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2004 Newsletter The University ofTexas atAustin Institute for Geophysics Bureau ofEconomicGeology Department ofGeological Sciences Geology Foundation John A.andKatherine G.Jackson School ofGeosciences Volume 54 WILLIAM L. FISHER, Director Geology Foundation and John A. and Katherine G. Jackson School of Geosciences

DOUG RATCLIFF, Associate Director Geology Foundation and John A. and Katherine G. Jackson School of Geosciences

GARY A. KOCUREK, Chairman Department of Geological Sciences

SCOTT W. TINKER, Director Bureau of Economic Geology

PAUL L. STOFFA, Director Institute for Geophysics

No State-appropriated funds were used to publish this Newsletter. Layout and Design Front Cover Jamie H. Coggin South Rim of Grand Canyon, looking northeastward Editor from Mary Colter’s Susann Doenges Watchtower at the Desert View, Grand Canyon National Park, Contributing Editors Arizona. Photo by Patricia Ganey-Curry Jamie H. Coggin. Sylvia Jennette Inside Front Cover Mary Koch Palo Duro Canyon, Amanda R. Masterson North Texas. Photo Alice Rentz by Jamie H. Coggin. Debra Sue Trinque Back Cover Digital terrain model (DTM) of Powder River Basin, Wyoming. With the sponsorship of Marathon Oil Company, the Bureau of Economic Geology and Center for Space Research at The University of Texas at Austin conducted lidar surveys of the Powder River Basin in Wyoming between May 2003 and March 2004. A set of 23 DTM’s having a 5 ft × 5 ft horizontal resolution and 1 ft vertical accuracy were generated for hydrologic and engineering applications. This image is a portion of one of the DTM’s.

Inside Back Cover Laguna de Términos, Gulf of Mexico, October 1992. STS52-73-085. Photo provided by William H. Muehlberger. Volume 54 John A. and Katherine G. Jackson School of Geosciences

Geology Foundation Department of Geological Sciences Bureau of Economic Geology Institute for Geophysics

The University of Texas at Austin 2004 Newsletter 2004 Table of Contents

John A. and Katherine G. Jackson School of Geosciences ...... 1 See related story, page 38 William L. Fisher, Director

From the Director ...... 2 John A. and Katherine G. Jackson School of Geosciences Staff ...... 3

Department of Geological Sciences ...... 5 Gary Kocurek, Chairman

See related story, page 12 From the Chairman ...... 6 Focus on research ...... 7 Summer field camp 2003—GEO 660 ...... 12 Graduate degrees in Geological Sciences ...... 14 Undergraduate degrees in Geological Sciences ...... 18 New faculty ...... 19 Bill Galloway retires from teaching ...... 20

Bureau of Economic Geology See related story, page 31 ...... 21 Scott W. Tinker, Director

From the Director ...... 22 Who we are and what we do ...... 23 Highlights and new initiatives ...... 24 The Bureau as the State Geological Survey of Texas ...... 27 New faces ...... 28 New assignments...... 28 See related story, page 56

Institute for Geophysics ...... 29 Paul Stoffa, Director

From the Director ...... 30 Who we are and what we do ...... 31 Highlights and new initiatives ...... 31 In the news ...... 35 See related story, page 39 New faces ...... 36 New books ...... 36 UT scientist abroad ...... 36

ii Geology Foundation...... 37 William L. Fisher, Director See related story, page 23 Extraordinary Jackson Bequest to the Geology Foundation ...... 38 Geology Foundation Advisory Council News ...... 39 Geology Foundation Advisory Council ...... 41 Gifts to the Geology Foundation ...... 44 Geology Foundation endowed accounts ...... 47

Walter Geology Library report ...... 49

See related story, page 50 Jackson School awards and honors ...... 50

Starting with the basics: K–12 outreach efforts ...... 56

Well-traveled Jackson School booth ...... 58 See related story, page 58

Memorials ...... 59

Notes from the alumni ...... 67

Contribution form ...... 83

See related story, page 75 Join us ...... inside back cover

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Aerial photograph of Anticlinal de los Muertos, viewed toward the west with John A. and Cañón Huasteca John A. and in the foreground. The mountain range Katherine G. at the right consists mostly of vertical Jackson School beds of the Cupido Jackson School Formation in the forelimb of the of Geosciences anticline. The axial trace of the anticline follows William L. Fisher, DirectorDirector small hills of Olvido Formation in the intramontane valley to the left. Notice the plan- view curvature of the anticline, from a west-northwest trend in the near ground to a west- southwest trend in the distance, representing the leading edge of the Monterrey salient. Photo by Randall Marrett. From the Director

To borrow a catchy active members of the national acad- dependent school. A nationwide headline from the emies or candidates who have the search for a new dean will be under- University’s news potential for election to the acad- taken. story on President emies in the near future, as well as Larry Faulkner’s the creation of an Appointments The John A. and Katherine G. Jack- proposal that a Committee who would review candi- son School of Geosciences includes new school of geo- dates for faculty and research scien- the Department of Geological Sci- sciences be estab- tist positions and have the authority ences, the Bureau of Economic Geol- lished at the college level, it’s an to initiate or reject nominations. ogy, and the Institute for Geophysics. “Earth-Shaking Idea” (@Texas, the The School has about 135 faculty University’s electronic newsletter, President Faulkner circulated the and research scientists, 170 under- May 12, 2004). Indeed it is, and the Vision Committee Report to the graduate majors, and 164 graduate announcement was the culmination Jackson School community, the degree candidates, making it the of a deliberate process nearly a year Geology Foundation Advisory Coun- largest academic geoscience com- in the making. cil, and officials of the University, munity in the nation. The School requesting comments. currently operates on an annual In late summer 2003 President budget of about $40 million and Faulkner commissioned a high-level On April 1, 2004, Faulkner sent a 16- is supported by the Geology Founda- group of academic, corporate, and page memorandum to this com- tion, which has assets on the order government leaders to advise him munity, giving a thoughtful analysis of $320 million. The Jackson School on the most efficacious way to utilize of the Vision Committee report and and the Geology Foundation are ad- the resources generated by a sub- beyond, wherein he laid out options vised and counseled by the Advisory stantial endowment created through and gave his analysis of them. He Council of the Foundation. gifts from the late John A. Jackson. concluded his memorandum with The Jackson School Vision Commit- his stated inclinations, which were The basic operational course for the tee, chaired by President Emeritus that the most effective organiza- School has been set. We have much Peter T. Flawn, was also charged to tional structure would be a federated to do in recruiting new faculty, re- assess the scope and quality of the school with the head of the school search scientists, and students and existing program in the geosciences reporting to the Executive Vice Presi- in launching new research ini- in the Jackson School, review the dent and Provost. He defined clear tiatives. The opportunity to make organization and leadership of the separation of strategic and tactical geosciences at The University of school, and recommend an appro- authorities between the dean of the Texas at Austin one of the world’s priate operational structure. The School and the heads of the compo- best programs is exciting; it is Committee submitted their report to nent units. He invited further com- equally challenging. We welcome the President in December 2003. ments from the community and on your comments and advice as we April 29 laid out his formal proposal go forward. The Vision Committee Report con- for a new and independent School of tains a number of recommenda- Geosciences to be headed by a Dean The Newsletter, which we have been tions, including the establishment of of Geosciences reporting directly to publishing since 1953, is formatted a the Jackson School as a separate the Executive Vice President and little differently this year to reflect school outside the College of Natural Provost. Faulkner indicated that cre- the activities of the entire School Sciences that would be under the ation of the campus-level school was while retaining many of the tradi- leadership of a new dean reporting justified by the extraordinary oppor- tional items, including, most im- directly to the Provost. The Vision tunity facing the University and by portantly, the popular “Notes from Committee further urged the recruit- the unusual combination of units the Alumni.” We hope you like it, ment of a new dean charged with the comprised by the Jackson School, and we appreciate your comments, reorganization of the School to inte- noting that “this is a time for inven- for we know the rich tradition that grate effectively the academic and tion and new thinking about the sci- the Newsletter represents. research functions of the School to ences of the earth and how they are Bill Fisher realize Mr. Jackson’s vision of developed, taught, and practiced.” building a premier program in the Jackson School and geosciences at the University. The An Implementation Committee has Geology Foundation Committee also recommended the been appointed by the President to recruitment of 5 to 10 new hires from guide the transition to the new in-

2 John A. and Katherine G. Jackson School of Geosciences Staff The University of Texas at Austin Director, William L. Fisher Associate Director for Administration, Doug Ratcliff

Effie L. Jarrett DEPARTMENT OF Adjunct Professors Research Scientists Barbara J. Mahler Joseph Jaworski and Research Fellows Jamie Kopke GEOLOGICAL Thomas J. Serenko William A. Ambrose J. Tyler Lehman SCIENCES Alan R. Dutton Kathryn L. McWilliams Sergey Fomel Miriam L. Pashby Professors Emeriti Edgar H. Guevara Willa L. Porter Chair Milo M. Backus Susan D. Hovorka John R. Ready Gary A. Kocurek* Daniel S. Barker Michael R. Hudec Alice Rentz Robert E. Boyer James W. Jennings, Jr. Gregory L. Thompson L. Frank Brown Jeffrey G. Paine Renee A. Waters Associate Chair Stephen E. Clabaugh Daniel D. Schultz-Ela William I. Woods Christopher J. Bell* Peter T. Flawn Fred P. Wang Robert L. Folk William A. White William E. Galloway Lesli J. Wood* Professors Edward C. Jonas BUREAU OF Hongliu Zeng Jay L. Banner* Lynton S. Land ECONOMIC Philip C. Bennett* Wann Langston, Jr. William D. Carlson* Ernest L. Lundelius GEOLOGY Research Associates Mark P. Cloos* Arthur E. Maxwell Renaud Bouroullec William L. Fisher* John C. Maxwell Director Sigrid J. Clift Stephen P. Grand* William R. Muehlberger Edward W. Collins J. Richard Kyle* Amos Salvador Scott W. Tinker* Michael V. DeAngelo Leon E. Long* Douglas Smith Beverly B. DeJarnett Earle F. McBride* John A. Wilson Associate Directors Khaled Fouad Sharon Mosher* Keith Young Julia F. Gale Ian Duncan Timothy B. Rowe* James C. Gibeaut Jay P. Kipper Mrinal K. Sen* Roberto Gutierrez Eric C. Potter John M. Sharp, Jr.* Lecturers and Tucker F. Hentz Jay A. Raney James T. Sprinkle* Research Scientists Mark H. Holtz Doug Ratcliff Ronald J. Steel* Matthew Colbert Xavier Janson Paul L. Stoffa* Wulf A. Gose David C. Jennette Robert H. Tatham* Mark A. Helper Senior Research Jeffrey Kane Scott W. Tinker* Todd B. Housh Eugene M. Kim Willem C. J. van Rensburg* Julian M. Humphries Scientists/Engineers, Paul R. Knox Clark R. Wilson* Eric W. James Senior Research Jean-Philippe Nicot Richard A. Ketcham Fellows, Research Robert C. Reedy John M. Lansdown Professors Shinichi Sakurai Associate Professors Lawrence E. Mack Milo M. Backus Thomas A. Tremblay James N. Connelly* Jessica A. Maisano L. Frank Brown Ramón H. Treviño James E. Gardner* Fred W. McDowell Shirley P. Dutton* Timothy F. Wawrzyniec Randall A. Marrett* Kitty L. Milliken* Robert J. Graebner Joseph S. Yeh John E. McCray* Guo-Yue Niu Bob A. Hardage* Laura C. Zahm Martin P. A. Jackson* Assistant Professors Charles Kerans* Technical and Stephen E. Laubach* Robert J. Ferguson* Support Staff Robert G. Loucks* John C. Lassiter* Ryan R. Biggs F. Jerry Lucia* (incoming, fall 2004) Roger O. Gary Stephen C. Ruppel Libby A. Stern* Philip A. Guerrero Bridget R. Scanlon* Zong-Liang Yang* Jeffrey S. Horowitz Bruno C. Vendeville *Member, Graduate Studies Committee

3 Research Scientist Sally Macrae Research Scientists Associates Thomas Markowski Donald D. Blankenship* Amanda R. Masterson GEOLOGY John R. Andrews Gail Christeson Melanie A. McCammon FOUNDATION Jerome A. Bellian Craig Fulthorpe Randy McDonald (in support of the Florence Bonnaffe Kirk McIntosh Lynda A. Miller Jackson School of Geosciences) Caroline Breton R. Jay Pulliam Glynis G. Morse Dallas B. Dunlap Daniel H. Ortuño Ursula Hammes Kerza A. Prewitt Director Tiffany L. Hepner Research Associates Lisa E. Remington William L. Fisher Rebecca H. Jones Sean Gulick Guadalupe Rendon Xuejiao Liu John W. Holt Jana S. Robinson Paul Murray Charles S. Jackson Scott Rodgers Associate Director H. Seay Nance Luc Lavier Ronald L. Russell Doug Ratcliff Robert M. Reed David Morse Robert A. Sanchez Randy L. Remington Hilary Olson David M. Stephens Rebecca C. Smyth Evelyn Price Joseph Su Technical and Rachel Waldinger Robert B. Scott Deborah D. Thomas Roustam Seifoullaev Support Staff Ann Turner Harm Van Avendonk Luciano Correa Vivar Research Fellow Cary Urso Mary E. Koch Phyllis Vicars Soheila (Rita) Omrani Luis A. Sánchez-Barreda Katrina Wells Research Scientist Debra Sue Trinque Associates Postdoctoral Fellow Marcy Davis Timothy P. Dooley Lisa M. Gahagan INSTITUTE FOR Patricia E. Ganey-Curry GEOPHYSICS Anatoliy V. Mironov Technical and Matthew Peters Support Staff Thomas Richter Jean L. Abernathy Director Steffen Saustrup Patricia A. Alfano Paul L. Stoffa* John T. Ames Paula Beard Postdoctoral Fellows Sharon A. Bierschenk Associate Directors Wolfgang Bangerth George T. Bush Ian W. D. Dalziel* Alejandro Escalona Kelly W. Campbell Cliff Frohlich* Christina Holland Frances Chi Faming Wang Jamie H. Coggin Tim Whiteaker Luciano Correa Vivar Research Professors Dixon E. Coulbourn William E. Galloway Lana S. Dieterich Stephen P. Grand Technical Support Susann Doenges Yosio Nakamura* John Gerboc William H. Doneghy Mrinal K. Sen* Kevin Johnson James M. Donnelly Scott Kempf Patricia O. Downs Gwenith Watson John Els Senior Research Mark Wiederspahn Nancy Ewert Scientists Andrew P. Faigle James A. Austin* Administrative Tatiana Fomel Nathan L. B. Bangs Susan Beaubien Claudia Gerardo Richard T. Buffler* Katherine K. Ellins Ross W. Graham John A. Goff Eleanor P. Picard Richard Gutierrez Lawrence A. Lawver Judy Sansom Marcus Hafford Paul Mann* Donald Yarbro Darrell Haynes Thomas H. Shipley* Amy Jo Hylkema Frederick Taylor, Jr. Nathan Ivicic Anselmo Jacobo Administrative Sylvia J. Jennette Senior Research Associates David Jordan Fellow Janet E. Everett Nancy Hard Wanda L. LaPlante Mike Coffin Joel L. Lardon Wilbert King *Member, Graduate Studies Committee

4 Department of Geological Sciences

Gary Kocurek, Chairman

Photo of Sierra Blanca, West Texas, an area where water resources are critical. Photo provided by Bridget R. Scanlon. From the Chairman

The 2003–04 aca- and undergraduate students have One goal of the Jackson School era demic year will be a strong base of financial support is significant new faculty hiring, remembered as the for education and research from which should allow us both to one in which the the Geology Foundation. Faculty strengthen our base and to explore Department of Geo- research remains diverse and grow- new scientific frontiers. We were logical Sciences, ing, as measured by publications, able this year to begin to rebuild our the Institute for and their impact upon the science, program in igneous rocks and high- Geophysics, and and in our level of external grants. temperature geochemistry, which the Bureau of Economic Geology Our programs in sedimentology/ had suffered with the retirements of were united in the college-level stratigraphy, hydrogeology, tectonics/ Dan Barker and Doug Smith. James Jackson School of Geosciences. The structure, and paleontology remain Gardner from the University of challenges we face in defining this ranked nationally within the top 10. Alaska at Fairbanks joined us as an School and making it a success Our analytical facilities are excellent, associate professor in volcanol- are obvious. The three units have but there is a constant challenge ogy. In the fall, John Lassiter from different histories and traditions, and in upgrading these as well as our the Max-Planck Institute will join distinct missions. The opportuni- computational facilities. The faculty us as an assistant professor in ties, however, are truly unparalleled continues to be engaged in teach- geochemistry. The hiring of both today in the geosciences globally. ing at all levels, including the intro- Gardner and Lassiter allowed us The breadth of the School and the ductory level, where annually more to construct major new analytical resources of the Jackson gift afford than 1,500 majors and nonmajors labs. In the hydrogeology program, us the potential to build an Earth chose from a diverse selection of John McCray from the Colorado science unit that can have major courses. In terms of bringing a broad School of Mines joined us as an impact upon science, education, and look at the Earth sciences to under- associate professor. Ron Steele is even policy and society. The niche of graduates at the University of Texas, the new Davis Centennial Chair, the Department has always been our suite of nonmajor courses is filling the shoes of the retired in fundamental research driven by particularly important. The Jackson Bill Galloway in stratigraphy and individual programs, and excellence School, in cooperation with the basin analysis. It is clear, however, in teaching at both the graduate and Environmental Science Institute, that with scheduled retirements and undergraduate levels. Within the has an active program in K–12 and competitive pressures for the best broader Jackson School, this mission public outreach. With the building faculty, we will have to be aggressive will continue, but it will be enhanced addition and renovation of the in recruitment. by greater resources and inter- existing structure, the Department actions with the Bureau and the has the best facilities it has had in With the end of this academic year, Institute. decades. Space, however, will again I will have finished my 4-year term be a problem in the coming years as Department chairman. Clark The base from which we begin as the Department and School grow. Wilson will take over, bringing to the Jackson School era is not A remaining goal is the upgrading the task considerable experience insignificant. The Department re- of our displays, both inside and from a previous term as chairman. mains the largest and one of the outside the building, to museum The number of individuals who have best equipped in the United States. quality. The idea is for the Jackson contributed over the last 4 years to Graduate enrollment remains Building to serve as a place where make the Department work are far around 160 students, and there are the University of Texas audience too numerous to mention, and I am 170 undergraduate students. In total and the general public can learn reduced to a blanket, but sincere, numbers of students, this is almost about how the Earth sciences acknowledgment of alumni, the twice as large as the next largest affect their lives and what we do UT administration, faculty, research geoscience department. Students at the Jackson School. Please scientists, staff, students, and col- have been primary beneficiaries visit the Departmental Web site leagues at the Bureau and the of the Jackson gift, including http://www.geo.utexas.edu/ for Institute. For me, the last 4 years more competitive recruiting offers a much fuller description of our have been challenging, rewarding, for graduate students and greater recent activities than space allows and enjoyable. availability of semesters devoted here. entirely to research. Both graduate Gary Kocurek

6 advance education and research in the Department Focus on technology of exploration geophysics, to facilitate recruiting graduates and Research technology transfer and implemen- of tation in upstream petroleum operations. This program has evolved as a Exploration key element in the larger Exploration Geological Geophysics Geophysics Initiative. By Robert H. Tatham The Exploration Geophysics Initiative, Sciences The EDGER Forum is a cooperative established by the Geology Foun- program between The University of Texas dation in 1998, continues to gain at Austin and the petroleum industry to momentum as it has evolved into a

Example of computer screen accessing the Internet-based database for use by geophysics students and industry members of the EDGER Forum. The database allows geoscientists to quickly review published interpretations of actual applications of multicomponent seismic data. The spreadsheetlike list on the left allows searching for examples by actual exploration/development objectives. Selecting one entry displays a summary of the example on the right panel of the display. To date, more than 400 published examples are included, and more than 3,500 hits from users have been recorded. Image provided by Bob Tatham.

7 focused program with petroleum in- and academia and between individ- defining spatial variations in the char- dustry involvement and a truly coop- ual members in the industry. This acterization of gas hydrates, and com- erative program within the Jackson last year, the annual technical sym- parisons of so-called nine-component School of Geosciences. The formation posium, sponsored by the Forum and and three- (or four-) component seis- of the Forum for Exploration and held on The University of Texas at mic data with variations in subsurface Development Geophysics Education Austin campus, addressed issues of geologic parameters. Other research and Research (EDGER Forum) at the successful applications of multi- projects, some evolving out of earlier University has played a significant role component data in exploration and success, are quite active in the tech- in supporting graduate student and development settings. This has been nology associated with exploration faculty research focused on problems our best attended symposium to geophysics. that exist in the upstream petroleum date. The next technical symposium The 3D Seismic Interpretation Labo- industry. Benefits of participation in will be February 14–15, 2005, also on ratory continues to be a thriving ac- the Forum include a stream of gradu- the University campus. In addition to tivity in the Exploration Geophysics ates employable by industry, a forum the technical symposium, the EDGER Program. Established with Geology for exchange of information and tech- Forum sponsored an informal work- Foundation support and located in the nology transfer between (and within) shop of industry participants to ad- L. Decker Dawson Center Exploration industry and academia, participa- dress common problems in the Geophysics Training Center in the tion in defining research directions, application of multicomponent seis- Jackson Geological Sciences Building, and access to results of student, post- mic methods. The workshop, hosted the lab consists of six state-of-the-art doctoral, and faculty research. The by Shell in Houston, will be repeated interpretation workstations, complete research focus of the EDGER Forum at another venue late summer or early with a full suite of industry-donated is analysis, imaging, and interpre- fall of 2004. interpretive and processing software, tation of multicomponent seismic Another successful project of the large-format plotting capability, and data, including P-P and P-SV AVO. EDGER Forum is the development of access to industry-donated 3D seis- My colleague Robert J. Ferguson and an Internet-based database organiz- mic data. A highlight of the lab is a I continue to be dedicated full time to ing published results of multicompo- high-speed (1 gigabyte per second) the Exploration Geophysics Program. nent seismic interpretations in an storage area network attached to a Paul L. Stoffa continues to be actively objective or problem-oriented format. disk server with a full terabyte of stor- involved in exploration geophysics, This organization of data allows us- age. This setup allows students nearly and senior researchers at the Institute ers to survey (browse) published re- instantaneous access to numerous 3D for Geophysics are actively involved sults focusing on a particular seismic data sets from any one of the in the teaching program. With the interpretation problem. An additional interpretive workstations. establishment of the Jackson School, browser has recently been added to The lab not only supports students cooperation with researchers at the database to allow consideration studying exploration geophysics but both the Institute and the Bureau of of results on an individual project or also is open to all soft-rock geology Economic Geology has increased, geographic location basis. An example students. Essentially all petroleum particularly in the area of advising of a computer screen from the prob- geologists will at some point in their graduate students. lem-oriented browser is shown in the careers find themselves in front of an illustration accompanying this story. With the support of the EDGER interactive workstation examining 3D To date, about 400 separate entries Forum, the number of graduate stu- seismic data. This lab is designed to are available in the database. Both un- dents focusing on exploration geo- support those students. In fact, most dergraduate and graduate students physics has continued to increase. of the students routinely working in have helped to develop this database. Three students graduated during the the lab are petroleum geology students past year (two M.S. and one Ph.D.), Many of the graduate student research utilizing 3D seismic data in their the- and six new graduate students have projects are defined with the coop- sis research. We anticipate that this accepted admission offers for the eration of industry members of the trend will continue and ultimately in- fall 2004 term. Sixteen exploration EDGER Forum. Recent research clude petroleum engineering students geophysics graduate students are projects include effects of fluids (par- as well. Such integration of disciplines expected to be enrolled in the fall ticularly variations in fluid viscosity) working with 3D seismic data is con- 2004 term. on seismic reflection processes, a de- sistent with the industry trend of em- tailed examination of compressional ploying multidisciplinary work teams The EDGER Forum supports tech- and shear-wave reflectivity and its in nearly all aspects of exploration and nology transfer and information- variation with source-receiver offset, development. sharing activities between industry

8 Overall, the vision of the Geology as water or CO2 that normally escape in melt inclusions and other geologic Foundation in establishing the Explo- during eruption. The volatile contents materials. The study of melt inclusions ration Geophysics Initiative is being of melt inclusions can provide a great is one of the most exciting new areas fulfilled. Facilities are in place, stu- deal of information about the degas- of research in igneous petrology and dents are learning, research is evolv- sing history of a magma, the depth of geochemistry. The amount of informa- ing, and the petroleum industry is magma storage, and the nature of the tion these inclusions contain is phe- constructively and interactively in- mantle source. nomenal, and we have the capabilities volved in the entire process. and expertise in the Department to be The challenge in studying melt inclu- at the leading edge of research in this sions lies in their size—typically less field. Petrology/ than the thickness of a human hair Geochemistry (~50 mm). Recent additions to the analytical capabilities of the Depart- Climate Science By John Lassiter ment, however, provide the tools Program needed to extract the wealth of infor- In the Earth sciences, sometimes it By Zong-Liang Yang pays big to think small. As new fac- mation contained in these igneous ulty, Jim Gardner and I are ready to “time capsules.” The newly installed The past 3 years have been very apply this philosophy by using melt JEOL 8200 electron microprobe can successful for the Department’s new inclusions to study problems ranging measure major element compositions, Climate Science Program (CSP) from how and why volcanoes erupt as well as chlorine, fluorine, and sul- (www.geo.utexas.edu/climate). The to how volatiles are recycled into the fur contents, in inclusions only a few Program’s mission is (1) to develop a deep mantle at subduction zones. Melt micrometers in size. Many trace ele- unique and innovative climate science inclusions are small blebs of melt ments can be analyzed in melt inclu- research and education program with trapped by crystals growing inside sions by laser ablation coupled to one a national and international reputa- magma chambers. The crystal walls of the Department’s two new induction, (2) to carry out climate research protect these inclusions from changes tively coupled plasma mass spectrom- that balances basic theoretical and in the outside environment, so they eters. The Department hopes to modeling work with impact assess- provide a snapshot of the composi- further expand its microanalytical ca- ment and societal applications, and tion of the melt from which the host pabilities by acquiring a Fourier trans- (3) to help reduce vulnerability to and crystal grew at the time of entrapment. form infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy increase the advantage of the impacts These inclusions often contain high instrument in the near future. This in- of climatic variability and climatic concentrations of volatile species such strument will allow direct measure- change on Texas, the United States,

ment of water and CO2 concentrations and other parts of the world. The mission receives generous Federal support from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the National Aeronau- tics and Space Administration (NASA), and the National Oceanic and Atmo- spheric Administration (NOAA), as well as the Geology Foundation. Join- ing me in the CSP are three graduate research assistants, one postdoctoral fellow, and one research associate who are working on a wide variety of research questions. These problems include mathematical modeling of land-surface hydrology and its role in controlling weather and climate, char- acterizing vegetation and snow cover, including their influences on the sur- Several unusually large melt inclusions (dark-brown) contained in face energy and water balances using an olivine crystal. The amount of water and other volatiles in such ground-based and remotely sensed inclusions provides many clues to how magmas form and evolve. data sets, quantifying the relative role Photo provided by John Lassiter. of land versus oceans in determining

9 View from the southeast: 64-Ma Red Hills porphyry copper system in the foreground with 32-Ma ash-flow- tuff sequences of the Chinati Mountains caldera forming the skyline. Photo provided by Rich Kyle.

rainfall in the southwest and south- of the Shafter mineralizing solutions, A Unique central United States, developing tools but magmatism and mineralization Historical Record for assessing the potential impact of were thought to be related to the of Massive Soil heavy precipitation associated with nearby 32-million-year-old Chinati severe weather on urban watersheds Mountains caldera. Research on the Erosion from the and improving flash flood predic- Red Hills intrusive system in the De- Edwards Plateau tion, and investigating the impact of partment, including zircon uranium- By Jay Banner vegetation-derived chemicals on Texas lead dating in Jim Connelly’s lab, has air quality. The CSP enjoys productive established that Red Hills magmatism During the Pliocene and Quaternary collaborative relations with many is of Laramide age (~64 Ma). These Periods, global climate change was a faculty and scientists at The Univer- results not only indicate that the Red driver of sustained soil erosion. In con- sity of Texas at Austin, as well as major Hills intrusion is the oldest Tertiary trast, recent soil erosion has been national and international climate igneous body in Trans-Pecos Texas, driven in large part by anthropogenic modeling groups. but also extend the Laramide mag- processes such as land use practices. matic province significantly eastward, Predicted global climate changes in the Ore Geology suggesting that Laramide subduction- 21st century, and associated changes related magmatism and deformation in precipitation intensity, are expected By Rich Kyle are coextensive over a broad area of to increase soil erosion. To predict how southwestern North America (A. K. changes in both climate and land use My graduate students—Amy Gilmer, Gilmer and others, 2003). Red Hills will affect soil erosion, we need to Jenny Head, and Fabienne Grellet- also is the easternmost “porphyry understand soil-erosion rates and Tinner—and I have been conducting copper” deposit, the type of deposit mechanisms through time and space. research for the past several years in that has accounted for most of the the Shafter area of Presidio County, copper produced in western New Doctoral candidate Jenny Cooke, Pro- Texas, working with the Rio Grande Mexico, Arizona, and Sonora. These fessor Libby Stern, Research Associ- Mining Company that is exploring the results further suggest that there is a ate Larry Mack, and I have developed district. Silver production at Shafter significantly larger region for the ex- unique geochemical tools to unravel from the 1880’s until the early 1940’s ploration for these important ore de- a high-resolution history of soil ero- still represents the large metal- posits than the current cluster of sion on the Edwards Plateau. Changes mining operation in Texas. These silver producing deposits. through time in the isotope composi- concentrations represent deeply oxi- tion of strontium (expressed as the dized zinc-lead-silver deposits in Gilmer, A. K., Kyle, J. R., Connelly, J. N., 87Sr/86Sr ratio) in deposits in Hall’s karsted Permian carbonates, where Mathur, R. D., and Henry, C. D., 2003, Cave, Kerr County, Texas, provide a Extension of Laramide magmatism significant metal resources remain. in southwestern North America into record of late Quaternary landscape denudation of Central Texas. The ba- The Red Hills pluton west of Shafter Trans-Pecos Texas: Geology Boulder, v. 31, no. 5, p. 447–450. sis for this historical record is the cor- has long been suggested as the source

10 relation between modern Central dently modeled by using local and re- erosion to century- to millennial-scale Texas soil 87Sr/86Sr ratios and soil gional climate records. The rate of this climate change and are cautionary thickness. Plants and soil-dwelling climate-driven soil-erosion event, evidence that even greater landscape animals, such as pocket gophers and however, was an order of magnitude degradation may result from coinci- voles, in turn express the 87Sr/86Sr ra- slower than recent soil erosion caused dent climatic variability and anthro- tio of exchangeable strontium in the by human land use. These results link pogenic influences. soil. Therefore, changes in strontium isotope ratios through a well-dated stratigraphic sequence of fossil plants and animals in Hall’s Cave serve as a proxy for changes in soil thickness over the past 20,000 years. The Hall’s Cave record shows that continuous erosion removed at least 180 cm of soil at a constant minimum rate of 11 cm per thousand years and that this continuous phase of erosion ended 5,000 years before present. This erosion history is consistent with late Quaternary environmental change in Central Texas that has been indepen-

Above: Entrance to Hall’s Cave, Kerr County, Texas. Note the thin, stony soils that are typical of the Edwards Plateau today. Fossil mammals, such as pocket gophers and voles, and fossil plants, such as hackberry seed coatings, are preserved in a sequence of sediments that partly filled Hall’s Cave as a result of the landscape denudation. The geochemistry of these fossils is used to infer that soils were nearly 2 m thick in this region during the early Holocene and late Pleistocene. This indicates that the plateau underwent massive soil loss during the last 20,000 years. Photo provided by Jay Banner.

11 SummerSummer FieldField CampCamp 2003—2003— GEOGEO 660660

SummerSummer 20032003 fieldfield classclass atat SultanSultan Creek, near Silverton,Silverton, Colorado. Photo by David Keeler.

By Mark Helper Twenty-two students and a staff of and of an adventurous student pur- project. Stops along the way provided five left Austin for El Paso on Memo- suing her passion, Raquel V. De opportunities to examine oil seeps and rial Day 2003 and returned a day later, Savariego, is not so easily diminished. the Upper Cretaceous stratigraphy of four smaller in number and forever Two weeks after returning to Aus- the southern San Juan Basin, cliff changed by a tragic accident on Inter- tin, 17 of these students returned to dwellings at Mesa Verde National Park, state 10 west of Fort Stockton. As I write the field. This 4-week class, led at dif- Newspaper Rock near Monticello, and this a year later, those injured have now ferent times by me, Randy Marrett, structures associated with evaporate- nearly completely recovered. For all of Lesli Wood, and Jim Connelly and as- cored folds on the Colorado Plateau. us, the profound sadness at the loss sistant instructor Brook Riley, as- In Moab, under the direction of Wood, of a beloved teacher, mentor, and col- sembled in Albuquerque and traveled students studied and reported on league, Robert K. “Bob” Goldhammer, by caravan to Moab, Utah, for the first depositional and sequence stratigraphic aspects of the Sego Sandstone in the Book Cliffs. Visits to Arches National Park and a variety of local sites completed the stay there. The class then traveled to Durango, Colorado, by way of Grand Junction, Montrose, and the San Juan Mountains. Stops along the way in the San Juan volcanic field provided a brief introduction to the geology of calderas. Working out of Ft. Lewis College in Durango and later from a camp at Molas Lake, students led by Riley, Marrett, and me spent about 2 weeks mapping, describing, and interpreting the Paleozoic and Mesozoic geology Dinner, Tusas of the Durango-Silverton area. Mountains In late June the class moved to Los camp. Photo Alamos, New Mexico, for field trips provided byby through the Valles Caldera and a brief Mark Helper. Mark Helper. project that examined the stratigraphy

12 BalancedBalanced RockRock at Arches National Park,Park, Utah. PhotoPhoto by AlkaAlka Tripathy.Tripathy.

Students examine the Gallup Sandstone at Ram Mesa, near Grants, New Mexico. Photo provided by Mark Helper.

