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REVIEW 


Department  of  Geology 


JNIVERSITY     OF 
C. 

Song: 

Jncovering 
Secrets  of  the 
nner  Core 


Assistant  Professor  Xiaodong 
ong  has  done  groundbreaking 
rark  using  seismic  data  to  better 
inderstand  the  Earth's  core.  Song 
ecently  came  to  the  Department 
if  Geology  at  Illinois  from  the 
,amont-Doherty  Earth 
)bservatory  of  Columbia 
Iniversity,  where  he  had  been 
esearching  and  teaching  for  three 
ears  after  earning  his  Ph.D.  in  geo- 
ihysics  from  the  California  Institute  of 
echnology.  His  Ph.D.  research  investi- 
,ated  the  properties  of  the  Earth's  core 
nd  lowermost  mantle.  His  work  at 
.amont  provided  observations  proving 
hat  the  Earth's  solid  inner  core  rotates 
t  a  faster  rate  than  the  rest  of  the 
ilanet.  This  finding  was  listed  as  one 
if  the  most  important  scientific  discov- 
ries  of  the  century  in  Discover  maga- 
:ine  and  one  of  the  most  important 
ireakthroughs  of  the  year  in  Science. 

It  has  long  been  theorized  that  the 
nner  core,  which  is  solid,  may  move 
eparately  from  the  rest  of  the  Earth- 
ike  a  beach  ball  in  water.  In  fact,  the 
Earth's  magnetic  field  is  explained  by 
he  convective  motions  in  the  fluid 
ore.  This  idea  is  known  as  the 
)ynamo  Theory.  According  to  this  the- 
iry,  electromagnetic  force  generated  by 
he  interaction  of  the  magnetic  field  in 


LLINOIS      AT      URBANA-CHAMPAIGN 


the  outer  core  and  the  conducting 
inner  core  causes  the  inner  core  to 
rotate  a  few  degrees  per  year.  These 
few  degrees  translates  to  about  10  kilo- 
meters per  year  —clearly  the  core  rota- 
tion is  very  fast  in  the  context  of  geo- 
logic time.  However,  until  Song's  work, 
no  one  had  been  able  to  observe  or 
prove  this  hypothesis. 

"With  this  kind  of  speed,  we 
should  be  able  to  observe  the  move- 
ment," says  Song,  "but  the  trick  was 
figuring  out  how  to  do  it."  Song  took 
advantage  of  his  Ph.D.  research  con- 
cerning the  anisotropy  of  the  inner 
core.  Seismic  waves  that  go  through 
the  Earth  go  at  different  speeds  and 
directions,  depending  on  the  composi- 
tion of  the  part  of  the  Earth  it's  travel- 
ing through  (see  image).  In  his 
research,  Song  had  found  that  the 
inner  core  is  not  homogeneous  and 
that  seismic  waves  go  faster  along  a 
roughly  north-south  axis  than  along 


This  diagram  illustrates  how  the 
fastest  path  through  the  Earth's 
solid  inner  core  has  shifted  over 
time,  showing  that  the  core  moves 
at  a  faster  rate  than  the  rest  of  the 
Earth.  Xiaodong  Song's  findings 
have  been  hailed  as  one  of  the 
most  important  discoveries  of  the 
century  by  Discover  magazine. 

any  other.  As  luck  would  have 
it,  however,  the  inner  core  is  not 
exactly  symmetric  around  the 
north-south  axis.  The  fastest 
path  was  found  to  be  tilted 
about  10  degrees  off  the  pole 
and  the  wave  speed  changes  lat- 
erally in  the  inner  core. 
Song  and  his  Lamont  colleague, 
Paul  G.  Richards,  were  able  to  observe 
the  inner  core's  movement  by  review- 
ing seismic  data  over  the  course  of 
about  10  years.  They  found  that  if  they 
took  measurements  from  the  exact 
same  station  (relative  to  the  mantle) 
and  used  earthquakes  from  the  exact 
same  point,  they  could  observe  a 
change  in  seismic  speed  with  time, 
thus  proving  the  core  had  rotated. 

Song's  next  step  is  to  use  similar 
seismic  data  to  understand  the  proper- 
ties of  the  inner  core.  It  is  unclear 
whether  the  anisotropy  of  the  inner 
core  is  caused  because  the  core  is  a 
single  giant  anisotropic  crystal  or  that 
there  are  different  phases  of  iron  in  the 
core  or  even  a  transition  zone  within 
the  inner  core.  Song  hopes  there  are 
further  clues  about  the  composition 
and  motion  of  the  core  in  the  seismic 
data  he  has  collected. 


Greetings 


Our  "Year  in  Review" 


The  year  1999 
has  seen  a 
number  of 
H  changes  in  the 
g  Geology 
Department. 
We  are  delight- 
ed to  welcome 
two  new  facul- 
ty members  to 
the  department.  Professor  Xiaodong 
Song,  a  seismologist,  came  to  Illinois 
from  Cal  Tech,  via  the  Lamont- 
Doherty  Geological  Observatory.  His 
research  focuses  on  understanding  the 
nature  of  the  Earth's  interior.  Already, 
his  work  demonstrating  that  the  core 
does  not  spin  at  the  same  rate  as  the 
mantle  has  garnered  international 
headlines.  Professor  Craig  Lundstrom 
joins  us  from  the  University  of 
California,  Santa  Cruz,  via  Brown 


University.  He  is  an  isotope  geo- 
chemist  and  has  been  setting  up  a  new 
mass  spectrometry  lab  in  the  Natural 
History  Building.  Professor  Tom 
Anderson,  on  our  faculty  for  32  years, 
retired  at  the  end  of  the  fall  semester. 
Fortunately,  Tom  will  continue  his 
research  as  an  emeritus  professor.  We 
look  forward  to  adding  two  more  new 
faculty  members  to  our  roster  during 
the  next  year,  for  we  are  now  in  the 
midst  of  searches  for  a  geomicrobiolo- 
gist  and  for  a  new  R.E.  Grim  Professor 
in  either  mineral  science  or  sedimenta- 
ry geology.  We've  clearly  entered  a 
growth  mode  and  are  excited  about 
building  new  and  educational 
opportunities  in  the  department. 
At  the  beginning  of  the  fall, 
Professor  Jay  Bass,  who  energetically 
guided  the  department  for  the  past 
two  years,  dove  back  into  his  research 


Contents 


New  Faculty:  Xiaodong  Song 
Greetings  from  the  Department  Head 
New  Faculty:  Craig  Lundstrom 
Department  News 
Tom  Anderson  Retires 
Undergraduate  Activities. 
Geology  Long  Ago 
Annual  Report 
News  from  Alumni  and  Friends 


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and  teaching  program.  We  all  owe  Jay 
a  hearty  thanks  for  his  efforts  on  our 
behalf!  I  have  become  the  department 
head.  Though  I've  been  teaching 
structural  geology,  geotectonics,  and 
field  geology  at  Illinois  since  1983,  this 
is  my  first  experience  with  administra- 
tion, so  this  fall  was  an  intense  learn- 
ing experience.  I've  really  enjoyed  the 
opportunity  to  meet  with  our  alumni 
and  have  been  warmed  by  the  contin- 
uing enthusiasm  that  alumni  have  for 
the  activities  of  the  department,  and 
for  the  financial  support  that  alumni 
provide  through  GeoThrust. 

You  may  have  noticed  that,  in 
honor  of  the  new  millennium,  we've 
gone  from  publishing  two  alumni 
newsletters  a  year  to  publishing  one 
Department  of  Geology  "Year  in 
Review".  You'll  find  that  this  review,  in 
addition  to  popular  news  about 
departmental  and  alumni  activities, 
also  contains  a  record  of  research  and 
teaching  activities  in  the  department. 
We  hope  this  information  helps  to  give 
a  sense  of  the  scientific  and  education- 
al mission  of  the  department. 

Please  enjoy  this  publication  and 
stop  by  if  you're  in  the  area  —  NHB  is 
having  a  bit  of  a  face  lift,  with  new 
paint  and  new  lights  in  public  spaces. 
Otherwise,  look  for  your  departmental 
friends  at  the  receptions  we  sponsor  at 
the  AAPG  and  GSA  meetings. 

—  Stephen  Marshak 


Year  in  Review  is  published  once  a  year  by  the  Department  of  Geology,  University  of 
Illinois  at  Urbana-Champaign,  to  summarize  the  activities  and  accomplishments  within 
the  department  and  news  from  alumni  and  friends. 

Department  Head:  Stephen  Marshak  (smarshak@uiuc.edu) 
Staff  Secretary:  Barb  Elmore  (b-elmore@uiuc.edu) 
Editor:  Deb  Aronson 

Produced  for  the  Department  of  Geology  by  the  College  of  Liberal  Arts  and  Sciences 
Office  of  Publications;  designer:  Pat  Mayer. 

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ULULUbT  LI! 


New  Faculty 


A.  Adjacent  to  Interface 


Lundstrom 
Looks  at 
Magmatic 
Processes 


Craig  Lundstrom  recently  joined  the 
Geology  Department  as  an  assistant 
professor  after  completing  a  post-doc 
at  Brown  University.  He  is  a  geo- 
chemist  who  received  his  B.A.  in 
chemistry  from  Colorado  College  and 
his  Ph.D.  in  Earth  Sciences  from  the 
University  of  California,  Santa  Cruz. 
Lundstrom  uses  uranium-series 
(U-series)  disequilibria  to  study  mag- 
matic processes  on  the  Earth.  U-series 
isotopes  have  much  shorter  half  lives 
than  more  conventional  isotope  sys- 
tems such  as  Sr.  The  half  lives  of  the 
isotopes  Lundstrom  studies  (radium, 
thorium  and  protactinium)  range  from 
1,600  -350,000  years  and  thus  can  be 
used  to  study  geologically  short- 
timescale  processes.  Using  new  tech- 
niques of  mass  spectrometry, 
Lundstrom  can  measure  samples  as 
small  as  one  femtogram  (10'15  grams), 
just  a  few  million  atoms. 

Recently,  Lundstrom  has  been 
studying  U-series  isotopes  in  basalt 
samples  taken  from  mid-ocean  ridges. 
He  is  striving  to  understand  the  rate  at 
which  the  mantle  melts  and  to  charac- 
terize the  amount  of  partial  melting 
that  occurs  in  the  mantle  beneath  the 
ridge  axis.  So  far  Lundstrom  has  found 
that  the  melt  (basalt)  starts  to  rise  as 
soon  as  it  comprises  one  part  per 
thousand  of  the  mantle,  and  that  melt 
rises  at  a  rate  quicker  than  the  solid 
mantle  (peridotite).  In  addition, 
Lundstrom  found  that  mantle  flows  at 
the  same  rate  as  the  ridge  spreads, 
thus  confirming  that  the  sea-floor 


Top:  Back-scattered 
electron  images  of 
peridotite  shows  clear 
differences  between 
melt  and  mineral 
modes  of  "A"  the 
region  closest  to  the 
basanite-peridotite 
interface  and  "B"  the 
region  farthest  from 
the  interface. 

Bottom:  Craig 
Lundstrom  sitting  at 
his  newly  assembled 
mass  spectrometer. 


spreading  is  a  passive  process.  These 
findings  were  published  in  Earth  and 
Planetary  Science  Letters  in  1998. 

In  a  related  area  of  inquiry, 
Lundstrom  has  conducted  experimen- 
tal studies  on  the  interaction  between 
basalt  and  peridotite.  He  wants  to 
understand  how  the  melt  interacts 
with  the  mantle.  Can  basalt,  for  exam- 
ple, re-equilibrate  with  the  mantle  as  it 
ascends?  Lundstrom  found  that  as  the 
basalt  interacts  with  the  peridotite, 
sodium  and  alkali  elements  from  the 
basalt  rapidly  diffuse  into  the  peri- 
dotite. The  diffusion  of  sodium  into 
the  peridotite  triggers  further  partial 
melting.  Instead  of  10  percent  of  the 
solid  melting  at  a  given  pressure  and 
temperature,  the  solid  melts  at  20  per- 
cent. So,  as  melt  rises  through  peri- 
dotite, it  generates  more  melt. 
Previously  it  was  believed  that  basalt 
doesn't  interact  at  all  with  peridotite 
as  it  ascends.  Lundstrom's  work 
shows  that  the  peridotite  can  melt 
without  an  increase  in  temperature. 
The  results  of  this  research — which  he 
conducted  using  a  piston  cylinder 
apparatus  similar  to  the  one  he  has 
just  built  at  Illinois— was  reported  in 
the  February  3  edition  of  the  journal 
Nature. 


Lundstrom  now  plans  to  move 
out  of  the  mantle,  on  to  the  Earth's 
surface.  He  hopes  to  use  the  U-series 
disequilibria  approach  to  look  at  the 
formation  ages  of  carbonate  rock. 
Results  of  such  work  can  be  used  for 
looking  at  the  evolution  of  landscape 
(including  such  processes  as  uplift  and 
erosion)  and  evolution  of  the  environ- 
ment. 


DEPARTMENT  NEWS 


Two  Faculty 
Searches  Underway 


After  losing  several  faculty  mem- 
bers to  retirement,  the  Geology 
Department  has  begun  to  grow  again. 
Two  faculty  searches  are  now  under- 
way. One  seeks  a  geomicrobiologist,  a 
person  who  can  study  the  role  of  bacte- 
ria in  the  earth  system.  Like  other  sci- 
ences, geologists  have  begun  to  explore 
new  interdisciplinary  opportunities. 
This  person  would  combine  expertise 
in  biology  with  expertise  in  geology.  A 
person  with  this  background  could 
attack  many  important  topics  ranging 
from  the  origin  of  life,  to  bioremedia- 
tion  of  contaminated  aquifers,  to  the 
maturation  of  petroleum,  to  the  nature 
of  the  carbon  cycle.  Many  of  these  sub- 
jects have  important  applications  in  the 
environmental  or  petroleum  industries. 
So  far,  the  search  has  identified  many 
outstanding  candidates,  several  of 
whom  were  interviewed  during  the  first 
weeks  of  February.  The  position  is 
being  partially  funded  by  the 
Environmental  Council,  a  campus  orga- 
nization that  works  to  foster  interdisci- 
plinary research  and  teaching  that 
addresses  environmental  issues. 

The  other  search  seeks  a  candidate 
to  fill  the  R.E.  Grim  Professorship,  a 
position  that  has  remained  vacant  since 
the  retirement  of  Richard  Hay  in  1997. 
This  search  will  try  to  draw  candidates 
in  either  mineral  science  or  sedimenta- 
ry geology.  As  it  is  an  endowed  posi- 
tion, the  successful  candidate  will  be 
hired  at  either  the  associate  or  full  pro- 
fessor rank.  Thus,  the  department  is 
focusing  on  applicants  with  strong 
track  records  in  research  and  teaching. 


The  department's  hydrogeology 
program  was  recently  ranked  as 
eighth  in  the  nation  by  U.S.  News 
and  World  Report. 


Leighton  Receives  2000  Alumni 
Achievement  Award 


The  Department  is  delighted  to  announce  that 
Morris  (Brud)  Leighton,  B.S.  '47,  has  been  awarded 
the  2000  Alumni  Achievement  Award  from  the 
Department  of  Geology.  This  is  the  Department's 
highest  honor,  and  is  presented  to  recognize  a 
career  of  accomplishment.  Leighton's  original  con- 
nection to  the  University  of  Illinois  and  to  geology 
came  through  his  father,  who  was  chief  of  the 
Illinois  State  Geological  Survey  (ISGS).  Leighton 
originally  considered  other  fields  before  he  returned 
to  geology  and  a  highly  successful  career.  Leighton 
spent  the  first  30  years  of  his  career  in  oil  explo- 
ration, primarily  with  Exxon  (then  called  Esso), 
with  whom  he  held  various  posts,  including  chief  geologist  for  Latin  America. 
During  his  time  in  the  industry,  he  played  a  key  role  in  developing  major  oil 
plays  in  the  North  Sea  and  Australia,  among  other  places.  From  1983-1994 
Leighton  returned  to  Champaign-Urbana,  serving  as  chief  of  the  ISGS.  "Brud 
continues  to  contribute  to  the  Geology  Department,  both  as  a  GeoThrust  mem- 
ber and  as  an  adjunct  professor,"  says  Steve  Marshak,  department  head.  "In  our 
petroleum  geology  course,  Brud  gave  an  outstanding  overview  of  world  petrole- 
um promises  and  of  how  an  oil  company  develops  an  important  play.  This 
teaching  could  only  have  come  from  someone  with  many  years  in  the  industry." 
Congratulations,  Brud!  Leighton's  award  was  presented  at  the  Annual  Geology 
Department  Awards  Banquet,  which  was  held  April  28. 


Mega-Project  At  the  Top  of  the  World 


Professor  Wang-Ping  Chen  is  beginning  a  large-scale  project  to  investi- 
gate active  mountain  building  across  the  Himalayan-Tibetan  zone  of  the 
India/ Asia  continent-continent  collision.  The  project,  called  HI-CLIMB 
(Himalayan-Tibetan  Continental  Lithosphere  During  Mountain  Building)  is 
an  international  collaboration  involving  researchers  from  the  U.S.,  China, 
Nepal,  Germany,  and  France.  The  group  will  examine  the  effects  of  the  colli- 
sion through  the  entire  thickness  of  the  lithosphere.  Professor  Chen,  who 
will  be  directing  much  of  the  project,  will  focus  his  attention  on  obtaining 
high-resolution  seismic  data  from  an  instrument  array  that  records  energy 
from  natural  earthquakes.  He  is  particularly  interested  in  the  nature  of  deep 
earthquakes. 


Department  News 


Tom  Anderson— Great  Teacher,  Researcher— Retires 


After  32  years  at  the 
Department  of  Geology,  Thomas 
F.  Anderson  retired  January  1 . 
But  retirement  for  Anderson 
won't  mean  he'll  disappear  from 
the  department.  He  plans  to 
spend  much  of  his  time  writing 
up  research  he  hasn't  had  time 
to  publish  over  the  last  few 
years.  "I'm  keeping  all  the  parts 
of  my  job  I  love  and  letting  the 
rest  of  it  go,"  he  says  with  a 
smile.  "I'm  really  looking  for- 
ward to  doing  research  at  my 
own  pace." 

It  won't  be  all  work  and  no 
play  for  Anderson,  however.  He 
and  his  wife,  Nancy,  will  be 
traveling  extensively  over  the 
next  several  months.  So  far  they 
have  trips  planned  to  the  Caribbean, 
England,  Switzerland  and  Jerusalem. 

Although  he  is  an  isotope  geo- 
chemist,  Anderson  also  has  spent  much 
of  his  career  in  oceanography.  This 
grew  out  of  his  graduate  school  experi- 
ences at  Lamont  Geological 
Observatory  (now  Lamont-Doherty 
Earth  Observatory)  at  Columbia 
University,  which  is  one  of  the  princi- 
pal oceanographic  centers  in  the  coun- 
try. "I  learned  oceanography  by  osmo- 
sis," he  says.  "I've  pretty  much  been 
the  resident  oceanographer  for  the  last 
25  years." 

Anderson  also  has  spent  many 
years  doing  research  that  began  with 
his  Ph.D.,  which  determined  rates  at 
which  oxygen  atoms  move  in  crystals. 
Because  calcium  carbonate  is  common- 
ly used  for  determining  radiocarbon 
dates,  Anderson  wanted  to  see  if  there 
was  significant  exchange  between  the 
C02  and  the  calcium  carbonate,  which 
could  throw  off  radiocarbon  dates.  He 
broadened  the  study  to  include  oxygen 
isotope  exchange. 


"I'm  keeping  all  the  parts  of  my  job  I  love 
and  letting  the  rest  of  it  go,"  he  says  with  a 
smile.  "I'm  really  looking  forward  to  doing 
research  at  my  own  pace." 


Although  Anderson  started  out 
being  primarily  interested  in  isotope 
exchange  reactions  involving  carbon- 
ates, this  work  led  him  to  also  look  at 
the  oxygen  exchange  in  feldspars  and 
micas.  By  using  isotopes  as  tracers 
Anderson  became  involved  in  the  geo- 
chemistry of  light  stable  isotopes,  a 
developing  field  in  the  mid-60s,  espe- 
cially the  isotopic  record  of  sedimenta- 
ry carbonates. 

About  20  years  ago  Anderson 
began  to  study  the  isotope  geochem- 
istry of  sulfur  in  coal.  The  goal  was  to 
understand  how  sulfur  gets  in  coal  in 
order  to  get  it  out.  Building  on  this 
experience,  Anderson  and  his  students 
initiated  a  number  of  studies  on  the 
sulfur,  carbon  and  iron  geochemistry 
of  organic-rich  marine  sediments.  "A 


Tom  Anderson  and  his  wife, 
Nancy,  talk  with  friends  at 
Anderson's  retirement  dinner. 


return  to  the  oceans,"  he 
quipped.  One  of  the  rocks  he 
continues  to  work  on  is  the 
Oxford  Clay  of  England.  "It's  a 
treasure  trove  of  well-preserved 
vertebrate  and  invertebrate  fos- 
sils, as  well  as  nearly  pristine 
organic  matter.  It's  been  lots  of 
fun  to  work  on  that,"  says 
Anderson. 

Anderson,  who  joined  the 
department  in  1967,  developed 
four  courses  during  his  tenure: 
Geology  117,  "Oceans;" 
Geology  118,  "Earth  and 
Environment;"  Geology  360, 
"Geochemistry;"  and  Geology  433, 
"Isotope  Geology."  Anderson  also 
helped  develop  Geology  130,  "Illinois 
and  Changing  Earth  Systems,"  which  is 
team  taught  with  faculty  from 
Geography  and  Atmospheric  Science. 
Anderson  likes  to  introduce  rele- 
vant modern  and  cutting-edge  research 
into  his  courses.  "It  makes  it  fun  for 
me  and  more  interesting  for  the  stu- 
dents," he  says.  His  impact  has  been 
long  lasting.  "One  of  the  first  courses  I 
took  as  a  graduate  student  was  Tom 
Anderson's  isotope  geochemistry 
course,"  says  James  Kirkpatrick,  Ph.D. 
'72,  professor  of  geology  and  executive 
associate  dean  in  the  College  of  Liberal 
Arts  and  Sciences.  "This  was  a  new 
field  then,  and  there  was  no  textbook. 
We  read  and  discussed  research  papers 
and  had  to  make  a  comprehensive  pic- 
ture out  of  widely  dispersed  informa- 
tion. Although  1  did  not  become  an 
isotope  geochemist,  the  experience  of 
doing  this  had  a  profound  influence  on 
my  entire  career.  Tom  is  a  great 
teacher. " 


New  Faces 


Visiting  Scholars,  Post-Docs  Collaborate  With  Department  Faculty 


Bonheyo:  Origins  of 
Early  Life  in  Ancient 
Hot  Springs? 


Post-doctoral  researcher 
George  Bonheyo  is  working  with 
Assistant  Professor  Bruce  Fouke 
to  understand  the  modern  and 
ancient  microbial  populations  of 
the  travertine-depositing  hot  springs  of 
Mammoth  Terrace  in  Yellowstone 
National  Park.  This  work  will  expand 
our  knowledge  of  modern  microbial 
diversity  and  origins  of  early  life  on 
Earth.  In  addition,  Bonheyo's  project 
will  help  identify  microbial  fossils  and 
biomarkers.  These  data  may  be  used  to 
identify  signs  of  early  life  elsewhere  in 
the  solar  system. 

Bonheyo,  who  received  his  B.S. 
from  Bucknell  and  his  M.S.  and  Ph.D. 
in  microbiology  from  the  University  of 
Illinois,  is  studying  the  hot  spring  sys- 
tem in  order  to  develop  a  model  to 
identify  the  microbial  species  present 
during  the  active  precipitation  of 
travertine.  The  microbes,  which  encom- 
pass all  three  domains  (archaea,  bacte- 
ria and  eukaryotes)  are  dependent 
upon  the  geochemistry  of  the  spring  for 


life  and,  in  turn,  create  by-products 
that  affect  the  geochemistry  of  the 
spring.  These  changes  affect  crystal 
growth  morphologies  and  perhaps  crys- 
tal chemistries  within  the  hot  spring. 
Microbial  species  are 
identified  based  on  their  signature 
lbS  rRNA  gene  sequences.  Those 
species  are  then  associated  with  meta- 
bolic processes  that  alter  the  spring 
geochemistry.  Bonheyo's  work  will  cor- 
relate microbial  populations,  spring 


Bonheyo  has  been  awarded  a  prestigious 
Earth  Sciences  Postdoctoral  Research 
Fellowship  from  the  National  Science 
Foundation.  His  project  is  titled: 
"Geochemistry  and  Molecular 
Microbiology  of  Travertine."  Only  10  of 
these  awards  are  granted  nationwide. 


Scene  from  the  Yellowstone  hot 
springs  where  Bonheyo  seeks 
clues  to  the  origins  of  life. 

geochemistry,  and  carbonate 
precipitation  chemistry,  fabrics, 
and  rates. 

Bonheyo  also  is  using  the 
contemporary  "depositional 
facies  model"  to  study  ancient 
travertine  deposits  and  try  to 
interpret  the  fossil  record.  Microbial 
cells  get  trapped  within  carbonate 
travertine  deposits  in  the  hot  spring 
system.  Cells  may  be  trapped  either 
between  crystals  or  within  crystal  fluid 
inclusions.  Fluid  inclusions  10  to  50  u 
in  diameter  occur  in  great  abundance 
in  Mammoth  travertine,  and  a  majority 
contain  dark  organic  masses  that  may 
be  microbial  remains.  It  is  possible 
then  that  these  entombed  cells  (and 
their  associated  DNA)  then  have  a 
high  probability  of  being  preserved. 
However,  the  mechanisms,  time  frame, 
and  preservation  potential  for  DNA  in 
travertine  carbonate  is  not  understood. 
Bonheyo  is  screening  ancient  carbon- 
ate crystals  for  diagenetic  alteration 
prior  to  removing  and  identifying  fossil 
DNA  entombed  in  fluid  inclusions. 


From  Paris  to  Brazil, 
Whittington  Traverses  the 
Globe 


Alan  Whittington,  a  post-doctoral 
research  associate  working  with  Steve 
Marshak,  received  his  Ph.D.  from  the 
Open  University,  in  the  U.K.,  and  his 
undergraduate  degree  from 
Cambridge.  He  did  his  Ph.D.  field 
work  in  the  Himalaya  Mountains  of 
Pakistan.  Prior  to  coming  to  Urbana- 
,      Champaign,  Whittington  spent  two 
years  as  a  post-doctoral  researcher  in 


Orleans,  France,  and  at  the  Institut  de 
Physique  du  Globe  in  Paris. 

Whittington  is  working  with 
Marshak  on  two  different  projects. 
They  are  investigating  the  develop- 
ment and  longevity  of  the  Ozark 
Plateau  of  the  southern  mid-continent 
and  its  relationship  to  the  New  Madrid 
Seismic  Zone.  The  plateau  exposes 
basement  rocks  which  are  buried  to 
more  than  3  km  deep  in  the  adjacent 
Illinois  basin,  and  may  be  a  result  of 
rigid  block  tectonics  resulting  from 
far-field  stresses  associated  with 
Paleozoic  orogeny  at  the  continental 
margins. 


The  other  project  concerns 
Paleoproterozoic  tectonics  in  Brazil, 
and  will  combine  structural,  metamor- 
phic  and  geochronological  investiga- 
tions to  ascertain  the  sequence  and 
style  of  orogeny  and  orogenic  collapse 
preserved  in  the  Transamazonian  oro- 
gen. 

Prior  to  coming  to  the  University, 
Whittington  was  involved  with  under- 
standing the  viscosity,  heat  capacity, 
and  other  physical/chemical  properties 
of  magmas  as  a  function  of  composi- 
tion, temperature  and  water  content. 


New  Faces 


Si 


Kalinichev 
Visiting  from 
Russian 
Academy  of 
Sciences 


Visiting  scholar 
Andrey  Kalinichev  is 
working  on  computer 
simulations  of  the  molecular  behavior 
of  geochemical  systems,  including 
aqueous  fluids  and  mineral/fluid  inter- 
faces. Kalinichev 's  background  is  in 
molecular  and  chemical  physics,  but 
he's  been  involved  in  molecular  com- 
puter simulations  of  the  properties  of 
geochemical  materials  for  about  20 
years. 

Most  chemical  reactions  near  the 
Earth's  surface  and  in  the  crust  involve 
a  fluid  phase  or  occur  at  fluid/mineral 
interfaces,  but  in  many  fundamental 
respects  these  reactions  remain  poorly 


understood  at  the  molecular  level. 
Computer  simulation  techniques  enable 
researchers  to  realistically  model  prop- 
erties of  complex,  many-body  systems 
on  an  atomistic  microscopic  scale  using 
a  limited  number  of  approximations, 
the  crucial  ones  being  intermolecular 
potential  functions.  Provided  one  has  a 
reliable  way  to  calculate  potentials  of 
intermolecular  interactions,  the  simula- 
tions can  lead  to  molecular-level  infor- 
mation on  a  wide  variety  of  properties 
(thermodynamic,  structural,  kinetic, 
spectroscopic,  etc.)  of  the  systems 
under  study. 

Kalinichev,  collaborating  with  Jim 
Kirkpatrick's  research  group,  is  focus- 
ing on  geologic  systems  that  affect  the 
Earth's  carbon  dioxide  budget.  This 
project  involves  experimental  and  com- 
putational studies  of  dissolved  anionic 
species  interacting  with  mineral  sur- 
faces which  develop  pH-dependent 
anion  exchange  capacity  or  have  per- 
manent anion  exchange  capacity  due  to 
isomorphic  substitution.  Kalinichev  and 


Kirkpatrick  are  now  mainly  focusing 
on  carbonate  species,  but  other  geo- 
chemically  significant  species  such  as 
chloride  and  nitrate  are  also  being 
studied. 

One  application  of  this  research 
would  be  in  controlling  global  warm- 
ing. In  order  to  limit  global  climate 
change  caused  by  excess  CO2    (primar- 
ily man  made) ,  the  CO2  must  be  cap- 
tured and  stored,  perhaps  underground 
or  in  the  ocean.  However,  deep-well 
injection  of  CO2  could  significantly 
change  local  groundwater  chemistry. 
Understanding  the  molecular  mecha- 
nisms controlling  the  properties  of 
water-carbon  dioxide-based  fluids  and 
their  interaction  with  mineral  surfaces 
is  necessary  before  large-scale  CO2 
storage  can  take  place. 

Kalinichev  is  head  of  the  physical 
research  laboratory  at  the  Institute  of 
Experimental  Mineralogy  at  the 
Russian  Academy  of  Sciences.  He 
received  his  Ph.D.  in  chemical  physics 
from  the  Russian  Academy  of  Sciences. 


Schilling  Looking  at 
Elasticity  of  Glasses  and 
Minerals 


Visiting  scholar  Frank  R.  Schilling 
came  to  the  Geology  Department  from 
GeoForschungs-Zentrum  Potsdam  as  a 
Heisenberg  Fellow  and  is  scheduled  to 
be  here  for  one  year.  By  understanding 
in  more  detail  the  relationship 
between  structure  and  physical  prop- 
erties of  glasses  and  minerals, 
Schilling  hopes  to  be  able  to  relate  the 
influence  of  pressure  and  temperature 
on  their  elastic  properties.  Ultimately 
he  would  like  to  examine  the  elastic 
properties  of  hydrous  minerals,  which 
are  not  clearly  understood  and  are 
important  to  understanding  subduc- 
tion  processes  and  earthquake  mecha- 
nisms. 


Schilling  is  collaborating  with 
Professor  Jay  Bass  and  Visiting 
Assistant  Professor  Stas  Sinogeikin  in 
an  investigation  of  the  elastic  proper- 
ties of  basaltic  glass  samples.  This 
work,  which  uses  Brillouin  spec- 
troscopy, will  help  explain  how  mag- 
mas rise.  The  data  show  how  changes 
in  chemical  constituents  affect  the 
density,  velocities  and  elastic  proper- 
ties in  a  highly  systematic  way. 

In  another  project,  Schilling  is 
investigating  the  thermal  transport 
properties  of  minerals.  Temperature 
contrasts  are  one  of  the  fundamental 
driving  forces  within  the  Earth,  so  pre- 
cise measurements  of  thermal  trans- 
port properties,  which  are  strongly 
related  to  the  structure  of  the  miner- 
als, are  key  to  understanding  how  the 
Earth  system  works. 

Schilling  is  involved  in  a  third 
project  that  concerns  the  physical 
properties  of  partially  molten  crustal 
rocks.  He  is  conducting  laboratory 


experiments  to  make  quantitative 
interpretations  of  the  data  from  large 
mountain  belts  such  as  the  central 
Andes.  Schilling  is  working  to  measure 
electrical  conductivity,  elastic  proper- 
ties and  thermal  transport  properties 
of  partially  molten  rocks  under  defined 
conditions. 

A  fourth  project  Schilling  is 
involved  in  concerns  the  quantitative 
interpretations  of  geophysical  observa- 
tions. This  is  a  collaboration  with  sev- 
eral German  colleagues  and  two  col- 
leagues in  China.  He  and  his  col- 
leagues study  the  interrelationship 
between  various  physical  properties 
and  the  amount  of  partial  melt,  in 
order  to  understand  the  chemical  com- 
position of  the  Andean  crust. 
Ultimately  he  would  like  to  quantify 
fluid  flow  through  the  convecting 
mantel  wedge.  The  results  may  help  to 
explain  the  origin  of  intermediate- 
depth  earthquakes.  7 


Herrstrom  Connects 
With  Geoscience 
Educators 


Eileen  Herrstrom,  teaching  special- 
ist, attended  the  "Third  International 
Conference  on  Geoscience  Education," 
in  Sydney,  Australia,  last  January.  The 
conference  enabled  her  to  connect  with 
other  geoscience  instructors  and  discuss 
common  interests  and  concerns,  such 
as  the  effective  and  appropriate  use  of 
technology,  results  of  educational 
research,  and  what  students  learn 
when  teachers  teach.  Instructors  from 
elementary  through  college  level  attend- 
ed the  conference,  as  well  as  museum 
educators  and  others  in  related  fields. 

Herrstrom  gave  a  poster  at  the  con- 
ference about  part  of  the  National  Parks 
course  (Geology  104)  given  last  spring 
in  which  she  replaced  the  final  exam 
with  a  poster  project.  Students  were 
required  to  summarize  the  geology  of 
one  park  on  two  sheets  of  poster  board, 
display  their  posters  during  the  final 
exam  time,  and  review  others'  posters. 
Her  goal  was  to  have  students  concen- 
trate on  a  single  area,  rather  than  try  to 
memorize  the  whole  United  States  (this 
addresses  a  common  criticism  of  the 
U.S.  curriculum  in  general,  "that  it  cov- 
ers too  many  topics  in  too  little  detail.") 
The  exercise  also  provided  another 
means  of  assessing  students  besides  a 
multiple-choice,  computer-graded  exam, 
because  some  students  perform  poorly 
in  this  format.  Finally,  the  project  gave 
students  a  taste  of  how  scientists 
exchange  information  and  ideas  at  pro- 
fessional meetings.  Herrstrom's  presen- 
tation was  well  received  at  the  confer- 
ence, with  several  people  indicating  that 
they  would  try  the  idea  in  their  own 
classes  and  others  suggesting  ways  to 
improve  the  project  and  to  evaluate  its 
effectiveness. 

The  conference  also  gave  Herrstrom 
some  very  specific  ideas  that  she  will 


"Three  Sisters,"  a  formation  of  erosional 
remnants  form  the  Triassic  Sandstone  of 
the  Sydney  Basin.  This  photo  was  taken 
from  Echo  Point,  in  the  Blue  Mountains  of 
Australia,  by  Eileen  Herrstrom. 


try  in  the  future.  One  was  to  have  stu- 
dents create  a  portfolio  of  breaking  sci- 
ence news,  summarize  each  article  and 
then  analyze  which  articles  were  the 
most  interesting  and  why.  A  second 
project  involved  building  a  polarizing 
microscope  from  items  normally  thrown 
away,  including  a  film  canister  and  the 
lens  of  a  disposable  camera.  The  person 
who  demonstrated  the  project  had  used 
this  idea  with  junior  high  school  stu- 
dents, who  made  their  own  individual 
microscopes  for  looking  at  thin  sec- 
tions. A  typical  polarizing  light  micro- 
scope costs  $5,000,  whereas  this  ver- 
sion cost  under  $5. 

Herrstrom,  who  joined  the  depart- 
ment five  years  ago  as  an  academic 
professional,  is  responsible  for  assign- 
ing TAs  to  courses,  supervising  100- 
level  labs,  and  lecturing  for  introducto- 
ry courses.  Geology  is  a  popular  option 
for  non-majors  at  the  University  of 
Illinois  seeking  a  science  course,  which 
is  one  reason  Herrstrom  was  hired. 
Prior  to  her  arrival,  the  faculty  had 
developed  several  new  entry-level 
courses,  and  the  department  now  offers 
about  10  per  semester.  More  recently, 
the  largest  class  (Geology  100-  Planet 
Earth)  expanded  from  two  to  three  lec- 
ture sections,  which  can  accommodate 
900  students.  Total  enrollment  in  100- 
level  classes  is  about  3,000  students  per 
year. 


Geology  Department 
Participates  in 
Engineering  Open 
House,  Again 


This  year  geology  students 
once  again  prepared  geology  dis- 
plays for  an  "open  house"  in 
conjunction  with  the  Engineering 
Open  House  (EOH).  The  EOH,  an 
annual  event,  attracts  thousands 
of  school-age  students  to  campus 
to  learn  about  various  aspects  of 
science  and  engineering.  Two 
years  ago,  the  geology  display 
was  moved  up  to  a  more  central 
area  in  the  Engineering  College. 
Now  thousands  of  students  visit 
the  display.  In  the  past,  the  dis- 
plays have  covered  topics  ranging 
from  dinosaurs,  volcanoes,  floods 
and  earthquakes.  This  year  stu- 
dents also  will  put  together  a  dis- 
play of  field  and  laboratory 
equipment  from  the  beginning 
and  the  end  of  the  last  century. 

Eileen  Herrstrom  served  as 
the  advisor  for  the  Geology  Open 
House  this  year.  She  says  she'd 
like  to  see  geology  students  doing 
even  more  community  outreach. 
Last  year  Herrstrom  participated 
in  National  Earth  Science  week 
by  creating  a  display  for  the 
Champaign  Public  Library.  She 
has  been  investigating  having 
geology  students  teach  elemen- 
tary classes  about  earth  sciences. 
"After  all,"  she  says,  "the  best 
way  to  learn  is  to  teach.  Geology 
is  such  a  natural  for  drawing 
kids'  interest,  I'd  like  to  see  our 
students  get  out  into  local  class- 
rooms," says  Herrstrom. 


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Undergraduate  Activities 


High-Caliber  Research  Is  the  Norm... for  Undergraduates 


Undergraduates  in  the  geology 
department  are— in  some  cases— going 
to  the  ends  of  the  Earth  to  gain  valu- 
able research  experience.  Junior  Anna 
Sutton  went  with  research  programmer 
Steve  Hurst  on  a  trip  last  March  to 
study  the  fast-spreading  oceanic  crust 
exposed  at  the  Hess  Deep  Rift.  They 
traveled  on  the  R/V  Atlantis,  which  is 
owned  by  the  Navy  and  operated  by 
Woods  Hole  Oceanographic  Institution. 
Using  side-scanning  sonar,  ARGO  (a 
remotely  operated  vehicle)  and  ALVIN 
(a  three-person  submersible),  the  sci- 
entists on  the  expedition  (16 
researchers  from  almost  as  many  insti- 
tutions) studied  the  sea  floor  and  out- 
crops about  1.5  miles  below  the  water 
surface.  The  team  worked  for  one 
month,  made  15  ALVIN  dives,  and 
took  about  80,000  photographs  with 
ARGO. 

The  Hess  Deep  Rift  is  located  101 
degrees  west  and  2  degrees  north, 
which  is  almost  due  south  of  Mexico 
City.  It  marks  a  spot  where  four  tec- 
tonic plates,  the  Pacific,  Nazca,  Cocos, 
and  the  Galapagos,  interact.  The  tec- 
tonic activity  has  resulted  in  a  magnif- 
icent submarine  chasm,  providing 
great  views  of  oceanic  crustal  structure 
at  the  East  Pacific  rise.  The  area  is  not 
well  studied.  Two  other  expeditions  to 
the  area  logged  only  nine  dives.  Hurst 
was  on  a  1990  expedition  to  the  area. 
The  cruise  last  year  was  a  follow  up  to 
that  original  one  nine  years  ago. 

"It  is  really  special  to  be  an  under- 
graduate and  to  see  something  almost 
no  one  else  has  ever  seen,"  says 
Sutton.  "It  was  a  great  opportunity  for 
me  and  a  wonderful  addition  to  my 
undergraduate  career."  Sutton  put  up 
with  a  little  sea  sickness  (actually  five 
days;  three  solid  ones  in  bed!)  and 
chunky  milk  (when  it  thawed  out  the 
globs  of  fat  got  all  chunky),  but 


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beyond  that  the  experience  was  nirvana. 
"I  love  being  outside,  I  love  being  in  the 
field,"  says  Sutton. 

"Being  in  the  ALVIN  itself  is  a  little 
like  being  in  a  cave,  although  not  as 
scary,"  says  Sutton.  "You  have  to  shrink 
down  your  reality  and  create  a  really  small 
mental  world,  which  takes  some  mental 
agility.  Even  just  living  on  the  ship  for  one 
month  took  that  agility.  Ping  Pong  became 
very  important,"  Sutton  said. 

The  cruise  occurred  in  the  middle  of 
the  spring  semester,  forcing  Sutton  to  miss 
four  weeks  of  class  and  do  some  creative 
class  planning,  but  it  was  worth  it.  "Going 
to  sea  fundamentally  rearranges  your 
entire  view  of  the  universe,"  says  Sutton. 
"For  that  entire  month  the  ship  was  always 
moving,  it  made  me  feel  more  connected 
to  the  rest  of  the  world.  I  really  sensed  the 
passage  of  time." 

Sutton,  who  was  looking  for  a 
research  project  but  hadn't  settled  on  any 
particular  topic,  was  thrilled  with  her 
ALVIN  experience.  For  her  senior  thesis 
she  is  characterizing  the  uppermost  crust 
in  the  extrusive  section  to  understand  the 
geologic  processes  involved.  Much  of  her 


The  Hess  Deep  Rift 
marks  the  spot  where  four 
tectonic  plates  interact. 


work  will  be  based  on 
the  samples  collected 
and  outcrops  pho- 
tographed during  the 
expedition,  and  subse- 
quent image  processing 
primarily  involving  pho- 
tomosaicking. 
"Working  with  Steve  has 
been  great,"  says 
Sutton.  "He's  really 
smart  and  he  expects  a  lot  from  me, 
which  is  good.  It  really  pushes  me." 

Another  faculty  member  who 
has  received  kudos  from  his  under- 
graduate students  is  Jay  Bass. 
Supported  by  supplementary  grant 
money  from  the  National  Science 
Foundation's  Research  Experiences 
for  Undergraduates  Program,  Bass 
helped  several  undergraduates  over 
the  last  several  years  conduct  origi- 
nal research.  The  University  recog- 
nized his  efforts  recently  by  award- 
ing him  the  Campus  Award  for 
Excellence  in  Guiding 
Undergraduate  Research. 

Two  other  juniors  are  being 
supported  by  the  NSF's  Research 
Experience  for  Undergraduates 
Program  in  Professor  Wang-Ping 
Chen's  lab.  Frances  (Frannie) 
Skomurski  and  Laura  Swan  are 
helping  Chen  and  his  graduate  stu- 
dent, Mike  Brudzinski,  understand 
earthquakes  beneath  the  Himalayas 
and  the  Tonga-Fiji  islands. 


Undergraduate  activities 


LO 


Swan  is  looking  at  digital  data  col- 
lected over  the  past  20  years  regarding 
the  Himalayas  and  Tibet,  where  earth- 
quakes in  the  mantle  portion  of  the 
continental  lithosphere  were  discov- 
ered by  Chen  and  his  colleagues  in 
1979.  A  large  amount  of  high-resolu- 
tion, digital  data  collected  in  the  past 
two  decades  make  it  possible  to  carry 
out  a  systematic  study  of  these  puz- 
zling earthquakes.  Swan  is  looking  par- 
ticularly at  the  depth  at  which  the 
earthquakes  occur,  whether  they  are  in 
the  mantle  or  the  lower  crust,  for 
example.  "We  hope  these  results  will 
advance  our  understanding  of  how 
mountains  are  built  and  how  the 
Indian  craton  is  being  destroyed  in  the 
process,"  says  Chen. 

Skomurski  is  looking  at  outboard 
earthquakes,  a  unique  type  of  deep 
earthquake  west  of  the  Wadati-Benioff 
Zone  of  Tonga.  Subduction  along  the 
Tonga  Trench  is  exceedingly  fast  (more 
than  200  millimeters  per  year),  with 
some  of  the  oldest  and  coldest  slab 
going  down.  "Outboard  quakes  are 
fairly  rare,  they  don't  occur  at  every 
subduction  zone,"  says  Skomurski. 
Skomurski  modeled  the  rupture 
process  of  the  biggest  outboard  earth- 
quake to  date  using  waveform  inver- 
sion. She  successfully  modeled  two 
major  sub-events  with  changing  fault 
plane  solutions  (this  refers  to  a 
schematic  way  to  define  the  orientation 
of  a  fault),  as  well  as  a  precursor 
event.  The  results  showed  that  the  out- 
board earthquake  shared  characteris- 
tics with  deep  earthquakes,  such  as 
having  multiple  sub-events,  changing 
fault  plane  solutions,  relatively  fast 
rupture  speeds  (as  far  as  earthquake 
propagation  goes),  and  a  substantial 
source  volume. 

However,  outboard  earthquakes  do 
not  show  down-dip  compression, 
which  is  a  characteristic  of  the  Wadati- 
Benioff  Zone.  Instead,  there  seems  to 
be  a  pattern  among  the  outboard  earth- 
quakes that  gradually  changes  from 
north-south  compression  to  extension 


over  a  distance  of  several  hundred  kilo- 
meters. "This  suggests  that  we  may  be 
dealing  with  a  large  piece  of  coherent 
slab  material  that  is  experiencing 
deformation  on  a  regional  scale,"  says 
Skomurski. 

"I  was  looking  at  different  schools 
with  good  geology  programs  and  I 
knew  the  University  of  Illinois  had 
good  research  opportunities,"  says 
Skomurski  of  her  decision  to  come  to 
the  University.  "After  my  freshman 
year  I  talked  to  Mike  Brudzinski— he's 
the  best  teaching  assistant  ever— about 
the  chance  to  do  research.  A  week 
later  he  asked  me,  'how  do  you  feel 
about  earthquakes?'" 

Skomurski  signed  on  to  work  in 
Chen's  lab  and  hasn't  regretted  it  yet. 
"Both  Laura  and  I  have  had  lots  of 
one-on-one  contact  with  Mike  and 
Professor  Chen.  It's  really  cool,"  she 
says.  Skomurski  presented  her  work  at 
the  fall  annual  meeting  of  the 
American  Geophysical  Union  last 
December. 

"What  Frannie  and  Laura  is  doing 
is  quite  unusual,  very  high-level  stuff, 
the  real  deal,"  says  Brudzinski.  "They 
are  doing  graduate-level  work  that 
could  be  part  of  a  Ph.D.  project." 
Brudzinski  knows  high  quality:  He  was 
the  first  recipient  of  the  Texas- 
Louisiana  Fellowship  from  the  depart- 
ment in  recognition  for  his  outstanding 
achievements  as  a  graduate  student. 
Senior  Kristine  Mize  is  working 
with  assistant  professor  Bruce  Fouke  to 
understand  the  diagenesis  of 
Yellowstone  hardgrounds  and  the  sedi- 


Junior  Frannie  Skomurski  is  looking  at 
outboard  earthquakes  with  Professor 
Wang-Ping  Chen 

mentology  of  the  Chicxulub  impact  on 
the  Yucatan  Peninsula.  Fouke  also  has 
an  astrophysics  major  and  three  molec- 
ular biology  majors  doing  projects  in 
his  lab. 

In  addition  to  working  with  Fouke, 
Mize  has  done  two  internships  at  the 
Illinois  State  Geological  Society  (ISGS), 
during  which  she  has  helped  Hannes 
Leetaru  study  Benoist  sandstone  of 
south-central  Illinois.  Although  it  pro- 
duces oil,  the  Benoist  sandstone  has 
not  been  very  well  studied.  Mize  and 
Leetaru  are  working  on  a  regional  map 
of  the  area  that  will  help  fill  in  the  geo- 
logical framework  of  the  Illinois  Basin. 

"What  Frannie  and  Laura  is  doing  is  quite 
unusual,  very  high-level  stuff,  the  real 
deal,"  says  Brudzinski.  "They  are  doing 
graduate-level  work  that  could  be  part  of 
a  Ph.D.  project." 

Mize,  who  transferred  here  as  a 
junior,  spent  part  of  last  summer  work- 
ing with  Fouke  on  the  Yellowstone 
samples.  She  learned  about  using  the 
cathodoluminescence  petrography 
technique.  She  and  Fouke  found  an 
unusual  formation  of  travertine  that 
exhibits  a  bright  cathodoluminescent 
character.  However,  instead  of  being  a 
primary  precipitate  it  may  be  a  sec- 
ondary product  of  diagenetic  alteration. 
This  finding  is  important  for  under- 
standing how  the  hot  spring  water  cre- 
ates both  physical  and  chemical 
changes  in  the  travertine. 

This  spring  Mize  will  begin  help- 
ing Fouke  with  a  project  concerning 
the  giant  comet  or  asteroid  that  hit  the 
Yucatan  Peninsula  and  is  thought  to 
have  caused  the  extinction  of  the 
dinosaurs.  The  impact  left  a  crater  five 
miles  deep  and  250  miles  in  diameter. 
The  vapor  clouds  formed  on  impact 


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Undergraduate  Activities 


were  very  hot  and  full  of  water  and 
gas.  As  they  cooled,  particles  stuck  to 
the  water  droplets  in  the  atmosphere 
and  formed  marble-sized  pebbles, 
known  as  lapilli.  These  pebbles  are 
one  of  the  few  pieces  of  direct  evi- 
dence of  what  happened  in  the  atmos- 
phere following  the  meteorite's  impact. 
(For  more  on  Fouke's  research,  see  the 
Spring  1998  issue  of  Geosciences) .  Mize 
is  working  with  Fouke  to  get  a  better 
understanding  of  the  geological 
processes  involved  in  that  event. 

"This  research  has  given  me  a 
sense  of  what  I  want  to  do  in  the 
future,"  says  Mize,  who  has  been  inter- 
ested in  geology  since  the  beginning  of 
high  school.  "It  makes  me  feel  more 
involved  in  what  1  want  to  do  as 
opposed  to  just  going  to  classes.  And 
Bruce  is  really  dedicated  to  his  stu- 
dents and  to  his  research  at  the  same 
time.  He  is  a  really  good  motivator. " 

Susan  Riggins  is  another  under- 
graduate who  has  gained  research 
experience  at  the  ISGS.  Riggins  is 
working  with  Drew  Phillips  of  the  ISGS 
and  Associate  Professor  Steve  Altaner. 
Her  project  is  being  supported  by  a 
Special  Undergraduate  Research 
Experience  grant  from  the 
Environmental  Council,  a  campus 
group  of  12  faculty  from  a  cross-sec- 
tion of  the  sciences  that  works  to  pro- 
mote an  interdisciplinary  approach  to 
all  scientific  research.  Riggins'  senior 
thesis  concerns  the  vertical  fades 
changes  in  the  sediments  of  the 
American  Bottoms  Floodplain.  Her 
core  sample  is  from  St.  Clair  County  in 
Illinois.  By  studying  the  vertical  fades 
Riggins  hopes  to  uncover  potentially 
significant  horizontal  heterogeneities. 
"I'd  like  to  both  determine  how  this 
region  was  formed  and  understand 
what  that  implies  for  groundwater  flow 
and  possible  remediation  efforts,"  says 
Riggins  of  her  project. 


Rocks  Are  More  Interesting 
Than  People  Think... 


Just  about  any  time 
of  day  a  visitor  wander- 
ing into  the  geology 
department  lunch  room 
will  find  a  conglomerate 
of  geology  students  hang- 
ing out,  doing  home- 
work, or  chatting  over  a 
snack  or  cup  of  coffee. 
Geology  undergraduates, 
of  which  there  are  about 
50,  are  a  tight-knit  group. 

"There  is  a  core  of 
undergraduates  that  hang 
out  together,"  says  junior 
Anna  Sutton.  "Field  trips 
more  than  any  other  activi 
ty  brings  us  together." 

Most  geology  majors 
share  an  interest  in  the  out- 
doors and  the  environment  and  bond 
over  field  trip  experiences  and  long 
hours  spent  in  lab  together. 

"Among  geology  majors,  there's 
an  understanding  that  we  share  the 
same  interest,  we're  all  excited  about 
rocks  (which  makes  other  people 
look  at  us  funny),  and  we  share 
respect  for  the  earth  and  wanting  to 
be  part  of  it,"  says  sophomore  Laura 
Swan. 

Sutton  agrees,  "Rocks  are  more 
interesting  than  most  people  think. 
They  tell  stories,  you  just  gotta  learn 
to  listen." 

"All  the  geologists  I  came  in  con- 
tact with  were  really  neat,  and  I  liked 
the  idea  of  being  a  geologist."  adds 
sophomore  Frances  Skomurski.  "I've 
been  interested  in  dinosaurs  since 
kindergarten,  and  once  I  got  into 
junior  high  school  I  became  very 
interested  in  environmental  issues.  I 
want  to  use  geology  as  a  tool  within 
the  environmental  field." 


Junior  Laura  Swan  is  working 
with  Professor  Wang-Ping 
Chen  to  understand  earth- 
quakes in  the  mantle  and 
how  they  might  contribute 
to  mountain  building. 


Swan's  interest  in 
geology  was  encour- 
aged by  her  family 
trips  out  west,  mainly 
to  national  parks.  "I 
thought  the  geology 
of  those  areas  was 
really  cool." 
Likewise,  senior 
Kristine  Mize  knew 
she  was  interested  in 
being  a  geologist  in 
part  because  of  her 
travels  and  her  inter- 
est in  rock  collecting. 
"We'd  go  on  family 
trips  and  I  always 
enjoyed  learning 
about  the  formations 
we  were  seeing,"  she 
said.  "Then  I  realized,  hey!  I  can  do 
this  for  a  living!" 

Another  thing  that  appeals  to 
many  majors  is  the  one-on-one  inter- 
actions they  get  from  faculty  and 
graduate  students.  Many  point  to 
those  experiences  being  the  best  part 
of  their  University  of  Illinois  educa- 
tion. 

Skomurski,  for  example,  says 
she  has  gotten  enormous  amounts  of 
help  and  guidance  from  both  her 
advisor,  Wang-Ping  Chen,  and  grad- 
uate student  Mike  Brudzinski,  who 
also  is  in  Chen's  lab. 

Sutton  points  out  that  the  rela- 
tionships geology  students  have  with 
their  professors  is  very  different  from 
that  in  other  departments.  "After  12 
hours  of  hard  work  in  the  field,  you 
put  up  tents,  start  fire  and  drink 
beer.  It's  time  to  relax.  This  is  when 
you  see  another  side  of  your  profes- 
sors. That's  not  true  of  other  depart- 
ments." 


II 


Undergraduate  Activities 


Field  Camp — the  Tradition  Continues 


Most  pre-1988  alumni  fondly 
remember  the  Geology  Department's 
field  camp  based  in  Sheridan, 
Wyoming,  which  operated  from 
1955-1988.  Beginning  in  1989,  the 
department  switched  the  camp's 
venue,  and  joined  forces  with  four 
other  schools  to  operate  the  Wasatch- 
Uinta  Field  Camp,  based  in  Park  City, 
Utah.  Our  colleagues  in  the  camp 
include  the  University  of  Iowa,  the 
University  of  Wisconsin,  Michigan 
State  University,  and  the  University  of 
Minnesota,  Duluth.  The  1999  summer 
field  camp  session  marked  the  10th 
anniversary  of  Illinois'  participation  in 
the  Wasatch-Uinta  Camp. 

"Although  there  was  a  huge  affec- 
tion for  the  Sheridan  field  camp,  the 
expense  of  such  a  solo  operation 
required  us  to  find  an  alternative," 
says  Department  Head  Steve  Marshak. 
"Fortunately,  the  tradition  of  excellent 
field  camp  experiences  continues  with 
the  Wasatch-Uinta  camp." 

In  spite  of  the  location  change,  the 
key  essentials  of  field  camp  remain  the 
same — students  work  exceedingly 
hard,  learn  a  heck  of  a  lot,  and  devel- 
op lifetime  friendships.  Today's  camp 
still  focuses  on  the  basics.  Students 


Taking  a  dip  in  the  Great  Salt  Lake. 


learn  how  to  interpret  field  relations, 
how  to  do  geologic  mapping,  how  to 
take  field  notes  and  make  field 
descriptions,  and  how  to  construct 
cross  sections  and  stratigraphic 
columns.  On  a  typical  day,  everyone 
heads  to  the  field  by  7:30  a.m.  and 
maps  until  5  p.m.  After  dinner,  stu- 


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If  you're  visiting  Sheridan,  Wyoming, 
in  the  near  future,  take  a  close  look  at 
the  new  Grinnell  Street  Mall.  One  of 
the  bricks  in  the  Mall  pavement  com- 
memorates the  University  of  Illinois 
Geology  Field  camp,  which  was 
based  in  Sheridan  from  1955  through 
1988.  Norb  Cygan  (B.S.  '54,  M.S.  '56, 
Ph.D.  '62)  spearheaded  the  effort  to 
buy  and  inscribe  the  brick.  In  addition 
to  his  long  affiliation  as  a  student  in 
the  geology  department,  Cygan 
taught  at  the  field  camp  between  1955 
and  1969.  Thanks,  Norb! 


dents  draw  their  office  copies  of  maps 
and  prepare  geologic  histories.  And 
the  obstacles— rattlesnakes,  cow  dung, 
cliffs,  and  cactus — still  add  excitement 
to  every  traverse.  Some  exercises  cover 
hot  terrain  in  desert-like  conditions, 
while  others  involve  taking  students  to 
10,000-foot-high  ridges,  well  above 
tree  line.  During  the  July  4  weekend, 
the  camp  takes  a  four-day  regional  trip 
up  to  the  Grand  Tetons.  Not  surpris- 
ingly, students  still  think  of  field  camp 
as  being  a  highlight  of  their  college 
experience.  They  metamorphose  from 
being  geology  students  into  being 
geologists. 

At  Park  City,  students  stay  at  the 
Chateau  Apres,  a  ski  lodge  that 
becomes  a  dorm  in  the  summer.  The 
students  sleep  three  to  a  room,  and  eat 
cafeteria  style  in  the  lodge's  dining 


A  textbook  example  of  a  box  fold  near 
the  crest  of  Bountiful  Peak,  Utah. 


Undergraduate  activities 


room.  Accommodations  aren't  posh, 
but  Park  City  is  a  fun  place  to  be.  A 
boom  of  building  in  anticipation  of  the 
Winter  Olympics  provide  many  places 
to  visit  on  a  Saturday  night,  and  the 
scenery  in  the  surrounding  mountains 
is  a  marvel. 

One  bonus  with  the  Park  City  pro- 
gram is  that  Illinois  geology  students 
get  to  meet  many  students  from  other 
geology  programs — the  Wasatch-Uinta 
camp  has  had  between  55  and  85  stu- 
dents per  year.  The  mix  lets  some  stu- 
dents build  professional  relationships 
that  will  last  their  entire  career.  In 
addition,  students  have  a  chance  to 
meet  a  broad  selection  of  faculty  and 
ideas. 

"One  of  the  things  I  liked  best 
about  field  camp  is  that  you  meet  all 
sorts  of  people,"  says  graduate  student 
Judd  Tudor.  Tudor  attended  field  camp 
as  an  undergraduate  and  served  as 


The  view  from  Bountiful  Peak. 


teaching  assistant  for  two  years. 
"When  you  see  someone  you  first 
knew  from  field  camp  there  is  a  very 
intense  bond.  It  was  great  to  see  field 
camp  friends  at  a  GSA  meeting.  Some 
of  my  best  memories  of  college  come 
from  field  camp,"  says  Tudor. 

Though  field  camp  is  a  great 
experience,  it  can  be  expensive  for  the 
students.  Recognizing  this,  Ed  Franklin 
(B.S.  '56)  established  a  generous 
endowment  which  will  provide  schol- 
arships to  help  students  defray  the 
cost  of  the  camp.  Other  GeoThrust 
funds  also  are  used  to  help  students 
out.  The  start  of  field  camp  can  also 


Left:  The  University  of  Illinois  contingent 
takes  a  break  for  a  photo  shoot. 

Right:  Judd  Tudor  climbing  the  Frontier 
Formation  at  Chalk  Creek,  Utah. 


be  a  bit  intimidating  to  students.  To 
help  remedy  this  problem,  Marshak 
created  a  new  class,  called  Review  of 
Field  Techniques  (Geology  397),  to 
help  students  get  ready  for  field  camp. 
In  the  class,  students  get  practice  with 
compass  use,  rock  description,  and 
map  interpretation.  They  also  discuss 
pointers  about  mapping  techniques. 


13 


Windows  into  the  Past 


Geology  in  the  Early  Years  of 
The  University  of  Illinois 


by  Ralph  Langenheim 

Although  it  was  not  an  indepen- 
dent department  at  the  start,  geology 
was  part  of  the  University  curriculum 
from  its  very  founding  in  1868.  During 
the  very  first  year  of  the  "Illinois 
Industrial"  University's  existence,  the 
Department  of  Science,  Literature  and 
the  Arts  taught  mineralogy,  and  by  the 
second  year,  the  "Natural  History 
Curriculum"  included  several  geology 
courses  (e.g.  Principles  of  Geology; 
Lithological  Geology;  Paleontology, 
Historical  and  Dynamical  Geology,  and 
Geology  of  Illinois).  By  1872  the 
University  had  been  divided  into  four 
colleges;  Agriculture,  Engineering, 
Natural  Science,  and  Literature  and 
Science.  Each  college  was  subdivided 
into  schools.  Most  geology  courses 
were  administered  by  the  School  of 
Natural  History,  but  mineralogy  was 
offered  by  the  School  of  Chemistry 
(both  schools  were  part  of  the  College 
of  Natural  Science). 

Don  Carlos  Taft,  the  first  official 
geology  professor,  was  hired  in  1870  as 
Professor  of  Zoology  and  Geology  in 
the  College  of  Natural  History.  Since 
geology  was  taught  only  to  third-  and 
fourth-year  students,  the  first  classes 
would  have  been  taught  in  1870-71. 
Because  these  early  years  were  a  time 
of  flux,  we  have  three  choices  of  birth- 
dates  of  geology  at  Illinois.  It  could  be 
argued  that  the  first  year,  1868-69,  was 
the  beginning  but  that  might  better  be 
thought  of  as  the  conception.  The  next 
year,  1869-70,  with  Taft  in  residence 
but  no  courses  being  taught,  might  be 
thought  of  as  gestation.  1870-71,  when 
the  first  classes  were  taught,  was  the 
birth  year  of  geology. 


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Taft  was  a  colorful,  independent- 
minded  eccentric.  As  a  young  man,  he 
suddenly  decided  that  he  had  to  make 
something  of  himself.  He  worked  his 
way  through  Amherst  College  and 
Union  Theological  seminary,  and  upon 
graduation,  became  a  Congregational 
minister  and  teacher  in  an  academy  at 
Elmwood,  Illinois.  Soon  his  sermons 
proved  too  liberal  for  the  church  and 


Taft,  for  example,  was  found  with  his 
pants  rolled  up  and  mopping  the  floor 
in  his  laboratory  when  the  Regent 
brought  a  new  Trustee  around  to  intro- 
duce the  staff  (Solberg,  1968). 


he  was  reduced  to  teaching  geology  in 
the  local  high  school.  Taft  was  brought 
to  Illinois  by  Regent  John  Gregory.  He 
quickly  established  a  reputation  as  a 
good  teacher  and  gained  popularity 
with  the  students.  Taft  was  well  known 


Don  Carlos  Taft,  the  first  professor  of 
geology  at  the  University,  was  an  eccen- 
tric and  colorful  character  in  the  history 
of  the  department. 


for  entertaining  students  in  his  home 
and  for  his  determinedly  unkempt  con- 
dition. He  took  so  much  pride  in  pay- 
ing little  attention  to  clothing  and 
grooming,  that  students  nicknamed 
him  the  "great  uncombed." 

Regent  Gregory  was  eventually 
forced  to  resign,  in  large  part  because 
of  his  lenient  administrative  style.  His 
replacement,  Selim  Peabody,  was  a 
stern  disciplinarian  with  higher  acade- 
mic expectations.  Peabody  called  on 
the  Board  of  Trustees  to  evaluate  the 
geology  program  and,  after  the  report 
was  in,  Taft  was  granted  a  leave  of 
absence  to  visit  England  and  his  chair 
was  declared  vacant.  Taft  claims  that 
he  resigned  to  save  Peabody  embar- 
rassment over  his  (Taft's)  eccentricities. 
Taft,  for  example,  was  found  with  his 
pants  rolled  up  and  mopping  the  floor 
in  his  laboratory  when  the  Regent 
brought  a  new  Trustee  around  to  intro- 
duce the  staff  (Solberg,  1968).  A  direc- 
tory published  after  Taft  resigned  stat- 
ed that  he  had  left  the  University  to 
join  a  religious  community  in  Kansas 
where  he  was  training  to  become  a 
missionary  to  Africa.  However,  a  note 
in  the  University  archives  from  Taft's 
son,  Lorado  (creator  of  the  "Alma 
Mater"  statue  among  other  works  of 
art) ,  states  instead  that  Taft  had 
become  a  banker  in  Kansas. 

Interestingly,  John  Wesley  Powell, 
the  famous  one-armed  explorer  who 


Professor  Emeritus  Don  Henderson 
("Hendy")  adds  this  contribution: 
Geology  was  first  organized  as  a 
department  in  1919  and  stayed  that 
way  up  to  1934.  At  that  point  it  was 
combined  with  geography  to  become 
the  Department  of  Geology  and 
Geography.  This  arrangement  lasted 
until  1947,  when  Geology  was  once 
again  made  a  separate  department. 


was  the  first  to  lead  an  expedition 
through  the  Grand  Canyon,  almost 
joined  the  University  as  its  first  geol- 
ogy professor.  Powell  had  solicited 
the  Illinois  Industrial  University  in 
1867  for  $500  in  return  for  speci- 
mens from  his  forthcoming  scientific 
expedition  to  the  Rockies.  One  bene- 
fit of  the  association  with  Powell  is 
that  J.T.  Burrill,  of  Burrill  Hall  fame, 
accompanied  Powell  on  this  expedi- 
tion, collecting  plants  that  became 
the  beginning  of  the  University 
herbarium.  Then,  in  March,  1868, 
the  Board  of  Trustees  unanimously 
elected  Powell  to  the  professorship  of 
Natural  History,  "his  term  of  service 
to  commence  at  such  time  as  may  be 
agreed  upon  between  himself  and 
the  Committee  on  Faculty  and 
Courses  of  Study."  (111.  Indust.  Univ., 


1st  Ann.  Rep.  Trustees,  1867-68,  p. 
127).  Powell's  salary  was  set  at  $600 
and,  at  his  own  request,  he  was  sent  to 
conduct  his  second  expedition  to  the 
Grand  Canyon,  on  the  understanding 
that  he  would  be  representing  Illinois 
Industrial  University.  However,  on  his 
return  from  his  first  Colorado  River 
expedition  (March  1869)  Powell 
resigned  his  professorship  ...  never 
having  taught  a  course.  Powell  went 
off  to  fame  and  glory,  shaping  the 
USGS  into  a  premier  research  organiza- 
tion, and  serving  as  director  of  the 
Bureau  of  Ethnology,  leaving  geology 
at  Illinois  Industrial  University  to  fend 
for  itself.  We  can  only  wonder  what 
might  have  happened  had  Powell's 
energy  and  guile  been  devoted  to  the 
cause  of  geology  at  Illinois. 


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Annual  Report  for  1999 


Faculty 

Stephen  P.  Altaner,  associate  Professor 
Thomas  F.  Anderson,  professor;  Emeritus  as  of 

January,  2000 
Jay  D.  Bass,  professor 
Craig  M.  Bethke,  professor 
Daniel  B.  Blake,  professor 
Chu-Yung  Chen,  associate  professor 
Wang-Ping  Chen,  professor 
Bruce  W.  Fouke,  assistant  Professor 
Albert  T.  Hsui,  professor 
Thomas  M.  Johnson,  assistant  professor 
R.  James  Kirkpatrik,  professor  and  executive 

associate  dean 
Craig  C.  Lundstrom,  assistant  professor 
Stephen  Marshak  ,  professor  and  head 
Alberto  S.  Nieto,  professor 
Xiaodong  Song,  assistant  professor 

Visiting  Faculty 

Spencer  Cotkin,  visiting  assistant  professor 
Michael  J.  Handke,  visiting  assistant  professor 
Laura  Wasylenki,  visiting  assistant  professor 
John  Werner,  visiting  assistant  professor 

Academic  Staff,  Post-Docs, 
Visiting  Scholars 

Debby  Aronson,  yearbook  editor 
George  Bonheyo,  post-doctoral  researcher 
David  Finkelstein,  visiting  teaching  lab  specialist 
Richard  Hedin,  research  programmer 
Mitchell  Herbel,  post-doctoral  researcher 
Eileen  Herrstrom,  teaching  lab  specialist 
Stephen  Hurst,  research  programmer 
Andrey  Kalinichev,  visiting  scholar 
Lalita  Kalita,  research  programmer 
Alexander  Kisliuk,  post-doctoral  researcher 
Ann  Long,  visiting  teaching  lab  specialist 
Peter  MichaJove,  assistant  to  the  head 
Jieyuan  Ning,  visiting  scholar 
Dawn  Sandone,  program  coordinator 
Stanislav  Sinogeikin,  visiting  scholar 
Frank  Schilling,  visiting  scholar 
Ester  Soriano,  research  programmer 
Melinda  Tidrick,  visiting  teaching  lab  specialist 
Tiffany  Tsou,  resource  and  policy  analyst 
Raj  Vanka,  resource  and  policy  analyst 
Alan  Whittington,  post-doctoral  researcher 

Emeritus  Faculty 

David  E.  Anderson 
Albert  V.  Carozzi 
Carleton  A.  Chapman 
Donald  L.  Graf 
Arthur  F.  Hagner 
Richard  L.  Hay 
Donald  M.  Henderson 
George  deV.  Klein 
Ralph  L.  Langenheim 
C.  John  Mann 
Philip  A.  Sandberg 


Adjunct  Faculty 

Keros  Cartwright 
Heinz  H.  Damberger 
Leon  R.  Follmer 
Feng  Sheng  Hu 
Dennis  Kolata 
Morris  W  Leighton 
John  McBride 
William  Shilts 
M.  Scott  Wilkerson 

Library  Staff 

Sheila  McGowan  ,  chief  library  clerk 

Lois  Pausch  ,  librarian 

Diana  Walter ,  library  technical  specialist 

Staff 

Barbara  Elmore,  staff  secretary 

Eddie  Lane,  electronics  engineering  assistant 

Brenda  Polk,  chief  clerk 

Pamela  Rank,  account  technician  II 

Sue  Standifer,  clerk  II 

Graduate  Students 

Oswaldo  Araujo 
Michael  Brudzinski 
Dylan  Canavan 
Andre  Ellis 
Stephanie  Gillain 
Keith  Hackley 
Yoshie  Hagiwara 
Michael  Harrison 
Roberto  Hernandez 
Xiaoqiang  Hou 
Qusheng  Jin 
Dmitry  Lakshtanov 
Serena  Lee 
Christopher  Mah 
Peter  Malecki 
Christopher  McGarry 
Jungho  Park 
George  Roadcap 
Joseph  Schoen 
Jian  Tian 
Judd  Tudor 
Richard  Wachtman 
Matthew  Wander 
Jianwei  Wang 
Matthew  Woltman 
Aubrey  Zerkle 
Limei  Zhou 


Courses  Taught  in  1999 


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Geol  100 

Planet  Earth 

Geol  101 

Introduction  to  Physical 

Geology 

Geol  104 

Geology  of  the  National  Parks 

and  Monuments 

Geol  107 

General  Geology  1 

Geol  108 

General  Geology  II 

Geol  110 

Planet  Earth  —  Lab/Field 

Geol  111 

The  Dynamic  Earth  (Honors) 

Geol  116 

Geology  of  the  Planets 

Geol  117 

The  Oceans 

Geol  118 

Earth  and  the  Environment 

Geol  143 

History  of  Life 

Geol  250 

Geology  for  Engineers 

Geol  301 

Geomorphology 

Geol  311 

Structural  Geology  and 

Tectonics 

Geol  315 

Field  Geology  (field  trip  to  the 

Rio  Grande  Rift) 

Geol  317 

Geologic  Field  Methods, 

Western  United  States  (Field 

Camp) 

Geol  320 

Introduction  to  Paleontology 

Geol  332 

Mineralogy  and  Mineral  Optics 

Geol  336 

Petrology  and  Petrography 

Geol  340 

Sedimentology  and  Stratigraphy 

Geol  350 

Introduction  to  Geophysics 

Geol  351 

Geophysical  Methods  for 

Geology,  Engineering,  and 

Environmental  Sciences 

Geol  352 

Physics  of  the  Earth 

Geol  360 

Geochemistry 

Geol  370 

Oceanography 

Geol  380 

Current  Problems  in 

Environmental  Geology 

Geol  397 

Field  Methods  in  Geological, 

Geotechnical,  and 

Geoenvironmental  Exploration 

Geol  401 

Physical  Geochemistry  I 

Geol  415 

Advanced  Field  Geology 

Geol  432 

Sedimentary  Geochemistry 

Geol  433 

Isotope  Geology 

Geol  450 

Principles  of  Engineering 

Geology 

Geol  451 

Practice  of  Engineering  Geology 

Geol  489 

Geotectonics 

Geol  493A1 

Graduate  Student  Seminar 

Geol  493E4 

Biomineralogy 

Geol  493K2 

Geodynamics 

Geol  493Q1 

Recent  Developments  in  Thrust 

Tectonics 

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Research  Grants  Active  in  1999 


AMERICAN  CHEMICAL  SOCIETY 
PETROLEUM  RESEARCH  FUND 

A  Time-Series  Process  Model  Of  Carbonate 
Diagenesis  And  Microbial  Genetic 
Preservation  In  Hot  Spring  Travertine, 
Yellowstone  National  Park,  Wyoming,  And 
Gardiner,  Montana. 
Principal  Investigator:  Bruce  Fouke 

Origin,  Architecture,  &  Thermal  State  of  the 
Lackawanna  Syncline,  Pennsylvania. 
Principal  Investigator:  Stephen  Marshak 

CENTER  FOR  ADVANCED  CEMENT-BASED 
MATERIALS 

NMR  And  MD  Investigations  of  Chloride 
Sorption  and  Transport  in  Portland  Cement 
Systems. 
Principal  Investigator:  R.  James  Kirkpatrick. 

DEPARTMENT  OF  ENERGY 

Molecular  Dynamics  Modeling  of  Sorption  on 
Mineral  Surfaces. 
Principal  Investigator:  R.  James  Kirkpatrick. 

MD  Modeling  of  the  Thermodynamics  and 
Material  Properties  of  Water-Carbon 
Dioxide  Fluids  at  High  Pressures  and 
Temperatures. 
Principal  Investigator:  R.  James  Kirkpatrick. 

WILLIAM  AND  FLORA  HEWLETT 
FOUNDATION 

Collaborative  Research:  Imaging  Seismic 
Structures  of  the  Crust  and  Upper  Mantle 
Beneath  China. 
Principal  Investigator:  Xiaodong  Song. 

ILLINOIS  COUNCIL  ON  FOOD  AND 
AGRICULTURAL  RESEARCH 

Estimation  of  Dentrification  Rates  in  the 
Shallow  Groundwater  Flow  Systems  of  Big 
Ditch  Watershed,  Illinois  -  Isotope 
Assessment. 
Principal  Investigator:  Tom  Johnson 

INSTITUTE  OF  GEOPHYSICS  AND 
PLANETARY  PHYSICS,  LOS  ALAMOS 

Timescales  of  Crustal  Level  Differentiation:  U- 
Series  Measurements  and  Geophysical 
Monitoring  at  Arenal  Volcano,  Costa  Rica. 
Principal  Investigator:  Craig  Lundstrom. 

NASA 

Core  Angular  Momentum  and  the 
International  Earth  Rotation  Service 
Coordination  Center/  Sub-Centers  Activity 
for  Monitoring  Global  Geophysical  Fluids. 
Principal  Investigator:  Xiaodong  Song. 


JET  PROPULSION  LABORATORY 

Geochemistry  of  Carbonate  Ejecta  from  the 
Cretaceous-Tertiary  Chicxulub  Impact 
Crater. 
Principal  Investigator:  Bruce  Fouke. 

NATIONAL  SCIENCE  FOUNDATION 

Transport  of  the  Isotopes  "He,  36C1,  And  40Ar, 
and  the  Relationship  of  the  Distribution  of 
these  Isotopes  to  Groundwater  Age. 
Principal  Investigator:  Craig  Bethke. 

Seismic  Reflection  Profiles  in  Southern  Illinois 
(funded  through  the  Mid-America 
Earthquake  Research  Center). 
Principal  Investigators:  John  McBride, 
Stephen  Marshak,  and  Wang-Ping  Chen. 

A  Seismic  Study  of  the  Mantle  Transition 
Zone  and  Subducted  Lithosphere. 
Principal  Investigator:  Wang  Ping  Chen. 

Characterization  of  Seismic  Sources  in  and 
Around  the  New  Madrid  Seismic  Zone 
(funded  through  the  Mid-America 
Earthquake  Research  Center). 
Principal  Investigators:  Wang-Ping  Chen 
and  John  McBride. 

Tectonics  of  the  AraAuai/Ribeira  Orogenic 
Tongue  of  Southeastern  Brazil  and  its 
Significance  to  the  Assembly  of  West 
Gondwana. 
Principal  Investigator:  Stephen  Marshak 

Selenium  Stable  Isotopes  as  Indicators  of 
Selenium  Transport. 
Principal  Investigator:  Tom  Johnson 

Constraining  the  Structure  and  Rotation  of  the 
Inner  Core. 
Principal  Investigator:  Xiaodong  Song 

Windows  into  MORB  Petrogenesis:  Measuring 
U-series  Disequilibria  in  MORB  From 
Transforms. 
Principal  Investigator:  Craig  Lundstrom 

Proximal  Carbonate  Ejecta  and  Breccias  from 
the  Cretaceous-Tertiary  Chicxulub  Impact: 
Ballistic  Sedimentation  and  Brecciation, 
87Sr/86Sr  Chronology  and  Diagenetic 
Alteration. 
Principal  Investigator:  Bruce  Fouke 

The  Asteroid  (Echinodermata)Trichasteropsis 
from  the  Triassic  of  Germany:  Its 
Taxonomy,  Phylogeny  and  Paleoecologic 
Significance. 
Principal  Investigator:  Daniel  B.  Blake 

Paleoecological  Setting  of  Eocene 

Echinoderms  at  Seymour  Island,  Antarctic 

Peninsula. 

Principal  Investigator:  Daniel  B.  Blake 


Elasticity  of  Mantel  Minerals  Under  High 
Pressures  and  Temperatures. 
Principal  Investigator:  Jay  Bass 

Poiyamorphism  and  Structural  Transitions 
During  Glass  Formation. 
Principal  Investigators:  Jay  Bass  and  Jay 
Kieffer 

Experimental  NMR  and  MD  Investigations  of 
the  Structure  and  Dynamics  of  Anionic 
Species  in  and  Sorbed  onto  Mixed-Metal 
Layered  Hydroxides. 
Principal  Investigator:  R.  James  Kirkpatrick 

U.S.  GEOLOGICAL  SURVEY 

Mapping  of  the  Pittston  7.5"  Quadrangle, 
Pennsylvania. 
Principal  Investigator:  Stephen  Marshak 

UNIVERSITY  OF  ILLINOIS  CRITICAL 
RESEARCH  INITIATIVE 

Geological,  Microbiological,  and  Biochemical 
Mechanisms  of  Microbial  Fossilization:  A 
Template  for  Interpreting  the  History  of 
Life. 

Principal  Investigators:  Bruce  Fouke,  A. A. 
Salyers,  J.  Sweedler. 

UNIVERSITY  OF  ILLINOIS  FACULTY 
FELLOWSHIP 

Imaging  the  Earth's  Converging  Tectonic 
Plates 

Principal  Investigators:  Wang  Ping  Chen 
and  Ulrich  Kruse 

UNIVERSITY  OF  ILLINOIS  RESEARCH 
BOARD 

Simulation  of  Mantle  Dynamics:  To  Simulate 
Mantle  Flows  to  Understand  the  Deep 
Interior  of  the  Earth  as  Revealed  by 
Seismic  Tomography. 
Principal  Investigator:  Albert  T.  Hsui 

Acquisition  of  a  Single  Collector  Thermal 
Ionization  Mass  Spectrometer. 
Principal  Investigator:  Craig  Lundstrom. 


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List  of  Publications  for  1999 


This  list  includes  only  peer-reviewed  articles, 
chapters,  or  books. 

Jackson,  J.M.,  Stanislav,  S.V.,  and  Bass,  J.D., 
1999,  Elasticity  of  MgSi03  orthoenstatite: 
American  Mineralogist,  84:  677-680. 

Blake,  D.B.,  Hagdorn,  H.,  and  Tinitori,  A., 
1999,  Echinoderm  taphonomy  of  the 
Zorzino  Limestone  (Norian,  Late  Triassic), 
p.  35-38.  In:  S.  Renesto  (ed.).  Third 
International  Symposium  on  Lithographic 
Limestones,  Bergamo,  Italy.  Rivi  sta  del 
Museuo  Civico  di  Scienze  Naturali  20 
(supplement),  136  p. 

Finkelstein,  D.B.,  Hay,  R.L.,  and  Altaner,  S.P., 
1999,  Origin  and  diagenesis  of  lacustrine 
sediments  of  the  Oligocene  Creede 
Formation,  southwestern  Colorado: 
Geological  Society  of  America  Bulletin,  111: 
1175-1191. 

Sinogeikin,  S.V.  and  Bass,  J.D.,  1999,  Single- 
crystal  elasticity  of  MgO  at  high  pressure: 
Physical  Review  B  59:  14141-14144. 

Bethke.  CM.,  Zhao,  X.,  and  Torgersen,  T., 
1999,  Groundwater  flow  and  the  4He  distri- 
bution in  the  Great  Artesian  Basin  of 
Australia:  J.  of  Geophys.  Research,  104: 
12,999-13,011. 

Sinogeikin,  S.V.,  and  Bass,  J.D.,  1999, 
Elasticity  of  chondrodite  and  implications 
for  water  in  the  Earth's  mantle:  Phys. 
Chem.  Minerals,  26:  297-303. 

Webster,  G.D.,  Hafley,  D.J.,  Blake,  D.B.,  and 
Glass,  A.,  1999,  Crinoids  and  stelleroids 
(Echinodermata)  from  the  Broken  Rib 
Member,  Dyer  Formation  (Late  Devonian, 
Famennian)  of  the  White  River  Plateau, 
Colorado:  J.  of  Paleontology,  73:  461-486. 

Bethke,  CM.,  van  der  Lee,  J.,   and  Schmitt, 
J.-M.,  1999,  The  chemistry  beneath  our 
feet:  Modeling  reacting  flow  in  the  Earth's 
crust.  In:  C.  Jablon,  ed.,  Scientific  Bridges 
for  2000  and  Beyond,  Academie  des 
Sciences,  Paris,  1-11. 

Chen,  W.-P,  Chen,  C.-Y.,  and  Nabelek,  J.L., 
1999,  Present-day  deformation  of  the 
Qaidam  basin  with  implications  for  intra- 
continental  tectonics:  Tectonophysics,  305: 

165-181. 

Nowack,  R.  L.,  Ay,  E.,  Chen,  W.-P.,  and 
Huang,  B.-S.A.,  1999,  Seismic  profile  of  the 
upper  mantle  along  the  southwestern  edge 
of  the  Philippine  Sea  plate  using  short- 
period  array  data:  Geophys.  J.  Int., 
136:  171-179. 


Ozalaybey,  S.,  and  Chen,  W.-P.,  1999, 

Frequency-dependent  analysis  of  SKS/SKKS 
waveforms  observed  in  Australia:  Evidence 
for  null  birefringence:  Phys.  Earth  Planet. 
Interior,  114:  197-210. 

Nowack,  R.  L.,  and  Chen,  W.-P.,  1999,  Source- 
receiver  reciprocity  and  empirical  Green's 
functions  from  chemical  blasts:  Bull. 
Seismol.  Soc.  Am.,  89:  538-543. 

Jackson,  J.M.,  Sinogeikin,   S.  V.,  and  Bass, 
J.D.,  1999,  Elasticity  of  orthoenstatite:  Am. 
Mineralogist,  84:  677-680. 

Toohill,  K.,  Siegesmund,  S.,  and  Bass,  J.D., 
1999,  Elasticity  of  cordierite  and  implica- 
tions for  lower  crustal  seismic  anisotropy: 
Phys.  Chem.  Minerals.,  26:  333-343. 

Johnson,  T.M.,  Herbel,  M.J.,  Bullen,  T.D.,  and 
Zawislanski,  P.T.,  1999,  Selenium  isotope 
ratios  as  indicators  of  selenium  sources  and 
oxyanion  reduction:  Geochimica  et 
Cosmochimica  Acta,  63:  2775-2784. 

Macedo,  J.,  and  Marshak,  S.,  1999,  The  geom- 
etry of  fold-thrust  belt  salients:  Geol.  Soc.  of 
America  Bulletin,  111:  1808-1822. 

Kriven,  W.M.,  Palko,  J.W.,  Sinogeikin.  S.,  Bass, 
J.D.,  Sayir,  A.,  Brunaer,  C,  Boysen,   H., 
Frey,   F.,  and  Schneider,  J.,  1999,  High  tem- 
perature single  crystal  properties  of  mullite: 
J.  European  Cer.  Soc,  19:  2529-2541. 

Yu,  P.,  Kirkpatrick,  R.J.,  Poe,  B.,  McMillan,  P., 
and  Cong,  X.-D.,  1999,  Structure  of  calcium 
silicate  hydrate  (C-S-H):  Near-,  mid-  and 
far-infrared  spectroscopy:  J.  Am.  Ceram. 
Soc,  S2:  742-748. 

Paulsen,  T,  and  Marshak,  S.,  1999,  Origin  of 
the  Uinta  recess,  Sevier  fold-thrust  belt, 
Utah:  Influence  of  basin  architecture  on 
fold-thrust  belt  geometry:  Tectonophysics, 
312:  203-216. 

Wu,  L.-R..  and  Chen,  W.-P,  1999,  Anomalous 
aftershocks  of  deep  earthquakes:  Geophys. 
Res.  Lett.,  26:  1977-1980. 

Lundstrom,  C.C.,  Sampson,  D.E.,  Perfit,  M.R., 
Gill,  J.,  and  Williams,  Q.,  1999,  Insights 
into  MORB  petrogenesis,  U-series  disequilib- 
ria  from  the  Siqueiros  Transform,  Lamont 
Seamounts,  and  East  Pacific  Rise:  J.  of 
Geophys.  Res.,  104:  13,035-13,048. 

Pope,  K.O.,  Ocampo,  A.C,  Fischer,  A.G., 
Alvarez,  W.,  Fouke,  B.W.,  Webster,  C.L., 
Vega,  F.J.,  Smit,  J.,  Fritsche,  E.,  and  Claeys, 
P.,  1999,  Chicxulub  impact  ejecta  from 
Albion  Island,  Belize:  Earth  and  Planet.  Sci. 
Letters,  170:  351-364. 


Hong,  S.-H.,  Young,  J.  F,  Yu,  P.,  and 

Kirkpatrick,  R.  J.,  1999,  Synthesis  of  anor- 
thite  by  the  Pechini  process  and  structural 
investigation  of  the  hexagonal  phase:  J. 
Materials  Research,  14:  1828-1833. 

FitzGerald,  S.  A.,  Neumann,  D.  A.,  Rush,  J.  J., 
Kirkpatrick,  R.  J.,  Cong,  X.,  and  Livingston, 
R.  A.,  1999,  Inelastic  neutron  scattering 
study  of  the  hydration  of  tricalcium  silicate: 
J.  Materials  Research,  14:  1160-1165. 

Yu,  P,  and  Kirkpatrick.  R.  J.,  1999,  Thermal 
dehydration  of  tobermorite  and  jennite: 
Concrete  Science  and  Engineering,  1: 
185-191. 

Kirkpatrick,  R.J.,  Yu,  P.,  Hou,  X.,  and  Kim,  Y., 
1999,  Interlayer  structure,  anion  dynamics, 
and  phase  transitions  in  mixed-metal  lay- 
ered hydroxides:  Variable  temperature 
35C1  NMR  spectroscopy  of  hydrotalcite  and 
Ca-aluminate  hydrate  (hydrocalumite):  Am. 
Mineralogist,  84:  1186-1190. 

Marshak,  S.,  van  der  Pluijm,  B.A.,  and 

Hamburger,  M.,  (eds.),  1999,  The  Tectonics 
of  Continental  Interiors:  Tectonophysics 
(special  volume)  305,  417  p. 

Zhang,  CM.,  Zhu,  L.R.,  Song,  X.D.,  Li,  Z.X., 
Yang,  M.L.,  Su,  N.Q.,  and  Chen,  X.Z.,  1999, 
Predictions  of  the  1997  strong  earthquakes 
in  Jiashi,  Xinjiang,  China:  Bull.  Seism.  Soc. 
Am.,  89:  1171-1183. 

Damberger,  H.  H.,  and  Godwin,  P.  (eds.).  1999, 
Proceedings  of  the  Illinois  Mining  Institute 
1998:  Illinois  Mining  Institute,  241  p. 

McBride,  J.H.,  and  Kolata,  D.R.,  1999,  Upper 
crust  beneath  the  central  Illinois  basin, 
United  States:  Geol.  Soc.  of  America 
Bulletin,  111:  375-394. 

Marshak,  S.,  1999,  Deformation  way  back 
when:  Thoughts  on  the  contrasts  between 
Archean/Paleoproterozoic  orogens  and 
modern  ones:  J.  of  Structural  Geol,  21: 
1175-1182. 

Andrews,  A.,  Coale,  K.,  Lundstrom,  C.C., 
Palacz,  Z.,  Nowicki,  J.,  and  Cailliet,  C, 
1999,  Application  of  a  new  ion-exchange 
separation  technique  and  thermal  ionization 
mass  spectrometry  to  226Ra  determination 
in  otoliths  for  the  purpose  of  radiometric 
age  determination  in  long-lived  fishes: 
Can.  J.  of  Fisheries  and  Aquatic  Sci.,  56: 
1329-1338. 

Huff,  W  D.,  Muftuoglu,  E.,  Kolata,  D.  R.,  and 
Bergstrdm,  S.  M.,  1999,  K-bentonite  bed 
preservation  and  its  event  stratigraphic  sig- 
nificance: Acta  Universitatis  Carolinae  - 
Geologica,  v.  43:  491-493. 


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McBride,  J.H.,  and  Nelson,  W.J.,  1999,  Style 
and  origin  of  Mid-Carboniferous  deforma- 
tion in  the  Illinois  Basin,  USA  Ancestral 
Rockies  deformation?:  Tectonophysics,  305: 
249-273. 

Hu,  F.S.,  Hedges,  J.I.,  Gordon,  E.S.,  Brubaker, 
L.B.,  1999,  Lignin  biomarkers  and  pollen  in 
postglacial  sediments  of  an  Alaskan  lake: 
Geochim.  et  Cosmochim  Acta,  63: 
1421-1430. 

Duvall,  M.  et  al.  including  Hu,  F.S.,  1999, 
Paleoenvironmental  Atlas  of  Beringia:  A 
regional  data  synthesis  presented  in  an 
electronic  form:  Quaternary  Research, 
52:  270-271. 

Bergstrdm,  S.  M.,   Huff,  W.  D.,  Koren,  T., 
Larsson,  K.,  Ahlberg,  P.,  and  Kolata,  D.  R., 
1999,  The  1997  core  drilling  through 
Ordovician  and  Silurian  strata  at  Rostanga, 
S.  Sweden:  Preliminary  stratigraphic  assess- 
ment and  regional  comparison:  Geologiska 
Fdreningens  i  Stockholm  Forhandlingar, 
121:  127-135. 

McBride,  J.H.,  and  England,  R.W.,  1999, 
Window  into  the  Caledonian  Orogen: 
Structure  of  the  crust  beneath  the  East 
Shetland  Platform,  United  Kingdom:  Geol. 
Soc.  of  America  Bulletin,  111:  1030-1041. 

Hedges,  J. I.,  Hu,  F.S.,  Devol,  A.H.,  Hartnett, 
H.E.,  Tsamakis,  E.,  and  Keil,  R.G..    1999, 
Sedimentary  organic  matter  preservation:  A 
test  for  selective  oxic  degradation:  Am.  J. 
of  Science,  299:  529-555. 

Hu,  F.S.,  Slawinski,  D.,  Wright,  H.E.  Jr.,  Ito, 
E.,  Johnson,  R.G.,  Kelts,  K.R.,  McEwan, 
R.F.,  and  Boedigheimer,  A.,  1999,  Abrupt 
changes  in  North  American  climate  during 
early  Holocene  times:  Nature,  400:  437-440. 

Palsson,  C,  Bergstrdm,  S.  M.,  Huff,  W.  D., 
Larsson,  K.,  Kolata,  D.  R.  1999,  Ordovician 
stratigraphy  of  the  Rostanga  1  drill-core, 
Scania,  southern  Sweden:  Acta  Universitatis 
Carolinae  -  Geologica,  43:  59-60. 

Carozzi,  A.V.,  1999,  Les  theories  de  l'origine 
des  montagnes  primitives  de  Louis  Jurine, 
1797  et  1804:  In:  Sigrist,  R.,  et  al,  eds. 
Louis  Jurine,  Chirurgien  et  Naturaliste 
(1751-1819),  Bibliotheque  d'Histoire  des 
Sciences  2,  Editions  Georg,  Geneve, 
351-376. 

McBride,  J.H.,  1999,  Without  firing  a  shot: 
Seismic  exploration  of  the  Illinois  Basin: 
Geotimes  (May,  1999):  19-23. 


Spring  1999 


January  19  Lianxing  Wen  Carnegie  Institute 

Seismology:  New  Technique,  Fine  Structures  &  New  Insights  into  Earth's  Dynamics 
January  22  Peter  Reiners  Caltech 

(U-Th)/He  Dating  &  Thermochronometry  of  Shallow  Crustal  Processes 
January  25  James  Farquhar  University  of  Calif. 

What  do  oxygen  &  sulfur  isotopes  tell  us  about  the  Martian  atmosphere  &  its  interactions 

with  the  planet's  surface? 
January  27  Veli-Pekka  Salonen  Finland 

Use  of  Gypsum  in  rehabilitation  of  Eutrophied  lakes 
January  29  Craig  Bethke  U  of  I 

Groundwater  flow  and  the  4He  distribution  in  the  Great  Artesian  Basin 
February  1  Stephen  Zatman  UC-Berkeley 

High  Frequency  Geomagnetism:  The  changing  state  of  the  earth's  deep  interior 
February  8  Stuart  Rojstaczer  Duke  University 

Hydrology  of  Yellowstone's  Geysers 
February  9  Xiaogong  Song  Lamont-Doherty  Earth  Observatory 

Structure  &  dynamics  of  the  earth's  core  fromseismic  body-waves 
February  10  Kevin  Mandernack  Colorado  School  of  Mines 

Stable  isotopes  as  indicators  of  microbial  activity 
February  15  Paul  Earle  UCLA 

Small-scale  structure  of  the  mantle  &  core  from  observations  of  high-frequency  scattered  energy 
February  17  Jan  Amend  Washington  University 

Unraveling  geochemical  bioenergetics  in  hydrothermal  systems-A  computational- 
experimental-analytical  approach 
February  19  Feng  Sheng  Hu  U  of  I,  Plant  Biology 

Climate  change  &  ecosystem  response  in  Alaska:  Snapshots  of  the  last  12,000  years 
February  22  Ruth  Blake  Yale  University 

Oxygen  isotope  systematics  of  Microbial  phosphate  metabolism 
February  26  Mihai  Ducea  Caltech 

Vertical  composition  of  continental  arcs  and  the  origin  of  batholiths 
March  4  Youngsook  Huh  MIT 

Climate  &  weathering  evidence  from  the  rivers  of  eastern  Siberia 
March  26  Kelly  Warner  USGS 

Lower  Illinois  river  basin-analysis  of  arsenic  &  pesticides  in  ground  water 
April  9  Karen  Haverholm  University  of  Wisconsin 

"What  Are  the  National  Science  Education  Standards  and  Why  Should  We  Care?" 
April  16  Peter  Keleman  Woods  Hole  Oceanographic  Institute 

April  30  Cassandra  Coombs  Charleston  College 

Volcanoes  &  resources  of  the  Moon  and  Mars 


September  9  Michael  Manga  University  of  Oregon 

Microstructure  in  magmatic  materials 
September  17        Alan  Whittington  U  of  I 

Ancient  histories  of  a  young  orogenic  belt-Polymetamorphism  in  the  Himalayas 


Moscow  St.  University 

University  of  Missouri  Columbia 

Mo  records  of  oxygen-deficient  sedimentary  systems: 


September  24        Alexander  Alekseev 

Upper  carboniferous  of  Moscow  basin 
October  1  Tim  Lyons 

Recent  advances  in  the  S-isotope,  Fe  & 

Examples  from  Precambrian  to  recent 
October  8  Dan  Blake  U  of  I 

The  evolution  of  starfish  &  the  impact  of  climate  decline  on  Antarctic  invertebrate  faunas: 

Paleobiology  at  Illinois 
October  15  Robert  Wintsch  Indiana  University 

Subduction  &  Ascent  of  Sanbaqawa  Blueschist,  SW  Japan 
October  22  Tom  Hickson  University  of  Minnesota 

Petrographic  &  textural  constraints  on  deep-water  sandstone  deposition:  They're  not  all 

turbidites  anymore  or:  How  to  go  blind  doing  point  counts 
November  2  Mark  Cooper  AAPG 

Oil  &  gas  fields  associated  with  inverted  extensional  faults:  A  global  review 
November  5  Christina  De  La  Rocha       Harvard 

Silicon  isotope  Biogeochemistry:  Rivers,  diatoms,  &  oceans,  Present  &  past 
November  12         Jim  Walters  University  of  N.  Iowa 

Permafrost  degradation  caused  by  a  warming  climate  in  interior  Alaska 
November  19         Louise  Hose  Westminster  College 

Geomicrobiological  processes  in  a  hydrogen  sulfide-rich  Karst  environment 
December  3  Steven  R.  Bohlen  USGS-Virginia 

Federal  science  funding  &  the  future  of  the  Earth  Sciences 


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Alumni  News 


Obituaries 


Gerald  Keith  Anderson,  B.A.  '49,  was 

killed  in  a  car  accident  Dec.  22,  1998,  in 
Midland,  Texas.  He  was  73.  Mr. 
Anderson  taught  geology  at  Miami 
University  of  Ohio  and  then  was 
employed  as  a  geologist  by  the  Ohio  Oil 
Company  (now  Marathon  Oil).  At  the 
time  of  his  retirement  from  Marathon  Oil 
in  1986,  Mr.  Anderson  was  the  chief 
geologist  for  the  Yates  Field  in  West 
Texas.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
American  Association  of  Petroleum 
Geologists  (AAPG) .  He  is  survived  by 
three  children  and  three  grandchildren. 

Terry  W.  Offield,  M.S.  '55,  died  Feb.  5, 
1999,  from  complications  following 
heart  surgery.  He  was  65.  In  1961  Mr. 
Offield  joined  the  U.S.  Geological  Survey 
(USGS),  working  on  regional  geology 
and  mineral  resources  of  the  outer 
Himalayas  and  on  mineral  surveys  in 
northeastern  Brazil.  He  went  on  to  work 
in  the  USGS  Branch  of  Astrogeology, 
serving  as  an  advisor  for  lunar  orbiter 
missions.  Author  of  more  than  100  sci- 
entific publications,  Mr.  Offield  received 
the  Department  of  the  Interior's 
Meritorious  Service  Award  and  helped 
start  the  Geological  Society  of  America's 
Congressional  Science  Fellow  Program. 

Donald  J.  Colquhoun,  Ph.D.  '60,  died 
June  4,  1999. 

Lois  Kent,  who  taught  in  the  depart- 
ment from  1955-1956,  died  last 
September  in  Champaign.  Ms.  Kent  was 
a  senior  fellow  in  the  GSA  and  a  charter 
member  of  the  Paleontological  Research 
Institute  in  Ithaca,  N.Y.  From  1941-1945 
she  was  a  junior  geologist  and  assistant 
geologist  for  the  USGS  in  Washington, 
D.C.  and  from  1956-1985  she  was  a 
geologist  emeritus  for  the  ISGS  in 
Urbana. 


Class  News 


SIXTIES 


FIFTIES 


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Richard  M.  Winar,  B.S.  'S3,  M.S.  '55, 

writes  "Greatly  enjoyed  the  articles 
about  Harold  Wanless.  It  was  indeed  an 
honor  to  know  him  ...  Thanks  for  the 
fun  of  recalling  him  more  clearly." 
Richard  also  has  a  new  e-mail  address: 
E-mail:  rmwinar@aol.com 

Bruce  W.  Nelson,  Ph.D.  '55,  retired  in 
June  as  professor  of  Environmental 
Sciences  at  the  University  of  Virginia.  In 
his  25-year  career  at  the  University, 
Bruce  served  as  dean  of  continuing  edu- 
cation, associate  provost,  professor  ... 
and  now  professor  emeritus!  Bruce  trav- 
eled to  Malaysia  and  Mauritius  in  the 
1980s  on  two  separate  Fulbright  grants 
and  attended  a  meeting  in  Beijing  last 
September,  which  he  followed  with  a 
trip  through  Souteast  Asia.  He  writes,  "I 
have  enjoyed  the  newsletter  and  learning 
that  U  of  I  Geology  is  an  active  and  vital 
place.  Also,  the  recent  articles  on  "old 
timers"  are  warm  reminders  of  people  I 
have  known!" 
E-mail:  bwn@virginia.edu 

Barbara  J.  (Schenk)  Collins,  Ph.D.  '55, 
is  still  teaching  biology  at  California 
Lutheran  University  and  thoroughly 
enjoying  it.  She  now  has  a  website  with 
more  than  550  color  images  of  wildflow- 
ers  of  the  chaparral  in  southern 
California.  These  are  indexed  according 
to  common  and  scientific  names  at 
http://  wwl. clunet.edu/wf 
Note  that  this  is  wwl  and  not  www. 

Lorence  G.  Collins,  Ph.D.  '59  (and 
Barbara's  husband),  has  been  retired 
from  California  State  University 
Northridge  since  1993  and  spends  his 
time  studying  myrmekite  and  the  origin 
of  some  granite  bodies  by  K-metasoma- 
tism.  He  now  has  35  articles  on  a  web- 
site: http://www.csun.edu/  ~  vcgeo005. 
He  maintains  another  site  in  opposition 
to  creation  science  at 
http://www.csun.edu/  ~  vcgeo005/cre- 
ation.html.  This  includes  an  article 
about  a  bogus  Noah's  Ark  in  Turkey. 
E-mail:  lorencec@cs.com 


Margaret  S.  Leinen,  B.S.  '69,  is  the  new 

assistant  director  for  Geoscience  at  NSF. 
She  assumes  her  duties  at  NSF  after 
serving  as  provost  for  Marine  Sciences 
and  dean  and  director  of  the  Graduate 
School  of  Marine  Sciences  at  the 
University  of  Rhode  Island. 

John  D.  Sims,  B.S.  '62,  retired  from  the 
U.S.  Geological  Survey  (USGS)  in 
January,  1999,  to  enjoy  the  restoration  of 
his  circa  1785  stone  farm  house  near  his- 
torical Harpers  Ferry,  W.Va.  "The  restora- 
tion is  well  underway  with  my  partner, 
Jim  Tower,  and  I  doing  almost  all  the 
work,"  John  writes.  Eventually,  Willow 
Spring  Farm,  as  it  is  named,  will  be  a 
small  bed  &  breakfast.  John  also  is  prin- 
cipal in  a  consulting  firm  specializing  in 
earthquake  hazard  evaluation.  He  is  cur- 
rently working  on  three  projects  for  the 
USGS. 
E-mail:  jsims@ix.netcom.com 

Ira  Edgar  Odom,  M.S.  '58,  Ph.D.  '63, 
worked  at  American  Colloid  Co.  until 
December  of  1999,  as  a  research  scien- 
tist. "It  was  an  enjoyable  19  years,"  he 
writes.  "1  have  become  a  bit  of  an  expert 
on  silica  minerals  in  clays.  I  discovered 
that  silica  minerals  in  dusts,  from  ben- 
tonite  and  other  dry  clay  processing  are 
clay  encapsulated.  MSHA,  OSHA  and 
NIOSH  believe  this  is  very  significant 
and  explains  why  clay  plant  workers  sel- 
dom, if  ever,  have  silicosis.  Before  work- 
ing for  American  Colloid,  Ira  taught  at 
Northern  Illinois  University  until  1981. 
"A  wonderful  experience!"  Ira  currently 
is  a  full-time  consultant.  "I'm  going 
strong  and  looking  forward  to  full-time 
consulting,"  he  writes. 

Paul  L.  Plusquellec,  M.S.  '66,  Ph.D. 
'68,  retired  from  CNG  Producing  Co.  in 
1996  where  he  was  vice  president  of 
exploration  and  development.  These 
days  he  is  enjoying  golf,  cooking  and 
traveling  from  his  base  in  Montgomery, 
Texas. 
E-mail:  pbplusque@aol.com 


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SEVENTIES 


James  W.  Granath,  B.S.  71,  M.S.  73, 

has  become  a  consulting  structural  geol- 
ogist in  Houston.  He  was  previously  a 
structural  specialist  for  Conoco  Advance 
Exploration  in  Houston. 

William  Ausich,  B.S.  74,  has  stepped 
down  as  chair  of  the  Department  of 
Geological  Sciences  at  Ohio  State.  "I  look 
forward  to  life  as  a  professor,"  he  writes. 
E-mail:  ausich.l@osu.edu 

John  C.  Steinmetz,  B.S.  '69,  M.S.  75, 

has  become  the  director  of  the  Indiana 
Geological  Survey  and  Indiana  state 
geologist,  Bloomington,  Ind.  He  was  pre- 
viously director  and  state  geologist  of  the 
Montana  Bureau  of  Mines  and  Geology 
in  Butte,  Mont.,  and  adjunct  professor  of 
geology,  University  of  Montana, 
Missoula. 

Tim  Rynott,  B.S.  79,  served  as  general 
chair  of  the  Gulf  Coast  Association  of 
Geological  Societies  annual  convention. 
The  49th  Annual  GCAGS  Convention 
was  held  in  September,  1999,  in 
Lafayette,  La.,  where  Tim  has  been 
working  as  a  petroleum  geologist  for  the 
past  19  years.  He  is  a  past  president  of 
the  Lafayette  Geological  Society  and  con- 
siders himself  very  fortunate  to  have 
been  able  to  spend  his  entire  career  in 
one  "oil  town."  "Lafayette,  the  heart  of 
Cajun  Country,  is  one  of  the  best  kept 
secrets  in  the  South,"  he  writes.  He 
invites  fellow  alums  to  come  experience 
the  "joie  de  vivre. " 
E-mail:  rynott@worldnet.att.net 


EIGHTIES 


Jim  Cobb,  B.S.  71,  Ph.D.  '81,  was 

appointed  the  12th  State  Geologist  of 
Kentucky  and  director  of  the  Kentucky 
Geological  Survey  on  October  1. 
E-mail:  cobb@fido.mm.uky.edu 

M.  Scott  Mansholt,  B.A.  '82,  works  for 
Texaco  in  Bakersfield,  Calif.,  as  an  envi- 
ronmental coordinator,  primarily  dealing 
with  waste  management,  remediation, 
water  issues,  property  reviews  and  Web 
page  management. 
E-mail:  manshms@texaco.com 


Dean  Rose,  B.S.  '83,  has  found  a  new 
career  crafting  metalwork.  Based  in 
Champaign,  Dean  was  recently  the  sub- 
ject of  a  feature  article  in  the  News- 
Gazette.  Dean  taught  himself  the  craft  by 
finding  information  at  libraries  and  visit- 
ing museums  and  other  places  with  fine 
examples  of  metalwork.  His  company, 
which  he  founded  in  1992  after  leaving 
the  gas  and  oil  business,  is  called 
Working  Metal  Customized  Decorative 
Ironworks.  Visit  his  website  at 
www.  soltec.  net/blacksmith . 
E-mail:  artsmith@soltec.com 

William  C.  Dawson,  B.S.  74,  Ph.D.  '84, 

has  been  awarded  the  1999  Levorsen 
Award  by  the  Gulf  Coast  Association  of 
Geological  Societies  for  a  paper  he  pre- 
sented at  the  1999  Annual  Meeting.  The 
paper  was  titled  "Top  Seal  Character  and 
Sequence  Stratigraphy  of  Selected  Marine 
Shales  in  Gulf  Coast  Style  Basins." 

Stephen  E.  Laubach,  Ph.D.  '86,  and  co- 
author Eloise  Doherty  received  the 
"Jules  Braunstein  Memorial  Award"  from 
the  AAPG  for  the  best  poster  presenta- 
tion at  the  1999  annual  AAPG  meeting 
in  San  Antonio,  Texas.  The  paper  was 
titled  "Natural  Fracture  Analysis  Using 
Drilled  Sidewall  Cores."  The  award  was 
presented  at  the  2000  AAPG  meeting  in 
New  Orleans,  April  15-20.  Stephen,  a 
structural  geologist,  is  a  senior  research 
scientist  in  the  Texas  Bureau  of 
Economic  Geology,  at  the  University  of 
Texas,  Austin. 

NINTIES 

Rich  Poskin,  B.S.  '91,  has  earned  a  mas- 
ter's degree  in  zoology  and  is  now  on 
the  faculty  of  Wabash  Valley  College  in 
Mt.  Carmel,  111.  He  teaches  biology  and 
geology. 

Steven  J.  Hageman,  M.S.  '88,  Ph.D. 
'92,  has  been  designated  a  distinguished 
lecturer  by  the  Paleontological  Society. 
Each  year  the  Paleontological  society 
identifies  six  distinguished  lecturers  who 
are  available  to  speak  to  a  wide  range  of 
groups.  Steven  is  a  professor  of  geology 
at  Appalachian  State  University. 
E-mail:  hagemansj@appstate.edu 


Ming  Kuo  Lee,  M.S.  '90,  Ph.D.  '93,  just 
received  tenure  and  promotion  at 
Auburn  University. 

Bruce  Miller,  B.S.  '94,  M.S.  '95,  has 

become  a  Field  Service  Manager   for 
Schlumberger,  based  in  Louisiana.  Bruce 
and  his  wife,  Laura,  are  enjoying  parent- 
hood with  their  first  child. 

Steven  Sroka,  B.A.  '80,  Ph.D.  '96, 

writes  to  say  that  he  is  now  the  park 
manager  (equivalent  to  a  director)  of  the 
Utah  Field  House  of  Natural  History 
State  Park  Museum  in  Vernal  Utah.  The 
museum  is  devoted  to  natural  history, 
especially  paleontology,  of  the  Uinta 
Basin  and  Uinta  Mountains.  The  muse- 
um is  20  miles  away  from  Dinosaur 
National  Monument  and  is  currently 
undergoing  a  major  fund-raising  drive 
for  a  much  needed  revitalization.  The 
museum  has  over  130,000  visitors  a 
year.  All  current  and  past  alumni  (and 
their  families)  are  welcome  to  stop  by. 
E-mail:  nrdpr.ufsp@state.ut.us 

Crystal  Lovett,  B.S.  '97,  just  completed 
her  master's  degree  in  environmental 
management  at  Duke  University.  She  is 
working  one  year  for  the  Environmental 
Defense  Fund  in  Raleigh,  N.C.  Her  pro- 
jects involve  developing  policy  for 
forestry  practices  on  private  lands  in 
North  Carolina.  In  August  of  this  year 
she'll  attend  University  of  Virginia 
School  of  Law.  "I  love  getting  the 
newsletter,"  she  writes.  "I  like  seeing 
how  things  change  (or  stay  the  same) 
and  what  people  I  knew  are  up  to." 
E-mail:  cgl2@duke.edu 

Tim  Paulsen,  Ph.D.  '97,  recently  joined 
the  faculty  of  the  Geology  Department  at 
the  University  of  Wisconsin-Oshkosh.  He 
also  is  an  adjunct  assistant  professor  at 
Ohio  State  University.  Tim,  a  structural 
geologist,  conducts  research  in  the 
Transantarctic  Mountains.  His  research  is 
part  of  a  six-nation  study  that  could 
shed  light  on  future  changes  in  the 
world's  climate. 


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Alumni  News 


Former  Faculty  News 


Ronadh  Cox,  former  visiting  professor  of 
sedimentary  geology,  and  her  husband, 
Mark,  announce  the  arrival  of  their  son, 
Owen,  who  was  born  January  4  at  8 
pounds  15  ounces.  "All  three  of  us  are 
now  home,  doing  well,  and  having  fun!" 
she  writes.  Ronadh  is  now  at  the  depart- 
ment of  geology  at  Williams  College. 
E-mail:  Ronadh.Cox@williams.edu 

Don  U.  Deere,  a  geologist  and  engineer 
and  former  faculty  member,  received  the 
first  Ralph  B.  Peck  Award  at  the  Third 
National  Conference  of  the  Geo-Institute 
of  the  American  Society  of  Civil 
Engineers.  Don  is  a  member  of  the 
National  Academy  of  Science  and  the 
National  Academy  of  Engineering. 

Bob  Reynolds,  an  adjunct  professor  in 
the  Geology  Department  from  1985-1998 
while  based  at  Dartmouth,  won  the 
Roebling  Medal  this  year  from  the 
Mineralogical  Society  of  America.  The 
Roebling  Medal  is  the  highest  award  of 
the  Mineralogical  Society  of  America  "for 


scientific  eminence  as  represented  pri- 
marily by  scientific  publication  of  out- 
standing original  research  in  mineralogy.' 

Frank  Rhodes,  who  was  a  postdoctoral 
fellow,  visiting  lecturer,  and  professor  at 
the  University  of  Illinois  from  1950-1956 
gave  the  featured  talk  at  the  AAPG  con- 
vention. The  talk  was  titled  "Summit  on 
Early  Science  Education."  The  conven- 
tion ran  from  April  15-20  in  New 
Orleans.  Frank  was  president  of  Cornell 
University  for  many  years,  and  is  now 
chair  of  the  National  Research  Council. 


Hans  Laubscher,  who  was  a  visiting 
professor  here  in  the  1960s,  won  the 
GSA  Division  of  Structural  Geology  and 
Tectonics  Career  Contribution  award  for  1999. 
Steve  Marshak,  professor  and  department 
head,  was  chair  of  the  division  and  presented 
Laubscher  with  the  award. 


Correction: 

Elizabeth  Brouwers,  M.S.  77,  associate 
regional  geologist  with  the  USGS  in 
Denver  writes  to  correct  our  mistake  in 
the  last  issue  of  the  newsletter.  In  the 
profile  of  Alex  Glass,  recipient  of  the 
Sohl  award,  we  stated  that  Sohl  spent 
most  of  his  career  with  the  Smithsonian 
Institution.  Brouwers  writes  "Norm  Sohl 
is  proudly  claimed  by  the  U.S.  Geological 
Survey,  which  he  worked  for  his  entire 
career  ...  in  the  early  days  of  the 
Paleontology  and  Stratigraphy  Branch  of 
the  USGS,  staff  were  housed  in  the  same 
building  as  the  natural  history  staff  of 
the  Smithsonian,  but  this  was  always  as 
the  USGS."  Thank  you  Ms.  Brouwers! 


George  B.  Grim  (left;  shown  here  with  Jay 
Bass),  nephew  of  the  late  Professor  Ralph  E. 
Grim,  visited  the  Department  to  unveil  a  dis- 
play case,  donated  by  Mr  Grim,  containing 
some  of  Prof.  Grim's  several  awards.  Ralph 
Grim  was  a  distinguished  researcher  in  clay 
mineralogy. 


Albert  V.  Carozzi,  professor  emeritus,  was  awarded  the  Prix  Wegmann 
of  the  Societe  Geologique  de  France.  The  prize  was  awarded  June  7  in  Paris 
at  the  society's  annual  meeting.  This  honor,  which  is  one  of  the  highest 
awards  the  organization  gives,  was  based  on  Carozzi's  lifelong  contribution 
to  the  history  of  geology. 

Since  1960,  Carozzi  has  translated  and  annotated  more  than  20  books  on 
the  history  of  geology.  He  has  translated  works  from  German,  Latin  and 
French,  most  of  which  were  written  in  the  18th  century. 

"Basically,  I  make  the  publication  or  manuscript  available  in  an  English 
translation,  often  with  the  original  text  side  by  side.  Then  I  annotate  it  in 
terms  of  what  the  work  meant  in  the  context  of  its  time  and  in  a  modern 
context,"  says  Carozzi. 

Carozzi  often  travels  to  Europe  to  check  the  formations  mentioned  in  the 
works.  "I  go  in  the  field  and  try  to  re-check  their  observations,"  he  says.  "Of 
course  sometimes  those  outcrops  are  now  in  the  city  dump  or  the  city  has 
grown  onto  it,  but  generally  the  outcrop  is  there.  It  can  be  something  of  a 
thrill  to  come  upon  the  same  outcrop  discussed  200  years  ago." 

The  history  of  geology  was  really  a  secondary  interest  for  Carozzi,  who 
taught  and  did  research  in  carbonate  petrography  in  the  University's 
Department  of  Geology  from  1955-1989.  Upon  retiring,  the  history  of  geology 
became  his  major  field  of  research. 


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A. Look  Back 


Key  to  UofI  Geology  Faculty,  Staff, 

Graduate  Assistants 

Photograph  April,  1952  west  entrance  NHB 

Row  1 

1.  Rosa  Nickell  * 
Executive  Secretary 

2.  Secretary 

3.  William  M.  Merrill 

Assistant  Professor,  stratigraphy 

4.  Secretary 

5.  Donald  M.  Henderson 
Assistant  Professor,  mineralogy 

6.  Jack  Luin  Hough  * 

Associate  Professor,  oceanography, 
engineering  geology 

7.  Bernhead  Kummel  * 
Associate  Professor,  paleontology 

8.  Frank  C?  Foley 

Visiting  Prof,  Kansas  State  Geological 
Survey 

Row  2 

9.  Harold  R.  Wanless  * 
Professor,  stratigraphy 

10.  Harold  W.  Scott  * 
Professor,  micropaleontology 

11.  Carleton  A.  Chapman 

Professor,  petrology 

12.  Ralph  E.  Grim  * 

Research  Professor,  clay  mineralogy 


13.  Frank  DeWolf  * 

Professor  emeritus,  Head  Geology 
and  Geography 

14.  George  W.  White  * 

Professor,  Geomorphology;  Head 
Geology 

15.  J.  V.  Harrison  * 

Visiting  Professor;  Reader,  Oxford 
University 

16.  Arthur  F.  Hagner 

Associate  Professor,  mineral  deposits 

17.  Paul  R.  Shaffer 
Professor,  geomorphology 

18.  William  D.  Johns 
Graduate  Assistant 

Row  3 

19.  James  Fisher 
Graduate  Assistant 

20.  Vincent  Shepps  * 
Graduate  Assistant 

21.  Graduate  Assistant 

22.  John  B.  Droste 
Graduate  Assistant 

23.  Forest  D.  Etheredge 
Graduate  Assistant 

24.  Jane  Gray 
Graduate  Assistant 

25.  Leonard  Schultz 
Graduate  Assistant 

26.  John  Wehrenberg 
Graduate  Assistant 


27.  Graduate  Assistant 

28.  Graduate  Assistant 

Row  4 

29. 

30.  Norman  Sohl 

Graduate  Assistant 
31. 
32. 
33. 

34.  Ronald  (Mike)  Lloyd 
35. 
36. 

37.  Robert  Doehler 
Graduate  Assistant 

Row  5 

38.  John  C.  Hathaway 
Graduate  Assistant 

39.  John  Chapman  ? 
Graduate  Assistant 

40.  Wilford  F.  Weeks 
Graduate  Assistant 

41.  Edwin  Tooker 
Graduate  Assistant 

42. 
43. 
44. 
*  deceased 

This  photograph  and  identifications  were 
generously  provided  by  Don  (Hendy) 
Henderson. 


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GeoScience  2005: 

The  Next  Era  of  Excellence 


With  bundles  of  fall-colored  bal- 
loons, festive  table  decorations,  down- 
home  southern  barbecue,  and  an  enor- 
mous cake,  the  Geology  Department 
kicked  off  its  GeoScience  2005 
Campaign  on  Oct.  14 — Homecoming 
weekend. 

Department  head  Stephen  Marshak 
made  a  short  speech  stressing  the 
importance  of  the  campaign  and  its 
specific  fundraising  goals,  after  which 
everyone  got  down  to  some  serious  vis- 
iting and  eating.  The  party,  which  was 
held  in  the  Natural  History  Building, 
was  attended  by  almost  100  alumni, 
students,  faculty,  staff  and  friends. 

The  campaign  has  been  launched 
to  establish  an  endowment  that  will 
help  the  department  continue  to  main- 
tain its  stature  and  expand  into  new 
and  productive  fields  of  research, 
Marshak  explained.  The  campaign's 
title,  "GeoScience  2005:  The  Next  Era  of 
Excellence,"  reflects  this  goal. 

"Endowments  are  a  critical  buffer 
for  departments  like  ours  that  receive 
state  support,"  said  Marshak  at  the 
gathering.  He  noted  that  state  support 
often  fluctuates.  In  addition  it  often  is 
not  enough  to  cover  the  cost  of  new 
equipment  and  facilities  needed  to 
attract  and  retain  the  best  and  the 
brightest.  By  establishing  an  endow- 
ment, the  department  can  benefit  from 
donations  for  eons! 

Before  the  campaign  was  launched, 
the  department's  endowment  was  about 
$3  million.  The  decision  was  made— 


with  the  help  and  support  of  the 
University,  the  Foundation  and  the 
College  of  Liberal  Arts  and  Sciences' 
Office  of  Development  and  External 
Relations— to  double  this  amount  by 
launching  a  $3  million  campaign  over 
the  next  five  years. 

The  funds  raised  will  support  new 
professorships,  student  stipends, 
updated  teaching  and  laboratory 
equipment,  undergraduate  student 
research,  programs  in  field  geology 
(including  field  camp  and  field  trips), 
acquisition  of  new  library  materials 
and  support  of  the  colloquium  series, 
which  brings  in  respected  experts  to 
stimulate  the  synapses  of  students  and 
faculty  alike. 

"We're  off  to  a  great  start,  with 
the  establishment  of  the  Johnson 
Professorship  in  memory  of  Hilt 
Johnson  (see  sidebar);  the  Franklin 
fund,  established  by  Ed  Franklin  B.S. 
'56,  for  field  camp;  and  the  Wanless 
fund,  established  by  Jim  Baroffio, 
Ph.D.  '64,"  said  Marshak. 

Keep  an  ear  out  for  regional 
events  in  the  coming  years.  These 
events  will  give  you  a  chance  to  catch 
up  with  old  chums,  to  learn  more 
about  department  news,  and  get 
details  about  the  campaign. 

For  more  information,  call 
Stephen  Marshak,  department  head, 
at  217-333-7705  or  Pam  Christman, 
assistant  dean  for  development  at  the 
College  of  Liberal  Arts  and  Sciences, 
at  217-333-7108. 


New  professorship  created 

Reprinted  with  permission  from  UofI  Foundation 

A  gift  in  excess  of 
$500,000  from  Eric  and 
Katherine  Johnson  of 

Los  Altos,  Calif.,  will 
create  the  W.  Hilton 
Johnson  Professorship 

in  Geology  in  the  Department  of 
Geology,  College  of  Liberal  Arts  and 
Sciences,  at  Urbana-Champaign. 

The  W  Hilton  Johnson 
Professorship  honors  Eric's  father  who 
was  professor  in  geology  at  Urbana- 
Champaign  and  a  research  affiliate  with 
the  Illinois  State  Geological  Survey. 

Over  a  30-year  career  at  the  U  of  I, 
Hilt  Johnson  was  well  known  for  his 
research  and  teaching,  and  for  running 
the  University  of  Illinois  Geology  Field 
Camp  in  Wyoming.  His  research  inter- 
ests included  geomorphology,  quater- 
nary stratigraphy  and  glacial  geology. 

Professor  Johnson,  who  received  his 
master's  and  doctoral  degrees  from  the 
University  of  Illinois,  made  important 
contributions  to  understanding  the  ice 
age  history  of  the  Midwest  and  was  a 
popular  teacher  in  his  research  disci- 
plines, as  well  as  in  introductory  geology 
and  field  geology.  He  served  for  a  time 
as  acting  head  of  the  Department. 

Hilt's  wife,  Joyce,  has  recently 
established  the  W.  Hilton  Johnson 
Geologic  Field  Study  Fund.  It  will  sup- 
port student  geologic  field  work  in  the 
Department  of  Geology. 

Hilt's  son,  Eric,  received  a  master's 
degree  in  computer  science  from  the  U 
of  I  in  1989.  He  is  a  software  engineer 
with  Nortel  Networks.  Katherine,  a  certi- 
fied public  accountant,  is  a  community 
volunteer. 


