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1999 Newsletter The University of Texas at Austin Department of Geological Sciences Mark Cloos, Chairman Department of Geological Sciences

William L. Fisher, Director Foundation

Mary Koch Managing Editor

Margaret L. Evans Layout and Design

Photos by Joseph Jaworski

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Old fence showing cedar posts exhumed by Hurricane Carla waves at Gulf Beach, Port Aransas, September 1961, after burial by dunes for unknown period of time but possibly 60 to 70 years. There was no trace of wire or staples on the fence posts.

Photo provided by Ernest L. Lundelius. 1999 Newsletter The University of Texas at Austin Department of Geological Sciences Cover: See related story inside.

(1). An aerial tramway takes workers from the mill area at a 10,000-foot elevation to the Ertsberg office complex 2 3 next to the Ertsberg pit at 12,000 feet. Photo provided by 1 4 Mark Cloos. (2). Roy Luck (right) leads field trip in 1998 for PT Freeport Indonesia geologists at the Lime Quarry, the site of some of his M.S. thesis work. Photo provided by 7 55 Mark Cloos.

(3). View looking south near the top of the Heavy Equipment Access Trail (HEAT Road) at 13,000-foot elevation with Ridge Camp barracks and workshops in the distance at 7,000-foot elevation. This road provides 8 6 direct vehicle access to the Grasberg Mine. Benyamin Sapiie mapped every structural feature along this winding road as part of his dissertation studies. Photo provided by Mark Cloos.

(4). The access road to the Ertsberg mining district. This spectacular road, an engineering marvel, was carved into the mountainside in 1969. Widening of the road in the early 1990’s provided fresh outcrops that were the basis of detailed stratigraphic and structural analysis by Andrew Quarles van Ufford and Benyamin Sapiie. The foreground roadcuts are lower Paleozoic strata. The top right peak is Zaagham Mountain, underlain by clastics. The top left ridge is underlain by limestone and capped with the glacial ice at a 15,000-foot elevation. Photo provided by Mark Cloos.

(5). The UT Ertsberg team arrives at overlook for Grasberg Mine. (Front row from left to right) Eric James, Benyamin Sapiie, Paul Warren. (Top row from left to right) Andrew Quarles van Ufford, Mark Cloos, Rich Weiland, Eric Beam, Tim McMahon, and Todd Housh. Photo provided by Mark Cloos.

(6). The Grasberg open pit in March, 1999, located at a 14,000-foot elevation in the highlands of Irian Jaya, Indonesia (west New Guinea). The Grasberg orebody, discovered by Freeport McMoRan, Inc. exploration geologists in 1988, contains the world’s third largest reserves of copper and largest proven reserves of gold. Open pit mining, now producing nearly 10 percent of the world’s new copper supply, will continue well into the next century, when decades of underground block cave mining will then begin. Photo provided by Steve Van Nort.

(7). Rich Weiland (bottom left), Benyamin Sapiie (upper right), and two Irianese field assistants discuss trail conditions. Photo provided by Mark Cloos.

(8). View looking northeast from the Grasberg Mine toward the Meren Valley fault zone in Cenozoic limestones. The Carstenz glaciers, located at 3°S, cap the ridges. Photo provided by Mark Cloos. Table of Contents

A Letter from the Chairman ...... 1 Faculty and Staff Listing ...... 2 Faculty Personal Notes ...... 4 The Ertsberg Project: 1989-1999 ...... 10 Field Work in New Guinea as Part of the Ertsberg Project ...... 17 Lundelius Symposium on Quaternary Vertebrate ...... 20 Department Hosts Symposium on Global and Environmental Change ...... 22 Gulf of Study Completed...... 24 Glenn and Martha Vargas Retire ...... 25 SIPES Makes Donation for Grants-in-Aid ...... 26 Faculty Awards and Honors ...... 26 Staff Awards ...... 27 Bill Muehlberger Receives Geological Society of America’s Structural Geology and Tectonics Division’s Best Paper Award ...... 28 Professor Daniel S. Barker Receives 1999 College of Natural Sciences Teaching Excellence Award...... 29 Professor Daniel S. Barker Retires ...... 30 In Memoriam: Dr. Samuel P. Ellison, Jr...... 31 In Memoriam: Gunther Karl Hoops ...... 32 Endowed Lecturers ...... 33 Visiting Speakers ...... 34 Speakers—Faculty and Staff in the Department of Geological Sciences...... 35 Student Speakers—Technical Sessions ...... 36 Research and Teaching Assistants, 1998-1999 ...... 38 Field Excursion to the Central Andes—GEO 381R ...... 39 Summer Field Camp 1999—GEO 660 ...... 41 Placement Office Update, 1998-1999 ...... 42 Student Awards and Honors ...... 43 Johanna A. Devereaux Receives AGU Award ...... 44 Karen I. D. Mohr Receives NASA Award ...... 44 Matthew Rodell Awarded NASA Earth System Science Fellowship ...... 45 Marcia L. Branstetter Receives Graduate Fellowship...... 45 Orlando J. Ortega Receives Minority Outreach Program Scholarship ...... 46 Calvin A. Lee Receives Goldwater Scholarship ...... 47 Jaime D. Barnes Receives UT Endowed Presidential Scholarship ...... 47 Students Receive University Co-Operative Society Undergraduate Research Fellowships ...... 48 Student Officers for Fall 1998 and Spring 1999 ...... 48 Graduate Student Executive Committee ...... 49 Graduate Fellowships, Scholarships, and Awards ...... 50 Undergraduate Scholarships and Awards ...... 53 Degrees Awarded ...... 55 Bureau of Economic Geology ...... 58 Institute for Geophysics ...... 59 Vertebrate Paleontology Laboratory—Thanksgiving in the ...... 61 Walter Geology Library...... 63 Geology Foundation Advisory Council News ...... 64 Gifts ...... 68 Geology Foundation Endowed Accounts ...... 71 Geology Foundation Advisory Council ...... 75 Memorials...... 77 Notes from the Alumni ...... 81 A Letter from the Chairman

Student and faculty awards continue geoscience department in the United to be numerous. Major awards went States. This past year more than to Dan Barker and Bill Muehlberger. 2,500 students were enrolled in our Professor Barker received the 1999 geoscience courses designed for non- College of Natural Sciences Teaching majors. These courses, a combination Excellence Award in recognition of his of formal lecture by a faculty member 36-year career of quality teaching. He and lab exercises guided by graduate retires at the end of the year to focus students working as teaching on research. Emeritus Professor assistants, attract some of our majors, Muehlberger received a Best Paper but each is really designed to forever Award from the Geological Society of open the eyes of students to the America for the recently published workings of science and the wonders Tectonic Map of , a of the planet on which they live. Leon monumental project that took more Long, Doug Smith, Sharon Mosher, than a decade of effort and involved Brenda Kirkland George, Gary Kocurek, collaboration with hundreds of Randy Marrett, Tim Rowe, Jay Banner, geoscientists. Chris Bell, Earle McBride, Jay Famiglietti, Jim Sprinkle, Jack Sharp, Glenn and Martha Vargas have ended and the 50 graduate student Teaching Each year the Newsletter chronicles their 24 years of coming from Assistants (TAs) who assisted them are to the history of the Department of California to teach faceting labs in the be commended for their exemplary Geological Sciences and reports news Gem and Gem Minerals Course taught efforts during this and past years. from alumni and the Geology by Earl Ingerson, Ed Jonas, and now Foundation. This year, our articles Mark Helper. They have provided The graduate program retains highlight the Lundelius Symposium on hands-on lab instruction to more than prominence in topical breadth. This Quaternary Vertebrate Paleontology 2,000 nonmajors—an experience point was again well exemplified by the and a symposium jointly sponsored none of them will forget. The 1999 U.S. News and World Report with the College of Natural Sciences Vargases have been great friends of rankings of graduate Ph.D. programs, on Global and Environmental Change. the Department, and their visits will which placed us #11 for overall These events, centered on an invited be missed. reputation. In four of six subdisciplines, group of distinguished guest speakers, we were ranked in the top 10: involved most of the students and We are saddened by the passing of sedimentology/ (#1), faculty in the Department as well as many Professor Samuel P. Ellison. Sam was hydrogeology (#6), tectonics/ members of other units on campus. a 31-year member of the faculty who structure (#6), and paleontology (#9). made a lasting impact. He spear- Our feature article concerns the headed the formation of the Geology We continue to be one of the flagships Ertsberg Project, a unique industry- Foundation, was a 10-year Chairman for geoscience education in the world. academia cooperative endeavor that of the Department, supervised dozens This Newsletter documents many of since 1989 has greatly enriched the of graduate students, and taught our activities during this past year that geoscience careers of several faculty, undergraduate geology to thousands have been supported by you through including myself, funded the studies of students over the years. We also the Geology Foundation. It was of more than a dozen graduate lost Karl Hoops, who worked for the another good year. We appreciate students, and provided practical Department as an analytical chemist your support, encouragement, and employment for dozens of under- for 22 years. His careful work understanding. Enjoy the Newsletter. graduates. We are most fortunate to impacted the studies of dozens of have the visionary James R. Moffett as faculty and students. Mark Cloos an alumnus heading an outward- looking company such as Freeport To our knowledge, we maintain the McMoRan, Inc. Applied and largest enrollments of both P.S. To check on programs, talks, and academic geoscience research can be undergraduate majors (177) and other events in the Department, see done together, with great benefits for all. graduate students (140) of any our Web site at www.geo.utexas.edu.

1 Faculty and Staff Listing

Professors, James S. (Jay) Famiglietti Earle F. McBride Assistant Professor and Bill R. Payne Professor and J. Nalle Gregory Associate Professors, Centennial Teaching Fellow Chair in Sedimentary Geology Assistant Professors, William L. Fisher Sharon Mosher Professor, Leonidas T. Barrow Professor and Wilton E. Scott and Lecturers Centennial Chair in Mineral Centennial Professor Resources, Director, Geology Foundation, and Director Ad Interim, Yosio Nakamura Bureau of Economic Geology Jay L. Banner Professor and Senior Research Associate Professor and Dave P. Scientist, Institute for Geophysics Carlton Centennial Fellow in Geology William E. Galloway Professor and Morgan J. Davis Timothy B. Rowe Centennial Professor in Daniel S. Barker Professor and J. Nalle Gregory Petroleum Geology Professor, The Fred M. Bullard Professor Regents Professor in in Geological Sciences, and The Third Geological Sciences Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Yager Professor Brenda Kirkland George Assistant Professor and William T. John M. (Jack) Sharp, Jr. Stokes Centennial Teaching Fellow Christopher J. Bell Professor and Chevron Centennial in Geological Sciences Assistant Professor and John A. Wilson Professor in Geology Fellow in Vertebrate Paleontology Stephen P. Grand Douglas Smith Associate Professor and Dave P. Philip C. Bennett Professor, Albert W. and Alice M. Carlton Centennial Fellow in Geology Associate Professor and John A. and Weeks Centennial Professor in Katherine G. Jackson Centennial Geological Sciences, and Teaching Fellow in Geological Sciences Bob A. Hardage Dave P. Carlton Centennial Senior Lecturer, Leslie Bowling Professor, Fellow in Geology Robert E. Boyer and Senior Research Scientist, Bureau of Economic Geology Professor and Peter T. Flawn James T. Sprinkle Centennial Chair in Geology Professor and The First Mr. and Mark A. Helper Mrs. Charles E. Yager Professor Richard T. Buffler Lecturer Professor and Senior Research Libby A. Stern Scientist, Institute for Geophysics Gary A. Kocurek Assistant Professor Professor and John E. “Brick” Elliott William D. Carlson Centennial Endowed Professor in Paul L. Stoffa Geological Sciences Professor and William Stamps Farish Professor, Shell Companies Foundation Chair in Geology Centennial Chair in Geophysics, and J. Richard Kyle Director, Institute for Geophysics Mark P. Cloos Professor and The Third Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Yager Professor Professor, Getty Oil Company Noel Tyler Centennial Chair in Geological Professor Sciences, and Chairman, Department Leon E. Long of Geological Sciences Professor and The Second Mr. and Willem C. J. van Rensburg Mrs. Charles E. Yager Professor Professor and J. H. Herring Centennial James N. Connelly Professor in Petroleum Engineering Assistant Professor and Elf Aquitaine F. Jerry Lucia Petroleum Faculty Fellow in Senior Lecturer and Senior Research Clark R. Wilson Geological Sciences Fellow, Bureau of Economic Geology Professor and Wallace E. Pratt Professor in Geophysics Ian W. D. Dalziel Randall A. Marrett Professor and Senior Research Assistant Professor and Joyce Bowman Scientist, Institute for Geophysics Payne Centennial Teaching Fellow

2 Professors Emeriti John A. Wilson Technical Staff Jeffrey S. Horowitz Milo M. Backus Keith Young Computer Illustrator Professor and Shell Companies J. Nalle Gregory Professor Emeritus in Foundation Distinguished Chair Sedimentary Geology Joseph Jaworski Emeritus in Geophysics Photographer II Research Scientists Kathryn A. Manser Leonard F. Brown, Jr. Kurt L. Bartelmehs Research Scientist Associate I Research Associate and Coordinator of Stephen E. Clabaugh Computational Resources Larry D. Reep Fred M. Bullard Professor Emeritus Scientific Instrument Maker II in Geological Sciences Matthew W. Colbert Hugh W. Stimson Research Scientist Associate III Technical Staff Assistant V Peter T. Flawn Leonidas T. Barrow Chair Emeritus in Wulf A. Gose Gregory L. Thompson Mineral Resources and President Emeritus Research Scientist and Senior Lecturer Technical Staff Assistant III Robert L. Folk Dennis R. Trombatore Todd B. Housh Librarian, Walter Geology Library Dave P. Carlton Centennial Professor Research Associate Emeritus in Geology Cassia H. Wolfson Eric W. James Research Scientist Associate II Claude W. Horton Research Scientist Associate V

Edward C. Jonas Richard A. Ketcham Administrative Staff Research Associate Lynton S. Land Julie A. Buchanan Edwin Allday Centennial Chair F. Leo Lynch, III Administrative Assistant Emeritus in Subsurface Geology Research Associate Arturo Gutierrez, Jr. Administrative Associate Wann Langston, Jr. Lawrence E. Mack The First Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Research Scientist Assistant Betty J. Kurtz Yager Professor Emeritus Administrative Assistant Fred W. McDowell Ernest L. Lundelius, Jr. Miriam L. Pashby Research Scientist and Senior Lecturer John A. Wilson Professor Emeritus in Administrative Assistant Vertebrate Paleontology Kitty L. Milliken John R. Ready Senior Procurement Officer Arthur E. Maxwell Lecturer and Research Associate Debra Sue Trinque Julia W. Stowell John C. Maxwell Accounting Technician Research Associate William Stamps Farish Chair Emeritus in Geology Renee A. Waters Student Development Specialist III William R. Muehlberger Visiting Scholars William I. Woods Peter T. Flawn Centennial Chair Oscar A. Alcober Executive Assistant Emeritus in Geology University of San Juan, , and Museo de Ciencias Naturales Amos Salvador Geology Foundation Morgan J. Davis Centennial Professor Huan Zhang Lu Mary E. Koch Emeritus in Petroleum Geology University of Quebec Senior Administrative Associate

3 Faculty Personal Notes

Dan Barker taught Earth Materials the structure and stratigraphy of the Bill Fisher continues to enjoy his in the fall semester and Volcanology crater. The first results were published new career of full-time teaching, in the spring. Last July, he and in Nature (December 4, 1997), and research, and graduate student Rosemary went to Cape Town, South more papers are in the works. Dick is supervision. His students are involved Africa, for the International also working with Bill Galloway on a in a range of research, working from Volcanological Congress. They major industry-funded project to reservoir- to basinwide-scale in four enjoyed field trips along the Lebombo synthesize the Cenozoic depositional different . Bill continues to monocline in eastern South Africa, to history of the entire give a number of outside invited granites along the southwest coast, Basin. They have just completed lectures each year and continues to and to Mesozoic-Cenozoic volcanic the first 3-year phase of the project, work with such outside groups as the rocks in Namibia. All involved good and it has been extended for another Gas Research Institute, the National company, strange vegetation and 2 years. Dick currently has a Ph.D. Petroleum Council, the National wildlife, and even some strange rocks student, Qunling Liu, finishing his Research Council, and the National much to Dan’s liking. In October, the dissertation on the late Cenozoic Academy of Engineering. During the Geological Society of America lured sequence stratigraphy and history of year, he chaired the Department’s them to Toronto; attractions included the northeastern Gulf. He also has Exploration Geophysics Search seeing old friends and going on a field three students working on field Committee. Bill also directs the trip in the Haliburton-Bancroft area projects: one (Juan Bermudez, Ph.D.) Geology Foundation and enjoys (with fall foliage at its peak, and more is working on the sequence working with that marvelous strange rocks). stratigraphy of Upper Cretaceous institution and its distinguished rocks in the Parras Basin, northeastern Advisory Council. In June 1999, at In April, Dan was honored by being Mexico, and two Master’s students the request of the university selected to receive the College of (Laura Faulkenberry and Joy Griffin) administration, he took on the Natural Sciences Teaching Excellence are studying rift sedimentation and additional task of serving as Director Award in Geological Sciences. tectonics in southwestern New Ad Interim of the Bureau of Economic Because he had long ago vowed to do Mexico. Another exciting project is Geology. He will serve until a new teaching and research until he could the study of late Cenozoic rift Director is named, probably by the get one of them right, he decided this sedimentation, volcanism, and end of the year. was a good time to retire. He and tectonics in the southern Red Rosemary look forward to travel (two Sea-northern Danakil region of Eritrea, After stepping down as Interim scientific meetings in France in Africa. Here Dick is working with President in 1998, Peter T. Flawn September). There is also that pile of colleague Bob Walter (Royal Ontario returned to his previous activities uncompleted research and, even more Museum, Toronto) on developing a involving service on boards, challenging, an office that has not geologic framework for early hominid commissions, committees, and been cleaned out since it was first migration and evolution. They spent consulting. Currently, he serves as occupied 32 years ago. one and a half months in the field this Chairman of the Board of Southwest past winter, despite the flaring up of Research Institute in San Antonio. Dick Buffler’s main research hostilities along the border between He is a member of The University interests still involve the study of Eritrea and Ethiopia. The project is Development Board and serves on a ocean basins and adjacent margins funded by the National Science number of University Advisory using geological and geophysical Foundation. A geologist from Eritrea Councils, including the College of tools, mainly the application of (Berhane Negassi) will attend UT Natural Sciences, Marine Science sequence stratigraphy. However, he is starting this fall in the Master’s Institute, McDonald Observatory, slowly migrating back to doing more program, and he will help with Geology Foundation, and University studies on land. He now is working working up the data collected. of Texas Press. As a consultant to the on the interpretation of seismic data Dick continues to commute between O’Donnell Foundation, he is involved collected over the offshore part of the Austin and Berkeley, where his with the construction of the new Chicxulub KT along the wife Pat has a faculty position Applied Computational and north coast of Yucatan, Mexico. at UC Berkeley School of Engineering Sciences building. These data reveal new details about Public Health.

4 Robert L. Folk‘s battle with The Folk team gave a poster session project for Bill with Patricia Ganey- biologists still goes on, with respect to on nannobacteria-like carbon balls in Curry, Dick Buffler, and Xiang Li the nannobacteria idea. By now, a carbonaceous at Toronto carried out through the Institute for few other microbiologists around the GSA and on nannobacterial Geophysics. world have convinced themselves that weathering of igneous rocks in there exist, in fact, quasi-living Providence, Rhode Island, regional The Gulf of Mexico Basin organisms in the 0.1 micron range. GSA. Marge went with Bob both Depositional Synthesis (UT-GBDS They have made chemical analyses times, and they both enjoyed Toronto, for short) project successfully showing that they consist of C, N, and Niagara Falls, Providence (especially completed its 3-year phase I in O (= organic matter), have cultured the Italian Quarter of Federal Hill), August. The combination of late them, and have gotten positive DNA and Newport. A book entitled Dark additions and ongoing enthusiasm of evidence, so there is no doubt that has been published by Michael most participating companies led to there is some form of life (no matter Ray Taylor (1999), which gives a initiation of phase II, which will what name one wants to use) in the 90-percent-correct-version of the continue through 2000. nannometer size range between discovery of nannobacteria on earth viruses and bacteria. Yet, opposition (Viterbo) and its contagious expansion Ongoing student projects for Bill is still formidable. In October 1998, to the idea of extraterrestrial life, include initiation of studies by new the National Academy of Sciences in scientific politics, and the many Ph.D. students focused on the Washington held a meeting of potential medical applications. Miocene depositional history of the eminent biologists who once again central Gulf of Mexico and the late erected a Maginot Line of 0.2 microns This June, the BBC made a docu- Quaternary history of the Brazos as the “lower boundary of life,” which mentary of Brenda’s student Courtney River. The geologic framework for has been biodogma for a century. Turich and Bob as they worked at the these studies grew partly out of the New facts attacking old wineskins! Viterbo hot springs, and as they results of the GBDS synthesis. At UT, we now have a viable crew evaluated the Martian connection. Ongoing student projects include working on the problem, with Wait until you see where Bob arranged combined well and 3-D seismic varying degrees of conversion to the for them to stay in Viterbo: the characterization of Miocene strata of “pro-life” cause. F. Leo Lynch and Albergo Roma, at $15 a night. In July, the southwest inner shelf Bob have been working since 1995 Marge and Bob finally took a and Frio depositional history in the on Bahamian oolitic and vacation—a riverboat trip from St. Burgos Basin, Mexico. Italian clays, both of which have Petersburg to Moscow, then to extraordinary nannobacteria-like Bucharest to see the total solar As Technical Program Chairman for textures. Brenda Kirkland George and eclipse. the 1999 AAPG/SEPM, Bill was Bob McLean (Microbiology Professor, personally gratified with the success Southwest Texas State University at The Department’s last link with of the meeting despite the uncertainty San Marcos) went with Bob to Viterbo mineralogy and shale petrology will of the geoscience profession. Of a last summer and got acculturated to disappear as the invaluable F. Leo special interest was the inaugural boondocks Italy. They did Lynch leaves for a teaching job at session for a thematic program built professional microbiologically-kosher Mississippi State (finally!). around depositional systems. The sampling, as opposed to his random inaugural session began with talks by snatching of encrusted coke cans. Bill Galloway was able to use Bill Fisher, Frank Brown, and Al Scott, Later, Jenna Zampino Rodell joined project funds to buy research leave for in which each presented his own Bob to work at Viterbo. Thanks to the spring 1999 semester and devoted personal perspective on the Jenna’s nose, they were able to locate full time to this and related research development, evolution, and future of a hidden ancient sulfurous spring, and writing projects. The results have the “depositional system” paradigm. used by local washer-wimmen near been presented at several meetings, It was great fun for many to see all Campobasso, Molise. Ian Molineux, including the 1999 AAPG/SEPM three together again. Besides the San UT biologist, is directing the lab meeting in San Antonio. This has Antonio meeting, Galloway also experiments and attempts to culture been an exciting hands-on research attended invited research conferences nannos.

5 on deep-water reservoirs in of Oregon and a trip to in opportunity for six UT graduate Trondheim, , and the July to give an invited talk at the students. Rich and his graduate Guadalupe Mountains of West Texas. IUGG conference. He also began students continue to conduct research work on a field project with graduate on diverse topics within the broad Bill’s own research includes ongoing student Eric Matzel. This project will field of economic geology. Mark GBDS synthesis and database place 65 seismometers in a linear Ulrich is finishing a Master’s project expansion. He is participating in the array from West Texas across the Rio on the Winnfield cap rock, and Jeff development of a relational database Grande Rift and into the Colorado Harrison is completing his Master’s and synthesis of “deep water sand Plateau in order to image the thesis on alteration and mineralization bodies,” in cooperation with the lithosphere and asthenosphere in of the Grasberg porphyry Cu-Au Energy and Geosciences Institute at unprecedented detail beneath this deposit. Asif Muzaffar is starting a the University of Utah. In addition, tectonically interesting region. After project on the Davis Hill dome in ongoing work into depositional freezing for 3 months in Tokyo, it was coastal Texas, while Jim Corboy is architecture and development of quite a change to be digging seismic planning a project on carbonate- shallow marine erosion surfaces vaults in Socorro in 103oF hosted mineralization in Peru. Rich is continues using well, 2-D, and 3-D temperatures. The seismic spending the summer finishing some seismic data from the North Sea basin. deployment began in late June and manuscripts, including one on the will continue through the following origin of the calcite-sulfur-barite Steve Grand had a very busy year. 14 months. deposits of the Delaware Basin that During the fall, he taught exploration formed through the interaction of geophysics for the first time and also Rich Kyle reports a productive and meteoric water, basinal formation was the chairman of the seismology rewarding year of teaching and waters, petroleum, and bacteria. section for the fall American research. He taught the under- Geophysical Union meeting in graduate course on Texas geology and Linda’s fitness and health articles are December. There were over mineral resources and the graduate continuing to be published in North 700 abstracts submitted last year to economic geology course during the America, , Africa, Asia, and the fall meeting, and this was the first fall semester. Spring semester . Brett advances to the time Steve had to read every one of provided an atypical teaching 11 th grade at Connally High School, them. Upon returning from the AGU challenge when Rich volunteered to while Brock prepares for his second meeting, Steve left for in late teach the undergraduate petroleum year at UT. Brock is the creator of December for a 3-month stint as a geology course while Bill Galloway Everymac.com and has designed Web visiting professor at the was on research leave. Nick Lemon pages for Rich’s courses. Research Institute in Tokyo. While of the University of Adelaide’s Centre there, he gave weekly seminars to for Petroleum Geology and In the fall semester, Leon Long graduate students on seismic Geophysics visited in April. Rich taught the graduate course in isotope waveforms and was invited to present took Nick on a tour of some Gulf geology and the large-enrollment a paper at an international workshop Coast salt domes—notably Winnfield introductory course (GEO 303) with on “Super Plumes” as well as a visit in northern Louisiana—to return Doug Smith, who had been a team to the International Institute of Nick’s courtesy of having shown him partner many times before. For the Seismology and Earthquake the salt diapirs of South Australia spring offering of GEO 303, Leon Engineering in Tsukuba. At ERI, Steve last summer. The teaching highlight teamed with Libby Stern, who has just collaborated with Hitoshi Kawakatsu of the year was the Regional Studies arrived in the Department. This year, and Yoshio Fukao, two of Japan’s in Mineral Resources Geology course, he had an especially good class for leading global seismologists, on which culminated in a 3-week trip to the field course taught during projects related to imaging the interior northern . (See the separate Intersession. These students are well of planet Earth. While Tokyo was article on GEO 381R Field Excursion motivated and filled with enthusiasm fascinating, Steve never quite got used to the Central Andes.) Rich, Bill for doing geology, even though none to raw fish and returned home about Chavez of New Mexico Tech, and of them are majoring in the subject. 15 pounds lighter than when he left. Erich Petersen of the University of He continues to be the Department’s Back in Texas, Steve remained busy Utah organized this trip, which undergraduate advisor, and in that with an invited talk at the University provided an exceptional educational role, he counsels yet other

6 enthusiastic students who want to Mountain proposed nuclear waste the Oceanography course about make the right decision as they repository, and coauthored another 20 years ago. Students now expect to contemplate a major in geology. presentation on faulting and find a complete set of course notes Working with his committee, Leon landslides in the Central Andes. For and old exams on a Web site specific authorizes tens of thousands of the spring AAPG meeting, he co-led a to a given course. Spring courses Geology Foundation scholarship field trip to the Sierra Madre Oriental taught included Sedimentary Rocks, dollars every year to be awarded to in Mexico, along with former UT team-taught with Brenda Kirkland worthy undergraduates. Last fall, he faculty member James Lee Wilson, George, and Introductory Field gave a poster session at the Toronto former UT grad students Mario Methods, team-taught with Mark Geological Society of America Aranda and Rion Camerlo, as well as Helper. In addition to five Saturdays meeting and was busy preparing Bill Ward and James Jones. In the in the field, Mark and Earle took the manuscripts for publication. During spring, he also attended the third field methods group to the Marathon the past year, his really big push, once-per-decade Thrust Tectonics Uplift over a weekend. Dr. Antar however, was a massive rewrite of meeting at Royal Holloway University Abdel-Wahab, a long-time Geology, the introductory textbook, in , where he coauthored collaborator from Egypt, joined which now will be combined with the posters on fold development in two Earle in attending the AAPG-SEPM lab manual into one volume. Leon is areas of Mexico with Mario Aranda meeting in April in San Antonio, both his own author and artist, doing and Rion Camerlo. Texas, where both gave presentations. computer graphics. This was a Earle was awarded the Houston Oil sustained around-the-clock effort Field work over the past year included and Minerals Faculty Excellence resulting in a huge sleep deficit! Leon the Yucca Mountain area of southern Award in May. The departmental is very pleased to have been inducted Nevada and two trips to the Sierra award in part was in recognition of into UT’s Academy of Distinguished Madre Oriental fold-thrust belt of 4 years’ service as the Graduate Teachers this year. Mexico. One of the latter trips Advisor to the department’s focused on salient development in ~160 graduate students. Randy Marrett taught Field Camp Mexico. He hopes to finish field work last summer, as has become his for this project during the coming Earle started the summer by team- custom. He had an asymmetric summer. The other campaign of field teaching 2 weeks of GEO 660, the teaching load for the 1998-1999 work in Mexico initiated studies on summer field course. The first academic year, freeing him from fractured carbonate reservoirs with 2 weeks of the course have typically teaching in the fall. During the grad students Orlando Ortega and been devoted to sedimentary geology spring, he taught Physical Geology Faustino Monroy and post-doc Julia projects in the Guadalupe Mountains, and his graduate course on Brittle Stowell. Javier Moros is nearing Sacramento Mountains, and Ghost Structure. This was the third time he’s completion of his Master’s thesis on Ranch area (all in New Mexico), and taught Brittle Structure, and the aperture systematics along extension Durango, Colorado. After the field enrollment has doubled each time, fractures, and Laura Rico is likewise course, Earle (and Donna) went to reaching 26 this past year. This finishing her thesis on detachment Italy to collect samples, data, and his pattern can’t continue! folding in the Sierra Madre Oriental. thoughts. He is finishing up his study During the past year, Mario Aranda of honeycombed weathering along During the fall last year, Randy was and Rion Camerlo finished their theses the Tuscan coast and the origin of honored to give the keynote address on detachment folding in the elongate calcite-cemented concretions at the first ever National Meeting of Monterrey Salient and growth strata in Tuscany and Sardinia. Part of the Earth Sciences in Mexico. He also on contractional folds in the southern time was spent conferring with made a presentation at a symposium Gulf of Mexico, respectively. collaborators in Modena. After in Pacific Grove, California, to define returning to Texas, Earle and graduate New Directions for U.S. Rock In the fall semester, Earle McBride student Aysen Ozkan went to the field Mechanics, sponsored by the taught his graduate in and to sample American Rock Mechanics petrology course plus the Introduction the Flathead Quartzite for a Association. At the fall AGU meeting, to Oceanography course that had petrographic-diagenetic study by he presented a talk on extension previously been taught by Lynton Aysen. Earle, Kitty Milliken, and rates in the region of the Yucca Land. He and Lynton introduced Antar Abdel-Wahab recently

7 completed their study of the as her mom and no longer rollerskates North America that you all have read diagenetic history of the Cambrian down the fourth floor hallway. about for the many years it took to Hickory Sandstone in the Llano be completed. region, and the Flathead study will Sharon Mosher had a very fulfilling provide another case study of a year teaching, supervising graduate Working on tectonic modules for Cambrian cratonic sandstone. students, and working in the astronaut training by using One problem to solve is the question: Precambrian basement of Texas. photographs taken from the Space If these are so old, how Her major synthesis paper on the Shuttle or by our astronauts aboard come they are still so porous that tectonic evolution of the southern the Russian Space Station Mir you can blow through them? Earle margin of Laurentia came out in the continues for Bill. Arabian Plate also had time to collect beach and fall, and other Texas basement papers tectonics are available to them and river sands on Hawaii with Duke are on the way. She and her students hopefully will appear on the EOL web Picard. They are trying to quantify the spent most of the year testing her link from Johnson Space Center in the length of time it takes for basalt sand proposed tectonic models and near future. Bill is now working on grains to become rounded by abrasion exploring more of the Llano Uplift of the Indian Plate crash, which involves in the beach. Central Texas. Two of her Ph.D. most of Asia! It will take time. students, Rob Reed and Steve Grimes, Kitty Milliken continues to work finished this summer, and a Master’s This summer, Bill took the new with a variety of projects in the student, Justin Zumbro, will finish astronaut class (the 17th!) on their microbeam laboratories, advising both this fall. Teaching involved Earth, geological field trip to northern New students and faculty on imaging and Wind & Fire, a very fun course to Mexico. A geophysical day has been analysis problems. This past year, teach, and her graduate Advanced added to acquaint them with the Kitty oversaw the acquisition of a Structural Geology course. She really utility of geophysics for investigating digital microscope camera that gives enjoys teaching both and especially the subsurface (something they will be the Department the option of likes the opportunity to get to know doing when they return to the Moon collecting light microscopy data in the freshmen and new graduate students. or go on to Mars). The day project same high-resolution formats they Outside service on review panels was initiated and successfully have been enjoying for images on the and national committees continued, integrated into the trip by Pat SEM and microprobe. Kitty’s research with a major effort put into the Dickerson (UT Geology B.A., 1970, continues to be focused on the trace- Geological Society of America’s Ph.D., 1995). They work in element chemistry of authigenic Annual Program Committee as Chair. conjunction with New Mexico carbonates and also on the The new Annual Meeting program Bureau of Mines staff who have been application of cathodoluminescence structure inaugurates this fall in carefully mapping the Taos region in for examining the interrelationships Denver, Colorado, and a new Field an attempt to understand the location between deformation and Forum program for Penrose-type field and quantity of groundwater in that cementation in sandstones. An conferences starts in 2000, both of region. Their gravity profiles interesting new research focus arose which were major accomplishments contribute to locating buried faults this year, serendipitously, when the of her committee. Her daughters are under the alluvial fan cover and have Department took advantage of an growing up—Sarah (15) and Lisa (12) helped in resolving several geological/ opportunity to acquire a high- keep life interesting and give mom hydrological dilemmas. resolution real-time 3-D microscope. lots of driving practice! The possible applications of this new Sally and Bill have been doing as instrument are still being explored, The big event of this year for much traveling as possible: but a utility for examining bacterial Bill Muehlberger was receiving the last fall, AAPG in San Antonio, their structures (normal-sized ones!) is Best Paper Award from the Structure/ 50th college reunions (required two apparent. Kitty reports that Steve Tectonics Division of the Geological trips to California because Scripps and continues to enjoy his work with the Society of America at its annual Caltech scheduled them weeks Railroad Commission of Texas and meeting in Toronto last October. It apart!), (with their 11-year-old that Katy is now nearly the same size was given for the Tectonic Map of granddaughter who wanted to see

8 Monet’s gardens!), Port Ludlow, hour’s walk from camp, so all the paleontology course and several other Washington (on Olympic Peninsula water and plaster had to be carried in, classes. During the Thanksgiving side of Puget Sound for family reunion and the bones were carried out on break he took the vertebrate and celebration of their 50th wedding their backs. But in the end the crew paleontology class to Big Bend anniversary), , and Finland in returned to UT with some significant National Park to hunt for Cretaceous late August—early September (to that are now being prepared at vertebrate fossils. This summer, Tim continue the celebration!). the Vertebrate Paleontology Lab. and his students spent another season hunting fossil vertebrates in the For the second consecutive year, Back on campus, Tim’s work on Mesozoic. Tim Rowe and a crew of students CT scanning fossils continued in the went into the field on the Colorado new High Resolution X-ray CT Amos Salvador continues to work Plateau of northern Arizona, to hunt Facility. In its two years of operation, on two main areas: stratigraphy for vertebrate fossils. Accompanying visitors from all over the world have and the estimation of the consumption them was Dr. Oscar Alcober, a brought their finest and most and possible sources of supply of postdoctoral fellow from the interesting specimens to UT to be energy during the 21st century. In University Natural History Museum scanned in this one-of-a-kind facility. stratigraphy, work continued in of San Juan, Argentina. They were To help this effort along, the National coordinating the efforts of a working also joined by two graduate students Science Foundation provided a group attempting to clearly define and a staff member from Harvard $500,000 grant to develop an some of the concepts and terminology University, and UT’s Dr. Chris Bell Internet-based digital library of of sequence stratigraphy. In the came in for a week to help out as vertebrate morphology. The grant will energy project, he completed during well. The crew spent 7 weeks start up this summer, and it will help the last year the study of the supply camping in the high desert of the to bring more important and potential of “conventional” natural Navajo Indian Reservation, where spectacular fossils to UT to be gas and is now working on they were looking for primitive scanned and studied. It will also help “unconventional” sources of gas: and other extinct to train more geology students in the coalbed methane, “tight sands,” vertebrates in the Lower Jurassic latest digital tools for studying geology black shales, hydrates, and Kayenta Formation. They also and paleontology. geopressured gas reservoirs. worked with the Navajo Nation Ecoscouts program, an educational Tim also began his new duties as Doug Smith has been continuing organization aimed at training young Director of the Vertebrate his professional and personal students growing up on the Plateau Paleontology Lab, taking over for involvement in the Colorado Plateau in the natural history and ecology of Professor Ernest Lundelius, Jr., who and adjoining regions. Together with the region. retired last August. Rowe’s first friends and relatives, he enjoyed a official activity at VPL was to organize raft trip through the Grand Canyon. The previous summer, Rowe’s crew an open house as part of the Lundelius He has also managed to spend the had prospected the rugged cliffs of the Symposium on Quaternary last several summers in Durango, Little Colorado River valley and Paleontology, which was held in Colorado, at the very edge of the discovered several tantalizing sites but honor of Dr. Lundelius’ long and Plateau country. Of course, that didn’t have time to explore them fully. productive career. With a new paint location has brought many This year, they went back to excavate job and major building repairs now opportunities to collect volcanic the sites and to see what they had completed, VPL hosted rocks, xenoliths, and even the odd found. One of these sites contained paleontologists from around the sedimentary rock or two. The rocks several partial intertwined world who came to pay their respects are being studied to build a story skeletons, representing at least two and participate in the symposium. about the evolution of the American different species. The site was During the academic year, Tim also Southwest, from the basement up. extremely difficult to work, being an taught his undergraduate vertebrate

9 The Ertsberg Project: 1989-1999 Freeport-McMoRan and The University of Texas at Austin by Mark Cloos

In this era of shrinking government support of academic research, it has often been said that industry and academia should be able to find new ways to work together. In the geo- sciences and at UT, a unique program began in 1989 involving a long-term corporate vision of what can be accomplished jointly to enhance the education of students and faculty at a Tembagapura, Indonesian, for “copper town,” is nestled in a valley located at an university and applied scientists in a elevation of 7,000 feet on the southern flank of the Central Range of New Guinea. company while generating a fountain Nearly 17,000 employees of PT Freeport Indonesia live in this community. UT students of published scientific knowledge for and faculty lived in an apartment in this town when doing field work in the mining the benefit of all. district. Photo provided by Mark Cloos.

Near glaciated peaks in the remote the Ertsberg district high-temperature connection brought Freeport- mountains of Irian Jaya, Indonesia, skarns along the margin of a large, McMoRan Copper and Gold (FM), its (west part of the island of New essentially barren igneous intrusion, Indonesian mining subsidiary PT Guinea), geologists of Freeport- but the Grasberg orebody is localized Freeport Indonesia (PTFI), and the McMoRan discovered the billion-ton- within the center of a small igneous Department of Geological Sciences at plus Grasberg copper-gold orebody in intrusion? Why do the limestone wall The University of Texas at Austin (UT) early 1988. This gigantic deposit was rocks surrounding the Grasberg show together in a long-term partnership found near the middle of the Ertsberg so little evidence of heating, let alone unique to the geosciences and Mining District, only 2 km from the economic mineralization in the perhaps all of science Ertsberg mine. The district had been neighborhood? How were the in production for nearly 20 years, and Ertsberg and Grasberg igneous the end of mining of known ore complexes related? What were the The Connection deposits was in sight. Sale of the geologic factors that controlled the The UT-FM connection began in mining rights was considered before localization of high-grade 1961, when James R. Moffett received the new Freeport-McMoRan CEO hydrothermal mineralization in skarn his B.S. degree with honors from our James R. Moffett ordered a renewed or intrusion? A long-standing Department. He is an alumnus who exploration effort. The discovery of academic question was, why are there considers the technical training he the Grasberg orebody and the igneous intrusions in the middle of a received at UT as the foundation for recognition that it was not just a mountain belt generated by an arc- his numerous accomplishments in significant deposit, but a world-class collision—a tectonic setting exploration and business. But the tie orebody that dwarfed the reserves in which seemingly should inhibit the goes far beyond simply receiving a the original deposit for which the generation and rise of magmas? degree. He did field work and wrote district is named, immediately led to Obviously, the company wanted to an undergraduate honors thesis that many questions. know if there were something unique addressed an academic research about the Grasberg that would question. Moffett studied the pattern How could the geologic clues of the preclude the existence of another one of jointing in outcrops of the Red existence of Grasberg be so few? somewhere in the region. Scientific Mountain Gneiss near Llano, Texas. Why are the original ore deposits of questions such as these and a special This academic study was supervised

10 by then Assistant Professor Robert E. Foundation-funded field conference to 3-year research grant from FM. We Boyer. Moffett’s work and that of a examine the collision zone geology of outlined a broad range of projects for fellow student resulted in a research the Papuan highlands. I thought that which we thought we had the paper published in the Texas Journal this trip, organized by Eli Silver at the technical expertise to undertake. of Science that was co-authored with University of California at Santa Cruz, Without visiting the site, we Dr. Boyer. The formal publication of would be a once-in-a-lifetime experience. envisioned that our studies would undergraduate geoscience research largely be Master’s theses on structural was exceptional in 1961 and remains Over Christmas and early spring geology, sedimentology, igneous uncommon today. semester, Professor J. R. Kyle and I did petrology, and ore deposits, with our the appropriate library research and own work providing linkage. The original In the fall of 1988, following the wrote an NSF-style proposal for a plan was that the Master’s theses would discovery of the Grasberg orebody, CEO Moffett brought his former teacher, Professor Boyer (then Dean of the UT College of Natural Sciences) over to Irian Jaya to visit the Ertsberg District. During the visit, Moffett asked Boyer if he thought students and faculty from UT would be interested in doing geologic research in the mining district. With the renewed exploration efforts of the company and the infra- structure of the mining district, a logistical base existed for field studies in a geologically exciting but very remote part of the world.

Upon Boyer’s return, he asked if I were interested in working there, as I was the only other faculty member in our Depart- ment who had ever been to New Guinea. By coincidence, I had visited mainland Papua New Guinea (PNG) for nearly three weeks in the summer of 1988 as part of a United Nations- Rich Weiland (left) and Mark Cloos (right) inspecting river float during regional sponsored, National Science reconnaissance in the highlands of Irian Jaya in 1995. Photo provided by Mark Cloos.

11 be based upon field work completed that it was unlikely that quality UT Regional Studies during a single visit to Irian Jaya. Master’s projects could be completed in single visits. We changed the plan Begin in 1993 UT Project Startup so that the first wave of UT students Since 1993, our field studies have in 1989 would make multiple visits as Ph.D. expanded into the other parts of the aspirants with the goal of developing highlands of Irian Jaya for which PTFI Over spring break 1989, Kyle and I a broad and integrated foundation of had obtained mineral exploration visited the Ertsberg district to assess knowledge. With an initial grant of rights. During this work, we traveled logistics and identify projects for $1,000,000, we began to advertise on the coattails of the PTFI regional students. After spending less than 1 this opportunity. Not surprisingly, exploration program. Their work was day with Chief Geologist, Dave Potter, there was no shortage of interested the basis for the selection of small we knew why the geology of the students, and the first field team began areas for detailed field studies. district was still poorly known. The work in July, 1989. extremely rugged topography, with PTFI geologists involved in the tundra starting at 3 to 4 km elevations For the first years of the project, regional exploration program are and thick jungle below, daily rain almost all of our studies were within regularly hoisted into and out of the 2 (totaling more than 450 inches per the 100 km (25,000 acre) Contract of jungle from a hovering helicopter, a year at the base of the mountain), and Work (COW) of the Ertsberg District procedure that minimizes, if not the cold climate make field work slow and along the Timika-Tembagapura- eliminates, an environmental impact and tedious, with safety being a major Mill access road. We had an from exploration because trails or concern. Freeport had done much apartment in Tembagapura and ate landing pads rarely need to be work on the applied geology of the breakfast and dinner in one of the established. In the interest of safety, ore-bearing skarns, but from the company mess halls. Little overnight our detailed field work was restricted perspective of regional geology, the camping was done. Every day, each to areas where there are clearings for 1939 paper by J. J. Dozy, the Dutch person or group ventured off to the helicopter landings such as gravel geologist who discovered the Ertsberg location of their work, often assisted bars along rivers or where temporary in 1936, remained a benchmark. by one or two of the many Irianese helipads had been constructed. The who work for the PTFI geology students working in remote areas As nearly every facet of the regional department. These assistants became required helicopter insertion and geology was uncertain, we decided trusted friends. commonly lived in “fly-camps” with local Irianese assistants employed by PTFI. For safety, daily radio communication was maintained with PTFI base camps. (See accompanying article by Richard Weiland describing his experience doing field work in Irian Jaya.) Geologic Knowledge in 1999 Exploration and mine geologists, working under the direction of Chief Geologists Tom Collinson, Dave Mayes, Chuck Brannon, and Al Edwards, have now examined every accessible outcrop in the Ertsberg district. UT graduate Kris Hefton (B.S., Geology, 1978), was one of the leaders of the team of PTFI exploration geologists which also include J. Pennington, G. MacDonald, Roy Luck (left), Chief Geologist Al Edwards (center), and Cori Lambert (right) view the Grasberg open pit in 1998. Photo provided by Mark Cloos. S. Sanusi, E. Suwardy, I. Tasiran, B. Trisetyo, A. Ono, L. Johnson, S.

12 Besides graduate students, 3 faculty, 5 research scientists, and 2 postdoctoral fellows have also been supported. More than 25 undergraduate students have worked as lab assistants performing a wide variety of hands-on research- related tasks, giving them practical experience while they earn money to pay their tuition.

