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ince last year’s alumni newsletter, UT Department of Physics and Astronomy. the department and The University Her replacement is Diane Brown, Sof Toledo have gone through former secretary for the Department of significant changes. This past October, Psychology. the department shortened its name from “Earth, Ecological and Environmental One of the long-time adjunct professors Sciences” to “Environmental in the old Geology Department, Margaret Sciences.” Although the new Kitchen, died Jan. 22, 2006, at the age name does not reflect the of 83 (her obituary is in this newsletter). full spectrum of research Also, sadly, we lost one of our students last and course work in the June. Kyle Hunlock was a senior in our department, the old in environmental sciences BS program. name was deemed Hunlock died in an industrial accident too long, awkward, while working for Hazcorp Environmental and difficult to say Services in Toledo as part of the required and remember. For internship for his degree. At the request of example, some of the the department, UT has granted Hunlock top administrators in his BS degree posthumously. the University had trouble remembering During the past year, the administrative our name and that structure of the 47-acre Stranahan worried us. Thus, for Arboretum was changed so that the reasons of simplicity arboretum is now like a part of the and marketing efficiency, department. Daryl Moorhead is the new we changed the name. director, and the department is rapidly expanding its use of this facility for Another big change in the teaching and research. department was the addition of four new faculty members this fall. This gives Effective July 1, 2006, the Medical us a total of 21 full-time faculty members, University of Ohio (located on the south nine in geology and 15 in ecology. side of Toledo) and The University of www.eeescience.utoledo.edu The new assistant professors Toledo merged into a single institution, and their areas of teaching and research with the new entity keeping the UT name. expertise are as follows: Dr. Thomas So now there are the Main, Scott Park and UT Bridgeman (aquatic ecology, plankton and Health Science campuses. The merger has Great Lakes limnology), Dr. Ann Krause made UT the third largest public university (aquatic ecology and systems ecology), in Ohio in terms of its operating budget and Stacy Philpott (insect community ecology has increased the total enrollment to about and linkages between agroecology and 21,000 students. It is expected — and this conservation), and Michael Weintraub was the main motivation behind the merger (soil and ecosystem ecology and — that the new institution will garner biogeochemistry). More information about more prestige and attract more and better these faculty members is included in this students and more and larger external newsletter. research grants. The former president of the Medical University of Ohio, Dr. Lloyd We are sorry to report that Stephany Jacobs, is now the new president of UT. UT Mikols, our departmental secretary since Jacobs is moving fast and decisively to 1994, left us for a position on the staff of continued on page 2 Jim Harrell & Mike Phillips

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continued from page 1 2006. While at Toledo, we stopped by the Alumni News department and had a chance to chat with make numerous changes in the University. Dr. Camp and Dr. Phillips. We also peeked Steve Badger (MS Geology ‘96) reports Two of these will have large and positive in at reading room (still looks the same that he is now the director of technical impacts on our department. First, the and brought back memories). Dr. Camp consulting services for R. J. Lee Group College of Pharmacy will move out of offered a seat in the van for a National Inc. in Pittsburgh, Penn. After leaving Wolfe Hall, which adjoins Bowman-Oddy Parks fieldtrip out west in August 2006 UT, Badger obtained his Ph.D. in Laboratories, and will relocate to the and it was very tempting. Finally, while in materials science from Pennsylvania State Health Science Campus. Our department Indianapolis, I had a chance to get together University. will be able to expand into and probably with Alan Resnik (MS Geology ‘84) and reside in Wolfe Hall. It will likely be two his family a few times. In fact, our kids Julius Blanco (BS Geology ‘81, MS years before this happens, but it does have become friends. Alan works and lives Geology ‘85) writes, “The company I seem definite at this point. Wolfe Hall is in Columbus, Ind. I also had a chance to work for (Marathon Petroleum Company a beautiful, newer building and will be an have dinner and drinks with Stu Cravens LLC) transferred me to Lima, Ohio, improvement over our present space in (MS Geology ‘85) last January while February 2006. My new job is the terminal Bowman-Oddy. visiting Champaign, Ill. We determined it supervisor for the Marathon Petroleum has been 22 years since we last saw each Company’s Lima, Ohio Terminal. They President Jacobs’s second initiative is to other. It’s great to renew friendships from thought I needed to learn more about focus the University’s resources on building UT geology. If in the Lima area, please let the company’s bulk petroleum storage the science and technology programs me know (419.889.3879).” terminals and transport operations after five with “environmental science” at the top years of being in environmental compliance of the list for future development. Our Tim Connors (BS Geology ‘91, MS in the Indianapolis area. This job also department, especially with its new name, Geology ‘96) writes, “I cannot believe it, is a supervisory position, so it is quite a is perfectly positioned to take advantage of but it will be 10 whole years (Aug. 6, 1996) departure from what I have been doing. For this focus. since I defended my MS thesis. I’m still the last 19 years, I have been working in the celebrating that occasion daily. Things are environmental field (planning, remediation going well here in Denver, Colo. I’ve been and compliance). My daughter Carolyn Jim Harrell & Mike Phillips working for the National Park Service since is almost 16 and will be a junior in high 1997 in the Geologic Resources Division school for the fall of 2006. She is already as a real-live geologist. I’m responsible for visiting colleges. We visited Michigan getting a digital GIS-based geologic map State and Toledo for orientations in July

Wolfe Hall on Main Campus of The University of Toledo and future home of the Department of Environmental Sciences

