Dissertations

    Dissertation work produced as a consequence of work partially or wholly conducted in the Non-Traditional Isotope Laboratory since its creation in 2008.

    2023

  1. PhD Student Name:
    Tian-Yi Huang

    Dissertation Title:
    Tracing continental evolution by potassium isotopes

    Supervisor:
    Fang-Zhen Teng, University of Washington, Seattle

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  3. 2021

  4. PhD Student Name:
    Wenshuai Li

    Dissertation Title:
    Tracing chemical weathering using lithium and potassium isotopes

    Supervisor:
    Xiaoming Liu, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

    PhD committee member:
    Fang-Zhen Teng, University of Washington, Seattle

  5. PhD Student Name:
    Nick Cuozzo

    Dissertation Title:
    Novel studies of McMurdo Dry Valley ice-cemented permafrost cores document weathering in permafrost and Plio-Pleistocene glaciations

    Supervisor:
    Ron Sletten, University of Washington, Seattle

    PhD committee member:
    Fang-Zhen Teng, University of Washington, Seattle

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    2018

  7. PhD Student Name:
    Aaron Brewer

    Dissertation Title:
    Magnesium isotope fractionation associated with biotic and abiotic weathering and developing a scalable method for rare earth element extraction using engineered E. coli

    Supervisors:
    Fang-Zhen Teng, University of Washington, Seattle
    Yongqin Jiao, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  8. PhD Student Name:
    Yan Hu

    Dissertation Title:
    Tracing subduction zone processes by using magnesium isotopes

    Supervisor:
    Fang-Zhen Teng, University of Washington, Seattle

  9. PhD Student Name:
    Rick Berg

    Dissertation Title:
    Global rates of magnesium uptake and authigenic mineral precipitation in continental slope, rise, and abysssal sediments

    Supervisor:
    Evan Soloman, University of Washington, Seattle

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    2014

  11. PhD Student Name:
    Corliss Sio

    Dissertation Title:
    Cooling and crystallization histories of magmatic bodies by in-situ Mg-Fe isotopic analysis in zoned olivines

    Supervisor:
    Nicolas Dauphas, University of Chicago

    PhD committee member:
    Fang-Zhen Teng, University of Washington, Seattle

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  13. 2013

  14. PhD Student Name:
    Kang-Jun Huang

    Dissertation Title:
    The behavior of magnesium isotopes during low-temperature water-rock interactions

    Supervisors:
    Zheng-Yu Bao, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan
    Fang-Zhen Teng, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

  15. PhD Student Name:
    Shui-Jiong Wang

    Dissertation Title:
    Exhumation and anatexis of subducted continental crust and magnesium isotopic behaviors during subduction processes

    Supervisors:
    Shu-Guang Li, China University of Geosciences, Beijing
    Fang-Zhen Teng, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

  16. PhD Student Name:
    Xiao-Ming Liu

    Dissertation Title:
    Tracing continental weathering using lithium and magnesium isotopes: Insights from the chemical weathering of Columbia River basalts and mass balance modelling

    Supervisors:
    Roberta L. Rudnick, University of Maryland, College Park
    William F. McDonough, University of Maryland, College Park

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    2012

  18. PhD Student Name:
    Fatemeh Sedaghatpour

    Dissertation Title:
    Magnesium isotopic compositions of the Moon and achondrites

    Supervisor:
    Fang-Zhen Teng, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

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    2011

  20. PhD Student Name:
    Sheng-Ao Liu

    Dissertation Title:
    Geochemical studies on petrogenesis of Mesozoic adakitic rocks in central-eastern China and high-temperature magnesium isotope fractionation

    Supervisors:
    Shu-Guang Li, University of Science and Technology of China
    Fang-Zhen Teng, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

  21. Master Student Name:
    Jeff Ward

    Dissertation Title:
    An investigation on the effects of continental weathering on magnesium isotope systematics in various hydrologic settings

    Supervisor:
    Fang-Zhen Teng, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

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