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Our Master Students

John Clemmons

Advisor: Dr. Tingying Xu Interests: Contaminant Hydrogeology, Bioremediation and Ecotoxicology

Ellie Cooper

Advisor: Dr. Brandon Spencer Interests: Field Work, Structural Geology and Sedimentary Rocks

Steven Cotton

Advisor: Dr. Xiaofeng Chen Interests: Fault mechanics, Geophysics and Economic Geology

Ben Emmert

Advisor: Dr. Jack Pashin Interests: Petroleum Geology and Geophysical Processing

Olivia Galvez

Advisor: Dr. Natascha Riedinger Interests: Marine Geochemistry and Environmental Geology

Caden Garcia

Advisor: Dr. Brandon Spencer Interests: Petroleum Geology, Sedimentary Geology and Carbonate Deposition

Abby Geiser

Advisor: Dr. Tracy Quan Interests: Geochemistry and Planetary Geology 

Patrick Grodon

Advisor: Dr. Priyank Jaiswal Interests: Carbonate Dispositional Systems 

Cheyenne Hill

Advisor: Dr. Tingying Xu Interests: Hydrogeology, Geochemistry and Environmental Geology

Rylee Hunter

Advisor: Dr. Brandon Spencer Interests: Geology

Ayden Kuciemba
Advisor: Dr. Brandon Spencer Interests: Fluid Mechanics, Soft Rocks and Geochronic Dating
Souleyman Maryoud Madallah

Advisor: Dr. Andrew Katumwehe Interests: Geology

Jerrod Monroe

Advisor: Dr. Todd Halihan Interests: Petroleum Geology, Hydrogeology and Environmental Geology

Hudson Moseby

Advisor: Dr. Brandon Spencer Interests: Petroleum Geology, Sedimentary Geology and Energy Transition

Willow Pilgrim

Advisor: Dr. Brandon Spencer Interests: Geomorphology, Sedimentology and Paleontology

Matthew Pittman

Advisor: Dr. Natascha Riedinger Interests: Oceanography and Petroleum Geology

Bryston Smith

Advisor: Dr. Brandon Spencer Interests: Igneous Geology, Volcanology and Critical Mineral Mining

Gabriel Soto

Advisor: Dr. Ashley Burkett Interests: Invertebrate Paleontology, Micropa;eontology, Stratigraphic Paleobiology and Collections Management

Jacob Staggs

Advisor: Dr. Tingying Xu Interests: Hydrogeology, Critical Mineral Exploration and Bioremeditation

Zach Williams

Advisor: Dr. Ingrid Ukstins Interests: Petroleum Geology, Carbonates and Sedimentology

Matthew Worthy

Advisor: Dr. Priyank Jaiswal Interests: Petroleum Geology, Forensic Geophysics, Geophysical Processing , AI and Machine Learning

Our Ph.D. Students

Ahmed Abdelrahman

Advisor: Dr. James Knapp Interests: Structural Geology, Tectonics, Hard Rocks Geology, Applied Geophysics, Geochronology, Remote Sensing and GIS

Worlanyo Ablordeppey

Advisor: Dr. Jack Pashin Interests: Environmental Geophysics

Kubra Albayrak

Advisor: Dr. Camelia Knapp Interests: Petroleum Geology, Geophysics and CO2 Sequestration

Abather Al-Hallaf

Advisor: Dr. Javier Vilcaez Interests: Hydrology, focusing on Surface Water Modeling

Ali Al Janabi

Advisor: Dr. Camelia Knapp Interests: Geology and Geophysics

Maryam Azari Rad

Advisor: Dr. Yipeng Zhang Interests: Groundwater Hydrology, Numerical Modeling and Managed Aquifer Recharge

Steve Beresh

Advisor: Dr. Andrew Katumwehe Interests: Geophysics, Tectonics, Remote Sensing and Structural Geology

Souryadeep Chakrabarty

Advisor: Dr. Jack Pashin Interests: Marine Geology, Sedimentology and Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage (CCUS)

Abed Chehadeh

Advisor: Dr. Priyank Jaiswal Interests: Structural Geology, Active Tectonics, Fluid-Rock Interaction, Climate Change, Water Security, Carbon Capture and Storage

Daniel Duah-Boakye

Advisor: Dr. Andrew Katumwehe Interests: Environmental Geophysics, Geothermal Magnetometry and Magnetotellurics (MT) 

Kehinde Egunjobi

Advisor: Dr. Tracy Quan Interests: Biogeochemistry, Stable Isotope Geochemistry, Petroleum Geology, Sedimentology and Stratigraphy

Ahmed El Belasy

Advisor: Dr. Jack Pashin Interests: Geologic Carbon Sequestration, Unconventional Reservoir Characterization, Basin Analysis, Sedimentology and Sequence Stratigraphy

Marwa Elshebli

Advisor: Dr. Javier Vilcaez Interests: Hydrogeochemistry, Hydrogeology, Energy and Data Analyst

Jon Fields

Advisor: Dr. Todd Halihan Interests: Hydrogeology, Geophysics, Aquifer Recharge and Innovation in Characterization

Amanda Harding

Advisor: Dr. Ashley Burkett Interests: Paleontology, Pollution Assessment, Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoecology

Boniface Kgosidintsi

Advisor: Dr. Andrew Katumwehe Interests: Geophysics, Structural Geology and Tectonics

Zihan Liu

Advisor: Dr. Xiaofeng Chen Interests: Rock Fractures, Rock Friction and Geomechanics

Sunita Magar

Advisor: Dr. Yipeng Zhang Interests: Hydrogeology, Groundwater Modeling, Water Quality and Climate Change

Godwin Mnyika

Advisor: Dr. Andrew Katumwehe Interests: Geophysics, Carbon Capture Storage and Hydrogeology

Alisara Ngamlurdwongsakul

Advisor: Dr. Camelia Knapp Interests: Carbon Capture Storage, Applied Geoscience, Petroleum Exploration and Production

Evelyn Nsarful

Advisor: Dr. Priyank Jaiswal Interests: Carbon Capture Storage, Applied Geoscience, Petroleum Exploration and Production

Oghalomeno Ononeme

Advisor: Dr. Ashley Burkett Interests: Biostratigraphy, Micropaleontology and Paleoceanography

Debarpita Paul

Advisor: Dr. Ashley Burkett Interests: Micropaleontology and Climate Change

Shaluka Senevirathna

Advisor: Dr. Javier Vilcaez Interests: Hydrogeology, Two-Phase Flow, Petroleum Geology and Carbonate Rocks

Sereejesh Sreedhar

Advisor: Dr. Camelia Knapp Interests: Geophysics, Seismic Interpretation and Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage (CCUS)

Mark Sutcliffe
Advisor: Dr. Jack Pashin Interests: Stratigraphy and Tectonics
Chinanu Unigwe
Advisor: Dr. Javier Vilcaez Interests: Environmental Geology, Hydrogeochemistry and Energy
Chase Watkins

Advisor: Dr. Jim Puckette Interests: Carbonate Sedimentology, Petroleum Geology and Structural Geology

Yanyi Yang
Advisor: Dr. Tingying Xu Interests: Geochemistry