Geoscience Newsletter Summer 2014

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Department News The seminar is attended by senior majors and all members of the Geoscience faculty. By all accounts, the seminar is a Hello alumni! As has been said in just about every pre- great course—for students and faculty alike. vious iteration, it is hard to believe two years have passed Recently, we have been expanding our lab space and ca- since the last edition of the Alumni Newsletter. I guess it’s pabilities. We now have new lab space in the basement of true what they say, time and tide wait for no one. Moshier-Huchison House located on the North Quad. We First things first. . . you no doubt have noticed the new also have a new thin-section lab on the third floor of Olin. format of the newsletter. In an effort to keep you better Keen students have spent many-an-hour in the new labs. informed about happenings in the department, we have up- Despite recent curricular and infrastructure changes, dated and revised the format. In addition to updates from we remain committed to field-based geoscience education. the Chair and Faculty, we have included student profiles and Thanks, in large part, to the Fred Holden Field Trip Endow- a new section we are calling Field Notes, which highlights ment, we continue our ambitious field trip program. In the recent departmental field excursions. Finally, make sure to Fall of 2012, we examined the geologic history of Pennsylva- check out our oxbow lake contest—immortality awaits just nia. The following spring, we returned to the “big island” of around the meander! We will, of course, continue to include Hawaii for the second time since 2006. Last fall, we traveled your updates and contact information. to the Adirondack Mountains in New York and this spring It should come as no surprise that the department con- we went to Mammoth Cave and Lake Cumberland in Cen- tinues to draw bright, motivated, interested, and interest- tral Kentucky. Our next “big trip” (Spring, 2015) will be to ing students. In 2013, we graduated nine majors, five with Sicily in the central Mediterranean Sea. If you are interested Bachelor of Science degrees and four with Bachelor of Arts in joining us on an upcoming field trip, please drop us a line. degrees. In addition, we had three minors. This year, we Looking ahead, we are all excited to see what the future again had nine majors (two BS’s and seven BA’s), and two brings now that Denison has a new administration. As many minors. In each cohort, some are headed to graduate school, of you know, we have a new president, Dr. Adam Weinberg. some have gone to industry, and a few are off to new endeav- In addition, Dr. Kim Coplin, who some of you will remember ors outside the geosciences. No matter where their interests from the Department of Physics and Astronomy, is the new take them, I am sure I can speak for the rest of the faculty, Provost. Earlier this year the department met with Adam when I report that these have been fantastic students to work and Kim to discuss the “state of the department” in partic- with and we were sorry to see them go. That said, we have ular and the future of the college in general. We don’t have a great new group, and we are looking forward to working much to report from these conversations yet, but we will keep with them in the coming years. you informed as events warrant. On the academic front, the department revised its cur- As always, thank you for your contributions to this riculum in 2012. The new major requires one introductory newsletter. It is always fun and rewarding to receive your course, two foundation courses (Historical Geology and Rocks updates. All of us here appreciate learning what you all have and Minerals), six middle- to upper-level elective courses, been doing after Denison. I suspect that, like most Denison and one capstone seminar. We implemented this revision for alums, you take pride in the college. That said, you should several reasons. First, the addition of energetic and creative know that, whether you learned from one of us or a former young colleagues dictates that our curriculum must evolve member of the Department, we take pride in you. You, our and it now better reflects who we are and what we do. Sec- alumni, are living proof that we’re doing something right. ond, our new curriculum increases the flexibility of our course So spread the word, great things continue to happen in the offerings, allowing students to customize a major tailored to Department of Geosciences and at Denison. their individual interests. Finally, the required senior-level capstone course is designed to help our majors apply what —Dave Goodwin they have learned to a real world issue in the geosciences. Department Chair

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Department Honors

The following scholarships and awards were presented at our annual Department of Geosciences Awards Banquets. These honors have been made possible by your generous support over the years. Thank you alumni!

2014 • Frederick T. Holden Scholarship.—Lindsey Hernandez, Nathan Thorne, and Sarah Williams. • Frank J. Wright Scholarship.—Liz Bertolett, Brittney Kirch, and Conner Toth. • Phillip LaMoreaux Geology Award.—Liz Bertolett, Christian Erickson, Kevin Stachura, and Jane Windler.

• Richard H. & Marian N. Mahard Earth Science Award.—Emily Siegel. • Kirtley F. Mather Geology Award.—Allen Weik.

2013 • Frederick T. Holden Scholarship.—Liz Bertolett, Brittney Kirch, Emily Siegel, and Sarah Williams. • Frank J. Wright Scholarship.—Allen Weik and Jane Windler.

• Phillip LaMoreaux Geology Award.—Mariann Bostic, Bailey Mueller, Josh Osborne, April Strid, and Amy Williamson. • Richard H. & Marian N. Mahard Earth Science Award.—Conner Toth and Cory Van Auken. • Kirtley F. Mather Geology Award.—April Strid and Amy Williamson.

interests draw you in this direction, it’s available through Barnes & Noble and Amazon. I returned to Cuba early last June after a 10-year break. Faculty News I had proposed to some agricultural engineers at the Uni- versity of Camaguey that we use DNDC to model soil car- Tod A. Frolking, Professor (1984–present) bon and greenhouse gases for their potential project using Two years ago I wrote about the early spring with an ab- Marab´u,an invasive thorny leguminous shrub, as a biofuel normally warm February and March. Mother Nature cer- in conjunction with the burning of bagasse, the fibrous stalks tainly paid us back this year with consistently cold weather left after juice is pressed from sugarcane. I presented a poster into May. Denison’s commencement on May 17th, a Satur- on this topic at a sustainability conference in Camaguey. day, was held indoors because of temperatures in the upper Pete Zambon (2013) travelled with me. His energy, friend- 40’s to low 50’s! The Granville Farmer’s market, and most liness and excellent Spanish made conversing with profes- markets in the heartland, get a slow start this year as farmers sionals fun and fairly productive. While the marab´ustudy have delayed planting due to cold and wet conditions. appears to be on hold, we did contact people at the Insti- Evelyn and I continue our interests in local farming and tute of Soils in Camaguey and then Havana who were excited market gardening. In February 2013 our coauthored book about using DNDC to support the study of several critical Homegrown: Stories from the Farm was published by Mc- soil issues in Cuba. This still may be possible but it seems Donald & Woodward, a local publisher of historical, envi- that our proposal may have died on the bureaucratic vine. ronmental, and regional books. Evelyn interviewed and then Not surprisingly Cuba hasn’t changed much but there were compiled the stories of six local farmers growing and pro- many more 50’s vintage U.S. cars on the road. It turns out ducing food for local consumption and through their words that Cubans had gained the ability to import foreign auto discusses many of the difficulties facing the local-foods move- parts a few years ago and they were buying small Isuzu diesel ment across the country. I added sidebars to each chapter engines to bring many old hulks back to life. Life is strange discussing topics ranging from glacial history to Ohio’s agri- on La Isla. cultural past to the modern economics of local food produc- This summer, Emily Siegel (2015) is studying the grazing tion and of course that important soil parent material, silt! practices at two dairy farms in southeastern Ohio that sup- The book, while destined primarily for a local/regional audi- ply Snowville Creamery, whose owner Warren Taylor—the ence, is broadly relevant and somewhat unique in presenting dairy evangelist—champions the quality of milk from grass- issues from farmers’ perspectives. Take a look at it if your fed cows. The farmers practice managed or mob grazing

2 Geoscience Newsletter Summer 2014 where cows are moved frequently from pasture to pasture. What Do You Think? This ensures fresh healthy grass and a fairly even return of manure to the fields. They are convinced the soil quality has The graph below shows the number of Denison Uni- improved dramatically in the 20 years they have been dairy versity geology graduates from 1965 through 2014. farming. Emily will test for this comparing soils of similar Also shown is the annual average (inflation adjusted) parent material that have been grazed for 10 and 20 years price of a barrel of crude oil in US dollars. Drop us a with plots that have not been mob grazed. She will then note and let us know what you think. use DNDC to model land use practices and hopefully repro- duce the soil changes we have observed in the field. We also plan to work with some families managing large conventional farm operations in Licking and adjacent counties. Over the years they have had numerous soil tests run on samples from their fields. We hope to use their geographically extensive soil data and land use histories to better constrain DNDC so that we can model regional soil carbon and nitrogen fluxes. Evelyn and I see my stepdaughter Erika, who now teaches in the Journalism Department at IU in Bloomington fairly regularly. Her four-year old son Max has moved on from T-rex to Godzilla and Spiderman. We traveled to Corvallis, OR in January to visit stepson Jason, his wife Lindsay, their 2-year old daughter Maggie and James who was then just one week old. Lindsay now teaches Biology at Western Oregon and Jason continues to run several restaurants and is looking to start a restaurant of his own. There is a lot to do around the homestead this summer so we have no big trips planned although we will take short road trips in my recently acquired 1st generation Honda Insight, 60-70 mpg all the way!

