| Author | Title | Year | Professor |
| Roy, Ankur | A Quantitative Study of Scaling Properties of Fracture Networks | - | E. Perfect |
| Howard, Meg E. | Geochemical Characterization of Coastal Pond and Adjacent Soil Organic Matter from Two Distinct Field Areas of the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antartica | - | C. Mora |
| Plummer, Kelly | - | - | T. Labotka |
| Overocker, Quintin | - | - | L. Kah |
| Crawford, Curt | - | - | L. Kah |
| Johnson, Trisha B. | Detection of Enteric Viruses in East Tennessee Public Ground Water Systems | Dec. 2005 | L. D. McKay |
| Welch, Stephen A. | Deciphering Eustatic and Tectonic Influences During Parasequence Development in the Mesoproterozoic Helena/Wallace Formation, Belt Supergroup, Montana and Idaho | Dec. 2005 | L. Kah |
| Whitmer, Neil E. | Structural and Stratigraphic Investigations of the Bays Mountain Synclinorium, Parrottsville and a Portion of Cedar Creek 7.5-Minute Quadrangles, East Tennessee | Dec. 2005 | R. D. Hatcher |
| Cook, Jennie E. | Development of a Dilatant Damage Zone Along a Thrust Relay in a Low-Porosity Quartz Arenite | Dec. 2005 | W. M. Dunne |
| Bultman, John G. | Structure, Stratigraphy and Tectonics of The Northwestern Bays Mountain Synclinorium, Greene and Hawkins Counties Northeast Tennessee | Aug. 2005 | R. D. Hatcher |
| Dunn, Tasha L. | Identification of Terrestrial Alkalic Rocks Using Thermal Emission Spectroscopy: Applications to Martian Remote Sensing | Aug. 2005 | H.Y. McSween |
| Dickerson, Dalphania S. | Distribution and Transportation of Coal Tar Contaminants in the Chattanooga Creek Floodplain | May 2005 | L. McKay |
| DeAngelis, Michael T. | Experimental Investigation of the Breakdown of Dolomite and Isotope Transport in Rock Cores at 100 MPa, 650-750 °C | May 2005 | T. C. Labotka |
| Lawson, Jeremy E. | Determination of An Appropriate Geometrical Model for Soil Aggregates Based Upon Specific Surface Area Scaling | May 2005 | E. Perfect |
| Schultz, Bryan S. | Morphological, Textural, Geochemical, and Mineralogical Properties of Dolostone-Derived Residuum in Knox County, Tennessee | May 2005 | S. G. Driese |
| Heiny, Christopher J. | Joint Size Estimation Using Joint Traces on Borehole Walls | Dec. 2004 | W. D. Dunne |
| Heath, Milan A. | Structural and Stratigraphic Investigations at the Southwest End of the Tellico-Sevier Syncline, Southeast Tennessee | Aug. 2004 | R. D. Hatcher |
| Cahill, Joshua Timothy | Petrogenesis of Lunar Highlands Meteorites: DHOFAR025, DHOFAR081, DAR AL GANI262, and DARALGANI400 | May 2004 | L. A. Taylor |
| Shunk, Aaron J. | Evidence for An Abrupt Latest Miocene-Earliest Pliocene Climate Shift Preserved In A Sinkhole Paleolake At The Gray Fossil Site, Northeastern Tennessee | Dec. 2003 | S.G. Driese |
| Smith, Sandra Ann | Sedimentation, Pedogenesis, and Paleodrainage Straddling the Neogene-Quaternary Boundary: A Perspective From an Infilled Sinkhole Lake, the Gray Fossil Site, Northeastern, TN, USA | Dec. 2003 | S.G. Driese |
| Ober, Eric G. | The Paleohydrologic History of Coal Underclays Based on Pennsylvanian Paleosols in Eastern Tennessee | Dec. 2003 | S.G. Driese |
| Merschat, Arthur J. | Inner Piedmont Tectonics in the Southwestern Brushy Mountains, North Carolina: Field and Laboratory Data Revealing 3-D Crustal Flow | Dec. 2003 | R. D. Hatcher |
| Vandewater, Chrisopher J. | Investigation of the Geologic Controls on Rockfall Hazard Potential in Tennessee | May 2003 | W. M. Dunne |
