New Mexico Tech

• Luther, Amy (Ph.D. topic: Geological evolution of low-angle normal faults)

Thesis Committee Member for:

• Rosáles-Lagarde, Laura (Ph.D. topic: Caves, karst, and springs, southern Mexico)
• Sanders, Robert (Ph.D. topic: 40Ar/39Ar thermochronology)
• Mason-Barton, Katherine, M.S., 2008, Structure of the Picuris-Pecos fault, Picuris Mts, NM
• Safford, Kevin, Ph.D., 2008, Hypogene Karst and Sulfate Diagenesis of the Delaware Basin: Southeastern New Mexico and Far West Texas. (Now Assistant Professor at
  Stephen F. Austin State University)

UCLA Advisees

• Gavillot, Yann, M.S. candidate, September, 2004-present (co-advised with Dr. Brian Horton).
• Shirvell, Catherine, M.S., 2006, Pliocene Exhumation along the West Salton Detachment System and Tectonic Evolution of the Fish Creek-Vallecito Hanging Wall Basin, Salton Trough, Southern California. (Ph.D. student, U KS)
• DiFiori, Sara, M.S., 2006, Geology of the Paredones region, Baja California, Mexico.
• Kairouz, Mary, M.S., 2005, Geology of the Whale Peak region of the Vallecito Mountains: emphasis on the Kinematics and Timing of the West Salton Detachment Fault, Southern California. (Now at Leighton Consulting, CA)
• Givler, Robert, M.S., 2005, Timing, Style, and Magnitude of Upper Crustal Extension, Cañon El Parral Basin, Baja California Mexico: Constraints on Rift Processes in the Northwest Gulf of California Extensional Province. (Now at Lettis & Associates, CA)
• Black, Natanya, M.S., 2004, Structure and Hanging Wall Stratigraphy of the Las Cuevitas Detachment, Central Sierra San Felipe, Baja California. (Now Ph.D. student, UCLA)
• Guest, Bernard, Ph.D., 2004, The thermal, sedimentological and structural evolution of the central Alborz Mountains of northern Iran: Implications for the Arabia-Eurasia continent-continent collision and collisional processes in general. (Now at University of Hannover, Germany)
• Hazelton, Garrett, Ph.D., 2003, The evolution, argon diffusion properties and 40Argon/39Argon ages of detachment-related fault rocks in the footwalls of the Whipple and Chemehuevi Mountains, southeastern California.
• Lam, Patrick, M.S., 2002, Geology, geochronology, and thermochronology of the Alam Kuh area, central Alborz Mountains, northern Iran. (Now at Engeo, CA)
• Fackler-Adams, Benjamin, Postoctoral Researcher, Effects of rift-margin offset and development of the Ballenas transform fault on the Mio-Pleistocene structural, volcanic, and sedimentologic development of adjacent Baja California, January, 1998-July, 1999. (Now at Bellingham College, WA)
• Parkin, Erika, M.S., 1998, Tectonic development of the Bahía de Guadalupe area, Baja California, Mexico and its relationship to development of the Ballenas transform fault. September, 1996-September, 1998. (Now at BP-Amoco)

CICESE Advisees

• Fletcher, Dr. John M., Investigador Asociado (Postdoctoral Researcher), Structural and metamorphic geology of the Sierra El Mayor and surroundings, Baja California. August 1994 – September, 1995.
• Romero-Espejel, Hector, M.S., 1996, Nature of faulting along the Sierra Juárez range front adjacent to Laguna Salada.
• Mendoza-Borunda, Ramón, M.S. candidate, Extensional and strike-slip deformation in the southern Sierra Juárez and northern Sierra las Tinajas. September, 1994 - September, 1995.

Northern Arizona University Advisees

• Sleeper, Kenneth G., M.S., 1989, Structural geology of the Black Canyon Range, The Bluffs, and southwestern Highland Range, Lincoln County, Nevada. Graduated 1989.
• Lewis, Patrick R., M.S., 1987, Structural geology of the northern Burnt Springs Range and Robber Roost Hills, Lincoln County, Nevada.
• Skelly, Michael F., M.S., 1987, The geology of the Moapa Peak area, southern Mormon Mountains, Clark and Lincoln Counties, Nevada.

Thesis Commitee Member for:

Dan Eastmond (PhD, UCLA), José Romo-Jones (PhD 2002, CICESE), Brian Viggiano (M.S., UCLA), Michael Taylor (M.S. 2001, UCLA), Robert Johnston (M.S. 1997, UCLA), Timothy Wawrzyniec (PhD 1999, Univ. of New Mexico), Sergio Vásquez-Hernández (M.S.1996, CICESE), Manuel Arregon (M.S. 1995, CICESE), Kelly Burke (M.S.1990, NAU)