Linda manages the daily operations of MGRRE.  She trains and supervises students who enter information in databases and who organize cores, samples and well records.  She responds to requests for data from industry and government, organizes technology transfer workshops, supports research grant acquisition, conducts fund-raising, maintains donor relations, and supervises data acquisition and archiving.

Having owned a successful business for more than twenty years, Linda has come back to her first love of geology.  She received her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in geology from the University of Cincinnati and has taught geology at the secondary level and at WMU.

Linda uses her marketing, writing and photography talents to work with the faculty in securing funding and publicity for MGRRE missions.

She has worked at and championed the missions of MGRRE and the Core Lab for 14 years. She and Bill Harrison (the founder of MGRRE and the Core Lab) have been married for 40 years.  They have one child who looks a lot like a terrier mix puppy. 

You can reach Linda at (269) 387-8633 or at linda.harrison@wmich.edu.