Department of Geology University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

2007 Year in Review Department of Geology University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Students Explore Coral Reefs, Shear Cliffs New Textbook Uses During Overseas Field Trips Google Earth n the middle of a stark Illinois winter, IProfessor Bruce Fouke and 35 students hopped a plane and headed for the southernmost part of the Caribbean. Another example of “timing is every- thing.” The trip was the culmination of a semester’s worth of lectures and laboratory preparations in Geology 415/515, Field Geology, co-taught in 2007 by Fouke and Ed Morford, assistant director of campus recreation for aquatics. Students were also required to attend class sessions at Freer Pool where they Sand dunes in Namibia as seen from demonstrated their swimming capabili- Google Earth. ties, learned first aid, and practiced n the course of an introductory snorkel-based research techniques that Igeology class, students can fly to they then applied on the coral reefs. the Amazon rainforest, the deserts From January 4 to January 11, 2007, of Namibia, or the tundra of Siberia students studied modern and ancient courtesy of the latest edition of coral reefs surrounding the island of Just after snorkeling at the Water Plant dive site Earth: Portrait of a Planet, a text- Curaçao, located in the Caribbean Sea on Curaçao, Fouke shows the students how a book written by Geology near the northern coast of Venezuela. spiny sea urchin moves its spines using internal Department Head and Professor Approximately half of the course was water pressure, called a hydrostatic skeleton. Steve Marshak. taught in the shallow, near shore envi- The third edition of Earth: ronments using snorkel techniques, trip to help Fouke teach techniques fun- Portrait of a Planet, published in while the other half was based on land. damental to hydrocarbon exploration, as late 2007, includes over 200 virtual The students experienced a highly well as meet students and further field trips called “Geotours.” Each integrative educational experience, which strengthen long-standing recruiting ties Geotour utilizes Google Earth to fly included dynamic sedimentary processes, with the Department. students to spectacular examples of geomicrobiology, large-scale tectonics In May 2008, Professor Jim Best will geologic features. Google Earth, a and groundwater hydrology. “Curaçao is be teaching Field Geology on the west free computer tool that provides a a unique natural laboratory in which to coast of Ireland. Best will be accompa- navigable mosaic of satellite teach students the complex interactions nied by a mixture of undergraduate and imagery, allows students to examine between life and earth, and allow them graduate students—39 in all—and five structures and landscapes in amaz- to tangibly track these physical, chemi- faculty and staff who will visit the mag- ing detail. cal, and biological feedback interactions nificent cliffs of County Clare. They will “Instead of just seeing a static through geological time,” said Fouke. stay in the small country village of image of Mount St. Helens, students Tom Schickel (MS ’06), a recent Kilfenora. Best explains that the cliffs are can fly around the volcano, can graduate of the Fouke research group at a spectacular example of a range of zoom in and zoom out of the crater, Illinois who now works full-time as an ancient sedimentary environments, some and can tour the damage that exploration geologist at Shell, joined the (continued on page 3) (continued on page 3) Greetings

Letter From The Head

If the only constant in life is change, then 2007 is truly a year of constant change…

hile we con- In addition to research time at the On this note, you have probably Wgratulate Jay Woods Hole Institution of Oceanography noticed that the job market for geoscien- Bass and Craig in Massachusetts, Steve is traveling to tists has been booming. The growth is Bethke as new Brazil and France to collaborate with col- not just in the energy sector. Mining, Ralph E. Grim leagues and conduct fieldwork. So far land management, environmental, and Professors of Steve has managed to stay away from geotechnical consulting all have large, Geology (with for- administrative matters that may distract unmet demands for qualified geoscien- mal investitures held on February 28, him from the privileges of being on sab- tists. This trend is expected to continue 2008), R. James Kirkpatrick, a Ralph E. batical. in the near future. This background Grim Professor of Geology and former Over the past summer, the plays into the long-term planning of the head of the department, has resigned his Department officially became a member Department and will be the subject of post of senior executive associate dean of the School of Earth, Society, and careful consideration in 2008 and of the College of Liberal Arts and Environment. Don Wuebbles, a professor beyond. Meanwhile, some of our majors Sciences to become the dean of the of Atmospheric Sciences, is serving as are working with graduate students to College of Natural Science at the executive coordinator of the School while organize the very first student chapter of Michigan State University. We wish you an international search for a permanent the American Association of Petroleum all the best, Jim and Carol. director is underway. In the short time Geologists on this campus. Meanwhile, we welcome Marilyn since I served as acting head, it is quite With research and teaching going Whalen, the new administrative secre- apparent that the long tradition of strong strong across the board in the tary to the Department as Barb Elmore, support from our alumni distinguishes us Department, I have focused my energy who served in this position for decades, from Atmospheric Sciences and as acting head in seeking direct support has retired. I have no doubt she will Geography, the other two Departments from industry. In recent years, with the keep busy in her retirement! Throughout in the School. exception of support for individual pro- this issue of the newsletter, you will find To this end, the newly formed grams or field trips, support of the related reports on these important mile- GeoThrust Graduate Fellowship exempli- Department from industry is largely in stones in the Department and more. fies the spirit and the tradition of giving the form of matching funds. We are in Speaking of which, you’ll notice that we back, bringing our total number of grad- the process of developing a close work- have a new editor, Kim Schmidt, who uate fellowships to six (others include ing relationship with some major petro- has instigated some new features in this the Bluestem, the Evergreen, the leum companies, seeking their support issue. Texas/Louisiana Geology Alumni, the in the form of graduate fellowships and The fact that I am writing this letter Harold R. Wanless, and the Harold W. undergraduate scholarships in Geology. means Steve Marshak, who has served Scott Fellowships). Over the years, the So stay tuned. the Department as head for almost a GeoThrust Committee, comprised of all Indeed, we love to hear from all of decade, is taking a well-deserved sabbat- alumni volunteers, has worked diligently you—about your activities, your ideas, ical for the entire 2007-08 academic year. and creatively with all of you to support your vision and above all, your passion; the Department in many ways. The story your passion for the future of the (p. 7) behind the new Fellowship is Department, the University, the geo- intriguing and we are so proud of the sciences, and the society at large. Please Year in Review is published once a year by the dedication and the entrepreneurship of enjoy reading this issue and stay in Department of Geology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, to highlight the activities our alumni and friends! Indeed, the touch. and accomplishments within our department and insight to recognize opportunities, the feature news from our alumni and friends. ability to assemble resources and the Best wishes, Acting Department Head: Wang-Ping Chen ([email protected]) perseverance to achieve goals are what Wang-Ping Chen Administrative Secretary: Marilyn Whalen makes our students, alumni, friends, and ([email protected]) faculty shine in so many different Editor: Kim Schmidt ([email protected]) endeavors. www.geology.uiuc.edu

2 Students Explore Coral Reefs, Shear Cliffs (continued from page 1) New Textbook (continued from page 1) of the best in the world. “These sedi- an archeologist from the National resulted from the cataclysmic 1980 ments are 325 million years old and University of Ireland at Galway, who will explosion. Students can also measure show past surface environments, from take the group to some of Ireland’s most distances and elevations right on shallow water corals and reefs, deltas spectacular and beautifully preserved screen. I think that such active with vegetation and swamps, through Neolithic remains, including burial cham- imagery achieves a much better job shallow seas with a whole range of dif- bers. “This is an area that was populated of conveying the context of geology, ferent beasts swimming around in them, from about 7,000 years B.C. onwards and than can any static image,” said to the dark, deep seas. So what we can there are many remains of early habita- Marshak. do is go and look at essentially a slice tion as these cultures farmed the hills, To help instructors use Geotours through all these environments and changed the landscape, and left their bur- for classes, M. Scott Wilkerson (PhD work out how this area formed geologi- ial grounds and different marks on the ’91), now chair of the geology cally,” Best said. geography of the area. The trip is meant department at DePauw University, Many of the sediments the students to be principally geological in focus, but I and Marshak produced a new work- will be studying are similar to those also want to discuss recent geomorpholo- book, as an ancillary to Earth: found subsurface in Illinois and gy, including how the landscape has been Portrait of a Planet. The workbook Pennsylvania. In fact, much of the early formed and shaped, and recent human provides questions about the Geotour pioneering work on how these types of occupation,” said Best. sites that students can answer only if sediments accumulated was done by Hydrocarbon geologists from oil they visit the site themselves, on the Harold Wanless during his long tenure at companies around the world visit the computer. Wilkerson, who intro- Illinois. cliffs of County Clare to learn more about duced Marshak to Google Earth, has While on the trip, students will ancient sediments and apply their find- also prepared a computer file that spend a majority of their time working ings to current drilling projects. Best sees allows students to reach Geotour in groups to collect, analyze, and present this trip as an opportunity for students to sites at the click of a button. data, using what they’ve learned in the learn not only about the academic side of The use of Google Earth as a past semester to create a picture of the geology, but also about the applied and teaching tool is a relatively new geological history of this paleo-environ- economic side. Schickel, who traveled idea—in fact Earth is the first geolo- ment. In the last three days of the trip, with Fouke to Curaçao, will also partici- gy textbook to integrate the tool. The they will travel to a pate in Best’s course book’s publisher, W.W. Norton & Co., site that they have not enabling students to reports that the Geotours, and the yet seen and will be make “links between new workbook, are being incorporat- asked to create a geo- industry and what ed in courses around the country. logical map of the the students are area, complete with learning in their Disclaimer: The Department of Geology holds an interpretation of undergraduate or no business interest with either Google or the area’s geological graduate courses,” W.W. Norton & Co. history. said Best. Best has invited Shell Oil Company several guest speakers The cliffs at Foohagh Point, County Clare has provided differ- enables us to take students to key field to join them in the show syn-sedimentary soft sediment defor- ent forms of support areas overseas—an important function in field in Ireland. The mation in deltaic sediments. These carbonif- to the Department the context of the “global village.” first, Dr. Mike Simms erous deltaic sediments were deformed while and is making a In previous years, students in Field from the National they were still soft and results of this major subsidy so that Geology have traveled to the American Museums of Northern process is vividly seen on this cliff face . these major field Southwest to study geology in the Death Ireland, will help the trips are accessible Valley and along the San Andreas Fault group look at recent glacial geology, for students. Acting Head Wang-Ping with Professor Steve Marshak and in the including the landforms as they have Chen notes that “Industrial sponsorship Grand Canyon and along the San Juan evolved over the last 20,000 to 30,000 of University activities is in a state of flux River region with Associate Professor years. The second is Dr. Carleton Jones, as state funding continues to decline. In Craig Lundstrom. 3 this case, direct support from Shell Kirkpatrick Retires from College

