IsoLab - Dissertations

2023

Gemma O'Connor, University of Washington, Ph.D. Dissertation: Investigating the drivers of glacier retreat in West Antarctica using proxy-data assimilation and numerical modeling. 2023.

Jessica Badgeley, University of Washington, Ph.D. Dissertation: Quantifying Changes in Climate and Surface Elevation of Polar Ice Sheets During the Last Glacial-Interglacial Transition. 2022.

Emma Kahle, University of Washington, Ph.D. Dissertation: Climate reconstructions from ice cores: New techniques to understand the information preserved in the South Pole ice core. 2020.

Julia Kelson, University of Washington, Ph.D. Dissertation: Terrestrial Paleoclimate of the Cenozoic: Insights from and Developments of the Soil Carbonate Clumped Isotope Thermometer. 2019.
Michael Kipp, University of Washington, Ph.D. Dissertation: Co-evolution of Life and Environment across Earth History: Empirical & Modeling Constraints on Nutrient Cycling, the Rise of Oxygen, and Eukaryotic Evolution. 2019.

Landon Burgener, University of Washington, Ph.D. Dissertation: A Window into Terrestrial Paleoclimate: Soil Carbonate Formation Processes and Climate Proxy Applications. 2018.
Keith Hodson, University of Washington, Ph.D. Dissertation: Structural controls and diagenetic conditions associated with fluid migration on the Moab Fault, UT. 2018.
Matthew Koehler, University of Washington, Ph.D. Dissertation: The co-evolution of life and the nitrogen cycle on the early Earth. 2018.
John Robinson, University of Washington, M.S. Thesis: Climate driven changes in nitrate deposition and preservation over the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. 2018.

Brad Markle, University of Washington, Ph.D. Dissertation: Climate dynamics revealed in ice cores: advances in techniques, theory, and interpretation. 2017.
Qianjie Chen, University of Washington, Ph.D. Dissertation: Modeling and observational constraints on tropospheric sulfur-halogen interactions. 2017.

Christopher French, University of Washington, M.S. Dissertation: An isotopic analysis of geothermal brine and calcite scaling from the Blue Mountain geothermal field, Winnemucca, Nevada. 2016.

Kelly Hillbun, University of Washington, Ph.D. Dissertation: Re-Evaluating the Late Devonian Mass Extinction: A Geochemical Investigation of the Relationship between Carbon Isotope Fluctuations, Faunal Turnover, and Paleoenvironmental Change Recorded in Upper Devonian Carbonates of the Lennard Shelf, Western Australia. 2015.
Kristina Sumner, University of Washington, M.S. Dissertation: Assessing Fracture Connectivity using Stable and Clumped Isotope Geochemistry of Calcite Cements. 2015.
Maria Zatko, University of Washington, Ph.D. Dissertation: Snow nitrate photolysis in polar regions and the mid-latitudes: Impact on boundary layer chemistry and implications for ice core records. 2015.

Karl Lang, University of Washington, Ph.D. Dissertation: The persistence of rapid exhumation in the eastern Himalayan syntaxis. 2014.
Eva E. Stüeken, University of Washington, Ph.D. Dissertation: Early evolution of environments and metabolism: insights from nitrogen, selenium and sulfur isotopes. 2014.
Shane D. Schoepfer, University of Washington, Ph.D. Dissertation: Nutrients, Productivity, and Redox Conditions during Greenhouse Extinctions in the Panthalassic Ocean. 2014.
Spruce Schoenemann, University of Washington, Ph.D Dissertation: Fundamental controls on triple oxygen-isotope ratios in Antarctic precipitation and ice cores. 2014.
Thomas S. Tobin, University of Washington, Ph.D. Dissertation: Stable Isotopes in Unstable Times: A geochemical investigation of the end Cretaceous mass extinction. 2014.

Sarah C. Bergman, University of Washington, M.S. Thesis: Tracing paleofluid sources using clumped isotope thermometry of diagenetic cements along the Moab Fault, Utah. 2013.
Caroline Pew, University of Washington, M.S. Thesis: The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum in the Hanna Basin, WY: Constraints from organic carbon isotopes and palynological data. 2013.
Eric D. Sofen, University of Washington, Ph.D. Dissertation: Isotopic investigation of anthropogenic- and climate-driven changes in sulfate and nitrate aerosol production. 2013.

Peter D. Neff, University of Washington, M.S. Thesis: Ice-core net snow accumulation and seasonal snow chemistry at a temperate-glacier site: Mount Waddington, southwest British Columbia, Canada. 2012.
Nathan A Peters, University of Washington, M.S. Thesis: Hot or not? Impact of seasonally variable soil carbonate formation on paleotemperature and O-isotope records from clumped isotope thermometry. 2012.

Jelte Harnmeijer, University of Washington, Ph.D. Dissertation: Squeezing Blood From A Stone: Inferences Into The Life and Depositional Environments Of The Early Archaean. 2010.

Shelley A. Kunasek, University of Washington, Ph.D. Dissertation: Advances in reconstructing past atmospheric oxidation chemistry using the oxygen isotope composition of nitrate and sulfate in ice cores. 2009.
Daniel J. Allman, University of Washington, M.S. Thesis: Quantifying sulfate formation pathways downwind of the Sahara desert: Influence of dust aerosols on the marine boundary layer sulfur budget. 2009.

Joseph L. Flaherty, University of Washington, M.S. Thesis: Interannual variability of deuterium excess in Antarctic precipitation. 2008.
Julia C. Jarvis, University of Washington, Ph.D. Dissertation: Isotopic Studies of Ice Core Nitrate and Atmospheric Nitrogen Oxides in Polar Regions. 2008.
Lora S. Koenig, University of Washington, Ph.D. Dissertation: Firn properties relevant to passive microwave remote sensing, 2008.

Kenneth H. Williford, University of Washington, Ph.D. Dissertation: Biogeochemistry of the Triassic/Jurassic boundary. 2007.
Summer B. Rupper, University of Washington, Ph.D. Dissertation: Glacier Sensitivity and Regional Climate: Past and Present. 2007.

David P. Schneider, University of Washington, Ph.D. Dissertation: Antarctic climate of the past 200 years from an integration of instrumental, satellite, and ice core proxy data, 2005.

Summer Rupper, University of Washington, M.S. Thesis: On the relationship between snow accumulation at Mt. Logan, Yukon, and climate variability in the North Pacific, 2003.