WE REMEMEBER
Remembrances of alumni, faculty, and staff included in the summer 2022 issue of UCR Magazine
50s
Leona C. Smidt ’57
May 2022
60s
Herbert A. Brown, Ph.D. ’66
May 2022
Robert J. Friesner ’66
May 2022
Joyce H. Hall ’67
July 2022
Clyne W. Leavitt ’61
June 2022
Pamela Lewis ’67
March 2022
Robert S. Lowder ’61
May 2022
Bruce L. Pratt, M.A. ’67
June 2022
Jackie R. See ’64
May 2022
Robert H. Sherrill ’63
March 2022
James H. White ’68
November 2021
Lois K. Wise ’68
March 2022
70s
Margaret C. Alexander ’70
May 2022
Gary B. Dunks, Ph.D. ’70
April 2022
Mary K. Fowlie ’70
June 2022
Stanley R. Hoersch ’77
May 2022
Charlene A. Hollis ’71
January 2022
James F. Hunter ’71
March 2022
Robert D. Keys ’74, M.S. ’75
January 2022
Eleanor Miller ’76
December 2021
James N. Saxon ’78, M.S. ’80
March 2022
Richard D. Thompson, M.A. ’72
May 2022
Douglas M. Tolbert ’72
June 2022
Sandra L. Williams ’74
March 2022
Robert O. Wilson, M.S. ’72
January 2022
John M. Wiser ’70
November 2021
80s
Garrison D. Mann ’82
December 2021
Ruth W. Morpeth, Ph.D. ’89
March 2022
David W. Vicente ’86
April 2022
90s
Kevin R. Franks ’90
April 2022
Robert S. Heymann ’95
February 2022
Susan F. Ogle, M.A. ’97
January 2022
Neil R. Schumacher ’92
April 2022
Thomas D. Weir, M.A. ’92
May 2022
00s
Matthew T. Growhoski, M.A. ’07
May 2022
Bradley S. Krause ’08
October 2021
Marilyn Fogel
(1952 -2022)
Fogel, an endowed geoecology professor, pioneered the use of different forms of the same chemical element, called isotopes, to understand the life history of organisms, both modern and ancient. In so doing, she helped develop biogeochemistry as a new field of science, publishing many seminal papers and earning herself the moniker “isotope queen.” In 2019, she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. She was the first woman to win the Alfred Treibs Medal in organic geochemistry for lifetime achievement in the field and was a fellow of the Geochemical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Geophysical Union. Fogel earned a doctorate from University of Texas-Austin in botany and marine sciences.
She continued on to a postdoc at the Geophysical Lab at the Carnegie Institution of Washington, where she remained as a staff scientist until 2012 before spending three years at UC Merced. In 2016, she joined UCR’s earth and planetary sciences department as the Wilbur W. Mayhew Professor of Geoecology and director of the Environmental Dynamics and GeoEcology Institute. After retiring in summer 2021, she became chair of UCR’s Salton Sea Task Force working to explain and help solve the ecological crises at California’s Salton Sea. Fogel died May 11 at the age of 69. She is survived by her husband, Chris Swath, and their children, Dana and Evan.
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