im Kirkpatrick retired from the Kirkpatrick’s career has been JDepartment in July 2007. Kirkpatrick just as extraordinary as the time in first came to Illinois when he was a which he’s worked and, accordingly, graduate student in the early 1970s. He his peers have recognized his contri- went on to become an alumnus, a pro- butions to the field. In addition to fessor, a department head, a dean, and the Dana Medal, Kirkpatrick was a donor. By the time of his retirement, awarded the Brunauer Award and he had dedicated almost 40 years of was named a fellow of the service to Illinois. Mineralogical Society of America, the Shortly after earning his Ph.D. Geological Society of America, and from Illinois in 1972, Kirkpatrick left the America Ceramic Society. In 2005 the state, traveling first to Houston to he was named the R.E. Grim take a position as a senior research Professor of Geology. geologist at Exxon Production In July 2007, Kirkpatrick was Research Company. He then spent two feted at a retirement celebration cele- years as a research fellow at Harvard brating his years of service to the before moving to California to work on University. Held at the Union, more the Deep-Sea Drilling Project with the than 100 guests attended and Dean Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Sarah Mangelsdorf, former Interim The Midwest called him back, howev- Provost and Dean Jesse Delia, and er, and in 1978 he returned to Illinois and scientific impact. And the time and Department Head Steve Marshak to join the faculty. energy he put into leadership and ser- gave remarks. A short ten years later, Kirkpatrick vice, first as department head and then Upon his retirement, Kirkpatrick was named head of the department, a as associate dean for the sciences, was left an endowment to the position he held from 1988 to 1997 the impetus for revitalizing the geology Department that will fund the when he was named a senior execu- department. Jim is not someone who Kirkpatrick lectureship. Kirkpatrick tive associate dean in the College of can be replaced,” said Bethke. delivered the inaugural speech in Liberal Arts and Sciences. In 2004, Kirkpatrick was honored August, entitled “Spectroscopic and Throughout his tenure as an with the Dana Medal from the Computational Studies of Mineral- administrator, Kirkpatrick maintained Mineralogical Society of America. In his Fluid Interactions.” “The Kirkpatrick an active and distinguished research acceptance speech, Kirkpatrick said, lectureship—a fitting reminder of program. “Jim is one of those unique “We live in an extraordinary historical Jim’s legacy—is the latest addition to kinds of faculty who reinvents himself period for science, and it has been my the Department’s named lecture progressively during his career so what great fortune to be able to build my series, bringing the total to nine.” he’s doing at a late stage in his career career during that time. When I started, said Wang-Ping Chen, acting head of is totally different than what he was equilibrium thermodynamics was the the department. doing at the initial stage of his career. nearly universal way of thinking about Kirkpatrick is now the dean of The result of that is that he was geochemical systems, the electron the College of Natural Science at always on the cutting edge of his disci- microprobe was a novel tool, and auto- Michigan State University. His wife, pline,” said Steve Marshak, head of the mated diffractometers were just coming Carol, retired from the office of the department. on line. What change there has been! Provost and Vice Chancellor for Kirkpatrick was Professor Craig The two parts of my career, the earlier Academic Affairs at UIUC to join Jim Bethke’s advisor while Bethke earned days of crystallization kinetics and at Michigan State. In the 1980’s, she his doctorate at Illinois. “Throughout igneous petrology and the later days of was a support staff who mainly his career at Illinois, Jim's research materials structure and dynamics with worked on matters related to gradu- program remained at the very pinnacle NMR spectroscopy and molecular mod- ate and undergraduate studies in the of his field, in terms of productivity eling, are reflections of these changes.” Department.

4 A Trip Back to Camp

ver the past year and a half, Norb Can you tell us about the memory OCygan (BS ’54, MS ’56, PhD ’62) visit- brick? ed Fort Lewis, Colorado and Sheridan, There is a plaza in town called Wyoming—field camp sites that Illinois Sheridan Plaza. They have statues of students attended from the 1950s through cowboys and Indians and pioneers. I the 1980s. Cygan was an assistant at the bought a brick that commemorated Sheridan camp from 1955-1956 and was Illinois’s field camp and they planted visiting lecturer from 1956-1961. that brick along with many others in the plaza. A lot of the people there have What did you find when you went back long since passed away, but there are a to Fort Lewis, Colorado? lot of people, especially the women In the fall of 2006, Bob “Moose” who are now in their 40s and 50s who Leonard (BS ’55) and I visited the Fort remember our students. Lewis, Coloardo area where field camp was held in the early and mid-50s. Fort Why is field camp important? Lewis, at that time, was a two-year col- army barracks. Then we stayed in the Many people decided after field lege for the University of Colorado system abandoned Sheridan hospital. camp they didn’t like that kind of life and was primarily a high altitude agricul- Eventually we moved the campus and dropped out. Other people realized ture school. A lot of people went there up to Sheridan Junior College. The col- that this was going to be part of their from overseas, from places like Chile, lege has expanded quite a bit, but when life—doing fieldwork all over the world. Austria, places like that, that had a high we were there, at one time, everybody What are you doing now? altitude farming and so on. had sleeping bags and slept on the gym I’ve done a bit of consulting this At field camp, we stayed in what was floor. That was our barracks. We also last year, especially on water, and some the old army barracks of Fort Lewis itself used the facilities at that site for drafting on uranium. But my big push has been which was a frontier post. We used the and lectures. working with kids and teachers at facilities of the university for lectures and What did you do for fun? Dinosaur Ridge, an area on the outside making maps after we went out in the The ranchers used to hold parties of Denver that has dinosaur footprints field every day to do field work. When I for us. They really treated us well. They and bones in the rocks which are uplift- visited in 2006, many of the buildings took us out waterskiing on the lakes ed from the Rocky Mountain event. It is had been torn down. The old barracks there and they had barbeques on their an outdoor educational lab and tens of where we students stayed was a bull arti- ranches. We were allowed to walk thousands of kids a year come to visit. I ficial insemination station. I thought through their ranches and look at the teach classes on the geology of everyone would get a kick out of that. rocks. Many famous people owned Colorado at Denver University. I also That building is still there. ranches there—like actor Robert Taylor. teach special science programs to When did Illinois move to the Sheridan, He was quite famous back in the 40s. Colorado teachers through Colorado Wyoming camp? Some of the guys had lunch at his School of Mines and University of In 1955 field camp moved to ranch. We also made side trips to Northern Colorado. Sheridan, Wyoming. Initially we used old Yellowstone and the Grand Tetons and camped out on those trips.

