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.
Please send updates and requests to timothydvick@gmail.com. Thanks!
2010s | 2000s | 1990s | 1980s | 1970s & earlier
Geology Alumni, 2020–2029
- Lucille Baker-Stahl ’23 is on the board of Out After Carleton.
- Nicolas Bell ’23 is on the board of Out After Carleton.
- Maya Feldberg-Bannatyne ’23 is a park ranger with the U.S. Forest Service in South Dakota.
- Anna Klein ’23 won a scholarship from the Minnesota Ground Water Association during her junior year.
- Emma Watson ’23 is the Educational Associate in the Carleton Geology Department for the 2023-24 academic year.
- Jennifer Delgado ’22 is a RAY Conservation Watershed Field Scientist Fellow with the Mystic River Watershed Association in Massachusetts. Here’s a nice interview with Jennifer.
- Rebecca Horwitz ’22 is a Graduate Student at Rutgers University Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences.
- Josh Isaacs ’22 is a Geology Master’s Student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is a member of Will Guenthner’s ’07 laboratory.
- Allegra Johnson McKee ’22 is a Student Contractor at the USGS Upper Midwest Water Science Center in Minnesota.
- Ethan Karp ’22 is a barrista at WINNER in Brooklyn, NY.
- Oscar Kimzey ’22 is an Assistant Cheesemaker at Tomales Farmstead Creamery in Tomales, California.
- Gabriel Lobet ’22 is a Project Associate and Ruckelshaus Fellow at Meridian Institute in Washington, D.C.
- 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.
- Mattison Sheero ’22 is a Park Ranger at Badlands National Park in South Dakota.
- Cassie Smith ’22 has been a Lab Manager at the University of Minnesota.
- Hanae 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 Scientist at Alkali Earth in Rochester, Minnesota, along with Sean McCauley ’89 and Carleton Geology Professor Dan Maxbauer.
- Sam Anderson ’21 is a Geology Technician at the Maine Department of Environmental Protection.
- 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 School Program Facilitator for Friends Of The Chicago River supporting recruitment and programming in the Chicago River Schools.
- Samara Kroeger ’21 is a Camp Store Coordinator and Host at YMCA Camp du Nord 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 in the Renewable Thermal Collaborative at David Gardiner and Associates in Virginia. He writes articles for the Renewable Thermal Collaborative.
- Ezra Muhlheim ’21 is an Academic Coach for the Schuler Scholar Program.
- Lena Nyblade ’21 is a graduate student at the University of Colordo Boulder.
- 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. Jacyn is in charge of the Sitka Landslide Risk Dashboard.
- Dennis Wei ’21 is working on a Master’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 a Field Services/Survey Technician with Emmons & Olivier Resources in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
- Julia Felderman ’20 is a Third Grade Teacher at The Atrium School in Massachusetts.
- Berit Hudson-Rasmussen ’20 was one of Carleton’s first three Paglia Post-Baccalaureate Research Fellows.
- 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 a Software Engineer at Dare.
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 Geophysicist at Ad Terra Energy in Switzerland.
- Sophie Homans ’19 is a Physical Scientist with the U.S. EPA in Ohio.
- Eliza Malakoff ’19 is a Presidential Management Fellow with the USGS in Denver.
- Alysala Malik ’19 was a Medical Student at Columbia University in New York when 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 Terraphase Engineering 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 .
- Rumya Ravi ’19 is Science Academy Program Manager at the University of Maryland Graduate School.
- 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 at San Jose State University and a Paleoclimate Lab Assistant with the USGS in Menlo Park.
- 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.
- 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. He is a contributor to 500 Queer Scientists collective.
- Eleanor Fadely ’18 is working on a PhD in Environmental Health Engineering at UC-Davis.
- Katie Grosh ’18 is a Camp and Hospital Chaplain, Guest Preacher and Communications specialist. She is passionate about the intersection of faith and ecology.
- Victoria Jolly ’18 is a Staff Geologist at Terracon Consultants in Denver.
- Konrad Krogstad ’18 is a Hydrologist with PGL Environmental Consultants in Vancouver, BC.
- Emma Link ’18 is a Senior Research Coordinator with Practical Farmers of Iowa.
