Denise currently works for IAE as a Naturalist for the Conservation Research program. Some of her many duties include analyzing data, leading field crews, writing reports and creating beautiful maps in GIS. She received a B.A. in Earth Sciences-Geology and Spanish from Western Oregon University in 2003, where her research interests included the development of a relative dating scheme of the 400+ volcanic cinder cones surrounding Newberry Volcano.  She received an M.S. in Geology from Oregon State University in 2009, where she focused on the evolution of a long-lived volcanic system in northern Chile.

Some of her past field jobs include a project in northern Arizona studying the distribution of tephra from Sunset Crater;  on another project in the Gulf of Alaska she directed the collection of rock samples from a small porthole, at the bottom of the ocean, in the deep-sea submersible Alvin.

Away from IAE she spends time with her husband and family. She was born and raised in Corvallis, and has been using her on the ground experience gained at IAE to help maintain and restore the property surrounding her family’s homestead near Finley Wildlife Refuge.

Email Denise 

(541) 753-3099 ext. 507