Field Camp remains an important part of the geology program today. Illinois has partnered with the University of Iowa, University of Minnesota-Duluth, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Michigan State University, and the University of the Pacific to teach this six-week course in Park City, Utah. In 2008, 21 students from Illinois will be attending Wasatch-Uinta Field Camp—the largest number of students attending in 25 years. Lecturer Michael Stewart will be an instructor at the camp and the new director is our alum Kurt Burmeister (PhD ’05). Students will map in the Wasatch and Uinta Mountain Ranges and take day trips to Grand Photo courtesy Wasatch-Uinta Field Camp website. Photo courtesyWasatch-Uinta Teton National Park, southeastern Utah, and the gold fields of Nevada. 5 Alumna at Caltech

Editor’s Note: We are adding “Profile of degree in mathematics and a Recent Alumni” as a new feature in the minor in geology. Year in Review. After earning her master’s Jennifer Jackson degree in mineralogy and crystal- ennifer Jackson (PhD ’05) was one lography from Notre Dame in 2000, undergraduate student. Working Jof many first-year undergraduates sit- Jennifer returned to Illinois to pursue her alongside these students in the lab ting in the lecture hall for Geology 104, Ph.D. Again, she found herself working offers her the opportunity to do for Geology of the Natural Parks. The alongside Professor Bass who served as them what Illinois faculty did for her class filled a requirement, and though her advisor for her dissertation, “The nearly ten years ago: to provide sup- she liked science in high school, she Effect of Minor Elements on the Physical port and encouragement. “I want to never expected that little more than a and Chemical Properties of Lower Mantle make sure they have all the tools decade later she would land a faculty Minerals at High-Pressure.” they need and every opportunity to position at the California Institute of Jennifer is now an assistant professor learn and do exciting research,” she Technology. of mineral physics in the Seismological said. But that class inspired her to sign Laboratory of the Division of Geological In addition to the one-on-one up for more courses in geology and and Planetary Sciences at Caltech where instruction in the lab, Jennifer also she began to realize that she wanted to her current research focuses on the mater- spends time in the classroom teach- turn her interest into an academic ial properties of deep Earth minerals under ing courses such as “Topics in Deep career. Soon after taking Physical extreme conditions in an effort to under- Earth Mineral Physics” and “Mineral Geology, she began working in stand terrestrial-type planetary evolution. Physics of Earth’s Interior,” a course Professor Jay Bass’s lab doing what In the past two years she has been invited she recently developed for her she calls “real research” for the first all over the world, and has visited Japan, department. “Teaching keeps every- time. The combination of her work in Australia, England, and Italy to give talks thing in perspective,” she said. the lab and an inspirational trip to about her research. “These very sharp students are here northwest Arizona with Professor Though her research is integral to her to learn, and when you are explain- Steve Marshak’s Field Geology class position at Caltech, Jennifer enjoys the ing high-level science to them, you’re solidified her interest in geosciences balance between research and teaching. also learning.” and set her on her path. In 1999, Now, with a lab of her own, Jennifer is a Jennifer graduated from Illinois with a mentor to three graduate students and one

Students and Faculty Named ‘Excellent’ Instructors

Twenty-three Department of Geology the list for their work as teaching assistants Shane Butler (Geology 108). Associate instructors were named to the UIUC List of in the Department. Professor Stephen Altaner (Geology 100) Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Faculty and academic professionals and Pragnyadipta (Deep) Sen (Geology Students for the spring, summer, and fall appearing on this list include Stephen 417) were named outstanding for the sum- 2007 semesters. Altaner, Jay Bass, Craig Bethke, Bruce mer semester. In the fall, Daniela Lindner Graduate students Charles Bopp, Fouke, Eileen Herrstrom, Tom Johnson, Jei (Geology 101) and Pragnyadipta (Deep) Shane Butler, Bin Chen, Melissa Chipman, Li, Ann Long, Craig Lundstrom, Steve Sen (Geology 411) earned top honors. Adam Ianno, Daniela Lindner, Chris Marshak, and Michael Stewart. Rankings are released every semes- Majerczyk, Chris Mead, Mara Morgenstern, Four instructors received the highest ter and are based on student evaluations Jessica Palmer, Alan Piggot, and ranking of “outstanding.” During the spring maintained by the Center for Teaching Pragnyadipta (Deep) Sen were named to semester, this ranking was earned by Excellence on the Illinois campus.

6 GeoThrust Committee Rallies Together to Fund New Graduate Fellowship

n 2005, a fundraising effort to build the at Illinois—I know what it meant to have the GeoThrust Committee as a dri- IDepartment’s endowment not only met, receive a fellowship myself,” said ving force for our fundraising efforts. but exceeded its goal of $3 million. Lead Soderman, who received the Petroleum Over the years, the Committee has by the GeoThrust Committee, this cam- Research Foundation Fellowship as a doc- worked diligently and creatively with all paign resulted in generous gifts from hun- toral student. “It of our alumni and dreds of donors and established a wide makes me feel good Members of the GeoThrust friends to support base of departmental support including that I can give back to Committee the Department in fellowships, named professorships, and the University.” James R. Baroffio (PhD ’64) many ways. The two funded lecture series among other Members David K. Beach (BS ’73) new fellowship is needs. embraced Soderman’s Marion E. Bickford (MS ’58; PhD ’60) another example of Members of the GeoThrust challenge and quickly Lester W. Clutter (BS ’48) inspiration, leader- Committee, chaired by Bill Soderman (MS raised the remaining Norbert E. Cygan (BS ’54; MS ’56; PhD ship, and entrepre- ’62) ’60, PhD ’62), recently embarked on a funds needed. The neurship—charac- Edwin H. Franklin (BS ’56) new fundraising effort coinciding with the official agreement for teristic of our John R. Garino (BS ’57) larger University of Illinois campaign, the GeoThrust James W. Granath (BS ’71; MS ’73) alumni.” Brilliant Futures. “At the end of the previ- Graduate Fellowship Morris W. Leighton (BS ’47) Alumni and ous fundraising process I realized the was created in Haydn H. Murray (BS ’48) friends who are Committee didn’t give a group gift. It November 2007 and Patricia A. Santogrossi (BS ’74; MS ’77) interested in con- occurred to me that this would be an the Office of the J. William Soderman (MS ’60; PhD ’62) tributing to the excellent way to commemorate the group’s Provost will provide Jack C. Threet (AB ’51) GeoThrust Graduate good work.” Thus, the GeoThrust matching funds to F. Michael Wahl (MS ’57; PhD ’58) Fellowship, or to the Graduate Fellowship was born. enhance its impact. Department in gen- Soderman contributed half the funds “I was so pleased to have such a eral, are encouraged to contact the LAS needed to establish the fellowship in good and timely response,” said Office of Advancement at September 2007 and encouraged his fellow Soderman. (877) 265-4910, (see back cover for Committee members to do the same. “I’m Acting Head Wang-Ping Chen said, details) and indicate that you wish to strongly motivated to develop fellowships “The Department is truly fortunate to make a gift to the Department of Geology.

Beloved Secretary Retires After Twenty Years On August 29, 2007, friends and colleagues celebrated n August 2007, Geology administrative Marshak explained that these awards Barb’s service to the recognized Elmore’s success in expertly Isecretary Barb Elmore retired from the Department during a managing a heavy workload. “When Barb University with 26 years of service. Barb was retirement party held with the geology department for 20 of those took the job, she effectively took on three full at the Illini Union years and was well loved by faculty and stu- jobs and she did them all incredibly well.” dents alike. Upon her retirement, the Department alone. She is also spending more time on “Barb became the institutional memory and friends celebrated Elmore at a party held the hobbies that she loves, including reading of the department—over the years, she really at the Illini Union. “Not only was the party well and crochet. kept track of what all of our graduates have attended, but a lot of people got up to give Elmore notes that she greatly enjoyed done. In fact, she would often be the first per- testimonials about Barb. The expressions of working with students, but she acknowl- son alumni would go see when they came gratitude came from everyone, ranging from edges that it was bittersweet to see them back to visit the department,” said Professor current undergrads to senior emeriti,” said graduate. “It was always fulfilling to see the and Head of the Department, Steve Marshak. Marshak. students attend Commencement after all Elmore was honored twice for her When asked what she is doing with her their hard work,” Elmore said. “But then, work—once in 1998 when she was awarded new found free time, Elmore said, “I don’t sadly, I had to say goodbye!” Luckily, as the Chancellor’s Distinguished Staff Award know how I found the time to work!” Since Marshak pointed out, many graduates came and again in 2007 when she was named one her retirement, Elmore has kept busy with back to see her. “I really enjoyed seeing the of the recipients of the 2007-2008 LAS Staff projects around the house and with helping alumni when they came back,” she said. “It her mother, who is almost 90 and still lives Award. was always fun to have them come in.” 7 Windows into the Past