- Chris Parsons ’18 is a graduate student in Geobiology at MIT studying microbial evolution and phylogenetics in Dr. Gregory Fournier’s lab within the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences.
- 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. She has been working on a survey of doctors to find their familiarity and views regarding female genital mutilation in the United States.
- Theodore Reinhardt-Ertman ’18 is an Administrative Manager with the Yaak Valley Forest Council in Montana.
- Kaya Stitzhal ’18 is an Assistant Teacher at the Valley School in Seattle.
- Eliza Thomas ’18 is a Masters Student at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego.
- 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.
- 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 is an Environmental Specialist in the Energy Environmental Group in Arizona.
- Kyra Bornong ’17 recently wrote on how LiDAR mapping shows details that traditional photography can’t. Also, she spoke on combining LiDAR with InSAR to document the distribution and activity of landslides in Yellowstone National Park.
- 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.
- Mara MacDonell ’17 is a Senior Associate at GNA (a TRC Company) “working to decarbonize the transportation sector and foster just transitions that create healthy environments and economies.”
- 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 Doctoral Candidate in Geochemistry and Earth History at Harvard University. She co-authored a paper about Triple oxygen isotope insight into terrestrial pyrite oxidation.
- Erin Patrick ’17 is an Equity, Community Engagement, and Outreach Inspirer at Wonderseekers in England.
- 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 an Associate at McKinsey & Company.
- Chloe Rouhandeh ’17 is an MBA Candidate at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.
- Jesse Rubin ’17 is a Software Developer 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 Hydrologist in the Caspar Creek Experimental Watershed in California for the US Forest Service. 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. Noah is teaching Climate Science at Bates College in Maine.
- Nelson Bandy ’16 is a Geologist and Outdoor Enthusiast, and a Long-Term Substitute Teacher at Sweetser in Maine. 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 Hydrogeologist at GHD, New Zealand.
- Elizabeth Davis ’16 is a Graduate Student in Archaeology and the Ancient World at Brown University.
- Sally Donovan ’16 is a Doctoral Student at the University of Minnesota, researching urban forests with the Minneapolis-St. Paul Urban Long Term Ecological Research Program. 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 an Environmental 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.
- Caroline Lauth Quarrier ’16 is the Independent Studies Coordinator and Medical Coordinator at The Outdoor Academy in North Carolina.
- 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.
- George McAneny ’16 is pursuing a MS/PhD in civil and environmental engineering at Tufts University.
- 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 ’15 is a Staff Attorney at Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid in Minneapolis.
- Luke Fairchild ’15 is a Data Scientist at KoBold Metals in Wisconsin.
- Bill Grimm ’15 is a Geographic Information System Specialist with the Minnesota Geological Survey. 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 teaches Earth and Oceanographic Science at Bowdoin College in Maine. While he was in grad school he 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 (Omar) Kaufman ’15 is a self-employed Mathematics Teacher.
- Cal McCulloch ’15 is a Firefighter (Hazardous Materials Technician) for the City of Seattle.
- 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 Geologist with AECOM in Maryland and Washington D.C.
- Jayne Pasternak ’15 is a homemaker for the Dessonville family and Former Faculty Member at Trinity School at River Ridge in the Twin Cities.
- Julia Reich ’15 is Student Services Coordinator at the University of Minnesota College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences in St. Paul.
- 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 for NOAA Corps at the American Samoa Station.
- Jacob Viesselman ’15 is a Software Engineer at AmeriSave Mortgage Corporation.
- Sarah Alexander ’14 is a USAID Water Policy Advisor in the Bureau for Resilience, Environment and Food Security Center for Water Security, Sanitation, and Hygiene.
- Cassandra Brigham ’14 recently finished her PhD in Geology and Earth Science 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 Environment at the Univeristy of Colorado at Boulder.
- 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 Director of Growth Marketing 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.
- Elizabeth Kimberly ’14 is a Staff Scientist at Natural Systems Design in Bellingham WA.
- 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 reviews environmental impacts analyses and prepares EPA’s comments in compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act and the Clean Air Act at the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in California.
- Mackenzie Persen ’14 is Operations Lead at the Stern Grove Festival Association in California.
