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Dr. Kim Hannula
Associate Professor of Geoscience
 

Contact info:

Email: hannula_k@fortlewis.edu

Phone: (970) 247-7463

Office: 301 Berndt Hall

Mail: Department of Geosciences

Fort Lewis College

1000 Rim Drive

Durango, CO 81301

Education:

B.A. (Geology) - Carleton College (1989)

Ph.D. (Geology) - Stanford University (1993)

Teaching:
Within the major, I teach courses in Structural Geology, Tectonics, Field Geology, Earth Systems Science, Technical Writing for Geologists. I also teach The Control of Nature, an interdisciplinary upper division course.

Research:
I am fascinated by mountains. That's why I'm a geologist, and that's why I study structural geology and tectonics. I have worked in northwestern Alaska, on rocks that have been down a subduction zone (and back), and in Vermont, on faulting that occurred during intrusion of a granite pluton. I am currently working in Colorado, on deformation and metamorphism of the Vallecito Conglomerate.

Other activities:
I am currently the President of the Four Corners Geological Society, a group that organizes professional talks and other activities for anyone interested in geology in the Durango, CO and Farmington, NM areas.

In my spare time, I have run an occasional high-altitude marathon. (It's exercise! It's reconnaissance for new field areas! It's another excuse to get outside! And over 10,000 feet, it doesn't matter that I'm slow!)