GEOSCIENCES DEPARTMENT

The academic year witnessed several new milestones within the Williams Geosciences family. Our Departmental Administrative Assistant, Patricia Acosta, has completed fifteen years of service to the Geosciences Department. Since 1985 she has served under a succession of three departmental heads, and all of them fully comprehend and appreciate the necessity of having an experienced and capable person in the main office. Pat was acknowledged publicly for her service at the start of the program celebrating thesis presentations on May 15, 2000. Instructor David DeSimone marked his fifteenth year in our program as well. David has been a tremendous help to us in the smooth operation of lab sections in virtually all of our 100-level lab courses. Through the years, he has taken on many extra duties, such as supervision of thesis projects and instruction in a climates course. Asst. Professor Rónadh Cox, who was on a junior-professor leave during the fall term and a maternity leave during the spring term, became a new mother in January (see more under her section of the annual report). Professor Markes Johnson steps down from his duties as Departmental Chairman at the end of the academic year, after four years of service. Professor David Dethier will succeed him for a three-year term of service.

By the end of summer 1999, five incoming seniors in our department completed field or laboratory studies entitling them to commence work for formal credit as honors-thesis students. Rebecca Atkinson ’00 worked with Bud Wobus on a Keck project in the Mid-Tertiary Bonanza volcanic field of south central Colorado. Carla Chokel ’00 and Patricia Hines ’00 worked under the supervision of Rónadh Cox on projects related to pebble conglomerates from Ireland and Norway, as well as the tectonics of central Madagascar. Cordelia Ransom ’00 undertook a study on Pleistocene coral reefs from Baja California Sur, Mexico, with Markes Johnson. Taylor Schildgen ’00 studied under the supervision of David Dethier on a project evaluating river terraces where Boulder Canyon dissects the Colorado Front Range. These research projects represented the first instance in the history of the department in which thesis studies were undertaken exclusively by a group of women students.

Professor Karabinos and his Winter Study class Field Geology of Hawaii
on the flanks of Mauna Loa.

During the fall term and following Winter Study Period, our department continued a pedagogical innovation from the previous two years with the linkage of a tutorial course and a January travel course. Professor Karabinos offered a new fall 1999 tutorial entitled How Do Mountains Form? (GEOS 255T), which was tied to a January 2000 WSP course on Hawaii Field Geology (GEOS 25). He was also the coordinator of the departmental lecture series, which was designed to complement the theme of mountain building.

The later part of the fall term brought with it the usual activities related to national professional meetings. October 25-28, 1999, three faculty members (Dethier, Karabinos, and Wobus) gave papers at the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America in Denver, Colorado. Eight Williams alumni also attended this conference and presented the results of their active research. Mid-December saw another dozen alumni present their research at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco, California, where Professor Wobus acted as the Williams host and co-authored a presentation with Cathryn Manduca ’80 on the Keck Geology Consortium. The spring term also was a busy time for the department as faculty and students prepared for a range of regional to international conferences. Bud Wobus was the co-author with former students Jen Newton and Eric Klemetti ’99 on presentations regarding their work on Vinalhaven Island in Maine made at the March 13-15 Northeastern Sectional Meeting of the Geological Society of America held in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Wobus and two of his advisees participated in the thirteenth annual Keck Research Symposium in Geology held April 14-15 at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington, where Rebecca Atkinson ’00 reported on the Bonanza Volcanic Field project and Anne Hereford ’01 offered a poster presentation on the results of her geochemical project in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Professor Dethier presented a paper at the Cordilleran Sectional Meeting of the Geological Society of America held April 27-29 in Vancouver, British Columbia. Professor Johnson and Cordelia Ransom ’00 presented papers at the Fifth International Meeting on Geology of the Baja California Peninsula held April 27-29 in Loreto, Baja California Sur, Mexico. Student participation in the various meetings was partially supported by the McAleenan and Labaree funds in the Geosciences Department and by the Keck Geology Consortium.

