2000
 note:  some of this information was 'Googled'

Adams, Luqman; PhD, 2006; email April 08
    Currently, I am in the Chemistry Department, University of Lagos, Nigeria and am equivalent to an Assistant Professor and also serve as Secretary for the committee charged with facilitating the establishment of a Geology Programme to complement the already vibrant Applied Geophysics Programme. Both programmes come under a newly created Geoscience Department in the Faculty of Science. Although I had an offer to continue at PVAMU, I left for abroad because there were immediate challenges to take out here.  
    I will be getting in touch with Dr. Langford soon on some student matters. When I do visit the states, I will definitely swing by. In fact my wife be completing her nursing programme soon, and my folks are still there in El Paso; so I have every reason to be back.  Under the dispensation it will have taken me a while to sort out my papers in the States.  
    My cup is very full at the moment though. My regards to everyone and best wishes.
   Luqman color: rgb(0, 0, 128);
Aguilar, Gloria M. (B.S., 2003)
    Gloria is a Paraprofessional Special Education Science teacher at Franklin High School, El Paso.

 Averill, Matt.; PhD, 2007
    Matt completed his PhD in May and accepted a job with Anadarko in Houston.  He and Kate Miller are coauthoring a paper, and Matt flies back to El Paso every month or so


 
 Barud-Zubillago, Alberto (M.S., 2000)
  Beto is the program coordinator and manager for Geographic Information System and Water Resources in Center for Energy and Resource Management (CERM) here at UTEP.  He has received grants to study arsenic levels in local groundwater and has previously studied the level of heavy metals in storm water.  In 2003, he started research on small-scale spatial occurrence trends of arsenic in the groundwater resources of the Paso del Norte Region and is working on his PhD in our department.
      In Summer 2007, he attended a workshop on Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar - InSAR” and the course was at the Geophysical Institute in University of Alaska Fairbanks.     

 Birkleback, Michael; B.S., 2007
    Mike will stay at UTEP to finish his B.E. in Civil Engineering
Bond-Pacio, Tiffni (M.S., 2003)
    Tiffni works at Chevron as part of the Geophysics Technology Team, Deepwater Exploration and Projects SBU.  She and her husband are currently settled in Thailand, and she (as you can see) is enjoying the wild life 
Brock, Megan; B.S., 2004; email, 3/05
    Megan is working with Exterra Geosciences and finishing her M.S. program at the University of  Houston.  She and Hector Casillas got married the 1st week of March 2007.
Casana, Enrique; M.S., 2007; email 3/08
    Enrique writes:   I am a Geophysicist for HESS corp. and have been working mostly in exploration projects in the deep water Gulf of Mexico. I've gotten to do some seismic interpretation and rock physics work, and even some gravity modeling. At the moment I am the only UTEP graduate working for HESS, Kelly Latter was here for a while but she recently quit, so hopefully we can get someone else from UTEP on board. I'm still in contact with some of the current students and I try to keep up with whatever is going on down there. So if you ever need anything, just let me know. It was great to hear from you, please say hi! to all the nice people down there.
Casillas, Hector, (M.S., 2004)
    Hector is a geophysicist with Anadarko.
Brown, Wesley (PhD, 2004); email, 3/06
    Wesley accepted an Assistant Professor position at Stephen F. Austin State University starting September 2006.  He dropped by a few days ago (May 07) and said he just loves his job and all the faculty.  Previously, he was a Post-Doctoral Research Associate in Environmental Soil Chemistry Research Program at Texas A & M research center in El Paso, TX . 
Carciumaru, Dana D. (PhD, 2005)
    Dana accepted a part-time teaching position in the Department of Science of the University Autonoma Nacional de México in Mexico City.  She also does consulting work in Mexico.
Cline, Veronica (B.S., 1997; M.S., 2000); (email to Dr. Keller, 3/05)
    Veronica  recently moved to our new Chevron office building in downtown Houston.  She enjoys it because she lives in the area and can walk to work; however, the late summers may make her feel differently about that walk!  Currently she is an Exploration Geoscientist for Chevron Energy Technology Company on a project in Deepwater Nigeria..  She had two previous internships prior to having an internship with Chevron -- with the South Carolina State Government and Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory.  Both internships allowed her to expand my professional network and grow technical skills.
    She worked in a Development Geologist position planning and geosteering horizontal wells and enjoyed going out to the rig and having to think on her feet and make decisions at the rig. The problem solving aspect was quite exciting.  During the geosteering assignment on horizontal wells, she was able to have a high-end workstation in the field with the 3-D reservoir models. This was the first time within the company in North America that someone was using the 3-D modeling program in the field to assist with real-time decision making.   She was able to make decisions quickly because she had access to the data and could communicate more efficiently with the drilling personnel when trying to explain the geology and why certain decisions should be made.
   In October, 2004, American Petroleum Institute featured an interview with Veronica.   Here is one of the Q/A comments.

