Lauren Carey graduated with special honors in 2009. In addition to earning a double major in Geology and Integrated Earth Studies, she received the prestigious Julian McVie Award. This award recognizes the student with the highest overall GPA in the College of Science. Lauren's GPA logged in at 3.93. As part of the ceremony Lauren carried the College banner, leading Science faculty, students and administrators down the path to the stage:
We were then treated to Lauren's very professional and succinct commencement address, one of the best student presentations in recent memory.
Lauren recently completed her senior thesis in Icehouse Canyon, located in our local San Gabriel Mountains. Her thesis entitled. "Analysis of Base-flow Recession in Icehouse Canyon, San Gabriel Mountains, California the Geology Department can be viewed if you CLICK HERE.
To recognize the environmental significance of this work, Lauren received the Ernest Prete Jr. scholarship award of $1000. Lauren is currently pursuing a graduate degree in Hydrology at the University of Idaho. She is fully supported with a graduate teaching and research assistantship. Her Masters thesis project involves sampling and isotopic dating of groundwater from a confined aquifer system in the Columbia River plateau.
