CERI Graduate Student Dissertations

2026

• Kaushik Sarker, 2026. Probing Intraplate Lithospheric Architecture: Magnetotelluric Imaging of the Crust and Upper Mantle Across the New Madrid Seismic Zone, Mississippi Embayment, and Alabama-Oklahoma Lineament. Major Advisor: Chris Cramer
• Kuruvitage Chameera Chathuranga Silva, 2026. Continental Rift Evolution under Time-Varying Plate Boundary Forces and Mantle Plumes: A Numerical Study. Major Advisor: Eunseo Choi

2025

• Roshan Koirala, 2025. A Dual Perspective on Fault Mechanics: Insights from Laboratory Acoustic Emissions and Induced Seismicity. Major Advisor: Thomas Goebel
• Kiran Pandey, 2025. Prepatory Processes Associated With Induced Labquakes Conducted On Cylindrical Westerly Granite In Triaxial Experiments. Major Advisor: Thomas Goebel
• Luis Ivan Bazan Flores, 2025. Modeling Dynamic and Static Earthquake-Induced Stress Changes Across Fault and Magmatic Systems: Insights from Finite Element Simulations. Major Advisor: Christodoulos Kyriakopoulos

2024

• Anuradha Mahanama, 2024. Lateral Variations of Crustal Attenuation and Separation of Intrinisic and Scattering Attentuation in Alaska. Major Advisor: Chris Cramer
• Yixin Zhang, 2024. An Investigation of the New Madrid Seismic Zone Fault System Using Optimal Anisotropic Dynamic Clustering and Focal Mechanism Inversions. Major Advisor: Christine Powell
• Chidozie Opara, 2024. Seismic Imaging of The Sugar Creek Fault, Western Tennessee. Major Advisor: Charles Langston
• Scott Marvin Ausbrooks, 2024. Criteria to Characterize and Classify Individual and Discreet Clusters of Earthquakes as Natural or Induced 2012–2016 in the Fayetteville Shale Development Area of North-Central Arkansas. Major Advisor: Stephen Horton

2023

• Md Nayeem Al Noman, 2023. Ground Motion Prediction Modeling and Seismic Lg Wave Attenuation Tomography. Major Advisor: Chris Cramer

2022

• Oluwaseyi Joseph Bolarinwa, 2022. Assessing the Performance of an Experimental Gradiometer Array. Major Advisor: Charles Langston
• Jiayan Tan, 2022. Joint Inversion and Dynamic Time Warping Methods to Explore Crustal Velocity Structure. Major Advisor: Charles Langston

2021

• Thivanka Ratanayake, 2021. Effects on GPS data from Ice and Snow Build-up on GPS Antennas and Removal of Noise and Disruptions Caused by Ice Build-up. Major Advisor: Robert Smalley
• Jia Zhang, 2021. Use of Curvelets in Spatial Array Processing: Method and Wavefield Analysis. Major Advisor: Charles Langston
• Oluwaseun Fadugba, 2021. Waveform and geodynamic modeling of seismicity associated with the Charlevoix seismic zone. Major Advisors: Charles Langston and Eunseo Choi
• Yu Geng, 2021. An investigation of upper mantle velocity structure below the northern Mississippi Embayment and the southern Illinois Basin using teleseismic earthquake tomography and inversion of Rayleigh wave phase velocities. Major Advisor: Christine Powell
• Christopher Marlow, 2021. A Study of Structures in the Magnetic Basement in the Reelfoot Rift and Surrounding Region. Major Advisor: Christine Powell
• Benjamin Gemballa, 2021. Velocity and Attenuation Structure of the Near Surface from Short-range Refraction Experiments in Western Tennessee. Major Advisors: Chris Cramer and Charles Langston

2020

• Arushi Saxena, 2020. Investigating Intraplate Seismicity in the Central and Eastern U.S.: Linking Observations and Numerical Models. Major Advisor: Eunseo Choi
• Yang Yang, 2020. A Seismologic Study of the Northern Mississippi Embayment. Major Advisor: Charles Langston
• Chunyu Liu, 2020. Understanding Seismic Velocity Structure and its Time-varying Process Beneath the Mississippi Embayment Through Ambient Noise Analysis. Major Advisor: Charles Langston
• S. M. Ariful Islam, 2020. Mapping of Velocity Variations to Investigate Seismicity in the Upper Crust of the Central Virginia Seismic Zone, Virginia, USA. Major Advisor: Christine Powell