Q. What subjects/courses were instrumental in helping you gain your current position?
A. For me, it had to have been my Introductory Geology Course.  If it wasn't for that course I wouldn't have changed majors to Geology and  would  most likely have gone into another industry.  Aside from this I would encourage students that are interested in the industry to have a strong foundation in Math, Physics and Geology and to take elective courses in Economics, Finance and Languages.  

Veronica, thank you for saying such nice things about us.
Crocker, Lynnette (B.S., 2005)
    Lynette is working for TriHydro Corporation in Anaheim, CA
Couroux, Emile (B.S., 1998; M.S., 2001);  phone call; 11/05
    November 28, 2005, Emile joined Raba-Kistner and is working in their Environmental Services group.  As Sr. Geologist, he is responsible for project management, planning, and staffing.  He will support many R-K projects involving geologic assessments, subsurface investigations, underground storage tanks and contamination impact analysis. 
    Before UTEP, Emile attended El Paso Community College and earned his A.A.S. in Drafting and Design Technology.    He is a registered Professional Geologist in the State of Texas, and a Leaking Petroleum Storage Tank (L.P.S.T.) Project Manager with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (T.C.E.Q.).
    Before joining Raba-Kistner, Emile was with D&H Petroleum & Environmental Services in El Paso where he served as Project Manager/Geologist.  He was responsible for the day to day management and report preparation of numerous L.P.S.T. sites in Texas and New Mexico from the initial release to final closure status.  Additional responsibilities included development and management of environmental Phase I and Phase II prospects.
    Emile and his wife, Veronica, have two children.  Last year his 8 year old daughter won 1st place in the 2005 EPISD science fair.  She wants to study dinosaurs, earth, and planets.  His son is keeping him busy and is in his "terrible two's."

Dean, III, Robert;  M.S., 2004
     Bob is the Instructional Lab Coordinator in the Department of Physics/Engineering/Geosciences at Montgomery College in Rockville, MD.  His early research focused on emplacement of Mesoproterozoic plutons in Colorado. Currently he is collaborating on a project investigating Paleo-Indian sites and is heading the DC mapping array project.   In November 2006, he presented a SEM talk Development of a Lightening Mapping Array for the DC Metro Area at the SEM Exchange program of Montgomery College
de la Pena, Alejandro; M.S., 2007
  Alex is currently in Hermosillo, Mexico, conducting field work for Quantec Geoscience USA, Inc., which is based in Reno, NV.  Quantec provides geophysical contracting and consulting services to mining companies of all sizes.
 