| Pollock, Mark D. | Morphology Of Molar-Tooth Structure in Precambrian Carbonates:Influence of Substrate Rheology and Implications for Genesis | May 2003 | L.C. Kah |
| Milam, Keith A. | Accuracy of Plagioclase Compositions from Laboratory and Mars SpacecraftThermal E mission Spectra | Aug. 2002 | H.Y. McSween |
| Tavernier, Stephen A. | Basement Faults in the East Tennessee Seismic Zone: Observations from the Area of the Swan Creek Field | May, 2002 | R.T. Williams |
| Settles, David J. | Defining The Hayesville-Soque River & Allatoona Faults & an Ordovician Arc Assemblage Within The Central Blue Ridge Northwest of Dahlonega, Georgia | May, 2002 | R.D. Hatcher |
| Robinson, Amelia C. | A Chronosequence Study of Modern Vertisols and Application to Interpreting the Time Significance of Paleozoic Paleovertisols | May, 2002 | S.G. Driese |
| Lawdermilk, Wendy F. | Probabilistic-Mechanistic Simulation & Prediction of Bed-Normal Joint Patterns | Dec. 2001 | W.M. Dunne |
| Stewart, Melanie A. | Quantifying the Bioaccessibility of Chromium Contaminated soil | Dec. 2001 | L.D. McKay |
| Smith, Kevin H. | Influence of Illuviated Clays and Soil Cements on Hydraulic Conductivity in Sedimentary Saprolite | Dec. 2001 | L.D. McKay |
| Riestenberg, David E. | Sediment Surface Effects on Methane & Natural Gas Hydrate Formation and Dissociation | Dec. 2001 | C.I. Mora |
| Lamb, Dwight D. | Geology of the Scaly Mountain Quadrangle, Emphasizing the Structures, Timing, and Emplacement Mechanisms for the Rabun Granodiorite, Eastern Blue Ridge, Southwestern North Carolina | Dec. 2001 | R.D. Hatcher |
| Peevler, Janna L. | Sulfur Isotope Microanalysis of Sphalerite by SIMS: Constraints on the Genesis of Mississippi Valley-Type Mineralization from the Mascot-Jefferson City District, East Tennessee | Aug. 2001 | K.C. Misra |
| Bier, Sara | Geology of the Southeastern South Mountains, North Carolina | Aug. 2001 | R.D. Hatcher |
| Humbert, Sara Elizabeth | Subaerial Paleokarst in the Upper Pennington Formation (upper Mississippian) Limestones at Leatherwood Ford, Big South Fork, Tennessee | May 2001 | S.G. Driese |
| Cameron, Milo L. | Garnet Zoning, Mineral Inclusions, and P-T Paths: Evidence for a Polymetamorphic History of the Cullowhee Gneiss | May,2001 | T.C. Labotka |
| Chamot, Joshua A. | Modal Mineralogy of the H-group Chondrites: Progressive Effects of Metamorphism | Dec. 2000 | H.Y. McSween |
| Williams, Scott T. | Structure, Stratigraphy, and Migmatization In the Southwestern South Mountains, NC | Dec, 2000 | R.D. Hatcher |
| Pitner, Andrew H. | Experimental Investigations of Factors Controlling the Spread of DNAPL Contamination in undisturbed Columns of Fractured Saprolite | Aug. 2000 | L.D. McKay |
| Miller, Dana L. | Occurrence & Stable Isotope Compositions Of Soil Carbonate & Organic Matter within A Climatic Transect of Modern Vertisols along The Coastal Prairie of Texas | Aug. 2000 | C.I. Mora |
| Gastineau, Heather K. | A Test for Oxidation During Metamorphism of L and LL Chondrites | Aug. 2000 | H.Y. McSween |
| Hogan, James Patrick L. | Calculation of Shortening Due to Outcrop-Scale Deformation and its Relation to Regional Deformation Patterns | May, 2000 | W.D. Dunne |
| Rohrbaugh, Melvin B. | Estimating Joint Intensity, Density & Mean Tracelength Using Circular Scanlines & Circular Windows | May, 2000 | W.D. Dunne |
| Spraggins, Steven Alan | Deformation History of a Foreland Thrust Belt in a Recess: An Example from the Roanoke Recess, Appalachians, USA | Dec. 1999 | W.M. Dunne |