Best wishes to all—Tod Introductory Geology classes now have a somewhat more [email protected] quantitative emphasis than in the past. Across the college we are working to raise the mathematical and quantitative skills of our students, with the goal that they be able to reliably use numerical information in decision-making. But David C. Greene, Associate Professor (1996– after years of math phobia and neglect in the pre-college present) educational system, it’s something of an uphill battle. Greetings to all! Life goes on in the Department of Geo- In the last few years I have been working on 3 distinct sciences, as elsewhere. Students arrive, grow and learn (we research projects; all interesting and exciting although the hope!), and depart for interesting occupations around the juggling involved has made me sometimes think that I have world. I’m expecting a large new group of students in Struc- too many balls in the air! tural Geology this Fall, and along with traditional exercises I have recently published 2 papers detailing results of the like the Bree Creek quadrangle (how many of you remember long-term project in the Confusion Range of western Utah that?), I’m hoping that we can do some field mapping in the that a number of DU students have worked on over the years. Kentucky River fault zone outside of Lexington. Despite be- The first, Structural Architecture of the Confusion Range, ing located, like Ohio, in the “undeformed” mid-continent, West-Central Utah: A Sevier Fold-Thrust Belt and Frontier this fault reportedly has 700 feet of offset. I’ve also been col- Petroleum Province (Greene and Herring, 2013) is an Open lecting the most impressive “centerfolds” out of the AAPG File Report of the Utah Geological Survey, who also pro- Explorer magazine to use in a new seismic interpretation lab. vided some grant support for the project. My wife Donna Last fall I returned to teaching Environmental Geology, wrote the petroleum potential discussion for this. The second and after a gap of 7 years it was quite interesting to revisit paper, The Confusion Range, west-central Utah: Fold-thrust the case studies I used to focus on and see what progress had deformation and a western Utah thrust belt in the Sevier hin- been made. The answer in most cases was unfortunately “not terland (Greene, 2014) utilizes our new structural analysis of much,” but it highlighted for me that real progress on com- the Confusion Range to develop a broader regional synthesis plex environmental issues is generally slow and incremental, of fold-thrust tectonics in the eastern Basin and Range. This and in many cases “not any worse” is in fact a significant paper came out in Geosphere in January. achievement. Unfortunately not even that can be said for DU Geosciences colleague Erik Klemetti and I are collabo- climate change, which looks more and more like it will be rating on a structural and stratigraphic study of the Mineral the defining issue of the next generation. King pendant in the Sierra Nevada of California. I had a

3 Geoscience Newsletter Summer 2014 very productive field season last summer with two students, exception. In 2013, I worked with two students, Al Weik introducing them to the glories and rigors of backpacking (2014) and Brittany Kirch (2015), on samples collected from fieldwork in the Sierra high country. We presented results the northern Gulf of California. In the spring of 2013, Al from this work at the GSA annual meeting in Denver, which and I traveled to northern Mexico to collect specimens from both students were able to attend. the Colorado River delta. His project focused on document- My third on-going project is developing effective practices ing intertidal community change associated with damming of for teaching earthquake-resistant building techniques in low- the river. Brittany’s project documented geochemical sam- literacy, rural areas of the developing world, with a present pling strategies necessary to identify where individual spec- focus on the Highlands region of Guatemala. With support imens lived on the tide flat. Both students presented their from a Denison University Research Foundation grant, I’m research findings at the 2013 GSA Annual Meeting in Den- going to be spending part of this summer in Guatemala, ver. This summer I am working with Brittany again. She teaching earthquake-resistant building techniques to local has designed a study to evaluate an anthropologic technique builders, architects, and policy makers. for documenting prehistoric human migrations. Again, her If all this is not enough to keep me busy and out of trou- plan is to present at GSA this fall. ble, my kids (now entering middle school and high school!) My own research has been productive and rewarding as manage to fill in the rest. Hope all is well with you and well. Last year, I published a manuscript documenting phy- yours! We always enjoy hearing from former students, and toplankton blooms using oxygen and carbon isotopes from hope that you’ll take opportunities to let us know how you’re oyster shells. I also delivered an invited keynote address doing, and especially how we can continue to prepare our at the Third International Sclerochronological Congress in students for success in the world. Caernarfon, Wales. Closer to home, I collaborated with Jessen Havill (Department of Mathematics & Computer Sci- —Cheers, David ence) to design and write a computer program that models [email protected] the three-dimensional growth of stromatoporoids, an extinct group of sponges that built massive carbonate skeletons, for David H. Goodwin, Associate Professor use in geoscience paleontology courses. This summer will be devoted to writing. Over the last few years I completed work (2003–present) on several projects ranging from Paleogene trace fossils in As always, work at “the fair college on the hill,” and life South Africa, to Pliocene bivalve evolution in the Caribbean, in Granville, conspire to keep me busy. Thankfully, teaching to freshwater mussels from Ohio. So, if you find yourself won- continues to be the central focus of my job. My research on dering what I am doing over the next few months, picture the biogeochemical archives in mollusk (clam) shells contin- me in my office, listening to Umphrey’s McGee, typing away ues at pace. Add to that various departmental and university like a mad man. administrative responsibilities—some fun, some not so fun— On the personal front, family keeps me busy. Christina is and my work days are pretty full. Throw in an amazing wife well. Her work with preschoolers continues, and if waiting and four active daughters, and all I can say is, it’s a pretty lists are any indication, she is doing a great job. She has good life! enthusiastically taken up distance running and will run her Whether in the classroom, laboratory, or in the field, by first marathon later this year! Tyler (23), graduated from far, the best part of my job is working with Denison students. the College of Wooster last year with a Biology degree. Since I continue to teach Intro, Historical Geology, and Paleontol- then she has been taking a few additional science classes at ogy. A few years back, I also developed an oceanography OSU in preparation for medical school. Frances (12) will course. As a mid-level geoscience elective, it is aimed at both start junior-high in the fall. Holy-crap! She continues to majors and non-majors interested in the world’s oceans. I be a voracious reader and an excellent student, and like her really enjoy teaching the course and my impression is that mother and older sister, enjoys running. Amelia turns 10 th students like it too. In addition, this fall I will co-teach next month and will start 5 -grade in the fall. We spend a new Denison Seminar with Dr. Quentin Duroy from the a lot of time in the workshop together and she is a terrific Department of Economics. This course, Ecolo-nomics, will helper. It’s hard to believe that Ruby is already six. She will st focus on the similarities and differences between the modern be a 1 -grader this fall, and like the other two “littles,” is fields of Ecology and Economics. Our goal is to ask if human on the local swim team. I suppose the biggest family news economies exist within an ecological context, if these disci- is that Christina, the kids, and I moved across town to a plines partially overlap, or if they are truly separate, devoid bigger house. We did this so Christina’s parents, Karen and of theoretical homology. As part of the course, we and the Alan, could move in with us for part of the year—at least for students will travel to New York to visit with Wall Street now. Our desire for a multigenerational household, combined executives and with curators at the the American Museum with mounting eldercare responsibilities, made this move a of Natural History. I am excited to teach this course and will win-win. We couldn’t be happier. let you know how it turns out. Over the years, I have been fortunate to have bright and Wishing you all the best—Dave motivated research students, and the last two years were no [email protected]