Oceanography on the Prairie

by Ralph L. Langenheim attracted wide notice and marked the beginning of a permanent redirection in Editor’s Note: “Windows on the Past” is a Shepard’s research career. Thenceforth regular feature of the Year in Review con- he concentrated on the submarine geol- tributed by Professor Emeritus Ralph L. ogy of the continental shelf and slope, Photo by Edwin F.Photo by ‘41). Bushman (BS Photo courtesy of Illinois Archives. of the University Langenheim. Ralph’s writing represents a most notably describing the submarine long-serving faculty member’s recollections canyons on the Atlantic coast of the and his perspectives of the Department’s United States and, most extensively, off past. the coast of Southern California, while maintaining his academic home base at Francis Shepard testing a sample grabber mprobable as it may seem, oceanogra- Illinois until 1942. and a stereo camera on the E.W. Scripps, Iphy was an important part of our As his interests changed, Shepard September 22, 1942 departmental program, beginning in the introduced geomorphology to our cur- 1930’s. A newly-minted Ph.D. from the riculum in 1930, a course that he contin- ies, Wanless continued his collaboration University of Chicago, Francis Shepard ued as Physiographic Geology from 1931 with Shepard, compiling sequential came to Illinois in 1922, joining our fac- through 1941. Finally, Geology of the charts and aerial photographic records of ulty as a structural geologist. He Ocean was introduced in 1941. His 1948 Gulf and Atlantic shoreline configura- remained responsible for instruction in book, Submarine Geology, perhaps the tions while Shepard compiled records of structural geology until 1942 when he capstone of his career, is a summary of the Pacific Coast. Their final report, “Our joined the University of California the results of the pioneering, gentleman Changing Coastlines,” was published Division of War Research. His doctoral yachtsmen who established modern after Wanless’ death in 1971. While research in structural geology was based American academic oceanography at the Wanless supervised doctoral candidate on field work begun on his honeymoon Woods Hole and Scripps oceanographic Mohammed al-Ashry, now famous for when he traveled by train, horseback, institutions. his work on marine environments for and on foot, camping out in the While at Illinois, and as a life long the United Nations, Shepard supervised Canadian Rockies. One summer on Cape friend, Shepard collaborated with Harold three Illinois doctoral students in marine Cod, however, would alter his research Wanless, who came to Illinois after grad- geology: George Cohee, who left significantly and lead to a very distin- uating from Princeton as a new Ph.D. in oceanography for a distinguished career guished career as a founding father of a 1923. Together, they published Sea Level in government surveys; K. O. Emery, sub-discipline in marine geology. and Climatic Changes Related to Late whose outstanding career culminated in After the birth of their first child, Paleozoic Cycles (1936), which explained his directorship of the Woods Hole Shepard and his wife Elizabeth did not Pennsylvanian cyclic sedimentary pat- Oceanographic Institution; and Robert return to the Rockies and to his previous terns as brought about by the melting Dietz who became famous for pioneer- research, but instead spent the summer and the reestablishment of continental ing research on deep sea mapping, deep cruising off Cape Cod on the family glaciers in the Southern Hemisphere. sea drilling, sea floor spreading, and yacht at the suggestion of his father. Decades after its publication, this work meteoritic impact sites. Departmental While on the yacht, Shepard collected that countered the time’s consensus that legend has it that Dietz proposed a study sediment samples from the shoreline to Late Paleozoic cyclic sediments resulted of lunar geology for his Ph.D. project the edge of the shelf. Here he discovered from repeated crustal uplift and depres- only to be turned aside. Dietz also was that, instead of sediments becoming pro- sion, has become the generally accepted associated with the Department in the gressively finer grained offshore, coarse explanation for Late Paleozoic cyclic sed- 1980’s as an adjunct professor supervis- and fine grained sediments occurred imentation. ing thesis research on impact sites. patchily between the shore and the shelf Wanless was also an early protago- The saga of oceanography on the margin. This pattern was contrary to nist for using aerial photographs in geo- Boneyard continued with Jack Hough, accepted doctrine, a point that he made logical mapping and research, a tech- who always contended that his work on in his 1927 “Influence of Oscillating Sea nique that was just beginning to come to the Great Lakes was oceanography, and Level on the Development of the the fore in the late 1930’s. Although pri- with Bill Hay; a suitable topic for our Continental Shelves,” a report that marily famous for his cyclothemic stud- next installment. 8 Around the Department

Professor Wang-Ping Chen was named professor at the University of Naples Susan Kieffer for the past two sum- acting head of the Department for the aca- (Italy), continuing work on thrust belts. mers, was selected as one of the top demic year 2007-2008 while Professor four presenters from Illinois’s Steve Marshak was on sabbatical. This Dr. George Devries Klein, professor Undergraduate Research Opportunities event cut short Chen’s sabbatical as a emeritus, remains active as a geological Program sponsored by the Illinois chaired visiting professor of the National consultant in the greater Houston area Space Grant Consortium. The ISGC Science Council of Taiwan at the Institute and is president of SED-STRAT subsequently sponsored his participa- of Earth Sciences, Academia Sinica. Geoscience Consultants, Inc. Since tion in the Great Midwestern Regional October 2005 it has been nearly non-stop Space Grant Conference held at Purdue Geophysical Journal International ranked consulting for him, proving there is life University in September 2007. a paper co-authored by Professor Jay after 74! Project areas where Klein has Bass and three French colleagues as completed work include South Texas, East Professor Jim Best gave three keynote number ten on a list of “most cited papers Texas, Permian basin, Russia, the addresses in 2007. Two covered his over the last three years.” The paper is Louisiana Shelf, Alberta basin (Canada), work on Argentinean rivers: one was titled, “Lower Mantle Composition and San Joaquin basin (California), and given at the USGS National Surface Temperature from Mineral Physics and Galveston Bay, Texas. Water Conference & Hydroacoustics Thermodynamic Modeling” and was pub- Workshop held in St. Louis and the lished in the March 2005 issue. Geology librarian Lura E. Joseph other was given at the Workshop on received the Best Paper Award given by Morphodynamic Processes in Large Professor Steve Marshak spent the 2007- the Geoscience Information Society for Lowland Rivers held in Sante Fe, 2008 academic year on sabbatical. During her paper “Image and Figure Quality: A Argentina. He also delivered a keynote the fall, he worked with geologists at the Study of Elsevier’s Earth and Planetary address to the 2007 Hydraulic U.S. Geological Survey in Woods Hole, Sciences Electronic Journal Back File Measurements & Experimental Methods MA on thrust-belt deformation. He went to Package.” The paper was published in Conference (HMEM), held in Lake Brazil in the winter to work with a col- Library Collections, Acquisitions, & Placid, New York and sponsored by the league there on ongoing projects concern- Technical Services. American Society of Civil Engineers’ ing Precambrian geology. In the spring, he (ASCE) Environmental and Water worked at the University of Lausanne John Kolinski, an undergraduate Resources Institute (EWRI) and The (Switzerland), continuing work on researcher in geological fluid mechanics International Association of Hydraulic Precambrian geology, and was a visiting who has worked closely with Professor Research (IAHR).

Degrees Conferred in 2007

Bachelor of Science Degrees August Dmitry Lakshtanov, Elasticity and Phase May Shane Butler, A Facies-Constrained Model of Transitions of Stishovite and NaCl at Mark Danielson Pleistocene Travertine Deposition and High Pressure (Jay Bass) Lauren Feiter Glaciation in the Northern Yellowstone Region Xinlei Sun, Three Dimensional Inner Core Steven Keown (Bruce Fouke) Anisotropy, Lowermost Mantle August Adam Ianno, Differentiation Mechanisms in Structure, and Inner Core Rotation Elizabeth Armstrong Zoned Plutons: Insight from Non-Traditional (Xiaodong Song) Rivkah Cooke Stable Isotopes (Craig Lundstrom) Tai-Lin Tseng, Seismic Studies of the Mantle Eric Kiser Emily Wisseman, Bacteria as Sensitive Indicators Transition Zone (Wang-Ping Chen) Brandon Weinberg of Coral Reef Health: Bacterial Community Joshua Welch October Shifts across Coral Reef Environmental Jorge Marino, Paleogeothermal Conditions December Gradients (Bruce Fouke) in the Illinois Basin during Late Phillip Swartz December Paleozoic Coalification (Steve Marshak) Erica Toledo Melissa Chipman, A Paleolimnological Record of Climate Change Over the Past 2000 Years at December Master of Science Degrees Ongoke Lake, Southwest Alaska (Feng Sheng Scott Clark, Selenium Stable Isotope Ratios May Hu) in Wetlands: Insights into Wei Dai, Teleseismic Earthquake Waveform Biogeochemical Cycling and How a Doublets from South Sandwich Islands Doctor of Philosophy Degrees Diffusive Barrier Affects the Measured Subduction Zone: Spatial and Temporal May Fractionation Factor (Tom Johnson) Distributions and Implications for Inner Michael Kandianis, Modeling Departures from Fang Huang, Studies of Magmatism by Core Rotation (Xiaodong Song) Abiotic Expectations During the Calcium Trace Element Partitioning between Joshua Defrates, Crenulation Cleavage and Carbonate Precipitation Process (Bruce Clinopyroxene and Silicate Melt, U- Down-Dip-Verging Mesofolds in the Fouke) Series Disequilibria in Lavas from Precambrian Baraboo Syncline, South- Subduction Zones, and Non-traditional Central Wisconsin (Stephen Marshak) Stable Isotopes (Craig Lundstrom) 9 Alumni News

