{"id":121,"date":"2015-09-08T14:27:18","date_gmt":"2015-09-08T19:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/geosciences\/?page_id=121"},"modified":"2026-05-04T14:19:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T19:19:18","slug":"ms-degrees-awarded","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/geosciences\/students\/graduates\/ms-program\/ms-degrees-awarded\/","title":{"rendered":"MS Degrees Awarded"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"size-p-sm\"><em>All links below are to external sites.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">May 2023&nbsp;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Dechant, Leah<\/strong>, MS (Advisor: Charles Paradis)&nbsp;<br>Elucidating Unique Sources and Persistent Hydrologic Pathways of Chloride to Perennial Freshwater Streams: Root River Analog in a Cold Weather Environment&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Chumley, Adam<\/strong>, MS (Advisor: Barry Cameron)&nbsp;<br>Relative Eruption Chronology and Tephra-Vent Correlations of the Sand Mountain Volcanic Field, Oregon High Cascades&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">December 2022&nbsp;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Kopinski, Kayla<\/strong>, MS (Advisor: Dyanna Czeck)&nbsp;<br><a href=\"http:\/\/dc.uwm.edu\/etd\/3023\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Unraveling Deformation Mechanisms and Kinematics in Metasedimentary Rocks Along the Southern Iberian Shear Zone<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Levang, Devin<\/strong>, MS (Advisor: Dyanna Czeck)&nbsp;<br><a href=\"http:\/\/dc.uwm.edu\/etd\/3108\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Using Anisotropy of Magnetic Susceptibility (AMS) to Identify a Tectonic Lineation in the Pulo Do Lobo Formation in the Southern Iberian Shear Zone Near Aracena, Spain<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Schuemann, Eric<\/strong>, MS (Advisor: Dyanna Czeck)&nbsp;<br><a href=\"http:\/\/dc.uwm.edu\/etd\/3075\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Strain Development and Partitioning Across a Transpressional Shear Zone Along a Quartzite- Metagabbro Contact in the Black Hills Uplift, South Dakota<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>August 2022&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Henderson, Zachary<\/strong>, MS (Advisor: Shangping Xu)&nbsp;<br><a href=\"http:\/\/dc.uwm.edu\/etd\/3014\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Use of Algae for the Removal of Perfluorooctane Sulfonic Acid (pfos)<\/a><strong><\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Kusick, Allison<\/strong>, MS (Advisor: John Isbell)&nbsp;<br><a href=\"http:\/\/dc.uwm.edu\/etd\/3026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Stratigraphy, Sedimentology, and Deformational Significance of Cambrian and Early Ordovician Strata Along the Southeast Wisconsin Arch<\/a><strong><\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Potter, Jacob<\/strong>, MS (Advisor: Victoria McCoy)&nbsp;<br><a href=\"http:\/\/dc.uwm.edu\/etd\/3061\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Swimming Ability of the Enigmatic Carboniferous Fish: Tullimonstrum Gregarium<\/a><strong><\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">May 2022&nbsp;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Hoss, Kendyl<\/strong>, MS (Advisor: Charles Paradis)&nbsp;<br><a href=\"http:\/\/dc.uwm.edu\/etd\/2900\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mass Transport of Uranium During Recharge of Surface Water to Contaminated Groundwater<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Meurer, Cullen<\/strong>, MS (Advisor: Charles Paradis)&nbsp;<br><a href=\"http:\/\/dc.uwm.edu\/etd\/3042\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Alkalinity Enhanced Mass Reduction of Uranium Contaminated Sediment<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ntabala (Fenelon), Ruth<\/strong>, MS (Advisor: Shangping Xu)&nbsp;<br><a href=\"http:\/\/dc.uwm.edu\/etd\/3051\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Development of Stabilized Zero Valent Iron Nanoparticles for Environmental Remediation Using Fractioned Humic Acid<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">December 2021\u00a0<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Carman, Jason<\/strong>, MS (Advisor: Lindsay McHenry)&nbsp;<br><a href=\"http:\/\/dc.uwm.edu\/etd\/2986\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Analyzing Weathering