Department News

2008 Graduates

2007-2008 New Graduate Students

2007 Graduates

2006-2007 New Graduate Students

2006 Graduates

2005-2006 New Graduate Students

2005 Graduates

Congratulations Anya Kircher

2005 Outstanding Undergraduate and winner of the Brina Kessel Medal for Excellence in Science

Dean Braddock, Anya Kircher and Dr. Brina Kessel

Faculty Awards

Keith Echelmeyer, Professor, Emeritus

Bernard Coakley, Associate Professor, Facutly Tenure

Sarah Fowell, Associate Professor, Tenure and Promotion

Paul McCarthy, Associate Professor, Tenure and Promotion

Jeffrey Freymueller, Professor, CNSM Outstanding Graduate Student Mentor and Advisor

John Eichelberger, Professor
2005 Emil Usibelli Award for Research

Dr. Eichelberger has been a researcher and teacher with UAF's Geophysical Institute and the College of Natural Science and Mathematics since 1991. He received bachelor and master of science degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1971 and his Ph.D. from Stanford in 1974. He was a staff member at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico from 1974-1979 and worked at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico from 1979-1991, where he was designated Distinguished Member of Technical Staff and later supervisor of the Geochemistry Division. He then came to UAF where he has served as chair of the Department of Geology and Geophysics since 2003 and as coordinating scientist of the Alaska Volcano Observatory since 1992.

Eichelberger's research on active volcanoes such as Alaska's Katmai and Unzen volcano in Japan has led to paradigm shifts on the cause of chemically-zoned eruptions and why volcanoes sometimes erupt explosively and at other times produce lava flows. In July 2004, he and his team were able to successfully drill into the conduit of an active volcano, Unzen; the first time this had been done. His leadership of AVO has led to geophysical monitoring of 30 Alaska active volcanoes, making AVO first in the world for number of volcanoes under surveillance. He has published nearly 70 peer-reviewed papers including in the journals Nature and Science. Throughout his career, Eichelberger has linked his research to the teaching mission of the university. Under his leadership, AVO supports some 15 graduate students a year in volcano monitoring, research and education. He also founded an international volcanological summer field school that brings students from Russia, Japan and the U.S. together on active volcanoes in Alaska and Kamchatka, Russia.
(UAF Press Release April 29, 2005 by Carla Browning)

Spring 2005 New Graduate Students

Mathew Bowes, M.S. Geology

Daniel Jones, M.S. Geology

Cheral Robar, M.S. Geology

Joesph Lovick, Ph.D. Geophysics

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