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2019

1. Dr. Jack Norton
   • Little Siberia, Star of the North: Prisons, Crisis, and Development in Rural New York, 1968–1994 Date: 2/2019-GC/Ruth Wilson Gilmore
2. Dr. Lydia Pelot-Hobbs
   • The Contested Terrain of the Louisiana Carceral State: Dialectics of Southern Penal Expansion, 1971–2016, 2/2019-GC/Ruth Wilson Gilmore
3. Dr. Shemon Salam
   • Limits of the Black Radical Tradition and the Value-form, 2/2019-GC/Ruth Wilson Gilmore
4. Dr. Celeste Winston
   • “How to Lose the Hounds”: Tracing the Relevance of Marronage for Contemporary Anti-Police Struggles, 5/2019-GC/Ruth Wilson Gilmore

2018

1. Dr.  Jose Pillich
   • Heat Stress Vulnerability: Analyzing the Socio-Environmental Factors Influencing Heat Stress Hospital Visits and Implementation of Green Infrastructure in New York City Date: 05/2018- BC/Yehuda Klein
2. Dr. John Anton
   • Aluminum-26: A Canonized Cosmochemical Conundrum Date: 02/2018 -Rowan/Harold Connolly
3.  Dr. Ying Liu
   • Regulation of Dissolved Arsenic Using Zero-Valent Iron with Gypsum and Sulfate Reducing Bacteria: Laboratory Microcosm and Column Studies Date: 09/2018
4. Dr. Deen S. Sharp
   • Corporate Urbanization: Between the Future and Survival in Lebanon Date: 09/2018
5. Dr. Christian Calienes
   • The Production of Space: Indigenous Resistance Movements in the Peruvian Amazon Date: 02/2018- HC/Ines Miyares
6. Dr. Christian D. Siener
   • From Prison to Homeless Shelter: Camp LaGuardia and the Political Economy of an Urban Infrastructure Date: 09/2018
7. Dr. Spiridon Papanikolaou
   • Seasonal Characterization of New York City Urban Thermal Environment Date: 02/2018
8. Dr. Dhiman Ranjan Mondal
   • Evidence of the 1762 Arakan and Prior Earthquakes in the Northern Sunda Subduction Date: 02/2018
9. Dr. Harry M. Maisch IV
   • Taxonomy, Taphonomy, and Bioerosion of Lamniform and Carcharhiniform Shark Teeth from Onslow Bay, North Carolina and an Example Extension from the Gulf Coastal Plain of the U.S.A. Date: 09/2018
10. Dr. Suhua Wei
    • Impacts of Climate Extremes on Terrestrial Productivity Date: 09/2018
11. Dr. Brian Alan Brigham
    • Investigation of Biogeochemical Mechanisms of Greenhouse Gas Production in the Urban Hudson River Estuary  Date: 09/2018
12. Dr. Rajashree Datta
    • Quantifying the Effects of Wind Regimes and Temperature on Surface Melt over the Antarctic Peninsula (1982–2017) through Modeling, Remote Sensing and In-Situ Data Date: 09/2018
13. Dr. Annesia Lamb
    • Ulva spp. Bloom Dynamics in a Hyper-Eutrophic Estuary: Jamaica Bay, New York Date: 09/2018

2017

1. Dr. Stephanie L. DeVries
   • Beyond the Obvious: Emerging Contaminants and Biogeochemistry as a Cause and Solution for Nitrogen Pollution
2.  Dr. Rui Ding
   • Removal of Organic Micro-Pollutants from Water Using Sewage Sludge Based Composite Adsorbents
3.  Dr. Maryam E. Karimi
   1. Impact of Urbanization on Temperature Variation in Big Cities: Measuring Health Risk While Targeting Vulnerable Population
4. Dr. Sixto E. Portilla
   • The Role of Dietary Highly Unsaturated n-3 Fatty Acids in Northern Quahogs, Mercenaria mercenaria, Through Decreasing Temperature
5. Dr. Atsushi Tomita
   • Land Change History of Oil Palm Plantations in Northern Bengkulu Province, Sumatra Island, Reconstructed from Landsat Satellite Archives
6. Dr. John Bigolski
   • The Formation of Fine-Grained Chondrule Rims in Unequilibrated Ordinary Chondrites
7. Dr. Rachel Goffe
   • Capture and Abandon: Social Reproduction and Informal Land Tenure in Jamaica