Obituaries 1960s David L. Gross (MS ’67, PhD ’69) was Reverend Robert L. Brownfield (MS Mary Barnes Rolley (MS ’48) died on appointed by the Governor of Illinois ’55) died January 16, 2007 at the age August 5, 2007 at the age of 86. Rolley and confirmed by the Illinois State of 88. He retired from the Illinois worked at the Illinois State Geological Senate to the geologist position on the Department of Highways in 1985 Survey before relocating to California Board of Natural Resources and where he worked as a geologist and and working as a draftswoman for Conservation, the governing board for civil engineer. In 1992 he was North American Aviation and raising the Illinois State Geological Survey, the ordained as a Catholic priest. her family. Illinois Natural History Survey, the Illinois State Water Survey, and the Paul Clawson (BS ’55) died May 11, Edward Shover (PhD ’61) died Waste Management and Research 2007 at the age of 81. After serving in October 28, 2007 at the age of 71. He Center. David is a senior geologist emer- World War II and Korea, Clawson worked as a geologist in the aerospace itus at the Illinois State Geological earned his degree from Illinois and and petroleum industries in and Survey where he still maintains an eventually founded Geothermics, Inc., around Houston, Texas. office. He currently serves as an outside a company that drilled shallow wells director and chairman of First State for irrigation and provided geological Adler Spotte (BS ’40, MS ‘41) died Bank in Beardstown, Illinois. consulting services. January 11, 2007 at the age of 92. The son of a coal miner, Spotte grew up in 1970s Willis M. Decker (BS ’39) died Staunton, Illinois. After volunteering John Morrone (BS, ’79) hails from the January 10, 2007 at the age of 91. He to serve in the Navy during World Colorado office of the Bureau of Land worked for Cities Service Oil War II, Spotte built a career leading a Management. As baby-boomers retire, Company in Tulsa for 39 years and number of coal companies in Virginia, he anticipates numerous vacancies went on to become vice-president of West Virginia, and Kentucky. throughout BLM offices which are now Jett Oil Company until 1983. offering many student internships. John Allen W. Waldo (AB ’27, MS ’28) Robert L. Glossop (BS ’52) died July also would like to see more of his con- died March 14, 2007 at the age of 102. 12, 2007 at the age of 77. He owned temporaries participate in Departmental He taught geology at the College of Glossop Oil and Gas Company. receptions at national meetings so he the Pacific and Stockton College and can catch up with old friends and col- spent summers as a ranger naturalist Richard Thomas Hercher (BS ’50) leagues. in Yosemite and Crater Lake National died January 7, 2007 at the age of 77. Parks. Hercher was an independent consult- Carl Steffensen (BS ’79) and Patricia ing geologist who spent 25 years par- Santogrossi (BS ’74, MS ’76) have both Meggan Kathleen Weeks (BS ’96) ticipating in the exploration and been elected members of the AAPG died June 25, 2007 at the age of 33. At development of oil and gas produc- House of Delegates (AAPG’s legislative the time of her death she was working tion in Colorado and Nebraska. body) for three year terms (2007-2010) toward her master’s degree in materi- representing the Houston Geological als science and engineering from the James Francis Luhr (BS ’75) died Society. University of North Texas. January 1, 2007 at the age of 53. Luhr was director of the Global Volcanism 1980s Roy Edward Williams (PhD ’66) died Program at the Museum of Natural Lawrence L. Fieber (BS, ’83) has April 6, 2007 at the age of 69. While History, Smithsonian Institution. worked for the Chicago branch of Burns earning his Ph.D. at Illinois, Williams and McDonnell, a major engineering worked as a research assistant at the Joseph Morgan (BS ’50) died consulting firm, for eight years now. He Illinois State Geological Survey. September 24, 2007 at the age of 80. recently visited the Department for the After receiving his master’s degree first time in ages and brought with him Roger Glen Wolff (MS ’60, PhD ’61) from the University of Wyoming, the news that there is a great deal of died on January 1, 2007 at the age of Morgan worked as a geologist in the demand for geotechnical and environ- 74. He worked his entire career at the oil and gas industry. mental geologists in the Chicagoland United States Geological Survey. area. Burns and McDonnell is doing Before he retired he served as the John Matkin Richart (BS ’57) died some serious recruiting at UIUC at the chief of the Office of Hydrologic March 16, 2007 at the age of 77. moment and Lawrence would love to Research. Richart served with the Navy during see more alumni from the Department the Korean War, and after graduation join him in the Chicago office. was hired by Pure Oil Company where he worked for 29 years.

10 Colloquium Speakers for Spring and Fall 2007

Spring 2007 Apr. 5 Sept. 26 Laura Crossey, University of New Mexico Jim Butler, Kansas Geological Survey Jan. 19 CO Mound Springs and Travertines of the Getting the Information Ground Water Mark H. Anders, Columbia University 2 Western U.S.: Towards a Model for Modelers Need: A Report From the Field The Normal Fault Paradox: Getting to the Root Continental “Smokers”? of the Problem Oct. 5 Apr. 13 Greg Retallack, University of Oregon Jan. 26 Davis Blowes, University of Waterloo Global Greenhouse Crises of the Past Wendy Panero, Ohio State University Permeable Reactive Barriers for Treating Water Transport and Storage of Water in the Oct. 12 Groundwater Contaminated by Dissolved Earth’s Lower Mantle Henry Scott, Indiana University at South Metals Bend Feb. 2 Apr. 20 High-Pressure and Temperature Alan Boudreau, Duke University Mike Ritzwoller, University of Colorado Investigations in the Fe-C and Fe-P systems: The Evolution of Texture and Layering in Revealing the Earth’s Crust and Upper Mantle Implications for Planetary Interiors Layered Intrusions in HiDef: An Overview of the State of Ambient Oct. 19 Feb. 9 Noise Tomography Ken Wohletz, Los Alamos National Steve Jacobsen, Northwestern University Laboratory Earth’s Deep Water Cycle: The Emerging Were the Dark Ages Triggered by Volcano- Picture from Mineral Physics Fall 2007 Related Climate Change? Feb. 16 Aug. 24 Oct. 26 Eric Roden, University of Wisconsin R. James Kirkpatrick, College of Natural Gary Pavlis, Indiana University Geochemical Controls on Microbial Fe(III) Sciences, Michigan State University The Southeast Caribbean Plate Boundary: Oxide Reduction Kinetics Spectroscopic and Computational Studies of Mineral-Fluid Interactions New Insights from the Bolivar Project Feb. 23 Nov. 2 Chuck Langston, University of Memphis Aug. 31 Craig C. Lundstrom, UIUC Department of The Scientific Mystery of the New Madrid Don Wubbles, Executive Coordinator, School Geology Seismic Zone of Earth, Society, and Environment (SESE) The Status of SESE Magma Differentiation in a Temperature Mar. 2 Gradient: A Potentially Important Process Sept. 7 Timm Strathmann, UIUC Environmental with an Isotopic Fingerprint Engineering Bridget Scanlon, Bureau of Economic Geology, Nov. 9 Rapid Reduction of Aquatic Contaminants by UT Austin Frederik Simons, Princeton University Organically Complexed Iron (II) Species Impacts of Changing Land Use on Subsurface Water Resources in Semiarid Regions Measuring Geophysical Processes in Space Mar. 9 from the Shifting Weight of the Earth: Old Sept. 14 Alan Howard, University of Virginia Problems, New Methods, New Results Sedimentary Landforms on Mars: Fluvial, Pinaki Chakraborty, UIUC Department of Nov. 30 Lacustrine, Eolian, and Possibly Oceanic Geology The Rayleigh-Taylor Instability: From Water Darryl Granger, Purdue University Mar. 30 Falling Out of a Glass to Fire Falling Out of the Landscape Response to Tectonics and Dave Bish, University of Indiana Sky Climate: A Cosmogenic Nuclide Perspective Water on Mars: Can Hydrous Minerals Explain Observed Martian Surface Water? Sept. 21 Mark Skidmore, Montana State University Microbially Mediated Weathering in Subglacial Systems

