Current PhD students advisees Current MS students advisees Quinton Vitelli-Hawkins, MS Student Drought history in western New Mexico as revealed by stable isotopes in ice from lava tubes Laura Calabro, MS Student 2500-year climate history of the SW United States from ice deposits in lava tubes Former PhD and MS students advisees Daniel CLEARY, PhD Student (defended March 2019) Climate and vegetation changes reconstructed using d15N, d13C, and pollen in cave guano Oana-Alexandra DUMITRU, PhD Student (defended October 2019) Pliocene sea-level changes in western Mediterranean based on cave deposits Giuseppe LUCIA, MS Student (defended March 2015) The antiquity of Mallorcan karst Dylan PARMENTER, MS Student (defended October 2018) Climate and vegetation reconstructions using ice cores in lava tubes at El Malpais, NM Jackson HUBBARD, MS Student (defended March 2017) 3D Cave and ice block morphology from integrated geophysical methods: A case study at Scarisoara Ice Cave, Romania Evan MOORE, Honors College Thesis (defended April 2017) Speleothem evidence for climate changes in NW Romania Daniel M. Cleary, MS (defended October 2015) A bat guano derived d15N and d13C record of paleoenvironmental change: Zidita Cave, Romania Jacqueline A. DIEHL, MS (defended March 2015) The speleogenesis of Vallgornera Cave (Mallorca, Spain): a mineralogical and morphological study Lee Liana BOOP, PhD (defended July 2014) Groundwater geochemistry in littoral caves of Mallorca (western Mediterranean): implications for deposition of phreatic overgrowths on speleothems Montana PUSCAS, PhD (defended November 2013) Hypogene speleogenesis in the Cerna River Basin, SW Romania: A sedimentological, mineralogical, and stable isotopic approach Virgil DRAGUSIN, PhD - Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania (defended July 2013) MIS 3 paleoclimate reconstructions based on cave deposits from Romania Aurel PERSOIU, PhD (defended February 2011) Paleoclimatic significance of perennial ice accumulations in caves: an example from Scarisoara Ice Cave, Romania Jonathan SUMRALL, MS (defended March 2009) Using 34-S as a tracer of dissolved sulfur species from springs to cave sulfate deposits in the Cerna Valley, Romania Kali PACE-GRACZYK, MS (defended July 2007) Isotopic investigations of cave drip waters and precipitation in Central and Northern Florida, USA Andrea BURKE, Honors College Thesis (defended July 2007) An introduction to phosphate mining in the Bone Valley Formation of Central Florida and the success of reclaimed wetlands Former students advisees (Romania) Daniel VERES, BS; Vasile ERSEK, BS; Ioan LASCU, BS; Erika SUCIU-KRAUSZ, BS, MS; Luminita ZAHARIA, BS, MS; Mirona CHIRIENCO, BS; Tiberiu DASCAL, BS Committees PhD Artur Ionescu (Universitatea Babes-Bolyai, Romania) George Bradley (University of Akron) Robert Scharping Mark Horwitz Matthew Hayes AlQattan Nasser Leslie A. North Informal karst education in the United States and internationally  (defended May 2011) Tiffany Roberts Natural and anthropogenic influences on the morphodynamics of sandy and mixed sand and gravel beaches (defended July 2012) Dorien McGee Microbial influences on karst dissolution: the geochemical perspective, with a chapter on assessment of the spreadsheets across curriculum project (defended November 2010) Jason Polk Proxy Records of Climate Change in Subtropical and Tropical Karst Environments (defended April 2009) Spencer Fleury Land use policy and practices in karst terrains (defended November 2007) MS Rachel Schweers In situ studies of limestone dissolution in a coastal submarine spring (defended October 2015) Jessica Norman Wilson Stable Isotopes and Trace Elements in Tooth Enamel Bioapatite: E ects of Diagenesis and Pretreatment on Primary Paleoecological Information (defended November 2013) Mark Horwitz