Topics of the UT work range from basic stratigraphy and sedimentation, structural analysis, paleontological analysis (some in conjunction with scientists at the Smithsonian Institution), genesis of the igneous rocks, and associated ore deposits. Mark Cloos (top left) and Sarah Penniston-Dorland (third, top left) with the We have divided into two distinct but Tembagapura corehouse crew in 1995. Photo provided by Mark Cloos. overlapping research groups: the Tectonics Program, which I supervise, and the Ore Deposits Program, which Widodo, and consultants, I. Kavalieris highlands was based upon satellite J. R. Kyle supervises. The tectonics and C. Arnold. These geologists have imagery interpretation, and there were research focuses on the regional mapped the district and examined many errors in identification. The questions concerning the origin of the hundreds of kilometers of drill core. PTFI mineral exploration program has mountain belt. The central theme of This work has resulted in the production created a set of maps comparable to the tectonics program is what of a detailed and beautiful 1:10,000- in scale, but exceeding in detail, those geological processes were active from scale geologic map and many cross published long ago by government scales of the thin section to the sections of the Ertsberg District. agencies in the far more accessible lithosphere during the arc-continent highlands of Papua New Guinea. collision that formed the island of The PTFI regional exploration program New Guinea over the past 20 million has been directed by Steve Van Nort years. and Dave Potter. Dozens of geologists The UT Contribution have worked in field teams directed At this point in time, FM has provided Since the beginning, the expectation by Gary Artmont, Peter Doyle, Wahyu over $2,000,000 to UT in direct is that UT work is to be in the public Sunyoto, and Gary O’Connor, and support of a wide range of geo- domain. Besides theses and they have identified dozens of mineral science research. This money, from dissertations, our field work in Irian prospects. A major scientific which university overhead is also paid, Jaya and our detailed and lab studies outgrowth of this exploration comes has supported the direct research costs in Austin have so far resulted in the from the work of Keith Parris, who has of 13 graduate students: 5 dissertations publication of 11 major research compiled six magnificent 1:250,000- completed, 4 Master’s theses completed papers. Two more are in press, and scale geologic map sheets covering (2 more are almost completed), and four are in journal review. Draft most of the highlands of Irian Jaya. To 1 undergraduate honors thesis. In manuscripts exist on more than 20 put this PTFI accomplishment into addition, partial support was provided additional studies. The professional perspective requires knowledge of the for another dissertation. The student publications to date cover the situation before their exploration work has been outstanding. Five of mechanics of collisional mountain- program began. The 1967 geologic the students, Tim McMahon, Heidi building at subduction zones, the map of the highlands of Irian Jaya was Mertig, Sarah Penniston-Dorland, Rich petrology of magmatic rocks in the more than 90 percent blank. The first Weiland, and Roy Luck, won Ertsberg district, paleontology, complete 1:1,000,000 geologic map Technical Sessions Best Speaker potassium-argon ages of the of Irian Jaya was published in 1987, Awards—special recognition from intrusions, the nature of skarn but almost all of the geology of the their fellow graduate students indeed. orebodies, fission track ages of uplift

13 we select small areas containing interesting features and dissect them in seemingly tedious academic detail. In others, we collect samples from a wide area for a detailed comparison and contrast. In the lab, we bring advanced technologies such as the scanning electron microscope, the microprobe, and mass spectrometers to detect and measure textural and chemical variations that are undetectable in the field and commonly unavailable from commercial labora- tories. We fully document our findings in theses, dissertations, and publications. One of the students, Paul Warren (B.S. Geology, 1988), has been Benyamin Sapiie (left) and Mark Cloos (right) hook ’em at the Grasberg mine. The working for Freeport-McMoRan as an equatorial glaciers of New Guinea cap the limestone ridges in the background. Photo exploration geologist since finishing his provided by Mark Cloos. Master’s thesis in 1995. Paul, born and raised in Tyler, Texas, obviously enjoyed his experience doing field work in the jungle as part of the Ertsberg Project. and erosion of the toe of the geologists to devise strategy as to how mountain, and the recessional history best to safely accomplish our goals. PTFI field geologists are working in a of the equatorial glaciers. In addition, For most projects, we have collected very isolated part of the world. We we have presented more than three the samples we analyze. For some of bring another set of eyes to examine dozen lectures at national meetings our work, PTFI exploration geologists the geology and act as a sounding and invited talks at other universities. have provided rock samples. Several board to help interpret geologic of our projects have made extensive curiosities discovered on outcrop or in use of materials from the remarkable core. We constantly survey the Mutual Benefits PTFI core and rock sample libraries. academic literature on topics ranging The exploration and mine geology from the trace element composition of work of PTFI geologists is, of course, UT students and faculty working on zoned garnets in skarns to the focused on the practical problem of research projects that meet the standards megatectonics of the entire Pacific discovering and developing of the technical literature require a long Ocean. We immediately integrate orebodies. PTFI has a staff of period of intensive laboratory work these results into our thinking and approximately 70 mining and before results are apparent. In addition, thus through our presentations and exploration geologists assisted by the students have much classwork that papers, knowledge from the recent hundreds of support personnel. must be completed for their degrees. literature is rapidly transferred to the Because of an enlightened corporate At times when on-site, we are PTFI geologists. We ensure some policy, PTFI geologists have published seemingly more a hindrance than a long-term continuity with detailed not just their regional geological maps help to the geologic and administrative reports that meet the standards of the but also several scientific papers in staff running a dynamic exploration technical reviewers of theses, journals. program costing many tens of millions dissertations, and the professional of dollars per year. So what were the literature. Moreover, our final works, Since initiation of the UT project, we benefits of having the UT team working while slowly produced compared to have identified the research problems in Irian Jaya? that of contract geologists hired to we can best address. The work of address specific problems, come with PTFI geologists has always been, of First of all, the UT team brings a a consistent terminology and big- course, the starting point for selecting perspective on science that focuses on picture integration that will act as a our study topics and field sites. We unraveling the details of formative solid foundation from which others constantly consult with PTFI geological processes. In some cases, can build.

14 Perhaps most significantly, when we are present in Irian Jaya, we interact on a day-to-day basis via informal discussions in the field, office, or cafeteria. Sometimes we lead field trips to the places we have worked. This often leads to lively discussions on the outcrop when different interpretations clash or some previously unrecognized feature is Grasberg open pit in suddenly noticed. Toward the end of 1995. PT Freeport geologist, Art Ona each visit to Irian Jaya, a semi-formal (bottom left) and Bob meeting that usually lasts a few hours Boyer (bottom right). is called for the PTFI geologic staff at Benyamin Sapiie (top which we present the results from our left) and Sarah previous year’s work and discuss the Penniston-Dorland (top right) sample veins and preliminary results from our just- their alteration halos as completed field studies. Overall, our part of Sarah’s M.S. presentations are an on-site studies. Photo provided continuing education program, with by Mark Cloos. many topics directly related in some way to day-to-day scientific or operational matters. in a few years some field programs mining district exceeds that of any that normally would have taken study in any other mining area. He More formal interactions occur several decades to complete. A special value discovered abundant evidence for times a year when PTFI geologists visit of steady, long-term support is that we strike-slip faulting in the district and Austin and we brief them on the status are able to publish completed studies demonstrated the critical role it plays of our work with our latest diagrams rather than the “progress reports” that in generating conduits for the and maps. In alternating years, we so commonly result because of the intrusions and the localization of have had a 1- or 2-day meeting with a necessity to publish incomplete work hydrothermal fluid flow and large group of PTFI geologists to to ensure extension of grant support mineralization. formally brief them as to the results of from government agencies. Finally, our research. an added educational benefit for the James R. Moffett and Freeport- UT students comes from the practical McMoRan have set the global standard experience of interacting with of a corporate vision of what a long- Industry and seasoned professional geologists and term industry-academia research and engineers in one of the greatest education partnership can become. Academia mining centers on Earth. The combined efforts of PTFI and UT During the past decade, there has geologists are well on the way to been much public discussion in the PTFI has also supported a companion making the Ertsberg region the best of how industry and institution in Indonesia, the Institut characterized mining district on Earth. academia must work together in both Teknologi Bandung (ITB). One of our The combined efforts of the geologists education and research. FM, under Ph.D. students, Benyamin Sapiie, was working on the regional exploration the guidance of CEO Moffett, has a junior faculty member at ITB before program and our detailed lab-intensive grabbed this bull by the horns. Not he joined our team. This fall he geochemistry, , and only has generous grant support been returns to ITB as a Professor. paleontology studies will soon make the provided for a multitude of basic Benyamin completed an outstanding geologic wonders created by the most research projects, but the logistical dissertation that will result in three recent large arc-continent collision on support in one of the geologically major scientific papers. The amount Earth a matter of scientific knowledge most exciting and least studied places of structural data he collected in this for all. on Earth has enabled us to accomplish

15 More information about the Ertsberg District and its history can be found in:

Wilson, Forbes, 1981, The Conquest of Copper Mountain, 244 pp.

Mealey, George A., 1996, Grasberg: Mining the Richest and Most Remote Deposit of Copper and Gold in the World, in the Mountains of Irian Jaya, Indonesia, 384 pp.

Cloos, Mark, 1997, articles in the January, May, and September issues of Geotimes, published by the American Geological Institute.

The Freeport-McMoRan Copper and Gold Web page is located at www.fcx.com/.

Theses and Dissertations Warren, Paul Q., 1995, Petrology, Weiland, Richard J., 1999, Supported by Freeport- Structure, and Tectonics of the Emplacement of the Irian McMoRan, Inc., as part of Ruffaer Metamorphic Belt, West- Ophiolite and Unroofing of the Ertsberg Project Central Irian Jaya, Indonesia: the Ruffaer Metamorphic Belt of M.A. Thesis, 339 pp. Irian Jaya, Indonesia: Ph.D. Weiland, Richard J., 1993, Plio- Dissertation, 526 pp. Pleistocene Unroofing of the Irian Quarles van Ufford, Andrew I., Fold-and-Thrust Belt South of the 1996, Stratigraphy, Structural Luck, Roy B., 1999, Structural Gunung Bijih (Ertsberg) Mining Geology, and Tectonics of a Young Geology of the Grasberg Lime District, Irian Jaya, Indonesia: Forearc-Continent Collision, Quarry and Amole Drift: Implica- Apatite Fission-track Western Central Range, Irian Jaya tions for Emplacement of the Thermochronology: M.A. Thesis, (Western New Guinea), Indonesia: Grasberg Igneous Complex, Irian 84 pp. Ph.D. Dissertation, 420 pp., Jaya, Indonesia: M.S. Thesis, 8 enclosures. 290 pp, 2 plates. McMahon, Timothy P., 1994, Pliocene Intrusions in the Ertsberg Rubin, Jeffrey N., 1996, Skarn Lambert, Cori A., 1999 (in progress), (Gunung Bijih) Mining District, Irian Formation and Ore Deposition at Structural Geology and Petrology Jaya, Indonesia: Petrography, the Gunung Bijih Timur (Ertsberg of the Heavy Sulfide Zone in the Geochemistry, Tectonic Setting: East) Complex, Irian Jaya, Indonesia: Kucing Liar and Amole Drifts, Ph.D. Dissertation, 299 pp. Ph.D. Dissertation, 311 pp. South Grasberg Igneous Complex, Gunung Bijih (Ertsberg) Mining Gray, Amy E., 1995, Petrology of the Penniston-Dorland, Sarah C., 1997, District, Irian Jaya, Indonesia, Ruffaer Metamorphic Belt, Rotanbrug Veins and Alteration Envelopes in M.S. Thesis. Map Sheet (1:125,000), Central Irian the Grasberg Igneous Complex, Jaya, Indonesia: B.S. Honors Thesis, Gunung Bijih (Ertsberg) District, 93 pp. Irian Jaya, Indonesia: M.S. Thesis, 402 pp. Mertig, Heidi J., 1995, Geology and Ore Formation of the Dom Copper Sapiie, Benyamin, 1998, Strike-Slip Skarn Deposit, Ertsberg (Gunung Faulting, Formation and Bijih) District, Irian Jaya, Indonesia: Porphyry Cu-Au Mineralization in M.A. Thesis, 170 pp. the Gunung Bijih (Ertsberg) Mining District, Irian Jaya, Indonesia: Ph.D. Dissertation, 304 pp., 4 plates.

16 Field Work in New Guinea as Part of the Ertsberg Project by Richard J. Weiland

For some, the mere mention of field work in New Guinea brings to mind dark, malaria-ridden rain forests, -infested rivers, swamps filled with leaches, “lost” tribes, headhunters, cannibals, cargo cults, and tribal warfare. Although this century’s influx of missionaries has seemingly put an end to some cultural practices, not all highlands people have made contact with the outside world, as much of the rain forest is still nearly impenetrable. To this day, there are no roads that cross the central part of the island from north to Rich Weiland exits helicopter as supplies are unloaded for one of his field transects in the remote highlands of Irian Jaya. Rich completed both an M.A. thesis and a Ph.D. south or east to west. Topographic dissertation involving apatite fission track thermochronology and K-Ar dating of rocks maps of the Central Range are still from the highlands. Photo provided by Mark Cloos. very incomplete along the northern flank. Travel is primarily by small plane between missionary airstrips, assistants, an Indonesian cook, and Evenings were spent in the tent then by boat or foot. Footpaths are me. Local Irianese people were also reading, taking notes, and listening to much less developed than what most hired, when present, to help set up the sounds of the jungle, out of reach of us would consider a trail in a camp, help collect samples, and work of the multitude of bugs attracted by national park. That said, my 6 months as guides. As one would expect, they the lantern and campfire. My field of field work in Irian Jaya might be are invaluable sources of information assistants and any local people would described as 6 months in the Garden about the different areas visited. continue to eat, collect and prepare of Eden! Nearly all outcrops in the rain forests My access into this remote part of the of New Guinea are found in rivers; world was made possible by the P. T. thus, most days were spent cutting Freeport Indonesia (PTFI) regional paths along the edge of rivers and exploration program for Cu-Au wading across them. Vertical canyon deposits, which makes extensive use walls, waterfalls, and rapids were of helicopters. Daily field work was common obstacles. Occasionally, log conducted out of fly camps. When and vine bridges and ladders had to field work was finished in one area, a be built to cross intermediate-size helicopter was sent out to resupply rivers or to scale small cliffs. Due to the the field party with food, move the fly regional nature of my study, not a lot of camp to the next location, and take time could be spent at any particular samples back to base camp. Daily outcrop. We were constantly on the contact with one of the PTFI base move in order to cover as much ground camps via short-wave radio was used as possible. This aspect of the field as a safety check, to order supplies, work would have been severely limited Obi Zangani, jungle expert, trail guide, interpreter, and Irianese friend assisted and to schedule helicopter support for had it not been for my field assistants’ Rich Weiland during three field seasons in the next fly camp move. A typical first-hand knowledge of the jungle and remote areas of Irian Jaya. Photo field party included two Irianese field their physical strength. provided by Rich Weiland.

17 without my Irian assistants. Upon arriving at most new sampling areas, we were typically greeted by many dozens of people who were just as curious about me as I was about them.

On the second or third night in most areas where I worked, the local chief would invariably start a conversation with me concerning the future and the well-being of his people. Four issues always came to the forefront: contact with the outside world (airstrip), health (hospitals), education (schools),

Typical jungle “fly camp” used by Rich Weiland during field work in the highlands of New Guinea. Tents are set up under a large tarpaulin that provides additional protection from the daily rain. Photo provided by Mark Cloos. materials for bows and arrows, sharpen machetes, sing amazing harmonies, and smoke handmade cigarettes. I know this all sounds a bit melodramatic, but at times I truly felt like a turn-of-the-century Victorian explorer!

New Guinea is said to be the home of Dinner in a fly camp. (Left to right) Mark Cloos, Rich Weiland, Obi Zangani, and as many as one-fifth to one-half of the Benyamin Sapiie at the end of a long day. Photo provided by Mark Cloos. world’s languages. During my three field seasons, communication with the Dani, Damal, Ekari, Moni, and Wolani peoples was essential. This would wait for this chief to come greet us. and employment (mining). It was have been impossible without the Later that afternoon, it was explained hard for them to comprehend that I assistance of one special field that the Wolani people in this area was only a student, not a Freeport assistant, Obi Zagani. He also had just made contact with the employee, and it was equally hard for provided me with the proper etiquette outside world only 9 months earlier me not to be concerned with their in unfamiliar social settings. For and were a bit hesitant at first. We requests for things most of us consider example, arriving at one particular were welcomed after a minute or two essential elements of a modern life, area, I stepped forward with an of inspection and recognition of one not privileges. All I could promise outstretched hand to greet the local of my Irian field assistants, Petrus was to relay their desires. Most of my chief standing at a distance but was Mote, by the local inhabitants. All interactions with the various local stopped by Obi’s arm across my chest. went well, but this would not have peoples were less grandiose but every I was informed that it was wiser to been a good place to do field work bit as interesting. These included

18 greeting the local chief, asking for permission to work in the area, temporarily hiring local men, buying local produce, attending a vegetable bake, or inquiring about the location of the quarries where the prized blueschist tool blades are obtained. Obi, of course, was the center of all these interactions.

One of the more memorable episodes of this adventure was a week-long reconnaissance survey of the high- lands by helicopter with Mark Cloos, Hugh Davies, Benyamin Sapiie, and Wahyu Sunyoto. During this week, we decided to find the blueschist stone tool quarries, which are so highly prized by the local peoples. First visited in 1962 by Heinrich Harrer of Seven Years in Tibet fame, the location of these quarries remained elusive due to the incomplete topographic mapping of the area, and the fact that rivers in the area were found to drain northeast, not northwest as indicated on the published maps. Finding these quarries required the combined efforts of my library research at The University of Texas at Austin, Wahyu’s language and navigational skills, and the excellent flying skills of helicopter pilot Richard Alzetta. We hopped from village to village, asking the Mark Cloos (left) and PT Freeport Indonesia exploration geologist Wahyu local people key words and phrases Sunyoto (second to left) purchasing a stone chisel in Lumo village during concerning the prized stone tools, the 1995 search for the location of blueschist tool quarries at Yeleme. Photo provided by Rich Weiland. which I had gleaned from the anthropological literature and locals during the previous field season. After two days’ search, we landed on a ridge near the quarries. This was respect to the Irian Ophiolite and thus Most geologists get into the field much more than adventure tourism. place the source of these tools in a because of their love of the outdoors With the 500-plus samples we geological context. The distribution and the opportunity to work in exotic collected at these and other stops, I of these rocks, combined with the locations. I must say this has been an was able to delineate the distribution geochronology and geochemical data adventure that has forever changed of amphibolite-, blueschist-, and I obtained, became the focus of the my life. eclogite-facies mafic rocks with first chapter in my dissertation.

19 Lundelius Symposium on Quaternary Vertebrate Paleontology by Christopher Bell and Tim Rowe

After 40 years as a professor of Geology and 12 years as Director of the Vertebrate Paleontology and Radiocarbon Laboratory, Dr. Ernest Lundelius, Jr., has retired. On August 31, 1998, Ernie handed off to his successors at The University of Texas at Austin the fruits of a wonderfully prolific and highly influential career, including one of the nation’s finest programs in vertebrate paleontology and one of the world’s largest collections of fossil vertebrates. (Left to right) Pamela Owen, Ernest Lundelius’ last graduate student, Ernest Lundelius, and speaker Holmes Semken, Ernest Lundelius’ first graduate student, To honor Ernie’s career and to University of Iowa. celebrate his retirement, the Department sponsored the Lundelius Dr. Russell Graham, a former by Lynton Land, Ernie Lundelius, and Symposium on Quaternary Vertebrate Lundelius student, kicked off the Salvatore Valastro in 1980. Paleontology on November 13, 1998. symposium with his presentation, This well-attended symposium “Quaternary Vertebrate Paleoecology: Dr. Jim Mead and Dr. Michael Archer featured presentations from 10 of the the Lundelius Paleoenvironmental presented findings from current most distinguished Quaternary Hypervolume,” in which he research in Australia. Mead’s vertebrate paleontologists in the emphasized Ernie’s focus on multi- discussion of Pleistocene lizards from world. We were joined by Michael dimensional analysis of fossil southwestern caves in Australia was Archer (University of New South faunas and recognized his many doubly significant: the localities Wales, Australia), Tony Barnosky contributions to the field of discussed were in many cases (University of California at Berkeley), Pleistocene paleoecology. Dr. originally excavated by Ernie and the Michael Collins (The University of Anthony Barnosky and Dr. Elizabeth presentation harkened back to Ernie’s Texas at Austin), Russell Graham Hadly presented results of their first paper (1957) on skeletal (Denver Museum of Natural History), research on the effects of climatic adaptations in lizards. Archer’s Elizabeth Hadly (Stanford University), change on mammalian communities presentation announced the discovery Bruce MacFadden (Florida Museum of through time, an area of long-term of a strange, new marsupial from the Natural History), Jim Mead (Northern interest for Ernie. Hadly’s presentation Pliocene of Queensland. In honor of Arizona University), Clayton Ray (U.S. centered on Holocene montane Ernie’s contributions to Australian National Museum of Natural History, mammal communities in the northern vertebrate paleontology, this Smithsonian Institute), Holmes Rocky Mountains, while Barnosky enigmatic little beast will bear the Semken (University of Iowa), and emphasized similarities and differences name Numbigilgi ernielundeliusi; a David Steadman (Florida Museum of in mammalian responses to climatic fitting tribute even if unpronounceable Natural History). Presentations events at different time periods and time (Numbi = “little bandicoot,” gilgi = addressed current topics in scales. Dr. Bruce MacFadden’s “impostor,” both words from the Quaternary vertebrate paleontology in presentation, “You Are What You Eat: Gugu-Yalanji Aboriginal language). North America and Australia and the Pleistocene and Stable significant and far-reaching Isotopes,” centered on the burgeoning Dr. Clayton Ray came out of his contributions Ernie made to the field field of stable isotope paleoecology, a sheltered retirement to join us for the during his career. field stimulated by a prescient paper symposium and delighted the

20 (Left) Speaker Bruce MacFadden, University of Florida.

(Above) (Left to right) John Wilson, former Professor, The University of Texas at (Above) Austin, and Speaker Speaker Michael Clayton Ray, Collins, Texas Smithsonian Archeological Institute. Research Laboratory, The University of Texas at Austin.

(Above) Speaker Michael Archer, Director, Australian Museum, Sydney. (Above) (Left to right) Speakers Elizabeth Hadly, Stanford University, and Russell Graham, Denver Museum. audience with a discussion of the contexts. Steadman’s dynamic Following the presentations, contributions to vertebrate presentation revealed the dramatic symposium participants and attendees paleontology of two great men: extinctions of birds on islands in the enjoyed a reception in the main hall Joseph Leidy (1823-1891), the founder Pacific following human colonization. of the Texas Memorial Museum, of vertebrate paleontology in this Semken (Ernie’s first graduate student) surrounded by new displays for the country, and Ernie Lundelius, one of focused on the paleoecological special exhibit “Scratching the its greatest practitioners. Clayton information that can be extracted from Surface.” A dinner after the exhibit emphasized that largely as a result of small mammal remains preserved in viewing carried us all well into the the efforts and dedication of Jack archaeological sites, an area of research following morning. The culmination Wilson, Wann Langston, and Ernie in which Ernie was a pioneer and a of the symposium events was an open Lundelius, The University of Texas at leading figure. Collins’ presentation house on Saturday at the newly Austin’s program is in a unique centered on the question of the time of refurbished Vertebrate Paleontology position to carry the field of vertebrate arrival of humans in North America and Laboratory. Ernie spent his last 2 paleontology into the future and to emphasized the importance of years as Lab Director overseeing a advance new technological and collaboration between archaeologists major building-repair effort, and the methodological applications to the and paleontologists in studies of this result is a spectacular improvement in study of fossil vertebrates. important question. His tales of the Lab. Collections and research experiences and collaborations with facilities were open for viewing, and Dr. David Steadman, Dr. Holmes Ernie brought a personal touch to the graduate students, faculty, and staff Semken, and Dr. Michael Collins presentation and provided a fitting were on hand to provide tours and presented data from archaeological closing for the symposium. explanations.

21 Department Hosts Symposium on Global and Environmental Change by Jay L. Banner

The Department hosted a symposium on a range of spatial and temporal and Ecology at the Global Scale.” on April 5, 1999, entitled “Integrated scales. These kinds of integrated This presentation outlined how the Life and Earth Science Approaches to studies would provide the basis for an is undergoing fundamental, Understanding Global and environmental studies institute at The global-scale changes in response to Environmental Change.” With the University of Texas at Austin. human land use, increases in growing importance of environmental atmospheric CO2 concentration, and problems, it is becoming increasingly Presentations by four leading experts variations in climate. Foley stressed clear that the different components of in their fields addressed issues of that we must examine the dynamics of the Earth system, including the environmental change through studies the terrestrial biosphere and its biosphere, the hydrosphere, the of specific terrestrial and marine interactions with the Earth’s climate atmosphere, and the lithosphere, are realms, as well as through global-scale system, on a wide variety of time linked through the transfer of energy models that simulate the Earth system. scales, from seasons to centuries. and material between them. It has Dr. Jon Foley, Director of the Climate, also become evident that People and Environment Program of Dr. Steven R. Archer, Associate Chair interdisciplinary efforts that combine the University of Wisconsin, spoke on of the Department of Rangeland the principles and technologies of “Human Activity, Climate Systems, Ecology & Management at Texas A&M physics, biology, chemistry, and geology are needed to understand the dynamic and complex processes that comprise these inter-component links. The symposium examined the means by which the life and Earth sciences can be integrated to provide new insights into environmental problems

(Above) Warren Washington (right) describes what is unique about climate (Left) Jon Foley change over the last century and the latest explains the computer simulations of future climate importance of change while making room for KXAN/TV. improving our understanding of terrestrial ecosystem processes on a global scale.

22 Steve Archer answers questions after his lecture on woody plant proliferation in semi-arid ecosystems. (Left to right) Larry Gilbert and Dick Richardson (UT Section of Integrative Biology), Ben Vaughan (Marine Science Institute Advisory Council), and Steve Archer.

Ellery Ingall explains his theory of how the atmospheric and oceanic oxygen levels are controlled by the marine phosphorus cycle.

University, presented a lecture on Oceanic Oxygen Levels by the Division at the National Center for “Woody Plant Proliferation in Semi- Marine Phosphorus Cycle.” His mass Atmospheric Research, spoke on “The Arid Ecosystems: Causes, Constraints, balance calculations, using a coupled Science of Climate Change: and Consequences.” Archer model of the biogeochemical cycles Observations, Modeling, and Policy explained that reductions in biomass, of carbon, phosphorus, oxygen, and Aspects.” Washington reviewed associated with deforestation, are in iron, indicate that the redox recent observed climate change, stark contrast to vegetation changes dependence of phosphorus burial in discussed the extent to which it is occurring on many drylands, where the oceans provides a powerful attributable to natural variability grasslands and savannas are being forcing mechanism for balancing inherent in the climate system, and replaced by shrublands and production and consumption of presented examples of computer woodlands. These changes in land atmospheric oxygen over geologic model simulations with increasing cover have implications for time. Phosphorus-mediated redox greenhouse gases and sulfate aerosols. biogeochemistry, biodiversity, and stabilization of the atmosphere and land surface-atmosphere interactions, oceans may have been crucial to the The symposium was sponsored by the as well as for land use options for radiation of higher life forms during College of Natural Sciences, the Texas rural economies. the Phanerozoic. Memorial Museum, and the Geology Foundation of The University of Texas Dr. Ellery Ingall of UT’s Marine Dr. Warren M. Washington, head of at Austin. Science Institute presented his theory the Climate Change Research Section on “Forcing of Atmospheric and in the Climate and Global Dynamics

23 Gulf of Mexico Study Completed

Bill Galloway, working with Dick database expansion and synthesis of • Identify and map successive Buffler and Patty Ganey-Curry of the Oligocene—Pleistocene sequences. Cenozoic sedimentary supply and Institute for Geophysics, completed a Currently, 12 companies sponsor cross-slope transport axes to guide 3-year synthesis of the Cenozoic fill of phase II. petroleum reservoir prediction in the Gulf of Mexico Basin in late 1998. slope and deep-basin exploration Results of the study, which was The GBDS project is a comprehensive plays supported by an international synthesis of the Cenozoic depositional consortium of oil companies, have history of the Gulf of Mexico Basin • Document the temporal and spatial been received with wide interest. that has integrated well data from the distribution of shelf-margin delta onshore, shelf, and upper slope with systems, submarine canyons, Following several talks at the local regional seismic stratigraphic and megaslump chutes, and structural societies’ and the AAPG meeting in facies interpretation of the deep basin. conduits that have focused sand San Antonio, write-ups about the The overall scientific goals of this transport from the shelf margin to project (known informally as the project were to: the slope and basin floor GBDS) have appeared in both the AAPG Explorer (February 1999) and • Create a digital GIS (Geographic • Test and expand current concepts the PennWell magazine Offshore Information System) database of regional slope depositional (June 1999). The articles highlight the containing information process, facies associations, and methodology and objectives of the systematically tabulated from well paleogeographic evolution. project and provide some industry logs, 2-D seismic lines, and “user group” comments about its published maps, papers, and other The Cenozoic section of the Gulf of utility. sources Mexico Basin consists of deposits of 20 regionally correlative genetic The success of the first phase and • Test and refine sequence stratigraphic sequences, recording ensuing interest generated by correlations between the major depositional episodes presentations and articles have continental margin (primarily well (depisodes). For each major resulted in initiation of a second log database) and the deep basin sequence, interpretive data collected phase, which will focus on further (primarily seismic database) include thickness, lithofacies, depositional systems, and stratigraphic architecture. In addition, major stratigraphic features, including paleoshelf margins, local depocenters, depositional system outlines, mapped submarine canyons, and continental- margin embayments, have been compiled from published sources and digitized. These data have been stored in a digital format (ARC/INFO), which provides a “living” database that can be continually updated as more information becomes available or as data are reinterpreted. The preliminary results of this synthesis have been summarized in a series of interpretive maps showing the depositional setting of each sequence. These maps have been provided to Restaurant on the Gulf Beach at Port Aransas after Hurricane Carla, September supporting companies and 1961, showing removal of the sand from under the restaurant. Pictured is Walter incorporated into a draft manuscript Siler, who was a student at that time. Photo provided by Ernest L. Lundelius. that will be submitted for publication.

24 Glenn and Martha Vargas Retire

After 24 years of instructing in our “Gems and Gem Minerals” course, Glenn and Martha Vargas decided it was time to retire.

Glenn and Martha are the authors of Faceting for Amateurs, Descriptions of Gem Materials, and Diagrams for Faceting (3 vols.) and are known internationally for their gem and mineral business, including the manufacture and sale of faceting machines. They have also instructed at The College of The Desert. They are members of the Southern California Faceters Guild, the Palm Springs Lapidary Club, and the Texas Faceters Guild. Glenn (center) and Martha Vargas (right) shown with the plaque they were presented by Mark Cloos, Chairman (left), in appreciation for their many years of service to the Department. Since 1976, Glenn and Martha Vargas have been visiting the Department twice yearly to assist in the instruction the building for students, faculty, staff, Scholarship in Geological Sciences, and of the faceting of gemstones in GEO and visitors to enjoy. the Vargas Fund for Gem and Mineral 347K. Over the years, they have Curation in the Geology Foundation. instructed thousands of students, Glenn and Martha are noted for their All of this illustrates how committed sharing with them their interest in the dedication and devotion to our they have been over the years to our faceting of gemstones. They first Department. They gave their time and Department’s mission of teaching and worked with Dr. Earl Ingerson on a considerable efforts in teaching, and research in the geological sciences. We moldavite () research project. they established the Vargas Endowed will all miss their visits and their Ingerson at that time was also Presidential Scholarship, the Vargas infectious good will and humor, which teaching a minerals course and asked Endowment for Gems and Gem Mineral have been so much a part of our Glenn and Martha to assist. When Instruction, the Vargas Gemological for so long. Ingerson retired two years later, Dr. Edward Jonas took over the course, and he and Glenn and Martha worked out the arrangement, which Dr. Mark Helper continued upon Jonas’ retirement. As specialists in our Department, they have shared a lifetime of experience in gem faceting and lapidary with those who were lucky enough to be their students.

Along with their visits, Glenn and Martha brought with them many cut gemstones and mineral specimens, which they donated to the Department. Some of their collections Left to right, front row) William Fisher, Glenn and Martha Vargas, Betty Kurtz, and rival any others in the United States. Dennis Dunn, (left to right, top row) Mark Cloos, Mark Helper, Ed Jonas, Sharon Mosher, Roger Gary, and Larry Reep. Glenn and Martha are pictured with faculty, staff, Almost all of these fine mineral and students at a luncheon honoring the Vargases on February 26, 1999, at the UT specimens are on display throughout Faculty Center.

25 SIPES Makes Donation for Grants-in-Aid Chairman H. Louis Lee presented a Geophysics (Junru Jiao), and an check for $1,500 from the Society of undergraduate (Jennifer D. Garcia) for Independent Professional Earth support of the field course, GEO 660. Scientists (SIPES) Central Texas Chapter to William L. Fisher, Director This contribution underscores the of the Geology Foundation, to be used SIPES Chapter’s appreciation for the for summer grants-in-aid support for cooperation and assistance that The $500 each for three students in the University of Texas at Austin and the Department. Recipients were two Bureau of Economic Geology have graduate students who interned for the provided through meeting facilities, H. Louis Lee, Chairman of the SIPES Bureau of Economic Geology (Helena programs, and other support to the Central Texas Chapter (right), presents H. Zircy) and the Institute for Central Texas SIPES chapter. scholarships check to William L. Fisher, Director of Geology Foundation (left). Faculty Awards and Honors

During the past year, several NOAA selected Arthur E. Maxwell Department of Geological Sciences to serve on a newly formed 15- faculty members and faculty emeriti member Science Advisory Board. received recognition and honors: Earle F. McBride was selected for Milo M. Backus was recognized by the Geology Foundation’s Houston the Offshore Energy Center for his Oil & Minerals Corporation Faculty work with Geophysical Services, Inc. Excellence Award. (now Western Geophysical) in the development of digital seismology. William R. Muehlberger received the Geological Society of America’s The College of Natural Sciences 1998 Structure Geology and Tectonics honored Daniel S. Barker by Division Best Paper Award for his Earle F. McBride (right), is presented with selecting him for one of its 1999 Tectonic Map of North America. the Houston Oil & Mineral Corporation College of Natural Sciences Faculty Excellence Award by Mark Cloos (left), at Department ceremony on May 6, Teaching Excellence Awards. 1999.

The University of Texas Co-Operative Society presented Ian Dalziel the John M. (Jack) Sharp, Jr. received Best Research Paper Award for 1997. the Founders Award of the American Institute of Hydrology (AIH) at the Leon E. Long was inducted into the 1998 national meeting in Las Vegas, UT Academy of Distinguished Nevada. The Founders Award is Teachers recognizing his sustained given at the discretion of the AIH and significant contributions to Executive Board for outstanding, education, particularly at the long, and dedicated service to the undergraduate level. AIH. Jack had previously received the AIH’s C. V. Theis Award in Randall A. Marrett (right), is presented Randall A. Marrett received the 1996 for his contributions in with the G. Moses and Carolyn G. Knebel Carolyn G. and G. Moses Knebel Teaching Award by Mark Cloos (left), at advancing the science of ground- Teaching Award from the Department Department ceremony on May 6, 1999. water hydrology. of Geological Sciences.

26 Staff Awards

Kurt L. Bartelmehs, Research contribution to the operation of the Associate and Coordinator of Department or Department facilities Computational Resources, was during that academic year. The award awarded the Distinguished Service recipient is selected by the Faculty Award by the Department of Review Committee on the basis of Geological Sciences. The award is nominating letters from the faculty, made for the most outstanding staff, and students.

Jo A. Soto, Library Assistant III, received the Thelma Lynn Guion Staff Honors Award, which is awarded for Dennis R. Trombatore (right) presents excellence by staff members of the Jo A. Soto (left) the Thelma Lynn Guion Joseph C., Jr. and Elizabeth C. Walter Geology Library Staff Award at Geology Library. Department ceremony on May 6, 1999.

The following staff members received Instrument Maker II, 10 years, The University of Texas at Austin Debra Sue Trinque, Accounting Service Awards for years of service to Technician, 15 years, and Renee A. Mark Cloos, Chairman (left), presents The University: Lawrence E. Mack, Waters, Student Development Distinguished Service Award to Kurt L. Bartelmehs (right), Research Associate and Research Engineer/Scientist Assistant, Specialist III, 10 years. Coordinator of Computational Resources, 10 years, Larry D. Reep, Scientific at Department ceremony on May 6, 1999.

Some of the faculty, staff, and student winners of awards and honorable mentions at the Department ceremony on May 6, 1999, and students receiving outside of the Department honors and awards (left to right, top row) D. Shane Valentine, Matthew M. Uliana, Justin A. Zumbro and Randall A. Marrett (left to right, next to top row) Thomas E. Macrini, Timothy A. Meckel, Jose I. Guzman Espinal, and Dennis P. Dunn (left to right, next to bottom row) Kurt L. Bartelmehs, Joel H. Le Calvez, Roy B. Luck, Dennis A. Sylvia, Cori A. Lambert, Adrienne Barnett, and Jonas P. Gournay, and (left to right, bottom row) Georgios P. Tsoflias, Earle F. McBride, Jo A. Soto, Laura Rico, Jonathan M. Skaggs, Jean-Paul Van Gestel, and Rosario Vasquez-Scheerhorn.

27 Bill Muehlberger Receives Geological Society of America’s Structural Geology and Tectonics Division’s Best Paper Award by Sharon Mosher

The Geological Society of America’s Structural Geology and Tectonics Division’s Best Paper Award was given this year to Bill Muehlberger’s Tectonic Map of North America, an outstanding map that is highly deserving of this prestigious recognition. This Best Paper Award, which is given annually for a published work of exceptional distinction that clearly advances the science of structural geology or tectonics, has been given previously for papers and a book, but this is the first time that it has been given for a map. This map has had and will continue to have a significant impact Bill Muehlberger describing his Tectonic Map at GSA’s Awards Session. Photo on our science in a way that no article provided by Bill Muehlberger. can in long-term impact or quality. The tectonic map project, which started in 1981, was sponsored by the American Association of Petroleum of the ocean floor to equivalent various groups that had different Geologists (AAPG). The southern tectonic time periods on land, and (4) interpretations, and even went out portion was published in 1992 and the many extra details such as salt into the field to check problem areas the northern portion in 1996. domes in the Gulf Coast, and structure himself. The result is a map that is as contours on the continental shelf and complete and up-to-date as possible. Bill’s unique contribution is a map to basement on land (of various ages), For the northern half, he has even that ties the tectonic evolution of all of to name a few. This map is an updated the part that overlaps the North America together and to the excellent teaching and research already published part to match new development of the ocean floor. resource and will generate new ideas work! The detail is incredible for Correlation of events across the and insights into the tectonic such a map, and it is the result of continent or between ocean floor and evolution of North America and to the painstaking care on Bill’s part. Many continent is now apparent because of interrelationships between oceanic people contributed to this map— the manner in which Bill visually and continental tectonic events. especially his wife, Sally!—but the displayed the various features. A Geologists at all levels and of all synthesis of all the geology and the number of features of the new tectonic disciplines will use this map for many ultimate interpretation were all map that make it a particularly decades. Muehlberger’s. significant contribution include (1) the detailed ocean floor data, (2) the Bill devoted years to compiling this The evolution of the map, itself, had a correlation of tectonic time periods on map and made changes as new major impact on North American land using color, (3) the color coding advances came along, worked with tectonics. During the original

28 planning meeting in Austin, Bill complexes debuted at this meeting, the geology. These are just some brought people together from all over and the coalition between George examples of how Bill’s map North America to talk about different Davis (and ultimately Greg Davis) and contributed even before it was ways to portray different tectonic Gordon Lister was a direct by-product published. features on maps. In the course of of this meeting. This combination of doing so, researchers from different talents is what eventually led to our This map clearly advances the science parts of the country talked about new understanding of metamorphic core of structural geology and tectonics ideas based on their own research. complexes. The idea of ductile low- and will have an impact long into the This meeting was Bob Hatcher’s and angle normal faults also made its way future. Hank William’s first real exposure to to the oil industry through this the then-brand-new terrane concept. meeting. During the construction of Shortly afterwards, they published the map, Bill got researchers with their Appalachian terrane paper, opposing interpretations together in The Tectonic Map of North America which spawned the use of terranes the field to sort out the data and was published by the AAPG and is throughout the Appalachians. The interpretations, which undoubtedly available for $20 from AAPG at new idea of metamorphic core led to an increased understanding of P. O. Box 979, Tulsa, OK 74101.

Professor Daniel S. Barker Receives 1999 College of Natural Sciences Teaching Excellence Award

Dr. Dan Barker, a specialist in igneous Dr. Barker’s role in geoscience petrology and volcanology, was education extends beyond the presented with the College of Natural classroom. His 417-page Sciences Teaching Excellence Award undergraduate textbook, Igneous by Dean Mary Ann Rankin at a dinner Rocks, was published in 1983 and she hosted on April 25, 1999, at the was so well received it was reprinted University of Texas Club beneath the in 1990. He has updated 1,100 eastside grandstand of Royal definitions of igneous petrology terms Memorial Stadium. for the American Geological Institute’s Glossary of Geology. Dan provided Professor Barker became a faculty nearly half the photographs of member in 1963. He retires at the volcanic features in a collection for end of this academic year after use in teaching that is distributed by teaching nearly 5,000 students. the National Association of Geology Chairman Mark Cloos says his Teachers, and he is currently a teaching evaluations are “always consultant on volcanoes for the Cable among our best.” Dan was awarded News Network. We congratulate Dan Daniel S. Barker the Knebel Distinguished Teaching on receiving this prestigious Award in 1976, 1980, and 1987. recognition that caps a great career.

