These graduates have spent years of dedicated research, culminating in the successful defense of their dissertations (listed below) and the conferral of their doctorates. The department would like to extend its heartfelt congratulations to these newly minted PhDs, who have demonstrated exceptional academic and research capabilities in their respective fields of study. 

• Anson Cheung – Global and Pacific Temperature, Productivity, and Western North America Hydroclimate Change during the Holocene
• Anant Hariharan – Understanding Overtone Interference in Surface Wave Measurements: Application to Anisotropic Imaging of the Uppermost Mantle Beneath North America 
• Ethan Kyzivat – Methane Emission from Arctic-Boreal Lakes: Insights from High-Resolution Remote Sensing
• Erica Nathan – Controls on the Freezing, Fracture, and Evolution of Icy Ocean Worlds