HATH5* 


Greetings 


Our  "Year  in  Review" 


The  year  2000  has  been  an  eventful 
one  for  the  Department  of  Geology. 
Let's  start  with  exciting  new  develop- 
ments concerning  support  from  alumni 
and  friends.  The  family  of  the  late 
Professor  Hilton  Johnson  has  been  par- 
ticularly generous.  Eric  and  Kathy 
Johnson  (Hilt's  son  and  daughter-in- 
law)  established  an  endowment  for  the 
W.  Hilton  Johnson  Professorship  in 
Surficial  Geology.  Their  gift  ensures  that 
we  will  be  able  to  continue  the  out- 
standing tradition  of  teaching  and 
research  established  by  Hilt  over  his 
three  decades  at  the  University  of 
Illinois.  Hilt's  wife,  Joyce,  has  estab- 
lished the  W.  H.  Johnson  Field  Geology 
Fund,  which  will  make  it  possible  for 
our  students  to  continue  benefiting  from 
the  field  experiences  that  Hilt  so  delight- 
ed in  offering.  We  encourage  friends 
and  colleagues  of  Hilt  to  help  this  fund 
grow.  This  field  geology  fund,  along 
with  other  funds,  like  the  Franklin  Field 


Camp  fund  established  by  Ed  Franklin 
(B.S.  '56),  will  allow  the  Department  to 
help  defray  the  rising  costs  of  field  work 
for  our  students.  These  funds  are  the 
beginning  of  Geoscience  2005,  a  cam- 
paign to  double  the  size  of  the 
Department's  endowment. 

Thanks  to  strong  support  and 
encouragement  from  the  College  of 
Liberal  Arts  and  Sciences,  this  year  has 
been  very  active  on  the  recruiting  front. 
We  are  continuing  our  searches  for  the  R. 
E.  Grim  Professor  and  a  geomicrobiolo- 
gist  and  we  are  now  engaged  in  the 
search  for  the  W  H.  Johnson  Professor. 
With  these  additions  and  more  beyond, 
we  anticipate  that  the  Department  will 
grow  by  at  least  30  percent  in  the  near 
future. 

This  past  year  has  also  been  notable 
for  the  awards  and  recognition  that  peo- 
ple affiliated  with  the  department  have 
achieved.  Professor  Craig  Lundstrom  won 
the  Clarke  Medal  of  the  Geochemical 


Contents 


GeoScience  2005 

Greetings  from  the  Department  Head 

Alumni  Achievement  Award:  Sharon  Mosher 

Senior  Faculty  Going  Strong 

Geomicrobiology  Advances 

Faculty  Activities 

Non-majors  Getting  Great  Introduction  to  Geology 

Nieto  Retires 

Alumna,  Emeritus  Faculty  Honored  at  GSA 

Windows  into  the  Past 

Alumnus  Steve  Sroka  Putting  Vernal,  Utah,  on  the  Map 

News  from  Alumni 

Honor  Roll  of  Donors 

Annual  Report 


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Year  in  Review  is  published  once  a  year  by  the  Department  of  Geology,  University  of 

Illinois  at  Urbana-Champaign,  to  summarize  the  activities  and  accomplishments  within 

the  department  and  news  from  alumni  and  friends. 

Department  Head:  Stephen  Marshak  (smarshak@uiuc.edu) 

Staff  Secretary:  Barb  Elmore  (b-elmore@uiuc.edu) 

Editor:  Deb  Aronson 

Produced  for  the  Department  of  Geology  by  the 

College  of  Liberal  Arts  and  Sciences  Office  of 

Publications;  designer:  Pat  Mayer. 

http://www.geology.uiuc.edu 


j  College  of  Liberal  Arts  and  Sciences 

UNIVERSITY  OF  ILLINOIS  AT  URBANA-CHAMPAIGN 


Society  and  Professor  Jay  Bass  has  been 
made  a  Fellow  of  the  Mineralogical 
Society  of  America.  In  2000,  GSA  hon- 
ored Emeritus  Professor  George  Klein 
with  the  Sloss  Award  in  sedimentary 
geology,  Emeritus  Professor  Richard  Hay 
with  the  Rip  Rapp  Award  in  archaeologi- 
cal geology,  and  alumna  Susan  Mahlburg 
Kay  with  the  Distinguished  Service 
Medal.  In  addition,  alumna  Sharon 
Mosher  has  become  president  of  GSA. 

Within  the  Natural  History  Building 
things  are  changing  too.  We  are  under- 
taking over  $600,000  worth  of  laboratory 
space  renovations  in  the  building,  includ- 
ing construction  of  a  laboratory  for 
research  in  geomicrobiology.  Professors 
Craig  Lundstrom  and  Tom  Johnson  have 
set  up  a  mass  spectrometer  in  the  depart- 
ment, and  Craig  has  also  set  up  a  high- 
pressure  petrology  laboratory.  Faculty  are 
also  actively  developing  field  projects  in 
exotic  places.  For  example,  Wang-Ping 
Chen  is  directing  a  multi-disciplinary 
study  of  the  Himalayas  in  Tibet,  Dan 
Blake  completed  an  expedition  to 
Antarctica,  Steve  Hurst  visited  the  floor 
of  the  Atlantic  Ocean  in  AJvin,  and  I've 
been  investigating  Precambrian  Geology 
in  Eastern  Brazil.  Our  teaching  program 
is  evolving  as  well,  with  Steve  Altaner 
offering  a  new  course  in  natural  hazards 
and  Xiaodong  Song  offering  a  new 
course  in  seismology.  Also,  Adjunct 
Assistant  Professor  Hannes  Leetaru 
taught  Petroleum  Geology  for  a  second 
time. 

I  could  go  on  but  space  won't  permit 
it.  So  please  enjoy  the  details  by  reading 
our  Year  in  Review  and  learn  even  more 
by  visiting  the  department's  receptions  at 
APG  and  GSA.  And  most  important, 
please  let  us  know  what  you're  up  to  by 
sending  in  the  form  on  the  back  page. 

I  wish  you  all  the  best  for  the  com- 
ing year! 

—  Stephen  Marshak 


Alumni  Award 


Sharon  Mosher  Receives  Alumni  Achievement  Award 


Sharon  Mosher,  B.S.  73,  Ph.D.  78, 
has  been  awarded  the  Geology 
Department's  Alumni  Achievement 
Award  for  2001. 

Mosher,  Wilton  Scott  Centennial 
Professor  of  structural  geology  at  the 
University  of  Texas,  Austin,  primarily 
studies  past  plate  tectonic  movement  in 
order  to  understand  similar  processes 
today.  In  the  course  of  her  research  she 
has  done  field  work  as  close  as  Texas' 
Llano  Uplift  and  as  far  away  as  Tierra  del 
Fuego.  Mosher  also  has  been  appointed 
president  of  the  Geological  Society  of 
America  (GSA). 

For  much  of  the  last  decade,  Mosher 
has  worked  in  the  Precambrian  of  Texas, 
studying  an  ancient  plate  boundary. 
"About  1.26  billion  years  ago,  a  vol- 
canic arc  formed  on  the  southern 
margin  of  the  North  American  con- 
tinent," says  Mosher.  "Then  much 
later,  at  about  1.05  billion  years 
ago,  an  exotic  island  volcanic  arc 
and  another  continent  collided  with 
North  America  forming  a  major 
mountain  belt." 

Most  recently,  Mosher  and  her 
students  have  been  studying  an 
active  plate  boundary  between  the 
Australian  and  Pacific  plates.  This 
area  has  a  very  complex  deforma- 
tion history.  Mosher  estimates  that 
40  million  years  ago  this  was  a 
spreading  plate  boundary,  with 
magma  coming  up  to  form  new  sea 
floor.  At  33  million  years  the  boundary 
began  pulling  apart  obliquely  and  by 
about  10  million  years  ago  the  plates 
were  moving  almost  parallel  to  each, 
making  a  transform  fault.  Today  this 
boundary  is  one  of  the  most  active  in  the 
world. 

"This  is  the  only  place  in  the  world 
with  a  record  of  both  spreading  plates 
and  transform  faults,"  says  Mosher. 

Mosher's  research  will  help  her 
understand  how  plate  boundaries  behave 


as  they  go  from  spreading  to  transform 
faulting;  what  chemical  or  mechanical 
properties  influence  the  translation  from 
one  process  to  another;  and  whether  the 
changes  occurred  sequentially  or  whether 
some  occurred  simultaneously.  Ultimately, 
Mosher  wants  to  understand  the  mecha- 
nisms behind  changing  from  one  type  of 
plate  boundary  to  another. 

In  addition,  Mosher  hopes  to  under- 
stand the  processes  involved  when  mag- 
matism  shuts  off. 

"We  know  a  lot  about  spreading 
ridges,  but  we  don't  know  much  about 
how  spreading  stops,"  she  says. 

What  Mosher  learns  about  the 
behavior  of  this  particular  plate  boundary 


Sharon  Mosher  and  friends  visit  on  Macquerie  Island.  She  is 
using  data  from  the  island  to  field  check  marine  geophysical  data. 

she  hopes  to  apply  to  other  boundaries 
around  the  world. 

Mosher  and  her  students  also  have 
been  able  to  conduct  field  investigations 
on  a  tiny  island,  Macquerie  (ma-qwair- 
EE),  which  is  on  the  boundary  between 
the  Australian  and  Pacific  plates.  The 
island,  which  is  about  4  km  wide  and 
34  km  long,  is  about  halfway  between 
Antarctica  and  New  Zealand.  A  piece  of 
rock  jutting  out  from  the  boundary  got 
lifted  up  as  the  plates  slid  past  each  other. 


creating  Macquerie.  The  island  is  part  of 
the  ocean  floor  that  was  uplifted  and  pre- 
served. 

Macquerie  is  home  to  millions  of 
penguins  and  about  100,000  elephant 
seals  ...  and  not  much  else.  In  fact, 
Mosher  estimates  that  only  about  one 
dozen  geologists  have  ever  made  it  to  the 
island.  She  and  her  students  were  the 
first  non-New  Zealanders  and  the  first 
structural  geologists  to  visit  the  island. 

"We  can  use  the  geology  of  the 
island  to  field  check  our  marine  geophys- 
ical data,"  says  Mosher.  "You  can  see 
great  geology  on  the  island.  There  are 
sea  mounts,  lava  hills  and  fault  topogra- 
phy, all  of  which  are  cut  by  faults  that 
occurred  in  our  lifetime. " 
In  addition  to  these  research 
activities  and  teaching  responsi- 
bilities, Mosher  has  taken  on 
the  presidency  of  the  Geological 
Society  of  America  (GSA) . 
Mosher  had  previously  served 
as  vice  president  of  GSA  where 
she  became  involved  in  finding 
ways  for  members  to  become 
more  effective  in  influencing 
public  policy.  Prior  to  this  role, 
Mosher  served  three  years  as 
annual  program  chair  and  over- 
saw the  reorganization  of  the 
Annual  Meeting  program. 
As  president,  Mosher  envisions 
GSA  working  to  help  members 
become  more  effective  at  influ- 
encing public  policy,  to  facilitate  the 
interaction  of  scientists  across  disciplines, 
and  to  join  forces  with  other  geoscience 
societies  to  concentrate  resources  when 
addressing  similar  problems  and  goals. 
"GSA  has  the  potential  to  make  an 
impact  in  professional  development,  pub- 
lic outreach  and  public  policy,"  asserts 
Mosher. 


Faculty  Profiles 


With  Almost  a  Century  of  Combined  Research 
Experience,  Four  Senior  Faculty  Going  Strong 


The  four  most  senior  Geology 
Department  faculty— Daniel  Blake,  R. 
James  Kirkpatrick,  Albert  Hsui,  and 
Wang-Ping  Chen — have  all  been  at  the 
Department  for  at  least  20  years  and 
none  of  them  is  showing  any  signs  of 
slowing  down. 


Daniel  Blake 


Blake,  who  has  been  on  the  facul- 
ty since  1967,  currently  has  a  National 
Science  Foundation  (NSF)  grant  to 
study  molluscan  evolution  associated 
with  climatic  change  on  Seymour 
Island  in  the  Antarctic  Peninsula.  This 
project  is  the  continuation  of  research 
he  has  conducted  with  Rich  Aronson, 
a  marine  ecologist  at  the  Dauphin 
Island  Sea  Lab. 

In  2000,  Blake  and  his  team  took  a 
reconnaissance  trip  that  lasted  five 
days.  In  2001,  he'll  go  down  for  five 
weeks.  The  Seymour  Island  formations 
are  important  because  they  are  the 
only  Cenozoic  fossil  records  in 
Antarctica.  Blake  hopes  that  this 
record,  which  brackets  the  period  dur- 
ing which  the  Earth  cooled  dramatical- 
ly, will  help  researchers  understand 
how  individual  animals,  communities 
of  animals,  and  community  structure 
change  when  the  environment 
changes. 

"In  the  contemporary  world,  it  has 
been  argued  that  global  warming  can 
disrupt  water  currents  and  lead  to 
cold-water  upwelling,"  says  Blake. 
"Cooling  in  the  early  Cenozoic  can  be 
used  to  suggest  possible  biological 
impacts  resulting  from  cold  upwelling 
events." 

John  Werner,  a  post-doctoral  fel- 
low who  specializes  in  mollusks  and 


Blake  and  the  rest  of  the  team  relax  during  an  arduous  day.  Pictured,  from  left  to  right,  are 
Linda  Avany,  John  Evans,  Alex  Glass,  Dan  Blake,  and  Rich  Aronson. 


statistical  applications  in  paleontology, 
will  conduct  the  statistical  analysis, 
and  Syracuse  University  geologist 
Linda  Ivany  will  conduct  the  geochem- 
ical  analysis.  Aronson  also  is  joining 
Blake  on  this  project.  Both  Aronson 
and  Blake  have  been  to  Antarctica 
before.  Blake  conducted  research  in 
Antarctica  in  1986  and  1994.  Blake's 
graduate  student  Alex  Glass  also  went 
on  the  expedition. 

"It's  very  important  for  students  to 
go  on  such  field  expeditions,"  said 
Blake.  "In  addition  to  the  adventure, 
they  can  learn  an  aspect  of  geology 
that  they  just  can't  learn  in  the  labora- 
tory." 

Glass  agrees.  "I  got  to  see  new 
types  of  geology  I'd  never  seen  and  I 
learned  a  lot  about  bivalves  and  gas- 
tropods. It  was  an  awesome  experience 
for  me,"  he  said. 

Glass  notes  that  he'd  like  to  return 
next  year  with  Blake,  but  having 
undergone  a  rigorous  medical  exami- 


nation, he  knows  that  he'd  have  to  get 
all  four  wisdom  teeth  extracted  in  order 
to  be  allowed  to  return  to  Seymour 
Island.  He  has  about  a  year  to  decide  if 
the  trip  is  worth  the  pain. 

Although  Blake  is  the  most  senior 
faculty  member  in  the  department,  he 
is  not  slowing  down  one  iota.  Blake 
also  remains  excited  about  his  teaching 
responsibilities.  He  feels  a  strong  need 
to  pass  his  very  specialized  knowledge 
on  to  younger  scientists.  Being  able  to 
see  evolutionary  change  in  starfish  is  a 
very  detailed  and  specialized  knowl- 
edge that  can't  really  be  taught  through 
books.  It  takes  untold  hours  of  looking 
at  starfish  to  start  to  discern  morpho- 
logical differences  that  others  with  less 
experience  would  overlook. 

"You  need  a  lot  of  time  to  look  at 
lots  of  fossils,"  says  Blake,  who  also 
received  NSF  funding  to  spend  the 
summer  of  1999  in  Germany,  Italy,  and 
the  Netherlands  studying  Triassic 
starfish,  crucial  to  the  derivation  of 
modern  starfish. 


R.  James  Kirkpatrick 


Kirkpatrick,  who  is  second-most 
senior  to  Blake,  received  his  Ph.D.  from 
the  University  of  Illinois  in  1972  and 
joined  the  faculty  in  1978.  He  has  been 
using  NMR  spectroscopy  since  the  early 
1980s.  He  is  one  of  the  few  geologists 
in  the  country  to  use  this  technique, 
which  can  reveal  both  how  atoms  are 
arranged  and  the  speed  and  kinds  of 
motion  of  those  atoms  within  crystals, 
glasses  and  aqueous  solutions. 

Shortly  after  beginning  to  use  this 
technique,  Kirkpatrick  shifted  from 
igneous  petrology  (his  original  field  of 
expertise)  into  the  geochemistry  of  low 
temperature  and  hydrous  systems. 
These  systems  have  traditionally  been 
difficult  to  study,  but  are  well  suited  to 
NMR  approaches.  In  the  course  of  his 
career,  Kirkpatrick  has  worked  with 
clay  minerals,  glasses  and  melts,  basic 
mineralogy,  man-made  cement,  and 
industrial  minerals. 

"Science  changes  and  you  always 
need  to  be  open  to  changing  the  prob- 
lems you  work  on,"  says  Kirkpatrick, 
explaining  his  wide  range  of  projects. 

Most  recently,  Kirkpatrick  has  been 
looking  at  what  can  be  done  about  the 
increase  of  carbon  dioxide  in  the 
atmosphere,  the  major  cause  of  global 
warming.  His  goal  is  to  see  if  "seques- 
tering" carbon  dioxide  by  injecting  it 
deep  into  the  ocean  or  an  underground 
aquifer  is  a  feasible  way  to  remove  that 
excess  carbon  dioxide  in  the  atmos- 
phere. 

In  collaboration  with  senior 
research  scientist  Andrey  Kalinichev,  an 
expert  in  modeling  molecular  behavior 
in  hydrous  systems,  Kirkpatrick  is 


working  to  understand  the  physical 
and  chemical  properties  of  water  and 
carbon  dioxide  solutions  and  how  they 
interact  with  their  surroundings.  By 
creating  molecular  dynamics  models 
of  carbon  dioxide  and  other  chemical 
species  as  they  dissolve  in  water,  as 
well  as  models  of  that  water-carbon 
dioxide  solution  as  it  interacts  with 
mineral  surfaces,  Kalinichev  and 
Kirkpatrick  hope  to  determine  if  it  will 
be  safe  to  sequester  the  carbon  diox- 
ide. These  simulations  are  being  run 
on  the  National  Center  for 
Supercomputing  Applications  SGI 
Origin2000  supercomputer. 


Kirkpatrick,  surrounded  by  his  research 
team,  investigates  all  kinds  of  molecular 
modeling. 


create  a  quantitative,  dynamic  model 
to  explain  trench  curvatures. 
Subsequently,  working  with  Stephen 
Marshak  and  his  students,  Hsui  also 
developed  models  for  the  curvature  of 
mountain  ranges. 

In  recent  years,  his  research  inter- 
ests have  focused  on  the  effects  of 
crystallization  within  dynamic  fluid 
systems.  This  study  has  direct  applica- 
tions to  magma  chamber  dynamics  and 
formation  of  igneous  rocks,  as  well  as 
in  the  solidification  of  the  liquid  outer 
core  and  the  growth  of  the  solid  inner 
core.  In  addition,  he  has  examined  the 
effects  of  variable  buoyancy  within 
planetary  interiors.  His  investigation 
suggests  that  dynamic  layering  is  possi- 
ble within  the  icy  mantle  of  Europa,  a 
Jovian  satellite,  if  its  mantle  is  indeed 
operating  at  a  near  freezing  state,  as 


Hsui  also  has 
used  modeling 
(mathematical,  in 
his  case)  extensively 
and  in  a  wide  range 
of  projects,  from 
basin  history  model- 
ing to  understand- 
ing the  behavior  o 
seismic  waves  with 
in  the  Earth's  interi 
or  and  comparing 
the  structure  of 
Earth  to  its  sister 
planet,  Venus.  Hsui 
who  joined  the  fac- 
ulty in  1980,  is  an  expert  in  geody- 
namics  ("the  mother  of  all  geology," 
as  he  likes  to  say).  He  was  the  first  to 


Hsui's  web  site  for  "Geology  of  the  Planets" 
gives  students  an  interactive  way  learn  the 
material. 


Faculty  Profiles 


strongly  implied  by  recent 
NASA  observations. 

Hsui  incorporates  this  and 
other  NASA  data  in  his  class- 
es, and  is  taking  a  web-based 
approach  to  teaching  and 
learning.  For  example,  he  cre- 
ated an  elaborate  web  site  for 
Geology  of  the  Planets,  a  100- 
level  course  with  about  55 
students.  Using  the  web  site, 
students  can  learn  the  course 
materials  with  abundant 
images  from  various  NASA 
missions,  and  also  can  submit 
homework,  which  is  then 
automatically  graded  to  pro- 
vide instant  feedback.  Hsui 
has  also  started  to  incorporate  collabo- 
rative learning  in  the  web  site,  since 
some  students  prefer  to  learn  in 
groups.  He  has  created  website  pages 
for  Introduction  to  Geophysics 
(Geology  350)  and  Geophysical 
Methods  for  Geology,  Engineering,  and 
Environmental  Sciences  (Geology  351). 

"It's  harder  these  days,  since  we 
have  many  different  types  of  learners," 
says  Hsui,  "but  I'm  trying  to  accom- 
modate the  different  learning  styles 
into  how  I  teach." 

Hsui  emphasizes  that  class  time  is 
still  key  to  the  course. 

"This  type  of  web  site  doesn't 
replace  face-to-face  contact,  especially 
since  that's  a  big  part  of  the  college 
experience,"  says  Hsui,  "but  I  see  the 
web  site  as  just  another  way  to  help 
students  learn  the  material." 

The  feedback  from  students  has 
been,  for  the  most  part,  positive.  Of 
course,  there  have  been  the  usual 
hardware  glitches  as  the  sites  were 
first  put  up. 

"We've  had  our  share  of  growing 
pains,"  says  Hsui,  with  a  smile. 


Wang-Ping  Chen 


Chen,  who  has  been  at  the 
University  of  Illinois  since  1981,  is 
directing  an  international  project  to 
study  mountain  building  along  the 
Himalayan-Tibetan  zone  of  continent- 
continent  collision.  Funded  by  the 
National  Science  Foundation  over  a 
five-year  period  starting  in  2001, 
Project  Hi-CLIMB  (Himalayan-Tibetan 
Continental  Lithosphere  during 
Mountain  Building)  is  a  multi-discipli- 
nary effort  to  integrate  results  from 
seismology,  geophysics,  metamorphic 
and  igneous  petrology,  structural  geolo- 
gy, geochronology,  magnetotellurics, 
gravity  and  geodesy.  Participants  come 
from  a  dozen  institutions  in  the  United 
States,  Nepal,  China,  France  and 
Germany. 

The  project  will  address  a  number 
of  key  issues  in  continental  dynamics, 
including  lithospheric  deformation  dur- 
ing orogeny,  the  fate  of  the  Indian 
shield  and  crustal  evolution,  and 
crustal/mantle  delamination  and  man- 
tle dynamics. 


Chen  at  Kun-Lun  pass  in 
northern  Tibet— elevation 
4,767  meters. 


Large-scale  deformation 
is  known  to  involve 
both  the  crust  and  the 
upper  mantle,  but  cur- 
rently there  are  several 
hypotheses  about  how 
these  two  layers  deform 
during  mountain  build- 
ing. Each  hypothesis 
suggests  different  mech- 
anisms of  coupling 
between  the  upper  crust 
and  the  uppermost 
mantle.  The  Himalayan- 
Tibetan  collision  zone  is  ideal  for 
addressing  these  issues  because  "there 
is  strong  evidence  that  both  thin- 
skinned  and  mantle-involved  deforma- 
tion are  occurring,"  says  Chen.  "By 
studying  active  orogeny  along  this  col- 
lision zone  we  hope  to  understand  the 
dynamics  of  continental  convergent 
zones  in  general,"  he  adds. 

The  proposed  field  experiments 
will  be  the  first  to  extend  investiga- 
tions along  a  complete  profile  from 
the  foreland  where  the  deformation 
front  is  located,  across  both  the  Lower 
and  the  Higher  Himalayas,  then  onto 
the  central  Tibetan  Plateau.  Dense 
spacing— about  five  kilometers  apart — 
of  the  broadband,  high-resolution  seis- 
mic array  will  provide  unprecedented 
resolution  for  imaging  deep-seated 
structures,  particularly  those  in  the 
enigmatic  lower  crust,  below  the 
Moho,  and  throughout  the  transition 
zone  of  the  mantle.  These  structures 
are  likely  to  be  key  elements  for 
understanding  the  dynamics  of  build- 
ing the  Himalayas  and  the  Tibetan 
plateau,  says  Chen. 


RESEARCH 


Departmental  Advances  in  Geomicrobiology 


Several  department  members 
reported  advances  in  geomicrobial 
studies  at  the  GSA  meeting  in  Reno, 
Nevada,  last  November.  Graduate  stu- 
dent Qusheng  Jin  and  Craig  Bethke, 
professor  of  geology, 
announced  a  new,  uni- 
fied theory  of  microbial 
kinetics.  Bruce  Fouke, 
assistant  professor  of 
geology,  announced  new 
findings  regarding  micro- 
bial transport  in  hot 
springs  at  Yellowstone 
National  Park. 

Bethke  has  been 
studying  the  rates  at 
which  microbial  popula- 
tions metabolize  in  the 
natural  environment. 
That  work  has  been  lim- 
ited by  the  lack  of  a  general  theory 
about  those  rates.  Bethke  and  Jin  have 
derived  a  rate  law  that  is  based  on  the 
internal  mechanisms  of  microbial  res- 
piration. This  rate  law  accounts  for  the 
thermodynamics  of  the  metabolization 
process  and  the  energy  required  to 
produce  ATP.  Bethke  and  Jin  also  take 
into  account  the  abundance  of 
microbes  and  the  concentrations  of 
substrate  species  and  reaction  prod- 
ucts in  solution. 

"The  growth  of  microbial  popula- 
tions can  have  profound  effects  on  the 
chemistry  of  groundwater,  from  acid- 
mine  drainage  in  the  West  to  arsenic 
poisoning  in  Bangladesh,"  said  Bethke. 
"The  bulk  of  the  world's  microbial 
biomass  operates  by  eating  rocks — 
taking  inorganic  chemicals  and  using 
them  to  produce  energy.  By  construct- 
ing quantitative  models  of  that  reac- 
tion process,  we  might  find  more 


"The  growth  of  micro- 
bial populations  can 
have  profound  effects 
on  the  chemistry  of 
groundwater,  from 
acid-mine  drainage  in 
the  West  to  arsenic 
poisoning  in 
Bangladesh..." 


effective  solutions  and  control  mea- 
sures to  groundwater  problems." 

In  other  microbial  research,  Fouke 
and  post-doctoral  fellow  George 
Bonheyo  have  looked  at  the  relation- 
ship of  microbes  to  their 
environments  and  how 
they  might  travel  between 
environments.  Working  at 
Mammoth  Hot  Springs  in 
Yellowstone  National  Park, 
the  team,  which  also 
includes  microbiologist 
Abigail  Salyers  and  stu- 
dents Beth  Sanzenbacher 
and  Janki  Patel,  has  col- 
lected water,  rock  and  air 
samples.  They  then  used 
the  polymerase  chain  reac- 
tion (PCR)  technique  on 
microbial  lhSr  RNA  to 
detect  the  presence  and  type  of 
microbes.  The  next  step  is  to  deter- 
mine where  the  microbes 
came  from  and  how  they 
got  there. 

"Hot  springs  are  com- 
plex ecosystems  of  inter- 
acting microbes,  geochem- 
istry and  mineralogy," 
says  Bonheyo.  "The  source 
of  the  microbes,  and  the 
means  by  which  they  colo- 
nize new  springs,  has 
remained  unknown." 

Bonheyo  points  out, 
for  example,  that  bacteria 
that  exist  at  73  degrees 
centigrade  cannot  simply 
travel  across  open  land  to 
another  spring.  This  obser- 
vation led  him  to  wonder  how  bacteria 
travel. 

The  rapid  precipitation  of  calcium 
carbonate  in  hot  springs  often  results 


Bonheyo  points  out, 
for  example,  that 
bacteria  that  exist  at 
73  degrees  centigrade 
cannot  simply  travel 
across  open  land  to 
another  spring.  This 
observation  led  him  to 
wonder  how  bacteria 
travel. 


in  shifting  flows,  the  sealing  off  of 
some  springs,  and  the  eruption  of  new 
vents.  Last  year,  the  researchers  got  a 
chance  to  investigate  five  new  springs 
that  erupted  at  Angel  Terrace,  part  of 
the  Mammoth  Hot  Springs  complex. 
The  team  did  find  bacteria  in  the  new 
springs.  They  theorize  that  while  some 
bacteria  got  there  via  the  subterranean 
water  system,  others  hitched  a  ride  on 
the  steam  rising  from  surrounding 
springs. 

"When  we  witnessed  the  birth  of 
those  new  springs,  the  water  flowing 
through  the  ground  from  the  new 
springs  initially  was  only  45  degrees 
centigrade,"  says  Bonheyo.  "And  the 
only  bacteria  initially  detected  by  PCR 
in  the  new  spring  waters  were  those 
that  we  normally  find  living  in  cooler 
sections  of  mature  springs.  But  after 
about  18  hours,  the  temperature  had 
risen  to  73  degrees,  where  it  has 

remained.  And  as  the  tem- 
perature rose,  new  bacte- 
ria were  detected  that  are 
found  only  in  the  hotter 
regions  of  the  mature 
springs." 

Bonheyo  suggests  that  this 
second  group  of  bacteria 
that  need  warmer  temper- 
atures to  survive  probably 
traveled  by  steam  from  a 
mature  spring,  but  further 
study  is  needed  to  prove 
this  conclusively. 
This  research  was  funded 
by  a  University  of  Illinois 
Critical  Research 
Initiatives  grant  and  the 
American  Chemical  Society  Petroleum 
Research  Fund. 


RESEARCH 


Hurst  Participates  in  Undersea  Discovery 


Stephen  Hurst, 
research  programmer  in 
the  Department,  was 
part  of  a  group  of  scien- 
tists to  discover  a  field 
of  hydrothermal  vents 
with  "chimneys"  of  car- 
bonate and  silica  that 
are  nearly  200  feet 
tall— the  tallest  ever 
found.  This  finding  was 
reported  extensively  in 
newspapers  and  televi- 
sion during  December 
2000. 

Hurst,  a  structural 
geologist,  studies  fast- 
spreading  ocean  crusts 
exposed  at  the  Hess 
Deep  Rift.  Using  side- 
scanning  sonar,  ARGO 
(a  remotely  operated 
vehicle),  and  Alvin  (a 
three-person  sub- 
mersible), scientists  like 
Hurst  study  the  seafloor 
and  outcrops  almost 
two  miles  below  the 
water  surface.  This  was 
Hurst's  third  voyage  on 
board  the  Atlantis,  a 
research  vessel  owned 
by  the  U.S.  Navy  and 
operated  by  Woods 
Hole  Oceanographic 
Institute. 

This  particular 
expedition's  goal  was  to 
study  the  Atlantis  Massif,  an  excep- 
tionally high,  flat-topped  mountain 
east  of  the  Mid-Atlantic  Ridge.  The 
massif  is  a  mass  of  mantle  rock  thrust 
up  by  faulting  high  above  the  Atlantis 
transform  fault  and  Mid-Atlantic  Ridge 

"The  massif  appears  to  have  simi- 
lar features  and  probable  genesis  to 
mountain  chains  in  our  western  states 


Photomosaic  of  an  inactive, 
eight-meter-tall  carbonate  chim- 
ney in  the  eastern  portion  of  the 
Lost  City  Field.  The  calcite, 
aragonite,  and  brucite  chim- 
neys form  delicate  yet  massive 
pinnacles  that  reach  up  to  60 
meters  (180  feet)  in  height. 


called  'metamorphic 
core  complexes,'  that 
are  due  to  extension  of 
the  crust,"  says  Hurst. 
Hurst  looked  for  evi- 
dence that  would  help 
identify  the  timing  and 
geologic  history  of  the 
mountain  formation. 
He  gathered  and  inter- 
preted high-resolution 
side-scan  sonar  data 
and  electronic  images. 
The  latter  were  collect- 
ed using  the  ARGO  II 
remotely  operated 
vehicle.  Hurst  also 
went  on  three  Alvin 
dives  that  collected 
samples  and  structural 
data  on  the  massif. 
The  chimneys,  the 
most  surprising  finding 
of  the  expedition,  were 
found  at  the  very  top 
of  the  mountain,  a 
very  unlikely  place  for 
these  formations.  In 
addition,  the  chimneys 
are  made  of  carbonate 
and  magnesium  miner- 
als rather  than  sulfur- 
and  iron-based  miner- 
als, and  the  water 
spewing  from  them, 
while  scalding,  is  far 
cooler  than  that  found 
at  other  chimney  sites. 
The  structures  also  were  found  miles 
west  of  what  would  be  the  normal 
heat  source  for  such  vents. 

"The  size  and  extent  of  the  field  of 
the  chimneys  (there  are  at  least  20  and 
possibly  many  more)  suggests  that 
they  have  been  around  a  long  time — 
tens  if  not  hundreds  of  thousands  of 
years,"  says  Hurst. 


Lundstrom,  Hu 
and  Bass  Honored 

Craig  Lundstrom, 

assistant  professor 
of  geology,  has 
won  the  RW. 
Clarke  Medal  of 
the  Geochemical 
Society.  The 
Clarke  Award  is  a  major  award  made 
annually  at  the  V.  M.  Goldschmidt 
Conference  to  an  early-career  scientist 
for  a  single  outstanding  contribution  to 
geochemistry  or  cosmochemistry,  pub- 
lished either  as  a  single  paper  or  a 
series  of  papers  on  a  single  topic. 
Lundstrom  has  won  this  award  for  his 
groundbreaking  work  in  the  under- 
standing of  magmatic  processes  at 
mid-ocean  ridges. 

Feng  Sheng  Hu,  assistant  professor  of 
plant  biology  and  an  adjunct  professor 
of  geology,  received  the  prestigious 
Packard  Fellowship.  The  $625,000, 
five-year  award  will  support  his  work 
on  global  climate  change.  Hu  studies 
how  ecosystems  and  biogeochemical 
processes  are  affected  by  global 
change  over  a  long-term,  geologic 
time-scale.  In  addition  to  studying 
such  indicators  as  pollen  and  the 
chemical  composition  of  sediments, 
Hu  is  helping  to  develop  a  new  area  of 
study,  called  molecular  paleoecology. 
This  technique  uses  molecular  genetics 
to  help  identify  plant  species  repre- 
sented by  the  pollen  grains  found  in 
sediments.  Hu  was  among  24  U.S. 
researchers  named  2000  Packard 
Fellows  in  science  and  engineering. 
Packard  grants  are  given  by  the  David 
and  Lucile  Packard  Foundation. 

Professor  Jay  Bass  has  been  inducted 
as  a  "Fellow"  of  the  Mineralogical 
Society  of  America  in  recognition  of 
his  achievements  in  mineral  physics. 


In  the  Field 


Top:  Students  clamber  over  desert  terrains  to  learn  the 
geology  of  the  American  Southwest  during  the  spring  2000 
offering  of  Geology  315/415,  led  by  Professor  Steve 
Marshak. 

Left:  Students  in  Geology  315/415  wading  to  get  a  closer 
look  at  a  geological  feature  during  a  field  trip  to  Curacao 
led  by  Professor  Bruce  Fouke  in  December,  2000. 


Geochemist's  Workbench  Software  Program  Used 


A  computer  software  program 
written  by  Professor  Craig  Bethke  and 
his  research  team  has  taken  the  geo- 
chemistry field  by  storm. 

The  Geochemist's  Workbench, 
which  has  been  described  as 
"Mathematica  for  geochemists,"  makes 
quick  work  of  chores  such  as  balanc- 
ing reactions,  calculating  equilibrium 
constants,  constructing  Eh/Ph  dia- 
grams, and  tracing  even  very  compli- 
cated reaction  processes.  The  software 
works  graphically,  so  users  can  solve 
problems  on  their  PCs  and  then  paste 
the  resulting  diagrams  directly  into 
their  documents.  The  latest  release, 
version  3.2,  also  solves  microbiological 
problems. 

"We  needed  this  software  to  do 


our  own  work,"  says  Bethke,  who  stud- 
ies geochemical  questions  concerning 
remediation  of  contaminated  groundwa- 
ter, safety  of  injection  wells,  effects  of 
microbes  on  groundwater  quality,  and 
the  mobility  of  heavy  metals  in  acid 
mine  drainage,  among  other  things.  "By 
making  the  software  available  to  others 
we  could  hire  professional  programmers 
to  continue  to  develop  and  refine  it." 

The  program  is  clearly  filling  a 
strong  need.  Researchers,  in  countries  as 
diverse  as  Brazil,  South  Africa,  Egypt, 
Israel,  India,  China,  Taiwan,  Japan, 
Korea,  Australia,  New  Zealand,  and  even 
Slovenia,  have  licensed  the  software. 
The  program  is  applied  extensively  in 
the  energy,  mineral  and  environmental 
industries.  Bethke  is  particularly  gratified 


that  many  university  departments  use  the 
software  for  teaching  subjects  such  as 
environmental  science,  "green  chemistry" 
and  geology. 

"People  are  using  the  software  for 
applications  we  never  even  imagined,  like 
designing  longer-lasting  roadways,"  says 
Bethke. 

The  Geochemist's  Workbench  also  is 
being  adopted  as  the  standard  software  at 
most  national  labs,  such  as  Sandia  and 
Lawrence  Livermore,  as  well  as  govern- 
ment agencies  such  as  the  USGS  and  EPA. 

The  first  line  of  Geochemist's 
Workbench  was  written  in  1978  when 
Bethke  was  a  undergraduate  student.  The 
completed  program  was  first  made  avail- 
able in  1991.  It  has  been  updated  periodi- 
cally ever  since. 


In  the  Field 


Hands-On  Course  fop  Non-Majors  Is  a  Success 


10 


Geology  110:  Exploring  Planet  Earth 
in  the  Field  is  a  field-based  course  for 
non-majors.  It  appears  to  be  wildly  popu- 
lar among  those  that  take  it.  The  course, 
which  has  been  taught  by  Steve  Altaner 
for  the  past  few  years,  has  an  average 
enrollment  of  about  30-40  students. 

The  one-credit  course  includes  a 
three-day  camping  trip  to  the  Ozarks  in 
southeast  Missouri  and  a  one-day  trip  to 
the  Starved  Rock  area  of  northern  Illinois 

"This  course  has  everything  that 
geology  can  offer,"  says  Altaner.  "We  go 
to  very  scenic  areas  in  Missouri  and 
Illinois;  the  geology  in  both  places  is 
extraordinary;  and  we  start  very  simple 
and  work  our  way  to  increasingly  com- 
plex concepts." 

The  three-day  camping  trip  is  the 
high  point  for  many  students. 

"Everyone  helps,  we  set  up  tents, 
cook  together,  and  sit  around  the  camp- 
fire  together.  Very  close  friendships  grow 
from  this,"  says  Altaner. 

"The  most  important  part  of  this 
course  was  that  the  class  actually  got  to 
know  each  other  by  name,  something 
that  is  extremely  rare  in  a  University 
course,"  one  student  wrote  in  an  evalua- 
tion. 


Altaner's  goal,  in  addition  to  teach- 
ing basic  geological  concepts  to  non- 
majors,  is  to  get  students  to  apply  scien- 
tific methods  in  the  field.  The  students 
first  make  observations,  then  they  inter- 
pret those  observations,  (i.e.,  if  there  is 
sandstone  then  perhaps  the  area  was 
once  a  beach),  and  then  pull  all  the 
observations  and  interpretations  together 
into  a  geologic  history  of  the  area. 

"For  me  it's  remarkable  that  more 
than  90  percent  of  the  students  get  it.  I 
don't  get  anywhere  near  that  success  rate 


Here  Comes  the  Fun!  Students  gather  for  a 
group  shot  during  their  Ozark  camping 
trip.  The  African-American  student  at  front, 
center  wearing  the  knit  cap  is  Terrell 
Washington,  who  plays  on  the  defensive 
line  of  the  football  team.  Luckily,  the  fall 
camping  trip  is  always  scheduled  for  the 
only  non-football  weekend  in  the  semester, 
so  Washington  could  take  the  course. 
Washington,  a  St.  Louis  native,  would 
occasionally  stop  to  sign  autographs  for 
youngsters  in  the  campground. 

Students  examine  a  textbook  example  of 
an  intrusion  at  Johnson  Shut-Ins  in  the 
Ozark  Mountains.  Photo  courtesy  of 
Claudette  Roulou. 


in  other  100-level  courses,"  says  Altaner, 
who  also  teaches  Geology  100:  Earth  and 
Geology  118;  Environmental  Geology,  as 
well  as  several  upper-level  courses. 

During  the  Ozarks  trip  students  get 
to  see  the  Johnson  Shut  Ins— a  narrow, 
steep-walled  canyon— where  they  can  see 
stratigraphy,  intrusions,  and  other  geolog- 
ic features.  Here  they  begin  to  learn  to 
interpret  what  they  see.  During  the 
Starved  Rock  trip,  students  get  to  see 
some  fantastic  gorges  and  try  to  under- 
stand how  they  may  have  been  formed. 
In  addition  to  Starved  Rock  itself,  stu- 
dents go  to  Matthiesson  State  Park,  which 
has  100-foot  cliffs  of  pure  sandstone;  and 
Buffalo  State  Park,  an  old  strip  mine. 

Altaner  said  over  the  years  a  few  stu- 
dents have  changed  their  major  to  geolo- 
gy as  the  result  of  taking  Geology  110,  but 
perhaps  even  more  satisfying  is  how 
many  education  majors  have  taken  his 
course.  Those  students  that  go  into  edu- 
cation have  a  very  good  basic  geology 
education  after  having  taken  Geology  110, 
says  Altaner. 


In  the  Field 


Honors  Students  Get  Introduction  to  Earth  Sciences 


Faculty  in  the  Department  of 
Geology  are  striving  to  introduce  all 
undergraduates,  not  just  geology 
majors,  to  the  basics  of  earth  sciences. 
Just  as  Geology  110  gives  non-majors 
an  introduction  to  geology,  so  Geology 
111  gives  students  in  the  honors  pro- 
gram the  same  opportunity. 

The  Campus  Honors  Program 
(CHP)  is  a  small  program  within  the 
university  for  exceptional  students 
looking  for  a  more  individualized  and 
challenging  undergraduate  experience. 
Classes  are  generally  limited  to  about 
18  students.  From  more  than  10,000 
applicants  to  the  University  each  year, 
the  honors  program  accepts  only  125 
new  students.  They  are  expected  to 
fulfill  some  general  education  require- 
ments with  honors  courses,  which  are 
typically  small,  seminar-sized  classes 
that  rely  more  on  interacting  with  one 
another  than  on  a  large  lecture  format. 

"It  has  been  a  real  pleasure,  the 
students  are  highly  motivated  and 
quite  smart,"  says  Jay  Bass,  professor 
of  geology,  who  has  taught  Geology 
111:  The  Dynamic  Earth  twice  so  far. 

The  course  includes  a  lab  and  a 
three-day  (camping)  field  trip  to  the 
Ozarks  where  students  can  see  geolog- 
ical formations  first  hand.  Bass  notes 
that  the  students  have  a  wide  range  of 
majors,  from  music  to  astronomy.  The 
course  has  proved  quite  popular  with 
those  who've  taken  it. 

"The  best  part  of  the  class  was  the 
field  trip  to  Johnson  Shut  Ins  (in  the 
Ozarks),  says  senior  Kara  Barnes.  "We 
were  exposed  to  many  of  the  geologic 
structures  that  we  had  talked  about  in 


the  class.  Although  I  haven't  taken 
another  geology  course,  Professor  Bass 
was  one  of  the  main  reasons  I  chose 
the  ceramic  engineering  specialization 
in  my  major  (materials  science  &  engi- 
neering)." 

"The  way  that  I  judge  a  good  class 
is  by  how  much  material  I  remember 
after  all  of  the  tests  are  over,"  says 
junior  Valerie  Funk.  "I  still  find  myself 
looking  at  the  layers  in  the  outcrops 
along  the  interstate,  and  my  family  got 
more  than  a  little  tired  of  my  geologi- 
cal comments  on  our  trip  to  the  Grand 
Canyon.  Overall,  the  class  was  an 


extremely  positive  learning  experi- 
ence, and  I  have  highly  recommend- 
ed it  to  my  friends  in  the  Campus 
Honors  Program." 

A  department  that  wants  to  offer 
an  honors  course  has  to  apply  to  the 
CHP,  give  a  sample  talk  and  provide 
a  syllabus  for  the  proposed  course. 
Only  a  fraction  of  CHP  course  pro- 
posals are  accepted,  and  the  selec- 
tion process  is  very  competitive. 
Courses  need  to  have  some  innova- 
tive aspects,  and  must  be  taught  by 
an  experienced  faculty  member. 


Alumnus  David  Johnston  Remembered  on 
Mount  St.  Helens  Anniversary 


The  year  2000  marked  the  20th  anniversary  of  the  eruption  of  Mount 
St.  Helens,  which  flattened  230  square  miles  of  forest  with  the  force  of 
5,000  tons  of  TNT,  making  this  one  of  the  strongest  volcanic  eruptions  in 
the  history  of  the  nation. 

David  Johnston,  B.S.  71,  was  manning  a  United  State  Geological 
Survey  (USGS)  post  five  miles  northwest  of  the  mountain  when  the  volcano 
erupted.  He  sent  the  now-famous  radio  transmission  to  the  world  announc- 
ing the  eruption. 

At  8:32  a.m.  on  Sunday,  May  18,  1980,  Johnson  called,  "Vancouver! 
Vancouver!  This  is  it." 

Those  were  his  last  words. 

Johnston,  who  specialized  in  volcanoes,  was  one  of  61  people  killed  in 
the  eruption.  Though  only  30  years  old,  Johnston  had  become  one  of  the 
world's  experts  on  explosive  composite  volcanoes.  The  USGS  has  named 
several  of  its  properties  after  Johnston,  including  the  post  at  which  he 
stood  watch  during  the  eruption. 

Many  articles  have  been  written  about  the  eruption  and  Johnston's 
role,  most  recently  in  the  C-U  News-Gazette  and  in  National  Geographic 
magazine.  More  information  about  Mount  St.  Helens  is  available  at 
www.nationalgeographic.com 


Department  News 


Alberto  Nieto, 
Engineering 
Geologist, 
Retires 


"Engineering  geologists  are  a  very 
interdisciplinary  breed  and  provide  sup- 
port to  engineering  projects  that  is 
essential,"  says  Alberto  Nieto,  an  engi- 
neering geologist  who  retired  from  the 
Department  last  September.  "I  have 
been  primarily  concerned  with  solving 
engineering  problems  that  involve 
slopes,  underground  excavations,  dams 
and  mines." 

Engineering  geologists  learn  to  take 
into  account  factors  that  can't  always 
be  put  into  equations,  such  as  the 
degree  of  weathering,  fractures  and  per- 
meability in  soil  and  rock.  Their  contri- 
butions are  particularly  important  in 
projects  such  as  dams,  tunnels,  and 
mines,  where  taking  geological  factors 
into  an  engineering  project  is  critical  to 
a  project's  cost  and  safety. 

Nieto,  who  taught  at  the  University 
for  26  years,  started  out  as  a  petroleum 
geologist.  After  earning  his  master's 
degree  in  geology  from  Washington 
University  in  St.  Louis,  he  worked  for 
an  affiliate  of  Esso  for  several  years,  pri- 
marily in  South  America.  In  the  course 
of  that  work,  Nieto  became  interested 
in  some  of  the  practical  aspects  of  engi- 
neering geology.  He  became  particularly 
concerned  for  the  victims  of  natural 
and  man-made  disaster,  in  countries 
such  as  Peru,  where  he  is  originally 
from. 

Nieto  has  contributed  to  a  wide 
range  of  projects  throughout  his  career. 
He  has  examined  deep-well  injection 
sites  for  liquid  hazardous  waste,  stud- 
ied the  stability  of  mines  and  slopes, 


and  helped  design  various  damsites 
both  in  the  U.S.  and  in  Mexico  and 
South  America.  Nieto's  skills  are  much 
in  demand  in  these  major  building  pro- 
jects. His  clients  have  included  the  U.S. 
Army  Corps  of  Engineers,  as  well  as 
governments  in  other  countries  and 
several  private  companies. 

In  addition,  Nieto  has  provided  a 
key  link  between  the  departments  of 
civil  engineering  and  geology. 

"Alberto  really  made  major  contri- 
butions linking  engineering  with  geolo- 
gy in  his  teaching,"  says  Edward 
Cording,  professor  of  civil 
and  environmental  engi- 
neering at  the  University 
and  a  member  of  the 
National  Academy  of 
Engineering.  "He  has  often 
encouraged  civil  engineer- 
ing students  to  go  on  to 
take  other  geology  courses, 
such  as  structural  geology, 
groundwater  geology  or  geomorpholo- 
gy.  And  he's  done  a  good  job  taking 
students  into  the  field,  teaching  them 
how  to  map  geological  features  and 
learn  what  these  characteristics  mean  to 
the  stability  of  a  given  project." 

"Professor  Nieto  is  really  popular 

Alberto  Nieto  in  Cinque  Terre,  Italy,  where 
he  was  investigating  landslides. 


...Nieto  has 
provided  a  key 
link  between  the 
departments  of 
civil  engineering 
and  geology. 


with  the  students,"  says  Todd  Cole,  B.S. 
'92,  M.S.  '94,  who  studied  with  Nieto 
for  his  bachelor's,  master's  and  now 
doctorate  degrees.  "He's  also  very 
enthusiastic  about  his  field.  He's  a  real- 
ly good  teacher.  Professor  Nieto  is  also 
very  friendly  and  likes  to  spend  time 
with  graduate  students  even  outside  of 
class." 

Although  he  is  now  retired,  Nieto 
plans  to  continue  teaching  part  time  in 
the  department  of  civil  and  environ- 
mental engineering  and  continue  his 
consulting  work.  Nieto  also  would  like 
to  do  more  traveling.  Recently 
he  returned  from  a  four-month 
trip  to  eastern  Europe.  While 
based  in  Bratislava,  Slovakia,  he 
traveled  to  Italy,  Romania,  the 
Czech  Republic,  Hungary  and 
Austria,  where  he  did  some  lec- 
turing and  pro-bono  consulting. 

Nieto  would  also  like  to 
work  on  some  research  projects 
of  particular  interest  to  him.  One  is  the 
development  of  structural  units  for  con- 
struction that  would  be  comparable  in 
strength  to  concrete,  but  less  expensive. 
He  hopes  this  would  provide  third- 
world  countries,  where  concrete  is  very 
expensive,  a  safe,  alternative  building 
material. 


12 


DEPARTMENT  NEWS 


Alumna,  Emeritus  Faculty  Honored  at  GSA  Meeting 


_  Two  professors 
I  emeriti  and  an 
alumna  of  the 
department  were 
honored  for  their 
contributions  at 
the  annual 
Geological  Society 
of  America  (GSA) 
meeting  in  Reno, 
Nevada.  Richard 
Hay,  professor  emeritus  in  the 
Department  of  Geology,  received  the 
Rip  Rapp  Archaeological  Geology 
Award.  The  award,  given  by  the 
archaeological  geology  division  of  GSA, 
honors  Hay's  work  from  1962-2000  at 
two  important  archaeological  sites: 
Laetoli  and  Olduvai  Gorge  in  East 
Africa.  Hay's  work  helped  define  the 
stratigraphy  of  these  sites,  which  are 
important  because  they  contain  the 
earliest  known  hominid  remains.  The 
award,  established  in  1983,  honors  out- 
standing career  contributions  to  the 
interdisciplinary  field  of  archaeological 
geology. 

Hay  served  as  the  Ralph  Grim 
Professor  of  Geology  at  the  University 
of  Illinois  from  1983-1997.  While  at 
Illinois,  he  made  significant  contribu- 
tions to  the  understanding  of  auto- 
genic feldspar  formation  and  taught 
popular  courses  in  petrology.  Hay  and 
his  wife,  Lynn,  now  live  in  Tucson, 
Arizona,  where  Hay  continues  his 
work  in  geology. 

Suzanne  Mahlburg  Kay,  B.S.  '69, 
M.S.  72,  professor  of  geology  at 
Cornell  University,  was  awarded  the 
GSA  Distinguished  Service  Award  for 
her  work  as  GSA  Today  science  editor 
from  1996-1999.  Faith  Rogers,  manag- 
ing editor  at  GSA,  said  in  her  citation 


that  Kay,  "with  her  record  of  achieve- 
ment in  working  where  logistics  are 
challenging  (the  Aleutians  and  the 
Andes)  accomplished  the  nearly 
impossible — getting  authors  with  inter- 
esting stories  to  put  those  stories  into 
readable  form,  with  eye-catching 
graphics  and  submit  them  in  time  to 
be  reviewed,  revised,  and  edited  for 
the  next  issue  of  GSA  Today.  ...  We  are 
fortunate  that  she  accepted  the  chal- 
lenge of  fitting  GSA  Today  editorial 
tasks  into  her  already  packed  life." 

Emeritus  professor 
George  D.  Klein 

won  the  Laurence 
L.  Sloss  award  for 
Sedimentary 
Geology  from  the 
Geological  Society 
of  America.  Klein 
is  only  the  second 
winner  of  this 
annual  award. 
The  Sloss  award  was  established  to 
celebrate  those  who  emulate  the  out- 
standing achievements  of  Laurence 
Sloss  in  the  field  of  sedimentary  geolo- 
gy and  in  exemplary  service  to  GSA. 
Kathleen  M.  Marsaglia,  B.S.  79,  M.S. 
'82,  delivered  the  citation. 

Klein,  who  was  on  the  faculty 
from  1970-1993,  is  best  known  and 
most  widely  cited  for  his  work  in  tidal 
processes  and  facies,  having  published 
two  books  and  more  than  30  journal 
articles  on  tidal  processes  and  modern 
and  ancient  tidalites,  a  term  he  coined. 
Tidalites  are  sediments  deposited  by 
tidal  currents  and  associated  processes. 
More  recently,  he  has  made  significant 
contributions  to  the  literature  on  the 
origin  of  cyclothems  and  the  tectonics 
of  sedimentary  basins. 


Klein  has  been  a  very  active  mem- 
ber of  the  GSA.  He  has  attended  and 
presented  papers  at  approximately  30 
GSA  annual  meetings,  edited  two  GSA 
Special  Papers,  published  nine  articles 
in  the  Bulletin,  and  eight  articles  in 
Geology.  Klein  also  served  as  the 
founding  chair  and  past-chair  of  the 
GSA  Sedimentary  Geology  Division. 
During  his  service  as  chair,  member- 
ship jumped  from  5  to  1,500,  making 
this  the  fourth  largest  division  within 
GSA. 

In  his  acceptance  speech,  Klein 
said,  "I  tell  all  of  you  very  frankly  that 
if  it  weren't  for  the  fact  that  I  accepted 
a  faculty  appointment  at  the  University 
of  Illinois  at  Urbana-Champaign,  I 
would  not  be  accepting  the  Laurence 
L.  Sloss  Award  today.  I  want  to  thank 
the  University  of  Illinois  for  having 
offered  me  a  position  on  its  faculty 
because  in  certain  respects,  that  uni- 
versity is  a  very  unique  place.  First,  the 
administration  there  knew  how  to  fos- 
ter, encourage  and  facilitate  faculty 
research.  Second,  I  had  some  great  col- 
leagues there,  including  one  with 
whom  I  wrote  several  research  papers. 
Third,  the  University  of  Illinois  has 
what  I  call  "institutional  momentum." 
I  discovered  that  wherever  I  went  in 
the  USA  and  the  world  and  whenever  I 
introduced  myself  as  a  professor  of 
geology  at  the  University  of  Illinois, 
doors  opened,  access  was  provided, 
appointments  were  scheduled  and  met, 
opportunities  were  opened  up  to  me, 
and  opportunities  to  do  things  were 
accepted." 


13 


Windows  into  the  Past 


Geology  Moves  on  at  Illinois: 


Benjamin  C.  Jillson  and  Charles  Wesley  Rolfe 


By  Ralph  Langenheim,  Emeritus  Professor 


Regent  Peabody's  removal  of  Don 
Carlos  Taft  as  professor  of  Geology  and 
Zoology  in  1881  (see  article  in  the  1999 
Department  of  Geology  Year  in  Review) 
set  off  an  extended  search  for  a  replace- 
ment. Stephen  Forbes,  then  at  Normal 
(now  Illinois  State) ,  was  the  first  offered 
the  position  but  declined  because 
arrangements  could  not  be  made  to 
transfer  the  State  Laboratory  of  Natural 
History  and  the  State  Entomologist's 
Office,  headed  by  him,  from 
Bloomington  to  Urbana.  (In  1884  these 
were  transferred  to  Urbana,  at  which 
time  Forbes  accepted  the  professorship 
in  zoology  and  went  on  to  a  distin- 
guished career.) 

Peabody's  next  offer  went  to  David 
Starr  Jordan,  a  prominent  ichthyologist 
then  at  Indiana  University.  Jordan  also 
declined,  saying  he  "was  very  little 
pleased  with  the  (University's)  sur- 
roundings, geographically  speaking  ..." 

Peabody's  third  choice,  Benjamin  C. 
Jillson,  accepted  the  professorship  of 
zoology  and  geology  in  1882.  Jillson 
had  an  M.D.  from  the  University  of 
Nashville  and  a  Ph.D.  from  Lafayette 
College.  He  also  had  attended  the 
Sheffield  Scientific  School  and  had  pub- 
lished at  least  one  geologic  paper, 
Geology  of  Allegheny  Co.,  Pa.,  1886, 
Trans.  Med.  Soc.  Pa.,  vol.  4  No.  2,  p.  42- 
46.  Jillson's  main  contribution  to 
University  of  Illinois  geology  was  initiat- 
ing laboratory  instruction,  the  lack  of 
which  had  been  one  of  Peabody's  rea- 
sons for  "evicting"  Taft. 

However,  Jillson  was  not  well 
respected  by  the  students.  In  spring, 
1883,  an  anonymous  student  publica- 
tion declared,  "'Blasted  Crank'  Jillson 
ignorant  of  the  subjects  he  taught"  and 
suggested  that  a  "change  of  climate 
would  be  good  for  his  health."  Whether 


Charles  Wesley  Rolfe  was  an  energetic 
administrator  and  teacher. 

related  to  this  or  not,  Jillson  retired  in 
1884  ...  to  become  an  Army  surgeon. 

Peabody  then  appointed  Charles 
Wesley  Rolfe,  a  member  of  the 
University's  first  graduating  class  (1872) 
and  a  student  of  Taft's.  After  graduating, 
Rolfe  had  worked  for  a  year  as  "Assistant 
in  the  Natural  History  Department"  and 
then  held  positions  in  several  Illinois 
public  and  private  schools. 

In  1881  Rolfe  returned  to  the 
University.  For  three  years,  he  taught 
mathematics  and  assisted  Thomas 
Jonathan  Burrill.  Burrill,  one  of  the 
three  original  members  of  the  faculty, 
taught  algebra,  natural  history,  botany, 
and  horticulture.  In  1884,  Rolfe  was 
appointed  assistant  professor  of  natural 
history,  and  was  responsible  for  teach- 
ing geology  and  many  other  courses.  He 
remained  head  of  the  geology  program 
until  his  retirement  in  1917. 


From  1897  until  his  death,  Rolfe 
lived  in  Taft's  former  house  at  601  E. 
John  St.,  which  he  had  purchased  from 
Taft's  son,  Lorado.  More  recently,  the 
house  was  moved  to  1401  S.  Maryland 
Ave.,  near  Mt.  Hope  Cemetery,  to  make 
way  for  the  Swanlund  Administration 
Building.  Still  standing,  the  Taft/Rolfe 
house  now  is  used  by  the  4-H 
Foundation  and  the  College  of  ACES 
(Agricultural,  Consumer  and 
Environmental  Sciences). 

Rolfe  was  an  energetic  administra- 
tor and  teacher.  In  the  early  years  of  his 
tenure,  he  taught,  with  some  assistance, 
all  of  the  geology  courses  then  offered, 
including  (in  modern  terms)  physical 
and  historical  geology,  paleontology, 
mineralogy,  geomorphology,  field  geolo- 
gy, structural  geology  and  economic 
geology.  In  addition,  he  taught  physiolo- 
gy, veterinary  science,  and  bookkeeping, 
and,  for  several  years,  was  the 
University  librarian.  When  President 
Draper  persuaded  the  Trustees  to  fund  a 
project  to  domesticate  the  squirrels  on 
campus,  Rolfe  added  the  post  of  "squir- 
rel master"  to  his  list  of  responsibilities. 

As  head  of  the  geology  program, 
Rolfe  eventually  presided  over  a  staff  of 
three  professors— William  S.  Bayley,  T.E. 
Savage,  and  John  Rich — each  of  whom 
were  or  became  prominent  national  fig- 
ures in  their  respective  fields.  In  addi- 
tion, a  series  of  assistants  included 
several  who  became  prominent 
national  figures  in  geology.  Thus,  the 
Department  of  Geology  had  evolved 
from  a  strictly  undergraduate,  largely 
service  organization  to  an  embryonic 
graduate  program  with  an  active 
research  program. 

Rolfe  published  five  scientific 
papers  between  1889  and  1908  and  one 
in  1931.  His  first  paper  was  a  16-page 


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1952  Group  Photo  Revisited 


comment  on  the  characters  of  distrib- 
ution of  brachiopods.  This  was  fol- 
lowed by  two  papers  on  hydrogeology 
and  an  additional  two  on  the  geology 
of  clays  and  the  distribution  of  paving 
brick  material  in  Illinois.  Rolfe's  final 
paper  was  an  historical  account  of 
geologic  studies  in  Illinois  prior  to 
establishment  of  the  present  State 
Geological  Survey.  In  1892,  the  tireless 
Rolfe  also  created  a  model  of  the 
topography  of  the  state,  county  by 
county.  The  plaster  relief  model, 
which  was  displayed  at  the  Chicago 
World's  Fair  of  1893,  took  him  18 
months  to  complete. 

Rolfe  also  was  instrumental  in 
initiating  the  university's  program  in 
ceramics,  actively  promoting  legisla- 
tion to  establish  the  program  and 
serving  for  eight  years  as  the  first 
head  of  what  later  became  the 
Department  of  Ceramic  Engineering. 
He  facilitated  the  development  of  an 
active  research  program  in  ceramic 
engineering. 

From  1894  on,  Rolfe  advocated 
establishing  the  present  Illinois  State 
Geological  Survey  (ISGSJ  and  was  a 
significant  participant  in  negotiations 
toward  that  goal,  which  was  achieved 
in  1905.  Rolfe  also  pushed  to  locate 
the  ISGS  on  the  Urbana  campus. 

Even  when  retired,  Rolfe 
remained  on  campus,  maintaining 
contact  with  the  University  until  his 
death  in  1934  at  the  age  of  83.  At  the 
time  of  his  death,  Rolfe  was  the  oldest 
living  faculty  member  and  one  of  a 
handful  of  survivors  of  the 
University's  first  graduating  class.  He 
can,  perhaps,  be  seen  as  the  true 
"father"  of  the  Illinois  Geology 
Department's  programs  in  clays, 
groundwater  and,  perhaps  Pleistocene 
geology  and  geomorphology. 


We  have  had  many  responses  to  the  photo  we  published  in  the  last  Yearbook  with  sev- 
eral people  contributing  more  identifications. 

Jack  Burgess,  B.S.  '49,  writes  that  no.  29  is  Frank  Staplin  and  no.  31  is  Byrd  Berman. 

Robert  Doehler,  B.S.  '51,  M.S.   S3,  Ph.D.  '57,  writes,  "I  feel  certain  that  no.  27  is 
Patrick  Byrne,  who  worked  in  clay  minerals  with  Professor  Grim.  No.  36  is  Eugene 
Williams,  who  was  the  graduate  assistant  in  optical  mineralogy  when  I  took  the  course. 
No.  42  is  Robert  Fox  and  no.  43  is  Robert  Fuchs.  1  believe,  though  I'm  not  100  percent 
certain  that  no.  21  is  lack  Shelton  and  no.  35  is  Bob  Brockhouse. ""Please  convey  my 
thanks  to  Professor  Henderson  for  supplying  this  photo  along  with  the  identifications. 
Here's  hoping  that  one  day  soon  it  will  be  completed." 

Lyle  Eberly,  M.S.  '57,  (number  28  in  the  photo)  writes  that  no.  21  is  John  Shelton,  no. 
27  is  Patrick  Byrne,  no.  28  is  himself,  no  31  is  Byrd  Berman,  graduate  assistant,  no.  32 
is  Charlie  Hardie,  graduate  assistant,  no.  33  Eugene  Frund,  graduate  assistant,  no.  35 
Robert  Brockhouse,  no.  36  Eugene  Williams,  graduate  assistant,  no.  42  Robert  Fox,  no. 
44  John  Burgener,  graduate  assistant. 

Lou  Putler,  Ph.D.  '69,  writes,  "the  1952  photo  of  the  faculty  is  grand  ...  Hough, 
Wanless,  Scott,  Chapman,  Grim  and  White  ...  but  most  memorable  is  ROSA  NICKELL!!" 
(Editor's  note:  Rosa  Nickell  (number  1  in  the  photo)  was  the  Geology  Department  leg- 
endar\i  secretary  for  many  years  in  the  mid-20th  century.  In  fact,  most  would  say  that 
she  ran  the  department!) 

John  W.  Shelton  also  added  some  identifications  to  the  group  photo.  In  addition  to 
those  listed  above,  Shelton  identified  no.  39  as  John  Chapman.  Shelton  also  provided 
the  following  photograph  from  the  1950  Field  Camp  at  Ft.  Lewis  A  &  M  College, 
Hesperus,  CO.   Those  who  would  like  to  fill  in  the  blanks,  please  do  so! 

Leonard  Schultz 
Hal  Wanless 
Warren  Ziebell 

Spangler 

Wade  McCormick 
Charlie  Hardie 
Stuart  Grossman 
John  Hathaway 
Dr.  Wanless 
Dr.  Mervil 
Don  Baird 
Don  Sprouse 
Sellards  ?? 


Boh  Zirkle 
John  Shelton 
Andy  Seslak 


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Alumni  News 


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Steve  Sroka  in  Dinosaurland 


Vernal,  Utah,  population  7,000,  is 
tucked  in  the  northeastern  corner  of 
Utah,  but  Steve  Sroka,  Ph.D.  '96,  aims 
to  make  it  a  magnet  for  people  interest- 
ed in  the  geology  and  paleontology  of 
the  Uinta  Basin. 

"Our  goal  is  to  be  the  interpretive 
center  for  the  entire  Uinta  basin  and 
mountain  region  with  an  emphasis  on 
the  geology  and  paleontology  of  the 
area,"  says  Sroka,  director  of  the  Utah 
Field  House  of  Natural  History  in 
Vernal. 

The  museum  staff  is  in  the  process 
of  raising  money  to  enlarge  the  muse- 
um's exhibit  space  from  14,000  to 
22,000  square  feet  and  to  improve  the 
exhibits  so  that  anyone  interested  in  the 
natural  history  of  the  region  will  know 
to  come  to  the  Field  House.  The  muse- 
um averages  about  115,000  visitors 
annually  and  also  houses  the 
Northeastern  Utah  Visitor  Center  where 
information  on  other  area  attractions  is 
given  out. 

As  director,  Sroka  is  responsible  for 
general  administration  tasks,  including 
budgets,  funding,  public  relations  and 
marketing.  He  also  oversees  the  inter- 
pretive programs  and  collection  work, 
including  redesign  of  the  collections  to 
make  them  more  relevant  and  interest- 
ing to  visitors.  Sroka  supervises  a  staff 
of  three  full-time  employees  and  five 
seasonal  workers. 

One  way  Sroka  is  working  to  make 
the  Field  House  the  best  regional  muse- 
um is  by  forming  partnerships  with 
other  institutions.  For  example,  Sroka 
has  established  a  partnership  with 
Dinosaur  National  Monument,  which  is 
just  20  miles  to  the  east.  Sroka,  along 


Steve  Sroka  on  top  of  the 
Salt  Wash  dip  slope  with 
Brushy  Basin  Member  in 
the  background. 


with  museum  curator  Sue  Ann  Bilbey, 
are  working  with  monument  scientists  on 
joint  research  projects  involving 
dinosaurs  from  the  Morrison  Formation. 
In  addition,  the  monument  and  museum 
staff  are  planning  a  combined  state-of- 
the-art  curation  facility.  This  facility  will 
be  a  repository  of  specimens  excavated  at 
the  monument,  as  well  as  other  federal 
land.  The  museum  may  also  be  a  place 
where  specimens  collected  at  the  monu- 
ment could  be  displayed.  This  is  the  first 
such  partnership  for  both  the  monument 
and  the  field  house. 

Sroka  also  is  in  the  process  of  creat- 
ing a  summer  program  for  college  teach- 
ers, in  conjunction  with  colleague  Russ 
Jacobson  (a.k.a.  "Dino  Russ"),  acting 
head  of  the  Coal  Section  of  the  Illinois 
State  Geologic  Survey.  One  program 
would  involve  field  work  in  vertebrate 
and  invertebrate  paleontology.  Ultimately 
Sroka  and  Jacobson  hope  to  have  a  quar- 
ry setting  where  teachers  and  students 
can  gain  hands-on  dinosaur  excavating 
experience.  Sroka  and  Jacobson  have  run 
such  digs  for  the  past  decade  in  South 
Dakota  and  Wyoming. 

The  second  type  of  program  is  a  tour 
of  the  "Dinosaur  Diamond,"  an  area  in 
eastern  Utah  and  Colorado  demarcated 
by  Grand  Junction,  Moab,  Price  and 
Vernal.  The  tour  would  look  at  both  the 
dinosaurs  and  the  geology  of  the  region 
and  is  open  to  both  teachers  and  stu- 
dents. Sroka  and  Bilbey  also  are  working 
to  expand  the  geology  curriculum  of  the 
Utah  State  University  campus  branch  at 
Vernal,  ultimately  establishing  a  field  pro- 
gram based  in  Vernal. 

Although  it  is  not  part  of  his  official 
duties,  Sroka  gets  out  the  field  about 


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once  a  month.  Currently  Sroka  is  exca- 
vating what  he  thinks  is  a  bipedal  camp- 
tosaurus  and  Bilbey  is  working  on  a 
brand-new  species  of  sauropod. 

"Vernal  is  a  geologist's  and  paleon- 
tologist's dream  area,"  says  Sroka.  I  can 
go  out  to  the  field,  be  back  for  lunch 
and  have  seen  13  geologic  units  in  that 
time. " 

Sroka  credits  the  University  of 
Illinois  with  giving  him  a  great  experi- 
ence. 

"I  came  to  Illinois  to  study  with 
Dan  Blake,  who  is  one  of  the  world's 
leading  paleontologists  and  an  excellent 
advisor." 

While  here,  Sroka  worked  in  the 
Natural  History  Museum  helping  with 
the  collections  and  some  computer 
work.  He  also  worked  at  the  Illinois 
State  Geological  Survey  in  the  coal,  oil 
and  gas  sections.  After  getting  his  doc- 
torate, working  for  about  a  year  as  an 
associate  editor  for  the  Journal  of 
Paleontology,  and  helping  with  the 
department's  paleontology  collections, 
Sroka  headed  to  the  Grand  River 
Museum  in  South  Dakota.  He  worked 
there  for  nearly  two  years  helping  the 
community  establish  a  brand-new 
museum. 

After  his  stay  in  South  Dakota, 
Sroka  was  hired  as  the  director  for  the 
Field  House.  Sroka  is  the  first  paleontol- 
ogist with  museum  experience  and  a 
Ph.D.  to  be  director  of  the  museum. 
Because  the  Field  House  is  part  of  the 
Utah  state  park  system,  prior  directors 
have  been  law  enforcement  officers. 
"I'm  the  first  director  who  hasn't  had  to 
go  through  formal  law  enforcement 
training,"  says  Sroka. 

Sroka  urges  all  alumni,  faculty,  stu- 
dents and  staff  to  visit  Vernal.  "It's  basi- 
cally on  the  way  to  field  camp,"  he 
notes.  "Everyone  is  welcome." 


Obituaries 


Alumni  News 


Prasada  C.  Rao,  Ph.D.  '70,  a 

student  of  Albert  Carozzi's,  died  in 
September,  1999.  He  was  62.  Rao 
was  born  in  India  and  studied  at 
the  University  of  Mysore.  He  then 
moved  to  Illinois  where  he 
received  his  Ph.D.  His  dissertation 
concerned  the  microfacies  and  sta- 
tistical petrography  of  carbonates 
from  the  Ste.  Genevieve  Formation 
(Mississippian  of  Illinois).   After 
working  for  two  years  at  the 
Illinois  State  Geological  Survey, 
Rao  joined  the  Department  of 
Geology  at  the  University  of 
Tasmania,  Hobart,  where  he  rose 
to  the  rank  of  Professor.  Rao 
worked  on  both  modern  and 
ancient  carbonates  in  a  variety  of 
environments.  He  is  perhaps  best 
known  for  his  work  on  cold-water 
periglacial  carbonates  related  to 
Permian  Gondwana  glaciations  in 
Australia  and  Tasmania,  and  for 
his  work  on  modern  cold-water 
carbonate  sediments  in  the  Tasman 
Sea.   In  addition  to  publishing 
scholarly  papers,  he  published  two 


books:  A  Colour  Illustrated  Guide  to 
Sedimentary  Textures:  Cold  Cool  Warm 
Hot,  and  Modern  Carbonates:  Tropical 
Temperate  Polar. 

Margaret  Frances  Harper  Lehde, 
B.S.  '34,  died  November  9,  2000.  Lehde 
taught  geology  at  the  University  of 
Illinois  and  worked  for  the  Illinois  State 
Geological  Survey.  She  was  a  member 
of  the  University  of  Illinois  Geology 
Department  Alumni  Association  and  the 
University  of  Illinois  Alumni 
Association. 

Lehde,  who  was  born  Margaret 
Frances  Harper,  was  married  in  1939  to 
Arthur  W.  Lehde,  the  first  blind  student 
to  graduate  from  the  University  of 
Illinois.  The  two  met  when  Arthur 
Lehde  took  a  geology  course  Margaret 
Lehde  was  teaching  in  the  University's 
Department  of  Geology.. 

In  1943,  Lehde  established,  with 
her  husband,  a  very  successful  insur- 
ance agency.  They  worked  together  in  it 
until  Lehde's  husband  died  in  1988. 

Lehde  never  lost  her  love  of  geolo- 
gy. She  enjoyed  telling  friends  and  fami- 


ly of  her  experiences  on  geology 
field  trips  with  Dr.  Harold  Wanless, 
especially  to  the  Black  Hills  of  South 
Dakota;  of  her  years  studying  and 
teaching  geology  at  both  Smith 
College  and  the  University  of 
Illinois;  and  her  experiences  at  the 
Illinois  Geological  Survey.  Even 
while  gardening  she  kept  a  sharp 
eye  out  for  interesting  rocks. 

Lehde's  children,  Anthony 
Lehde  and  Neva  Lehde  Fulton, 
wrote,  "Mom  had  many  warm  mem- 
ories of  the  University  of  Illinois  and 
the  Department  of  Geology  and 
never  lost  sight  of  the  impact  both 
had  on  her  life." 

Maxwell  Gage,  a  visiting  pro- 
fessor in  the  Geology  Department  in 
1952-53  died  on  June  1,  2000.  He 
was  living  in  New  Zealand.  His  wife, 
Molly  Rose,  died  in  1999. 

Paul  Shaffer,  geology  professor 
from  1947-1965,  died  last  November 
at  his  home  in  Marysville,  Ohio.  He 
was  90  years  old. 


Class  News 


Margaret  Leinen,  B.S.  '69,  has  been  named 
the  head  of  the  National  Science  Foundation 
(NSF)  geosciences  directorate.  She  began  this 
position  in  January  2000.  Leinen,  who  was  dean 
of  the  Graduate  School  of  Oceanography  and  vice 
provost  for  Marine  and  Environmental  Programs 
at  the  University  of  Rhode  Island,  will  be  respon- 
sible for  coordinating  environmental  science  and 
engineering  programs  within  NSF,  and  for  environ 
mental  cooperation  and  collaborations  between  NSF  and  other  federal  agen- 
cies. She  will  manage  an  annual  budget  of  approximately  $470  million. 

Leinen  is  a  well-known  researcher  in  paleoceanography  and  paleoclima- 
tology.  Her  work  focuses  on  the  historv  of  biogenic  sedimentation  in  the 
oceans  and  its  relationship  to  global  biogeochemical  cycles  and  the  history  o 
eolian  sedimentation  in  the  oceans  and  its  relationship  to  climate.  Leinen 
replaced  Robert  W.  Corell,  who  held  this  position  since  1987. 


Leinen  in  the  field  circa  1967 


Seventies 


Owen  L.  White,  Ph.D.  '70,  has  edit- 
ed a  book,  titled  Urban  Geology  of 
Canadian  Cities,  with  P.F.  Karrow,  who 
is  also  a  graduate  of  the  department. 
Contributors  to  the  book  include  depart- 
ment graduates  John  S.  Scott  and  E.A. 
Christiansen.  White  has  been  retired 
from  the  Ontario  Geological  Survey  since 
1991.  E-mail:  owen.white@sympatico.ca 


Eighties 


Jim  Haslett,  B.S.  '81,  has  moved  to 
back  to  Flagstaff  from  southern 
California.  He  is  self-employed,  working 
as  an  environmental  consultant  to  com- 
panies in  Arizona  and  California.  "I  get 
to  work  out  of  my  home,  and  I'm  only 
minutes  from  the  greatest  geology  on 


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Alumni  News 


Awards  and  Degrees 


Earth,"  he  writes.  E-mail: 
geologygod@aol.com 

Lee  Hirsch,  B.S.  '81,  is  now 

embarking  on  a  two-year  volunteer 
assignment  teaching  physics  for  the 
Peace  Corps  in  Tanzania.  "Tanzania  is  a 
really  beautiful  country  and  I  am  very 
excited  as  1  begin  this  adventure,"  he 
writes.  Lee's  mailing  address  is:  c/o 
Peace  Corps  Tanzania,  36  Zambia  Road, 
Box  9123,  Dar  es  Salaam,  TANZANIA 

Kathleen  M.  Marsaglia,  B.S.  '79, 
M.S.  '82,  is  now  assistant  professor  at 
the  department  of  geological  sciences  at 
California  State  University,  Northridge. 
She  was  previously  senior  reservoir 
petrologist/geologist  at  Westport 
Technology  Center  International  in 
Houston. 

After  25  years  as  geologist  at  the 
Illinois  State  Geological  Survey  in 
Champaign/Urbana,  Janis  Treworgy, 
Ph.D.  '85,  and  her  husband,  Colin,  have 
moved  to  St.  Louis.  Treworgy  has  joined 
the  faculty  at  Principia  College  in  Elsah, 
111.  "This  is  an  exciting  new  opportunity 
for  the  whole  family!"  she  writes. 
E-mail:  janisdt@principia.edu 

Nineties 

Alex  Glass,  B.S.  '98,  has  returned 
from  The  Ohio  State  University  (where 
he  earned  his  master's  degree)  to  contin- 
ue his  paleontological  work  on  brittle- 
stars  and  starfish  with  Dan  Blake.  While 
at  Ohio,  Glass  studied  with  Bill  Ausich, 
B.S.  74.  "Bill  was  a  great  advisor,  he 
was  very  enthusiastic  about  sharing  his 
knowledge  and  love  for  crinoids  with 
me,"  says  Glass. 

Jennifer  Jackson,  B.S.  '98,  a  math 
education  major  and  a  geology  minor, 
has  returned  to  the  Department  for  her 
doctoral  program.  Jackson  went  to  Notre 
Dame  for  master's  degree.  While  there 
she  worked  with  Peter  Burns  (who  was 
a  visiting  professor  at  the  University  of 
Illinois  from  1996-97).  Jackson  is  work- 
ing with  Professor  Jay  Bass. 


Seniors  Frannie  Skomurski  (center)  and  Megan  Elwood  are  pictured  receiving  departmental 
awards  from  Stephen  Marshak,  department  head,  last  spring.  Skomurski  received  the  Estwing 
Award  and  Elwood  received  the  Geology  Alumni  Award  for  Outstanding  Senior.  Senior  Laura 
Swan  also  received  the  Midwest  Research  Scholarship  Award  last  spring.  In  addition,  several 
graduate  students  received  awards.  Joe  Schoen  received  outstanding  teaching  assistant,  Aubrey 
Zerkle  and  Jennifer  Jackson  were  named  outstanding  woman  graduate  students,  and  Serena  Lee, 
Mike  Harrison,  Tony  Gibson,  and  Zerkle  received  Morris  M.  and  Ada  B.  Leighton  Memorial  Fund 
awards. 


Degrees  Conferred  in  2000 


Bachelor  of  Science  Degrees 

January 

David  John  Beedy 
Andrew  Michael  Collins 
Steven  Michael  Rick 

May 

Rebecca  Henszey  Ashton 
Kelcey  Emma  Dalton 
Jolene  Elizabeth  Einhouse 
Megan  Erica  Elwood 
David  Michael  Kulczycki 
Lisa  Marie  Noe 
Christy  Marie  Palmer 
Susan  Gardner  Riggins 
Yuki  Jamie  Shinbori 

August 

Philip  Michael  Johanek 
Kristine  Lynn  Mize 


Master  of  Science  Degrees 

January  '00 

Roberto  Hernandez,  Geometry  and  Kinematics  of 
Thrust-Related  Deformation  Between  the  Petrolea  and 
Aguardiente  Structures,  in  the  Catatumbo  Subbasin, 
Colombia  (Stephen  Marshak) 

Christopher  S.  McGarry,  Regional  Fracturing  of  the 
Galena-Platteville  Aquifer  in  Boone  and  Winnebago 
Counties,  Illinois:  Geometry,  Connectivity  and 
Tectonic  Significance  (Stephen  Marshak) 

May  '00 

Dylan  Pierce  Canavan,  Early  Meteoric  Calcite 
Cementation  in  Pleistocene  Sands  of  the  Banner 
Formation,  Mahomet  Valley  Aquifer,  Central  Illinois, 
USA  (Bruce  Fouke) 

August  '00 

Yoshie  Hagiwara,  Selenium  Isotope  Ratios  in  Marine 
Sediments  and  Algae  -  A  Reconaissance  Study  (Tom 
Johnson) 

Judd  Sun  Tudor,  Regional  Deformation  Analysis  in 
the  Devonian  Catskill  Formation  Surrounding  the 
Lackawanna  Synclinorium,  NE  Pennsylvania 
(Stephen  Marshak) 


Honor  Roll  of  donors  for  2000 


The  following  is  a  list  of  friends  and  alumni  of  the  Geology  Department  who  have  donated  to  the  University  during  the  calendar  year  2000. 
We  regret  not  publishing  a  similar  list  in  the  1999  "Year  in  Review."  We  hope  to  make  this  a  regular  feature  of  all  future  annual  newsletters. 


Glen  P.  Anderson 
Thomas  F.  Anderson 
Franklin  Andrews 
Robert  F.  Babb  II 
Rodney  J.  Balazs 
Debbie  E.  Baldwin 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  James  E. 

Bales 
Margaret  H.  Bargh 
Dr.  and  Mrs.  David  K. 

Beach 
William  M.  Benzel 
Craig  M.  Bethke 
Abigail  E.  Bethke 
Marion  E.  Bickford 
Heidi  Blischke 
Bruce  F.  Bohor 
Eugene  W.  Borden  Sr. 
Joseph  E.  Boudreaux 
James  C.  Bradbury 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Allen  S. 

Braumiller 
Annette  Brewster 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Ross  D. 

Brower 
Robert  L.  Brownfield 
Glenn  R.  Buckley 
Susan  B.  Buckley 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Edwin  F. 

Bushman 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Richard  J. 

Cassin 
James  W.  Castle 
Dr.  and  Mrs.  Thomas  L. 

Chamberlin 
Charles  J.  Chantell 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Lester  W. 

Clutter 
Lorence  G.  Collins 
Barbara  J.  Collins 
Virginia  A.  Colten-Bradley 
Michelle  M.  Corlew 
Thomas  E.  Covington 
Lucinda  E.  Cummins 
Norbert  E.  Cygan 
George  H.  Davis 
Ilham  Demir 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  M.  Peter 

deVries 
Richard  E.  Dobson 
Sophie  M.  Dreifuss 
William  W.  Dudley  Jr. 
Mohamed  T.  El-Ashry 
John  S.  Esser 
Harold  H.  Falzone 
Kenneth  T.  Feldman 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Dale  C. 

Finley  Jr. 
Gary  M.  Fleeger 
Richard  M.  Forester 
Jack  D.  Foster 


Robert  E.  Fox 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Edwin  H. 

Franklin 
Gordon  S.  Fraser 
Barry  R.  Gager 
James  C.  Gamble 
John  R.  Garino 
Theresa  C.  Gierlowski 
Richard  A.  Gilman 
Robert  N.  Ginsburg 
Hal  Gluskoter 
Charles  J.  Gossett 
Dr.  and  Mrs.  Albert  L. 

Guber 
Tom  Guensburg 
Latif  S.  Hamdan 
Brian  T.  Hamilton 
Edwin  E.  Hardt 
Catherine  L.  Harms 
Richard  L.  Hay 
Daniel  O.  Hayba 
Darrell  N.  Helmuth 
Mark  A.  Helper 
Lee  M.  Hirsch 
Henry  A.  Hoff 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Mark  F. 

Hoffman 
Eric  J.  Holdener 
John  C.  Home 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Glen  A. 

Howard 
Arthur  M.  Hussey  II 
Roscoe  G.  Jackson  II 
Joseph  M.  Jakupcak 
Steven  F.  Jamrisko 
Martin  V.  Jean 
John  E.  Jenkins 
William  D.  Johns  Jr. 
Bruce  A.  Johnson 
Donald  0.  Johnson 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Eric  M. 

Johnson 
Kenneth  S.  Johnson 
Edward  C.  Jonas 
Dr.  and  Mrs.  Frank  R. 

Karner 
Suzanne  Mahlburg  Kay 
George  H.  Keller 
John  P.  Kempton 
Mark  L.  Kerasotes 
Dr.  and  Mrs.  John  D.  Kiefer 
R.  James  Kirkpatrick 
Theodore  A.  Koelsch 
Christopher  P.  Korose 
Paul  Kraatz 
Robert  F.  Kraye 
Thomas  E.  Krisa 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Scott  R. 

Krueger 
Jean  B.  Kulla 
Willard  C.  Lacy 


Richard  W.  Lahann 
Michael  B.  Lamport 
Rik  E.  Lantz 
Steven  W.  Leavitt 
Stephen  C.  Lee 
Rebecca  M.  Leefers 
Hannes  E.  Leetaru 
Margaret  Frances  Lehde 

Estate    (DEC) 
Morris  W.  Leighton 
Margaret  Leinen 
Russell  B.  Lennon 
Robert  W  Leonard 
William  D.  Lieb 
Walter  A.  Locker  Jr. 
Crystal  G.  Lovett 
Michael  T.  Lukert 
Bernard  W.  Lynch 
Rob  Roy  Macgregor 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  John  W. 

Marks 
Stephen  and  Kathryn 

Marshak 
James  L.  Mason  Jr. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Alan  R.  May 
Robert  S.  Mayer 
E.  Donald  McKay  III 
Cheryl  B.  Miller 
James  A.  Miller 
Linda  A.  Minor 
David  B.  Mitcheltree 
Laurie  D.  Benton 
John  D.  Mitchler 
John  S.  Moore 
Prof,  and  Mrs.  Wayne  E. 

Moore 
Sharon  Mosher 
Ernest  H.  Muller 
Robert  E.  Murphy 
Haydn  H.  Murray 
Robert  E.  Myers 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Mike  S.  Nash 
Howard  R.  Naslund 
Bruce  W  Nelson 
W  John  Nelson 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Brian  D.  Noel 
Charles  H.  Norris 
William  A.  Oliver  Jr. 
Phillip  G.  Orozco 
Edmond  G.  Otton 
Mrs.  Lucile  F.  Otton    (DEC) 
Michael  R.  Owen 
Roderick  J.  Padgett 
Norman  J.  Page 
Katherine  A.  Panczak 
Dr.  and  Mrs.  Richard  R. 

Parizek 
Corinne  Pearson 
Russel  A.  Peppers 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Charles  E. 

Pflum 


Mr.  and  Mrs.  Bruce  E. 

Phillips 
Dr.  and  Mrs.  Jack  W.  Pierce 
Dr.  and  Mrs.  Robert  I. 

Pinney 
Paul  L.  Plusquellec 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Richard  J. 

Powers 
Raymond  W  Rail 
Elizabeth  P.  Rail 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Richard  K. 

Rapp 
Paul  J.  Regorz 
Donald  0.  Rimsnider 
Robert  W.  Ringler 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  George  S. 

Roadcap 
Nancy  M.  Rodriguez 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Edward  L. 

Rosenthal 
Jeffrey  A.  Ross 
Mark  D.  Russell 
Suzanne  J.  Russell 
Tim  Rynott 
Gayla  F.  Sargent 
Michael  L.  Sargent 
Jay  R.  Scheevel 
Mark  H.  Scheihing 
Detmar  Schnitker 
Dr.  and  Mrs.  Leonard  G. 

Schultz 
David  C.  Schuster 
Franklin  W  Schwartz,  PhD 
Diana  P.  Schwartz 
Martha  G.  Schwartz 
Paul  R.  Seaber 
Dr.  and  Mrs.  John  W. 

Shelton 
Jack  A.  Simon 
D.  Leroy  Sims 
Roger  A.  Sippel 
Stephen  A.  Smith 
Eric  P.  Sprouls 
Gary  D.  Strieker 
Daniel  A.  Textoris 
Dr.  and  Mrs.  J.  Cotter 

Tharin 
David   S.  Thiel 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Jack  C. 

Threet 
Edwin  W  Tooker 
Kenneth  M.  Towe 
Mark  J.  Triebold 
John  B.  Tubb  Jr. 
Robert  G.  Vanderstraeten 
Robert  W.  Von  Rhee 
Dr.  and  Mrs.  F.  Michael 

Wahl 
Harriet  E.  Wallace 
James  G.  Ward 
Michael  R.  Warfel 


Carleton  W  Weber 
W  F.  Weeks 
Jack  L.  Wilber 
William  W  Wilson 
Paul  A.  Witherspoon  Jr. 
Ramil  C.  Wright 
Roland  F.  Wright 
Lawrence  Wu 
Mary  Yarnell 
Valentine  E.  Zadnik 
William  B.  Zartman 
Robert  A.  Zebell 

Corporations 

AlliedSignal  Inc. 
American  Chemical  Society 
BP  Amoco  Foundation 
Charitable  Gift  Fund 
Chevron  Matching  Grants 

Program 
Chevron  Petroleum 

Technology  Company 
Dominion  Resources 

Services,  Inc. 
The  Elizabeth  Morse 

Charitable  Trust 
ExxonMobil  Foundation 
GeoCrown,  Inc. 
H.  H.  Murray  &  Associates, 

Inc. 
Harris  Bank  Foundation 
Hewlett-Packard  Company 
Idaho  National  Engineering 

and 
National  Semiconductor 

Corporation 
Orion  International  Limited 
Pacific  Geology 

Consultants,  Inc. 
Peoples  Energy 

Corporation 
Petroleum  Research  Fund 
PG&E 
Shell  Oil  Company 

Foundation 
Tetra  Tech  EM  Inc. 
Texaco  Foundation 
Texaco  Incorporated 
Union  League  Club  of 

Chicago 
Union  Pacific  Resources 

Group  Inc. 
USX  Foundation  Inc. 


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Annual  report  for  2000 


Faculty 

Stephen  P.  Altaner,  associate  professor 

Jay  D.  Bass,  professor 

Craig  M.  Bethke,  professor 

Daniel  B.  Blake,  professor 

Chu-Yung  Chen,  associate  professor 

Wang-Ping  Chen,  professor 

Bruce  W.  Fouke,  assistant  professor 

Albert  T.  Hsui,  professor 

Thomas  M.  Johnson,  assistant  professor 

R.  James  Kirkpatrick,  professor  and  executive 

associate  dean 
Craig  C.  Lundstrom,  assistant  professor 
Stephen  Marshak,  professor  and  head 
Xiaodong  Song,  assistant  professor 

Visiting  Faculty 

Richard  Beane,  visiting  assistant  professor 
Michael  J.  Handke,  visiting  lecturer 
John  Werner,  visiting  assistant  professor 

Academic  Staff,  Post-Docs, 
Visiting  Scholars 

Deb  Aronson,  yearbook  editor 
George  Bonheyo,  post-doctoral  researcher 
Marguerite  Carozzi,  research  associate 
Richard  Hedin,  research  programmer 
Eileen  Herrstrom,  teaching  lab  specialist 
Stephen  Hurst,  research  programmer 
Andrey  Kalinichev,  senior  research  scientist 
Lalita  Kalita,  research  programmer 
Joanne  Kluessendorf,  research  associate 
Ann  Long,  visiting  teaching  lab  specialist 
Hiroaki  Noma,  visiting  scholar 
Stanislav  Sinogeikin,  visiting  scholar 
Frank  Schilling,  visiting  scholar 
Frank  Tepley,  post-doctoral  researcher 
Raj  Vanka,  resource  and  policy  analyst 
Alan  Whittington,  post-doctoral  researcher 
Xinong  Xie,  visiting  scholar 


Library  Staff 


Emeritus  Faculty 


David  E.  Anderson 

Thomas  F.  Anderson 

Albert  V.  Carozzi 

Carleton  A.  Chapman 

Donald  L.  Graf 

Arthur  F.  Hagner 

Richard  L.  Hay 

Donald  M.  Henderson 

George  deV.  Klein 

Ralph  L.  Langenheim 

C.  John  Mann 

Alberto  S.  Nieto  (beginning  August  2000) 

Philip  A.  Sandberg 


Adjunct  Faculty 


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Keros  Cartwright  (ISGS) 

Heinz  H.  Damberger  (ISGS) 

Leon  R.  Follmer  (ISGS) 

Feng  Sheng  Hu  (Plant  Biology) 

Dennis  Kolata  (ISGS) 

Morris  W.  Leighton  (ISGS) 

John  McBride  (ISGS) 

William  Shilts  (ISGS) 

M.  Scott  Wilkerson  (DePauw  University) 


Sheila  McGowan   (Chief  Library  Clerk) 
Diana  Walter   (Library  Technical 

Specialist) 
Greg  Youngen  (Acting  Head  Librarian) 

Staff 

Michelle  Campbell  (Clerk) 
Barbara  Elmore  (Administrative 

Secretary) 
Eddie  Lane  (Electronics  Engineering 

Assistant) 
Pamela  Rank  (Account  Technician  II), 

until  June  2000 
Michael  Sczerba  (Clerical  Assistant) 
Sue  Standifer  (Clerical  Assistant),  until 

November  2000 

Graduate  Students 

David  Beedy 
Peter  Berger 
Michael  Brudzinski 
Kurtis  Burmeister 
Dylan  Canavan 
Amanda  Duchek 
Andre  Ellis 
Michael  Fortwengler 
Anthony  Gibson 
Stephanie  Gillain 
Alex  Glass 
Keith  Hackley 
Yoshie  Hagiwara 
Michael  Harrison 
Xiaoqiang  Hou 
Jennifer  Jackson 
Qusheng  Jin 
Dmitry  Lakshtanov 
Serena  Lee 
Christopher  Mah 
Peter  Malecki 
Jungho  Park 
George  Roadcap 
Joseph  Schoen 
Xinlei  Sun 
Jian  Tian 
Tai-Lin  Tseng 
Richard  Wachtman 
Matthew  Wander 
Jianwei  Wang 
Xiaoxia  Xu 
Zhaohui  Yang 
Aubrey  Zerkle 
Juanzuo  Zhou 


Courses  Taught  in  2000 


Geol  100  - 

Planet  Earth 

Geol  101  - 

Introduction  to  Physical 

Geology 

Geol  104  - 

Geology  of  the  National  Parks 

and  Monuments 

Geol  107  - 

General  Geology  I 

Geol  108  - 

General  Geology  II 

Geol  110  - 

Planet  Earth  -  Lab/Field 

Geol  116  - 

Geology  of  the  Planets 

Geol  117  - 

The  Oceans 

Geol  118  - 

Earth  and  the  Environment 

Geol  143  - 

History  of  Life 

Geol  233  - 

Earth  Materials  and  the 

Environment 

Geol  250  - 

Geology  for  Engineers 

Geol  311  - 

Structural  Geology  and 

Tectonics' 

Geol  315  - 

Field  Geology  (field  trip  to 

Arizona  abd  California) 

Geol  317  - 

Geologic  Field  Methods, 

Western  United  States  (Field 

Camp) 

Geol  320  - 

Introduction  to  Paleontology 

Geol  332  - 

Mineralogy  and  Mineral  Optics 

Geol  336  - 

Petrology  and  Petrography 

Geol  340  - 

Sedimentology  and  Stratigraphy 

Geol  351  - 

Geophysical  Methods  for 

Geology,  Engineering,  and 

Environmental  Sciences 

Geol  355  - 

Introduction  to  Groundwater 

Geol  360  - 

Geochemistry 

Geol  380  - 

Current  Problems  in 

Environmental  Geology 

Geol  397  - 

Field  Methods  in  Geological, 

Geotechnical,  and 

Geoenvironmental  Exploration 

Geol  401  - 

Physical  Geochemistry  I 

Geol  415  - 

Advanced  Field  Geology 

Geol  432  - 

Sedimentary  Geochemistry 

Geol  433  - 

Isotope  Geology 

Geol  440  - 

Petroleum  Geology 

Geol  451  - 

Practice  of  Engineering 

Geology 

Geol  458  - 

Geochemical  Reaction  Analysis 

Geol  493A1  - 

Graduate  Student  Seminar 

Geol  49311  - 

Current  Topics  in  Paleobiology 

and  Earth  History 

Geol  493K1  - 

Continental  Lithosphere 

Geol  493K3  - 

Interior  of  the  Earth 

Geol  493R1  - 

Data  Analysis  in  Geosciences 

Geol  493V1  - 

Geochronology 

Research  Grants  Active  in  2000 


American  Chemical  Society  Petroleum 
Research  Fund 

A  Time  Series  Process  Model  of  Carbonate 
Diagenesis  and  Microbial  Genetic 
Preservation  in  Hot  Spring  Travertine, 
Yellowstone  National  Park,  Wyoming,  and 
Gardiner,  Montana. 
Principal  Investigator:  Bruce  Fouke 

Development  of  Selenium  Isotope  Ratios  as 
Indicators  of  Sedimentary  Paleo- 
Environments. 
Principal  Investigator:  Thomas  Johnson 

Origin,  Architecture,  &  Thermal  State  of  the 
Lackawanna  Syncline,  Pennsylvania. 
Principal  Investigator:  Stephen  Marshak 

Department  of  Energy 

Computational  &  Spectroscopic  Investigations 
of  Water-Carbon  Dioxide  Fluids  &  Surface 
Sorption  Processes. 
Principal  Investigator:  R.  James  Kirkpatrick 

Illinois  Council  on  Food  and  Agriculture 
Research 

Estimation  of  Dentrification  Rates  in  the 
Shallow  Groundwater  Flow  Systems  of  Big 
Ditch  Watershed,  Illinois  -  Isotope 
Assessment. 
Principal  Investigator:  Thomas  Johnson 

Institute  of  Geophysics  And  Planetary 
Physics,  Los  Alamos 

Timescales  of  Crustal  Level  Differentiation:  U- 
Series  Measurements  and  Geophysical 
Monitoring  at  Arenal  Volcano,  Costa  Rica. 
Principal  Investigator:  Craig  Lundstrom 

NASA 

Core  Angular  Momentum  and  the 
International  Earth  Rotation  Service 
Coordination  Center  /  Sub-Centers  Activity 
for  Monitoring  Global  Geophysical  Fluids. 
Principal  Investigator:  Xiaodong  Song 

National  Science  Foundation 

Elasticity  of  Mantle  Minerals  Under  High 
Pressures  and  Temperatures. 
Principal  Investigator:  Jay  Bass 

Polyamorphism  and  Structural  Transitions 
During  Glass  Formation. 
Principal  Investigators:  John  Kieffer  and 
Jay  Bass 

Development  of  Laser  Heating  for  Sound 
Velocity  Measurements  at  High  P  &  T 
Principal  Investigator:  Jay  Bass 

Global  Climate  Change  &  The  Evolutionary 
Ecology  of  Antarctic  Mollusks  in  the  Late 
Eocene. 
Principal  Investigator:  Daniel  B.  Blake 


The  Asteroid  (Echinodermata)  Trichasteropsis 
from  the  Triassic  of  Germany:  Its 
Taxonomy,  Phylogeny,  and  Paleoecologic 
Significance. 
Principal  Investigator:  Daniel  B.  Blake 

A  Seismic  Study  of  the  Mantle  Transition 
Zone  and  Subducted  Lithophere. 
Principal  Investigator:  Wang-Ping  Chen 

Seismic  Reflection  Profiles  in  Southern  Illinois 
(funded  through  the  Mid-America 
Earthquake  Research  Center). 
Principal  Investigators:  John  McBride, 
Stephen  Marshak,  and  Wang-Ping  Chen 

Proximal  Carbonate  Ejecta  and  Breccias  from 
the  Cretaceous-Tertiary  Chicxulub  Impact: 
Ballistic  Sedimentation  and  Brecciation, 
87Sr/S6Sr  Chronology  and  Diagenetic 
Alteration. 
Principal  Investigator:  Bruce  Fouke 

Selenium  Stable  Isotopes  as  Indicators  of 
Selenium  Transport. 
Principal  Investigator:  Thomas  Johnson 

Development  of  Cr  Stable  Isotopes  for  Cr 
Transport  Studies  and  Other  Geoscience 
Application. 
Principal  Investigator:  Thomas  Johnson 

Investigation  of  Mineral  Structure  & 
Dynamics. 
Principal  Investigator:  R.  James  Kirkpatrick 

NMR  Quantum  Chemical  Computational 
Study  of  Silicate-Based  Materials. 
Principal  Investigator:  R.  James  Kirkpatrick 

Measuring  Trace  Element  Partition 

Coefficients  Between  Minerals  and  Basaltic 

Melt. 

Principal  Investigator:  Craig  Lundstrom 

Windows  into  MORB  Petrogenesis:  Measuring 
U-Series  Disequilibria  in  MORB  from 
Transforms. 
Principal  Investigator:  Craig  Lundstrom 

Tectonics  of  the  Aracuai/Ribeira  Orogenic 
Tongue  of  Southeastern  Brazil  and  its 
Significance  to  the  Assembly  of  West 
Gondwana. 
Principal  Investigator:  Stephen  Marshak 

Constraining  the  Structure  and  Rotation  of  the 
Inner  Core. 
Principal  Investigator:  Xiaodong  Song 

Office  of  Naval  Research 

The  Role  of  Shipyard  Pollutants  in  Structuring 
Coral  Reef  Microbial  Communities: 
Monitoring  Environmental  Change  and  the 
Potential  Causes  of  Coral  Disease. 
Principal  Investigator:  Bruce  Fouke 


State  Of  Illinois  Board  Of  Higher  Education 

Evolution  of  the  Martian  Surface:  A 

Cooperative  Learning  Module  for  General 

Education  in  Science. 

Principal  Investigator:  Albert  Hsui 

U.S.  Geological  Survey 

Mapping  of  the  Pittston  7.5"  Quadrangle, 
Pennsylvania. 
Principal  Investigator:  Stephen  Marshak 

University  Of  Illinois  Critical  Research 
Initiative: 

Geological,  Microbiological,  Biochemical 
Mechanisms  of  Microbial  Fossilization:  A 
Template  for  Interpreting  the  History  of 
Life. 

Principal  Investigators:  Bruce  Fouke,  A. A. 
Salyers,  J.  Sweedler 

University  Of  Illinois  Research  Board 

Acquisition  of  a  Single  Collector  Thermal 
Ionization  Mass  Spectrometer. 
Principal  Investigator:  Craig  Lundstrom 


Geothrust  Members  (op  2000 


J.  William  Soderman  -  Chair 
M.S.  '60,  Ph.D.  '62 

James  R.  Baroffio 
Ph.D.  '64 

David  K.  Beach 
B.S  73 

Marion  "Pat"  Bickford 
M.S.  '58,  Ph.D.  '60 

Lester  W.  Clutter 
B.S.  '48,  M.S.  '51 

James  C.  Cobb 
B.S.  71,  Ph.D.  '81 

Norbert  E.  Cygan 

B.S.  '54,  M.S.  '56,  Ph.D.  '62 

Edwin  H.  Franklin 
B.S.  '56 

John  R.  Garino 
B.S.  '57 

James  W.  Granath 
B.S.  71,  M.S.  73 

Morris  W.  Leighton 
B.S.  '47 

Patricia  Santogrossi 
B.S.  74,  M.S.  77 

Jack  C.  Threet 
A.B.  '51 


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List  of  Publications  for  2000 


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This  list  includes  only  peer-reviewed  articles, 
chapters,  and  books. 

Lundstrom,  C.C.,  2000,  Rapid  diffusive  infiltra- 
tion of  sodium  into  partially  molten  peridotite: 
Nature.  403:  527-530. 

Kao,  H.,  and  Chen,  W.-R,  2000,  The  Chi-Chi 
earthquake  sequence:  Active,  out-of-sequence 
thrust  faulting  in  Taiwan:  Science,  288:  2346- 
2349. 

Carozzi,  Albert  V,  2000,  Manuscripts  and 
Publications  of  Horace- Benedict  de  Saussure 
on  the  Origin  of  Basalt  (1772-1797):  769  pp. 
Editions  Zoe.  Geneva. 

Ylagan,  R.F.,  Altaner,  S.P.,  and  Pozzuoli,  A., 
2000,  Reaction  mechanisms  of  smectite  illiuza- 
tion  associated  with  hydrothermal  alteration 
from  Ponza  Island,  Italy:  Clays  &  Clay 
Minerals,  48:  610-631. 

Finkelstein,  D.B.,  Altaner,  S.P.,  and  Hay,  R.L., 
2000,  Alteration  history  of  volcaniclastic  sedi- 
ments in  the  upper  Oligocene  Creede 
Formation,  southwestern  Colorado:  in  Bethke, 
P.M.  and  Hay,  R.L.  eds.,  Ancient  Lake  Creede 
-  Its  volcano-tectonic  setting,  history  of  sedi- 
mentation, and  relation  to  mineralization  in 
the  Creede  Mining  District,  Colorado: 
Geological  Society  of  America  Special  Paper 
346:  209-232. 

Song,  X.D.,  2000,  Joint  inversion  for  inner  core 
rotation,  inner  core  anisotropy,  and  mantle 
heterogeneity:  J.  Geophys.  Res.,  105:  7931- 
7943. 

Blake,  D.  B.,  Janies,  D.A.,  and  Mooi,  R.  J.,  2000, 
Evolution  of  starfishes:  Morphology,  mole- 
cules, development,  and  paleobiology 
(Introduction  to  the  Symposium  on  Starfishes) : 
American  Zoologist,  40:  311-315. 

Sinogeikin,  S.V.,  Jackson,  J.M.,  O'Neill,  B.,  Palko, 
J.W.,  and  Bass,  J.D.,  2000,  Compact  high-tem- 
perature cell  for  Brillouin  scattering  measure- 
ments: Rev.  Sci.  Instruments,  71:  201-206 

Carozzi,  Marguerite,  2000,  H.-B.  de  Saussure: 
James  Hutton's  Obsession:  Archives 
Scientifique  Geneve,  53:  77-158. 

Huff,  W.  D.,  Bergstrom,  S.  M.,  and  Kolata,  D.  R., 
2000,  Silurian  K-bentonites  of  the  Dnestr 
Basin,  Podolia,  Ukraine:  Journal  of  the 
Geological  Society  of  London,  157:  493-504. 

Song,  X.D.  and  Li,  A.Y.,  2000,  Support  for  differ- 
ential inner  core  superrotation  from  earth- 
quakes in  Alaska  recorded  at  South  Pole  sta- 
tion: J.  Geophys.  Res.,  105:  623-630. 

Edwards,  M.E.  et  al.  including  Hu,  F.S.  2000, 
Plant-based  biomes  for  Beringia  18,000,  6,000, 
and  0  l4C  yr  B.P.:  Journal  of  Biogeography,  27: 
521-554. 


Berger,  A.  and  Bethke,  CM.,  2000,  A  process 
model  of  natural  attenuation  at  a  historic  min- 
ing district:  Applied  Geochemistry,  15:  655- 
666. 

Blake,  D.  B.,  2000,  An  Archegonaster-\ike  somas- 
teroid  (Echinodermata)  from  Pomeroy,  Co. 
Tyrone,  Northern  Ireland:  Irish  Journal  of 
Earth  Sciences,  18:  89-99. 

Fouke,  B.W.,  Farmer,  J.D.,  Des  Marais,  D.J.,  Pratt, 
L.,  Sturchio,  N.C.,  Burns,  P.C.,  and  Discipulo, 
M.K.,  2000,  Depositional  facies  and  aqueous- 
solid  geochemistry  of  travertine-depositing  hot 
springs  (Angel  Terrace,  Mammoth  Hot  Springs, 
Yellowstone  National  Park,  USA):  Journal  of 
Sedimentary  Research,  70:  565-585. 

Bethke,  CM.  and  Brady,  P.V.,  2000,  How  the  Kd 
approach  undermines  groundwater  cleanup: 
Groundwater,  38:  435-443. 

Brueckner,  H.K.,  Cunningham,  W.D.,  Alkmim, 
F.F.,  and  Marshak,  S.,  2000,  Tectonic  implica- 
tions of  Precambrian  Sm-Nd  dates  from  the 
southern  Sao  Francisco  craton  and  adjacent 
Aracuai  and  Ribeira  Belts,  Brazil:  Precambrian 
Research,  99:  255-269. 

Blake,  D.  B„  2000,  The  class  Asteroidea 

(Echinodermata):  Fossils  and  the  base  of  the 
crown  group:  American  Zoologist,  40(3):  316- 
325. 

Scott,  R.W.,  Fouke,  B.W.,  Schlager,  VV„  and 
Nederbragt,  A.J.,  2000,  Are  Mid-Cretaceous 
eustatic  events  recorded  in  Middle  East  car- 
bonate platforms?,  Middle  East  models  of 
Jurasic/Cretaceous  carbonate  systems:  SEPM 
Special  Publication,  69:  77-88. 

Bethke,  CM.,  Torgersen,  T,  and  Park,  J.,  2000, 
The  "age"  of  very  old  groundwater:  Insights 
from  reactive  transport  models:  Journal  of 
Geochemical  Exploration,  6970:  1-4. 

McArthur,  J.M.,  Fouke,  B.W.,  Donovan,  D.T.,  and 
Thirlwall,  M.F.,  2000,  Strontium  isotope 
stratigraphy  in  the  Jurassic:  Early  Toarcian-Late 
Pleinsbachian  timescale  revision  and  its  impli- 
cations: Earth  and  Planetary  Science  Letters, 
179:  269-285. 

Kavner,  A.,  Sinogeikin,  S.V.,  Jeanloz,  R.,  and 
Bass,  J.D.,  2000,  Strength  and  equation  of 
state  of  natural  majorite:  J.  Geophys.  Res.,  105: 
5693-5971. 

Jackson,  J.M.,  Sinogeikin,  S.  V.,  Bass,  J.D.,  and 
Weidner,  D.J.,  2000,  Sound  velocities  and  elas- 
tic properties  of  A-Mg,SiO.,  to  873  K  by 
Brillouin  spectroscopy:  Am.  Mineralogist,  85: 
296-303. 

Brudzinski,  M.  R.,  and  Chen,  W.-P,  2000, 
Variations  of  P-wave  speeds  and  outboard 
earthquakes:  Evidence  for  a  petrologic  anom- 
aly in  the  mantle  transition  zone:  J.  Geophys. 
Res.,  105:  21,661-21,682. 


McBride,  J.  H.,  2000,  Geophysical  signatures  of 
Caledonian  and  Variscan  deformation  in  the 
North  Atlantic  realm,  in  Diaz  Garcia,  E, 
Gonzalez  Cuadra,  P.,  Martinez  Catalan,  J., 
Arenas,  R.,  eds.,  Basement  Tectonics  15,  A 
Corufia,  Spain,  Program  and  Abstracts, 
Universidad  de  Oviedo,  Spain:  13-16. 

Sinogeikin,  S.V.  and  Bass,  J.D.,  2000,  Single  crys- 
tal elasticity  of  pyrope  and  MgO  to  pressures  of 
20  Gpa  by  Brillouin  scattering  in  the  diamond 
cell:  Phys.  Earth  Planet.  Interiors,  120:  43-62. 

Brady,  P.V.  and  Bethke,  CM.,  2000,  Beyond  the 
Kd  approach:  Groundwater,  38:  321-322. 

Sinogeikin,  S.V.,  Schilling,  F.R.,  and  Bass,  J.D., 
2000,  On  the  Bulk  Modulus  of  Lawsonite:  Am. 
Mineral.,  85:  1834-1837. 

Johnson  T.  M„  Roback,  R.  C,  Mcling,  T.  L., 
Bullen,  T.  D.,  DePaolo,  D.  J.,  Doughty,  C, 
Hunt,  R.  J„  Murrell,  M.  X,  and  Smith,  R.  W„ 
2000,  Groundwater  'Fast  Paths'  in  the  Snake 
River  Plain  Aquifer:  Radiogenic  isotope  ratios 
as  natural  groundwater  tracers:  Geology,  28: 
871-874. 

Herbel,  M.J.,  Johnson,  T.M.,  Oremland,  R.S.,  and 
Bullen,  T.D.,  2000,  Fractionation  of  selenium 
isotopes  during  bacterial  respiratory  reduction 
of  selenium  oxyanions:  Geochim.  Cosmochim. 
Acta,  64:  3701-3709. 

Blake,  D.  B.,  Tintori,  A.,  and  Hagdom,  H„  2000, 
A  new  asteroid  (Echinodermata)  from  the 
Norian  (Triassic)  Calcare  di  Zorzino  of  north- 
ern Italy:  its  stratigraphic  occurrence  and  phy- 
logenetic  significance:  Rivista  Italiana  di 
Paleontologia  e  Stratigrafia,  106:141-156. 

Kalinichev,  A.  C,  Kirkpatrick,  R.  J.,  and  Cygan, 
R.  X,  2000,  Molecular  modeling  of  the  struc- 
ture and  dynamics  of  the  interlayer  and  surface 
species  of  mixed-metal  layered  hydroxides: 
Chloride  and  water  in  hydrocalumite  (Friedel's 
salt):  Amer.  Mineral.,  85:  1046-1057. 

Johnson,  T.  M.,  Bullen,  X  D.,  and  Zawislanski, 
P.  T.  2000,  Selenium  stable  isotope  ratios  as 
indicators  of  sources  and  cycling  of  selenium: 
Results  from  the  northern  reach  of  San 
Francisco  Bay:  Env.  Sci.  Technol.,  34:  2075- 
2079. 

Katz,  A.,  Brought,  X,  Kirkpatrick,  R.  J.,  Struble,  L. 
J.,  and  Young,  J.  F,  2000,  Effect  of  solution 
concentration  on  the  properties  of  cementitious 
grout  wasteform  for  low  level  nuclear  waste: 
Journal  of  Nuclear  Technology,  129:  236-245. 

McBride,  J.  H.  and  Nelson,  W.  J.,  2000,  Origin 
and  style  of  middle-to-late  Paleozoic  deforma- 
tion beyond  the  Appalachian  foreland.  Central 
USA,  in  Diaz  Garcia,  F,  Gonzalez  Cuadra,  P., 
Martinez  Catalan,  J.,  Arenas,  R.,  eds., 
Basement  Tectonics  15,  A  Corufia,  Spain, 
Program  and  Abstracts,  Universidad  de  Oviedo, 
Spain:  129-132. 


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Colloquium  Speakers 


Lundstrom,  C.C.,  2000,  Models  of  U-series  dise- 
quilibria  generation  in  MORB:  the  effects  of 
two  scales  of  melt  porosity:  Physics  of  the 
Earth  and  Planetary  Interiors,  121:  189-204. 

Marshak,  S.,  Karlstrom,  K.,  and  Timmons,  J.M., 
2000,  Inversion  of  Proterozoic  extensional 
faults:  An  explanation  for  the  pattern  of 
Laramide  and  ancestral  Rockies  intracratonic 
deformation,  United  States:  Geology,  28:  735- 
738. 

Kirkpatrick,  R.  J.,  2000,  Nuclear  magnetic  reso- 
nance spectroscopy,  in  Ramachandran,  V.  S., 
and  Beaudoin,  J.  J.,  eds.,  Handbook  of  analyti- 
cal techniques  in  concrete  science  and  technol- 
ogy: 205  -  230. 

Gates,  W.  P.,  Komadel,  P,  Madejova,  J.,  Bujdak, 
J.,  Stucki,  J.  W,  and  Kirkpatrick,  R.  J.,  2000, 
Electronic  and  structural  properties  of  reduced- 
charge  montmorillonites:  Applied  Clay  Science, 
16:257-271. 

Fischer,  M.  P.,  and  Wilkerson,  M.  S.,  2000, 
Predicting  the  orientation  of  joints  from  fold 
shape:  Results  of  pseudo-three-dimensional 
modeling  and  curvature  analysis:  Geology, 
28(1):  15-18. 

Chen,  W.-R,  and  Kao,  H.,  2000,  Evidence  for 
dual,  out-of-sequence  thrust  faulting  during  the 
Chi-Chi  (Taiwan)  earthquake  sequence  of 
1999:  Int.  Workshop  on  Annual 
Commemoration  of  the  Chi-Chi  Earthquake: 
71-81. 

Hou,  G.,  Kirkpatrick,  R.  J.,  and  Kim,  Y.,  2000,  l5N 
NMR  study  of  the  structure  and  dynamics  in 
hydrotalcite-like  compounds  (HTs) :  Amer. 
Mineral.,  85:  173  -  180. 

Zhou,  L.-M.,  Chen,  W.-R,  and  Ozalaybey,  S., 
2000,  Seismic  properties  of  the  central  Indian 
shield  from  broadband  P-SV  conversions  at 
Hyderabad:  Bull.  Seismol.  Soc.  Am.,  90:  1295- 
1304. 

Leetaru,  H.E.,  2000,  Sequence  stratigraphy  and 
economic  resources  of  the  Aux  Vases 
Sandstone:  A  major  oil  producer  in  the  Illinois 
Basin:  AAPG  Bulletin,  84  (3):  399-422. 

Lundstrom,  C.C.,  Williams,  Q,  and  Gill,  J.,  2000, 
A  geochemically  consistent  hypothesis  for 
MORB  generation:  Chemical  Geology,  162:  105- 
126. 

Hou,  X.,  and  Kirkpatrick,  R.  J.,  2000,  Solid  state 
77Se  NMR  and  XRD  study  of  the  structure  and 
dynamics  seleno-oxyanions  in  hydrotalcite-like 
compounds  (HTs):  Chemistry  of  Materials,  12: 
1890-1897. 

Montgomery,  S.L.,  and  Leetaru,  H.  E.,  2000, 
Storms  Consolidated  Field,  Illinois  Basin: 
Identifying  new  reserves  in  a  mature  area: 
AAPG  Bulletin,  84  (2):  157-173. 


Spring  2000 


Jan.  28  Tom  Guensburg,  Rock  Valley  College 

Environmental  change  &  the  emergence  of  the  Paleozoic  Evolutionary  Fauna 
Feb.  2  Todd  Anderson,  University  of  Massachusetts 

The  natural  attenuation  &  engineered  bioremediation  of  benzene  in  petroleum-contaminated 

aquifers  under  anaerobic  conditions 
Feb.  4  Richard  Beane,  Tucson,  Arizona 

Tracking  the  evolution  of  a  geothermal  system 
Feb.  7  Hailiang  Dong,  Princeton  University 

Bacteria-solid  surface  interactions:  implications  for  microbial  Fe  reduction  &  bacterial  transport 
Feb  9.  John  Coates,  Southern  Illinois  University 

The  microbiology,  biogeochemistry  and  bioremediation  potential  of  (per)chlorate-reducing  bacteria 
Feb.  14  Ena  Urbach,  Oregon  State  University 

Bacterioplankton  ecology:  New  molecular  approaches 
Feb.  16  Volker  Bruchert,  Max  Planck  Institute,  Germany 

What  controls  the  stable  sulfur  isotopic  fractionation  during  bacterial  sulfate  reduction:  Rate, 

phylogeny  or  bioenergetics 
Feb.  25  Frank  Schilling,  U  of  I,  Department  of  Geology 

Fluid  transfer  from  a  downgoing  slab:  Insights  from  the  Andes 
Mar.  1  Peter  C.  Burns,  University  of  Notre  Dame 

The  Importance  of  mineralogy  to  the  disposal  of  nuclear  waste 
Mar.  3  Larry  Braile,  Purdue  University 

Science  education:  Why  should  we  care? 
Mar.  28  Kevin  Bohacs,  AAPG  Distinguished  Speaker 

1. Sequence  stratigraphy  of  lake  basins  or  2.  Lake-basin  type  source  potential  &  hydrocarbon 

character 
April  7  Mousumi  Roy,  University  of  New  Mexico 

Evolution  of  fault  systems  at  a  strike-slip  plate  boundary:  A  viscoelastic  model 
April  14  Sherilyn  Fritz,  University  of  Nebraska 

Environmental  dynamics  on  geological  &  ecological  time  scales  in  lakes  of  the  northern  Great  Plains 
April  21  John  Parise,  SUNY  Stony  Brook 

Some  new  mineralogy:   Solutions  using  tools  available  at  national  facilities 
April  28  Shun-ichiro  Karato,  University  of  Minnesota 

Voyage  au  Centre  de  la  Terre:  Anisotropy  &  dynamics  of  Earth's  inner  core 


Fall  2000 


Sept.  1  Steve  Marshak,  U  of  I,  Department  of  Geology 

Precambrian  deformational  styles  and  the  tectonic  assembly  of  west  Gondwana:  The  view  from 

the  Sao  Francisco  Craton  (Brazil) 
Sept.  8  Ray  Russo,  Northwestern  University 

Slabs,  continental  roots  and  upper  mantle  flow 
Sept.  15  Robert  Bodnar,  Virginia  Tech 

Fluid  inclusions  in  meteorites:  Evidence  for  water  in  the  solar  system  &  implications  for 

extraterrestrial  life 
Sept.  22  Jay  Stravers,  Northern  111.  Univ 

Quaternary  marine  geology  of  fjords  in  southern  Chile  &  the  eastern  Canadian  Arctic; 

Interhemispheric  correlations  for  the  last  deglacial  cycle 
Sept.  29  Craig  Bethke,  U  of  I,  Department  of  Geology 

The  paradox  of  groundwater  age 
Oct.  12  John  Warme,  AAPG  Distinguished  Lecturer 

Anatomy  of  an  anomaly:  Catastrophic  Devonian  Alamo  impact  breccia,  Nevada 
Oct.  13  Martin  Schoonen,  SUNY  Stony  Brook 

Fooling  around  with  fool's  gold:  Surface  chemistry  and  reactivity  of  pyrite 
Oct.  20  Page  Chamberlain,  Dartmouth  College 

Reconstructing  the  paleotopography  of  mountains  from  isotopes  of  clay  minerals 
Oct.  27  Crawford  Elliott,  Georgia  State  University 

Clay  mineralogy,  K-Ar  &  stable  isotope  data  of  illitic  clays  in  the  Kupferschiefer:  Implications  for 

genesis  of  Cu-Ag  mineralization 
Oct.  31  Lee  Krystinik,  AAPG  Distinguished  Lecturer 

Sequence  stratigraphic  variability  in  foreland  basins:  An  example  from  the  Cretaceous  western 

interior  seaway  of  North  America 
Nov.  17  Emile  Okal,  Northwestern  University 

Recent  advances  in  tsunami  studies:  Papua,  New  Guinea,  1998  and  the  role  of  underwater  slumps 
Dec.  1  Charles  Gammie,  U  of  I,  Department  of  Astronomy 

The  formation  of  planets 
Dec.  8  Everett  Shock,  Washington  University 

Abiotic  organic  synthesis  in  hydrothermal  systems,  volcanic  gases,  meteorite  parent  bodies  and 

the  solar  nebula 


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Faculty  nnake  Scientific  Advances  in  2001 


In  2001 ,  department  faculty  were 
involved  in  a  wide  range  of  research  pro- 
jects, from  understanding  the  significance 
of  groundwater  age  near  the  Earth's  sur- 
face to  investigating  the  nature  of 
anisotropy  in  the  Earth's  core.  Here  are  a 
few  examples  of  what  researchers  have 
been  up  to. 

Recent  work  by  Professor  Craig 
Bethke  and  Assistant  Professor  Thomas 
Johnson  shows  that  groundwater  in 
aquifers  is  generally  older  than  one  might 
expect,  if  one  were  to  estimate  age  based 
only  on  the  velocity  of  flow.  These  find- 
ings have  important  implications  in  situa- 
tions where  hydrogeologists  use  radiomet- 
ric methods  to  estimate  the  sustainable 
yield  of  a  water  supply,  or  to  predict  the 
rate  at  which  a  contaminant  will  migrate 
through  the  ground. 

Groundwater  tends  to  flow  through 
aquifers  that  are  constrained  by  layers  of 


less  permeable  rock  called  aquitards. 
Hydrologists  commonly  figure  that  a 
groundwater's  age  reflects  the  time  it  takes 
to  migrate  along  the  aquifer.  But  water 
molecules  don't  see  an  aquifer  as  a  pipe. 
Some  water  mixes  between  the  aquitards 
and  aquifers,  and  the  water  in  aquitards  is 
generally  very  old. 

Bethke  and  Johnson  have  shown  that 
the  effect  of  aquitards  on  the  age  of 
groundwater  depends  only  upon  the  ratio 
of  water  mass  in  aquitards  to  that  in 
aquifers,  not  on  the  mixing  rate.  At  low 
mixing  rates,  very  old  water  is  supplied  to 
the  aquifer,  but  the  water  in  the  aquitard 
remains  old.  At  high  mixing  rates,  less-old 
water  is  supplied  to  the  aquifer,  because 
younger  water  is  moving  into  the  aquitard. 
While  mixing  increases  the  age  of  water  in 
aquifers,  it  also  has  the  counter-balancing 
effect  of  decreasing  the  age  in  aquitards. 
The  two  effects  exactly  cancel. 