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Erik W. Klemetti, Assistant Professor (2009– Twitter account (@eruptionsblog). If you’ve heard crazy present) rumors on the internet about a potential eruption of Yellow- stone caldera in Wyoming, you might want to read one of Let’s see, what’s happened over the past two years? It the most popular articles I’ve written in years to see how definitely has zipped by, as have my first five years here at all that talk is nonsense (http://www.wired.com/2014/02/ Denison. . . and you know what that means. I’ll be going up think-yellowstone-erupt/). for tenure this fall, so I’ll be keeping my fingers crossed. So, until next time, enjoy the rocks and feel free to drop Looking back, I’ve been busy with two large projects over me a line with anything volcanic. the past 2 years. The first is my ongoing campaign at Min- eral King in the Sierra Nevada and this past February, the —Erik first paper from that work was published in Geosphere (vol. [email protected] 10, no. 1) with co-authors Jade Star Lackey (Pomona Col- lege) and Jesslyn Starnes (‘11). This project is continuing as a collaboration between David Greene and me as we ex- amine the petrologic and structural history recorded in this mangled package of metamorphosed rocks. To that end, we had two students present their findings at the GSA meeting in Denver (mine was Amy Williamson, 2013) and I had an- other student working on dating zircon from these rocks last summer (Conner Toth, 2015). My other big project is centered on the Lassen Volcanic Center in northern California. This project is being funded from a National Science Foundation grant I was awarded and two current students have been working on it (Liz Bertolett, 2015; see this issue’s student profile, and Lindsey Hernandez, 2016). We will be at the SHRIMP-RG lab at Stanford Uni- versity in August analyzing zircon from the full history of the Lassen Peak area as we head into the 100th anniversary of the volcano’s last eruption. I gave a talk on this research Erik Klemetti sampling lava near the former village at last December’s AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco and of Kalapana. This lava erupted from the Pu‘u ‘O‘¯o¯ we’ll be presenting more of our findings at the upcoming vent located on the east rift zone of the K¯ilauea. GSA meeting in Vancouver this fall. I have a few other projects that are in their infancy exam- ining the ages and compositions of crystals from Mt. Hood along with the Tumalo and Shevlin Park Tuffs in Oregon and Kate E. Tierney, Assistant Professor (2011– the White River Tephra from Alaska. I also finally got out another piece of my dissertation on Aucanquilcha, a large present) volcanic complex in the Andes of Chile, with an article co- I am so happy to get to write a note to the ever-growing authored with Barry Walker (University of Washington) in number of graduates that I know and to reach out with a Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology (vol. 165, no. 4). greeting to those of you I have not yet gotten to meet. My All of this keeps me busy as I try to better understand how teaching, research, and family are chugging along well. I magma is stored underneath these different types of volcanic just finished an intensive semester teaching geochemistry to systems. a great group of juniors and seniors. They really worked hard As mentioned in the last newsletter, I did start teaching and did a great job. I also finished a manuscript that has my Earth Resources class in the department, which I think just been accepted by GSA Bulletin with one of our alumnae, is an integral part of any Geosciences curriculum consider- Mariann Bostic, as a co-author. ing the implications of resource use and extraction. I was Our paper examines early Permian stratigraphy in Kansas also able to do something I’ve always wanted to do: stick and addresses some of the issues that plague our sys- my rock hammer in an active lava flow (see the picture)! tem (stratigraphic correlation, geochronology, and sampling This happened during last year’s department field trip to methodology). I will be continuing to look at the early Per- Hawaii, which despite its ups and downs, was a great time mian (Cisuralian), hoping to shed some light on this impor- for a volcanologist like myself. Next spring we’re planning tant, but fairly neglected interval in earth history. The issues on making another volcanic pilgrimage, this time to Sicily of climate change, modern and ancient, have never been more and Mt. Etna. important to understand considering the newly released In- I’ve also been keeping up with blogging about volcanoes tergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report. on Eruptions (still at Wired Science, but slightly new URL: My personal life has centered on my son Norman. He is http://www.wired.com/category/eruptions) and on my 16 and finishing his sophomore year at Granville High School

5 Geoscience Newsletter Summer 2014 where he has made friends and settled into a busy life since Robert J. Malcuit, Professor Emeritus our move to Granville in 2012. He’s playing the sousaphone (1972–1999) in the marching band and tuba in the symphonic band. It has been a busy year and he is looking forward to summer. Greetings! Again, I can hardly believe that two years have Also, I got married last summer. My husband Brad is a elapsed since the last Newsletter but that is what my calen- geologist, though he lives in Iowa City, where he teaches at dar says! Life continues to be pleasant here in Granville the University of Iowa. and I continue to make progress on my projects, mainly in We were so happy to get to see some of you this past Planetary Geology. In the last Newsletter I wrote that I was fall at the national Geological Society of America meeting working on a potential book. Well, it is completed and in the in Denver. We will be planning to see you all again this hands of the publisher. The story of the book project goes upcoming year in Vancouver, B.C. If you are planning to something like this. I presented two papers at the Fall 2012 attend, or are in the neighborhood, please take time to see GSA Meeting in Charlotte, NC. One was in a Precambrian us and meet our new crop of students. They are loaded with Geology oral session and it was about recycling part of the promise, enthusiasm, and questions. primitive crust of Earth into the mantle by way of the ex- treme rock tidal action of the capture process. The recycling —Best Regards, Kate process would take place between 3.95 and 3.6 billion years [email protected] ago. The second paper was in a poster paper session in Plan- etary Geology and the topic was about four paradoxes that Kennard B. Bork, Professor Emeritus, have stymied progress on the gravitational capture model for Alumni Chair Emeritus (1966–2003) the origin of the Earth-Moon system. The first paradox, and by far the highest hurdle, is that the smaller body, the Moon Well, we did it! Our new home, as of 1 May 2013, is in Se- in this case, must store and subsequently dissipate over 90% dona, Arizona. Kay and I are delighted to be here in sunny of the energy for its own capture. Sedona, despite missing elements of our 47 years in Granville. Well, about 2 weeks after the meeting I got an e-mail note The harsh winter of 2013-2014 presented even more evidence from a book agent from Springer asking whether I would for the value of our move. I did not send photos to friends in ◦ ◦ consider writing a book-length manuscript on the themes of 10 F Granville, when our hikes were in 66 F weather, un- the papers I presented at the Charlotte meeting. I wrote der cloudless blue skies. For those unfamiliar with Arizona 0 back and said that the first two chapters were pretty far geography, Sedona is in the north-central zone, at 4,500 ele- along. The title is the same as I had in the 2012 newsletter, vation, so it has red rocks, green juniper-pinyon forests, and The Twin Sister Planets, Venus and Earth: Why are They blue skies—not the sere tan of the Sonoran Desert. So Different? And, of course, it is mainly about the Moon One of the gratifying things about the move is the rich- and how important our satellite is to our existence on planet ness of educational and cultural opportunities here. We have Earth. profited greatly from involvement with OLLI (Osher Lifelong There are ten chapters and several important characters Learning Institute) and an amazing range of interesting lec- (and others playing minor roles) in this natural science story: tures and great concerts (from the MET-HD simulcasts to the Sun to hold it all together, Earth and Luna (a name for jazz guitar). In the fall of 2013, I gave a course on “Darwin: the Moon before capture), Venus and Adonis (a name for His Life and Legacy” for OLLI, and I’ve given presentations a satellite that Venus captures in the retrograde direction at the nearby Red Rock State Park on “Dinosaurs” and “The and a satellite that no longer exists), Jupiter, and several Permian Period.” OLLI courses that I have taken include Asteroids. The theme remains the same as stated in the 2012 “The Hubble Telescope,” “The Louvre,” “Hiking Sedona’s Newsletter and is that The Moon is a Rosetta Stone of the History,” “Mr. Lincoln,” and “India.” Solar System, a theme that was promoted by Harold Urey On the professional side, I am busy enough to keep out (American chemist) and Zdenek Kopal (Czech-born British of trouble, but am not over-worked. My review of David astronomer). Montgomery’s fine book The Rocks Don’t Lie: A Geologist Investigates Noah’s Flood appeared in ISIS (History of Sci- I should note that the giant impact model for the origin of ence Society; December 2013). Involvement with INHIGEO the Earth-Moon system has been the ruling paradigm for the (history of geology group) continues, and I am on the Orga- past 30 years, but many concerned scientists are finally re- nizing Committee for our international meeting in California alizing that this ruling paradigm model does not relate well (July 2014). to the “facts to be explained by a successful model.” Al- Kay and I celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary (29 though the capture model is a good bit more complicated, it December 2013) with a family gala in Sedona. What a long, does relate to a large number of the “facts to be explained.” fun, trip it’s been—to paraphrase the Grateful Dead. We Hannes Alfven (physicist-cosmologist) came to the conclu- extend cordial, and sunny Sedona, best wishes to the Denison sion in the 1960’s era that life on our third planet from the Geo-community. sun is the result of a “very long chain of complications” and I am simply adding more complications and stating that, in —Ken my humble opinion, it is the result of a “very, very, very long [email protected] chain of complications.” So, enough already!

