Students Working with Kirby Since Fall 2003...(last updated 6-29-2011):

*completed in BOLD...

(21) 2011- Khadija Nadimi: M.Sc. Geology in progress; Project Focus: Is there a paleotsunami record in the wetlands of Southern California.

(20) 2011- Nicoletta Bozhilova: B.Sc. Geology in progress; Project Focus: Characterizing modern Zaca Lake surface sediments.

(19) 2011- Lily Rubi: B.Sc. Geology in progress; Project Focus: Zaca Lake littoral cores...late-Holocene lake level change.

(18) 2010-2011 Christine Hiner: B.Sc. Geology graduated January 2012; Thesis Title: Last Glacial Maximum Paleoclimate Reconstruction Using Sediments from Lake Elsinore, California. 39pp.

(17) 2009-2011 Joanna Fantozzi: M.Sc. Geology graduated August 2011; Thesis Title: Reconstruction of Hydrologic Variability at Lake Elsinore, California, During the Late-Glacial to Holocene Transition. 100pp.

(16) 2009-2011 Manuel Padilla: B.Sc. Geology Graduated January 2011;Thesis Title: Holocene Paleoclimate Reconstruction Using Sediments From Overflow Lake, Santa Barbara County, California. 43pp.

(15) 2008-2009 Hannah McDermitt: B.Sc. Geology graduated August 2009; Thesis Title: Reconstruction of Late-Holocene Lake Levels at Crystal Lake, California. 40pp.

(14) 2008- David Sandoval: B.Sc. Geology in progress; Project Focus: Thailand paleo-lagoons. (proposal done)

(13) 2008- Brittany Pyke: M.Sc. Geology in progress; Project Focus: Lake Elsinore seismic stratigraphy and basin analysis. (proposal done)

(12) 2007- Nisa Sichan: M.Sc. Geology - unfinished - left for PhD at UTEP; Project Focus: Evaluation and Interpretation of a “Unusual” Stranded Delta on Baldwin Lake, CA: Implications for Past Climate. (proposal done): Left for PhD at UTEP in Fall 2011. Good Luck and Have fun!

(11) 2007-2008 Shauna Nielsen: B.Sc. Geology graduated August 2008; Project Focus: Grain
Size Change During the Late-Holocene as a Proxy for Lake Level (Lake Elsinore, CA). (proposal done; final thesis draft incomplete)

(10) 2007-2009 Lauren Rivera-Mirallegro: B.Sc. Geology graduated May 2009; Thesis Title: Reconstructing Holocene Climate Using Sediments From Ancestral Big Bear Lake, San Bernardino County, California. 50pp.

(9) 2007-2008 Luissa Ivanovici: B.Sc. Geology graduated May 2008; Thesis Title: Examination of an unusual sediment unit dated 4,800 calendar years before present: flood or drought (Lake Elsinore, CA)? 50pp.

(8) 2006-2007 Jenn Schmidt: B.Sc. Geology graduated August 2007; Thesis Title: Possible paleo-tsunami deposits from a coastal lagoon paleoenvironment in Kamala Beach, Thailand. 54pp.

(7) 2006-2009 Mark Gotts: B.Sc. Geology graduated January 2010; Thesis Title: A Sediment Provenance Study for Baldwin Lake, San Bernardino County, California. 33pp.

(6) 2006-2007 Joe Carrasco: B.Sc. Geology graduated August 2007; Thesis Title: Evidence for rapid lake level change during the last glacial maximum in Southern California (Lake Elsinore). 39pp.

(5) 2005-2008 Michael Blazevic: M.Sc. Geology graduated January 2008; Thesis Title: Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction of a Glacial-age Sediment Core From Baldwin Lake, Southern California: Evidence for Multi-timescale Climate Variability. 82pp.

(4) 2004- Jose Rivera: M.Sc. Geology in progress; Project Focus: Lower Bear Lake as an archive of centennial scale Holocene climate variability. (proposal done)

(3) 2004-2009 Daniel Bergin: M.Sc. Environmental Studies graduated August 2009; Project Title: Crystal Lake, Use of Multi-Proxy Methodology to Date the Landslide, Which Resulted in Its Creation. 96pp.

(2) 2003-2005 Broxton W. Bird: M.Sc. Geology graduated May 2005; Thesis Title: A 9000-Year Record of Long-Term Climate Change and Abrupt Climate Events from Dry Lake, Southern California. 90pp.

(1) 2003-2004 Margie DeRose: B.Sc. Geology graduated May 2004; Thesis
Title: Preliminary Assessment of Crystal Lake, California as a Paleoclimate Archive: A Multi-Proxy Approach. 33pp.