Carleton College Geology Department

Web Pages By And About Our Alums

This page has links to approximately half of the people
who were geology majors at Carleton College.

If you have a web page to include here, e-mail Tim about it!

1930's

  • Jerry Kyle '37 has published his memoirs from 1918 to 1945 in downloadable form as "Rear View"
  • Allan Matthews '37 was active in the Streit Council for the Union of Democracies (scroll down to find his bio on the page)

  • Bevan and Mary-Hill Kueffner French '38 were honored with a party following a short course on meteorite impacts, and Bevan sang! Here's one of their papers
  • Dick Garbisch '38 and Audrey were featured in the Carleton Voice! Their story is the third one down

    1940's

  • Lloyd Pray '41, emeritus professor of geology at the University of Wisconsin, was caught by the photographer at the alumni reception during the 2002 meeting of the American Assn. of Petroleum Geologists

  • Eiler Henrickson '43 was selected for a Lifetime Of Service Award from the Minnesota Chapter of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame. Here's a film about Eiler by Aleshia Mueller '01
  • Douglas Sheridan '43 wrote a paper on sulfide deposits in Colorado which you can buy on Amazon.com

  • Charles Higgins '46 is an emeritus professor of geology at the University of California - Davis

  • Robert Cross '47 was interviewed on his history with the Western Washington University libraries

  • James Dorman '49 is an emeritus research professor at the Center for Earthquake Research and Information at the University of Memphis
  • Daniel J. Gainey '49 retired from Jostens in 1984 to develop a vinyard.

    1950's

  • Jack Lyford '50 gave a talk on the wildlife of Kangaroo Island, Australia

  • Peggy Brophy '53 and her husband John are retired and geologizing in Corvallis, Oregon
  • Gary Ernst '53 is an emeritus professor of petrology and tectonics at Stanford University. Here is his Wikipedia entry
  • George McGill '53 is an emeritus professor of structural and planetary geology at the University of Massachusetts

  • Pat Bickford '54 is an emeritus professor of petrology at Syracuse University

  • The Rt. Reverend Richard Grein '55 was honored with a formal portrait
  • Ann and Bill LeMay '55 have a gallery of very nice oil and water color paintings
  • Joe Mancuso '55 has retired from Bowling Green State University

  • Don Kohls '56 is a director of Madison Minerals Inc.

  • Joseph Riva '57 has written articles on the world's natural gas resources, and also on Oil Production After 2000, and World Distribution of Natural Gas

  • George Austin '58 retired as Senior Industrial Minerals Geologist at the New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources
  • Dave Southwick '58 is Director of the Minnesota Geological Survey
  • Dante Stephensen '58 operates Dante's Down The Hatch in Atlanta

  • Gerald Erickson '59 is Vice-chairman of the board of Holiday Companies
  • Ed Husted '59 observes how Alaskans react to the PATRIOT Act
  • Norris Jones '59, resources and interesting geology links for his lab manual
  • Hans Nelson '59 explains the geology of Crater Lake National Park
  • Clyde Smith '59 was appointed president of Wits Basin Precious Minerals Inc.

    1960's

  • Mike McLanahan '60 is President of McLanahan Corp., manufacturers of mine, pit, and quarry equipment since 1835. The company was recognized for quality

  • Jeff Hanor '61 studies geochemical evolution of fluids in sedimentary basins at Louisiana State University
  • Andy Larsen '61 was a pivotal person in the history of the Riveredge Nature Center.

  • Walter Alvarez '62 is famous for his groundbreaking research on the importance of meteorite impacts in the geologic record, and has a Wikipedia entry
  • Roger Ashley '62 et al. tell all about gold hydrothermal alteration in a mud flow deposit
  • Allan Thompson '62 writes on and "Problem-Based Learning in a Large Introductory Geology Class"

  • Wendell Duffield '63 contemplates the life of a field geologist: "Pickles" and "Water Beds And Magma beds"

  • Alain Kahil '64 is the Director of International Sales and Marketing for Triathlon Ltd.
  • Peter Rowley '64 is a consulting geologist. He was honored with the Geological Society of America's Dibblee Medal in 1995
  • Terry Tullis '64 works on tectonophysics, rock deformation, faulting and earthquakes at Brown University

  • Bobb Carson '65 recently retired as Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Lehigh University
  • James Robertson '65 is State Geologist and Director, Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey and presented the Pick And Gavel awards
  • Jan Tullis '65 does experimental structural geology at Brown University

  • Bruce Langhus '66 is a consulting petroleum geologist
  • Peter Schultz '66 is a professor in the Department of Geological Sciences at Brown University

  • Mark McBride '67 used a topo map to solve a mystery. Here's a profile of Mark (scroll down to the fifth person listed)

  • Connie Jefferson Sansome '68 and Jim Kiehne collaborated on "Minnesota Underfoot"
  • Susan Rice Hartley '68 teaches astronomy at the University of Minnesota-Duluth; here's a page with her picture on it
  • Jim Kiehne '68 was the graphic designer of this neat game about agricultural resources

