{"id":36,"date":"2020-02-18T01:55:14","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T01:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/cags\/?page_id=36"},"modified":"2026-08-24T14:19:53","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T21:19:53","slug":"officers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/cags\/officers\/","title":{"rendered":"Officers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Name:<\/strong> Eliza Lerman\u2002
Position:<\/strong> President Pronouns<\/strong>: She\/Her
Program<\/strong>: POA, PhD
Year:<\/strong> 2nd
Advisor:<\/strong> Melanie Fewings and Jim Lerczak
Project:<\/strong> Temperature variability in the Columbia river estuary
A Fact:<\/strong> One phrase I like to live by is “you never regret a swim” – and so far, I haven’t!\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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

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

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Name:<\/strong> Joshua Blockstein
Position:<\/strong> Awards Chair
Pronouns:<\/strong> He\/Him
Program<\/strong>: ESGP, PhD
Year:<\/strong> 4th
Advisor:<\/strong> Jenna Tilt
Project:<\/strong> Assessing disaster resilience among Oregon Latinx coastal communities using a community capitals framework
A Fact: <\/strong>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.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Name:<\/strong> Anna Hughes
Position:<\/strong> Together for Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Support (TIDES) Chair
Pronouns:<\/strong> She\/Her
Program<\/strong>: Oceanography, PhD
Year:<\/strong> 6th
Advisor:<\/strong> Clare Reimers and Burke Hales
Project:<\/strong> Regional Class Research Vessel Project
A Fact:<\/strong>\u00a0A mature hurricane can release as much energy as 10,000 nuclear bombs during its lifetime.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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

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

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

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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\u2002Position: President Pronouns: She\/HerProgram: POA, PhDYear: 2ndAdvisor: Melanie Fewings and Jim LerczakProject: … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12646,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-36","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/cags\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/cags\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/cags\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/cags\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12646"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/cags\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/cags\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1030,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/cags\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36\/revisions\/1030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/cags\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}