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Graduate Theses (May 2001 to April 2006)

Student NameDegreeSupervisor(s)Thesis DateThesis Title
Mackie, RobinM.Sc.J. Scoates/D. WeisApril 21, 2006 Crustal Contamination, Sulphide Mineralization, and Compaction During Formation of the Marginal Zone of the Muskox Intrusion, Nunavut, and Implications for the Evolution of the 1.27 Ga Mackenzie Magmatic Event
Reuten, ChristianPh.D.D. SteynMarch 14, 2006 Scaling and Kinematics of Daytime Slope Flow Systems
Kidston, JosephM.Sc.A. BlackApril 13, 2006 Energy Balance Closure in a Boreal Mature jack Pine Stand and Clearcut, and Implications for CO2 Flux Measurement
Frappe-Seneclauze, Tom-PierreM.Sc.G. ClarkeFebruary 28, 2006 Slow Surge of Tapridge Glacier, 1951-2005
Galbraith, EricPh.D.R. Francois/T. PedersenFebruary 28, 2006 Interactions Between Climate and the marine Nitrogen Cycle on Glacial-Interglacial Timescales
Gordee, SarahM.Sc.J. MortensenJanuary 16, 2006 Volcanostratigraphy, Age and Geologic Setting of the Lower-Middle Jurassic Upper Hazelton Group, West-Central British Columbia
Turner, DavidM.Sc.L. GroatJanuary 16, 2006 Mineralogical and Geochemical Study of the True Blue Aquamarine Showing, Shark Property, Southern Yukon Territory
Simmons, AdamM.Sc.R. TosdalDecember 19, 2005 Geologic & Geochronologic Framework and Mineralization of the Thorn Property, Northwest British Columbia, Canada
Henry, MichaelPh.D.P. HarrisonDecember 14, 2005 Effects of Cooling Water Discharge from a Thermoelectric Power Plant on the Nutrient and Phytoplankton Dynamics of Port Moody Arm, British Columbia
Collins, A. Kathleen (Kate)M.Sc.S. AllenDecember 13, 2005 A 1D Ocean Mixing Model of the Strait of Georgia: Ecological Responses to Physical Forcing
Delle Monache, LucaPh.D.R. StullNovember 28, 2005 Ensemble-averaged, Probabilistic, Kalman-filtered Regional Ozone Forecasts
Wilson, SiobhanM.Sc.G. Dipple/M. RaudseppNovember 18, 2005 Carbon Sequestration in Chrysotile Mine Tailings
Kelman, MelaniePh.D.J.K. RussellAugust 3, 2005 Glaciovolcanism at the Mount Cayley Volcanic Field, Garibaldi Volcanic Belt, Southwestern British Columbia
Deng, XingxiuPh.D.R. StullAugust 2, 2005 Assimilation of Surface Weather Observations in Complex Terrain
Spagnol, Giancarlo (John)Ph.D.R. StullJuly 27, 2005 Rocketsonde Buoy System: Observing System Simulation Experiments
Thompson, CraigM.Sc.L. SmithJuly 25, 2005 Hydrogeologic Modelling of Submarine Groundwater Discharge in the Gulf of Mexico Near Southeastern Louisiana
Hansen, LyleM.Sc.G. DippleJuly 8, 2005 Geologic Setting of Listwanite, Atlin, BC: Implications for Carbon Dioxide Sequestration and Lode-Gold Mineralization
Waterhouse, AmyM.Sc.S. AllenMay 25, 2005 A Physical Study of Upwelling Flow Dynamics in Long Canyons
Cassis, DavidM.Sc.F.J.R. TaylorApril 22, 2005 The Effect of Harmful Algae on the Summer Mortality of Juvenile Pacific Oysters (Crassostrea gigas)
Jaramillo, SergioM.Sc.S. AllenApril 22, 2005 Numerical Modelling of Flow in a Laboratory Tank Using a Z-coordinate Numerical Model
Sun, HaizhenM.Sc.R. StullApril 15, 2005 Numerical Simulation of Canopy Flow and Carbon Dioxide Flux at the West Coast Flux Station
Annell, HeidiM.Sc.J. Scoates/D. WeisApril 11, 2005 Petrology and Geochemistry of the 25 Ma Mt. Marion Dufresne Basaltic Section on the Kerguelen Archipelago: Constraining the Transition from Tholeiitic to Mildly Alkalic Volcanism on a Major Oceanic Island
