Kate Kendall

Kate Kendall is a conceptual artist who uses different media to explore ideas of time and desire in relation to landscape, history and politics. She looks to the natural world as a less determined space than the human world to soften boundaries and complicate, challenge and enrich the viewer’s perspective on reality. As a conceptual artist, she uses many different media ranging from sculpture and installation to video, sound and text to help communicate ideas and create experiences. Her goal is to promote new narratives and visual languages that investigate mobility and enable us to live with complexity and difference together.

Kate Kendall received her MFA from CalArts in 2015 and her BA in Studio Art from from the University of Southern California in 2007. She has exhibited in Los Angeles, New Mexico, South Africa and Houston, TX.  For more information visit: katekendall.info

Jerry Kendall

Jerry Kendall is a global expert on the processes of mountain building. He began his geology career in the Arctic doing field exploration and research in Greenland and Svalbard. He has 40 years of experience in outdoor geology instruction in remote areas to varied groups, including Boy Scouts, students and professional geologists. He has worked in academia and industry expanding the limits of knowledge on how multiple earth processes interact to produce mountains and hydrocarbon accumulations. He has a deep passion for understanding the integration of earth systems, how it impacts us, and sharing that understanding with others.

Jerry Kendall has been a resident of Houston Texas for 20 years. He currently advises students at the University of Houston Earth and Atmospheric Science department and is adjunct faculty at the University of New Mexico. He lives directly on Buffalo Bayou and has watched it flow, surge and evolve over the last 20 years. He is interested in how the natural processes of the bayous have integrated with the anthropogenic efforts to coexist with it.

Sarah Meyer

Sarah Meyer is an undergraduate student at the University of Houston. She will be graduating in December 2019 with a B.S. in Geology and a minor in Energy & Sustainability. In addition to her work on the sand peels from Buffalo Bayou, Sarah has done research with Dr. Joel Saylor studying sediment routing to the Greater Green River Basin in the Campanian using detrital zircon geochronology. After graduating, Sarah is planning to pursue a master's degree in geology and then a career in the oil and gas industry.

Carolina Ramon-Duenas

Carolina Ramon-Duenas received a B.S. in Geology at the National University of Colombia in 2012. She is currently pursuing her Ph.D. at the University of Houston under the supervision of Dr. Julia Wellner. Carolina’s research focuses on the study of ancient and modern progradational units in the Alaskan North slope and Gulf of Mexico, as well as, understanding coastal processes occurring in the Texas coast.

Andrew Stearns

Andrew Stearns received his B.Sc in geology from the University of Texas at Austin (2018) and is currently at the University of Houston pursuing a M.Sc. in geology. He is working with Dr. Julia Wellner to quantify sediment transport during Hurricane Harvey in the Houston-Galveston region. In addition to his research, Stearns is the conference chair for the 2020 EAS Student Research Conference and is serving as financial officer for the AAPG Wildcatters.