2023

• Lindsay Henning (Advisor: Carey Gazis)
  Using MODFLOW to Assess Groundwater Storage Enhancement via a Floodplain Infiltration Basin
• Garet Huddleston (Advisors: Walter Szeliga & Bre MacInnes)
  Paleoseismic Investigation of Rupture on the Dead Coyote Fault in the Kittitas Valley, Washington
• Bethany Kharrazi (Advisor: Bre MacInnes)
  A Conceptual Framework for Managed Aquifer Recharge in the Columbia River Basalts of the Lower Yakima River Basin
• Tim Miller (Advisor: Angela Halfpenny)
  An Evolution of Gold of the Swauk Mining District, Liberty Washington
• Emily Polizzi (Advisor: Lisa Ely)
  Floodplain Aquifer Storage Capacity in Upper Yakima River Tributaries, Kittitas County, WA
• Zachary Stevens (Advisor: Chris Mattinson)
  Constraining Rock Type Controls on Geophysical Properties: Implications for Earthquake Hazard Assessment Near Ellensburg, Washington
• Edward Vlasenko (Advisor: Carey Gazis)
  Estimating Evapotranspiration and Analyzing Soil Moisture and Heat Flux Parameters at Taneum Creek, Central Washington

2022

• Trent Adams (Advisor: Bre MacInnes)
  Detecting Impacts of Historic and Undocumented Landslide Tsunamis at High Latitude Sites Using NDVI
• Stephen Bartlett (Advisor: Lisa Ely)
  Assessing the Effects of Instream Large Wood on Floodplain Aquifer Recharge and Storage at Indian Creek, Kittitas County, Washington, USA
• Benjamin Deans (Advisor: Lisa Ely)
  Geomorphic History and Preservation of Archaeologically Significant Areas in the Hanford Reach of the Columbia River, Washington State
• Samuel Fixler (Advisor: Lisa Ely)
  Decadal-Scale Effects of Large Wood Restoration on Channel Morphology and Groundwater Connectivity, Taneum Creek, WA
• Jamie Hansen (Advisor: Walter Szeliga)
  Assessing the Mechanics of Two Earthquake Clusters in the Basin and Range Province
• Alec Melone (Advisor: Wendy Bohrson)
• Joe Petralia (Advisor: Carey Gazis)
  The Effects of Channel Incision and Land Use on Surface-Water/Groundwater Interactions in the Teanaway River Basin, Washington, USA

2021

• Alyssa DeMott (Advisor: Lisa Ely)
  Long-Term Geomorphic Effects of the Glines Canyon Dam Removal on the Elwha River Washington, USA
• Peter Dubyoski (Advisor: Jeff Lee)
  Geologic Mapping along the Benton Spring Fault, Nevada: Dextrally-offset Tuff-filled Paleovalleys in the Central Walker Lane
• Jessica Hartman (Advisor: Carey Gazis)
  Organic-Input Impacts on Soil Carbon Flux, Storage, and Budget in Conservation Agricultural Soils, Central Washington, USA
• Andrew Raulerson (Advisor: Bre MacInnes)
  Tsunami Deposits and Tsunami Modeling of the 900 AD Seattle Fault Event in Northern Puget Sound

2020

• Kent Allen (Advisor: Lisa Ely)
  Late Holocene Paleoflood Hydrology of the Snake River in the Lower Hells Canyon, Idaho
• David Bruce (Advisor: Bre MacInnes) Mapping and Modeling the Seattle Fault Tsunami Inundation in Puget Sound
• Elizabeth Curtiss (Advisor: Anne Egger)
  Documenting the Earthquake History of the Thousand Springs Fault in Summer Lake Basin, Oregon, USA
• Rachelle Reisinger (Advisor: Walter Szeliga)
  Modeling of Potential Historical Tsunamis from Large Earthquakes in the Izu-Bonin Mariana Subduction Zone
• Silas Sleeper (Advisor: Carey Gazis)
  A Geochemical Assessment of Potential Groundwater Storage Locations within the Yakima River Basin
• Valerie Strasser (Advisor: Wendy Bohrson)
  The Role of Cumulate Plagioclase Entrainment in the Steens Basalt, SE Oregon: Insights from the Magma Chamber Simulator
• Wesley Weisberg (Advisor: Chris Mattinson)
  Applying Garnet and Zircon REE Linkages to Determine Timing of P-T Conditions and Tectonic Implications for UHP Eclogites and HP Granulites, Dulan UHP Terrane, China