Another  faculty  member,  Assistant 
Professor  Xiaodong  Song,  has  collected 
new  evidence  that  may  solve  a  long-stand- 
ing mystery  of  the  Earth's  inner  core.  The 
data  offers  new  support  for  a  layered  inner 
core  model,  with  an  isotropic  upper  inner 
core  overlying  an  anisotropic  lower  inner 
core.  Song  and  Professor  Don  Helmberger 
of  Caltech  proposed  this  layered  inner  core 
model  in  1998.  For  a  decade,  researchers 
have  observed  that  seismic  waves  travers- 
ing the  solid  inner  core  along  a  north- 
south  path  have  a  much  smaller  ampli- 
tude and  a  more  complex  waveform  than 
those  waves  that  travel  east- west.  Song 
suggests  that  the  layered  inner  core  struc- 
ture is  the  cause.  Because  the  anistropy  in 
the  lower  inner  core  is  aligned  in  the 
north-south  direction,  seismic  waves  trav- 
eling this  path  speed  up  and  spread  out, 
resulting  in  smaller  amplitudes  and  com- 

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Jackson  Studies  Earth's  Interior 

When  the  three  intrepid  explorers  in  Jules  Verne's  science-fiction  classic, 
Journey  to  the  Center  of  the  Earth,  set  off  on  their  adventure,  they  carried  crow- 
bars, pick  axes,  ropes  and  hatchets.  In  the  absence  of  being  able  to  take  such  a 
trip,  geologists  instead  focus  on  the  behavior  of  various  minerals  at  the  Earth's 
interior  under  different  conditions  of  temperature  and  pressure.  Graduate  student 
Jennifer  Jackson,  B.S.  '99,  for  example,  has  been  focusing  on  orthoenstatite,  an 
orthopyroxene,  since  it  is  believed  to  be  abundant  in  the  crust  and  upper  mantle. 
Jackson  is  investigating  the  elastic  properties  of  orthoenstatite  at  high  tempera- 
ture. Her  high-temperature  experiments  were  conducted  using  the  department's 
Brillouin  spectroscopy  lab  with  a  high-temperature  furnace.  Jackson  was  able  to 
make  measurements  of  temperature  dependence  on  elasticity  up  to  800°  C,  the 
highest  temperature  achieved  for  such  studies. 

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Graduate  student  Xinlei  Sun  won 
an  Outstanding  Student  Paper  Award 
for  her  presentation  at  the  2001  fall 
meeting  of  the  Tectonophysics  section 
of  the  American  Geophysical  Union.            1 
Sun  is  working  with  Assistant 
Professor  Xiaodong  Song  to  understand      1 
the  structure  of  the  Earth's  core.  Sun           1 

used  seismic  wave  data  and  looked  in         1 

i 

particular  at  subtracting  out  possible          1 
effects  of  the  lowermost  mantle  srruc-         1 
ture  to  get  a  clearer  picture  of  the               1 
structure  of  the  core.                                   1 

Greetings 


Our  "Year  in  Review" 


Welcome  to  our  "Year  in  Review"  for 
2001.  This  was  a  busy  year  for  the 
Department  in  a  variety  of  ways. 
The  pace  of  research  activity  in  the 
Department  has  been  picking  up— in  fact, 
the  amount  of  external  grant  money 
received  by  faculty  tripled  in  2001,  as 
compared  with  2000!  Such  research 
funds  are  used  primarily  to  support  grad- 
uate student  research  assistants,  post- 
doctoral associates,  and  their  projects— 
they  keep  the  climate  active.  As  described 
on  page  1,  departmental  research  projects 
have  yielded  exciting  new  results.  We've 
also  been  maintaining  our  high  level  of 
teaching,  with  literally  thousands  of  stu- 
dents taking  our  classes  every  year. 
Several  of  our  staff  are  routinely  listed  on 
the  "'list  of  teachers  rated  excellent  by 
their  students."  And,  our  new  course  in 
Natural  Hazards  has  been  catching  on. 


The  Department's  facilities  have  also 
been  undergoing  renovation  year  by  year. 
In  the  past  few  years,  we've  redone  the 
mineralogy/petrology  teaching  laboratory, 
transformed  an  old  lab  into  a  new  class- 
room with  built-in  computer  technology, 
and  spruced  up  a  number  of  hallways  and 
offices.  New  laboratories  in  mass-spec- 
trometry  and  experimental  petrology  have 
been  constructed.  And  this  year,  we  have 
been  building  a  new  geomicrobiology 
research  facility,  complete  with  incubator 
rooms  and  cold  rooms.  The  Department 
continues  in  its  efforts  to  hire  new  faculty. 
We've  been  searching  in  the  areas  of  surfi- 
cial  geology,  geobiology/low-temperature 
geochemistry,  and  mineral  science. 
Hopefully,  we'll  have  some  new  faces  to 
introduce  next  year.  All  this  helps  to  keep 
the  Department  at  the  forefront  of  teach- 
ing and  research. 


Contents 


Michael  Sczerba  Joins  Department 

Ann  Long  Appointed 

Lura  Joseph  Is  New  Geology  Librarian 

Annual  Fall  Field  Trip 

Oil  Industry  Recruits  Successfully  at  Illinois 

Revised  Course  Is  A  Big  Hit 

New  Geomicrobiology  Laboratory  Under  Construction  in  NHB 

Departmental  Banquet— An  Elegant  Affair 

Harriet  Wallace,  Geologist  And  Librarian 

Illinois  Alumni  in  Top  Positions  of  GSA 

Fond  Memories  of  Geology  41 5 

Murle  Edwards  and  Pat  Lane:  Where  Are  They  Now? 

Geology  Entrepreneurs  Make  Champaign-Urbana  Home  Base 

Illinois  Faculty  are  Authoring  Books 

Franklins  Make  Major  Bequest 

Obituaries  (Anderson,  Domenico,  Wood) 

Ralph  Langenheim's  Departmental  History 

News  From  Alumni 

Honor  Roll  of  Donors 

Annual  Report 


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Urbana-Champaign,  to  summarize  the  activities  and  accomplishments  within  the  department 

and  news  from  alumni  and  friends. 

Department  Head:  Stephen  Marshak  (smarshak@uiuc.edu) 

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College  of  Liberal  Arts  &  Sciences 


Generous  support  of  alumni  and 
friends  of  the  Department  have  continued 
to  bolster  our  optimism  for  the  future. 
This  year,  we  are  very  pleased  to 
acknowledge  the  incredibly  generous  sup- 
port of  Ed  and  Alison  Franklin,  who  have 
made  a  large  six-figure  bequest  to  the 
Department's  endowment,  as  part  of  our 
GeoScience  2005  endowment  campaign. 
This  gift  will  help  the  Department  to  con- 
tinue to  grow  by  providing  a  recurring 
source  of  funds  for  obtaining  teaching  and 
research  resources.  The  Franklins  have 
already  established  themselves  as  major 
benefactors  of  the  Department  by  endow- 
ing our  field  camp  scholarship  fund, 
which  already  has  helped  immensely  in 
making  the  cost  of  field  camp  attainable 
by  our  students.  The  GeoScience  2005 
campaign  is  well  on  its  way  towards 
reaching  its  $3  million  goal. 

2001 ,  of  course,  has  also  had  its 
down  side.  The  tragedies  of  September  11 
stunned  the  Department.  As  in  most  insti- 
tutions, the  shock  led  to  a  very  somber 
time.  In  the  immediate  aftermath,  we 
cancelled  some  classes,  but  faculty  and 
teaching  assistants  did  their  best  to  make 
sure  that  students  were  able  to  keep  up 
with  their  work,  and  deal  with  the  emo- 
tions of  the  day.  The  Department  was  also 
saddened  to  hear  of  the  deaths  of  three 
popular  emeritus  faculty.  The  economic 
downturn  that  has  taken  hold  in  recent 
months  has  also  had  an  impact,  in  that 
the  University's  budget  has  decreased  sig- 
nificantly, a  stunning  change  of  affairs 
considering  the  sizable  increases  that  we 
have  seen  in  recent  years.  But,  the  struc- 
ture of  the  University  remains  sound,  and 
we  anticipate  that  our  long-term  prospects 
remain  positive. 

I  hope  you  enjoy  reading  about  the 
goings-on  in  the  Geology  Department 
today,  as  well  as  hearing  about  what  for- 
mer members  of  the  Department  are  up 
to.  All  the  best  for  the  coming  year! 

—Stephen  Marshak 


UEULUuI  UiDiiruM 


Alumni  Award 


Jack  C.Threet  Receives  Alumni  Achievement  Award 


Jack  C.  Threet,  B.S.  '51,  has  received 
the  2002  Department  of  Geology  Alumni 
Achievement  Award.  Threet  devoted  his 
entire  36-year  career  to  Shell  Oil 
Company.  He  entered  the  oil  business  at 
a  time  of  great  expansion  and  became  a 
key  player  in  Shell's  search  for  and  pro- 
duction of  oil  and  gas,  rising  in  26  years 
from  junior  stratigrapher  to  vice  president 
and  head  of  exploration,  which  was  wide- 
ly recognized  as  the  industry's  premier 
exploration  outfit. 

"The  Department  is  proud  to  have 
played  a  role  in  starting  Jack  Threet  into 
his  prominent  career  in  geology,"  says 
Steve  Marshak,  professor  and  head  of  the 
department. 

Threet  became  interested  in  geology 
after  his  older  brother,  Dick,  got  his 
master's  degree  in  geology  from  the 
University  of  Illinois.  Threet  became  par- 
ticularly interested  in  fossils,  which  led 
him  to  the  late  Professor 
Harold  Scott's  door. 

"Harold  Scott  was  a 
fine  professor,"  says 
Threet.  "I  really  looked  to 
him  as  a  mentor." 

In  the  spring  of  1951, 
Threet,  newly  married  to 
Katy  Hall  of  Tolono,  began 
work  on  his  master's 
degree  with  Scott.  But  later 
that  year  Threet  took  what 
was  supposed  to  be  a  sum- 
mer job  with  Shell.  That 
summer  position  blos- 
somed to  full-time  employ- 
ment and  he  rose  quickly 
through  the  managerial 
ranks,  from  district  to  divi- 
sion to  area  exploration  manager  at  sever 
al  locations,  then  upward  to  general  man- 
ager and  vice  president.  He  never  did  go 
back  for  his  master's  degree. 

"I  have  no  regrets,"  says  Threet. 
"Shell  convinced  me  that  time  on  the  job 
was  more  important." 


"I  readily  credit  whatever 
success  I've  had  to  my 
wife,  Katy,  of  51  years, 
my  family,  friends  and 
professional  colleagues, 
my  solid  education  in 
the  basics  at  the 
University  of  Illinois,  my 
faith  in  God  and  lots  of 
good  luck  along  the 
way." 


In  the  course  of  his  career,  Threet 
moved  his  family  (which  soon  included 
daughters  Linda  and  Judy  J  more  than  30 
times,  living  everywhere  from  Australia 
to  Canada,  Holland  to  North  Africa,  and 
New  York  City  to  Los  Angeles.  His  last 
assignment  was  in 
Houston,  where  for  10 
years  until  his  retirement 
in  1987,  he  was  vice  pres- 
ident and  head  of  explo- 
ration. 

In  the  course  of  these 
assignments  he  led  Shell 
Oil  Co.  in  the  discovery  of 
major  oil  and  gas  fields, 
the  most  notable  of  which 
were  in  the  deep  water 
Gulf  of  Mexico— where 
for  many  years  Shell 
held  world  water-depth 
drilling  records— the 
northwest  shelf  of 
Australia,  onshore  Syria, 
and  offshore  Malaysia, 
Cameroon  and  Brazil. 

During  his  long  career,  Threet  served 
actively  in  various  professional  organiza- 
tions. He  is  a  member  of  the  American 
Association  of  Petroleum  Geologists,  and 
chair  of  the  board  of  the  AAPG 
Foundation.  He  was  a  member  and  direc- 


tor of  the  National  Ocean  Industries 
Association  and  was  vice  chair  of  the 
Offshore  Technology  Conference  for  sev- 
eral years.  He  has  served  on  special 
committees  of  the  National  Academy  of 
Sciences  and  the  National  Science 
Foundation.  Threet  also  is  on  the  board 
of  trustees  of  the  American  Geological 
Institute  Foundation,  where  he  chairs  a 
committee  to  raise  $2  million  for  K-12 
education  in  earth  science. 

Ten  years  ago,  Threet  renewed  his 
interest  in  the  Geology  Department  at 
the  University  of  Illinois  and  became  an 
active  member  of  the  GeoThrust  com- 
mittee, co-chairing  a  small  group  which 
four  years  ago  raised  $300,000  for  the 
Texas-Louisiana  graduate  fellowship 
endowment  fund.  Last  year,  Threet  and 
his  brother  Dick  established  the  Jack  C. 
and  Richard  L.  Threet  endowed  profes- 
sorship in  sedimentary  geology  in  honor 
of  Harold  Scott. 

"I  have  really  fond  memories  of  my 
time  at  Illinois,"  says  Threet.  "In  addi- 
tion to  Professor  Scott,  I  remember  so 
many  other  professors,  like  Dr.  White 
and  Dr.  Henderson,  who  inspired  me,  as 
well  as  my  brief  period  in  graduate 
school  with  Haydn  Murray  and  John 
Shelton." 

Threet  has  come  a  long  way  from 
his  humble  beginnings  and  is  an  inspira- 
tion himself  to  many.  He  has  been  listed 
in  the  Who's  Who  in  America  for  the 
last  12  years  and  is  very  active  in  his 
community,  both  in  Houston  and  in 
Pagosa  Springs,  Colo.,  where  he  and 
Katy  spend  their  summers. 

"I  readily  credit  whatever  success 
I've  had  to  my  wife,  Katy,  of  51  years, 
my  family,  friends  and  professional  col- 
leagues, my  solid  education  in  the  basics 
at  the  University  of  Illinois,  my  faith  in 
God  and  lots  of  good  luck  along  the 
way." 


Faculty  Make  Scientific  Advances  in  2001 


(continued  from  page  1) 

plicated  waveforms.  Based  on  this 
new  data,  it  appears  that  the 
anisotropy  in  the  lower  inner  core 
is  much  higher  than  previously 
believed,  about  8  percent  rather  than 
the  2  or  3  previously  suggested. 

In  other  work  concerning  the 
Earth's  interior.  Professor  Jay  Bass 
and  Research  Scientist  Stanislav 
Sinogeikin,  Ph.D.  '99,  have  obtained 
the  first  elasticity  measurements  of 
the  very  high-pressure  phase  of 
olivine  (the  spinel  phase)  at  high 
pressures  and  high  temperatures.  This 
enables  them  to  determine  how  fast 
seismic  waves  travel  through  this 
mineral  in  the  transition  zone 
between  the  upper  and  lower  mantle 
of  the  Earth.  Their  results  strongly 
suggest  that  the  composition  of  the 
transition  zone  is  not  the  same  as  that 
of  the  upper  mantle. 

Back  on  the  Earth's  surface, 
Professor  Dan  Blake's  Antarctic 
research  continued  with  another  field 
season  at  Seymour  Island.  Antarctic 
weather  unfortunately  was  bad  this 
year,  and  much  time  was  spent  in 
tents.  However,  important  collections 
were  made  and  ongoing  research  is 
documenting  significant  changes  in 
molluscan  faunas  and  faunal  struc- 
tures correlated  with  Cenozoic  global 
cooling.  Results  have  implications  for 
current  concerns  on  global  warming. 
Blake  also  finished  papers  on  the  late 
Paleozoic-Mesozoic  transition  in 
starfish  evolution.  Extinction  events 
eliminated  Paleozoic-type  starfish, 
and  groups  very  different  from  those 
of  the  Paleozoic  evolved.  Interestingly, 
life  habits  do  not  appear  to  have 
changed  significantly  through  the  cri- 
sis. Blake  has  now  turned  his  atten- 
tion to  Early  Devonian  and  more 
ancient  intervals  in  starfish  evolution. 

Professor  Steve  Marshak,  work- 


ing with  Post-Doc  Alan  Whittington 
and  two  Brazilian  colleagues,  con- 
ducted fieldwork  in  the  remote  high- 
lands of  eastern  Brazil  during  the 
past  two  summers.  They  have  dis- 
covered that  the  mountain  range 
which  formed  between  Brazil  and 
Africa  at  the  end  of  the 
Precambrian,  as  Gondwana  assem- 
bled, effectively  collapsed  under  its 
own  weight  during  the  final  stages 
of  orogeny.  This  process,  known  as 
"extensional  collapse,"  has  been 
observed  in  younger  mountain 
ranges,  such  as  the  Himalayas. 
Collapse  of  the  Brazilian  example 
produced  new  fabrics  in  the  rocks  of 
the  orogen,  and  decompression 
accompanying  collapse  probably 
triggered  crustal  melting,  which  pro- 
duced large  quantities  of  granitic 
magma. 

Professor  Wang-Ping  Chen,  and 
graduate  students  Michael 
Brudzinski,  Tai-Lin  (Ellen)  Tseng, 
and  Zhaohui  Yang,  continue  to 
investigate  the  interaction  between 
subducted  lithosphere,  the  transition 
zone  of  the  mantle,  and  deep  earth- 
quakes. Chen's  interests  have  also 
taken  him  to  the  other  side  of  the 
planet,  where  his  project  Hi-CLIMB, 
an  international  effort  to  understand 
the  lithospheric  deformation  of  the 
Himalayas  and  Tibet,  is  in  full 
swing.  Hi-CLIMB  is  complemented 
by  a  collaborative  project  between 
Honn  Kao  (Ph.D.  '93)  and  Chen  to 
study  the  nascent  Taiwan  orogen. 
Closer  to  home,  adjunct  Professor 
John  McBride,  graduate  student 
Amanda  Duchek,  and  Chen  also 
have  been  working  on  seismic- 
reflection  profiles  across  the  Cottage 
Grove  fault  system  of  southern 
Illinois. 


Faculty  Serve  Many 
"Extra-Curricular"  Roles 

Since  the  summer  of  2001,  Craig 
Bethke  has  served  as  a  "subject  matter 
expert"  in  geochemistry  and  hydrogeolo- 
gy  on  the  Department  of  Energy  (DOE) 
peer  panel.  This  panel  is  writing  the 
report  to  Congress  about  the  technical 
suitability  of  the  Yucca  Mountain  site. 
Since  the  DOE  has  shifted  its  focus  from 
using  geologic  barriers  to  keep  the  spent 
waste  from  migrating  from  the  site,  it  is 
now  looking  at  the  feasibility  of  man- 
made  containers  that  would  not  fail  with- 
in 10,000  years.  In  order  to  determine 
possible  causes  of  corrosion  to  the  "engi- 
neered barrier,"  panel  members  needed 
to  learn  about  the  chemistry  of  the  local 
groundwater,  which  Bethke  provided. 
"The  fun  part  was  that,  while  they 
learned  a  little  geochemistry,  I  learned  a 
lot  of  corrosion  chemistry,"  says  Bethke. 

During  the  fall  of  2001  Dan  Blake 
served  as  acting  director  of  Spurlock 
Museum  while  director  Douglas  Brewer 
was  on  leave.  During  that  semester  he 
worked  with  the  other  museum  staff  to 
prepare  the  museum  for  its  official  open- 
ing in  September,  2002.  Because  the 
building  had  just  been  completed,  Blake's 
role  included  overseeing  the  calibration  of 
the  building's  cooling  system  and  other 
basic  tasks.  Blake  also  helped  direct  the 
fabrication  of  exhibit  cases  and  other 
items  related  to  the  building's  mission. 


Jay  Bass  has  been  named  as  Center 
for  Advanced  Study  (CAS)  associate  for 
fall  semester  2002  and  Bruce  Fouke  has 
been  named  CAS  fellow  for  the  same 
semester.  The  Center  brings  together 
scholars  from  diverse  disciplines  and 
backgrounds,  encouraging  and  rewarding 
excellence  in  all  areas  of  academic 
inquiry.  Fellows  and  associates  are  tem- 
porary appointments  and  are  selected  in 
an  annual  competition. 


New  Faces 


Lura  Joseph  is  New  Geology  Librarian 

The  next  time  a  department  member  is 
having  trouble  finding  information,  they  can 
turn  to  the  new  geology  librarian,  Lura 
Joseph,  for  help.  Joseph,  who  became  the 
librarian  on  August  1,  is  both  a  librarian  and  a 
geologist— in  this  regard,  she  follows  in  the 
footsteps  of  Harriet  Wallace  (see  related  article 
on  page  8).  Joseph  served  as  the  physical  sci- 
ences librarian  at  North  Dakota  State 
University  for  six  years  before  coming  to  Champaign-Urbana. 

Joseph  has  been  a  great  addition  to  the  department,  says  Steve 
Marshak,  professor  and  department  head.  "Lura  has  been  wonder- 
fully interactive  with  the  faculty  in  making  us  aware  of  opportuni- 
ties to  improve  the  collection,  and  she  is  an  excellent  resource  for 
locating  research  and  teaching  materials  available  on  the  web." 

Part  of  the  reason  that  Joseph  understands  the  research  needs 
of  geology  faculty  and  students  is  that  before  she  became  a  librari- 
an, she  spent  many  years  as  a  geologist  herself.  After  receiving  her 
bachelor's  in  anthropology  at  the  University  of  Oklahoma  and  her 
master's  in  geology  from  the  same  place,  she  worked  in  the  petrole- 
um industry  for  15  years.  Because  of  the  fluctuations  in  that  indus- 
try, she  got  a  master's  degree  in  psychology  (at  University  of  Central 
Oklahoma)  while  working  full  time.  In  the  course  of  working 
toward  that  degree,  Joseph  realized  that  what  she  really  liked  was 
working  with  information,  so  she  headed  for  a  library  degree 
(MLIS)  at  the  University  of  Oklahoma. 

"I  like  to  be  a  helpful  person,  to  link  people  up  with  the  infor- 
mation that  they  need,  whether  those  information  sources  are  texts 
or  other  people,"  says  Joseph.  "I  love  geology  and  I  love  finding 
information."  Information  retrieval  is  a  kind  of  a  science,  says 
Joseph.  It  takes  two  kinds  of  logic,  one  looking  for  forests  and  the 
other  looking  for  trees.  What  makes  being  a  geology  librarian  so  ful- 
filling is  having  a  love  of  and  interest  in  both  geology  and  informa- 
tion retrieval,  says  Joseph.  Joseph  would  not  be  nearly  as  satisfied  in 
her  work  if  she  worked  in  the  business  or  law  libraries,  for  example. 

Joseph  particularly  likes  stepping  in  to  help  with  complicated 
questions.  "Academic  librarians  really  don't  fit  the  librarian  stereo- 
type," says  Joseph.  "We  are  really  information  specialists.  Geology 
blends  over  into  so  many  disciplines,"  says  Joseph.  "Having  that 
geology  background  helps  me  figure  out  where  to  go  for  informa- 
tion." 

As  part  of  her  information  specialist  role,  Joseph  has  worked 
extensively  on  the  geology  library  web  site  to  expand  links  to  vari- 
ous research  tools.  Within  the  library  site,  Joseph  has  created  a  link 
titled  "Geoscience  Information  Resources  on  the  Internet,"  which 
lists  links  to  everything  trom  "Afghanistan  Geology"  to 
"Volcanology"  and  "Weather." 

Joseph  sees  three  major  projects  for  the  coming  year:  preparing 
to  shift  material  to  various  storage  facilities;  helping  to  migrate  to  a 
new  system-wide  on-line  catalog;  and  determining  how  to  make  her 
shrinking  budget  dollars  stretch  as  far  as  possible. 


Michael  Szerba  hikes 
with  stepdaughter 
Robin  in  Forest  Glen 


Michael  Sczerba  Joins 
Department 

Michael  Sczerba,  clerical  assistant, 
has  the  kind  of  behind-the-scenes 
responsibilities  that  are  easy  to  take  for 
granted  but  that  are  critical  to  a  smoothly 
functioning  department.  He  sorts  mail; 
hands  out  and  keeps  track  of  department 
keys;  organizes,  keeps  track  of  and  orders 
supplies;  produces  many  exams  for  pro- 
fessors; makes  and  mails  posters  publiciz- 
ing visiting  speakers,  especially  for  the 
weekly  colloquium  series;  makes  travel 
arrangements  for  colloquium  speakers;  and  "most  critical  of 
all,"  he  orders  pizza  and  cookies  for  the  weekly  colloquium. 

Outside  the  halls  of  the  Natural  History  Building, 
Sczerba  juggles  even  more  activities.  He  is  on  track  to  finish 
his  dissertation  in  music  composition  with  an  ethnomusicol- 
ogy  minor  spring  2002,  he  has  hosted  a  weekly  Music  of 
India  program  on  WEFT  Radio  for  the  last  12  years,  and  he 
is  an  avid  hiker.  Sczerba's  dissertation  focuses  on  the  work 
of  composer  Stefan  Wolpe  (1902-1972).  He  also  has  com- 
posed jazz  and  what  he  calls  "contributive  new  music" 
works  for  several  ensembles.  Several  of  his  works  have  been 
published. 

Ann  Long  Joins  Department 
in  Permanent  Position 

Ann  Long  has  been  promoted  from  visit- 
ing to  permanent  teaching  specialist  in 
the  department.  Long,  who  has  been  at 
the  department  since  1999,  supervises 
undergraduate  labs  in  some  of  the  larger 
lecture  courses.  From  1987  until  she  came 
to  Urbana-Champaign,  Long  held  a  teach- 
ing position  at  Colchester  Institute  in  England. 

Long  brings  a  combination  of  geology  and  teaching 
expertise  to  the  department.  She  received  a  B.S.  from  the 
University  of  Reading  in  geography,  which  included  geology 
courses  in  geomorphology  and  hydrology  as  well  as  plan- 
ning, surveying  and  cartography.  She  also  earned  a  post- 
graduate certificate  of  education  in  geography  and  in  1981 
she  received  a  master's  degree  in  education. 

Long  also  has  done  research  on  the  vegetation  and  geo- 
morphology of  moraines  of  the  Okstindan  Glacier  in 
northern  Norway. 

Long  moved  to  Champaign-Urbana  with  her  husband, 
Stephen,  a  professor  at  the  University  of  Illinois,  who  does 
research  on  the  impact  of  rising  ozone  and  carbon  dioxide 
levels  in  the  atmosphere  on  plant  productivity. 


DEPARTMENT  NEWS 


Field  Trip 


Steve  Altaner  and  other  members 
of  the  field  trip  at  Thornton  Quarry 


Since  1993,  the 
department  has  held 
an  annual  fall  field 
trip  to  several  inter- 
esting sites  within 
Illinois  and  Indiana. 
The  field  trip,  orga- 
nized and  led  by 
Steve  Altaner  since 
1996,  typically 
includes  one  bedrock 
and  one  glacial  stop. 
In  2001  the  group 
went  to  Thornton 
Quarry  near  Chicago 
and  Indiana  Dunes 

National  Lakeshore.  This  year,  the  trip  was  particularly 
memorable  since  it  included  pouring  rain,  lightning  and 
thunder  at  Thornton  Quarry.  Typically  30-35  people  partici- 
pate. In  addition  to  undergraduates,  graduate  students  and 
faculty,  ISGS  geologists  often  join  the  trip.  The  previous 
year,  Altaner  took  the  group  to  Kentland  Quarry,  a  mete- 
orite impact  site  in  western  Indiana;  and  Kickapoo  State 
Park.  Other  trips  have  included  Starved  Rock  State  Park 
and  the  National  Coal  Museum  in  southern  Illinois,  and 
Cagle's  Mill  Spillway,  Turkey  Run  State  Park  and 
Montezuma,  all  in  Indiana. 


Oil  Industry  Recruits 
Successfully  at  Illinois 

Although  geology  graduates  work  in  an  ever-broadening 
range  of  fields,  the  traditional  fields  of  oil  and  gas  continue  to 
attract  many  students.  Over  the  last  few  years,  several  oil  compa- 
nies have  successfully  recruited  many  Illinois  geology  graduates. 

In  2001  alone,  four  students  were  hired  by  oil  companies: 
Richard  Wachtman,  M.S.  '01,  is  working  for  ExxonMobil  in 
Houston;  Anthony  Gibson,  M.S.  '01,  is  working  for  Mervin  Oil 
Co.  in  Ulny,  111.;  Serena  Lee,  M.S.  '01,  is  working  for 
Schlumberger  in  Houston;  and  Hugo  Gonzalez,  B.S.  '01,  is 
working  for  Schlumberger  in  Rock  Springs,  Wyo. 

Schlumberger  has  clearly  been  finding  Illinois  to  be  a  fruit- 
ful recruiting  ground.  Judd  Tudor,  '00.  Andrew  Collins,  '99, 
Megan  Potter,  '99,  and  Bruce  Miller,  B.S.  '94,  M.S.  '95  also  work 
for  Schlumberger.  Miller  is  now  based  in  Norway,  while  the  oth- 
ers are  in  the  United  States. 


Revised  Course 
is  a  Big  Hit 

Enrollment  in  Geology  118  has  doubled  and  many  other 
interested  students  had  to  be  turned  away,  thanks  to  some  fine 
tuning  by  Steve  Altaner.  Originally  called  Earth  and  the 
Environment,  the  course  had  a  stagnant  enrollment  between  50- 
60  for  about  10  years. 

"I  never  could  understand  why  it  didn't  take  off.  Natural 
disasters  are  extremely  relevant  to  people  and  society,  and 
they're  interesting,"  says  Altaner.  In  an  effort  to  boost  interest, 
Altaner  revised  the  course  and  re-titled  it  Natural  Disasters.  The 
course  is  now  more  focused  on  natural  disasters  and  includes 
meteorological  factors  like  floods,  severe  weather  and  astronom- 
ical factors  like  meteorite  impacts. 

Natural  Disasters  is  targeted  for  non-majors  fulfilling  a  gen- 
eral education/science  requirement,  and  represents  another 
effort  by  members  of  the  department  to  introduce  non-majors 
to  geologic  principles.  In  addition,  students  majoring  in  Earth 
and  Environmental  Sciences,  which  is  a  sub-major  within 
Geology,  take  the  course. 

"The  class  has  been  a  lot  of  fun,  nobody  is  asleep,  there 
are  lots  of  questions  and  the  attendance  rate  is  much  higher 
than  in  Geology  100"  (the  other  introductory  course  Altaner 
teaches) ,  says  Altaner. 

Altaner  has  been  able  to  use  the  University's  computer- 
linked  classrooms  to  add  visual  images  to  the  class.  For  exam- 
ple, in  his  discussion  of  meteor  impacts,  he  can  show  an  ani- 
mation of  a  meteorite  impact.  To  illustrate  the  speed  that  a 
meteorite  travels,  in  terms  students  would  understand,  Altaner 
points  out  it  would  take  a  meteorite  nine  seconds  to  travel  from 
Champaign  to  Chicago.  This  elicits  some  oohs  and  aahs.  He 
uses  a  lot  of  humor,  including  cartoons,  to  encourage  participa- 
tion, and  gently  pokes  fun  at  himself  to  encourage  students  to 
feel  comfortable  participating  and  asking  questions.   In  addition 
to  conventional  teaching  tools  like  video  and  overhead  projec- 
tion, Altaner  makes  use  of  an  overhead  microscope  in  the  lec- 
ture hall,  which  enables  him  to  show  geologic  samples  to  the 
whole  class  without  having  to  pass  them  around  the  room. 

Altaner  talks  to  the  students  about  the  scientific  principles 
behind  each  disaster:  its  causes,  possible  locations,  frequency, 
ability  to  predict  and  how  to  mitigate  damage  and  death.   He 
also  discusses  case  histories,  trying  to  use  examples  relevant  to 
Illinois  when  possible. 

Enrollment  in  the  course  will  continue  to  grow,  as  the  class 
will  move  into  a  larger  lecture  hall  next  year.  The  natural  haz- 
ards course  is  one  of  several  appealing  general  education  cours- 
es offered  by  the  Department.  Together,  they  introduce  over 
3,500  students  per  year— 10%  of  the  University's  student 
body— to  the  wonders  of  the  Earth. 


New  Geomicrobiology 
Laboratory  Under 
Construction  in  IMHB 


A  new  state-of-the-art  geomicrobiolo- 
gy lab  is  being  built  in  the  basement  of  the 
Natural  History  Building.  Construction 
began  in  November  and  will  be  completed 
by  the  summer  of  2002.  The  new  labora- 
tory will  include  not  only  micro-drilling 
apparatus  and  other  typical  geology  equip- 
ment, but  also  gel  electrophoresis  stations, 
"PCR"  machines  (PCR  stands  for  "poly- 
merase chain  reaction,"  a  way  to  amplify 
gene  sequences  in  order  to  study  them), 
and  autoclave  sterilizers,  equipment  that  is 
normally  found  in  a  microbiology  laborato- 
ry. These  facilities  will  enable  researchers 
in  the  Department  of  Geology  to  undertake 
analytical  methods,  such  as  polymerase 
chain  reaction  amplification  of  16S  rRNA, 
to  map  the  distribution  and  composition  of 
microbial  communities  and  understand 
their  interactions  with  geologic  processes. 

One  of  the  prime  users  of  the  new 
facility  will  be  Bruce  Fouke,  assistant  pro- 
fessor of  geology.  Fouke  conducts  work 
that  integrates  molecular  microbiology 
with  sedimentary  geology  and  hydrogeolo- 
gy.  For  example,  one  of  Fouke's  current 
projects  investigates  whether  study  of 
ancient  microbes  found  entombed  in 
ancient  limestone  deposits  can  yield  infor- 
mation about  ancient  environmental  con- 
ditions. 

Fouke's  work,  and  other  work  to  be 
carried  out  in  the  lab,  is  part  of  an  exciting 
new  field,  known  as  geobiology. 
Geobiologists  study  the  interplay  between 
biological  and  geological  processes  that 
have  shaped  the  Earth  and  all  its  life 
forms.  By  examining  this  interplay,  geobi- 
ologists address  questions  concerning  the 
origin  and  evolution  of  life,  the  way  in 
which  environmental  conditions  influence 
life,  and  the  way  in  which  life  influences 
environmental  conditions.  The  field  has 
many  practical  applications  as  well,  mainly 
in  the  area  of  environmental  geology,  for 
microbes  play  an  important  role  in  digest- 
ing contaminants. 


2001  Departmental  Banquet 
An  Elegant  Affair 


The  2001  Geology  Department  ban- 
quet was  held  April  27,  in  the  Colonial 
Room  at  the  Illini  Union.  About  100  peo- 
ple attended.  After  dinner.  Professor 
Bruce  Fouke  presented  a  slide  show  of 
the  Geology  315/415  field  trip  to  Curacao. 
Then,  Professor  and  Department  Head 
Steve  Marshak  presented  awards. 

Sharon  Mosher,  B.S.  73,  Ph.D.  78, 
received  the  alumni  achievement  award. 
Steve  Marshak  cited  Mosher  for  her 
research  contributions  in  structural  geolo- 
gy and  tectonics  (see  2000  Year  in  Review 
for  related  story)  and  her  national  service 
role  as  past  president  of  the  Geological 
Society  of  America  (see  story  p.  8). 

In  addition  to  the  alumni  achieve- 
ment award,  numerous  student  awards 
also  were  presented: 

Adam  Gibbons,  Brandon  Haist  and 
Andrew  Parrish  each  received  a  Franklin 
Field  Camp  Scholarship.  The  scholarship 
fund,  created  by  Ed  Franklin,  enables  the 
department  to  provide  partial  financial 
support  to  students  attending  summer 
field  camp. 

Parrish  also  received  the  Estwing 
Award— a  classic  Estwing  rock  pick— that 
is  donated  by  the  Estwing  Company  to  an 
outstanding  undergraduate  student. 


Frances  Skomurski  received  a 
Brunton  compass  as  the  Outstanding 
Senior  Award. 

Kurt  Burmeister,  Michael 
Fortwengler  and  Alex  Glass  received  the 
Morris  M.  and  Ada  B.  Leighton  Award. 
This  award,  established  by  Brud 
Leighton,  B.S.  '47,  was  established  to 
honor  his  parents  and  supports  student 
research  in  geology. 

Alex  Glass  and  Chris  Mah  received 
the  Norman  Sohl  Memorial  Award  in 
Paleontology.  The  Sohl  award  was 
established  to  honor  the  late  Norman  F. 
Sohl,  B.S.  '49,  M.S.  '51,  Ph.D.  '54.  Sohl 
was  chief  of  paleontology  at  the  USGS 
and  was  a  leading  authority  on 
Cretaceous  gastropods  and  biostratigra- 
phy. 

Jennifer  Jackson  was  named 
Outstanding  Woman  Graduate  Student. 
She  received  a  cash  award.  The  award 
was  established  by  an  anonymous 
donor  in  order  to  encourage  women  to 
pursue  studies  in  geology. 

Two  students  were  named  out- 
standing teaching  assistants.  Dave 
Beedy  received  the  award  for  the  Spring 
2000  semester  and  Alex  Glass  received 
the  award  for  the  Fall  2000  semester. 


Students  scramble  over  formations  during  a  recent  Geology  415  field  trip  to 
west  Texas  and  southern  New  Mexico. 


Looking  Back 


Illinois  Alumni  in 
Top  Positions  of 
GSA 

Illinois  alumni  have  been 
very  well  represented  in  the  lead- 
ership of  GSA  in  the  last  several 
years.  In  2001  Sharon  Mosher, 
B.S.  73,  Ph.D.  78,  was  presi- 
dent, Dave  Stevenson,  Ph.D. 
'65,  was  acting  executive  director 
and  Suzanne  Mahlburg  Kay, 
B.S.  '69,  M.S.  72,  served  on  the 
GSA  council.  In  addition,  Brud 
Leighton,  B.S.  '47,  served  as 
president  of  the  Board  of  Trustees 
of  the  GSA  Foundation  (a  sepa- 
rate and  independent  entity) . 

"It  gave  me  great  pride  to 
notice  such  a  good  representation 
of  Illinois  alumni  at  those  levels 
at  the  GSA  meeting  in  Boston  last 
November,"  said  Leighton.  "It 
pleased  me  to  see  participation  in 
the  society,  which  is  one  of  the 
leading  scientific  societies  for  the 
profession." 

GSA  was  founded  in  1888  by 
James  Hall,  James  D.  Dana  and 
Alexander  Winchell  in  New  York. 
As  a  descendent  of  the  American 
Association  for  the  Advancement 
of  Sciences,  GSA  is  the  first 
enduring  society  for  the  geo- 
sciences  in  America.  It  has  been 
headquartered  in  Boulder, 
Colorado,  since  1968.  GSA  has 
more  than  16,000  members 
worldwide. 

Mosher's  term  as  president 
ended  in  December,  and 
Leighton,  who  had  served  as 
foundation  president  of  the  board 
for  four  years,  and  Stevenson 
stepped  down  from  their  respec- 
tive positions.  Kay  continues  to 
serve  on  the  GSA  council. 


Harriet  Wallace,  Geologist  and  Librarian 


Harriet  Wallace,  librari- 
an emerita,  served  in  the 
Geology  Library  in  the  1960s 
and  70s.  Wallace  received 
her  bachelor's  degree  in  geol- 
ogy from  Northwestern  in 
1936  and  a  master's  degree 
in  teaching  from  Columbia 
University's  Teachers  College. 
In  spite  of  Wallace's  out- 
standing teaching  creden- 
tials, teaching  jobs  were  hard 
to  find. 

Eventually  Wallace  managed  to  get  a 
position  at  the  mining  division  of  Allied 
Chemical  and  Dye  Company.  While  in  that 
position  she  attended  the  first  GSA  meet- 
ing held  after  World  War  II. 

At  first,  Wallace  worked  at  a  private 
consulting  company  that  advised  mining 
companies  about  various  mineral  deposits 
in  Illinois.  Wallace  did  literature  searches 
for  the  owner,  and  wrote  research  papers 
for  him.  The  company  eventually  was 
closed  down  and  Wallace  decided  she'd 
like  to  become  a  librarian. 

"I  really  liked  doing  literature 
searches— this  was  before  computers!" 
says  Wallace.  "I  didn't  want  to  clerk  in  a 
dime  store,  so  I  went  to  library  school.  I 
thought  any  job  in  a  library  would  be  bet- 
ter than  that." 

Wallace  got  her  master's  in  library 
and  information  science  from  the 
University  of  Illinois  in  1962  and  was 
immediately  hired  as  the  geology  librarian. 

"I  hadn't  thought  about  working  full 
time."  says  Wallace,  "but  with  all  my 
background  it  would  have  been  stupid  not 
to  take  the  job.  So  I  came  over  and  went 
to  work." 

While  many  aspects  of  librarianship 
haven't  changed  over  the  years,  there  are 
some  differences.  For  example,  Wallace 
remembers  having  lots  of  money  to  spend, 
in  part  because  the  Geology  Library,  hav- 
ing recently  split  from  the  Geography 


Library,  was  considered  a 
new  library  unit. 

"We  had  lots  of 
money,  we  spent  it  as 
fast  as  we  could," 
Wallace  says. 
The  library  also  had  a 
separate  budget  for  rare 
geology  books.  Of  course, 
the  biggest  difference 
was  computers,  which 
were  first  used  in  the 
Geology  Library  in  1978,  just  before 
Wallace  retired.  In  Wallace's  day, 
records  were  all  kept  on  index  cards. 
Indexes  were  bound  every  year,  which 
meant  to  do  a  thorough  search  on  a  sin- 
gle topic,  one  had  to  go  to  that  subject 
in  every  issue  of  each  bound  index.  The 
position  of  librarian,  both  in  Wallace's 
day  and  today,  is  a  tenure-track  position, 
so  librarians  are  expected  to  publish 
papers  in  their  professional  journals. 

During  her  tenure,  Wallace  worked 
to  get  topographic  and  geological  maps 
transferred  from  the  main  library  to  the 
Geology  Library.  Previously,  the  Geology 
Library  had  no  maps. 

In  1965  Wallace  also  was  a  found- 
ing member  of  the  Geoscience 
Information  Society  (GIS),  a  national 
organization  which  facilitates  the 
exchange  of  information  in  the  geo- 
sciences  through  cooperation  among  sci- 
entists, librarians,  editors,  cartographers, 
educators,  and  information  profession- 
als. GIS  is  still  in  existence  and  is  a 
member  society  of  the  AGI. 

Wallace  retired  as  full  professor  in 
1979.  "I  had  a  very  satisfying,  and  ful- 
filling career,"  says  Wallace.  Wallace 
continues  to  live  in  the  Champaign- 
Urbana  area  and  still  occasionally  visits 
the  Department.  She  generously  donates 
funds  to  the  Department  to  help  women 
who  wish  to  pursue  careers  in  geology. 


Looking  Back 


GEOLOGY  415  —  Then  and  Now 


Geology  415,  the  Department's  grad- 
uate-level field  course,  has  been  in  exis- 
tence for  more  than  50  years.  During  this 
time  it  has  undergone  some  dramatic 
changes,  but  it  still  serves  the  goal  of 
allowing  students  to  synthesize  their  geo- 
logic knowledge  to  create  a  geologic 
image  of  a  region.   In  recent  years,  there 
are  three  versions  of  the  course,  all  run 
jointly  with  Geology  315,  allowing  both 
undergraduates  and  graduates  to  benefit 
from  the  experience.  Jim  Kirkpatrick 
runs  the  course  in  west  Texas  and  south- 
ern New  Mexico,  Steve  Marshak  takes 
the  group  to  Arizona  and  southern 
California,  and  Bruce  Fouke  teaches  on 
islands  in  the  southern  Caribbean.  In  the 
1940s,  '50s  and  '60s,  on  the  other  hand, 
the  course  entailed  many  weekends  of 
driving  in  four-van  caravans  throughout 
Wisconsin,  Indiana  and  the  western 
edges  of  Missouri.  For  many  years, 
Professor  Harold  Wanless,  a  distin- 
guished sedimentary  geologist,  ran  the 
course,  and  trained  the  students  well. 


"What  did  I  learn?"  says  Bill 
Soderman  ,  M.S.  '60,  Ph.D.  '62,  of 
Geology  415.  "It  was  the  most  compre- 
hensive way  to  assimilate  the  recent  and 
ancient  elements  of  what  makes  the 
Midcontinent  what  it  is  today.  There's 
just  an  enormous  variety  of  rock  types, 
depositional  environments  and  structural 
situations  visible  within  a  day's  drive  of 
campus.  We  could  see  it,  and  argue 


A  sample  drawing  from  Bill  Soderman's 
Geology  415  notebook. 


about  it.  I  also  learned  a  lot  about 
Harold  Wanless,  and  how  observant  and 
patient  he  was.  The  field  trips  were 
kind  of  a  slide  show  of  the  things 
Wanless  and  learned  and  observed  and 
deciphered  throughout  his  many  years 
of  fieldwork  and  teaching  at  Illinois. 

"And  the  camaraderie  between  stu- 
dents and  staff  during  the  trips  just 
made  it  feel  even  more  like  Illinois  was 
a  great  place  to  be.  Geology  415  was  one 
of  the  high  points  of  my  education." 

Soderman's  notes  from  the  trip  fill  a 
book  over  100  pages  long.  The  pages 
include  detailed  stratigraphic  columns, 
cross-sections,  and  outcrop  sketches,  as 
well  as  carefully  worded  rock  descrip- 
tions. By  covering  a  broad  region  in  the 
course,  it  was  possible  for  students  like 
Soderman  to  see  regional  correlations 
and  patterns. 

Regardless  of  the  decade  that  it  was 
taught,  Geology  415  was  a  course  worth 
remembering. 


Where  Are  They  Now? 


Those  who  were 
in  the  Geology 
Department  in  the 
1980s  and  90s 
might  be  wonder- 
ing whatever  hap- 
pened to  Pat  Lane 
and  Murle 
Edwards,  staff 
members  who 
played  a  key  role 
in  everyone's  inter- 
actions with  the  Department  and 
University.  Well,  both  are  enjoying  their 
retirement  and  using  their  time  to  travel 
extensively. 

Pat  and  her  husband  Eddie,  have 
taken  many  long  trips  in  their  motor 
home.  Last  summer  they  traveled  the 
AL-CAN  (Alaska-Canada)  Highway. 


Pat  Lane 


n 


Along  the  way  they  passed  through 
Sheridan,  Wyoming,  a  place  many  geol- 
ogists have  fond  memories  of  because 
the  Department's  field  camp  used  to  be 
headquartered  there.  That  trip  was 
"proof  that  two  people  really  could  live 
in  a  25-foot  motor  home  on  a  long  trip 
and  still  be  compatible,"  says  Lane.  The 
Lanes  continue  to  use  Champaign  as  a 
base,  in  part  because  Eddie  now  works 
part  time  for  the  Engineering  Continuing 
Education  program. 

Murle,  who  served  in  the  depart- 
ment as  chief  clerk  from  1977-1998,  has 
also  traveled  extensively  since  her  retire- 
ment. Many  of  her  driving  trips  have 
been  undertaken  because  she  is  national 
chair  of  the  historic  landmarks  and 
memorials  committee  of  the  National 
Society  Daughters  of  the  American 
Colonists.  Thai  committee  works  to 


place  markings  and  plaques  at  places  of 
historical  significance  throughout  the 
United  States.  During  these  trips  and 
many  others, 
Murle  has 
enjoyed  many  of 
the  breathtaking 
geological  for- 
mations of  the 
country,  and  has 
indulged  her 
interest  in  histo- 
ry and  geogra- 
phy. "A  special 
thrill  to  me  was 
my  trip  to  Point 

Barrow.  Alaska,  north  of  the  Arctic 
Circle,"  says  Murle.  "1  continue  to  use 
my  residence  in  southeast  Urbana  as  my 
home  base."  She  sends  her  "best  person- 
al regards  to  all." 


Murle  Edwards 


Alumni  News 


Geology  Entrepreneurs  Make  Champaign-Urbana  Home  Base 


We  tend  to  think  of  geology-based 
entrepreneurs  as  living  in  Houston  or 
Denver,  but  two  major  success  stories 
prove  this  assumption  wrong.  Some 
entrepreneurs  have  remained  in  town 
and  have  found  the  local 
environment  to  be  sup- 
portive of  their  efforts. 
For  example,  two  compa- 
nies founded  in 
Champaign-Urbana  by 
geology  department  alum- 
ni, while  vastly  different, 
are  both  thriving. 
Applied  Pavement 
Technology,  co-founded 
by  Margaret  (Maggie) 
Broten,  B.S.  '85,  grew  60 
percent  last  year  alone, 
and  Isotech  Laboratories, 
founded  by  Dennis 
Coleman,  Ph.D.  76, 
grew  30-40  percent  in  the 
last  year  in  both  sales  and 
staff. 

Applied  Pavement  Technology,  or 
APTech,  was  founded  by  Broten,  Kathryn 
(Katie)  Zimmerman  and  David  Peshkin 
in  1995.  It  is  one  of  fewer  than  a  dozen 
companies  worldwide  that  specializes  in 
pavement  engineering.  Pavement  engi- 
neering pertains  to  both  highway  and  air- 
port pavements  and  involves  evaluation, 
design,  pavement  management,  training 
and  research. 

Broten,  who  is  a  vice  president  and 
principal,  received  a  joint  degree  in  geol- 
ogy and  civil  engineering,  as  well  as  a 
master's  in  civil  engineering.  She  has 
worked  in  the  field  of  airport  pavement 
management  most  of  her  career. 

"Pavement  engineering  is  a  very  sta- 
ble field,"  Broten  notes.  "Although  just 
now  airports  are  funneling  more  of  their 
money  into  security,  safe  pavements  are 
critical  both  to  highways  and  airports." 

While  Broten's  day-to-day  responsi- 
bilities (which  include  about  12  days  of 


Maggie  Broten 


— 


travel  per  month)  don't  always  rely  on 
her  geology  background,  that  program 
did  provide  a  "wonderful  balance"  to  her 
civil  engineering  program. 

"Engineering  involved  big  classes, 

very  tense  students 
and  a  focus  on 
numbers  and 
equations,"  says 
Broten.  "Geology 
involved  smaller 
groups,  I  felt  that  I 
knew  everyone, 
and  some  of  the 
classes  involved 
extensive  writing. 
The  communica- 
tion skills  I  learned 
through  geology 
have  been  very 
helpful  in  commu- 
nicating what  our 
company  does  and 
in  actually  getting 
contracts." 
Although  the  company  has  moved  to 
larger  quarters,  its  headquarters  have 
always  been— and  always  will  be— based 
in  Champaign-Urbana.  Zimmerman,  pres- 
ident of  the  company,  has  strong  personal 
ties  to  Champaign-Urbana.  Peshkin,  vice- 
president  and  principal,  grew  up  in 
Champaign-Urbana  and  his  late  father 
was  on  the  University  faculty.  Both 
Zimmerman  and  Peshkin  have  civil  engi- 
neering degrees  from  the  University  of 
Illinois.  The  multimillion  dollar  company 
has  30  employees  (many  of  them 
University  of  Illinois  graduates)  and  has 
branch  offices  in  Downers  Grove,  111., 
Burlington,  Vt.,  and  Reno,  Nev. 

"You'd  be  surprised  how  many 
employees  choose  to  work  in  this  office," 
says  Broten.  "Champaign-Urbana  is  a 
nice  community." 

Broten  also  notes  that  she  and  others 
at  the  company  benefit  from  their  rela- 
tionship with  the  university  and  the  abili- 


10 


ty  to  use  its  outstanding  library  facilities. 

Coleman's  company,  Isotech,  grew 
out  of  the  Ph.D.  research  he  did  at  the 
University  of  Illinois  with  Tom 
Anderson,  now  professor  emeritus.  His 
thesis  included  using  isotopic  analysis  to 
identify  natural  gas  that  had  leaked  from 
underground  gas  storage  fields.  Coleman 
found  that  natural  gas  has  an  isotopic 
"fingerprint"  not  unlike  a  DNA  finger- 
print. The  isotopic  composition  of 
methane,  for  example,  can  tell  whether 
the  gas  was  thermogenic  or  microbial, 
which  can  help  determine  whether  it  is 
naturally  occurring  or  has  leaked  from 
an  underground  storage  area. 

That  work  led  to  several  consulting 
contracts,  particularly  with  gas  compa- 
nies. Because  Coleman  was  a  full-time 
employee  of  the  ISGS,  he  could  only 
consult  with  companies  outside  Illinois. 
By  the  early  1980s,  the  demand  for  his 
services  demonstrated  the  need  for  a 
commercial  laboratory,  so  he  and  three 
colleagues  bought  equipment  and  set  up 
an  independent  lab,  which  they  named 
Isotech  Laboratories. 

Isotech  very  quickly  established 
itself  for  the  quality  of  its  data.  By  1991, 
the  group  had  enough  steady  work  that 
they  could  hire  full-time  staff.  Coleman 
has  worked  full  time  at  Isotech  since 
1995,  when  he  took  early  retirement 
after  25  years  at  the  ISGS.  Today  there 
are  19  people  on  the  payroll,  including 
three  of  the  original  founders.  The 
fourth  founder  opted  to  remain  at  the 
ISGS. 

Until  recently  about  one  third  of  the 
company's  business  was  with  oil  com- 
panies, one  third  was  gas  companies 
and  one  third  was  environmental.  Now 
the  major  oil  companies  make  up  more 
than  half  Isotech's  business.  The  compa- 
ny had  over  $1.6  million  in  sales  in 
2001. 

Isotech  also  was  recently  in  the 
news  for  an  innovative  packaging  sys- 


tern.  Much  of  the  company's  business 
requires  sending  and  receiving  highly 
flammable  mud-gas  samples.  The  com- 
pany developed  a  long,  thin  metal  pipe, 
dubbed  IsoTube,  that  made  it  easier  to 
collect  samples,  and  was  reusable  and 
less  expensive.  Previously,  10,000  gas 
samples  (about  the  number  Isotech 
analyzes  per  year)  generated  10,550 
pounds  of  waste.  With  the  IsoTube™ 
system,  the  same  number  of  samples 
generates  675  pounds  of  waste.  Isotech 
recently  was  one  of  17  Illinois  compa- 
nies that  received  the  Governor's 
Pollution  Prevention  Award. 

Coleman  is  happy  to  be  based  in 
Champaign,  although  the  avid  out- 
doorsman  loves  being  in  the  moun- 
tains. Overhead  cost  in  Champaign- 
Urbana  is  low  and,  like  Broten, 
Coleman  values  the  good  association  he 
has  with  both  the  university,  as  well  as 
the  ISGS  in  his  case.  While  it  has  been 
difficult  to  recruit  people  to  Urbana- 
Champaign,  he  has  been  able  to  hire 
many  good  chemists  and  other 
scientists  from  University  of  Illinois 
graduates. 

"The  quality  of  the  people  is  a 
significant  factor  for  staying  here,"  says 
Coleman. 


GeoScience  2005— Well  on  Its  Way! 

Last  year,  the  Department  initiated  a  five-year,  $3  million  endowment  cam- 
paign, because  increasing  our  endowment  is  essential  if  we  are  to  maintain  our 
prominence  as  a  teaching  and  research 
institution  in  geoscience.  We're  pleased  to 
announce  that  the  campaign  has  gotten  off 
to  a  great  start!  We  have  received  several 
lead  gifts  so  far,  and  would  like  to  highlight 
a  few  of  these.  Ed  and  Alison  Franklin  have 
endowed  the  Franklin  field-camp  fund,  and 
have  made  a  bequest  for  the  Franklin 
Geology  Development  Fund.  Eric  and 
Kathy  Johnson  have  endowed  the  W.H. 
Johnson  Professorship  of  Surficial  Geology, 
Jack  and  Richard  Threet  are  endowing  the 
Threet  Professorship  of  Sedimentary 
Geology  in  honor  of  Harold  Scott,  Bill 
Soderman  is  endowing  the  Bluestem 
Graduate  Fellowship,  Brud  Leighton  is  sub- 
stantially increasing  the  funding  of  the 
endowment  for  the  Morris  and  Ada 
Leighton  Research  Fund,  Jim  Baroffio  has 
established  the  endowment  for  the  Wanless 
Fund  for  graduate-student  support,  and 
Joyce  Johnson  has  endowed  the  W.H. 
Johnson  field  fund.  We  are  also  pleased  to 
announced  that  funds  donated  by  friends 
of  Norman  Sohl  a  number  of  years  ago 

have  grown  sufficiently  to  endow  the  Sohl  Endowment  to  support  graduate-student 
research  in  paleontology.  In  the  fall  of  2001 ,  Steve  Marshak  and  Bruce  Fouke  trav- 
eled to  Houston  to  meet  and  visit  with  alumni.  During  that  visit  Fouke  gave  a  talk 
to  alumni  on  the  future  of  geomicrobiology,  a  growing  field.  We  wish  to  thank  our 
benefactors  profoundly,  and  encourage  all  alumni  and  friends  of  the  Department  to 
participate  in  building  our  future  through  GeoScience  2005. 


Illinois  Faculty  are  Authoring  Books 

In  recent  years,  faculty  in  the  Department  of  Geology  have  directed  some  of  their 
efforts  into  writing  books  or  chapters  in  books.  For  example,  Craig  Bethke  published 
Geochemical  Reaction  Modeling,  Concepts  and  Applications  with  Oxford  University 
Press.  Jim  Kirkpatrick  wrote  the  chapter  on  Nuclear  Magnetic  Resonance  Spectroscopy 
for  the  Handbook  of  Analytical  Techniques  in  Concrete  Science  and  Technology,  and  Jay 
Bass  wrote  the  chapter  on  Elasticity  of  Minerals,  Glasses,  and  Melts  for  the  Handbook 
of  Physical  Constants.  Steve  Marshak's  introductory  geology  textbook,  Earth:  Portrait  of 
a  Planet,  published  by  W.W  Norton,  appeared  in  2001.  This  is  Marshak's  third  text- 
book. He's  working  on  second  editions  of  the  other  two  {Basic  Methods  of  Structural 
Geology,  published  by  Prentice-Hall,  and  Earth  Structure,  an  Introduction  to  Structural 
Geology  and  Tectonics,  published  by  McGraw-Hill). 


Ed  and  Alison 
Franklin  Make 
Major  Bequest 

Ed  and  Alison  Franklin 
have  made  a  bequest  of 
$800,000  to  the  Department  of 
Geology  as  part  of  the 
GeoScience  2005  campaign. 
The  Franklin  Endowment, 
when  established,  will  provide 
funds  to  support  the  teaching 
and  research  goals  of  the 
Department.  This  gift  is  on  top 
of  their  already  amazingly  gen- 
erous donation  of  $200,000  to 
support  our  field  camp.  The 
Franklins  are  truly  friends  of 
the  Department,  par  excel- 
lence! Ed  Franklin  received  his 
B.S.  in  1956. 


In  Memory 


Pat  Domenico 


Pat  Domenico,  a 
faculty  member 
from  1967-1982, 
died  August  1 , 
2001 ,  near  his 
summer  home 
in  Montana. 
Domenico 
joined  the 
Department 
shortly  after 
completing  his  doctorate  at  the 
University  of  Nevada  in  1967.  In  1982  he 
moved  to  Texas  A&M  University,  where 
he  became  the  David  B.  Harris  Professor 
of  Geology.  He  retired  in  1988. 
Domenico  received  numerous  awards, 
including  the  GSA's  O.E.  Meinzer 
Hydrogeology  Award;  the  Basic  Research 
Award  of  the  U.S.  National  for  Rock 
Mechanics;  the  Excellence  in  Science 
and  Engineering  Award  from  the 
Association  of  Ground  Water  Scientists 


and  Engineers;  and  the  Distinguished 
Teaching  Award  College  of  Geosciences 
at  Texas  A&M  University.  President 
George  H.  Bush  appointed  Domenico  to 
the  U.S.  Nuclear  Waste  Technical  Review 
Board. 

Domenico  contributed  basic  research 
in  areas  of  consolidation  resource  opti- 
mization and  mass  and  energy  transport. 
His  work  was  inventive,  provocative, 
eclectic  and  often  pioneering.  It  com- 
monly featured  the  elegant  application  of 
analytical  mathematics  to  explore  physi- 
cal and  chemical  processes.  Domenico 
was  the  author  of  two  major  textbooks: 
Concepts  and  Models  in  Groundwater 
Hydrology  and  Physical  and  Chemical 
Hydrogeology.  He  participated  actively  at 
GSA's  annual  meetings  and  in  numerous 
Penrose  Conferences,  he  served  as  the 
Birdsall  Distinguished  Lecturer  and  con- 
tributed to  the  Decade  of  North  American 
Geology  series. 


Domenico  served  in  the  Navy  and 
enjoyed  hunting  and  fishing.  As  a  profes- 
sor, he  helped  educate  many  outstanding 
students  who  went  on  to  be  leaders  in 
their  various  fields. 

"Pat  had  very  high  standards,"  says 
Tom  Anderson,  professor  emeritus.  "But 
he  didn't  have  a  stuffy  academician's 
demeanor.  He  used  to  tell  me,  'Teaching 
sure  beats  working  for  a  living!'" 

Those  who  know  Pat  well  will  miss 
his  keen  sense  of  humor  and  wry  obser- 
vations on  the  state  of  our  science  and 
humanity.  Through  the  years  he  helped 
to  shape  the  direction  of  modern  hydro- 
geology. Many  individuals  were  touched 
in  a  personal  and  special  way  by  Pat's 
life  and  career. 

Based  on  an  article  by  F.W.  Schwartz,  Ph.D.  '72, 
that  appeared  in  The  Hydrologist,  newsletter  of 
the  hydrogeology  division  of  GSA 


Dave  Anderson 


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Dave  Anderson, 
professor  emeri- 
tus, died  June 
29,  2001.  He 
was  63  and 
had  been 
suffering  from 
Alzheimer's  dis- 
ease. Anderson, 
a  native  of 
Australia,  was 
professor  of  geology  at  the  University 
from  1967  until  he  retired  in  1996.  He 
was  department  head  from  1983-1988. 
As  department  head,  Anderson  hired 
several  of  the  faculty  who  are  still  in  the 
Department  today.  As  a  teacher,  he 
taught  courses  in  petrology,  thermody- 
namics, structural  geology,  field  geology, 
and  introductory  geology. 

Anderson  came  to  Illinois  after  com- 
pleting a  post-doctoral  position  with 
James  B.  Thompson  at  Harvard 
University.  He  was  an  expert  in  nonequi- 
librium  thermodynamics  as  applied  to 
metamorphic  rocks.  Anderson  mentored 


many  students,  both  undergraduate  and 
graduate,  and  played  a  major  role  in 
steering  students  into  successful  careers. 
Sue  Mahlberg-Kay,  B.S.  '69,  M.S.  72,  pro- 
fessor of  geology  at  Cornell  University, 
credits  Anderson  with  instilling  in  her  an 
excitement  for  geology. 

Sharon  Mosher,  B.S.  '73,  Ph.D.  78, 
Scott  Professor  of  Geological  Sciences  at 
the  University  of  Texas,  Austin,  and  for- 
mer President  of  the  Geological  Society  of 
America,  says,  "Dave's  understanding  of 
diffusion  and  the  effects  of  nonequilibri- 
um  thermodynamics  was  way  ahead  of 
his  time.  He  instilled  in  his  students  a 
deep  appreciation  for  geologic  processes, 
and  the  insights  we  learned  from  him 
have  been  invaluable.  He,  more  than  any- 
one else,  is  the  person  who  inspired  me 
to  continue  for  a  Ph.D.,  and  to  return  to 
theU.  of  I." 

Chuck  Simonds,  M.S.  '69,  Ph.D.  71, 
remembers  gathering  for  long  discussion 
sessions  in  Anderson's  office  in  the  base- 
ment of  the  Natural  History  Building  or 
the  cafeteria  in  the  Illini  Union. 


"Dave  was  a  risk  taker  and  passed 
that  instinct  to  his  students,"  says 
Simonds. 

Anderson  also  had  a  reputation  for 
excellence  in  field  work,  and  was  an 
instructor  at  the  University  of  Illinois 
Summer  Field  camp  in  Sheridan,  Wyo., 
during  the  summers  of  1967,  1968  and 
1970.  During  the  summer  of  1972, 
Anderson  taught  at  the  University  of 
Illinois  field  camp  in  northern  Scotland. 

As  anyone  who  has  participated  in 
field  work  knows,  sometimes  these  trips 
don't  always  go  as  smoothly  as  they 
could.  Professor  Wang-Ping  Chen  remem- 
bers co-leading  a  structural  geology  field 
trip  with  Anderson  in  the  early  1980s. 
The  group,  including  54  students,  went 
to  the  upper  peninsula  of  Michigan  in 
late  September.  They  were  greeted  with 
snow  and  sleet  at  their  campsite.  The 
next  morning  Anderson  and  Chen  real- 
ized four  students  were  missing  and  they 
combed  the  campsite.  They  almost 
tripped  on  a  heap  of  canvas  on  the 

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In  Memory 


Dennis  Wood,  a  well-known  and 
highly  respected  geologist  from  North 
Wales  died  on  April  20,  2001.  Wood  was 
a  professor  at  the  University  of  Illinois 
from  1967-1980. 

At  Illinois,  Wood  carried  out  insight- 
ful research  into  the  process  of  slaty 
cleavage  formation,  the  development  of 
strain  in  rock,  and  issues  of  global  tec- 
tonics. He  also  collaborated  with  Fred 
Donath,  professor  of  geology,  whose  lab- 
oratory-based experiments  in  rock 
mechanics  perfectly  complemented 
Dennis'  enthusiasm  and  flair  in  the  field. 
Together  with  Wood's  eloquent  class- 
room lectures  and  epic  field  courses,  this 
provided  a  heady  cocktail  that  inspired  a 
generation  of  Illinois  students.  Many  stu- 
dents inspired  by  Wood  now  occupy 
senior  positions  around  the  world— in 
industry  as  well  as  in  academia. 

In  1980  Wood  returned  to  Britain  as 
Chief  Scientist  with  Robertson  Research 
and  remained  there  until  1990.  In  1993, 
he  served  as  chair  of  the  Earth  Science 
Committee  for  NERC  (Britain's  equiva- 
lent for  NSF).  In  the  last  few  years, 
Wood  was  extensively  involved  in  geo- 
logical conservation,  becoming  Chair  of 
the  Gwynedd  and  Mon  RIGS  Group, 
where  he  exercised  his  manv  talents  in 


conserving,  recording  and  developing 
sites  for  use  by  the  general  public, 
researchers  and  schools.  Such  was 
Woods'  ability  to  convey  enthusiasm  for 
his  subject,  that  he  was  in  huge  demand 
with  academic  audiences  and  amateur 
groups  alike. 

Throughout  his  career,  Wood's  inter- 
ests bridged  both  industry  and  acade- 
mia. While  working  in  industry,  for 
example,  he  accepted  an  Honorary  Chair 
at  the  University  of  Wales,  taught  for  a 
period  at  Aberystwyth  and  lectured  at 
Bangor.  He  was  an  inspiring  teacher  who 
loved  working  with  students,  especially 
in  the  field,  and  was  unstinting  with  his 
time  and  energy. 

"I  think  it's  true  to  say  he  brought  a 
breath  of  fresh  air  to  the  department  in 
the  late  sixties,"  says  Alex  Maltman, 
M.S.  71,  Ph.D.  73.  "He  had  charisma 
and  brought  inspiration  to  many.  He 
made  geology  FUN." 

Wood's  interests  ranged  well  beyond 
geology.  He  was  an  accomplished  organ- 
ist and  held  passions  for  cricket,  rugby, 
and  genealogy.  He  also  loved  parties 
both  at  home  and  in  the  field.  According 
to  Maltman,  "The  parties  at  his  house 
were  legendary.  Even  Francis  Crick,  the 
DNA  Nobel  laureate,  attended  one." 

In  1970,  Wood  began  teaching  a 
summer  field  course  in  the  United 
Kingdom.  These  trips  also  became  leg- 
endary, mostly  for  the  geology,  and  part- 
ly for  their  raucous  good  fun— they 
attracted  students  from  all  over  the 
United  States.  Logistics  on  these  trips, 
however,  did  not  always  go  as  planned. 
On  the  first  trip,  Wood's  little  red  MG 
sports  car  became  submerged  by  the 
incoming  tide  as  the  party  visited  a  tidal 
island.  But  all  in  all,  the  trips  were  a 
wonderful  geological  experience  and  pro- 
vided outstanding  training,  founded  on 
Wood's  great  breadth  and  depth  of  geo- 
logical knowledge. 

At  his  funeral,  in  Bangor,  North 
Wales,  one  of  the  eulogists  remarked 
that  no  one  could  pretend  that  Dennis 
was  a  saint.  But  no  one  could  denv  that 


he  was  a  great  teacher  in  his  day,  an 
inspiration  to  many. 

"I  know  practicing  geologists  who 
today  readily  acknowledge  that  their 
having  followed  that  profession  was  due 
to  one  man,  the  cultivated  yet  wild 
Englishman  who  sadly  died  at  his  adopt- 
ed home  in  Wales  last  year,"  says 
Maltman. 

Sharon  Mosher,  B.S.  73,  Ph.D.  78, 
and  recipient  of  the  2001  Distinguished 
Alumni  award,  says,  "Dennis  taught  me 
far  more  than  academics;  he  taught  me 
how  to  be  a  professional,  everything 
from  how  to  supervise  students  to  how 
to  present  my  research  to  the  larger  sci- 
entific community.  He  was  a  major  influ- 
ence on  my  early  career;  he  was  a  true 
mentor." 

Wood  died  of  a  heart  attack  on 
stage  while  accepting  applause  for  a 
public  lecture.  In  recognition  of  Wood's 
achievements,  the  Welsh  RIGS  move- 
ment is  planning  to  place  a  plaque  at  his 
favorite  field  site,  Rhoscolyn,  in 
Anglesey. 


Anderson 

(continued  from  previous  page) 

ground.  "Some  irresponsible  people  left 
the  extra  tents  here,"  said  Dave  as  he 
bent  to  pick  the  tent  up.  Then  Dave 
burst  into  laughter— there  were  four 
warm  bodies,  still  sound  asleep,  under 
what  was  a  collapsed  tent  soaked  with 
freezing  rain. 

Professor  Steve  Marshak  remem- 
bers going  to  Scotland  with  Anderson  to 
field  check  the  thesis  work  of  two  grad- 
uate students.  Together,  they  rented  a 
small  dinghy  with  an  outboard  motor 
and  traversed  a  stormy  loch.  Then  they 
climbed  a  small  mountain  called  the 
Stack  of  Glencoul,  in  the  pouring  rain. 
"At  the  top,   Dave  gave  me  a  superb 
tour  of  a  classic  exposure  of  deformed 
worm  burrows.  I  still  remember  him, 
radiating  delight  in  a  geologic  discover)', 
despite  the  rain,"  says  Marshak. 


13 


Windows  into  the  Past 


At  the  Turn  of  the  (20th)  Century- 
Research  and  Graduate  Education  Become  the  Focus 


At  the  turn  of  the 
20th  century,  the  president 
of  the  University  of  Illinois 
was  Andrew  Sloan  Draper, 
and  the  head  of  the 
Department  of  Geology  (a 
unit  which  included  geog- 
raphy) was  Charles 
Wesley  Rolfe.  The  climate 
of  the  University,  in  those 
days,  did  not  support 
research.  In  fact,  accord- 
ing to  W.  Solberg's  (2000) 
history  of  the  University, 
Draper  "disparaged  disin- 
terested research  and  made  no  signifi- 
cant contribution  to  its  development  on 
campus."  This  was  epitomized  by 
Draper's  assigning  Rolfe  the  duty  of 
domesticating  campus  squirrels.  Thus, 
when  Draper  quit  in  1904  and  returned 
to  public  school  administration,  it  had 
to  be  good  news  for  the  Geology 
Department.  Edmund  J.  James  became 
President  of  the  University  in  1905. 

James  immediately  began  upgrad- 
ing faculty  in  "weak"  departments, 
such  as  geology.   Rolfe  remained  as 
head  (and  also  served  as  a  consultant 
to  the  State  Geological  Survey  in  clay 
investigations),  but  was  joined  by 
William  Shirley  Bayley  and  Rufus 
Matthew  Bagg.  Both  of  these  geologists 
held  Ph.D.  degrees  from  Johns  Hopkins 
University.  A  Yale  doctoral  candidate, 
Thomas  Edmund  Savage,  also  joined 
the  Department.  Thus,  a  19th-century 
department  of  one  professor,  devoted 
almost  entirely  to  undergraduate 
instruction,  suddenly  became  a  20th- 
century  department  of  four  professors, 
with  interests  in  research  and  graduate 
education.  The  list  of  graduate  degree 
recipients  began  to  increase  steadily— 
14       between  1905  and  1919,  15  master's 


degrees  and  two  doctorates  were  grant- 
ed in  fields  such  as  stratigraphy,  eco- 
nomic geology,  Quaternary  geology, 
paleontology,  and  petroleum  geology. 

Before  coming  to  Illinois,  Bayley 
had  taught  at  Colby  College  for  16 
years,  and  since  1SS7  had  an  affiliation 
with  the  United  States  Geological 
Survey.  Bayley  was  author  or  co-author 
of  63  publications,  as  well  as  a  three 
textbooks  {Elementary  Crystallography, 
1910);  Minerals  and  Rocks,  1915;  and 
Descriptive  Mineralogy,  1916).  He 
worked  primarily  on  the  geology  of  iron 
ore  deposits,  particularly  in  Minnesota 
and  Michigan,  but  late  in  his  career,  he 
also  studied  kaolin  deposits  in  North 
Carolina,  presaging  later  specialization 
in  the  Department  of  Geology. 

T  E.  Savage,  appointed  as  an  assis- 
tant professor  in  1906  and,  concurrently, 
as  a  "geologist"  in  the  Illinois  State 
Geological  Survey,  came  to  Illinois  from 
Leander  Clark  College  in  Toledo,  Iowa. 
He  was  also  assistant  state  geologist  of 
Iowa  from  1904  to  1907.  Savage  contin- 
ued graduate  study  as  he  began  teach- 
ing at  Illinois,  and  finished  a  doctorate 
at  Yale  in  1909.  Between  1910  and  1919, 
Savage,  under  the  auspices  of  the  ISGS, 


!      did  quadrangle 
i      mapping  and  strati- 
graphic  reports. 
;      Savage  remained 
with  the 
Department  of 
Geology  and  the 
Survey  until  his 
retirement  in  1934. 

Rufus  Bagg 
came  to  Illinois  as 
an  instructor  after 
having  held  posi- 
tions at  Colorado 
College  and  the 
New  Mexico  School  of  Mines.  He  also 
spent  a  year  as  "Honorary  Mineralogist" 
in  charge  of  an  exhibit  of  sulfide  miner- 
als at  the  Paris  Exposition  in  1900.  Bagg 
published  extensively  on  fossil  and  liv- 
ing foraminifera  and  in  economic  geolo- 
gy and  mineralogy.  He  left  Illinois  in 
1911  to  join  the  faculty  of  Lawrence 
College  in  Appleton,  Wisconsin.  When 
Bagg  left,  John  Lyon  Rich  came  to 
Illinois  as  an  instructor.  While  he  was 
at  Illinois,  1911  through  1918,  he  pub- 
lished more  than  twenty  papers  in  a 
wide  diversity  of  geological  fields.  His 
experimental  study  of  the  physical  prop- 
erties of  ice  was  a  'first'  in  its  field,  but 
Rich  is  remembered  mostly  as  a  stratig- 
rapher-sedimentologist  and  petroleum 
geologist.  After  leaving  Illinois,  Rich 
went  on  to  national  fame  as  professor 
at  the  University  of  Cincinnati. 

The  World  War  I  era  also  saw  the 
hiring  of  Francis  M.  Van  Tuyl,  who 
joined  the  Department  of  Geology 
briefly,  as  an  instructor  from  1914  - 
1917.  Tuyl  completed  his  doctorate  at 
Columbia  University  in  1915,  and  dur- 
ing the  summer  of  1916  he  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  University  of  Illinois  Hudson 
Bay  Exploring  Expedition  led  by  Savage. 


In  1917  he  left  for  the  Colorado  School 
of  Mines. 

When  Rolfe  retired  in  1916,  Elliot 
Blackwelder  succeeded  to  the  headship. 
Blackwelder  only  stayed  at  Illinois  for 
three  years,  for  he  resigned  in  1919  to 
join  the  faculty  at  Stanford.  Blackwelder 
was  a  very  prominent  geologist  at  a 
national  level,  as  recognized  by  his 
appointment  to  the  National  Academy  of 
Sciences,  the  presidency  of  the 
Geological  Society  of  America  (1940), 
and  the  presidency  of  the  Seismological 
Society  (1947). 

In  addition  to  senior  staff,  Illinois' 
Department  of  Geology  in  the  early  20th 
century  hired  a  number  of  junior  staff 
members— as  many  as  four  in  any  given 
year.  University  records  list  20  "assis- 
tants" in  the  Department  between  1906 
and  1919.  One  of  these  assistants  even- 
tually received  a  graduate  degree  from 
the  Department,  but  most  appear  to 
have  been  at  Illinois  for  teaching  purpos- 
es only. 

At  the  time  of  Blackwelder's  depar- 
ture in  1919,  as  the  world  recovered 
from  World  War  I,  all  of  the  professors 
in  the  Department  had  their  Ph.D.s, 
even  though  some  had  been  hired  while 
still  working  on  their  doctorates.  In  addi- 
tion, all  of  these  faculty  had  gained  their 
doctorates  at  universities  other  than 
Illinois,  reflecting  President  James  and 
Dean  Kinley's  prescription  for  reforming 


the  University,  and  all  were  active  in 
research,  publishing  in  national  jour- 
nals. The  Department  was  actively 
granting  graduate  degrees.  The 
Department's  first  Ph.D.  went  to  Merle 
Louis  Nebel  in  1917,  for  his  study  of  the 
contact  metamorphism  in  the  iron-bear- 
ing rocks  next  to  the  Duluth  gabbro  in 
Minnesota.  Nebel  was  appointed  as  a 
professor  of  geology  in  West  Virginia 
University,  but  sadly  died  in  1918.  Our 
second  doctorate,  granted  in  1919,  went 
to  Clarence  Samuel  Ross,  whose  1919 
dissertation  also  was  a  study  of  contact 
metamorphism  near  Duluth.  Ross  went 
on  to  a  long  and  distinguished  career  in 
the  U.  S.  Geological  Survey. 

The  Geology  Department  entered 
the  "roaring  20's"  as  a  vital,  active 
teaching  and  research  program,  already 
boasting  prominent  alumni,  and  already 
contributing  new  information  on  a  vari- 
ety of  geologic  issues. 

References 

Scott,  Franklin  W.  1918,  The  Serai-Centennial 

Alumni  Record  of  the  University  of  Illinois, 

University  of  Illinois.  1147  p. 
Solberg,  Winton  U.,  2000.  University  of  Illinois, 

1894-1904.  The  Shaping  of  the  University, 

University  of  Illinois  Press,  Urbana  and 

Chicago,  415  p. 
Annual  Report  of  the  Trustees  of  the  University 

of  Illinois;  University  of  Illinois  Annual 

Register. 
Files  for  Bayley,  Rolfe,  Savage,  held  by  the 

Department  of  Geology  in  the  University  of 

Illinois  Archives. 


Flash  from  the  past: 


172  and  Dan  Blake 
t  the  Badlands. 


Wmm^ 


Degrees  Conferred  in  2001 


Bachelor  of  Science  Degrees 

January 

David  Cecil  Lampe 

May 

David  Andrew  Fike 
Sean  Paul  Fisher-Rohde 
Kristin  Ann  Gazdziak 
Hugo  Gonzalez 
Erin  E.  Gutierrez 
Kristen  M.  Hasenjager 
Stacey  Day  Kocian 
Bryan  J.  Luman 
Jill  Erin  Pine 
Frances  Nakai-Skomurski 
Anna  Lee  Sutton 
Laura  Elizabeth  Swan 

August 

Tyler  Patrick  Jones 
Erik  Nicholas  Schultz 

December 

Adam  Robert  Gibbons 
Brandon  Craig  Haist 

Master  of  Science  Degrees 

May 

Joseph  Matthew  Schoen  (teaching  of  earth 
science  degree) 

Anthony  Charles  Gibson,  Three-dimensional 
Geometries  and  Porosity  Trends  of  Subsurface 
Ooid  Shoal  Hydrocarbon  Reservoirs  in  the 
Mississippian  Ste.  Genevieve  Formation  of  the 
Illinois  Basin.  USA   (Bruce  Fouke) 

Serena  Lee,  Physical  and  Chemical  Controls 
on  Carbonate  Precipitation  in  Surficial  Hot 
Springs  and  Subterranean  Cold  Springs  (Bruce 
Fouke) 

Richard  J.  Wachtman,  Sedimentology, 
Stratigraphy,  and  S?SR/S6SR  Geochemistiyi  of 
KT  Ejecta  Deposited  in  Central  Belize  485  KM 
from  the  Chicxulub  Crater  (Bruce  Fouke) 

Aubrey  Lea  Zerkle,  Microbial  and 
Environmental  Influences  on  Black  Band 
Disease  in  Scleractinian  Corals  of  Curacao, 
N.A.  (Bruce  Fouke) 

October 

Matthew  Carlton  Fredrick  Wander, 
Development  and  Implementation  of  An 
Isotopic  Model  for  Quantifying  Groundwater 
Denitrification  (Thomas  Johnson) 

Doctor  of  Philosophy  Degrees 
December 

Xiaoqiang  Hon.  Structure  and  Dynamics  of 
Layered  Double  Hydroxides  (R.  James 
Kirkpa  trick) 


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Obituaries 


Alumni  News 


Editor's  Note:  Although  Paul  Shaffer  died 
in  2000,  we  were  unable  to  include  a  com- 
plete obituar)'  in  the  2000  issue  of  the 
newsletter.  The  following  is  a  more  com- 
plete description  of  his  life  and  achieve- 
ments. 

Paul  Shaffer  died 
November,  2000, 
at  his  home  in 
Maryville,  Ohio. 
He  was  90  years 
old.  Shaffer,  a 
professor  of  geol- 
ogy from  1947 
until  1968,  was 
an  expert  in 
glacial  geology 
and  geomorphol- 
ogy.  His  research  focused  on  a  series  of 
glacial  deposits  in  Iowa  and  Illinois.  Most 
notably,  he  demonstrated  conclusively 
that  an  early  Wisconsin  ice  sheet 
advanced  much  further  west  than  former- 
ly supposed,  and  dated  the  time  of  this 
advance.  Shaffer  also  wrote  a  book  on 
rocks  and  minerals  for  laymen,  published 
by  Simon  &  Schuster.  It  was  the  preemi- 
nent book  in  the  field  and  gained  him  a 
national  reputation. 

Shaffer  received  his  bachelor's 
degree  from  the  college  of  Wooster  in 
1935,  his  master's  and  doctorate  from  The 
Ohio  State  University  in  1937  and  1945, 
respectively.  Prior  to  coming  to  the 
University  of  Illinois,  Shaffer  was  chair  of 
the  geology  department  at  Ohio  Wesleyan 
and  served  as  chief  geologist  at  Ranney 
Water  Collector  Corporation.  His  success 
in  developing  huge  underground  water 
supplies  essential  for  wartime  use  was 
well  known  at  the  time  in  the  profession. 

Shaffer  met  George  White,  later 
department  head  and  professor  at  Illinois, 
when  they  were  both  at  The  Ohio  State 
University.  Shaffer  was  there  as  a  student 
and  White  was  on  sabbatical  from  the 
University  of  New  Hampshire.  When 
White  came  to  the  University  of  Illinois, 
he  brought  Shaffer  with  him. 


White  described  Shaffer  as,  "utterly 
and  absolutely  honest,  both  intellectually 
and  personally.  This  deep  sense  of  integrity 
is  not  flaunted,  but  it  is  always  present. 
People  like  to  work  with  him  and  for  him, 
he  is  generous  in  giving  credit  to  his  associ- 
ates for  successful  performance  of  joint 
operations." 

In  addition  to  his  academic  and  admin- 
istrative duties  at  the  University,  which 
included  serving  as  associate  provost  and 
acting  department  head,  Shaffer  cared 
deeply  and  was  very  involved  in  undergrad- 
uate education.  In  addition,  he  was  an 
active  member  of  the  Association  of 
Geology  Teachers.  He  served  as  vice  presi- 
dent of  that  organization  from  1946-47  and 
president  from  1951-52. 

Shaffer  was  a  natural  organizer,  of  both 
people  and  space  and  his  skills  were  on 
demand  by  many  organizations.  He  was 
selected  to  organize  and  lead  a  group  of  six 
U.S.  teachers  on  a  trip  to  Nigeria  in  1962  at 
that  country's  request.  Also  in  the  1960s  he 
was  asked  to  help  NSF  organize  an  intera- 
gency program  in  international  science  edu- 
cation, focused  primarily  in  India.  His  ser- 
vices also  were  used  by  the  National 
Association  of  State  Universities  and  Land 
Grant  Colleges,  where  he  served  as  director 
of  the  International  Programs  office.  In  1964 
Shaffer  received  the  Orton  Award  from  The 
Ohio  State  University.  This  award  honors  a 
distinguished  geology  alumnus. 

In  1968,  Shaffer  resigned  from  the 
University  to  pursue  international  science 
education  full  time. 

W.A.  (Bill)  Meneley,  Ph.D.  '64,   died 
in  2000.  Dr.  Meneley  was  born  in 
Saskatchewan,  Canada,  in  1933.  He  earned 
his  bachelor's  degree  in  geological  engineer- 
ing and  master's  degree  in  geology  from  the 
University  of  Saskatchewan.  He  worked  at 
the  Research  Council  of  Alberta  as  a 
groundwater  hydrologist  before  enrolling  at 
the  University  of  Illinois  for  a  Ph.D.  in  geol- 
ogy. Following  his  doctorate,  Meneley 
joined  the  Saskatchwan  Research  Council 
where  he  was  in  charge  of  the  groundwater 
hydrology  program.  In  1976  he  established 
W.A.  Meneley  Consultants  Ltd.  He 


retired  in  1991.  "Bill  will  be  remembered 
for  his  clarity  of  thought  and  expression, 
his  unabated  interest  in  science,  and  his 
love  for  the  application  of  science  to 
engineering  practice,"  writes  his  col- 
league, Earl  A.  Christiansen,  Ph.  D.  '59. 

(This  information  contributed  by  Philip 
Sandberg,  faculty  member  from  1965  to 
1995) 

Yang  Baoxing,  a  postdoctoral 
research  associate  in  the  Department  of 
Geology  from  1983-85  died  July  14  of 
cancer.  Dr.  Yang  worked  with  Professor 
George  Klein  during  her  time  at  the 
University.  Dr.  Yang  was  on  the  faculty  of 
the  Chengdu  College  of  Geology  (now 
known  as  the  Chengdu  Institute  of 
Technology)  from  1960-2001.  She  served 
as  host  for  the  summer  lecture  visits 
from  professors  Tom  Anderson  in  1987, 
Philip  Sandberg  in  1988  and  Dan  Blake 
in  1989. 

In  addition  to  being  a  successful 
geologist  she  was  a  talented  dancer  and 
singer,  especially  in  her  youth.  She  was  a 
charming,  good-humored  individual 
given  to  animated  conversation  and 
strong  championing  of  her  geological 
views,  backed  up  by  extensive  experi- 
ence in  the  field  and  laboratory.  Her 
work  in  sedimentary  geology  was  very 
broad  temporally,  lithologically  and  geo- 
graphically, ranging  from  the  extreme 
northwest  of  China  to  the  South  China 
Sea.  She  worked  in  sedimentary  geology 
and  hydrocarbon  reservoir  geology  in 
many  part  of  China,  including  Tarim 
basin,  Xinjiang  Province,  and  the 
Changqing  gas  field  (the  largest  gas  field 
in  China) . 

"Thinking  about  Baoxing  evokes 
vivid  memories  of  our  times  with  her  in 
China,  including  a  trip  by  train  across 
the  loess  plains  of  northern  China  from 
Beijing  to  Xian,  where  we  saw  the 
Terracotta  Army,"  writes  Philip  Sandberg, 
now  dean  of  the  College  of  Natural 
Sciences  at  Dakota  State  University. 
"Those  of  us  who  had  the  good  fortune 
to  know  Baoxing  will  miss  her  greatly." 


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1930s 


Last  July  Willis  (Bill)  M.  Decker, 
B.S.  '39,  spent  a  week  with  17  of  his  fam- 
ily at  the  Gulf  Shore  of  Alabama,  and  in 
October  he  attended  the  sixth  reunion  of 
VPB  23  (a  Navy  Patrol  Bomber 
Squadron) .  Bill  retired  from  the  Navy  as 
commander  in  1945,  spent  39  years  with 
Cities  Service  Oil  Co.,  and  five  years  as 
Vice  President  of  Exploration  with  Jet  Oil 
Co.  in  Tulsa,  Oklahoma. 


1950s 


Haydn  H.  Murray,  B.S.  '48,  M.S. 
'50,  Ph.D.  '51,  attended  the  12th 
International  Clay  Conference  last  August 
in  Bahia  Blanca  (on  the  Argentine  coast 
in  Buenos  Aires  Province) .  At  the  opening 
ceremonies  he  was  presented  with  an 
Honorary  Doctorate  from  the  Universidad 
Nacional  Del  Sur.  "1  knew  about  this 
about  a  month  before  the  conference,  but 
I  didn't  tell  my  wife  or  my  10  former  stu- 
dents who  were  in  attendance,  so  it  was  a 
very  great  surprise  to  them  when  this  was 
presented,"  writes  Haydn,  who  is  emeri- 
tus professor  at  Indiana  University 
Department  of  Geological  Sciences.  The 
Haydn  Chair  in  Applied  Clay  Mineralogy 
has  been  endowed  at  Indiana  University. 
Haydn  writes  that  they  hope  to  have  the 
position  filled  by  September  of  2002. 


Haydn  Murray  (center)  accepts  honorary  doctorate  from  Dr. 
Edgardo  Giiichal,  vice  chair  of  the  Universidad  Del  Sur.  On 
the  right  is  Dr.  Eduardo  Dominguez,  general  chair  of  the 
12th  International  Clay  Conference  and  chair  of  the  geology 
department  at  the  Universidad  Del  Sur. 


Robert  N.  Grinnell,  B.S.  '51,  M.S. 
'52,  writes  that  he  and  his  wife  are  still 
dividing  their  time  between  the  Texas  Hill 
country  and  Jackson  Hole,  while  trying  to 
keep  up  with  12  grandchildren. 

Robert  E.  Fox,  M.S.  '53,  has 
received  the  Distinguished  Lifetime 
Achievement  Award  from  the  American 
Institute  of  Professional  Geologists.  The 
award  recognizes  Fox's  decades  of  inter- 
national pioneering  oil  exploration,  pro- 
duction and  consulting.  In  1960  Fox  sur- 
veyed and  recommended  the  Libyan  con- 
cession area.  The  area  proved  to  be  the 
largest  oil  field  in  Africa.  Fox  also  con- 
tributed to  the  discovery  and  develop- 
ment of  the  first  offshore  gas  field  in  the 
Netherlands.  He  received  an  Honorary 
Doctor  of  Science  degree  from  the 
University  of  Edinburgh,  Scotland,  for  his 
contributions  to  the  international  oil 
industry.  Fox  is  now  president  of  TERM 
Energy,  Oil  and  Gas  Corporation,  which 
operates  primarily  in  West  Virginia.  He  is 
based  in  Lexington,  Kentucky. 

Hal  Rasmussen  and  John  D.  Shafer, 

both  1954  graduates,  had  not  seen  each 
other  for  44  years  until  they  met  up  at  the 
Department  of  Geology  homecoming  cele- 
bration (that  kicked  off  the  Geoscience 
2005  campaign)  in  October  2000  (see 
cover  story  in  Geoscience  2000  newslet- 
ter). Rasmussen  lives  in  Acme,  Mich.,  and 
Shafer  lives  in  Olney,  111. 
Both  are  still  active  in 
business.  They  are  trying 
to  track  down  a  class- 
mate, Ron  Mink,  who 
worked  for  30  years  in 
South  America. 


Milton  Langer,  B.S.  '53, 
M.S.  '55,  writes  to  say 
he  was  saddened  by  the 
death  of  Professor  Paul 
Shaffer  (see  obituary  in 
this  issue).  "Paul  Shaffer 
was  my  first  geology 
professor  in  1949  (physi- 
cal geology  101 )  and  he 
served  as  my  master's 


thesis  advisor. . .  I  found  him  to  be  a 
very  understanding,  excellent,  dedicated 
and  always  supportive  person."  Langer 
retired  in  1992  after  more  than  30  years 
of  teaching  geological  and  various  physi- 
cal science  courses  at  10  different  col- 
leges, mainly  at  the  junior  college  level. 
At  the  very  beginning  of  his  career  he 
worked  for  five  years  in  the  oil  fields. 
Langer  also  served  as  a  colonel  in  the 
Army  Reserves,  from  which  he  retired  in 
1995.  Since  retiring,  Mr.  Langer,  who 
lives  in  Morton  Grove,  111.,  has  been 
involved  in  politics  and  many  communi- 
ty activities,  including  the  local  historical 
society  and  the  forest  preservation  soci- 
ety. "With  my  current  activities,  I  do  not 
understand  how  I  ever  had  time  to  be 
employed."  Both  of  Langer's  sons  live  in 
Oklahoma:  Erich  is  an  environmental 
ecologist  and  Marcus  is  a  high  school 
teacher  of  history  and  English. 

1960s 

Karl  R.  (Dick)  Krauss,  B.S.  '62,  is 

semi-retired,  co-principal  at  DiMa-Med 
Corporation.  Krauss  wonders,  "Do  you 
still  have  a  summer  course  in  Sheridan, 
Wyo.?  I  attended  summer  of  1960.  Norb 
Cygan  was  one  of  the  instructors.  We 
also  had  classes  with  Dr.  White,  Dr.  Hay 
and  Dr.  Henderson.  I  believe  Hilt 
Johnson  ran  that  camp,  or  perhaps 
several  labs  I  was  in. ..." 
Editor's  note:  The  Department  still  runs 
a  summer  geology  field  camp,  but  it's 
now  based  in  Park  City,  Utah.  See  stor)> 
in  the  1999  Year  in  Review  newsletter, 
page  12. 

Chris  Heath,  M.S.  '63,  Ph.D.  '65,  is 

running  for  vice  president  of  AAPG.  He 
is  an  independent  researcher,  having 
spent  his  career  with  Caltex  and  Amoco 
and  later  as  an  honorary  professor  at  the 
University  of  British  Columbia,  Canada. 
Heath,  a  native  of  England,  has  been  a 
member  of  AAPG  since  1966.  He 
received  the  AAPG  Distinguished  Service 
Award  in  1992  and  the  Certificate  of 
Merit  in  1997. 


Alumni  News 


Douglas  Anderson  (left)  and  David  Miller  at 
the  Kingdome  site  the  morning  before  the 
implosion. 

Douglas  A.  Anderson,  B.S.  '69,  is  a 

senior  consultant  with  Schnabel 
Engineering  Associates,  Inc.,  where  he  is  a 
demolition  expert.  He  has  been  working 
on  blast  vibration  and  fragmentation  since 
1980.  His  most  enormous  project  so  far 
has  been  to  help  demolish  Seattle's 
Kingdome.  The  Kingdome's  roof  was  the 
world's  largest  thin-shell  concrete  dome 
structure.  Now  that  it  no  longer  exists,  the 
largest  unsupported  roof  is  the  University 
of  Illinois'  Assembly  Hall.  Although  there 
was  enormous  concern  about  the  impact 
on  neighboring  structures  as  the  Kingdome 
fell,  the  demolition  was  very  successful. 
Final  result:  only  five  broken  windows  and 
a  lot  of  dust.  The  resulting  rubble  pile  was 
expected  (and  required  by  contract)  to  be 
less  than  70  feet  and  it  ended  up  being 
only  23  feet  high.  Anderson  likes  to  work 
on  predictive  models  for  vibration  and 
fragmentation  for  "those  projects  that  are  a 
bit  out  of  the  ordinary,"  he  writes. 

John  Steinmetz,  B.S.  '69,  M.S.  75, 

was  been  elected  treasurer  for  the 
Association  of  American  State  Geologists. 
He  is  state  geologist  and  director  of  the 
Indiana  Geological  Survey  in  Bloomington, 
Ind. 

1980s 

Scott  R.  Krueger,  M.S.  '85,  lives 
with  his  wife,  Kimberly,  in  Sugar  Land, 
Tex.  Scott  is  Senior  Geologist  for  Duncan 
Oil,  Inc.  in  Houston. 

Stephen  E.  Laubach,  Ph.D.  '86, 

senior  research  scientist  at  the  Bureau  of 


Economic  Geology,  University  of  Texas, 
Austin,  is  serving  in  the  AAPG  Education 
Department  Visiting  Geologists  Program 
(VGP).  The  goal  of  the  VGP  is  to  provide 
better  communication  among  students, 
faculty,  university  administrators  and 
geology  professionals.  Laubach's  talk  is 
titled  Targeting  Natural  Fractures: 
Opportunities  for  the  Domestic  Petroleum 
Industry.  Laubach  also  is  an  instructor  f 
or  AAPG's  Fractured  Reservoir 
Characterization  and  Modeling  School. 

1990s 

M.  Scott  Wilkerson,  Ph.D.  '91,  and 

his  wife  Beth,  are  the  proud  parents  of 
Benjamin  Scott  Wilkerson,  who  was  bom 
November  16,  2001.  Benjamin  has  a  big 
brother,  Zachary,  who  is  four.  Wilkerson 
just  received  tenure  and  promotion  to 
associate  professor  at  DePauw  University, 
and  will  become  chair  of  their 
Department  of  Geology  in  the  Fall.  He 
also  recently  published  an  article  on  fold- 
thrust  belts  that  was  the  cover  story  of 
the  AAPG  Bulletin,  and  is  editing  an 
upcoming  special  issue  of  the  Journal  of 
Structural  Geology.  Wilkerson  also  is  an 
adjunct  professor  in  our  Department  of 
Geology  . 

Sharon  (Horstman)  Qi,  B.A.  '89, 
M.S.  '93,  stopped  by  the  University  in 
December.  She  was  in  town  to  teach  a 
short  course  for  the  USGS  office  in 
Urbana.  Sharon  works  at  the  USGS  in 
Denver,  primarily  with  GIS  data.  She 
commutes  from  Fort  Collins,  where  her 
husband  is  an  engineer  with  Hewlett- 
Packard.  Sharon  and  her  husband  have 
two  children  and  enjoy  the  mountain 
views. 

Melinda  Legg  Ylagan,  M.S.  '94  and 
Robert  Ylagan,  Ph.D.  '96,  announce  the 
birth  of  their  son,  Renan  Robert  Ylagan. 
He  arrived  January  4,  2001 .  They  recently 
moved  to  Rochester,  New  York. 

Eric  Holdener,  M.S.  '91,  Ph.D.  '97, 

is  the  proud  father  of  Chase  Alexander 
Holdener,  who  was  born  on  August  9, 
2001,  in  Mount  Vernon,  Ohio.  Eric  writes 
that  "Chase  is  cute  and  (so  far)  very  well- 


behaved.  Mother  (Judy)  and  baby  are 
both  doing  well.  I  am  just  amazed." 
Steve  Schimmrich,  93-98,  and  his 

wife  Jennifer  are  the  proud  parents  of 
twins:  Lucas  Michael  and  Emily  Joanne, 
born  on  February  5,  2001.  Steve  teaches 
geology  at  a  community  college  in  the 
Hudson  Valley  of  New  York. 

2000s 

David  Fike,  B.S.  '01,  is  spending 
the  academic  year  2001-02  at  the  Scott 
Polar  Research  Institute  at  Cambridge's 
Churchill  College.  Fike  is  in  Cambridge 
on  a  prestigious  Winston  Churchill 
Foundation  Award.  These  scholarships, 
which  provide  tuition,  fees,  living 
expenses  and  travel,  support  10  stu- 
dents per  year  for  graduate  study  in 
engineering,  math  and  science.  Students 
are  chosen  from  57  universities  and  col- 
leges nationwide. 

Fike's  goal  is  to  join  in  the  search 
for  life  on  Mars.  The  polar  regions  are 
the  most  similar  Earth  environments  to 
the  surface  of  Mars.  Fike,  who  triple 
majored  in  geology,  engineering  physics 
and  astronomy,  studied  microbial  popu- 
lations in  Yellowstone's  hot  springs  for 
his  undergraduate  thesis.  Fike  spent  the 
summer  of  2001  at  the  NASA  Ames 
Astrobiology  Academy,  which  accepts  12 
students  each  year  to  work  on  research 
projects  and  learn  about  NASA. 

Faculty 

George  D.  Klein,  emeritus 
professor,  was  elected  by  the  Houston 
Geological  Society  to  the  House  of 
Delegates  of  the  AAPG.  The  House  of 
Delegates  is  the  governing  legislative 
council  of  the  AAPG.  Dr.  Klein's  consult- 
ing company,  SED-STRAT  Geoscience 
Consultants,  Inc.,  is  thriving. 

Mike  Hanke,  visiting  professor 
1998-2000,  and  his  wife  have  a  new 
addition  to  their  family:  Madeline  Anne 
was  born  June  5,  2001.  "Madeline  has  a 
full  head  of  dark  brown  hair  and  is  so 
beautiful  and  sweet  that  we  can  hardly 
contain  ourselves,"  writes  Mike. 


HONOR  ROLL  OF  DONORS  FOR  200T 


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The  following  is  a  list  of  friends  and  alumni  of  the  Department  of  Geology  who  have  donated  to  the  department  during  the  calendar  year  2001. 


Thomas  F.  Anderson 

Franklin  Andrews 

Robert  F.  Babb  II 

Rodney  J.  Balazs 

Debbie  E.  Baldwin 

Robert  S.  Barnard 

David  K.  Beach 

Craig  M.  Bethke 

Jean  M.  Bethke 

Marion  E.  Bickford 

Ronald  E.  Black 

Heidi  Blischke 

Joseph  E.  Boudreaux 

James  C.  Bradbury 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Allen  S.  Braumiller 

Annette  Brewster 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Ross  D.  Brower 

Robert  L.  Brownfield 

Glenn  R.  and  Susan  B.  Buckley 

Dr.  and  Mrs.  Thomas  L. 

Chamberlin 
Charles  J.  Chantell 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Lester  W.  Clutter 
Lorence  G.  and  Barbara  J.  Collins 
Susan  E.  Collins 
Virginia  A.  Colten-Bradley 
Michelle  M.  Corlew 
Norbert  E.  Cygan 
Dr.  and  Mrs.  Richard  N. 

Czerwinski 
George  H.  Davis 
Ilham  Demir 
Richard  E.  Dobson 
Bruce  E.  Dollahan 
Garnett  M.  Dow 
Sophie  M.  Dreifuss 
James  L.  Eades 
Mohamed  T.  El-Ashry 
Gary  M.  Fleeger 
Gary  R.  Foote 
Richard  M.  Forester 
Jack  D.  Foster 
Robert  E.  Fox 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Edwin  H.  Franklin 
Gordon  S.  Fraser 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Max  Paul  Fritzel 
Barry  R.  Gager 
Sandra  L.  Jacob 
John  R.  Garino 
Theresa  C.  Gierlowski 
Richard  A.  Gilman 
Robert  N.  Ginsburg 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Albert  D.  Glover 
Hal  Gluskoter 
Erika  L.  Goerich 
Dr.  and  Mrs.  Stuart  Grossman 


Catherine  L.  Harms 

Michael  J.  Hasek 

Richard  L.  Hay 

Darrell  N.  Helmuth 

Mark  A.  Helper 

Sharon  Mosher 

Lee  M.  Hirsch 

Henry  A.  Hoff 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Mark  F.  Hoffman 

Judy  A.  Holdener 

John  C.  Home 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Glen  A.  Howard 

Stephen  R.  Hunt 

Roscoe  G.  Jackson  II 

Joseph  M.  and  Janet  B.  Jakupcak 

Martin  V.  Jean 

Bruce  A.  Johnson 

Robert  R.  Johnston 

Edward  C.  Jonas 

Suzanne  Mahlburg  Kay 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Donald  A.  Reefer 

George  H.  Keller 

John  P.  Kempton 

Mark  L.  Kerasotes 

Dr.  and  Mrs.  John  D.  Kiefer 

Stephen  H.  Kirby 

Dr.  and  Mrs.  R.  James  Kirkpatrick 

George  D.  Klein 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Robert  F.  Kraye 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Scott  R.  Krueger 

Willard  C.  Lacy 

Richard  W.  Lahann 

Michael  B.  Lamport 

Joseph  R.  Lane 

Wyvona  A.  Lane 

Rik  E.  Lantz 

Christopher  T.  and  Nancy  S. 

Ledvina 
Stephen  C.  Lee 
Rebecca  M.  Leefers 
Hannes  E.  Leetaru 
Morris  W.  Leighton 
Margaret  Leinen 
Russell  B.  Lennon 
Robert  W.  and  Joan  E.  Leonard 
Crystal  G.  Lovett 
Bernard  W.  Lynch 
Rob  Roy  Macgregor 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  John  W.  Marks 
Stephen  and  Kathryn  Marshak 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Richard  F.  Mast 
Alan  R.  May 
Robert  S.  Mayer 
Melisa  M.  McLean 
Bruce  P.  Miller 
Cheryl  B.  Miller 


Linda  A.  Minor 

John  S.  Moore 

Dr.  and  Mrs.  Wayne  E.  Moore 

Robert  E.  Murphy 

Dr.  and  Mrs.  Haydn  H.  Murray 

Don  H.  Neeley 

Bruce  W.  Nelson 

W.  John  Nelson 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Brian  D.  Noel 

Ronald  L.  Norris 

William  A.  Oliver  Jr. 

Phillip  G.  Orozco 

Norman  J.  Page 

Kathenne  A.  Panczak 

Cormne  Pearson 

Thomas  E.  Krisa 

Russel  A.  Peppers 

Charles  E.  Pflum 

Dr.  and  Mrs.  Jack  W  Pierce 

Paul  L.  Plusquellec 

Raymond  W  and  Elizabeth  P. 

Rail 
Paul  J.  Regorz 
William  D.  Rice 
Donald  0.  Rimsnider 
William  F.  Ripley 
Nancy  M.  Rodriguez 
Dean  M.  Rose 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Edward  L. 

Rosenthal 
Linda  R.  Rowan 
Suzanne  J.  Russell 
Bobbie  Scaggs 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Jay  R.  Scheevel 
Dr.  and  Mrs.  Detmar  Schnitker 
David  C.  Schuster 
Dr.  and  Mrs.  Franklin  W. 

Schwartz 
Dr.  and  Mrs.  John  W.  Shelton 
Jack  A.  Simon 
D.  Leroy  Sims 
Roger  A.  Sippel 
J.  William  Soderman 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Eric  P.  Sprouls 
John  E.  Stone 
Gary  D.  Strieker 
Thomas  R.  Styles 
Susan  M.  Taylor 
Dr.  and  Mrs.  J.  Cotter  Tharin 
David  S.  Thiel 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Jack  C.  Threet 
Edwin  W  Tooker 
Kenneth  M.  Towe 
John  B.  Tubb  Jr. 
Robert  G.  Vanderstraeten 
DeWitt  C.  VanSiclen 


Dr.  and  Mrs.  F.  Michael  Wahl 

Harriet  E.  Wallace 

James  G.  Ward 

Michael  R.  Warfel 

Carleton  W  Weber 

W.F.  Weeks 

John  E.  Werner 

Harold  T.  Wilber 

Jack  L.  Wilber 

Jennifer  A.  Wilson 

Roland  F.  Wright 

Lawrence  Wu 

Mary  Yarnell 

Corporations 

Charitable  Gift  Fund  Fidelity 

Investments 
Chevron  Matching  Grants  Program 
Chevron  Petroleum  Technology 

Company 
Conoco  Inc. 

Dominion  Resources  Services,  Inc. 
Dominion  Foundation 
ExxonMobil  Foundation 
Harris  Bank  Foundation 
Hewlett-Packard  Company 
Idaho  National  Engineering  and 

Environmental  Laboratory 
Illini  Technologists  Working  Metal 
Mobil  Foundation,  Inc. 
Mor-Staffing 

Orion  International  Limited 
Peoples  Energy  Corporation 
Pepsico  Foundation  Inc. 
Petroleum  Research  Fund 
Phillips  Petroleum  Foundation, 

Inc. 
SED-STRAT  Geoscience 

Consultants,  Inc. 
Shell  Oil  Company  Foundation 
Sims  Consulting,  Inc. 
Tetra  Tech  EM  Inc. 
Texaco  Foundation 
Texaco  Incorporated 
USX  Foundation  Inc. 
Whiting  Petroleum  Corporation, 

an  Alliant  Company 


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Annual  Report  for  2001 


Faculty 


Adjunct  Faculty 

Leon  R.  Follmer 
Dennis  Kolata 
Morris  W.  Leighton 
John  McBride 
William  Shilts 
M.  Scott  Wilkerson 

Library  Staff 

Lura  Joseph  (Librarian) 
Sheila  McGowan   (Chief  Library  Clerk) 
Diana  Walter   (Library  Technical 
Specialist) 

Staff 

Shelley  Campbell  (Staff  Clerk) 

Barb  Elmore  (Administrative  Secretary) 

Eddie  Lane  (Electronics  Engineering 

Assistant) 
Michael  Sczerba  (Clerical  Assistant) 

Graduate  Students 


Stephen  P.  Altaner  (Associate  Professor) 

Jay  D.  Bass  (Professor) 

Craig  M.  Bethke  (Professor) 

Daniel  B.  Blake  (Professor) 

Chu-Yung  Chen  (Associate  Professor) 

Wang-Ping  Chen  (Professor) 

Bruce  W.  Fouke  (Assistant  Professor) 

Albert  T.  Hsui   (Professor) 

Thomas  M.  Johnson  (Assistant  Professor) 

R.  James  Kirkpatrick  (Professor  and  Executive 

Associate  Dean) 
Craig  C.  Lundstrom  (Assistant  Professor) 
Stephen  Marshak   (Professor  and  Head) 
Xiaodong  Song  (Assistant  Professor) 

Department  Affiliate 

Feng-Sheng  Hu  (Assistant  Professor) 

Academic  Staff,  Post-Docs, 
Visiting  Staff 

Deb  Aronson  (Yearbook  Editor) 
George  Bonheyo  (Post-Doctoral  Researcher) 
Jorge  Frias-Lopez  (Post-Doctoral  Researcher) 
Richard  Hedin  (Research  Programmer) 
Stephen  Hurst  (Research  Programmer) 
Andrey  Kalinichev  (Senior  Research  Scientist) 
Lalita  Kalita  (Research  Programmer) 
Ann  Long  (Teaching  Lab  Specialist) 
Stanislav  Sinogeikin  (Research  Scientist) 
Frank  Tepley  (Post-Doctoral  Researcher) 
Raj  Vanka  (Resource  and  Policy  Analyst) 
John  Werner  (Visiting  Assistant  Professor) 
Alan  Whittington  (Visiting  Assistant 
Professor) 

Emeritus  Faculty 

Thomas  F.  Anderson 
Albert  V.  Carozzi 
Carleton  A.  Chapman 
Donald  L.  Graf 
Arthur  F.  Hagner 
Richard  L.  Hay 
Donald  M.  Henderson 
George  deV.  Klein 
Ralph  L.  Langenheim 
C.  John  Mann 
Alberto  S.  Nieto 
Philip  A.  Sandberg 


Father  of  Marine  Geology 

Francis  Parker  Shepard  (1897-1985)  was  featured  in  the  December  2001  issue  of  GSA 
Today  in  the  "Rock  Stars"  section.  Shepard,  who  taught  at  the  University  of  Illinois  from  1922- 
46,  is  considered  the  father  of  marine  geology.  While  at  the  University  of  Illinois,  Shepard 
advised  two  of  the  leading  marine  geologists  from  the  United  States,  Kenneth  0.  Emery,  B.S. 
'35,  M.S.  '39,  Ph.D.  '41,  and  Robert  S.  Dietz,  A.B.  '37,  M.S.  '39,  Ph.D.  '41. 


Will  Beaumont 
David  Beedy 
Peter  Berger 
Michael  Brudzinski 
Kurtis  Burmeister 
Dylan  Canavan 
Scott  Clark 
Amanda  Duchek 
Andre  Ellis 
Michael  Fortwengler 
Anthony  Gibson 
Alex  Glass 
Keith  Hackley 
Michael  Harrison 
Xiaoqiang  Hou 
Jennifer  Jackson 
Qusheng  Jin 
Matthew  Kirk 
James  Klaus 
Dmitry  Lakshtanov 
Chuntao  Liang 


Serena  Lee 
Christopher  Mah 
Peter  Malecki 
Jungho  Park 
George  Roadcap 
Joseph  Schoen 
Eric  Sikora 
Xinlei  Sun 
Anna  Sutton 
Jian  Tian 
Tai-Lin  Tseng 
Richard  Wachtman 
Matthew  Wander 
Jianwei  Wang 
Jingyun  Wang 
BlaineWatson 
Xiang  Xu 
Xiaoxia  Xu 
Zhaohui  Yang 
Aubrey  Zerkle 
Juanzuo  Zhou 


COURSES  TAUGHT  IN  2001 


Geol  100  - 
Geol  101  - 

Geol  104  - 


Geol  107 

Geol  108 

Geol  110 

Geol  116 

Geol  117 

Geol  118 

Geol  143 

Geol  233 

Geol  250 

Geol  280 

Geol  311 

Geol  317 


Geol  320  - 

Geol  332  - 

Geol  336  - 

Geol  340  - 

Geol  350- 

Geol  351  - 

Geol  355- 

Geol  360  - 

Geol  381  - 

Geol  397A- 

Geol  397B- 

Geol  401  - 

Geol  431- 

Geol  455- 

Geol  459- 

Geol  491- 

Geol  49312- 

Geol  493  K4 

Geol  493K7 

Geol  493J1- 

Planet  Earth 

Introduction  to  Physical 

Geology 

Geology  of  the  National  Parks 

and  Monuments 

Physical  Geology 

Historical  Geology 

Exploring  Planet  Earth  in  the 

Field 

Geology  of  the  Planets 

The  Oceans 

Natural  Disasters 

History  of  Life 

Earth  Materials  and  the 

Environment 

Geology  for  Engineers 

Environmental  Geology 

Structural  Geology  and 

Tectonics 

Geologic  Field  Methods, 

Western  United  States  (Field 

Camp) 

Introduction  to  Paleontology 

Mineralogy  and  Mineral  Optics 

Petrology  and  Petrography 

Sedimentology  and  Stratigraphy 

Introduction  to  Geophysics 

Geophysical  Methods  for 

Geology,  Engineering,  and 

Environmental  Sciences 

Introduction  to  Groundwater 

Geochemistry 

Modeling  Earth  and 

Environmental  Systems 

Introduction  to  Field  Methods 

Introduction  to  Seismology 

Physical  Geochemistry 

Structural  Mineralogy 

Hydrogeology 

Isotope  Hydrogeology 

Graduate  Student  Seminar 

Special  Problems  in 

Paleontology 

Center  of  the  Earth 

Earth's  Interior 

Analytical  Geochemistry 


20 


Research  Grants  Active  in  2001 


American  Chemical  Society  Petroleum 
Research 

A  Time  Series  Process  Model  of  Carbonate 
Diagenesis  and  Microbial  Genetic  Preservation 
in  Hot  Spring  Travertine,  Yellowstone  National 
Park,  Wyoming,  and  Gardiner,  Montana. 
Principal  Investigator:  Bruce  Fouke 

Development  of  Selenium  Isotope  Ratios  as 
Indicators  of  Sedimentary  Paleo- 
Environments. 
Principal  Investigator:  Thomas  Johnson 

Origin,  Architecture,  &  Thermal  State  of  the 
Lackawanna  Syncline,  Pennsylvania. 
Principal  Investigator:  Stephen  Marshak 

Department  of  Energy 

Computational  &  Spectroscopic  Investigations  of 
Water-Carbon  Dioxide  Fluids  &  Surface 
Sorption  Processes. 
Principal  Investigator:  R.  James  Kirkpatrick 

Federal  Highway  Administration 

Predicting  Aggregate  Reaction  Based  on 

Chemistry  and  Nanostructure  of  Alkali-Silica 

Gels. 

Principal  Investigators:  Leslie  J.  Struble  and  R. 

James  Kirkpatrick 

Illinois  Council  On  Food  And  Agriculture 
Research 

Estimation  of  Dentrification  Rates  in  the  Shallow 
Groundwater  Flow  Systems  of  Big  Ditch 
Watershed,  Illinois— Isotope  Assessment. 
Principal  Investigator:  Thomas  Johnson 

Institute  Of  Geophysics  And  Planetary  Physics, 
Los  Alamos 

Timescales  of  Crustal  Level  Differentiation:  U- 
Series  Measurements  and  Geophysical 
Monitoring  at  Arenal  Volcano,  Costa  Rica. 
Principal  Investigator:  Craig  Lundstrom 

NASA 

Core  Angular  Momentum  and  the  International 
Earth  Rotation  Service  Coordination  Center  / 
Sub-Centers  Activity  for  Monitoring  Global 
Geophysical  Fluids. 
Principal  Investigator:  Xiaodong  Song 

National  Science  Foundation 

Polyamorphism  and  Structural  Transitions  During 
Glass  Formation. 

Principal  Investigators:  John  Kieffer  and  Jay 
Bass 

Development  of  Laser  Heating  for  Sound  Velocity 
Measurements  at  High  P  &  T. 
Principal  Investigator:  Jay  Bass 

Sound  Velocities  &  Elastic  Moduli  of  Minerals 
Mantle  Pressures  and  Temperatures  with  Laser 
Heating. 
Principal  Investigator:  Jay  Bass 


Workshop  on  Phase  Transitions  and  Mantle 
Discontinuities. 
Principal  Investigator:  Jay  Bass 

CSEDI:  Collaborative  Research:  Composition  and 
Seismic  Structure  of  the  Mantle  Transition 
Zone. 
Principal  Investigator:  Jay  Bass 

Global  Climate  Change  &  The  Evolutionary 
Ecology  of  Antarctic  Mollusks  in  the  Late 
Eocene. 
Principal  Investigator:  Daniel  B.  Blake 

The  Asteroid  (Echinodermata)  Trichasteropsis 
from  the  Triassic  of  Germany:  Its  Taxonomy, 
Phylogeny,  and  Paleoecologic  Significance. 
Principal  Investigator:  Daniel  B.  Blake 

A  Seismic  Study  of  the  Mantle  Transition  Zone 
and  Subducted  Lithophere. 
Principal  Investigator:  Wang-Ping  Chen 

Seismic  Reflection  Profiles  in  Southern  Illinois 
(funded  through  the  Mid-America  Earthquake 
Research  Center). 

Principal  Investigators:  John  McBride,  Stephen 
Marshak,  and  Wang-Ping  Chen 

A  Seismic  Study  of  the  Taiwan  Orogen. 
Principal  Investigator:  Wang-Ping  Chen 

Collaborative  Research:  Lithospheric-Scale 
Dynamics  of  Active  Mountain  Building  Along 
the  Himalayan-Tibetan  Collision  Zone. 
Principal  Investigator:  Wang-Ping  Chen 

Proximal  Carbonate  Ejecta  and  Breccias  from  the 
Cretaceous-Tertiary  Chicxulub  Impact:  Ballistic 
Sedimentation  and  Brecciation,  87Sr/8SSr 
Chronology  and  Diagenetic  Alteration. 
Principal  Investigator:  Bruce  Fouke 

Development  of  Cr  Stable  Isotopes  for  Cr 
Transport  Studies  and  Other  Geoscience 
Application. 
Principal  Investigator:  Thomas  Johnson 

Collaborative  Research:  Field  Investigation  of  Se 
Oxyanion  Reduction  &  Se  Sources  in  Wetlands: 
Application  of  Se  Isotopes. 
Principal  Investigator:  Thomas  Johnson 

Measuring  Trace  Element  Partition  Coefficients 
Between  Minerals  and  Basaltic  Melt. 
Principal  Investigator:  Craig  Lundstrom 

Windows  into  MORB  Petrogenesis:  Measuring  U- 
Series  Disequilibria  in  MORB  from  Transforms. 
Principal  Investigator:  Craig  Lundstrom 

Observational  Constraints  on  Melt-Rock  Reactions 
During  Melting  of  the  Upper  Mantle. 
Principal  Investigator:  Craig  Lundstrom 

Tectonics  of  the  Aracuai/Ribeira  Orogenic  Tongue 
of  Southeastern  Brazil  and  its  Significance  to 
the  Assembly  of  West  Gondwana. 
Principal  Investigator:  Stephen  Marshak 


Structure  and  Dynamics  of  Earth's  Core  and 
Lowermost  Mantle. 
Principal  Investigator:  Xiaodong  Song 

Constraining  the  Structure  and  Rotation  of  the 
Inner  Core. 
Principal  Investigator:  Xiaodong  Song 

Office  of  Naval  Research 

The  Role  of  Shipyard  Pollutants  in  Structuring 
Coral  Reef  Microbial  Communities:  Monitoring 
Environmental  Change  and  the  Potential 
Causes  of  Coral  Disease. 
Principal  Investigator:  Bruce  Fouke 

State  of  Illinois  Board  of  Higher  Education 

Evolution  of  the  Martian  Surface — A  Cooperative 
Learning  Module  for  General  Education  in 
Science. 
Principal  Investigator:  Albert  Hsui 

University  of  Illinois  Research  Board 

X-Ray  Diffraction  on  Minerals  of  the  Earth's 
Interior. 
Principal  Investigator:  Jay  Bass 

Seed  Money  for  Research  Initiative  in  Aquifer 
Microbiology. 
Principal  Investigator:  Craig  M.  Bethke 

Airbrasive  Unit  for  Paleontological  Research. 
Principal  Investigator:  Daniel  B.  Blake 

Geology  of  Precambrian  Fault  Systems  in 
Southern  Norway:  A  Pilot  Study. 
Principal  Investigator:  Stephen  Marshak 

Structure  of  Crust  and  Mantle  beneath  China 
From  the  New  Chinese  Broadband  Digital 
Seismic  Network. 
Principal  Investigator:  Xiaodong  Song 


Geothrust  Members  for  2001 


J.  William  Soderman — Chair 
M.S.  '60.  Ph.D.  '62 

James  R.  Baroffio,  Ph.D.  '64 

David  K.  Beach,  B.S  73 

Marion  "Pat"  Bickford,  M.S.  '58, 
Ph.D.  '60 

Lester  W.  Clutter,  B.S.  '48,  M.S.  '51 

Norbert  E.  Cygan,   B.S.  '54,  M.S.  '56, 
Ph.D.  '62 

Edwin  H.  Franklin,  B.S.  '56 

John  R.  Garino,  B.S.  '57 

James  W.  Granath,  B.S.  '71,  M.S.  73 

Morris  (Brud)  W.  Leighton,  B.S.  '47 

Patricia  Santogrossi,  B.S.  74,  M.S.  77 

Jack  C.  Threet.  A.B.  '51 


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List  of  Publications  for  2001 


Kalinichev.  A.,  Wang,  J.,  Kirkpatrick,  R.  J.,  and 
Cygan,  R.  T.,  2001,  Molecular  dynamics  simu- 
lation of  layered  double  hydroxides,  in 
Cummings,  ed.,  Foundations  of  Molecular 
Modeling  and  Simulations:  AICliE  Symposium 
Series  No.  325,  97:  251-255. 

Kelley,  D.S.,  Karson,  J. A.,  Blackman,  D.K.,  Frith- 
Green,  G„  Gee,  J.,  Butterfield,  D.A.,  [Alley, 
M.D.,  Olson,  E.J.,  Schrenk,  M.O.,  Roe,  K., 
Lebon,  G.,  Rizzigno,  P.,  Cann,  J.,  John,  B., 
Ross,  D.K.,  Hurst,  S.D.,  and  Sasagawa,  G., 
2001  (July  12  issue),  An  off-axis  hydrothermal 
vent  field  near  the  Mid-Atlantic  Ridge  at  30° 
N:  Nature,  412:  145-149. 

Marshak,  S.,  2001,  Earth:  Portrait  of  a  Planet: 
WW  Norton  &  Co.,  New  York,  745  pp. 

Hsui,  A.  T.,  and  Riahi,  D.  N.,  April  3,  2001,  Onset 
of  thermal-chemical  convection  with  crystal- 
lization and  its  geological  implications: 
Geochem.,  Geophys.,  &  Geosys.,  2,  Paper  no. 
2000GC000075. 

Occhietti,  S.,  Parent,  M.,  Shilts,  W  W,  Dionne,  J- 
C,  Govare,  E.,  and  Harmand,  D.,  2001,  Late 
Wisconsinan  Glacial  Dynamics,  Deglaciation, 
and  Marine  Invasion  in  Southern  Quebec,  in 
Weddle,  T.  K.,  and  Retelle,  M.  J.,  eds., 
Deglacial  History  and  Relative  Sea-Level 
Changes,  Northern  New  England  and  Adjacent 
Canada:  Geol.  Soc.  Amer.  Special  Paper  351: 
243-270. 

Schilling,  F.R.,  Hauser,  M.,  Sinogeikin,  S.V.,  and 
Bass,  J.  D.,  2001,  Compositional  dependence 
of  elastic  properties  and  density  of  glasses  in 
the  system  anorthite-diopside-forsterite: 
Contrib.  Min.  Petrology,  141:  297-306. 

Wang,  J.,  Kalinichev,  A.,  Hou.  X.,  and 

Kirkpatrick,  R.J.,  2001,  Molecular  modeling  of 
the  structure  and  energetics  of  hydrotalcite 
hydration:  Chem.  Materials,  13:  145-150. 

Alkmim,  F.F.,  Marshak,  S.,  and  Fonseca,  M.A., 
2001 ,  Assembling  West  Gondwana  in  the 
Neoproterozoic:  Clues  from  the  Sao  Francisco 
craton  region,  Brazil:  Geology,  29:  319-322. 

Aronson,  R.B.,  and  Blake,  D.B.   2001.   Globai  cli- 
mate change  and  the  origin  of  modern  benthic 
communities  in  Antarctica.  (Society  for 
Integrative  and  Comparative  Biology 
Symposium  2000  Antarctic  Marine  Biology): 
American  Zoologist,  41:  27-39. 

Fouke,  B.W.,  2001,  Depositional  fades  and  aque- 
ous-solid geochemistry  of  travertine-depositing 
hot  springs  (Angel  Terrace,  Mammoth  Hot 
Springs,  Yellowstone  National  Park,  USA)- 
REPLY:  Journal  of  Sedimentary  Research,  71: 
497-500. 


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Riahi,  D.  N„  and  Hsui,  A.  T.,  2001,  Finite  ampli- 
tude thermal  convection  with  variable  gravity: 
Int.  .'.  Math,  and  Math.  Set,  25  (3):  153-165. 

Sinogeikin,  S.V.,  Bass,  J.D.,  and  Katsura,  T,  2001, 
Elasticity  of  g-(Mg.Fe)  :Si04  at  High  P  and  T: 
Implications  for  the  520  km  discontinuity: 
Geophys.  Res.  Lett.,  28:  4335-4338. 

Wu,  L.-R.,  and  Chen,  W.-P,  2001,  Rupture  of  the 
large  (MW  7.8),  deep  earthquake  of  1973 
beneath  the  Japan  Sea  with  implications  for 
seismogenesis:  Bull.  Seismol.  Soc.  Am.,  91: 
102-111. 

