Pat Spencer serves at the Whitman Athletic Dapertment's faculty representive and also is a professor in the Geology Department
Spencer grew up in the San Francisco Bay area and received his Bachelor's degree in Geology from the University of Washington in 1973, spent the years between 1973 and 1978 working for Hart-Crowser and Associates, Inc., a Seattle-based consulting engineering firm. Pat received his M.S. degree from Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington in 1980, and his Ph.D. from the University of Washington in 1984.
Since coming to Whitman College in 1984, Pat has been studying late Pleistocene sedimentology, stratigraphy, and paleontology in the southeastern Washington region. The results of those studies, conducted in conjunction with undergraduate geology majors, have been published as abstracts by the Geological Society of America, and as short papers in regional journals.
Pat's hobbies include fly fishing and tying, and bonsai. He is married to Kathy Ketcham (an author) and has three children.
