Rossman, George Robert

Committee Member — 128 thesises

• Hebert, Laura Baker — (I) A Coupled Geochemical and Geodynamical Approach to Subduction Zone Modeling and (II) Development of Color in Greenish Quartz (2008, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Balta, Joseph Brian — 1. Experimental Investigation of Hydrous Melting of the Earth’s Upper Mantle, and 2. Olivine Abundances and Compositions in Hawaiian Lavas (2010, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Scheller, Eva Linghan — A Multi-Disciplinary Approach: How Aqueous Minerals Hold the Key to Understanding the Climate and Habitability of Terrestrial Planets (2022, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hofmeister, Anne Marie — A Spectroscopic and Chemical Study of the Coloration of Feldspars by Irradiation and Impurities, Including Water (1984, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Tan, Hongjin — A Study of the Thermodynamics and Kinetics of LiₓFePO₄ as a Cathode Material for Li Batteries (2012, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sherrott, Michelle Caroline — Active Infrared Nanophotonics in van der Waals Materials (2018, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Miller, Sarah Ann — Alkaline Earth Element Partitioning in Simplified Magmatic Systems (2007, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Solomon, George Cleve — An ¹⁸O/¹⁶O Study of Mesozoic and Early Tertiary Granitic Batholiths of the Southwestern North American Cordillera (1989, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Gazis, Carey Alice — An isotopic study of the fluid flow and thermal history of the 2.8 Ma Chegem ash-flow caldera and related intrusive rocks (Caucasus Mountains, Russia) (1995, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bhattacharjee, Surjyendu — Aqueous Processes Across the Solar System: Isotopic Insights from Chondrites and Mars (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Qian, Michelle Dena — Beyond Li: Challenges in Moving Towards Earth-Abundant Battery Materials (2025, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wildman, Richard Alan — Biogeochemical Implications of Changing Groundwater and Surface Water Hydrology at Lake Powell, Utah and Arizona, and the Merced River, California, USA (2009, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Campbell, Kate Marie — Biogeochemical Mechanisms of Arsenic Mobilization in Haiwee Reservoir Sediments (2007, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Fine, Gerald Jonathan — Carbon Dioxide in Synthetic and Natural Silicate Glasses (1986, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Stephens, Stuart Keller — Carbonate formation on Mars : experiments and models (1995, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sung, Windsor — Catalytic Effects of the γ-FeOOH (Lepidocrocite) Surface on the Oxygenation Removal Kinetics of the Fe(II) and Mn(II) (1981, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Navon, Oded — Chemical and Mineralogical Characterization of Micro-Inclusions in Diamonds (1989, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lloyd, Max Kaufmann — Clumped and Intramolecular Isotopic Perspectives on the Behavior of Organic and Inorganic Carbon in the Shallow Crust and Deep Biosphere (2018, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Amidon, William Henry — Cosmogenic ³He and ²¹Ne Dating in Accessory Mineral Phases (2010, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Blumenfeld, Carl Michael — Covalent Functionalization of Metal-Oxide Surfaces with Non-Traditional Ligands (2017, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Strozewski, Benjamin Thomas — Crystal Chemistry and Seismic Wavespeeds of Dense Oxyhydroxides: Hydrogen Transport in Earth's Lower Mantle (2025, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wu, Jian — Defect Chemistry and Proton Conductivity in Ba-based Perovskites (2005, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chari, Celia S. — Degradation of Ceramic Surfaces and its Mitigation: From Electric Propulsion to Cultural Heritage (2023, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chernow, Victoria Fay — Design, Fabrication, and Characterization of 3D Nanolattice Photonic Crystals for Bandgap and Refractive Index Engineering (2018, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Paik, Haemin — Development of Electrocatalysts in Solid Acid Fuel Cells (2019, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Melnik, M. Susan — Diamond surfaces : interactions with hydrogen and halogens (1997, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Conca, James Louis — Differential Weathering Effects and Mechanisms (1985, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Akins, Joseph Albert — Dynamic Compression of Minerals in the MgO-FeO-SiO₂ System (2003, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Vizgirda, Joana Marija — Dynamic Properties of Carbonates and Applications to Cratering Processes (1982, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Liang, Liyuan — Effects of Surface Chemistry on Kinetics of Coagulation of Submicron Iron Oxide Particles (α-Fe₂O₃) in Water (1988, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Oh, Tae-Sik — Electrical, Electrochemical, and Optical Characterization of Ceria Films (2013, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Whitney, William Schuyler — Electrically-Tunable Light-Matter Interactions in Quantum Materials (2019, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Evoen, Vanessa — Electrocatalysis in Solid Acid Fuel Cell Electrodes (2016, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Brown, Evan Cornell — Electrochemically Deposited Ceria Structures for Advanced Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (2011, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Rowan, Linda Rose — Equation of state of molten mid-ocean ridge basalt. Structure of Kilauea volcano. (1993, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wang, Ying — Equilibrium ²H/¹H Fractionations in Organic Molecules (2010, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lee, Woh-jer — Experimental Study on Liquid Immiscibility in Silicate-Carbonate Systems with Applications to Carbonatites (1996, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Matzen, Andrew Keith — Fe-Mg and Ni Partitioning between Olivine and Silicate Melt (2012, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Croal, Laura Rosemary — Fe(II) Oxidation by Anaerobic Phototrophic Bacteria: Molecular Mechanisms and Geological Implications (2005, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Miaou, Emily Yishiuan — From Melting Dynamics to Medical Diagnostics: Studies in Geochemical Kinetics (2025, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hunter, Bryan Michael — Fuels and Materials from Sunlight and Water (2017, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Blum, Joel David — Geochemistry and Resonance Ionization of Platinum-Group Elements (1990, 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.))