2019

• Peter Matheny, 2019. Inferring Glaciological Attributes of Thwaites Glacier Using GPS-IR and PPP. Major Advisor: Robert Smalley
• Urbi Basu, 2019. Seismic Velocity and Anisotropy Structure Underneath the Central United States. Major Advisor: Christine Powell
• Hee Choi, 2019. New Numerical Mid-ocean Ridge Models for Interactions Between Plate-driving and Resistant Forces. Major Advisor: Eunseo Choi
• Khurram Aslam, 2019. Effect of Fault Roughness on Aftershocks Distribution. Major Advisor: Eric Daub
• Jabir Rahman, 2019. Depth over Bedrock and Shear Wave Velocity Profiling in Ste. Genevieve, Missouri. Major Advisor: Chris Cramer
• Chloe Glover, 2019. Transmission and Reflection Imaging of Stratigraphy from Passive Array Data. Major Advisor: Charles Langston

2018

• Elizabeth Gilmour, 2018. Dynamic Rupture Modeling of Induced Earthquakes in Oklahoma. Major Advisor: Eric Daub
• Eric Jambo, 2018. LgQ of Northern, Eastern and Southeastern Alaska and Crustal Q Variations. Major Advisor: Chris Cramer
• Luke Phillip Ogweno, 2018. Earthquake Early Warning System(EEWs) for the New Madrid Seismic Zone. Major Advisor: Chris Cramer
• Shima Azizzadeh-Roodpish, 2018. Statistical Analysis of Seismicity Catalog of Alaska: The Mysteries of the Time Series. Major Advisor: Chris Cramer
• Naeem Khoshenevis, 2018. Gaining Scientific and Engineering Insight into Ground Motion Simulation Through Machine Learning and Approximate Modeling Approaches. Major Advisor: Ricardo Taborda

2017

• Md Sabber Ahamed, 2017. Computational Journey Across Multiphysics and Multitemporal Scales: From Slow Tectonic Movement to Fast Earthquake Slip. Major Advisor: Eunseo Choi
• Mahesh Dhar, 2017. Probalistic Seismic Hazard Analysis of the Mississippi Embayment Incorporating Nonlinear Site Effects. Major Advisor: Chris Cramer
• Jerome Kutliroff, 2017. Estimating the Porportions of Large to Small Earthquakes in Seismic Regions with a Short Span of Earthquake Magnitudes. Major Advisor: Chris Cramer
• Seyed Mostafa Mousavi, 2017. Microseismic Monitoring and Denoising. Major Advisor: Charles Langston
• Yu Geng, 2017. Impact of Lateral Variations of Topography and Near-Surface Geology on Earthquake Locations and Shallow Structural Images in Northern Honshu, Japan. Major Advisor: Jer-Ming Chiu

2016

• Brian Young, 2016. Seismological Study of North Taiwan Based on Borehole and Surface Observations. Major Advisor: Jer-Ming Chiu
• Trevor Satterfield, 2016. Identifying Sand blow Vents and Other Subsurface Geological Features Using Ground Penetrating Radar and Electrical Resistivity. Major Advisor: Christine Powell
• Demian Gomez, 2016. Regional Solid Earth and ionospheric Responses to Subduction Earthquakes in South America. Major Advisor: Robert Smalley

2015

• Lei Guo, 2015. Location And Characteristic Features of the Quaternary Deformation in the Mississippi Embayment from High-resolution Seismic Reflection Data. Major Advisors: M. Beatrice Magnani and Christine Powell
• Blaine Bockholt, 2015. A Seismogenic Study of the Central and Eastern United States. Major Advisor: Charles Langston
• Xiaochuan Tian, 2015. 3D Numerical Models for Along-axis Variations in Diking at Mid-Ocean Ridges. Major Advisor: Eunseo Choi
• Alireza Shahjouei, 2015. Time Stability of H/V Ambient Noise in the Mississippi Embayment. Major Advisor: Charles Langston
• Cecilia Nyamwandha, 2015. A Joint Local Teleseismic Tomography Study and Shear Wave Splitting Beneath the Mississippi Embayment and New Madrid Seismic Zone. Major Advisor: Christine Powell
• Paul Ogwari, 2015. Pore-Pressure Diffusion Based on Analysis and Characterization of Microseismicity in Central Arkansas. Major Advisor: Christine Powell
• Akramalsadat Mostafanejad, 2015. Treatise on Seismicity and Velocity Structure of the Northern Mississippi Embayment. Major Advisor: Charles Langston

2014

• Adewale Moroof Amosu, 2014. Elastic Deformation of the Earth's Crust from Surface Loading Phenomena. Major Advisor: Robert Smalley
• Matthew Cooley, 2014. A New Set of Focal Mechanisms and a Geodynamic Model for the Eastern Tennessee Seismic Zone. Major Advisor: Christine Powell
• Donny Dangkua, 2014. Engineering Seismology Studies in Linear and Non-linear Ground Motion. Major Advisors: Chris Cramer and Charles Langston
• Lauren Kendall, 2014. High-Frequency Gradiometry. Major Advisor: Charles Langston
• Md. Monsurul Huda, 2014. Coherence and Variability of Ground Motion over 600 m of the NonVolcanic Tremor Array Site at Mooring, TN. Major Advisor: Charles Langston

2013

• James Davis, 2013. Seismic Array Processing of High-Rate GPS Data. Major Advisor: Robert Smalley
• Sara Kelemencky, 2013. New 1-D and 3-D Velosity Models and Hypocenter Locations for the Charlevoix Seismic Zone. Major Advisor: Christine Powell
• Md. Nayeem Al Noman, 2013. Ground Motion Prediction Modeling for ENA: An Empirical Approach with the NGA-East Database. Major Advisor: Chris Cramer
• Shishay Bisrat, 2013. Three Dimensional Attenuation and High Resolution Earthquake Location: Applications to the New Madrid Seismic Zone and Costa Rica Seismogenic Zone. Major Advisor: Heather Deshon
• Luke Philip Ogweno, 2013. Model Bias Analysis Using Statistical Methods with the NGA East Ground Motion Database. Major Advisor: Chris Cramer

2012

• Jordan Graw, 2012. A Study of Crustal and Upper Mantle Structure for the Eastern Tennessee Seismic Zone using P-wave Transfer Functions. Major Advisor: Christine Powell
• Mehari Ayele, 2012. Crustal Velocity Structure around the SAFOD Borehole using Vertical Wave Gradiometry. Major Advisor: Charles Langston
• Mehmet Onur Mataracioglu, 2012. Investigation of Collison Styles of the Caribbean Large Igneous Province (CLIP) vs. Normal Oceanic Crust Using Seismic Reflection. Major Advisor: M Beatrice Magnani
• Melissa Driskell-Moore, 2012. 3D Double Difference Velocity Tomography of the Middle America Subduction Zone Beneath Nicaragua. Major Advisor: Heather Deshon

2011

• Biniam Asmerom, 2011. 3-D Velocity Structures, Seismicity Patterns, and Their Tectonic Implications Across the Foreland of San Juan, Argentina. Major Advisor: Jer-ming Chiu
• Paul Ogwari, 2011. Effects of Style of Faulting on Earthquake Ground Motions in New Madrid Seismic Zone. Major Advisor: Stephen Horton
• Chigozie Obikili, 2011. Seismic Wave Attenuation in the Unconsolidated Sediments of the Upper Mississippi Embayment. Major Advisor: Jer-ming Chiu

2010

• Chu-Chioung Chi, 2010. Shallow Crustal Structure in the Upper Mississippi Embayment. Major Advisor: Charles Langston
• Elige B. Grant, 2010. Gladwin tensor Strainmeter Calibration Using Seismic Data: Instrument Calibration Methods and Wave Gradiometry Applications. Major Advisor: Charles Langston
• Solomon T. Ayele, 2010. Source Parameter Study Based on the April 18, 2008 (Mw 5.4) Mt. Carmel, Illinois Earthquake Sequence. Major Advisor: Stephen Horton
• Michael W. Towle, 2010. Variations in the Seismic Quality Factor Q for the Mississippi Embayment Sediments Utilizing Spectral Analysis of Reflection Data. Major Advisor: M. Beatrice Magnani