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for all NPS areas. We use ESRI software to interesting deepwater projects, providing degree in geology from the University produce these, and it is quite challenging pore pressure and shallow hazard of New Orleans. [Editor’s note: Ray and fun. I love to tell people, “Where evaluations for exploration and production (“Duke”) is a well-known professional you go for vacation, I go for work.” I areas. It’s been a long and interesting path trumpet player, so it seems he sort of has love saying that (and living it!). Work has that started long ago in Toledo, Ohio.” the avocation/occupation relationship taken me to such lovely places as Hawaii reversed.] Volcanoes NP, Kenai Fjords NP (Alaska), Tim Eckstein, MD (BS Geology ‘74) and Virgin Islands NP. It’s a tough job, but recently retired from the U. S. Navy after Michael Homsher (PhD Biology/Ecology somebody has to do it. In my spare time, being recalled to active duty in 2004 ‘00), according to the UT alumni magazine, I’m active at a place called Dinosaur Ridge for Operation Iraqi Freedom. He has is an associate professor of environmental in Morrison, Colo. It’s essentially the type now returned to his former occupational safety and health management at the section for the Morrison Formation (as medicine practice in Bay City, Mich., University of Findlay, and was recently Mark Camp would say, “the dinosaur bone where he is the medical director of Bay honored for excellence by being named the yard”) and contains numerous dinosaur Occupational Services. first honorary faculty chair in the College fossils (vertebrate and trace). I’m on a of Sciences. personal crusade to raise awareness about John Ezerskis (UT MS Geology ‘89) the degrading geologic resources and to writes, “I have been making a living as a Gary Kaminsky (BA Geology ‘77) writes, get funding for a building that will protect professional geologist now for 17 years. “I play chess with the Coffeehouse Chess the world-famous dinosaur tracks present The first 11 years were in the environmental League of Northwest Ohio. Locally in the at the site from the ever-powerful erosive field, and the last six years were with Toledo metro area, we meet and play chess forces of nature. Hopefully good things Ohio Drilling Co., based in Massillon, on Thursday afternoons from 1 to 4 pm at will come of it. I always enjoy hearing Ohio. My principal duties are as a project Southwyck Mall on Reynolds Road. I also from fellow alumni and professors. If manager/sales engineer in the completion can be found playing at the Internet Chess you’re in the Denver area, look me up. I’m of large volume water wells for industry Club. As for my best game, I came very happy to give tours of the local geology and municipalities, well rehabilitation, and close to drawing or winning a game against to anyone interested. I can be reached at motor/turbine pump service. The core of Grand Master Boris Alterman of Israel who [email protected] or 303.969.2093.” my clientele is along the Ohio River, from lives in New York City. FIDE gives him a near Pittsburgh, Penn., south on both banks Worldwide Ranking of 270th strongest Cathy Coon (MS Geology ‘80) writes to Gallipolis, Ohio. During the course of player in the world, and he is ranked 16th “I was recently informed by a fellow UT the projects, I’ve conferred with two of my strongest in the United States and 12th in Geology Department alumnus that I was classmates, Pat Heider (BS Geology ‘84, Israel. I also participated in the Internet listed as ‘lost’ in his recent issue of alumni MS Geology 91) and George Stuckey (MS Chess Game with IGM and former World news. I am writing to correct that report Geology ‘88) of the Ohio EPA-Bowling Chess Champion Garry Kasparov. Our and give details of where I may be found. I Green. However, this year I’ve ventured team came close to a draw with Kasparov. am working at Chevron in Houston, as part away from the Ohio River into eastern Chess is my main hobby. I also have tutored of the Gulf of Mexico Deepwater Group. West Virginia. I’ve completed a water a gifted child in Fostoria in mathematics, Having started out in Houston 25 years resource investigation near Seneca Rocks in science, and computer languages, as well ago, I have now come full circle back to Pendleton County, W.V., where my interest as in chess. My student placed in the Houston. I moved from Cities Service in in the Appalachians was first kindled as an Greater Toledo Area Mathematics Exam Houston to Sun Oil in Dallas and then undergrad. I am completing a water well for his age group and placed high enough London. From Sun, I moved to CanOxy project for the town of Wardensville in for state competition. And I briefly taught (now Nexen) and then to PanCanadian (now Hardy County, W.V., north of my MS thesis mathematics at the Owens Community Encana) in Calgary. In 2000, I finally made mapping area in the Lost River/Lost City College Toledo Campus — algebra, it to Denver, where I had always wanted to area. Dr. Stuart Dean was my adviser and trigonometry and pre-calculus — was a live and work. After four wonderful years mentor, and the Wardensville project brings campus-wide mathematics tutor. I miss there, my and my husband’s jobs were back fond memories of the fieldwork and working in the geological sciences and transferred, and we’re back in Houston. his tutelage. My wife, Brigitte, and I have the Rocky Mountains where I began All these previous positions were in now been married 25 years and reside in the after graduating from UT. I returned to international exploration and covered a Village of Bratenahl, which is surrounded Ohio in 1978 and worked for the past 20 wide area, including South America, North by Cleveland on three sides with Lake Erie years running and maintaining mainframe and West Africa, China, Malaysia, and the to the north.” computer platforms for First National North Sea. My current position at Chevron Bank of Findlay, Fifth Third Bank of gives me my first domestic experience and Raymond Heitger (BS Geology ‘91) Northwest Ohio, Society for Worldwide the excitement of working on some very reports that he recently received his MS Interbank Telecommunications (SWIFT),

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LCI Worldwide Telecommunications (now years include a research study on the Ohio Karen May, and Gary Krebs sometime.” Qwest) of Denver, Colo., and Electronic Shale in Erie County, which demonstrated Data Systems (EDS) of Plano, Texas. that naturally occurring BTEX in the shale Howard Miller (MS Geology ‘97) writes, EDS downsized, and I lost my position can release benzene to ground water in “Things here are going well. I spent the last working on the General Motors Account monitor wells for a period of time after 10 years working for various environmental in Michigan. I returned to Ohio and taught well installation. This has regulatory consulting firms in Cincinnati doing math part-time at Owens for one semester. implications as the benzene levels were projects throughout the United States (about I find myself working-retired — working above drinking water standards. I was the 44 states to date). Project descriptions have at Wal-Mart here in Findlay for the third principal author of a report equivalent to varied widely, and they have gone well. shift. I still enjoy the sciences and related an MS thesis on this subject. Two other With some of the utility deregulations a subjects I studied while in college. I stay ongoing projects include monitoring well few years ago, I also was able to get into current by going to the NASA/JPL, USGS installation and investigatory work at sites many true hydrogeology related projects. and the NOAA/NWS Web sites. Dr. Craig where chlorinated solvents have impacted The DRASTIC thesis was a good lead-in Hatfield was my favorite professor while a municipal water supply and/or residential to the professional world, considering the in college during the 1970s, and I was wells. Sometimes I get to core and log time period. Most of my geologist peers among others who voted for him for the bedrock — the closest thing we get to real came out of school with significantly less Outstanding Teacher Award. All I know is geology — but I also am using my interests environmental background. The mapping Dr. Hatfield sure could teach geology!” in chemistry and related work experience also really helped to evaluate dynamic with this job. I’m learning Arc-View and problems. I’m sure you’ve received plenty Renee Klinger-McLaughlin (MS beginning to specialize in mapping work. I of feedback from those of us who went the Geology ‘84) writes, “As always, I enjoy still like to rebuild classic Chevrolets from environmental consultant route for a career. receiving the Alumni Newsletter and the 1950s and 1960s. My latest projects For some reason, it worked out for me to hearing about what is occurring with the are a 1955 pick-up, and a 1966 Impala. an extent where it really hasn’t for most of department and updates on old classmates Work continues on moving and building at my peers. From my perspective, it’s really and the faculty. Life is very good for me my home and property near Alamogordo, a thankless, grind-it-out profession where in Dallas. I have been here since moving N.M. I’m planning on retiring there, but you need to look deep within for successes from Toledo in November 1984. As you there will be a transition period where I will and growth. Looking back, I wouldn’t may know, I have worked at CDX Gas spend the summer in Ohio, and the winter recommend it to most students looking for LLC for almost five years. CDX Gas is in New Mexico. I would like to hear from jobs right out of school. About a year ago, a gas drilling and exploration company alumni Jim Kreutzfeld, Gary Maxwell, I decided to start my own consulting firm formed in 1991 that uses a patented horizontal drilling technology that can tap low-permeability coal and shale gas reservoirs. My position is manager of geological technical Support and analytical testing. We now have more than 400 employees — there were about 25 people when I stated in 2001. I am responsible for all aspects of coal bed methane resource determinations and organic geochemistry as it relates to coals and shales. I truly have a wonderful position and have been very blessed. On a personal note, I have been married for more than five years to Ken, and we are very happy together. FYI — I saw Jeff McLaughlin (MS Geology’ 84) is still on the ‘missing’ list. He lives in Sylvania, Ohio with his wife, Carla, and their two children.”

