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All links below are to external sites.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

August 2025<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Schmidt, Cole Bradley<\/strong>, MS (Advisor: John Isbell)
Changes In Deformation Within Carboniferous Mass Transport Deposits, Agua De La Pena Creek (San Juan, Argentina)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Soltes, Vera C<\/strong>, MS (Advisor: Julie Bowles)
Distinguishing Eruptive Units On The Southern East Pacific Rise Using Geomagnetic Paleointensity And Geochemistry<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Veith, Kamryn<\/strong>, MS (Advisor: Shangping Xu)
Impacts Of Deicers On The Transport Of Per- And Polyluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) In Groundwater Systems<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Woller, Madeline Elizabeth<\/strong>, MS (Advisor: Barry Cameron)
Terroir Study Of Honeycrisp Apples In Wisconsin, USA: Insights From Soil, Leaf, And Fruit Chemistry<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

August 2024<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Childs, Dylan Alexander<\/strong>, MS (Advisor: Lindsay McHenry)
High Temperature Alteration Conditions Within Lava Tubes: An Analouge For Venus Surface Geology<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Essex, Cameron<\/strong>, MS (Advisor: Barry Cameron)
Paleoenvironmental Constraints On Pleistocene Ice Sheets From Glacio-Volcanic Deposits In Northeast Iceland<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Peschman, Justin<\/strong>, MS (Advisor: Shangping Xu)
An Experimental Study On The Adsorption Of Per And Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) By Soil-Derived Colloidal Particles<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sikes, Melissa Marie<\/strong>, MS (Advisor: Julie Bowles)
Use Of Geomagnetic Paleointensity Aa A Correlation Tool In The Eastern Snake River Plain Lava Flows<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

August 2023<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Harbury, Miles<\/strong>, MS (Advisor: Julie Bowles)
Testing the Use of Anisotropy of Magnetic Susceptibility (AMS) in Determining Genetic Origins of Paleoproterozoic Diamictites<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

May 2023 <\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Dechant, Leah<\/strong>, MS (Advisor: Charles Paradis) 
Elucidating Unique Sources and Persistent Hydrologic Pathways of Chloride to Perennial Freshwater Streams: Root River Analog in a Cold Weather Environment <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chumley, Adam<\/strong>, MS (Advisor: Barry Cameron) 
Relative Eruption Chronology and Tephra-Vent Correlations of the Sand Mountain Volcanic Field, Oregon High Cascades <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

December 2022 <\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Kopinski, Kayla<\/strong>, MS (Advisor: Dyanna Czeck) 
Unraveling Deformation Mechanisms and Kinematics in Metasedimentary Rocks Along the Southern Iberian Shear Zone <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Levang, Devin<\/strong>, MS (Advisor: Dyanna Czeck) 
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><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Schuemann, Eric<\/strong>, MS (Advisor: Dyanna Czeck) 
Strain Development and Partitioning Across a Transpressional Shear Zone Along a Quartzite- Metagabbro Contact in the Black Hills Uplift, South Dakota <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

August 2022 <\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Henderson, Zachary<\/strong>, MS (Advisor: Shangping Xu) 
The Use of Algae for the Removal of Perfluorooctane Sulfonic Acid (pfos)<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kusick, Allison<\/strong>, MS (Advisor: John Isbell) 
Stratigraphy, Sedimentology, and Deformational Significance of Cambrian and Early Ordovician Strata Along the Southeast Wisconsin Arch<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Potter, Jacob<\/strong>, MS (Advisor: Victoria McCoy) 
Swimming Ability of the Enigmatic Carboniferous Fish: Tullimonstrum Gregarium<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

May 2022 <\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Hoss, Kendyl<\/strong>, MS (Advisor: Charles Paradis) 
Mass Transport of Uranium During Recharge of Surface Water to Contaminated Groundwater<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meurer, Cullen<\/strong>, MS (Advisor: Charles Paradis) 
Alkalinity Enhanced Mass Reduction of Uranium Contaminated Sediment<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ntabala (Fenelon), Ruth<\/strong>, MS (Advisor: Shangping Xu) 
Development of Stabilized Zero Valent Iron Nanoparticles for Environmental Remediation Using Fractioned Humic Acid<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

December 2021 <\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Carman, Jason<\/strong>, MS (Advisor: Lindsay McHenry) 
Analyzing Weathering Patterns in Modern and Paleolake Deposits of Tecopa, California: Implications for the Detection of Paleolakes on Mars<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hatami, Jiyan<\/strong>, MS (Advisor: Charles Paradis) 
Sorption of 2-Naphthalene Sulfonate to Organic Carbon in Natural Saturated Porous Media<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

