Alumni Web Pages – Geology – Carleton College

This page has links to approximately two thirds of the living geology-major alumni of Carleton College.

This page is being maintained by Tim Vick as a volunteer project.
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2010s | 2000s | 1990s | 1980s | 1970s & earlier

Geology Alumni, 2020–2029

Jennifer Delgado ’22 is a RAY Conservation Watershed Field Scientist Fellow with the Mystic River Watershed Association in Massachusetts.
Rebecca Horwitz ’22 is a Research Assistant at the Haskin Shellfish Laboratory at Rutgers University.
Josh Isaacs ’22 is a Geology Master’s Student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Allegra Johnson McKee ’22 is a Student Contractor at the USGS Upper Midwest Water Science Center in Minnesota.
Ethan Karp ’22 is a Studio Assistant at Brooklyn People’s Pottery and a Greenhouse Production Assistant at Gotham Greens in Brooklyn, NY.
Gabriel Lobet ’22 is a Customer Operations Intern at MCE in California.
Nattamon (Jeep) Maneenoi ’22 is a M.S. student at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego. She found her niche at Carleton!
Declan Ramirez ’22 is a graduate student conducting archaeomagnetic research at the Institute for Rock Magnetism (IRM) while working towards a Master of Science degree at the University of Minnesota.
Hana e Uyeda ’22 is a Marketing Coordinator in New York City for Starr Whitehouse, a national Landscape Architecture firm.
Jahmaine Renzo “Jaren” Yambing ’22 is a Churchill Scholar at the University of Cambridge in England.

Sam Anderson ’21 is a Graduate Student in Paleoanthropology at Indiana University
Julia Baumgarte ’21 is a PhD student in Earth and Planetary Sciences at McGill University in Montreal. She recently wrote on 3D Printing Natural Faults for Rock Friction Experiments.
Lorraine Byrne ’21 is a Brownfields Project Manager US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in Boston.
Erin Dyke ’21 is a Scholar Coach at Lindlom Math & Science Academy in Chicago.
Samara Kroeger ’21 is a Wilderness Guide at YMCA Camp Widjiwagan in northern Minnesota.
Ollie Laub ’21 is a graduate student in Geology with Don Penman ’07 at Utah State University.
Oren Lieber-Kotz ’21 is a Research Analyst at David Gardiner and Associates in Virginia. He writes articles for the Renewable Thermal Collaborative.
Rebecca Muhlheim ’21 co-authored a research paper on Mass Loss from Greenland’s Peripheral Glaciers.
Lena Nyblade ’21 is a Staff Scientist at Geosyntec Consultants in Minneapolis.
Amelia Papajohn ’21 is a Project Geologist at Tetra Tech.
Jacyn Schmidt ’21 is a Regional Geoscience Specialist with the Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes in Alaska.
Dennis Wei ’21 is working on a Mster’s Degree in Energy Systems Management at the University of San Francisco.
Ellen Wei ’21 is a College Counselor for Collegiate Directions in Maryland.
Jacob Bransky ’20 is a Civil Engineering Student at the University of Minnesota.
Joey Castaneda ’20 is an Environment Specialist at The Institute for Environmental Assessment, Inc. (IEA) in Minnesota.
Alice Hinzmann ’20 is working on a masters and teaching in Earth and Environmental Science at the University of Iowa.
Berit Hudson-Rasmussen ’20 was one of Carleton’s first three Paglia Post-Baccalaureate Research Fellows.
Natalie Hummel ’20 is a Fulbright Fellow in Aachen, Germany, studying oceanic subduction zones
Nora Mertz ’20 is an MD Candidate at Michigan State University College of Human Medicine.
Margaret Anne Puzak ’20 is an Office Administrator at Cardinal Properties in Minneapolis.
Caleb Rosen ’20 is a PhD student in the Amend Lab in Earth Sciences at the University of Southern California.
Jordan Shapiro ’20 was a Sustainability Assistant during his senior year at Carleton.
Allegra Tashjian ’20 is a PhD student in Earth and Planetary Science at Northwestern University in Illinois.
Elizabeth Zhu ’20 is an Analyst at The Lantau Group in Singapore. She does consulting and research projects focused on the Asia Pacific energy industry.

2020s | 2000s | 1990s | 1980s | 1970s & earlier

Geology Alumni, 2010–2019

Adam Berkebile ’19 is working on a Masters degree in Sustainable Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania.
Natasha Dietz ’19 is working on a Master’s in Computer and Information Technology at the University of Pennsylvania.
Aaron Frankl ’19 is an Environmental Scientist at Houston Engineering in the Twin Cities.

Nicholas Gross Almonte ’19 is a Geological Sciences MS Candidate at Stanford University. While at Carleton he researched the Age and Provenance of part of the Chugach-Prince William Terrane in Alaska.
Quentin Hirsch ’19 is a Research and Development Scientist for Aramco Overseas Company in the Netherlands.
Sophie Homans ’19 is an ORISE Research Participant with the U.S. EPA Office of Water at Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education.
Eliza Malakoff ’19 is working on a Masters in Earth Science, studying the transport of wood in mountain rivers, at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire.
Alysala Malik ’19 is a Medical Student at Columbia University in New York where she led a study on drug resistance in Madagascar. While she was a Carleton student she researched the Age of Turbidites in the Chugach and Prince William Terranes in Alaska.
Dylan Murphy ’19 is an Staff Geologist with Trihydro Corporation in California.
Sarah Ogle ’19 is a Graduate Student at Scripps Institution of Oceanography studying Climate Science. She’s researching how fires are changing the surface and groundwater hydrology in California.
Sylvie Polonsky ’19 is a Geologist at Teton Skies in Wyoming .
Kaitlin Schaible ’19 is a PhD Student making earthquake waves at the Jackson School of Geosciences at the University of Texas at Austin.
Clarissa Smith ’19 is a Graduate Student in Geology at San Jose State University in California and a Lab Assistant with the USGS.
Austin Sorscher ’19 is a Geologist at Stantec in Austin, Texas.
Sara Wall ’19 is an ORISE Research Fellow with the U.S. Forest Service in Washington State. She recently published on a Runoff-initiated post-fire debris flow in the Western Cascades, Oregon.
Taiyi Wang ’19 is a PhD candidate in geophysics in Geology and Mathematics at Stanford University.
Sarah Ward ’19 is a Graduate Research Assistant and PhD candidate at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee. Here’s her Twitter feed.

Erin Arntson ’18 is the Summer Liberal Arts Institute Coordinator at Carleton College.
Alexa Botelho ’18 is a Technical Account Manager at LiveRamp in New York City.
Aidan Burdick ’18 is a Graduate Student at Northwestern University interested in using paleoclimatic signals stored in lake sediments to understand climate change over the last 20,000 years.
Jonas Donnenfield ’18 is a Ph.D. Student at Oregon State University studying paleoclimatology and paleoceanography, focusing on marine sediment cores from the Pacific Northwest margin during past warm periods to understand climate change.
Katie Grosh ’18 is a Faith Initiative Coordinator at the Grace Farms Foundation, pursuing environmental justice through faith.
Megan Harder ’18 is a writer of children’s books based in Illinois who publishes through Lerner Publishing Group in St. Paul. Two of her recent works are Explore Space Stations and Explore Rovers.
Victoria Jolly ’18 is a Staff Geologist at Terracon Consultants in Oklahoma.
Konrad Krogstad ’18 is a Research Technician at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, examining soil response to winter processes.
Peter Lindquist ’18 is a graduate student working on a PhD in Geology at the University of Washington.
Emma Link ’18 is a Soil Science graduate student at the University of Minnesota studying the soil health and climate resilience of perennial Kernza cropping systems. She recently gave a presentation on “Soil health and microbial communities in annual and perennial cropping systems in Minnesota.”
Chris Parsons ’18 is a graduate student in Geobiology at MIT studying microbial evolutionary history in deep time by finding evidence of life’s past within modern genetic sequence data.
Ian Peters ’18 is an Environmental Scientist at Atlas Technical Consultants in Wisconsin.
Corrie Lucchesi Piehowski ’18 is a Construction Materials Petrographer at Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates in Illinois.
Grace Pipes ’18 is in medical school at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York.
Kaya Stitzhal ’18 is an Assistant Teacher at the Valley School in Seattle.
Eliza Thomas ’18 is a Conservation Community Coordinator at National Aquarium in Maryland.
Preston Wallin ’18 is an Account Manager at Ring Power Utility Equipment in Georgia.
Yijun Wang ’18 is an Earth modelling PhD student at the University of Oslo in Norway.
Miranda Wiebe ’18 is working on a Masters in Social Work at Smith College in Massachusetts.
Ying Zhang ’18 is a Landscape Designer with Reed Hilderbrand LLC Landscape Architecture in Massachusetts.

Josie Arcuri ’17 is working on her PhD at the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Peter Barron ’17 is a Geographic Information Systems Analyst at Apex Clean Energy in New York State.
Pete Boerma ’17 was a Veterinary Assistant at Westside Animal Clinic in South Dakota.
Kira Bornong ’17 recently wrote on how LiDAR mapping shows details that traditional photography can’t.
Willie Freimuth ’17 wrote on the amazing Paleontology of Egg Mountain while he was working on an MS in Earth Sciences-Paleontology (trace fossils) at Montana State University.
Andrew Keene ’17 is a Geophysicist at SM Energy Company in Colorado.
Charles Linneman ’17 interned in Alaska with the National Park Service.
Mara MacDonell ’17 is working on a Masters of Environmental Science at Yale. She recently wrote on Rural Gentrification as a Contributor to the Housing Crisis.
Spencer O’Bryan ’17 is a Science and Collections Information Coordinator at the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens. While at Carleton Spencer researched the Effects of Beaver Occupations on a Sediment Budget.
Haley Olson ’17 is a PhD Student in Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University. She co-authored a paper about Triple oxygen isotope insight into terrestrial pyrite oxidation.
Erin Patrick ’17 is a Science Teacher at The Sage School in Massachusetts.
Stefan Payne-Wardenaar ’17 is a Scientific Visualizer at Heidelberg University. He worked on animation for this video about the Milky Way.
Maximilian Rohde ’17 is a Biostatistics Graduate Student at Vanderbilt University.
Emily Ross ’17 is a PhD student at Iowa State University in Ames working on designing, documenting, and analyzing physical models of off-fault deformation on strike-slip faults. She spent a year as a Watson Fellow studying the intersection of geology and ceramics in several countries. Here is her web site and her contact info.
Chloe Rouhandeh ’17 is an MBA Candidate at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.
Jesse Rubin ’17 works at Dynamic Graphics in California.
Leah Sacks ’17 is a graduate student in Planetary Geology at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario (her entry is toward the bottom of the page in alphabetical order). She participated in a simulation of driving a rover on the moon.
Aaron Schwab ’17 is a MD-PhD Student at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha.
Anna Thompson ’17 is a Scientist In The Parks for the National Park Service in Alaska. As a Carleton student she researched Vesicle Distribution in Glaciovolcanic Pillow Lava in Iceland. Here is her personal web site.
Erin Young-Dahl ’17 is a Physical Scientist at the US Environmental Protection Agency.

