Archive for 2015
Alumni spotlights: Todd Kremmin (’12) and Jeff Allen (’13)
TODD KREMMIN went to work for Anadarko Petroleum Corporation in Houston, Texas, immediately following graduation. He became a Senior Geosteering Technologist, searching for oil in the famously productive sedimentary rocks of south and west Texas. Todd’s job was to “steer” the drill bit into the right stratigraphic layer deep underground, and keep it there as it […]
Student Spotlights: Russell Krueger (’17) and Caitlin Clause (’18)
RUSS KRUEGER declared as a Geology major in 2015, and he continues to take upper-level courses in physics, chemistry and mathematics because he loves the challenge. In 2015, Russ won the prestigious Ernest F. Hollings Scholarship from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). He attended an orientation this summer, and will receive tuition stipends for two […]
Semester in Sweden: Geology on the Rocks
This semester, a troop of Gusties is trekking around Sweden under the leadership of Jeff and Maria Jeremiason. On the trip are two Geo majors (and I hear rumors of a newly-recruited third??); below is a missive from Ruby Schaufler (Geology, ’17) and Lindsey Reiners (Geology, ’17). But first, here are Ruby and Lindsey with […]
Gusties at the American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco
In December, Gusties presented posters about climate change, silica and stromatolites at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in San Francisco. Nearly 24,000 geoscientists attended this 5-day conference, making it the largest of its kind in the world! Rachel Mohr (’16 Geology) and Russ Krueger (’17 Geology) presented a poster titled “The […]