Graduate students supervised by Professor W.S.F. Kidd at the University at Albany

Karson, J.A. 1977 PhD (shared supervision with J.F. Dewey)
Geology of the Northern Lewis Hills, Western Newfoundland
  78-85 Assistant, then Associate Scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute;
  85-present Associate Professor, then Professor, Duke University

Delano (Jacobi) L.L. 1977 MSc
Stratigraphy, Depositional Environment and Structure of the Taconic Allochthon, Central Washington County, New York
    Sun Oil, Dallas;

Nelson, K.D. 1979 PhD
Geology of the Badger Bay-Seal Bay Area, North-Central Newfoundland
  80-81 post-doc Univ of Dunedin, New Zealand;
  82-91 Research Scientist, then Senior Research Scientist, Cornell University;
  91-02 Associate Professor, then Professor, Syracuse University
  died 17th August 2002

Rowley D.B.   1979 MSc
Complex Structure and Stratigraphy of Lower Slices of the Taconic Allochthon Near Middle Granville, New York
    PhD SUNYA; research scientist, faculty, Univ. of Chicago

O'Connell S.   1979 MSc (shared supervision with J.F. Dewey)
Geology of the Mafic/Ultramafic Transition, Table Mountain, Western Newfoundland
    PhD Columbia University; Wesleyan Univ faculty

Casey, J.F. 1980 PhD (shared supervision with J.F. Dewey)
The Geology of the Southern Part of the North Arm Mountain Massif, Bay of Islands Ophiolite Complex, Western Newfoundland with Application to Ophiolite Obduction and the Genesis of the Plutonic Portions of Oceanic Crust and Upper Mantle
  80-present Assistant, then Associate, then Professor, University of Houston

Rosencrantz, E.J. 1980 PhD (shared supervision with J.F. Dewey)
The Geology of the Northern Part of North Arm Massif, Bay of Islands Ophiolite Complex, Newfoundland: With Application to Upper Oceanic Crust Lithology Structure, and Genesis
  81-~95 Research Scientist, Univ of Texas, Austin;

Livaccari R.F.   1980 MSc
Geology of the Lewisporte/Loon Bay Area, Newfoundland, Canada
    Earth Satellite Corp, Chevy Chase, MD; PhD Univ. of New Mexico; Mesa State College, Colorado

Idleman B.D.   1981 MSc
Geology of the Plutonic and Hypabyssal Rocks of the Betts Cove Ophiolite Complex, Newfoundland
    PhD SUNYA; faculty Western Carolina University; Research Scientist Lehigh Univ.

Blake, R.W.   1982 MSc
The Structural Geology of the Tectonized Ultramafic Suite of the Table Mountain Massif, Bay of Islands Complex, Newfoundland
    Texaco, Houston/New Orleans

Moody R.H.   1982 MSc (shared supervision with P.J. Fox)
The geology of the Oceanographer Transform Fault

Rowley, D.B. 1983 PhD
Operation of the Wilson Cycle in western New England during the Early Paleozoic: with emphasis on the stratigraphy, structure, and emplacement of the Taconic Allochthon
  83-present Research Scientist, then Associate Professor, then Professor, Univ of Chicago (currently Chairman)

Steinhardt C.  1983 MSc
Structure and Stratigraphy of West Haven, Vermont
    PhD Univ of Queensland, Townsville; family business, Germany

Savci G.   1983 MSc
Structure and tectonics of the Keban metamorphics in the northern margin of the Bitlis suture zone, Southeastern Turkey
PhD Univ of Houston; environmental geology, Denver

Bradley, D.C. 1984 PhD (shared supervision with J.F. Dewey)
Late Paleozoic strike slip tectonics of the Northern Appalachians
  84-86 post-doc Johns Hopkins Univ;
  87-88 post-doc Columbia Univ;
  88-present Geologist, US Geological Survey Anchorage, AK

Tanski S.     1984 MSc
Provenance study of the Middle Ordovician sandstones of New York and western Vermont
    US Government

Harris J.M.   1984 MSc
The geology of ophiolitic and adjoining rocks of Chagnon Mountain, southern Quebec
    Gulf Oil, Houston;

Gallo D.G.    1984 MSc (shared supervision with P.J. Fox)
The influence of Oceanic Transform Boundaries on the generation and evolution of Oceanic Lithosphere
    PhD Univ of Rhode Island, Oceanography; WHOI

Kusky T.M.   1985 MSc
Geology of the Frozen Ocean Lake - New Bay Pond area, north-central Newfoundland
    PhD Johns Hopkins; faculty Boston University, St. Louis Univ.

