Faculty/Staff Grad. Students

WWU Geology Graduate Students

This is our departmental graduate student directory. It is maintained by the grad students themselves, who post their own information. If you don't find what you need here, you might contact our department office, or possibly get in touch with the listed faculty advisor. In the listings below, names are linked to websites if present.
Note that 4-digit phone numbers are of the form (360) 650-xxxx, and some of these cannot be dialed directly from off-campus.

Name (click for website)	Email	Advisor	Thesis Title	Office	Phone
Troy Baggerman		DeBari	Generation and geochemistry of andesite lava flows on Mt. Baker, WA	ES 52
Todd Belanger		Schermer	Structural Geology of the central San Juan Islands	ES052	x5709
Justin Brooks		Crider	The 1872 Washington State Earthquake and the Chelan Seismic Zone	ES 52	5709
Sam Bruno		Babcock	Petrologic and Dynamic examination of the Ring Creek Lava flow British Columbia, Canada	ES56	3606504127
Owen Callahan		Crider	Exhumation and topographic development of the Okanogan Range, NE North Cascades, WA	109	2109
Nigel Davies		Clark	Holocene glacial chronology of the Wind River Range, Wyoming	052	4157
Kelsay Davis		Crider	Degradation characteristics of normal fault scarps in basalt.	E52	X5709
Angie Diefenbach		Crider	Quantitative photogrammetric analysis of current dome-building eruption at Mount St. Helens, Washington	52	5709
Dennis Feeney		Linneman	Timing and Nature of Post-Collapse Sedimentation in Kulshan Caldera, North Cascades, Washington	ES 67	4198
Amy Fluette		Housen	Magnetostratigraphy and block rotation of the Imperial and Split Mountain Groups, Salton Trough, California	ES 67	5332
Casey Hanell		Mitchell	Effects of timber harvest on groundwater response to precipitation events near Kalaloch, Olympic Peninsula, WA	ES 056	x5718
Brendan Hodge		Crider	Using GPS to characterize surface deformation over a 20-year period on an active volcano: Mt. Baker, Washington.	ES 056	650.4127
Robert Isaacson		Hirsch	Metamorphic Evolution of the Wenatchee Block, Suiattle River Region, North Cascades, Washington	ES67
Michael Johnsen		DeBari	Geochemical composition of the westernmost Talkeetna island arc crustal section, Lower Cook Inlet Region, Alaska: implications for crustal growth along continental margins	CO
Erica Martell		Mitchell	Hydrogeology of Lummi Island	ES 52	X5709
Brandon Mijal		Clark	Holocene Glaciation of the Sawtooth Range, Central Idaho	52	4157
Nicole (Nikki) Moore		DeBari	Origin and geochemical evolution of mafic magmas, Mount Baker, Washington: probes into mantle and crustal processes	ES 052	x 4157
Ben Paulson		DeBari	Along Strike Variations in Magmatic Arcs: Insights from the Bonanza Group Volcanics	ES 56	5718
Lori Riggleman		DeBari	Measuring the effectiveness of teaching inquiry-based physical science concepts in introductory geoscience classes for deepening student understanding.
Elizabeth Siedlecki		Schermer	Holocene displacement on the Boulder Creek fault, Kendall, WA and related seismic hazards	ES 67	x 4198
Christopher Ward		Housen	Paleomagnetism and detrital zircon geochronology of the Skeena Group, British Columbia
Andy Wiser		Housen	Magnetic fabrics associated with soft sediment deformation resulting from earth flows	ES-56	5718
Jen Wright		Hirsch	Measurement of Metamorphic Kinetics through combined HRXCT, EPMA, and Sm-Nd dating	ES 52	x4157