2009

• Meredith Dunn, 2009. High Resolution Earthquake Locations and Velocity Models in the New Madrid Seismic Zone. Major Advisor: Christine Powell
• Ivan Rabak, 2009. Crustal Structure of the Reelfoot Rift. Major Advisor: Charles Langston

2008

• Jerome Kutliroff, 2008. Seismic Hazard Mapping for the Dead Sea Fault Region. Major Advisor: Chris Cramer
• Ting Li-Lin, 2008. Infrasonic Induced Ground Motion. Major Advisor: Charles Langston
• Chuntao Liang, 2008. Studies in Passive Seismic Imaging and Wave Gradiometry. Major Advisor: Charles Langston
• Jiandang Ge, 2008. Imaging a Shallow Aquitard with Seismic Data in Memphis, TN. Major Advisor: M. Beatrice Magnani
• Gregory A. Johnson, 2008. Using Earthquake Focal Mechanisms to Investigate Seismotectonics in New Madrid Seismic Zone. Major Advisor: Mitchell Withers
• Zack Lawrence, 2008. Active Source Strong Motion Field Studies and in SITU Measurements of Nonlinear and Nonequilibrium Dynamics in Shallow, Unconsolidated Sediments. Major Advisor: Charles Langston

2007

• Qingwen Miao, 2007. The Local Magnitude Scale and Seismicity of the Central United States. Major Advisor: Charles Langston
• Allison Shumway, 2007. Focal Mechanisms of the Northeast New Madrid Seismic Zone. Major Advisor: Chris Cramer
• Danya R. Pase, 2007. Tectonic Activity of the Great Northern Puerto Rico Fault Zone: A Remote Sensing Interpretation and Field Validation Study. Major Advisor: Eugene S. Schweig, III
• Yvonne Paisant, 2007. Continental Accretion: The Caribbean-South American Oblique Collision in the South Caribbean Deformed Belt. Major Advisor: M. Beatrice Magnani

2006

• James P. Davis, 2006. Continuing Evolution of the GPS Array of Middle America. Major Advisor: Robert Smalley
• Laurel Bauer, 2006. Studies of Historic and Prehistoric Earthquake-induced Liquefaction features in the Mezoseismic Area of the 1811-1812 New Madrid Earthquakes, Central United States. Major Advisor: Eugene S. Schweig, III
• Andrea J. Raphael, 2006. Seismogenesis and the Time Dependence of Crustal Strength. Major Advisor: Paul Bodin
• JuanJuan Cao, 2006. Structure in the Upper Crust at the Southern Terminus of The Blytheville Arch, Eastern Arkansas. Major Advisor: Charles Langston

2005

• Tandrima Mukherjee, 2005. Remotely Triggered Seismicity and the M7.9 Denali Fault Earthquake, Alaska. Major Advisor: Paul Bodin
• Thomas B. Brackman, 2005. Shakemap Implementation for the Upper Mississippi Valley. Major Advisor: Mitchell Withers
• Concilia C. Fasola, 2005. Reprocessing of a USGS Mississippi River Shallow Seismic Survey. Major Advisor: Charles Langston

2004

• Victor M. Santillan, 2004. Deformation in the New Madrid Seismic Zone from Continuous GPS Geodesy. Major Advisor: Robert Smalley

2003

• Kwang Hee-Kim, 2003. Subsurface Structure Seismicity, and Their Implication to Tectonic Evolution of Taiwan. Major Advisor: Jer-Ming Chiu

2002

• Maria Soledad Velasco, 2002. Investigation of Possible Quaternary Faulting Beneath the Cities of Memphis, Germantown, Shelby County, Tennessee. Major Advisor: Roy B. Van Arsdale
• Sarah L. Brubaker, 2002. Tectonics and Topography of the West-Central Fold-and-Thrust Belt, Taiwan. Major Advisor: Michael A. Ellis

2000

• Kevin Smith, 2000. Using Microtremor to Illuminate Subsurface Geology of Memphis, Tennessee. Major Advisor: Paul Bodin

