Current Students

Masters

• Mauricio Avila
  Project: Exploring the potential for progressive marine authigenic carbnonate formation with depth
• Bayne Westrick-Snapp
  Project: Sulfur and carbon isotope geochemistry of SPICE-aged carbonates of the Great Basin
• Antonio Sandoval
  Project: Geochemistry of phosphatic-shales and associated athigenic minerals of the Miocene Monterey Formation: Implications for paragenetic evolution
• John Hill
  Project: Multiple sulfur isotope composition of elemental sulfur in Gulf Coast cap rock

Undergraduates

• Andres Bustos
  Project: Carbon isotope variability in the Bonanza King Formation, Eastern Great Basin
• Yasmeen De La Cruz
  Project: Geochemical characterization of marine organic matter in IODP cores containing with authigenic carbonate

 

Past Students

Masters

• Marissa Smirnoff (MSc Summer 2017)
  Project: Carbonate geochemistry of marine authigenic carbonates and host sediments: Exploring mineral formation pathways and organic preservation potetnial in modern sediments
• Kylie Caesar (MSc Summer 2016)
  Project: Sulfate dependent anaerobic oxidation of methane as a generation mechanism for calcite cap rock in Gulf Coast salt domes, USA

Undergraduates

• Connor Frederickson (BSc Fall 2018)
  Project: Carbon isotope heterogeneity of Gulf Coast salt dome cap rock calcite
• Kaelin Andelin (BSc Summer 2017)
  Project: Sulfur isotopic composition of anhydrite in the salt stock and cap rock of Gulf Coast salt domes
• Bayne Westrick-Snapp (BSc Summer 2016)
  Project: Carbon geochemistry of Miocene-aged concretions of the Castaic Formation
• Shawn Colby (BSc Summer 2016)
  Project: Nature of organic carbon associated with Miocene carbonate concretions of the Monterey Formation: Evidence from carbon isotope data
• Lucas Lu (BSc Summer 2016)
  Project: Identification of a methane carbon source for organic carbon contained in salt dome cap rocks of the Gulf Coast region, USA
• Julie Unson (BSc Summer 2015)
  Project: Cement paragenesis of septarian concretions of the Cretaceous Holz Shale
• Allison Beida (BSc Summer 2015)
  Project: The nature of carbon isotope covariation in Neoproterozoic to Cambrian strata of Sonora, Mexico