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Mary Ann and I are in Granville most of the time with pe- taken me to California for field and laboratory work and to riodic excursions to Hilton Head, SC, and a few other places. the annual GSA conferences and has exposed me to really Over the past two years Mary Ann has been doing a good cool research in my area of interest. bit of proof-reading and constructive criticism and I really Already, I have had many wonderful experiences in the appreciate her help on the project. We look forward to get- geoscience department and there are sure to be more to come. ting together with any of you when you are in Granville or I am getting ready to go to New Zealand for a geology study at one of the Denison Alumni gatherings on campus or other abroad program and field camp. And if all goes well, the places. Again, we send our best wishes to all! department will be off to Sicily in the spring of 2015 for another adventure. —Bob [email protected] Don Yezerski, Jr., 2010

Student Profiles Liz Bertolett, 2015

Don Yezerski installing USGS stream gage and wa- ter quality instruments as part of a baseline water quality survey prior to shale gas development near Liz Bertolett at her summer research presentation in Altoona, PA. 2013.

After graduating from Denison in 2010, I left the third floor I love geology because I enjoy learning about the world of Olin Science Hall in search of fame and fortune. First, I around me while being able to experience the things I learn made a soft landing into the post-college world by attending first-hand. I have had the opportunity to go to many amaz- a six week geology field course in western Turkey. Filling up ing places including Owens Valley in California, Pennsylva- on all of the beautiful geology and rich culture of Asia Minor, nia, the Big Island of Hawaii, and the Adirondacks in New I returned from that summer to my parent’s basement and York. Each location is geologically unique and I have learned spent many hours combing the internet for job openings in many things that I would not have in a classroom setting. the field of geology and getting hung up on by prospective These trips have been the highlights of my experiences in the employers. Finally, following the advice of a Denison profes- department. Hawaii in particular was especially remarkable sor, I began looking for work on a drilling rig by searching because we had the opportunity to sample an active lava for “mud” in the Craigslist classifieds. Surprisingly enough, flow! I found myself shortly thereafter a new mud logging geolo- Recently, I have been doing research with Dr. Erik gist for a small company operating in the Marcellus Shale of Klemetti on the Lassen Volcanic Center in Northern Cali- northern Pennsylvania. fornia. We are analyzing zircon to determine the age and For $10 an hour I drove out to remote rig sites in rural compositional history of the youngest sequence of eruptions mountain country and worked twelve hour nights screening at Lassen. From this, we hope to gain a better understand- rock cuttings from caustic drilling fluid in order to ensure ing of how the subvolcanic system works. The project has that, yes, the lease holder was indeed still drilling shale.

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Raccoon Creek Flows On The big hydrologic news, for those of you for whom Raccoon Creek is now a distant memory, is that the meander neck at Wildwood Park in Granville is close to breaching! Check out the photos taken this year. At left, Raccoon Creek had recently receded from a late February overbank flood and at right the creek nears bankfull in late April. Let’s have a contest to guess when this soon-to-be historic cutoff event will occur. The winner will have the oxbow lake informally named in her or his honor with a commemorative plaque displayed prominently in the Department. Subsequent generations of students will learn of the contest winner as they study the evolution of the lake and ongoing channel changes in Raccoon Creek. While stream bank collapse is episodic, the rate of meander neck narrowing has been fairly constant when averaged over the past few decades. Shanan Peters (1998) and I surveyed the meander in June 1998 when the neck was about 24 meters across. After considerable slumping of the left bank on the west side this past winter and spring, it is now just 3.2 meters across at its narrowest, so a retreat of 21 meters in 16 years. Based on air photos, the neck has thinned at an average rate of 1.15 m/yr since 1976. Flood records for the larger Licking River at Toboso, OH indicate that river has reached flood stage in all months except October and November. So, the break through could occur at almost any time of the year. We don’t know how long the cutoff process will take. . . from when bank slumping extends across the neck so that there is a break in the flood plain surface to when the river channel has eroded through the neck so that it takes the new shorter path at low to modest flows. It is this actual shift of the channel that will initiate the formation of the oxbow lake so this second condition, when flow continuously passes through the cut, will be our marker event. So place your bets! Please email me at [email protected] with your projected day, month and year of channel cut off. The person closest to the actual date, without going over, will win this prestigious contest. Send your date NOW as the cutoff could occur at any time. Submissions must be received by November 1, 2014. May the flow be with you!

As the weather deteriorated during the fall, I awoke to my the frontal Ouachita Mountains of western Arkansas. Net- predicament and left the oil patch and interned the follow- working with fellow Denison and Alabama alumnus Adam ing summer at the U.S. Geological Survey outside Harris- Seitchik (1993) led to an internship with Murphy Oil Cor- burg, Pennsylvania, where I supported various groundwater poration interpreting salt structures of the eastern Gulf of projects throughout the state. Packing up my car after those Mexico during the summer, and through later aggressive job several months working the environmental side of Marcellus searching and AAPG events, I was offered a position as a development, I moved to Tuscaloosa, Alabama to begin life geologist with Noble Energy, Inc. as a graduate student at The University of Alabama under structural geologist Dr. Ibrahim C¸emen. Headquartered in Houston, Texas, Noble is an oil & gas exploration and production company with operations around My hopes to complete field work in Turkey as I had in- the world. I am currently in my first assignment mapping tended were quickly dashed, but instead I capitalized on my Miocene fluvial reservoirs in Bohai Bay, offshore China. Cur- summer senior research experience at Denison (constructing rent investment and business need in North American uncon- balanced cross sections across the Sevier fold-and-thrust belt ventional resources will likely take me back to the Marcellus in Utah) by field mapping and interpreting subsurface data in Shale in future years. Inquiries from Denison geoscientists

8 Geoscience Newsletter Summer 2014 concerning graduate school or career development are wel- come. Go Big Red!

Field Notes 2012 Spring Break Field Trip to the Eastern Sierra Nevada In the spring of 2012, Eric Klemetti and Kate Tierney led a group of students on a field trip to southern Nevada and along the eastern front of the Sierra Nevada. In Nevada we saw Arrow Canyon, about 50 miles north of Las Vegas, location of the Mississippian-Pennsylvanian Global Strati- graphic Section and Point (GSSP). This dramatic canyon displays strata from the mid-Cambrian through the mid- Denison students exploring Fossil Falls just north of Permian and has been a center of Paleozoic stratigraphic China Lake, CA. research for decades. From there we drove south through Death Valley to the Eastern Front of the Sierra Nevada. We camped at the foot of a cinder cone and saw the western edge of the Basin and Range extensional regime. Our trip 2013 Spring Break Field Trip to Hawaii culminated in a visit to Mono Lake.

Most every geologist would like to see an erupting volcano, and put their rock hammer in flowing lava. Kilauea put on a great display for 18 DU Geoscience students and four faculty in March of 2013 that included night views of the active caldera lava lake and, yes, rock hammers in molten lava! We saw flow features of basaltic lava varying from a few million years old to a few minutes old. We investigated active fault scarps, tropical geomorphology and land use patterns, shoreline features, and modern carbonate environments on the offshore reefs. We even spent some time looking for debris from the 2011 Tohoku Japan tsunami, some of which has washed up along the southwest shore of Hawaii. Students and faculty alike agreed that this was an amazing trip, rich with geologic insight and experience, and just plain Fun!

The DOGDU crew keeping a safe distance from Christian Erickson taking a break on upper Paleozoic 1100◦C lava on the Big Island. carbonates in Arrow Canyon, NV.

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eighth season, and speaking on “Why it Rocks to be a Geol- ogist” at Pecha Kucha Columbus.

Rachel Benton, 1983 I am presently working on a book on the geology and pa- leontology of the White River Badlands.

Jacob (Jake) Foster, 2004 I am an Account Representative for Halliburton Energy Services’s Baroid Drilling Fluids Product Service Line and cover the Rocky Mountain Region. I have been with Hal- liburton for 7 1/2 years, 3 1/2 of which have been in Denver, Colorado where I am currently in this Business Develop- Conner Toth posing by sign inundated by K¯ilauea ment position. My extracurricular activities include train- lavas near Kalapana. ing horses and working towards my private pilots license; I bought my own plane last May to learn in and so I would have it to fly places when I get my license. Come to Denver, I’ll show you around!