Peterson, TawnyaPh.D.P. HarrisonApril 8, 2005 Studies on the Biological Oceanography of Haida Eddies
Beran, LaurensM.Sc.D. OldenburgMarch 30, 2005 Classification of Unexploded Ordnance
Tafti, RezaM.Sc.J. MortensenMarch 21, 2005 Nature and Origin of the Early Jurassic Copper (-Gold) Deposits at Minto and Williams Creek, Carmacks Copper Belt, Western Yukon: Examples of Deformed Porphyry Deposits
Williams, RandiM.A.Sc.U. MayerMarch 15, 2005 Using Dissolved Gas Analysis to Investigate the Performance of Permeable Reactive Barriers
Ortmann, AlicePh.D.C. SuttleFebruary 25, 2005 Microbial Ecology of Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vents: Viruses, Diversity and Potential Mortality
Boyer, LianeM.Sc.R. TosdalJanuary 17, 2005 Kimberlite Volcanic Facies and Eruption in the Buffalo Head Hills, Alberta (Canada)
Neufeld, HeatherM.Sc.L. Groat/J. MortensenDecember 17, 2004 The Tsa da Glisza (Regal Ridge) Emerald Occurrence, Southeastern Yukon Territory, Canada: Descriptive, Genetic, and Exploration Models
Ross, DanielM.Sc.R.M. BustinDecember 15, 2004 Sedimentology, Geochemistry and Gas Shale Potential of the Early Jurassic Nordegg Member, Northeastern British Columbia
Lhomme, NicolasPh.D.G. ClarkeDecember 9, 2004 Modelling Water Isotopes in Polar Ice Sheets
Wagner, KarinM.Sc.R. BeckieOctober 18, 2004 Characterization of the Geochemistry of Discharge Waters, Pore Waters, Primary and Secondary Minerals of an Experimental Waste Rock Pile, Cluff Lake Mine, Saskatchewan, Canada
Mackin, JonathanM.Sc.R.M. BustinOctober 8, 2004 The Adsorption Protection Theory: An Examination of Two Marine Environments: The Continental Slope of Southwestern Vancouver Island and the Continental Shelf and slope of the Makran Area Along the Coast of Pakistan
Welford, J. KimPh.D.R. ClowesOctober 8, 2004 Deep 3-D Seismic Reflection Imaging of Precambrian Sills in the Crystalline Crust of Alberta, Canada
Haegeli, PascalPh.D.D. McClung/D. SteynOctober 7, 2004 Scale Analysis of Avalanche Activity on Persistent Snowpack Weaknesses with Respect to Large-scale Backcountry Avalanche Forecasting
Severin, JordanM.Sc.O. HungrOctober 7, 2004 Landslides in the Charlie Lake Mapsheet, Fort St. John
Amundrud, TrishaPh.D.R.G. IngramOctober 6, 2004 Geometric Constraints on the Formation and Melt of Ridged Sea Ice
Fleming, SeanPh.D.G. ClarkeOctober 1, 2004 Comparative Statistical Hydroclimatology of Glacial and Nival Rivers in Southwest Yukon and Northwest British Columbia
Harder, MargaretM.Sc.J.K. RussellSeptember 24, 2004 The Llangorse Volcanic Field: Volcanology and Mantle Petrology
Ainslie, BrucePh.D.D. SteynSeptember 23, 2004 A Photochemical Model Based on a Scaling Analysis of Ozone Photochemistry
Bolton, MarkM.Sc.R. BeckieSeptember 15, 2004 Aqueous and Mineralogical Analysis of Arsenic in the Reduced, Circumneutral Groundwaters and Sediments of the Fraser River Delta, British Columbia
Laine, AlexandreM.Sc.W. HsiehSeptember 1, 2004 Forcing Mechanisms Controlling Surface and Subsurface Temperature Anomalies Along Line-P, Northeast Pacific Ocean
Webb, FernM.Sc.G. ClarkeAugust 31, 2004 Computer Modeling of Temperature Profiles in freezing Ground
Lefebvre, NathalieM.Sc.M. KopylovaAugust 19, 2004 Petrology, Volcanology, and Diamonds of Archean Calc-Alkaline Lamprophyres, Wawa, Ontario, Canada
Henryk ModzelewskiPh.D.R. StullAugust 9, 2004 Investigation into Nonlocal Turbulence-closure at Higher Statistical Order.