Dale McLane (BS Geology ‘80) writes, “I am still at the Ohio EPA, working in the Division of Drinking and Groundwater. Significant projects during the past 12 Kaushik Mysorekar at work at the Nature Conservancy in Little Rock, AR.

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3, 2006. The division — with a staff of 45 engineers, environmental scientists and environmental technicians, and others — oversees the air and water quality for the citizens of Toledo. The division is a Local Air Agency (contractual agent for the Ohio EPA); issues air pollution PTIs and PTOs; enforces pretreatment and storm- water regulations; assesses, remediates and redevelops brownfields; monitors local air and water quality; and operates a central laboratory for the city. On a personal note, my wife Rose is an ER nurse at Toledo Hospital. My son Mike, 20, is a private in the Army stationed at Ft. Hood, Texas. Daughter Sarah, 18, accepted a soccer scholarship to Niagara University, N.Y., and enrolled fall 2006. Maggie, 14, will be entering Sylvania Northview High School as a freshman.”

George Stuckey (MS Geology ‘88) writes, “I’m still living in Wauseon, Ohio at the family’s farm. We’re still an operating farm (row crops) on the southern edge of Wauseon, but suburban sprawl is Dave Wavrek (left) and Ron Tipton (right) on the ski slopes. encroaching from all sides. My brother and I bought the old homestead and some after hitting a frustration plateau working accountant and plans to move to a warmer surrounding acreage so the orchard and for a large international firm. The objective climate. She also will be getting married at gardens are still intact. For those of you was really to take my career in a direction the end of May 2006 in the Toledo area. I who were in graduate school from 1984 to that worked with my professional goals and am glad that they both decided to get 1988 and remember the apples I brought vision. It’s ended up being just an extension married in their hometown.” in, the apple trees are still producing. The of where I am in life right now. It’s helped 40-year-old yellow delicious trees are still to re-energize my technical interests and Kaushik Mysorekar (MS Biology- making some of the best-tasting apples I’ve to do things that matter to me. So far, it’s Ecology ‘04) writes, “I have been ever eaten. In the last six or seven years, working out great.” working for the world-renowned Nature I’ve cultivated blueberries and have had Conservancy organization in Little Rock, several bountiful crops. With respect to Cynthia (Christiansen) Newton (BA Ark., since graduating. My experience in work, I’m working as a geologist III at the Geology ‘78) writes, “I am still working EEES was wonderful. The department Ohio EPA in the northwest district office as the assistant manager of construction offers multidisciplinary and applied at Bowling Green. Work entails reviewing services at Bowser-Morner in Toledo, courses in many areas of environmental various regulatory document submissions Ohio. I am active in my local church sciences and ecology. Faculty members and ground water analytical data. I’m the helping with the Children’s Ministry. My are outstanding and very encouraging. As coordinator in the northwest office for our oldest daughter, Amy, graduated from a result, I was able to successfully secure Ambient Ground Water Characterization college in May 2005 and is now a physical employment in the field of my interest even program, which is developing a database therapist assistant at a hospital in Canton, before I graduated. The EEES Department for background ground water quality across Ohio. She had a beautiful outdoor wedding is not only a wonderful place to study, but the state. In other work, with our Division at Maumee Bay State Park in August also a great place for social interaction.” of Emergency and Remedial Response 2004. Her husband is still going to college (DERR), I continue to sample and oversee and works in a chiropractor’s office. My Casey Stephens (BS Geology ‘80, MS the largest Air Sparging and Soil Vapor youngest daughter, Amanda, graduated Geology ‘84) writes, “I was appointed Extraction system in Ohio. We have seen from Saint Cloud State University in commissioner of the City of Toledo’s a 70 percent reduction in trichloroethene Minnesota in May 2006. She is an Division of Environmental Services Jan. concentrations in the plume down gradient

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from the facility. James King (MS Geology ‘77) and his company, Avant Group, were the primary geologic consultants for this IN MEMORIAM project. I also worked on another DERR (adapted from an article in The Blade, investigation and remediation project with Jan. 24, 2006, page B-4) Joyce Dunkin (MS Geology ‘81) and Tom Covrett (BS Geology ‘91) in Fayette, argaret J. Kitchen, a local in places where she thought there was Ohio. Remediation at this site hasn’t been geologist and lawyer who ran oil. She would hit a dry well every now nearly as successful as the previously Ma law firm with her husband and then, but it was exciting for her mentioned site. We may attempt in-situ and then her daughter, died Jan. 22, 2006 when they actually hit oil.” chemical oxidation as a remedy for this in Flower Hospital from complications site — the original pump and treat system after surgery. She was 83. Kitchen was Marlo Kitchen said her mother met and hasn’t contained the contaminant plume. described by her daughter, Margaret married her husband, John W. Kitchen, Here are some additional “whereabouts” Ann “Marlo” Kitchen, as upbeat, while studying law at The University of missing alumni: Andrew Ellison (MS friendly and intelligent with a good of Toledo School of Law, where she Geology ‘88) lives in Denver, Colo.; Tom sense of humor. “She was very generous received her degree in 1952. After Covrett (BS Geology ‘91) works for and loved animals,” Marlo Kitchen said. leaving Sun Oil, the couple started Mannix and Smith Inc. in Maumee, Ohio; “She was very outdoorsy. She loved to the law firm Kitchen and Kitchen. Mr. and Greg Brennan (MS Geology ‘94) hike, backpack and ski, and she worked Kitchen died in 1988. Eventually their lives in Iowa City, Iowa.” on oilrigs. I think her interest in geology daughter joined the law firm. “We were came from her love of the outdoors.” a mother-and-daughter law firm,” Marlo Dave Wavrek (MS Geology ‘85), president Kitchen said. “She would tell me when of Petroleum Systems International in Salt She was born in Noblesville, Ind., and we walked through those doors, we Lake City, Utah, writes, “I cross paths with attended the University of Michigan were partners and no longer mother Jeff Quick (BS Geology ‘81, MS Geology to study astronomy. “She told me she and daughter. It was great working with ‘84). I’d hired him as faculty member at couldn’t handle the math, so she looked her, and she had a wonderful wealth of the University of South Carolina and the for something else,” Marlo Kitchen experience.” Marlo Kitchen said her University of Utah, and now he’s with Utah said. “She absolutely loved geology. She mother enjoyed life and appreciated the Geol Survey. I also see Renee Klinger- loved the sense of time with it. She could outdoors and her dogs and cats around McLaughlin (MS Geology ‘84) from time look at a rock and tell you everything the home. “She would always tell me to time. Ron Tipton (MS Geology ‘86) about it — where it was from, how it was to stop and smell the flowers, and that and I still “play” together — in fact he’s formed, and its age.” At UM, Kitchen every day was a fresh chance. She was due out here to ski next week (see picture received a bachelor’s degree in 1944 passionate about the things she was from one of last year’s ski trip).” and a master’s degree in 1946 — both interested in. In law, she really enjoyed in geology. Her daughter said Kitchen helping people, and doing the best job Susan Whitaker (BS Geology ‘98) reports was a top student and, even though she she could in helping them.” that she is living in Noblesville, Ind., and was one of a handful of women in the works as a project geologist for a minority- field at the time, never talked about Kitchen also taught geology at The owned engineering consulting firm based feeling a need to prove herself. “She University of Toledo from 1963 until in Indianapolis. was pretty confident,” Marlo Kitchen 1993, when she retired as an adjunct said. “She — not in an egotistical way associate professor, and then retired — felt she was pretty special. She had from practicing law in 2005. She was a lot of confidence in her ability.” She a member of the American Association worked for the U.S. Geological Survey of Petroleum Geologists, the Michigan from 1944-45, was an assistant in the Basin Geological Association, the Department of Geology at Michigan Toledo Bar Association, and Zonta Club from 1945-46 before joining the Sun of Toledo. She also piloted private planes Oil Co., where she worked until the late and traveled. “She was truly my best 1950s as a senior geologist. “She would friend,” Marlo Kitchen said. “She was go out and find oil deposits,” Marlo always up and in a good mood. You just Kitchen said. “They would go out and enjoyed being around her.” Surviving is drill a well, which was very expensive, her daughter, Margaret Ann Kitchen.