Kirkpatrick,  R.  J.,  Yu,  P.,  and  Kalinichev,  A., 
2001,  Chloride  binding  to  cement  phases: 
exchange  isotherm,  35C1  NMR  and  molecular 
dynamics  modeling  studies:  in  Skalny,  J.,  ed.. 
Calcium  Hydroxide  in  Concrete,  Am.  Ceram. 
Soc.  Materials  Science  of  Concrete  Special 
Volume,  p.  77-92. 

Song,  X.D.,  2001,  Comment  on  "The  existence  of 
an  inner  core  super-rotation  questioned  by 
teleseismic  doublets":  Phys.  Earth.  Planet. 
Inter.,  124:  269-273. 

Chen.  W.-P.,  and  Brudzinski,  M.  R.,  2001, 

Evidence  for  a  large-scale  remnant  of  subduct- 
ed lithosphere  beneath  Fiji:  Science,  292:  2475- 
2479. 

McBride,  J.  H.,  and  Nelson.  W.J.,  2001.  Seismic 
reflection  images  of  shallow  faulting,  northern- 
most Mississippi  embayment.  north  of  the 
New  Madrid  seismic  zone:  Bull.  Seismol.  Soc. 
Amer,  91:  128-139. 

Xie,  X.,  Bethke,  CM.,  Li,  S.,  Liu.  X..  and  Zheng. 
H,  2001,  Overpressures  and  petroleum  genera- 
tion and  accumulation  in  the  Dongying 
depression  of  the  Bohaiwan  basin,  China: 
Geofluids,  1:  1-15. 

Hu,  F.S.,  Ito,  E.,  Brown,  T.  A.,  Curry,  B.  B.,  and 
Engstrom,  D.  R.,  2001,  Pronounced  climatic 
variations  during  the  last  two  millennia  in  the 
Alaska  Range:  Proceedings  of  the  National 
Academy  of  Sciences,  98:  10552-10556. 

Yu.  P..  and  Kirkpatrick,  R.  J.,  2001,  35C1  NMR 
relaxation  study  of  cement  hydrate  suspen- 
sions: Cement  and  Concrete  Research,  31:  1479 

-1485. 

Palko,  J..  Sinogeikin,  S.V.,  Kriven,  W,  and  Bass, 
J.D.,  2001,  Elasticity  of  Y203  at  High 
Temperature:  J.  Appl.  Phys.,  89:  7791-7796. 

Hu,  F.S.,  Finney,  B.,  and  Brubaker,  L.  B.,  2001, 
Effects  of  Holocene  Alnus  expansion  on  aquat- 
ic productivity,  nitrogen  cycling,  and  soil 
development  in  southwestern  Alaska: 
Ecosystems,  4:  358-368. 


Brubaker,  L.B.,  Anderson,  P.M.  and  Hu,  F.S.,  2001, 
Vegetation  ecotone  dynamics  in  Southwestern 
Alaska  during  the  Late  Quaternary:  Quaternary 
Science  Reviews,  20:  175-188. 

Chen.  C-C,  Lin,  D-D,  Liu,  L-G,  Sinogeikin,  S.V., 
and  Bass,  J.D.,  2001,  Elasticity  of  single-crystal 
calcite  and  rhodochrosite  by  Brillouin  spec- 
troscopy: American  Mineralogist,  86:  1525- 
1529. 

Kaufman,  D.  K.,  Manley,  W  F,  Wolf,  A.  P.,  Hu,  F. 
S.,  Preece,  S.  J.,  Westgate,  J.  A.,  and  Forman, 
S.  L.,  2001,  The  last  interglacial  to  glacial  tran- 
sition, Togiak  Bay,  southwestern  Alaska: 
Quaternary  Research,  55:  190-202. 

Roback  R.  C,  Johnson,  T.  M.,  McLing,  T.  L., 
Murrell,  M.  T,  Luo.  S.,  and  Ku,  T.-L.,  2001, 
Uranium  isotopic  evidence  for  groundwater 
chemical  evolution  and  flow  patterns  in  the 
eastern  Snake  River  Plain  aquifer,  Idaho:  Geol. 
Soc.  Amer.  Bull,  113:  1133-1141. 

Finkelstein,  D.B.,  Hay,  R.L.,  and  Altaner,  S.P., 
2001 ,  Origin  and  diagenesis  of  lacustrine  sedi- 
ments upper  Oligocene  Creede  Formation, 
southwestern  Colorado:  Reply:  Geol.  Soc.  Am. 
Bull,  113:  541-544. 

Karson,  J.A.,  Klein,  E.M.,  Hurst,  S.D.,  Lee,  C.E., 
Rivizzigno,  P.A.,  Curewitz,  D.,  Morris,  A.R., 
and  Hess  Deep  '99  Scientific  Party,  2001 , 
Structure  of  Uppermost  Fast-Spread  Oceanic 
Crust  Exposed  at  the  Hess  Deep  Rift: 
Implications  for  Subaxial  Processes  at  the  East 
Pacific  Rise,  G-CUBED  (http://g-Cubed.org/). 

♦Song,  X.D.,  2000,  Time  dependence  of  PKP(BC)- 
PKP(DF)  times:  Could  it  be  an  artifact  of  poten- 
tial systematic  earthquake  mislocations?:  Phys. 
Earth.  Planet.  Inter,  122:  221-228. 

Wilkerson,  M.  S.,  and  Dicken,  C.  L.,  2001,  Quick- 
look  techniques  for  evaluating  2-D  cross  sec- 
tions in  contractional  settings:  AAPG  Bull,  85 
(10):1759-1770. 

Kolata,  D.  R.,  Huff,  W.  D.,  and  Bergstrbm,  S.  M. 
2001,  The  Ordovician  Sebree  Trough  -  Oceanic 
Passage  to  the  Midcontinent  United  States: 
Geol.  Soc.  Amer.  Bull,  113  (8):  1067-1078. 

Fouke,  B.W.,  and  Rakovan,  J.,  2001,  An  integrated 
cathodoluminescence  video-capture  microsam- 
pling system:  Journal  of  Sedimentary  Research, 
71:  509-513. 

Brough,  A.  R.,  Katz.  A.,  T.  Sun,  G.  K.,  Struble,  L. 
J.,  Kirkpatrick,  R.  J.,  and  Young,  J.  F,  2001, 
Adiabatically  cured  alkali  activated  cements 
containing  high  levels  of  fly  ash:  formation  of 
zeolites  and  aluminum-substituted  C-S-H: 
Cement  and  Concrete  Research,  31:  1437-1447. 

*This  publication  was  inadvertently  left  off  last 
year's  list. 


jr- 


Colloquium  Speakers  for  Spring  and  Fall 


Spring  2001 


Jan.  19       Michael  Wysession,  Washington  University 

Investigating  (deep)  North  American  mantle  structure  with  a  broadband  seismic  array 
Feb.  9        Steve  Ingebritsen,  USGS,  2000-2001  Birdsall-Dreiss  Lecture 

Land  subsidence  in  the  United  States 
Feb.  16      Joseph  DiPietro,  University  of  Southern  Indiana 

Geology  and  metamorphism  of  the  Indian  plate  hinterland  in  Pakistan  and  tectonics  of  India- 

Kohistan  collision,  NW  Himalaya 
Feb.  23      Stephen  Hasiotis,  Indiana  State 

The  invertebrate  invasion  and  evolution  of  Mesozoic  soil  ecosystems — The  antiquity  of  soil 

engineers  and  their  innovations 
Mar.  9       Arild  Andresen,  University  of  Oslo 

Syn-  or  post-collisional  orogenic  collapse  in  the  East  Greenland  Caledonides? 
Mar.  30     Mary  Elliot,  Lamont-Doherty  Earth  Observatory 

Millennial-scale  climate  oscillations  during  the  last  glacial,  links  between  Northern 

Hemisphere  ice  sheet  instabilities  and  the  Dansgaard-Oeschger  cycles 
Apr.  6       Charles  Onasch,  Bowling  Green  University 

Paleozoic  seismicity  in  the  eastern  Midcontinent:  Evidence  from  the  sedimentary  record 
Apr.  13    Bruce  Rittman,  Northwestern  University 

Adaptation  of  anaerobic  communities  to  chlorinated  aromatics 
Apr.  20    Daniel  Hausermann,  Argonne  National  Laboratory 

HPCAT  at  the  Advanced  Photon  Source:  A  new  national  facility  for  high-pressure  research 
Apr.  27    Sharon  Mosher,  University  of  Texas,  Austin:  University  of  Illinois  Distinguished 

Alumni  Award  Lecture 

Death  of  a  spreading  ridge:  transition  of  the  Pacific-Australian  plate  boundary  from  a  diver- 
gent to  transform  margin  along  the  Macquarie  Ridge  Complex 


Fall  2001 


Sept.  7       Katrina  Edwards,  Woods  Hole  Oceanographic  Institution 

Microbial  rock  and  mineral  transformations:  Implications  for  carbon  cycling 
Sept.  14    Sam  Panno,  ISGS 

Late  Pleistocene  and  Holocene  climatic  effects  on  speleogensis  in  southern  Illinois  based  on 

the  age  of  redeposited  glacial  sediment  in  Fogelpole  Cave 
Sept.  21     Robert  Nowack,  Purdue  University 

Imaging  of  seismic  attributes  with  application  to  the  3-D  tomography  experiment  at  Mt. 

Vesuvius,  Italy 

Sept.  28    Diane  McKnight,  University  of  Colorado 

Humic  substances  as  electron  acceptor:  An  important  feedback  in  aquatic  ecosystems 
Oct.  5        Andre  Pugin,  ISGS 

Imaging  glacial  basins  in  2-D  and  3-D  using  water-  and  land-based  shallow  seismic  reflection 

examples  from  the  Alps,  Canada,  and  Illinois 
Oct.  12      Ho-Kwang  (David)  Mao,  Geophysical  Laboratory,  Carnegie  Institute  of 

Washington 

New  windows  on  the  Earth's  deep  interior 
Oct.  19      Alexis  Templeton,  Stanford  University 

X-Ray  spectroscopy  investigations  of  bacteria-mineral-metal  interactions 
Oct.  26      Lupei  Zhu,  St.  Louis  University 

Raising  the  Tibetan  plateau 
Nov.  2       Jean-Francois  Gaillard,  Northwestern  University 

Heavy  metal  blues:  Chemical  speciation  in  contaminated  sediments 
Nov.  9       Pat  Bickford,  Syracuse  University 

Are  the  Paleoproterozic  rocks  of  central  Colorado  accreted  arcs  or  melt  products  of  rifted 

older  crust?:  Implications  for  the  southward  growth  of  Laurentia  between  1.8  and  1.6  Ga 
Nov.  30    Jim  Walker,  Northern  Illinois  University 

HFSE  depletions  in  central  Nicaragua 
Dec.  7       Guillaume  Fiquet,  University  of  Paris  VI 

High-pressure  synchrotron  measurements  and  composition  of  the  deep  Earth 


Jackson 

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Jackson,  in  collaboration  with 
Professor  Jay  Bass  and  Research  Scientist 
Stas  Sinogeikin  (Ph.D.,  '99),  and  gradu- 
ate students  Dima  Lakshtanov  and  James 
Palko,  also  has  looked  at  volume 
changes  that  orthoenstatite  undergoes  at 
high  temperatures.  Jackson  notes  that 
previous  studies  of  thermal  expansivity 
have  been  inconclusive  since  values 
ranged  widely.  The  team  did  thermal 
expansion  measurements  at  the  Cornell 
High  Energy  Synchrotron  Source  (Cornell 
University).  Jackson  presented  the  high- 
temperature  elasticity  and  thermal 
expansion  measurements  at  the  2001 
AGU  meeting  in  San  Francisco.  Her  find- 
ings have  implications  for  understanding 
the  chemistry  of  the  upper  mantle. 

In  another  project,  Jackson  is  collab- 
orating with  researchers  at  the  Advanced 
Photon  Source  of  Argonne  National 
Laboratory  in  Chicago,  to  investigate  a 
new  technique,  called  nuclear  resonance 
inelastic  X-ray  scattering  (NRIXS)  to 
measure  the  density  of  states  of  an  iron- 
bearing  magnesium-silicate  pervoskite 
(pervoskite  is  perhaps  the  dominant  min- 
eral phase  in  the  Earth's  lower  mantle)  at 
lower  mantle  pressures.  Findings  from 
this  study  may  have  major  implications 
for  understanding  the  chemistry  of  the 
Earth's  lower  mantle. 


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proiessor  Susan  Kieffer  Joins  Faculty 


The  Department  of  Geology  is  pleased 
to  announce  that  Dr.  Susan  Werner  Kieffer 
has  been  hired  as  Walgreen  Chair  and 
Professor  of  Geology  at  the  University  of 
Illinois.  She  is  the  first  to  hold  this  presti- 
gious position. 

Kieffer,  who  describes  her  primary 
research  interest  as  geological  fluid  dynam- 
ics, has  had  a  widely  varied  research 
career.  She  developed  a  theory  for  predict- 
ing the  thermodynamic  properties  of  min- 
erals, work  that  earned  her  the 
Mineralogical  Society  of  America's  award 
for  distinguished  work 
in  mineralogy.  Later, 
she  started  to  look  at 
geysers  as  analogs  for 
volcanoes.  When  gey- 


sers were  discovered 

on  Jupiter's  satellite, 

lo,  she  applied  her 

earthbound  research 

to  interpret  those  phenomena.  For  many 

years,  Kieffer  studied  rapids  on  the 

Colorado  River  in  the  Grand  Canyon.  She 

has  also  studied  the  eruption  of  Mount 

Saint  Helens  and  developed  a  theory  of  the 

devastating  lateral  blast. 

"I  had  to  teach  myself  rocket  nozzle 
theory  to  explain  the  tree-blow-down  pat- 
tern that  we  observed  at  the  mountain." 
says  Kieffer. 

More  recently,  she  has  focused  on  the 
'5-million-year-old  Chicxulub  (Mexico) 
npact  crater  and  the  1.8  billion-year-old 
udbury  (Canada)  crater.  Using  shock- 
'ave  theory,  Kieffer  and  colleagues 
ypothesize  that  the  former  was  formed  by 
i  asteroid  impact  and  the  latter  a  comet. 
II  these  projects  involve  understanding 
'ocesses  that  can  occur  at  very  high 
ieeds  —  sometimes  even  supersonic  — 


"My  geologic  interests  parallel  my 
music  interests,"  Kieffer  has  said. 
"When  I  had  to  practice  as  a  kid,  I 
skipped  the  slow  movements  and 
went  right  for  the  scherzos." 


compared  to  most  geological  processes. 
"My  geologic  interests  parallel  my 
music  interests,"  Kieffer  has  said.  "When 
I  had  to  practice  as  a  kid.  I  skipped  the 
slow  movements  and  went  right  for  the 
scherzos." 

Culminating  with  a  Ph.D.  from  Cal 
Tech.  Kieffer  holds  degrees  in  physics, 
math,  geological  sciences,  and  planetary 
sciences.  This  background  gives  her  the 
technical  expertise  to  pursue  any  ques- 
tion that  catches  her  eye.  While  some 
questions  may  appear  to  others  to  be 

unrelated  to  what  she's 
been  working  on, 
there's  usually  a 
unifying  thread. 
"My  career  could  be 
summarized  by  saying  1 
look  at  complex  and  cat- 
astrophic events,"  says 
Kieffer. 
Keiffer  feels  that  UIUC  is  a  good  fit 
for  her  interests.  "When  I  visited  Urbana- 
Champaign,  the  possibility  for  interac- 
tions among  geology  and  several  other 
campus  departments  was  wonderful." 
Kieffer's  professional  accomplish- 
ments are  reflected  in  part  by  her  various 
high-level  honors  and  achievements.  For 
example,  she  is  a  recipient  of  the  John  D. 
and  Catherine  T.  MacArthur  Fellowship 
(the  prestigious  "genius  award"),  a  mem- 
ber of  the  National  Academy  of  Sciences, 
a  recipient  of  the  Spendiarov  Award  from 
the  USSR  Academy  of  Sciences  (the  sec- 
ond American  ever  to  receive  this  honor), 
and  recipient  of  the  Day  Medal  from  the 
Geological  Society  of  America. 

Over  the  years,  Kieffer  has  served 
several  institutions  including  the  U.S. 
Geological  Survey,  Arizona  State 

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The  Walgreen  Chair — 
A  Mark  of  Distinction 

The  Walgreen  Chair,  now  held  by 
Susan  Kieffer  in  the  Department  of 
Geology,  is  a  major  honor  at  the 
University  of  Illinois,  not  just  for  the  fac- 
ulty member  who  receives  it,  but  for  the 
Department  that  hosts  it  as  well.  Any 
department  on  any  of  the  three 
University  campuses  can  compete  to  host 
the  position  by  submitting  nominees. 
There  are  only  two  Walgreen  Chairs  in 
the  entire  University— the  second  current 
Chair  holder  is  in  the  Law  School. 

Funding  for  the  Chair  comes  from 
the  Charles  R.  Walgreen  Jr.  Endowment 
fund,  established  by  Charles  R.  Walgreen 
Jr.,  the  retired  chairman  of  the  board  of 
the  Walgreen  Drug  Store  company.  Mr. 
Walgreen  stipulated  that  candidates  for 
the  Chair  must  display  intellect  and 
accomplishment  that  places  them  among 
those  most  distinguished  people  in  their 
field.  This  distinction  must  be  affirmed 
by  such  recognition  as  Nobel  or  Pulitzer 
Awards  or  by  evidential  works.  Among 
her  other  accomplishments,  Kieffer  has 
won  the  MacArthur  "genius"  award. 


2002  has  been  a  year  of  change  in 
the  Department  and  in  the  University  as 
a  whole.  We  have  been  fortunate  to 
have  Prof.  Susan  Kieffer  (Ph.D.,  Cal 
Tech),  joins  our  ranks  as  the  Walgreen 
Chair.  Sue  brings  great  distinction  to  the 
Department,  for  she  is  world  renowned 
for  her  work  in  geological  fluid  dynam- 
ics, and  has  received  many  significant 
honors,  including  election  to  the 
National  Academy  of  Sciences,  and  a 
MacArthur  "genius"  award.  Already,  Sue 
has  been  building  links  between  the 
Department  and  other  units  across  cam- 
pus. As  this  issue  goes  to  press,  another 
new  faculty  member,  Prof.  Jackie  Li 


(Ph.D.,  Harvard),  has  also  joined  us.  She 
will  begin  teaching  mineralogy  in  the  fall, 
and  will  be  building  a  lab  for  high-pres- 
sure mineral  research.  We  have  also  been 
growing  by  the  addition  of  research  scien- 
tists to  our  staff.  Andrey  Kalinichev  and 
Stas  Sinogeiken  are  immersed  in  their 
studies  of  mineral  science,  and  by  next 
fall,  Holger  Hellwig  will  commence 
research  in  crystallography,  while  Rob 
Sanford  will  join  the  geomicrobiology 
group.  The  Department  has  been  fortu- 
nate to  see  the  completion  of  a  state-of- 
the-art  laboratory  in  geomicrobiology  and 
carbonate  sedimentology,  under  the  super- 
vision of  Prof.  Bruce  Fouke.  And  .  .  .  our 


Contents 


Margaret  Leinen  Receives  Alumni  Achievement  Award 

Jay  Bass  Elected  to  COMPRES 

Chromium  in  Groundwater  Studied 

Albert  Hsui  Develops  New  Course 

National  Geographic  Visits  Department 

Wang-Ping  Chen  Does  Field  Work  in  Nepal 

Steve  Marshak  Heads  to  Antarctica 

Students  Re-Establish  Geology  Club 

Graduate  Student  Follows  in  Wanless  Footsteps 

Graduate  Student  Does  Groundbreaking  Research 

Departmental  History 

Former  Faculty,  Alumni  Receive  Major  Awards 

News  From  Alumni 

Annual  Report 

Degrees  granted 

Honor  roll  of  donors 

Department  personnel 

Courses  taught 

Active  research  grants 

Geothrust  committee 

2002  publications 

Visiting  speakers 

Recent  Activity  in  Petroleum  Geology 


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Year  in  Review  is  published  once  a  year  by  the  Department  of  Geology,  University  of  Illinois  at 

Urbana-Champaign,  to  summarize  the  activities  and  accomplishments  within  the  department 

and  news  from  alumni  and  friends. 

Department  Head:  Stephen  Marshak  (smarshak@uiuc.edu) 

Administrative  Secretary:  Barb  Elmore  (b-elmore@uiuc.edu) 

Editor:  Deb  Aronson  (debaronson@nasw.org) 

Designer:  Pat  Mayer 

http://www.geology.uiuc.edu 


Construction  of  the  new  geomicrobiology  facil- 
ity is  now  complete  and  the  lab  open  for  busi- 
ness. Carved  out  of  former  office  space  in  the 
basement  of  the  Natural  History  Building,  the 
2000-square-foot  geomicrobiology  lab  enables 
researchers  to  conduct  DNA  and  RNA  analy- 
ses of  microbial  communities  in  order  to 
understand  their  interactions  with  geologic 
processes.  Students  and  postdocs  from  the 
Fouke,  Bethke,  Johnson,  and  Lundstrom 
research  groups  in  the  department  are  now 
actively  engaged  in  conducting  research  in  the 
facility.  Rob  Sanford  will  also  be  using  this 
facility  when  he  joins  the  department  next  fall. 

GeoScience  2005  endowment  campaign 
also  continues  to  charge  ahead  —  we  are 
well  on  the  way  toward  our  $3  million 
goal! 

But  the  good  news  is  tempered  with 
the  not  so  good.  The  University  of  Illinois, 
like  most  state  universities  across  the 
country,  has  been  hit  hard  with  budget 
cuts  in  response  to  deficits  at  the  state 
and  federal  levels.  As  a  consequence,  the 
rate  of  growth  that  we  have  enjoyed  in 
the  past  few  years  will  be  slowing,  and 
the  Department  will  face  new  challenges 
in  the  coming  year.  But  with  continued 
support  of  alumni  and  friends,  we  hope 
to  continue  on  a  positive  track,  providing 
outstanding  education  for  undergraduates 
and  graduates,  and  contributing  new 
ideas  to  the  broadening  field  of  geo- 
sciences. 


6E0L0GY  LIBRARY 


Alumni  Award 


Leinen  Receives  Alumni  Achievement  Award 


Margaret  Leinen,  B.S.  '69,  assistant 
director  of  the  National  Science 
Foundation  for  Geosciences,  has  been 
awarded  the  Outstanding  Alumni 
Achievement  Award  in  the  Department  of 
Geology. 

Leinen,  who  has  been  at  NSF  since 
2000,  administers  all  NSF  programs  in 
earth,  atmosphere  and  ocean  sciences.  She 
is  also  in  charge  of  a  new  interdisciplinary 
program  in  environmental  research  and 
education.  In  this  role,  she  works  with 
people  from  such  diverse  disciplines  as 
biology,  chemistry,  engineering,  and  social, 
behavioral,  and  economic  sciences  to  fash- 
ion environmental  research  programs. 

Prior  to  taking  a  senior  position 
at  NSF,  Leinen  was  a  professor  of  oceanog- 
raphy and  dean  of  two  colleges  (the 
Graduate  School  of  Oceanography  and  the 
College  of  the  Environment  and  Life 
Sciences)  at  the  University  of  Rhode 
Island.  In  addition,  she  served  as  vice 
provost,  with  the  responsibility  of  coordi- 
nating marine  and  environmental  pro- 
grams for  the  entire  university. 

Leinen 's  own  research  has  focused  on 
paleoceanography,  paleoclimatology  and 
the  present-day  processes  that  are  respon- 
sible for  the  formation  of  the  sedimentary 
record.  She  has  had  a  very  active  sea- 
going research  program,  having  been  on 
24  research  cruises,  including  three  cruises 
of  the  Ocean  Drilling  Program.  She  has  led 
two  ALVIN  diving  expeditions  to  the  Juan 
de  Fuca  Ridge  and  Mariana  back-arc  envi- 
ronments to  study  the  sedimentation  from 
hydrothermal  vents  and  has  published 
widely  on  the  record  of  biological  sedi- 
mentation in  the  oceans. 

In  addition  to  her  bachelor's  degree 
from  the  University  of  Illinois,  Leinen  has 
a  master's  in  geological  oceanography 
from  Oregon  State  University  in  1975,  and 
a  Ph.D.  in  geological  oceanography  from 
the  University  of  Rhode  Island  in  1980. 


...it  was  muddy  and  it  was  cold,  and 
they  were  right  there  with  us.  So 
when  we  were  all  freezing  on  the  out- 
crop, they  were  freezing  on  the  out- 
crop...! had  never  had  that  type  of 
relationship  with  a  scientist  or  with  a 
teacher.  They  were  actually  doing  the 
same  thing  I  was  doing.  It  was  very, 
very  exciting." 

Leinen  has  very  fond  memories  of 
geology  at  Minos.  She  had  come  intend- 
ing to  be  a  biochemist,  but  those  classes 
were  so  large  they  were  alienating.  The 
only  class  smaller  than  400  students  was 
Leinen's  geology  class,  with  an  enroll- 
ment of  100. 

"I  actually  got  to  know  the  faculty 
member  and  I  got  to  know  the  graduate 
student  who  was  assisting."  Leinen 
recalls.   "And  they  took  us  out  on  field 
trips  on  the  weekend.  We  all  went  out 
and  our  professor  was  there,  and  five  or 
six  graduate  students  were  there  to  keep 
us  all  in  line.  It  was  fall  term,  it  was  win- 
ter in  Illinois,  and  it  was  snowing,  and  it 


was  muddy  and  it  was  cold,  and  they 
were  right  there  with  us.  So  when  we 
were  all  freezing  on  the  outcrop,  they 
were  freezing  on  the  outcrop.  When  we 
were  all  sitting  in  the  bus  huddled  with 
our  lunches,  they  were  right  there  with 
us.  I  had  never  had  that  type  of  relation- 
ship with  a  scientist  or  with  a  teacher. 
They  were  actually  doing  the  same  thing 
I  was  doing.  It  was  very,  very  exciting. " 

Leinin  will  return  to  the  Urbana- 
Champaign  campus  during  the  Fall  of 
2003  to  receive  the  award. 


Susan  Kieffer 


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University,  Cal  Tech,  and  the  University  of 
British  Columbia.  Just  prior  to  coming  to 
Illinois,  she  ran  her  own  consulting  firm  in 
Canada,  S.W.  Kieffer  Science  Consulting, 
Inc.,  to  develop  nonlinear  data  analysis 
and  prediction  techniques.  She  also  has 
founded  the  Phoenix-based  Kieffer 
Institute  for  Development  of  Science-Based 
Education,  which  focused  on  teaching  sci- 
ence to  at-risk  7th  to  12th  graders. 

Recently,  Kieffer  has  been  concerned 
about  issues  of  sustainability  and  the  role 
of  Earth  sciences  and  Earth  scientists  in 
getting  our  planet  through  the  next  50 
years  in  a  healthy  condition.  She  hopes  to 
teach  a  course  in  this  area. 

"We  scientists  tend  to  be  relatively 
ineffective  politically,"  says  Kieffer,  "so  I 
was  thrilled  when  asked  to  become  an 
affiliate  in  the  Institute  for  Government 
and  Policy  Affairs  on  this  campus.  We  are 
discussing  how  we  can  bring  issues  of  nat- 
ural sciences  to  the  table  with  lawyers, 
political  scientists,  economists,  and  social 
scientists." 

Kieffer's  passion  for  research  and 
teaching  will  benefit  our  students  and  the 
university  community  as  a  whole.  The 
Department  is  delighted  to  welcome  Susan 
and  her  husband,  Charles  Harwood,  to  the 
Urbana-Champaign  community. 


DEPARTMENT  NEWS 


Albert  Hsui  Develops 
New  Course 

The  Geology  Department  is  offering  a  new  course  for 
non-majors.  Geology  103  (Planet  Earth-Quantitative 
Reasoning)  will  use  the  study  of  geology  as  a  vehicle  to 
introduce  mathematics  and  computers  to  non-science  stu- 
dents and  to  show  them  how  quantitative  reasoning  can 
be  used  to  understand  and  describe  natural  phenomena. 
The  course  was  designed  to  fulfill  a  new  University 
requirement. 

The  course  will  be  taught  by  Prof.  Albert  Hsui  in  the 
spring  2003.  In  addition  to  the  two  lectures  students 
receive  a  week,  they  will  have  one  session  per  week  in  a 
new  state-of-the-art  computer  lab.  Using  the  facilities  of 
the  lab,  they  will  work  with  geologic  data  using  spread 
sheets  and  graphing  programs.  Geologic  problems  provide 
an  excellent  base  for  teaching  quantitative  reasoning, 
because  they  are  very  tangible  and  intuitive. 

Bass  Elected  as  First 
President  of  COMPRES 

In  May  of  2002,  the  National  Science  Foundation 
launched  the  Consortium  for  Materials  Properties  Research  in 
Earth  Sciences  (COMPRES),  a  community  infrastructure  orga- 
nization for  Earth  science  research  and  education,  focusing 
on  high-pressure  experiments  designed  to  understand  Earth 
and  planetary  interiors.  Jay  Bass,  professor  of  geology,  was 
elected  as  the  new  consortium's  President,  a  full-time  salaried 
job.  The  offices  of  the  consortium  are  housed  at  SUNY  Stony 
Brook,  so  Bass  took  a  one-year  leave  of  absence  for  the  2002- 
2003  academic  year  and  is  shuttling  back  and  forth  between 
Stony  Brook  and  Champaign-Urbana. 

"It  is  very  exciting,  and  quite  an  honor  to  be  chosen  to 
get  the  consortium  off  the  ground  in  its  first  year,"  said  Bass. 

The  goal  of  the  consortium  is  to  facilitate  high-pressure 
research  in  Earth  and  planetary  sciences  using  advanced 
instrumentation  at  centralized  facilities,  education  and  out- 
reach, and  connections  with  other  Earth  science  subdisci- 
plines.  COMPRES  will  identify  and  address  common  research 
needs,  present  a  unified  vision  of  the  high-pressure  Earth  sci- 
ences, work  to  provide  access  to  synchrotron  beamlines  and 
other  community  facilities,  coordinate  the  management  of 
large  centralized  facilities,  and  advocate  the  field  of  high-pres- 
sure research  within  the  broader  Earth  and  planetary  sciences 
community.    The  consortium  hopes  to  determine,  as  a  com- 
munity, where  multi-million  dollar  research  resources  can 
most  wisely  be  placed  and  used. 


Chromium  in  Groundwater 
Studied 

Professor  Tom  Johnson  and  graduate  student  Andre  Ellis 
have  developed  a  way  to  monitor  the  mobility  of  chromium  in 
groundwater.  Chromium,  a  heavy  metal  commonly  used  in 
industrial  applications  such  as  electroplating  and  leather  tanning, 
is  the  second-most  abundant  inorganic  groundwater  contaminant 
at  hazardous  waste  sites.  The  oxidized,  hexavalent  state  of  Cr,  Cr 
(VI) ,  is  toxic  and  soluble,  so  it  can  move  easily  in  groundwater. 
The  reduced  state,  Cr  (III)  can  form  a  solid,  precipitating  out  of 
solution,  thus  limiting  its  mobility.  Also,  Cr  (III)  is  less  toxic,  and 
is  a  nutrient  at  low  levels. 

Johnson  and  Ellis's  new  work  relies  on  measurements  of  the 
53Cr/52Cr  isotope  ratio— to  determine  this  ratio  the  researchers 
had  to  develop  new  laboratory  techniques.  They  found  that  the 
"Cr/52Cr  ratio  increases  systematically  as  Cr  (VI)  is  reduced. 
Their  observation  was  published  in  the  March  15,  2002,  issue  of 
Science,  and  has  captured  the  attention  of  consultants  trying  to 
characterize  chromium-contaminated  sites. 

National  Geographic  Visits 
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Bruce  Fouke's 
research  on  black 
band  disease,  which 
is  a  bacterial  infec- 
tion in  coral,  caught 
the  attention  of  the 
National  Geographic 
Society  this  year. 
Writers  for  the  maga- 
zine first  contacted 
j|    him  last  spring,  hav- 
^    ing  surfed  the  web 
for  researchers  working  on  coral  disease.  An  underwater  photo- 
graph of  diseased  coral  taken  by  the  Fouke  research  group  was 
published  in  the  map  insert  of  the  September  2002  issue  of  the 
magazine.  The  writers  and  a  film  crew  then  visited  Urbana- 
Champaign  last  fall  where  they  were  given  a  full  tour  of  the 
department's  new  geomicrobiology  lab  facility.  A  documentary  is 
now  being  assembled  describing  the  newly  emergent  field  of 
geomicrobiology  and  the  work  being  done  in  the  Fouke  lab  on 
the  hot  springs  of  Yellowstone  National  Park  and  the  coral  reefs 
of  the  Caribbean  and  Indo-Pacific.  Fouke's  research  is  funded  by 
the  Office  of  Naval  Research  Environmental  Toxicology  and 
Genetic  Markers  program  and  by  the  National  Science 
Foundation  Biocomplexity  in  the  Environment  program. 


Project  "Hi-Climb"  Rises  in 


Professor  Wang-Ping  Chen  spent  two  and  a  half  months  in  late 
2002  installing  75  seismometer  stations  throughout  Nepal  as  the  first 
phase  of  Project  HI-CLIMB  kicked  in.  (see  Geoscience  2000  for 
details  on  Chen's  research).  Ultimately,  the  project  will  collect  data 
from  250  stations  throughout  Nepal  and  Tibet. 

HI-CLIMB  examines  how  the  lithosphere  deforms  over  its  entire 
thickness  during  orogeny;  specifically  how  the  upper  crust  couples 
with  the  mantle  portion  of  the  continental  lithosphere.  Chen's  project 
will  provide  the  first  complete  profile  of  the  Himalayan-Tibetan  colli- 
sion zone,  extending  from  the  the  deformation  front  across  both  the 
Lower  and  the  Higher  Himalayas,  then  onto  the  central  Tibetan 
Plateau.  Dense  spacing— about  five  kilometers  apart— of  the  broad- 
band, high-resolution  seismic  array  provides  unprecedented  resolu- 
tion for  imaging  deep-seated  structures,  particularly  those  in  the 
enigmatic  lower  crust,  below  the  Moho,  and  throughout  the  transi- 
tion zone  of  the  mantle  down  to  depths  of  about  1,000  km. 

Installing  seismic  arrays  is  back-breaking  work.  By  the  end  of 
his  stay  in  Nepal,  Chen  lost  about  15  pounds  and  his  work  pants 
were  in  shreds— he  ultimately  cut  them  into  shorts,  then  tossed 
them.  Setting  up  a  single  station  took  a  team  of  three  or  four  people 
at  least  one  day.  The  group  had  carry  all  the  instruments  (including 
two  or  more  50-pound  batteries)  over  rugged  ground.  Then,  they  dug 
an  enormous  pit  to  bedrock,  laboriously  leveled  both  the  pit  and  the 
instrument,  installed  and  insulated  the  instrument,  and  dug  a 
drainage  ditch.  Finally,  they  covered  everything  back  up  with  ply- 
wood, tarp  and  dirt. 

For  each  station,  Chen  also  had  to  get  permission  from  the  gov- 
ernment and  to  negotiate  with  whoever  owned  the  land.  One  time 
Chen  and  his  party  walked  into  a  village  entirely  controlled  by 
Maoist  insurgents.  Luckily,  the  Nepali  scientists  on  the  team  man- 
aged to  extricate  the  group. 


Professor  Chen  with  undergraduate  Nathan  VanHoudnos  at 
site  H0230,  elevation  7,500  ft. 

"We  skipped  that  site.  We  were  just  happy  to  be  alive," 
notes  Chen. 

The  project  has  been  successful,  for  the  stations  are  con- 
tinuously recording  ground  vibrations,  and  will  accumulate 
several  terabytes  of  information  in  three  years.  That  data  is 
assembled  in  Katmandu,  sent  to  a  dedicated  machine  at  the 
University  of  Illinois  to  be  processed  by  two  of  Chen's  stu- 
dents, Tai-Lin  (Ellen)  Tseng  and  Zhaohui  Yang.  Chen  plans  to 
go  to  Tibet  in  the  spring  of  2003  to  continue  the  installations. 

"We're  either  incredible  heroes  or  incredible  fools,"  said 
Chen,  with  a  grin. 


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The  2002  annual  banquet  featured,  for  the 
first  time,  a  poster  session  by  geology 
students.  Over  25  students  presented 
posters  describing  their  research,  during 
the  cocktail  hour.  In  this  photo,  Chuntao 
Liang  asks  a  question,  while  Ellen  Tseng 
smiles  for  the  photographer. 


Department  News 


Winter  "Break"  in  Antarctica 

A  second  faculty  member  (Dan  Blake  is  the  first)  has 
crossed  the  Antarctic  Circle  in  the  past  two  years.  Steve 
Marshak  visited  Antarctica  during  the  2002-2003  winter  break 
as  part  of  a  research  group  led  by  Tom  Fleming  of  the 
University  of  Southern  Connecticut.  Their  purpose  was  to  study 
the  emplacement  of  the  Ferrar  Dolerite,  an  extensive  system  of 
184  million-year  old  dikes  and  sills.  In  addition  to  Marshak  and 
Fleming,  the  group  included  Alan  Whittington  (a  former  post- 
doc  in  the  Department,  now  an  assistant  professor  at  the 
University  of  Missouri),  a  professional  mountaineer,  and  two 
undergraduate  students.  The  Ferrar 
Dolerite,  a  system  of  sills  and  dikes 
formed  in  association  with  the  break  up 
of  Pangaea,  was  first  recognized  during 
Captain  Scott's  ill-fated  trip  to  the  South 
Pole  in  the  early  20th  century. 

"The  outcrops  we  studied  were  in 
the  Transantarctic  Mountains,  a  2-  to  4- 
km  high  range  that  divides  the  conti- 
nent into  East  and  West  Antarctica," 
says  Marshak.  "We  were  flown  in  a 
small  plane  from  McMurdo  Station  (the  main  American  base)  to 
a  site  on  a  glacier  at  the  boundary  between  the  Polar  Plateau 
and  the  Mountains.  There,  we  set  up  a  six-person  tent  camp. 
We  had  to  keep  rebuilding  snow  walls  to  keep  drifts  from  bury- 
ing our  camp,  but  otherwise  it  was  reasonably  comfortable." 

The  group  used  snowmobiles  and  sledges  to  get  to  nearby 
outcrops,  where  the  mountaineer  helped  them  climb,  set  ropes 
and  avoid  crevasses.  For  outcrops  far  from  camp  the  group  had 
helicopter  support.  The  helicopter  would  drop  them  at  a  site, 
and  would  then  hopefully  return  about  eight  hours  later.  One 
time  the  helicopter  was  grounded  in  McMurdo  by  bad  weather 


Geologists'  tent  camp  on  a 
glacier,  with  a  nunatak  (isolated  hill) 
in  the  background. 

and  the  group  was  stuck  on  an  out- 
crop so  long  that  they  had  to  open 
their  survival  bags  to  get  food. 

Overall,  the  weather  was  rea- 
sonable, with  temperatures  hover- 
ing between  10°  and  15°F  (it  was 
summer,  after  all!)  so  field  work 
could  progress.  But  wind  chill  was 
a  challenge,  and  in  mid-January,  a 
large  storm  moved  in,  creating 
white-out  conditions  that  forced  the 
group  to  remain  in  their  tents  for 
five  days  straight. 
Marshak  points  out  that  "many  people  think  that 
Antarctica  is  completely  covered  by  snow  and  ice.  But  there  are 
good  exposures  in  the  Transantarctic  Mountains,  and  there's  no 
vegetation  to  hide  the  rocks,  so  it's  possible  to  see  contacts 
quite  clearly.  Exposures  are  good,  but  getting  to  them  can  be 
difficult.  Working  in  Antarctic  conditions  turns  any  field  work 
into  an  adventure." 


Geology  Club 
Re-established  * 

The  Geology  Club  has 
been  re-established  by 
undergraduates  Amy  Luther 
(president)  and  Roger 
Bannister  (vice  president  and 
treasurer) .  This  past  semester 
undergraduate  Meghan  Ward 
joined  the  club  as  secretary.  The  club  is 
both  academic  and  social  and  is  intend- 
ed for  "any  student  with  a  thirst  for 
knowledge  about  the  planet  Earth  and 
the  impact  geology  has  on  our  every- 
day lives,"  says  Bannister.  It  encourages 
interactions  between  faculty,  graduate 
students  and  undergraduates. 

The  club  sponsors  weekly  talks  by  department  professors 
that  are  presented  at  a  more  relaxed  and  less  intimidating  level 
than  the  Friday  colloquium  lectures.  The  group  has  organized  a 
rock  climbing  field  trip.  Future  plans  include  camping  trips  and 
helping  at  the  Science  Olympiad. 


Jim  Granath,  Ted 
Labotka  and  Dianne 
Moore  cooking  break- 
fast, Monument  Valley, 
UT,  1971  Geology  Club 
field  trip. 


Graduate  Student  Following  in  Wanless'  Footsteps 


Kurt  Burmeister,  a 
Ph.D.  student  in  struc- 
tural geology  under 
the  supervision  of 
Prof.  Stephen 
Marshak,  is  following 
in  some  mighty  big 
footsteps.  He  is  study- 
ing the  along-strike 
relationships  between 
changes  in  the  relative 
thickness  and  strength 
of  stratigraphic  units 
involved  in  deforma- 
tion and  transitions  in 
the  geometry  of  struc- 
tures in  fold-thrust 


Left:  Harold  Wanless  (first  on  leff)  with  his  work  party  (1920)  standing  in  front  of  Mrs 
Schmnen's  Lodging  and  Boarding  House  on  Main  Street  in  Rosendale.  Right:  (left  to 
right)  Professor  Russell  Waines  of  SUNY,  New  Paltz,  Dietrich  Werner,  President  of  the 
Century  House  Historical  Society,  and  Kurt  Burmeister  standing  in  front  of  the  same 
building,  which  is  now  a  cigar  making  company  (2002). 

belts.  As  part  of  this  research,  Kurt 


mapped  a  region  in  the  Appalachian  fold- 
thrust  belt  of  eastern  New  York  State  his- 
torically known  as  the  Rosendale  natural 
cement  region.  This  region  is  famous 
because  of  its  dolomitic  limestone,  which 


was  a  primary  source  of  high-quality  nat- 
ural cement  from  1850s-1950s.  Rosendale 
natural  cement,  which  is  much  stronger 
than  Portland  cement,  lines  the  Panama 
Canal,  forms  the  pedestal  of  the  Statue  of 
Liberty,  and  supports  the  wings  of  the  US 


Capitol  building. 
Coincidentally,  this 
region  is  where  the  leg- 
endary Prof.  Harold 
Wanless  conducted 
some  of  his  earliest  field 
studies.  In  the  early 
1920s,  Wanless  wrote  a 
voluminous  master's 
thesis  on  the  stratigra- 
phy of  the  Silurian  and 
Devonian  strata  of  the 
Rosendale  area. 
Wanless'  thesis  includes 
numerous  photographs 
of  many  of  the  long- 
abandoned  cement 
quarries  that  have  since  become  over- 
grown. Burmeister  has  had  fun  identify- 
ing sites  from  Wanless's  old  photos— in 
some  cases,  the  photos  show  critical  geo- 
logic relationships  that  are  no  longer 
exposed  and  thus  are  of  great  help. 


Important  Discoveries  by  Jin  and  Bethke 


Graduate  student  Qusheng  Jin  and 
Professor  Craig  Bethke  have  developed 
an  important  new  equation  to  predict 
how  fast  bacteria  can  degrade  contami- 
nants in  natural  environments  such  as 
groundwater.  Their  work  was  published 
in  the  Biophysical  Journal. 

"If  you  want  to  predict  how  fast  a 
common  groundwater  contaminant  can 
be  degraded,  you  could  run  an  experi- 
ment in  the  lab.  But  the  experiment 
would  not  necessarily  indicate  how  fast 
the  reaction  would  occur  in  nature.  I  am 
trying  to  answer  the  second  question 
with  my  work,"  says  Jin. 

The  new  equation  allows  laboratory 
data  to  be  extrapolated  to  explain  phe- 
nomena in  real-world  environments  by 
taking  into  account  the  fact  that  in  real- 
world  environments  there  is  not  always 
an  abundant  energy  supply  available  for 
bacterial  metabolism.  To  develop  the 


equation,  they  had  to  take  into  account 
geochemical  reaction  mechanisms, 
chemiosmotic  theory,  and  non-equilibri- 
um thermodynamics.  Chemiosmotic  the- 
ory explains  how  respiration  proceeds  in 
microorganisms,  and  non-equilibrium 
thermodynamics  how  reaction  rates  are 
controlled  by  the  amount  of  energy  that 
is  available. 

"The  thermodynamic  part  is  very 
important  because  energy  availability  is 
a  key  difference  between  lab  and  natural 
environments,"  notes  Jin. 

Jin  and  Bethke  were  able  to  test 
their  theory  by  predicting  reactions  that 
could  be  compared  with  data  sets  col- 
lected in  nature.  Since  publishing  the 
paper,  Jin  has  received  numerous  tele- 
phone calls  from  researchers  interested 
in  applying  the  equation  to  specific  envi- 
ronmental conditions.  Jin  and  Bethke 
have  several  additional  papers  scheduled 


for  publication  in  which  they  show  how 
the  equation  can  be  applied. 

Work  on  this  project  was  a  major 
change  in  research  direction  for  Jin, 
who  originally  came  to  Illinois  intending 
to  work  on  traditional  groundwater 
modeling.  But  with  Bethke's  encourage- 
ment, Jin  took  extra  classes  in  biochem- 
istry, civil  engineering,  and  microbiolo- 
gy. These  classes  have  allowed  him  to 
undertake  groundbreaking  interdiscipli- 
nary research  projects.  He  also  took 
advantage  of  the  diversity  of  faculty  on 
the  UIUC  campus  and  found  people  in 
several  departments  with  whom  he 
could  discuss  his  research. 

"I  was  helped  by  many  professors 
on  this  campus,"  says  Jin,  "especially 
Robert  Sanford  in  Civil  Engineering  and 
James  Imlay  in  Microbiology.  They 
encouraged  me  and  spent  hours  talking 
to  me.  Their  help  was  indispensable." 


Windows  into  the  Past 


The  First  World  War  profoundly 
affected  geology  at  Illinois.  Both  staff 
and  resources  were  diverted  to  the  war 
effort,  checking  growth  in  the 
Department's  programs.  In  fact,  five 
faculty  (J.L.  Rich,  H.F.  Crooks,  L.E. 
Kennedy,  F.M.  Van  Tuyl,  and  C.W. 
Tomlinson)  undertook  war-related 
work,  and  some  of  these  left  the 
University  to  do  so.  On  the  home  front, 
Departmental  staff  members  were 
assigned  to  teach  military  training 
classes.  For  example,  before  leaving  to 
join  the  Marine  Corps  air  service, 
Tomlinson  co-taught  "Military  Mapping 
and  Reconnaissance"  with  Eliot 
Blackwelder.   Blackwelder,  who  was 
Head  of  the  Department,  also  offered 
"War  Issues"  and  "Map  Reading  and 
Navigation."  Tomlinson  did  not  return 
after  the  war.  but  joined  the  Gypsy  Oil 
Company  and  went  on  to  a  distin- 
guished career  in  industry,  ultimately 
becoming  president  of  AAPG. 

Unfortunately,  the  war,  coupled 
with  stiff  competition  for  new  staff, 
crippling  college  regulations,  and  anti- 
German  and  anti-Bolshevik  bias, 
blocked  Blackwelder  from  building  the 
Department  he  wanted.  In  one  case,  a 
professional  Chinese  Geological  Survey 
geologist  was  denied  admission  as  a 
graduate  student  simply  because  he 
had  not  taken  prescribed  liberal  arts 
courses.  Frustrated,  Blackwelder  wrote 
a  strongly  worded  letter  of  resignation 
to  the  President  of  the  University,  and 
left  the  Department  at  the  end  of  the 
8       1919  spring  term.  Two  years  later  he 


World  War  I,  Crisis  for  Geology  at 
Illinois,  and  T.T.  Quirke 


By  Ralph  Langenheim 


was  Head  of  the  Geology  Department  at 
Stanford. 

With  Blackwelder's  resignation,  the 
Department  had  to  find  a  new  leader 
on  short  notice.  Amadeus  W.  Grabau, 
a  prominent  geologist  at  Columbia 
University,  voiced  an  interest,  but,  per- 
haps because  of  his  reputed  pro- 
German  sentiment,  the  University  did 
not  reply.  Grabau  went  on  to  Peking 
University  where  he  became  a  promi- 
nent researcher  in  tectonics.  Finally,  in 
November  1919,  the  University  trustees 
re-organized  the  Department  as  a  com- 
mittee. They  then  appointed  Terence 
Thomas  Quirke  chairman  and  associate 
professor. 

Quirke,  led  the  Department  for  the 
next  10  years.  He  was  born  in  England 
but  emigrated  to  the  United  States, 
where  he  received  university  training  in 
North  Dakota  and  Chicago.  He  then 
became  a  geology  professor  at  the 
University  of  Minnesota,  a  position  he 
held  for  four  years.  After  joining 
Illinois,  Quirke  spent  15  summers 
working  in  the  field  for  the  Geological 
Survey  of  Canada.  His  research  on  the 
Huronian,  Grenville  and  Killarnian 
proved  essential  to  unraveling  the 
Precambrian  history  of  North  America. 
Quirke  also  contributed  papers  on  min- 
eralogy and  on  the  origin  of  granite, 


and  wrote  two  introductory  geology 
textbooks.  Together,  Quirke  and  fellow 
faculty  member  William  Bayley  built  a 
strong  program  in  "hard  rock"  geolo- 
gy" at  Illinois,  balancing  Savage's 
strong  program  in  stratigraphy  and 
paleontology. 

The  Department  began  a  period 
steady  growth  and  enhancement  after 
the  Great  War.  In  1920,  the  Department 
had  a  staff  of  nine  (professors  Bayley, 
Rolfe  and  Savage;  associate  professor 
and  chairman  Quirke;  assistant  profes- 
sor M.M.  Leighton  (later,  Chief  of  the 
ISGSJ;  instructors  Yeaton  and  Hanson; 
a  laboratory  helper  and  a  stenograph- 
er), and  the  annual  budget  was  only 
$21,500,  including  salaries.  But 
between  1923  and  1930,  the  staff  grew 
to  21  people.  But  even  though  the  War 
was  a  shock  to  the  Department,  stu- 
dents continued  to  work  towards  their 
degrees  and  between  1905  and  1922 
the  Department  granted  15  master's 
degrees  (11  of  them  directed  by 
Savage)  and  three  doctorates.  After  the 
war,  student  numbers  increased,  so 
that  between  1923  and  1930,  23 
received  master's  degrees  and  two 
received  Ph.D.s.  Throughout  these 
years,  the  Department  covered  both  the 
disciplines  of  Geology  and  Geography. 


Haydn  Murray  Elected  to  National  Academy 
of  Engineering 

Haydn  Murray,  B.S.  '48,  M.S.  '50,  Ph.D.  '51,  has  just  been  elected  to  the 
National  Academy  of  Engineering.  Colleagues  consider  Murray  a  pioneer  in  the 
area  of  clay  mineralogy.  The  election  recognizes  Murray's  "important  contribu- 
tions to  engineering  theory  and  practice,"  specifically  his  "pioneering  work  on 
the  mineralogy  and  industrial  applications  of  clays. "  Election  to  the  academy  is 
one  of  the  highest  honors  an  engineer  can  achieve.  Congratulations  Haydn! 


Former  Faculty 
and  Alumni 
Receive  Major 
Awards 

Frank  Harold  Trevor  Rhodes  received 
the  Ian  Campbell  Medal,  the  AGI's  most 
prestigious  award.  The  medal,  presented  at 
the  GSA  Presidential  Awards  Ceremony  in 
Denver,  October  27,  2002  is  awarded  to  a 
person  who  exemplifies  the  accomplish- 
merits  and  widespread  influence  of  that 
remarkable  geoscientist. 

Rhodes  was  a  post-doctoral  fellow 
Fulbright  Scholar  at  the  University  of 
Illinois  from  1950-51,  assistant  professor 
from  1954-55  and  associate  professor  from 
1955-56,  when  he  moved  to  the  University 
of  Wales.  From  Wales,  he  moved  to  the 
University  of  Michigan,  and  then  Cornell, 
where  he  served  as  President  for  18  years. 
He  has  published  widely  in  the  fields  of 
geology,  paleontology,  evolution,  education 
and  the  history  of  science.  His  publications 
include  Fossils:  An  Introduction  to  Pre- 
Historic  Life  and  The  Creation  of  the  Future: 
The  Role  of  the  American  University.  He 
also  has  been  a  participant  in  the  BBC  tele- 
vision series.  The  Planet  Earth  and  the  BBC 
radio  series,  Science,  Philosophy  and 
Religion,  has  served  as  Chair  of  the 
National  Research  Council,  and  a  director 
of  the  General  Electric  Corporation. 

At  the  AAPG  meeting  in  May,  2003, 
three  Mini  geologists  will  be  honored.  Prof. 
Emeritus  Albert  Carozzi  will  be  recognized 
as  a  Distinguished  Educator,  alumnus  Jack 
Threet,  who  received  the  geology  depart- 
ment's alumni  achievement  award  in  2002, 
will  receive  the  Robert  Dott  Sr.  Award,  and 
alumnus  Norb  Cygan  will  be  honored  for 
distinguished  service. 

During  his  tenure  at  the  University  of 
Illinois,  Carozzi  was  recognized  by  stu- 
dents and  the  geoscience  profession  as  an 
outstanding  and  inspirational  educator, 
researcher,  and  mentor.  He  supervised  34 
Ph.D.  and  16  M.S.  thesis  projects,  and  his 
research  resulted  in  the  publication  of  more 


Norb  Cygan  (left)  presents  the  Ian  Campbell 
medal  (AGI's  highest  honor)  to  Frank  Rhodes  at 
the  GSA  annual  meeting  last  October. 

than  300  articles  in  scientific  journals, 
and  19  textbooks.  In  recent  years,  Prof. 
Carozzi  has  focused  his  energy  on  writ- 
ing books  concerning  the  history  of  geol- 
ogy. He  is  known  throughout  the  inter- 
national petroleum  industry  for  excel- 
lence in  teaching  and  research  on  car- 
bonate microfacies. 

"The  continuing  professional  suc- 
cess of  his  former  students  is  a  clear 
tribute  to  Dr.  Carozzi's  exceptional  abili- 
ties and  dedication  to  the  advancement 
of  geoscience  education,"  says  William 
Dawson,  B.S.  74,  Ph.D.  '84,  senior 
research  geologist  at  ChevronTexaco. 

Threet,  who  spent  his  entire  36-year 
career  with  Shell  Oil  Company,  led 
exploration  and  discovery  efforts  in  the 
deep  water  of  the  Gulf  of  Mexico,  the 
northwest  shelf  of  Australia,  onshore 
Syria  and  offshore  Malaysia,  Cameroon 
and  Brazil.  He  eventually  became  Vice 
President  of  the  company.  The  Robert  H. 
Dott,  Sr.,  Memorial  Award  honors  and 
rewards  Threet  for  original  articles  pub- 
lished by  the  AAPG.  Threet  recieved  last 
year's  Alumni  Achievement  Award. 

Cygan's  generous  service  to  AAPG 
spans  35  years.  Over  the  last  25  of  those 
he  has  been  particularly  dedicated  to 
AAPG  educational  activities.  For  a  num- 
ber of  years,  he  worked  to  develop  an 
AAPG  teachers  and  students  program  at 
annual  AAPG  conventions.  The  first  of 
these  took  place  in  1990,  with  the  first 
Teachers/Students  Educational  and  Field 
Trip  program.  This  program,  as  well  as 
several  others  Cygan  has  organized,  has 
continued  ever  since.  Cygan  was  hon- 
ored with  the  AAPG  Certificate  of  Merit 
in  1990  and  2001,  and  in  1995  was  pre- 
sented with  the  Public  Service  Award  for 
his  contribution  as  an  AAPG  member  in 
Public  Affairs. 


Degrees  Conferred  in  2002 


Bachelor  of  Science  Degrees 

May 

Adrienne  Jay  Gandhi 
Andrew  Russell  Parrish 
Deanna  Marie  Warkins 

August 

James  Sophocles  Cokinos 
Brian  Robert  Hacker 
Scott  William  Lepley 

Master  of  Science  Degrees 

May 

David  John  Beedy  (Teaching  of  Earth  Science 
Degree) 

Dylan  Pierce  Canavan  (Teaching  of  Earth 
Science  Degree) 

Peter  Raymond  Malecki  (Teaching  of  Earth 
Science  Degree) 

Michael  Russell  Fortwengler— Distribution  and 
Frequency  of  Black  Band  Disease  and  Partial 
Mortality  of  Diploria  Strigosa  on  Curacao, 
Netherlands  Antilles  (Bruce  Fouke) 

Dmitry  Leonidovich  Lakshtanov— Experimental 
Investigation  of  High-Temperature  Acousto- 
Elastic  Properties  of  Natural  Crystalline  Silica 
(SjOJ  (Jay  Bass) 

Xinlei  Sun— PKP  Travel  Times  at  Near  Antipodal 
Distances:  Implications  for  Inner-Core 
Anisotropy  and  Lowermost  Mantle  Structure 
(Xiaodong  Song) 

Xiaoxia  Xu — Evidence  for  Inner  Core  Super- 
Rotation  from  Time-Dependent  PKP  Travel 
Times  Observed  at  Beijing  Seismic  Network 
(Xiaodong  Song) 

October 

Amanda  Beth  Duchek— Geophysical 
Investigation  of  the  Cottage  Grove  Fault 
System,  Southern  Illinois  Basin  (Wang-Ping 
Chen) 

Doctor  of  Philosophy  Degrees 

May 

Keith  C.  Hackley— A  Chemical  and  Isotopic 
Investigation  of  the  Groundwater  in  the 
Mahomet  Bedrock  Valley  Aquifer:  Age. 
Recharge  and  Geochemical  Evolution  of  the 
Groundwater  (Thomas  F.  Anderson) 

October 

Michael  R.  Brudzinski — Seismic  Studies  of 
Subducted  Lithosphere  Beneath  Fiji:  Evidence 
for  a  Petrologic  Anomaly  (Wang-Ping  Chen) 

Michael  Joseph  Harrison — Origin.  Architecture. 
and  Thermal  State  of  the  Lackawanna 
Synclinorium,  Pennsylvania:  Implications  for 
Tectonic  Evolution  of  the  Central  Appalacliians 
(Stephen  Marshak) 


Alumni  News 


CORRECTION: 

The  picture  on  page  six  of  the  2001  Year  in 
Review  is  incorrectly  labeled  as  Thornton 
Quarry.  It  was  in  fact  Kentland  Quarry. 


Obituaries 


Richard  F.  Mast,  B.S.  '57,  died  June 
22,  2002,  after  a  valiant  struggle  with  can- 
cer. Mast  was  born  in  Chicago  and  served 
in  the  U.S.  Army.  He  was  a  pioneer  in  oil 
and  gas  resource  assessment,  working  as  a 
geologist  for  the  Illinois  Geological  Survey 
from  1957-1973  and  the  U.S.  Geological 
Survey  from  1973-1995.  He  served  the 
USGS  as  the  chief  of  the  Branch  of  Oil  and 
Gas  Resources  and  as  Regional  Geologist  of 
the  central  Region.  He  coordinated  the 
USGS  1992  National  Oil  and  Gas  Resource 
Assessment  for  which  he  received  the 
Department  of  Interior  Distinguished 
Service  Award.  He  is  survived  by  his  wife, 
Joyce  Ablinger  Mast,  B.S.  '57,  five  children 
and  four  grandchildren. 

Richard  M.  Winar,  B.S.  '53,  M.S. 

'55,  died  September  6,  2002,  of  esophageal 
cancer.  He  was  71 .  Winar  was  a  geologist 
and  environmental  engineer  who  worked 
most  recently  at  the  Oakland  County  Road 
Commission  of  Michigan.  He  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  AIPG  and  a  veteran  of  the  U.S. 
Army.  A  memorial  service  was  held 
September  15.  Winar  is  survived  by  his 
wife  of  49  years,  Lois  Winar,  and  his 
daughters,  Susan  Winar,  Gail  Winar  and 
Nancy  Winar  Cracknell,  as  well  as  four 
grandchildren  and  a  brother. 

Dick  Benson,  M.S.,  '53,  Ph.D.  '55, 
Senior  Scientist  and  Curator  of  Ostracodes 
at  the  Smithsonian  NMNH,  passed  away  in 
February,  2003,  from  an  apparent  heart 
attack.  Dick  had  a  profound  impact  upon 
our  conceptualization  and  understanding  of 
ostracodes  and,  as  those  of  you  who  knew 
him,  was  an  incredible  character  on  many 
levels.  He  will  be  greatly  missed. 


1940s 

Allen  F.  Agnew,  A.B.  '40,  M.S.  '42, 
writes  "I  am  happy  to  see  the  continued 
excellent  quality  of  programs  and  people  in 
our  department.  At  age  84,  nostalgia  has 
replaced  my  cutting-edge  fervor,  but  I  do 
make  one  geologic  meeting  each  year  (AAPG) 
and  take  vicarious  pleasure  in  the  activities  of 
all  of  you  who  truly  are  at  the  cutting  edge  of 
your  subfields!  What  a  marvelous  issue  of  the 
"Annual  Review"  of  the  Department  this  is! 
Thanks,  Deb  and  Steve!" 


1950s 

Norb  Cygan,  B.S.  '54,  and  his  wife,  Royann, 
met  up  last  September  with  Bob  Leonard  (B.S. 
'55)  his  wife  Joan  ('56)  at  the  Roosevelt 
Rendezvous  in  Yellowstone  Park.  "We  enjoyed 
seven-mile  hikes,  rides,  etc.  to  view  and  study  to 
flora,  fauna  and  geological  phenomena  of 
Yellowstone  Park  (just  before  the  first  snow).  Lots 
of  bear,  bison,  birds,  wolves,  and  volcanics.  Bob 
seemed  to  have  some  problems  controlling  his 
horse,  Widdermaker,  while  1  had  no  problem  with 
Pokey!" 

Carl  Davis,  B.S.  '59,  wrote  us  a  note  remi- 
niscing about  field  camp  in  the  summer  of  '58.  "It 
was  a  great  experience  for  me  ...  a  once-in-a-life- 
time  event,"  he  writes.  Davis  remembers  getting 
caught  in  a  thunderstorm  while  he  was  in  a 
canyon  and  taking  cover  under  an  overhanging 
bank  with  his  feet  still  in  the  stream.  Lightning  hit 
about  a  half-mile  away,  based  on  the  time 
between  flash  and  sound.  He  got  the  shock  at  the 
exact  time  of  the  stroke.  "I  think  I  got  about  400 
volts  but  only  a  small  amount  of  current.  So  that 
was  an  interesting  experience."  During  the  same 
storm  Davis  remembers  Martin  Jean  coming  face- 
to-face  with  a  brown  bear.  "I  heard  the  scream  a 
mile  away." 

1960s 

Bruce  M.  Nichols,  B.S.  '68,  is  living  in 
Mermaid  Waters,  Australia,  where  he  is  develop- 
ing a  high-grade  limestone  resource  in  N.S.W., 
and  "loving  life." 

1970s 

Andrew  M.  Gombos  Jr.,  M.S.  '73,  is  work- 
ing in  Abu  Dhabi  where  he  is  a  geophysicist 
working  on  the  Bu  Hasa  field,  a  large  rudistid 
reef.  He  can  be  reached  at  agombos@adco.co.ae 

Patricia  A.  Santogrossi,  B.S.  74,  M.S.  77, 

has  become  chief  geologist  at  Knowledge 
Reservoir,  Houston.  Prior  to  that  she  was  chief 
geologist  at  Chroma  Energy  in  Houston. 

1980s 

Dr.  Stephen  Laubach,  Ph.D.  '86,  a  senior 
research  scientist  at  the  University  of  Texas 
Bureau  of  Economic  Geology,  completed  a  nation- 
al speaking  tour  of  university  geology  departments 
and  an  AAPG  Hedberg  Research  Conference  as 
part  of  the  AAPG  Visiting  Geologist  program. 

Karen  Fryer,  M.S.  '82,  Ph.D.  '86,  is  chair  of 
the  Ohio  Wesleyan  department  of  Geology  and 
Geography.  She  attended  the  GSA  geology  depart- 
ment cocktail  during  the  GSA  meeting  in  Denver 
last  October  with  her  son,  Gavin,  and  her  hus- 
band Cameron  Begg.  Cameron  ran  the  microprobe 
lab  here  and  is  doing  similar  work  at  Ohio  State 
University. 

Dave  Watso,  M.S.  '88,  is  now  working  as  a 
senior  geologist  at  Unocal  and  lives  in  the 
Houston  area. 


II) 


1990s 

University  of  Texas  Bureau  of  Economic 
Geology  Research  Fellow  Dr.  Linda  Bonnell, 
Ph.D.  '90,  has  been  named  as  an  AAPG 
Distinguished  Lecturer  for  2003-2004.  The  title 
of  her  presentation  is  "Diagenetic  Effects  on 
Fracture  Development."  Linda  is  one  of  the 
principals  of  Geocosm,  an  Austin-based  reser- 
voir consulting  group. 

Christine  Clark  McCracken,  M.S.  '97, 

successfully  defended  her  thesis  in  June.  She 
has  headed  to  Ypsilanti,  Michigan,  where  she 
is  assistant  professor  of  mineralogy  and  petrol- 
ogy at  Eastern  Michigan  University.  She  ran 
into  Doug  Tinkham,  M.S.  '97,  at  the  Geologic 
Association  of  Canada/Mineralogical 
Association  of  Canada  meeting  last  spring  in 
Saskatoon.  Doug  is  a  post-doc  in  Calgary. 

Shayne  Pasek,  B.S.  '98,  married  Erick 
Staley  last  September.  Erick  was  a  UC  Berkeley 
student  who  spent  a  semester  at  the  University 
of  Illinois  studying  with  Bruce  Fouke.  The  cou- 
ple first  met  on  a  field  trip  to  Bonaire  led  by 
Fouke.  Shayne  and  Erick  are  living  in  Portland, 
Oregon. 

Sharon  (Horstman)  Qi ,  B.A.  '89,  M.S. 
'93,  and  her  family  are  moving  to  Oregon, 
where  she  will  continue  to  work  for  the 
U.S.G.S. 

2000s 

Judd  Tudor,  B.S.  '97,  M.S.,  '00,  is  getting 
married  in  western  Scotland  in  July  '03.  He  is 
still  working  for  Schlumberger  Wireline  as  a 
field  engineer  and  was  recently  transferred  to 
Edinburg,  TX. 

Anthony  (Tony)  Gibson,  M.S.  '01,  has 

returned  to  Olney,  111.,  and  has  joined  his  fami- 
ly-owned oil  company,  Murvin  Oil,  as  execu- 
tive vice  president  and  petroleum  geologist. 
Tony  is  the  third  generation  of  his  family  to 
work  at  the  company.  In  2002,  Tony  also 
established  Gibson  Supply,  Inc.  to  provide 
local  access  to  oilfield  equipment  and  supplies. 

Former  Faculty  News 

Peter  Burns,  who  was  a  visiting  assistant 
professor  in  Geology  at  UIUC  from  1996-1997, 
has  been  appointed  Massman  Chair  of  the 
Department  of  Civil  Engineering  and  Geological 
Sciences  at  the  University  of  Notre  Dame.  He 
was  also  promoted  to  professor  in  November. 
While  at  Illinois,  Peter  taught  courses  in 
mineralogy,  geology  of  the  planets,  and 
oceanography. 

John  McBride,  who  was  an  adjunct  fac- 
ulty member  since  1997,  has  moved  to  Utah  to 
teach  at  Brigham  Young  University.  "Leaving 
Champaign  was  not  an  easy  decision,"  he 
writes.  John  has  developed  some  new  courses 
and  purchased  equipment  to  support  a  geo- 
physics program  at  BYU.  John  can  be  reached 
at  john_mcbride@byu.edu  or  (801)  422-5219. 


Honor  Roll  of  Donors  for  2002 


The  following  is  a  list  of  friends  and  alumni  of  the  Department  of  Geology  who  have  donated  to  the  department  during  the  calendar  year  2002. 


Mr.  Stephen  V.  Adams 

Mrs.  Terrie  P.  Adams 

Prof.  Thomas  F.  Anderson 

Dr.  Robert  F.  Babb  II 

Mr.  Rodney  J.  Balazs 

Ms.  Debbie  E.  Baldwin 

Mr.  James  E.  Bales 

Mrs.  Laura  S.  Bales 

Ms.  Abigail  E.  Bethke 

Dr.  Craig  M.  Bethke 

Dr.  Marion  E.  Bickford 

LTC  Ronald  E.  Black  (RET) 

Mrs.  Phyllis  0.  Boardman 

Dr.  Richard  S.  Boardman 

Mr.  Joseph  E.  Boudreaux 

Mr.  Allen  S.  Braumiller 

Mrs.  Patsy  L.  Braumiller 

Mrs.  Annette  Brewster 

Mrs.  Carolyn  Brower 

Mr.  Ross  D.  Brower 

The  Reverend  Robert  L.  Brownfield 

Dr.  Glenn  R.  Buckley 

Mrs.  Mildred  F.  Buschbach 

Dr.  Thomas  C.  Buschbach 

James  W.  Castle,  PhD 

Mr.  Richard  A.  Castle 

Dr.  Thomas  L.  Chamberlin 

Dr.  Charles  J.  Chantell 

Mr.  Lester  W.  Clutter 

Mrs.  Virginia  K.  Clutter 

Mrs.  Earl  C.  Cockrum 

Dr.  Barbara  J.  Collins 

Dr.  Lorence  G.  Collins 

Mrs.  Susan  E.  Collins 

Virginia  A.  Colten-Bradley,  PhD 

Ms.  Michelle  M.  Corlew 

Mr.  Thomas  E.  Covington 

Mr.  Chris  C.  Cummins 

Mrs.  Lucinda  E.  Cummins 

Dr.  Norbert  E.  Cygan 

Mrs.  Royann  Gardner  Cygan 

Mrs.  Wendy  Ann  Czerwinski 

Mr.  George  H.  Davis 

Dr.  Ilham  Demir 

Ms.  Kathryn  L.  Desulis 

Mrs.  Joy  A.  I.  deVries 

Mr.  M.  Peter  deVries 

Mr.  Richard  E.  Dobson 

Mr.  Bruce  E.  Dollahan 

Dr.  Garnett  M.  Dow 

Dr.  William  W.  Dudley  Jr. 

Dr.  James  L.  Eades 

Dr.  Mohamed  T.  El-Ashry 

Mrs.  Patricia  R.  El-Ashry 

Dr.  Frank  R.  Ettensohn 

Mr.  Joseph  P.  Fagan  Jr. 

Mr.  Kenneth  T.  Feldman 

Mr.  Gary  R.  Foote 

Richard  M.  Forester,  PhD 

Mr.  Jack  D.  Foster 

Mrs.  Alison  Franklin 

Mr.  Edwin  H.  Franklin 

Mr.  Barry  R.  Gager 


Mr.  John  R.  Garino 
Ms.  Theresa  C.  Gierlowski 
Mrs.  Carmen  L.  Gilman 
Dr.  Richard  A.  Gilman 
Mr.  Robert  N.  Ginsburg 
Mr.  Albert  D.  Glover 
Mrs.  Mildred  B.  Glover 
Mr.  Charles  J.  Gossett 
Mrs.  Harriet  S.  Grossman 
Dr.  Stuart  Grossman 
Dr.  Albert  L.  Guber 
Mrs.  Nancy  Anderson  Guber 
Mrs.  Catherine  L.  Harms 
Dr.  Henry  J.  Harris 
Dr.  Richard  L.  Hay 
Mrs.  Alice  M.  Helmuth 
Mr.  Darrell  N.  Helmuth 
Dr.  Mark  A.  Helper 
Mr.  Mark  F  Hoffman 
Mrs.  Maureen  F.  Hoffman 
Dr.  Eric  J.  Holdener 
Dr.  Judy  A.  Holdener 
Mr.  Glen  A.  Howard 
Mrs.  Tracy  Howard 
Mrs.  Cathy  S.  Hunt 
Dr.  Stephen  R.  Hunt 
Dr.  Roscoe  G.  Jackson  II 
Dr.  Janet  B.  Jakupcak 
Mr.  Joseph  M.  Jakupcak 
Mr.  Steven  F.  Jamrisko 
Mr.  John  E.  Jenkins 
Dr.  William  D.  Johns  Jr. 
Dr.  Allen  H.  Johnson 
Bruce  A.  Johnson 
Dr.  Donald  0.  Johnson 
Dr.  Kenneth  S.  Johnson 
Mr.  Robert  R.  Johnston 
Mr.  Roy  A.  Kaelin 
Dr.  John  P.  Kempton 
Mrs.  Shirley  M.  Kennedy 
Mr.  Virgil  John  Kennedy 
Dr.  Stephen  H.  Kirby 
Dr.  R.  James  Kirkpatrick 
Mr.  Robert  F  Kraye 
Mr.  Thomas  E.  Krisa 
Dr.  Richard  W  Lahann 
Mr.  Robert  R.  Lamb 
Mr.  Michael  B.  Lamport 
Mr.  Rik  E.  Lantz 
Mr.  Stephen  C.  Lee 
Mrs.  Rebecca  M.  Leefers 
Dr.  Hannes  E.  Leetaru 
Dr.  Morris  W  Leighton 
Dr.  Margaret  S.  Leinen 
Mr.  Bernard  J.  Lindsey  Jr. 
Mr.  Scott  D.  Lockert 
Ms.  Crystal  G.  Lovett 
Mr.  Bernard  W.  Lynch 
Mr.  Rob  Roy  Macgregor 
Mrs.  Kathryn  G.  Marshak 
Prof.  Stephen  Marshak 
Mr.  James  L.  Mason  Jr. 
Mr.  Alan  R.  May 


Mrs.  Hope  Elsbree  May 

Dr.  Murray  R.  McComas 

Mrs.  W.  E.  McCommons 

Mr.  Marvin  P.  Meyer 

Mrs.  Cheryl  B.  Miller 

Ms.  Linda  A.  Minor 

Mrs.  Ethel  P.  Moore 

Mr.  John  S.  Moore 

Mr.  Wayne  E.  Moore 

Dr.  Sharon  Mosher 

Joseph  C.  Mueller 

Mr.  Robert  E.  Murphy 

Dr.  Haydn  H.  Murray 

Mrs.  Juanita  A.  Murray 

Mr.  Robert  E.  Myers 

Mr.  Bruce  W  Nelson 

Mr.  W.  John  Nelson 

Mr.  Brian  D.  Noel 

Mrs.  Lynn  E.  Noel 

Mr.  Ronald  L.  Norris 

Dr.  William  A.  Oliver  Jr. 

Donald  E.  Orlopp,  PhD 

Michael  R.  Owen,  Phd 

Dr.  Norman  J.  Page 

Ms.  Katherine  A.  Panczak 

Mr.  Howard  L.  Patton 

Mrs.  Margaret  L.  Patton 

Mr.  T.  Ray  Peale 

Mrs.  Corinne  Pearson 

Dr.  Russel  A.  Peppers 

Mrs.  Betty  R.  Pflum 

Mr.  Charles  E.  Pflum 

Mr.  Bruce  E.  Phillips 

Mrs.  Sarah  Phillips 

Dr.  Jack  W.  Pierce 

Dr.  Robert  I.  Pinney 

Dr.  Paul  L.  Plusquellec 

Mr.  Richard  J.  Powers 

Dr.  Elizabeth  P.  Rail 

Mr.  Raymond  W  Rail 

Mr.  Paul  J.  Regorz 

Dr.  David  W.  Rich 

Mr.  Donald  0.  Rimsnider 

Mr.  William  F.  Ripley 

Dr.  Nancy  M.  Rodriguez 

Mr.  Dean  M.  Rose 

Mr.  Edward  L.  Rosenthal 

Mrs.  Hilary  R.  Rosenthal 

Mr.  Jeffrey  A.  Ross 

Dr.  Linda  R.  Rowan 

Mr.  Jay  R.  Scheevel 

Dr.  Detmar  Schnitker 

Mrs.  Julia  Schnitker 

Leonard  G.  Schultz  Estate  (DEC) 

Dr.  David  C.  Schuster 

Mrs.  Diane  P.  Schwartz 

Dr.  Franklin  W  Schwartz 

Dr.  John  W.  Shelton 

Dr.  Fredrick  D.  Siewers 

Mr.  Jack  A.  Simon 

Mr.  D.  Leroy  Sims 

Mrs.  Martha  K.  Sippel 

Mr.  Roger  A.  Sippel 


Dr.  William  B.  Size 

Mr.  Norman  J.  Slama 

Mr.  Stephen  A.  Smith 

Mr.  Robert  D.  Snyder 

Dr.  J.  William  Soderman 

Mr.  Eric  P.  Sprouls 

Mrs.  Linda  S.  Sprouls 

Mrs.  Beryl  D.  Sternagle 

Dr.  John  E.  Stone 

Dr.  Gary  D.  Strieker 

Dr.  Susan  M.  Taylor 

Dr.  Daniel  A.  Textoris 

Mrs.  Catherine  Threet 

Mr.  Jack  C.  Threet 

Dr.  Edwin  W  Tooker 

Dr.  Kenneth  M.  Towe 

Dr.  John  B.  Tubb  Jr. 

Mr.  Robert  G.  Vanderstraeten 

Mr.  William  L.  Vineyard 

Mr.  Robert  W  Von  Rhee 

Mr.  Richard  H.  Voris 

Dr.  F  Michael  Wahl 

Ms.  Harriet  E.  Wallace 

Dr.  James  G.  Ward 

Mr.  Carleton  W  Weber 

Dr.  John  E.  Werner 

Mr.  Jerry  T.  Wickham 

Mrs.  Susan  S.  Wickhan 

Mr.  Don  R.  Williams 

Dr.  Eugene  G.  Williams 

Mr.  William  W  Wilson 

Dr.  Paul  A.  Witherspoon  Jr. 

Ms.  Elaine  R.  Witt 

Mr.  Roland  F.  Wright 

Mr.  Lawrence  Wu 

Corporations 

Amoco  Foundation 

Centennial  Geoscience,  Inc. 

Charitable  Gift  Fund 

ChevronTexaco 

ConocoPhillips  Corporation 

Detroit  Edison  Foundation 

Dominion  Foundation 

Exxon  Mobil  Corporation 

ExxonMobil  Foundation 

Idaho  National  Engineering  and 

Environmental  Laboratory 

Illini  Technologists  Working  Metal 

Isotech  Laboratories,  Inc. 

Mobil  Foundation,  Inc. 

Mor-Staffing,  Inc. 

Peale  Brewing  Company,  Inc. 

Peoples  Energy  Corporation 

Phillips  Petroleum  Foundation,  Inc. 

Sck.Cen 

Shell  Oil  Company  Foundation 

Smis  Consulting,  Inc. 

Whiting  Petroleum  Corporation  an 

Alliant  Company 


Annual  Report  for  2002 


Faculty 


Stephen  P.  Altaner  (Associate  Professor) 

Jay  D.  Bass  (Professor) 

Craig  M.  Bethke  (Professor) 

Daniel  B.  Blake  (Professor) 

Chu-Yung  Chen  (Associate  Professor) 

Wang-Ping  Chen  (Professor) 

Bruce  W.  Fouke  (Assistant  Professor) 

Albert  T.  Hsui   (Professor) 

Thomas  M.  Johnson  (Assistant  Professor) 

Susan  W.  Kieffer  (Walgreen  Professor) 

R.  James  Kirkpatrick  (Professor  and  Executive 

Associate  Dean) 
Craig  C.  Lundstrom  (Assistant  Professor) 
Stephen  Marshak  (Professor  and  Head) 
Xiaodong  Song  (Assistant  Professor) 

Department  Affiliate 

Feng-Sheng  Hu  (Associate  Professor) 

Academic  Staff  & 
Research  Staff 

Deb  Aronson  (Yearbook  Editor) 
George  Bonheyo  (Post-Doctoral  Researcher) 
Jorge  Frias-Lopez  (Post-Doctoral  Researcher) 
Richard  Hedin  (Research  Programmer) 
Xiaoqiang  Hou  (Post-Doctoral  Researcher) 
Stephen  Hurst  (Research  Programmer) 
Andrey  Kalinichev  (Senior  Research  Scientist) 
LaJita  Kalita  (Research  Programmer) 
Ann  Long  (Teaching  Lab  Specialist) 
Laura  Rademacher  (Post-Doctoral  Researcher) 
Stanislav  Sinogeikin  (Research  Scientist) 
Frank  Tepley  (Post-Doctoral  Researcher) 
Raj  Vanka  (Resource  and  Policy  Analyst) 
John  Werner  (Visiting  Assistant  Professor) 
Alan  Whittington  (Post-Doctoral  Researcher) 

Emeritus  Faculty 

Thomas  F.  Anderson 
Albert  V.  Carozzi 
Carleton  A.  Chapman 
Donald  L.  Graf 
Arthur  F.  Hagner 
Richard  L.  Hay 
Donald  M.  Henderson 
George  deV.  Klein 
Ralph  L.  Langenheim 
C.  John  Mann 
Alberto  S.  Nieto 
Philip  A.  Sandberg 


Adjunct  Faculty 

Leon  R.  Follmer 
Dennis  Kolata 
Morris  W  Leighton 
Hannes  Leetaru 
William  Shilts 
M.  Scott  Wilkerson 

Library  Staff 

Lura  Joseph  (Librarian) 

Sheila  McGowan   (Chief  Library  Clerk) 

Diana  Walter  (Library  Technical  Specialist) 

Staff 

Shelley  Campbell  (Staff  Clerk) 

Barb  Elmore  (Administrative  Secretary) 

Eddie  Lane  (Electronics  Engineering 

Assistant) 
Michael  Sczerba  (Clerical  Assistant) 

Graduate  Students 


COURSES  TAUGHT  IN  2002 


Will  Beaumont 
David  Beedy 
Peter  Berger 
Sarah  Brown 
Kurtis  Burmeister 
Dylan  Canavan 
Scott  Clark 
Amanda  Duchek 
Andre  Ellis 
Michael  Fortwengler 
Alex  Glass 
Brian  Hacker 
Keith  Hackley 
Chris  Henderson 
Fang  Huang 
Jennifer  Jackson 
Qusheng  Jin 
Matthew  Kirk 
James  Klaus 
Dmitry  Lakshtanov 

Congratulations 


Craig  Lundstrom  and  his  wife,  Lara, 
are  the  proud  parents  of  Nathaniel  Powell 
Lundstrom,  who  was  born  December  18th 
at  Carle  Hospital.  He  weighed  8  lbs.,  3  oz. 
at  birth.  Nathaniel  also  has  a  big  brother, 
Evan,  who  is  four. 

Barb  Elmore,  administrative  secretary, 
announces  the  arrival  of  her  fifth  grand- 
child. Tyler  Christopher  Junkins  was  born 
on  November  4.  Tyler's  parents  (Barb's  son 
and  daughter-in-  law)  live  in  Ashkum,  111. 


Chuntao  Liang 
Christopher  Mah 
Peter  Malecki 
Brent  Olson 
Jungho  Park 
George  Roadcap 
Eric  Sikora 
Xinlei  Sun 
Anna  Sutton 
Jian  Tian 
Tai-Lin  Tseng 
Jianwei  Wang 
Jingyun  Wang 
Jackie  Welch 
Xiang  Xu 
Xiaoxia  Xu 
Zhaohui  Yang 
Juanzuo  Zhou 


Geol  100  - 

Planet  Earth 

Geol  101  - 

Introduction  to  Physical 

Geology 

Geol  104  - 

Geology  of  the  National  Parks 

and  Monuments 

Geol  107  - 

Physical  Geology 

Geol  108  - 

Historical  Geology 

Geol  110  - 

Exploring  Planet  Earth  in  the 

Field 

Geol  116  - 

Geology  of  the  Planets 

Geol  117  - 

The  Oceans 

Geol  118  - 

Natural  Disasters 

Geol  143  - 

History  of  Life 

Geol  233  - 

Earth  Materials  and  the 

Environment 

Geol  250  - 

Geology  for  Engineers 

Geol  311  - 

Structural  Geology  and 

Tectonics 

Geol  315  - 

Field  Geology 

Geol  317- 

Geologic  Field  Methods, 

Western  United  States  (Field 

Camp) 

Geol  320  - 

Introduction  to  Paleontology 

Geol  332  - 

Mineralogy  and  Mineral  Optics 

Geol  336  - 

Petrology  and  Petrography 

Geol  340  - 

Sedimentology  and 

Stratigraphy 

Geol  350  - 

Introduction  to  Geophysics 

Geol  351  - 

Geophysical  Methods  for 

Geology,  Engineering,  and 

Environmental  Sciences 

Geol  352  - 

Physics  of  the  Earth 

Geol  355  - 

Introduction  to  Groundwater 

Geol  360  - 

Geochemistry 

Geol  381  - 

Modeling  Earth  and 

Environmental  Systems 

Geol  415  - 

Advanced  Field  Geology 

Geol  433  - 

Isotope  Geology 

Geol  440  - 

Petroleum  Geology 

Geol  452  - 

Geodynamics 

Geol  454  - 

Physics  of  the  Earth's  Interior 

Geol  489  - 

Geotectonics 

Geol  491  - 

Current  Research  in 

Geoscience 

Geol  493K6  - 

Chemistry  &  Petrology  of  the 

Mantle 

Geol  493Q3  - 

Practical  Petrology 

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Research  Grants  Active  in  2002 


American  Chemical  Society  Petroleum 
Research 

Development  of  Selenium  Isotope  Ratios  as 
Indicators  of  Sedimentary  Paleo- 
Environments. 
Principal  Investigator:  Thomas  Johnson 

Department  of  Energy 

Field-Constrained  Quantitative  Model  of  the 
Origin  of  Microbial 
Principal  Investigator:  Craig  M.  Bethke 

Computational  &  Spectroscopic  Investigations 
of  Water-Carbon  Dioxide  Fluids  &  Surface 
Sorption  Processes. 
Principal  Investigator:  R.  James  Kirkpatrick 

Federal  Highway  Administration 

Predicting  Aggregate  Reaction  Based  on 

Chemistry  and  Nanostructure  of  Alkali-Silica 

Gels. 

Principal  investigators:  Leslie  J.  Struble  and 

R.  James  Kirkpatrick 

Illinois  Council  On  Food  And  Agriculture 
Research 

Estimation  of  Denitrification  Rates  in  the 
Shallow  Groundwater  Flow  Systems  of  Big 
Ditch  Watershed,  Illinois  -  Isotope 
Assessment. 
Principal  Investigator:  Thomas  Johnson 

Institute  Of  Geophysics  And  Planetary 
Physics,  Los  Alamos: 

Timescales  of  Crustal  Level  Differentiation: 
U-Series  Measurements  and  Geophysical 
Monitoring  at  Arenal  Volcano,  Costa  Rica. 
Principal  Investigator:  Craig  Lundstrom 

NASA 

Core  Angular  Momentum  and  the  International 

Earth  Rotation  Service  Coordination  Center 

/  Sub-Centers  Activity  for  Monitoring  Global 

Geophysical  Fluids. 

Principal  Investigator:  Xiaodong  Song 

NSF 

Polymorphism  and  Structural  Transitions 
During  Glass  Formation. 
Principal  Investigator:  Jay  Bass 

Development  of  Laser  Heating  for  Sound 
Velocity  Measurements  at  High  P  &  T. 
Principal  Investigator:  Jay  Bass 

Sound  Velocities  &  Elastic  Moduli  of  Minerals 
Mantle  Pressures  and  Temperatures  with 
Laser  Heating. 
Principal  Investigator:  Jay  Bass 

Workshop  on  Phase  Transitions  and  Mantle 
Discontinuities. 
Principal  Investigator:  Jay  Bass 


CSED1:  Collaborative  Research:  Composition 
and  Seismic  Structure  of  the  Mantle 
Transition  Zone. 
Principal  Investigator:  Jay  Bass 

Consortium  for  Material  Property  Research  in 
the  Earth  Sciences. 
Principal  Investigator:  Jay  Bass 

Collaborative  Research:  Elasticity  Grand 
Challenge  of  the  COMPRES  Initiative. 
Principal  Investigator:  Jay  Bass 

Global  Climate  Change  &  The  Evolutionary 
Ecology  of  Antarctic  Mollusks  in  the  Late 
Eocene. 
Principal  Investigator:  Daniel  B.  Blake 

A  Seismic  Study  of  the  Mantle  Transition  Zone 
and  Subducted  Lithosphere. 
Principal  Investigator:  Wang-Ping  Chen 

Seismic  Reflection  Profiles  in  Southern  Illinois 
(funded  through  the  Mid-America 
Earthquake  Research  Center) . 
Principal  Investigators:  John  McBride, 
Stephen  Marshak,  and  Wang-Ping  Chen 

A  Seismic  Study  of  the  Taiwan  Orogen. 
Principal  Investigator:  Wang-Ping  Chen 

Collaborative  Research:  Lithospheric-Scale 
Dynamics  of  Active  Mountain  Building  along 
the  Himalayan-Tibetan  Collision  Zone. 
Principal  Investigator:  Wang-Ping  Chen 

Proximal  Carbonate  Ejecta  from  Cretaceous- 
Tertiary  Chicxulub  Impact  Crater:  87Sr/ssSr 
Chronology,  Ballistic  Sedimentation,  & 
Diagenetic  Alteration. 
Principal  Investigator:  Bruce  W  Fouke 

Geobiology  &  The  Emergence  of  Terraced 
Architecture  During  Carbonate 
Mineralization. 
Principal  Investigator:  Bruce  Fouke 

Development  of  Cr  Stable  Isotopes  for  Cr 
Transport  Studies  and  Other  Geoscience 
Applications. 
Principal  Investigator:  Thomas  Johnson 

Collaborative  Research:  Field  Investigation  of  Se 
Oxyanion  Reduction  &  Se  Sources  in 
Wetlands:  Application  of  Se  Isotopes. 
Principal  Investigator:  Thomas  Johnson 

Measuring  Trace  Element  Partition  Coefficients 
between  Minerals  and  Basaltic  Melt. 
Principal  Investigator:  Craig  C.  Lundstrom 

Observational  Constraints  on  Melt-Rock 
Reactions  During  Melting  of  the  Upper 
Mantle. 
Principal  Investigator:  Craig  C.  Lundstrom 


Windows  into  MORB  Pedogenesis:  Measuring 
U-Series  Disequilibria  in  MORB  from 
Transforms. 
Principal  Investigator:  Craig  Lundstrom 

Collaborative  Research:  Investigating  the 
Processes  and  Timescales  of  Andesite 
Differentiation:  A  Comprehensive 
Petrological  and  Geochemical  Study  of 
Arenal  Volcano,  Costa  Rica. 
Principal  Investigators:  Frank  J.  Tepley  III 
and  Craig  C.  Lundstrom 

Collaborative  Research:  Emplacement  of  the 
Ferrar  Mafic  Idneous  Province:  A  Pilot  Study 
of  Intrusive  Architecture  and  Flow 
Directions  in  Southern  Victoria  Land. 
Principal  Investigators:  Stephen  Marshak 
and  Alan  Whittington 

Tectonics  of  the  Aracuai/Ribeira  Orogenic 
Tongue  of  Southeastern  Brazil  and  its 
Significance  to  the  Assembly  of  West 
Gondwana. 
Principal  Investigator:  Stephen  Marshak 

Structure  and  Dynamics  of  Earth's  Core  and 
Lowermost  Mantle. 
Principal  Investigator:  Xiaodong  Song 

Constraining  the  Structure  and  Rotation  of  the 
Inner  Core. 
Prinicpal  Investigator:  Xiaodong  Song 

ONR 

The  Role  of  Shipyard  Pollutants  in  Structuring 
Coral  Reef  Microbial  Communities: 
Monitoring  Environmental  Change  and  the 
Potential  Causes  of  Coral  Disease. 
Principal  Investigator:  Bruce  Fouke 

State  Of  Illinois  Board  Of  Higher  Education 

Evolution  of  the  Martian  Surface — A 

Cooperative  Learning  Module  for  General 

Education  in  Science. 

Principal  Investigator:  Albert  Hsui 

University  Of  Illinois  Research  Board 

Seed  Money  for  Research  Initiative  in  Aquifer 
Microbiology. 
Principal  Investigator:  Craig  M.  Bethke 

Airbrasive  Unit  for  Paleontological  Research. 
Principal  Investigator:  Daniel  B.  Blake 

Structure  of  Crust  and  Mantle  beneath  China 
from  the  New  Chinese  Broadband  Digital 
Seismic  Network. 
Principal  Investigator:  Xiaodong  Song 


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List  of  Publications  for  2002 


Ellis,  A.  S.,  Johnson,  T.  M,  and  Bullen,  T.  D., 
2002,  Cr  isotopes  and  the  fate  of  hexavalent 
Cr  in  the  environment:  Science:  265,  2060- 
2062. 

Hu,  F.S.,  Lee,  B.Y.,  Kaufman,  D.S.,  Yoneji,  S., 
Nelson,  D.M.,  and  Henne,  P.D.,   2002, 
Response  of  tundra  ecosystem  in  southwest- 
ern Alaska  to  Younger  Dryas  climatic  oscilla- 
tions: Global  Change  Biology,  8:  1156-1163. 

Bethke,  CM.,  and  Johnson,  T.M.,  2002,  Paradox 
of  groundwater  age:  Geology,  30:  385-388. 

Hou,  X.,  and  Kirkpatrick,  R.J.,  2002,  Structure 
and  Dynamics  of  CIO4-  in  Layered  Double 
Hydroxides:  Chemistry  of  Materials,  14: 
1195-1200. 

Wilkerson,  M.S.,  Fischer,  M.P.,  and  Apotria, 
T.G.  (editors),  2002,  Fault-related  folds: 
Transition  from  two  dimensions  to  three 
dimensions,  special  issue  of  the  Journal  of 
Structural  Geology:  24(4). 

Song,  X.D.,  2002,  The  Earth's  Core, 

International  Handbook  of  Earthquake  and 
Engineering  Seismology  (Lee,  W.H.K., 
Kanamori,  H.,  Jennings,  P.C.,  and  Kisslinger, 
C,  eds.),  Volume  1,  Chapter  56,  Academic 
Press,  San  Diego. 

Blake,  D.B.,  2002,  Evaluation  of  the 
Mississippian  asteroid  (Echinodermata) 
Compsaster  formosus  Worthen  and  Miller:  A 
Paleozoic  homeomorph  of  the  post-Paleozoic 
Asteriidae:  Paleontologische  Zeitschrift, 
76:357-367. 

Park,  J.,  Bethke,  CM.,  Torgersen,  T.,  and 
Johnson,  T.M,  2002,  Transport  modeling 
applied  to  the  interpretation  of  groundwater 
36C1  age:  Water  Resources  Research:  38,  1-15. 

Wilkerson,  M.S.,  Apotria,  T.G.,  and  Farid,  T.A., 
2002,  Interpreting  the  geologic  map  expres- 
sion of  contractional  fault-related  fold  termi- 
nations: Lateral/oblique  ramps  versus  dis- 
placement gradients:  Wilkerson,  M.S., 
Fischer,  M.P.,  and  Apotria,  T.G.  (ed.).  Fault- 
related  folds:  Transition  from  two  dimensions 
to  three  dimensions,  special  issue  of  the 
Journal  of  Structural  Geology:  24(4),  593-607. 

Kalinichev,  A.G.  and  Kirkpatrick,  R.J.,  2002, 
Molecular  dynamics  modeling  of  chloride 
binding  to  the  surfaces  of  Ca  hydroxide, 
hydrated  Ca-aluminate  and  Ca-silicate  phas- 
es: Chemistry  of  Materials,  14:  3539  -  3549. 


Song,  X.D.,  and  Xu,  X.  X.,  2002,  Inner  core  tran- 
sition zone  and  anomalous  PKP(DF)  wave- 
forms from  polar  paths:  Geophys.  Res.  Lett., 
29(4):  10.1029/2001GL013822. 

Apotria,  T.G.,  and  Wilkerson,  M.S.,  2002, 
Geometry  and  kinematics  of  a  fault-related 
fold  termination:  Rosario  structure, 
Maracaibo  Basin,  Venezuela:   Wilkerson, 
M.S.,  Fischer,  M.P.,  and  Apotria,  T.G.  (ed.), 
Fault-related  folds:  Transition  from  two 
dimensions  to  three  dimensions,  special  issue 
of  the  Journal  of  Structural  Geology,  24(4), 
671-687. 

Jin,  Q.,  and  Bethke,  CM.,  2002,  Kinetics  of  elec- 
tron transfer  through  the  respiratory  chain: 
Biophysical  Journal:  83,  1797-1808. 

Song,  X.D.,  2002,  Three-dimensional  structure 
and  differential  rotation  of  the  inner  core: 
AGU  monograph  on  Core  Dynamics,  Structure 
and  Rotation  (Dehant,  V.M.,  Creager,  K.C, 
Zatman,  S.,  and  Karato,  S.,  eds.). 

Kao,  H.,  Liu,  Y.-H.,  Liang,  W.-T.,  and  Chen,  W- 
P.,  2002,  Source  parameters  of  regional  earth- 
quakes in  Taiwan  (1999-2000)  including  the 
Chi-Chi  earthquake  sequence:  Terr.  Atmos. 
Ocean.  Set:  13,  279-298. 

Bethke,  CM.,  and  Johnson.TM.,  2002,  Ground 
water  age:  Ground  Water,  40:  337-339. 

Blake,  D.B.,  and  Kues,  B.  S.,  2002, 
Homeomorphy  in  the  Asteroidea 
(Echinodermata):  A  new  Late  Cretaceous 
genus  and  species  from  Colorado:  Journal  of 
Paleontology:  1007-1013. 

Tandarich,  J.  P.,  Darmody,  R.G.,  Follmer,  L.R., 
and  Johnson,  D.L.,  2002,  Historical  develop- 
ment of  soil  and  weathering  profile  concepts 
from  Europe  to  the  USA:  Soil  Science  Society 
of  America  Journal  66:  335-346. 

Dong,  F.,  Hsui,  A.T.,  and  Riahi,  D.N.,  2002,  A 
stability  analysis  and  some  numerical  compu- 
tations of  thermal  convection  with  a  variable 
buoyancy  factor:  J.  of  Theoretical  and  Applied 
Mechanics,  32  (2):  19-46. 

Frias-Lopez,  J.,  Zerkle,  A.L.,  Bonheyo,  G.T.,  and 
Fouke,  B.W.,  2002,  Partitioning  of  bacterial 
communities  between  seawater  and  healthy, 
black  band  diseased,  and  dead  coral  surfaces: 
Applied  and  Environmental  Microbiology,  68 
(5):  2214-2228. 


Sun,  X.L..  and  Song,  X.D.,  2002,  PKP  travel  times 
at  near  antipodal  distances:  Implications  for 
inner  core  anisotropy  and  lowermost  mantle 
structure:  Earth  Plant.  Set  Lett,  199:  429-445. 

Fouke,  B.W.,  Zerkle,  A.L.,  Alvarez,  W,  Pope, 
K.O.,  Ocampo,  A.C.,  Wachtman,  R.J.,  Grajales- 
Nishimura,  J.M.,  Claeys,  P.,  Fischer,  A.G., 
2002,  Cathodoluminescence  petrography  and 
isotope  geochemistry  of  KT  impact  ejecta 
deposited  360  km  from  the  Chicxulub  crater  at 
Albion  Island,  Belize:  Sedimentology,  49: 
117-138. 

Hou,  X.,  Kalinichev,  A.  C,  and  Kirkpatrick,  R.  J., 
2002,  Interlayer  structure  and  dynamics  of  Cl- 
-L1AI2  layered  double  hydroxide:  ,5C1  NMR 
observations  and  molecular  dynamics  model- 
ing: Chemistry  of  Materials,  14:  2078  -2085. 

Killey,  Myrna  M.,  and  William  W.  Shilts,  2002. 
Introduction:  Influence  of  Geology  and  Soil  on 
Ecosystem  Development.  Big  Muddy  River 
Area  Assessment,  Volume  1:  Geology.  Illinois 
Department  of  Natural  Resources,  p.  1-6. 

Herbel,  M.J.,  Johnson,  T.M.,  Tanji,  K.  K.,  Gao, 
S„  and  Bullen,  T.D.,  2002,  Selenium  stable 
isotope  ratios  in  California  agricultural 
drainage  water:  Journal  of  Environmental 
Quality:  31(4),  1146-1156. 


Geothrust  Members  for  2002 


J.  William  Soderman— Chair, 
M.S.  '60.  Ph.D.  '62 

James  R.  Baroffio,  Ph.D.  '64 

David  K.  Beach,  B.S  '73 

Marion  "Pat"  Bickford,  M.S.  '58, 
Ph.D.  '60 

Lester  W.  Clutter,  B.S.  '48,  M.S.  '51 

Norbert  E.  Cygan,    B.S.  '54,  M.S.  '56, 
Ph.D.  '62 

Edwin  H.  Franklin,  B.S.  '56 

John  R.  Carino,  B.S.  '57 

James  W.  Granath,  B.S.  '71,  M.S.  '73 

Morris  (Brud)  W.  Leighton,  B.S.  '47 

Patricia  Santogrossi,  B.S.  '74,  M.S.  '77 

Jack  C.  Threet,  A.B.  '51 


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Colloquium  Speakers  for  Spring  and  Fall  2002 


Spring  2002 


Jan.  25      Miguel  Goni,  University  of  South  Carolina 

Compound  Specific  Stable  Carbon  Isotopic  Analysis  to  Trace  Organic  Matter 

in  Ocean  Margin  Sediments 
Feb.  1         Edwin  Schauble,  California  Institute  of  Technology 

Predicting  the  Stable-Isotope  Geochemistry  of  Heavy  Elements 
Feb.  8        Todd  Ehlers,  California  Institute  of  Technology 

Climate,  Tectonics,  and  Topographic  Evolution  of  the  Washington  Cascade 

Mountains 
Feb.  12      Timothy  Ku,  University  of  Michigan 

New  Insights  into  Tropical  Shelf  Carbonate  Preservation  and  Authigenic 

Clay  Formation:  Evidence  from  Sediment  and  Pore  Water  Geochemistry 
Feb.  15      Jonathan  Stock,  University  of  California,  Berkeley 

Valley  Incision  by  Debris  Flows:  Evidence  for  a  Widespread  Topographic 

Signature  and  the  Form  of  a  New  Erosion  Law 
Feb.  19      Timothy  Rozan,  Simon  Fraser  University 

Trace  Metal  Speciation  in  Freshwaters:  Organic  Versus  Inorganic 

Complexation.  Part  I.  Multidentate  Metal-Organic  Complexation  Part  II. 

The  Role  of  Reduced  Sulfur 
Feb.  22       Andrew  Jacobson,  University  of  Michigan 

Silicate  Versus  Carbonate  Weathering  in  Uplifting  Orogenic  Belts 
Feb.  25       Gerd  Steinle-Neumann,  Carnegie  Institution  of  Washington 

Earth's  Deepest  Secrets — Iron  in  the  Inner  Core 
Feb.  28      Jie  Li,  Carnegie  Institution  of  Washington 

Experimental  Constraints  on  the  Earth's  Core 
Mar.  4        Sang-Heon  Shim,  University  of  California  at  Berkeley 

Phase  Diagram  and  Equation  of  State  of  MgSiOj  Perovskite  in  Earth's 

Mantle 
Mar.  11      Guoyin  Shen,  University  of  Chicago 

Experimental  Approaches  Towards  an  Understanding  of  Earth's  Mantle  and 

Core  Materials 
Mar.  26      Susan  Kieffer 

Geologic  Nozzles:  Old  Faithful  Geyser,  Mount  St.  Helens,  the  Rapids  of  the 

Colorado  River... and  Other  Shocking  Phenomena! 
Apr.  5        Holger  Hellwig,  Carnegie  Institution  of  Washington 

Nonlinear  Optical  Studies  of  the  Relationship  Between  Structure  and 

Properties 
Apr.  8        Jonathan  Tomkin,  Yale  University 

Quantitative  Testing  of  Bedrock  Incision  Models,  Clearwater  River,  WA 
Apr.  10       Elizabeth  Hearn,  Massachusetts  Institute  of  Technology 

Space  Geodetic  Studies  of  Active  Crustal  Deformation:  Moving  from  "How" 

to  "Why" 
Apr.  12       Hong  Wang,  ISGS 

Millennial  and  Centennial  Scale  Climate  Changes  in  the  Middle  Mississippi 

Valley  During  the  Last  Glaciation 
Apr.  15      Gwen  Daley,  University  of  Wisconsin,  Madison 

Why  Paleoenvironment  Matters:  Evolutionary  and  Paleoecological  Examples 

from  the  Ordovician  and  Pleistocene 
Apr.  18      Charly  Bank,  University  of  British  Columbia 

Teleseismic  Investigation  of  the  Moho  Beneath  Canada  and  the  Upper 

Mantle  Beneath  the  Archean  Slave  Craton  in  NW  Canada 
Apr.  19       Wang-Ping  Chen,  UIUC  Department  of  Geology 

Project  Hi-CLIMB:  An  Integrated  Study  of  the  Himalayan-Tibetan 

Continental  Lithosphere  during  Mountain  Building 
Apr.  22       Julie  Maxson,  Gustavus  Adolphus  College 

Reconstructing  Rivers:  Answering  Big  Questions  About  Life,  Death, 

Tectonics,  and  Climate 
May  2        John  Werner,  University  of  Illinois  at  Urbana-Champaign 

Creeping  into  the  Icehouse:  Morphological  Change  in  Gastropods  of  the 

Eocene  La  Meseta  Formation  (Seymour  Island.  Antarctic  Peninsula)  in 

Response  to  the  Onset  of  Cenozoic  Cooling 
May  6        John  Dawson,  University  of  Iowa 

The  Morphology  and  Evolution  of  the  Azooxanthellate  Coral  Genera 

Anomocora  and  Asterosmilia 


Fall  2002 


Sept.  6       Tom  Johnson,  UIUC  Department  of  Geology 

Chromium  Isotopes  and  the  Fate  of  Hexavalent  Chromium  in  the 

Environment 
Sept.  13     Andrey  Kalinichev,  UIUC  Department  of  Geology 

Molecular  Modeling  of  Geochemical  Fluids  and  Fluid/Mineral  Interfaces 
Sept.  20     Ken  Lepper,  Los  Alamos 

Luminescence  Dating:  A  Light  From  the  Past  Brightens  the  Future  of 

Quaternary  Geochronology 
Sept.  27     Meenakshi  Wadhwa,  Field  Museum  of  Natural  History  and 
University  of  Chicago 

Time  Scales  of  Planetesimal  Accretion  and  Differentiation  Based  on  the 

Mn-Cr  Chronometer 
Oct.  4        Aldo  Shemesh,  Weizmann  Institute,  Israel 

Holocene  Climate  Change  Inferred  From  Oxygen  Isotope  Records  of 

Lacustrine  Biogenic  Silica 
Oct.  11       Charlie  Werth,  UIUC  Environmental  Engineering 

Analysis  of  Nonaqueous  Phase  Liquid  Volatilization  in  Heterogeneous 

Porous  Media 
Oct.  18       Louise  Kellogg,  University  of  California,  Davis 

Journey  to  the  Center  of  the  Earth:  Structure  and  Dynamics  of  the  Deep 

Mantle 
Nov.  8       Renata  Wentzcovitch,  University  of  Minnesota 

First  Principles  Thermoelasticity  of  Mantle  Materials 
Nov.  15     James  Conder,  Washington  University,  St.  Louis 

Across-Axis  Mantle  Flow  and  Asymmetric  Melt  Production  at  the  East 

Pacific  Rise 
Dec.  4        Libby  Stern,  University  of  Texas,  Austin 

Geochemical  and  Ecological  Evidence  of  Massive  Central  Texas 

Holocene  Soil  Erosion 
Dec.  13      Georges  Poupinet,  LGIT-CNRS,  Grenoble,  France 

Seismic  Tomography  Beneath  Stable  Tectonic  Regions  and  the  Dual 

Origin  of  the  Continental  Lithosphere 


Recent  Activity  in  Petroleum 
Geology  at  Illinois 

Back  in  1998,  Hannes  Leetaru,  Ph.D.  '97,  a  geologist  at 
the  ISGS  and  an  adjunct  faculty  member  in  the  Department, 
joined  with  Prof.  Steve  Marshak  to  establish  a  new  course  in 
petroleum  geology.  Five  years  later,  the  course  is  still  going 
strong  and  is  continuing  to  grow  in  enrollment.  Because  of 
Marshak's  other  teaching  responsibilities,  Leetaru  now  runs  the 
entire  course,  bringing  to  bear  his  many  years  of  experience 
working  in  the  industry-  Not  only  do  students  learn  how  to 
interpret  seismic-reflection  profiles  and  well  logs,  but  the  course 
includes  exercises  that  involve  Landmark™  computer  software, 
one  of  the  principal  programs  used  by  the  petroleum  industry 
for  modelling  geologic  features  in  three  dimensions. 

This  past  fall,  students  interested  in  petroleum  geology 
had  the  added  benefit  of  being  able  to  attend  the  eastern  sec- 
tion meeting  of  the  AAPG,  which  was  hosted  by  the  ISGS  and 
took  place  in  Champaign-Urbana.  At  the  meeting,  students 
attended  talks,  met  with  recruiters  and  industry  representatives, 
and  saw  exhibits  of  software  and  geophysical  companies.  Prof. 
Bruce  Fouke  and  his  group  presented  research  at  the  meeting. 
Fouke  also  hosted  an  open  house  for  meeting  participants  to 
visit  the  new  geomicrobiology  lab  in  the  Department. 


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Join  us  in  Utah! 

Come  join  Geology  Department 
friends  and  colleagues  at  a  special 
reception  Monday,  May  12,  at  the 
AAPG  meeting  (in  Salt  Lake  City). 
The  reception  will  honor  three 
Illini  —  Albert  Carozzi,  Jack 
Threet  and  Norb  Cygan  —  who 
have  received  major  AAPG 
awards.  Details  will  follow  soon! 


Professor  Craig  Lundstrom  organized  a  raft  trip  down  the  Colorado  River,  in  the  Grand 
Canyon.  Here  Professors  Craig  Bethke  and  Tom  Johnson  (second  and  third  from  left) 
enjoy  a  quieter  moment  on  the  river. 


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Professor  Jie  Li  Joins  Department 


The  Department  has  added  a  new  miner- 
al scientist  to  the  faculty  by  hiring  Jie 
Li  (JEE-uh  Lee) ,  as  an  assistant  professor. 
Li  received  her  Ph.D.  from  Harvard—  as 
did  Emeritus  Professor  Don  Henderson, 
who  taught  mineralogy  at  Illinois  from 
1948-1989.  After  finishing  at  Harvard,  Li 
held  a  post-doctoral  research  position  at 
the  Carnegie  Institution  in  Washington. 
She  arrived  on  campus  in  March  2003 
with  her  husband,  Holger  Hellwig  (see 
related  story  on  page  5).  This  fall,  she 
taught  Geology  332  (Mineralogy). 

Li  conducts  experiments  to  investi- 
gate the  nature  and  dynamics  of  the 
Earth's  core.  These  experiments  involve 
measurements  at  extremely  high  pressures 
and  temperatures,  which  can  only  be 
achieved  using  diamond  anvils  and  lasers. 
While  everyone  agrees  that  most  of  the 
Earth's  core  consists  of  iron,  there  are 
many  theories  about  what  makes  up  the 
non-iron  part.  Li  has  been  looking  at  the 
melting  relations  in  the  Fe-O-S  iron-alloy 
system.  This  work  will  help  determine 
whether  this  system  is  an  accurate  model 
for  the  core  composition. 


Li's  research  lab  is  in  the  northeast 
corner  of  the  Natural  History  Building 
(NHB)  basement.  In  order  to  meet 
modern  building  codes,  the  lab  had  to 
be  completely  renovated  and  new  air 
conditioning,  plumbing,  and  electricity 
had  to  be  installed. 

"Most  of  NHB  is  quite  old,  but  you  go 
into  the  new  space  and  suddenly  you  are  in 
a  different  world— it's  all  modern!"  says  Li. 

She  is  particularly  pleased  with  the 
lab's  light-blue  tile  floor,  not  because  of  its 
appearance,  but  because  she  works  with 
extremely  small  samples. 

"It's  like  carrying  a  speck  of  dust  in 
your  hand,"  says  Li,  of  her  samples. 
"Once,  as  a  postdoctoral  researcher,  I  was 
carrying  a  sample  to  a  colleague's  office, 
only  to  have  it  fall  from  my  hand  onto  a 
shag  carpet.  I  spent  hours  on  my  hands 
and  knees,  looking  through  the  carpet  inch 
by  inch,  but  1  never  found  it,"  says  Li. 
"The  sample  had  taken  untold  hours  to 
prepare.  Since  then,  I  dreamed  of  having  a 
light-colored,  smooth  floor  without  a 
pattern,  so  if  you  drop  a  sample,  you  can 
find  it  easily." 


Kirkpatrick  Receives 
Dana  Medal 

R.  James  Kirkpatrick,  professor  of 
geology  and  executive  associate  dean  of 
the  College  of  Liberal  Arts  and  Sciences, 
has  been  awarded  the  Dana  Medal  from 
the  Mineralogical  Society  of  America 
(MSA). 

The  Dana  Medal,  which  was  first 
awarded  in  2000,  recognizes  continued 
outstanding  scientific  contributions 
through  original  research  in  the  mineralog- 
ical sciences  by  an  individual  in  the  midst 
of  their  career.  The  award  is  named  in 
honor  of  the  legendary  contributions  by 
James  Dwight  Dana  (1813-1895)  and 
Edward  Salisbury  Dana  (1849-1935)  to  the 
science  of  mineralogy.  Kirkpatrick,  who  is 
only  the  fourth  recipient  of  the  honor,  will 
be  recognized  at  an  awards  session  during 
an  MSA  meeting  in  Copenhagen, 
Denmark.  The  recipient  of  the  Dana  Medal 
receives  a  bronze,  engraved  medal  and 
gives  a  special  scientific  presentation  that 
is  published  in  American  Mineralogist. 

Kirkpatrick  was  recognized  for  being 
among  the  first  to  apply  kinetic  theory  in 
igneous  petrology.  His  studies  of  the  kinet- 
ics of  crystallization  are  the  classic  papers 
in  this  field.  In  more  recent  years,  he 
established  a  preeminent  lab  (with  Eric 
Oldfield  in  the  Chemistry  Department)  for 
applying  "magic-angle  spinning  NMR 
spectroscopy"  to  the  study  of  earth  materi- 
als such  as  glass  and  clay.  His  work  on  the 
internal  ordering  of  minerals  again  was  at 
the  forefront  of  the  field.  Most  recently,  he 
has  worked  to  understand  the  natural 
chemical  reactions  that  occur  on  mineral 
surfaces  and  to  bridge  the  gap  between 
Earth  science  and  materials  sciences. 
This  work  involves  a  variety  of  materials, 
including  clay,  glass,  and  even  concrete. 


Greetings 


Letter  From  The  Head 


■  s  each  year  passes,  we  see  new  and 
exciting  growth  in  the  Department  of 
Geology.  During  2003,  we  have  added  a 
new  professor,  Jie  Li,  in  mineralogy,  two 
new  research  scientists,  Holger  Hellwig 
and  Rob  Sanford,  and  a  lecturer,  Michael 
Stewart.  Prof.  Li  and  Dr.  Hellwig  have 
moved  into  a  new  state-of-the-art  lab  for 
the  study  of  mineral  properties  at  high 
pressures  in  the  lower  level  of  the 
Natural  History  Building.  Dr.  Sanford 
works  in  the  area  of  environmental 
microbiology,  a  fast-growing  discipline 
in  geoscience.  Dr.  Stewart,  an  igneous 
petrologist  and  geochemist,  teaches 
large-enrollment  introductory  courses, 
and  also  contributes  to  graduate  courses 
in  tectonics. 


But  the  passage  of  time  also  means 
retirements,  and  2003  has,  unfortunately, 
also  seen  Prof.  Dan  Blake,  a  prominent 
paleontologist,  leave  the  faculty  after  36 
years  of  outstanding  scholarship  and 
teaching.  The  good  news  is  that  Dan  is 
staying  in  town,  and  will  continue  his 
research. 

We  are  also  developing  in  a  new 
academic  direction  at  Illinois. 
Specifically,  the  Geology  Department  is 
involved  in  a  joint  search  with  the 
Department  of  Atmospheric  Science  and 
the  Department  of  Geography  to  bring  in 
new  faculty  who  have  interests  in  the 
role  of  water  in  the  Earth  system.  This 
search  is  part  of  an  effort  to  explore  the 
creation  of  an  alliance  among  the  three 
departments,  perhaps  in  the  form  of  a 


new  School  of  Earth  and  Environment 
on  campus. 

We  are  now  entering  the  final 
phase  of  our  endowment  campaign, 
GeoScience  2005,  and  we're  approaching 
our  goal  of  raising  $3  million,  the 
income  from  which  will  help  ensure  that 
the  Department  continues  on  a  positive 
trajectory.  We  hope  that  the  many  alums 
and  friends  of  the  Department  can 
help  play  a  role  in  the  future  of  the 
Department  by  becoming  involved  in  the 
GeoScience  2005  effort. 

Please  feel  free  to  stop  by  for  a  visit, 
and  see  some  of  the  renovations  in  NHB, 
or  join  us  at  our  receptions  at  GSA  and 
AAPG.  I  wish  you  all  the  best  for  the 
coming  year. 


Research  Highlights 


Professors  Craig  Lundstrom  and  Tom 
Johnson  are  pleased  to  report  that  they  have 
placed  an  order  for  a  new  isotope  ratio  mass 
spectrometer.  The  $700k  instrument  is  funded 
mostly  from  the  National  Science  Foundation, 
with  matching  funds  provided  by  the  depart- 
ment and  the  university  administration.    It  will 
be  used  to  measure  isotope  ratios  of  strontium, 
uranium,  lead,  chromium,  selenium,  mercury, 
calcium,  and  many  other  elements.  The  data 
will  be  used  in  studies  involving  age  dates  of 
rocks,  chemical  reactions  affecting  the  mobility 
of  contaminants  in  water,  the  processes 
involved  in  magma  generation  and  ascent, 
chemical  reactions  in  sedimentary  environ- 
ments, and  a  variety  of  other  geoscience  areas, 

Fouke  took  15  students  from  the 
University  of  Illinois  to  the  Caribbean  during 
winter  break.  They  visited  Curagao,  in  the 
Netherlands  Antilles,  to  study  the  formation  of 
carbonate  rocks  and  the  geology  of  coral  reefs. 
Students  worked  both  offshore  and  onshore,  to 
see  all  the  steps  involved  in  forming  reefs,  and 
eventually  transforming  them  into  limestone. 


Prof.  Wang-Ping  Chen  is  supervising  a  multinational 
research  project  in  the  Himalayas  and  Tibet.  The  pro- 
ject, known  as  HiCLIMB,  is  designed  to  understand 
the  geologic  evolution  of  the  highest  mountain  range 
on  Earth,  and  the  crust  beneath  it.  and  to  determine 
the  cause  of  earthquakes  in  the  region.  He  has  been 
setting  up  seismic  arrays  in  Nepal  and  China. 

Prof.  Jay  D.  Bass  has  been  conducting  research  in 
mineral  physics  at  the  Ecole  Normale  Superieure  de 
Lyon  (France),  working  with  their  high-temperature 
Raman  spectroscopy  group.  This  collaboration  is  part 
of  the  CNRS-UIUC  Partnership,  a  link  that  connects 
UIUC  to  maior  institutions  in  France.  Prof.  Bass  is 
also  establishing  connections  with  universities  in 
Prague  and  Budapest. 

Over  spring  break,  a  group  of  students  will  travel  to 
northern  Scotland  as  part  of  a  field  course  run  by 
the  University  of  Leicester  (UK).  There  they  will  study 
the  rocks  and  structures  in  the  birthplace  of  geology. 
They  will  visit  many  of  the  classic  rock  outcrops  at 
which  the  fundamental  principles  of  geology  were  first 
established. 


Prof.  Xiaodong  Song  is  working  with  research 
groups  in  China  to  understand  the  crustal  struc- 
ture of  eastern  Asia. 

Prof.  Craig  Lundstrom  is  conducting  research 
on  volcanoes  in  Costa  Rica.  He  recently  spent 
time  in  the  field  sampling  volcanic  rocks,  which 
he  then  melts  in  his  laboratory  at  the 
Department  to  understand  the  controls  on  the 
chemical  composition  of  the  rock. 

Prof.  Susan  Kieffer,  Walgreen  Professor  of 
Geology,  is  working  on  the  dynamics  of  geother- 
mal  systems  in  New  Zealand.    She  recently 
spent  six  weeks  in  New  Zealand  conducting 
measurements  in  geothermal  wells. 


Year  in  Review  is  published  once  a  year  by  the 

Department  of  Geology,  University  of  Illinois  at 

Urbana-Champaign.  to  summarize  the  activities  and 

accomplishments  within  the  department  and  news  from 

alumni  and  friends. 

Department  Head:  Stephen  Marshak 

(smarshak@uiuc.edu) 

Administrative  Secretary:  Barb  Elmore 

(belmore@uiuc.edu) 

Editor:  Deb  Aronson  (debaronson@nasw.org) 

http://www.geology.uiuc.edu 


GEOLOGY  LIBRARY 


Alumni  Award 


Hayden  Murray  Receives  Alumni  Achievement  Award 


|  aydn  Murray,  B.S.  '48,  M.S.  '50  and 

Ph.D.  '51,  has  received  the  2003 
Department  of  Geology  Alumni 
Achievement  Award. 

Murray,  a  highly  regarded  clay  mineral- 
ogist and  sedimentologist,  split  his  career 
between  the  Indiana  University  and  the 
Georgia  Kaolin  Company.  Murray,  who  has 
made  important  contributions  to  mineralo- 
gy and  industrial  applications  of  clays,  first 
taught  and  did  research  at  Indiana  from 
1951-56.  Then  he  was  hired  away  by 
Georgia  Kaolin  where  he  worked  from 
1957-73.  At  that  point,  Indiana  University 
asked  him  to  return  to  campus  as  professor 
and  chair  of  the  geology  department. 
Murray  served  as  chair  until  1984,  then 
continued  to  teach  and  do  research  for 
another  10  years,  when  he  retired. 

In  recognition  of  his  achievements, 
Murray  was  elected  last  year  into  the 
National  Academy  of  Engineering.  In  addi- 
tion, he  has  received  the  lifetime  achieve- 
ment award  from  the  Professional 
Geologists  of  Indiana  and  an  honorary  doc- 
torate from  the  University  of  the  South,  in 
Bahia  Blanca,  Argentina.  In  the  spring  of 
2004  he  will  receive  an  honorary  degree 
from  Indiana  University. 

Murray  also  has  been  very  active  in 
various  professional  organizations,  serving, 
at  various  times,  as  president  of  the  Clay 
Mineralogy  Society  (of  which  he  was  also 
one  of  three  founding  members),  the 
Ceramic  Association  of  New  Jersey,  the 
Society  for  Mining,  Metallurgy  and 
Exploration,  American  Institute  of 
Professional  Geologists  and  the 
International  Association  for  the  Study  of 
Clays  (AIPEA). 

Murray  came  to  the  attention  of 
Georgia  Kaolin  because  of  his  dissertation 
work  on  kaolinite.  The  company,  which 
was  having  problems  with  the  flow  proper- 
ties of  kaolin  from  one  of  their  sites,  asked 
Murray  if  he  could  determine  which  deposit 
was  causing  the  problem.  After  he  did  so, 
they  offered  him  a  full-time  position. 


"Georgia  Kaolin  tried  to  hire  me  start- 
ing in  1953,"  says  Murray.  "Once  their 
salary  offer  became  three  times  my  salary 
at  Indiana  I  decided  to  take  the  leap." 

But  another  reason  Murray  took  the 
job  was  to  see  whether  he  could  "make 
it"  in  industry.  In  fact,  Murray  was  quite 
successful,  ultimately  moving  from  direc- 
tor of  applied  research  all  the  way  to 
executive  vice  president  and  COO.  While 
working  for  Georgia  Kaolin,  Murray  con- 
tinued to  research  and  write  papers,  so 
the  shift  back  to  academia  in  the  1970s 


was  not  a  difficult  transition.  "It  was  an 
easy  move,"  he  says.  "We  both  (he  and 
his  wife,  Juanita)  liked  Bloomington 
(Indiana)  very  much.  It  was  easier  to 
shift  also  because  of  my  management 
experiences  at  Georgia  Kaolin.  I  also 
found  that  the  graduate  students 
migrated  toward  me  because  of  my 
practical  experience." 

Born  and  raised  on  farm  near 
Kewanee,  111.,  Murray  thought  he  might 
be  a  mining  engineer.  After  serving  as 
an  officer  with  the  Army  Corps  of 
Engineers  in  the  South  Pacific,  he 
enrolled  at  the  University  of  Illinois. 
There,  he  discovered  he  enjoyed  the 
geology  courses  more  than  the  engi- 
neering. He  also  found  several  wonder- 
ful mentors  and  advisors  within  the 
Department,  including  Harold  Wanless, 
Ralph  E.  Grim,  and  Carleton  Chapman. 

"Dr.  Chapman  was  the  best  teacher 
I  ever  had  and  Dr.  Grim,  who  was  con- 
sidered the  father  of  clay  mineralogy, 
was  the  most  ethical  and  the  best  clay 
mineralogist  I  ever  met.  I  had  a  really 
good  experience  at  the  University  of 
Illinois." 


emen  receives  awa. 


Margaret  Leinen  (center)  receives  the  2002  Alumni  Achievement  Award.  Pictured  here  with  Leinen  are 
(from  left),  Professor  Susan  Kieffer.  Professor  Dan  Blake,  Bill  Sullivan,  director  of  the  Environmental 
Council,  Leinen.  Professor  R.  James  Kirkpatrick,  Don  Wuebbles,  head  of  the  Department  of 
Atmospheric  Sciences,  and  Professor  and  Department  Head  Steve  Marshak. 


Department  News 


Undergraduate 
Research 

~  ne  of  the  advantages  of  being  an 

undergraduate  at  a  research  university 
is  the  opportunity  to  participate  in  active 
research  programs.  The  experience  of 
two  of  our  seniors  this  year  illustrates 
this  point. 

Amy  Luther,  who  graduated  in 
December  2003  with  a  B.S.  in  geology, 
collaborated  with  Prof.  Dan  Blake  and 
John  Werner,  a  former  visiting  assistant 
professor,  on  a  project  using  computer 
analysis  to  see  if  Antarctic  bivalves 
changed  shape  during  the  Eocene,  a 
time  of  dramatic  climate  change. 

