Masters Thesis 2006-Present

NAME	TITLE	CHAIR	Month/Yr
Carolyn Wilson	Factors Affecting Carbohydrate Production and Loss in Salt Marsh Sediments of Galveston Bay	Thornton, Dan	Aug-09
Lindsey Visser	Nitrous Oxide Production in the Gulf of Mexico Hypoxic Zone	Thornton, Dan	Aug-09
Janie Lee	The Influence of Alkalinity and pCO2 on CaCO3 Nucleation from Variable Composition Phanerozoic Seawater	Morse, John	Dec-08
Ruth Mullins	Characterizing Marine Mammal Stranding Events Along the Texas Coast	Wormuth, John	Aug-08
Kelly Cole	Low-frequency Variability of Currents in the Deepwater Eastern Gulf of Mexico	DiMarco, Steven	Aug-08
Ruth Mullins	Characterizing Marine Mammal Stranding Events Along the Texas Coast	Wormuth, John	Aug-08
Anne-Sophie Charlotte Hieke	Diversity and Distribution of Bacterial Communities in Dioxin-Contaminated Sediments from the Houston Ship Channel	Robin Brinkmeyer	Feb-08
Chen Xu	Optimized procedures for extraction, purification and characterization of exopolymeric substances (EPS) from two bacteria (Sagittula stellata and Pseudomonas fluorescens Biovar II) with relevances to the study of actinide binding aquatic environments	Santschi, Peter	Dec-07
Julia O'Hern	Using orbital altimetry and ocean color to characterize habitat of sperm whales in the Gulf of Mexico	Biggs, Doug	Aug-07
Charlie Landin	Dissolved gaseous mercury behavior in shallow water estuaries	Santschi, Peter	Aug-07
Sudeshna Lahiry	Relationships between nutrients and dissolved oxygen concentrations of the Texas-Louisiana Shelf during Spring-Summer of 2004	DiMarco, Steve	June-07
Shelli L. Meyer	Vibrio vulnificus dynamics in a South Texas Bay	Thornton, Dan	May-07
Amanda Rinehart	Dissolved organic matter discharge in the six largest rivers-chemical composition and seasonal variability	Amon, Rainer	Mar-07
Anitsakis, Erin	Marine pelagic bacterial community linkages with environmental dymanics on the Texas-Louisiana Shelf	Long, Richard	Dec-06
Azzara, Alyson	Characteristics of the deep scattering layer in the Gulf of Mexico as they relate to Sperm Whale diving and foraging behavior	Biggs, Douglas and DiMarco, Steven	Dec-06
Dupuis, Keith	Wind-Wave measurements in a shallow estuary	Anis, Ayal	Dec-06
Wei, Chih-Lin	The bathymetric zonation and community structure of deep-sea macrobenthos in the northern Gulf of Mexico	Rowe, Gilbert	Dec-06
Jennifer Pitkewicz	Antecedent and anthropogenic influences on the Galveston Island Shoreface	Dellapenna, Timothy	Aug-06
Thomson, Heather	Controls on the sulfur cycle in estuarine sediments in the central Texas coast	Morse, John	Aug-06
Gudeman, Stephanie	The use of ∂¹⁵N to examine past mangrove stand structures	Cifuentes, Luis	Aug-06
Marchand, Adam	Non-thesis MS in Geosciences	Long, Richard	Aug-06
Beaman, Melissa	A revised Apparent Polar Wander Path for the Pacific Plate from the latest Cretaceous through the Early Cenozoic	Sager, William W.	May-06
Stover, Christina	A new account of Ross Sea waters: Characteristics, volumetrics, and variability	Orsi, Alejandro	May-06
Keach, Sara	Monomethylmercury concentrations on the Texas-Louisiana shelf during hypoxia formation	Gill, Gary and Santschi, Peter	May-06