Graduated from Dartmouth College in 2008 with a Masters in Geoscience. Taught science, english, and physical education to K-6 children in southern Spain. I am now working as a geologist at Malcolm Pirnie in the Northern New Jersey office.

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Working on a Masters in Geophysics under Chuck Ammon at Penn State University

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I work for Camp, Dresser & McKee, Inc. which is an Engineering and Environmental consulting company. I am part of their Environmental Remediation Division and work mostly on Phase I site investigations. I have extensive experience with drilling (geotechnical and environmental) as well as soil and groundwater sampling. I recently married another geologist and spent three weeks in Greece on our honeymoon.

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Currently in the first year of a two year MS program in Environmental Science at Oregon State University.

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Graduated from Washington University in St. Louis with a Masters of Fine Arts. I am a Professor of Drawing at Metro State College of Denver in Colorado. I create drawings and paintings that are inspired by my geoscience background and show at Sandra Phillips Gallery. I married a Geotechnical Engineer and we live with our two dachshunds in Denver, Colorado.

Currently I am living in Costa Rica working as a property manager at a surf camp hostel. I am also working as a surf instructor at the same location. I am loving everything about it. I am located on the Pacific Coast in Playa Grande and the place I work at is called Playa Grande Surf Camp. My friend, who is also a Skidmore Alum: Kacey Schneider, and I found the job with much luck and our boss was very impressed that we graduated from Skidmore. We both learned how to surf when we got down here and manage the hostel. I get to meet amazing people and actually two of the owners of the hostel are Geologists in Britain. I have also met about 7 others coming through the camp, so I still get to discuss geology more than I expected. I am learning more Spanish every day and loving the 70 plus degree weather every day!

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Currently looking for a job in San Francisco. I just got back from living in Manizales, Colombia where I was teaching high school biology and earth science and playing a lot of ultimate frisbee.

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I am very happy in my Master's program here at Tufts University and have already started my thesis on studying the combined effects of changing land use, water withdrawals and climate on two streams in Massachusetts from 1940 until present using multivariate statistical analyses. My advisor, Rich Vogel, is trying to start a new field termed "hydromorphology," which excites me since geomorph was one of my favorite classes, as was hydrology. I've learned that engineering is VERY different from sciences. It was a rough start to grad school, but I've been able to adapt.  My background is getting me farther than I could have imagined.
Tufts is treating me well though. I got to go to the Bahamas to do a study on the coastal water quality! It has inspired me to get my pH.D in Coastal engineering, I'm hoping for UHawaii, UMiami or Columbia.

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I own Tahoe Mountain Sports, so if anybody needs any outdoor gear, use checkout code Skidmore to get 10% off your whole order. I also just had a baby girl names Adina Clare Polivy and married Pam Jahnke this summer.

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After leaving Saratoga I made the long trip down to Austin and am currently a phd student at the University of Texas in marine geology and geophysics. I work with Sean Gulick at the UT Institute for Geophysics. My research area is the Gulf of Alaska using seismic reflection, refraction and gravity data. Since arriving at UT I've been out on two seismic cruises with the R/V Marcus Langseth (Columbia University's research vessel) to offshore Alaska and Taiwan. I'm very happy here at UT and love the work. If anyone is looking for graduate school opportunities and wants to learn more about Texas I'd be happy to answer your questions!

After teaching science and art in the Bronx for 5 years, I will be heading to the suburbs to teach Earth Science this fall.  I'm kind of torn about this... excited for a change but also hesitant to be leaving the high needs population I have been working with for so long.  Rody and I have been living in Westchester county since I graduated from Skidmore and we bought a house here near White Plains a few years ago.  In 2007 I went to Kenya on a Fund for Teachers fellowship to work with local scientists there in conducting their reserach on wildlife habitats and water quality in order to take field testing techniques back to my school.  Just a few days ago I got back from China.  I was there for 5 weeks on a Fulbright-Hays seminar through the U.S. Department of Ed.  I was studying language acquisition with 15 other teachers from around the country (I have been working primarily with ESL students for the past 3 years).  It was an amazing experience.

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I graduated from Skidmore in 1998 and went on to graduate school at Syracuse University with the greatly appreciated moral support of Kathy (and Dan), Dick and Dr. T.

I moved out west to Las Vegas, NV in 2003 and worked building computerized geologic models of the Nevada Test Site, where the federal government once tested above ground and underground nuclear bombs. I helped build the flow and transport models used to predict the extent of radionuclide contamination in the groundwater. Then in 2006 I began working on another highly publicized Department of Energy contract- the Yucca Mountain Project. And boy, what a rollercoaster it has been! I am one of the remaining modeling analysts on the project, as we've undergone severe budget cuts, as you may have seen in the news. While the Administration and Congress decide the fait of our nation's high level nuclear waste, I will continue to hone my skills as a geologist/total system performance assessment guru! Because whether it's Yucca Mountain or a salt dome, I hope to be around to help solve this problem.

Outside of work, I spend most of my time riding my bike- mostly road racing in southern California and other neighboring states. Time flies when you're having fun!

