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Graduation Year

1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985
1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995
1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005
2006 2007 2008              
 
1991
Eric M. Block
A Comparative Analysis of the Trabuco Conglomerates in the Santa Monica and Santa Ana Mountains
Diana Dana
A Gravity Study of Subsurface Structure and Groundwater Conditions from 1982-1988, Redlands, California
Susan Garcia
The Leakage Rate of Trichloroethylene in the Santa Margarita Sandstone Aquitard, Scotts Valley, Santa Cruz, California
James O'Tousa
Kinematics of the Flying Triangle Landslide, Palos Verdes Peninsula, Los Angeles County, California
Diane Sailer
Morphometric Analysis of Caldera-bearing Volcanoes on Earth and Mars
Richard Schatz
Hydrogeologic Assessment, Acton Watershed, Los Angeles County, California
Ricky Tate
Rubidium-Strontium Geochronology of Argillite Clasts from the Chatsworth, Upper "Chico", and Tuna Canyon Formation in southern California
Lynn Thompson
Migration of Hydrocarbons in the Subsurface
Scott Thompson
Miocene Volcanic Rocks of the Castle Peaks Area, New York Mountains, Eastern San Bernardino County, California
Yen-Vy Thi Van
Lead Isotopic Study of Fossil Fuels: Crude Oils and Coal Tars
Richard Vogl
Determination of True Hydrocarbon Thickness Using Borehole Data and Monitoring Wells
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1990
Robert Hastings
Petrogenesis of Gabbroic Rocks of the San Gabriel Anorthosite Syenite Body
Patrick Jenks
Lead Isotope Systematics of Proterozoic Anorthosite, Syenite, and Related Rocks, Western Transverse Ranges, California
David P. Mayo
Geology and Geochemistry of Tertiary Volcanic Rocks in the Little Chuckwalla Mountains, Southeastern California
Christopher Sexton
Geologic Structure of the Liebre Fault Zone South of Bald Mountain, Northern Los Angeles County, California
Paula Watt
Strontium and Lead Isotopic Study of Hydrothermal Fluid Origin and Movement During Deformation, Alternation, and Mineralization of the South Mountains Metamorphic Core Complex
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1989
Kim Bishop
Models for the Structural Evolution of the Texas Canyon Basin, Southern California
Daniel Carlson
Hydrogeology and Ground Water Quality of the Quaternary/Tertiary Continental Deposits in the Fresno-Dinuba Area, San Joaquin Valley, California
Leonard Clark
Strontium Isotopic Variation and Dating of Dolomites in the Monterey Formation, California
Michael Gemmel
Hydrogeologic Study and Mathematical Model of a Ground-Water Body Adjacent to the San Andreas Fault near Palmdale, California
Claudia Lewis
Crustal Extension and Shoulder Uplift in the Rio Grande Rift, New Mexico: Half-Grabens and Accommodation Zones in the Ladron Peak Area
Judy Ann Lowman,
Geology of the Pioneertown Basalts, San Bernardino County, California
Gail Montwill
Comprehensive Examination
Savilla Stokas
Water Resources of the Montecito Ground Water Basin Watershed, Santa Barbara, County, California
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1988
Steven Draper
Geology of the Lead-Zinc-Silver Sulfide Deposits of the Northern Santa Ana Mountains, Orange and Riverside County, California
Eloise Frick
Structural Controls on Formation Water Salinity and Sandstone Diagenesis of Pliocene-Repetto and Pico Formations, Ventura Avenue Oil Field, California
Mark Vincent
Laumontite Mineralization and Hydrothermal Alteration in Rocks Exposed North of the San Andreas Fault at Cajon Pass, Southern California
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1987
Eugene Blanck
Geologic Structure of the Beaumont-Banning Area, San Gorgonio Pass, Southern California from Gravity Profiles, Groundwater Contouring, and Geologic Reconnaissance
Gerald Grimes
Geology at the Convergence of the Pinto Mountain Fault and Morongo Valley Fault, Southern California
