Student News
2023 - Welcome Wyatt Everhart - new M.S. student starting fall 2023!
2023 - Congratulations M.S. student Alex Bearden for successfully defending his thesis!!! (June 2023)
2022 - Congratulations M.S student Alex Bearden for presenting research results at the 2022 annual AGU meeting. Alex was also honored as a 2022 Outstanding Student Presentation Award winner! (December 2022)
2022 - Congratulations M.S student Alyssa Endrich and Alex Bearden for presenting research results at the 2022 annual GSA meeting (October 2022)
2022 - Welcome Kyle Broley - new M.S. student starting fall 2022!
2022 - Congratulations M.S. student Alex Bearden for being awarded a 2022 GSA Student Research Grant
2022 - Congratulations M.S. student Alex Bearden for being awarded a 2022 Don Richter Memorial Scholarship from the Alaska Geological Society!
2021 - Congratulations M.S students Alyssa Endrich and Alex Karrasch for presenting research results at the 2021 annual GSA meeting (October 2021)
2021 - Welcome Alex Bearden - new M.S. student starting fall 2021!
2021 - Congratulations M.S. student Alyssa Endrich for receiving a 2020 GSA Student Research Grant and a 2021 Tobacco Root Geological Society scholarship!
2020 - Welcome Alyssa Endrich and Alex Karrasch - new M.S. students starting fall 2020!
2020 - Congratulations M.S. student Emily Fenner for successfully defending her thesis in the time of Covid-19!! (May 2020)
2019 - Congratulations M.S. student Emily Fenner for 2nd place in the American Exploration & Mining Association annual meeting Student Poster Contest! (Dec. 2019)
2019 - Congratulations M.S. student Pat Manselle for successfully defending his thesis!! (May 2019)
2019 - Congratulations M.S student Emily Fenner for receiving a 2019 GSA Student Research Grant and also a 2019 Society of Economic Geologists Student Research Grant.
2019- Congratulations former M.S. student Chris Wierman for presenting research results at the 2019 GSA triple section meeting (March 2019)
2018- Congratulations M.S. student Chris Wierman for successfully defending his thesis!!! (Oct. 2018)
2018- Congratulations M.S. student Pat Manselle for being awarded a 2018 Don Richter Memorial Scholarship from the Alaska Geological Society!
2017- Congratulations M.S. student Sam Berkelhammer and B.S, students Maridee Weber and David Martin for presenting research results at the 2017 annual GSA meeting (October 2017)
2017- Congratulations M.S. student Beth Morter for successfully defending her thesis!!! (Sept. 2017)
2017- Congratulations M.S. student Sam Berkelhammer for successfully defending his thesis!!! (July 2017)
2017- Congratulations B.S. student Maridee Weber for presenting research results at the 2017 GSA Cordilleran Section meeting (May 2017), as well as for receiving both a KSU College of Arts and Sciences Research Travel award and a KSU Office of Undergraduate Research & Creative Inquiry travel grant.
2017- Congratulations M.S student Chris Wierman for receiving a 2017 GSA Student Research Grant and also a 2017 Society of Economic Geologists Student Research Grant.
2016 - Congratulations B.S. students Victoria Fitzgerald, Ryan Keast, and David Martin and also M.S. students Anna Maynard, Sam Berkelhammer, and Beth Morter for presenting research results at the 2016 annual GSA meeting (October 2016).
2016 - Congratulations M.S. student Anna Maynard for successfully defending her thesis!!! (June 2016)
2016 - Congratulations B.S. student David Martin for receiving a Kansas State University - College of Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Research award!
2016 - Congratulations M.S. student Anna Maynard for receiving a scholarship from the Geological Society of Nevada (Elko Chapter) to support her Cu isotope research!
2015 - Congratulations M.S. student Anna Maynard and former B.S. student Clay Robertson for presenting research results at the 2015 annual GSA meeting (November 2015).
2015 - Congratulations M.S. student Anna Downey for successfully defending her thesis!!! (August 2015)
2015 - Congratulations M.S. student Caleb Dodd for successfully defending his thesis!!! (May 2015)
2015- Congratulations M.S. student Anna Maynard for receiving a 2015 GSA Student Research Grant.
