| YEAR |
MONTH |
NAME |
DEGREE |
ADVISOR |
THESIS/DISSERTATION TITLE |
| 1981 |
| 1981 |
August |
Matthew Regis Bob |
MS |
Arch C. Johnston |
Significance of Earth
Movements Along Lake Austell in Village Creek State Park, Arkansas |
| 1983 |
| 1983 |
August |
Ann Garrecht Metzger |
MS |
Arch C. Johnston |
A Detailed Analysis of a
Major Foreshock-Main Shock-Aftershock Sequence of the 1982-83 Arkansas
Earthquake Swarm |
| 1983 |
December |
Susan Jane Nava |
MS |
Arch C. Johnston |
The New Madrid Seismic Zone: A Test Case for Naturally Induced
Seismicity |
| 1984 |
| 1984 |
December |
George D. Gracey, III |
MS |
Jer-Ming Chiu |
Focal Mechanism and Seismic Wave Velocity Studies
of the Arkansas Earthquake Swarm |
| 1985 |
| 1985 |
August |
William Mark Powers |
MS |
Arch C. Johnston |
A Seismic Refraction Survey in Eastern Tennessee |
| 1986 |
| 1986 |
August |
Stephen I. Brewer |
MS |
Jer-Ming Chiu |
Study of Crustal Structure
in the Middle Mississippi Embayment Using Long-Period Synthetic Seismogram
Techniques |
| 1986 |
August |
Sharon L. Everett |
MS |
Jose M. Pujol |
A Joint Hypocenter
Determination of Earthquakes in the Southern Appalachians |
| 1986 |
December |
James H. Bollwerk |
MS |
Arch C. Johnston |
Seismic Study of the
Southern Appalachians Using a Local Telemetered Seismic Array |
| 1987 |
| 1987 |
August |
Byau-Heng Chiu |
MS |
Jer-Ming Chiu |
Crustal Structure Studies
of the Arkansas Earthquake Swarm region Using Three-Dimensional Velocity
Inversion Method |
| 1988 |
| 1988 |
May |
Ronald T. Dow |
MS |
Eugene S. Schweig III |
Geologic and Groundwater
Parameters Affecting the Stability of the Lake Austell Landslide, Village
Creek State Park, Eastern Arkansas |
| 1988 |
May |
Dawn Elizabeth Mullen |
MS |
Jose M. Pujol |
Generation of Synthetic
Vertical Seismic Profiles for Two Dimensional Models and Applications to Data
Interpretation |
| 1988 |
August |
Robert P. Dziak |
MS |
Steven G. Wesnousky |
Source Characteristics of
Earthquakes Near North Island, New Zealand and Their Tectonic Implications |
| 1988 |
August |
Silvio K. Pezzopane |
MS |
Steven G. Wesnousky |
Earthquakes and Crustal
Deformation near Taiwan |
| 1988 |
August |
John Andrew Vlasity |
MS |
Jer-Ming Chiu |
A Study of Seismicity in
the Subducted Nazca Plate Beneath the San Juan, Argentia Region Using High
Resolution Digital Data Collected by the PANDA Array |
| 1988 |
December |
Frank Walter Thomas |
MS |
Lisa R. Kanter |
Gravity and Magnetic
Modeling of the Reelfoot Rift Along the COCORP Seismic Profiles |
| 1988 |
December |
Don Anthony Vlasity |
MS |
Jer-Ming Chiu |
A Crustal Seismicity Study
in the San Juan, Argentina Region Using Digital Seismograms Collected by the
PANDA Array |
| 1989 |
| 1989 |
May |
Chia-Hsun Chen |
MS |
Wai-Ying Chung |
Shear Wave Crust and Upper
Mantle Structure of the Southern Appalachian Region from the Analysis of
Teleseismic Rayleigh Waves |
| 1989 |
May |
Gregory L. Root |
MS |
Wai-Ying Chung |
Deep Velocity Structure of
the Southern Appalachians and Tennessee Highlands from Analysis of
teleseismic P-Wave Residuals |
| 1989 |
