Chairman & DGS Staff
Dr. Steve Grand
Chairman, Department of Geological Sciences,
Jackson School of Geosciences
geochair@geo.utexas.edu
Phone: 512-471-5172
Fax: 512-471-9425
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DGS Organizational Chart |
Nicole Evans
Administrative manager
mne@mail.utexas.edu
Office:2.104
Phone: 512-471-2916
Fax: 512-471-0959
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
Administrative SUPPORT
louharwell@mail.utexas.edu
Office: 2.104
Phone: 512-471-5172
Fax: 512-471-0959
Lou is responsible in assisting the Chairman and Administrative Manager with day-to-day departmental
operations. 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.
Departmental key requests, vehicle and room reservations,
and requests for building access route though Lou's position.
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Angela Angelo
Financial Manager
aangelo@jsg.utexas.edu
Office: 2.106
Phone: 512-475-9618 - Fax: 512-471-9425
Angela is responsible for supervising accounting personnel in performance of
accounting or financial management support functions.
Michelle Damvar
Administrative Associate
michelle.damvar@mail.utexas.edu
Office:2.106
Phone: 512-471-5549
Michelle is responsible for DGS purchasing, reimbursements and also pays the
bills.
Debra Sue Trinque
Student Financial Services
dstrinque@mail.utexas.edu
Office:2.106
Phone: 512-471-5549
Debra Sue Trinque will be the primary contact and afternoons are when she will be most available for these services:
Scholarships,
Tuition & Fees,
Professional Development,
Hourly Payroll - Time cards,
Student Appointments and Inventory Assistant.
Tinley Hald
Human Resources Coordinator
thald@jsg.utexas.edu
Office: 2.110
Phone: 512-475-9623
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
Senior Procurement Officer
jlake@jsg.utexas.edu
Office: 2.106
Phone: 512-471-6819
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.
Elsa Jimenez
Administrative Associate
ejimenez@jsg.utexas.edu
Office: EPS 3.112
Phone: 512-471-4587
Elsa is responsible for administrative Support for all Schoch Faculty, Research
Scientists and students. Elsa oversees the Procard, Office Depot purchasing for
Schoch and Laptop/Projector check out for Schoch.
Jamie Wentz
Administrative Assistant
jwentz@jsg.utexas.edu
Office: 5.226
Phone: 512-471-6268
Jamie is responsible for administrative Support for Dr. Robert Dickinson.
Jan Everett
Grants & Contracts Specialist
janet@jsg.utexas.edu
Office: 2.106
Phone: 512-471-5687
Jan is the departments Grants & Contracts specialist.
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The Student Services team provides undergraduate and graduate advising and
also helps with career placement needs.
Renee Waters
Undergraduate Academic Advisor
rwaters@mail.utexas.edu
Office: 2.114
Phone: 512-471-4300
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.
Jesse Garcia Jr.
Undergraduate Academic Advisor
jgar5@mail.utexas.edu
Office: 2.120
Phone: 512-471-8472
Jesse assists with various Jackson School functions such as internal transfer
sessions, graduation, orientation and different student recognition events.
Philip Guerrero
Graduate Program Coordinator
geograd@maestro.geo.utexas.edu
Office: 2.120
Phone: 512-471-6098
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
Supports Student Services
djvinzant@mail.utexas.edu
Office: 2.120
Phone: 512-471-4486
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
Sr. Placement Coordinator
mriess@jsg.utexas.edu
Office: 2.114D
Phone: 512-232-7673
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.
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Ty Lehman
Senior Systems Analyst
lehman@mail.utexas.edu
Office:3.320
Phone: 512-471-7339
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
Senior Systems Analyst
effie@geo.utexas.edu
Office: 3.216A
Phone: 512-471-6184
Effie oversees the geophysics computational facilities for the department.
Landmark 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 also traveled to Antarctica to do geophysical computer
support.
David Spindler
Senior Systems Analyst
spindler@jsg.utexas.edu
Office: JGB 4.216A
Phone: 512-232-2419
David will focus on helping to develop and support high performance computing
within the department, both distributed cluster computing and parallel
computing.
Adrian Huh
Desktop Support Specialist
Adrian@jsg.utexas.edu
Office: 3.320A
Phone: 512-694-9703
Adrian will assist department faculty, students, and staff with a variety of
technical issues concerning software, hardware, desktop applications,
networking, and related equipment. His responsibilities include install,
monitor, diagnose, repair, maintain, and upgrade PC/Mac hardware, software, and
related equipment to ensure optimal workstation performance, and assist in the
purchase and maintenance of inventory of technology equipment and software.
Adrian is also a certified MCP (Microsoft Certified Professional).
Jeffrey Horowitz
Graphics / Webmaster
jeffh@mail.utexas.edu
Office:6.320A
Phone: 512-471-5671
Jeffrey runs the computer graphics facilities for the department and is the
Webmaster for the department
http://www.geo.utexas.edu
Joe Jaworski
Ofice:6.306
Phone: 512-471-5171
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.
Hugh Stimson
Ofice:2.114C
Phone: 512-232-0836
Hugh’s responsibilities, with a 50% time appointment; shared with the
College of Natural Sciences, will include:
1) Electronics Technician –
troubleshoot, repair, modify and maintain electronic/electromechanical equipment
for DGS labs, and
2) building & facilities manager-overseeing the
physical maintenance of JGB and our part of Schoch building. He will become the
point of contact with UT Physical Plant/outside contractors on all issues
related to building maintenance, repairs and renovations and will provide
support to building users on all issues related to the buildings and its
facilities. As time allows Hugh will also provide backup support for our AV &
IT equipment.
Roger Gary
Tech Assistant III
synapsid@mail.utexas.edu
Office: 1.129
Phone: 512-471-4982
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
Thin-section technician
gthompson@mail.utexas.edu
Office 1.104
Phone: 512-471-4283
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
Librarian
drtgeol@mail.utexas.edu
Office: 4.202
Phone: 512-495-4680
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.
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