Noah Anderson ’16 is a graduate student in paleoecology with Kristin Bergmann ’04 at M.I.T.
Nelson Bandy ’16 is a Geologist and Outdoor Enthusiast. While he was a Carleton student, he studied a Hyaloclastite Derived From A Basaltic Magma in Iceland.
William Chapman ’16 is a Graduate Student in Earth Science at UC Santa Cruz, California.
Ilana Crankshaw ’16 is a Water Resource Engineer at DiNatale Water Consultants in Boulder.
Elizabeth Davis ’16 is a Graduate Student in Archaeology and the Ancient World at Brown University.
Sally Donovan ’16 is a Graduate Research Fellow at the National Science Foundation. While she was at Carleton she researched the Effects of Historic Charcoal Production on Soil Morphology and Geochemistry in Northwestern Connecticut.
Sarah Jordan ’16 is a Project Engineer in hydrology and water management at LimnoTech in Minnesota. While at Carleton she researched the Strain Path and Thermal History of a Quartzite in the Deep Crust of an Orogenic Plateau in Nevada.
Shanti Penprase ’16 is a PhD Student in Earth and Environmental Studies at University of Minnesota in the Twin Cities. While at Carleton Shanti researched the Leaching Behavior of a Goethite Acid Mine Drainage effluent. In 2022 Shanti was honored by the American Geophysical Union with an Outstanding Student Presentation Award for two papers, Impacts of Changing Climate and Glacially Driven Base Level on an Upper Mississippi River Tributary During the Most Recent Glacial post-Glacial Transition AND Using Paired Optically Stimulated Luminescence and Cosmogenic Nuclide 10Be Dating to Understand Changes in Erosion Rate within a Fill Cut Terrace Sequence: Whitewater River, Southeastern Minnesota, USA.
Forrest Williams ’16 is a Research Software Engineer with the Alaska Satellite Facility.

Lydia Auner ’15 is an Environmental Geologist with TRC Companies in Madison, Wisconsin.
Anders Berglund is a Law Student at Mitchell Hamline School of Law in Minneapolis.
Luke Fairchild ’15 is an Associate Data Scientist at KoBold Metals in Wisconsin.
Bill Grimm ’15 is a Staff GIS Analyst at Aspect Consulting in Seattle. While at Carleton, Bill did a research project on the Provenance of the Orca Group of the Chugach-Prince William Terrane in Alaska.
Emily Houlihan ’15 is an Engineering Geologist at the State Water Resources Control Board in California.
Jabari Jones ’15 is a PhD Student in Geomorphology and Diversity Pre-Doc Fellow at the University of Minnesota and wrote on the need for Accomplices, Not Allies in the Fight for an Equitable Geoscience. He also finds geology field trips invaluable in enhancing the learning experiences of undergraduate students.
Charles Kaufman ’15 is self-employed and works with Applied Inference to provide program evaluation for educational grants and other programs requesting statistical analysis.
Rudy Molinek ’15 is a Geoscience Graduate Student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who publishes the Under Our Feet podcast series. While he was a Carleton student he did a research project on the Ages and Provenance of part of the Tofino Basin Sedimentary Sequence in the Olympic Peninsula of Washington.
Leah Nelson ’15 is a Staff Scientist at S.S. Papadopulos & Associates, Inc. in Maryland and Washington D.C.
Jayne Pasternak ’15 is a homemaker for the Dessonville family in the Twin Cities.
Jeremy Randolph-Flag ’15 teaches General Science and Geoscience classes at Linn-Benton Community College in Oregon.
Julia Reich ’15 is working on a Masters DEgree in College Student Services Administration at Oregon State University.
Lauren Salberg ’15 is a Geologist at West Yost Associates in Caifornia.
Emma Schneider ’15 is a Quaternary Geologist with the Minnesota Geological Survey.
Jackson Vanfleet-Brown ’15 works in Observatory Operations as the American Samoa Station Chief for NOAA Corps.
Jacob Viesselman ’15 is a Software Engineer working on Swell, an API development tool for monitoring and testing API endpoints.

Sarah Alexander ’14 was recently named a AAAS Science and Technology Fellow to serve with USAID as a Water Policy Advisor in the Bureau for Resilience and Food Security Center for Water Security, Sanitation, and Hygiene. She recently co-authored an article on Mitigating the Impacts of Green Gentrification When Constructing New Bike Paths.
Cassandra Brigham ’14 is a PhD Candidate in neotectonics and geomorphology at the University of Washington in Seattle.
Catherine Christenson ’14 is working on a PhD in Hydrogeology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She’s also a Hydrologic Technician for the US Geological Survey.
Jennie Chu ’14 is an Engineering Manager at Seesaw Learning in San Francisco.
Anderson Cole ’14 is working on a Masters of the Environmental at the Univeristy of Colorado at Boulder and he is Operations Coordinator for KDNK Community Radio in Colorado.
Brian Frett ’14 is a Propane Trader at CHS, an agricultural co-op in Minnesota. While he was a Carleton student he did a research project on the Ages of the Paleocene Orca Group and Upper Cretaceous Valdez Group in Alaska.
Chelsea Wagner Gendron ’14 is an Eighth Grade Science Teacher in North Attleboro, Massachusetts.
Mary Reagan Harvey ’14 is Senior Growth Marketing Manager at Ellevest in Chicago.
Rachel Johnson ’14 is a Water Resources Engineer with Herrera Environmental Consultants in Seattle. At Carleton, she researched Delta Progradation in a Flood Control Reservoir in Massachusetts.
Maureen Kahn ’14 is a Content Specialist at the Science Education Resource Center in Northfield and an Artist interested in observation and natural sciences. She participated in a geologic mapping excursion in Idaho and Eastern Oregon.
Elizabeth Kimberly ’14 is a Fluvial Geomorphologist at Anchor QEA in Bellingham WA. She also writes creative stories and science communication pieces for publications like the Mount Baker Experience, Craft MTN, and the Mazamas magazine.
Ryan Lawrence ’14 is a Restoration Ecologist for the New York Restoration Project.
Lucy Livesay ’14 is Communications Director at Protect 30×30 in Colorado.

Chloe Nelson ’14 is an Environmental Protection Specialist at the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in California.
Mariah Radue ’14 is an Environmental Coordinator at the Bridger-Teton National Forest in Wyoming. She recently co-authored a study Quantifying 40 Years of Rockfalls in the Yosemite Valley.
Brianna Rick ’14 is a ORISE Postdoc with the Alaska Climate Adaptation Science Center. While she was at Carleton, Brianna researched the Ages of Detrital Zircons on Baranof Island in Alaska.
Milana Socha ’14 is Head Swim Coach at Dartmouth College. Here’s another story about her.
Kaopua Sutton ’14 is an Assistant Track and Field Coach at the University of Hawai’i.
Cameron Webb ’14 is a Sourcing Manager, Marketplace Procurement at Nike Inc. in Oregon and he coaches baseball at a local high school.
Josh Zoellmer ’14 is a Geologist at Kraemer Mining and Materials in Minnesota; here’s his personal web site describing his passion for the outdoors and applications of GIS to a career doing meaningful conservation-related science.

Thomas Birren ’13 is a Staff Geologist at SCS Engineers Long Beach in California.
Schuyler Metcalf ’13 is a Senior Consultant at the IT firm Wostmann and Associates in Juneau, Alaska.
Lillian Pearson ’13 is graduate student investigating coastal hazards in the geologic record using microfossil analysis at the University of Southern Mississippi. She recently gave a talk on Using microfossils to identify tsunamis and hurricanes in the geologic record.
Rose Prullage ’13 is a Collection Management Librarian at Mackin Educational Resources in Minnesota.
Nicolas Roberts ’13 teaches Geology at Hamilton College in New York. While he was at Carleton he researched Radioactive Isotopes in the Chugach-Prince William Terrane in Alaska.
Caroline Scheevel ’13 is a Intermediate Geohazard Specialist at BGC Engineering in Colorado.
Kaj Snow ’13 is an Environmental Geophysics Geologist with Parsons Corp. in Denver.
Tyler Schuetz Watkins ’13 is a Project Professional at SCS Engineers in California. When she was a Carleton student she researched the Paleoenvironment of the Chickaloon Formation in Alaska Through Fossil Assemblages.
Taylor LaCasse Willow ’13 is a GIS Specialist with the US Forest Service in Colorado.
Andrew Wolter ’13 is a Customer Support Analyst at SPS Commerce in Minneapolis.

Charlotte Alster ’12 is a Lecturer at the Lincoln University in New Zealand working on microbial ecology, biogeochemistry and science communication. She has published on Temperature Sensitivity of Soil Microbes. Check out her stunning water ballet on microbial activity in soils. Charlotte recently was awarded the Likens Award For Soil Science.
Sarah Berry ’12 is an Environmental Professional who is an Office Manager at Hillman Consulting in Massachusetts.
Adam Denny ’12 earned a PhD in Geochemistry at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. He recently published an article on the history of pore water oxygen isotope evolution in the Cretaceous Travis Peak Formation in East Texas.
Hannah Hilbert-Wolf ’12 is a Program Coordinator for NSF Research Traineeships at Washington State University. When she was a Carleton student she did a field research paper on the Provenance of a Unit of the Orca Group in the Chugach-Prince William Terrane in Alaska.
Laura Hockenbury ’12 is a Masters Student in Industrial-Organizational Psychology and a Speaker Coach in Boulder, Colorado. She gave an excellent TEDx talk on life as a service worker.
Evan Johnson ’12 is an Application Security Engineer at BigCommerce.
Elizabeth Lundstrom ’12 is a Geochemical Analyst at the University of Minnesota.
Ailsa McCulloch ’12 is Canada West Lead, North America Funding Program and Project Manager (Environmental Services) at Stantec in British Columbia, Canada.
Peter Scheuermann ’12 is a Postdoctoral Researcher at The University of British Columbia working on enhanced weathering of minerals to convert atmospheric CO₂ into benign carbonate minerals. He also is the CTO and Co-founder of Carbin Minerals Inc.
Zach Stewart ’12 is a Aquatic Invasive Species Coordinator for Douglas County, Wisconsin, and an Adjunct Lecturer in Outdoor Education at Northland College in Wisconsin.
Angus Vaughan ’12 is a Hydrologist and Geomorphologist with the USGS.

Alex Walker ’12 is a Geographic Information System Specialist at Salt Lake City Corporation in Utah. Here is his web site.
Nina Whitney ’12 is the Student Engagement Lead in Marine and Coastal Science at Western Washington University. Here is her web site. She recently led a study that found that r apid 20th century warming has reversed a 900-year cooling in the Gulf of Maine. When she was at Carleton she did a field research project on the Geochemistry of Volcanic Dikes in Northwest Iceland.
Griffin Williams ’12 is head brewer and founder in his family’s brewery in Seattle.

