GRADUATE PROGRAM


Grahame J. Larson


Graduate programs in glacial hydrology and Quaternary geology generally involve summer field work in Alaska and/or along the shore of the Great Lakes. A unique aspect of the program is that students working in Alaska are encouraged to work with a consortium of researchers from Michigan State University, Lehigh University, Augustana College and the U.S. Army Cold Regions Research Laboratory. During the academic year at Michigan State University students are encouraged to take coarse work not only in the Department of Geological Sciences, but also in the Departments of Civil Engineering, Physical Geography, and Crop and Soil Sciences.

Graduates of the Masters Program generally find employment in the environmental consulting industry. Some have also found careers with petroleum companies and state and federal agencies. Graduates from the Pd.D. program have found employment in academia and in the environmental consulting industry.



Please refer to the list below for former and current students in the graduate program, their thesis topics, and employment following graduation.

Former and Current Graduate Students:

Lavato, Joseph
(Geologist, Michigan Dept. of Public Health) 		MS 1979 Geohydraulic characteristics of glacial till...
Radfar, Shahbaz
(Geologist, Ministry of Natural Resources, Iran) 		Ms 1979 Determination of recharge areas from groundwater quality data, Ingham County
Ward, Marsha
(Geologist, City Service Petroleum, Tulsa) 		MS 1979 Glacial history of Early Lake Saginaw
Ritter, Michael H.
(Geologist, Pogo Exploration, Huston) 		MS 1980 Use of Tritium for confirming groundwater recharge....
Robards, Alan L.
(Geologist, Texico,Huston) 		MS 1980 Terraces of the Glacial Grand Valley
Gephart, Gregory D.
(Geologist, Mobil Oil, Huston) 		MS 1982 Differentiation and correlation of till sheets using 7A/10A peak height ratios...
Offer, Stuart A.
(private consultant, New York) 		MS 1982 Determination of recharge to a drift aquifer using bomb tritium....
Slayton, David F
(Geologist, Michigan Department of Natural Resources) 		MS 1982 Field evidence for shale membrane filtration of groundwater....
Kehres, Cheryl A.
(Geologist, Edder and Associates, Ann Arbor) 		MS 1984 Variation in hydraulic conductivity of heterogeneous drift deposits
Monaghan, George W.
(Geologist, GeoComp Research, New York) 		MS 1984 Wisconsin stratigraphy of the Lake Michigan and Saginaw Ice lobes
Petrie, Mark A.
(Geologist, Michigan Department of Natural Resources) 		MS 1984 Morphologic and lithologic influences on recharge in a glaciated basin
Dworkin, Stephen I
(Assoc. Professor, Baylor University, Waco) 		MS 1984 Late Wisconsin ice-flow reconstruction for the central Great Lakes region
Delcore, Manrico
(private consultant) 		MS 1985 Rate of recharge to a heterogeneous aquifer: an investigation using bomb tritium
Anderson, Lynn G.
(U.S. Navy) 		MS 1986 Partioning of trace metals in glacial till...
Regalbuto, David P.
(RMT Engineering and Associates, Grand Rapids) 		MS 1987 An isotopic investigation of groundwater in Leelanau County, Michigan
Monaghan, George W.
(Geologist, GeoComp Research, New York) 		Ph.D 1989 Systematic variation in clay-mineral composition of Wisconsinan age till
Gobins, John M
(Environmental Systems, Seattle) 		MS 1989 Tritium transport through fractures till in Michigan
Simmons, Ryan J
(System analyst, Michigan State University Computer Lab) 		MS 1989 Meltwater drainage from temperate glacial ice, Burroughs Glacier, Alaska
Timmerman, Thomas J.
(Hydrogeologist, Fishbeck and Thompson, Grand Rapids) 		MS 1989 Glacio-isostasy of the southern Lake Michigan basin
Foot, Gregory S.
(Hydrogeolgist, Malcolm Pirne, Lansing) 		MS 1989 Application of Environmental isotopes as a test for fractured flow in argillaceous glacial sediments
Wills, David W.
(Director of Fire and Security, Capital City Airport, Lansing) 		MS 1991 Radon-222 distribution in the aquifers of the Saginaw lowland
Chen, Marsha
(Hydrogeologist, Belding and Associates, Orlando) 		MS 1993 Tritium in precipitation from southern Michigan
Carlson, Catherine A.
(Assistant Professor, Eastern Connecticut University) 		Ph.D 1994 An isotopic and hydrochemical anomaly in the discharge area of the Fox Hills aquifer, south-central North Dakota: Evidence for Pleistocene subglacial recharge
Johnson, Trina K.
(Geologist, Bay Consultants, San Diego) 		MS 1995 Clay-mineral analysis of late Pleistocene sediments of Lake Michigan: Evidence for different sources through time
Kim, Cheol Woon
(Ph.D program,University of Missouri) 		MS 1995 Environmental isotope(3H,18O) studies of storm runoff in the Red Cedar basin, Michigan
Kohn, Michael L.
(Hydrogeologist, MJ Environmental Consultants, Duluth) 		MS 1995 Groundwater flow in a fractured porous media at Palus Forest Preserve, Illinois
Hoaglund, John
(U.S. Geological Survey, Lansing) 		Ph.D 1996 Recharge and solute transport of stable isotopes within the isotopically meteoric groundwater environment of the Michigan Basin
Titus, Daniel
(HRP Associates, CT) 		MS 1997 Isotopic composition of subglacial meltwater and the origin of basal ice, Matanuska Glacier, Alaska
Lachniet, Matt
(Ph.D. Program, Syracuse University, NY) 		MS 1997 Micromorphology of debris flows at the Matanuska Glacier
Todd Wallbom
(Current) 		MS 1998 Glacial Geology and Uplift History of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lake Shore

Last Revised January 10, 1998.