Several students will begin fieldwork this summer in readiness for the senior honors program in 2000-2001. Stephen DeOreo ’01 will accompany Rónadh Cox for work on the Precambrian of Madagascar under her NSF grant. They will be joined by Carla Chokel ’00, who recently completed her honors thesis. Carissa Carter ’01 and Marlene Duffy ’01 will participate in a Keck project on active glaciers in Alaska and will be visited by their advisors, David Dethier and David DeSimone. Anne Hereford ’01 will participate with Paul Karabinos in another Keck project on vstructural geology in Idaho. William Ouimet ’01 is studying sediment transport along Birch Brook (Hopkins Memorial Forest) advised by David Dethier. In addition, Sarah Barger ’02 will participate in the Keck junior project “Geomorphology and Watershed Studies of the Cannon River and Its Tributaries” in Minnesota this July, Walter Chen ’02 has been awarded a full scholarship to take part in the SAGE program (Summer of Applied Geophysical Experience) in Los Alamos, New Mexico, and Kristen Lee ’01 will participate in an NSF-sponsored REU program on “Interdisciplinary Ecosystem Research” in Plattsburgh, New York, over the summer.

As in past years, the Yellowstone-Bighorn Research Association’s summer field camp at Red Lodge, Montana - operated by the University of Pennsylvania - is in demand as a training center for Williams geology students learning field methods. Two incoming seniors, Anne Hereford ’01 and Kristen Lee ’01, will attend one of two summer sessions in 2000. Both were awarded partial scholarships from the David Major Fund in support of this activity.

Over the commencement weekend, Rebecca Atkinson ’00, Patricia Hines ’00, Cordelia Ransom ’00, and Taylor Schildgen ’00 were inducted into Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society.

The department is proud to announce that several departmental alumni are preparing to enter graduate school in the geosciences in the fall term 2000. Stephanie Kampf ’98 will go to the University of Nevada in Reno to study hydrology at the Desert Research Institute, and Kate Wearn ’98 will matriculate at the University of Oregon to study volcanology. Catherine Riihimaki ’98 completed her first year of graduate studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, studying glacial geomorphology under a NSF Fellowship. Martin Wong ’99 will go to the University of California in Santa Barbara to study structural geology, and Erik Klemetti ’99 will attend Oregon State University to study volcanology.

Class of 1960 Scholars in Geosciences

Rebecca K. Atkinson

Patricia G. Hines

Carla B. Chokel

Taylor F. Schildgen

Research Associate Gudveig Baarli was a co-investigator with Professor Markes Johnson on a grant awarded by the National Geographic Society for their summer 1999 field project on “Late Silurian Rocky Shores of North China (Inner Mongolia).” She was the organizer of a walking tour through part of the Hardanger Vidda in east-central Norway, Aug. 10-13, 1999, as a fitting finale to the “Williams Alumni in Norway” program held at Voss, Norway, from August 2-10, 1999. In January 2000, Gudveig taught a Winter Study course on dinosaurs entitled The Lost World.

Rónadh Cox spent much of last summer in Ireland, based at Trinity College in Dublin, and also worked with Patty Hines ’00 and Carla Chokel ’00 in the field in both Norway and western Ireland. Rónadh was on academic leave in the fall semester but spent most of the time at Williams where she supervised Patty and Carla’s thesis research in addition to working on her own research projects. Rónadh also paid a visit to Stanford University to collect U-Pb data on the SHRIMP as part of NSF-funded research into the Precambrian geology of Madagascar.

In January, Rónadh gave birth to a baby boy, Owen. This special Winter Study project kept his parents busy and out of the office for most of January. Owen is a lot of fun and is a big favorite with everyone in the department. He is growing like a weed and will soon be wielding a hammer and a compass and helping Mark and Rónadh in the field.

Rónadh recently received a grant of $30,000 from the Petroleum Research Fund of the American Chemical Society for research into the origin of quartz pebble conglomerates. The grant proposal was based on work begun by Ethan Gutmann ’99 for his senior honors thesis, and the project was continued this year by Patty Hines ’00. The grant will fund student research for the next two years.

In August the Gondwana Field Group 2000, consisting of Rónadh, research assistant Carla Chokel ’00, and thesis student Steve DeOreo ’01, will leave for a month’s fieldwork in Madagascar, funded by the National Science Foundation. Using satellite imagery and other remote sensing techniques, Carla studied the tectonics of Precambrian metasediments in central Madagascar for her senior honors thesis. This summer’s fieldwork will build on her analysis and test the hypotheses that she constructed, in an attempt to better understand the orogenic events that caused major deformation in this area about 600 million years ago. The data and samples that we collect will form the basis for Steve’s thesis in 2000-2001. More information about this and other ongoing projects can be found on Rónadh’s home page at http://madmonster.williams.edu/rcox.html .

