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Geology Alumni

Lindsay Szramek '02
After graduation I moved up to Fairbanks, Alaska to begin my graduate degree in geology.  After two great years in the far north, I followed my advisor to Austin, Texas.  I am looking at mantle recycling and explosive basaltic eruptions.  I have two years left (hopefully) before I move on to the next step in my adventures.  Graduate School has not been at all like I thought it would be.  After having gone to a small school where you know everyone and everyone knows you it was quite a change to be at a school where I did not even know all the geology professors let alone students.  Whenever I get frustrated I just think back to the reason I stay in school, to introduce future students to geology like I was in Rachel's intro class and lab with Joanne.  The amount of information I was introduced to and the opportunities I had at Bowdoin I have not encountered since I left.  When I get done with school, I would love nothing better than to be able to end up at a college that reminds me of Bowdoin.

Scott Drew '05
I am a graduate student at Ohio State University in the newly named School of Earth Sciences. I just defended my MS thesis. The research was concerned with sub-crustal magma petrogenesis and evolution beneath the Santorini volcanic field, Aegean Sea. My advisor was Dr. Michael Barton. It was mostly a geochemical modeling project using previously established data and samples.

For my PhD I will be studying the relationship between mafic magmatism/volcanism and extensional faulting under the care of Dr. Lindsay Schoenbohm. My field area is the Puna Plateau of NW Argentina. In fact, I recently explored my new field area during a preliminary field season with Lindsay and it was amazing. Argentina is a very beautiful country.
I am actively involved with designing and teaching undergraduate labs. I also help instruct our summer field camp for majoring seniors. I enjoy my teaching responsibilities as much as my research and I hope to stay in academia after I finish my PhD.

I definitely enjoyed my time at Bowdoin, in large part because of the Geology department. I think being able to learn geology in the field along the coast of Maine is unmatched by other departments. I also think that my time spent as Rachel Beane's student was a really important part of my Bowdoin experience. I have yet to interact with a better professor and I really do think that I would not have become a geologist if it were not for the classes that I took and the research that I conducted with her.

Abir Biswas '01
Ph.D. in Geology at the University of Michigan with Joel Blum in December '06 studying mercury cycling in forests and developing a method to use mercury isotopic ratios to identify mercury emission sources to the atmosphere. During my PhD I had the opportunity to conduct fieldwork in Wyoming, Washington state, and Alaska. Currently I am finishing up projects with Dr. Blum, including studies of mercury storage in Arctic peats (Barrow, AK) and mercury release during a forest fire near Fairbanks, AK.

I will be moving to Tucson, Arizona in September to start a postdoc with Peter Reiners (U of Arizona) and Lee Kump (Penn State) investigating paleowildfire in the geologic record. My wife, Janet Beagley (Bowdoin, Biology, '99) will be at the University of Georgia Veterinary School for the 2007-2008 year doing a large animal internship, but we look forward to living together in Tucson the following year.

Picture: in an ice tunnel in permafrost underlying Barrow AK (where I was doing fieldwork collecting peats on the land surface)... I am even wearing a Bowdoin Outing Club hat.

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