  • Alan Hartley '69 is interested in maritime history and language

    1970's

  • Judy Vandenberg Boudreau '70 is a surface water hydrologist for the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources

  • Roy Kruse '71 directs the international ministry of FaithSearch
  • Mark Reed '71 focuses on ore deposits at the University of Oregon

  • Chris Rautman '72 studies geologic spatial modeling and uncertainty analysis at Sandia National Labs
  • Mary Savina '72 teaches "activist geomorphology" at Carleton

  • Charles Andrews '73 is President of S.S. Papadopulos & Associates
  • Jean Chu '73 wrote on earthquake predictions in China, and she participated in a Dialogue on Local Approaches to the MDGs
  • Rich Fiore '73 is Vice President of Search Consultants International
  • John Sharry '73 is a consulting geologist

  • Phil Brown '74, fluid inclusions and more
  • Peter Dixon '74 is an oncologist in Connecticut
  • Jim Estabrook '74 is a mapper for the USGS and wrote this article
  • Joan Gasperow Harn '74 works on hydropower for the National Center For Recreation and Conservation
  • Keith Keefer '74 works for the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory and he contributed to this paper on x-raying zeolites
  • Steve LeClerq '74 is on the faculty of Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and the Center for Global Health. Here are some amazing pictures he took of a cremation in Nepal
  • Art Norton '74 is the new Itasca County Field Representative for the Minnesota Forest Legacy Partnership
  • Marge Diamond Simpson '74 is an electrical desinger in Washington state.
  • Ellen Smith '74 has been elected to the Oak Ridge city council! In her day job, she's an environmental scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  • Ed Swain '74 teaches at the U of Minnesota and is a research scientist with the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency and teaches at the University of Minnesota

  • Libby Anthony '75, teaches at the University of Texas at El Paso
  • Susanna Calvo '75 wrote a paper on earthquakes
  • Alan Cutler '75 has an exciting new book about Nicolaus Steno, geology's patron saint -- "A page-turning thriller": Publisher's Weekly, and he also wrote about the Little Ice Age
  • Scott Fischmann '75 owns a business specializing in commercial computer equipment
  • Susan DuBois '75 wrote a book on an 1887 earthquake
  • Ginna Gillerman '75 explains Idaho's traumatic past
  • Julie Greenberg '75 comments on testing of school children, and what should constitute a passing score
  • Tien Suits Grauch '75 is working on airborne geophysical surveys in New Mexico
  • Marcia Keefer '75 sculpts in fabrics
  • Bambi Lowman '75 wrote on sedimentation affected by tectonics
  • Larry Meinert '75 with links to his page on skarns and more; he also writes on the geology of wine grapes
  • Karen Noyce '75 studies bears. Here are more links about her
  • Jim Pizzuto '75 has done "the biggest experiment ever on a river." Here he writes more
  • Millie Powell '75 writes on a sustainable water supply for Denver
  • Dave Rogers '75 spoke about groundwater research
  • Warren Wilson '75 studies technology markets
  • Emily Wrubel's '75 school was honored for excellence (3rd picture down in the page)

  • Jim Collier '76 teaches geology at Fort Lewis College in Colorado
  • Jim Evans '76 teaches geology at Bowling Green State University
  • Leah Haworth Evison '76 works in the Superfund Sediment Resource Center
  • Jamie Foster '76's homepage
  • Kathleen Krafft Gohn '76, a public affairs specialist with the USGS, gave this presentation about management of natural disasters
  • Susan Stoddard Goodspeed '76 helps with bond sales when she's not tending her garden or teenage kids
  • Karen Hoffman '76 wrote this nicely presented article on subsurface modelling
  • Heather Macdonald '76 chairs the geology department at The College of William And Mary
  • Bill Matlack '76 deals in gold and wrote this article
  • Will Maze '76 peeked inside a rock and saw fluid inclusions forming
  • Phil Muessig '76 teaches sustainability and he does the web site for the Minnesota Sustainable Communities Network
  • Leise Davidson Munter '76 is on the board of her local high school PTSO
  • Barb Rossing '76 is Associate Professor of New Testament at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago. Check out her book!
  • Tim Thurnblad '76 wrote a Groundwater Information Guide
  • Tim Williams '76 is an attorney (scroll down to find his bio)
  • Rick "Bart" Zimmerman '76 is a professional geologist in Arizona

  • Jim Berg '77 is a hydrologist on the Minnesota DNR County Atlas - Regional Assessment Program
  • Dave Gambill '77 environment advisor to USAID's Women In Development office; another link with his email address
  • Lynn Gandl '77 raises Wandrlyn Belgians
  • Holly Huyck '77 is a community consultant for the Center for Public Environmental Oversight (use your browser's search function to find the link)
  • Stu Naegele '77 works for the BioServe Space Technologies Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder
  • Tres Naylor '77 paints landscapes and does printmaking
  • Bruce K. Nelson '77, isotope geochemistry at the University of Washington
  • Camille Parrish '77 is a learning associate and environmental internship director at Bates College
  • Eric Simonson '77 guides trips "climbing the world's great mountains." Here is an interview after his team found George Mallory
  • Diane Smith '77is a geo prof at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas

