KATHARINE HUNTINGTON, née RUHL

Associate Professor, Department of Earth & Space Sciences, University of Washington

Endowed Professor for the College of the Environment in Earth Systems

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Kate Huntington

Endowed Professor for the College of the Environment in Earth Systems

Dept. of Earth & Space Sciences, University of Washington


Ph.D., Geology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006

B.S., Geology and Economics, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, 2001

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Current Research Team

Past Research Team Members

Megan Mueller

PhD student

(co-advised with Prof. Alexis Licht)

Julia Kelson

Ph.D., 2019

(went on to NSF postdoctoral fellowship at University of Michigan)

Landon Burgener

Ph.D. 2018

(went on to postdoc North Carolina State University)

Mike Turzewski

Ph.D., 2019

Andy Schauer

Lab Manager, IsoLab

Alex Lechler

Postdoctoral Scholar, 2013-2014

(now Faculty at Pacific Lutheran University)

Karl Lang

Ph.D. 2014

(went on to Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow, U of Tubingen, Germany;

now faculty Queens College CUNY)

Kristina Sumner

M.S. 2015, MESSAGe Program

B.S., 2013

Undergraduate Research Assistant

(now Geologist/Environmental Scientist at Apex Companies, LLC)

Christopher Amador-French

M.S. 2016, MESSAGe Program

(went on to be Staff Geologist at The Riley Group, Inc.)

Nathan Peters

M.S. 2012, Research Program

B.S., 2010

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Sarah Bergman

M.S. 2012, Research Program

(went on to Faculty, Denver Center for International Studies at Montbello)

Kyle Samek

Laboratory Technician, IsoLab

(went on to PT school at Marymount University, VA)


Evan Lewarch, B.S., 2013

Undergraduate Laboratory Technician, IsoLab

(went on to Peace Corps)

Mika Usher Thompson, B.S., 2013

Undergraduate Research Assistant (went on to Ph.D. program in ESS at U of Washington)

David Birlenbach, B.S., 2012

Undergraduate Research Assistant (went on to Ph.D. program at U of Illinois)

Gerd Winterleitner

Visiting Research Student and Marshallplan Scholar, 1/2010-6/2010

(went on to Ph.D. at U of London)

Katelyn Atakturk, B.S., 2012

Undergraduate Research Assistant

(M.S., UT Austin, 2014; went on to be Foundation Geologist at Hess Corp.)

Christopher Maffucci, B.S., 2009

Undergraduate Research Assistant

(continues to volunteer with student research projects in ESS)

Luke Bergman, B.S., 2010

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Jeff Whitman, B.S., 2010

Undergraduate Research Assistant (went on to M.S. at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo; Geotechnical Engineer at Kleinfelder Nelson)




Aaron Reding, B.S., 2015

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Postgrad Research Assistant


Mariah Danner, B.S., 2015

Undergraduate Research Assistant

(went on to graduate program, Advanced Propulsion Lab in ESS)


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Ethan Hyland

QRC Future of Ice Postdoctoral Scholar, 2014-2016

(now Faculty at North Carolina State University)

Susannah Morey

PhD student

Zijie Ning, PhD 2019, China University of Geosciences, Beijing

Visiting Research Student Autumn 2016-Winter 2017 (now at China Geological Survey)


Kazem Zamanian, PhD

Visiting Research Student (Autumn 2016)

Went on to postdoc at University of Gottingen, Germany

Fairuz Aisyah

B.S. 2018

Undergraduate research student

Nicole Sarieddine

B.S. 2019

Undergraduate research student

(went on to MESSAGe applied geosciences masters at UW)

Christian Bourgeois

MESSAGe student

Max Podhaisky

B.S. 2019

Undergraduate research student


Shana Edouard

Undergraduate research student

Emma Heitmann

PhD student

Max VanArnam

Undergraduate research student

Tianjie Jin

visiting PhD student from

China University of Geosciences, Beijing

Mahathi Mangipudi

High school research student