"I  was  interested  in  working  with 
fossils  to  see  what  paleontologists  do," 
said  Luther.  "Plus,  I  learned  how  to  write 
a  scientific  paper,  do  research,  and  had 
the  opportunity  to  go  to  professional 
meetings.  I  saw  how  the  process  works." 

Roger  Bannister,  a  senior,  worked 
with  Ph.D.  student  Kurt  Burmeister  (see 
Year  in  Review  2002)  and  Prof.  Stephen 
Marshak  on  a  project  involving  the 
development  of  structures  in  the 
Appalachian  fold-thrust  belt  of  New 
York.  In  particular.  Bannister  is  looking  at 
microscopic  deformation  in  sandstone  by 
documenting  the  amount  of  finite  strain 
that  has  developed  in  association  with 
folding.  Using  photomicrographs  and  a 
computer  program,  he  measures  subtle 
changes  in  the  distances  between  the 
centers  of  neighboring  grains  to  see  if 
grains  have  been  preferentially  stretched 
in  a  given  direction. 

"It's  really  neat  to  quantify  deforma- 
tion," says  Bannister.  "On  field  trips,  stu- 
dents are  used  to  hearing  professors  ask, 
'Do  you  see  the  fold?'  But  to  learn  how 
folding  affects  rock  at  the  grain  scale 
makes  the  whole  process  more  interest- 
ing." 

Both  Luther  and  Bannister  are  plan- 
ning to  begin  graduate  work  in  geology 
next  year. 


Sue  Kieffer,  Dean  Jesse  Delia,  and  Chancellor  Nancy  Cantor  at  Kieffer's  investiture 
as  Walgreen  Professor. 


Bethke  Elected  AAAS  Fellow 

raig  Bethke,  professor  of  geology,  has  been  elected  to  the  rank  of  Fellow  in 
the  Division  of  Geology  and  Geography  of  the  American  Association  for  the 
Advancement  of  Science.  This  honor  is  bestowed  on  AAAS  members  who  have  made 
distinguished  efforts  on  behalf  of  the  advancement  of  science  or  its  applications. 
Bethke  was  selected  for  his  fundamental  discoveries  in  the  forces  that  drive  brines 
across  sedimentary  basins,  migration  of  petroleum  reserves,  the  thermodynamics  of 
reacting  geochemical  systems,  and  microbial  metabolism. 

Founded  in  1848  to  represent  all  disciplines  of  science,  AAAS  is  the  world's 
largest  scientific  society.  The  organization's  tradition  of  electing  fellows  began  in 
1874.  This  year,  only  13  members  were  honored  by  promotion  to  fellowship  in  the 
Geology-Geography  Division. 

Bethke  obtained  his  Ph.D.  from  the  University  of  Illinois  in  1985,  and  has  been 
on  our  faculty  ever  since.  He  received  the  Presidential  Young  Investigator  Award  in 
1986,  the  Lindgren  Award  from  the  Society  of  Economic  Geologists  in  1987,  and  the 
Meinzer  Award  from  the  Geological  Society  of  America  in  1992. 


Four  Faculty  Receive  Tenure 

e  are  delighted  to  announce  that  last  year  saw  the  granting  of  tenure  to  four  of 
our  faculty.  Bruce  Fouke,  Tom  Johnson,  and  Xiaodong  Song  have  become  asso- 
ciate professors  of  geology,  and  Feng-Sheng  Hu  has  become  an  associate  professor  of 
plant  biology  and  geology.  Tenure  review  is  a  very  high  bar  to  cross  at  the  University 
of  Illinois;  the  process  of  evaluation  takes  place  at  the  Department,  College,  and 
University  levels.  Success  in  achieving  tenure  emphasizes  the  vigor  of  teaching  and 
research  efforts  of  our  faculty.  The  Department  congratulates  our  newest  associate 
professors! 


Research  Scientists  Strengthen  Department 


R 


esearch  scientists  are  vital  to  the 
growth  of  the  Department.  With 
the  hiring  of  Holger  Hellwig  and  Rob 
Sanford,  the  Department  now  has 
five  research  scientists  on  staff.  In 
addition  to  Hellwig  and  Sanford, 
they  include  George  Bonheyo 
(geomicrobiology),  Andrey 
Kalinichev  (molecular  dynamics), 
and  Stanislav  Sinogeikin  (mineral 
physics) . 

Research  scientists  focus  entirely 
on  research,  and  their  positions  are 
supported  entirely  by  research 
grants.  Thus,  they  add  to  the  vitality 
of  the  Department  and  provide  addi- 
tional expertise.  Also,  the  overhead 
component  of  grants  that  they  obtain 
contributes  significantly  to  covering 
the  cost  of  Departmental  operations. 

"We  can  focus  entirely  on 
research,"  says  Sanford.  "With  a 
pool  of  research  scientists,  the 


amount  of  research  and  the  number  of 
papers  coming  from  the  Department 
increases.  Our  productivity  raises  the  insti- 
tution's visibility." 

Sanford,  a  geomicrobiologist,  is  work- 
ing on  two  projects  funded  by  the 
Department  of  Energy.  One  is  in  collabora- 
tion with  Craig  Bethke,  professor  of  geolo- 
gy, and  looks  at  the  microbiology  of 
aquifers.  The  other  is  looking  at  possible 
microorganisms  that  can  be  used  to  neu- 
tralize uranium.  In  Spring  2004,  he  is  also 
teaching  a  course  in  "Laboratory  Methods 
for  Geomicrobiology,"  which  is  a  boon  for 
students  wanting  to  work  in  the  growing 
field  of  geomicrobiology. 

Holger  Hellwig  arrived  on  campus, 
with  his  wife,  Jie  Li,  in  March  of  2003  (see 
cover  story).  Hellwig,  a  mineral  physicist, 
traces  his  interest  in  crystals  to  playing 
with  Legos  as  a  child. 

Right  now,  Hellwig  is  "playing"  with 
high  pressure,  diamond-anvil  cell  tech- 


niques. Since  arriving  at  the 
University  of  Illinois,  he  has  begun  to 
focus  on  the  properties  of  water  under 
high  pressure.  The  use  of  a  diamond 
anvil  cell  "opens  the  window  into  cer- 
tain properties  of  the  material  we 
couldn't  look  at  before,"  he  says. 

Another  project  Hellwig  has 
worked  on  is  high-pressure  behavior 
of  tin  dioxide.  Tin  dioxide  acts  as  a 
proxy  for  silica,  which  is  an  important 
component  of  the  Earth's  interior. 

Hellwig  completed  his  Ph.D.  in 
his  native  Germany,  then  went  to  the 
Carnegie  Institution  in  Washington 
D.C.  where  he  did  projects  relating  to 
nitrogen,  and  met  Jie  Li,  the  newest 
assistant  professor  in  the  Department 
of  Geology.    At  Illinois,  Hellwig  is 
building  a  lab  for  laser  crystallogra- 
phy, and  is  teaching  an  upper-level 
course  in  X-ray  crystallography. 


Michael  Stewart  Joins  Department 


Michael  Stewart,  Ph.D.,  joined  the 
Department  of  Geology  last  August 
as  a  lecturer.  Stewart  earned  his  B.S. 
and  M.S.  degrees  from  Indiana 
University.  He  then  worked  for  three 
years  as  an  environmental  geologist  in 
Chicago,  before  going  to  Duke 
University  for  his  Ph.D.  At  Duke, 
Stewart  investigated  volcanic  systems 
along  mid-ocean  ridges  and  how  they 
related  to  the  construction  of  the  ocean- 
ic crust. 

Stewart's  position  is  designed  to 
address  teaching  needs  in  the 
Department,  and  has  him  in  front  of  a 


class  for  much  of  his  time.  In  the  fall 
semester  Stewart  taught  two  classes: 
Geology  103,  a  course  that  teaches  quan- 
titative methods  in  the  context  of  intro- 
ductory geology;  and  Geology  117,  an 
introductory  oceanography  course  for 
non-science  majors.   In  the  spring,  2004 
semester,  Stewart  is  teaching  three 
courses:  Geology  100  (Introductory 
Geology);  Geology  108  (Historical 
Geology);  and  Geology  489 
(Geotectonics). 

"1  really  like  teaching  and  dealing 
with  students,"  says  Stewart.   "I  only 
interviewed  for  positions  with  a  large 
teaching  component." 


Stewart  adds  that  he  is  very  glad  to 
be  part  of  the  Geology  Department. 

"This  is  an  excellent  department 
with  a  history  of  important  contributions 
to  geologic  sciences,"  he  says.  "Also,  the 
University  continues  to  impress  me,  with 
its  recent  and  past  Nobel  Prize  winners, 
and  the  quality  of  students,  among  other 
things." 

Stewart  and  his  wife,  Carol,  and 
two-and-a-half-year-old  son,  Maxwell, 
came  to  Champaign-Urbana  from 
Durham,  North  Carolina.  Both  he  and 
Carol  are  from  the  Midwest,  and  they 
are  glad  to  be  closer  to  family. 


DEPARTMENT  NEWS 


Susan  Kieffer  Teaches  a  Sustainability  Seminar 


During  spring  semester  2004, 
Susan  Kieffer  is  offering  a  new 
300-level  course,  titled  "The 
Challenge  of  a  Sustainable  Earth," 
that  has  attracted  both  undergradu- 
ate and  graduate  students  from  both 
Geology  and  other  departments. 

"First  we'll  review  the  state  of 
the  world,"  says  Kieffer,  Walgreen 
Chair  and  Professor  of  Geology. 
"What  does  sustainability  mean  and 
what  is  the  difference  between  that 
and  sustainable  development?" 
Kieffer  and  the  students  are 
exploring  the  current  and  future 
states  of  crucial  resources  such  as 
water,  soil,  energy,  minerals  and  the 
ecosystem.  They  begin  by  examining 
the  concept  of  an  "ecological  foot- 
print," which  is  a  quantitative  way 
to  talk  about  the  number  of  acres  of 
land  per  person  the  world  would 
need  to  support  the  number  of  peo- 
ple on  the  planet.  It  turns  out  that  if 
the  entire  world  consumed  as  much  as 
most  North  Americans,  the  world 


Prof.  Kieffer  (shown  here  with  several  Galapagos  Island 
school  children)  spent  six  weeks  in  the  Galapagos  Islands, 
working  with  teachers  and  developing  materials  for  a  new 
seminar  on  "Sustainability"  that  she  is  teaching  this  spring 


would  need  to  be  three  times  its  current 
size.  This  discussion  uses  the  pre-history 
of  the  Easter  Islands  as  a  microcosm  for 
the  world.  On  this  small,  remote  island, 


the  original  inhabitants  used  up 
all  the  resources  and  descended 
into  warfare  and  cannibalism. 
The  students  also  will  be  looking 
at  inequities  from  a  geographical 
perspective  and  an  intergenera- 
tional  one.  Kieffer  points  out  that 
current  generations  are  harvesting 
the  most  easily  accessed 
resources,  leaving  the  difficult, 
expensive  ones  for  later  genera- 
tions. 

"This  course  is  unique  within  the 
University  in  the  way  it  weaves 
the  study  of  Earth  systems  —  par- 
ticularly geology  —  with  ethics, 
economics,  philosophy,  religion 
and  ecology,"  says  Kieffer.  Kieffer 
has  wanted  to  teach  a  course  like 
this  for  quite  a  while,  and  is 
pleased  to  be  able  to  present  it  as 
her  first  course  at  Illinois.  She 
feels  that  attaining  sustainability  is  the 
challenge  facing  everyone,  and  we  must 
address  it  not  only  with  science,  but  with 
values  and  moral  perspectives. 


Hu  Leads  Climate  Study 


(This  article  is  based  on  information  from 
the  University  of  Illinois  News  Bureau) 

I    research  project  led  by  Feng  Sheng 
Hu,  associate  professor  of  geology 
and  plant  biology,  suggests  that  varia- 
tions in  the  Sun's  intensity  have  affect- 
ed climate  and  ecosystems  over  the  last 
12,000  years.  The  findings  were  report- 
ed in  the  September  26,  2003,  issue  of 
the  journal  Science. 

The  data,  from  geochemical  and 
biological  evidence  collected  from 
Alaskan  lake  sediment,  help  to  explain 
past  changes  on  land  and  in  freshwater 


ecosystems  in  northern  latitudes  and 
may  provide  information  to  help  project 
the  future.  The  scientists  identified 
cycles  lasting  200,  435,  590  and  950 
years  during  the  Holocene  Epoch.  The 
pattern  of  environmental  variations  they 
found  also  matches  nicely  with  cyclic 
changes  in  solar  irradiance  and  the 
extent  of  sea  ice  in  the  North  Atlantic 

"We  found  natural  cycles  involving 
climate  and  ecosystems  that  seem  to  be 
related  to  weak  solar  cycles,  which,  if 
verified,  could  be  an  important  factor  to 
help  us  understand  potential  future 
changes  of  Earth's  climate,"  Hu  said. 


"Will  changes  in  solar  irradiation  in 
the  future  mitigate  or  exacerbate  global 
warming  in  the  future?  They  may  do 
both,"  Hu  notes.  "A  period  of  high  solar 
irradiance  on  top  of  high  levels  of 
greenhouse  gases  could  result  in 
unprecedented  warming.  Naturally,  the 
big  question  is  whether  human  activity 
is  causing  the  current  warming." 

While  the  study  can't  answer  that 
question  directly,  it  provides  baseline 
information  on  natural  climatic  variabil- 
ity that  will  allow  researchers  to  pursue 
a  variety  of  climate-related  questions  in 
the  future. 


%  Retires 


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an  Blake,  professor  of  paleobiology, 
retired  in  2003.  Blake,  who  received 


his  B.S.  from  the  University  of  Illinois  in 
1960,  his  master's  from  Michigan  State  in 
1962,  and  his  Ph.D.  from  Berkeley  in 
1966,  has  been  a  member  of  the  depart- 
ment since  1967.  On  April  9,  2004, 
Professor  Blake  gave  a  valedictory  collo- 
quium, after  which  the  Department  host- 
ed a  reception  in  his  honor.  During  his 
nearly  four-decades-long  career  ,  Blake 
became  the  world's  expert  on  starfish  fos- 
sils, and  for  many  years  has  served  as 
editor  of  the  discipline's  leading  journal. 
In  recent  years,  he  has  also  played  a 
major  role  in  the  University's  Spurlock 
Museum.  Blake  has  also  left  a  legacy  of 
appreciative  students. 

Dennis  Kolata,  Ph.D.  73,  Blake's  first 
doctoral  student  and  now  principal  geolo- 
gist with  the  Illinois  State  Geological 
Society,  said:  "What  impresses  me  about 
Dan  is  the  life-long  bond  that  he  has 
forged  with  his  students.  For  many  of  us, 
Dan's  role  in  our  life  has  evolved  from 
teacher  and  mentor  to  friend  and  col- 
league to  brother-like  bond.  His  serious, 
quiet  demeanor  belies  an  inner  warmth, 
humor,  and  down-to-earth  manner." 

"It  is  fair  to  say  that  I  wouldn't  be  a 
paleontologist  if  it  were  not  for  Daniel  B. 
Blake,"  writes  Danita  Brandt,  B.S.  78, 
now  a  senior  academic  specialist  in  the 
Department  of  Geological  Sciences  at 
Michigan  State  University.  "Invoking 
Edward  Lorenz's  'butterfly  effect'  of  his- 
torical contingency:  if  not  for  Dan  I 
wouldn't  have  gone  to  Cincinnati  for  grad 
school,  which  led  to  Yale,  which  led  to 
meeting  my  husband,  and  eventually,  to 
two  great  kids  as  well  as  a  professional 
involvement  in  paleontology.  So  Dan's 
impact  on  my  life  has  been  profound,  to 
say  the  least!  Dan  mentored  many  grad 
students,  but  I  count  myself  as  especially 
fortunate  to  be  among  the  more  exclusive 
group  of  undergraduates  that  came  under 
his  tutelage.  In  the  summer  of  1975  Dan 
was  looking  to  hire  a  lab  lackey,  and  I, 


just  having  completed  freshman  year,  got 
the  job.  I  also  got  a  tiny  office  in  the 
"catacombs"  (a  maze  of  underground 
student  offices)  a  pair  of  "older-brothers- 
in-paleontological-training"  (Ed  Snyder 
and  Tom  Guensburg),  an  extended  fami- 
ly of  Dan's  former  students  (Dennis 
Kolata,  Jim  Risatti,  Bill  Ausich,  Frank 
EttensohnJ,  as  well  as  a  mentor.  For  the 
remainder  of  my  undergraduate  days,  my 
academic  and  social  life  centered  on  my 
paleontological  family.  When  it  came 
time  to  think  about  grad  schools,  it  was 
Dan  who  suggested  that  I  apply  to  the 
University  of  Cincinnati  and  work  with 
Dave  Meyer.  At  the  time,  I  did  not  know 
there  WAS  a  university  in  Cincinnati. 
Dan's  intuition  was  right— Cincinnati 
and  I  were  a  good  fit,  and  from  there  it 
was  on  to  Yale  and  the  rest  of  my  life, 
which,  happily,  has  included  a  steady 
and  cherished  correspondence  with  my 
first  mentor  and  long-time  friend." 
"When  I  originally  came  to  the 
department  in  the  mid-1980s,  my  plan 
was  to  get  a  master's  and  then  move  on 
to  another  school,"  writes  Steve 
Hageman,  M.S.  '88,  Ph.D.  '92,  now  on 
the  faculty  of  Appalachian  State 


University.  "I  stayed  at  Illinois  for  my 
Ph.D.  because  of  Dan.  I  knew  that  for  my 
needs,  1  could  not  find  a  better  advisor, 
mentor  and  ultimately  friend.  Over  the 
years  Dan's  professional  demeanor  has 
delighted  his  graduate  students.  All  are 
impressed  by  his  encyclopedic  knowledge 
of  his  field  and  his  high  personal  and  pro- 
fessional standards." 

"Dan  was  a  wonderful,  helpful,  and 
generous  advisor,"  says  Janis  Treworgy, 
Ph.D.  '85,  now  on  the  Earth  Science  fac- 
ulty at  Principia  College  in  Elsah,  111.  "He 
accepted  my  dissertation  one  chapter  at  a 
time  and  gave  me  feedback,  and  then  he 
turned  around  the  entire  dissertation  in 
less  than  a  week.  He  knew  I  was  under  a 
deadline  that  wouldn't  wait  —  I  was  eight 
months  pregnant  with  my  first  child  at 
that  point.  He  knew  I  wanted  to  finish 
before  the  baby  came  if  at  all  possible.  He 
was  super  in  helping  me  meet  that  goal!" 

Though  Dan  has  technically  retired, 
his  commitment  to  research  and  mentor- 
ing continues  unabated.  Dan  is  currently 
supervising  three  graduate  students,  has 
an  active  research  program  in  Antarctica, 
and  is  working  on  a  monograph  concern- 
ing the  evolution  of  starfish. 


Microbes  Thriving  in  Slag  Dumps 

This  article  is  courtesy  of  a  GSA  press  release 

Sometimes  the  most  extreme  environment  for  life  isn't  at  the  bottom  of  the  ocean  or 
inside  a  volcano.  It's  just  south  of  Chicago.  Illinois  groundwater  scientists,  including 
several  Geology  Department  members,  have  found  microbial  communities  thriving  in 
the  slag  dumps  of  the  Lake  Calumet  region  of  southeast  Chicago.  The  water  there  can 
reach  extraordinary  alkalinity  of  pH  12.8,  which  is  comparable  to  caustic  soda  and  floor 
strippers  and  far  beyond  known  naturally  occurring  alkaline  environments.  The  closest 
known  relatives  of  some  of  the  microbes  are  in  South  Africa,  Greenland,  and  in  the 
alkaline  waters  of  Mono  Lake,  California. 

George  Roadcap,  along  with  Professor  Craig  Bethke,  Research  Scientist  Rob 
Sanford,  Qusheng  Jin  (a  graduate  student  of  Bethke's  now  a  post-doc  at  Berkeley)  and 
Jose  Pardinas  (formerly  of  the  university's  biotechnology  center),  came  upon  the 
microbes  while  studying  contaminated  groundwater  created  by  more  than  a  century  of 
industrial  iron  slag  dumping  in  southern  Illinois  and  northern  Indiana. 


Windows  into  the  Past 


Illinois  Geology  Roars  Ahead  in  the  Jan  Age 


Ralph  L.  Langenheim 


TThe  "Roaring  Twenties"  saw  the 
Illinois  Geology  Department  rise  to 
national  stature.  Illinois  was  ranked  13th 
among  39  existing  geology  doctoral  pro- 
grams by  the  first  American  Council  of 
Education  evaluation  of  doctoral  pro- 
grams. This  report,  published  in  1925, 
was  based  on  the  opinions  of  68  "distin- 
guished American  scholars."  Ten  years 
later,  the  Council's  second  survey  rated 
Illinois  11th  among  55  geology  doctoral 
programs. 

Illinois'  reputation  grew  from  gradu- 
ate programs  established  prior  to  1920  by 
William  S.  Bayley  and  T.  E.  Savage  in, 
respectively,  igneous  and  metamorphic 
geology  and  stratigraphy-paleontology.  In 
1919  Terrence  T  Quirke  added  strength  in 
hard-rock  geology.  During  the  Jazz  Age 
other  notable  faculty  joined  the  depart- 
ment. These  included  Morris  M. 
Leighton,  who  served  as  an  assistant  pro- 
fessor from  1919  to  1923,  before  leaving 
to  become  a  full-time  member  of  the 
State  Geological  Survey,  of  which  he  ulti- 
mately became  the  chief;  Arthur  Bevan, 
who  joined  the  staff  in  1921  as  an  assis- 
tant professor  specializing  in  stratigraphy 
structural  geology  and  geomorphology 
and  later  joined  the  Virginia  Geological 
Survey;  and  Arle  Sutton,  a  stratigrapher- 
paleontologist  who  came  in  1927. 

Francis  Shepard,  who  would  become 
on  of  the  world's  preeminent  marine 
geologists,  came  to  Illinois  in  1922  after 
receiving  his  Ph.D.  from  Chicago. 
Shepard  started  out  teaching  engineering 
geology,  but  soon  turned  his  attention  to 
marine  geology,  studying  the  sediments 
of  the  continental  shelf  and  the  nature  of 
submarine  canyons.  Happily,  Shepard's 
father  owned  a  Boston-based  shipping 
line  and  Shepard  used  his  father's  yacht 
as  a  research  base.  He  began  conducting 
research  at  the  Scripps  Institution  of 
Oceanography  at  La  Jolla,  California,  in 


1933  and  in  1937  took  a  leave  of  absence 
to  move  to  Scripps  whilst  retaining  his 
position  at  Illinois.  Shepard  worked  at 
Scripps  through  World  War  II  and  finally 
resigned  from  Illinois  in  1946.  Historians 
of  geology  view  Shepard  as  the  father  of 
"marine  geology,"  a  discipline  conceived, 
gestated,  and  born  at  land-locked  Illinois! 
The  arrival  of  Harold  Rollin  Wanless, 
a  Princeton  Ph.D.,  proved  pivotal  in  estab- 
lishing a  strong  sedimentary  geology  pro- 
gram at  Illinois.  Wanless,  who  arrived  in 
1923  as  an  instructor,  started  out  teaching 
vertebrate  paleontology.  He  also  was 
appointed  an  associate  in  the  Illinois  State 
Geological  Survey,  and,  with  a  young 
Ph.D.  from  Chicago,  Marvin  Weller,  began 
a  comprehensive  study  of  the 
Pennsylvanian  System  in  Illinois.  Wanless 
undertook  detailed  mapping  in  the 
Western  Illinois  coal  field  while  Weller 
embarked  on  statewide  stratigraphic  and 
paleontological  studies.  Recognizing 
cyclicity  in  Pennsylvanian  rocks  through- 
out the  Illinois  Basin  they  proposed  that 
the  strata  recorded  widespread,  repeated 
rise  and  fall  of  sea  level;  the  "Cyclothem 
Theory. "  Weller  ascribed  the  cycles  to 
repeated  depression  and  uplift  of  the 
earth's  crust.  Wanless,  however,  in  con- 
junction with  Shepard,  proposed  world- 
wide fluctuation  of  sea  level  caused  by 
repeated  episodes  of  continental  glacia- 
tion.  The  nature  of  cyclothems  and  their 
explanation  became  a  dominant  theme  in 
Carboniferous  stratigraphy  for  decades, 
and  Wanless'  views  eventually  dominated. 


Waldorf  Vivian  Howard,  appointed 
instructor  in  1926,  became  a  nationally 
known  pioneer  in  the  new  discipline  of 
carbonate  petrology  and  porosity.  Howard 
also  was  an  early  investigator  of  the  origin 
of  oil.  After  achieving  prominence  in  car- 
bonate studies,  he  left  the  Department  in 
1936  for  work  in  industry. 

Forty-two  graduate  degrees  in  geology 
were  granted  at  Illinois  between  1920  and 
1934.  Savage  advised  16  candidates  in 
stratigraphy,  paleontology  and  mapping  — 
approximately  one  every  year.  Between 
1926  and  1934  Howard  supervised  12  the- 
ses on  limestones,  about  one  and  one-half 
per  year.  Thus,  excepting  two  projects  in 
Precambrian  crystalline  rocks,  one  on  tec- 
tonics and  one  on  marine  geology;  gradu- 
ate research  at  Illinois  from  1920  through 
1934  dealt  entirely  with  sedimentary 
rocks. 

Quirke  remained  chairman  through 
1928,  when  William  S.  Bayley  became 
head  of  the  Department.  In  1931,  Bayley 
retired  and  was  replaced  by  Frank 
Walbridge  DeWolf.  DeWolf,  chief  of  the 
Illinois  State  Geological  Survey,  had  previ- 
ously directed  successful  oil  exploration 
programs  in  Texas  and  Louisiana. 

In  1920,  the  Department  comprised 
five  senior  staff  geologists  —  Rolfe, 
Bayley,  Savage,  Quirke,  and  Leighton.  The 
total  budget  stood  at  $31,100.  In  1934 
there  were  seven  senior  staff;  DeWolf, 
Savage,  Quirke,  Howard,  Shepard,  Sutton 
and  Wanless,  and  the  budget  had  essen- 
tially doubled. 


Bruns  Named  Assistant  Development  Director 


David  Bruns  is  the  new  assistant  director  of  development  for  the  College  of 
Liberal  Arts  and  Sciences,  responsible  for  building  relationships  with  alumni  and 
friends  that  will  help  secure  financial  support  for  the  Department  of  Geology.  "It 
is  an  absolute  privilege  for  me  to  work  with  the  alumni  of  the  department  to 
ensure  that  this  legacy  continues  for  future  generations  of  geology  faculty  and 
students  for  many  years  to  come,"  he  says. 


GeoScience  2005  Update 


The  Department's  GeoScience  2005 
endowment  campaign  is  approaching 
its  goal,  but  we  still  have  a  way  to  go.  So 
far,  we  have  raised  $  2.7  million  of  the  $3 
million  target.  Once  completed,  the  cam- 
paign will  help  fund  new  professorships, 
graduate  fellowships,  facilities  and  equip- 
ment, field-trip  and  field-camp  support, 
student  research  support,  the  geology 
library,  and  the  geology  colloquium  series. 
We're  pleased  to  announce  that  gen- 
erous contributions  from  many  alums  to 
the  Wanless  Fund,  initiated  by  Jim 
Baroffio  (Ph.D.  '64),  has  allowed  the  fund 
to  grow  enough  to  warrant  a  match  from 
the  University  and  become  a  full  graduate 
student  fellowship.  We're  also  pleased  to 
announce  that  Roscoe  Jackson  (M.S.  73, 
Ph.D.,  75)  has  established  a  new  fund  for 
the  support  of  graduate  research.  Shell  Oil 
Company  made  a  donation  to  the  depart- 
ment in  2003  for  research  support.  The 
Department  has  been  chosen  as  one  of 
a  select  group  of  geology  departments 
across  the  country  that  Shell  plans  to 
support. 


"One  of  the  most  gratifying  things 
about  the  campaign  has  been  the  large 
number  of  alumni,  friends,  and  faculty 
that  have  been  donating,"  says  Stephen 
Marshak,  professor  and  department  head. 
"The  level  of  support  that  our  department 
receives  sets  us  apart  from  almost  all 
other  departments  in  the  LAS  College." 

2005  is  fast  approaching,  and  it 
would  be  wonderful  if  we  could  reach 
our  target.  We're  hoping  that  alumni  and 
friends  who  have  not  contributed  previ- 
ously will  consider  doing  so,  and  that 
those  who  have  might  consider  increas- 
ing their  gift  in  the  spirit  of  the  campaign. 
If  you  are  interested  in  helping  to  estab- 
lish the  financial  foundation  that  the 
Department  needs  to  continue  remaining 
strong  in  the  21st  century,  please  take 
advantage  of  the  form  in  the  back  of 
this  Year  in  Review  and  of  the  enclosed 
business  reply  envelope.  We  have  listed 
various  specific  funds,  if  you  wish  to 
direct  your  support  to  a  specific  goal. 
Thank  you! 


Roscoe  Jackson  Establishes  Research  Fund 


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oscoe  Jackson,  M.S.  73,  Ph.D.  75, 
has  established  a  graduate  student 
research  fund  as  part  of  the  GeoScience 
2005  campaign. 

Jackson  wanted  to  establish  a  fund 
for  students  who  might  need  a  little  extra 
support,  students  who  might  otherwise 
have  to  get  a  second  job  or  get  a  loan 
from  mom  or  dad. 

"I'm  not  interested  in  buildings  or 
bricks,"  says  Jackson.  "But  I  know  bud- 
gets are  tight.  I  always  felt  that  one  prob- 
lem a  lot  of  graduate  students  have  was 
getting  money  for  miscellaneous  expens- 
es that  are  so  important  to  their  research, 
things  like  field  research  and  going  to 
meetings,  for  example." 

Jackson  remembers  a  time  in  his 
school  career  when  such  a  fund  would 
have  helped  him  a  lot.  It  involved  using 
a  flume  for  his  study  of  sediment  flow  in 


the  Wabash  River  Valley.  The  department 
head  of  civil  engineering  was  happy  to  lend 
Jackson  the  flume  and  technical  support, 
but  he  needed  to  supply  the  sand  and  pay 
for  the  electricity  to  run  the  flume.  He  just 
didn't  have  the  funds  and  had  to  abandon 
the  idea. 

Jackson,  who  taught  at  Northwestern 
University  for  several  years,  returned  in  1981 
to  his  native  Kansas  to  help  run  his  family's 
small  oil  and  gas  production  business. 

Some  of  his  best  memories  of  Illinois 
involve  his  adviser,  George  Klein.  "George 
was  very  sharp  and  very  professional.  To  his 
everlasting  credit,  he  was  supportive  of  me 
and  of  my  idea  of  a  thesis  project  even 
before  I  had  really  figured  out  what  it  was  I 
wanted  to  do." 

The  fund  that  Jackson  has  established 
will  be  available  for  students  starting  in 
2004. 


In  Memoriam 

Carleton  Chapman,  an  igneous, 
metamorphic  penologist  who  was  on 
the  faculty  from  1937-1977,  died  in 
September  26,  2003.  He  was  just  two 
weeks  short  of  his  92nd  birthday. 
Chapman  received  his  master's  and 
doctorate  degrees  from  Harvard  and 
wrote  more  than  60  journal  articles 
on  petrography,  structural  geology, 
and  the  geochemistry  of  igneous 
rocks.  "His  meticulous  attention  to 
petrographic  detail  was  a  hallmark  of 
his  work,"  remembers  Ralph 
Langenheim,  emeritus  professor. 
Haydn  Murray,  B.S.  '48,  M.S.  '50, 
Ph.D.  '51,  a  former  student  of 
Chapman's,  agrees.  "Carleton  was  a 
meticulous  geologist,  a  very  respect- 
ed igneous  petrologist,  and  an  excel- 
lent teacher,  but  he  also  liked  to  play 
pranks  on  people.  Marlon  Billings 
once  told  us  that  Carleton  would  put 
smelly  things,  like  Limburger  cheese, 
on  radiators  when  he  was  a  graduate 
student  at  Harvard!"  Marion  "Pat" 
Bickford,  M.S.  '58,  Ph.D.  '60,  says, 
"The  most  important  thing  Carleton 
did  for  me  was  to  teach  me  to  write 
clearly.  He  did  this  by  patiently 
going  through  every  word  of  every 
sentence  I  wrote,  pointing  out  how  I 
could  clarify  what  I  was  saying.  This 
is  a  real  gift  from  teacher  to  student, 
for  it  is  really  the  only  way  to  learn 
proper  scientific  writing.  I  have  tried 
to  do  this  for  my  own  students  for 
the  last  40  years,  often  sharing  with 
them  what  Carleton  did  for  me." 
Bickford  remembers  Chapman's 
humor  as  slightly  more  subtle. 
"Carleton  loved  puns,"  says 
Bickford.  "I  can  remember  him 
standing  by  the  window  in  April  say- 
ing, 'April  is  such  a  sad  time.  All  the 
trees  are  leaving.'" 


Alumni  News 


Raymond  Charles  Gutschick,  M.S.  '39,  Ph.D.  '42,  died  October  22,  2003.  He  was  89. 
Raymond  received  the  Moore  Medal  in  1992  for  "excellence  in  paleontology"  from  SEPM. 

Paul  Robert  Seaber  St.,  Ph.D.  '62,  died  August  23,  2003.  Paul  was  a  hydrogeologist  who 
began  his  career  with  the  U.S.  Geological  Survey's  Alaska  terrain  and  permafrost  section  in  1955. 
From  1987-1990  he  was  senior  hydrologist  and  head  of  the  groundwater  section  for  ISGS.  He 
worked  all  over  the  world,  including  Oman,  Kuwait  and  Pakistan.  He  was  senior  hydrologist  and 
head  of  the  Kuwait  Institute  for  Scientific  Research  when  Iraqi  forces  invaded  the  country  in  1990. 


1940s 

Allan  F.  Agnew,  A.B.  '40,  M.S.  '42, 

writes,  "Your  2002  Year  in  Review  is  another 
winner  ...  to  hire  Susan  Kieffer  is  superb! 
{see  2002  Year  in  Review}  T.T.  Quirke  was  an 
exciting  lecturer  for  us  soft-rock  people.  He  also 
taught  us  how  to  build  a  canoe  in  the  north 
woods  of  Canada!" 

"One  thing  I'll  never  forget  is  how  those 
floors  in  the  Natural  History  building 
squeaked,"  remembers  Charles  Summerson, 
B.S.  '38,  M.S.  '40  and  Ph.D.  '42.  "They  have 
not  changed  in  50  years.  I'd  like  to  come  over 
and  hear  them  one  more  time."  Charles  also 
remembered  sneaking  into  the  mineralogy  labs 
after  the  building  was  closed  to  study  with  fel- 
low student  K.O.  Emery,  who  died  in  1998. 
"We  had  keys  because  we  did  drafting  for  some 
of  the  professors,"  he  confesses.  "We'd  go  into 
the  labs,  sit  our  chair  on  top  of  the  lab  bench 
and  a  tray  of  specimens  in  our  lap  and  toss 
them  to  one  another.  If  you  couldn't  identify 
the  specimen  by  the  time  you  caught  it  you 
weren't  up  to  snuff."  Charles  remembers 
Emery  as  a  very  fine  person.  "He  was  extreme- 
ly competitive  but  he'd  turn  right  around  and 
help  you  any  way  he  could." 

1950s 

Norb  Cygan,  B.S.  '54,  gained  two  more 
grandchildren  in  2003.  Grandson  Colin  Reid 
Gardner  was  born  in  Castle  Pines,  Colo.,  and 
granddaughter  Lauren  Nicole  Butler  was  born 
in  Ottawa,  KS.  Now  he  has  six  grandchildren. 

1960s 

Since  he  retired  in  1993,  Bill  Soderman, 
M.S.  '60,  Ph.D.  '62,  has  become  quite  involved 
in  various  community  projects.  Those  include 
an  educational  program  about  wetlands  for 
fifth-grade  students  and  a  scholarship  program 
for  students  leaving  junior  college  and  heading 
for  their  final  undergraduate  years  at  a  major 
university.  Bill  also  is  involved  in  two  projects 
relating  to  the  Texas  coastline.  One,  for  which 
an  NSF  grant  proposal  has  been  submitted, 
involves  studying  the  subsidence  in  the 
Houston  ship-channel  area,  which  has  been 
caused  by  water  withdrawal  from  an  aquifer. 
The  second  project  involves  serving  on  an 
advisorv  council  of  the  Coastal  Texas  2002  ini- 


tiative. That  initiative  is  looking  closely  at  the 
impact  and  possible  solutions  of  dramatic  beach 
erosion,  rising  sea  levels,  increased  shoreline 
development,  as  well  as  natural  threats  posed  by 
hurricanes  and  tropical  storms.  Bill  also  is  enjoy- 
ing traveling.  He  and  Mina  have  recently  been  to 
Utah  and  Arizona  and  have  plans  to  spend  time 
on  the  Pacific  Coast,  as  well  as  Florida's  Gulf 
Coast.  And,  of  course,  he  continues  to  serve  on 
the  Department's  GeoThrust  committee  and  is 
dedicated  to  helping  the  Department  meet  its  goal 
of  $3  million  by  2005.  "It  is  a  good  feeling  to  give 
something  back  to  the  school  where  I  completed 
my  formal  geologic  education,"  Bill  says. 

1970s 

In  addition  to  the  three  alumni  receiving 
awards  at  the  2003  AAPG  meeting  (see  Newsletter 
2002),  Dag  Nummeda],  Ph.D.  74,  Institute  for 
Energy  Research,  Department  of  Geology  and 
Geophysics,  University  of  Wyoming  received  the 
Jules  Braunstein  memorial  award  for  the  best 
poster  at  the  meeting.  His  poster  was  titled, 
"Reservoir  Characterization  of  the  South 
Timbalier  26  Field:  The  Importance  of  Shelf 
Margin  Deltas  as  Reservoirs  in  the  Gulf  of 
Mexico." 

John  Steinmetz,  B.S.  '69,  M.S.  75,  has 

been  elected  president  by  the  Association  of 
American  State  Geologists.  Steinmetz  is  state  geol- 
ogist and  director  of  the  Indiana  Geologic  Survey. 

1980s 

Bob  Babb,  Ph.D.  '81,  and  Laurie  Hartline 
Babb,  M.S.  '81,  have  moved  to  Pleasanton,  Calif. 
Bob  works  for  ITC  and  writes.  "I  keep  getting  fur- 
ther from  my  geological  roots,  but  I'm  still  work- 
ing for  an  oil  company  (ChevronTexaco).  ITC  is 
the  computer  support  for  the  company.  Laurie 
has  worked  part-time  as  a  contractor  for 
ChevronTexaco  doing  geologic  and  engineering 
stuff." 

The  Coal  Geology  Division  (of  the  GSA) 
Management  Board  includes  alumni  Steven  Greb, 
B.S.  '82,  of  the  Kentucky  Geological  Survey,  as 
chair  and  Russell  Jacobson,  M.S.  '85,  of  the 
ISGS,  as  member-at-large. 

John  Rakovan,  B.S.  '88,  is  an  assistant  pro- 
fessor of  mineralogy  at  Miami  University  (OH). 


Don  Von  Bergen,  Ph.D.  '88,  is  in  his  third 
year  at  Kansas  State  University  in  Salina,  KS.  He 
is  the  department  head  of  the  Arts,  Sciences  and 
Business  Department  at  the  College  of  Technology 
and  Aviation.  In  addition  to  his  administrative 
duties,  Don  teaches  an  introduction  to  geology 
course.  Don  and  his  family  enjoy  riding  horses  in 
their  spare  time  on  their  ranch  in  rural  Kansas. 

1990s 

Linda  M.  Bonnell,  Ph.D.  '90,  president  and 
scientific  adviser  of  Geocosm  LLC  of  Austin, 
Texas,  is  a  domestic  Dean  A.  McGee 
Distinguished  Lecturer.  Her  topics  are:  "Sealed, 
Bridged  or  Open  —  a  New  Theory  of  Quartz 
Cementation  in  Fractures;"  and  "Reservoir 
Quality  Prediction  in  Deep  Water  to  Tight  Gas 
Sandstones  Using  a  Process/Stochastic  Modeling 
Approach." 

Jennifer  Wilson,  B.S.  '92,  stopped  by  the 
Department  to  visit.  She  is  in  geologic  consulting 
in  Pennsylvania,  and  is  working  on  her 
Professional  Geologist  certification. 

Laura  Becker,  B.S.  '94,  is  working  as  the 
regulatory  coordinator  for  the  New  York  State 
Department  of  Environmental  Conservation 
(DEC) ,  Division  of  Air  Resources  in  Albany,  NY. 
She  coordinates  New  York  State  air  pollution  reg- 
ulations between  DEC  staff,  the  Governor's  Office 
of  Regulatory  Reform  and  the  New  York  State 
Department  of  State. 

Theresa  Croak-Mueller,  B.S.  '96,  lives  in 
Naperville,  III,  where  she  is  a  consultant  for  BP 
and  a  real  estate  agent.  She  and  her  husband, 
Keith  Mueller,  are  proud  parents  of  Stefan  Denni, 
who  was  born  Nov.  1,  2003. 

Doug  Tinkham,  M.S.  '97,  received  his 
Ph.D.  from  the  University  of  Alabama,  and  is  a 
post-doc  at  the  University  of  Calgary  in  Canada. 

Crystal  Grace  Lovett-Tibbs,  B.S.  '97,  mar- 
ried Aaron  Tibbs  on  September  20,  2003,  in 
Fredericksburg.  Virginia.  University  of  Illinois 
alumni  in  attendance  were  matron  of  honor 
Melanie  Choate  (nee  Meads)  (attended  '92-'96 
FAA)  and  Jennifer  Klomans  ('96  COM).  Crystal 
graduated  from  the  University  of  Virginia  School 
of  Law  in  2003  and  has  been  admitted  to  the 
Missouri  Bar.  She  is  currently  serving  as  a  federal 
law  clerk  to  the  Honorable  Henry  Coke  Morgan, 
Jr.  in  the  United  States  District  Court  for  the 
Eastern  District  of  Virginia.  She  and  Aaron  live  in 
Virginia  Beach  with  their  three  cats,  Sara,  Nala, 
and  Tia. 

Joel  Johnson,  M.S.  '98,  finished  up  his  doc- 
torate at  Oregon  State  University.  He  got  married 
in  September,  and  had  a  quick  little  honeymoon 
in  the  San  Juan  Islands  offshore  Washington.  "I 
am  mostly  working  on  the  tectonic  controls  on 
seafloor  gas  hydrate  stability  these  days  and  still 


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Honor  Roll  of  Donors  for  2003 


making  good  use  of  the  structure  and  the  fold 
thrust  belt  stuff  I  learned  from  Steve  Marshak, 
as  I  have  been  working  in  the  accretionary 
wedge  offshore  Oregon  for  about  5  years 
now." 

2000s 

James  Cokinos,  B.S.  '02,  received  the 
outstanding  new  staff  member  award  from 
ISGS.  James  is  a  geologist/GIS  specialist  at 
the  Illinois  State  Geological  Survey  in  the  oil 
and  gas  section.  He  works  on  using  GIS  and 
improving  oil  recovery  in  the  Illinois  Basin. 
This  work  involves  designing  and  coordinat- 
ing multiple  databases,  and  overseeing  the 
input  of  historical  and  recent  waterflood  data 
for  more  than  2,000  waterflood  units  dating 
back  to  the  1940s,  among  other  things. 

Former  Faculty  News 

Alan  Whittington,  former  postdoctoral 
fellow,  and  his  wife,  Angela  Speck,  announce 
the  arrival  of  their  first  child,  a  son  named 
Xander  Alan  Kaj  Whittington-Speck.  Xander 
was  born  on  Friday,  the  13th  of  February, 
2004.  Arriving  about  six  weeks  early,  he  was 
5  pounds,  10  ounces.  Everyone  is  doing  fine, 
Alan  (now  assistant  professor  at  the 
University  of  Missouri)  reports. 

George  D.  Klein,  emeritus  professor, 

has  been  selected  by  the  Society  of 
Independent  Professional  Earth  Scientists 
(SIPES)  as  a  "distinguished  lecturer"  for  the 
year  2004.  He  will  talk  about  "The  Sequence 
and  Seismic  Stratigraphy  of  the  bossier  Play 
(Tithonian) ,  western  part  of  the  East  Texas 
basin."  Klein  also  has  been  awarded  the 
Rising  Star  Award  from  the  Houston 
Geological  Society  (HGS)  for  his  tireless  work 
as  technical  program  co-chair  for  the  HGS 
International  Explorationists  Committee,  as 
well  as  his  service  and  encouragement  as  a 
mentor  to  students  and  colleagues. 


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The  following  is  a  list  of  friends  and  alumni  of  the  Department  of  Geology  who  have  donated  to  the 
department  during  the  calendar  year  2002. 


Prof.  Thomas  F.  Anderson 
Dr.  Robert  W.  Andrews 
Dr.  Robert  F.  Babb  II 
Mr.  Robert  S.  Barnard 
Dr.  David  K.  Beach 
Ms.  Gail  M.  Beach 
Dr.  William  M.  Benzel 
Dr.  Craig  M.  Bethke 
Dr.  Marion  E.  Bickford 
LTC  Ronald  E.  Black 

(RET) 
Ms.  Heidi  Blischke 
Dr.  Bruce  F.  Bohor 
Mr.  Eugene  W.  Borden  Sr. 
Mr.  Joseph  E.  Boudreaux 
Mr.  Allen  S.  Braumiller 
Ms.  Patsy  L.  Braumiller 
Ms.  Annette  Brewster 
Ms.  Margaret  R.  Broten 
Ms.  Carolyn  Brower 
Mr.  Ross  D.  Brower 
The  Reverend  Robert  L. 

Brownfield 
Dr.  Glenn  R.  Buckley 
Dr.  Susan  B.  Buckley 
Dr.  Thomas  C.  Buschbach 
Ms.  Susan  C.  Chamberlin 
Dr.  Thomas  L.  Chamberlin 
Dr.  Charles  J.  Chantell 
Mr.  Lester  W.  Clutter 
Ms.  Virginia  K.  Clutter 
Dr.  Barbara  J.  Collins 
Dr.  Lorence  G.  Collins 
Ms.  Susan  E.  Collins 
Ms.  Michelle  M.  Corlew 
Dr.  Norbert  E.  Cygan 
Mr.  George  H.  Davis 
Dr.  Ilham  Demir 
Mr.  M.  Peter  deVries 
Mr.  Richard  E.  Dobson 
Mr.  Bruce  E.  Dollahan 
Mr.  James  D.  Donithan 
Dr.  Garnett  M.  Dow 
Ms.  Stephanie  Drain 
Ms.  Sophie  M.  Dreifuss 
Dr.  William  W.  Dudley  Jr. 
Dr.  James  L.  Eades 
Dr.  Mohamed  T.  El-Ashry 
Ms.  Patricia  R.  El-Ashry 
Dr.  Frank  R.  Ettensohn 
Mr.  Joseph  P.  Fagan  Jr. 
Ms.  Inez  Fagin 
Mr.  Kyle  Marshall  Fagin 
Dr.  Harold  H.  Falzone 
Mr.  Gary  M.  Fleeger 
Ms.  Marian  F.  Ford 
Dr.  Richard  M.  Forester 
Mr.  Jack  D.  Foster 
Ms.  Alison  Franklin 
Mr.  Edwin  H.  Franklin 
Mr.  Barry  R.  Gager 
Ms.  Carol  E.  Garino 
Mr.  John  R.  Garino 


Ms.  Sharon  Geil 
Ms.  Christine  M.  Griffith 
Dr.  Stuart  Grossman 
Dr.  Albert  L.  Guber 
Ms.  Nancy  Anderson 

Guber 
Dr.  Tom  Guensburg 
Mr.  Edwin  E.  Hardt 
Ms.  Catherine  L.  Harms 
Dr.  Henry  J.  Harris 
Ms.  Joyce  T.  Harris 
Dr.  Richard  L.  Hay 
Mr.  Darrell  N.  Helmuth 
Dr.  Mark  A.  Helper 
Mr.  Mark  F.  Hoffman 
Ms.  Maureen  F.  Hoffman 
Ms.  Cathy  S.  Hunt 
Dr.  Stephen  R.  Hunt 
Dr.  Roscoe  G.  Jackson  II 
Mr.  Steven  F.  Jamrisko 
Mr.  Martin  V.  Jean 
Dr.  Allen  H.  Johnson 
Mr.  Bruce  A.  Johnson 
Dr.  Donald  O.  Johnson 
Dr.  Kenneth  S.  Johnson 
Mr.  Robert  R.  Johnston 
Dr.  Edward  C.  Jonas 
Mr.  Roy  A.  Kaelin 
Dr.  Suzanne  Mahlburg 

Kay 
Mr.  Donald  A.  Keefer 
Ms.  Laura  L.  Keefer 
Dr.  John  P.  Kempton 
Mr.  John  N.  Keys 
Dr.  John  D.  Kiefer 
Ms.  Martha  M.  Kiefer 
Dr.  R.  James  Kirkpatrick 
Mr.  Christopher  P.  Korose 
Mr.  Robert  F.  Kraye 
Mr.  Thomas  E.  Krisa 
Mr.  Michael  B.  Lamport 
Mr.  Rik  E.  Lantz 
Dr.  Stephen  E.  Laubach 
Dr.  Steven  W  Leavitt 
Mr.  Stephen  C.  Lee 
Dr.  Hannes  E.  Leetaru 
Dr.  Morris  W.  Leighton 
Mr.  Bernard  W.  Lynch 
Mr.  Andrew  S.  Madden 
Ms.  Megan  Elwood 

Madden 
Mr.  John  W.  Marks 
Ms.  Kathryn  G.  Marshak 
Prof.  Stephen  Marshak 
Ms.  Joyce  C.  Mast 
Ms.  Kathryn  R.  Mayer 
Mr.  Robert  S.  Mayer 
Dr.  Murray  R.  McComas 
Mr.  Kendall  W.  Miller 
Ms.  Linda  A.  Minor 
Ms.  Ethel  P.  Moore 
Mr.  John  S.  Moore 
Mr.  Wayne  E.  Moore 


Dr.  Sharon  Mosher 
Mr.  Robert  E.  Myers 
Mr.  Bruce  W.  Nelson 
Mr.  William  A.  Newton 
Mr.  Brian  D.  Noel 
Ms.  Lynn  E.  Noel 
Mr.  Charles  H.  Norris 
Michael  R.  Owen,  Phd 
Ms.  Katherine  A. 

Panczak 
Dr.  Walter  E.  Parham 
Mr.  Howard  L.  Patton 
Ms.  Corinne  Pearson 
Ms.  Elaine  L.  Peppers 
Dr.  Russel  A.  Peppers 
Ms.  Betty  R.  Pflum 
Mr.  Charles  E.  Pflum 
Mr.  Bruce  E.  Phillips 
Ms.  Sarah  Phillips 
Ms.  Beverly  A.  Pierce 
Dr.  Jack  W.  Pierce 
Dr.  Robert  I.  Pinney 
Ms.  Vonna  B.  Pinney 
Dr.  Paul  L.  Plusquellec 
Richard  J.  Powers 
Dr.  Elizabeth  P.  Rail 
Mr.  Raymond  W.  Rail 
Mr.  Paul  J.  Regorz 
Mr.  Donald  O. 

Rimsnider 
Mr.  David  P.  Ripley 
Dr.  Nancy  M. 

Rodriguez 
Dr.  Linda  R.  Rowan 
Dr.  Richard  P.  Sanders 
Ms.  Bobbie  Scaggs 
Mr.  Jay  R.  Scheevel 
Dr.  Detmar  Schnitker 
Ms.  Julia  Schnitker 
Dr.  David  C.  Schuster 
Dr.  Franklin  W. 

Schwartz 
Dr.  John  W.  Shelton 
Dr.  Charles  H.  Simonds 
Mr.  D.  Leroy  Sims 
Ms.  Martha  K.  Sippel 
Mr.  Roger  A.  Sippel 
Mr.  Stephen  A.  Smith 
Dr.  Edward  M.  Snyder 
Dr.  J.  William 

Soderman 
Dr.  Ian  M.  Steele 
Dr.  Ronald  D.  Stieglitz 
Dr.  John  E.  Stone 
Dr.  C.  H.  Summerson 
Ms.  Catherine  Threet 
Mr.  Jack  C.  Threet 
Ms.  Linda  J.  Tollefson 
Dr.  Edwin  W.  Tooker 
Mr.  Robert  G. 

Vanderstraeten 
Mr.  William  L. 

Vineyard 


Mr.  Robert  W.  Von 

Rhee 
Dr.  F.  Michael  Wahl 
Ms.  Harriet  E. 

Wallace 
Ms.  Jeanette  G. 

Walters 
Mr.  Carleton  W 

Weber 
Dr.  John  E.  Werner 
Mr.  Jerry  T. 

Wickham 
Ms.  Susan  S. 

Wickhan 
Mr.  Harold  T.  Wilber 
Mr.  Jack  L.  Wilber 
Mr.  Don  R.  Williams 
Ms.  Jennifer  A. 

Wilson 
Ms.  Elaine  R.  Witt 
Mr.  Roland  F. 

Wright 
Dr.  Valentine  E. 

Zadnik 

Corporations 

BP  Amoco 

Foundation 
ChevronTexaco 
ConocoPhillips 

Corporation 
Dominion 

Foundation 
DTE  Energy 

Foundation 
ExxonMobil 

Foundation 
Harris  Bank 

Foundation 
Idaho  National 

Engineering  and 

Environmental 

Laboratory 
Marathon  Ashland 

Petroleum 
Northwestern 

University 
Peoples  Energy 

Corporation 
Shell  Oil  Company 
Shell  Oil  Company 

Foundation 
Sims  Consulting, 

Inc. 
Tetra  Tech  EM  Inc. 
Whiting  Petroleum 

Corporation,  an 

Alliant  Company 


Annual  Report  for  2003 


Faculty 

Stephen  P.  Altaner  (Associate  Professor) 

Jay  D.  Bass  (Professor) 

Craig  M.  Bethke  (Professor) 

Daniel  B.  Blake  (Professor) 

Chu-Yung  Chen  (Associate  Professor) 

Wang-Ping  Chen  (Professor) 

Bruce  W.  Fouke  (Associate  Professor) 

Albert  T.  Hsui  (Professor) 

Thomas  M.  Johnson  (Associate  Professor) 

Susan  W.  Kieffer  (Walgreen  Professor) 

R.  James  Kirkpatrick  (Professor  and  Executive 

Associate  Dean) 
Jie  Li  (Assistant  Professor) 
Craig  C.  Lundstrom  (Assistant  Professor) 
Stephen  Marshak  (Professor  and  Head) 
Xiaodong  Song  (Associate  Professor) 

Department  Affiliate 

Feng-Sheng  Hu  (Associate  Professor) 

Academic  Staff,  Post-Docs, 
Visiting  Staff 

Deb  Aronson  (Yearbook  Editor) 

George  Bonheyo  (Research  Scientist) 

Jorge  Frias-Lopez  (Post-Doctoral  Researcher) 

Richard  Hedin  (Research  Programmer) 

Holger  Hellwig  (Research  Scientist) 

Xiaoqiang  Hou  (Post-Doctoral  Researcher) 

Stephen  Hurst  (Research  Programmer) 

Andrey  Kalinichev  (Senior  Research  Scientist) 

Ann  Long  (Teaching  Lab  Specialist) 

Laura  Rademacher  (Post-Doctoral  Researcher) 

Marc  Reinholdt  (Post-Doctoral  Researcher) 

Bidhan  Roy  (Post-Doctoral  Researcher) 

Rob  Sanford  (Senior  Research  Scientist) 

Stanislav  Sinogeikin  (Research  Scientist) 

Michael  Stewart  (Lecturer) 

Raj  Vanka  (Resource  and  Policy  Analyst) 

Carine  Vanpeteghem  (Post-Doctoral  Researcher) 

John  Werner  (Visiting  Assistant  Professor) 

Emeritus  Faculty 

Thomas  F.  Anderson 
Albert  V.  Carozzi 
Carleton  A.  Chapman 
Donald  L.  Graf 
Arthur  F.  Hagner 
Richard  L.  Hay 
Donald  M.  Henderson 
George  deV.  Klein 
Ralph  L.  Langenheim 
C.  John  Mann 
Alberto  S.  Nieto 
Philip  A.  Sandberg 


Adjunct  Faculty 

Leon  R.  Follmer 
Dennis  Kolata 
Morris  W  Leighton 
Hannes  Leetaru 
John  McBride 
William  Shilts 
M.  Scott  Wilkerson 

Library  Staff 

Lura  Joseph  (Librarian) 

Sheila  McGowan  (Chief  Library  Clerk) 

Diana  Walter  (Library  Technical  Specialist) 


Shelley  Campbell  (Staff 

Clerk) 

Geol  143  - 

Barb  Elmore  (Administrative  Secretary) 

Geol  233- 

Eddie  Lane  (Electronics 

Engineering 

Assistant) 
Michael  Sczerba  (Clerk) 

Geol  250  - 
Geol  280  - 

Graduate  Students 

Geol  311  - 
Geol  315  - 

Will  Beaumont 

Chuntao  Liang 

Geol  317  - 

Peter  Berger 

Christopher  Mah 

Jon  Brenizer 
Sarah  Brown 

Jorge  Marino 
Lei  Meng 

Geol  332  - 

Kurtis  Burmeister 

Brent  Olson 

Geol  336  - 

Scott  Clark 

Jungho  Park 

Geol  340  - 

Andre  Ellis 

George  Roadcap 

Geol  350- 

Alex  Glass 
Brian  Hacker 

Tom  Schickel 
Eric  Sikora 

Geol  351  - 

Chris  Henderson 

Xinlei  Sun 

Fang  Huang 

Anna  Sutton 

Jennifer  Jackson 

Jian  Tian 

Geol  352- 

Qusheng  Jin 

Lisa  Tranel 

Geol  355- 

Matthew  Kirk 

Tai-Lin  Tseng 

Geol  358  - 

Jacquelyn  Kitchen 

Jianwei  Wang 

Geol  360  - 
Geol  381  - 

James  Klaus 
Man  Jae  Kwon 

Jingyun  Wang 
Xiang  Xu 

Dmitry  Lakshtanov 

Zhaohui  Yang 

Qiang  Li 

Juanzuo  Zhou 

Geol  415- 

Yingchun  Li 

Zuihong  Zou 

Geol  401- 

Geol  458  - 
Geol  489- 

George  and  Asta  Bonheyo's  little  bundle 

Geol491- 

of  joy,  Alyssa  Ardickas  Bonheyo,  was  born 

Geol  493K1 

Tuesday,  February  17th,  7:12  am.  She 

Geol  493K8 

weighed  7  lb.  1  oz.  George  Is  a  research 

Geol  493K9 

COURSES  TAUGHT  IN  2003 

Geol  100  - 

Planet  Earth 

Geol  101  - 

Introduction  to  Physical  Geology 

Geol  103  - 

Planet  Earth  (QR  11) 

Geol  104  - 

Geology  of  the  National  Parks 

and  Monuments 

Geol  107  - 

Physical  Geology 

Geol  108  - 

Historical  Geology 

Geol  110  - 

Exploring  Planet  Earth  in  the 

Field 

Geol  111  - 

The  Dynamic  Earth  (Honors) 

Geol  116  - 

Geology  of  the  Planets 

Geol  117- 

The  Oceans 

Geol  118  - 

Natural  Disasters 

Geol  143  - 

History  of  Life 

Geol  233- 

Earth  Materials  and  the 

Environment 

Geol  250  - 

Geology  for  Engineers 

Geol  280  - 

Environmental  Geology 

Geol  311  - 

Structural  Geology  and  Tectonics 

Geol  315  - 

Field  Geology 

scientist  with  Bruce  Fouke's  group. 


Geologic  Field  Methods,  Western 
United  States  (Field  Camp) 
Mineralogy  and  Mineral  Optics 
Petrology  and  Petrography 
Sedimentology  and  Stratigraphy 
Introduction  to  Geophysics 
Geophysical  Methods  for 
Geology,  Engineering,  and 
Environmental  Sciences 
Physics  of  the  Earth 
Introduction  to  Groundwater 
Introduction  to  Seismology 
Geochemistry 
Modeling  Earth  and 
Environmental  Systems 
Advanced  Field  Geology 
Physical  Geochemistry 
Geochemical  Reaction  Analysis 
Geotectonics 

Current  Research  in  Geoscience 
Continental  Lithosphere 
Topics  in  Seismic  Imaging 
Modern  Experimental  Methods  in 
High  Pressure  Mineral  Physics 


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Research  Grants  Active  in  2003 


American  Chemical  Society  Petroleum 
Research  Fund 

Development  of  Selenium  Isotope  Ratios  as 

Indicators  of  Sedimentary  Paleo- 

Environments. 
Principal  Investigator:  Thomas  M.  Johnson 

Department  of  Energy 

Field-Constrained  Quantitative  Model  of  the 
Origin  of  Microbial  and  Geochemical  Zoning 
in  a  Confined  Fresh-Water  Aquifer. 

Principal  Investigator,  Craig  M.  Bethke 

Computational  &  Spectroscopic  Investigations 
of  Water-Carbon  Dioxide  Fluids  &  Surface 
Sorption  Processes. 

Principal  Investigator:  R.  James  Kirkpatrick 

Department  Of  Transportation  Federal 
Highway  Administration 

Illinois  Council  On  Food  And  Agriculture 
Research 

Estimation  of  Denitrification  Rates  in  the 
Shallow  Groundwater  Flow  Systems  of  Big 
Ditch  Watershed,  Illinois  -  Isotope 
Assessment. 

Principal  Investigator:  Thomas  M.  Johnson 

NASA 

Multicomponent,  Multiphase  H20-C02 
Thermodynamics  and  Fluid  Dynamics  on 
Mars. 

Principal  Investigator:  Susan  W  Kieffer 

National  Science  Foundation 

Development  of  Laser  Heating  for  Sound 
Velocity  Measurements  at  High  P  &  T. 
Principal  Investigator:  Jay  D.  Bass 

Sound  Velocities  &  Elastic  Moduli  of  Minerals 
Mantle  Pressures  and  Temperatures  with 
Laser  Heating. 

Principal  Investigator:  Jay  D.  Bass 

Workshop  on  Phase  Transitions  and  Mantle 

Discontinuities. 
Principal  Investigator:  Jay  D.  Bass 

CSEDI:  Collaborative  Research:  Composition 
and  Seismic  Structure  of  the  Mantle 
Transition  Zone. 

Principal  Investigator:  Jay  D.  Bass 

Consortium  for  Material  Property  Research  in 

the  Earth  Sciences. 
Principal  Investigator:  Jay  D.  Bass 

Collaborative  Research:  Elasticity  Grand 
Challenge  of  the  COMPRES  Initiative. 
Principal  Investigator:  Jay  D.  Bass 

Polymorphism  and  Structural  Transitions 

During  Glass  Formation. 
Principal  Investigator:  Jay  D.  Bass 

Global  Climate  Change  &  The  Evolutionary 
Ecology  of  Antarctic  Mollusks  in  the  Late 
Eocene. 

Principal  Investigator:  Daniel  B.  Blake 


A  Seismic  Study  of  the  Taiwan  Orogen. 
Principal  Investigator:  Wang-Ping  Chen 

Collaborative  Research:  Lithospheric-Scale 
Dynamics  of  Active  Mountain  Building  along 
the  Himalayan-Tibetan  Collision  Zone. 

Principal  Investigator:  Wang-Ping  Chen 

Geobiological  &  The  Emergence  of  Terraced 

Architecture  during  Carbonate 

Mineralization. 
Principal  Investigator:  Bruce  W.  Fouke 

Collaborative  Research:  Field  Investigation  of 
SE  Oxyanion  Reduction  &  Se  Sources  in 
Wetlands:  Application  of  Se  Isotopes. 

Principal  Investigator:  Thomas  M.  Johnson 

Quantification  of  Cr  Reduction  in  Groundwater 

Using  Cr  Stable  Isotopes. 
Principal  Investigator:  Thomas  M.  Johnson 

Acquisition  of  Multicollector  Inductively 
Coupled  Plasma  Mass  Spectrometer. 

Principal  Investigators:  Thomas  M.  Johnson 
and  Craig  C.  Lundstrom 

Experimental  Investigations  of  Solid-Liquid 

Boundary  in  the  Earth  Core. 
Principal  Investigator:  Jie  Li 

Measuring  Trace  Element  Partition  Coefficients 

Between  Minerals  &  Basaltic  Melt. 
Principal  Investigator:  Craig  C.  Lundstrom 

Observational  Constraints  on  Melt-Rock 
Reactions  During  Melting  of  the  Upper 
Mantle. 

Principal  Investigator:  Craig  C.  Lundstrom 

Collaborative  Research:  Investigating  the 
Processes  and  Timescales  of  Andesite 
Differentiation:  A  Comprehensive 
Petrological  and  Geochemical  Study  of 
Arenal  Volcano,  Costa  Rica. 

Principal  Investigator:  Craig  C.  Lundstrom 

Collaborative  Research:  Emplacement  of  the 
Ferrar  Mafic  Igneous  Province:  A  Pilot  Study 
of  Intrusive  Architecture  and  Flow  Directions 
in  Southern  Victoria  Land. 

Principal  Investigator:  Stephen  Marshak 

Structure  and  Dynamics  of  Earth's  Core  and 

Lowermost  Mantle. 
Principal  Investigator:  Xiaodong  Song 

Office  of  Naval  Research 

The  Role  of  Shipyard  Pollutants  in  Structuring 
Coral  Reef  Microbial  Communities: 
Monitoring  Environmental  Change  and  the 
Potential  Causes  of  Coral  Disease. 

Principal  Investigator:  Bruce  W  Fouke 

University  Of  Illinois  Research  Board 

Anatomy  of  a  Continental  Collision  Zone: 

Exploring  New  Views  in  Seismic  Imaging. 
Principal  Investigator:  Wang-Ping  Chen 

Poloidal-Toroidal  Energy  Partition  and  Rotation 

of  Surface  Plates  on  Earth. 
Principal  Investigator:  Albert  Hsui 


U.S.  Department  Of  Interior  /  U.S. 
Geological  Survey 

Geologic  Mapping  of  the  Rosendale  Natural 
Cement  Region,  a  Portion  of  the  Northern 
Appalachian  Fold-Thrust  Belt,  Ulster 
County,  New  York. 

Principal  Investigator:  Stephen  Marshak 


Bachelor  of  Science  Degrees 

December  2002 

(Due  to  an  editorial  oversight,  these  students 
were  not  recognized  last  issue.  We  apologize.) 
Alec  Michael  Davis 
Andrew  George  Louchios 
Tarak  Narendra  Patel 

May 

Nikki  Lynn  Blight 
Denelle  Melissa  Bourgeois 
Amy  Elizabeth  Eisin 
Catherine  Colleen  Haffner 
Daniel  Bryan  Walker 
Bracken  Tyler  Wimmer 

August 

Meghan  Elizabeth  Ward 

December 

Andrew  Christian  Anderson 
Nicole  Kristen  Bettinardi 
John  Robert  Kaineg 
Scott  Patrick  Koenig 
Amy  Lynn  Luther 
Christopher  B.  Majerczyk 
Richard  Joseph  Pyter 

Master  of  Science  Degrees 

August 

Will  Capper  Beaumont  -  Denitrification  in  a 
Subsurfaced  Drained,  Agricultural  Watershed 
in  Central  Illinois  (Thomas  Johnson) 

December 

Chuntao  Liang  -  Uppermost  Mantle  Velocity 
and  Mono  Depth  Beneath  China  from  PN- 
Tomography  (Xiaodong  Song) 

Anna  Lee  Sutton  -  Trace  Element  Partitioning 
Between  Melilite  and  Cai  Melt:  An 
Experimental  Study  (Craig  Lundstrom) 

Juanzuo  Zhou  -  Isotope  Geochemistry  of 
Speleothem  Records  from  Southern  Illinois 
(Craig  Lundstrom) 

Doctor  of  Philosophy  Degrees 

October 

Qusheng  Jin  -  Kinetics  of  Microbial  Respiration 
(Craig  Bethke) 

May 

Andre  Savio  Ellis  -  Selenium  and  Chromium 
Stable  Isotopes  and  the  Fate  of  Redox-Active 
Contaminants  in  the  Environment  (Thomas 
Johnson) 


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List  of  Publications  for  2003 


Brudzinski,  M.  R.,  and  Chen,  W.-R,  2003,  A  petrologic 
anomaly  accompanying  outboard  earthquakes 
beneath  Fiji-Tonga:  Corresponding  evidence  from 
broadband  P  and  S  waveforms.  J.  Geophys.  Res.: 
108(B6):  2299-2318,  doi:10.1029/2002JB002012. 

Sinogeikin,  S.V.,  Bass,  J.D.,  and  Katsura,  T.,  2003, 
Single-crystal  elasticity  of  ringwoodite  to  high  pres- 
sures and  high  temperatures:  Implications  for  the 
520  km  seismic  discontinuity.  Phys.  Earth  Planet. 
Inter:.  136  (1-2):  41-66. 

Hu,  F.S.,  Kaufman,  D.,  Yoneji,  S.,  Nelson,  D., 
Shemesh,  A.,  Huang,  Y.S.,  Tian,  J.,  Bond,  G.,  Clegg, 
B.,  and  Brown,  T.,  2003,  Cyclic  variation  and  solar 
forcing  of  Holocene  climate  in  the  Alaskan  subarctic. 
Science:  301:  1890-1S93. 

Lundstrom,  C.C.,  Hoernle,  K.,  and  Gill.  J.,  2003,  Major 
and  trace  element  and  U-series  disequilibria  in 
Holocene  volcanic  rocks  from  the  Canary  Islands: 
The  role  and  mechanism  of  lithospheric  melting. 
Geochimica  et  Cosmochimica  Acta:67:  4153-4177. 

Marshak,  S„  Nelson,  W.J.,  and  McBride,  J.H.,  2003, 
Phanerozoic  strike-slip  faulting  in  the  continental 
interior  platform  of  the  United  States:  Examples  from 
the  Laramide  Orogen,  midcontinent,  and  ancestral 
Rockies:  in  Storti,  R,  Holdsworth,  R.E.,  and  Salvinie, 
R,  eds.,  Intraplate  Strike-Slip  Deformation  Belts. 
Geological  Society,  London,  Special  Publications  210: 
171-196. 

Li,  J.,  and  Fei,  Y.,  2003,  Experimental  constraints  on 
core  composition,  in  Treaties  on  Geochemistry, 
Holland,  H.D.,  and  Turekian,  K.K.,eds.VoI.  2  of  The 
Mantle  and  Core,  Carlson,  R.W.,  ed.,  Elsevier:  521- 
546. 

Nambi,  I.  M.,  Werth,  C.J.,  Sanford,  R.A.,  and  Valocchi, 
A.J.,  2003,  Pore-scale  analysis  of  anaerobic 
halorespiring  bacterial  growth  along  the  transverse 
mixing  zone  of  an  etch  silicon  pore  network. 
Environmental  Science  Technology:  37:  5617-5624. 

Hou,  X.,  Bish,  D.  L.,  Wang,  S.-L.,  Johnston,  C.  T,  and 
Kirkpatrick,  R.  J.,  2003,  Hydration,  expansion,  struc- 
ture and  dynamics  of  layered  double  hydroxides. 
American  Mineralogist:  88:  167-179. 

Jin,  Q.  and  Bethke,  CM.,  2003,  A  new  rate  law 
describing  microbial  respiration.  Applied  and 
Environmental  Microbiology:  69:  2340-2348. 

Johnson,  T.  M„  and  Bullen,  T.  D.,  2003,  Selenium  iso- 
tope fractionation  during  reduction  of  Se  oxyanions 
by  Fe(II)  +  Fe(lII)  hydroxide-sulfate  (green  rust). 
Geochimica  et  Cosmochimica  Acta:  67:  413-419. 

Frias-Lopez,  J.,  Bonheyo,  G.T.,  Jin,  Q.,  and  Fouke, 
B.W.,  2003,  Cyanobacteria  associated  with  coral 
black  band  disease  in  Caribbean  and  Indo-Pacific 
reefs.  Applied  and  Environmental  Microbiology:  69 
(4):  2409-2413. 

Hellwig,  H.,  Hemley,  R.J.,  and  Cohen,  R.E.,  2003, 
Micro-Brillouin  investigations  of  relaxor  ferro- 
electrics:  (in)  Davies,  P.K.,  and  Singh,  D.J.,  (eds.) 

Fundamental  Physics  of  Ferroelectrics:  American 
Institute  of  Physics:  65  -  74. 

Song,  X.D.,  2003,  Inner  core  superrotation:  Recent 
observations  and  future  challenges.  Global  Tectonics 
and  Metallogeny:  8:  107-108. 

Hou,  X.,  Kirkpatrick.  R.J.,  Struble,  L.J.,  Shin,  J.-H., 
and  Monteiro,  P.J.M.,  2003,  The  structure  of  ASR  gel 
and  its  relationship  to  C-S-H.  In  D.  Lange,  ed., 
Engineering  Conference  on  Advances  in  Cement  and 
Concrete  IX:  Volume  Changes,  Cracking,  and 
Durability,  Copper  Mountain,  Colorado. 


Chen,  W.-R,  and  Brudzinski,  MR.,  2003,  Seismic 
anisotropy  in  the  mantle  transition  zone  beneath  Fiji- 
Tonga.  Geophys.  Res.  Lett.:  30:  1682-1686. 

Nicholas,  J.D.,  Youngman,  R.E.,  Sinogeikin,  S.V.,  Bass, 
J.D.,  Kieffer,  J.,  2003,  Structural  changes  in  vitreous 
boron  oxide.  Physics  &  Chemistry  of  Glasses:  44(3): 
249-251. 

Hu,  F.S.,  and  Shemesh,  A.,  2003,  A  biogenic-silica 
dl80  record  of  climatic  change  during  the  last 
glacial-interglacial  transition  in  southwestern 
Alaska. t  Quaternary  Research:  59:  379-385. 

Lundstrom,  C.C.,  2003,  Uranium  series  disequilibria  in 
mid-ocean  ridge  basalts:  Observations  and  models  of 
basalt  genesis,  in  Bourdon,  B.,  Turner,  S.,  Henderson, 
G.,  and  Lundstrom,  C,  eds.,  Reviews  in  Mineralogy 
and  Geochemistry  volume  #52:  Uranium  Series 
Geochemistry:  175-214. 

Li,  J.,  Hadidiacos,  C,  Mao,  H-k,  Fei,  Y,  and  Hemley, 
R.J.,  2003,  Effect  of  pressure  on  thermocouples  in  a 
multi-anvil  apparatus.  High  Pressure  Research:  23  (4): 
389-401. 

Lee,  S.K.,  Stebbins,  J.R,  Weiss,  C.A.,  and  Kirkpatrick, 
R.J.,  2003,  170  and  27A1  MAS  and  3QMAS  NMR 
study  of  synthetic  and  natural  layer-silicates. 
Chemistry  of  Materials:  15:  2605-2613. 

Ellis,  A.  S.,  Johnson,  T.  M.,  Bullen,  T.  D.,  and  Herbel, 
M.  J.,  2003,  Selenium  isotope  fractionation  by  natural 
microbial  consortia  in  unamended  sediment  slurries. 
Chem.  Geo/.:  195:  119-129. 

Oswald,  WW,  Brubaker,  L.B.,  Hu,  F.S.,  and  Kling,  G., 
2003,  Climatic  and  geomorphic  controls  on  Holocene 
vegetational  changes  in  the  Arctic  Foothills,  northern 
Alaska.  Journal  of  Ecology:  91:  1034-1048. 

Song,  X.D.,  2003,  Three-dimensional  structure  and  dif- 
ferential rotation  of  the  inner  core,  in  Earth  Core: 
Dynamics,  Structure,  Rotation,  Dehant,  V.M.. 
Creager,  K.C.,  Zatman,  S.,  Karato,  S.,  eds.: 
Geodynamics  Series,  American  Geophysical  Union:  31 : 
45-63. 

Sung,  Y,  Ritalahti,  K.  M.,  Sanford,  R.A.,  Urbance,  J.W, 
Flynn,  S.J..  Tiedje,  J.M.,  and  Ldffler,  RE.,  2003, 
Characterization  of  two  tetrachloroethene-reducing, 
acetate-oxidizing  anaerobic  bacteria  and  their 
description  as  Desulfuromonas  michiganensis  sp. 
nov.  Applied  Environmental  Microbiology:  69:  2964- 
2974. 

Dai,  S.,  Hou,  X.,  Ren,  D.,  Tang,  Y,  2003,  Surface  analy- 
sis of  pyrite  in  the  No.  9  coal  seam,  Wuda  Coalfield, 
Inner  Mongolia,  China,  using  high-resolution  time-of- 
flight  secondary  ion  mass-spectrometry.  International 
Journal  of  Coal  Geology:  55(2-4):  139-150. 

Brudzinski,  M.R.,  and  Chen,  W.-R,  2003,  Visualization 
of  seismicity  along  subduction  zones:  Toward  a  phys- 
ical basis.  Seismol.  Res.  Lett.:74:  731-738. 

Oswald,  WW,  Anderson,  RM,  Brubaker,  L.B.,  Hu,  F.S., 
and  Engstrom,  D.R.,  2003,  Representation  of  tundra 
vegetation  by  pollen  in  lake  sediments  in  northern 
Alaska.  Journal  of  Biogeography:  30:  521-535. 

Wang,  J.,  Sinogeikin,  S.V.,  Inoue,  T,  Bass,  J.D.,  2003, 
Elastic  properties  of  hydrous  ringwoodite.  American 
Mineralogist:  88:  1608-1611. 

Hellwig,  H.,  Goncharov,  A.F.,  Gregoryanz,  E.,  Mao,  H.- 
K.,  and  Hemley,  R.J.,  2003,  Brillouin  and  Raman 
spectroscopy  of  the  ferrelastic  rutile-to-CaC^  transi- 
tion in  Sn02  at  high  pressure:  Physical  Review  B:  67: 
174110-3  -  174110  -7. 


He,  Q.,  and  Sanford,  R.A.,  2003,  Characterization  of 
Fe(III)  reduction  by  chlororespiring 
Anaeromyxobacter  dehalogenans.    Applied 
Environmental  Microbiology:  69:  2712-2718. 

Bourdon,  B.,  Turner,  S.,  Henderson,  G.,  and 
Lundstrom,  C.C.,  2003,  Introduction  to  U-series  geo- 
chemistry: in  Bourdon,  B..  Turner,  S.,  Henderson,  G., 
and  Lundstrom,  C.  C,  eds.,  Reviews  in  Mineralogy 
and  Geochemistry  volume  #52:  Uranium  Series 
Geochemistry:  1-21. 

Schilling,  F.R.,  Sinogeikin,  S.V.,  Hauser,  M.,  and  Bass, 
J.D.,  2003,  Elastic  properties  of  model  basaltic  melt 
compositions  at  high  temperatures.  J.  Geophys. 
Res.:108  (B6):  An.  No.  2304. 

Wang,  J.,  Kalinichev,  A.G.,  Amonette,  J.,  and 
Kirkpatrick,  R.  J.,  2003,  Interlayer  dynamics  in  Cl- 
hydrotalcite:  Far-infrared  spectroscopy  and  molecular 
dynamics  modeling.  American  Mineralogist:  88:  398- 
409. 

Lundstrom,  C.C.,  2003,  An  experimental  investigation 
of  the  diffusive  infiltration  of  alkalis  into  partially 
molten  peridotite:  Implications  for  mantle  melting 
process.  Geochem.,  Geophys.  Geosys: 
doil0.1029/2001GC000224. 

Dai,  S.,  Ren,  D.,  Hou,  X.,  Shao,  L,  2003,  Geochemical 
and  mineralogical  anomalies  of  the  late  Permian  coal 
in  the  Zhijin  coalfield  of  southwest  China  and  their 
volcanic  origin.  International  Journal  of  Coal 
Geology:  55(2-4):  117-138. 

Tinner,  W,  and  Hu,  F.S..  2003,  Size  parameters,  size- 
class  distribution,  and  area-number  relationship  of 
microscopic  charcoal:  Relevance  for  fire  reconstruc- 
tion. The  Holocene:  13:  499-505. 

Oswald,  WW,  Brubaker,  L.B.,  Hu,  F.S.,  and  Gavin,  D., 
2003,  Pollen- vegetation  relationships  at  the  landscape 
scale  in  Arctic  Alaska.  Journal  of  Ecology:  91:  1022- 
1033. 

Dai,  S.,  Ren,  D.,  Zhang,  J.,  Hou,  X,  2003, 
Concentrations  and  origins  of  platinum  group  ele- 
ments in  Late  Paleozoic  coals  of  China.  International 
Journal  of  Coal  Geology:  55(1):  59-70. 

Jackson,  J.M.,  Palko,  J.W,  Andrault,  D.,  Sinogeikin, 
S.V.,  Lakshtanov,  D.L.,  Wang,  J.,  Bass,  J.D.,  and  Zha, 
C.-S.,  2003,  Thermal  expansion  of  natural  orthoensta- 
tite  to  1473  K.  European  J.  Miner:15  (3):  469-473. 

Xu,  X.X.,  and  Song,  X.D.,  2003,  Evidence  for  inner  core 
super-rotation  from  time-dependent  differential  PKP 
travel  times  observed  at  Beijing  Seismic  Network. 
Geophys.  J.  Int.:  152:  509-514. 

Schilling,  F.R.,  Sinogeikin,  S.V.,  and  Bass,  J.D.,  2003, 
Single-crystal  elastic  properties  of  lawsonite  and  their 
variation  with  temperature.  Phys.  Earth  Planet.  Inter.: 
136  (1-2):  107-118. 

Hou.  X.,  Struble,  L.J.,  Shin.  J.-H.,  Monteiro,  P.J.M.,  and 
Kirkpatrick,  R.J.,  2003,  The  structure  of  ASR  gel  and 
its  relationship  to  C  S  H,  in  Advances  in  Cement  and 
Concrete,  Lange,  D.A.,  Scrivener,  K.L.,  and  Marchand, 
J.,  eds.  University  of  Illinois  Press:  365-376. 

Kaufman,  D.S.,  Hu,  F.S.,  Briner,  J.R,  Werner.  A., 
Finney.  B.R,  and  Gregory-Eaves,  I.,  2003.  A  30,000- 
year  record  of  environmental  change  from  Arolik 
Lake,  Ahklun  Mountains,  Alaska.    Journal  of 
Paleolimnology:  30:  343-362. 

Fouke,  B.W.,  Bonheyo,  G.T.,  Sanzenbacher,  E.,  and 
Frias-Lopez,  J.,  2003,  Phylogenetic  diversity  and  dis- 
tribution of  bacteria  in  travertine  depositional  fades 
(Angel  Terrace,  Mammoth  Hot  Springs,  Yellowstone 
National  Park,  USA) .  Canadian  Journal  Earth 
Sciences:  40:1531-1548. 


Colloquium  Speakers  for  Spring  and  Fall  2003 


Jan. 

24 

Jan. 

31 

Feb. 

7 

Feb. 

14 

Feb. 

21 

Feb. 

28 

Mar 

7 

Mar 

14 

Apr. 

2 

Apr.  4 
Apr.  11 

Apr.  25 
May  2 

May  9 


Rob  Finley,  ISGS 

Oil  Trade  and  Prices:  Megatrends  for  the  Coming  Decades 

Doug  Wiens,  Washington  University 

Seismological  structure  and  mantle  flow  patterns  in  subduction  zones 

Karl  Mitchell,  Lancaster  University 

Recent  volcanic  activity  on  Mars? 

Bruce  Fouke,  University  of  Illinois  (Joint  Geology /Microbiology 

Seminar) 

Geobiology:  Microbial  Life  in  a  Geological  Context 

Marc  Hirschmann,  University  of  Minnesota 

Pyroxenites  in  the  source  regions  of  oceanic  basalts 

Don  Wuebbles,  University  of  Illinois 

Potential  Climate  Changes  for  the  Midwest  during  the  21st  Century 

Xiaodong  Song,  University  of  Illinois 

Seismology  at  the  Center  of  the  Earth:  Evidence  for  an  Inner  Core 

Transition  Zone 

Paul  Knauth,  Arizona  State  University 

Environmental  Conditions  on  the  Early  Earth 

Jerry  Schuster,  University  of  Utah  (Special  Wednesday 

Colloquium) 

Imaging  Colluvial  Wedges  and  Ancient  Earthquakes  with  Seismic 

Tomography 

Barbara  Bekins,  USGS,  JOI/USSAC  Distinguished  Lecturer 

The  Subduction  Squeegee 

Marcelo  Garcia,  University  of  Illinois 

Turbidity  Currents:  arquitects  of  submarine  canyons  and 

hydrocarbon  reservoirs? 

Rich  Aronson,  Dauphin  Island  Sea  Lab 

The  Destruction  of  Coral  Reef  Ecosytems 

Jane  Gilotti,  University  of  Iowa 

Crustal  melting,  leucogranite  formation  and  extensional  exhumation 

of  gneiss  complexes  in  the  Greenland  Caledonides 

Wolfgang  Schlager,  Vrije  University 

Orders,  fractals  and  chaos  in  sequence  stratigraphy 


Awards  Presented  at  the  2003  Banquet 

Andrew  Anderson,  Roger  Bannister,  Chris  Henderson,  Scott  Koenig, 
Amy  Luther,  Meghan  Ward:  Franklin  Field  Camp  Scholarships. 
Fund  created  to  help  support  students  attending  summer  field  camp. 

Kurtis  C.  Burmeister,  Alexander  Glass,  Matthew  Kirk,  James  Klaus: 

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Professor  Steve  Marshak  (farthest  left)  and  Tom 
Johnson,  associate  professor  (third  from  left), 
pose  with  the  2003  graduating  class. 


Sophomore  Alene  Echevarria  goes  for 
broke  at  the  Upper  Limits  Climbing  Gym 
in  Bloomington,  III.  The  Geology  Club 
sponsored  its  second  rock-climbing  trip 
there  in  November,  2003.  Ten  club  mem- 
bers took  a  two-hour  rock-climbing  class 
that  covered  everything  from  how  to  put 
on  a  harness,  tie  knots  and  belay,  to  how 
to  communicate  between  the  climber  and 
the  ground. 


Support  the  Geology 
Club— Buy  A  T-Shirt! 

This  year  the  geology  club 
printed  t-shirts  for  all  its  members. 
Club  president,  Roger  Bannister, 
also  arranged  to  print  a  few  extras, 
thinking  some  alumni  might  get  a 
kick  out  of  owning  one!  So,  if 
you  are  interested,  there  are 
some  available.  Email  Roger  at 
geoclub@hercules.geology.uiuc.edu 


Students  studying  sedimentary  structures  near 
the  Salton  Sea,  California. 


H  ILLINOIS 

Department  of  Geology 

University  of  Illinois  at  Urbana-Champaign 
245  Natural  History  Building 
1301  W.  Green  St. 
Urbana,  1L  61801 


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2004        YEAR        IN        REVIEW 


Department  of  Geology 


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Gary  Parker  Appointed  as  W.  Hilton  Johnson  Professor 


The  Department  of  Geology  is  delighted 
to  announce  that  Gary  Parker  will 
assume  the  title  of  the  W.  Hilton  Johnson 
Professor  of  Geology  beginning  with  the 
Fall,  2005  term.  The  Johnson 
Professorship  was  made  possible  through 
a  generous  endowment  provided  by  Eric 
and  Kathy  Johnson,  in  memory  of  Eric's 
father  Hilt  Johnson,  who  was  a  much 
admired  professor  of  geomorphology  at 
the  University  of  Illinois  for  many  years. 
Prof.  Parker  describes  himself  as  a 
"hybrid,"  a  scientist  with  research  pas- 
sions in  both  geomorphology  and  civil 
engineering.   In  recognition,  he  will  hold 
appointments  both  in  the  Department  of 
Civil  and  Environmental  Engineering 
(CEE)  and  the  Department  of  Geology. 
He  comes  to  the  U  of  I  from  the 
University  of  Minnesota,  where  he  was  a 
professor  and  the  Director  of  the  St. 
Anthony  Falls  Laboratory. 

This  past  January,  during  a  break 
between  delivering  a  Geology/CEE  Joint 
Colloquium  ("Effect  of  Post-Glacial  Sea 
Level  Rise  on  Large  Rivers")  and  visiting 
Department  of  Geology  faculty  and  staff, 
Parker  explained  how  he  blends  geology 
and  engineering. 

"For  me,  the  connection  between  the 
two  disciplines  has  always  been  there. 
On  my  geology  side  I'm  a  geomorpholo- 
gist.  On  my  engineering  side,  I'm  a  river 
engineer.  Those  are  just  different  words 
for  very  similar  things.  In  my  entire 
career  the  applied  and  the  basic  sides 
have  always  interacted  strongly. " 

For  example,  Parker  cites  the  dual 
role  of  engineering  and  geology  in  river 
restoration,  one  of  his  research  special- 
ties. "I  will  say  that  as  time  has  pro- 
gressed that,  at  least  with  surface  process 
geologists,  they  used  to  disdain  the  idea 


of  prediction.  They  were  not  trained  to  do 
it.  However,  with  all  the  recent  interest  in 
river  restoration,  where  people  actually 
have  to  predict  what  would  make  things 
better  if  we  did  this  or  that  to  a  stream,  I 
find  that  geomorphologists  in  general  are 
becoming  more  predictive.  So  in  a  sense 
the  differences  between  civil  engineering 
and  geology  are  ameliorating  with  time." 

Parker's  many  research  activities 
include:  the  computational  study  of 
downstream  fining  and  floodplain  deposi- 
tion in  large,  low-slope  sand-bed  rivers; 
density  stratification  effects  due  to  sus- 
pended sediment  in  rivers;  and  theoreti- 
cal and  experimental  research  on  cyclic 
step  formation  in  cohesive  and  noncohe- 
sive  sediment.  His  research  articles  have 
appeared  in  many  journals  and  popular 
magazines,  including  GSA  Today,  Journal 
of  Glaciology,  Science,  and  Nature. 
Teaching  is  also  one  of  Parker's  passions. 
"I  love  to  teach,"  he  says.   He  will  be 
teaching  four  courses  at  Illinois. 

While  contemplating  his  next  career 
move  Parker  said  the  U  of  I  had  exactly 
what  he  needed.  "I  do  a  fair  amount  of 
my  research  in  a  laboratory  and  one  of 
the  few  universities  around  the  country 


that  has  a  laboratory  that  can  compete  is 
here  at  the  U  of  I  with  the  Ven  Te  Chow 
Hydrosystems  Laboratory.  So,  I  am  walk- 
ing into  an  environment  where  certain 
things  that  I  value  and  am  already  com- 
fortable with  are  on  the  table.  " 

"Gary's  appointment  instantly  puts 
the  University  of  Illinois  on  the  map  both 
in  fluvial  geomorphology  and  in  issues 
concerning  sedimentary  transport,"  says 
Department  of  Geology  Head  Steve 
Marshak.  "He  is  absolutely  one  of  the  top 
researchers  and  teachers  in  these  fields, 
and  we  are  very  proud  to  have  him  join 
the  faculty  as  the  W.  Hilton  Johnson 
Professor. " 

Civil  Engineering  Professor  and 
Director  of  the  Ven  Te  Chow  Hydrosystems 
Laboratory  IVTCHL)  Marcelo  Garcia,  said 
Johnson's  appointment  is  a  like  a  home- 
coming. "Gary  is  a  worldwide  leader  in  his 
field  but  most  important  he  is  a  continu- 
ous source  of  ideas  and  help  to  younger 
people.  We  are  extremely  fortunate  for 
having  him  in  our  faculty.  There  is  no 
question  that  he  will  provide  an  interdisci- 
plinary bridge  among  our  departments  and 
throughout  campus. 

"On  a  different  note,  in  the  late 
1980s,  together  with  Gary  Parker  we  pub- 
lished a  paper  in  Science.  As  it  turns  out, 
Sue  Kieffer,  Walgreen  Chair  and  Professor 
of  Geology,  was  the  person  that  handled 
the  review  process.  At  the  time  she  was 
working  on  hydraulic  jumps  in  the  Grand 
Canyon  of  the  Colorado  River  and  our 
paper  had  to  do  with  hydraulic  jumps  but 
in  oceanic  turbidity  currents  in  submarine 
canyons  many  of  which  rival  their  sub-aer- 
ial relatives  in  size.   Interestingly,  we  are 
all  here  now:  Sue  Kieffer,  Gary  Parker,  and 
me.  It  does  not  get  much  better  than  this." 


Greetings 


Letter  From  The  Head 


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ereetings  from  the  Department  of 
Geology!  As  always,  many  things  hap- 
pen during  the  course  of  a  year,  and  it's 
hard  to  keep  track  of  everything.  The  fac- 
ulty continues  to  evolve.  This  year  we  will 
see  the  retirement  of  Prof.  Albert  Hsui 
after  a  quarter  century  of  dedicated  ser- 
vice to  the  Department  and  its  students. 
Albert  has  been  a  kingpin  in  the  geo- 
physics curriculum,  teaching  a  great  range 
of  courses  ranging  from  Introductory 
Geology,  the  Geology  of  Planets,  to 
Exploration  Geophysics  and  Geodynamics, 
and  all  the  time  continuing  research  on 
flow  in  planetary  interiors  and  related  top- 
ics. Albert,  you  will  be  missed!  We  are 
fortunate  to  see  a  new  faculty  member 
arrive.  Gary  Parker,  one  of  the  world's 
leading  researchers  in  fluvial  geomorphol- 
ogy  and  sedimentary  transport,  will  be 
joining  the  Department  as  the  first  W.H. 


Geology  Professor  Wins  University-Wide 
Teaching  Honor 

Congratulations  to  Associate  Professor  Stephen  P. 
Altaner  who  was  awarded  this  past  year  with  the 
College-Level  and  Campus-Level  Awards  for 
Excellence  in  Undergraduate  Teaching.  Steve  has 
been  teaching  popular  courses  in  introductory  geolo- 
gy, natural  hazards,  and  environmental  geology 

Rob  Finley  is  New  Adjunct  Professor 
Rob  Finley  has  joined  the  Department  as  adjunct 
professor.  Rob  has  been  at  the  Illinois  State 
Geological  Survey  (ISGS),  Champaign,  Illinois,  since 
February,  2000,  where  he  is  Director  of  the  Energy 
and  Earth  Resources  Center.  He  works  with  state 
agency  heads  as  part  of  the  Governor's  Energy 
Cabinet,  developing  energy  market  analyses  from  the 
perspective  of  a  consuming  state,  and  works  on 
expanding  ISGS'  energy  research  programs. 

Illinois  Geology  Students  Return  to  Scotland! 

For  many  years,  in  the  60's  through  the  early  '80s, 
the  late  Prof.  Dennis  Wood  took  students  on  leg- 
endary field  trips  to  Scotland.  (Rumor  has  it  that  it 
wasn't  just  the  geology  that  was  legendary.)  In  2004, 
a  group  of  Illinois  geology  once  again  journeyed  to 
the  'birthplace  of  geology"  and  spent  two  weeks  with 
a  class  from  the  University  of  Leicester,  studying 


Johnson  Professor.  Gary  will  hold  a  joint 
appointment  with  the  Department  of  Civil 
and  Environmental  Engineering,  and  thus 
will  provide  a  key  link  between  our 
department  and  the  Engineering  College. 
He  will  be  setting  up  an  incredible  experi- 
mental apparatus  for  studying  turbidity 
flows,  among  other  problems,  at  the 
University's  Hydrosystems  Lab. 

Our  faculty  and  students  continue  to 
be  recognized.  Craig  Bethke  has  been 
made  a  Fellow  of  the  American 
Association  for  the  Advancement  of 
Science,  Steve  Altaner  has  won  the  two 
highest  teaching  awards  on  campus,  and 
Joannah  Metz  is  enjoying  her  year  at 
Cambridge  as  a  Gates  Scholar. 

This  year  also  saw  additional  steps  in 
the  development  of  a  School  of  Earth, 
Society,  and  Environment  at  UIUC.  This 


Highlights 


structure  and  petrology  in  Scotland.  Highlights  included 
the  Moine  thrust,  the  Isle  of  Skye,  and  rocky  coast  of 
Durness.  To  prepare  for  the  trip,  Prof.  Steve  Marshak 
organized  a  short  seminar  on  the  geology  of  the  UK. 

Sarah  Brown,  a  graduate  student  in  structure  and 
tectonics,  said,  "The  trip  was  wonderful.  We  saw  a  lot  of 
amazing  geology  in  a  relatively  short  time.  And  working 
with  a  different  set  of  teachers  and  students  was 
enlightening." 

Field  Work  and  International  Studies 

Recent  trips  have  taken  Department  of  Geology  stu- 
dents and  faculty  around  the  world  and  back  again.  For 
example.  Prof.  Bruce  Fouke  took  students  to  Curagao 
where  they  studied  carbonate  rocks  and  the  geology  of 
coral  reefs.  Prof.  Wang-Ping  Chen  continued  his  seis- 
mological  research  high  in  Tibet.  Prof.  Sue  Kieffer 
trekked  to  New  Zealand  to  examine  geothermal  sys- 
tems, Prof.  Jay  Bass  worked  at  the  mineral  physics  lab 
in  Lyons,  France,  and  Prof.  Xiaodong  Song  collaborat- 
ed with  colleagues  in  China. 

Seismology  Briefs 

Graduate  student  Zhaohui  Yang's  work  was  the  topic 
of  a  report  that  appeared  in  Science  Times,  a  weekly 
publication  of  the  Chinese  National  Academy  of 
Science  in  her  homeland.  The  report  highlighted  her 
recent  work  on  rheology  of  the  continental  lithosphere 


School,  if  it  comes  into  existence,  will  be 
an  alliance  between  the  Departments  of 
Geology,  Geography,  and  Atmospheric 
Science  on  this  campus.  It  will  not  only 
make  Earth-related  studies  at  UIUC  (and 
thus  the  Geology  Department)  more  visi- 
ble, but  can  be  an  anchor  for  new  interdis- 
ciplinary studies  and  majors.  2004  also  saw 
us  approach  the  end  of  the  GeoScience 
2005  endowment  campaign.  All  signs  are 
pointing  to  the  success  of  the  campaign  in 
achieving  its  $3  million  goal— many  thanks 
to  the  GeoThrust  Committee,  under  the 
chairmanship  of  Bill  Soderman,  for  their 
help  with  this  endeavor. 

I  hope  you  enjoy  this  "Year  in 
Review. "  Read  on,  to  find  out  more  about 
research,  teaching,  student  activities,  and 
alumni  news.  Please  keep  in  touch  ! 

Best  regards, 

—Stephen  Marshak 


that  was  published  in  June  of  2004  in 
Science. 

Undergraduate  students  Nathan 
VanHoudnos  and  Trale  Bardell  spent  the 
summer  working  in  the  Himalayas  and  Tibet 
for  Project  Hi-CLIMB,  a  large-scale  geophysi- 
cal experiment  directed  by  Dr.  Wang-Ping 
Chen.  The  Research  Experience  supports 
both  students  for  Undergraduates  of  the 
National  Science  Foundation. 

The  devastating  earthquake  and  associated 
tsunami  on  December  26,  2004,  impacted  the 
lives  of  many  at  U  of  I.  In  response,  the  cam- 
pus set  up  a  special  web  site  for  this  event, 
with  a  summary  of  scientific  background  on 
earthquakes  and  tsunami  written  by 
Wang-Ping  Chen. 

Year  in  Review  is  published  once  a  year  by  the 
Department  of  Geology,  University  of  Illinois 
at  Urbana-Champaign,  to  summarize  the 
activities  and  accomplishments  within  the 
department  and  news  from  alumni  and  friends. 
Department  Head:  Stephen  Marshak 

(smarshak@uiuc.edu) 
Administrative  Secretary:  Barb  Elmore 

(belmore@uiuc.edu) 
Editor:  Stephen  J.  Lyons  (sjlyons@uiuc.edu) 
http://www.geology.uiuc.edu 


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DEPARTMENT  NEWS 


Graduate  Student  on  Her  Way  to  the  Big  Easy 


Red  beans,  rice  and  a  plum  Shell  Oil  Co. 
internship  await  Kelly  Zimmerman  this 
summer.  The  first-year  graduate  student 
from  Camp  Point,  Illinois,  whose  area  of 
study  is  carbonate  sedimentology  and 
sUatigraphy,  will  spend  12  weeks  this  sum- 
mer in  New  Orleans  as  a  paid  geology- 
based  intern  with  the  giant  energy  compa- 
ny. She  found  ample  support  throughout 
the  interview  process  from  both  Shell  and 
from  the  U  of  I. 

"Every  step  of  the  interview  process 
was  laid  out  ahead  of  time,"  Zimmerman 
said.  "A  lot  of  the  interview  had  very  non- 
traditional  interview  questions.  They  want- 
ed to  know  about  my  experience  here  at  U 
of  I  and  they  asked  about  my  graduate 
studies.  They  also  wanted  to  know  person- 
al accomplishments  that  I've  achieved 
either  through  my  geology  coursework  or 
outside  of  academia.  I've  worked  at  the 
Illinois  State  Geological  Survey  and  Dot 
Foods  Inc.,  so  they  wanted  to  know  about 
some  projects  I  managed. 


"The  only  unknown  I  had  was  what 
the  scenario  question  would  be." 

The  situational  scenario  question  is 
an  attempt  by  the  company  to  determine 
how  well  a  student  can  think  on  her  feet. 
In  Zimmerman's  case  Shell  asked  how 
she  would  allocate  resources  in  a  college 
if  she  was  a  dean  facing  budget  cuts. 

"I  think  the  company  wants  to  see 
how  you  think  on  your  feet  and  if  you 
can  think  of  all  the  angles  of  a  problem 
or  if  you  are  simply  going  to  proceed 
down  only  one  path. 

"They  really  emphasize  that  at  Shell 
you  might  come  in  with  a  geology  back- 
ground but  you're  going  to  be  working 
with  people  with  a  chemistry  background 
or  an  engineering  background  and  they 
want  to  see  if  you  can  encompass  the 
whole  scope  of  the  science  industry." 

Zimmerman  also  had  some  ques- 
tions of  her  own  for  Shell.  "Even  though 
I'm  interested  in  working  in  the  oil  indus- 
try for  a  while  after  I  graduate,  I'd  even- 


tually like  to  move  into  renewables. 
Environmental  geology  really  interests 
me.  I  wanted  to  know  if  I  would  be  able 
to  move  through  the  company  and 
change  positions  to  end  up  on  its 
renewable  side.  They  have  a  very  strong 
solar  power  area  in  California. 

"I  wanted  to  make  sure  that  if  I 
came  in  as  a  geologist  in  the  oil  field 
that  there  has  been  and  would  be  future 
opportunities  to  switch  over." 

Shell  will  expose  Zimmerman  to 
many  different  aspects  of  a  geologist's 
role  in  the  exploration  and  recovery  of 
oil.  Her  time  in  the  bayou  country  will 
also  include  several  days  on  an  oil  plat- 
form in  the  Gulf  of  Mexico.  But  the  best 
part  is  still  to  come.  As  she  noted  the 
majority  of  Shell  interns  are  offered 
full-time  positions... after  they  graduate, 
of  course. 


Joannah  Metz:  A  Gates  Scholar 


Joannah  Metz  (B.S.  '04)  was  one  of  31 
U.S.  students  to  receive  the  prestigious 
Gates  Cambridge  Scholarship,  funded  by 
an  endowment  from  the  Bill  and  Melinda 
Gates  Foundation,  in  2004.    The  award 
covers  the  full  cost  of  studies  at  Cambridge 
University  in  England,  as  well  as  of  travel 
and  living  expenses. 

As  an  undergraduate  at  Illinois,  Metz 
completed  three  majors  (including  geolo- 
gy), and  gained  research  experience  work- 
ing with  Prof.  Bruce  Fouke.  As  the  accom- 
panying letter  shows,  she  is  taking  full 
advantage  of  her  year  in  Cambridge. 

Metz  will  return  to  the  United  States 
to  pursue  a  doctorate  in  planetary  science 
and  geology  at  MIT.  From  there,  she  hopes 
to  become  an  astronaut  and  eventually 
undertake  fieldwork  on  Mars. 


Letter  from  Cambridge 

By  Joannah  Metz 

Walking  the  hallowed  streets  of  Cambridge  as  a  graduate  student  at  the  University  of  Cambridge 
is  a  bit  different  from  strolling  along  the  streets  of  Champaign-Urbana;  for  one  thing,  the 'new'  buildings 
in  Cambridge  are  500  years  old.  I  love  attending  a  university  with  so  much  history,  where  I  can  be 
inspired  knowing  that  I'm  attending  lectures  in  rooms  Newton  and  Darwin  frequented.  Partaking  in  such 
Cambridge  traditions  as  rowing,  spring  balls,  and  formal  halls  has  helped  to  give  me  the  flavour  of  life  in 
Cambridge. 

In  more  academic  pursuits,  I'm  pursuing  a  one-year  M.Phil  in  Polar  Studies.  My  dissertation 
research  involves  looking  at  the  glacier-influenced  continental  margins  of  the  polar  North  Atlantic  using 
various  marine  geophysical  methods;  and  more  specifically,  I'm  looking  at  iceberg  scouring  along  the 
continental  margins  of  Greenland,  Iceland,  and  Labrador/Baffin  Island.  I've  already  learned  so  much 
about  Earth's  polar  regions  from  all  of  the  knowledgeable  researchers  in  my  department,  and  I  look  for- 
ward to  learning  much  more  before  I  finish  my  course  in  June.  I  was  also  fortunate  enough  to  be 
awarded  the  Gates  Cambridge  fellowship,  which  is  funding  my  studies  in  Cambridge.  There  is  a  great 
community  of  Gates  scholars  and  we  have  many  interesting  lectures  by  ambassadors,  scientists,  and 
foreign  policy  advisors  as  well  as  other  opportunities  such  as  trips  which  all  help  to  broaden  our  experi- 
ence at  Cambridge. 

This  has  been  a  fantastic  year  thus  far,  and  one  that  has  given  me  not  only  much  knowledge 
about  the  coldest  regions  on  Earth,  but  also  has  given  me  many  friends  and  memories. 


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Alumni  Award 


Mohamed  El-Ashry  Receives  Alumni  Achievement  Award 


We  are  very  proud  to 
announce  that  Dr. 
Mohamed  El-Ashry,  Ph.D.  '66, 
is  the  2004  Department  of 
Geology  Alumni  Achievement 
Award  winner.  Dr.  El-Ashry 
came  to  the  University  of 
Illinois  from  Cairo  University, 
and  completed  his  dissertation 
under  the  direction  of  Harold 
Wanless  on  the  photointerpre- 
tation  of  coastal  changes. 
Starting  from  this  foundation, 
he  gained  vast  experience 
over  the  years  in  many 
aspects  of  environmental  geol- 
ogy. Specifically,  he  has 
focused  on  issues  pertaining 
to  water-resources  issues  and 
contamination  due  to  mining.  Ultimately 
he  applied  his  knowledge  to  addressing 
the  environmental  impacts  of  interna- 
tional development,  and  has  held  high- 
level  posts  in  the  diplomatic  world.  In 
the  course  of  his  career,  he  published 
over  200  articles  and  3  books. 

Currently,  Dr.  El-Ashry  is  a  Senior 
Fellow  at  the  United  Nations  Foundation. 
Prior  to  that  appointment,  he  served  as 
Chief  Executive  Officer  of  the  Global 
Environment  Facility  (GEF).  Under  El- 
Ashry's  leadership,  from  1991  to  2003, 
GEF  grew  from  a  pilot  program  with  less 
than  30  members  to  the  largest  single 
source  of  funding  for  the  global  environ- 
ment with  173  member  countries.  The 
Global  Environment  Facility  has  allocat- 
ed over  $15  billion  for  more  than  1,000 
projects  in  over  140  countries. 


James  D.  Wolfensohn,  President  of 
the  World  Bank,  said  of  El-Ashry's 
tenure  at  GEF:  "The  GEF,  as  we  know  it 
today,  is  the  product  of  Mohamed  El- 
Ashry's  vision,  leadership,  dedication, 
and  hard  work.  He  has  made  a  signifi- 
cant contribution  to  the  global  environ- 
ment and  sustainable  development." 

El-Ashry  came  to  the  GEF  from  the 
World  Bank,  where  he  was  the  Chief 
Environmental  Advisor  to  the  President 
and  Director  of  the  Environment 
Department.  Prior  to  joining  the  World 
Bank,  he  served  as  Senior  Vice  President 
of  the  World  Resources  Institute  (WRI) 
and  as  Director  of  Environmental  Quality 
with  the  Tennessee  Valley  Authority.  In 
recent  years,  he  has  also  held  appoint- 
ments as  the  Senior  Environmental 
Adviser  to  the  UNDP,  a  Special  Adviser 
to  the  Secretary  General  of  the  1992  U.N. 


"The  GEF,  as  we  know  it 
today,  is  the  product  of 
Mohamed  El-Ashry's  vision, 
leadership,  dedication,  and 
hard  work.  He  has  made  a 
significant  contribution  to 
the  global  environment  and 
sustainable  development." 


Conference  on  Environment  and 
Development  (UNCED),  and  as  a  mem- 
ber of  the  World  Water  Commission. 
Earlier  in  his  career,  he  held  teaching 
and  research  positions  at  Cairo 
University,  Pan-Americas-U.A.R.  Oil 
Company,  the  Illinois  Geological 
Survey,  Wilkes  University,  and  the 
Environmental  Defense  Fund. 
El-Ashry  is  a  fellow  of  the 
Geological  Society  of  America  and  the 
American  Association  for  the 
Advancement  of  Science,  and  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Third  World  and  African 
Academies  of  Science.  He  is  listed  in 
"American  Men  and  Women  of 
Science"  and  "Men  of  Achievement," 
and  his  biography  has  been  featured  in 
Geotimes.  He  is  also  the  recipient  of 
numerous  international  awards  and 
honors. 


GEOLOG 


Albert  Hsui  Retires 


"I  feel  good  when  I  run  into  alumni 
and  they  tell  me  that  the  things  I 
taught  them  years  ago  are  very  useful 
and  that  they  finally  understand  why 
they  had  to  learn  them.  Those  are  the 
types  of  encounters  that  keep  me 
going.  You  hope  that  you  teach  things 
that  help  your  students  be  creative 
and  productive." 


pril  21,  2005,  was  declared  "Albert 
Hsui  Day"  and  the  retiring  profes- 
sor of  geology  and  associate  head  of 
the  department  presented  a  valedic- 
tory talk  on  "Geodynamics:  Mother 
of  All  Geological  Processes."  After 
his  talk,  Hsui  was  the  guest  at  a  din- 
ner in  his  honor,  during  which  his 
contributions  since  arriving  at  UIUC 
in  1980  were  toasted.  Hsui  moved  to 
the  department  after  completing  a 
Ph.D.  at  Cornell  and  a  post-doc  at 
MIT — when  he  arrived,  the 
Department's  geophysics  program 
was  in  transition. 

Hsui  is  modest  about  his 
accomplishments.  "I  feel  good  when 
1  run  into  alumni  and  they  tell  me 
that  the  things  I  taught  them  years 
ago  are  very  useful  and  that  they 
finally  understand  why  they  had  to 
learn  them.  Those  are  the  types  of 
encounters  that  keep  me  going.  You 
hope  that  you  teach  things  that  help 
your  students  be  creative  and  pro- 
ductive." 


It  was  the  lure  of  the  supercom- 
puters that  initially  brought  Hsui  to 
UIUC,  because  much  of  his  research 
relies  on  computer  simulation.  Over 
the  years,  Hsui  has  made  discoveries 
concerning  mantle  convection  and  its 
relationship  to  plate  tectonics,  the 
process  of  plate  subduction  and  its 
implications  to  island-arc  magma  gen- 
eration and  deep  seismicity,  the  evolu- 
tion of  map-view  curves  in  trenches 
and  mountain  belts,  and  the  thermal 
evolution  of  other  planets.  Hsui  has 
investigated  the  constancy  of  the  uni- 
versal gravitational  constant,  which 
has  implications  to  the  possible  exis- 
tence of  a  fifth  force  of  nature. 

Teaching  is  a  passion  for  Hsui, 
and  increasingly,  computers  have  been 
playing  a  role  in  his  classes.  "Today's 
students  are  much  more  visual,  so 
looking  at  equations  alone  is  not 
something  that  they  are  accustomed  to 
doing.  They  understand  the  meaning 
of  an  equation  much  better  if  you  have 
them  use  a  computer  to  simulate  what 
the  equation  shows.  For  example,  in 
my  'Geology  of  the  Planets'  class,  we 
simulate  the  Moon  orbiting  the  Earth, 
and  show  how  the  its  orbital  velocity 
relates  to  its  distance  from  the  Earth." 

Two  years  ago,  Hsui  developed  a 
new  introductory  geology  course  that 
fulfills  the  university's  quantitative  rea- 
soning course  requirement.  To  make 
this  course  possible,  Hsui  had  to  write 
a  new  lab  book  that  gives  students  the 
opportunity  to  use  math  in  the  context 
of  solving  geological  problems. 
Enrollment  in  this  class  has  been 
growing  steadily. 

"Retired"  just  means  moving  on 
to  the  next  endeavor,  Hsui  says.  "After 
25  years  I  feel  that  I've  reached  a  junc- 
ture where  if  I  want  to  do  something 
different  I  better  do  it  now,  while  I  am 
still  young  and  energetic." 


Department  News 


Serendipity  and  good  science  lead  to  the  discovery  of  a  starfish  living  at  the  ocean's  depths. 


geology  graduate  student  Chris 
D  Mali's  discovery  of  a  new  species  of 
starfish  reads  like  a  good-old  fash- 
ioned detective  story.  The  mystery 
began  eight  years  ago  off  the  coast  of 
Palau  in  the  400-feet  depths  of  the 
central  Pacific,  a  place  only  "dive 
nuts"  equipped  with  mixed  gas  re- 
breathing  units  dare  to  tread.  It  was 
in  this  murky  realm,  where,  according 
to  diver-scientist  Patrick  Colin,  one 
finds  "a  world  of  white,  blue,  and 
black,"  where  "sediment  flows  off  the 
shallow  reefs... like  snowfall."  Colin 
was  collecting  marine  animals  in  the 
hopes  of  discovering  new  anticancer 
agents  from  nature.  His  dive  permitted 
only  six  hours  underwater  and,  with 
less  than  10  minutes  left  before  his  air 
supply  was  exhausted,  he  surfaced 
with  an  orange  and  brown  starfish 
that  he  later  dubbed  the  "combread 
star. " 

Enter  U  of  I  paleobiologist  and 
starfish  researcher  Mah,  who  studies 
the  diversity  and  evolution  of  marine 
invertebrates.  The  drawers  of  his  lab 
in  the  basement  of  the  Natural  History 
Building  overflow  with  every  imagin- 
able shape  and  size  of  starfish,  but 
none  looked  quite  like  the  40-cm 
example  sent  from  Palau.  Months 
after  Mah  received  the  sample,  he  was 
visiting  the  Bishop  Museum  in 
Honolulu  and,  by  chance,  just  hap- 
pened to  notice  a  second  specimen 
stored  almost  as  an  afterthought  in  a 
5-gallon  bucket  that  was  holding  up  a 
fan.  This  specimen  had  been  collected 
at  Enewetak  Atoll  at  420  feet. 


Astrosarkus  idipi 


"It  was  collected  15  years  ago,"  Mah 
says.  "Ironically,  it  was  Colin  who  had  col- 
lected that  sample,  too,  but  the  opportunity 
to  properly  examine  the  specimen  never 
emerged." 

Several  years  later,  Mah  discovered  a 
third  sample  of  cornbread  star  on  a  dusty 
shelf  in  a  Belgium  marine  lab.  "It  had  just 
been  sitting  there  for  probably  a  decade, 
after  it  was  collected  from  the  Indian  Ocean 
in  1982.  With  a  critical  mass  of  starfish 
material  in  hand  I  proceeded  with  a  formal 
description." 


Mah,  whose  research  results 
were  published  last  year  in  the 
Bulletin  of  Marine  Science,  named  the 
starfish  Astrosarkus  idipi.  Astrosarkus 
means  "star-shaped  flesh,'  and  idipi  is 
in  honor  of  David  K.  Idipi,  Sr.,  former 
director  of  the  Palau  Bureau  of 
Natural  Resources  and  Development. 
The  naming  was  front-page  news  in 
the  Tia  Belau,  the  newspaper  of 
record  for  Palau. 

"The  species  represents  some- 
thing very  distinct,  and  very  new,  and 
very  different  from  previous  known 
animals,"  Mah  says.  "It's  a  bizarre 
animal  to  put  it  mildly.  It  lives  in  a 
region  just  below  conventional  scuba 
dive  range  and  in  an  area  too  deep 
and  too  jagged  for  trawler  nets.  That 
probably  explains  why  it's  never  been 
discovered." 

So  much  remains  a  mystery 
about  Astrosarkus  idipi.  Mah  still 
doesn't  know  what  it  eats  or  how  old 
any  of  the  specimens  are.  "Starfish 
can  reabsorb  calcite.  They  don't  really 
show  consistent  growth  patterns." 

Presently  there  is  a  global  effort 
at  the  moment  to  save  and  conserve 
biodiversity.  Mah  says  many  unde- 
scribed  species  remain  to  found  and 
each  new  species  represents  hope. 
"The  question  that  comes  out  of  this 
is,  'If  we  can  still  find  an  animal  that 
big — pumpkin-sized — in  the  populat- 
ed Tropics,  then  what  else  is  there  to 
be  discovered?'  You  can't  understand 
what's  being  lost  if  you  don't  know 
what's  there  in  the  first  place." 

Mah  is  finishing  his  Ph.D.  in  2005, 
under  the  supervision  of  Prof.  Emeritus 
Dan  Blake. 


Mount  St.  Helens:  25  years  later 


Twenty-five  years  ago,  Mount  St.  Helens 
erupted  in  Washington  state,  prompt- 
ing U.  of  I.  geology  graduate  David 
Johnston,  of  the  U.S.  Geological  Survey, 
to  report  "Vancouver,  Vancouver,  this  is 
it"  from  inside  his  monitoring-station 
trailer.  Johnston's  body  and  trailer  were 
never  found;  he  was  among  57  fatalities 
that  day. 

"The  neighbor  asked  what  we  had  been 
doing  recently,  and  when  we  replied 
'working  at  Mount  St.  Helens'  we  were 
told,  'Oh,  it  really  blew  up  this  morning!"' 
she  recalled.  "After  recovering  from  the 
shock,  we  packed  and  headed  back  to  the 
mountain  that  afternoon." 


Susan  W.  Kieffer,  now  the  Charles 
R.  Walgreen  Jr.  Chair  in  the  U.  of  I. 
Geology  Department,  had  been  on  site 
that  March  and  April  as  part  of  a  U.S. 
Geological  Survey  team  studying  earlier, 
smaller  eruptions  of  the  long  dormant 
volcano.  On  the  Sunday  morning  of  May 
18,  1980,  Kieffer  was  visiting  a  neighbor 
in  Flagstaff,  Arizona. 

"The  neighbor  asked  what  we  had 
been  doing  recently,  and  when  we  replied 
'working  at  Mount  St.  Helens'  we  were 
told,  'Oh,  it  really  blew  up  this  morn- 
ing!'" she  recalled.  "After  recovering  from 
the  shock,  we  packed  and  headed  back 
to  the  mountain  that  afternoon." 

An  official  observer,  Johnston,  who 
had  earned  a  bachelor's  degree  in  geolo- 


gy from  Illinois  in  1971,  had  been 
camped  on  a  high  ridge,  about  10  kilo- 
meters north  of  the  summit  of  Mount  St. 
Helens.  The  ridge  on  which  he  died, 
shortly  after  8:32  a.m.,  is  now  named 
Johnston  Ridge,  and  is  the  site  of  a  per- 
manent Webcam  that  broadcasts  images 
every  five  minutes  of  the  mountain. 

"The  mountain  today  can  look  so 
peaceful  on  a  sunny  morning,  but  the 
knowledge  of  how  violent  it  turned 
makes  it  a  very  uneasy  peace,  even 
though  now  it  is  a  relatively  safe  place," 
she  said.  "I  had  met  David  in  the  March- 
April  work,  and  we  enjoyed  a  tremen- 
dous comradeship.  David  was  much 
more  experienced  with  volcanoes  than 
me,  and  because  of  his  work  with  the 
explosive  and  dangerous  Augustine 
Volcano  in  Alaska,  he  knew,  and  respect- 
ed, the  power  of  St.  Helens  probably 
more  wisely  than  any  of  the  rest  of  us." 

Today,  scientists  have  a  lot  more 
understanding  of  what  happened  that 
day,  and  Kieffer  currently  is  part  of  a 
team  using  supercomputers  to  further 
analyze  what  happened  and  why. 


"At  the  time  of  the  1980  eruption,  we  did- 
n't have  supercomputers."  Kieffer  said. 
"Now,  we  have  not  only  the  computational 
power  for  the  models,  but  the  visualization 
capabilities  of  the  NCSA  (National  Center 
for  Supercomputing  Applications),  and 
we're  hoping  to  really  understand  and 
visualize  these  events." 


Susan  Kieffer  at  work  in  her  helicopter  flight 
suite  on  Mount  St.  Helens  in  1980. 

The  expanding  steam  and  gases  in 
the  magma  during  the  1980  Mount  St. 
Helens  eruption  propelled  fragmented 
rock  and  glaciers  over  500  square  kilome- 
ters of  land,  ripping  up  and  destroying 
about  4  billion  board  feet  of  timber  along 
the  way,  and  causing  nearly  $1  billion  in 
economic  damage. 

"These  eruptions  have  been 
described  as  'ash  hurricanes,'  "  Kieffer 
said. 

Kieffer  mapped  the  directions  of 
blow-down  of  the  trees  and  reconstructed 
the  dynamics  of  the  blast  using  rocket- 
engine  theory.  She  proposed  that  the  flow 
within  the  most  highly  damaged  area  was 
moving  so  fast  that  gravitational  forces 
couldn't  act  to  divert  the  flow  of  the  "ash 
hurricane"  down  the  valleys. 

Kieffer  is  working  with  Illinois  col- 
leagues S.  (BalaJ  Balachandar,  professor 
and  associate  head  of  the  department  of 
theoretical  and  applied  mechanics,  and 
Andreas  Haselbacher,  a  research  scientist 
at  the  Center  for  Simulation  of  Advanced 
Rockets,  to  use  supercomputing  capabili- 
ties and  the  university's  Apple  Turing 
Cluster  computer  to  improve  the  under- 
standing of  the  volcano's  eruption. 

"At  the  time  of  the  1980  eruption,  we 
didn't  have  supercomputers,"  Kieffer  said. 
"Now,  we  have  not  only  the  computation- 
al power  for  the  models,  but  the  visual- 
ization capabilities  of  the  NCSA  (National 
Center  for  Supercomputing  Applications), 
and  we're  hoping  to  really  understand 
and  visualize  these  events." 


Windows  into  the  Past 


Geology  at  Illinois  1931-1946 


by  Ralph  L.  Langenheim 


Frank  DeWolfe  took  over  as  head  of  the 
Department  of  Geology  and 
Geography  in  1931,  at  the  height  of  the 
Great  Depression.  DeWolfe  served  until 
1946  and  held  the  Department  together 
through  the  Depression,  the  New  Deal, 
and  World  War  II.  He  was  the  only 
department  head  to  reach  retirement  in 
office.  When  he  came  to  the  University 
of  Illinois,  DeWolfe  had  a  reputation  as 
an  outstanding  explorationist  and  admin- 
istrator. His  resume  included  terms  as 
Director  of  the  ISGS  (1911  to  1923),  as 
Chief  Geologist  for  the  Humphreys 
Corporation  (1923-1927),  and  as  Vice 
President  of  the  Louisiana  State  Lands 
Corporation.  In  Louisiana,  he  introduced 
seismic  profiling,  leading  to  the  discov- 
ery of  many  salt  domes. 

DeWolfe  entered  a  department  in 
which  intense  feuds,  some  of  a  personal 
nature,  divided  the  faculty.  In  1936,  an 
investigative  committee  chaired  by  the 
Dean  of  LAS  reviewed  the  Department, 
suggested  some  staffing  changes,  and 
emphasized  the  need  for  stronger  leader- 
ship and  scholarship.  As  problems  dissi- 
pated, enrollments  grew  and  the  depart- 
ment granted  53  masters  and  21  doctor- 
ates between  1931  and  1946.  World  War 
II  did  take  its  toll— no  degrees  were 
granted  in  1943  and  1944. 

Staff  and  students  of  the  mid-20th 
century  concentrated  overwhelmingly  in 
sedimentary  geology,  and  Illinois  came 
to  be  known  as  a  leading  "soft-rock" 
department.  For  example,  the  record 
shows  23  theses  in  paleontology,  16  in 


stratigraphy,  13  in  sedimentology,  8  in 
marine  geology,  5  in  petroleum  geology, 
6  in  coal  geology,  and  3  in  subsurface 
geology.  All  other  disciplines  together 
yielded  only  7  theses.  The  Department 
reached  its  highest-ever  position  (11th)  in 
the  American  Council  of  Education's 
ranking  of  graduate  programs  in  geology. 

In  addition  to  DeWolfe,  Terrence 
Quirke,  Harold  Wanless,  Harold  Scott, 
Waldorf  Howard,  Francis  Shepard,  and 
Arle  Sutton  formed  the  core  of  the 
Geology  Department  staff.  Continuing 
activity  on  the  part  of  emeritus  professor 
Savage  supplemented  their  efforts,  and 
Carleton  Chapman  and  Robert  Sharp 
joined  the  staff  before  leaving  for  military 
duty.  In  addition,  G.H.  Cady,  a  distin- 
guished coal  geologist  from  the  ISGS  for 


which  GSA's  Cady  Award  was  named, 
was  appointed  as  an  adjunct  professor. 

