2009 President Carol Hasenberg

Carol volunteered for a second presidency of GSOC largely due to the fact that she wanted to get retired amber guru and UC Berkeley professor George Poinar, living in Corvallis, Oregon, to speak to GSOC. Poinar’s talk was excellent. You can read about the talk and Poinar’s work in the June 2008 article of The Geological Newsletter entitled “A Life’s Work In Amber: Unpeeling The Amber Onion.”

2009 - CAROL HASENBERG, TRINITY, AND NICK THE CRAZY DOG

Carol’s second President’s field trip was of the overall geology of the Cascade Mountains in Oregon and the hydrology of the Deschutes River Basin. The trip’s guest leaders included Richard Conrey of Washington State University, Ken Lite of the Oregon Department of Water Resources, Todd Cleveland of Deschutes County Planning, Robert Jensen, USGS, and Richard Bartels of GSOC. The group also toured the Earth2O bottling plant in Culver, Oregon.

The photo shows Carol and her Australian shepherds Trinity and Nick, who accompanied her on a GSOC field trip to the Oregon outback in 2008.

Since her presidency Carol has remained on the board of directors and has continued to work on The Geological Newsletter, which has now become a yearly archive document. She is currently the field trip director for the society. - csh, 2024

1999 President Carol S. Hasenberg

Carol Hasenberg grew up in West Virginia in the steel town of Weirton. Her interest in the Pacific Northwest began when she went with her parents on a car trip to Oregon in 1963 at the age of 7. She was not able to return to Oregon until after her college graduation, but she decided at an early age that this was where she was going to live. Her interest in geology began when she worked for an oil exploration geologist in Michigan while attending Michigan State University. After her graduation in Landscape Architecture from that school, she moved to Portland and got her first job as a draftsman at NERC0, a subsidiary of PP&L which mined coal in Wyoming and Montana, another geological connection.

1999 - CAROL S. HASENBERG

After working for several years as a landscape designer, she went back to school in 1984 in Civil Engineering and had a modest career designing at a structural engineering consulting firm and performing seismic hazard assessment projects while teaching at Portland State University. Her interest in Geology solidified while taking engineering geology courses and learning about the Cascadia Subduction Zone and earthquakes in the Pacific Northwest.

Carol joined GSOC in 1995 mainly due to Richard Bartel’s very interesting and informative seminars. She was President in 1999-2000 and 2009- 2010. She has been the newsletter editor since 2000 and is still very active in the club as of 2015. Her President’s Field Trip in 1999 was to Steens Mountain, Diamond Craters and the Alvord Desert. Guest speakers included PSU’s Michael Cummings, biologist Rick Hall from the BLM, and GSOC Past Presidents Richard Bartels and Evelyn Pratt. Unfortunately she did not put together a field trip for the trip, and her response to questions regarding this was, “Was I supposed to do that?”

Another accomplishment of Carol’s presidency was the creation of the first GSOC website. The announcement of this is in the April 1999 newsletter. GSOC was lucky to get the gsoc.org domain name for their organization, as shortly afterward the Girl Scouts of Orange County tried to register with that domain, and there was a bit of confusion until that was resolved.

After her presidency was completed, Carol became the GSOC newsletter editor and has remained so for many years.