May 2021<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Strey, Falyn<\/strong>, MS (Advisor: Dyanna Czeck)
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.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

December 2020<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Carman, Nancy<\/strong>, MS (Advisor: Dyanna Czeck)
Analyzing Strain Localization, Kinematic Partitioning and Fluid Flow in the Pulo Do Lobo Metasedimentary Rocks Along the Southern Iberian Shear Zone, Andalucia, Spain.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fearn, Sebastian<\/strong>, MS (Advisor: Julie Bowles)
Evaluating Hydration and Artificial Aging Effects on the Paleointensity in Natural Glass<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ludyan, Jordan<\/strong>, MS (Advisor: Lindsay McHenry)
Surface Alteration in the \u00d6lkelduh\u00e1ls, Nesjavellir, and Geysir Hydrothermal Systems, Iceland: Implications for Mars<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Malone, John<\/strong> (Jack), MS (Advisor: John Isbell)
Sedimentology, Sequence Stratigraphy, and High-Precision U-Pb Age Constraints on the Late Paleozoic Ansilta Formation, Calingasta-Uspallata Basin, NW Argentina<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

August 2020<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Matzuk, Ryan,<\/strong> MS, (Advisor: Tim Grundl)
Water Chemistry and Lake Dynamics of Laguna Bacalar, Quintana Roo, Mexico<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

May 2020<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Bychinski, Leslie<\/strong>, MS, (Advisor: Shangping Xu)
Pesticides in urban\/suburban water wells in Milwaukee, Ozaukee, Washington, and Waukesha counties in Wisconsin<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jung, Ji-In<\/strong>, MS, (Advisor: Julie Bowles)
A Feasibility Study of Microbialites as Paleomagnetic Recorders<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Martin, Chad<\/strong>, MS, (Advisor: Dyanna Czeck)
Characterization of water pathways and hydrolytic weakening within naturally deformed quartz grains along the Willard Thrust Fault, Utah<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oanes, Ken<\/strong>, MS, (Advisor: Shangping Xu)
Simulating the effects of urbanization and climate change on ground water recharging using the USGS precipitation and runoff modelling system (PRMS)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

December 2019<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Plank, Evvan<\/strong>, MS, (Advisor: Shangping Xu)
The Dynamics and Speciation of Arsenic in Drinking Water Wells in Eastern Wisconsin<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

August 2019<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

McNall, Natalie<\/strong>, MS, (Advisor: John Isbell)
Sedimentological and geochemical analysis of deep-water deposits in the Moj\u00f3n de Hierro Formation at Arroyo Garrido, Tepuel-Genoa Basin, Patagonia, Argentina<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

May 2019<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Salo, Madeline<\/strong>, MS, (Advisor: Tim Grundl)
Anthropogenically driven changes to shallow groundwater in Southeastern Wisconsin and its effects on the aquifer microbial communities<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

December 2018<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Thalhamer, Ernest<\/strong>, MS, (Advisor: Dyanna Czeck)
Analyzing ductile shear zone network geometries in the Grassy Portage Sill, Rainy Lake region, Northwestern Ontario, Canada<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

August 2018<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Glenister, Chase<\/strong>, MS, (Advisor: Lindsay McHenry)
The Geochemistry and Mineralogy of Surface Hydrothermal Alteration at Nesjavellir, SW Iceland<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

May 2018<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Borucki, Elizabeth<\/strong>, MS, (Advisor: Julie Bowles)
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<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bulson, Erin<\/strong>, MS, (Advisor: Erik Gulbranson)
Evaluating Ecohydrological Separation with Geochemical Tracers, \u03b4 2H and \u03b418O, from Northern California in an Irrigated and Semi-Arid Setting<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gigstad, Kate<\/strong>, MS, (Advisor: Margaret Fraiser)
Invertebrate Paleoecology of High Paleo-Latitude Carboniferous Strata of the Tepuel-Genoa Basin, Argentina<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hassell, Keenan<\/strong>, MS, (Advisor: Steve Dornbos)
Paleobiology and Taphonomy of Exceptionally Preserved Putative Macroalgae from the Ediacaran Zuun-Arts Biota, Zavkhan Province, Mongolia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephenson, Sheryl<\/strong>, MS, (Advisor: Dyanna Czeck)
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<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wanta, Andrew<\/strong>, MS, (Advisor: Lindsay McHenry)
Hydrothermal Alteration at Devil’s Kitchen in the Lassen Volcanic National Park: A Mars Analogue<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