1999

• Fuchun Gao, 1999. High-Resolution Upper Crustal P and S Velocity Structures in the Upper Mississippi Embayment. Major Advisor: Jer-Ming Chiu
• Deborah L. Kilb, 1999. The Influence of One Earthquake on Another. Major Advisor: Joan S. Gomberg
• Kwang-Hee Kim, 1999. Crustal Structure Study of the Taiwan Region from Receiver Function Analysis. Major Advisor: Jer-Ming Chiu
• Peng Shen, 1999. Simultaneous Travel Time Inversion for 3D Velocity Model and Earthquake Locations: Application to the Northridge, California, 1994 Mainshock-Aftershock Sequence. Major Advisor: Jose M. Pujol

1998

• Robin Mihills, 1998. A Structural Analysis of the New Madrid Seismic Zone From Structural Contour Maps and a Three-Dimensional Model. Major Advisor: Roy B. Van Arsdale
• Minchu Mo, 1998. Deformation of Andes in Chile and Argentina by Continuous GPS Measurement. Major Advisor: Robert Smalley
• Andy Tenbrink, 1998. Neogene Geometry and Kinematics of Central Panama. Major Advisor: Eugene S. Schweig, III

1997

• Zen-Sen Liaw, 1997. Implementation of a Seismic Inversion Method and Its Applications to a Seismotectonic Study of the Southern Region of North Island of New Zealand. Major Advisor: Jer-Ming Chiu
• David Holton, 1997. Dynamic Deformation in Middle America. Major Advisor: Paul Bodin

1996

• Lauren Bauer, 1996. Studies of Historic and Prehistoric Earthquake-induced Liquefaction features in the Mezoseismic Area of the 1811-1812 New Madrid Earthquakes, Central United States. Major Advisor: Eugene S. Schweig, III
• Duncan S. Matheson, 1996. A Laboratory Study of Interface Separation Waves: A Possible Explanation for Weak Crustal Faults. Major Advisor: Paul Bodin
• Jodi L. Purser, 1996. Shallow Seismic Reflection Survey Along the Southern Margin of Reelfoot Lake, Tennessee, and Regional Implications. Major Advisor: Roy B. Van Arsdale

1995

• Patrick Eugene Drouin, 1995. A Paleoseismic Study of Crowley's Ridge and A West Bounding Fault of the Reelfoot Rift. Major Advisor: Roy B. Van Arsdale
• Xiaohui Cai, 1995. Dynamic Deformations from Aftershocks of the January 17, 1994 Northridge, California, Earthquake. Major Advisor: Paul Bodin
• Yipeng Chen, 1995. Reprocessing and Interpretation of Reflection Seismic Data from a Reactivated Rift in the Andean Foreland in Northwestern Argentina. Major Advisor: Jose M. Pujol
• Kou-Cheng Chen, 1995. Earthquake Studies Using the PANDA and PANDA II Seismic Arrays: (1) Studies of Shear Wave Velocity and Attenuation in the Sedimentary Basin, and Source Properties of Local Earthquakes in the New Madrid Seismic Zone and (2) Lateral Velocity Variations in the Hualien Area, eastern Taiwan. Major Advisor: Jer-Ming Chiu
• Charles Henry Lumsden, 1995. The Northern Extension of the Reelfoot Scarp into Kentucky and Missouri. Major Advisor: Roy B. Van Arsdale
• Baozhu Wei, 1995. Seismic Acceleration Coefficients for Memphis and Shelby County, Tennesse. Major Advisor: Shahram Pezeshk
• Hong Gao, 1995. Source Parameters of Four Intraplate Earthquakes from Modeling of WWSSN and Pre-WWSSN Data with Tectonic Implications. Major Advisor: Wai-Ying Chung
• Yiguang Hu, 1995. Seismic Wave Attenuation in Germany's Deep Borehole Area from VSP Data. Major Advisor: Jose M Pujol
• Yong Li, 1995. Tectonic Evolution, Crustal Structure and Paleoearthquake Studies of the New Madrid Seismic Zone. Major Advisor: Eugene S. Schweig, III
• Yongxia Yan, 1995. Aftershock Characteristics and Their Regional Variations in Taiwan. Major Advisor: Wai-Ying Chung
• John Craven III, 1995. Paleoseismic Study in the New Madrid Seismic Zone using Geological and Archeological Features ti Constrain Ages of Liquefaction Deposits. Major Advisor: Eugene S. Schweig, III
• Matthew Llewellin, 1995. An Examination of Subsidiary Faulting Along the Central Section of the San Andreas Fault, California. Major Advisor: Michael Ellis