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Meet the New Faculty Members nn E. Krause: “My research focuses on the importance of subsystem structure and function to system stability from Aa network perspective. My colleagues and I apply cross- disciplinary methods to quantify and visualize subsystems within networks. We are investigating the importance of these subsystems in relation to changes in the individual components and the whole system after perturbations.

My doctoral research examined structural and functional properties of food-web networks, primarily focusing on Lake Michigan. During my Ph.D. studies, I also worked as a research associate at the Great Lakes Fishery Commission, where I gained an appreciation of the issues facing the Laurentian Great Lakes and the extensive network of the people involved. My research is now moving towards coupling human and natural systems. To increase my understanding Tom Bridgeman of human systems, I worked as a post-doctoral research associate homas B. Bridgeman: “I grew up along the for a researcher of human social networks. shores of the Great Lakes and spent my summers Tsailing and scuba diving in their waters. During my My future research program will focus on the application of system undergraduate years at Miami University, I studied the ecology theory to complex issues in ecosystem management. System theory of the Great Lakes and came to understand the role humans have and the network methods used to test them provide a common played in exploiting and protecting this fragile ecosystem. As framework for examining the integration of human and natural a master’s student, I spent several summers at the Ohio State systems because the theories span across social and ecological University’s Lake Erie field station at Put-In-Bay, researching how disciplines and methodology can be transferred between disciplines. microscopic organisms at the base of the aquatic food web, the Currently, I am exploring the topic of sustainable land-use planning phytoplankton and zooplankton, adapt to seasonal changes. In my in coastal systems, particularly the relationships among decision doctoral research at the University of Michigan, I used these same makers on land-use policy and their local-community stakeholder organisms to trace the history of severe ecological disturbance in groups and the landscape that is influenced by their decisions. the world’s second largest lake, Lake Victoria in East Africa. Research should inform planning efforts on how to build local community capacity for engaging in environmentally sustainable Since joining the Department of Environmental Sciences at The University of Toledo, my research has focused on the intersections of anthropogenic stressors and weather that result in severe disturbances to the ecology of the Great Lakes, in particular, Lake Erie. For example, we have found that when conditions in western Lake Erie, which are already stressed by the inflow of nutrients from an agricultural watershed, are exacerbated by summer heat waves, the result can be a catastrophic loss of mayfly reproduction. Beginning in 2007, my students will undertake a study of the ecology of blooms of the toxic “blue- green” alga, Microcystis sp. Blooms of Microcystis have plagued western Lake Erie in recent years and threaten recreational use of large portions of the lake. We hope to determine the environmental triggers for these blooms with the goal of making recommendations that could help prevent future blooms.

As a teacher, I hope to develop students’ appreciation of the complexity of the Great Lakes ecosystem. The University of Toledo’s proximity to Lake Erie makes it all the more important for students to understand their role in the wise stewardship of this precious resource. [Editor’s Note: Tom is married to our next new faculty member, Ann Krause, below.] Ann Krause UT DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

land-use practices in coastal communities. In order to conduct research on this topic, I am actively seeking out collaborative opportunities with faculty within the Department of Environmental Sciences as well as faculty in other departments, such as the departments of Sociology and Anthropology, and Geography and Planning. Interdisciplinary collaborations are critical to reaching my goal of integrating ecological and social systems to achieve sustainable ecosystems. [Editor’s Note: Ann and husband Tom Bridgeman had their first child after Christmas 2006.]

tacy Philpott: “My interest in science started in high school in Indianapolis, but my real interest in ecology Semerged while living in Seattle where I studied for a B.S. in zoology at the University of Washington. After graduating, I spent several years as a research technician studying exotic invasive ladybugs, endangered butterflies, and ant-beetle interactions in the Pacific Northwest, and working as a volunteer for human rights and environmental organizations in Central America, particularly Guatemala. This mix of experience and interest led me to pursue a graduate degree focused on insect ecology of tropical agroecosystems at the University of Michigan. Specifically, my graduate research centered on understanding the ecological Stacy Philpott importance of ants in coffee agroecosystems and how changes in farm management affect interactions between ants and their prey, effects of disturbances. Microorganisms control soil carbon and parasites and predators. I also have worked at the Smithsonian nutrient cycling, so we need a better understanding of their role Institution where I undertook a project focused on biodiversity and in regulating these processes in order to predict how important on economic importance of sustainable coffee agroecosystems in ecosystem services will respond to changes. In an effort to Mexico and Sumatra, Indonesia. improve our knowledge of how ecosystems function and predict their responses to disturbances, my research at The University As a professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences, I of Toledo will be focused on gaining insight into the controls on hope to center my research in natural and agricultural areas. I will soil nutrient availability and decomposition by improving our continue research in three basic areas: 1) community ecology, understanding of how soil microorganisms control ecosystem 2) ecosystem services, and 3) the interplay of agroecosystems processes. My students and I will use this knowledge to determine in conservation. I plan to continue tropical research and hope how invasive plants, human disturbances, and efforts to restore to become involved in local agroecological issues in northwest native plants affect important belowground processes. Ohio. I will continue to focus on ants, other insects, and birds as ecological indicators and as model organisms for studying Mike Weintraub ecological processes. I also will continue my work on trophic interactions, spatial dimensions of ecology, and agricultural sustainability. I will encourage undergraduate and graduate students in my lab to pursue research locally or internationally in the areas of biodiversity, food web ecology, agroecology, and conservation biology.

