Who are our alumni, and what have they been up to? Here are just a few we have heard from.
L.W. (Roy) Stoesz ('48)- After graduation, Roy spent 45 years in the energy exploration trenches, traveling over the world for Shell Oil Co. and later his own consulting company.
Marlan Downey ('56,'57)- Marlan was a former President of the AAPG, an elected Fellow of the American Associates for the Advancement of Science, a Senior Fellow of the Institute for the study of Earth and Man at SMU, and a fellow of the Geological Society of the United Kingdom.
David Allen Lindsey ('63)- I grew up on a rocky farm in Cass County, where I became interested in geology at an early age. By the time I enrolled at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, there was no question that I wanted to become a geologist.
Bill Haworth- I worked as a petroleum geologist for Chevron in the New Orleans area for 35 years, retiring as a senior staff geologist in April of 2015.
David Peterson earned the David S. Johnson Award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Chad Myers is a CNN meteorologist who wrote “I, for one, have changed my conclusion over time on whether humans are responsible for the increased heat content of the Earth. I write this article not to change your mind about global warming; I simply want to show you why I changed mine.”
Christina Riesselman, works on the Antarctic ice shelf and at sea, collecting sediment cores from hundreds of meters under the sea floor and reads the climate history of millennia past.
Andrew Molthan is with the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center and received a Presidential Early Career Award in February, 2016.
Loren Eiseley, was an anthropologist and writer.