Information bout Sedimentary Systems Research group director, Brian Romans, on this page.
Current Graduate Students
Natalia Varela (Ph.D.)
Pliocene-Pleistocene turbidite sedimentation in the Ross Sea: Implications for Antarctic Bottom Water (AABW) history, 2018-present
Michala Puckett (M.S.)
Variability of sedimentary texture in deep-marine sandstones: Exploring new techniques in petrographic and image-analysis characterization, 2022-present
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Former Grad Students / Post-Docs (reverse chronological)
Sebastian A. Kaempfe Droguett (Ph.D.) — completed June 2022 — Multi-scale deep-marine stratigraphic expressions in the Cretaceous Magallanes Basin, Chile: Implications for depositional architecture and basin evolution
Andrew Parent (Ph.D.) — completed January 2022 — Deep-marine depositional systems of the western North Atlantic: Insights into climate and passive-margin evolution
Cody Mason (Post-Doctoral Fellow) — completed August 2018 — Source-to-sink dynamics of large sediment routing systems with and without continental ice sheets: Value of detrital zircons for sediment routing system characterization and prediction
Cody Mason (Ph.D.) — completed May 2017 — Tectonic exhumation and climate-driven erosion in extensional mountain blocks: Two examples from California, USA
Neal Auchter (Ph.D.) — completed December 2016 — Basin Evolution and Slope System Dynamics of the Cretaceous Magallanes Basin, Chilean Patagonia
Kristin Chilton (M.S.) — completed December 2016 — Terrigenous grain-size record of the Newfoundland Ridge contourite drift, IODP Site U1411: The first physical proxy record of North Atlantic abyssal current intensity during the Eocene-Oligocene Transition
Sarah Jancuska (M.S.) — completed December 2016 — Sedimentary processes and deposits related to slope system initiation, Magallanes Basin, Chilean Patagonia
Patrick Boyle (M.S.) — completed May 2014 — Cenozoic variations in the Deep Western Boundary Current as recorded in the seismic stratigraphy of contourite drifts, Newfoundland Ridge, offshore Canada
Former Undergraduate Researchers (reverse chronological)
Omar Ghamedi (B.S. Geosciences)
Characterization of the sand fraction in Pliocene-Pleistocene mud-dominated deep-sea deposits, Ross Sea, Antarctica, 2019
Samantha Bour (B.S. Geosciences)
Morphometrics of the Hatteras sediment wave field, U.S. Atlantic continental rise, 2018
Kelly Hale (B.S. Geosciences)
Clast characterization of Pliocene-Pleistocene continental slope deposits, Ross Sea, Antarctica, 2018
Taylor Sanchez (B.S. Geosciences)
Ice rafting or bottom currents? Characterization of the sand fraction in Oligocene mud-dominated deep-sea deposits of the Newfoundland Ridge, 2016
Shauna Flynn (B.S. Geosciences)
North Atlantic Ocean deep-water circulation dynamics at the Eocene-Oligocene Transition, 2015
Telemachos Manos (B.S. Geosciences)
Evaluating the influence of 300 million-year-old rivers on modern Appalachian Plateau topography, 2015
Rachel Corrigan (B.S. Geosciences)
Response of the Deep Western Boundary Current to climate change at the Oligocene-Miocene transition, Newfoundland Ridge drift complex, 2014
Eric Lahart (B.S. Geosciences)
Dynamics of the Deep Western Boundary Current from Greenhouse to Icehouse climate conditions, Newfoundland Ridge drift complex, 2014
Robert Ulrich (B.S. Geosciences)
Petrographic characterization of axial versus marginal submarine channel sandstones, Tres Pasos Formation, Chile, 2014
Chris Matthews (B.S. Geosciences)
Testing the contourite drift facies model with quantitative grain-size data, 2013-2014
Sarah Ault (B.S. Geosciences)
Carbonate dissolution or terrigenous dilution? Sortable silt record of decimeter-scale sedimentary cycles in the Eocene, Newfoundland Ridge drift complex, 2013
Virginia Tech faculty in sedimentary geoscience and adjacent disciplines
- Benjamin C. Gill – sedimentology/stratigraphy, stable isotope geochemistry, paleoceanography
- Tina Dura – coastal hazards, diatom micropaleontology, paleoseismology
- Julia Cisneros – sedimentology, geomorphology, bedform dynamics
- Robert Weiss – sediment transport, coastal engineering, modeling of tsunami processes
- James A. Spotila – geomorphology, neotectonics, thermochronology
- Shuhai Xiao – geobiology, evolution of early animals
- Michelle Stocker – geobiology, vertebrate paleontology
- Sterling Nesbitt – geobiology, vertebrate paleontology
- Kyle Strom (Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering) – sediment transport, experimental sedimentology