Recent Hydrology Graduates
Professors Fred Phillips, Enrique Vivoni, and Rob Bowman are pictured above in front of new graduates of the Hydrology Program. From left to right in back are Diane Meier, Marissa Reno, Bayani Cardenas, and Professor John Wilson. Photo courtesy Rob Bowman.
The official list of graduates from the Hydrology Program is as follows:
Doctor of Philosophy in Earth and Environmental Science (Hydrology)
Bayani R. Cardenas
Master of Science in Hydrology
Craig R. Altare (Dec '06)
Ryan T. Jakubowski (Dec '06)
Heather F. Lacey (Dec '06)
Diane K. Meier (Dec '06)
Marissa D. Reno
Kate E. Richards (Dec '06)
Heather Shannon (Dec '06)
Professors Fred Phillips and Rob Bowman are pictured above in front of new graduates of the Hydrology Program. From left to right in back are Renee Sandvig, Sam Earman, and Setsuko Shindo (MS Hydrology expected June 2005). Photo courtesy Rob Bowman.
The official list of graduates from the Hydrology Program is as follows:
Doctor of Philosophy in Earth and Environmental Science (Hydrology)
Samuel Bradford Earman
Groundwater Recharge and Movement through Mountain-Basin Systems of the Southwest: A Case Study in the Chiricahua Mountains, San Bernardino Valley System Arizona and Sonora
-- Advisor: Fred Phillips
Master of Science in Hydrology
Elizabeth Bryant
Justin Jayne
Brad Talon Newton
Renee Sandvig
Jennifer L. Smith
Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science with Hydrology Option
Christian B. Krueger
Commencement Spring 2004
Professors Brian McPherson (left) and Rob Bowman (right) are pictured
in back with new graduate Dr. John Sigda between them. In front are three
more new graduates: Charlotte Salazar, Dr. David Boutt, and Mike Ranck.
The official list of hydrology graduates for 2004 is a follows:
Doctor of Philosophy in Earth and Environmental Science (Hydrology):
David Francis Boutt
Discrete Analysis of the Role of Pore Fluids in the Genesis of Opening
Mode Fractures in the Shallow Crust
--Advisor: Dr. Brian McPherson
John Michael Sigda
Preferential Flow and Transport through Deformation Band Faults
in the Semi-Arid Vadose Zone of the Rio Grande Rift, New Mexico, USA
--Advisor: Dr. John Wilson
Master of Science in Hydrology:
John Robert Boulanger
Naomi Jean Rosenau Davidson
Suzanne Kemp Mills
John Michael Ranck
Charlotte Maria Salazar - also NM Alliance for Graduate Education and
the Professoriate Fellow
Laura Jean Wilcox
Dr. Michelle Walvoord (MS Hydrology 1999, PhD Earth & Environmental Science: Hydrology 2002) was honored with the Langmuir Award.
EES Commencement 2004 page
NMT
Commencement 2004 page
Professors Rob Bowman, Fred Phillips, and Brian McPherson are pictured above with newly graduated members of the Hydrology Program. From left to right in front are Charlotte Salazar (BS Environmental Engineering), Dan Dolmar (MS Hydrology), and Michelle Walvoord (PhD Earth & Environmental Science with Dissertation in Hydrology). See www.ees.nmt.edu/Grad2002.html for more pictures.
Kristine
Baker (MS Hydrology, December 2001) previously received
her B.S. degree in Earth and Planetary Sciences from the University of
New Mexico in 1997. She is currently employed at the Idaho Engineering
and Environmental Laboratory in Idaho Falls, ID as a hydrologist primarily
supporting subsurface science, unsaturated flow research using innovative
geo-centrifuge techniques.
Kristine has extensive field and laboratory experience in unsaturated
flow monitoring and characterization of vadose zone hydrogeologic properties.
She is proficient in computer programming, computer modeling, and several
software packages. She participated in an extensive vadose zone infiltration
research project at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, NM as
a student intern. She also worked as a field and laboratory assistant at
the University of New Mexico participating in a National Science Foundation
research project investigating biogeochemical activity in the zone of mixing
between surface water and groundwater.
Michelle Walvoord (MS Hydrology 1999,
PhD Earth & Environmental Science: Hydrology 2002) is currently
a Hydrologist, National Research Council Post-doc for the USGS, Water Resources
Division in Lakewood, Colorado. Michelle's research interests are vadose
zone hydrology in arid and semiarid environments; nonisothermal multiphase
flow and transport modeling; geochemical and isotopic tracers; paleohydrology;
and nitrogen cycling in desert ecosystems. See
nevada.usgs.gov/adrs/team.html.
Michelle spent several weeks on the Yukon River in Alaska doing field work in Fall 2003. She sent us the picture on the left to illustrate the intense physical preparation she undertook prior to the trip to insulate herself from the cold, wet, conditions on the Yukon. "Prospective students should appreciate the extremes one might assume in the quest for hydrologic understanding," she quips. On the right is Michelle in the field in Alaska.
Read more about Michelle's research and her November 2003 publication in Science on nitrates in the desert.
May 15, 2004 -- Michelle was awarded the
Langmuir
Award during Commencement 2004. The Langmuir Award for Excellence in
Research is given for an outstanding scientific research paper by any student
or graduate of New Mexico Tech. The paper must have been submitted to or
published by a recognized journal during the preceding year. The recipient
is selected by the Faculty Council's Honorary Degrees and Awards Committee.
The award is named in honor of Irving Langmuir (Nobel Laureate, 1932) who
conducted extensive research with NMT staff. The award consists of a plaque
and a $200 cash prize.
Professors John Wilson, Fred Phillips, and Rob Rowman are pictured above
with the 2001 graduates from the Hydrology Program. From left in right
(in back) are Bob Holt, Roseanna Neupauer, Alana Fuierer, and John Ayarbe.
Master of Science in Hydrology:
John Pete Ayarbe
Andrew B. Dunn
Matthew Jacob Gozdor
Alana M. Fuierer
Ping Hu
Jenny Lynn Sterling
Joseph Michael Sterling
Doctor of Philosophy in Earth and Environmental Science with dissertation
in Hydrology:
Robert Marion Holt
Roseanna Marie Neupauer
Doctor of Philosophy in Earth and Environmental Science (Hydrology):
Earl Douglas Mattson
Electrokinetic Ion Transport through Unsaturated Soils: Theory and
Application
--Advisor: Dr. Robert Bowman
Master of Science in Hydrology:
Barret Stephen Cole
Gina DeRosa
Lee Taylor Paprocki
Stephen J. Roy
Doctor of Philosophy in Earth and Environmental Science with Dissertation
in Hydrology:
Vincent C. Tidwell
MS in Hydrology:
Eric C. Aronson
Erika May Bowen
Todd Alan Burt
H. Kirk Jones
Thomas S. Silverman
Michelle A. Walvoord
Jason Sidney Wise
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