 2016

1. Dr. Cheila Cullen
   • Guidance Index for Shallow Landslide Hazard Analysis
2. Dr. Gretchen M. Culp
   • Increasing Accessibility for Map Readers with Acquired and Inherited Color Vision Deficiencies: A Re-Coloring Algorithm for Maps
3. Dr. Charuta J. Kulkarni
   • Lessons from the Past: Unfolding the Dynamics among Climate, Balkan Landscapes, and Humans over the Past Millennium
4. Dr. Laurel Turbin Mei-Singh
   • Geographies of Desecration: Race, Indigeneity, and the Militarization of Hawai’i,
5. Dr. Keith K. Miyake
   • Institutionalizing Environmental Justice: Race, Place, and the National Environmental Policy Act
6. Dr. Lilja Nielsen
   • Exploring Sewage Sludge/Fish Waste-Based Materials As Adsorbents Of Pharmaceuticals From Water Phase
7.  Dr. Magdalena T. Ornstein-Sloan
   • Re-framing Informal Family Caregiving
8. Dr. Stephanie Diane Wakefield
   • Living Infrastructure: Being, Time, and Government in New York City
9. Dr.  John C. Wolbeck
   • Comprehensive Mass Balance Isotope Schematics for Determining the Provenance of the Moon Forming Impactor.

2015

1. Dr. Samuel T. Frank  (Advisor: John Seley – Graduate Center)
   • “Carbon Emission Policy in the United States: State Patchwork vs. National Policy“
2.  Dr. Damayanti Gurung (Advisor: Cecilia McHugh)
   • “Microfossils as proxies for Holocene climate in semi-enclosed basins: the Hudson River estuary, New York, USA and the Marmara Sea, Turkey”
3. Dr. Jessica T Miller  (Advisor: Ken Gould – Brooklyn College)
   • Super Fun Superfund: Polluted Protection Along the Gowanus Canal“
4. Dr. Lesley Patrick (lpatrick@hunter.cuny.edu)
   • “Health Exposure, Socio-Economic Vulnerability, and Infrastructure at Risk to Current and Projected Coastal Flooding in New York City”
   • Research Interests: Urban Sustainability, Climate Change, GIS
5. Dr. Owen Toews (Advisor: Setha Low – Graduate Center)
   1. “Resettling the City? Settler Colonialism, Neoliberalism, and Urban Land in Winnipeg, Canada“
6. Dr. Patrick Michael Alexander
   • Assessing Greenland Ice Sheet Albedo and Mass Balance Variability Using In-Situ Data, Spaceborne Observations and Regional Model Outputs
7. Dr. Stephen Boatright
   • American Dreamer: First-Time Homeownership and the Affective Geographies of Dwelling
8. Dr. Heather Glickman-Eliezer
   • Aerosol and Urban Heat Island Effects on Warm Cloud-Top Shortwave Infrared Reflectance and Visible Albedo
9. Dr. Daniel William Hauptvogel
   • The State of the Oligocene Icehouse World: Sedimentology, Provenance, and Stable Isotopes of Marine Sediments from the Antarctic Continental Margin
10. Dr. Gerald Thomas Rustic
    • Eastern Tropical Pacific Climate And El Niño Variability During The Past Millennium
11. Dr. Ousmane Sy Savane
    • Effects of Aerosol on Cloud Water Path: Statistical Method a Potential Source for Divergence in Observation- based Correlative Studies

September, 2014

1. Dr. Gordon Green (Advisor: Sean Aheart)
   • “Mapping Forest Canopy Structure with On-Demand Fusion of Remotely Sensed Data“
2. Dr. Kimberly C. Meehan (formerly Handle) (Advisor: Neil H. Landman, AMNH)
   • “Paleoecology of Late Cretaceous Methane Cold Seeps of South Dakota, USA.”
3. Dr. Steve McFarland (Advisor: Ruth Wilson Gilmore – Graduate Center)
   • “With the Class-Conscious Workers Under One Roof”: Union Halls and Labor Temples in American Working-Class Formation, 1880-1970
   • Research Interests: Urban Geography, Cultural Geography, Labor Studies, City Planning
4. Dr. Suzie Stempel (Advisors: Dr. Cheng; Dr. Gould)
   • “Water Conservation to Reduce Wet Weather Pollution Loads to the Gowanus Canal, Brooklyn, NY”