| Giorgis, Scott D. | Geology of the Northwestern South Mountains Near Morganton, North Carolina | Dec, 1999 | R.D. Hatcher |
| Giorgis, Scott D. | Geology of the Northwestern South Mountains Near Morganton, North Carolina | Dec, 1999 | R.D. Hatcher |
| Bream, Brendan R. | Structural and Stratigraphic Relationships of Ortho-and-Paragneisses southwest of Marion, N.C. | Dec, 1999 | R.D. Hatcher |
| Ottinger, Gary A. | Depositional and Diagenetic Relationships of the Honaker-Nolichucky Formational Boundary (Middle Cambrian, Conasauga Group) Southern Appalachians | Aug, 1999 | K.R. Walker |
| Hill, Joseph C. | Stratigraphy, Structure, and Tectonics of Part of the Southern Appalachian Inner Piedmont, Near Marion, North Carolina | Aug, 1999 | R.D. Hatcher |
| Remley, David A. | Petrogenesis of Eclogite Xenoliths from the Obnazhennaya Kimberlite Pipe, Yakutia, Russia | May, 1999 | L.A. Taylor |
| Nester, Peter L. | Holocene Climate of Eastern Upper Michigan: Stratigraphic, Stable Isotope and Charcoal Analyses from Sediments of Nelson Lake, Mackinac County, Michigan | May, 1999 | P.A. Delcourt |
| Mayes, Melanie A. | Multispecies Contaminant Transport in Undisturbed Columns of Weathered Fractured Saprolite | May, 1999 | C.I. Mora |
| King, David C. | Interpretation of Stable Isotope Compositions of Pedogenic Carbonate Late Silurian to Late Devonian Paleosols, Appalachian Basin | Dec. 1998 | C.I. Mora |
| Haun, Deirdre Diana B. | Influence of Ionic Strength and Cation Valence on Transport of Colloid-Sized Particles in Fractured Shale Saprolite | Dec. 1998 | L.M. McKay |
| Cropper, S. Clark | Experimental Measurements of Capillary Pressure-Saturation Drainage of Air and Dnapl in Fractured Shale Saprolite | Dec. 1998 | L.D. McKay |
| Hale, Valerie Slater | A Re-Evaluation of Cumulus Pyroxene Estimates and Oxidation State for the Shergotty Meteorite | Aug. 1998 | H.Y. McSween |
| Curl, Douglas C. | Stratigraphy and Structure of Wellford and Reidville Quadrangles in Part of the Eastern Inner Piedmont, Near Spartanburg, South Carolina | Aug. 1998 | R.D. Hatcher |
| Zondlo, Thomas F. | Identification of Subaqueous Groundwater Discharge to Large Scale Surface Water Bodies, East Tennessee Technology Park Site, DOE Oak Ridge Reservation, Oak Ridge, Tennessee | May, 1998 | L.D. McKay |
| Pridmore, Donna Jo | Evolution of a Conceptual Model: Tritium Concentration vs Discharge in First-order Tributaries Draining Oak Ridge National Laboratory | Dec. 1997 | D.W. Byerly |
| Howard, Kevin M. | Behavior of Fluorobenzoic Acid Groundwater Tracers in a Highly Fractured Shale Saprolite | Dec. 1997 | L.D. McKay |
| Kuebler, Karla Elizabeth | A Test of Nebular Sorting Mechanisms: Are Chondrules and Metal-Troilite Grains in Ordinary Chondrites Mass Equivalent? | Dec. 1997 | H.Y. McSween |
| Dean, Gray | Evolutionary Flux in Fossil Ecinoids: New Metrics for Old Dogmas | Aug. 1997 | M.L. McKinney |
| Ansley, Jane Elizabeth | The Sedimentology and Stratigraphy of the York River Formation at Anse-á-Brillant, Gaspé, Québec, Canada | Aug. 1997 | S.G. Driese |
| Montes, Camilo | The Greenbrier and Hayesville Faults in Central-Western North Carolina | May, 1997 | R.D. Hatcher |
| Martin, Steven Lee | Stratigraphy and Structure of Part of the Western Blue Ridge FoothillsNear Tellico Plains, Southeastern Tennessee | May, 1997 | R.D. Hatcher |
| Howard, Stacy B. | Relating Geographic Range, Abundance, and Species Richness in Living and Fossil Echinoids | May, 1997 | M.L. McKinney |
| Cumbie, Dennis H. | Laboratory Scale Investigations into the Influence of Particle Diameter on Colloid Transport in Highly Weathered and Fractured Shale Saprolite | May, 1997 | L.D. McKay |
