Graduate Students
This list includes former students in the Graduate Program working with Professor Pollard. It is organized by graduation year from 2017 to 1987.
2017
Meredith Townsend, PhD
University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
Dissertation: Host-rock deformation around magmatic dikes: integrating field observations and mechanical models :
2015
Solomon Seyum, PhD
Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO
Dissertation: Deformation at Raplee Ridge, Utah, inferred from joints, veins, and pressure solution seams
Josie Nevitt, PhD
USGS, Menlo Park, CA
Dissertation: Fault-related deformation within the brittle-ductile transition: field observations, microstructural analysis and mechanical modeling
2013
Elizabeth Macklin Ritz, PhD
Hess, Houston, TX
Dissertation: Mechanical behavior of non-planar faults: numerical experiments and field observations
2012
Elizabeth Hale Madden, PhD
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
Dissertation: Integrating geological and geophysical data to study the mechanics of multifault earthquakes with reference to the 1992 M 7.3 Landers, California earthquake
2011
Peter James Lovely, PhD
Chevron, Houston, TX
Dissertation: Fault-related deformation over geologic time: integrating field observations, high resolution geospatial data and numerical modeling to investigate 3D geometry and non-linear material behavior
2009
J. Ole Kaven, PhD
USGS, Menlo Park, CA
Dissertation: Geometry and mechanics of three-dimensional faults: implications for slip, aftershocks, and paleostress
2008
William Ashley Griffith, PhD
University of Texas, Arlington, TX
Dissertation: Field, laboratory, and theoretical investigations of fault rupture dynamics
Ian Weston Mynatt, PhD (Deceased)
Dissertation: Geometric, kinematic and mechanical analyses of faulting, folding and fracturing at Raplee Ridge, UT
Pablo F. Sanz Rehermann, PhD
Exxon, Houston, TX
Dissertation: Modeling rock folding with large deformation frictional contact mechanics
2006
Patricia E. Fiore, PhD
ConocoPhillips, Houston, TX
Dissertation: 3D characterization and mechanics of brittle deformation in thrust fault related folds
Kurt Richard Sternlof, PhD
MIT, Boston, MA
Dissertation: Structural geology, propagation mechanics and hydraulic effects of compaction bands in sandstone
2003
Philip G. Resor, PhD
Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
Dissertation: Deformation associated with continental normal faults (pdf)
2002
Stephan Bergbauer, PhD
BP Exploration, Aberdeen, UK
Dissertation: The use of curvature for the analyses of folding and fracturing with application to the Emigrant Gap Anticline, Wyoming
2001
Scott Sandrus Young, PhD
StatoilHydro, Norway
Dissertation: Geometry and mechanics of normal faults with emphasis on 3D seismic data, conjugate faults, and the effects of sedimentary layering
Wenbing Zhang, MS
Daimler-Chrysler Corp., Santa Clara, CA
Dissertation: A method and program for quantitative description of fracture data and fracture data extrapolation from scanline or wellbore data
1999
Taixu Bai, PhD
Shell International Exploration and Production, Inc., Houston, TX
Dissertation: Spacing and aperture of opening-mode fractures in layered materials
Laurent Maerten, PhD
Igeoss, Montpellier, France
Dissertation: Mechanical interaction of intersecting normal faults: theory, field examples and applications
William Lansing Taylor, PhD
____________________, Houston, TX
Dissertation: Fluid flow and chemical alteration in fractured sandstone
1998
Juliet Crider, PhD
University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Dissertation: Mechanical interaction among normal faults: a numerical, field and seismological investigation
Simon Kattenhorn, PhD
ConocoPhillips
Dissertation: A 3D mechanical analysis of normal fault evolution and joint development in perturbed stress fields around normal faults
1996
Michele Lynn Cooke, PhD
University of Massachusetts-Amherst, MA
Dissertation: Frictional slip and fractures associated with faults and folds
Emanuel J. M. Willemse, PhD
Shell International Exploration and Production, _________
Dissertation: 3D mechanics and evolution of discontinuous faults
1995
J. Ramón Arrowsmith, PhD
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
Dissertation: Coupled tectonic deformation and geomorphic degradation along the San Andreas fault system [1995]
Peter Putnam Christiansen, PhD
San Mateo, CA
Dissertation: Faulting and hydrothermal processes in a granitic batholith
Joshua Roering, MS
University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
Dissertation: Near-surface and secondary deformation associated with blind thrust faults
1994
Marco Antonellini, PhD
University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Dissertation: Structural and fluid flow properties of faults in porous sandstones
Pauline N. Mollema, MS
University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Dissertation: The influence of structural position and lithology on the fracture distribution in the East Kaibab monocline, SE Utah: implications for fluid flow properties
Haiqing Wu, PhD
Chevron Corporation, ______, China
Dissertation: A model study of fracture generation in layered brittle rocks with applications to predicting subsurface fracture networks
1993
Roland Bürgmann, PhD
University of California, Berkeley, CA
Dissertation: Deformation associated with discontinuities along strike-slip faults
Carl Edward Renshaw, PhD
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Dissertation: Modeling fluid migration through physically-based fracture networks
Andrew Lyle Thomas, MS
Seattle, Washington
Dissertation: Poly3D : a three-dimensional, polygonal element, displacement discontinuity boundary element computer program with applications to fractures, faults, and cavities in the Earth's crust
1992
Sarah Dawn Saltzer, PhD
Chevron Corporation, San Ramon, CA
Dissertation: Numerical modeling of crustal scale faulting using the distinct and boundary element methods
1991
Peter Wallmann, PhD (deceased)
Dissertation: Structure and subsurface vent geometry of the Novarupta basin, Valley of the Ten Thousand Smokes, Katmai National Park, Alaska
Scott Zeller, MS
___________
Dissertation: A numerical model for examining the evolution of fracture distributions in layered rock, with a note on boundary conditions
1990
Jon Edward Olson, PhD
University of Texas, Austin, TX
Dissertation: Fracture mechanics analysis of joints and veins
1988
Larry Garver Mastin, PhD
U.S.G.S., Cascade Volcano Observatory, Vancouver, WA
Dissertation: Stress, surface deformation, and phreatic eruptions above a shallow dike, Inyo Craters, Long Valley Caldera, California
Allan M. Rubin, PhD
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Dissertation: Dike propagation and crustal deformation in volcanic rift zones
1987
Stephen Joseph Martel, PhD
University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI
Dissertation: Development of strike-slip fault zones in granitic rock, Mount Abbot quadrangle, Sierra Nevada, California