Elizabeth J. Catlos

Principle Investigator

Victoria Burnette

Graduate Student

Jessica Clarke

Graduate Student

Sana Virani

Undergraduate Student

Student Research Advised

Primary graduate supervisor, UT Austin
Theses are available at Texas Scholar Works,
https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu
2026- Victoria Burnette, MS (detrital garnet project)
2026- Jessica Clarke, MS (critical minerals; geochemistry & data systems)
2025 Hector Garza, PhD, Timing Early Land Paleozoic Colonization By Vascular Plants And Tetrapods: Exploring Chemical Environments Biases Within The U-Pb Dating System
2023
Daniel Campos, MS, Exhumation of the High Tatra Mountains and Implications for the Western Carpathians (Slovakia)
2020
Thomas M Etzel, Ph.D., Garnet chemical zoning thermobarometry: method evaluation and application in the Menderes Massif, Turkey
2017
Andrew Parisi, MS, Geochronological Constraints on the Timing of Proposed Ordovician Meteorite Event Impact Structures in North America
2014
Kate Ataktürk, MS, Deciphering the P-T-t conditions of garnet-bearing metamorphic rocks in the Southern Menderes Massif, SW Turkey
2013
Tim Shin, MS, Tectonic evolution of Aegean metamorphic core complexes, Andros and Tinos Islands, Greece (co-supervised)
2012
Karen Black, MS, Geochemical and geochronological relationships between granitoid plutons of the Biga Peninsula, NW. Turkey
2011
Kathryn Huber, MS, Geochemistry and geochronology of meta-igneous rocks from the Tokat Massif, north-central Turkey
Lauren Jacob, MS, Remote sensing, geochemistry, geochronology, and cathodoluminescence imaging of the Egrigoz, Koyunoba, and Alacam plutons, Northern Menderes Massif, Turkey
Oklahoma State University
Theses are available at ShareOk,
https://shareok.org/handle/11244/10460
2009
Courteney Baker, MS, Deciphering the Evolution History of the Salihli and Turgutlu Granites, Menderes Massif, Western Turkey Using the Electron Microprobe, Ion Microprobe and Cathodoluminescence
2004
Cenk Ozerdem, MS, Thermobarometric Constraints on the Evolution of the Menderes Massif (Western Turkey): Insights into the Metamorphic History of a Complexly deformed Region
Undergraduate Student Research Supervision, start dates, UT Austin only
2025- Sana Virani (Petroleum Engineering; zircon cathodoluminescence textures & standardized datasets)
2022 Llewnosuke Priimak
2020 Rebekah January (Austin Community College)
David Keith
2019 Shania Goodwin; Leah Lievrouw; Jackson Phillips
2018 Gabriel Villaseñor; Thomas Quintero
2017 Xiafei Zhao; Tyler Fu; Theresa Perez
2016 Emily Pease; Zoe Yin; Ashley Zare; Saloni Tandon
2015
Enrique Reyes; Kimberly Aguilera; Stephanie Suarez; Daniel Lizzardo-McPherson
2014
Colin Sturrock (Jackson School Honor’s student); Bridget Pettit; Chelsea H. Jones
2013 Pamela Speciale (Jackson School Honor’s student); Isis Garber
2012
Lindsey German & Abby Kenigsberg (Jackson School Honor’s students); Tyson McKinney
2011 Tim Shin (Jackson School Honor’s student); Heather Flynn