29 Professor Daniel S. Barker Retires by Fred McDowell and participated in international Doug Smith congresses and field trips all over the world—Africa, the Cape Verde Islands As of the end of the 1998-1999 (on a Russian trawler), Greenland, academic year, Dan Barker has retired Japan, and many other spots. Closer after 36 years in our Department. His to home, he has published studies of career here was marked by his devotion the Balcones Province volcanic rocks to science, to teaching, and to igneous and integrated his data with Keith rocks and minerals, and by his wit. Young’s studies of Cretaceous Dan graduated from Yale in 1956. His stratigraphy. Ph.D. at Princeton (1961) was a study of granite, based on rocks in his home His colleagues and students have state of Maine, and was supervised by benefited from his expertise in many Harry Hess. He then completed two ways. Among them, he has collected postdoctoral years investigating phase superb study suites of rocks from all equilibria between feldspars and over the world and has organized aqueous solutions before coming to Rosemary (left) and Dan Barker (right) at them to make them available for Austin, armed with expertise in field, the retirement party on May 11, 1999, in teaching and research. Students in his laboratory, and theory. the Geology Library. graduate courses and colleagues benefited from detailed handouts on Dan taught courses ranging from classic rock localities. Steve introductory engineering geology to have been his 2-year periods each as Clabaugh, now a Professor Emeritus, graduate thermodynamics, but he undergraduate and graduate advisor. began these collections that Dan has most often taught igneous petrology These years were times of burgeoning so ably augmented, and so the and mineralogy. He has received enrollment and consequently very Department has decided to continue numerous awards for his teaching, heavy administrative loads in those Dan’s efforts by establishing a both from our Department and from critical positions. computer catalog for the combined the College of Natural Sciences. He resource and naming it the Barker- wrote a 400-page text, Igneous Rocks, The breadth of his research confirms Clabaugh Collections for Teaching which was published in 1983 and his diverse abilities. He set up a and Research. widely adopted, reprinted in 1990, laboratory for hydrothermal and issued in Chinese translation in experiments and used it to investigate Aside from stepping out of the 1992. In recent years, he offered an phase equilibria at high pressures and classroom, we suspect that Dan’s elective course in volcanology, in temperatures. He helped to acquire transition to Emeritus Faculty will which he both taught about magmas, and manage laboratories for rock and barely be noticeable. Following a volcanoes, and hazards and also mineral analysis, and he has been tradition established by many of our taught students how to write. His as particularly instrumental in assuring retired faculty, we expect to find him yet unpublished notes for that course the quality of the data produced. He regularly in his office, completing contain an intensive treatment of the began investigations of Llano rocks manuscripts and finally getting to science of volcanology, augmented by shortly after his arrival, and he has some pet projects. We are certain that notes on topics such as pumice- another investigation of Llano granites there is a long list of the latter on an washed jeans and as the name of that currently underway. His field studies in index card in his shirt pocket. debt-ridden university devoted to study West Texas began with characterization Frequent travels to distant points of of a volcanically-active Galilean moon of silica-undersaturated igneous rocks geologic interest, either with an (informed readers will deduce its name). there, and in recent years, he has excursion group or independently, but continued to work on volcanic rocks always with his wife Rosemary, will Dan has also given significant in and near Big Bend. He has no doubt continue. It is difficult to administrative service to the collected, analyzed, and published imagine that they will increase the Department as a member and investigations of volcanic rocks from pace of this travel, but we are betting chairman of numerous ad hoc and the Aeolian Islands in Italy and of that they will try. standing committees. Most important carbonatites from Africa. He has

30 In Memoriam: Dr. Samuel P. Ellison, Jr. by William R. Muehlberger “Geology of the Middle East.” That same year saw him honored by Phi Dr. Samuel P. Ellison, Jr., Professor Kappa Phi, a national honor society, Emeritus and holder of the Alexander and he was awarded Honorary Deussen Professorship in Energy Membership in the Dad’s Association Resources in the Department of of The University of Texas. The next Geological Sciences, passed away on year he was elected Vice-President of June 4, 1999, at the age of 84. AAPG! In 1975, SEPM made Sam an “Honorary Member.” June 1976 saw Sam arrived at UT in 1948 to begin him teaching a short course on teaching petroleum geology and conodonts at the University of Sao general geology. These were subjects Paulo, . Sam received several that he could make come alive. His impressive awards in 1977: the G. H. own research interests were in Pander Gold Medal Award from the conodont biostratigraphy, a field in Pander Society and an AAPG which he was a respected leader. He Distinguished Service Award. became Chairman in 1952, and for the next 10 years he devoted his life At Sam’s retirement dinner-dance, in to the improvement of the Department spite of his objections, there were and its resources. several speeches praising him for his contributions to the maturation of the Dr. Samuel P. Ellison, Jr. In 1953, Sam founded the Geology (1914-1999). geological sciences and University Foundation, a vision that was realized administration since his arrival in by the donations of the many alumni 1948. Steve Clabaugh outlined Sam’s and other friends of the Department. After leaving the task of being efficient tenure as Chairman and The Foundation has made travel Chairman of the Department, he pointed out some significant possible for many of us (both faculty continued directing the Geology achievements for which Sam was and students), to go to meetings to Foundation. In 1970, he became singularly accountable (examples: report on research, some of which Acting Dean of the newly organized getting faculty salaries to an was also supported by the Foundation. College of Natural Sciences until the acceptable level for the first time in Endowed Professorships and Chairs, search committee found a permanent history; his perception of the need and funded by donations to the dean. He also served The University then becoming the driving force Foundation, have been instrumental in in many committee assignments, behind the concept of alumni support, acquiring and retaining top faculty. prominent ones being the Committee which culminated in the organization All in all Sam’s Geology Foundation on Academic Freedom and of the Geology Foundation). Dean A. has been a strong influence in the Responsibility (1968—1970) and the R. Schrank, then head of the College development of the Department into Energy Research Group (1972—1979), of Natural Sciences, described that one with a world-class reputation. with earlier stints on university policy- Sam’s dedication to eliminating (We are still the only Department at making committees, including the mediocrity in education established The University of Texas at Austin that Faculty Council, the Graduate the direction for the new College. has its own Foundation!). Friends and Assembly (including 2 years as Peter T. Flawn, then President of The colleagues of the Geology Foundation Chairman), and the Faculty Advisory University of Texas at Austin (and Advisory Council established a fund in Committee on Policy. Within the holder of the L. T. Barrow Sam’s honor upon his retirement in Department he served several times as Professorship in Mineral Resources in 1979: the Samuel P. Ellison, Jr. Fund. the faculty sponsor to the University the Department) praised Sam for his Retirement for Sam really just meant Student Geological Society and Sigma strong support during Pete’s early the end of organized classes and Gamma Epsilon. career at The University and his high committee responsibilities; he level of cooperation during Pete’s continued with his research and was In 1971, as a Distinguished Lecturer directorship of the Bureau of willing to instruct anyone who would of the American Association of Economic Geology. On behalf of the stop to listen. Petroleum Geologists, he spoke on faculty of the Geography Department,

31 George Hoffman presented Sam with idol as an outstanding teacher/ taught at the University of Missouri a handsome certificate enumerating researcher. School of Mines & Metallurgy from his role in the development of 1939 to 1944. From 1944 to 1948, geography as a viable department at Sam was born on July 1, 1914, in he was a geologist for Stanolind Oil & UT. Lastly, Sam received a clock Kansas City, Missouri, to Samuel Porter Gas Company in Midland and Wichita from the Department as a memento and Mary Frances Edwards Ellison. Falls, Texas. of the occasion. He was raised in Raytown, Missouri. He graduated from high school in Dr. Ellison is survived by his wife, Dottie Sam kept busy after retirement writing 1930 as valedictorian of his class. He Ellison of Round Rock, Texas, his sons a textbook on the geology of Texas earned his Bachelor’s degree in and daughters-in-law, Dave and Ruth (unfortunately, never completed) and Geology from the University of Missouri Ellison of Englewood, Colorado, John lecturing at numerous universities. at Kansas City and his Master’s and and Sherri Ellison of College Station, Possibly his proudest moment was Ph.D. degrees from the University of Texas, and Steve and Kitsy Ellison of when he gave the dedicatory address Missouri at Columbia. While at the Georgetown, Texas. He is also survived at his alma mater for the W. D. Keller University, he met Dottie, who became by six grandchildren and one great- Geology Auditorium at the University his lifelong companion when he grandchild. of Missouri. Walter Keller was Sam’s married her on June 9, 1940. He

In Memoriam: Gunther Karl Hoops by Mark Cloos

Gunther Karl Hoops, an especially receive a B.A. in Microbiology and skilled staff member of the then an M.A. in Botany. Bill Department, passed away on Muehlberger hired Karl to establish November 18, 1998. Karl was an analytical facilities in the then new analytical chemist in the Department Geology Building. from September 1, 1967, until his retirement on March 31, 1989. Karl’s productivity and standards of excellence were legendary. His work Karl was born in Germany on is recorded in tables and graphs in November 14, 1923. During World dozens of professional papers, several War II, he was a prisoner of war of which he was coauthor with faculty interned near Bastrop, Texas. For his and students from our Department. In memorial service, his wife, Alicia, 1983, Karl was awarded a UT Staff wrote that he told her that his Excellence Award by President Flawn. experience with the people of Texas In 1988, he was one of the first and the region’s climate were so recipients of the College of Natural different and wonderful from what he Sciences Staff Excellence Award, had previously experienced that he given by Dean Boyer. pledged to himself to return some day. In 1953, Karl immigrated to Karl is survived by his wife, Alicia and worked for the Geological Survey Moncayo-Hoops, and his friends who Gunther Karl Hoops of Canada. He moved to UT Austin in knew him as a humble, gentle, and (1923-1998). 1963, when he returned to school to caring man.

32 Endowed Lecturers Fall 1998 Spring 1999 John D. Mather Paul E. Olsen Walter C. Pitman, III University of London Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Egham, Surrey, UK Columbia University Columbia University Fred L. and Frances J. Oliver Palisades, New York Palisades, New York Centennial Lectureship in Texas Don R. and Patricia Kidd Boyd Edwin Allday Lectureship in Hydrology and Water Resources Lectureship in Petroleum Exploration Geological Sciences “The Fate of the British Radioactive “Climatic Transect across Triassic- “Causes, Rates, and Magnitude of Waste-Disposal Site” Jurassic Pangea—Results From Eustatic Sea-Level Changes” October 8, 1998 High-Resolution Cyclo- and March 1, 1999 Magnetostratigraphy in Lacustrine Deposits” “Human Implications of a Dramatic February 8, 1999 Black Sea Flood” March 2, 1999 “Calibration of the Chaotic Behavior of the Solar System by Geologic “Dates and Magnitudes of the Black Data from the Beginning of the Sea Flood” Age of Dinosaurs” March 3, 1999 February 9, 1999

“Flood Basalts, Bolides, and Mass John D. Mather (right) with graduate Extinctions at the Beginning of the student Staci L. Loewy (left). Age of Dinosaurs” February 10, 1999

Greg Retallack “Key Innovations in the History of Life University of Oregon and Changes in the Long-Term Eugene, Oregon Global Carbon Cycle” Judd H. and Cynthia Oualline February 11, 1999 Centennial Lectureship in Petroleum Geology “World’s Greatest Midlife Crisis: The Permian—Triassic Mass Extinctions Walter C. Pitman, III on Land in Australia and Antarctica” November 12, 1998

Paul E. Olsen

Greg Retallack

33 Visiting Speakers Fall 1998 Spring 1999 Carl E. Jacobson Iowa State University Barbara L. Dutrow James A. Austin, Jr. Ames, Iowa Louisiana State University Institute for Geophysics “Ion Microprobe Study of Detrital Baton Rouge, Louisiana The University of Texas at Austin Zircons from the Orocopia Schists “Deciphering Fluid Infiltration, “Understanding the Stratigraphic of Southern California: Implications Combining 3-D Thermal and Response to Sea-Level Change: for Cordilleran Tectonics” Textural Modeling” Studies of the New Jersey Continental March 10, 1999 November 19, 1998 Shelf” Ronald A. Johns February 11, 1999 Pamela Hallock-Muller Austin Community College University of South Florida Peter G. Cook Austin, Texas St. Petersburg, Florida Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial “Sponges: Our Misunderstood Friends” “Nutrients and Carbonate Sedimentation” Research Organisation April 19, 1999 September 22, 1998 Adelaide, Australia Nick Lemon “Investigation of Groundwater Flow in Bob A. Hardage Fractured Rock Using Environmental The University of Adelaide Bureau of Economic Geology Isotopes; Clare Valley, South Adelaide, Australia The University of Texas at Austin Australia” “The Enorama Diapir, Adelaide “Vector-Wavefield Seismic Stratigraphy February 5, 1999 Geosyncline, South Australia: A Integration of P and S Stratal Surfaces” Record of Halokinesis Through September 10, 1998 Timothy A. Cross 4000 m of Sedimentation” Colorado School of Mines April 5, 1999 Larry W. Lake Golden, Colorado David Olgaard Department of Petroleum and “Stratigraphic Prediction Using Geosystems Engineering Stratigraphic Inversion” Exxon Production Research The University of Texas at Austin February 25, 1999 Houston, Texas “Some Recent Results on the Numerical “New Insights into Ductile Shear Zone Modeling of Turbidite Deposits” R. Lawrence Edwards Development from High Strain September 3, 1998 University of Minnesota Torsion Experiments” Minneapolis, Minnesota March 23, 1999 Stephen Marshak “High Precision Th-230 and Pa-231 Francisco Olivera University of Illinois Dating of Carbonates and Champaign, Illinois Quaternary Climate Change” Center for Research in Water Resources “Precambrian Deformational Styles, and April 20, 1999 The University of Texas at Austin the Tectonic Assembly of Brazil” “Continental-Scale Runoff Routing September 24, 1998 Paul F. Hudson Model Using GIS” Department of Geography March 5, 1999 Peter R. Rose The University of Texas at Austin Stan Paxton Telegraph Exploration “Assessment of Erosion Rates in Austin, Texas the Lower Mississippi River Exxon Production Research “Ethics in Professional Geological Prior to Large-Scale Human Houston, Texas Practice: Real-life Problems, Real- Modification” “Regional Distribution of Reservoir life Consequences” February 19, 1999 Quality, Venezuela” November 5, 1998 April 30, 1999 Louis L. Jacobs Ingo A. Pecher Abraham E. Springer Shuler Museum of Paleontology Northern Arizona University Southern Methodist University Institute for Geophysics Flagstaff, Arizona Dallas, Texas The University of Texas at Austin “The Hydrogeology of Conservation” “The Northern Edge of Gondwana” “Gas Hydrates on Continental Margins— September 29, 1998 February 16, 1999 Environments, Questions, and Some Results from Seismic Studies” February 22, 1999

34 Harry H. Roberts Craig T. Simmons Scott Tyler Coastal Studies Institute Flinders University Desert Research Institute Louisiana State University Adelaide, Australia Reno, Nevada Baton Rouge, Louisiana “Heterogeneity in Hydrogeologic “Ground-Water Recharge in Arid “Stratigraphy and Sedimentology of a Systems” Regions: Questions About Today Gulf of Mexico Shelf-Edge Delta” January 28, 1999 and the Past” February 18, 1999 February 17, 1999 “Salinity Transport in Fractured “Mahakam River Delta (Indonesia): Media” Peter van Metre Imprints of Sea-Level Change and January 29, 1999 United States Geological Survey Alternating Terrigenous Clastic/ Austin, Texas Carbonate Dominance” “Paleolimnology of Reservoirs: The February 18, 1999 Identification of Historical Water- Quality Trends in Rivers Using Reservoir Sediment Cores” February 26, 1999 Speakers—Faculty and Staff in the Department of Geological Sciences

Fall 1998 William D. Carlson J. Richard Kyle William L. Fisher “An Unsolved Mystery: Baffling Behavior “Metallogeny of Zn-Pb-Ag Deposits in of Trace Elements in Garnet” Sedimentary Basins: Characteristics “Fossil Fuels: Are We Running Out or February 24, 1999 and Genesis of the Tertiary Fouling Up?” Sandstone-hosted Jinding Zn-Pb December 1, 1998 James N. Connelly Deposit, Yunnan, China” March 24, 1999 Brenda Kirkland George “Dating the Carbonates in Martian ALH-84001” Randall A. Marrett “The Dynamic Capitan Reef” May 5, 1999 September 17, 1998 “Power-Law Scaling of Fractures: Can James S. Famiglietti We See a Real Signal through the Stephen P. Grand Artifacts?” “Soil Moisture Spatial Variability and March 31, 1999 “Global Seismic Tomography: A Snap- Scaling with Implications for Land- shot of Convection in the Earth” Atmosphere Interaction During Kitty L. Milliken October 13, 1998 SGP97” March 25, 1999 “Return of the Mantle Microbes, and Timothy B. Rowe Other Amazing Things in Shocking Robert L. Folk “Paleontology vs. the Information Age” 3-D” March 8, 1999 October 6, 1998 “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Synagogue” Douglas Smith Spring 1999 January 25, 1999 “Spinel Peridotite, Mantle Evolution, Richard A. Ketcham Christopher J. Bell and Tectonic Provinces” April 7, 1999 “Thermal Histories from Fission Tracks: “Why Study Mice?” New Toys” March 9, 1999 March 22, 1999

“Cathedral Cave: Middle Pleistocene Vertebrates from the Great Basin” April 12, 1999

35 Student Speakers—Technical Sessions Fall 1998 Fanchen Kong Spring 1999 Salem G. Aljuhani Ph.D. Candidate Fatma Akyurek “Modeling Basin-Scale Subsidence and Ph.D. Candidate Extension in the East China Sea Basin” M.S. Candidate “A Central Arabian Oil Field and the September 8, 1998 “Petrophysical and Geological Information Available from 3-D Characterization of Dolomitized Seismic Data and Wireline Logs” Roy B. Luck Carbonate Ramp Reservoirs: October 15, 1998 M.S. Candidate Seminole San Andres Unit 5309 Well, Gaines County, West Texas” Eduardo E. Ariza “Structural Geology in the Grasberg Lime Quarry and Amole Drift— March 30, 1999 M.S. Candidate Implications for Emplacement of the Susan D. Anderson “High-Resolution Sequence Stratigraphy Grasberg Intrusion, Irian Jaya, of the Leonardian Lower Clear Fork Indonesia” M.S. Candidate Group, Permian Basin” October 22, 1998 “Evidence for Early High-Pressure November 3, 1998 Metamorphism in the Western Llano Stefan P. Muszala Uplift, Central Texas: Garnet- Matthew W. Colbert M.S. Candidate Clinopyroxenites in Mason County Ph.D. Candidate “Magnetics of the Trench Revisited” “Evolution and Variation in Recent and and Aeromagnetics of the North April 22, 1999 Fossil Tapirs” Slope of Alaska” Stephen A. Clark October 1, 1998 September 15, 1998 M.S. Candidate Gundogan Coskun Pamela R. Owen “Along-Strike Variation of a Non- M.S. Candidate Ph.D. Candidate volcanic Rifted Margin: A “Seismic Stratigraphic Analyses of the “Phylogenetic Relationships among Geophysical Investigation of Galicia Northern Part of the Pattani Basin, American Badgers (Taxidiini) and the Bank and the Iberia Abyssal Plain” Gulf of Thailand” Evolution of the ‘Badger’ Ecomorph” April 27, 1999 October 20, 1998 November 10, 1998 Jianchun Dai

Thomas R. Fenstemaker Georgios P. Tsoflias Ph.D. Candidate M.S. Candidate Ph.D. Candidate “Integrated Reservoir Characterization “Density-Driven Free Convection “Hydrogeologic Characterization of of Sun Oil and Gas Field, Starr through Low-Permeability Units” Fractured Carbonate Aquifers Using County, South Texas” October 20, 1998 Ground-Penetrating Radar” March 4, 1999 December 3, 1998 Gavin L. Hudgeons Laura L. Faulkenberry Ricardo Torres Vargas M.S. Candidate M.S. Candidate “Origin of Septarian Concretions— Ph.D. Candidate “Alluvial Sedimentation and Bastrop, Texas” “The Miocene Reservoir Sandstones, Depositional History of the October 22, 1998 Saline Basin, Southern Gulf of Nonmarine Gila Group, Mimbres Mexico: Diagenesis and Economic Basin, New Mexico” Eugene M. Kim Significance” April 27, 1999 November 17, 1998 Ph.D. Candidate Jonas P. Gournay “Natural Gas Ultimate Recovery Jennifer T. Wilson Growth Analysis in the Gulf Coast Ph.D. Candidate Basin” M.S. Candidate “Diagenesis of Ooid Reservoir Facies in November 24, 1998 “PAHs in Urban Lakes and Reservoirs” McElmo Creek Unit, Greater Aneth November 3, 1998 Field” April 6, 1999 36 Jose I. Guzman Espinal Qunling Liu Laura Rico

Ph.D. Candidate Ph.D. Candidate M.S. Candidate “Miocene Stratigraphy of Northeastern “Post Mid-Cretaceous Sequence “Geometric and Kinematic Evolution of Maracaibo Basin, Venezuela: Stratigraphy, Depositional Systems, a Complete Detachment Fold in a Implications for Reservoir Sediment Transport Axes, and Natural Cross Section” Heterogeneity Predictions in Depositional History, Gulf of April 22, 1999 Tectonically-Active Settings” Mexico Basin” April 1, 1999 April 15, 1999 Cengiz T. Vur H. Scott Hamlin Javier G. Moros M.S. Candidate “Petroleum Geological Data Ph.D. Candidate M.S. Candidate Management” “Slope and Basin Depositional Systems, “Fracture Scaling: Relations between March 30, 1999 Ozona Sandstone, Val Verde Basin, Fracture Length and Mechanical Southwest Texas” Aperture” Justin A. Zumbro February 4, 1999 May 4, 1999 M.S. Candidate Jeffrey S. Harrison Vannaroth Nuth “Recent Petrologic and Structural Advances in the Valley Spring Gneiss M.S. Candidate Ph.D. Candidate of the Southeastern Llano Uplift, “Hydrothermal Alteration and Fluid “Changes of Ice Sheet Thickness as Texas” Evolution of the Grasberg Porphyry Detected by Satellite Altimeter” April 13, 1999 Cu-Au Deposit, Ertsberg Mining January 26, 1999 District, Irian Jaya, Indonesia” April 29, 1999 Yong-Joon Park David M. Hirsch M.S. Candidate “Depositional Facies Analysis from the Ph.D. Candidate Seismic Attributes in the Pattani “Studies of Porphyroblast Crystallization Basin, Gulf of Thailand” Using Quantitative Analysis of April 29, 1999 Crystal Textures” February 2, 1999 Cori A. Lambert

M.S. Candidate “Meso-Scale Structural Geology and Petrology of the Heavy Sulfide Zone Along the Kucing Liar and Amole Drifts, South of and Within the Grasberg Igneous Complex, Gunung Bijih (Ertsberg) Mining District, Irian Jaya, Indonesia” April 13, 1999 Faqi Liu

Ph.D. Candidate “Surface Multiple Attenuation in the Plane Wave Domain” February 23, 1999 Mammoth bones at a Paleoindian site at Blackwater Draw, Portales, New Mexico, October 1962. Photo provided by Ernest L. Lundelius.

37 Research and Teaching Assistants, 1998-1999 Research Assistants

Bureau of Economic Department of Geological Harrison, Jeffrey S. Geology Sciences Hoh, April M. Akyurek, Fatma Anderson, Susan D. Hudgeons, Gavin L. Badescu, Adrian C. Barker, Joey J. Hunt, Brian B. Cerda, Fernando A. Christian, Lance N. Hutchings, Wade D. Chen, Jinghua Fenstemaker, Thomas R. John, Jason G. Choi, Wan-Joo Feseha, Mulugeta Y. Khorzad, Kaveh Dai, Jianchun Harrison, Jeffrey S. Lambert, Cori A. Doherty, Eloise H. Hirsch, David M. Landrum, Michael T. Espinal Guzman, Jose I. Hoh, April M. Loewy, Staci L. Fimlay, Carlos J. Lambert, Cori A. Macrini, Thomas E. Keirstead, Robert F. Luck, Roy B. Matzel, Eric M. Kilic, Cem O. Matzel, Eric M. McFarlane, Christopher R. Kim, Eugene M. Mickler, Patrick J. Meckel, Timothy A. Le Calvez, Joel H. Moros, Javier G. Miskelly, Thomas E. Marchan Campos, Jorge L. Ortega Perez, Orlando J. Murray, Lyndon K. Mickler, Patrick J. Owen, Pamela R. Piontek, Jennifer E. Moros, Javier G. Schlottmann, R. Brian Ressler, Theodore R. Muzaffar, Asif Sylvia, Dennis A. Riley, Brook C. D. Nutter, Christi G. Valentine, D. Shane Rodell, Matthew Palachek, Susan C. Weiland, Richard J. Rogers, Jennifer Roberts Rassi, Claudia Wu, Xinxia Roth, Michelle A. Rush, Jason W. Ruez, Dennis R. Settemeyer, Dennis S. Shepherd, Sunday K. Shepherd, Sunday K. Teaching Assistants Sylvia, Dennis A. Sipahioglu, Nazim O. Anderson, Susan D. Thompson, Clark Vur, Cengiz T. Badescu, Adrian C. Troutman, Tony J. Walsh, Patrick Berg, Aaron A. Turich, Courtney H. Wang, Chengshu Bradley, Michael H. Tykoski, Ronald S. Zirczy, Helena H. Burger, Robert L. Uliana, Matthew M. Chatawanich, Kirk Valentine, D. Shane Clark, Stephen A. Van Gestel, Jean-Paul Institute for Geophysics Corboy, James J. Wertz, Karah L. Burger, Robert L. De Nooyer, Cathrin F. Zumbro, Justin A. Clark, Stephen A. Dotter, Kara R. Jiao, Junru Dufeau, David L. Assistant Instructor Lindsay, Sarah R. Dunn, Dennis P. Hirsch, David M. Miskelly, Thomas E. Fenstemaker, Thomas R. Mukherjee, Anubrati Feseha, Mulugeta Y. Rogers, Robert D. Franzosa, Jonathan W. Schlottmann, R. Brian Ghosh, Ayati Schuur, Catherine L. Grellet-Tinner, Gerald Stachowiak, John S. Griffin, Joy D. Sylvia, Dennis A. Grimes, Stephen W. Tsoflias, Georgios P. Hamman, Russell R. Wertz, Karah L. Hansen, C. Norman

38 Field Excursion to the Central Andes—GEO 381R by Rich Kyle

Rich Kyle has had a long-term educational philosophy about the importance of field studies to complement the traditional classroom experience, that is, “The best geologists are those who have seen the most rocks.” Thus, Rich has organized and led more than 20 major student field trips to examine the geology and mineral resources of various regions. Typically, these have been to regions such as the southern Appalachians, the Mid-Continent, southwestern U.S. Cordillera, and Sierra Madre Oriental and Occidental. El Tatio geothermal field in northern Chile. Photo provided by Rich Kyle. A few years ago, he developed GEO 381R, Regional Studies in Mineral Resources Geology, for Rich recently joined forces with university group, including 6 UT students with diverse interests and friends Bill Chavez at New Mexico graduate students, spent 3 weeks in backgrounds who can make Tech and Erich Petersen at the northern Chile, experiencing the contributions on many topics and University of Utah to organize spectacular tectonic and volcanic scales to the geologic and other issues international field trips to selected geology of the central Andes, the stark about a region to provide the best areas of interest to mineral resource terrain and climate of the Atacama learning experience for all. geologists. In May, the combined Desert, and the world-class mineral deposits. The trip was a fabulous educational opportunity for the students with interests in tectonics (Karah Wertz), subduction-related magmatism (Tip Meckel), ore deposits (Asif Muzaffar and Jim Corboy), and climate-related weathering phenomena (Joy Griffin and Tony Troutman), as well as Pre-Columbian history and Andean culture. The trip followed a spring semester seminar in which the students reviewed various aspects of the geology of the region. Each student prepared a section of a guidebook for the trip.

The trip included 10 geologic professionals who shared invaluable experiences from the real world of mining and mineral exploration. These professionals and their Flamingoes on the Laguna del Negro Francisco with a background of an alteration zone companies also provided field in the Miocene Volcán Copiapo in the Maricunga area. Photo provided by Rich Kyle. vehicles and per diem support, which

39 helped make the trip affordable for the students. The Geology Foundation provided scholarships to cover about half the international airfare for the students and helped to make the trip an incredible value for the students. Looking east from the Salar de The trip started in Copiapo, following Atacama at a dusting of snow on an overnight bus ride from Santiago. the 5,916-m peak Predictably, because Chile is the of Volcán world’s leading copper-producing Licanabur on the country, the itinerary was dominated Chile-Bolivia by tours of various types of copper border. Photo provided by deposits that are hosted by Mesozoic Rich Kyle. and younger igneous rocks of a variety of types. The deposits are complex mineralogically, the result of the variability of the original copper increasingly copper-rich with depth. habitable sites within the heart of the concentrations and the overprint of The Lomas Bayas mine provided an Atacama region. This trip provided weathering phenomena associated example of the climatic-induced many additional experiences, with the hyperarid climate of the complexity that affects near-surface including an earthquake in Calama Atacama Desert. copper deposits in the Atacama and a surreal sunrise at 4,000 m at the region, where the high nitrate and steaming El Tatio geyser field, after the The first visit was to the Candelaria chlorine content of the secondary ores group arrived in the freezing dark. El copper deposit in Mesozoic complicates copper recovery via the Tatio is the surface expression of a metavolcanic strata, arguably the most solvent extraction process. The modern hydrothermal system that may controversial deposit of the entire trip. nearby Fortuna area contains a well- be forming ore deposits in the The group toured El Salvador, the evaluated copper resource that awaits subsurface. The Salar de Atacama subject of many classic studies of the better metal prices before production contains the world’s largest lithium relationship between hydrothermal can commence. El Abra, at a 4,200-m producer from the interstitial brines alteration and “porphyry” copper elevation, provided the high point of beneath a rugged evaporitic crust; the mineralization. El Salvador also the trip, with one of the world’s largest limited water in the salar hosts a provided the only underground mine copper producers against a backdrop thriving biological community, experience for the group. Next was a of snow-covered Andean volcanic including a flamingo colony. The tour of the new Manto Verde copper peaks. Finally, the group visited Mina group was even entertained by an mine, an interesting variety of Sur (Exotica), one of the most impromptu concert from a Chilean structurally controlled copper deposits spectacular copper deposits of the folk group on the return bus to without an apparent genetically trip. Mina Sur formed where Calama. The students made their way associated pluton. The group’s “off groundwater, carrying copper derived back to Santiago with an intermediate day” was devoted to regional geology, during weathering of the nearby stop to study coastal processes on the including tracking the Atacama fault supergiant Chuquicamata porphyry beach at La Serena, while Rich flew and the coastal batholith complex cut deposit, precipitated brightly colored ahead to give a talk on Grasberg by spectacular dike swarms. The day secondary copper minerals within the research at the University of Chile. ended at the coastal town of Taltal, matrix of Tertiary gravels, forming a from which the group ventured out to high-grade “exotic” deposit. Just as Rich had advertised for the examine manto-type copper deposits course that the trip should not be in Mesozoic andesitic volcanics. The Tejanos stayed after the confused with a vacation, it was not. Traveling further inland, the group conclusion of the mine trip to see Although the group returned bone- toured El Guanaco, an interesting some of the other geologic features of tired, everyone had an unforgettable study in metal zonation from a high- northern Chile in the San Pedro de experience. Hmm! Where will next level gold-rich deposit that becomes Atacama area, one of the few year’s geoadventure be . . . ?

40 Summer Field Camp 1999—GEO 660 by Mark Helper

The GEO 660 class this summer examined, mapped, measured, and explored some of the most spectacular geology in the West. The 31 students who participated also saw more than their fair share of rattlesnakes and flat tires but experienced some of the best weather in recent memory. Drs. Banner, Connelly, Helper, Kocurek, Marrett, and McBride and 7 graduate teaching assistants taught the class for varying portions of the 6-week period. (Above) (Left to right) Eric North, Danielle Schleman, Brenda Koch, Sherri Randal and T. A. Shane Valentine enjoy lunch on the McCracken Sandstone during mapping near Silverton, Colorado. Photo provided by Mark Helper.

camped at Colter Bay, they spent 3 days examining the geology of the Yellowstone caldera and the neotectonic and glacial features of Mapping the Jackson Hole region. Paleozoic strata in the From the parks, the class traveled high country northward to Canyon Ferry, near near Silverton, Colorado. Helena, Montana, where students Photo spent 9 days mapping and studying provided by the thin-skinned fold and thrust belt Mark Helper. geology of the Big Belt Mountains. A final project in the Pioneer Mountains, The first week focused on carbonate Following a stop at Dinosaur National west of Melrose, Montana, focused on rocks and reefs in the Guadalupe and Monument, Utah, the group traveled the geology of the Hecla mining district, Sacramento Mountains, New Mexico, north through Wyoming, via Rocks once the largest silver district in Montana. with short trips to Carlsbad Caverns Springs, South Pass, and the Wind Over a 4-day period, students docu- and White Sands. The emphasis River and Owl Creek Mountains to mented, mapped, and reported on shifted to fluvial and aeolian arrive at Greybull, on the western relationships among deformation, sediments of the San Juan Basin flank of the Big Horn Mountains. metamorphism, mineralization, and during the second week, with a During their stay there, students plutonism, and they speculated on camping stint at Ghost Ranch near mapped portions of the Sheep orebody genesis and geometries Abiquiu, New Mexico, and a short Mountain and Goose Egg Anticlines within the same sequence of lower stay at the dorms of Fort Lewis and viewed the thick-skinned Paleozoic carbonates that they had College in Durango, Colorado. A structural style of the Big Horn mapped previously. The drive home single-day mapping exercise near Mountains on a 1-day trip through the from Montana allowed stops on the Silverton and a trip through the San range. A short trip westward brought Snake River Plain near Idaho Falls, Juan Mountains on the way north the group to Yellowstone and Grand Idaho, on the Colorado Plateau at concluded the stay in Durango. Teton National Parks where, while Provo, Arches National Monument in

41 Utah, and the Rio Grande Rift at Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Further details and photos from this and previous classes can be found at http://www.geo.utexas.edu/660. The same site will eventually contain alumni pages and a UT field camp history. I would appreciate your photos, reminiscences (in whatever form!), and suggestions.

Professor Randall Marrett and students take in the geology of the Sheep Mountain area from atop a ridge of the Springs Formation. Photo provided by Mark Helper.

(Left to right) Hubert Brown, Holly Nichols, and Jaime Barnes view the Morrison Formation at Sheep Mountain, Wyoming. Photo provided by Mark Helper. Placement Office Update, 1998-1999 by Miriam L. Pashby

The 1998-1999 academic year was Conoco, Duke Engineering, Exxon by various companies this past year. active for the Department of Exploration, Exxon Production and The following salaries were offered by Geological Sciences Placement Research, Fina Oil and Chemical the companies interviewing through Office. Eighty-four students used the Co., Marathon Oil, Maxus, Minerals this office: services, which were coordinated by Management Service, Mobil, Miriam Pashby, during the fall and Pennzoil, PGS Tensor, Phillips, Full-time annual job salaries: spring semesters. Of these students, Radian, Schlumberger, Texaco, Union 27 were candidates for the B.S. or Pacific, Unocal, Vastar, Veritas, and B.S./B.A. $40,000—$42,000 B.A. degrees, 32 for the M.S. or M.A. Western Geophysical visited the M.S./M.A. $51,600—$64,800 degrees, and 25 for the Ph.D. degree. Department during the fall. Ph.D. $46,800—$57,600 Summer job/internship salaries Thirty organizations interviewed on A survey was taken by the Placement (monthly basis): campus. Representatives from Office, with 71 responses returned out Amerada Hess, Amoco, Anadarko, of 84 mailed. According to this survey, B.S./B.A. $3,000—$3,750 ARCO, BP Exploration, Brigham 8 full-time positions and 13 summer M.S./M.A. $3,600—$4,250 Exploration, Burlington Resources, jobs/internships were offered to Ph.D. $4,000—$4,500 Chevron, Coastal Corporation, undergraduates and graduate students

42 Student Awards and Honors

The following students were presented Jose I. Guzman Espinal (Ph.D., Graduate Student awards at the Department of Geological spring 1999) “Miocene Stratigraphy of Executive Committee Sciences Ceremony on May 6, 1999: Northeastern Maracaibo Basin, Student Service Award: Venezuela: Implications for Reservoir Best Speaker Awards/ Heterogeneity Predictions in Cori A. Lambert Technical Sessions: Tectonically-Active Settings.” Outstanding Teaching Georgios P. Tsoflias (Ph.D., fall Laura Rico (M.S., spring 1999) Assistant Awards: 1998) “Hydrogeologic “Geometric and Kinematic Evolution Dennis P. Dunn Characterization of Fractured of a Complete Detachment Fold in a Carbonate Aquifers Using Ground- Natural Cross Section.” Dennis A. Sylvia Penetrating Radar.” Honorable Mention for Best Speakers Petrography Awards: Roy B. Luck (M.S., fall 1998) Awards/Technical Sessions was given Justin A. Zumbro (Graduate) “Structural Geology in the Grasberg to Pamela E. Owen (Ph.D., fall Lime Quarry and Amole Drift— 1998) and Jonas P. Gournay, and Jonathan M. Skaggs (Undergraduate) Implications for Emplacement of the David M. Hirsch (Ph.D., spring Estwing Hammer Award: Grasberg Intrusion, Irian Jaya, 1999) and Jeffrey S. Harrison (M.S., Indonesia.” spring 1999). Adrienne Barnett

Matthew M. Uliana (left) congratulates Laura Rico Jonathan M. Skaggs, undergraduate (right), receives the Petrography (right) on her receipt of the spring M.S. Best Speaker award from Doug Smith (left) at Department ceremony on May 6, 1999. Award at Department ceremony on May 6, 1999.

Mark P. Cloos (left) with Dennis A. Sylvia (right) as Dennis receives the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Matthew M. Uliana (left) Chair of GSEC, presents Award at the Cori A. Lambert (right) the Graduate Student Executive Department Committee Student Service Award at Department ceremony on ceremony on May 6, 1999. May 6, 1999.

43 Johanna A. Devereaux Receives AGU Award

In October 1998, Johanna A. which she completed in December Devereaux was awarded an 1998. Outstanding Student Paper Award by the American Geophysical Union Johanna had a distinguished graduate (AGU) for her poster presentation at career while at UT. In addition to her the December 1997 AGU fall AGU award, she also received honors meeting. The title of Johanna’s for the best Technical Sessions poster was “Correlation of Remotely- presentation by a Master’s student for Sensed Soil Moisture Content with the spring 1998 semester, and she Gravimetric and Impedance Probe received a Banks Fellowship during the Measurements at Two Sites during fall 1998 semester. Johanna is currently SGP97.” The research presented employed at the Texas Natural Resource was also the topic of her M.S. thesis, Conservation Commission. Johanna Devereaux

Karen I. D. Mohr Receives NASA Award

Karen I. D. Mohr, a Ph.D. candidate in Karen is originally from New Durham, the Department, has been awarded one a small town in central New of 160 graduate fellowships, which Hampshire. In 1986, she earned a the National Aeronautics and Space bachelor’s degree in physics from Administration (NASA) awards each College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, year in its Graduate Student Researchers Massachusetts, and a second Program (GSRP). The purpose of the bachelor’s degree in meteorology at GSRP is to cultivate research ties Penn State University. From 1987 to between NASA and the academic 1991, Karen served in the U.S. Air community and to support a diverse Force as an aviation weather group of students pursuing advanced forecaster at duty stations in California degrees in Earth and Space science and and the Philippines. After leaving the engineering. The award is $22,000 per Air Force, she worked as a year, renewable for 3 years. meteorologist in the wind energy industry in California. In the GSRP, students collaborate with NASA scientists in their area of Karen returned to school in 1993, interest. Karen submitted a proposal Karen I. D. Mohr receiving a Master’s degree in entitled “A Study of Land/Atmosphere meteorology from Texas A&M Interactions in the Development of University in 1995. Her research at Mesoscale Convective Systems” and development of sophisticated Texas A&M involved studying the will be working closely on this project numerical cloud models and is a geographic distribution and with Dr. Wei-Kuo Tao of the leader in exploring the connection characteristics (size, intensity, rainfall Laboratory for Atmospheres, NASA- between land surface and atmospheric production) of mesoscale clusters of Goddard, Greenbelt, Maryland. Dr. processes in the development of thunderstorms, called “mesoscale Tao is well known for his clouds and precipitation. convective systems.” Karen has found

44 that mesoscale convective systems are Famiglietti. In the hydrology program, responsible for the development of the most important precipitating Karen has focused on learning heat strong continental mesoscale systems in the global tropics, and moisture exchange at the surface convective systems. This work should producing 70 percent of the rainfall, and in the vadose zone. Armed with improve not only the prediction of even though they make up only 20 this knowledge and under Jay’s these important precipitating systems percent of the population of guidance, she will be using Dr. Tao’s but also our understanding of how the precipitating clouds. numerical models to simulate land- land-atmosphere interaction affects atmosphere interaction and its role in the generation and distribution of Attracted by the facilities and support cloud formation. She hopes that her clouds and rainfall in general. We in the Department, Karen came to UT simulations will identify and congratulate Karen on receiving this to study surface hydrology under Jay characterize the important processes fine award.

Matthew Rodell Awarded NASA Earth System Science Fellowship

The National Aeronautics and Space Born in , Matt spent his Administration (NASA) offers youth in Connecticut, where he grew approximately 50 fellowships each to love the outdoors. He earned a year to graduate students who have Bachelor’s degree in Environmental submitted outstanding proposals to the Science from College of William and Earth System Science (ESS) program. Mary in Virginia and then worked for They provide for tuition, expenses, an environmental consulting firm in and a stipend, totaling $22,000 per New Jersey before matriculating at UT year, renewable for up to 3 years. In in 1995. Prior to receiving the NASA July of 1998, Matthew Rodell was Traineeship Matt was supported by a awarded a NASA ESS Fellowship on National Science Foundation the basis of his proposal entitled traineeship bestowed by his advisor, “Estimating Changes in Continental Jay Famiglietti. Water Storage from Satellite Observations of the Time-Dependent Matthew Rodell Gravity Field.”

Marcia L. Branstetter Receives Graduate Fellowship

The U.S. Department of Energy Research Environmental Fellowship university thesis advisor and a national recently started a graduate fellowship (GREF). Marcia is one of 26 graduate laboratory researcher. Marcia will be program from its Office of Biological students to be awarded this $22,000 working with Dr. Warren Washington and Environmental Research (OBER). fellowship. from the National Center for Atmospheric Marcia L. Branstetter, a Ph.D. Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado, on candidate in UT’s Department of The GREF project involves her research to investigate the effect of Geological Sciences, has been chosen collaborative research between continental runoff on climate dynamics for appointment to the Global Change universities and national laboratories. using a parallel earth system model. Education Program (GCEP) Graduate The students have two mentors: the Dr. Washington has expertise in

45 atmospheric science and climate computation. Interested in applying this research and was one of the first to to real-world problems such as climate recognize the importance of the use of research, Marcia went to work on massively parallel computers in global hydrology under the supervision climate modeling. of Professor Jay Famiglietti in the Department of Geological Sciences. Marcia was born in Denver, Colorado, Part of Dr. Famiglietti’s group is working but grew up in Texas, after her family on the development of a global land moved to Georgetown. She graduated hydrology model in cooperation with magna cum laude from Southwestern NCAR. Marcia’s development of a University in Georgetown with a parallel river transport algorithm is part Bachelor of Science degree in of this effort. Her parallel river transport mathematics in 1986. She obtained a model has been coupled to Dr. Master of Arts degree in mathematics Washington’s DOE/NCAR Parallel from The University of Texas at Austin Climate Model (PCM), and she will use Marcia L. Branstetter in 1995. While pursuing her Master’s this coupled model to study the effects degree, Marcia focused on of continental runoff on the climate mathematical physics and parallel system.

Orlando J. Ortega Receives Minority Outreach Program Scholarship by Randy Marrett

Orlando J. Ortega (M.S., 1997, Ph.D. Orlando’s dissertation research Candidate, 1998) was awarded the focuses on characterization of fracture 1998 Minority Outreach Program systems. He currently is finishing Scholarship ($2,000) from Chevron work on fractures in sandstone Corporation, in recognition of his outcrops of the Weber Formation. outstanding academic and personal near Rangely Field in northwestern achievement. Greg Matiuk, Vice Colorado and in sandstone cores of President of Human Resources and the Ozona Sandstone from West Quality at Chevron Corporation, Texas. Last fall, Orlando initiated field presented the award. Orlando also work on fracture systems in limestones worked for Chevron during the of the Cupido Formation in summer of 1998, evaluating northeastern Mexico. exploration opportunities in Cretaceous reservoirs of the Maracaibo Basin, Venezuela.

Orlando J. Ortega

46 Calvin A. Lee Receives Goldwater

Scholarship code.) At UT, Calvin is pursuing two complementary pathways for which by Leon Long anatomy is the common theme. He is doing research with Chris Bell, probing The Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship is inside the skulls of Pleistocene lizards known as “the nation’s premier from cave deposits in Nevada. Living in undergraduate award of its type in Houston has provided an unusual mathematics, the natural sciences, and opportunity, now for the third straight engineering.” Most recently this, the year, for Calvin to participate in most prestigious of all scholarships, competitive summer programs in the which carries an annual $7,500 stipend, medical complex there. His was granted to only 285 students across acquaintance with anatomy is definitely the country. We are delighted that our hands-on! own Calvin A. Lee was a winner. He was the only awardee at The University Calvin has been a leader in student of Texas at Austin with its more than organizations both locally and 8,000 undergraduates majoring in math nationally since coming to UT. Of or natural science, and more than 4,000 course, his GPA is way up there in the majors in engineering. Because Calvin stratosphere, and the Goldwater will be a junior in the fall semester, his Calvin A. Lee Scholarship was by no means his first award will continue for a second year. (nor will it be the last) in his string of awards. And besides all that, Calvin Calvin was born in Toronto, where his smashing boulders against the side of does volunteer work at hospitals and folks had immigrated to from Hong the schoolhouse just to see what was elsewhere and is into piano and Kong, later to move to Houston, Texas. inside of them. (This is substantiating composing. Calvin, you are a person One of his vivid childhood memories is evidence that becoming a geologist is of many talents, and we are proud the deep trouble he got into at age 7 for predetermined at birth by one’s genetic of you. Jaime D. Barnes Receives UT Endowed Presidential Scholarship by Leon Long

Among the many benefits provided by Jaime comes from an academic family the Geology Foundation are in San Antonio, Texas. She has known scholarships for our undergraduates, that she would be a geologist at least including several distinguished since the sixth grade, when she Endowed Presidential Scholarships requested a rock tumbler for Christmas. (EPS’s). The University of Texas at She brings a near-perfect GPA toward Austin, as an entity, also funds EPS’s and her graduation in May 2000, followed invites the departments to nominate by graduate school, probably in excellent students in numbers according metamorphic petrology. (She works to the size of the department. with Bill Carlson in the microprobe lab.) Geological Sciences was allocated one Jaime is fascinated not only with “slot.” We nominated Jaime D. Barnes, science, but as a Plan II major, she and she was a winner in this highly carries a killer course load, which also rarefied competition. This is the most includes heavy emphasis on literature Jamie D. Barnes recent in a long series of honors and and philosophy. She’s your all-around awards given to her. good scholar. Congratulations, Jamie!

47 Students Receive University Co-Operative Society Undergraduate Research Fellowships

Deanna M. Combs was the spring family settled finally in Round Rock, recipient of The University of Texas at Texas, during her freshman year in high Austin University Co-Operative Society school, and she is a graduate of Round Undergraduate Research Fellowship in Rock High School. She completed her the amount of $1,000 in order to help B.S. degree in Biology (Evolution, fund her research endeavors. Deanna’s Ecology, Conservation) at the end of the research involves (1) the study of the spring semester and will complete her growth rates of speleothems from Cave B.S. degree in Geology at the end of the Without A Name in Kendall County, summer semester of this year. She plans Texas, using uranium-thorium to attend graduate school beginning disequilibrium techniques; and (2) the Spring 2000 studying the isotope ratios use of carbon and oxygen composition of both marine and terrestrial carbonate of the speleothems in order to assess systems in the hopes of understanding past environmental change in this past and current environmental and region. This research is part of a larger climate change with the ultimate goal of study of paleoenvironments associated better understanding the impact these Deanna M. Combs with the Edwards aquifer of the Central changes have on global faunal Texas region being undertaken by Jay populations. Banner and his students. This project distribution of garnet porphyroblasts in has afforded Deanna the opportunity to Romy D. Schneider is a senior pursuing a high-pressure, low-temperature learn clean-lab chemical separation a Bachelor of Science in Geophysics metamorphic rock. These data were procedures and the operation of the and will graduate in December of 1999. then analyzed in order to determine the Department’s thermal ionization and She received an Undergraduate dominant nucleation and growth isotope ratio mass spectrometers in Research Fellowship from The mechanism of the crystals on geological order to measure the isotopic University of Texas in Austin in order to time scales. compositions of uranium, thorium, fund research for her Senior Honors carbon, and oxygen in the speleothems. Thesis under the supervision of Dr. Andria L. Bilich and Adrienne E. William Carlson. Using the new high- Barnett also received The University of Deanna was born in San Juan, Puerto resolution X-ray Computed Tomography Texas at Austin University Co-Operative Rico, and moved often as a child since (CT) facility in the Department, they Society Undergraduate Research her father was in the military. Her examined the three-dimensional spatial Fellowships.

