Eliana Carmona, M.S. student. Project: Environmental constraints on the carbonate production in the Apennines and Gargano regions of southern Italy during Early Aptian greenhouse conditions - in collaboration with Ross Glore. Supported by NSF CAREER (2019-2024).
Dianna Price, Ph.D. candidate. Project: Paleoenvironment significance of Early Cretaceous dinosaur trackways in central Texas: a photogrammetric, sedimentologic and geochemical approach. Supported by NSF RAPID (2020-2021).
Justin Sharpe, Ph.D. student. Project: Environmental constraints on the resilience of carbonate ecosystems during Early Aptian greenhouse conditions. Supported by NSF CAREER (2019-2024) and NSF-GRFP (2023-2026).
Ross Glore, M.S. student. Project: Environmental constraints on the carbonate production in the Apennines and Gargano regions of southern Italy during Early Aptian greenhouse conditions - in collaboration with Eliana Carmona. Supported by NSF CAREER (2019-2024).
Natalie Torres, M.S. student. Project: Fracture-related porosity in the Eagle Ford and Austin Chalk groups of Texas.
Current students
Ryan Phillips, master student
Project: Using Sequence Stratigraphy to Predict Reservoir Quality, Vicksburg Formation, South Texas
Former Graduate Students
Former graduate students are listed below according to their year of graduation. Click on a name that is underlined to access the student’s LinkedIn page.
Alexis Sansing, master student (May 2023), The resilience of a Northern Tethyan carbonate platform during the OAE1a: Geochemical insights from Corbières, France.
Samuel Oseji, master student (May 2023), Elemental Geochemistry and Organic Carbon Content in the Boquillas Formation, West Texas
Kyle Gillespie, master student (May 2022), Depositional environment of the lower Atco Formation, Austin Chalk Group, West Texas .
Matthew Bourdon, master student (May 2022), Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction of the Late Barremian – Early Aptian Urgonian Platform, Southeast France.
Jacob Byerly, master student (December 2021), The drowning of the Urgonian platform as a response to Early Aptian greenhouse conditions.
Colby Mc Cay (May 2021), Controlling mechanisms on the preservation of organic matter in the Late Cretaceous Eagle Ford Group, South Texas.
Miguel Bernardo (December 2020), The development of porosity in the upper Cretaceous Austin Chalk Group of Texas.
Ken Walsh (May 2020), Statistical analysis of environmental forcing in an Austin Chalk succession of West Texas.
Andrew Hancock (August 2019), Evaluation of subsurface porosity in the Austin Chalk Group, South Texas.
John N. Casiano (August 2017), Stratigraphy of the Glen Rose Formation in Big Bend National Park, Texas.
Tyler Quade (May 2017), Paleo-Reconstruction of the Coban Formation at Los Chorros, Central Guatemala.
Lauren Reeher (May 2017), Sequence Stratigraphy and Reservoir Characterization of the V17 Interval of the Vicksburg Formation (Early Oligocene), Southern Brooks County, South Texas.
John R. Cooper (May 2017), The Impact of Tectonic and Environmental Changes on Facies, Depositional Geometries, and Sequence Architecture within the Austin Chalk Group, South-Central Texas.
Luke J. Finger (May 2017), Porosity evaluation in the Lower Eagle Ford Group, Atascosa County, south Texas.
Nicolas Quante (May 2017; co-chair: Dr. Blake Weissling), Geophysical Characterization of a Subsurface Igneous Formation in Medina County, Texas.
William Johnston (May 2016; co-chair: Dr. Lee Billingsley), 3D seismic interpretation of polygonal faulting in upper Cretaceous sediments, Powder River Basin, Wyoming.
Beau Johnson (May 2016), Integrated stratigraphy and paleoenvironmental reconstruction of a dinosaur track-bearing interval of the Glen Rose Formation at Government Canyon State Natural area, Bexar County, Texas.
Joe V. McGovern (December 2015), Integrated core, well log and seismic stratigraphy of the Olmos Formation, Lasalle and McMullen county, Texas.
Bradley K. Arnett (December 2015), Polygonal fracturing in the Niobrara formation (late Cretaceous) of the Denver Basin.
Chase E. Bridges (July 2015), Sequence stratigraphy, diagenesis and mechanical behavior of the Glen Rose formation at Canyon Lake Gorge, Comal county, Texas.
Morgan Helfrich-Dennis (July 2015), Identification of OAE1b in a mid-Cretaceous carbonate platform (Aptian-Albian), southeastern Arizona: a chemostratigraphic and sedimentological approach.
Doug Grosch (April 2015), Linking rudist distribution to paleoenvironmental conditions: evidence from a Glen Rose patch reef (Albian, Cretaceous), Herff Falls, Boerne, Texas.