Stevenson, David John

Committee Member — 80 thesises

• Zhang, Xi — Aerosols and Chemistry in the Planetary Atmospheres (2013, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Gehrels, George Ellery — Geologic and Tectonic Evolution of Annette, Gravina, Duke, and Southern Prince of Wales Islands, Southeastern Alaska (1986, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Berne, Alexander C. — Tidal Dynamics of Laterally Heterogeneous Planetary Bodies (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ni, Sidao — 2D Modeling of Lower Mantle Structure with WKM Synthetics (2001, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Dowling, Timothy Edward — A Dynamical Study of Jupiter's Great Red Spot (1989, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chachan, Yayaati — A Journey with Dust: from Protoplanetary Disks to Planetary Atmospheres and Outflows (2022, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lay, Thorne — Analysis of Upper and Lower Mantle Structure Using Shear Waves (1983, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Qi, Chunhua — Aperture Synthesis Studies of the Chemical Composition of Protoplanetary Disks and Comets (2001, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lee, Yuan-Tai — Atmospheric Chemistry and Transport Modeling in the Outer Solar System (2001, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lyons, James Richard — Atmospheric chemistry in the outer solar system: from 40 K to 4000 K (1996, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Schwamb, Megan E. — Beyond Sedna: Probing the Distant Solar System (2011, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Metchev, Stanimir Angelov — Brown Dwarf Companions to Young Solar Analogs: An Adaptive Optics Survey Using Palomar and Keck (2006, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Huang, Yuping — Building a Radio Camera in Search of Exoplanet Magnetospheres (2025, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Stephens, Stuart Keller — Carbonate formation on Mars : experiments and models (1995, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Line, Michael Robert — Characterization of Exoplanet Atmospheres: Spectral Retrieval and Chemistry (2013, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Pahlevan, Kaveh — Chemical and Isotopic Consequences of Lunar Formation via Giant Impact (2010, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Gao, Peter — Clouds and Hazes in Planetary Atmospheres (2017, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kao, Melodie Minyu — Constraining Substellar Magnetic Dynamos using Brown Dwarf Radio Aurorae (2017, 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.))
• Richards, Mark Alan — Dynamical Models for the Earth's Geoid (1986, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Idini Zabala, Benjamín Rodo — Earthquakes and the New Paradigm of Diluted Cores in Gas Giant Planets (2022, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kopparla, Pushkar — Exoplanetary Atmospheric Characterization Using Polarimetry and Other Radiative Transfer Modeling Problems (2018, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Markham, Stephen Robert — Gas Planet Seismology and Cooling (2022, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bower, Daniel James — Geodynamics of Earth’s Deep Mantle (2012, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Manduca, Cathryn Clement Allen — Geology and Geochemistry of the Oceanic Arc-Continent Boundary in the Western Idaho Batholith near McCall (1988, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hudson, Troy Lee — Growth, Diffusion, and Loss of Subsurface Ice on Mars: Experiments and Models (2008, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Anderson, William Wyatt — High Pressure States in Condensed Matter: I. High Pressure Behavior of the Iron-Sulfur System with Applications to the Earth's Core. II. Empirical Equation of State for Organic Compounds at High Pressures (1990, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lane, Benjamin Frederick — High-Precision Infra-Red Stellar Interferometry (2003, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hayes, Alexander Gerard — Hydrocarbon Lakes on Titan and Their Role in the Methane Cycle (2011, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kuang, Zhiming — I: Remote Spectroscopic Measurements of Atmospheric HDO/H₂O and Column CO₂. II: Interannual Variations of the Earth’s Reflectance (2003, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Schmitt, Douglas Ray — I. Applications of Double-Exposure Holography to the Measurement of In Situ Stress and the Elastic Moduli of Rock from Boreholes. II. Shock Temperature Measurements in Fused Quartz and Crystalline NaCl to 35 GPa (1987, 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.))
• Showman, Adam Peter — I. Dynamics at the Galileo Probe Site on Jupiter and II. Orbital and Thermal Evolution of Ganymede (1999, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ojakangas, Gregory Wayne — I. Episodic Volcanism of Tidally Heated Satellites with an Application to Io. II. Thermal State of an Ice Shell on Europa. III. Polar Wander of a Synchronously Rotating Satellite with Application to Europa (1988, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Polanskey, Carol Ann — I. Impact Spallation Experiments: Fracture Patterns and Spall Velocities. II. Craters in Carbonate Rocks: An Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Analysis of Shock Damage (1989, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Friedson, Andrew James — I. Meridional Energy Balance of Uranus. II. Viscosity of Rock-Ice Mixtures. III. The Thermosphere of Titan (1987, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Tan, Eh — I. Multi-Scale Dynamics of Mantle Plumes, and II. Compressible Thermochemical Convection and the Stability of Mantle Superplumes (2006, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Billen, Magali Isabelle — I. Seafloor Morphology of the Osbourn Trough and Kermadec Trench and II. Multiscale DynamiCS of Subduction Zones (2002, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Schaller, Emily Lauren — I. Seasonal Changes in Titan’s Cloud Activity. II. Volatile Ices on Outer Solar System Objects (2008, 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.))
