Amy Leventer Opens Antarctic Opportunities With Charlie McClennen occupied full-time with his Associate Dean of Faculty duties, we were fortunate to hire Amy Leventer on a four-year term position. Amy comes most recently from the University of Minnesota, where she held a research appointment. Amy, spouse Dave (who is an ER physician in Syracuse), and two children live in Cazenovia. Amy's research is well-funded by NSF, and has included support for three geology majors - Allison Ridder, Kate Clark, and Mark Hayes -for cruise opportunities to the polar oceans of Antarctica. The cruises involved seismic profiling, coring, and water and sea ice sampling related to Amy's work on diatoms and paleoclimate records of the Holocene on the Antarctic shelf.