- Mariah Radue ’14 is the 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. She recently wrote on how Outburst Floods in Alaska and the Himalayas show evolving hazards in a warming world. 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 working on a Nursing Degree at Cape Fear Community College in Northf Carolina.
- Cameron Webb ’14 is a Sourcing Manager, Marketplace Procurement at Nike Inc. in Oregon and Head Baseball Coach at Scappoose 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 (here’s another link) 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 published an article on the history of pore water oxygen isotope evolution in the Cretaceous Travis Peak Formation in East Texas.
- Hannah Hilbert-Wolf Haemmerli ’12 is an AAAS S&T Policy Fellow at Millennium Challenge Corporation. 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 an Organizational Culture Consultant in 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.
- Megan Ferre Resh ’12 is a Marketing Team Lead at the Navy Mutual Aid Association.
- Peter Scheuermann ’12 is Head of Technology and Co-founder at Arca, a University of British Columbia start up company that is developing technologies to maximize carbon mineralization in mine tailings.
- Zach Stewart ’12 is an Adjunct Lecturer in Outdoor Education at Northland College in Wisconsin. He works to combat the invasive spriny water fleas.
- Angus Vaughan ’12 is a Hydrologist and Geomorphologist with the USGS.
- Alex Walker ’12 is a Civil Engineer with the Bureau of Reclamation 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 rapid 20th century warming has reversed a 900-year cooling in the Gulf of Maine.
- 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 creates trans and nonbinary cartoon books.
- 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 in a Nature Geoscience paper using radar to image subglacial topography.
- Ray McGaughey ’11 is Director of Development and Financial Aid at High Mountain Institute in Colorado.
- Alissa Morson ’11 is the Director of International Recruitment and Communication and Recruitment at the Minnesota State University, Mankato.
- Alice Newman ’11 is a Brand Coordinator at Nuna in the Netherlands.
- Masaru Nobu ’11 is a Senior Researcher at the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. 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 an Affiliate Research 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 on the board of the Sitka (Alaska) Conservation Society. 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 Nuclear Waste Repository Analyst with Piru Associates.
- David Brink-Roby ’10 is an Assistant Professor of Geology at Marshall University in West Virginia.
- 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.
- 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.
- Mahima Swarup ’10 is a Director of Strategy & Performance at SPG Dry Cooling and a Co-Founder of the new company Captur Tower in Europe. Captur Tower aims to use innovative technology added to existing cooling tower infrastructure to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere; the carbon dioxide can then be put into permanent storage or recycled as a separate product.
- 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 Lead IT 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 Permitting Project Manager with The AES Corporation 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Karen Aydinian ’08 was a Seasonal Core Logging Geologist for Aurora Geosciences in Alaska last summer.
- Michael Barrett ’08 manages sales territories for the bakery Bicycle Pies in San Francisco.
- Katie Bovee ’08 is an Environmental Educator at Lake Country School in Boyceville in western Wisconsin.
- Dan Callahan ’08 is Director of Product Development at F5 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 a Senior Corporate Counsel at Jack Link’s Protein Snacks in Minneapolis.
- Marc Monbouquette ’08 is Senior Manager, Policy and Government Affairs at Electrification Enphase Energy in California.
- Samantha Nakata ’08 is a GIS Analyst for Clark County, Washington.
- John Nowinski ’08 is Hydrogeologist 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 published a paper on water movements affecting Greenland’s glaciers.
- 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 California.
- Gloria Jimenez ’07 is a Market & Product Specialist – Catastrophe Risk Management at RMS – A Moody’s Analytics Company in Seattle.
- John Kracum ’07 is a General Counsel 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.
- 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 Human Resources Consultant 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.
- Rebekah Lundquist Johnson ’06 coached the Blake School Drone Racing Team. She also teaches science.
- 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 Hydrologist at HWA Geosciences, 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 Lecturer 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 Assistant Commissioner Energy Regulatory Affairs 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.
- 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 high latitude 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 Organic Geochemistry Engineer for TotalEnergies in France.
- Nancy Harris ’03 is a Groundwater Geologist for the Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality.
- Benjamin Harrison ’03 is an Environmental Scientist for Water Resources for the Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe in Washington state.
- 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 and, remotely, in Customer Service for Ombraz.
