MS Thesis Archive
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Andrew McLarty: "Structural Reactivation and Overprinting of the Eastern Rand Thrust Complex, Mojave Desert, Southern California" (defended June 2014; Advisor: Dr. Nourse)
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Hannah Mejia: "Depth Determination by Waveform Modeling of Earthquakes Along the Outer Rise Region of the Kuril Islands" (defended Aug 2014; Advisor: Dr. Polet)
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Logan Wicks: "Hydrogeologic and Geochemical Investigation of Robust Spring Discharge at Wingate Ranch, Eastern San Gabriel Mountains, California " (defended August 2014; Advisor: Dr. Nourse)
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Celia Pazos: " Analysis of Microearthquakes in the San Gabriel Mountains Foothills Region and Greater Pomona Area as Determined by Temporary Seismic Deployment" ( Defended August 2014; Advisor: Dr. Polet)
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Joshua Sargent: “ Sources of Fluids and Salinity in Shallow Groundwater Near Natural Gas Extraction Weld, Adams and Boulder Counties, Colorado” (defended September 2014; Advisor: Dr. Osborn)
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Susan Perez: " A GIS investigation of Paired Watersheds: Icehouse Canyon and Upper San Antonio Canyon, Eastern San Gabriel Mountains" (defended March 2015; Advisor: Dr. Nourse)
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Shawn Morrish: " Major Drainage Basin Characterization and Morphotectonic Digital Analysis Indicating Segmentation of Nicoya Preninsula, Costa Rica " (defended June 2015; Advisor: Dr. Marshall)
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Kennis Ho: " Determining Site Response from Seismic Noise Measurements on Cal Poly Pomona Campus" (defended August 2015; Advisor: Dr. Polet)
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Rachel Hatch: " Dynamically Triggered Earthquakes and Tremor: A Look at Western North America Using Two Recent Large Magnitude Events" (defended August 2015; Advisor: Dr. Polet)
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Michael Vadman: " An Investigation of the Footwall Transition of the Borrego Springs Shear Zone and Its Constraints on Coyote Creek Fault Displacements" (Defense Postponed; Advisor: Dr. Nourse)
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Magali Barba: " Near-field Post-Seismic Deformation of Mojave Earthquakes using InSAR" (defended July 2015; Advisor: Dr. Polet)
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Kevin Chantrapornlert: " Utilizing Resistivity Profiles to Map the San Jose Fault on the Cal Poly Pomona Campus" (defended March 2016; Advisor: Dr. Polet)
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Melissa Robinson: "GIS Mapping of Uplifted Coastal Terraces Using Digital Terrain Models, Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica" (defended May 2016; Advisor: Dr. Marshall)
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Maksymilian Wlodarzcek: "Shallow Aquifer Geochemistry in Areas of Intense Coal Bed Methane Recovery, Raton Basin, Colorado" (defended June 2016; Advisor: Dr. Osborn)
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Jon Marshak: "What Dike Orientations in the Eastern San Gabriel Mountains Reveal About Middle Miocene Stresses and Block Rotations" (defended October 2016; Advisor: Dr. Nourse)
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Raymond Ng: "Site Characterization of the Los Angeles Basin Using Ambient Noise Spectral Ratio Measurements from a High Density Broadband Deployment" (defended December 2016; Advisor: Dr. Polet)
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DanDan Zhang: "Investigation of the Ventura Fault by Ground-Based Magnetic and VLF Measurements" (defended August 2017; Advisor: Dr. Polet)
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Kenneth Craig: “Soil Gas Investigation of Porter Ranch, California Relatied to Aliso Canyon Gas Storage Field” (defended September 2017; Advisor: Stephen Osborn)
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Scott Zylstra: “Late Cretaceous Metamorphic and Plutonic of Proterozoic Metasediments of Ontario Ridge, Eastern San Gabriel Mountains, California” (defended November 2017; Advisors: Dr. Van Buer and Dr. Nourse)
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Michael Herrman: "Imaging the Los Angeles Basin By Travel Time and Waveform Modeling of Data From a Temporary Broadband Experiment” (defended December 2017; Advisor: Dr. Polet)
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Patrick Gillespy: "Ontogenetic Change in Distal and Proximal Limb Bones in Pleistocene Coyotes (Canis latrans) and Dire Wolves (Canis dirus) from the Rancho La Brea Tar Pits, California" (defended May 2018; Advisor: Dr. Prothero)