  • Wes Danskin '78 is working on optimal management of watersheds at the USGS, and his work is almost magic
  • Meryl Rosenfeld Haber '78 owns this bike shop in Oregon
  • Jean Hoff '78 teaches at St. Cloud State University in Minnesota
  • Patti Kimble '78 worked on the Buffalo Creek Project in Wyoming
  • Steve Ingebritsen '78 is a hydrologist with the US Geological Survey
  • Allison Krafft Rempel '78 is an Environmental Program Manager at Hewlett-Packard in Palo Alto
  • Dan Schultz-Ela '78 is a Research Scientist at the Texas Bureau of Economic Geology. He did a paper on graben evolution in Canyonlands National Park
  • Rich Soule '78 co-authored this report on groundwater contamination
  • Janet Thigpen '78 is on the board of the New York State Floodplain and Stormwater Managers Association
  • Zach Wilson '78 is an attorney in Colorado
  • George Witman '78 is a realtor in Denver
  • Bill Witte '78 manages computer systems for the Geology Department at the University of Alaska

  • Chris Brick '79 is an adjunct faculty member at The University of Montana and is working for The Clark Fork Coalition
  • Karen Campbell '79, is now at the National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics at the University of Minnesota
  • Lucy Chronic '79: the tradition of "Chronic and Chronic" lives on!
  • Joy Crisp '79, a way cool scientist, is a research scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Here's her personal page
  • Evan Dresel '79 is part of The Environmental Technology Directorate at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
  • Tillman Farley '79 is noted for blending of his family practice and research projects
  • Randy Fedors '79 worked on the development of an efficient mass and energy coupled transport simulator for the vadose zone
  • Jo Ann M. Murashige Gronberg '79, a hydrologist for the US Geological Survey, wrote about the Lower Merced River Basin, California
  • Dan "Woody" Hitzman '79 uses microbes to find oil and gas deposits
  • Judy Lungren '79 fiddled at a jamboree (use your browser's search function to find both of her pictures in the page)
  • Robb Jacobson '79 directs the Ozarks Stream Geomorphology Project
  • Dan Spencer '79 teaches environmental studies at the University of Montana - Missoula. He also is a founder of the Carleton Network For LGBT Geology And Natural History Students And Alums

    1980's

  • Muffy Barrett '80 and Scott Weber run Bluestem Farm
  • Alan Carroll '80 is teaching sedimentary basin analysis at Wisconsin
  • John Goodge '80 teaches petrology and tectonics at the University of Minnesota - Duluth. Here's his bio
  • Vicki Hansen '80 teaches structure and tectonics at the University of Minnesota - Duluth. Here's her bio
  • Kim Jones '80 teaches East Asian Studies at the University of Arizona
  • Glenn (Greilich) Lee '80 and two friends are the Nordic trio SCANDIA. In another life, he participated in a melee involving the crews of two ships in Yokuska, Japan, in 1971
  • Alison Rautman '80 teaches anthropology at Michigan State
  • Mark Timmerman '80 practices family and sports medicine. He ran the Kona Marathon as a member of Team Diabetes - Go Mark!

  • Dave Bice '81 is a Professor of Geosciences at Penn State
  • Gail Peretsman Clement '81 is an Information Technology Coordinator for the USGS in Florida
  • John Hankins '81 co-authored this article on remediation of groundwater pollution
  • Dave Rodgers '81 chairs the Department of Geology at Idaho State University
  • Roger Nosal '81 contributed to this paper on "Pyrrolizidine Esters and Amides as 5-HT4 Receptor Agonists and Antagonists"
  • Bonnie Rohr '81 is a physician at the Osceola Medical Center
  • Amy Snodgrass '81 is an art conservation scientist at Harvard
  • Heyo Van Iten '81 teaches paleontology, hydrogeology and environmental geology at Hanover College
  • Gary Walvatne '81 is an environmental geologist in Oregon

  • Dave Becker '82 is a plant magaer for a metals fabricating company
  • Ethan Bleifuss '82 wrote this neat exercise on Science, Technology, The Environment and Human Rights
  • Sherren Clark '82 is a senior engineer with BT2 Engineering and Science
  • Lynn Davies '82 runs a knitting instruction and resources business
  • Ben Levy's '82 team won a Best Paper award for a paper on airport management
  • Lisanne Pearcy '82 testified on land use fairness in Oregon
  • Christine Rossen '82 is a geologist at ExxonMobil
  • Heidi Bredenbeck Wells '82 is CEO of the Innovative Allioance booksellers and here's an interview with her
  • Pete Whiting '82 is at Case Western Reserve University working on soil and water quality and he's an Aldo Leopold Program Fellow