| Blackburn, Charles Grant | The Geologic and Hydrologic Factors Influencing Acid Mine Drainage at a Surface Coal Mine in East Tennessee: An Environmental Case History | May, 1997 | D.W. Byerly |
| Harton, Angela Deanne | Influence of Flow Rate on Transport of Bacteriophage in a Column of Highly Weathered and Fractured Shale | Dec. 1996 | L.D. McKay |
| Callis, Joseph G. | Imaging Geologically Recent Faults Near Pembroke, Virginia, Using Seismic Reflection and Ground Penetrating Radar | Dec. 1996 | R. T. Williams |
| Stefaniak, Andrew | The Stratigraphy and Depositional History of the Middle Cambrian Rutledge Limestone, East Tennessee | Aug. 1996 | K.R. Walker |
| Stafford, Paige L. | Simulation of a Field Scale Tritium Tracer Experiment in a Fractured, Weathered Shale Using Discrete-Fracture / Matrix-Diffusion and Equivalent Porous Medium Models | May, 1996 | L.D. McKay |
| Kolesnikov, Alexy Yurievick | Response of a Three-Component Geophone to Non-Vertically Incident Seismic Waves | May, 1996 | R.T. Williams |
| Higgins, Stefan John | Petrology and Geochemistry of the Early Proterozoic Burakovsky Layered Intrusion Southern Karelia, Russia | May, 1996 | L. A. Taylor |
| Thorbjornsen, Karen | Three-Dimenstional Development of Thrust-related Fold: An Example From the Tuscarora Sandstone, Browns, Mountain Anticlinorium, West Virginia | Dec. 1995 | W.M. Dunne |
| Heller, James Andrew | The Bryozoan Paleoecology of the Florala Limestone Member of the Bridgeboro Limestone, Southeastern Covington County, Alabama, and Walton County, Florida | Dec. 1995 | M.L. McKinney |
| Jones, Steven Bolling | Characterizing the Hydrogeologic System of the Valley and Ridge Province Using Natural Seeps and Springs Near Oak Ridge, Tennessee | Aug. 1995 | R.D. HatcherC.I. Mora |
| Geddes, Donald James | Stratigraphy, Structure, and Environmental Site Assessment of a Portion of the Western Blue Ridge, Monroe County, Tennessee | Aug. 1995 | R.D. Hatcher |
| Tingle, Anthony Robinson | A Geochemical Assessment of Highway Construction Through Sulfidic Rocks. | May, 1995 | D.W. Byerly |
| Sheldon, Brian Thomas | An Oxygen Isotope Study of Illitization and Diagenesis in Appalachian Vertic Paleosols. | May, 1995 | C.I. Mora |
| Halleran, Amy Lynn | Comparison of Hydrologic Cycle Components for Pre-Storm Conditions, Walker Branch Watershed, Oak Ridge Reservation. | May, 1995 | C.I. Mora |
| Davidson, Gilbert Landon | The Tectono-Metamorphic History of a Portion of the Eastern Blue Ridge, Jackson County, North Carolina. | May, 1995 | T.C. Labotka |
| Chambers, John Gregory | Mineralogical and Petrographical Characterization of Lunar Mare Soils and Basalts for Resource Utilization. | May, 1995 | L.A. Taylor |
| Yanagihara, Gregory M. | Structure, Stratigraphy, and Metamorphism of a Part of the Columbus Promontory, Western Inner Piedmont, North Carolina. | May, 1994 | R.D. Hatcher |
| Goldman, Mark Robert | Seismic Images of an Artificial Magma. | May, 1994 | R.T. Williams |
| Fraracci, Kathy N. | Diamondiferous Eclogite, Xenoliths from the Mir Kimberlite, Yakutia, Siberia: Geochemistry and Petrogenesis. | May, 1994 | L.A. Taylor |
| Carter, Mark Wayne | Stratigraphy and Structure of Part of the Blue Ridge Foothills, Polk and Monroe Counties, Tennessee. | May, 1994 | R.D. Hatcher |
| Caldanaro, Anthony John | Trading Space For Time: An Example of Fold Development From the Central Appalachians. | May, 1994 | W.M. Dunne |
