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| 2018 | ||
| Kalie Duccini | Olivine-Pyroxene Cumulates of the Summit Gabbro, Sierra Nevada Arc: Lessons Regarding Source(s) and Differentiation Pathways of the Arc’s Mafic Endmember | D.Clemens-Knott |
| Dustin Williams | From sheets to blobs: The initial emplacement and evolution of a large, long-lived intrusion, the Tuolumne intrusive complex, Sierra Nevada, California | Memeti |
| 2017 | ||
| Angela Aranda | Salt Marsh Response and Recovery to Coseismic Subsidence | Carlin |
| Nancy Chen | Detrital Zircon Uranium-Lead Geochronology of the Schoonover Sequence (Golconda Allochthon) and the Yokuts pendants (western Sierra Nevada Mountains): Insights into the Late Paleozoic Evolution of Western Laurentia | D.Clemens-Knott |
| Edween Hernandez | A Paleoecological Study of the Middle Triassic Within Favret and American Canyon, West-Central Nevada | Bonuso |
| Aaron Katona | Tectonic Geomorphology of the White/Inyo Mountains, California | J.Knott |
| Stefanie Mayer | A 1200 Year History of Hydrologic Variability Using Sediment from Ford Lake, California | Kirby |
| 2016 | ||
| Kylie Caesar | Carbon and sulfur isotope analyses of salt dome cap rocks, biological cycling and formation mechanisms. | Loyd |
| Peter Kloess | Twelve Million Years of Bird History - A Specimen-Based Approach To Reconstructing The Late Neogene Bird Communities of California | Parham |
| Robert Leeper | Abrupt Subsidence in the Seal Beach Wetlands, Southern California | Rhodes |
| Khadija Nadimi | Searching San Eligo Lagoon, Southern California for Paleotsunami Evidence | Kirby |
| 2015 | ||
| Christine Hiner | Tracking the Western North American Hydrologic Dipole During the Late Holocene Using Lake Sediments from Abbott Lake, California | Kirby |
| Bethany Malenick | Deciphering Biotic Responses to Rapid Climate Change at the Plio-Pleistocene Boundary | Bonuso |
| William Pilesky | A Paleoceanographic and Geochemical Analysis of the Late Ordovician-Early Silurian Ely Springs Dolomite, East-Central California | Woods |
| 2014 | ||
| Paul Alms | Complex ichnofabrics in the Lower Member of the Union Wash Formation, California: Failed recovery from the Permain-Triassic mass extinction | Woods |
| Kelly Kinder | Paleoenvironmental Conditions in Early Triassic Oceans Along the Western Margin of Pangea: Trace Elemental Analysis of the Middle Member of the Union Wash Formation, East-Central California | Woods |
| Jennifer Kirton | Stromatolite Patch Reef from the Lower Triassic Virgin Limestone at Blue Diamond, NV: Paleoenvironmental and Paleoecological Significance | Woods |
| Randall Morlan | The effects of agricultural activities on the migration of the Hinkley chromium plume, San Bernadino County, California | Laton |
| Kelly Vreeland (Kathe) | A Paleoecological Reconstruction of Oysters from Orange County, California: Understanding the Past to Help Restore the Future | Bonuso |
| 2013 | ||
| Christopher Buchen | Field, petrologic and detrital zircon study of the Kings sequence and Calaveras complex, southern Lake Kaweah roof pendent, Tulare County, California | D.Clemens-Knott |
| Kelly Ferguson | Rock Uplift Above the Subduction Megathrust at Hinchinbrook and Montague Islands, Prince William Sound, Alaska | Armstrong |
| Michelle Gevedon | Paired oxygen and hafnium Isotopic Analysis of zircon from Gabbros: Identifying potential Mesozoic mantle geterogenity in the Sierra Nevada arc | D.Clemens-Knott |
| Brittany Pyke (Price) | A Holocene Hydroclimatic Investigation of lake Elsinore, Southern California using Seismic Reflection and Sediment Core Data | Kirby |
| Patricia Robards | Hydrogeochemical Study in the Irvine Sub-Basin: Using Isotopic And General Mineral Data to Identify Processes of Chemical Modification | D.Clemens-Knott |
| 2012 | ||
| Erin Driver | Evaluation of Kinetic Controls on Microbially Mediated Reaction in an Electron Donor-limited Environment | Kirby |
| Michael Hoffman | Hydraulic Tomographic Modeling of the Yorba Linda Water Well Field, Yorba Linda, California | Laton |
| Pedro Monarrez | Brachipod Community Patterns Following the Onset of the Late Paleozoic Ice Age across the Mid-Carboniferous Boundary G.S.S.P., Arrow Canyon, Nevada | Woods |
| Michelle Vitale | Petrology and Mineral Inventory of Basaltic Inclusions from the 2006 Eruption of Augustine Volcano, Alaska | Browne |
| 2011 | ||
| Jenny Arkle | Focused Exhumation in the Southern Alaska Syntaxis: New Insights from Apatite and Zircon Thermochronology | Armstrong |
| Jeff Hathaway | Application of Laser Ablation Inductively Coupled Mass Spectometry to selected Tephra Layers in the Western United States | J.Knott |