ichael N. Weintraub: “Global climate change, nutrient deposition, changes in plant community Mcomposition, increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations, and other disturbances all have the potential to alter important ecosystem properties. These include soil nutrient availability, decomposition, and soil carbon storage. However, in many cases we don’t understand the mechanisms underlying important ecosystem processes well enough to predict the

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Recent Faculty and Student Publications

Rinta-Kanto, J.M., A.J.A. Cheng, X., S. An, B. Li, J. (Department of Environmental Sciences faculty in bold, Ouellette, M.R. Twiss, G.L. Chen, G. Lin, Y. Liu, Y. Luo

students in bold italics, and post-docs and adjunct Boyer, T.B. Bridgeman and S. Liu. 2006. Summer rain pulse size and rainwater faculty underlined) and S.W. Wilhelm. 2005. Quantification of toxic uptake by three dominant desert Microcystis spp. during plants in a desertified grassland the 2003 and 2004 blooms ecosystem in northwestern Books Bossenbroek, J.M., H.H. in Western Lake Erie. China. Plant Ecology, v. 84, Wagner and J.A. Wiens. 2005. Environmental Science and p.1-12. Camp, M.J. 2005. Railroad Taxon-dependent scaling: Technology, v. 39, p. 4198- Depots of Northwest Ohio. beetles, birds and vegetation at 4205. Euskirchen, E.S., K.S. Arcadia Publishing (Charleston, four North American grassland Pregitzer and J. Chen. 2006. SC). sites. Landscape Ecology, v. 20, Schloesser, D.W., R.G. Stickel, Carbon fluxes in a young, p. 675-688. and T.B. Bridgeman. 2005. naturally generating, jack Camp, M.J. 2006. Railroad Potential oxygen demand pine ecosystem. Journal Depots of West Central Ohio. Bossenbroek, J.M., J. of sediments from Lake of Geophysical Research – Arcadia Publishing (Charleston, McNulty and R. Keller. 2005. Erie. Journal of Great Lakes Atmospheres, issue no. D01101, SC). Can ecologists heat up the Research, v. 31 (Suppl. 2). p. doi:10:1029/2005JD005793, p. discussion on invasive species 272-283. 1-13. Camp, M.J. 2006. Roadside risk? Risk Analysis, v. 25, p. Geology of Ohio. Mountain 1595-1597. Cheng, X., Y. Luo, J. Chen, G. Wang, W, B. Song, J. Chen, Press Publishing (Missoula, Lin, J. Chen and B. Li. 2006. D. Zheng and T.R. Crow. Leung, B., J.M. Bossenbroek MO). Short-term C4 plant Spartina 2006. Visualizing forest and D.M. Lodge. 2006. alterniflora invasions change landscapes using public data Boats, pathways, and aquatic Chen, J. S.C. Saunders, K.D. the soil carbon in C3 plant- sources. Landscape and Urban biological invasions: estimating Brosofske, and T.R. Crow dominated tidal wetlands on a Planning, v. 75, p. 111-124. (eds.). 2006. Ecology of dispersal potential with gravity growing estuarine island. Soil models. Biological Invasions, v. Hierarchical Landscapes: from Biology and Biochemistry, v. Zheng, D., J. Chen, J. Le 8, p. 241-254. Theory to Application. Nova 38, p. 3880-3886. Moine and E.S. Euskirchen. Science Publisher (New York, 2005. Influences of land-use Johnson, L.E., J.M. , NY). Wang, X., B. Song, J. Chen change and edges on soil Bossenbroek, and C.E. Kraft. T.R. Crow and J. LaCroix. 2006. Pathways and patterns respiration in a managed forest Chen, J., B. Li, Z. Ma, and B. 2006. Challenges in visualizing of the post-establishment landscape, WI. Forest Ecology Zhao (eds.). 2005. Challenges forests and landscapes. Journal spread of non-indigenous and Management, v. 215, p. Facing Ecologists: Questions of Forestry, v. 104, p. 316-319. aquatic species across multiple 169-182. and Approaches. The Higher spatial and temporal scales: Education Press (Beijing, Ryu, S., J. Chen, D. Zheng and the continuing invasion of Weltzin, J.F., J.K. Keller, S.D. China). M. Bresee. 2006. Simulating the zebra mussels in North Bridgham, J. Pastor, P.B. Allen the effects of age structure and and J. Chen. 2005. Litter as a America. Biological Invasions, disturbances on fuel loading ARTICLES v. 8, p. 475-489. control on fen plant community (EcoFL) in forest ecosystems composition and production. of Northern Wisconsin, USA. Bridgeman, T.B., D.W. Oikos, v. 110, p. 537-546. Bobeldyk, A.M, J.M. Ecological Modelling, v.196, p. Bossenbroek, M.A. Evan- Schloesser and A.E. Krause. 395-406. Jiang, L., F. Shi, B. Li, Y. Luo, White, D.M Lodge and G.A. 2006. Recruitment of J. Chen and J. Chen. 2005. Lamberti. 2005. Secondary Hexagenia mayfly nymphs Concilio, A., S. Ma, S.R. Separating root respiration from spread of zebra mussels in western Lake Erie linked Ryu, M. North and J. Chen. total soil respiration in two (Dreissena polymorpha) to environmental variability. 2006. Soil respiration larch plantations in northeastern in lake-stream systems. Ecological Applications, v. 16, response to burning and China. Tree Physiology, v. 25, Ecoscience, v. 12, p. 414-421. p. 601-611. thinning from one to three p. 1187-1195. years after experimental treatments. Forest Ecology and Management, v. 228, p.82-90. UT DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Fisher, T.G., T.V. Lowell and the subglacial hydrology of Concilio, A., S. Ma, Q. Li, Philpott, S.M. 2006. Ant H.M. Loope. 2005. Comment the Great Lakes sector of J. LeMoine, J. Chen, M. patchiness: a spatially on “Alternative routing of Lake the Laurentide Ice Sheet. In: North, D. Moorhead and R. quantitative test in Agassiz overflow during the Fisher, T.G. and Russell, Jensen. 2005. Soil respiration coffee agroecosystems. Younger Dryas: new dates, A.J. (eds.), Reassessing the response to prescribed Naturwissenschaften, v. 93, p. paleotopography, and a re- role of meltwater processes burning and thinning in 386-392. evaluation” by Teller et al. during Quaternary glaciations, mixed-conifer and hardwood Quaternary Science Reviews, v. Quaternary Science Reviews, v. forests. Canadian Journal of Philpott, S.M. and I. 25, p. 1137-1141. 24, p. 2392-2409. Forest Research, v. 35, n. 7, p. Armbrecht. 2006. Biodiversity 1581-1591. in tropical agroforests and the Lowell, T.V., T.G. Fisher, Fisher, T.G., H.M. Jol and ecological role of ants and ant G. Comer, I. Hajdas, N. A.M. Lahners. 2005. Saginaw McKenna, K., D.L. Moorhead, diversity in predatory function. Waterson, K. Glover, J. Shafer, Lobe tunnel channels and E. Roberts and J. Laybourn- Ecological Entomology, v. 31, V. Rinterknecht, W. Broecker, ice recession style, south- Parry. 2006. Simulating p. 369-377. G. Denton, H.M. Loope and central Michigan, USA, In: energy flow through a pelagic J.T. Teller. 2005. Glacial Lake Fisher, T.G. and Russell, food web in Lake Fryxell, Philpott, S.M., I. Perfecto and Agassiz: a proposed freshwater A.J. (eds.) Reassessing the Antarctica. Ecological J. Vandermeer. 2006. Effects trigger for the Younger Dryas role of meltwater processes Modelling, v. 192, p. 457-472. of management system and - Report on a test in progress. during Quaternary glaciations, season on arboreal ant diversity EOS Transactions v. 86, n. 40, Quaternary Science Reviews, v. Burnett, L., D. Moorhead, and abundance in coffee p. 365 & 372. 24, p. 2375-2391. I. Hawes and C. Howard- agroecosystems. Biodiversity Williams. 2006. Environmental and Conservation, v. 15, p. Fisher, T.G. 2005. Strandline Gottgens, J.F. 2005. What can factors associated with deep 139-155. analysis in the southern basin we learn from sediment cores? chlorophyll maxima in dry of glacial Lake Agassiz, The need for long-term data in valley lakes, South Victoria Philpott, S.M., S. Uno and Minnesota and North and South environmental law, science and Land, Antarctica. Arctic, J. Maldonado. 2006. The Dakota, USA. Geological policy. Journal of Great Lakes Antarctic and Alpine Research, importance of ants and high- Society of America Bulletin, v. Law Science & Policy, v. 5, n. v. 38, p. 179-189. shade management to coffee 117, n. 9/10, p. 1481-1496. 2, p. 101-104 pollination and yield in Moorhead, D.L. and R.L. Chiapas, Mexico. Biodiversity Fisher, T.G. and W.L. Loope. W.Z. Wendrich, R.S. Tomber, Sinsabaugh. 2006. A theoretical and Conservation, v. 15, p. 2005. Aeolian sand preserved S.E. Sidebotham, J.A. model of litter decay and 487-501. in Silver lake: A reliable signal Harrell, R.T.J. Cappers and microbial interaction. of Holocene high stands of R.S. Bagnall. 2003. Berenike Ecological Monographs, v. 76, Stepien, C.A. and M.A. Lake Michigan. The Holocene, crossroads – the integration of p. 151-174. Tumeo. 2006. Invasion v. 15, n. 7, p. 1072-1078. information. In: N. Yoffee and genetics of Ponto-Caspian B.L. Crowell (eds.), Excavating Philpott, S.M. 2005. Trait- gobies in the Great Lakes: A Fisher, T.G. and J. Russell. Asian History: Interdisciplinary mediated effects of parasitic “cryptic” species, absence 2005. Introduction to Studies in Archaeology and phorid flies (Diptera: Phoridae) of founder effects, and reassessing the role of History. University of Arizona on ant (Hymenoptera: comparative risk analysis. meltwater processes during Press, Tucson, p. 15-66. Formicidae) competition and Biological Invasions, v. 8, n. 1, Quaternary glaciations. In: resource access in coffee p. 61-78. Fisher, T.G. and Russell, agroecosystems. Environmental Harrell, J.A. and M.I. A.J. (eds.), Reassessing the Entomology, v. 34, p. 1089- Borden, W.C. and C. A. Madbouly. 2006. An ancient role of meltwater processes 1094. Stepien. 2006. Population quarry for siliceous sandstone during Quaternary glaciations, genetic structure of smallmouth at Wadi Abu Aggag, Egypt. Quaternary Science Reviews, v. Jedlicka J, R. Greenberg, bass, Micropterus dolomieu, Sahara, n. 17, p. 51-58. 24, p. 2305-2307. I. Perfecto, S. Philpott and in Lake Erie discerned T. Dietsch. 2006. Seasonal with mitochondrial DNA Seeger, J.A., S.E. Sidebotham, Munro-Stasiuk, M.J., T.G. foraging niche shifts of tropical sequences and nuclear DNA J.A. Harrell and M. Pons. Fisher and C.R. Nitzsche. avian residents: resource microsatellites. Journal of 2006. A brief archaeological 2005. The origin of the western competition at work? Journal Great Lakes Research, v. 32, p. survey of the Aqiq region (Red Lake Erie grooves, Ohio: of Tropical Ecology, v. 22, p. 242-257. Sea coast), Sudan. Sahara, n. implications for reconstructing 385-395. 17, p. 7-18.