Student Officers for Fall 1998 and Spring 1999 Graduate Student Executive American Association of Undergraduate Student Committee (GSEC): Petroleum Geologists, Geological Society (USGS): Chair Matthew M. Uliana Student Chapter President Andria L. Bilich Vice Chair Thomas E. Miskelly (AAPG): Vice President Sherri K. Randal Secretary Jean-Paul Van Gestel Treasurer Danielle E. Schleman President Russell R. Hamman Treasurer Tony J. Troutman Secretary Brian B. Andres Vice President Dennis Scott Settemeyer Board Member at Large James J. Corboy Webmaster Donald A. Campbell Secretary Jonathan M. Skaggs Board Member at Large Timothy A. Meckel Public Relations Christopher B. Strganac Treasurer Jonathan M. Skaggs Board Member at Large Michelle A. Roth University of Texas Geophysical Society (SEG): Not active 48 Graduate Student Executive Committee by Matthew M. Uliana into contact with local secondary the day was a great success, drawing teachers and classrooms and gives thousands of people to the campus In the 1998-1999 school year, the them the opportunity to share their and demonstrating the wealth of Graduate Student Executive knowledge and experience with those science, technology, art, and Committee (GSEC) performed another teachers and students. GSEC At-Large educational experiences that make up season of service to the graduate member James Corboy was directly our University. students of our Department. Our involved in the program, assisting primary goals for the year mirrored Department of Geological Sciences’ GSEC also offered its assistance to the those of the past, as we concentrated professor Leon Long and graduate Lundelius Symposium on Quaternary on strengthening our ties to the student Courtney Turich in contacting Vertebrate Paleontology, held in the community, as well as to each other, teachers, organizing classroom visits, Geology Building on November 13, through social events and volunteer obtaining supplies, and taking part in 1998. This symposium was convened work within and outside of the classroom presentations. GSEC also to honor Dr. Ernie Lundelius, Professor Department. To this end, the helped the program by raising of Vertebrate Paleontology, who members of GSEC contributed their awareness and soliciting volunteers in retired from our Department in August time and efforts faithfully, even in the the Department, obtaining rock and of 1998. Members of GSEC, along face of the everyday struggles that mineral samples for the presentations, with other volunteer graduate students make up the life of a graduate student. and investigating possible funding from the Department, offered their sources for purchasing supplies. To assistance at a reception held at the Once again, GSEC organized the date, the Outreach Program has been Texas Memorial Museum following hosting of visiting prospective a success, and the interaction between the symposium. The symposium graduate students. Vice-Chairman the graduate students in our turned out to be a big success and was Thomas Miskelly and At-Large Department and secondary teachers a fitting tribute to a highly influential Member Timothy “Tip” Meckel took and students in Austin has been and prolific scientist who built one of the lead in coordinating the visits, beneficial to all. the finest vertebrate paleontology arranging student hosts and rides to programs in the country. and from the airport, scheduling In addition to visits to local schools, meetings with faculty, and planning the Outreach Program and GSEC also GSEC continued its involvement with activities for the prospective grad took part in the Austin Science Fun the Graduate Student Assembly (GSA), students. These activities included Day and UT Interactive, held on a university-wide group dedicated to tours of the Department, the campus, Saturday, March 6, 1999. This was an issues that affect the rights and quality and the city; visits to the Bureau of all-day event, free and open to the of life of graduate students at The Economic Geology, the Institute for public, in which departments all over University of Texas at Austin. GSEC Geophysics, and the Vertebrate The University prepared over 470 Vice-Chairman Thomas Miskelly acted Paleontology Lab; meals at local exhibits, demonstrations, lectures, as our departmental representative to restaurants; a reception barbecue and tours, and other interactive activities. GSA by attending the monthly party; and a trip to Amy’s Ice Cream. I personally volunteered my time to meetings, reporting on actions and A total of 21 prospective students the lecture series offered by several discussions of the assembly, and visited our Department, met with researchers from the College of representing the concerns and faculty and students, and took part in Natural Sciences (including interests of our Department. The the Prospective Student Program. Department of Geological Sciences’ primary issue of concern to GSA this Feedback from the prospective Professor Tim Rowe) by providing year was H.B. 315, a bill before the students was very positive; all enjoyed assistance with the audiovisual Texas State Legislature that grants their visits and appreciated the efforts facilities in the lecture hall. Other tuition waivers to teaching and of GSEC and the other graduate members of the Outreach Program research assistants at state universities. students in planning and organizing and GSEC, as well as other graduate Other issues include exemption from their visits. student volunteers, helped out at the FICA tax withholding for teaching/ paleontology exhibits at the Texas research assistants, TA/RA pay scales GSEC was also involved in the Memorial Museum by preparing and benefits, and university support Department’s Outreach Program, a displays and offering their expertise to for graduate students. One of GSA’s program that brings graduate students the people in attendance. Overall, goals in addressing the tuition waiver

49 issue was to demonstrate to the State Recently, we have begun to take steps a GSEC Web site (http://www.geo.utexas. Legislature that graduate students play towards reviving the Department’s edu/geosec), update the Graduate an important role in their communities; chapter of Sigma Gamma Epsilon, the Student Thesis Board on the third floor thus, allocating funds for tuition waivers National Honor Society for the Earth of the Geology Building, hold a meeting is a worthwhile use of state money. Sciences. Graduate student (and former with the undergraduates to discuss (and GSEC assisted GSA in this endeavor GSEC Chairman) Jason Lundquist offer advice about) attending graduate by obtaining letters from local initiated the process by contacting school, and assist Jennifer Roberts teachers and others who benefited GSEC, informing us of the existence of Rogers with the departmental blood from the Outreach Program and the our Department’s chapter, and soliciting drives held each semester. Finally, we graduate students involved in the interest from the graduate and managed to squeeze in a number of program, and forwarding these letters undergraduate students in the social events, including a Halloween to GSA. Although H.B. 315 has Department. We have received party at GSEC Secretary Jean-Paul van passed the House Committee for significant interest from the rest of the Gestel’s house and the traditional Final Higher Education, as of the end of the Department in reviving our chapter, and Bedlam festivities held at the end of the spring 1999 semester, it still has a we feel confident that an active UT/ spring term. Overall, it was a successful number of hurdles to overcome, in- Austin Sigma Gamma Epsilon chapter year for the Graduate Student Executive cluding the Appropriations Committee will be in place in the fall. Committee, and through our actions, and a general vote on the House Floor. we have once again secured our legacy However, GSA and GSEC remain In addition to the previously discussed as a faithful servant to the citizens of the optimistic that it will pass. items, we also found the time to start Department of Geological Sciences. Graduate Fellowships, Scholarships, and Awards Amoco Foundation, Inc. Leonidas T. Barrow Dorothy Ogden Carsey Scholarship Centennial Chair in Memorial Scholarship Jinghua Chen Spring 1999 Mineral Resources Fund Jonas P. Gournay 1998-1999 Scholarship Jason J. Lundquist Spring 1999 Mary and Ben Anderson Gundogan Coskun Fall 1998 Dennis A. Sylvia Spring 1999 Chevron USA, Inc. Endowment for Graduate Scholarship Studies in Geology Wayne Franklin Bowman Brian B. Hunt Spring 1999 Susan D. Anderson Summer 1999 Endowed Presidential Brook C. D. Riley Fall 1998 Thomas R. Banks Memorial Scholarship Joseph S. Cullinan Scholar- Jonas P. Gournay Fall 1998 Scholarship ship in Geological Sciences Johanna A. Devereaux Fall 1998 British Petroleum Michael T. Landrum Fall 1998 Laura L. Faulkenberry Fall 1998 Exploration Scholarship Robert H. Cuyler Endowed Jeffery S. Harrison Spring 1999 Jason G. John Fall 1998 David M. Hirsch Spring 1999 Presidential Scholarship Pamela R. Owen Fall 1998 Jesse L. Brundrett Mark R. Ulrich Spring 1999 Laura Rico Fall 1998 Endowed Presidential Georgios P. Tsoflias Fall 1998 Ronald K. DeFord Field Scholarship Scholarship Fund Jonas P. Gournay Spring 1999 Laura Thomson Barrow Kirk Chatawanich Summer 1999 Michael T. Landrum Fall 1998 Graduate Fellowship Joy D. Griffin Spring 1999 Joy D. Griffin Summer 1999 Hal H. Bybee Memorial Fund C. Norman Hansen Spring 1999 Staci L. Loewy Spring 1999 Jonas P. Gournay Spring 1999 C. Norman Hansen Summer 1999 Brook C. D. Riley Summer 1999 Eugene M. Kim Fall 1998 Joel H. Le Calvez Summer 1999 50 Staci L. Loewy Summer 1999 Mobil Foundation, Inc. Elsa J. Jaimes Spring 1999 Christopher R. McFarlane Summer 1999 Fellowship Kaveh Khorzad Spring 1999 Timothy A. Meckel Spring 1999 Cory L. Hoffman Spring 1999 Adrian Lobo Spring 1999 Dennis R. Ruez Summer 1999 Lyndon K. Murray Fall 1998 Thomas E. Miskelly Spring 1999 Matthew M. Uliana Spring 1999 Dennis R. Ruez Fall 1998 Javier G. Moros Spring 1999 Ronald S. Tykoski Fall 1998 Claudia Rassi Spring 1999 Michael Bruce Duchin Sunday K. Shepherd Spring 1999 Centennial Memorial William R. Muehlberger Rogerio S. Souza Spring 1999 Endowed Presidential Field Geology Scholarship Walter Benona Sharp Scholarship Fund Memorial Scholarship in Stephen W. Grimes Spring 1999 Juan C. Bermudez Santana Summer 1999 Michael T. Landrum Fall 1998 Kaveh Khorzad Summer 1999 Geological Sciences Jonas P. Gournay Fall 1998 Getty Oil Company Dennis A. Sylvia Summer 1999 Centennial Chair in Pennzoil and Pogo Producing William T. Stokes Geological Sciences Companies-William E. Gipson Centennial Teaching Kirk Chatawanich Summer 1999 Scholarships Fellowship in Geological Brook C. D. Riley Summer 1999 Brian B. Hunt Fall 1998 Sciences Suk-Joo S. Choh Fall 1998 J. Nalle Gregory Chair in Phillips Petroleum Jason G. John Spring 1999 Sedimentary Geology Company Fellowship Ina Pavlova Spring 1999 Rogerio S. Souza Spring 1999 Joel H. Le Calvez 1998-1999 Ina Pavlova Summer 1999 Rogerio S. Souza Summer 1999 Anubrati Mukherjee 1998-1999 Ricardo Torres Vargas Fall 1998 Harlan Tod Sutherland Louis and Elizabeth Scherck Memorial Scholarship J. Nalle Gregory Regents Geology Scholarship Fund Professorship in Geological Laura L. Faulkenberry Summer 1999 April M. Hoh Summer 1999 Sciences Michael T. Landrum Fall 1998 D. Shane Valentine Summer 1999 Pamela R. Owen Spring 1999 Karen I. D. Mohr Fall 1998 Karen I. D. Mohr Spring 1999 John and Elizabeth M. F. Earl Ingerson Graduate Teagle Scholarship in Scholarships and Research Assistance Fund Petroleum Geology in Geochemistry Meeting Support, Kirk Chatawanich Fall 1998 Justin A. Zumbro Summer 1999 Various Donors Gerald Grellet-Tinner Spring 1999 Adrian C. Badescu Spring 1999 Laura Rico Spring 1999 J. Hoover Mackin Jorge Barrios Rivera Spring 1999 Clark Thompson Fall 1998 Memorial Scholarship Fund Jaime O. Castillo Spring 1999 Jean-Paul Van Gestel Fall 1998 Susan D. Anderson Summer 1999 Donna L. Cathro Spring 1999 David M. Hirsch Summer 1999 Ricardo Combellas Bigott Spring 1999 Texaco, Inc. Michael T. Landrum Fall 1998 Bruno Courme Spring 1999 Scholarship Kara R. Dotter Spring 1999 Laura L. Faulkenberry Summer 1999 Laura L. Faulkenberry Spring 1999 Jason G. John Fall 1998 George W. Marshall, Jr. Thomas R. Fenstemaker Spring 1999 Qunling Liu Summer 1999 Memorial Endowed Carlos J. Fimlay Spring 1999 Jason J. Lundquist Spring 1999 Presidential Scholarship Pedro T. Gomez-Cabrera Spring 1999 Courtney H. Turich Spring 1999 Joy D. Griffin Spring 1999 Stephen T. Graham Spring 1999 Vastar Resources, Inc. Stephen W. Grimes Spring 1999 Russell R. Hamman Spring 1999 Michael T. Landrum Fall 1998 Jose J.Hernandez-Mendosa Spring 1999 Scholarship Wade D. Hutchings Spring 1999 Brian B. Hunt Fall 1998

51 Albert W. and Alice M. Karah L. Wertz Spring 1999 Geological Society of Weeks Fund in Geology Christopher K. Zahm Fall 1998 America Research Grants, Michael H. Bradley Fall 1998 Justin A. Zumbro Spring 1999 1998-1999 Stephen A. Clark Fall 1998 Todd Halihan Dennis P. Dunn Fall 1998 Scholarships, Fellow- Kaveh Khorzad Mulugeta Y. Feseha Fall 1998 Christopher R. McFarlane Ayati Ghosh Fall 1998 ships, and Grants from Jonas P. Gournay Summer 1999 Other Agencies NASA Fellowship, Stephen T. Graham Fall 1998 1998-1999 Gerald Grellet-Tinner Fall 1998 American Association of Marcia L. Branstetter Todd Halihan Spring 1999 Petroleum Geologists Stephen T. Graham Jeffery S. Harrison Fall 1998 Matthew Rodell Gavin L. Hudgeons Fall 1998 Grants-in-Aid, 1999 Cori A. Lambert Fall 1998 Joy D. Griffin National Science Thomas E. Macrini Fall 1998 American Federation of Foundation Graduate Christopher R. McFarlane Fall 1998 Research Traineeships, MaryLynn Musgrove Summer 1999 Mineralogical Societies Michelle A. Roth Fall 1998 Scholarship Foundation, 1998-1999 William H. Asquith Courtney H. Turich Fall 1998 1998-1999 Todd Halihan Matthew M. Uliana Fall 1998 Susan D. Anderson Ian C. Jones Chengshu Wang Spring 1999 Rion H. Camerlo Mary S. Lear Justin A. Zumbro Fall 1998 David M. Hirsch Karen I. D. Mohr Cori A. Lambert Jennifer Roberts Rogers Arno P. (Dutch) Wendler Pamela R. Owen Rosario Vasquez Scheerhorn Professional Development Justin A. Zumbro Fund Chevron Minority Society of Independent Juan C. Bermudez Santana Spring 1999 Professional Earth Laura L. Faulkenberry Fall 1998 Outreach Program Scientists, Thomas R. Fenstemaker Fall 1998 Scholarship, 1998 Gerald Grellet-Tinner Fall 1998 Orlando J. Ortega 1998-1999 Karen I. D. Mohr Fall 1998 Junru Jiao MaryLynn Musgrove Fall 1998 Environmental Protection Helena H. Zirczy MaryLynn Musgrove Summer 1999 Agency Science to UT Austin Graduate School Pamela R. Owen Fall 1998 Achieve Results, Tuition Fellowship, Jennifer E. Piontek Fall 1998 1998-1999 Terry L. Ramsey Fall 1998 1998-1999 MaryLynn Musgrove Jason W. Rush Fall 1998 Karen I. D. Mohr R. Brian Schlottmann Fall 1998 Tony J. Troutman Spring 1999 Matthew M. Uliana Fall 1998 Norman G. Van Broekhoven Fall 1998

Field trip to the Sierra Madre Oriental, Mexico, for GEO 381E (Brittle Structure) and 1999 annual AAPG meeting. Randy Marrett (center, with hat) explains the regional structure and tectonics of the fold-thrust belt. Photo provided by Randy Marrett.

52 Undergraduate Scholarships and Awards Thomas R. Banks Memorial Dorothy Ogden Carsey Mr. and Mrs. L. F. Scholarship Memorial Scholarship McCollum Scholarship in Amy M. Balanoff 1998-1999 Fund Geology Jamie D. Barnes 1998-1999 Dennis S. Settemeyer Fall 1998 Thomas A. Golden Fall 1998 Eleanor J. Camann 1998-1999 Thomas A. Golden Summer 1999 Brenda D. Koch 1998-1999 W. Kenley Clark Memorial Heather R. Good Fall 1998 Barbara L. Lorenzo-Rigney 1998-1999 Endowed Presidential Angela D. Masloff 1998-1999 Scholarship Michaux Scholarship Fund Romy D. Schneider 1998-1999 Jeff B. Gipson Fall 1998 Adrienne Barnett Spring 1999 Bloomer Fund for Fabienne M. Grellet-Tinner Spring 1999 Joan A. Middleton Motivated Students Emily L. Lu Spring 1999 Endowed Scholarship in Iliana M. Delgado Spring 1999 Robert H. Cuyler Endowed Geology Jennifer J. Garcia Summer 1999 Presidential Scholarship David P. Rodriguez Spring 1999 Kimberly G. Rogers 1998-1999 Kristie L. Persky Spring 1999 Brian M. Whitenight Fall 1998 Edward R. Rutledge Fall 1998 Stephanie D. Wise Spring 1999 Guy E. Green Endowed Carroll C. Miller Stephanie D. Wise Summer 1999 Presidential Scholarship Endowed Presidential Wayne Franklin Bowman Thomas A. Golden Summer 1999 Scholarship Endowed Presidential Fabienne M. Grellet-Tinner 1998-1999 Amy M. Balanoff Spring 1999 Jamie D. Barnes Spring 1999 Scholarship Karl Frederick Hagemeier, Brenda D. Koch Spring 1999 Adrienne Barnett Fall 1998 Jr. Memorial Endowed Barbara L. Lorenzo-Rigney Spring 1999 Kristie L. Persky Fall 1998 Presidential Scholarship Wes Ogden Memorial Brahman Energy Company Emily L. Lu Fall 1998 Kristie L. Persky Spring 1999 Scholarship in Geophysics Scholarship Brian M. Whitenight Fall 1998 Jennifer L. Weber Summer 1999 Bill D. Holland Endowed Phillips Petroleum Thomas and Ray Burke Presidential Scholarship in Geological Sciences Company Scholarship Student Job Program Brian B. Andres Summer 1999 Adrienne Barnett Fall 1998 Scott W. Bale Summer 1999 Amy M. Balanoff Summer 1999 Calla K. Smith-Dowling Fall 1998 Allen C. and Nancy Locklin Rebecca M. DeGroot Summer 1999 Burlington Resources Scholarship Jennifer L. Delk Summer 1999 Leighton L. Devine Summer 1999 Douglas S. Sassen Spring 1999 Foundation Scholarship Robert L. Dixon Summer 1999 Brian B. Andres Spring 1999 Marathon Oil Company Rebecca A. Fusee Summer 1999 Brian B. Andres Summer 1999 Scholarship Jeff B. Gipson Summer 1999 Amy M. Balanoff Summer 1999 Michael S. Jaffre Summer 1999 Brenda D. Koch Summer 1999 Jamie D. Barnes Summer 1999 Sherri K. Randall Summer 1999 Jim O. Vasquez Summer 1999 Rebecca M. DeGroot Summer 1999 Douglas S. Sassen Summer 1999 Thomas A. Golden Spring 1999 John H. and Lujza Danielle E. Schleman Summer 1999 Thomas A. Golden Summer 1999 McCammon Endowed Raphael M. Schmitz Summer 1999 William J. McCarthy Spring 1999 Aubrey L. Waddail Summer 1999 Sherri K. Randall Summer 1999 Scholarship Amy M. Balanoff Fall 1998 Jamie D. Barnes Fall 1998

53 Louis and Elizabeth Scherck Christopher P. Riley Summer 1999 Charna E. Meth Spring 1999 Geology Scholarship Vicki F. Rummel Spring 1999 Charna E. Meth Summer 1999 Jennifer K. Dickinson Summer 1999 Dennis S. Settemeyer Spring 1999 Holly J. Nichols Summer 1999 Thomas A. Golden Summer 1999 Taylor T. Tran Spring 1999 Eric R. North Summer 1999 Matthew M. Lake Summer 1999 D. Bryan Pairsh Spring 1999 Barbara L. Lorenzo-Rigney Summer 1999 Texaco, Inc. Garner J. Peterson Summer 1999 Angela D. Masloff Fall 1998 Scholarship David P. Rodriguez Spring 1999 Eleanor J. Camann Summer 1999 Douglas S. Sassen Summer 1999 Calvin A. Lee Fall 1998 Christopher B. Strganac Spring 1999 Scholarships and Christopher B. Strganac Fall 1998 Meeting Support, Francis L. Whitney David S. Thayer Memorial Various Donors Endowed Presidential Scholarship Fund Jonathan M. Skaggs Spring 1999 Scholarship Sunny B. Simpkins Summer 1999 Fabienne M. Grellet-Tinner Spring 1999 F. W. Simonds Endowed Jim O. Vasquez Summer 1999 Addison A. and Mary E. Presidential Scholarship in Udden Memorial Wilkinson Endowed Geological Sciences Scholarship Fund Presidential Scholarship in Brenda D. Koch Fall 1998 Gregory A. Hodge Fall 1998 Barbara L. Lorenzo-Rigney 1998-1999 Geological Sciences Romy D. Schneider 1998-1999 Unocal Corporation Eleanor J. Camman 1998-1999 Scholarship Society of Independent Charles E. Yager Heather R. Good Fall 1998 Professional Earth Tammi S. Kennedy Fall 1998 Undergraduate Field Scientists Scholarship Charna E. Meth Fall 1998 Scholarship Fund Jennifer J. Garcia Summer 1999 Jennifer L. Delk Summer 1999 Glenn and Martha Vargas Robert L. Dixon Summer 1999 John and Elizabeth M. Gemological Scholarship in Rebecca A. Fusee Summer 1999 Teagle Scholarship in Geological Sciences Jeff B. Gipson Summer 1999 Petroleum Geology Brian B. Andres Fall 1998 Kristie L. Persky Summer 1999 Jennifer K. Dickinson Spring 1999 Heather R. Good Spring 1999 Albert W. and Alice M. Kimberly D. Gordon Spring 1999 Weeks Fund in Geology Scholarships & Ross J. Holden Spring 1999 Thomas A. Golden Summer 1999 John N. Hooker Spring 1999 Heather R. Good Summer 1999 Fellowships from Karianne M. Leikam Spring 1999 Gregory A. Hodge Summer 1999 Other Agencies Frank R. McGilvery Spring 1999 Calvin A. Lee Spring 1999

University Co-Operative Society Undergraduate Research Fellowship, Hamilton locality in 1963-fossil vertebrate locality in western 1998-1999 Victoria, Australia. Fossils Adrienne E. Barnett recovered from zone under the lava Andria L. Bilich flow dated 4.45 million years. Deanna M. Combs Pictured is Mr. George Pelchen, the landowner in Hamilton, Victoria. Romy D. Schnieder Photo provided by Ernest L. Lundelius.

54 Degrees Awarded Graduate Degrees in Doctor of Philosophy, Devereaux, Johanna A. August 1998 (1) B.S., Mathematics, 1993, University of Geological Sciences Miami Conferred by The Nyffenegger, Paul A. Study of Soil Moisture Variability within Remote-Sensing Footprints B.S., Physics, 1988, Lafayette College University of Texas Supervisor: James S. Famiglietti M.S., Geophysics, 1991, SUNY Committee Members: David R. Stony Brook at Austin, Maidment, John M. Sharp, Jr. Aftershock Occurrence Rate Decay for 1998-1999 Individual Sequences and Catalogs Supervisors: Stephen P. Grand, Cliff Kilic, Cem O. A. Frohlich B.S., Geology, 1993, Istanbul University Master of Science, Committee Members: Robert J. August 1998 (3) Pulliam, Sharon Mosher, Clark R. Applying Artificial Neural Network Wilson Technology in Reservoir Characterization Studies Royer, Stephen A. Supervisor: William L. Fisher B.S., Geology, 1996, Brigham Young Master of Science, Committee Members: Robert E. University Barba, Jr., Noel Tyler Ice-Dominated Deltas: The Effects of December 1998 (6) Ice Cover on Deltaic Sedimenta- Muszala, Stefan P. tion, Later Permian of the Sydney Ariza, Eduardo E. B.S., Geology, 1996, Rutgers Basin, Australia B.S., Geology, 1988, Universidad University Supervisor: William E. Galloway Nacional de Magnetics of the Puerto Rico Trench Committee Members: William L. High Resolution Sequence and Aeromagnetics of the North Fisher, Douglas S. Hamilton Stratigraphy of the Leonardian Slope of Alaska Lower Clear Fork Group in the Supervisors: Lawrence A. Lawver, Permian Basin, West Texas Sagebiel, James C. Paul L. Stoffa Supervisor: William L. Fisher B.S., Geology, 1993, The University of Committee Member: Ian Dalziel Texas at Austin Committee Members: Stephen Later Pleistocene Fauna and Ruppel, Brenda Kirkland George Environment at Zesche Cave, Doctor of Philosophy, Camerlo, Rion H. Mason County, Texas December 1998 (5) Supervisor: Ernest L. Lundelius B.S., Geology, 1994, Fort Lewis Committee Members: Robert L. Folk, College Timothy B. Rowe Geometric and Kinematic Evolution of Chen, Jianli Detachment Folds, Monterrey B.S., Geology, 1986, University of Zahm, Christopher K. Salient, Sierra Madre Oriental, Science and Technology of China M.S., Geology, 1989, Shanghai B.S., Geology, 1993, University of Mexico Observatory Wisconsin, Madison Supervisor: Randall A. Marrett Geodynamical Interconnections Use of Outcrop Fracture Measure- Committee Members: Mark P. Cloos, between the Atmosphere, Ocean, ments to Estimate Regional Daniel D. Schultz-Ela Hydrosphere, Cryosphere, and Groundwater Flow, Barton Springs Solid Earth Segment of Edwards Aquifer, Coskun, Gundogan Supervisor: Clark R. Wilson Central Texas B.S., Geology, 1994, Istanbul Supervisors: John M. Sharp, University Committee Members: C. K. Shum, James J. Famiglietti, Gary A. Randall A. Marrett Seismic Stratigraphic Analysis of the Kocurek, Benjamin F. Chao Committee Member: Stephen E. Northern Part of the Pattani Basin, Laubach Gulf of Thailand Supervisor: William L. Fisher Committee Members: William E. Galloway, Noel Tyler 55 Kim, Eugene M. Master of Science, Master of Arts, B.S., Geology, 1991, Seoul National May 1999 (4) May 1999 (1) University Natural Gas Ultimate Recovery Akyurek, Fatma Vur, Cengiz Tolga Growth Modeling by Plays in the B.S., Geology, 1994, Selcuk B.S., Geology, 1993, Selcuk Gulf Coast Basin University University Supervisor: William L. Fisher Petrophysical & Geological Petroleum Geological Data Committee Members: John H. Wood, Characterization of Dolomitized Management Steven J. Seni, William E. Ramp Reservoirs: Seminole San Supervisor: William L. Fisher Galloway, Willem C. van Rensburg Andres Unit Well 5309, Gaines Committee Members: Paul L. Stoffa, County, West Texas William E. Galloway Kong, Fanchen Supervisors: William L. Fisher, B.S., Seismology, 1985, Beijing F. Jerry Lucia University Committee Member: Brenda Kirkland M.S., Seismology, 1988, University of George Doctor of Philosophy, Science and Technology May 1999 (5) M.S., Geosciences, University of Aranda Garcia, Mario Grimes, Stephen W. Arizona, Tucson B.E., Geology, 1977, Universidad B.S., Geology, 1988, University of Continental Margin Deformation Nacional Autonoma de Mexico Massachusetts, Boston Analysis and Reconstruction- Evolution of Neogene Contractional M.S., Geology, 1993, Boston College Evolution of the East China Sea Growth Structures, South of The Grenville Orogeny in West Texas: Basin and Adjacent Plate Mexico Structure, Kinematics, Interaction Supervisor: Randall A. Marrett Metamorphism, and Depositional Supervisors: Ian W. Dalziel, Committee Members: Amos Salvador, Environment of the Carrizo Lawrence A. Lawver William L. Fisher Mountain Group Committee Members: Jan Golonka, Supervisor: Sharon Mosher William E. Galloway, Randall A. Hudgeons, Gavin L. Committee Members: Karl Karlstrom, Marrett, Tung-Yi Lee B.S., Geology, 1996, University of Stephen E. Laubach, Ian W. D. Montana, Missoula Dalziel, William D. Carlson Sen, Vikramaditya Petrology and Geochemistry of the M.S., Geology, 1991, Indian Institute Marquez Shale Septarian Kattah, Senira Da Silva of Technology Concretions, Bastrop County, Texas B.S., Geology, 1988, Universidade Seismic Survey in Antarctica, Parallel Supervisor: Earle F. McBride Federal de Minas Gerais Schemes for Seismic Migration and Committee Members: Robert L. Folk, M.S., Geology, 1991, Universidade Target Oriented Velocity Analysis Brenda Kirkland George Federal de Ouro Preto Supervisors: Paul L. Stoffa, Controls on Deposition and Resulting Thomas H. Shipley Piontek, Jennifer E. Stratal Architecture of Coarse- Committee Members: Yosio B.S., Geology, 1995, St. Norbert Grained Alluvial and Near-Shore Nakamura, Milo M. Backus, College Facies Associations Mrinal K. Sen Origin of the 1.3 GA Hastefjorden and Supervisors: William E. Galloway, Ursand Intrusions, SWND Robert J. Finley , Mehmet C. Evidence for Crust-Mantle Committee Members: William L. B.A., Geophysics, 1988, Istanbul Interaction in the Genesis of A- Fisher, Gary A. Kocurek, Brian Willis University Type Suite Prestack Split Step Fourier Depth Supervisor: James N. Connelly Migration Algorithms and Parallel Committee Members: Daniel S. Implementation on Cray T3E Barker, Leon E. Long Supervisors: Paul L. Stoffa, Mrinal K. Sen Committee Members: Jacob T. Fokkema, Stephen P. Grand, Milo M. Backus

56 Riter, J. C. Alexis Undergraduate Bachelor of Science, B.S., Geology, 1976, University of Degrees in December 1998 (3) Wisconsin, Milwaukee Dufeau, David L. M.S., Geology, 1982, University of Geological Sciences Kennedy, Tammi S. Wisconsin, Milwaukee Neilson, Kristin E. Geochemical and Tectonic Evolution Conferred by The of the Colorado Plateau Mantle University of Texas Lithosphere: Evidence from Grand Bachelor of Arts, Canyon Mantle Xenoliths at Austin, May 1999 (2) Supervisor: Douglas Smith Fuquen, Raquel M. Committee Members: Howard G. 1998-1999 Lane, Connie M. Wilshire, Daniel S. Barker, William D. Carlson, Michael F. Roden Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Science, Rougvie, James R. August 1998 (11) B.S., Geology, 1990, University of Beede, Adrienne M. May 1999 (9) Iowa Cole, Danielle J. Barnett, Adrienne Metamorphism in the Northern Park Court, James M. (Special Honors in Geological Sciences) Range of Colorado: Fluid-Rock Hamman, Russell R. Bilich, Andria L. Interactions and Thermobarometry (Special Honors in Geological Sciences) (Special Honors in Geological Sciences) Supervisor: William D. Carlson Ho, Warren Szu Yuen Dacanay, Julienne R. Committee Members: C. T. Foster, McCarthy, William J. Dupuy, Frederick G. Daniel S. Barker, Douglas Smith, Moayyad, Behnaum E. Edmonds, Michael C. William Lamb Raabe, Melanie S. Manning, Gilbert P. Tarde, Lisa N. Oheim, Katheryn B. Weiland, Richard J. Vaughan, John A. Thayer, Thomas G. B.S., Geology, 1986, University of Wiemann, Warren J. Tisdale, Duane R. Wyoming M.S., Geological Sciences, 1993, The Bachelor of Arts, University of Texas at Austin December 1998 (1) Emplacement of the Irian Ophiolite Gary, Roger O. and Unroofing of the Ruffaer Metamorphic Belt of Irian Jaya, Indonesia Supervisor: Mark P. Cloos Committee Members: Eldridge Moores, Fred W. McDowell, William D. Carlson, James N. Connelly, W. G. Ernst

Field trip to the Sierra Madre Oriental, Mexico, for GEO 381E (Brittle Structure) and 1999 annual AAPG meeting. At entrance to Cañon Huasteca. (Left to right) Rion Camerlo, Javier Moros, Randy Marrett, Ricardo Combellas, Jorge Barrios, and Faustino Monroy. Photo provided by Randy Marrett.

57 Reworked/ Bureau of Economic Geology exposed shelf and deltaic sands by Tucker F. Hentz opportunities for infill drilling and recompletion of existing wells in these In 1998-1999, the Bureau conducted mature gas fields. 89 geoscientific and environmental research projects, both abroad and The Bureau’s international program within the United States. A discussion involved nine reservoir-characterization QAc5652c Fault 0 1.5 mi of selected projects follows. and basin-analysis projects in Austria, Incised-valley axis 0 2.5 km Honduras, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela Chronostratigraphic seismic slice representing The hallmark of Bureau energy resource in 1998-1999. The Bureau worked on about 20 feet of stratal thickness of a key sand reservoir deposited during a time of major investigations that are supported by behalf of OMV Aktiengesellschaft of incised-valley development. This reservoir is one industrial consortia is innovation in the Austria to help define the remaining of many in two mature gas fields in the Federal development of new exploration and unrecovered oil and gas resource in Outer Continental Shelf in offshore Louisiana that the Bureau is examining to identify additional development strategies for the oil and Matzen field, Vienna Basin, the largest reserves. Image provided by Hongliu Zeng. gas producer. Advances in numerical oil and gas field in Central Europe. Six modeling, physical modeling, and Bureau investigations in Venezuela used computer visualization by the Applied integrated reservoir-characterization Geodynamics Laboratory enabled techniques to identify and map continued to assist the Railroad continued study of a variety of controls remaining oil and develop reservoir- Commission of Texas in devising on salt tectonics that have direct management strategies for more cleanup solutions at nine sites in Texas. application to subsalt exploration in efficient recovery from several fields. hydrocarbon-bearing salt basins of the Bureau researchers examined Eocene Fourteen projects composed the world. The Exploration Geophysics and Miocene reservoirs in the Mioceno Bureau’s coastal investigations program Laboratory focused its research effort on Norte Area, northeast Lake Maracaibo, in 1998-1999, which stressed historical the development of seismic vector- and Eocene reservoirs in the Maraven- trends in coastal shoreline change, wavefield technology that can improve VLA 6/9/21 Area, north-central Lake wetland creation and preservation, and the characterization of complex reservoirs. Maracaibo. Production optimization coastal processes and their influence on projects also examined lower Eocene coastal management. To study the Bureau investigations of domestic hydro- reservoirs in the Pilar Sur Area in north- physical processes of shoreline carbon reservoirs continued to stress central Lake Maracaibo; Cretaceous and movement, Bureau researchers mapped advanced geological, geophysical, and —Eocene reservoirs in Mara the shoreline of San José Island, one of engineering research approaches to Este (Mara Liviano) field, northwestern the few barrier islands on the Texas optimize recovery strategies. In a Maracaibo Basin; Tertiary and coast that has not been significantly multiyear study of deep-water turbidite Cretaceous reservoirs of South Lake altered by human activities, using sandstone reservoirs, Bureau researchers Maracaibo; and Oligocene and Global Positioning System (GPS) detailed the reservoir architecture of two Miocene strata of the Sanvi-Guere Unit techniques to evaluate shoreline representative fields of the Delaware in eastern Venezuela. movement since 1974. Bureau coastal Mountain Group of West Texas to define specialists also analyzed the geological cost-effective ways to recover a higher The Bureau’s hydrogeologic and setting and physical processes that percentage of the original oil in place. In environmental efforts addressed control beach erosion near Magnolia an outcrop-based study of the Cretaceous international geoenvironmental Beach to recommend erosion-mitigation Ferron Sandstone of central Utah, Bureau characterization and domestic study of options. Bureau researchers also used scientists used ground-penetrating radar to toxic near-surface contaminants and NASA’s airborne synthetic aperture interpolate the 3-D geometry and facies of subsurface waste containment. The radar (AIRSAR) to map coastal sediment bodies behind outcrops of the Orinoco delta project described the topography, sedimentary environments, Ferron, which is representative of a prolific active geologic processes, geologic and wetland vegetation. Because the class of heterolithic deltaic reservoirs in the framework, and land cover of the fragile shapes, elevations, and distributions of United States. A major multiyear multi- and nearly pristine environment of the sediment and vegetation of barrier islands disciplinary reservoir characterization Orinoco delta in eastern Venezuela, all can change dramatically over a short study is examining, with the aid of an part of an effort by Venezuela to period of time, such as during a storm, the industry partner, two major gas fields in encourage responsible development of precise mapping possible with the use of the Federal Outer Continental Shelf of this environmentally sensitive region. AIRSAR is essential for effective coastal the Gulf of Mexico to identify Closer to home, Bureau investigators management. 58 Institute for Geophysics by Katherine Ellins

WHO WE ARE: The University of Texas integral part of the Institute’s programs. gravity, magnetics, surface elevation, at Austin Institute for Geophysics (UTIG) UTIG research activities are carried out and ice thickness. is known internationally as a leading all over the world and include large- academic research group in geology scale, multi-investigator, and multi- COMPUTING AND DATA and geophysics. Founded in 1972 by institutional field programs. Global PROCESSING FACILITIES: UTIG’s geophysicist and oceanographer programs require a global perspective. computing facilities encompass a broad Maurice Ewing, UTIG is an Organized To that end, UTIG has had a long- range of hardware and software Research Unit within The University of standing commitment to international components that are seamlessly Texas System under the auspices of the scientific collaboration. The networked to allow sharing of resources College of Natural Sciences. UTIG importance of geophysical in a heterogeneous environment. UNIX hosts 21 research scientists, 2 research measurements and their mathematical workstations are available for fellows, 2 post-doctoral fellows, 1 interpretation in the exploration for researchers to carry out demanding research engineer, and 2 emeritus petroleum and economically useful numerical and graphically intensive professors. The support staff includes minerals have also led to valuable tasks. UTIG also employs several multi- laboratory staff, technicians, and partnerships between UTIG and processor computer servers for the most administrative personnel. The number industry. computationally demanding seismic of graduate students involved in UTIG processing and interpretation tasks. research as partial fulfillment of Master’s PROVIDING THE MEANS: UTIG These include the SGI-Origin 2000 and Doctoral degree requirements is utilizes state-of-the-art equipment and parallel computer system, the about 20, which is a significant technologies. UTIG operates the centerpiece of UTIG’s computational percentage of the total complement of Hockley Seismic Station (HKT). The capabilities, and a Cray 16-processor students acquiring advanced earth Hockley station is also a cooperating system. Recently, NT workstations, sciences degrees in the Department of member of the United States National clustered in a Beowulf-like Geological Sciences. The Director of Seismic Network (USNSN), maintained configuration, have been shown to rival UTIG is Paul Stoffa, who also holds the by the USGS and the Global Seismic the performance of supercomputers at a Shell Distinguished Chair in the Network (GSN), operated by IRIS. fraction of the cost, and UTIG has Department of Geological Sciences. UTIG research scientists go to sea on endeavored to apply this innovative ships that are part of the UNOLS fleet, approach to solving complex numerical MISSION: The Institute’s primary on Coast Guard and Navy vessels, and problems. Researchers at UTIG take mission is to carry out research that on the ODP drillship, the JOIDES advantage of numerous graphical input pushes the frontiers of knowledge in Resolution. International collaboration and output devices for the visual earth science, has societal and with Germany, France, Great Britain, presentation of research results: high- economic relevance, and is of human Australia, Japan, and Norway also resolution color scanners, slide makers, interest. This effort, which emphasizes provides chances to sail as part of the printers, and large-format plotters the ocean basins and continental scientific expeditions mounted by capable of outputting to various media margins, earthquake phenomena, and scientists in these nations. types. Primary data storage consists of Antarctica, enhances the fundamental approximately 400 GB of data understanding of the structure of the UTIG hosts the Support Office for configured in several RAID systems solid earth and the dynamic processes Aerogeophysical Research (SOAR), a attached to UNIX servers and made that influence its changing nature and research facility created by the NSF available through the network to UNIX history. It is also relevant to the Office of Polar Programs (OPP) in 1994 and NT desktop systems alike. The geological exploration for natural for the purpose of supporting NSF/OPP- Institute maintains a presence on the resources, problems of earthquake sponsored aerogeophysical work in Internet with a WWW site that prediction, geologic hazard assessment, Antarctica. SOAR maintains a two-ski highlights current high-profile research and environmental problems. The modified DeHavilland Twin Otter projects and provides biographical development of new mathematical aircraft fitted with a suite of airborne and research information on its methodologies, geophysical processing geophysical instruments to provide personnel. techniques, and instrumentation is an high-quality, integrated observations of

59 SELECTED UTIG RESEARCH UTIG researchers Richard Buffler, Yosio 17 petroleum companies, has been HIGHLIGHTS: UTIG researchers, led Nakamura, and Gail Christeson extended for 2 years (Phase II). by Tom Shipley and Nathan Bangs, are collected seismic reflection, refraction, university pioneers in the use of three- gravity, and magnetic data over the SELECTED UTIG ACCOMPLISHMENTS dimensional (3-D) seismics to image offshore part of the Chicxulub impact IN FY 98: The Board of Directors of subduction zone processes. Three-D crater to produce the first high- the Offshore Energy Center inducted seismics, a combination of tomography resolution image of a well-preserved The University of Texas at Austin and satellite navigation, provide a large crater. Based on the survey, the Institute for Geophysics into the detailed portrait of the earth’s interior scientific team concluded that the inaugural class of the Center’s Hall of and allow investigators to generate is about 195 km in Fame as a Technology Pioneer in the maps of specific surfaces within the diameter, and that about 50,000 km3 of field of Search for Oil and Gas: subduction zone that may be of special material was ejected into the atmo- Marine Exploration. NOAA selected interest. This summer (June-August sphere by the impact, leaving a 12-km- Arthur E. Maxwell, UT Professor 1999), Shipley and Bangs will lead a deep cavity at the earth’s surface. Emeritus and former Director of UTIG, major, joint U.S.-Japanese endeavor to to serve on a newly-formed 15-member characterize of a portion of the Nankai Mike Coffin sailed in December 1998 Science Advisory Board. The Trough subduction zone, located from Fremantle, Australia, on board the University of Texas Cooperative southwest of Japan, to determine how Ocean Drilling Program’s (ODP) Society presented Ian Dalziel the Best these changes in the physical properties drillship, the JOIDES Resolution, as Co- Research Paper Award for 1997. relate to earthquake activity. The data Chief Scientist of ODP Leg 183 to the NASA named Don Blankenship Chair acquired will determine at which Kerguelen plateau. A suite of holes was of the Instrument Definition Team for depths sediments have sufficient drilled into the plateau to determine the Europa Radar Sounder. Europa, strength to store large amounts of stress how the Kerguelen large igneous one of Jupiter’s largest moons, is of energy that could be released in a province (LIP) was formed. The special interest to scientists because tsunamagenic earthquake. scientists learned that the Kerguelen LIP it is thought to have an ocean under its formed between 115 and 90 million icy surface layer that may host exotic Clues from Fred Taylor’s research years ago through a series of violent life. The Europa Radar Sounder will be promise to resolve the debate volcanic eruptions associated with a deployed in 2003 on the Europa surrounding the correct values of past magma hot spot. The plateau existed Orbiter Mission. Jamie Austin served as sea surface temperatures for the tropics. as a continental mass until about JOI-USSAC Distinguished Lecturer Taylor, working with American, French, 20 million years ago when it slipped during FY 1998. JOI/USSAC has chosen and Australian colleagues, has applied below the ocean surface after drifting Hilary Olson to serve as a Distinguished two new chemical sea surface away from the hot spot. Lecturer for 1998–1999. Our Dynamic thermometers that utilize the ratios of Earth, an UK Millennium Project that the strontium to calcium (Sr/Ca) and Richard Buffler, William Galloway, and will open in Edinburgh, Scotland, in uranium to calcium (U/Ca) in corals to Patricia Ganey-Curry completed the first May 1999, will host an interactive the study of fossil reefs in the western phase of a detailed, comprehensive display utilizing UTIG’s PLATES Pacific. Taylor is concentrating his synthesis of the Gulf basin that merges software. PLATES, which is supported efforts on 30,000-year-old fossil reefs the basin-floor succession, understood by a consortium of oil companies, is that grew within the largest reservoir of largely through seismic data, with the used to model past and present plate warm ocean water on earth, the coastal plain, shelf, and upper slope movement. Patricia Ganey-Curry and Western Pacific Warm Pool (WPWP). succession, defined largely by well Cliff Frohlich helped the Galindo Taylor’s work will yield a better data, for the last hundred million years. Elementary School’s fifth-grade class understanding of climate during glacial The project customized ARC/INFO GIS to prepare an exhibit for Austin and interglacial periods and provide software for regional mapping and Science Fun Day in March 1998 for information about the influence of analysis to produce a UTIG Gulf of which the class won first prize. Laurie oceanic warm pools on the tropical Mexico database that is on the leading Schuur was one of 32 students ocean-atmosphere system that is critical edge of geographic information selected nationwide to attend NSF’s for the development of robust climate systems in geology. Support for the symposium on “Fifty Years of Ocean forecasting systems. project, provided by a consortium of Discovery.”

