Browse all UTIG graduate student Theses and Dissertations. Find our current cohort of students here: Current Students.

Fernando Apango Graduated 2019 fer.apango@utexas.edu Interests: seismic interpretation, well log analysis, oil and gas More Info	Joseph Arias Graduated 2020 josepharias4998@gmail.com Interests: paleoclimatology, paleoceanography, stable isotope geochemistry	Claudia Banks Graduated 2022 cbanks@utexas.edu Interests: sedimentology, basin analysis, geochronology, geochemistry	James Biemiller Graduated 2020 james.biemiller@utexas.edu Interests: tectonics, geodesy, geodynamic modeling More Info
Reetam Biswas Graduated 2019 reetam@ig.utexas.edu	Jake Burstein Graduated 2021 jtburstein@utexas.edu Interests: marine geology and geophysics, sonar-swath mapping, estuarine and barrier island stratigraphy, climate science More Info	Kristina Butler Graduated 2022 kristina.butler@utexas.edu Interests: tectonics, basin-evolution, depositional mechanics	Ricardo de Bragança Graduated 2021 braganca@utexas.edu
" Arnab Dhara Graduated 2023 adhara@utexas.edu Interests: reservoir characterization, inverse problems, machine learning"	Tiannong "Skyler" Dong Graduated 2020 dongt@utexas.edu Interests: gas hydrates, fluid flow and transport, thermodynamics More Info	Andrew Gase Graduated 2021 agase@ig.utexas.edu Interests: marine geology and geophysics, tectonics, crustal structure Office: 3.102J More Info	Sophie Goliber Graduated 2022 sgoliber@utexas.edu Interests: glaciology, remote sensing, digital image processing More Info
Brooklyn Gose Graduated 2020 brooklyn@ig.utexas.edu	Jennifer Harding Graduated 2019 jharding@utexas.edu Interests: seismology, tectonics, marine geophysics More Info	Erin Heilman Graduated 2023 erin.heilman@utexas.edu Interests: tectonics, geophysics, modeling More Info	Ryan Herring Graduated 2019 ryanjherring@utexas.edu Interests: morphodynamics, remote sensing, flume modeling, marine geophysics, planetary geology, spectral mineralogy, geomorphology, stratigraphy More Info
Lily J. Jackson Graduated 2019 lilyjackson@utexas.edu Interests: tectonics, sedimentology, geochronology More Info	Dominik Kardell Graduated 2020 dkardell@utexas.edu Interests: marine geophysics, tectonics, seismology More Info	Brooke Kopecky Graduated 2019 brooke.kopecky@utexas.edu Interests: paleoclimatology, paleoceanography, stable isotope geochemistry	Alexandra Lachner Graduated 2020 alachner@utexas.edu Interests: subduction tectonics, fault kinematics, geodynamics, dynamic topography, computational modeling
Allison Lawman Graduated 2020 alawman@ig.utexas.edu Interests: paleoclimatology, paleoceanography, stable isotope geochemistry More Info	Xin Liu lx2wqy@utexas.edu Interests: seismic imaging, seismic inversion More Info	Naoma McCall Graduated 2023 naoma@ig.utexas.edu Interests: planetary science, impact cratering, surface processes, tectonics	Caroline McKeighan caroline.mckeighan@utexas.edu
Kevin Meazell Graduated 2021 kmeazell@utexas.edu Interests: seismic interpretation, basin analysis, methane hydrates More Info	Russell Miller rcremeanm@utexas.edu Interests: geophysics, seismic stratigraphy, planetary geology, basin analysis More Info	Stefano Nerozzi Graduated 2019 stefano.nerozzi@utexas.edu Interests: planetary geology, radar, stratigraphy More Info	Kelly Olsen Graduated 2021 kolsen@utexas.edu Interests: seismology, convergent margins, tectonics, marine geophysics More Info
Son Phan Graduated 2021 sonpdt@gmail.com Interests: seismic quantitative methods for reservoir characterizations: inversion, wave propagation, rock physics modeling, anisotropy, uncertainty analysis	Simone Puel Graduated 2023 spuel@utexas.edu Interests: geophysics, geodynamics, seismology, earthquake modeling, numerical modeling and tectonics More Info	Sebastian Ramiro Ramirez Graduated 2022 sramiro@utexas.edu Interests: mudrocks, petrophysics, geomechanics, organic geochemistry More Info	Addison Savage addisonsavage@austin.utexas.edu
Solveig Schilling solveigs@utexas.edu Interests: marine geology, micropaleontology, paleoenvironmental reconstructions	Mohammad Afzal Shadab Graduated 2022 mashadab@utexas.edu Interests: fluid dynamics, numerical methods, hydrology, cryosphere, multiphase flow in porous media More Info	Brandon Shuck Graduated 2021 brandon.shuck@utexas.edu Interests: marine geophysics, seismology, tectonics More Info	Ben Stephens Graduated 2019 benstephens@utexas.edu Interests: Abrupt climate change, atmospheric dynamics, rainfall modeling
Tianyi Sun Graduated 2019 t.sun.monica@gmail.com Interests: air-sea interaction, climate dynamics, climate modeling More Info	John M. Swartz Graduated 2019 jmarshallswartz@utexas.edu Interests: marine geology and geophysics, sedimentary dynamics, coastal change More Info	Sabiha Tabassum sabihatabassum@utexas.edu	Gabriel Tagliaro Graduated 2020 gtagliaro@utexas.edu Interests: marine geology, seismic stratigraphy, sedimentary geology More Info
Jackson Tomski Graduated 2020 tomskija@utexas.edu	Xinyue (Dennis) Tong Graduated 2019 dennist@ig.utexas.edu Interests: numerical modeling, tectonic, fault zone precesses and dynamics across different time scales More Info	Abby Varona gabrielle.varona@utexas.edu Interests: sedimentology/stratigraphy, seismic/well log interpretation, methane hydrates More Info	Janaki Vamaraju Graduated 2019 vjanaki@utexas.edu Interests: seismic inversion More Info
Dimitri Voytan Graduated 2023 dvoytan@utexas.edu Interests: physics-constrained machine learning, inverse problems	Wanying Wang Graduated 2021 wanying@utexas.edu	Wei Wei Graduated 2021 wwei@utexas.edu Interests: ice-ocean interaction in Antarctica, airborne geophysics	David Wiggs Graduated 2021 david.wiggs@utexas.edu Interests: geomechanics, rock physics, seismic anisotropy, sedimentary geology More Info
Natalie Wolfenbarger Graduated 2022 nwolfenb@utexas.edu Interests: ice-penetrating radar, dielectric properties of saline ice, ice shelves as terrestrial analogs for icy ocean worlds, planetary habitability More Info	Xian Wu Graduated 2020 xianwu0403@utexas.edu Interests: ocean-atmosphere interactions, climate variability More Info