Miki Beavis ’11 is a member of a band called Peter Doherty & The Puta Madres; they recently released a new album. Here’s a video of her performing in the band.
Will Betke-Brunswick ’11 is a transgender and nonbinary cartoonist.
Annie Boucher ’11 is a Masters student at the University of Maine and Program Manager for the Juneau Icefield Research Program in Alaska.
Benjamin Chilson-Parks ’11 is an Assistant Professor in Residence in the Department of Geosciences at the University of Connecticut.
Nick Holschuh ’11 teaches Climate Studies in Geology at Amherst College in Massachusetts. He also studies the Antarctic Ice Sheet and was a co-author on a seminal paper about researching ice dynamics in continental glaciers.
Ray McGaughey ’11 is Director of Admissions and Financial Aid at High Mountain Institute in Colorado.
Alissa Morson ’11 is Assistant Director for Strategic Communication and Recruitment at Minnesota State University, Mankato.
Alice Newman ’11 is working on a PhD at the University of Bergen in Norway.
Masaru Nobu ’11 is a Research Scientist at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Japan. He recently was lead author on a paper entitled Unique H₂-utilizing lithotrophy in serpentinite-hosted systems publised in the ISME Journal.
Noah Randolph-Flagg ’11 is a Staff Scientist at the Blue Marble Space Institute of Science in Seattle. He recently co-authored a paper on Exposed columns in the Valles Caldera ignimbrites as records of hydrothermal cooling, Jemez Mountains in New Mexico.
Ana Vang ’11 is a Public Policy Advisor for the electric utility Minnesota Power.
Andrew Walters ’11 is a Postdoctoral Research Scientist at the University of Arizona.
Adrienne Wilber ’11 is profiled in this piece from the Sitka (Alaska) Conservation Society. And here’s a neat story from NPR about Adrienne fishing with her father. She also raises bees.
Amanda Yourd ’11 is a Hydrologist for the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources.

Lila Battis ’10 is a freelance writer, editor, and former senior editor at Travel + Leisure in New York. Here are some of her recent stories.
Laura Bazzetta ’10 is the Sales Manager at the gourmet cooking store Arome and the owner-operator at Horseradish Ranch LLC in the Columbia River Gorge in Washington.
James Bethune ’10 is a Performance Analyst with Piru Associates.
David Brink-Roby ’10 is a Lecturer at Auburn University in Alabama. The Geology Department there publishes an excellent annual newsletter!
Sarah Crump ’10 – We are deeply saddened to note that Sarah passed away on November 18, 2022, shortly after establishing a Graduate Fellowship Fund at the University of Colorado, Boulder’s Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research. She was an NSF postdoctoral fellow at UC Santa Cruz studying arctic & alpine paleoecology.
Travis Drake ’10 is a Carbon Biogeochemist and a Post-Doctoral Researcher in Sustainable Agroecosystems in Switzerland.
Jordan Epstein ’10 is a cofounder and CEO of NewCo in California. He has founded several companies that offer services to make the world a better place.
Nathan Evenson ’10 is a Geologist at Kane Environmental Inc. in Seattle.
Neil Foley ’10 teaches Physics and Environmental Geophysics at Montana Western.
Mark Hagemann ’10 is a Data Scientist at EAB in Virginia.
Lauren Howell ’10 is a Systems Engineer at Sierra Nevada Corporation in Colorado.
William Jacobson ’10 is a Software Engineer at GoodRx in California.
Sam Kanner ’10 is a Co-Founder and CEO at Aikido Technologies, making it easier to manufacture and deploy floating wind turbines around the world.
Dylan Linet ’10 is a Design Build and Real Estate Agent in Minneapolis.
Zach Montes ’10 works at a media company in Wyoming that helps local non-profits tell their stories through modern channels.
Michael Mooney ’10 is an EMT and Nurse in Maryland.
Allison Pfeiffer ’10 is teaches Fluvial Geomorphology at Western Washington University. She recently presented a talk on The Origin and Fate of Volcanic Sediments in Fluvial Systems
Kimberly Elson Pollock ’10 is Head Of Production at Camino Brewing Co. in California.
Andrew Ritts ’10 is a petroleum geologist.
Nate Ryan ’10 is a freelance Photographer, Director, and Visual Content Strategist. He took the pictures for this New York Times story.
Julia Schwarz ’10 is a Hydrogeologist with the Washington State Department of Ecology.
Chelsea Scott ’10 is a Research Geophysicist imaging natural hazards from above, and an Assistant Research Scientist at Arizona State University.
Stuart Sweeney Smith ’10 is a Product Environmental Analyst at Google.
Allison Vitkus ’10 is a Resource Management Assistant at the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology in Alberta.
Sibo Wang ’10 is a Senior Technical Support Analyst at Harvard Business School.
Sophie Williams ’10 owns and runs Raven Breads, a bakery in Bellingham, Washington. Here’s her blog.

2010s | 2000s | 1990s | 1980s | 1970s & earlier

Geology Alumni, 2000–2009

Jonathan Aronson ’09 is an Anesthesiology Resident at the University of Arkansas for Medical Science in Little Rock.
Kathryn Buckner ’09 is a Senior Staff Counsel at the South Carolina Administrative Law Court.
Kort Butler ’09 is a member of the Field Staff with Braun Intertec Corporation.

Lauren Colwell ’09 is a Principal Consultant at Environmental Resources Management in the Twin Cities.
Kirke Elsass ’09 is a PhD student in Environmental History at Montana State University-Bozeman with interests in the environment, geology, transnational movement of goods, and industrialization. He has published on the history and cultural ramifications of cement.
Aaron Fricke ’09 finished his PhD in 2017 and then stayed on as a post-doc at the University of Washington to finish a project examining morphodynamics of the Ayeyarwady tidal river in Myanmar. He co-authored a paper entitled Morphological evolution of a macrotidal back‐barrier environment: The Amazon Coast.
Mary Henke-Haney ’09 is Education Coordinator for the City of St. Paul, Minnesota.
Justin LaMont ’09 is a System Architect – CRM Systems with the Sierra Club in California.
Tiffany Cox Leonard ’09 is a Science Editor at Compuscript Limited and a Science Curriculum Writer at Renaissance Learning in Illinois.
Katie Marks ’09 lives at the intersection of marketing and science as a Marketing Operations Lead at Cielo in Wisconsin.
Maija Sipola ’09 teaches Geoarchaeology and Environmental Geology at Miami University in Ohio.
Kristin Sweeney ’09 is an Assistant Professor in Environmental Studies at The University of Portland in Oregon. Here is her website. She recently gave a talk entitled Landscapes on the fringe: From volcanoes to rocky coasts.
Phil Varella ’09 is a Fossil Preparator at Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona.
Elizabeth Webb ’09 is a postdoctoral Researcher in Arctic Ecosystem Ecology at the University of Florida in Gainsville. She recently co-authored a paper on Siberian Ecosystems as Drivers of Cryospheric Climate Feedbacks in the Terrestrial Arctic.

Katie Bovee ’08 is an Environmental Educator at Lake Country School in Boyceville in western Wisconsin.
Michael Barrett ’08 has a bakery called Bicycle Pies in San Francisco.
Dan Callahan ’08 is a Software Engineer at Suborbital Software Systems in the UK.
Karin Brown Colby ’08 is Head Men’s and Women’s Swimming Coach at Swarthmore College.
Matt Dettinger ’08 is an Academic Editor at Research Square.
Ethan Hyland ’08 teaches sedimentology, stratigraphy and paleontology at North Carolina State University. He is also Principal Investigator with the Paleo3 Research Group. He recently co-authored a paper on the Rise of the Colorado Plateau.
Hannah Kinzie ’08 is a Geologist and Project Manager with Ernst and Young in Chicago.
Calvin Lieu ’08 is an Exchange Program Developing Manager at The Royal Academy of Mandarin and Chinese Culture in Hong Kong, and a Language Teacher of English and Chinese for Groupe Nova Performance – Nova Langues in France.
Tyler Mackey ’08 teaches Sedimentology at the University of New Mexico.
Cicely Miltich ’08 is an Attorney in Employment Law with Lathrop GPM LLP in Minneapolis.
Marc Monbouquette ’08 is a Regulatory Affairs Manager at Enel North America in California.
Samantha Nakata ’08 is a GIS Analyst for Clark County, Washington.
John Nowinski ’08 is Geologist at Brice Environmental Services in Salt Lake City.
Libby Ritz ’08 is an Academic Editor at Research Square.
Sam Roberts ’08 is an Avian Ecologist at the University of Delaware.
Perry Spector ’08 is a Data Scientist at Lineage Logistics in Seattle.
Lydia Staisch ’08 is a Research Geologist with the US Geological Survey in California. Here’s her personal web site. She recently published on Cascadia Subduction Zone Earthquakes.
Clara Tsang ’08 is a Public Information Officer for the City of San Gabriel, California.

Lauren Andrews ’07 is a Research Physical Scientist at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. She recently published a paper on water movements affecting Greenland’s glaciers. Here is her personal web site.
Sarah Bergman ’07 teaches secondary school science in Denver.
Keith Christianson ’07 is a geologist for Chevron.
Nate Dixon ’07 is a Flight Reliability Engineer at SpaceX.
Mark Dyson ’07 is a Managing Director at Rocky Mountain Institute in Colorado. He has written numerous articles about electrical energy.
Jack Gibbons ’07 is a Geochemist/Data Scientist with Life Cycle Geo, LLC in Duluth.
Willy Guenthner ’07 teaches structural geology and geochronology at The University Of Illinois; here is a list of recent news articles about Dr. Guenthner’s work.
Kelly Hereid ’07 is Director, Catastrophe Research & Development at Liberty Mutual Insurance in Pennsylvania.
Gloria Jimenez ’07 is a Market & Product Specialist – Catastrophe Risk Management at RMS – A Moody’s Analytics Company.
John Kracum ’07 is Chief Gaming Officer at Misfits Gaming Group in Florida.
Ross Mitchell ’07 is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Geology and Geophysics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. In this video, Dr. Mitchell explains True Polar Wander.
Kendra Murray ’07 teaches Mineralogy and Petrology, Tectonics and Geomorphology at Idaho State University. Here is her personal web site.
Selena Pang ’07 is an Environmental Scientist at the San Francisco Estuary Institute.
Sarina Yospin Partridge ’07 is a musician, song-leader and educator in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She is a Songleader and Organizer for Minnesota Interfaith Power & Light. Here’s one of her many songs.
Donald Penman ’07 teaches Paleoceanography, Sedimentology, and Geochemistry at Utah State University.
Megan Rohrssen ’07 is a Cofounder at the Data Engagement and Access Project in Bainbridge Island, Washington.
Ellen Root ’07 is Director Of Fun at the Northern Delicious CSA in northern Minnesota and a guide at Wintergreen Dogsled Lodge. She won a Rhubarb Leaf Contest with a YUUUGE rhubarb leaf!
Susan Schnur ’07 is the Publications Group Manager at the Washington State Department of Natural Resources.
Dan Shapiro ’07 is an Attorney at Winston & Strawn in New York.
Cliff (Swanson) Swanberg ’07 is a Logistics Manager with Travel Professionals in New Orleans.
Carl Ulberg ’07 is a Software Engineer at the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network in Seattle.

Kelsey Dyez ’06 is a Research Lab Specialist at the University of Michigan at the University of Michigan in environmental science. Here is his personal website.
Lee Finley-Blasi ’06 researched the ages of the Fond Du Lac and Hinckley Sandstone Formations when he was a Carleton student.
Dan Jones ’06 teaches Geomicrobiology at New Mexico Tech and researches cave geomicrobiology.
Rachel Brown Reid ’06 is a Paleoecologist at Virginia Tech (scroll down for her profile) interested in how disturbances, such as climate and environmental change, impact species, ecosystems, and their interactions over a range of timescales. Here are some of her presentations.