Shepard  and  Wanless  developed 
wide  reputations  for  research  and 
teaching.  Shepard  helped  found  the 
study  of  submarine  geology,  and  some 
of  the  students  that  he  supervised  at 
Illinois  went  on  to  achieve  fame  in 
their  own  right.  These  included  Robert 
Dietz  (Ph.D.,  1941)  and  K.O.  Emery 
(Ph.D.,  1941).    In  1937,  though  retain- 
ing his  status  as  an  Illinois  faculty 
member,  Shepard  relocated  to  the 
Scripps  Institution  of  Oceanography;  he 
resigned  from  Illinois  in  1946.  Wanless 
began  a  lifetime  of  research  on  Late 
Paleozoic  cyclothems  and  pioneered 
the  use  of  aerial  photographs  in  geolog- 
ic mapping.  He  was  also  an  extremely 
popular  teacher— a  course  that  he 
developed  on  the  geology  of  Illinois 
became  so  popular,  considering  the 
state's  burgeoning  petroleum  industry, 
that  its  field  trips  required  use  of  a  bus. 
Quirke  continued  research  in  hard  rock 
geology  and  began  instruction  in  engi- 
neering geology,  Howard  led  a  research 
program  in  carbonate  geology,  Scott 
helped  to  establish  conodont  biostratig- 
raphy  as  a  major  correlation  tool,  and 
Sutton  made  contributions  in  sedimen- 
tary and  petroleum  geology. 

All  in  all,  as  the  WW  II  came  to  a 
close,  the  Illinois  geology  department 
was  ready  to  play  a  leading  role  in  geo- 
logic research  and  education  during  the 
post-war  period. 


Late  last  January,  while  most  people 
were  battling  winter's  cold  and 
snow,  structural  geologist  Stephen 
Hurst  joined  a  team  of  scientists, 
engineers  and  technicians  who  set 
sail  from  Easter  Island  to  explore  the 
Pito  Deep,  a  rift  in  Earth's  crust  near- 
ly 6,000  meters  deep. 

Funded  by  the  National  Science 
Foundation,  the  expedition  had  as  its 
goal  to  probe  the  ocean  crust,  and 
gain  a  better  understanding  of  how  it 
was  created. 

"Pito  Deep  is  one  of  the  few  loca- 
tions where  such  investigations  can 
be  made,"  Hurst  said.  "The  rift  is  on 
the  boundary  between  the  Easter 
Island  microplate  and  the  Nazca 
plate,  in  an  area  where  tectonic 
movement  is  pulling  the  crust  apart." 

Unlike  rifts  caused  by  sea-floor 
spreading,  at  Pito  Deep  there  is  no 
fresh  magma  obscuring  the  chasm.  As 
a  result,  the  crust  is  exposed  like  a 
split  watermelon.  The  naturally  occur- 
ring cross-section  offers  scientists  an 
opportunity  to  study  the  structure  of 
the  ocean  crust  and  how  it  formed. 

Hurst  rendezvoused  with  the  rest 
of  the  scientific  team  on  Easter  Island. 
While  awaiting  final  preparations,  he 
had  an  opportunity  to  explore  the 
quarry  where  most  of  the  island's 
famous  stone  heads,  or  Moai,  were 
carved. 

"The  quarry  is  spectacular," 
Hurst  said.  "There  are  approximately 
300  Moai  scattered  throughout  the 
quarry  area,  in  various  stages  of  com- 
pletion. Some  are  40  feet  long." 


When  all  was  made  ready,  Hurst 
and  the  others  boarded  the  Atlantis 
(host  ship  for  the  deep-sea  submersible 
Alvin)  and  began  the  24-hour  cruise  to 
Pito  Deep,  which  is  about  350  miles 
north  and  slightly  east  of  Easter  Island. 

Having  participated  in  six  similar 
cruises,  Hurst  was  involved  with  many 
technical  operations  of  the  expedition, 
from  preparing  bathymetric  maps  to 
analyzing  photographs  to  diving  in 
Alvin. 

The  floor  of  Pito  Deep  lies  about 
1,500  meters  deeper  than  Alvin  can 
safely  dive,  but  this  was  not  a  problem 
for  the  researchers.  "The  bottoms  of 
these  canyons  are  usually  filled  with 
sediment  and  debris  from  rockslides," 
Hurst  said.  "For  our  studies,  we  want- 
ed to  collect  rocks  from  the  steepest, 
not  the  deepest,  part  of  the  chasm." 

The  descent  takes  nearly  two 
hours.  The  pilot  and  two  "observers" 
spend  the  time  talking,  listening  to 
music  or  rechecking  the  equipment. 
During  the  dive,  the  water  temperature 
falls  from  about  80  degrees  Fahrenheit 
at  the  surface  to  close  to  freezing  at 
depth.  Separating  the  sub's  occupants 
from  the  cold  water  is  2  inches  of  tita- 
nium hull,  which  also  offers  protection 
from  the  crushing  pressure. 

"Because  of  the  enormous  pres- 
sures we  experience,  it's  not  uncom- 
mon to  find  Alvin's  hull  festooned 
with  net  bags  filled  with  Styrofoam 
cups  and  mannequin  heads  at  the 
beginning  of  a  dive,"  Hurst  said.  "The 
water  pressure  squeezes  them  to  a  tiny 
fraction  of  their  original  size,  making 
neat  souvenirs  of  the  dive." 


Geology  Department's  Stephen  Hurst  with 
the  deep-sea  submersible  "Alvin." 

The  researchers  have  about  five 
hours  to  explore  the  abyss  and  collect 
rock  samples  from  the  cliff  face  before 
Alvin's  power  runs  low  and  they  must 
float  to  the  surface. 

Although  data  analysis  will  take 
many  months,  Hurst  said  the  expedi- 
tion's preliminary  results  are  positive. 

"We  discovered  that  Pito  Deep 
has  a  sort  of  layer  cake  geology," 
Hurst  said.  "Like  frosting  on  a  cake, 
the  top  layer  consists  of  horizontal 
lava  flows.  Beneath  that  is  a  layer  of 
vertical  dikes  -  the  conduits  through 
which  the  lava  flowed.  Beneath  that  is 
the  now  solid  magma  chamber  at  the 
base  of  the  ocean  crust.  And  beneath 
that  lies  the  mantle." 


Alumni  News 


Jack  Pierce,  B.S.  '49,  M.S.  '50,  retired  chairman  of  the  Department  of  Paleobiology  of  the 
Smithsonian  Institution's  National  Museum  of  Natural  History,  and  professor  at  George 
Washington  University,  died  on  February  11,  2004.  He  was  77  years  old.  Pierce  served  in  the 
Pacific  Theater  in  WWII.  After  the  war,  he  attended  the  U  of  I,  where  he  received  his  bache- 
lor's and  master's  degrees.  He  received  a  Ph.D.  from  the  University  of  Kansas.  He  then 
moved  to  George  Washington  University  as  a  professor  of  sedimentology  and  marine  geolo- 
gy. In  1965,  Pierce  began  his  tenure  at  the  Smithsonian  Institution's  Museum  of  Natural 
History  as  a  research  scientist  and  curator.  He  founded  the  museum's  sedimentology  depart- 
ment. During  the  course  of  his  career,  Pierce  conducted  research  in  Argentina,  Belize,  Italy, 
Spain,  France,  and  coastal  South  America.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Sigma  Xa,  and  a  fellow 
of  AAPG.  SEPM,  GSA,  IAS,  and  GSW. 

Frank  Larry  Doyle,  Ph.D.  '58,  passed  away  on  February  26,  2005,  in  San  Antonio,  Texas.  A 
professional  groundwater  hydrologist  with  an  internationally  renowned  career  spanning 
more  than  50  years,  Larry  served  the  U.S.  Chapter  of  the  International  Association  of 
Hydrologists  from  1980  to  1988  as  Secretary/Treasurer  and  Chairman.  Larry  began  his  career 
with  the  USGS  in  1960  and  worked  in  Arizona  and  Colorado.  During  his  career  he  taught  at 
St.  Mary's  University  in  San  Antonio,  the  State  University  of  New  York,  and  the  University  of 
Connecticut  in  Storrs.  Larry  also  had  associations  with  the  Geological  Survey  of  Alabama, 
Dames  and  Moore,  Metcalf  and  Eddy,  the  U.S.  Nuclear  Regulatory  Commission,  the  U.S. 
Department  of  the  Interior  Office  of  Project  Review,  and  the  MITRE  Corporation.  He  carried 
out  geologic  and  hydrologic  investigations  in  Panama,  Nicaragua,  Algeria,  and  Spain. 

Bruce  Dollahan,  B.S.  '59,  passed  away  February  1,  2005,  in  Little  Rock,  Arkansas.  Bruce 
retired  from  Sears  in  1989  after  30  years  of  employment.  He  then  worked  for  three  years  at 
Dillard's  in  Overland  Park,  Kansas.  Among  his  survivors  is  his  wife,  college  sweetheart  Nora, 
who  he  wed  in  1959. 


1940s 

Rob  Roy  Macgregor,  B.S.  '40,  wrote  from  his 
home  in  Woodstock,  Connecticut  after  read- 
ing the  late  Prof.  Harold  W.  Scott's  book,  The 
Sugar  Creek  Saga:  Chronicles  of  a  Petroleum 
Geologist.  Reminiscing,  Rob  writes  that  he 
took  a  job  as  a  "shooter's  helper"  with  the 
Carter  Oil  Company  in  Oklahoma.  The  com- 
pany then  transferred  him  to  Mattoon, 
Illinois,  to  work  as  a  clerk.  "It  became  appar- 
ent to  me  that  to  get  ahead  in  geology  I 
would  need  a  degree  in  it.  Working  in 
Mattoon  provided  me  an  opportunity  to  con- 
tinue to  work  for  Carter  part  time  and  to 
attend  the  U  of  I  part  time,  taking  enough 
geology  courses  to  acquire  a  degree. "  Rob 
fondly  remembers  classmate  Bernard  Curvin 
(B.S.  '39). 

Howard  L.  Patton,  B.S.  '46,  M.S.  '48,  wrote 
to  the  Department  in  which  he  remembered 
his  friend  and  U  of  I  colleague  Jim  Pearson 
('42),  who  died  in  1944  behind  enemy  lines 
during  WWII.  Howard  writes,  "I  had  the  good 
fortune  to  be  Jim's  field  partner,  and  our 
Spring  course  headquartered  in  the  Rose 
Hotel  in  Elizabethtown  [IL]  on  the  Ohio  has 
provided  many  pleasant  memories.  I  rode  his 
coattails  then... Jim  was  personable,  sensitive, 
meticulous,  and  thorough,  and  he  always 
seemed  to  be  in  control  of  his  studies  when 
most  of  us  were  laboring  mightily... He  was  a 
true  hero  and  should  be  remembered  as  such 
by  the  Department  of  Geology." 


1950s 

At  the  2005  AAPG  Convention  in  Calgary  Jack 
Threet  AB'51  was  one  of  several  AAPG  mem- 
bers who  was  honored  with  a  Distinguished 
Service  Award  recognizing  their  "singular  and 
beneficial  service  to  AAPG."  Jack,  whose  long 
career  included  service  as  Vice  President  of 
Shell  Oil,  has  received  the  Department's  alumni 
achievement  award. 

Paul  Karrow,  Ph.D.  '57,  was  awarded  the  title 
Distinguished  Professor  Emeritus  by  the 
University  of  Waterloo  in  2002.  He  retired  from 
UW  in  1999.  Presently,  Paul  is  an  adjunct  pro- 
fessor in  the  Department  of  Earth  Sciences  and 
continues  to  teach  and  supervise  graduate  stu- 
dents. A  day-long  symposium  was  held  at  the 
Geological  Association  of  Canada's  annual  meet- 
ing to  recognize  Paul's  work  in  quaternary  geol- 
ogy. Most  importantly,  Paul  is  now  a  grandfa- 
ther of  eight. 

1960s 

John  Hawley,  Ph.D.  '62,  now  directs  Hawley 
Geomatters  in  Albuquerque,  New  Mexico.  He  is 
the  winner  of  a  2005  New  Mexico  Earth  Science 
Achievement  Award.  The  award  recognizes  indi- 
viduals who  have  made  outstanding  contribu- 
tions to  advancing  geoscience  in  areas  of  educa- 
tion, research,  public  service,  and  public  policy 
in  New  Mexico. 


Bill  Soderman,  M.S.  '60,  Ph.D.  '62,  received 
the  2004  U  of  I  College  of  Liberal  Arts  and 
Sciences'  "Quadrangle  Award"  in  recognition  of 
his  many  important  contributions  to  the  UIUC 
campus  and  for  his  efforts  to  help  establish  the 
GeoThrust  Committee  and  for  guiding  it  over 
many  years.  The  award  was  presented  at  a  lav- 
ish banquet  hosted  by  the  Dean  of  the  College. 

At  the  2005  American  Association  of  Petroleum 
Geologists  (AAPG)  Convention  in  Calgary 
Christopher  C.  M.  Heath,  MS'63,  Ph.D.'65,  was 

one  of  three  recipients  of  the  Honorary 
Membership  Award.  The  award  goes  to  those 
"who  have  distinguished  themselves  by  their 
accomplishments  and  through  their  service  to 
the  petroleum  profession." 

For  more  than  30  years.  Douglas  Mose,  B.S. 

'65,  has  been  a  professor  of  geochemistry  at 
Virginia's  George  Mason  University,  where  he 
directs  the  Center  for  Basic  and  Applied  Science, 
a  faculty-student  research  corporation.  Douglas 
is  also  the  president  of  an  environmental  (air- 
water-soil)  testing  company.  He  says,  "I  most 
fondly  remember  Harold  Wanless  for  the  goals 
he  created  in  my  mind  when  I  listened  during 
and  after  classes.  I  was  fortunate  to  be  his  dri- 
ver for  one  year  on  field  trips  and,  in  later 
years,  I  realized  he  became  a  model  for  me  as  a 
teacher  and  scientist."  Mose  earned  his  Ph.D.  at 
University  of  Kansas. 

1980s 

The  Geological  Society  of  America  elected 
Kathleen  Marsaglia,  M.S.  '82,  a  GSA  Fellow  on 
April  25,  2004.  Kathy  is  a  professor  at  California 
State  University,  Northridge,  where  she  teaches 
and  carries  out  research  in  sandstone  petrogra- 
phy and  works  on  paleogeographic  and  paleo- 
tectonic  reconstructions.  She  has  been  ship- 
board scientist  on  several  ODP  legs. 

Linda  Rowan,  B.S.  '86,  is  now  at  the  American 
Geological  Institute  as  Director  of  Government 
Affairs.  She  was  a  senior  editor  with  the  journal 
Science. 

1990s 

Catherine  A.  Hier  Majumder,  B.S.  '97,  finished 
her  Ph.D.  in  computational  geophysics  at  the 
University  of  Minnesota  and  then  worked  as  a 
post-doc  at  Los  Alamos  National  Lab.  She  is 
now  beginning  a  post-doc  at  Carnegie,  in 
Washington.  D.C.,  where  she  will  be  working 
on  projects  pertaining  to  the  NASA  mission  to 
Mercury. 

Doug  Tinkham,  M.S.,  '97,  will  become  an 
assistant  professor  at  Laurentian  University 
(Sudbury,  Ontario)  in  the  fall  of  2005.  Doug  did 
his  masters  with  Steve  Marshak  before  complet- 
ing a  Ph.D.  at  Alabama  and  a  post-doc  at 
Calgary.  Doug,  Dee  and  their  daughter  Cydney 
Alicia  will  be  moving  at  the  end  of  the  summer. 


Honor  Roll  of  Donors  for  2004 


Crystal  G.  Lovett-Tibbs,  B.S.  '97,  was  hired 
last  September  as  an  associate  attorney  in 
Husch  &  Eppenberger,  LLC,  in  the  firm's 
Environmental  &  Regulatory  Practice  Group. 

Joel  Johnson,  M.S.  '98,  will  become  an 
assistant  professor  at  the  University  of  New 
Hampshire.  Joel  did  his  master's  with  Steve 
Marshak  before  moving  to  Oregon  State  for 
a  Ph.D.  and  a  post-doc  at  the  Monterey  Bay 
Aquarium.  Joel  and  his  wife  will  be  heading 
from  the  beaches  of  the  West  Coast  to  those 
of  the  East  Coast  this  summer. 

2000s 

David  Beedy,  B.S.  '00,  M.S.  '02,  lives  in 
Denver,  Colorado,  where  he  is  a  9th  grade 
advisor  in  the  Mapleton  School  District. 

Roberto  Hernandez,  M.S.  '00,  was  promot- 
ed to  the  position  of  Chief  Geologist  at 
Ecopetrol,  in  Colombia.  Roberto  completed  a 
thesis  in  structural  geology  while  at  UIUC. 

Michael  Brudzinski,  Ph.D.  '01,  has  accept- 
ed a  position  of  assistant  professor  at  Miami 
University  of  Ohio.  He  will  begin  his 
appointment  in  the  fall  of  2005.  Mike 
worked  with  Wang-Ping  Chen  in  seismology. 

Qusheng  Jin,  Ph.D.  '03,  has  accepted  a 
position  as  an  assistant  professor  at  the 
University  of  Oregon.   He  and  his  wife  Rose 
will  move  to  Eugene  for  the  Spring  2006 
term.  Jin  worked  with  Craig  Bethke  in 
hydrogeology  and  geomicrobiology  at  UIUC, 
before  becoming  a  post-doc  at  Berkeley. 

News  from  Former  Faculty 

Emeritus  professor  George  Klein  was 

appointed  Chairman  of  the  Matson  Award 
Committee  for  the  2006  annual  meeting  of 
the  American  Association  of  Petroleum 
Geologists  (AAPG).  In  addition  to  his  contin- 
uing work  with  SED-STRAT  Geoscience 
Consultants,  he  has  published  a  novel. 


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Buckley  Lecture  Series  Launched 

Glen  and  Susan  Buckley  have  generously  endowed  a  series  of  lectures  in  the  Department.  The 
Buckley  Lecture  Series  will  bring  to  our  weekly  colloquial  series  engaging  speakers  who  will  address 
a  broad  range  of  issue  with  an  environmental-geology  theme.  The  inaugural  talk  in  the  series  will  be 
by  Glen  Buckley,  who  will  speak  on  water  crises  in  Texas.. 

The  following  is  a  list  of  friends  and  alumni  of  the  Department  of  Geology  who  have  donated  to  the 
department  during  the  calendar  year  2004. 


Prof.  Thomas  F.  Anderson 
Dr.  Robert  F.  Babb  II 
Mrs.  Laura  S.  Bales 
Mrs.  Margaret  H.  Bargh 
Mr.  Douglas  S.  Bates 
Dr.  Craig  M.  Bethke 
Dr.  Marion  E.  Bickford 
LTC  Ronald  E.  Black  (RET) 
Mr.  Joseph  E.  Boudreaux 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Allen  S. 

Braumiller 
Ms.  Annette  Brewster 
Ms.  Margaret  R.  Broten 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Ross  D.  Brower 
The  Reverend  Robert  L. 

Brownfield 
Dr.  Susan  B.  Buckley 
Dr.  Glenn  R.  Buckley 
Mr.  James  W.  Castle 
Dr.  Thomas  L.  Chamberlin 
Dr.  Charles  J.  Chantell 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Lester  W.  Clutter 
Dr.  Dennis  D.  Coleman 
Dr.  Lorence  G.  Collins 
Dr.  Barbara  J.  Collins 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Randolph  M. 

Collins 
Dr.  Virginia  A.  Colten-Bradley 
Mrs.  Lucinda  E.  Cummins 
Dr.  Norbert  E.  Cygan 
Dr.  Richard  N.  Czerwinski 
Dr.  Ilham  Demir 
Mr.  M.  Peter  deVries 
Mr.  Bruce  E.  Dollahan  (DEC) 
Mr.  James  D.  Donithan 
Dr.  Garnett  M.  Dow 
Ms.  Stephanie  Drain 
Dr.  Mohamed  T,  El-Ashry 
Dr.  Frank  R.  Ettensohn 
Mr.  Joseph  P.  Fagan  Jr. 
Mr.  Kenneth  T  Feldman 
Dr.  and  Mrs.  Ray  E.  Ferrell  Jr. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Dale  C.  Finley  Jr 
Mr.  Gary  M.  Fleeger 
Dr.  Richard  M.  Forester 
Mr.  Jack  D.  Foster 
Mr.  Robert  E.  Fox 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Edwin  H. 

Franklin 
Mr.  Barry  R.  Gager 
Mr.  James  C.  Gamble 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  John  R.  Garino 
Ms.  Theresa  C.  Gierlowski 
Mr  Robert  N.  Ginsburg 
Ms.  Erika  L.  Goench 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Charles  J. 

Gossetl 


Dr.  and  Mrs.  Stuart  Grossman 

Dr.  Albert  L.  Guber 

Mrs.  Catherine  L.  Harms 

Dr.  Richard  L.  Hay 

Dr.  Daniel  0.  Hayba 

Dr.  Mark  A.  Helper 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Mark  F.  Hoffman 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Glen  A.  Howard 

Dr.  Roscoe  G.  Jackson  II 

Mr.  Steven  F  Jamrisko 

Mr.  Martin  V.  Jean 

Dr.  William  D.  Johns  Jr. 

Dr.  Allen  H.  Johnson 

Dr.  Kenneth  S.  Johnson 

Mr.  Robert  R.  Johnston 

Mr.  Roy  A.  Kaelin 

Dr.  Robert  E.  Karlin 

Dr.  and  Mrs.  Frank  R.  Karner 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Donald  A.  Keefer 

Dr.  John  P.  Kempton 

Mr.  John  N.  Keys 

Dr.  and  Mrs.  John  D.  Kiefer 

Dr.  and  Mrs.  R.  James 

Kirkpatrick 
Mr.  Robert  F  Kraye 
Mr.  Thomas  E.  Krisa 
Mr.  Michael  B.  Lamport 
Dr.  Stephen  E.  Laubach 
Dr.  Steven  W.  Leavitt 
Mr.  Stephen  C.  Lee 
Dr.  Hannes  E.  Leetaru 
Dr.  Morris  W.  Leighton 
Dr.  Margaret  S.  Leinen 
Ms.  Crystal  Lovett-Tibbs 
Mr  Bernard  W.  Lynch 
Mr.  Rob  Roy  Macgregor 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Andrew  S. 

Madden 
Mr.  John  W.  Marks 
Prof,  and  Mrs.  Stephen 

Marshak 
Mrs.  Joyce  C.  Mast 
Dr.  Murray  R.  McComas 
Mrs.  W.  E.  McCommons 
Mrs.  Cheryl  B.  Miller 
Mr  James  A.  Miller 
Ms.  Linda  A.  Minor 
Mr.  John  S.  Moore 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Wayne  E.  Moore 
Dr.  Sharon  Mosher 
Mr.  Joseph  C.  Mueller 
Mr.  Robert  E.  Murphy 
Dr.  and  Mrs.  Haydn  H.  Murray 
Mr.  Bruce  W.  Nelson 
Mr.  W.  John  Nelson 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Brian  D.  Noel 


Mr.  and  Mrs.  William  A. 

Oesterling 
Dr.  William  A.  Oliver  Jr. 
Donald  E.  Orlopp 
Michael  R.  Owen 
Dr.  Norman  J.  Page 
Mrs.  Corinne  Pearson 
Dr.  and  Mrs.  Russel  A. 

Peppers 
Mr.  Charles  E.  Pflum 
Mr.  Bruce  E.  Phillips 
Mrs.  Beverly  A.  Pierce 
Dr.  and  Mrs.  Robert  I. 

Pinney 
Dr.  Paul  L.  Plusquellec 
Mr.  Raymond  W.  Rail 
Dr.  Elizabeth  P.  Rail 
Mr.  Paul  J.  Regorz 
Mr.  William  D.  Rice 
Mr.  Donald  0.  Rimsnider 
Mr.  Dean  M.  Rose 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Edward  L. 

Rosenthal 
Mr  Jeffrey  A.  Ross 
Dr.  Richard  P.  Sanders 
Mr.  Michael  L.  Sargent 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Jay  R. 

Scheevel 
Dr.  and  Mrs.  Detmar 

Schmtker 
Dr.  David  C.  Schuster 
Dr.  and  Mrs.  Franklin  W. 

Schwartz 


Ms.  Yuki  J.  Shinbori 
Dr.  Charles  H.  Simonds 
Dr.  Brian  J.  Sinclair 
Mr.  Roger  A.  Sippel 
Dr.  J.  William  Soderman 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Eric  P. 

Sprouls 
Dr.  Ian  M.  Steele 
Dr.  Ronald  D.  Stieglitz 
Dr.  John  E.  Stone 
Dr.  Gary  D.  Strieker 
Mr.  Thomas  R.  Styles 
Dr.  Susan  M.  Taylor 
Dr.  Daniel  A.  Textons 
Dr.  and  Mrs.  J.  Cotter 

Tharin 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Jack  C. 

Threet 
Dr.  Edwin  W.  Tooker 
Dr.  F  Michael  Wahl 
Ms.  Harriet  E.  Wallace 
Dr.  James  G.  Ward 
Dr.  W.  F.  Weeks 
Mr.  Jack  L.  Wilber 
Mr.  Donald  R.  Williams 
Ms.  Jennifer  A.  Wilson 
Mr.  John  J.  Wilson 
Mr.  Matthew  W.  Woltman 
Mr.  Roland  F  Wright 
Dr.  Wang-Hong  A.  Yang 
Dr.  and  Mrs.  Valentine  E. 

Zadnik 


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Dominion  Foundation 

DTE  Energy  Foundation 

ExxonMobil  Biomedical  Sciences,  Inc. 

ExxonMobil  Foundation 

ExxonMobil  Retiree  Program  Mobil  Retiree 

Fidelity  Charitable  Gift  Fund 

Harris  Bank  Foundation 

Idaho  National  Engineering  and  Environmental 

Laboratory 
lllini  Technologists  Working  Metal 
Lockheed  Martin  Corporation  Foundation 
Marathon  Ashland  Petroleum 
Shell  Oil  Company 
Shell  Oil  Company  Foundation 
Whiting  Petroleum  Corporation  an  Alliant  Company 


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Annual  Report  for  2004 


Faculty 

Stephen  P.  Altaner  (Associate  Professor) 

Jay  D.  Bass  (Professor) 

Craig  M.  Bethke  (Professor) 

Chu-Yung  Chen  (Associate  Professor) 

Wang-Ping  Chen  (Professor) 

Bruce  W.  Fouke  (Associate  Professor) 

Albert  T.  Hsui  (Professor) 

Thomas  M.  Johnson  (Associate  Professor) 

Susan  W.  Kieffer  (Walgreen  Professor) 

R.  James  Kirkpatrick  (Professor  and  Executive 

Associate  Dean) 

Jie  Li  (Assistant  Professor) 

Craig  C.  Lundstrom  (Assistant  Professor) 

Stephen  Marshak  (Professor  and  Head) 

Xiaodong  Song  (Associate  Professor) 

Department  Affiliate 

Feng-Sheng  Hu  (Associate  Professor) 

Academic  Staff,  Post-Docs, 
Visiting  Staff 

George  Bonheyo  (Research  Scientist) 
Jorge  Frias-Lopez  (Post-Doctoral  Researcher) 
Justin  Glessner  (Geochemistry  Specialist) 
Richard  Hedin  (Research  Programmer) 
Holger  Hellwig  (Research  Scientist) 
Eileen  Herrstrom  (Teaching  Specialist) 
Xiaoqiang  Hou  (Post-Doctoral  Researcher) 
Stephen  Hurst  (Research  Programmer) 
Ingmar  Janse  (Post-Doctoral  Researcher) 
Roy  Johnson  (Research  Scientist) 
Audrey  Kalinichev  (Senior  Research  Scientist) 
Michael  Lerche  (Post-Doctoral  Research 

Scientist) 
Ann  Long  (Teaching  Lab  Specialist) 
Xinli  Lu  (Post-Doctoral  Researcher) 
Stephen  Lyons  (Newsletter  Editor) 
Padma  Padmanabhan  (Post-Doctoral 

Researcher) 
Maik  Pertermann  (Post-Doctoral  Researcher) 
Marc  Reinholdt  (Post-Doctoral  Researcher) 
Bidhan  Roy  (Post-Doctoral  Researcher) 
Carmen  Sanchez- Valle  (Post-Doctoral 

Researcher) 
Rob  Sanford  (Senior  Research  Scientist) 
Stanislav  Sinogeikin  (Research  Scientist) 
Maoshuang  Song  (Post-Doctoral  Researcher) 
Michael  Stewart  (Lecturer) 
Raj  Vanka  (Resource  and  Policy  Analyst) 
Carine  Vanpeteghem  (Post-Doctoral 

Researcher) 
Jianwei  Wang  (Post-Doctoral  Researcher) 
Zhaofeng  Zhang  (Visiting  Scholar) 
Jianming  Zhu  (Visiting  Scholar) 


Emeritus  Faculty 

Thomas  F.  Anderson 
Daniel  B.  Blake 
Albert  V.  Carozzi 
Donald  L.  Graf 
Arthur  F.  Hagner 
Richard  L.  Hay 
Donald  M.  Henderson 
George  deV.  Klein 
Ralph  L.  Langenheim 
C.  John  Mann 
Alberto  S.  Nieto 
Philip  A.  Sandberg 

Adjunct  Faculty 

Robert  J.  Finley 
Leon  R.  Follmer 
Dennis  Kolata 
Morris  W.  Leighton 
Hannes  Leetaru 
William  Shilts 
Wolfgang  Sturhahn 
M.  Scott  Wilkerson 

Library  Staff 

Lura  Joseph  (Librarian) 
Sheila  McGowan  (Chief  Library  Clerk) 
Diana  Walter  (Library  Technical 
Specialist) 

Staff 

Shelley  Campbell  (Staff  Clerk) 

Barb  Elmore  (Administrative  Secretary) 

Eddie  Lane  (Electronics  Engineering 

Assistant) 
Michael  Sczerba  (Clerk) 

Graduate  Students 

Min  Jeoung  Bae  Dmitry  Lakshtanov 


COURSES  TAUGHT  IN  2004 


Peter  Berger 
Emily  Berna 
Nicole  Bettinardi 
Jon  Brenizer 
Sarah  Brown 
Kurtis  Burmeister 
Bin  Chen 
Scott  Clark 
Melissa  Farmer 
Theodore  Flynn 
Lili  Gao 
Alex  Glass 
Chris  Henderson 
Fang  Huang 
Jennifer  Jackson 
Matthew  Kirk 
Jacquelyn  Kitchen 
James  Klaus 
Man  Jae  Kwon 


Qiang  Li 
Yingchun  Li 
Christopher  Mah 
Jorge  Marino 
Lei  Meng 
Brent  Olson 
Jungho  Park 
George  Roadcap 
Tom  Schickel 
Xinlei  Sun 
Jian  Tian 
Lisa  Tranel 
Tai-Lin  Tseng 
Jianwei  Wang 
Jingyun  Wang 
Xiang  Xu 
Zhaohui  Yang 
Kelly  Zimmerman 


Geol  100 

Planet  Earth 

Geol  101 

Introduction  to  Physical  Geology 

Geol  103 

Planet  Earth  (QR  II) 

Geol  104 

Geology  of  the  National  Parks  and 

Monuments 

Geol  107 

Physical  Geology 

Geol  108 

Historical  Geology 

Geol  110 

Exploring  Planet  Earth  in  the  Field 

Geol  116 

Geology  of  the  Planets 

Geol  117 

The  Oceans 

Geol  118 

Natural  Disasters 

Geol  143 

History  of  Life 

Geol  233 

Earth  Materials  and  the 

Environment 

Geol  250 

Geology  for  Engineers 

Geol  280 

Environmental  Geology 

Geol  301 

Geomorphology 

Geol  411 

Structural  Geology  and  Tectonics 

Geol  317 

Geologic  Field  Methods,  Western 

United  States  (Field  Camp) 

Geol  432 

Mineralogy  and  Mineral  Optics 

Geol  336 

Petrology  and  Petrography 

Geol  340 

Sedimentology  and  Stratigraphy 

Geol  452 

Introduction  to  Geophysics 

Geol  351 

Geophysical  Methods  for  Geology, 

Engineering,  and  Environmental 

Sciences 

Geol  470- 

Introduction  to  Groundwater 

Geol  360 

Geochemistry 

Geol  397A1 

The  Challenge  of  a  Sustainable 

Earth  System 

Geol  397C 

Paleobotany 

Geol  455 

Hydrogeology 

Geol  481 

Modeling  Earth  and 

Environmental  Systems 

Geol  489 

Geotectonics 

Geol  531 

Structural  Mineralogy 

Geol  591 

Current  Research  in  Geoscience 

Geol  493F1 

Environmental  Microbiology 

Geol  493K11 

Experimental  Simulation  of 

Earth's  Interior 

Geol  493R2 

Data  Analysis  in  Geosciences 

Geol  593K1 

Continental  Lithosphere 

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rch  Grants  Active  in  2004 


Center  for  Advanced  Cement-Based 

Materials 

R.  James  Kirkpatrick — Pore  Solution-Solid 
Interactions  in  Cement  Paste:  Molecular 
Modeling  of  Fluids  in  Nanospaces 

Department  of  Energy 
Jay  D.  Bass — Consortium  for  Material 
Property  Research  in  the  Earth  Sciences. 

Craig  M.  Bethke — Field-Constrained 
Quantitative  Model  of  the  Origin  of 
Microbial  and  Geochemical  Zoning  in  a 
Confined  Fresh-Water  Aquifer. 

R.  James  Kirkpatrick— Computational  & 
Spectroscopic  Investigations  of  Water- 
Carbon  Dioxide  Fluids  &  Surface  Sorption 
Processes. 

Robert  A.  Sanford — Towards  a  More  Complete 
Picture:  Dissimilatory  Metal  Reduction  by 
Anaerobacter  Species 

Michigan  State  University 

Robert  A.  Sanford — Growth  of  Chlororespiring 

Bacteria  to  High  Cell  Densities  for  Use  in 

Bioaugmentation 

NASA 

Susan  W.  Kieffer— Multicomponent, 

Multiphase  H;0-CO:  Thermodynamics  and 

Fluid  Dynamics  on  Mars 

National  Science  Foundation 
Jay  D.  Bass — Development  of  Laser  Heating 
for  Sound  Velocity  Measurements  at  High  P 

&T. 

Jay  D.  Bass — Sound  Velocities  &  Elastic 
Moduli  of  Minerals  Mantle  Pressures  and 
Temperatures  with  Laser  Heating. 

Jay  D.  Bass — Workshop  on  Phase  Transitions 
and  Mantle  Discontinuities. 

Jay  D.  Bass — CSEDI:  Collaborative  Research: 
Composition  and  Seismic  Structure  of  the 
Mantle  Transition  Zone. 

Jay  D.  Bass — Consortium  for  Material 
Property  Research  in  the  Earth  Sciences. 

Jay  D.  Bass— Collaborative  Research: 

Elasticity  Grand  Challenge  of  the  COMPRES 
Initiative. 

Jay  D.  Bass — Polymorphism  and  Structural 
Transitions  During  Glass  Formation. 

Daniel  B.  Blake— Global  Climate  Change  & 
The  Evolutionary  Ecology  of  Antarctic 
Mollusks  in  the  Late  Eocene. 

Wang-Ping  Chen— Collaborative  Research: 
Lithospheric-Scale  Dynamics  of  Active 
Mountain  Building  along  the  Himalayan- 
Tibetan  Collision  Zone. 

Bruce  W.  Fouke — Geobiological  and  the 
Emergence  of  Terraced  Architecture  during 
Carbonate  Mineralization. 


Thomas  M.  Johnson — Collaborative  Research: 
Field  Investigation  of  SE  Oxyanion 
Reduction  &  Se  Sources  in  Wetlands: 
Application  of  Se  Isotopes. 

Thomas  M.  Johnson— Quantification  of  Cr 
Reduction  in  Groundwater  Using  Cr  Stable 
Isotopes. 

Thomas  M.  Johnson  and  Craig  C.  Lundstrom 

— Acquisition  of  Multicollector  Inductively 
Coupled  Plasma  Mass  Spectrometer. 

Thomas  M.  Johnson  and  Craig  C.  Lundstrom 

— Technical  Support  for  the  New  MCTCP-MS 
Laboratory  at  University  of  Illinois  at 
Urbana-Champaign 

Jie  Li — Experimental  Investigations  of  Solid- 
Liquid  Boundary  in  the  Earth  Core. 

Craig  C.  Lundstrom — Observational 

Constraints  on  Melt-Rock  Reactions  during 
Melting  of  the  Upper  Mantle. 

Craig  C.  Lundstrom— Collaborative  Research: 
Investigating  the  Processes  and  Timescales 
of  Andesite  Differentiation:  A 
Comprehensive  Petrological  and 
Geochemical  Study  of  Arenal  Volcano,  Costa 
Rica. 

Stephen  Marshak — Collaborative  Research: 
Emplacement  of  the  Ferrar  Mafic  Idneous 
Province:  A  Pilot  Study  of  Intrusive 
Architecture  and  Flow  Directions  in 
Southern  Victoria  Land. 

Xiaodong  Song — Structure  and  Dynamics  of 
Earth's  Core  and  Lowermost  Mantle. 

Xiaodong  Song — CSEDI  Collaborative 
Research:  Observational  and  Theoretical 
Constraints  on  the  Structure  and  Rotation  of 
the  Inner  Core. 

Xiaodong  Song — Probing  the  Earth's  Core  and 
Lowermost  Mantle 

Office  of  Naval  Research 

Bruce  W.  Fouke— The  Role  of  Shipyard 
Pollutants  in  Structuring  Coral  Reef 
Microbial  Communities:  Monitoring 
Environmental  Change  and  the  Potential 
Causes  of  Coral  Disease. 

University  of  Illinois  Research  Board 
Wang-Ping  Chen — Anatomy  of  a  Continental 

Collision  Zone:  Exploring  New  Views  in 

Seismic  Imaging. 

Albert  Hsui — Poloidal-Toroidal  Energy  Partition 
and  Rotation  of  Surface  Plates  on  Earth. 

R.  James  Kirkpatrick — A  Large  Volume  NMR 
Sample  Probe  for  Chemical  and  Geochemical 
Research 

Xiaodong  Song— Acquisition  of  Portable 
Broadband  Digital  Seismometers 


U.S.  Department  of  Interior  / 

U.S.  Geological  Survey 

Stephen  Marshak  -  Geologic  Mapping  of  the 
Rosendale  Natural  Cement  Region,  a  Portion 
of  the  Northern  Applachian  Fold-Thrust 
Belt,  Ulster  County,  New  York. 


Degrees  Conferred  in  2004 


Bachelor  of  Science  Degrees 

May 

Roger  A.  Bannister 
Michelle  Ann  Cox 
Kellie  Lee  Eaker 
Joannah  Marie  Metz 
Charles  R.  Mitsdarfer 
Leslie  Nicole  Savage 
Michael  S.  Schwartz 
Michael  Patrick  Welch 
Kelly  Marie  Zimmerman 

August 

Charles  Schlesinger 

December 

Benjamin  R.  Escutia 
David  J.  Kim 

Master  of  Science  Degrees 

May 

Brent  V.  Olson— [Craig  Bethke) 

Eric  R.  Sikora — Fractionation  of  Chromium 
Isotopes  by  Microbial  Cr(Vl)  Reduction, 
(Thomas  Johnson) 

Jingyun  Wang— Elastic  Properties  of  Hydrous 
Rmgwoodite  at  Ambient  and  High- 
Pressure  Conditions,  (Jay  Bass) 

August 

Matthew  F.  Kirk— Bacterial  Sulfate  Reduction 
Limits  Arsenic  Concentration  in 
Groundwater  from  a  Glacial  Aquifer 
System,  (Craig  Bethke) 

Xiang  Xu— NMR  Investigation  of'Cs  +  and  Cl- 
Complexation  with  Suwannee  River 
Natural  Organic  Matter,  (James 
Kirkpatrick) 

Doctor  of  Philosophy  Degrees 

May 

George  S.  Roadcap — Geochemistry'  and 
Microbiology  of  Extremely  Alkaline 
(PH  >  12)  Ground  Water  in  the  Calumet 
Slag-Fill  Aquifer,  (Craig  Bethke) 

Jianwei  Wang— Molecular  Structure. 
Diffusion  Dynamics  and  Hydration 
Energetics  of  Nano-Confined  Water  and 
Water  at  Mineral  Surfaces,  (R.  James 
Kirkpatrick) 


13 


List  of  Publications  for  2004 


14 


Johnson,  T.M.,  2004,  A  review  of  mass- 
dependent  fractionation  of  selenium 
isotopes  and  implications  for  other 
heavy  stable  isotopes.  Chemical 
Geology:  204:  201-214. 

Daniel,  I.,  Bass,  J.D.,  Fiquet,  G..  Cardon, 
H..  Zhang,  J.Z.,  Hanfland,  M.,  2004, 
Effect  of  aluminum  on  the  compress- 
ibility of  silicate  perovskite.  Geoplys. 
Res.  Lett.:  31:  Art.  No.  L15608. 

Cygan,  R.T.,  Liang,  J. -J.,  and  Kalinichev, 
A.G.,  2004,  Molecular  models  of 
hydroxide,  oxyhydroxide,  and  clay 
phases  and  the  development  of  a  gen- 
eral force  field.  J.  Physical  Chemistry: 
B,  108:  1255-1266. 

Li,  J.,  Struzhkin,  V.V.,  Mao,  H.K.,  Shu,  J., 
Hemley,  R..J.,  Fei,  Y.,  Mysen,  B.,  Dera, 
P..  Prakapenka,  V.,  and  Shen,  G., 
2004,  Electronic  spin  state  of  iron  in 
lower  mantle  perovskite.  P.  Natl.  Acad. 
Set  USA:  101(39):  14027-14030. 

Kirk,  M.F.,  Holm,  T.R.,  Park.J.,  Jin,  Q., 
Sanford,  R.A.,  Fouke,  B.W.,  and 
Bethke,  CM.,  2004,  Bacterial  sulfate 
reduction  limits  natural  arsenic  conta- 
mination of  groundwater.  Geology:  32: 
953956. 

Kim,  Y.,  and  Kirkpatrick,  R.  J.,  2004,  31P 
NMR  investigation  of  phosphate 
adsorbed  on  high-surface-area  Al-oxy- 
hydroxide  phases.  Euro.  J.  Soil  Science: 
55:  243-251. 

Chen,  W.-R,  2004,  What's  so  special 
about  the  Himalayas?  Lets  Go  India 
and  Nepal:  794. 

Dong,  F.,D.,  Riahi,  N.,    &  Hsui,  A.T., 
2004,  On  similarity  waves  in  compact- 
ing media,  (in)  Horizons  in  World 
Physics:  244:  45-82,  Nova  Science 
Publishers,  Inc.,  New  York. 

Stevens,  M.  M.,  Andrews,  A.H.,  Cailliet, 
G.M.,  Coale,  K.H.,  and  Lundstrom, 
C.C.,  2004,  Radiometric  validation  of 
age,  growth,  and  longevity  for  the 
blackgill  rockfish  (Sebastes  melanosto- 
mus),  Fisheries  Bulletin:  102:  711-722. 

Nicholas,  J.,  Sinogeikin,  S.V.,  Kieffer,  J., 
Bass,  J.D.,  2004,  A  high  pressure 
Brillouin  scattering  study  of  vitreous 
boron  oxide  up  to  57  GPA.  J.  Non- 
Crystalline  Solids,  349:  30-34. 

Frias-Lopez,  J.,  Klaus,  J.,  Bonheyo,  G.T., 
and  Fouke,  B.W.,  2004,  The  bacterial 
community  associated  with  black 
band  disease  in  corals.  Applied  and 
Environmental  Microbiology:  70:  5055- 
5062. 

Keune,  W.,  Ruckert,  T.,  Sahoo,  B., 
Sturhahn.W,  Toellner,  T.S.,  Alp,  E.E., 
and  Rohlsberger,  R.,  2004,  Atomic 
vibrational  density  of  states  in  crys- 
talline and  amorphous  Tblx  Fex  alloy 
thin  1ms  studied  by  nuclear  resonant 
inelastic  x-ray  scattering  (NRIXS), 
J.Phys.:  Condens.  Matter.  16:  S397. 

Johnson,  T.M.  and  Bullen,  T.D.,  2004, 
Mass-dependent  fractionation  of  sele- 
nium and  chromium  isotopes  in  low- 
temperature  environments,  (in) 
Geochemistry  of  Non-Traditional 
Stable  Isotopes.  Rev.  Mineral:  55: 
Mineral.  Soc.  Amer.,  Washington, 
D.C.,  289-317. 


Foit,  F.F.,  Gavin,  D.G.,  and  Hu,  F.S., 
2004,  The  tephra  stratigraphy  of  two 
lakes  in  south-central  British 
Columbia,  Canada  and  its  implica- 
tions for  the  mid-late  Holocene  vol- 
canic activity  at  Glacier  Peak  and 
Mount  St.  Helens,  Washington,  USA. 
Canadian  Journal  of  Earth  Sciences: 
41:  1401-1410. 

Tinkham,  D.K.,  and  Marshak,  S.,  2004, 
Precambrian  dome-and-keel  structure 
in  the  Penokean  orogen  near 
Republic,  Upper  Peninsula  of 
Michigan:  (in)  Gneiss  Domes  in 
Orogeny:  Geological  Society  of 
America  Special  Paper:  380:  321-338. 

Kieffer,  S.W.,  2004,  From  Yellowstone  to 
Titan,  with  sidetrips  to  Mars,  Io, 
Mount  St.  Helens  and  Triton,  (in) 
Volcanic  Worlds,  207-231,  Praxis  Press, 
London. 

Jackson,  J.M.,  Sinogeikin,  S.V., 
Carpenter,  M.A.,  Bass.  J.D.,  2004, 
Novel  phase  transition  in  orthoensta- 
tite.  American  Mineralogist:  89:  239- 
245. 

Janse,  I.,  Kardinaal,  W.E.A.,  Meima,  M., 
Snoek,  J.,  Zwart,  G.,  Fastner,  J., 
Visser,  P.,  2004,  Toxic  and  nontoxic 
Microcystis  colonies  in  natural  popu- 
lations can  be  differentiated  on  the 
basis  of  rRNA-intemal  transcribed 
spacer  gene  diversity.  Applied  and 
Environmental  Microbiology:  70(7): 
3979-3987. 

Chen.  W.-P.  and  Chen,  C.-Y.  2004, 
Seismogenic  structures  along  conti- 
nental convergent  zones:  from 
oblique  subduction  to  mature  colli- 
sion. Tectonophys.:  385:  105-120. 

Wang,  J.,  Kalinichev,  A.  G..  and 
Kirkpatrick,  R.  J..  2004.  Molecular 
structure  of  water  confined  in  brucite. 
Geochimica  et  Cosmochimica  Acta:  68: 
3351-3365. 

Lin  J.-F,  Struzhkin,  V.,  Mao,  H.-K.. 
Hemley,  R.  J.,  Chow,  P.,  Hu,  M.  Y, 
and  Li  J.,  2004,  Magnetic  transition  in 
compressed  Fe3C  from  x-ray  emission 
spectroscopy.  Physical  Review  B:  70: 
212405. 

Fei  Y,  Li  J.,  Hirose,  K.,  Minarik,  W„  Van 
Orman,  J.,  Sanloup,  C.  Westrenen, 
W.V..  Komabayashi,  T,  and 
Funakoshi  K.A.,  (2004)  Critical  evalu- 
ation of  pressure  scales  at  high  tem- 
peratures by  in-situ  X-ray  diffraction 
measurements.  Phys.  Earth  Planet. 
Int.:  143-144,  High  Pressure  Mineral 
Physics  Special  Volume,  515-526. 

Sinogeikin,  S.V.,  Lakshtanov,  D.L., 
Nicolas,  J.,  and  Bass.  J.D.,  2004, 
Sound  velocity  measurements  on 
laser-heated  MgO  and  A1203.  Phys. 
Earth  Planetary  Interiors:  143-44:  575- 
586. 

Fei,  Y,  Van  Orman,  J.,  Li  J.,  Westrenen, 
W.  V,  Sanloup,  C,  Minarik,  W, 
Hirose,  K.,  Komabayashi,  T,  Walter, 
M.,  and  Funakoshi,  K.,  2004, 
Experimentally  determined  postspinel 
transformation  boundary  in  Mg2Si04 
using  MgO  as  an  internal  pressure 
standard  and  its  geophysical  implica- 
tions. J.  Geophys.  Res:  109  (B02305), 
doi:10.1029/2003JB002562. 


Harrison,  M.,  Marshak,  S.,  and  McBride, 
J.,  2004,  The  Lackawanna  synclinori- 
um,  Pennsylvania:  a  basement-con- 
trolled salt-collapse  structure,  partially 
modified  by  thin-skinned  folding. 
Geological  Society  of  America  Bulletin: 
116:  1499-1514. 

Wang,  H.,  Ambrose,  S.H.,  and  Fouke, 
B.W.,  2004,  Evidence  of  long-term 
seasonal  forcing  in  rhizolith  isotopes 
during  the  last  glaciation.  Geophysical 
Research  Letter.  31:  L13203,  1-4. 

Marshak,  S.,  2004,  Arcs,  Oroclines, 
Salients,  and  Syntaxes  —  The  origin 
of  map-view  curvature  in  fold-thrust 
belts:  (in)  McClay,  K.R.,  (ed.),  Thrust 
Tectonics  and  Petroleum  Systems: 
Am.  Assoc,  of  Petroleum  Geologists 
Memoir  82:  131-156. 

Wright,  HE.,  Stephanova,  I.,  Tian,  J., 
Brown,  T.A.,  and  Hu,  F.S.  2004,  A 
chronological  framework  for  the 
Holocene  vegetational  history  of 
northwestern  Minnesota:  The  Steel 
Lake  pollen  record.  Quaternary 
Science  Reviews:  23:  611-626. 

Nicholas,  J.D.,  Sinogeikin,  S.V.,  Kieffer, 
J.,  and  Bass,  J.D,  2004,  Spectroscopic 
evidence  of  polymorphism  in  vitreous 
B203.  Phys.  Rev.  Lett.:  92  (21): 
215701(4). 

Harrison,  M.,  Marshak,  S.,  and  Onasch, 
C,  2004,  Stratigraphic  control  of  hot 
fluids  on  anthracitization, 
Lackawanna  synclinorium, 
Pennsylvania:  Tectonophysics:  378: 
85-103. 

Song,  X.D.,  2004.  A  review  of  Pn  tomog- 
raphy of  China,  in  The  advancement 
of  the  seismology  and  the  physics  of 
Earth's  interior  in  China  (Y.T.  Chen 
and  C.Y  Wang.  Eds.).  Seismology 
Press,  Beijing. 

Song,  X.D.,  Li,  ST.,  Li,  Y.C.,  Zheng, 
S.H.,  and  Xie,  X.N.,  2004,  Structure 
of  lithospheric  mantle  and  its  implica- 
tions for  major  basins  in  China  (in 
Chinese).  Earth  Sci.-J.China  Univ. 
Geosci.:  29(5):  531-53S. 

Liang,  C.T.,  Song,  X.D.,  Huang,  J.L., 
2004,  Tomographic  inversion  of  Pn 
travel-times  in  China,  J.  Geophys. 
Res.:  109:  B11304. 

Sinogeikin,  S.V.,  Zhang,  J.,  and  Bass, 
J.D.  ,  2004,  Elasticity  of  Single  Crystal 
and  Polycrystalline  MgSi03  Perovskite 
by  Brillouin  Spectroscopy.  Geophysical 
Research  Letter:  31:  L06620. 

He,  Q.  and  Sanford,  R.  A.,  2004,  Acetate 
threshold  concentrations  suggest 
varying  energy  requirements  during 
anaerobic  respiration  by 
Anaeromyxobacter  dehalogenans. 
Appl.  Environ.  Microbiol,:  70:  6940- 
6943. 

Johnson,  T.  M.  and  Bullen,  T.  D.  2004, 
Selenium,  iron  and  chromium  stable 
isotope  ratio  measurements  by  the 
double  isotope  spike  TIMS  Method,  in 
,  P.  DeGroot,  ed.,  Handbook  of  Stable 
Isotope  Analytical  Techniques,  Elsevier 
Science,  Amsterdam.  29,  623-651 

He,  Q.  and  Sanford.  R.  A.,  2004,  The 
generation  of  high  biomass  from 
chlororespiring  bacteria  using  a  con- 
tinuous fed-batch  bioreactor.    Appl. 


Microbiol,  and  Biotech.:  65:  377-382, 
2004.X-Sieve:  CMU  Sieve  2.2. 

Nelson,  D.M.,  Hu,  F.S.,  Tian,  J., 
Stefanova,  I.,  and  Brown,  T.A., 
2004,  Response  of  C3  and  C4  plants 
to  middle-Holocene  climatic  varia- 
tion near  the  forest-prairie  ecotone 
in  Minnesota.  Proceedings  of  the 
National  Academy  of  Sciences  USA: 
101:  562-567. 

Stewart,  M.A.,  and  Spivack,  A.  J., 
2004,  The  stable-chlorine  isotope 
compositions  of  natural  and  anthro- 
pogenic materials.  Review  in 
Mineralogy  and  Geochemistry:  55: 
231-254. 

Hou,  X.,  Strable,  L.  J.,  and  Kirkpatrick, 
R.J.,  2004,  Formation  of  ASR  gels 
and  the  roles  of  C-S-H  and  port- 
landite.  Cement  and  Concrete 
Research:  34:  1683-1696. 

Sturhahn,  W,  2004,  Nuclear  resonant 
spectroscopy.  J.  Phys.  Condens. 
Matter:  16:  S497. 

Tseng,  T.-L.,  and  Chen,  W.-R,  2004, 
Contrasts  in  seismic  waves  speeds 
and  density  across  the  660-km  dis- 
continuity beneath  the  Philippine 
and  the  Japan  Seas.  J.  Geophys. 
Res.:  109:  (12  pp.),  B04302. 

Leu,  B.M.,  Zgierski,  M.Z.,  Wyllie, 
G.R.M.,  Scheidt,  W.R.,  Sturhahn, 
W,  Alp,  E.E.,  Durbin,  S.M.,  and 
Sage,  J.T.,  2004,  Quantitative 
Vibrational  Dynamics  of  Iron  in 
Nitrosyl  Porphyrins. 
J.Am.Chem.Soc:  126:4211. 

Kieffer,  S.W.,  2004,  COMMENT  on 
Debris-fan  reworking  during  low- 
magnitude  floods  in  the  Green  River 
canyons  of  the  eastern  Uinta 
Mountains,  Colorado  and  Utah. 
Geology,  on-line  forum. 

Papandrew,  A.B.,  Yue,  A.F.,  Fultz,  B., 
Halevy,  I.,  Sturhahn,  W,  Toellner, 
T.S.,  Alp,  E.E.,  and  Mao,  H-K,  2004, 
Vibrational  modes  in  nanocrys- 
talline  iron  under  high  pressure. 
Phys.Rev.  B:  69,  144301. 

Frias-Lopez,  J.,  Bonheyo,  G.T.,  and 
Fouke,  B.W.,  2004,  Identification  of 
differential  gene  expression  in  bac- 
teria associated  with  coral  black 
band  disease  using  RNA-arbitrarily 
primed  PCR.  Applied  and 
Environmental  Microbiology:  70: 
3687-3694. 

Sturhahn,  W,  L'abbe,  C,  and  Toellner 
T.S.,  2004,  Exo-interferometric 
phase  determination  in  nuclear  res- 
onant scattering.  Europhys.  Lett.:  66: 
506. 

Lynch,  J. A.,  Hollis,  J.L.,  and  Hu,  F.S., 
2004,  Climatic  and  landscape  con- 
trols of  the  boreal-forest  fire  regime: 
Holocene  records  from  Alaska. 
Journal  of  Ecology:  92:  477-489. 

Lin,  J-R,  Fei,  Y,  Sturhahn,  W.,  Zhao, 
J.,  Mao,  H-K.,  Hemley,  R.J.,  2004, 
Magnetic  transition  and  sound 
velocities  of  Fe3S  at  high  pressure: 
implications  for  Earth  and  planetary 
cores.  Earth  Planet.  Sci.  Lett.:  226: 
33. 


Struzhkin,  V.  V.,  Mao,  H-K,  Mao,  W.  L., 
Hemley,  R.  J.  Sturhahn,  W,  Alp,  E  E., 
L'ahbe,  C,  Hu,  M.  Y.,  and  Errandonea, 
D.,  2004,  Phonon  Density  of  States  and 
Elastic  Properties  of  Fe-based  Materials 
under  Compression.  Hyper  ne  Int.:  153. 

Wang,  J.,  Kalinichev,  A.  G.,  and 

Kirkpatrick,  R.  J.,  2004.  Molecular  mod- 
eling of  the  10  A  phase  at  subduction 
zone  conditions.  Earth  and  Planetary 
Science  Letters:  111:  517-527. 

Shen,  G.,  Sturhahn,  W.,  Alp,  E.E.,  Zhao,  J., 
Toellner,  T.S.,  Prakapenka,  V.B.,  Meng, 
Y.,  Mao  ,  H.-K.,  2004,  Phonon  density  of 
states  in  iron  at  high  pressures  and  high 
temperatures.  Pays.  Chem.  Minerals:  31 : 
353. 

Zhang,  C.L.,  Fouke,  B.W.,  Bonheyo,  G.T., 
White,  D.,  Huang,  Y,  and  Romanek, 
C.S.,  2004,  Lipid  biomarkers  and  carbon 
isotopes  of  modern  travertine  deposits 
(Yellowstone  National  Park,  USA): 
Implications  for  biogeochemical  dynam- 
ics in  hot-spring  systems,  Geochimica  et 
Cosmochimica  Acta:  68:  3157-3169. 

L'abbe,  C.,  Meersschaut,  J.,  Sturhahn,  W. 
Jiang,  J.S.,  Toellner,  T.S.,  Alp,  E.E., 
Bader,  S.D.,  2004,  Nuclear  Resonant 
Magnetometry  and  its  Application  to 
Fe/Cr  Multilayers.  Phys.  Rev.  Lett.:  93: 
037201. 

Lin,  J-F,  Sturhahn,  W.,  Zhao,  J.,  Shen,  G., 
Mao,  H-K,  and  Hemley,  R.  J.,  2004, 
Absolute  temperature  measurement  in  a 
laser-heated  diamond  anvil  cell. 
Geophys.  Res.  Lett.:  31:  L14611 

Kobayashi,  H.,  Kamimura,  T.,  Alfe,  D., 
Sturhahn,  W,  Zhao,  J.,  and  Alp,  E.  E., 
2004,  Phonon  Density  of  States  and 
Compression  Behavior  in  Iron  Sulfide 
under  Pressure.  Phys.  Rev.  Lett.:  93: 
195503. 

Zhao,  J.,  Sturhahn,  W,  Lin,  J-F  Shen,  G., 
Alp,  E.  E„  and  Mao,  H-K.,  2004,  Nuclear 
Resonant  Scattering  at  High  Pressure 
and  High  Temperature.  High  Pressure 
Research:  24:  447. 

Wilkerson,  M.S.,  Wilson,  J.M.,  Poblet,  J., 
and  Fischer,  M.P.,  2004,  DETACH:  an 
Excel  spreadsheet  to  simulate  2-D  cross 
sections  of  detachment  folds.  Computers 
&  Geosciences:  30(9-10):  1069-1077. 

Pope,  K.O..  Kieffer,  S.W.,  and  Ames,  D.E., 
2004,  Empirical  and  theoretical  compar- 
isons of  the  Chicxulub  and  Sudbury 
impact  structures.  Meteoritics  and 
Planetary  Science:  39  (1):  97-116. 

Kieffer,  S.W.,  2004,  An  earth  and  environ- 
mental science  perspective  on  creativity. 
Report  to  The  Higher  Education 
Academy's  Imaginative  Curriculum  pro- 
ject, co-author  with  11  Earth  and 
Environmental  Science  teachers. 

Wang.  J.,  Kalinichev,  A.  G.,  and 

Kirkpatrick,  R.  J.,  2004,  Molecular  mod- 
eling of  the  10  A  phase  at  subduction 
zone  conditions.  Earth  and  Planetary 
Science  Letters:  222:  517-527. 

Janse,  1.,  Bok,  J.,  and  Zwart,  G.,  2004,  A 
simple  remedy  against  artifactual  double 
bands  in  denaturing  gradient  gel  elec- 
trophoresis. J.  Microbiol.  Methods:  57: 
279-281 


Tepley  F.  J.  ,  Lundstrom,  C.  C,  Sims, 
K.,  and  Hekinian,  R.,  2004,  U-series 
Disequilibria  in  MORB  From  the 
Garrett  Transform  and  Implications 
for  Mantle  Melting.  Earth  and 
Planetary  Science  Letters:  223:  79- 
97. 

Chen,  W.-R,  and  Yang,  Z.-H.,  2004, 
Earthquakes  beneath  the  Himalayas 
and  Tibet:  Evidence  for  strong 
lithospheric  mantle.  Science:  304: 
1949-1952. 

Kaufman  et  al.,  including  Hu,  F.S., 
2004,  Holocene  thermal  maximum 
in  the  western  Arctic  (0  to  180°  W). 
Quaternary  Science  Reviews:  23: 
529-560. 

Kirkpatrick,  R.  J.,  Kalinichev,  A., 
Wang,  J.,  Hou,  X.,  and  Amonette,  J, 
2004,  Molecular  modeling  of  the 
vibrational  spectra  of  surface  and 
interlayer  species  of  layered  double 
hydroxides  and  other  layer-structure 
materials,  in  The  Application  of 
Vibrational  Spectroscopy  to  Clay 
Minerals  and  Layered  Double 
Hydroxides.  CMS  Workshop 
Lectures;  Kloprogge,  J.  T,  Ed.;  The 
Clay  Minerals  Society:  Aurora,  CO, 
2004;  13:  239-285. 

Brown,  D.  E.,  Toellner,  T.  S„  Sturhahn, 
W,  Alp,  E.E.,  Hu,  M.,  Kruk,  R., 
Rogacki,  K.  and  Can,  PC  .,  2004, 
Partial  Phonon  Density  of  States  of 
Dysprosium  and  its  Compounds 
Measured  Using  Inelastic  Nuclear 
Resonance  Scattering.  Hyper  ne  Int. : 
153:  17. 

Ellis  A.  S.,  Johnson  T.  M„  and  Bullen, 
T.  D.,  2004,  Using  chromium  stable 
isotope  ratios  to  quantify  Cr(VI) 
reduction:  lack  of  sorption  effects. 
Env.  Set  Technol:  38:  3604-3607 

Jackson,  J.M.,  Zhang,  J.,  and  Bass, 
J.D.,  2004,  Sound  velocities  of  alu- 
minous MgSi03  perovskite: 
Implications  for  aluminum  hetero- 
geneity in  Earth's  lower  mantle. 
Geophysical  Research  Letters:  31(10): 
Art.  No.  L10614. 

Hurst,  S.  D.,  Karson,  J.  A.,  2004,  Side- 
scan  sonar  along  the  north  wall  of 
the  Hess  Deep  Rift:  Processing,  tex- 
ture analysis,  and  geologic  ground 
truth  on  an  oceanic  escarpment.  J. 
Geophys.  Res.:  109. 

Blackman,  D.  K.,  Karson,  J.A.,  Kelley, 
D.S.,  Cann,  J.R.,  Fruh-Green.  G.L., 
Gee,  J.S.,  Hurst,  S.D.,  John,  B.E., 
Morgan,  J.,  Nooner,  S.L.,  Ross, 
D.K.,  Schroeder.  T.J.,  &  Williams, 
E.A.,  2004,  Geology  of  the  Atlantis 
Massif  (Mid-Atlantic  Ridge,  30fte 
N):  Implications  for  the  evolution  of 
an  ultramafic  oceanic  core  complex. 
Marine  Geophysical  Researches:  23: 
443-469. 

Song,  X.D.,  2004,  A  review  of  Pn 
tomography  of  China,  in  Advances 
(in)  Seismology  and  Physics  of 
Earth's  Interior  in  China. 
Seismological  Press,  Beijing,  321- 
345. 


Colloquium  Speakers  fop  Spring  and  Fall  2004 


Andre  Pugin,  ISGS 

Architecture  of  tunnel-channels  and  buried  valleys  in 

previously  glaciated  areas,  hydrogeological  implications 
Eric  FerreC,  Southern  Illinois  University 

Magnetic  anisotropy  of  mantle  peridotites:  example  of  the  Twin 

Sisters  Dunite,  Washington  State 
Przemek  Dera,  Carnegie  Institution  of  Washington 

Structural  aspects  of  pressure-induced  phase  transitions 
Steve  Van  der  Hoven,  Illinois  State  University 

Radiogenic  '  He  as  a  Tracer  for  Hydrogeologic  Processes  in 

Buried  Valley  Aquifers 
Jorge  Frias-Lopez,  University  of  Illinois 

Microbiology  of  coral  diseases:  The  ecology  of  black  band  disease 

[BBDj 
Basil  Tikoff,  University  of  Wisconsin,  Madison 

Fabric  and  flow  in  the  mantle  and  mountain  building 
Nicole  Gasparini,  Yale  University 

Modeling  Erosion  in  Mountain  Rivers 
Linda  Bonnell,  AAPG  Distinguished  Lecturer 

Sealed,  Bridged,  or  Open  -  A  New  Theory  of  Quartz 

Cementation  in  Fractures 
Linda  Ivany,  Syracuse  University 

The  ABCs  of  Paleobiology:  Insights  from  the  Geochemistry  of 

Accretionary  Biogenic  Carbonates 
Dan  Blake,  University  of  Illinois 

Penguins,  Sea  Stars,  and  Moss  Animals 
Jeff  Post,  Smithsonian  Institution 

Manganese  Oxide  Minerals:  Soils  to  Synchrotrons 
Jim  Kirkpatrick,  University  of  Illinois 

Nuclear  Magnetic  Resonance  and  Molecular  Modeling  Studies 

of  Minerals  and  Mineral-fluid  Interactions 
James  W.  Kirchner,  University  of  California,  Berkeley 

A  Spectral  View  of  Watershed  Processes 
Thome  Lay,  University  of  California,  Santa  Cruz 

Earth's  Hidden  Boundary  Layer:  Mysteries  at  the  Base  of  the 

Mantle 
Marc  Reinholdt,  University  of  Illinois 

Clay  minerals:  synthesis,  structural  spectroscopic  characteriza- 
tions and  clay/polymer  nanocomposites  elaboration 
Suzan  van  der  Lee,  Northwestern  University 
Seismic  constraints  on  thickness,  rigidity,  temperature  and 

composition  of  the  lithosphere  and  underlying  mantle 
Eric  Calais,  Purdue  University 

Continental  Deformation  in  Asia:  New  Insights  from  GPS 

Measurements  and  Deformation  Models 
Jim  Best,  University  of  Leeds 

The  geomorphology  and  sedimentology  of  a  big  braided  river: 

flow,  form  and  management  issues  in  the  Jamuna  River, 

Bangladesh 
Jennifer  Roberts,  University  of  Kansas 

Guess  who's  coming  to  dinner  -  The  consequences  of  nutrient- 
driven  silicate  weathering  by  microbial  consortia 
Ann  Budd,  University  of  Iowa 

Species  boundaries  in  reef  corals:  Insight  from  the  fossil  record 
Jeremy  Fein,  University  of  Notre  Dame 

Quantifying  bacteria-water-rock  adsorption  reactions  using  a 

surface  complexation  approach 
Feng  Sheng  Hu,  University  of  Illinois 

Drought  History  of  the  Midwest 
Jeff  Catalano,  Argonne  National  Laboratory 

Probing  Uranium  Speciation  in  Contaminated  Sediments  and  at 

the  Mineral-Water  Interface 
Haydn  Murray,  Indiana  University 

Kaolin  Occurrences,  Genesis  and  Utilization 
Raymond  Arvidson,  Washington  University,  St.  Louis 

The  Mars  Exploration  Rover  Mission 
Robert  W.  Howarth,  Cornell  University 

Human  Alteration  of  the  Nitrogen  Cycle  at  Regional  Scales: 

Causes,  Consequences,  and  Steps  towards  Solutions 


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Students  Jared  Frieberg, 
Emily  Berna,  Nicole 
Bettinardi,  Ted  Flynn,  and 
Josh  Carron  on  Utah's 
San  Juan  River.  The  trip 
capped  oft  Professor  Craig 
Lundstrom's  Geology 
415/515.  "Geology  of  the 
Southwest"  class. 


The  Department's  new  state- 
of-the-art  Inductively  Coupled 
Plasma  Mass  Spectrometer 
(ICPMS)  was  installed  in 
December  of  last  year.  One 
of  only  50  in  the  world,  the 
ICPMS  was  purchased  with  a 
grant  from  the  National 
Science  Foundation  and  will 
be  used  for  various  geo- 
chemistry analyses.  Pictured 
behind  the  spectrometer  are, 
from  left  to  right;  Scott  Clark. 
Craig  Lundstrom,  Justin 
Glessner,  Tom  Johnson  and 
Emily  Berna. 


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School  of  Earth,  Society,  and  Environment 


During  the  Fall  term  of  2005,  the  facul- 
ties of  three  departments,  Geology, 
Geography,  and  Atmospheric  Science, 
voted  in  favor  of  establishing  an  alliance 
which  will  be  called  the  School  of  Earth, 
Society,  and  Environment.  This  new 
School  will  be  a  component  of  the 
College  of  Liberal  Arts  &  Sciences  and 
will  not  replace  the  Departments—each 
department  will  continue  to  exist  and 
each  will  have  a  Head,  an  independent 
major,  and  its  own  graduate  program. 
The  purpose  of  the  School  is  four- 
fold. First,  it  increases  the  leverage  of 
each  department  in  the  competition  for 
campus  resources.  Significantly,  the 
three  Earth-related  departments  are  the 
only  science  departments  on  campus 
that  are  not  currently  part  of  a  school— 
the  School  structure  is  well  established 
at  UIUC,  and  works  quite  well.  Second, 
by  developing  an  alliance,  there  will  be 
opportunities  for  new  collaborations, 


new  research  centers,  and  new  interdis- 
ciplinary programs  to  develop.  As  an 
example,  the  Center  for  Water  as  a 
Complex  Environmental  System,  has 
already  been  established,  and  involves 
faculty  from  all  three  departments. 
Third,  the  School  can  serve  as  a  basis 
for  coordinating  course  offerings,  and 
for  anchoring  an  interdisciplinary  major. 
This  major  will  be  in  addition  to  exist- 
ing majors,  and  may  appeal  to  a  broader 
group  of  liberal  arts  students.  Finally, 
the  School  will  provide  students  with  a 
larger  community  of  peers  with  whom 
to  interact  while  they  are  at  Illinois — 
this  will  increase  social  opportunities. 
Many  steps  still  need  to  happen 
before  the  School  becomes  formally 
established,  but  we  are  optimistic  that  it 
will  make  UIUC  an  even  better  institu- 
tion at  which  to  study  the  Earth.  If 
things  go  as  planned,  the  School  should 
be  in  place  by  the  end  of  2007. 


Champaign 

New  Endowments 
for  Geology: 

Highlights  of  the  GeoScience 
2005  Campaign 

Five  years  ago,  the  Department  embarked 
on  an  ambitious  campaign,  GeoScience 
2005,  to  build  the  Department's  endow- 
ment. These  funds  prove  essential  for  the 
Department  to  not  only  maintain  existing 
services  and  programs,  but  to  flourish. 
The  campaign  effort  was  greatly  assisted 
by  the  GeoThrust  Committee,  under  the 
Chairmanship  of  Bill  Soderman  (M.S.  '60, 
Ph.D.  '62J.  The  other  members  of  the 
Committee  are:  Jim  Baroffio  (Ph.D.  '64), 
David  Beach  (B.S.  73),  Pat  Bickford  (M.S. 
'58;  Ph.D.  '60),  Les  Clutter  (BS.  '48),  Norb 
Cygan  (B.S.  '54;  M.S.  '56;  Ph.D.  '62),  Ed 
Franklin  (B.S.  '56),  John  Garino  (B.S.  '57), 
Jim  Granath  (B.S.  71;  M.S.  73),  Brud 
Leighton  (B.S.  '47).  Tricia  Santogrossi  (B.S. 
74;  M.S.  77),  and  Jack  Threet  (A.B.,  '51). 

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Overhead  Dollars  Brought  to  the  University  by  Geology  Faculty 


Department  of  Geology  faculty,  as  part  of  their  job,  seek  research 
grants  from  sources  outside  the  University.  These  grants,  which 
come  from  agencies  such  as  the  National  Science  Foundation,  the 
Department  of  Energy,  and  NASA,  support  the  salaries  of  graduate 
students  and  hourly  undergraduates,  provide  funds  for  the  purchase  of 
;  laboratory  equipment  and  for  field  expenses.  Significantly,  52  percent 
of  the  budget  of  the  University  comes  from  grants  to  faculty  (vs.  17  per- 
p  cent  from  the  State  of  Illinois).  Put  another  way,  faculty  research  grants 
..  provide  three  times  more  money  to  the  University  than  does  the  State, 
*  and  more  than  twice  as  much  as  does  tuition.  About  a  third  of  each 
grant  is  "overhead"  that  is  paid  directly  to  the  University — only  two- 
thirds  can  be  used  by  faculty  for  research  activities.  In  the  past  five 
years,  the  amount  of  overhead  that  geology  faculty  have  generated  has 
increased  by  a  factor  of  four,  even  though  the  number  of  faculty  has 
decreased  by  25  percent.  The  graph  shows  this  growth. 


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Greetings 


Letter  From  The  Head 


As  this  Year-In-Review  goes  to  press  (a  lit- 
tle on  the  late  side,  this  year— sorry!), 
we've  come  to  the  close  of  a  very  busy 
season  that  bodes  well  for  the  future. 
There  are  a  number  of  significant  changes 
on  the  horizon,  some  of  which  we  discuss 
in  this  newsletter.  Perhaps  the  biggest 
change  will  be  the  establishment  of  the 
School  of  Earth,  Society,  and  Environment. 
Right  from  the  start,  I  wish  to  emphasize 
that  the  School  does  not  replace  the 
Department!  The  Department  of  Geology 
will  continue  to  exist,  with  its  current 
structure,  its  traditions,  its  major,  and  its 
graduate  program.  The  School  is  simply  an 
alliance  of  three  departments  to  create  an 
entity  that  has  greater  visibility  and  lever- 
age on  campus,  and  will  set  the  stage  for 
interesting  new  research  and  teaching  col- 


laborations. We  have  already  benefited  from 
the  School  development  process  by  receiv- 
ing authorization  for  new  faculty  searches 
that  probably  would  not  have  happened 
otherwise.  The  title  of  the  School  reflects 
some  of  the  common  interests  of  the  three 
departments,  but  does  not  imply  that  the 
Department  of  Geology  is  abandoning  its 
traditional  strengths.  For  example,  our  last 
two  hires  have  been  prominent  sedimentary 
geologists.  (Dr.  Jim  Best,  the  most  recent 
hire,  will  become  the  first  Threet  Professor 
of  Sedimentary  Geology  in  August,  2006.) 
With  these  hires,  our  Department  has 
reestablished  one  of  the  most  prominent 
sedimentary  programs  in  the  country.  This 
development  is  timely,  considering  the 
increased  interest  that  oil  companies  have  in 
hiring  our  graduates,  in  the  wake  of  an 


upturn  in  exploration.  Other  positive  devel- 
opments that  you  will  read  about  in  this 
issue  include  the  success  of  the  GeoScience 
2005  Endowment  Campaign.  Jay  Bass 
suggested  the  campaign  in  1998,  when 
he  was  Head.  The  campaign  formally  began 
in  2000,  and  ran  through  2005,  ultimately 
raising  over  $3.1  M  dollars.  I  have  greatly 
enjoyed  working  with  all  who  participat- 
ed! Also,  student  numbers  have  been 
increasing  (with  a  75%  increase  in  the  past 
couple  of  years),  grant  dollars  have  been 
increasing  (with  a  four-fold  increase  since 
2000),  and  the  number  of  faculty  is  increas- 
ing. There's  even  some  face-lifting  in  the 
Natural  History  Building— the  halls  are 
getting  new  paint  and  new  lighting,  even 
though  the  floors  still  creak.  Please  read  on, 

to  learn  more. 

—Steve  Marshak 


New  Endowments  fop  Geology  (continued  from  page  u 


The  committee  set  a  goal  of  raising 
S3  million.  With  the  assistance  of  staff 
from  the  University  of  Illinois  Foundation 
(especially  Natalie  Handley),  and  the 
LAS  Advancement  Office  (especially, 
Paul  Osterhout,  Pam  Christman,  David 
Bruhns,  and  Patrick  Hayes),  we  succeed- 
ed in  raising  more  than  $3.1  million — the 
campaign  was  indeed  a  success!  We  are 
very  grateful  to  all  who  participated— 
there  were  hundreds  of  individual  gifts. 
Thank  you! 

Here  are  examples  of  some  of  the 
generous  gifts  we  received: 

•  Ed  and  Alison  Franklin  have  set  up  an 
endowment  to  support  field  camp  and 
other  field  experiences.  A  bequest  of 
funds  in  the  future  will  help  with 
many  other  needs  as  well. 

•  Eric  and  Kathy  Johnson  established 
the  W  Hilton  Johnson  Professorship 
of  Geology,  in  memory  of  Eric's 
father,  the  late  Prof.  Johnson.  Prof. 
Gary  Parker  is  the  first  to  hold  this 
honor.  Joyce  Johnson,  Hilt's  wife,  also 
established  a  field  fund  to  support 
field  trips. 


The  Jack  C.  and  Richard  L.  Threet 
Professorship  of  Sedimentary  Geology, 
spearheaded  by  Jack  Threet,  has  been 
established.  The  first  Threet  Professor 
will  be  James  L.  Best,  who  will  join 
the  Department  from  the  University  of 
Leeds  (UK)  in  August,  2006. 
Bill  Soderman  (M.S.  '60,  Ph.D.  '62) 
has  endowed  two  graduate  fellow- 
ships, the  Bluestem  Fellowship  and  the 
Evergreen  Fellowship.  These  will  allow 
us  to  continue  attracting  strong  stu- 
dents to  our  graduate  program. 
Brud  Leighton  has  continued  to  build 
the  Leighton  endowment  to  support 
research  activities  of  graduate  stu- 
dents. The  bestowing  of  Leighton 
awards  has  become  a  much  appreciat- 
ed annual  event. 

Thanks  to  a  generous  lead  gift  by  Jim 
Baroffio,  and  gifts  from  many  others, 
the  Department  can  now  offer  the 
Wanless  Fellowship,  established  in 
honor  of  the  late  Prof.  Harold  Wanless, 
to  outstanding  graduate  students. 
Roscoe  Jackson  (M.S.  73,  Ph.D.  75) 
has  continued  to  build  a  strong 
endowment  for  the  support  of  gradu- 


ate students  and  graduate  research. 
Roscoe's  generosity  helped  several  stu- 
dents complete  research  projects. 
•    Glenn  and  Susan  Buckley  established 
an  endowment  to  bring  in  outstanding 
guest  speakers  to  the  department  in 
environmental  geology.  We  have  now 
hosted  two  Buckley  Lecturers,  so  far. 
Prof.  Jim  Kirkpatrick  has  also  estab- 
lished an  endowment  to  support  visit- 
ing colloquium  speakers. 
These  gifts  and  many  others— we 
wish  we  had  space  to  list  them  all- 
demonstrate  the  continued  loyalty  of  our 
alumni  and  friends.  To  all  who  con- 
tributed—at all  levels— please  accept  the 
Department's  sincere  gratitude. 


Year  in  Review  is  published  once  a  year  by  the 
Department  of  Geology,  University  of  Illinois 
at  Urbana-Champaign,  to  summarize  the 
activities  and  accomplishments  within  the 
department  and  news  from  alumni  and  friends. 
Department  Head:  Stephen  Marshak 

(smarshak@uiuc.edu) 
Administrative  Secretary:  Barb  Elmore 

(belmore@uiuc.edu) 

Editor:  Stephen  J.  Lyons  (sjlyons@uiuc.edu) 
http://www.geology.uiuc.edu 


DEPARTMENT  NEWS 


Investiture  Ceremony  Honors  R.  James  Kirkpatrick  and  Gary  Parker 


On  October  13,  2005,  R.  James 
Kirkpatrick  was  invested  as  the  R.E. 
Grim  Professor,  and  Gary  Parker  was 
invested  as  the  W.H.  Johnson  Professor 
in  a  ceremony  that  was  attended  by 
Dean  Sarah  Mangelsdorf  and  by  Provost 
Jesse  Delia,  as  well  as  by  many  faculty 
and  students  from  throughout  the 
campus. 

Illinois  alumnus  R.  James 
Kirkpatrick  (Ph.D.,  72)  became  an  assis- 
tant professor  in  the  Department  of 
Geology  in  1977.  He  moved  through  the 
ranks,  and  served  as  Head  of  the 
Department  from  1988  to  1997. 
Currently,  he  is  the  Executive  Associate 
Dean  of  the  College  of  Liberal  Arts  and 
Sciences.  Kirkpatrick  continues  his 
active  research  program  in  many  aspects 
of  mineral  science,  studying  a  variety  of 
materials  ranging  from  clay,  to  igneous 
glasses,  to  concrete,  using  NMR  spec- 
troscopy and  molecular  dynamics  calcu- 
lations. Most  recently,  his  research  group 
has  investigated  the  structure  and 
dynamics  of  water  and  ionic  species  on 
the  surface  of  minerals.  He  is  the  author 
of  more  than  200  research  papers  and 
the  editor  of  three  books.  Prof. 
Kirkpatrick  has  won  the  Dana  Medal  of 
the  Mineralogical  Society  of  America, 
and  the  Branauer  Award  from  the 
American  Ceramic  Society. 

The  R.E.  Grim  Professorship  in 
Geology  was  established  in  1977 
through  the  generosity  of  the  late  Prof. 


From  left  to  right:  Department  Head  Stephen  Marshak,  R.  James  Kirkpatrick,  Gary  Parker.  Katherine 
Johnson.  Eric  Johnson,  Dean  Sarah  Mangelsdorf,  Provost  Jesse  Delia 


Grim  and  his  wife  Frances.  Prof.  Grim 
was  renowned  around  the  world  for  his 
work  in  clay  mineralogy  and  industrial 
mineralogy.  Prof.  Richard  Hay,  who 
passed  away  in  February,  was  the  first 
holder  of  the  professorship. 

Professor  Gary  Parker  came  to  UIUC 
in  2005,  after  serving  many  years  on  the 
faculty  at  the  University  of  Minnesota. 
He  holds  joint  appointments  between 
the  Department  of  Geology  and  the 
Department  of  Civil  and  Environmental 
Engineering,  recognizing  his  ties  to  both 
areas.  Prof.  Parker's  research  interests 
focus  on  fluvial  geomorphology,  and  on 
the  process  of  how  flowing  water  inter- 
acts with  sediment.  This  research  has 
many  practical  applications  and  has 
been  used  to  analyze  disposal  of  mine- 


Geology  Majors  on  the  Rise  At  UIUC 


I 


n  the  last  three  years,  the  number  of  majors  in  the  Department  of  Geology  has 
increased  from  the  mid-30s  to  over  60.  This  is  fortunate,  because  according  to  a 


recent  article  by  the  Associated  Press,  recruiting  on  U.S.  campuses  for  geologists 
has  begun  to  increase.  We  expect  that  there  will  be  increasing  demand  for  our  grad- 
uates. Total  U.S.  geoscience  degrees  approached  10,000  annually  in  the  early  1980s, 
but  then  crashed  to  about  one-third  of  that  number  by  1991.  Last  year,  about  2,400 
undergraduate  and  1,500  graduate  degrees  were  granted  nationwide. 


derived  sediment,  to  access  the  risk  of 
pipelines  to  damage  by  submarine  debris 
flows,  to  determine  how  river  channel 
migration  can  affect  the  design  of  water 
intakes,  and  to  predict  the  consequences 
of  dam  removal  on  rivers.  Prof.  Parker 
has  rapidly  put  UIUC  at  the  forefront  of 
such  work  by  organizing  a  major  inter- 
national conference  that  was  held  on 
campus  last  fall. 

The  W.  Hilton  Johnson  Professorship 
in  Geology  was  established  in  2000  and 
supports  the  research  and  teaching  of 
faculty  in  the  Department.  The  professor- 
ship was  created  through  a  generous  gift 
by  Professor  Johnson's  son  and  daugh- 
ter-in-law, Eric  M.  and  Katherine  J. 
Johnson.  It  recognizes  the  service  of 
Prof.  Johnson  [M.S.  '61,  Ph.D.  '62)  to  the 
department  over  many  years.  Prof. 
Johnson  was  a  faculty  member  from 
1963  to  1995,  specializing  in  the  areas  of 
geomorphology,  quaternary  geology  and 
glacial  geology.  He  was  Director  of  the 
University  Geology  Field  Camp  for  sever- 
al years  and  was  acting  Head  of  the 
Department  in  1995.  Hilt  passed  away  in 
1997.  The  Department  was  delighted  to 
welcome  Eric  and  Katherine,  and  Joyce 
Johnson.  Hilt's  wife,  to  the  investiture 
ceremony. 


ISGS  Centennial  Series  Brings  All-Star  Speakers  to  Campus 


As  part  of  the  Centennial 
Celebration  of  the  Illinois  State 
Geological  Society,  several  interna- 
tionally recognized  scientists  and 
science  writers  came  to  Urbana- 
Champaign  during  the  2005-2006 
academic  year  to  make  public  pre- 
sentations and  interact  with  the 
ISGS  staff  and  with  Department  of 
Geology  students  and  faculty  on 
the  University  campus. 

The  list  of  distinguished 
speakers  included:  Dr.  Harrison 
Schmitt,  the  only  geologist  to  have 
walked  on  the  Moon;  Kevin 
Krajiick,  author  of  Barren  Lands,   a 
study  of  the  search  for  diamonds  in 
Canada;  Richard  Alley,  a  paleoclimatolo- 


Dr.  William  Shilts,  Chief  of  the  ISGS,  and 
Adjunct  Professor,  presents  Harrison  Schmitt 
with  an  ISGS  Centennial  Issue  rock  hammer. 


gist  working  in  Antartica;  Paul 
Hoffman  of  Harvard  University, 
a  leading  proponent  of  the 
snowball  Earth  hypothesis; 
Scott  Tinker,  Director  of  the  Texas 
Bureau  of  Economic  Geology, 
Patrick  Lehey,  Acting  Director  of 
the  USGS;  and  Simon  Winchester, 
author  of  The  Crack  at  the  Edge 
of  the  World. 

The  talks  attracted  not  only 
ISGS  and  Department  of  Geology 
staff  and  students,  but  also  the 
general  public.  The  level  of 
understanding  of  Earth-related 
issues  in  the  Champaign-Urbana  com- 
munity increased  substantially  as  a 
result  of  this  series. 


Around  the  Department 


Professor  Sue  Kieffer  has  been 
appointed  as  professor  in  the  Center  for 
Advanced  Study,  one  of  the  highest 
forms  of  recognition  the  U  of  I  campus 
bestows  on  faculty  members  for  out- 
standing scholarship.  The  24  CAS  pro- 
fessors, are  selected  from  throughout 
the  campus.  They  continue  to  serve  as 
full  members  of  their  home  departments, 
while  participating  in  a  variety  of  formal 
and  informal  activities  organized  by  the 
center.  Kieffer  is  a  member  of  the 
National  Academy  of  Sciences  and  a  fel- 
low of  the  American  Academy  of  Arts 
and  Sciences.  Other  honors  she  has 
received  include  a  MacArthur  "Genius" 
Fellowship,  and  the  Geological  Society 
of  America's  Day  Medal. 

Professor  Craig  Bethke  has  won  the 

American  Association  of  Petroleum 
Geologist's  "Division  of  Environmental 
Geology  Research  Award."  This  award 
recognizes  Craig's  accomplishments  in 
understanding  groundwater  environmen- 
tal issues,  such  as  arsenic  contamina- 
tion. Craig  was  also  installed  as  a  U  of  I 
College  of  Liberal  Arts  and  Sciences 
Romano  Fellow. 


Professor  Wang-Ping  Chen  will  be  serving 
a  three-year  term  (until  June  2009)  on  the 
Advisory  Committee  of  COMPRES 
(Consortium  for  Materials  Properties 
Research  in  Earth  Sciences).  This  commit- 
tee plays  a  major  role  in  guiding  research 
on  the  Earth's  interior.  Professor  Jay  Bass 
served  as  President  of  COMPRES  two 
years  ago. 

Department  Head  and  Professor  Stephen 
Marshak  hosted  Cameroonian  geologist 
Dr.  Jean  Pierre  Tchouankoue  to  examine 
similarities  in  the  Precambrian  crust  in 
Brazil  and  Africa.  Tchouankoue  was 
delighted  to  have  access  to  essential  tech- 
nology that  are  taken  for  granted  at  UIUC 
but  don't  exist  in  Africa. 

Geochemistry  Specialist  Justin  Glessner 

and  his  wife  announce  the  arrival  of  their 
second  son,  Leonardo  James  Glessner, 
born  on  November  3,  2005,  weighing  8  lbs. 
4  oz.  and  measuring  21"  long. 

Adjunct  Professors  Rob  Finley  and 
Hannes  Leetaru  received  a  $19  million 
grant  to  work  on  carbon  sequestration  at 
the  Illinois  State  Geological  Survey. 

Geology  senior  Brittany  Guzzo  received 
an  NAGT/USGS  fellowship,  based  on  her 
performance  at  field  camp.  The  fellowship 


provides  employment  at  the  USGS  in 
Reston. 

Professor  Chu-Yung  Chen  has  taken  on 
the  responsibilities  of  Associate  Head  of 
the  Geology  Department.  In  this  capacity, 
she  oversees  the  academic  programs  in 
the  Department. 

Jennifer  Jackson  (Ph.D.  2005)  has 

accepted  a  tenure-track  faculty  position 
in  geophysics  at  Cal  Tech.  Jennie  worked 
with  Professor  Jay  Bass. 

Letter  from  retired  Department 
Professor  Albert  Hsui 

I  am  having  a  great  time  here  in  Hong 
Kong.  I  have  a  lot  of  time  to  do  things 
that  I  never  had  time  to  do  before.  I  visit- 
ed my  father's  home  village  in  the  PRC 
last  week.  It  was  nice  to  be  able  to  trace 
my  roots.  At  the  same  time,  I  learned 
how  devastating  the  cultural  revolution 
was.  After  the  visit,  we  had  a  global 
reunion  of  my  high  school.  Hong  Kong  is 
such  a  magnet  that  everyone  seems  to 
come  through  here.  I  met  a  lot  of  friends 
whom  I  have  not  seen  for  decades.  It 
was  great  to  reconnect  with  my  past. 

In  addition,  I  am  doing  research  to 
help  people  here  to  evaluate  earthquake 
and  tsunami  potential. 


Grad  Student  Combines  Biology  and  Geology  (and  a  little  Chopin) 


Emily  Wisseman 


Geomicrobiologist 
Emily  Wisseman 
laughs  when  she 
describes  a  typical 
field  trip  with  her 
more  geology-minded 
colleagues. 
"When  we're  out  in 
the  field  the  geologists 
always  start  by  look- 
ing at  the  rocks.  'Hey  look  at  this  cool  rock.' 
OK,  so  there  is  a  plant  over  there,  too.  But 
look  at  this  rock!' 

"I  come  at  it  saying,  "Hey,  look  at  this 
cool  plant!  Look  at  what  all  these  microbes 
are  doing  to  the  rock.'  It's  getting  at  the 
same  idea  but  from  a  different  perspective." 
The  graduate  student  from  Champaign 
comes  to  geology  by  way  of  a  bachelor's  of 
science  in  biology  from  Illinois  Wesleyan,  a 
four-month  stint  as  a  science  teacher  at 
Normal  Community  West  High  School  and 
18  years  of  classical  piano  training.  (She 
plays  Chopin  when  she  can't  sleep.) 


But  it  was  while  doing  some  research 
for  Associate  Professor  Bruce  Fouke  that 
Emily  caught  the  geology  bug.  While  at  U 
of  I  she  has  worked  on  Fouke's 
Yellowstone  project.  "We  looked  at  how 
the  different  sediments  you  see  in 
Yellowstone  build  up  and  how  microbes 
interact  with  them." 

For  her  master's  thesis  she  will  travel 
to  Curacao  to  study  coral  reefs.  (Oh,  she's 
an  experienced  diver,  too.)  Emily  is  quick 
to  say  that  coral  reefs  are  basically  big 
rocks:  calcium  carbonate.  "Corals  are  a 
really  important  geologic  formation." 
Under  the  guidance  of  Fouke,  Emily  will 
look  at  the  deadly  black-band  disease  that 
affects  this  planet's  corals. 

"The  Department  is  pretty  flexible 
about  letting  me  incorporate  some  biology 
classes  and  some  geology  ones.  I'm  taking 
biochemistry  and  sedimentology  and, 
oddly  enough,  they  do  have  overlaps. 
They  both  tie  into  what  I  want  to  do. 
Geology  is  really  getting  in  my  system. 


I  like  the  science  that  lets  you  go  out  and 
see  it." 

Emily  says  she  sees  a  fascinating 
connection  between  biology  and  geology. 
"When  you  mix  them  together  you  get 
the  bigger  picture.  Geologists  remind  me 
to  look  very  carefully  at  the  rock  systems, 
which  are  the  basis  for  the  biology  you 
have  on  top  of  that.  And  I'm  like,  'Hey, 
look  at  what's  going  on  that's  affecting 
the  rocks.'  The  idea  that  biology  affects 
geology  is  really  a  newer  idea,  and  incor- 
porating microbiology  into  geologic 
processes  and  thinking  about  that  is  a 
new  and  upcoming  field. 

"Geology  is  very  interdisciplinary  so 
it  almost  helps  you  to  come  at  it  with  a 
completely  different  background.  It's  like 
learning  a  whole  new  vocabulary.  1  really 
like  the  big  picture  science.  Geologists 
look  at  large  rock  formations  and  try  to 
understand  how  they  came  to  be.  Some 
of  the  answers  may  come  form  studying 
what  takes  place  in  a  Petri  dish." 


Internship  at  ISGS  Pays  Dividends  For  Undergraduate 


m 


rien  Jared 
Freiburg  arrived 
at  his  final  semester 
in  the  Department 
of  Geology  he  didn't 
know  exactly  what 
he  was  going  to  do 
upon  graduation. 
Then  he  called 
Hannes  Leetaru 
(Ph.D.  '97),  a 
Project  Scientist  at  the  Illinois  State 
Geological  Survey  and  Adjunct  Associate 
Professor  in  the  Department  of  Geology. 
Jared  admits  his  timing  was  perfect. 
Hannes  said,  "Wow!  I  just  got  a  grant 
and  I  need  someone,"  so  Jared  went  in 
for  an  interview  and  landed  the  job. 

Leetaru  is  involved  in  the  CO, 
sequestration  project  underway  at  the 


Jared  Freiburg 


ISGS.  Researchers  are  looking  into  ways 
to  pump  the  CO,  into  old  oil  wells  so  it 
stays  out  of  the  atmosphere,  and 
decreases  the  rate  of  global  warming. 
The  porous  rock  traps  the  CO,  below  the 
ground  surface.  Jared's  role  during  his 
internship  was  to  digitize  old  well-log 
data.  Once  in  digital  form,  the  data  can 
be  used  by  sophisticated  computer  pro- 
grams to  produce  sub-surface  structure- 
contour  and  isopach  maps. 

Jared's  work  at  the  ISGS  led  to  the 
production  of  a  senior  thesis  entitled, 
"Structural  Symmetry  of  Subsurface 
Folds  in  the  Southern  Illinois  Basin." 
Leetaru  and  Department  of  Geology 
Head  Steve  Marshak  are  co-advisors. 
This  work  discusses  the  relationship 
between  the  geometry  of  sub-surface 
folds  and  the  geometry  of  faults  whose 


motion  led  to  the  formation  of  the  folds. 

Jared  credits  the  internship  at  ISGS 
with  his  landing  of  a  full-time  job  as  a 
field  assistant  with  the  Connecticut- 
based  mining  company,  Unimin.  The 
company  is  involved  in  similar  de-gasifi- 
cation projects,  so  the  interviewers  were 
impressed  with  Jared's  background. 

"I'll  actually  be  based  out  of 
Champaign  Urbana.  Unimin  has  an 
office  in  Ottawa,  Illinois  and  they  will  fly 
me  to  all  the  base  sites,"  Jared  says. 

Jared  recommends  all  students  in 
the  Department  of  Geology  look  carefully 
at  internship  opportunities  at  the  ISGS. 
"There's  a  wealth  of  knowledge  of  geolo- 
gy over  at  ISGS  and  experts  who  are 
reallv  willing  to  work  with  students." 


Professor  Xiaodong  Song  Confirms  Super-rotation  of  the  Earth's  Core 


|n  the  2003  sci- 
I  ence  fiction  flick 
The  Core,  a  team 
i^j     of  scientists  drills 
— -    to  the  center  of 
_J  the  Earth  in  an 

attempt  to  restart 
the  Earth's  core, 
which  has  myste- 

Xiaodong  Song         riously  stopped 
spinning,  altering 
the  planet's  magnetic  field  and  setting 
off  catastrophic— if  unrealistic— results. 
The  reality  of  how  the  Earth's  inner 
workings  rotate  is  indeed  much  more 
fascinating  than  any  cinematic  version. 
No  wonder  the  public's  interest  in  the 
subject  soared  recently  with  the  resolu- 
tion of  a  nine-year  debate  regarding  the 
speed  of  the  core. 

Prof.  Xiaodong  Song  of  the 
Department  of  Geology  was  one  of  the 


investigators  that  first  presented  evi- 
dence, in  1996,  that  the  Earth's 
inner  core  rotates  0.3  to  0.5  degrees 
per  year  faster  than  the  rest  of  the 
planet.  Since  then,  some  seismolo- 
gists suspected  that  flaws  in  the 
data  were  responsible  for  the  pur- 
ported movement,  and  argued  that 
"super-rotation"  of  the  core  did  not 
really  happen.  The  doubt  has  now 
disappeared. 

"Extraordinary  claims  require 
extraordinary  proof,"  says  Song. 
"We  believe  we  now  have  that 
proof." 

That  proof  came  when  Song 
and  his  students  at  UIUC,  along 
with  colleagues  at  Lamont-Doherty 
Earth  Observatory  of  Columbia 
University,  compared  records  of 
seismic  waves  from  recent  earth- 
quakes in  the  South  Sandwich 


Islands  to  those  of  earthquakes  that 
happened  35  years  ago. 

"Seismic  waves  that  passed 
through  the  inner  core  show  system- 
atic changes  in  travel  times  and  wave 
shapes  when  comparing  events  sepa- 
rated in  time  by  several  years,"  Song 
says.  "The  only  plausible  explanation 
is  a  motion  of  the  inner  core  .  .  .  The 
interaction  of  the  magnetic  field  gen- 
erated by  flow  in  the  outer  core  caus- 
es the  inner  core  to  spin,  like  the 
armature  in  an  electric  motor. " 

Response  to  this  new  proof  has 
been  impressive.  News  outlets  around 
the  world  featured  the  story.  In  fact, 
The  New  York  Times,  National 
Geographic,  The  Washington  Post, 
CNN,  ABC,  the  BBC,  and  The. 
Bangladesh  Times  are  just  a  few  of 
the  media  outlets  that  have  ran  sto- 
ries. 


Missouri's  Taum  Sauk 
Reservoir  Fails 

A  popular  destination  for 
Department  of  Geology  field  trips,  the 
50-acre  Taum  Sauk  Reservoir  in  southern 
Missouri  emptied  out  in  12  minutes 
when  a  stone  retaining  wall  collapsed 
just  before  daybreak  on  December  14, 
2005.  A  billion-gallon  torrent  of  water 
washed  away  at  least  two  homes  and 
several  vehicles,  and  critically  injured 
three  children.  Water  and  debris  rushed 
down  the  mountain,  cutting  a  swath 
through  the  forest,  and  then  drained 
through  Johnson  Shut-Ins,  covering  the 
outcrop  with  mud.   It  appears  that  auto- 
mated instruments  pumped  too  much 
water  into  Taum  Sauk,  so  the  water 
overtopped  the  reservoir's  wall,  and 
caused  a  section  to  give  way. 


Students  at  the  2005  geology  field  camp  cluster  on  a  peak  in  the  Wasatch 
Mountains  to  hear  a  briefing  before  heading  off  to  map.  Illinois  runs  the  camp  in 
association  with  four  other  Big  Ten  universities.  Our  students  receive  generous 
scholarships  from  an  endowment  set  up  by  Ed  and  Alison  Franklin. 


Gary  Parker  Studies  Methane  Rivers  On  Titan 


Recent  evidence  from  Cassini 
Mission's  Huygens  Probe  suggests 
that  the  largest  moon  orbiting  Saturn, 
Titan,  features  methane  rivers  that 
sculpt  channels  into  that  moon's  conti- 
nents of  ice.  Surface  images  from  the 
probe  show  gravel-sized  pieces  of  river 
ice  similar  to  stones  found  in  Earth's 
dry  riverbeds. 

But  with  a  surface  temperature  of 
minus  179°C  and  an  atmospheric  pres- 
sure one-and-a-half  times  that  of  Earth, 
could  river  processes  on  Titan  be  any- 
thing like  those  on  Earth?  Gary  Parker, 
the  W.  H.  Johnson  Professor  of 
Geology  and  a  professor  of  civil  and 
environmental  engineering  at  the 
University  of  Illinois,  has  explored  this 
question  and  his  results  have  been  fea- 
tured in  news  articles  published  global- 


ly.  He  has  now  extended  his  insight 
gained  from  years  of  studying  rivers  on 
Earth  to  the  amazing  new  imagery  of 
other  planets  and  moons  that  has 
recently  become  available. 

"The  idea  that  rivers  of  methane 
moving  chunks  of  ice  on  Titan  ought  to 
obey  the  same  rules  as  rivers  on  Earth 
is  not  what  you  would  assume  at  first," 
says  Parker.  "Only  three  parameters  dif- 
fer significantly  between  Earth  and 
Titan:   First  is  the  acceleration  due  to 
gravity— on  Titan,  it  is  about  one-sev- 
enth the  value  on  Earth.  Second  is  the 
viscosity  of  flowing  fluid — the  viscosity 
of  liquid  methane  on  Titan  is  about 
one-fifth  that  of  Earth's  water.  Third  is 
the  submerged  specific  gravity  of  sedi- 
ment—the value  on  Titan  is  about  two- 
thirds  of  that  on  Earth. 


"What  this 
means  is  that  for 
the  same  dis- 
charge of  liquid 
methane  as  to 
water,  the  chan- 
nel characteris- 
tics on  Titan 
should  be 
remarkably  simi- 
lar to  those  on 
Earth,"  Parker 
says.  "However,  because  of  the 
smaller  acceleration  due  to  gravity, 
channel  slopes  on  Titan  should  be 
wider,  deeper  and  less  steep  than 
those  on  Earth."  As  new  satellite 
images  become  available,  Parker  will 
be  testing  this  idea  further. 


Gary  Parker 


Rare  Volcanic  Plumes  Create  Uncommonly  Dangerous  Ash  Flows 


Three  unique  photographs  of  a 
recent  volcanic  eruption  in  a 
remote  part  of  Ecuador  show  an  ash 
and  gas  plume  unlike  any  previously 
documented,  and  hint  at  a  newly 
recognized  hazard,  says  Susan 
Kieffer,  who  holds  the  Walgreen 
Chair  in  geology. 

"The  usual  volcanic  plume  con- 
sists of  a  stalk  capped  with  an 
umbrella,  and  resembles  the  mush- 
room of  an  atom  bomb  blast,  but  the 
umbrella  on  this  plume  was  wavy, 
like  the  shell  of  a  scallop." 

In  a  recent  paper  in  Geophysical 
Research  Letters,  Kieffer,  theoretical 
and  applied  mechanics  professor 
Gustavo  Gioia,  and  graduate  student 
Pinaki  Chakraborty  explained  what 
might  have  caused  the  umbrella  to 


J**. 


scallop,  a  task  made  more  difficult  by 
the  scarcity  of  information. 

"We  had  never  seen  a  scalloped 
umbrella  before,"  said  Kieffer.  "Unusual 


conditions  must  have  existed  in  the 
volcanic  plume  that  formed  this 
umbrella." 

Volcan  Reventador— Spanish  for 
"one  that  explodes"— lived  up  to  its 
name  on  the  morning  of  November  3, 
2002.  Following  seven  hours  of  seis- 
mic activity,  the  summit  cone  explod- 
ed and  sent  and  erupted  hot  ash. 
This  ash  heated  the  surrounding  air, 
which  became  buoyant  and  rose  to 
form  a  volcanic  plume,  carrying  ash 
with  it. 

Our  analysis  suggests  that  the 
Reventador  plume  collapsed  rapidly, 
forming  new  and  especially  danger- 
ous ash  flows,"  says  Kieffer. 
Originating  far  from  the  summit  cone, 
these  new  ash  flows  helped  spread 
the  damage  caused  by  the  eruption. 


Windows  into  the  Past 


Illinois  Geology  on  the  Launching  Pad 


by  Ralph  L.  Langenheim 


uring  World  War  II,  the  geology  pro- 
gram at  Illinois  almost  collapsed,  for 


military  demands  stripped  men  from  the 
campus.  Full-time  faculty  decreased  to 
four,  geology  majors  went  from  31  to 
seven,  and  no  graduate  degrees  were 
granted  in  1943  and  1944.  The  only  two 
master's  degrees  granted  in  1945  went  to 
our  first  women  graduate  students, 
Dorothy  Johnson  and  Elizabeth  Livesay, 
who  studied  micropaleontology  with 
Harold  Scott  and  later  obtained  positions 
in  petroleum  geology.  At  the  War's  end, 
students  first  trickled,  then  cascaded  back 
to  Urbana-Champaign,  so  that  14  mas- 
ter's degrees  and  four  doctorate  degrees 
were  granted  in  1949.  However,  it  was 
not  until  1955  that  Illinois  produced  its 
first  woman  Ph.D.,  Barbara  Collins,  a  stu- 
dent of  Ralph  Grim. 

The  post-war  Department  of  Geology 
burgeoned  during  the  last  years  of  Frank 
DeWolfe's  tenure  as  chairman,  and  con- 
tinued with  Harold  Wanless  serving  as 
chairman  of  an  administrative  committee 
until  the  arrival  of  George  Willard  White 
in  1947.   White  would  lead  Illinois'  geol- 
ogy for  the  next  18  years. 

A  consummate  administrator,  White 
was  well  suited  for  his  leadership  role 
during  academia's  rapid  expansion  after 
World  War  II.  Born  the  son  of  a  minister 
in  North  Lawrence,  Ohio  in  1903,  the 
highly  precocious  White  was  treated 
almost  as  an  adult  from  early  childhood. 
He  graduated  from  Otterbein  College  at 
17,  and  completed  his  master's  (1925) 
and  doctorate  (1933)  at  Ohio  State 
University.  Then,  he  became  an  instruc- 
tor at  the  University  of  Tennessee,  and, 
later,  at  the  University  of  New 
Hampshire.  In  New  Hampshire,  White 
rose  to  professor  and  acting  Dean  of  the 


Graduate  School  and  led  the  New 
Hampshire  department  to  grow  into  one 
of  the  largest  among  New  England  state 
universities.  Incidentally,  here  he  also 
became  acquainted  with  Carleton 
Chapman  as  a  student.  In  1941,  White 
moved  to  Ohio  State  University  as  a  pro- 
fessor and  as  the  State  Geologist  of  Ohio. 

Once  at  Illinois,  White  immediately 
began  to  increase  the  number  of  staff  to 
generate  new  graduate  programs  of  dis- 
tinction, and  to  polish  the  department's 
national  and  international  reputation. 
He  initiated  and  expanded  programs  in 
Pleistocene  geology,  geomorphology,  clay 
mineralogy,  hydrogeology,  engineering 
geology,  electron  microscopy  and  field 
geology.  Also,  with  White's  encourage- 
ment, the  UI  Geology  Library  grew  to 
world-class  status,  reputedly  ranking 
third  after  the  USGS  Library,  the  New 
York  Public  Library,  and  Harvard 
University.  He  was  particularly  interested 
in  the  history  of  geology,  and  urged  the 
purchase  of  rare  books. 

In  addition,  White  aggressively  pub- 
licized Illinois  geology,  recruited  students, 
expanded  contacts  for  graduate-student 
placement  and  recruited  outstanding 
staff.  Of  note,  White  asked  senior  staff  to 
visit  major  graduate  and  undergraduate 
programs  around  the  country.  Indeed, 
University  planes  flew  groups  of  profes- 
sors to  attend  national  meetings  and  lec- 
ture at  larger  schools.  I  well  remember 
such  a  "barnstorming  tour"  or  flying  cir- 
cus at  Berkeley  that  featured  lectures  by 
Harold  Scott  and  George  White.  We 
Berkeley  alums  were  at  first  amused,  but 
became  quickly  convinced  that  the  geolo- 
gy program  at  Illinois  was  substantial. 
White,  and  his  wife  Mildred,  regularly 
traveled  overseas,  where  they  sought  con- 


George  White 

tacts  and  recruited  graduate  students 
and  candidates  for  visiting  professor- 
ships. 

During  the  White  era,  the  faculty 
line  in  structural  geology  was  kept 
open  for  a  visitor.  Between  1950  and 
1964,  the  annual  overseas  visitors 
were:  Christoffer  Oftedhl  (Norway), 
J.  V.  Harrison  (Oxford),  Maxwell  Gage 
(Canterbury),  Rhodes  Fairbridge 
(Western  Australia),  J.  M.  Carr 
(Cyprus),  Albert  Carozzi  (Geneva), 
Kingsly  Dunham  (Durham),  lies 
Strachan  (Birmingham),  Derek  Ager 
(Imperial  College),  Hendrik  Zwart 
(Leiden),  Poul  Graf-Petersen 
(Copenhagen),  Heikki  Ignatius 
(Helsinki),  Hans  Laubscher  (Basel), 
and  Hans  Holtedahl  (Bergen).  So  far  as 
I  know,  the  foreign  visiting  professor 
program  was  unique  and  a  major  fac- 
tor in  Illinois'  retention  of  its  ranking 
amongst  the  top  twenty  American 
graduate  programs  in  geology. 


Alumni  News 


John  W.  Hawley  Receives  Alumni  Achievement  Award 


We  are  very  proud  to  announce  that 
John  W.  Hawley,  Ph.D.  '62,  is  the 
2006  Department  of  Geology  Alumni 
Achievement  Award  winner.  Hawley,  who 
lives  in  Albuquerque,  New  Mexico,  has 
authored  or  co-authored  more  than  100 
publications  on  environmental  geology, 
hydrogeology,  and  geomorphology  of  arid 
and  semi-arid  lands  in  western  North 
America,  including  the  Great  Basin, 
Chihuahuan  Desert  and  Rio  Grande  rift 
areas  of  the  Basin  and  Range  province,  and 
the  Southern  High  Plains-Pecos  Valley 
region. 

After  more  than  35  years  of  public- 
sector  professional  activity,  Dr.  Hawley 
formed  HAWLEY  GEOMATTERS  in 
December  1997.  This  consulting  service 
deals  primarily  with  environmental  and 
groundwater  geology  of  the  New  Mexico 
region,  with  emphasis  on  assessing  and 
mitigating  impacts  of  water-  and  mineral- 
resource  development,  and  waste  disposal 
in  fragile  arid  and  semiarid  environments. 


The  company  does  substantial  pro-bono 
work  for  Native  American  residents  of 
New  Mexico. 

Dr.  Hawley  has  received  honors  for 
his  published  research  and  scientific-com- 
munity service  including  the  Kirk  Bryan 
Award  for  desert  soil-geomorphic  research, 
and  the  Engineering  Geology  Division 
Distinguished  Practice  Award  from  the 
Geological  Society  of  America.   He  has 


also  received  the  Certificate  of  Merit  for 
Arid  Zone  Research  from  the  American 
Association  for  the  Advancement  of 
Science,  and  the  New  Mexico  Eminent 
Scholar  from  the  State  of  New  Mexico. 
Hawley  is  the  co-dedicatee  of  the 
Society's  50th  Annual  Field  Conference 
Guidebook  and  has  received  the 
Hanover  College  Alumni  Achievement 
Award;  Honorary  Membership  in  the 
New  Mexico  Geological  Society,  the 
American  Institute  of  Professional 
Geologists  Presidential  Award  of  Merit, 
and  the  New  Mexico  Earth  Science 
Achievement  Award. 

In  addition,  Dr.  Hawley  has  served 
as  President  of  the  New  Mexico 
Geological  Society  and  President  of  the 
New  Mexico  Section  American  Institute 
of  Professional  Geologists. 

"John  Hawley's  career  illustrates 
the  wonderful  impact  that  a  geologist 
can  have  on  society,"  noted  Department 
Head  Steve  Marshak 


V-;    Richard  L.  Hay. 

R.E.  Grim 
Professor  of 
Geology 
Emeritus  at  the 
University  of 
Illinois,  died 
from  pulmonary 
fibrosis  February  10,  2006,  at  his 
home  in  Tucson,  Arizona  at  the  age 
of  79.  Dr.  Hay  had  a  long  and  distin- 
guished career  in  sedimentary  geolo- 
gy, mineralogy,  and  archaeological 
geology.  He  is  best  known  for  pro- 
viding the  geological  context  of  two 
of  the  most  important  hominid-bear- 
ing  sites  known  in  East  Africa 
(Olduvai  Gorge  and  Laetoli).  He  also 
made  fundamental  contributions  to 
the  understanding  of  important  min- 
erals such  as  clays  and  zeolites. 

Born  in  Goshen,  Indiana  on  April 
29,  1929,  Dr.  Hay  obtained  both  his 
bachelor's  and  master's  degrees  from 
Northwestern  University  in  1946  and 


Obituaries 


1948  respectively,  and  earned  his  Ph.D. 
from  Princeton  in  1952.  In  1957,  Dr.  Hay 
became  assistant  professor  of  geology 
and  geophysics  at  the  University  of 
California,  Berkeley,  where  he  eventually 
obtained  the  rank  of  full  professor.  In 
1983,  Dr.  Hay  moved  to  the  University  of 
Illinois  at  Urbana-Champaign,  as  the  first 
R.  E.  Grim  Professor  in  the  Department 
of  Geology.  In  addition  to  his  academic 
career,  Dr.  Hay  also  served  as  a  geologist 
for  the  U.S.  Geological  Survey. 

Dr.  Hay  was  Fellow  of  the  American 
Association  for  the  Advancement  of 
Science,  the  Geological  Society  of 
America,  the  Mineralogical  Society  of 
America,  and  the  California  Academy  of 
Sciences.  He  received  the  Kirk  Bryan 
Award  in  1978  and  the  Rip  Rapp 
Archaeological  Geology  Award  in  2000 
from  the  Geological  Society  of  America, 
and  in  2001  was  also  the  recipient  of  one 
of  the  most  distinguished  awards  in  the 
field  of  human  origins,  the  Leakey  Prize. 
Dr.  Hay's  1976  monograph,  Geology  of 


the  Olduvai  Gorge,  still  stands  as  a 
model  for  archaeological  geology 
research.  A  dedicated  teacher  and 
mentor,  he  guided  many  students  into 
distinguished  careers.  Dr.  Hay  also  had 
a  lasting  impact  on  his  peers  as  well, 
and  was  uniformly  known  by  his  col- 
leagues as  a  modest,  unassuming  man 
with  a  ready  smile  and  gentle  nature, 
who  was  always  open  to  discussion. 
Dr.  Hay  and  his  wife  Lynn  moved 
to  Tucson  in  1999,  after  his  retirement 
from  the  University  of  Illinois,  where 
he  continued  geological  research  as  an 
adjunct  professor  at  the  University  of 
Arizona.   Dr.  Hay  is  survived  by  his 
wife  of  32  years,  Lynn  Hay,  who 
resides  in  Tucson,  Arizona;  his  son, 
Randall  Hay,  of  Fort  Wayne,  Indiana; 
his  two  granddaughters;  and  his  two 
stepsons,  George  Uricoechea,  of 
Urbana,  Illinois,  and  John  Uricoechea, 
of  Springfield,  Virginia.  Dr.  Hay  is  also 
survived  by  his  brother,  Robert  E.  Hay 
of  Tucson. 


Alumni  News 


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Obituaries 


Arthur  Hagner  died  December  13,  2005.  He  was  94.  Art  earned  his  bachelor's 
degree  from  New  York  University  and  his  doctorate  from  Columbia  University. 
He  worked  on  military  development  programs  for  the  government  during 
World  War  II.  He  was  a  professor  of  geology  at  the  University  of  Illinois  at 
Urbana-Champaign  until  his  retirement  after  more  than  25  years  of  service. 
Hagner  was  known  for  his  work  in  economic  geology,  ore  mineralogy,  clay 
mineralogy,  and  petrology.  He  also  contibuted  articles  on  geological  edudcation 
and  on  the  philosophy  of  geology.  Prof.  Hagner  conducted  research  in 
Wyoming,  New  York,  Mexico,  and  Texas.  Recognized  in  Who's  Who  in  America 
in  Science,  Art  moved  to  Stamford,  Connecticut,  after  retirement  and  lived  there 
for  30  years.  Art  was  a  member  of  the  U.S.  Geological  Survey  and  enjoyed  clas- 
sical music,  art  and  collecting  minerals. 

James  L.  Eades,  Ph.D.  '62,  passed  away  January  21,  2006,  in  Gainesville, 
Florida.    He  was  83.  James  was  a  student  of  Ralph  Grim.  They  worked  on  the 
chemistry  associated  with  the  lime  stabilization  of  soils.  He  was  a  National 
Lime  Association  Research  Associate  in  the  department  for  several  years  before 
he  left  Illinois  to  come  to  the  University  of  Florida  as  an  associate  professor  in 
geology.  He  later  became  chair  and  was  active  in  the  department  until  he 
retired  in  2000. 

Jack  Simon,  M.S.  '46,  died  December  17,  2005.  He  was  86.  Jack  served  in  the 
Army  Air  Forces  during  World  War  II  before  earning  his  master's  degree  in 
geology  from  the  University  of  Illinois  at  Urbana-Champaign  in  1946.  He 
worked  with  the  Illinois  State  Geological  Survey.  Jack  was  well  known  for  his 
work  in  soil  geology.  In  1974  he  became  Chief  of  the  ISGS,  a  post  he  held  until 
his  retirment  in  1982.  He  was  a  member  of  Sinai  Temple  in  Champaign  and 
Exchange  Club  at  the  U  of  I. 

Clarence  Vernon  Crow,  B.S.  '51,  died  September  9,  2005  in  Decatur,  Illinois  at 
the  age  of  87.  After  graduation  from  Lawrenceville,  Illinois  High  School  he 
served  in  the  U.S.  Navy  during  WWII.  This  included  16  months  of  sea  duty  in 
the  Atlantic.  He  received  his  bachelor's  degree  in  geology  from  the  U  of  I  and 
did  graduate  studies  at  the  University  of  Michigan  and  Illinois  State  University. 

After  graduation  Clarence  worked  in  the  exploration  and  development  of 
underground  gas  storage  fields  for  a  consulting  firm  in  Urbana,  Illinois.  He  was 
underground  gas  storage  geologist  for  Illinois  Power  Company  for  23  years,  and 
then  spent  12  years  as  a  consultant  in  underground  gas  and  air  storage  through 
the  United  States.  He  was  involved  in  the  exploration  and  development  of  12 
underground  gas  storage  fields  and  one  air  storage  field.  His  active  career 
spanned  a  period  of  43  years. 

Clarence  was  a  founding  member  and  past  president  of  the  Midwest  Gas 
Storage  Section  of  the  Society  of  Petroleum  Engineers  and  a  senior  member  of 
the  American  Association  of  Petroleum  Geologists. 

Ernest  H.  Muller,  M.S.  '49,  Ph.D.  '52,  died  October  20,  2005,  at  the  age  of  82. 
Ernie  was  a  Second  Lieutenant  and  Airways  Weather  Forecaster  for  the  U.S. 
Army  Air  Force  during  World  War  II.  Ernie  subsequently  completed  his  B.S.  in 
Geology  at  Wooster  College,  Ohio,  and  received  his  Master's  and  Doctorate  in 
Geology  from  the  University  of  Illinois  at  Urbana-Champaign.  He  worked  for 
the  US  Geological  Survey  before  accepting  a  faculty  position  at  Cornell 
University  in  1954.  Ernie  subsequently  taught  for  30  years  at  Syracuse 
University,  and  worked,  studied,  and  taught  in  Alaska,  Iceland,  Chile,  New 
Zealand,  and  India.  He  is  widely  published  and  a  member  of  numerous  profes- 
sional societies.  Ernie  was  known  for  his  integrity,  discernment,  and  ability  to 
enjoy  the  subtle  and  simple  aspects  of  life. 


1950s 

Jordan.  Paul  Karrow  (Ph.D.  '57)  was 
awarded  the  title  Distinguished 
Professor  Emeritus  by  the  University  of 
Waterloo  in  2002.  He  retired  from  UW  in 
1999.  Presently,  Paul  is  an  adjunct  pro- 
fessor in  the  Department  of  Earth 
Sciences  and  continues  to  teach  and 
supervise  graduate  students.  A  day-long 
symposium  was  held  at  the  Geological 
Association  of  Canada's  annual  meeting 
to  recognize  Paul's  work  in  quaternary 
geology.  Most  importantly,  Paul  is  now  a 
grandfather  of  eight. 

1970s 

Jim  Granath  (B.S.  '71,  M.S.  73)  has 
been  promoted  to  senior  explorationist 
for  Forest  Oil  International  in  Denver. 

James  C.  Cobb  (B.S.  '71,  Ph.D.  '81)  is 
treasurer  of  the  American  Geological 
Institute's  Executive  Committee.  Jim  is 
director  and  state  geologist  at  the 
Kentucky  Geological  Survey  at  the 
University  of  Kentucky. 

Christopher  Ledvina,  (B.S.  74)  is  cur- 
rently a  professor  at  Northeastern 
University.  He  and  his  wife  Janet 
announce  the  birth  of  a  daughter, 
Julianna  Helen,  born  April  23,  2004. 
Julianna  is  their  fourth  child.  The  other 
children  are  8-year-old  triplets, 
Carrianne,  Rachel  and  Daniel. 

1980s 

Brian  N.  Popp  (M.S.  '81,  Ph.D  '86)  was 
elected  a  Geochemistry  Fellow  by  the 
Geochemical  Society  and  the  European 
Association  for  Geochemistry.  The  title 
is  "bestowed  upon  outstanding  scien- 
tists who  have,  over  the  years,  made  a 
major  contribution  to  the  field  of  geo- 
chemistry." Brian  is  a  Professor  in  the 
Department  of  Geology  and  Geophysics 
and  graduate  faculty  in  the  Department 
of  Oceanography  at  the  University  of 
Hawaii.  He  lives  there  with  his  wife 
Jan  Reichelderfer  (M.S.  1985)  and  their 
daughters  Jennifer  and  Nicole. 

Marcia  K.  Schulmeister  (B.S.  '85)  is 
an  assistant  professor  in  the  Earth 
Science  Department  of  Emporia  State 
University  in  Emporia,  Kansas. 


Steve  Altaner  (Ph.D.  '85)  and  his  wife 
Judy  (M.S.  '98)  adopted  a  baby  girl, 
Marissa  Kate.  Marissa  was  born  on  Dec. 
19,  2005.  Steve  is  an  associate  professor 
in  the  Department. 

Istvan  Barany,  who  was  a  student  here 
from  1987  to  1991,  is  a  Project 
Geophysical  Advisor  for  Anadarko 
Petroleum  Corporation  in  Houston, 
Texas. 

Alan  Singleton  (B.S.  '88)  is  a  patent 
and  business  law  attorney  in 
Champaign,  Illinois. 

1990s 

Ming-Kuo  Lee  (M.S.  '90,  Ph.D.  '93)  was 
recently  promoted  to  full  professor  of 
Hydrogeology  in  the  Department  of 
Geology  &  Geography  at  Auburn 
University. 

Robert  (Ph.D.  '96)  and  Melinda  (M.S. 
'94)  Ylagan  announce  the  arrival  of 
their  second  son,  Elliot  Peter  Ylagan, 
born  May  23,  2005,  weighing  8  lbs.  8  oz. 
Elliot  was  welcomed  home  by  his  big 
brother  Renan. 

Stephanie  Drain  (B.S.  '95)  currently 
works  as  a  Field  Engineer,  Midwest 
Region  of  SemMaterials,  L.P.,  in  Terre 
Haute,  Indiana. 

Theresa  (Croak)  Mueller  (B.S.  '96) 
opened  her  own  real  estate  brokerage 
(www.TheresaMuelier.com) .  She  lives 
with  her  husband  Keith  and  two-year- 
old  Stefan  in  Naperville,  Illinois. 

Catherine  A.  Hier-Majumder  (B.S.  '97) 
married  geophysicist  Saswata  Hier- 
Majumder.  Catherine  received  her  Ph.D. 
from  the  Unviversity  of  Minnesota.  She 
works  as  a  MESSENGER  fellow  at  the 
Carnegie  Institute  of  Washington.  MES- 
SENGER is  a  NASA  mission  currently  on 
its  way  to  Mercury.  Catherine's  husband 
is  a  professor  at  the  University  of 
Maryland  in  College  Park, 

Geoscientist,  scientific  data  visualization 
specialist,  public  domain  activist,  and 
blossoming  linguist  Maitri  Venkat- 
Ramani  (B.S.  '98)  has  a  fascinating  blog 
devoted  "to  reporting  on  the  aftermath 
of  2005's  Hurricane  Katrina  and  its 
impact  on  my  area.  You  can  find  the 
blog  on  Maitri's  website, 
www.vatul.net/bio.html. 


2000s 

Stacey  Kocian  (B.S.   01)  and  Bryan 

Luman  (B.S.  '01)  announce  the  birth  of 
a  son  Simon  Rhys  Luman.  Simon  was 
born  on  October  7,  2005,  weighing  6 
lbs.  11  oz.  The  family  lives  in  Kenosha, 
Wisconsin. 

Mike  Harrison  (Ph.D.  '02)  and  his  wife 
Diane  are  proud  parents  of  identical 
twin  boys  Patrick  and  Philip  (weighing  a 
total  of  15  lbs).  They  were  born  April  3, 
2006.  Mike  is  a  professor  at  Tennessee 
Tech  University. 

Chris  Majerczyk,  (B.S.  '03)  works  in 
Bloomington,  Illinois,  for  a  small  envi- 
ronmental consultant  called  Concord 
Engineering. 

After  successfully  defending  his  thesis, 
Roger  Bannister  (B.S,  '04)  begins 
working  in  Blacksburg,  Virginia,  in 
September  2006  as  a  hydrogeologist  for 
Environmental  Systems  and 
Technologies. 