Jacqueline Hams
Turbidite Sedimentation in a Modern Basin Floor Environment: San Nicolas Basin, California Borderland
Kurt Myers
The Step-drawdown Pumping Test Evaluated by Well/Aquifer Model
Robert Wood
Geology and Geochemistry of the Almeda Mine, Josephine County, Oregon
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1986
Betty J. Bailey
Design alternatives for Toe Protection of the Portuguese Bend Landslide from Active Wave Erosion
Richard J. Brose
Hydrogeologic Investigation of the Lucerne Valley Groundwater Basin, San Bernardino County, California
Scott Buckley
Geochemistry of the Morro Rock-Islay Hill Intrusive Complex, San Luis Obispo County, California
Daniel Allen Cutrone
A Geologic Analysis of the Nancy Patterson Mesa and Anasazi Ceramics from the Nancy Patterson Ruin, Montezuma Canyon Area, San Juan County, Utah
William Greg Hamer
Hydrogeology of a Portion of the Inner Valley of the Rio Grande, Central New Mexico
William Long
Sedimentology of Morro Bay, San Luis Obispo County, California
John Odermatt
Transition Element Geochemistry of Organic matter in the Monterey Formation, Union Lelroy 51-18 Well, Santa Maria Valley, Santa Barbara County, California
Daniel Oliver
Basin Analysis of Upper Cretaceous Marine Strata in the Santa Monica Mountains, Los Angeles County, California
Tim Parker
Geomorphology and Geology of the Southwestern Margaritifer Sinus- Northern Argyre Region of Mars
Steven Tarnoff
Anomalous Strontium Isotopic Compositions in Recent Seawater and Marine Carbonates from the Gulf of California
1985
Andrew Barth
Petrology of the Mount Lowe Intrusion, San Gabriel Mountains, California
Carl Bonura,
Geology, Stratigraphy and Petrogenesis of the Miocene Volcano-Lacustrine Section of the Hackberry Mountain and Von Trigger Hills, San Bernardino County, California
Thomas F. Norton
Recent Sedimentation in the Santa Catalina Basin
Timothy J. Parker
Geomorphology and Geology of the Southwestern Margaritifer Sinus - North Argyre Region of Mars
Kathleen Ehlig Proffer
The Hydrogeology of the Abalone Cove Landslide Rancho Palos Verdes, Los Angeles County, California
Lorraine Sawyer
Geothermal and Mineralogic Variation Observed in the Holly Sugar 44-P Well of Imperial Valley, California
1984
  • Michael Bowery
  • Stratigraphic and Sedimentologic Relations of the Cretaceous Chatsworth Formation
    David C. Buesch
    The Depositional Environment and Subsequent Metamorphism of the Santiago Peak Volcanic Rocks, Camp Pendelton, California
    Glenn Gregory, Comprehensive Examination
    Matthew Hagemann
    Origin and History of Emergent Late Quaternary Marine Terraces Near the Mendocino Triple Junction, California
    Jay Stratton Noller
    The Role of Primary Upper Mantle Magmas in the Generation of Chromite Schlieren and Compositional Layers, California
    Harry “Skip” Pouncey
    Geology of Metallic Mineral Deposits, Santa Catalina Island, California
    Michael D. Powers, Comprehensive Examination
    1983
    Richard G. Blake
    The Mustang Spring Conglomerate Lens of the Holz Shale member (Ladd formation):  A Model for Late Cretaceous Submarine Canyon Deposits, Northern Santa Ana Mountains, Southern California
    Marjorie M. Bushnell
    Origin and Distribution of Titanium-rich Mineral Deposits of the San Gabriel Mountains, Los Angeles County, California
    Cathy L. Conrad
    Lithostratigraphy of the Monterey Formation of the Palos Verdes Peninsula, Los Angeles County, California
    Paul Davis
    The Late Quaternary History and Engineering Geology of Avalon, Santa Catalina Island, California
    Douglas Given
    Seismicity and Structure of the Trifurcation in the San Jacinto Fault Zone, Southern California
    Rodrigo Lazo
    Recent Groundwater Quality Changes in the San Gabriel Valley, California
    Julie A. Sowma
    Geology and Clay Deposits of the Northeast Quarter of the San Clemente Quadrangle, Rancho Mission Viejo, San Diego County, California
    Eric R. West
