Recent Dissertations and Theses

2019

Stratified and Stirred: Monsoon Freshwater in the Bay of Bengal
Gualtiero Spiro Jaeger, Ph.D., 2019
Amala Mahadevan, Advisor

Protein regulation in Trichodesmium and other marine bacteria: Observational and interpretive biomarkers of biogeochemical processes
Noelle Held, Ph.D., 2019
Mak Saito, Advisor

New Insights into the Marine Oxygen Cycle from Manganese Oxide Minerals and Reactive Oxygen Species
Kevin Sutherland, Ph.D., 2019
Colleen Hansel, Co-Advisor
Scott Wankel, Co-Advisor

Dynamics and Kinematics of an Estuarine Network
William Bryce Corlett, Ph.D., 2019
W. Rockwell Geyer, Advisor

Storm Signatures in Coastal Ponds and Marshes Over the Late Holocene
Katherine Castagno, Ph.D.,2019
Jeffrey Donnelly, Advisor

A modeling study of the marine biogeochemistry, plankton dynamics, and carbon cycle on the continental shelf off the West Antarctic Peninsula

Cristina Schultz, Ph.D., 2019
Scott Doney, Co-advisor
David Nicholson, Co-advisor

Lagrangian Dispersion and Deformation in Submesoscale Flows

Sebastian Essink, Ph.D., 2019
Amala Mahadevan, Advisor

Geophysical and Geochemical Contraints on Submarine Volcanic Processes

Meghan Jones, Ph.D., 2019
S. Adam Soule, Advisor

Advancing the theory and applications of Lagrangian Coherent Structures methods for oceanic surface flows

Margaux Martin-Filippi, Sc.D., 2019
Irina Rypina, Co-advisor
Thomas Peacock, Co-advisor

The production and fate of nitrogen species in deep-sea hydrothermal environments

Chawalit 'Net' Charoenpong, Ph.D., 2019
Scott Wankel, Advisor

The mineralogy and chemistry of modern shallow-water and deep-sea corals

Gabriela Farfan, Ph.D., 2019
Colleen Hansel, Advisor

Characterizing Bacterial Antibiotic Resistance, Prevalence, and Persistence in the Marine Environment

Megan May, Ph.D., 2019
Rebecca Gast, Advisor

Computational Analysis of the Biophysical Controls on Southern Ocean Phytoplankton Ecosystem Dynamics

Tyler Rohr, Ph.D., 2019
Scott Doney, Advisor
David Nicholson, Advisor

Genetic Connectivity, Adaptation, and Phenotypic Plasticity of Corals and Anemones Under Thermal Stress

Hanny Rivera, Ph.D., 2019
Ann Tarrant, Advisor

Observing Microbial Processes at the Microscale with In Situ Technology

Bennett Lambert, Ph.D., 2019
Roman Stocker, Co-Advisor
Heidi Sosik, Co-Advisor

Distributional Models of Ocean Carbon Export

Cael Barry, Ph.D., 2019
Michael Follows, Advisor

2018

Genetic Connectivity, Adaptation, and Phenotypic Plasticity of Corals and Anemones Under Thermal Stress

Hanny Rivera, Ph.D., 2018
Ann Tarrant, Advisor

Carbon Transformations in Seafloor Serpentinization Systems

Niya Grozeva, Ph.D., 2018
Frieder Klein, Co-Advisor
Jeffrey Seewald, Co-Advisor

2017

Influence of Meltwater on Greenland Ice Sheet Dynamics

Laura Stevens, Ph.D., 2017
Sarah Das, Advisor

Geophysical and Petrological Constraints on Ocean Plate Dynamics

Emily Sarafian, Ph.D., 2017
Rob Evans, Co-Advisor
Glenn Gaetanni, Co-Advisor

Coral Biomineralization, Climate Proxies and the Sensitivity of Coral Reefs to CO2-Driven Climate Change

Thomas DeCarlo, Ph.D., 2017
Anne Cohen, Advisor

Insight into Chemical, Biological, and Physical Processes in Coastal Waters from Dissolved Oxygen and Inert Gas Tracers