MolasMolas Lake,Lake, Colorado.Colorado. PhotoPhoto by Alka Tripathy.

of ash-flow tuffs at Bandelier National history of the northern Rio Grande Mountains, a traditional starting Monument. The group then estab- rift. Students from the 1980’s will re- point for previous summer classes. lished a primitive camp in the central call many of these stops and projects, In February this year, Jay Banner and Tusas Mountains of northwestern New as we examined rift-fill stratigraphy I led a 4-day trip for these students, Mexico, where Connelly and I shifted from the high bridge and Arroyo hiking the reef trail and making most the focus to mapping and describing Hondo, visited several localities along of the stops associated with the back Mesoproterozoic metamorphic and the Embudo Fault, and made brief reef-to-basin transect that are so fa- plutonic rocks. stops in the Picuris Mountains at Pie- miliar to students of years past. Bob Project work concluded in Taos, dra Lumbre and the Harding Mine. and Raquel were remembered atop New Mexico, with 2 days of field trips This was not quite the end of the the Permian reef trail. and projects guided by me and Marrett 2003 class. Some of these students re- looking at the tectonic and magmatic turned wanting to visit the Guadalupe

13 Master of Science August 2003 (6) Graduate José Francisco Delgado B.S., Biology, 1997 Universidad Central de Venezuela Stratigraphic evolution and facies Degrees in analysis in a Paleocene reef mound, La Popa Basin, Northeast Mexico Supervisors: William L. Fisher, Robert K. Goldhammer Geological Committee Members: Robert L. Folk, Earle F. McBride

Amy Elizabeth Hobbs Sciences B.S., 1997 Lafayette College Conferred by The University of Texas at Austin, 2003–2004 Estimating the sediment budget for the Barton Springs segment of the Edwards aquifer Supervisor: John M. Sharp, Jr. Songul Yildiz Changshu Wang Committee Members: Philip C. B.S., 1997 B.E., 1982 Bennett, Zong-Liang Yang Istanbul University Southwestern Petroleum Institute Sequence stratigraphy and depositional M.S., 1987 Julymar Milagros Morantes Wuhan Geological College B.S., Chemistry, 1998 systems of late Cenozoic sediments, Universidad Central de Venezuela Matagorda Bay, Gulf of Mexico Velocity estimation from seismic data by nonlinear inversion and Quartz cementation modeling and Supervisors: William L. Fisher, Robert G. Loucks characterization of gas hydrate reservoir quality of the Upper deposits offshore Oregon Cretaceous sandstones in Carito field, Committee Members: William E. Galloway, Hongliu Zeng North Monagas, Venezuela Supervisors: Robert H. Tatham, Mrinal K. Sen Supervisors: Earle F. McBride, Doctor of Philosophy Committee Members: Kitty L. Milliken Doctor of Philosophy Nathan L. Bangs, Robert J. Committee Member: William L. August 2003 (3) Ferguson, Paul L. Stoffa Fisher Yong-Joon Park Master of Science Holly Anne Nance B.S., 1990 B.S., Biology, 2001 Yonsei University December 2003 (13) The University of Texas at Austin Seismic lithology and depositional The cranial osteology of facies architecture in Texas Gulf Coast Amy Michelle Balanoff Angolosaurus skoogi (Squamata: Basin: A link between rock and seismic B.S., 2000 The University of Texas at Austin Gerrhosauridae) with comments Supervisor: William L. Fisher on the morphology and phylogeny Committee Members: William E. Osteological description of an of the Cordyliformes Galloway, Bob A. Hardage, embryonic Elephant Bird (Ratitae: Supervisor: Christopher J. Bell Robert H. Tatham, Hongliu Zeng Aepyornis) using high-resolution Committee Members: Timothy B. X-ray computed tomography, with a Rowe, James T. Sprinkle Christie Lynn Schneider discussion of growth in Aepyornis B.A., 1999 Supervisor: Timothy B. Rowe Laura I. Net University of Minnesota Committee Members: Christopher J. B.S., 1996 Community paleoecology of the Bell, Matthew W. Colbert Universidad de Buenos Aires Pennsylvanian Winchell Formation, Diagenesis and reservoir quality of North Central Texas the eolian Nugget/Navajo sandstone Supervisor: James T. Sprinkle (Early Jurassic), Utah and Wyoming Committee Members: Christopher J. Supervisor: Earle F. McBride Bell, Robert K. Goldhammer, Committee Members: Gary A. Christopher Maples, Ann M. Kocurek, Kitty L. Milliken Molineaux

14 Matthew Allan Campbell Martha Alexandra Eric Tuitjer B.A., 2000 Jaimes Carvajal B.S., 2000 Pomona College B.S., 1998 Baylor University Development of the Los Chivos Universidad Simón Bolívar Depositional history and Platform, a Paleocene carbonate Paleogene to recent tectonic and paleogeographic evolution of the buildup in a siliciclastic dominated salt paleogeographic evolution of the Pliocene Globoquadrina altispira basin, La Popa Basin, northeast Mexico Cariaco Basin, Venezuela sequence, northern Gulf of Mexico Supervisors: William L. Fisher, Supervisors: William L. Fisher, Supervisor: William E. Galloway Robert K. Goldhammer William P. Mann Committee Members: William L. Committee Member: Committee Member: Fisher, Michael R. Hudec Randall A. Marrett William E. Galloway Judson Bryan Walker Mochammad Fachmi Adam Wesley Krawiec B.S., 2001 B.S., 2000 B.S., 1999 Texas Christian University Bandung Institute of Technology University of Rochester 3-D seismic geomorphology: Quantitative seismic geomorphology Linking the Nagssugtoqidian and Integrating well log data and stratal of Gabus and Belanak fields, Rinkian orogens of West Greenland slice data in West Natuna Basin, West Natuna Basin, Indonesia through the Disko Bugt region by Indonesia Supervisors: William L. Fisher, U-Pb geochronology Supervisors: William E. Galloway, Lesli J. Wood Supervisor: James N. Connelly Lesli J. Wood Committee Member: William E. Committee Members: Mark P. Cloos, Committee Member: Galloway Sharon Mosher William L. Fisher

Roy Westin Fuller Edward David Lane B.S., 2000 Doctor of Philosophy B.A., 1998 December 2003 (8) Brigham Young University Amherst College Geochronology of Heimefrontfjella, An evaluation of the pressure Imtiaz Ahmed East Antarctica, with implications for dependence of rare-earth-element Grenvillian and Pan-African orogenesis B.S., 1999 concentrations in garnets from the IIT Supervisor: James N. Connelly Llano Uplift Imaging the lower slope, offshore Committee Members: William D. Supervisor: William D. Carlson Carlson, Mark A. Helper Nicaragua and Costa Rica using a new Committee Members: James N. residual migration velocity analysis Connelly, Douglas Smith Krishnavikas Gudipati technique in the space-offset domain B. Tech., 2001 Matthew Graham Morris Supervisors: Kirk D. McIntosh, Paul L. Stoffa Indian Institute of Technology B.S., 2001 Committee Members: Mrinal K. Sen, Long term subsidence monitoring using University of Missouri–Rolla Robert H. Tatham, Clark R. Wilson synthetic aperture radar interferometry A generalized reflectivity approximation Supervisors: Sean M. Buckley, for P-P and P-SV AVO Jorge Barrios Rivera Clark R. Wilson Supervisor: Robert H. Tatham B.E., 1983 Committee Members: John M. Committee Members: Robert J. Instituto Tecnológico Sharp, Jr., Zong-Liang Yang Ferguson, Mrinal K. Sen de Ciudad Madero M.E., 1998 Shanty Ilona Nina Elise Triche Universidad Nacional B.E., 2000 B.A., B.S., 2001 Autónoma de México University of Trisakti Tulane University Stratigraphic analysis of reflectivity Structure and stratigraphy of the Kra Cranial osteology of Caiman data application to gas reservoirs in field, West Natuna Basin, Indonesia Crocodilus and implications the Burgos Basin, Mexico Supervisor: William L. Fisher for its systematic placement Supervisor: William L. Fisher Committee Members: William E. Supervisor: Timothy B. Rowe Committee Members: Albert W. Galloway, Robert H. Tatham Committee Members: Bally, Bob A. Hardage, Robert H. Christopher J. Bell, Chris Brochu Tatham, Carlos Torres-Verdin

15 Juan Clemente Robert Douglas Rogers Meredith Diane Guhl Bermudez Santana B.S., 1986 B.S., 2000 B.S., 1987; M.S., 1994 Appalachian State University University of Wyoming Instituto Politécnico Nacional M.S., 1989 Origin and evolution of the Todilto de México Colorado State University Formation, Northern New Mexico: Sequence stratigraphy and depositional Jurassic–Recent tectonic and Stratigraphic and geochemical evidence history of the upper Canon Del Tule, stratigraphic history of the Chortis Supervisors: Jay L. Banner, Gary A. Las Imagenes, and Lower Cerro Grande Block of Honduras and Nicaragua Kocurek formations, Central Parras Basin, (Northern Central America) Committee Member: Earle F. northeastern Mexico Supervisor: William P. Mann McBride Supervisor: Richard T. Buffler Committee Members: William E. Committee Members: Earle F. Galloway, Kirk D. McIntosh, Sally Lynn Holl McBride, William L. Fisher, Timothy F. William R. Muehlberger, Lesli J. B.A., 1998 Lawton, Francisco J. Vega Wood Oberlin College The sensitivity of land surface model Ricardo Ignacio Karah Lynn Wertz simulations to bias reduction of Combellas Bigott B.S., 1997 ERA-15 downward radiation forcing University of Wyoming B.E., 1997 Supervisors: James S. Famiglietti, Universidad Simón Bolívar From seafloor spreading to uplift: Zong-Liang Yang Depositional and structural evolution The structural and geochemical Committee Members: David of the middle Miocene depositional evolution of Macquarie Island on the Maidment, Clark R. Wilson episode, East-Central Gulf of Mexico Australian-Pacific plate boundary Supervisor: Sharon Mosher Supervisor: William E. Galloway Katherine Suzanne Kier Committee Members: James N. Committee Members: Jack H. B.S., 2001 Connelly, William R. Muehlberger, Christiansen, William L. Fisher, Baylor University Jonathan Snow Bruno C. Vendeville, Lesli J. Wood Hydrogeologic significance of depositional systems on groundwater Alejandro Escalona Master of Science quality and water resources in the B.S., 1995 May 2004 (14) Cisco Group, Upper Pennsylvanian Universidad Central de Venezuela and Lower Permian facies, Regional tectonics, sequence Joey Jacqualin Barker Rolling Plains, Texas stratigraphy and reservoir properties B.S., 1996 Supervisor: Alan R. Dutton of Eocene clastic sedimentation, University of Michigan Committee Members: Philip C. Maracaibo Basin, Venezuela The effects of nutrient-bearing minerals Bennett, John E. McCray Supervisors: William L. Fisher, on hydrocarbon biodegradation William P. Mann Erick Leuro Supervisor: Philip C. Bennett Committee Members: William E. B.E., 1997 Committee Members: John M. Galloway, Robert H. Tatham, Universidad Distrital Francisco José Sharp, Jr., Libby A. Stern Carlos Torres-Verdin de Caldas Radar interferometry measurement of Pedro Tomás Ryan Cotter Ewing B.A., 1998 land subsidence in El Paso, Texas Gómez-Cabrera Colorado College Supervisors: Sean M. Buckley, B.S., 1984 Clark R. Wilson Pattern variability in Instituto Tecnológico natural dune fields Committee Member: Paul L. Stoffa de Ciudad Madero M.S., 1993 Supervisor: Gary A. Kocurek Alison Suzanne Mote Universidad Nacional Committee Members: Melba M. B.S., 2000 Crawford, Clark R. Wilson Autónoma de México University of Georgia Stratigraphic and structural analysis of Beatriz García-Fresca A kinematic investigation in the Cripple the Neogene sediments of the offshore Creek District, Central Colorado: B.S., 1997 portion of the Salina del Istmo Basin, Implications regarding the structural Universidad del País Vasco Southeastern Mexico controls influencing the location Supervisors: William L. Fisher, Urban effects on groundwater and distribution of gold ore zones recharge in Austin, Texas Martin P. A. Jackson Supervisors: J. Richard Kyle, Committee Members: Edgar H. Supervisor: John M. Sharp, Jr. Timothy F. Wawrzyniec Guevara, Earle F. McBride, Robert H. Committee Members: Jay L. Banner, Committee Member: Tatham, Carlos Torres-Verdin Robert E. Mace Randall A. Marrett

16 John Terrill Paterson Tania Clare Wallace Jonathan William Franzosa B.A., 2001 B.S., 2001 B.S., 1983 University of Montana University of Miami Louisiana State University Magmatic and pervasive hydrothermal The geochemical behavior and Evolution of the brain in Theropoda mineralogy of the Grasberg Cu-Au transport characteristics of estrogens (Dinosauria) porphyry copper deposit (West New Supervisor: Philip C. Bennett Supervisor: Timothy B. Rowe Guinea) Committee Members: John M. Committee Members: Christopher J. Supervisor: Mark P. Cloos Sharp, Jr., Libby A. Stern Bell, Matthew Colbert, James T. Committee Members: William D. Sprinkle, Walter Wilczynski Carlson, James N. Connelly Doctor of Philosophy Hongbo Lu Elizabeth Ann Roller May 2004 (9) B.E., 1993; M.E., 1996 B.A., 2001 University of Petroleum, Colgate University Suk-Joo Stephen Choh Beijing, China Petrogenesis of the Llano granites, B.S., 1990 Global and local controls Central Texas: Formation mechanisms Korea University on depositional cyclicity: and tectonic implications of radiogenic Microfacies and depositional Canterbury Basin, New Zealand isotopes environments of selected Pennsylvanian Supervisors: William L. Fisher, Supervisor: James N. Connelly calcareous algal deposits from southern Craig S. Fulthorpe USA, and application of information Committee Members: Daniel S. Committee Members: William E. Barker, Sharon Mosher technology for sedimentary petrology Galloway, William P. Mann, teaching and research Ronald J. Steel, Hongliu Zeng Jason Andrew Stine Supervisor: William L. Fisher B.A., 2000 Committee Members: Robert L. Folk, Astrid Makowitz Franklin & Marshall College Brenda L. Kirkland, Earle F. B.S., 1997; M.S., 1999 McBride, Stephen C. Ruppel Michigan State University Sensitivity of AVO reflectivity to fluid properties in porous media The genetic association between brittle Wan-Joo Choi deformation and quartz cementation: Supervisor: Robert H. Tatham B.S., Engineering, 1989; M.S., Examples from burial compaction Committee Members: Robert J. Engineering, 1991 and cataclasis Ferguson, Mrinal K. Sen Seoul National University Supervisors: Earle F. McBride, Tony John Troutman Silicate surface chemistry and Kitty L. Milliken dissolution kinetics in dilute Committee Members: Robert H. B.S., 1997 aqueous systems Lander, Randall A. Marrett, John M. University of Southern California Supervisor: Philip C. Bennett Sharp, Jr. Reservoir characterization, paleogeomorphology, and genesis of Committee Members: William D. Carlson, Franz Hiebert, Kitty L. Patrick John Mickler the Mississippian redwall limestone Milliken, Libby A. Stern B.A., 1992 paleokarst, Hualapai Indian State University of New York Reservation, Grand Canyon area, Annette Summers Engel (SUNY)–Buffalo Arizona, USA B.A., 1995 M.S., 1998 Supervisors: William L. Fisher, Wittenberg University University of Cincinnati Charles Kerans M.S., 1997 Controls on the stable isotopic Committee Member: University of Cincinnati composition of speleothems, Earle F. McBride Geomicrobiology of sulfuric acid Barbados, West Indies Daniel Shane Valentine speleogenesis: Microbial diversity, Supervisors: Jay L. Banner, Libby A. nutrient cycling, and controls Stern B.S., 1997 and cave formation Committee Members: Bridget R. Cornell College Supervisor: Philip C. Bennett Scanlon, Frederick W. Taylor, Zong- Formation and organization Liang Yang of aeolian bedforms Committee Members: Katrina Edwards, Barbara J. Mahler, John M. Supervisor: Gary A. Kocurek Sharp, Jr., Libby A. Stern Committee Members: James C. Gibeaut, Randall A. Marrett

17 Brook Colleen Daun Riley Xinxia Wu B.S., 1996 B.E., 1995; M.E., 1998 University of Arizona China University of Geology Laramide exhumation and heating in Upper Miocene depositional history Southeastern Arizona: Low- of the Central Gulf of Mexico Basin temperature thermal history and Supervisor: William E. Galloway implications for zircon fission-track Committee Members: William L. systematics Fisher, Martin P. A. Jackson, Supervisor: Mark P. Cloos Robert H. Tatham, Lesli J. Wood Committee Members: George H. Davis, John I. Garver, Ray Ingersoll, Randall A. Marrett, Earle F. McBride

Undergraduate Degrees in Geological Sciences

Conferred by The University of Texas at Austin, 2003–2004

Bachelor of Science Bachelor of Science Bachelor of Arts August 2003 (9) December 2003 (9) May 2004 (2) Russell Kyle Barrett Joseph Addison Beery Drennan Travers Fuller Jennifer Leigh Bird Joseph T. Bentley Keri Renee Kelley Ronald Lee Dildine Kevin Eugene Burns Christopher L. Gordon – Jason Lars Clayton Bachelor of Science Highest Honors Hunter-West A. Danque – Honors May 2004 (4) Lisa Renee Hatzky Deanna R. Eames Daniel Eugene Jones Michael N. Michaelides Benjamin David Dameron – Honors Raymond Francis Schiltz Julie Ann Pecarina Lindsey Diane Hammer Nicholas Kurt Sommer Alka Kumari Tripathy – Honors David Alton Keeler J. Fernandez Velasquez Amy Denise Wagner

Bachelor of Arts December 2003 (3) Undergraduate students receive scholarships from the Austin Kimberly Demel Huebel Gem and Mineral Society. Chadwick Nelms Lyons Left to right: Leon Long, Jennifer Michelle Rimes Undergraduate Advisor; Mary Koch, Senior Administrative Associate of the Geology Foundation; Ana York; Michael Osborne; Drennan Fuller; Lindsey Hammer; and Betsy Gager of the Austin Gem and Mineral Society. Photo by Kerry Gager.

18 New Faculty

James E. “Jim” Gardner mantle, as well as the mech- Vadose Zone Journal. He was anisms of melt generation and selected as the Associate Editor Jim Gardner extraction in different tectonic of the Year for the Vadose Zone joined the environments. Lassiter earned Journal in 2002. He also serves Department his B.A. in geology from Brown on a research-review panel for in September University in 1989 and his the U.S. Department of Energy. 2003, in Ph.D. from the University of the area of California, Berkeley, in 1995. Ronald J. “Ron” Steel J. Jaworski volcanology He has been a Staff Scientist and igneous at the Max-Planck-Institut für Ron Steel petrology. He teaches Earth Chemie, Geochemistry joined the materials at the undergraduate Division, in Mainz, Germany, faculty in level, as well as advanced since 1999. Lassiter is currently September igneous petrology and physical an associate editor for Reviews 2003, teaching volcanology. Prior to joining petroleum of Geophysics. He is a member J. Jaworski the faculty, Gardner was an of the American Geophysical geology Assistant Professor at the Union, the Geochemical and clastic depositional Geophysical Institute and Society, and the European environments. He received his Department of Geology and Union of Geosciences. B.S. in 1967 and Ph.D. in 1971 Geophysics at the University from the University of Glasgow, of Alaska, Fairbanks. John E. McCray Scotland. He went on to teach at the University of Bergen, Gardner received his B.S. from John E. McCray Norway, from 1973 to 1982 Southern Methodist University joined the and again from 1990 to 1995. in 1985, his M.A. from Department He also worked for Norsk Washington University in St. in September Hydro in Bergen and Oslo, Louis in 1987, and his Ph.D. 2003 in the then went on to teach at the in 1993 from the University area of University of Wyoming until of Rhode Island. His research J. Jaworski hydrogeology. his move to Austin. focuses on the physical and He earned a B.S. from West chemical aspects of volcanic In addition to his work at the Virginia University in 1986, an eruptions and magmatic Department, Steel also teaches M.S. from Clemson University processes. industry short courses in in 1994, and a Ph.D. from the sequence stratigraphy and University of Arizona in 1998. John C. Lassiter in deepwater systems. His McCray teaches geology of research aims at evaluating engineering and physical John C. Lassiter the signatures of tectonics, hydrology at the undergraduate will join the sea-level change, and climate level. At the graduate level he Department in fluvial, shallow-marine, and teaches watershed hydrology, in August deepwater strata and has an groundwater modeling, 2004, in important outcrop component. and advanced courses in the areas Current activity focuses on vadose zone hydrology of igneous fluvial successions, shelf- and contaminant-transport petrology margin deltas, tidal signatures modeling at various hydrologic and isotope geochemistry. and sand bodies, the process scales. McCray currently serves His research is focused on of transgression, improving as an associate editor for Water understanding the thermal the lowstand model, and Resources Research, Journal of and chemical evolution of the fluvio-lacustrine systems. Contaminant Hydrology, and

19 Bill Galloway Retires from Teaching

By Kathy McWilliams

Ph.D. from The University of Texas at Austin. Before returning to the University to teach, Galloway spent several very productive years with Conoco. He also conducted research at the Bureau of Economic Geology, where he was a Research Scientist and senior author of the classic Atlas of Major Texas Oil Reservoirs. Galloway was the first recipient of the Bureau’s Alumnus of the Year Award in 2003. He received the Outstanding Educator Award from the Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies in 1993 and in 2004 received the Grover E. Murray Memorial Distinguished Educator Award from the American Association of Petroleum Geologists. His pioneering publications, grants, and awards Bill and Rosemary Galloway. have centered on research on various clastic Photo by Patricia Ganey-Curry. depositional systems, emphasizing shelf and slope/basin deposits. He continues to be engaged The Department of Geological in long-term synthesis studies of the Cenozoic Sciences and the Geology deposits of the Gulf of Mexico and North Sea Foundation honored William E. “Bill” basins. He now pursues his research at the Galloway and his wife, Rosemary, Institute for Geophysics, continuing the Gulf at a retirement dinner at the Basin Depositional Synthesis Project, which is University’s Campus Club October 24, entering its 10th year with full industry funding. 2003. Many colleagues and current Always a highly sought speaker, Galloway has and former students attended, taught many short courses to industry and sharing stories about the professor professional societies and served as visiting who has earned his place as one of professor at universities in Norway and Australia. the most distinguished sedimentary His classes in the Department had record geologists of his generation. enrollments. We will miss his engaging and enthusiastic teaching style in the Department. Galloway was born in Waco, Texas, In his leisure time, Galloway remains an avid October 8, 1944. He attended Texas fisherman and outdoorsman. He is also involved A&M University for his B.S. degree in a number of charitable projects, including and received both his M.A. and Habitat for Humanity and Meals on Wheels.

20 Bureau of Economic Geology

Deep-water Scott W.W. Tinker, Director carbonate deposits of the Bone Spring Formation cropping out in Victorio Canyon in the Sierra Diablo of West Texas. This early Permian outcrop is an ideal laboratory for studying slope and basin- floor carbonate reservoir analogs. Photo by Charles Kerans. From the Director

It has been just un- to the annual budget. We reached real-world problems. No other der 5 years since our $15 million goal 1 year early and university brings this breadth of I left an 18-year must now work hard to maintain scale and impact to the geosciences. career in the pri- and grow that annual level of We are indeed unique in our po- vate sector to come external funding. tential, and the opportunity as to The University of described by President Faulkner for Texas at Austin to I am proud of this 5-year growth, as “invention and new thinking” is serve as Director of it requires a tremendous amount of upon us. the Bureau. I anticipated with some work and commitment from the full excitement the necessary changes scientific and support staff. It is not The new School will involve many and considerable energy that the growth per se that is good, but rather challenges. Change at all levels— Bureau would require, but I did not the ability to broaden our reach— to individuals, to member units, to anticipate, nor have any way to to contribute to geoscience research the School, and to the University— conceive of, the remarkable changes impact on society—that comes is fundamental, but if approached that have occurred in geosciences with the growth and the increased correctly change will be healthy at UT during the past 3 years, and breadth of private, State, and Fed- and even fun. Recognition and the potential that lies before us. eral funding sources. Growth also acceptance of historical differ- provides vitality—fully one-third ences—so that the sum becomes First, a bit of background on the of our scientific staff are new in the greater than the parts—will be Bureau. I believe that scientific past 5 years—and serves to mitigate critical as we federate the units. creativity has two enemies at the complacency. Broad thinking and creativity will extremes: complacency and volatil- govern in order to build something ity. The Bureau business model— In terms of volatility reduction, we that has no analog. Tolerance and which requires that we raise around have accomplished several things. understanding of other viewpoints 90 percent of our gross operational With the patience and leadership of and perspectives—which are as budget each year, with 100 percent Vice President for Research Juan likely as not to be correct—will be of researcher funding coming from Sanchez, the Bureau is now returned critical to build trust. Energy and external sources—does not allow a portion of our annual overhead. passion must be pervasive, because much room for complacency. The This type of unrestricted funding, something that is unique and special model mandates a focus on rele- although representing only around cannot be formed without the vance, as most agencies and com- $450 thousand last year, has re- contribution and commitment of panies do not fund science that they markable positive impact. In addi- personal energy from every mem- consider irrelevant. And the model tion, we increased our annual line ber. And finally there will be risk, provides some measure of flexibility: item to help run the State geological because few things great were ever our fate is in our own hands each survey business, have added more accomplished without risk. year. The downside to the model is than $4 million to endowments to the volatile times when, regardless of help run our core research centers, So we embark on this opportunity, effort or excellence, external funding and are working toward a significant this experiment, and this challenge: sources are limited and the Bureau funding increase for our State of to maintain and continue to grow must constantly shift programs in an Texas Advanced Resource Recovery a healthy and vibrant Bureau, while attempt to maintain stability. program. Small but significant steps. at the same time contributing to a healthy and vibrant School and In January of 2000 when I arrived, A larger step is the formation of the University. I believe that it can be the Bureau had just come through a Jackson School of Geosciences. We done, and in fact it must be done period of significant staff reductions; have before us a unique opportunity for all of those who have invested the gross annual operational budget in geosciences: to combine focused, themselves into the enterprise, not at the time was around $10 million. fundamental research based around least of all Jack Jackson. It promises I laid out, with the full support of the traditional and tested model of to be quite a ride. the Bureau staff, a 5-year plan to individual researcher and graduate increase the annual budget to students, with broad, integrated, Scott W. Tinker $15 million and also to seek ways collaborative research that is con- to provide some measure of stability ducted to address and to impact

22 cal log data maintenance, and media information technology. This com- Bureau of bined staff provides wide-ranging advisory, technical, informational, and research-based services to in- Economic dustries, nonprofit organizations, and Federal, State, and local agencies. Public outreach is also an important Seafloor Geology morphology of and wide-ranging part of the Bureau’s offshore eastern mission. This commitment begins Trinidad. This with the Director, who visits class- research is being rooms, lectures to a broad variety of conducted by the Deep Marine audiences, provides State and Federal Depositional Who We Are and testimony, and encourages all Bureau Margins program. What We Do employees to volunteer time for edu- cating students, teachers, and decision What Is the Bureau of makers about the importance of geoscience in society. Economic Geology? Energy Research The Bureau of Economic Geology was established in 1909 as a successor to Energy research makes up about two- the Texas Geological Survey and the thirds of the current Bureau research Texas Mineral Survey. Today the Bu- effort. Bureau scientists conduct ba- reau functions as an international re- sic research, as well as numerous search unit within the Jackson School. sponsored research projects funded The Bureau also serves as the State by various State and Federal agencies Geological Survey of Texas. As the State and individual companies or groups Survey, the Bureau is charged with of companies. General areas of re- maintaining facilities and providing search include basin analysis, carbon- management for the office of Publica- ates, clastics, fractures, gas hydrates, tion Sales, the Geophysical Log Facil- geophysics, reservoir characterization, ity, and three Core Research Centers. resource assessment, salt tectonics, and structural geology and tectonics. Parallel views of the Cretaceous Nearly 60 researchers and 20 to 30 carbonates of the Pecos River Canyon at student research assistants are Nine programs are supported by Painted Canyon Rapids showing (top) complemented by 45 support staff multiple industry sponsors, includ- photo and laser-mapped image. Laser image is at 3-4 cm point-spacing and is professionals who handle adminis- ing two new programs launched in forming the base image for 3D mapping tration, contracts, core and geophysi- 2003: Fluid-Rock-Seismic Technology of reservoir heterogeneity styles and collection of facies dimensional data.

Bureau staff, January 2004. Photo by David M. Stephens.

23 E2EM1N U U U led by Susan Hovorka; and Reservoir PEM1A Characterization Research Laboratory E2EM1N (RCRL), led by Charles Kerans and U PEM1A U F. Jerry Lucia. E2USP U U U PEM1C Earth and E2EM1P N U PEM1A Environmental Systems

SH 361 The diverse earth and environmental PEM1C E2USP studies group conducts basic and PEM1F U applied research in CO2 sequestra- PEM1C tion, coastal studies, groundwater U MISP Transect PEM1F Transect contaminants, groundwater resources, M2USN geologic mapping, near-surface geo- PEM1A U U physics, remote sensing, and vadose PEM1A U zone hydrology. The Bureau is devel- M1UBL PEM1C oping programs that relate energy and PEM1C Gulf

E1UBL the environment, including GCCC, of PEM1C which is a major initiative in seques- U Mexico E2EM1P U tration of greenhouse gases. The en- Lidar-derived digital elevation model of a transect of Mustang Island State Park showing a vironmental projects address the variety of coastal habitats. Aerial photograph signatures, field observations, and elevations needs of State and Federal agencies were combined to produce this image. in Texas, as well as Latin America. Bureau collaborators include the Department of Geological Sciences, the Institute for Geophysics, the Center for Space Research, the Inte- grative Biology Section in the School of Biological Sciences, and the Insti- tute for Computational Engineering and Sciences.

Highlights and New Initiatives

Houston Research Center

Image of the Edwards aquifer derived from the Bureau’s 3-D Web-based aquifer model. Just a year after BP donated the Hous- The earth-tone colors represent the land surface just north of the aquifer; rivers (blue lines) ton Research Center (HRC) to the flowing over this land contribute water to the aquifer. The brightly colored portion of the Bureau, it has increased its holdings model represents the aquifer; colors here indicate changes in porosity throughout the aquifer. and brought in new staff to maintain the nation’s largest collection of geologic cores and samples. The climate- controlled warehouse, modern core (FRST), led by Jim Jennings; and (EGL), led by Bob A. Hardage; Envi- layout rooms, well-equipped confer- Laser-assisted Analogs of Siliciclastic ronmental Quality Research (EQR), led ence rooms, and 5,000-square-foot Rocks (LASR), led by David Jennette. by Bridget Scanlon; Fracture Research technical library donated this year by The ongoing programs are Applied and Application Consortium (FRAC), UNOCAL provide visitors a great op- Geodynamics Laboratory (AGL), led led by Stephen Laubach and col- portunity to view materials and con- by Martin P. A. Jackson; Deep-Marine leagues at the Department of Geologi- duct research. Onsite geologists serve Depositional Margins (DM2), led by cal Sciences and the Department of as curators of the collection and help Lesli J. Wood and Paul Mann of UTIG; Petroleum and Geosystems Engineer- the public with technical information Exploration Geophysics Laboratory ing; Gulf Coast Carbon Center (GCCC), and logistics at the center.

24 On its 12-acre campus in west Hous- ton, the HRC houses more than 600,000 boxes of core and cuttings.

Most of the cores are from onshore Pilot well High-sand trend in sites across the United States, but a the Frio Formation recent donation of more than 50,000 boxes by Occidental Petroleum Cor- Power plant poration (Oxy) added cores from all Other sources over the world to the collection. Many Northwest Pilot well Southeast

Sea Oakville-FlemingPlio-Pleistocene Miocene of these cores are from world-class level Catahoula-Frio/Vicksburg Jackson/ Yegua reservoirs that can now be studied at 1000 the facility. 2000 Target Depth (m) Carrizo-WilcoxBase of meteoric The HRC is fast becoming a hub for 3000 system

Bureau activities in Houston. The Bu- 020 mi Sandstone-dominated units reau, industry, academia, and profes- 0 20 km Mud-dominated units sional societies use the facility for Major growth-fault zone workshops, seminars, research, out- The pilot project is sited on the sand-rich fairway of the Frio Formation in the upper Texas Gulf reach activities, and joint research Coast. We will inject CO2 into a thin, high-permeability sandstone of the upper Frio Formation. planning. A portion of the collection was showcased at the 2004 American Association of Petroleum Geologists In May an injection well was drilled Annual Meeting in Dallas, where the Airborne Lidar into the regionally extensive high- first cores in the Bureau’s teaching col- Terrain Mapping in permeability sandstones of the Frio lection were introduced to the public. the Powder River Basin Formation in Liberty County, Texas. Cores in the teaching collection will This pilot experiment will test the in- Production of natural gas from coal eventually be searchable by deposi- jection of CO into the subsurface and beds (CBNG) has proved to be a sig- tional setting, geologic age, and geo- 2 monitor its movement in the subsur- nificant addition to U.S. natural gas logic province through an online face by means of an updip injection resources, and a large percentage of database. well. The experiment emphasizes in- this production comes from the Pow- Frio Brine Field Experiment tensive preinjection modeling and risk der River Basin in Wyoming and Mon- tana. Since 2002, Bureau researchers for CO Sequestration assessment; extensive monitoring be- 2 fore, during, and after injection; and a have been working with one of the The GCCC, in a project funded by the proactive approach to identifying the basin’s technology leaders, Marathon U.S. Department of Energy and sup- environmental risks that may be en- Oil Company, to apply their skills in ported by several research partners, lidar high-resolution topographic countered during a CO2–injection is conducting an experiment experiment. The site is gaining mapping and hydrogeology to achieve titled “Frio Brine Field Ex- national and interna- the greatest production having the least surface and environmental im- periment for CO2 tional exposure. Sequestra- pact on the basin. Using Bureau- tion.” owned and -operated airborne lidar equipment, researchers have conducted nearly 600 miles of airborne lidar and ground Global Positioning System (GPS) surveys of the basin. Data generated from the surveys were Digital used to construct high-resolution, de- elevation model tailed 3-D maps called digital eleva- (DEM) of the tion models (DEM’s) that are currently terrain in the Powder being used to evaluate and plan ex- River Basin near Sheridan, Wyoming. The DEM was tensive CBNG operations. constructed from airborne lidar data collected by the Bureau’s ALTM 1225 Project hydrologists are using the laser mapping system during surveys in DEM’s to delineate surface drainage November 2003 and March 2004. features, design reservoirs and con-

25 Cross sections through a 3-D gridded prototype model of a deepwater channelized sandstone.

tainment ponds, and model water re- rapidly and accurately capturing and graphics. The animation will offer tention and ground recharge to man- analyzing true 3-D outcrop volumes. visitors an appreciation of the varied age produced groundwater. They have and complex geology that lies beneath become an excellent tool for project Houston Museum the flat, featureless coastal plain in engineers as they plan drill locations of Natural Science a way that will make this information and design roads, surface facilities, The Houston Museum of Natural Sci- clear and entertaining. and pipelines with minimal environ- ence conducts one of the largest on- mental impact. The value and wide Texas Commission on going public outreach programs in the Environmental Quality usability of lidar-generated DEM’s State of Texas. By mandate, every 4th- have made them an indispensable tool and 10th-grade student in the Hous- The Texas Commission on Environ- for the development of CBNG reserves. ton Independent School District— mental Quality (TCEQ) is the en- Fluid-Rock-Seismic more than 600,000 students—visits vironmental agency for the state. Technologies (FRST) the museum each year, and surround- The Bureau recently negotiated a ing school districts, such as Austin and University-TCEQ agreement that The Fluid-Rock-Seismic Technologies San Antonio, use the museum for class facilitates research contracts with (FRST) research program is a new visits. The museum receives more than the agency so that our expertise in the Bureau initiative and collaboration 2 million visitors each year. geosciences can be applied to envi- between the Jackson School and part- ronmental issues of concern to Texas. A key exhibit at the Museum is the ner companies designed to make ma- These contracts offer opportunities for Weiss Energy Hall, which is one of terial improvements in the ability to new applied research that will improve the most complete and best-funded assess the seismic detection of fine- our scientific understanding, improve energy-related exhibits in the coun- scale reservoir and seal elements in the quality of our environment, and try. On November 1, 2004, the Weiss subsurface reservoir settings. FRST be of service to Texas. Current projects Energy Hall will unveil a complete- research will address limitations in focus on the occurrence and mitiga- ly renovated energy exhibit to the geophysical research involving the tion of contaminants in public drink- public, which will be a centerpiece ani- analysis, quantification, and improve- ing water supplies, protection of water mation of the geologic history of the ment of seismic resolution caused by resources, and studies related to karst Texas Gulf coastal plain produced by the common lack of integrated ap- aquifer systems. researchers and the Bureau’s Media proaches and multidisciplinary team- Information Technologies staff. This Media and Information work, and will incorporate a new suite 7-minute film spans the onset of the of tools and approaches that are now Technologies Triassic rifting to the present day and available to outcrop geologists, reser- will be constructed with detailed In December the Bureau established voir modelers, and geophysicists for 3-D models and 2-D animations and the Media and Information Technolo-

26 gies (MIT) department to further its The Bureau as the rooms, processing rooms for slabbing goals of creatively disseminating re- State Geological core, and office space. Many of the search results. This department brings Survey of Texas Bureau’s holdings of core, geologic together editing, digital imaging, materials, and geophysical well logs graphics design and illustration, Web are included in an online, searchable, content and multimedia development, As the State Geological Survey of and integrated log and core database publication sales, and information Texas, the Bureau is responsible for located on the Bureau Web site. technologies to better provide services managing the Office of Publication Geophysical Log Facility (GLF). The to Bureau scientists, the Jackson Sales, Core Research Centers, Geo- GLF is a repository for the geophysi- School, and external partners. Using physical Log Facility, and Data Center cal data received from private dona- the latest technology, MIT is develop- and providing the services of a Public tions, Bureau projects, and the ing new products intended to inform Information Geologist. Railroad Commission of Texas. All geo- and educate both technical and non- Office of Publication Sales. The Bu- physical data are available for public technical readers. John M. Els, Joel L. reau has produced numerous research viewing and copying and include Lardon, and Scott D. Rodgers together publications and products since 1915 wireline electric logs, well records, and manage MIT. that are sold through the Office of scout tickets from hundreds of thou- In addition to promoting research pro- Publication Sales. There are nearly sands of wells located in Texas. Ap- duced at the Bureau, MIT will seek op- 60 categories of research products, proximately 96 percent of the GLF’s portunities to offer services to other including atlases and maps, 234,269 indexed logs have been en- departments at the University. The CD-ROM’s, guidebooks, rock kits, tered into an online integrated log and Bureau will continue to publish using cross sections, and educational core database, and efforts are under traditional means while expanding materials, that sell at just over the cost way to enter the remaining logs into the list of digital materials, including of reproduction. The Bureau also the database. This searchable data- publishing through the Internet and handles the publications of the Gulf base is available online through our on CD. In all phases of publishing, MIT Coast Association of Geological Web site. is working with the Bureau’s research Societies and many of its affiliates, Data Center. The Data Center is the staff to identify the best means for as well as selected publications of the Bureau’s in-house facility for the col- disseminating research results. Gulf Coast Section SEPM. Bureau publications may be purchased online at lection of maps, periodicals, publica- Research through our Web site, www.beg.utexas.edu. tions, reports, well logs, and open-file Partnerships materials for staff members, students, Core Research Centers (CRC’s). The and visitors interested in Texas geol- The Bureau has established broad, CRC’s are storage and public research ogy. The Data Center also contains a long-term research alliances with facilities for the nearly 1.7 million computer for free online database several organizations, including boxes of donated core and rock searches. It is open to the public Mon- PEMEX, ARAMCO, and ExxonMobil, materials maintained by the Bureau day through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to through contracts known as “frame- in three locations: the Austin Core 5:00 p.m. and is managed by the Pub- work agreements.” These agreements Research Center, the Midland Core Re- lic Information Geologist. contain the general legal and business search Center, and the Houston requirements—such as liability, con- Research Center. The Austin CRC is Public Information Geologist. The fidentiality, publication of results, and the Bureau’s main core repository for Bureau receives requests for informa- jurisdiction—that are needed for the core and rock material donated to the tion about the geology, energy, min- Bureau to conduct research for the University, and the Midland CRC will eral, and land resources of Texas on a sponsor. Reaching agreement on eventually hold all University-owned daily basis from people throughout the terms and conditions before projects Permian Basin/West Texas core and United States by phone, e-mail, cor- are conceived makes it easier to ini- cuttings. The Houston Research Cen- respondence, and onsite visits. These tiate new research projects. Frame- ter, the largest of the three facilities, requests are handled by Sigrid Clift, work agreements usually cover several strives to be the flagship public- who serves as the Bureau’s Public In- years and allow for specific work or- sector curator of industry and non- formation Geologist. ders to be added to original docu- marine academic geoscience material ments, thereby decreasing contract in the United States. Public facilities approval time. at the CRC’s include core examination