Michael Bagley ’05 is a Geologist at PBS Engineering and Environmental Inc. in Seattle.
Tim Beaster ’05 is a Conservation Specialist for the South St. Louis Soil and Water Conservation District. He co-authored a report on Stressors In The Lake Superior Watershed.
Will Gallin ’05 is a Landslide Hazards Geologist for the Washington State Geological Survey; when he was at Carleton he studied the geology of Mongolia. He co-authored a recent paper on Landslide Susceptibility of the Columbia Gorge.
Callen Hyland is a Senior Research Scientist at the University of San Diego in California.
Karla Knudson ’05 is a Data Scientist at Google Cloud in California.
Emily LeVine ’05 operates a vegetable farm in Idaho. She knows how to Garden For The Apocalypse.
Andrew Lorenz ’05 is an Environmental Engineer at Arcadis in Detroit.
Louise Miltich ’05 is an Energy Program Director at the Minnesota Department of Commerce.
Pam Moeller ’05 is a GIS Analyst and Geologist with the consulting firm Jacobs in Olympia, Washington.
Cristina Robins ’05 is a University Lecturer in Invertebrate Paleontology at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Ellen Schaal ’05 is an Instructor in Environmental Science and Studies at DePaul University in Chicago. She recently contributed to an article on Implications of Giant Ooids for the Carbonate Chemistry of Early Triassic Seawater.
Emily Schwing ’05 is a Reporter for Reveal and Freelancer for NPR, the New York Times, PRI, CBC, BBC and other news outlets.
Marisa Sowles ’05 is a Water Resource Specialist at Geum environmental Consulting in Montana.
Nick Swanson-Hysell ’05 teaches Earth History and Systems at UC-Berkeley. He recently published on Rapid Massive Intrusions in the Duluth Complex. In this video Nick explains Two Billion Years Of Laurentia Tectonics.

Kristin Bergmann ’04 teaches sedimentary geology at M.I.T. She wins praise from her students for doing a great job of explaining the basics as well as taking a deep dive into the earth’s geological and biological history, by examining rocks, minerals, and fossils. She also works toward Diversity and Inclusion. Here she gets students to think hard about the past.
Sean Bryan ’04 teaches Geology at Colorado State University.
Dave Auerbach Colwyn ’04 is a Research Affiliate at The University of Colorado at Boulder. Here is his personal web page.
Jeff Dorr ’04 is a Senior Analyst at J Capital Research in Hong Kong.
Annaliese Eipert Miller ’04 is a Geologist with NewFields in Montana.
Joseph Graly ’04 studies the chemical evolution of arctic rocks at Northumbria University Newcastle in the U.K.
Kristin James ’04 is a veterinarian in Idaho.
Lyndsey Kleppin ’04 is a geologist with the consulting firm Jacobs in Alaska.
Bess Koffman ’04 is a geology professor at Colby College in Maine. She studies past changes in Earth’s climate system using a combination of field and laboratory approaches.
Breanyn MacInnes ’04 teaches geology at Central Washington University. She is particularly interested in Coastal Geology, Geoarchaeology, Neotectonics, and Sediment Transport and Erosion. Here is her LinkedIn page.
Sarah Margoles ’04 teaches Science at Miller Middle School in Durango, Colorado. She teaches Space Science!
Leah Morgan ’04 is a Research Geologist with the US Geological Survey’s Geology, Geophysics, and Geochemistry Science Center in Denver.
Brandon Murphy ’04 is a Geologist with Divis Consulting in California.
Gabe Nelson ’04 is a Lab and Field Operations Manager with PV Lab in Australia, a specialized test lab that works on photovoltaic equipment.
Kristin O’Connell ’04 is an Evaluation/Education Specialist for the Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College.
Lisa Kanner Welsh ’04 is a Project Scientist at Geosyntec Consultants in California.

Liz Cassel ’03 teaches Tectonics and Sedimentology at the University of Idaho. Here is her research project website; she coauthored this paper on Accelerating exhumation in the Eocene North American Cordilleran hinterland.
Amalia Doebbert ’03 is an Exploration Geologist for Total in Texas.
Nancy Harris ’03 is a Groundwater Geologist for the Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality.
Benjamin Harrison ’03 i s the Director of the Data Engagement and Access Project on Bainbridge Island, Washington.
Melissa Keevil ’03 took a trip powered by waste road fat.
Tiffany Larsen ’03 is an Apparel Buyer at Pine Mountain Sports in Bend, Oregon.
Marshall Sundberg ’03 is a Geology Advisor with Hess Corporation in Houston.
Graham Zorn ’03 is an attorney in the Washington, D.C. office of Beveridge & Diamond, P.C., specializing in Environmental Law.

Christian Andreassi ’02 is a Research Finance Analyst at the University of California-San Francisco.
Heather Borkowski ’02 is a sensory herbologist, farmer and personal coach in Scotland.
Kizzy Charles-Guzman ’02 is an Environmental Health Policy and Sustainability Professional and Executive Director in the New York City Mayor’s Office. In this video she discusses how New York City residential buildings can be made more climate-resistant.
Lauren Chetel ’02 is a Geologist for BP Oil in Houston.
Elizabeth Clark ’02 is a Computational Hydrologist, Wastewater Engineer (Modeling) with the King County Wastewater Treatment Division in Seattle.
Benjamin Drummond ’02 makes documentaries with his wife and partner Sara Joy Steele on climate change and other global environmental issues. He got a start with his comps project, “Blue Ice”. Here is his LinkedIn page.
Andrew Gendaszek ’02 is a Hydrologist for the U.S. Geological Survey in Washington State.
David Hunziger ’02 is a Woodworker and Operations Manager at Urban Hardwoods in Seattle. He co-authored a book about Native American Artifacts found in Wisconsin.
Matt Kuharic ’02 is the Climate Change Program Coordinator for King Co., Washington. Matt was consulted by the New York Times about the Climate Impacts of Neighborhoods (near the end of the story).
Katja Meyer ’02 is an teaches Environmental Science at Willamette University in Oregon. Here is her personal home page. She recently coauthored a paper entitled End-Permian marine extinction due to temperature-driven nutrient recycling and euxinia in Nature Geoscience.
David Nickerson ’02 is a Medical Review Officer at Sheridan Memorial Hospital in Wyoming.
Alyssa Thomas ’02 is a Social Science Analyst for the US Forest Service in California.
Hilary Gittings Trethewey ’02 is an Organizational Change Manager at W.L. Gore & Associates in Pennsylvania.

Will Amidon ’01 teaches geology at Middlebury College.
Kate Anders ’01 is Director of Exam Development and Review for the Certification Council for Professional Dog Trainers, Inc.
Phil Anderson ’01 teaches paleontology and evolutionary biology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
James Bishop ’01 is a Carbonate Geologist at Chevron and an Earth Science Advisor in the Reservoir Management Group at Tengizchevroil in Kazakhstan.
Jake Eaton ’01 is a science teacher at Madison Country Day School in Wisconsin.
Scott Hynek ’01 is a Hydrologist for the US Geological Survey in Utah.
Elizabeth Valaas Hyslop ’01 is a Quality Assurance Auditor at PPD Laboratories in Wisconsin.
Ani Kame’enui ’01 is Director of Strategic Initiatives at Breakthrough Energy.
Matthias Kirch ’01 is a Lead Data Analyst at the University of Michigan Institute For Healthcare Policy and Innovation.
Isaac Larsen ’01 is teaches geomorphology and landscape evolution at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst; he recently published ground-breaking research on the pace of soil development.
Jamie Levine ’01 teaches geology at Appalachian State in North Carolina.
Elizabeth Lowham ’01 is Dean of the College of Social Sciences at Fresno State.
Peter McAuliffe ’01 is a Principal and Development Manager at the Seneca Group in Seattle.
Aleshia Mueller ’01 is a filmmaker. She is Director at Sea to See Film in the Twin Cites area, and she owns Reel Nomad Productions.
Laura Cleaveland Peterson ’01 teaches Earth and Environmental Science at Luther College in Iowa.
Ned Phillips ’01 is a Conservation Associate with the Minnesota Land Trust.
Sarah Johnson Phillips ’01 is an attorney in Minneapolis working on renewable energy issues.
Sara Decherd Rutzky ’01 teaches geology at the Scott Northern Wake Technical Community College campus. Here is her LinkedIn page.
Anne Sawyer ’01 is an Extension Educator in Water Resources at the University of Minnesota Extension. Here’s a nice profile of her. She recently gave an interesting talk on The Relationship Between Compost and Soil Organic Matter.
Carl Tape ’01 develops, teaches and applies techniques in computational and observational seismology at the University of Alaska-Fairbanks. Here’s a nice description of his work.
Trent Terriquez ’01 is Principal Technical Program Director at Nike Global Technology.
Kevin Uno ’01 is an Research Professor at Lamont-Doherty in New York. Here he explains how we can address global climate change.
Galen Ward ’01 is Chief Operating Officer and wearer-of-many-hats at Bytewax, an ML infrastructure company.

Tom Alcivar ’00 founded and runs Train Me Tom Fitness.
Christina Berglund ’00 is a land use and environmental attorney at the Remy Moose & Manley law firm in California.
Sara Bertelson Smith ’00 is a Sustainability and Energy Support Manager with the Metropolitan Council of the Twin Cities in Minnesota.
Jean Dixon ’00 teaches geology at Montana State University.
Matt Howard ’00 is a software developer with NTT Data in Madison, Wisconsin.
Jon Jensen ’00 is Director of Sustainability at MaGrann Associates in Pennsylvania.
Zachary Katz ’00 is Vice President, Essential Medicines at Clinton Health Access Initiative in Switzerland.
Anna Nelson Laloe ’00 is an Environmental Consultant supporting clients in developing and achieving their Sustainability goals across multiple industries including the food & beverage, renewable energy and financial sectors. She takes advantage of her life’s adventures in raising her daughters.
Anders Matney ’00 is an Architect at Rehkamp Larson Architects in Minneapolis; among his projects is the new meeting house for the Cannon Valley Friends in Northfield.
Luc Mehl ’00 is an adventurer! He has an active presence on YouTube as well.
Liz Penny ’00 is an Educator, Manager and Trainer of Teams; as a Carleton student she also helped design an internship in a homeless women’s center.
Patrick Roehrdanz ’00 is a manager of Spatial Planning for Area Conservation in Response to Climate Change (SPARC) at Conservation International.
Sean Sturges ’00 is a Financial Advisor at D.A. Davidson Companies in Great Falls, Montana.
Stacy Tellinghuisen ’00 is a Senior Climate Policy Analyst for Western Resource Advocates, a Rocky Mountain area law and policy organization.
Erica Richardson Wallstrom ’00 teaches earth science at Rutland High School in Vermont and is a Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator and Rowland Fellow. Here is her Twitter feed.
Annie Winkler ’00 is an Facilitation and Cooperative Consultant in Vermont.
Liila Woods ’00 is a GaBi Solutions Account Executive at Sphera at Sphera in Seattle.

