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Nancy
O. Geehan joined SDTDC as a natural resources
specialist in June 2006. She worked with the Forest Service and privately,
as a contractor from October 2005 to June 2006. Nancy worked for the Forest
Service from 1990 through 1996 in various policy and management positions,
and as a consultant in the private sector with nonprofit and private organizations
in conservation of natural resources and science-based private lands management.
Nancy attended Arcadia University and received a bachelor's degree in
interdisciplinary natural resources management from the University of Wyoming.
Emma
Heller joined MTDC in April as an editorial
assistant. She will be converting publications to HTML format, and will have
other Web site responsibilities. The last two summers Emma worked at Yellowstone
National Park, where she used a GPS receiver to record the coordinates of features
such as culverts and guardrails. Emma is a sophomore at the University of Montana,
studying media arts and studio art. She grew up in Gardiner, MT, at the north
entrance to Yellowstone National Park.
John
Kovalicky joined MTDC as a smokejumper technical
specialist in February. Improving smokejumper equipment and smokejumper aircraft
accessories are John's responsibility. He has a bachelor's degree
in business finance from the University of Montana. In 1985, he began his Forest
Service career on the St. Regis Ranger District fire crew. In 1988, John became
a smokejumper and worked as the training foreman, and then as loft foreman
at the Missoula Smokejumper Center.
Doug
Lausch has been working at MTDC as an engineering
technician in the fabrication shop since October 2006. He joined the Forest
Service in 1996 as a forestry technician at the Ninemile Ranger District for
the Lolo National Forest. He became a full-time seasonal forestry technician
in 2000 and a member of the national Missoula helitack crew in 2003. He graduated
from MSU-Billings as an autobody technician in 1973.
Theron
Miller joined MTDC in 2006 as a social science
analyst and has been working on projects in safety and health, fire and aviation,
and recreation. He received a Ph.D. in forestry (with an emphasis in natural
resources social science) from the University of Montana in 1997. Theron was
on the faculty of the College of Forestry and Conservation at the University
of Montana where his research and teaching focused on natural resource management,
planning, and recreation management.
Ruth
Paz has been working as a mechanical engineer
for the fire and fuels program at SDTDC since October 2006. She received her
bachelor's degree in engineering from Harvey Mudd College in Claremont,
CA, and a master's degree in business administration with an emphasis
in finance from the University of La Verne. She has 7 years of experience as
a mechanical design engineer at Northrop Grumman. While there, Ruth also worked
with the U.S. Department of Defense.
Tia
Trickey began working at MTDC as an office automation
assistant in February. She served as a human resources sergeant in the U.S.
Army for more than 7 years. She now works at MTDC's front desk.
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