May, 2014

1. Dr. Katera Moore  (Advisor: Ken Gould)
   • In Harm’s Way: How Philadelphia’s Urban Renewal Practices Steered Marginal People to Marginal Land
2. Dr. Edward J. Rice (Advisor: Gillian Stewart)
   • Long-Term Warming And The Size And Phenology Of Long Island Sound Plankton
   • Research Interests: Ecology, Long Island Sound, Climate Change
3. Dr. David Spataro (dspataro@gc.cuny.edu) (Advisor: Cindi Katz)
   1. We Work, We Eat Together: Anti-authoritarian Mutual Aid Politics in New York City, 2004-2013

February, 2013

1. Dr. Anne Babette Audant    (Advisor- Professor Setha Low – Graduate Center)
   • “Public Market to La Mequeta: Shaping Spaces and Subjects of Food Distribution in New York City, 1930-2012”
2. Dr. George Jose Musa (Advisor – Professor William Solecki – Hunter College)
   • “Does Geography Matter? Neighborhood Effects on Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder of NYC Public School Children After 9/11”
3. Dr. Ryan Ehrhart (Advisor – Professor Cindi Katz – Graduate Center)
   • Scaling Food Security: A Political Ecology of Agricultural Policies and Practices in Bukidnon, Philippines
4. Dr. David Friedman (Advisor – Professor Yahuda L. Klein – Brooklyn College)
   • “Policy Change Sustainability, and Environmental Justice: Applications of the Long Island Markal Model“
5. Dr. Enrique Lanz Oca (Advisor – Professor Cindi Katz – Graduate Center)
   • “The EI WHA Dam Removal Project and the Dematerialization of Nature”
6. Dr. Rahul Sahajpal (Advisor – Professor N. Gary Hemming – Queens College)
   • “Developing Geochemical Proxies for a High Resolution Hydroclimate Record in Mono Lake Basin“

September, 2012

1. Dr. Bradley Gardener (Advisor – Professor Marianna Pavlovskaya – Hunter)
   • And Then the Neighborhood Changed:  Jewish Intra-Urban Migration and Racial Identity in the Bronx, NY”
2. Dr. Christian Anderson (Advisor – Professor Cindi Katz – Graduate Center)
   • “West Side Stories:  Everyday Life and the Social Space of West Forty-Sixth Street”
3. Dr. Amanda Huron (Advisor – Professor Marianna Pavlovskaya – Hunter College)
   • “The Work of the Urban Commons:  Limited-Equity Cooperatives in Washington, D.C.“
4. Dr. Elana Klein (Advisor – Professor Cecilia McHugh – Queens College)
   • “Late Pleistocene to Holocene Evolution, Sedimentation Processes, and Anthropogenic Impact of a Coastal System:  Raritan and Sandy Hook Bays, New Jersey
5. Dr. Caitlyn Nichols (Advisor – Professor William Wallace – College of Staten Island)
   • “Temporal and Spatial Variability of Metal Distributions in Staten Island Marsh-Creek Systems:  Does Connectivity to the Arthur Kill Impact Anthropogenic enrichment, Sediment Quality and Toxicity Potential in NY/NJ HE Marsh Habitats?
6. Dr. Nicholas Steiner (Advisor – Professor Marco Tedesco – City College)
   • “Techniques for the Remote Sensing and Ground Measurement of Snow and Ice”

May, 2012

1. Dr. Michael Porter (Advisor – Professor William Solecki – Hunter College)
   • “The Environmental Justice Implications of New York States and New York City’s Brownfield Policies”
2. Dr. Benjamin Sallemi (Advisor – Professor Robert Nolan – Graduate Center)
   • “A Life Time Mortality Risk Analysis and Cost Benefit analysis Associated with Asbestos Exposure from the Collapse of the World Trade Cener on 9/11:  Does the Cost of US_EPA’s Residential Dust Clean Up In Lower Manhattan Exceed It’s Benefits?”

