alumni reception - Syracuse Universe Department of Earth Sciences ...

ConocoPhillips in the Exploration side of the company
beginning in October 2010. Recall that Matt received
his BS and MS from our dept.
Douglas Patchen (Ph.D. ’72)
Doug has recently
retired from the
West Virginia
Geological Survey,
where he had an
extraordinarily
successful career
for 43 years, as
one of the movers
and shakers
in developing
hydrocarbon
resources of the
East. He continues
to be active
professionally. He
still has SU season tickets for football, so we look
forward to seeing him in Heroy before one of the
games this fall!
Joel Thompson (Ph.D. ’89)
Joel is professor
of Marine
Sciences at
Eckerd College,
where he has
been deeply
involved in both
interdisciplinary
sciences and
the programs
abroad. He also
has established
a lineage of
Eckerd students
who have done
publications from undergraduate research with him
on microbial processes and then have gone on to
complete doctoral research in the Earth Sciences. He
returns to central New York from time to time to visit
us. This summer, he did an intensive visit to England,
retracing the steps of Charles Darwin and others
critical to the development of evolutionary theory.
(Photo from Eckert College website)
Geraldean H. Lantier (B.S. ’01)
The Department wishes to extend its sincerest
congratulations to Geraldean H. Lantier (BS ‘01)
and her husband Greg on the arrival of their bundles
of joy, Augusteen & Ida, on March 24, 2010. If
Geraldean were not busy enough, she is also the owner
of Skaneateles 300 a women’s boutique in beautiful
Skaneateles, New York.
Michael Tedeschi (B.S. ‘06)
Michael Tedeschi
received his MSc
in May 2010 from
Colorado School
of Mines. The
title of his thesis
was “Geology of
the Cerro Verde
Iron Oxide-Copper-Gold
Prospect:
San Javier,
Sonora, Mexico”.
Mike is currently
employed with
Alaska Earth Sciences
out in the
Kuskokwim region of south west Alaska doing gold
exploration. Mike received his BSc from our department.
This photo of Mike as an undergraduate- with a
smile as wide as the ocean- is of him collecting uvite
crystals on a mineralogy trip in the Adirondacks.
We at the Department of Earth Sciences would love to
hear from (or about) any and all of our alums. Send us
a note, or a picture, stop by for a visit! Contact Julie
Neri email: jjneri@syr.edu