2019

• Alex Dolcimascolo (Advisor: Bre MacInnes) Defining historical earthquake rupture parameters and proposed slip distributions through tsunami modeling in south-central Chile
• Brandon Kautzman (Advisor: Carey Gazis) Seasonal soil carbon fluxes in transitioning agricultural soils in Central Washington State: Relations to land-use, environmental factors and soil carbon-nitrogen characteristics
• Pedro Matos-Llavona (Advisor: Lisa Ely) Mapping and Reconstructing the Paleotsunami Record in Queule, South-Central Chile
• Bodie McCosby (Advisor: Jeff Lee) Characterizing the deformation history of the southern Mina Deflection: field and structural studies in the Huntoon Mountains, California-Nevada
• Jen McLeod (Advisor: Wendy Bohrson) Quantifying magma recharge at Parinacota volcano, northern Chile (52 ka - recent): Insight from the Magma Chamber Simulator
• Ben Norford (Advisor: Tim Melbourne) Rapid Earthquake Characterization with Real-Time GPS
• Joe Schilter (Advisor: Lisa Ely) Identifying Key Factors Affecting Translational Landslides in Part of the Yakima Fold and Thrust Belt, Washington State
• Melanie Swick (Advisor: Susan Kaspari) Advances in the Hyperspectral Imaging Microscope Spectrometer Method, and Application for Measuring the Spectral Reflectance of Light Absorbing Aerosols from the South Cascades, Colorado Rockies, and Iceland
• Alexandra Wernle (Advisor: Audrey Huerta) Effects of Initial Thermal Structure on the Evolution of Continental Rifting
• Levi Windingstad (Advisor: Lisa Ely) Holocene periods of aggradation and incision, Hanson Creek, Washington

2018

• Rebeca Becerra (Advisor: Bre MacInnes) Assessing the use of tsunami simulations as a tool to predict source magnitudes and locations of paleoearthquakes in Chile
• Andrew Hoxey (Advisor: Jeff Lee) Spatial and temporal characterization of the Petrified Springs Fault, Central Walker Lane, Nevada: documenting middle Miocene dextral slip
• Catherine Jeffries (Advisor: Tim Melbourne) Tsunami excitation estimation from real-time GNSS
• Vincent Rocconovo (Advisor: Carey Gazis) Stream water and soil water chemistry after the Table Mountain wildfire, Washington, USA
• Jesse Senko (Advisor: Tim Melbourne) Slip estimation from real-time GPS in Cascadia
• Marie Takach (Advisor: Wendy Bohrson) Quantifying Crustal Assimilation in Historical to Recent (1329-2005) Lavas at Mt. Etna, Italy: Insights from Thermodynamic Modeling
• Conner Toth (Advisor: Wendy Bohrson) Giant Plagioclase in the Steens Basalt, SE Oregon: Cumulate Entrainment Revealed by Textural and In Situ Chemical Analysis
• Logan Wetherell (Advisor: Lisa Ely) Quantifying Sedimentation Patterns of Small Watersheds in the Central Oregon Coast Range Using Landslide-Dammed Lakes

