Staff geologist Linnea Coleman comes to SES with a bachelor’s degree in Geology from Whitman College. She was born and raised in the Lake Forest Park suburb of Seattle, where she cultivated a deep love for the great outdoors. While at Whitman, she served as a scramble leader for the Outdoor Program, taking first-year students on backpacking trips prior to fall orientation. Though new to the industry, she excels at research, and as a research assistant in college, she worked on a project measuring the paleochannel and modern-channel geometry in Yellowstone National Park using ArcGIS.