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A Farewell to Peter Coneylegacy of Great Teaching, a Legacy of How Things Are Done in a Collaborative Spirit UA Geosciences Newsletter, Volume 4, Number 2 (Spring 1999) Item Type Newsletter Authors University of Arizona Department of Geosciences Publisher Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ) Rights Copyright © Arizona Board of Regents. The University of Arizona. Download date 26/09/2021 18:13:55 Link to Item http://hdl.handle.net/10150/295174 THE UNIVERSITYOF ARIZONA® The Department of Geosciences Spring 1999 . Volume 4, Number 2 Letter from the Chair Joaquin Ruiz Peter Coney's untimely death is the Department's sad news. In 1982 I read an ad in EOS describing a job opening at The University of Arizona.I had just finished my PhD dissertation on the origin of tin -rich rhyolites of the Sierra Madre Occidental in Mexico and had based many of my conclusions on Peter Coney's suspect terrane map of Mexico and his ideas of magmatism in the western US. I could barely wait to meet this scientist. His papers were imaginative and thought provoking. Of course, the papers reflected the man. After I got to know Peter, I was also struck by his humanity. Peter cared about people. He deeply cared for his students and was able to transmit to them his knowledge, his analysis and his calm. In fact, what made Peter such a remarkable individual Peter Coney in the northern Snake Range detachment fault. (photo by Peter DeCelles) was his genius combined with his humanity. Peter left us with many legacies -a legacy of great thinking of how the Earth works, a A Farewell to Peter Coneylegacy of great teaching, a legacy of how things are done in a collaborative spirit. This newsletter has a few sections dedicated to Peter and in fact our science article on sediment sources in North America through Bob Butler Receives Distinguished Active Tectonics Field Trip 9 time, by Jonathan Patchett, is the kind of study that Peter would have enjoyed. I am pleased Teaching Award 3 Alumni News 10 to announce that an endowment has been Junior Ed Program at Tucson Alumni Achievement Award: established by a generous alum creating a graduate fellowship in Peter Coney's name. Gem & Mineral Show 3 Mark Zoback 13 On the positive side, the Department continues to do well. In research and graduate In Memory of Peter Coney 4 GeoDaze '99 14 education, recent polls in U.S. News and Caledonian -Appalachian Sediment List of the Lost 16 World Report rank our Department 7th in the country, up from 9th last time around. The Deposition 300 MY Old 6 John Anthony Autobiography 17 Department ranked 4th in the subspecialties Center for Earth Surface Processes7 Recent Publications & Kudos to 18 of Tectonics /Structural Geology and Sedimentology. NSF figures place us as the SESS Field Trip: Sonora 8 Fall '98 Degrees 19 4th best funded department in 1998. In -cont'd p. 2 UA Geosciences N EWSLETTER DONORS Spring 1999 Department of Geosciences1998-1999 _;;:'% -- -- .. _.. Geosciences Advisory Board :,.;: Steven R. May, EXXON The Department of Geosciences expresses its gratitude to alumni and friends Steven R. Bohlen, USGS who continue to support the department through their generous donations. Regina M. Capuano, Univ. of Houston BERTS. BUfLER SCHOLARSHIP UNRESTRICEDFUND Kerry F. Inman, Consultant Joseph R. Mitchell Vivian G. Dell'Acqua Bernard W. Pipkin Charles F. Kluth, Chevron William R. & Jacqueline Dickinson Terrence M. Gerlach Robert W. Krantz, ARCO Alaska JamesF.Hays David J. Lofquist, EXXON FIELD CAMP FUND Charles F. Kluth Omar E. DeWald J. David Lowell, Consultant (Chevron Matching Gift) Charles W. Kiven Neal E McClymonds Stephen J. Naruk, Shell David A. McKeown David K. Rea, Univ. of Michigan David K. Rea KEITHL. KATZER SCHOLARSHIP (Cleveland H. Dodge Matching Gift) David Stephenson, D/H Stephenson, Inc. Alan C. Notgrass Jeffrey G. Seekatz William H. Wilkinson (Chair), Phelps -Dodge (Exxon Matching Gift) MAXWELLN.S HORT SCHOLARSHIP Joseph R. Mitchell The UA Geosciences Newsletter is CORPORATEDONORS published twice a year by the Amoco Foundation, Inc. Department of Geosciences ARCO Exploration & Production PO Box 210077 JOHN AND NANCY SUMNER SCHOLARSHIP BP Exploration, Inc. The University of Arizona Steven G. Natali Chevron USA Production Co. Tucson, AZ 85721 -0077 John R. Sumner Exxon Co., USA (Exxon Matching Gift) Boleyn E. Baylor, editor 520- 621 -6004 UA MINERALMUSEUM bbaylor @geo.arizona.edu UNRESTRICED SCHOLARSHIP FUND Dave Bunk Charles M. Bock Jesse E. Fisher Mary H. McCracken Russ Honea W. Lesley & Paula S. Presmyk Geosciences Home Page Ernie Schlichter http: / /www.geo.arizona.edu SUPPORTING ORGANIZATIONS William R. Smith Tucson Gem & Mineral Society Tucson Gem & Mineral Society Letter from the Chair cont'd successful field trip led by George Davis and fellowships and capital equipment. It is our Susan Beck to study active tectonics. intent to begin a fundraising campaign early undergraduate research, our Department's The Geosciences Advisory Board met next year. tradition of excellence in teaching was again again this year in conjunction with GeoDaze An obvious trend in