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Geosciences Thesis & Dissertation List

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Present-2000   1999-1990   1989-1980   1979-1970
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2000 - Present

NAME

DEGREE

GRADUATION

ADVISOR

Olufemi Akanbi MS Geophysics May 2007 Hilterman
Post Stack Seismic Amplitudes in the Deep-Water Gulf of Mexico

Saleh Al-Dossary PhD Geophysics Spring 2004 Marfurt
Multi-Trace Seismic Attributes For Fracture Detection

Hector Alfonso MS Geophysics Fall 2000 Zhou
Seismic Imaging And Analysis Over Colombian Foothills

Halit Alhan MS Geophysics Fall 2002 Zhou
Evaluation Of Extrapolation By Deterministic Deconvolution

Mohammed Al-Otaibi PhD Geophysics Spring 2002 Zhou
Thin-Bed Amplitude-Versus Offset

Khalid Al-Rufaii PhD Geophysics Spring 2002 Zhou
Seismic Tomography In Areas Associated With Complex Near-Surface Structure

Christopher Angel PhD Geology Spring 2004 Dupre
Depositional Environments And Geotechnical Properties Of The Beaumont Formation Brazoria County, Texas

Jonathan Baker MS Geology Fall 2005 Evans
Geologic & Geochemical Controls On The Generation & Accumulation Of Coalbed Methane In Southeastern Sandwash Basin, Colorado

Tathagata Banga MS Geology Spring 2003 Capuano
Tracing Salt Dissolution Fluid Sources & Mixing In The Vicinity Of The South Liberty Salt Dome In South East Texas Gulf Coast

Mary Sue Bell PhD Geology Summer 2008 Snow
Shock Metamorphism of Carbonates

Luis Bernardo MS Fall 2002 Evans
Petroleum Systems Analysis Of The Orinolo Platform, Offshore Eastern Venezuela

Dale Bird PhD Spring 2004 Hall
Jurassic Tectonics Of The Gulf Of Mexico And Central Atlantic Ocean

Thomas Bjorklund PhD Geology Spring 2002 Burke
Evolution Of The Whitlier Fold-Fault System Of The Northeastern Los Angeles Basin, California

Sushanta Bose PhD Geology Summer 2008 Chafetz
Microbially Induced Sedimentary Structures (Miss) in Siliciclastic Sediments

Kegan Boyer PhD Geology Fall 2005 Casey
Geochemistry Of Basalts, Gabbros And Ultramaticrocks From 14n To 16n, Mid-Atlantic Ridge

Neda Bundalo PhD Geophysics Summer 2007 Hall
Integrated Geophysical Studies of Continental Transforms: San Andreas and Alpine Faults

Paul Burgess BS Geology Summer 2004 Murphy
Geometry And Kinematics Of Recent Deformation Of The Himalayan Winter Land, Southwest Tibet & Northwest Nepal

Mary Canino MS Geology Spring 2007 Copeland
A Field Diffusion Study of Helium In Calcite Using the (U+Th)/He Dating Method For Low Temperature Thermochronology

Martin Cassidy PhD Geology Fall 2005 Lawrence
Occurrence And Origin Of Free Carbon Dioxide Gas Deposits In The Earth's Continental Crust

Arindam Chakraborty MS Geology Summer 2007 Casey
14c Dating of the Chicot Aquifer Water, Texas Gulf Coast Evaluation of A 8-13c Correction For Carbon Sources Other Than From Calcite Reactions

Timothy Ray Chapman MS Geophysics Spring 2007 Hilterman
Geophysical Formation Analysis From Modem Borehole Measurements, Frio Formation, Gulf of Mexico

Ching-Wen Chen MS Geophysics Fall 2007 Zhou
Analyzing the Resolvability of Crustal Velocity Anomalies Beneath Tibet

Mingya Chen MS Geophysics Spring 2007 Hilterman
Fracture Imaging and Anisotropy Characterization With Physical Modeling Data

Fang-Yi Cheng MS Geophysics Summer 2003 Byun
A Study Of Meteorological Conditions Causing High Ozone Episodes In The Houston-Galveston Area With Land Surface Modeling

Leslie Cirilo MS Geology Fall 2002 Chafetz
Transgressive Estvarine Fill Of An Incised Paleovalley, Upper Mississippian Chesterian Series, Shuck Field Area, Seward City