From Our Scrapbook

A group of undergraduates gather on the lawn north of the Natural Associate Head of the Department, Professor Chu-Yung Chen joins Hisotry Building at the annual Department picnic held on undergraduate senior Meghan Ori at the Majors and Minors Fair held 11 September 14, 2007. at the Illini Union in October, 2007 Annual Report for 2007

Faculty Adjunct Faculty Stephen Altaner (Associate Professor) Robert Finley COURSES TAUGHT IN 2007 Alison Anders (Assistant Professor) Leon R. Follmer Jay Bass (Grim Professor) Morris W. Leighton GEOL 100 Planet Earth Jim Best (Threet Professor) Hannes Leetaru GEOL 101 Introductory Physical Geology Craig Bethke (Grim Professor) William Shilts Chu-Yung Chen (Associate Professor) Wolfgang Sturhahn GEOL 103 Planet Earth QRII Wang-Ping Chen (Professor and Acting Head) M. Scott Wilkerson GEOL 104 Geology of the National Parks Bruce Fouke (Associate Professor) GEOL 107 Physical Geology Thomas Johnson (Associate Professor) Emeritus Faculty GEOL 108 Historical Geology Susan Kieffer (Walgreen Professor) Thomas F. Anderson GEOL 110 Exploring Geology in the Field R. James Kirkpatrick (Grim Professor & Senior Daniel B. Blake GEOL 116 The Planets Executive Associate Dean) Albert V. Carozzi GEOL 117 The Oceans Jie Li (Assistant Professor) Donald L. Graf GEOL 118 Natural Disasters Craig Lundstrom (Associate Professor) Arthur F. Hagner GEOL 143 History of Life Steve Marshak (Professor and Head— Albert T. Hsui GEOL 333 Earth Materials and the on sabbatical leave until Fall 2008) George D. Klein Environment Gary Parker (Johnson Professor) Ralph Langenheim Xiaodong Song (Associate Professor) C. John Mann GEOL 380 Environmental Geology Alberto Nieto GEOL 411 Structural Geol and Tectonics Department Affiliate Philip Sandberg GEOL 415 Field Geology Marcelo Garcia (Seiss Professor, Civil and GEOL 417 Geology Field Methods, Western US Environmental Engineering) Library Staff GEOL 432 Mineralogy and Mineral Optics Feng Sheng Hu (Associate Professor; Plant Lura Joseph (Librarian) GEOL 436 Petrology and Petrography Biology) Sheila McGowan (Library Assistant) GEOL 440 Sedimentology and Stratigraphy Bruce Rhoads (Professor, Department of Diana L. Walter (Senior Library Specialist) GEOL 454 Introduction to Seismology Geography) Department Staff GEOL 460 Geochemistry Academic Staff, Post-Docs, GEOL 470 Introduction to Hydrogeology Michael Sczerba (Clerk) GEOL 481 Earth Systems Modeling Marilyn Whalen (Administrative Secretary) Visiting Staff GEOL 497A The Sciences and Ethics of Geoffrey Bowers (Post-Doctoral Research Graduate Students Sustainability Associate) GEOL 497AB Geomicrobiology and Geochemistry Mariano Cantero (Post-Doctoral Research Anirban Basu Qi Li GEOL 497SK Geological Fluid Dynamics Associate) Peter Berger Qiang Li GEOL 512 Geotectonics Pinaki Chakraborty (Post-Doctoral Research Charles Bopp Daniela Lindner Associate) Jon Brenizer Vineeth Madhavan GEOL 515 Advanced Field Geology Rocio Fernandez (Post-Doctoral Research Shane Butler Chris Majerczyk GEOL 552 Geodynamics Associate) Bin Chen Jorge Marino GEOL 553 Chemistry of Earth’s Interior Justin Glessner (Geochemist) Melissa Chipman Chris Mead GEOL 560 Physical Geochemistry Holger Hellwig (Research Scientist) Mirona Chirienco Charlie Mitsdarfer GEOL 562 Isotope Geology Eileen Herrstrom (Teaching Specialist) Scott Clark Mara Morgenstern GEOL 571 Geochemical Reaction Analysis Stephen Hurst (Research Programmer/Geologist) Rivkah Cooke Jessica Palmer GEOL 591 Current Research in Geoscience Wei Dai Mauricio Perillo Andrey Kalinichev (Research Associate GEOL 593 Advanced Studies in Geology Professor) Joshua Defrates Alan Piggot GEOL 593GP River Morphodynamics Michael Kandianis (Post-Doctoral Research Dong Ding Geoffrey Poore GEOL 593J2 Molecular Modeling of Water Associate) Xing Ding Amanda Raddatz Michael Lerche (Post-Doctoral Research Theodore Flynn David Robison GEOL 593K14 Seismic Interferometry, Diffuse Associate) Lili Gao Pragnyadipta Sen Wave Correlations, & Imaging Ann Long (Teaching Specialist) Jessica Hellwig Ivan Ufimtsev Xinli Lu (Post-Doctoral Research Associate) Carly Hill Holly Vescogni Padma Padmanabhan (Post-Doctoral Research Ana Houseal Jingyun Wang Associate) Fang Huang Nathan Webb Philip Parker (Visiting Research Programmer) Kevin Hughes Emily Wisseman Daniel Saalfeld (Visiting Research Programmer) Adam Ianno Kevin Wolfe Rob Sanford (Senior Research Scientist) Meijuan Jiang Zhen Xu Xinlei Sun (Post-Doctoral Research Associate) Michael Kandianis Zhaohui Yang Michael Stewart (Lecturer) Dmitri Lakshtanov Jonathan Tomkin (Research Assistant Professor) Tai-Lin Tseng (Post-Doctoral Research Associate) Sharon Yeakel (Research Programmer) Paulo Zandonade (Post-Doctoral Research Associate) Zhaofeng Zhang (Visiting Scholar) 12 Jianming Zhu (Visiting Scholar) Research Grants Active in 2007

AIR FORCE Jay Bass—Consortium for Material Property Jonathan Tomkin—Collaborative Research: Xiaodong Song—Characterizing High-Resolution Research in the Earth Science. Glacial Erosion in the Patagonian Andes; Seismic Velocity and Attenuation Structure of Wang-Ping Chen—Collaborative Research: Testing the Buzzsaw. Yunnan-Sichuan Region, Southwest China Lithospheric-Scale Dynamics of Active OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH using Seismic Catalog and Waveform Data. Mountain Building along the Himalayan- Bruce Fouke and Milton McAllister— Xiaodong Song— Surface Wave Dispersion Tibetan Collision Zone. Microbiological, Physiological, and Measurements and Tomography from Ambient Wang-Ping Chen—CSEDI Collaborative Toxicological Effects of Explosive Compounds Seismic Noise in China. Research: A Study of Deep Subduction on Coral Health. Integrating Broadband Seismology and Mineral AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY Physics. Bruce Fouke—The Role of Shipyard Pollutants in Structuring Coral Reef Microbial Communities: Jonathan Tomkin— The Effect of Late Cenozoic Wang-Ping Chen—Collaborative Research: Monitoring Environmental Change and the Glaciation on the Evolution of the Olympic Imaging the Continental Lithosphere with Potential Causes of Coral Disease. Mountain. Earthquake Sources. Craig M. Bethke and Robert Sanford—Field- Bruce Fouke—Geobiological and the Emergence THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF THE STATE Constrained Quantitative Model of the Origin of Terraced Architecture during Carbonate UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK of Microbial and Geochemical Zoning in a Mineralization. Jay Bass—High-Resolution Inelastic X-ray Confined Fresh-Water Aquifer. Bruce Fouke—NSF Research Experience for Scattering at High P & T: A New Capability for Thomas M. Johnson—Chromium Isotopes as Middle School Teachers at Mammoth Hot the COMPRES Community. Indicators of Hexavalent Chromium Reduction. Springs, Yellowstone National Park. SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORY R. James Kirkpatrick and Andrey G. Thomas M. Johnson and Craig C. Lundstrom— Craig Bethke—Software Licenses for Geochemist Kalinichev—Computational and Spectroscopic Technical Support for the New Mc-ICP-MS Workbench. Investigations of the Molecular Scale Structure Laboratory at University of Illinois. and Dynamics of Geologically Important Fluids Susan Kieffer—Multiphysics Modeling and SCK.CEN and Mineral-Fluid Interfaces. Terascale Simulations of Volcanic Blasts Over Craig Bethke—Membership in the Hydro- Robert Sanford—Biomolecular Mechanisms Complex Terrains. Geology Program Industrial Consortium. Controlling Metal and Radionuclide Jie Li—Constraints on Core Composition from Transformations in Anaeromyxobacter Nuclear Resonant Scattering and X-Ray SHELL INTERNATIONAL EXPLORATION AND Dehalogenans. Diffraction Studies on Fe-Light-Element PRODUCTION Robert Sanford—Towards a More Complete Compounds. Gary Parker and Garcia Marcelo— Picture: Dissimilatory Metal Reduction by Craig C. Lundstrom and Stephen Marshak— Channelization by Turbidity Currents in Anaeromyxobcter Species. Assessing Diffusive Differentiation during Submarine Fairways and on Fans. Igneous Intrusion Using Integrated Theoretical EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS Experimental and Field Studies. COMPANY Wang-Ping Chen—Building Infrastructure for Xiaodong Song—CSEDI Collaborative Research: Craig Bethke—Membership in the Hydro- Space-Based Geodesy. Observational and Theoretical Constraints on Geology Program Industrial Consortium for the Structure and Rotation of the Inner Core. Bruce Fouke—Calcium Carbonate (CaCO3) Research and Education. Biomineralization: The Geologic Record of Xiaodong Song—Structure and Dynamics of Biological Responses to Rapid Environmental MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY Earth’s Core and Lowermost Mantle. Change. Robert A Sanford—Growth of Chlororespiring Bacteria to High Cell Densities for Use in From Our Scrapbook Bioaugmentation.

