Hello.
Meet our team.
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
Hello
Meet our team
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)
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