Ph.D. Dissertations: 1980-1989

NAME	TITLE	CHAIR	MONTH/YR
Capella, Jorge Edwin	Circulation and temperature effects on the development and distribution of the eggs and larvae of the Antarctic krill, Euphausia superba: A modeling study	Hofmann, Eileen E.	Dec-89
Eliason, Donald Eric	A modeling study of the circulation of East Lagoon, Galveston, Texas	Hofmann, Eileen E.	Dec-89
Hardin, Nancy Singel	Allochthonous salt sheets in the Alaminos Canyon Region, northwest Gulf of Mexico: Present configuaration and processes of emplacement	Bryant, William R.	Dec-89
Huerta-Diaz, Miguel Angel	Geochemistry of trace metals associated with sediments pyrite from anoxic marine environments	Morse, John W.	Dec-89
Lavoie, Dawn L.	Geotechnical properties of periplatform carbonate sediments	Bryant, William R.	Dec-89
Lim, Keun Sik	The shelf wave eigenvalue problem for a stratified ocean: A comparison of methodologies	Reid, Robert O.	Dec-89
Payne, Jeffrey Lynn	Subducting plate fault structure and its implications for sediment subduction	Bryant, William R. and Thomas W.C. Hilde	Dec-89
Rahim Al-deen, Sami Abdulaziz	Histology and histochemistry of the mantle of Pinctada radiata and Pinctada margaritifera from the Red Sea	Bright, Thomas J.	Dec-89
Yip, Kuor-Jier	The inverse tsunami problem of an island	Reid, Robert O.	Dec-89
Alcala-Herrera, Javier A.	Coccoliths from the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary of the Walvis Ridge, South Atlantic; biostratigraphic and paleoecological implications	Gartner, Stefan	May-89
Ishizaka, Joji	Coupling of Coastal Zone color scanner data to physical-biological model of the southeastern U.S. continental shelf ecosystem	Hofmann, Eileen E.	May-89
Jian, Ming-Jung	Biostratigraphy and geochronology of the Eagle Ford Shale, Austin Chalk, and Lower Taylor Marl in Texas based on calcareous nannofossils	Gartner, Stefan	May-89
Pflaum, Ronald Charles	Gaseous hydrocarbons bound in marine sediments	Brooks, James M.	May-89
Schauffler, Sue Myhre	Molecular hydrogen and carbon monoxide in the ocean and the atmosphere	Schink, David R. and C. Benedict	May-89
Stephens, Frances Carol	Effects of ultraviolet light on photosynthesis and pigments of Antarctic marine phytoplankton	El-Sayed, Sayed Z.	May-89
Cole, Kathleen Hicks	Uranium and thorium series isotopes as indicators of geochemical processes in recent Venezuela basin sediments	Schink, David R.	Dec-88
Kornicker, William Alan	Interactions of divalent cations with pyrite and mackinawite in seawater and NaCl solutions	Morse, John W.	Dec-88
Orr, James Conrad	222RN, 226RA, and 228RA as tracers for the evolution of warm core rings	Schink, David R.	Dec-88
Gittings, Stephen Reed	The recovery process in a mechanically damaged coral reef community	Bright, Thomas J.	May-88
McDonald, Thomas Joseph	Volatile organic compounds in Gulf of Mexico sediments	Brooks, James M.	May-88
Neurauter, Thomas William	Mud mounds on the continental slope, northwestern Gulf of Mexico and their relation to hydrates and seaflor instability	Bryant, William R.	May-88
Mann, Robert Gordon	Seismic stratigraphy and salt tectonics of the northern Green Canyon Area, Gulf of Mexico	Bryant, William R.	Dec-87
Park, Chul	A study on the fine-scale patchiness of zooplankton in the coastal area off Louisiana	Wormuth, John H.	Dec-87
Peterson, Ray George	On the variability of the Antarctic circumpolar current	Nowlin, Worth D.	Dec-87
Gould, Richard Warren, Jr.	The horizontal and vertical distribution of phytoplankton in warm core ring 82B: A five month time series	Fryxell, Greta A.	May-87
Johnson, Mark Andrew	The wind-forced response of the Southern Ocean	Nowlin, Worth D.	May-87
Taylor, Robert Joseph	Manganese geochemistry in Galveston Bay sediment	Presley, B.J.	May-87
Boyd, Janice Dinegar	Thermohaline steps off the northeast coast of South America	Reid, Robert O.	Dec-86
Kim, Kwang Yul	A limited-domain numerical model for long-range tsunami propogation over an ocean of variable depth	Reid, Robert O.	Aug-86
Nakamoto, Shoichiro	An application of solitary wave theory to meso-scale eddies in the Gulf of Mexico	Ichiye, Takashi	Aug-86
White, Marie Elinor	Changes in the growth, metabolism, disease levels and energy budget of the american oyster, Crassostrea virginica induced by an ectoparasitic gastropod, Boonea impressa	Powell, Eric N.	Aug-86
Horne, Doyle Jackson	Currents and water characteristics around the West Flower Garden Bank	Reid, Robert O.	May-86
Romeu, Andres Avelino	Biodegradation of Kuwait crude oil in the presence and…	Jeffrey, Lela Mae	May-86
Meyer, Michael August	Cryopreservation of marine diatom	Fryxell, Greta A.	Dec-85
Trees, Charles Connett	Remote sensing of ocean color in the northern Gulf of Mexico	El-Sayed, Sayed Z.	Dec-85
Zullig, James Joseph	Interaction of organic compounds with carbonate mineral surfaces in seawater and related solutions	Morse, John W.	Dec-85
Jung, Woo-Yeol	Free-air gravity and geoid anomalies of the North Atlantic Ocean and their tectonic implications	Rabinowitz, Philip D.	Aug-85
Schropp, Steven James	Production of reduced trace gases by oceanic bacteria	Schwartz, John R. and John H. Wormuth	Aug-85
Bunpapong, Mahunnop	An investigation of hurricane-induced forerunner surge in the Gulf of Mexico	Reid, Robert O.	May-85
Chow, Jinder	Biostratigraphy and marine paleoenvironments of the Gulf of Mexico, the western Caribbean and the eastern Equatorial Pacific	Gartner, Stefan	May-85
Johns, Mark William	Geotechnical properties of Mississippi River Delta sediments utilizing in situ pressure sampling techniques	Bryant, William R.	May-85
Cummins, Robert Hays	Taphonomic processes in modern estuarine death assemblages along the Texas Coast: Rate of taphonomic loss, covariance of species, and size frequency analysis	Powell, Eric N.	Dec-84
Feeley, Mary Hart	Seismic stratigraphic analysis of the Mississippi fan	Bryant, William R.	Dec-84
Taylor, Elliott	Oceanic sedimentation and geotechnical stratigraphy:	Bryant, William R.	Dec-84
Weber, Larry Henry	Spatial variability of phytoplankton in relation to the distributional patterns of krill (Euphausia superba)	El-Sayed, Sayed Z.	Dec-84
Denoux, Guy Joseph	A study of the fine-scale patchiness of selected copepod species in the California current	Wormuth, John H.	Aug-84
Guinasso, Norman Louis, Jr.	Effect of mixing in continuous ocean sampling systems	Reid, Robert O. and Schink, David R.	Aug-84
Halper, Fern Beth	The effect of storms on sediment resuspension and transport on the Outer Continental Shelf, northwest Gulf of Mexico	McGrail, David W.	Aug-84
Lea, Charles Elliot	Pelagic cephalopods of the Florida current	Wormuth, John H.	Aug-84
Mart, Joseph	A tectonic model of an incipient spreading center and its margins: the northern Red Sea and the Dead Sea Rift	Rabinowitz, Philip D.	Aug-84
Minnery, Gregory Andrew	Distribution, growth rates, and diagenesis of coralline algal structures on the Flower Garden Banks, northwestern Gulf of Mexico	Bright, Thomas J. and Richard Rezak	Aug-84
Sahl, Lauren Elizabeth	Suspended sediment on the upper Texas continental shelf	McGrail, David W. and William J. Merrell, Jr	Aug-84
Joyce, John Edward	Preservation of aragonite in Late Pleistocene sediments in the deep basin of the Western Gulf of Mexico	Gartner, Stefan	May-84
Kendall, James Joseph, Jr.	The effects of drilling fluids (muds) and turbidity on the metabolic state of the coral Acropora cervicornis: Calcification rate and protein concentration	Bright, Thomas J.	Dec-83
Lee, Chao-Shing	Origin and evolution of the West Philippine Basin	Hilde, Thomas W.C.	Dec-83
Warsi, Waris Ejaz Khan	Convergence tectonics of the Peru Trench: 8 degress S- 15 degrees S latitude	Hilde, Thomas W.C.	Dec-83