Current PhD students advisees

Current MS students advisees

Quinton Vitelli-Hawkins, MS Student

Drought history in western New Mexico as revealed by stable isotopes in ice from lava tubes

Laura Calabro, MS Student

2500-year climate history of the SW United States from ice deposits in lava tubes

Former PhD and MS students advisees

Daniel CLEARY, PhD Student (defended March 2019)

Climate and vegetation changes reconstructed using d15N, d13C, and pollen in cave guano

Oana-Alexandra DUMITRU, PhD Student (defended October 2019)

Pliocene sea-level changes in western Mediterranean based on cave deposits

Giuseppe LUCIA, MS Student (defended March 2015)

The antiquity of Mallorcan karst

Dylan PARMENTER, MS Student (defended October 2018)

Climate and vegetation reconstructions using ice cores in lava tubes at El Malpais, NM

Jackson HUBBARD, MS Student (defended March 2017)

3D Cave and ice block morphology from integrated geophysical methods: A case study at Scarisoara Ice Cave, Romania

Evan MOORE, Honors College Thesis (defended April 2017)

Speleothem evidence for climate changes in NW Romania

Daniel M. Cleary, MS (defended October 2015)

A bat guano derived d15N and d13C record of paleoenvironmental change: Zidita Cave, Romania

Jacqueline A. DIEHL, MS (defended March 2015)

The speleogenesis of Vallgornera Cave (Mallorca, Spain): a mineralogical and morphological study

Lee Liana BOOP, PhD (defended July 2014)

Groundwater geochemistry in littoral caves of Mallorca (western Mediterranean): implications for deposition of phreatic overgrowths on speleothems

Montana PUSCAS, PhD (defended November 2013)

Hypogene speleogenesis in the Cerna River Basin, SW Romania: A sedimentological, mineralogical, and stable isotopic approach

Virgil DRAGUSIN, PhD - Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania (defended July 2013)

MIS 3 paleoclimate reconstructions based on cave deposits from Romania

Aurel PERSOIU, PhD (defended February 2011)

Paleoclimatic significance of perennial ice accumulations in caves: an example from Scarisoara Ice Cave, Romania

Jonathan SUMRALL, MS (defended March 2009)

Using 34-S as a tracer of dissolved sulfur species from springs to cave sulfate deposits in the Cerna Valley, Romania

Kali PACE-GRACZYK, MS (defended July 2007)

Isotopic investigations of cave drip waters and precipitation in Central and Northern Florida, USA

Andrea BURKE, Honors College Thesis (defended July 2007)

An introduction to phosphate mining in the Bone Valley Formation of Central Florida and the success of reclaimed wetlands

Former students advisees (Romania)

Daniel VERES, BS; Vasile ERSEK, BS; Ioan LASCU, BS; Erika SUCIU-KRAUSZ, BS, MS; Luminita ZAHARIA, BS, MS; Mirona CHIRIENCO, BS; Tiberiu DASCAL, BS

Committees

PhD

Artur Ionescu (Universitatea Babes-Bolyai, Romania)

George Bradley (University of Akron)

Robert Scharping

Mark Horwitz

Matthew Hayes

AlQattan Nasser

Leslie A. North Informal karst education in the United States and internationally
(defended May 2011)

Tiffany Roberts Natural and anthropogenic influences on the morphodynamics of sandy and mixed sand and gravel beaches (defended July 2012)

Dorien McGee Microbial influences on karst dissolution: the geochemical perspective, with a chapter on assessment of the spreadsheets across curriculum project (defended November 2010)

Jason Polk Proxy Records of Climate Change in Subtropical and Tropical Karst Environments (defended April 2009)

Spencer Fleury Land use policy and practices in karst terrains (defended November 2007)

Rachel Schweers In situ studies of limestone dissolution in a coastal submarine spring (defended October 2015)

Jessica Norman Wilson Stable Isotopes and Trace Elements in Tooth Enamel Bioapatite: E ects of Diagenesis and Pretreatment on Primary Paleoecological Information (defended November 2013)

Mark Horwitz

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