From  our  Mailbox 

Letter  from  U  of  I  Alum  Charles  J. 
Hoke  (A.B.  '37) 

7  was  so  pleased  to  receive  the  '2004 
Year  in  Review.'  The  article  about 
Professor  Frank  DeWolfe  was  of  particu- 
lar interest  since  I  am  a  graduate  of 
Illinois,  class  of  1937.  I  had  the  great 
pleasure  and  honor  to  take  Geology  101 
from  professor  DeWolfe  and  to  work 
with  him  as  well  as  the  other  professors 
mentioned  in  the  article.  Also,  Dr.  K.O. 
Emer)'  and  Dr.  Robert  Deitz  were  class- 
mates. Two  other  persons  I  worked  with 
were  Dr.  James  Schopf  and  Dr.  G.G. 
Cady,  with  whom  I  did  microspores  of 
Illinois  Coal  #6. 

"After  graduation  I  took  a  job  in  the  oil 
fields  of  south  Arkansas  from  Phillips 
Petroleum  and  after  10  years  I  took  a 
job  as  Chief  Geologist  with  Murphy  Oil 
Corporation.  [I]  retired  in  1975  as  Vice 
President  [of]  Production  and 
Exploration  and  member  of  the  Board 
of  Directors.  Since  that  time  1  have  been 
a  consultant  which  I  retired  from  on 
September  1,  2005.  I  have  now  had  my 
90th  birthday. 

"I  will  always  cherish  the  time  at 
University  of  Illinois  and  the  training 
and  instruction  1  received  there. " 


Following  Hurricane  Katrina:  Letter 
from  U  of  I  Alum  and  Tulane 
Professor  Nancye  Dawers  (M.S.  '87) 
Sent  from  New  Orleans  on  March  27, 
2006: 

"Tulane  has  handled  this  remarkably 
well,  considering  big  problems  still 
exist  in  terms  of  rebuilding  the  med 
school.  The  university  sustained 
between  150-250  million  $$  in  dam- 
age (they  are  still  trying  to  estimate 
it),  and  so  far  nothing  received  from 
FEMA  or  insurance.  Once  we  get  a 
handle  on  the  total  undergrad  enroll- 
ment for  fall,  and  also  survive  the 
fast-approaching  hurricane  season. 
Tulane  should  be  relatively  stabi- 
lized. I've  been  hearing  rumors  of 
some  possible  major  lay-offs  at  the 
state  universities  (like  LSU  and 
UNO),  but  no  more  lay-offs  are 
expect  here,  at  least  in  terms  of  facul- 
ty.  Our  dept  is  actually  looking  to 
hire  three  to  four  faculty  in  the  next 
two  years. 

"Things  are  actually  fine  in  this  part 
of  town,  but  you  go  just  a  couple  of 
miles  away  and  it  is  total  devasta- 
tion and  it  looks  much  the  same  as 
it  did  in  the  early  fall.  House  repairs 
are  slow,  and  really  just  beginning; 
contractors  are  basically  over- 
whelmed. Fortunately  we  could  tem- 
porarily solve  our  leaky-roof  problem 
with  a  big  blue  tarp. " 


Alumnus  Hani  Khoury  (left)  and  U  of  I's 
R  James  Kirkpatrick  at  a  conference  in 
Switzerland.  Hani  (Ph.D.,  79)  is  a  pro- 
fessor at  the  University  of  Jordan  and 
gave  an  invited  talk  on  the  geology  of 
natural  cement  deposits  in 


Annual  Report  for  2005 


Faculty 

Stephen  P.  Altaner  (Associate  Professor) 
Jay  D.  Bass  (Professor) 
Craig  M.  Bethke  (Professor) 
Chu-Yung  Chen  (Associate  Professor  and 

Associate  Head) 
Wang-Ping  Chen  (Professor) 
Bruce  W.  Fouke  (Associate  Professor) 
Albert  T.  Hsui  (Professor  and  Associate  Head) 
Thomas  M.  Johnson  (Associate  Professor) 
Susan  W.  Kieffer  (Walgreen  Professor) 
R.  James  Kirkpatrick  (Grim  Professor  and 

Executive  Associate  Dean) 
Jie  Li  (Assistant  Professor) 
Craig  C.  Lundstrom  (Associate  Professor) 
Stephen  Marshak  (Professor  and  Head) 
Gary  Parker  (Johnson  Professor) 
Xiaodong  Song  (Associate  Professor) 

Department  Affiliate 

Feng-Sheng  Hu  (Associate  Professor) 

Academic  Staff,  Post-Docs, 
Visiting  Staff 

Panakkatu  Babu  (Post-Doctoral  Research 

Associate) 
Alessandro  Cantelli  (Post-Doctoral  Research 

Associate) 
Justin  Glessner  (Geochemistry  Specialist) 
Richard  Hedin  (Research  Programmer) 
Holger  Hellwig  (Research  Scientist) 
Eileen  Herrstrom  (Teaching  Specialist) 
Stephen  Hurst  (Research  Programmer) 
Ingmar  Janse   (Post-Doctoral  Research 

Associate) 
Roy  Johnson  (Research  Scientist) 
Andrey  Kalinichev  (Senior  Research  Scientist) 
Michael  Lerche  (Post-Doctoral  Research 

Associate) 
Ann  Long  (Teaching  Specialist) 
Xinli  Lu    (Post-Doctoral  Research  Associate) 
Stephen  Lyons  (Newsletter  Editor) 
Michael  Martin  (Post-Doctoral  Research 

Associate) 
Padma  Padmanabhan  (Post-Doctoral  Research 

Associate) 
Maik  Pertermann  (Post-Doctoral  Research 

Associate) 
Jean-Phillipe  Perrillat  (Post-Doctoral  Research 

Associate) 
Marc  Reinholdt  (Post-Doctoral  Research 

Associate) 
Bidhan  Roy  (Post-Doctoral  Research  Associate) 
Carmen  Sanchez-Valle   (Post-Doctoral 

Research  Associate) 
Rob  Sanford  (Senior  Research  Scientist) 
Stanislav  Sinogeikin  (Research  Scientist) 
Maoshuang  Song  (Post-Doctoral  Research 

Associate) 
Michael  Stewart  (Lecturer) 
Rajeswari  Vanka  (Resource  and  Policy  Analyst) 
Zhaofeng  Zhang  (Visiting  Scholar) 
Jianming  Zhu  (Visiting  Scholar) 


Emeritus  Faculty 

Thomas  F.  Anderson 
Daniel  B.  Blake 
Albert  V.  Carozzi 


COURSES  TAUGHT  IN  2005 


Donald  L.  Graf 

Geol  100 

Arthur  F.  Hagner 

Geol  101 

Richard  L.  Hay 

Geol  103 

Donald  M.  Henderson 

Geol  104 

Albert  T.  Hsui 

George  deV.  Klein 

Geol  107 

Ralph  Langenheim 

Geol  10S 

C.  John  Mann 

Geol  110 

Alberto  S.  Nieto 

Geol  111 

Philip  A.  Sandberg 

Geol  116 

Adjunct  Faculty 

Geol  117 

Robert  J.  Finley 

Geol  118 

Leon  R.  Follmer 

Geol  143 

Dennis  Kolata 

Geol  333 

Morris  W.  Leighton 

Hannes  Leetaru 

William  Shilts 

Geol  3S0 

Wolfgang  Sturhahn 

Geol  411 

M.  Scott  Wilkerson 

Geol  415 

Library  Staff 

Geol  432 
Geol  436 

Lura  Joseph  (Librarian) 

Sheila  McGowan  (Chief  Library  Clerk) 

Geol  450 

Diana  Walter  (Library  Technical  Specialist) 

Geol  451 

Geol  454 

Staff 

Geol  460 

Shelley  Campbell  (Staff  Clerk) 

Geol  481 

Barb  Elmore  (Administrative  Secretary) 
Ed  Lane  (Electronics  Engineering 

Geol  497AE1 

Assistant) 

Michael  Sczerba  (Clerk) 

Geol  511 

Graduate  Students 

Geol  51 5 
Geol  553 

Min  Jeoung  Bae 

Dmitry  Lakshtanov 

Geol  560 

Peter  Berger 

Qi  Li 

Emily  Berna 

Qiang  Li 

Geol  563 

Nicole  Bettinardi 

Yingchun  Li 

Geol  571 

Charles  Bopp 

Christopher  Mah 

Geol  591 

Jon  Brenizer 

Jorge  Marino 

Geol  593F2 

Sarah  Brown 

Lei  Meng 

Kurtis  Burmeister 

Jungho  Park 

Shane  Butler 

Alan  Piggot 

Bin  Chen 

David  Robison 

Geol  593J2 

Scott  Clark 

Thomas  Schickel 

Joshua  Defrates 

Xinlei  Sun 

Melissa  Farmer 

Jian  Tian 

Geol  593KS 

Theodore  Flynn 

Lisa  Tranel 

Lili  Gao 

Tai-Lin  Tseng 

Geol  593K12 

Alex  Glass 

Ivan  Ufimtsev 

Chris  Henderson 

Huan  Wang 

Fang  Huang 

Jingyun  Wang 

Adam  Ianno 

Wei  Day 

Jennifer  Jackson 

Emily  Wisseman 

Meijuan  Jiang 

Kevin  Wolfe 

Michael  Kandianis 

Zhen  Xu 

Jacquelyn  Kitchen 

Zhaohui  Yang 

James  Klaus 

Kelly  Zimmerman 

Planet  Earth 

Introductory  Physical  Geology 

Planet  Earth  QRII 

Geology  of  the  National  Parks 

Physical  Geology 

Historical  Geology 

Exploring  Geology  in  the  Field 

The  Dynamic  Earth  -  Honors 

The  Planets 

The  Oceans 

Natural  Disasters 

History  of  Life 

Earth  Materials  and  the 

Environment 

Environmental  Geology 

Structural  Geology  and  Tectonics 

Field  Geology 

Mineralogy  and  Mineral  Optics 

Petrology  and  Petrography 

Physics  of  the  Earth 

Methods  in  Applied  Geophysics 

Introduction  to  Seismology 

Geochemistry 

Earth  Systems  Modeling 

The  Challenge  of  a 

Sustainable  Earth  System 

Advanced  Structural  Geology 

Advanced  Field  Geology 

Chemistry  of  Earth's  Interior 

Physical  Geochemistry 

Analytical  Geochemistry 

Geochemical  Reaction  Analysis 

Current  Research  in  Geoscience 

Current  Topics  in 

Geomicrobiology  and  Microbial 

Ecology 

Molecular  Modeling  of  Water  & 

Interfaces 

Current  Literature  in  Earth's 

Deep  Interior 

Active  Deformation  of  the 

Lithosphere 


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Research  Grants  active  in  2005 


Air  Force/University  of  Wisconsin 

Xiaodong  Song — Characterizing  High-Resolution 
Seismic  Velocity  and  Attenuation  Structure  of 
Yunnan-Sichuan  Region,  Southwest  China 
Using  Seismic  Catalog  and  Waveform  Data. 

Center  for  Advanced  Cement-Based  Materials 
R.  James  Kirkpatrick— Pore  Solution-Solid 
Interactions  in  Cement  Paste:  Molecular 
Modeling  of  Fluids  in  Nanospaces. 

Critical  Research  Initiative 

Richard  L.  Weaver  and  Xiaodong  Song- 
Correlation  of  Stochastic  Seismic  Waves: 
Theory  and  Application. 

Department  of  Energy 

Craig  M.  Bethke — Field-Constrained  Quantitative 
Model  of  the  Origin  of  Microbial  and 
Geochemical  Zoning  in  a  Confined  Fresh- 
Water  Aquifer. 

R.  James  Kirkpatrick— Computational  & 

Spectroscopic  Investigations  of  Water-Carbon 
Dioxide  Fluids  &  Surface  Sorption  Processes. 

Department  of  Energy 

Robert  A.  Sanford — Towards  a  More  Complete 

Picture:  Dissimilatory  Metal  Reduction  by 

Anaeromyxobcter  Species. 

Robert  A.  Sanford — Biomolecular  Mechanisms 
Controlling  &  Radionuclide  Transformations  in 
Anaeromyxobcter  Species. 

Michigan  State  University 

Robert  A.  Sanford — Growth  of  Chlororespiring 

Bacteria  to  High  Cell  Densities  for  Use  in 

Bioaugmentation. 

NASA 

Susan  W.  Kieffer — Multicomponent,  Multiphase 

H2O-CO2  Thermodynamics  and  Fluid 

Dynamics  on  Mars. 

National  Science  Foundation 
Jay  D.  Bass — Development  of  Laser  Heating  for 
Sound  Velocity  Measurements  at  High  P  &  T. 

Jay  D.  Bass — Sound  Velocities  &  Elastic  Moduli 
of  Minerals  Mantle  Pressures  and 
Temperatures  with  Laser  Heating. 

Jay  D.  Bass — Workshop  on  Phase  Transitions 
and  Mantle  Discontinuities. 

Jay  D.  Bass— CSEDI:  Collaborative  Research: 
Composition  and  Seismic  Structure  of  the 
Mantle  Transition  Zone. 

Jay  D.  Bass— Consortium  for  Material  Property 
Research  in  the  Earth  Sciences. 

Jay  D.  Bass — Collaborative  Research:  Elasticity 
Grand  Challenge  of  the  COMPRES  Initiative. 

Jay  D.  Bass— Polymorphism  and  Structural 
Transitions  During  Glass  Formation. 

Daniel  B.  Blake— Global  Climate  Change  &  The 
Evolutionary  Ecology  of  Antarctic  Mollusks  in 
the  Late  Eocene. 


Wang-Ping  Chen — Collaborative  Research: 
Lithospheric-Scale  Dynamics  of  Active 
Mountain  Building  along  the  Himalayan- 
Tibetan  Collision  Zone. 

Bruce  W.  Fouke — Geobiological  &  The  Emergence 
of  Terraced  Architecture  during  Carbonate 
Mineralization. 

Thomas  M.  Johnson — Collaborative  Research: 
Field  Investigation  of  SE  Oxyanion  Reduction 
&  Se  Sources  in  Wetlands:  Application  of  Se 
Isotopes. 

Thomas  M.  Johnson — Quantification  of  Cr 
Reduction  in  Groundwater  Using  Cr  Stable 
Isotopes. 

Thomas  M.  Johnson  and  Craig  C.  Lundstrom  — 

Acquisition  of  Multicollector  Inductively 
Coupled  Plasma  Mass  Spectrometer. 

Thomas  M.  Johnson  and  Craig  C.  Lundstrom — 

Technical  Support  for  the  New  MC-ICP-MS 
Laboratory  at  University  of  Illinois  at  Urbana- 
Champaign. 

Jie  Li — Experimental  Investigations  of  Solid- 
Liquid  Boundary  in  the  Earth  Core. 

Craig  C.  Lundstrom— Collaborative  Research: 
Investigating  the  Processes  and  Timescales  of 
Andesite  Differentiation:  A  Comprehensive 
Petrological  and  Geochemical  Study  of  Arenal 
Volcano,  Costa  Rica. 

Stephen  Marshak — Collaborative  Research: 
Emplacement  of  the  Ferrar  Mafic  Igneous 
Province:  A  Pilot  Study  of  Intrusive 
Architecture  and  Flow  Directions  in  Southern 
Victoria  Land. 

Xiaodong  Song— Structure  and  Dynamics  of 
Earth's  Core  and  Lowermost  Mantle. 

Office  of  Naval  Research 

Bruce  W  Fouke— The  Role  of  Shipyard  Pollutants 
in  Structuring  Coral  ReefMicrobial 
Communities:  Monitoring  Environmental 
Change  and  the  Potential  Causes  of  Coral 
Disease. 

Bruce  W.  Fouke — Microbiological,  Physiological, 
and  Toxicological  Effect  of  Explosive 
Compounds  on  Coral  Health. 

University  of  Illinois  Research  Board 

R.  James  Kirkpatrick— A  Large  Volume  NMR 

Sample  Probe  for  Chemical  and  Geochemical 

Research. 

Xiaodong  Song— Acquisition  of  Portable 
Broadband  Digital  Seismometers. 

U.S.  Geological  Survey 

Stephen  Marshak— Geologic  Mapping  of  the 
Rosendale  Natural  Cement  Region,  a  Portion 
of  the  Northern  Appalachian  Fold-Thrust  Belt, 
Ulster  County,  New  York. 


Degrees  Conferred  in  2005 


Bachelor  of  Science  Degrees 
May 

Matthew  Borkowski 
Alene  Echevarria 
Adam  Ianno 
Adam  Nolen 
Amanda  Raddatz 
John  Ralston 
Ashley  M.  Ravestein 

August 

Michelle  Kondich 

December 

James  Depa 
Christopher  Heren 
Christopher  Mead 

Master  of  Science  Degrees 
May 

Lei  Meng — (Craig  Bethke) 

Yingchun  Li — Constraining  Inner  Core 
Rotation  From  a  Worldwide  Search  of 
Waveform  Doublets,  (Xiaodong  Song). 

August 

Sarah  Brown — Ozark  Plateau, 

Midcontinental  North  America;  Insights 
into  Thermochronology  Using  Apatite 
Fission  Track  Analysis.  (Stephen 
Marshak) 

December 

Lisa  Tranel — Subsurface  Structure  and 
Tectonic  Subsidence  Across  the  Illinois 
Basin  and  Ozark  Dome  Boundary, 
(Stephen  Marshak). 

Doctor  of  Philosophy  Degrees 
May 

Kurtis  C.  Burmeister— Aspects  of 
Deformation  and  Strain  in  the 
Appalachian  Fold-Thrust  Belt  (New  York) 
and  the  Shear  Zones  of  the 
Sveconorwegian  Orogen  (Norway), 
(Stephen  Marshak) 

Jennifer  M.  Jackson — The  Effect  of  Minor 
Elements  on  the  Physical  and  Chemical 
Properties  of  Lower  Mantle  Minerals  at 
High-Pressure,  (Jay  Bass) 

Christopher  Leat  Mali— Cladistic  Analysis  of 
the  Goniasteridae  (Asteroidea; 
Valvatoidea):  Phytogeny,  Evolution,  and 
Biodiversity.  (Daniel  Blake) 

Jian  Tian — Varve  Chronology.  Proxy 
Calibration,  and  Holocene  Climate  of 
Minnesota.  (Thomas  Anderson  and  Feng 
Sheng  Hu) 

December 

James  Klaus — "The  Microbial  Ecology  of  Reef 
Corals:  Diversity.  Disease  and  the 
Environment."  (Bruce  Fouke) 


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List  of  Publications  for  2005 


Brudzinski,  M.R.,  and  Chen,  W.-R, 
2005,  Earthquakes  and  strain  in 
sub-horizontal  slabs,  J.  Geophys. 
Res.:  110,  (11  pp.),  B08303, 
doi:  10. 1029/2004JB003470. 

Zhang,  H.J,  Thurber,  C.  H.  and  Song, 
X.D.,  2005,  High-resolution  seismic 
velocity  and  attenuation  structure 
of  the  Sichuan-Yunnan  region, 
Southwest  China,  using  seismic 
catalog  and  waveform  data,  (in) 
Proceedings  of  the  27th  Seismic 
Research  Review:  Ground-Based 
Nuclear  Explosion  Monitoring 
Technologies,  LA-UR-05-6407,  266- 
275. 

Zhang,  J.,  Song,  X.D.,  Li,  Y.C., 
Richards,  P.G..  Sun,  X.L.,  and 
Waldhauser,  E,  2005,  Inner  core 
differential  motion  confirmed  by 
earthquake  dou,  blet  waveform 
doublets.  Science:  309,  1357-1360, 
doi:10.1126/science.H13193. 

Clegg,  B.F.,  Tinner,  W,  Gavin,  D.G., 
and  Hu,  F.S.  2005,  Morphological 
analysis  of  Betula  (birch)  pollen 
and  paleoecological  application. 
The  Holocene:  15:  229-237. 

Gavin,  D.  G.,  and  Hu,  F.S.  2005, 
Bioclimatic  modelling  using 
Gaussian  mixture  distributions  and 
multiscale  segmentation.  Global 
Ecology  and  Biogeography:  14:  491- 
501. 

Korotky,  A.M,  et  al,  including  Hu,  F.S. 
2005.  Characteristics  of  the 
Holocene  environmental  history  of 
the  Sikhote-Alin  Range  (Primorskii 
Krai)  from  lake  sediments,  (in) 
Pages  from  Quaternary  History  of 
Northeast  Asia  (V.Ye.  Glotov,  ed.), 
70-86. 

Oswald,  WW.,  Anderson,  P.M., 
Brown,  T.A.,  Brubaker,  L.B.,  Hu, 
F.S.,  Lozkin,  A.V.,  Tinner,  W.,  and 
Kaltenreider,  P.,  2005.  Effects  of 
samples  size  and  type  on  radiocar- 
bon dating  of  arctic  and  subarctic 
lake  sediments.  The  Holocene:  15: 
758-767. 

Tian,  J.,  Brown,  T.A.,  and  Hu,  F.S., 
2005.  Comparison  of  varve  and 
14C  chronologies  at  Steel  Lake, 
Minnesota.  The  Holocene:  15:  510- 
517. 

van  Westrenen  W,  Li  J.,  Fei  Y,  Van 
Orman  J.,  Minarik  W., 
Komabayashi  T,  and  Funakoshi 
K.,  2005,  Thermoelastic  properties 
of  magnesiowustite  Mg^^Fe,, ,  fer- 
ropericlase  based  on  in  situ  x-ray 
diffraction  to  26.7  GPa  and  2173  K. 
Physics  of  the  Earth  and  Planetary 
Interiors:  151,  163-176. 


Parker,  G.  and  Perg,  L.,  2005, 

Probabilistic  formulation  of  con- 
servation of  cosmogenic  nuclides: 
effect  of  surface  elevation  fluctua- 
tions on  approach  to  steady  state. 
Earth  Surface  Processes  and 
Landforms:  30(9),  1127-1144. 

Lamb,  M.,  Toniolo,  H.  and  Parker,  G., 
2005,  Trapping  of  sustained  tur- 
bidity currents  by  intraslope  mini- 
basins.  Sedimentology:  doi: 
10.HH/j.1365-3091.2005.00754.x, 
1-14. 

Violet,  J.,  Sheets,  B.,  Pratson,  L., 
Paola,  C.  and  Parker,  G.,  2005, 
Experiment  on  turbidity  currents 
and  their  deposits  in  a  model  3D 
subsiding  minibasin.  Journal  of 
Sedimentary  Research:  75,  820- 
843. 

Cui,  Y,  Parker,  G.,  Lisle,  T.  E., 
Pizzuto,  J.  E.  and  Dodd,  A.  M., 
2005,  More  on  the  evolution  of 
bed  material  waves  in  alluvial 
rivers.  Earth  Surface  Processes  and 
Landforms:  30,  107-114. 

Taki,  K.  and  Parker,  G.,  2005, 

Transportational  cyclic  steps  creat- 
ed by  flow  over  an  erodible  bed. 
Part  1 .  Experiments.  Journal  of 
Hydraulic  Research:  43(5),  4SS- 
501. 

Sun,  T.  and  Parker,  G.,  2005, 

Transportational  cyclic  steps  creat- 
ed by  flow  over  an  erodible  bed. 
Part  2.  Theory  and  numerical  sim- 
ulation. Journal  of  Hydraulic 
Research:  43(5),  pp.  502-514. 

Wright,  S.  and  Parker,  G.,  2005, 
Modeling  downstream  fining  in 
sand-bed  rivers  I:  Formulation. 
Journal  of  Hydraulic  Research: 
43(6),  612-619. 

Wright,  S.  and  Parker,  G.,  2005, 
Modeling  downstream  fining  in 
sand-bed  rivers  II:  Application. 
Journal  of  Hydraulic  Research: 
43(6),  620-630. 

Cui,  Y  and  Parker,  G.,  2005. 
Numerical  model  of  sediment 
pulses  and  sediment-supply  dis- 
turbances in  mountain  rivers. 
Journal  of  Hydraulic  Engineering: 
131(8),  646-656. 

Lundstrom,  C.C.  ,  Chaussidon,  M., 
Hsui,  A.T.,  Kelemen  P.,  and 
Zimmerman,  M.,  2005, 
Observations  of  Li  isotopic  varia- 
tions in  the  Trinity  Ophiolite: 
Evidence  for  isotopic  fractionation 
by  diffusion  during  mantle  melt- 
ing, Geochim.  Comochim.  Acta: 
69,  735-751. 


Kokfelt,  T.F.,  Lundstrom,  C.  C, 
Hoernle,  K„  Hauff,  F,  and 
Werner,  R.,  2005,  Plume-Ridge 
Interaction  studied  at  the 
Galapagos  Spreading  Centre: 
Evidence  from  226Ra-230Th-238U 
and  231Pa-235U  Isotopic 
Disequilibria,  Earth  Planet  Sci. 
Lett.:  234,  165-187. 

Zhou,  J.,  Lundstrom,  C.C,  Fouke,  B. 
W.,  Panno,  S.,  Hackley,  K.,   and 
Curry,  B.,  2005,  Geochemistry  of 
speleothem  records  from  southern 
Illinois:  development  of 
(234U)/(238U)  as  a  proxy  for 
paleoprecipitation,  in  press, 
Chemical  Geolog}':  221,  1-20. 

Andrews,  A.H.,  Burton,  E.J.,  Kerr, 
L.A.,  Cailliet,  G.M.,  Coale,  K.H.  , 
Lundstrom,  C.C.  and  Brown, 
T.A.,  Bomb  radiocarbon  and  lead- 
radium  disequilibria  in  otoliths  of 
bocaccio  rockfish  (Sebastes  pau- 
cispinis):  a  determination  of  age 
and  longevity  for  a  difficult-to-age 
fish,  in  press,  J.  Mar.  Fresh.  Res. 

Lundstrom,  C.C,  Boudreau,  A.,  and 
Pertermann,  M.,  2005,  Diffusion- 
reaction  in  a  thermal  gradient: 
Implications  for  the  genesis  of 
anorthitic  plagioclase,  high  alumi- 
na basalt  and  igneous  mineral  lay- 
ering. Earth  Planet  Sci.  Lett.:  237. 
829-854. 

Sinogeikin,  S.V.,  Jackson,  J.M., 

Lakshtanov,  D.L.,  Zha,  C.-S.,  and 
Bass,  J.D.,  2005,  Thermal  expan- 
sion of  Mj50Py50  majoritic  garnet. 
Accepted  and  In  Press:  Physics 
and  Chemistn'  of  Minerals. 

Mattern,  E.,  Matas,  J.,  Ricard,  Y, 
and  Bass,  J.D.,  2005,  Lower  man- 
tle composition  and  temperature 
from  mineral  physics  and  thermo- 
dynamic modeling.  Geophysical 
Journal  International:  160  (3): 
973-990. 

Jackson,  J.M.,  Sturhahn,  W,  Shen, 
G.,  Zhao,  J.,  Hu,  M.  Y, 
Errandonea,  D.,  Bass,  J.D.,  and 
Fei,  Y,  2005,  (Mg,Fe)Si03  per- 
ovskite  up  to  120  GPa  using  syn- 
chrotron Mossbauer  spectroscopy. 
American  Mineralogist:  90  (1): 
199-205. 

Lakshtanov,  D.,  Vanpeteghem,,  C.B., 
Jackson,  J. M.,  Bass,  J. D.,  Shen, 
C,  Prakapenka,  V,  Litasov,  K., 
and  Ohtani,  E.,  2005,  The  equa- 
tion of  state  of  Al-H-bearing  Si02 
stishovite  to  58  GPa.  In  press, 
Phys.  Chem.  Minerals  DOI 
10.1007/S00269-005-0016-3. 


Bass,  J.D.,  (2005)  A  Vision  for  High- 
Pressure  Earth  and  Planetary 
Sciences,  Elements  1,  no.  3,  179. 

Sanchez-Valle,  C,  Sinogeikin,  S.V., 
Lethbridge,  Z.A.D.,  Walton,  R.I., 
Smith,  C.W.,  Evans,  K.E.,  Bass, 
J.D.,  2005,  Brillouin  scattering 
study  on  the  single-crystal  elastic 
properties  of  natrolite  (NAT)  and 
analcime  (ANA)  zeolites.  J. 
Appl.  Phys:  98,  paper  053508. 

Sinogeikin,  S.V.,  Lakshtanov,  D.L., 
Nicholas,  J.D.,  Jackson,  J.M., 
Bass,  J.D.,  2005,  High 
Temperature  Elasticity 
Measurements  on  Oxides  by 
Brillouin  Spectroscopy  with 
Resistive  and  IR  Laser  Heating.  J 
European  Ceramic  Soc.  25:  (8): 
1313-1324. 

Jackson,  J.M.,  Zhang,  J.,  Shue,  J., 
Sinogeikin,  S.V.,  and  Bass,  J.D., 
2005,  High-pressure  sound 
velocities  and  elasticity  of  alumi- 
nous MgSi03  perovskite  to  45 
GPa:  Implications  for  lateral  het- 
erogeneity in  Earth's  lower  man- 
tle. Geophys.  Res.  Lett.:  32., 
L21305,  doi: 
10.1029/2005GL023522. 

Klaus,  J.S.,  Frias-Lopez,  J.,  Bonheyo, 
G.T.,  Heikoop,  J.M.,  and  Fouke, 
B.W.,  2005,  Bacterial  communi- 
ties inhabiting  the  healthy  tis- 
sues of  two  Caribbean  reef 
corals:  interspecific  and  spatial 
variation:  Coral  Reefs:  24,  129- 
137. 

Fouke,  B.W,  Schlager,  S., 

Vandamme,  M.G.M.,  Henderiks, 
J.,  Van  Hilten,  B.,  2005,  Basin-to- 
platform  chemostrigraphy  and 
diagenesis  of  the  Early 
Cretaceous  Vercors  carbonate 
platform,  SE  France. 
Sedimentary  Geology:  175,  297- 
314. 

Zhou,  J.,  Lundstrom,  C,  Fouke, 
B.W.,  Panno,  S.,  Hackley,  K.,  and 
Curry,  B.,  2005.  Paleoclimate  and 
paleohydrologic  record  of  the 
Midwest  from  a  speleothem  in 
Southern  Illinois.  Chemical 
Geology:  221:1-20. 

Pope,  K.O.,  Ocampo,  A.C,  Fischer, 
A.G.,  Vega.  F.G.,  Fouke,  B.W, 
Wachtman,  R.J.,  King,  D.T., 
Kletetschka,  C,  and  Ames,  D.E, 
2005,  Chicxulub  impact  ejecta 
deposits  in  southern  Quintana 
Roo,  Mexico,  and  central  Belize. 
In  Kenkman,  T,  Hoerz,  H.,  and 
Deutsch,  A.  (eds.)  Large  Meteor 
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Geological  Society  of  America: 
384:  171-190. 


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Colloquium  Speakers  for  Spring  and  Fa 


HONOR  ROLL  OF  DONORS 


Jeroen  Tromp,  California  Institute  of  Technology 

Seismic  Tomography,  Adjoint  Methods,  Time  Reversal,  and 

Banana-Donut  Kernels 
Gary  Parker,  University  of  Minnesota 

Effect  of  Post-Glacial  Sea  Level  Rise  on  Large  Rivers 
Gordon  Grant,  U.S.  Forest  Service/Oregon  State  Univ. 

A  River  Runs  Underneath  It:  Geological  Control  of 

Hydrogeomorphic  Regimes  in  the  Oregon  Cascades  and 

Implications  for  Climate  Change 
David  Archer,  University  of  Chicago 

100  KYR-Timescale  Impacts  of  Fossil  Fuel  Combustion 
Christian  Teyssier,  University  of  Minnesota 

Flow  of  Crust  and  Paleoelevation  of  the  North  American 

Cordillera 
Fabien  Kenig,  University  of  Illinois  at  Chicago 

Indicators  of  Biological  Processes  in  Aging  Basaltic  Crust  and 

Very  Ancient  Sediments:  Lipids  in  Modern  Hydrothermal 

Fluids  and  Archaean  Sediments 
Yingwei  Fei,  Carnegie  Institute  of  Washington 

Phase  Transformations  and  Chemical  Composition  of  the 

Earth's  Mantle 
Michael  Loui,  Former  Associate  Dean,  Graduate  College,  UIUC 

Authorship  and  Plagiarism:  True  Tales  of  Real  Cases 
Grant  Garven,  Johns  Hopkins  University 

Hot  Fluids,  Sea  Floor  Hydrogeology,  and  Formation  of  the 

World's  Largest  Zinc  Deposit  at  Red  Dog,  Alaska 
Raymond  Torres,  University  of  South  Carolina 

Ecogeomorphology  of  a  Salt  Marsh  Landscape 
Cliff  Frohlich,  University  of  Texas  at  Austin 

What  Mother  Never  Told  Me  About  Deep  Earthquakes 
Albert  Hsui,  UIUC  Department  of  Geology 

Geodynamics:  Mother  of  All  Geological  Processes 
Glenn  Buckley,  UIUC  Department  of  Geology  Alumnus 

Water  Crisis  Management,  Texas  Style:  The  Good,  The  Bad, 

and  The  Ugly 
Frank  Richter,  University  of  Chicago 

CAIs:  Present  at  the  Creation  (Conditions  in  the  Protoplanetary 

Disk  as  seen  by  Ca-  Al-rich  Inclusions  in  Primitive  Meteorites) 
Rob  Sanford,  UIUC  Department  of  Geology 

Bacterial  Mediated  Metal  Reduction  and  Other  Novel 

Biogeochemical  Processes:  the  Anaeromyxobacte  Case-Study 
Jim  Van  Orman,  Case  Western  Reserve  University 

Chemical  Exchange  between  Earth's  Core  and  Mantle 
Kathy  Nagy,  University  of  Illinois  at  Chicago 

A  New  Atomic-Scale  Picture  of  In-Situ  Sorption  of  Ions  on 

Mica  Taken  with  the  X-Ray  Reflectivity  Camera 
Mark  Brandon,  Yale  University 

The  Roles  of  Climate  and  Orogeny  on  Accelerated  Late 

Cenozoic  Erosion  Rates 
Tracy  Gregg,  State  University  of  New  York  at  Buffalo 

Loki  Patera,  lo:  A  Mid-Ocean  Ridge  without  Plate  Tectonics 
Xiaodong  Song,  UIUC  Department  of  Geology 

Earthquake  Doublets,  Inner  Core  Rotation,  and  ARCTIC 

Experiment 
Harry  Green,  University  of  California  at  Riverside 

Potential  Trigger  Mechanisms  for  Deep-Focus  Earthquakes 
Russell  Vreeland,  West  Chester  University 

On  Pillars  of  Salt:  The  Survival  of  Microbes  and  DNA  in 

Ancient  Salt  Crystals 
Keith  Koper,  St.  Louis  University 

Fine-scale  Heterogeneity  Within  Earth's  Inner  Core 
S.  Balachandar,  UIUC  Department  of  Theoretical  and  Applied 
Mechanics 

Scalar  and  particulate  Gravity  Currents— Modeling  and  Large 

Scale  Simulations 
Jeff  Dorale,  University  of  Iowa 

Strong  Contrasts  in  Mid-Continental  Flooding  Regimes  Among 
Holocene,  Last  Glacial,  and  Last  Interglacial  Climates 


The  following  is  a  list  of  friends  and  alumni  of  the  Department  of  Geology  who 
have  donated  to  the  Department  during  the  2005  calendar  year. 


Prof.  Thomas  F.  Anderson 
Dr.  Robert  F.  Babb  II 
Mr.  Rodney  J.  Balazs 
Ms.  Debbie  E.  Baldwin 
Mrs.  Laura  S.  Bales 
Mr.  Robert  S.  Barnard 
Dr.  and  Mrs.  James  R. 

Baroffio 
Dr.  and  Mrs.  William  M. 

Benzel 
Ms.  Jean  M.  Bethke 
Dr.  and  Mrs.  Marion  E. 

Bickford 
LTC  Ronald  E.  Black  (RET) 
Mrs.  Heidi  Blischke 
Dr.  Bruce  F.  Bohor 
Mr.  Eugene  W.  Borden  Sr. 
Mr.  Joseph  E.  Boudreaux 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Allen  S. 

Braumiller 
Ms.  Annette  Brewster 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Ross  D. 

Brower 
Dr.  Glenn  R.  Buckley 
Dr.  Susan  Buckley 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Steven  P. 

Burgess 
Dr.  Thomas  C.  Buschbach 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Terry  L.  Carius 
James  W.  Castle,  PhD 
Dr.  Thomas  L  Chamberlin 
Dr.  Dennis  D.  Coleman 
Mrs.  Diana  Colvin 
Ms.  Michelle  M.  Corlew 
Ms.  Patricia  V.  Crow 
Mrs.  Lucinda  Firebaugh 

Cummins 
Dr.  Norbert  E.  Cygan 
George  H.  Davis  Estate 

(DEC) 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  M.  Peter 

deVries 
Ms.  Stephanie  Drain 
Ms.  Sophie  M.  Dreifuss 
Ms.  Amanda  B.  Duchek 
Dr.  Mohamed  T.  El-Ashry 
Dr.  Frank  R.  Ettensohn 
Mr.  Kenneth  T.  Feldman 
Dr.  Peter  Fenner 
Mr.  Max  C.  Firebaugh 
Mr.  Gary  R.  Foote 
Mr.  Jack  D.  Foster 
Mr.  Robert  E.  Fox 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Edwin  H. 

Franklin 
Mr.  Barry  R.  Gager 
James  C.  Gamble,  PhD 
Mr.  John  R.  Garino 
Ms.  Sharon  Geil 
Dr.  Richard  A.  Gilman 
Mr.  Albert  D.  Glover 
Mr.  Hal  Gluskoter 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Charles  J. 

Gossett 
Dr.  and  Mrs.  Stuart 

Grossman 
Mr.  Edwin  E.  Hardt 


Mrs.  Catherine  L  Harms 

Dr.  Henry  J.  Harris 

Dr.  Richard  L.  Hay  (DEC) 

Dr.  Mark  A.  Helper 

Mr.  Henry  A.  Hofl 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Mark  F.  Hoffman 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Glen  A.  Howard 

Dr.  Roscoe  G.  Jackson  II 

Mr.  Joseph  M.  Jakupcak 

Mr.  Steven  F.  Jamrisko 

Mr.  Martin  V.  Jean 

Mr.  Bruce  A.  Johnson 

Dr.  Edward  C.  Jonas 

Dr.  Robert  E.  Karlin 

Dr.  Suzanne  Mahlburg  Kay 

Mr.  Donald  A.  Keefer 

Dr.  John  P.  Kempton 

Mr.  John  N.  Keys 

Dr.  and  Mrs.  John  D.  Kiefer 

Dr.  R.  James  Kirkpatrick 

Mr.  George  J.  Klein 

Dr.  Paul  Kraatz 

Mr.  Robert  F.  Kraye 

Mr.  Scott  R.  Krueger 

Mr.  Michael  B.  Lamport 

Mr.  Rik  E.  Lantz 

Ms.  Mary  K.  Latendresse 

Mr.  Stephen  C.  Lee 

Dr.  Hannes  E.  Leetaru 

Dr.  Morris  W.  Leighton 

Mr.  Duane  M.  Loofbourrow 

Mr.  Rob  Roy  Macgregor 

Mr.  David  L.  Macke 

Dr.  Megan  E.  Elwood  Madden 

Prof,  and  Mrs.  Stephen 

Marshak 
Mr.  Robert  S.  Mayer 
Dr.  Murray  R.  McComas 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hugh  S. 

McMullen 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Kendall  W.  Miller 
Dr.  Haydn  H.  Murray 
Mr.  Don  H.  Neeley 
Mr.  W.  John  Nelson 
Mr.  Walter  I.  Nelson 
Mr.  Bruce  Nims 
Mr.  Brian  Donald  Noel 
Mrs.  Evelyn  B.  Norns 
Mr.  Ronald  L.  Norris 
Dr.  Norman  J.  Page 
Ms.  Katherine  A.  Panczak 
Mrs.  Corinne  Pearson 
Dr.  Russel  A.  Peppers 
Mr.  Charles  E.  Pflum 
Mr.  Bruce  E.  Phillips 
Mrs.  Beverly  A.  Pierce 
Ms.  Sue  A.  Pilling 
Dr.  Paul  L.  Plusquellec 
Dr.  David  W.  Rich 
Mr.  Donald  0.  Rimsnider 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Edward  L. 

Rosenthal 
Dr.  Linda  R.  Rowan 
Mr.  Stephen  C.  Ruppel 
Dr.  Richard  P.  Sanders 
Dr.  Gayla  F.  Sargent 
Mr.  Michael  L.  Sargent 


Mr.  Jay  R.  Scheevel 
Dr.  and  Mrs.  Detmar 

Schnitker 
Dr.  David  C.  Schuster 
Dr.  and  Mrs.  Franklin  W. 

Schwartz 
Dr.  and  Mrs.  John  W.  Shelton 
Mr.  Ned  R.  Siegel 
Dr.  Charles  H.  Simonds 
Dr.  Brian  J.  Sinclair 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Roger  A.  Sippel 
Mr.  John  F.  Smith 
Mrs.  Mary  R.  Snoeyenbos 
Mr.  Robert  D.  Snyder 
Dr.  J.  William  Soderman 
Dr.  Ian  M.  Steele 
Dr.  Ronald  D.  Stieglilz 
Dr.  John  E.  Stone 
Dr.  Gary  D.  Strieker 
Mr.  David  S.  Thiel 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Jack  C.  Threet 
Dr.  Edwin  W.  Tooker 
Dr.  John  B.  Tubb  Jr. 
Mr.  Robert  G.  Vanderstraeten 
Mr.  Robert  W.  Von  Rhee 
Dr.  F.  Michael  Wahl 
Ms.  Harriet  E.  Wallace 
Dr.  James  G.  Ward 
Mr.  Carleton  W.  Weber 
Dr.  W.  F  Weeks 
Ms.  Patricia  A.  Wiegers 
Mr.  Jack  L.  Wilber 
Mr  John  J.  Wilson 
Mr.  Roland  F.  Wright 
Mr.  Robert  G.  Zirkle 

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Dominion  Foundation 
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Sciences,  Inc. 
ExxonMobil  Foundation 
ExxonMobil  Retiree  Program 
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Global  Impact/Hewlett 

Packard 
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Lockheed  Martin  Corporation 

Foundation 
Mor-Staffing,  Inc. 
PG&E  Corporation 

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Foundation 
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Beuer  than  Ever:  Sedimentary  Geology  and  Surface  Processes 


The  Department  of  Geology  has  a  long, 
rich  tradition  as  a  national  leader  in 
sedimentary  geology  and  surface  process- 
es. The  program's  roots  extend  back  at 
least  to  what  many  alumni  fondly  call 
"the  Wanless  Era,"  named  for  Prof. 
Harold  Wanless,  who  made  fundamental 
contributions  to  sedimentary  geology. 
Over  the  years,  major  figures  in  sedimen- 
tary geology  and  geomorphology  have 
populated  the  halls  of  NHB.  Graduates  of 
our  programs  have  gone  on  to  distin- 
guished careers  in  industry,  academia, 
and  service. 

During  the  1980s  and  '90s,  however, 
a  generation  of  distinguished  senior  facul- 
ty in  these  fields  retired.  The  retirements 
coincided  with  a  period  during  which  the 
College  slowed  the  rate  of  hiring,  and 
thus  we  were  not  able  to  rebuild  the  pro- 
grams instantly.  During  the  past  several 
years,  however,  the  tide  has  turned  and 
the  Department  has  once  again  become 
established  as  a  leading  research  and 
teaching  center  in  sedimentary  geology 
and  surface  processes.  Now,  our  sedi- 
mentary geology  program  includes:  Bruce 


Fouke  who  specializes  in  the  geology 
and  geomicrobiology  of  carbonate  rocks; 
Sue  Kieffer  (the  first  Walgreen  Chair) 
who  specializes  in  geophysical  fluid 
dynamics;  Gary  Parker  (the  first  WH. 
Johnson  Professor)  who  specializes  in 
fluvial  geomorphology  and  abyssal  fans; 
Jim  Best  (the  first  Threet  Professor)  who 
specializes  in  clastic  sedimentology; 
Alison  Anders  who  specializes  in  geo- 
morphology and  surface  processes; 
Jonathan  Tomkin  (Associate  Director  of 
SESE)  who  specializes  in  geomorphology 


and  geodynamics;  Bruce  Rhoads  (an 
affiliate  professor)  who  specializes  in  flu- 
vial geomorphology;  Marcelo  Garcia  (an 
affiliate  professor)  who  directs  the 
Hydrosystems  Laboratory  for  modeling 
sedimentary  environments;  and  Feng 
Sheng  Hu  (an  affiliate  professor)  who 
specializes  in  Quaternary  paleobiology 
and  paleoclimate.  It  is  highly  likely  that 
next  year  a  new  paleobiologist  will  be 
joining  the  University. 

(continued  on  page  3) 


Meet  the  Newest  Members  of  the  Geology  Department 


The  Department  has  grown  signifi- 
cantly in  the  past  year,  with  the 
appointments  of  Jim  Best,  Alison 
Anders,  and  Jonathan  Tomkin. 

Jim  Best 

Jim  Best  came  to  Illinois  in  the 
fall  of  2006  through  the  Faculty 
Excellence  Hiring  Program,  which 
creates  an  opportunity  for  depart- 


ments to  bring  in  senior  faculty.  Prior 
to  his  arrival  at  UIUC,  he  was  the 
Professor  of  Sedimentary  Processes  at 
the  University  of  Leeds,  where  he  ran  a 
huge  program  for  studying  sedimentary 
phenomena.  At  Illinois,  he  holds 
appointments  both  as  the  "Threet 
Professor  of  Sedimentary  Geology,"  a 
position  made  possible  through  the 
generosity  of  Jack  and  Richard  Threet, 
and  as  a  professor  of  geography. 


Professor  Best,  as  one  of  the  pre- 
mier process  sedimentologists  in  the 
world,  brings  instant  attention  to  the 
University.  Along  with  others  now  on 
our  staff,  the  University  is  rapidly 
becoming  a  major  player  in  the  field  of 
water-sediment  interactions.  He  is 
making  a  strong  commitment  to  the 
synergy  that  has  developed  at  UIUC  in 
the  interdisciplinary  field  of  water- 
related  research.  Jim  conducts  research 
I  continued  on  page  3 ) 


AUG  0  7  2007 


Greetings 


Letter  From  The  Head 


he  Department 
is  back  in 
growth  mode! 
We've  seen  a  num- 
ber of  positive 
signs  in  the  last 
year  that  give  the 
sense  that  the 
Department  clearly 
has  a  promising 
future.  In  no  particular  order,  consider 
some  of  the  changes: 

We  have  succeeded  in  bringing  in 
new  faculty  with  world-class  reputa- 
tions, so  the  total  number  of  faculty 
has  grown  for  the  first  time  in  years. 
Our  most  recent  hires  —  Sue  Kieffer, 
Gary  Parker,  Jim  Best,  Alison  Anders, 
and  Jonathan  Tomkin — have  put  the 
Department  back  on  the  map  in  the 
general  area  of  sedimentary  systems 
and  surface  processes.   Both  Gary  and 
Jim  now  hold  endowed  professorships 
and  have  won  major  international 
career-achievement  awards,  and  Sue 
is  a  member  of  the  National  Academy 
of  Sciences. 

The  Department  is  now  well  connect- 
ed to  a  number  of  strong  programs 
across  campus — we  are  no  longer  an 
isolated,  small  unit.  Our  faculty  have 
joint  or  affiliate  appointments  in  Civil 
and  Environmental  Engineering,  the 
Institute  for  Genomic  Biology,  the 
Materials  Research  Center,  the 
National  Center  for  Supercomputing 
Applications,  the  School  of  Integrative 
Biology,  the  Center  for  Water  as  a 


Year  in  Review  is  published  once  a  year  by  the 
Department  of  Geology,  University  of  Illinois 
at  Urbana-Champaign.  to  summarize  the 
activities  and  accomplishments  within  the 
department  and  news  from  alumni  and  friends. 
Department  Head:  Stephen  Marshak 

(smarshak@uiuc.edu) 
Administrative  Secretary:  Barb  Elmore 

(belmore@uiuc.edu) 

Editor:  Stephen  J.  Lyons  (sjlyons@uiuc.edu) 
http://www.geology.uiuc.edu 


Complex  Environmental  System,  the 
Department  of  Geography,  the 
Department  of  Atmospheric  Sciences, 
and  the  Department  of  Physics. 
The  number  of  students  has  grown — 
we  have  passed  70  majors,  double 
what  we  had  3  years  ago,  and  with  the 
largest  incoming  class  of  graduate  stu- 
dents in  many  years,  our  grad  student 
program  has  enlarged.   Classes  that 
just  a  few  years  ago  almost  couldn't 
run  because  of  too  few  students  now 
are  having  to  open  up  new  sections, 
and  we  are  sending  almost  twice  as 
many  students  to  field  camp.   And 
with  over  3,000  students  taking  our 
introductory  general  education  classes, 
we  are  teaching  a  sizable  proportion  of 
the  University's  entire  student  body. 

1    Faculty  are  offering  new  courses — geo- 
logical fluid  dynamics,  geomorphology, 
geodynamics,  sedimentary  processes, 
continental  lithosphere,  sustainability, 
and  others  are  now  available,  and  with 
the  help  of  a  generous  gift  from  Shell 
Oil  Company,  our  famous  (infamous) 
415/515  field  trip  is  able  to  expand  its 
offering.   In  addition  to  trips  to  the 
southwestern  USA  and  Curacao,  we 
will  be  offering  a  trip  to  study  the  sedi- 
mentary basins  of  Ireland. 

•    Our  endowment  has  doubled  in  the 
last  5  years.   With  the  generosity  of 
our  distinguished  alumni,  we  will  soon 
have  6  graduate  fellowships  to  offer,  as 
well  as  support  for  graduate  research, 
field  camp  scholarships,  visiting  lectur- 
ers, and  other  important  causes. 
We  are  seeing  a  surge  in  corporate 
recruitment  of  our  students,  with  some 
companies  hiring  several  a  year.   And 
for  the  first  time  in  anyone's  memory, 
recruiters  have  shown  up  at  field  camp 
to  recruit  students  right  out  of  the 
camp. 

The  Geology  Club  has  been  very  visi- 
bles  and  has  sponsored  many  activi- 
ties, including  open-house  exhibits,  the 


first  "Earth  Fear  Film  Festival"  (where 
students  enjoyed  learning  the  science 
and  non-science  behind  Hollywood 
productions),  and  sponsorship  of  the 
Science  Olympiad.    The  Graduate 
Student  Council  has  been  busy  run- 
ning the  6th  Annual  "Earth  Research 
Review"  which  has  evolved  into  a 
major  event  where  students  present 
posters  describing  their  research 
accomplishments,  in  a  fun  atmosphere 
of  a  wine  and  cheese  party. 

Of  course  the  biggest  change  is  the 
development  of  the  School  of  Earth, 
Society,  and  Environment.  The  School 
becomes  official  this  summer,  and  we 
have  already  enjoyed  such  benefits  as 
better  business  operations,  better  comput- 
er support,  and  new  collaborative 
research  and  teaching  opportunities.  The 
next  step  will  be  the  renovation  of  our 
old  friend,  the  Natural  History  Building, 
to  become  a  better  facility  for  21st  centu- 
ry teaching  and  research. 

I'll  be  on  sabbatical  all  of  next  year, 
so  you  won't  hear  from  me  for  a  while. 
But  enjoy  this  issue  and  read  more  about 
how  your  Department  is  changing  and, 
hopefully,  growing. 

Best  regards, 
Steve  Marshak 


Shell  Oil  Company  is  now  generously 
supporting  the  Department's  Geology 
415/515  field  trips.  The  2005  trip  (led  by 
Craig  Lundstrom)  rafted  the  San  Juan 
River;  the  2006  trip  (led  by  Steve 
Marshak)  went  to  southern  Arizona  and 
California;  the  2007  trip  (led  by  Bruce 
Fouke)  went  to  Curacao;  and  the  2008 
trip  (to  be  led  by  Jim  Best)  will  go  to 
western  Ireland. 


GEOLOGY  LIBRARY 


Meet  the  Newest  Members 

(continued  from  page  1) 

both  in  the  lab,  using  flume  tanks,  on 
the  computer,  and  in  the  field.  He  has 
recently  undertaken  studies  of  large 
rivers  in  Canada  and  Bangladesh,  using 
ground-penetrating  radar  and  precise 
surveying  techniques. 

Jim,  his  wife  Mary,  and  their  chil- 
dren, will  soon  be  moving  into  a  vin- 
tage house  on  Elm  Boulevard. 

Alison  Anders 

Alison  Anders 
comes  to  the 
Department  as 
Assistant  Professor 
of  surficial  process- 
es, after  completing 
a  post-doc  at  Yale 
and  a  Ph.D.  at  the  University  of 
Washington.  She  combines  studies  of 
geomorphology  with  studies  of  climate 
to  understand  the  interaction  between 
weather  systems  and  landscape  evolu- 


tion, and  has  been  developing  innova- 
tive techniques  for  characterizing  rain- 
fall distribution  in  mountain  ranges. 

Alison  will  teach  geomorphology 
and  other  aspects  of  surface  processes 
at  both  the  undergraduate  and  gradu- 
ate levels,  courses  which  have  not 
been  fully  staffed  since  the  retirement 
of  Hilt  Johnson.  Alison  will  be 
involved  in  the  Center  for  Water  as  a 
Complex  Environmental  System,  and 
hopes  to  build  linkages  between  geolo- 
gy and  atmospheric  sciences. 

Alison  is  not  new  to  the  Midwest, 
as  she  grew  up  in  Minneapolis  and 
attended  Carlton  College  as  an  under- 
graduate. She  has  moved  to  C-U  with 
her  husband,  Jonathan  Tomkin. 


Jonathan  Tomkin 


MJ& 


Jonathan  Tomkin 
received  his  Ph.D. 
from  the  Australian 
National  University, 
and  then  completed 
a  post-doc  at  Yale 


University  before  taking  a  faculty  posi- 
tion at  Louisiana  State  University.  His 
undergraduate  background  was  in 
physics,  but  he  saw  the  light  and  went 
into  geosciences  as  a  graduate  student. 
Jonathan  works  in  surficial  processes 
from  a  geodynamic  perspective — he's 
interested  in  understanding  the  tecton- 
ic processes  that  lead  to  uplift  and 
evolution  of  mountain  landscapes,  as 
well  as  in  the  erosional  processes  that 
tear  them  down. 

Jonathan  holds  two  appointments 
at  UIUC.  He  is  the  new  Associate 
Director  for  Academic  Affairs  of  the 
School  of  Earth,  Society,  and 
Environment.   He  will  also  be  a 
Research  Assistant  Professor  in  the 
Geology  Department,  where  he  will  be 
teaching  graduate  courses  in  geody- 
namics  and  tectonic  geomorphology. 

Unlike  his  wife,  Alison  Anders — a 
Minnesota  native — Jonathan,  who 
grew  up  in  Melbourne,  Australia, 
found  the  winter  weather  of  C-U  to  be 
a  bit  on  the  chilly  side. 


Better  than  Ever 

(continued  from  page  1) 

The  faculty  are  award-winning 
researchers.  Sue  Kieffer  has  received  a 
Macarthur  "genius  award"  and  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  National  Academy  of  Sciences; 
Marcelo  Garcia  received  the  Hans  Albert 
Einstein  Award  from  the  American 
Society  of  Civil  Engineers;  Gary  Parker 
has  won  the  Lifetime  Achievement 
Award  of  the  International  Association  of 
Hydraulic  Engineering;  and  Jim  Best  has 
won  the  Warwick  Award  of  the  British 
Geomorphological  Society. 

Our  researchers  are  able  to  conduct 
state-of-the  art  simulations  of  deposition- 
al  and  erosional  environments  at  the 
11,000  square-foot  Ven  Te  Chow 
Hydrosystems  Laboratory,  one  of  the 
world's  best  facilities  for  flume  tank  and 
wave  tank  studies.  Recent  work  in  the 


lab  has  focused  on  examining  bed  forms, 
submarine  fans,  and  river  evolution.  The 
new  Institute  for  Genomic  Biology,  which 
just  opened  on  campus,  allows  research 
on  the  microbial  communities  of  the  sedi- 
mentary realm.  And  the  National  Center 
for  Supercomputing  Applications  provides 
opportunities  for  developing  numerical 
simulations  of  processes.  Collaborative 
proposals  under  development  with  the 
Department  of  Geography,  the  Illinois 
State  Geological  Survey,  the  Department 
of  Atmospheric  Sciences,  and  the 
Department  of  Civil  and  Environmental 
Engineering  are  seeking  funding  for  major 
new  field  equipment,  including  LIDAR 
and  ground-penetrating  radar. 

Our  renewed  commitment  to  sedi- 
mentary geology  also  includes  an  associa- 
tion with  the  Center  for  Water  as  a 
Complex  Environmental  System 


(CWACESJ .  The  Center,  under  the 
leadership  of  Bruce  Rhoads,  is  devoted 
to  improving  understanding  of  water- 
related  issues.  Our  hydrogeology  faculty, 
Craig  Bethke  and  Tom  Johnson,  add  an 
important  groundwater  component  to 
the  Center. 

We  have  been  increasing  opportuni- 
ties for  our  students  to  participate  in 
field  trips  to  examine  sedimentary 
processes  and  produces.  Under  the  aus- 
pices of  Geology  415/515,  students  have 
trekked  across  the  deserts  of  southern 
Arizona,  have  rafted  down  rivers  in 
Utah,  and  have  snorkeled  over  reefs  in 
Curacao.  Recent  generous  gifts  from 
Shell  Oil  Company  allow  us  to  expand 
our  program.  We  hope  to  offer  a  trip  to 
the  sedimentary  basins  of  western 
Ireland  in  the  coming  year. 


Scott  Morris  Establishes  a  new  Office 
of  Business  Affairs 


s  part  of  the  development  of  the 
School  of  Earth,  Society,  and 
Environment  the  Departments  of 
Geology,  Atmospheric  Sciences,  and 
Geography  have  consolidated  busi- 
ness and  financial  operations,  includ- 
ing grants  and  contracts  administra- 
tion, purchasing,  travel,  and  account- 
ing into  a  single  facility  called  the 
Office  of  Business  Affairs.  In  June, 
2006,  Scott  Morris  was  appointed  as 
the  Operations  Manager  of  the  School 
— in  this  capacity,  he  supervises  the 
Business  Affairs  Office.  He  also  over- 
sees computer  and  technical  support, 
facilities,  and  construction  projects  for 
the  School.  Morris,  who  grew  up  in 
Altamont,  Illinois,  attended  Lake  Land 
College,  Eastern  Illinois  University, 
and  holds  a  bachelor's  degree  in 
Business  Administration  from 
Kennedy-Western  University.  He  has 
been  with  the  University  since  1986, 


with  the  exception  of  a  few  years  dur- 
ing which  time  he  worked  as 
Operations  Manager  for  a  faculty  start- 
up company  in  the  Research  Park. 

According  to  Morris,  "centralizing 
business  operations  for  three  depart- 
ments, currently  housed  in  three  differ- 
ent buildings,  has  proven  to  be  quite  a 
challenge,  considering  that  each  has 
developed  its  own  procedures  over  the 
years.  However,  we  have  now  estab- 
lished a  combined  office  on  the  4th 
floor  of  the  Natural  History  Building 
allowing  us  to  bring  all  financial  staff 
together  in  the  same  location.  We  have 
also  hired  a  new  Grants  &  Contracts 
Specialist.  The  combined  office  can 
provide  improved  and  more  consistent 
services,  where  the  staff  will  be  able  to 
focus  on  specific  tasks  but  cross-trained 
to  provide  back  up  as  needed.  The  new 
approach  is  a  big  step  in  the  right 
direction." 


Renovation  Plans  in  NHB 

xciting  plans  are  under  development  to  renovate  NHB  in  order  to  be  able  to  incorporate  all  three 
""departments  of  the  new  School.  There's  quite  a  bit  of  unutilized  or  underutilized  space  in  the 
building  at  present.  Most  of  the  space  is  left  over  from  the  closing  of  the  museum,  but  there  are  also 
classroom  spaces  that  have  not  been  updated  for  decades  and  are  underutilized.  The  goal  is  to  try 
to  figure  out  how  we  can  renovate  this  space  for  a  reasonable  cost  to  make  it  possible  for  three  aca- 
demic units  to  operate  in  the  building.  When  the  academic  units  are  there  we'll  have  three  times  as 
many  faculty  members  and  three  times  as  many  graduate  students  residing  in  the  same  building.  So 
NHB  will  become  a  much  livelier  space. 


NSF  Teaching 
Fellowship  leaves 
lasting  Impression 

ow  do  you  explain  isotopic  frac- 
tionation to  5th  graders?  This 
was  one  of  the  many  questions 
that  graduate  student  and  National 
Science  Foundation  GK-12  Teaching 
Fellow  Scott  Clark  faced  during  the 
2005-06  academic  year.  NSF 
Teaching  Fellows  collaborate  with 
K-12  teachers  to  bring  energy  and 
fresh  perspectives  into  the 
teacher's  classrooms. 

Clark's  fellowship  took  him  to 
the  Unity  Point  School  in  southern 
Illinois,  where  he  designed  and  led 
geological  field  trips  for  5th-grade 
and  high-school  students.  The 
products  of  this  effort  included   "a 
multi-day  project  that  fosters  stu- 
dent learning  on  subjects  ranging 
from  the  theory  of  plate  tectonics 
to  earthquake-hazard  prepared- 
ness." He  focused  on  developing 
inquiry-based  teaching  methods 
and  on  the  use  of  technology  in 
earth  science  classrooms. 

"The  students  were  fun 
because  they  were  interested,  were 
willing  to  tackle  challenging  topics, 
and  were  not  afraid  or  embarrassed 
to  ask  questions." 

Clark  was  also  delighted  to 
learn  that  after  his  teaching  stint, 
the  school  applied  for  and  received 
a  school  seismograph  from  the  IRIS 
Seismographs-In-Schools  program . 
The  students  have  seen  the  instru- 
ment record  an  earthquake  halfway 
around  the  world. 

"Now,  an  earthquake  isn't  just 
something  that  gets  reported  in  the 
news,"  Clark  says.  "Such  experi- 
ences make  science  alive  for  kids." 


Mapping  A  Future  in  Geology 


Jessica  Parker 


Tie  road  to  from 
_  geography  to  geol- 
ogy is  paved  with 
maps.  Just  ask  grad- 
uate student  Jessica 
Parker,  who  will  be 
mapping  carbonate 
sediment  in  the  Gulf 
of  Mexico  as  an 
intern  for  Shell  Oil 
this  summer  in  Houston.  Parker's  U  of  I 
undergraduate  degree  in  geography  gave 
her  only  a  taste  of  geology  via  environ- 
mental science  classes,  but  gave  her  valu- 
able experience  with  geographic  informa- 
tion science  (GIS) .  Her  brief  experience 
led  her  to  look  into  the  option  of  pursuing 
a  double  major  in  geology  and  geography. 
After  discussing  options  with  folks  at  the 
Illinois  State  Geological  Survey  (ISGS), 
where  she  held  an  internship,  and  in  the 


Department,  she  realized  she  had 
enough  credit  to  graduate 

"Instead  of  staying  another  year  an 
undergraduate,  I  went  ahead  and  began 
a  master's  in  geology." 

Support  from  a  research  assistant- 
ship  in  the  Veterinary  Medicine  School, 
applying  her  background  in  GIS  made 
the  switch  in  disciplines  possible. 

For  Parker  the  two  disciplines  of 
geography  and  geology  are  simpatico, 
and  the  connections,  via  the  study  of 
maps,  has  led  to  an  opportunity  for  a 
summer  internship  at  Shell  Oil 
Company. 

"In  my  mind  the  two  disciplines 
aren't  very  different.  At  the  ISGS  I  was 
working  with  maps  of  state  geology.  At 
Shell,  I'll  be  focusing  on  making  maps 
that  spatially  display  carbonate  data. 
The  internship  will  bridge  my  geography 
and  geology  training." 


The  mapping  of  the  carbonate 
deposits  is  a  key  component  of  oil  explo- 
ration, Parker  notes. 

"Porosity  and  permeability,  two  fac- 
tors that  determine  whether  or  not  a 
rock  is  a  good  oil  reservoir,  vary  with 
location.  Maps  can  display  the  distribu- 
tion of  permeability,  and  can  help  deter- 
mine if  it  economical  to  extract  oil  from 
a  particular  formation."  GIS  techniques 
provide  an  efficient  way  to  manipulate 
large  volumes  of  data. 

Parker  has  found  that  the  Geology 
Department  is  a  supportive  environment 
for  combining  disciplines. 

"I  was  a  little  intimidated  at  first 
because  I  lacked  a  solid  geologic  back- 
ground. But  the  Department  is  definitely 
open  to  new  ideas  and  has  been  very 
encouraging.  They  were  very  supportive 
in  having  me  join  the  program." 


Seismologists  locate  missing  lithosphere  slab  under  Tibet 


eologists  in  the  Department  have  locat- 
ed a  huge  chunk  of  Earth's  lithosphere 
that  went  missing  15  million  years  ago.  By 
finding  the  massive  block  of  errant  rock 
beneath  Tibet,  the  researchers  are  helping 
solve  a  long-standing  mystery  and 
clarifying  how  continents  behave  when 
they  collide. 

About  55  million  years  ago,  the 
Indian  plate  crashed  into  the  Eurasian 
plate,  forcing  the  land  to  slowly  buckle 
and  rise  to  produce  the  Tibetan  Plateau, 
the  world's  largest  and  highest  plateau. 
Tectonic  models  of  the  plateau  vary  great- 
ly. According  to  one  model,  the  thickened 
lithosphere  beneath  Tibet  became  unsta- 
ble, and  a  piece  broke  off  and  sank  into 
the  deep  mantle. 

"While  attached,  this  immense  piece 
of  mantle  lithosphere  under  Tibet  acted  as 
an  anchor,  holding  the  land  above  in 
place,"  said  Wang-Ping  Chen,  professor  of 
geophysics.  "Then,  about  15  million  years 


ago,  the  chain  broke  and  the  land  rose, 
further  raising  the  high  plateau." 

Until  recently,  this  tantalizing  idea 
lacked  any  clear  observation  to  support  it. 
Then  doctoral  student  Tai-Lin  (Ellen) 
Tseng  and  Chen  found  the  missing  anchor. 

"This  remnant  of  detached  lithos- 
phere provides  key  evidence  for  a  direct 
connection  between  continental  collision 
near  the  surface  and  deep-seated  dynam- 
ics in  the  mantle,"  Tseng  said. 


Through  a  project  called  Hi-CLIMB, 
an  integrated  study  of  the  Himalayan- 
Tibetan  Continental  Lithosphere  during 
Mountain  Building,  Tseng  analyzed  seis- 
mic signals  collected  at  a  number  of  per- 
manent stations  and  at  many  temporary 
stations  to  search  for  the  missing  mass. 
She  precisely  measured  the  velocities  of 
seismic  waves  traveling  beneath  the 
region  at  depths  of  300  to  700  kilometers. 
Because  seismic  waves  travel  faster 
through  colder  rock,  Tseng  was  able  to 
discern  the  positions  of  detached,  cold 
lithosphere  from  her  data. 

"We  not  only  found  the  missing 
piece  of  cold  lithosphere,  but  also  were 
able  to  reconstruct  the  positions  of  tec- 
tonic plates  back  to  15  million  years 
ago,"  Tseng  said.  "It  therefore  seems 
much  more  likely  that  instability  in  the 
thickening  lithosphere  was  partially 
responsible  for  forming  the  Tibetan 
Plateau,  rather  than  the  wholesale  sub- 
duction  of  one  of  the  tectonic  plates." 


Scientists  propose  alternate 
model  for  plume  on  Enceladus 


hat's  causing  all  the  commotion  on 

Enceladus? 

Last  year,  when  the  Cassini  space- 
craft discovered  an  enormous  plume 
erupting  on  Enceladus,  one  of  Saturn's 
moons,  scientists  speculated  that  liquid 
water  lay  at  shallow  depths  beneath  the 
icy  surface. 

Now,  as  reported  in  a  recent  issue 
of  the  journal  Science,  researchers  have 
proposed  an  alternate  model  to  account 
for  this  spectacular  plume. 

"With  a  diameter  of  only  500  kilo- 
meters, Enceladus  is  a  tiny  moon;  it 
would  fit  easily  between  Los  Angeles 
and  San  Francisco,"  says  Professor  of 
Geology  Susan  Kieffer,  lead  author  of 
the  Science  paper.  "This  tiny  satellite 
should  be  cold  and  inactive,  like  our 
own  moon.  But  it  isn't." 

Kieffer,  who  holds  a  Charles  R. 
Walgreen  Jr.  Chair  in  the  Department  of 
Geology,  has  studied  geysers  and  volca- 
noes on  Earth,  Io  (a  satellite  of  Jupiter), 
and  Triton  (a  satellite  of  Neptune). 

The  surface  of  Enceladus  is  com- 
posed of  water  ice  with  traces  of  car- 


bon dioxide.  Part  of  this  surface  does 
appear  old  and  cratered  like  Earth's 
moon,  Kieffer  said.  "The  south  polar 
region,  however,  is  geologically  active, 
with  many  surface  features,  indicating 
current  activity." 

Initial  reports  speculated  that 
chambers  of  liquid  water  lay  close  to 
the  moon's  surface  and  erupted  in  a 
giant  geyser.  The  water  would  be  near 
freezing,  so  scientists  dubbed  the  model 
"Cold  Faithful,"  after  the  familiar,  but 
hotter,  Old  Faithful  geyser  in 
Yellowstone  National  Park. 

"A  problem  with  this  model," 
Kieffer  said,  "is  that  10%  of  the  plume 
consists  of  the  gases  carbon  dioxide, 
nitrogen  and  methane.  You  might  get  a 
carbon  dioxide-driven  liquid  geyser 
there,  but  you  can't  put  this  much 
nitrogen  and  methane  into  liquid  water 
at  the  low  pressures  found  inside 
Enceladus." 

Kieffer  and  colleagues  have  pro- 
posed an  alternate  model  to  explain  the 
plume  on  Enceladus.  The  gases  in  the 
plume,  they  propose,  are  dissolved  in  a 


reservoir  of  clathrate  under  the  water 
ice  cap  in  the  south  polar  region.  The 
clathrate  model  allows  an  environment 
that  would  be  80°  to  100°  Celsius  cold- 
er than  liquid  water,  with  a  "Frigid 
Faithful"  plume  emanating  from 
clathrates,  rather  than  from  liquid  water 
reservoirs. 

"Exposed  to  near- vacuum  condi- 
tions by  fractures  at  the  south  pole,  the 
clathrates  decompose  violently,  spewing 
out  nitrogen,  methane  and  carbon  diox- 
ide gases,  and  ice  particles;  as  well  as 
leaving  fracture  walls  coated  with  water 
ice,"  said  Kieffer,  who  has  recently  been 
appointed  as  a  professor  in  the  U  of  I's 
Center  for  Advanced  Study,  one  of  the 
highest  forms  of  campus  recognition. 

The  other  authors  of  the  paper 
besides  Kieffer  are  postdoctoral 
researcher  Xinli  Lu  and  Department 
geologists  Craig  Bethke  and  Steve 
Marshak,  planetary  scientist  John 
Spencer  at  the  Southwest  Research 
Institute,  and  chemist  Alexandra 
Navrotsky  at  the  University  of  California 
at  Davis. 


Researchers  study  role  of  natural  organic  matter  in  environment 


he  decomposition  of  plant,  animal, 
and  microbial  material  in  soil  and 
water  produces  a  variety  of  complex 
organic  molecules,  collectively  called 
natural  organic  matter.  These  com- 
pounds play  many  important  roles  in 
the  environment. 

By  studying  the  molecular  mecha- 
nisms responsible  for  the  complex 
behavior  of  natural  organic  matter, 
Research  Associate  Professor  Andrey 
Kalinichev  and  Professor  Jim 
Kirkpatrick  in  the  Department  of 


Geology  are  finding  new  ways  to  pre- 
vent the  compounds  from  fouling  water 
purification  and  desalination  facilities. 

"Bio-fouling  creates  great  complica- 
tions for  the  water  purification  and 
desalination  industries,"  Kalinichev  said. 

Because  of  its  acidic  nature,  natural 
organic  matter  can  form  complexes  with 
dissolved  metal  ions.  The  way  in  which 
such  ions  bond  to  natural  organic  mat- 
ter, and  the  potential  effects  of  the  ions 
on  bio-fouling,  were  studied  using  mole- 
cular dynamic  computer  simulations 


performed  by  Kalinichev,  and  nuclear 
magnetic  resonance  measurements 
performed  by  Kirkpatrick  and  former 
student  Xiang  Xu. 

Kalinichev  and  Kirkpatrick  found 
that  sodium  and  magnesium  ions  have 
very  weak  interactions  with  natural 
organic  matter.  Cesium  interacts  more 
strongly,  but  calcium  has  the  strongest 
interaction  with  natural  organic  matter. 

This  work  was  funded  by  the  U.S. 
Department  of  Energy  and  the 
National  Science  Foundation. 


Finding  New  Worlds  in  the  Subsurface 


Ted  Flynn  is  almost  poetic  when  he 
describes  what  he  has  been  exploring 
in  the  huge  Mahomet  Aquifer  that  under- 
lies much  of  central  Illinois  and  supplies 
the  region  with  its  clean  drinking  water. 
"In  the  very  fine,  water-filled  glacial 
sands  filled  of  the  aquifer,  there's  no  oxy- 
gen but  things  are  still  living!  The  water 
contains  anaerobic  bacteria,  organisms 
that  don't  breathe  in  oxygen  and  breath 
out  carbon  dioxide  like  we  do,  but  rather 
breathe  in  sulfate  and  breath  out  sulfide. 
"This  permits  an  entire  ecosystem  of 
micro-organisms  to  exist  underground, 
and  these  have  the  capacity  to  affect 
groundwater  geochemistry.  We're  study- 
ing how  microbes  and  microbial  respira- 
tion affect  groundwater  geochemistry. " 
The  third-year  Ph.D.  student,  who 
came  to  Illinois  from  Notre  Dame  to  work 
with  Prof.  Craig  Bethke,  has  developed  a 
new  water-testing  system  that  more  accu- 
rately samples  groundwater.   Flynn  want- 
ed to  test  the  assumption  that  the  bacteria 
collected  by  simply  filtering  a  water  sam- 


ple taken  from  a  well  actually  represents  of 
the  bacterial  community  in  the  aquifer  as  a 
whole.  What  he  found  was  that  traditional 
testing  only  examines  a  fraction  of  that 
community. 

To  see  what  else  is  in  the  groundwa- 
ter, Flynn  filled  bags  with  sterilized  sand 
from  the  Mahomet  Aquifer,  then  placed  the 
water  down  wells.  He  allowed  the  sand  to 
be  colonized  by  the  bacteria  in  the  water 
samples  and  then  removed  the  bags  and 
extracted  bacteria  using  filters. 

"Once  we  have  a  filter  with  the  water 
bacteria  and  the  sand  with  the  attached 
bacteria,  we  extract  the  DNA  from  the  bac- 
teria and  then  use  molecular  biology  tech- 
niques to  compare  the  entire  microbial 
community  from  one  sample  to  the  other. 

"We  found  was  that  there  are  actually 
two  distinct  groups  of  microbes:  the 
attached  bugs  and  the  unattached  ones. 
Amazingly,  the  attached  community  in  a 
well  is  more  similar  to  the  attached  com- 
munity in  a  different  well  tens  of  miles 
away  than  it  is  to  the  unattached  commu- 


nity in  its  own  well." 

Because  of  his  results,  Flynn  notes 
the  traditional  filter  tests  do  not  give  the 
complete  picture.   "Perhaps  99%  of  the 
microbes  in  an  aquifer  are  attached  to 
solids  at  any  given  time." 

Flynn  wants  to  continue  exploring 
the  differences  between  bacteria  in  vari- 
ous watery  communities.  He  enjoys  the 
multidisciplinary  nature  of  his  research 
and  says  the  U  of  I,  with  programs  in 
both  hydrogeology  and  geomicrobiology, 
was  the  perfect  choice  for  graduate 
school.  He  has  had  the  opportunity  to 
work  not  only  with  Prof.  Bethke,  but  also 
with  Prof.  Bruce  Fouke  and  Research 
Scientist  Rob  Sanford.  Through  the 
geomicrobiology  program,  he  now  can 
interact  with  researchers  at  the  new 
Institute  for  Genomic  Biology. 

"I  really  like  the  collegia!  atmosphere 
here.   I've  also  been  able  to  interact  with 
people  from  different  groups  and  different 
departments— from  animal  sciences  to 
civil  engineering." 


Affiliate  Professor  Marcelo  Garcia  won 
the  2006  Hans  Albert  Einstein  Award 
from  the  American  Society  of  Civil 
Engineers  for  "outstanding  research 
contributions  to  sediment  transport  engi- 
neering, and  outstanding  service 
through  visionary  editorship  of  the 
ASCE  book  on  Sediment  Engineering." 
This  award,  named  for  Albert  Einstein's 
son,  is  the  highest  recognition  interna- 
tionally in  the  field  of  sedimentation 
engineering.   Professor  Gary  Parker 
received  the  award  in  1994. 

Professor  Jay  Bass  has  received  an 
Honorary  Doctorate  from  the  University 
of  Lyon  in  France.  This  prestigious 
award  recognizes  his  contributions  in 
mineral  science.  He  has  also  been 
elected  to  the  governing  board  of  a 
newly  formed  Synchrotron  Project, 
HPSynC,  which  is  an  Earth  science 
synchrotron  effort. 


Around  the  Department 


Geology  Librarian  Lura  Joseph  has  been 
promoted  and  granted  tenure  in  the  University 
of  Illinois  Library.  Joseph  was  a  geologist  in 
the  oil  industry  for  18  years  before  taking  a 
degree  in  library  sciences.  Her  responsibilities 
have  recently  increased  because  the  Geology 
Library  has  taken  over  responsibility  for  the 
Atmospheric  Sciences  collection.  With  this 
acquisition,  the  library  now  provides  service  to 
twice  as  many  students  and  faculty. 

Associate  Professor  Craig  Lundstrom  has 
been  appointed  an  Associate  of  the  UIUC 
Center  for  Advanced  Studies.  This  is  an  honor 
bestowed  upon  faculty  to  provide  them  with 
time  to  pursue  high-profile  research. 

Professor  Wang-Ping  Chen  is  serving  on  the 
Advisory  Board  of  COMPRES  (Consortium  for 
Materials  Properties  Research  in  Earth 
Sciences,  USA)  until  June  of  2009.  Professor 
Jay  Bass  continues  his  service  on  the 
Executive  Board  of  COMPRES. 


Professor  Emeritus  Alberto  Nieto  will  be 
teaching  for  several  months  in  the  geo- 
technical  program  at  Tsinghua  University  in 
Peking. 

The  Geology  Department  is  now  a  member 
of  UNAVCO,  the  national  consortium  for 
space-based  geodesy.  With  this  new  mem- 
bership, our  Department  is  now  represent- 
ed in  all  three  major  research  consortia  in 
geosciences  (the  other  two  being  IRIS. 
Incorporated  Research  Institutions  for 
Seismology,  and  COMPRES).  Professor 
Wang-Ping  Chen  is  serving  as  the 
institutional  representative  in  UNAVCO. 

Professor  Ralph  Langenheim  continues 
his  service  as  an  elected  member  of  the 
Champaign  County  Board.  His  former  stu- 
dent. C.  Pius  Weibel  (Ph.D.  '88),  was 
recently  elected  to  the  Board  and  has  been 
made  the  Board's  chair.  Weibel  is  a  geolo- 
gist at  the  Illinois  State  Geological  Survey. 


Windows  into  the  Past 


George  Maxey  and  the  Birth  of  Hydrogeology  at  Illinois 


by  Ralph  L.  Langenheim 

In  1955,  Department  Head  George 
White  joined  with  the  Illinois  State 
Geological  Survey  to  hire  George 
Burke  Maxey  with  a  joint  appointment 
as  Associate  Professor  of  Geology  and 
Head  of  the  Illinois  State  Geological 
Survey  Division  of  Ground  Water 
Geology,  thus  launching  a  dynasty  in 
geohydrology  at  the  University  of 
Illinois.  Maxey  remained  at  Illinois  for 
only  seven  years.  He  left  in  1962  to 
join  the  Desert  Research  Institute  in 
Nevada,  and  was  succeeded,  succes- 
sively, by  his  doctoral  students,  first 
Robert  N.  Farvolden  (1960-1967),  then 
John  Bredehoeft  (1968-1969),  and 
finally  by  Patrick  Domenico  (1969- 
1982). 

The  time  was  ripe  for  bringing 
hydrogeology  to  Illinois,  for  increas- 
ingly many  graduates  were  ending  up 
practicing  geohydrology  in  their  jobs 
with  government  agencies.   Maxey 
was  the  right  person  to  get  the  pro- 
gram off  the  ground,  for  he  distin- 
guished himself  as  an  innovative, 
charismatic  and  convivial  leader  of 
students.  Along  with  his  wife,  Jane, 
Maxey  hosted  many  memorable  par- 
ties at  his  home,  and  encouraged  a 
sense  of  camaraderie  and  enthusiasm 
among  his  students  that  has  rarely 
been  matched.  Encouraged  by  White 
in  1960,  Maxey  joined  Ven  Te  Chow's 
group  in  the  Department  of  Civil 
Engineering  and  together  with  them 
organized  Illinois'  first  groundwater 
course.  While  Maxey  supported  stu- 
dents studying  Illinois  aquifers  for  the 
ISGS,  he  also  sent  a  group  to  Nevada 
to  work  in  the  Humboldt  River  water- 
shed, a  project  instigated  by  a  group 


of  ranchers  interested  in  increasing 
irrigation.   This  "band  of  brothers"— 
including  Bob  Farvolden,  Phil  Cohen, 
John  Hawley,  Keros  Cartwright,  Lyle 
McGinnis,  Bill  Wilson,  and  John 
Bredehoeft— along  with  some  of 
their  families,  lived  together  in 
Winnemucca  where  they  completed 
one  of  the  first  comprehensive  region- 
al evaluations  of  both  surface  water 
and  groundwater  in  a  desert  climate. 
When  Bob  Farvolden,  a  founding 
head  of  the  Alberta  Research 
Foundation  Ground  Water  Division, 
succeeded  Maxey  he  began  a  pioneer- 
ing program  on  the  hydrogeology  of 
landfills.  Farvolden  went  on  to  estab- 
lish the  first  Canadian  degree  program 
in  hydrogeology  at  Western  Ontario, 
and  later  organized  a  center  for  hydro- 
logic  research  at  the  University  of 
Waterloo,  where  he  hired  Mini  Ph.D.s, 
John  Cherry  and  George  Pindar. 


John  Bredehoeft  served  as  an 
interim  visiting  professor  directing  the 
geohydrology  program  for  the  1978-69 
academic  year.  He  went  on  to  a  distin- 
guished career  at  the  U.S.  Geological 
Survey  where  he  led  initiatives  in  the 
quantitative  analyses  of  fluid  flow  and 
advocated  application  of  computer 
modeling  in  hydrogeology.  These 
achievements  earned  Bredehoeft  the 
Distinguished  Service  Award  and 
the  Meinzer  Award  of  the  GSA 
Hydrogeology  Division,  the  Penrose 
Medal,  the  Horton  Medal  of  the 
American  Geophysical  Union,  and 
membership  in  of  the  National 
Academy  of  Engineering.  Pat 
Domenico,  the  last  of  Maxey's  direct 
intellectual  offspring,  succeeded 
Bredehoeft  and  remained  at  Illinois 
until  1982,  when  he  moved  to  Texas 
A&M. 

In  all,  almost  50  hydrogeologic 
theses  have  been  written  at  Illinois. 
The  Illinois  hydrogeology  program  that 
Maxey  founded  graduated  many 
remarkable  individuals  who  went  on 
to  preeminent  programs  in  the  coun- 
try, as  hydrogeology  defined  itself  and 
became  a  major  discipline  within  geo- 
science.  The  numerous  Mini  on  the 
roll  of  recipients  of  the  Distinguished 
Service  Awards  of  the  Hydrogeology 
Division  of  the  Geological  Survey  testi- 
fies to  the  quality  of  that  influence: 
George  Maxey,  1984;   Robert 
Farvoden,  1992;  John  Sharp  and  Paul 
Witherspoon,  1996;  John  Cherry,  1998; 
Keros  Cartwright,  1991;  Paul  Seaber, 
1993;  Stanley  Davis,  1997;  Richard 
Parizek,  1992;  and  John  Bredehoeft, 
2003. 


Alumni  News 


Dr.  Frank  Schwartz  Receives  Alumni  Achievement  Award 


e  are  very 
pleased  to 
announce  that  Dr. 
Frank  Schwartz 
(FPI)  (72,  Ph.D)  is 
the  2007 
Department  of 
Geology  Alumni  Achievement  Award 
winner.  Dr.  Schwartz  is  an  internationally 
respected  research  scholar  and  teacher  in 
hydrogeology  and  hydrology.  He  joined 
The  Ohio  State  University  (OSU)  in  1988 
as  The  Ohio  Eminent  Scholar  in 
Hydrogeology.  This  endowed  chair  is 
among  the  most  prestigious  at  The  Ohio 
State  University.  Professor  Schwartz  is 
the  author  of  more  than  150  publications 
and  is  known  internationally  for  his  work 
on  field  and  theoretical  aspects  of  conta- 
minant hydrogeology  and  remediation, 
mass  transport,  ground- water  geochem- 
istry, and  watershed  hydrology.  He  has 
co-authored  three  textbooks,  which  are 
widely  used  for  teaching  hydrogeology 
around  the  world.  Since  arriving  at  OSU, 
Dr.  Schwartz  has  been  successful  in 
attracting  close  to  $5M  in  funded  external 
research  from  a  variety  of  Federal  agen- 
cies. In  2005,  he  was  named  as  the 
Director  of  the  School  of  Earth  Sciences, 
which  now  has  37  faculty  members  and 
about  130  students. 

Professor  Schwartz  has  received 
major  awards  recognizing  his  status  as  a 
scientific  leader.  He  is  a  co-recipient  of 
the  prestigious  O.E.  Meinzer  Award 
(1984),  the  Excellence  in  Science  and 
Engineering  Award  (1991),  and  the  GSA 
Distinguished  Service  Award  (2005).  He 
received  the  King  Hubbert  Science  Award 
(1997).  He  was  elected  as  a  Fellow  of  the 
American  Geophysical  Union  in  1992. 

In  addition  to  teaching  and  research, 
Professor  Schwartz  has  acted  as  a  consul- 
tant to  government  and  industry,  and  in 
various  advisory  capacities.  He  serves 
regularly  on  panels  of  the  Water  Science 
and  Technology  Board,  an  arm  of  the 
National  Research  Council  designed  to 
guide  government  policies. 


We  asked  Dr.  Schwartz  to  share  a 
few  remembrances  of  his  years  at  Illinois. 

"What  I  remember  so  vividly  about 
my  time  at  U  of  I  are  the  people,  faculty 
members  and  fellow  graduate  students. 
The  professors  and  students  of  my  time 
were  exceptionally  talented  individuals— 
really  in  a  league  of  their  own.  Clearly, 
when  students  come  to  a  world-class 
institution  like  U  of  I,  it  is  to  discover  tal- 


ented professors,  the  Pat  Domenicos, 
Vic  Palciauskases  and  Don  Graffs  of 
the  world.  These  individuals  are  all 
long  gone  from  Illinois,  and  probably 
not  well  known  to  more  recent  alumni. 
You  should  think  of  them  as  links  in 
the  long  chain  of  accomplishment  and 
scientific  excellence,  which  has  been  a 
hallmark  of  our  department." 


Obituaries 


Donald  Munro 
"Hendy" 
Henderson  of 

Urbana  passed 
away  on  October 
21,  2006.  He  was 
85,  and  leaves 
behind  his  wife 
Peggy,  five  chil- 
dren, and  five  grandchildren. 

Don  received  his  bachelor's 
degree  from  Brown  University  and  his 
master's  and  doctoral  degrees  from 
Harvard  University.  He  joined  the  fac- 
ulty of  the  University  of  Illinois  in 
1948  as  an  instructor,  moved  through 
the  ranks  to  become  full  professor  in 
1969,  and  became  professor  emeritus 
in  1989.  A  large  retirement  party  was 
held  in  his  honor  at  the  Krannert  Art 
Museum,  complete  with  a  string  quar- 
tet playing  music  composed  for  the 
occasion. 

Don  was  a  member  of  the 
Mineralogy  Society  of  America,  the 
Geological  Society  of  America,  the 
American  Geophysical  Union,  the 
American  Association  for  the 
Advancement  of  Science,  and  the 
American  Crystallographic 
Association.  From  1958  to  1959,  he 
held  a  Guggenheim  Fellowship. 

Over  his  long  career,  Hendy  con- 
ducted research  on  a  variety  of  topics, 
ranging  from  crystal  chemistry,  to 
nuclear  magnetic  resonance  studies,  to 
the  process  of  dolomitization.  He  also 
published  on  aspects  of  geological 
education. 


In  the  Department,  Hendy's  rig- 
orous courses  in  mineralogy  were  leg- 
endary. They  yielded  generations  of 
very  well  trained  students.  From  1978 
to  1983,  he  assumed  the  position  of 
Assistant  Head  and  Educational 
Coordinator  for  the  Department,  and 
in  this  capacity  ensured  that  teaching 
assignments  were  made  and  fulfilled, 
and  that  students  received  the  advice 
they  needed  to  succeed  in  their  grad- 
uate programs. 

Sadly,  Hendy  suffered  adult  polio 
soon  after  he  arrived  at  the  University 
of  Illinois,  and  needed  to  walk  with 
canes  for  the  remainder  of  his  life. 
Nevertheless,  he  continued  to  accom- 
pany students  on  field  trips,  and  to 
commute  daily  from  his  home  in 
Urbana  by  bicycle.  In  the  winter  he 
attached  crampons  to  his  canes,  to 
conquer  the  ice. 

Hendy  will  be  remembered  as  a 
very  kind  person  and  a  friend  who 
served  as  a  rational  anchor  in  the 
department  over  many  decades.  He 
will  also  be  remembered  as  an 
incredible  punster  who  could  always 
bring  a  note  of  levity  to  any  situation. 
In  his  memory,  his  family  and  friends 
have  established  the  Donald  M. 
Henderson  Memorial  Fund  within  the 
Department  of  Geology's  endowment. 
When  the  fund  has  grown,  its  income 
will  be  used  to  help  purchase  books 
for  the  Geology  Library.  One  could 
often  find  Hendy  in  the  stacks,  read- 
ing both  modern  and  historic  geologic 
literature. 


Alumni  News 


Obituaries 


Robert  W.  "Moose"  Leonard  (B.S.  '55)  of  St.  Charles,  Illinois,  passed  away  on 
December  29,  2006  in  Oak  Lawn,  Illinois,  surrounded  by  his  loving  family.  He 
was  74.  Bob  will  be  remembered  for  his  genuine  kindness  and  his  devotion  to 
family,  church,  friends,  and  community. 

Following  college,  Bob  served  as  an  officer  in  the  United  States  Army  Air 
Corps  until  1958  and  in  the  Army  National  Guard  until  1965.  For  33  years,  he 
served  as  a  pilot  with  United  Airlines  and  retired  as  a  747  captain.  He  also  served 
as  Mayor  of  North  Aurora,  Illinois,  from  1965  to  1969,  and  spearheaded  the 
development  of  the  River  Corridor  Master  Plan. 

James  F.  Luhr  (B.S.  75)  of  University  Park,  Maryland,  died 

peacefully  at  home  on  January  1 ,  2007  of  complications  from 

influenza.  He  was  53. 

A  renowned  geologist,  he  was  director  of  the  Global 

Volcanism  Program  at  the  Museum  of  Natural  History, 
"^     Smithsonian  Institution.  Jim  was  the  devoted  father  of  two 
daughters,  and  was  married  to  Karen  Prestegaard,  whom  he  met  at  UC  Berkeley 
when  both  were  pursuing  doctoral  degrees. 

Jim  was  a  passionate  scientist,  committed  to  deepening  public  awareness  of 
scientific  discovery.  He  helped  to  curate  the  Museum's  enormously  popular  Hall 
of  Geology,  Gems  and  Minerals;  collaborated  extensively  with  Mexican  scientists 
during  years  of  research  in  that  country;  and  chaired  the  Museum's  mineralogy 
department  for  five  years.  He  popularized  science  in  every  available  medium: 
as  editor  of  the  books  "Earth"  (2004)  and  "Paricutin:  The  Volcano  Born  in  a 
Mexican  Cornfield"  (1993);  in  exhibitions;  through  online  and  CD-Rom  products; 
and  even  with  a  "build  your  own  volcano"  kit  for  children.  Among  his  achieve- 
ments, Jim  contributed  to  the  development  of  early-warning  systems  to  protect 
trans-Pacific  flights  from  the  effects  of  volcanic  eruptions.  Jim  was  also  an 
accomplished  fiddler,  specializing  in  Irish  music. 

Catherine  A.  Hier-Majumder  (B.S.  '97)  passed  away  October  27,  2006  after 
being  struck  by  a  train  in  the  Washington  D.C.  area.  Cathy  was  beginning  a 
career  in  planetary  geophysics  at  the  Carnegie  Department  of  Terrestrial 
Magnetism.  After  graduating  from  Illinois,  Cathy  completed  a  Ph.D.  in  geophysics 
at  the  University  of  Minnesota  in  2003.  She  spent  the  next  year  on  a  postdoctoral 
appointment  at  the  Lawrence  Livermore  National  Laboratory.  Cathy  joined 
DTM  in  April  of  2005,  and  was  known  as  a  brilliant  and  creative  scientist.  Her 
mother  and  her  husband,  Suswata,  who  is  a  professor  at  the  University  of 
Maryland,  survive  her. 


1950s 

Alumnus  and  former  faculty  member 
William  Hay  (M.S.  '58)  received  the 
Twenhofel  Medal  for  a  career  of  out- 
standing contributions  in  sedimentary 
geology  from  the  Society  of  Sedimentary 
Geology.  In  his  acceptance  reply  Bill 
credited  U  of  I's  George  White  for  his 
support. 


Margaret  Leinen  (B.S.,  '69)  is  the  chief 
science  officer  and  vice  president  of 
Climos,  a  climate  change  research  firm, 
as  of  January  2007. 


1970s 

Owen  White  (Ph.D.  70)  received  the 
R.F.  Legget  Medal,  the  highest  honor 
given  by  the  Canadian  Geotechnical 
Society.  The  medal  is  "presented  to 
an  individual  who  has  made  signifi- 
cant personal  contributions  to  the 
Canadian  understanding  of  the  inter- 
relationship of  civil  engineering  and 
engineering  geology  through  publica- 
tions, research  or  professional  society 
activities;  and  who  has  stimulated 
geotechnical  activities  in  Canada 
through  the  encouragement  of  co- 
workers. " 


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Jim  Granath  (B.S.  71,  M.S.  73)  has 
been  promoted  to  Principal  Structural 
Geologist  for  Midland  Valley,  a  Scottish 
structural  geology-consulting  firm  that 
specializes  in  cross-section  construction 
for  the  oil  industry.  Jim  will  be  based 
in  Denver. 

Rod  Balazs  (M.S.  71)  is  with  Mor- 
Staffing,  Inc.,  a  human  resources  firm 
based  in  Fort  Washington,  PA.  He 
stopped  by  the  GSA  alumni  reception 
in  Philadelphia. 

1980s 
Richard  Leary  (Ph.D.  '80)  retired  from 
the  Illinois  State  Museum  at  the  end  of 
1997  after  more  than  35  years  as 
Curator  of  Geology.  He  returned  as  a 
volunteer  to  provide  information  for 
the  exhibit.  In  January  of  2006,  Richard 
and  his  wife  traveled  to  Antarctica, 
their  seventh  continent,  and  in  March 
they  visited  Guatemala  and  Costa  Rica, 
bringing  the  total  of  countries  visited  to 
50.  They  also  have  camped  in  all  50 
states  (49  in  a  tent) . 

Snehal  Bhagat  (B.S.  '84,  M.S.  '88)  is 
now  a  project  manager  for  TRC,  an 
environmental  consulting  firm.  He  has 
recently  transferred  from  Chicago  to 
their  Kansas  City  Office,  and  will  soon 
be  getting  married. 

Joanne  Kluessendorf  (B.S.  '83,  M.  S. 
'86,  Ph.D.  '90)  Director  of  the  Weis 
Earth  Science  Museum,  has  received 
the  AGI  Award  for  Outstanding 
Contribution  to  Public  Understanding 
of  the  Geosciences.  This  award  recog- 
nizes her  continuing  work  to  establish- 
ing the  Weis  Museum,  which  is  the 
official  mineralogical  museum  of 
Wisconsin.  She  has  also  nominated 
numerous  geologic  sites  for  National 
Historic  Landmark  status.  Previous 
winners  include  Stephen  J.  Gould  and 
Robert  Ballard. 

Jim  Cremeens  (B.S.  '89,  M.S.  '90) 
is  the  Principal  Engineer  of  SRK 
Consulting,  in  Lakewood  Colorado. 
He  passed  through  C-U  during  August 
2006  and  visited  the  Department. 

1990s 

Richard  D.  Poskin  (B.S.  '91)  teaches 
in  the  Science  Department  at  Wabash 
Valley  College  in  Mt.  Carmel,  Illinois. 


Tim  Paulsen  (Ph.D.  '97)  recently 
received  the  EAA/C.R.  Meyer 
Endowment  for  Excellence  Professorship, 
a  four-year  appointment  that  supports 
scholarly  activities  at  the  University  of 
Wisconsin  Oshkosh. 

Tim  is  working  on  the  McMurdo  Ice 
Shelf  drilling  project  as  part  of  ANDRILL, 
an  international  geologic  drilling  pro- 
gram focused  on  understanding  the  cli- 
mate and  tectonic  history  of  Antarctica. 

Tara  Curtin  (M.S.  '97]  is  an  assistant 
professor  of  geoscience  at  Hobart  and 
William  Smith  Colleges.  Tara  joined  the 
HWS  faculty  in  2001  and  teaches  courses 
in  environmental  geoscience,  sediments 
and  sedimentary  rocks,  and  hydrogeolo- 
gy  and  geochemistry. 

Amy  Berger,  (Ph.D.  '98)  is  associate  pro- 
fessor of  geology  at  Heidelberg 
University.  She  was  named  the  Ream- 
Paradiso  Distinguished  Teaching  Award 
winner.  The  award  recognizes  excellence 
in  classroom  teaching,  academic  accom- 
plishments, professional  activities  and 
service  to  the  Heidelberg  community. 

Maitri  Venkat-Ramani  (B.S.  '98)  mar- 
ried Derick  Erwin  on  January  2,  2007  in 
Pennsylvania.   Maitri  is  a  geophysicist 
with  Shell  Exploration  &  Production  Co. 
in  New  Orleans.  Derick  is  a  native  of 


Wisconsin  and  is  a  computer  systems 
administrator  in  New  Orleans. 

2000s 

Mike  Harrison  (Ph.D.,  '02),  has  been 
promoted  to  associate  professor  with 
tenure  at  Tennessee  Tech  University. 
He  is  now  Chair  of  the  Department  of 
Geology,  and  continues  his  research 
on  the  structural  geology  of  the 
Appalachians.  Mike  and  Diane  have 
their  hands  full,  with  new  twins  in  the 
house. 

Ashley  Ravenstein  (B.S.  '05)  has  been 
hiking  the  Pacific  Crest  Trail.  You  can 
check  her  progress,  view  her  photos 
and  read  her  journal  here: 
www.allinthejourney.com. 

Marynia  Kolak  (B.S.  '06)  holds  an 
internship  with  the  USGS  in  St. 
Petersburg,  Florida  as  a  "Gulf  of 
Mexico  Analyst  Intern,"  She  hopes  to 
save  up  enough  money  for  a  trip  to 
South  America. 

Births 

George  T.  Bonheyo,  who  worked  as  a 
Research  Scientist  in  geomicrobiology 
at  UIUC  is  the  proud  dad  of  Clara  Stase 
Bonheyo,  who  was  born  on  June  20, 
2006. 


New  Generation  of  Geology  Alumni  Join  Faculty  Ranks  Nationwide 

Illinois  has  long  had  a  tradition  of  training  geoscientists  who  become  faculty  at  colleges  and  universities. 
This  tradition  is  certainly  continuing,  for  a  number  of  students  who  have  completed  graduate  degrees 
since  1990  have  joined  faculty  ranks  at  institutions  around  the  country.  Examples  include  Brian  Phillips 
(Ph.D.  '90)  at  SUNY-Stonybrook,  Steve  Hagemen  (Ph.D.  '92)  at  Appalachian  State  University.  Ming-Kuo 
Lee  (M.S.  '90,  Ph.D.  '93)  at  Auburn  University,  Honn  Kao,  (Ph.D.  '93),  at  the  Department  of  Geosciences, 
National  Taiwan  University,  and  Institute  of  Earth  Science,  Academia  Sinica,  Taiwan.  (Currently  at  Pacific 
Geoscience  Center,  Sydney,  BC,  Canada.),  Fred  Siewers  (Ph.D,  '95)  at  Western  Kentucky  University, 
George  Grathoff  (Ph.D.  '96)  at  Portland  State  University,  David  Finkelstein  (Ph.D.  '97)  at  University  of 
Tennessee.  Tim  Paulsen  (Ph.D.  '97)  at  the  University  of  Wisconsin  Oshkosh,  Tara  Curtin  (M.S.  '97)  at 
Hobart  and  William  Smith  College,  Doug  Tinkham  (M.S.,  '97)  at  Laurentian  University.  Christine  Clark 
(M.S.  '97)  at  Eastern  Michigan  University,  Eric  Holdener  (Ph.D.  '97)  at  Kenyon  College.  Joel  Johnson 
(M.S.,  '98)  at  the  University  of  New  Hampshire,  John  Werner  (Ph.D.'98)  at  Seminole  Community 
College,  Oswaldo  Araujo  (Ph.D./99)  at  the  University  of  Brasilia,  Amy  Berger,  (Ph.D.'98)  at  Heidelberg 
College,  Mike  Brudzinski  (Ph.D.  '02)  at  Miami  University,  Qusheng  Jin  (Ph.D.  '03)  at  the  University  of 
Oregon,  Andre  Ellis,  (Ph.D.  '03)  at  the  University  of  Texas  at  El  Paso,  Jennie  Jackson  (Ph.D.  '05)  at  Cal- 
Tech.  Kurt  Burmeister  (Ph.D.  '05)  at  the  University  of  the  Pacific,  Jim  Klaus  (Ph.D.  '05)  at  San  Jose  State 
University,  and  Alex  Glass  (Ph.D.  '06)  at  Central  Washington  University.  At  least  two  are  already  depart- 
ment chairs— Scott  Wilkerson  (Ph.D.  '91 )  at  DePauw  University  and  Mike  Harrison  (Ph.D.  '02)  at 
Tennessee  Tech.  We  hope  we  haven't  left  anyone  out!  If  so.  please  let  us  know. 


Degrees  Conferred  in  2006 


Bachelor  of  Science  Degrees 
May 

Tyler  Beemer 
Jeremy  Bellucci 
Ellen  Benefield 
Jacob  Bennett 
Christopher  Crowell 
Sara  Doubek 
Jared  Freiburg 
Brittany  Guzzo 
Lewis  Hutcheons 
James  Jacobsen 
Melanie  Mudarth 
Krishna  Sipowicz 
Boback  Kendy 

August 

Joshua  Carron 
Marynia  Kolak 
David  Li 

December 

Andrew  Schaaf 
Martin  Stroka 

Master  of  Science  Degrees 
May 

Jon  S.  Brenizer,  High-temperature  Elastic 
Properties  of  Iron-bearing  Enstatite,  (Jay 
D.  Bass) 

Kelly  Marie  Hutchings,  Cn'stalline 
Architecture  of  Travertine  Terraces  at 
Mammoth  Hot  Springs,  Yellowstone 
National  Park,  U.S.A.,  (Bruce  W.  Fouke) 

Thomas  J.  Schickel,  Dynamics  of  Calcium 
Carbonate  Precipitation  at  Mammoth  Hot 
Springs,  Yellowstone  National  Park,  USA, 
(Bruce  W.  Fouke) 

August 

Nicole  Bettinardi,  (Susan  W.  Kieffer) 

December 

Emily  Berna,  The  First  Field  Study 

Demonstrating  Stable  Chromium  Isotopes 
as  a  Quantifier  of  Cr(VI)  Reduction, 
(Thomas  M.  Johnson) 

Doctor  of  Philosophy  Degrees 
October 

Alexander  Glass,  The  Brittle  Star  Fauna  of 
the  Hunsruck  Slate  and  A  Phylogeny  of 
the  Paleozoic  Ophiuroidea,  (Daniel 
Blake) 


II 


Annual  Report  for  2006 


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Faculty 

Stephen  P.  Altaner  (Associate  Professor) 

Jay  D.  Bass  (Professor) 

James  L.  Best  (Threet  Professor) 

Craig  M.  Bethke  (Professor) 

Chu-Yung  Chen  (Associate  Professor  and 

Associate  Head) 
Wang-Ping  Chen  (Professor) 
Bruce  W.  Fouke  (Associate  Professor) 
Thomas  M.  Johnson  (Associate  Professor) 
Susan  W.  Kieffer  (Walgreen  Chair) 
R.  James  Kirkpatrick  (Grim  Professor  and 

Executive  Associate  Dean) 
Jie  Li  (Assistant  Professor) 
Craig  C.  Lundstrom  (Associate  Professor) 
Stephen  Marshak  (Professor  and  Head) 
Gary  Parker  (Johnson  Professor) 
Xiaodong  Song  (Associate  Professor) 

Department  Affiliate 

Marcelo  Garcia   (Seiss  Professor,  Civil  and 

Environmental  Engineering) 
Feng-Sheng  Hu  (Associate  Professor,  Plant 

Biology) 

Academic  Staff,  Post-Docs, 
Visiting  Staff 

Panakkatu  Babu  (Research  Scientist) 
Geoffrey  Bowers  (Post-Doctoral  Research 

Associate) 
Alessandro  Cantelli   (Post-Doctoral  Research 

Associate) 
Pinaki  Chakraborty  (Post-Doctoral  Research 

Associate) 
Justin  Glessner   (Geochemistry  Specialist) 
Richard  Hedin   (Research  Programmer) 
Holger  Hellwig   (Research  Scientist) 
Eileen  Herrstrom   (Teaching  Specialist) 
Stephen  Hurst   (Research  Programmer) 
Roy  Johnson   (Research  Scientist) 
Andrey  Kalinichev   (Research  Associate 

Professor) 
Michael  Lerche   (Post-Doctoral  Research 

Associate) 
Ann  Long  (Teaching  Specialist) 
Xinli  Lu   (Post-Doctoral  Research  Associate) 
Stephen  J.  Lyons   (Newsletter  Editor) 
Michael  Martin   (Post-Doctoral  Research 

Associate) 
Padma  Padmanabhan   (Post-Doctoral  Research 

Associate) 
Philip  Parker   (Visiting  Research  Programmer) 
Jean-Phillipe  Perrillat   (Post-Doctoral  Research 

Associate) 
Marc  Reinholdt   (Post-Doctoral  Research 

Associate) 
Daniel  Saalfeld  (Visiting  Research  Programmer) 
Carmen  Sanchez-Valle   (Post-Doctoral  Research 

Associate) 
Rob  Sanford   (Senior  Research  Scientist) 
Michael  Stewart   (Lecturer) 
Rajeswari  Vanka   (Resource  and  Policy 

Analyst) 


Sharon  Yeakel  (Research  Programmer) 
Zhaofeng  Zhang   (Visiting  Scholar) 
Jianming  Zhu   (Visiting  Scholar) 

Emeritus  Faculty 

Thomas  F.  Anderson 
Daniel  B.  Blake 
Albert  V.  Carozzi 
Donald  L.  Graf 
Richard  L.  Hay 
Donald  M.  Henderson 
Albert  T.  Hsui 
George  deV.  Klein 
Ralph  Langenheim 
C.  John  Mann 
Alberto  S.  Nieto 
Philip  A.  Sandberg 

Adjunct  Faculty 

Robert  J.  Finley 
Leon  R.  Follmer 
Dennis  Kolata 
Morris  W.  Leighton 
Hannes  Leetaru 
William  Shilts 
Wolfgang  Sturhahn 
M.  Scott  Wilkerson 

Library  Staff 

Lura  Joseph  (Librarian) 

Sheila  McGowan  (Chief  Library  Clerk) 

Diana  Walter  (Library  Technical  Specialist) 

Staff 

Shelley  Campbell  (Staff  Clerk) 

Barb  Elmore  (Administrative  Secretary) 

Ed  Lane  (Electronics  Engineering 

Assistant) 
Michael  Sczerba  (Clerk) 

Graduate  Students 


Min  Jeoung  Bae 
Peter  Berger 
Emily  Berna 
Charles  Bopp 
Jon  Brenizer 
Shane  Butler 
Bin  Chen 
Melissa  Chipman 
Scott  Clark 
Dai,  Wei 
Joshua  Defrates 
Dong  Ding 
Theodore  Flynn 
Lili  Gao 

Chris  Henderson 
Fang  Huang 
Kelly  Hutchings 
Adam  Ianno 
Meijuan  Jiang 
Michael  Kandianis 


Dmitry  Lakshtanov 
Qi  Li 
Qiang  Li 
Jorge  Marino 
Christopher  Mead 
Mara  Morgenstern 
Jessica  Palmer 
Alan  Piggot 
David  Robison 
Thomas  Schickel 
Pragnyadipta  Sen 
Xinlei  Sun 
Tai-Lin  Tseng 
Ivan  Ufimtsev 
Huan  Wang 
Jingyun  Wang 
Emily  Wisseman 
Kevin  Wolfe 
Zhen  Xu 
Zhaohui  Yang 


COURSES  TAUGHT  IN  2006 

Geol  iOO 

Planet  Earth 

Geol  101 

Introductory  Physical  Geology 

Geol  103 

Planet  Earth  QRII 

Geol  104 

Geology  of  the  National  Parks 

Geol  107 

Physical  Geology 

Geol  108 

Historical  Geology 

Geol  110 

Exploring  Geology  in  the  Field 

Geol  117 

The  Oceans 

Geol  118 

Natural  Disasters 

Geol  143 

History  of  Life 

Geol  333 

Earth  Materials  and  the 

Environment 

Geol  380 

Environmental  Geology 

Geol  411 

Structural  Geology  and  Tectonics 

Geol  415 

Field  Geology 

Geol  417 

Field  Camp  (in  Utah) 

Geol  432 

Mineralogy  and  Mineral  Optics 

Geol  436 

Petrology  and  Petrography 

Geol  440 

Sedimentology  and  Stratigraphy 

Geol  452 

Introduction  to  Geophysics 

Geol  460 

Geochemistry 

Geol  470 

Introduction  to  Hydrogeology 

Geol  481 

Earth  Systems  Modeling 

Geol  497SK 

Geological  Fluid  Dynamics 

Geol  511 

Advanced  Structural  Geology 

Geol  515 

Advanced  Field  Geology 

Geol  540 

Petroleum  Geology 

Geol  591 

Current  Research  in  Geoscience 

Geol  593110 

Geochemical  Kinetics 

Geol  593F2 

Current  Topics  in 

Geomicrobiology  and  Microbial 

Ecology 

Geol  593  GP 

River  Morphodynamics 

Geol  593J2 

Molecular  Modeling  of  Water  & 

Interfaces 

Geol  593  Kl 

Continental  Lithosphere 

Geol  593K8 

Current  Literature  in  Earth's 

Deep  Interior 

Geol  593K11 

Experimental  Simulation  of  the 

Earth's  Interior 

Geol  GeolL2 

Advanced  Petrology  Seminar 

Research  Grants  Active  inl  2006 


Air  Force 

Xiaodong  Song — Characterizing  High-Resolution 
Seismic  Velocity  and  Attenuation  Structure  of 
Yunnan-Sichuan  Region,  Southwest  China 
using  Seismic  Catalog  and  Waveform  Data. 

Xiaodong  Song — Surface  Wave  Dispersion 
Measurements  and  Tomography  from  Ambient 
Seismic  Noise  in  China 

Department  of  Energy 

Craig  M.  Bethke  and  Robert  Sanford — Field- 
Constrained  Quantitative  Model  of  the  Origin 
of  Microbial  and  Geochemical  Zoning  in  a 
Confined  Fresh- Water  Aquifer. 

R.  James  Kirkpatrick  and  Andrey  G. 

Kalinichev — Computational  and  Spectroscopic 
Investigations  of  the  Molecular  Scale  Structure 
and  Dynamics  of  Geologically  Important  Fluids 
and  Mineral-Fluid  Interfaces. 

Robert  Sanford — Biomolecular  Mechanisms 
Controlling  Metal  and  Radionuclide 
Transformations  in  Anaeromyxobacter 
Dehalogenans. 

Robert  Sanford — Towards  a  More  Complete 
Picture:  Dissimilatory  Metal  Reduction  by 
Anaeromyxobcter  Species. 

Michigan  State  University 

Robert  A  Sanford — Growth  of  Chlororespiring 

Bacteria  to  High  Cell  Densities  for  Use  in 

Bioaugmentation. 


NASA 

Susan  Kieffer — Multicomponent,  Multiphase 

H20-C02  Thermodynamics  and  Fluid 

Dynamics  on  Mars. 

National  Science  Foundation 

Jay  Bass — Sound  Velocities  and  Elastic  Moduli  of 

Minerals  at  Mantle  Pressures  and  Temperatures 

with  Laser  Heating. 

Jay  Bass — Collaborative  Research:  Composition 
and  Seismic  Structure  of  the  Mantle  Transition 
Zone. 

Jay  Bass — Collaborative  Research:  Elasticity 
Grand  Challenge  of  the  COMPRES. 

Jay  Bass — Development  of  Laser  Heating  for 
Sound  Velocity  Measurements  at  High  P  &  T. 

Jay  Bass — Consortium  for  Material  Property 
Research  in  the  Earth  Science. 

Wang-Ping  Chen — Collaborative  Research: 
Lithospheric-Scale  Dynamics  of  Active 
Mountain  Building  Along  the  Himalayan- 
Tibetan  Collision  Zone. 

Wang-Ping  Chen — Collaborative  Research:  A 
Study  of  Deep  Subduction  Integrating 
Broadband  Seismology  and  Mineral  Physics. 

Bruce  Fouke— Geobiological  and  the  Emergence 
of  Terraced  Architecture  During  Carbonate 
Mineralization. 

Thomas  M.  Johnson— Quantification  of 

Hexavalent  Cr  Reduction  in  Groundwater  Using 
Cr  Stable  Isotopes. 


Thomas  M.  Johnson  and  Craig  C.  Lundstrom — 

Technical  Support  for  the  New  Mc-ICP-MS 
Laboratory  at  University  of  Illinois. 

Susan  Kieffer — Multiphysics  Modeling  and 
Terascale  Simulations  of  Volcanic  Blasts  Over 
Complex  Terrains. 

Jie  Li — Experimental  Investigations  of  Solid- 
Liquid  Boundary  in  the  Earth's  Core. 

Jie  Li — Constraints  on  Core  Composition  from 
Nuclear  Resonant  Scattering  and  X-Ray 
Diffraction  Studies  on  Fe-Light-Element 
Compounds. 

Craig  C.  Lundstrom  and  Stephen  Marshak— 

Assessing  Diffusive  Differentiation  During 
Igneous  Intrusion  Using  Integrated  Theoretical 
Experimental  and  Field  Studies. 

Xiaodong  Song— CSEDI  Collaborative  Research: 
Observational  and  Theoretical  Constraints  on 
the  Structure  and  Rotation  of  the  Inner  Core. 

Xiaodong  Song — Structure  and  Dynamics  of 
Earth's  Core  and  Lowermost  Mantle. 

Office  of  Naval  Research 

Bruce  Fouke  and  Milton  McAllister — 

Microbiological,  Physiological,  and 
Toxicological  Effects  of  Explosive  Compounds 
on  Coral  Health. 

Bruce  Fouke — The  Role  of  Shipyard  Pollutants  in 
Structuring  Coral  Reef  Microbial  Communities: 
Monitoring  Environmental  Change  and  the 
Potential  Causes  of  Coral  Disease. 


Colloquium  Speakers  for  Spring  and  Fall  2006 


Ed  Evenson,  Lehigh  University 

Glaciohydraulic  Supercooling,  Basal  Freeze-on, 

Debris  Entrainment  and  Deposition  at  Modern 

Glacier  Margins  in  Alaska  and  Iceland  ...  Is  the 

Present  the  Key  to  the  Past? 
Paul  Knauth,  Arizona  State  University 

Impact  Origin  of  Sediments  at  the  Opportunity 

Landing  Site  on  Mars  with  Implications  for 

Astrobiology 
Scott  Tinker,  Director,  Texas  Bureau  of 

Economic  Geology 

The  "I"  in  Business  Ethics 
Franz  Geiger,  Northwestern  University 

Environmental  Interfaces  in  Geochemistry: 

From  CrfVI)  to  Antibiotics 
Paul  Hoffman,  Harvard  University 

Snowball  Earth:  Science  or  Snowjob 
Lucy  Flesch,  Purdue  University 

Constraining  the  Extent  of  Crust-Mantle 

Coupling  in  Central  Asia  Using  GPS,  Geologic, 

and  Shear  Wave  Splitting  Data 
Rosaly  Lopes,  The  Jet  Propulsion  Laboratory 

(NASA) 

The  Surface  of  Titan:  Results  from  the  Cassini- 

Huygens  Mission 
Miaki  Ishii,  Scripps  Institute  of  Oceanography 

December  26,  2004  and  March  28,  2005 

Sumatran  Earthquakes  Imaged  by  the  Japanese 

Hi-Net  Array 


Barbara  Sherwood  Lollar,  University  of  Toronto 

Use  of  Stable  Carbon  Isotope  Analysis  to 

Identify  Source  and  Degradation  of  Chlorinated 

Solvents  in  Groundwater 
Dr.  Thomas  Prickett,  T.  A.  Prickett  and 
Associates 

The  History  of  Groundwater  Modeling 
Carmen  Sanchez- Valle,  UIUC  Department  of 

Geology 

Fluid-Mineral  Interactions  in  Subduction  Zones: 

Constraints  from  Experiments  in  the  Diamond- 
Anvil  Cell 
Paul  Fenter,  Argonne  National  Laboratory 

Observing  Mineral-Water  Interfaces  with  'X-Ray 

Vision' 
Scott  Olson,  UIUC  Earthquake  Engineering 

Using  Liquefaction  Features  to  Evaluate  the 

Strength  of  Paleoearthquakes 
Brian  Phillips,  Stony  Brook  University 

Incorporation  of  Large  Adsorbed  Ions  in  Calcite: 

Structural  Information  from  NMR  Spectroscopy 
Daniel  Holm,  Kent  State  University 

Proterozoic  Tectonic  Evolution  of  the  Upper 

Great  Lakes  Region 
Wendy  Mao,  Los  Alamos  National  Laboratory 

Viewing  The  Core-Mantle  Boundary  through  A 

Diamond  Window 


Gabe  Bowen,  Purdue  University 

Prospects  for  a  High-Carbon  Future  Inferred 

from  Earth's  Past:  The  Paleocene-Eocene 

Thermal  Maximum 
Eric  Sandvol,  University  of  Missouri, 

Columbia 

The  Eastern  Turkey  Seismic  Experiment:  The 

Study  of  a  Young  Continent-Continent 

Collision 
Grant  Heiken,  Los  Alamos  National 

Laboratory 

Geology  and  Urban  Sustainability— The  View 

from  Rome 
Mark  Reagan,  University  of  Iowa 

Evolution  of  Volcanism  in  the  Mariana 

Islands 
John  Hawley,  Hawley  Geomatters 

Neogene  Basin-fill  Aquifer  Systems  of  the  Bi- 

national  Paso  Del  Norte  Region  -  Advances  in 

Characterization  of  their  Depositional  History 

and  Hydrogeologic  Framework 
Fangzhen  Teng,  University  of  Chicago 

Diffusion-Induced  Lithium  Isotopic 

Fracionation  in  Crust 


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List  of  Publications  for  2006 


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Park,  J.,  R.A.  Sanford,  and  CM.  Bethke, 
2006,  Geochemical  and  microbiological 
zonation  of  the  Middendorf  Aquifer,  South 
Carolina.  Chemical  Geology:  230,  88-104. 

Roadcap,  G.S.,  R.A.  Sanford,  Q.  Jin,  J.R. 
Pardinas  and  CM.  Bethke,  2006, 
Extremely  alkaline(pH  >  12)  ground 
water  hosts  diverse  microbial  community. 
Ground  Water.  44,  511-517. 

Kieffer,  S.W.,  X.  Lu,  CM.  Bethke,  J.R. 
Spencer,  S.  Marshak  and  A.  Navrotsky, 
2006,  A  clathrate  reservoir  hypothesis  for 
Enceladus'  south  polar  plume.  Science: 
314.  1764-1766. 

Li  J.,  Sturhahn  W.,  Jackson  J.,  Struzhkin 
V.  V.,  Lin  J.  F.,  Mao  H.  K.,  and  Shen  C, 
2006,  Pressure  effect  on  the  electronic 
structure  of  iron  in  (Mg,Fe)(Si,Al)03  per- 
ovskite:  A  combined  synchrotron 
Mdssbauer  and  X-ray  emission  spec- 
troscopy study  up  to  100  GPa.  Physics  and 
Chemistry  of  Minerals:  33,  575-585,  DOl 
10. 1007/s00269-006-0105-y. 

Li  J.  and  Fei  Y.,  2006,  Experimental  con- 
straints on  core  composition,  2nd  edition. 
The  Mantle  and  Core,  Vol.  2  (ed.  R.  W. 
Carlson):  521-546. 

Lu,  X.,  Watson,  A.,  Gorin,  A.  V,  and 
Deans,  J.,  2006,  Experimental 
Investigation  and  Numencal  Modeling  of 
Transient  Two-phase  Flow  in  a  Geysering 
Geothermal  Well,  Geothermics:  35,  409- 
427. 

Lu,  X.  and  Kieffer,  S.  W.,  2006,  A 
Comparison  of  Terrestrial  and  Martian 
Gravity  Conditions  on  the  Behavior  of 
C02-driven  Aqueous  Flow,  37th  Lunar  and 
Planetary  Science  Conference,  No.  2011 . 

C.  C.  Lundstrom,  A.L.  Sutton,  M. 
Chaussidon,  W.F.  McDonough  and  R.  Ash, 
2006,  Trace  Element  Partitioning  Between 
Type  B  CA1  Melts  and  Melilite  and  Spinel: 
Implications  for  Trace  Element  Distribution 
during  CA1  Formation,  Geochim. 
Comochim.  Acta:  70,  3421-3435. 

F.  Huang,  C.C.  Lundstrom,  and  W.  F. 
McDonough,  2006,  Effect  of  melt  structure 
on  trace  element  partitioning  between 
clinopyroxene  and  silicic,  alkaline,  alumi- 
nous melts,  Amer.  Mineral:  91,  1385-1400. 

M.  Pertemann,  and  C.  Lundstrom,  2006, 
Phase  Equilibrium  Experiments  at  0.5  GPa 
and  1100-1300°C  on  a  Basaltic  Andesite 
from  Arenal  Volcano,  Costa  Rica,  J. 
Volcan.  Geotherm.  Res.:  157,  222-235. 

C.  Lundstrom  and  F.J.  Tepley,  2006, 
Investigating  the  origin  of  anorthitic  pla- 
gioclase  through  a  combination  of  experi- 
ments and  natural  observations,  J.  Volcan. 
Geotherm.  Res.:    157,236-251. 

F.J.  Tepley,  C.C.  Lundstrom.  J.  Gill  and 
R.W.  Williams,  2006,  U-Th-Ra  disequilibria 
and  the  time  scale  of  fluid  transfer  and 
andesite  differentiation  at  Arenal  Volcano, 
Costa  Rica  (1968-2003),  J.  Volcan. 
Geotherm.  Res.:  157,  147-165. 

L.  Rademacher,  C.  Lundstrom,  T.  Johnson, 
R.  Sanford,  J.  Zhou,  and  2.  Zhang,  2006, 
Experimentally  determined  uranium  iso- 
tope fractionation  during  biotic  and  abiotic 
reduction,  Envir.  Sci.  Tech.:  40  (22),  6943  - 
6948. 

H.  Hellwig,  A.  Sehirlioglu.  D.  A.  Payne, 
and  P.  Han,  2006,  Hyper-Raman  active 
soft-mode  in  Pb  (Mgl/3Nb2/3)0.73  Ti0.27 
03,  Phvs.  Rev.  B:  73,  094126. 


Anderson,  L.L.,  Hu,  F.S.,  Nelson,  D.M., 
Petit,  R.J.,  and  Paige,  K.N.,  2006,  Ice-age 
endurance:  DNA  evidence  for  a  white 
spruce  refugium  in  Alaska.  Proceedings  of 
the  National  Academy  of  Sciences  USA 
103,  12447-12450. 

Gavin,  D.  C,  and  Hu,  F.S.,  2006,  Spatial 
variation  of  climatic  and  non-climatic  con- 
trols on  species  distribution:  The  range 
limit  of  Tsuga  heterophylla.    Journal  of 
Biogeography:  33,  1384-1396. 

Gavin,  D.  C,  Hu,  F.S.,  Lertzman,  K,  and 
Corbett,  P.,  2006,  Weak  control  of  stand- 
scale  fire  history  during  the  late  Holocene 
in  southeastern  British  Columbia.    Ecology: 
87,  1722-1732. 

Hu,  F.S.,  Brubaker,  L.B.,  Gavin,  D.G., 
Higuera,  P.E.,  Lynch,  J. A.,  Rupp,  T.S.,  and 
Tinner,  W,  2006,  How  climate  and  vegeta- 
tion influence  the  fire  regime  of  the 
Alaskan  boreal-forest  biome:  The  Holocene 
perspective.    Mitigation  and  Adaptation 
Strategies  for  Global  Change:  11,  829-846. 

Hu,  F.S.,  Nelson,  D.M.,  Clarke,  G.H., 
Ruhland,  KM.,  Huang,  Y.S.,  Kaufman, 
D.S.,  and  Smol,  J.R,  2006,  Abrupt  climatic 
events  during  the  last  glacial-interglacial 
transition  in  Alaska.  Geophysical  Research 
Letters:  33,  L18708,  doi: 
10.1029/2006GL027261. 

Nelson,  D.M.,  Hu,  F.S.,  Grimm,  E.C., 
Curry,  B.B.,  and  Slate,  J.,  2006,  The  influ- 
ence of  aridity  and  fire  on  Holocene  prairie 
communities  in  the  eastern  Prairie 
Peninsula.    Ecology':  87,  2523-2536. 