Heffernan, R. ScottM.Sc.J. MortensenJune 21, 2004 Temporal, Geochemical, Isotopic and Metallogenic Studies of Mid-cretaceous Magmatism in the Tintina Gold Province, Southeastern Yukon and Southwestern Northwest Territories, Canada
Quane, StevenPh.D.J.K. RussellApril 23, 2004 Welding in Pyroclastic Deposits
Whittle, PhillipM.Sc.T. PedersonApril 23, 2004 The Biogeochemistry of the Equity Silver Mine Pit Lakes
Caulkins, JoshuaM.Sc.L. SmithApril 22, 2004 Characterization and Investigation of submarine Groundwater Discharge From a Coastal Aquifer into the Nearshore Environment
Doerksen, GeoffM.Sc.T. OkeApril 22, 2004 Parameterization of Net Radiation in Urban and Suburban Environments
Grant, AndrewM.Sc.L. PandolfoApril 22, 2004 Extra-tropical Cyclone Climatology and Shifts in Climate Regime in the Northern Hemisphere
Ramos, SharleenM.Sc.R.M. BustinApril 21, 2004 The Effect of Shale Composition on the Gas Sorption Potential of Organic-rich Mudrocks in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin
Hewson, ChadwickM.Sc.D. OldenburgApril 21, 2004Developing Learned Regularization Fuctionals for Geophysical Inversions
Scullard, ChristianM.Sc.B. BuffettApril 14, 2004A Statistical Model of Reversals in the Geodynamo
Hawke, MichellePh.D.R.M. BustinApril 13, 2004Elemental Characteristics of Organic Deposits from an Area Surrounding a Lead-Zinc Smelter: Concentration, Distribution, Mode of Occurrence and Mobility
Rattan, SanjayM.Sc.W. HsiehApril 13, 2004Nonlinear Complex Principal Component Analysis: Theory & Applications to Tropical Pacific Wind Velocity Anomalies
Hayman, PatrickM.Sc.M. KopylovaApril 1, 2004Lower Mantle Diamonds from the Rio Soriso, Juina, Brazil
Smithson, DavidM.Sc.S. RowinsMarch 19, 2004Late Eocene Tectono-magmatic Evolution and Genesis of Reduced Porphyry Copper-Gold Mineralization at the North Fork Deposit, West Central Cascade Range Washintgon, USA
McClymont, AlastairM.Sc.R. ClowesMarch 10, 2004Crustal Structure of the Northern Juan de Fuca Plate
Bieber, ChristineM.Sc.R. BeckieDecember 12, 2003Field Sampling and Modelling of Creosote-Derived Contamination in a Tidally Forced Aquifer
Costin, SimonaM.Sc.B. BuffettDecember 10, 2003Preferred Reversal Paths Caused by a Heterogeneous Conducting Layer at the Base of the Mantle
McKay, JenniferPh.D.T. PedersenOctober 6, 2003Palaeoceanography of the Northeastern Pacific Ocean off Vancouver Island, Canada
Rucker, MagdalenaPh.D.D. SteynSeptember 30, 2003Observational and Numerical Study of Daytime Flows in an Alpine Valley
Zhao, MingPh.D.P. AustinSeptember 16, 2003Episodic Mixing and Buoyancy-Sorting Representations of Shallow Cumulus Convection
Bovis, PaulM.Sc.D. SteynAugust 29, 2003Stratosphere Troposphere Exchange and Its Influence on Surface Ozone Concentrations in the Lower Fraser Valley
Roberts, SarahM.Sc.T. OkeAugust 25, 2003Energy Storage in a Densely-Built Mediterranean City Centre
Innanen, KristopherPh.D.T. UlrychAugust 15, 2003Methods for the Treatment of Acoustic and Absorptive/Dispersive Wave Field Measurements
