Students

Teaching

Vanderbilt University (Instructor):

  • Earth Materials
  • Geology of National Parks
  • Senior Seminar
  • Microscopic Imaging in Earth Sciences
  • Field Investigations (Maymester)
  • Equilibria and Transformations in Earth Materials (Graduate-level)
  • Structure, Composition & Properties of Earth Materials (Graduate-level)
  • Thermodynamics and Phase Diagrams in Petrology (Graduate-level)
  • Phase Transformations in Earth Materials (Graduate-level)

The University of Chicago (TA):

  • Introduction to Mineralogy
  • Introduction to Petrology
  • Origin and Evolution of the Solar System
  • Field Geology
  • Introduction to Structural Geology
  • Global Tectonics
  • Physical Geology

Universidade de São Paulo (TA):

  • Mineralogia (1996)

Advising

Post-doc:

  • Bradley Pitcher (2017-present)
  • Susanne Seitz (2018-present)

Ph.D.:

  • Ayla Pamukcu (2014)
  • Susanne McDowell (2014, co-advisor)
  • Abe Padilla (2015, co-advisor)
  • Lydia Harmon (2021-expected)
  • Blake Wallrich (2022-expected)
  • Genna Chiaro (2022-expected)

M.Sc.:

  • Lindy Colombini (2009, co-advisor)
  • Ayla Pamukcu (2010)
  • Tamara Carley (2010, co-advisor)
  • Abe Padilla (2011, co-advisor)
  • Will Frazier (2013, co-advisor)
  • Archer Chattin (2015)
  • Lydia Harmon (2016)
  • Samantha Tramontano (2016)
  • Michelle Foley (2017, co-advisor)
  • Sebastian Belfanti (2019)
  • Genna Chiaro (2019)
  • Blake Wallrich (2019, co-advisor)
  • Elizabeth Teeter (2021-expected)

 

Undergraduate Senior Thesis:

  • Nicole Burdakin (2013)
  • Kylie Wright (2015)
  • Sydney Allen (2018)
  • Liam Kelly (2020)
  • Samuel Heagney (2020)
  • Maya Sandel (2021-expected)

Undergraduate:

  • Steven Braun (2008-2010, with Brendan Bream–Exxon Mobil)
  • Robin Vaum (2009, with Mark Ghiorso–OFM Research)
  • Mitchell Williams (2009)
  • Mattox Hall (2009)
  • Evan Kelly (2009-2011, with Calvin Miller–Vanderbilt)
  • Rebecca McCracken (2011-2012, with Calvin Miller–Vanderbilt)
  • Nicole Burdakin (2012-2013)
  • Kylie Wright (2012-2015)
  • Michelle Connor (2013-2015)
  • Brooke Hollmann (2013-2014)
  • Dylan Thomas (2014)
  • Aaron Hurst (2015)
  • Dillon Koval (2015-2016)
  • Madeline Allen (2016-2017)
  • Sydney Allen (2016-2017, with Lydia Harmon)
  • Sofia Johnson (2018, with Elisabeth Bertolett–University of Canterbury)
  • Laura Blackstone (2018, with Darren Gravley–University of Canterbury)
  • Pablo Saunders-Shultz (2018, with Lydia Harmon and Darren Gravley)
  • Cole Burchiel (2018, with Lydia Harmon and Darren Gravley)
  • Liam Kelly (2018-2020)
  • Samuel Heagney (2019-2020)
  • Maya Sandel (2020-present)