-Michele Buttram, '03, is beginning work in metamorphiccore
complexes in the Basin and Range province at Arizona State University.
-Bill Haas, '02, recently completed a Master's of Public Adminstration
in Environmental Policy at Columbia University's Biosphere 2 program.
-Brook Miller, '02, is in a M.S. program in geochemistry at Oregon
State University.
-James Moran, '01, is working towards a Ph.D. in geomicrobiology at
Penn. State.
-Katie Young, '00, is pursing graduate studies in hydrology at Notre
Dame.
-Matt Kuchta, '98, is studying paleontology at the University of
Wisconsin.
-Ayako Kameda, '97, also in the graduate program at University of
Wisconsin, is studying structural geology. Her senior research paper at
Lawrence won her the 1997 Geological Society of America Best Student Paper
Award.
-Sean Smith,'95, is working as a petroleum exploration geologist for
Sanchez Oil and Gas in Houston, Texas.
-Lisa Thieme,'93, is an exploration geologist in Chile, employed by
Phelps and Dodge Exploration to find gold.
-Chris Naumann,'91, received a Watson Fellowship to study the
environmental impact of mountain climbing expeditions in the Khumbu region of
Nepal, the location of Mount Everest. He now works for Barrel Mountaineering
in Montana.
-Chuck DeMets is professor of geophysics at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison. He is an internationally renowned tectonist, who recently
discovered a previously unknown plate boundary in the Indian Ocean.
-David Gust did research in experimental petrology at the NASA-Johnson
Space Center before becoming head of the school of geology at the Queensland
University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia.
Quartz
dioritic bedrock... and boulders
in the Rio Blanco watershed. There are
dozens of carvings (petroglyphs) on
these rocks from the Taino Indians