Margi Jenks joins Crater as new interpreter
By Waymon Cox
Greeting from Crater of Diamonds State Park! I am pleased to introduce the park’s newest staff member, Margi Jenks, as she joins the family as our new park interpreter!
Margi is a very well-traveled individual, born in Minneapolis MN and raised in central Illinois. She attended college in Texas and Minnesota and earned a degree in history. While working for Gulf Oil in Houston, TX, she fell in love with geology and went to graduate school at the University of Idaho in Moscow, ID to earn her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in the field.
Since then, she has spent the last 20 years as a working
geologist. She has worked for both the
Oregon and
Idaho state geologic departments, creating new geologic maps to help solve practical problems like water resources or wilderness area evaluations. During part of her career she also owned a geologic consulting business in which she mainly worked for large
Pacific Northwest timber companies including Boise Cascade Corp. She helped these companies enter geologic information about their land into computer systems, as well as doing landslide and sediment studies to see how well streams were functioning for fish habitat.
Recently, Margi made the decision to shift her focus and begin work as a
park interpreter. Last summer she worked as an interpreter for the National Parks Service at Fire Island National Seashore, a barrier island off the south coast of
Long Island, NY. She has a son who works as a mechanical engineer for Borg Warner Corp. turbo charger division in
Asheville, NC.
Margi is looking forward to a busy and
adventurous summer in the beautiful piney woods of
Southwest Arkansas.
Come by the park soon and welcome Margi to the community and Crater of Diamonds!
Field Last Plowed: February 25, 2009
Diamond Finds for February 23 - March 1, 2009
February 23 - Denis Tyrrell, Bismarck, AR, 11 pt. white, 15 pt. brown, 28 pt. brown, 36 pt. white
February 24 - Glenn Worthington, Springdale, AR, 1 pt. white, 1 pt. white, 1 pt. white, 13 pt. white; Ronald Duguay, Rumford, ME, 3 pt. white, 19 pt. white; Denis Tyrrell, Bismarck, AR, 3 pt. brown
February 26 - Ronald Duguay, Rumford, ME, 3 pt. white; Denis Tyrrell, Bismarck, AR, 4 pt. yellow, 7 pt. brown, 36 pt. white
February 27 - Denis Tyrrell, Bismarck, AR, 40 pt. white; Glenn Worthington, Springdale, AR, 1 pt. brown
February 28 - Buddy Anderson, Murfreesboro, AR, 10 pt. brown
March 1 - David Anderson, Kent City, MI, 14 pt. white; Ronald Duguay, Rumford, ME, 16 pt. white