Patterns in Modern and Paleolake Deposits of Tecopa, California: Implications for the Detection of Paleolakes on Mars<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Hatami, Jiyan<\/strong>, MS (Advisor: Charles Paradis)&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">May 2021<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Strey, Falyn<\/strong>, MS (Advisor: Dyanna Czeck)<br>Fluid flow and deformation: exploring the relationships between fluid flow, deformation mechanisms, quartz crystallographic preferred orientation fabric development, and kinematics in the Willard thrust fault, Utah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">December 2020<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Carman, Nancy<\/strong>, MS (Advisor: Dyanna Czeck)<br>Analyzing Strain Localization, Kinematic Partitioning and Fluid Flow in the Pulo Do Lobo Metasedimentary Rocks Along the Southern Iberian Shear Zone, Andalucia, Spain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Fearn, Sebastian<\/strong>, MS (Advisor: Julie Bowles)<br>Evaluating Hydration and Artificial Aging Effects on the Paleointensity in Natural Glass<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ludyan, Jordan<\/strong>, MS (Advisor: Lindsay McHenry)<br>Surface Alteration in the \u00d6lkelduh\u00e1ls, Nesjavellir, and Geysir Hydrothermal Systems, Iceland: Implications for Mars<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Malone, John<\/strong> (Jack), MS (Advisor: John Isbell)<br>Sedimentology, Sequence Stratigraphy, and High-Precision U-Pb Age Constraints on the Late Paleozoic Ansilta Formation, Calingasta-Uspallata Basin, NW Argentina<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">August 2020<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Matzuk, Ryan,<\/strong> MS, (Advisor: Tim Grundl)<br>Water Chemistry and Lake Dynamics of Laguna Bacalar, Quintana Roo, Mexico<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">May 2020<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Bychinski, Leslie<\/strong>, MS, (Advisor: Shangping Xu)<br>Pesticides in urban\/suburban water wells in Milwaukee, Ozaukee, Washington, and Waukesha counties in Wisconsin<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jung, Ji-In<\/strong>, MS, (Advisor: Julie Bowles)<br>A Feasibility Study of Microbialites as Paleomagnetic Recorders<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Martin, Chad<\/strong>, MS, (Advisor: Dyanna Czeck)<br>Characterization of water pathways and hydrolytic weakening within naturally deformed quartz grains along the Willard Thrust Fault, Utah<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Oanes, Ken<\/strong>, MS, (Advisor: Shangping Xu)<br>Simulating the effects of urbanization and climate change on ground water recharging using the USGS precipitation and runoff modelling system (PRMS)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">December 2019<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Plank, Evvan<\/strong>, MS, (Advisor: Shangping Xu)<br>The Dynamics and Speciation of Arsenic in Drinking Water Wells in Eastern Wisconsin<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">August 2019<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>McNall, Natalie<\/strong>, MS, (Advisor: John Isbell)<br>Sedimentological and geochemical analysis of deep-water deposits in the Moj\u00f3n de Hierro Formation at Arroyo Garrido, Tepuel-Genoa Basin, Patagonia, Argentina<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">May 2019<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Salo, Madeline<\/strong>, MS, (Advisor: Tim Grundl)<br>Anthropogenically driven changes to shallow groundwater in Southeastern Wisconsin and its effects on the aquifer microbial communities<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">December 2018<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Thalhamer, Ernest<\/strong>, MS, (Advisor: Dyanna Czeck)<br>Analyzing ductile shear zone network geometries in the Grassy Portage Sill, Rainy Lake region, Northwestern Ontario, Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">August 2018<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Glenister, Chase<\/strong>, MS, (Advisor: Lindsay McHenry)<br>The Geochemistry and Mineralogy of Surface Hydrothermal Alteration at Nesjavellir, SW Iceland<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">May 2018<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Borucki, Elizabeth<\/strong>, MS, (Advisor: Julie Bowles)<br>Depositionally-Induced