EDUCATION

PhD – University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, 1991. Geophysics.

Dissertation: Indications of the Mineralogy of Callisto and Mars from Reflectance Spectroscopy.

BS – University of Denver, Denver, CO, 1983. (cum laude, φβκ)

Physics and Mathematics Majors, Geology Minor.

PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS

University of Nevada – Reno

Department Geological Sciences & Engineering
7/2009 – present      Professor
7/2015 – 6/2022       Department Chair
5/2010 – 4/2016       Director, Great Basin Center for Geothermal Energy
7/2007 – 6/2009       Associate Professor
1/2000 – 6/2007        Research Associate Professor

Prior to UNR

Research Geophysicist    
U.S. Geological Survey – Astrogeology Team, Flagstaff, AZ (7/1992 – 11/1999)

Alexander Von Humboldt Research Fellow
Institute für Planetologie, Universität Münster, Münster, Germany (1991 to 1992)

Graduate Research Assistant
U.S. Geological Survey – Branch of Geophysics, Golden, CO (1988 to 1991)
Center for the Study of Earth from Space, University of Colorado, Boulder (1987)
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado, (1986)

Design Engineer
Ball Aerospace Systems Division, Electro-Optical Branch, Boulder, CO. (‘83-‘85)