  • Sharon Anderson '83 is Director of the Earth Systems Science and Policy program at the California State University at Monterey Bay
  • Tom Baring '83 is a user consultant at the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center
  • Sarah Benn '83 has a web design business. She could give me some tips!
  • Clint Cowan '83 teaches sedimentary geology at Carleton
  • Tim Cowdery '83 wrote on water in Southwest Minnesota
  • Don Frost '83 is an environmental attorney
  • Jim Holmes '83 is an attorney in Iowa
  • Keith Knudsen '83 was selected as the 2004 NEHRP Professional Fellow in Earthquake Hazard Reduction
  • Scott Linneman '83 is teaching at Western Washington University in Bellingham
  • Ruth McDonald '83 is a research scientist in the Computer Science Dept. at the University of New Mexico
  • Harry Nelson '83 teaches in the Forestry Dept. at the University of British Columbia
  • Dan Packer '83 teaches history in New Mexico
  • Jeff Pipes '83 and Florence own a California vinyard
  • Dave Purkey '83 runs the Northern California office of the Stockholm Environment Institute
  • Scott Ritger '83 writes on the effects of stress in accretionary prisms
  • Gustavo Tolson '83 is a structural geologist at the Geology Institute of the National Autonomous of Mexico
  • Amy Zacheis '83 finds that snow geese appreciate a little snow in their feeding areas
  • Matt Zukowski '83 is an environmental services project manager in Alaska

  • Norm Brown '84 is a water resource consultant
  • Elliott Bruhl '84 practices family medine in Alaska
  • Karen Cunnyngham '84, working for Mathematic Policy Research, Inc, writes on food and welfare issues
  • John Dunn '84 explores for oil with Chevron Texaco
  • Chris Foley '84 is on the faculty of Eastern Virginia Medical School
  • Kendra Beard Gassel '84 is on the board of Lincolnwood Public Library District
  • Mark Gordon '84 wrote on the Tectonic Setting Of The World's Giant Oil Fields
  • George Hudak '84 teaches at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh and also at UM-D
  • Dean Ingemansen '84 is an attorney for the EPA
  • Dave Kirschner '84 is teaching structure and geochem at St. Louis University
  • Richard Kohlan '84 is is president of Triple-I Systems, an IT consultant company
  • Elliot Olsen '84 practices trial law
  • Liz Screaton '84 teaches hydrogeology at the University of Florida
  • Meg David Sedlak '84 is a senior project manager for the San Francisco Estuary Institute (scroll down some to find Meg)
  • Christine Smith Siddoway '84 teaches geology at Colorado College

  • Bret Berglund '85 manages projects for the Hoefler Consulting Group in Alaska
  • Glen Carleton '85 is a groundwater hydrologist for the US Geological Survey
  • Bill Dunlap '85 co-authored this paper on thermochronometry
  • Stuart Grubb '85 is a hydrogeologist specializing in groundwater hydraulics, hydrogeology, and groundwater modeling
  • Mike O'Connell '85 wrote this on habitat conservation planning in California
  • Jon Parshall '85 is COO of a software company and he wrote a book on the Japanese Imperial Navy
  • Maria Peterson '85 is quoted in this article on chipmaking technology
  • Lee Riciputi '85 wrote on obsidian and this article on anorthsite
  • Laura Runkle Miller '85 and her family (an album)
  • Brad Werrell '85 writes on physician education

  • Emily Adams '86 and Paulus run Inner Fire Works
  • Brian Beard '86 is an Associate Scientist in the Geology and Geophysics Department at UW-Madison
  • John Bernstein '86 is an equity research analyst with Sit Investment Associates in Minneapolis
  • Perdita Butler '86 teaches earth science and agriculture at the Great River School in Minneapolis
  • Gretchen Colonius '86 has advice for travelling with infants.
  • Mary Ann Cunningham '86 teaches geography at Vassar College
  • Andrew Graham '86 is a water resources planner at HDR Engineering
  • John Karl '86 is a writer for The Aquatic Sciences Chronicle
  • Beth Hayes Martin '86 is a consulting geologist
  • Christine Massey '86 is a museum education specialist at the University of Vermont. Here she considers the future of the textbook
  • Craig McCaa '86 wrote this article about using robotic airplances to map vegetation in Alaska
  • Sean McKenna '86 works at Sandia National Labs, a summary of his work, and here is his personal page
  • Laura Day Moore '86 is a staff scientist in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery
  • Mary-Russel Roberson '86 discusses her book on the geology of the Carolinas; here she writes on Madagascar's Plants and Animals
  • John Sorlie '86 is a tax attorney in Oregon

  • Lisa Shepherd Drzewiekci '87 wrote this article on gender differences in high school students' attitudes towards math
  • Margaret MacEachern '87 co-authored a paper on "Quatrain Form In English Folk Verse"
  • Mike Macicak '87, a geologist at Bechtel Corporation, is also the lead guitarist in the band Stretford; here's a review of their CD
  • Jeff Strasser '87 teaches geology at Augustana College