1994

• Hongsheng Li, 1994. A Focal Mechanism Analysis of Eastern Tennessee Seismic Zone Earthquakes. Major Advisor: Arch Johnston
• Tao Liu, 1994. Source Parameters and Seismotectonics of Six Intracontinental Earthquakes in Argentina and Chile. Major Advisor: Wai-Ying Chung
• Jiaquan Wang. Source Parameters and Tectonic Implications of Several Intraplate Earthquakes in South America. Major Advisor: Wai-Ying Chung

1993

• Charlotte A. Haas, 1993. An Investigation of the Seismicity in the New Madrid and Southern Appalachian Regions Origin of Catalog Periodicities and Seismic Rate Changes. Major Advisor: Michael Ellis
• David P. Nicholas, 1993. Shallow Seismic Reflection Survey Across the Crittenden County Fault Zone in the New Madrid Seismic Zone. Major Advisor: Eugene S. Schweig, III
• Narasimha Rao Patri, 1993. Soil Effects on Regional Seismic Hazard in West Tennessee. Major Advisor: Tzyy-Shio Chang

1992

• Yung-Tun Yang, 1992. Fault Zone Geometry and Crustal Velocity Structures in the Central New Madrid Seismic Zone Using Data from the PANDA Seismic Array. Major Advisor: Jer-Ming Chiu
• Fan Shen, 1992. Shallow Seismic Reflection Survey in the New Madrid Seismic Zone - Bootheel Lineament. Major Advisor: Eugene S. Schweig, III
• William H. McCroskey, III, 1992. Sinuosity and Gradient Index as Indicators of Neotectonism. Major Advisor: Eugene S. Schweig, III
• Maria Cristina Reta, 1992. High Resolution View of the Wadati-Benioff Zone and Determination of the Moho Depth in San Juan, Argentina. Major Advisor: Robert Smalley, Jr.

1991

• Lisa M. Leffler, 1991. Paleoseismic Study of the Southern New Madrid Seismic Zone by Using Liquefaction Features as Seismic Indicators. Major Advisor: Steven G. Wesnousky
• Zheng Ding, 1991. An Investigation of the Relationship Between the 1811-12 New Madrid Earthquakes and Landslides on Crowley's Ridge, Arkansas. Major Advisor: Eugene S. Schweig, III
• Bridget Lois Jensen, 1991. Source Parameters and Seismotectonics of Three Earthquakes in the Stable Continental Interior of Africa. Major Advisor: Wai-Ying Chung

1990

• Benjamin Jose Brantley, 1990. Source Parameters and Seismotectonics of Six Intraplate Earthquakes Bordering the Stable Continental Margin of Eastern China and Korea. Major Advisor: Wai-Ying Chung
• Qiang Cheng, 1990. Three-Dimensional P- and S- Wave Velocity Structure from Inversion of Local Arrival Times. Applications to Data from the Andean Foreland in San Juan, Argentina. Major Advisor: Jose M Pujol
• Wei-Chuang Huang, 1990. Crustal Structure Studies of the Arkansas Earthquake Swarm Region from the Analysis of Converted Body Waves. Major Advisor: Jer-Ming Chiu
• Robert E. Lemmer, 1990. Estimating the Relative Ages of Offset Alluvial Fans in Southern Panamint Valley, Inyo County, California. Major Advisor: Eugene S. Schweig, III
• Allison L. Dennen, 1990. An Investigation of Loess Centers in Northwestern Tennessee. Major Advisor: Eugene S. Schweig, III
• Alfonso Alvarez Wilson, 1990. Computer Software for the Processing and Interpretation of Vertical Seismic Profiling Data Including the Study of Seismic Wave Attenuation. Major Advisor: Jose M Pujol
• Chengyen Paul Yao, 1990. Short-Period Surface Wave Dispersion and Shallow Crustal Structure of Central and Eastern Tennessee. Major Advisor: H. James Dorman

