Earth Sciences Alums 
Current or prospective students in the Earth Sciences program are welcome to email these alums for more information about their work or their education at UNH.
Please note: the purpose of this exchange is to answer questions about career and educational experiences--not to provide assistance with science projects, research, or other issues.
John Brooks, M.S. Geophysics/Metamorphic Petrology, 1986
Ph.D., Geophysics and Igneous Petrology, 1990
Geophysicist and Project Manager, Emery & Garrett Groundwater, Inc., Meredith, N.H.
John Brooks is an experienced geologist and geophysicist who has focused his technical career on delineating substantial groundwater resources in both fractured bedrock environments and unconsolidated deposits using geophysical survey techniques.
He has applied his skills in conducting and interpreting geophysical investigations to aid in the specific identification of favorable drilling targets for development of high-yield wells.
Over the past nine years, he has been involved with more than 300 groundwater development projects.
He believes his UNH education did a good job of preparing him for work in the geologic field.
On a recent visit to the Earth Sciences Department, he was impressed by the new computer lab and modeling capabilities that have been developed since he graduated.
Email: brooksja@eggi.com
Amy Day-Lewis, B.S. Geology, 1994; M.S. Geophysics, Stanford 1998
Geophysicist, GeoMechanics International, Inc., Palo Alto, Calif.
Amy Day-Lewis works as a geophysicist in a startup software and consulting company in Palo Alto, California.
As part of a small, rapidly growing firm, Amy enjoys being involved in a variety of tasks.
These include software testing, technical writing, preparing and teaching training courses, and attending meetings and conferences around the world.
Her main role, however, is in geophysical consulting. GeoMechanics Intl. specializes in geomechanics, in situ stress analysis, petrophysics, and wellbore
image analysis for the oil and gas, geothermal, environmental, and geotechnical industries. A declared advertising major when she first entered college,
Amy has traveled a long but enjoyable path to her current occupation. She credits the UNH Earth Sciences Department for giving her not only a love of geology,
but also a well-rounded geoscience background that allowed her to perform research in micropaleontology, paleomagnetics, and archaeological geophysics before
graduating with her Master's degree.
Email: daylewis@geomi.com
Frederick Day-Lewis, B.S. Hydrology, 1994; B.S. English, 1994
Graduate Student, Stanford University, Stanford, California
Fred day-Lewis is a Ph.D. candidate in hydrogeology, studying ground-water flow and solute transport in fractured rock.
He is developing methods to combine different types of information to better identify the locations and hydraulic properties of fractures.
Although most of Fred's time is spent writing computer code, his research also includes field work. He has been involved in several U.S. Geological
Survey experiments at a USGS research site in Grafton County, N.H. When Fred went to Stanford with his wife, Amy (UNH Geology B.S., '94), in 1995,
he never expected thesis research to bring him back to New Hampshire. ("Amy went to Peru for field work, I go back home...") Fred says that
his UNH research experience in the Undergraduate Research Opportunites Program (UROP)
"helped prepare me to tackle difficult problems that can take years to solve." Also, he credits his background as an English major at UNH in helping him to write more
effective scentific proposals and papers.
Email: daylewis@pangea.stanford.edu
Jeffrey Marts, B.S. Geology, 1996
Geologist, Emery and Garrett Groundwater, Inc., Meredith, N.H.
Jeffrey Marts works for a small groundwater consulting firm in Meredith, N.H. He spends about 40 percent of his time in the field, mapping bedrock, conducting geophysical surveys, and logging bedrock wells, as well as working on pump tests.
Projects span the east coast from Maine to Georgia and are located in a variety of geologic settings: rift basins, fold and thrust belts, igneous and metamorphic terrains, karst regions, and unconsolidated glacial and coastal plain sediments.
Jeffrey feels UNH's field-based program, supported by a strong laboratory component, prepared him to work effectively in any geologic environment.
Email: JMarts@eggi.com
Michelle Serra, B.S. Geology 1998
Analyst, Analytics Environmental Laboratory, Inc., Portsmouth, N.H.
After graduating from UNH, Michelle Serra began working at a small organics laboratory as an analyst where she splits her time between working in the lab and dealing with the clientele.
Her responsibilities include preparing samples in the lab for analysis, providing clientele with the necessary materials for sampling, preparing technical reports and quality control data,
as well as some computer programming within the company's large database. While working on her bachelor's degree at UNH, she did an internship with the U.S. Geological Survey as a hydrologic technician.
This valuable "real world" experience involved analyzing the vulnerability of Vermont bridges to flooding. A significant portion of the company's clients include environmental consulting firms;
working in the lab is an opportunity to learn first-hand about many of the environmental concerns in the New England area. Her focus in geology at UNH was geochemistry,
and although she doesn't see much of the "geo" part in the work that she's doing now, she does get to apply her knowledge to the big picture.
And her UNH education has been valuable in helping her to collect and analyze data and to draw accurate conclusions.
Email: janis@nh.ultranet.com