Tuesday, February 23, 2016

My Interviewees, Blog Post 6.1

  1. The names of the two people you're scheduled to interview for Project 2
Dr. George Gehrels and Kate Metcalf. 

2. The names of the organization(s) your interviewees work for, as well as their job titles.

Dr. George Gehrels is currently a professor at the University of Arizona. 

Kate Metcalf is a PhD student doing her research at the University of Arizona.

3. Any higher education degree that your interviewees hold and the names of the institutions that issued them.

Dr. Gehrels:
Ph.D. in Geology, California Institute of Technology, June 1986. 
M.S. in Geology, University of Southern California, June 1981. 
B.S. in Geology: University of Arizona, September 1978.

Kate Metcalf:
B.S. and M.S. from unknown (Homepage did not tell me. Interview question, perhaps.)

4. How many years your interviewees have worked in the field professionally?

Dr. Gehrels has been working in the field of geology since 1976 (40 years!).

Kate Metcalf: unknown (Interview her)

5. If you can, provide photos or images of the two interviewees (identify them with captions), as well as hyperlinks to their professional website(s) or home page(s)

Kate Metcalf                                                                                                                                                                                               Dr. George Gehrels

6. The date, time & location of your scheduled interview

Dr. Gehrels: Wednesday afternoon at 3 P.M.

Kate Metcalf: Friday afternoon at 2 P.M.

7. A list of 8 to 12 interview questions (for each interviewee) that are written to specifically reflect the interviewee's background, position and publication history:

1. Where are you from originally and how did you come to be at the University of Arizona?

2. Can you recollect the first moment when you found geology or geosciences to be an interest of yours? If so, when was it?

3. What major research efforts or projects do you remember doing in your undergraduate careers?

4. What research did you write your dissertation on? What do you remember most fondly about it? What do you remember not so fondly about it?

5. What do you enjoy most about geology or geosciences in general? Anything, perhaps, that you don't like?

6. What was your most widely published work? Why do you think it got the exposure that it did?

7. What, to you, is the hardest part about writing papers, dissertations, projects, or presentations in geosciences?

8. What is your favorite personal publication and why? Your least favorite?

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