2015 - Congratulations M.S. student Jasper Hobbs for successfully defending his thesis!!! (April 2015)
2015 - Congratulations M.S. student Jasper Hobbs for “First Place, Oral Presentation (Ecology, Environmental and Earth Sciences) at the 2015 Emerging Researchers National Conference in STEM (Washington D.C.)!!
2014- Congratulations M.S. students Anna Downey, Caleb Dodd, and Jasper Hobbs for presenting research results at the 2014 AGU Fall meeting (Dec. 2014)
2014- Congratulations M.S. student Andy Ingalls for successfully defending his thesis (May 2014)!!
2014 - Congratulations M.S. students Andy Ingalls and Anna Downey for presenting research results at the 2014 Joint GSA Cordilleran/Rocky Mt. section meeting (May 2014).
2014- Congratulations M.S. student Caleb Dodd for receiving a 2014 Society of Economic Geologists Student research grant.
2014- Congratulations M.S. student Anna Downey for receiving a 2014 GSA Student Research Grant, a KSU College of Arts and Sciences research travel award, a Tobacco Root Geological Society Field Scholarship, a Wyoming Geological Association J. D. Love scholarship, and a Kansas Geological Foundation research scholarship.
2014- Congratulations M.S. student Jasper Hobbs for receiving a 2014 AAPG Grants-in-Aid and a KSU-Chapter Sigma XI student research grant.
2013- Congratulations former M.S. student Kate Amrhein and B.S. student David Kowal for presenting research results at the 2013 annual GSA Meeting (October 2013).
2013- Congratulations M.S. student Kate Amrhein for successfully defending her thesis!! (August 2013)
2013- Congratulations M.S. student Kate Amrhein for presenting research results at the 2013 GSA South-Central section meeting (April 2013).
2013- Congratulations M.S. student Andy Ingalls for being selected as a 2013-2014 EIDRoP Fellow (National Science Foundation GK-12 fellowship).
2012- Congratulations M.S. students Casey Bulen and Zac Hasten for successfully defending their theses!! (November 2012)
2012- B.S. student Tyler Meek and M.S. student Casey Bulen present research results at the 2012 annual GSA Meeting (November 2012).
2012- Congratulations M.S. student Zac Hasten for presenting research results at the Goldschmidt 2012 meeting, Montreal Canada (June 2012).
2012- Congratulations M.S. students Bill Busch and Kate Amrhein for receiving 2012 GSA Student Research Grants.
2012- Congratulations M.S. student Casey Bulen for 1st place Oral Presentation honors at the 2012 K-State Research Forum.
2011- Congratulations M.S. students Casey Bulen and Zac Hasten for presenting research results at the 2011 annual GSA meeting (October 2011)
2011- Congratulations B.S. students Eric Whiting and Jason Kolb and M.S. student, Zac Hasten for presenting research results at the 2011 Joint GSA Cordilleran/Rocky Mountain section meeting (May 2011).
2010- Congratulations B.S. student Tyler Meek for being selected as a 2011-2012 KSU Chapman Scholar (to help support his undergraduate research).
2010- Congratulations M.S. student Casey Bulen for receiving a 2011 AAPG Grants-in-Aid (Barrett Family Named Grant).
2010- Congratulations M.S. student Zac Hasten for being selected as a 2011-2012 EIDRoP Fellow (National Science Foundation GK-12 fellowship).
2023 - Welcome Wyatt Everhart - new M.S. student starting fall 2023!
2023 - Congratulations M.S. student Alex Bearden for successfully defending his thesis!!! (June 2023)
2022 - Congratulations M.S student Alex Bearden for presenting research results at the 2022 annual AGU meeting. Alex was also honored as a 2022 Outstanding Student Presentation Award winner! (December 2022)
2022 - Congratulations M.S student Alyssa Endrich and Alex Bearden for presenting research results at the 2022 annual GSA meeting (October 2022)
2022 - Welcome Kyle Broley - new M.S. student starting fall 2022!
2022 - Congratulations M.S. student Alex Bearden for being awarded a 2022 GSA Student Research Grant
2022 - Congratulations M.S. student Alex Bearden for being awarded a 2022 Don Richter Memorial Scholarship from the Alaska Geological Society!