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Danny Miranda: "Response of Streamflow and Spring Discharge from Precipitation Recharge Events in Icehouse Canyon Watershed, Eastern San Gabriel Mountains, California" (defended May 2018; Advisor: Dr. Nourse)
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Katherine Long: "Evolutionary Patterns of Late Quaternary Birds from La Brea Tar Pits During the Last Glacial-Interglacial Cycle" (defended June 2018; Advisor: Dr. Prothero)
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Drew Faherty: "Geophysical Controls on Fault-Groundwater Interaction, San Andreas Oasis, Dos Palmas Preserve" (defended November 2019; Advisor: Dr. Polet)
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Caleb Strom: "Correlation Between Head Wall Steepness and Rock Glacier Size and Growth on Earth and Mars" (defended November 2018; Advisor: Dr. Van Buer)
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Peter Flores: "Geophysical Investigation of Fault Systems Near Cadiz, California, and Their Impact on the Hydrology of Bonanza Springs" (defended April 2020; Advisor: Dr. Polet---please contact jpolet@cpp.edu for a high resolution version of this document)
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Thein Htun: "Allometric Trends in the Ontogenic Growth of Various Pleistocene North American Proboscideans and the Dwarfing of the Columbian Mammoth (mammuthus columbi) and the Channel Islands Pigmy Mammoth (mamuthus exilis)" (defended May 2020; Advisor: Dr. Prothero)
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Chloe Sutkowski: "Using Geophysical Methods to Investigate Archeological Features and Artifacts From La Placita de los Trujillas, Buried by the Santa Ana River During the Great Flood of 1862" (defended July 2020; Advisor: Dr. Polet---please contact jpolet@cpp.edu for a high resolution version of this document)
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Kyle Macy: "Characterizing the Seismotectonics of the Yorba Linda Trend by Earthquake Relocation" (defended August 2020; Advisor: Dr. Polet---this document has a large file size so it is broken into three parts. Please click below):
- Reggie Agunwah: "Geology and Fracture Geometry in Source Region of Hog Back Landslide, Eastern San Gabriel Mountains, with Implications for Failure Mechanisms" (defended November 2020; Advisor: Dr. Nourse)
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Oscar Teller: "Source(s) of Fluid Discharge in Former Oil Field, Wiley Canyon, California" (defended April 2021 , advisor Dr. Osborn)
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Abdullah Al Kaabi: "New Geochronology and Stratigraphic Ininterpretations of the Mid-Tertiary Soledad Rojo Formation in the Lower Colorado River Extensional Corridor, Western Palo Verde Mountains, SE California" (defended May 2021, advisor Dr. Murray)
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Steven Moody: "Evaluation of Noninvasive Geophysical Techniques to Image the Portuguese Bend Landslide In Rancho Palos Verdes, California" (defended May 2021, advisor Dr. Polet)
- Greg Blachly “The Ludlow Batholith, Central Mojave Desert, California: Late Cretaceous Magmatism Synchronous With Destructive Laramide Events” (defended May 2021, advisor Dr. Van Buer)
- Brianna House: "Stratigraphic Investigation and Provenance Interpretations of the mid-Tertiary Soledad Rojo Formation in the Southern Basin and Range Province, Western Palo Verde Mountains, Southeastern California" (defended August 2021, advisor, Dr. Murray)
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Debbie Kunath: "Sources of Salinity and Fluids in a Spring/oil Seep System in the Santa Susana Mountains, California" (defended August 2021, co-advisors Drs. Osborn and Nourse)
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Jason DeCristofaro “A Multimethod Geophysical Investigation of Intracaldera Splays of the Hilton Creek Fault, Long Valley, California” (defended November 2021, advisor Dr. Polet)
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Andrew Garcia “Landslide Failures Along the Mt. Baldy Road and Testing of Methods to Back-calculate Safety Factor” (defended November 2021, advisor Dr. Nourse)
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Emmons McKinney “Late Quaternary Deformation of Marine Terraces Over Two Time Scales at Cape Kidnappers, North Island, New Zealand” (defended December 2021, advisor Dr. Marshall)
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Alyssa Young “Investigation of Anomalous Sulfate Concentrations in San Antonio Canyon Watershed, San Gabriel Mountains, California” (defended December 2021, advisor Dr. Nourse)
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Garrett Stewart “A Structural and Geochemical Characterization of Early Artisinal Gold Mines in the Central and Southwestern Rand Mounatins, Mojave Desert, California” (defended May 2022, advisor Dr. Nourse)