Northern Illinois University

Geology and Environmental Geosciences

Ubhebe crater

Student Success Stories

Graduate students in the Department of Geology and Environmental Geoscience are doing innovative, exciting and valuable research. They are traveling across the country and around the world, collaborating with, and learning from scientists in a variety of disciplines. Check below to see what some of our students been up to, and to read about the recent highlights and results of their graduate studies.

Tim Hodson is a Master's student who wants to color the world with his maps

Tabitha Aldridge has a keen interest in planetary geology and being outdoors

Matt Konfirst studied for a year in Germany, and spent two months at sea

Luke Trusel loves the cold

Jen Cumpston likes integrative science with an international flavor

Camilo Higuera-Diaz loves traveling and knowing places