Craig Clements PhD Geoph/Atmo Sci Spring 2007 Zhong
Experimental Studies of Fire-Atmospheric Intrations During Grass Fires

Violeta Coarfa PhD Geophysics Spring 2007 Byun
Air Quality Modeling of Selected Aromatic and Non-Aromatic Air Toxics In the Houston Urban and Industrial Airshed

Katrina Cox MS Geology Summer 2007 Copeland
Calcite Fossils As U/He Thermochronometers

Milos Cvetkovic MS Geophysics Fall 2007 Zhou
Some Applications of Wavelet Transform In Seismic Data Processing

Beata H. Czader PhD Geophysics Summer 2007 Byun
Study of the Impact of Vocs On Ozone Formation Inder Houston-Galvestion Atmospheric Conditions

Claudio D'agosto MS Geophysics Summer 2003 Marfurt
Birefringence Analysis At Borburata Field For Fracture Characterization

Marija Djordjevic MS Geophysics Fall 2005 Marfurt
Sensitivity Of Imaging To Seismic Anisotropy Mayamar Vacuum Field, NM

Diana Dragoi-Stavar PhD Geophysics Summer 2007 Hall
Integrated Geophysical Study of Th Conjugate Passive Margins of South West Africa & South America

Warren Duncan PhD Geophysics Spring 2005 Zhou
A Deterministric Evaluation Of Seismic Fideldy Velocity Analysis To Improve Surface Seismic Imaging Around Vinton Dome, LA

Vsevolod Egorov PhD Geophysics Spring 2004  
Bathymetry Gravity And Magnetic Data Study Between 14 And 16n Mid-Altlantic Ridge Evidence For Large Scale Mechan Extens

Richard Engelkemeir PhD Geology Spring 2008 Khan
Evaluating Houston Area Neotectonics Using Gis and Remote Sensing Techniques

Rajendra Prasad Eti MS Geophysics Spring 2004 Hall
An Integrated Geophysical Study Of The Vinton Salt Dome Calcasieu Parish LA

Scott Falconer MS Geophysics Spring 2008 Khan
Attribute-Driven Suppression of Footprint

Joel Anthony Famini MS Geophysics Fall 2005 Marfurt
Effect Of Boutique Processing On Geometric Attributes: A Permian Basin Case Study

James H. Flynn III MS Atmospheric Science Summer 2008 Lefer
Impacts of Clouds and Aerosols on Ozone Photochemistry in Southwest Texas

Michael Frismanis MS Geophysics Summer 2007 Zhou
Numerical Simulation As A Tool For Assistance In Analysis of Offshore Brazil Salt Proxmity Data

Dongjun Fu MS Geophysics Fall 2004 Marfurt
Rock Properties & Seismic Attributes Analysis Of Hert Reservoirs In The Devonian Thirtyone Formation, West Texas

Gorka Garcia MS Geophysics Fall 2005 Li
Feasibility Of Using Marine Transient Electromagnetic For Hydrocarbon Applications

Mariana Gherasim PhD Geophysics Summer 2005 Marfurt
3-D Vsp Elastic Kirchhoff Pre-Stack Depth Migration Vinton Dome LA

Byron Golden MS Geophysics Summer 2007 Marfurt
Geometric Attribute Analysis On A Physical Model of Horizontal Transverse Isotrpy

Ivan G. Gomez MS Geology Spring 2001 Burke
Structural Style & Evolution Of The Cuisa Fault System, Guajira, Colombia

Patricia Gonzales MS Geology Summer 2002 Sheriff
Applying Seismic Facies Recognition Technology & Attribute Analysis To The Forbes Formation, Grimes Field, California

Jana Gray MS Geology Summer 2007 Khan
Establishing the Temporal and Compositional Relationships Among Lava Flows of Craters of the Moon National Monu, Idaho

Sean A. Guidry PhD Geology Fall 2001 Chafetz
Depositional And Diagenetic Facies In Siliceous Hotsprings: Examples From Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, U.S.A.