Alumni/Alumnae News

Gary Arnold, 1968 Retired from commercial aquaculture after 30 years farm- ing finfish, shellfish, and macroalgae along midcoast Maine. Started CleanTracks, LLC, as a small scale effort to find useful compounds in lipid fractions extracted from locally abundant organic waste streams. Collaborate with univer- sity research programs and private laboratories to isolate and identify biologically active components. Regarding extract from lobster processing waste, there’s indication from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, that perhaps we should be con- suming the lobster shell, rather than meat! Would love to sell that notion into the NYC seafood market! Best to all! Jake Foster and his new plane. Kelly Barrett, 2004 As the geologist for the industrial minerals program at the Division of Mineral Resources Management, I review the Jeffrey M. Glosser, 1982 hydrogeology portion of mining permits, investigate water well complaints associated with mining, perform ground wa- VP Business Unit Operations & CIO Therma Tru division ter modeling to simulate the effect of pumping to lower the of Fortune Brands Home & Security. In 2008 I relocated to water table at mine sites, create a variety of maps for re- Toledo for the fourth time since graduating from Denison. views, investigations, and requests, and give talks about the Stops between Toledo have included Atlanta, Cardiff Wales, industrial minerals program. Manchester England, and Brussels Belgium. Heidi and I have This past year, I co-organized the fourth annual Crafts been married 24 years. Oldest son is a Junior at Wittenburg Gone Wild craft show in Columbus. Crafts Gone Wild pro- University majoring in International Business and minoring vides a welcoming environment for new crafters to sell their in Geology (rocks rock thru the generations). He is also a pi- products among some of our more experienced vendors. The lot (3rd generation pilot in our family following my Dad and crafters this year were quite talented, and we had a ball me) and he plans to fly for a living. Youngest son is a Sopho- putting on the show. During 2013, I also enjoyed traveling more at Case Western University majoring in Biochemistry around Ireland, hiking many of Ohio’s state parks, running (pre-med so he can take care of his old mom and dad). Both two half marathons, cheering on the Columbus Crew for my play intercollegiate varsity soccer for their Universities. I had

10 Geoscience Newsletter Summer 2014 the opportunity to visit Denison last fall during a soccer in- vitational hosted at the stadium. The Denidoo facilities and campus looked as beautiful as ever. My spare time is con- sumed with attending soccer matches around the country. I’ve continued my passion for aviation and spend as much time as I can in the cockpit flying my plane. Would love to hear from my Barney Science building buddies.

Dan Kimball, 1971 Superintendent, Everglades & Dry Tortugas National Park. On March 31, 2014, I will be retiring from the Na- tional Park Service (NPS) after 30 years with NPS and 6 years with the Federal Government. We will be relocating to Tucson, AZ later this spring/early summer. Please come visit!

John M. Kundtz, 1982 Senior Business Development Executive, IBM Corpora- tion. Seems that another 2 years have come and gone and it is time to update what we used to call the Biennial Newslet- ter, and once again I am waiting to the very last day to send in an update. What is even harder to believe is that it has now been over 3 decades since we had the pleasure of learning geology (and geography) in the hallowed halls of Barney Science. So this year I am going to start the sec- tion about what I been doing. . . Having hit my mid-fifties, and basically never really taken a full 2 week vacation in 30 years, decided it was time to take what my wife coined the “midlife crisis trip.” So in mid-February I left New York, flew to Tokyo, then to Bangkok, 8 hours of sleep, and then flew to Kathmandu, Nepal. Overnight in Kathmandu then a 20 minute flight on Buddha Air to Pokhara. After an hour dive to Nayapul; 7 of us (all from the Cleveland area), along John Kundtz at the Annapurna base camp, on his with 3 Guides (Sherpa) and 4 Porters (they carried all our his first two-week vacation in 30 years. stuff) started our 10 day Trek to the Annapurna Base Camp (actually 6 days up and 4 back down). I had never been to the Himalayas and figured this may be my last chance. Not to bore you with details, but on 23-Feb-14, we left the Machapuchare Base Camp at 4:30AM and trekked for about She cut her teeth in the TV Media business at Viacom be- an hour and half in the dark, in 5 Degrees Fahrenheit, and fore making the switch to digital add sales. Another Liberal in the snow to witness an amazing sunrise at the Annapurna Arts Colleges success story. So with both kids out of col- Base Camp (elevation 4130 meters / 13,550 feet). Think- lege and employed, Manning and I are enjoying the “empty ing we were standing on top of the world, watching the sun nester” living in our “century home” (circa 1855) about 5 rise over Annapurna (elevation 8091 meters / 26,500 feet) we miles north of Chagrin Falls in the Village of Hunting Val- had the revelation that we were really only half up. It was ley. In addition, Manning is still coaching and teaching. She a great trip, spectacular mountains and wonderful geology. is the head Field Hockey coach and the assistant LAX coach Have lots of pictures if anyone is really interested. for the Hathaway Brown 7th and 8th Grade teams. She is On the home front, our youngest daughter, Riley, gradu- having a blast. We will be celebrating 30 years of marriage ated from Bates College last May and is gainfully employed this year, so all and all life is good. in Boston working as a recruiter for the Boston Consulting Group (BCG). She is clearly leveraging her Liberal Arts Ed- Lastly, on the work front, IBM continues to be a good ucation and is enjoying living on Beacon Hill. Courtney, our place to work, these days, been doing a bit of international oldest, has been living in New York City since she graduated travel working with clients in Africa and Europe, selling from Colgate in 2010, and works for Set Media, a Digital infrastructure—so still a road warrior, and traveling 3 to 4 Advertising Technology Company as an Account Manager. days a week. Best wishes for a great 2014 (and 2015)!

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Bill Lesser, 1979 Greetings to all current and past Denison Geo-Heads. My apologies for not submitting an update to Geoscience for several editions. I work with the National Flood Insurance Program in the Federal Emergency Management Agency. I coordinate a special insurance rating program within the NFIP that provides insurance premium discounts in com- munities with special practices or initiatives to limit flood damage. I—working with others, believe me—dabble in an “A to Z” plethora of insurance and flood damage prevention subjects including: actuary principles (definitely handled by others!); building codes; climate change; coastal flood haz- ards; dam safety; erosion hazards; flood inundation studies and mapping; flood warning systems; grants for flood mit- igation; hydrology; insurance and reinsurance; loss avoid- Bill Lesser at his daughter Marjorie’s wedding in ance studies; mitigation planning; natural floodplain func- 2009. tion protection; open space preservation; public access and use of floodplains; rating tables for insurance premiums; sea level rise; tsunami evacuation, underwriting principles; ve- locity flood waters (coastal and inland); watershed planning; Katie Stehli Regan, 2008 youth as the carriers of the climate adaptation message for the future, and finally; zoning—good old fashion community Student and Teacher Programs Coordinator, Fort Collins zoning. Believe me, I am not the expert in any single topic Museum of Discovery. I’m actually planning a geology lab by I do weave and integrate these topics together within the for 4th graders as we speak! Also, Liliana Stehli Regan was rating discount program. Ive often thought this is putting a born on March 1st! liberal arts education into action! On the non-work related side, Kathy (Schilbe, 1979) and Dr. Jeffery G. Richardson, 1993 I are to be grandparents in a couple of months. (Wow! That sounds old!) Our daughter Marjorie was married in 2009 (see Associate Professor of Geology, Columbus State Com- photo) at a service performed by our Presbyterian Pastor munity College. Well, it seems like time is really fly- Rev. Dr. Lynn Stanton-Hoyle, (DU, 1979). Also attending ing. . . Nonetheless, since the last time I have given an up- were Prudence (Weber, 1979) and John Backman (of 1979 date, I have made a few strides, both in academia and at era but who had transferred from DU) and their daughter home. On the institutional front, I have been appointed the Whitney. Fortunately Marjorie and Adam live nearby. Our Lead Faculty of the Geology Group in the Physical Sciences wonderful son William lives with us, giving us much excite- Department. Since then, I have expanded the GEOL de- ment along with our thee black rescue dogs. Winter here in partment from a curriculum point of view. When I started northern VA in 2014 was an answer to prayer for me. I was here 11 years ago, we offered 2 courses, 1101 and 1121. We able to use the cross country skis three times locally, which now have six different courses, including oceanography, natu- had much more use in the DU bio reserve decades ago. My ral disasters, and National Parks. I am really excited about best to all. Keep in touch. Exercise as much as you can. adding some additional classes in the future. I have been Drink red wine and stay away from meat. BL the PI on several NSF grants, most of them dealing with minority representation on the Geosciences. It has been a Bailey Mueller, 2013 headache at times, but other than that quite rewarding. On the research front, I am continuing to research and pub- I am a first year graduate student at Binghamton Uni- lish miospore and Mississippian based manuscripts. I am versity in New York. I’m studying the chlorine content in preparing a manuscript on the Black Hand Sandstone (re- amphiboles. The department will potentially be traveling to member that with Dr. Bork) and its palynological ties with Ireland for spring break this year. the Michigan Basin to the north and the Borden Forma- tion of Kentucky. I have a paper out for review centered Josh Osborne, 2013 on Ohio’s earliest fossils. I was able to sample and recover organic microfossils from the Middle Run Formation, which Mud Logging Geologist, Horizon Well Logging, LLC. Since is Neoproterozoic (∼850 Ma) and was discovered below Ohio graduating in May of 2013 I have traveled much of the United in about 1990. I have presented both of these papers over States following my job with Horizon Well Logging and am the last few years at the national meeting of the American now situated in Pittsburgh, PA. Looking to enroll in gradu- Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists (AASP). I am also ate school in the next two years to get a masters in geology working the idea that tidal pumping had a role in the stacked or sustainable business. Feel free to contact me! turbidites of the Farmers Member of the Borden Formation

