Stories from Current and Recent Students

I am a junior geology major from Los Angeles, CA. I am interested in Geology as a whole, especially volcanic systems. In the spring of 2022, I did research with Dr. Anne Sheehan, conducting literature reviews for a machine learning project on volcanic seismicity with the 2012 Te Maari eruptions in New Zealand. I am still working with Anne, and her postdoc Matt Mendoza, helping work with the FORGE project...

I am a Geophysics major and Astronomy minor and I transferred to CU Boulder in my sophomore year. Before that I had the privilege of conducting research at my previous institution on the Jordan River in Utah which is where I live. For the project, I sampled segments of the river to test for dissolved solids, dissolved oxygen and temperature. Since then I have also had the opportunity to participate...

For me, a career in geology was not a direct route. I'm from New York and came from a fine arts background. When I decided to build a career in the sciences, no option compared to what the CU Boulder Geology Department had to offer. Originally inspired by an inerest in paleontology, during my undergraduate degree at CU I found myself fasincated instead with hardrock geology - mineralogy, petrology, and...

I grew up in Hong Kong and came to CU Boulder for its Geosciences program. My first year, I worked as an undergraduate teaching assistant, which involved grading for classes such as the “Geology of Colorado” and “Water, Energy, and the Environment”. During my second-year, I began in Dr. Rebecca Flower’s thermochronology lab doing mineral separations, where I processed rock samples in search of apatite and zircon crystals for dating...

I am originally from Thornton, Colorado, but I grew up running around the mountains of southern Colorado. Naturally, I had to select a degree in college that allowed me to combine my love of the outdoors with a passion to see what lies beyond Earth. During my time as a Geoscience undergraduate, I involved myself with lab work in Julio Sepulveda and Alexis Templeton’s Geobiology labs learning about novel techniques...

I am originally from the Wet Mountains of Southern Colorado. At CU I sought out climate research opportunities during my undergrad with the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR). First, my job involved logging sediment cores with Anne Jennings’ lab to help reconstruct the climate history for the Arctic Ocean. Later I worked with James White’s stable isotope lab processing the South Pole Ice Core and running samples through...

I grew up in Highlands Ranch, Colorado, before attending the University of Colorado Boulder where I earned an International Bachelor of Arts degree in Geological Sciences (with additional coursework at the University of Wollongong, Australia) and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Anthropology. I found CU Boulder to be a wonderful place to study geology. Not only are you close to the Rocky Mountains, but you are also able to...

Advisor: Rebecca Flowers Research I study how the landscape of Arctic Canada has changed over the Phanerzoic (~600 Ma-present) using apatite (U-Th)/He thermochronology. I use kimberlites to figure out when the cratons (really old, thick, stable crust) that make up this region were buried by sediment and when they were eroded. Knowing the timing and magnitude of burial and erosion allows me to attribute events (e.g., moutain building, dynamic topography)...