February, 2012

1. Dr. Philippe Amstislavski (Advisor – Professor Juliana Maantay – Lehman College)
   • “Access to Urban Food Outlets as a Predictor of Diabetes”
2. Dr. Alexandra Tsekeri (Advisor – Professor Barry Gross – City College (Engineering))
   • “Development and Assessment of a Neural Network Approach for Retrieving Aerosol Properties from Multispectral, Multiangle Polarization Measurements”

May, 2011

1. Dr. Lee Hachadoorian (Advisor – Professor Jochen Albrecht – Hunter College)
   • “Tiebout Sorting and Jurisdictional Homogeneity:  Empirical Validity and Ethical Implications”
2. Dr. Jingyu Wang (Advisor – Professor Hari Pant – Lehman College)
   • “Phosphorus Transport in the Bronx River:  Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis”

February, 2011

1. Dr. Debjani Ghatak (Advisor – Professor Allan Frei – Hunter College)
   • “Cryospheric Teleconnections:  The Response of Northern Hemisphere Snow to the Atmospheric and Arctic Sea Ice Variations”
2. Dr. Cristina Notaro (Advisor – Professor Marianna Pavlovskaya – Hunter College)
   • “The Interfaith Center:  The Construction and Consequence of Interfaith Space”

September, 2010

1. Dr. Shihyan Lee (Advisor – Professor Wenge Ni-Meister – Hunter College)
   • “Characterizing:  Vegetation Structure and Biomass Using Lidar Remote Sensing”
2. Dr. Andrew Maroko (Advisor – Professor Julianna Maantay – Lehman College)
   • “Chronic: Exposure to Fine Particulate Matter and Heart Failure in New York City:  A Methodological Exploration of Environmental Justice and Health”

June, 2010

1. Dr. Yumiko Iwasaki (Advisor – Professor Niles Eldredge – AMNH)
   • “Systematics on Viaphacops Maximova, 1972 from Bolivia and Paleobiogeography of the Subfamily Phacopinae Hawle & Corda, 1847 for the Lower and Middle Devonian, with a Particular Emphasis on the Genus Paciphacops Maximova, 1972”
2. Dr. Scott Larson (Advisor – Professor Neil Smith – Graduate Center)
   • “Building Like Moses with Jacobs in Mind:  Redevelopment Politics in the Bloomberg Administration”
3. Dr. Robert Bradford Stewart (Advisor – Professor Ines Miyares – Hunter College)
   • “Toward a Spatial Understanding of Latin American Immigrant worker Population Fatalities”
4. Dr. Qiang Yang (Advisor – Professor Yang Zheng – Queens College)
   • “Arsenic in Fractured Bedrock Aquifers in Greater Augusta, Marine USA”

September, 2009

1. Dr. Ylli Kellici (Advisor – Professor Sean Ahearn – Hunter College)
   • “An Analysis of the Performance of Public Elementary Schools in New York City During 2001-2005 from a Geographical Perspective”
2. Dr. Hun Bok Jung (Advisor – Professor Yan Zheng – Queens College)
   • “Fate, Reaction and Transport of Groundwater Arsenic During Discharge to Waquoit Bay, USA and Meghna River, Bangladesh”

February, 2009

1. Dr. Angelos Lampousis (Advisor – Professor Patricia Kenyon – City College)
   • “Electrical Resistivity Imaging Study of Near-Surface Infiltration”
2. Dr. Philip C. Laporta (Advisor – Professor Hannes Brueckner – Queens College)
   • “The Stratigraphy and Structure of the Cambrian and Ordovician Chert Bearing Carbonates of the Wallkill River Valley:  The Stratigraphic Nature of the Chert and teir Archaeological Potential”
3. Dr. Gordon Gruys Hinshalwood (Advisor – Professor David Locke – Queens College)
   • “Biodegradation of Fuel, Oxygenates in Northeastern United States Aquifers with an Analysis of Underground Storage Tank Leaks”

September, 2008

1. Dr. Noureddin Amaach (Advisor – Professor Stephen Aja – Brooklyn College)
   • “The Sedimentology, Mineralogy and Metal Contamination of Sediments in the Apex of the New York Bight, NY, USA:  An Integrated Laboratory and Field Study of Trace Metal Behavior in an Urban Estuary.
2. Dr. Robert H.S. Applebaum (Advisor – Professor Cecilia McHugh – Queens College)
   • “Paleoclimate Signal from the Late Eocene New Jersey Continental Slope:  A Multi-Proxy Approach”
3. Dr. Jun Tu (Advisor – Professor Zong-Guo Xia – Lehman College)
   • “Assessing the Impact of Long-Term Land Use Changes on Water Quality in Eastern Massachusetts”

