Xena T. Dog provided field assistance, perspective, and spiritual guidance. Rest in peace, sweet girl.

Amir Sheikh assists in GIS based research with members of the Puget Sound River History Project, the Geomorphological Research Group (GRG), the Quaternary Research Center (QRC), and the Puget Sound Regional Synthesis Model (PRISM) program. He is experienced in both geomorphologic and ecological applications of spatial analysis including a) historical landscape reconstruction b) landscape change analysis c) river channel migration zone mapping, and d) topographic analysis in fluvial environments. He also assists in the administration of SDE and ArcGIS map servers.

Amanda Henck's research focuses on erosion in the Three Rivers Region in Yunnan, China. She is interested in anthropogenic impacts on erosion and also on how erosion rates in the area are related to deformation of the Tibetan Plateau. In addition to her primary research in China, she is involved in a project studying sustainable development in Yangjuan, a rural village in SW Sichuan, China.

Amanda is part of the Multinational Collaborations on Challenges to the Environment IGERT Program. The IGERT requires students to participate in a year-long community-building exercise during their first year in the program, to study abroad, and to do a pedagogical internship on the internationalization of science education. During the year-long course, Amanda worked with four other students to study the Hood Canal dissolved oxygen problem. Her study abroad will be at Sichuan University in Chengdu during 2005-2006, where she will be doing field work for her PhD research. In Chengdu she also plans to do her pedagogical internship by taking a group of high school students from Friday Harbor, Washington, to China to learn about the culture and to do environmental field work in Yangjuan.

Sanjoy Som studies planetary geomorphology, and more specifically planetary environments, where he is particularly interested in their potential habitability, but also in their geologic, geomorphic and atmospheric evolution (which are intertwined). For Mars, he is looking at the downstream variation of different valley networks to see if any trends exist (or not). In any case, he hopes to extract information on whether or not they were carved by precipitation of liquid water or if other mechanisms are dominant. This will obviously have repercussions on their environment of formation. Furthermore, he just recently began thinking about the evolution of the Tharsis region and Vallis Marineris, and how a larger genetic relationship than previously thought might exist between their evolution and the Hesperian outflow channels.