Austin, NicholasM.Sc.L. KennedyAugust 14, 2003An Experimental Investigation of Textural Controls on the Brittle Deformation of Dolomite
Henrichsen, MichaelM.Sc.L. KennedyJuly 28, 2003Structural Geometry and Kinematics of Deformation in the Stanley Head Region, Western Cornwallis Island, Nunavut
Dilworth, KatherineM.Sc.R. TosdalJuly 21, 2003Geological Setting, Nature and Evolution of Reduced Intrusions and Gold Bearing Quartz Veins of the 4021 Prospect, Goodpaster District, East-Central Alaska
Kienast, StephaniePh.D.S. CalvertJune 11, 2003Palaeoceanography of the Mid-latitude North East Pacific During the Late Pleistocene
McLearn, NicoleM.Sc.C. SuttleMay 28, 2003Correlates of Viral and Bacterial Abundances in Siberian and Antarctic Permafrost
Frederickson, CindyM.Sc.C. SuttleMay 27, 2003The Genetic Analysis of Aquatic Cyanophage Communities
Adams, RupertM.Sc.R.M. BustinApril 25, 2003An Examination of the Role of Sediment Surface Area in Controlling the Preservation of Organic Matter in a Paralic Environment, and its Influence on Petroleum source Rock Formation and Contaminant Adsorption, Howe Sound, British Columbia
Stoynov, HristoPh.D.A. SinclairApril 25, 2003A Lithogeochemical Study of Hydrothermal Alteration Associated with Mafic Hosted and Besshi-Type Massive Sulphide Deposits
Bradshaw, GeoffreyM.Sc.S. RowinsApril 24, 2003Geology and Genesis of the Wolverine Polymetallic Volcanic Rock-hosted Massive Sulphide (VHMS) Deposit, Finlayson Lake District, Yukon Canada
Reid, KarenM.Sc.C. SuttleApril 24, 2003DNA Polymerase Sequence Analysis of Bacteriophage, Podoviridae
Zhang, JinM.Sc.P. SmithApril 23, 2003From Extinction to Recovery: Late Triassic and Early-Middle Jurassic Ammonoid Morphology
Haynes, SimonM.Sc.R. TosdalApril 22, 2003Development of the Eocene Elko Basin, Northeastern Nevada: Implications for Paleogeography and regional Tectonism
Kaplan, SamM.Sc.T. UlrychApril 22, 2003Principal and Independent Component Analysis for Seismic Data
Lelievre, PeterM.Sc.D. OldenburgMarch 20, 2003Forward Modelling and Inversion of Geophysical Magnetic Data
Rozak, A. ThomasM.Sc.R.M. BustinFebruary 28, 2003Evaluation and Application of Fracture Detection Software to Coalbed Methane Exploration
Charchaflie, DiegoM.Sc.R. TosdalFebruary 5, 2003Geological, Structural and Geochronological Framework of the Veladero North Area, Cordillera Frontal, Argentina
Freed, RinaPh.D.L. SmithDecember 20, 2002Migration of Strontium-90 in Surface Water, Groundwater and Sediments of the Borschi Watershed, Chernobyl
Stewart, MartinM.Sc.J.K. RussellDecember 19, 2002Dacite Block and Ash Avalanche Hazards in Mountainous Terrain: 2360 yr. BP Eruption of Mount Meager, British Columbia
Roth, TinaPh.D.J. Thompson/R. TosdalDecember 18, 2002Physical and Chemical Constraints on Mineralization in the Eskay Creek Deposit, Northwestern British Columbia: Evidence From Petrography, Mineral Chemistry, and Sulfur Isotopes
