CURRENT DOCTORAL STUDENTS

FORMER GRADUATE STUDENTS

Kurt Frankel, PhD

Graduated: August 2007

Current Position: Assistant Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology

Ross Hartleb, PhD

Graduated: August 2005

Current Position: Senior Geologist, William Lettis and Associates

E-mail: kurt.frankel@eas.gatech.edu

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PEOPLE

James F. Dolan

Interests: Spatial and temporal patterns of earthquake occurrence, Collective behavior of regional fault systems, Transient strain accumulation and release, Structural geology of active and ancient faults & folds, Seismic hazard assessment, Controls on earthquake nucleation, propagation, and arrest, Discreteness of deformation in the lithosphere.

Erik Frost

Interests: Fault zone structure and evolution, Mechanics of gouge formation, Strain localization in brittle and ductile crust, Alpine tectonics.

Expected graduation: May 2010

Plamen Ganev

Interests: Tectonic geomorphology, Active tectonics of eastern California, Application of GIS and remote sensing to geomorphic processes, Surficial Processes, Paleoseismology.

Expected graduation: May 2011

Ben Haravitch

Interests: Active faulting, Slip rate and distribution, Blind-thrust faults, GIS analysis, Interactions between Earth Science and society, Field work.

Expected graduation: May 2013

Lee McAuliffe

Interests: Active tectonics, Use of remote sensing and GIS to analyze geomorphic processes.

Expected graduation: May 2014

E-mail: efrost@usc.edu

E-mail: ganev@usc.edu

E-mail: haravitc@usc.edu

E-mail: lmcaulif@usc.edu

Ozgur Kozaci, PhD

Graduated: December 2008

Current Position: Geologist, William Lettis and Associates

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Lorraine Leon, PhD

Graduated: August 2009

Current Position: Geologist, Chevron Petroleum

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Allan Tucker

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Kristen Weaver

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Shari Christofferson

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Adobe Systems