Magnetic Frequency Variations of a Sandstone Facies of the Copper Harbor Conglomerate from the North American, Mid-Continent Rift at Union Bay, Michigan<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Bulson, Erin<\/strong>, MS, (Advisor: Erik Gulbranson)<br>Evaluating Ecohydrological Separation with Geochemical Tracers, \u03b4 2H and \u03b418O, from Northern California in an Irrigated and Semi-Arid Setting<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Gigstad, Kate<\/strong>, MS, (Advisor: Margaret Fraiser)<br>Invertebrate Paleoecology of High Paleo-Latitude Carboniferous Strata of the Tepuel-Genoa Basin, Argentina<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Hassell, Keenan<\/strong>, MS, (Advisor: Steve Dornbos)<br>Paleobiology and Taphonomy of Exceptionally Preserved Putative Macroalgae from the Ediacaran Zuun-Arts Biota, Zavkhan Province, Mongolia<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Stephenson, Sheryl<\/strong>, MS, (Advisor: Dyanna Czeck)<br>Characterizing the Geochemical Changes across a Strain Gradient in the Beja-Acebuches Metabasites Due to Retrograde Metamorphism and Fluid Flow along the Southern Iberian Shear Zone<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Wanta, Andrew<\/strong>, MS, (Advisor: Lindsay McHenry)<br>Hydrothermal Alteration at Devil&#8217;s Kitchen in the Lassen Volcanic National Park: A Mars Analogue<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">December 2017<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Barlow, Megan<\/strong>, MS, (Advisor: Barry Cameron)<br>Soil-Grapevine Interactions: Insight from Verdicchio in the Marche Wine Region, Italy<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">May 2017<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Amato, James,&nbsp;<\/strong>MS, (Advisors: John Isbell and Julie Bowles)<br>Using AMS to help interpret glaciogenic deposits of the late Paleozoic Ice Age in the Parana Basin, Brazil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Joynt, Emily,&nbsp;<\/strong>MS, (Advisors: Weon Shik Han and Tim Grundl)<br>Factors Controlling Diffusive CO<sub>2<\/sub>&nbsp;Production and Transport in the Cedarburg Bog, Saukville, Wisconsin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">August 2016<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Czech, Carrie,&nbsp;<\/strong>MS, (Advisor: John Isbell)<br>Sedimentology of Pleistocene Outwash and Glaciolacustrine Deposits in East-central Wisconsin<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Devin Gerzich<\/strong>, MS, (Advisor: Bowles)<br>An evaluation of paleomagnetic techniques to determine emplacement temperature of pyroclastic flows at Mount St. Helens<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Levi Moxness<\/strong>, MS, (Advisor: Isbell)<br>Sedimentology of the mid-Carboniferous basal fill of the Olta paleovalley, eastern Paganzo basin, Argentina<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Kurt Quamme<\/strong>, MS, (Advisor: Xu)<br>Point of use biosand filters of the rural Dominican Republic<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">May 2016<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Kyungdoe Han<\/strong>, MS, (Advisor: Han)<br>A physicochemical prediction of prolonged natural CO2 leakage in the Little Grand Wash Fault Zone, Green River, Utah<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">December 2015<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ethan Guyant<\/strong>, MS, (Advisor: Han)<br>\u201cAddressing Potentials Risks and Challenges of CO2 Geologic Sequestration\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">August 2015<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jack P. Graham<\/strong>, MS, (Advisor:&nbsp;Han)<br>\u201cClimate Impact on Groundwater Flow Processes in the Cedar Creek Watershed and Cedarburg Bog\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jenna Rolle<\/strong>, MS, (Advisor: Fraiser)<br>\u201cPaleoecological Recovery of Early Triassic Echinoids Following the End-Permian Mass Extinction: A Test of the Habitable Zone Hypothesis with Members of the Modern Fauna\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">May&nbsp;2015<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>George &#8220;Kit&#8221; Carson<\/strong>,&nbsp;MS, (Advisor: McHenry)<br>&#8220;Hydrothermal acid-sulfate alteration at Krafla and N\u00e1mafjall, NE Iceland: Implications for Gusev Crater and Meridiani Planum, Mars.