60 Vertebrate Paleontology Laboratory— Thanksgiving in the Cretaceous by Timothy Rowe

It is no secret that Texas has a terrific of paleontology and a former Director vertebrate paleontology students last fossil record, and for more than a of UT’s Vertebrate Paleontology fall, as they handled and studied some century, paleontologists from around Laboratory. Today, Professor Langston of the specimens housed at VPL that the world have launched collecting is world-renowned for his many were collected from the Big Bend expeditions into Texas to bring home important discoveries and region by Dr. Langston and his students. exquisite and important fossils to their distinguished research on extinct Both the bones and the stories of earlier museums. Among the best known of reptiles. It was his first fossil collectors whetted our taste for an the early explorers was Barnum paleontological field trip, and it set a adventure of our own. So, last Brown, the great dinosaur collector decisive course that has so far carried Thanksgiving we saddled up our four- for the American Museum of Natural him through more than 50 years of wheel-drive Suburban and headed out History in New York. Brown and a fossil collecting in the Big Bend to Big Bend to hunt for fossilized small field party drove into Texas in region. Langston’s companion on the evidence of the marvelous Mesozoic the1930’s to hunt for dinosaurs and Big Bend trip was the late Donald history of our state. Most of the other extinct behemoths. And in what Savage, who was also incurably bitten students simply wanted a taste of field are now-classic badlands of the Big by the fossil bug and who also went paleontology, but a few were seriously Bend region, Barnum Brown lived up on to become a Professor Emeritus, at contemplating careers in paleontology to his reputation. His crew collected the University of California at for themselves as they eyed the many bones from the skeleton of a Berkeley. Savage was one of my accomplishments of the great spectacular 40-foot alligator known as professors when I was a grad student paleontologists who had explored Big Dinosuchus, a long-dead cousin of at Berkeley, and he introduced me to Bend before them. today’s comparatively diminutive Texas paleontology with stories of alligator. Brown also took back to collecting fossils in Big Bend. On this trip, our objectives were New York specimens of dinosaurs that twofold. We wanted to try our hands were new to science and that are still Before the summer of 1938 was out, at finding some fossil bones. In on display in the American Museum Langston had discovered his first particular, we were looking for galleries. dinosaur skeleton. It was a nearly relatively complete bones of early complete skeleton of Chasmosaurus, a birds and bird-like dinosaurs. Some Following in Brown’s footsteps were relative of the better-known three- tantalizing fragments in the VPL two young students who had set out to horned . The specimen is collection suggest that they were out become paleontologists. One was now preserved in the Oklahoma there in the Cretaceous, but we need from Texas, the other from Oklahoma, Museum of Natural History. Dr. more complete skeletons to be sure. and they met while at school in Langston collected hundreds more And we all wanted to celebrate Norman. There they learned about important specimens during his long Thanksgiving in the beautiful the excitement of paleontological field and prolific career. The last three of Dr. Chihuahuan Desert. We camped on expeditions, and they determined that Langston’s five decades of dinosaur exposures of the Aguja Formation, just they would find their own share of hunting were spent at UT’s Vertebrate outside Big Bend National Park, at the adventure in the field of paleontology. Paleontology Laboratory (VPL), where edge of a spectacular stand of They also learned about the great he has amassed a far greater collection Ocotillo, sage, and cactus. Late dinosaur graveyards in West Texas, of Big Bend reptiles than Brown or summer rains had left the desert lush which at that time were still relatively anyone else. He also helped to train a and green, and some late cacti and unexplored. So in 1938, they too generation of aspiring paleontologists, wildflowers were in bloom. The headed to the Big Bend, where they including some of today’s most active weather was perfect. aimed to find some dinosaurs for professionals, by introducing them to themselves. Big Bend’s fossils. Working under permits from the Park Service, we checked out a fossil site One of these students was Wann This is some of the Texas history that I reported to us by Margaret and Jim Langston, Jr., now Professor Emeritus shared with my undergraduate Stevens (Ph.D., 1969), who now both

61 Undergraduates from Tim Rowe’s Veterbrate Paleontology class surface collecting small fossil bones at the Terlingua Micro 1 site. The site, which is in the Upper Cretaceous Aguja Formation, has so far yielded the remains of about 60 extinct species and resulted in 2 UT Master’s theses. Photo provided by Tim Rowe. teach at Lamar University in Beaumont, hill slope covered with fragments of Texas. At this site, we found a number broken bones. There were both large of scattered bones of dinosaurs, limb bones and the tiny bones and teeth crocodylians, and , but no sign of of several different small reptiles. We the tiny dinosaurs we were after. We also found more fragments of the small then excavated at the Terlingua Micro hollow-boned dinosaurs that we had 1 site, which has so far been the subject come for. Some of the students worked of theses by two UT graduate students the site all afternoon, while others in paleontology-Anne Weil (M.A., 1992) returned to camp a little early to start a and Mary Stewart Miller (M.A., 1997). fire and begin preparation of our (Top) Geology undergraduate David There we collected tiny bones of fishes, Thanksgiving dinner. By sunset, Dufeau prospecting for fossil bones in the more turtles, and several kinds of everyone was back at camp and had Upper Cretaceous Aguja Formation near Big Bend National Park. Photo provided pitched in on the dinner. Instead of dinosaurs. But we found no more than by Tim Rowe. a few isolated teeth and bone fragments turkey, we feasted on Cornish game of what we had come after. We also hens—which are a lot easier to prepare (Bottom) The tooth of a Cretaceous found several new sites near our camp over a camp fire—along with a dozen crocodylian. Photo provided by Tim Rowe. that yielded bones of large dinosaurs different side dishes, and two pies for and various other Cretaceous vertebrate dessert. After a good discovery and a and invertebrate fossils. The students great meal, the cool night, a bright had a chance to excavate and jacket a starlight, and a campfire conjured up duck-billed dinosaur leg bone with stories and images of expeditions made was evident in the sites we examined plaster bandages. They also learned to Big Bend before any of us were born. that even these great paleontologists some of the techniques for collecting had not discovered all of the species the bones of very tiny fossils. All told, We returned from Big Bend with a good that Big Bend has to offer. Perhaps we’ll we found evidence of about 20 extinct taste of its exciting fossils, its rich find a new species on our next vertebrate species at the various sites paleontological history, and the desert expedition. And that was exciting news in which we visited the Aguja at its most hospitable. We also left with to the students who were wondering Formation. many questions unanswered and the whether there might be a place for them urge to return. Despite all the a few years down the road in the The best discovery was made on discoveries made by Langston, Brown, profession of paleontology. Thanksgiving Day, when we found a and the earlier Big Bend explorers, it

62 Walter Geology Library by Dennis Trombatore

The Walter Library is a recognized of the largest collections must also be with minimal cataloging to upgrade source for earth sciences information. properly supported. the records, and we are updating and With recent generous gifts from Mrs. relocating Dewey Decimal materials, Elizabeth C. Walter and Dr. Tom A large portion of any library’s work is storing some in the warehouse and Barrow, library endowments prosper. preservation and archiving. Our moving others into the main part of In this way, the Walter Library collections are too valuable to sit the collection. This past year, we remains the strongest unit of the slowly degrading on the shelves; have processed more than 90 shelves Science Library Division of the information has to be mobile to be in this manner, giving the library more General Libraries and maintains its fully exploited. The Walter Library’s space. In all, almost 20 percent of the relative standing among peer strong historical collections are collection’s records need to be institutions. State funding, however, important materials that are in many updated—a slow and labor-intensive must soon be significantly increased cases in very poor physical condition project. to underwrite the strength of the and now must be transferred to a core collections and our library safer, more accessible medium. Thus, Meanwhile, the library continues to system as a whole. the Walter Library is continuing its grow, and our space problem is only demonstration digitization project of being handled by the constant transfer What role will the Walter Geology the “Dumble Survey” volumes from of materials to the warehouse. Work Library play in the future of infor- the 1890’s. By fall 1999, Abbott and space for staff and researchers grows mation provision and archiving? Woodruff’s The Balcones Escarpment more inadequate as more computers Given budget constraints and changes will also be available on our Web site, are added to the library. The entire in publishing, how can the Walter thanks to the generosity of the authors facility needs to be renovated and Library add value to its collections in providing copyright. The Walter expanded if the library is to continue and properly serve the earth science Library will continue, as time permits, to be vital. community? to develop these materials, building a critical mass of historical literature on The Walter Library remains strong Changes in the economics of Texas geology accessible on the Web with the assistance of friends like publishing and the rapid develop- to anyone. Mrs. Walter and Dr. Barrow, the ment of statewide higher education strong support of library administra- cooperatives have fundamentally A research library also adds value to tion, faculty, and students, and the altered the way libraries provide its collections by improving access— great contributions of our staff. services. Statewide cost-sharing of making it easier for users to focus their Congratulations to Alice Dewberry electronic access to databases and queries and dig into the literature. for 20 years of service and to Carol journals means a somewhat smaller There are thousands of documents in Russell for 35 years of service. total universe of “publications” in the Walter Library for which access is Special thanks this year to Rosemary favor of desktop access for a much poor and for which users must consult Barker for another year of volunteer larger group of users statewide. a reference librarian. With more users service, to Dan Mulvihill for his work Because of our flagship status, UT searching the catalog electronically at on The Balcones Escarpment scanning Austin campus libraries are the all hours from desktop computers, project, and to Jo Soto, winner of expected source for “lesser-used” or however, many researchers will be this year’s Guion Award for her efforts “scholarly” materials, and maintaining thwarted unless we can significantly to improve our collection access that strength will continue to cost improve the quality and quantity of through UTCAT. more. While the good news is that our catalog records. To this end, we desktop access will make more will soon complete the cataloging of information available to everyone in the Tobin Map Collection. We are the various Texas consortia, the depth also reviewing thousands of items

63 Geology Foundation Advisory Council News

The Geology Foundation was Governance of the Foundation is The Geology Foundation Advisory established by the Board of Regents provided by the Faculty Review Council supports and counsels the on October 24, 1953, to enhance and Committee, chaired by the Director Foundation and the Department. The enrich geologic education and training of the Foundation, William L. Fisher. Chairman of the Geology Foundation at The University of Texas at Austin. He is assisted by Mary Koch, Senior Advisory Council serves a 1-year term Through the years, the Foundation has Administrative Associate, and Debra and may be reelected for a second 1- been able not only to accomplish but Sue Trinque, Accounting Technician, year term. We have been fortunate to also to far surpass its original goals. who works part time for the have Thomas E. Fanning at the helm Assets as of June 30, 1999, had a Foundation. Mark P. Cloos, since September 1, 1997, with Dr. market value of $47.5 million and Department Chairman, serves as Richard R. Bloomer as Vice Chairman. were held in 115 endowed accounts. Associate Director of the Foundation. At the spring 1999 meeting, Tom received a plaque commemorating his outstanding service to the Foundation. Dr. Bloomer was elected Chairman and L. Decker Dawson as Vice Chairman effective September 1, 1999. The Council currently consists of 41 members and 7 Honorary Life Members. This diverse group consists of distinguished individuals from industry, government, and academia.

We were saddened to learn of the death of two of our Honorary Life Members during the year. J. Donald Langston died on September 26, 1998. He received a B.S. in Geology in 1949 from The University of Texas at Austin. Don created the J. Donald Langston Special Operations Fund,

(Above) Dean Mary Ann Rankin (left), L. Decker Dawson (center), and Mrs. Lou Dawson (right) at the fall 1998 GFAC reception.

Dr. Larry Faulkner, President of The University of Texas at Austin (left), Dr. Peter T. Flawn, President Emeritus and Honorary Life Member of the Geology Foundation Advisory Council (center), and Thomas E. Fanning, Chairman of the GFAC (right),visit at the fall 1998 GFAC reception.

64 Dodd W. DeCamp Gerald M. Gilbert Charles G. Groat Mark S. Leonard

and he and Ginny established the miss both these great members and J. D. and V. L. Langston Endowed express our sympathies to their Scholarship Fund in Geology and families. Geophysics in the Geology Foundation. Samuel P. Ellison, Jr. At the fall 1998 Advisory Council died on June 4, 1999. He was a reception, held on November 5, long-time member of the faculty in 1998, Dr. John A. Jackson and the Department and was instrumental J. Donald Langston (posthumously) in the creation of the Geology were honored for their election to Foundation. A fund named the Honorary Life Membership. We Samuel P. Ellison, Jr. Fund was thank both these members for their established long ago in the dedicated and continued support of Foundation in his honor. We will the Geology Foundation.

Dr. William H. Cunningham, Chancellor of the UT System (standing), addresses members of the GFAC at the fall 1998 meeting.

At the spring 1999 meeting of the Geology Foundation Advisory Council, held on April 9, 1999, four new members were recommended. With administrative approval, they join the Council for a 3-year term beginning September 1, 1999. They are: Dodd W. DeCamp, Vice President for Exploration, ARCO, in Plano, Texas; Gerald M. Gilbert, President, Baker Hughes E&P Solutions, and Executive Vice Tom Barrow (left), Bill Stokes (center), and Thomas M. Burke (right) visit President for E&P Services, Western during break at fall 1998 GFAC meeting. Atlas, in Houston, Texas; Charles G.

65 at Austin. Mark Leonard has been with Shell since September 1979. He received a B.S. in Astrophysics and an M.A. in Geology from Indiana University. In addition, Thomas M. Burke, Richard M. Coffelt, James A. Gibbs, Jack H. Mayfield, Jr., James C. Patterson, and William T. Stokes were reappointed for three-year terms. Members leaving the Council effective September 1, 1999, are Larry R. Hensarling and James H. Frasher. J. M. Funk and Eddie A. Williamson have left their companies and submitted letters of resignation to the Foundation.

Three new endowments were created during the year. An anonymous donor has established the Graduate Fellowship in Exploration Geophysics. Don Boyd (left) and Bill Gipson (right) during discussion at break at fall 1998 GFAC This fund will be used to support one meeting.

Groat, Director, U.S. Geological Survey in Reston, Virginia; and Mark S. Leonard, President, Shell EP International Ventures, Inc., in Houston. Dodd DeCamp, formerly with Shell, received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Geology from The University of Texas at Austin. Jerry Gilbert, formerly with Halliburton Geophysical Services, Inc., received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin and an M.S. from Southern Methodist University. Chip Groat, formerly Director of the Louisiana Geological Survey, and more recently Associate Vice President of Research at UT El Paso, received a B.A. in Geology from the University of Rochester, an M.S. in Geology from the University of Massachusetts, and a Ph.D. in Tim Denison (left) and Keith Young (right) taking a break during fall Geology from The University of Texas 1998 GFAC meeting.

66 graduate student in exploration geophysics. Mr. and Mrs. John A. Jackson of Dallas, Texas, have created the John A. and Katherine G. Jackson Exploration Geophysics Fund in support of students in exploration geophysics. They had previously established the John A. and Katherine G. Jackson Centennial Teaching Fellowship and the John A. and Katherine G. Jackson Fellowship in Geohydrology and have made substantial contributions throughout the years in support of these two funds. Mr. L. Decker Dawson has created the L. Decker Dawson Fund in Exploration Geophysics in support of the Center for Exploration Geophysics within the Department. Mr. Dawson is President of the Dawson Geophysical Company. Dick Bloomer, incoming GAFC Chairman, (left) presents plaque to retiring GFAC chairman, Tom Fanning (right) spring 1999 GFAC meeting. Substantial contributions were made by: Mrs. Elizabeth C. Walter in support of the Joseph C. Walter, Jr. and Sciences; Thomas D. Barrow in of geophysics. Ben Carsey, Jr. Elizabeth C. Walter Geology Library; support of the Barrow Periodical provided a substantial contribution, as James C. Patterson in support of the Fund; Ray Burke in support of the a bequest in his will, to the Dorothy James C. Patterson Fund for Thomas and Ray Burke Student Job Ogden Carsey Memorial Scholarship Excellence in the Geophysical Program; and Jack Mayfield in support Fund and the J. Ben Carsey, Sr. Special Maintenance Fund. We received annual support in the form of scholarships as a portion of the net income from the trust created by Mrs. Dorothy Banks in memory of her husband, Mr. Thomas R. Banks. This trust is administered by the San Antonio Area Foundation.

Companies providing non-endowed scholarships and enrichment funds included Amoco, ARCO, BP America, BP Exploration, Burlington Resources, Chevron, DuPont, Exxon, Marathon, Mobil, Phillips, Shell, Texaco, Unocal, and Vastar. Total contributed by companies for the academic year was $204,000. Pam Luttrell (left), Robbie Gries (center), and Susan Longacre (right) visit at spring 1999 GFAC reception at the home of Mark and Rhonda Cloos. Photo provided by Susan Longacre.

67 Gifts

Gifts to the Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Bybee E Louis H. Haring, Jr. Geology Sarah L. Bybee Gus K. Eifler, Jr. Thomas S. Hatfield Leon G. Byerley, Jr. Ruben Ellert Keith I. Haun Foundation A. Gordon Everett John H. Heberling C Elizabeth B. Hendrix from June 1, Susan K. Cage F Thomas E. Hoak Warren J. Cage, Jr. Robert H. Fakundiny Fred A. Hoeninghaus 1998, through Frank Kell Cahoon Thomas E. Fanning Paul F. Hoffman May 31, 1999 Rodney J. Camp James C. Farmer Bill D. Holland Donald H. Campbell Irma M. Feibelman James W. Hood A. T. Carleton Jeanne A. Ferrin Jennifer L. Hood A Eleanor M. Hoover Dr. and Mrs. Rexford G. Carter Mark H. Finley Mr. and Mrs. Joseph M. Abell, III Mr. and Mrs. Richard A. Hoover Dwight E. Cassell William L. and Marilee Fisher James W. Adams John R. Hopkins Edward C. Cazier, III Goldoni E. Flack Floyd J. Adcock Richard T. Houser Michael A. Cervantes Hewitt B. Fox Velma Adlof Sally J. Hoverstock Walter Chatham, Jr. J. H. Frasher Doris F. Allday Anita W. Howard Daryl Scott Chicken Annabelle B. Friddle Mr. & Mrs. George N. Allen, Jr. Douglas J. Howard Anthony M. Choban Eugene J. Amaral Terry Huffington Karen I. Christensen and G Nancy J. Anderson Jeffrey L. Lawton Brenda K. George Dan Huston John E. Atkins Stephen E. Clabaugh, Jr. Clement E. George J. Evans and Mary Attwell Uel S. Clanton Steven J. Germiat J Arten J. Avakian Arthur W. Cleaves, II James A. Gibbs J. R. Jackson, Jr. Walter B. Ayers Mark P. and Rhonda Cloos Fred M. Gibson Jim Bob Jackson D. B. Clutterbuck Edwin F. Gilbert Mr. and Mrs. John A. Jackson B George B. Coffin Gretchen M. Gillis Leslie A. Jeske Carol S. Baker Thomas L. and Julianne M. William E. Gipson Charles B. John Kristen Barber Cogswell Tina Rene Gonzalez L. Chris Johnson Dr. and Mrs. Thomas D. Barrow H. Grady Collier Mark J. Graebner Jonny R. Jones Gerald S. Barton Steven K. Compton Doyle A. Graham, Jr. Luther G. Jones Eric Beam and Mary K. Johns Fredrick E. Crawford Volker C. Grasso Martha McKay Jones Ellis S. Belfer John L. Culver Robert W. Grayson Jerry A. Bell Joseph G. and Claire Liu K Thomas K. Bjorklund D Greenberg Robert T. Kent Richard R. Bloomer Linda Lee Davis Redge L. Greenberg Laszlo P. Keszthelyi Daniel P. Bodner L. Decker Dawson Charles R. Grice Robert S. Kier John F. Bookout, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Fred W. Day Robbie R. Gries Alfred A. King Lars E. Borg Marion Wier DeFord Bryan Andrew Griffin David L. Kirchner Douglas L. Bostwick Charles J. De Lancey Gordon M. Griffin, Jr. Gary Kocurek William M. Boyce William D. Demis Furman A. Grimm Roger W. Kolvoord J. David Krause Philip Braithwaite Rodger E. Denison Roy H. Guess Richard and Linda Kyle Mr. and Mrs. Herbert L. Brewer Rev. John Lane Denson, III Thomas E. Bridge, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Gil J. DePaul H David A. Bristol, Jr. L Patricia W. Dickerson R. A. Haak Wallace E. Brunson Laurel J. Lacher Tim Diggs Walter Tiffany Haenggi George A. Laguros Leonard C. Bryant William F. and Mary Anne Dingus James J. Halbouty Lynton S. Land Keith Fleming Buck Gary and Jennifer Donnan Bryan M. Hale Dr. and Mrs. David H. Lehman Ray A. Burke William E. Dougherty Mr. and Mrs. Doug Hall Mr. and Mrs. Eugene J. Lipstate Thomas M. Burke Mr. and Mrs. Ralph C. Duchin Henry R. Hamman Allen C. and Nancy Locklin William M. Burney, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Robert R. Durkee Weldon W. Hammond, Jr. Leon E. Long R. A. Butterworth

68 Susan A. Longacre P Tracy J. Stark William B. Wilkerson, Jr. T. E. (Ted) Longgood Dr. and Mrs. Theo S. Painter, Jr. Robert K. Steer The Honorable Mary Pearl Mark W. Longman Mr. and Mrs. James C. Joe and Bettye Stengel Williams Lester E. Ludwick Patterson James A. Stimac Jerry B. Willman Ernest L. and Judith Lundelius C. G. Percy Mr. and Mrs. John L. Stout Mr. and Mrs. James William Elliott Pew Michael J. Stowbridge Wilson M William R. Pickens Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Stowers Mr. and Mrs. Samuel A. Wilson David M. Mackintosh Lee S. Potter Michael W. Strickler Mary C. Woods Barbara J. Mahler Dr. and Mrs. Kenneth W. W. C. Swadley Madison T. Woodward, III Charles J. Mankin Prescott Jo Betsy Szebehely Charles F. Word Randall A. Marrett John W. Preston John Buel Wright Sabin W. Marshall Joseph L. Pritchett T Stephen S. Wright Louis M. Martinez W. T. Probandt James B. Tartt Phillip E. Wyche Christina G. Massell David A. Pustka C. B. Thames, Jr. J. R. Wynne Jack H. Mayfield Billy D. Thomas Kevin J. McAllister Q George M. Thompson Y Betty M. McAnelly Andrew I. Quarles Peter R. Thompson George Yonge Robert L. McBroom, Sr. Bert C. Timm Keith and Ann S. Young Mr. and Mrs. Dudley D. R Douglas N. Toepperwein McCalla James A. Ragsdale Everette J. Travis Z Jim McCalpin Mr. and Mrs. George E. Dennis R. Trombatore Francis S. Zimmer Robert B. McCarty Ramsey John D. Tuohy Patricia F. McCray Donald F. Reaser Clyde W. Turner Fred W. McDowell Dr. and Mrs. Lester J. Reed Neil L. Turner Edward W. McFarlan, Jr. W. F. Reynolds Philip G. Turner Business, Ethel McGinnis Wade C. Ridley L. J. Tydlaska William R. McKinley Jess P. Roach Society, and Dr. and Mrs. William F. Clem H. Roberts, Sr. U McLean James E. Rogers R. Andrew Udden Estate Robert John McLellan L. T. Rogers Catherine H. Umstattd Jerry A. McNeish Lucy O. Ross Dr. and Mrs. James R. Contributors Asa D. McRae Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Underwood John A. Means Rutishauser AFMS Scholarship Foundation Peter K. M. Megaw Harriet I. Rutland V Edwin Allday Estate Charles M. Merrill Peter J. Van Slyke American Association of Mr. and Mrs. Gary Meyer S Joseph W. Versfelt Petroleum Geologists Harry A. Miller, Jr. Paul Sagasta Harry A. Vest Foundation R. Dick Miller Jack S. Sanders Robert B. Vickers, Jr. Wayne D. Miller American Chemical Society Judith A. Schiebout Mr. and Mrs. Herbert G. Mills American Press Elsie C. Schiemenz M. Ann Molineux W Amerind Oil Company, Ltd. John T. Schulenberg William Allen Monroe Richard Kent Waddell Amoco Exploration and Jeffrey Guy Seekatz Bryan C. Wagner Duane E. Morecock Production Mr. and Mrs. Clyde R. Seewald William R. Muehlberger Leslie Ann Wahrmund Robert T. Sellars, Jr. Amoco Foundation, Inc. Harry W. Mueller, III Mark C. Walker Holmes A. Semken, Jr. Anadarko Petroleum Thomas O. Murphey Virgil A. Walston, Jr. John M. Sharp Elizabeth C. Walter Corporation Charles Sicking ARCO International Oil and Gas N Preston M. Walters Russell G. Slayback B. H. Ward Company Kenneth E. Neavel A. Richard Smith Bonnie R. Weise Atlantic Richfield Company Jean-Philipp Nicot Mr. and Mrs. Nathaniel G. Mr. and Mrs. Conrad P. Atlantic Richfield Company David C. Noe Smith Werkenthin Foundation, Inc. Isaac W. Norman Frederick Spiegelberg Joseph O. Wheeler Austin Community Foundation James T. and G. K. Sprinkle David J. White BankAmerica Foundation O Dr. and Mrs. Bill St. John James VanBenschoten White Dorothy B. Banks Estate Bob R. O’Brien Richard R. Standaert Joan P. White The Boeing Company Amor M. Olander Colleen P. Stapleton Leslie P. White BPAmerica

69 BP Exploration and Oil Co., Inc. The Geological Society of Rehab Designs of Texas, Inc. Jay L. Banner The Brown Foundation, Inc. America San Antonio Area Foundation Daniel S. Barker Burlington Resources/Meridian Harte-Hanks Communications, Shell Oil Company Foundation Christopher J. Bell Oil Foundation Inc. Simon and Schuster Robert Blodgett Robert E. Boyer Campbell Petrographic Services Holland Exploration, Inc. Society of Independent Patricia W. Dickerson J. Ben Carsey, Jr. Estate Houston Geological Society Professional Earth Scientists William L. Fisher Carter & Company, L.L.P. Kestrel Geoscience, L.L.C. Spirit of Energy 76 (Unocal) Robert L. Folk Chevron Robert S. Kier Consulting Texaco Foundation Ayati Ghosh Chevron Products Company Landmark Graphics Texaco Inc. Thomas Grimshaw Chevron U.S.A., Inc. Corporation Union Oil Company of Indonesian Petroleum H. Grady Collier, Inc. V. L. Langston Trust California Association Coltex Petroleum, Inc. Long Point Partners L.P. Unocal Exploration Ed Jonas Communities Foundation of Marathon Oil Company Corporation Anatoly Kaplan Texas Mayfield Corporation Unocal Foundation Howard W. Kiatta Conoco, Inc. Merrill Lynch & Co. USX Foundation, Inc. J. Richard Kyle Lynton S. Land The Dow Chemical Company Foundation, Inc. Vastar Resources, Inc. Judy Lang Foundation M-I Drilling Fluids, L.L.C. Zinn Petroleum Company LBG-Guyton Associates The Dun and Bradstreet Mineral Acquisition Partners, John Loftis Inc. Corporation Foundation John Maxwell E. I. DuPont de Nemours and Mobil Foundation, Inc. Donors of Fred McDowell Company, Inc. Phelps Dodge Foundation Books and Sharon Mosher El Paso Energy Foundation Phillips Petroleum Company William R. Muehlberger Exxon Company, U.S.A. Phillips Petroleum Foundation Materials— William B. Newberry Exxon Education Foundation Inc. Robert Reed Geo-Haz Consulting, Inc. Pogo Producing Company Walter Jeffrey N. Rubin Amos Salvador Geology Stephen Schoenfeldt John T. Schulenberg Library, John C. Sharp Doug Smith 1998-99 James Sprinkle Glen Vargas American Association of Bryan Wimberly Petroleum Geologists C. M. Woodruff, Jr. Milo M. Backus Keith Young Nina Baghai

Mark Helper (right) describes the faceting process to Department guests during UT Interactive, a campus-wide open house held for the first time this spring on March 6, 1999.

Graduate student Pamela Owen (left) watches two very young paleontologists examine fossils during the UT Interactive open house on March 6, 1999.

70 Geology Foundation Endowed Accounts Values as of May 31, 1999 Book Value Market Value Book Value Market Value

Edwin Allday Centennial $704,493 $1,472,757 Don R. and Patricia Kidd Boyd $54,524 $111,199 Chair in Subsurface Geology Lectureship in Petroleum Exploration Income supplements salary and To provide for guest lectures in supports research of recipient petroleum exploration

Edwin Allday Lectureship $164,114 $282,513 Brahman Energy Company $19,481 $45,595 in Geological Sciences Scholarship To provide for guest lectures in Senior field course scholarship geological sciences Charl A. M. Broquet Memorial $11,219 $11,546 Mary and Ben Anderson Endowment $41,861 $67,460 Endowed Scholarship Fund for Graduate Studies in Geology Graduate student scholarship To support graduate students and graduate programs in geology Jesse L. Brundrett Endowed $48,562 $85,048 Presidential Scholarship Millard B. Arick Memorial Fund $11,857 $13,564 Graduate student scholarship in Petroleum Geology Support of students to further Fred M. Bullard Professorship $12,842 $233,777 interest in finding and producing in Geological Sciences more oil in Texas Excellence in teaching, income supplements salary and supports Virgil E. and Mildred L. Barnes $30,303 $34,655 research of recipient Distinguished Lecture Series in Geology Thomas and Ray Burke $99,033 $128,202 To provide for guest lectures in Student Job Program geological sciences Jobs for students in geologic work related to faculty research Col. E. Barron Trust Account $127,375 $272,143 For support of the Barron Mineral Hal H. Bybee Memorial Fund $105,243 $167,875 Collection Student field support or support of students researching geologic issues Leonidas T. Barrow Centennial $1,090,272 $2,402,932 related to public policy Chair in Mineral Resources Development of programs of Hal P. Bybee Memorial Fund $584,512 $1,271,429 excellence in mineral resources, Faculty use for research, travel, income supplements salary and study, etc. supports research of recipient L. W. Callender Memorial Fund $58,174 $137,940 Laura Thomson Barrow $242,205 $434,823 Department use, unrestricted Graduate Fellowship To support graduate students Dave P. Carlton Centennial $637,063 $1,435,640 specializing in natural resources, Professorship in Geology special consideration for female students Income supplements salary and and students concentrating on supports research of recipient field-oriented studies Dave P. Carlton Centennial $557,481 $1,252,544 Barrow Periodical Fund $187,072 $256,948 Professorship in Geophysics For purchase of periodicals for Income supplements salary and the Walter Geology Library supports research of recipient

Bloomer Fund for $123,414 $230,631 Dorothy Ogden Carsey $217,256 $347,767 Motivated Students Memorial Scholarship Fund Financial aid for students not Geology scholarships, any level, qualified for scholarships special consideration to micropaleontology students Leslie Bowling Professorship $160,140 $303,605 To attract persons from industry J. Ben Carsey, Sr. $195,670 $284,882 and government for short-term Special Maintenance Fund appointments of the faculty To maintain teaching and research equipment Wayne Franklin Bowman Endowed $114,720 $260,555 Presidential Scholarship Chevron Centennial $274,659 $577,985 Unrestricted geology scholarships Professorship in Geology Income supplements salary and supports research of recipient 71 Book Value Market Value Book Value Market Value S. E. Clabaugh Fund $37,779 $78,807 Peter T. Flawn Centennial $796,996 $1,672,664 in Hard-Rock Geology Chair in Geology To support research in hard-rock Income supplements salary and geology supports research of recipient

W. Kenley Clark Memorial $50,080 $109,192 Robert L. Folk Excellence $64,884 $74,694 Endowed Presidential Scholarship Fund in Geological Sciences Geology scholarships, any level To support excellence in geological sciences Joseph S. Cullinan Scholarship in $44,284 $106,751 Geological Sciences Geology Foundation Advisory $105,893 $200,596 Scholarship in petroleum or Council Centennial Teaching field geology Fellowship in Geological Sciences Income supplements salary and Robert H. Cuyler Endowed $63,176 $141,218 supports research of junior Presidential Scholarship faculty member Undergraduate (upper-division) and graduate scholarships Geology Foundation Various $35,153 $103,463 Donors Fund Morgan J. Davis Centennial $897,296 $1,875,623 Unrestricted funds for any purpose Chair in Petroleum Geology of the Foundation Income supplements salary and supports research of recipient Getty Oil Company Centennial $941,936 $2,079,026 Chair in Geological Sciences L. Decker Dawson Fund in $274,963 $284,699 Income supplements salary and Exploration Geophysics supports research of recipient Support activities in Exploration Geophysics Graduate Fellowship in $500,000 $500,000 Exploration Geophysics Ronald K. DeFord $213,600 $450,002 Provides one graduate fellowship Field Scholarship Fund in exploration geophysics Field studies for graduate students Miss Effie Graves Scholarship Fund $28,181 $72,796 Alexander Deussen Professorship $226,156 $422,404 Geological Sciences student in Energy Resources scholarships Development of program of excellence in energy resources, Guy E. Green Endowed $33,928 $77,767 income supplements salary Presidential Scholarship and supports research of recipient Geology scholarships, any level

Michael Bruce Duchin $47,507 $97,107 J. Nalle Gregory Chair $732,458 $1,424,042 Centennial Memorial in Sedimentary Geology Endowed Presidential Scholarship Development of program of Scholarship for Master’s candidate with excellence in sedimentary geology, income supplements salary and preference toward general geology supports research of recipient Elf Aquitaine Petroleum Faculty $194,710 $349,952 J. Nalle Gregory Regents $321,895 $563,099 Fellowship in Geological Sciences Income supplements salary and Professorship in Geological Sciences supports research of junior Income supplements salary and faculty member supports research of recipient

John E. “Brick” Elliott $337,602 $777,980 Thelma Lynn Guion Geology $13,572 $17,636 Centennial Endowed Professorship Staff Award in Geological Sciences For recognition of excellence by Geology Library staff Income supplements salary and supports research of recipient Karl Frederick Hagemeier, Jr. $44,329 $79,591 Samuel P. Ellison, Jr. Fund $86,828 $190,247 Memorial Endowed For Department Newsletter and Presidential Scholarship support of faculty-alumni functions General geology scholarships, any level, with preference to Energy and Mineral Resources Fund $32,000 $74,166 students from Brazoria or Support of programs and students in Kerr counties energy and mineral resources George S. Heyer Memorial Fund $99,137 $245,705 William Stamps Farish $417,722 $956,911 Any purpose of the Foundation Chair in Geology Income supplements salary and supports research of recipient 72 Book Value Market Value Book Value Market Value Bill D. Holland Endowed $29,621 $34,388 Howard R. Lowe Vertebrate $35,104 $78,300 Presidential Scholarship in Paleontology Endowment Geological Sciences Support of student fieldwork in Scholarship for a Texas student who vertebrate paleontology plans to pursue a career in the oil and gas industry J. Hoover Mackin Memorial $25,918 $58,088 Scholarship Fund Houston Oil and Mineral $56,310 $126,478 Graduate geology scholarship Corporation Faculty Excellence Awards George W. Marshall, Jr. Memorial $39,334 $62,761 In recognition of outstanding Endowed Presidential Scholarship service and special contributions Graduate scholarships in general to the teaching and geology research programs Jack H. Mayfield, Jr. Fund for $461,500 $771,305 F. Earl Ingerson Graduate Research $57,868 $96,658 Excellence in the Assistance Fund in Geochemistry Geological Sciences Research assistance to graduate For innovative projects in geoscience students in geochemistry instruction and research and for unrestricted support for continuing John A. and Katherine G. Jackson $246,881 $304,774 programs of teaching and research Centennial Teaching Fellowship in Geological Sciences John H. and Lujza McCammon $12,640 $29,799 Income supplements salary and Endowed Scholarship supports research of junior Upper-division undergraduate faculty member scholarships

John A. and Katherine G. Jackson $165,240 $319,484 Mr. and Mrs. L. F. McCollum $20,909 $51,078 Fellowship in Geohydrology Scholarship in Geology Graduate fellowships Geology scholarships, any level in geohydrology Michaux Scholarship Fund $12,283 $27,740 John A. and Katherine G. Jackson $25,000 $25,000 Geology scholarships, any level Exploration Geophysics Fund Supports Department’s activities in Joan A. Middleton Endowed $10,557 $12,853 the area of exploration geophysics Scholarship in Geology Geology scholarship to students, G. Moses and Carolyn G. Knebel $97,211 $214,876 especially hydrogeology students Teaching Fund To promote teaching excellence Carroll C. Miller Endowed $34,632 $79,508 in geological sciences Presidential Scholarship Geology scholarship to students Martin B. Lagoe Student Research $30,449 $37,153 pursuing careers in energy Fund for Micropaleontology industries, preference to students Support of students studying in from South Texas the area of micropaleontology William R. Muehlberger $97,043 $139,414 Clara Jones Langston $24,716 $53,085 Field Geology Scholarship Fund Centennial Lectureship in To support field studies at graduate Vertebrate Paleontology or undergraduate levels To provide for guest lectures in Wes Ogden Memorial Scholarship $13,224 $22,988 vertebrate paleontology in Geophysics J. Donald Langston $269,041 $443,756 Geophysics scholarships to students Special Operations Fund pursuing careers in energy industries Purchase teaching and Fred L. and Frances J. Oliver $72,074 $135,118 research equipment Lectureship in Texas Hydrology Wann and Marietta Langston $119,874 $258,313 and Water Resources Research Fund in To provide for guest lectures in Vertebrate Paleontology water resources Faculty research in Judd H. Oualline Endowment Fund $21,584 $44,900 vertebrate paleontology For special needs of the Department Jack K. Larsen-Mesa Petroleum $154,930 $344,987 Judd H. and Cynthia Oualline $96,898 $166,323 Company Fund in Centennial Lectureship in Sedimentary Geology Support of student fieldwork in Geological Sciences To provide for guest lectures in sedimentary geology geological sciences 73 Book Value Market Value Book Value Market Value Judd H. and Cynthia Oualline $89,656 $154,996 F. W. Simonds Endowed Presidential $30,476 $76,523 Centennial Lectureship in Scholarship in Geological Sciences Petroleum Geology Scholarship to undergraduate To provide for guest lectures in (upper division) and graduate petroleum geology students

Ed Owen-George Coates Fund $119,180 $270,533 William T. Stokes Centennial $158,022 $337,084 Publication of geological research Teaching Fellowship in by faculty and graduate students Geological Sciences Income supplements salary and James C. Patterson Fund for $40,830 $41,596 supports research of junior Excellence in the faculty member Geophysical Sciences To support excellence in the Structural Geology $122,167 $215,775 geophysical sciences and Tectonics Fund For support of faculty and student Bill R. Payne Centennial Teaching $101,675 $203,367 research in structure and tectonics Fellowship Income supplements salary and Harlan Tod Sutherland $41,949 $79,063 supports research of junior Memorial Scholarship Fund faculty member For summer research support for graduate students Joyce Bowman Payne Centennial $103,309 $194,658 Teaching Fellowship John and Elizabeth M. Teagle $708,447 $1,256,616 Income supplements salary and Scholarship in Petroleum Geology supports research of junior For scholarships to students with faculty member interest in petroleum geology

Pennzoil and Pogo Producing $186,291 $338,850 David S. Thayer $30,717 $71,270 Companies-William E. Memorial Scholarship Fund Gipson Scholarships Senior field course scholarship Scholarships for UT graduates seeking Master’s degrees at UT Tobin International Geological $84,269 $206,780 Map Collection Fund O. Scott Petty Geophysical Fund $210,925 $444,158 For purchase of maps and photos, Development of program of storage and viewing facilities excellence in geophysics for these items

Wallace E. Pratt $219,928 $460,916 Udden Memorial Scholarship Fund $17,505 $32,951 Professorship in Geophysics Geology scholarships, any level Development of program of excellence in geophysics, income Glenn and Martha Vargas Endowed $39,331 $61,997 supplements salary and supports Presidential Scholarship research of recipient Graduate-level scholarship in geological sciences Louis and Elizabeth Scherck $111,791 $211,505 Geology Scholarship Glenn and Martha Vargas $18,366 $34,561 Undergraduate (upper division) Gemological Scholarship in and graduate scholarship Geological Sciences Scholarships for students interested Wilton E. Scott $290,776 $652,271 in gemology or mineralogy Centennial Professorship Income supplements salary and Glenn and Martha Vargas $69,944 $122,808 supports research of recipient Endowment for Gems and Gem Minerals Instruction Walter Benona Sharp Memorial $43,382 $105,543 For course-related materials Scholarship in Geological Sciences and instruction on gems and Scholarship in petroleum or gem minerals field geology Glenn and Martha Vargas Fund for $31,000 $35,470 Shell Companies Foundation $1,235,635 $2,389,927 Gem and Mineral Curation Centennial Chair in Geophysics For curating and maintaining the Income supplements salary and gem and mineral collections of supports research of recipient the Department

Shell Companies Foundation $1,029,545 $2,078,001 Joseph C., Jr. and Elizabeth C. $703,247 $1,042,654 Distinguished Chair in Geophysics Walter Geology Library Fund Income supplements salary and Acquisition of books, maps, supports research of recipient and other library materials

74 Book Value Market Value Book Value Market Value Albert W. and Alice M. Weeks $210,808 $413,936 Addison A. and Mary E. $51,688 $60,868 Centennial Professorship Wilkinson Endowed in Geological Sciences Presidential Scholarship Income supplements salary and in Geological Sciences supports research of recipient Geology scholarships for graduate and Albert W. and Alice M. Weeks $580,070 $956,231 undergraduate students Fund in Geology Scholarships in geological John A. Wilson Professorship $180,165 $361,499 sciences, any level in Vertebrate Paleontology Development of program of E. A. Wendlandt Fund $8,723 $19,549 excellence in vertebrate Purchase of books and journals paleontology, income in German or English translations supplements salary and supports research Arno P. (Dutch) Wendler $120,351 $262,552 of recipient Professional Development Fund Support of graduate student Charles E. Yager Undergraduate $56,565 $127,894 presentations Field Scholarship Fund at professional meetings Support for students taking GEO 660 Francis L. Whitney Endowed $47,933 $111,931 Presidential Scholarship The First, Second, Third Mr. $494,586 $1,151,433 Geology scholarships, any level, and Mrs. Charles E. Yager paleontology and stratigraphy Professorships preferred Three professorships in any discipline for faculty who Francis L. Whitney $44,663 $75,514 participate in field instruction Memorial Book Fund Purchase of paleontological books for library

Geology Foundation Advisory Council

Chairman Members Dr. Richard R. Bloomer Dr. David S. Birsa Mr. A. T. (Toby) Carleton Mr. Dodd W. DeCamp Lakeshore Ranch c/o Amoseas Singapore President Vice President, Exploration 17800 Inspiration Circle One Scotts Road, #22-08 Tocor Exploration ARCO Lago Vista, TX 78645-9706 Shaw Center 414 West Texas Ave., #308 2300 West Plano Parkway Telephone (512) 267-2846 Singapore 228208 P. O. Box 293 Plano, TX 75075 Fax (512) 267-0915 Telephone (713) 754-2874 Midland, TX 79702-0293 Telephone (972) 509-4600 Fax (713) 754-2880 Telephone (915) 685-1209 Fax (972) 509-4057 Vice Chairman Fax (915) 685-1229 Mr. Keith R. Brownlee Dr. Rodger E. Denison Mr. L. Decker Dawson Consultant Mr. Richard M. Coffelt 15141 Kingstree Drive President 5004 Bellerive Vice President Dallas, TX 75248-5210 Dawson Geophysical Co. Dallas, TX 75287 World Wide Exploration Telephone (972) 239-9709 508 West Wall, Suite 800 Telephone (972) 931-1502 Phillips Petroleum Co. Fax (972) 233-2678 Midland, TX 79701-5010 Fax (972) 931-8068 1500 Plaza Office Bldg. Telephone (915) 682-7356 Bartlesville, OK 74005-1500 Mr. George A. Donnelly, Jr. Fax (915) 683-4298 Mr. Thomas M. Burke Telephone (918) 661-4282 President Consultant Fax (918) 662-2780 The Eastland Oil Company Director 8519 Manhattan Drive P. O. Box 3488 Dr. William L. Fisher Houston, TX 77096-1316 Mr. Weyman W. Crawford Midland, TX 79702-3488 Telephone (713) 667-8564 10026 Sugar Hill Drive Telephone (915) 683-6293 Houston, TX 77042-1540 Fax (915) 683-6295 Telephone (713) 782-0595

75 Mr. Thomas E. Fanning Dr. John R. Hopkins Mr. James C. Patterson Honorary Life Members 20 Tiburon Drive Vice President 12331 Broken Arrow St. Austin, TX 78738-1556 Technology/Exploration Production Houston, TX 77024-4962 Dr. Thomas D. Barrow Telephone (512) 261-4285 Conoco Inc. Telephone (713) 827-0611 5847 San Felipe Fax (512) 261-9620 600 North Dairy Ashford Road Suite 3830 P. O. Box 2197, NS 2026 Mr. William F. Reynolds Mr. James A. Gibbs Houston, TX 77252 J. C. & W. F. Reynolds Oil Producers Houston, TX 77057-3011 1220 One Energy Square Telephone (281) 293-4353 719 Scott Avenue, Suite 700 Telephone (713) 789-0090 4925 Greenville Avenue Fax (281) 293-5038 Wichita Falls, TX 76301-2669 Fax (713) 789-0192 Dallas, TX 75206-4026 Telephone (940) 723-6657 Telephone (214) 363-3008 Mr. Mark S. Leonard Fax (940) 322-9034 Mr. Don R. Boyd Fax (214) 363-5734 President 250 Cape May Shell EP International Ventures, Inc. Mr. George W. Schneider, Jr. Corpus Christi, TX 78412 Mr. Gerald M. Gilbert P. O. Box 4741 P. O. Box 9399 Telephone (512) 991-8618 President Houston, TX 77210 Metairie, LA 70055-9399 Fax (512) 991-9685 Baker Hughes E&P Solutions Telephone (281) 544-3636 Telephone (504) 482-9399 10011 Meadowglen Lane Fax (281) 544-4228 Fax (504) 830-4543 Dr. Peter T. Flawn Houston, TX 77042 3718 Bridle Path Telephone (713) 972-6382 Dr. Susan A. Longacre Mr. Don B. Sheffield Austin, TX 78703-2005 Fax (713) 972-6380 Senior Scientist 3741 Chevy Chase Drive Telephone (512) 480-0044 Texaco Fellow Houston, TX 77019-3011 Ms. Robbie R. Gries Texaco E&P Technology Dept. Telephone (713) 622-6228 Mr. William E. Gipson President 3901 Briarpark Gas Fund, Inc. Houston, TX 77042 Priority Oil & Gas Company Mr. Russell G. Slayback 808 Travis Street 633 17th Street Telephone (713) 954-6068 4 Increase Lane Suite 1512 Suite 1520 Fax (713) 954-6113 Green Farms, CT 06436 Houston, TX 77002-5702 Denver, CO 80202-3615 Telephone (203) 255-2950 Telephone (713) 227-1003 Telephone (303) 296-3435 Ms. Pamela Luttrell Fax (203) 452-3111 Fax (303) 296-3436 Vice President, Global Operations Fax (713) 227-1540 Mobil New Exploration and Mr. Richard R. (Dick) Standaert Dr. Charles G. Groat Producing Ventures Manager Mr. John A. Jackson Director New Business Areas EDS 10325 Gaywood Road U.S. Geological Survey P. O. Box 650232 Energy Industry Group Dallas, TX 75229-6608 M.S. 100 Dallas, TX 75265-0232 H1-6D-24 Telephone (214) 368-8153 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive Telephone (214) 951-4144 5400 Legacy Drive Reston, VA 20192 Fax (214) 951-2104 Plano, TX 75024 Mr. John L. Loftis, Jr. Telephone (703) 648-7411 Telephone (972) 605-7897 11919 Broken Bough Drive Fax (703) 648-4454 Mr. Vance M. Lynch Fax (972) 208-3229 Houston, TX 77024-5052 3701 CR 258 Telephone (713) 468-1529 Dr. Paul R. Gucwa Liberty Hill, TX 78642 Mr. William T. Stokes Manager, U. S. Exploration Telephone (512) 515-5358 Consultant Mr. James R. Moffett Marathon Oil Company Fax (512) 778-6605 7703 Southwestern Blvd. Chairman & CEO P. O. Box 3128 Dallas, TX 75225-7929 Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Houston, TX 77253-3128 Mr. David F. Martineau Telephone (214) 369-4788 Gold, Inc. Telephone (713) 296-3400 Exploration Manager P. O. Box 51777 Fax (713) 296-4590 Pitts Oil Company Mr. David B. Story New Orleans, LA 70151 4600 Greenville Avenue Exxon Exploration Co. Telephone (504) 582-1619 Mr. W. Douglas Hall Dallas, TX 75206-5038 233 Benmar Fax (504) 582-1661 The W. D. Hall Company Telephone (214) 369-9266 Houston, TX 77060 P. O. Box 161656 Fax (214) 369-3864 Telephone (281) 423-5241 Austin, TX 78716 Fax (281) 423-7381 As of 9/1/99 Telephone (512) 306-8444 Mr. Jack H. Mayfield, Jr. Fax (512) 306-0471 Goldston Oil Corporation Mr. Joseph E. Sullivan P. O. Box 570365 Project Manager Mr. George M. Harwell, Jr. Houston, TX 77257-0365 West Africa New Ventures 14918 River Forest Drive Telephone (713) 355-3408 Unocal Corporation Houston, TX 77079-6327 Fax (713) 355-3429 14141 Southwest Freeway Telephone (281) 493-1719 Sugar Land, TX 77478 Fax (281) 493-1719 Mr. Harry A. Miller, Jr. Telephone (281) 287-5512 303 West Wall Fax (281) 287-5145 Mr. David S. “Scotty” Holland Suite 600 1 River Way Midland, TX 79701-5114 Mr. Charles G. Weiner Suite 1700 Telephone (915) 682-8731 Chairman Houston, TX 77056-1904 Fax (915) 682-9650 Texas Crude Energy, Inc. Telephone (713) 552-1074 P. O. Box 56586 Fax (713) 552-1095 Mr. Fred L. Oliver Houston, TX 77256-6586 President Telephone (713) 599-9900 Mr. Charles J. Hooper PVT, Inc. Fax (713) 599-9910 2111 Pine Valley Drive 4625 Greenville Avenue Houston, TX 77019-3507 Suite 205 Mr. Phillip E. Wyche Telephone (713) 524-9841 Dallas, TX 75206 126 Firebird Street Telephone (214) 739-2895 Austin, TX 78734-3808 Fax (214) 987-3776 Telephone (512) 261-4721 Fax (512) 261-4722