December |
Ronald T. Marple |
MS |
Eugene S. Schweig III |
Recent Discoveries in the
New Madrid Seismic Zone Using Remote Sensing |
| 1989 |
December |
Guang Yu |
MS |
Howard H.M. Hwang |
Estimates of Strong Ground
Motion in Shelby County, Tennessee, Resulting from Large Earthquakes in the
New Madrid Seismic Zone |
| 1990 |
| 1990 |
May |
Benjamin Jose Brantley |
MS |
Wai-Ying Chung |
Source Parameters and
Seismotectonics of Six Intraplate Earthquakes Bordering the Stable
Continental Margin of Eastern China and Korea |
| 1990 |
May |
Qiang Cheng |
MS |
Jose M. Pujol |
Three-Dimensional P- and S-
Wave Velocity Structure from Inversion of Local Arrival Times. Applications
to Data from the Andean Foreland in San Juan, Argentina |
| 1990 |
August |
Wei-Chuang Huang |
MS |
Jer-Ming Chiu |
Crustal Structure Studies
of the Arkansas Earthquake Swarm Region from the Analysis of Converted Body
Waves |
| 1990 |
August |
Robert E. Lemmer |
MS |
Eugene S. Schweig, III |
Estimating the Relative
Ages of Offset Alluvial Fans in Southern Panamint Valley, Inyo County,
California |
| 1990 |
December |
Allison L. Dennen |
MS |
Eugene S. Schweig, III |
An Investigation of Loess
Centers in Northwestern Tennessee |
| 1990 |
December |
Alfonso Alvarez Wilson |
MS |
Jose M. Pujol |
Computer Software for the
Processing and Interpretation of Vertical Seismic Profiling Data Including
the Study of Seismic Wave Attenuation |
| 1990 |
December |
Chengyen Paul Yao |
MS |
H. James Dorman |
Short-Period Surface Wave
Dispersion and Shallow Crustal Structure of Central and Eastern Tennessee |
| 1991 |
| 1991 |
May |
Lisa M. Leffler |
MS |
Steven G. Wesnousky |
Paleoseismic Study of the
Southern New Madrid Seismic Zone by Using Liquefaction Features as Seismic
Indicators |
| 1991 |
December |
Zheng Ding |
MS |
Eugene S. Schweig, III |
An Investigation of the
Relationship Between the 1811-12 New Madrid Earthquakes and Landslides on
Crowley's Ridge, Arkansas |
| 1991 |
December |
Bridget Lois Jensen |
MS |
Wai-Ying Chung |
Source Parameters and
Seismotectonics of Three Earthquakes in the Stable Continental Interior of
Africa |
| 1992 |
| 1992 |
May |
Yung-Tun Yang |
MS |
Jer-Ming Chiu |
Fault Zone Geometry and
Crustal Velocity Structures in the Central New Madrid Seismic Zone Using Data
from the PANDA Seismic Array |
| 1992 |
August |
Fan Shen |
MS |
Eugene S. Schweig, III |
Shallow Seismic Reflection
Survey in the New Madrid Seismic Zone - Bootheel Lineament |
| 1992 |
December |
William H. McCroskey, III |
MS |
Eugene S. Schweig, III |
Sinuosity and Gradient
Index as Indicators of Neotectonism |
| 1992 |
December |
Maria Cristina Reta |
MS |
Robert Smalley, Jr. |
High Resolution View of the
Wadati-Benioff Zone and Determination of the Moho Depth in San Juan,
Argentina |
| 1993 |
| 1993 |
August |
Charlotte A. Haas |
MS |
Michael A. Ellis |
An Investigation of the
Seismicity in the New Madrid and Southern Appalachian Regions: Origin of
Catalog Periodicities and Seismic Rate Changes |
| 1993 |
December |
David P. Nicholas |
MS |
Eugene S. Schweig, III |
Shallow Seismic Reflection