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Teaching 8th grade Physical Science in Skillman, NJ; have published 3 articles on science pedagogy; writing a kids book on lizards; got teacher of the year!

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I am currently working for Constellation Energy Group in their Upstream Oil & Gas group handling mergers, divestitures and acquisitions.

Currently a finance manager for NetApp, a high-tech company in California

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I am working as a Senior Geologist in environmental consulting where I apply my skills as a professional geologist (New Hampshire PG) to site remediation and litigation support. Married (Stacie Alimenti Grasso, class of 1996) with two kids; Mia (5) and Michael (2). Enjoying the beaches and history of living north of Boston. Slowly rehabilitating a 130 year old house, and enjoying every minute of it (almost!).

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Currently employed as a Hydrogeologist with an environmental consulting/engineering firm in CT.  Married in 2006 with 2 "kids" (Golden Retriever and Border Collie/Aust Cattle mix).   Other things I've been up to since graduation: I currently serve as a board member and do volunteer work, bird walks and geology walks for a local chapter of National Audubon Society.  Former board member of one of the oldest land conservation trusts in CT.  My husband and I lead hikes and teach basic whitewater kayak skills for the CT Chapter of AMC (appalachian mountain club).   My Border Collie mix & I have started dog agility classes (she's really motivated & would love to compete if only Mom had more time......).  Other jobs I've had since college:  Geotechnical consultant specializing in blasting consulting, GIS technician for a power company consultant, english teacher in Hungary, groom/exercise rider for polo ponies, state park staff.  Currently liking the pay/benefits/security of the current job, but I do not get as much job satisfaction from it as I'd like (except for weeks like this one where I supervised the removal of about 300 cubic yds of petroleum contaminated soil from a former gas station).

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Completed my M.S. in Water Resource Management and Policy at Oregon State University in 2009. After graduation I returned to Juneau, Alaska where I've been living since 1997. I'm now coordinating non-point source pollution programs for the Dept. of Environmental Conservation.  With any luck I'll continue guiding river, kayak and ski trips on a limited basis to help keep some balance between my professional and personal interests.

Co-owner of a small structural geology consulting firm providing geomechanical services to oil and gas industry. www.igeoss.com Personal web page is a bit skinny, just a few pictures: http://taylor.happinesstech.biz/ Geology is a life style - can't think of a better one.

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Computer Science Teacher (grades K-6) at Holy Name Parish School, West Roxbury, MA

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I am terrible at keeping in touch with classmates though I swapped emails recently with Ted West (86) and Liz (Mahoney) Roberge (86), both of whom are doing well.  With me in the Northeast, Ted on the West Coast and Liz in Florida we are about as far apart as classmates can get and still be on the same continent.  Based on my limited contact, they are both doing well.  I am sorely tempted to make up a story about Liz being tour fixture on the professional gator wrestling circuit and Ted fulfilling his career ambition as a perpetual reality TV show contestant but I suspect their lives are much tamer.   Though none of us are really doing any geology in our current vocations, I suspect I am working in a field that is most closely related to geology – that is, environmental consulting.  With that said, I do too little real science and spend most of my days being hassled by lawyers and arguing with other consultants. I still fondly think back to the summer field camp between Junior and Senior year.  Now those are pictures that can never see the light of day!  With that said, I must say that I do like my job and I owe a great deal to all that I learned at the Geology Department in Skidmore.  Great colleagues and great professors.

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Married with two kids. Currently working as a medical director for Prime Care Physicians, a large multispecialty practice based in Albany, NY.

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Since graduation I have been with Warren County (Lake George, NY) in various capacities and now serve as special projects director.  That means they find all sorts of projects and I have to find a way to make them work. I am married to a wonderful woman and we live on a mountain top in Bolton Landing.  She is no longer able to work due to an illness and we take the opportunity to raise awareness about her illness.  An article from a Sept 2006 Post Star is here and here.

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I know I’m lost but I’ve never seen it in print! I spent many years buying and selling gemstones and working with designers, although I would have bet a keg I would never give up my hiking boots for heels. After the industry collapsed I began a career in retail jewelry stores (ugh malls!). 2001 was a really tough year. My favorite employees stole ½ million worth of goods from the store but it took the detectives about 3 months to figure that out. As soon as the “dust” settled, my beautiful city was attacked (NYC 9/11). I met my Husband in a chat room about a week later. 2002 was the best year of my life. I married Stuart in Jan., moved to SE VA (no hard rock) in Feb., got pregnant in March, sold my co-op in NYC in May, bought a house here in July, and had our amazing son in Dec. PHEEW What a year! I am now a stay-at-home-Mom and I home school our son. It is a much different life then the New York career women and there are days I would kill for a bottle of red and a brick oven pizza. Now I have a very willing hiking partner who can scramble up the side of a mountain much faster then these old bones care to think about. He has a corner of the yard to put his collections (shells, sticks, leaves and of course rocks). Stuart is the intellectual properties manager for NASA Langley, by day, and is a light and sound engineer by night.