  • Carolyn Carr '88 is a founding partner of Ecological Strategies, a natural resources planning and management consulting firm
  • Binks Colby-George '88 and his family
  • Gordon Keating '88 co-authored this article on basaltic volcanoes
  • Susan Beeler Queary '88 writes on making arrangements for caring for your children if you become unable to do it yourself
  • Carl Renshaw '88 teaches hydrology and structural geology at Dartmouth, and is part of the Center For Environmental Health Sciences
  • Peter Sauer '88 does biogeochemistry and paleoclimatology at Indiana
  • Kim Sultze '88 teaches journalism at St. Michael's College in Vermont
  • Marilyn Yohe '88 is an acupuncturist with Cambridge Health Associates in Boston. She's also a founder of the Carleton Network For LGBT Geology And Natural History Students And Alums

  • Bill Dinklage '89 teaches at Utah Valley State College
  • Ben Edwards '89 is teaching at Dickenson College in Pennsylvania
  • Holly Ewing '89 teaches environmental studies at Bates College where she was a panelist in a math and science conference
  • Kim Hannula '89, and her courses in Structure, Geologic Methods and Earth Science at Ft. Lewis College in Colorado. Read her blog!
  • Dave Lewis '89 is a watershed management advisor in Sonoma County
  • Karen Merritt '89 is a PhD candidate at the University of Maine
  • Carol Ormand '89 is a dancin' geologist!
  • Kari Paulson '89 is a hydrologist at North Jackson Co. A few years ago she worked on a project to restore the natural wood debris in streambeds
  • Sue Savanick-Hanson '89 is an education fellow in the Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
  • Joe Walser '89 teaches comparative religion at Tufts and he wrote a book on Nagarjuna, an influential Buddhist thinker
  • Sonja Wolter '89 lived in Antarctica

    1990's

  • Rebecca Arenson '90 recruited speakers for coral reef presentations at schools in Guam
  • Andrea Earley Coen '90 (blond hair) is shown here conferring with a goat at Rock Bottom Ranch in Colorado
  • Andrew Garrett '90 is Director of Preparedness Planning and Response at Columbia University's National Center for Disaster Preparedness
  • Betsy Hunt '90 was honored for her work on protecting drinking water resources
  • Sharon Stern Kahn '90 serves on the Committee on Academic Staff Issues at the University of Wisconsin - Madison
  • Scott Nesvold '90 is Head Guide at Trek & Trail, an outfitter in Northern Wisconsin
  • Mark Newcomb '90 is a modern-day ski mountaineering pioneer; here's another of Mark's adventures

  • Eric Baer '91 teaches at Highline Community College
  • Will Brown '91 is a student at Washington University in St. Louis
  • Kari Cooper '91 teaches geochemistry at the University of California - Davis
  • Eric Cowgill '91 teaches structural geology and tectonics at UC-Davis
  • Butch Dooley '91 is a Curator of Paleontology at the Virginia Museum of Natural History. Check out his blog!
  • Kea Umstattd Duckenfield '91 is a program manager in the NOAA Office of Global Programs
  • Catherine Inman '91 has a non-profit foundation to improve education in Nepal called the Friends Of Dolpa, she's District Manager of an Alaska soil & water conservation district, and here's her personal page
  • Jenn Macalady '91 teaches geomicrobiology in the Geoscience Department at Penn State
  • Jean Morrill '91 taught hydrology at Arizona
  • Jenny Nigrini '91 is Director of Campus Recreation at Boise State

  • Jill Baum '92 is the Program Director for the SCA in Massachusetts
  • Clifford Blizard '92 is working toward a PhD in Environmental Science at SUNY - Syracuse; here's his paper on storytelling as part of environmental education
  • Sean Kempke '92 is a doctor doing his residency with the Duluth Family Practice
  • Jon Nauert '92 and Jessamyn Tuttle '94 have a Celtic band called Cambpell Road. Here's a picture
  • Brent Nystrom '92 works in the Office of Alumni Affairs when he isn't kicking butt on on the frisbee field
  • Erik Stokstad '92 is the editor of the online science news service Science Now! and wrote on bird extinctions, ocean research, and the risks of farming. And, Erik is also an insider...
  • Dave Tinker '92 was first author on this paper on basalt melts
  • Jenn Wenner '92 teaches at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
  • Patty Weston '92 and her hubbie Aaron Noble have posted some of their pictures from Patagonia and Italy.

  • Emily Darby '93 specializes in infection diseases and has joined a clinic in Seattle
  • Kevin Blake Gustavson '93 teaches geology at Eastern Michigan University
  • Anngel Delaney '93 on women's boxing
  • Anu Gupta '93 has been on the faculty of Bioshphere2
  • Britta Gustavson '93 co-authored this paper on assessing alexithymia and related emotional ability constructs
  • Chris Hagerman '93 teaches geography at Portland State University in Oregon
  • Anita Ho '93 teaches at Flathead Valley Community College in Montana
  • Beth Lambert '93 is a Coastal Restoration Coordinator in New Hmapshire
  • Dave Lund '93, a Visiting Assistant Research Scientist at the University of Michigan, was first author on this paper in NATURE
  • Todd Osmundson '93 studies plant science at the New York Botanical Garden
  • Beth Pratt-Sitaula '93 teaches at Central Washington University. She also wrote about the human side of the Himilaya
  • Joan Ramage '93 teaches glacial geology and more at Lehigh University
  • Ben Surpless '93 is teaching tectonics and environmental geology at Trinity University in Texas. Here's the whole story
  • Maria Panfil Wright '93 contributed to this paper as part of the Ozark Stream Geomorphology Project.