2010s | 2000s | 1990s | 1980s | 1970s & earlier

Geology Alumni, 1990–1999

Alison Anders ’99 teaches geomorphology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Erika Beyer ’99 is a freelance scientific illustrator and graphic designer.
Mizu Kinney Burruss ’99 is the Executive Director and Project Manager for the Siuslaw Watershed Council in Oregon.
Emily Burton ’99 is an elementary teacher at Ridgeline Montessori School in Oregon.
Marin Byrne ’99 is the Director of Donor Relations and Advancement Operations, Institute on the Environment, in Minneapolis.
Alison Jerris “AJ” Chalom ’99 is an Administrator for the Highland Park Community Foundation in Illinios.
Carrie Davis Todd ’99 teaches geomorphology, hydrology and hydrogeology at Baldwin Wallace University in Ohio. She led an off-campus program in Iceland in 2022.
Ben Deiner ’99 is a physician in California.
Noah Finnegan ’99 teaches geomorphology and tectonics at UC-Santa Cruz. Here is his LinkedIn page.
Brian Fleming ’99 is a financial Advisor at Focus Financial in Minnesota.
Heidi Guetschow ’99 is a Group Director and Lead Counsel at Cadence Design Systems in California.
Erich Heydweiller ’99 is a Geologist with Apache Corporation in Houston.
Bret Higman ’99 is an Alaskan explorer running Ground Truth Trekking and a project manager at Nuka Research and Planning Group. Who’s Bret Higman?
Kate Hofmann ’99 is a freelance writer in Michigan. If you are looking to rent a cute and comfortable camping van for two near Traverse City, MI, you might look her up.
Millie Kimes ’99 teaches math at Portland Waldorf School in Oregon.
Andrew Mattox ’99 is a Data Scientist at Evrnu in Seattle, a company creating regenerative fiber technology.
Chuck McCallum ’99 is a Visualization Software Developer at Harvard Medical School in Massachusetts.
William Pike ’99 is Chief Science and Technology Officer for National Security at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Washington.
Michael Rhodes ’99 is a Division Director of Hospital Medicine at Hennepin Healthcare Minnesota.
David Schneider ’99 is a Research Scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado.
Nate Sheldon ’99 teaches geology and paleoclimates at the University of Michigan.
Mike Smith ’99 teaches sedimentology and geochronology at Northern Arizona University.
Ken Tape ’99 is a Research Assistant Professor in Ecology at the Institute of Northern Engineering, University of Alaska Fairbanks. In this article he examines the expansion of beaver habitat in the Alaskan Arctic.

Megan Anderson ’98 teaches Geology and Geophysics at Colorado College.
Dave Bitner ’98 is the owner of GIS consulting firm dbSpatial LLC in Minnesota.
Josh Bookin ’98 is Director of Instructional Support and Development at Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Martha Carlson Mazur ’98 teaches environmental science and ecology at Bellarmine University in Kentucky.
Kelvin Chan ’98 is a baritone (singer) in New York City.
Nathan Church ’98 is a Researcher at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology at Trondheim.
Joseph Colgan ’98 studies crustal geology for the USGS.
Erik Ekdahl ’98 is Deputy Director, Division of Water Rights, of the California Water Resources Control Board. He recently commented on a new ban on water diversions by larger farmers.
Caroline Elliott ’98 is a USGS geologist who studies river systems. She recently published a paper on Sturgeon Spawning Habitat in the Lower Missouri River.
Pete Erickson ’98 is a Researcher at the Stockholm Environment Institute. He co-authored this article in Scientific American arguing that Fossil-Fuel Subsidies Must End.
Todd Fleming ’98 is Director of College Counseling at Iolani School in Hawaii.
Ada Hamilton ’98 is an Environmental Scientist with Arcadis in Seattle.
Alex Hildebrand ’98 is Chief Assistant Attorney General for the State of Alaska.
Sarah Jarvis ’98 is a Registered Nurse who is now a full-time Mom.
Chris Jones ’98 is Marketing and Communications Director at The Loft Literary Center in the Twin Cities. He also is the author of the book “Behind The Book” exploring the writing process for authors
David Jones ’98 teaches soft rock geology at Amherst College.
Brian Klawiter ’98 is a craftsman specializing in custom cabinetry, stained glass windows, and other home improvements at The Glass Oak LLC in central Minnesota.
Frances Watson Lengowski ’98 is an architect in Virginia.
Lindsay Lightner ’98 advises education students at Washington State University. Here is her bio.
Alison Macalady ’98 is a Water Security Advisor for the United States Agency For International Development (USAID) in their Center for Water Security, Sanitation, and Hygiene in Washington, DC.
Adam Maloof ’98 teaches geology at Princeton.
Miles Mercer ’98 is a Manager of Business Development for the City of Minneapolis.
Peter Moore ’98 teaches geomorphology at Iowa State including geomorphology, glacial processes and environmental impacts.
Anders Nilsson ’98 is a Software Developer for the National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center, National Weather Service and NOAA in Minnesota.
Nick Patterson ’98 is an attorney in Oregon.
Allison Payne ’98 is a geologist with AECOM Environmental Group in Alaska.
Deborah Cussen Scheibe ’98 is a Physical Therapist at Sage Physical Therapy in Seattle.
Kurt Steffen ’98 is a geologist with ExxonMobil Exploration Company.
Dan Thornton ’98 teaches environmental studies at Washington State University.
Trina Vithayathil ’98 teaches Global Studies at Providence College in Rhode Island.

Dave Barbeau ’97 teaches Geology at the University of South Carolina.
Josh Feinberg ’97 teaches Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism at the University of Minnesota.
Dan Feiveson ’97 is a Founding Partner at Legendary Data LLC, which creates business software, in Colorado.
Claire Fellman ’97 is an Associate Principal at Reed Hilderbrand Landscape Architecture in Massachusetts.
John Fiege ’97 is a film maker teaching at the University at Buffalo, New York. In his teaching he advocates or the environment. He passes on his skills and philosophy through internships.
Karen Purdy Gotto ’97 is Sourcing and Procurement Manager for Madison Reed in California.
Kim Knight ’97 is a nuclear forensic research scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
Fawna Korhonen ’97 is a Manager Proterozoic Margins at the Geological Survey of Western Australia. Here is a list of her publications.
Molly Madden ’97 is an Environmental Protection Specialist for the US Environmental Protection Agency.
Erica Oesting Marley ’97 is the Business Administrator of Homer Dental Clinic in Alaska.
David McGee ’97 teaches paleoclimate and geochronology at M.I.T. He recently gave a TEDx talk on Using Ancient Lakes to Understand Future Rainfall.
Katrina Petersen ’97 is a Senior Research Analyst with Trilateral Research Ltd. in England.
Geoff Ruth ’97 is the Assistant Head for Instruction at Urban School of San Francisco. He recently taught a special course on Climate Change.
Lindsay Schoenbohm ’97 teaches Tectonic Geomorphology at the University of Toronto; she specializes in climatic-tectonic interactions. Here is her web site. She gave an online lecture about the underpinnings of the Puna Plateau in Argentina.
Ben Sheets ’97 is a Geoscientist at Barr Engineering in Minneapolis.
Adam Soule ’97 is a Professor of Oceanography and Director of the Ocean Exploration Cooperative Institute at the University of Rhode Island. When he was at Woods Hole he discovered the largest volcanic eruption on record in the deep ocean.
Allison Thomson ’97 is the AgMission Program Director at the Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research in Washington, D.C.
Lisa Van Arsdale ’97 is Assistant Director, Natural Resources & Environment for the Federal Government Accountability Office.
Laura Veirs ’97, a singer/songwriter, has done shows all over North America and Europe; here is her discography page. Here’s a review of her new album.
Ann Zawistoski ’97 has graduated from being an academic librarian to advancing public communication and outreach around climate issues.

Karissa Baker ’96 is a Teacher and Science Department Chair at St. Paul Academy And Summit School in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Vanessa Bodrie ’96 is Program Administrator for Budapest Semesters in Mathematics.
Justin Clarke ’96 is a Transportation Specialist at the US Department of Transportation.
Andrea Stein Figueroa teaches high school science in California.
Josh Galster ’96 teaches environmental geology at Montclair State University.
Karen Bobbitt Gran ’96 is teaching geomorphology and related topics at the University of Minnesota-Duluth. Here are her web page and her LinkedIn page. She also teaches at the Duluth Folk School. She studies water movement in low-gradient landscapes.
Cari Johnson ’96 teaches geology and is Associate Dean for Research at the College of Mines and Earth Sciences at the University of Utah. Here she discusses Signal Shredding.
Allon Katz ’96 is Head of Head of Consumer Portfolio Operations at TPG Global in California specializing in E-commerce/Omnichannel, Consumer and Private Equity.
David Mitchell ’96 is a Hydrologist with Jacobs, an environmental remediation consulting firm in Boston.
Sara Gran Mitchell ’96 teaches Environmental Studies and Geology at Holy Cross College in Massachusetts.
Carrie Morrill ’96 is a Physical Scientist with the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder. She recently was appointed Director of the World Data Service for Paleoclimatology (WDS-Paleo).
Anders Noren ’96 is the Director of the Continental Scientific Drilling Coordination Office at the University of Minnesota.
Stephanie Phippen ’96 is a Senior Geoscientist/Project Manager at Tetra Tech Inc. in Colorado.
Shannon Ginn Robinson ’96 is a Health And Wellness Coach in Seattle.
Art Rodriguez ’96 is the Dean of Admissions at Carleton College. He’s an Admitted Enthusiast of Carleton.
Evan Stoner ’96 is Director of DevOps at the management consulting firm Splice in Seattle.
Kevin Theissen ’96 teaches sedimentary geology at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul.

Cindy Alm Pearson ’95 owns Golden Tutoring and Enrichment LLC in Golden, Colorado.
Tripp Bishop ’95 is a Web Engineer at Khoros, a Community Developer at Barclay Card US and owner of Choprock Solutions LLC in Colorado.
David Boardman ’95 is Founder, COO and Architect of Cedar Labs LLC. in the Twin Cities, providing educational data integration software for schools and districts.
Dan Fehler ’95 is a Computer Systems Analyst at Griffiths Corporation in Minnesota.
Christopher Gutmann ’95 is a Senior Hydrogeologist at Tetra Tech in Colorado.
John “Rowan” Littell ’95 is a Senior Systems Administrator at Pandora in California, and a seller of glass art and proprietor of the performance photography site Haphazard Imagination.
Roy Luck ’95 is an Energy Geoscience Consultant and Principal at APEX Subsurface Consulting LLC in Texas.
Anthony Moore ’95 is a Product Manager at Target in the Twin Cities.
Derek Murrow ’95 is the Senior Director of the Climate and Clean Energy Program for the Natural Resources Defense Council. This site shows some of his recent work.
Ofori Pearson ’95 is an oil geologist for the US Geological Survey in Denver. Here is a paper he contributed to on Hydrocarbon Resources near the Gulf Coast.
Bryn Perkins ’95 is a Data Platform Director at Boku Inc. in Czechia.
Michael Ramage ’95 is an architect in sustainable building at Cambridge University. Here is his LinkedIn page, and here is a TED talk that Dr. Ramage gave recently about building tall buildings of wood.
Matt Reuer ’95 is a Regional System Specialist at Agilent Technologies in Colorado.
Frankie Ridolfi ’95 is the Owner and Leader at Upwardly, LLC in California offering business management teamwork consulting. He has survived a horrific home fire to fly once again!
Jay Stetzel ’95 is Director of School Counseling and Student Programming at Vergennes Union High School in Vermont.
Steve Surbaugh ’95 is the owner of Cascade Vacation Rentals, LLC and a Real Estate Broker in northern Minnesota. Steve is encouraging people to invest in Cook County real estate.
Ian Wallace ’95 is a Family Physician at Ventura Family Medicine Residency in California.

