Commencement 2004
by Susan Delap

2004 graduates on the south lawn of Brown Hall

May 15, 2004 -- New Mexico Tech gave out 307 degrees Saturday at Commencement 2004. Students, professors, advisors, family, and friends gathered on the lawn south of Brown Hall for the ceremony. Among the degree recipients were 9 undergraduate and 22 graduate students from the Department of Earth and Environmental Science who are listed below along with their photos.

Congratulations to all of you! We wish you well in your new endeavors! (Photos by Susan Delap and William Colburn)

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BS Degrees

MS Degrees

PhD Degrees

Awards

Snapshots

Bachelor of Science Degrees


Lee William Dalton BS Earth Science, Geology Option	Karen Marie Jacobs BS Earth Science, Geology Option (with Honors)	Kristen Elizabeth Mullen BS Earth Science, Geology Option


Joel P. Bensing BS Geology (with Honors)	Jennifer Robin Berlin BS Geology (with Honors)	Jamie Ann Conklin BS Geology


Gary Gegenfurtner Jr. BS Geology (with Honors)	Zachery Hamilton-York Hibdon BS Geology Option	Kathleen Marie Boyer BS Geology, Environmental Geology Option

Master of Science Degrees


Kristie S. McLin MS Geochemistry	Shubha Pandey MS Geochemistry	Reyna Lee Abeyta MS Geology

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Christina L. Calvin MS Geology	Jodi Annette Clark MS Geology, MS Mineral Engineering	Jessica Callahan Eloy Cox MS Geology

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Amber Nadine McIntosh MS Geology	Erin Heather Phillips MS Geology	Dustin Gail Smyth MS Geology


Nicole Wiersgalla Hoffman MS Geophysics	Sangyun Mah MS Geophysics	Mario Ruiz Romero MS Geophysics


John Robert Boulanger MS Hydrology	Naomi Jean Rosenau Davidson MS Hydrology	Suzanne Kemp Mills MS Hydrology


John Michael Ranck MS Hydrology	Charlotte Maria Salazar MS Hydrology NM-AGEP Award	Laura Jean Wilcox MS Hydrology

Doctor of Philosophy in Earth and Environmental Science Degrees

David Charles Wilson
PhD Earth & Environmental Science (Geophysics)
Seismic structure of the crust and upper mantle in the southwestern United States using teleseismic receiver functions
Advisor: Richard C. Aster
Founder's Award

Dave being hooded by advisor Dr. Rick Aster

David Francis Boutt
PhD Earth & Environmental Science (Hydrology)
Discrete analysis of the role of pore fluids in the genesis of opening mode fractures in the shallow crust
Advisor: Brian McPherson

Dave Boutt being hooded by his advisor, Dr. Brian McPherson

John Michael Sigda
PhD Earth & Environmental Science (Hydrology)
Preferential flow and transport through deformation band faults in the semi-arid vadose zone of the Rio Grande Rift, New Mexico, USA
Advisor: John Wilson

John Sigda being hooded by Dr. David Love

Awards



Charlotte M. Salazar MS Hydrology, 2004 New Mexico Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate Fellow	Dr. Michelle Walvoord MS Hydrology, 1999; PhD Earth & Environmental Science: Hydrology, 2002 Langmuir Award


David C. Wilson PhD Earth & Environmental Science: Geophysics, 2004 Founder's Award - Top Graduate Student	Dr. Jill S. Buckley EES Faculty Adjunct, PRRC Senior Scientist Distinguished Research Award

More student awards here.

Snapshots

Brian McPherson looking snazzy in his cap and gown	Rick Aster and Harold Tobin mugging with Pat Mills, photographic assistant for the day
Bruce Harrison wishing it was a Margarita	Xiaobing Zhou and daughter Marlene looking too cute!

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