2021 - Congratulations M.S students Alyssa Endrich and Alex Karrasch for presenting research results at the 2021 annual GSA meeting (October 2021)
2021 - Welcome Alex Bearden - new M.S. student starting fall 2021!
2021 - Congratulations M.S. student Alyssa Endrich for receiving a 2020 GSA Student Research Grant and a 2021 Tobacco Root Geological Society scholarship!
2020 - Welcome Alyssa Endrich and Alex Karrasch - new M.S. students starting fall 2020!
2020 - Congratulations M.S. student Emily Fenner for successfully defending her thesis in the time of Covid-19!! (May 2020)
2019 - Congratulations M.S. student Emily Fenner for 2nd place in the American Exploration & Mining Association annual meeting Student Poster Contest! (Dec. 2019)
2019 - Congratulations M.S. student Pat Manselle for successfully defending his thesis!! (May 2019)
2019 - Congratulations M.S student Emily Fenner for receiving a 2019 GSA Student Research Grant and also a 2019 Society of Economic Geologists Student Research Grant.
2019- Congratulations former M.S. student Chris Wierman for presenting research results at the 2019 GSA triple section meeting (March 2019)
2018- Congratulations M.S. student Chris Wierman for successfully defending his thesis!!! (Oct. 2018)
2018- Congratulations M.S. student Pat Manselle for being awarded a 2018 Don Richter Memorial Scholarship from the Alaska Geological Society!
2017- Congratulations M.S. student Sam Berkelhammer and B.S, students Maridee Weber and David Martin for presenting research results at the 2017 annual GSA meeting (October 2017)
2017- Congratulations M.S. student Beth Morter for successfully defending her thesis!!! (Sept. 2017)
2017- Congratulations M.S. student Sam Berkelhammer for successfully defending his thesis!!! (July 2017)
2017- Congratulations B.S. student Maridee Weber for presenting research results at the 2017 GSA Cordilleran Section meeting (May 2017), as well as for receiving both a KSU College of Arts and Sciences Research Travel award and a KSU Office of Undergraduate Research & Creative Inquiry travel grant.
2017- Congratulations M.S student Chris Wierman for receiving a 2017 GSA Student Research Grant and also a 2017 Society of Economic Geologists Student Research Grant.
2016 - Congratulations B.S. students Victoria Fitzgerald, Ryan Keast, and David Martin and also M.S. students Anna Maynard, Sam Berkelhammer, and Beth Morter for presenting research results at the 2016 annual GSA meeting (October 2016).
2016 - Congratulations M.S. student Anna Maynard for successfully defending her thesis!!! (June 2016)
2016 - Congratulations B.S. student David Martin for receiving a Kansas State University - College of Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Research award!
2016 - Congratulations M.S. student Anna Maynard for receiving a scholarship from the Geological Society of Nevada (Elko Chapter) to support her Cu isotope research!
2015 - Congratulations M.S. student Anna Maynard and former B.S. student Clay Robertson for presenting research results at the 2015 annual GSA meeting (November 2015).
2015 - Congratulations M.S. student Anna Downey for successfully defending her thesis!!! (August 2015)
2015 - Congratulations M.S. student Caleb Dodd for successfully defending his thesis!!! (May 2015)
2015- Congratulations M.S. student Anna Maynard for receiving a 2015 GSA Student Research Grant.
2015 - Congratulations M.S. student Jasper Hobbs for successfully defending his thesis!!! (April 2015)
2015 - Congratulations M.S. student Jasper Hobbs for “First Place, Oral Presentation (Ecology, Environmental and Earth Sciences) at the 2015 Emerging Researchers National Conference in STEM (Washington D.C.)!!
2014- Congratulations M.S. students Anna Downey, Caleb Dodd, and Jasper Hobbs for presenting research results at the 2014 AGU Fall meeting (Dec. 2014)
2014- Congratulations M.S. student Andy Ingalls for successfully defending his thesis (May 2014)!!
2014 - Congratulations M.S. students Andy Ingalls and Anna Downey for presenting research results at the 2014 Joint GSA Cordilleran/Rocky Mt. section meeting (May 2014).
2014- Congratulations M.S. student Caleb Dodd for receiving a 2014 Society of Economic Geologists Student research grant.
