Liannie Valasquez Santana, PhD Miami Univ.-Ohio 2023 (2024-present), Petrological &Geochemical Investigations into Island Arc Magmatism
Catherine Ross, PhD UT-Austin 2022 (2024-2025), Using in situ He mapping to explore howcrystal defects affect He distribution in zircon and implications for (U-Th)/He thermochronology, Lead advisor: Becky Flowers
William Shinevar, PhD WHOI 2021 (2024) Numerical modeling of deep crustal shear zoneRheology, Lead advisor: Vera Schulte-Pelkum
Ellen Alexander, PhD UCLA 2019 (2020-2022) Quantifying crustal hydration effects in theColorado Plateau from xenoliths
Graduate students
Jacob Sims (PhD 2023-present) Evaluating crustal hydration as a surface uplift mechanism for theColorado Plateau from xenolith and seismic studies
Tyler Wickland (PhD 2020-present) Plumbing the depths of the Colorado Plateau crust using maficxenoliths hosted in shallow intrusions, southeastern Utah, USA
Corey Flynn (PhD 2023-present) Rheologic Heterogeneity as a Stress Riser Leading to Episodic Seismicity in the Lower Crust
Michael Frothingham (PhD 2023) – Crystal to Crustal Scale Seismic Anisotropy: Implications forContinental Tectonism
Phil Orlandini (PhD 2019) – Origin and characteristics of fault-related pseudotachylyte in a high-pressure granulite-facies shear zone, western Canadian shield
Cailey Condit (PhD May 2017) – Exhumation of lower crust in southwestern Montana
Lesley Butcher (MSc Aug 2013) – Re-thinking the Laramide: Investigating the role of fluids in producing surface uplift using xenolith mineralogy and geochronology
Shannon Leslie (MSc Spr 2012) – Contrasts in sillimanite deformation in felsic tectonites from anhydrous granulite- and hydrous amphibolite-facies shear zones, western Canadian shield
Dustin Ward (MSc Dec 2011) – The relative influence of quartz and mica on crustal seismic anisotropy
Katy Barnhart (MSc Spr 2010) – Deep crustal xenoliths from the Great Falls Tectonic Zone, Montana: Investigating the timing and mechanisms of high-velocity lower crust formation
Undergraduate Students
Emma Marble, Undergrad Research (2025-present), Stress estimates in a lower crustal, pseudotachylyte bearing shear zone using dynamically recrystallized quartz and plagioclase paleo-piezometry
Soren Rollin, Undergrad Research (2025-present), Hydrothermal vein formation in Boulder Creekgranodiorite near the Great Unconformity, Boulder County, CO
Lark Jones, Undergrad Honors research (2024-present), The potential for pre-Laramide inheritance in the Livingston fault, Boulder County, CO
Julia Patacsil, Undergraduate Research (2024-2025), Investigating the Formation of MagmaticSystems in Puerto Rico
Holly McCrory, Undergraduate Research (2024-2025), Deep Crustal Study of StrengthProperties and Deformation History of the Colorado Plateau
Christina Lipper, Undergraduate Research (2023-2024), Micro-CT analysis of naturally andexperimentally deformed fault-related pseudotachylyte
Breno Araujo-Goldenberg, Undergraduate Research (2022), Origin of xenoliths inOligocene granitoids from the Henry Mountains, Utah
Christina Lipper, Undergraduate Research (2022-2023), Origin of xenoliths in Oligocenegranitoids from south-central Colorado
Shea Burnham, Undergraduate research, Honors student (2021) REE mineralization in Paleoproterozoic rocks near Jamestown, Colorado
Zulliet Gomez (2020 Undergraduate RESESS summer intern from SUNY-Oneonta) Newly digitized structural data from the southern Appalachians and comparisons to subsurface anisotropy from seismic stations
Makayla Mather (2020 Undergraduate RESESS summer intern from the University of North Dakota) Mapping the deformation patterns of the Greenville 1×2 degree quadrangle in the southern Appalachians surface in comparison to seismic anisotropy
Keneni Godana (2020, Undergraduate RESESS summer intern from the University of Chicago) Usingmonazite geochronology to constrain timing of deformation within the Hell Roaring Creek shear zone, SW Montana
Jae Bridges (2020 Undergraduate RESESS summer intern from Oregon State University) A petrochronological comparison of Neoarchean-Paleoproterozoic monazite from southwestern Montana
Corey Flynn (2018) – Contiguity of an exhumed orogenic crustal cross-sectionfrom monazite geochronology in high-grade quartzites in the Northern Madison Range, southwest Montana, USA
Jordan Wachholtz (2018, RESESS summer undergrad intern) – A voyage into central Colorado crust: Linking seismic anisotropy and surface geology
Kelly Curtis (Honors thesis, 2018) – Mineralogical investigations into synkinematic metasomatic alteration of granitoid rocks, southwestern Montana
Anissha Raju (Honors thesis, 2017) – Characterization of Elastic Tensors of Crustal Rocks with respect to Seismic Anisotropy
Kelly Brenner (2016) – Evolving microstructures associated with deep-crustal pseudotachylyte, western Canadian Shield
Corey Jarrett (2015) – Ultramafic tectonites in the northern Madison Range, southwest Montana
Diann Rattanasith (2014, RESESS summer intern) – Monazite occurrence and textures in the Big Thompson metamorphic suite, Front Range, Colorado
Chris Blade (2014) – Finite strain analysis across the margin of a kilometer-scale mid-crustal shear zone, southwest Montana
Diann Rattanasith (2013, RESESS summer intern) – Textural evolution and seismic anisotropy development: Example from sheared metagabbro, Gallatin Canyon, southwest Montana
Ann Leite (2012, Brazilian exchange student) – Kinematics of pseudotachylyte generation in a deep-crustal shear zone, northern Saskatchewan, Canada
Mario Guzman (2012) – Granulite-amphibolite transition during synkinematic hydrous retrogression of the Mary granite, Athabasca Granulite Terrane, northern Saskachtewan, Canada
Andrew Parker (2011) – Deformation fabric and petrologic contrasts across the Cheyenne Belt, Wyoming
Sophie Koprwoski (2010, English exchange student) – Alumino-silicate polymorph stability across the northern Madison Range, Montana
Kevin H. Mahan 