Officers

If you are interested in getting involved with CAGS, please reach out to cags_officers@lists.oregonstate.edu! There are always opportunities to get involved.

Below are the 2026-2027 Officers:

Name: Eliza Lerman 
Position: President Pronouns: She/Her
Program: POA, PhD
Year: 2nd
Advisor: Melanie Fewings and Jim Lerczak
Project: Temperature variability in the Columbia river estuary
A Fact: One phrase I like to live by is “you never regret a swim” – and so far, I haven’t! 

Name: Bennett Van Horn
Position: Vice President
Pronouns: He/Him
Program: Geology, PhD
Year: 4th
Advisor: Adam Kent and Frank Tepley
Project: Ascertaining Crustal and Subduction-Derived Influences on Aleutian Volcanic Isotopic Compositions
A Fact: I played alto saxophone and bassoon through high school and undergraduate.

Name: Brandon Scott
Position: Treasurer
Pronouns: He/Him
Program: Geology, PhD
Year: 1st
Advisor: Kevin Konrad
Project: Investigating the Chronology of Complex Pacific Hotspot Tracks and Rises
A Fact: Bananas and peanut butter are my perfect breakfast.

Name: Joshua Blockstein
Position: Awards Chair
Pronouns: He/Him
Program: ESGP, PhD
Year: 4th
Advisor: Jenna Tilt
Project: Assessing disaster resilience among Oregon Latinx coastal communities using a community capitals framework
A Fact: Humans have climbed 8,849 meters (summit of Mt Everest) without the assistance of a vehicle, but have only dived 332.25 meters deep without a vehicle.

Name: Anna Hughes
Position: Together for Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Support (TIDES) Chair
Pronouns: She/Her
Program: Oceanography, PhD
Year: 6th
Advisor: Clare Reimers and Burke Hales
Project: Regional Class Research Vessel Project
A Fact: A mature hurricane can release as much energy as 10,000 nuclear bombs during its lifetime.

Name: Vanessa Hawkins
Position: Social Outreach Chair
Pronouns: She/Her
Program: POA, PhD
Year: 3rd
Advisor: Jesse Cusack
Project: Using subsurface robots to study an upwelling ocean current near an Alaskan glacier
A Fact: I am a classically-trained pianist!

Name: Joe Clevenger
Position: Geology Discipline Representative
Pronouns: He/Him
Program: Geology and Geophysics, PhD
Year: 3rd
Advisor: Brian Tattitch and John Dilles
Project: Understanding water-rock reactions in intrusion related magmatic-hydrothermal systems and how they effect the mobility and speciation of critical elements.
A Fact: I am a reformed carbonate sedimentologist

Name: Joellen Callahan
Position: Marine Resource Management (MRM) Representative
Pronouns: She/Her
Program: MRM, M.S.
Year: 2nd
Advisor: Michael Harte
Project: Grounding a systematic review of Island States climate resilience in the local knowledge of Tristan da Cunha
A Fact: My name comes from a song (and it isn’t Jolene)!