Former Students

  • Maura Foley (M.S.) 2015
    • Advisor: Christopher Gerbi
    • Thesis: Processes leading to localization in the granitoid units of the Grenville Front Tectonic Zone, Philip Edward Island, Ontario, Canada
  • Stephanie Mills (M.S.) 2015

    • Advisor: Christopher Gerbi

    • Thesis: Cathodoluminescent quartz microstructures: their formation and role in high grade rocks of the Parry Sound domain, Grenville Province, Ontario Canada

  • Samuel Roy (Ph.D.) 2015

    • Advisor: Peter Koons

    • Thesis: Topographic signatures of geodynamics

  • Lauren Wheeler (M.S.) 2014

    • Advisor: Peter Koons

    • Thesis: Modeling the influence of the last glacial maximum ice load on the tectonics of Southeast Alaska and the South Island, New Zealand

  • Ben Frieman (M.S.) 2012

    • Advisor: Scott Johnson

    • Thesis: The effect of microstructural and rheological heterogeneity on porphyroblast kinematics and bulk strength in porphyroblastic schists

  •  JohnRyan MacGregor (M.S.) 2012

    • Advisor: Edward Grew

    • Thesis: Boron isotopic study of the borosilicate tourmaline, prismatine and grandidierite in granulite facies paragneisses from the Larsemann Hills, Prydz Bay, East Antarctica

  • Nancy A. Price (Ph.D.) 2012

    • Advisor: Scott Johnson

    • Thesis: Strucutre and rheology of the sandhill corner shear zone Norumbega Fault System, Maine: A study of a fault from the base of the seismogenic zone

  • Ian Putnam (M.S.) 2012

    • Advisor: Daniel Lux

    • Thesis: Characterization of the Traeler and Kineo Rhyolites and implications for geoarchaeology

  • Brianna Force (M.S.) 2011

    • Advisor: Daniel Lux

    • Thesis: Schlieren structures in the Mount Waldo Granite Pluton Maine: Implications for magma chamber processes

  • Felice Naus-Thijssen (Ph.D.) 2011

    • Advisor: Scott Johnson

    • Thesis: Crenulation cleavage development and the influence of rock microstructure on crustal seismic anisotropy

  • Samuel Roy (M.S.) 2011

    • Advisor: Scott Johnson

    • Thesis: Fractal Analysis and thermal-elastic modeling of a subvolccanic magmatic breccia: the Shatter Zone, Mount Desert Island, Maine

  • Jeffrey Marsh (Ph.D.) 2010

    • Advisors: Scott Johnson and Christopher Gerbi

    • Thesis: Interactions among metamorphism, deformation and chemical transport processes in high strain crustal rocks

  • Meredith Petrie (M.S.) 2009

    • Advisor: Christopher Gerbi

    • Thesis: Fluid infiltration and strain localization in the Whitestone Anorthosite, Grenville Province, Ontario

  • Eva Wadowski (M.S.) 2009

    • Advisor: Edward Grew

    • Thesis: Microstructural and chemical study of borosilicate minerals in pegmatites from the Larsemann Hills, Prydz Bay, East Antarctica