76 Memorials Joseph Benjamin Avant several people. Dick studied the Joseph Benjamin Avant was born on geomorphology and sedimentologic July 10, 1922, in Millett, Texas. He aspects of the flood for his Master’s passed away on March 10, 1999, in thesis. His thesis provided data and Dallas at the age of 76. He graduated documentation that was subsequently from the University of Texas, Austin in used by historians and flood-control 1951 with a B.S. in Geology. After planners. His dissertation was on the moving to Dallas in 1955, he was Cañon del Tule Formation, a thick employed as an independent geologist Cretaceous pro-delta/shelf sequence with W. H. Hudson Co. for 42 years. in the Parras Basin in northern He served as President of GNC Energy Mexico. His research reports were from 1974 to 1978 and Vice-President incredibly detailed and thorough. His from 1978 to 1991. He also served as Richard A. Crawley fieldwork overlapped in time other (1934-1998). Vice-President of Rocanville Corp. from field studies in the region by Bob Photo provided by Mrs. Ginny Baker, Bob Laudon, Bill Wilbert, Jim 1957 to 1991. He is survived by his Crawley. children, Sara S. Avant-Stanley, Seth E. Wolleben, and Earle McBride. Dick Avant, and Sander J. Avant, by his was a person with great curiosity and grandchildren, Blair, Jorden, and Carson, Richard (Dick) A. Crawley great compassion. He could see the and by his brother, John F. Avant. bright side of trying events and Richard (Dick) A. Crawley died cantankerous people. Fly fishing was October 13, 1998, in his hometown of his favorite pastime. He is survived J. D. Brock, Jr. Louisville, Kentucky, of complications by his wife, the former Genny Sine, J. D. Brock, Jr., formerly from from chronic mylegonous leukemia. also of Louisville, three stepchildren, McAllen, Texas, but more recently He had retired in 1994 after working and five grandchildren. from Austin, Texas, passed away on 21 years for the U.S. Department of April 12, 1999. Mr. Brock was born Energy. He spent two years in Austin, in Dallas, Texas, on July 19, 1927. He Texas, and eight years in Grand William Edmon Dunaway graduated from the University of Texas, Junction, Colorado, working on William Edmon Dunaway died on Austin in 1951 with a Bachelor’s degree uranium research for the U.S. April 4, 1999. He was born on March in Geology. Mr. Brock then received a Department of Energy. He then spent 18, 1936, and received an M.A. in law degree from the University of Texas, two years working at the Waste Geology from the University of Texas, Austin Law School in 1957. He is Isolation Pilot Project (WIPP) site Austin in 1962. He spent 32 years of survived by his wife, Kathryn Bonar outside Carlsbad, New Mexico. This his life as a geologist in the oil and gas Brock, his sons, Stephen E. Brock and site was selected to evaluate the industry. Mr. Dunaway is survived by David R. Brock, his granddaughters, storage of low-level radwaste in salt his wife, Loretta Davis Dunaway, his Clare and Hannah, and his two brothers, deposits in the New Mexico desert. son, Bryan, his sons and daughters-in- James R. Brock and William E. Brock. He followed this with nine years in law, Bruce and Karen and Ethan and Las Vegas, Nevada, with the Kim, and his grandchildren, Austin multidisciplinary group evaluating and Amanda Ralph V. Carson, Jr. Yucca Mountain as a potential high- Ralph V. Carson, Jr. died May 24, level radwaste site. Dick was born 1999, in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, October 27, 1934. He was a veteran Judge Dinsmore Finley at the age of 66. Mr. Carson received of the U.S. Army. He received his B.S. Judge Dinsmore Finley, age 70, a a B.S. in Geology from the University degree from the University of geologist of Austin, Texas, passed of Texas, Austin in 1955. He then Kentucky and both his M.A. (1969) away October 9, 1998. He received went on to earn an M.B.A. at UT and Ph.D. (1975) degrees from the his undergraduate degree at Stanford Austin in 1964. He was employed as Department of Geological Sciences at University and his Master’s in a geophysicist with Exxon and in The University of Texas at Austin. In Geology in 1954 from the University various financial positions with the early summer of 1965, Sanderson, of Texas, Austin. He was a published Conoco, Inc. He is survived by his Texas, was the site of a catastrophic member of the American Association wife, Irene Robertson Carson, and his flood that resulted in considerable of Petroleum Geologists and was mother, Ruth Davidson Carson. property damage and the death of widely recognized for his

77 contributions to the science. Judge is 1999, at the age of 66. He was born Mason and a Shriner. His survivors survived by his wife, Jo Ellen Larkin September 2, 1932, graduated from include his wife, Zelma Payne Finley, his sons and daughters-in-law, Austin High, and lived in Austin, Hinyard, a daughter, Louise Hinyard Davis and Nancy Newton Finley, Kerrville, and Rosebud. He attended Harrison, a stepson and his wife, Timothy and Ann Grady Finley, John the University of Texas, Austin in 1951 Frank and Gail Payne, four and Donna Rosenthal Finley, and where he majored in Geology and granddaughters, a grandson, and six Richard and Kathleen Stacey Finley, played football his freshman year. He great-grandchildren. his grandchildren, Frances, Edmund, was a member of Phi Delta Theta Rosalind, Ann Marie, Claire, Thomas, fraternity and The Bachelors of Austin. Elizabeth, Jack, Joseph, Judge II, Emily, He was a Lieutenant in the U.S. Army Robert M. Hutchinson Kathleen, and Erin, and his brother, and worked in the oil and gas Robert M. Hutchinson died January Mark Finley, Jr., and Mark’s wife, Jo industry. He is survived by his wife, 13, 1999, at the age of 80 from Ann Bland Finley. He is also survived Mary Gilstrap, of Rosebud. injuries received in an accident. He by three stepchildren, their spouses, was born on December 24, 1918. He and their children. received a B.A. in Economic Geology Thomas Edgar Harris from Princeton University in 1941, an Thomas Edgar Harris died at the age M.A. in Geology from the University James C. Freeman of 68 on March 2, 1999. He received of Michigan in 1948, and a Ph.D. James C. Freeman passed away March a B.S. in Geology from the University from the University of Texas, Austin in 31, 1999. He received his B.S. in of Texas, Austin in 1957. He served in 1953. He spent most of his life (42 Geology from the University of Texas, the U.S. Navy and was employed at years) teaching in the Department of Austin in 1943 and M.S. in Geology Pan American (Amoco) Coastal States Geology and Geological Engineering from the University of Colorado in and American Shoreline. He was a at the Colorado School of Mines. 1947. Jim was employed with member of the American Association Earlier in his life, he worked at the Magnolia Petroleum Company and of Petroleum Geologists and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in McCarrick and Stewart Company in Corpus Christi Geological Society. He Trinidad building air bases, at the U.S. San Antonio, Texas. He became an is survived by his children, Monica Geological Survey in Washington, independent in 1952 in Corpus Ann Carter, Robert McRae Harris, and D.C. in the Strategic Minerals Branch, Christi, Texas. Jim will long be Deborah Lynn Schwartz, and as Instructor at the University of Texas, remembered as forming the first grandchildren, Jennifer, Stuart, and Austin, and on the faculty at Kansas geological library in Corpus Christi, Jacob Harris, and Trevor Schwartz. State University. He was still active in the Geological Information Service. It teaching his Optical Mineralogy merged with the Bahia Log Library Course at Colorado School of Mines and then into the Corpus Christi Paul B. Hinyard and as a consulting geologist at the Geological Library. He was a long- Paul B. Hinyard was born on April 8, time of his death. He is survived by time member of the Corpus Christi 1903, and passed away on August 26, his wife, Bette, eight children, and six Geological Society. 1998, in Tyler, Texas. He received a grandchildren. B.A. in Geology from the University of Texas, Austin in 1928 and was Nathan Bennett Gary, Jr. employed by Shell Oil Co. as an oil Elbert Aubrey King, Jr. Nathan Bennett (Jake) Gary, Jr. was scout and later as an exploration Elbert Aubrey King, Jr., a planetary born on May 25, 1934, in Sherman, manager. He retired from Shell in geologist, was born in Austin, Texas. Texas. He received his B.A. from the 1968 after having served that He received his B.S. in 1957 and M.A. Department of Geology at the company for 40 years. While with in 1961 in Geology from the University of Texas, Austin in 1956. Shell Oil Co., Mr. Hinyard earned the University of Texas, Austin, and his He lived in Bowie, Texas, and died on distinction of having found more oil Ph.D. from Harvard. He was the first April 14, 1998, at the age of 63. for the company than any other curator of NASA’s Lunar Receiving employee. Among other Laboratory and Professor in the organizations, Mr. Hinyard was a Geosciences Department at the Robert Wentworth Gilstrap member of the East Texas Geological University of Houston. He died in Robert Wentworth Gilstrap, formerly Society and the American Association Houston on December 12, 1998, of of Rosebud, Texas, died on April 17, of Petroleum Geologists. He is a complications from Parkinson’s

78 Texas, following a recent heart attack. James Donald (Don) Langston He was born April 8, 1924, in Ballinger. He graduated from the University of Texas, Austin in 1951 James Donald with a B.A. in Geology. After (Don) Langston of graduation, he was employed by Kailua-Kona, Baroid on a logging unit in Texas and Hawaii, formerly of Oklahoma. Later, he was head Jacksboro, Texas, geologist and exploration manager for died on September Thomas D. Humphrey of Dallas. Mr. 26, 1998, in Northington was a geologist and oil Prescott, Arizona, at operator having been instrumental in the age of 72. Mr. the discovery of several oil fields in Langston was born Tom Green, Runnels, and Schleicher on April 22, 1926. counties. He was a founding partner He received a B.S. and officer of Fortune Drilling in Geology in 1949 Company in San Angelo. He operated from the University Northington & Associates, Inc. as an of Texas, Austin. independent and after retirement After a long and continued as a consulting geologist. distinguished career He was a member of the San Angelo with Exxon, he Petroleum Club and Permian Basin retired as Vice- Petroleum Association. He is survived President of by his wife, Anna Roberts Exploration in Northington, and two children, K. V. 1983. He was a (Tye) Northington and Lisa member of the Northington Gordon, and one American granddaughter, Tawna Northington. Association of Petroleum Geologists and an Honorary Life Member of the Geology Foundation Advisory Council. He was a veteran of World War II. He Robert William Orr is a Mason at the Fort Richardson Texas Masonic Lodge. Don created Robert William Orr died in July of the J. Donald Langston Special Operations Fund and he and Ginny the 1997. He received an M.A. in J. D. and V. L. Langston Endowed Scholarship Fund in Geology and Geology in 1964 from the University Geophysics in the Geology Foundation. Mr. Langston’s survivors of Texas, Austin. He was a Professor include his wife, Virginia Langston, and one brother, Gordon Langston. of Geology in the Geography and Geology Department at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana, where he was a member of the faulty for disease. He is survived by his wife, became an independent geologist and almost 30 years and Chair of the Sharon Lee Witherow, and his two oil operator. He was a member of the Department for 6 years in the 1980’s. daughters, Lisa Marie King and West Texas Geological Society and the He is survived by his three children Cynthia Dawn King. American Association of Petroleum and his brother. Geologists. Survivors include his wife, his son, Randy Mayo, his Paul R. Mayo stepdaughter, Michelle Harrison, his L. W. (Dub) Owens Paul R. Mayo, 72, formerly of Dallas, two stepsons, Greg Foust and Mark L. W. (Dub) Owens, 71, formerly of died October 21, 1998, in Abilene, Foust, his mother, Earline Mayo, and Temple, Texas, died on February 9, Texas. Mr. Mayo received a B.S. in 11 grandchildren. 1999, in Houston after a brief illness. Geology from the University of Texas, Mr. Owens was born in Mt. Pleasant, Austin in 1950. He was employed by Texas, on December 11, 1927. He Bridwell Oil Company in Wichita K. V. (Kinch) Northington, Jr. graduated from Daingerfield High Falls from 1950 to 1952 and K. V. (Kinch) Northington, Jr., age 74, School and from the University of Consolidated Oil until 1954. He then died March 15, 1999, in San Antonio, Texas, Austin with a Bachelor’s Degree

79 in Geology in 1951. He worked as a as an independent oilman. Mr. She started her career in teaching in geologist for 40 years. He served in the Renaud was the operating general the Austin public schools. She taught U.S. Marine Corps during World War II. partner of Renaud Minerals Ltd. He at Texas Christian University and He is survived by his daughter, Beth was a member of the West Texas Tulane University. She went to Gerdes, sons, Mark and Matt Owens, Geological Society, Society of Central Michigan University in 1960 and five grandchildren. Independent Professional Earth and taught there until her retirement. Scientists, American Association of Her publications included Petroleum Geologists, Petroleum Club paleontological research on the Glen Jacob Luther (Jake) Patton of Fort Worth, and Petroleum Club of Rose Formation in Central Texas and Jacob Luther (Jake) Patton, age 90, of Midland. He is survived by his wife, aerodynamic erosion research. She Tyler, Texas, died on December 17, Zuma Burrow Renaud, his daughters, was a member of the Geological 1998. He received a B.A and an M.A. Ellen R. Pulliam and Sara R. Pulliam, Society of America, the American in Geology in 1932 from the his sons, C. Louis Renaud, David J. Association of Petroleum Geologists, University of Texas, Austin. Mr. Renaud, and Christopher P. Renaud, the Society of Economic Patton was born in Morganton, North and his five granddaughters and six Paleontologists and Mineralogists, the Carolina, on September 23, 1908. He grandsons. American Association for the worked for Humble Oil & Refining Advancement of Science, among Company and in 1955 became others. She is survived by several Exploration Manager of the East Texas Donald F. (Sandy) Sandifer cousins. Division in Tyler, Texas. In 1959, he Donald F. (Sandy) Sandifer, born March become an independent petroleum 26, 1912, in Robertson County, Texas, geologist, a calling he pursued until died October 13, 1998. He graduated his death. Mr. Patton was a Member from the University of Texas, Austin in Emeritus of the American Association 1935 with both a B.S. and an M.A. in of Petroleum Geologists, member of Petroleum Geology. He was responsible the Tyler Petroleum Club, which for the discovery of the Carrizo Springs oil We have learned of the death honored him as the “Old Timer” of the field. He was a member of the American of the following persons, but year in 1987, and was on the Association of Petroleum Geologists, have no additional Development Board of the University South Texas Geological Society, and the information: of Texas. He is survived by his wife, American Petroleum Institute. He was Edith Perkins Patton, his son and employed by Stanolind Oil and Gas daughter-in law, John Jacob and Company and later as a geological scout Diana Grunig Catalan Barbara Patton, his daughter and son- and subsurface geologist. He then went (Attended 1971) in-law, Paula Patton and Michael on to work for Transwestern Oil Company John Chatmas, II Quinn, his five grandchildren, John and opened the geological office for (B.A., 1941) William Patton, Polly Kathryn Patton, Anderson Pritchard. In his later years, he Patton Halliday Quinn, Jacob Patrick was a consulting geologist. He is survived Mrs. James S. Leeper Quinn, and Paul Perkins Quinn, and by his wife, Louise, his children, Jan Perez, (B.A., 1907) his two great grandchildren. Penn Sandifer, and Susan White, his nine grandchildren, his four great- Mrs. Clarence H. grandchildren, his brother, Leon Sandifer; Charles Benham Renaud McCall and his sister, Vermelle Cook. (B.A., 1920) Charles Benham Renaud was born on October 19, 1926, in Abilene, Texas. Cynthia Sheffield Ming He died on July 10, 1998. He Marion I. Whitney (B.A., 1941) received a B.A. in 1949 and an M.A. Marion I. Whitney, 87, of Shepherd, in 1950 in Geology from the Michigan, passed away on September Angelo Pete Shropulos University of Texas, Austin. He was 16, 1998. She was born on April 23, (B.A., 1949) employed by Sojourner Drilling 1911, in Austin, Texas. She graduated Company in Abilene. In 1951, he with honors in Geology in 1930, William Youngblood worked for Westexas Oil and Royalty received her M.A. in paleontology in (B.A., 1951) Corporation in Fort Worth, founded by 1931, and her Ph.D. in geology, T. Mann Pettymann and Charles L. paleontology, and botany in 1937, all Renaud. He then began a long career from the University of Texas, Austin.

80 Notes from the Alumni

separate facilities at Big Bend. That rule changed shortly after I graduated. Thus, my Alumni Honors degree is a B.A.” Don R. Boyd (B.S., 1958) Special Commendation Award, Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies. Payton V. Anderson (B.S., 1945) is a partner at W.D. Anderson & Sons in Midland, Charles G. Groat (Ph.D., 1970) Ian Campbell Medal, American Geological Texas. He writes, “Evelyn (UT 1943-1945) and I have been married 53 years. Three daughters Institute. and six grandchildren. Still active in oil and H. Louis Lee (B.A., 1954, M.A., 1958) Chairman, Society of Independent gas exploration on a reduced scale. Main Professional Earth Scientists, Austin Chapter. activities are travel and golf.” Charles J. Mankin (B.S., 1954, Ph.D., 1958) Ben H. Parker Medal, American Raymond H. (Pat) Anderson (B.S., 1956) Institute of Professional Geologists. is retired from Texaco, Inc. in Richmond, Texas, and writes, “Happy to see crude back Daniel N. Miller, Jr. (Ph.D., 1955) 50-year distinguished recognition award (for the to $18/bbl! The merging of the major oil class of 1949) alumni from what used to be Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy companies is sad in a way. I’m glad to be at Rolla, Missouri. retired.”

David C. Noe (M.A., 1984) 1998 Research Award in Environmental Geology from Richard Anderson (M.A., 1983) has an e-mail AAPG-DEG and the 1998 John C. Frye Memorial Award in Environmental Geology address of [email protected] from GSA-AASG. and a Web address of www.halcyon.com/ James A. Ragsdale (M.A., 1960) Distinguished Service Award, Houston Geological starfire. Society. Edgar P. Armstrong (B.S., 1951), resides in Robert T. Sellars, Jr. (B.S., 1957) will finish his three years on the D.P.A. Executive Houston, Texas. He writes, “Retired–enjoying Committee in July. season tickets with son and grandson to Longhorn football games. Also, spending large blocks of time volunteering and traveling with wife, Janelle.”

Peyton O. Abbott (B.S., 1950) is a retired William H. Adamson, Jr. (B.S., 1951) is James Armstrong (B.S., 1978) lives in Tyler, hydrogeologist in Pueblo, Colorado, e-mail a retired geologist/geophysicist in Midland, Texas, is a financial analyst, and writes, “I am address [email protected]. Texas, and writes, “Looks like the petroleum still with Huntsman Petrochemical Corp. in business is getting flushed down the tubes. Houston. I enjoy staying active with work, Samuel C. Adair, Jr. (B.S., 1956), retired We need a change of political leadership volunteering, and the cultural arts of the big from Exxon writes, “Still enjoying retirement from the top down. This isn’t news, which city. I am planning a trip to Paris and the on Lake Conroe. Doris and I travel as much you asked for, but it is the truth. We don’t get Provence region of France in June. Hello to as possible while we still have our health. In the truth from our present leadership–not all the gang from 1978.” E-mail address is January, we took a cruise on the Grand news. A statement of fact!” [email protected]. Princess (the floating island). In April, we will be going to Hawaii with our son and his wife, Floyd J. Adcock (B.S., 1955) writes from Gerald L. Atkinson (B.S., 1983) is a Senior and in June we will be taking another cruise Kilgore, Texas, “Still looking for oil and gas Exploration Geologist in Kingwood, Texas, with our daughter and her family. I really prospects in Gulf Coast and East Texas.” e-mail address [email protected], writes us, enjoy the Newsletter, thanks.” “Beginning the 16th year with Exxon. Now Keg Alexander (M.A., 1990) resides in working deepwater GOM and waiting to see G. Baxter Adams, Jr. (B.S., 1951, M.A., Oakland, California, and is a hydrogeologist how the impending merger with Mobil turns 1953), who resides in Medina, Texas, writes, at Streamborn in Berkeley, California, e-mail out.” “I’ve retired from oil and gas exploration address [email protected], and writes, but am busier than ever raising apples and “My wife Mary and I are thrilled to introduce Gene M. Austin (B.S., 1952) is a consulting propagating maple trees on a beautiful ranch our son, Robert Brooks Alexander, born on petroleum geologist in Houston, Texas, and in the Hill Country west of Kerrville. You can December 31, 1998. Brooks is named for the writes, “At age 76 I’m still very active. I dress taste the apples at Adams Apples in Kerrville Brooks Range, Alaska, where we have been myself and get to the office in time for lunch or the cider mill in Medina. Come see us!” fortunate to visit.” and a nap. I welcome visitors. My youngest His e-mail address is [email protected]. son is in school there at the University of John D. Alger (B.S., 1985) is Vice-President Texas.” James W. Adams (B.A., 1948) is retired in of Alger Equipment Company, Inc. and lives Conroe, Texas, and writes, “Waiting for new in Round Rock, Texas, with an e-mail address Arten J. Avakian (M.A., 1989) of Austin, knees to provide transportation on the golf of [email protected]. Texas, is a geologist with the Texas Natural course.” Resource Conservation Commission, has an Nancy Jenswold Anderson (B.A., 1950) e-mail address of [email protected], Jim W. Adams (B.S., 1951) is a consulting is a consultant to a former business in Cedar and writes, “Keeping busy in the intriguing, geologist in Midland, Texas, whose e-mail Hill, Texas. She writes, “After 27 years as an political, and frustrating world of environmen- address is [email protected] and who urban planning consultant, I have turned over tal regulation in the main Texas environmental writes, “Enjoying semi-retirement. Continue to management and ownership of my business agency (TNRCC). Stop by and say hi if you run fieldtrips to the Guadalupe, Sacramento, to a younger associate. Looking forward to a are nearby.” , and Franklin Mountains. President of less structured life, more travel. Planning a Exxon Annuitants in Midland. On youth trip to Big Bend. When I was a student at UT Sara S. Avant-Stanley (B.S., 1978), with committee of National AAPG. Greatest Austin, women students were not permitted an e-mail address of [email protected], is delight? Six and one-half grandchildren.” to take the field course because of lack of President of American Women’s Association

81 of Indonesia, lives in Jakarta, and notifies us, Ellis S. Belfer (B.S., 1987) is an engineer in Sevin Bilir (M.A., 1992) lives in Emeryville, “My father, Joseph B. Avant (B.S., 1951), Richardson, Texas, and writes, “Working two California, has a present job of hydrogeologist passed away in March after a brave battle years at MCI Worldcom as an international analyst for Weiss Associates at Lawrence with cancer. He was an active independent data engineer. Attending at nights Southern Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) (work geologist, retiring only in December 1998 Methodist University’s M.B.A. program.” e-mail of [email protected] and personal e-mail when his health demanded it.” The e-mail address is [email protected]. of [email protected]), and writes with the news, “I am now working on the investiga- Walter Ayers (Ph.D., 1984) is a principal Sid Bell (B.A., 1946), writes from Ft. Plain, tion and characterization of soil, rocks, and consultant with Schlumberger Holditch- New York, “Retired, but again carving and ground water at Site 300 (Altamont Hills Reservoir Technologies in College Station, casting wildlife jewelry for numerous stores Explosives Center) for LLNL in Livermore, Texas. His e-mail address is and several national catalogs. Am house- California. I am actually doing tasks that [email protected]. bound–health a series of anticlines and incorporate geology, hydrogeology, structural synclines–back is still bad. I get around on geology, innovative green technologies, etc. Carol Swenumson Baker (B.S., 1984) is a two canes–can’t walk–have had to give up Yahoo! At last! Anyone have interesting geophysicist at Exxon Exploration Company hunting, and that hurt the worst. Wonder if related topics that LLNL might want to know in Houston, Texas, and writes, “The low oil any research has been done on the speeding about? Contact me. As for my outside work prices and pending merger with Mobil will up of time relative to the passing of years—at life, I am really enjoying living in the Bay make this an uncertain year. Rodney and I least an inverse proportion. The more we Area. I am enjoying the quick access to 1 stay busy with Grant (9) and Andrew (3 /2).” age, the quicker the years go by, at least up snow, the heat of the Central Valley, migrat- here north of the Mason/Clinton line.” ing whales, the sierra hot springs, etc. Great Kristen Barber (B.S., 1994) is a geophysi- news!..I recently passed the RG for California cist in Houston, Texas, e-mail address Walter E. Belt, Jr. (B.S., 1943) is retired in on the first try.” [email protected]. Flatonia, Texas, and writes, “Virginia and I are well and happy.” His e-mail address is Russell C. (Chris) Bingley (B.A., 1962) is Thomas D. Barrow (M.A., 1948) is [email protected]. retired in Chico, California. Chairman of Tobin International in Houston, Texas, and writes, “In addition to running a Earl H. Bescher (B.S., 1942) is retired from William T. Biskamp (B.A., 1954) is retired Cotton Valley Reef exploration program in Exxon and lives in Kingwood, Texas. He in Dallas, Texas, has an e-mail address of East Texas, and a Yegua-Wilcox program in writes, “Since retiring from Humble/Exxon in [email protected], and writes us, “Very the Gulf Coast, I put together a group to do a 1981, I have done lots of travel–love cruises. little change. Traveling and selling real estate leveraged buyout of Tobin and a pair of Stay at home now due to wife’s health with Mona. Have seven grandkids, and all satellite photo mapping companies. We have problem. Otherwise, life is good.” His our kids are doing fine.” complete satellite photo coverage of the e-mail address is [email protected]. U.S.A.” Tom is an Honorary Life Member of Peter Bittenbender (M.A., 1991) is a the Geology Foundation Advisory Council. Don G. Bilbrey (B.S., 1953, M.A., 1957) is geologist with the U.S. Bureau of Land retired from Chevron (Gulf Oil Corporation) Management in Douglas, Alaska, and Charles (Sandy) Beach (B.S., 1987) is a and living in New Orleans, Louisiana, writes resides in Juneau, Alaska. His e-mail geologist with Beach Exploration, Inc. in us, “My golf game has gone south–age has address is [email protected]. He Midland, Texas, with an e-mail address of finally caught up with me, I guess. My writes, “All’s well here. I continue to [email protected]. handicap is up to seven and very few putts enjoy my job of mineral assessment on drop now. Daughter Karen gave birth to public land in southeast Alaska. My wife, Joe Beard (B.S., 1942) is retired in Wichita son, Taylor Martinsen, on December 1, 1998, Karen, and I have a daughter, Asha, almost Falls, Texas. in Seattle, Washington. I visited in March two. She likes rocks.” for a week.” Bryan D. Beck, Jr. (B.S., 1939) is a retired petroleum geologist and engineer, residing in Beaumont, Texas, and writes, “Tempus Fugits! Always appreciate the Newsletter. Thanks, with best wishes.”

Roy Beckelhymer (B.S., 1952) writes, “Retired happily in Lakeway (Austin), Texas. Keeping busy going to Longhorn games, traveling, and trying to keep the computer updated and running. Plan to fly to Maryland and drive to Georgia to visit children and grandchildren this spring.”

Fred H. Becker (B.S., 1983) and Teresa (Harkrader) Becker (B.S., 1982) are residing in Slidell, Louisiana. They work in New Orleans and write, “Fred is still working at Shell, but I just couldn’t pass up the severance package that Amoco offered for closing its New Orleans office after the BP buyout, er…, I mean, ‘merger.’ I am doing part-time consulting and spending more time with the kids (and loving it!)” They may be e-mailed at [email protected].

Adrienne Beede (B.S., 1998) resides in Field geology course in the summer of 1941. Pictured is Edward Baird. Helotes, Texas, is a geologist with Raba- Photo provided by Edward R. Baird. Kistner Consultants in San Antonio, Texas, and e-mail address is [email protected].

82 Jeffrey W. Black (B.S., 1985, M.A., 1993) continue geochronology of Martian and Ben M. (Bud) Brigham (B.S., 1983) is the lives in Lakewood, Colorado, is a hydro- lunar samples.” C.E.O. at Brigham Exploration Company in geologist with Hydro-Triad/V3 Colorado Austin, Texas. He writes, “Anne delivered LLC, has an e-mail address of Silverio Bosch (B.S., 1974, M.A., 1975) is child #2, #3, and #4 on 11/28/98. Conner, [email protected], and writes, “This an independent petroleum geologist in Corpus Amanda, Mary Anne, and our 3-year old, spring has been busy with singing in the Christi, Texas, and writes, “Prospecting in Elizabeth, are doing well. Best wishes to all chorus of Opera Colorado in productions of Wilcox yielded two discoveries this past year. our friends.” He may be e-mailed at The Magic Flute, Macbeth, and Romeo et Three-D surveys were redundant and just [email protected]. Juliette in addition to normal work schedule. confirmed sub-surface ideas but much needed My work schedule in the near future will to market deals. Matthew (11), Eric (9), and Ken Brook (B.S., 1967) is President of include trips to Central and .” Lisa keep things stirred up all the time.” Desert Ventures, Inc. in Reno, Nevada, and writes, “Still waiting for price of metals to go Fredrik S. Blackmar (B.S., 1955) is a golf Andrew Bowen (B.S., 1991) is in market- up.” E-mail is [email protected]. professional in Corpus Christi, Texas, and ing at IXC Communications in Austin, Texas, writes, “Lots of golf lessons. A good bunch of and writes, “Completed my M.B.A. in May Gerald R. Brooks (B.S., 1958) is Vice- kids coming up. One on team at UT. Also, 1998 and made a career switch from a President of Marlin Exploration, Inc. in working with local gem and mineral club groundwater consultant to the telecommuni- Shreveport, Louisiana, resides in Bossier City, setting up a lapidary room, as well as field cations industry.” E-mail address is Louisiana, and tells us e-mail address is trips for members.” E-mail address is [email protected]. [email protected]. [email protected]. Southern Bower (B.S., 1950) is in Luling, C. Douglas Brown (B.S., 1984) is Asa (Lee) Blankenship (B.A., 1950, Texas, and reports, “No new news–still President of the BXP Company, L.L.C. in M.A., 1952) is retired as Vice-President of enjoying retirement.” Dallas, Texas, and writes, “South Texas NationsBank in Houston, Texas, and writes, acquisition and development work is going “Not much news–retirement is dull–please Don R. Boyd (B.S., 1958) is President of very well. Our son Renner is two, and Ann call me at (713) 771-2936. Would like to Gulf Coast Exploration Company in Corpus and I are expecting our second son in May.” visit with Texas-Exes in the Houston area.” Christi, Texas. He writes, “In May of 1998, I closed my downtown office and moved to a Gilbert (Gib) Brown (B.S., 1976) is a Harvey Blatt (M.A., 1958) is an Adjunct newly constructed office at my home. Still partner in H & L Operating Company in Professor of Geology at the Institute of Earth doing the same things as before–just with a Amarillo, Texas. Sciences at The Hebrew University of new address and telephone number.” Don Jerusalem, Givat Ram, in Israel, and writes, is an Honorary Life Member of the Geology Larry Bruck (B.S., 1968) is a Professional “Still teaching one course a year at Hebrew Foundation Advisory Council. Development Manager with Keane, Inc. in University and starting work on third edition Dunwoody, Georgia. He writes, “Practiced of PETROLOGY with Bob Tracy of VPISU.” Walter A. Boyd, Jr. (B.S., 1953) is a retired geology with Gulf Oil for one year. Got chief reservoir geologist in Houston, Texas, drafted in 1969 and entered Air Force–retired Robert H. Blodgett (Ph.D., 1990) is an and writes, “Still seeing the world.” E-mail 27 years later as a full Colonel. Now Associate Professor with the Department of address is [email protected]. working in the computer software consulting Geology at Austin Community College in business. Ready to celebrate 31 years of Austin, Texas, and writes, “This year’s Walt V. Boyle (B.S., 1954, M.A., 1955) is a marriage to one great lady. We’ve raised two excitement was Earth Science Week. With consulting geologist in Houston, Texas, and very successful sons and now are proud the help of Francye Hutchins, an ACC reports, “1998 was a busy year for travel– grandparents of a two-year-old boy.” He student, we got the Governor to sign a New Mexico, Colorado, Nova Scotia, notifies us his e-mail address is proclamation and began construction of an Greece, Turkey, and a cruise on the Aegean [email protected]. automated monitoring well in the Edwards Sea. In 1999, we will travel to Russia. Vada Aquifer. We hope to put the well on the Marie and I are really enjoying our travels Wallace E. Brunson (B.S., 1942, M.A., Internet in the coming year.” and visits with old friends.” 1954) is retired in Houston, Texas, and writes, “Betty and I tripped up to Whistler, B.C., Jeffrey A. Blohm (B.S., 1976), e-mail Philip Braithwaite (M.A., 1958) is retired Canada, in January 1999. But, why travel address [email protected], resides in from Mobil in Dallas, Texas, and writes, “I that far with daughter and son-in-law in Tucson, Arizona, and is “Retiring from the have been retired for just over a year and am Austin and a son and daughter-in-law (with United States Air Force after 22 years of really enjoying the new slower pace and grand kid) in Santa Fe, New Mexico.” service.” more relaxed lifestyle. However, I am still trying to catch up with things I have put off Charlotte Bryant (B.S., 1989) is with the Don I. Blunk (B.A., 1970) is in El Paso, for the last 20 years, so I am staying busy! Botanical Research Institute of Texas in Fort Texas, and writes, “I have been in private Barbara and I plan to stay in Dallas for the Worth with an e-mail address of practice in psychiatry in El Paso for the past foreseeable future.” E-mail address is [email protected]. 20 years. I now have two sons currently [email protected]. attending The University of Texas at Austin.” J. E. (Woody) Bryant (B.S., 1943, M.A., Steve A. Brasfield (B.A., 1978) is a writer/ 1948) is an independent geologist in Dan Bodner (M.A., 1985) is with creator in , California, and writes, Fredericksburg, Texas, and writes, “We really Professional Consulting Group in San “Written for shows such as Bobby’s World, enjoyed the 1998 GCAGS convention held in Francisco, California. All Dogs Go to Heaven, and Sabrina. Now Corpus. Saw a lot of old friends, including creating new shows for television.” Lawrence Hoover, Fred and Frances Oliver, Jennifer Boedeker (B.S., 1996) lives in and a multitude of others–even a few Aggies.” Katy, Texas. Betty Giese Breedlove (B.S., 1954) resides in LaGrange, Texas. Leonard C. Bryant (B.A., 1957) is a Lars Borg (M.A., 1989, Ph.D., 1995) resides geologist in Helotes, Texas, and writes, “We in Houston, Texas, is Senior Research Bill Brenner (B.S., 1958) is semi-retired still go to Branson, Missouri, a couple of times Associate at the Institute of Meteoritics, with some real estate and investment interests each year and enjoy the entertainment.” University of New Mexico at Albuquerque, in Atlanta, Georgia. He writes, “My wife and and writes, “Recently accepted a senior I are now spending one-half time in Atlanta Julius A. Buchanan (B.S., 1941) writes research associateship at the University of and one-half time at our new home in from Tyler, Texas, “Still retired and in fair New Mexico. Will be building facilities to northwest Montana (The Swan Valley).” health. Virginia and children are doing fine.

83 new daughter, which makes two girls. (I know…I’ve got real problems in a few years!) Denver is awesome; hope to stay for a while. Howdy 1985 GeoDogs!” E-mail address is [email protected].

Ray A. Burke (B.S., 1947) is partially retired as President of Seamark, Inc. in Dana Point, California, and writes, “As an independent, West Texas is still main area of drilling and production, but low oil prices are killing activity. Louisiana, with its lure of natural gas, still attracts drilling. However, a recent well Seamark participated in found oil-still good news.” Ray is a former member of the Geology Foundation Advisory Council.

Arthur B. Busbey (B.S., 1974, M.A., 1977) and Janet Busbey Nilsson (B.S., 1977), e-mail [email protected], reside in Fort Worth, Texas. Art is an Associate Professor of Geology in the Department of Geology at Texas Christian University and Janet is a Science Chair at Rosemont Middle School and a science teacher. They write to let us know that eldest daughter, Sara, is now a freshman at Rice in Houston. Art will soon be moving to a half-time teaching, half-time of Paricutín Volcano, Mexico, by Mrs. Bess Mills Bullard. Photo provided by administrative position as he sets up and Thaïs Bullard. manages new freshman science computer labs across several disciplines. Art has been appointed chair of a special committee at TCU responsible for academic computer and Paul, our son (B.S. in Geology, 1975), is at Bess Bullard of volcanoes of Mexico, pro- computer/telecommunications policy. Janet National Aeronautics and Space Administra- duced on site during her husband’s field- keeps busy with eighth grade science tion this year. Our daughter, Ann, is with research expeditions in the 1940’s and other students and also as the Chair of the Science Aetna doing well. Would you believe I works, have been received by the LBJ School Department at Rosemont Middle School. graduated from UT 58 years ago?” in commemoration of Mr. Johnson’s assis- tance to this unique scientific research Robert W. Bybee (B.A., 1941) is retired 1 Thaïs Freda Bullard (M.A., 1951) writes, opportunity. at age 79 /2 in Houston, Texas, and writes, “In conjunction with the initiation of the “Elizabeth and I are well and still able to new Fred M. Bullard Fund for Geoscience Heartfelt thanks to those who have sent travel some. I closed my downtown office Informatics, I have made another donation in contributions to the Fred M. Bullard Fund this spring. Sorting through and disposing of both my father’s and mother’s honor to the for Geoscience Informatics to pioneer the a lot at home and office will keep me busy Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at new field of geology information science the rest of 1999. Regards to all!” The University of Texas at Austin. While Fred (Informatics). This Fund will support geology Bullard was conducting geologic research graduate-student study and research, com- Leon G. Byerley, Jr. (B.S., 1952) is an and teaching all over the world during his plementing the Fred M. Bullard Professorship, independent geologist in Midland, Texas, and extensive career, Mrs. Bess Mills Bullard was established in 1977. The initial project is the writes, “You know times are bad in the Permian with him, painting the scenery. This donation processing of the Fred M. Bullard Papers, Basin when your colleagues are marching on the of some 30 art works by Bess Bullard, a now archived with the Faculty Papers capitol in Austin and contemplating suing collection of her oil , water-color Collections at the libraries of The University Saudi Arabia for dumping oil in Texas. But, paintings, pastels, and drawings, also com- of Texas at Austin. Out of this project, a my office is still open.” memorates the invaluable aid Congressman history of the life and times of Fred Bullard Lyndon Johnson provided when Fred Bullard (1924-1994) and the UT Geology Depart- William M. Byrd (B.S., 1956, M.A., 1958) telephoned his Congressman in 1943 with ment can emerge. So please send in your is retired as geologist from Exxon Company, some urgency, asking if Mr. Johnson could memorabilia: stories, anecdotes, and U.S.A., resides in Georgetown, Texas, and help obtain color film with which to comments about those days in Geology for writes, “Enjoying my retirement in Sun City document the birth and growth of a new inclusion in this collection. Contributions to Georgetown.” E-mail address is volcano, which suddenly had blasted up out the Fund are most welcome! [email protected]. of a cornfield in Mexico. This was a geologic event not before witnessed in ‘historic (with For more information, contact Graduate Warren J. (Jack) Cage (B.S., 1950) and scientific-observation) times.’ But since film School of Library and Information Science, Susan Kiefner Cage (B.A., 1950) are had been requisitioned for the war effort in The University of Texas at Austin 78712, retired in Georgetown, Texas, and write, those years, it was not available for civilian e-mail to [email protected], and “Susan and I have recently moved to Sun City purchase. Without Congressman Johnson’s [email protected]. See http://www. George-town and are looking forward to help, Fred Bullard would have been unable gslis.utexas.edu/~bullard/FMBfund1.html.” braving the demolition derby on I-35 to see to document the development of Paricutín Thaïs’ address is 1801 Lavaca Street, #15-A, the Horns play from time to time.” Volcano. Thanks to Lyndon Johnson, he was Austin, TX 7870l. able to obtain 16-mm color film immediately Frank Cahoon (B.S., 1957) is an indepen- and to record the geologic history of the Dan J. Bump (B.S., 1985) resides in dent oil operator in Midland, Texas, and volcano’s nascence and subsequent activity, Lafayette, Colorado, is Director of Producer writes, “Midland and West Texas have really thus making a significant contribution to the Services in Denver, Colorado, and writes, slowed down with low oil prices. Paula and science of volcanology. Paintings by Mrs. “New job with Enron Capital & Trade and I participated in the ‘Oil Workers March on

84 Austin’ on January 18, 1999, with our grand- fumes did the job. I am staying well with Steven Chang (B.S., 1987) lives in children. It was a great civics lesson for them.” daily chores keeping me active. My well Mandeville, Louisiana, and is Operations wishes to all exes and geological sciences Manager of the southeastern United States at Roger Q. Callaway (B.S., 1977) of teaching staff.” Western Geophysical in New Orleans, Matthews, North Carolina, writes us, “After Louisiana. E-mail address is 15 years of marriage and the production of Paul Carpenter (B.S., 1986, M.A., 1990) [email protected]. three offsprings, we continue to wend our lives in Sacramento, California, and is an way down life’s highway, caroming between Engineering Geologist with Department of Thomas S. Chapin (M.A., 1981) is a eminent success and starvation, never quite Toxic Substances Control, e-mail address consultant in Reno, Nevada, and writes, achieving either. I wonder, if ontogeny [email protected]. “Currently working in Mexico.” E-mail recapitulates phylogeny, were there once address is [email protected]. roaming tribes of proto humans with the Richard F. Carroll (B.S., 1980) lives in The personalities of 4-year-old boys? It’s a Woodlands, Texas, and states, “I am still a Tom H. Chestnut (B.S., 1959) is Sales wonder our species survived, and since we senior staff geologist with Mobil for the time Manager with Texas Industries in Dallas, did, it’s no wonder other species did not. As being. With the Exxon/Mobil merger, who Texas, and writes, “Retire? No way, having usual, when I have been too lazy to send a knows where I’ll be when the Newsletter too much fun.” note to the Newsletter, I am tickled to see that comes out. I’m still working the Texas Gulf others were not. I was more than pleased to Coast and have a couple of new discoveries C. A. Chimene (B.S., 1950), e-mail address see that James Willrodt is still on earth. for Mobil, the first new field onshore in about [email protected], is President of The Howdy James! Bruce Kuyper has retired from nine years. My wife, Robin, and my boys, Ian Laahnz Corporation in Houston, Texas, and Geology to be a sponge-head (programmer), and Austin, are doing great.” His e-mail address writes, “First novel published by somewhere in Montana. When I last heard, is [email protected]. www.1stBooks.com, Hot Nights in Houston.” Mary Moran was working for a newspaper on the west slope of the Rockies. Somehow, I Dave Casey (B.S., 1960) is semi-retired in Michael Clark (B.A., 1989) lives in have been helping with due diligence studies Mandeville, Louisiana, and writes, “Dabbling Tomball, Texas, with an e-mail address of for high purity limestone and dolomite around in expert witness work, couple of [email protected], is a GIS Analyst in quarries. Yes Virginia, there’s not much oil patch ideas, but mostly enjoying Lake Austin, Texas, and writes, “Ten years after limestone in the Carolina Piedmont. Well, Pontchartrain, sailing/fishing, and Florida graduation, I have my first house.” I hope the 660 class of 1977 is all basking in panhandle beaches. It’s a great life! Coffee prosperity.” pot is on, come by.” James L. Claughton (B.S., 1971) is an Exploration Manager in Corpus Christi, Texas, Amy Lee Campbell (B.S., 1997) is a Dwight E. Cassell (B.S., 1955, M.A., 1958) with an e-mail address of [email protected]. financial advisor at Morgan Stanley Dean is an independent geologist in Austin, Texas. Witter & Company in Austin, Texas, and He writes, “Low crude prices have just about Kelton Cloud (B.S., 1973) is a geologist/ writes, “Aside from a new career path, I’ve closed the door on exploratory or develop- partner with Harbor Operating, L.L.C. in had some incredible holidays this year to ment drilling. However, this slow down Granbury, Texas, and writes, “I am still Morocco, the United Kingdom, and Thai- provides time to continue squirreling away staying relatively busy consulting in an land.” E-mail address is [email protected]. prospects. Linda and I and some other UT extremely slow-paced industry (currently). exes had a great trip through France and Hopefully, OPEC will get their act together Donald H. Campbell (M.A., 1962) works Spain, followed by a cruise around the soon. (I think I’ve said this before!)” E-mail at Campbell Petrographic Services, Inc. in western end of Europe. Come see us!” address at home is [email protected] and at Dodgeville, Wisconsin, and reports, “Petrog- E-mail address is [email protected]. work is [email protected]. raphy–what else is there? Continuing to work on cement, concrete, rocks, etc. Will publish Edward C. Cazier (M.A., 1984) is co- D. B. Clutterbuck (M.A., 1958) a consult- second edition of book on same at Portland ordinator with the Trans-Alaska Pipeline ant in Houston, Texas, writes, “Officially Cement Association, Skokie, Illinois.” E-mail System in Anchorage and writes, “Back in retired on March 1, 1999, but have been address is [email protected]. Alaska, after six great years in South America. retained by the Company as a consultant. I’m taking advantage of the downturn in the Looking forward to more traveling, grandchil- Donald M. Campbell (B.A., 1955), a oil and gas business to learn some new skills– dren, and sniffing the flowers.” retired geophysicist in New Market, Mary- this time in the pipeline business. Room for land, writes, “In addition to my working in alumni, always welcome to come up North to Robert Cobb (B.S., 1977, M.A., 1980) lives sales for Fountainhead Builders, a builder of wet a line.” E-mail address is [email protected]. in Carrollton, Texas, is a consulting geologist homes on Lake Linganore about six miles east with Pitney Bowes Data Management in of Frederick, Maryland, I am a substitute Henry S. Chafetz (Ph.D., 1970) resides in Dallas, Texas, and writes, “Been taking care teacher at my granddaughter’s grade school. Houston, Texas, and holds the position of of Mobil’s G & G data going on three years So much for retirement. However, I enjoy it Professor at the University of Houston, where now. My wife, Mele Cobb, and son, Edwin and will probably continue to do something he has an e-mail address of HChafetz@uh. Cobb (two years old), are doing fine.” as long as I am able. I do miss Texas, and we edu. News reported is, “Still doing business are considering a move to Myrtle Beach, at the same address, 29 years at the Depart- Joel Coffman (B.S., 1984) lives in Cameron South Carolina, sometime down the road.” ment of Geosciences at the University of Park, California, is a Technical Coordinator Houston. Although interest in bacterial fossils for Pinnacle/Emcon/IT Group, has an e-mail A. T. (Toby) Carleton (B.S., 1951, M.A., sure has changed in the 15 years since Bob address of [email protected], and writes 1952), a geologist and rancher in Midland, Folk and I published our first papers on this with the news, “1998 and first half of 1999 Texas, writes, “I divide my time between the subject, it sure is a fun topic with all the have brought many changes. Single again oil business, ranching, and volunteer work. I commotion over the putative Martian fossils. and loving it! Our small company here in find that it all pays about the same.” Toby is a Janet is busy as usual. She just signed a Cameron Park has been swallowed (pur- member of the Geology Foundation Advisory contract for her ninth book and has been chased) by the IT Group, so looks like we will Council. chairing the Sociology Department again. be forced back into a corporate world of We have to stay busy. Josh is into his junior ‘Dilbert’ proportions. Have really had a lot of Marvin T. Carlsen (B.S., 1952) is retired year at Yale and is most likely headed for law fun. Was on the road with the Rolling Stones and lives in Midland, Texas. He writes, school, so no retirement plans in the near for a while this year and have become close “Thanks to a plastic surgeon, wife Mildred future for us. As always, look forward to friends with many of the Sacramento Kings has finally healed, 13 months after her chest hearing from old classmates and especially Basketball Team, a great bunch of guys. They was opened for bypass surgery. Triple iodine seeing them at meetings.” even convinced me to get my first tattoo! My

