MICHAEL TIMOFEEFF (Ph.D., 2000) Secular variations in seawater chemistry: A new technique for analyzing fluid inclusions in marine halites from the Modern, Permian, and Cretaceous. (Winner of Dissertation Year Fellowship, 1999, and Graduate School Excellence in Research Award, 2000).

ANDREW BOBST (M.A., 2000) A 106 KA Paleoclimate Record from the Salar de Atacama, northern Chile.

MATTHEW HEIN (M.A., 2000) Closed basin paleoclimate studies from the Salar de Atacama, Chile: A >106 kyr paleoclimate record.

SEAN BRENNAN (Ph.D., 2002) The major-ion evolution of seawater: Fluid inclusion evidence from Terminal Proterozoic, Early Cambrian, Silurian, and Tertiary Marine Halites. (Awarded 2000 Graduate School Excellence in Research Award). (Winner of Dissertation Year Fellowship, 2000).

CINDY SATTERFIELD (M.A., 2003) Paleoenvironments of Michigan Basin F-Unit Halites, Detroit, Michigan, and the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant Salts, Carlsbad, New Mexico: Significance in the Search for Microorganisms in Brine Inclusions in Halite.

JONATHAN KRAMER (M.A., 2003) 127 ka Paleotemperature Record from Fluid Inclusions in Halite, Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia.

CINDY SATTERFIELD (Ph.D., in progress) Geobiology- preservation of ancient DNA and microorganisms in fluid inclusions