PhD Dissertations completed in the Geological Sciences Program, University at Albany

Listing is by year of completion; each entry is a link to the abstract.
Details of any individual's subsequent employment may well be missing, incorrect, or incomplete. Corrections are welcome - send them here, please

Nesbit, B. 1976
Structural studies in the northern Chester Dome of East-Central Vermont
  77-82 Exploration Geologist, AMOCO Minerals, Sydney;
  83-2006 Consulting Geologist (his own company); died 6 May 2006

Shibata, T. 1976
Petrology of the Oceanographer Fracture Zone (35ºN 35ºW)
  77-present Lecturer, then Professor, Okayama University, Japan

Karson, J.A. 1977
Geology of the Northern Lewis Hills, Western Newfoundland
  78-85 Assistant, then Associate Scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute;
  85-06 Associate Professor, then Professor, Duke University
  06-     Professor, Syracuse University

Gregg, W.J. 1979
The development of foliations in low, medium and high grade Metamorphic Tectonites
  80-present, Assistant, then Associate Professor, Michigan Technological Univ, Houghton,MI

Nelson, K.D. 1979
Geology of the Badger Bay-Seal Bay Area, North-Central Newfoundland
  80-81 post-doc Univ of Dunedin, New Zealand;
  82-91 Research Scientist, then Senior Research Scientist, Cornell University;
  91-02 Associate Professor, then Professor (also Chairman), Syracuse University
  died 17th August 2002

Bosworth, W.P. 1980
Structural geology of the Fort Miller, Schuylerville and portions of the Schaghticoke 7 1/2' quadrangles, eastern New York, and its implications in Taconic geology; and experimental and theoretical studies of solution transfer in deforming heterogeneous systems
  80-84 Assistant Professor,  Colgate University, Hamilton, NY;
  84-present Marathon Oil Co, Denver (Chief Geologist, Cairo; currently based in Houston)

Casey, J.F. 1980
The Geology of the Southern Part of the North Arm Mountain Massif, Bay of Islands Ophiolite Complex, Western Newfoundland with Application to Ophiolite Obduction and the Genesis of the Plutonic Portions of Oceanic Crust and Upper Mantle
  80-present Assistant, then Associate, then Professor (also Chairman), University of Houston

Rosencrantz, E.J. 1980
The Geology of the Northern Part of North Arm Massif, Bay of Islands Ophiolite Complex, Newfoundland: With Application to Upper Oceanic Crust Lithology Structure, and Genesis
  81-~95 Research Scientist, Univ of Texas, Austin;

Thiessen, R. 1980
Theoretical and computer assisted studies in tectonics, structural geology and isotope dating
  80-~96 Assistant, then Associate Professor, Washington State Univ, Pullman, WA

Hempton, M.R. 1982
Structure of the Northern Margin of the Bitlis Suture Zone near Sivrice, Southeastern Turkey
  82-84 lecturer Carleton College, Northfield, MN;
  84-present Research Scientist, Shell Oil Co., Houston (in London currently)

Sengor, A.M.C. 1982
The geology of the Albula Pass area, eastern Switzerland in its Tethyan setting: Palaeo-Tethyan factor in Neo-Tethyan opening
  82-present Lecturer, now Professor, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey

Swanson, M.T. 1982
The structure and tectonics of Mesozoic dike swarms in eastern New England
  82-84 Assistant Professor Florida State Univ, Gainesville;
  85-present Assistant, then Associate Professor, now Professor, University of  Southern Maine, Gorham, ME

Bobyarchick, A.B. 1983
Structure of the Brevard Zone and Blue Ridge near Lenoir, North Carolina, with observations on oblique crenulation cleavage and a preliminary theory for irrotational structures in shear zones
  83-present Assistant, then Associate Professor, Univ of North Carolina, Charlotte

Mann, P. 1983
Cenozoic tectonics of the Caribbean: Structural and stratigraphic studies in Jamaica and Hispaniola
  84-present Associate, then Research Scientist, then Senior Research Scientist, Univ of Texas, Austin

Rowley, D.B. 1983
Operation of the Wilson Cycle in western New England during the Early Paleozoic: with emphasis on the stratigraphy, structure, and emplacement of the Taconic Allochthon
  83-present Research Scientist, then Associate Professor, then Professor, Univ of Chicago (currently Chairman)

Bradley, D.C. 1984
Late Paleozoic strike slip tectonics of the Northern Appalachians
  84-86 post-doc Johns Hopkins Univ;
  87-88 post-doc Columbia Univ;
  88-present Geologist, US Geological Survey Anchorage, AK

Jessell, M. 1986
Dynamic grain boundary migration and fabric development: observations, experiments and simulations
post-doc (87-89), then Lecturer, then Senior Lecturer,  Monash Univ; Research Scientist, LMTG-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées, Toulouse

Loureiro, D. 1986
Electrochemical determination of the oxygen fugacity of mantle-derived ilmenite megacrysts
  86-present Assistant Professor &, Universidad de Venezuela, Caracas

Baldwin, S. 1988
Thermochronology of a subduction complex in western Baja California
  Post-doc 88-90 Australian National University, Canberra;
  91-~01 Assistant, then Associate Professor Univ of Arizona, Tucson;
  ~01-present, Associate Professor, then Professor, Syracuse University

