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Current Students

    

Claudia Banks
cbanks@utexas.edu
Interests: sedimentology, basin analysis, geochronology, geochemistry
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Jake Burstein
jtburstein@utexas.edu
Interests: marine geology and geophysics, sonar-swath mapping, estuarine and barrier island stratigraphy, climate science
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Kristina Butler
kristina.butler@utexas.edu
Interests: tectonics, basin-evolution, depositional mechanics
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Evan Carnahan
evan.carnahan@utexas.edu
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Kristian Chan
kristian.chan@utexas.edu
Interests: radar, brine mobilization, Europa

Edward Clennett
edward.clennett@utexas.edu
Interests: plate tectonics, geodynamics, seismology, structural geology, palaeomagnetism
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Ethan Conrad
econrad@utexas.edu
Interests: structural geology, tectonics, analog modeling, rock friction
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Ricardo de Bragança
braganca@utexas.edu

Cameron deFabry
cdefabry@utexas.edu
Interests: seismic imaging, seismic inversion, machine learning
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Arnab Dhara
adhara@utexas.edu
Interests: reservoir characterization, inverse problems, machine learning
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Rob Domeyko
rdomeyko@utexas.edu
Interests: paleoclimatology, paleoceanography, carbon cycle, orbital cyclicity
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Josh Edgington
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Tanner Eischen
tannereischen@utmail.utexas.edu
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Andrew Gase
agase@ig.utexas.edu
Interests: marine geology and geophysics, tectonics, crustal structure
Office: 3.102J
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Sophie Goliber
sgoliber@utexas.edu
Interests: glaciology, remote sensing, digital image processing
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Juan Gutierrez
jgutierrez@utexas.edu
Interests: basin analysis, structural modeling, provenance determination
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Erin Heilman
erin.heilman@utexas.edu
Interests: tectonics, geophysics, modeling
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Eric Hiatt
Teaching Assistant
eric.hiatt@utexas.edu
Interests: planetary surface processes, post-impact hydrothermal systems, hydrology, habitability
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Estefania Salgado Jauregui
esalgadoj@utexas.edu
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Alexandra Lachner
alachner@utexas.edu
Interests: subduction tectonics, fault kinematics, geodynamics, dynamic topography, computational modeling
Xin Liu
Xin Liu
Teaching Assistant
lx2wqy@utexas.edu
Interests: seismic imaging, seismic inversion
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Landon Lockhart
Teaching Assistant
landon.lockhart@utexas.edu
Interests: petrophysics, geophysics, geology
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Joshua Malone
joshua.malone@utexas.edu
Interests: structural geology, sedimentology, stratigraphy, geochronology
Office: EPS 3.110
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Naoma McCall
naoma@ig.utexas.edu
Interests: planetary science, impact cratering, surface processes, tectonics
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Kevin Meazell
kmeazell@utexas.edu
Interests: seismic interpretation, basin analysis, methane hydrates
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Carson Miller
carsonm@austin.utexas.edu
Interests: marine geology and geophysics, coastal processes, barrier island and estuarine evolution
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Peter Miller
pkmiller1@utexas.edu

Russell Miller
rcremeanm@utexas.edu geophysics, seismic stratigraphy, planetary geology, basin analysis
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Nicholas Montiel
Teaching Assistant
nmontiel@email.arizona.edu
Interests: geophysics of extensional systems, structural geology, carbon geochemistry, global climate
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Zachary Murphy
zmurphy@utexas.edu
Interests: fluid flow, methane hydrates, petrophysics
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Kelly Olsen
kolsen@utexas.edu
Interests: seismology, convergent margins, tectonics, marine geophysics
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Son Phan
sonpdt@gmail.com
Interests: seismic quantitative methods for reservoir characterizations: inversion, wave propagation, rock physics modeling, anisotropy, uncertainty analysis
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Simone Puel
Teaching Assistant
spuel@utexas.edu
Interests:
geophysics, geodynamics, seismology, earthquake modeling, numerical modeling and tectonics
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Sebastian Ramiro Ramirez
sramiro@utexas.edu
Interests: mudrocks, petrophysics, geomechanics, organic geochemistry
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Catherine Ross
Teaching Assistant
catherine.ross@utexas.edu
Office: 3.104
Interests: shock metamorphism, geo/thermochronology, microstructural analysis, geochemistry, impact craters, earthquakes
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Solveig Schilling
solveigs@utexas.edu
Interests: marine geology, micropaleontology, paleoenvironmental reconstructions
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Brandon Shuck
brandon.shuck@utexas.edu
Interests: marine geophysics, seismology, tectonics
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Patty Standring
patty.standring@utexas.edu
Interests: marine geology, paleoceanography, foraminifera
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Abby Varona
gabrielle.varona@utexas.edu
Interests: sedimentology/stratigraphy, seismic/well log interpretation, methane hydrates
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Dimitri Voytan
Teaching Assistant
dvoytan@utexas.edu
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Will Waltrip
will.waltrip@utexas.edu
Interests: petroleum geology, seismic interpretation, reservoir characterization
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Wanying Wang
wanying@utexas.edu
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Wei Wei
wwei@utexas.edu
Interests: ice-ocean interaction in Antarctica, airborne geophysics
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David Wiggs
Teaching Assistant
david.wiggs@utexas.edu
Interests: geomechanics, rock physics, seismic anisotropy, sedimentary geology
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Natalie Wolfenbarger
nwolfenb@utexas.edu
Interests: ice-penetrating radar, dielectric properties of saline ice, ice shelves as terrestrial analogs for icy ocean worlds, planetary habitability
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Shuai Yan
shuaiy@utexas.edu
Interests: subglacial hydrology and geology, airborne geophysics survey, polar ice sheet dynamics
Office: 2.244

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