Keck News & Announcements

Presentations by Keck Geology Consortium Projects at GSA 2017
The Geological Society of America 129th Annual Meeting,
October 22-25, 2017 Seattle, Washington

IODP Focus Project Update
Suzanne O’Connell (Wesleyan) and Joseph Ortiz (Kent State) led four students to the International Ocean Discovery Program core repository at Texas A&M University.

Dominica Frontier Project Update
During a two-week period, based at the Archbold Tropical Research and Education Center on Dominica, students collected samples ranging from pumice clasts and ash from thick ignimbrite sequences, to enclaves and mingled magmas….

Alaska Gateway Project Update
Five Gateway Program students joined Greg Wiles (Wooster) in Juneau for a dendrochronological study of Yellow Cedar in Juneau, Alaska.

Utah Gateway Project Update
Meagen Pollock (Wooster) and five Gateway Program students used geochemical mapping to revise the boundaries of some of the lava flows in the Ice Springs Volcanic Field of the Black Rock Desert.
Professor Jade Star Lackey (Pomona College) and Student Jesslyn Starnes (Denison University) have published results from their 2010 Keck project on magmatism in the Sierra Nevada Range, CA
Professor Jade Star Lackey (Pomona College) and Student Jesslyn Starnes (Denison University) have published results from their 2010 Keck project on magmatism in the Sierra Nevada Range, CA along with co-author Eric Klemetti (Denison University). Read...
Diane Smith (Trinity University) named 2013 AWG Outstanding Educator
Diane Smith of Trinity University was named 2013 Outstanding Educator by the Association of Women Geoscientists. The distinction was awarded at the national meeting of the Geological Society of America in Denver, CO. Read More
Mary Savina (Carleton College) receives 2013 GeoCUR student mentoring award
See CUR Article about award...GeoCUR Undergraduate Research Mentor Award
John Brady (Smith College) Receives CUR Research Mentor Award
Keck’s own John Brady (Smith College) awarded first-ever Geosciences Undergraduate Research Mentor Award by the Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR).