Robert J. Bodnar ’85
Bodnar, who is the C. C. Garvin Professor of Geochemistry and University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Geosciences at Virginia Tech, was elected to the U. S. National Academy of Sciences.
Michael Cronin ’11 ’20g
Cronin, who is a reservoir engineer at ExxonMobil, received the 2023 Offshore Technology Conference Emerging Leader Award. He also won the 2019 Cedric K. Ferguson Medal from the Society of Petroleum Engineers International. He also currently serves as editor-in-chief of SPE’s journal, The Way Ahead.
Ying Cui ’14
Cui is a shipboard scientist for International Ocean Discovery Program Expedition 395: Reykjanes Mantle Convection and Climate: Mantle Dynamics, Paleoceanography and Climate Evolution in the North Atlantic Ocean. She received an American Fellowship from the American Association of University Women and was recently promoted to associate professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Studies at Montclair State University.
Catherine Hanagan ’19
Hanagan graduated in August with a Ph.D. in geophysics from the University of Arizona. Her dissertation “Earthquake Stress and Strain Through High Resolution Data Analysis: Aftershock Triggering, Afterslip, and a Novel Borehole Strainmeter Array” focused on earthquake processes.
Leonard Konikow ’69g ’73g
Konikow retired from the USGS in 2013 after forty-two years as a research hydrologist but remains active professionally. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2015 and has served as editor-in-chief of Groundwater journal since January 2020.
Ned Mamula ’81g
Mamula, wrote the book Groundbreaking, America’s New Quest for Mineral Independence, which was published in 2019 and focuses on critical minerals. He is currently working on a second book on Geology, Minerals, Metals and Rebuilding America’s Supply Chain Power due out sometime next year.
Kent E. Newsham ’78
Newsham was appointed to the EMS Development Council, effective July 1, serving on the Industrial Engagement Committee. He was also promoted as Occidental’s Petrophysics Fellow – one of seven globally – which is Oxy’s highest technical achievement. As global chief of staff in petrophysics, he leads Oxy’s Petrophysics activity in the Energy Transition via Direct Air Capture, EOR Net Zero Oil and Carbon Dioxide Sequestration projects.
William Ross Snook ’79
Snook retired in 2015 and became a New Hanover Township Supervisor in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. He serves chair of the township’s Environmental Advisory Board. He also is a Penn State Master Watershed Steward who serves on the Advisory Committee for Montgomery County Master Watershed Stewards. He is integrally involved in his community’s efforts to negate flood damage and to maintain water quality through effective stormwater management.
George Stephens ’80g
Stephens retired after thirty years of federal service, twenty-six with NOAA’s National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service where he mostly focused on remote sensing of natural hazards. His consuming avocation has been folk and traditional music and he credits Rick Sweigard ‘(84 Mining Engineering) for encouragement.
Don Woodrow ’57
Woodrow retired from Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York as a geology professor in 2001 but since then has been teaching the Intro Geology course and lab at Berkeley City College in Berkeley, California. While at Penn State, he ran the mile, two-mile and half mile, both indoor and outdoor, plus cross-country.