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jonah M. Novek<\/strong>, MS, (Advisor: Dornbos)<br>&#8220;Paleoredox geochemistry and bioturbation&nbsp;levels of the exceptionally preserved early Cambrian Indian Springs biota,&nbsp;Poleta Formation, Nevada, USA.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">December 2014<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Na-Hyun Jung<\/strong>, MS, (Advisor: Han)<br>\u201cFault-controlled advective, diffusive, and eruptive CO2 leakage from natural reservoirs in the Colorado Plateau, East-Central Utah\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Zach T. Watson<\/strong>, MS, (Advisor: Han)<br>\u201cAn analysis of CO2-driven cold-water geysers in Green River, Utah and Chimayo, New Mexico\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">August 2014<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Steven Greenwood<\/strong>, MS, (Advisor: McHenry)<br>\u201cMineralogy, petrology, and geochemistry of Pleistocene volcanics at Embagai caldera and Natron Basin, Tanzania: Potential constraints on the stratigraphy of Olduvai Gorge\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">May 2014<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jane Block<\/strong>, MS, (Advisor: Czeck)<br>\u201cThe Rice Bay and Northeast Bay Gneiss Domes: A Kinematic Study of Competent Rock Bodies in the Rainy Lake Region of Ontario, Canada\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Justin Calhoun<\/strong>, MS, (Advisor: Czeck)<br>\u201cFabric and microstructural analysis of the Loch Borralan pluton, Northwest Highlands Scotland\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Alice Egan<\/strong>, MS, (Advisor: Xu)<br>\u201cSimulating Recharge in a Wisconsin Watershed: The Effect of Sub Annual Precipitation Patterns\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Nicholas Fedorchuk<\/strong>, MS, (Advisor: Dornbos)<br>\u201cTesting the Biogenicity of Precambrian Lacustrine Stromatolites From the Copper Harbor Conglomerate Upper Peninsula of Michigan: Implications for the Search for Ancient Life on Mars.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Kathryn Pauls<\/strong>, MS, (Advisor: Isbell)<br>\u201cSedimentology and paleoecology of fossil-bearing, high-latitude glaciogenic deposits in the Tepuel Basin, Patagonia, Argentina\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">December 2013<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Kimberly Johnson<\/strong>, MS, (Advisor: Czeck)<br>\u201cDeformation and fluid interactions in the Mineral Fork diamictites, Antelope Island, Utah\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">August 2013<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Danielle Sieger<\/strong>, MS, (Advisor: Isbell)<br>\u201cReexamination of Fluvial Stacking Pattern Changes Across the Permian-Triassic Boundary in the Central Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Elizabeth Stapleton<\/strong>, MS, (Advisor: Xu)<br>\u201cDevelopment of Green Solvent Modified Zeolite (GSMZ) for the Removal of Chemical Contaminants from Water\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Anna Thorpe<\/strong>, MS, (Advisor: Grundl)<br>\u201cApplying Geochemistry to Investigate the Occurance of Riverbank Inducement Into a Shallow Aquifer in Southeastern Wisconsin\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">August 2012<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Christine E. Barszewski<\/strong>, MS, (Advisor: Czeck)<br>&#8220;Microstructural and Cathodoluminescence (SEM-CL) Analyses of Clasts in a Tectonically Deformed Diamictite from the Willard Thrust, UT&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Carlene E. Polk<\/strong>, MS, (Advisor: Hooyer)<br>&#8220;Testing the Bed-Deformation Hypothesis for Drumlin Formation Using Magnetic Fabrics&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Scott N. Schaefer<\/strong>, MS, (Advisor: Fraiser)<br>&#8220;Distribution of Early Triassic Rhynchonelliform Brachiopods in the Dinwoody Basin of the Western United States: A Test of the Habitable Zone Hypothesis&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">May 2012<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Nathan C. Magnusson<\/strong>, MS, (Advisor: Grundl)<br>&#8220;Assessing the Affects of Pleistocene Glaciation on the Recharge of the Deep Paleozoic Aquifer of Eastern Wisconsin Using Noble Gases, Radiocarbon Dating, and Geochemical Analysis&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Michael S. 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