this newsletter, and highlighted when Bob Butler was awarded the and effected some signifcant changes in its one that gives me great pleasure, is the College of Science Distinguished Teaching membership. Cycling off as Chair is Steve May. increase in the size of the Alumni News Award and Michell Hall -Wallace obtained We thank him for his efforts in getting our section. It is wonderful to get photos and news increased funding for the computer laboratory Advisory Board up and running. Will Wilkinson from all of you. It gives all of us here great for undergraduate education. Our very active was elected as the new Chair. Will brings his pride to hear that oa um 're doing well, undergraduate club, Society of Earth Science expertise in exploration geology for Phelps and we're happy t know that th '. newsletter Students, had a spectacular showing at the Dodge, an important company with direct ties helps in keeping in ouch. I wish yoall a good Tucson Gem and Mineral Show and a great to Arizona. One of the issues the Board summer. field trip to northern Sonora, including a visit discussed was the upcoming University Capital to the famous Cananea mine. Undergraduate Campaign and how the Department should and graduate students also enjoyed a start its own campaign to endow scholarships, page 2 The University of Arizona /Geosciences Newsletter Spring 1999 department and are valued for that effort. dinosaur. Kids then fill each cup of an egg I'm not sure I feel "distinguished" in your carton with a mineral or fossil donated by rock News company but I will accept this award in and mining companies. Once the carton is part as a representative of a department full, each child is teamed up with a UA student which certainly deserves recognition for who helps identify the minerals and discusses Around the superior teaching. -Bob Butler their characteristics, value and possible uses. "Kids tend to be fascinated with colorful and Junior Ed Program sparkling things and with dinosaurs," says Pete Department Kresan, faculty advisor to SESS. "It's a hook, but we try to go a lot deeper than the hook." Draws 5,000 Kids Almost 5,000 kids were hooked this year! Bob Butler Receives College of Science CLUE Gets Face Lift Visualizing geologic features in three Distinguished dimensions is one of the greatest challenges for beginning geoscientists. Michelle Hall - Teaching Award Wallace, Robert Butler and Peter Kresan were recently funded by the Learning Technologies Partnership at UA to help students improve their visualization skills through a number of methods. Students in their introductory courses will explore topographic geologic maps using software that shows the relationship between the two dimensional map and the three dimensional world. Students at all levels will learn to manipulate and create digital maps using GIS, which allows the user to create custom maps on demand using large databases of information. The team recently developed a GIS -based activity that investigates the impact of groundwater withdrawal in the Society of over the past 50 (SESS) presented its popular Junior Education working on others related to mineral exploration, Program in conjunction with the Tucson Gem plate tectonics, and seismic and volcanic hazards. and Mineral Show this February. Kids begin The grant provides $21,000 to upgrade the program in an exhibit area where they the Internet connections in classrooms and touch rocks, minerals, fossils, and dinosaur purchase six new computers for the Computer In recognition of his outstanding classroom bones. They look at speciments through a Lab for Undergraduate Education (CLUB). teaching, Bob Butler has been awarded the microscope, tackle an interactive geosciences They are seeking additional funds to upgrade College of Science Distinguished Teaching computer program, check out a 3 -D map ofthe remaining computers in the CLUB lab over Award. Bob consistently receives superb Arizona and compare their height to that of a the next year. evaluations from students for his commitment both to a quality education and to the students themselves. Aformidable education innovator within the department, Bob has driven much of the department's curriculum development and has also achieved NSF funding for educational efforts. Something I reflect on occasionally is the special culture and sense of community which our department possesses regarding our teaching functions. This is a department in which all faculty take their teaching seriously and the department staff (in my case primarily Norm Meader and Jo Ann Overs) provide major assistance which allows us to teach well. There are many excellent instructors in this department from whom I have learned much about teaching. Primary examples for me are Pete Kresan, Randy Richardson, George Gehrels, Michelle Hall - Wallace, and Julie Libarkin. It is particularly noteworthy that faculty and students who put major effort into their teaching are recognized within our The University of Arizona /Geosciences Newsletter Spring 1999 page 3 in French and Spanish, Peter then fulfilled and challenges to students.
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