 Djebrane, Mohammed (B.S., 2001)
      This was a banner year for Mohammed "Mo" Djebrane, a 6th grade teacher at Canyon Middle School here in El Paso.  In January 2007, he was recognized and honored by the EPISD Board of Trustees as "Employee of the Month" for his hard work and diligence to make a difference in the lives of students. 
    In April 2007, he was nominated as "Teacher of the Year".  There are 10 finalists, 5 at the elementary level and 5 at the secondary level; Mo is one of the secondary five.  The nominees were honored for their dedicated efforts to inspire and make a difference in the lives of EPISD’s youth.
    As if he weren't busy enough, "Mo" is a NSF GK-12 teacher participant.  Each GK-12 fellow is paired with a middle school science teacher and spends 10 hours per week in that teacher’s classroom.  The fellow is identified as a Science Mentor in the schools. 
    In 2006, Mo once again participated in  LiftOff Summer Institute at Johnson Space Center Space Camp for Educators during the summer in Huntsville, Alabama and was made leader of a team of 15 teachers.  Due to his active participation, he was granted a scholarship to support and send a student of his choice to the Summer 2007 Space Camp.   Three students will be attending the came this summer space camp, and has been raising additional funding for them.  This is very exciting, because these children would not have this opportunity otherwise.
    In 2005 he was one of 30 teachers who attended this Space Camp, which featured a series of workshops organized around an aerospace or space science theme drawn from NASA’s diverse engineering and scientific research programs.  The workshops featured hands-on activities, field trips, and presentations by NASA scientists working on various missions. The teachers not only learned about Mars, they also focused on whether life may have existed on the red planet, the geology, present robotic missions and possible exploration of the planet in the future.
        In 2005 his students took second place in a regional aerospace technology engineering NASA student-involvement program.  The students entered as the "Rocketeers" and had to follow guidelines (like those of NASA engineers) to design and test a launch platform.  The students made three launch platforms from cardboard, sticks, and hot glue.  The platform was able to launch a 2-liter water-filled bottle test rocket.   The students also submitted a paper and drawings showing their work and will received medals during an award ceremony at the end of the Spring 05 semester.  The judges were impressed by their ingenuity. 
Dumond, Gregory (B.S., 2000); Card to Dr. Doser, 12/05
    Their son,  Joseph Philip, approaches two years of age with a remarkable sense of awareness, a tremendous smile, an infectious laugh, and an uncanny knack for inspiring Jackie and I when we need inspiration most!
Jackie continues to contemplate pursuing a master's degree in education to complement her B.S. in Geology, but remains content and dedicated to being a mom.
    Greg just completed his third year as a candidate (hoping to finish in two more years!) The first part of the dissertation (about was finally completed this year and resulted in a great collaborative manuscript on the early history of crystalline rocks in the Upper Granite Gorge of Canyon,   He was fortunate enough to work on the famous Schist with a colleague who graduated this year (Kevin Mahan -whom he sorely misses!), in addition to participating on two research rafting trips down the Colorado River. The remaining and larger bulk of the dissertation will be on rocks exposed in the Canadian Shield in northern Saskatchewan. Greg has spent the last three field seasons (1 week in weeks in 2004, and 6 weeks in the summer of 2005) in the Canadian bush studying spectacular rocks that were once deformed greater than 40 kilometers below the Earth's surface!
Duncan-Benitez, Katy; M.S., 2006; email; 04/08
Hello Friends,
     How is everyone at UTEPl? I hope this note finds you well and enjoying your lives ~
     Things with me are good! Last July I was married to the love of my life -- James Benitez.  We spent two amazing weeks in Japan for our Honeymoon! So my name is now Katy Benitez! Currently we are settled in Denver, CO and enjoying the family and scenery here. He is attending College and I am working for Halliburton as an Image Log Analyst. 
    There are many interesting and technical jobs available with Halliburton, as well as room to grow and move around within the company, and I am excited to be on the forefront of industry technology. Image logs are basically the inverse of core studies. The tool is resistivity based and records 120 measurements per foot in the borehole. This information is processed so that the final image is a view into what is actually drilled through. Bedding planes, sedimentary dips, fractures and faults can all be interpreted. It is really interesting and I get to work with many of the major oil and gas companies active in the western US! 
    I was excited to learn from my advisor, Rip Langford, that the study I participated in with my MS work will be published in the Journal of Sedimentary Research in June! Thanks to him and all the co-authors for their great work.
 Thinking fondly of El Paso and all the wonderful people we met there,
Katy Benitez
Flores, Claudia (M.S., 2003) email to Sandy, 5/30/06
    I asked Claudia for an update, and BOY, did she deliver
     "Oh man, I've been so busy with the moving from CA to MA and then settling down at my job and then moving yet again to a more permanent place, I've just been overwhelmed these last six months!  I'll be honest with you. I WAS working on a PhD at UC Santa Cruz but then I quit. I got tired of seeing both my parents with growing health problems and being absolutely helpless to do anything about it; so I decided to get a job so I could at least coordinate with my brothers and send money home or what not.  It was tough making the decision but I it's for the best.  I just wasn't able to concentrate on the PhD anymore with that going on in my life. I think I've only told a few of the UTEP folks, primarily Diane since she was one of my references for the job I'm at right now. Jimmy and Annette I think were the only other two people.
    Sheesh, I haven't even given Aaron the news of what happened... I've been meaning to but I've just been busy getting out of the starving student lifestyle and into the young professional mentality. Gosh, I've even cut my hair -- short.
    Honestly I wasn't trying to be sneaky (batting eyelashes).  I'm officially an employee of Intergrated Statistics, but I'm working as a contractor at the USGS Woods Hole Science Center (for now).  After July, let's just say a lot of things have to come together first before I become a little more permanent here but it's too early to tell right now).  I did get the e-mail that Randy retired... wow.
    What else can I say? Got a lot going on right now.
 -Claudia
     P.S. Me devil?  I wouldn't necessarily call going into the fetish shops of San Francisco devilish -- more like adventurous {snicker snicker}."
 Garcia y Barragan, Juan Carlos. (PhD, 2003); email to Sandy 8/2006
    Juan Carlos works for the Institute of Geology of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) at Hermosillo, Sonora. The official name of this branch of UNAM is Estación Regional del Noroeste. This office is both a small research center (about 12 investigators and technicians), and one of the sites of the Graduate Program of the Earth Sciences of UNAM.
    Recently Juan-Carlos was promoted to Research Technician level ‘B’ (whatever it means). His duties include supervisingof the Petrography Laboratory, the (very small!) Mineralogical Collection, performing field and laboratory geological investigations (mainly in northern Sonora), and teaching graduate courses of Advanced Sedimentary Petrology and Environments and Sedimentary Processes.
    Other activities include outreach activities for elementary and high school students and lecturing outside the Estación and making presentations at scientific meetings (mainly at the annual symposium of the Mexican Geophysical Union in Puerto Vallarta!) or in local professional events
    Occasionally he teaches at the Centro de Estudios Superiores del Estado de Sonora (CESUES) at the undergraduate level courses like Mineralogy, Optical Mineralogy, Stratigraphy/Sedimentology, Physical Geology or Geology of Mexico. His first tutored student defended his undergraduate thesis at CESUES in August 2006.
    His research interests are stratigraphy and sedimentology of Cretaceous rocks in northern Sonora, petrography of sandstones, geology and geochemistry of heavy and radioactive minerals in the eastern coast of the Gulf of California and identification of archeological pottery from northern Sonora and Chihuahua.
    Juan-Carlos currently is writing papers on geochemistry of sands in Bahía Kino, Sonora and on petrography of Cretaceous sandstones near Caborca. He will contribute to the elaboration of the book “Geology of Sonora” (Cretaceous chapter) which hopefully may be published in 2007.
    A recent plan to pursue another undergraduate career (Biology or Psychology) was rapidly disapproved by his wife Patty. Juan-Carlos still wonders why so(?).  Anyway, if some UTEP professor or alumni dare to travel through the Desierto de Sonora to Hermosillo, Juan-Carlos grants a lot of ‘carne asada’ and, at least, one barrel of the best beer of this part of the world.
Gillespie, Cindy (PhD, 2002) per Dr. Keller, 6/9/05)
     Fugro Robertson Inc./LCT Division (Houston, Texas) is pleased to announce that Cindy L. Gillespie has joined the Interpretation Services Department.  Cindy joins Fugro's existing team of earth modelers and interpreters, and her responsibilities include provision of high-level 3D gravity/magnetic modeling services to Fugro's global base of petroleum exploration clients.
     Cindy's previous corporate affiliations include GETECH, Shell Exploration and Production Company, ExxonMobil Corporation, and Arco Oil and Gas Company.
Granillo, Jr., Jose A (M.S., 2004); jagranillo@epwu.org
      Jose is the GIS Administrator for the El Paso Water Utilities Public Service Board
Hielscher, Frank; B.S., 2003
    Frank is Director of Planning and Response for the American Red Cross, Southwestern New Mexico Chapter, in Las Cruces, NM