Cara Manning, Ph.D., 2017
David Nicholson, Co-Advisor
Rachel Stanley, Co-Advisor

Ecosystem Metabolism in Salt Marsh Tidal Creeks and Ponds: Applying Triple Oxygen Isotopes and Other Gas Tracers to Novel Environments

Evan Howard, Ph.D., 2017
Rachel Stanley, Co-Advisor
Scott Wankel, Co-Advisor

Field Observations and Numerical Model Simulations of a Migrating Inlet Syste

Julia Hopkins, Ph.D., 2017
Steve Elgar, Advisor

Pteropod Shell Condition, Locomotion, and Long-term Population Trends in the Context of Ocean Acidification and Environmental Change

Alexander Bergan, Ph.D., 2017
Gareth Lawson, Advisor

Coral Reef Soundscapes: Spatiotemporal Variability and Links to Species Assemblages

Maxwell Kaplan, Ph.D., 2017
Aran Mooney, Advisor

2016

A Scientific Framework for Evaluating Coral Reef Resilience to Climate Change

Hannah Barkley, Ph.D., 2016
Anne Cohen, Advisor

Little Ice Age Climate in the Western Tropical Atlantic Inferred from Coral Geochemical Proxies

Alice Alpert, Ph.D., 2016
Delia Oppo, Co-advisor
Anne Cohen, Co-advisor

Inferring Ocean Circulation During the Last Glacial Maximum and Last Deglaciation Using Data and Models

Daniel Amrhein, Ph.D., 2016
Carl Wunsch, Advisor

Late Quaternary Climate Variability and Terrestrial Carbon Cycling in Tropical South America

Kyrstin Fornace, Ph.D., 2016
Valier Galy, Co-Advisor
Konrad Hughen, Co-Advisor

Seasonal and Interannual Variability in the Hydrology and Geochemistry of an Outlet Glacier of the Greenland Ice Sheet

Benjamin Linhoff, Ph.D., 2016
Matthew Charette, Advisor

2015

Geochemistry of Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vent Fluids from the Mid-Cayman Rise, Caribbean Sea

Jill Marie McDermott, Ph.D., 2015
Jeffrey Seewald, Co-advisor
Christopher German, Co-advisor

Physical Control of the Distributions of a Key Arctic Copepod in the Northeast Chukchi Sea

Stephen Elliott, S.M., 2015
Carin Ashjian, Advisor

Investigating the Evolution and Formation of Coastlines and the Response to Sea-Level Rise

Alejandra Ortiz, Ph.D., 2015
Andrew Ashton, Advisor

Mechanical and Geological Controls on the Long-Term Evolution of Normal Faults

Jean-Arthur Olive, Ph.D., 2015
Mark Behn, Advisor

Exploring the Climate Change Refugia Potential of Equatorial Pacific Coral Reefs

Elizabeth Joan Drenkard, Ph.D., 2015
Anne Cohen, Co-advisor
Daniel McCorkle, Co-advisor
Kristopher Karnauskas, Co-advisor

Lithospheric Dynamics of Earth's Subduction Zones and Martian Tectonic Provinces

Min Ding, Ph.D., 2015
Jian Lin, Advisor

Strong Wind Events Across Greenland's Coast and their Influences on the Ice Sheet, Sea Ice, and Ocean

Marilena Oltmanns, Ph.D., 2015
Fiamma Straneo, Advisor

2014

Investigating the Role of Trichodesmium spp. in the Oceanic Nitrogen Cycle Through Observations and Models

Elise Olson, Ph.D., 2014
Dennis McGillicuddy, Advisor

Quaternary Morphology and Paleoenvironmental Records of Carbonate Islands

Michael Toomey, Ph.D., 2014
Jeffrey Donnelly, Advisor

Amundsen Sea Sea-Ice Variability, Atmospheric Circulation, and Spatial Variations in Snow Isotopic Composition from New West Antarctic Firn Cores

Alison Criscitiello, Ph.D., 2014
Sarah Das, Advisor