Some Recent Alumni Activities Continued:

 -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.