| Updated August 5, 2008.
This segment of our website is devoted to the careers and lives of our graduates after NCED. Please help us keep this site current by sending news and photos of NCED alumni to kmc@umn.edu.
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Javier Ancalle (UIUC MS '07): I am working as a water resources engineer with URS Corporation in Herndon, VA. The company is starting a water resources group at the office where I was hired. So, in the meanwhile, I have been working in the geospatial technologies group doing LIDAR data QA/QC.
Sukanta Basu (UMN PhD '04): Assistant Professor at Texas Tech University.
Dylan Blumentritt (UMN MS '05): PhD Student in the Geology Department at the University of Minnesota. His Work Focuses on Sediment Issues in the Minnesota River Basin. blum0123@umn.edu
Iman Borazjani (UMN PhD '08): Will continue working at the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory as a postdoctoral research associate. boraz002@umn.edu
Nancy Brown (Former Post Doc, Colorado State University): Having taught fluvial geomorphology at the University of Washington, I am back to writing articles and looking for a position.
nbrune11@gmail.com
Matthew Carper (UMN PhD '06): Employed as a Senior Development Engineer at Seagate Technologies in Bloomington, MN.
Kelly Caylor (Princeton PhD '03): Assistant Professor at the University of Indiana. http://caylor.princeton.edu
Phairot Chatanantavet (UMN PhD '07): Employed at a consulting firm, Philip Williams & Associates, in San Francisco, CA. chatanantavet@yahoo.com
Boyko Dodov (Former Post Doc, UMN): Employed at AIR Worldwide Corp.
Cristian Escauriaza (UMN PhD '08): Assistant Professor in the Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering Department at Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile in Santiago, Chile. cescauri@ing.puc.cl
Juan Fedele (Former Post Doc, UMN): Assistant Professor at St. Cloud State University in Minnesota. jjfedele@stcloudstate.edu
Paul Grams (JHU PhD '06): Research Associate in the Department of Aquatic, Watershed, and Earth Resources at Utah State University.
Rohit Gupta (UMN MS '04): PhD student in CompSci at the University of Minnesota.
Les Hasbargen (UMN PhD '04): Assistant Professor, Dept. of Earth Sciences, SUNY College at Oneonta. hasbarle@oneonta.edu
Robert Haydel (UIUC MS '07): Water Resources Engineer II for Camp Dresser & Mckee, Inc. (CDM).
Doug Jerolmack (MIT PhD '06): Assistant Professor, Department of Earth and Environmental Science, University of Pennsylvania. sediment@sas.upenn.edu
Christina Kaba (MIT MS '05): Applying to law schools to study environmental law.
Wonsuck Kim (UMN PhD '07): NCED Post Doc at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Advisor: Gary Parker). Webpage: http://www.geo.umn.edu/people/grads/kimx0826/
Bruno Lashermes (former Post Doc, France): Currently teaching physics and chemistry in a Paris high school.
Wesley Lauer (UMN PhD '06): Assistant Professor in the College of Science & Engineering, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at Seattle University in Seattle, WA.
(206) 296-5523
lauerj@seattleu.edu
Crystal Lesmeister (UW MS '04): Working as an engineer with WWC Engineering, Inc.
Violetta Lima (UMN MS '03): Working as a consultant in Spain.
Bill Lyons (MIT PhD '05): Working with Shell Exploration.
Jenn Macalady (Former Post Doc, UCB): Assistant Professor at Penn State. jmacalad@geosc.psu.edu
Corey Markfort (UMN MS '05): Water Quality Consultant with Bonestroo, Rosene, Anderlik & Associates in St. Paul, MN. cmarkfort@gmail.com
John Martin (UMN PhD '07): Geologist for ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company. Research will focus on local to regional depositional mechanics and subsurface stratal architecture.