Holland, Austin; M.S., 2002 email to Dr. Doser)
    Austin is working on his PhD at the University of Arizona.  He sent Dr. Doser the following message:
         I am enjoying it here at the U of A.  It is a little challenging to be back at school after so long away.  I think I managed to survive the first semester.  Just wanted to give you an update and my Christmas letter the broke college student way. 
Guan, Huade (M.S., 2001)
    After completed his PhD at NMT in 2005, Huade received a Post-Doc Associates position in the Department of Earth and Environmental Science at UT San Antonio.
    His research has been focusing on the hydrological processes at the interfaces of bedrock-soil-vegetation-atmosphere, using approaches of remote sensing, geostatistics, analytical and numerical modeling. The specific topics include mountain precipitation mapping, hydrologic and ecological impacts of global climatic variability (e.g., ENSO, PDO) and change, remote sensing of vegetation coverage, mountain evapotranspiration modeling, hillslope water partitioning, mountain-block recharge estimation.   He's also working on mapping potential and actual evapotranspiration in mountainous terrains; downscaling NEXRAD and satellite-based rainfall products; mountainous climate delineation (orographic effects, climatic teleconnection, etc.; and shrub encroachment and its ecohydrologic impacts.
Guijarro, Lizbet N. (B.S., 2000)
    Lizbet anticipated receiving her PhD from the University of South Carolina-Columbia in 2004.  Her PhD is on multisensor multivariate characterization of surface dynamics and the analysis of the effect of spatial heterogeneity on retrieval and uniqueness of data of the United States.
Hicks, Nigel, (M.S., 2001); 03/06
    Nigel is now working for BP as a Geophysicist for the Anadarko Basin and living in Houston.  After 2001 graduation, Nigel worked at Kerr-McGee Oil and Gas Corp.  During the 2001-2005 time at Kerr-McGee, he held positions in Exploration Technology Analysis, Inversion, Pore Pressure Prediction from Seismic (AVO/DHI), Exploration and Development, and Operations. 
Hiett, Brett ; M.S., 2000
     Brett is teaching science at Wissahickon High School in Ambler, Pennsylvania.
House, Beverly (M.S., 2004);
    Beverly is an Exploration Geologist - EP Americas, GOM Paloegene East Exploration Team with Shell Exploration & Production Company.  She spent a week in Almeria, Spain, for a Shell training course looking at turbidite deposit systems across large-scale basin and traveled to Europe this summer for two weeks of vacation and visited Hamburg, Germany, Barcelona and Pomplona, Spain, and Florence and Rome, Italy.  She says it was an amazing whirlwind trip but exciting because she had never been to Europe before.
    She recently checked out the Gulf Coast of Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida -- all the places completed destroyed due to Katrina.  She found it sad -- she actually enjoyed the Gulf Coast -- lost of historic homes, small beaches, and casinos to visit.  Now they are all gone.
Hussein, Musa; PhD 2007
    After a teaching stint at the Georgia Southern College, Musa has returned to the fold as a Post-Doc working under the direction of Dr. Aaron Velasco