2014- Congratulations M.S. student Anna Downey for receiving a 2014 GSA Student Research Grant, a KSU College of Arts and Sciences research travel award, a Tobacco Root Geological Society Field Scholarship, a Wyoming Geological Association J. D. Love scholarship, and a Kansas Geological Foundation research scholarship.
2014- Congratulations M.S. student Jasper Hobbs for receiving a 2014 AAPG Grants-in-Aid and a KSU-Chapter Sigma XI student research grant.
2013- Congratulations former M.S. student Kate Amrhein and B.S. student David Kowal for presenting research results at the 2013 annual GSA Meeting (October 2013).
2013- Congratulations M.S. student Kate Amrhein for successfully defending her thesis!! (August 2013)
2013- Congratulations M.S. student Kate Amrhein for presenting research results at the 2013 GSA South-Central section meeting (April 2013).
2013- Congratulations M.S. student Andy Ingalls for being selected as a 2013-2014 EIDRoP Fellow (National Science Foundation GK-12 fellowship).
2012- Congratulations M.S. students Casey Bulen and Zac Hasten for successfully defending their theses!! (November 2012)
2012- B.S. student Tyler Meek and M.S. student Casey Bulen present research results at the 2012 annual GSA Meeting (November 2012).
2012- Congratulations M.S. student Zac Hasten for presenting research results at the Goldschmidt 2012 meeting, Montreal Canada (June 2012).
2012- Congratulations M.S. students Bill Busch and Kate Amrhein for receiving 2012 GSA Student Research Grants.
2012- Congratulations M.S. student Casey Bulen for 1st place Oral Presentation honors at the 2012 K-State Research Forum.
2011- Congratulations M.S. students Casey Bulen and Zac Hasten for presenting research results at the 2011 annual GSA meeting (October 2011)
2011- Congratulations B.S. students Eric Whiting and Jason Kolb and M.S. student, Zac Hasten for presenting research results at the 2011 Joint GSA Cordilleran/Rocky Mountain section meeting (May 2011).
2010- Congratulations B.S. student Tyler Meek for being selected as a 2011-2012 KSU Chapman Scholar (to help support his undergraduate research).
2010- Congratulations M.S. student Casey Bulen for receiving a 2011 AAPG Grants-in-Aid (Barrett Family Named Grant).
2010- Congratulations M.S. student Zac Hasten for being selected as a 2011-2012 EIDRoP Fellow (National Science Foundation GK-12 fellowship).
Current Students:
Wyatt Everhart, 2023 - present, Origin and significance of Eocene-Oligocene volcanism in the Gravelly Range, southwestern Montana. USA: new constrains on the Dillon volcanics. M.S., student.
Celine Mazella, 2023 - present, Physical volcanology and geochemistry of the Flat Creek basalt: a Miocene(?) eruptive center in Jackson Hole, WY, B.S. student.
Quinton Mindrup, 2022 - present, Li concentrations in melt inclusions and vitrophyres from Cenozoic northern Great Basin rhyolites, via LA-ICP-MS. B.S. student.
Kyle Broley, 2022 - present, Time-space trends in Eocene to Oligocene volcanism in southwest Montana, USA: evaluation of post-Laramide tectonomagmatic models. M.S. student.
Alyssa Endrich, 2020 - present, Snake River Plain volcanism north of the Yellowstone hotspot track?: Petrogenesis of Cenozoic basalts from the Centennial Valley and vicinity, southwest Montana, M.S., student.
Alex Karrasch, 2020 - present, Petrogenesis of <6 Ma volcanism in the upper Wind River basin and Jackson Hole region, WY, M.S., student.
Past KSU Student Projects:
Alex Bearden, 2021 - 2023, On the Maclaren River volcanic field: Petrogenesis of Pleistocene Yakutat slab tear volcanism in south-central Alaska (USA), M.S., student.
Ben Walters, 2019-2021, Cenozoic off track and off-axis volcanism adjacent to the Snake River Plain, ID-WY, B.S. student.
Sarah Green, 2019-2020, Cenozoic off-track and off-axis Yellowstone hotspot volcanism (Idaho and Montana, USA), B.S. student.
Emily Fenner, 2018-2020, Paragenesis and geochemistry of the Miocene Milestone Sinter, Silver City District, ID: Implications for sinter-hosted epithermal Au-Ag deposits, M.S., student.
