UTIG's senior research scientist, Fred Taylor, is a graduate research advisor or co-advisor to candidates for both masters and doctoral degrees.

GRADUATE STUDENT COMMITTEES
- Ming-Chu Chen - Forearc Segmentation of the Solomon Islands Arc, M.S.. Univ. Texas at Austin
- Pat Mickler - Speleothem Chemistry, Ph.D. Univ. Texas at Austin
- David A. Phillips - Univ. of Hawaii Ph.D. aspirant, GPS measurements of subduction deformation at the New Hebrides and Solomons Arcs
- D. Kuang: Univ. Texas Ph.D. Dissertation; GPS results from the Tonga-Fiji area
- Jeffrey Chen: Univ. Texas MS Thesis: Quaternary Crustal Motions of Tanna Island and the Yenkahe Horst area near Yasour Volcano from Uplifted Coral Reefs
- Mark Helper: Univ. Texas Ph.D. Dissertation: Structural, metamorphic and geochronologic constraints on the origin of the Condrey Mountain Schist, north central Klamath Mountains, California
- Clinton D. Cagle: Univ. Texas MS Thesis: Seismic stratigraphy of the central Tongan arc