| Michael Martin | A Detrital Zircon Provenance Analysis of the Goldstein Peak Formation | D.Clemens-Knott |
| Elizabeth Seal | Magma Differentiation as Recorded by Changes in Mineral Stratigraphy within Layered Mafic Cumulates(Western Sierra Nevada Batholiths, California) | D.Clemens-Knott |
| Michael Van Ry | Petrology and Barometry of the Earthquake Dome Magma | Browne |
| 2010 | ||
| Karen Anderson | Taphonomy of Early Triassic Fish Fossils of the Vega-Phroso Siltstone Member of the Sulphur Mountain Formation Near Wapiti Lake in British Columbia | Woods |
| Shelby Barker-Harold | An Investigation of the Potential for Surficial Recharge in the Lucerne Valley Groundwater Basin Mojave Desert, California | Laton |
| Luissa Johnston | Spatial Variability in Biogeochemical Processes at the Sediment-Water Interface in a Hydrologically Dynamic Reservoir System | Kneeshaw |
| Jeffrey Reissman | Worldwide Search for Anomalies Accelerating Moment Release(A.M.R.) Before Large Earthquakes | Bowman |
| Meredith Rivin (Staley) | Early Miocene Cetacean Diversity in the Vaqueros Formation, Laguna Canyon, Orange County, California | Bonuso |
| Luke Sabala | Exhumation and Deformation History of the Little San Bernardino Mountains in the Restraining Bend of the San Andreas Fault, Southern California | Armstrong |
| 2009 | ||
| Rene Perez | Hydrostratigraphy of the Alto Deep Well: Implications for Sustainable Groundwater Recharge into the Distal Victorville Fan Sediments; Southwestern Mojave Desert, California | Foster |
| Arron Steiner | Late Neogene alluvial-fan geochronology and faulting, southern Death Valley, California A Petrological Investigation of Mafic Inputs Into the Augustine Volcano Magma System over time |
J.Knott |
| 2008 | ||
| Beverly Berekian | A Mineralogic Study of the Consolidated Tungsten Mine Skarn, Tulare County, California | D.Clemens-Knott |
| Peggy Brown-Barthel | Water Budget and Hydrogeologic Model of Spring Flow at Limestone Hill, Zzyzx Desert Studies Center | Laton |
| Michael Blazevic | Subsurface geologic investigation of a Closed Alluvial Basin: Lucerne Velley, San Bernardino County, California & Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction of a Glacial-age Sediment Core From Baldwin Lake, Southern California: Evidence for Multi-timescale Climate Variability | Kirby |
| Christine Irwin | Cenozoic Burial and Exhumation History of the Eastern Los Angeles Basin, California, from Low-temperature Thermochronology | Armstrong |
| 2007 | ||
| Kenneth Kolstad | Analysis of a Steady State Model: Prediction of Trichloroethylene Vapor Concentration Using Known Dissolved Phase Concentration | Laton |
| Anthony Lizzi | Evaluation of the Potential Groundwater Resources of the Golem Well, West Rancho Bernardo, San Diego County, California | Laton |
| Eric Patschull | Evidence of North Projecting Ancient Boulder Thalweg in Latest Quaternary Deposits of the Santa Ana River, Orange County, California | Laton |
| 2006 | ||
| Sean Hunt | Artificial Recharge as Possible Causes of Observed Long-Term Change in Transmissivity of the San Pedro Formation Aquifers, Central Basin of the Greater Los Angeles Basin, California | Laton |
| Brenda Nelson-Ten Bruggencate | Paleoproductivity and Paleoredox in the Union Wash Formation,East-Central California: Evidence and Mechanism for Prolonged Biotic Recovery in the Early Triassic | Woods |
| Marsha Sohn | Late Neogene alluvial-fan geochronology and faulting, southern Death Valley, California | J.Knott |
| Tammy Surko | Gravity Survey of the Lucerne Valley Groundwater Basin: Implications for Basin Structure and Geometry | Armstrong |
| Aron Taylor | Geomorphology and geochronology of the San Juan Creek terraces: Implications for Quaternary uplift of the Santa Ana Mountain foothills, Orange County, California | Armstrong |
| Steve Williams | Hydrological Investigation of a Shallow Aquifer System with Emphasis on Precipitation Induced Recharge Lower Borrego Canyon Wash, Irvine, California | Laton |
| 2005 | ||
| Broxton Bird | A 9,000 Year Record of Long-Term Climate Change and Abrupt Climate Events from Dry Lake, Southern California | Kirby |
| Andrea Figueroa | Investigation of the Late Cenozoic Uplift of the Sierra Nevada Mountains (California) Using Kinematic Modeling and Tectonic Geomorphology | J.Knott |
| 2004 | ||
| Nancy Ikeda | Testing the False Alarm Rate of Accelerating Moment Release Before Large Earthquakes | Bowman |
| Patrick Versluis | The Fate of Perchlorate: A Look at Perchlorate Entering Orange County's Groundwater | Laton |
| 2003 | ||
| Otto Figueroa | Groundwater Flow Model of a Coastal Aquifer, Malibu, California | Laton |