Kozinski J. 1985 MSc
Sedimentology and tectonic significance of the Nutzotin Mountains Sequence, Alaska
    USGeological Survey, New Jersey; law school

Idleman K.  1985 MSc
The Significance of Shear Zones Within the Plutonic Section of North Arm Mountain, Bay of Islands Ophiolite Complex, Newfoundland
    spouse of Idleman, B.D., see above

Aparisi M.   1985 MSc
Stratigraphy and structure of the Ganson Hill area: northern Taconic Allochthon
    research assistant NYS Geological Survey;

Hoffman P.M.   1986 MSc
Dolomitization of the Hatch Hill Arenites and the Burden Iron Ore
    PhD Queens College, CUNY;

Stella P.   1987 MSc
Geology of the northern Baie Verte Peninsula, Newfoundland, Canada
    Ministry of Geology, Sultanate of Oman; mining geology company, Chile, Colorado

Roma M.   1987 MSc (shared supervision with E. Landing)
The Providence Island Formation in the northern Appalachian Region - a Lower-lower Middle Ordovician analogue to recent arid-semiarid tidal-flat carbonates of the Persian Gulf Trucial Coast
    environmental consulting company; NYS Dept. of Transportation

Hoak T.E.   1987 MSc
Structural Analysis Across the Northeast Boundary of the Taconic Allochthon, West-Central Vermont
    PhD Univ of Texas, Austin;

Copeland, P. 1990 PhD (shared supervision with T.M. Harrison)
Cenozoic Tectonic History of the southern Tibetan Plateau and eastern Himalaya: Evidence from 40Ar/39Ar Dating
  90-present Assistant then Associate Professor, University of Houston

Idleman, B.D. 1990 PhD
Geology and 40Ar/39Ar geochronology of the Coastal Complex near Trout River and Lark Harbour, western Newfoundland
  86-~95 Lecturer, then Assistant Professor, Western Carolina University, Cullhowhee, NC;
  ~96-present Research Scientist, then Senior Research Scientist, Lehigh University

Bierbrauer, K. 1990 MSc
The geology of Taconic thrust sheets and surrounding carbonates of the west central Vermont marble belt, north of Rutland, Vermont
    PhD Wurzburg

Bruchert, V. 1992 MSc (shared supervision with J.W. Delano)
The origin of metalliferous argillites in the Shoal Arm Formation of north-central Newfoundland
    PhD Indiana

Herrman, R. 1992 MSc
The geology of the Vermont Valley and the western flank of the Green Mountains between Dorset Mountain and Wallingford, Vermont
    environmental co, Germany

Pan, Y. 1993 PhD
Unroofing and structural evolution of the southern Lhasa Terrane, Tibetan Plateau: implications for the continental collision between India and Asia
  93-~97 environmental geology company, San Diego; ~97-present computer systems and programming, Atlanta

Achong, C.  1993 MSc (shared supervision with J.W. Pindell)
Identifying key variables associated with the temporal and spatial distribution of prolific marine petroleum source rock (MPSR) units and its application to the Taconic Foreland Basin, eastern New York
    PhD Cornell; Texaco

Plesch, A.  1994 MSc
Structure and tectonic significance of deformed medial Ordovician flysch and melange between Albany and Saratoga Lake and in the central Hudson Valley, New York
    PhD GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam; post-doc Harvard

Haschke, M.R.  1994 MSc
The Champlain thrust system in northwestern Vermont - structure and lithology of the Taconic foreland sequence in the Highgate center quadrangle
    PhD Berlin;

Granducci, J.L.  1995 MSc
Stratigraphy and structure at the southern end of Lake Champlain in Benson, Vermont

Hayman, N.W.   1997 MSc (shared supervision with W.D. Means)
Pre-thrust normal faults and post-tectonic micas in the Taconic Range of west-central Vermont
    PhD Univ. Washington

Edwards, M.A. 1998 PhD
Examples of tectonic mechanisms for local contraction and exhumation of the leading edge of India. Southern Tibet (28-29N; 89-91E) and Nanga Parbat, Pakistan
    post-docs Wurzburg, & Freiberg 99-02; Vienna 03-

Short, H.A.   1999 MSc
The geology of the Liberty-Orrington-Passagassawakeag/Fredericton Trough terrane boundary in the Bucksport-Orland area, coastal Maine
    PhD Univ. Maine

Ashcroft, T.J.   2002 MSc
Field relations, structural geology, and geochemistry of the Jonestown volcanic field, Lebanon County, southeastern Pennsylvania
PhD Univ. Nevada Reno 

Zhu, B.   2003  PhD
Sedimentology, petrography, and tectonic significance of Cretaceous to lower Tertiary deposits in the Tingri-Gyantse area, southern Tibet

Li, Y.  2004 PhD
Geological mapping and crustal shortening of central Tibet

Schoonmaker, A. 2005 PhD
Convergent and collisional tectonics in parts of Oregon, Maine, and the Vermont/Quebec border

Marsellos, A.E., 2006 MSc
Mapping of a detachment fault in Kythera Island and study of the related structural shear sense indicators
PhD, SUNY Albany

Lim, C., 2007 PhD
Late structures and strain history accompanying fluid flows in the western Taconic Orogen of the New York-Vermont Appalachians, and Structural geology and tectonic evolution of the Namche Barwa region, Tibet

Marsellos, A., 2008 PhD
Extension and exhumation of the Hellenic forearc; and radiation damage in zircons

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