Group Members

Current Graduate Students

Quinten Jones

M.S., 2022-Present, Integrating Automated Mineralogic and Petrographic Analysis of Modern Sand

Ben Howard

M.S., 2021-Present, LA-ICP-MS and ID-TIMS Characterization of the Triassic-Jurassic Boundary, South Africa

Katie Hanson

M.S., 2020-Present, Provenance of the Santa Monica Basin, California: Effects of Changing Sea Level on Sediment Routing and Deep-Water Clastic Deposition

Jack Fekete

Ph.D., 2020-Present, Maximum Depositional Age and Detrital Zircon Provenance Prediction, Lower Cretaceous of the Western Interior Basin, U.S.A.

Former Graduate Students

Adam Ball

M.S., 2018-Present, Multi-Proxy Provenance Analysis of the Stevens Sandstone, San Joaquin Basin, California

Isaac Johnson

M.S., 2019-Present, Global Prediction of Sediment Composition

Linnea Johnson

M.S., 2019-Present, Provenance of Upper Mississippian Silt, Anadarko-Arcoma Basins

Jordan Oefinger

M.S., 2018-Present, Sedimentology and Chemostratigraphy of the Triassic-Jurassic Transition, Colorado Plateau

David Gates

M.S., 2018-Present, Three-Dimensional Digital Outcrop Modeling as an Analog for Subsurface Reservoir Characterization of the STACK Play, Oklahoma

Asher Boudreaux

M.S., 2017-2019, Provenance and Maximum Depositional Age Analysis of the Moenave Formation using Detrital Zircon U-Pb Geochronology and Sandstone Petrography

Former 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