During January 2000, Dave DeSimone taught The Winter Landscape, an exploration of the natural and cultural history of the Adirondack Mountains in upstate New York. Landforms of glacial and post-glacial origin, recent and historical rock/debris slides, and ecological succession in fire ravaged, logged, and uncut areas were topics of discussion. A week’s stay at the ADK Loj provided a base for snowshoe and crampon hikes to several summits in the High Peaks Region. Evenings were spent around the Loj fireplace contemplating the day’s activities and planning the next hike. Dave shall offer this course again in 2001.

DeSimone and colleagues Hank Art and Jay Thoman extensively revised their ENVI 102 course, Introduction to Environmental Science. Intensive study of a parcel in the Hopkins Memorial Forest was divided into three weeks before spring break and three weeks after the break. New elements of the course included a week spent studying the Pittsfield PCB contamination issue with site visits and discussions with the parties involved in the cleanup. Another week was spent considering sewage disposal options and included visits to the Darrow School and a return visit to the Hoosic Water Quality District’s secondary treatment facility. DeSimone’s consulting work on the contaminated North Adams Brown Street facility provided an opportunity to bring applied hydrology into the classroom.

Our Changing Weather & Climate is a new course to be offered by DeSimone in the autumn 2000 term. It will be a remix of his old Climates through Time course and the department’s older Weather & Climate course.

Professionally, DeSimone continues his consulting activities and has again contracted with the State of Vermont to prepare surficial geologic and hydrogeologic maps of the Arlington 1:24000 quadrangle during 2000-2001. There were sufficient funds to hire Alan Baldivieso ’01 to assist in the project. Alan may turn his efforts into an independent project or honors thesis.

DeSimone will visit two students, Carissa Carter ’01 and Marlene Duffy ’01, on their Keck glacial project during July 2000 in Juneau, Alaska. Both students will follow-up their summer research and pursue honors theses with both DeSimone and Dethier sharing advising duties. It is hoped that this shared advising will give both students the best assistance in their research.

David Dethier returned to teaching after spending his sabbatical leave working with the Middle Rio Grande Basin Project of the U. S. Geological Survey. He continued his USGS-supported field studies of late Cenozoic deposits and climate change along the Rio Grande in northern New Mexico, focusing along the Rio Grande near Cochiti Lake. He initiated a study of fluvial incision rates across the western USA using the 640,000 year-old Lava Creek B volcanic ash bed and presented talks about this work at the University of Wyoming in May 1999 and at the Geological Society of America (GSA) Meeting in Denver in October 1999. Dethier also continued research concerned with the climatic, sea-level, and isostatic processes that resulted in rapid retreat of continental ice from the northern Puget lowland of Washington about 13,000 years ago. Dethier presented a talk summarizing some of the Puget lowland work at the Geological Society of America (GSA) Cordilleran Section Meeting in Vancouver in May 2000.

Dethier continued his long-term studies in Hopkins Memorial Forest, helping to coordinate ongoing collection of weather, streamflow, precipitation chemistry and other environmental data from the Forest and their analysis in the Bronfman Science Center.

Dethier worked with Taylor Schildgen ’00 and Paul Bierman ’85 (University of Vermont) on a study of the Pleistocene evolution of Boulder Canyon, one of a series of steep canyons that drain the Front Range in Colorado. The study, Taylor Schildgen’s senior honors thesis, represents the first successful application of surface-exposure (cosmogenic) dating techniques to the geomorphic history of the Front Range.

From June 29 to July 20, Professor Markes Johnson and Research Associate Gudveig Baarli undertook fieldwork in northern China in cooperation with Dr. Rong Jia-yu (Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology). Their work was funded by the National Geographic Society under the project title “Late Silurian Rocky Shores of North China (Inner Mongolia).” The success of the project surpassed all expectations. As of June 2000, their initial scientific report was accepted for publication in the Chinese Science Bulletin under the title “Continental Island from the Upper Silurian (Ludlow) Sino-Korean Plate.” The highlight of the expedition was discovery of a diverse 420-million-year-old fauna of rocky-shore fossils near Bater Obo. Prior to leaving Beijing for fieldwork in Inner Mongolia, Professor Johnson was invited to visit the gravesite of A.W. Grabau, an American stratigrapher and paleontologist who taught the earliest university courses in those subjects in China from 1920 until 1938. Johnson, who has published on the professional career of Grabau, laid flowers at the gravesite in a ceremony on the campus of the University of Beijing.

