Tom Damassa (MS 2005): Tom's Masters work focused on developing paleoclimate records from the slow-growing coral species Diploastrea heliopora in the western Indian Ocean. He published his thesis research in Paleoceanography (Damassa et al. 2006). Before coming to UA, he completed his undergraduate work in Geology at Tufts University. He now works at the World Resources Institute in Washington DC.

Jennifer Wagner (PhD 2006): Jennifer completed her PhD thesis work on paleoclimate records from caves in southern Arizona. Her work shows abrupt and decade-century scale climate changes invovling both temperature and hydrologic change. She is co-advised by Prof. Jon Patchett, and has spent time working in several of the geochemistry labs in the department and on campus. Before coming to UA, she worked for Schlumberger on Gulf of Mexico offshore drilling projects, and she completed her master's and undergraduate degrees at Florida State in Geology. She now teaches high school science in suburban Houston, Texas.

Cristina Luis (MS 2004): Cristina completed her Masters in Spring 2004, with a thesis on the nature of the 2002 El Niño event in comparison to previous events. She is now a Navigator in the US Air Force.

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Carrie Morrill (PhD 2002): Carrie completed her thesis on paleoclimate records from Tibet, in which she demonstrated widespread abrupt changes in the monsoon during the Holocene and presented new results from lake coring and modeling studies. She completed a Masters at UC-Santa Cruz and begane her PhD at Colorado before moving to Tucson when I did. She went on to complete a postdoc at NCAR in Boulder, and is now a scientist with NOAA's Paleoclimatology program there.