NASA More than 100 guests Susan Kieffer—Multicomponent, Multiphase attended the joint UI-IU H2O-CO2 Thermodynamics and Fluid Dynamics on Mars. alumni reception at the Annual Meeting of the NATIONAL SCIENCE COUNCIL OF TAIWAN Geological Society of Wang-Ping Chen—Caucasus Scientific America in Denver. In the Experiments (CAUSE): An Integrated Study of foreground, Chuck Norris Active Continental Collision. (BS ’69) and his wife NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION greet Keros Cartwright Jay Bass—Sound Velocities and Elasticity of (PhD ’73). Deep-Earth Materials at High Pressures and Temperatures. Jay Bass—Sound Velocities and Elastic Moduli of Minerals at Mantle Pressures and Temperatures with Laser Heating. Jay Bass—Collaborative Research: Elasticity 13 Grand Challenge of the COMPRES. List of Publications for 2007

Andrews A.H., Lundstrom C.C., Chen B., Gao L., Funakoshi K.-i., Keevil G.M., Peakall J., and Best Geophysical Union. Cailliet G.M., and DeVogelaere and Li J. Thermal expansion of J.L. The influence of scale, slope Litasov K.D., Kagi H., Shatskiy, A.P. Investigations of bamboo iron-rich alloys and implications and channel geometry on the flow A.F., Ohtani E., Lakshtanov coral age and growth from for the Earth’s core. PNAS, dynamics of submarine channels. D.L., Bass J.D., Ito E. High Davidson Seamount. Technical 104(22): 9162-9167, doi Marine and Petroleum Geology, 24: Hydrogen Solubility in Al-rich Report Monterey Bay. National 10.1073/pnas.0610474104. 487-503. Stishovite and water transport in Marine Sanctuary. Chen W.-P. and Brudzinski M.R. Klaus J. S., Janse I., Heikoop J. M., the lower mantle. Earth and Andrews A.H., Kerr L.A., Cailliet Repeating earthquakes, episodic Sanford R.A., and Fouke B.W. Planetary Science Letters, 262: G.M., Brown T.A., Lundstrom tremor and slip: Emerging patterns Coral microbial communities, 620-634. C.C., and Stanley R.D. Age valida- in complex earthquake cycles? zooxanthellae, and mucus along Matas J., Bass J., Ricard Y., tion of canary rockfish (Sebastes Complexity, 12 (5): 33-43, gradients of seawater depth and Mattern E., and Bukowinski pinniger) using two independent doi:10.1002/cplx.20185. coastal pollution. Environmental M.S.T. On the bulk composition otolith techniques: lead-radium Chen W.-P. and Tseng T.-L. Small Microbiology, 9: 1291-1305. of the lower mantle: predictions and bomb radiocarbon dating. 660-km seismic discontinuity Klaus J., Budd A., and Fouke B.W. and limitations from generalized Marine and Freshwater Research, beneath Tibet implies resting Environmental controls on coral- inversion of radial seismic pro- 58: 531-541. ground for detached lithosphere. lite morphology in the reef coral files. Geophysical Journal Anders A.M., Roe G.H., Durran D.R., Journal of Geophysical Research, Montastrea annularis. Bulletin of International, 170: 764-780. and Minder J.R. Small-scale spa- 112: doi:10.1029/2006JB004607. Marine Science, 28: 233-260. Mehnert E., Hwang H.-H., Johnson tial gradients in climatalogical pre- Courtier A.M., Jackson M.G., Kostic S. and Parker G. Conditions T.M., Sanford R.A., Beaumont cipitation on the Olympic Lawrence J. F., Wang Z.-R., Lee under which a supercritical turbid- W.C., and Holm T.R. Peninsula. Journal of C.-T. A., Halama R., Warren J.M., ity current traverses an abrupt Denitrification in the shallow Hydrometeorology, 8: 1068-1081. Workman R., Xu W.-B., transition to vanishing slope with- ground water of a tile-drained, Ashworth P.J., Best J.L., and Jones Hirschmann M.M., Larson A.M., out a hydraulic jump. Journal of agricultural watershed. Journal M. The relationship between Hart S.R., Lithgow-Bertelloni C., Fluid Mechanics, 586: 119-145. of Environmental Quality, 36: channel avulsion, flow occupancy Stixrude L., and Chen W.-P. Lakshtanov D.L., Litasov K.D., 80-90. and aggradation in braided rivers: Correlation of seismic and petro- Sinogeikin S.V., Hellwig H., Li J., Mizushima H., Izumi N., and insights from an experimental logic thermometers suggests deep Ohtani E., and Bass J. D. Effect of Parker G. A simple mathematical alluvial basin, Sedimentology, 54: thermal anomalies beneath Al3+ and H+ on the elastic proper- model of channel bifurcation. 497-513. hotspots, Earth and Planetary ties of stishovite. American Proceedings, River, Coastal and Science Letters, 264(1-2): 308-316. Bass J.D. Mineral Physics: Mineralogists, 92: 1026-1030. Estuarine Morphodynamics, 5th Techniques for measuring high Huang F. and Lundstrom C.C. 231Pa Lakshtanov D.L., Sinogeikin S.V., IAHR Symposium (RCEM 2007), P/T elasticity. In G.D. Price and J. excesses in arc volcanic rocks: and Bass J.D. High-temperature Enschede, the Netherlands 17- Schubert (Eds.), Treatise of Constraint on melting rates at con- phase transitions and elasticity of 21, 4 p. Geophysics (pp. 269-292). vergent margins, Geology, 35: silica polymorphs. Physics and Murakami M., Sinogeikin S.V., Amsterdam: Elsevier B.V. 1007-1010. Chemistry of Minerals, 34: 11-22. Hellwig H., Bass J.D., and Li J. Best J., Ashworth P., Sarker M.H. Gajda A. and Kieffer S.W. Celebrity Lakshtanov D.L., Sinogeikin S.V., Sound velocity of MgSiO3 per- and Roden R. The Brahmaputra- meets Science: Hollywood’s envi- Litasov K.D., Prakapenka V.B., ovskite to Mbar pressure. Earth Jamuna River, Bangladesh, In A. ronmentalism and its effect, GSA Hellwig H., Wang J., Sanches- and Planetary Science Letters, Gupta (Ed.), Large Rivers: Today, 17(10): 44-45. Valle C., Perillat J.-P., Chen B., 256: 47-54. Geomorphology & Management Gioia G., Chakraborty P., Marshak S., Somayazulu M., Li J., Ohtani E., Murakami M., Sinogeikin S.V., (pp. 395-430). Wiley. and Kieffer S.W. Unified model of and Bass J. D. The post-stishovite Bass J.D., Sata N., Ohishi Y., Bethke C.M. Geochemical and tectonics and heat transport in a phase transitions in hydrous alu- Hirose K. Sound Velocity of Biogeochemical Reaction Modeling. frigid Enceladus, PNAS, 104(34): mina-bearing SiO2 in the lower MgSiO3 Post-Perovskite Phase: A Cambridge: Cambridge University 13578-13581. mantle of the Earth, PNAS, Constraint on the D” Press. Goncharov A.F., Stanislav 104(34): 13588-13590, doi Discontinuity. Earth and Sinogeikin S.V., Crowhurst J.C., 13510.11073/pnas.0706113104. Planetary Science Letters, 259: Cantelli A., Wong M., Parker G., and 18-23. Paola C. Numerical model linking Ahart M., Lakshanov D., Lee C.-T. and Chen W.-P. A possible bed and bank evolution of inci- Prakapenka V., Bass J.D., Beck P., mechanism for chemical stratifica- Naruse H., Sequeiros O., Garcia sional channel created by dam Tkachev S., Zaug J., and Fei Y. tion in the Earth’s mantle. Earth M.H., Parker G., Endo N., removal. Water Resources Cubic boron nitride as a primary and Planetary Science Letters, 255: Kataoka K.S., Yokokawa M., and Research, 43(7), W07436, 16 p. calibrant for a high temperature 357-366. Muto T. Self-accelerating pressure scale. High Pressure Li J. and Fei Y. Experimental con- Turbidity Currents at Laboratory Chatanantavet P., Parker G., Research, 27 (4): 409-417. Scale. Proceedings, River, Coastal Lajeunesse E., Planton P., and straints on core composition. In H. Imran J., Islam M.A., Huang H., D. Holland and K. K. Turekian and Estuarine Morphodynamics, Valla P. Physically-based model of 5th IAHR Symposium (RCEM downstream fining in bedrock Kassem A., Dickerson J., Pirmez (Eds.), Treatise on Geochemistry C., and Parker G. Helical flow cou- Update 1, Vol. 2.14 (pp. 1-31). 2007), Enschede, the streams with side input and verifi- Netherlands 17-21, 4 p. cation with field data. Proceedings, plets in submarine gravity under- Elsevier Ltd. River, Coastal and Estuarine flows. Geology, 35(7): 659-662. Li J. Electronic transitions and spin Nowack R.L., Chen W.-P., Kruse Morphodynamics, 5th IAHR Jin Q. and Bethke C.M. The thermo- states in perovskite and post-per- U.E., and Dasgupta S. Imaging Symposium (RCEM 2007), dynamics and kinetics of microbial ovskite. In K. Hirose, J. Brodholt, offsets in the Moho: Synthetic Enschede, the Netherlands 17-21, metabolism. American Journal of T. Lay, and D. Yuen (Eds.), Post- tests using Gaussian beam with 8 p. Science, 307: 643-677. Perovskite: The Last Mantle Phase teleseismic waves. Pure Applied Transition (pp. 47-69). Geophysics, 164(10): 1921-1936, Washington DC: American doi:10.1007/s00024-007-0250-3.

