Graduate Students

Phot of Graduate Student Mathew Baez
Baez, Mathew

Thesis Topic: Late Holocene Exploration of Overwash Deposits at the Joyuda Lagoon, Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico

Advisor: Dr. Alberto López Venegas
Email: mathew.baez@upr.edu

Thesis Topic: Timing and Evolution of Ore Forming Fluids in the Keystone Skarn, Puerto Rico

Advisor: Dr. Thomas R. Hudgins

Thesis Topic: Improving Landslide Early Warning Systems in Puerto Rico: A Multi-Timescale Threshold Analysis

Advisor: Dr. K. Stephen Hughes
Email: eduardo.gonzalez12@upr.edu

Photo of Graduate Student Elmer González

Thesis Topic: The Search for Porphyry Copper and Iron Skarn Ore Deposits in Puerto Rico utilizing Hydrogeochemical Prospecting Techniques

Advisor: Dr. Thomas R. Hudgins
Email: elmer.gonzalez2@upr.edu

Thesis Topic: Strontium Isotope (⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr) Sclerochronology of Santonian, Campanian, and Maastrichtian Rudistid Bivalves from the West of Puerto Rico

Advisor: Dr. Hernán Santos
Email: irene.mendez@upr.edu

Photo of Graduate Student Viridis Miranda

Thesis Topic: Lunar Seismology

Advisor: Dr. Elizabeth Vanacore
Email: viridis.miranda@upr.edu

Thesis Topic: Satellite Monitoring of Volcanoes

Advisor: Dr. Lizzette Rodríguez
Email: giancarlo.ortiz2@upr.edu

Thesis Topic:  TO BE DETERMINED…

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Email: erica.pagan@upr.edu

Thesis Topic: Mapping Historical and Active Quarries across Puerto Rico

Advisor:Dr. Raiza Quintero
Email: mary.palmieri@upr.edu

Thesis Topic: Receiver Function Analysis, Geophysics

Advisor: Dr. Elizabeth Vanacore
Email: gabriela.rodriguez55@upr.edu

Thesis Topic: Study of Stable Oxygen Isotopes in Garnets from the Tibes Skarn in Ponce, Puerto Rico

Advisor: Dr. Thomas Hudgins
Email: anishka.ruiz@upr.edu

Thesis Topic: Minerology and Lithology of Two Rivers in Puerto Rico and its Effect on the Dynamics of Suspended Sediments

Advisor: Dr. Fernando Gilbes
Email: karen.santana1@upr.edu

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Thesis Topic: Engineering Seismology and Site Response Active Survey, Geophysics

Advisor: Dr. Elizabeth Vanacore
Email: cherilyn.toro@upr.edu

Thesis Topic: Landslide-Induced Road Isolation and Community Perception Analysis of Landslide Hazards in Puerto Rico

Advisor: Dr. Dr. K. Stephen Hughes
Email: karla.torres26@upr.edu

Thesis Topic: Post Cranial Analysis of Walruses from the Late Miocene Epoch of California

Advisor: Dr. Hernán Santos
Email: daniel.valentin2@upr.edu
Photo of Graduate Student Estefania Vicens. Her thesis topic is Landscape Evolution, Geomorphology. Her advisor is Dr. Stephen Hughes and her email is estefania.vicens@upr.edu

Thesis Topic: Critical Zone Controls of Tropical Landscape Development

Advisor: Dr. K. Stephen Hughes
Email: estefania.vicens@upr.edu