BECKER BIO
Matt Becker is the Conrey Chair in Hydrogeology and Professor in the Geological Sciences Department at CSU Long Beach. He holds a B.S. in Geology from Michigan State University and M.S. and Ph.D. in Civil Enginering from the University of Texas at Austin. He has held positions with Chevron USA, and Los Alamos National Labs, and U.S Geological Survey National Research Program. He was a National Academy of Science Senior Research Associate at NASA Goddard Space Center and was a Fulbright Scholar at the University Trento, Italy. Prior to arriving at the CSULB he was an Assistant then Associate Professor of Geology at the University of Buffalo.
CURRENT M.S. STUDENTS
DOMINIC ESLAMIAN
BS CSU San Francisco
Dominic is using distributed acoustic sensing to measure strains in mountain systems due to earth tide and atmosphere forcings.
FRANCINE CASON
BS CSULB
Francine is using boat-towed continuous resistivity profiling to find freshened groundwater below the reefs of Moorea and Tetiaroa in French Polynesia.
MEGAN WARD-BARANYAY
BS Cal Poly Pomona
Megan is performing hydraulic testing at the FORGE geothermal research site in Utah.
CAROLINE KORTERUD
BS Dennison Univ.
Caroline is studying the formation of reef flat plates in tropical islands and how they confine freshwater below seawater.
CLAIRE OSEI
BS Rutgers Newark
Claire is using electrical resistivity profiling to characterize how water flows beneath the reefs of Moorea.
MARK PRATT
BS UCLA
Mark will be joining us in the Spring as graduate student. His thesis will be to predict how sea level rise might lead to impacts to hazardous waste sites in coastal California.