1989

• Chia-Hsun Chen, 1989. Shear Wave Crust and Upper Mantle Structure of the Southern Appalachian Region from the Analysis of Teleseismic Rayleigh Waves. Major Advisor: Wai-Ying Chung
• Gregory L. Root, 1989. Deep Velocity Structure of the Southern Appalachians and Tennessee Highlands from Analysis of teleseismic P-Wave Residuals. Major Advisor: Wai-Ying Chung
• Ronald T. Marple, 1989. Recent Discoveries in the New Madrid Seismic Zone Using Remote Sensing. Major Advisor: Eugene S. Schweig, III
• Guang Yu, 1989. Estimates of Strong Ground Motion in Shelby County, Tennessee, Resulting from Large Earthquakes in the New Madrid Seismic Zone. Major Advisor: Howard H.M. Hwang

1988

• Ronald T. Dow, 1988. Geologic and Groundwater Parameters Affecting the Stability of the Lake Austell Landslide, Village Creek State Park, Eastern Arkansas. Major Advisor: Eugene S. Schweig, III
• Dawn Elizabeth Mullen, 1988. Generation of Synthetic Vertical Seismic Profiles for Two Dimensional Models and Applications to Data Interpretation. Major Advisor: Jose M. Pujol
• Robert P. Dziak, 1988. Source Characteristics of Earthquakes Near North Island, New Zealand and Their Tectonic Implications. Major Advisor: Steven G. Wesnousky
• Silvio K. Pezzopane, 1988. Earthquakes and Crustal Deformation near Taiwan. Major Advisor: Steven G. Wesnousky
• John Andrew Vlasity, 1988. A Study of Seismicity in the Subducted Nazca Plate Beneath the San Juan, Argentia Region Using High Resolution Digital Data Collected by the PANDA Array. Major Advisor: Jer-Ming Chiu
• Frank Walter Thomas, 1988. Gravity and Magnetic Modeling of the Reelfoot Rift Along the COCORP Seismic Profiles. Major Advisor: Lisa R. Kanter
• Don Anthony Vlasity, 1988. A Crustal Seismicity Study in the San Juan, Argentina Region Using Digital Seismograms Collected by the PANDA Array. Major Advisor: Jer-Ming Chiu

1987

• Byau-Heng Chiu, 1987. Crustal Structure Studies of the Arkansas Earthquake Swarm region Using Three-Dimensional Velocity Inversion Method. Major Advisor: Jer-Ming Chiu

1986

• Stephen I. Brewer, 1986. Study of Crustal Structure in the Middle Mississippi Embayment Using Long-Period Synthetic Seismogram Techniques. Major Advisor: Jer-Ming Chiu
• Sharon L. Everett, 1986. A Joint Hypocenter Determination of Earthquakes in the Southern Appalachians. Major Advisor: Jose M. Pujol
• James H. Bollwerk, 1986. Seismic Study of the Southern Appalachians Using a Local Telemetered Seismic Array. Major Advisor: Arch Johnston

1985

• William Mark Powers, 1985. A Seismic Refraction Survey in Eastern Tennessee. Major Advisor: Arch Johnston
• Barry Chamberlain, 1985. A Gravimeter Survey across the Kowaliga Block Tallapoosa County, Alabama.

1984

• George D. Gracey III, 1984. Focal Mechanism and Seismic Wave Velocity Studies of the Arkansas Earthquake Swarm. Major Advisor: Jer-Ming Chiu

1983

• Ann Garrecht Metzger, 1983. A Detailed Analysis of a Major Foreshock-Main Shock-Aftershock Sequence of the 1982-83 Arkansas Earthquake Swarm. Major Advisor: Arch Johnston
• Susan Jane Nava, 1983. The New Madrid Seismic Zone:  A Test Case for Naturally Induced Seismicity. Major Advisor: Arch Johnston

1981

• Bob Matthew Regis, 1981. Significance of Earth Movements Along Lake Austell in Village Creek State Park, Arkansas. Major Advisor: Arch Johnston