27 New Faces Ph.D. (1998) from Duncan takes on responsibility for the University of overseeing the Bureau’s program in New Associate Directors London and a B.S. Environment and Earth systems. Jay P. Kipper became the Bureau’s As- (with honors) (1994) Raney will serve the Bureau in the sociate Director for from the University coming year as Senior Technical Ad- Administration in of Dublin. Dooley’s visor to the Director and will also help December 2003. research focus has the Director with his increased duties Kipper comes to been on the dy- in the Association of American State the Bureau after namics and kinematics of fault sys- Geologists. tems using scaled analog modeling, 20 years at Aspen James W. Jennings, Jr., has returned field studies, remote sensing, and Technology in to the Bureau’s RCRL after spending a seismic data. Houston, Texas, where he was most year as a Visiting Professor for Shell recently Vice President of Sales, and International Exploration and Produc- replaces Doug Ratcliff, now Associate New Assignments tion Company in Rijswijk, The Neth- Director of the Geology Foundation Stephen C. Ruppel and F. Jerry Lucia erlands. Jennings taught Shell’s and Jackson School. were promoted to Senior Research Carbonate Development Team tech- Ian Duncan became the Bureau’s As- Scientist, the highest technical posi- niques for modeling carbonate reser- sociate Director for tion at the Bureau. voirs that were developed at RCRL. Environment and Alan R. Dutton, Geophysicist Sergey Fomel was pro- a Bureau researcher Earth Systems on moted to Research Scientist. Fomel since 1982, accepted a position start- July 1, replacing came to the Bureau in 2002. ing fall 2004 as an associate profes- Jay Raney, who sor in the Department of Earth and served in this role Robert Reedy was promoted to Re- Environmental Science at The Univer- for about 6 years. search Associate. Reedy is a hydrolo- sity of Texas at San Antonio. Dutton Duncan comes to gist interested in hydrologic data will continue his research on ground- the Bureau after 10 years as a Scien- analysis, field instrumentation systems water and teach courses in hydrogeol- tist Manager at the Virginia Depart- design and installation, and computer ogy and groundwater modeling. ment of Mines, Minerals and Energy applications. Division of Mineral Resources. He pre- Bureau geologist Paul R. Knox retired viously worked as a geology profes- Ursula Hammes and Robert M. Reed in January 2004. He began his career sor at Southern Methodist University joined the staff as Research Scientist at the Bureau in 1992 and worked on and Washington University. Associates. Hammes, who earned a a range of projects, including studies doctorate at the University of Colo- in the Matzen field, Vienna Basin, New Researchers rado, specializes in carbonate sedi- Austria, and, most recently, carbon mentology and diagenesis, as well as dioxide sequestration in the Texas Renaud Bouroullec, a structural ge- sequence and seismic stratigraphic Gulf Coast. ologist with re- interpretation. Reed is part of the FRAC search interests in Xuejiao Industrial Associates team and runs Research Science Associate basin analysis, Liu the scanning electron microscope, is leaving in August 2004 to salt tectonics, which enables studies of small-scale return to school. Liu began her work stratigraphy, and structures in rocks. His doctorate is at the Bureau as a student research fault analysis, from The University of Texas at Austin. assistant for the Applied Geodynamics joined the Bureau Laboratory. in October. He has Geographic Information Systems AGL researcher Dan Schultz-Ela re- a Ph.D. (2001) from London’s Impe- specialist Caroline “Cari” Breton tired from the Bureau in March 2004 rial College of Science, an M.S. (1996) was promoted to Research Scientist to return to his home in western from the Université de Rennes, Rennes, Associate I. She is a member of the Colorado. He continues his associa- France, and a B.S. (1994) from the Deep-Marine Depositional Margins tion with AGL as a consultant. Université de Bretagne Occidentale, (DM2) program. Brest, France. Bruno Vendeville Jay Raney is happily reensconced on left the Bureau and AGL in January 2004 to join the Structural geologist and Postdoc- the second floor of the Bureau, return- faculty at Université des Sciences et toral Fellow Tim Dooley joined the ing to environmental research. He will Technologies de Lille in Lille, France. Bureau in December. Dooley has a help ensure a smooth transition as Ian

28 While RVIB N. B. Palmer worked in McMurdo Sound, Jackson School scientists enjoyed views of Mount Erebus, an active volcano on Ross Island. Mt. Erebus (note the plume rising from its summit) is 3,794 meters high InstituteInstitute forfor GeophysicsGeophysics and contains a lava lake in its summit crater. M/V Kapitan PaulPaul Stoffa,Stoffa, DirectorDirector Khlebnikov, a Russian-owned icebreaker now operated as a tour ship, is seen docked in the ice near Cape Evans, site of Scott’s Hut, where Robert Scott stayed almost a century ago. The photo was taken by Lawrence Lawver, a UTIG researcher who was co-chief scientist of RVIB N. B. Palmer. His NSF-financed expedition studied the neotectonics of the western Ross Sea and McMurdo Sound region. From the Director

UTIG researchers others have been rescheduled for continues to serve as the Jackson enjoy continued either later this year or early 2005. School representative to the Incor- success in securing porated Research Institutions in significant National UTIG continues to receive funding Seismology (IRIS). Austin currently Science Foundation for our industry-supported pro- serves on the American Geophysical (NSF) funds for grams, including both the PLATES Union’s Fundraising and Develop- marine geophysical Project, a program of research ment Committee. science. Most recent- into plate tectonic and geologic ly, NSF’s Office of Polar Programs reconstructions managed by Lisa UTIG continues to fulfill a role in awarded our aerogeophysical group, Gahagan with principal investigators advising, mentoring, and supervising led by Don Blankenship, a $1.5 Lawrence Lawver and Ian Dalziel, the research of graduate students, as million grant to collect data over the and the Gulf Basin Depositional well as a number of undergraduate Amundsen Sea Embayment. This Synthesis Project (GBDS), managed students. To date, 200 students who area is of concern to scientists by Patricia Ganey-Curry with prin- engaged in research at UTIG have because it is losing ice more rapidly cipal investigator Bill Galloway. received advanced degrees, mostly than other parts of the unstable West Soon to begin its 10th year and from the Department of Geological Antarctic ice sheet. UTIG will team fifth phase, the GBDS project Sciences. Senior Research Scientist up with the British Antarctic Survey continues to maintain an average Mrinal Sen was recently awarded a to collect more than 65,000 line sponsorship level of 15 companies. joint appointment as Professor of kilometers of data over two field Both programs continually offer Geophysics in the Department of seasons. research experience for both grad- Geological Sciences. uate and undergraduate students. We have also received funding for While UTIG’s focus on education is several large marine geophysical We continue to strengthen our at the university level and higher, we seismic programs. These successes leadership within the global geo- have a history of formal and informal are a tribute to the caliber of our science community. Most notable is educational outreach to the public, researchers and students at a time the role Jamie Austin and I played in teachers, and K–12 students. Since when most Federal programs sup- guiding the science and managing 1995 we have included teachers, porting this type of field-oriented the Integrated Ocean Drilling writers, and artists in our field research have not increased signif- Program (IODP) during its inaugural programs to communicate the value icantly. Concerns about the poten- year. The IODP, an international of our science to the public and to tial impact of marine seismic data partnership of scientists and re- enhance collaboration between acquisition on the well-being of search institutions organized to science researchers and educators. marine mammals, however, led explore the evolution and structure of the Earth, began on October 1, UTIG has completed its second to the postponement of all of our year of the NSF-sponsored GK–12 marine geophysical programs 2003. The NSF and the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sport, Science fellowship program to enhance originally scheduled during the collaboration and communication 2003 and 2004 calendar years—a and Technology (MEXT) of Japan are the Lead Agencies for the IODP. between science researchers and development that poses a challenge educators by partnering graduate to the entire marine community. Austin served as the interim director of the program, and I was the students with K–12 teachers. UTIG’s UTIG is working closely with the NSF GK–12 fellowship program has and the Lamont-Doherty Earth president of IODP Management International Inc., a not-for-profit supported nine graduate students Observatory (LDEO) at Columbia from the Department of Geologi- University—the operator of the ship corporation NSF qualified to fill the role of the central management cal Sciences and two from the we most often use for our marine Department of Anthropology. geophysical work, the research office for the IODP. UTIG researchers vessel (R/V) Maurice Ewing—to Craig Fulthorpe, Sean Gulick, Also in 2004, we developed a new address these issues. Two of the Nathan Bangs, Harm van Avendonk, look for our Web site and increased affected cruises—the Hess Deep Kirk McIntosh, Gail Christeson, and the functionality of its library of and the Southeast Caribbean Kathy Ellins play important roles in Web pages. Please visit us at http:// BOLIVAR (Broadband Onshore- the IODP science advisory structure, www.ig.utexas.edu. offshore Lithosphere Investigation in related data acquisition and pro- Paul Stoffa of Venezuela and the Antilles Arc cessing efforts, and in IODP educa- Region)—did finally sail, and three tion and outreach. Cliff Frohlich

30 development of new mathematical analysis methods, data processing and Institute imaging techniques, and geophysical instrumentation is also an integral part of UTIG’s ongoing research. The for importance of geophysical measurements and their quantitative interpretation in the exploration for petroleum At sea, co-chief scientist Paul Mann delivers Geophysics and economically useful minerals has his interpretation of a recently collected also led to valuable partnerships seismic line to the science team. between UTIG and industry. UTIG Photo by Steffen Saustrup. plays a role in K–12 education through Who We Are and formal educational programs and run through summer 2005, are aimed What We Do informal outreach efforts. at improving the understanding of the tectonics of the Southeast Caribbean The University of Texas Institute for Highlights and plate boundary and determining the Geophysics (UTIG) is known inter- New Initiatives likelihood of earthquakes at specific nationally as a leading academic locations. BOLIVAR research group in marine geology Two active and passive seismic experi- and geophysics. As part of the Jackson The BOLIVAR Project is an NSF- ments are the core of the BOLIVAR School, UTIG researchers provide ba- sponsored multidisciplinary inves- Project. The first of these makes use sic and applied geophysical research tigation of the Caribbean–South of 34 permanently installed broad- opportunities for graduate students American plate boundary, focusing on band instruments in Venezuela that at the M.A. and Ph.D. level through our how island arcs, marginal basins, and are operated by FUNVISIS, as well as worldwide programs in solid earth geo- oceanic plateaus become attached a number of permanently installed physics, marine geology/geophysics, (accrete) to continents. The project high-frequency seismographs. The aerogeophysics, earthquake seismol- involves scientists from Rice Univer- second involved land and marine ogy, and multichannel reflection and sity, UTIG, the University of Arizona, imaging of the crust and mantle be- refraction seismology. Some of our the University of Houston, and Geor- neath the Caribbean Sea and north- scientists also participate in the gia Tech University. Other collabora- ern Venezuela using reflection and Environmental Science Institute and tors include scientists from Fundación refraction seismology and required the Center for Subsurface Modeling Venezolana de Investigaciones approximately 1,475 land-based in the University’s Institute for Com- Sismológicas (FUNVISIS), the Venezu- seismographs, ocean-bottom seis- putational Sciences and Engineering. elan national seismological organi- mographs and hydrophones, and UTIG research activities are carried zation, as well as the Venezuelan and two ships, the research vessel (R/V) out all over the world and include Trinidadian national oil companies. Maurice Ewing and the R/V Seward large-scale field programs involving Land and marine field campaigns, Johnson II. During 52 days at sea in multiple investigators and institutions. which began in autumn 2003 and will April and May 2004 the scientists Geographically, UTIG’s scope includes the ocean basins, continental margins, Antarctica, and all sites of natural seismic activity. Chronologically, research topics include developing tectonic evolution models that reconstruct continental arrangements as much as a billion years ago to predicting how future climatic scenarios would impact sea-level changes and thus the habitability of densely populated coastal regions. The Institute’s research is often relevant to natural resource exploration, as well as the assessment of geologic hazards. The Part of the BOLIVAR Project research team onboard the R/V Maurice Ewing.

31 onboard the Ewing and Seward Johnson age to buildings in the major cities of II collected more than 6,093 kilome- Puerto Plata and Santiago. In October ters of seismic data offshore Trinidad 2003, Jay Pulliam and Paul Mann and Tobago, and Venezuela. Gail responded to a request from the Christeson and Paul Mann served as Dominican Republic’s Colegio Do- the co-chief scientists onboard the two minican de Ingenieros, Arquitectos y research vessels. Other Jackson School Agrimensores (CODIA) to install seis- participants were Steffen Saustrup, mographs and resurvey Global Posi- John Gerboc, postdoctoral fellow tioning System (GPS) benchmarks in Alejandro Escalona, and graduate stu- the northern area of the island affected P. Mann (UTIG) and L. Pena (CODIA) dents Trevor Aiken and Sean Sullivan. by the earthquake. Pulliam joined two reoccupied this GPS site on hilltop near Dominican engineers and two seis- La Vega, Dominican Republic, in October The results of the BOLIVAR Project are mologists from the University of Puerto following the September 22 earthquake. particularly important to the people This site has been occupied twice before Rico at Mayagüez to install 10 broad- of Venezuela, a country ranked as over a period of 4 years. band seismograph stations that IRIS having seismic hazards similar to parts PASSCAL provided through its Rapid of the San Andreas Fault region of Array Mobilization Program. During California. FUNVISIS, the Venezuelan its deployment from mid-October to Nankai Trough agency charged with assessing earth- mid-December, the broadband net- Subduction Zone quake hazards, will use information work showed a data recovery rate of from the project to inform Venezuelan nearly 100 percent, including the re- Subduction zone megathrusts gener- policymakers about ways to improve cording of several large aftershocks ate many of the world’s largest and building codes and otherwise save related to the September 22 event. most destructive earthquakes and lives and property in Venezuela. tsunamis. UTIG researchers Nathan Mann teamed up with scientists from Bangs, Tom Shipley, and Sean Gulick Earthquake Seismology Purdue University and resurveyed 12 have been collaborating with Japanese in the Dominican Republic GPS sites in the area of the earthquake. and other U.S. scientists to investigate This GPS effort is one of several GPS the seismogenic zone of the Nankai At 11:45 p.m. on September 22, 2003, projects involving UTIG scientists, Trough, offshore southwestern Japan. a magnitude 6.5 earthquake severely Mann, Fred Taylor, and Ian Dalziel, The initial phase of this study pro- shook the northern Dominican Repub- who investigate crustal motion in duced images of an 8 × 70 km area of lic on the island of Hispaniola and geographic regions as diverse as the the subduction thrust offshore Shikoku caused landslides and extensive dam- Caribbean and Antarctica. Island using three-dimensional (3-D) seismic reflection data. These data as well as samples collected on two drilling legs of the Ocean Drilling Program help to determined the physical properties at the initial, updip portion of the thrust where the fault is suffi- ciently weak that it slips aseismically. The 3-D seismic reflection data provide key information about the structure downdip along the décollement thrust and into the seismogenic zone allowing UTIG scientists to examine how fault zone physical properties evolve as fault rocks are consolidated and undergo mineral phase transitions that increase their competence and cause them to rupture seismically (see figure). Perspective view of the 3-D seismic reflection data cube showing a cross section of the trench and accretionary wedge offshore Shikoku Island, southwest Japan. The décollement thrust is the The next phase of the program will main slip surface between subducting and overriding plates. Dark colors are fluid-rich areas of the fault that are presumably overpressured and thus inherently weak. Note the significant loss continue the collaborations through of fluids within 25 km of the trench. the IODP NanTroseize program target-

32 ing a nearby area off the Kii penin- High-Resolution Continental sampling of the subsurface, and over sula. NanTroseize plans to drill eight Shelf Stratigraphy the years has collected grabs, piston shallow holes with the non-riser drill- and vibra-cores, and long cores using ing vessel (D/V) Resolution and one Since the late 1980’s, UTIG research- the DOSECC AHC-800 drilling system. deep hole with the new Japanese riser- ers James Austin, Craig Fulthorpe, John UTIG researchers have also partici- drilling vessel, Chikyu. The deep hole Goff, Sean Gulick, Hilary Olson and a pated in both Ocean Drilling Program will penetrate 6 km below the sea- succession of students have studied expeditions (legs 150 and 174A) on the floor into the subduction thrust where the latest Pleistocene-Holocene evo- New Jersey margin. Since 2001, UTIG the fault ruptured in the most recent lution of the preserved stratigraphy has helped to develop and lead 1944 M 8.0 event. A complementary underlying the New Jersey mid- and another ONR program, Geoclutter, 3-D seismic reflection survey of the outer continental shelf. Predictable, designed to help the U.S. Navy NanTroseize drilling area will image continuous funding has come from the discriminate naturally occurring and characterize fault zone physical U.S. Office of Naval Research (ONR). phenomena on continental shelves properties as they evolve into the During STRATAFORM, the Strata from potential threats, like subma- seismogenic zone. Formation on Margins initiative (1993– rines. Geoclutter has allowed UTIG 2001), UTIG identified and began to to continue and extend geophysical Hess Deep map shallowly buried, dendritic drain- mapping and sampling of the New age systems in this region and off the Jersey continental shelf. In summer 2003, Gail Christeson, northern California margin (Eel River Yosio Nakamura, and Kirk McIntosh Basin). Detailed swath/backscatter Terror Rift, Western Ross Sea led a marine geophysical cruise to maps of the seafloor highlighted the Hess Deep, located in the eastern complexity of the modern shelf, while Lawrence Lawver, Co-Principal Inves- Pacific. The purpose of the seismic at the same time underscoring how tigator of the UTIG PLATES Project, survey was to generate a “picture” of little the modern seafloor resembles works on piecing together the story the structure of Earth’s crust at Hess the surficial stratigraphic succession. of how Earth’s tectonic plates have Deep from the seismic data, which sci- STRATAFORM allowed UTIG to deploy moved and developed through geo- entists can compare with the outcrop a multiple-frequency array of geologic time. One of his interests is in geology observed by NSF-sponsored physical tools, from multichannel seis- understanding the tectonic develop- submersible dives carried out in 1999 mic reflection profiling to deep-towed ment of Antarctica and how the re- and 2001. Student participants in- chirp sonar. UTIG also spearheaded gion around the Ross Sea and the West cluded Danny Brothers, an IRIS summer intern from the University of Colorado, and Department of Geologi- cal Sciences graduate students David Gorney, Astrid Markowitz, Alejandro Escalona (now a postdoctoral fellow at UTIG), and Armando Sena. UTIG researchers Steffen Saustrup and Ben Yates, and Mary Phillips, a teacher at Lake Waco Montessori School, also sailed on the Hess Deep cruise.

Examples of research products from the New Jersey shelf developed for ONR Hess Deep science team onboard by UTIG. These panels are superimposed on an image of the Woods Hole the R/V Maurice Ewing. Oceanographic Institution R/V Knorr.

33 active faulting and volcanic structure location and evolution of West along the eastern margin of the Antarctic ice streams. Following the Terror Rift. Lawver and Sam Mukasa success of the initial 50,000 line- of the University of Michigan made kilometer survey, the National Science seven dredges of the seafloor and Foundation asked UTIG to operate recovered an excellent suite of mantle a facility (the Support Office for peridotites, one sample of which even Aerogeophysical Research [SOAR]) for contains a piece of granite entrained conducting all U.S. aerogeophysics as the magma passed through the in Antarctica. In successive field older continental crust. Severe ice con- campaigns from 1994 until 2002, SOAR While it was snowing back in Austin, ditions precluded complete planned acquired and reduced 210,000 line co-chief scientist Lawrence Lawver coverage, and a second cruise will be kilometers of aerogeophysical data enjoyed an especially nice day on made when the major iceberg, B-15A, from 425 research flights. These flights the Palmer in the Ross Sea. finally shifts. Cruise results already supported 10 research projects with show how extensive the neotectonic 20 investigators at 14 U.S. institutions. faulting is and will help delineate Approximately 130,000 line kilometers Antarctic rift system fits into the larger, the late Cenozoic–active boundary of these data were collected for research plate tectonics jigsaw puzzle, also re- between East and West Antarctica projects carried out by UTIG scientists ferred to as the “global plate circuit.” along the Terror Rift. in both East and West Antarctica. The Ross Sea is underlain by rift basins and structures that began to form Concerns about the potential impacts in the mid-Cretaceous but is overlain Aerogeophysical Research of global environmental change are a by the now active Terror Rift along the in Antarctica principal motivation for glaciological western side of the Ross Sea. research in West Antarctica. Satellite Donald Blankenship, David Morse, remote sensing observations confirm John Holt and a team of engineers and On January 19, 2004, the research that the Amundsen Sea Embayment graduate students have been develop- vessel/icebreaker Nathaniel B. Palmer, is the only major ice drainage basin ing and applying aerogeophysical set sail from McMurdo Base in in Antarctica that is currently out of techniques to address a wide range of Antarctica to study the southern balance and contributing to global research topics in Antarctica. UTIG’s McMurdo Sound and the Terror Rift. sea-level rise. In some locations, ice aerogeophysical program began in The scientists onboard led by Lawver thickness is thinning at rates of more 1991 with a project to develop the first and Terry Wilson of Ohio State Uni- than 10 meters per year. In collabo- integrated airborne platform to simul- versity and including UTIG researcher ration with researchers at the British taneously address problems in glaci- Marcy Davis and graduate student Antarctic Survey, UTIG researchers ology and subglacial geology. This Nedra Bonal, acquired key new data Holt, Morse, and Blankenship will con- project focused on understanding the sets with a grant from the NSF Office duct an 800×800×1100 kilometer influence underlying geology on the of Polar Programs. The data show survey of the entire Amundsen Sea Embayment of the West Antarctic ice sheet during 2004–2005.

Climate Surprises One of the most significant discoveries in climate research is the documentation of repeated periods of abrupt warming in the Greenland climate record. During these sudden “warmings,” which represent 60 percent of the total temperature change For its aerogeophysical work in Antarctica, UTIG researchers use a ski-equipped, DeHavilland Twin Otter aircraft. Basic data from the instrumentation suite consist between glacial and interglacial of profiles of (a) ice thickness, (b) ice-surface elevation, (c) free-air gravity, and climate recorded in the Greenland ice (d) magnetic field intensity. Researchers are able to create two-dimensional images sheet, the temperature increased of geophysical and geomorphologic characteristics of the area surveyed from by as much as 15°C over only a few profiles collected over dense grids. These images allow them to define both critical ice-dynamic regimes and their underlying geologic provinces. years. First observed in the Greenland

34 with the increasing power of per- at Columbia University. The project is sonal computers and the ability to organizing UTIG and Columbia Uni- tie them together into clusters. These versity seismic reflection data into a “Beowulf” clusters are approximately modern relational database manage- 10 times less expensive than their ment system accessible through the typical supercomputer counterparts. Internet at http://www.ig.utexas.edu/ Although Beowulf clusters are not sdc. It will eventually include all NSF- appropriate for all problems, they sponsored seismic reflection projects. are perfect for certain kinds of cli- The centers will be coupled into a mate modeling. With funds from the distributed system linked by shared G. Unger Vetlesen Foundation, UTIG metadata attributes and database purchased a portion of a 600- interoperability. The Field Data processor Beowulf cluster installed Center will serve field data of the R/V and maintained by The University Ewing, the portable high-resolution of Texas Advanced Computing Center. system, and potentially other acquisition systems. The Processed Data Ongoing projects are addressing a Center will serve processed seismic number of difficult questions about the data, other derived products, and re- ocean’s role in abrupt climate change. lated information from contributions Examples include how and why the of scientists and will also serve the El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) Top, UTIG scientist Fred Taylor collects combined older processed data of the has varied in frequency and intensity, cores from fossil corals in New Guinea Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory as seen within archives of fossil from which they will obtain a suite of (LDEO) and UTIG. paleoclimate measurements that span corals, and what parameters are the the abrupt climate changes marking primary sources of uncertainty in the beginning of the Holocene. model predictions of future climate. In the News Paul Mann shared his knowledge climate record, these events have since Seismic Data Center about the seismic hazards in the been observed in other climate proxy Dominican Republic with the public, The Marine Geosciences Data Man- records in many regions of the globe. policymakers, local seismologists, agement System funded by the NSF and the media at a news conference One of the goals of the numerical cli- consists of two centers: a Processed in Santiago covering the earthquake mate modeling initiative led by Rob Data Center at UTIG administered by that occurred September 22, 2003, Scott and Charles Jackson at UTIG is Tom Shipley and a Field Data Center in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic. to investigate sources of uncertainty in climate model predictions of climate. The effort takes advantage of the Institute’s strength in the development and application of efficient algorithms for searching through different ways models may be formulated to match observational data. Although these algorithms have been designed to identify multiple plausible interpretations of geophysical data, the numerical climate modeling initiative is using these algorithms to solve many climate change science problems that have long been thought to be computationally intractable, including the nature of abrupt climate change. Fortunately over the past few years there has been a revolution in the availability of computational resources Home page of UTIG’s Processed Data Center Web site.

35 Climatologist Charles Jackson was geo-dynamic evolution of continental margin basins (off- interviewed on local television about and oceanic rifts, as well as collisional shore and onshore) by abrupt climate change in connection environments. To address these ques- integrating 2D-3D with a news story about the release tions, he uses and develops numerical seismic data, well of the summer blockbuster The Day techniques to model tectonic process- data, and previously After Tomorrow. es on crustal and lithospheric scales. published studies in the region. Evelyn Price (Ph.D., UCSD, Scripps New Books Institution of Ocean- Timothy Whiteaker (Ph.D. and M.S., Heterogeneity in the Crust and Upper ography, 1999). Price Engineering, Environ- Mantle Nature, Scaling and Seismic uses Synthetic Aper- mental and Water Properties. Edited by John A. Goff and ture Radar Interferom- Resources Engineer- Klaus Holliger, Kluwer Academic/ etry (InSAR) to map the ing, The University Plenum Publishers, 358 pp., 2002. deformations of the of Texas at Austin, Earth’s crust in regions that are tec- 2004 and 2001) is a This book describes crustal and up- tonically and volcanically active. She postdoctoral fellow per mantle heterogeneity from three applies inverse modeling techniques with the successful Gulf Basin Depo- differing perspectives: (1) geological— to these deformations to learn about sitional Synthesis program now in its as derived from crustal exposures parameters of the sources of the de- 10th year. Whiteaker comes to UTIG and deep boreholes; (2) stochastic— formations. from the Civil Engineering Department a search for order and structure and the Center for Water Resources. Wolfgang Bangerth (Ph.D. and Di- in these seemingly chaotic data; He will develop and test new algo- ploma, University of and (3) seismological—the end prod- rithms for data presentation, syn- Heidelberg, Germany, uct of complex interaction of seismic thesis, and 3D visualization using 2002 and 1999, re- energy with heterogeneous structure. geographic information system spectively) holds a software. Texas Earthquakes. By Cliff Frohlich joint position as a and Scott D. Davis, The University postdoctoral fellow at Christina Holland (Ph.D., University of Texas Press, 293 pp., 2003. both UTIG and the Center for Subsur- of South Florida, 2003) face Modeling in the Institute for Com- is a postdoctoral fellow This book presents a comprehensive putational Sciences and Engineering. supported with fund- description of all earthquakes felt by At UTIG he works with Luc Lavier and ing from the Vetlesen Texas citizens between 1811 and 2001. Mrinal Sen on the numerical solution Foundation. She is Intended for both scientists and of inverse problems for partial differ- working with Charles nonscientists, it includes nontechni- ential equations, as well as of wave Jackson and Robert cal chapters explaining basic seismol- equations by adaptive finite elements. Scott on decadal variations in ENSO ogy and comparing seismicity in events. Texas with that elsewhere in the Faming Wang (Ph.D., Texas A&M United States and the world. University, 2003) is a postdoctoral fellow UTIG Scientist New Faces supported with fund- Abroad ing from the G. Unger Jay Pulliam will spend the 2004–2005 We are pleased to welcome several Vetlesen Foundation academic year as a visiting professor new faces to UTIG this year. Luc Lavier and the Jackson School. at the University of Puerto Rico at and Evelyn Price joined UTIG in Sep- Wang works with Mayagüez (UPRM), where he will tember 2003 as research scientist as- Robert Scott using state-of-the-art teach one graduate and one under- sociates, and UTIG continues to attract satellite data and numerical climate graduate course, as well as study the excellent postdoctoral fellows. and the Jackson School models to un- Earth’s crust and upper mantle struc- derstand the ocean circulation and Luc Lavier (Ph.D., Columbia Uni- ture in the Northeast Caribbean. its role in climate. versity, LDEO, 1999). Pulliam intends to make use of the data Lavier’s research fo- Texas Ex Alejandro Escalona (Ph.D., from seismograph networks located cuses on large-scale The University of Texas at Austin, on several of the Caribbean islands, tectonic questions, 2003) works with Paul Mann on the including the most advanced broad- specifically the dy- Tertiary evolution of the Venezuelan band, three-component network op- namic structural and erated by UPRM.

36 Geology Foundation

William L. Fisher, Director

View of Tuff Canyon in Big Bend National Park, West Texas, from the overlook along the southern end of Ross Maxwell Scenic Drive. Photo by Kerza A. Prewitt. EXTRAORDINARY JACKSON BEQUEST TO THE GEOLOGY

FOUNDATION Left to right, President Larry R. Faulkner, John A. Jackson, and William L. Fisher had good news to share with the University and geoscience community on July 10, 2001, when Faulkner announced Jackson’s $25 million gift to create the new John A. and Katherine G. Jackson School of Geosciences. Since the death of John A. Jackson in of April 1 to the geoscience Photo courtesy of The University of Texas at Austin. March 2003, approximately $235.5 community he stated, million has been transferred from his “I personally have no doubt estate to the Geology Foundation. that the Jackson gift is the most In addition, prior to his death Mr. valuable ever made to a public Jackson had contributed $10 million university in the United States. to the Jackson Endowment. The Any gift carries an obligation to independent executor of Jackson’s produce results. This one carries estate, James T. Langham, Jr., an extraordinary obligation to estimates the remainder to be produce extraordinary results.” transferred to be no less than $7 million, bringing the book value of President Faulkner further char- the Jackson Endowment to at least acterized the gift in his April 1 $252.5 million. The endowment had response to the report of the a market value of $267.3 million as Jackson School Vision Committee: Left, Jack Jackson visiting with Bill Fisher on the day of of March 31, 2004. Beyond his gifts “The result that Mr. Jackson sought is the groundbreaking ceremony for the new wing of the to the endowment, Mr. and Mrs. John A. and Katherine G. Jackson Geological Sciences Building, sustained leadership at the very top April 17, 2001. It was on this day that Fisher first pitched Jackson provided $15 million for the level in the geosciences internation- the idea of a new geological sciences school when Jackson construction of a new wing of the ally. Such leadership could be posed the question, “What’s next?” Photo by Joe Jaworski. Jackson Geological Sciences Building, founded only on a large program which houses the Department, the delivering consistently superior Foundation, and the Jackson School scientific achievement and teaching. headquarters. The gift is recognized While he expressed the hope and as the second largest single gift in expectation that The University the history of public higher educa- would achieve recognition within the tion in America. Only the Walton top five programs nationally within gift to the University of Arkansas is five years, he gave the gift toward a reported as larger, but it is payable loftier goal. He offered it, and The over 20 years and thus smaller University’s leadership accepted it, in present value terms than the with the concept that his extraordi- Jackson gift. nary endowment would provide a A portion of Mr. Jackson’s bequest is base strong enough for us to reach the top and to stay there. in the form of overriding royalties on Left, President Emeritus Peter T. Flawn greets his friend oil and gas production from nearly “It takes more than money to do John A. Jackson at the dinner celebrating the formation of the 1,000 wells, chiefly in Wise County, that. It also takes talent, judgment, new Jackson School of Geosciences on September 27, 2001. Texas. In addition, future royalty will leadership, and organizational Photo by David M. Stephens. come to the Geology Foundation effectiveness. But it does take money. from any wells drilled over some margin from time to time. An implica- 115,000 acres of leases, most of “The especially notable aspect is tion, also understood by Mr. Jackson, which include the Barnett Shale— that the agreement between the is that we would have to undertake a the most active natural gas play in donor and The University provides definition for this era. Most donors of the United States today. The value of very broad latitude with respect to very large gifts are more prescriptive the oil and gas interests is booked at use. This aspect was deliberate with with respect to application. $80.1 million, though with continued Mr. Jackson, because he desired that development of the Barnett play, the endowment truly provide for the “Mr. Jackson left us with an unmistak- the value of oil and gas interests margin of excellence he sought, and able challenge and a great deal of conveyed by Mr. Jackson will most he anticipated that The University flexibility. The challenge is fully likely increase substantially. In might need to redefine the endow- compatible with the best of President Faulkner’s memorandum ment’s best application toward that The University’s ambitions.”

38 Geology The Geology Foundation and its Advisory Council were formed by The University of Texas Board of Regents in October 1953 to enhance and enrich geological educa- Foundation tion, training, and research at the University. The organizations were originally established to support and provide counsel to the Department of Geological Sciences Advisory and the Bureau of Economic Geology. This charge was broadened in September 2001, when the charter and by- laws of the Geology Foundation and Advisory Council Council were amended to provide support and counsel to the entire Jackson School. The Geology Foundation began with modest total assets News of $1,010 and no endowed accounts. Today, the Founda- tion holds more than 120 specifically endowed accounts having a market value in excess of $320 million, making it the largest foundation at The University of Texas at Austin and the largest geoscience foundation in existence. The prominent part of the Foundation is its Advisory Council, which historically has included many of the corporate leaders in the energy and mineral industries. The Advisory Council met twice during the year in Austin, holding its fall meeting on October 17, 2003, and spring meeting on April 30, 2004. The Council currently consists of 7 Honorary Life Members and 41 Members drawn from the energy and environmental industries, government, and academia. The current Chairman of the Council is James C. Patterson, of Houston, retired Vice President, Left to right, Geology Foundation Advisory Worldwide Exploration, Conoco; Vice-chairman is Fred L. Council Chairman James C. “Jim” Patterson Oliver, of Dallas, President, PVT, Inc. The Foundation is gives plaques to outgoing Advisory Council governed by the Executive Committee, chaired by Foun- members Robert “Bob” Piotrowski and dation Director Bill Fisher and consisting of Department David “Dave” A. Stephenson in honor of their service. Photo by Joe Jaworski. of Geological Sciences Chair Gary Kocurek, Bureau of Economic Geology Director Scott Tinker, and Institute for Geophysics Director Paul Stoffa. Joining the Foundation Advisory Council in September 2004 are Paul D. Ching, Director, Shell International Exploration and Production Research and Development, Rijswijk, Netherlands; Richard J. Chuchla, Area Manager/ Africa, ExxonMobil Exploration Company, Houston, Texas; Denis François, Vice President, Geosciences, TOTAL E&P USA, INC., Houston, Texas; John W. Gibson, Jr., President and Chief Executive Officer, Halliburton Energy Services Group, Houston, Texas; Bill D. Holland, President, Holland Exploration, Inc., Houston, Texas; James T. Langham, Jr., Partner, Langham McKay & Com- Left, Outgoing Geology Foundation pany, Addison, Texas; and F. “Woody” Pace, Jr., Explora- Advisory Council member tion Manager, Deepwater Gulf of Mexico, Marathon Oil Robert “Bob” Piotrowski receives Company, Houston, Texas. thanks from Advisory Council Chairman James C. “Jim” Patterson. Effective September 1, 2004, resigning or rotating off the Photo by Joe Jaworski. Council are members David S. Birsa, Doug Hall, Robert G.

39 Piotrowski, William E. Preeg, and David A. Stephenson. Their past support and counsel are very much appreciated. Two new endowments were created in the Geology Foundation during the year. The Milo M. Backus Endowed Fund in Exploration Geophys- ics was established by Decker Dawson, Honorary Life Member of the Council and Chairman of Dawson Geophysical Company in Midland. Dawson has been a generous supporter of the Foundation for many years and most recently has substantially supported research and training in exploration geophysics. The Fort Worth Wildcatters Association Undergraduate Scholarship was established to support scholarships in petroleum geology for undergraduate students from Paul D. Ching the North Texas area. The name on a third endowment—the Elf Aquitaine Petroleum Faculty Fellowship in Geological Sciences— was changed to TOTAL E&P USA Petroleum Faculty Fellowship in Geological Sciences to reflect the change in the name of the company and, therefore, the name of the fund. Also during the past year the bulk of the estate of John A. Jackson was transferred to the Foundation. Bequests from the estate were placed in the John A. and Katherine G. Jackson Endowed Fund in Geosciences. An important component of the Jackson estate is overriding royalties from oil and gas properties, as well as interests in yet-to-be-developed properties. Of the revenues from these interests, 25 percent goes directly to the Jackson Endowment; the balance is available for expenditure by the Foundation. Denis François Contributions from companies for the academic year totaled $451,166. Total contributions to unrestricted funds from companies, ex-students, and friends for the period from June 1, 2003, through May 31, 2004, were more than $334,000. The Foundation also received income in the form of scholarships from the Dorothy B. Banks Charitable Trust in the amount of $4,166 for the 2003–2004 academic year. The Foundation greatly appreciates all of these contributions, which sustain programs and give it flexibility to spend needed funds.