Survey Across the Crittenden County Fault Zone in the New Madrid Seismic Zone |
| 1993 |
December |
Narasimha Rao Patri |
MS |
Tzyy-Shio Chang |
Soil Effects on Regional
Seismic Hazard in West Tennessee |
| 1994 |
| 1994 |
May |
Hongsheng Li |
MS |
Arch C. Johnston |
A Focal Mechanism Analysis
of Eastern Tennessee Seismic Zone Earthquakes |
| 1994 |
May |
Tao Liu |
MS |
Wai-Ying Chung |
Source Parameters and
Seismotectonics of Six Intracontinental Earthquakes in Argentina and Chile |
| 1994 |
August |
Jiaquan Wang |
MS |
Wai-Ying Chung |
Source Parameters and
Tectonic Implications of Several Intraplate Earthquakes in South America |
| 1995 |
| 1995 |
May |
Patrick Eugene Drouin |
MS |
Roy B. Van Arsdale |
A Paleoseismic Study of
Crowley's Ridge and A West Bounding Fault of the Reelfoot Rift |
| 1995 |
August |
Xiaohui Cai |
MS |
Paul A. Bodin |
Dynamic Deformations from
Aftershocks of the January 17, 1994 Northridge, California, Earthquake |
| 1995 |
August |
Yipeng Chen |
MS |
Jose M. Pujol |
Reprocessing and
Interpretation of Reflection Seismic Data from a Reactivated Rift in the
Andean Foreland in Northwestern Argentina |
| 1995 |
August |
Kou-Cheng Chen |
Ph.D. |
Jer-Ming Chiu |
Earthquake Studies Using
the PANDA and PANDA II Seismic Arrays: (1) Studies of Shear Wave Velocity and
Attenuation in the Sedimentary Basin, and Source Properties of Local
Earthquakes in the New Madrid Seismic Zone and (2) Lateral Velocity
Variations in the Hualien Area, eastern Taiwan |
| 1995 |
August |
Charles Henry Lumsden |
MS |
Roy B. Van Arsdale |
The Northern Extension of
the Reelfoot Scarp into Kentucky and Missouri |
| 1995 |
August |
Baozhu Wei |
MS |
Shahram Pezeshk |
Seismic Acceleration
Coefficients for Memphis and Shelby County, Tennessee |
| 1995 |
December |
Hong Gao |
MS |
Wai-Ying Chung |
Source Parameters of Four
Intraplate Earthquakes from Modeling of WWSSN and Pre-WWSSN Data with
Tectonic Implications |
| 1995 |
December |
Yiguang Hu |
MS |
Jose M. Pujol |
Seismic Wave Attenuation in
Germany's Deep Borehole Area from VSP Data |
| 1995 |
December |
Yong Li |
Ph.D. |
Eugene S. Schweig, III |
Tectonic Evolution, Crustal
Structure and Paleoearthquake Studies of the New Madrid Seismic Zone |
| 1995 |
December |
Yongxia Yan |
MS |
Wai-Ying Chung |
Aftershock Characteristics
and Their Regional Variations in Taiwan |
| 1996 |
| 1996 |
August |
Lauren Bauer |
MS |
Eugene S. Schweig, III |
Studies of Historic and Prehistoric Earthquake-induced Liquefaction features in the Mezoseismic Area of the 1811-1812 New Madrid Earthquakes, Central United States |
| 1996 |
December |
Duncan S. Matheson |
MS |
Paul A. Bodin |
A Laboratory Study of
Interface Separation Waves: A Possible Explanation for Weak Crustal Faults |
| 1996 |
December |
Jodi L. Purser |
MS |
Roy B. Van Arsdale |
Shallow Seismic Reflection
Survey Along the Southern Margin of Reelfoot Lake, Tennessee, and Regional
Implications |
| 1997 |
| 1997 |
May |
Zen-Sen Liaw |
Ph.D. |
Jer-Ming Chiu |
Implementation of a Seismic
Inversion Method and Its Applications to a Seismotectonic Study of the