December 2017<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Barlow, Megan<\/strong>, MS, (Advisor: Barry Cameron)
Soil-Grapevine Interactions: Insight from Verdicchio in the Marche Wine Region, Italy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

May 2017<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Amato, James, <\/strong>MS, (Advisors: John Isbell and Julie Bowles)
Using AMS to help interpret glaciogenic deposits of the late Paleozoic Ice Age in the Parana Basin, Brazil.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joynt, Emily, <\/strong>MS, (Advisors: Weon Shik Han and Tim Grundl)
Factors Controlling Diffusive CO2<\/sub> Production and Transport in the Cedarburg Bog, Saukville, Wisconsin.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

August 2016<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Czech, Carrie, <\/strong>MS, (Advisor: John Isbell)
Sedimentology of Pleistocene Outwash and Glaciolacustrine Deposits in East-central Wisconsin<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Devin Gerzich<\/strong>, MS, (Advisor: Bowles)
An evaluation of paleomagnetic techniques to determine emplacement temperature of pyroclastic flows at Mount St. Helens<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Levi Moxness<\/strong>, MS, (Advisor: Isbell)
Sedimentology of the mid-Carboniferous basal fill of the Olta paleovalley, eastern Paganzo basin, Argentina<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kurt Quamme<\/strong>, MS, (Advisor: Xu)
Point of use biosand filters of the rural Dominican Republic<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

May 2016<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Kyungdoe Han<\/strong>, MS, (Advisor: Han)
A physicochemical prediction of prolonged natural CO2 leakage in the Little Grand Wash Fault Zone, Green River, Utah<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

December 2015<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Ethan Guyant<\/strong>, MS, (Advisor: Han)
Addressing Potentials Risks and Challenges of CO2 Geologic Sequestration<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

August 2015<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Jack P. Graham<\/strong>, MS, (Advisor: Han)
Climate Impact on Groundwater Flow Processes in the Cedar Creek Watershed and Cedarburg Bog<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jenna Rolle<\/strong>, MS, (Advisor: Fraiser)
Paleoecological Recovery of Early Triassic Echinoids Following the End-Permian Mass Extinction: A Test of the Habitable Zone Hypothesis with Members of the Modern Fauna<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

May 2015<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Braun, Nicole<\/strong>, MS (Advisor: Margaret Fraiser)
Paleoecology of Glacial and Non Glacial Carboniferous Faunas During the Late Paleozoic Ice Age in Patagonia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

George “Kit” Carson<\/strong>, MS, (Advisor: McHenry)
Hydrothermal acid-sulfate alteration at Krafla and N\u00e1mafjall, NE Iceland: Implications for Gusev Crater and Meridiani Planum, Mars.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jonah M. Novek<\/strong>, MS, (Advisor: Dornbos)
Paleoredox geochemistry and bioturbation levels of the exceptionally preserved early Cambrian Indian Springs biota, Poleta Formation, Nevada, USA<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Survis, Sarah Rose<\/strong>, MS (Advisor: John Isbell)
Sedimentology and Stratigraphy of High-latitude, Glacigenic Deposits from the Late Paleozoic Ice Age in the Tepuel-Genoa Basin, Patagonia, Argentina<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wimer, Erin<\/strong>, MS (Advisor: Margaret Fraiser)
Microbially Induced Sedimentary Structures as an Ecological Niche in Subtidal Early Triassic Environments of Eastern Panthalassa<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

December 2014<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Na-Hyun Jung<\/strong>, MS, (Advisor: Han)
Fault-controlled advective, diffusive, and eruptive CO2 leakage from natural reservoirs in the Colorado Plateau, East-Central Utah<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zach T. Watson<\/strong>, MS, (Advisor: Han)
An analysis of CO2-driven cold-water geysers in Green River, Utah and Chimayo, New Mexico<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

August 2014<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Steven Greenwood<\/strong>, MS, (Advisor: McHenry)
Mineralogy, petrology, and geochemistry of Pleistocene volcanics at Embagai caldera and Natron Basin, Tanzania: Potential constraints on the stratigraphy of Olduvai Gorge<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