Aron Clymer ’94 is the founder of Data Clymer, a boutique professional data services company in San Francisco.
Geoff Collins ’94 teaches geology at Wheaton College. He led the group that produced the first geologic map of Ganymede, the largest moon in the solar system.
Julia Daly ’94 teaches geomorphology at The University of Maine – Farmington.
Brett Kessler Dooley ’94 is an Educator with the Western Science Center. She also teaches geology at Patrick Henry Community College in Virginia and developed an innovative course on the mathematics required for introductory geology; here she gives some of the reasoning behind the course.
Starr Marea Johnson ’94 is Chief Operating & Financial Officer at Fulcrum Wealth Management Group in Boise, Idaho.
Liz Symchych King ’94 is an Adjunct Professor at Westhills Community College in California and Development Coordinator at the Teton Literacy Center in Wyoming.
Myongsun Kong ’94 is the Research And Teaching Support Technician in Geography at Colgate University.
Miranda Lescaze ’94 is a Director of Real Estate Development at Champlain Housing Trust in Vermont, a membership-based nonprofit, non governmental organization which creates and preserves affordable housing in northwest Vermont.
Noami Lubick ’94 is an Editor for the Stockholm Environment Institute in Sweden. Here is her website.
Catherine O’Reilly ’94 teaches Geology at Illinois State University.
Chris Poulsen ’94 is dean of the College of the Arts and Sciences at the University of Oregon.
Karen Swanberg ’94 works in Cybersecurity and Information Security in Minnepolis.
Jessamyn Tuttle ’94 is a free-lance writer, photographer and, with her husband Jon Nauert ’92, has a Celtic band called Cambpell Road. Here is her LinkedIn page.
Mike Unger ’94 is a Geophysicist with the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management in Alaska.
Ruth Trzynka Werne ’94 works in Energy Industry and Environmental Compliance – Emerging Regulation Compliance, Audits, Process Improvement and Procedure Development.
Rob Wertheimer ’94 is a Founding Partner and Machinery Analyst at Melius Research in New York.
Julie Williams ’94 was savagely murdered while camping in Shenandoah National Park along the Appalachian Trail in 1996. Here is an index of news stories about this sad event. In 2018, a retrospective story about the murder case appeared in Blue Ridge Outdoors. Kathryn Miles’ 2022 book, ‘Trailed,’ intensively investigated the killings of Julie Williams and Lollie Winans — and asked difficult questions about safety in nature. (For other stories see also News Center Maine and NBC4Washington coverage.)

Michelle Boardman ‘93 is a Software Quality Assurance Analyst at Integral7 in Minneapolis.
Anngel Delaney ’93 is the Procurement and Warehouse Manager at Renovus Solar in Ithaca, NY.
Lance Dockter ’93 is the Safety Manager at Ulteig in Minnesota.
Britta Gustavson ’93 is a clinical psychologist and stay-at-home Mom in Tulsa.
Chris Hagerman ’93 is a Principal and Senior Planner at The Bookin Group LLC. in Oregon.
Anita Ho ’93 teaches Geology at Flathead Valley Community College in Montana.
Eric Jensen ’93 is General Manager-Exploration for EMX Royalty Corp. in Colorado.
Beth Lambert ’93 is Director of the Division Of Ecological Restoration for the Massachusetts Department of Fish and Game. She shows in this video what happens when a small dam is removed from a river.
Sarah Laxson Maloy ’93 is a Business Analyst at the University of Washington.
Chris Orth ’93 is Principal Geologist at Barnburner Consulting LLC in North Dakota.
Todd Osmundson ’93 teaches biology at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse; he recently found a treasure trove of fungi on a South Pacific Island.
Beth Pratt-Sitaula ’93 is an Earth Science Education Project Manager at UNAVCO in Denver and a Research Associate at Central Washington University.
Joan Ramage Macdonald ’93 teaches glacial geology and more at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania. Here is her LinkedIn page.
Ben Surpless ’93 teaches tectonics and environmental geology at Trinity University in Texas. Here he describes his career path. He was named Trinity’s Top Educator. Here is his LinkedIn profile.
Maria Panfil Wright ’93 is a Faculty Research Assistant at Oregon State University; she helped write this paper on aquatic habitats in the Ozark Mountains.

Jill Baum ’92 is transforming yards and helping pollinators, one garden at a time with Shoreview Natives in Two Harbors.
Clifford Blizard ’92 is the Lead Faculty at the Center for the Enhancement of the First-Year Experience at the University of Arizona Global Campus in California.
Andrew Brydges ’92 is Director of Community Relations for FirstLight Power in Connecticut.
Oakley Cochran ’92 is a Consultant at a Financial Firm with interests in China.
Jennifer Horn ’92 is an IT professional at the University of Minnesota and she teaches folk dance at Tapestry in the Twin Cities.
Sean Kempke ’92 is a Family Physician in Duluth.
Jon Nauert ’92 and Jessamyn Tuttle ’94 have a Celtic band called Cambpell Road.
Brent “Rex” Nystrom ’92 is the Director of Business Development and Investor Relations at Rebound Hospitality (which owns the Archer House) in Northfield.
Jim Rowe ’92 is Vice President of Engineering and Operations at LiteracyPro Systems Inc. in Colorado.
Erik Stokstad ’92 is a writer and editor for SCIENCE Magazine.
Jennifer Wenner ’92 teaches geology at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh. Jennifer was recently elected Vice President of the National Association of Geoscience Teachers.
Patty Weston ’92 teaches earth science, chemistry and physics at Mercer Island High School in Washington State.

Eric Baer ’91 is Pure and Applied Sciences Division Chair at Highline College; here’s his LinkedIn page.
Catherine Inman Cheadle ’91 owns Mat-Su Conservation Services in Wasilla, Alaska, providing services to Alaskan communities in natural resource education, conservation projects and low impact development techniques.
Kari Cooper ’91 teaches geochemistry at the University of California-Davis.
Eric Cowgill ’91 teaches structural geology and tectonics at UC-Davis.
Alton Dooley ’91, is the executive director of the Western Science Center in California. Check out his Twitter feed.
Catherine Inman ’91 owns Mat-Su Conservation Services, which provides services to Alaskan communities in natural resource education.
Jenn Macalady ’91 teaches Geomicrobiology in the Geoscience Department at Penn State.
Jean Morrill ’91 is a Public Defence Attorney for the Puma County, AZ Superior Court.
Geoff Puckett ’91 is Principal Business Systems IT Analyst at Medtronic in Minnesota.
Peter Reiners ’91 is Professor in Geosciences at the University of Arizona.
Matt Stone ’91 is Vice President for Client Services at BrightLink in Colorado.

Rebecca Arenson-Rachlinski ’90 is an Administrative Assistant with Interfaith Partners for the Chesapeake in Annapolis, Maryland.
Anna Bandick ’90 was inducted into the C Club Hall of Fame in 2021. Congratulations Anna!
Andrea Earley Coen ’90 is the Executive Director of Guidestone Colorado which is dedicated to strengthening the local agricultural economy through education, community building, and partnerships in the Arkansas River Valley, Colorado. She has been inducted into the 2023 Chaffee County Community Foundation Community Leaders Fellowship cohort.
Andrew Garrett ’90 teaches and supervises Emergency Health Services at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences in Washington, D.C.
Steve Helgen ’90 is a consultant in environmental forensics, geochemistry, and hydrogeology.
Elizabeth Hunt ’90 is the Current Use Program Manager for the Tax Department of the State of Vermont.
Sharon Stern Kahn ’90 is the Graduate Program Coordinator for the Physics Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Rolf Miller ’90 is the Deputy Director for Energy Assessment at ArcVera Renewables in California.
Andy Moore ’90 teaches geology at Earlham College and researches ancient tsunami deposits. He knits while he’s talking.
Mark Newcomb ’90 is a county commissioner of Teton County, Wyoming, and consults on the economic value of our environmental heritage and assets. He is a Director of the Jackson Hole Center for Global Affairs.
John Ostergren ’90 is Chief Sustainability Officer with the Smiths Group plc in England.
Althea Willette ’90 is a Personal Property Appraiser specializing in Silver and Paper: maps, prints, books, ephemera, historical documents, in Minneapolis.

2010s | 2000s | 1990s | 1980s | 1970s & earlier

Geology Alumni, 1980–1989

Jeff Bartlett ’89 is a Grants Specialist at the Minnesota Department of Commerce in the State Energy Office.
Rowland Cromwell ’89 is the Chief Financial Officer of PumpTech, LLC in Washington State, a distributor of high-quality pumping products and systems in the Western US.
Bill Dinklage ’89 teaches geology at Santa Barbara City College.
Ben Edwards ’89 is Moraine Chair In Arctic Studies and Earth Sciences at Dickinson College in Pennsylvania, focusing on the interactions between ice and volcanoes. Watch his great video showing lava fighting with snow. Here’s another wonderful one on glaciers with difficult-to-pronounce names.
Holly Ewing ’89 teaches Environmental Studies and Gender and Sexuality Studies at Bates College. She was awarded an endowed chair.
Kim Hannula ’89 teaches Geology at Ft. Lewis College in Colorado.
Sarah Gramlich Howard ’89 is the founder and Program Director of the website Diabetes And The Environment and Co-Director of HEEDS Healthy Environment and Endocrine Disruptor Strategies. In a recent paper she summarizes the state of our knowledge on Type 1 Diabetes.
Chris Larson ’89 is Innovation and Evaluation Manager at Craft3, a lender that works to strengthen communities, small businesses, families, and the environment in Oregon.
David Lewis ’89 is Director of the Cooperative [agricultural] Extension in Marin County, California.
Sean McCauley ’89 is a Senior Advisor for TPG Capital in Minnesota.
Kari Sabee-Paulson ’89 is a hydrologist at North Jackson Company in Corvallis, Oregon.
Suzanne Savanick Hansen ’89 is an Environmental Sustainability Specialist at Allina Health in the Twin Cities.
Mark Scott ’89 is a Loan Operations Analyst at CCM-Finance in Minnesota.
Joeseph Walser ’89 teaches comparative religion at Tufts.
Sonja Wolter ’89 is an operations coordinator for NOAA, and she wintered over in Greenland collecting weather data.

Carmen Curtis Basham ’88 coaches middle school math teams in Aurora, Colorado, emphasizing algebra readiness.
Binks Colby-George ’88 is Assistant Vice President, Database Analyst at WSP USA in Maine.
Marla Dockery ’88 is a self-employed Project Manager in the Washington, D.C. area.
Susan Beeler Queary ’88 is a Partner at Baker Tilly US, a public accounting and consulting firm, in Seattle.
Carl Renshaw ’88 teaches hydrology and structural geology at Dartmouth. He co-athored a study on the Probability of Coarse-Grained Sediment Entrainment in Natural Rivers.
Peter Sauer ’88 does research in paleoclimatology at Indiana University.
Kim Sultze ’88 teaches Media Studies, Journalism and Digital Arts at St. Michael’s College in Vermont.
Marilyn Yohe ’88 is an acupuncturist and herbalist in Massachusetts. She also is a founder of the Carleton Network For LGBT Geology And Natural History Students And Alums.

