Alumni News - items received in 2007

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1960s

Thomas I. Poe III (MS Geology 1965) pogopoet1 at juno.com
April 11, 2007
   RETIRED AFTER 20 YEARS WITH ITT IN COLORADO SPRINGS AS ENGINEER HELPING CONDUCT TESTS AT WHITE SANDS AND OTHER GOVT. SITES. TAUGHT MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY AT UC COLORADO SPRINGS, ALSO. PREVIOUS 10 YEARS WITH BAROID IN HOUSTON AS GEOCHEMIST IN SYNTHETIC CLAY MINERAL PROGRAM. GRADUATE WORK AT UNIV. CHICAGO AND UNIV WISCONSIN.

1970s

John Owen Ennis (BS Geology 1977) johnennis2 at gmail.com
January 23, 2007
   Still kicking rocks and trying to find out exactly where I am in space and time. I am striving to build a geospatial services company with Paul Moore and Dan Homan, remember those guys? Investors welcome. "Have GPS will Terrain" is our mantra.

William "Will" H. Wilkinson (BS Geology 1970, MS Geology 1976) william_wilkinson at fmi.com
October 26, 2007
   In March 2007, Freeport McMoRan Copper and Gold took over Phelps Dodge Corporation for whom I have worked for 16 years. Things have continued unabated, and I am currently Vice President Exploration for Africa, but still based in Phoenix.
   My wife, Pam, and I have been married for 25 years and have two daughters: Susan, a Junior at NAU and Mary Kathryn, a Junior at Horison High School. Pam recently returned to work with the Arizona Geological Survey.

1980s

Carl L. Axness (MS Hydrology 1984) claxnes at sandia.gov
April 12, 2007
   Married, 4 children. Current project: Finishing an off-grid PV-solar home in Rio Rancho. Obtained Ph. D. in Civil Engineering from the Universidad Politecnica de Cataluna in 2000. Advisor: Jesus Carrera.

Mark D. Busa (BS Geology 1981) mbusa at mxcc.commnet.edu
April 17, 2007
   Married for 17 years to MaryRose Meade. I have four sons: Danny, Adam, Peter, and Paul Busa. I teach earth and physical sciences at Middlesex and have been studying the morphology and internal structure of staurolite porphyroblasts in the Bolton syncline of eastern Connecticut.

John P. DeMelas (MS Geology 1983) jpdemelas at comcast.net
February 15, 2007
   I am now entering my 1st year as an unemployed environmental consulting Geologist and Hydrogeologist. I am currently between jobs/on sabbatical and looking for a new career direction. Anyone have any suggestions?
   I remember my experiences at NMIMT with great fondness and affection. Greetings to all my friends and professors, but especially to my Thesis advisor Kent Condie, and to my good friends Dave Johnson and Terry Jensen.

Rick Lozinsky (PhD Geology Dec 1988) rlozinsky at fullcoll.edu
February 19, 2007
   Besides teaching at Fullerton College, I have been an instructor on two semester-at-sea voyages.

Antonio Pimentel (BS Geology 1984) pime_an at yahoo.com
July 12, 2007
   I married 27 years ago. My wife's name is Vilma, and I have a son that is now 22 and my daughter is 18 years old. After I graduated from Tech, I come back to Venezuela and worked in the Mining industry for 5 years, then I moved to the oil sector where I have been working since. I have worked as a production, reservoir and modeler geologist in several countries; the last two have been Saudi Arabia and now in Syria. I still remember my time at Tech, Socorro, and my friends. Thank you very much to the faculty and the University that give me the opportunity to be an alumni.

1990s

Emad H. Aljanoubi (BS Geophysics Dec '91) emad.janoubi at aramco.com
January 7, 2007
   In September of 2006, I completed an Executive Masters Degree Program (Masters of Petroleum Business Engineering) with Delft University, The Netherlands.

Jim Harris (BS Geology Dec 1993) jsharris at fs.fed.us
January 22, 2007
  After leaving Socorro, Cathy and I fell back on my contracting experience in California. I soon accepted a position with an environmental consulting firm in Phoenix and later with the ADEQ. I'm currently a senior hydrologist with the Forest Service in the Lake Tahoe Basin, CA/NV.

Valerie Lane (BS Environmental Science/Hydrology '96) vlane at geotransinc.com
January 8, 2007
   On February 1, 2006, I relocated to the Boston area to become a senior member of technical staff for GeoTrans, Inc., and the operations manager for the Harvard Division. The Harvard Division consists of three offices: Harvard, MA, and two offices in the Albany, NY, area at Schuylerville, NY, and Hudson Falls, NY. I had previously been living in the Washington DC area, where I was a project hydrogeologist with S.S. Papadopulos & Associates, Inc. from 2001 to January 2006. Prior to my work at S.S. Papadopulos & Associates, Inc., I was a research hydrogeologist at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, where I received my M.Sc. in Earth Sciences.

2000s

Shannon Archer (BS Earth Science-Geology 2006) shannon.archer at dri.edu
September 27, 2007
   I am currently in the Graduate Program of Hydrologic Sciences at the University of Nevada, Reno with a research assistantship through the Desert Research Institute. I am studying the effect of rock type on soil development and plant distribution in the East Mojave Desert, California.

Lara E. Beasley (BS Environmental Science-Geology 2002) lara.e.beasley at spa02.usace.army.mil
May 18, 2007
   I am currently an Environmental Geologist with the Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive Waste (HTRW) Section of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Albuquerque District. I work with our Operations Division to ensure their compliance with environmental laws and also work in the environmental restoration of Formerly Used Defense Sites (FUDS).

Vladimir Ispolatov (PhD Geochemistry Dec 2001) vispolatov at gmail.com
February 16, 2007
   After leaving seismic industry (and Arabian Desert) in summer 2003, worked for 2.5 years at Laurentian University and Ontario Geological Survey, based in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. Participated in an industry/Government-sponsored Discover Abitibi Project, doing detailed field mapping, structural studies, and studies of gold mineralization in the Kirkland Lake area (Northern Ontario). In winter 2006, relocated to Vancouver BC, and currently work as Geologist for Barrick Gold.

Geoffrey Marshall (MS Hydrology Dec 2005) marshallgeoff at gmail.com
October 22, 2007
   I'm back in Jamaica working as a hydrogeologist at the Water Resources Authority. I work with the Planning and Investigation Unit, so if there's any detective work or well siting that needs to be done, we do it. I've also had the chance to do training courses in Sweden (March 2007) and a follow-up presentation on climate change and drought in Jamaica in South Africa (November 2007). Hopefully, I will get to pass through Socorro again sooner rather than later!

Ryan H. McLin (BS Geology-Environmental Geology 2000, MS Geology May 2007) rmclin at slb.com
May 2, 2007
   Kristie McLin (BS Geochemistry 2000, MS Geochemistry 2004) and I live in Salt Lake City where Kristie is almost finished with her PhD in Geology at the University of Utah. We have an infant son, Liam Hunter McLin, who was born January 16th, 2007, and two retired racing greyhounds, Kanha and Chaco.

Charlotte Rowe (BS Geology 1981, PhD Geophysics Dec 2000) carowe at cybermesa.com
July 31, 2007
   Recently appointed to the National Research Council's Committee on seismology and geodynamics. Celebrating my 5-year service anniversary at Los Alamos National Laboratory in August, 2007.