Student Advisees

Fred M. Phillips, Professor of Hydrology


Current M.S. Student Advisees

Elizabeth Bastien - ebastien at nmt.edu
B.A. Chemistry, 2004, Albion College
Research: The salinity budget of the Rio Grande

Virginia Hargrave - vhargrav at nmt.edu
B.S. Geology 2005 Wheaton College
Research: Modeling the subsurface component of runoff generation in the headwaters of the Rio Grande

Shasta McGee - shasta at nmt.edu
B.S. Chemistry, 2003, University of Wisconsin-Madison
B.S. Geology, 2003, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Research: Calibration of the cosmogenic 36Cl production rate in rocks

Jeremiah “Croaker” Morse - jmorse at nmt.edu
B.S. Geological Sciences 2003 Albion College
Research: Groundwater replenishment to the Peñasco Basin from the Sacramento Mountains using carbon-14 dating of groundwater

Travis Swanson
B.S. Geology 2007 University of Texas at Austin
Research: Hydrogeological characterization of the Salt Basin, New Mexico


Current Ph.D Student Advisees

Marty Frisbee - mfrisbee at nmt.edu
M.S. Earth Science, 2004, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
B.S. Electrical Engineering, 2004, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Research: Runoff generation processes in semiarid headwaters catchments


Recent Graduates

Heather (Lacey) Hallett, MS 2006, Quantification and characterization of chloride sources in the Rio Grande

Renee Sandvig, MS 2005, Ecohydrological controls on soil-moisture fluxes in arid vadose zones

Naomi Davidson-Rosenau, MS 2004, Groundwater and produced water quality of the Permian Basin, Southeast New Mexico

Samuel Earman, PhD 2004, Groundwater recharge through mountain-basin systems of the Southwest: A case study in the Chiricahua Mountains - San Bernardino Valley system, Arizona and Sonora

Suzanne Mills, MS 2004, Quantifying salinization of the Rio Grande using environmental tracers.

Gabrielle Kurth, MS 2003, Cosmogenic nuclide dating of old, high Pluvial shorelines in the Western Great Basin

Alyssa Olson, MS 2002, Carbon-13 in hydrologically-closed systems: Experimentation and modeling.

Mitch Plummer, PhD 2002, Paleoclimatic conditions during the last deglaciation inferred from combined analysis of plural and glacial records - a paleohydrology study of the Owens Valley.

Michelle Walvoord, PhD 2002, Unifying conceptual model to describe water, vapor and solute transport in deep arid vadose zones.

John P. Ayarbe, MS 2001, Calibrating a fault scarp diffusion model with cosmogenic 36Cl to provide a new means for establishing rupture chronologies in arid and semiarid environments.

Joseph M. Sterling, MS 2001, Controls on, and modeling of, chloride deposition at the continental scale.

Susan J. Colarullo, PhD 1998, Multiple Scale Characterization of Alluvial Aquifer Heterogeneity

Claire Chia-Lan Hsu, MS 1998, Trapping of Non-aqueous Phase Liquids at Sand/Shale Interfaces

Michelle Walvoord, MS 1999, Characterization of Groundwater Flow in the Southeastern San Juan Basin: Implications for Microbial Origins in the Deep Subsurface near Cerro Negro, New Mexico.


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