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Visiting Tutor for "Earth - Oceans - Space" Caroline was born in Wisconsin, and grew up canoeing and skiing in the great north woods. She left to pursue an undergraduate degree at Colorado College (CC), trading the land of flat and cold for that of mountains and sunshine. Her first block at CC was a geology course, and she was hooked. Caroline graduated cum laude with honors in Geology, and was recipient of the William A. Fischer Special Recognition Award. Her senior thesis took her to the high Arctic archipelago of Svalbard, where she reconstructed the Little Ice Age glacial history of the Kongress basin using lake sediment collected during a summer field campaign. After completing her BA, Caroline entered a PhD program at the University of Colorado at Boulder and the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR). For her graduate work, she left glacial geology for biogeochemistry and the modern carbon cycle. She has published work on global budgeting of the stable isotope of carbon (13C) in CO2, and is now working on the first regional inversion for fluxes of that tracer and gas combination. Carbon cycle modeling does not entail field time, but she has assisted with the work of a fellow grad student in the Icelandic Highlands. Caroline is thrilled to join Quest as a Visiting Tutor this January, and is looking forward to teaching topics that first sparked her interest in geology: climate change and the carbon cycle. Caroline is an enthusiastic rock climber and skier. She loves running, reading, and playing music. She is excited to explore Squamish in the wintertime, and hopes that field trips and ski excursions will abound. |
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