Back to Christie's home page Education:
Undergraduate: A.B. in geology
@ Colgate University
Graduate: M.S. in geology @ University of Illinois
Urbana-Champaign
Courses Taught at UWO:
Environmental Geology Lecture and Labs
Physical Geology Lecture and Labs
Research:
My thesis research at Illinois
focused on determining the alteration history of volcanic rocks from
the island of Ischia
in Italy. Prior to coming to Oshkosh I worked at the Byrd Polar Research Center
at The Ohio State University
, using radar imagery to study the structural architecture of the
Transantarctic Mountains and the distribution of volcanic cones in
Antarctica.
While at Colgate University and
again at The Ohio State University I travelled to Antarctica to do
geology
research. My 1997/1998 Antarctic field season was based out of McMurdo
Station
- a US base located on Ross Island, Antarctica. Ross Island is
located in McMurdo Sound and is home to Mt. Erebus - the southern most
active volcano in the world! New Mexico Tech and the National
Science Foundation have a great web site on Mt. Erebus ,
including photos, eruption movies and info on the geology of Mt.
Erebus.