 Kennedy, John (PhD, 2004) email; 3/06
    John works full time at WSMR (Caelum-Unitec) as a GIS Analyst.  He is involved with a little geology research and hopes to do more in the future.
 

Kilbride, Fiona (PhD, 2000)
    Fiona is with Anadarko and was coauthor of a paper entitled "Time-lapse VSP Reservoir Monitoring" which is featured in The Leading Edge, 2005. 

 
 Linney, Thomas F.; B.S., 2002
    Thomas works is project coordinator for the Office of State Senator Eliot Shapleigh.   In 2007 he received the "Baron & Budd Endowed Presidential Scholarship in Public Interest Law", which is part of the  Endowed Presidential Scholarship and Fellowships.   He entered law school at UT Austin in 2006.
McDonough, Conor (M.S., 2005)
    Conor is a hydrologist with Environmental Resource Management in San Francisco, CA. 
Munoz, Alfonso (M.S., 2002); (email 6/06)
    Al is now working for Delta Environmental Consultants, Inc. (formerly Applied Earth Sciences, Inc., in Houston.  Being bilingual helped as the company has interest in Central American operations and, to date, he has not seen any snakes, wasp’s nests, lightning strikes, nor had any sun-burns. 
    Since being with Delta Environmental Consultants, he has traveled to Nicaragua, Panama, the Dominican Republic, and soon will be going to Costa Rica.  This company has afforded him many personal and profes-sional goals that he would not have achieved at the last company where he worked.  He is a project manager role.  He is partnering up with Matthew Miles (another UTEP Geology graduate) to buy rental houses, and they will close on the deal next week. 
     The picture is of Al selling home made doughnuts in Matagalpa, Nicaragua.  The two adorable little girls in the picture would come around every afternoon selling doughnuts.  By about the third day he would just take the bin from them and hand out doughnuts to all the workers in his work crew, the gas station attendants, any passers by, anybody within shouting distance; then he would pay the girls for all the doughnuts people took.  He says you could easily tell that nobody had ever treated them as nice and as generous; judging by their reaction.  I was told that the day after I left Nicaragua they stopped coming around anymore.
     He says "hello" to all. 
Mariita, Nicholas Obyua (PhD, 2003).
    Mariita is a Senior Geophysicist with Kenya Electricity Generating Company, Ltd.,  He is a geothermist assessing how the hot water heated by the volcanic activities concentrated along the great East African Rift Valley can be used to light up the homes of his countrymen and of millions of people across East Africa.
  Nandigam, Ravi (PhD, 2000)
    Ravi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics South Texas College in McAllen, TX.  He previously taught Principles of Earth Science, Physical and Historical Geology, and Conservation of Natural Resources at UT Brownsville.
 