May, 2008

1. Dr. Hyo Jin Ahn (Advisor – Professor Karl Szekielda – Hunter College)
   • “Urban Surface Temperature Retrieval From Space Through Emissivity Classification”
2. Dr. Marzie A. Jafari (Advisor – Professor Julianna Maantay – Lehman College)
   • “Using A Geographic Information System to Develop A Marketing Geographic Segmentation Model for Continuing Education Programs”
3. Dr. Jacob L. Mey, IV  (Advisor – Professor N. Gary Hemming – Queens College)
   • “The Uranium Series Disgenesis and the Morphology of Drowned Barbadian Paleo-Reefs”

February, 2008

1.  Dr. Bolortsetseg Minjin (Advisor – Professor Jin Meng – American Museum of Natural History)
   • “Descriptions of Three New Specimens of Cimolodontans and a Phylogenetic Study of the Postcranial Anatomy of Multituberculata (Mammalia, Synapsida)”
2. Dr. Diomaris Padilla (Advisor – Professor Jeffrey Steiner – City College)
   • “Characterization of Biomass Burning:  Fourier Transform Infrared Analysis of Wood and Vegetation Combustion Products”

September, 2006

1.  Dr. Karin Block (Advisor – Professor Jeffrey Steiner – City College)
   • “A Refined Multiple Injections Model for the Palisades Sill, New York and New Jersey”
2. Dr. Ratan Dhar (Advisor – Professor Yan Zheng – Queens College)
   • “Mobilization of Arsenic in Groundwater of Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta (GBD) Aquifers of Bangladesh”
3. Dr. Paul Feinberg (Advisor – Professor Frederick C. Shaw – Lehman College)
   • “Nature, Distribution and Extent of PCB Contamination seen in Extant Molluscs of the Hudson River Estuary, New York”

February, 2006

1.  Dr. Donald Edward Clark (Advisor – Professor Gerald M. Friedman – Brooklyn College)
   • “A Subsurface Fracture Analysis of the Beekmantown Group Carbonates of Eastern New York State”
2. Dr. Farnosh Saeedi (Advisor – Professor Daniel Habib – Queens College)
   • “Dinoflagellate Stratigraphy and Facies of the Late Cretaceous-Early Paleogene (K/Pg Boundary) Interval at the Bass River Site New Jersey, ODP 174X”

May, 2005

1.  Dr. Sue C. Grady (Advisor – Professor Sara McLafferty – Hunter College)
   • “Low Birthweight and the Contribution of Residential Segregation:  New York City, 2000”
2. Dr. Frederick Stumm (Advisor – Professor Allan Ludman – Queens College)
   • “Delineation of the Fractured-Rock and Unconsolidated Overburden Ground-Water Flow Systems, on the Southern Part of Manhattan, New York, Through Use of Advanced Borehole-Geophysical Techniques”

February, 2005

1.  Dr. Jacques N. Khoury (Advisor – Professor William Wallace – College of Staten Island)
   • “Behavioral and Subcellular Approach to Understanding Metal Toxicity in Fiddler Crabs”

September, 2004

1. Dr. Constantinos Theophilides (Advisor – Professor Sean Ahearn – Hunter College)
   • “Quantitative Support for a Theory of West Nile Virus Transmission Using Spatio-Temporal Modeling”
2. Dr. Susana Palamarczuk (Advisor – Professor John Chamberlain – Brooklyn College)
   • “Organic-Walled Microplankton in the Jaguel Formation (Upper Maastrichtian-Danian) Neuquen Province, Argentina”

February, 2004

1. Dr. Arona Diouf (Advisor – Professor Gerald M. Friedman – Brooklyn College)
   • “Depositional Processes and Geological Significance of Biogenic Magnetite and Fe-Sulfide from Iron Bacteria at Anthony’s Nose, Westchester County, New York:  A Proposed Method of Biogenic Iron Remediation from Water Systems Using Applied Magnetic Fields”
2. Dr. Elizabeth Rudolph (Advisor – Professor Jeffrey Steiner – City College)
   • “Distribution and Geochemistry of Shells of Extant Molluscs of the Hudson Estuary, New York”

September, 2003

1. Dr. Deborah Bruce (Advisor – Professor Gerald M. Friedman – Brooklyn College)
   • “Delineation of the Coastal Aquifer of Israel Based on the Analysis of Carbon-14 and Tritium”

