CURRENT GRADUATE STUDENTS
Spencer Dixon, MS Student
Email: tsd393@gmail.com
2021 – B.S. Geology, University of Kentucky
Spencer is a first-year MS student working on the provenance history of the Bengal Fan using zircon single grain (U-Th)/He thermochronology and double-dating (He and U-Pb). Spencer has analyzed an impressive >150 single zircon grains from the Bengal Fan and will present his results, along with a massive low-temperature thermochronology sour compilation at GSA Connects 2022.
Natalee Weis, MS
Email: natalee.weis@student.montana.edu
2022-B.S. Trinity University
Natalee is working on the stratigraphic, age, and geochemical relationships between the Coast Range Ophiolite and Great Valley Group exposed in Del Puerto Canyon, central California.
Past Graduate Students
Mariah Romero, PhD 2022
Now at USGS, Reston, VA
Chance Ronemus, MS 2021
Now a PhD student at the University of Arizona
Current Undergraduate Students: Various projects in southwest Montana and California
PhD or MS Committee Member:
Bryce Neal (MS, 2022)
Natali Kragh (MS expected 2023)
Aislin Reynolds (PhD Candidate)
Bibek Giri (PhD Candidate)
William Burke (MS, 2021)
Caden Howlett (MS, 2020)
Christopher Schiller (PhD, 2020)
William Freimuth (MS, 2020)
Gourab Bhattacharya (PhD, 2020, University of Alabama)
Audrey Warren (PhD, UNLV)
Former Students
Chance Ronemus (MSU BS 2019; MSU MS 2021; Now a PhD student at University of Arizona)
Sophie Black (MSU, BS, 2021; Now a MS student at Indiana University)
Saré Campbell (MSU, B.S., 2021)
Shawn Reddington (MSU, B.S. 2020)
Misia Zilinsky (MSU, B.S. 2020; Top Senior Award; now at Black Butte Copper, White Sulphur Springs, Montana)
Chris Kussmaul (MSU, B.S. 201) Now employed at Winston Gold Corporation, Winston, Montana
Johnny Murphy (MSU, B.S., 2019) Now a MS student at Washington State University
Sarah Massar (MSU, B.S. 2018) Now a “Geoscientist in the Park” at John Day Fossil Beds National Monument
Matthew Yaeger (MSU, B.S. 2018)
John Cook (MSU, B.S. Expected Spring 2020)