I had the pleasure to attend the reunion last year and was shocked and appalled by the proper labs that the Geo. Dept. now has. How do you stay awake in the morning labs without the buzzing of the pipes overhead? I have fond (?) memories of chalk hitting my head (thanks Dr. Dick LOL).  There was something about being the ugly stepchild that made it fun to be a member of the Geology Department. Ohh well, kids today don’t know how good they have it.

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I have been living in Columbia, Maryland with my 15 year old son Sammy since 2002. I work in computer security and am the owner and founder of both Relevant Technologies and the FISMA Center. Aside from keeping the day to day operations of the company going, I write computer security articles for various publications, do consulting for U.S. federal agencies, and teach various companies, U.S. federal agencies, and universities on how to comply with the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA). Last year I went up and taught my class at Yale University. Other students of my class include the U.S Navy, U.S. Army, Pentagon staff, IRS, NASA, Australian Department of Defense and others listed here. I authored the leading book (FISMA Certification and Accreditation Handbook) on how to comply with FISMA which was published in 2006. A picture of my book is here. It’s available on Amazon.com, Borders, Barnes & Noble and most major bookstores. When not working, most of my time is taken up with driving my son to lots of swim meets and water polo practices and games, and trying to keep him from spending his life playing World of Warcraft. It seems I never have much free time, though last summer I managed to squeek in a trip to Europe and visited Paris, Milan, Rome, Florence, and the Amalfi Coast. I recently was back up at Skidmore for an afternoon in February when I had a meeting at RPI. I went into Case Center and had a Diet Pepsi but then had to run off to catch a plane. All of the Internet kiosks were certainly new. With the exception of some new buildings, the campus looked mostly the same though the trees were bigger. I don’t know if my son will want to apply there or not, but I’ll probably bring him up for a tour just in case.

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Management /IT Consultant, married, mother of a 5 year  old boy, own 47 acres of woods on top of hillside in NH with sweeping views of the mountains where I hope to build a log cabin & retire some day and in the meantime have a house in the woods with views of the mountains & near a beautiful  lake where I try to visit as much as possible, when  i'm not in a hockey  rink watching my son play

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It's so great to see what everyone is doing these days.  I have just finished 12years as an elected official on our local board of education and have just been elected to our regional BOCES board.  Am also working on a certificate in Horticulture Therapy (combining these past years in education with the ability to work with dirt!).  Loosing Marsha from our GeoSkids has been hard.  I stay in touch with Mitch, her partner of many years who is now looking after her dad. We'd like to put something together in her memory at Skidmore - particularly with the Williamson Challenge in place this year.  Let me know if you'd like to contribute.

Program Manager of the Geological Information and Outreach Program at the Utah Geological Survey.

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I have been retired from my professional career for 12 years, after 10 years in environmental consulting, 5 years in petroleum exploration geophysics, and 5 years in marine engineering consulting.  I like my current job the best! My main hobby now is weaving and natural dyeing.  We also travel a lot and always check out the geology wherever we go.  My husband Gerry is a geologist, too, so family trips were a trial for our daughter, Fiona, when she was younger!  We had a great trip (without her) in 2007 to Scotland, including Lewis and Harris.  The Lewisian gneiss is striking - we came home with several beach cobbles, which always seems to confound the security staff at the airport! My life has been filled with volunteer work the last decade, but this year I have started to cut back on those activities so I can spend more time with my looms and my dye pots.  I have been very active in the Skidmore Annual Fund for more years than I care to remember - perhaps I will retire from that job soon, also! 

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After graduation I worked first for a boat builder in Maine for 10 months….something I had to get out of my system.   I then was hired by the New York State Geological Survey to work on a NASA grant to study movement in the earth’s crust.  My chief geologist was a fine geologist and person, Yngvar Isachsen.   From this work and over several years, I found myself being brought into addressing the woes of managing a large global team of researchers from different fields trying to work together.  For whatever reason, I found I had a talent for knowing what to do. This eventually led me into more management and less research and eventually onto graduate school in Organizational Behavior. After graduate school, I went “corporate,”  wanting to understand the dynamics and challenges of working within complex organizational systems.  I happened to do well in that setting so stayed longer than I ever thought I would (14 years.)   Finally, I decided to go entrepreneurial and started my own consulting firm, The Clarion Group.  We advise executives on issues related to their businesses being successful.  It has been a long go of it since, and fortunately we have done well.  Today we have an office in CT and one in Seattle. And it all started because of this dysfunctional global team of scientists in 1975…..

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I have 2 great part time jobs: I'm the Librarian at the US Geological Survey Pennsylvania Water Science Center, New Cumberland, PA; also, a Reference Librarian at New Cumberland Public Library. I was very saddened at the death of fellow '76 geol. major Marsha Ward in a car accident in Dallas last spring. Reunions won't be the same without her...

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I have been a petroleum geologist since receiving my Masters degree in geology in 1973. In 2002, I was able to take a retirement package so after "retiring" I formed my own company and since then have been an actively working consulting petroleum geologist. In 2007 due to technological advances, I am currently able to work from an office in my home.