1975-1979: Indiana State University, B.A. in Geology, magna cum laude

1996-1999: University of Washington, Seattle—MS in Geological Sciences 8/99

1999-present: University of Washington, Seattle—Ph.D. [in progress]

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

11/98-present Research Scientist, University of Washington, Department of Geological Sciences

3/85-11/98 Senior Associate and Project Manager, Shannon & Wilson, Inc., Seattle, WA

3/80-10/84 Engineering Geologist, Shannon & Wilson, Inc., Fairbanks, AK

10/79-3/80 Geologist, Shannon & Wilson, Inc., St. Louis, MO

REGISTRATIONS AND PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Registered Professional Geologist, Oregon, 1995
Licensed Geologist, Alaska, 1989

Member:
American Geophysical Union
American Institute of Professional Geologists Association of Engineering Geologists (Vice-Chair, WA Section, 1999)
Association for Women Geoscientists (Scholarship Chair, 1992-1996)
Geological Society of America Fellow
Northwest Geological Society
Seismological Society of America.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

R.K. Borden and K. G. Troost, in press, Late Pleistocene stratigraphy in the central Puget Lowland, west-central Pierce county, Washington: Olympia, Washington State Department of Natural Resources, Report of Investigation.

K. G Troost, 1999, The Olympia nonglacial interval in the Southcentral Puget Lowland, Washington, Master’s Thesis, University of Washington, 123 p.

K. G Troost, J. B. Mahoney, D. B. Booth, R. K. Borden, 1998, Discriminating glacial from nonglacial deposits in Pleistocene sediments of the south-central Puget Lowland: Association of Engineering Geologists, Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA.

K. G. Troost, D. B. Booth, A. Sarna-Wojcicki, C. E. Meyer, and J. T. Hagstrum, 1997, Chronology, mineralogy, and correlation of Quaternary tephra and mudflow deposits in the Central Puget Lowland, Washington state, Abstracts with Programs, 1997 Annual Meeting, The Geological Society of America, Salt Lake City, Utah, p. A-411.

K. G. Troost and D. B. Booth, 1997, Quaternary stratigraphy of the Tacoma area-status of mapping efforts: Abstracts, The 2nd Annual Symposium on the Hydrogeology of Washington State, Washington Department of Ecology.

B. B. Curry, K. G. Troost, and R. C. Berg, 1994, Quaternary Geology of the Martinsville Alternative Site, Clark County, Illinois: Illinois State Geological Survey Circular 556.

K. G. Troost, 1994, Dating earthquakes, subsidence, and sea-level rise, using archaeological data at West Point, Seattle, Washington: Abstracts with Programs, 1994 Annual Meeting, The Geological Society of America, Seattle, Washington, p. A-157.

K. G. Troost and B. B. Curry, 1991, Genesis and continuity of Quaternary sand and gravel in glacigenic sediment at a proposed low-level radioactive waste disposal site in East-Central Illinois: Environmental Geology and Water Sciences, v. 18, no. 3, p. 159-170.