UW-Milwaukee Geosciences

06/18/2026

Congratulations to Isabelle Haverkampf, who successfully defended her MS thesis on Tuesday! "Natural Solute Tracers to Characterize Advection and Dispersion." Izzy's committee: Dr. Charles Paradis (Chair), Dr. Martin Dangelmayr, Dr. Shangping Xu. Izzy is now starting her career as a Hydrogeologist at Barr Engineering!

06/17/2026

Congratulations to Carson McFarland, who successfully defended his MS thesis last week! "The Tephrostratigraphy of Olduvai Gorge Coring Project 2023: Cores 4A, 5A, and 6A." Carson's committee: Dr. Lindsay McHenry (Chair), Dr. Barry Cameron, Dr. John Isbell

06/12/2026

Congratulations to Thomas John (TJ) Carr who successfully defended his MIS thesis yesterday! "Morphological Reinvestigation of Mazon Creek’s “Dasyleptus”: Implications for Taxonomy and Paleoecology". TJ's committee: Dr. Victoria McCoy (chair), Dr. John Isbell, and Dr. Jonathan Hendricks (Milwaukee Public Museum)

06/11/2026

Congratulations to Mike Anderson who successfully defended his MS thesis yesterday! "Relative Dating of Icelandic Subglacial Volcanoes: A Paleomagnetic Approach." Mike's committee: Dr. Julie Bowles (Chair), Dr. Barry Cameron, Dr. Dyanna Czeck

06/08/2026

Are you, or someone you know, early in your academic journey at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee? Interested in learning about careers in geoscience, exploring Earth and environmental science, or finding out what you can do with a Geosciences degree?

Check out the FREE GeoExplorer Program, August 17–21! More info: https://sites.uwm.edu/lets-geo/geoexplorers/

06/03/2026

Last week Professor John Isbell took a group of students to Ontario, Canada, to investigate Earth's first so-called snowball-Earth event as recorded by rocks of the Huronian Supergroup. The rocks are 2.1 to 2.5 billion years old, and the "glacial" intervals were deposited by subaqueous sediment gravity flows and possible iceberg rafting. Looks like a good time was had by all!

05/27/2026

Congratulations to Sally Klein who successfully defended her MS thesis yesterday! "Effects of Dolomite Amendments on Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) Leaching in Agricultural Soils" Sally's committee: Dr. Shangping Xu (Chair), Dr. Yin Wang, and Dr. Erin Berns-Herrboldt. Sally will be transitioning to her new role with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources!

05/19/2026

Congratulations to all of our fabulous Geosciences students! We had a great time celebrating the end of the year at the Geosciences Student Awards Banquet last week!

05/18/2026

Congratulations to our Geo Sci graduates! Geo Sci was well represented at Commencement on Sunday, with six MS students (plus plenty of UG majors and minors) walking across the stage to be recognized. Department Chair Lindsay McHenry was in the front row to offer a fist-bump to most as they left the stage. The Department wishes them well with whatever comes next.

Our graduates (from the Commencement program):

MS

Mike Anderson
TJ Carr
Izzy Haverkampf
Linsey Hula
Sally Klein
Carson McFarland
(Tara Johnson, J Schneider, and Sophia Norenberg were also listed on the program but didn't attend the ceremony).

UG

Drew Truitt (BS, Honors)
Robin Welch (BA, Honors)
Michael Mielke (BS, Honors)
Victoria Williams (BS)
Owen Ward (BS)
Cooper Tobiaski (BS)
Maryanne York (BA)

Minor

Jacob Nygaard (minor)
Alger Duckworth (minor)
Avani Tandon (minor)
Hannah Thomson (minor, Honors)

05/17/2026