Southern Region of North Island of New Zealand |
| 1997 |
December |
David Holton |
MS |
Paul A. Bodin |
Dynamic Deformation in
Middle America |
| 1998 |
| 1998 |
August |
Robin Mihills |
MS |
Roy B. Van Arsdale |
A Structural Analysis of
the New Madrid Seismic Zone From Structural Contour Maps and a
Three-Dimensional Model |
| 1998 |
December |
Minchu Mo |
MS |
Robert Smalley, Jr. |
Deformation of Andes in
Chile and Argentina by Continuous GPS Measurement |
| 1998 |
December |
Andy Tenbrink |
MS |
Eugene S. Schweig, III |
Neogene Geometry and
Kinematics of Central Panama |
| 1999 |
| 1999 |
August |
Fuchun Gao |
MS |
Jer-Ming Chiu |
High-Resolution Upper
Crustal P and S Velocity Structures in the Upper Mississippi Embayment |
| 1999 |
August |
Deborah L. Kilb |
Ph.D. |
Joan S. Gomberg |
The Influence of One
Earthquake on Another |
| 1999 |
December |
Kwang-Hee Kim |
MS |
Jer-Ming Chiu |
Crustal Structure Study of
the Taiwan Region from Receiver Function Analysis |
| 1999 |
December |
Peng Shen |
MS |
Jose M. Pujol |
Simultaneous Travel Time
Inversion for 3D Velocity Model and Earthquake Locations: Application to the
Northridge, California, 1994 Mainshock-Aftershock Sequence |
| 2000 |
| 2000 |
May |
Kevin Smith |
MS |
Paul A. Bodin |
Using Microtremor to
Illuminate Subsurface Geology of Memphis, Tennessee |
| 2002 |
| 2002 |
August |
Maria Soledad Velasco |
MS |
Roy B. Van Arsdale |
Investigation of Possible
Quaternary Faulting Beneath the Cities of Memphis, Germantown, Shelby County,
Tennessee |
| 2002 |
August |
Sarah L. Brubaker |
MS |
Michael A. Ellis |
Tectonics and Topography of
the West-Central Fold-and-Thrust Belt, Taiwan |
| 2003 |
| 2003 |
|
Kwang Hee-Kim |
Ph.D. |
Jer-Ming Chiu |
Subsurface Structure
Seismicity, and Their Implication to Tectonic Evolution of Taiwan |
| 2004 |
| 2004 |
December |
Victor M. Santillan |
MS |
Robert Smalley, Jr. |
Deformation in the New
Madrid Seismic Zone from Continuous GPS Geodesy |
| 2005 |
| 2005 |
August |
Tandrima Mukherjee |
MS |
Paul A. Bodin |
Remotely Triggered
Seismicity and the M7.9 Denali Fault Earthquake, Alaska |
| 2005 |
August |
Thomas B. Brackman |
MS |
Mitch Withers |
Shakemap Implementation for
the Upper Mississippi Valley |
| 2005 |
August |
Concilia C. Fasola |
MS |
Charles A. Langston |
Reprocessing of a USGS
Mississippi River Shallow Seismic Survey |
| 2006 |
| 2006 |
August |
James P. Davis |
MS |
Robert Smalley, Jr. |
Continuing Evolution of the
GPS Array of Middle America |
| 2006 |
August |
Laurel Bauer |
MS |
Eugene S. Schweig, III |
Studies of Historic and Prehistoric Earthquake-induced Liquefaction features in the Mezoseismic Area of the 1811-1812 New Madrid Earthquakes, Central United States |
| 2006 |
|
Andrea J. Raphael |
Ph.D. |
Paul A. Bodin |
Seismogenesis and the Time
Dependence of Crustal Strength |
| 2006 |
August |
JuanJuan Cao |
MS |
Charles A. Langston |
Structure in the Upper Crust at the Southern Terminus of The Blytheville Arch, Eastern Arkansas |
| 2007 |
| 2007 |
|
Qingwen Miao |
Ph.D. |
Charles A. Langston |
The Local Magnitude Scale
