School of Earth & Sustainability
Completed theses for the PhD in Earth Sciences and Environmental Sustainability
| Name | Year | Title | Emphasis | Advisor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alvarez Guerrero, Jose | 2021 | Power system operation with high penetration of electric vehicles and renewable energy | Engineering Sustainable Systems | T. Acker |
| Broadman, Elinor | 2021 | Changes in atmospheric circulation, precipitation patterns, and lake hydrology over the last ~12,000 years in Alaska | Climate & Environmental Change | D. Kaufman |
| Arcusa, Stephanie | 2020 | Dust-drought nexus in the southern Rocky Mountains: integrating lake paleodust records andclimate models | Climate & Environmental Change | N. McKay |
| Bain, Dominique | 2020 | The impact of drought, time-of-use rates and photovoltaics on production costs in Arizona | Engineering Sustainable Systems | T. Acker |
| Craddock Affinati, Suzanne | 2019 | Pressure-temperature-time paths and overstepped garnet nucleation associated with Jurassic Barrovian metamorphism in the Funeral Mountains, California | Earth Systems | T. Hoisch |
| Darin, Michael | 2019 | Cenozoic tectonic evolution of the Sivas Basin from subduction to collision to escape in Central Anatolia, Turkey | Earth Systems | P. Umhoefer |
| Tierney, Casey | 2019 | Crystal-liquid insights into time scales and conditions of magma assembly preceding eruption of the Youngest Toba Tuff, Indonesia | Earth Systems | M. Reid |
| Donager, Jonathon | 2018 | Ponderosa pine forest health and ecohydrology monitoring via passive and active remote sensing: Forest structure, snowpack dynamics and ecosystem moisture | Climate & Environmental Change | T. Sankey |
| Duffy (Woods), Katharyn | 2018 | Quantifying the sensitivity of land atmosphere carbon exchange | Climate & Environmental Change | C. Schwalm |
| Schleiffarth, William (Kirk) | 2018 | The origins and spatial-temporal patterns of Cretaceous-Quaternary magmatism during collisions, trench retreat, and escape tectonics in Central Anatolia, Turkey | Earth Systems | P. Umhoefer |
| Wadsack, Karin | 2018 | Power system modeling of energy storage and climate change: Implications for the clean air act | Engineering Sustainable Systems | T. Acker |
| Wan, Ho Yi | 2018 | Habitat, connectivity, and gene flow of Mexican spotted owl in southwestern forests | Climate & Environmental Change | C. Aslan |
| Massey, Richard | 2017 | Satellite remote sensing of cropland characteristics in 30m resolution: the first North American continental-scale classification on high performance computing platforms | Climate & Environmental Change | T. Sankey |
| Rock, Tommy | 2017 | Developing policy around uranium contamination on the Navajo Nation using traditional ecological knowledge | Climate & Environmental Change | J. Ingram |