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Chairman & DGS Staff
Chairman, Department of Geological Sciences,
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DGS Office Units
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DGS Organizational Chart |
Nicole Evans
Nicole Evans oversees various administrative responsibilities and staff members in the Department of Geological Sciences. She manages the department's course schedule, organizes reports for the department, and assists the department chair with a variety of faculty and administrative issues. The DGS IT, student services, machine shop, and administrative staff report to Nicole.
She manages the department's services, special projects, and reports and makes decisions regarding organizational and departmental issues. She is also the building manager and provides consultation regarding contractual and technical duties delegated to support staff.
Lou Harwell
Lou is responsible in assisting the Chairman and Administrative Manager with day-to-day departmental operations. Departmental key requests, vehicle and room reservations as well as requests for building access route though Lou's position. She is the primary contact for departmental faculty and staff and assists with special projects throughout the department. Lou maintains the Chair and Administrative Manager's calendars..
Angela Angelo
Angela is responsible for supervising accounting personnel in performance of
accounting or financial management support functions.
Dorothy Hight
Dorothy is responsible for providing financial activities such as debt
administration, issuance and analysis, budget, contract compliance and financial
reports to the department.
Caroline Staley
Carrie is responsible for the Office Depot purchasing for the department, reimbursements and also pays the bills.
Alice Rentz
Alice's main duty is dealing with all travel issues, from helping to plan trips
to getting folks reimbursed when they return and all points in between. In
addition, she makes sure that the good people in the labs are paid on time.
Tinley Hald
Tinley ensures the department is in compliance with all institutional rules and
regulations pertinent to human resources functions. She also coordinates all
human resources section activities to include staffing, policy and rule
interpretation and related personnel issues.
Julie Lake
Julie is responsible for ordering supplies and equipment, and the maintenance of
detailed records pertinent to the receipt and disbursement of supplies and
equipment. She also is responsible for records of equipment issued to students
and laboratory space.
Nicole D. Robichaux
Nicole oversees student employment, payroll and scholarships for the Financial
Services Office.
The Student Services team provides undergraduate and graduate advising and also helps with career placement needs.
Renee Waters
Renee is the Undergraduate Coordinator for the Department. Renee serves as the Academic Advisor for all Geological Science Undergraduate students; other primary duties that she is responsible for are administering the undergraduate scholarship program, overseeing the Resource Room, and appointing and paying under-graduates who work as research assistants for the faculty.
She also serves as a departmental liaison to students in some of the College of Natural Science programs such as Freshman Orientation, Gone to Texas and graduation.
Jesee Garcia Jr.
Jesee assists with various Jackson School functions such as internal transfer sessions, graduation, orientation and different student recognition events.
Philip Guerrero
Philip handles most aspects of the graduate program, from the recruitment process all the way through to a student's graduation. He attends different professional meetings to recruit graduate students from all over. He handles registration, adds & drops, petitions, and other administrative tasks. Philip also serves as a liaison between the department and the Graduate School.
Danny Vinzant
Danny helps students with day-to-day needs; scheduling appointments with the academic advisors, distribution of student field trip liability waiver forms, answer random questions from class location to deadline date reminders.
He also coordinates prospective student visits to the department, assists GEO 660 professor
with field trip logistics, maintains UT Driver system for the department, helps with departmental special
events and assists the Administrative
Manager as needed.
Maurine Riess - Career Services
Maurine assists students in their career and job searches providing resources and references. She also Identifies student career planning and placement needs, initiates and plans career placement programs to address student needs, collects, maintains, and presents career services statistics as needed and reviews and analyzes various employment surveys. Maurine also maintains contact with faculty and employers to enhance placement opportunities and services and serves as liaison among students, recruiters, faculty and staff.
Ty Lehman
Ty oversees the departments computational facilities and networking environment.
He works with other UT entities to coordinate and implement IT on campus and
is also a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer and is a GAIC Gold
Certified Windows Security Administrator.
Effie Jarrett
Effie oversees the geophysics computational facilities located in the department. Landmark software and several other software packages are used for processing and interpreting 3 Dimensional Seismic Data. She mainly supports Linux, Solaris, and IRIX Unixes. Effie has even traveled to Antarctica to do geophysical computer support.
Jeffrey Horowitz
Jeffrey runs the computer graphics facilities for the department and is the
Webmaster for the department-
http://www.geo.utexas.edu. The world of a
rapidograph artist has been converted to a keyboard junky. (Racing)
Joe Jaworski
Joe Jaworski works half-time for the Department and teaches Photography at the
Austin Community College in town. He recently had one of his pictures published
in National Geographic. Occasionally Joe does free lance assignments for national and
international publications.
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Roger Gary
Rodger runs the machine
shop and wood shop, working with plastics, metals, and wood.
Rodger helps design and build whatever is required to facilitate the research for our faculty, research scientists and students.
Greg Thompson
Greg Thompson's petrographic thin sections are so good they could win an award. Greg has been in charge of our Petrographic Thin Section Lab since 1989. He came to us from Houston where he was working with a seismic data coding company. He took his MS in Geology from Iowa State University (1980), and is a member of the Texas Faceter's Guild, the Austin Gem and Mineral Society and the American Society of Gem-cutters.
Dennis Trombatore
Dennis has been head of the Walter Geology Library, part of the University of
Texas Libraries, since 1985. Before that he worked at the University of Georgia,
Loyola University of New Orleans, and Louisiana State University
libraries.
He is in charge of overall management of the Library, with a staff of ~4.5 FTE, and is personally responsible primarily for collection development, reference and referral, and bibliographic instruction services.