• Giammar, Daniel — Geochemistry of uranium at mineral-water interfaces: rates of sorption-desorption and dissolution-precipitation reactions (2001, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Knott, Diane Clemens — Geologic and isotopic investigations of the early Cretaceous Sierra Nevada Batholith, Tulare Co., CA, and the Ivrea Zone, NW Italian Alps: examples of interaction between mantle-derived magma and continental crust (1992, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Brouillet, Jeremy Jean — Graphene-Mediated Light-Matter Interaction (2019, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Carim, Azhar Iqbal — Growth Towards Light: Translation of Optical Inputs into Mesostructured Outputs via Inorganic Phototropism (2021, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Staneff, Geoffrey D. — High-Pressure Synthesis of Thermoelectric Materials (2005, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kucharczyk, Christopher James — High-throughput Characterization of Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Cathode Materials (2018, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hayes, Alexander Gerard — Hydrocarbon Lakes on Titan and Their Role in the Methane Cycle (2011, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Purewal, Justin — Hydrogen Adsorption by Alkali Metal Graphite Intercalation Compounds (2010, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Johnson, Elizabeth Ann — Hydrogen in Nominally Anhydrous Crustal Minerals (2003, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Palfey, William Richard — Hydrogen Incorporation in Rutile- and Perovskite-Structured Minerals and Their Analogues (2024, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• O'Leary, Julie Ann — Hydrogen Isotope Geochemistry of the Mantle: Constraints from Back Arc Basin Basalts and Mantle Xenoliths (2007, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ng, Chihang Amy — I. Ancient Arctic Ice Does Not Contain Large Excesses of Natural Lead. II. Chronological Variations in Lead and Barium Concentrations and Lead Isotopic Compositions in Sediments of Four Southern California Off-Shore Basins (1982, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mukhopadhyay, Sujoy — I. Extraterrestrial ³He in the Sedimentary Record. II. Geochemistry of Shield Stage Lavas from Kauai, Hawaii (2002, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Schauble, Edwin Arthur — I. Predicting Equilibrium Stable Isotope Fractionations of Iron, Chlorine, and Chromium. II. Oxygen-Isotope Investigation of Mesozoic and Cenozoic Granitoids of the Northeastern Great Basin, Nevada and Utah (2002, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Anbar, Ariel David — I. Rhenium and Iridium in Natural Waters. II. Methyl Bromide: Ocean Sources, Ocean Sinks, and Climate Sensitivity. III. CO₂ Stability and Heterogeneous Chemistry in the Atmosphere of Mars (1996, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kang, Jong Hun — I. Shape Selectivity of Small-pore Molecular Sieves for the Methanol-to-Olefins Reaction and II. Synthesis and Topotactic Transformation of Germanosilicate CIT-13 (2019, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Schmidt, Joel Edward — Imidazolium-Based Organic Structure Directing Agents for the Synthesis of Microporous Materials (2016, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Maboudian, Roya — In-Situ Observation of Surface and Near-Surface Modification Using Scattering of Ballistic Phonons (1989, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Magyar, Paul Macdonald — Insights into Pathways of Nitrous Oxide Generation from Novel Isotopologue Measurements (2017, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Liu, Weiyi — Insights Into the Core’s Structure, Formation and Evolution from First-Principles Calculations (2025, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Pan, Lu — Insights into the Geologic History of Mars’ Northern Lowlands from Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (2017, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Leask, Ellen Kathleen — Investigating the Evolution of Surface Water on Mars through Spectroscopy of Secondary Minerals (2020, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Solomatova, Natalia Viatcheslavovna — Iron-bearing Oxides, Silicate Glasses and Carbonates at Lower Mantle Pressures (2017, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hofmann, Florian — Iron-Oxide Geochronology to Constrain the Formation of Soils and Paleosols (2019, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Scott, Michael James — Kinetics of adsorption and redox processes on iron and manganese oxides : reactions of As(III) and Se(IV) at goethite and birnessite surfaces (1991, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Smith, Roger Stanley Uhr — Late-Quaternary Pluvial and Tectonic History of Panamint Valley, Inyo and San Bernardino Counties, California (1976, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Thomas, Claire Waller — Liquid Silicate Equation of State: Using Shock Waves to Understand the Properties of the Deep Earth (2013, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lewis, Madeline Janine — Magmatic Differentiation in Arc and Mid Ocean Ridge Settings (2021, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kislitsyn, Mikhail N. — Materials Chemistry of Superprotonic Solid Acids (2009, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Joesten, Raymond Leonard — Metasomatism and Magmatic Assimilation at a Gabbro-Limestone Contact, Christmas Mountains, Big Bend Region, Texas (1974, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Harrison, Benjamin Kimball — Microbial Colonization of Minerals in Marine Sediments – Method Development and Ecological Significance (2011, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hofmann, Amy Elizabeth — Micron- to Sub-Micron-Scale Trace Element Zonations in Zircon and Olivine (2010, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Schlautman, Mark A. — Mineral Surfaces and Humic Substances: Partitioning of Hydrophobic Organic Pollutants (1992, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Citrin, Michael Andrew — Nanomechanical Properties of Electrodeposited Li and Fabrication of 3D Architected Cathodes for Li-Based Batteries (2020, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Cox, Stephen Ellis — New Techniques for Noble Gas Geochronometry and Thermochronometry (2017, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zeng, Lingsen — Non-Modal Partial Melting of Metasedimentary Pendants in the Southern Sierra Nevada and Implications for the Deep Origin of Within-Pluton Isotopic Heterogeneity (2004, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mattson, Stephanie Margaret — Optical Expressions of Ion-Pair Interactions in Minerals (1985, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Dong, Heng — Optimization of Electrodes Towards More Practical Electrochemical Water Treatment (2023, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ji, Yuewei Lucy — Organic Structure Directing Agent Free Synthesis of Small Pore Zeolite Catalysts for the Methanol-to-Olefins Reaction (2017, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Goreva, Julia S. — Origin of Th/U Variations in Chondritic Meteorites (2001, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Burt, Emelia Anna — Oxygen isotope studies of some sedimentary and metasedimentary rocks of the central and northern Appalachian Mountains, the Colorado Plateau, and the Ouachita Mountains (1993, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Channon, Melanie Beth — Oxygen Isotopes and Volatiles in Martian Meteorite (2013, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Biasi, Joseph Anthony — Paleomagnetism and Geochemistry of Basalts in the North American Cordillera, Davis Strait, and Antarctica (2021, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kewitsch, Anthony S. — Part I. Optically induced, ferroelectric domain gratings in photorefractive crystals and applications to nonlinear optics. Part II. Self-focusing and self-trapping of optical beams upon photopolymerization and applications to microfabrication (1995, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wasylenki, Laura Eileen — Partial Melting of Depleted Peridotite in the Earth's Upper Mantle and Implications for Generation of Mid-Ocean Ridge Basalts (1999, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Panithipongwut, Chatr — Phase Behavior of Complex Superprotonic Solid Acids (2013, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Li, Chen W. — Phonon Anharmonicity of Ionic Compounds and Metals (2012, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Rakuljic, George Anthony — Photorefractive Properties and Applications of Barium Titanate and Tungsten Bronze Ferroelectrics (1987, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Tracy, Sally June — Polaron Hopping in Olivine Phosphates Studied by Nuclear Resonant Scattering (2016, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Tan, Wei Lin — Polycrystalline Perovskite Ferroelectrics: Microstructural Origins of the Macroscale Electromechanical Response (2019, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chimiak, Laura Marie — Prebiotic Fingerprints (2021, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Tong, Xiaolin — Properties and applications of potassium lithium tantalate niobate (1998, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sabbeth, Leah — Provenance, Structural Geology, and Sedimentation of the Miocene and Pliocene Californias (2021, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Stack, Kathryn Marie Morgan — Reconstructing Past Depositional and Diagenetic Processes through Quantitative Stratigraphic Analysis of the Martian Sedimentary Rock Record (2015, 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.))