Maridee Weber, 2016-2019, Geochemistry and tectonic significance of hypabyssal intrusives (map units Th/Tp) across the Wrangell Arc (AK), B.S. student.
Pat Manselle, 2017-2019, Mid-Cretaceous Chisana arc volcanism in south-central Alaska: constraints on the accretion of the Wrangellia Composite Terrane, M.S., student.
Chris Wierman, 2016-2018, Copper partitioning in mid-Miocene flood basalts from the Northern Great Basin (U.S.A): implications for Cu behavior in flood basalt provinces, M.S. student.
David Martin, 2016-2017, Crystal chemistry of feldspar and pyroxene from Miocene Jarbidge Rhyolite lavas (NV), B.S. student.
Beth Morter, 2015-2017, Understanding the history of a volcanic arc: linking geochemistry of Cenozoic volcanic cobbles from the Wrangell arc, Alaska, to upper plate and subducting slab tectonic processes, M.S. student.
Sam Berkelhammer, 2015-2017, Initiation of the Wrangell arc: A record of tectonic changes in an arc-transform junction revealed by new geochemistry and geochronology of the ~29–18 Ma Sonya Creek volcanic field, Alaska, M.S. student.
Anna Maynard, 2014-2016, Cu isotope compositions of Cenozoic mafic rocks from the northern Great Basin and Snake River Plain (USA), M.S. student.
Ryan Keast, 2015-2016, Petrogenesis of Eucher Mountain (AK) volcanism: potential leaky strike-slip volcanism along the Totschunda Fault, B.S. student.
Victoria Fitzgerald, 2016, Geochemical characterization of Wrangell lavas from Green Hills section, Wrangell Mountains, Alaska, B.S. student.
Anna Downey (B.S. SUNY-Oneonta), 2013-2015, Cenozoic mafic to intermediate volcanism at Lava Mountain and Spring Mountain, Upper Wind River Basin, Wyoming, M.S. student.
Clay Robertson, 2014-2015, A microprobe compositional analyses of xenoliths from the Fancy Creek Kimberlite of Riley County KS, with an emphasis on garnet xenocrysts and pyroxene and plagioclase from granulite xenoliths, B.S. student.
Caleb Dodd, 2014-2015, Petrogenesis and rare earth element economic potential of Pilot Knob, a Pliocene(?) alkaline intrusive complex in the Togwotee Pass region, northwestern Wyoming (U.S.A), M.S. student.
Jasper Hobbs (B.A. Boston Univ.), 2013-2015, Geochemical/isotope constraints on Cambrian flood basalt volcanism in southern Oklahoma, M.S. student.
Andrew Ingalls (B.S., Northeastern Univ.), 2012-2014, Reconnaissance Cenozoic volcanic geology of the Little Goose Creek area, northeastern Elko County, NV with an emphasis on the Jarbidge Rhyolite, M.S. student.
Ben Hamill, 2013, Creation of a dynamic digital geologic map of the Owyhee Mountains, ID in Google Earth, B.S. student.
Kate Amrhein (B.S., Grand Valley State Univ.), 2011-13: Testing models of low-18O silicic magmatism in the mid-Miocene Santa Rosa-Calico volcanic field, NV. M.S. student.
Bill Busch (B.S. Kansas State Univ.), 2011-present, Mid-Miocene mafic magmatism and relationship to Au-Ag mineralization in the Midas district, Nevada (USA), M.S. student.
David Kowal, 2012-13, Integration of cell phone photography into Mineralogy and Petrology coursework, B.S. student.
Caleb Akerstrom, 2011-13, Geochemical characterization of Cambrian mafic well-cuttings from the Turner Falls test well, OK (USA), B.S. student.
Zachary Hasten (B.S., San Diego State Univ.), 2010-2012,Mid-Miocene magmatism in the Owyhee Mountains, ID: origin and petrogenesis of volcanic rocks in the Silver City District. M.S. student.
Casey Bulen (B.S., Northwest Missouri State Univ.), 2010-2012, The Role of Magmatism in the Evolution of the Cambrian Southern Oklahoma Rift Zone: Geochemical Constraints on the Mafic-Intermediate Rocks in the Arbuckle Mountains, OK. M.S. student.
