Michael Frothingham (PhD, 2018-present) – Linking lithology, structure, and rockproperties to observed seismic anisotropy in Colorado Rocky Mountain crust
Phil Orlandini (PhD May 2019) – Evidence for deep crustal seismic rupture preserved in a granulite-facies intraplate strike-slip shear zone, northern Saskatchewan, Canada
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
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