May, 2003

1. Dr. Douglas A. Williamson (Advisor – Professor Sara McLafferty – Hunter College)
   • “Evaluating the Effects of Closed-Circuit Television on Crime in Public Housing:  An Application of GIS and Spatial Statistics”

May,  2002

1. Dr. William Hansen (Advisor – Professor Gerald M. Friedman – Brooklyn College)
   • “A Spatial and Statistical Investigation of Dioxin-Furan Contamination in the Sediments of the Hudson-Raritan Estuary”
2. Dr. Charles Hillenbrand (Advisor – Professor Gerald M. Friedman – Brooklyn College)
   • “Groundwater-Risk Analysis of New York Utilizing GIS Technology”
3. Dr. Scott Chesman (Advisor – Professor Jeffrey C. Steiner – City College)
   • “Brooklyn Injection Gneiss Complex: Geochemical and Tectonic Synthesis”

February, 2002

1. Dr. Roland Scal (Advisor – Professor Gerald M. Friedman – Brooklyn College)
   • “Sandstone Petrography and Authigenic Tourmaline from Lower to Early Middle Devonian Units of the Appalachian Basin, New York to West Virginia”

September, 2001

1. Dr. Chunzeng Wang (Advisor – Professor Allan Ludman – Queens College)
   • “Nature and Evolution of the Norumbega Fault System in the Great Pond-Grand Lake Stream Area, Eastern Maine”
2. Dr. James O. Brown (Advisor – Professor John Chamberlain – Brooklyn College)
   • “Biostratigraphy and Paleoecology of the Givetian Hamilton Group in Pennsylvania and New York”

May,  2001

1. Dr. Rosa Brignoni (Advisor – Professor Arthur M. Langer – Brooklyn College)
   • “Efficient of the Table Chlorinator in the Inactivation of Pathogenic Organisms in Drinking Water”
2. Dr. Richard L. Newman (Advisor – Professor Victor Goldsmith – Hunter College)
   • “The Urban Lakes of New York City”

February,  2001

1. Dr. Mohamed Ahmed (Advisor – Professor Gerald M. Friedman – Brooklyn College)
   • “The Impact of Toxic Waste Dumping on the Submarine Environment: New York Bight, New York”

September, 2000

1. Dr. Virgilio Minino (Advisor – Professor Arthur Langer – Brooklyn College)
   • “The Migration of Hydrocarbon Constituents from a Containment Tank”

May,  2000

1. Dr. Fatemeh Ashkan (Advisor – Professor William H. Harris – Brooklyn College)
   • “Magnitude and Extent of Trace Metal Contamination in Hudson River Estuary Surficial Bottom Sediment”
2. Dr. Andrew J. Coleman (Advisor – Professor Margaret A. Winslow – City College)
   • “Tertiary Tectonics of the Hispaniola Fault Zone in the Northwestern Piedmont of the Cordillera Central Dominican Republic”
3. Dr. Paul C. Gargiulo (Advisor – Professor Victor Goldsmith – Hunter College)
   • “Utility Poles, Preservatives and Soil Contamination”

September, 1999

1. Dr. Marjorie J. Clarke (Advisor – Professor Victor Goldsmith – Hunter College)
   • “Testing the Effectiveness of Supermarket-Based Environmental Shopping Campaigns in Changing Consumer Behavior in New York City”

May, 1999

1. Dr. Thomas Shaw (Advisor – Professor B. Charolette Schreiber – Queens College)
   • “Early-Middle Ordovician Lithostratigraphy, Biostratigraphy and Depositional Environments of the Illinois Basin”

February, 1999

1. Dr. Yuri Gorokhovich (Advisor – Professor Victor Goldsmith – Hunter College)
   • “Turbidity Modeling in Streams Using a Geographic Information System (GIS)”
2. Dr. Shruti Philips (Advisor – Professor Gerald M. Friedman – Brooklyn College)
   • “Carbonate Diagenesis and Dolomitization of Cambro-Ordovician (Sauk Sequence) Platform Strata in Central New York”
3. Dr. Karen Mulcahy (Advisor – Professor Keith Clarke – Hunter College)
   • “Spatial Data Sets and Map Projections: An Analysis of Distortion”

