EAS News Article
Congratulations to Our Fall 2007 Outstanding Alumni
Congratulations to Our Spring 2007 Outstanding Alumni
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1975 M.S. ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE, PURDUE
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1969 B.A. PHYSICS, MATH, GERMAN, PARK COLLEGE
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Dale S. Sawyer graduated from Purdue University with a BS in Geophysics in 1976. During his first summer at Purdue, Dale (with fellow student Neil Stillman) participated in a summer research project with Dr. William Hinze, conducting a high resolution archeological magnetic survey at Ft. Ouiatenon and a gravity survey over a natural gas storage field. Dale also spent a summer as an intern at Amoco Production Co. in Houston. After graduation from Purdue and another 6 months at Amoco, Dale began Graduate school at MIT in Cambridge Massachusetts. There, he worked with Drs. Nafi Toksoz and John Sclater on the thermal and mechanical evolution of rifted continental margin off the east coast of North America. After receiving a PhD in Marine Geophysics in 1982, Sawyer moved to Austin, Texas, as a Research Associate/Scientist at the Institute for Geophysics at the University of Texas. There his work expanded into marine seismology and geodynamics. In 1988 he moved to Rice University in Houston as an Associate Professor. He was tenured in 1994 and promoted to Professor in 1997.<back to top> |
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Michael E. Sabones is the Meteorologist-in-Charge at the National Weather Service's (NWS) Northern Indiana Office in Syracuse, IN. Born June 9, 1951 in La Porte, IN, he received a Bachelor of Science degree in meteorology from Purdue University in 1973. Mike began his career with the National Weather Service in Raleigh, NC in 1973, where he was promoted to several levels of responsibility. In 1990, Mike became the first National Weather Service Science and Operations Officer (SOO) in the nation at Melbourne, Florida. The SOO job was a new position in the modernized National Weather Service, designed to foster research, training and interaction with the research community for NWS staff. In 1992, Mike was selected for the position of Deputy Meteorologist-in-Charge at the Indianapolis National Weather Service Office. Mike was selected for his current position with the NWS in Syracuse in 1997. In 1980, Mike did graduate work at North Carolina State University as part of a 2 year National Weather Service university assignment program. In 1986, Mike participated in GALE (Genesis of Atlantic Lows Experiment), a National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) field experiment based at the Raleigh NC NWS office. In 1991, Mike was the National Weather Service representative for CAPE (Convection And Precipitation/Electrification), a NCAR field experiment based at the Melbourne FL NWS office. Mike was a member of a team of NWS forecasters that provided forecast services for the 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympic Games. Mike has also presented several conference papers in his career. One of Mike's most enjoyable activities has been working closely with the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Science (EAS) at Purdue. He has been a member of the EAS Alumni Advisory Board since 2003, and a frequent lecturer for EAS 535 "Atmospheric Observations and Measurements" and EAS 191 "Freshman Seminar in Earth and Atmospheric Science". Mike and his wife Lisa (Purdue '74) have 4 children and live near Leesburg, Indiana. They enjoy keeping up with their children's activities, and boating on Lake Tippecanoe.<back to top> |
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Mark Lester graduated from Purdue in 1975 with a B.S. in Engineering Geology, and in 1977 with an M.S. in Geophysics under the tutelage of Dr. Bill Hinze. Mark did summer internships with Exxon and Union Oil Company while in graduate school, then began his career with Union Oil Company in Oklahoma City upon graduation. He was employed by various independent oil companies in Oklahoma City from 1980 to 1986, and was self-employed in the oil & gas industry from 1986-1989. In 1989 Mark became Vice President - Exploration for Chesapeake Energy Corp. in Oklahoma City. In 1995 he was promoted to Sr. Vice President and has served as Executive Vice President since April 2006. Mark was one of the first eight employees when Chesapeake was founded in 1989, and has helped steer the company's growth to where it is today with over 5,000 employees, 1.7 billion cubic feet per day of equivalent oil & gas production, 135 operated rigs drilling for oil & gas, and a market cap on the New York Stock Exchange of 13 billion dollars. Mark and his wife Carol have four sons; Kyle graduated from Purdue in December 2006, Adam will graduate from Purdue in December 2007, Jared will start at Purdue in August 2007, and Jay plans to start at Purdue in the Fall of 2010.<back to top> |
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