2017

• Colin Bloom (Advisor: Bre MacInnes) Catastrophic Landscape Modification from Massive Landslide Tsunamis: An Example from Taan Fiord, Alaska
• Jade Cooley (Advisor: Paul Winberry) Tidal and Structural Controls on Seismic Events Near the Grounding Line at Beardmore Glacier, Antarctica
• Jennifer Hall (Advisor: Anne Egger) Surface Offset and Slip Rates for the Winter Rim Fault System in the Summer Lake Basin, Oregon
• David Hernandez Uribe (Advisor: Chris Mattinson) Estimating the Thickness of an Ultrahigh-Pressure (UHP) Terrane: Insights from Phase Equilibria Modelling and Zr-in-Rutile Thermometry, Dulan Area, North Qaidam Terrane, Northwest China
• Dallin Jensen (Advisor: Carey Gazis) Isotope investigation of nitrate in soils and agricultural drain waters of the Lower Yakima Valley, Washington
• James Patterson (Advisor: Carey Gazis) Using strontium isotopes in conjunction with major, and trace elements to identify water/rock interaction in the Upper Kittitas County, Washington
• Dan Pittinger (Advisor: Susan Kaspari) 150 Years of Light Absorbing Impurity Deposition on South Cascade Glacier, Washington State USA
• Theodore Uecker (Advisor: Susan Kaspari) Post-wildfire black carbon deposition on the snowpack in the Cascade Range, Washington State: Temporal and spatial variability with implications for accelerated melt

2016

• Sylvana Bendana (Advisor: Wendy Bohrson) Documenting Mantle and Crustal Contributions to Flood Basalt Magmatism via Computational Modeling of the Steens Basalt, Southeast Oregon
• Zoe Futornick (Advisor: Carey Gazis) Using MODFLOW to Predict Impacts of Groundwater Pumpage to Instream Flow: Upper Kittitas County, Washington
• Megan Graubard (Advisor: Wendy Bohrson) Evolution of a Flood Basalt Crustal Magmatic System: In Situ Mineral Data and Computational Modeling of the Steens Basalt
• Brian Marion (Advisor: Anne Egger) Spatiotemporal Slip Rate Variations Along Surprise Valley Fault in Relation to Pleistocene Pluvial Lakes
• Jake Meyer (Advisor: Chris Mattinson) Fluid Release During Eclogite Formation, North Qaidam Terrane, Western China
• Brian Ostrom (Advisor: Bre MacInnes) Hazard Identification and Coastal Stratigraphy in Crescent Harbor, Northeast Whidbey Island, Washington
• Alexandra Ruiz (Advisor: Lisa Ely) Investigating Taphonomic Changes of Deposits and Modeling of the 2010 Earthquake and Tsunami in South-Central Chile

2015

• Kevin Delano (Advisor: Jeff Lee) Geologic Mapping in the Black Mountain Area, Northern Eastern California Shear Zone: Testing a Kinematic and Geometric Fault Slip Transfer Model
• Brittany Fagin (Advisor: Chris Mattinson) Pressure-temperature-time constraints for exhumation of ultrahigh-pressure metamorphic rocks, North Qaidam terrane, Western China
• Bryon Free (Advisor: Lisa Ely) Quantifying channel responses to the removal of the Glines Canyon Dam in the middle reach of the Elwha River, Washington
• Frances Griswold (Advisor: Breanyn MacInnes) Field Observations and Modeling of the 1957 Earthquake and Tsunami on the Islands of the Four Mountains, Aleutian Islands, Alaska
• Kaitlyn Nelson (Advisor: Wendy Bohrson) Timing and Source of Alkali Enrichment at Mt. Etna, Sicily: Constraints from Clinopyroxene Geobarometry and In Situ SR Isotope Data
• Brett Shurtleff (Advisor: Jeff Lee) Rapid Middle to Late Miocene Slip Along the Zanskar Normal Fault, Greater Himalayan Range, NW, India: Constraints from Low-Temperature Thermochronometry