85 good buddy, Kyle Cockerham (also of class of Casey C. Cornett (B.S., 1988), is a compensation defense, estate planning and 1983), just moved back to NoCal from Austin consultant with Casey Data Management and probate, and real estate law.” with his growing family, so that will be fun! Susan Schwarz Cornett (B.S., 1986) is a Look forward to trips to Texas and New homemaker. They reside in Houston, Texas, Fredrick E. Crawford (B.S., 1983) is Mexico this summer where I will be doing and write, “We’ve finished remodeling the manager in the Surveying and Mapping some Guadalupe Peak traverses, camping, house, are both playing golf, and are Department of the Lower Colorado River and reunions. Hope to hear from some of attempting to survive the oil bust. We’ve Authority in Austin and writes, “Enjoying life you summer of 1983 660 field trip folks or ridden a full cycle since 1986 now and are in Austin, Texas!” E-mail address is other classmates!” hoping this one’s shorter on the downside. [email protected]. Marshall (6) and Stuart (3) are doing great in Julianne (M.A., 1988) and Thomas school. Come visit!” Their e-mail address is Bob Crone (B.S., 1998) writes, “I got a job Cogswell (B.S., 1984, M.A., 1991) write us [email protected]. and a different career also. Retec called and that Julie is currently an Exploration Geologist offered me a job as a junior hydrologist. The with Exxon Ventures, CIS, working in the Frank G. Cornish (M.A., 1975) is a company does soil and water remediation on South Caspian Basin of Azerbaijan. She has geologist with Yuma Exploration and petroleum, rail, manufacturing, industrial, been with Exxon 11 years. Tom is currently a Production Company, Inc. in Corpus Christi, and government facilities all over the country. Senior Petroleum Geologist with Exxon Texas, and states, “S. W. Speaks Field The Austin office handles mainly Texas, Exploration Co., working in the Diana Basin, continues development, with over 20 wells Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Kansas. a deep water Gulf of Mexico development. and more to drill. Still having reunion at Lots of travel and long hours. But I guess I He joined Exxon in late 1997 after eight years Stanton’s house every fall. Continuing to am used to that. I think they were impressed at Mitchell Energy. return to Britain annually. Finally getting 3-D with the fact that I could work full time and experience on SMT.” E-mail address is go to school also. Retec has about 400 H. Grady Collier, Jr. (B.S., 1949) is a [email protected]. employees nationwide and merged with five geological consultant in New Orleans, other companies and is now Thermoretec, Louisiana, and writes, “Do some consulting Jerry Covington (B.S., 1943) is self- which is a subsidiary of Thermoelectron. but practically retired now. If in New Orleans, employed in Midland, Texas, and writes Thermoretec has a Web site. Together with call at 581-7602. Best wishes to all with “Still in the game.” the other five companies, Thermoretec covers ‘orange blood’.” all aspects of the environmental field. I am Raymond W. Cozby, III (B.A., 1983), excited.” Chuck Collins (B.S., 1976) writes, “Another e-mail [email protected], is an attorney year has come and gone. Let’s see what this in Tyler, Texas, and “Proudly announces Timothy E. Crump (B.S., 1991) is Project one brings. For now it looks like a recovery the opening of his law firm, Raymond W. Manager at T/GE Resources in Houston, is on the way in the domestic oil patch, Cozby III, P.L.L.C., specializing in workers’ Texas, and resides in Pearland, Texas. His which is a welcome change for our industry. I’m a Geophysical Manager with Manti Operating Co. in Corpus Christi, Texas, and was active in the overthrust of southern Val Verde Basin, the Gulf Coast onshore Tertiary trend of Louisiana and Texas and the Niagaran Reef trend in southern Ontario, Canada, to name a few of our hot spots. Drop me an e-mail at [email protected].”

James (Jim) W. Collins (B.S., 1956) is President of Collins Resources, Inc., in Corpus Christi, Texas, and informs us that he is “Still in the oil business–what’s left of it.”

Steve Compton (B.S., 1981) is Vice- President of Exploration with Tri-C Resources in Houston, Texas, and writes, “Love of geology must be a latent gene. Daughter, Katharine (8), likes every rock she finds and wants to keep it ‘forever.’ Son, Campbell (5), recites geologic time scale after playing some educational software game. I now find myself saying ‘camels often sit carefully’ just to keep up.” E-mail address is [email protected].

David Cook (B.S., 1982) from Honolulu, Hawaii, whose present job is Hydrologist/ Pacific Air Forces, with an e-mail address of [email protected], writes, “Would like to hear from any of my bone brothers or sisters from 660 summer of 1982.”

Mary Beth Cooper (B.A., 1967, M.A., 1969) is a Registered Nurse with the Denver Health Medical Center in Denver, Colorado, and writes, “I’m currently working as a psychiatric nurse on an adolescent unit at the 1976 field camp in Palo Duro Canyon. “Caesar purviews his realm and all is well.” local county hospital. It’s quite a change Dr. Muehlberger (center, standing, with hat) and class. Photo provided by from geology!” Chuck Collins.

86 e-mail address is [email protected]. He writes Carlos Deere (B.S., 1950) is retired in joining his brother Will (8), and sister, Emily to let us know, “Angela and I are expecting Bellville and writes from Texas, “I’m busier (5), and Gary is busy coaching all the kids’ our first child in August 1999.” than a cat covering up his next meal. My first sports, and they are all busy racing around screenplay last year bit the dust, but my watching all these events. Steve Cumella (B.S., 1977, M.A., 1981) lives second one, Drilling for Love, has all the in Evergreen, Colorado, and is a geologist with possibilities of being a gusher. It also could George Donnelly, Jr. (B.S., 1940) lives in BTA Oil Producers in Denver, Colorado. be a dry hole, but that’s not in the game plans Midland, Texas, and writes, “Still ‘practicing’ right now.” geology in West Texas.” George is a member Hugh W. Curfman (B.A., 1948) is retired of the Geology Foundation Advisory Council. in Lafayette, Louisiana, and writes, “Still Frederik E. Dekker (M.A., 1966) lives in keeping in touch, but not really hard at it.” Katy, Texas, is Vice-President of Wessex F. L. (Larry) Doyle (B.S., 1950) works for International in Houston, Texas, and writes, HydroGeology International in San Antonio, Harris P. (Koop) Darcy (B.S., 1951) is an “Left Unocal Corporation after 32 years of Texas, and writes, “Giovanna and I are still independent geologist in Houston, Texas, and international work. Have formed Wessex stateside, but ready to return to our ‘natural informs us, “Write to ICR, P.O. Box 2667, El International to form and sell/promote deals habitat’ when we get the chance. Mean- Cajon, California 92021, or call 1-800-628- in the international upstream oil and gas while, I consult in groundwater and environ- 7640 and order their catalog and VCR tapes industry. Currently working on projects in the mental. When time permits, I work on the on ‘Grand Canyon’ and ‘Mt. St. Helen’s.’ United Kingdom and North Africa.” E-mail Uvalde gravel.” They are great. Also, write to Creation address is [email protected]. Evidences Museum, P.O. Box 309, Glen Robert E. Doyle (B.S., 1955) is President of Rose, Texas 76043-0309, and order their William D. Demis (M.A., 1983) lives in American Energy in Houston, Texas, and catalog or visit them. You will be amazed.” Midland, Texas, is a senior geologist with writes, “We are still very busy in Russia Marathon Oil Company, has an e-mail where we are involved in dual lateral drilling Ernest Julius Dasch (M.A., 1960) is address of [email protected], and writes, programs and well workovers. Udmurtia and Manager of National Aeronautics and Space “Everything is going fine in Midland. Mary West Siberia had about 50 percent more Administration Space/ Grant in Washington, (M.A., 1984) has done some consulting but snow than average, which has been offset by D. C., e-mail address [email protected], now is focused on yoga. Son John (10) and the political heat (Kosovo).” and writes us, “I continue with the Space daughter Eleanor (8) are busy in all sorts of Grant University Program (modeled after kid stuff (soccer, dance, school, and piano), Ralph C. Duchin (M.A., 1955) is an Land Grant and Sea Grant University and they keep us busy.” independent geologist in Tucson, Arizona, Programs) and the newer Experimental and writes, “Everything very much the same; Program to Stimulate Competitive Research John Lane Denson, III (B.A., 1949, M.A., approaching nine years in Tucson.” (EPSCoR). Occasional work on moon rocks 1950) of Nashville, Tennessee, with an e-mail and meteorites (got to spend a month in address of [email protected], David E. Dunn (Ph.D., 1964) lives in Antarctica collecting meteorites...our group writes with the news, “Publishing, writing, Richardson, Texas, is retired, is a part-time of six found about 850, including the tenth and editing COVENANT, an occasional Lecturer at The University of Texas at Dallas, (then) known lunar meteorite). Glad to meet paper/commentary on the church. Playing and writes, “Being a 30-percent faculty and chat (and occasionally exercise) with trumpet with a jazz band. Priest associate at member, a 10-percent Geological Society of Clark Wilson, who is visiting Headquarters St. Augustine Chapel (Episcopal ministry at America officer, and a 60-percent golfer is from the UT Department of Geological Vanderbilt University). Frequently having to suiting me just fine! I recommend it. Hope Sciences. Manage, once or twice a year, at explain what burnt orange is to University of to see many of you in Toronto.” least, to touch base with Dan Bridges, Dick Tennessee alumni.” Bennett, Bill Wilbert, and Dave Amsbury.” William R. Dupré (B.S., 1968, M.A., Mark Kevin Denson (B.S., 1997) resides in 1970) is an Associate Professor in the Rick J. Dauzat (B.S., 1980) is Manager of Austin, Texas, and tells us, “I am working as a Department of Geosciences at the Strategic Planning at Exxon Exploration geologist with HBC’s Environmental Services University of Houston with an e-mail Company and resides in Montgomery, Texas. in Austin and camping, relaxing, etc. when I address of [email protected], and writes, am able to.” “Our oldest son is a senior at UT this year, George H. Davis (M.A., 1966) has been and his younger brother is a sophomore. named Regents Professor at The University of Casey Dhevan (Attended fall 1994 to fall Both are Plan II (government majors), Arizona in Tucson, Arizona, in 1998. 1996) lives in Houston, Texas, and is now however, we did convince them to take at with Western Geophysical. least one geology course. How time flies.” Linda Lee Davis (Ph.D., 1993) is a post- doctoral Research Associate in Richland, Charles W. Dietz (B.A., 1954) is a retired Bobby G. DuPree (B.S., 1954), e-mail Washington, and writes, “Doing fun science– consultant in Rockport, Texas, and writes, address [email protected], writes, “Lerla and learning much, missing ‘real’ rocks, missing “Receiving the Newsletter makes my day.” I enjoying retirement here in Huntsville, WOTTs!” E-mail address is Texas. Centrally located to three sons and [email protected]. Jane (Mrs. L. L.) Ormond Dinkins (B.S., 16 (sixteen!) grandchildren. Plenty of 1938) retired in Houston, Texas, writes, “Still opportunities to spread the ‘Good News.’ David DeBalko (M.A., 1991), resides in have the Chappell Hill Ranch and Red Angus Found a great church here and prison Houston, Texas, has e-mail address herd.” ministry galore…deeply involved in both.” [email protected], and writes, “After working seven years as a geophysicist with Laura Martin Dobson (M.A., 1990) an Shirley Dutton (M.A., 1977, Ph.D., 1986) ARCO/Vastar, I am leaving the oil and gas Adjunct Professor in Cedar Falls, Iowa, lives in Austin, Texas, with an e-mail address industry. I decided to change careers after writes, “Enjoying teaching Physical Geology of [email protected]. She is a receiving my M.B.A. in finance and strategic and Environmental Geology part-time at the Senior Research Scientist at the Bureau of management from Rice University in Decem- University of Northern Iowa. Our third child, Economic Geology. ber 1998. I now work for Pricewaterhouse Courtney Paige, was born November 2, Coopers as a senior management consultant in 1998.” E-mail address is [email protected]. Steve Dworkin (Ph.D., 1991) lives in the Financial Advisory Services Group. My China Springs, Texas, is a Professor of work focuses on dispute analysis and Jennifer (Kraft) (M.A., 1984) and Gary Geology at the Department of Geology at investigation of companies in financial Donnan (B.S., 1984) live in Houston, Texas, Baylor University in Waco, Texas, with an trouble.” where Gary is a partner at ERM Southwest, e-mail address of [email protected], Inc. They report that they had baby number and writes, “Having taught here at Baylor for three on April 15, 1998 (a tax baby). Rob is 87 six years, I now offer the following sage and I have enjoyed visits, phone calls, and advice to many of my soft-rock students. If e-mails at our cottage in the Englewood you are incompetent in the field, lack a Estates retirement facility. Our phone number fundamental understanding of stratigraphy is 512-899-0430. Give us a call when you and sedimentology, and are incapable of make your next trip to Austin. We now have creative and intuitive thought processes, do four great-granddaughters.” His e-mail not despair. Become an isotope geochemist!” address is [email protected].

Connie Mayes (Mrs. Byron F.) Dyer Thomas E. Fanning (B.S., 1956) is a retired (B.A., 1958) reports from Houston, Texas, “We Vice President of Exploration at Marathon Oil finally have an empty nest after 38 years. Our Company. He resides in Austin, Texas, and youngest just finished first year at SMU. Our writes, “Involved in local political party oldest son and wife are very tired parents of efforts and doing a bit of consulting this year. 2-year-old triplets, and our daughter and her Golf handicap remains unimproved.” Tom husband are expecting their third girl in is outgoing Chairman of the Geology November. They’re all in Houston, so we Foundation Advisory Council. are truly blessed.” Irma Morgan Feibelman (B.S., 1959) is Fred A. Ealand (B.S., 1948) lives in retired in Canyon Lake, Texas, and writes, Houston, Texas, and writes, “Thirteen years “Jim and I continue to enjoy Canyon Lake into retirement, and life is looking better all and the surrounding areas.” E-mail address the time! One grandson graduating from is [email protected]. Vanderbilt–eight more to go! Oil was up $.84 (3/10/99) to $14.69/barrel. Hope the Peter B. Fisher (B.S., 1990) is with Rule 8 trend continues to help the industry.” Permitting at the Railroad Commission of Texas in Austin, Texas. E-mail address is John Ebach (B.S., 1982) resides in Kingwood, [email protected]. Texas, is a Senior Engineering Application Future Longhorn geologist Jonathan Support with Amerada Hess in Houston, William M. Fitchen (M.A., 1992, Ph.D., Wagner Espinosa. Photo provided by Texas, e-mail address [email protected] 1997) is Senior Research Geologist with Rojelio P. Espinosa. reports, “Still working at Amerada Hess; 16th Exxon Production Research Co. in Houston, year with the company. Now working with Texas, and writes, “Greetings to all friends the Exploration and Production personnel at and acquaintances! Martha, Sebastian, and their PC desktop level. Our second daughter I are doing well, looking forward to moving in South Texas, Nevada, and Utah lined up is completing her second year at UT Austin’s into our new house in The Woodlands north for the next upswing (we hope). It’s been 51 Business School. I really do feel old, and I of Houston. Still managing to work in the busy years since I left UT and looking thought I was old when I was a student.” Permian Basin and hoping to see some good forward to more.” projects there by UT faculty and grad students.” Ruben Ellert (B.S., 1950) is a geophysicist E-mail address is [email protected]. Curtis C. Franks (B.S., 1950) is retired in in Corpus Christi, Texas, retired from Coastal Fair Oaks Ranch, Texas, and writes, “Retire- Oil & Gas, and writes, “Still doing some Walter M. Fitzgerald, Jr. (B.S., 1953) is ment sure keeps you busy. Best wishes to consulting work. Enjoying retirement and retired in Lufkin, Texas, and writes, “Enjoying all.” good health.” retirement, golf, and squirrel hunting in season. Root for the Horns on every William D. (Dick) Frazell (M.A., 1935) is Joe Elo, Jr. (B.S., 1956) writes from Fort occasion–will be 80 years old on 11/10/99.” retired in Lafayette, Louisiana, and writes, Worth, Texas, that he is a “Fully retired “Still looking for oil in a small way.” Grandpa.” Ted Flanigan (M.A., 1980) lives in Carson City, Nevada, and writes, “Greetings from Annabelle Bannahan Friddle (B.A., Al W. Erxleben (M.A., 1974) is a consult- northern Nevada.” E-mail address is 1945, M.A., 1950) resides in Aztec, New ant with Exploration/Exploitation Consulting [email protected]. Mexico, and writes, “I am active in serving in Spring, Texas, and writes, “Left Apache in on the boards of the San Juan College the fall of 1998. Having fun ranching and Jose A. Flores, Jr. (B.S. 1990) resides in Foundation and the Theater Ensemble Arts, consulting. Son, Jason, graduates from Rosenberg, Texas, and is a Project Manager Inc.–both in Farmington, New Mexico. Texas Tech May 15, 1999,—will live in and geologist with BNC Services in Houston, Keeps me busy. I always enjoy the Dallas. Devin (14) nearly an Eagle–Scout. Texas. E-mail address is [email protected], Newsletter.” Travis (10) doing well in scouting and school. and writes, “Enjoying family life with a four- Wife, Charlotte, stays busy with scouting, year-old boy and a one-year-old girl. Work is Tatiana Frierson (B.S., 1985) resides in family life, and ranch activities. All are doing great and hectic at times, but enjoying it too!” Houston, Texas, is North American Recruiting very well.” May be e-mailed at Operations Director for Perot Systems [email protected]. Charles M. Forney (B.S., 1947) is a Corporation in Dallas, Texas, and writes, geologist with Forney & Company and writes, “Still at Perot…which finally went public on Rojelio P. Espinosa (B.S., 1985) is a Senior “Still active in Corpus Christi, Texas, area February 2, 1999, on the New York Stock Explorationist in San Antonio, Texas, and doing regional mapping in the Frio and Exchange. Been waiting for this for nine states, “Son, Jonathan Wagner Espinosa, born Vicksburg (deeper zones). Finding some nice years now! For the old Geodogs of the 1985 8/26/98.” E-mail address is [email protected]. gas reserves in the Vicksburg and hoping for 660 field camp–please do look me up–I’m in an increase in prices. Regards to all buddies Dallas now. E-mail address is William (Bill) J. Evans (B.S., 1950) lives before and after the war who took ten years [email protected].” in Houston, Texas, and writes, “Enjoying to graduate.” retirement. Saw Tommy Burke recently. Nancy Null Funderburk (B.S., 1979) is Saw Stan Pendus recently. Traveling plenty. Hewitt B. Fox (B.A., 1947, B.S., 1948, exploration consultant with Quintana Occasionally cruising. Enjoy tours.” M.A., 1948) is the CEO/Owner of Hewitt B. Minerals in Houston, Texas. Fox, Inc. in Corpus Christi, Texas, and writes, Rizer Everett (B.A., 1937, B.S., 1937) is re- “We have been riding out the latest dip in James B. Furrh, Jr. (B.A., 1947, B.S., 1950) tired in Austin, Texas. He writes, “Hildegard petroleum prices and getting some prospects is the owner of James B. Furrh, Jr., Inc. and

88 the co-owner of Energy Drilling Company located in Jackson, Mississippi. He writes, “Active in East Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. Recently made a wildcat oil discovery in Wilkinson County, Mississippi. We need $20.00 oil to stay alive. My wife and I have three sons and four grandchildren.”

Thurman Geddie (B.S., 1945), e-mail [email protected], lives in Austin, Texas, and states, “Still investing in a few drilling deals even though the price of crude oil is cheaper than water.”

Clem George (B.A., 1947, M.A., 1948) is self-employed in Midland, Texas, and writes, “I am at the same office for the last 24 years. Not drilling. Betty and I went to Scotland in 1998 with Texas Ex’s. Son, Kenneth, won a seat in the Texas Legislature in 1998.”

Steve Germiat (M.A., 1988) is a Senior Hydrogeologist, e-mail address [email protected], and writes, “Now in my 11th year with Hart Crowser in Seattle, Field geology course in the summer of 1941. Pictured is Charles Gaulke. Photo Washington (consulting, mostly environ- mental and water resources). I continue to provided by Edward R. Baird. work predominantly within the glacial terrain of Puget Sound, rarely encountering bedrock. Also managing risk assessment/cleanup work for the Navy in lovely Barrow, Alaska, research and archival work for my church Brentwood, Tennessee, e-mail address and getting acquainted with permafrost (First United Methodist), which will be 150 [email protected], and writes us, “I have hydrology, whale slaughter, and midnight years old as a congregation in 2000. My enjoyed traveling, golf, snow skiing, garden- softball. Wife Kay, daughters Hannah (6), and husband and I are looking forward to a trip ing, and working around the house since my Emily (3), and I are doing well. Yes, we have to Italy in May. The Newsletter was excel- retirement five years ago. My wife is now earthquake insurance, for what it’s worth.” lent. I particularly enjoyed reading about retired from the American Airlines system. new developments in the field.” My son and his wife live in Madison, Fred M. Gibson (B.A., 1951) of Austin, Alabama, and have a computer business and Texas, is “Still semi-retired and doing W. Leonard Goode (B.S., 1953) is a CPA business. They have given us two statistical work for the I.R.S.” consulting geologist in Midland, Texas. beautiful grandchildren, a boy (7) and a girl (4), that we enjoy very much. Our daughter Tracy Baker Gibson (B.S., 1986) lives in Brian S. Goodman (B.S., 1980) of lives in Nashville, Tennessee, and works in Conroe, Texas, is Project Manager, Environ- Helena, Montana, is a Senior Hydrogeologist the music business.” mental Affairs, Louisiana-Pacific, and reports with Tetra Tech EM, Inc., e-mail to us, “Well this is my second year at L-P, and [email protected], and writes to us, Volker C. Grasso (B.S., 1949) is retired in I am still enjoying myself. Even though I am “Enjoying life in southwest Montana. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and reports, “My not doing any geology, the job is challenging Keeping busy with groundwater remediation wife, Cleo, died very suddenly of a heart and exciting. I am learning something new and abandoned mine reclamation projects attack on July 8, 1998. The daughters and about environmental compliance almost and my two daughters. Hope to travel to their families here are and were the only every day. Rick and I are expecting number northern Europe this summer. I would thing that made it bearable.” two son in April and are very excited about enjoying hearing from all old (and getting that. We are especially looking forward to older) UT buds, feel free to stop in and visit.” Amy Gray (B.S., 1995) lives in Los Gatos, not sleeping for a few months! If any of the California, with an e-mail address of old gang is ever in the Houston, Texas, area, James E. (Jim) Gordon (M.A., 1951) is a [email protected], and is employed as look me up, or you can e-mail me at geologist in Victoria, Texas. a Quality Engineer with Adobe Systems, Inc. [email protected].” in San Jose, California. Mark B. Gordon (Ph.D., 1990) lives in Patricia Bauer Ging (B.S., 1991, M.A., Houston, Texas, has an e-mail address of Robert W. Grayson (B.S., 1948) is retired 1995) lives in San Marcos, Texas. [email protected], and writes, “I married in Austin, Texas, and writes, “Looking for- Ilona Cecilia Pall last June at the Rice Chapel ward to reunion of 1947-1948 classes at Paul Giraudin (B.S., 1948) is “Retired, but in Houston. We have traveled to Romania Corpus Christi in 2000.” E-mail address is plenty busy, in Corpus Christi, Texas.” twice in the past year to visit her family. We [email protected]. have also traveled around the United States Stephen L. Glahn (B.S., 1980) is a for her to meet my family. Workwise, I Charles R. (Dick) Grice (B.S., 1946) is geologist with Glahn Resources, Inc. in continue at GX Technology doing prestack retired in Midland, Texas. He writes, “Ann Arlington, Texas, and writes, “I’m still work- depth migration service work. Business and my doctors keep me going. I spend ing the Eastern Shelf and still waiting for my hasn’t been as good as it was in the past, but some of my time being a docent for the set-aside government checks for not drilling while trying to generate some new business, I Permian Basin Petroleum Museum and the more wells. My family is doing fine.” have had a chance to do some interesting Heritage Museum of the Confederate Air and fun research.” Force. Taking those young children through Georgette Covo Browder Goble (Mrs. these museums is not work, it’s fun. I enjoy John E.) (B.A., 1944) resides in Waco, Texas, Ronald L. Graner (B.A., 1958) retired from every minute. I say to my fellow retired and writes, “I’m still doing a lot of commu- the U.S. Department of Agriculture Soil geologists here in Midland: It’s your nity volunteer service, including extensive Conservation Service in April 1994, lives in museum. We need you.”

89 Roy H. Guess (B.A., 1939, M.A., 1940), Research Office, and Karen is a e-mail address [email protected], is a con- hydrogeologist with the State of North sulting geologist in Casper, Wyoming, and Carolina. We are enjoying life in the writes, “I have been directly involved in the Piedmont region of North Carolina.” development of the Madden Deep Field in Their e-mail address is Wyoming, producing to below 25,000 feet, harmon@aro_emh1.army.mil. representing primarily the landowners and royalty owners. At 81 years of age, it should Erik Harris (B.S., 1989) and Monica be way past retirement age, but expert wit- Harris (B.A., 1990) reside in Austin, Texas. ness work is almost as much fun as drilling a Erik is an Engineer Associate with the City of new discovery well. Get ready for Y2K!!!” Austin, and Monica is a Program Specialist with the Texas Natural Resource Conservation William R. (Bill) Gumert (M.A., 1968) is Commission. They write, “Daughter, Ingrid, Chief Geophysicist with Carson Services, Inc. is growing like a weed and is learning rock in Perkasie, Pennsylvania, and writes, names. Limestone is her favorite.” “Resolution for aerogravity surveys improved to 0.5 milligal, short wave length anomalies. Yemia Turnage Hashimoto (B.S., 1995) is GPS is great but also have major improve- a staff hydrologist with Geosyntec Consultants ments with the gravity meter. Doing more in Walnut Creek, California, and writes, prospect resolution models and detailed “Received my Master’s in hydrology from geology.” E-mail address is University of Arizona in June 1998. Moved [email protected]. to the Bay Area in July and felt my first ‘small’ earthquake in August.” Bill F. Halepeska (B.S., 1952) is a consult- ant in geology/petroleum engineering in Hugh Hay-Roe (Ph.D., 1958) lives in Midland, Texas. He writes, “Now in the 18th Kingwood, Texas, is Senior Vice-President of year as consultant and enjoying both freedom BPZ & Associates, Inc. in Houston, Texas, e- and variety. Health still good in spite of bouts mail address is hhr@hal_pc.org, and writes, with heart problem and cancer. I credit “Yikes! Last year marked 40 years since my final graduation from UT. Still working as a Field geology course in the summer of balance of conventional with alternative measures. Lapidary hobby, gardening, and consultant in international exploration and 1941. Pictured is James Halbouty. meditation are good stress therapy. Wife production (oil and gas), and waiting for Photo provided by Edward R. Baird. (Frances) and I plan more R.V. travel and global production to peak on the ‘Hubbert visits with grandchildren.” Curve’ (around 2008?).”

Henry Hamman (B.S., 1960) lives in Nikolas A. Hazel (B.A., 1993) writes us Robbie Rice Gries (M.A., 1970) from Houston, Texas, and writes, “My son, Russell, from Fountain Hills, Arizona, “My wife and I Lakewood, Colorado, is President and CEO is a second-semester graduate student at UT have recently moved to Arizona, where I of Priority Oil and Gas LLC in Denver. She Austin Geological Sciences. I am still work as a jeweler and gemologist. I no reports, “Continue to explore for natural gas working as an independent in Texas.” E-mail longer work as a geologist, but I use my in Ireland, looking for partners. Other address is [email protected]. education extensively with gemology and projects in Kansas and south Colorado keep enjoy rock hunting when I go hiking.” me busy!” Robbie is a member of the Geology Marc Harder (B.S., 1983) is a hydro- Foundation Advisory Council. Her e-mail geologist with General Physics Corporation in Grant Heiken (M.A., 1966) is on the address is [email protected]. Aiken, South Carolina, with e-mail address of research staff at Los Alamos National [email protected], and writes, “Have Laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico, and Ariel Dale Griffin (B.S., 1957) is a geo- worked in the environmental consulting writes, “Staying busy–President of Interna- physicist in Houston, Texas, and writes, “1957 industry for the last ten years. Received M.S. tional Association of Volcanology and to December 22, 1976-stroke-disabled-1999.” degree in geology from the University of Chemistry of the Earth’s Interior and on a South Carolina in December 1988.” bunch of committees. Started an interdisci- John C. Griffiths (B.S., 1975) is President plinary group three years ago at Los Alamos of Calvin Resources, Inc. in Houston, Texas, J. V. (Jim) Hardwick (B.S., 1940) is retired to model cities. Am also at University of e-mail address is [email protected], and in Midland, Texas, and writes, “Just another Rome-III Geology Department for six months, writes, “It is always great to see friends from worn out rockhound.” working with the urban geology team.” UT and to do business with them. Ray E-mail address is [email protected]. Pilcher and I are currently working on a Robert W. Hare (B.S., 1979) is a geologist project together. It is located in the Upper for R. F. Hare in Fort Worth, Texas. Arch H. Heim (B.S., 1950) is retired from Texas Gulf Coast and has great potential.” Schlumberger-Doll Research Center and Louis H. Haring, Jr. (B.S., 1938) is resides in Nelson, Missouri. Furman A. Grimm (B.S., 1947) is retired President of Haring Energy Company in San in Clifton, Texas, and writes, “Travel and golf Antonio, Texas, and writes, “Participate in a James H. Helland (Attended 1939 and take up much of my time. We enjoy frequent few drilling deals annually, travel a lot, 1943) is President of Inland Ocean, Inc. in San visits with our son, Mike, a UT-ex who heads having seen all 50 state capitols, and enjoy Antonio, Texas, and writes us, “Still finding oil up Rising Star Energy in Dallas. I admire the my three grandchildren.” and gas, but I can’t keep up with falling prices. young people who are enduring the current If no improvement is made this year, I just conditions in our industry. Thanks for the Wiley B. Harle (B.S., 1950) is retired in might quit and play golf and travel.” Newsletter.” Houston, Texas, and writes, “It’s hard to believe that it has been almost 50 years since John D. Henderson (B.S., 1937) resides in Charles G. Groat (Ph.D., 1970) is with I graduated.” Dallas, Texas, and writes, “Retired from oil the U.S. Geological Survey in Reston, business but stay moderately busy with Virginia, and writes, “Became Director at Russell Harmon (B.A., 1969) resides with various investments.” U.S.G.S. on November 6, 1998.” Chip is a his wife, Karen, in Raleigh, North Carolina, member of the Geology Foundation and write, “Russell is a Senior Program Steve Henderson (B.S., 1990) lives in Advisory Council. Manager for Terrestrial Sciences at the Army Joshua, Texas, has an e-mail address of

90 [email protected], is an but …?” Scotty is a member of the Geology Ed Hughston (M.A., 1950) is “Self un- instructor with Halliburton Energy Services Foundation Advisory Council. employed” and writes, “Continuing to live in in Fort Worth, Texas, and writes, “Surviving beautiful Northern New Mexico.” the bust (so far), and dreaming of $30 per William C. (Bill/Boomer) Holland barrel oil.” (B.S., 1981) is a geoscience consultant in Steve Hulke (M.A., 1978) is Senior Staff geology/geophysics and writes from Missouri Geologist with Santa Fe Resources in Larry R. Hensarling (B.S., 1956) lives in City, Texas, “Enjoying geology and life!” Midland, Texas, with an e-mail address of San Antonio, Texas. He writes, “The oil [email protected]. business in South Louisiana is very slow; James W. Hood (B.S., 1948) lives in Salt however, our company is starting a drilling Lake City, Utah, and writes, “Little to report. Emmett A. Humble (B.A., 1949, M.A., program on a salt dome based on subsurface Eva and I are enjoying retirement but travel 1951) is a consultant in Houston, Texas, has geology and 3-D seismic.” Larry is a former little. Still fighting the battle of home repairs. an e-mail address of [email protected], member of the Geology Foundation Advisory Always glad to get the Newsletter, even and writes, “Still consulting, mainly in Far Council. though the list of grads looks younger and East. Lorine and I just returned from three younger.” weeks in the Persian Gulf area and continue Reverend Reid Hensarling (M.A., 1981) to be amazed at what ‘Petro Dollars’ can do, is rector of the Church of the Redeemer in Charles J. Hooper (B.S., 1950) is retired even at $10/barrel. Also, enjoying our 18- Germantown, Tennessee, and writes, “My from Dresser Industries in Houston, Texas. month-old great-grandson! Hopefully another family and I have moved from South Carolina He is a member of the Geology Foundation 17+ years will see him headed for UT. You’re to Memphis, Tennessee. I now pastor an Advisory Council. doing a great job. Thanks.” active and growing Episcopal church in the suburbs of Memphis. I am so sorry 1999 has Eleanor M. (Ellie) Hoover (B.S., 1956) Elvin M. Hurlbut (B.S., 1943) is retired been a tough year for the oil business. At from Conroe, Texas, is a consultant and and writes from Tyler, Texas, “Am devoting least I am a lot closer to Austin!” Exxon annuitant and writes, “Visited in Taos this whole year to getting rid of stuff. and Los Alamos, northern New Mexico, last Down to one cat but also feeding the Charles W. Henslee (B.S., 1951) is retired year and enjoyed some great views of the neighbor’s three cats. Doctor visits take up and writes from Houston, Texas, “Nothing spectacular rocks. Also enjoyed R. Folk’s talk the rest of the time. Virginia and I are still new. Golf, some travel, bridge, and usual in Houston earlier this year about nanno functioning.” assortment of ‘Golden Years’ problems. bacteria/life on Mars, etc. ‘Go Luigi’.” Oldest grandson committed to play football Dan Huston (M.A., 1987), whose e-mail for Air Force Academy. T.U. missed a good Kimberlee W. Millberry Horan address is [email protected], is an indepen- one.” (Attended 1981) begins as Adjunct Professor dent geologist with Hunter 3-D Inc. in Sugar at Western Connecticut University in the Fall Land, Texas, and writes, “Holly and I have Jonathan Herwig (M.A., 1982), has e-mail of 1999, in Monroe, Connecticut, and writes, been in business for two years now as address of [email protected], is Vice- “We have recently moved into our dream geophysical consultants. Our web page is at President with Ogden Environmental in home and are breeding Siberian Huskies. I http://web.wt.net/~hunter3d. Work is steady, Honolulu, Hawaii, and writes from Kailua, am guest lecturer at local public and private and we are preparing a Yegua prospect now Hawaii, “Still enjoying life on the Islands with schools (Fairfield County) on topics: geology, to show in mid 1999.” Bobbie. Now involved in overseeing business gemology, environmental issues, etc.” E-mail initiatives in Germany and Japan, so doing a address is [email protected]. Jim Immitt (M.A., 1981) is Manager of fair amount of travel. Still doing well in our Financial Analysis for AMD in Austin, Texas, rapidly consolidating environmental world. A Carlton W. Hornbeck (B.S., 1953), an and writes, “Greetings to all from Pam, Jim, warm aloha to all.” independent petroleum geologist in Round Angela, and Adrian. We are all gratefully Rock, Texas, writes, “Oil business folks are happy and healthy. I felt motivated by the Charlie Hewitt (B.S., 1988, M.A., 1990) optimists and dreamers–the last ten years realization that I was ‘middle-aged’ to run the and Suzanne Mechler Hewitt (B.S., have been rough, and I’m having bad 1999 Motorola Marathon. It was fun and 1989) live in Arlington, Texas. They report, dreams, but I know it’s going to get better sobering in that I felt ‘old’ (but overjoyed) at “We are proud to announce the birth of our soon.” E-mail address is [email protected]. the finish line. Now that I’ve got that mid-life daughter, Elizabeth Jane, on October 26, crisis stuff out of the way…” E-mail address 1998. Margaret (3) is thriving in the role of G. B. (Bill) Howard, IV (B.S., 1982) is is [email protected]. big sister. We took a trip to south Padre in President of Flare Resources, Inc. in Houston, June-more depo dump flashbacks!” Charlie Texas. J. R. Jackson, Jr. (M.A., 1940) resides in is a key account executive for TXU in Dallas, Houston, Texas, and writes, “Just returned Texas. Their e-mail address is John W. Howard (B.S., 1986) is Senior from a three-week cruise and tour around the [email protected]. Vice-President with Trading for KN Energy in Arabian Gulf and the Red Sea. Wonderful Houston, Texas, and writes, “Finished law educational trip, in spite of being with Jeffery D. Hildebrand (B.S., 1981) is school, but no plans to actively practice. Alumni Association. From heights of wealth President of Hilcorp Energy Company in First baby (girl) due in June. Hollywood Van and splendor to the depths of squalor and Houston, Texas, and reports an e-mail Reunion being organized by Squarehead.” filth. Marvelous scenery and geology. Great address of [email protected]. E-mail is [email protected]. history, religion, and people.”

John D. Hill (B.S., 1949) is self-employed Raul Huerta (M.A., 1980) writes from Joe L. Jackson (B.S., 1956) is retired in in Dallas, Texas. Houston, Texas, “Recently accepted position Alamogordo, New Mexico, e-mail address as planning adviser for newly formed company [email protected], and writes, “Still at F. A. (Fred) Hoeninghaus, Jr. (B.S., 1949) called Exxon Upstream Development Com- 3R ranch (rocks, rabbits, and rattlesnakes). is retired from Exxon, lives in Houston, Texas, pany. Still living through Houston summers.” Come see us.” and writes, “Enjoying retirement. Look E-mail address is [email protected]. forward to the Newsletter each year. Covered Russell W. Jackson (B.S., 1976) is a up with grandchildren but love it.” Jack T. Hughes (B.A., 1941), e-mail petroleum geologist with Tyler Oil & Gas, Inc., address [email protected], in Tyler, Texas, and writes, “Well, some-times I David S. (Scotty) Holland (B.S., 1957) is resides in Canyon, Texas, and writes us, wonder if Dr. Ellison was right. Oil business retired in Houston, Texas. He writes that he “Every time I complete a retirement project, I has hit bottom here in East Texas but seems to is “Still active in retirement. If it’s not fun, find a couple more.” be turning around. If any of you have any don’t do it. Trying to get out of Houston, business in Tyler or East Texas, give me a call.”

91 S. Lance Jackson (B.S., 1979) is a cool mountains. It is very enjoyable and and writes, “Still enjoy visiting my M.A. thesis consulting geology scientist in Kingwood, relaxing.” site in the Sierra Vieja Mountains. Very little Texas, and writes, “Keeping busy with change since 1948.” projects from the Mid-continent to offshore.” Gene (Funkhouser) Keyser Jones (B.S., E-mail address is [email protected]. 1948) is retired in Midland, Texas, and writes, George L. Keprta (B.S., 1952) is retired in “We’re looking forward to news of old East Bernard, Texas, and writes, “Most of Otis James (M.A., 1952), an independent friends. The Newsletter keeps me updated our time in 1998 was spent working on our oil and gas producer in Gainesville, Texas, and current. The West Texas oil industry is new home. This year we plan to cruise the writes, “No change in status.” non-existent, but we are okay–practicing a Danube River through Austria, Slovakia, and little frugality and belt-tightening. Best Hungary.” Jim Janssen (B.S., 1979) is a geologist in wishes to everyone.” Their e-mail address is Houston, Texas, and states, “Six years now in [email protected]. Don Kerr, Jr. (B.S., 1960) is President of Houston with Walter Oil & Gas. Many Kerr Construction Services in Houston, Texas. changes in the industry, but we seem to be J. Phil Jones (B.S., 1964) is President of able to weather things pretty well. Linda, the Classic Exploration Trades, Inc. in Edmond, Marcus Key (B.S., 1983) is Associate boys, and I are doing great. Good luck to Oklahoma, and reports, “Retired from Kerr- Professor of Geology with the Department all.” McGee but not retired. I’m enjoying of Geology at Dickinson College in Carlisle, resumption of my company, Classic Explora- Pennsylvania, and writes, “I am headed to Kenneth L. Jarratt (B.S., 1957) is the tion, working on a number of interesting Trinity College in Dublin for a one-year owner of Jarratt Realty in Edna, Texas, and projects, and making frequent trips to Austin sabbatical, studying Guinness and bryozoan writes, “Trying to slow down and just hunt to visit kids and grandchildren. Daughter, growth rates.” E-mail address is and fish. Four grandkids keep Joyce and me Rebecca, getting married in August. We’ll [email protected]. going all the time. Looks like the Horns have spend two weeks at Big Sky and then a trip to turned things around for the better.” Alaska before the wedding.” E-mail address Robert S. Kier (Ph.D., 1972) is principal is [email protected]. consultant for Robert S. Kier Consulting in Borden Jenkins (B.S., 1978) is an indepen- Austin, Texas, with an e-mail address of dent petroleum geologist in Corpus Christi, James Douglas Kallina (B.S., 1953) [email protected], and writes, “Business is Texas, and writes, “The 3-D craze was fun resides in Sugar Land, Texas, and is President booming and it’s wearing me out–or maybe while it lasted, but it looks like it’s time to dig and owner of JDK Incorporated in Stafford, I’m just getting old. Suppose?” in for some tough times ahead!” Texas. E-mail address is [email protected]. He writes, “JDK Incorporated provides Robert J. Killian (B.S., 1977) is a petro- Les A. Jeske (B.S., 1984) is a hydrogeologist leading edge technology for 2-D, 3-D, and leum geologist and writes from Houston, with ETTL Engineering & Consultants, Inc. in 4-D seismic data processing, prestack Texas, “I am now working and officing with Tyler, Texas, e-mail address [email protected], imaging, acquisition program design, Global Resource Management in the Galleria and writes, “We’ve been in East Texas now acquisition program management, and area.” E-mail address is [email protected]. for the last seven years and love every minute seismic data exchange.” of it. Our four children, Abby (7), Walker (5), Thomas M. Kirkpatrick (B.S., 1984) is a Martha (3), and Ginnie (7 months), keep us Edwin N. Kasper, Jr. (B.S., 1951) is retired geologist with IT Corporation in Knoxville, busy doing what kids do best–playing. If you in Houston, Texas, and writes, “Ex-Students’ Tennessee, with the news, “Living in are ever in the area, please call or stop by to Association ‘Update 1999’ in June should be Knoxville, home of ‘the other UT’ NCAA foot- say hello.” a ‘good one.’ I am looking forward to being ball champs and enjoying from afar as the in Austin and having some visiting time! A Horns ascend to their rightful place of Charles B. John (B.S., 1951) is a consultant different Houston home is shaping up, and I national prominence on the gridiron. There with the Department of the Interior in Tulsa, am getting to enjoy some RC model flying. are a lot of orange hats here, but mine is one Oklahoma, and writes, “I continue to con- Best wishes!” of the only ones with a longhorn on it. Will be duct research along the frontal belt of the giving a geology presentation to four classes Ouachita Mountains of southeastern Steven G. Katz (Ph.D., 1975) is Vice- of first graders this week. Should be fun.” Oklahoma. Norma and I are O.K., working President of Operations at a company in on our 53rd year of marriage. Thanks for the Granville, Ohio, and writes, “Connie and I Don L. Kirksey (B.S., 1960) is co-owner of Newsletter.” continue to enjoy living in Granville, Ohio. Kirksey Consulting in Oklahoma City, I’m challenged by exploring new business Oklahoma, and reports, “Enjoy running Mary Johns (Ph.D., 1995) is a research ventures in polymer composites. Regards to Kirksey Consulting with my wife, B. J. Waste geologist with Exxon Production Research in everyone at UT.” management has been an enjoyable field for Houston, Texas. me after a 30-year career in exploration Daniel N. Keeler (B.S., 1980) writes from geology with Tenneco that took me to Alaska Charles G. Johnson (B.S., 1983) is a Midland, Texas, “I continue working as and Europe. We are having fun with our new geologist with McGowan Working Partners in contract geologist at Mobil, drilling horizon- travel trailer and spending time with our three Jackson, Mississippi, with an e-mail address tal gas wells in Midland Basin. Andrea and I grandchildren.” of [email protected]. are enjoying Midland and West Texas.” E-mail address is [email protected]. Radim A. Kolarsky (M.A., 1992), a senior Herbert R. Johnson (B.S., 1957) is semi- geologist, writes us from New Orleans, retired with Conch Oil, Inc. in Wichita, Kevin Kelly (B.S., 1982) lives in Honolulu, Louisiana, “Come visit me and my wife on Kansas, and writes, “Just hanging on and Hawaii. our Web page at http://www.geocities.ou/ hoping the oil price recovers.” heartland/estates/9121. I would love to hear Andrew W. Kendrick (B.A., 1986) is a from all former classmates.” His e-mail Russ Johnson (B.S., 1997) lives in Llano, Senior Hydrogeologist/Geochemist with address is [email protected]. Texas, and is an environmental geoscientist Tetra Tech NUS, with an e-mail address of with Roy F. Weston in Austin, Texas. [email protected] in Pittsburgh, Rick Kolb (M.A., 1981) resides in Cary, Pennsylvania, and writes, “My son, James, North Carolina, and is a project manager in Charles R. Jones (B.S., 1950) is a retired is coming up on 3 years this July with our Raleigh, e-mail [email protected]. He petroleum geologist in Midland, Texas, and second due next fall.” writes, “I’m in my ninth year at Law Engineer- writes, “Enjoy traveling and visiting other ing in Raleigh, primarily managing environ- areas. We spend about half our time at Ed R. Kennedy, Jr. (B.S., 1948, M.A., 1949) mental and geotechnical projects. My wife our cabin at Ruidoso, New Mexico, in the is a consulting geologist in Midland, Texas, died of cancer in 1992, and I remarried in

92 1995 to an IBM’er. Oldest daughter, born in Austin, graduates high school in May.”