Hao Guo MS Geology Fall 2004 Capuano
Geochemical Investigation Of The Origin Of Frio-Reservoired Oils From Southeast Texas Basin

Hao Guo PhD Geology Fall 2007 Marfurt
Methods To Improve Computer-Assisted Seismic Interpretation Using Seismic Attributes

Zhiqiang Guo PhD Geophysics Fall 2004 Weglein
Single Streamer Wavelet Estimation:Extending Extinction Theorem Concepts Toward A Practical Solution

Zhiqiang Guo PhD Geology Fall 2000 Casey
The Geochemical Structure Of The Mid-Atlantic Ridge Axis

Ahmed M. Hakami MS Geology Fall 2004 Evans
Petroleum System Analysis Of The Triassic Sequence Of The Central And Eastern Saudi Arabia

Christian Harding PhD Geology Spring 2001 Casey
Multi-Sensory Investigation Og Geoscientific Data: Adding Touch And Sound To 3d Visualization And Modeling

Douglas Hinkle MS Geology Summer 2007 Dupre
Delineating Channel Migration Zones Along the Trinity River Liberty County Texas

Jian Huang MS Geology Fall 2007 Casey
Whole Rock Trace Element Geochemistry of Metamorphic Site

Kiseong Hyeong PhD Geology Summer 2000 Capuano
Evidence Of Fluid Expulsion From The Geopressured Sediment

Burcin Inanli MS Geophysics Fall 2002 Marfurt
Impacts Of Acquisition Footprint On Seismic Attribute Analysis

Katarina Jovanovic MS Geophysics Fall 2004 Marfurt
P And Sv Polarization Filtering Of A Multicomponent Vector Vsp

Taehyeong Lee MS Geophysics Spring 2007 Zhou
An Analysis of Hydrocarbon Potential of the Ulleung Basin In the Korenan Continental Margins

Sean Lewis MS Geology Summer 2007 Marfurt
Attribute Aided Interpretation of Common Angle Volumes

Li Li PhD Geophysics Summer 2007 Zhou
Mapping P-Wave Crustal Structure Using Deformable Layer Tomiography In Southern California

Srinivasa Pradad Jyosyula MS Geophysics Fall 2003 Marfurt
Azimuthally Dependent Seismic Attribute Analysis

Srinivasa Pradad Jyosyula MS Geophysics Fall 2003 Marfurt
Azimuthally Dependent Seismic Attribute Analysis

John J. Kimbro MS Geophysics Fall 2003 Zhou
A Case Study On 3d Pre-Stark Depth Imaging For The Vinton Dome

Sangmyung D. Kim MS Summer 2000 Zhou
P-And S-Wave Velocity Structures Of The Sigsbee Abyssal Plain Of The Gulf Of Mexico From Ocean Bottom Seismometer Data

Sonja Kisin MS Geophysics Summer 2003 Zhou
Tomographic Velocity Model Building: Application To Vintone Dome Vsp Data

Ivana Lazarevic MS Geophysics Fall 2004 Marfurt
The Impact Of Kirchhoff And Wave Equation Migration On Lateral Resolution

Qingliang Lin MS Geophysics Summer 2003 Zhou
A Study Of Loong Offset Seismic Imaging With An Upgraded Physical Modeling System

Ronald Mart MS Geology Spring 2007 Khan
North American Alkaline Rock and Carbonatite Distribution and Their Relationship To Rifts and Suture Zones

Gary Stuart Martin MS Geophysics Spring 2004 Marfurt
The Marmousiz Model Elastic Synthetic Data And An Analysis Of Imaging And Avo In A Structurally Complex Environment

Alexandru Maxiimciuc MS Geology Spring 2005 Copeland
The Magmatic Evolution Of M-Series And C-Series Basalts Within The Context Of The Grenadines Islands-Southern Lesser Antilles

Fong Ngan PhD Geophysics Spring 2008 Byun
Classification of Weather Patterns and Improvement of Meteorological Inputs For Texas-Ii Air Quality Simulations

William J. O'hara MS Geophysics Fall 2003 Reid
Drainage Analysis Of Noachian Martian Valley Networks

Jose Omana MS Geophysics Spring 2007 Zhou
Tti Anistropic Velocity Model Building For Cusinan-Cupiagua Sur Using Well Tomography

Oluwayomi Oyedele MS Geology Summer 2005 Dupre
3-D High Resolution Seismic Imaging Of Middle-Late Quate Depostional Systems

Monica Patel MS Atmospheric Science Spring 2008  
A Case Study on the Local Wind Circulation and its Role on Ozone Concentrations in the Houston Area

