August 2, 1999

Accolades

By Tim Stephens

Sara Foland

UCSC grad student is the new director of the Geological Society of America

Earth sciences graduate student Sara Foland assumed leadership of the Geological Society of America in June as executive director and CEO of the 16,000-member scientific society. Not a typical graduate student, Foland is also CEO and president of Farallon Energy Group in Denver, where she built an investment portfolio for acquisition of gas-producing properties throughout the United States. For 16 years prior to joining Farallon, she held leadership and geotechnical positions at Amoco Production Company in Denver. Foland earned B.S. degrees in geology and chemistry and an executive M.B.A. from Indiana University. She has an M.S. in geology from the University of Montana and expects to complete a Ph.D. in tectonics at UCSC within a year. Her dissertation is entitled "The structural evolution of the northern terminus of the San Andreas fault system, offshore Point Arena Basin."

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