River Valley, Ozark National Scenic Riverways, Southeast Missouri. Co-Advisor and co-chair: Ashley Zung, Department of Geography, Completed in 2013. Dissertation Title: Reconstructing Climate on the Great Plains from Buried Soils: A Quantitative Approach. Advisor and committee chair for the following Master’s thesis at the University of Kansas: R. Murphy, Department of Anthropology, Completed in 2008. Thesis title: Geoarchaeology of the Burntwood Creek Rockshelter (14RW418), Northwest Kansas. Arlo M. McKee, Department of Anthropology, Completed in 2009. Thesis title: The Application of Ground Penetrating Radar at the Kanorado Locality, Northwest Kansas. Andrew S. Gottsfield, Department of Anthropology, Completed in 2009. Thesis title: Late-Quaternary Stratigraphy and Geoarchaeology of the Upper Neosho River Basin, East-Central Kansas. Nicholas V. Kessler, Department of Anthropology, Completed in 2010Archaeology, Thesis Late-Quaternary Landscape Evolution, and Environmental Change in the Upper Driftwood Creek Basin, Barber County, Kansas. Blair Benson Schneider, Department of Geology, Completed in 2012. Thesis Geophysical Investigations of the Mound City Borrow Pits, Ross County, Ohio Kristopher West, Department of Anthropology, Completed in 2013. Thesis title: An Assessment of a Soil-Based Predictive Model for Locating Buried Paleoindian-Age Cultural Deposits in Draws on the High Plains of Eastern Colorado and Western Kansas Advisor and committee chair for the following non-thesis Master’s at the University of Kansas: Patrick Green, Department of Anthropology, Completed in 2012 Daniel Keating, Department of Anthropology, Completed in 2012 Garrett Welch, Department of Anthropology, Completed in 2012 Advisor and committee chair for the following senior honors thesis at the University of Kansas: Kyle Gorynski, Department of Geology, Completed in 2008. Thesis title: Bioclimatic Change Inferred from the Evolution of a Late-Quaternary Alluvial Fan in Western Kansas Served as an external member of a dissertation or master’s committee for the following students: Elizabeth Robertson, Archaeology Department, University of Calgary, completed in 2006 Adel E. Haj, Jr., Department of Geology, University of Iowa, Ph.D. completed in 2006 Cynthia Wambsgans, Geosciences, University of Iowa, M.S. completed in 2006
River Valley, Ozark National Scenic Riverways, Southeast Missouri. Co-Advisor and co-chair: Ashley Zung, Department of Geography, Completed in 2013. Dissertation Title: Reconstructing Climate on the Great Plains from Buried Soils: A Quantitative Approach. Advisor and committee chair for the following Master’s thesis at the University of Kansas: R. Murphy, Department of Anthropology, Completed in 2008. Thesis title: Geoarchaeology of the Burntwood Creek Rockshelter (14RW418), Northwest Kansas. Arlo M. McKee, Department of Anthropology, Completed in 2009. Thesis title: The Application of Ground Penetrating Radar at the Kanorado Locality, Northwest Kansas. Andrew S. Gottsfield, Department of Anthropology, Completed in 2009. Thesis title: Late-Quaternary Stratigraphy and Geoarchaeology of the Upper Neosho River Basin, East-Central Kansas. Nicholas V. Kessler, Department of Anthropology, Completed in 2010Archaeology, Thesis Late-Quaternary Landscape Evolution, and Environmental Change in the Upper Driftwood Creek Basin, Barber County, Kansas. Blair Benson Schneider, Department of Geology, Completed in 2012. Thesis Geophysical Investigations of the Mound City Borrow Pits, Ross County, Ohio Kristopher West, Department of Anthropology, Completed in 2013. Thesis title: An Assessment of a Soil-Based Predictive Model for Locating Buried Paleoindian-Age Cultural Deposits in Draws on the High Plains of Eastern Colorado and Western Kansas Advisor and committee chair for the following non-thesis Master’s at the University of Kansas: Patrick Green, Department of Anthropology, Completed in 2012 Daniel Keating, Department of Anthropology, Completed in 2012 Garrett Welch, Department of Anthropology, Completed in 2012 Advisor and committee chair for the following senior honors thesis at the University of Kansas: Kyle Gorynski, Department of Geology, Completed in 2008. Thesis title: Bioclimatic Change Inferred from the Evolution of a Late-Quaternary Alluvial Fan in Western Kansas Served as an external member of a dissertation or master’s committee for the following students: Elizabeth Robertson, Archaeology Department, University of Calgary, completed in 2006 Adel E. Haj, Jr., Department of Geology, University of Iowa, Ph.D. completed in 2006 Cynthia Wambsgans, Geosciences, University of Iowa, M.S. completed in 2006