Din, Zubir Bin	Sublethal effects of chemical industrial wastes on the growth and productivity of marine phytoplankton in a flow-through laboratory system	Biggs, Douglas and James M. Brooks	May-83
Sheu, Der-Duen	The geochemistry of Orcan basin sediments	Presley, B.J.	May-83
Ambler, Julie Weills	Influence of natural particle diets on egg laying and hatching success of Acartic tonsa in East Lagoon, Galveston, Texas	Biggs, Douglas C.	Dec-82
Barnard, Leo Allen	Marine manganese accretions: Nodule micronodule comparisons among major ocean basins	Scott, Martha R.	Dec-82
Hagan, Denise Ellen	On surface circulation of the eastern North Pacific	Vastano, Andrew C.	Dec-82
Keeney-Kennicutt, Wendy L.	The geochemistry of trace metals in the Brazos River and the Brazos River Estuary	Presley, B.J.	Dec-82
Titgen, Richard Holt	The systematics and ecology of the decapods of Dubai, and their zoogeographic relationships to the Arabian Gulf of the western Indian Ocean	Bright, Thomas J.	Dec-82
Cummings, James Allan	Vertical distribution patterns of calanoid copepods in the western Gulf of Mexico	Wormuth, John H.	Aug-82
Henry, Mitchell Earl	Marine petroleum prospecting and pollution monitoring with an airborne fraunhofer line discriminator	Rezak, Richard and William R. Bryant	Aug-82
Inoue, Masamichi	Vertical structure of the low-frequency currents at Drake Passage	Nowlin, Worth D. and Robert O. Reid	Aug-82
Smith, David Elwin	Abundance and foraging ability of physonect siphonophores in subtropical oceanic surface waters	Biggs, Douglas C.	Aug-82
Wolff, Gary Arthur	A study of feeding relationships in tuna and porpoise throughout the application of cephalopod beak analysis	Wormuth, John H.	Aug-82
Lewis, James Kenneth	On the nearshore hydrography of the upper Texas coast	Reid, Robert O.	May-82
Soniat, Thomas Meloncy	Studies on the nutritional ecology and ecological energetics of oysters from Galveston Bay	Darnell, Rezneat M. and Sammy M. Ray	May-82
Carnes, Michael Ryan	Theoretical and observational study of langmuir circulation	Ichiye, Takashi	Dec-81
Hart, Alan Dewey	Pelagic amphipods of the Gulf Stream cyclonic cold core rings	Wormuth, John H.	Dec-81
Bidigare, Robert Richard	Biochemical, physiological and ecological aspects of ammonium regeneration by marine crustaceans	Biggs, Douglas C.	Aug-81
Chiou, Wen-An	Clay fabric of gassy submarine sediments	Bryant, William R.	Aug-81
Haustein, James Roland	Effects of shoaling bottom topography on the dynamics of Gulf Stream cyclonic rings	Reid, Robert O.	Aug-81
Jeffrey, Alan William Adams	Thermal and clay catalysed cracking in the formation of natural gas	Brooks, James M.	Aug-81
Key, Robert Marion	Examination of abyssal sea floor and near-bottom water mixing processes using Ra-226 and Rn-222	Schink, David R.	Aug-81
Shephard, Les Edward	Geotechnical properties of select convergent margin sediments	Bryant, William R.	Aug-81
Lum, Joyce Ann Smith	The distribution of the wood boring isopod limnoria in Texas estuaries and bays in relation to environmental factors	Pequegnat, Willis E. and Rezneat M. Darnell	May-81
Gallegos-Garcia, Artemio	Frequency-wavenumber spectra of sea surface temperature and wind stress in the Eastern North Pacific and their relation to locally forced low frequency fluctuations in the ocean	Reid, Robert O.	Dec-80
Wiesenburg, Denis Alan	Geochmistry of dissolved gases in the hypersaline Orca Basin	Schink, David R.	Dec-80
Thompson, Jack Harrell, Jr.	Responses of selected Scleractinian corals to drilling fluids used in the marine environment	Bright, Thomas J.	Aug-80
Kennicutt, Mahlon Charles, II	Particulate and dissolved lipids in sea water	Jeffrey, Lela Mae	May-80
Smith, David Clement IV	A numerical study of motion and spindown characteristics of an isolated cyclonic oceanic vortex	Reid, Robert O.	May-80
Tomkins, Robert Eugene	Origin and occurrence of selected worldwide calcrete	Rezak, Richard	May-80