2014

• Meilani Bowman-Kamaha'o (Advisor: Jeff Lee) Documenting deformation and exhumation across Gianbul Dome, NW India using mesoscopic and microscopic kinematic shear sense, quartz lattice preferred orientation, deformation temperatures, and 40Ar/39Ar thermochronology analyses
• Elyse Frohling (Advisor: Walter Szeliga) Assessing the seismic potential hazards of the Makran subduction zone
• Hillary Goodner (Advisor: Walter Szeliga) Spatial relationship between GPS slip and seismic tremor during Cascadia slow slip events
• Eliya Hogan (Advisor: Anne Egger) Structural deformation across the southwest Mina Deflection, California-Nevada: field studies in the Huntoon Springs region
• Isabel Hong (Advisor: Lisa Ely) Geomorphology, sedimentology, and stratigraphy of tsunami deposits at Quidico, Chile
• Chris Markley (Advisor: Lisa Ely) Characterization of landslides by the spectral analysis of LiDAR imagery: Owyhee River, SE Oregon
• Molly Partridge (Advisor: Anne Egger) Volcano-tectonic history of the northern Warner Range, northeastern California
• Megan Regel (Advisor: Chris Mattinson) Thermobarometry and geochronology in the Dulan region, North Qaidam ultrahigh-pressure terrane: resolving spatial variation of ages, temperatures, and pressures
• Brent Ritzinger (Advisor: Anne Egger) Paleomagnetic mapping of late Miocene-Pliocene basalt flows in the northwestern Basin and Range: determining structural and topographic controls on the distribution of volcanic activity
• Diana Strickley (Advisor: Anne Egger) Controls on fault geometry during early stages of extension in the Larkspur Hills, northwest Basin and Range
• Rachelle Warren (Advisor: Jeff Lee) Testing kinematic fault-slip models in the Eastern California Shear Zone-Walker Lane Belt: field studies in southwestern Mina deflection, California-Nevada

2013

• Ana Cadena (Advisor: Charlie Rubin) Paleoseismologic Evidence for Holocene Activity on the Pinto Mountain Fault, Twentynine Palms, California
• Ian Delaney (Advisor: Susan Kaspari) Black carbon deposition on snow and glaciers in Washington State: implications for accelerated snowmelt
• Renee Holt (Advisor: Carey Gazis) Geochemical analysis of ground and surface water in the Upper Kittitas County, WA: implications for recharge and flow paths
• Katie Johnston (Advisor: Tim Melbourne) Feasibility of seismic monitoring to identify avalanche activity; Snoqualmie Pass, WA
• Patrick Johnston (Advisor: Lisa Ely) Geomorphology of Deposits from the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, Tamil Nadu, Southeastern India
• Carl Matzek (Advisor: Lisa Ely) LiDAR assessment of sediment transport related to the removal of Marmot Dam, Sandy River, Oregon
• Andy Menking (Advisor: Susan Kaspari) Black carbon measurements of snow and ice using the single particle soot photometer: method development and an AD 1852-1999 record of atmospheric black carbon from a Mount Logan ice core
• Zoe Weis (Advisor: Carey Gazis) Geochemical Constraints on Groundwater Recharge in the Royal Slope Area, Grant County, Washington

2012

• Matt Durkee (Advisor: Lisa Ely) Holocene arroyo cut and fill cycles, south-central Washington
• Michelle Harris (Advisor: Wendy Bohrson) Documenting Magmatic Processes at Filicudi Island, Aeolian Arc, Italy: Integrating Quantitative Modeling and Plagioclase Textural and In Situ Compositional Data
• Rachel Hunt (Advisor: Wendy Bohrson) Documenting the Origin of Compositional Diversity of Subduction Zone Magmatism, Alicudi, Aeolian Arc (Southern Tyrrhenian Sea, Italy) Using In Situ Plagioclase Data
• Aaron Mayfield (Advisor: Wendy Bohrson) Documenting compositional diversity in the Fossa delle Felci (Salina Island, South Tyrrhenian Sea, Italy): Integrating quantitative models and in situ chemical analyses
• Carl Swanson (Advisor: Audrey Huerta) Applying GIS Metrics to Determine Degree of Glacial Modification in Mountainous Landscapes
• Michelle Tebbe (Advisor: Wendy Bohrson) Petrogenetic Relationship of the Postcaldera Eruptions of Mount Mazama, Crater Lake, Oregon; Evolution of a Sub-volcanic Magma Chamber Following a Large Silicic Eruption

2011

• Ben Christensen (Advisor: Chris Mattinson) Geochemistry, geothermobarometry and geochronology of high-pressure granulites and implications for the exhumation history of ultrahigh-pressure terranes: Dulan, Western China
• Matt Jenkins (Advisor: Susan Kaspari) Assessment of black carbon concentrations in the Pacific Northwest and Tibetan Plateau
• Sarah Nagorsen-Rinke (Advisor: Jeff Lee) Pliocene and Pleistocene fault slip across the Mina deflection, California-Nevada: A field-based study in the Adobe Hills, California
• Jim Rinke (Advisor: Audrey Huerta) Surface Wave Inversion of the Upper Mantle Velocity Structure in the Ross Sea Region, Western Antarctica
• Tabitha Trosper (Advisor: Lisa Ely) Relationships between Snake River paleofloods and occupational patterns at Redbird Beach archaeological site in lower Hells Canyon, Idaho
• Rodger Wilson (Advisor: Tim Melbourne) Do deformation transients produced by Cascadia slow-slip events modulate seismicity at Cascade volcanoes?

