Students (past, present, future?)

Past MS students Christine Irwin and Aron Taylor at GSA meeting in Salt Lake City.

 

Expectations

When I work with students on thesis projects, I try to make sure that we are on the same page in terms of expectations - both in terms of what you can expect from me, and what I expect from you.  My goal is to help you turn your thesis work, undergraduate or graduate, into a positive goal-oriented experience. I've put together some expectations for both undergraduate and graduate students.

UNDERGRADUATE

GRADUATE

 

Future Students?

Check out the sorts of research I do at my Research page.

If you are a student interested in this type of exciting research, please email me at parmstrong@fullerton.edu or call me at (657) 278-3169.

 

Past and Present Students

Undergraduate Students

   
Aaron Katona (Current undergraduate) Quaternary geology of Long Canyon, western Joshua Tree National Park
Alex Woods (Current undergraduate) Can apatite fission-track data be used to evaluate extraterrestrial impact? Evidence from Upheaval Dome, Utah
David Carpenter (Current undergraduate) Gravity data and modeling in southern Cadiz Valley, California
Sean Hartman (Current undergraduate) (U-Th)/He constraints on focused exhumation in the core of the western Chugach Mountains, south central Alaska
Michael Prior (Current Undergraduate) Constraining the exhumation history along inferred faults in the western Chugach Mountains, Alaska
Francesca Hernandez (2010) Longitudinal profile analysis of drainages in the Lettle San Bernardino Mountains for locating potential zones of rapid uplift and fault offset
Jade Brush (2010) Using detrital zircon fission-track ages from modern glacial sediments to evaluate exhumation of the western Chugach Mountain Range, south central Alaska
Kassandra Sendziak (2009) Constraints on exhumation of the western Chugach Mountains (Alaska): Based on zircon fission-track analysis of modern glacial outwash
Jenny Arkle (2008) Exhumation of the Verdugo Mountains in southern California
Chris Gallardo (2008) Geology of the northwestern Tempiute Mountain area, Lincoln County, Nevada
Sharon Woods (2007) Geology of the southwestern Tempiute Mountain area, Lincoln County, Nevada
Markella Hoffman (2006) Miocene exhumation of the southern Talkeetna Mountains, south central Alaska, based on apatite (U-Th)/He thermochronology
Karen Morrison (2005) Apatite fission-track dating to deduce exhumation of the Santiago and Silverado Canyon areas, northern Santa Ana Mountains, California
Deanna Hoppe (2005) Burial, exhumation, and detrital source history of the San Juan Canyon area rocks, northern Santa Ana Mountains: evidence from apatite fission-track thermochronology
Steve Turner (2005) Geology of the eastern Santa Rosa Plateau Ecological Reserve, Riverside, California
Dan Loera (2003) Geology of the western half of the Santa Rosa Plateau Ecological Reserve, Riverside County, California
Michelle Duhé (2003) Homestead Valley gravity data and modeling, San Bernardino County, California
Rene Perez (2002) Genesis of the Quaternary terraces of the eastern Sierra El Mayor, northern Baja California, Mexico
Angela Ortega (2002) Geomorphology and Tenaja development in Sylvan Meadows, Santa Rosa Plateau, Riverside County, California
Aron Taylor (2002) Evaluation of the long-term segmentation of the Wasatch fault footwall using (U-Th)/He Thermochronology
Lawrence Cannon (1998, U. Utah) Chemical analysis of apatite: Application to fission-track and helium ages in the central Wasatch Mountains, Utah
Erik Reinert (1999, U. Utah) Tectonic implications of the Wasatch Mountains: Indicators of statial and temporal variations in tectonic activity

Graduate Students

Kelly Ferguson (Young) (Current student) Deformation in the Copper River and Montegue Island regions of southern Alaska assessed with low-temperature thermochronology
Shannon Mark (Current student) Focused exhumation in the Chugach core: constraints from zircon fission-track analysis
Jenny Arkle (Current student) Constraints on focused exhumation in the western Chugach Mountains and relations to Yakutat microplate subduction
Luke Sabala (2010) Exhumation and deformation history of the Little San Bernardino Mountains in the restraining bend of the San Andreas fault, southern California.
Christine Irwin (2007) Burial and exhumation history of the eastern Los Angeles basin from low-temperature thermochronology
Aron Taylor (2006, co-advised with Jeff Knott) Geomorphology and geochronology of the San Juan Creek Terrace: Implications for Quaternary uplift of the Santa Ana Mountain foothills, Orange County California

Aron was awarded Cal State Fullerton's prestigious campus-wide MS thesis award in 2007.  Aron was also awarded the nationally competitive 2005 Arthur D. Howard Award from Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology Division at GSA.

Tammy Surko (2006) Gravity survey of the Lucerne Valley groundwater basin: Implications for basin structure and geometry