John W. Gibson, Jr.

Richard J. Chuchla

James T. Langham, Jr. Bill D. Holland F. “Woody” Pace, Jr.

40 Geology Foundation Advisory Council

Effective SeptemberSeptember 1,1, 20042004

Chairman Mr. L. Decker Dawson Ms. Annell R. Bay Chairman Regional Exploration Director, Mr. James C. Patterson Dawson Geophysical Co. Americas 12331 Broken Arrow St. 508 West Wall, Suite 800 Shell Energy Resources Company Houston, TX 77024-4962 Midland, TX 79701-5010 200 North Dairy Ashford, Suite 5250 Telephone (713) 827-0611 Telephone (432) 684-3000 Houston, TX 77079 E-mail [email protected] Fax (432) 684-3030 Telephone (281) 544-4967 E-mail [email protected] Fax (281 544-4200 E-mail [email protected] Vice Chairman Dr. Peter T. Flawn 3718 Bridle Path Mr. Thomas M. Burke Mr. Fred L. Oliver Austin, TX 78703-2005 Consultant President Telephone (512) 480-0044 8519 Manhattan Drive PVT, Inc. Fax (512) 435-6126 Houston, TX 77096-1316 4625 Greenville Avenue E-mail [email protected] Telephone (713) 667-8564 Suite 203 Dallas, TX 75206-5044 Mr. William E. Gipson Mr. A. T. “Toby” Carleton Telephone (214) 739-2895 Gas Investments President Fax (214) 987-3776 Gas Fund, Inc. Tocor Exploration E-mail [email protected] GM Farms 414 West Texas Avenue, #308 2001 Kirby Drive, Suite 1110 P.O. Box 293 Houston, TX 77019-6081 Midland, TX 79702-0293 Honorary Life Telephone (713) 227-1003 Telephone (432) 685-1209 Fax (713) 227-1540 Fax (432) 685-1229 Members E-mail [email protected] Mr. James R. Moffett Dr. Thomas D. Barrow Chairman & CEO Mr. Paul D. Ching 5847 San Felipe Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Director Suite 3830 Gold, Inc. Shell International Exploration Houston, TX 77057-3011 P.O. Box 51777 and Production Research and Telephone (713) 789-0090 New Orleans, LA 70151-1777 Development Fax (713) 789-0192 Telephone (504) 582-1618 Kessler Park 1 E-mail [email protected] Fax (504) 582-1661 2288 GS Rijswijk Dr. Richard R. Bloomer E-mail [email protected] THE NETHERLANDS Lakeshore Ranch Telephone 011-31-70-4472732 17800 Inspiration Circle Fax 011-3170-4472111 Lago Vista, TX 78645-9706 Members E-mail [email protected] Telephone (512) 267-2846 Dr. Ronald A. Bain Mr. Richard J. Chuchla Fax (512) 267-0915 9406 Fenchurch Drive Area Manager/Africa E-mail [email protected] Spring, TX 77379-6651 ExxonMobil Exploration Company Dr. Robert E. Boyer Telephone (281) 370-5494 233 Ben Mar Street 7644 Parkview Circle Fax (281) 370-5494 Attn: GP3, Room 938 Austin, TX 78731-1160 E-mail [email protected] Houston, TX 77060 Telephone (512) 345-2886 Telephone (281) 654-4282 Mr. Kenneth T. Barrow Fax (281) 654-5667 Fax (512) 795-9350 5847 San Felipe, Suite 3830 E-mail [email protected] E-mail Houston, TX 77057-3011 [email protected] Telephone (713) 789-0090 Fax (713) 789-0192 E-mail [email protected]

41 M r. Weyman W. Crawfo rd Mr. John W. Gibson, Jr. Dr. Susan A. Longacre 10026 Sugar Hill Drive President and CEO ChevronTexaco Fellow, Emeritus Houston, TX 77042-1540 Halliburton Energy Services Group 11721 Joan of Arc Telephone (713) 782-0595 10200 Bellaire Boulevard Houston, TX 77024 E-mail [email protected] Houston, TX 77072 Telephone (713) 464-6095 Telephone (281) 575-4140 Fax (713) 954-6919 Mr. Dodd W. DeCamp Fax (281) 575-5589 E-mail Vice President for Exploration E-mail [email protected] ConocoPhillips [email protected] or [email protected] 3088 Oasis Building 600 North Dairy Ashford Mr. Gerald M. Gilbert Mr. William D. “Dusty” Marshall Houston, TX 77079 3113 Quenby Vice President, U.S. Exploration Telephone (281) 293-3778 Houston, TX 77005 Amerada Hess Corporation Fax (281) 293-2386 Telephone (713) 592-0430 One Allen Center E-mail Fax (713) 757-9034 500 Dallas Street, Level 2 [email protected] E-mail [email protected] Houston, TX 77002 Telephone (713) 609-5800 Dr. Rodger E. Denison Ms. Robbie R. Gries Fax (713) 609-5646 15141 Kingstree Drive President E-mail [email protected] Dallas, TX 75248-5210 Priority Oil & Gas LLC Telephone (972) 239-9709 P.O. Box 27798 Mr. Jack H. Mayfield, Jr. Fax (972) 233-2678 Denver, CO 80227-0798 Chief Executive Officer E-mail [email protected] Telephone (303) 296-3435 Mayfield I, Ltd. Fax (303) 296-3436 P.O. Box 570365 Mr. George A. Donnelly, Jr. E-mail [email protected] Houston, TX 77257-0365 The Eastland Oil Company Telephone (713) 355-3408 P.O. Box 3488 Dr. Charles G. Groat Fax (713) 355-3429 Midland, TX 79702-3488 Director E-mail [email protected] Telephone (432) 683-6293 U.S. Geological Survey Fax (432) 683-6295 Mail Stop 100 Mr. F. “Woody” Pace, Jr. E-mail [email protected] 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive Exploration Manager Reston, VA 20192 Deepwater Gulf of Mexico Mr. Thomas E. Fanning Telephone (703) 648-7411 Marathon Oil Company 20 Tiburon Drive Fax (703) 648-4454 P.O. Box 3128 Austin, TX 78738-1556 E-mail [email protected] Houston, TX 77253-3128 Telephone (512) 261-4285 Telephone (713) 296-3826 Fax (512) 261-9620 Dr. Paul R. Gucwa Fax (713) 296-3295 E-mail [email protected] 842 Plainwood Drive E-mail [email protected] Houston, TX 77079-4227 Mr. James W. Farnsworth Telephone (281) 496-0548 Mr. William F. Reynolds Vice President E-mail [email protected] J. C. & W. F. Reynolds Oil Producers Gulf of Mexico-Deepwater 719 Scott Avenue, Suite 700 BP Mr. Bill D. Holland Wichita Falls, TX 76301-2611 501 Westlake Park Boulevard President Telephone (940) 723-6657 Houston, TX 77079-2696 Holland Exploration, Inc. Fax (940) 322-9034 Telephone (281) 366-4777 1054 Bayou Island Drive Fax (281) 366-7985 Houston, TX 77063 Mr. Stephen L. Shaw E-mail [email protected] Telephone (832) 251-2811 Senior Geological Advisor Fax (832) 251-2833 Mid Continent Division Mr. Denis François Burlington Resources Vice President, Geosciences Mr. David S. “Scotty” Holland 3300 North A Street, Building 6 TOTAL E&P USA, INC. 1 River Way, Suite 1700 Midland, TX 79705 800 North Gessner, Suite 700 Houston, TX 77056-1904 Telephone (432) 688-6871 Houston, TX 77024 Telephone (713) 552-1074 Fax (432) 688-6015 Telephone (713) 647-3629 Fax (713) 552-1095 E-mail [email protected] Fax (713) 647-3673 E-mail [email protected] E-mail [email protected] Mr. Don B. Sheffield Mr. James T. Langham, Jr. 3741 Chevy Chase Drive Mr. James A. Gibbs Partner Houston, TX 77019-3011 Five States Energy Company, L.L.C. Langham McKay & Company Telephone (713) 672-1671 1220 One Energy Square 4949 Keller Springs Road Fax (713) 672-9420 4925 Greenville Avenue Addison TX 75001-5910 E-mail [email protected] Dallas, TX 75206-4026 Telephone (972) 532-2121 Telephone (214) 363-3008 E-mail [email protected] Fax (214) 363-5734 E-mail [email protected]

42 Mr. Russell G. Slayback Mr. Charles G. Weiner Members, Ex-Officio Chairman Chairman Legette, Brashears & Graham, Inc. Texas Crude, Inc. 126 Monroe Turnpike P.O. Box 56586 Dr. Larry Faulkner Trumbull, CT 06611 Houston, TX 77256-6586 President Telephone (203) 452-3100 Telephone (713) 599-9900 The University of Texas at Austin Fax (203) 452-3111 Fax (713) 599-9910 Main Building, P.O. Box T E-mail [email protected] E-mail [email protected] Austin, TX 78713-8902 Telephone (512) 471-1232 Mr. Daniel L. Smith Mr. Addison A. Wilkinson Fax (512) 471-8102 Executive Vice President for 128 Shannon Road E-mail [email protected] Exploration Lafayette, LA 70503-3511 Sandalwood Oil & Gas, Inc. Telephone (337) 984-6312 Dr. Sheldon Ekland-Olson 1220 Augusta Drive, Suite 400 Fax (337) 984-6312 Executive Vice President and Provost Houston, TX 77057 E-mail [email protected] The University of Texas at Austin Telephone (713) 759-6095 One University Station Fax (713) 658-1822 Dr. Charles R. Williamson G1000, MAI 201 E-mail [email protected] Chief Executive Officer Austin, TX 78712 Unocal Corporation Telephone (512) 471-4363 Mr. William T. Stokes, Jr. 2141 Rosecrans Avenue, Suite 4000 Fax (512) 471-0577 Consultant El Segundo, CA 90245-4746 E-mail [email protected] 7703 Southwestern Boulevard Telephone (310) 726-7693 Dallas, TX 75225-7929 Fax (310) 726-7609 Mr. Kevin P. Hegarty Telephone (214) 369-4788 E-mail [email protected] Interim Vice President for Resource Development and Vice President Mr. Bryan C. Wagner Mr. Phillip E. Wyche and Chief Financial Officer Wagner Oil Company 126 Firebird Street The University of Texas at Austin 500 Commerce Street, Suite 600 Austin, TX 78734-3808 P.O. Box 7458 Fort Worth, TX 76102 Telephone (512) 261-4721 Austin, TX 78713-7458 Telephone (817) 335-2222 Fax (512) 261-4722 Telephone (512) 475-9611 Fax (817) 882-9731 Fax (512) 471-3673 E-mail [email protected] E-mail [email protected] Mr. Joseph C. Walter III Dr. William L. Fisher President and CEO Director, Geology Foundation Walter Oil and Gas Corporation The University of Texas at Austin 1100 Louisiana Street, Suite 200 P.O. Bo x B Houston, TX 77002-5215 Austin, TX 78713-8902 Telephone (713) 659-1221 Telephone (512) 471-5600 Fax (713) 756-1199 Fax (512) 471-5585 E-mail [email protected] E-mail [email protected]

43 Gifts to the Geology Foundation June 1, 2003, through May 31, 2004

Campbell, Donald H. Cassell, Dwight E. Caughey, Charles A. and Penelope Abbott,A Mr. and Mrs. Peyton O. Cazier, Emma Umana and Edward C., III Garner,G Terence Adams, Matthew D. and Audrey W. Cervantes, Michael A. and Donna F. Garza-Hernandez, Abelardo and Adcock, Floyd J. Chaouche, Ahmed and Monique Carolina DeGarza Alcorn, George, Jr. Clabaugh, Stephen E. Gates, Ed and Cornelia H. Allday, Doris Fondren Clanton, Uel S. and Lillie E. Germiat, Steve J. and Kay A. Alvheim, Brett M. Cloudman, F. H. and Jenny Gibbs, James A. Anderson, Nancy J. Clutterbuck, D. B. and LaDonna B. Gibson, Fred M. Atkins, John E. Coleman, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Gibson, George R. Avakian, Arten J. Conger, Sidney B. and Jean Cecil Gilbert, Edwin F. Ayers, Deliece P. and Walter B., Jr. Cooper, Taliaferro Gillis, Scott H. Fricke and Gretchen M. Cornish, Frank Gips, Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Gipson, William E. Goetz, Lisa K. Graebner, Mark J. B Grasso, Volker C. Baker, Carol S. D Greenberg, Claire Liu and Joseph G. Ballard, Stanton N. and Patricia D. Danque, Hunter A. Darwin, Pamela and C. Barnes, II Greenberg, Linda R. and Redge L. Barnes, Virgil, II Grice, Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Barrow, Thomas D. and Janice H. Davis, Fred G. and Patsy S. Davis, William S. Gries, Robbie Barton, Gerald S. and Barbara M. Groat, Charles G. and Barbara F. Baum, Gerald H. Dawson, L. Decker Dean, Mr. and Mrs. Henry C. Grubbs, Greg S. Bentley, J. Taylor and Trina Gustafson, Eric P. and Jessie I. Bloomer, Richard R. Denison, Rodger E. Bockoven, Neil and Linda Dewar, R. L. Bostwick, Douglas L. Dickerson, Patricia W. Bowen, D. Andrew Donnelly, George A., Jr. Boyce, William M. and Susie B. Duchin, Ralph C. and Sally P. Braithwaite, Philip and Barbara Dudley, Brooke F. and Elizabeth S. Haenggi,H Walter T. Bredt, Mrs. George E. Dunbar, Don, Jr. Haertlein, Albert Brewer, Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Dunlap, Tricia and Dallas Halbouty, James J. and Dorsey R. Brigham, Ben M. and Anne L. Dyer, Byron F. Halloran, Maureen Bristol, Marcelite Baria and David A., Jr. Hamman, Henry Brunson, Wallace E. Harwood, Peggy Bryant, Leonard C. and Mildred E. Hatzky, Lisa R. Burke, Thomas M. Hazel, Edna Erle Burnett, William M. Eisner,E Pablo N. Hixon, Sumner B. Bybee, Robert W. and Elizabeth Emme, James J. and Kathy L. Hoffman, Paul F. and Tina M. Bybee, Sarah L. Emmet, Peter Anthony and Lisa Hood, James W. and Eva M. Byerley, Leon G., Jr. Everett, Rizer Hood, Jennifer L. Byrne, James R. and Antoinetee R. Hooper, Ben P. Hoover, Eleanor M. Houser, Richard T. and Audrey H. Howard, Douglas J. F Huffington, Terry C Fanning, Thomas E. and Anita J. Huston, Daniel C. and Holly H. Cage, Susan K. and Warren J., Jr. Feibelman, Irma Morgan Hutchings, Wade and Galadriel Cahoon, Frank Kell Ferry, James G. and Jean L. Callender, Dean L. and Marilyn J. Fisher, William L. and Marilee Camp, Rodney J. and Martha O. Francis, Kenneth E. and Nancy L. Friddle, Annabelle R.

44 McLean, Cynthia Felde and David McNeish, Jerry and Nancy E. Means, John A. and Burniece F. Iacono,I Carmine U. and Nancy Mear, Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Sabins,S Janice L. and Floyd F., Jr. Iacono, Kelly Merrill, Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Sagebiel, James Christopher Miller, Mr. and Mrs. Wayne D. Sanders, Jack S. and Linda J. Mills, Herbert G. and Martha B. Schiltz, Raymond F. Mohd Sufian, Yusliza Schulenberg, John T. and Janet B. Molineux, Ian J. and Ann Schwetman, Herbert D. and Nanene H. Moon, Jule J. Seewald, Mr. and Mrs. Clyde R. Jackson,J Mr. and Mrs. J. R., Jr. Moore, Timothy J. and Charlotte E. Semken, Elaine F. and Holmes A., Jr. Jackson, Russell W. Mount, Van S. Sewell, Charles R. and Louise T. Jacobs, Louis L. and Bonnie Muehlberger, William R. and Sally J. Shield, Elgean C. and Singa S. John, Mr. and Mrs. Charles B. Muir, Arthur H., Jr. Shomette, David B. and Janet L. Johns, Eric Beam and Mary K. Sicking, Charles and Mandy Johnson, Charles G. Smart, Marriott W. and John A., Jr. Johnson, L. Chris Smith, Lane D. and Kelly Jones, Jonny Smith, Phillip and Cheryl Nagihara,N Seiichi and Susan Smith, Schaun M. and Melinda R. Norman, Mr. and Mrs. Isaac W. Spiegelberg, Frederick Sprinkle, James T. and G. K. Stancil, Robert W. and Barbara M. Keeler,K David Stout, Mr. and Mrs. John L. Kendall, Anna K. and Nancy K. Stowbridge, Mike Kendrick, Andrew W. and Patricia M. O Strickler, Michael W. and Juanita C. Kent, Robert T. and Suzie B. O’Brien, Bob R. Sumner, Dorothy C. Kier, Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Oden, Josh W. Symons, Christina M. Konnecke, Lis P Paige, Richard and Sarah Tarkington,T Daniel K. and Mary Kathleen Laguros,L George A. and Virginia A. Peeler, Jim and Claudette Taylor, Fred Lakings, James D. Pew, Elliott and Terry M. Thames, C. B., Jr. Land, Judith C. Lang and Lynton S. Pickens, W. R., III Thompson, George M. Levine, Jamie Pray, Lloyd C. and Carrel M. Travis, Everette, J. Locklin, Allen C. and Nancy Primrose, Luke and Debbie Tripathy, Alka K. Long, Leon Pritchett, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Trombatore, Dennis Longgood, T. E., Jr. Pugh, A. Leo and Delores J. Turner, Clyde W. Longman, Mark W. Pustka, David and Nancy Turner, Neil L. and Rosemary Lovell, Stephen E. Lucksinger, Col. and Mrs. Henry C., Jr. Lundelius, Judith and Ernest, Jr. R Ragsdale, James A. Udden,U Robert Andrew Ratcliff, Doug Underwood, Margaret A. and James R., Jr. Ray, Robert R. and Kathryn D. Maler,M Michael Reaser, Donald F. and Bette F. Mankin, Charles J. Renick, B. Coleman, Jr. Marshall, Sabin W. and Mary F. Reynolds, William F. Martinez, Louis M. and Minerva A. Roach, Jess P. and Maxine VanV Gestel, Jean-Paul May, David J. Rogers, James E. and Margaret A. Ver Hoeve, Mark and Janice Mayfield, Jack H., Jr. Rogers, Mr. and Mrs. L. T. Vest, Harry A. and Zoe McBroom, Robert L. Rogers, Steven Vickers, R. B., Jr. McCall, Mr. and Mrs. Clifton H. Rosenberger, Randall Scott Von Lunen, Eric McCarty, Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Ross, Lucy O. McCreary, Mr. and Mrs. D. T. Ross, Ray M. and Joan B. McDowell, Fred W. and Karin E. Rowley, Peter D. Ruez, Dennis, Jr.

45 Business, Society, and Estate Contributors

Wahl,W David E. AFMS Scholarship Foundation, Inc. Walker, Mark C. and Kathleen C. Alcorn Interests, Inc. Walston, Suzanne and Virgil A., Jr. Edwin Allday Estate Ward, Mr. and Mrs. B. H. American Association of Petroleum Geologists Warner, Ralph H. and Marilyn R. American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund Weise, Bonnie R. Anadarko Petroleum Corporation Wheeler, Joseph O. and Karlene Evans White, James V. and Sheri F. Austin Gem and Mineral Society White, Steven L. Austin Paleontological Society Whitson, Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Bank of America Foundation Wik, Bruce D. BP Wiley, Michael A. BP Foundation Wilkinson, Addison and Betty Burlington Resources Foundation Willman, Jerry Bob and Candee S. W. L. Calvert Memorial Scholarship Fund Wood, Donald F. and Jill R. Campbell Petrographic Services, Inc. Woodruff, Charles ChevronTexaco Woods, Mary C. ChevronTexaco E&P Technology Company Woodward, Vereen C. and Madison T., III Coltex Petroleum, Inc. Woodyard, Kenneth E. and Carol Christy Work, David L. Communities Foundation of Texas Worrel, Charles J. ConocoPhillips Worthington, David D&J Resources, Inc. Wright, John Buel Dow Chemical Company Foundation Wright, R. Earle and Elaine H. EGA Consultants, LLC Wynne, J. R. EOG Resources, Inc. ExxonMobil Corporation ExxonMobil Development Company ExxonMobil Foundation Y Fort Worth Wildcatters Yager, Lisa and Charles GEOCOSM LLC Yeldell, James W., Jr., and Camille GEUS Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland Yilmaz, Pinar O. Graham Family Foundation Halliburton Foundation, Inc. Houston Geological Society Image Resources, LLC Estate of John A. and Katherine G. Jackson Zachos,Z Louis G. and Susan G. Zinn, Robert L. Robert S. Kier Consulting J. D. and V. L. Langston Foundation Marathon Oil Company Foundation Mayfield I, Ltd. Mineral Acquisition Partners, Inc. Occidental Petroleum Charitable Foundation Pearson Education Royalty Accounting The Scott Petty Foundation Pogo Producing Company R&T Robertson Foundation San Antonio Area Foundation Shell International E&P Inc. Shell Oil Company Shell Oil Company Foundation Unocal Corporation Venoco, Inc. Wilkinson Family Foundation Woodruff Geologic Consulting, Inc. Worrel Exploration Inc. Zinn Petroleum Company

46 Geology Foundation Endowed Accounts Values as of May 31, 2004

Book Value ($) Market Value ($) Edwin Allday Centennial Chair in Subsurface Geology 903,238 1,777,413 Edwin Allday Lectureship in Geological Sciences 214,965 356,446 Mary and Ben Anderson Endowment for Graduate Studies in Geology 46,182 77,020 Millard B. Arick Memorial Fund in Petroleum Geology 14,285 17,067 Milo M. Backus Endowed Fund in Exploration Geophysics 288,941 281,531 Virgil E. and Mildred L. Barnes Distinguished Lecture Series in Geology 48,220 54,375 Col. E. M. Barron Trust Account 143,106 308,963 Barrow Periodical Fund 253,758 346,709 Laura Thomson Barrow Graduate Fellowship 303,937 533,426 Leonidas T. Barrow Centennial Chair in Mineral Resources 1,174,110 2,667,134 Bloomer Fund for Motivated Students 166,216 290,829 Leslie Bowling Professorship 285,970 448,574 Wayne Franklin Bowman Endowed Presidential Scholarship 130,469 296,505 Don R. Boyd Endowed Fund 47,466 50,850 Don R. and Patricia Kidd Boyd Lectureship in Petroleum Exploration 65,994 131,307 Brahman Energy Company Scholarship Fund 22,641 52,353 Charl A. M. Broquet Memorial Endowed Scholarship Fund 14,934 16,261 Jesse L. Brundrett Memorial Endowed Presidential Scholarship 55,169 98,357 Fred M. Bullard Professorship in Geological Sciences 386,047 504,094 Fred M. Bullard Student Research Fund 30,236 30,900 Thomas and Ray Burke Student Job Program 263,398 299,916 Hal H. Bybee Memorial Fund 149,493 226,720 Hal P. Bybee Memorial Fund 687,966 1,474,783 L. W. Callender Memorial Fund 65,608 155,926 Dave P. Carlton Centennial Professorship in Geology 753,937 1,659,520 Dave P. Carlton Centennial Professorship in Geophysics 587,405 1,375,076 Dorothy Ogden Carsey Memorial Scholarship Fund 238,215 395,723 J. Ben Carsey, Sr., Special Maintenance Fund 211,674 322,989 Chevron Centennial Professorship in Geology 295,380 642,053 Stephen E. and Patricia S. Clabaugh Fund in Hard-Rock Geology 56,335 104,272 W. Kenley Clark Memorial Endowed Presidential Scholarship 56,775 124,343 Joseph S. Cullinan Memorial Scholarship in Geological Sciences 50,779 121,516 Robert H. Cuyler Endowed Presidential Scholarship 78,580 167,482 Morgan J. Davis Centennial Chair in Petroleum Geology 988,688 2,109,432 L. Decker Dawson Fund in Exploration Geophysics 1,036,642 1,073,574 Ronald K. DeFord Field Scholarship Fund 247,626 519,456 Alexander Deussen Professorship in Energy Resources 289,772 517,740 Michael Bruce Duchin Centennial Memorial Endowed Presidential Scholarship 64,564 122,408 John E. “Brick” Elliott Centennial Endowed Professorship in Geological Sciences 365,064 863,821 Samuel P. Ellison, Jr., Fund 113,098 232,179 Energy and Mineral Resources Fund 35,228 82,912 William Stamps Farish Chair in Geology 495,098 1,107,101 Peter T. Flawn Centennial Chair in Geology 855,621 1,856,825 R. L. Folk / E. F. McBride Petrography Fund 40,853 43,284 Robert L. Folk Excellence Fund in Geological Sciences 90,087 106,524 Fort Worth Wildcatters Association Undergraduate Scholarship 25,000 24,358 Geology Foundation Advisory Council Centennial Teaching Fellowship 119,594 229,571 Geology Foundation Excellence Fund 117,713 195,191 Getty Oil Company Centennial Chair in Geological Sciences 1,015,103 2,308,207 Graduate Fellowship in Exploration Geophysics 533,294 558,128 Miss Effie Graves Scholarship Fund 32,874 83,138 Guy E. Green Endowed Presidential Scholarship 39,714 89,617 J. Nalle Gregory Chair in Sedimentary Geology 782,882 1,581,152 J. Nalle Gregory Regents Professorship in Geological Sciences 341,897 625,276 Thelma Lynn Guion Geology Library Staff Award 18,132 23,612 Karl Frederick Hagemeier, Jr., Memorial Endowed Presidential Scholarship 49,375 90,820 George S. Heyer Memorial Fund 110,733 276,088 Bill D. Holland Endowed Presidential Scholarship in Geological Sciences 45,690 53,504 Houston Oil and Minerals Corporation Faculty Excellence Awards 63,621 143,591 F. Earl Ingerson Graduate Research Assistance Fund in Geochemistry 64,409 110,698

47 Book Value ($) Market Value ($) John A. and Katherine G. Jackson Centennial Teaching Fellowship in Geological Sciences 179,919 358,081 John A. and Katherine G. Jackson Endowed Fund in Geosciences 254,755,312 262,065,864 John A. and Katherine G. Jackson Exploration Geophysics Fund 26,347 27,667 John A. and Katherine G. Jackson Fellowship in Geohydrology 294,715 416,351 G. Moses and Carolyn G. Knebel Teaching Fund 109,708 244,019 Martin B. Lagoe Student Research Fund for Micropaleontology 36,497 46,281 Clara Jones Langston Centennial Lectureship in Vertebrate Paleontology 29,268 61,792 J. Donald Langston Special Operations Fund 354,943 567,018 Wann and Marietta Langston Research Fund in Vertebrate Paleontology 131,267 289,093 Jack K. Larsen–Mesa Petroleum Company Fund in Sedimentary Geology 175,235 392,041 Howard R. Lowe Vertebrate Paleontology Endowment 41,065 90,312 J. Hoover Mackin Memorial Scholarship Fund 31,870 68,645 George W. Marshall, Jr., Memorial Endowed Presidential Scholarship 43,273 71,575 Arthur E. Maxwell Graduate Fellowship in Geophysics 106,243 124,090 John C. and Marian B. Maxwell Endowed Undergraduate Scholarship in Geological Sciences 123,725 133,381 Jack H. Mayfield, Jr., Fund for Excellence in the Geological Sciences 508,403 876,917 John H. and Lujza McCammon Endowed Scholarship 14,687 34,157 Mr. and Mrs. L. F. McCollum Scholarship in Geology 29,923 63,780 Michaux Scholarship Fund 14,451 32,110 Joan A. Middleton Endowed Scholarship in Geology 11,480 14,769 Carroll C. Miller Endowed Presidential Scholarship 39,502 90,537 William R. Muehlberger Field Geology Scholarship Fund 126,171 180,663 Wes Ogden Memorial Scholarship in Geophysics 15,225 26,779 Fred L. and Frances J. Oliver Lectureship in Texas Hydrology and Water Resources 81,963 155,451 Judd H. and Cynthia Oualline Centennial Lectureship in Geological Sciences 106,512 188,823 Judd H. and Cynthia Oualline Centennial Lectureship in Petroleum Geology 98,615 175,964 Judd H. Oualline Endowment Fund 24,229 51,034 Ed Owen–George Coates Fund 135,085 307,404 James C. Patterson Fund for Excellence in the Geophysical Sciences 125,216 130,482 Bill R. Payne Centennial Teaching Fellowship 116,851 233,966 Joyce Bowman Payne Centennial Teaching Fellowship 113,454 219,363 Pennzoil and Pogo Producing Companies–William E. Gipson Scholarships 215,520 394,643 O. Scott Petty Geophysical Fund 240,084 508,547 Wallace E. Pratt Professorship in Geophysics 236,501 512,064 Louis and Elizabeth Scherck Geology Scholarship 124,075 240,182 Wilton E. Scott Centennial Professorship 313,587 724,579 Walter Benona Sharp Memorial Scholarship in Geology 49,794 120,145 Shell Companies Foundation Centennial Chair in Geophysics 1,279,948 2,613,081 Shell Companies Foundation Distinguished Chair in Geophysics 1,089,603 2,293,668 F. W. Simonds Endowed Presidential Scholarship 35,029 86,999 William T. Stokes Centennial Teaching Fellowship in Geological Sciences 182,850 386,916 Structural Geology and Tectonics Fund 136,227 246,324 Harlan Tod Sutherland Memorial Scholarship Fund 57,353 101,277 John and Elizabeth M. Teagle Scholarship in Petroleum Geology 780,754 1,426,307 David S. Thayer Memorial Scholarship Fund 34,955 81,025 Tobin International Geological Map Collection Fund 98,763 237,445 TOTAL E&P USA Petroleum Faculty Fellowship in Geological Sciences 217,662 398,839 Udden Memorial Scholarship Fund 24,811 43,094 Glenn and Martha Vargas Endowed Presidential Scholarship 43,078 70,550 Glenn and Martha Vargas Endowment for Gems and Gem Minerals Instruction 79,699 141,944 Glenn and Martha Vargas Fund for Gem and Mineral Curation 65,847 71,592 Glenn and Martha Vargas Gemological Scholarship in Geological Sciences 20,643 39,514 Joseph C. Walter, Jr., and Elizabeth C. Walter Geology Library Fund 785,531 1,206,777 Albert W. and Alice M. Weeks Centennial Professorship in Geological Sciences 231,199 465,727 Albert W. and Alice M. Weeks Fund in Geology 635,214 1,085,483 E. A. Wendlandt Fund 10,853 23,230 Arno P. (Dutch) Wendler Professional Development Fund 136,312 298,870 Francis L. Whitney Endowed Presidential Scholarship 56,973 129,824 Francis L. Whitney Memorial Book Fund 57,787 94,764 Addison A. and Mary E. Wilkinson Endowed Presidential Scholarship in Geological Sciences 68,348 82,718 John A. Wilson Professorship in Vertebrate Paleontology 213,863 423,014 Charles E. Yager Undergraduate Field Scholarship Fund 65,684 146,969 The First, Second, Third Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Yager Professorships 531,208 1,274,340 Keith and Ann Young Endowed Fund for the Curation of Non-Vertebrate Collections 36,643 41,167

48 Walter Geology Library Report

By Dennis Trombatore

Our first full year in the newly renovated facility has been a rewarding one with many changes. Most significant is the appointment of a new Director/Vice Provost for The University of Texas at Austin General Libraries, Fred Heath. Heath comes to us from Texas A&M, and he has set in motion a number of changes that we expect will lead to a more efficient and service-oriented organization. A larger and larger proportion of General Libraries funding is tied to student fees, and one of the Vice Provost’s first priorities is to be sure we are meeting the service and information needs of students, for both course- and research-related work. Heath convened a campus-wide Library Summit in March as part of a wide-ranging planning effort. The General Libraries are also working on a request for proposals for a new computer system to replace the six platforms and multiple databases we now use. This upgrade will be a multiyear effort. On the local front, Vickie Drake, our new Library Assistant III, has been hard at work on a number of improvements in Donors of books and on-site work flow, Web pages, and staffing patterns, helping materials to the us adapt to smaller student worker budgets and the need for Walter Geology more efficient use of our resources. In addition, the Jackson Library: School has generously provided funding for three Graduate 2003–2004 Research Assistants from the Information School for several Chris Bell cataloging and digitizing projects, including ongoing work Cave Research Foundation on the ARCO library gift and work on the Landscapes of Texas project, an addition to our earlier Dumble Survey Conoco-Phillips digitizing effort (see: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/dlp/ Ann Fowler project.html?project_id=landscapes). We are especially William Galloway pleased with this new suite of documents and hope to Robbie Gries add even more historical materials soon. Anatoly Kaplan Tom Barrow made a substantial donation to the Barrow Keck Geology Consortium Periodicals Fund this year, enabling us to take on several J. Richard Kyle new subscriptions. Additionally, with the support of several Larry Lawver outside science units and the Jackson School, we are finally Desheng Li developing a license for online access to the journals of the Leon Long American Geophysical Union—good news for the entire Kitty Milliken campus. William Muehlberger In other news, we are proud to still be hosting a part-time Amos Salvador indexer from the American Geological Institute who is Benyamin Sapiie building the GeoRef database from materials in our Schlumberger collection. Special thanks this year go to Guion Award John M. Sharp winners Margi Bienneman and Yusliza Mohd Sufian and to Doug Smith our long-suffering volunteer Rosemary Barker for all their Dennis Trombatore good efforts for our collections. Carol Russell received her Glen Vargas 40-year University Service Award, and Alice Dewberry received her 25-year University Service Award. Karen L. Webber James Lee Wilson Charles M. Woodruff, Jr. 49 Jackson School Awards and Honors

William D. Carlson, search interests include Department, Clark R. Wilson, Peter T. Flawn Centennial studies of metamorphic and aptly summed up Carlson’s Chair in Geology, was igneous rocks. He has had an enduring contribution to the awarded the Dana Medal by active research program in Department: “Clearly, many the Mineralogical Society of this general area and was generations of students have America (MSA). This medal instrumental in founding the recognized Bill Carlson’s recognizes “continued out- National Science Foundation unusual gift for teaching.” standing scientific contribu- X-ray imaging facility at tions through original re- Texas. As a national resource, search in the mineralogical the X-ray lab supports not sciences” by individuals in only Carlson’s work, but also the midst of their careers. the work of many others from Carlson received a bronze the University and around the engraved medal and gave a country. Carlson also has a scientific presentation that distinguished professional was published in American service record, having served Mineralogist. Carlson was terms as Department Chair- also awarded the G. Moses man, Associate Dean of the and Carolyn G. Knebel Distin- College of Natural Sciences, guished Teaching Award in and President of the MSA. the Depart- Carlson taught the Ian Dalziel ment of undergraduate course in Geological igneous and metamorphic The Edinburgh Geologi- Sciences. This petrology and a graduate cal Society of Scotland award recog- course in geochemical ana- awarded the Clough Medal nizes out- lytical techniques during the for 2004 to Ian Dalziel. standing 2003–04 academic year. It is The Clough Medal is pre- teaching, and noteworthy that within the sented to a senior scientist Six-time winner the recipient nearly three decades follow- who has made a significant of Knebel Award, William “Bill” is selected by ing the establishment of the contribution to knowledge of Carlson. Photo graduate Knebel Award, Carlson has the geology of Scotland or the by Joe Jaworski. students and received it six times. Only north of England, or a Scot- undergradu- one other faculty member tish geologist who has signifi- ate majors. has received the award as cantly advanced the knowl- It carries a many as three times. Carlson edge of any aspect of geology. $1,500 monetary award from received his first Knebel Dalziel qualified on both the Geology Foundation. Award at the end of his first counts. Carlson came to the year as an assistant professor William L. Fisher, University in 1980 after in 1981. Subsequent awards Leonidas T. Barrow Chair in completing graduate school were in 1985, 1988, 1991, Mineral Resources, Director at UCLA and undergraduate 1994, and this year, 2004. A of the Geology Foundation, work at Stanford. His re- colleague of Carlson’s in the and Director of the Jackson

50 School of Geosciences, Bureau of Economic received the American Insti- Geology Director Scott Tinker tute of Mining, Metallurgical, served as SEPM Vice Chair and Petroleum Engineers for the National AAPG/SEPM (AIME) Robert Earll meeting in Dallas and was McConnell Award. This award asked to join the National was created to “recognize Research Council Board on beneficial service to mankind Energy and Environmental by engineers through signifi- Center, Bureau Alumnus of the Year Systems. cant contributions which tend Doug Ratcliff, shown here with (left) Christopher J. Bell, to advance the nation’s current Bureau Director Scott Tinker, Assistant Professor and standard of living or replenish and former Bureau Director William John A. Wilson Fellow in its natural resources.” Fisher Fisher, now Director of the Jackson Vertebrate Paleontology, School and Geology Foundation. was also honored by the was awarded the Houston Oil American Geological Institute and Minerals Corporation Foundation through the SEPM (Society for Sedimen- Faculty Excellence Award at establishment of the William L. tary Geology). the Department of Geological Fisher Congressional Doug Ratcliff was Sciences award ceremony in Geoscience Fellowship En- named Associate Director for May 2004. This award, which dowment, which will enable Administration of the Jackson comes with a $2,000 gift from selected geoscientists to work School of Geosciences in July the Geology Foundation, is as congressional staffers. 2004. He will also continue to given “to recognize faculty Chairman of the Foundation, serve as the Associate Direc- excellence in any area.” Russell G. Slayback, said the tor of the Geology Founda- The recipient was selected endowment was named in tion, a title he has held since by the Geology Foundation Fisher’s honor “to commemo- May 2003. Prior to moving to Executive Committee on rate his important geoscience the Foundation, Ratcliff the basis of nominations contributions and the key role worked for 30 years at the of faculty and students. he has played in development Bureau of Economic Geology. William E. Galloway, of geo-policy decisions at the He received the Bureau’s Professor Emeritus, received national level.” Fisher served Alumnus of the Year award the AAPG Grover E. Murray as Assistant Secretary of the at the Jackson School Memorial Distinguished Interior for Energy and Reception at the American Educator Minerals under President Ford Association of Petroleum Award. AAPG and has chaired many com- Geologists (AAPG) con- honored mittees and served on many vention in April in Dallas. Galloway boards and councils at the Stephen Ruppel received for his distin- national level. the Dedicated Service Award guished and Bob Hardage was from the Permian Basin outstanding awarded Life Membership in Section of SEPM (Society contributions the Society of Exploration for Sedimentary Geology). to geological education, Geophysicists. Institute for Geophysics both at the university level Mark Holtz received the Director Paul Stoffa received and toward education of Distinguished Service Award the Foreign the general public. from the West Texas Geologi- Geophysicist Mark Helper, Senior cal Society. Recognition Lecturer, received the Phi Beta F. Jerry Lucia was Award from the Kappa Teaching Excellence awarded an Honorary Life- Society Award from the local Austin time Membership in the of Brazilian chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. Permian Basin Section of Geophysicists.