• Marinova, Margarita M. — Inquiries into the Consequences of Planetary-Scale Impacts and the Implications of Carbonates in the Hyper-Arid Core of the Sahara (2010, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Liu, Junjun — Interaction of Magnetic Field and Flow in the Outer Shells of Giant Planets (2006, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bailey, Elizabeth Ann — Interior and Orbital Dynamics at the Innermost and Outermost Reaches of Planetary Systems (2021, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Rosenburg, Margaret Anne — Interpretation of Lunar Topography: Impact Cratering and Surface Roughness (2014, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Pankine, Alexey Anatolyevich — Low Order Model of Martian Circulation and Interannual Variability of Global Dust Storms (2001, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Scott, David Russell — Magmons: Solitary Waves Arising in the Buoyant Ascent of Magma by Porous Flow through a Viscously Deformable Matrix (1987, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Weiss, Benjamin Paul — Martian Paleomagnetism with the SQUID Microscope (2003, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Svitek, Tomas — Martian water frost : control of global distribution by small-scale processes (1992, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Svendsen, Robert Frederik, Jr. — Optical Radiation from Shock-Compressed Materials (1988, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ragozzine, Darin Alan — Orbital Dynamics of Kuiper Belt Object Satellites, a Kuiper Belt Family, and Extra-Solar Planet Interiors (2009, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Batygin, Konstantin — Orbits and Interiors of Planets (2012, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Nakajima, Miki — Origin of the Earth and Moon (2016, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Holland, Kathleen Gabrielle — Phase Changes and Transport Properties of Geophysical Materials Under Shock Loading (1999, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wen, Lianxing — Plate Tectonics, Mantle Convection and D" Seismic Structures (1998, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wolf, Aaron Samuel — Probing the Thermodynamic Properties of Mantle Rocks in Solid and Liquid States (2013, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Laurence, Stuart Jon — Proximal Bodies in Hypersonic Flow (2006, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Herkenhoff, Kenneth Edward — Quantitative Studies of the Martian South Polar Region Using Spacecraft Images (1989, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Pritchard, Matthew Earl — Recent Crustal Deformation in West-Central South America (2003, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Busch, Michael William — Shapes and Spins of Near-Earth Asteroids (2010, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Boslough, Mark Bruce — Shock-Wave Properties and High-Pressure Equations of State of Geophysically Important Materials (1984, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Waszczak, Adam — Solar System Small-Body Demographics with the Palomar Transient Factory Survey (2015, 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.))
• Davies, John Huw — Some Problems in Mantle Structure and Dynamics. Part 1. Inversion for Depth Variation of Spectra of Mantle Compressional and Shear Velocity Heterogeneity. Part 2. Physical Model of Source Region of Subduction Zone Volcanism (1990, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Barkume, Kristina Marie — Surface Properties of Kuiper Belt Objects and Centaurs (2008, 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.))
• Paige, David Abbey, Jr. — The Annual Heat Balance of the Martian Polar Caps from Viking Observations (1985, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• O'Rourke, Joseph Ghilarducci — The Divergent Evolution of Earth and Venus (2017, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Tinney, Christopher G. — The faintest stars (1993, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Koerner, David — The kinematics of circumstellar disks around T Tauri stars (1995, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Blunt, Sarah — The Orbits of Young Extrasolar Planets as Formation Probes (2023, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Spalding, Christopher — The Primordial Origin and Dynamical Sculpting of Close-In Planetary System Architectures (2018, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hernquist, Lars Eric — Thermal and Magnetic Properties of Neutron Stars (1985, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wiktorowicz, Sloane John — Unambiguous Black Hole Mass from Polarimetry and Application to Hot Jupiters (2009, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Collins, Benjamin Forster — Understanding the Solar System with Numerical Simulations and Lévy Flights (2009, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Trumbo, Samantha Kathleen — Views of an Ocean World: The Signatures of Internal and External Processes on the Surface of Europa (2021, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Passey, Quinn R. — Viscosity Structure of the Lithospheres of Ganymede, Callisto, and Enceladus, and of the Earth's Upper Mantle (1982, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zhang, Ke — Volatiles in Protoplanetary Disks (2015, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lunine, Jonathan Irving — Volatiles in the Outer Solar System: I. Thermodynamics of Clathrate Hydrates. II. Ethane Ocean on Titan. III. Evolution of Primordial Titan Atmosphere (1985, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Porco, Carolyn C. — Voyager Observations of Saturn's Rings. 1. The Eccentric Rings at 1.29, 1.45, 1.95 and 2.27 Rₛ. 2. The Periodic Variation of Spokes (1983, Dissertation (Ph.D.))