2010

• Tina Dura (Advisor: Charlie Rubin) Preservation of Holocene Paleo-Earthquakes, Sungai Pinang, Western Sumatra
• Caitlin Orem (Advisor: Lisa Ely) Lacustrine sediment record of multiple Quaternary lava dams on the Owyhee River, southeastern Oregon
• Holly Rotman (Advisor: Chris Mattinson) Fluid budget of metasedimentary rocks from an accretionary prism and connections to seismicity, Olympic Peninsula, northwest Washington

2009

• Travis Hammond (Advisor: Carey Gazis) Stable Isotope Study of Soil Water along a Climate Gradient, eastern slopes of Cascades
• Clayton Larkins (Advisor: Carey Gazis) A field study on the variation in soil CO2 oxygen-18 across a precipitation gradient in central Washington
• Maureen Moses (Advisor: Wendy Bohrson) Thermochemical modeling of crystal populations at Mt. Etna, Italy
• Emily Parker (Advisor: Beth Pratt-Sitaula) Understanding active faulting in the Himalaya: A geodetic study
• Tom Wagner (Advisor: Jeff Lee) Kinematics and Vorticity in Kangmar Dome, southern Tibet: testing patterns of mid-crustal ductile deformation during the Himalayan orogeny

2008

• Ana Aguiar (Advisor: Tim Melbourne) Seismic Constraints on Slow Slip Events Within the Cascadia Subduction Zone
• Jim Chapman (Advisor: Tim Melbourne) Energy budget analysis of slow-slip aseismic events along the Cascadia convergent margin using GPS array data
• Sara Johnson (Advisor: Wendy Bohrson) Petrogenetic Processes Characterizing the Mount Bachelor, Oregon Magmatic System: Open vs. Closed System Processes
• Jackie Langille (Advisor: Jeff Lee) Middle Crustal Ductile Deformation Patterns in southern Tibet: Insights from Vorticity Studies in Mabja Dome
• Shannon Othus (Advisor: Lisa Ely) Comparison of Two Landslides and Related Outburst Flood Deposits and Their Effects on River Evolution, Owyhee River, Oregon
• Kate Whitlow (Advisor: Charlie Rubin) The 2004 and 1861 Tsunami Deposits on Simeulue Island, Western Sumatra

2007

• Cooper Brossy (Advisor: Lisa Ely) Fluvial Response to Intra-Canyon Lava Flows, Owyhee River, Oregon
• Ray Chuang (Advisor: Charlie Rubin) Interseismic Crustal Deformation and Seismic Potential in the Luyeh Area, Eastern Taiwan
• Keegan Fengler (Advisor: Charlie Rubin) Paleoseismic Investigation of the Longitudinal Valley Fault, eastern Taiwan
• Brian Gray (Advisor: Charlie Rubin) Late Holocene Uplift of the Chihshang Segment of the Longitudinal Valley Fault at Fuli, Eastern Taiwan
• Grant Logsdon (Advisor: Charlie Rubin) In Search of Past Tsunami Deposits along the Sumatran coastline, Padang, western Sumatra
• Susan Mickiewicz (Advisor: Wendy Bohrson) Magma Chamber Processes: Textural and In Situ Geochemical Investigation of Plagioclase from Pisgah Crater, California
• Sarah Taylor (Advisor: Carey Gazis) Seasonal Change in Groundwater Chemistry due to Irrigation in Upper Yakima Basin, Washington
• Stephanie Vandal (Advisor: Lisa Ely) Paleoflood record reconstruction at an archaeological site on the Owyhee River, southeastern Oregon
• Ahnna Westrich (Advisor: Wendy Bohrson) Understanding Magma Chamber Processes: Application of the Energy-Constrained Eruption, Recharge, Assimilation, Fractional Crystallization (EC-ERAFC) Model and MELTS Algorithm