  • Geoff Collins '94 teaches at Wheaton College
  • Julia Daly '94 teaches geology at The University of Maine - Farmington
  • Brett Kessler Dooley '94 did some time digging fossils in a prison yard
  • Starr Johnson '94 is on the advisory board of the Idaho Geological Survey, and also on the board of Your Family, Friends and Neighbors Inc.
  • Liz (Symchych) King '94 teaches at Illinois State University
  • Myongsun Kong '94 is the Environmental Studies Technician at Colgate. Here is a story about her new job and a page with her baby(ies)!
  • Reed Krider '94 did a project on Quaternary alluvial stratigraphy while he was a grad student at Arizona
  • Miranda Lescaze '94 is a Watershed Coordinator in Vermont
  • Noami Lubick '94 is an editor for Environmental Science And Technology Online. She wrote about the bug-eat-bug world for SCIENCE NOW
  • Chris Poulsen '94 teaches in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and he wrote about the balmy Arctic for NATURE
  • Karen Swanberg '94 is administering networks at the Geology Dept. at the University of Minnesota. Lately she's taken up writing science fiction
  • Jessamyn Tuttle '94 and Jon Nauert '92 have a Celtic band called Cambpell Road. Here's a picture
  • Julie Williams '94 was savagely murdered while camping along the Appalachian Trail in 1996. Here is a recent story about the case, and an index of news stories about this sad event

  • Dave Boardman '95 played ulitmate with CUT
  • Dan Fehler '95 put up some kiddie shots
  • Mike Gaud '95 helped map a quadrangle in New Mexico
  • Chris Gutmann '95 collected water data at Arizona
  • Kate Jesdale '95 teaches science on the Eclipse Team at Hunt Middle School in Burlington, Vermont
  • John (Rowan) Littell '95 is a professional photographer
  • Roy Luck '95 did his thesis on the Grasberg Igneous Complex in Indonesia
  • Derek Murrow '95 is a policy analyst for Environment Northeast
  • Ofori Person '95 wrote this paper on the tectonics of Nepal
  • Bryn Perkins '95 publishes "The Prague Daily Monitor". Here's the whole story and a radio interview with Bryn
  • Matt Reuer '95 is the Technical Director in Environmental Science at the Colorado College. He wrote this paper on climate change
  • Frankie Ridolfi '95 has a video teaching people how to bind books
  • Steve Surbaugh '95 sells real estate in Cook County (think northern) Minnesota. Kate's a writer and web page composer
  • Dan Turner-Gillespie '95 did research on flooding in urban watersheds

  • Josh Galster '96 was lead author on this paper on urban stream morphology
  • Shannon Ginn '96 attended a St. Paul reunion
  • Karen Bobbitt Gran '96 is teaching geomorphology and related topics the the University of Minnesota - Duluth
  • Nate Hultman '96 teaches at Georgetown University
  • Cari Johnson '96 teaches at the University of Utah. Here's some of her work on the geology of Mongolia
  • Allon Katz '96 was a frisbee star back in the day, and he's found it to be a great networking stepping stone
  • Gina Michl '96 passed away after a brave battle with cancer
  • Sara Gran Mitchell '96 teaches at Holy Cross College in Massachusetts
  • Nina Molumby '96 is an educator in the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry's chemistry lab
  • Carrie Morrill '96 is a physical scienintist with the National Climatic Data Center, and she has done research on climate shift
  • Anders Noren '96 wrote in NATURE about storminess in the Holocene
  • Stephanie Phippen '96 studied land use and sediment run-off
  • Evan Stoner '96 is Lead Developer at RealNetworks
  • Kevin Theissen '96 teaches at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul

  • Dave Barbeau '97 teaches geology at the University of South Carolina and directs the SCOTIA Antarctic glaciation project
  • Kat Petersen Boulding '97 is studying communications at UC-San Diego
  • John Fiege '97, a filmmaker, was awarded a Princess Grace Award.
  • Josh Feinberg '97 is on the faculty at the University of Minnesota; he also did a post-doc at Cambridge
  • Dan Feiveson '97 is Vice President of Product Development at DataJoe
  • John Fiege '97 was nominated for a Gotham Award for his film "Mississippi Chicken"
  • Kim Knight '97 is working on her PhD at Berkeley
  • Fawna Korhonen '97 is a Research Associate at the University of Maryland. She is studying gneiss dome archtiecture in Antarctica
  • Dave McGee '97 is studying Snowball Earth at Tulane
  • Lindsay Schoenbohm '97 is on the geology faculty at Ohio State
  • This is the website for a guest house owned by Sarah Simmons '97
  • Adam Soule '97 has a post-doc at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
  • Lisa Van Arsdale '97 used to play drums for Tart
  • Allison Thomson '97 is a Senior Research Scientist at The Joint Global Change Research Institute
  • Laura Veirs '97 a singer/songwriter, has been doing shows all over North America and Europe; see her in Wikipedia, Myspace, and here's an interview. Watch Laura sing GALAXIES!
  • Ann Zawistoski '97 is a science liason librarian in Carleton's Gould Library

