"Everything Geo Explorer Auburn"

When Tim Hawthorne arrived at Auburn in the summer of 2024, he brought with him a lifelong love of exploration. “I knew early on I wanted to become a geographer and travel the country,” Hawthorne said. As the new chair of Auburn’s Department of Geosciences, Hawthorne found not only a professorship but a bold new endeavor. Soon after his arrival to the Plains, Auburn’s College of Sciences and Mathematics (COSAM) invested in a start‑up science lab on wheels — a project designed to spark curiosi...