Davie, MatthewM.Sc.B. BuffettDecember 17, 2002Numerical Models for the formation of Marine Gas Hydrate: Constraints on Methane Supply From a Comparison of Observations and Numerical Models
De Wekker, StephanusPh.D.D. SteynNovember 15, 2002Structure and Morphology of the Convective Boundary Layer in Mountainous Terrain
Maletto, AnnickM.Sc.I. McKendryOctober 9, 2002Boundary-layer Profiles of Particulate Matter Size Distributions Using a Balloon-borne Lightweight Aerosol spectrometer
Jeffery, NicolePh.D.S. AllenOctober 7, 2002Modelling a Phytoplankton Dichotomy in the Eastern Subarctic Pacific: Impact of Atmospheric Variability Iron Surface Flux, and Life Cycle Dynamics of the Calanoid Copepods, Neocalanus spp.
Kienast, MarkusPh.D.S. CalvertOctober 3, 2002Sedimentary Biogeochemistry and Palaeoceanography of the South China Sea During the Late Pleistocene
Ostermann, KathrynM.Sc.D. SteynOctober 3, 2002Source Apportionment of Particulate Matter by Positive Matrix Factorisation in the Lower Fraser Valley of British Columbia
Stockwell, JustinM.Sc.L Smith/R. BeckieAugust 26, 2002 Investigation of Hydrological and Geochemical Properties and Spatial Relationships of an Unsaturated Waste Rock Pile, Key Lake, Saskatchewan
Berg, LarryPh.D.R. StullJuly 19, 2002A Simple Parameterization Coupling the Convective Daytime Boundary Layer and Fair-weather Cumuli
Wagey, GabrielPh.D.F.J.R. TaylorJuly 10, 2002Ecology and Physiology of Phytoplankton in Ambon Bay, Indonesia
Bank, Carl-GeorgPh.D.M. Bostock / R. EllisJuly 3, 2002 Teleseismic Investigation of the Upper Mantle Beneath the Archean Slave Craton, NW Canada, and of the Moho Beneath Canadian Broad-band Stations
Sherry, NelsonPh.D.P. HarrisonJune 13, 2002Microbial Processes in the subarctic Northeast Pacific: Bacterial Standing Stocks, Rate Processes, and Controls
Bone, KatherineM.Sc.R. Clowes/ L. KennedyApril 22, 2002 Relative Timing and Significance of Folding in the Western Skeena Fold Belt, Northwestern Bowser Basin, British Columbia: Interpretation of Structural and Seismic Reflection Data
Phillips, NigelM.Sc.D. OldenburgApril 5, 2002Geophysical Inversion in an Integrated Exploration Program: Examples From the San Nicolas Deposit
Nichol, CraigPh.D.R. Beckie/ L. SmithMarch 22, 2002 Transient Flow and Transport in Unsaturated Heterogeneous Media: Field Experiments in Mine Waste Rock
Joyce, NancyM.Sc.J. MortensenMarch 20, 2002Geologic Setting, Nature, and structural Evolution of Intrusionhosted Au-bearing Quartz Veins at the Longline Occurrence, Moosehorn Range Area, West-central Yukon Territory
Haro-Garay, MarthaPh.D.A. LewisFebruary 28, 2002Ecology of the Amphipods Parathemisto pacifica (Stebbing) and Cyphocaris challengeri (Stebbing) in the Strait of Georgia: Mandible Morphology, Feeding Habits, and Food Distribution
Benson, AshleenM.Sc.S. Allen/J. DowerJanuary 30, 2002 Oceanographic Influences on Pacific Hake (Merluccius productus) Distribution and Biology