  • Megan Anderson '98, having introduced Orange Rock Hammers to the USGS, is now infiltrating the University of Arizona ....
    Here's a great site about a field trip to Hawaii that Megan went on in the spring of 2003
  • Josh Bookin '98 has been teaching math at the Woodside Priory School
  • Martha Carlson '98 coaches Frisbee at Michigan and wrote this
  • Joe Colgan '98 is on a post-doc at Stanford
  • Erik Ekdahl '98 contributed to this article on Lake Titicaca
  • Carrie Elliott '98 studies river systems with the USGS
  • Pete Erickson '98 is a senior associate with Cascadia Consulting Group
  • Todd Fleming '98 is Director of College Counseling at Iolani School in Hawaii
  • Alex Hildebrand '98 is an attorney in Alaska
  • Brian Klawiter '98 did his MS thesis on the provenance of cherts in the Prairie du Chien formation
  • Eli Levitt '98 works on the public policy aspects of climate change
  • Lindsay Lightner '98 advises undergraduate education majors and masters students at Washington State
  • Alison Macalady '98 is working on a PhD in geography at Arizona
  • Adam Maloof '98 teaches geology at Princeton
  • Pete Moore '98 wrote in SCIENCE Magazine about how basal debris affects glacier flow
  • Anders Nilsson '98 works for the National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center
  • Allison Payne '98 is a grad student at the University of Alaska-Fairbanks
  • Kurt Steffan '98 won a GSA petrology award!
  • Katie Szramek '98, a faculty member at Washington And Lee University, wrote about arsenic mobility in waters
  • Trina Vithayathil '98 works for the Program on Forced Migration and Health at Columbia

  • Alison Anders '99 is on the faculty of The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Erika Beyer '99 is a freelance scientific illustrator and graphic designer
  • Emily Burton '99 is a biotech student at UW-Madison
  • Marin Byrne '99 does wind energy
  • Noah Finnegan '99 is working on a PhD at Washington, and contributed to this study of glacial lakes and floods in the Himalyas
  • Heidi Guetschow '99 is working on a law degree at Cornell
  • Zach Gustavson '99 has a band called Gobhi
  • Erich Heydweiller '99 is a PhD student at the Colorado School of Mines, and he contributed to this paper on sedimentation in the Willwood Fm in the Bighorn Basin
  • Kate Hofmann '99 is an editor of Ranger Rick Magazine
  • "Hig" Higman '99 and Erin are trekking from Seattle to Alaska for science and the environment
  • Nate Sheldon '99 teaches at the University of Michigan
  • Leigh Stearns '99 teaches at the University of Maine
  • Ken Tape '99 documents climate change through vegitative succession in Alaska
  • Katie Werner '99 mapped a buried river valley in Illinois with a gravity survey

    The New Millennium

  • Alden Boetsch '00 studied collaborative planning on state trust lands
  • Jean Dixon '00 studies geomorphology at Dartmouth
  • Luc Mehl '00 is at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (great picture here)
  • Anna Nelson '00 is a sedimentologist with the British Antarctic Survey
  • Liz Penny '00 helped design an internship in a homeless women's center
  • Joanna Reuter '00 developed this page about transportation issues in Northfield for her final project in Environmental and Technology Studies. She now operates Chert Hollow Farm.
  • A week in the life of Patrick Roehrdanz '00, and Americorps teacher
  • Sean Sturges '00 has been named Associate Regional Supervisory Manger at Davidson Companies in Great Falls
  • Stacy Tellinghuisen '00 is studying California's Energy-Water Nexus
  • Erica Richardson Wallstrom '00 teaches high school earth science in Vermont

  • Willy Amidon '01 worked in Douglas Burbank's lab at Santa Barbara
  • Phil Anderson '01 is at the Univeristy of Chicago
  • James Bishop '01 is a grad student at UC-Davis
  • Laura Cleaveland '01 is at Brown University where she's worked on ancient sea surface tempurature reconstruction
  • Sara Decherd '01 has figured out why dinosaurs were so big (read her "In The News")
  • Jake Eaton '01 studies geochemistry at UW-Madison
  • Scott Hynek '01 works on science teaching in public schools
  • Ani Kameenui '01 is studying infrastructure needs forecasting at the University of Washington, Seattle. While she was a Carleton student, Ani founded an environmental day camp
  • Matthias Kirch '01 is on the board of directors of the Minnesota Transgender Health Coalition
  • Isaac Larsen '01 studied debris fans in the Green River
  • Beth Lowham '01 worked at the Center For Science And Technology Policy Research at Boulder
  • Peter McAuliffe '01 did some oceanographic research
  • Aleshia Mueller '01 made a film about Eiler Henrickson '43, "A Gentleman of Great Magnitude"
  • Anne Sawyer '01 studies snow at Colorado State University
  • Carl Tape '01 studies geophysics at Caltech
  • Trent Terriquez '01 has this page in Myspace
  • Kevin Uno '01 studies isotope geochemistry at the University of Utah and he participates in the WEST program teaching discovery-based science in the public schools
  • Beth Valaas '01 studies metamorphic petrology at UW-Madison, and published this paper
  • Galen Ward '01 contributed to this paper on floodplains and river channels

