PAOC Spotlights
Congratulations to EAPS Class of 2019
Fri June 14th, 2019
EAPS Education Office
June 2019
Doctoral Degrees
| Name | Thesis Field | Advisor | Thesis Title |
| Stephanie Marie Brown | Geology | Timothy Grove | Quantifying Melting and Chemical Differentiation Processes on Earth and the Moon |
| Sebastian Essink* | Physical Oceanography | Amala Mahadevan | Lagrangian Dispersion and Deformation in Submesoscale Flows |
| Samuel James Levang* | Physical Oceanography | Raymond Schmitt | The Response of Ocean Salinity Patterns to Climate Change: Implications for Circulation |
| Mingwei Li | Atmospheric Chemistry | Noelle Selin | Impacts of Emission Policies in China on Air Pollution and Human Health |
| Saied Mighani | Geophysics | Brian Evans | Some Rock Mechanics Problems with Application for Hydraulic Fracturing in Shale Gas Reservoirs |
| Cristina Schultz* | Chemical Oceanography | Scott Doney | A Modeling Study of the Marine Biogeochemistry, Plankton Dynamics, and Carbon Cycle on the Continental Shelf off the West Antarctic Peninsula |
| Gualtiero Spiro Jaeger* | Physical Oceanography | Amala Mahadevan | Stratified and Stirred: Monsoon Freshwater in the Bay of Bengal |
Master's Degrees
| Name | Thesis Field | Advisor | Thesis Title |
| Emilie Elizabeth Bowman | Earth and Planetary Sciences | Oliver Jagoutz | North-South Variations in Structure, Topography, and Melting Regime along the Ultra-Slow Spreading Red Sea Ridge |
| Dylan Henry Cohen | Earth and Planetary Sciences | Richard Binzel | From Research to Resource: Piloting Near-Earth Asteroids Through the Valley of Death |
| Brindha Kanniah | Earth and Planetary Sciences | Brent Minchew | Deep Learning to Characterize Ice Stream Flow |
Bachelor's Degrees
| Name | Thesis Field | Advisor | Thesis Title |
| Haley A. Bates-Tarasewicz | Earth and Planetary Sciences | Benjamin Weiss | Examining the Evidence for Chthonian Planets: Superdense Exposed Exoplanet Cores |
| Jordan T. Benjamin | Earth and Planetary Sciences | Susan Solomon | Analyzing Recent Latitudinal and Seasonal Changes in Simulated Atmospheric Temperatures from a Global Chemistry-Climate Model |
| Megan M. Goodell | Earth and Planetary Sciences | Daniel Cziczo | Field Measurements of Ice Nucleating Particles: Examining the Potential for Marine Sources |
| Jocelyn N. Reahl | Earth and Planetary Sciences | Kristin Bergmann | Linking Sedimentary Textures to Neoproterozoic Climate Dynamics |
| Apisada Chulakadabba | Earth and Planetary Sciences | Dara Entekhabi | Water and Carbon Flux Responses to Soil Moisture Pulses in the Western United States |
| Emma G. Rutkowski | Earth and Planetary Sciences | Noelle Selin | Coastal Urban Mercury Cycling and Emissions in Boston, Massachusetts |
Doctoral Degrees
| Name | Thesis Field | Advisor | Thesis Title |
| Cael Barry* | Physical Oceanography | Mick Follows | Distributional Models of Ocean Carbon Export |
| Tom Beucler | Atmospheric Science | Timothy Cronin and Kerry Emanuel | Interaction between Water Vapor, Radiation and Convection in the Tropics |
| Charoenpong Chawalit* | Chemical Oceanography | Scott D. Wankel | The Production and Fate of Nitrogen Species in Deep-sea Hydrothermal Environments |
| Gregory Tsiang Ely | Geophysics | Alison Malcolm | Applications of a Fast Helmholtz Solver in Exploration Seismology |
| Gabriela Aylin Farfan* | Geochemistry | Colleen Hansel | The Mineralogy and Chemistry of Modern Shallow-water and Deep-sea Corals |
| Benjamin Klein | Geology | Oliver Jagoutz | Processes and Rates of Arc Crust Growth and Differentiation in the Southern Sierra Nevada Crustal Section |
| Diamilet Perez-Betancourt | Atmospheric Science | Kerry Emanuel | Formation and Maintenance of Tropical Cyclone Spiral Bands in Idealized Numerical Simulations |
| Tyler W. Rohr* | Chemical Oceanography | Scott Doney and David Nicholson | Computational Analysis of Biophysical Controls on Southern Ocean Phytoplankton Ecosystem Dynamics |
Master's Degrees
| Name | Thesis Field | Advisor | Thesis Title |
| Laura Elizabeth Fleming* | Earth and Planetary Sciences | Young-Oh Kwon | The Influence of Heat Transport on Arctic Amplification |
Doctoral Degrees
| Name | Thesis Field | Advisor | Thesis Title |
| Camrin Donald Braun* | Biological Oceanography | Simon Thorrold | Movements and Oceanographic Associations of Large Pelagic Fishes in the North Atlantic Ocean |
| Brian Marcus Green | Climate Science | John Marshall | Coupling of the Intertropical Convergence Zone and the Hadley Cells to the Ocean's Circulation |
| Danielle Sarah Gruen* | Biogeochemistry | Greg Fournier | Biogeochemical and Phylogenetic Signals of Proterozoic and Phanerozoic Microbial Metabolisms |
| Lauren Elizabeth Kipp* | Chemical Oceanography | Matthew A. Charette | Radium Isotopes as Tracers of Boundary Inputs of Nutrients and Trace Elements to the Coastal and Open Ocean |
| Paul Edmond Lerner* | Chemical Oceanography | Olivier Marchal and Phoebe Lam | Scavenging and Transport of Thorium Radioisotopes in the North Atlantic Ocean |
| Erik Anders Lindgren* | Climate Physics and Chemistry | R. Alan Plumb. | Influence of Eddy-Eddy Interactions and Tropical Wind Variability on Sudden Stratospheric Warming Formation |
| Emily Deignan Matys* | Geochemistry | Roger Summons | Environmental Controls on the Distribution of Bacterial Membrane Lipids |
| Michael James McClellan | Atmospheric Science | Ronald Prinn | Estimating Regional Nitrous Oxide Emissions Using Isotopic Ratio Observations and a Bayesia |
Master's Degrees
| Name | Thesis Field | Advisor | Thesis Title |
| Warittha Panasawatwong | Earth and Planetary Sciences | Chien Wang | Evaluating the Trend and Impact Factors of Southeast Asian Monsoon |
* jointly by MIT-WHOI
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