May 2014<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Jane Block<\/strong>, MS, (Advisor: Czeck)
The Rice Bay and Northeast Bay Gneiss Domes: A Kinematic Study of Competent Rock Bodies in the Rainy Lake Region of Ontario, Canada<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Justin Calhoun<\/strong>, MS, (Advisor: Czeck)
Fabric and microstructural analysis of the Loch Borralan pluton, Northwest Highlands Scotland<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alice Egan<\/strong>, MS, (Advisor: Xu)
Simulating Recharge in a Wisconsin Watershed: The Effect of Sub Annual Precipitation Patterns<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nicholas Fedorchuk<\/strong>, MS, (Advisor: Dornbos)
Evaluating the Biogenicity of Fluvial-lacustrine Stromatolites from the Mesoproterozoic Copper Harbor Conglomerate, Upper Peninsula of Michigan, Usa<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kathryn Pauls<\/strong>, MS, (Advisor: Isbell)
Sedimentology and paleoecology of fossil-bearing, high-latitude glaciogenic deposits in the Tepuel Basin, Patagonia, Argentina<\/p>\n\n\n\n

December 2013<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Kimberly Johnson<\/strong>, MS, (Advisor: Czeck)
Deformation and fluid interactions in the Mineral Fork diamictites, Antelope Island, Utah<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

August 2013<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Danielle Sieger<\/strong>, MS, (Advisor: Isbell)
Reexamination of Fluvial Stacking Pattern Changes Across the Permian-Triassic Boundary in the Central Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elizabeth Stapleton<\/strong>, MS, (Advisor: Xu)
Development of Green Solvent Modified Zeolite (GSMZ) for the Removal of Chemical Contaminants from Water<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anna Thorpe<\/strong>, MS, (Advisor: Grundl)
Applying Geochemistry to Investigate the Occurance of Riverbank Inducement Into a Shallow Aquifer in Southeastern Wisconsin<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

August 2012<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Christine E. Barszewski<\/strong>, MS, (Advisor: Czeck)
Microstructural and Cathodoluminescence (SEM-CL) Analyses of Clasts in a Tectonically Deformed Diamictite from the Willard Thrust, UT<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carlene E. Polk<\/strong>, MS, (Advisor: Hooyer)
Testing the Bed-Deformation Hypothesis for Drumlin Formation Using Magnetic Fabrics<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scott N. Schaefer<\/strong>, MS, (Advisor: Fraiser)
“Distribution of Early Triassic Rhynchonelliform Brachiopods in the Dinwoody Basin of the Western United States: A Test of the Habitable Zone Hypothesis”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

May 2012<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Nathan C. Magnusson<\/strong>, MS, (Advisor: Grundl)
“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”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Michael S. Baierlipp<\/strong>, MS, (Advisor: Kean)
“Hydrostratigraphic Images for the Lower Fox Valley, Waukesha, Wisconsin”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

December 2011<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Amelia Nachbor<\/strong>, MS, (Advisor: Czeck)
\u201cFluid effects on deformation in the Mineral Fork diamictites, Antelope Island, Utah\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jolene Traut<\/strong>, MS, (Advisor: Czeck)
“Using Cleavage Refraction, Boudin Shape and Microstructural Evidence to Determine the Relative Rheology of Naturally Deformed Quartzites and Phyllites”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

August 2011<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Mike DeVasto<\/strong>, MS, (Advisor: Czeck)
“Quantifying the Relationships Between Geochemical and Microtextural Changes Across Small-Scale Granitic Shear Zones”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Teri Gerard<\/strong>, MS, (Advisors: McHenry & Cameron)
“Volatiles in melt inclusions from scoria cones in Nicaragua: Implications for magma source and cone evolution.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jeanne Ramponi<\/strong>, MS, (Advisor: Cherkauer)
“Simulation of Shallow Groundwater Flow in a System Dominated By Lakes: Catherine Wolter Wilderness Area Nature Conservancy, Border Lakes Region, Vilas County, Wisconsin”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

May 2011<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Michael Kennedy<\/strong>, MS, (Advisor: Isbell)
“Testing Asteroid Impact as a Mechanism for Environmental Disruption at the Cretaceous-Paleogene Boundary (Montana, USA)”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joseph Rufini<\/strong>, MS, (Advisor: McHenry)
“Hematitte and Sulfate Minerals in Lava Tubes, Craters of the Moon, Idaho: An Analog for Diagenesis at Meridiani Planum, Mars”

Robert Servais<\/strong>, MS, (Advisor: Cherkauer)
“Evaluation of the Effects of Climate Change on Groundwater Recharge Using PRMS: A Regression Equation for the Prediction of Climatic Recharge Change”