May,  1998

1. Dr. Phil Stoffer (Advisor – Professor John A. Chamberlain – Brooklyn College)
   • “Stratigraphy of the Upper Pierre Shale and Fox Hills Formation (Campanian and Maastrichtian; Late Cretaceous) in the Badlands National Park Region, South Dakota: Implicatoins for Eustatic Changes in Sea Level, Tectonism, and Marine Paleoecology of the Western Interior Seaway”

February, 1998

1. Dr. Paula Messina (Advisor – Professor Keith Clarke – Hunter College)
   • “The Sliding Rocks of Racetract Playa, Death Valley National Park, California: Physical and Spatial Influences on Surface Processes”
2. Dr. Mossbah M. Kolkas (Advisor – Professor Gerald M. Friedman – Brooklyn College)
   • “Subsurface Brine Disposal in the Sauk Sequence of Central and Western New York: Implications for New Salt-Cavern Gas Storage Reservoirs”
3. Dr. John Hopeck  (Advisor – Professor Allan Ludman – Queens College)
   • “Stratigraphy and Structural Geology of the Wytopitlock and Springfield Fifteen-Minute Quadrangles, Eastern Maine”

September, 1997

1. Dr. Rajesh Sharma (Advisor – Professor Somdev Bhattacharji – Brooklyn College)
   • “Geophysical and Geochemical Studies on Mafic Dike Swarms of Western India and their Applications to Deccan Flood Volcanism”

May,  1997

1. Dr. Martin Becker (Advisor – Professor John A. Chamberlain – Brooklyn College)
   • “Sr⁸⁷/Sr⁸⁶ Isotopic Age Determination of Upper Cretaceous Santonian, Campanian and Masstrichtian Chondrichthyan Teeth of the Atlantic and Eastern Gulf Coastal Plains: Implementations for Sea Level Cyclicity and Macrofossil Time-Averaging in Depositional Sequence Lag Deposits”

February, 1997

1. Dr. Hany Doss (Advisor – Professor Kathleen Crane – Hunter College)
   • “Structural Evolution of the Norwegian-Greenland Sea: Results from Detailed Analysis of Seamarc II Side-Scan Sonar Data”

September, 1996

1. Dr. Stanley Schleifer (Advisor – Professor Somdev Bhattacharji – Brooklyn College)
   • “A Study of the Evolution of the Proterzoic Cuddapah Basin, South India”

February, 1996

1. Dr. Joan Perlin (Advisor – Professor Kathleen Crane – Hunter College)
   • “Magma Supply and its Rise Axis Expressions: Time Constraints for Magma Supply on the East Pacific Rise and Juan De Fuca Ridge”

September, 1995

1. Dr. Nilgun Okay (Advisor – Professor Kathleen Crane – Hunter College)
   • “Thermal Development of Plateaus and Rejuvenation of the Crust Along the Transtensional Volcanic Margins of the Norwegian-Greenland Sea”
2. Dr. Stacey Verardo (Advisor – Professor Andrew McIntyre – Queens College)
   • “Late Pleistocene Heat Advection in the Agulhas Current Region”

September, 1994

1. Dr. Joel Blickstein (Advisor – Professor David Locke – Queens College)
   • “The Acidification of a Long Island, New York Forest”

May, 1994

1. Dr. Huan Li (Advisor – Professor Daniel Habib – Queens College)
   • “Dinoflagellate Response to Sea Level Change in the Cretaceous Western Interior”
2. Dr. Mohamed El-Tabakh (Advisor – Professor B. Charlotte Schreiber – Queens College)
   • “Early Rift-Basin Deposition: Triassic-Jurassic Sedimentation and Subsequent Diagenesis in the Newark Basin, New Jersey”

February, 1994

1. Dr. Adam Hutter (Advisor – Professor Anthony Prave – City College)
   • “Using 220 Rn/222 Rn Ratios as Indicators of Soil Gas Transport”
2. Dr. Baiying Guo (Advisor – Professor Gerald M. Friedman – Brooklyn College)
   • “Diagenesis: Cementation, Dolomitization, and Dedolomitization, Including Petrophysical Characteristics of Carbonate Rocks”

September, 1993

1. Dr. Edward Modica (Advisor – Professor O. Lehn Franke – City College)
   • “Hydraulic Relationships Between Shallow Groundwater Subsystems Discharging to Surface Water Bodies and Underlying Regional Systems”