51 faculty who are committed to Sergey Fomel received teaching at either the under- Honorable Mention, Best graduate or graduate level.” Paper Award in Geophysics, Linda Bonnell was from the Society of Explora- named an AAPG Distin- tion Geophysicists. Fomel’s guished Lecturer for 2003– paper, coauthored with Paul 2004. The title of her talk Sava, is titled “Angle-Domain is “Diagenetic Effects on Common-Image Gathers by Fracture Development.” Wavefield Continuation Steve Laubach was Methods.” named a Society of Petroleum James Gibeaut, Roberto Engineers Distinguished Gutierrez, and Tiffany Lecturer for 2003–2004. Hepner received the Third- The title of his talk is Place Grover E. Murray Best “Fractures in Reservoirs: Published Paper Award from Prediction, Characterization, the Gulf Coast Association of and Incorporation in Geological Societies (GCAGS) Top, Ethan Perry and, bottom, Theresa Diehl receive GSEC Student Fluid-Flow Simulation.” for their paper presented at Service Awards from Younis Altobi William Ambrose, lead the 2002 annual convention, at the Department’s annual award author of “Upper Miocene “Threshold Conditions for ceremony. Photos by Joe Jaworski. and Pliocene Gas and Oil Episodic Beach Erosion along Plays in the Macuspana the Southeast Texas Coast.” Libby A. Stern, Assistant Basin, Southeastern Mexico,” Charles Kerans received Professor, received the Out- received the Best Paper Award the First-Place, Grover E. standing Teaching in an from the Houston Geological Murray Best Published Paper Introductory Class Award. Society (HGS) for his presen- Award from the GCAGS for The award was presented at tation at the HGS Interna- his paper “Styles of Rudist the Department of Geological tional Meeting in March. Buildup Development along Sciences award ceremony in Coauthors of the paper are the Northern Margin of the May 2004. This award was Khaled Fouad, Rebecca Jones, Maverick Basin, Pecos River created to recognize excel- Mark Holtz, Shinichi Sakurai, Canyon, Southwest Texas,” lence in teaching at the Edgar Guevara, Javier presented at the 2002 con- introductory level, especially Meneses-Rocha, Leonardo vention. Kerans and Bob in courses designed for Aguilera, Lino Miranda, Loucks received the Third- nongeology majors. Nomina- Roberto Rojas, José Morales, Place, Gordon I. Atwater Best tions are requested from José Berlanga, Poster Award from the students, faculty, and staff, Suhas Talukdar, and GCAGS for their presentation and the winner is chosen Tim Wawrzyniec. at the 2002 convention, by the Geology Foundation Executive Committee. It comes with a $1,000 monetary The winners of the annual McBride/Folk award given by the Geology Petrography Award, Foundation. left to right: Jaclynn Zong-Liang Yang, Fallon, David Keeler, Assistant Professor, received and Edward Lane. the College of Natural Sci- Earle McBride (far right) explains ences Teaching Excellence how the award Award. This award is given to was chosen. “increase recognition of the Photo by College’s many exceptional Joe Jaworski.

52 “Stratigraphic Setting and Each received a plaque Controls on Occurrence and $750 monetary of High-Energy Carbonate award from the Beach Deposits: Lower Geology Foundation. Cretaceous of the Gulf of Christopher Berg Mexico.” Ted Playton and received an Outstand- Kerans received the Second- ing Student Research Place Gordon I. Atwater Best Award from the Poster Award from the GCAGS Structural Geology & for their presentation at the Tectonics (SG&T) 2002 convention, “Slope and Division of the Geologi- Mark Helper gives Alka Tripathy the Estwing Toe-of-Slope Deposits Shed cal Society of America Hammer Award for outstanding skills in field geology at the Department’s annual award from a Late Wolfcampian (GSA) in 2003. This ceremony. Photo by Joe Jaworski. Tectonically Active Carbonate award was chosen on Ramp Margin.” the basis of a research Jeff Paine was recog- proposal submitted for nized for Best Paper, “Apply- funding to GSA in spring monetary award for gradu- ing Airborne Electromagnetic 2003. Chris was awarded a ates and a $250 monetary Induction in Groundwater plaque at the SG&T Division award for undergraduates Salinization and Resource Meeting at the annual GSA from the Geology Foundation. Studies, West Texas,” at the meeting in Seattle, Washing- Alka K. Tripathy was Symposium on the Applica- ton, in November 2003. awarded the Estwing Hammer tion of Geophysics to Engi- Theresa M. Diehl and Award, which is given to neering and Environmental Ethan R. Perry received students who have demon- Problems. Graduate Student Executive strated outstanding skills in Bureau researchers Committee (GSEC) Student field geology, as judged by Hongliu Zeng and Charles Service Awards at the performance in GEO 420K Kerans will receive the Department’s award cer- and GEO 660. Selections Wallace E. Pratt Memorial emony in May 2004. The are made by the field camp Award for best paper pub- honorees were selected by director and undergraduate lished in the 2003 AAPG GSEC. The award recognizes advisor. A geologic rock pick Bulletin for their article outstanding service by a is donated each year by the “Seismic Frequency Control geology graduate student to Estwing Corporation. In on Carbonate Seismic the graduate student commu- addition, Tripathy was recog- Stratigraphy: A Case nity and confers a plaque nized as a Dean’s Honored Study of the Kingdom from the Geology Foundation, Graduate. This award is given Abo Sequence, West Texas.” as well as a check for $250. to “top honors students who Danielle M. Bailey, M. Edward D. Lane (gradu- have not only excelled in their Jennifer Cooke, and Steven L. ate student), David A. Keeler class work, but also have Keyes each received the (undergraduate student), done outstanding research Outstanding Teaching and Jaclynn F. Fallon (under- as an undergraduate and/or Assistant Award at the graduate student) won the contributed to the College and Department’s award R. L. Folk and E. F. McBride the University through signifi- ceremony in May 2004. Petrography Awards at the cant service.” The students were selected Department, which are given Leonel Gomez won third by the Geology Foundation for superior performance in place in the AAPG Student Executive Committee on the petrographic identification Oral Presentation Award at basis of faculty nominations and interpretation in an the AAPG annual meeting in for their outstanding perfor- annual contest. This contest Dallas for his talk “Predicting mance as teaching assistants. confers a plaque and a $1000 Macrofracture Spacing from

53 Small Rock Samples: Testing Technical Sessions each award is given to recognize New Analytical Techniques semester. Winners are se- excellent performance by staff Using Microfracture Spacing.” lected on the basis of student members of the Joseph C. Gomez received $300, and evaluations and are awarded Walter, Jr., and Elizabeth C. the Jackson School was a plaque and $200 gift from Walter Geology Library. Each awarded $600 for his work. Robbie Gries and the Geology received $200 from the Kristine L. Mize and Foundation. Best speakers at Geology Foundation. coauthors Lesli J. Wood the 2003–2004 Technical Jeffrey “Ty” Lehman, and Paul Mann received Sessions were Tania M. Senior Systems Analyst, the SEPM Best Poster Award Wallace (M.A. fall 2003): received the Distinguished at the 2004 AAPG/SEPM “The Geochemical Behavior Service Award at the annual meeting for “Controls and Transport Characteristics Department’s award cer- on the Morphology and of Estrogens”; Karah L. Wertz emony in Development of Deep-Marine (Ph.D., fall 2003): “From May 2004. Channels, Offshore Trinidad Seafloor Spreading to Uplift: The award is and Eastern Venezuela.” Geologic Evolution of given by the Julymar Morantes won Macquarie Island on the Department first place in the Selected Australian-Pacific Plate for the most Academic Research Topics Boundary”; Jamie S. Levine outstanding Ty Lehman, at the AAPG annual meeting (M.A., spring 2004): winner of the contribution in Dallas for her poster “Structural Analysis and Department’s to the facili- “Mechanisms of Porosity Detrital Zircon Provenance staff service ties or opera- Reduction of the Upper in the Western Llano Uplift: award. tions of the Cretaceous Sandstones in Implications for a Southern Photo by Department Joe Jaworski. the Eastern Venezuela Basin: Collider”; and Tarek A. S. throughout Carito Oil Field.” Morantes Elshayeb (Ph.D., spring the previous received $1,000, and the 2004): “Integrated Reservoir year. The winner is evaluated Jackson School was awarded Characterization, 3D- on the basis of nominations $2,000 that was put into Diagenetic Modeling, and from faculty, staff, and stu- the University’s AAPG Reservoir Assessment and dents and is chosen by the Student Chapter. Prediction of the Cotton Valley Geology Foundation Executive The MAR- Sandstones, East Texas Basin.” Committee. Not only is GINS initiative The partnership led by Lehman in charge of all the awarded Sylvia Patricia Ganey-Curry computers and networking Nordfjord their involving Bertha Casey in the Department, but he is first Annual Prize Elementary’s fifth-grade class also noted for his serenity for Outstanding and the Institute for Geophys- amid hectic situations. Student Presentation for her ics won first place at the Jenny Turner, an Admin- poster “Geomorphologic 2004 Austin Science Fun Day, istrative Associate at the Comparisons of Shallowly a competitive science fair Bureau of Economic Geology, Buried, Dendritic Drainage staged annually at the Texas was awarded Systems on the Outer New Memorial Museum by The one of 30 Staff Jersey Shelf with Modern University of Texas at Austin’s Excellence Fluvial and Estuarine Ana- College of Natural Sciences. Awards given logs” presented at the fall Margaret Bienemann, by The 2003 meeting of the American Library Assistant II, and University Geophysical Union. Yusliza Mohd Sufian, Library of Texas at Best Speaker Awards are Assistant II, both received the M. Stephens D. Austin at the given to graduate students for Thelma Lynn Guion Geology 43rd Annual Staff Recognition superior oral presentations at Library Staff Award. This Program and President’s

54 Reception in May 2004. The award recognizes non- Recipients of Staff Service Awards from teaching employees for their The University of Texas at Austin outstanding contributions Years of to the University. Name service Unit The first-ever Jackson Jean L. Abernathy 25 Bureau of Economic Geology School Staff Excellence Award James A. Austin, Jr. 25 Institute for Geophysics was presented to an em- Sharon A. Bierschenk 10 Bureau of Economic Geology ployee of the Geology Foun- Gail L. Christeson 10 Institute for Geophysics dation and of each of the Sigrid Clift 15 Bureau of Economic Geology three units of the Jackson Fong-I T. Dewberry 25 General Libraries School and is expected to Janet E. Everett 15 Institute for Geophysics become an annual award. Clifford A. Frohlich 25 Institute for Geophysics This year’s awards were William E. Galloway 10 Institute for Geophysics presented to Ty Lehman, Roberto Gutierrez 10 Bureau of Economic Geology Senior Systems Analyst, Wilbert J. King, Jr. 10 Institute for Geophysics Department of Geological Lawrence A. Lawver 20 Institute for Geophysics Sciences; Eleanor Picard, Jeffrey T. Lehman 10 Geological Sciences Assistant to the Director, Robert G. Loucks 10 Bureau of Economic Geology Institute for Geophysics; Glynis G. Morse 25 Bureau of Economic Geology Ron Russell, Computing Lisa E. Remington 10 Bureau of Economic Geology Services Manager, Bureau Carol W. Russell 40 General Libraries of Economic Geology; and Daniel D. Schultz-Ela 15 Bureau of Economic Geology Debra Sue Trinque, Senior Thomas H. Shipley 25 Institute for Geophysics Administrative Associate, Debra S. Trinque 20 Geology Foundation Geology Foundation. Bruno C. Vendeville 15 Bureau of Economic Geology The Jackson School William A. White 30 Bureau of Economic Geology was well represented among University staff service awards presented at the 2004 Staff Recognition Program and President’s Reception. The University of Texas at Far left, Patricia Austin Staff Service Award Ganey-Curry led the Program honors staff who UTIG-supported Adopt-A-School class have completed 10 or more from Bertha Casey years (in multiples of 5 years) Elementary to another of service at the University first-place win at the and recognizes the impor- Austin Science Fun Day sponsored by tance of their contributions The University of to the continuing success of Texas at Austin the University. Twenty-two College of Natural Jackson School staff were Sciences. The annual so honored in May 2004. public event promotes science as accessible, meaningful, important, and fun for everyone— especially children.

55 Starting with the Basics: K–12 Outreach Efforts

The Jackson School hosted 11th graders from the Mathematics, Science & Engineering Academy at Fort Valley State during their visit to The University of Texas at Austin campus in June.

Each unit of the Jackson School has a long tradition To bring minorities into the Jackson School we of providing geoscience information to the public have formed an alliance with Fort Valley State and to kindergarten through 12th grade (K–12) University in Georgia, whose students are students and teachers in a common quest to learn predominantly African American. Minority students about Earth’s resources. who have an interest and aptitude in science and engineering are recruited as eighth graders and These programs have grown dramatically over mentored through high school, when they are the last 5 years as a result of increased funding, offered full scholarships to attend college. collaboration with education and outreach organizations, and the creation of the This program, begun in 1983 at Fort Valley State, Environmental Science Institute (ESI), headed by has achieved a graduation rate in geosciences Professor Jay Banner of the Department. Integration of 86 percent (18 of 21) and in engineering of of efforts within the School will promote future 95 percent (54 of 57). The Mathematics, Science & growth of the outreach program. Highlights of Engineering Academy (MSEA) guides the students activities during the last year are summarized here. from grades 8 through 12 and feeds into the Cooperative Developmental Energy Program Several teachers took part in marine geophysical (CDEP) that sees the students through college. research cruises led by UTIG scientists. Steven Stevenoski, a science teacher at Lincoln High Next year we will bring Southwest Texas Junior School in Wisconsin Rapids, joined the Western College in Uvalde into the alliance to draw Ross Sea, Terror Rift cruise onboard the Nathaniel Hispanics into the program. We will help to Palmer as part of the National Science Foundation’s expand their existing network of Texas high (NSF) Teachers Experiencing Antarctica and the school counselors in predominantly Hispanic Arctic (TEA) program. Stevenoski sent journal high schools and provide a degree transfer entries and photos to TEA’s Web site through- program similar to the one at Fort Valley. out the cruise. Mary Phillips from Lake Waco Montessori School sailed to the Hess Deep. Biology teacher Meredith Keelan from Van Vleck, Texas, participated in the 52-day Southeast Caribbean Margin cruise with UTIG scientist Paul Mann onboard the Maurice Ewing through an NSF supplemental Research Experience for Teachers (RET) grant. As an NSF Graduate Teaching Fellow in K–12 Education (GK–12), Sean Sullivan, who also sailed on the cruise, worked with Keelan to create a video documentary of the cruise. Keelan’s daily journal entries and her e-mail exchange between shore-based students and scientists at the Southeast Bureau researcher Randy Remington leads Caribbean Margin Web site can be viewed at fourth-grade students from Gattis Elementary http://www.ig.utexas.edu/outreach/ttif/secaribb/ School, Round Rock, in an inquiry about soil index.php. properties. Photo by David M. Stephens.

56 At the college level, six for the Advancement of Science Teaching (CAST) geology graduate students in Houston, the largest conference of its kind in and three undergraduates the United States. The Jackson School presented received in-depth training professional development workshops on topics and experience in outreach such as using geographic information systems through the NSF-funded in the classroom and conducting research on GK–12 program. College global warming. students from several sciences worked in the Bureau Director and State Geologist Scott Tinker gave testimony to the State Board of Education Waco student speaking to classroom with science teacher mentors to develop in support of making earth science courses more Meredith Keelan onboard available to high school students in Texas. This the R/V Maurice Ewing. and present activities to students. Twelve teachers testimony followed efforts of the Texas Education involved in this program Agency–sponsored Earth Science Task Force, on continue to benefit from training and interaction which Susan Hovorka served. Patty Ganey-Curry with researchers. of UTIG serves on the Austin Science Fun Day organizing committee. Katherine Ellins, also of In other efforts Bureau researchers Susan Hovorka UTIG, served as the interim chair of the EarthScope and John Andrews have been working with the Education and Outreach steering committee, Witte Museum in San Antonio to develop the was a co-convener of the Integrated Ocean 3-D computer visualization of the Edwards aquifer Drilling Program (IODP) Education and Outreach as part of a forthcoming exhibit on water. Workshop, and is currently a member of the IODP Education and Outreach Task Force UTIG sponsored a Distinguished Speaker in the and the IRIS education advisory committee. Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (IRIS) program in the popular ESI Outreach Lecture An NSF-funded project led by Katherine Ellins, Series. U.S. Geological Survey scientist David Wald Cataclysms and Catastrophes, completed presented “Citizen Science: Man vs. Machine in Web-based modules on earthquakes, tsunamis, Providing Rapid Earthquake Information.” hurricanes, asteroid impacts, and landslides to train teachers how to use data and analytical techniques The fourth annual Earth Science Week Career Fair— developed by UTIG and Bureau scientists with their hosted by 60 earth science professionals from local students. UTIG has created more than 40 different geoscience organizations—drew 350 Austin-area learning activities aligned with State and national eighth-grade students and 25 teachers to the science education standards available to teachers University campus in the local celebration of as a rich educational resource on its Web site. this national event sponsored by the American Geological Institute (AGI). The Bureau’s information geologist, Sigrid Clift, chairs the Earth Science Week organizing committee. The Bureau’s Houston Research Center (HRC) hosted a tour of the HRC on behalf of the Houston Geological Society’s (HGS) annual celebration of Earth Science Week. More than 70 HGS members, their families, and college students from area community colleges viewed the center’s rock cores and cuttings and learned of their importance to our understanding of Earth. Almost 6,000 Texas K–12 science teachers from around the state attended the annual Conference

Iridium Satellite Solutions generously provided GK–12 RET teacher Meredith Keelan The NSF-funded GK–12 Program provides geoscience and with a satellite telephone environmental outreach experiences for Austin-area K–12 so that she could call her teachers. Among these activities was a field workshop in the students daily, as well as Edwards aquifer. Standing at far left, Ph.D. candidate Nico speak with students in other Hauwert discusses issues of urban impact at Goat Cave, parts of Texas. Photo by which is part of a protected karst preserve in the recharge Alejandro Escalona. zone of the Edwards aquifer. Photo provided by Jay Banner.

57 Well-Traveled Jackson School Booth

The Jackson School of Geosciences (JSG) hosted several exhibit booths and alumni functions at professional The JSG exhibit booth is a great place to meet friends. Visiting at the society meetings last year and will AAPG meeting (from left) are past AAPG president John J. Amoruso, JSG Director William L. Fisher, and UT alumnus Robert L. Boyce. continue to do so in the future. JSG staff and students made presentations, coordinated sessions, led field trips, and hosted separate exhibit booths at several national and international The Jackson School went on the road last year to these major geological and geophysical meetings. professional venues: The JSG Steering Committee appointed a JSG Exhibits Committee to help October 22–24, 2003, Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies (GCAGS) coordinate School-wide activities. Annual Convention, Baton Rouge, Louisiana The Committee was charged with organizing exhibit booths and alumni October 26–29, 2003, Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) events to represent the whole School. International Exposition and Annual Meeting, Dallas, Texas The exhibition area at the national meetings is always the center of October 30–November 1, 2003, Conference for the Advancement of activity and business during the Science Teaching (CAST), Houston, Texas conventions. The JSG exhibit booth offers a setting for staff, students, and November 2–5, 2003, Geological Society of America (GSA) alumni to collect and convene, and the Annual Meeting & Exposition, Seattle, Washington alumni events offer a designated time and place for friends of The University December 8–12, 2003, American Geophysical Union (AGU) of Texas at Austin to get reacquainted. Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California They also offer a venue for providing information to potential students and April 18–21, 2004 American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) sponsors of the industry-funded organized research programs of the Annual Convention, Dallas, Texas JSG. The events of the past year were well received by staff, students, and Upcoming Meetings alumni, and future events promise Meeting Date Location more opportunities for the JSG to showcase its programs and create SEG October 10–15, 2004 Denver a relaxed setting for alumni and GCAGS October 10–12, 2004 San Antonio prospective students and staff to visit. AAPG International October 24–27, 2004 Cancun Look to the JSG Web site for pre- CAST November 4–6, 2004 Corpus Christi GSA November 7–10, 2004 Denver convention abstracts and lists of AGU December 13–17, 2004 San Francisco presentations, as well as exhibit booth NSTA March 31–April 3, 2005 Dallas and alumni event announcements AAPG June 19–22, 2005 Calgary and pictures from past events: http://www.ig.utexas.edu/jsg/ For information on Jackson School exhibits or alumni events, meetings_2004.htm. contact Patricia Ganey-Curry, [email protected], 512-471-0408.

58 Memorials

Edward Redington Baird died March 9, 2004, in His excursions led him to Houston, Texas, at the age Turkey, Thailand, Guatemala, of 85. He was born and Mexico, Spain, France, raised in Little Rock, Sweden, Norway, Japan, Arkansas, and attended the Vietnam, Greece, Morocco, University of Texas in Austin, England, and Ireland. receiving a Bachelor’s Dedicated to pursuing degree in geology in 1943. excellence, Eric lived by the He then served with the motto carpe diem. He had 351st Bomb Group as a close circles of friends around photographer and gunner the world, and although only on B17 aircraft based in at UT for a few, too short, Polebrook, England, during months, Eric quickly Eric Rutherford. Photo by Joe Jaworski. World War II. After the war, established a community of he married Ida May Mueller friends among UT-Austin of Houston. During his Eric Robert Rutherford, 29, graduate students. Shortly career, he discovered oil and died on November 12, 2003, after learning of his illness, gas fields in Wyoming, Texas, in Austin, Texas, after fighting students at the Jackson and Louisiana. He and his a courageous battle against School joined together to family lived for several years cancer. Eric moved to Austin encourage other students in Morelia, Michoacan, in August 2003, to pursue and faculty to donate blood Mexico, and then settled in his graduate degree in in support of Eric and his Houston in 1952. He returned hydrogeology at The family. Eric had a wonderful to school at South Texas University of Texas. Before spirit and made a large College of Law, obtaining his moving to Austin, he worked impact on the school in his law degree in 1962, and he with the U.S. Geological small amount of time. His then started a second career Survey’s Hawaii Volcano friends and family miss him as a title lawyer, which lasted Observatory, mapping newly dearly. Eric’s family has set until he retired in 1996 at emplaced lava flows, up an Endowed Scholarship age 78. He enjoyed a wide collecting fresh lava samples, Fund in his name: memorial range of interests, including and preparing maps. He was donations can be made to the Tai Chi, history, jazz, Chinese an adventurer. Eric traveled Eric Rutherford Endowment calligraphy, classical music, throughout the world seeking Fund, c/o All Saints Episcopal English literature, and his to learn about new cultures Church, P.O. Box 7423, son John’s rock band. He and traditions. He began his Warner Robins, Georgia is survived by his children, travels in Germany, New 31095-7423. All donations Charles Cary O’Connor and Zealand, and Australia made to the endowment fund wife Linda; Justice Michol through a study-abroad are tax-deductible. O’Connor; Jane Baird; John program at Rice University. By John M. Sharp Baird and wife Leann Vosel; and David Baird; as well as by several grandchildren, a large extended family, and many friends.

59 Jerrell Lee “Butch” Baldridge Blankenship; sisters Janice a B.S. in 1938 and an M.A. of Dallas, Texas, died October Caldwell and husband in 1940, both in geology. He 30, 2003, at the age of 66. Robert, and Patricia Krisak enlisted in the Army Air Force Butch was born and raised in and husband Mike; brothers during World War II, serving Fort Worth, Texas, graduating Floyd and wife Sandy and in India and the China- from Arlington Heights High Michael and wife Linda; Burma-India theatre. He School. He then attended the stepmother Dorothy was a petroleum geologist University of Texas, working Blankenship; and many in Oklahoma and Venezuela. toward a degree in geology grandchildren, nieces, Later, he taught photography for 3 years before joining the nephews, and friends at Mesa Verde, as well as U.S. Army in 1959, serving throughout the country. geology, astronomy, and on active duty for 2 years. oceanography in El Centro In late 1961 he served some Frank I. Brooner, Jr., 75, Junior College, located in additional active duty died February 24, 2004, the Los Angeles area. He is when his reserve unit was in San Antonio, Texas. He survived by his brothers activated. He retired from graduated from the University Dr. Logan Cockrum and Jim IBM after more than 25 years, of Texas in 1951 with a Cockrum and their wives, and then worked in the degree in geology. He served along with many nieces, technology field as an during the Korean War in the nephews, and great-nieces independent contractor until U.S. Navy. He began a career and great-nephews. late 2002. He is survived by as an exploration his mother, France Gunter geophysicist in 1954, and Gordon Craig died March 9, Baldridge; sister Betty Sue then became an independent 2004, in Midland, Texas, at Chapman; brother Joseph F. geologist in 1964, continuing the age of 77. He was born in Baldridge, Jr., and many with that career until his Denton, Texas, on October 7, nephews, nieces, grand- death. He is survived by 1926. He received his B. S. nephews, and grand-nieces. his wife Doreen; daughters degree in geology from the Stephanie Smith and Stacey University of Texas at Austin Wesley F. Blankenship Hughes and husband Jeff; in 1949. On May 17, 1957, he died February 24, 2004, in son Barry Alan; and married Marilyn Johnigan in Austin, Texas. He received a grandchildren Lindsey and Amarillo, Texas. He worked Bachelor’s degree in geology Samuel Smith and Jessica for Sinclair Oil and Gas for from the University of and Campbell Hughes. He 14 years and then went on Texas in 1957 and became was preceded in death by to become an independent Executive Vice-President of his son Brian Keith. consulting geologist. He was Coastal Corporation. He was a member of the Memorial widely known in the oil and Amil Blake Cockrum died Christian Church, where he gas industry. He enjoyed August 9, 2003, in Austin, served in several different traveling, especially in the Texas, at the age of 88. capacities, including as an mountains of Colorado and He lived in Austin for the Elder and as chairman of the on beaches around the world. previous 2 years, having board. He was also a member He also loved his ranch in moved to Austin from Hemet, of SEPM, the Pop-Up Blanco, Texas, where he California. He was born Toastmasters Club, and raised miniature donkeys and March 5, 1915, in Missouri, the West Texas Geological Boer goats. He is survived moving with his parents to Society. He is survived by his by his wife Cyndi; children McAllen, Texas, in 1920. He wife Marilyn Craig; daughters Wesley Jr. and wife Kathy, graduated from McAllen High Sandra Soria and Susan and Keith and wife AnnMarie, School and attended the husband Bryan Paddack; Bret and wife Sue, and Karen University of Texas, receiving brother Robert Craig, and five nephews and nieces.

60 Franklin W. Daugherty, 76, Sul Ross University. He was Donna Borden and Sonia died August 23, 2003, in Fort a member of the advisory Palmer; sons Tim and Neal; Stockton, Texas. He was born council and executive and many grandchildren, in Alpine, Texas, on June 20, committee of the Center for great-grandchildren, nieces, 1927. Frank grew up in Big Bend Studies at SRSU as nephews, and cousins. Alpine, Texas, and graduated well as the American Legion. from Alpine High School in He is survived by his sister, Mark Eidelbach died July 9, 1945. In July of that year he Flora Daugherty; two 2004, in San Antonio, Texas, married Dorothy Mae Cotton. daughters, Sheila Daugherty at the age of 78. He was born He joined the Army in 1946, and Claire Newman; and one in Flatonia, Texas, on April 1, last serving as a company son, Stephen Daugherty, as 1926. He served in the U.S. first sergeant in the 304th well as five grandchildren. Army as a basic training Signal Operations Battalion instructor and then earned a of the Eighth Army in Japan. Don Bradley Depew passed Bachelor’s degree in geology Upon returning, he received away on December 25, 2003, at the University of Texas at a B.S. degree in geology from in Galveston, Texas, at the Austin in 1951. He then Sul Ross State University age of 73. He was born moved to San Angelo, Texas, (SRSU). Frank then went in Gainesville, Texas, on to begin his career as an to work first for Lone Star June 26, 1930, and grew independent geologist, and Mercury Mines and then up in Corpus Christi, Texas. while there he met Baylor Dow Chemical Company until He attended the University Collins, who became his wife. 1958, when he enrolled in of Texas, earning a degree He was a member of the the University of Texas. He in geology. He was an American Association of received his M.A. degree exploration geophysicist Petroleum Geologists, the in geology in 1959 and his for several oil companies, South Texas Geological Ph.D. in geology in 1962. including Humble Oil, Exxon, Society, the Society of Frank then went back to work and Agip, and did consulting Independent Professional for Dow Chemical Company, work for various other Earth Scientists, and the this time in the Mexican companies. Don and his wife American Institute of subsidiary. In 1963 he Evelyn owned Gulf Rubber Professional Geologists, and became a faculty member and Supply Co. and Depew he was a founding member of at West Texas State Properties, located in the Petroleum Club of San University (now West Texas Houston, Texas. He lived all Antonio. His company, Mark A&M University). He was over the world, including IV Energy, drilled for and elected as a Fellow in both Texas and Louisiana, Sydney, produced gas from the Cindy the Geological Society of Australia, Singapore and Ann field in Wilson County, America and Sigma Xi. He London, England. He was a Texas, and Mark, along with was appointed to the Texas member of the West Isle Edward Roy, Jr. and Nancy Mining Council in 1981 by Presbyterian Church in Trumbly, received the AAPG Governor Clements. He Galveston, the Society of A. I. Levorsen Memorial also served on the Exploration Geophysicists, Award and the GCAGS Best Brewster County Historical the National Rifle Paper Award for a paper they Commission for 19 years, Association, the Republican co-authored on that field. He serving as Chairman for Party, and the Elks Lodge. is survived by his wife Baylor; 15 years. He was a lifetime He served in the U.S. Navy son Rosser and wife Donna; member of the SRSU Ex- during the Korean War daughters Jennifer Eidelbach Students Association and He enjoyed fishing, sailing, and Ellen Pitluk and husband helped sponsor several politics, and hunting. He is Lee, several grandchildren, scholarships at SRSU and survived by his daughters and one great-granddaughter.

