Service on Missouri S&T thesis committees in progress

Iai Masafumi, Ph.D. candidate in geological engineering, expected graduation in May 2009,
Models for Excavation of Heterogeneous Lunar Soils

Megan Hart, Ph.D. candidate in geological engineering, expected graduation May 2009, Membrane properties of intact rock cores of Demopolis Chalk, Burling Limestone, Jefferson Dolomite, Graysburg Shale, Pierre Shale, Darrington Phyllite, Low Permeability Concrete, and Great Plains Loess.

Tambra L. Eiffert, Ph.D. candidate in geology, expected graduation May 2009. Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction of the Cretaceous-Tertiary Transition in the Northern Mississippi Embayment: Palynology and Micropaleontology.  

Khalid Ahmad, Ph.D. candidate in applied geophysics, expected graduation May 2009, Hydrogeophysical Investigations in Northern United Arab Emirates.

Oleg Kovin, Ph.D. candidate in applied geophysics, expected graduation May 2009, Ground Penetrating Radar Investigations in Upper Kama Potash Mines

Donald Deardorff, Ph.D. candidate in civil engineering, expected graduation May 2009, Axial bearing capacity of Helical Anchors