May, 1993

1. Dr. Pamela Brock (Advisor – Professor Allan Ludman – Queens College)
   • “Geology of Parts of the Peach Lake and Brewster Quadrangles, Southeastern New York and Adjacent Connecticut, and Basement Blocks of the North-Central Appalachians”
2. Dr. Ali Kaya (Advisor – Professor Gerald M. Friedman – Brooklyn College)
   • “Depositional Environments, Diagenesis, and Burial History of the Antelope Valley Limestone (Lower-Middle Ordovician) in the Great Basin, Central Nevada”
3. Dr. William Slattery (Advisor – Professor Anthony Prave – City College)
   • “Sequence Stratigraphy and Depositional Framework of the Upper Middle Devonian Mahantango Formation in Pennsylvania and New York”
4. Dr. Lillian Hess Tanguay (Advisor – Professor Gerald M. Friedman – Brooklyn College)
   • “Petrophysical Characteristics of a Carbonate Reservoir: The Red River Formation (Upper Ordovician) Williston Basin, Montana and North Dakota

February, 1993

1. Dr. Zong-Guo Xia (Advisor – Professor Keith Clarke – Hunter College)
   • “The Uses and Limitations of Fractal Geometry in Terrane Modeling”

September, 1992

1. Dr. Eugeniusz Majewski (Advisor – Professor Surendra K. Saxena – Brooklyn College)
   •  “Thermodynamics of Linear Defects in Rocks and its Application to an Earthquake Rebound Theory”
2. Dr. Jianzhong Zhang (Advisor – Professor Surenda K. Saxena – Brooklyn College)
   • “Melting of Mantle Minerals at High Pressures: Experimental Study and Thermodynamic Evaluation”

May,  1992

1. Dr. Golam Sarwar (Advisor – Professor Gerald M. Friedman – Brooklyn College)
   • “Geology of Vanished Strata: The Post-Devonian of New York State”
2. Dr. Peter Hofmann (Advisor – Professor B. Charolette Schreiber – Queens College)
   • “Sedimentary Facies, Organic Facies, and Hydrocarbon Generation in Evaporites Sediments of the Mulhouse Basin, France”

February, 1992

1. Dr. David Verardo (Advisor – Professor Andrew McIntyre – Queens College)
   • “Late Pleistocene Biogenic Flux in the Tropical Atlantic, A Response to Climate Change”

September, 1991

1. Dr. Michael Weisberg (Advisor – Professor Cherukupalli E. Nehru – Brooklyn College)
   •  “Petrologic-Geochemical Studies of Chondritic Meteorites: Implications from New Types of Chondrites”

September, 1990

1. Dr. Robert van Pelt (Advisor – Professor Daniel Habib – Queens College)
   • “Dinoflagellate and Organic Facies Stratigraphy of the Twin Creek Limestone (Jurassic) in Western Wyoming and Northeastern Utah U.S.A.”

May, 1990

1. Dr. Joachim Amthor (Advisor – Professor Gerald M. Friedman – Brooklyn College)
   • “Diagenesis and Related Petrophysical Characteristics of Ellenburger Group Carbonates (Lower Ordovician), West Texas and Southeastern New Mexico”

September, 1989

1. Dr. Nilanjan Chatterjee (Advisor – Professor Surenda K. Saxena – Brooklyn College)
   • “An Internally Consistent Thermodynamic Data Base on Minerals: Application to the Earth’s Crust and Upper Mantle”
2. Dr. Ying-wei Fei (Advisor – Professor Surenda K. Saxena – Brooklyn College)
   • “Thermochemical-Thermophysical Data and Phases in the Mg-Fe-Si-O System: A Synthesis of Theory and Experimental Data and Computation of Phase Equilibrium”

May, 1989

1. Dr. Faye Melas (Advisor – Professor Gerald M. Friedman – Brooklyn College)
   • “Facies Analysis and Petrophysical Characteristics of the Jurassic Smackover Formation, Conecuh Embayment, Alabama-Florida”

February, 1989

1. Dr. Julia Sykes-Nord (Advisor – Professor Surendra K. Saxena – Brooklyn College)
   • “Thermodynamics of Pyroxene Solid Solution: Synthesis of Theory and Experiments”

May, 1987

1. Dr. Yoram Eshet (Advisor – Professor Daniel Habib – Queens College)
   • “Palynological Aspects of the Permo-Triassic Sequence in the Subsurface of Israel”