After a brief respite in Williamstown, Markes and Gudveig traveled to Voss, Norway, where they hosted a group of forty-one Williams College alumni, spouses, and friends of the College participating in the “Williams Alumni in Norway” program from August 2-10, 1999. After the official conclusion of the program, twelve brave souls joined Gudveig and Markes on a four-day walking tour through a part of the Hardanger Vidda or east-central plateau of Norway, Aug. 10-13, 1999.

In August and September 1999, Professor Johnson served as the chair of a search committee seeking to hire a geologist specializing in Devonian stratigraphy at the New York State Museum in Albany, NY. He continued service to the Museum in December and January as a member of another search committee seeking to hire a geologist specializing in Ordovician and Silurian stratigraphy. Professor Johnson delivered the first Geosciences faculty seminar of the season on Sept. 22 with a talk on “Silurian Bater Island on the Grasslands of Inner Mongolia.” An update on the North-China project was offered on April 11 as a Bronfman lunch talk entitled “Ancient Shorelines of Inner Mongolia.” Professor Johnson attended the Fifth International Meeting on Geology of the Baja California Peninsula May 27-29, 2000, in Loreto, Baja California Sur (Mexico), where he gave a paper co-authored with Research Associate David Backus entitled “Transtensional Tectonics Linked to Pliocene Geology of El Coloradito Fault Zone at Punta El Mangle, Baja California Sur.” He also was responsible for part of the post-conference field trip on April 30 and May 1, and was the author of a guidebook article entitled “Miocene-Pleistocene Geology of the Punta Chivato Region.” During the academic year, a research paper on Pleistocene rocky-shore zonation was published in the journal Palaios, and a new research grant was awarded from the Petroleum Research Fund (American Chemical Society) for work on “Pliocene Coastal Sedimentation and Tectonics on the Gulf of California: Cerro Mencenares Region.” Professor Johnson has completed eight years of service as Chairman of the Subcommission on Silurian Stratigraphy under the International Commission on Stratigraphy. He will hand the gavel to his successor at the biennial field meeting of the SSS in Orange, New South Wales, Australia, in July 2000.

During the summer of 1999, Paul Karabinos continued his investigation of the origin of graphite in rocks in the Taconic thrust belt of western Massachusetts and southern Vermont. Using stable C isotopes, he is testing the hypothesis that graphite precipitated from fluids channeled along fault zones rather than from in-situ low-grade metamorphism of organic material. He also worked in the Chester dome region of southern Vermont to search for evidence of low-angle normal faulting and extension during the Acadian orogeny. Karabinos has started a web page project that will allow users to search for field trips originally run during the New England Intercollegiate Geologic Conference, which is held annually each fall. This would allow secondary school teachers to find interesting localities to show their students throughout New England.

In September 1999 and March 2000, Karabinos traveled to Washington, D.C., to serve as a member of the Tectonics panel of the Earth Sciences Division of the National Science Foundation. This is the beginning of a three-year term.

Karabinos attended the Geological Society of America Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado, in October 1999, where he presented a talk entitled “Evidence for Low-Angle Normal Faulting in the Acadian Orogen: Is the Chester Dome a Core Complex in Vermont?” On June 1, 2000, he gave a presentation entitled “Grenvillian Basement in the Green Mountain Massif, Vermont” at Colgate University in a symposium honoring the retirement of James McLelland.

During the fall semester of 1999, Karabinos taught a new tutorial called How Do Mountains Form? This tutorial was a prerequisite for a Winter Study travel course to Hawaii during January 2000. Ten students from Williams College and Karabinos were joined by Professor Richard Hazlett and two students from Pomona College. Perhaps the highlight of the trip was being able to walk on rocks less than one week old!

Adjunct Assistant Professor Jim McKenna worked with Josh Goldstein ’00 during the summer of 1999 investigating primary productivity responses to short term meteorological and tidal pulsing in the Mystic River estuary. This study examined both spatial and temporal changes in phytoplankton abundance along the estuarine gradient and whether these changes were related to physical/chemical environmental variability associated with storm events and spring-neap tidal cycles. This work forms the subject of Josh's senior thesis.

During the summer, Jim also began work with colleagues from the University of Rhode Island on a two-year NSF-funded project examining nitrogen and carbon cycling in coastal aquifers. They are measuring nitrogen and organic carbon delivery to coastal estuarine systems in Rhode Island and Massachusetts via groundwater and determining whether particular geomorphic and/or landscape settings along the coastal fringe influence this groundwater N and C delivery. The first year of this project is examining ambient conditions, and in summer 2000 and over the following year they will be employing 15N dosing and tracer studies to complement the ambient studies.