Trina Blake ’87 is a Legal Counsel For Youth And Children Attorney in Seattle.
Jennifer Carey ’87 is the Editorial Director at Mountain Press Publishing Company in Montana.
Diane Cassidy ’87 is at Education Connection (EdAdvance) in Litchfield, Connecticut, as an Interdistrict Grants Program Assistant.
Cliff Levin ’87 is a dyed-in-the-wool retailer who has wandered upstream into designing, manufacturing, and distributing the world’s best massage chairs to make the world a more comfortable place.
Mike Macicak ’87 is a geologist at Bechtel-S Corporation.
Jeff Strasser ’87 chairs the Department of Geology and Geomorphology at Augustana College in Illinois.

Emily Adams ’86 is an aging-in-place assistant, and she and her husband Paulus Dominicus run a handyman business. She has a personal web page, and here’s a nice profile of her history and current ventures.
Brian Beard ’86 is a Senior Scientist and Associate Research Scientist in the Geoscience Department at UW-Madison.
John Bernstein ’86 is an Investment Manager and Financial Planner in Minnesota.
Mary Ann Cunningham ’86 teaches geography and GIS applications at Vassar College.
Roger Huddleston ’86 is a Financial Advisor for Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co.
Christine Massey ’86 teaches an Environmental Sciences & Technology workshop for high school students at the University of Vermont. Here she considers the future of the textbook.
Craig McCaa ’86 is a retired Public Affairs Specialist with the Bureau of Land Management in Alaska, and he took this video of an ice monster in the Chena River.
Tom McCabe ’86 is a counselor in Alaska.
Sean McKenna ’86 is the Executive Director in the Division of Hydrologic Science at the Desert Research Institute in Nevada. Here is his C.V.
Laura Day Moore ’86 is a Senior Consultant at Formation Environmental, LLC and a consulting environmental scientist in Vermont and Washington, D.C.
Elizabeth Hayes Ransom ’86 is a Princpal, Vice President and Techincial Leader for Planning and Permitting at Ransom Consulting in New England.
Mary-Russel Roberson ’86 is a science writer. Here’s a recent story about a man with an extraordinary mind to explore connections.
Kris Simonson ’86 is a Lower School Math Resource Instructor at Breck School in the Twin Cities.
David Smith ’86 is Vice President for Exploration at Arizona Metals.
John Sorlie ’86 is an attorney in Oregon.
Paul Wetherbee ’86 is Director, Energy Supply for Puget Sound Energy.
John Woodwell ’86 teaches Geosystems at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Virginia.

Bret Berglund ’85 is Principal Geologist/Project Manager with SLR Consulting in Alaska.
Glen Carleton ’85 is a Geophysicist and Owner of MidAtlantic Geophysics LLC
Erik Chapman ’85 is a Senior Geologist at Everen-NW in Portland, Oregon.
Bill Dewey ’85 is a retired Benefits Consultant with Arrow Benefits Group in California.
Stu Grubb ’85 is Senior Hydrogeologist at Emmons and Olivier Resources in the Twin Cities.
Loren Henning ’85 is Manager of the CERCLA Enforcement Office at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in California.
Tom Hoak ’85 is an International Resources Geologist with Kestrel Geoscience, LLC, in Denver.
Charles Hoskins ’85 is a retired Finance Manager in California.
Michael Krantz ’85 is a Senior Cloud Engineer at Hitachi Vantara in Virginia.
Scott “S.T.” McWhinnie ’85 is a Consultant and Writer at Worden Consulting LLC in Michigan.
Mike O’Connell ’85 is Executive Director of the Irvine Ranch Conservancy in California.
Jon Parshall ’85 was Senior Manager, IT and Operations Manager at College Possible in the Twin Cities. A military historian, he wrote on the Japanese Imperial Navy and a book on the Battle Of Midway.
Maria Peterson ’85 is a Senior Program Manager for Corporate Venturing and Innovation at JSR Micro Inc. in California.
Liz Reading ’85 teaches at a Waldorf school near Boston.
Russell Urban-Mead ’85 is a Hydrologist and Vice President and Hydrogeology Department Manager with LaBella Associates in Poughkeepsie, NY.

Kendra Beard ’84 is “helping shape the minds of tomorrow’s leaders” as a Social Studies Teacher at Miguel Juarez Middle School in Illinois.
Annette Marie Beaulieu ’84 owns her own business, Pure.Better.Cleaner, providing home environment services, in St. Paul.
Norm Brown ’84 is a Water Resources Science Consultant in California.
Elliot Bruhl ’84 is Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer at the Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium.
Julie Chen ’84 is a Director for the US Agency for International Development in Indonesia.
Karen Cunnyngham ’84 is a Principal, Program Data Services at Mathematica Policy Research Inc. in Washington D.C.
Meg David Sedlak ’84 is a Project Manager at Enkidu Adventures in California.
Jack Dunn ’84 has retired as General Manager – Global Frontier Exploration and Appraisal at Chevron.
Linda Schalch Eickhoff ’84 is a Research Manager, Orthopaedic Surgery at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in New Hampshire.
Chris Foley ’84 is a pediatrician at Children’s Hospital Of The King’s Daughters in Virginia.
Mark Gordon ’84 is a freelance Geologist in Texas.
George Hudak ’84 is Director of the Minerals and Metallurgy Research Group at the Natural Resources Research Institute at the University of Minnesota-Duluth.
Dean Ingemansen ’84 is Chief, Land Law Branch, in the EPA Region 10 Office of the Regional Counsel in Washington State.
Jay Jackson ’84 is a retired Europe/Caspian Exploration Manager for ExxonMobil Exploration Co.
Richard Kohlan ’84 is a Regional Sales Manager at CrowdStrike in Ohio.
Elliot Olsen ’84 is an attorney with an expertise in personal injury and wrongful death in Minneapolis.
Tom Riley ’84 is Director of Global Business Development at NVIDIA in Salt Lake City.
Elizabeth Screaton ’84 teaches Hydrogeology at the University of Florida.
Christine Smith Siddoway ’84 teaches geology at Colorado College. She recently co-authored an article finding that multiple Great Unconformities developed over various periods and represent regional tectonic features rather than a synchronous global phenomenon.

Liz Gronen Adams ’83 is a Counselor, Therapist, and Yoga and Qigong Teacher at Heart of the Rockies Gentle Yoga Wellness Studio in Estes Park, Colorado.
Sharon Anderson ’83 is Associate Dean for Advising, Career and Student Success and also a Professor of Science and Environmental Policy at the California State University at Monterey Bay.
Sarah Benn ’83 has a web design business.
Kathleen Duffy Carmona ’83 is the principal of a middle school in Texas.
Clint Cowan ’83 teaches sedimentary geology at Carleton College in Minnesota.
Tim Cowdery ’83 is a hydrologist for the US Geological Survey in Minnesota.
Don Frost ’83 is a retired attorney in Washington D.C. specializing in environmental and climate change issues.
Mark Gonzalez ’83 is a riparian ecologist for the U.S. Bureau of Land Management.
Jim Holmes ’83 is an attorney in Iowa.
Keith Knudsen ’83 is the Deputy Director at the Earthquake Science Center of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).
Scott Linneman ’83 teaches geomorphology at Western Washington University.
Matt Masotti ’83 is Associate Director of Technology at IQVIA.
Laura Mathews ’83 is a senior information analyst at 3M Co. in St. Paul.
Kurt Neher ’83 is EVP Corporate Development and Geoscience at Berry Petroleum Company in California.
Harry Nelson ’83 teaches in the Forestry Department at the University of British Columbia.
Danny Packer ’83 teaches History at Albuquerque Academy in New Mexico.
Amy Patton ’83 is a Hydrogeology Consultant in Oregon.
Bruce Pfaff ’83 is Senior Director of Trade and Distribution at Cytokinetics Inc. in Utah.
David Purkey ’83 is the Director for Stockholm Environment Institute Latin America, based in Bogotá, Colombia.
Scott Ritger ’83 is VP of Geology at OneMap Mineral Services LLC in Denver.
Steve Robertson ’83 is a hydrologist for the Minnesota Department of Health.
Christina Seeburger ’83 is an anesthesiologist at Pacific Anesthesia in Tacoma, Washington.
Gustave Tolson Jones ’83 teaches geology at the Instituto de Geologia at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico.
Matt Zukowski ’83 is the Operations Manager for Paug-Vik Companies in Alaska.

Dave Becker ’82 is a Production and Program Manager at Paragon Robotics in Ohio.
Sherren Clark ’82 is Vice President and Project Director at SCS Engineers in Wisconsin.
Gary Coulter ’82 is Manager of Global Health, Safety, Environment and Community Assurance at Teck Resources Limited in Spokane, Washington.
Lissa Field ’82 is a Spiritual Care Coordinator and Chaplain at AseraCare in Wisconsin.
Cathy O’Dell ’82 is a Policy Specialist for Water Quality Standards at the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency.
Lisanne Pearcy ’82 farms hay in Oregon.
Christine Rossen ’82 consults on Seismic Stratigraphy and Deep-Water Reservoirs in Seattle.
Toni von dem Hagen ’82 works in Angel Investing and founded Art Of The Cocktail and other initiatives in California.
Heidi Bredenbeck Wells ’82 is Director of Channel Sales at Cardinal Peak Technologies in Colorado.
Peter Whiting ’82 is a Professor of Geology and Associate Dean at Case Western Reserve University.
Peter Wiegand ’82 is full-time parenting now but he was a Finance Officer at the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology in the United Kingdom.

David Bice ’81 teaches geology at Penn State.
Gail Peretsman Clement ’81 is the Head of Research Services and Geology Librarian at Caltech.
Sarah Godfrey ’81 is a self-employed former Vice President at U.S. Bank’s Charitable Services Group in the Twin Cities.
William Mast ’81 is an Environmental Geologist with NV5 (formerly PES Environmental) in California.
Laurel Hall Maze ’81 is an Author and Meditation Facilitator in Illinois.
Mary Lucas McDonald ’81 is the Tool Lending Library Coordinator for Pacific Gas and Electric in California.
Jeff Mow ’81 is the retired Superintendent of Glacier National Park.
Dave Rodgers ’81 recently retired as the Associate Vice President for Research and Associate Director for the Center for Advanced Energy Studies.
Heyo Van Iten ’81 teaches geology at Hanover College. He recently wrote on Conulariids from the Lower Ordovician of the southern Montagne Noire, France.

Cathy Villas-Horns ’81 is a Hydrologist Supervisor at the Minnesota Department of Agriculture in Pesticide & Fertilizer Management.
Gary Walvatne ’81 is an Environmental Geologist with Trinity Engineering Associates in Oregon.