61 Leslie James Franz died Texas. He received a B.S. in cinnabar mines in October 10, 2003, in Houston, degree in geology from The Terlingua, Texas. On May 30, Texas, at the age of 83. He is University of Texas at Austin 1942, he married Sarah survived by his wife of 60 in 1973 and went to work at “Sue” Chapman. Jim served years, Mattie Lou “Pat” the Texas Department of in World War II in the U.S. Franz; daughter Linda Carol Health. In 1998 he resigned Navy in the Pacific theatre. Aery and husband Bently; and devoted himself full time In 1947, he and Sue moved son James Craig Franz and to charitable work, becoming to Midland, Texas, where he wife Dot; grandchildren a staff member at the worked for Atlantic Refining Amanda Franz, Clay Bass, Lesbian/Gay Rights Lobby of Co. and then British- and Carrie Evans; sister Texas (LGRL) and Project American Petroleum. He Evelyn Jolet; great- Transitions office. In addition became an independent grandchildren Dayton Biggs, he volunteered a great deal geologist in 1959, working Charlesy Bass, and Christian of his time to organizations primarily in the Permian Evans; and numerous other such as AIDS Services of Basin but also throughout the relatives. Austin, TARAL, ALGPC, and world. He was a member of the Texas Freedom Network, the Kiwanis Club, American Fred E. Grinstead died on among others. He helped Association of Petroleum April 15, 2004, in Tyler, with fundraising efforts and Geologists, Society of Texas, at the age of 76. He political events such as AIDS Independent Earth Scientists, was born in Kerrville, Texas, Walk of Austin, Texas Pride and the West Texas on June 12, 1927, and Festival and Holiday Swing, Geological Society (WTGS). graduated from Tivy High and was instrumental in the Since 1952 he had been a School in 1944. He attended passage of the James Byrd, Jr. member of First Presbyterian Louisiana State University. He Hate Crimes Act, which Church in Midland, where he served in the Navy during marked the first time that served as both an elder and World War II and then gays and lesbians were a deacon. In 1995, he was attended Schreiner Institute protected under Texas law. honored as an oil industry in Kerrville, Texas. He By the end of his life, he had pioneer by the WTGS. He graduated from the University spent most of his time and is survived by his wife Sue of Texas at Austin with a money supporting causes Hardwick; son Clifford and B.S. in geology in 1950. He that were close to his heart, wife Melinda; son Mark and worked for Exxon in Houston, and making a difference in wife Linda; daughter Nancy Texas, as an exploration the world around him. Gierhart and husband Mel; geologist for 30 years. He daughter Sarah Bell and then relocated to Tyler, Texas, James “Jim” Vincent husband Chuck; brother where, starting in 1980, he Hardwick died January 13, Elmer and sister-in-law worked as an independent 2004, in Midland, Texas, at Pauline; and many geologist. He is survived by the age of 90. He was born grandchildren, great- his wife, Mildred Henderson on April 29, 1913, in Medina, grandchildren, nephews, Grinstead; son Jay Henderson Texas. He was raised and and nieces. Grinstead; sister-in-law Mary educated in Charlie, Texas, Martha Henderson, and by his father and stepmother, Wiley B. Harle, 79, died several nieces, nephews, after losing his mother during December 7, 2003, in and grand-nieces and his infancy. He attended the Houston, Texas. He received grand-nephews. University of Texas in Austin a Bachelor’s degree from the and received a B.S. degree University of Texas in geology Charles Hallmark died in geology in 1940. He then in 1950, after serving with September 9, 2003, in Austin, worked as a mining engineer the Army Air Corps during

62 World War II. He went on Heil; children Keith and Houston and worked as a to work as a petroleum wife Rebecca, and Janice geophysicist for Tenneco Oil geologist. He was an Elder Chilton and husband Greg; for 35 years. He was able to and Trustee at Grace brother Allen Heil; eight travel extensively in Europe, Presbyterian Church in grandchildren; and South America, and Africa in Houston and was an Eagle three nephews. the search for oil. He then Scout. He also enjoyed retired and lived in the Bear woodworking and jewelry Robert H. Kelso died April 22, Creek area, where he enjoyed making. He is survived by 2004, at the age of 87. He playing golf and spending his wife of 45 years, Mary K. was born on November 27, time with family and friends. Harle; sons James and wife 1916, in Houston, Texas. He He is survived by his brother, Mary, Bascom and wife Sally, graduated from San Jacinto John Kent; sons Edward, and James; grandchildren High School in 1934, and Robert, and Michael; James Mitchell, Rebecca then attended the University daughter-in-law D.J. Kent; Anne, and Stark Hunter, of Texas, graduating in 1942. and granddaughters Sarah along with many nieces, After graduation he served in JoAnn Kent and Allison nephews, and friends. the U.S. Navy during World Bernardini. War II as a torpedo-man. Laurence H. Hawes, Jr. died After the war he became a Eldon Woodrow Langford, February 7, 2004 in Midland, consulting geologist, work he 89, died January 12, 2003, Texas, at the age of 77. He did for 44 years. His career in San Antonio, Texas. He was born in Houston, Texas, included the first oil drilling was born on May 7, 1915, on November 28, 1926. He in the Gulf of Mexico and led in Bandera, Texas, and attended the University of him to travel to Africa, the graduated from Bandera High Texas at Austin and received Far East, the North Sea, School in 1933. He then went a Bachelor’s degree in and the Philippines. He was to business school in Tyler, geology in 1951. He married a 32nd degree Mason and Texas, and from there to the Joyce Marie Reinhardt on a charter member of University of Texas at Austin, April 30, 1955. He is survived Champions Golf Club. He is receiving a Master’s degree in by his wife Joyce; son Scott survived by his second wife, geology in 1942. While at the and wife Leslie; daughter Jean Hendricks Kelso; and University he met his future Dayna Marie Hawes; sister two sisters, Jane Wolcott wife, Lucille Evelyn Treybig, Eveline Carstens; grandson and Carolyn Andrews. and they were married on Cory Travis Hawes; and April 21, 1944. During World many nieces and nephews. Leon Kent, 85, died February 3, War II he worked as an 2004, in Houston, Texas. He electrician at the freighter was born on April 25, 1918, Charles G. Heil, 75, shipyard in Houston, Texas. in Pittsburgh, Texas. He died August 6, 2003, in Then in the early 1950’s, served as a Captain in the Montgomery, Texas. He was along with his brothers Army Air Corps in Italy, the born on March 20, 1928, in Cohen and Othell, he formed Mediterranean, southern Mercedes, Texas. He served the Lazy L Ranches, some of France, and Germany during in the Navy during World the first ranches in the United World War II. He then grad- War II. He attended the States to breed and sell uated from the University University of Texas at Austin Charolais and Charbray of Texas in Austin with a and received a Bachelor’s cattle. He worked in both the Bachelor’s degree in physics, degree in geology in 1951. ranching and oil industries then a Master’s degree in He worked for Conoco for until 1964, at which time geology, which he received 37 years. He is survived by he became a professor of in 1940. He then moved to his wife of 55 years, Shirley J. geology at San Antonio

63 College, teaching until his He attended Vanderbilt Sally McCravey and Jenny retirement in 1985. Once he University, followed by Cloudman; brother James retired, Eldon became an the University of Texas at Hugh McCravey; and avid painter, working with Austin, where he received a grandchildren John Cloudman the Warren Hunter Art Group Bachelor’s degree in geology and Anne Cloudman. and The Coppini Academy in 1956. He also served in the of Fine Arts in San Antonio. United States Air Force from Robert “Bob” McLellan died He is survived by his wife; 1951 to 1954. He was a June 14, 2003, in Kerrville, sons Brian and Alan and member of St. Gregory the Texas, at the age of 77. He wife Ruth; daughter Lauren Great Catholic Church, as was born May 1, 1926, in and husband John, as well well as the South Texas Corsicana, Texas. Bob spent as several grandchildren. Geological Society, the much of his early life in Tyler, Ex-Students Association Texas, and then received pilot at the University of Texas, training in the U.S. Naval Everett Lawley, Jr. died the American Association of Reserve. He graduated from April 4, 2003, at the age of Petroleum Geologists, and the the University of Texas in 80 in San Antonio, Texas. Houston Geological Society. 1949 with a B.S. degree He was born in Gonzales, He is survived by his wife in geology. He also was a Texas, on August 9, 1922, of 52 years, Elizabeth Anne member of the UT swim team and he graduated from “Bess” Lochte; children and set several backstroke Alamo Heights High School Richard Lochte III, M.D., and records in the Southwest in Gonzales. During World wife Mary Ann, Cary Ellen Conference. While at UT, War II he served in the Kopecky, Elizabeth Anne and Bob was also a member of United States Marine Corps husband Craig Kirby, Mary the Delta Kappa Epsilon Third Marine Division, Marcella Aune and husband fraternity. He started work as 9th Regiment. After he was Jon, Therese Marie Darr and a geologist with Humble Oil discharged, he attended the husband David; as well as Company and later became University of Texas at Austin many grandchildren. an independent consultant and received a Bachelor’s in Midland, Texas. He was degree in geology. He went LeRoy McCravey of Austin, a member of the American on to work in the petroleum Texas, died January 20, 2004, Association of Petroleum industry. He is survived by at the age of 90. He was born Geologists and the West his wife Wilhelmina “Willie” on October 28, 1913, in Texas Geological Society. Bob Foss Lawley; son Everett; Thornton, Texas, where he was a Eucharistic Minister at daughter Sarah; stepsons graduated from Thornton St. Peter’s Episcopal Church Dan Costley and wife Mary High School. He graduated and a driver for Kerrville Alice and Mike Costley and from the University of Texas Meals on Wheels. He was wife Dorena; brother-in-law in 1942 with a B.A. in also a member of the Riverhill Arthur Foss and wife Jessie; geology. He worked as a Men’s Golf Association. He and grandchildren Brooks geophysicist for Texaco enjoyed travel, gardening, and Everett Lawley. throughout the world, and competing in the notably in Louisiana, Kerrville and U.S. Senior Erwin Richard “E. R.” Oklahoma, Colombia, and Olympics from 1992 to 1998. Lochte, Jr., age 74, died Venezuela. He retired in Bob won a total of 51 medals, February 3, 2004 in San 1978. He was preceded in including silver medals in the Antonio, Texas. He was born death by his wife Annie backstroke competition of April 3, 1930, in San Antonio, Laurie Smith McCravey and the U.S. Senior Olympics in and graduated from Texas his brother Harold McCravey. 1995, 1997, and 1998. He Military Institute in 1947. He is survived by daughters is survived by his wife of

64 52 years, Barbara Holt Year at Cosumnes River lifelong hobby of building and McLellan; son Daniel and Elementary School in flying model airplanes, and wife Diane; son David and California. She is survived by he belonged to several local wife Theresa; sister Rose her husband Joe; daughters flying clubs as well as the Ann M. Hoy; sister Laura M. Claire and Cassie; mother Academy of Model Aviation. Clemens; and grandchildren Mary Ann Moore; brothers He is survived by his son Andrew, Ian, Bonnie, and Theron Jr. and wife Annette, Scott and wife Phyllis; four Christian. Tom and wife Linda, and grandchildren; and eight Tim and wife Sandra. great-grandchildren. Richard C. Peckham died August 15, 2003, at the age Kemp D. Solcher, 85, died Jean W. Stark died August 7, of 73. He was born in San July 26, 2003, in San Antonio, 2003, in College Station, Antonio, Texas, on April 11, Texas. Kemp was born in San Texas, at the age of 84. She 1930. He graduated from the Antonio on December 17, was born in Dobbin, Texas. University of Texas in 1956 1917. He graduated from She graduated from Conroe with a B.S. in geology. Thomas Jefferson High School High School in Conroe, Texas, He went on to work as a in 1935 and later attended and received a B.A. degree in hydrogeologist for the U.S. the University of Texas, geology from the University Environmental Protection where he received an of Texas in 1940. She then Agency. He is survived by Honors degree in geology in went to work for Humble Oil his wife Jeanene Becker 1939. He went to work for Company in Houston, Texas, Peckham; mother Laura John F. Camp and Son, an for a time, then became a Louise Dorsett Peckham; independent oil company in teacher at Fannin and Lamar sons David and wife Donna, San Antonio. Kemp married schools in Bryan, Texas. She Darrell and wife Chris and Catherine Thomas in 1942 was a member of the A&M Russell and wife Phyllis; and then enlisted in pilot United Methodist Church brother Ross and Larry; and training in the U.S. Air Corps, in College Station. She is six grandchildren. He was earning his wings in August survived by her son, John W. preceded in death by a 1943. While a pilot he was Stark, Jr., and wife Judy brother, Raymond. assigned to a bomber group, Collins; daughter Sallie and flew a B-24 “Liberator McGehee and husband Teena Moore Ramage Bomber” as part of the 15th Robert; four grandchildren died March 31, 2004, in Air Force. He was awarded and one great-grandchild. Sacramento, California, at the a Presidential Unit Citation age of 44. She was born on and the Distinguished Flying Walter Morrill Strong, 70, March 29, 1960, in Houston, Cross, Air Medal, with two died November 15, 2003, in Texas, where she graduated oak leaf clusters. At the Algiers, Louisiana. He was from Robert E. Lee High end of World War II Kemp born in Ithaca, New York, School. She then attended returned to his geological later attending Cornell The University of Texas at career, working with University, where he Austin, graduating with George A. Musselman in graduated with a degree honors in 1986 with a San Antonio, with whom he in geology. He then came to Bachelor’s degree in worked for 38 years until the University of Texas and geophysics. She later founded retirement. He was a member earned his Master’s in the Granite Management of the San Antonio Petroleum geology in 1957. He worked Company. She was also an Club and the South Texas for Humble Oil, and then artist, receiving art awards Geological Society. His love went on to become the including Art Volunteer of the of aviation translated into a Account Vice President

65 and Investment Management Frederick Bradley Wallis Robert Eugene “Doug” Consultant at Paine Webber. died November 12, 2003, at Watson died November 4, He is survived by his wife the age of 90. He was born in 2003, at the age of 84. He Marguerite Golden Strong; Wortham, Texas, on January 6, was born in Oklahoma City, daughters Cheryl Landry 1913. He graduated from Oklahoma, on February 4, and Melanie Schwartz and the University of Texas in 1919. He graduated from the husband Michael; son 1941 with a B.S. in geology. University of Texas at Austin Kenneth Everett Strong; sister While there, he met and with a Bachelor’s degree in Ruth Strong Johnson; as well married Ethlene Ross, the geology in 1942. After he as seven grandchildren. love of his life. He served as graduated he served aboard a naval officer in the Asiatic- the USS Maryland as a naval Pacific theatre in World War lieutenant during World War II, and then returned to II. He then went to work for Texas. He started his career Exxon as a geophysical We are saddened to as a geophysicist with scientist for 35 years. He was report the death of Texaco. He saw the work of an avid golfer and long-time the following alumni, looking for oil as fun and member of Champions Golf about whom we had said, “I never worked a day Club. He is survived by his no further information in my life.” He is survived by wife of 59 years, Peggy at press time: sons Will Wallis and John O’Brien Watson; his daughter Wallis and wife Martha Patricia Watson Freise and Charles Milton Baker Rutland; daughter Kathy husband Wesley; son Robert (B.S., 1951) Holler and husband Trygve; and wife Barbara, as well as Joe S. Clark, Jr. brother Hal Wallis and many grandchildren, great- (attended 1940) wife Amy, and several grandchildren, and nieces grandchildren. and nephews. Tonia Judith Clement (B.S., 1981; M.A., 1989) George Perkins Derry, Jr. (B.S., 1949) Mona D. Guiler (B.A., 1942) Vincent Charles Gunn (M.A., 1976) Edwin Kubena (B.S., 1939) Charles Henry Townsend (attended 1956) J. A. Raney

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Jim W. Adams (B.S., 1951) is a consulting geologist in Midland, Walter B. Ayers (Ph.D., 1984) is a Visiting Professor in the Texas, and writes, “enjoyed seeing the Weeks Geology Building Department of Petroleum Engineering at Texas A&M University in at University of Wisconsin. Overnighted in Lloyd Pray’s new College Station, Texas. retirement home on Lake Superior. Enjoyed the hardrock geology driving 340° around Lake Superior. Also the coast of New England T. Dale Bagwell (B.S., 1979) is a systems analyst with Landmark from Boston to St. John, New Brunswick. Would like to hear Graphics in Houston, Texas, and writes “Al Haertlein gave a nice from old friends at [email protected].” little UT Geo-Exes party this past year. I have a few pictures at http://homepage.mac.com/dbagwell/PhotoAlbum6.html. Floyd J. Adcock (B.S., 1955) is retired and living in Kilgore, Barbara Smith Blaisdell had a great picture from GEO 320 or Texas, and writes, “$40 a barrel of oil makes petroleum geology 660 of a school bus full of Geology students being observed a helluva lot more interesting! Hook ‘em Horns!” by their graduate-student instructor that I want a copy of for my website. It is a great picture with an equally good story Saleh Al-Saleh (M.S., 2001) is working on a Ph.D. in geophysics that needs wider distribution. Why not put it in the Newsletter?” at the University of Calgary in Calgary, Canada. Dale can be reached at [email protected] or [email protected]. Nancy J. Anderson (B.A., 1950) is retired and living in Cedar Hill, Texas, and writes, “again planning to spend part of Carol Swenumson Baker (B.S., 1984) is working for ExxonMobil the hot Texas summer in cooler northern New Mexico. There in Houston, Texas, and writes, “Our family is doing fine, and I continue to learn more about the geology of that area. our oldest is entering high school this year.” Health and international conditions have restricted our travel abroad in recent years.” Thomas D. Barrow (M.A., 1948) is living in Houston, Texas, and writes, “2003 was a bad year since Tobin International, of Payton V. Anderson (B.S., 1945) is a partner in W. D. Anderson which I was Chairman, was sold at a huge loss and the common and Sons in Midland, Texas, and writes, “Evelyn and I have been shareholders got nothing. 2004 appears to be a better year, since married for 59 years. Three daughters and six grandchildren we believe that GX Technology, a geophysical service company, and two great-grandchildren. Still active in oil and gas interest which the Barrow family essentially controlled, is in the process in most of the continental U.S. Travel is my main hobby but still of being sold on a very profitable basis. My son, Ken, and I continue go to the office when at home. I have seen most of the world.” to participate in wildcats and manage a very successful exploratory program under the name T Bar X.” Thomas Barrow is an Honorary William Bandy Anderson (M.A., 1974) is Director of Operations Lifetime Member of the Geology Foundation Advisory Council. at Access Sciences Corporation in Bellaire, Texas, and writes, “The E&P career was a fun ride; I am now providing records Don G. Bilbrey (B.S., 1953; M.A., 1957) is retired and living in and document management services for the energy industry.” He New Orleans, Louisiana, and writes, “still playing a lot of golf— can be reached at [email protected]. 3 to 4 times a week. I shoot my age quite regularly, but it’s easier now that I’ve reached 75. I fly to Seattle several times a year to Sara S. Avant-Stanley (B.S., 1978) is living in The Woodlands, visit my daughter and grandkids. Other than that my travels have Texas, and can be reached at [email protected]. been infrequent. I haven’t been to Austin in 5–6 years but hope to remedy that this fall.”

Norman G. Bishop (B.S., 1957) is retired and living in Sun Lakes, Arizona, and writes, “Barbara and I recently relocated from Woodville, Texas, to Sun Lakes, Arizona, our last move—we hope. In June we will celebrate our 50th wedding anniversary. Still keep up with the ’Horns via satellite and Internet.” Norman may be reached at [email protected].

William T. Biskamp (B.A., 1954) is a real estate agent in Dallas, Texas, and writes, “Mona had a knee replacement in February and is due for two hip replacements. I am now a pretty good nurse! However, we are still selling real estate. Our five kids (they still seem like kids) are doing great, as are our eight grandchildren.” William can be reached at [email protected].

Fredrik S. Blackmar (B.S., 1955) is retired and living in Corpus Christi, Texas, and writes, “still adjusting to life with no right hip. Have learned to hit a golf ball while standing in my walker. Have made a few pars from the old men’s tees and shot 48 for nine. Back to teaching one lesson at a time. Am back to my agates and lapidary. Notice everything is ‘back to’ and not the opposite. That’s good! My motto, ‘don’t get involved with staph germs!’” Far left in blue jacket and white cap, Jay Banner and students examined depositional environments on the Permian Reef Trail Asa Lee Blankenship, Jr. (B.A., 1950; M.A., 1952) is retired in McKittrick Canyon, Guadalupe Mountains, West Texas, and living in Houston, Texas, and asks that Exes in Houston call on a February 2004 field trip. Photo by Mark Helper. him at 713-778-5838.

67 Patricia Bobeck (M.A., 1985) is a geologist with the Bureau Philip Braithwaite (M.A., 1958) is retired and living in Dallas, of Radiation Control at the Texas Department of Health in Austin, Texas, and writes, “Barbara and I are still enjoying retirement Texas, and writes, “Many thanks to the Jacksons for their in Dallas. We took a cruise to Panama earlier this year and have fantastically generous gifts and best wishes to the Geology enjoyed the spring flowers during short trips around Texas. Barbara Department in using their legacy to promote the geosciences. is still teaching her senior fitness classes at the local Rec center What a wonderful opportunity! After 3 years of weekend and daughter Bridget is an attorney in Addison.” and evening research and translation and two trips to France, I completed the English version of Henry Darcy’s Les Fontaines Robert F. “Bob” Brandt (B.S., 1957) is an Adjunct Instructor at publiques de la ville de Dijon. Darcy’s book about the planning Houston Community College in Houston, Texas, and writes, “I am and construction of Dijon’s water supply system in 1840 teaching Internet-based courses in Environmental Science and contains the background and description of the experiments Physical Geology part time (but it seems more like full time) at that led to Darcy’s law. My son Dennis is a senior in high school Houston Community College. I guess I should retire (I’m old and plans to become a mechanical engineer. How time flies. enough), but I am enjoying myself too much to do so. I will be 70 I’m still looking for Anna Chappell. Any leads? Contact me at in November but so far feel much younger!” Bob may be reached [email protected].” at [email protected].

Neil Bockoven (M.A., 1976; Ph.D., 1980) is a geologist in Susan Painter Briggs (B.S., 1985) is a psychotherapist in Houston, Texas, and writes, “still working for ExxonMobil Seabrook, Texas, and writes, “Mark (B.S., 1985) and I have now looking for gas in South Texas Vicksburg and Frio sandstones. lived in the Houston/Clear Lake area for several years. I’m loving The oldest of my four children will go to A&M next fall. Still getting my work as a therapist at Samaritan Center, and Mark is glad to be used to that. It was really good to see so many of the old Austin back in the concrete recycling business after a bit of a detour crowd at Al Haertlein’s party a while back!” (a long, bittersweet story). Our son Clay recently got his first car (yikes!) and hopes to go to A&M!” Susan can be reached at Silverio “Sil” Bosch (B.S., 1974; M.A., 1975) is an oil and gas [email protected]. exploration geologist in Corpus Christi, Texas, and writes, “This being my 30th year of obtaining my undergraduate geology Ben “Bud” M. Brigham (B.S., 1983) is the Chairman and CEO degree, I look back and thank God for being so fortunate to have of Brigham Exploration Company in Austin, Texas, and writes, attended UT. The education, the friends and the good times I had “My wife Anne Low (B.S., 1984) is doing great and expecting there are what have allowed me to survive in a tumultuous and our fifth child in early August. Elizabeth, Conner, Mary Anne, and cyclical industry. Even after 30 years I am learning new geology Amanda are all doing great as well. Nice to have the ‘wind at our and new technology and making new business acquaintances, backs.’” Bud may be reached at [email protected]. but the basics I learned at UT continue to be the foundation for everything I do. As of this writing the prices of oil and gas are Christina Brister (B.S., 2000) is a hydrogeologist with Hargis near historic highs, yet the number of rigs running is far from a and Associates, Inc., in San Diego, California. historic high. The attrition of our industry’s personnel continues unabated, and I guess our country is predisposed to import even Charles Elmo Brown (B.A., 1976) is the Owner and President more of our basic energy needs. I don’t know what the answer is, of TREX Geologic Consulting in Denver, Colorado, and writes, but I guess all we can continue to do is perform our jobs we were “It’s been a busy year with a trip out to Utah to receive the AAPG trained to do as well as we can, and let nature run its course. My Public Service Award, running a couple sessions of the Dinosaur family continues to complement my cyclical and tumultuous Ridge Summer Science Camp for 10- to 12-year-olds, writing a career with a similarly cyclical and tumultuous life. With two male quarterly newsletter, helping compile and scan 60 years of Rocky teenagers (Matthew, 16 and Eric, 14), there is never a dull or Mountain Association of Geologists (RMAG) guidebooks for predictable moment. Fortunately, they are good kids, BUT THEY inclusion into a CD/DVD set, and aiding the design of a CD of the ARE TEENAGERS!! Lisa (40 something) is by my side to help control Geology of the Red Rocks–Dinosaur Ridge area to be used in a and nurture all that uncontrollable energy; if only they could be couple of visitor centers. Not to mention the fun I have been having harnessed and marketed as a renewable energy source! Hello to while consulting with a company that is aggressively developing my old classmates and hope things are going your way. Thanks its oil and gas fields in northwest Wyoming. If that weren’t enough, again, UT, you’re the best.” I have been elected President-elect of the RMAG and will serve my term as President in 2005. Can’t say it hasn’t been interesting!” Andrew Bowen (B.S., 1991) is a Storage Marketing Manager at Dell, Inc., in Round Rock, Texas, and writes, “After spending Wallace E. Brunson (B.S., 1942; M.A., 1954) is semi-retired 5 wonderful years as a groundwater consultant I went back to and living in Houston, Texas, and writes, “The years are passing, graduate school and completed an MBA. I then jumped into the but I still keep an office with Big ‘6’ Drilling Co.” small technology fray and have recently moved to Dell. In my free time I do volunteer work for an educationally focused non-profit, J. E. “Woody” Bryant (B.S., 1943; M.A., 1948) is a “semi-retired” MainSpring Schools. I also just enjoy all the wonderful qualities of independent geologist in Fredericksburg, Texas, and writes, “work living in Austin. I have recently visited the Geology building and on a few prospects annually.” am happy to see all of the wonderful progress taking place. Best wishes to the Geology Department and to my fellow rockhounds!” Leonard C. Bryant (B.A., 1957) is retired and living in Andrew may be reached at [email protected]. Helotes, Texas.

Walter A. Boyd, Jr. (B.S., 1953) is retired and living in Houston, Thaïs Freda Bullard (M.A., 1951) is living in Austin, Texas, and Texas, and writes, “Another great year! I’m still here! Keep up the writes, “I set up the Fred M. Bullard Fund for Student Research. good work.” Walter can be reached at [email protected]. Any and all donations to it will be very much appreciated! Fred Bullard loved his students!” Thaïs may be reached at Walt V. Boyle (B.S., 1954; M.A., 1955) is retired and living in [email protected]. Houston, Texas, and writes, “enjoying retirement. Vada Marie and I stay busy with travels, gardening, and church.”

68 Robert Burger (Ph.D., 2002) is an Associate Program Director Jack C. Cartwright (B.S., 1951; M.A., 1955) owns his own with the U.S. Science Support Program in Washington, DC, business in Midland, Texas, and writes, “Barbara and I continue to and can be reached at [email protected]. be blessed by the life that the good Lord has given us. Our family continues to grow—the three daughters have given us nine Susan Kiefner Cage (B.A., 1950) and Warren J. “Jack” Cage, grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. Next year (2005) will Jr. (B.S., 1950) are living in Georgetown, Texas, and write, mark 50 years since graduate school and also 50 years of marriage. “no trips this year. Jack’s health has not been up to it. We have I continue to manage my business affairs from my home office.” enjoyed UT sports, although we hope for a better football Jack may be reached at [email protected]. ending next year. Always enjoy the Newsletter.” They can be reached at [email protected]. Dave Casey (B.S., 1960) is retired and living in New Orleans, Louisiana, and writes, “really enjoying New Orleans but too Frank Kell Cahoon (B.S., 1957) is an independent oil operator much going on to keep up. Raye and I would love to hear from in Midland, Texas, and writes, “having a great time with our any classmates coming this way. Quite a few Geology grads in children and grandchildren.” the area. Phone co. has me listed as Casey David Jr.; my number is 947-8379. Can’t seem to get it corrected.” Amy L. Campbell (B.S., 1997) is a financial advisor with Morgan Stanley in Austin, Texas, and writes, “On a business note: I am in Dwight E. Cassell (B.S., 1954; M.A., 1958) is a self-employed the final stage of obtaining my Certified Financial Planner (CFP) petroleum geologist in Austin, Texas, and writes, “Participate as a designation. On a lighter note: we spent a week hiking and working interest partner in maintaining and developing old, camping in Big Bend National Park—first time back since Dr. Sharp’s reliable, shallow oil production. Can’t retire, having too much Fractured Rock Hydro field trip in 1996!” Amy can be reached at fun looking for one more location. Linda and I try to make cruises [email protected]. and traveling a regular occupation as time permits. Love going to off-the-beaten-track places. Anyone for Torres del Paine?” Donald H. Campbell (M.A., 1962) is the President of Campbell Dwight may be reached at [email protected]. Petrographic Services, Inc., in Dodgeville, Wisconsin, and writes, “With retirement looming, I am beginning to think about Steve Clabaugh (B.S., 1940; M.A., 1941) is a Professor Emeritus distribution of many books, professional journals (JSedPet), and at the Department of Geological Sciences at The University of equipment. Until then, petrographic examination of cement, Texas at Austin and writes, “Many geology students will recall clinker, and concrete continues with vigor.” gatherings at our weekend place on the Pedernales branch of Lake Travis, especially the annual fall graduate student parties Donald M. Campbell (B.A., 1955) is retired and living in during the 1960’s era. There was room for volleyball, touch football, Abingdon, Maryland, and writes, “still living in Maryland, near swimming, and boating, and the student society provided plenty the Bay. Currently working part-time at a new library about a mile of beer. The old house has been replaced by a new home for away. Will be going to the family’s Ocean City condo for a while oldest daughter, Cathy, and husband. Stop by if you are near.” this summer. We go there in off season too. Still see daughter, son-in-law, and granddaughter Kimberly most every day. Kimbo Jason Clayton (B.S., 2003) is a geotech with Patterson Petroleum, enters middle school next year. Gave several talks this year at LP, in Austin, Texas, and writes that he is “working full time and schools on careers in geology and geophysics.” Donald may be reviewing schools for graduate studies.” Jason can be reached at reached at [email protected]. [email protected].

A. T. (Toby) Carleton (B.S., 1951; M.A., 1952) is a geologist Joel Coffman (B.S., 1984) is a Senior Geologist with Napa County and rancher in Midland, Texas, and writes, “family status the same. in Napa, California, and writes, “has been a great year! Was able I am still involved in oil and gas and ranching businesses. Recently to visit Austin twice—once in August when it was 110 degrees got into wind power electrical generation.” A. T. Carleton is a (not so fun) then in the past May when it was in the 80s (much member of the Geology Foundation Advisory Council. better!) Still lead regulator for Napa County. Susan and I are doing great and miss Texas. We plan on permanently getting back there Marvin T. Carlsen (B.S., 1952) is living in Midland, Texas, and in the next couple of years (job opening announcements writes, “At 87 I get angry at myself for not being able to do things welcomed!). Hello to the 660 group of 1983!” Joel may be reached like I once could. But I keep trying and thank the good Lord I still at [email protected] or [email protected]. can. My memories of UT will never fade, and I applaud the leaders who are participating in the worthwhile effort to use the Jackson Annette Peloquin Colgan (B.S., 1991) writes in from Houston, gifts to help make UT the uppermost college in the nation doing Texas, to say, “Gene and I are still in Houston. We welcomed the geological research, etc. Wish I could do more to help. Thanks for newest member of the family last May. At 1 year of age, Emily is a the memories!” very vocal part of the family and happy to hang with her folks and two older brothers. Gene is still at Newfield looking at stuff in Danielle L. Carpenter (M.A., 1996) is an Exploration Advisor the Val Verde Basin, and I’m officially a soccer/baseball mom now. with ChevronTexaco and can be reached at danielle921@ Look us up if you get to town.” Annette can be reached at mindspring.com or at [email protected]. [email protected].

Richard F. Carroll (B.S., 1980) is a Senior Staff Geologist Onshore John Cooper (M.S., 1964; Ph.D., 1970) is retired and living in with Dominion Exploration and Production, Inc., in Houston, Chino Hills, California, and writes, “I’m enjoying my retirement Texas, and writes, “I’m still working with Dominion and still from teaching, but keep busy with a variety of projects, including enjoying both the work and the people I work with. My two managing Orange County, California’s extensive fossil collection boys, Ian (11) and Austin (9), are both doing great. I’ve also decided and continuing Ordovician studies in the southern Great Basin. I to expand my family, and to that end I am marrying a very beautiful also continue as Managing Editor and Treasurer of Pacific Section woman, Tracy, with two wonderful daughters, Sydney (9) and SEPM and received their Lifetime Achievement Award last year. Sheridan (7). Obviously I’m going to have to keep working for a Retirement allows me the luxury of pursuing my other passions: while.” Richard can be reached at [email protected].

69 trail hiking (I average about 50 miles per week); following the for the Park Service and continuing my own research in the Lewis and Clark Trail and attending all the Bicentennial Signature Big Bend; I expect to present some of those results at the GSA Events; and serving on several museum boards, where I help with meeting in Denver. Hoping for reunions with many of you there! exhibits and programs. I also just completed a very rewarding Satisfying to have several publications out. Along with others experience as a 6-year member of the Petroleum Research Fund’s from this Department (Kempter, Coley), I serve as a study leader Geology Advisory Board.” for Smithsonian tours to Iceland, the northern Rockies, Newfoundland/Labrador, and Costa Rica. Work for NASA continues Frank G. Cornish (M.A., 1975) is with Imagine Resources, L.L.C. under a grant for developing geophysical instruments/robotic in Corpus Christi, Texas, and writes, “established Imagine a year devices for planetary exploration; collaboration on astronaut ago. Have two workstations and two joint ventures with UT alums. field training in New Mexico continues as well. From a base in the Have an undergraduate as a geotech. Hoping to drill more Wilcox UT Geology Library, I review and index publications, particularly wells, trying to get the complete Wilcox 3-D box set. Graduated Spanish-language materials, for inclusion in GeoRef (AGI). I’m Dante, oldest son, from University of Georgia. He has a landscape relishing the travel, not only for field work, research, lecturing architecture degree (2 more grads to go, Trish and Darian). Last and tours, but also for Argentine tango!” Pat may be reached at year we returned to Scotland, Isle of Skye.” Frank can be reached [email protected]. at [email protected]. Jane Ormond Dinkins (B.S., 1938) is retired and living in Raymond W. Cozby III (B.A., 1983) is a Vice President and Trust Houston, Texas, and writes that she “sold the Washington County Officer at Regions Bank in Tyler, Texas, and can be reached at farm, now retired from ranching.” [email protected]. Robert E. Doyle (B.S., 1955) is the President of American Energy Alan Cunningham (B.S., 1973) is President and Chief Operating Investment Group in Houston, Texas, and writes, “We are still very Officer with Swift Energy New Zealand in Wellington, New active in Russia, where oil development activity is at a high level Zealand, and can be reached at [email protected]. and the potential is significant. Give me a call at 713-334-4464 and let’s discuss.” Hugh W. Curfman (B.S., 1948) is retired and living in Lafayette, Louisiana, and writes, “My partner since 1948—Jayne—passed Jack Droddy (Ph.D., 1978) is a Senior Scientist at Baker Hughes away in April. Starting a new life.” Fluids in Houston, Texas, and writes, “still at Baker Hughes doing core analysis and formation damage studies. Lots of changes for Harris P. “Koop” Darcy (B.S., 1951) is an independent in us recently; after two floods in Houston, we moved to ‘higher Houston, Texas, and writes, “Visit or write to the Institute for ground’ in the Spring-Woodlands area. Things are no longer Creation Research, P.O. Box 2667, El Cajon, California, 92021- quiet in the Droddy household since adopting Daniel (7) and 0667 for their catalog. They have a great report on the geology sister Leesa (5) from Ukraine in 2002. They’re a lot of fun and are of the Grand Canyon and Mt. St. Helens. Also visit or write to doing great in their new home.” Jack may be reached at The Creation Evidence Museum, P.O. Box 309, Glen Rose, Texas, [email protected]. 76048. They have some great info on dinosaurs. Write for their catalog. If you are in the Pensacola, Florida, area, visit Ralph C. Duchin (M.A., 1955) is an independent in Tucson, Dinosaur Adventureland.” Arizona.

Mike Darr (B.S., 1981) is an environmental consultant with Don Dunbar, Jr. (B.S., 1951) is a General Partner with Dunbar MJDarrconsult, Inc., in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and writes, Oil and Gas, Ltd., in Corsicana, Texas, and writes, “We count a “doing groundwater and environmental planning work in geophysicist, a geologist, and a petroleum engineer in the next New Mexico these last 12 years and loving it. Reminds me of generation in the FLP. News you might not get: Scott D. Spradlin GEO 660 at Sipapu—The Phantom Rules!” Mike may be reached (M.A., 1980) has moved from Halifax to Baku, Azerbaijan, to at [email protected]. run the ExxonMobil efforts in the Caspian Sea, as of 5/1/04, in partnership with BP.” Mary Q. Davis (B.S., 1948) is retired and living in Tyler, Texas, and writes, “I became a Master Gardener this year, and I am still Bobby G. DuPree (B.S., 1954) is retired and living in Huntsville, enjoying children and grandchildren.” Texas, and writes, “Lerla and I doing great! 16 grandchildren, 1 great-grandchild. I’m still spending about 12 hours per week Carlos Deere (B.S., 1950) is retired and living in Bellville, Texas, ministering 1 on 1 to inmates in 2 units at TDCJ.” and writes, “The first well I drilled, many years ago, is still producing. The last well I drilled, also many years ago, was a dry hole. If it Alan R. Dutton (Ph.D., 1982) is currently living in Austin, Texas, had been the other way around, I’d still have to show up for but writes, “I will join the faculty of The University of Texas work. Not a pleasant thought!” San Antonio as an associate professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Science starting in fall 2004. I’m leaving the Frederik E. Dekker (M.A., 1966) is the Managing Director of Bureau of Economic Geology, where I have worked on many Wessex Exploration, Ltd., in London, England, and writes, varied hydrogeologic studies for the past 22 years, since getting “Wessex Exploration is growing apace, with exploration my Ph.D. in 1982.” projects in southern England, French Guiana (Guyane), and southwestern Morocco. Visit our website to learn more about us Fred A. Ealand (B.S., 1948) is retired and living in Houston, (www.wessexexploration.co.uk).” Frederik may be reached at Texas, and writes, “happy to report health and happiness are [email protected]. continuing to smile on our family. Oldest grandson is to marry UT grad in October 2004.” Patricia Wood Dickerson (B.A., 1970; Ph.D., 1995) is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Department of Geological Sciences at Patricia Mench Ellis (Ph.D., 1985) is a hydrologist with the The University of Texas at Austin, and writes, “Happily mapping State of Delaware in Newark, Delaware, and writes, “I’m still

70 working as a Hydrologist for the State of Delaware. Much of my Georgette Covo Browder Goble (B.A., 1944) is a homemaker time the past year has been spent on a project in Rehoboth Beach, and community volunteer in Waco, Texas, and writes, “How one of Delaware’s resort towns, where 14 wells have been exciting it was to read that the Jackson School is being designated impacted by fairly high concentrations of gasoline. We’re in the as a campus-level school with its own dean and tuition and fee design phase of extending a public water line into the incentives that will attract outstanding graduate students.” neighborhood—a project that will probably exceed $500,000. Georgette may be reached at [email protected]. To investigate the plume, we’ve been installing some neat multi- level monitoring wells. I’ve also been teaching and developing Charles A. Goebel (B.S., 1980) is living in Plano, Texas, guidance documents on gasoline oxygenates with the Interstate and writes, “staying very busy 1) consulting and 2) getting Technology Regulatory Council, and was just recruited by EPA to nearer to having my projects drilled. Playing a little tennis, too. work on EDB and EDC, lead scavengers from the old leaded Please keep in touch at [email protected] and gasoline days. I’m getting ready to leave on a 3-week trip with my www.santaritaenergy.com. Oldest heir—son—will be a kids and a group from school—India, Nepal, and Tibet. We’re freshman at UT Arlington Honors College in fall 2004, then leaving husband Dave behind to cat-sit. Provided that we manage move to UT-Austin in fall 2005.” to get through Nepal alive (it’s in the middle of a Maoist uprising, with strong warnings from our State Department to avoid travel W. Leonard Goode (B.A., 1953) is a consulting geologist in there), we should make it to the Everest Base Camp in Tibet by Midland, Texas, and writes, “Health remains good. Slowing down mid-June. Those of us who live barely above sea level will see a bit. Same wife and children. Hope everyone has a good year.” how little oxygen there is in the air at 17,056 feet! Looking forward to eating yak meat and drinking hot yak-butter tea for 2 weeks of Ian T. Gordon (M.A., 1997) is living in San Francisco, California. the trip.” Patricia may be reached at [email protected] or [email protected]. Edwin R. “Win” Goter (M.S., 1973), with Shell E&P in Houston, Texas, writes “seems like quite a few years have passed since I last Rizer Everett (B.A., 1937; B.S., 1937) is retired and living in ‘reported in’ to the Newsletter. Things have been pretty stable for Austin, Texas, and writes, “enjoying attending LAMP (Learning me in the meantime. Linda and I had our 25th anniversary last Activities for Mature People) meetings and visiting octogenarian year, and I’m going on 27 years with Shell. (When I write these friends in Texas.” Rizer may be reached at [email protected]. numbers I feel as though they must apply to someone else.) Our older daughter Allison just finished her first year at A&M. (Yep, Irma Morgan Feibelman (B.S., 1959) is retired and living in my daughter’s an Aggie, despite my lobbying! I’ve had to retire all Canyon Lake, Texas, and writes that she “continues to live on the my Aggie jokes.) Younger daughter Liz is going into 5th grade, most beautiful lake in Texas.” and signs of becoming a teenager are already showing up. I’ve been working Nigeria Deepwater for 3 years now, and it is a Hewitt B. Fox (B.A., 1947; B.S., 1948; M.A., 1948) is the President ‘Happy Hunting Ground’ for an oil explorer. Very active area of Hewitt B. Fox, Inc., in Corpus Christi, Texas, and writes, “I am in with some good finds made and more expected. Lots of travel the process of promoting my largest and most valuable prospect involved, 11 trips across the pond in 12 months. I always enjoy in Utah, where I have over 55,000 acres leased and very good reading the Newsletter and finding out how things are going shows from geochem, radiometrics, aerial resistivity and for everyone. Also brings back good memories of fellow conductivity surveys, magnetics, etc., plus wells drilled into the students, great professors, a fantastic department, and living Devonian with oil shows that could not be tested before well in the ‘student’s paradise’ of the Austin of old.” Contact him at collapse. I am also enjoying the high prices of oil and gas!” Hewitt [email protected]. may be reached at [email protected]. Ronald L. Graner (B.A., 1958) is retired and living in Brentwood, Curtis C. Franks (B.S., 1950) is retired and living in Fair Oaks Tennessee, and writes, “still enjoying good health and the fruits Ranch, Texas, and writes, “getting older and hopefully wiser but of retirement in beautiful Brentwood, Tennessee. My interests enjoying it in spite of all the unbelievable thinking and changes include volunteer work at church, Habitat for Humanity, our world is experiencing. I recently had occasion to visit the Brentwood Historical Society, Sons of the American Revolution, geologic library in the new (to me) Jackson building on campus golf, travel, and grandchildren’s activities.” Ronald may be reached in Austin. An enjoyable and impressive experience. Even found at [email protected]. the information I was looking for. My best to all.” Amy Gray (B.S., 1995) is living in Austin, Texas. Annabelle Bannahan Friddle (B.A., 1945; M.A., 1950) is retired and living in Aztec, New Mexico, and writes, “The 55 years since C. DeVearle Gray (B.S., 1957) is retired and living in Kerrville, I was enrolled at the college have gone by fast. I enjoy the Texas, and writes, “no change in habitat. Still continue golf along Newsletter. It has been so great to keep in touch. Thank you.” with other minor hobbies. Glad to be out of oil and gas business and not answering questions about high gas prices from people Henry B. Gayle (B.A., 1958; M.A., 1960) is retired and living in who do not have a clue. The Department is doing outstanding San Antonio, Texas, and writes, “Margee and I are still ticking work with all the recent growth. You are to be commended.” along—gardening when we must and traveling when we can. Margee got one of her travel wishes—a Panama Canal cruise last Robert Wynn Grayson (B.S., 1948) is retired and living in Austin, year, and we took our daughter and granddaughter on a Western Texas, and writes, “glad to have Pete Rose in business here in Caribbean cruise too. Leaving tomorrow on a 3-week driving Austin.” trip to DC to see Margee’s niece get her L.L.D.” Henry may be reached at [email protected]. Nancy Elizabeth Green (B.A., 1955) is a housewife living in Houston, Texas, and writes, “Ray [Lister] is still enjoying real estate Paul Giraudin, Jr. (B.S., 1948) is retired and living in Corpus development. We’re busy being grandparents, hunting, fishing Christi, Texas, and can be reached at [email protected]. and traveling. Have been to the Grand Canyon twice in 8 months. It’s so spectacular! We go to Colorado whenever possible. It too is great. ‘Hello’ and our best wishes to all of you!”