12 Geoscience Newsletter Summer 2014 in north-central Kentucky. Dr. Malcuit has helped me with Christopher P. Russell, 2004 this. On the home front, I have been married to Nicole for Licensed Professional Engineer in the State of Colorado; 5+ years now and we have a five year old, Benjamin. We Work for Colorado Department of Transportation Rockfall recently packed up the family, including our Bichon (Mat- and Geotechnical Programs. Recently started working for tie) and Bassett Hound (Otis) and moved across the Capital CDOT after spending 7 years in the Consulting business City, from Clintonville to Grandview Heights. Feel free to working for Shannon & Wilson. My career focus is on geolog- drop me a line, and I am excited to see everyones update! ical hazard assessment and mitigation design; with particular Your Fellow Geowally—Jeff emphasis on rockfall.

Dawn Ezzo Roseman, 1984 Emily Schaefer, 2009 Owner of sleep.heal.nourish.live Certified sleep tech, GIS Task Supervisor at CACI, Inc. I completed my Master health and wellness technology. Hi all—I’ve spent the last of Business Administration degree at Ashland University in 30 years or so dreaming about geology, but after years of August 2013. manufacturing experiences in land (cars), sea (subs) and air (helicopters), I focused on redirecting my energies into the Jim Sides, 1985 medical field, of which I always feared physics. Learned to love it, dabbled a year into nuclear med technology certifi- Sales Leader, Employer Services Group, Cerner Corp. cation but ended up as a certified polysom. Technologist in- Hello to fellow Geo-wallys! Its been a few years. . . Have now stead. Had to admit to myself, that certain of my fine motor been in CO for 24 years, and married for 20 of those. We skills were limited, and radioactive safety, I had find a better have two kids, ages 13 and 17. College on the horizon! In physical fit. Thus—the polysom (sleep tech certification). I July, I took a month-long sabbatical from work, and spent a have also worked in hospital as a float CNA, but finally de- couple of weeks exploring Kauai (geo fun, and the kids dug cided all this re-directed education, I was confident to go out it), and a meaningful week of volunteer time at the Denver on a limb and work for myself as my client base grew. So I Rescue Mission. In May, I met up with about 20 Denison created my business as a Professional Certified Sleep, Health fraternity brothers in FL and we all celebrated turning fifty and Wellness Consultant. Its been rewarding and adaptive, (50!) this year. It was great to see so many familiar (slightly but I finally figured out what I want to be when I grow up (at wrinkled) faces. Best to all! 50+) and put all that didactic and clinical experience to good use. If you do not know me, I am pretty artsy and painted 3 of our houses using all the fun stuff, textured and murals, etc. So my first month of startup, I went a little overboard on designing and printing and coming up with catch phrases. So check out my new business, using social media and Link In to spread my wings. I rep a great nutritional and wellness business as many clients have had a serious, life-threatening situation, and they know their lifestyle changes are neces- sary but they do not have the resources to tackle it. So that is where I develop individualized programs and bring them up to speed on wellness, nutritional and fitness goals. No, I am no Jillian Michaels, but I am making a difference to those who I take under my wing. This has been long, but I have always treasured our newsletter because I love reading about others’ adventures. Beck and Chris Fisher, I have a visit to your favorite outdoor music venue so do not be sur- prised because that is on my bucket list. Hope to hear good things about our fellow GeoWallies and profs who challenged Jim Sides celebrating the big-50 with Denison fra- us to the fullest. Except when Dan Leavell took us up to the ternity brothers in Florida. Adirondacks, during black fly peak season, and I realized I definitely was not going to be wearing what I packed, and because of my pathetic, “cute” hiking boots, he and some other prepared hikers rescued me from falling down a gorge! L. Edward Silcox, Jr., 1969 Miss everyone and hope you are all blessed. And I cannot believe I am a mom of 2 great daughters, who are way more Retired Teacher (32 years—Radnor Middle School and prepared for their futures—one in Mechanical Engineering White Mountain School); Retired Librarian (7 years—White and the other in an honors college for Political Science and Mountain, Alaska) Currently teaching 7th grade as a volun- International Relations. teer at Winterberry Charter School in Anchorage, Alaska.

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Mimi (our daughter) just turned 8; Evan (our son) is almost database in the sky.” My first position at UF started in 2002 12. They both attend Winterberry Charter School (a Wal- when I became the Network Administrator at the Florida dorf Philosophy School) where my wife, Cheryl, teaches and Museum of Natural History. A number of lateral moves later where I volunteer each day. and I feel like I have come full circle. The Florida Museum of Natural History is significantly involved in iDigBio and I J. Bailey Smith, 1987 am again working with many of the scientists that I knew from my museum days. In February I had the pleasure of Coastal Geologist, US Army Corps of Engineers: Philadel- hearing Denison grad Shanan Peters give a keynote titled phia District. I am performing coastal storm risk manage- “Bringing Paleontology into the Era of Big Data” at the ment studies for the US Army Corps of Engineers. I am North American Paleontological Convention, hosted by the currently focused on identifying coastal flood and climate Florida Museum of Natural History here in Gainesville. I change adaptation resilience opportunities for the north- was particularly interested to learn of Shanan’s involvement east US following Hurricane Sandy. Check us out at http: with the Paleobiology Database (http://paleobiodb.org) //www.nad.usace.army.mil/CompStudy.aspx. Still surfing where they are building online tools that have some similar- and enjoying our kids hockey/lax. ities to what we are building here at iDigBio.

Jesse Starnes, 2011 I am graduating with a M.S. in Geology from UC Davis on June 12. My thesis is entitled: Multi-stage Metamorphism Norm Sydow, 1984 of Amphibolite in Franciscan M´elange,Ring Mountain, Cal- ifornia. Mostly business as usual in our household. After 20 years in Colorado and at maybe an advanced age, I’ve just recently been bitten by the “14er” bug—which means attempting to get to the top of as many of the 58 (or 54 depending on def- inition) 14,000+ foot peaks in Colorado as I reasonably can. Lots of Colorado geology books lying around the house as I suspect that my Barney background is partly responsible for my peak-bagging passion. Only a handful of summits so far, but it became a mission starting last summer and if good health holds, I hope to hike/climb many more. I can some- times coax my wife and youngest son Egan (16) to accom- pany me, but if any local geo-folks share my interest, please give me a shout! My other son Andy (22) recently gradu- ated from CU Denver in jazz piano composition. Along with providing instruction to a large stable of piano students, he “gigs” in the Denver/Boulder area both solo and with his band. Also of note, we finished off our Major League Ball- park Tour last summer in Oakland, CA. It began innocently enough in 2003 in St Louis/Cincy/Cleve on a trip back to Jesse Starnes basking in the light of another geolog- Ohio when the boys were five and twelve, and took on a life ical adventure. of its own after that as we knocked out several parks each year. On this road trip, I had the pleasure of revisiting my Field Camp area in Eureka, NV—30 years to the month. And, as in 1983, we stopped by Reno, NV where I lost my Dan Stoner, 1996 last $100 or so at the roulette table at age 21. Now older and wiser—and attempting to set a positive example for my Data Integration Expert, iDigBio / UF Advanced Com- sons—I placed a single $2 bet on roulette (now electronic), puting and Information Systems Laboratory. Greetings from and won. Since folks tend to ask—San Fran was possibly Sunny Florida! In January I started a new position with our favorite park. And greetings to my old geo-friends and the University of Florida Advanced Computing and Infor- professors. I miss those days in the upper reaches of Bar- mation Systems Laboratory (ACIS) to work on iDigBio, the ney. Dr Bork—I read with fascination last year “The Map national Integrated Digitized Biocollections project (http: that Changed the World” about William Smith and his then- //www.idigbio.org). This multi-institutional project is novel stratigraphic conclusions in 1800 that seem so readily funded by the National Science Foundation to build a “Na- apparent today. Resurrected in my memory were names like tional Resource for Digitization of Biological Collections” or Sedgwick and Murchison and I lamented not being more con- as I sometimes describe it. . . ”the big biological collection sistent in my study of your “weekend readings!”

