Christine Chen is a rising junior at Princeton University and is absolutely delighted to be concentrating in
Geosciences. Growing up, Christine immediately took to math and science but had trouble deciding which subject— chemistry, biology, physics, or computer science—she enjoyed the most. It wasn't until her senior year in high school when she realized she didn't have to choose:
Earth science combined every discipline of the natural and physical sciences into an integrated study of the planet and the processes that have made Earth what it is today. It was as simple as that, and after cavorting around Mono-Inyo Craters and the star dunes of Death Valley on a class trip during freshman fall, there was no going back. "I'm more-or-less just returning to my roots as a kid. Dinosaurs, rocks, and volcanoes—those things were the
stuff of legends back then." On the rare occasions when Christine is not traipsing around Guyot Hall, she can be found drawing, bicycling, sleeping, playing the ocarina, stargazing, making smoothies, playing recreational frisbee or tennis, watching
Doctor Who, being nerdy, and hanging with friends.
Jonathan Husson is currently a second-year graduate student in the Department of Geosciences at Princeton University, working under Professors Adam Maloof and Blair Schoene. He discovered his interest in Earth science while attending Harvard, his alma mater: "I was on an
ice climbing trip my freshman year, complaining to one of the other trip participants about my freshman bio classes—how they were
huge, and how everyone and their cousins were pre-meds who only cared about grades, not science. The other guy turned out to be a Ph.D student in the geo department, and suggested that I take a spring intro course.
Been hooked ever since." In whatever spare time Jon can muster up when he's not in the lab or chilling with kangaroos, Jon enjoys reading, cooking and baking, gardening, running, cycling, hiking, following baseball, watching movies, and hanging out with his wife and cat.