71 Roy H. Guess (B.A., 1939; M.A., 1940) is a consultant in Casper, Wyoming, and writes, “The price of oil and gas is great. It really should cause a lot more exploration than it has so far. My nanotechnology stocks are doing great. Fuel-cell stocks are slow to move. Australia and New Zealand stocks do well and pay good dividends. At 86 the market keeps my mind alert. Best regards to UT geologists.”

Bill Gumert (M.A., 1968) is a geophysicist with Carson Aerogravity Division in Perkasie, Pennsylvania, and writes, “just completed the most interesting helicopter-borne aerogravity survey of my career. Collected 40,000 kilometers of data over the salt basin in the Mexican portion of the Gulf of Mexico. Flew out 250 kilometers from the coast in areas previously unexplored by Pemex. Also had GEO 660 1973 Summer Field Course in Big Bend to collect 50,000 kilometers of bathymetric data, some in waters over 3000 meters deep. Looks just like the Texas Gulf, and Pemex National Park, Texas. Photo by James Engelbrecht. has prospects for many years to come. My thesis was on airborne gravity, and the company that I am with was the only one in the world offering this exploration service until the mid-90’s. Now Will Green (M.A., 1955) is an independent consultant in there are 10 different companies doing it in one form or another.” Midland, Texas, and writes, “participated with small working interests in four drilling ventures during 2003, resulting in three Albert Haertlein (B.S., 1978) is a geologist with SG Interests in producers and one dry hole. Enjoyed attending my spouse’s Houston, Texas, and can be reached at [email protected]. (Marianne’s) 50th reunion at UT in April 2004.” James J. Halbouty (B.A., 1942; M.A., 1943) is retired and Robbie Gries (M.A., 1972) is the President of Priority Oil and living in Houston, Texas, and writes, “looking at pictures of me Gas, L.L.C., in Denver, Colorado, and writes, “spent three weeks with fellow students on field trips or in a group sure brings back in eastern Europe, and geology contacts make travel delightful. fond memories. Again, best regards to all who are around.” Four years of ‘house and yard’ remodel finally coming to a close— back to full-time petroleum geology now! With UT’s Dr. Sharon Robert W. Hare (B.S., 1979) is an independent geologist in Mosher we’re finally launching GeoScienceWorld, an electronic Fort Worth, Texas. aggregate of geoscience publications! Great asset for universities and companies!” Robbie is a member of the Geology Foundation Erik (B.S., 1989) and Monica (B.A., 1990) Harris are living in Advisory Council and may be reached at [email protected]. Austin, Texas, where Erik is a Civil Engineer and Project Manager and Monica is an Investigation Program Coordinator. They Bryan A. Griffin (B.S., 1996) is working for Liberty Power in write, “Erik is a Project Manager for the City of Austin Public Houston, Texas, and writes that he is “trying to keep exploring Works Department. Monica coordinates the storm water and and learning as much as I can. Not doing geology but still concentrated animal feeding operations investigation programs have that wildcatter spirit.” Bryan can be reached at for the TCEQ. Our two daughters, Ingrid (6) and Camille (4), [email protected]. both love science, and each has her own rock collection.”

Joy Griffin (M.S., 2001) is a geologist with Marathon Oil in H. Lee Harvard (B.A., 1955) is Chairman of the Harvard Houston, Texas, and writes, “My new name is Joy G. Thomas. Petroleum Company, L.L.C., in Roswell, New Mexico, and writes, John and I were married in April 2002. I joined Marathon in 2001 “My wife Joanne (Wertz—UT ’55) and I are in good health and and have been working the deepwater Gulf of Mexico in will celebrate our 50th anniversary in August. I remain active exploration ever since.” drilling and producing wells primarily in New Mexico and West Texas. Our son Jeff (petroleum engineering, UT ’84) is President John C. Griffiths (B.S., 1975) is the President of Calvin Resources, of HPC and is going an excellent job—both for the company and Inc., in Houston, Texas, and writes, “generating and participating the industry (past President of Independent Petroleum Association in oil and natural gas projects in East and South Texas. Working of New Mexico). He and his wife Jane (UT ’86) have two children, with Ray Pilcher (B.S., 1975) on a startup company that has a Jeremy, 12, and Julia, 9, whom we enjoy spoiling.” patented process that can make stranded natural gas marketable. Working with a major international engineering consulting group Hugh Hay-Roe (M.A., 1952; Ph.D., 1958) is a Senior Vice on a secondary oil recovery project in one of the larger producing President for BPZ Energy Inc, in Kingwood, Texas, and fields in the United Arab Emirates. I appreciate being able to remain writes, “am still looking for oil in onshore and offshore Peru. in contact with and work on projects with so many of the friends Congratulations to the J.S. of G. on its promotion to a campus- that were made at UT, like Ray, John Drake, Leslie Provence, level school! Professors Ronald K. DeFord and Samuel P. Ellison Keith Haun, and others.” John may be reached at would be proud.” Hugh can be reached at [email protected]. [email protected]. The Reverend Reid Hensarling (M.A., 1981) is living in Furman A. Grimm (B.S., 1947) is retired and living in Temple, Lakeland, Florida, and writes, “Congratulations to the Jackson Texas, and writes, “retired fully after a recent move to Temple. School of Geosciences for the very exciting prospects for Travels and golf occupy much of my time. Enjoy frequent development and enlargement of its influence in the scientific visits with our son Mike, a 1977 graduate of UT-PLM. He serves and academic communities. The School’s impact upon our culture as President of the Dallas-based Rising Star Energy Co., an is potentially far-reaching and substantial. May your future goals independently owned exploration and production company.” and vision be realized and implemented to the fullest degree.”

72 Jon Herwig (M.A., 1982) is the Vice President of CH2M Hill together since the fall of 1945. We met as freshmen at SMU in Kailua, Hawaii, and writes, “still enjoying island living and (I was 16 years old, Joan was 17).” doing a lot of work in Korea and Japan in support of U.S. military relocations and consolidation. Becoming a part-time Emmett A. Humble (M.A., 1951) is retired and living in resident of Seoul—an exciting and safe big city with monumental Houston, Texas, and writes, “Retirement provides me more time traffic and air pollution problems. Korean is coming along but with family, including a 6-year-old great-grandson, and community unfortunately slowly. Annyonghaseyo to all!” Jon may be reached service work with the Boy Scouts and supports my research in at [email protected]. Houston’s Medical Center.” Emmett can be reached at [email protected]. Charles H. Hightower, Jr. (B.S., 1956) is an independent petroleum geologist in Lafayette, Louisiana. Gary Hummel (M.A., 1982) is a geologist with LLOG in Houston, Texas, and writes, “I changed jobs about a year ago and am Nolan Hirsch (B.S., 1944) is the President of MVC, Inc., in now a consultant for LLOG. Still exploring for oil and gas offshore Midland, Texas, and writes, “still active, still exciting, awarded Gulf of Mexico. Kiki and I enjoy birding whenever we get the West Texas Pioneer Certificate on May 27th. To quote a great chance. We have two boys, Max (age 11) and Kurt (age 7).” Gary philosopher, ‘it’s not over ’til it’s over,’ steady as she goes.” can be reached at [email protected].

Dave Hixon (M.A., 1959) is semi-retired and living in Elvin M. Hurlbut, Jr. (B.S., 1943) is retired and living in Tyler, Friendswood, Texas, and writes, “expanding my M.A. thesis at Texas, and writes, “have had quite a number of phone Big Bend by looking and sampling (with their permission) Buda, conversations with old friend Clay Durham, reminiscing about Del Rio and Boquillas flagstones.” colleagues and trips and World War II experiences over 60 years ago. Very enjoyable. Congratulations to President Faulkner for a William C. Holland (B.S., 1981) is a geologist in Missouri City, Dean-led separate entity for the Jackson School of Geosciences Texas, and writes, “Hope all is well. Always remember the on the UT-Austin campus. Virginia and I still keeping the doctors mapping clan. Such great memories!!” in business.”

James W. Hood (B.S., 1948) is retired and living in Salt Lake Daniel C. Huston (M.A., 1987) is a Vice President with Hunter City, Utah, and writes, “little change of late. Eva and I are 3-D, Inc., in Houston, Texas, and writes, “Holly and I have a couple comfortable in retirement, with few debts and a lot of of papers coming out this year. One is on gravity modeling in the correspondence with relatives and friends. Both are in relatively deepwater GOM and the other involves geostatistical techniques good health but have ongoing problems. Celebrated our 58th applied to gravity, seismic velocities and well log data. The anniversary on 3/16/04.” geostat. paper is under review for The Leading Edge and the other has been accepted for an upcoming SEG volume on Jennifer Glasford Hood (M.A., 1989) is living in Calgary, potential fields applications. Our consulting business has slowed Alberta, Canada. up a bit, which gives us more time for following up some ideas, hence the papers. Kids are doing well, but our first Yegua well Ben P. Hooper (B.S., 1980) is an Exploration Manager with has a problem with collapsed casing. Que sera, sera.” Daniel may Joy Resources in Houston, Texas, and can be reached at be reached at [email protected] or via his work website, [email protected]. www.hunter3dinc.com.

James V. Hooton (B.S., 1949) is retired and living in Fort Worth, William Clyde Ikins (B.S., 1938; M.A., 1939; Ph.D., 1941) is Texas. retired and living in Georgetown, Texas, and writes, “Here I am at 88 years old and right back close to my alma mater! ‘How Eleanor M. “Ellie” Hoover (B.S., 1956) is a consultant in sweet it is!’ I used my degree all my life working for Dow and Conroe, Texas, and writes, “strolled through the halls of the having my own oil company. I minored in botany and have also beautiful new addition to the Geology Building after a game last had a water plant business for many years. I feel I got a wonderful football season—what a generous donation from the Jacksons. education at UT and I’m very proud to be a ‘Pioneer Texas Ex’!” Good news about the new Jackson School of Geosciences. Had some increase in work along with new drilling the past year. Russell W. Jackson (B.S., 1976) is a geologist in Tyler, Texas, Cheers to all.” and writes, “still have a boom going on here in East Texas. Always like to hear from UT geologists if in the area.” Russell may be Jack M. Howard (B.S., 1951) is retired and living in Austin, reached at [email protected]. Texas, and writes, “same wife, 55 years, same house, 43+ years. Both son and daughter live in Austin. Three grandchildren. Otis James (M.A., 1952) is an independent living in Gainesville, Great trip to Maui in 2003. Our life is blessed.” Texas, and writes that there have been “no changes.”

William P. C. Hudson (B.S., 1975) is the CEO of Paseo de la Ken L. Jarratt (B.S., 1957) is the owner of Jarratt Realty in Resaca in Brownsville, Texas, and writes, “still loving deep South Edna, Texas, and writes, “still selling real estate, fishing, and Texas—baby graduated Citadel, now third ID 18th Airborne. Join hunting. Sure hope U.S. oil companies get a chance to start me for a margarita in sub-tropical paradise.” drilling—we need more oil now. Keep hoping the ’Horns will beat OU this year.” Kim Huebel (B.A., 2003) is living in Austin, Texas. Charles B. John (B.S., 1951) is a geologist in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Edward W. “Ed” Hughston (M.A., 1950) is retired and living and writes, “working at BLM, Tulsa, principally on the thrust belts in Taos, New Mexico, and writes, “nothing new except the death of the Ouachita Mountains. Norma and I will celebrate our 58th of Joan Hughston, my wife of 54 years, in July 2003. Joan was year of marriage this October 2004. God has blessed us beyond one of the very fine oil painters and teachers in Taos. Had been measure. Thanks to UT-Austin Geology Department for my start.”

73 Ms. Gene (Funkhouser) Keyser Jones (B.A., 1948) is retired management. If you are interested, you can visit our web site, and living in Midland, Texas, and writes, “It rained in West Texas www.wastemanagementconsulting.com. Our family is well. this year—and we see green everywhere, wildflowers, and an For fun we spend 2 to 3 months a year in our RV in Oklahoma occasional rig on the horizon—welcome sights! I am well, busy, state parks and enjoy our grandchildren a great deal.” and looking forward to hearing about friends I keep up with through the Newsletter. You do a great job!” Fanchen Kong (Ph.D., 1998) is a Geological Specialist in Houston, Texas, and writes, “I currently work in the GOM J. Phil Jones (B.S., 1964) is a Land Advisor with Devon Energy Deepwater Exploration department in Kerr-McGee Oil and Corp. in Edmond, Oklahoma, and writes, “moved from Regulatory Gas Corporation.” Fanchen may be reached at [email protected]. Affairs Barnett Shale–Fort Worth Basin and being pursued by 14 rigs to Arcoma Basin—CBM and 2 rigs. Either way the activity Erwin K. Krause (B.S., 1949; M.A., 1954) is retired and living level is high. Hopefully this activity will dent the ever-growing in Houston, Texas, and writes that he is “trying to stay alive in demand for natural gas. I’m looking forward to a week fishing Houston…it gets more difficult each year.” the Madison and Galletin in and around Yellowstone. Congratulations on being designated as a campus-level school. Karen Carter Krogh (M.A., 1985; Ph.D., 1990) is living in We are all very appreciative of the Jacksons’ generosity and for Apex, North Carolina, and writes, “reaching elementary the increased level of influence. Best wishes for another successful school children through SCIENCE! They are wonderful, excited year.” Phil may be reached at [email protected]. little sponges for cool experiments! I enjoy feeling like I’m making a difference.” Karen may be reached at [email protected]. E. A. Karper (B.S., 1941) is the owner of The Karper Co. in Graham, Texas, and writes, “You do not like to call your old friends Ralph Kugler (Ph.D., 1987) is a Geoscience Manager with or classmates because the usual answer is they are no longer Schlumberger in Medias, Romania, and can be reached at with us. It is good to hear about the Jackson School.” [email protected].

Steven G. Katz (Ph.D., 1975) is in the e-commerce business in J. Scott Kuykendall (B.A., 1975) is a geologist in San Antonio, Texas. Granville, Ohio, and writes, “Connie and I continue to enjoy living in Granville, Ohio. Regards to the gang at UT!” Ted B. LaCaff (B.S., 1950) is living in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and writes, “still in Santa Fe: enjoying the good news (oil at $50 Peter C. Keller (M.A., 1974; Ph.D., 1977) is the President of a barrel) not enjoying the bad news (gasoline at $2.25 a gallon), Bowers Museum in Santa Ana, California, and writes, “I’ve been enjoying the good news (natural gas at $6/MCF), so I guess two traveling a great deal in search of great exhibits. Six trips to out of three is not bad!?” Ted may be reached at [email protected]. Tibet in 18 months. Did a major gemstone exhibit last year that I’m now sending to Shanghai, so all is not lost on geology and James L. Lamb, Jr. (B.S., 1956) is an oil and gas producer all that Steve Clabaugh taught me!” Peter may be reached at in Austin, Texas. [email protected]. Cori Lambert (B.S., 1996; M.S., 2000) is a geologist with EOG Ed R. Kennedy, Jr. (B.S., 1948; M.A., 1949) is a consulting Resources, Inc., in Corpus Christi, Texas, and can be reached at geologist in Midland, Texas, and writes, “still enjoy working, [email protected] or at [email protected]. but work shorter hours.” Leon M. Lampert (B.S., 1951; M.A., 1953) is an independent Don Kerr, Jr. (B.S., 1960) works for Kerr Construction Services geologist in Dallas, Texas, and writes, “still doing some exploration in Houston, Texas. in New Mexico and South Texas. Also buying producing royalties in Texas, Rockies, and Midcontinent. Enjoyed seeing Marcus Key (B.S., 1983) is an Associate Professor of Geology some ‘old’ friends at the April ’04 Dallas convention. We at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and writes, have two grandchildren in Dallas (one of whom will attend “This summer I am doing field work in Estonia, collecting UT-Austin in September ’04) and three more grandchildren Ordovician bryozoan fossils to analyze their oxygen isotopes in Denver. Also have my original wife of 51 years.” for paleoclimatic information.” Marcus may be reached at [email protected]. Bill Layton (B.S., 1981) is a petroleum geologist in San Antonio, Texas, and writes, “still exploring the Texas Gulf Coast with Howard W. Kiatta (B.S., 1958) is an independent geologist Burk Royalty Co. Daughter Jessica is a junior at UTSA and in Houston, Texas. son Jordan is a junior in high school. K.C. and I stay busy with camping, handball, and visiting friends when not working. Robert J. Killian (B.S., 1977) is a geologist with Texana Special hello to all 1981 660 friends…remember: the Resources in Houston, Texas, and writes, “getting ready to drill Phantom ruled the Sipapow Youth Gang!” Bill may be reached some exciting wells in Galveston Bay and South Louisiana. at [email protected]. Big reserve prospects especially attractive with high crude/gas prices!” Robert can be reached at [email protected]. H. Louis Lee (B.S., 1954; M.A., 1958) is a consultant in Austin, Texas, and writes, “Austin is a great place to have a consulting Don Kirksey (B.S., 1960) is in waste management consulting office. More and more of the new geologists in town are making in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and writes, “At 67 I have not retired the move from Houston. I am still working in the 3-D seismic on yet. The only retirement has been from an 8–5 busy corporate some Gulf Coast shoots and having a great time. Success is only job of 30 years in oil and gas exploration. My wife B. J. and a bright spot away!” I work hard in our waste management consulting business, but we work at home on our own time schedule and I’m David M. Levin (B.A., 1978) is the owner of Power the boss. We have just finished a 5-year project of developing Petroleum in San Antonio, Texas, and can be reached at an education program of a short course, manuals, and men- [email protected]. David writes, “doing lots of very cool toring for those who would like a new career in waste and exciting exploration and production geology. Never

74 thought I would have this much fun for so many years. Hello Casita Alta crew.”

Ning Li (Ph.D., 1998) is living in Irving, Texas, and can be reached at [email protected].

Tung-Hung Thomas Lin (M.A., 1984) is a Senior Staff Geophysicist with Devon Energy Corporation in Houston, Texas, and can be reached at [email protected].

Allen C. Locklin (B.S., 1954) is an independent in Tyler, Texas, and writes, “Just as I’m exhausting my limited reserves of oil and gas we get tremendous prices. I’m glad anyway— Nancy (Summers) and I will log 50 years of marriage on August 14, 2004. We have been richly blessed. Grand- GEO 660 1973 Summer Field Course at Dark Canyon Cave, daughter Macy Shaver will be a junior at UT next semester. I’m spending most of my time writing novels. If anyone is New Mexico, Dr. Jim Sprinkle (in back, wearing cowboy hat) interested, I have finished three. All are for sale. Write me at P.O. leading the way. Photo by James Engelbrecht. Box 633, Tyler, TX, 75711. Still enjoy the Newsletter very much.”

T. E. “Ted” Longgood, Jr. (B.S., 1958; M.A., 1960) is retired and living in Austin, Texas, and writes, “continue to enjoy the Bill J. McGrew (B.S., 1954; M.A., 1955) is retired and living retired life. Also enjoy living in Austin and attending sports and in Columbia, Tennessee, and says that “everything is the same.” school events.” Wayne E. McIntosh (B.S., 1956) is a consulting engineering Bill Mantinband (B.A., 1959) is retired and living in St. Louis, geologist in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, and writes, “seems like Missouri, and writes that he’s “been retired for a year now, and I just filled out a Newsletter card. Time sure passes fast. like everyone, busier than ever in volunteer jobs. It’s what you Still consulting and doing as much ‘RVing’ as we find the call a labor of love.” Bill may be reached at [email protected]. time and money (100-gallon diesel tank). Grandchildren still expanding, and maybe there will be some future Longhorns Thomas P. Markel (B.A., 1973) is the Vice President and in the mix.” Wayne can be reached at [email protected]. CFO of Vernon Faulconer Oil and Gas in Tyler, Texas. Thomas E. McKenna (Ph.D., 1997) is a hydrogeologist Cristopher Marshall (B.S., 1997) teaches high school with the Delaware Geological Survey in Newark, Delaware, and science at The Colony High School in The Colony, Texas, and can can be reached at [email protected]. be reached at [email protected]. W. N. “Mac” McKinney, Jr. (B.A., 1960; M.A., 1963) is a semi- Sabin W. Marshall (B.S., 1952) is retired and living in Houston, Texas. retired geologist in Spring, Texas, and writes, “I’m still involved in drilling gas wells in the Texas Panhandle. Also building a Louis M. Martinez (B.S., 1954) is a Senior Geologist with new house here in Spring. Trying to retire, but I’m too busy.” Copano Energy in Houston, Texas, and writes, “still active and enjoying the work. I’m now learning to use a workstation, Joe N. Meadows (B.A., 1962) is a Justice of the Peace in but not very well. All children and grandchildren live in Austin, Waco, Texas, and writes, “When in Waco, come down to so we go there often. Best regards to all!” Louis may be reached the courthouse and we can swap stories.” at [email protected]. William J. Meek (B.A., 1955) is the president of William J. Meek Robert Warren Mathis III (M.A., 1947) is retired and living in Insurance and Financial Services, Inc., in Arlington, Texas, and Texarkana, Texas. writes, “still in the insurance and financial planning business. Started building ‘spec’ houses last year in Golf Resort (The Retreat) Sharon (Pickett) Maxwell (B.S., 1978) is a Ministry Assistant near Cleburne, Texas. Didn’t think I had enough to do! with the First Baptist Church of Dallas in Dallas, Texas, and writes, Grandkids are growing up—oldest grandson is in his first year at “Steve and I have been blessed with 22 years of marriage, and the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. Until next year!” look forward to the remainder of our lives together! Nathan is 17 and will be a senior in high school in fall 2004. It’s hard to believe Charles M. Merrill (B.S., 1956) is retired and living in Austin, that he’s already almost grown! Raising a teenager has its Texas, and writes, “just recently added sixth grandchild (girl). challenges and rewards—we’re also looking forward to when Promised her dad I’d try to make her high school graduation. he grows up and we get smart again! God continues to bless us Great Scott!! I’ll be 90 years old then! If I’m still around, I just hope professionally and in ministry, and we’re very thankful. I’d love I know who I am, who she is, and why I’m there. Still attend the to hear from some of y’all—Charlie and Linda, Rick, Janet, James, Austin Geological Society meetings even though I left the oil and others from our time at UT!” Sharon may be reached patch and the profession 44 years ago. I’m amazed at all the at [email protected] or [email protected]. new geological lingo and high-tech stuff. For me, just being able to operate a fax machine is hi-tech. Only the presence of a couple Robert L. McBroom, Sr. (B.A., 1951) is the Owner of Hueco of old classmates assures me that I just didn’t walk into the Glorioso Oil Company in Wichita Falls, Texas, and writes, wrong meeting by mistake. Life is good in far Southwest Austin “still hunting for oil in North Texas, East Texas, and Utah. East for this old ‘shade tree’ geologist as he sits in his outdoor chaise Texas and Paluxy “A” sand have been good to me in the past lounge, sipping a cold one, and reminiscing about Fuzzy’s in 2 years. Good luck to everyone!” Robert may be reached at Llano and those memorable summer field trips.” Charles may [email protected]. be reached at [email protected].

75 Anne (Smith) Miller (B.A., 1983) is a Project Manager with Aysen Ozkan (M.S., 2001) is a geologist with Core Lab in the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality in Austin, Texas, Houston, Texas, and can be reached at [email protected]. and can be reached at [email protected]. Lisa Hawkins Paton (B.S., 1985) is a librarian in Laredo, Texas. Michael Reed Miller (B.S., 1980) is a geologist in Austin, Texas, and writes, “visited Germany this year, took our band (About Robert W. Pettigrew (B.S., 1952; M.A., 1954) is retired and Seven) to play in Irish pubs there. It was a hoot. Go to our website, living in Spring Branch, Texas, and writes, “nothing new bitte (http://home.austin.rr.com/about7/). Hey Scum!!” here. About to be overwhelmed by San Antonio urban sprawl.” Michael may be reached at [email protected]. Robert may be reached at [email protected].

Wayne D. Miller (M.A., 1957) is a consulting geologist in Nestor D. Phillips II (M.A., 1991) is a Senior Geologist with Midland, Texas, and writes, “still busy consulting and doing St. Mary Land and Exploration Company in Houston, Texas, regional studies. Finished drilling on a development and writes, “I left Dominion Exploration in June 2003 for prospect. Have three re-entries plus two new drills complet- an opportunity with St. Mary, still working Texas Gulf Coast in ed. Unfortunately, they did not have the production rates Houston. Vickie, Gabriella, and Donovan are all happy and hoped for—that’s the oil business. Family fine and looking for- doing well. Life is great.” Nestor may be reached at ward to another busy year.” Wayne may be reached at [email protected]. [email protected]. George B. Pichel (B.S., 1951) is retired and living in Oceanside, Robert J. (B.S., 1986) and Catherine L. (Mayes) Morris California, and writes, “Note growth in the petroleum industry (B.S., 1985; M.A., 1988) are living in Dallas, Texas, where in Libya and Russia. Geologists not needed.” George may be Robert is Vice President of Lyons Manufacturing and Cathy is reached at [email protected]. a homemaker. They write, “We have three children and are enjoying watching them grow up. James is 10, Matt is 8, and Gerald “Jerry” S. Pitts (B.S., 1954) is retired and living in Caroline is 4.” Midland, Texas, and writes, “The continuing search for additional reserves is never ending. Oil business good with prices at such Jerry Namy (Ph.D., 1969) is the President and CEO of Texland high levels. Still go to the office if I am in town, but my sons are Petroleum, L.P., in Fort Worth, Texas, and writes, “have enjoyed running Pitts Energy Co. We bought a ranch 4 miles north of 26 years of exploration and management with Texland Petroleum. Llano. My Fault-Finders Guide Book on Igneous and Metamorphic Susan and I love living in Fort Worth near all three of our children. field trip taken in the spring of 1953 has stops adjacent to the Rapid-fire technological advances make keeping up a continuous ranch. One of my granddaughters is fascinated with the llanite challenge. Still a great deal left to find in the Permian Basin. found on the outcrop on Highway 16. The nesting bald eagles Best regards.” Jerry may be reached at [email protected]. 8 miles east of Llano on Highway 29 have created a great deal of interest this year.” Jerry may be reached at [email protected]. Holly Nance (M.S., 2003) is a Ph.D. student at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and can be Robert B. “Bob” Porter (M.A., 1951) is a geologist with reached at [email protected]. RBP Land Co. in Midland, Texas, and writes, “hangin’ in there. Wife Polly doin’ great, kids doin’ great, grandkids doin’ great. G. Allan Nelson (B.S., 1947) is a consultant in Westminster, Have one great-great-grandson and he’s the greatest! We have Colorado, and writes, “After officing in downtown Denver so much to be thankful for—and UT is one of those blessings. for 46 years, I’m moving office home. Still plan to work full time. But I’d like to see one more National Champion in football I’m only 82. I have coffee with UT classmate, John Osmond and/or baseball before it’s too late for me to enjoy it (we’ve been (B.S., 1947).” #1 in Geology for a long time). Semper Fi.”

Paul Neumann (B.S., 1987) is now in Houston, Texas, and John Proctor (B.A., 1950; B.S., 1955) is retired and living in writes, “After 10 years in South America, I have relocated to our New Braunfels, Texas, and writes, “In February, we went on a corporate office in Houston, Texas, to become Operations cruise around South America. We boarded the ship at Manager for our Gulf Coast region. I will be keeping busy at Valparaiso and sailed around Cape Horn to Port Stanley and Gyrodata as our new GWD and Rotary Steerable Divisions are ultimately Buenos Aires. The highlight of the cruise was the really taking off.” Lake District in Chile.”

Isaac W. Norman (B.S., 1948) is retired and living in Taylor, August Leo Pugh (B.S., 1952) is retired and living in Galena Texas. Park, Texas. “Leo reports in from the Houston area, still retired and now getting into the planting and flower mode. Sends Bob R. O’Brien (B.S., 1952; M.A., 1956) is retired and living in his regards to all his old friends.” San Diego, California, and writes, “visited the campus for the first time since dedication of ‘new’ geology building in the mid- Donald F. Reaser (Ph.D., 1974) is retired and living in 1960’s. All I can say is awesome! Finally retired now and Waxahachie, Texas, and writes, “I’m enjoying retirement but plan even more travel. Australia and New Zealand so far this still keeping busy teaching a night graduate course in geology year.” Bob may be reached at [email protected]. for teachers at UTA in Dallas. Bette and I are leaving in late May for a 17-day vacation to London and the Baltic region. Kenneth I. Owens (B.S., 1954) is retired and living in The highlight of the trip will be a 2-day stay in St. Petersburg, Austin, Texas, and writes, “When I first came to UT, there were Russia.” Donald may be reached at [email protected]. 12,000 students; and when I graduated, there were 17,000. During the past 10 lustrums, I strove to become a permanent James T. Reid (B.A., 1988) is an aircraft pilot with Texas Austinite and have since felt sorry for others who only vacation Parks and Wildlife in Austin, Texas, and can be reached at here. For I have become Conrad’s ‘trilobite’ and have watched [email protected]. the changes come and go.”

76 Jeffrey C. Reid (M.A., 1973) is a Senior Geologist dealing the 48 states enjoying geomorph from 35,000 feet. Big Bend with minerals and GIS at the North Carolina Geological Survey is still my favorite place thanks to all those field trips during in Raleigh, North Carolina, and writes, “now in my 18th year at college.” Tres can be reached at [email protected]. the North Carolina Geological Survey. Current work includes geological hazards, industrial minerals and aggregates, GIS, Robert Brooks Ross (B.S., 1950) is retired and living in Houston, National Geological Map Database, and the National MAP. Texas. My wife, Mary, and I observed our 30th wedding anniversary in February and celebrated the event by a trip to Europe in Rollins M. Roth (B.S., 1958) is a Completion and Workover April. Our daughter is engaged to be married in June 2005. Manager in Breckenridge, Texas, and writes, “Good oil and Our son Eric is an exchange student in England.” gas prices keep me working full-time.”

