Department of Earth, Environmental & Planetary Sciences
Date
May 11, 2026
2026 Commencement Ceremony
The Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences joins Brown University in celebrating the achievements of the graduating class of 2026. Here we will be sharing an expanded version of our Commencement Program, listing the accomplishments of our new graduates, photos of the event, and other resources.
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Photos from the DEEPS Commencement Ceremony
Graduates, families, and friends can access the full collection of DEEPS Commencement photos through this Google Drive.
Ceremony Program – Sunday, May 24th
Light fare served before the ceremony – est. 2 PM
Introduction & Opening Remarks – est. 2:45 PM
Professor Meredith Hastings, Chair
Bestowing of the Ph.D. Graduate Hoods by Advisors
Acknowledgment of Sc.M. Recipients
Professor Christian Huber
Presentation of Undergraduate Degrees & Awards
Professor Colleen Dalton
Closing Remarks – est. 4 PM
Photos, toast, and dessert reception to follow.
Department Awards
Senior Award for Excellence in Research, Academics, and Service
Wyatt Sieminski
Research Excellence Awards
Lucinda Bryce
Shannon Rose White
Daniel Zhang
Jan Tullis Undergraduate Teaching Award
Liam Johnson
Class of 2026
PhD Recepients
Manar Al Asad | Transitions in Earth's Convective Regimes: Causes, Styles, and Consequences (H. Lau)
Elise Beaudin | Multi-Scale Ocean and Atmosphere Transport Dynamics in the Northeast Pacific (E. Di Lorenzo)
Joel Feske | Geophysical Fluid Dynamics and the Calculus of Moving Space (B. Fox-Kemper)
Catherine Gagnon | Geochemical, Paleoclimate, and Thermodynamic Insights into Lithium Enrichment and Extraction in Western U.S. Volcano-Sedimentary Deposits (D. Ibarra)
Yiran Huang | Joint Seismic Constraints on the Structure and Evolution of the Continental Lithosphere (C. Dalton)
Carol Hundal | Composition and Impact-Generated Structure of Planetary Crusts Revealed by Dimensionality Reduction: Moon & Mars (J. Mustard)
Janette Levin | Insights from Impacts: Three-Dimensional Structure and Composition of the Lunar Crust (A. Evans)
Anna Lo Piccolo | Ocean Submesoscale Transport and Entrainment: Theory, Modeling, and Parameterization (B. Fox-Kemper)
Andrea Mason | Climate and Anthropogenic Activity Shaped Central African Ecosystems (J. Russell)
John Nicklas | Modeling Planetary Health: From Climate to Patient Risk (B. Fox-Kemper)
Jared Nirenberg | High-Latitude Climate, Ice Sheet, and Oceanographic Evolution During the Miocene (T. Herbert)
Peter Van Katwyk | Probabilistic Machine Learning Emulation of Ice Sheet Contributions To Sea Level Rise (K. Bergen)
Kierra Wilk | Remote Sensing of Water on the Moon and Europa: Insights from Laboratory Spectroscopy, Geologic Mapping, and Geophysical Modeling (J. Mustard)
Thomas Williams | Planetary Magmatic Volatiles: Equilibrium and Kinetic Controls on Exsolution, Gas-Phase Speciation, and Condensation (S. Parman & A. Saal)
Masters Recepients
Cameron Adams | Triple Oxygen Isotope Insights into the HIMU Source (J. Dottin)
Emily Fischer | The Bulk Composition and Initial Size of Mercury (S. Parman)
Monica Geraldes Vega | Millennial-Scale Hydroclimate Responses over Palawan, Philippines during the MIS5b – MIS4 Transition (K. Cobb & D. Ibarra)
Nina Gilkyson | Brine Entrainment During Ice Shell Growth on Icy Worlds (C. Huber)
Henry Jurney | Physics-Informed Neural Networks Implicitly Impose Depth Weighting In Gravity Inversion (C. Huber & V. Tsai)
Tianyi Li | Inversion of Multicomponent Diffusion Parameters with Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) Simulations (Y. Liang)
Yusen Liu | Understanding Pacific–Atlantic Interactions: Statistics, Dynamics, and Energetics (E. Di Lorenzo)
Chandler Morris | Tropical Pacific Corals Reveal Coherent Reductions in early 19th century ENSO Variability (K. Cobb)
Anushka Narayanan | Prototype-based Explainable Neural Networks with Channel-specific Reasoning for Geospatial Learning Tasks (K. Bergen)
Kiran Patil | Sulfur Isotope Heterogeneity in Martian Shergottites Reveals Early Atmosphere - Mantle Exchange (J. Dottin)
Maisy Waech | Testing the influence of pore fluid pressure on strength in the viscous deformation regime (G. Hirth)
Jessica Wen | Partial Melt Interactions and Pathways through the Lithosphere of the North Island, New Zealand (K. Fischer)
Wenhao Zhao | Atom Probe Tomography of Grain Boundaries in Olivine from Basaltic Magma (S. Parman & R. Cooper)