Alumni News - items received during 1995-2001

Alumni with news items are listed by decade of graduation. If you would like to submit a news item or update your directory listing, please send us your info to alumni at ees.nmt.edu.

1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s

1960s

Stavros Papadopulos (MS Hydrology '62)
May 13, 1998
  Dr. Papadopulos receives the NMT Alumni Association Distinguished Achievement Award, 1998. Read about it here.

1970s

Allen Britton (BS Geology '78)
May 1, 1996
  Allen is currently working for Core Laboratories in Bakersfield, CA. He has been with Core as a core analyst/geologist for 16 years. Prior to that he was with Kerr-McGee at Ambrosia Lake working at the Section 30 Mine. His work email address is corebak@ix.netcom.com.

Burhan Kandemir (MS Geophysics '70)
December 10, 2000
  Hello to everyone-- After such a long time it is very exciting to get in touch with you New Mexico Tech People (Alumni). My wife GULCIN got her Masters degree in Physics in 1971 from the Tech also. We had a splendid time there in BIG CITY SOCORRO, there was a bar named Capitol that time we used to go every friday nite. We had many clubs in the Tech as International club, chess club, gun club, and many others. I will certainly appreciate to receive e-mails from the people of my time, or any other interested buddies. I live at Istanbul now. I am retired, my wife still works as a professor of Physics in Kadir Has University in Istanbul. Awaiting yours, Take care, BURHAN Kandemir. burkandemir@superonline.com

James I. Kirkland (BS Geology '77)
December 6, 2000
  Keeping busy as State Paleontologist for Utah overseeing and promoting the science. Serving as a consultant to the Discovery Channel on upcoming programs on dinosaurs. Part of an upcoming show for the summer of 2000 will feature our new dinosaurs from the Turonian Moreno Hill Formation of west central New Mexico including Zuniceratops and some other new and as yet unnamed wonders. Field research in Utah has been concentrating on the terrestrial Early- "middle" Cretaceous of the Colorado Plateau and its correlation to Asia, brackish water molluscan faunas from the "middle" Cretaceous, and Triassic-Lower Jurassic strata and fossils in southwestern Utah. Just received a five year grant from the Bureau of Land Management to study the paleontology of the Late Cretaceous Wahweap Formation in the southern part of the Grand Staircase - Escalante National Monument. A cover story on preliminary research leading up to this grant will be out in the January 2000 issue of "Survey Notes", which will be on the Utah Geological Survey website at www.ugs.state.ut.us specifically at www.ugs.state.ut.us/svnts.htm. A few other interesting items on our research are there as well that should be of interest to Tech geology friends and alumni.

Judy Russell (MS Geology '79)
October 25, 1995
  Judy has been working for Occidental Petroleum for 14 years (prior to that she worked for Mobil).
Her home email address is hydrocar@aol.com and work email is Judy_russell@oxy.com.

1980s

Charles Martell (MS Geology '82)
April 16, 1999
  Charles is working in Houston, Texas as a Training Coordinator for Schlumberger - GeoQuest which provides software for Geoscientists and Engineers in the oil industry. His e-mail address is cmartell@houston.geoquest.slb.com.

Phillip Noll (MS Geology '88)
November 27, 1995
  Phil is working for Los Alamos National Laboratory specializing in thermal ionization and inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry. Email is noll@lanl.gov (11/27/95)

Mike Palin (MS Geology '84)
July 8, 2002
  Mike is a faculty member of the Department of Geology at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand (www.otago.ac.nz/geology/jmp.htm). His research interests are in geochemistry and geochronology applied to the study of igneous rocks and mineral deposits.

Terry Spell (MS Geochemistry '87)
October 18, 1996
  Terry worked with Philip Kyle on rhyolites in the Jemez Volcanic Field. He received a PhD at the State University of New York at Albany, under Mark Harrison, primarily doing 40Ar/39Ar dating. He is currently at the University of Nevada Las Vegas as an assistant professor, working on 40Ar/39Ar dating and isotope geochemistry. His work e-mail address is Terry_Spell_at_UNLV-GEO@ccmail.nevada.edu.

1990s

Tanya Baker (MS Geochemistry '93)
February 3, 1997
  Tanya is currently a Research Assistant at the Materials Research Laboratory at The Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA. She manages the X-ray diffraction lab, including 3 XRD machines and approximately 150 users. Her work e-mail address is: tgb1@alpha.mrl.psu.edu.