Nelson,  D.M,  Hu,  F.S.,  and  Michener,  R.H., 
2006,  Stable  carbon  isotope  composition  of 
Poaceae  pollen:  An  assessment  for  recon- 
structing C3  and  C4  grass  abundance. 
The  Holocene.  16,  819-825. 

Tian,  J..  Nelson,  D.M.,  and  Hu,  F.S.,  2006, 
Possible  linkages  of  late-Holocene  drought 
in  tire  North  American  Midcontinent  to 
Pacific  Decadal  Oscillation  and  solar  activi- 
ty. Geophysical  Research  Letters:  33, 
L23702,  doi:10.1029/2006GL028169. 

Tinner,  W,  Hu,  F.S.,  Beer,  R.,  Kaltenrieder, 
P.,  Scheurer,  B.,  and  Krahenbiihl,  U.,  2006, 
Postglacial  fire  and  vegetation  history: 
Pollen,  plam-macrofossil,  and  charcoal 
records  from  two  Alaskan  lakes. 
Vegetation  Histon'  and  Archaeobotany:  15, 
279-293. 

Alkmim,  FF,  Marshak,  S.,  Pedrosa-Soares, 
A.C,  Peres,  G.G.,  Cruz,  S.C  and 
Whittington,  A.,  2006,  Kinematic  evolution 
of  the  Aracuai  -  West  Congo  orogen  in 
Brazil  and  Africa:  Nutcracker  tectonics 
during  the  Neoproterozoic  assembly  of 
Gondwana.  Precambrian  Research:  149,  43- 
64. 

Holbrook,  J.,  Autin,  W.J.,  Rittenour,  T.M., 
Marshak,  S.,  and  Goble,  R.J.,  2006, 
Stratigraphic  evidence  for  millennial-scale 
temporal  clustering  of  earthquakes  on  a 
continental-interior  fault:  Holocene 
Mississippi  River  floodplain  deposits,  New 
Madrid  seismic  zone,  USA.  Tectonophvsics: 
420,  431-454. 

Marshak,  S.,  Alkmim,  F.F.,  Whittington, 
A.,  and  Pedrosa-Soares,  A.C,  2006, 
Extensional  collapse  in  the  Neoproterozoic 
Aracuai  Orogen,   eastern  Brazil:  A  setting 
for  reactivation  of  asymmetric  crenulation 
cleavage.  Journal  of  Structural  Geology: 
28,  129-147. 


Best,  J.L.,  Woodward,  J.,  Ashworth,  P.J., 
Sambrook  Smith,  G.H.  and  Simpson,  C.J., 
2006,  Bar-top  hollows:  a  new  element  in 
the  architecture  of  sandy  braided  rivers. 
Sedimentary'  Geology:  190,  241-255. 

Boyer,  C;  Roy,  A.C:  Best,  J.L.,  2006, 
Dynamics  of  a  river  channel  confluence 
with  discordant  beds:  Flow  turbulence, 
bed  load  sediment  transport,  &  bed  mor- 
phology. J.  Geophysical  Research,  Earth 
Surface:  111,  F04007, 
doi:10.1029/2005JF000458. 

Corney,  R.K.T.,  Peakall,  J.,  Elliott,  L., 
Amos,  K.J.,  Best,  J.L.,  Ingham,  D.B., 
Keevil,  CM.  and  Parsons,  D.R.,  2006,  The 
orientation  of  helical  flow  in  curved  chan- 
nels. Sedimentology:  53,  doi:10. 1111 /j. 1365- 
3091.2006.00771.x. 

Fernandez.  R.,  Best,  J.  and  Lopez,  F, 
2006,  Mean  flow,  turbulence  structure  and 
bedform  superimposition  across  the  ripple- 
dune  transition,  Water  Resources  Research: 
42,  W05406,  doi:10.1029/2005WR004330. 

Keevil,  C,  Peakall,  J.,  Best,  J.L.  and  Amos, 
K.L.,  2006,  Flow  structure  in  sinuous  sub- 
marine channels:  velocity  and  turbulence 
structure  of  an  experimental  submarine 
channel.  Marine  Geology:  229,  241-257. 

Kuhnle,  R.  A..  Horton,  J.  K.,  Bennett,  S.  J. 
and  Best  J.  L.,  2006,  Bed  forms  in  bimodal 
sand-gravel  sediments:  laboratory  and  field 
analysis.  Sedimentology:  53, 
doi:10. 1111 1).  1365-3091 .2005.00765.x. 

Sambrook  Smith,  G.H.,  Ashworth,  P.J.. 
Best,  J.L.,  Woodward,  J.,  and  Simpson, 
C.J.,  2006,  Alluvial  architecture  and  sedi- 
mentology of  the  sandy  braided  South 
Saskatchewan  River,  Canada. 
Sedimentology:  53,  doi:  10.1111/j. 1365- 
3091.2005.00769.x. 

Sambrook-Smith,  G.H.,  Best,  J.L.,  Bristow, 
C.S.  and  Petts,  C,  2006,  Braided  Rivers: 
where  have  we  come  in  10  years?  - 
progress  and  future  needs,  In:  Braided 
Rivers:  Process,  Deposits,  Ecology  and 
Management,  (Eds.  Sambrook-Smith, 
G.H..  Best,  J.L.,  Bristow,  C.S.  and  Petts, 
C),  1-10,  Special  Publication  of  the 
International  Association  of 
Sedimentologists:  36, 

Schlaberg  H.I.;  Baas  J.H.;  Wang,  M.;  Best 
J.L.;  Williams,  R.A.;  Peakall  J.,  2006, 
Electrical  Resistance  Tomography  for 
Suspended  Sediment  Measurements  in 
Open  Channel  Flows  Using  a  Novel  Sensor 
Design.  Particle  and  Particle  Systems 
Characterization:  23,  313-320. 
doi:  10. 1002/ppsc.200601062 . 

Tseng,  T.-L.,  and  W.-P.  Chen,  2006, 
Probing  the  southern  Indian  shield  with  P- 
wave  receiver-function  profiles.  Bull. 
Seismol.  Soc.  Am.:  96,  328-333. 

Chen,  W.-P.,  and  M.R.  Brudzinski,  2006, 
Repeating  earthquakes,  episodic  tremor 
and  slip:  Emerging  patterns  in  complex 
earthquake  cycles?  Complexity:  in  press. 

Chen,  W.-P.,  and  T.-L.  Tseng,  2006.  Small 
660-km  seismic  discontinuity  beneath 
Tibet  implies  resting  ground  lor  detached 
lithosphere.  J.  Geophys.  Res.:  in  press. 

Lee,  C.-T,  and  W.-P.  Chen,  2006,  A  possi- 
ble mechanism  for  chemical  stratification 
in  the  Earth's  mande.  Earth  Planet.  Sci. 
Lett.:  in  press. 

Wang.  J.,  Kalinichev,  A.C,  and 
Kirkpatrick.  R.J.,  2006.  Effects  of  substrate 


structure  and  composition  on  the  struc- 
ture, dynamics  and  energetics  of  water 
on  mineral  surfaces:  a  molecular  dynam- 
ics modeling  study.  Geochim. 
Cosmochim.  Acta:  70,  562-582. 

Kumar  P,  P.,  Kalinichev.  A.C,  and 
Kirkpatrick,  R.  J.,  2006,  Hydration, 
swelling,  interlayer  structure,  and  hydro- 
gen bonding  in  organo-layered  double 
hydroxides:  Insights  from  molecular 
dynamics  simulation  of  citrate-intercalat- 
ed hydrotalcite,  J.  Pays.  Chem.  B.:  110, 
3841-3844. 

Xu,  X.,  Kalinichev,  A.  C,  and 
Kirkpatrick,  R.  J.,  2006,  133Cs  and  35C1 
NMR  spectroscopy  and  molecular 
dynamics  modeling  of  Cs +  and  CI' 
complexation  with  natural  organic  mat- 
ter. Cosmochim.  Geochim.  Acta:  70,  4319- 
4331. 

Bondarenko,  G.  V,  Gorbaty,  Yu.  E., 
Okhulkov,  A.  V  and  Kalinichev,  A.  C, 
2006,  Structure  and  hydrogen  bonding  in 
liquid  and  supercritical  aqueous  NaCl 
solutions  at  a  pressure  of  1 ,000  bar  and 
temperatures  up  to  500°C:  A  compre- 
hensive experimental  and  computational 
study.  J.  Phys.  Chem.  A:  110,  4042-4052. 

J.-P.  Korb,  J.-P.,  McDonald,  P.J., 
Monteilhet,  L.,  Kalinichev,  A.  C,  and 
Kirkpatrick,  R.J.,  2007,  Comparison  of 
proton  field-cycling  relaxometry  and 
molecular  dynamics  simulations  for  pro- 
ton-water surface  dynamics  in  cement- 
based  materials.  Cement  and  Concrete 
Research:  (in  press;  published  online 
March  6,  2006; 

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/i,cemcon- 
res.2006.07.0041. 

Kalinichev,  A.  C,  Wang,  J.,  and 
Kirkpatrick,  R.  J.,  2007,  Molecular 
dynamics  modeling  of  the  structure, 
dynamics  and  energetics  of  mineral- 
water  interfaces:  Application  to  cement 
materials.  Cement  and  Concrete  Research 
(in  press;  published  online  September 
14,  2006; 

http://dx.doi.Org/10.1016/i. cemcon- 
res.2006.02.009). 

Liang,  C.T.,  and  X.D.  Song,  2006,  A  low 
velocity  belt  beneath  northern  and  east- 
em  Tibetan  Plateau  from  Pn  tomogra- 
phy. Geophys.  Res.  Lett.:  33,  L22306, 
doi:  10. 1029/2006GL027926. 

Sun,  X.L.,  C  Poupinet,  and  X.D.  Song, 
2006,  Examination  of  systematic  mislo- 
cation  of  South  Sandwich  Islands  earth- 
quakes using  station  pairs:  Implications 
for  inner  core  rotation.  J.  Geophys.  Res.: 
Ill,  B11305,  doi:10.1029/2005JB004175. 

Sun,  G.-K.,  Kirkpatrick,  R.  J.,  and 
Young.  J.  F,  2006,  The  role  of  Al  in  C-S- 
H,  a  high-field  27A1  NMR  study.  Cement 
and  Concrete  Research:  36,  18-29. 

Kim,  Y„  and  Kirkpatrick,  R.  J.,  2006,  11B 
NMR  investigation  of  boron  interaction 
with  mineral  surfaces:  Results  for 
boehmite,  silica  gel  and  illite.  Geochim. 
Cosmochim.  Acta:  70,  3231-3238. 

Reinholdt,  M.  X.,  and  R.  J.  Kirkpatrick, 
2006,  Experimental  Investigations  of 
Amino  Acid-Layered  Double  Hydroxide 
Complexes:  Glutamate-Hydrotalcite. 
Chemistr,' of  Materials:  18,  2567-2576.. 

Xu,  X.  and  Kirkpatrick,  R.  J.,  2006,  NaCl 
interaction  with  interfacial  polymerized 
polyamide  films  of  reverse  osmosis 
membranes:  a  23Na  NMR  study.  J. 
Membrane  Sci.:  280,  228  -  233. 


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Brennan,  R.  A.,  R.  A.  Sanford,  and  C.  J. 
Werth,  2006,  Chitin  and  corncobs  as 
electron  donor  sources  for  the  reductive 
dechlorination  of  tetrachloroethene. 
Water  Research.:  40,  2125-2134. 

Wu,  Q.,  R.  A.  Sanford  and  F.  E.  Loftier, 
2006,  Uranium(VI)  reduction  by 
Anaeromyxobacter  dehalogenans  strain 
2CP-C.  Appl.  Environ.  Microbiol:  72, 
3608-3614. 

Roadcap,  G.,  R.  A.  Sanford,  Q.  Jin.  J.  R. 
Pardinas,  and  C.  M.  Bethke,  2006, 
Extremely  alkaline  (pH  >  12}  ground 
water  hosts  diverse  microbial  communi- 
ty. Ground  Water.  44,  511-517. 

Sung,  Y.,  K.  M.  Ritalahti,  R.  A.  Sanford, 
and  F.  E.  Loffler,  2006,  Characterization, 
description,  and  specific  detection  of 
Geobacter  lovleyi  strain  SZ,  sp.  nov.,  a 
metal-reducing  and  tetrachloroethene 
(PCEJ-dechlorinating  bacterium.  Appl. 
Environ.  Microbiol:   72,  2775-2782. 

Brennan,  R.  A.,  R.  A.  Sanford  and  C.  J. 
Werth,  2006,  Biodegradation  of  tetra- 
chloroethene by  chitin  fermentation 
products  in  a  continuous  flow  column 
system.  J.  of  Environ.  Eng.:  132,  664- 
673. 

G.  Gioia,  P.  Chakraborty,  and  S.  Kieffer, 
2006,  Lava  channel  formation  via  the 
viscoplastic  indentation  of  hot  sub- 
strates. Geophysical  Research  Letters:  33, 
L19305. 

G.  Gioia,  P.  Chakraborty,  and  F. 
Bombardelli,  2006,  Rough-pipe  flows 
and  the  existence  of  fully  developed  tur- 
bulence. Phvsics  of  Fluids:  18,  article 
038107. 

P.  Chakraborty,  G.  Gioia,  and  S.  Kieffer, 
2006,  Vole  an  Reventador's  unusual 
umbrella.  Geophysical  Research  Letters: 
33,  L05313. 

G.  Gioia  and  P.  Chakraborty,  2006, 
Turbulent  friction  in  rough  pipes  and 
the  energy  spectrum  of  the  phenomeno- 
logical  theory.  Physical  Review  Letters: 
96,  article  044S02. 

P.  Chakraborty,  S.  Balachandar,  and  R. 
J.  Adrianm  2006,  Comment  on  "Axial 
stretching  and  vortex  definition." 
Physics  of  Fluids:  18,  article  029101. 

C.C.  Porco,  P.  Helfenstein,  P.  Thomas, 
A.  P.  Ingersoll,  J.  Wisdom,  R.  West,  G. 
Neukum,  T.  Denk,  R.  Wagner,  T. 
Roatsch,  S.  Kieffer,  E.  Turtle,  A. 
McEwen,  T.V.  Johnson,  J.  Rathbun,  J. 
Veverka,  D.  Wilson,  J.  Perry,  J.  Spitale, 
A.  Brahic,  J.A.  Burns,  A.D.  DelGenio,  L. 
Dones,  CD.  Murray,  S.  Squyres,  2006, 
Cassini  Observes  the  Active  South  Pole 
of  Enceladus,  Science:  311,  1393-1401 

Chakraborty,  P..  Gioia,  G.,  and  Kieffer, 
S.W.,  2006,  Volcan  Reventador's  unusu- 
al umbrella.  Geophysical  Res.  Letters:  33, 
L05313,  5  pages 

Gioia,  G.,  Chakraborty,  P.,  and  Kieffer, 
S.W.,  2006,  Lava  channel  formation  via 
the  viscoplastic  indentation  of  hot  sub- 
strates, Geophys.  Res.  Letters:  33, 
L19305,  4  pages. 

Kieffer,  S.W.,  2006.  The  concepts  of 
beauty  and  creativity:  earth  science 
thinking,  Geol.  Soc.  America  Spec. 
Paper:  413,  3-11. 


Pope,  K.O.,  Kieffer,  S.W,  and  Ames, 
D.E.,  2006,  Impact  melt  sheet  formation 
on  Mars  and  its  implication  for 
hydrothermal  systems  and  exobiology. 
Icarus:  183,  1-9. 

Frias-Lopez,  J.,  Klaus,  J.S.,  Fouke,  B.W., 
2006,  Cytoxic  activity  of  Black  Band 
Disease  (BBD)  extracts  against  the  sym- 
biotic dinoflagellate  Symbiodinium  sp. 
Proceedings  of  the  International  Coral 
Reef  Symposium,  Okinawa,  785-788. 

Klaus,  J.S.,  Frias-Lopez,  J.,  Fouke,  B.W., 
2006,  The  effect  of  temperature  on  bac- 
terial communities  inhabiting  healthy 
tissues  of  Diploria  strigosa,  Proceedings 
of  the  International  Coral  Reef 
Symposium,  Okinawa,  794-799. 

Bonheyo,  G.T.,  Frias-Lopez,  J.,  and 
Fouke,  B.W,  2006,  A  test  for  airborne 
dispersal  of  thermophilic  bacteria  from 
hot  springs.  In  Inskeep,  W.P.,  and 
McDermott,  T.R.,  Geothermal  Biology 
and  Geochemistry  in  Yellowstone 
National  Park.  Proceedings  of  the 
Thermal  Biology  Institute  Workshop, 
Yellowstone  National  Park,  WY. 
Montana  State  University  Publications, 
327-342. 

Anders,  Alison  M.,  Roe,  Gerard  H.. 
Hallet,  Bernard.  Montgomery,  David  R., 
Finnegan,  Noah  J.,  Pulkonen,  Jaakko, 
2006,  Spatial  Patterns  of  Precipitation 
and  Topography  in  the  Himalaya,  In 
Willett,  S.D.,  Hoovius,  N.,  and  Brandon, 
M.T.,  and  Fisher,  D.M.,  eds.,  Tectonics, 
climate  and  landscape  evolution,  GSA 
Special  Paper  398.  Chapter  3.  39-53. 

Kieffer,  John.,  Jacqueline  A  Johnson, 
Oleg  Nickolayev,  and  J  D  Bass,  2006, 
Structures  and  visco-elastic  properties  of 
potassium  tellurite:  glass  versus  melt.  J 
Phys:  Condensed  Matter:  18,  903-914. 

Sanchez-Valle,  C,  S  V.  Sinogeikin,  J  R. 
Smyth,  J  D.  Bass.  2005,  Single-crystal 
elastic  properties  of  dense  hydrous  mag- 
nesium silicate  phase  A.  Am. 
Mineralogist:  91,  961-964. 

Chamorro,  E.M.,  Perez,  I.  Daniel,  J.C. 
Chervin,  P.  Dumas,  J.D.  Bass  and  T. 
Inoue,  2006,  Synchrotron  IR  study  of 
hydrous  ringwoodite  (Ej-Mg2Si04)  up 
to  30  GPa.  Phys.  Chem.  Minerals:  33, 
502-510. 

Sinogeikin,  SV,  J  D  Bass.  V  Prakapenka. 
D  L  Lakshtanov,  G  Shen.  C  Sanches- 
Valle,  M  Rivers,  2006,  A  Brillouin  spec- 
trometer interfaced  with  synchrotron  X- 
radiation  for  simultaneous  x-ray  density 
and  acoustic  velocity  measurements. 
Rev.  Sci.  Instr.:  77,  paper  103905. 

Jackson,  J.M.,  S.V.  Sinogeikin,  S  D 
Jacobsen.  H  J  Reichmann.  S  J 
Mackwell,  and  J.D.  Bass,  2006,  Single- 
crystal  elasticity  and  sound  velocities  of 
(Mg0.94Fe0.06)O  ferropericlase  to  20 
GPa.  J  Geophys.  Res.:  Ill,  B09203, 
doi:10.1029/2005JB004052. 

Clark  S.K.,  Reagan  M.K.,  and  Trimble 
D.A.,  2006,  Tephra  deposits  for  the  past 
2.600  years  from  Irazu  volcano,  Costa 
Rica.  In  Volcanic  hazards  in  Central 
America,  (ed.  W.I.  Rose,  G.J.S.  Bluth, 
M.J.  Carr,  J.  Ewert,  L.C.  Patino,  and  J. 
Vallance)  Geological  Society  of  America 
Special  Paper  412.  Boulder,  CO.  United 
States.  225-234,  doi: 
10.1130/2006.2412(12). 


The  following  is  a  list  of  friends  and  alumni  of  the  Department  of  Geology  who 
have  donated  to  the  Department  during  the  2006  calendar  year.  We  are  very  grateful 
for  their  generous  support. 


Individuals 

Prof.  Thomas  F.  Anderson 
Dr.  Robert  F.  Babb  II 
Mr.  Rodney  J.  Balazs 
Ms.  Debbie  E.  Baldwin 
Mrs.  Laura  S.  Bales 
Mr.  Robert  S.  Barnard 
Dr.  and  Mrs.  James  R. 

Baroffio 
Dr.  and  Mrs.  William  M.  Benzel 
Ms.  Jean  M  Bethke 
Dr.  and  Mrs.  Marion  E. 

Bickford 
LTC  Ronald  E.  Black  (RET) 
Mrs.  Heidi  Blischke 
Dr.  Bruce  F.  Bohor 
Mr  Eugene  W.  Borden  Sr. 
Mr  Joseph  E.  Boudreaux 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Allen  S. 

Braumiller 
Ms.  Annette  Brewster 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Ross  D.  Brower 
Dr.  Glenn  R.  Buckley 
Dr.  Susan  Buckley 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Steven  P. 

Burgess 
Dr.  Thomas  C.  Buschbach 
Mr  and  Mrs.  Terry  L.  Carius 
James  W.  Castle,  PhD 
Dr.  Thomas  L.  Chamberlin 
Dr.  Dennis  D.  Coleman 
Mrs.  Diana  Colvin 
Ms.  Michelle  M.  Corlew 
Ms.  Patricia  V.  Crow 
Mrs.  Lucinda  Firebaugh 

Cummins 
Dr.  Norbert  E.  Cygan 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  M.  Peter  deVries 
Ms.  Stephanie  Drain 
Ms.  Sophie  M.  Dreifuss 
Ms.  Amanda  B.  Duchek 
Dr.  MohamedT.  El-Ashry 
Dr.  Frank  R.  Ettensohn 
Mr,  Kenneth  T,  Feldman 
Dr.  Peter  Fenner 
Mr.  Max  C.  Firebaugh 
Mr.  Gary  R.  Foote 
Mr.  Jack  D.  Foster 
Mr.  Robert  E.  Fox 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Edwin  H.  Franklin 
Mr  Barry  R.  Gager 
James  C.  Gamble.  PhD 
Mr.  John  R.  Garino 
Ms.  Sharon  Geil 
Dr.  Richard  A.  Gilman 
Mr.  Albert  D.  Glover 
Mr.  Hal  Gluskoter 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Charles  J. 

Gossett 
Dr.  and  Mrs.  Stuart  Grossman 
Mr.  Edwin  E.  Hardt 
Mrs.  Catherine  L.  Harms 
Dr.  Henry  J.  Harris 
Dr.  Richard  L.  Hay  (DEC) 
Dr.  Mark  A.  Helper  and  Dr. 

Sharon  Mosher 
Mr.  Henry  A.  Hoff 
Mr  and  Mrs.  Mark  F.  Hoffman 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Glen  A.  Howard 
Dr.  Roscoe  G.  Jackson  II 


Mr  Joseph  M. Jakupcak 

Mr.  Steven  F.  Jamrisko 

Mr.  Martin  V.  Jean 

Mr.  Bruce  A.  Johnson 

Dr.  Edward  C.  Jonas 

Dr.  Robert  E.  Karlin 

Dr.  Suzanne  Mahlburg  Kay 

Mr.  Donald  A.  Keefer 

Dr.  John  P.  Kempton 

Mr.  John  N.  Keys 

Dr  and  Mrs.  John  D.  Kiefer 

Dr.  R.  James  Kirkpatrick 

Mr.  George  J.  Klein 

Dr.  Paul  Kraatz 

Mr.  Robert  F.  Kraye 

Mr.  Scott  R.  Krueger 

Mr.  Lawlor 

Mr.  Michael  B  Lamport 

Mr.  Rik  E.  Lantz 

Ms.  Mary  K.  Latendresse 

Mr.  Stephen  C.  Lee 

Dr.  Hannes  E.  Leetaru 

Dr.  Morris  W.  Leighton 

Mr.  Duane  M.  Loofbourrow 

Mr.  Rob  Roy  Macgregor 

Mr,  David  L.  Macke 

Dr.  Megan  E.  Elwood  Madden 

Prof,  and  Mrs.  Stephen  Marshak 

Mr.  Robert  S.  Mayer 

Dr.  Murray  R.  McComas 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hugh  S.  McMullen 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Kendall  W.  Miller 

Dr.  Haydn  H.  Murray 

Mr.  Don  H.  Neeley 

Mr.  W.  John  Nelson 

Mr  Walter  I.  Nelson 

Mr,  Bruce  Nims 

Mr.  Brian  Donald  Noel 

Mrs.  Evelyn  B.  Norris 

Mr.  Ronald  L.  Norris 

Dr.  Norman  J.  Page 

Ms.  Katherine  A.  Panczak 

Mr.  Krisa  and  Mrs.  Corinne 

Pearson 
Dr.  Russel  A.  Peppers 
Mr.  Charles  E.  Pflum 
Mr.  Bruce  E.  Phillips 
Mrs.  Beverly  A.  Pierce 
Ms.  Sue  A.  Pilling 
Dr.  Paul  L.  Plusquellec 
Dr.  David  W.  Rich 
Mr  Donald  O.  Rimsnider 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Edward  L. 

Rosenthal 
Dr.  Linda  R.  Rowan 
Mr.  Stephen  C.  Ruppel 
Dr.  Richard  P.  Sanders 


Dr  Gayla  F.  Sargent 

Mr.  Michael  L.  Sargent 

Mr.  Jay  R.  Scheevel 

Dr.  and  Mrs.  Detmar  Schnitker 

Dr.  David  C.  Schuster 

Dr.  and  Mrs.  Franklin  W. 

Schwartz 
Dr.  and  Mrs.  John  W.  Shelton 
Mr.  Ned  R.  Siegel 
Dr.  Charles  H.  Simonds 
Dr.  Brian  J.  Sinclair 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Roger  A.  Sippel 
Mr.  John  F.  Smith 
Mrs.  Mary  R.  Snoeyenbos 
Mr.  Robert  D.  Snyder 
Dr.  J.  William  Soderman 
Dr.  Ian  M.  Steele 
Dr.  Ronald  D.  Stieglitz 
Dr.  John  E.  Stone 
Dr.  Gary  D.  Strieker 
Mr.  David  S.  Thiel 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Jack  C.  Threet 
Dr.  Edwin  W.  Tooker 
Dr.  JohnB.Tubb  Jr. 
Mr.  Robert  G.  Vanderstraeten 
Mr.  Robert  W.  Von  Rhee 
Dr.  F.  Michael  Wahl 
Ms.  Harriet  E.  Wallace 
Dr.  James  G.  Ward 
Mr.  Carleton  W.  Weber 
Dr.  W.  F.  Weeks 
Ms.  Patricia  A.  Wiegers 
Mr.  Jack  L.  Wilber 
Mr  John  J.  Wilson 
Mr.  Roland  F.  Wright 
Mr.  Robert  G.  Zirkle 

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ExxonMobil  Foundation 
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Fidelity  Charitable  Gift  Fund 
Harris  Bank  Foundation 
Isotech  Laboratories,  Inc. 
Northwestern  University 
Pfrizer  Foundation 
Shell  Oil  Company 
Shell  Oil  Company  Foundation 
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an  Alliant  Company 
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Roscoe  Jackson's  (M.S.  73,  Ph.D.  75)  generous  endowment 
provides  support  tor  both  graduate  research  projects  and  for 
equipment  purchases.  The  initial  purchase  we  made  was  a 
modern,  digital  video  microscope  system  (or  students  to 
see  thin  sections  in  the  context  ot  classes.  It's  a  beautiful 
instrument  that  Jim  Best  was  responsible  for  selecting  and 
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GEOLOGY  LIBRARY 


2007       YEAR 


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REVIEW 


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T+m  TY      OF 

Students  Explore  Coral  Reefs,  Shear  Cliffs 
During  Overseas  Field  Trips 


LLINOIS      AT      URBANA-CHAMPAIGN 


In  the  middle  of  a  stark  Illinois  winter, 
Professor  Bruce  Fouke  and  35  students 
hopped  a  plane  and  headed  for  the 
southernmost  part  of  the  Caribbean. 
Another  example  of  "timing  is  every- 
thing." The  trip  was  the  culmination  of  a 
semester's  worth  of  lectures  and  labora- 
tory preparations  in  Geology  415/515, 
Field  Geology,  co-taught  in  2007  by 
Fouke  and  Ed  Morford,  assistant  director 
of  campus  recreation  for  aquatics. 
Students  were  also  required  to  attend 
class  sessions  at  Freer  Pool  where  they 
demonstrated  their  swimming  capabili- 
ties, learned  first  aid,  and  practiced 
snorkel-based  research  techniques  that 
they  then  applied  on  the  coral  reefs. 

From  January  4  to  January  11,  2007, 
students  studied  modern  and  ancient 
coral  reefs  surrounding  the  island  of 
Curacao,  located  in  the  Caribbean  Sea 
near  the  northern  coast  of  Venezuela. 
Approximately  half  of  the  course  was 
taught  in  the  shallow,  near  shore  envi- 
ronments using  snorkel  techniques, 
while  the  other  half  was  based  on  land. 
The  students  experienced  a  highly 
integrative  educational  experience,  which 
included  dynamic  sedimentary  processes, 
geomicrobiology,  large-scale  tectonics 
and  groundwater  hydrology.  "Curacao  is 
a  unique  natural  laboratory  in  which  to 
teach  students  the  complex  interactions 
between  life  and  earth,  and  allow  them 
to  tangibly  track  these  physical,  chemi- 
cal, and  biological  feedback  interactions 
through  geological  time,"  said  Fouke. 
Tom  Schickel  (MS  '06),  a  recent 
graduate  of  the  Fouke  research  group  at 
Illinois  who  now  works  full-time  as  an 
»    exploration  geologist  at  Shell,  joined  the 


Just  after  snorkeling  at  the  Water  Plant  dive  site 
on  Curacao,  Fouke  shows  the  students  how  a 
spiny  sea  urchin  moves  its  spines  using  internal 
water  pressure,  called  a  hydrostatic  skeleton. 

trip  to  help  Fouke  teach  techniques  fun- 
damental to  hydrocarbon  exploration,  as 
well  as  meet  students  and  further 
strengthen  long-standing  recruiting  ties 
with  the  Department. 

In  May  2008,  Professor  Jim  Best  will 
be  teaching  Field  Geology  on  the  west 
coast  of  Ireland.  Best  will  be  accompa- 
nied by  a  mixture  of  undergraduate  and 
graduate  students— 39  in  all— and  five 
faculty  and  staff  who  will  visit  the  mag- 
nificent cliffs  of  County  Clare.  They  will 
stay  in  the  small  country  village  of 
Kilfenora.  Best  explains  that  the  cliffs  are 
a  spectacular  example  of  a  range  of 
ancient  sedimentary  environments,  some 

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New  Textbook  Uses 
Google  Earth 


Sand  dunes  in  Namibia  as  seen  from 
Google  Earth. 

n  the  course  of  an  introductory 
geology  class,  students  can  fly  to 
the  Amazon  rainforest,  the  deserts 
of  Namibia,  or  the  tundra  of  Siberia 
courtesy  of  the  latest  edition  of 
Earth:  Portrait  of  a  Planet,  a  text- 
book written  by  Geology 
Department  Head  and  Professor 
Steve  Marshak. 

The  third  edition  of  Earth: 
Portrait  of  a  Planet,  published  in 
late  2007,  includes  over  200  virtual 
field  trips  called  "Geotours."  Each 
Geotour  utilizes  Google  Earth  to  fly 
students  to  spectacular  examples  of 
geologic  features.  Google  Earth,  a 
free  computer  tool  that  provides  a 
navigable  mosaic  of  satellite 
imagery,  allows  students  to  examine 
structures  and  landscapes  in  amaz- 
ing detail. 

"Instead  of  just  seeing  a  static 
image  of  Mount  St.  Helens,  students 
can  fly  around  the  volcano,  can 
zoom  in  and  zoom  out  of  the  crater, 
and  can  tour  the  damage  that 

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Letter  From  The  Head 


If  the  only  constant  in  life  is  change,  then  2007  is  truly  a  year  of  constant  change. 


hile  we  con- 
gratulate Jay 
Bass  and  Craig 
Bethke  as  new 
Ralph  E.  Grim 
Professors  of 
Geology  (with  for- 
mal investitures  held  on  February  28, 
2008),  R.  James  Kirkpatrick,  a  Ralph  E. 
Grim  Professor  of  Geology  and  former 
head  of  the  department,  has  resigned  his 
post  of  senior  executive  associate  dean  of 
the  College  of  Liberal  Arts  and  Sciences 
to  become  the  dean  of  the  College  of 
Natural  Science  at  the  Michigan  State 
University.  We  wish  you  all  the  best,  Jim 
and  Carol. 

Meanwhile,  we  welcome  Marilyn 
Whalen,  the  new  administrative  secre- 
tary to  the  Department  as  Barb  Elmore, 
who  served  in  this  position  for  decades, 
has  retired.  I  have  no  doubt  she  will 
keep  busy  in  her  retirement!  Throughout 
this  issue  of  the  newsletter,  you  will  find 
related  reports  on  these  important  mile- 
stones in  the  Department  and  more. 
Speaking  of  which,  you'll  notice  that  we 
have  a  new  editor,  Kim  Schmidt,  who 
has  instigated  some  new  features  in  this 
issue. 

The  fact  that  I  am  writing  this  letter 
means  Steve  Marshak,  who  has  served 
the  Department  as  head  for  almost  a 
decade,  is  taking  a  well-deserved  sabbat- 
ical for  the  entire  2007-08  academic  year. 


Year  in  Review  is  published  once  a  year  by  the 
Department  of  Geology.  University  of  Illinois 
Urbana-Champaign,  to  highlight  the  activities 
and  accomplishments  within  our  department  and 
feature  news  from  our  alumni  and  friends. 
Acting  Department  Head:  Wang-Ping  Chen 

(wpchen@uiuc.edu) 
Administrative  Secretary:  Marilyn  Whalen 

(mkt@uiuc.edu) 
Editor:  Kim  Schmidt  (kimsch@uiuc.edu) 
www.geology.uiuc.edu 


In  addition  to  research  time  at  the 
Woods  Hole  Institution  of  Oceanography 
in  Massachusetts,  Steve  is  traveling  to 
Brazil  and  France  to  collaborate  with  col- 
leagues and  conduct  fieldwork.  So  far 
Steve  has  managed  to  stay  away  from 
administrative  matters  that  may  distract 
him  from  the  privileges  of  being  on  sab- 
batical. 

Over  the  past  summer,  the 
Department  officially  became  a  member 
of  the  School  of  Earth,  Society,  and 
Environment.  Don  Wuebbles,  a  professor 
of  Atmospheric  Sciences,  is  serving  as 
executive  coordinator  of  the  School  while 
an  international  search  for  a  permanent 
director  is  underway.  In  the  short  time 
since  I  served  as  acting  head,  it  is  quite 
apparent  that  the  long  tradition  of  strong 
support  from  our  alumni  distinguishes  us 
from  Atmospheric  Sciences  and 
Geography,  the  other  two  Departments  in 
the  School. 

To  this  end,  the  newly  formed 
GeoThrust  Graduate  Fellowship  exempli- 
fies the  spirit  and  the  tradition  of  giving 
back,  bringing  our  total  number  of  grad- 
uate fellowships  to  six  (others  include 
the  Bluestem,  the  Evergreen,  the 
Texas/Louisiana  Geology  Alumni,  the 
Harold  R.  Wanless,  and  the  Harold  W. 
Scott  Fellowships] .  Over  the  years,  the 
GeoThrust  Committee,  comprised  of  all 
alumni  volunteers,  has  worked  diligently 
and  creatively  with  all  of  you  to  support 
the  Department  in  many  ways.  The  story 
(p.  7)  behind  the  new  Fellowship  is 
intriguing  and  we  are  so  proud  of  the 
dedication  and  the  entrepreneurship  of 
our  alumni  and  friends!  Indeed,  the 
insight  to  recognize  opportunities,  the 
ability  to  assemble  resources  and  the 
perseverance  to  achieve  goals  are  what 
makes  our  students,  alumni,  friends,  and 
faculty  shine  in  so  many  different 
endeavors. 


On  this  note,  you  have  probably 
noticed  that  the  job  market  for  geoscien- 
tists  has  been  booming.  The  growth  is 
not  just  in  the  energy  sector.  Mining, 
land  management,  environmental,  and 
geotechnical  consulting  all  have  large, 
unmet  demands  for  qualified  geoscien- 
tists.  This  trend  is  expected  to  continue 
in  the  near  future.  This  background  plays 
into  the  long-term  planning  of  the 
Department  and  will  be  the  subject  of 
careful  consideration  in  2008  and 
beyond.  Meanwhile,  some  of  our  majors 
are  working  with  graduate  students  to 
organize  the  very  first  student  chapter  of 
the  American  Association  of  Petroleum 
Geologists  on  this  campus. 

With  research  and  teaching  going 
strong  across  the  board  in  the 
Department,  I  have  focused  my  energy 
as  acting  head  in  seeking  direct  support 
from  industry.  In  recent  years,  with  the 
exception  of  support  for  individual  pro- 
grams or  field  trips,  support  of  the 
Department  from  industry  is  largely  in 
the  form  of  matching  funds.  We  are  in 
the  process  of  developing  a  close  work- 
ing relationship  with  some  major  petro- 
leum companies,  seeking  their  support 
in  the  form  of  graduate  fellowships  and 
undergraduate  scholarships  in  Geology. 
So  stay  tuned. 

Indeed,  we  love  to  hear  from  all  of 
you — about  your  activities,  your  ideas, 
your  vision  and  above  all,  your  passion; 
your  passion  for  the  future  of  the 
Department,  the  University,  the  geo- 
sciences,  and  the  society  at  large.  Please 
enjoy  reading  this  issue  and  stay  in 
touch. 

Best  wishes, 
Wang-Ping  Chen 


Students  Explore  Coral  Reefs,  Shear  Cliffs 


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of  the  best  in  the  world.  "These  sedi- 
ments are  325  million  years  old  and 
show  past  surface  environments,  from 
shallow  water  corals  and  reefs,  deltas 
with  vegetation  and  swamps,  through 
shallow  seas  with  a  whole  range  of  dif- 
ferent beasts  swimming  around  in  them, 
to  the  dark,  deep  seas.  So  what  we  can 
do  is  go  and  look  at  essentially  a  slice 
through  all  these  environments  and 
work  out  how  this  area  formed  geologi- 
cally," Best  said. 

Many  of  the  sediments  the  students 
will  be  studying  are  similar  to  those 
found  subsurface  in  Illinois  and 
Pennsylvania.  In  fact,  much  of  the  early 
pioneering  work  on  how  these  types  of 
sediments  accumulated  was  done  by 
Harold  Wanless  during  his  long  tenure  at 
Illinois. 

While  on  the  trip,  students  will 
spend  a  majority  of  their  time  working 
in  groups  to  collect,  analyze,  and  present 
data,  using  what  they've  learned  in  the 
past  semester  to  create  a  picture  of  the 
geological  history  of  this  paleo-environ- 
ment.  In  the  last  three  days  of  the  trip, 
they  will  travel  to  a 
site  that  they  have  not 
yet  seen  and  will  be 
asked  to  create  a  geo- 
logical map  of  the 
area,  complete  with 
an  interpretation  of 
the  area's  geological 
history. 

Best  has  invited 
several  guest  speakers 
to  join  them  in  the 
field  in  Ireland.  The 
first,  Dr.  Mike  Simms 
from  the  National 
Museums  of  Northern 
Ireland,  will  help  the 
group  look  at  recent  glacial  geology, 
including  the  landforms  as  they  have 
evolved  over  the  last  20,000  to  30,000 
years.  The  second  is  Dr.  Carleton  Jones, 


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The  cliffs  at  Foohagh  Point.  County  Clare 
show  syn-sedimentary  soft  sediment  defor- 
mation in  deltaic  sediments.  These  carbonif- 
erous deltaic  sediments  were  deformed  while 
they  were  still  soft  and  results  of  this 
process  is  vividly  seen  on  this  cliff  face  . 


an  archeologist  from  the  National 
University  of  Ireland  at  Galway,  who  will 
take  the  group  to  some  of  Ireland's  most 
spectacular  and  beautifully  preserved 
Neolithic  remains,  including  burial  cham- 
bers. "This  is  an  area  that  was  populated 
from  about  7,000  years  B.C.  onwards  and 
there  are  many  remains  of  early  habita- 
tion as  these  cultures  farmed  the  hills, 
changed  the  landscape,  and  left  their  bur- 
ial grounds  and  different  marks  on  the 
geography  of  the  area.  The  trip  is  meant 
to  be  principally  geological  in  focus,  but  I 
also  want  to  discuss  recent  geomorpholo- 
gy,  including  how  the  landscape  has  been 
formed  and  shaped,  and  recent  human 
occupation,"  said  Best. 

Hydrocarbon  geologists  from  oil 
companies  around  the  world  visit  the 
cliffs  of  County  Clare  to  learn  more  about 
ancient  sediments  and  apply  their  find- 
ings to  current  drilling  projects.  Best  sees 
this  trip  as  an  opportunity  for  students  to 
learn  not  only  about  the  academic  side  of 
geology,  but  also  about  the  applied  and 
economic  side.  Schickel,  who  traveled 
with  Fouke  to  Curacao,  will  also  partici- 
pate in  Best's  course 
enabling  students  to 
make  "links  between 
industry  and  what 
the  students  are 
learning  in  their 
undergraduate  or 
graduate  courses," 
said  Best. 
Shell  Oil  Company 
has  provided  differ- 
ent forms  of  support 
to  the  Department 
and  is  making  a 
major  subsidy  so  that 
these  major  field  trips 
are  accessible  for  stu- 
dents. Acting  Head  Wang-Ping  Chen 
notes  that  "Industrial  sponsorship  of 
University  activities  is  in  a  state  of  flux  as 
state  funding  continues  to  decline.  In  this 
case,  direct  support  from  Shell  enables  us 


New  Textbook 

(continued  from  page  1) 

resulted  from  the  cataclysmic  1980 
explosion.  Students  can  also  measure 
distances  and  elevations  right  on 
screen.  I  think  that  such  active 
imagery  achieves  a  much  better  job 
of  conveying  the  context  of  geology, 
than  can  any  static  image,"  said 
Marshak. 

To  help  instructors  use  Geotours 
for  classes,  M.  Scott  Wilkerson  (PhD 
'91  J,  now  chair  of  the  geology 
department  at  DePauw  University, 
and  Marshak  produced  a  new  work- 
book, as  an  ancillary  to  Earth: 
Portrait  of  a  Planet.  The  workbook 
provides  questions  about  the  Geotour 
sites  that  students  can  answer  only  if 
they  visit  the  site  themselves,  on  the 
computer.  Wilkerson,  who  intro- 
duced Marshak  to  Google  Earth,  has 
also  prepared  a  computer  file  that 
allows  students  to  reach  Geotour 
sites  at  the  click  of  a  button. 

The  use  of  Google  Earth  as  a 
teaching  tool  is  a  relatively  new 
idea— in  fact  Earth  is  the  first  geology 
textbook  to  integrate  the  tool.  The 
book's  publisher,  WW.  Norton  &  Co., 
reports  that  the  Geotours,  and  the 
new  workbook,  are  being  incorporat- 
ed in  courses  around  the  country. 

Disclaimer:  The  Department  of  Geology  holds 
no  business  interest  with  either  Google  or 
W.W.  Norton  &  Co. 


to  take  students  to  key  field  areas  over- 
seas— an  important  function  in  the  con- 
text of  the  "global  village." 

In  previous  years,  students  in  Field 
Geology  have  traveled  to  the  American 
Southwest  to  study  geology  in  the  Death 
Valley  and  along  the  San  Andreas  Fault 
with  Professor  Steve  Marshak  and  in  the 
GwmA  Canyon  and  along  the  San  Juan 
River  region  with  Associate  Professor 
Craig  Lundstrom. 


Kirkpatrick  Retires  from  College 


im  Kirkpatrick  retired  from  the 
Department  in  July  2007.  Kirkpatrick 
first  came  to  Illinois  when  he  was  a 
graduate  student  in  the  early  1970s.  He 
went  on  to  become  an  alumnus,  a  pro- 
fessor, a  department  head,  a  dean,  and 
a  donor.  By  the  time  of  his  retirement, 
he  had  dedicated  almost  40  years  of 
service  to  Illinois. 

Shortly  after  earning  his  Ph.D. 
from  Illinois  in  1972,  Kirkpatrick  left 
the  state,  traveling  first  to  Houston  to 
take  a  position  as  a  senior  research 
geologist  at  Exxon  Production  Research 
Company.  He  then  spent  two  years  as 
a  research  fellow  at  Harvard  before 
moving  to  California  to  work  on  the 
Deep-Sea  Drilling  Project  with  the 
Scripps  Institution  of  Oceanography. 
The  Midwest  called  him  back,  howev- 
er, and  in  1978  he  returned  to  Illinois 
to  join  the  faculty. 

A  short  ten  years  later,  Kirkpatrick 
was  named  head  of  the  department,  a 
position  he  held  from  1988  to  1997 
when  he  was  named  a  senior  execu- 
tive associate  dean  in  the  College  of 
Liberal  Arts  and  Sciences. 

Throughout  his  tenure  as  an 
administrator,  Kirkpatrick  maintained 
an  active  and  distinguished  research 
program.  "Jim  is  one  of  those  unique 
kinds  of  faculty  who  reinvents  himself 
progressively  during  his  career  so  what 
he's  doing  at  a  late  stage  in  his  career 
is  totally  different  than  what  he  was 
doing  at  the  initial  stage  of  his  career. 
The  result  of  that  is  that  he  was 
always  on  the  cutting  edge  of  his  disci- 
pline," said  Steve  Marshak,  head  of  the 
department. 

Kirkpatrick  was  Professor  Craig 
Bethke's  advisor  while  Bethke  earned 
his  doctorate  at  Illinois.  "Throughout 
his  career  at  Illinois,  Jim's  research 
program  remained  at  the  very  pinnacle 
of  his  field,  in  terms  of  productivity 


and  scientific  impact.  And  the  time  and 
energy  he  put  into  leadership  and  ser- 
vice, first  as  department  head  and  then 
as  associate  dean  for  the  sciences,  was 
the  impetus  for  revitalizing  the  geology 
department.  Jim  is  not  someone  who 
can  be  replaced,"  said  Bethke. 

In  2004,  Kirkpatrick  was  honored 
with  the  Dana  Medal  from  the 
Mineralogical  Society  of  America.  In  his 
acceptance  speech,  Kirkpatrick  said, 
"We  live  in  an  extraordinary  historical 
period  for  science,  and  it  has  been  my 
great  fortune  to  be  able  to  build  my 
career  during  that  time.  When  I  started, 
equilibrium  thermodynamics  was  the 
nearly  universal  way  of  thinking  about 
geochemical  systems,  the  electron 
microprobe  was  a  novel  tool,  and  auto- 
mated diffractometers  were  just  coming 
on  line.  What  change  there  has  been! 
The  two  parts  of  my  career,  the  earlier 
days  of  crystallization  kinetics  and 
igneous  petrology  and  the  later  days  of 
materials  structure  and  dynamics  with 
NMR  spectroscopy  and  molecular  mod- 
eling, are  reflections  of  these  changes. " 


Kirkpatrick's  career  has  been 
just  as  extraordinary  as  the  time  in 
which  he's  worked  and,  accordingly, 
his  peers  have  recognized  his  contri- 
butions to  the  field.  In  addition  to  the 
Dana  Medal,  Kirkpatrick  was  award- 
ed the  Brunauer  Award  and  was 
named  a  fellow  of  the  Mineralogical 
Society  of  America,  the  Geological 
Society  of  America,  and  the  America 
Ceramic  Society.  In  2005  he  was 
named  the  R.E.  Grim  Professor  of 
Geology. 

In  July  2007,  Kirkpatrick  was 
feted  at  a  retirement  celebration  cele- 
brating his  years  of  service  to  the 
University.  Held  at  the  Union,  more 
than  100  guests  attended  and  Dean 
Sarah  Mangelsdorf,  former  Interim 
Provost  and  Dean  Jesse  Delia,  and 
Department  Head  Steve  Marshak 
gave  remarks. 

Upon  his  retirement,  Kirkpatrick 
left  an  endowment  to  the  Department 
that  will  fund  the  Kirkpatrick  lecture- 
ship. Kirkpatrick  delivered  the  inau- 
gural speech  in  August,  entitled 
"Spectroscopic  and  Computational 
Studies  of  Mineral-Fluid 
Interactions."  "The  Kirkpatrick  lec- 
tureship—a fitting  reminder  of  Jim's 
legacy— is  the  latest  addition  to  the 
Department's  named  lecture  series, 
bringing  the  total  to  nine."  said 
Wang-Ping  Chen,  acting  head  of  the 
department. 

Kirkpatrick  is  now  the  dean  of 
the  College  of  Natural  Science  at 
Michigan  State  University.  His  wife, 
Carol,  retired  from  the  office  of  the 
Provost  and  Vice  Chancellor  for 
Academic  Affairs  at  UIUC  to  join  Jim 
at  Michigan  State.  In  the  1980's,  she 
was  a  support  staff  who  mainly 
worked  on  matters  related  to  gradu- 
ate and  undergraduate  studies  in  the 
Department. 


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A  Trip  Back  to  Camp 


Over  the  past  year  and  a  half,  Norb 
Cygan  (BS  '54,  MS  '56,  PhD  '62)  visit- 
ed Fort  Lewis,  Colorado  and  Sheridan, 
Wyoming— field  camp  sites  that  Illinois 
students  attended  from  the  1950s  through 
the  1980s.  Cygan  was  an  assistant  at  the 
Sheridan  camp  from  1955-1956  and  was 
visiting  lecturer  from  1956-1961. 

What  did  you  find  when  you  went  back 
to  Fort  Lewis,  Colorado? 

In  the  fall  of  2006,  Bob  "Moose" 
Leonard  (BS  '55)  and  I  visited  the  Fort 
Lewis,  Coloardo  area  where  field  camp 
was  held  in  the  early  and  mid-50s.  Fort 
Lewis,  at  that  time,  was  a  two-year  col- 
lege for  the  University  of  Colorado  system 
and  was  primarily  a  high  altitude  agricul- 
ture school.  A  lot  of  people  went  there 
from  overseas,  from  places  like  Chile, 
Austria,  places  like  that,  that  had  a  high 
altitude  farming  and  so  on. 

At  field  camp,  we  stayed  in  what  was 
the  old  army  barracks  of  Fort  Lewis  itself 
which  was  a  frontier  post.  We  used  the 
facilities  of  the  university  for  lectures  and 
making  maps  after  we  went  out  in  the 
field  every  day  to  do  field  work.  When  I 
visited  in  2006,  many  of  the  buildings  had 
been  torn  down.  The  old  barracks  where 
we  students  stayed  was  a  bull  artificial 
insemination  station.  I  thought  everyone 
would  get  a  kick  out  of  that.  That  build- 
ing is  still  there. 

When  did  Illinois  move  to  the  Sheridan, 
Wyoming  camp? 

In  1955  field  camp  moved  to 
Sheridan,  Wyoming.  Initially  we  used  old 


army  barracks.  Then  we  stayed  in  the 
abandoned  Sheridan  hospital. 

Eventually  we  moved  the  campus 
up  to  Sheridan  Junior  College.  The  col- 
lege has  expanded  quite  a  bit,  but  when 
we  were  there,  at  one  time,  everybody 
had  sleeping  bags  and  slept  on  the  gym 
floor.  That  was  our  barracks.  We  also 
used  the  facilities  at  that  site  for  drafting 
and  lectures. 

What  did  you  do  for  fun? 

The  ranchers  used  to  hold  parties 
for  us.  They  really  treated  us  well.  They 
took  us  out  waterskiing  on  the  lakes 
there  and  they  had  barbeques  on  their 
ranches.  We  were  allowed  to  walk 
through  their  ranches  and  look  at  the 
rocks.  Many  famous  people  owned 
ranches  there— like  actor  Robert  Taylor. 
He  was  quite  famous  back  in  the  40s. 
Some  of  the  guys  had  lunch  at  his 
ranch.  We  also  made  side  trips  to 
Yellowstone  and  the  Grand  Tetons  and 
camped  out  on  those  trips. 


Can  you  tell  us  about  the  memory 
brick? 

There  is  a  plaza  in  town  called 
Sheridan  Plaza.  They  have  statues  of 
cowboys  and  Indians  and  pioneers.  I 
bought  a  brick  that  commemorated 
Illinois's  field  camp  and  they  planted 
that  brick  along  with  many  others  in 
the  plaza.  A  lot  of  the  people  there  have 
long  since  passed  away,  but  there  are  a 
lot  of  people,  especially  the  women 
who  are  now  in  their  40s  and  50s  who 
remember  our  students. 

Why  is  field  camp  important? 

Many  people  decided  after  field 
camp  they  didn't  like  that  kind  of  life 
and  dropped  out.  Other  people  realized 
that  this  was  going  to  be  part  of  their 
life— doing  fieldwork  all  over  the  world. 

What  are  you  doing  now? 

I've  done  a  bit  of  consulting  this 
last  year,  especially  on  water,  and  some 
on  uranium.  But  my  big  push  has  been 
working  with  kids  and  teachers  at 
Dinosaur  Ridge,  an  area  on  the  outside 
of  Denver  that  has  dinosaur  footprints 
and  bones  in  the  rocks  which  are  uplift- 
ed from  the  Rocky  Mountain  event.  It  is 
an  outdoor  educational  lab  and  tens  of 
thousands  of  kids  a  year  come  to  visit.  I 
teach  classes  on  the  geology  of 
Colorado  at  Denver  University.  I  also 
teach  special  science  programs  to 
Colorado  teachers  through  Colorado 
School  of  Mines  and  University  of 
Northern  Colorado. 


Field  Camp  remains  an  important  part  of  the  geology  program  today.  Illinois 
has  partnered  with  the  University  of  Iowa.  University  of  Minnesota-Duluth. 
University  of  Wisconsin-Madison.  Michigan  State  University,  and  the  University  of 
the  Pacific  to  teach  this  six-week  course  in  Park  City.  Utah.  In  2008,  21  students 
from  Illinois  will  be  attending  Wasatch-Uinta  Field  Camp— the  largest  number  of 
students  attending  in  25  years.  Lecturer  Michael  Stewart  will  be  an  instructor  at 
the  camp  and  the  new  director  is  our  alum  Kurt  Burmeister  (PhD  05).  Students 
will  map  in  the  Wasatch  and  Uinta  Mountain  Ranges  and  take  day  trips  to  Grand 
Teton  National  Park,  southeastern  Utah,  and  the  gold  fields  of  Nevada. 


Alumna  at  Caltech 


Editor's  Note:  We  are  adding  "Profile  of 
Recent  Alumni"  as  a  new  feature  in  the 
Year  in  Review. 

ennifer  Jackson  (PhD  '05)  was  one 
of  many  first-year  undergraduates  sit- 
ting in  the  lecture  hall  for  Geology  104, 
Geology  of  the  Natural  Parks.  The  class 
filled  a  requirement,  and  though  she 
liked  science  in  high  school,  she  never 
expected  that  little  more  than  a  decade 
later  she  would  land  a  faculty  position 
at  the  California  Institute  of 
Technology. 

But  that  class  inspired  her  to  sign 
up  for  more  courses  in  geology  and 
she  began  to  realize  that  she  wanted  to 
turn  her  interest  into  an  academic 
career.  Soon  after  taking  Physical 
Geology,  she  began  working  in 
Professor  Jay  Bass's  lab  doing  what 
she  calls  "real  research"  for  the  first 
time.  The  combination  of  her  work  in 
the  lab  and  an  inspirational  trip  to 
northwest  Arizona  with  Professor 
Steve  Marshak's  Field  Geology  class 
solidified  her  interest  in  geosciences 
and  set  her  on  her  path.  In  1999, 
Jennifer  graduated  from  Illinois  with  a 


degree  in  mathematics  and  a 
minor  in  geology. 

After  earning  her  master's 
degree  in  mineralogy  and  crystal- 
lography from  Notre  Dame  in  2000, 
Jennifer  returned  to  Illinois  to  pursue  her 
Ph.D.  Again,  she  found  herself  working 
alongside  Professor  Bass  who  served  as 
her  advisor  for  her  dissertation,  "The 
Effect  of  Minor  Elements  on  the  Physical 
and  Chemical  Properties  of  Lower  Mantle 
Minerals  at  High-Pressure." 

Jennifer  is  now  an  assistant  professor 
of  mineral  physics  in  the  Seismological 
Laboratory  of  the  Division  of  Geological 
and  Planetary  Sciences  at  Caltech  where 
her  current  research  focuses  on  the  mater- 
ial properties  of  deep  Earth  minerals  under 
extreme  conditions  in  an  effort  to  under- 
stand terrestrial-type  planetary  evolution. 
In  the  past  two  years  she  has  been  invited 
all  over  the  world,  and  has  visited  Japan, 
Australia,  England,  and  Italy  to  give  talks 
about  her  research. 

Though  her  research  is  integral  to  her 
position  at  Caltech,  Jennifer  enjoys  the 
balance  between  research  and  teaching. 
Now,  with  a  lab  of  her  own,  Jennifer  is  a 
mentor  to  three  graduate  students  and  one 


£V? 


undergraduate  student.  Working 
alongside  these  students  in  the  lab 
offers  her  the  opportunity  to  do  for 
them  what  Illinois  faculty  did  for  her 
nearly  ten  years  ago:  to  provide  sup- 
port and  encouragement.  "I  want  to 
make  sure  they  have  all  the  tools 
they  need  and  every  opportunity  to 
learn  and  do  exciting  research,"  she 
said. 

In  addition  to  the  one-on-one 
instruction  in  the  lab,  Jennifer  also 
spends  time  in  the  classroom  teach- 
ing courses  such  as  "Topics  in  Deep 
Earth  Mineral  Physics"  and  "Mineral 
Physics  of  Earth's  Interior,"  a  course 
she  recently  developed  for  her 
department.  "Teaching  keeps  every- 
thing in  perspective,"  she  said. 
"These  very  sharp  students  are  here 
to  learn,  and  when  you  are  explain- 
ing high-level  science  to  them,  you're 
also  learning." 


Students  and  Faculty  Named  Excellent  Instructors 


Twenty-three  Department  of  Geology 
instructors  were  named  to  the  UIUC  List  of 
Teachers  Ranked  as  Excellent  by  Their 
Students  for  the  spring,  summer,  and  fall 
2007  semesters. 

Graduate  students  Charles  Bopp, 
Shane  Butler,  Bin  Chen,  Melissa  Chipman, 
Adam  lanno,  Daniela  Lindner,  Chris 
Majerczyk,  Chris  Mead,  Mara  Morgenstern, 
Jessica  Palmer,  Alan  Piggot,  and 
Pragnyadipta  (Deep)  Sen  were  named  to 


the  list  for  their  work  as  teaching  assistants 
in  the  Department. 

Faculty  and  academic  professionals 
appearing  on  this  list  include  Stephen 
Altaner,  Jay  Bass,  Craig  Bethke,  Bruce 
Fouke,  Eileen  Herrstrom,  Tom  Johnson,  Jei 
Li,  Ann  Long,  Craig  Lundstrom,  Steve 
Marshak.  and  Michael  Stewart. 

Four  instructors  received  the  highest 
ranking  of  "outstanding."  During  the  spring 
semester,  this  ranking  was  earned  by 


Shane  Butler  (Geology  108).  Associate 
Professor  Stephen  Altaner  (Geology  100) 
and  Pragnyadipta  (Deep)  Sen  (Geology 
417)  were  named  outstanding  for  the  sum- 
mer semester.  In  the  fall,  Daniela  Lindner 
(Geology  101)  and  Pragnyadipta  (Deep) 
Sen  (Geology  411)  earned  top  honors. 

Rankings  are  released  every  semes- 
ter and  are  based  on  student  evaluations 
maintained  by  the  Center  for  Teaching 
Excellence  on  the  Illinois  campus. 


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GeoThrust  Committee  Rallies  Together  to  Fund  New  Graduate  Fellowship 


in  2005,  a  fundraising  effort  to  build  the 
Department's  endowment  not  only  met, 
but  exceeded  its  goal  of  $3  million.  Lead 
by  the  GeoThrust  Committee,  this  cam- 
paign resulted  in  generous  gifts  from  hun- 
dreds of  donors  and  established  a  wide 
base  of  departmental  support  including 
fellowships,  named  professorships,  and 
two  funded  lecture  series  among  other 
needs. 

Members  of  the  GeoThrust 
Committee,  chaired  by  Bill  Soderman  (MS 
'60,  PhD  '62),  recently  embarked  on  a 
new  fundraising  effort  coinciding  with  the 
larger  University  of  Illinois  campaign. 
Brilliant  Futures.  "At  the  end  of  the  previ- 
ous fundraising  process  I  realized  the 
Committee  didn't  give  a  group  gift.  It 
occurred  to  me  that  this  would  be  an 
excellent  way  to  commemorate  the  group's 
good  work."  Thus,  the  GeoThrust 
Graduate  Fellowship  was  born. 

Soderman  contributed  half  the  funds 
needed  to  establish  the  fellowship  in 
September  2007  and  encouraged  his  fellow 
Committee  members  to  do  the  same.  "I'm 
strongly  motivated  to  develop  fellowships 


at  Illinois — I  know  what  it  meant  to 
receive  a  fellowship  myself,"  said 
Soderman,  who  received  the  Petroleum 
Research  Foundation  Fellowship  as  a  doc 
toral  student.  "It 
makes  me  feel  good 
that  I  can  give  back  to 
the  University." 

Members 
embraced  Soderman's 
challenge  and  quickly 
raised  the  remaining 
funds  needed.  The 
official  agreement  for 
the  GeoThrust 


Graduate  Fellowship 
was  created  in 
November  2007  and 
the  Office  of  the 
Provost  will  provide 
matching  funds  to 
enhance  its  impact. 

"I  was  so  pleased  to  have  such  a 
good  and  timely  response,"  said 
Soderman. 

Acting  Head  Wang-Ping  Chen  said 
"The  Department  is  truly  fortunate  to 


Members  of  the  GeoThrust 
Committee 

James  R.  Baroffio  (PhD  '64) 

David  K.  Beach  (BS  73) 

Marion  E.  Bickford  (MS  "58;  PhD  '60) 

Lester  W.  Clutter  (BS  '48) 

Norbert  E.  Cygan  (BS  '54;  MS  '56;  PhD 

'62) 
Edwin  H.  Franklin  (BS  '56) 
John  R.  Garino  (BS  '57) 
James  W.  Granath  (BS  71 ;  MS  73) 
Morris  W.  Leighton  (BS  '47) 
Haydn  H.  Murray  (BS  '48) 
Patricia  A.  Santogrossi  (BS  74;  MS  77) 
J.  William  Soderman  (MS  '60;  PhD  '62) 
Jack  C.  Threet  (AB  '51) 
F.  Michael  Wahl  (MS  '57;  PhD  '58) 


have  the  GeoThrust  Committee  as  a  dri- 
ving force  for  our  fundraising  efforts. 
Over  the  years,  the  Committee  has 
worked  diligently  and  creatively  with  all 
of  our  alumni  and 
friends  to  support 
the  Department  in 
many  ways.  The 
new  fellowship  is 
another  example  of 
inspiration,  leader- 
ship, and  entrepre- 
neurship — charac- 
teristic of  our 
alumni." 

Alumni  and 
friends  who  are 
interested  in  con- 
tributing to  the 
GeoThrust  Graduate 
Fellowship,  or  to  the 
Department  in  gen- 
eral, are  encouraged  to  contact  the  LAS 
Office  of  Advancement  at 
(877)  265-4910,  (see  back  cover  for 
details)  and  indicate  that  you  wish  to 
make  a  gift  to  the  Department  of  Geology. 


Beloved  Secretary  Retires  After  Twenty  Years 


n  August  2007,  Geology  administrative 
secretary  Barb  Elmore  retired  from  the 
University  with  26  years  of  service.  Barb  was 
with  the  geology  department  for  20  of  those 
years  and  was  well  loved  by  faculty  and  stu- 
dents alike. 

"Barb  became  the  institutional  memory 
of  the  department— over  the  years,  she  really 
kept  track  of  what  all  of  our  graduates  have 
done.  In  fact,  she  would  often  be  the  first  per- 
son alumni  would  go  see  when  they  came 
back  to  visit  the  department,''  said  Professor 
and  Head  of  the  Department,  Steve  Marshak. 

Elmore  was  honored  twice  for  her 
work— once  in  1998  when  she  was  awarded 
the  Chancellor's  Distinguished  Staff  Award 
and  again  in  2007  when  she  was  named  one 
of  the  recipients  of  the  2007-2008  LAS  Staff 
Award. 


Marshak  explained  that  these  awards 
recognized  Elmore's  success  in  expertly 
managing  a  heavy  workload.  "When  Barb 
took  the  job,  she  effectively  took  on  three  full 
jobs  and  she  did  them  all  incredibly  well." 

Upon  her  retirement,  the  Department 
and  friends  celebrated  Elmore  at  a  party  held 
at  the  lllini  Union.  "Not  only  was  the  party  well 
attended,  but  a  lot  of  people  got  up  to  give 
testimonials  about  Barb.  The  expressions  of 
gratitude  came  from  everyone,  ranging  from 
current  undergrads  to  senior  emeriti,"  said 
Marshak. 

When  asked  what  she  is  doing  with  her 
new  found  free  time,  Elmore  said,  "I  don't 
know  how  I  found  the  time  to  work!"  Since  her 
retirement,  Elmore  has  kept  busy  with  pro- 
jects around  the  house  and  with  helping  her 
mother,  who  is  almost  90  and  still  lives  alone. 


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On  August  29.  2007, 
friends  and  col- 
leagues celebrated 
Barb's  service  to  the 
Department  during  a 
retirement  party  held 
at  the  lllini  Union 


She  is  also  spending  more  time  on  the  hob- 
bies that  she  loves,  including  reading  and 
crochet. 

Elmore  notes  that  she  greatly  enjoyed 
working  with  students,  but  she  acknowl- 
edges that  it  was  bittersweet  to  see  them 
graduate.  "It  was  always  fulfilling  to  see  the 
students  attend  Commencement  after  all 
their  hard  work."  Elmore  said.  "But  then, 
sadly,  I  had  to  say  goodbye!"  Luckily,  as 
Marshak  pointed  out.  many  graduates  came 
back  to  see  her.  "I  really  enjoyed  seeing  the 
alumni  when  they  came  back,"  she  said.  "It 
was  always  fun  to  have  them  come  in." 


Windows  into  the  Past 


Oceanography  on  the  Prairie 


by  Ralph  L.  Langenheim 

Editor's  Note:  "Windows  on  the  Past"  is  a 
regular  feature  of  the  Year  in  Review  con- 
tributed by  Professor  Emeritus  Ralph  L. 
Langenheim.  Ralph's  writing  represents  a 
long-serving  faculty  member's  recollections 
and  his  perspectives  of  the  Department's 
past. 

mprobable  as  it  may  seem,  oceanogra- 
phy was  an  important  part  of  our 
departmental  program,  beginning  in  the 
1930's.  A  newly-minted  Ph.D.  from  the 
University  of  Chicago,  Francis  Shepard 
came  to  Illinois  in  1922,  joining  our  fac- 
ulty as  a  structural  geologist.  He 
remained  responsible  for  instruction  in 
structural  geology  until  1942  when  he 
joined  the  University  of  California 
Division  of  War  Research.  His  doctoral 
research  in  structural  geology  was  based 
on  field  work  begun  on  his  honeymoon 
when  he  traveled  by  train,  horseback, 
and  on  foot,  camping  out  in  the 
Canadian  Rockies.  One  summer  on  Cape 
Cod,  however,  would  alter  his  research 
significantly  and  lead  to  a  very  distin- 
guished career  as  a  founding  father  of  a 
sub-discipline  in  marine  geology. 

After  the  birth  of  their  first  child, 
Shepard  and  his  wife  Elizabeth  did  not 
return  to  the  Rockies  and  to  his  previous 
research,  but  instead  spent  the  summer 
cruising  off  Cape  Cod  on  the  family 
yacht  at  the  suggestion  of  his  father. 
While  on  the  yacht,  Shepard  collected 
sediment  samples  from  the  shoreline  to 
the  edge  of  the  shelf.  Here  he  discovered 
that,  instead  of  sediments  becoming  pro- 
gressively finer  grained  offshore,  coarse 
and  fine  grained  sediments  occurred 
patchily  between  the  shore  and  the  shelf 
margin.  This  pattern  was  contrary  to 
accepted  doctrine,  a  point  that  he  made 
in  his  1927  "Influence  of  Oscillating  Sea 
Level  on  the  Development  of  the 
Continental  Shelves,"  a  report  that 


attracted  wide  notice  and  marked  the 
beginning  of  a  permanent  redirection  in 
Shepard's  research  career.  Thenceforth 
he  concentrated  on  the  submarine  geol- 
ogy of  the  continental  shelf  and  slope, 
most  notably  describing  the  submarine 
canyons  on  the  Atlantic  coast  of  the 
United  States  and,  most  extensively,  off 
the  coast  of  Southern  California,  while 
maintaining  his  academic  home  base  at 
Illinois  until  1942. 

As  his  interests  changed,  Shepard 
introduced  geomorphology  to  our  cur- 
riculum in  1930,  a  course  that  he  contin- 
ued as  Physiographic  Geology  from  1931 
through  1941.  Finally,  Geology  of  the 
Ocean  was  introduced  in  1941.  His  1948 
book,  Submarine  Geology,  perhaps  the 
capstone  of  his  career,  is  a  summary  of 
the  results  of  the  pioneering,  gentleman 
yachtsmen  who  established  modern 
American  academic  oceanography  at  the 
Woods  Hole  and  Scripps  oceanographic 
institutions. 

While  at  Illinois,  and  as  a  life  long 
friend,  Shepard  collaborated  with  Harold 
Wanless,  who  came  to  Illinois  after  grad- 
uating from  Princeton  as  a  new  Ph.D.  in 
1923.  Together,  they  published  Sea  Level 
and  Climatic  Changes  Related  to  Late 
Paleozoic  Cycles  (1936),  which  explained 
Pennsylvanian  cyclic  sedimentary  pat- 
terns as  brought  about  by  the  melting 
and  the  reestablishment  of  continental 
glaciers  in  the  Southern  Hemisphere. 
Decades  after  its  publication,  this  work 
that  countered  the  time's  consensus  that 
Late  Paleozoic  cyclic  sediments  resulted 
from  repeated  crustal  uplift  and  depres- 
sion, has  become  the  generally  accepted 
explanation  for  Late  Paleozoic  cyclic  sed- 
imentation. 

Wanless  was  also  an  early  protago- 
nist for  using  aerial  photographs  in  geo- 
logical mapping  and  research,  a  tech- 
nique that  was  just  beginning  to  come  to 
the  fore  in  the  late  1930's.  Although  pri- 
marily famous  for  his  cyclothemic  stud- 


Francis  Shepard  testing  a  sample  grabber 
and  a  stereo  camera  on  the  E.W.  Scripps, 
September  22, 1942 

ies,  Wanless  continued  his  collaboration 
with  Shepard,  compiling  sequential 
charts  and  aerial  photographic  records  of 
Gulf  and  Atlantic  shoreline  configura- 
tions while  Shepard  compiled  records  of 
the  Pacific  Coast.  Their  final  report,  "Our 
Changing  Coastlines,"  was  published 
after  Wanless'  death  in  1971.  While 
Wanless  supervised  doctoral  candidate 
Mohammed  al-Ashry,  now  famous  for 
his  work  on  marine  environments  for 
the  United  Nations,  Shepard  supervised 
three  Illinois  doctoral  students  in  marine 
geology:  George  Cohee,  who  left 
oceanography  for  a  distinguished  career 
in  government  surveys;  K.  0.  Emery, 
whose  outstanding  career  culminated  in 
his  directorship  of  the  Woods  Hole 
Oceanographic  Institution;  and  Robert 
Dietz  who  became  famous  for  pioneer- 
ing research  on  deep  sea  mapping,  deep 
sea  drilling,  sea  floor  spreading,  and 
meteoritic  impact  sites.  Departmental 
legend  has  it  that  Dietz  proposed  a  study 
of  lunar  geology  for  his  Ph.D.  project 
only  to  be  turned  aside.  Dietz  also  was 
associated  with  the  Department  in  the 
1980"s  as  an  adjunct  professor  supervis- 
ing thesis  research  on  impact  sites. 

The  saga  of  oceanography  on  the 
Boneyard  continued  with  Jack  Hough, 
who  always  contended  that  his  work  on 
the  Great  Lakes  was  oceanography,  and 
with  Bill  Hay;  a  suitable  topic  for  our 
next  installment. 


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Around  the  Department 


Professor  Wang-Ping  Chen  was  named 
acting  head  of  the  Department  for  the  aca- 
demic year  2007-2008  while  Professor 
Steve  Marshak  was  on  sabbatical.  This 
event  cut  short  Chen's  sabbatical  as  a 
chaired  visiting  professor  of  the  National 
Science  Council  of  Taiwan  at  the  Institute 
of  Earth  Sciences,  Academia  Sinica. 

Geophysical  Journal  International  ranked 
a  paper  co-authored  by  Professor  Jay 
Bass  and  three  French  colleagues  as 
number  ten  on  a  list  of  "most  cited  papers 
over  the  last  three  years."  The  paper  is 
titled,  "Lower  Mantle  Composition  and 
Temperature  from  Mineral  Physics  and 
Thermodynamic  Modeling"  and  was  pub- 
lished in  the  March  2005  issue. 

Professor  Steve  Marshak  spent  the  2007- 
2008  academic  year  on  sabbatical.  During 
the  fall,  he  worked  with  geologists  at  the 
U.S.  Geological  Survey  in  Woods  Hole, 
MA  on  thrust-belt  deformation.  He  went  to 
Brazil  in  the  winter  to  work  with  a  col- 
league there  on  ongoing  projects  concern- 
ing Precambrian  geology.  In  the  spring,  he 
worked  at  the  University  of  Lausanne 
(Switzerland),  continuing  work  on 
Precambrian  geology,  and  was  a  visiting 


professor  at  the  University  of  Naples 
(Italy),  continuing  work  on  thrust  belts. 

Dr.  George  Devries  Klein,  professor 
emeritus,  remains  active  as  a  geological 
consultant  in  the  greater  Houston  area 
and  is  president  of  SED-STRAT 
Geoscience  Consultants,  Inc.  Since 
October  2005  it  has  been  nearly  non-stop 
consulting  for  him,  proving  there  is  life 
after  74!  Project  areas  where  Klein  has 
completed  work  include  South  Texas,  East 
Texas,  Permian  basin,  Russia,  the 
Louisiana  Shelf,  Alberta  basin  (Canada), 
San  Joaquin  basin  (California),  and 
Galveston  Bay,  Texas. 

Geology  librarian  Lura  E.  Joseph 

received  the  Best  Paper  Award  given  by 
the  Geoscience  Information  Society  for 
her  paper  "Image  and  Figure  Quality:  A 
Study  of  Elsevier's  Earth  and  Planetary 
Sciences  Electronic  Journal  Back  File 
Package."  The  paper  was  published  in 
Library  Collections,  Acquisitions,  & 
Technical  Services. 

John  Kolinski,  an  undergraduate 
researcher  in  geological  fluid  mechanics 
who  has  worked  closely  with  Professor 


Susan  Kieffer  for  the  past  two  sum- 
mers, was  selected  as  one  of  the  top 
four  presenters  from  lllinois's 
Undergraduate  Research  Opportunities 
Program  sponsored  by  the  Illinois 
Space  Grant  Consortium.  The  ISGC 
subsequently  sponsored  his  participa- 
tion in  the  Great  Midwestern  Regional 
Space  Grant  Conference  held  at  Purdue 
University  in  September  2007. 

Professor  Jim  Best  gave  three  keynote 
addresses  in  2007.  Two  covered  his 
work  on  Argentinean  rivers:  one  was 
given  at  the  USGS  National  Surface 
Water  Conference  &  Hydroacoustics 
Workshop  held  in  St.  Louis  and  the 
other  was  given  at  the  Workshop  on 
Morphodynamic  Processes  in  Large 
Lowland  Rivers  held  in  Sante  Fe, 
Argentina.  He  also  delivered  a  keynote 
address  to  the  2007  Hydraulic 
Measurements  &  Experimental  Methods 
Conference  (HMEM),  held  in  Lake 
Placid,  New  York  and  sponsored  by  the 
American  Society  of  Civil  Engineers' 
(ASCE)  Environmental  and  Water 
Resources  Institute  (EWRI)  and  The 
International  Association  of  Hydraulic 
Research  (IAHR). 


Bachelor  of  Science  Degrees 
May 

Mark  Danielson 
Lauren  Feiter 
Steven  Keown 

August 

Elizabeth  Armstrong 
Rivkah  Cooke 
Eric  Riser 
Brandon  Weinberg 
Joshua  Welch 

December 

Phillip  Swartz 
Erica  Toledo 

Master  of  Science  Degrees 

May 

Wei  Dai,  Teleseismic  Earthquake  Waveform 
Doublets  from  South  Sandwich  Islands 
Subduction  Zone:  Spatial  and  Temporal 
Distributions  and  Implications  for  Inner 
Core  Rotation  (Xiaodong  Song) 

Joshua  Defrates,  Crenulation  Cleavage  and 
Down-Dip-Verging  Mesofolds  in  the 
Precambrian  Baraboo  Syncline,  South- 
Central  Wisconsin  (Stephen  Marshak) 


August 

Shane  Butler,  A  Facies-Constrained  Model  of 
Pleistocene  Travertine  Deposition  and 
Glaciation  in  the  Northern  Yellowstone  Region 
(Bruce  Fouke) 

Adam  lanno,  Differentiation  Mechanisms  in 
Zoned  Plutons:  Insight  from  Non-Traditional 
Stable  Isotopes  (Craig  Lundstrom) 

Emily  Wisseman,  Bacteria  as  Sensitive  Indicators 
of  Coral  Reef  Health:  Bacterial  Community 
Shifts  across  Coral  Reef  Environmental 
Gradients  (Bruce  Fouke) 

December 

Melissa  Chipman,  A  Paleolimnological  Record  of 
Climate  Change  Over  the  Past  2000  Years  at 
Ongoke  Lake,  Southwest  Alaska  (Feng  Sheng 
Hu) 

Doctor  of  Philosophy  Degrees 

May 

Michael  Kandianis,  Modeling  Departures  from 
Abiotic  Expectations  During  the  Calcium 
Carbonate  Precipitation  Process  (Bruce  Fouke) 

Dmitry  Lakshtanov,  Elasticity  and  Phase 


Transitions  of  Stishovite  and  NaCl  at 
High  Pressure  (Jay  Bass) 

Xinlei  Sun,  Three  Dimensional  Inner  Core 
Anisotropy,  Lowermost  Mantle 
Structure,  and  Inner  Core  Rotation 
(Xiaodong  Song) 

Tai-Lin  Tseng,  Seismic  Studies  of  the  Mantle 
Transition  Zone  (Wang-Ping  Chen) 

October 

Jorge  Marino,  Paleogeothermal  Conditions 
in  the  Illinois  Basin  dunng  Late 
Paleozoic  Coalification  (Steve  Marshak) 

December 

Scott  Clark,  Selenium  Stable  Isotope  Ratios 
in  Wetlands:  Insights  into 
Biogeochemical  Cycling  and  How  a 
Diffusive  Barrier  Affects  the  Measured 
Fractionation  Factor  (Tom  Johnson) 

Fang  Huang,  Studies  of  Magmatism  by 
Trace  Element  Partitioning  between 
Clinopyroxene  and  Silicate  Melt,  U- 
Series  liisequilibria  in  Lavas  from 
Subduction  Zones,  and  Non-traditional 
Stable  Isotopes  (Craig  Lundstrom) 


Alumni  News 


Obituaries 


Reverend  Robert  L.  Brownfield  (MS 

'55)  died  January  16,  2007  at  the  age 
of  88.  He  retired  from  the  Illinois 
Department  of  Highways  in  1985 
where  he  worked  as  a  geologist  and 
civil  engineer.  In  1992  he  was 
ordained  as  a  Catholic  priest. 

Paul  Clawson  (BS  '55)  died  May  11, 
2007  at  the  age  of  81.  After  serving  in 
World  War  II  and  Korea,  Clawson 
earned  his  degree  from  Illinois  and 
eventually  founded  Geothermics,  Inc., 
a  company  that  drilled  shallow  wells 
for  irrigation  and  provided  geological 
consulting  services. 

Willis  M.  Decker  (BS  '39)  died 
January  10,  2007  at  the  age  of  91.  He 
worked  for  Cities  Service  Oil 
Company  in  Tulsa  for  39  years  and 
went  on  to  become  vice-president  of 
Jett  Oil  Company  until  1983. 

Robert  L.  Glossop  (BS  '52)  died  July 
12,  2007  at  the  age  of  77.  He  owned 
Glossop  Oil  and  Gas  Company. 

Richard  Thomas  Hercher  (BS  '50) 
died  January  7,  2007  at  the  age  of  77. 
Hercher  was  an  independent  consult- 
ing geologist  who  spent  25  years  par- 
ticipating in  the  exploration  and 
development  of  oil  and  gas  produc- 
tion in  Colorado  and  Nebraska. 

James  Francis  Luhr  (BS  75)  died 
January  1,  2007  at  the  age  of  53.  Luhr 
was  director  of  the  Global  Volcanism 
Program  at  the  Museum  of  Natural 
History,  Smithsonian  Institution. 

Joseph  Morgan  (BS  '50)  died 
September  24,  2007  at  the  age  of  80. 
After  receiving  his  master's  degree 
from  the  University  of  Wyoming, 
Morgan  worked  as  a  geologist  in  the 
oil  and  gas  industry. 

John  Matkin  Richart  (BS  '57)  died 
March  16,  2007  at  the  age  of  77. 
Richart  served  with  the  Navy  during 
the  Korean  War,  and  after  graduation 
was  hired  by  Pure  Oil  Company 
where  he  worked  for  29  years. 


Mary  Barnes  Rolley  (MS  '48)  died  on 
August  5,  2007  at  the  age  of  86.  Rolley 
worked  at  the  Illinois  State  Geological 
Survey  before  relocating  to  California 
and  working  as  a  draftswoman  for 
North  American  Aviation  and  raising 
her  family. 

Edward  Shover  (PhD  '61)  died 
October  28,  2007  at  the  age  of  71.  He 
worked  as  a  geologist  in  the  aerospace 
and  petroleum  industries  in  and 
around  Houston,  Texas. 

Adler  Spotte  (BS  '40,  MS  '41)  died 
January  11,  2007  at  the  age  of  92.  The 
son  of  a  coal  miner,  Spotte  grew  up  in 
Staunton,  Illinois.  After  volunteering 
to  serve  in  the  Navy  during  World 
War  II,  Spotte  built  a  career  leading  a 
number  of  coal  companies  in  Virginia, 
West  Virginia,  and  Kentucky. 

Allen  W.  Waldo  (AB  '27,  MS  '28)  died 
March  14,  2007  at  the  age  of  102.  He 
taught  geology  at  the  College  of  the 
Pacific  and  Stockton  College  and  spent 
summers  as  a  ranger  naturalist  in 
Yosemite  and  Crater  Lake  National 
Parks. 

Meggan  Kathleen  Weeks  (BS  '96) 
died  June  25,  2007  at  the  age  of  33.  At 
the  time  of  her  death  she  was  working 
toward  her  master's  degree  in  materi- 
als science  and  engineering  from  the 
University  of  North  Texas. 

Roy  Edward  Williams  (PhD  '66)  died 
April  6,  2007  at  the  age  of  69.  While 
earning  his  Ph.D.  at  Illinois,  Williams 
worked  as  a  research  assistant  at  the 
Illinois  State  Geological  Survey. 

Roger  Glen  Wolff  (MS  '60,  PhD  '61) 
died  on  January  1 ,  2007  at  the  age  of 
74.  He  worked  his  entire  career  at  the 
United  States  Geological  Survey. 
Before  he  retired  he  served  as  the 
chief  of  the  Office  of  Hydrologic 
Research. 


1960s 

David  L.  Gross  (MS  '67,  PhD  '69)  was 
appointed  by  the  Governor  of  Illinois 
and  confirmed  by  the  Illinois  State 
Senate  to  the  geologist  position  on  the 
Board  of  Natural  Resources  and 
Conservation,  the  governing  board  for 
the  Illinois  State  Geological  Survey,  the 
Illinois  Natural  History  Survey,  the 
Illinois  State  Water  Survey,  and  the 
Waste  Management  and  Research 
Center.  David  is  a  senior  geologist  emer- 
itus at  the  Illinois  State  Geological 
Survey  where  he  still  maintains  an 
office.  He  currently  serves  as  an  outside 
director  and  chairman  of  First  State 
Bank  in  Beardstown,  Illinois. 

1970s 
John  Morrone  (BS,  79)  hails  from  the 
Colorado  office  of  the  Bureau  of  Land 
Management.  As  baby-boomers  retire, 
he  anticipates  numerous  vacancies 
throughout  BLM  offices  which  are  now 
offering  many  student  internships.  John 
also  would  like  to  see  more  of  his  con- 
temporaries participate  in  Departmental 
receptions  at  national  meetings  so  he 
can  catch  up  with  old  friends  and  col- 
leagues. 

Carl  Steffensen  (BS  79)  and  Patricia 

Santogrossi  (BS  74,  MS  76)  have  both 
been  elected  members  of  the  AAPG 
House  of  Delegates  (AAPG's  legislative 
body)  for  three  year  terms  (2007-2010) 
representing  the  Houston  Geological 
Society. 

1980s 
Lawrence  L.  Fieber  (BS,  '83)  has 
worked  for  the  Chicago  branch  of  Burns 
and  McDonnell,  a  major  engineering 
consulting  firm,  for  eight  years  now.  He 
recently  visited  the  Department  for  the 
first  time  in  ages  and  brought  with  him 
the  news  that  there  is  a  great  deal  of 
demand  for  geotechnical  and  environ- 
mental geologists  in  the  Chicagoland 
area.  Burns  and  McDonnell  is  doing 
some  serious  recruiting  at  UIUC  at  the 
moment  and  Lawrence  would  love  to 
see  more  alumni  from  the  Department 
join  him  in  the  Chicago  office. 


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r*    *, 


Spring  2007 

Jan. 19 

Mark  H.  Anders,  Columbia  University 

The  Normal  Fault  Paradox:  Getting  to  the  Root 

of  the  Problem 

Jan.  26 

Wendy  Panero,  Ohio  State  University 
Water  Transport  and  Storage  of  Water  in  the 
Earth's  Lower  Mantle 

Feb.  2 

Alan  Boudreau,  Duke  University 

The  Evolution  of  Texture  and  Layering  in 

Layered  Intrusions 

Feb.  9 

Steve  Jacobsen,  Northwestern  University 
Earth's  Deep  Water  Cycle:  The  Emerging 
Picture  from  Mineral  Physics 

Feb.  16 

Eric  Roden,  University  of  Wisconsin 
Geochemical  Controls  on  Microbial  Fe(lll) 
Oxide  Reduction  Kinetics 

Feb.  23 

Chuck  Langston,  University  of  Memphis 
The  Scientific  Mystery  of  the  New  Madrid 
Seismic  Zone 

Mar.  2 

Timm  Strathmann,  U1UC  Environmental 

Engineering 

Rapid  Reduction  of  Aquatic  Contaminants  by 

Organically  Complexed  Iron  (II)  Species 

Mar.  9 

Alan  Howard,  University  of  Virginia 
Sedimentary  Landforms  on  Mars:  Fluvial, 
Lacustrine,  Eolian,  and  Possibly  Oceanic 

Mar.  30 

Dave  Bish,  University  of  Indiana 

Water  on  Mars:  Can  Hydrous  Minerals  Explain 

Observed  Martian  Surface  Water? 


Apr.  5 

Laura  Crossey,  University  of  New  Mexico 
CO,  Mound  Springs  and  Travertines  of  the 
Western  U.S.:  Towards  a  Model  for 
Continental  "Smokers"? 

Apr.  13 

Davis  Blowes,  University  of  Waterloo 
Permeable  Reactive  Barriers  for  Treating 
Groundwater  Contaminated  by  Dissolved 
Metals 

Apr.  20 

Mike  Ritzwoller,  University  of  Colorado 
Revealing  the  Earth's  Crust  and  Upper  Mantle 
in  HiDef:  An  Overview  of  the  State  of  Ambient 
Noise  Tomography 

Fall  2007 

Aug.  24 

R.  James  Kirkpatrick,  College  of  Natural 
Sciences,  Michigan  State  University 
Spectroscopic  and  Computational  Studies  of 
Mineral-Fluid  Interactions 

Aug.  31 

Don  Wubbles,  Executive  Coordinator,  School 
of  Earth,  Society,  and  Environment  (SESE) 
The  Status  of  SESE 

Sept.  7 

Bridget  Scanlon,  Bureau  of  Economic  Geology, 
UT  Austin 

Impacts  of  Changing  Land  Use  on  Subsurface 
Water  Resources  in  Semiarid  Regions 

Sept.  14 

Pinaki  Chakraborty,  UIUC  Department  of 

Geology 

The  Rayleigh-Taylor  Instability:  From  Water 

Falling  Out  of  a  Glass  to  Fire  Falling  Out  of  the 

Sky 

Sept.  21 

Mark  Skidmore,  Montana  State  University 
Microbially  Mediated  Weathering  in  Subglacial 
Systems 


Sept.  26 

Jim  Butler,  Kansas  Geological  Survey 
Getting  the  Information  Ground  Water 
Modelers  Need:  A  Report  From  the  Field 

Oct.  5 

Greg  Retallack,  University  of  Oregon 
Global  Greenhouse  Crises  of  the  Past 

Oct.  12 

Henry  Scott,  Indiana  University  at  South 

Bend 

High-Pressure  and  Temperature  Investigations 

in  the  Fe-C  and  Fe-P  systems:  Implications 

for  Planetary  Interiors 

Oct.  19 

Ken  Wohletz,  Los  Alamos  National 
Laboratory 

Were  the  Dark  Ages  Triggered  by  Volcano- 
Related  Climate  Change? 

Oct.  26 

Gary  Pavlis,  Indiana  University 

The  Southeast  Caribbean  Plate  Boundary: 

New  Insights  from  the  Bolivar  Project 

Nov.  2 

Craig  C.  Lundstrom,  UIUC  Department  of 

Geology 

Magma  Differentiation  in  a  Temperature 

Gradient:  A  Potentially  Important  Process 

with  an  Isotopic  Fingerprint 

Nov.  9 

Frederik  Simons,  Princeton  University 
Measuring  Geophysical  Processes  in  Space 
from  the  Shifting  Weight  of  the  Earth:  Old 
Problems,  New  Methods,  New  Results 

Nov.  30 

Darryl  Granger,  Purdue  University 
Landscape  Response  to  Tectonics  and 
Climate:  A  Cosmogenic  Nuclide  Perspective 


&s?vvig 


A  group  of  undergraduates  gather  on  the  lawn  north  of  the  Natural 
Hisotry  Building  at  the  annual  Department  picnic  held  on 
September  14,  2007. 


Associate  Head  of  the  Department,  Professor  Chu-Yung  Chen  joins 
undergraduate  senior  Meghan  Ori  at  the  Majors  and  Minors  Fair  held 
at  the  lllini  Union  in  October,  2007 


Annual  report  for  2007 


Faculty 


Stephen  Altaner  (Associate  Professor) 

Alison  Anders  (Assistant  Professor) 

Jay  Bass  (Grim  Professor) 

Jim  Best  (Threet  Professor) 

Craig  Bethke  (Grim  Professor) 

Chu-Yung  Chen  (Associate  Professor) 

Wang-Ping  Chen  (Professor  and  Acting  Head) 

Bruce  Fouke  (Associate  Professor) 

Thomas  Johnson  (Associate  Professor) 

Susan  Kieffer  (Walgreen  Professor) 

R.  James  Kirkpatrick  (Grim  Professor  &  Senior 

Executive  Associate  Dean) 
Jie  Li  (Assistant  Professor) 
Craig  Lundstrom  (Associate  Professor) 
Steve  Marshak  (Professor  and  Head- 
on  sabbatical  leave  until  Fall  200S) 
Gary  Parker  (Johnson  Professor) 
Xiaodong  Song  (Associate  Professor) 


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Department  Affiliate 

Marcelo  Garcia  (Seiss  Professor,  Civil  and 

Environmental  Engineering) 
Feng  Sheng  Hu  (Associate  Professor;  Plant 

Biology) 
Bruce  Rhoads  (Professor,  Department  of 

Geography) 

Academic  Staff,  Post-Does, 
Visiting  Staff 

Geoffrey  Bowers  (Post-Doctoral  Research 

Associate) 
Mariano  Cantero  (Post-Doctoral  Research 

Associate) 
Pinaki  Chakraborty  (Post-Doctoral  Research 

Associate) 
Rocio  Fernandez  (Post-Doctoral  Research 

Associate) 
Justin  Glessner  (Geochemist) 
Holger  Hellwig  (Research  Scientist) 
Eileen  Herrstrom  (Teaching  Specialist) 
Stephen  Hurst  (Research  Programmer/Geologist) 
Andrey  Kalinichev  (Research  Associate 

Professor) 
Michael  Kandianis  (Post-Doctoral  Research 

Associate) 
Michael  Lerche  (Post-Doctoral  Research 

Associate) 
Ann  Long  (Teaching  Specialist) 
Xinli  Lu  (Post-Doctoral  Research  Associate) 
Padma  Padmanabhan  (Post-Doctoral  Research 

Associate) 
Philip  Parker  (Visiting  Research  Programmer) 
Daniel  Saalfeld  (Visiting  Research  Programmer) 
Rob  Sanford  (Senior  Research  Scientist) 
Xinlei  Sun  (Post-Doctoral  Research  Associate) 
Michael  Stewart  (Lecturer) 
Jonathan  Tomkin  (Research  Assistant  Professor) 
Tai-Lin  Tseng  (Post-Doctoral  Research  Associate) 
Sharon  Yeakel  (Research  Programmer) 
Paulo  Zandonade  (Post-Doctoral  Research 

Associate) 
Zhaofeng  Zhang  (Visiting  Scholar) 
Jianming  Zhu  (Visiting  Scholar) 


Adjunct  Faculty 

Robert  Finley 
Leon  R.  Follmer 
Morris  W.  Leighton 
Hannes  Leetaru 
William  Shilts 
Wolfgang  Sturhahn 
M.  Scott  Wilkerson 

Emeritus  Faculty 

Thomas  F.  Anderson 
Daniel  B.  Blake 
Albert  V.  Carozzi 
Donald  L.  Graf 
Arthur  F  Hagner 
Albert  T.  Hsui 
George  D.   Klein 
Ralph  Langenheim 
C.  John  Mann 
Alberto  Nieto 
Philip  Sandberg 

Library  Staff 

Lura  Joseph  (Librarian) 

Sheila  McGowan  (Library  Assistant) 

Diana  L.  Walter  (Senior  Library  Specialist) 


COURSES  TADGHT  IN  2007 


Department  Staff 

Michael  Sczerba  (Clerk) 

Marilyn  Whalen  (Administrative  Secretary) 

Graduate  Students 


Anirban  Basu 
Peter  Berger 
Charles  Bopp 
Jon  Brenizer 
Shane  Butler 
Bin  Chen 
Melissa  Chipman 
Mirona  Chirienco 
Scott  Clark 
Rivkah  Cooke 
Wei  Dai 

Joshua  Defrates 
Dong  Ding 
Xing  Ding 
Theodore  Flynn 
Lili  Gao 
Jessica  Hellwig 
Carly  Hill 
Ana  Houseal 
Fang  Huang 
Kevin  Hughes 
Adam  Ianno 
Meijuan  Jiang 
Michael  Kandianis 
Dmitri  Lakshtanov 


Qi  Li 
Qiang  Li 
Daniela  Lindner 
Vineeth  Madhavan 
Chris  Majerczyk 
Jorge  Marino 
Chris  Mead 
Charlie  Mitsdarfer 
Mara  Morgenstern 
Jessica  Palmer 
Mauricio  Perillo 
Alan  Piggot 
Geoffrey  Poore 
Amanda  Raddatz 
David  Robison 
Pragnyadipta  Sen 
Ivan  Ufimtsev 
Holly  Vescogni 
Jingyun  Wang 
Nathan  Webb 
Emily  Wisseman 
Kevin  Wolfe 
Zhen  Xu 
Zhaohui  Yang 


GEOL  100 

Planet  Earth 

GEOL  101 

Introductory  Physical  Geology 

GEOL  103 

Planet  Earth  QRII 

GEOL  104 

Geology  of  the  National  Parks 

GEOL  107 

Physical  Geology 

GEOL  108 

Historical  Geology 

GEOL  110 

Exploring  Geology  in  the  Field 

GEOL  116 

The  Planets 

GEOL  117 

The  Oceans 

GEOL  118 

Natural  Disasters 

GEOL  143 

History  of  Life 

GEOL  333 

Earth  Materials  and  the 

Environment 

GEOL  380 

Environmental  Geology 

GEOL  411 

Structural  Geol  and  Tectonics 

GEOL  415 

Field  Geology 

GEOL  417 

Geology  Field  Methods,  Western  US 

GEOL  432 

Mineralogy  and  Mineral  Optics 

GEOL  436 

Petrology  and  Petrography 

GEOL  440 

Sedimentology  and  Stratigraphy 

GEOL  454 

Introduction  to  Seismology 

GEOL  460 

Geochemistry 

GEOL  470 

Introduction  to  Hydrogeology 

GEOL  481 

Earth  Systems  Modeling 

GEOL  497A 

The  Sciences  and  Ethics  of 

Sustainability 

GEOL  497AB 

Geomicrobiology  and  Geochemistry 

GEOL  497SK 

Geological  Fluid  Dynamics 

GEOL  512 

Geotectonics 

GEOL  515 

Advanced  Field  Geology 

GEOL  552 

Geodynamics 

GEOL  553 

Chemistry  of  Earth's  Interior 

GEOL  560 

Physical  Geochemistry 

GEOL  562 

Isotope  Geology 

GEOL  571 

Geochemical  Reaction  Analysis 

GEOL  591 

Current  Research  in  Geoscience 

GEOL  593 

Advanced  Studies  in  Geology 

GEOL  593G1 

River  Morphodynamics 

GEOL  593J2 

Molecular  Modeling  of  Water 

GEOL  593K14  Seismic  Interferometry,  Diffuse 

Wave  Correlations,  &  Imaging 

.•.r. 


AIR  FORCE 

Xiaodong  Song — Characterizing  High-Resolution 
Seismic  Velocity  and  Attenuation  Structure  of 
Yunnan-Sichuan  Region,  Southwest  China 
using  Seismic  Catalog  and  Waveform  Data. 

Xiaodong  Song —  Surface  Wave  Dispersion 
Measurements  and  Tomography  from  Ambient 
Seismic  Noise  in  China. 

AMERICAN  CHEMICAL  SOCIETY 

Jonathan  Tomkin —  The  Effect  of  Late  Cenozoic 
Glaciation  on  the  Evolution  of  the  Olympic 
Mountain. 

Craig  M.  Bethke  and  Robert  Sanford — Field- 
Constrained  Quantitative  Model  of  the  Origin  of 
Microbial  and  Geochemical  Zoning  in  a 
Confined  Fresh-Water  Aquifer. 

Thomas  M.  Johnson — Chromium  Isotopes  as 
Indicators  of  Hexavalent  Chromium  Reduction. 

R.  James  Kirkpatrick  and  Andrey  G. 
Kalinichev — Computational  and  Spectroscopic 
Investigations  of  the  Molecular  Scale  Structure 
and  Dynamics  of  Geologically  Important  Fluids 
and  Mineral-Fluid  Interfaces. 

Robert  Sanford — Biomolecular  Mechanisms 
Controlling  Metal  and  Radionuclide 
Transformations  in  Anaeromyxobacter 
Dehalogenans. 

Robert  Sanford — Towards  a  More  Complete 
Picture:  Dissimilatory  Metal  Reduction  by 
Anaeromyxobcter  Species. 

EXXONMOBIL  UPSTREAM  RESEARCH 
COMPANY 

Craig  Bethke — Membership  in  the  Hydro- 
Geology  Program  Industrial  Consortium  for 
Research  and  Education. 

MICHIGAN  STATE  UNIVERSITY 

Robert  A  Sanford— Growth  of  Chlororespiring 

Bacteria  to  High  Cell  Densities  for  Use  in 

Bioaugmentation. 

NASA 

Susan  Kieffer — Multicomponent,  Multiphase 

H:0-CO:  Thermodynamics  and  Fluid  Dynamics 

on  Mars. 

NATIONAL  SCIENCE  COUNCIL  OF  TAIWAN 
Wang-Ping  Chen— Caucasus  Scientific 

Experiments  (CAUSE):  An  Integrated  Study  of 

Active  Continental  Collision. 

NATIONAL  SCIENCE  FOUNDATION 

Jay  Bass— Sound  Velocities  and  Elasticity  of 
Deep-Earth  Materials  at  High  Pressures  and 
Temperatures. 

Jay  Bass— Sound  Velocities  and  Elastic  Moduli  of 
Minerals  at  Mantle  Pressures  and  Temperatures 
with  Laser  Heating. 

Jay  Bass — Collaborative  Research:  Elasticity 
Grand  Challenge  of  the  COMPRES. 


Jay  Bass — Consortium  for  Material  Property 
Research  in  the  Earth  Science. 

Wang-Ping  Chen — Collaborative  Research: 
Lithospheric-Scale  Dynamics  of  Active 
Mountain  Building  along  the  Himalayan- 
Tibetan  Collision  Zone. 

Wang-Ping  Chen— CSEDI  Collaborative 
Research:  A  Study  of  Deep  Subduction 
Integrating  Broadband  Seismology  and  Mineral 
Physics. 

Wang-Ping  Chen— Collaborative  Research: 
Imaging  the  Continental  Lithosphere  with 
Earthquake  Sources. 

Bruce  Fouke — Geobiological  and  the  Emergence 
of  Terraced  Architecture  during  Carbonate 
Mineralization. 

Bruce  Fouke — NSF  Research  Experience  for 
Middle  School  Teachers  at  Mammoth  Hot 
Springs,  Yellowstone  National  Park. 

Thomas  M.  Johnson  and  Craig  C.  Lundstrom— 

Technical  Support  for  die  New  Mc-ICP-MS 
Laboratory  at  University  of  Illinois. 

Susan  Kieffer — Multiphysics  Modeling  and 
Terascale  Simulations  of  Volcanic  Blasts  Over 
Complex  Terrains. 

Jie  Li — Constraints  on  Core  Composition  from 
Nuclear  Resonant  Scattering  and  X-Ray 
Diffraction  Studies  on  Fe-Light-Element 
Compounds. 

Craig  C.  Lundstrom  and  Stephen  Marshak — 

Assessing  Diffusive  Differentiation  during 
Igneous  Intrusion  Using  Integrated  Theoretical 
Experimental  and  Field  Studies. 

Xiaodong  Song — CSEDI  Collaborative  Research: 
Observational  and  Theoretical  Constraints  on 
the  Structure  and  Rotation  of  the  Inner  Core. 

Xiaodong  Song — Structure  and  Dynamics  of 
Earth's  Core  and  Lowermost  Mantle. 


Jonathan  Tomkin — Collaborative  Research: 
Glacial  Erosion  in  the  Patagonian  Andes; 
Testing  the  Buzzsaw. 

OFFICE  OF  NAVAL  RESEARCH 

Bruce  Fouke  and  Milton  McAllister- 
Microbiological,  Physiological,  and 
Toxicological  Effects  of  Explosive  Compounds 
on  Coral  Health. 

Bruce  Fouke— The  Role  of  Shipyard  Pollutants  in 
Structuring  Coral  Reef  Microbial  Communities: 
Monitoring  Environmental  Change  and  the 
Potential  Causes  of  Coral  Disease. 

THE  RESEARCH  FOUNDATION  OF  THE  STATE 
UNIVERSITY  OF  NEW  YORK 

Jay  Bass — High-Resolution  Inelastic  X-ray 

Scattering  at  High  P  &  T:  A  New  Capability  for 
the  COMPRES  Community. 

SANDIA  NATIONAL  LABORATORY 

Craig  Bethke — Software  Licenses  for  Geochemist 

Workbench. 

SCK.CEN 

Craig  Bethke— Membership  in  the  Hydro- 
Geology  Program  Industrial  Consortium. 

SHELL  INTERNATIONAL  EXPLORATION  AND 

PRODUCTION 

Gary  Parker  and  Garcia  Marcelo — 

Channelization  by  Turbidity  Currents  in 
Submarine  Fairways  and  on  Fans. 

UNIVERSITY  OF  ILLINOIS 

Wang-Ping  Chen— Building  Infrastructure  for 
Space-Based  Geodesy. 

Bruce  Fouke — Calcium  Carbonate  (CaCOO 
Biomineralization:  The  Geologic  Record  of 
Biological  Responses  to  Rapid  Environmental 
Change. 


More  than  100  guests 
attended  the  joint  UI-IU 
alumni  reception  at  the 
Annual  Meeting  of  the 
Geological  Society  of 
America  in  Denver.  In  the 
foreground,  Chuck  Norris 
(BS  '69)  and  his  wife 
greet  Keros  Cartwright 
(PhD  73). 


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List  of  Publications  for  2007 


Andrews  A.H.,  Lundstrom  C.C., 
Cailliet  G.M.,  and  DeVogelaere 
A. P.  Investigations  of  bamboo 
coral  age  and  growth  from 
Davidson  Seamount.  Technical 
Report  Monterey  Bay.  National 
Marine  Sanctuary. 

Andrews  A.H.,  Kerr  L.A.,  Cailliet 
G.M.,  Brown  T.A.,  Lundstrom 
C.C.,  and  Stanley  R.D.  Age  valida- 
tion of  canary  rockfish  (Sebastes 
pinniger)  using  two  independent 
otolith  techniques:  lead-radium 
and  bomb  radiocarbon  dating. 
Marine  and  Freshwater  Research, 
58:  531-541. 

Anders  A.M.,  Roe  G.H.,  Durran  D.R., 
and  Minder  J.R.  Small-scale  spa- 
tial gradients  in  climatalogical  pre- 
cipitation on  the  Olympic 
Peninsula.  Journal  of 
Hydrometeorology,  8:  1068-1081. 

Ashworth  P.J.,  Best  J.L.,  and  Jones 
M.  The  relationship  between 
channel  avulsion,  flow  occupancy 
and  aggradation  in  braided  rivers: 
insights  from  an  experimental 
alluvial  basin,  Sedimentology,  54: 
497-513. 

Bass  J.D.  Mineral  Physics: 
Techniques  for  measuring  high 
P/T  elasticity.  In  G.D.  Price  and  J. 
Schubert  (Eds.),  Treatise  of 
Geophysics  (pp.  269-292). 
Amsterdam:  Elsevier  B.V. 

Best  J.,  Ashworth  P.,  Sarker  M.H. 
and  Roden  R.  The  Brahmaputra- 
Jamuna  River,  Bangladesh,  In  A. 
Gupta  (Ed.).  Large  Rivers: 
Geomorphology  &  Management 
(pp.  395-430).  Wiley. 

Bethke  CM.  Geochemical  and 
Biogeochemical  Reaction  Modeling. 
Cambridge:  Cambridge  University 
Press. 

Cantelli  A.,  Wong  M.,  Parker  G.,  and 
Paola  C.   Numerical  model  linking 
bed  and  bank  evolution  of  inci- 
sional channel  created  by  dam 
removal.  Water  Resources 
Research,  43(7),  W07436.  16  p. 

Chatanantavet  P.,  Parker  G., 
Lajeunesse  E.,  Planton  P.,  and 
Valla  P.  Physically-based  model  of 
downstream  fining  in  bedrock 
streams  with  side  input  and  verifi- 
cation with  field  data.  Proceedings, 
River,  Coastal  and  Estuarine 
Morphodynamics,  5th  IAHR 
Symposium  (RCEM  2007), 
Enschede,  the  Netherlands  1 7-21 , 
8  p. 


Chen  B.,  Gao  L.,  Funakoshi  K.-i.,  and 
Li  J.  Thermal  expansion  of  iron- 
rich  alloys  and  implications  for  the 
Earth's  core.  PNAS,  104(22):  9162- 
9167,  doi 
10.1073/pnas.0610474104. 

Chen  W.-P.  and  Brudzinski  M.R. 
Repeating  earthquakes,  episodic 
tremor  and  slip:  Emerging  patterns 
in  complex  earthquake  cycles? 
Complexity,  12  (5):  33-43, 
doi:10.1002/cplx.201S5. 

Chen  W.-P.  and  Tseng  T.-L.  Small 
660-km  seismic  discontinuity 
beneath  Tibet  implies  resting 
ground  for  detached  lithosphere. 
Journal  of  Geophysical  Research, 
112:  doi:10.1029/2006JB004607. 

Courtier  A.M.,  Jackson  M.G., 
Lawrence  J.  F.,  Wang  Z.-R.,  Lee 
C.-T.  A.,  Halama  R.,  Warren  J.M., 
Workman  R.,  Xu  W.-B., 
Hirschmann  M.M.,  Larson  A.M., 
Hart  S.R..  Lithgow-Bertelloni  C, 
Stixrude  L.,  and  Chen  W.-P. 
Correlation  of  seismic  and  petro- 
logic  thermometers  suggests  deep 
thermal  anomalies  beneath 
hotspots,  Earth  and  Planetary 
Science  Letters,  264(1-2):  308-316. 

Huang  F.  and  Lundstrom  C.C.   231Pa 
excesses  in  arc  volcanic  rocks: 
Constraint  on  melting  rates  at  con- 
vergent margins.  Geology,  35: 
1007-1010. 

Gajda  A.  and  Kieffer  S.W.  Celebrity 
meets  Science:  Hollywood's  envi- 
ronmentalism  and  its  effect,  GSA 
Today,  17(10):  44-45. 

Gioia  G.,  Chakraborty  P.,  Marshak  S., 
and  Kieffer  S.W.  Unified  model  of 
tectonics  and  heat  transport  in  a 
frigid  Enceladus,  PNAS,  104(34): 
13578-13581. 

Goncharov  A.F.,  Stanislav  Sinogeikin 
S.V.,  Crowhurst  J.C.,  Ahart  M., 
Lakshanov  D.,  Prakapenka  V.,  Bass 
J.D.,  Beck  P.,  Tkachev  S.,  Zaug  J., 
and  Fei  Y.  Cubic  boron  nitride  as  a 
primary  calibrant  for  a  high  tem- 
perature pressure  scale.  High 
Pressure  Research,  27  (4):  409-417. 

Imran  J.,  Islam  M.A.,  Huang  H., 
Kassem  A.,  Dickerson  J.,  Pirmez 
C.  and  Parker  G.  Helical  flow  cou- 
plets in  submarine  gravity  under- 
flows. Geology,  35(7):  659-662. 

Jin  Q.  and  Bethke  CM.  The  thermo- 
dynamics and  kinetics  of  microbial 
metabolism.  American  Journal  of 
Science,  307:  643-677. 


KeevilG.M.,  Peakall  J.,  and  Best 
J.L.  The  influence  of  scale,  slope 
and  channel  geometry  on  the  flow 
dynamics  of  submarine  channels. 
Marine  and  Petroleum  Geology,  24: 
487-503. 

Klaus  J.  S.,  Janse  I.,  Heikoop  J.  M., 
Sanford  R.A.,  and  Fouke  B.W. 
Coral  microbial  communities, 
zooxanthellae,  and  mucus  along 
gradients  of  seawater  depth  and 
coastal  pollution.  Environmental 
Microbiology,  9:  1291-1305. 

Klaus  J..  Budd  A.,  and  Fouke  B.W. 
Environmental  controls  on  coral- 
lite  morphology  in  the  reef  coral 
Montastrea  annularis.  Bulletin  of 
Marine  Science,  28:  233-260. 

Kostic  S.  and  Parker  G.  Conditions 
under  which  a  supercritical  turbid- 
ity current  traverses  an  abrupt 
transition  to  vanishing  slope  with- 
out a  hydraulic  jump.  Journal  of 
Fluid  Mechanics,  586:  119-145. 

Lakshtanov  D.L.,  Litasov  K.D., 
Sinogeikin  S.V.,  Hellwig  H.,  Li  J., 
Ohtani  E.,  and  Bass  J.  D.  Effect  of 
Al"  and  H"  on  the  elastic  proper- 
ties of  stishovite.  American 
Mineralogists,  92:  1026-1030. 

Lakshtanov  D.L.,  Sinogeikin  S.V., 
and  Bass  J.D.  High-temperature 
phase  transitions  and  elasticity  of 
silica  polymorphs.  Physics  and 
Chemistry  of  Minerals,  34:  11-22. 

Lakshtanov  D.L.,  Sinogeikin  S.V., 
Litasov  K.D.,  Prakapenka  V.B., 
Hellwig  H.,  Wang  J.,  Sanches-Valle 

C,  Perillat  J.-P.,  Chen  B., 
Somayazulu  M.,  Li  J.,  Ohtani  E., 
and  Bass  J.  D.  The  post-stishovite 
phase  transitions  in  hydrous  alu- 
mina-bearing SiO..  in  the  lower 
mantle  of  the  Earth,  PNAS, 
104(34):  13588-13590,  doi 
13510. 11073/pnas.0706113104. 

Lee  C.-T.  and  Chen  W.-P.  A  possible 
mechanism  for  chemical  stratifica- 
tion in  the  Earth's  mantle.  Earth 
and  Planetary/  Science  Letters,  255: 
357-366. 

Li  J.  and  Fei  Y.  Experimental  con- 
straints on  core  composition.  In  H. 

D.  Holland  and  K.  K.  Turekian 
(Eds.),  Treatise  on  Geochemistry 
Update  I,  Vol.  2.14  (pp.  1-31). 
Elsevier  Ltd. 

Li  J.  Electronic  transitions  and  spin 
states  in  perovskite  and  post-per- 
ovskite.  In  K.  Hirose,  J.  Brodholt, 
T.  Lay.  and  D.  Yuen  (Eds.),  Post- 
Perovskite:  The  Last  Mantle  Phase 
Transition  (pp.  47-69). 
Washington  DC:   American 


Geophysical  Union. 

Litasov  K.D.,  Kagi  H.,  Shatskiy, 
A.F.,  Ohtani  E.,  Lakshtanov 
D.L.,  Bass  J. D.,  Ito  E.  High 
Hydrogen  Solubility  in  Al-rich 
Stishovite  and  water  transport  in 
the  lower  mantle.  Earth  and 
Planetary  Science  Letters,  262: 
620-634. 

Matas  J.,  Bass  J.,  Ricard  Y., 
Mattem  E.,  and  Bukowinski 
M.S.T.  On  the  bulk  composition 
of  the  lower  mantle:  predictions 
and  limitations  from  generalized 
inversion  of  radial  seismic  pro- 
files. Geophysical  Journal 
International  170:  764-780. 

Mehnert  E.,  Hwang  H.-H.,  Johnson 
T.M.,  Sanford  R.A..  Beaumont 
W.C,  and  Holm  T.R. 
Denitrification  in  the  shallow 
ground  water  of  a  tile-drained, 
agricultural  watershed.  Journal 
of  Environmental  Quality,  36: 
80-90. 

Mizushima  H.,  Izumi  N.,  and 
Parker  G.  A  simple  mathematical 
model  of  channel  bifurcation. 
Proceedings,  River,  Coastal  and 
Estuarine  Morphodynamics,  5th 
IAHR  Symposium  (RCEM  2007), 
Enschede,  the  Netherlands  17-21, 
4  p. 

Murakami  M.,  Sinogeikin  S.V., 
Hellwig  H.,  Bass  J.D.,  and  Li  J. 
Sound  velocity  of  MgSiO,  per- 
ovskite to  Mbar  pressure.  Earth 
and  Planetary  Science  Letters, 
256:  47-54. 

Murakami  M.,  Sinogeikin  S.V.,  Bass 
J.D.,  Sata  N.,  Ohishi  Y,  Hirose 
K.  Sound  Velocity  of  MgSiO, 
Post-Perovskite  Phase:  A 
Constraint  on  the  D" 
Discontinuity.  Earth  and 
Planetary  Science  Letters,  259: 
18-23. 

Naruse  H.,  Sequeiros  O.,  Garcia 
M.H.,  Parker  G.,  Endo  N., 
Kataoka  K.S.,  Yokokawa  M.,  and 
Muto  T.  Self-accelerating 
Turbidity  Currents  at  Laboratory 
Scale.  Proceedings,  River,  Coastal 
and  Estuarine  Morphodynamics, 
5th  IAHR  Symposium  (RCEM 
2007),  Enschede,  the 
Netherlands  17-21,  4  p. 

Nowack  R.L.,  Chen  W.-P,  Kruse 
U.E.,  and  Dasgupta  S.  Imaging 
offsets  in  the  Moho:  Synthetic 
tests  using  Gaussian  beam  with 
teleseismic  waves.  Pure  Applied 
Geophysics,  164(10):  1921-1936, 
doi:  10. 1007/S00024-007-0250-3. 


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Parker  G.  and  Toniolo  H.  Note  on 
the  analysis  of  plunging  of  den- 
sity flows.  Journal  of  Hydraulic 
Engineering,  133(6):  690-694. 

Parker  G.,  Wilcock  P.,  Paola  C., 
Dietrich  W.E.,  and  Pitlick  J. 
Quasi-universal  relations  for 
bankfull  hydraulic  geometry  of 
single-thread  gravel-bed  rivers. 
Journal  of  Geophysical  Research 
Earth  Surface,  112(F4). 

Parsons  D.R.,  Best  J.L.,  Lane  S.N., 
Hardy  R.J.,  Orfeo  0.,  and 
Kostaschuk  R.A.  Form  rough- 
ness and  the  absence  of  sec- 
ondary flow  in  a  large  conflu- 
ence-diffluence  unit,  Parana 
River,  Argentina.  Earth  Surface 
Processes  and  Landforms,  32: 
155-162. 

Peakall  J.,  Ashworth  P.J.,  and  Best 
J.L.  Meander-bend  evolution, 
alluvial  architecture,  and  the 
role  of  cohesion  in  sinuous  river 
channels:  a  flume  study.  Journal 
of  Sedimentary  Research.  77: 
197-212. 

Perrillat  J-R,  Nestola  F.,  Sinogeikin 
S.V.,  and  BassJ.D.  Single- 
crystal  elastic  properties  of 
Ca00.Mg]  „Si,0(,  orthopyroxene. 

American  Mineralogist,  92: 
109-113. 

Sanford  R.A.,  Wu  Q.,  Sung  Y., 
Thomas  S.H.,  Amos  B.K.,  Prince 
E.K.,  and  Loftier,  F.E. 
Hexavalent  uranium  supports 
growth  of  Anaeromyxobacter 
dehalogenans,  and  Geobacter 
spp.  with  lower  than  predicted 
biomass  yields.  Environmental 
Microbiology,  9:  2885-2893. 

Song  X.D.  and  Poupinet  G.  Inner 
core  rotation  from  event-pair 
analysis,  Earth  and  Planetary 
Science  Letters.  261:  259-266, 
doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2007.06.034. 

Song  X.D.  Inner  core  anisotropy. 
In  D.  Gubbins  and  E.  Herroro- 
Bervera  (Eds.),  Encyclopedia  of 
Geomagnetism  and 
Plaeomagnetism  (pp  418-420). 
Kluwer  Academic  Publishers 
B.V. 

Sun,  D.Y.,  Helmberger  D.V.,  Song 
X.D.,  Grand  S.P.  Predicting  a 
global  perovskite  and  postper- 
ovskite  phase  boundary.  In  K. 
Hirose,  J.  Brodholt,  T.  Lay,  and 
D.  Yuen  (Eds.),  Post-Perovskite: 
The  Last  Mantle  Phase 
Transition.  Washington  DC: 
American  Geophysical  Union. 


Sun,  X.L.,  Song  X.D.,  Zheng  S.H., 
and  Helmberger  D.V.  Evidence 
for  a  chemical-thermal  structure 
at  base  of  mantle  from  sharp 
lateral  P-wave  variations 
beneath  Central  America,  PNAS, 
104  (1):  26-30, 
doi:10.1073/pnas.0609143103. 

Szupiany.  R.N.,  Amsler,  ML., 
Best,  J.L.,  and  Parsons,  D.R. 
Comparison  of  fixed-  and  mov- 
ing-vessel flow  measurements 
with  an  aDp  in  a  large  river, 
Journal  of  Hydraulic 
Engineering,  133:  1299-1309. 

Toniolo  H.,  Parker  G.  and  Voller  V. 
Role  of  ponded  turbidity  cur- 
rents in  reservoir  trap  efficiency. 
Journal  of  Hydraulic 
Engineering,  133(6):  579-595. 

Tornqvist  T.E.,  Paola  C,  Parker  G., 
Liu  K.,  Mohrig  D.,  Holbrook  J. 
M.,  and  Twilley  R.  R.  Comment 
on  "Wetland  sedimentation 
from  Hurricanes  Katrina  and 
Rita."  Science,  316(5822). 

Viparelli  E.,  Sequeiros  O.,  Cantelli 
A.,  and  Parker  G.   A  numerical 
model  to  store  and  access  the 
stratigraphy  of  non-cohesive 
sediment  as  an  alluvial  bed 
aggrades  and  degrades  in  a 
flume.  Proceedings.  River, 
Coastal  and  Estuarine 
Morphodynamics,  5th  IAHR 
Symposium  (RCEM  2007), 
Enschede,  the  Netherlands  17- 
21,  8  p. 

Wong  M.,  Parker  G.,  De  Vries  P.. 
Brown  T,  and  Burges  S.J. 
Experiments  on  dispersion  of 
tracer  stones  under  lower- 
regime  plane-bed  equilibrium 
bed  load  transport.   Water 
Resources  Research,  43(3), 
W03440,  23  p. 

Zheng  S.H.,  Sun  X.L.,  and  Song 
X.D.,  Fine  structure  of  P-wave 
velocity  variations  underneath 
the  Central  Pacific  from  PKP 
waves  recorded  at  the  China 
Seismic  Network  (CSN).  Chinese 
Journal  of  Geophysics,  50(1): 
183-191. 


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Prof.  Thomas  F.  Anderson 

Dr.  Robert  F.  Babb  II 

Mr.  Rodney  J.  Balazs 

Ms.  Debbie  E.  Baldwin 

Mrs.  Margaret  H.  Bargh 

Mrs.  Mary  H.  Barrows 

Mr.  Douglas  Stephen  Bates 

Mrs.  Colene  R.  Bauer 

Dr.  David  K.  Beach 

Dr.  and  Mrs.  William  M.  Benzel 

Dr.  Marion  E.  Bickford 

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Dr.  Bruce  F.  Bohor 

Mr.  Eugene  W.  Borden  Sr. 

Michael  G.  Bradley.  PhD 

Virginia  A.  Colten-Bradley. 

PhD 
Dr.  Danita  Brandt 
Mr.  Allen  S.  Braumiller 
Ms.  Annette  Brewster 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Ross  D.  Brower 
Dr.  Glenn  R.  Buckley 
Dr.  Susan  B.  Buckley 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Steven  P. 

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James  W.  Castle,  PhD 
Dr.  Charles  J.  Chantell 
Mr.  Lester  W.  Clutter 
Mr.  Gary  W.Cobb 
Dr.  Dennis  D.  Coleman 
Barbara  J.  Collins.  PhD 
Lorence  G.  Collins,  PhD 
Mr.  Randolph  M.  Collins 
Dr.  Norbert  E.  Cygan 
Dr.  Ilham  Demir 
Mr,  M.  Peter  deVries 
Mr.  Richard  E.  Dobson 
Ms.  Sophie  M.  Dreifuss 
Dr.  and  Mrs.  John  B.  Droste 
Dr.  and  Mrs.  Mohamed  T.  El- 

Ashry 
Dr.  Frank  R.  Ettensohn 
Mr.  Kyle  Marshall  Fagin 
Mr.  Kenneth  T,  Feldman 
Mr.  Max  C.  Firebaugh 
Mr.  Gary  M.  Fleeger 
Dr.  Leon  R.  Follmer 
Mr.  Gary  R.  Foote 
Dr.  Richard  M.  Forester 
Mr.  Jack  D.  Foster 
Mr.  Robert  E.  Fox 
Mr.  Edwin  H.  Franklin 
Mr.  Barry  R.  Gager 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  John  R.  Garino 
Ms.  Theresa  C.  Gierlowski 
Mr.  Robert  N.  Ginsburg 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Marvin  G.  Ginzel 
Dr.  and  Mrs.  Stuart  Grossman 


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Dr.  Mary  Elizabeth  Hamstrom 
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Dr.  Daniel  0.  Hayba 
Dr.  Mark  A.  Helper  and  Dr. 

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Mrs.  Margaret  F.  Henderson 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Mark  F.  Hoffman 
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Mr,  Steven  F.  Jamrisko 
Mr.  John  E.  Jenkins 
Dr.  and  Mrs.  William  D.  Johns  Jr. 
Mr.  Bruce  A.  Johnson 
Dr.  Edward  C.  Jonas 
Dr.  Robert  E.  Karlin 
Dr.  Suzanne  Mahlburg  Kay 
Dr.  John  P.  Kempton 
Mr.  Virgil  John  Kennedy 
Dr.  and  Mrs.  John  D.  Kiefer 
Dr.  and  Mrs.  R.  James 

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Mr.  H.  Richard  Klatt 
Mr.  Robert  F.  Kraye 
Mr.  Michael  B.  Lamport 
Dr.  Stephen  E.  Laubach 
Mr.  Stephen  C.  Lee 
Dr.  Hannes  E.  Leetaru 
Dr.  Morris  W.  Leighton 
Mr.  Eric  W.  Lipman 
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Mr.  Bernard  W.  Lynch 
Dr.  Andrew  Stephen  Madden 
Dr.  Megan  E.  Elwood  Madden 
Mr.  John  W.  Marks 
Prof,  and  Mrs.  Stephen  Marshak 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Alan  R.  May 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Kendall  W.  Miller 
Ms.  Linda  A.  Minor 
Mr.  John  S.  Moore 
Ms.  Melanie  J.  Mudarth 
Mr.  Robert  E.  Murphy 
Mr.  Bruce  W.  Nelson 
Mr.  W.  John  Nelson 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Brian  Donald  Noel 
Mrs.  Connne  Pearson  and  Mr. 

Thomas  E.  Krisa 
Dr.  and  Mrs.  Russel  A.  Peppers 
Mr.  Charles  E.  Pflum 
Mr.  Bruce  E.  Phillips 
Mrs.  Beverly  A.  Pierce 
Dr.  Paul  L.  Plusquellec 
Dr.  Elizabeth  P.  Rail 
Mr.  Paul  J.  Regorz 
Mr.  Donald  0.  Rimsnider 
Mr.  William  F.  Ripley 
Dr.  Nancy  M.  Rodriguez 
Dr.  Richard  P.  Sanders 
Ms.  Nancy  A.  Savula 


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Dr.  David  C.  Schuster 
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Schwartz 
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