  • Kizzy Charles-Guzman '02 is a Doris Duke Fellow at the Ecosystem Management Initiative at the University of Michigan
  • Lauren Chetel '02 presented a paper on sediment accumulation rates in the Upper Mississippi Valley
  • Liz Clark '02 is working on a PhD at Stanford
  • Benji Drummond '02 presents his comps project, "Blue Ice"
  • Andy Gendaszek '02 is working on a masters at Washington and he co-authored this paper about Mars
  • Hilary Gittings '02 is a hydrology grad student at the University of Wisconsin - Madison
  • Matt Kuharic '02 contributed to this study of glacial lakes and floods in the Himalyas
  • Dave Hunzicker '02 won a research award at the University of Colorado Museum
  • Katja Meyer '02 studies biogeochemistry at Penn State
  • Eric Nemitz '02 teaches science at the Dublin School in New Hampshire
  • Dave Nickerson '02 is in the medical education program at Wyoming

  • Marc Antinoro '03 created this website on the Seven Mile Creek Watershed for his comps project
  • Liz Cassel '03 is a grad student at Stanford University
  • Amalia Doebbert '03 is a grad student at the University of Wisconsin - Madison
  • Ben Harrison '03 played in the mud at sea on a Caltech cruise
  • Melissa Keevil '03 is eating steaks! She also rode a mean trike when she was three and later took a trip powered by road fat
  • Chuk Kitridge '03 enjoyed a visit by and Paul
  • Tiffany Larson '03 studies snow hydrology in forested and clearcut alpine terrain
  • Devin McPhilips '03 is a grad student at Yale
  • Marshall Sundberg '03 is studying geochemistry at Brown University
  • Buddy Tangolos '03 is studying geomicrobiology at UW-Madison

  • Dave Auerbach '04 has been working with the US Geological Survey
  • Annaliese Eipert '04 worked on this study of earthquakes in Chile, which led to this article in the journal NATURE. She also did a stint with NOAA
  • Heather Hilchey '04 did some experiments to determine the source of magnetic signal in Alaskan Loess
  • Kristen James '04 is in veterinary school in Edinburgh
  • Bess Koffman '04 is studying in the Geomicrobiology lab at Penn State
  • Sarah Leibson '04 is coordinating an innovative new web site providing a single resource for all things related to biogeoscience
  • Sarah Margoles '04 is in the Conservation Biology graduate program at the University of Minnesota
  • Leah Morgan '04 probes the geological context of hominid evolution at Berkeley
  • Brandon Murphy '04 is in the Stable Isotope Lab at the University of California Sant Cruz
  • Gabe Nelson '04 did an award-winning poster at Acadia University in Nova Scotia
  • Kristin O'Connell '04 is working on a masters at UC-Davis, and she has posted some gorgeous photos. She also was a crew leader on the Minnesota Conservation Corps

  • Will Gallin '05 co-authored this paper on glacial and mass movement deposits in Utah
  • Karla Knudson '05 is a grad student at the University of Michigan
  • Emily Levine '05 woofed at Greentree Naturals in Idaho
  • Cristina Robins '05 went on a field trip with the Smithsonian Environmental Field Center
  • Ellen Schaal '05 is a grad student at Stanford
  • Emily Schwing '05 does radio in Alaska
  • Nick Swanson-Hysell is a grad student in geology at Princeton. Here he is at Lonar Crater working with Adam Soule '97

  • Kelsey Dyck '06 is using mussel shells to study Holocene ocean temperatures
  • Dan Jones '06 studies geomicrobiology at Penn State

  • Lauren Andrews '07 used mollusk shells for climate reconstruction
  • Joseph Graly '07 is at the University of Vermont studying the climate history of western Greenland
  • Willy Guenthner '07 studies Antarctic sediments at South Carolina
  • Kelly Hereid '07 is a teaching assistant at the Jackson School of Geosciences in Texas
  • Gloria Jiminez '07 (scroll down to find her) is in the Ecosystem Lab at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  • Ross Mitchell '07 studies Earth history at Yale
  • Kendra Murray '07 studies sediments in the Antarctic at South Carolina
  • Susan Schnur '07 is teaching English at high schools in Japan with the JET (Japan Exchange Teaching) Program

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