In the fall, Jim went to sea again as Chief Scientist with the Fall ’99 Williams-Mystic group aboard the SSV Corwith Cramer. Their cruise track started in Woods Hole, MA, and ended in Rockland, ME, covering a total of about 600 miles. During the ten day voyage they examined the oceanography of the Gulf of Maine by measuring a variety of parameters including water column temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen, and nutrient profiles; chlorophyll a concentrations; zooplankton abundance; sediment grain size; bottom bathymetry. The major objective was to compare regions in the Gulf of Maine and examine the connections between depth, water column stratification, and the biology and geology of the regions.

Jim also served this year as a member on the Connecticut Sea Grant State Wide Program Review Panel. This panel was responsible for advising the CT Sea Grant program on selection of grant recipients for its 2000-2001 Omnibus funding cycle.

During his thirty-fourth year of teaching at Williams, Professor R.A. (Bud) Wobus gave invited talks at national meetings of both the Geological Society of America (GSA) and the American Geophysical Union (AGU). At GSA in Denver in October he spoke on “Undergraduate Research – The Consortium Approach” and was co-author of another paper presented by Diane Smith of Trinity University: “Petrogenesis of the Pikes Peak Batholith, Colorado.” At AGU in San Francisco in December he and one of his former students, Cathy Manduca ’80, co-presented “Working Together...Sustainable Collaboration in the Keck Geology Consortium,” the organization Manduca has directed from her office at Carleton College the past six years. Entering his fourteenth year as Williams representative to the governing board of the Keck Consortium, Wobus attended the two board meetings in the fall and spring, helped to obtain matching funds for a $460,000 grant to the Consortium from NSF, served as a member of the student selection group for the coming year’s research projects, and recruited the four Williams students who will begin Keck projects this summer. With his two Keck advisees from the current year, he attended the 13th Keck Research Symposium at Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA, in mid-April, where Rebecca Atkinson ’00 spoke on “Petrogenesis and Correlation of the Mid-Tertiary Upper Bonanza Tuff, South-Central Colorado” and Anne Hereford ’01 presented a poster (with Read Porter of Amherst), “Geochemistry of Surface Sediments, Baker Woodlands, Lancaster, PA.”

In March he and his two advisees from one of the previous year’s Keck projects in coastal Maine presented posters at the Northeastern Section meeting of the GSA in New Brunswick, NJ. Erik Klemetti ’99 presented “The Vinalhaven “Diabase” – Volcanic Hybrid in the Coastal Maine Magmatic Province,” and Jen Newton was senior author of “Felsic Volcanic and Volcaniclastic Rocks of Vinalhaven Island, Maine.”

During the past academic year, several journal articles were published based on a previous Keck Consortium research project Wobus co-directed in Colorado. With Rachel Beane ’93 (now teaching at Bowdoin), he co-authored “Petrogenesis of the Sugarloaf Syanite, Pikes Peak Batholith, Colorado” in Rocky Mountain Geology, and the same journal also published a survey paper by all three project directors and Dan Unruh of the USGS entitled “A Review of the Pikes Peak Batholith, Central Colorado: A Type Example of A-Type Granitic Magmatism.” Those four authors and eight student co-authors, including Rachel Beane ’93, had a comprehensive paper published by Precambrian Research in December, “Petrology and Geochemistry of Late-Stage Intrusions of the A-Type Mid-Proterozoic Pikes Peak Batholith, Colorado: Implications for Petrogenetic Models.”

Last summer he directed, for the seventeenth time, the “Alumni College in the Rockies” in central Colorado, led a weekend workshop for the Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument, and visited his honors student, Rebecca Atkinson, at the site of her Keck research project near the Bonanza caldera in south-central Colorado. He also organized a field meeting on Vinalhaven Island, Maine, to plan for future study of the wonderfully preserved Silurian metavolcanic rocks there; attending were Professor Rachel Beane (Bowdoin) with one of her students, Professor Sheila Seaman (Univ. of Massachusetts), Jen Newton and Erik Klemetti ’99, and Kate Wearn ’98. Another Keck project is now scheduled to continue the work at Vinalhaven in the summer of 2001. During the coming summer, Wobus will lead forty-five alumni on a two-week trip through seven national parks of the West, from Yellowstone to Grand Canyon. As a prelude to this trip, he invited alumni participants to audit his Winter Study course this past January entitled Geology of the National Parks.