- Devin McPhillips ’03 is a Research Geologist at the USGS.
- Adrienne Hacker Pahl ’03 is a Neonatologist at the University of Vermont.
- 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 Division Manager at UCSF at the University of California-San Francisco.
- Heather Borkowski ’02 is a sensory herbologist, farmer and personal coach in Scotland.
- Kizzy Charles-Guzman ’02 has become the new Chief Executive Officer of the Center for Environmental Health in California, after many years leading the New York City Mayor’s Office of Climate and Environmental Justice. 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 Senior Geologist at King County DNRP – River and Floodplains Management Section 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. He recently wrote on how venom pore placement may influence puncture performance in snake fangs.
- 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 Data Strategist at the University of Michigan 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.
- 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 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 Wake Technical Community College. Here is her LinkedIn page.
- Anne Sawyer ’01 is a Board Conservationist with the Minnesota Board of Water and Soil Resources. She wrote an interesting piece 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 description of his work.
- Trent Terriquez ’01 is Director of Technical Product Management at Nike.
- Kevin Uno ’01 is a Research Professor at Lamont-Doherty in New York.
- Galen Ward ’01 is a product-obsessed technology founder working on the next thing. He most recently was 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 Environmental Services Director, Support Services with the Metropolitan Council of the Twin Cities in Minnesota.
- Jean Dixon ’00 teaches geology at Montana State University. Here is her LinkedIn page.
- Matt Howard ’00, a world traveler, experienced software development lead and cybersecurity student, has gone back to school at the University of Maryland Global Campus.
- 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 a Global Sustainability – Education and Engagement Manager at Arcadis, and a Staff Geolgist for Clifton Park, NY.
- Anders Matney ’00 is an Architect at Rehkamp Larson Architects in Minneapolis; among his projects is the 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.
- Patrick Roehrdanz ’00 is a Director – Climate Change and Biodiversity at Conservation International. He wrote on “Why protected forests are critical to reaching climate goals.”
- 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 is Project Lead, Vermont Agency of Education Framework for Proficiency.
- 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.
- Rachel Davis ’99 is an Educational Technologist at the Hamlin School for girls in California.
- 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 an Exploration 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 recently was a Data Scientist at Evrnu in Seattle, a company creating regenerative fiber technology.
- Chuck McCallum ’99 is a Seasonal Educator for Old North Church in Boston.
- 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 Senior Director of Community Engagement 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 Team Lead and Environmnent Officer for the United States Agency For International Development (USAID) in Peru.
- 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. Here’s the website of Team Barbeau. He recently wrote on Global Climate Forcing in South America.
- 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 Landscape Architect 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.
- Karen Purdy Gotto ’97 is Senior Manager, Supply Planning and Procurement 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 Consultant, Societal Value at Public Safety Communication Europe (PSCE) in England.
- Geoff Ruth ’97 is a science teacher at The Urban School of San Francisco.
- 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 Senior 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. Here he describes the process of sampling ancient underwater volcanoes in the Pacific Remote Islands from the bottom of the sea.
- 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 is Director of Adopt-a-Drain & Community Outreach at Hamline University Center for Global Environmental Education.
- 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. Here are some of her posts.
- Josh Galster ’96 teaches environmental geology at Montclair State University. Here he describes his work.
- 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 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.
- Allon Katz ’96 is Head of Head of Consumer Portfolio Operations at TPG Capital in California.
- 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 at National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
- 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 Vice President and Dean of Admissions at Carleton College.
- Evan Stoner ’96 is Director of Engineering 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 Senior Solutions Architect 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 SiriusXM/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.
- 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.
- 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 Northern Virginia Community College and Western Wyoming Community College, and also 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 who also does freelance science writing and editing. 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 musician. 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.) One more story published in late 2023 said the case is still open.
- Michelle Boardman ‘93 is a Software Quality Assurance Lead at Cedar Labs LLC 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 Engagement Program Manager & Project Manager at EarthScope Consortium 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 and a career profile of her.
- 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 a Consultant/Program Director with the Conservation Corps of Minnesota and Iowa.
- Clifford Blizard ’92 is the Honors Program Chair & Environmental Science Program Chair in the Academic Engagement Center at the University of Arizona Global Campus in California.
