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Associate Professor of Geosciences Cat Beck recently co-authored two papers stemming from her work with the Hominin Sites and Paleolakes Drilling Project (HSPDP), which she has been involved in since drilling these cores began in 2013.
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With representation from Hamilton’s eight major science departments, the Science Research Lab Crawl on Jan. 28 gave students space to learn about student-faculty research opportunities or simply get a better understanding of the science departments.
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The National Science Foundation has awarded Associate Professor of Geosciences Cat Beck, along with University of Dayton geoscientist Zelalem Bedaso, a three-year, $289,094 grant to study seasonal rainfall variability over the last 200,000 years in East Africa.
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The mantra “study what you love” encourages students to venture into previously unfamiliar fields. Bria Dox ’22, for example, took advantage of Hamilton’s academic diversity to discover her passions for mineralogy and volcanology. This summer, she dove deeper into these fields through a geoscience research project, analyzing the mineral chemistry of rocks from Oregon’s Sand Mountain volcanic field.
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Just one year after attending a presentation on the history of climate change, Luke Zaelke ’22 found himself on a camping trip in the northern California mountains with three California State University professors — one of them a Hamilton alum who'd delivered that presentation.
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Olivia Holbrook ’23 is spending her second summer with a glacier guiding company in Alaska. The geosciences major tells here what she loves about her summer job.
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Juanita S. Gordon ’21 and Mairin L. Rogers '21 presented their senior thesis work as ePosters at the Geological Society of America Northeastern Online Section Meeting.
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Jonathan “Peck” Overpeck ’79 spent his senior year at Hamilton researching climate and vegetation change in the Adirondacks, an experience he suspects sowed the seeds of his life’s work.
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Six faculty members were approved for tenure by Hamilton’s Board of Trustees at its recent meeting. They include Catherine Beck (geosciences), Erica De Bruin (government), Susan Jarosi (art history), Jaime Kucinskas, (sociology), Alexandra Plakias (philosophy), and Jesse Weiner (classics).
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The bright orange lava that flows in Hawaii’s Kilauea Volcano is breathtaking, but the cooled particles that end up in the Hamilton Analytical Lab are beautiful, too, to the scientists who analyze them for the U.S. Geological Survey’s Hawaiian Volcano Observatory.
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