E Kirsten Peters

Dr. E. Kirsten Peters is a native of rural Washington State. She graduated summa cum laude with a degree in geology from Princeton University in 1984. She earned her doctorate from the Earth and Planetary Sciences Department at Harvard University in 1990. Dr. Peters' education emphasized geochemistry and economic geology. She has also done published research in the late-Pleistocene of eastern Washington State. She has published technical articles in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, The Journal...See more

Dr. E. Kirsten Peters is a native of rural Washington State. She graduated summa cum laude with a degree in geology from Princeton University in 1984. She earned her doctorate from the Earth and Planetary Sciences Department at Harvard University in 1990. Dr. Peters' education emphasized geochemistry and economic geology. She has also done published research in the late-Pleistocene of eastern Washington State. She has published technical articles in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, The Journal of Economic Geology, and other technical publications. She has presented her research at national meetings of The Geological Society of America and the American Geophysical Union. For ten years she taught undergraduate-level geology classes at Washington State University in her hometown of Pullman, Washington. Dr. Peters has written two non-traditional geology textbooks published with W. H. Freeman and Co., and she recently helped revise Thomson's Essentials of Geology for its current edition. Under the pen-name Irene Allen, she is the author of four murder mysteries published by major New York houses. She currently writes fulltime for the daily newspaper in her hometown, where she specializes in feature stories related to scientific research in all disciplines. See less