Group Members

Current and Former Graduate Students

Ethan Oleson

Ph.D., Quantifying and mitigating effects of Pb loss on laser ablation U-Pb dating of zircon

Quinten Jones

M.S., Integrating Automated Mineralogic and Petrographic Analysis of Modern Sand

Katie Hanson

M.S., Provenance of the Santa Monica Basin, California: Effects of Changing Sea Level on Sediment Routing and Deep-Water Clastic Deposition

Jack Fekete

Ph.D., Maximum Depositional Age and Detrital Zircon Provenance Prediction, Lower Cretaceous of the Western Interior Basin, U.S.A.

Ben Howard

M.S., 2023, Maximum Depositional Age Analysis using Paired LA-ICP-MS and CA-ID-TIMS Detrital Zircon U-Pb Geochronology

Isaac Johnson

M.S., 2022, Machine Learning Applied to a Modern-Pleistocene Petrographic Dataset: The Global Prediction of Sand Mineralogy (GloPrSM) Model

Linnea Johnson

M.S., 2022, Detrital Zircon U-Pb Geochronology of Upper Mississippian Siltstone, Oklahoma and Arkansas

Jordan Oefinger

M.S., 2022, C-Isotope Chemostratigraphy and Fluvial Sedimentology of the Moenave Formation, Utah

Adam Ball

M.S., 2020, Multi-Proxy Provenance Analysis of the Stevens Sandstone, San Joaquin Basin, California

David Gates

M.S., 2020, Integrated Hyperspectral and Geochemical Analysis of the Upper Mississippian Meramec STACK Play and Outcrop Equivalents, Anadarko Basin and Ozark Uplift, Oklahoma

Asher Boudreaux

M.S., 2019, Provenance and Maximum Depositional Age Analysis of the Moenave Formation using Detrital Zircon U-Pb Geochronology and Sandstone Petrography

Undergraduate Students

Gunnar Gregory

Geology Major – Conducted a pXRF analysis of the Paleocene-Eocene transition, deep-water Wilcox Group, Gulf of Mexico

Billy Niznik

Geology Major – Conducted a subsurface well-log analysis of deep-water Wilcox Group, Gulf of Mexico

Malcolm Cross

Geology Major – Analyzing the influence of washing procedure (water table vs settling columns) during mineral separation on detrital mineral studies

Sam Vasquez

Geology Major – “No Zircon Left Behind” – development of mineral separation techniques where all zircon is retained for assessing the potential of grain size fractionation on biasing detrital zircon U-Pb age distributions, Wax Lake Delta, Lousiana

Amy Gottberg

Geology Major – X-Ray Diffraction Mineralogy of the Paleocene-Eocene transition: Laramide Hinterland versus Gulf of Mexico