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Norm Sydow and family catching an Oakland A’s game. Great shirts!

Dale Walker, 1978 Chief Geologist—Geological Manager OXY Colombia. We moved to Bogot´ain June of 2013. We left Houston and Williston Basin North Dakota behind and moved into the high Andes in Colombia. The altitude is over 8,300 AMSL. Gaik Choo (DU 1977) and I have weathered 2 earthquakes so far. Working fluvial deltaic deposits and preparing to drill unconventional wells and frac daylights out of them. Got Dale Walker on the job site in Columbia. to attend the Denver GSA in 2013, presented our “top ten best paper” from the AAPG Long Beach Annual Meeting to the GSA. We merged well data with seismic data and drilled several successful exploration wells in West Texas. as the Marcellus to relinquish gas. Thus our aquifer is only At the alumni gathering met the current crop of geologists a network of pre-glacial river valleys, limited in extent, now and professors from Denison and Connie Soja (DU 1977). partially filled with glacial materials—seemingly reliable but Erik (DU 2008) and Jess (DU 2007) gave us our first grand- of limited nature and intimately tied to precipitation. Chal- child. . . Stella Walker (DU 2036?) lenged by local environmental groups and some residents, (of whom I was one), the operation was halted by a trial judge William T. Weber, III, 1989 who also voided the lease on land where a railroad loading station for the water had been constructed. On appeal by Partner Weber & Weber, Attorneys at Law, Weston, WV. the Painted Post Village Board and SWEPI representatives I have a general civil/commercial practice with concentra- of the case was heard in February 2014 by a panel of judges tions in real estate and mineral leasing and mining issues. in Rochester. I look forward to the panels’ decision and be- Not much news to report, other that busy at work and chas- lieve that R. H. Mahard and the Ground Water Branch of ing children in the evenings. USGS would be with us on this one.

Jean Adair (Smith) Wosinski, 1954 Bob Wright, 1940 Retired. Fracking for natural gas is not permitted in New Retired. I lament the loss of Donald Everhart (DU 1939). York State. Nevertheless, shortly upstream of Corning, NY We were best friends going back to first and second grades. on the Chemung River the Village Board of Painted Post, NY Classmates called us “college brats” because our dads taught negotiated with SWEPI, LP, a Shell Oil subsidiary, for the at DU. His taught chemistry; mine geology. Our professional sale of up to one million gallons of water per day for ship- careers were intertwined. At times we were with competing ment to Pennsylvania for use there in fracking. Our local companies, at other times we were colleagues, notably with bedrock is Devonian shale with many characteristics similar the Atomic Energy Commission. Vantage Press published to the targeted Marcellus and reluctant to relinquish water my book “How to Mend the Science Religion Rift.”

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Department of Geology & Geography / Geoscience Alumni

In an effort to connect with as many alumni as possible, we are including our most up-to-date list of departmental alumni. These names come directly from the Registrar. We are aware of some “field camp” issues that may have shifted your year of graduation. That said, we would appreciate your help updating this information. Please share any updates or errors of omission with Dave Goodwin ([email protected]).

1936 Charles Roehl James Wilson Sallie Jones David Rowley Catherine Carlston 1960 1970 1977 1940 Alan Angell Peter Allen James Erickson William Appel Thomas Hartzell Robert Wright John Malloy Stephen Cragg Joan Hewins Robert Sommers Jeffrey Faber Douglas Johnston 1947 Robert Jongleux Clara Slater 1961 Edward Lange Thomas Starr Robert Erickson Mark Lawrence John Schwartz Bradley Leisure 1971 1949 Alan Rolph 1962 Robert Russell Thomas Hardy Louis Woolard Constance Soja Lyman Hertzler John Drake Bradley Spry Dan Kimball 1950 George Miller Robert Lyon David Sharrits 1978 Robert Rice James Lindberg 1964 Thomas Atha 1972 1952 Richard Balcer John Fretz Lawrence Behrens William Bach John Fitton Austin Smith John Fisher Lewis Cauffman Christine Goehner Roger Gilfert 1954 1965 Craig Jackson James Harding Philip Klinedinst David Horning Robert Oberndorf John Kempton John Spang Wendy Phoenix Thomas Winans 1973 Kiki Kreutz Jean Wosinski 1966 Dale Walker Michael Beck Julie Wilson 1956 Jackson Pellett Douglas MacKay 1967 Keith Niskanen 1979 Jerry Jordan David Wyse Linnea Wardwell 1974 Jeffrey Chormann Rhys Williams David Drollinger 1957 Paul Attwood Murray Forbes 1968 John Charley Andrew George Lowell Hamilton Christopher Cross Wells Gray James Scatterday Gary Arnold Craig Goff Linda Braley Lawrence Seik Ronald Cline Gary McNaughton Michael Lewis Ronald Taylor Philip Collyer Robert Lyon Gary Engels 1975 Ian MacFarlane 1958 Richard Harison Pressly McCance Samuel Pole Alban Coen Laurie McGilvray John Douglass Susan Specht Sheila Noonan Graeme Hammond 1969 Paul Nachlas James Kennedy 1976 David Pietenpol James Sebring Cuyler Berwanger Douglas Pollitt Thomas Carskadden John Bair Frank Robinson 1959 Robert Hand Anne Clift David Tight George Ramsayer Richard Corrington Rebecca Gaebe Louis Silcox David Donica 1980 Kenneth Haug Frank Swan Thomas Francy Kenneth Reighard Beth Wilson Robert Hough Charley Amspoker