Foster, D.A. 1989
Mesozoic and Cenozoic thermal history of the eastern Mojave Desert, California and western Arizona, with emphasis on the Old Woman Mountains area and the Chemehuevi Metamorphic Core Complex
   90-~98 post-doc (90-92); Research Fellow (92-~98), LaTrobe Univ, Melbourne, Australia;
  ~98-present Associate Professor, then Professor, University of Florida, Gainesville

Norrell, G.T. 1989
Structural geology of the Josephine Peridotite, northern California: implications for structural processes at slow spreading centers
  90-~92 Geologist, Westinghouse Inc, Aiken SC;

Wang, P. 1989
Progressive metamorphism of pelitic schists from the Tri-State, MA, CT and NY, area: a field and theoretical analysis of Garnet + Chlorite + Chloritoid + Biotite assemblages
  89-90 post-doc Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute;

Copeland, P. 1990
Cenozoic Tectonic History of the southern Tibetan Plateau and eastern Himalaya: Evidence from 40Ar/39Ar Dating
  90-present Assistant then Associate Professor, University of Houston

Idleman, B.D. 1990
Geology and 40Ar/39Ar geochronology of the Coastal Complex near Trout River and Lark Harbour, western Newfoundland
  86-~95 Lecturer, then Assistant Professor, Western Carolina University, Cullhowhee, NC;
  ~96-present Research Scientist, then Senior Research Scientist, Lehigh University

Ree, J-H. 1991
High temperature deformation of octachloropropane: a microstructural study
  92-present Associate Professor, then Professor, Korea University, South Korea

Spell, T.L. 1991
The application of microanalytical techniques in isotope geochemistry: 1. Single crystal 40Ar/39Ar dating of rhyolites in the Jemez Volcanic Field, New Mexico, with implications for evolution of the magma system. 2. Towards development of a Laser Microprobe Fourier Transform Mass Spectrometer for isotopic analysis of geologic samples
  92-94 Post-doc Australian National University, Canberra;
  94-96 Research Assistant Professor, University of Houston;
  96-present Assistant Professor, then Associate Professor, University of Nevada at Las Vegas

Alexander, R.J. 1992
Oceanic faulting and hydrothermal circulation within the crustal sequence of the Josephine Ophiolite, Northwest California and Southwest Oregon, USA
  92-present Research Scientist, Texaco, New Orleans

Pan, Y. 1993
Unroofing and structural evolution of the southern Lhasa Terrane, Tibetan Plateau: implications for the continental collision between India and Asia
  93-~97 environmental geology company, San Diego; ~97-present computer systems and programming, Atlanta

Park, Y., 1994
Microstructural evolution in crystal-melt systems
 

Hanson, B., 1995
A geochemical study of rhyolitic melt inclusions in igneous phenocrysts from Lower Devonian bentonites
post-doc NASA JSC; Corning Glass, Corning, NY

Coulton, A. J., 1995
Fault-related oceanic and emplacement-age serpentinization in the Josephine ophiolite of NW California and SW Oregon
UK Civil Service Administration, London

Edwards, M.A., 1998
Examples of tectonic mechanisms for local contraction and exhumation of the leading edge of India. Southern Tibet (28-29N; 89-91E) and Nanga Parbat, Pakistan
    post-docs Wurzburg, & Freiberg 99-02; Vienna 03-

Kosanke, S. B., 2000
The geology, geochronology, structure and geochemistry of the Wild Rogue Wilderness remnant of the Coast Range ophiolite, southwest Oregon implications for the magmatic and tectonic evolution of the Coast Range ophiolite
    Lockheed Martin, Houston; Shell, New Orleans

Li T., 2000
Experimental growth of fibers and fibrous veins
    computer systems and programming, Toronto

Dannenmann, S., 2001
A multi-proxy study of planktonic foraminifera to identify past millennial-scale climate variability in the East Asian Monsoon and the Western Pacific Warm Pool
    Swiss Re, New York; Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology (ETH) Coordinator for CENAT

Ren, L., 2002
A study of a multi-century coral stable isotope record from Rarotonga, southwest subtropical Pacific, for the period 1726-1997

Yuan, F., 2003
Late Holocene hydrologic and climatic variability in the Walker Lake basin, Nevada and California
    post-doc UT El Paso 04-06; Assistant Professor, Cleveland State University 06-

Zhu, B.,   2003
Sedimentology, petrography, and tectonic significance of Cretaceous to lower Tertiary deposits in the Tingri-Gyantse area, southern Tibet
    NYS Dept of Health (research statistician) 03-

Li, Y.,  2004

Geological mapping and crustal shortening of central Tibet
    GIS system administrator/instructor, Brown University

Schoonmaker, A., 2005
Convergent and collisional tectonics in parts of Oregon, Maine, and the Vermont/Quebec border
   
Instructor, Syracuse Univ 03-04, Visiting Asst Prof, Univ of Vermont 05-06; Visiting Asst Professor, Colby College, 06-07; Assistant Professor, Utica College 07-

MacDonald, J., 2006
Petrology, petrogenesis, and tectonic setting of Jurassic rocks of the central Cascades, Washington, and western Klamath Mountains, California-Oregon
     Instructor, Wright State University 06-07; Assistant Professor, Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers

Lim, C., 2007
Late structures and strain history accompanying fluid flows in the western Taconic Orogen of the New York-Vermont Appalachians, and Structural geology and tectonic evolution of the Namche Barwa region, Tibet

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