Posts tagged with “Alumni” (All posts)
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Bretwood Higman ’99 and Noah Finnegan ’99 featured in New York Times for research on Alaskan tsunami risks
11 May 2026Recent Carleton Geology alumni Bretwood Higman ’99 and Noah Finnegan ’99 were featured in The New York Times for their critical work on landslide-generated tsunamis in Alaska. As climate change causes glaciers to retreat and permafrost to thaw, mountain…
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As part of the installation of Carleton’s district-scale geothermal system, a group of faculty, staff, and alumni designed a scientific experiment monitoring its efficiency. The results have now been published…
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Tsunami researchers Lydia Staisch ’08 and Brett Hanley x’25 featured in Seattle Times Outside link
3 December 2024Lydia Staisch ’08, from the United States Geological Survey, is part of a research group investigating past evidence of tsunamis along the Oregon coast. She brought Brett Hanley x’25 along for her research last summer. Their work was just featured in an article in the Seattle Times.
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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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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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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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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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Catherine O’Reilly ’94 Leads $1.7M NSF Grant For ISU, Carleton, And Two Other Schools
16 October 2018Illinois State Associate Professor of Geology Catherine O’Reilly is serving as principal investigator for a $1.7 million National Science Foundation grant to fund Project EDDIE, a series of classroom modules…
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Carleton Geology Alums Honored at GSA Denver
7 November 2013Carleton Geology would like to celebrate and acknowledge the following alums who were recently recognized at the annual GSA meeting in Denver. Philip E. Brown ’74 and Kurtis C. Burmeister…
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