Fischer, Woodward W.

Committee Member — 46 thesises

• Kemeny, Preston Cosslett — A Fluvial Perspective on the Role of Sulfide Oxidation in the Global Carbon Cycle (2022, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mueller, Elliott Patrick — Carbon Currencies: Isotopic Constraints on the Biogeochemistry of Organic Acids (2024, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Dion-Kirschner, Hannah Henning — Carbon in Flux: Measuring the Climate Sensitivity of Terrestrial Greenhouse Gas Uptake (2025, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• 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.))
• Bergmann, Kristin Diane — Constraints on the Carbon Cycle and Climate During the Early Evolution of Animals (2013, 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.))
• Present, Theodore Michael — Controls on the Sulfur Isotopic Composition of Carbonate-Associated Sulfate (2018, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Slotznick, Sarah Pearl — Coupling Textural, Magnetic, and Modeling Techniques to Understand Precambrian Paleoenvironments (2016, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Morris, Freya Kurt — Depositional and Structural History of the Pavian and Kudu Nappes in the Naukluft Mountains, Namibia (2024, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Spasojevic, Sonja — Dynamics of Long-Term Sea-Level Change and Vertical Motion of Continents (2011, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hayden, Alistair Thompson — Exhumed Fluvial Deposits: New Paleohydrological Tools Indicate Long-Duration Fluvial Activity on Early Mars (2021, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zeichner, Sarah Soojin — Fates of Carbon (2024, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Nghiem, Justin Anh-Khoa — Flocculation and Transport of Mud in Rivers and Deltas (2025, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wang, Renée Zurui — From Photosynthesis to Detoxification: Microbial Metabolisms Shape Earth’s Surface Chemistry (2024, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kalucha, Hemani — Geochemistry of Mars and Implications for Organic Carbon Preservation - Observations from Rover Data and Terrestrial Analogs (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sanders, Cecilia Brooke — Geological and Geochemical Explorations of the Salitre Formation Phosphorite, Eastern Brazil (2023, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chadwick, Grayson Lee — How to Beat Diffusion: Explorations of Energetics and Spatial Relationships in Microbial Ecosystems (2021, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Malatesta, Luca Claude — Impact of Climate and Tectonics on the Morphodynamics of Alluvial Piedmonts, Implications for Sediment Transfer and the Stratigraphic Record (2017, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Shin, Jieun — Investigating the Catalytic Mechanisms of Bio-degrading Copper Proteins: Multi-copper Oxidases (MCOs) and Lytic Polysaccharide Monooxygenases (LPMOs) (2021, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Leask, Ellen Kathleen — Investigating the Evolution of Surface Water on Mars through Spectroscopy of Secondary Minerals (2020, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Stein, Nathaniel Thomas — Investigation of Past Habitable Environments through Remote Sensing of Planetary Surfaces (2020, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Osburn, Magdalena Rose — Isotopic Proxies for Microbial and Environmental Change: Insights from Hydrogen Isotopes and the Ediacaran Khufai Formation (2013, 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.))
• Buz, Jennifer — Macro Mars to Micro Mars: Mapping Minerals and Magnetization (2018, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lewis, Madeline Janine — Magmatic Differentiation in Arc and Mid Ocean Ridge Settings (2021, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lingappa, Usha Farey — Manganese Through Time and Other Stories Concerning Cyanobacteria and the World Around Them (2021, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Johnson, Jena Elaine — Manganese: Minerals, Microbes, and the Evolution of Oxygenic Photosynthesis (2015, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Douglas, Madison Marie — Mechanics of River Erosion and its Effects on Floodplain Biogeochemistry (2023, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ward, Lewis Michael — Microbial Evolution and the Rise of Oxygen: The Roles of Contingency and Context in Shaping the Biosphere through Time (2017, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Trembath-Reichert, Elizabeth — Molecular and Geochemical Insights into Microbial Life Centimeters to Kilometers Below the Seafloor (2016, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Geyman, Emily C. — Natural Experiments in Landscape Dynamics and Carbon Cycling (2027, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Stolper, Daniel Aaron — New Insights into the Formation and Modification of Carbonate-Bearing Minerals and Methane Gas in Geological Systems using Multiply Substituted Isotopologues (2014, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Raven, Morgan Reed — Organic Matter Sulfurization in the Modern Ocean (2016, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Marlow, Jeffrey James — Physical, Metabolic, and Energetic Investigations of Methane-Metabolizing Microbial Communities (2016, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Alqattan, Hussain — Quantifying Surface Processes Using Remote Sensing: Accretion in River Deltas and Migration of Barchan Dunes (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Baker, Samantha Rose — Remote Sensing Aqueous Surface Processes on Planets Red and Blue: From Chemical Weathering Mineralogy on Mars to Water Temperature in Alaska's River Corridors (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Thomas, Nancy Helen — Remotely Sensing Aqueous Alteration on Mars: Innovative Statistical and Analytical Methods for Large Spectral Datasets (2019, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Li, Haoyu — Revisiting U-Pb and ²⁶Al-²⁶Mg Systematics of Calcium Aluminum-Rich Inclusions: Applications on Early Solar System Chronology and Evolution History (2024, 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.))
• Miller, Hayden Bryce Dutcher — Stable and Radiogenic Isotope Studies of Iron-oxides as Paleoenvironmental and Tectonic Archives (2019, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Johnson, Daniel Lee — Sulfur Isotopic Insights into the Modern and Ancient Marine Sulfur Cycles (2021, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Metcalfe, Kyle Shuhert — Symbiotic Diversity and Mineral-Associated Microbial Ecology in Marine Microbiomes (2021, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Dong, Guannan — Taking the Pulse of Life: Intramolecular and Clumped Isotopic Perspectives on the Origins and Evolution of Hydrocarbons in Geological and Prebiotic Systems (2024, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lim, Sujung — The Impact of Energy Availability and Substrate Complexity on Anaerobic Microbial Communities in Marine Sediment (2024, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Spalding, Christopher — The Primordial Origin and Dynamical Sculpting of Close-In Planetary System Architectures (2018, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Yu, Hang Hank — Understanding the Symbiosis in Anaerobic Oxidation of Methane Through Metabolic, Biosynthetic and Transcriptomic Activities (2017, Dissertation (Ph.D.))