Pufahl, PeirPh.D.K. GrimmDecember 21, 2001The Sedimentology and Geochemistry of Phosphatic and Associated Strata in Jordan: Implications for Phosphogenesis and the Formation of Economic Phosphorite
Harris, ShannonM.Sc.P. HarrisonDecember 21, 2001Size-fractionated Chlorophyll and Primary Productivity and Nutrient Distributions Off the West Coast of Vancouver Island
Deyell, CariPh.D.L. Groat/J. ThompsonDecember 17, 2001 Alunite and High Sulfidation Gold-Silver-Copper Mineralization in the El Indio-Pascua Belt, Chile-Argentina
Trotter, ChristinaM.Sc.R. KnightDecember 17, 2001Predicting the Surface Area to Volume Ratio of Pores in Iron Rich Sediments From Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Data
Hildes, DavePh.D.G. ClarkeDecember 5, 2001Modelling Subglacial Erosion and Englacial Sediment Transport of the North American Ice Sheets
Hacker, JoshuaPh.D.R. StullNovember 6, 2001Numerical Weather Prediction Error Over the North Pacific and Western North America: An Investigation with short-range Ensemble Techniques
Nayar, TarunM.Sc.J. DowerOctober 12, 2001Using Otoliths to Determine Daily Growth Rate and Sizeselective Mortality of Juvenile Salmon in Nanaimo, British Columbia
Kovanen, DoriPh.D.G. ClarkeOctober 10, 2001Late Glacial Ice Margin Fluctuations (12.5-10.014C KYR BP) in the Fraser Lowland and Adjacent Nooksack Valley, Southwestern British Columbia, Canada and Northwestern Washington, U.S.A.
Trad, DanielPh.D.T. UlrychOctober 9, 2001Implementations and applications of the Sparse Radon Transform
Jeffery, ChristopherPh.D.P. AustinSeptember 7, 2001Statistical Models of Cloud-Turbulence Interactions
Ivanochko, TaraM.Sc.T. PedersenAugust 10, 2001Productivity Influences on Oxygenation of the Santa Barbara Basin, California, During the Late Quaternary
McConaghy, KatharineM.Sc.G. DippleJuly 26, 2001Alteration and Infiltration: Documenting Controls on Skarn Formation at Mineral Hill, Sechelt, Southwestern British Columbia
Timothy, DavidPh.D.S. CalvertJuly 6, 2001Primary Production and the Settling Flux in Two Fjords of British Columbia, Canada
Piercey, StephenPh.D.J. MortensenJune 29, 2001Petrology and Tectonic Setting of Felsic and Mafic Volcanic and Intrusive Rocks in the Finlayson Lake Volcanic-hosted Massive Sulphide (VHMS) District, Yukon, Canada: A Record of Mid-Paleozoic Arc and Back-arc Magmatism and Metallogeny
Jourabchi, ParisaM.Sc.R. KnightMay 31, 2001A Theoretical Model of NMR Surface Relaxation in Porous Media
Mirshak, RamziM.Sc.S. AllenMay 23, 2001Spin-up Over Steep Topography and the Effects of a Submarine Canyon
Wuest, RaphaelPh.D.R.M. BustinMay 18, 2001Holocene Evolution of the Intermontane Tasek Bera Peat Deposit, Peninsular Malaysia: Controls on Composition and Accumulation of a Tropical Freshwater Peat Deposit
Patterson, KeithM.Sc.S. RowinsMay 17, 2001Structural Controls on Mineralization and Constraints on Fluid Evolution at the Sacrificio Cu (Zn-Pb-Ag-Au) Skarn, Durango, Mexico
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