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EXTERNAL Research Grants Recent Recently Received by Faculty Student Achievements (Department of Environmental Sciences faculty in bold, wo graduate students students in bold italics, and post-docs and adjunct Philpott, S.M. 2006. “A multi-scale approach to in the wetlands group faculty underlined) assessing hurricane damage Treceived grants from to agricultural systems the Lake Erie Protection Fund and landscapes of varying in support of their research. management intensity.” L’Óreal Michael Benedict, fall 2006 Bossenbroek, J.M. (P.I.) – implications for ice sheet USA Fellowship for Women in doctoral graduate, received a and co-PIs D. Finnoff and L. dynamics and climate change.” Science, $20,000 for 2006. $9,100 grant for his innovative Iverson. 2006. “Evaluating the National Science Foundation, work on riparian forests in economic costs and benefits $30,000 for August 2006-July Spongberg, A.L. and C. northwest Ohio watersheds. of slowing the spread of 2007 Mayer (joint PI’s). 2005. “REU Benedict is particularly the emerald ash borer in the Site: integrated assessment interested in the relationships Michigan and Ohio.” U.S. Gottgens, J.F. (PI) and co-PI of physical, ecological, and between landscape structure, Department of Agriculture, T.D. Crail. 2006. “Restoring socio-economic aspects of a land use and water quality. $250,000 for January 2007- fish diversity in agricultural watershed system.” National Using water quality data for December 2008. streams: Testing the impact Science Foundation’s Research nine regional watersheds and of vegetative encroachment.” Experience for Undergraduates, computing various landscape Bridgeman, T.B. 2005. Lake Erie Protection Fund, $258,909 for May 2005-April metrics in GIS, he developed “Temporal resolution of $9,500 for May 2006-June 2007. a rapid method to identify the the Maumee River plume.” 2007. best riparian forests for water Czajkowski, K.P. (PI), and quality benefits without the need National Oceanic and Gottgens, J.F. (PI) and co-PI co-PI’s A.L. Spongberg, for long-term and expensive Atmospheric Administration, M. Benedict. 2005. “Riparian D. Dwyer and W.V. Sigler. monitoring of water chemistry $10,000 for 2006. forests in NW Ohio watersheds: 2006. “Monitoring agricultural or stream biology. Additional Relations among landscape sewage sludge II.” United support for his work came Bridgeman, T.B. (PI) and structure, land use, and water States Department of from a three-year UT Doctoral co-PI’s C.M. Mayer, S.A. quality in regional rivers.” Lake Agriculture, $1,192,586 for Fellowship Award. Benedict Heckathorn and W.V. Sigler. Erie Protection Fund, $10,000 2006. “Assessing the role July 2006-June 2009. has accepted a position as a for March 2005-September new assistant professor of of turbid river plumes in the 2006. development of Microcystis Stepien, C.A., C. Mayer, C. environmental sciences at Hiram blooms in Lake Erie with D. Kashian (PI) and co- Gruden, K Czajkowski and College in Ohio, ranked among molecular techniques.” Ohio PI’s A. Krause and four K. Egan (joint PI’s). “FSML the country’s most prestigious Sea Grant, $171,000 for 2007- others. 2006. “What are (Field Station and Marine Lab) liberal arts institutions. 2009. the causes, consequences planning grant for the Lake and correctives of fish Erie Center”. National Science Todd Crail also received a Dwyer, D. (PI) and co-PI’s contamination in the Detroit Foundation, $25,000 for nearly $10,000 grant from the J.F. Gottgens, J. Martin- River AOC that cause health October 2006-April 2008. Lake Erie Protection Fund for Hayden and D. Apul. consumption advisories?” his work on the fish diversity 2005. “Phytoremediation Michigan Sea Grant, $224,893 Stepien, CA. 2005. “High- in agricultural segments of research: Design of a passive for May 2007-April 2009. resolution delineation of channelized streams in the biological treatment system Lake Erie fish populations: headwaters of the Ottawa River, for arsenic.” U.S. Department Moorhead, D. 2005. DNA databases for resource a tributary watershed to western of Agriculture, $728,882 for “Interacting microbial x management.” U.S. Lake Erie. Plant encroachment October 2005-September 2008. chemical x nitrogen controls on Environmental Protection into these ditches and the litter-to-humus transformation.” Agency, $628,000 for 2005- resulting fluvial geomorphology Fisher, T.G. 2006. U. S. Department of 2007 are surmised to improve water “Deglaciation chronology Agriculture, $89,599 for 2005- of the Des Moines Lobe 2007. (continued on p 12)

