Heather Winslow completed her BA in environmental science at Willamette University followed by a year of post-baccalaureate work at Oregon State University. She’s in her first year of graduate school at the University of Nevada, Reno pursuing her MS in geology. Heather is interested in using geochemistry and igneous petrology to understand the internal plumbing […]
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Into the Goat Rocks Volcano, Washington with Kellie Wall
Kellie Wall is a second-year graduate student at Oregon State University working toward her PhD in geology. The daughter of a rock collector and a master rock wall stacker, Kellie has the rock gene in her blood—though it took a college science class to activate it! Abandoning initial career plans, she pursued an undergraduate […]
The Volcanic Island of Isla Socorro with Pep Cabré
Pep Cabré is a geologist from Barcelona, Spain who studied his final year of undergrad in Iceland. Afterwards, he was part of INVOGE, a master programme in volcanology between Michigan Technological University and Universitée Blaise Pascal in France. For his master thesis, he studied the textural characteristics of pyroclasts from different sizes. He also worked […]
The Big Island of Hawaii with Gary Lewis and GEOetc
Gary Lewis trained as a geologist and then became a teacher by trade. He has taught in the classroom and has a great understanding of what motivates students (and their teachers). He is the author of over 30 Earth science related resources covering a plethora of topics from volcanoes to gold and has been running […]
The Afar Rift, Ethiopia with Chris Lambert
Chris Lambert is a field geologist for the Council for Geosciences. He has worked in several countries throughout Africa. You can read more about Chris’ research here. As a field geologist for the Council for Geoscience (Geological Survey of South Africa) I have been privileged, I guess as many geologists tend to be, at least […]