Theses
PHDs
2011 Jingshi Wu Composition and temperature effects on aluminoborosilicate glass structure and properties. Ph.D. thesis, Dept. of Geological and Environmental Sciences.
2008 Kimberly E. Kelsey A structural investigation of ambient and high pressure glasses and minerals using NMR spectroscopy. Ph.D. thesis, Dept. of Geological and Environmental Sciences.
2006 Jeffrey A. Allwardt Cation ordering at ambient pressure and structural densification mechanisms of high-pressure silicate glasses and melts. Ph.D. thesis, Dept. of Geological and Environmental Sciences.
2005 T.J. Kiczenski A study of the effects of composition and temperature on the structure of fluorine-containing silicate and aluminosilicate glasses. Ph.D. thesis, Dept. of Geological and Environmental Sciences.
2002 Sung Keun Lee The extent of disorder and properties of silicate glasses, melts, and layer-silicates: spectroscopic analysis and quantum chemical calculations. Ph.D. thesis, Dept. of Geological and Environmental Sciences.
2001 Jane V. Oglesby A multinuclear NMR study of hydrous aluminosilicate glasses: crystalline versus glassy structures. Ph.D. thesis, Dept. of Geological and Environmental Sciences.
1998 Sabyasachi Sen Intermediate-range structure and dynamics in oxide glasses and liquids: NMR spin-lattice relaxation study. Ph.D. thesis, Dept. of Geological and Environmental Sciences.
1998 Zhi Xu Applications of two-dimensional solid state nuclear magnetic resonance in silicates. Ph.D. thesis, Dept. of Materials Sciences and Engineering.
1997 Anna M. George The structure and dynamics of the non-network forming elements sodium and magnesium in glassy and molten silicates: a high-temperature NMR study. Ph.D. thesis, Dept. of Geological and Environmental Sciences.
1995 Elizabeth A. Zbinden Gas-phase transport of tin in the Taylor Creek rhyolite, New Mexico, investigated using experimental measurement of thermodynamic activity, mulitcomponent thermodynamic calculations, and field studies. Ph.D. thesis, Dept. of Geological and Environmental Sciences.
1993 Xianyu Xue Structure of quenched silicate melts at high pressure and sub-Tg amorphization of stishovite: a multinuclear NMR study. Ph.D. thesis, Dept. of Geological and Environmental Sciences.
1993 Peter S. Fiske The volumetric properties of silicate liquids: dilatometric and spectroscopic studies. Ph.D. thesis, Dept. of Geological and Environmental Sciences.
1993 Dane R. Spearing The dynamics of displacive phase transitions: multi-nuclear NMR studies. Ph.D. thesis, Dept. of Geological and Environmental Sciences.
1992 Julia A. Sharps Spectroscopy of aqueous chloride solution structure, and Zn(II) and Au(II) speciation. Ph.D. thesis, Dept. of Geological and Environmental Sciences.
MSs
2007 Emily V. Dubinsky Quench rate and temperature effects on silicate melts. M.S. thesis, Dept. of Geological and Environmental Sciences.
2006 Cheng-Han Hsieh Solid-state NMR and x-ray studies of local coordination environment in ZrO2-Sc2O3 system. M.S. report, Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering
2004 Travis O. Sandland Structure of Cl-containing silicate and aluminosilicate glasses: a 35Cl MAS-NMR study. M.S. thesis, Dept. of Geological and Environmental Sciences.
1994 Susan E. Ellsworth Borate and borosilicate melts: high temperature MAS NMR and fictive temperature studies. M.S. report, Dept. of Materials Sciences and Engineering.
1992 Charles E. Schmelz The spectroscopic analysis of a sodium aluminosilicate gel and glass produced through the combination of alkoxides. M.S. thesis, Dept. of Geological and Environmental Sciences.
1992 Julia A. Sharps Disordering and the progress of hydration at the surface of diopside: a cross-polarization MAS-NMR study. M.S. thesis, Dept. of Geological and Environmental Sciences.
1988 Mark E. Brandriss Effects of glass transition temperature on the structures of silicate glasses, and implications for the effects of temperature on the structure of silicate liquids: silicon-29 NMR results. M.S. thesis, Dept. of Geological and Environmental Sciences.
