| 2007 | TEITLER, Lora F.* | Late Pleistocene History of Antarctic Ice Sheet Stability a Study of Ice-Rafted Debris. | |
| 2006 | KUPP, Gary | Analysis of Ice-Rafted Debris at Ocean Drilling Program Site 188-1165B, Antarctica. | |
| 2006 | STEVANOVIC, Predrag D.* | Sediment and Mercury Distribution in the Dow Wetlands, San Francisco Bay-Delta | |
| 2006 | CAMPBELL, Robert | Evaluation of Arsenic Levels and Speciation in Groundwater Within Pleasanton, CA. | |
| 2005 | KIMBALL, Mindy | Seismic Refraction on the Green Valley and Hayward Faults, San Francisco Bay Area, CA. | |
| 2003 | BUTLER, Thomas W.* | Aqueous Geochemistry of an Acid Mine Impaired Watershed, Oakland, California | |
| 2002 | WELLS COSTELLO, Cheryl | Metals in Stormwater Runoff from a Suburban Neighborhood East San Francisco Bay, California | |
| 2002 | NEWTON, Steven F. | Biogenic Silica Variation at the Eocene-Oligocene Boundary, ODP Site 1090, Leg 177 | |
| 2000 | ARMSTRONG, Denise | Hydrologic Events Related to Earthquakes in Long Valley Caldera, California | |
| 2000 | MURPHY, Lin | History of Ice Rafting in the North and South Atlantic - 2.6 to 4.6 MA | |
| 2000 | PAULY, Bruce* | Geology of the Beacon Point Formation, Sierra County, California | |
| 2000 | SAMRAD, Laura | Trenching on an Active Segment of the Hayward Fault in Hayward, California | |
| 1999 | DICKERMAN, Scott | Coarse Clasts of the Upper Miocene Contra Costa Group, West-Central California | |
| 1999 | DOWNEY, Donald | Petrography and Provenance of the Pismo Formation, San Luis Obispo County, California | |
| 1998 | KLINCK, Richard C.* | The Geology of Las Trampas and Rocky Ridges, Alameda and Contra Costa Counties, California | |
| 1998 | DUNHILL, Gita | Study of Quartz Entrained into Sea-Ice: Grain Size, Surface Features and Grain Shape | |
| 1997 | BROWN, Richard A. | Effects of TCE on the Mobilization of MN and ZN in Sediments of Livermore Valley, CA. | |
| 1997 | STANTON, Cathy L. | A History of Ice Rafted Debris Rockall Plateau North Atlantic for the Past Two Million Years | |
| 1996 | RUCKER, Bruce M. | Geologic Effects on TCE Vapor Transport and Sorption in Unsaturated Sediments | |
| 1996 | RICHESIN, Dean A. | Late Tertiary and Quaternary Geology of the Salado Creek Area, California | |
| 1995 | SMITH, Timothy M. | History of Ice Rafted Debris at ODP Site 114-704 in the Subantarctic South Atlantic | |
| 1994 | ARNIOLA, Mark J. | Geomorphology and Quaternary Deformation in the Hayward Hills, California | |
| 1993 | ALAI, Maureen | Metal Partitioning in Natural and Artificial Shoreline Sediments, Eastern San Francisco Bay, California | |
| 1991 | MANN, Gary M. | Geology and Seismicity of the Pine Valley and Cuddy Mountain Region, Oregon-Idaho | |
| 1991 | MOSIER, Dan L. | Tertiary Volcanic History of the Markleeville Peak Area, Alpine County, California | |
| 1991 | STANFORD, James E. | Geology of the Franciscan Complex between Redwood and Potter Valleys, Mendocino County, CA. | |
| 1991 | WALKER, Tracy L. | Lithofacies and Stratigraphic Evolution of the Upper Vermelha Formation, Offshore Cabinda, Angola | |
| 1990 | SILVA, Steven R. | Geology of the Sierra Buttes Formation in the Jamison Lake Area, Plumas County, California | |
| 1989 | BOEHME, Dale R. | Petrology and Geochemistry of Tertiary Silicic Ash-Flow Tuffs, Haskell Peak, Sierra County, California | |
| 1989 | SILER, Neal E. | Closed System Sedimentation Pillar Point Harbor, Half Moon Bay, California | |
| 1989 | ALLEN, Carl P. | History of Ice Rafting at O.D.P. Leg 114 Sites, Subantarctic/South Atlantic | |
| 1988 | SIEGEL, David | Stratigraphy of the Putnam Peak Basalt and Correlation to the Lovejoy Formation, California | |
| 1988 | KAYEN, Robert E. | The Mobilization of Arctic Ocean Landslides by Sea Level Fall-Induced Gas Hydrate Decomposition | |
| 1988 | FISHER, Jesse | Geochemistry of Weathering Processes along the Kaweah River, Sequoia National Park, CA. | |
| 1988 | MARCUS, Barry I. | Geology, Petrology and Mineral Chemistry of a Garnet Skarn, Northern Sierra Nevada, California | |
| 1987 | FISCHBEIN, Steven A. | Analysis and Interpretation of Ice-Deformed Sediments from Harrison Bay, Alaska | |
| 1987 | PAVLETICH, Joseph P. | Amino-Acid Racemization in Siliceous Sediments from the Southern Ocean | |
| 1986 | POTTER, Kenneth L. | Petrology and Correlation of the Delleker Formation in the Haskell Peak Area, Sierra County, CA. | |
| 1986 | CARSON, Scott E. | Liquefacation Susceptibility in the San Bernardino Valley and Vicinity, California | |
| 1986 | SHORT, William R. Jr. | Geology of the Santa Teresa Hills, Santa Clara County, California | |
| 1986 | OLLENBURGER, Ronald D. | Source and Stratigraphy of the Livermore Gravels, Alameda County, California | |
| 1985 | CORDON, Ulrich J. | Geological and Geotechnical Investigations for the Piedra Del Aguila Damsite, Southwestern Argentina | |
| 1984 | LULL, John S. | Petrology and Structure of an Early Cretaceous Dike Swarm, Northern Sierra Nevada, California | |
| 1983 | LEGLER, June | A Submarine Pyroclastic Flow Deposit in the Sierra Buttes Formation, Northern Sierra Nevada, California | |
| 1983 | BOWMAN, John K. | Geology and Mineralization of Meadow Lake Mining District, Nevada County, California | |
| 1983 | MAKDISHI, Richard | Application of Aqueous Geochemistry to Deducing the Origin and History of Mexicali Valley Groundwaters, Baja California, Mexico | |
| 1982 | BAINER, Robert W. | The Effect of Seasonal Variations on Geophysical Measurements Along the Hayward Fault | |
| 1982 | BLUNT, David J. | Geochemistry of Amino Acids in Mollusks and Wood, Pacific Northwest, United States | |
| 1982 | JAMES, Earl D. | Trace Element Geochemistry of the San Emidio, Nevada Geothermal Area | |
| 1981 | DUCHOSAL, Yves R. | Contribution to the Petrology of an Andesiticrhyolitic Volcano in the Precambrian of Northern Michigan | |
| 1981 | MATHIESON, Scott A. | Pre-and Post-Sangamon Glacial History of a Portion of Sierra and Plumas Counties, CA. | |
| 1980 | KINTZER, Frederick C. | Geology and Landslides at Calaveras Reservoir, Alameda and Santa Clara Counties, CA. | |
| 1979 | DRESEN, Michael D. | Geology and Slope Stability of Part of Pleasanton Ridge, Alameda County, California | |
*Winners of the the HARRINGTON AWARD established to honor University Theses of the highest quality in the College of Science.