Kirschvink, Joseph L.

Committee Member — 36 thesises

• Chang, Shih-Bin Robin — Bacterial Magnetite in Sedimentary Deposits and its Geophysical and Paleoecological Implication (1988, 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.))
• Salyards, Stephen Lowell — Dating and Characterizing Late Holocene Earthquakes Using Paleomagnetics (1989, 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.))
• Nagy, Elizabeth Ann — Extensional Deformation and Volcanism Within the Northern Puertecitos Volcanic Province, Sierra Santa Isabel, Baja California, Mexico (1997, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Croal, Laura Rosemary — Fe(II) Oxidation by Anaerobic Phototrophic Bacteria: Molecular Mechanisms and Geological Implications (2005, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Nourse, Jonathan Alan — Geological Evolution of Two Crustal Scale Shear Zones. Part I: The Rand Thrust Complex, Northwestern Mojave Desert, California. Part II: The Magdalena Metamorphic Core Complex, North Central Sonora, Mexico (1989, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Maher, Kevin A. — Geology of the Jackson Mountains, Northwest Nevada (1989, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Verdel, Charles Steven — I. Cenozoic Geology of Iran: An Integrated Study of Extensional Tectonics and Related Vulcanism. II. Ediacaran Stratigraphy of the North American Cordillera: New Observations from Eastern California and Northern Utah (2009, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Holt, John William — I. Detailed Records of Geomagnetic Field Behavior from Death Valley and Hawaii. II. An Age Constraint on Gulf of California Rifting from Santa Rosalía, Baja California (1997, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Petterson, Ryan — I. Glaciagenic and Related Strata of the Neoproterozoic Kingston Peak Formation in the Panamint Range, Death Valley Region, California. II. The Basal Ediacaran Noonday Formation, Eastern California, and Implications for Laurentian Equivalents. III. Rifting of Southwest Laurentia During the Sturtian-Marinoan Interglacial: The Argenta Orogeny (2009, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Evans, David Aspinwall Dai — I. Neoproterozoic-Paleozoic Supercontinental Tectonics and True Polar Wander. II. Temporal and Spatial Distributions of Proterozoic Glaciations (1998, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kirk, Randolph Livingstone — I. Thermal Evolution of Ganymede and Implications for Surface Features. II. Magnetohydrodynamic Constraints on Deep Zonal Flow in the Giant Planets. III. A Fast Finite-Element Algorithm for Two-Dimensional Photoclinometry (1987, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Edgar, Lauren Ashley — Identifying and Interpreting Stratification in Sedimentary Rocks on Mars: Insight from Rover and Orbital Observations and Terrestrial Field Analogs (2013, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Grappone, Joseph Michael — Investigating the Death of the Early Paleozoic Moyero River Geomagnetic Superchron: Middle Ordovician Paleomagnetism from Estonia (2016, Master's thesis)
• Krok, James Christopher — Jet Initiation of Deflagration and Detonation (1997, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bosak, Tanja — Laboratory Models of Microbial Biosignatures in Carbonate Rocks (2005, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Nazeeri, Albert Isaac — Liquid-Induced Discharge of Polypropylene Microfiber Electret Filters (2021, Senior thesis (Major))
• Buz, Jennifer — Macro Mars to Micro Mars: Mapping Minerals and Magnetization (2018, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ripperdan, Robert Lowell — Magnetostratigraphic investigations of the lower paleozoic system boundaries, and associated paleogeographic implications (1990, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Weiss, Benjamin Paul — Martian Paleomagnetism with the SQUID Microscope (2003, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Nash, Cody Zane — Mechanisms and Evolution of Magnetotactic Bacteria (2008, 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.))
• Meisling, Kristian Erik — Neotectonics of the North Frontal Fault System of the San Bernardino Mountains, Southern California: Cajon Pass to Lucerne Valley (1984, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Biasi, Joseph Anthony — Paleomagnetism and Geochemistry of Basalts in the North American Cordillera, Davis Strait, and Antarctica (2021, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Liu, Jing — Part I. Slip Behavior of the San Andreas Fault Through Several Earthquake Cycles Part II. A Structural Interpretation of the Aftershock "Cloud" of the 1992 Mw 7.3 Landers Earthquake (2003, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Jiao, Yongqin — Physiological and Mechanistic Studies of Phototrophic Fe(II) Oxidation in Purple Non-sulfur Bacteria (2007, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Skinner, Steven Michael — Plate Tectonic Constraints on Flat Subduction and Paleomagnetic Constraints on Rifting (2013, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sousa, Francis Joseph — Tectonics of Central and Eastern California, Late Cretaceous to Modern (2016, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kopp, Robert Evans, III — The Identification and Interpretation of Microbial Biogeomagnetism (2007, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Weldon, Ray James, II — The Late Cenozoic Geology of Cajon Pass; Implications for Tectonics and Sedimentation along the San Andreas Fault (1986, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Deng, Ruolin — Tracking Cosmic Dust with Extraterrestrial Helium and Neon in Deep-Sea Sediments (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Dorn, Evan David — Universal Biosignatures for the Detection of Life (2005, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Okin, Gregory Stewart — Wind, Driven Desertification: Process Modeling, Remote Monitoring, and Forecasting (2001, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Dixson, Alana Doreen — Zebrafish Magnetite and Long-lived Rohon-Beard Neurons: Expanding Our View of Two Zebrafish Sensory Systems in Development and Adulthood (2012, Dissertation (Ph.D.))