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Camp I: Dragon Creek,
   Axel Heiberg

      ï Expedition Fiord Region

      ï Agate Fiord Region

Camp II: Blackwelder Mtns,
   Ellesmere Island

Camp III: Audhild Bay,
   Ellesmere Island

      ï Hansen Point Region

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The Arctic 2000 Team

Dr. John Tarduno: Dept. Earth & Environmental Science: Chair, Professor of Geophysics
Education: BS, 1983, Geophysics, Lehigh University; MS, Ph.D., 1987, Geophysics, 
  Stanford University
Team Position: Expedition Leader, principle investigator
Interests: Rates of plate tectonic motion, true polar wander, mantle plume volcanism, fidelity
  of geomagnetic reversal records and environmental magnetism
Webpage: http://www.earth.rochester.edu/pmag/john/
email: john@earth.rochester.edu
Dr. Rory Cottrell: Post-Doctoral Researcher, Paleomagentic Research Group, 
   University of Rochester
Education: BA, 1994, Geophysics, SUNY Geneseo; MS, 1998, PhD., 2000 Geology, 
   University of Rochester
Team Position: Assistant base camp and sample manager, assistant investigator
Interests: Late Cretaceous magnetism and plate motions, true polar wander, Single crystal 
  paleointensity studies
Webpage: http://www.earth.rochester.edu/pmag/rory/
email: rory@earth.rochester.edu
Peter Lippert: Undergraduate Researcher, Paleomagnetic Research Group, University 
  of Rochester
Education: BS, (Class of 2002), Geologic Science, 2003 Take-5 Fellow, University 
  of Rochester
Team Position: Base camp manager; assistant investigator and sample manager, teaching 
  assistant
Interests: Early Cretaceous climate, tectonic-climate interaction, paleomagnetic 
  applications to structural problems
Webpage: http://www.earth.rochester.edu/pete  (under construction)
email: pete@earth.rochester.edu
Matt Polizzatto: Ph.D. Student, Soil & Environmental Chemistry Group, Stanford 
  University
Education: BS, Evironmental Science, BA, Music, Take-5 Fellow, 2001, University of 
  Rochester
Team Position: Undergraduate research assistant
Interests: Climate change and structural mapping
Webpage: http://soils.stanford.edu/polizzotto
email: mattyp@pangea.stanford.edu
Allyson O'Kane: Undergraduate Researcher, Paleomagnetic Research Group & 
   Structure Group, University of Rochester
Education: BS, (Class of 2003), Geologic Science, University of Rochester
Team Position: Undergraduate research assistant
Interests: Tectonic evolution of mountain belts, microstructural geology
email: allyson@earth.rochester.edu
Matt Friedman: Undergraduate Researcher, Paleomagnetic Research Group
Education: BS, (Class of 2002), Biology-Geology, University of Rochester
Team Position: Undergraduate research assistant
Interests: The utility of fossil fishes as paleoenvironemental indicators, Patterns of 
   ichthyofaunal evolution, Analysis of evolutionary and paleontological problems through
   model-based approaches
email: mf009h@mail.rochester.edu
Santo Marciano
Education: BS, (Class of 2003), Geologic Science, University of Rochester
Team Position: Undergraduate research assistant
Interests: mineralogy, petrography
email: sm003i@mail.rochester.edu
Pedrini: Faithful kitchen companion
Education: BA, 1999, Culinary Arts, Brescia, Italy
Team Position: Team dish waster
Interests: Surface dissolution, organic molecule/plastic polymer interactions, hydraulics, 
  small-scale mechanical weathering
Webpage: www.pedrini.com
email: info@pedrini.com

 
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