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Looking for your old Geology Department buddies? So are we! This page is for all of you alumni. Send us an update and we'll add you to the page.
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Alum Chris Sumner shoots the bull with Dr. Gobel at GSA in Oklahoma.
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See more pictures of alumni on the Homecoming page!
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2005 Graduates:
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*** Recent SFA Master's graduate, Christina Vasquez (BS, 1999; MS 2005), is working for TXU Power, using geostatistics, core samples and other data to determine lignite quality and the structure of coal deposits.
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*** Gary Lee (MS 2005), after completing an outstanding thesis with Dr. Nielson, is working for Mewbourne Oil company.
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2003 Graduates:
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*** SFA Master's graduate, Ron Brown, was sent to Alaska by his employer, Omni Laboratories. Check out the pictures -- it was quite a trip!
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2002 Graduates:
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*** Jason Holloman is working on a Master's degree at LSU in Baton Rouge, LA. During summer 2004, Jason interned with Shell Oil in Houston and worked on fault seal analysis in the Vicksburg formation of South Texas. He is currently vice president of the LSU AAPG student chapter. Jason recently presented papers at AGU, and the Texas Academy of Science Annual Meeting. Jason is a recipient of scholarships from the National Association of Black Geologists and Geophysicists and the American Geological Institute. He plans to defend his thesis entitled "Trough-mouth fan development on the continental shelf and their relation to sediment drifts on the adjacent rise, Antarctic Peninsula, Pacific Margin" in spring 2005. Jason (email address: jason_holloman@hotmail.com) writes: "I am trying to get that thesis written, and guess what? My project here at Shell deals with faults! Who would have guessed it! Me and faults!"
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2001 Graduates:
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*** Dusty Baldree is working in Canada and in May 2004 got hitched to Cory! Congratulations!
*** Laurie Trevizo has finished her Master's degree at Sul Ross University in Alpine, Texas. Her thesis was entitled "Evaluating the Effects of Hot Spring Discharge on the Rio Grande in Big Bend National Park." Way to go, Laurie!
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1991 Graduates:
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*** Mark Bloomquist says 'Hi' to the old gang.
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1987 Graduates:
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*** Matt Martin (B.S.), writes: I graduated in December 1987, landing in Houston shortly thereafter. I worked for Anadarko Petroleum for 15 years and Sterling Energy for 3 years. I now work for Newfield Exploration Company as a geophysicist in their Deepwater Gulf of Mexico group. In my spare time, I earned my M.S. in geology from the University of Houston (1997). My wife, Kim, and I stay busy with our two kids: Jordan (16) and Noah (5)
Even though I have moved over to the "dark arts" (geophysics), I still remember the rocks and have great memories of SFA Geology, such as: Dr. Gobel yelling at me on "ze outcrop", freezing to death on the roadside in Oklahoma with my Jacob's staff, all-nighters in the Optics lab, Dr. Ledger's mineralogy class, cursing my clogged Kroy pen, almost dying in the 115 degree heat at Well Creek Graben at field camp [just outside Big Bend Park], Dr. Shore's obsession with pencil lineations, not showering for a week while camped in the Quitman Mountains, and Dr. Nielson making me re-do a map at field camp.
Great memories? YOU BET! I would not trade my SFA geology degree for anything -- it has served me very well!
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