ALUMNI NEWS NOTES

Timothy Glotch: First, let me say that I'm very proud and happy to report that I got married in November! My wife, Deanne Rogers (College of Charleston, 1998), and I are working on our PhD's in geology at Arizona State University. I expect to defend my dissertation sometime around May of 2004. From there, I'll stay at ASU until Deanne graduates.

Grad school is going very well, and my work on Mars research is everything I hoped it would be. For the last two years, I've been funded by a NASA Graduate Student Researcher Program grant that has let me collaborate with a researcher at Johnson Space Center in a study of the effects of precursor mineralogy and formation temperature on the thermal infrared spectrum of hematite. The goal of this work is to determine how large crystalline hematite units on Mars were deposited (e.g. was water involved?) I have worked extensively with data from the Thermal Emission Spectrometer (TES) and the Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) which are both currently in orbit around Mars.

In January, both my wife and I will be moving to Pasadena for three months to take part in the Mars Exploration Rover missions at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. One of the twin landers is going to the main hematite unit on Mars, and I will be working with data from the Mini-TES instrument to complement the research I've been doing. I'm very excited about this opportunity, and I look forward to reporting back on it! (submitted 6/03)

Sarah Tindall: Currently at Umass Amherst getting my masters in Landscape Architecture (submitted 6/03)