Ph.D., Cornell University, Geological Sciences, 1995-2001 (Adviser: Bryan L. Isacks)

Minors in Archaeology and Atmospheric Sciences

NASA Graduate Researcher Program Fellow

Dissertation: Satellite Remote Sensing of Daily, Seasonal, and Annual Changes on Southeast Alaskan Glaciers 1986-1998

M.S., The Pennsylvania State University, Geosciences, 1993-1995 (Adviser: Thomas W. Gardner) 

       Thesis: Early Pleistocene Glacial Lake Lesley, West Branch Susquehanna River, Central Pennsylvania

B.A., Carleton College, 1989-1993: graduated cum laude  (Adviser: Mary E. Savina)

Geology major;  Archaeology concentration

Honors Thesis (with Distinction): Petrographic Analysis of Urartian Vessel Sherds from Ayanis, Van, Turkey