Dr. Matthew Heizler

We are a research and service division of:

Graduate Students

(current to May 2021)

Total: 41
Primary Advisor: 20
Committee Member: 21

Year	Name	Degree	Advisor	Committee	Title
Current	Tyler Cantrell	MS	X		⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar geochronology: Ultra-high precision sanidine age dispersion.
Current	Jacob Gehrz	MS	X		⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar geochronology: Rio Grande River evolution during the past 5 Ma.
Current	Christine Burrill	PhD	X		⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar Geochronology Calibration of Cosmogenic Nuclide Scaling Models, Mt. Erebus, Antarctica
Current	Robert Hollingsworth	MS		X	Detrital U-Pb zircon and ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar muscovite geochronology from Early Pennsylvanian strata in the Anadarko basin, Texas Panhandle, USA
Current	Kory Kirchner	PhD	X*		Unraveling Cenozoic Landscape Evolution of the Grand Canyon region with ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar geochronology
Current	Deusavan Costa Filho	PhD		X	Critical Minerals Hydrothermal Mobility Based On Ree Partitioning Experiments Between Calcite- And Fluorite- Fluid: Laboratory Experiments And Thermodynamic Modeling
2021	Miceal Albonico	MS		X*	The Birth and Incision History of the San Juan River in the past 5 Ma
2020	Jordan Anderson	MS		X*	Neogene Drainage Reversal and Colorado Plateau Uplift in the Salt River Area
2019	Daniel Young	MS		X*	Structure, Tectonics and ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar Geochronology, Picuris Range, NM
2019	Carmen Winn	PhD	X*		Constraining the drainage evolution of the Grand Canyon region by analyzing detrital zircon and sanidine of Paleogene river deposits
2018	Adam Smith	MS	X		⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar Geochronology of REE-Bearing Episyenites, NM&CO
2018	Mark Holland	PhD	X*		Thermochronology of Mazatzal Basement Rocks, SW USA
2017	Kevin Henry	MS	X		⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar Chronostratigraphy of Ogallala Sedimentary Rocks, NM
2016	Marisa Repasch	MS		X*	Birth And Evolution of The Rio Grande Fluvial System: New Insights From River Gravel Provenance Studies And Dated Paleoprofiles
2014	Jake Ross	PhD		X	Geochronology of Southern Mcmurdo Sound And Development of Pychron: A ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar Data Collection And Processing Software Suite
2014	Lisa Gaston	MS	X		⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar Muscovite Thermochronology And Geochronology of New Mexico Pegmatites
2013	Iain Mason	MS	X		⁴⁰A/3⁹Ar Chronostratigraphy of San Juan Basin Sedimentary Rocks.
2012	Matt Zimmerer	MS		X	The Volcanic-Plutonic Relationship At Three Contrasting Rio Grande Rift Faulted Calderas
2012	Clark Short	MS	X		Evaluation of the Multiple Domain Diffusion Model of Argon Thermochronology Through Characterization And Dating of Single K-Feldspar Fragments
2011	Rebecca Garcia	MS	X		Cenozoic Intrusive And Exhumation History of the Elk and West Elk Mountains Plutons, Southwest Colorado
2010	Josh Feldman	MS	X		The Emplacement And Exhumation History of The Twin Lakes Batholith And Implications For The Laramide Orogeny And Flat Slab Subduciton.
2009	Katherine Mason-Barton	MS		X	Constraining The Eocene-Oligocene Time Scale Using High Precision ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar Sanidine Geochronology of Ignimbrites, Southwest United States
2008	Josh Crook	MS		X	⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar Geochronology And Mineralization At Webster Pass, Colorado
2008	Rob Sanders	PhD	X		K-Feldspar Thermochronology of Proterozoic Basement Rocks: Reconciling Regional Tectonism, Fluid Alteration, And Argon Transport In Microtexturally Complex Feldspar
2005	Rob Sanders	MS	X		⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar Thermochronology Constraints On The Timing of Proterozoic Basement Exhumation And Fault Ancestry, Southwest Sangre De Cristo Range, New Mexico
2004	Kate Fletcher	MS	X		Geochronology And Provenance of Four Mesoproterozoic Basins Across The Southwest United States: Evidence From ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar Dating of Detrital Muscovites
2004	Mike Timmons	PhD	X*		Mesoproterozoic Tectonic Evolution of Southwestern North America: Protracted Intracratonic Deformation, Sedimentation, And Differential Exhumation In Grand Canyon And The Rocky Mountain Region.
2003	Colin Shaw	PhD	X*		⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar Thermochronology of Colorado And New Mexico Proterozoic Rocks
2002	Bonnie Frey	MS		X	Evidence of An Oceanic Plateau Origin And A Deep Depleted Mantle Source For The Iron King Volcanics, A 1.75 Ga Accreted Terrane In Central Arizona
2001	Vladimir Ispolatov	PhD	X		Geology, ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar Geochronology, And Fluid Inclusion Study of The Solton Sary Mesothermal Gold District, Kyrgyzstan
2001	Eriwn Melis	MS		X	Tectonic History of the Proterozoic Basement of The Southern Sangre De Cristo Mountains, New Mexico
2001	Jose Amarante	MS		X	Characterization of The Basement Rocks In The Mescalero 1 Well, Guadalupe County, New Mexico
2000	Nigil Blamey	PhD		X	Evolution of Hydrothermal Fluids At The Pipeline Gold Mine, Vander County, Nevada
2000	Brian Olmsted	MS		X	⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar Investigations of The Ocate Volcanic Field, North-Central New Mexico
2000	Stacy Perilli	MS	X		⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar And Fission-Track Thermochronology of The Central Trans-Hudson Orogen, Manitoba, Canada
1999	Sara Lundberg	MS		X	An Attempt To Date Fluid Inclusions In Quartz: Implications For The ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar Method
1997	Joe Stroud	MS		X	The Geochronology of The Raton-Clayton Volcanic Field With Implications For Volcanic History And Landscape Evolution
1996	Rich Esser	MS		X	⁴⁰Ar/3⁹Ar Dating of Mount Erebus Volcano, Antarctica
1996	John Goff	PhD		X	⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar Geochronology of Gold Mineralization And Origin of Auriferous Fluids For The Getchell And Twin Creeks Mines, Humboldt County, Nevada
1996	Joe Marcoline	MS	X		Field, Petrographic And ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar Constraints On The Tectonic History of The Central Manzano Mountains, Central New Mexico

X*: UNM student. For UNM PhD students I act as primary advisor for a chapter of their dissertation. For UNM MS students I serve as a committee member.