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Kelly Hereid was featured in EOS, the weekly publication of the American Geophysical Union, in a story outlining different career paths for geoscientists. After Carleton, Kelly studied paleoclimatology at the University of Texas, Austin. She now works for Liberty Mutual on catastrophe models for natural hazards such as earthquakes, hailstorms, wildfires, and hurricanes.
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Matt Kuharic ’02 Explains To NY Times How His County Studies Consumption Patterns To Reduce Climate Impact
13 December 2022New York Times Households in denser neighborhoods close to city centers tend to be responsible for fewer planet-warming greenhouse gases, on average, than households in the rest of the country.…
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Fellowship honors Carleton Alumna Sarah Crump ’10
17 November 2022The Institute for Arctic and Alpine research at the University of Colorado announced a new graduate fellowship in honor of alumna Sarah Crump ’10. Sarah has been blazing a trail…
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Fall field trip to South Dakota
12 November 2022We were planning to head to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan this fall, but a snowstorm in the UP had us pivot to the warmest nearby field trip destination, which…
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Alumni event at GSA, in person
12 November 2022We were thrilled to see so many alumni in person at the Fall GSA meeting in Denver this year. For many of us, this was the first time going to…
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This summer Dan Maxbauer is working with Carleton students studying carbon dioxide removal through enhanced weathering in agriculture. Enhanced weathering aims to accelerate natural carbon dioxide removal through mineral weathering by…
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Emily Ross ’17 recently published a paper in Geophysical Research Letters with co-authors Jacqueline Reber (Iowa State) and Sarah Titus (Carleton) about how fault creep could influence landscape development. The…
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Former fifth-year interns Natalie Hummel and Seth Waag-Swift co-authored a paper with Professor Sarah Titus in the Journal of Geophysical Research. The paper focuses on the deformation of rocks in northern Iceland due to a transform fault. The authors use statistical tools developed by Joshua Davis, Lecturer in Math/Stats and CS. View the entire article.
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Geology seniors present their comps projects
11 April 2022Our seventeen senior geology majors presented their comps projects on Saturday 9 April. Their 12-minute talks ranged widely: from local clay and clams and prairie soils to borehole analyses to…
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Despite the pandemic, (most of) the Geology of National Parks class was able to visit Death Valley over mid-term break during winter term. Alum Michael Smith ’99 tagged along, too.