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quality and produce a more-stable cross section in these ditches. Crail is evaluating Lou Bertoli James Kralik the ecological impact of this vegetative encroachment by comparing the structure David Beverstock James Lagrou and composition of fish communities in ditches with and without plant intrusion. Lee & Virginia Black Jeffery & Monica Leberfinger Crail and his loyal crew of field assistants uncovered a remarkable fish diversity Michael Burke Jayne Ludwikoski in these ditches, including a previously unknown population of the least darter David Buss Frank Majchszak (Etheostoma microperca), a State Species of Concern. He demonstrated a substantial Matt & Penny Choma Michael McGee difference between stream segments with and without plant intrusion. In 11 sample Stephen Clarke Terrence Perris events between June 2005 and September 2006, Crail collected, identified and Gene & Nancy Collins Clark Scheerens released (unharmed) more than 11,000 fish representing 25 species. Less than 1 Matthew Cousino Brian Shadbolt percent of these fish were exotic species. Crail is scheduled to graduate with a MS Devon Energy Corp. Marc Silverman degree in fall 2006 and is continuing in our doctoral program. Joyce Dunkin Susan Smith & Owens Illinois Dale Anne Eckstein Corp. Tim Eckstein Kent & Patricia Starrett Emerson Corp. Andrew Taddei Ernest Fink Jerold Thomas Timothy Fisher Toledo Gem & Rockhound Club Norm Heydinger Nicholas Valkenburg Carl Hopfinger Michael Watkins David Hume Amy Wilt Mark Huffman James King Olga Kneller

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Graduate Students LI, QINGLIN New Alumni (Ph.D. Ecology, 2006) Dissertation: “Carbon storage and fluxes Baccalaureate Students 2005 Graduates in a managed oak forest landscape” [adviser: J. Chen] 2005 Graduates LAHNERS, AMBER (MS Geology 2005) LOOPE, HENRY CONNELL, Brett Thesis: “Constraining the Nipissing (MS Geology, 2006) BS Environmental Science transgression in the Central Lake Thesis: “Deglacial chronology and glacial Michigan Basin” [adviser: T.G. Fisher] stratigraphy of the western Thunder Bay DESAINT VICTOR, Colin lowland, northwest Ontario, Canada” BS Environmental Science WEYER, KELLY [adviser: T.G. Fisher] (MS Geology, 2005) MARCELIN, Amy Thesis: “Eolian sand in lacustrine MCKENNA, KERRY BA Environmental Studies sediment: a proxy for water levels in the (Ph.D. Ecology, 2006) Lake Michigan Basin” [adviser: T.G. Fisher] Dissertation: “Comparing carbon dynamics NORTON, Abby of pelagic food webs in two Antarctic BS Geology (Dept. Honors) 2006 Graduates lakes: a practical application of ecological network analysis to an ecological network” [adviser: D.L. Moorhead] SMEDLUND, Nicole ARGO, DAVID BS Environmental Science (cum laude) (MS Ecology, 2006) MEINHART, JAMES Thesis: “Habitat use by two native turtle (MS Geology, 2006) WALKER, Traci species in the Ottawa National Wildlife Thesis: “Building stones of Toledo, BA Environmental Studies (cum laude) Refuge” [adviser: D.L. Moorhead] Ohio: a survey of dimension stone use in significant structures including history and 2006 Graduates CHEN, MEI walking tours of the downtown area and (MS Ecology, 2006) the Old West End” [adviser: M.J. Camp] Thesis: “Protein profile changes of AUXTER (BOYTIM), Heather Arabidopsis leaves in response to boron BA Geology MIERZWIAK, SARA stress” [adviser: S.A. Heckathorn] (MS Geology, 2006) Thesis: “Enhanced in situ bioremediation BETZ, Sally ELKINGTON, BRIAN of a trichloroethylene groundwater plume BS Environmental Science (magna cum (MS Ecology, 2006) using a dilute vegetable oil emulsion” laude) Thesis: “The effects of turbidity quality [adviser: A.L. Spongberg] and quantity on zooplankton consumption HENNING, Jessica by young of year yellow perch (Perca BS Environmental Science MURBI, HARRISON flavescens)” [adviser: C.M. Mayer] (MS Ecology, 2006) HUNLOCK, Kyle KOLINKSI, CAINE Thesis: “Use of geospatial technology BS Environmental Science (MSE Education/Ecology, 2006): to map Great Lakes invasive species” Thesis: “The search for beauty in science [adviser: D.F. Dwyer] PITTS, Justin education” [adviser: J.F. Gottgens] SCARBRO, JONA BS Environmental Science LACROIX, JACOB (MS Ecology, 2006) Thesis: “Microbial transport through SCHNEIDER, Joshua (Ph.D. Ecology, 2006) the vadose zone of a biosolid amended BS Environmental Science Dissertation: “Interactions between fire and landscape structure: applications of cropland: implications for land application of Class B biosolids and surface water SCHWAB, Douglas the FARSITE model” [adviser: J. Chen] quality” [adviser: D.F. Dwyer] BS Environmental Science LAWHORN, NICOLE (MS Ecology, 2006) STEARNS, ANNE THURSTON, Jay Thesis: “Impact of Coleoptran-active Bt (MS Ecology, 2006) BA Environmental Studies corn on extracellular enzyme activities Thesis: “The management status of and decomposition processes of non-target southwestern coastal Lake Erie marshes: microbial communities in soil and litter” challenges and opportunities to maximize [adviser: D. Neher] natural wetland functions” [adviser: J.F. Gottgens] 13 UT DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