W. F. Reynolds (M.A., 1953) is a Managing Partner with Peter D. Rowley (Ph.D., 1968) is a consulting geologist with J. C. and W. F. Reynolds Oil Producers in Wichita Falls, Texas. Geologic Mapping, Inc., in New Harmony, Utah, and writes, Mr. Reynolds is a member of the Geology Foundation “continuing my new career as a consulting geologist—making Advisory Council. and publishing geologic maps for state agencies, water districts, and energy companies, as well as siting production water Robert L. Rhudy (B.S., 1985) is a Senior Staff in Tech Solutions wells and tracking ground-water flow in Utah and Nevada. with Core Tech in Austin, Texas, and writes, “After spending The website is www.geologicmappinginc.com.” Peter may be some time working in bier gardens in West Germany post- reached at [email protected]. graduation, I enrolled at UT in the Germanic Languages program and wound up with a Master’s in German. Due to Jimmie Norton Russell (B.S., 1952; M.A., 1954) is retired the weak job market and poor pay in that field, I found my and living in Austin, Texas, and writes, “completing 10th year of way into the software industry, where I have worked for the last ‘retirement’ in my ‘hobby’ of teaching; this is my 8th year assisting 10 years or so. Currently I’m at CyberTrader doing network teaching emotionally disturbed students in grades 6–12. Rita (wife) programming and high-performance server development in the and I just returned from a week at Playa del Carmen, Mexico; financial industry. I remember enjoying the field courses at the pharmacist there thought I was from Spain as ‘no one comes end of the geology curriculum very much, making maps in the here from the USA that can speak Spanish’—the wonderful people mountains of Colorado and New Mexico. It’s something I miss. and margaritas made our stay there pleasant indeed!” It was fun and good exercise too; but by 1985 pretty much all the maps had already been made that the USGS uses, so I went Carolyn Rutland (M.A., 1979) is an Environmental Engineer into another field. My hobbies these days include language with the Public Services Department with the City of Kalamazoo studies and motorcycles (see www.motorcycleblog.org/ in Kalamazoo, Michigan, and writes, “I spend as much time as bulletblog/index.html) and going surfing (on occasion).” Robert possible knitting these days—hats, mittens, scarves, sweaters, may be reached via his web site or at [email protected]. socks. I’ve even spent a weekend at a knitting camp (for real). In recent years I’ve gone on three cruises, including one to James V. “Jim” Richard (B.S., 1956) is a Consulting Petroleum Glacier Bay, which I’d wanted to see since my first geology class Geologist with Genesis Producing Company in Houston, Texas, in 1972. My father died in October 2001, which jolted me and writes, “found two new nice oil discoveries this year. Still onto the list of Americans-on-antidepressants. I miss being generating prospects in the Gulf Coast and doing some able to talk to him. My mother took our 13- member immediate consulting. Celebrating my 44th year in the exploration business. family to England in 2002, and we had a terrific and sur- I am doing a lot of essay writing, some of which is on the SIPES prisingly healing time. In 2003 I went to Cuba on a mission trip. Houston website. I hope to republish my grandfather’s Texas Our construction project was in the middle of a serpentinite. Ranger scrapbook and diary in the near future. Still enjoy playing I can talk about my experiences there for hours, if you ask. I still my tenor sax in the Longhorn Alumni Band each year during manage environmental projects for the City of Kalamazoo, but football season and attending the NROTC reunions on campus. these days my projects are all moderately boring, so that’s all Family continues to own and operate the Famous Christmas Store there is to say. My older son (21) is happily well on his way to his in Austin.” Jim can be reached at [email protected]. goal of being a high school math teacher, this after a disastrous freshman year during which he ended up on both academic Wade C. Ridley (B.S., 1953; M.A., 1955) is the President of and disciplinary probation (got caught smoking pot in a dorm Ridley Oil Corporation in Tyler, Texas, and writes, “amazed at how room). My younger son (15) started his school year suspended our old ‘Department of Geology’ has become the ‘Jackson for going to class stoned. Those who know me well will School’—quite an achievement thanks to numerous benefactors appreciate the irony of my offspring’s experimentation because and outstanding faculty. I am proud to be an alum.” Wade may I never touched the stuff. My husband is a burnt-out geology be reached at [email protected]. professor with a full-time antique gun repair and restoration hobby. The four of us like to fly-fish and play Clue and Taboo Jess Roach (B.A., 1941) is retired and living in Austin, Texas, together. Go figure. We have a beagle named Ishmael and a and writes, “I am still navigating but much slower. My wife of bearded dragon named Icarus—Ish and Ick. I am so far resisting almost 60 years is bedridden but never complains. I try to keep pleas for a pet boa constrictor, no matter how educational it is healthy by exercising regularly at a health club and mentally to have your own snake.” by reading. What great news that the Jackson School now merits a dean of its own. I have no doubt we will be in the top five— Floyd Sabins (B.S., 1952) is retired and living in Fullerton, probably number one!” California, and writes, “I am continuing my volunteer work— President of Fullerton Public Library Foundation, Director of Lowell T. “Tom” Rogers (B.S., 1956; M.A., 1960) is retired Fairway Village Homeowner Association, MADD Volunteer. and living in Austin, Texas. I enjoy my annual fly-fishing trips to Alaska and the Caribbean. Jan and I are celebrating our 50th anniversary this year. Jan Oliver “Tres” Ross (B.S., 1975) is a Captain with American still considers me a ‘work in progress.’” Airlines in Fort Worth, Texas, and writes that he is “flying around

77 our ‘Guard Cactus.’ Since these transplanted Texans have A Saguaro bought this property, nature decided to give this Saguaro cactus gives horns to embrace the crestate top. See the photo for a real ‘Hook ’em Horns’ salute! Now the call of grandchildren pulls the “Hook ’em us back to Texas. We are planning to land in East Texas soon.” Horns” salute on Charles Sewell’s William “Bill” W. Sharp (B.S., 1950; M.A., 1951) is an investor/ Tucson, Arizona, geologist in Dallas, Texas, and writes “for the past year (plus) property. Photo involved in a major real estate transaction with a Dallas real by Charles estate developer—plans are to rebuild a Collin County town/ Sewell. community 30 miles north of Dallas. Sixty-five percent of new town development to be located on family-owned acreage. The many years as a ‘corporate expert witness’ before the Louisiana Conservation Commission helped in many ways to make Jack S. Sanders (B.S., 1957) is retired and living in Dallas, Texas, me aware of the legal maneuvers in this venture—had an excellent and writes, “staying vertical and sporadically traveling. legal team—never too old to learn.” Sharp is listed in Who’s Who Recently saw a lot of brown land, brown water, and brown air in Finance and Industry, Science and Engineering, America, and in China. Our interesting world continues to get ‘smaller.’ the World. He is also an Honoree in the National World War II We have a valuable geologic perspective to offer.” Memorial Registry of Remembrances for his service in the U.S. Army Air Forces. He was nominated as International Scientist of Randy Michael Schmitz (B.S., 1999) is a computer technician the Year by the International Biographical Centre of Cambridge, with the Keller Independent School District in Keller, Texas, and England. Sharp was selected for inclusion in America’s Registry of writes, “I am currently working as a computer technician for a Outstanding Professionals. He also writes, “The producer of a school district in Fort Worth, Texas. I am applying for graduate new television series offered Rubylin and me the opportunity to school at some of the local universities and plan on attending in be candidates for the millionaire couple on a new reality version the fall or spring semesters. I was married to my wife Ellen in of Gilligan’s Island. Rubylin would fit in nicely—but I am way too May of 2001, and we have purchased a house in north Fort grumpy…” Worth.” Randy may be reached at [email protected]. Stephen L. “Steve” Shaw (B.S., 1971; M.A., 1974) is a Senior George W. Schneider, Jr. (B.S., 1958) is living in Madisonville, Geological Advisor with Burlington Resources in Midland, Texas, Louisiana, and writes that he is “still enjoying $40 oil and $6 gas and writes, “It is an exciting time to be serving on the Advisory and life on the Tchefuncte River.” Council to the Geology Foundation at the Jackson School. Nancy and I enjoy being grandparents and traveling. We are off Louis Schneider (B.S., 1960) is a Vice President of Edison to Ireland this year. Best regards to all.” Chouest Offshore in Houston, Texas, and can be reached at [email protected]. Kazeem Akorede Shitta (B.S., 1999) is a lab assistant with the University of Ado-Ekiti in Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria, and can be reached Rubin A. Schultz, Jr. (B.S., 1961) is a District Maintenance at [email protected]. Manager with the Texas Department of Transportation in Corpus Christi, Texas, and writes, “not a lot new—I am still Charles Sicking (Ph.D., 1980) is a Geophysicist with Weiman with TXDoT and enjoy living in Corpus Christi. Grandkids growing GeoSciences in Plano, Texas, and writes, “joined Weiman up fast. Nancy and I just returned from our annual May trip GeoSciences in October 2003, after working outside the oil patch to Maui, Hawaii.” for 4 years with Raytheon.”

Eugene P. Scott (B.S., 1957) is living in Corpus Christi, Texas, Samuel J. Sims (M.A., 1957) is a consulting geologist in and writes that he “is still a consulting petroleum geologist. Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and writes, “I continue doing con- See you later!” sulting work in the local stone industry even though eventual retirement nears.” Samuel may be reached at [email protected]. John E. Seale (B.S., 1941) is retired and living in Houston, Texas, and writes, “I stay busy doing small things. Enjoy the Newsletter.” R. Sam Singer (B.S., 1961) is a consulting petroleum reservoir/ reserve engineer in Houston, Texas, and writes that he is “working Clyde Seewald (B.S., 1963; M.A., 1966) is self-employed independently as a full-time consultant.” and living in Henderson, Texas, and writes that he is “still looking for natural gas in East Texas.” Ben Sloan (Ph.D., 1995) is a geologist with ChevronTexaco in Houston, Texas, and writes, “working and living in Oslo this year. Charles R. Sewell (M.A., 1955) is living in Tucson, Arizona, Winter in the mountains was marvelous, but summer on the and writes: “Dear Friends, Thank you for friendship and an fjord is even better. I sure miss Betty K.’s laugh, the old second- excellent education. Although my thoughts of the Geology floor computer room where the cavers used our pen plotter, Building, professors, and friends may be out of date, the Milo’s cigarette-burned Macintosh, Number 22 “The Stink Pig,” memories are as real as sunshine. The times that I spent there Coffee and Cookies, Folk’s hairy nape, Speer, H.I.T.W. Reality were among my happiest of times! When I left Texas in 1964, Burger, and Sprinkle’s neckties.” Ben may be reached at Tucson, Arizona, became home. Currently we live in a hilltop [email protected]. home surrounded by 26 acres of giant Saguaros and luxurious desert vegetation. We adjoin the Saguaro National Park and Marriott Wieckhoff Smart (B.S., 1957) is retired and living in have a never-ending and quite variable supply of four-footed, Centennial, Colorado, and writes, “It is great to see so many good slithering, and feathered friends. The 360-degree views at all things happening in Geology at UT-Austin. Good luck. John times and seasons are exceptional. The sunsets defy description. and I are still in Colorado. Mostly things are the same. I am retired, We have a very rare pet giant crestate Saguaro we refer to as and he works from time to time. We do quite a bit of traveling

78 with good friends and visit our daughters as often as possible. great freedom. The Lord provided my family the opportunity last One lives in Whitefish, Montana, and has a family. The other year to relocate to the Charleston, SC, area so I could observe daughter lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma. For several years I have been modern tidally influenced clastic depositional processes while on the Board of Trustees for a wonderful small museum north simultaneously exploring for oil and gas in southeast New of Colorado Springs. The focus is the mining industry in the West, Mexico. After 1 year, so far…so good and I’m now busier than with major emphasis on mining history in Colorado. It is called ever with several drilling programs. This is a great area to live and the Western Museum of Mining and Industry and is located very has lots to see and do. My son Erik (16) is getting to experience near the north entrance of the Air Force Academy. If any of you things here I only dreamed of when I was a desert rat at his are in the area, it is worth a visit.” Marriott may be reached at age and, like a good dad, I’m living vicariously through him. My [email protected]. oldest daughter Sarah graduated from Liberty University last year, got married, and is living in Pittsburgh while her husband Jeremy Tommy T. Smiley (B.S., 1951) is retired and living in San Antonio, does the law school thing. Our second daughter Janine is Texas, and writes, “still able to get out of bed in the morning attending the College of Charleston here but isn’t so sure she’s and enjoying our wonderful country. We do a lot of traveling, cut out for the humid Southeast and wants to head back to New and we are planning a trip this summer with all our kids and Mexico or Colorado when she’s finished with school. Therese and grandkids. Wow!” I are having a ball here; the Lord and life have been good to us. Went to AAPG and had a great time catching up with Dave Carr Charles E. Smith (B.S., 1954) is retired and living in Dallas, (M.A., 1983) and other buds from our era at UT. Hope all the Texas. Dirty Dozen are doing great; drop a line or come out and see us as the beaches here are real fine places to hang out.” Cynthia Lopez Smith (M.A., 1981) is living in Houston, Texas. Stephen may be reached at [email protected].

Dan L. Smith (B.S., 1958) is the Executive Vice President at Sam Renick Stanard (attended 1951) is retired and living in Sandalwood Oil and Gas, Inc., in Houston, Texas, and writes, San Antonio, Texas. “I continue as Executive Vice President of Sandalwood Oil and Gas, Inc., an E&P company active in the Gulf Coast Area. I am Theodore Stanzel (B.S., 1956) is the President of Victor Stanzel now a member of the Geology Foundation. I was President Co. Toy Manufacturer in Schulenburg, Texas, and writes, “My of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists for the time is used to wind down the company, selling out inventory 2002–2003 year and am now Chairman of the Advisory Council.” on eBay and retail stores where toys are sold. A Stanzel Factory Dan may be reached at [email protected]. Museum is being established utilizing much of the machinery. I invite you to come to Schulenburg on October 16, 2004, for a Harry L. Smith (B.S., 1951; M.A., 1956) is retired and living in grand celebration of the 5th Anniversary of Stanzel Model Boerne, Texas, and writes, “have been living in the same house Aircraft Museum.” for 20 years. Still trying to play golf, but it is getting more difficult as the years roll along.” Frederick L. Stead (M.A., 1950) is retired and living in Addison, Texas, and writes, “Betty and I enjoying three great J. T. Smith (B.S., 1950; M.A., 1956) is retired and living in grandchildren and the high price of oil!” Fredericksburg, Texas, and writes, “still enjoying retirement in 1 the Texas Hill Country. I still look back with fond memories at my Burgess Stengl (B.S., 1985) writes, “Well, it has been 3 /2 years 37-year career in the petroleum industry in both the good times since we moved to Tyler from Austin, and we are still loving it. and bad times. Working in the industry with crude oil selling at The dogwood trees and azaleas are beautiful each spring, but $40/bbl must be nice—something I never experienced.” the fall leaves continue to be a nuisance. The past year has been a busy one for the Stengl family. Our daughter Shara was married Paul K. Smith (B.S., 1984) is a fitness and yoga instructor at on June 26th in Austin and continues to teach in Austin ISD. Our Lake Austin Spa Resort in Austin, Texas, and can be reached at daughter Susan finished her junior year at Whitehouse High [email protected]. School and teaches part time at Whitehouse Tumble and Cheer. She plans on attending UT-Austin after graduation next year. Stephen V. Smith (B.A., 1964) is an investigator with CICESE in Kyle finished kindergarten at Owens Elementary (where Angela Ensenada, Mexico, and can be reached at [email protected]. teaches) and is a very active little boy (enough said). People said Stephen writes, “I retired from the University of Hawaii after he would ‘keep us young’; however, I feel very old some days. 30+ years and took a job in Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico, His t-ball team went undefeated, and the outcome of the playoffs for a government research lab called CICESE, Centro de is yet to be determined. Angela continues to teach second grade Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada.” and was recently elected President of the Whitehouse High cheerleader group. At least now she can delegate more than last Traci Trauba Smith (B.S., 1985) is the office manager at Birdsong year, when she was on the calling committee. I completed my Real Estate in Lake Jackson, Texas, and can be reached at second year with Allied Waste as an Environmental Manager over [email protected]. four East Texas landfills and two Northern Louisiana landfills near Shreveport. It still amazes me that it has been almost Brian Smyth (B.S., 1976) is a Partner with Northwind Exploration 20 years since I took field camp and graduated from UT. Where in Houston, Texas, and writes, “Jesse Fowler (B.S., 1974) and I has the time gone? Have a great year, and we can catch up are partners in Northwind Exploration and have been since 1981. again next Newsletter.” E-mail us at [email protected].” Brian may also be reached at [email protected]. John Stout (B.A., 1953) is retired and living in Lone Tree, Colorado, and writes “after 10 years at Lawrence Livermore Stephen W. Speer (M.A., 1983) is a General Partner with Genesis National Laboratory, I am now an adjunct lecturer in geology Limited Partnership in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, and writes, at Colorado School of Mines.” John can be reached at “high tech communications are VERY cool and can give one [email protected].

79 Ted Stout (B.S., 1985) is Chief of Interpretation at the Craters of in South Texas with good results. Keep up the good work by the Moon National Monument in Bellevue, Washington, and informing former students on present activities at the Geology writes, “After 7 years at Mount Rainier National Park, I transferred Department.” to Craters of the Moon National Monument in December. This is a great geology park with lost of luscious lava and the possibility Arthur J. “Art” Tschoepe (B.S., 1951) is semi-retired and doing of future eruptions.” Ted may be reached at [email protected]. some consultant work in Leakey, Texas, and writes, “enjoying my wonderful family.” Mike Stowbridge (B.S., 1982) is a consulting geologist in Abilene, Texas, and writes “continue well-site work through James J. “Jeff” Tucker (B.S., 1948) is retired and living in Geosite, Inc., out of San Angelo, and I remain a member of the Ridgeland, Mississippi, and writes, “My wife and I are enjoying Paleozoic Society Log Library here in Abilene. I’m glad to report a living in the city of Ridgeland. To add to our pleasure is our very busy oil patch. Confidence is growing that oil prices will beautiful garden home.” stay high. The rush to drill is on.” Mike can be reached at [email protected]. Eric Tuitjer (M.S., 2003) is a Development Geologist with ChevronTexaco Corporation in Houston, Texas, and writes, John L. Stripling (B.A., 1940) is retired and living in Fort Worth, “This year I am getting married to the most wonderful woman in Texas, and writes, “Marjorie and I continue to travel across all the world, my fiancée Anna. We will be starting our little family our great state. I’m still playing golf as the weather allows. in Houston and look forward to staying in touch with everyone.” Best to all Exes, and especially to our Veterans.” Eric may be reached at [email protected].

Hal Stubblefield (B.A., 1954) is retired and living in Neil L. Turner (Ph.D., 1970) is a consulting geologist in Fulshear, Kingwood, Texas, and can be reached at [email protected]. Texas, and writes “continuing work on carbonate fields. We will be going to the Eastern Mediterranean this fall and back Bruce Swartz (B.S., 1982) is an independent oil and gas to the Dolomites for mostly vacation.” operator in San Angelo, Texas, and can be reached at [email protected]. Ellen Naiman Tye (M.A., 1982) is living in Dallas, Texas.

Christopher Swezey (M.A., 1991; Ph.D., 1997) is a Research Matthew M. Uliana (M.A., 1995; Ph.D., 2000) is an Assistant Geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey in Reston, Virginia, Professor in the Department of Biology at Texas State University and writes, “Currently, I am working on oil and gas studies in San Marcos, Texas and writes “currently full-time tenure track in the Appalachian Basin and the Michigan Basin.” Chris may be faculty at Texas State, teaching geology and hydrogeology in the reached at [email protected]. geology minor and supervising students in our new Aquatic Resources Ph.D. program. Still drinking beer and playing in local Dennis A. Sylvia (Ph.D., 2002) is a Land Management Planner heavy-metal bands. Some things never change.” with Thorne Bay Ranger District in Thorne Bay, Alaska, and can be reached at [email protected]. Charles B. Upton (B.S., 1957) is retired and living in San Antonio, Texas, and writes, “It’s amazing how much geology is evident by Christina Massell Symons (M.S., 1997) is working at Scripps what plants are growing there. I am still staying Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, in Chesapeake, Virginia. busy with my retirement woodworking hobby/job.” Charles may be reached at [email protected]. Lindsay Tade (B.S., 1972) is a Senior Geologist with Cabot Oil and Gas in Houston, Texas, and writes, “It has been an Don Urbanec (B.S., 1960) is an independent in Boerne, Texas, enjoyable year developing prospects on Gulf Coast of Texas and and writes, “still active in oil and gas exploration but taking more Louisiana. What great oil and gas prices—hope they last a time to do the things I enjoy (other than geology), including long time. Daughter Lilly graduated from UT in May 2004.” visiting with my first grandchild.” Don can be reached at Lindsay may be reached at [email protected]. [email protected].

Dick Teel (B.S., 1941) is a consulting geologist in Houston, Texas, Jean-Paul Van Gestel (Ph.D., 2000) is a geophysicist with and writes, “still with IHS Energy as a consultant. Enjoy working BP in Houston, Texas, and writes, “everything great in Houston. with younger people and also a computer. Can do so much with I got married and bought a house. Further, I am still working as a computer—scout tickets available, all U.S. production figures a geophysicist for BP in the Brasil Deepwater Exploration Team. and to be able to make maps with ease. Back to Africa in For more news and pictures: www.vangestel.com.” Jean-Paul September—still hunt a lot. Gone to digital photography and may be reached at [email protected]. like it over film.” Dick may be reached at [email protected]. Mark Ver Hoeve (M.A., 1982) is an International Exploration T. J. Thompson (B.S., 1957) is the owner of Toro Exploration Manager with EOG Resources in Houston, Texas, and writes, Company in Rockwall, Texas, and writes, “Keep up all the good “Janice and I have now been living in Houston for the last 12 news. The Jackson School sounds super too.” years, our longest stay anywhere, and looking permanent. Janice is a Director at Bank of Nova Scotia and I am Exploration Manager Everette J. Travis (M.A., 1951) is retired and living in Buchanan for EOG’s International effort. We have two daughters, Emily and Dam, Texas, and writes, “retired and doing as I please. Keep Sarah, both in Taylor High School in Katy.” Mark can be reached interested in lots of things here in Llano County. Geology has at [email protected]. not changed in the last 53 years. Still see students I taught College Geology. Fishing still great in Lake Buchanan.” Harry A. Vest (M.S., 1959) is retired and living in Houston, Texas, and writes, “Read any report in the last 20 years and Lloyd R. Travis (B.A., 1948) is an oil and gas consultant in you have our news. Cheers!” Harry may be reached at Houston, Texas, and writes, “still working for a small independent [email protected]. oil and gas company. We are using 3-D surveys to locate prospects

80 Marjorie Vogelsang (B.A., 1937) is retired amaze me. Check us out and become a client. and living in Rosenberg, Texas. Zoë Our daughter, Tracy, finished her first year at Wallace Trinity University in San Antonio and even A. H. “Al” Wadsworth, Jr. (B.S., 1941; and Dad took a geology course without her father’s M.A., 1941) is a geologist in Houston, Texas, urging! Fellow grads Crick Stanton, Frank at Waimea and writes, “still at it after 63 years.” Cornish, Mike Looney, and Robert Manson Canyon, continue to meet annually for a UT football Tom Waggoner (B.A., 1957) is retired and Kauai, game. We are now in our 17th year.” Karl living in Big Fork, Montana, and writes, “my Hawaii, can be reached at [email protected]. wife and I spend 90% of our time in our July 2004. Montana home near Glacier Park—we miss Bill D. Watson (B.S., 1958) is retired and the University activities but love Montana. living in Sugar Land, Texas, and writes, Proud of the recognition that the Jackson “enjoying retirement with wife, Jean, and School has received.” eleven grandchildren. We’re playing lots of golf and doing some traveling. I’m playing Joe Dudgeon Walker, Jr. (B.S., 1951; M.A., 1951) is retired trumpet at my church, with a community band, a senior citizen and living in Houston, Texas, and writes, “still ‘hanging in’ there choir, and the Singing Men of Southeast Texas. Just enjoying but have slowed down. A lot of our group is still with us. Some life!” Bill can be reached at [email protected]. not. Wife Shirley is okay, plus 3 children and 10 grandchildren. Thanks for all the year’s work!!” Joseph D. Watzlavick (B.S., 1941) is living in Bellaire, Texas, and writes, “enjoy recalling the years of the friends and efforts David Wallace writes, “I’m still in Lakewood, Colorado, working of being a geologist. Hi guys!” in the telecom industry. I started a new position with Avaya in January and am helping develop a start-up, which has been a Gerald E. Weber (M.A., 1968) is an Emeritus Professor at the great learning experience so far—wearing just about every hat University of California at Santa Cruz and writes, “keeping busy possible. Zoë, our daughter, was born March 2003 and is doing at about half-time working as an expert witness in engineering great. Every day is something new for her—including a fascination geologic matters. Traveling when possible. Some SCUBA diving. with rocks. I also am happy to report that #2 is on the way and Still running rivers and am now spending more time on art work. expected to arrive in mid-October. Mom and the player to be Photography, pencil drawings, and some watercolor. Kids doing named later are both doing fine. Living in the foothills west of fine. Still drinking—got to do my share!” Gerald may be reached Denver, we are surrounded by amazing geology, which I at [email protected]. experience as much as I can by hiking and mountain biking as often as possible. If any old geo-dogs are in the area, please look Bonnie R. Weise (B.S., 1974; M.A., 1979) is a Geological me up.” David can be reached at [email protected]. Consultant with Pyr Energy Corporation in San Antonio, Texas, and can be reached at [email protected]. Virgil A. Walston (B.S., 1960) is retired in Mouton, Texas, and can be contacted at [email protected]. James V. White (M.A., 1995) is a Senior Exploration Geologist with ExxonMobil in Melbourne, Australia, and writes, “After Chengshu Wang (Ph.D., 2003) is a Senior Engineer with 18 months in Jakarta with fellow UT geos John Thomson, Overseas Research Center, CNODC, in Beijing, China, and writes, Dennis Brock, and James Farmer, I have moved to Melbourne, “I have joined CNDOC (China National Oil and Gas Exploration Australia, and can’t find a single Longhorn.” and Development Corporation), CNPC, as a Senior Engineer. Welcome you to visit Beijing, and I will be happy to host you.” Leslie P. White (B.S., 1956) is retired in Austin, Texas, and writes, Chengshu may be reached at [email protected]. “The recent achievements at my old school are truly remarkable. You make us all very proud. A highlight of the Bernie Ward (B.A., 1955) is a geologist in Tyler, Texas, and writes, year for me was a day with Steve Clabaugh and a group “We took a seaborne trip along Mediterranean coast to of geology buddies. A great time.” Leslie can be reached at celebrate wife’s big seven-oh! Spectacular ports. Crystals on Isle [email protected]. of Elba, a rockhound’s dream. Recently read Silver in the Sierra Madre by UT’s own Peter Flawn. It’s the true exploits of a Spanish- Rex H. White, Jr. (B.S., 1956; M.A., 1960) is an attorney in speaking geologist who gets it all done under unbelievable Austin, Texas, and writes, “I am still active in oil and practice of hardships and danger. Truly he was un macho entre los machos. law. Probably will not retire for a few years at least. We have Especially enjoyable for geologists—hard rock or not.” four grandchildren now—they are perfect children—can do no wrong. I cannot wait to teach them all my old tricks. I have Daniel L. Ward (B.A., 1949; M.A., 1950) is retired and living in seen Les White, Bill Ward, and Dr. Clabaugh recently. Grand Junction, Colorado. Great visit with them. My best to all, and pray for world peace.” Rex can be reached at [email protected]. Ralph H. Warner (M.A., 1961) is retired in Kingwood, Texas, and writes “mild stroke in January 2004 has resulted in somewhat Steve White (B.S., 1978) is a consulting geologist in Flint, Texas, impaired vision. Tennis and freeway driving are not presently in and writes “still enjoying the oil business in Tyler.” my daily program. Plan to keep on keeping on. All okay with the rest of the family.” Fred L. Whitney (B.S., 1943) is retired and living in Kerrville, Texas, and writes, “61 years and counting since graduating from Karl Warning (B.S., 1971, M.A., 1977) is living in Lucas, Texas, UT. Sincere best wishes to all old friends and new. Let the good and writes, “continuing to work for the premier mineral auction times roll!” website, mineralauctions.com. Nature’s beauty never ceases to

81 Frederick W. Wiegand, Jr. (B.S., 1969) Hugh Winkler (M.A., 1992) is with the is a drilling foreman and writes that he’s Architecture Group at BetweenMarkets, Inc., “working in Saudi Arabia, drilling in Austin, Texas, and writes, “Mighty little horizontal oil wells in the Arab D John geophysics going on at our little software limestone. Interesting subsurface geology. Wright company, but I know there is an inverse Family okay. Wiegand brothers are presenting problem in here somewhere.” Hugh growing up. Continued interest in the his newest can be reached at [email protected] or North Sea exploration. Cheers to all.” He addition. [email protected] or via his may be reached at [email protected]. work website, www.betweenmarkets.com.

Michael A. Wiley (B.S., 1957; M.A., 1963; Ph.D., 1970) is a Amy R. Wood (B.S., 1985) is living in Austin, Texas, and writes, consultant in Canyon Lake, Texas, and writes, “enjoying semi- “I’m enjoying staying at home with my 3-year-old son. I’m retirement and some consulting—mostly environmental still doing some web and programming work to maintain GIS programming. Lake life is great! Still active in AAPG-EMD my skills.” Amy may be reached at [email protected]. with 1 year left on third term as EMD Treasurer. Good to see so many old friends at Dallas AAPG. All the news and plans for Gene Woodyard (M.A., 1956) in Bertram, Texas, is retired from the Jackson School are stunning. Call and come by—the beer is Conoco and writes, “While visiting Australia a couple of years always cold!” Michael may be reached at [email protected]. ago, we realized we only had one more continent to visit and we would have seen all seven. So earlier this year we took the Richard Allen Wiley (B.S., 1942) is retired and living in Lafayette, long trip south to say hi to the penguins. Those rascals stink Louisiana, and writes, “enjoyed 40 years employment by (big time!). Antarctica is worth the trip—once. I picked up a rock, Amerada Petroleum and Amerada Hess Corporation in Houston, and it is black and white, but I doubt that would get very far Texas, and Lafayette, Louisiana. Retired in 1986. Wife Emily on an exam.” Wood and I in good health and enjoying Cajun country.” LeRoy Woollett (M.A., 1951) is retired and living in Houston, Jefferson Williams (B.A., 1988) is a geophysicist and log Texas, and writes, “Retirement isn’t all that great—I am now analyst in Los Angeles, California, and writes, “am in the a real estate broker—fun and busy—2 children, 6 grandchildren, third year of business with Supersonic Geophysical. Doing a 3 great-grandchildren—all are wonderful.” Leroy can be reached lot of work in Australia.” Jefferson can be reached at at [email protected]. [email protected]. Charles J. Worrel (B.S., 1951) is a consultant with Worrel Robert R. Williams (B.S., 1954) is retired in Dallas, Texas, and Exploration in San Antonio, Texas, and writes, “I say a very hearty writes, “I stay busy with church activities, reading fiction, hello to all the graduates and especially the class of 1947. nonfiction, and professional periodicals and attend SIPES Al Nelson, don’t you think we ought to try for one more meetings. My wife, Robin, and I enjoy the Los Amigos group, reunion in downtown Austin? Perhaps the new Hilton or friends in the oil business and wives, who get together once a Four Seasons? I still yearn to see some of you guys.” Charles may month to eat at Mexican food restaurants. Our three daughters, be reached at [email protected]. their husbands and children visit often. Life is good.” Jesse W. Wright, Jr. (B.S., 1950) is retired and living in Doug Wilson (B.S., 1980) is Area Exploration Manager for the San Antonio, Texas, and can be reached at [email protected]. Gulf of Mexico Eastern Offshore division of Anadarko Petroleum in The Woodlands, Texas, and writes, “I am also a Captain and John B. Wright (M.A., 1956) is retired in New Orleans, 10-year veteran in the Klein Volunteer Fire Department. Rachel Louisiana, and writes “still hanging on in the Big Easy.” is finishing her first year of junior high and is excited to attend orchestra camp this summer. Rebecca is a PTO board member Phil Wyche (B.S., 1951) is retired and living in Austin, Texas. and actively volunteering for the school district.” He is a member of the Geology Foundation Advisory Council.

James L. Wilson (B.A., 1942; M.A., 1944) is retired and living Charles Yager (B.S., 1984) is President of Texas Bank in in New Braunfels, Texas, and writes, “I no longer do field geology. Fort Worth, Texas. The past year, with the help of the Bureau of Economic Geology, we revised the Humphrey-Díaz book on the stratigraphy John C. Yeager (M.A., 1960) is an independent geologist of northern Mexico, Report of Investigations No. 267. I donated in Lafayette, Louisiana, and reports that he is “still generating my library to the University of Texas Geology Library but still prospects.” have my notes, files, and reprints, which I will gladly share.” James can be reached at [email protected]. Francis Scott Zimmer (B.S., 1986) is a senior public health sanitarian in Vernon, New York, and writes, “Hi Geo Buddies, William Feathergail Wilson (B.S., 1960; M.A., 1962) is the hope everyone is doing well. I continue to work for the President of Strat Geological Services, Inc., in Bandera, Texas, Health Department doing lead poisoning investigations, indoor and writes that he is “teaching through OGCI, drilling public air quality, and nuisance complaints. Melanie continues water wells and performing water availability studies in the storytelling and puppetry. Cuchulian, our Dalmatian, keeps Texas Hill Country. Mapping Cretaceous aquifers. Very busy us playing and having fun. Went back to Austin in February after consulting and teaching internationally.” Feather may be reached 3 years. Wow, has the city grown. Boy, have I missed Tex-Mex at [email protected]. food. Had a nice time with my parents. Look forward to reading about you all here.”

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Student Support $ Mary and Ben Anderson Endowment for Graduate Studies in Geology $ George W. Marshall, Jr., Memorial Endowed Presidential Scholarship $ Millard B. Arick Memorial Fund in Petroleum Geology $ Arthur E. Maxwell Graduate Fellowship in Geophysics $ Laura Thomson Barrow Graduate Fellowship $ John C. and Marian B. Maxwell Endowed Undergraduate Scholarship in Geological Sciences $ Bloomer Fund for Motivated Students $ John H. and Lujza McCammon Endowed Scholarship $ Wayne Franklin Bowman Endowed Presidential Scholarship $ Mr. and Mrs. L. F. McCollum Scholarship in Geology $ Brahman Energy Company Scholarship Fund $ Michaux Scholarship Fund $ Charl A. M. Broquet Memorial Endowed Scholarship Fund $ Joan A. Middleton Endowed Scholarship in Geology $ Jesse L. Brundrett Memorial Endowed Presidential Scholarship $ Carroll C. Miller Endowed Presidential Scholarship $ Fred M. Bullard Student Research Fund $ William R. Muehlberger Field Geology Scholarship Fund $ Thomas and Ray Burke Student Job Program $ Wes Ogden Memorial Scholarship in Geophysics $ Hal H. Bybee Memorial Fund $ Pennzoil and Pogo Producing Companies–William E. Gipson Scholarships $ Dorothy Ogden Carsey Memorial Scholarship Fund $ R. L. Folk/E. F. McBride Petrography Fund $ Stephen E. and Patricia S. Clabaugh Fund in Hard-Rock Geology $ O. Scott Petty Geophysical Fund $ W. Kenley Clark Memorial Endowed Presidential Scholarship $ Louis and Elizabeth Scherck Geology Scholarship $ Joseph S. Cullinan Memorial Scholarship in Geological Sciences $ Walter Benona Sharp Memorial Scholarship in Geology $ Robert H. Cuyler Endowed Presidential Scholarship $ F. W. Simonds Endowed Presidential Scholarship $ Raquel V. de Savariego Memorial Scholarship $ Harlan Tod Sutherland Memorial Scholarship Fund $ Ronald K. DeFord Field Scholarship Fund $ John and Elizabeth M. Teagle Scholarship in Petroleum Geology $ Michael Bruce Duchin Centennial Memorial Endowed Presidential Scholarship $ David S. Thayer Memorial Scholarship Fund $ Fort Worth Wildcatters Association Undergraduate Scholarship $ Udden Memorial Scholarship Fund $ Graduate Fellowship in Exploration Geophysics $ Undergraduate Science Enrichment Fund in Geological Sciences $ Miss Effie Graves Scholarship Fund $ Glenn and Martha Vargas Endowed Presidential Scholarship $ Guy E. Green Endowed Presidential Scholarship $ Glenn and Martha Vargas Gemological Scholarship in Geological Sciences $ Karl Frederick Hagemeier, Jr., Memorial Endowed Presidential Scholarship $ Albert W. and Alice M. Weeks Fund in Geology $ Bill D. Holland Endowed Presidential Scholarship in Geological Sciences $ Arno P. (Dutch) Wendler Professional Development Fund $ F. Earl Ingerson Graduate Research Assistance Fund in Geochemistry $ Francis L. Whitney Endowed Presidential Scholarship $ John A. and Katherine G. Jackson Fellowship in Geohydrology $ Addison A. and Mary E. Wilkinson Endowed Presidential Scholarship in Geological Sciences $ Martin B. Lagoe Student Research Fund for Micropaleontology $ Charles E. Yager Undergraduate Field Scholarship Fund $ Howard R. Lowe Vertebrate Paleontology Endowment $ Keith and Ann Young Endowed Fund for the Curation of Non-Vertebrate Collections $ J. Hoover Mackin Memorial Scholarship Fund

Continued on back Faculty Support $ Hal P. Bybee Memorial Fund $ Energy and Mineral Resources Fund $ Geohydrology and Engineering Geology Research Fund $ G. Moses and Carolyn G. Knebel Teaching Fund $ Wann and Marietta Langston Research Fund in Vertebrate Paleontology $ Jack K. Larsen–Mesa Petroleum Company Fund in Sedimentary Geology $ Structural Geology and Tectonics Fund

General Support $ Alumni Newsletter Fund $ Milo M. Backus Endowed Fund in Exploration Geophysics $ Barrow Periodical Fund $ Don R. Boyd Endowed Fund $ L. W. Callender Memorial Fund $ J. Ben Carsey, Sr., Special Maintenance Fund $ L. Decker Dawson Fund in Exploration Geophysics $ Samuel P. Ellison, Jr., Fund $ Robert L. Folk Excellence Fund in Geological Sciences $ Geophysics, Various Donors Name $ Thelma Lynn Guion Geology Library Staff Award $ George S. Heyer Memorial Fund $ John A. and Katherine G. Jackson Endowed Fund in Geosciences Address $ John A. and Katherine G. Jackson Exploration Geophysics Fund $ J. Donald Langston Special Operations Fund $ Jack H. Mayfield, Jr., Fund for Excellence in the Geological Sciences City $ Judd H. Oualline Endowment Fund $ Ed Owen–George Coates Fund $ James C. Patterson Fund for Excellence in the Geophysical Sciences $ Tobin International Geological Map Collection Fund State ZIP Code $ Glenn and Martha Vargas Endowment for Gems and Gem Minerals Instruction Please make checks payable to The University of Texas at Austin. $ Glenn and Martha Vargas Fund for Gem and Mineral Curation $ Joseph C. Walter, Jr., and Elizabeth C. Walter Geology Library Fund $ E. A. Wendlandt Fund $ Francis L. Whitney Memorial Book Fund If we have questions about your contributions, how may we contact you?

Lectureships

$ Edwin Allday Lectureship in Geological Sciences Phone ( ) $ Virgil E. and Mildred L. Barnes Distinguished Lecture Series in Geology $ Don R. and Patricia Kidd Boyd Lectureship in Petroleum Exploration $ Clara Jones Langston Centennial Lectureship in Vertebrate Paleontology Fax ( ) $ Fred L. and Frances J. Oliver Lectureship in Texas Hydrology and Water Resources $ Judd H. and Cynthia Oualline Centennial Lectureship in Geological Sciences $ Judd H. and Cynthia Oualline Centennial Lectureship in Petroleum Geology E-mail Join Us

We have under way a grand new enterprise, the Jackson School of Geosciences, which we anticipate will carry the geosciences at The University of Texas at Austin to great heights. We want all our Exes and friends to be a part of this enterprise. Your continuing support and input are important to us. This past year, we received gifts from more than 250 individuals and more than 50 groups. We appreciate each and every gift, and we pledge to make the most of your support.

One of the most important parts of the Newsletter is the response from Exes. This year, approximately 300 of you responded. We hope the number will continue to increase.

Contributions to the Geology Foundation may be made in the form of cash, bonds, life insurance, gift annuities, and tangible property such as real estate. Many major corporations provide matching funds for contributions made by employees and their spouses. The Foundation staff can assist in the arrangement of the match. For assistance or information, you may contact Doug Ratcliff at (512) 471-4968 or e-mail at [email protected] or me at (512) 471-5600 or e-mail at [email protected]. You may also visit us at our two Web sites, the Department of Geological Sciences at http://www.geo.utexas.edu or the Geology Foundation at http://www.geo.utexas.edu/ foundation/.

We appreciate your support. Bill Fisher, Director