita Sandstone at Point Reyes, California | 1998 | Mustart |
| Robert Potter | Mineralogical Controls on Groundwater Chemistry in the Merced Formation | 1998 | Schroth |
| Andrew Smith | The Eocene succession at Castle Rock and Rock City, Contra Costa County | 1998 | Sullivan |
| Racheal Bailey | Subsurface geometry of Quaternary sediments in the San Andreas fault valley, Point Reyes, California | 1997 | Grove |
| Joy DiFranza | Geomorphological Response of Streams to Tectonism in the Southern San Francisco Bay Region and Santa Clara Valley | 1997 | Grove |
| Kevin Doherty | Gully erosion in Half Moon Bay and Pacifica: a study of discontinuous gullies in a coastal environment, California | 1997 | Pestrong |
| John Domecus | The characterization and documentation of the San Jose Arroyo’s northern tributaries, Marin County, California | 1997 | Pestrong |
| Jeannine Kessell | Geologic framework of the East Bay Plain for groundwater use planning in Hayward, California | 1997 | Grove |
| Forrest McFarland | Chabot rift zone ultramafics: tectonic implications of K/Ar drived ages of gabbros and basalts | 1997 | Bickel |
| Nicole Peirce | Compressional tectonics in the San Francisco Bay Area: an analysis of vertical deformation of marine terraces in the Point Reyes region | 1997 | Grove |
| Orion Holcomb | Differentiating Quaternary sedimentary units near Bolinas, Marin County, California | 1996 | Grove |
| Sandra A. Jobe | Petrography and paleomagnetism of Core ICPP-COR-A0023 and correlation of a basalt lava flow sequence, Idaho National Engineering Laboratory | 1996 | Bickel |
| Kris Larson | Fate and transport of leachate constituents and their potential effect on the westside groundwater basin hillside disposal site, Colma, California | 1996 | Pestrong |
| Anna Sojourner | Analysis of fracture and fault data from the San Andreas fault, Toms Point, Point Reyes, California | 1996 | Grove |
| Jason F. Kelley | The Tertiary succession in the Keller Canyon landfill with special attention to a turbidite description of the middle Eocene Markley Formation | 1995 | Sullivan |
| Carl F. Schaefer | Plio-Pleistocene Basaltic Dikes along the Clayton Fault on the Northeastern Flank of Mount Diablo | 1995 | Sullivan |
| Rodd A. Dryfoos | Age relations of volcanic rocks at Oroville Table Mountain | 1994 | Mustart |
| Anne Rosinski | Slope stability study of two cut slopes along a portion of Highway 92 in San Mateo County | 1994 | Pestrong |
| Mary Anne Brown | Fault kinematics on the North Slope of the central Diablo Range | 1993 | Sullivan |
| Kevin B. Colson | Stratigraphy and structure of the Pleistocene Olema Creek Formation, Marin County, California | 1993 | Grove |
| Carolyn E. Garrison | Origin of fluvial terraces near Olema, Marin County, California | 1993 | Grove |
| Janet R. Guidetti | A Wellhead Protection Study For The San Lorenzo Valley Water District | 1993 | Pestrong |
| Matthew Horrigan | Fault block tilt due to Basin and Range tectonism in the Inyo Mountains region | 1993 | Mustart |
| Laura Pound | Diatom dissolution in Japan Sea sediments: Scanning Electron Microscope Evidence of Diatom Frustules | 1993 | White |
| David R. Rutledge | Detailed structural analysis of the San Andreas fault zone at Toms Point, Tomales Bay, California | 1993 | Grove |
| Mark Wirganowicz | Structure of a selected part of the Black Diamond Mines Regional Preserve, California | 1993 | Sullivan |
| Edgardo Jimenez-Bago | Seismic studies in northern Monterey Bay Grove | 1992 | Grove |
| Elizabeth E. Rosenberg | Stratigraphic analysis of the Pleistocene Millerton Formation, Tomales Bay, California | 1992 | Grove |
| Robert H. Abrams | New evidence for the age of the Lovejoy Formation at its type locality, Red Clover Creek, northern Sierra Nevada, California | 1991 | Bickel |
| Scott A. Braun | The tornadic thunderstorm environment in California | 1988 | Monteverdi |