Nzewunwah, Chima; PhD, 2007
     Chima is an Associate Geologist with Chesapeake Energy Corporation in Utah.  He sent Pam an email in October 2007
     I'm just working away, working really hard to help find sources to help 'degrade' the environment. Just kidding. I'm just keeping busy working on new prospects. No matter how hard I try, trouble still finds me but not some thing I cannot handle so far. Seems like the Dept can not stop expanding...that is very good. How is Sandy? Say hello to her.
 Cheers,
Chima
Ott, Daniel (B.S., 2001)
    Daniel is here at UTEP working on a MBA. 
Oueity, Jounada (M.S., 2002)
    Jounada was working on his PhD in the Earth and Ocean Sciences Department at the University of British Columbia.  In 2004 he was co-author of a poster  CANOE: A Broadband Array in Northwestern Canada presented at the 2004 AGU meeting.
Popovich, Drew; M.S., 2002
    Drew lives in Denver, CO -- that's about all we know.  He still actively plays racquetball and is a member of the "Racquetball Addicts Anonymous" 
Rodriguez-Pineda, Jose Alfredo (PhD, 2000); email 3/06
    Alfredo is a Mining Engineer who graduated from the Autonomous University of Chihuahua.  After working for a mining industry, he obtained his masters degree in Engineering in Hydrogeology Resources in Arid Zones from the same university and obtained his doctoral degree in Hydrogeology from the University of Texas at El Paso by means of the Tinker foundation.
    He worked as an investigator and coordinator of a project for the Ecology Institute A.C. where he did an investigation on contamination of aquifers by arsenic and drought. He has participated in projects dealing with hydrology and geophysics focusing on the environment like the Site for Deposits of Radioactive Materials of Low Intensity in the Sierra Blanca, TX, and the Arial Investigation for the Confinement of hazardous Residuals in the Villa Hamada Municipality, Chihuahua.
    He formed part of the group of Investigators of the National System and was a consultant for the International Commission of Limits and Waters (CILA) during the conflict between Mexico and the U.S. related to water treaty of 1944.
    Alfredo's work as an Officer of the Hydrographic Basins of the Chihuahuan Desert has allowed him to continue to work in hydrogeology; presently, with emphasis in Rio Conchos, one of the main bi-national rivers in the world, the Rio Grande, located in the frontier of Mexico and the United States.
Rohrbaugh, Robert (M.S., 2001); email 8/08
    I came by in late May to say hi, but you were gone for the day. I plan to stop by the next time I'm in the neighborhood. After 7 yrs in the San Francisco area, we decided to get out of that crazy state and come back to the "simple life" here in El Paso. Plus my parents will get to spend lots of time with their only grandchild now. I'll be teaching at EPCC part-time with Josh at Mission Del Paso. Plus I'm pursuing my high school certification in the meantime. It's great to be back and I'll see ya soon
 
Sellepack (Pool), Brandi (M.S., 2003)
        Brandi is with Conoco/Phillips in Houston

 
 Sellepack, Steve; M.S., 2000; email July 08
    Steve received his PhD in Material Sciences in 2002 and currently is a project geologist for Premier Environmental Services in Houston.  Premier was named by Inc. Magazine to the Inc. 500 list of the fastest growing, privately held companies in America, for the 2nd year in a row.   It has main offices on the East and West Coasts, twelve regional offices throughout the U.S. and Canada, and over 150 employees.
      Attached are pictures of me, Brandi, Matthew, and Jackson.  Matthew will be four at the end of July and Jack is about a year and a half.  My e-mail is sellepack@excite.com and Brandi's is BKPS97@yahoo.com .   Brandi is still working for ConocoPhillips here in Houston.

