Recent PhD Graduates and Thesis Titles

2021

Alice Alex (Zajacz) 

Development of new methods to control redox conditions in high-pressure experiments and their application to study ore metal solubilities in sulfur-bearing magmatic fluids

Marissa Davies (Finkelstein)

Drivers of Holocene carbon uptake and release in peatlands of the Hudson Bay Lowlands, Canada

Carter Grondahl (Zajacz) 

Controls on the ore fertility of continental arc magmas: new constraints from silicate melt inclusions

Tanya Kizovski (Tait)

A “Shocking” Investigation into Life on Mars:  Examination of the Structural and Chemical Effects of Shock in Hydrous Phases in Martian Meteorites

Erin Seagren (Schoenbohm) 

Drainage Reorganization and Landscape Evolution at the Puna Plateau Margin, NW Argentina

2020

Alex Boivin (Ghent) – June 1, 2020

Characterization of the Complex Permittivity of Planetary Regolith Analogue Materials

Eunji Byun (Cowling/Finkelstein) – August 12, 2020

The underestimated role of temperate wetlands in the late Quaternary terrestrial carbon cycle

Anna Phillips (Cowling/Finkelstein) – April 7, 2020

Statistical modelling of riverine dissolved silicon on different spatial and temporal scales

Neal Sullivan (Brennan/Zajacz) – September 8, 2020

Mobilization of Platinum, Palladium and Gold by Magmatic Brines: An Experimental Study

Man Yin Tsang (Wortmann) – September 4, 2020

Modeling the Effects of Microbially-mediated Sulfate Reduction on Porewater S-isotope Ratios in Marine Sediments