Tyler Meek, 2011-12: Oxygen isotopes values of igneous rocks from the Owyhee Mts., ID (USA). B.S. student.
Jeff Callicoat (B.S. Eastern Illinois Univ.), 2009-2010, Significance of Mid-Miocene volcanism in northeast Nevada: petrographic, chemical, isotopic, and temporal importance of the Jarbidge Rhyolite. M.S. student.
Abby Lynch, 2010-11, Provenance of Quaternary Lake Kaw sediments, KS. B.S. student.
Jason Kolb, 2010-11, Petrography and geochemistry of Cretaceous granitoids from the Owyhee Mts., ID. B.S. student.
Eric Whiting, 2010-11, Metamorphic rocks of the Flint District (Owyhee Mts.), ID. B.S. student.
Chris Cook, 2009-2010: Petrology of Eocene ash flow tuffs in the vicinity of Jarbidge, NV. B.S. student.
Josh Foster, 2009-2010: Mid-Miocene volcanism in the Silver City District, ID. B.S. student.
Kendra Risen, 2007-2009: Mafic volcanism in the Lake Owyhee volcanic field, OR. B.S. student.
Wyatt Everhart, 2023 - present, Origin and significance of Eocene-Oligocene volcanism in the Gravelly Range, southwestern Montana. USA: new constrains on the Dillon volcanics. M.S., student.
Celine Mazella, 2023 - present, Physical volcanology and geochemistry of the Flat Creek basalt: a Miocene(?) eruptive center in Jackson Hole, WY, B.S. student.
Quinton Mindrup, 2022 - present, Li concentrations in melt inclusions and vitrophyres from Cenozoic northern Great Basin rhyolites, via LA-ICP-MS. B.S. student.
Kyle Broley, 2022 - present, Time-space trends in Eocene to Oligocene volcanism in southwest Montana, USA: evaluation of post-Laramide tectonomagmatic models. M.S. student.
Alyssa Endrich, 2020 - present, Snake River Plain volcanism north of the Yellowstone hotspot track?: Petrogenesis of Cenozoic basalts from the Centennial Valley and vicinity, southwest Montana, M.S., student.
Alex Karrasch, 2020 - present, Petrogenesis of <6 Ma volcanism in the upper Wind River basin and Jackson Hole region, WY, M.S., student.
Past KSU Student Projects:
Alex Bearden, 2021 - 2023, On the Maclaren River volcanic field: Petrogenesis of Pleistocene Yakutat slab tear volcanism in south-central Alaska (USA), M.S., student.
Ben Walters, 2019-2021, Cenozoic off track and off-axis volcanism adjacent to the Snake River Plain, ID-WY, B.S. student.
Sarah Green, 2019-2020, Cenozoic off-track and off-axis Yellowstone hotspot volcanism (Idaho and Montana, USA), B.S. student.
Emily Fenner, 2018-2020, Paragenesis and geochemistry of the Miocene Milestone Sinter, Silver City District, ID: Implications for sinter-hosted epithermal Au-Ag deposits, M.S., student.
Maridee Weber, 2016-2019, Geochemistry and tectonic significance of hypabyssal intrusives (map units Th/Tp) across the Wrangell Arc (AK), B.S. student.
Pat Manselle, 2017-2019, Mid-Cretaceous Chisana arc volcanism in south-central Alaska: constraints on the accretion of the Wrangellia Composite Terrane, M.S., student.
Chris Wierman, 2016-2018, Copper partitioning in mid-Miocene flood basalts from the Northern Great Basin (U.S.A): implications for Cu behavior in flood basalt provinces, M.S. student.
David Martin, 2016-2017, Crystal chemistry of feldspar and pyroxene from Miocene Jarbidge Rhyolite lavas (NV), B.S. student.
Beth Morter, 2015-2017, Understanding the history of a volcanic arc: linking geochemistry of Cenozoic volcanic cobbles from the Wrangell arc, Alaska, to upper plate and subducting slab tectonic processes, M.S. student.
Sam Berkelhammer, 2015-2017, Initiation of the Wrangell arc: A record of tectonic changes in an arc-transform junction revealed by new geochemistry and geochronology of the ~29–18 Ma Sonya Creek volcanic field, Alaska, M.S. student.