GEOSCIENCES COLLOQUIA

Dr. Richard Allmendinger, Geological Sciences Department, Cornell University

Sperry Lecture Series in the Geosciences

“Mountain Building in the Central Andes”
“Deformation Rates and What They Mean: A Case Study from the Precordillera, Argentina Andes”

Dr. Peter Lipman, U.S. Geological Survey

“Growth and Decline of Hawaiian Volcanoes as Seen from Underwater: Pillow Basalts, Beach Sands and Giant Submarine landslides”

Dr. Douglas Burbank, Geosciences Department, Pennsylvania State University

“Intracontinental Mountain Building in Central Asia: The View from the Tien Shan”

Dr. Eric Small ’93, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology

“What Can We Learn from Surface Observations, Remote Sensing, and Models?”

Dr. Paul Bierman ’85, Geology Department, University of Vermont

“Clear Cuts and Big Storms –Landscape History in Vermont”

Dr. Rachel Beane ’93, Geology Department, Bowdoin College

“Implications of High and Ultrahigh-Pressure Metamorphism, with Examples from Russia and Kazakhstan”

Dr. Michelle Markley, Geology and Geography Department, Mt. Holyoke College

“Fault Slips, Matchsticks and Mountain Building in South Island, New Zealand”

Dr. Juliet Crider, Geology Department, Bryn Mawr College

“The Mechanics of Normal Faults: Secrets Told by California Volcanoes, Oregon Earthquakes, and the Colorado River”

GEOSCIENCES FACULTY SEMINARS

Markes Johnson

“Silurian Bater Island on the Grasslands of Inner Mongolia”

Paul Karabinos

“Extension in Western New England during the Acadian Orogeny: Is the Chester Dome a Core Complex?”

David Dethier

“Chronology and Divergent Flow Directions during Latest Pleistocene Ice Retreat, Northern Puget Lowland, Washington”

SENIOR HONORS THESIS PRESENTATIONS

Rebecca Atkinson ’00

“Petrogenesis and Correlation of the Mid-Tertiary Upper Bonanza Tuff, Southern Central Colorado”

Carla Chokel ’00

“Geochronology, Structure, and Tectonics of the Itremo Group, Central Madagascar”

Patricia Hines ’00

“Petrological and Mathematical Analysis of Polymict Conglomerates”

Cordelia Ransom ’00

“Paleoecology of Upper Pleistocene Coral Reefs Based on Morphology and Fossil Assemblages, Baja California Sur, Mexico”

Taylor Schildgen ’00

“Fire and Ice: The Geomorphic History of Middle Boulder Creek as Determined by Isotopic Dating Techniques, Colorado Front Range”

OFF-CAMPUS COLLOQUIA

Rónadh Cox

“Figuring Out Pre-Gondwana Paleogeography and Tectonics in the Proterozoic of Central Madagascar”
Department of Geology, University College Dublin, Ireland

Markes Johnson

“Rocky Coasts in Geological Time”
Geology Department, University of Beijing

“Professor A.W. Grabau: View from a Foreign Geologist”
Geology Department, University of Beijing

“Paleoislands”
Williams-Mystic Program in Mystic, Connecticut

Paul Karabinos

“Grenvillian Basement in the Green Mountain Massif, Vermont”
Colgate University

POSTGRADUATE PLANS OF GEOSCIENCES MAJORS

David S. Adams

Travel for a year then medical school

Matthew B. Art

Unknown

Rebecca K. Atkinson

Outdoor earth science education in Colorado

Tegan E. Cheslack-Postava

Unknown

Carla B. Chokel

Travel to Europe, summer research in Madagascar

Sawyer B. Haig

Intern at Hawaiian Volcano Observatory-Mauna Loa Mapping Project

Patricia G. Hines

Investment Associate, Putnam Investments; graduate school Environmental Engineering

Shannon M. Mark

Unknown

Cordelia R. Ransom

Summer: teaching marine and environmental education aboard the schooner Adventuress. Fall: Environmental consulting

Taylor F. Schildgen

Univ. of Edinburgh, Scotland - M.Sc. in Geographical Information Science

Andrew F. Sutton

Environmental Consulting in Boston, MA