
Hochella group dinner
to welcome Harish, James, and Lisa, and to celebrate Rebecca's successful
preliminary exams. (9/15/2010) |

Hochella group dinner celebrating Kelly Plathe's successful PhD
defense (February 2010). |

Group photo in July 2009 at Dr. Hochella's house.
|

The group in April of 2007 celebrating Alison Smith's graduation.
This fall she will start a Ph.D/M.D. program at Tulane University. |

Mike becomes an AGU Fellow at a ceremony in Baltimore in May, 2006.
AGU President John Orcutt (left) presents Mike with the award. |

Kelly in the Andes after attending an exciting TEM workshop in Santiago,
Chile sponsored by the Pan American Advanced Studies Institute. |
Mike just after take-off
from the Libby, Montana airfield (summer, 2006). The spectacular
Cabinet Mountains are in the background. Air reconnaissance is a
valuable tool in environmental geoscience studies. Photo taken by
Prof. Mickey Gunter, University of Idaho. |
Mike checking the fuel
in his airplane before taking off from the airfield in Libby, Montana
(summer, 2006). Photo taken by Prof. Mickey Gunter, University of
Idaho. |
Deric and Nick getting
some beamtime in October 2006 at the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne
National Laboratory. They were there helping former Ph.D. student
Andy Madden run some soil samples from Oak Ridge National Laboratory. |
Former Post-doc Brian
Lower (left) and former Ph.D. student Kevin Rosso (right) doing
some STM work with Nick at the Environmental Molecular Sciences
Laboratory at Pacific Northwest National Lab. |
The group celebrating
former Ph.D. student Andy Madden's birthday in 2004 with some fine
southern cuisine at The Homeplace, a family-style eatery in Catawba,
VA. |

Mike
and former Ph.D. student Tracy (Cail) Bank celebrating Tracy's
successful defense back in 2003.
|
Saumya and Deric along
the Oregon coast after attending the 2004 CMS meeting and short
course on Microbial-Mineral Interactions. |

Kelly outside of San Francisco after attending a 2005 Mineralogical
Society of America short-course on Molecular Geomicrobiology. |

Juan, Mike, and Barbara with Professor Anhuai Lu while visiting
the University
of Beijing, China in 2005.
|

The Hochella group in 2003 after Mike received the Dana Medal from
the Mineralogical Society of America. Pictured (from left to right)
are Chris Tadanier, Saumya Bose, Treavor Kendall, Andy Madden, Tracy
Bank, Brian Lower, and Mike Hochella.
|

The group saying goodbye to former post-doc Heike Pieper and at
research professor Chris Tadanier at Mike's house in 2005. |

Juan at the Wright Brothers National Memorial in North Carolina. |

Former Master's student Andrew Werner taking first place in a recent
motorcycle race -- way to go Andrew! |
|
|