Congratulations to our 2014 Graduates! PhD Recipients

Bartholomaus, Timothy C., PhD, Geophysics Thesis: Seismicity, Seawater and Seasonality:   New Insights Into Iceberg Calving From Yahtse Glacier, Alaska

Gong, Wenyu, PhD, Geophysics Thesis: Long-Term Monitoring of Geodynamic Surface Deformation Using SAR Interferometry

Habermann, Marijke, PhD, Geophysics Thesis: Basal Shear Strength Inversions For Ice Sheets With An Application to Jakobshavan Isbrae, Greenland

Jones, Benjamin M., PhD, Interdisciplinary Thesis: Remote Sensing of Arctic Landscape Dynamics

McNabb, Robert W., PhD, Geophysics Thesis: On The Frontal Ablation of Alaska Tidewater Glaciers

Mori, Hirotsugu, PhD, Geology Thesis: Osteology, Relationships and Paleoecology of a New Arctic Hadrosaurid (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda) From The Prince Creek Formation of Northern Alaska

Podrasky, David B., PhD, Geophysics Thesis: Jakobshavn Isbrae: Velocity Variations From Hourly to Decadal Time Scales at Greenland’s Fastest Tidewater Glacier

Salazar Jaramillo, Susana, PhD, Geology Thesis: Paleoclilmate and Paleoenvironment of the Prince Creek And Cantwell Formations, Alaska: Terrestrial Evidence of a Middle Maastrichtian Greenhouse Event.

Shimer, Grant T.,  PhD, Geology Thesis: Sedimentology And Stratigraphy of the Nanushuk Formation And Related Foreland Basin Deposits, Central Brooks Range

Steensen, Torge S., PhD, Geophysics Thesis: Satellite to Model Comparisons of Volcanic Ash Emissions in the North Pacific

Trussel, Barbara L., PhD, Geophysics Thesis: Rapid Thinning And Collapse of Lake Calving Yakutat Glacier, Southeast Alaska

Bonnie N. Broman: M.S. Geology: General Geology
Christopher Patrick Bruton: M.S. Geophysics: Solid Earth Geophysics
Arvind Adivaraghan Chittambakkam: M.S. Geophysics: Remote Sensing Geophysics
Eric Michael Hutton: M.S. Geology: General Geology
Joshua Markland Jones: M.S. Geophysics: Snow, Ice and Permafrost Geophysics
Adrienne E. Kentner: M.S. Geology: General Geology
Christian Kienholz: M.S. Geophysics: Snow, Ice and Permafrost Geophysics
Joshua Keith Miller: M.S. Geology: General Geology
Brian K. Perttu: M.S. Geology: Economic Geology
Colin Richard Rowell: M.S. Geophysics: Solid Earth Geophysics
Gabrielle T. Vance: M.S. Geology: General Geology
Rachel Erin Westbrook: M.S. Geology: Quaternary Geology
Anna Kristine Worden: M.S. Geology: Volcanology, Remote Sensing
Joanna Claire Young: M.S. Geophysics: Snow, Ice and Permafrost Geophysics

Africa, Avery T: B.S.,Geoscience_Geology
Albert, Sarah A: B.S.,Geoscience_Geophysics
Beischer, Nicholas W: B.S.,Geoscience_Geology
Durst, David V: B.S., Geology
Edgar, Alexander S: B.S., Geology
Eicher, Jessica L: B.S., Geology
Haffner, Shadoe M: B.A., Earth Science
Houston, Holly L: B.S., Geology
Kilfoyle, Samuel J: B.S.,Geoscience_Geology
Parrish, Rebecca F: B.S.,Geoscience_Geology
Perman, Sara R: B.S.,Geoscience_Geology

Congratulations to Sarah Albert, Seth Hooper, Peter Illig, April Knox, Demi Mixon and their UAF advisor, Dr. Catherine Hanks.  Our UAF IBA Team won second place in the AAPG Pacific region competition.

The UAF team would like to thank their industry mentors,  Ashley Siks and Daniel Yancey.
 

International Volcanology Field Camp is being held again this summer.  The dates for the various camps are as follows:

Katmai -- June 15-28

Karymsky – July 12-26

Mutnovsky and Gorely – July 27-August 9

Highly Rated TA's -- By Students -- Spring 2012

Rachel Frohman (GEOS 120)
Adrienne Kentner (GEOS 214
Zeb Maharrey (GEOS 120)
Joshua Miller (GEOS 112 -- both classes)
Gabrielle Vance (GEOS 101)

Highly Rated TA's -- By Students -- Fall  2012

Katie Andersonn (GEOS 315)

Grant Shimer (GEOS 475)

Don Hodges Scholarship
Jessica Eicher

Peter MacKeith Scholarship
Christian Keinholz

Brian R. Zelenka Scholarship
Wenyu Gong
Joanna Young

Outstanding Undergrauate
Rebecca Parrish

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BRIAN KESSEL AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN SCIENCE

Alexander Edgar

Highly Rated Faculty -- By Students

Spring 2012

Patrick Druckenmiller (GEOS 106)
Sarah Fowell (GEOS 106)
Franz Meyer (GEOS 622)
Rainer Newberry (GEOS 225)
Erin Pettit (GEOS 392)
Ken Severin (GEOS 628)

Fall 2012

Rainer Newberry (GEOS 618 and GEOS 635)
Ken Severin (GEOS 600)

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Doug Christensen won the ASUAF Outstanding G&G Faculty Award

Jeff Freymueller won the Usibelli Distinguished Research Award

Rainer Newbery won the ASUAF Outstanding Faculty Award

Erin Pettit won the National Geographic Emerging Explorer 2013