Graduate students supervised by Professor W.D. Means at the University at Albany

Gregg W.J.  1975 MSc
Structural Studies in the Moretown and Cram Hill Units near Ludlow, Vermont
    PhD SUNYA; faculty Michigan Tech

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

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

Bosworth, W.P. 1980 PhD
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 London)

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

Washington P.   1981 MSc
Structural analysis of an area near Middlebury, Vermont
    PhD Univ of Connecticut, Storrs; NC Dept of Environmental Conservation; Univ NE Louisiana

Vollmer F.W.   1981 MSc
Structural Studies of the Ordovician Flysch and Melange in Albany County, New York
    PhD Univ of Minnesota; faculty SUNY New Paltz

Swanson, M.T. 1982 PhD
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 University of  Southern Maine, Gorham, ME

Bobyarchick, A.B. 1983 PhD
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

Xia Z.   1983 MSc
Geology of the western boundary of the Taconic Allochthon near Troy and the anastomosing cleavage in the Taconic Melange
    faculty U Mass Boston, Geography Dept

Mora J.   1984 MSc
Chatham Fault Zone, Old Chatham-East Chatham, New York: mesostructures and microstructures: their spatial and age relationships
    Venezuela oil company geologist

Hall P.C.   1984 MSc
Some aspects of deformation fabrics along the Highland/Lowland boundary, northwest Adirondacks, New York State
    banking

Bradley L.    1984 MSc
Structural analysis of deformed Carboniferous strata, Mispec Beach, Southern New Brunswick
    geological consulting company, Anchorage

Jessell, M. 1986 PhD
Dynamic grain boundary migration and fabric development: observations, experiments and simulations
  87-present post-doc (87-89), then Lecturer, then Senior Lecturer,  Monash Univ, Melbourne, Australia;

Will T.    1987 MSc
Structural investigations on experimentally and naturally produced slickensides
    PhD Monash University, Melbourne

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

Lee, Y-J. 1991 MSc
Slickenside petrography: slip-sense indicators and classification
    PhD Texas A&M

Schimmrich, S. 1991 MSc
Evaluation of computational methods of paleostress analysis using fault-striation data
    PhD U Illinois Urbana; teaching at Ulster CC

Arz, C. 1992 MSc
Thermal-mechanical response to an intruding magma chamber

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

Hayman, N.W.   1997 MSc (shared supervision with W.S.F. Kidd)
Pre-thrust normal faults and post-tectonic micas in the Taconic Range of west-central Vermont
    PhD Univ. Washington

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

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