2006

• John Casteel (Advisor: Jeff Lee) Late Miocene to Holocene Faulting along the southwestern Inyo Mountains fault zone, eastern California
• Yun-Ruei Chuang (Advisor: Meghan Miller) Interseismic deformation and earthquake hazards of the southernmost Longitudinal Valley fault, eastern Taiwan
• Jake Horner (Advisor: Charlie Rubin)
• Seth Mattos (Advisor: Wendy Bohrson) Deciphering the Signature of Magma Mixing: Examples from the Castle Creek Eruptive Period, Mount St. Helens, Washington
• Walter Szeliga (Advisor: Tim Melbourne) Transient Detection and Modeling of Continuous Geodetic Data

2005

• Deron Carter (Advisor: Lisa Ely) Large Late Pleistocene Outburst Flood From Pluvial Lakes Alvord and Coyote Into the Owyhee River, Oregon
• Ross Hendrick (Advisor: Lisa Ely) The Role of Geomorphic Features and Hydrologic Processes on Sediment Clusters in Gravel-Bed Rivers, Washington: A Field-Based Approach
• Kim Le (Advisor: Jeff Lee)
• Vickie Rodriguez (Advisor: Carey Gazis)
• Stephen Slaughter (Advisor: Lisa Ely) The 1938 Chocolate Glacier Debris Flow, Glacier Peak Volcano, North Cascades, Washington

2004

• Shao-Yi Huang (Advisor: Charlie Rubin)

2003

• Rusty Ardoin (Advisor: Meghan Miller) Vertical deformation near Willapa Bay, Washington
• Brooke Asbury (Advisor: Carey Gazis)
• Mike Caron (Advisor: Meghan Miller) Realization of continuous GPS velocities over a neotectonic crustal block model for the Puget Sound area and the implications for seismic hazard
• Rex Flake (Advisor: Tim Melbourne) Seismic Expression of the Sub-crustal Pacific-North America Plate Boundary
• Morgan Salisbury (Advisor: Wendy Bohrson)
• Jeff Schroeder (Advisor: Jeff Lee)
• Ashley Streig (Advisor: Charlie Rubin)

2002

• Sarah Fowler (Advisor: Wendy Bohrson)
• Chris Madden (Advisor: Charlie Rubin)
• Andrew Miner (Advisor: Meghan Miller) Eocene Tectonics and Active Deformation in Cascadia
• Will Strand (Advisor: Wendy Bohrson)

2001

• Doug Anderson (Advisor: Carey Gazis)
• Ken Austin (Advisor: Meghan Miller) The co-seismic displacement fields for the 1992 Landers and 1999 Hector Mines earthquakes, from regional GPS observations
• Kurt Hosman (Advisor: Lisa Ely) Stratigraphic Reconstruction of Paleoflood Frequencies and Magnitudes, Lower Deschutes River, Oregon
• Cyndy Jurney (Advisor: Meghan Miller) Refining the measured frequency of great earthquakes along the Cascadia subduction zone
• Ben Pauk (Advisor: Meghan Miller) Statistical analysis of Global Positioning System data for applications to volcano deformation modeling monitoring and Pacific Northwest coastal uplift
• Gwen Rhodes (Advisor: Lisa Ely) A small look at the big picture: linking geopotential height anomalies to paleofloods on the Snake River, Idaho and Oregon
• Jessica Robertson (Advisor: Carey Gazis)

2000

• Kim McLean (Advisor: Meghan Miller) Neogene shortening across Naryn and At Bashi Basins, southern Kyrgyz Tien Shan

1999

• Lisa Hall (Advisor: Brian Whiting)
• Shelly Orth (Advisor: Lisa Ely) Refining Flood-Frequency Estimates with Paleoflood Deposits: John Day River, North-Central Oregon
• Aaron Wisher (Advisor: Lisa Ely) Factors Contributing to Landslide Activity in the Winter of 1995-96, Clearwater County Near Orofino, Idaho