Janet Hartwell Barnet ’80 has a quilting business.
Muffy Barrett ’80 and Scott Weber run Bluestem Farm near Baraboo, Wisconsin. Here is their blog.
Jean Buchanan ’80 is a farmer, writer and artist in Wisconsin.
Alan Carroll ’80 is teaching sedimentary basin analysis at the University Of Wisconsin-Madison and he is an Energy Expert with the Wisconsin Energy Institute. Here is his research profile.
Janet Cathey ’80 teaches art at Barnard Academy in Vermont. She is a professional artist who sees the world through patterns and shapes in the natural world. Here is a flyer for one of her shows.
Clark Costen ’80 is a physical therapist in Chicago.
Reid Fisher ’80 is an Engineering Geologist with Cal Engineering and Geology in California. He gave a presentation on the Potential Effects of Rising Groundwater Tables in Low-lying Areas of the San Francisco Bay Area and the Potential Impacts to Infrastructure.
John Goodge ’80 taught petrology and tectonics at the University of Minnesota – Duluth. He directs the Rapid Access Ice Drill project to probe the Antarctic Ice. Goodge Col in Antarctica is named for John; in geomorphology, a col is the lowest point on a mountain ridge between two peaks.
Vicki Hansen ’80 recently retired from teaching structure and tectonics and Planetary Processes at the University of Minnesota – Duluth.
Brian Jacobson ’80 owns and manages Smith Tree Service in California.
Kimberly Jones ’80 teaches East Asian Studies and is Vice Dean of the College of Humanities at the University of Arizona.
Julie Dynes King ’80 is a Landscape Designer and Professional Gardener in Minnesota.
Steve Miller ’80 is a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer for Fiber Optic Software at Halliburton in Texas.
Alison Rautman ’80 teaches archaeology at Michigan State and is Co-editor of Kiva, the Journal of the Arizona Anthropological and Historical Society.
Fred Seymour ’80 was the founder and owner of Blue Spruce Analytics in Colorado, but now he’s happily retired.
Mark Timmerman ’80 is a Family and Sports Medicine Physician in Wisconsin.

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Geology Alumni, 1970s and Earlier

Georgane Callaizakis ’79 is an HR consultant, coach, and counselor in Washington state.
Lucy Chronic ’79: the tradition of “Chronic and Chronic” lives on! See also The Roadside Geology of Utah.
Joy Crisp ’79 is a retired Research Scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory who worked on the Mars Rover Mission. Check out her Wikipedia page!
Marie Del Toro ’79 is an Engineer for the Portland Water Bureau.
Evan Dresel ’79 is a Senior Research Scientist at the Victoria Department of Environment and Primary Industries in Australia.
Tillman Farley ’79 is the Medical Services Director at Salud Family Health Centers in Colorado.
Mark Helpenstell ’79, after a long career at Boeing, is an animal trainer in the state of Washington.
Robb Jacobson ’79 is the Branch Chief for River Studies at the USGS office in Rolla, MO. He heads the Columbia Environmental Research Center.
Dan Maturen ’79 has decades of experience as an earth science secondary school teacher and seasonal ranger in the National Parks.
Jerry McNeish ’79 is a Technical Manager at Sandia National Laboratories in California.
Steve Nagel ’79 is a retired Geological Consultant in Texas.
Eric Olson ’79 is a retired Ecology and Sustainability Lecturer at Brandeis University.
Kent Rodriguez ’79 is Chief Executive Officer of Avalon Oil & Gas Co.
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. Here is an interview in which Dan explains that environmental issues are actually social justice issues too. He recently wrote on how Understanding ‘Deep Time’ can inform today’s climate response.
Dave Swanson ’79 is an ecologist for the National Park Service Arctic Network. Watch how he documents seasonal changes in the arctic landscape.
Althea Willette ’79 is an appraiser of silverware and other fine antiques in Minneapolis.

Mary Horak Binger ’78 is a seasonal law-enforcement ranger in Katmai National Park in Alaska.
Wes Danskin ’78 is a research hydrologist for the US Geological Survey. He maintains the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) San Diego Hydrogeology project website. He is doing interesting research exploring submarine fresh and brackish water sources which may help ease water supply issues for the San Diego area (summary).
Sarah Mills Ervin ’78 is president of her family business, Heavy Equipment Repair, in the Twin Cities.
Meryl Rosenfeld Haber ’78 is the owner of Lakeside Bicycles in Oregon.
Jim Harrington ’78 recently retired as the Operational Risk Director at Freddie Mac in Washington, D.C.
Steve Ingebritsen ’78 is a retired Hydrologist with the US Geological Survey.
Pixie Newman ’78 is a Client Account Director at Weston Solutions in Illinois.
Alison Krafft Rempel ’78 is a retired exploration geologist/environmental manager/network marketer in California.
Dan Schultz-Ela ’78 is a structural geologist who teaches math at Mesa State University in Colorado.
Lona Sepessy ’78 is a Teacher Librarian at the Northshore School District in Seattle.
Janet Thigpen ’78 is a Flood Mitigation Specialist at the Southern Tier Central Regional Planning and Development Board in upstate New York.
Betsy Turner-Bogren ’78 is a Project Manager for the Arctic Research Consortium of the U.S.
Zach Wilson ’78 practices law in Ft. Collins, Colorado.
George Witman ’78 is an independent Landman in Denver.
Bill Witte ’78 is a GIS Specialist at Fairbanks North Star Borough in Alaska.
Cliff Wright ’78 is a Project Engineer/Geologist at Gannett Fleming in Wisconsin.

Jim Berg ’77 is a retired hydrologist for the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources.
David Gambill ’77 and his wife own a teashop and chocolate specialty shop in California. He was profiled recently in Sonoma Family Life magazine.
Rodgers Naylor ’77 paints landscapes and does printmaking.
Bruce K. Nelson ’77 is an Emeritus Professor of Geology at the University of Washington in Seattle. He was appointed the College of the Environment’s Associate Dean for Research.
Eric Simonson ’77 guides trips “climbing the world’s great mountains.”
Diane Smith ’77 teaches Geology at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas.
Bruce Yeomans ’77 is Senior Process Engineer at the Water Resources Group of the Kennecott Utah Copper mine.

Ken Collier ’76 has retired from being the Editor In Chief for the Family Handyman Magazine at Readers Digest in the Twin Cities, but his legacy lives on: here he demonstrates how to fix a large hole in your drywall.
James Evans ’76 is an Emeritus Professor of Sedimentary Geology, Hydrology and Environmental Geology at Bowling Green State University.
Susan Stoddard Goodspeed ’76 helps with bond sales at David Drown Associates in Minneapolis.
Bob Herbolsheimer ’76 is Chief Development Officer at Meals On Wheels Association of America in Washington, D.C.
Marge Hulburt ’76 will help you edit your writing. She has a page for her book Finding Eagle on Amazon.
Karen Kimball ’76 is an attorney in New York State.
Heath er Macdonald ’76 is a Chancellor Professor Emeritus at The College of William And Mary.
Bill Matlack ’76 consults in Mineral Exploration and is a Director of Timberline Resources Corp. in New York.
Will Maze ’76, is a retired geologist who worked for Exxon Production Research in Houston.
Phil Muessig ’76 is the retired Community Sustainability Assistance Coordinator for the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency’s GreenStep Cities program.
Barb Rossing ’76 is a Professor of New Testamant at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago. Here’s an interview with Barb about the fallacy of the Biblical Rapture.
Rick Zimmerman ’76 is an environmental geologist at M3 Engineering & Technology in Arizona.

Libby Anthony ’75 is retired from teaching Geology at the University of Texas at El Paso.
Alan Cutler ’75 teaches geology at Montgomery College. He also wrote an interesting book about Nicolaus Steno, geology’s patron saint — “A page-turning thriller”: Publisher’s Weekly.
Ginna Gillerman ’75 teaches Economic Geology at Boise State.
Tien Suits Grauch ’75 is is a Research Geophysicist with the US Geological Survey.
Julie Greenberg ’75 was Principal at Teaching Proof Points in Maryland and wrote on teacher preparation.
Larry Meinert ’75 is an Editor of Economic Geology, the journal of the Society of Economic Geologists, and an Affiliate Research Professor of the Colorado School of Minesand and Principal of Meinert Consulting, LLC. He has written on the geology of wine grapes. He wrote a biographical article entitled “Geology, Policy and Wine – The Intersection of Science and Life” for the journal Geochemical Perspectives.
Jim Pizzuto ’75 studies fluvial geomorphology, with emphasis on sediment transport and human impacts on rivers and fluvial landforms, at the University of Delaware.
Warren Wilson ’75 is and independent analyst and writer.

George Bentley ’74 is a purchaser for Northern Ingredients, a food wholesaler in St. Paul.
Phil Brown ’74, a professor of economic geology at UW-Madison, studies fluid inclusions and more. In this video he talks about what he loves about teaching geology that won him a 2018 Distinguished Teaching Award.
Peter Dixon ’74 is a Primary Care Internal Medicine Physician and Co-Director of the Reading2Connect reading-based dementia care program in Connecticut.
Ellen Smith ’74 is a retired environmental scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and is a member of the Oak Ridge City Council.
Ed Swain ’74 does research on the sources and effects of mercury pollution, and the effect of sulfate pollution on mercury methylation and other ecosystem effects of sulfate pollution. He is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota advising graduate students studying lakes, streams, and wetlands.

Charles Andrews ’73 is a Senior Principal of S.S. Papadopulos & Associates and does aquifer and groundwater analysis.
Rich Fiore ’73 is Vice President of Search Consultants International.
George-Ann Maxson ’73 is a botany consultant in Bemidji, MN.
John Sharry ’73 is an owner and Chief Geologist with Amigos Energy Advisors LLC in Dallas.

Meg Hayes ’72 consults on land and environmental issues in Alaska.
Mary Savina ’72 is the Charles L. Denison Professor of Geology, Emerita, at Carleton College. She taught geomorphology and archaeology for many years and recently founded the Endowed Fund for the Carleton Student Organic Farm.

Roy Kruse ’71, after a long career as a manager for religious non-profits, is now an International Specialist at Goodword Partnership in the Twin Cities.
Karen Lubke ’71 owns Stoneking Geological Consultants in Texas.
Mark Reed ’71 is an Emeritus Professor of Economic Geology at the University of Oregon.

Judy Vandenberg Boudreau ’70, a retired Hydrologist, is Secretary Treasurer at Siberian Bridges Inc., in the Twin Cities.
Steve Hulke ’70 is President and Chief Geologist, retired, of Tehz Energy in Oklahoma.

Ron Nordquist ’68 is an Advanced Senior Geologist at Marathon Oil Co.
James Robertson ’65 (scroll down toward the bottom of the page) was State Geologist and Director, Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey for 22 years. In 2013 he was interviewed about fracking sand.
Peter Rowley ’64 is a consulting geologist. He was honored with the Geological Society of America’s Dibblee Medal in 1995.
Jan Tullis ’65 is an Emerita Professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences who does experimental structural geology at Brown University.
Terry Tullis ’64 is a Professor Emeritus of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences (Research) and Professor Emeritus of Geological Sciences who works on tectonophysics, rock deformation, faulting and earthquakes at Brown University.
Wendell Duffield ’63 contemplates the life of a field geologist: “Pickles” and “Water Beds And Magma beds.”
Walter Alvarez ’62 is famous for his groundbreaking research on the importance of meteorite impacts in the geologic record.
John Lufkin ’62 has had a long career in the geosciences including teaching and exploration geology. He has published a Guidebook to the Geology of the Black Hills.
Jeff Hanor ’61 taught geochemical evolution of fluids in sedimentary basins at Louisiana State University.
Mike McLanahan ’60 is Chairman of the Board of McLanahan Corp., manufacturers of mine, pit, and quarry equipment since 1835.

Fred Marschner ’58 is a Financial Representative of Northwestern Mutual Life.
Pat Bickford ’54 is a Research Professor, Earth Sciences and Professor Emeritus Earth Sciences at Syracuse University.
Gary Ernst ’53 is an Emeritus Professor of Petrology and Tectonics at Stanford University. Here are his full CV and his Wikipedia page.