Anna Maynard, 2014-2016, Cu isotope compositions of Cenozoic mafic rocks from the northern Great Basin and Snake River Plain (USA), M.S. student.
Ryan Keast, 2015-2016, Petrogenesis of Eucher Mountain (AK) volcanism: potential leaky strike-slip volcanism along the Totschunda Fault, B.S. student.
Victoria Fitzgerald, 2016, Geochemical characterization of Wrangell lavas from Green Hills section, Wrangell Mountains, Alaska, B.S. student.
Anna Downey (B.S. SUNY-Oneonta), 2013-2015, Cenozoic mafic to intermediate volcanism at Lava Mountain and Spring Mountain, Upper Wind River Basin, Wyoming, M.S. student.
Clay Robertson, 2014-2015, A microprobe compositional analyses of xenoliths from the Fancy Creek Kimberlite of Riley County KS, with an emphasis on garnet xenocrysts and pyroxene and plagioclase from granulite xenoliths, B.S. student.
Caleb Dodd, 2014-2015, Petrogenesis and rare earth element economic potential of Pilot Knob, a Pliocene(?) alkaline intrusive complex in the Togwotee Pass region, northwestern Wyoming (U.S.A), M.S. student.
Jasper Hobbs (B.A. Boston Univ.), 2013-2015, Geochemical/isotope constraints on Cambrian flood basalt volcanism in southern Oklahoma, M.S. student.
Andrew Ingalls (B.S., Northeastern Univ.), 2012-2014, Reconnaissance Cenozoic volcanic geology of the Little Goose Creek area, northeastern Elko County, NV with an emphasis on the Jarbidge Rhyolite, M.S. student.
Ben Hamill, 2013, Creation of a dynamic digital geologic map of the Owyhee Mountains, ID in Google Earth, B.S. student.
Kate Amrhein (B.S., Grand Valley State Univ.), 2011-13: Testing models of low-18O silicic magmatism in the mid-Miocene Santa Rosa-Calico volcanic field, NV. M.S. student.
Bill Busch (B.S. Kansas State Univ.), 2011-present, Mid-Miocene mafic magmatism and relationship to Au-Ag mineralization in the Midas district, Nevada (USA), M.S. student.
David Kowal, 2012-13, Integration of cell phone photography into Mineralogy and Petrology coursework, B.S. student.
Caleb Akerstrom, 2011-13, Geochemical characterization of Cambrian mafic well-cuttings from the Turner Falls test well, OK (USA), B.S. student.
Zachary Hasten (B.S., San Diego State Univ.), 2010-2012,Mid-Miocene magmatism in the Owyhee Mountains, ID: origin and petrogenesis of volcanic rocks in the Silver City District. M.S. student.
Casey Bulen (B.S., Northwest Missouri State Univ.), 2010-2012, The Role of Magmatism in the Evolution of the Cambrian Southern Oklahoma Rift Zone: Geochemical Constraints on the Mafic-Intermediate Rocks in the Arbuckle Mountains, OK. M.S. student.
Tyler Meek, 2011-12: Oxygen isotopes values of igneous rocks from the Owyhee Mts., ID (USA). B.S. student.
Jeff Callicoat (B.S. Eastern Illinois Univ.), 2009-2010, Significance of Mid-Miocene volcanism in northeast Nevada: petrographic, chemical, isotopic, and temporal importance of the Jarbidge Rhyolite. M.S. student.
Abby Lynch, 2010-11, Provenance of Quaternary Lake Kaw sediments, KS. B.S. student.
Jason Kolb, 2010-11, Petrography and geochemistry of Cretaceous granitoids from the Owyhee Mts., ID. B.S. student.
Eric Whiting, 2010-11, Metamorphic rocks of the Flint District (Owyhee Mts.), ID. B.S. student.
Chris Cook, 2009-2010: Petrology of Eocene ash flow tuffs in the vicinity of Jarbidge, NV. B.S. student.
Josh Foster, 2009-2010: Mid-Miocene volcanism in the Silver City District, ID. B.S. student.
Kendra Risen, 2007-2009: Mafic volcanism in the Lake Owyhee volcanic field, OR. B.S. student.