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An article published recently on the AmericaSpace website, “Artemis 2 and a New Era of Lunar Science,” includes a photo of Professor of Geosciences Emerita Barbara Tewksbury.

Hamilton alumni, students, and colleagues send well-wishes and thanks to four members of the faculty who will enter the world of retirement at the conclusion of the 2022-23 academic year. We asked each of them to reflect on their time on College Hill and what’s next.

See how Professor of Geosciences Barb Tewksbury revamped her classroom to accommodate students, both on-campus and remote.

Professor of Geosciences Barbara Tewksbury was recently quoted in an article on Space.com about how NASA astronaut candidates train for space exploration.

Approximately 21 years ago, Upson Chair of Public Discourse and Professor of Geosciences Barbara Tewksbury attended a Highland dance workshop with her daughter, who began studying the competitive Scottish dance at age 10. As a part of the dance workshop was a companion kiltmaking seminar held by Elsie Stuehmeyer, one of the best-known individual kiltmakers in the world.

Professor of Geosciences Barbara Tewksbury co-authored an article in the August issue of GSA Today, a publication of the Geological Society of America. “Geologic Training for America’s Astronauts” describes the rationale for changes over the past eight years in geology training for astronaut candidates and the focus for future geology training.

A photo from the Desert Eyes Project appears on the National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of International Science and Engineering Website banner. The photo, part of a rotating series, shows Barbara Tewksbury, the Upson Chair for Public Discourse and professor of geosciences, and Claire Sayler ’12 doing fieldwork in Egypt.

Barbara Tewksbury, the Upson Chair for Public Discourse and Professor of Geosciences, presented “Polygonal Patterns and Desert Eyes: Discovery and Study of Pervasively Developed Bedrock Structures in the Western Desert of Egypt Using Freely Available High Resolution Satellite Imagery” on Aug. 18 at the Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) in Houston.

Professor of Geosciences Barbara Tewksbury presented “Using High Resolution Imagery in Google Earth for Research in Remote Regions” at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). The meeting was held Feb. 12-16 in San Jose, Calif.

Professor of Geosciences Barbara Tewksbury this summer was one of a small group of instructors involved in classroom and field training in geology for the new group of NASA astronauts selected in 2013. The instructors met the eight new astronauts in Houston for two weeks of classroom training in June, followed by a week of field mapping in July, during which the group camped and worked on the Taos Plateau in northern New Mexico.