and Seismicity of the Central United States |
| 2007 |
August |
Allison Shumway |
MS |
Chris H. Cramer |
Focal Mechanisms of the
Northeast New Madrid Seismic Zone |
| 2007 |
December |
Danya R. Pase |
MS |
Eugene S. Schweig, III |
Tectonic Activity of the
Great Northern Puerto Rico Fault Zone: A Remote Sensing Interpretation and
Field Validation Study |
| 2007 |
December |
Yvonne Paisant |
MS |
M. Beatrice Magnani |
Continental Accretion: The
Caribbean-South American Oblique Collision in the South Caribbean Deformed
Belt |
| 2008 |
| 2008 |
August |
Jerome Kutliroff |
MS |
Chris H. Cramer |
Seismic Hazard Mapping for
the Dead Sea Fault Region |
| 2008 |
August |
Ting-Li Lin |
Ph.D. |
Charles A. Langston |
Infrasonic Induced Ground
Motion |
| 2008 |
August |
Chuntao Liang |
Ph.D. |
Charles A. Langston |
Studies in Passive Seismic
Imaging and Wave Gradiometry |
| 2008 |
December |
Jiandang Ge |
Ph.D. |
M. Beatrice Magnani |
Imaging a Shallow Aquitard
with Seismic Data in Memphis, TN |
| 2008 |
December |
Gregory A. Johnson |
MS |
Mitch Withers |
Using Earthquake Focal
Mechanisms to Investigate Seismotectonics in New Madrid Seismic Zone |
| 2008 |
December |
Zack Lawrence |
Ph.D. |
Charles A. Langston |
Active Source Strong Motion
Field Studies and in SITU Measurements of Nonlinear and Nonequilibrium
Dynamics in Shallow, Unconsolidated Sediments |
| 2008 |
December |
Ivan Rabak |
Ph.D. |
Charles A. Langston |
Crustal Structure of the
Reelfoot Rift |
| 2009 |
| 2009 |
May |
Meredith Dunn |
Ph.D. |
Christine A. Powell |
High Resolution Earthquake
Locations and Velocity Models in the New Madrid Seismic Zone |
| 2010 |
| 2010 |
May |
Chu-Chioung Chi |
Ph.D. |
Charles A. Langston |
Shallow Crustal Structure in the Upper Mississippi Embayment |
| 2010 |
August |
Elige B. Grant |
Ph.D. |
Charles A. Langston |
Gladwin tensor Strainmeter Calibration Using Seismic Data: Instrument Calibration Methods and Wave Gradiometry Applications
|
| 2010 |
December |
Solomon T. Ayele |
MS |
Steve Horton |
Source Parameter Study Based on the April 18, 2008 (Mw 5.4) Mt. Carmel, Illinois Earthquake Sequence |
| 2010 |
December |
Michael W. Towle |
MS |
M. Beatrice Magnani |
Variations in the Seismic Quality Factor Q for the Mississippi Embayment Sediments Utilizing Spectral Analysis of Reflection Data |
| 2011 |
| 2011 |
May |
Biniam Asmerom |
Ph.D. |
Jer-Ming Chiu |
3-D Velocity Structures, Seismicity Patterns, and Their Tectonic Implications Across the Foreland of San Juan, Argentina |
| 2011 |
May |
Paul Ogwari |
MS |
Steve Horton |
Effects of Style of Faulting on Earthquake Ground Motions in
New Madrid Seismic Zone
|
| 2011 |
December |
Chigozie Obikili |
MS |
Jer-Ming Chiu |
Seismic Wave Attenuation in the Unconsolidated Sediments of the Upper Mississippi Embayment |
| 2012 |
| 2012 |
May |
Jordan Graw |
MS |
Christine Powell |
A Study of Crustal and Upper Mantle Structure for the Eastern Tennessee Seismic Zone using P-wave Transfer Functions |
| 2012 |
August |
Mehari Ayele |
MS |
Charles Langston |
Crustal Velocity Structure around the SAFOD Borehole using Vertical Wave Gradiometry |