Hiring Freeze To pare costs, the university now braves a hiring freeze. For the last few years, however, geology has been understaffed. Wakefield Dort, Antonis Koussis and Bert Rowell.
Replacement hiring no longer comes as a given.
It's now building a case for hydrogeology. Both programs, says Walton, are interdisciplinary. Geomorphology is an important component of not only our program, but also of the Department of Geography. Hydrogeology is vital to both geology and civil engineering and is interrelated with research at the Kansas Geological Survey. When Koussis left in August 1994, the department had only Wendy Macpherson and Ernie Angino in hydrogeology.