    Paleogeography as Interpreted from the Upper Cretaceous Conglomerates and Associated Strata of the Simi Hills, Santa Monica Mountains and San Miguel Island, Southern California
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    1982
    John C. Heter
    Generation of Fibrous Amphiboles in the Eastern Mesabi District, Minnesota – A Chemical and Physical Study
    Stephen Emanuel Jacobs
    Generation of a Part of the Upper Santa Ana River Valley
    San Bernardino Mountains, San Bernardino County, California
    Margaret A. Keller
    Diagenesis and Lithostratigraphy of the Monterrey Formation near Ojai, California
    Byung-Hun Lee
    Late Cretaceous Biostratigraphy and Micropaleontology of the Santa Ana Mountains, California
    Donald MacKenzie
    Sulfide Mineral Deposits of the Mineral King Mining District, Tulare, County, California
    Amir Khosro Matin
    Hydrogeologic Evaluation of the Los Osos Basin, San Luis Obispo County, California
    Gregory P. Meeker
    Petrogenetic Implications of Melilite Replacing Pyroxene in High-Temperature Inclusions from the Allende Meteorite
    1981
    Ronald Lee Barto
    Hydrogeology of Cuddy Valley, Southwestern Kern County, California
    William Walter Besse
    Mineral Paragenesis of the Grand Reef Mine, Aravaipa Mining District, Graham County, Arizona
    Dana J. Butters
    Geology and Geochemistry of the Baldwin Gneiss in the Vicinity of Sugarloaf Mountain, San Bernardino Mountains, California
    Louise D. Hose
    The Geology and Hydrogeology of the Sistema Purification Area, Villa Hidalgo, Tamaulipas, Mexico
    Stephen E. Joseph
    Strontium Isotopic Correlation of the La Panza Range Granitic Rocks with Similar Rocks in the Central and Eastern Transverse Range
    William R. Wood
    Geology, Petrography, and Geochemistry of the Santa Catalina Island Volcanic Rocks, Black Jack peak to Whitleys Peak Area
    1980
    Joel Baldwin
    The Martinez Mountain Rock Avalanche, Santa Rosa, California
    Sean M. Carey
    Cretaceous Sedimentation and Stratigraphy in the Santa Monica Mountains, Los Angeles County, California
    Abbas-Ali Rahimi Monazah
    The Geochemistry of the Pathfinder Elements Associated with Cinnabar Deposits in the Red Rock Mine Area, Santa Barbara County, California
    Stanley G. Oswald
    Refinement of the Crystal Structures of Three Alkali Amphiboles: Riebeckite, Osannite, and Arfvedsonite
    1979
    Thomas Farley
    Geology of Part of San Gorgonio Pass, San Bernardino County, California
    Larry B. Bramlett
    Lead Isotope Geochemistry of the Endako, Boss Mountain, and Mount Pleasant Porphyry Molybdenite Deposits in British Columbia and New Brunswick, Canada
    1978
    Alice Marie Campbell
    Hydrogeology and Hydrogeochemistry of the Verdugo Basin, Los Angeles County, California
    Timothy Stephen Cleath
    Ground Water Geology of the San Luis Obispo Area
    Joseph J. Criscione
    The Age of Sedimentation/Diagenesis for the Bedford Canyon Formation and the Santa Monica Formation in Southern California; A Rb/Sr Evaluation
    Gary Lee Lass
    Effects of Hydrothermal Contamination on Strontium Isotope Systematics in Rocks and Minerals of the Point Sal Ophiolite, Santa Barbara County, California
    Geoffrey William Nason
    Geology of a Portion of the Northern Newberry Mountains, San Bernardino County, California

    1977

    Calvin Fong Lee
    Reflection Profiling and Trace Metal Geochemistry of the Newport Submarine Canyon Region, Newport Beach, California
    1976
    Rae L. Conrad
    Applicability of Rb/Sr Geochronology of the Vincent Thrust, San Gabriel Mountains, California
    Patrick Hamilton
    A Geophysical Study of the Manix Fault: Its Tectonic Relationship to the Western Mojave Desert, San Bernardino County, California
    Richard Dean McJunkin
    Geology the Central San Bernardino Mountains, San Bernardino County, California

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