Jason was a M.S. student from 1987 to 1990. He worked on ground water stable isotope hydrology in South Florida (Meyers et al., 1993). He finished a Ph.D. at the University of Miami and departed from Australia. Rumours are that he works for a mineral company in Western Australia.

Victor was a honorary student in the SIL finishing a Ph.D. in 1989. He worked on the effect of climate of the formation of calcretes (Rossinsky and Swart, 1993). Currently he owns his own consulting company and still consults with his former honorary advisor, usually in a Bar.

Kathy worked on the geochemistry of corals from the Gulf of Guinea and finished a MS in 1995 (Swart et al. 1998). Kathy is rumoured to work somewhere in New England.

Genny examined the influence of changes in salinity in Florida Bay using coral skeletons. She finished her M.S. in 1996 after which she completed a PhD at the University of South Carolina in some kind of education stuff. She currently still runs the Instar program at the University of Miami with her old boss.

Jim worked on a Ph.D. jointly supervised by Dr. Swart and Szmant between 1989 and 1995. He worked on stable isotopes in corals producing three excellent papers. Although he defended he never submitted the final draft. He is missing in action somewhere in North Carolina.

Phil finished a Ph.D. in 1996 on the geochemistry and hydrology of mud-islands in Florida Bay (Swart and Kramer, 1997; Juster et al., 1997). Afterwards he was suduced by the dark side and became a coral reef activist deserting the pure form of geochemistry. He currently works for the Nature conservancy in the Caribbean.

Mike completed a MS on the isotopic geochemistry of organic material in Florida Bay in 1997. Mike won the best MS thesis of the year in 2001. He completed a PhD at Stanford in 2005 and lives somewhere in the South Florida area.

Lisa finished in a Ph.D. in 2001 on the isotopic geochemistry of corals from the Dominica Republic (Greer and Swart, 2006). She is currently an assistant professor at Washington and Lee University.

Rene completed a Ph.D. in 2001 on groundwater hydrology (Price and Swart, 2006). Rene won the best dissertation of the year in 2001. She is currently an Assistant Professor at FIU in Miami. Did I say she was a nice person?

Geoff completed a Ph.D. in 2005 on the carbon isotopic composition of organic material from various lakes in Africa. He currently works for the USGS in Denver.

Chris Moses finished a Ph.D. on the geochemistry of corals from the Cape Verde islands (Moses et al., 2005). He is currently a Post Doc at the University of South Florida.

Brad finished his PhD in 2005 on the geochemistry of sclerosponges (Rosenheim et al, 2005). Brad had the best dissertation of the year in 2005, but did not win it. He is currently an assistant professor at Tulane University.

Kathyrn completed a Ph.D. in 2007 and is currently working for Exxon-Mobil in Houston. Her thesis was on nitrogen cycling in the Florida Keys (Lamb and Swart, 2008). She is now known as Kate.

Michelle was a workstudy student in the SIL from 1992 to 1996. She obtained a Ph.D. from Illinois University in Archaeology. She is a frequent visitor and runs dirty archaelogical samples in our ICP-OES. We love you Michelle.

Jeff was a workstudy student in the SIL and went on to get a PhD from some west coast university. He is currently a professor at Humboldt State University in California.

Steve was a Postdoctoral Associate in the SIL between 1988 and 1990. He worked on samples from Leg 115 and from Florida Bay (Burns and Swart, 1992). He is currently a Profesor at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst.

Leslie was a posdoctoral associate in the SIL between 1992 and 1995. She worked on the Bahama Drilling Program samples (Melim et al. 2001). She is currently an Associate Professor at Western Illinois University.