Rockin', mappin' at the geological conference
Students, faculty, alumni to present at largest gathering in the nation
DJ Slater
Issue date: 10/13/05 Section: Campus News
The opportunity to attend the conference has left senior Kate MacLaurin with mixed emotions, she said.
After spending three weeks remapping the geologic map of Montana with four Eau Claire students and associate professor J. Brian Mahoney, she said she is confident about her project but also nervous to present it.
"It has been a challenge," MacLaurin said. "This conference will allow me to ... build my own professional career as a geologist."
During the 2000 and 2001 conferences, two then-Eau Claire students received awards for their research. Katie Thornburg received the Austin A. Sartin Poster Paper Award for her presentation "Clay Mineralogy of Till Units in Western Wisconsin" in 2000. In 2001, April Johnson won the Sigma Gamma Epsilon Best Poster Award.
Geology Department Chair Bob Hooper said the conference not only is a benefit to its students, but also to the professors in attendance.
Havholm agrees and said she looks forward to learning about the current research of other professionals, getting feedback on her work and visiting with her colleagues she only gets to see at the event.
Having undergraduate students in attendance, Hooper said, also speaks for itself in regards to the strength of Eau Claire's geology department.
"The fact that we have students presenting at this meeting really says something," he said. "It really puts Eau Claire up there at the top of the undergraduate research institutions in the country."
After spending three weeks remapping the geologic map of Montana with four Eau Claire students and associate professor J. Brian Mahoney, she said she is confident about her project but also nervous to present it.
"It has been a challenge," MacLaurin said. "This conference will allow me to ... build my own professional career as a geologist."
During the 2000 and 2001 conferences, two then-Eau Claire students received awards for their research. Katie Thornburg received the Austin A. Sartin Poster Paper Award for her presentation "Clay Mineralogy of Till Units in Western Wisconsin" in 2000. In 2001, April Johnson won the Sigma Gamma Epsilon Best Poster Award.
Geology Department Chair Bob Hooper said the conference not only is a benefit to its students, but also to the professors in attendance.
Havholm agrees and said she looks forward to learning about the current research of other professionals, getting feedback on her work and visiting with her colleagues she only gets to see at the event.
Having undergraduate students in attendance, Hooper said, also speaks for itself in regards to the strength of Eau Claire's geology department.
"The fact that we have students presenting at this meeting really says something," he said. "It really puts Eau Claire up there at the top of the undergraduate research institutions in the country."