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Bradford Atwood Brigid Donnelly Robert Danielson 1992 Richard Beckwith Shirley Martt Claudia Donegan David Glosser Mercedes Lee George Giese Scott Blanchard David Gordon Christine Bilello Jerome Kraus Ellison Dolliver George Greenwood Samuel Marquis Michael Massie David Fleming James Jones Louis McGinnis Leslie Redfield-Warner Ralph Oberlin Steven Jones Larry Moore William Shields Jason Shirer David Jupp Kimberly Mueller Gregory Williams William Lesser David Murduck 1987 Richard Lombard George Nation 1993 John Marshall Elyse Reinecke Thomas Anderson James McElman Virginia Osterman Bradford Atwood William Arnholt Roff Smith Marleigh Liggett Kurt Buchwald Luann Philipps John Ughetta Matthew Thoburn John Fern Christopher Clark Michele Levers Park Gilmore Burvee Franz 1981 Stephanie White Elizabeth Roosevelt Joseph Havasi Robert Klein Brendan Hayes James Bogardus 1984 Andrew Heckert Donald Brice David Link Sheila Moylan Jeffery Richardson Gregory Carpenter David Blalock Adam Seitchik Panayes Dikeou Jodi Cutler Matthew Mullin William Myers David Stenger Hollis Hall Beck Fisher Owen Young David Evans Jeffrey Flint J. Bailey Smith Scott Foster James Grandfield Jeffrey Thuma 1994 William Grubaugh Eric Jones James Warram John Haynes Arthur Kieger Kyle Baldwin Ted Herz John O’Connor 1988 Randall Cross John Judge Michael Rhoa Amy Jo Meyer David Murray Dawn Ezzo Robert Barnes Peter Lekas Edward Pearre Jeff Russell Robert Bodor Arden Wilson Katherine Reed Phillip Scott James Morrison Richard Rorick Glenn Stewart Craig Susany 1995 Donald Taylor Judith Tegtmeyer Norman Sydow 1989 Richard Aguirre 1982 John Taylor Timothy Brooke Allen White Richard Austin David Ciotti Andrew Blumenfeld Howard Wilkes Marjorie Einstein Arthur Cann Michael Willis Jeremy Cooperider Peter Engstrom Christian Elliott Robert Collins Wesley Wosinski Patricia Farrell David Doepke Kurtis Heidinger Jonathan Goldberg Ried Hubbard Richard Dunn 1985 John Lynch Jeff Glosser William Offutt Joseph Seppi John Kundtz Andrew Baur Josef Werne William Weber Steven Lufkin Peter Cleworth Daniel Yonker Philip MacBride David Click 1996 Betsy Gallagher William Dowling 1990 John Pavlik Neil Goldblatt Michael Bierly John Reece Catherine Markley Kelly Rose Matthew Cochran Michael Riehl Christopher Kittredge Daniel Stoner Elisabeth Stack Priscilla Laurin Kevin Davis Michael Weinsz John Rundell Alexander Moore 1997 James Sides Augustus Pietsch 1983 Jennifer Anderson Andrew Seem Joshua Brooks John Wight David Wardwell Matthew Pachell Scott Aiken Stephen Williams Key Rosebrook Christopher Barber Richard Wilson 1991 Donald Wheeler Rachel Benton Ellen Lawson 1986 David Dukat 1998 Michael J Eymontt Terry Smith James Gilmore David Babcock Richard Weihe Robert Miller Kurt Grimm Galimah Baysah Jeffrey Wolff Paula Konfal Teri Hicks John Bowman Shanan Peters

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Kress Van Voorhis 2003 Ryan Butz Edgar Millard Larianna Dunn Adam Shaw 1999 Christine Dektor Sarah Grannemann David Sisak Stephanie Konfal Brianne Jacoby Jesslyn Starnes Benjamin Bradley Aman Khanna Jean-Pierre Dube 2004 Taylor Nissi 2012 Bradley Janssen Mimi Pierson Timothy Nixon Kelly Barrett Katherine Stehli Michael Andrew Erin Baxendale Zachary Trunkely Peter Reinhardt Pai Han Jacob Foster Christine Wissink Todd Roberts Zachary Perlman Louis Rodenberg Wout Wynants Matt Ring Christopher Russell 2009 John Stephens 2000 2005 Joseph Boreman 2013 Michael Brienzo Joseph Dumesnil Craig Eckerle Chelsea Neill Sarah Baatile Matthew Kohlbecker Eduardo Guerrero Emily Schaefer Mariann Bostic Kristen Lydy Lauren Hughes Meredith Burger Kurtz Miller 2010 Flynn Fowler David Pettersson 2006 Ashley Harper Jon Buchanan Steven Silvestri Bailey Mueller Emily Chapman Bethany Keller Joshua Osborne 2001 Steven Faurie Paige Kercher Rose Fortman Ted Lee April Strid Amy Williamson Michael Harty Angela Painter James Mackie Kelly McKinley Peter McVary 2007 Louis Wersan 2014 Donald Yezerski 2002 Gregory Dellner Ben Chiewphasa Matthew Hoffman 2011 Jack Cowie Margaret Armstrong Ivan Orsic Christian Erickson Richard Henterly James Slater Mary Armbruster Alexander Jarrett Shayera Janota Kelsey Blongewicz Bradley Ratliff Christa Laubach 2008 Chong Seok Choi Kevin Stachura Heather McPherson Kevin Drake Cory Van Auken Christy Trager Shawn Arndt Taylor French Allen Weik Barbara Walker Sameer Baral Kevin Liebe Jane Windler Francis Burgweger Matthew Matteri

A Bit More History

The following faculty have taught geology and geography courses at Denison. The list is based on a history of the Department written by Dick Mahard in 1979, as well as the recollections of Bob Malcuit and Tod Frolking. Years of Service represents the calendar years in which each professor taught, and in some cases they are approximate. As with the rest of the newsletter, your comments and corrections are most welcome. Professor Years of Service Professor Years of Service Paschal Carter 1831–1868 Michael Katzman 1968–1971 L. E. Hicks 1869–1884 Robert J. Malcuit 1972–1999 C. L. Herrick 1885–1890 Daniel N. Leavell 1980–1985 William G. Tight 1891–1900 June Horton 1980–1983 Thomas L. Watson 1901–1904 Tod A. Frolking 1984–Present Frank Carney 1905–1917 Christopher Kenah 1987–1992 Kirtley F. Mather 1918–1924 Christopher M. Bailey 1993–1995 Frank J. Wright 1925–1949 David C. Greene 1996–Present H. S. Sharp 1930–1932 David P. Hawkins 1999–2009 Franklin McCann 1933–1933 David H. Goodwin 2003–Present Richard D. Mahard 1941–1979 Johanna M. Kieniewicz 2008–2009 Charles E. Graham 1953–1979 Erik W. Klemetti 2009–Present Kennard B. Bork 1966–2003 Kate E. Tierney 2010–Present

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Contributing Alumni Contact Information

• Gary Arnold, 1968 [email protected] • L. Edward Silcox, Jr., 1969 PO Box 839 305-202-2527 2441 Turnagain Parkway Boothbay Harbor, Maine 04538 Anchorage, AK 99517-1168 207-633-2670 • Bailey Mueller, 2013 907-646-1122 [email protected] 11929 Detroit Ave. Lakewood, OH 44107 • J. Bailey Smith, 1987 • Kelly Barrett, 2004 216-633-8707 [email protected] ODNR Division of Mineral Re- [email protected] sources Management • Jesslyn (Jesse) Stanres, 2011 822 W. 1st Street 2045 Morse Rd., Building H-3 • Josh Osborne, 2013 Apartment 4 Columbus, OH 43202 [email protected] (W) 614-265-6502 Reno, NV 89503 [email protected] • Katie Stehli Regan, 2008 309-253-6707 [email protected] 2602 Timberwood Dr. #53 [email protected] Ft. Collins, CO 80528 • Dan Stoner, 1996 • Michael Beck, 1973 [email protected] Sr. Vice President [email protected] Environment AECOM • Jeffrey G. Richardson, 1993 • Norm Sydow, 1984 250 Apollo Drive 1068 Grandview Avenue 737 Apple Ct. Chelmsford, MA 01824 Grandview Heights, OH 43212 Louisville, CO 80027 www.aecom.com 614-216-8985 303-666-9803 (D) 978 905–2119 [email protected] [email protected] (M) 508 254–1134 [email protected] [email protected] • Dale Walker, 1978 • Dawn Ezzo Roseman, 1984 Calle 77A No, 11-32 • Rachel Benton, 1983 1489 Werth Dr. Bogota, Colombia PO Box 147 Rochester, MI 48306 +57-1-628-8099 Interior, SD 57750 [email protected] [email protected] • Jacob (Jake) Foster, 2004 • Christopher P. Russell, 2004 • William T. Weber, III, 1989 [email protected] 849 South Miller Court 334 Main Avenue Weston, WV 26452 • Jeffrey M Glosser, 1982 Lakewood, CO 80226 304-269-3321 3565 Brookside Rd. 303-957-8006 [email protected] Ottawa Hills, Ohio 43606 [email protected] 419-345-2401 • Josef Werne, 1995 • Emily Schaefer, 2009 [email protected] [email protected] 5526 State Route 152 PO Box 342 • Rick Henterly, PG, 2002 Richmond, Ohio 43944 • Jean Adair (Smith) Wosinski, EHS Support LLC 740-632-8949 1954 728 S. Green Street [email protected] PO Box 432 Winston-Salem, NC 27101 Corning, NY 14830-0432 (D) 412-855-3727 • Adam Shaw, 2011 607-962-8904 (F) 412-774-2990 [email protected] www.ehs-support.com • Bob Wright, 1940 • Jim Sides,1985 200 Kirkland Village Circle • Dan Kimball, 1971 Broomfeld, CO Apt. 203 8107 N. Fairway View Drive 303-464-1990 Bethlehem, PA 18017-4795 Tucson, AZ 85742 [email protected] 610-691-4756

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Parting Shot. . .

Best wishes from the current students and faculty in the Department of Geosciences. Aloha!

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