MISSING ALUMNI Amy E. Taylor (Klimo) - BS ‘76, MS ‘83 Weis, Lawrence A. - MS ‘74 Basile, L. Loraine (Allison) - BS ‘77 McBride, Robert T.J. - MS ‘75 BA/BS and BA/BS+MS Recipients Polcyn, Carl E. - BS ‘77 Armstrong, William B. - MS ‘76 Shoemaker, Robert L. - BS ‘77 Clark, Karen A. - MS ‘76 Cole, Kenneth - BS ‘63 Weekly, Marlyn - BA ‘77 Folkoff, Donald W. - MS ‘77 Kraus, Edward F. - BS ‘65 Wickes, John – BS ‘77, MS ‘80 Turner, William S. - MS ‘77 Floyd, Jack C. - BS ‘67 Barton, Mark A. - BS ‘79 Koechlein, Harold D. - MS ‘77 Shafer, Jeffrey D. - BS ‘67 Kammeyer, Kendra A. (Zink) - BS ‘80 Bienkowski, Henry G. - MS ‘78 Strogonoff, Robert - BS ‘67 Swanson, Mark H. - BS ‘79, MS ‘87 Killberg, Glen C. - MS ‘78 Estelle, Duane - BS ‘67 Zink, Lawrence A. - BS ‘80 McAvey, Michael B. - MS ‘78 Bruning, James E. - BS ‘67, MS ‘69 Sares, Matthew A. - BS ‘81 Venturoli, Katherine A. - MS ‘78 Umlauf, James R. - BS ‘68 Starkey, Michael J. - BS ‘81, MS ‘85 Gindlesperger, Gary D. - MS ‘79 Luppens, J.A. - BS ‘68, MS ‘70 Taylor, Matthew J. - BS ‘81 Reimann, Martha Campbell - MS ‘79 Hamilton, David C. - BS ‘69 Napierala, Annette - BA ‘84 King, Mark G. - MS ‘79 Kaufman, William H. - BS ‘69 Kassaie, Mohammad N. - BS ‘85 Behbehani, Abdulsamee S.K. - MS ‘80 Smith, Richard C. - BS ‘69 Lakhlani, Nilesh - BS ‘85 Tsai, Louis L-Y. - MS ‘80 Syvert, Raymond J. - BS ‘69, MS ‘73 Bakar, Basri B. - BS ‘86 Stump, Dennis – MS ‘81 Horvath, Terry M. - BS ‘70 Campbell, Janny (Jung) - BS ‘86 Hancsak, Lynn J. (Eller) - MS ‘82 Leflet, David H. - BS ‘70 Khan, Waseem A. - BS ‘87 Hoover, John A. - MS ‘82 McCown, Michael W. – BS ‘70 Sedlak, Kevin M. - BS ‘88, MS ‘94 Krywany, Joseph M. - MS ‘82 Dunham, John B. - BS ‘71 Johnston, Joel - BS ‘89 Kreutzfeld, James E. - MS ‘82 Gibbs, Calvin H. - BS ‘71 Fisher, Robert R. - BS ‘90 Kose, Celal - MS ‘84 Taylor, Larry E. - BS ‘71, MS ‘74 Thorbjornsen, Karen - BS ‘91 Lewis, Amy H. - MS ‘85 Fraute, Enrique D. - BS ‘72 Augustyniak, Mark - BA ‘92 Mohd-Nurin, Abdul R. - MS ‘86 Gonzalez, Franklin - BS ‘72 Swartz, Brian - BS ‘92, MS ‘94 Hjelias, Mohd R. - MS ‘87 Kruth, Marc C. - BS ‘72 Hooker, James - BS ‘93 Madigan, Terrence J. - MS ‘87 Meyers, James B. - BS ‘72, MS ‘74 Koenigseker, Aaron D. - BS ‘93 Baggett, Stephen M. - MS ‘87 Mielbeck, Robert - BS ‘72 Langenderfer, Eric - BS ‘93 Wolberg, Kathryn E. (DeVencia) - MS ‘87 Sweney, Susan T. - BS ‘72 Heuberger, Joel - BS ‘94 Kihn, Gary E. - MS ‘88 Szelagowski, Gerald - BS ‘72 Hickey, Jessica - BS ‘99 King, Mary - MS ‘88 Thompson, Charles - BS ‘72 Peterson, Michelle - BS ‘00 Kragbe, Boniface G. - MS ‘89 Schneider, Ron - BS ‘73, MS ‘75 LaSalvia, Matt - BS ‘01 McMahon, David - MS ‘90 Perkins, C. Michael - BS ‘73, MS ‘74 Bauzier, Abdulmuniem D. - MS ‘91 Eleftheriou, Panayotis - BS ‘74 MS only Recipients Hume, David S. - MS ‘91 Heiing, Arthur J. - BS ‘74 Johnson, Russell P. - MS ‘69 Darus, Muhyidin - MS ‘92 Madej, Thomas - BS ‘74 Oddo, John E. - MS ‘71 Smith, Phil - MS ‘93 Lopez, Raymond J. - BS ‘74 Sherif, Nasreddin - MS ‘71 Zhou, Xuming - MS ‘94 Baumgardner, James E. - BS ‘75 Copley, David L. - MS ‘71 Trytten, Brad - MS ‘95 Studer, Roger C. - BS ‘75 McLin, Stephen G. - MS ‘73 Pieton, Patrick R. - MS ‘96 Cordas, John J. - BS ‘75, MS ‘77 Burke, Michael R. - MS ‘73 Dutcher, Bruce J. - BA ‘76 Burgett, Thomas L. - MS ‘74 If you know the whereabouts of any of Fortuna Raymond - BS ‘76 Kuntz, Michael G. - MS ‘74 these missing alumni, please notify Diane Sutton, Patricia (Chalmers) - BA ‘76 Meyers, James B. - MS ‘74 Brown ([email protected]) or Jim Szumigala, Amy L. (Mohler) - BS ‘76 Harrell ([email protected]). 14 DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES UT

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