Snelson, Catherine (PhD, 2001); snelson@ees.nmt.edu
    Cathy recently joined the faculty in the Earth and Environmental Sciences Department at the New Mexico Tech, Socorro, NM, September 2007.   While at the University of Nevada Las Vegas from 2002-2007 during which her research focused on seismic hazard analysis of the southern Nevada.  Her research primarily focuses on integrating controlled-source seismology and non-seismic techniques to study the structure and composition of the near surface to the continental lithosphere. Current research projects include the structure and geometry of the Las Vegas basin for seismic hazards, intraplate deformation in the Walker Lane and North Carolina, Evaporate karst development in southern Nevada, and salt tectonics in central Mexico and Utah. Past projects include a seismic hazard study of the Seattle basin, Western Washington State (Dry SHIPS ’99 and Kingdome SHIPS ‘00) and studying the crustal evolution of the Rocky Mountains (Deep Probe ’95 and CD-ROM ’99). Future projects include investigating the high-velocity lowermost crust of the Wyoming province in central and eastern Montana, and a series of investigations in the Basin and Range studying the structure and evolution of the region in conjunction with USArray.
    The big news is that she's now married and raising two girls.  She's expecting a new arrival any time soon.
Tobgay (M.S., 2005); 11/05
    After graduation  Tobgay worked for the Geological Survey of Bhutan; he just started his PhD at Princeton University.  He says that of late, the “channel flow model” to explain the Himalayan orogenesis has gained popularity.  The Bhutan Himalaya has been a natural laboratory for the development and testing of this model.  Professor Lincoln Hollister and his colleagues have done extensive research in the Bhutan Himalaya, a region of compression, to recognize and explain ductile extrusion as the dominant process in the physiographic Greater Himalaya. Inspired by their work.  This took him to Princeton University so he can continue the work on the  tectonometamorphic evolution of the Bhutan Himalaya in an attempt to connect the missing link in Himalayan tectonics.
van de mark, Thomas;  B.S., 2004 (email to Dr. Doser; 11/07)
    Tom finished his M.S. at Penn State, May 2007, and is now staff geophysicist at Quantum Tech Sciences, Inc. in Cocoa Beach, FL
Villalobos, Joshua I. (M.S., 2002); email to Sandy and Pam, March 07)
 Hi Sandy and Pam!
    I was looking on the geology webpage looking for an email and thought I would email you two to see how things are going?  Things are great here, I left Texas A&M Agricultural Research Center to accept a full-time tenure track position here at EPCC's Mission del Paso Campus on the Eastside (FAR eastside!). Teaching geology full time is a dream come true! The best part is being able to spend lots of time with my family (wow! that never stops sounding weird to me??).  Tobias is already 15 months old and is keeping mommy and daddy happily on their toes. We're both in constant amazement on how fast this kid learns thing and is growing.  My wife Sylvania decided to be a stay at home mom when Tobias was first born, but is eager to get back to work.  She'll be going to UTEP in the summer to start her Alternative Certification for education. I hope things are going well for you both and please say hi to everyone for me!
Virtue, Terry, M.S., 2000 (phone call to Sandy, 5/09)
    Terry currently lives in southeast Texas and is working with Illuka Resources, which is the largest producer of zircon in the world, and is the second largest producer of titanium dioxide minerals (rutile, ilmenite and leucoxene and an upgraded form of ilmenite, synthetic rutile).
Wu, Kaiwen; M.S., 2002; PhD, 2007
    Kaiwen works for Energy Fuels, Inc.'s Arizona Strip exploration team in Kanab, Utah.  Energy Fuels is a Toronto-based mineral exploration and development company.
Xie, Hongjie (PhD, 2002), 11/04
      Hongjie  is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at UT San Antonio.  His research areas are in Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technologies, theories, and applications since 1993.   His technical skills include expertise in uses of various image processing software and GIS tools.  He has experiences in computer software development and GIS programming and is particularly interested in interdisciplinary research by integrating remote sensing, GIS, field measurements to geology (the Earth and the Mars), agriculture, surface hydrology, terrestrial ecosystems, hydrometeorology, urban development, and environmental studies. My technical expertise has allowed me to approach many research questions in regard to spatio-temporal patterns and processes through quantitative modeling.
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