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Geology
As I said on my homepage, I was a geology major at Harvey Mudd
College. Which is mostly correct. HMC doesn't offer a formal geology
degree, but they do allow students to do Individual Programs of Study
(IPS). Since Pomona
College has a geology department, I took my geology courses down
there. I had to take at least 7 major courses at Mudd, so I took
P-Chem, Carbons, several ecology and environmental biology courses,
Mudd's geophysics, and materials engineering to complete my major. My
geology classes included: physical geo, environmental geo, Earth
history, Structural Geo, Pomona's Geophysics, Paleontology,
Sedimentary petrology, Optical Mineralogy, Crystallography, and
Igneous/Metamorphic Petrology. As a result, I've got a geology
specialization, with a strong background in everything else.
This strong background in the sciences has paid off. I've
participated in two NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU)
programs for the summers of 1993 and 1994, at Colgate
University in 1994 and Savannah River Site through Furman
University in 1993.
I also got into MIT's civil and
environmental engineering department for grad school. I was pretty
surprised, but happy about that, and that's where I am now, in the
geotechnical group. My research project involves the conversion of a
local Physical Geology Tutor program into an html version. If you're
at MIT, you can look at the
work in progress (sorry, non-MIT folk!). Well, okay. You can
look at the demo page if
you're not from MIT.
Okay, for the links to other pages....
- World Data
Center A for Marine Geology & Geophysics
- I don't know what it is, really, but it's geology.
- AWG (Association of Women
Geoscientists)
- USGS (United States Geological
Survey) .
- Geological Society of America
(GSA)
- Geology
Department of Pomona College
- Stanford University Earth
Sciences
- Stanford's Earth Sciences Homepage. Lots to see....
- Geoscience
Resources
- University of Hawaii's list.
- 3.8.
Geology & Geophysics
- Some kind of geoscience resources from Cornell University
- Amethyst Galleries'
Mineral Gallery
- An on-line mineral gallery. I think you can purchase specimens
from them as well.
- Smithsonian
Gem & Mineral Collection
- Plenty of oohs and ahhs....
Last modified: Mon Sep 8 17:11:56 EDT 1997
by Jennie Hango