• Baker, Shenda Mary — Scanning Tunneling Microscopy and Spectroscopy of Silicon and Carbon Surfaces (1992, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Shaw, Henry Francis, III — Sm-Nd and Rb-Sr Isotopic Systematics of Tektites and Other Impactites, Appalachian Mafic Rocks, and Marine Carbonates and Phosphates (1984, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Boland, Stacey Walker — Sol-Gel Synthesis of Highly Oriented Lead Barium Titanate and Lanthanum Nickelate Thin Films for High Strain Sensor and Actuator Applications (2005, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Carson, Douglas Glenn — Solid State NMR at High Magnetic Fields Using Multiple Pulse Techniques (1981, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Newcombe, Megan Eve — Solubility and Diffusivity of Water in Lunar Basalt, and Chemical Zonation in Olivine-Hosted Melt Inclusions (2016, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wicks, June Ki — Sound Velocities and Equation of State of Iron-Rich (Mg,Fe)O (2013, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Miller, Hayden Bryce Dutcher — Stable and Radiogenic Isotope Studies of Iron-oxides as Paleoenvironmental and Tectonic Archives (2019, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lan, Tian — Studies of Phonon Anharmonicity in Solids (2014, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hamecher, Emily A. — Studies of the Equation of State and Elasticity of Mantle Minerals (2013, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Jones, John Hume — Studies of the Geochemical Similarity of Plutonium and Samarium and Their Implications for the Abundance of ²⁴⁴Pu in the Early Solar System (1981, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Cowan, Lisa — Superprotonic Solid Acid Phase Transitions and Stability (2007, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ikeda, Ayako — Superprotonic Solid Acids: Thermochemistry, Structure, and Conductivity (2013, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Usiskin, Robert Ezra — Surface Activity and Bulk Defect Chemistry of Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Cathodes (2015, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bales, Roger Curtis — Surface Chemical and Physical Behavior of Chrysotile Asbestos in Natural Waters and Water Treatment (1985, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Metcalfe, Kyle Shuhert — Symbiotic Diversity and Mineral-Associated Microbial Ecology in Marine Microbiomes (2021, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Khodabandeh, Shervin — Synthesis of Alkaline-earth Zeolites (1997, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Witkosky, Rebecca Amber — Tectonics in Nevada and Southern California: Subsidence of the Ediacaran Johnnie Formation, Cumulative Offset Along the Lavic Lake Fault, and Geomorphic Surface Development Along the Southern San Andreas Fault (2019, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Leshin, Laurie Ann — The Abundance and Hydrogen Isotopic Composition of Water in SNC Meteorites: Implications for Water on Mars (1995, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kessel, Ronit — The Activity of Chromite in Multicomponent Spinels: An Experimental Study with Implications for the Metamorphic History of Equilibrated Ordinary Chondrites (2002, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Papandrew, Alexander Blair — The Effects of High Pressure on the Vibrational and Magnetic Properties of Iron-Based Materials (2006, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Pardo, Olivia Sabine — The Elastic, Electronic, and Structural Properties of Hydrous, Sulfur-Bearing Minerals in Planetary Environments: from the Surface to Deep Interiors (2023, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kopp, Robert Evans, III — The Identification and Interpretation of Microbial Biogeomagnetism (2007, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chemtob, Steven Michael — The Origin and Evolution of Amorphous Silica Coatings on Young Hawaiian Basalts (2013, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Stone, Alan Thomas — The Reduction and Dissolution of Manganese(III) and (IV) Oxides by Organics (1983, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Forman, Selena M. — The transport of nonlinearly adsorbing compounds between stream water and sediment bed in a laboratory flume (1998, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ferguson, Megan Alameda — TiO₂-Photocatalyzed As(III) Oxidation and its Applicability to Water Treatment (2006, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Aines, Roger Deane — Trace Hydrogen in Minerals (1984, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Dixon, Jacqueline Eaby — Water and carbon dioxide in basaltic magmas (1992, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Silver, Lynn Alison — Water in Silicate Glasses (1988, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Okin, Gregory Stewart — Wind, Driven Desertification: Process Modeling, Remote Monitoring, and Forecasting (2001, Dissertation (Ph.D.))