Gabriel Perez PhD Geophysics Spring 2007 Marfurt
Methods To Improve the Quality and Resolution of Prestack Migrated Seismic Images

Ryan Perna MS Geophysics Spring 2007 Rappenglueck
An Insight Into the Vertical Structure of the Atmosphere During Texaqs Ii

Patricia Pstoun-Gonzales MS Geophysics Fall 2002 Sheriff
Applying Sesimic Facies Recognition Technology (Neural Networks) & Attribute Analysis To The Forbes Formation

Dmitri Pistoun PhD Geophysics Fall 2003 Casey
Understanding The Emplacement And Exposure Of Ultramafic Complexes Along One Mid-Atlantic Ridge Between 20n&24n

Nebojsa Pralica MS Geophysics Fall 2005 Zhou
A Revisit Of Near Surface Static Corrections With Deformable Layer Tomography

Sonya Punch MS Geology Spring 2004 Dupre
Provenance And Depositional Environment Of Eocene Rocks In Trinidad And Barbados

Andrea Quintanilla MS Geology Spring 2005 Casey
Geochemical Analysis Of Siliciclastics Across The Iberian Continental Margin

David Rajmon PhD Geology Summer 2003 Reid
Aspects Of Meteorite Impact Petrogenesis Of Breccias, Stratigraphic Record Of Impact, Impact Crates As Probes Of Planetary Crusts

Douglas Reid PhD Geology Spring 2003 Casey
Major Trace & Rare Earth Whole Rock Geochemical Analyses Of The Early To Middle Paleozoic Strata Of The Ouachita Orogenic Belt

Veronica Sanchez MS Geology Fall 2007 Murphy
Structural Evolution of the Neogene Gar Basin Western Tibet: Implications For Bend Development and Drainage Patterns

Constantin Sandu MS Geology Summer 2003 Evans
Time/Temperature Constraints On The Generation Of Biogenic Methane Gas In Natural Gas

Simon Shaw PhD Geophysics Spring 2005 Weglein
An Inverse Scattering Series Algorithum For Depth Imaging Of Reflection Data Froma Layered Acoustic Medium With An Unknown Velocity Model

Yves Simon MS Geophysics Fall 2005 Marfurt
Stress And Fracture Characterization N A Shale Reservoir, North Texas

Rachel Sissenwein MS Geology Fall 2005 Reid
Nature Of The Spinel Phase In Ordinary Chondrites

Connie Vanschuyver MS Geophysics Spring 2004 Marfurt
3d Refraction Migration For Depth Imaging Of West Africa Salt Walls

Jerry Howard Wagstaff MS Geology Spring 2005 Reid
Electronic Detection Of Crystallization In The System 2feo-Sio2-Feo

Ricko Wardhana MS Geophysics Summer 2001 Marfurt
Analysis Of Time-Lapse Seismic Technology Using A Physical Model Of A Porous Channel Sand

Yongqiang Wu PhD Geology Spring 2001 Chafetz
Petrography, Geochemistry And Diagenesis Of The Mississippian Caronate Mud-Mounds Limestones From The Alamogordo

Yaoyang Yan MS Geology Spring 2001 Casey
Morpho-Tectonics And Geochemistry Characteristics Of Siqueiros Transform East Pacific Rise

Lili Yu MS Geology Summer 2005 Casey
Spectral And Lithologic Mapping Of Bay Of Islands Ophiolite Complex Using Landat Etm+ And Sir-C Data Newfoundland Canada

Kamran Zahid MS Geophysics Fall 2007 Casey
Detachment and the Extent of Shortening Across the Panas Basin, Coahuila, Mexico

Alexandre Zamorouev MS Geophysics Spring 2001 Zhou
Auto Picking Of Seismic Reflections

Pedram Zarian MS Geology Spring 2003 Casey
Integration Of Borehole Imaging And Microstructural Analyses Of Plutonic Rocks From Hole 1105a, Odp Leg 179 SW Indian Ridge

Bo Zhao PhD Geophysics Spring 2007 Zhou
Seismic Discrimination of Hydrocarbon Reservoirs Using Vector Machine and Spectral Decomposition

Yong Zhou PhD Geology Fall 2005 Casey
Structural Evolution Of The Sierra Madre Oriental Fold-Thrust Belt, East Cental Mexico