Camille McNeely (Former Post Doc, UMN): Assistant Professor at Eastern Washington State University. camillmcn@gmail.com
Ben O'Connor (UMN PhD '06): An NRC Postdoctoral Research Associate with the U.S. Geological Survey, examining the connection between stream hydrology and nutrient retention in watersheds; specifically focusing on environmental controls of denitrification in Reston, VA.
(703) 648-5435
boconnor@usgs.gov
Wendy Palen (Former Post Doc, UCB): Assistant Professor and Tier II Canada Research Chair in Aquatic Conservation, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada.
Paola Passalacqua (UMN MS '06): PhD student with NCED at the University of Minnesota.
Taylor Perron (UCB PhD '06): Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Harvard University in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences.
Webpage: http://eps.berkeley.edu/~perron
Qin Qian (UMN PhD '08): Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering Department, Lamar University, Texas.
Joel Rowland (UCB PhD '07): Post Doc at Stanford University in the Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences.
Jennifer Bassman Ruch (JHU MS '07): Ruch works for an energy consulting firm.
John Schade (Former Post Doc, UMN): Assistant Professor at St. Olaf College in Northfield, MN.
Aric Shafran (UC Boulder PhD '07): Assistant Professor of Economics, Orfalea College of Business, California Polytechnic State University. apshafran@gmail.com
Ben Sheets (UMN PhD '04): Employed at ExxonMobil Research.
Luca Sittoni (UMN MS '06): Project Engineer at Service Engineering Group in St. Paul, MN.
Website: www.servicegrp.com
lucas@servicegrp.com
Leonard Sklar (Berkeley): Assistant Professor at San Francisco State.
Helga Solís (UMN MS '07): I'm a lecturer and a researcher at Universidad Nacional of Costa Rica. I'm teaching ecology and hydrology. My research projects involve groundwater management in urban areas, groundwater pollution, and saline intrusion in coastal aquifers.
Robert Stoll (UMN MS '04 and PhD '07): Assistant Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, University of Utah.
Kyle Straub (MIT PhD '07): Assistant Professor, Tulane University.
Nikki Strong (UMN PhD '06): Visiting researcher at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama.
stro0068@umn.edu
Blake Suttle (Berkeley PhD '04): Post Doc with NCED at Berkeley.
Michal Tal (UMN PhD '07): Post Doc at the Institut de Physique du Globe in Paris, France. talx0001@umn.edu
Nikos Theodoratos (UMN MS '06): Project Engineer at a construction firm in San Leandro, California.
(510) 772-1883
Lisa Tilman (UMN MS '04): Working as a consultant.
Horacio Toniolo (UMN PhD '04): Assistant Professor at University of Alaska, Fairbanks.
Jacob Violet (UMN MS '04): Employed at ExxonMobil Research.
Feng Wan (UMN MS '07): PhD student in civil engineering at the University of Minnesota.
Tanya Warnaars (UMN PhD '05): WATCH Scientific Project Manager, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, United Kingdom. warn0210@umn.edu
Jeff Weiss (UMN MS '05): Consultant with Barr Engineering, Minneapolis, MN. jweiss@barr.com
Jill Welter (Former Post Doc, Berkeley): Assistant Professor at the College of St. Catherine, St. Paul, MN.
Jane (Staiger) Willenbring (Former Post Doc, Dalhousie University): Jane left NCED in fall 2007 and is currently on an Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellowship developing new applications for meteoric cosmogenic Beryllium-10 in sediment. She is also actively interested in the magnitude and variability of erosion at various temporal scale (human and millenial) as well as specific applications of in situ cosmogenic isotopes to study denudation in Ethiopia, the Arctic, N. California, Florida, and Guatemala.
j.willenbring@mineralogie.uni-hannover.de
Germany ph: +49 511 762-5387
US ph: +1 701.212.4467
Miguel Wong (UMN PhD '06): Consultant with Barr Engineering, Minneapolis, MN.
Scott Wright (UMN PhD '04): Employed at the United States Geological Survey.
Elowyn Yager (Berkeley): Assistant Professor of Fluvial Geomorphology
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