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August 2025

DeKoster, Rebecca Noel, PhD (Advisor: Victoria McCoy)
Three questions in paleobotany: fossil bias, plant development, and herbivory interactions, in the fossil record

Sultana, Rakiba, PhD (Advisor: Charles Paradis)
Sources and Transport Mechanisms of Contaminants during Flooding Events

December 2025

Borucki, Mark Kevin, PhD (Advisor: John Isbell)
If These Walls Could Talk – A New Stratigraphic And Sedimentologic Model For The Lake Michigan Bluffs at Cudahy, Wisconsin

May 2023

Menozzo da Rosa, Eduardo Luiz, PhD (Advisor: John Isbell)
Toward a Greater Comprehension Of The Paranaepicontinental Sea During The Late Paleozioc Ice Age: The Glacial And Postglacial Record In The Western Paranabasin (Brazil) And The Kaokoveld Fjord Network (Namibia)

May 2022 

Loku Kodikara, Gayantha, PhD (Advisor: Lindsay McHenry) 
Terrestrial Perspective on the Formation, Evolution, and Detection of Zeolites in Lacustrine Environments on Early Mars 

December 2021 

Ives, Elizabeth, PhD (Advisor: John Isbell) 
A South Polar View of Late Paleozoic Glaciation: Physical Sedimentology and Provenance of Glacial Successions in the Tasmanian and Transantarctic Basins  

August 2020

Pauls, Kathryn, PhD, (Advisor: John Isbell)
Late Paleozoic climatic reconstruction of western Argentina: glacial extent and deglaciation of southwestern Gondwana

December 2019

Byers, Harris, PhD, (Advisor: Tim Grundl)
Quantifying the variability in heavy metal concentrations in produce grown in metals-rich soil

May 2019

Cordie, David, PhD, (Advisor: Stephen Dornbos)
Incorporation, morphology, and extinction of framework-building metazoans in Early Cambrian reef ecosystems from the Western USA and Mongolia and their effects on reef diversity

Fedorchuk, Nicholas, PhD, (Advisor: John Isbell)
Testing the Late Paleozoic ice volume paradox in the southernmost Paraná Basin, Brazil

May 2017

Karakis, Snejana, PhD, (Advisor: Barry Cameron)
Terroir Studies in Washington and Wisconsin American Viticultural Areas

May 2016

Jennifer Johanson, PhD, (Advisor: Xu)
Transport of Potential Microbial Source Tracking Markers in Sandy Materials

December 2015

Dineen, Ashley Ann, PhD (Advisor: Margaret Fraiser)
Functional Diversity of Regional Marine Paleocommunities After the Permo-Triassic Mass Extinction: Case Studies from Panthalassa and Paleo-tethys

Bill Jacobson, PhD, (Advisor: Thomas Hooyer, with Dyanna Czeck & John Isbell)
Field and laboratory study of Flàajökull Glacier, Iceland

May 2014

Lucia Feriancikova, PhD, (Advisor: Shangping Xu)
The Spread of Emerging Contaminants in the Soil-Groundwater System

May 2013

Lindsey Henry, PhD, (Advisor: Isbell)
Late Paleozoic glaciation and ice sheet collapse over western and eastern Gondwana: Sedimentology and stratigraphy of glacial to post-glacial strata in western Argentina and Tasmania, Australia

December 2012

Tristan Kloss, PhD, (Advisor: Dornbos)
Interpreting the Paleoenvironmental Context of Marine Shales Deposited During the Cambrian Radiation: Global Insights from Sedimentology, Paleoecology, and Geochemistry

May 2002

Saif Alhakimi, PhD, (Advisor: Lasca)
The Extent and Boundaries of Extinct Lake Scuppernong, Jefferson County, Southeastern Wisconsin

May 2001

Douglas Carlson, PhD, (Advisor: Cherkauer)
“Dependence of Conductivities and Anisotrpies on Geologic Properties Within the Near Surface Aquifer in Milwaukee, WI. 2 Volumes”