Orphan, Victoria J.

Advisor — 18 thesises

• Case, David Hamilton — Carbonate-Associated Microbial Ecology at Methane Seeps: Assemblage Composition, Response to Changing Environmental Conditions, and Implications for Biomarker Longevity (2016, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Rusley, Calvin James — Context is King: Understanding the Diversity and Evolution of Prokaryotic Metabolism through Comparative Contextual Methods (2027, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Dekas, Anne Elizabeth — Diazotrophy in the Deep: An Analysis of the Distribution, Magnitude, Geochemical Controls, and Biological Mediators of Deep-Sea Benthic Nitrogen Fixation (2013, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Narayanan, Aditi Kalpagam — Diversity, Activity, and Adaptations of Phage Communities in Anoxic Hydrocarbon-Rich Marine Sediments (2025, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Guo, Yongzhao — Exploring Versatility of Energy Metabolism and Dynamics of Anabolism and Growth in Anaerobic Methanotrophic Consortia (2025, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Silverman, Shaelyn Nicole — From Pure Cultures to Particles: Tracing Microbial Metabolism Through Amino Acid ²H/¹H Ratios (2025, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chadwick, Grayson Lee — How to Beat Diffusion: Explorations of Energetics and Spatial Relationships in Microbial Ecosystems (2021, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Magyar, Paul Macdonald — Insights into Pathways of Nitrous Oxide Generation from Novel Isotopologue Measurements (2017, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Parra, Sergio Alexander — Location, Location, Location: Insights from Spatially-Resolved Observations of Marine Seep Carbonate Ecosystems and Carbonaceous Chondrite Surfaces (2025, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Harrison, Benjamin Kimball — Microbial Colonization of Minerals in Marine Sediments – Method Development and Ecological Significance (2011, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Trembath-Reichert, Elizabeth — Molecular and Geochemical Insights into Microbial Life Centimeters to Kilometers Below the Seafloor (2016, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Marlow, Jeffrey James — Physical, Metabolic, and Energetic Investigations of Methane-Metabolizing Microbial Communities (2016, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mullin, Sean William Alexander — Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Microorganisms Living Along Steep Energy Gradients and Implications for Ecology and Geologic Preservation in the Deep Biosphere (2021, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Saxena, Abigail Green — Sulfur-Cycling in Methane-Rich Ecosystems: Uncovering Microbial Processes and Novel Niches (2013, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Metcalfe, Kyle Shuhert — Symbiotic Diversity and Mineral-Associated Microbial Ecology in Marine Microbiomes (2021, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Liu, Hanna Ken-Yuin — The Abundance and Behavior of Viruses in Ancient Seawater and Modern Iron-rich Environments (2011, Senior thesis (Major))
• Lim, Sujung — The Impact of Energy Availability and Substrate Complexity on Anaerobic Microbial Communities in Marine Sediment (2024, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Yu, Hang Hank — Understanding the Symbiosis in Anaerobic Oxidation of Methane Through Metabolic, Biosynthetic and Transcriptomic Activities (2017, Dissertation (Ph.D.))