- Andrew Brydges ’92 is Director of Community Relations for FirstLight Power in Connecticut.
- 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. Here is their “about’ page.
- 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. In 2023 she wrote on Math Attitudes as a Barrier to Science for women.
- Eric Baer ’91 is Pure and Applied Sciences Division Chair at Highline College; here’s his LinkedIn page.
- Catherine Inman Cheadle ’91 is a Grants Andministrator for the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation and also 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, a paleontologist, is the executive director of the Western Science Center in California.
- Jenn Macalady ’91 teaches Geomicrobiology in the Geoscience Department at Penn State. Recently she was written up in the National Geographic for her research on life in unexpected places.
- 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 Senior Vice of Analytics and Data 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. He also is a Medical Officer on the HHS/ASPR National Incident Management Team.
- Steve Helgen ’90 is a consultant in environmental forensics, geochemistry, and hydrogeology with Integral in Colorado.
- 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 in the Energy Development Office, Resource Acquisition and Distribution, 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. She rcently published on Research studies for designing undergraduate geology courses and activities.
- 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 Vice Pesident 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 co-founder of Alkali Earth in Minnesota. They provide “High quality, permanent, and verifiable carbon removal through optimized application of alkaline industrial minerals in gravel roads.”
- Kari Sabee-Paulson ’89 is a hydrologist at North Jackson Company in Corvallis, Oregon.
- Suzanne Savanick Hansen ’89 is an Environmental Sustainability Manager 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 Aircraft Sampling at NOAA. She wintered over in Greenland collecting weather data.
- Carmen Curtis Basham ’88 coaches middle school math teams in Aurora, Colorado, emphasizing algebra readiness.
- Carolyn Carr ’88 is a communicator and organizer with Ecological Strategies LLC in Minnesota and Wisconsin.
- Binks Colby-George ’88 is Assistant Vice President and 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 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. H recently wrote on “Changes in streamflow statistical structure across the United States due to recent climate change.”
- Laura Day Moore ’86 is a Senior Consultant at Formation Environmental, LLC. in 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 asking, “Do Children Inherit Parents’ Stressful Experiences?“
- Kris Simonson ’86 is an FTC Program Coordinator for High Tech Kids 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 Advisor, Regional Energy System Planning for Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Seattle.
- 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 Hydrogeologist/Environmental Consultant at Groundwater & Environmental Services, Inc. in Michigan.
- Mike O’Connell ’85 is President and 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 Director, Innovation Strategies for Corporate Venturing and Innovation at JSR Life Sciences 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. He was honored with a Meritorious Service Award.
- Julie Chen ’84 is a Director for the US Agency for International Development in Indonesia.
- Karen Cunnyngham ’84 is a Principal, Program Data Services and Associate Director at Mathematica Policy Research 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, after many years of teaching at UM-Duluth, has opened his own shop as George Hudak Geosciences.
- 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 was 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. She’s famous! Here’s her entry in Kiddle Encyclopedia.
- Liz Gronen Adams ’83 is a 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.
- 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). He’s also on the Board of Directors of the Earthquake ENgineering Research Institute.
- 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, after a long career in the petrolerum business, is a consultant 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 has retired as 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 founded Talahusi, a unique private estate and event location in Napa, 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 a Principal Engineer 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 and Class 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 at Idaho State University.
- 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 Senior Principal Engineering Geologist at 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.
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 was the Branch Chief for River Studies at the USGS office in Rolla, MO. He headed 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 has slowed down a bit in retirement but for many years taught 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.
- Barbara Okamoto Bach ’78 earned an Alumni Distinguished Achievement Award in 2023.
- 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.
- 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 near 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 hydrologist for Young Environmental Group in the Twin Cities.
- 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.
- Heather Macdonald ’76 is a Chancellor Professor Emeritus at The College of William And Mary.
- Bill Matlack ’76 is Corporate Director, Mineral Exploration at Silver Bull Resources and 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 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 retired 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 Hydrologist, has retired from the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources in the Twin Cities.
- Steve Hulke ’70 has retired as the President and Chief Geologist of Tehz Energy in Oklahoma.
- Ron Nordquist ’68 is an Advanced Senior Geologist at Marathon Oil Co.
- 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.