Adrienne Kentner

Abbreviated Curriculum Vitae

Education

1. B.S., Cum Laude, Geological Sciences, The George Washington University

Thesis: Petrology and Geochemistry of a late Neoproterozoic, Bimodal Volcanic Complex at Mount Rogers in Southwestern Virginia

1. Expected Ph.D.,  Geology, University of California, Santa Barbara

Employment

1. Geological Research Assistant,  Geological Sciences Program, GWU
2. Volunteer for Science, USGS, Reston, VA
3.        Student Investigator, Geological Sciences Program, GWU
4. Lab Instructor, Geological Sciences Program, GWU
1. Field Assistant, UCSB

2008-present   Teaching Assitant, Department of Earth Science, UCSB

Field Experience

2008                UCSB: Field Assistant in the central Sierra Nevada, CA (5 weeks)

2008                UCSB: Summer field course, Poleta Folds, CA and White Pine Range, NV

(6 weeks)

2006-2007       GWU: Field Assistant in the northern and southern Virginia Blue Ridge

(2 summers)

2006                GWU: Field Mapping course (5 weekends over 1 semester)

Abstracts/Publications

Tollo, R.P. and Kentner, A.E. 2007: Deciphering the significance of compositional trends in granitoids: Insight from post-orogenic Mesoproterozoic plutonic rocks from the Virginia Blue Ridge: GSA Abstracts with Programs

Tollo, R.P., Kentner, A.E., Parendo, C.M.. in preparation, Geology of Basement Rocks in the Flint Hill and Massies Corner 7.5-minute Quadrangles, Virginia, scale 1:24,000

Tollo, R.P., Tengku Hassan, T.M.S., Kentner, A.E., and Soper, J. 2006, Geology of Basement Rocks in the Woodville 7.5-minute Quadrangle, Virginia, scale 1:24,000

Awards

2007                Luther Rice Undergraduate Research Fellowship, Columbian College,

GWU

2008                B.S. with Department Honors; Cum Laude