Mines Helps with Grand Mesa Slide Investigation
Soon after the massive landslide that killed three men on the Grand Mesa in western Colorado on...
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Tag: geology
Alumni Weekend 2014: Why You Come Back to Mines
If Mines was so tough to get through and the goal was simply to ‘get out,’ why do so many return for Alumni Weekend? “Mines is a tradition in our family and so are reunions,” says 50th reunion attendee...
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Fathers of the New Science: Paving the Way for the Modern Age of Oil and Gas Exploration
“The petroleum system approach is the guiding principle for everything we do these days,” says...
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Modeling a Beetle’s Impact on Water Systems
Associate Professor Reed Maxwell is concerned about the effect the lodgepole massacre will have on the headwaters of the Colorado and South Platte rivers, and is using hydrologic modeling to search for solutions.
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Colorado native and Mines sophomore Alyse White was awarded the Duane J. and Marcine M. Fritz Scholarship in spring 2012. Administered by CSMAA, the scholarship was established by Duane Fritz ’51, who died in 1999, and his...
Read MoreDorington G. Little
Dorington G. Little was born in Los Angeles in 1927. He graduated from the Colorado School of Mines with a degree in Geological Engineering in 1950. While attending Mines he spent one year (1949) in Ethiopia working for Sinclair...
Read MoreJames ‘Jim’ V. Taranik PhD ’75
James ‘Jim’ V. Taranik PhD ’75 of Reno, Nev., died June 21, 2011. Jim was born in 1940 in Los Angeles and graduated from Stanford University in 1964 with a bachelors ‘degree in geology. He then studied at...
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