Jacob Walczak<\/strong>, MS, (Advisor: Xu)
“Antimicrobial-Resistant Bacteria in Dairy Manure: Occurance and Transport in the Environment”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

December 2010<\/h3>\n\n\n\n


Bonnie Bills<\/strong>, MS, (Advisor: Cherkauer)
“Refinement of a Groundwater Model for the Village of Richfield, Wisconsin”

Micah Holzbauer<\/strong>, MS, (Advisor: Grundl)
“Tracking Shallow Groundwater Anthropogenic Effects in Southeastern Wisconsin”

Zelenda Koch<\/strong>, MS, (Advisor: Isbell)
“Reevaluation of the Late Paleozoic Glacigenic Deposits of the Pagoda Formation at Tillite Glacier, Central Transantarctic Mountains, Anatarctica”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

August 2009<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Jeff Bruesewitz<\/strong>, MS, (Advisor: Cameron)
“Geochemistry, Geochronology, and Petrology of the Cary Mound Granite, Wood County, Wisconsin”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

December 2008<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Tristan J. Kloss<\/strong>, MS, (Advisor: Dornbos)
“Paleoecology and taphonomy of the chancelloriid Allonnia junyuani<\/em> from the Early Cambrian Chengjiang Biota, southwest China.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

August 2008<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Rebecca Byars<\/strong>, MS, (Advisor: Czeck)
\u201cQuantifying cataclastic fabric in deformation bands using wavelets to analyze connectivity of rock constituents\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

May 2008<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Mark Schlottke<\/strong>, MS, (Advisor: Dornbos)
“Paleoecology of the Middle Cambrian Eocrinoid Echinoderm Gogia Spiralis: Changes in Substrate Adaptations Through Ontogeny”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joy Loughry<\/strong>, MS, (Advisor: Cherkauer)
“Hydrogeologic Study of the Catherine Wolter Wilderness area in Vilas County, Wisconsin: An Interpretation of the Local Surface Water and Ground Water Flow System”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tanya Gregg<\/strong>, MS, (Advisor: Cameron)
“Chemical Variations of Select Cinder Cones in Southeastern Guatemala: Implications for the Explosive-effusive Transition”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

May 2006<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Darlene Fissler<\/strong>, MS, (Advisor: Czeck)
\u201cA quantitative analysis of strain in the Seine River metaconglomerates, Rainy Lake region, Northern Ontario, Canada\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Matthew Kawa<\/strong>, MS, (Advisor: Isbell)
“Stratigraphy, Sedimentology, and Paleogeographic Significance of Lower Paleozoic Strata Along the Crest of the Wisconsin Arch”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

August 2005<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Kirk L. Domke<\/strong>, MS, (Advisor: Dornbos)
“Paleoecology of the Middle Cambrian edrioasteroid echinoderm Totiglobus<\/em>: Implications for unusual Cambrian body plans.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

December 2004<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Tiffany Baxter<\/strong>, MS, (Advisor: Boundy)
“Evidence for Caledonian eclogite metamorphism and associated deep crustal faults in the Lofoten Islands, northern Norway”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

May 2004<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Snejana Boscov<\/strong>, MS, (Advisor: Cameron)
“Degassing study of subglacial volcanoes in the Tuya region of northern British Columbia using H2O content and hydrogen isotope analyses”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

May 2003<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Michael Cape<\/strong>, MS, (Advisor: Grundl)
“Geochemical Factors Controlling Radium in the Cambrian-Ordovician Aquifer System of Southeastern Wisconsin”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anthony Schram<\/strong>, MS, (Advisor: Grundl)
“Soil Baseline Concentrations of Cadmium, Chromium and Lead in Northwest Washington County, Wisconsin”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

May 2002<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Catherine Hill<\/strong>, MS, (Advisor: Harris)
“Sedimentology and Environmental Interpretation of the Racine Formation Exposure at Lime Kiln Park”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paul Lenaker<\/strong>, MS, (Advisor: Isbell)
“Sedimentology of Permian Glacial Deposits Exposed in the Darwin Glacier Region, Antarctica”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

May 2001<\/h3>\n\n\n\n


Christopher Peychal<\/strong>, MS, (Advisor: Kean)
“A Study of the Magnetic Basement Rocks of the Waterloo Wisconsin Area”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Heidi Yantz<\/strong>, MS, (Advisors: Cherkauer, Grundl)
“The Relationship of Ground-Water Chemistry to Land Use in the Menomonee River Watershed”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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