PAOC Spotlights
Congratulations to PAOC Members of the EAPS Class of 2018
Fri June 8th, 2018
EAPS Education Office
Degrees awarded during the 2017/2018 academic year. Degrees are conferred in September, February and June.
June 2018
Doctoral Degrees
| Name | Thesis Field | Advisor | Thesis Title |
| Genevieve E. Brett* | Physical Oceanography | Larry Pratt and Irina Rypina | Chaotic Advection, Mixing, and Property Exchange in Three-Dimensional Ocean Eddies and Gyres |
| Alissa M. Earle | Planetary Sciences | Richard Binzel | Spectral Mapping and Long-Term Seasonal Evolution of Pluto |
Masters Degrees
| Name | Thesis Field | Advisor | Thesis Title |
| Ammar M. Alali | Earth and Planetary Sciences | F. Dale Morgan | Novel Approach Towards 1D Resistivity Inversion Using The Systematically-Determined Optimum Number Of Layers |
| Eric Beauce | Earth and Planetary Sciences | Robert van der Hilst | Study of the Seismicity in the Western Alps by Developing and Applying an Automatic Earthquake Detection and Location Method |
| Makayla N. Betts | Earth and Planetary Sciences | Gregory Fournier | Gene Transfer History of Carbon Fixation Proteins Constrains Marine Cyanobacteria Divergence Times |
Bachelors Degrees
| Name | Thesis Field | Advisor | Thesis Title |
| Elisabeth L. Boles | Earth and Planetary Sciences | Andrew Babbin | Natural Variability in Eastern Tropical Pacific Nitrous Oxide Emissions |
| Lilian A. Dove | Earth and Planetary Sciences | Daniel Cziczo | Investigation of the Heterogeneous Ice Nucleation Potential of Sea Spray Aerosol |
| Nicholas D. Hoffman | Earth and Planetary Sciences | Noelle Selin | Modeling Methylmercury in Maine's Tribal Meres |
| Jonathan L. Hurowitz | Earth and Planetary Sciences | Amanda Bosh | Identifying Binary Central Stars of Planetary Nebulae with Kepler K2 Campaign 11 Photometric Data |
| Alexa J. Jaeger | Earth and Planetary Sciences | Colette Heald | Methane and Carbon Dioxide Cycling in Soils of the Harvard Forest |
| Taylor Safrit | Earth and Planetary Sciences | Amanda Bosh | Sublimative Torques as the Origin of Bilobate Comets |
| Mary C. Spanjers | Earth and Planetary Sciences | François Tissot and Timothy Grove | Development of a Leaching Procedure for Isotopic Study of Metal/Silicate Partitioning Experiments |
February 2018
Doctoral Degrees
| Name | Thesis Field | Advisor | Thesis Title |
| Justin Bandoro | Climate Physics and Chemistry | Susan Solomon | Attribution of Stratospheric Ozone Change and Associated Climate Impacts |
| Erin E. Black* | Chemical Oceanography | Ken Buesseler | An Investigation of Basin-Scale Controls on Upper Ocean Export and Remineralization |
| Jimmy Gasore | Atmospheric Science | Ronald Prinn | Quantifying Emissions of Carbon Dioxide and Methane in Central and Eastern Africa Through High Frequency Measurements and Inverse Modeling |
| Daniel M. Gilford | Atmospheric Science | Susan Solomon | The Tropopause Region Thermal Structure and Tropical Cyclones |
| Niya G. Grozeva* | Geochemistry | Frieder Klein and Jeffrey Seewald | Carbon and Mineral Transformations in Seafloor Serpentinization Systems |
| Mary E. Knapp | Planetary Sciences | Sara Seager | Toward Detection and Characterization of Exoplanetary Magnetic Fields via Low Frequency Radio Observation |
| Simone B. Moos* | Geochemistry | Edward Boyle | The Marine Biogeochemistry of Chromium Isotopes |
| Sharon A. Newman | Geobiology | Tanja Bosak | Taphonomic Studies of Fossil Preservation in Coarse-Grained Siliciclastic Environments |
| Adam R. Sarafian* | Marine Geology | Sune Nielsen and Horst Marschall | Water and Volatile Element Accretion to the Inner Planets |
Masters Degrees
| Name | Thesis Field | Advisor | Thesis Title |
| Elezhan Zhakiya | Earth and Planetary Sciences | Bradford Hager | Unsupervised Machine Learning and K-Means Clustering as a Way of Discovering Anomalous Events in Continuous Seismic Time Series |
Bachelors Degrees
| Name | Thesis Field | Advisor | Thesis Title |
| Sophia E. Tigges | Earth and Planetary Sciences | Amanda Bosh and Margaret Pan | The Relationship Between Centaur Activity and Ring Formation |
September 2017
Doctoral Degrees
| Name | Thesis Field | Advisor | Thesis Title |
| John V. Agard | Atmospheric Science | Kerry Emanuel | Dependence of Continental Severe Convective Instability on Climatological Environmental Conditions |
| Ann M. Bauer | Geology | Timothy Grove | Archean Continental Crust Formation and the Rise of Atmospheric Oxygen |
| Marianna K. Linz* | Physical Oceanography | R. Alan Plumb | Age of Air and the Circulation of the Stratosphere |
| Andreas W. Miller | Atmospheric Science | R. Alan Plumb | The Role of Wavenumber One and Two in the Development of Sudden Stratospheric Warmings |
| Laura A. Stevens* | Geophysics | Sarah B. Das | Influence of Meltwater on Greenland Ice Sheet Dynamics |
| Yuval Tal | Geophysics | Bradford Hager | The Role of Roughness in Earthquake Source Physics |
| Matthew W. Webber | Planetary Sciences | Kerri Cahoy | Mapping Exoplanet Clouds and Albedo from Phase Curves and Spectra |
| Robert S. Yi | Geophysics | Daniel Rothman | Emergent Geometries of Groundwater-fed Rivers |
| Maria A. Zawadowicz | Atmospheric Chemistry | Daniel Cziczo | Understanding the Chemistry and Atmospheric Particles Using Single Particle Mass Spectrometry |
Masters Degrees
| Name | Thesis Field | Advisor | Thesis Title |
| Tao Feng | Atmospheric Science | Paul O'Gorman | The Trend of Wind Speed Over the United States During 1998 - 2011 |
| Jamie Potter | Earth and Planetary Sciences | Bradford Hager | The Effects of Fluid Pressure Changes on Fractured Rock Elastic Moduli and Surface Deformation |
| Anna Rogers | Earth and Planetary Sciences | Bradford Hager | Poroelastic Modeling of Groundwater and Hydrocarbon Reservoirs: Investigating the Effects of Fluid Extraction on Fault Stability |
Bachelors Degrees
| Name | Thesis Field | Advisor | Thesis Title |
| Kaylee A. Brent | Earth and Planetary Sciences | David McGee | An Examination of Trace Element Concentrations Across Calcite/Aragonite Transitions in a Madagascan Stalagmite |
| Allison M. Schneider | Earth and Planetary Sciences | Glenn Flierl | A Comparison of Kinematic and Dynamic Schemes for Calculating Long-range Atmospheric Trajectories |
* jointly by MIT-WHOI