14 Honor Roll of Donors

The following is a list of friends and alumni of the Department of Geology who Parker G. and Toniolo H. Note on Sun, X.L., Song X.D., Zheng S.H., have donated to the Department during the 2007 calendar year. the analysis of plunging of den- and Helmberger D.V. Evidence sity flows. Journal of Hydraulic for a chemical-thermal structure Prof. Thomas F. Anderson Dr. and Mrs. Albert L. Guber Mr. Jay R. Scheevel Engineering, 133(6): 690-694. at base of mantle from sharp Dr. Robert F. Babb II Dr. Mary Elizabeth Hamstrom Dr. David C. Schuster Parker G., Wilcock P., Paola C., lateral P-wave variations Mr. Rodney J. Balazs Mrs. Catherine L. Harms Dr. and Mrs. Franklin W. beneath Central America, PNAS, Dietrich W.E., and Pitlick J. Ms. Debbie E. Baldwin Dr. and Mrs. Henry J. Harris Schwartz Quasi-universal relations for 104 (1): 26-30, doi:10.1073/pnas.0609143103. Mrs. Margaret H. Bargh Dr. Daniel O. Hayba Dr. John W. Shelton bankfull hydraulic geometry of Mrs. Mary H. Barrows Dr. Mark A. Helper and Dr. Ms. Erika L. Sieh single-thread gravel-bed rivers. Szupiany, R.N., Amsler, M.L., Mr. Douglas Stephen Bates Sharon Mosher Jack A. Simon Trust (DEC) Journal of Geophysical Research Best, J.L., and Parsons, D.R. Earth Surface, 112(F4). Comparison of fixed- and mov- Mrs. Colene R. Bauer Mrs. Margaret F. Henderson Mr. and Mrs. Roger A. Sippel Dr. David K. Beach Mr. and Mrs. Mark F. Hoffman Mr. Robert D. Snyder Parsons D.R., Best J.L., Lane S.N., ing-vessel flow measurements Dr. and Mrs. William M. Benzel Dr. Roscoe G. Jackson II Dr. J. William Soderman Hardy R.J., Orfeo O., and with an aDp in a large river, Kostaschuk R.A. Form rough- Journal of Hydraulic Dr. Marion E. Bickford Mr. Steven F. Jamrisko Mr. Eric P.Sprouls ness and the absence of sec- Engineering, 133: 1299-1309. Mrs. Heidi Blischke Mr. John E. Jenkins Dr. Ian M. Steele ondary flow in a large conflu- Toniolo H., Parker G. and Voller V. Dr. Bruce F. Bohor Dr. and Mrs. William D. Johns Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Ronald D. Stieglitz ence-diffluence unit, Paraná Role of ponded turbidity cur- Mr. Eugene W. Borden Sr. Mr. Bruce A. Johnson Dr. Gary D. Stricker River, Argentina. Earth Surface rents in reservoir trap efficiency. Michael G. Bradley, PhD Dr. Edward C. Jonas Dr. and Mrs. Michael L. Sweet Processes and Landforms, 32: Journal of Hydraulic Virginia A. Colten-Bradley, Dr. Robert E. Karlin Dr. Susan M. Taylor 155-162. Engineering, 133(6): 579-595. PhD Dr. Suzanne Mahlburg Kay Dr. Daniel A. Textoris Peakall J., Ashworth P.J., and Best Tornqvist T.E., Paola C., Parker G., Dr. Danita Brandt Dr. John P.Kempton Mr. and Mrs. Jack C. Threet J.L. Meander-bend evolution, Liu K., Mohrig D., Holbrook J. Mr. Allen S. Braumiller Mr. Virgil John Kennedy Dr. Edwin W. Tooker alluvial architecture, and the M., and Twilley R. R. Comment Ms. Annette Brewster Dr. and Mrs. John D. Kiefer Mr. and Mrs. William L. role of cohesion in sinuous river on “Wetland sedimentation Mr. and Mrs. Ross D. Brower Dr. and Mrs. R. James Vineyard channels: a flume study. Journal from Hurricanes Katrina and of Sedimentary Research, 77: Rita.” Science, 316(5822). Dr. Glenn R. Buckley Kirkpatrick Mr. Robert W. Von Rhee Dr. Susan B. Buckley Mr. H. Richard Klatt Dr. Floyd M. Wahl 197-212. Viparelli E., Sequeiros O., Cantelli Mr. and Mrs. Steven P. Mr. Robert F. Kraye Ms. Harriet E. Wallace Perrillat J-P., Nestola F., Sinogeikin A., and Parker G. A numerical S.V., and Bass J.D. Single- model to store and access the Burgess Mr. Michael B. Lamport Dr. James G. Ward crystal elastic properties of stratigraphy of non-cohesive Dr. Louis W. Butler II Dr. Stephen E. Laubach Mr. Carleton W. Weber James W. Castle, PhD Mr. Stephen C. Lee Mr. Eldon L. Whiteside Ca0.07Mg1.93Si2O6 orthopyroxene. sediment as an alluvial bed American Mineralogist, 92: aggrades and degrades in a Dr. Charles J. Chantell Dr. Hannes E. Leetaru Mr. Harold T.Wilber 109-113. flume. Proceedings, River, Mr. Lester W. Clutter Dr. Morris W. Leighton Mr. Jack L. Wilber Coastal and Estuarine Sanford R.A., Wu Q., Sung Y., Mr. Gary W. Cobb Mr. Eric W. Lipman Mr. Donald R. Williams Morphodynamics, 5th IAHR Dr. Dennis D. Coleman Ms. Crystal Lovett-Tibbs Ms. Jennifer A. Wilson Thomas S.H., Amos B.K., Prince Symposium (RCEM 2007), Barbara J. Collins, PhD Mr. Bernard W. Lynch Mr. Roland F.Wright E.K., and Löffler, F.E. Enschede, the Netherlands 17- Lorence G. Collins, PhD Dr. Andrew Stephen Madden Dr. William H. Wright III Hexavalent uranium supports 21, 8 p. growth of Anaeromyxobacter Mr. Randolph M. Collins Dr. Megan E. Elwood Madden Mr. Lawrence Wu Wong M., Parker G., De Vries P., dehalogenans, and Geobacter Dr. Norbert E. Cygan Mr. John W. Marks Dr. and Mrs. Valentine E. Brown T., and Burges S.J. spp. with lower than predicted Dr. Ilham Demir Prof. and Mrs. Stephen Marshak Zadnik Experiments on dispersion of biomass yields. Environmental Mr. M. Peter deVries Mr. and Mrs. Alan R. 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