Erwin K. Krause (B.S., 1949, M.A., 1954) is retired in Houston, Texas, and writes, “Had an interesting trip to China in March of 1999. The Great Wall was covered with ice. So was a 75-year-old retired geologist, but he climbed the wall. Beijing has 13 million people and 7 million old bicycles.”

J. David Krause (B.S., 1953), e-mail [email protected], is retired in Kuala, Hawaii, and reports, “Bessie and I still are kicking up our heels in Hawaii and loving every minute of the good life. We have our condo at the beach also, back and forth, fun, fun. We just 1 built a new house on our 2 /2 acres up- country. Plans are to sell the house we were living in with 1 acre of its own, too much yard work for an old man like me. We rooted for the Horns all year and sure were proud of them. Would like to hear from you. Aloha.”

J. Scott Kuykendall (B.A., 1975) is Project Geologist and Project Manager with PSI, Inc. in San Antonio, Texas, and writes, “Praying Students and staff of 1989 summer field camp, west of Cloudcroft, New Mexico. Photo for early retirement.” provided by Karen Carter Krogh.

Ted B. LaCaff (B.S., 1950) is a metal hunter in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and writes, “Since royalties. Hope oil prices stay up. I need an Veduz Beach, Florida, and writes, “Recently last Newsletter, I won a ‘Gold’ in rifle and a old tennis partner in Dallas. Have two went to Gobi Desert to see area where ‘Bronze’ in horseshoes at the State of New granddaughters in Dallas and two grandsons dinosaurs’ eggs and bones were discovered. Mexico Senior Olympics. Going to Orlando in Denver.” Unfortunately, couldn’t find any. Guess the for the ‘Nationals’ in October. With Y2K vertebrate paleontologists beat me to the coming up, I hope all of the ‘Class of 1950’ Bill Layton (B.S., 1981) is a petroleum nests. Now I have to go back to just playing respond to the Newsletter!” E-mail address is geologist in San Antonio, Texas. He writes, golf and fishing.” [email protected]. “Exploring for oil and gas with Burke Royalty Company along Texas Gulf Coast, primarily Ning Li (Ph.D., 1998) is a geoscientist with Laurel Lacher (B.S., 1987), e-mail address within Tertiary growth fault trends. Kids, Joe Paradigm Geophysical in Houston, Texas, with [email protected], resides in Pinetop, (19), Jessica (15), and Jordan (11), all doing an e-mail address of [email protected]. Arizona, is a senior hydrologist with White well. My wife, K.C., and I try to sneak up to Mountain Apache Tribe in the Environmental the ‘Hill Country‘ as often as possible. Hi to Tim Lignoul (B.S., 1982) resides in Sherman Planning Office in Whiteriver, Arizona, and 1980 660 gang, Boomer, Clinch, Ligon, Darr, Oaks, California, is an environmental writes, “Life after grad school (I received my Lisa, Compton, Ambrose, Lancaster, and Irby.” attorney in San Pedro, California, and writes, Ph.D. in 1996) is grand. I’m enjoying the “I am now practicing law in the Los Angeles experience of working as a tribal advocate H. Louis Lee (B.S., 1954, M.S., 1958), a area. I handle superfund and other federal but still keep the ties to academia, too. Spent consulting geologist, reports from Austin, cases. My geology degree furnished me with a phenomenal month in Tanzania in January. Texas, “Still having a great time finding a little a great background.” Kilimanjaro was spectacular!” oil and gas with all the new technology.” John F. Ligon (B.S., 1981) is co-owner of George A. Laguros (M.A., 1987) resides in Ann Hoadley Leist (B.S., 1979) writes, Sandalwood Oil & Gas, Inc. in Houston, Katy, Texas, is an advanced geophysicist with “Accounting for Conans Pizza. Both kids in Texas, and writes, “I’m enjoying the roller Marathon Oil Company in Katy, (Houston) high school. Living well in Austin. Life is coaster ride of a one-year-old boy and, of 1 Texas, and writes, “In March, after 7 /2 great. Hello to old friends. No pun intended.” course, the oil and gas exploration business. wonderful years in Aberdeen, Scotland, the Hello to all in the class of 1981. Hard to Marathon expatriate police finally caught up Raymond C. Leonard (M.A., 1977) writes, believe it’s been 18 years.” with me and sent us back to Houston. “In June 1998, I left Amoco and joined First Goodbye North Sea, hello Gulf of Mexico International Oil Corporation, a newly Ken Liles (B.S., 1950) resides in Bullard, (both in terms of climate and job description). formed company, as Vice President of Texas, and writes, “Enjoying retirement years. Michael (8) and Daniel (6) think America is Exploration. We are now the largest acreage Enjoy travel with Fran to visit kids, grandkids, ‘kinda weird,’ and Virginia has rekindled her holder in Kazakhstan with 10 licenses. Our and now two great-grandkids. Would offer a passionate hatred of Houston traffic.” E-mail first field went on stream in April 1999. I word of encouragement to those going into address is [email protected]. continue to reside in Almaty, Kazakhstan. the oil patch now. In 1950, conditions were Working in a company with a 100-percent very much like they are now, but it all James L. Lamb, Jr. (B.S., 1956) is an oil national staff has been a great learning worked out–so hang in there. Also, great to and gas producer in Austin, Texas. experience. My eldest son, Ben (21), is see UT’s athletic program getting untracked.” studying Engineering at Cornell, Dan (20) is Leon M. Lampert (B.S., 1951, M.A., 1953) studying Liberal Arts at Lewis and Clark Russell M. Lilly (B.S., 1953) lives in is an independent geologist in Dallas, Texas, College, and daughter, Anya (16), is a junior Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and writes, and writes, “Although I moved to Dallas from at TASIS-England.” “Started a new vending business to stay busy.” Corpus Christi in April 1998, I still have an office in Corpus. Working in South Texas and G. Warren Leve (M.A., 1952), e-mail Tung-Hung Thomas Lin (M.A., 1984), trying to buy producing properties and address [email protected], is retired in Ponte e-mail address [email protected], is senior

93 geophysicist with Samson Resources in Tulsa, retirement scene, following the Horns’ improvements into the play and are seeking Oklahoma. sports.” E-mail address is [email protected]. innovations every day.” E-mail address is [email protected]. Eugene Lipstate (B.S., 1949) is a partner Paul D. Lundegard (Ph.D., 1985) is with Lipstate Associates in Lafayette, principal advising scientist with Unocal in Robert B. McCarty (B.S., 1950) has been Louisiana, and writes, “At this writing, still Fullerton, California, and writes, “Still serving retired from Exxon since 1986, resides in alive and kicking. Planning our 50th wedding Unocal as an internal environmental Austin, Texas, and writes, “Still enjoying anniversary next February–will take the entire consultant (high resolution exploration traveling. Spent three weeks in Turkey last family on a cruise. Hope to be in San geochemistry!).” E-mail address is year and saw some geologic wonders. Plan Antonio, Texas, for AAPG convention. [email protected]. to visit Greece this year. Will always miss Not too many of us old timers still attend.” friends in the oil business and the thrill of E-mail address is [email protected]. Vance M. Lynch (B.S., 1951) is retired as discovery.” Vice-President from Unocal Corporation and Erwin R. (E. R.) Lochte, Jr. (B.S., 1956) is living in Liberty Hill, Texas. He writes, “Still Matt L. McCullough (M.A., 1990) lives a semi-retired petroleum geologist in San enjoying retirement in the Hill Country and in Sugar Land, Texas, is a geologist with Antonio, Texas, and writes, “Have several attending UT athletic events, as well as serving Marathon Oil Company in Houston, Texas, prospects that could possibly be pursued on the Geology Foundation Advisory and writes, “Just trying to keep my head should oil and gas prices return to some Council.” His e-mail address is above water in the deep Gulf of higher level. Otherwise, enjoying our Hill [email protected]. Mexico.” E-mail address is Country ranch and our cattle.” [email protected]. David Mackintosh (B.S., 1993) is a law James Lockley (B.S., 1978) lives in Spring, student in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Cynthia Coxe McDowell (M.A., 1981) Texas, with an e-mail address of Reports an e-mail address of lives in Dallas, Texas. [email protected], and writes, [email protected]. “Moved to Houston in August 1997 with Kenneth Otto McDowell (M.A., 1983) is Enserch (EEX), after 18 years in Dallas, Texas. Christopher Marshall (B.S., 1981), e-mail a staff geophysicist at ARCO International and Switched companies to Coastal in November address [email protected], lives in Plano, lives in Dallas, Texas. 1998 after 17 years with Enserch.” Texas, and is a high school geology teacher in The Colony, Texas. Edward (Ted) McFarlan, Jr. (M.A., 1948) Allen C. Locklin (B.S., 1954) is an is a consulting geologist in Houston, Texas, independent geologist in Tyler, Texas. He Sabin W. Marshall (B.S., 1952) is retired in and writes, “Regional exploration in the writes, “I will turn 70 this year. Where did Houston, Texas, and writes, “We took a trip Cotton Valley trend in East Texas provides a those years go? Nancy (Summers) and I will to England, Scotland, and Wales. Enjoyed challenge for me in spite of reduced industry be married 45 years soon. Our two children, the Orkney Islands off Scotland coast. Saw activity.” Chris and LeeAnn, daughter-in-law Lisa, son- many archaeological sites.” in-law Scott Shaver, and all five grandchildren T. A. (Mac) McGilvery (Ph.D., 1996) is a doing exceptionally well. Oldest granddaugh- Paul Martinez (B.S., 1984) lives in stratigraphic adviser with Phillips Petroleum in ter, Lindsey Shaver, was Homecoming Queen Littleton, Colorado. Bartlesville, Oklahoma, and writes, “Having a this year and plans to go to UT. Oil biz is sick great time working with the exploration and as we all know, yet, I’m still trying to get ideas Christina Massell (M.S., 1997), e-mail production teams throughout Phillips.” E-mail drilled. Keep up the good work.” address of [email protected], is a graduate address is [email protected]. student at the Scripps Institution of Oceanog- Kenneth Loep (B.S., 1960) is President raphy in San Diego, California, and writes, Richard McGlathery (B.S., 1976) works and partner at North American Energy in “I’m continuing work towards my Ph.D. in for Panhandle Royalty Co. in Oklahoma Houston, Texas, and writes, “Back to drilling marine geology and geophysics. My research City, Oklahoma. wells in South Texas and the Midland Basin.” cruises have taken me all over the Pacific Ocean, from Peru, Chile, and Samoa to Hawaii. Wayne E. McIntosh (B.S., 1956), with an John L. Loftis, Jr. (B.S., 1940) is retired in Life is wonderful in sunny California!” e-mail address of [email protected], is a Houston, Texas. consultant engineering geologist in Rockwell, Robert L. McBroom, Sr. (B.A., 1951), an Texas, and writes, “Still consulting for some Ted Longgood (B.S., 1958) retired from independent geologist/Adjunct Professor at government agencies in Washington, D.C., Exxon as a petroleum geologist and living Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, and Puerto Rico. Still traveling in our motor in Austin, Texas, writes us, “Have enjoyed Texas, writes us, “Still hunting for oil in North home, generally visiting kids and grandchil- living in Austin for past three years. Also Texas and Utah, although lately I often dren scattered around the country, i.e., Rhode fun seeing local guys I went to school with wonder why. Teaching English at Midwestern Island, Key West, Albuquerque, and Seattle. in Geology Department. Now have three State University.” E-mail address is Lots of time on the road.” grandsons and two granddaughters–wow, [email protected]. what fun they are!” Charles E. McKemie (B.S., 1979) resides William E. (Bill) McBroom (B.S., 1940) in Griffin, Georgia, reports an e-mail address Mark W. Longman (Ph.D., 1976) informs lives in Wichita Falls, Texas, and writes, “I am of [email protected], is National Sales us as follows: “Mark W. Longman continues now at an age (80) where I am looking more Service Manager with Essex Specialty to work as a consulting geologist in Lakewood, at the past and less at the future.” E-mail Products in Auburn Hills, Michigan, and Colorado, and writes that he has recently address is [email protected]. writes, “I currently manage a group of auto been doing research on the carbonate rocks assembly plant process experts as part of our and sediments of Kauai. ‘It’s a tough duty, John C. McBryde (M.A., 1979) is President customer support for the specialty sealants but someone has to do it!’” His e-mail of Mid-Continent Minerals, Inc. in Oklahoma and adhesives we sell to the auto assembly address is [email protected]. City, Oklahoma, and writes, “Despite low oil industry.” prices, we’ve been able to participate in Mark Longtine (M.A., 1991) is an environ- several successful wells over the past 18 Thomas E. McKenna (Ph.D., 1997), mental consultant with Ecology & Environ- months. We are currently heavily involved in e-mail address of [email protected]., is a ment, Inc. in Seattle, Washington, with an the Powder River Basin coalbed methane geologist/hydrogeologist with Delaware e-mail address of [email protected]. play. It is very interesting–80-feet-thick coals Geological Survey, University of Delaware at 500-feet make lots of gas–and no dry in Newark. Lester E. Ludwick (B.S., 1950), retired in holes! We’ve brought several technology El Paso, Texas, writes us, “Enjoying the 94 Robert J. McLellan (B.S., 1949) writes, Europe. Keeping track takes up as much time Charles Gardley Moon (B.S., 1940, M.A., “Barbara and I continue to enjoy our as my oil field supply and service company.” 1942, Ph.D., 1950) is retired from Exxon, is retirement in Kerrville, Texas. We travel, residing in Houston, Texas, and writes, “My garden, golf, and try to keep track of the Anne (Smith) Miller (B.A., 1983) is a car was broken into and was in the garage for grandkids (5). If I had any spare time, I Project Manager with the Texas Natural repairs for a month—some needed parts were would buy a computer.” Resource Conservation Commission in not readily available. Then, I had a virus for Austin, Texas, and writes, “We’re immersed a week, but am now okay and back to 1 Mike McLeod (B.S., 1986) lives in Pleasant in the world of T-Ball with our son, Anthony walking 1 /4 miles daily.” Hill, California, and writes, “Still in the (five years old, July 1999). We have recently environmental geology field. I’m starting to taken the plunge for number two. We’re R. McKay Moore (B.A., 1952) is an get involved in more remediation-oriented expecting a son in September 1999. ‘Hey!’ to independent geologist in Shreveport, projects, but investigations still take quite a my special pals.” Louisiana. bit of time. Say ‘howdy’ if you’re in the Bay Area.” Daniel N. Miller, Jr. (Ph.D., 1955) is Terry L. Moore (B.S., 1980) resides in retired in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and Sugar Land, Texas, is a Senior Geophysical Jereld E. McQueen (B.S., 1961, M.A., writes, “Still active and available as a short- Specialist with Phillips Petroleum Company 1963), e-mail address [email protected], is a term Special Guest Lecturer on a variety of in Houston, Texas, and writes, “Working on consultant in Kingwood, Texas, and writes, professional geologic subjects. Will receive a Brazil full time now. Attended the 1998 “No change from last year.” 50-year distinguished recognition award (for AAPG International Convention in Rio de the class of 1949 alumni) from what used to Janeiro, where my wife and son, Beverly and A. D. McRae (B.S., 1942) is retired in be Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy Cyrus, joined me mid-week. We are all still Horseshoe Bay, Texas. at Rolla, Missouri.” heavily involved in the Special Olympics.” His e-mail address is [email protected]. Joe N. Meadows (B.A., 1962), an attorney- Elizabeth Miller (B.S., 1980) is a criminal at-law, writes us from Waco, Texas, “Practic- defense attorney in Dallas, Texas. Charles Motz (B.S., 1960) is retired in New ing a little law and enjoying scuba diving Braunfels, Texas, and writes, “Survived the and grandchildren.” E-mail address is Ginger Braswell Miller (B.S., 1987) is a New Braunfels flood. Keeping busy with [email protected]. home manager in Englewood, Colorado, and home chores, community service, and writes, “After looking all summer, we finally looking forward to arrival of 16th grandchild John A. Means (M.A., 1948) is retired in became homeowners in Denver. Guess due in September.” Richardson, Texas, and writes, “Still enjoy we’re here to stay for a while. We try to working the Sunniland LS in South Florida. attend Rocky Mountain Texas Exes functions Harry W. Mueller, III (Ph.D., 1975) Go down to Florida usually twice a year, when we can. My connection to the real resides in The Woodlands, Texas, and is a for a company out of Houston, Texas.” world is [email protected].” geologist with Exxon in Houston, Texas. He writes, “Over 23 years with Exxon and still Peter Megaw (B.A., 1976, M.A., 1979) is Harry A. Miller, Jr. (B.S., 1941) is an doing carbonates. Am in the process of President of IMDEX, Inc., in Tucson, Arizona, independent geologist in Midland, Texas, and divorcing my wife–hopefully that will be and writes, “After a grim year in metals writes, “Am a working geologist surviving the finished before the disruptions of the Exxon/ exploration, Mexico appears to be rebound- latest bust. Different–but still fun.” Harry is a Mobil merger finally arrive. James is ing, thanks to silver and zinc. Let’s see if it member of the Geology Foundation Advisory majoring in oceanography at the Naval lasts. Best to all in oil patch. We’re all in Council. Academy (but really wants to fly). Kristen is the same boat.” E-mail address is thinking of majoring in computer sciences or [email protected]. R. Dick Miller (B.S., 1951) writes from veterinary medicine at A&M. I finally had my retirement in Georgetown, Texas, “We do degree framed in burnt orange in reaction.” Doug Melius (M.A., 1982) is Pastor of First some traveling in our motor home. I play Presbyterian in Sheridan, Wyoming, and golf and even though Georgetown is getting Pat Murta (B.A., 1941) is retired in Tulsa, writes, “Left the Rockies as a geologist in crowded, we enjoy the country life where it Oklahoma, and writes, “I was at UT from 1988 and returned as a Pastor in 1998.” is still quiet and peaceful.” 1937 thru 1942. I am older than dirt; on my third wife; have 15 kids and stepkids; 39 or John W. Merck, Jr. (Ph.D., 1997) resides Wayne D. Miller (M.A., 1957) is a 42 grandchildren; and 3 great-grandchildren. 1 in Alexandria, Virginia. E-mail address is geologic consultant in Midland, Texas, and Swim /4 mile per day, have two or three [email protected]. writes, “Staying busy with my consulting drinks, and watch Friends and Ally McBeal.” business, which takes up 100 percent of my Charles M. Merrill (B.S., 1956) is living in time. Still enough companies needing Steve Musick (B.S., 1976) is manager at Austin, Texas, and writes, “Still enjoying geologic studies, especially with the recent the Texas Natural Resource Conservation retirement in far southwest Austin, playing downsizing, they have no in-house geologists Commission in Austin, Texas. Reports an handball (in ‘slo mo,’ as my wife says) out at available for this type of work. Everyone e-mail address of [email protected]. UT, attending Austin Geological Society doing fine and enjoying the oil business–even meetings and field trips, and reflecting on with the lower oil price.” G. Allan Nelson (B.S., 1947) is a consultant the good old times at ‘Fuzzy’s’ in Llano back in Denver, Colorado, and writes, “Looking in the mid-fifties, whenever I pass through Bill Monroe (B.S., 1963) is a senior forward to the fifth reunion of the famous there.” His e-mail address is geologist with Jetta Production in Fort Worth, 1947—1948 class in the fall of 2000 in [email protected]. Texas, has an e-mail address of Corpus Christi, Texas. Thanks to Charles bmonroe @jettapc.com, and writes, “Over Forney for putting this on.” Heidi Mertig (M.A., 1995) is living in Elko, 30 years and still enjoying the daily challenge Nevada, and working as an engineering of finding oil and gas reserves left behind in Ken Nemeth (M.A., 1976), e-mail address geologist for Barrick Goldstrike Mining. the mature basins of Texas, Louisiana, and [email protected], is a geoscientist Mississippi. Anyone who has not visited Fort and interpreter at GeoQuest in Dallas, Texas. Mario L. Messina (B.A., 1959), Worth in a few years should come and see He writes, “I am continuing to learn the with an e-mail address of the changes, particularly downtown. Only current software while upgrading to the [email protected], city in Texas that can match Austin for newest releases. I am on the advisory board is Chief Executive Officer of Messina, Inc. in Mexican food, barbecue, and great golf for the Ellison Miles Geotechnology Institute Dallas, Texas, and writes, “Have been in courses. Best move I ever made was at Brookhaven College and teach the more properties in Texas, Florida, and leaving Houston.” GeoQuest IESX introduction course there.”

95 Paul Neumann (B.S., 1987), e-mail address A. M. (Red) Olander (B.S., 1948) of at our condo on South Padre Island and of [email protected], is an Austin, Texas, is retired from Exxon and writes, summers in Colorado.” operations manager in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, “We still enjoy being back in Austin. Hope- and writes, “Moved to Bolivia from Venezuela fully the price of oil, cattle, and farm crops will Patrick Pestorius (B.A., 1997) is with to start up operations in Bolivia and Brazil for go up soon. It’s good to hear that you’re technical support at Landmark Graphics Gyrodata International for which I have adding staff in Exploration Geophysics.” Corporation in Austin, Texas, and writes, worked for the last five years.” “Besides providing technical support for Orlando J. Ortega (M.S., 1997), an Landmark Geologic Mapping Products, I’m John H. Newcomb (M.A., 1971) lives in exploration geologist and on leave from very busy performing in Austin with my band Houston, Texas, is a staff geologist with PDVSA in Caracas, Venezuela, lives in Zuckerman Electric. Come see us!” E-mail is Aviara Energy with e-mail address of Austin, Texas, and is pursuing a Ph.D. degree [email protected]. [email protected], and writes, in Geology from The University of Texas at “Looking for oil and gas prospects in Gulf of Austin. E-mail address is Robert W. Pettigrew (B.S., 1952, M.A, Mexico (shelf area). Son graduated from TCU [email protected]. 1954) is retired in Spring Branch, Texas, and with degree in finance. Daughter is attending writes, “Enjoying living in the Hill Country St. Thomas University in Houston.” Donald E. Outlaw (B.A., 1940, M.A., north of San Antonio. Painting, moving 1947) lives in Newark, Delaware, is retired rocks, and landscaping.” Richard Nicholas (B.S., 1968) of Denton, from USMC Reserve (Bomb Disposal), Texas, writes, “September 1, 1998, appointed General Electric (Aerospace), U.S. Govern- Loren Phillips (B.S., 1982) is a geologist Vice President for Student Life at Texas ment USGS (Geohydrology), and EPA with the U.S. Army Center for Health Woman’s University.” E-mail address is (Director of Agency’s Office Automation and Promotion and Preventive Medicine at the [email protected]. Computers), and reports to us, “As an old Aberdeen Proving Ground in Bel Air, man with a long, white beard, my recom- Maryland, and writes, “Enjoying life in Bel Paula J. Noble (Ph.D., 1993) is an Assistant mendation is get the best and most education Air, Maryland. Son, Adam, is ten years old. Professor at the University of Nevada, you can, but do not allow your education to The challenge is educating him and keeping Geological Sciences, in Reno, Nevada, and interfere with earning a living. (I ended up in him clean. Lisa and I enjoy living next to the writes, “I am in my second year at the aerospace and computers.) My server is Chesapeake Bay. Crab cakes are a favorite University of Nevada, Reno and loving it. joining another server. So far they say my here. Environmental work for the Army is My work focuses on biostratigraphy in the e-mail address, [email protected], will keeping me busy. Doing a lot of work on Roberts Mountains Allocthon and its tie with not change. If it does I will notify you. Keep munition test ranges. Real exciting.” gold exploration in the Carlin Trend, plus those Newsletters coming. Thanks.” plankton extinctions and community George B. Pichel (B.S., 1951), is retired in dynamics in the Silurian of the Canadian Kenneth Ira Owens (B.A., 1954) is retired Dana Point, California, and writes, “Attended Arctic.” E-mail address is [email protected]. in Austin, Texas, and writes, “I enjoy seeing International Geologic Congress in Rio de old-timers who get to Austin.” Janeiro. Largest ever concept on plate David C. Noe (M.A., 1984), e-mail address tectonics says Brazil should be mirror image of [email protected], is Chief of the Robert (Bob) M. Owens (B.S., 1951) is a of Angola. Saw Bill Fisher.” E-mail address is Engineering Geology Section of the Colorado consulting geologist in Cypress, Texas, and [email protected]. Geological Survey in Denver, Colorado, and writes, “Enjoy visiting and talking with old writes, “This has been quite a year. I received classmates at our Gulf Coast Geological James Piper (B.A., 1988) lives in Austin, the 1998 Research Award in Environmental Library, here in ‘Big H’.” Texas, and writes, “I’m celebrating 20 great Geology from AAPG-DEG and the 1998 John years at the Applied Research Laboratories C. Frye Memorial Award in Environmental Lisa Paton (B.S., 1985) is a teacher in this year. Man, how time flies! We’re Geology from GSA-AASG. My book about McAllen, Texas, and reports an e-mail building a new home on Lake Buchanan, swelling soil for homeowners has sold 45,000 address of [email protected]. Texas. Many beautiful granite outcrops on copies. Finally, I have been selected as the the property with lots of smoky quartz and new Chief of the Engineering Geology section Michael Pattarozzi (M.A., 1975) is amethyst scattered about...” E-mail address is at Colorado Geological Survey.” Lieutenant in the Englewood Fire Division in [email protected]. Englewood, Colorado, resides in Highlands Isaac W. Norman (B.S., 1948) is retired Ranch, Colorado, e-mail address Gerald (Jerry) Pitts (B.S., 1954) is a and resides in Taylor, Texas. [email protected], and writes, “Just consultant in Midland, Texas. finished my 21st year with the Englewood Fire Carol Doran Northern (B.S., 1984) Division. My last experience with geology Phillip M. Pitzer (B.S., 1954), an oil resides in Alpharetta, Georgia, and is a was helping our 6-year-old daughter, Katie, operator in Breckenridge, Texas, writes, principal geologist with Law Engineering & with her report on Apatasaurus. Now she “Grayer and more bald but still fighting the Environmental Services, Inc. in Kennesaw, wants to be a geologist!” good fight; trying to break 90 on a consistent Georgia. E-mail address is basis; and enjoying 11 grandkids,” and [email protected]. J. F. Patterson (B.S., 1952) is retired in reports an e-mail address of Bellaire, Texas. [email protected]. Bob R. O’Brien (B.S., 1952, M.A., 1956) is a Professor in the Geography Department at Bill R. Payne (B.A., 1940, M.A., 1941) is John M. Pope (B.S., 1986) is Senior San Diego State University in San Diego, retired and writes, “Continue to live in Austin, Account Executive in Houston, Texas, has California, and writes, “The book I’ve been but spend about one-fourth of the time at our e-mail address of [email protected], and working on the last few years has finally been house in Horseshoe Bay. No longer able to writes, “My daughter, Claire, is now 5 years published by the University of Texas Press: travel due to health problems. I am only 82, old and eagerly anticipating becoming a Our National Parks and the Search for but it seems I grow older by two years every ‘schooler.’ The boys just turned 3 and Sustainability, and am going to play a bit. year. It just seems that way! As always, I wonder what all the fuss is about. Paula and Now I can go on to other things, like travel.” look forward to receiving the Newsletter. As I just bought two acres and will begin our E-mail address is [email protected]. was stated in your accompanying letter, wish dream house soon. Burgess, it’s your turn!” more than 500 would write in than the other John F. O’Donohoe (B.S., 1950) is 3,500 who do not.” Robert B. (Bob) Porter (M.A., 1951) is a President and Chief Executive Officer of geologist, retired from RBP Land Company in Coastline Exploration, Inc. in Houston, Jack L. Penick (B.S., 1942) is semi-retired Midland, Texas, and writes, “Looking forward Texas, with an e-mail address of in Houston, Texas, and writes, “Spend winters to the 1999 football games in Austin, some [email protected]. 96 juicy ribs at County Line, and a cold one or two at Scholtz’s. Longhorn kids and grand- kids doing great and oil prices moving up! Semper fi!”

J. Dan Powell (Ph.D., 1961) is a consultant in Grand Junction, Colorado, and writes, “Dorothy and I have finally escaped the rat race of Aspen and settled in Grand Junction, where I still do some gas reservoir and exploration work and some fisheries biology.” E-mail address is [email protected].

John William Preston (B.S., 1970) is a geophysicist with Hurd Enterprises, Ltd., in Houston, Texas, whose e-mail address is [email protected], and who writes, “Still having fun with 3-D in south Texas, but the oil patch boom/bust cycle is wearing on my nerves. Maybe I’m just getting old, but this just seems like déjà vu all over again.”

Dennis R. Prezbindowski (Ph.D., 1981) is Senior Research Associate at Texaco EPTD in Houston, Texas. E-mail address is Field geology course in the summer of 1941. Pictured is Harry Phillips. Photo [email protected]. provided by Edward R. Baird. Joseph L. Pritchett (B.A., 1946) is a consulting geologist in Lafayette, Louisiana.

W. T. Probandt (B.S., 1956) lives in to pursue my new career as an herbalist. The DeGolyer and MacNaughton in Dallas, Midland, Texas. natural world has always held my interest; Texas. E-mail address is now it’s the plants instead of the rocks. I’ve [email protected]. John L. Proctor (B.A., 1950) is retired in been studying the use of herbs as medicine New Braunfels, Texas, and writes, “In January, the past six years.” Jess P. Roach (B.A., 1941) is retired in we went on a cruise through the Panama Austin, Texas, and writes, “No news is good Canal. The Canal is truly a marvelous Kirk Rexrode (B.S., 1984) lives in San news, I suppose. My health is good. Work American achievement. Now, the all-wise Diego, California, and writes, “I’ve been out out three times a week at health club. In D.C. government has elected to give it away.” discovering the rest of the world for the best addition to the geological department being part of this year but still maintain a house in winners, so are the Longhorn football and A. Leo Pugh, Jr. (B.S., 1952) is retired in San Diego.” basketball teams.” Galena Park, Texas, and writes, “Leo reports in from Houston, Texas. The junk business James V. (Jim) Richards (B.S., 1956) is a Robert C. Roback (Ph.D., 1993) writes, is still going strong, at least better than the consultant with Genesis Producing Co. in “The newest Roback, Benjamin Robert, was oil business. Trying to keep the grandkids in Houston, Texas, and writes, “Still exploring in born Sunday, March 28, 1999, at 3:05 a.m. line–send hello to all old friends.” the Gulf Coast and in our Jurassic Basin Rim He weighed in at 6 pounds 10 ounces and Trend. Keeping up with UT football and still was 20 inches long. Becky (M.A., 1990) and Jack Ragsdale (B.S., 1951) lives and works playing my sax with The University of Texas baby are both doing fine. I am with Los in Gonzales, Texas, and is President of Forge Longhorn Alumni Band.” E-mail address is Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, Energy Corporation. [email protected]. New Mexico, and have accepted a staff member position at LANL to begin May 3. W. K. (Dub) Rainbolt, Jr. (B.A., 1957) is James W. (Jim) Richards (B.S., 1958) The position is with CST-7 (the same group President of Dynamic Exploration, Inc. in resides in St. Helena, California, is self- I’m with now). The position is a joint Lafayette, Louisiana. employed, and writes, “With wine selling for position with the actinide transport (environ- 45 times the price of oil, it is hard to get mental geochemistry) group and mass Nathan Rakestraw (B.S., 1980) is Senior excited about oil and gas prospects. I still spectrometry group. I will continue to use Engineer with CNG Producing Company in like to do some geology between grape isotope geochemistry to address diverse Bridgeport, West Virginia, and writes, “It has harvest and spring. If you’re in the Napa issues, but the focus will be on environmental been another lean year in the ‘patch.’ Paula Valley, give us a call.” Web site address is problems. Naturally, I’m quite excited about and I enjoy the wilds of West Virginia with [email protected]. the position. Ben, Joey, Becky, and I are all our two kids, Ryan and Rebecca.” fine, the latter two a bit sleep deprived.” Wade C. Ridley (B.S., 1953, M.A., 1955), Clyde M. Rascoe (B.S., 1949) is President e-mail address 73065.10@compuserve, is Clem H. Roberts (B.S., 1949) lives in of Merit Oil Company in San Angelo, Texas, President of Ridley Oil Corporation in Tyler, Midland, Texas, and is semi-retired. He and writes, “Not doing much in the oil Texas, and writes, “Lost my former boss, writes, “I lost my wife, Ann, to cancer on business (who is?). Spending most of my time friend, and fellow alum, J. L. Patton, age 90, March 2, 1998. My black lab and I carry on. remodeling and restoring my old house.” this year. UT alums in Tyler still plodding My children from many miles away helped a along. One good thing about lousy oil great deal. Oil and gas business lousy again. Cathy (Stallings) Rashin (B.S., 1979) is prices, it gave me time to go to Austin and Shades of 1986.” the owner/herbalist of Earth Current Garden watch Ricky run–what a fun football season it in Red Rock, Texas, and writes, “In December was!” Julie A. Roberts (B.S., 1995) is a geologist 1 1998, after 16 /2 years, I left my job at the with Parsons Engineering Science, Inc. in Texas Natural Resource Conservation Wayne Ritcheson (B.S., 1991) resides in Austin, Texas. E-mail address is Commission, where I was a project manager, Plano, Texas, and is a geophysicist with [email protected].

97 Jon Alan Robin (B.S., 1979) lives in The [email protected]. He writes, “Various forms where I will chair a session on Oil & Gas Woodlands, Texas. of good news: I married Dawna Ferris, we Exploration and Development in West Africa built a house in New Harmony, Utah (between (Angola).” Ed Robinson (B.S., 1950), who resides in Cedar City and St. George). I am transferring Carlsbad, California, writes, “Retired in 1986 my U.S.G.S. office to Cedar City, and I got out Steffen Saustrup (B.S., 1988) is a Research after 36 years working for Sun, Tenneco, of management and returned to science.” Scientist Associate V at The University of Martoca, Pure, and Unocal. Golf, genealogy, Texas at Austin Institute for Geophysics. and my computer keep me busy, along with Christie Morgan Rushing (B.A., 1994) my 6 children and 11 grandchildren.” lives in Pensacola, Florida, and is a pilot in Traugott Scheytt (exchange student from the United States Navy. University of Wurzburg, 1986-1987) is now Ron S. Robinson (B.S., 1958), e-mail Associate Professor at the Technical University address [email protected], is a partner with Jimmie Norton Russell (B.A., 1952, M.A., of Berlin. Traugott gave one of the keynote Robinson-Buchanan Real Estate in El Dorado, 1954) lives in Austin, Texas, is an Educational scientific presentations at last fall’s joint Arizona, and writes, “Surface and subsurface Assistant III with GOALS Learning Center of American Institute of Hydrology/International evaluation is alive and well. From fresh- the Round Rock Independent School District, Association of Hydrologists Conference in Las water exploration (Sparta Sand) to saltwater and writes, “Continuing in special education, Vegas, Nevada, entitled “Gambling with in the Smackover Lime for bromine, with oil teaching emotionally disturbed junior high Groundwater.” His talk was entitled reservoir evaluation in between. God’s and high school students. Yes, it’s a chal- “Occurrence and Behavior of Drugs in creation is still one great mystery. So, too, is lenge but also very rewarding (some days!).” Groundwater.” the wonder of seven beautiful grandchildren.” Carolyn Rutland (M.A., 1979) is an Judith A. Schiebout (B.A., 1968, M.A., C. W. (Bill) Rogers (B.S., 1961, M.A., environmental engineer with the City of 1970, Ph.D., 1973) is the Associate Curator 1963) is a geologist and manager in Lafayette, Kalamazoo Engineering Division, in with the Museum of Natural Science in Baton Louisiana, and writes, “Our new company, Kalamazoo, Michigan, and writes, “I still Rouge, Louisiana, and writes, “Still digging Rozel Energy, is exploring the shallow water manage environmental projects for the City of fossils from the Miocene of western Louisiana.” Gulf. Having some success and lots of fun.” Kalamazoo. I knit multi-colored socks, just E-mail address is [email protected]. E-mail address is [email protected]. bought myself a new sewing machine, and am going to paint my kitchen cupboards this Charles M. (Charlie) Schlaudt (M.A., Willie J. Roper (B.S., 1948) is retired in summer.” 1960) lives in Ashland, Kentucky, e-mail Kingman, Arizona. address [email protected], and writes, Floyd F. Sabins (B.S., 1952) is President of “Retired from Shell in Houston, Texas, in June Lucy O. Ross (B.S., 1950) is President of Remote Sensing Enterprises, Inc. in Fullerton, 1997 after 32+ years. Living in 150-year-old Delta Royalty Company, Inc., and LMA California, and writes, “I presented several house–lots of golf, travel, and volunteer Royalties, Ltd. in Colorado Springs, Colorado. well-attended workshops on resource work.” exploration using remote sensing. Mineral Oliver (Tres) Ross (B.S., 1975) flies as exploration is at a low ebb because of low George W. Schneider, Jr. (B.S., 1958), a Captain out of Fort Worth, Texas, and writes, metal prices. Our strategy is to develop an member of the Geology Foundation Advisory “Still flying for American Airlines, but I miss inventory of prospects that will be marketable Council, is an independent geologist in field geology trips! An unexpected hospital during the next up-turn.” E-mail address is Metairie, Louisiana. He writes, “Moved to stay ruined my plans for AAPG San Antonio. [email protected]. the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain last I expect to fully recover.” E-mail address is year. On the Tchefuncta River!! I have been [email protected]. Philip K. Sampler (B.S., 1951) is President involved in a new (non-oil) business for five of Sampler Oil & Gas, Inc. in Richardson, years, and we are enjoying the challenge and Robert Brooks Ross (B.S., 1950) is retired Texas, and writes, “With oil prices so success of the business. Excited about the in New Ulm, Texas, and writes, “Velma and I depressed, it’s hard to make a go of it. I’m Advisory Council and upcoming 2000!” are enjoying the quiet life of this little about to have hip replacement surgery, so I German village 50 miles northwest of can get back in the field. This is almost like Joel D. Schneyer (M.A., 1984) is a partner Houston.” starting over!!” with Mercantile Resources Finance, Inc. in Parker, Colorado, and writes, “Although 1998 Rollins M. Roth (B.S., 1958) is Production Jack S. Sanders (B.S., 1957) is retired in was a terrible year for commodities, early Superintendent in Breckenridge, Texas, and Dallas, Texas, and writes, “Still vertical (not signs in 1999 suggest a rebound. If you have writes, “This year is my fortieth year in the oil horizontal) and enjoying travel overseas and a natural resource project that needs project patch, and it grieves me to see so much talent domestic. Time remains precious, but that’s finance, give a call.” E-mail address is being forced out of the work force by low oil okay.” [email protected]. prices.” Charles E. Sandidge (B.S., 1978) is Frederick E. Schultz (B.S., 1947) is retired James A. Rowell, Jr. (B.S., 1954) is President of Market Oil & Gas, L.L.C. in in Ojai, California, and writes, “Still enjoying partner/owner of PAR Minerals Corp. located Dallas, Texas, URL [email protected]. golf.” in Shreveport, Louisiana. He writes, “Wife E-mail address is Pauline is doing fine. PAR is staying busy [email protected]. Rubin A. Schultz, Jr. (B.S., 1961) is drilling for gas in Louisiana, Texas, and Assistant District Maintenance Manager with Mississippi. Plan to spend more time at the Vickey P. Sare (M.A., 1981) is with the Texas Department of Transportation in Four Square Ranch in Edwards County, Chevron Overseas Petroleum, Inc. in San Corpus Christi, Texas, and writes, “Another Texas.” Ramon, California, as a senior geologist, lives year and all is well here in Corpus Christi. in Danville, California, and writes, “We are Daughter gave us a granddaughter last July. Philip Rowell (Ph.D., 1993) is Senior enjoying life in the Bay Area. Visits to the Family keeps growing! I’ll make 35 years Geophysicist with Marathon Oil Company in Exploratorium, the Monterrey Bay Aquarium, with the Texas Department of Transportation Houston, Texas, with e-mail address of and Yosemite top the list! Robby is a happy this summer. And, already have my tickets [email protected]. third grader now, active in cub scouts and for a May visit to Maui, Hawaii.” swim team. My work at Chevron is very Peter D. Rowley (Ph.D., 1968) resides in interesting, especially the 3-D visualization Christy M. Schweikhardt (B.S., 1983) New Harmony, Utah, and is a geologist with aspect of seismic interpretation. I look lives in Houston, Texas, with a personal the U. S. Geological Survey in Las Vegas, forward to seeing fellow UT alums at the Y2K e-mail address of [email protected], Nevada. His e-mail address is AAPG meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana, and works as an attorney at Fulbright &

98 Jaworski LLP. Work e-mail address is witness.’ Still listed in Who’s Who in writes, “My only news of note, for those [email protected] and writes, America, Who’s Who in Science and interested, is that I attained Medicare “The big news for 1999 is that I am getting Engineering, etc.” eligibility this year. Otherwise, I continue to married in May on Memorial Day weekend. be well-occupied in my consulting work.” Ronnie and I will honeymoon in a Stephen L. Shaw (B.S., 1971, M.A., 1974) geologist’s paradise–Yellowstone National is Senior Geological Advisor with Burlington William P. Slater (B.A., 1950) is an Park. We are looking forward to some Resources in Midland, Texas, and writes, independent consultant in Canyon Lake, serious downtime in the place that “Nancy and I have gotten both our kids Texas, and writes, “Enjoying the wonderful sparked my interest in geology when I was through college and now are looking forward economy and still looking for oil and gas in 10 years old!” to becoming grandparents in October! Our West Texas.” best to everyone.” E-mail address is Eugene Patrick Scott (B.S., 1957) is “Still [email protected]. Marriott Wieckhoff Smart (B.S., 1957), a petroleum consulting geologist in Corpus e-mail address of [email protected], is Christi, Texas.” F. Carlton Sheffield (B.S., 1963) writes, retired in Littleton, Colorado, and writes, “Retired in 1998. Still living in The Woodlands, “Now that both John and I are retired, we John E. Seale (B.S., 1941) is retired in Texas, and playing golf as much as I can. Doing have plans to travel even more than in years Houston, Texas, and writes, “Nothing really a lot of traveling in our motor home. Seeing a past. Most of our trips are short, no longer new. I stay busy on home projects while time great amount of geology in this great country than three weeks. In early March, we toured goes flying by, faster each year.” of ours.” West Texas, including the Davis Mountains and Big Bend National Park. It was fun to go Kenneth O. Seewald (Ph.D., 1964) is William T. Sherman (B.S., 1951) is a back to the region where I took Geology President of National Fuel Corporation in consultant for Fairdawn Enterprises, Inc. in 660(?) in 1956. We even drove by the area Denver, Colorado, and writes, “Mary and I Houston, Texas. near Marathon where our class worked. The are enjoying our second tour of duty in desert hasn’t changed but at least it wasn’t so Denver. Arrived fall of 1998 and are busy J. David Shetler, II (B.S., 1985) lives in hot, and there weren’t any rattlesnakes.” visiting our old friends and making new ones Mexico and is President of Grupo Prisma. in Denver after a 15-year detour to San Tommy T. Smiley (B.S., 1951) is retired in Antonio and Houston. We miss Texas, but Elgean C. Shield (B.S., 1953) is President San Antonio, Texas, and writes, “Still doing enjoy the new challenges and opportunities of a company in Coldspring, Texas, and taxes and traveling. Went through the of exploring for and development of new writes, “After working in oil and gas explora- Panama Canal last year, and we are going to natural gas reserves in the Rockies.” tion for 50 years, have finally decided to slow Alaska in June. Hello to everyone.” down and retire to Lake Livingston north of Robert T. Sellars, Jr. (B.A., 1957) is a Houston, and enjoy life with several A. Richard (Dick) Smith (B.S., 1964) lives consultant in Denver, Colorado, e-mail grandchildren.” in Alvarado, Texas, works as Groundwater address [email protected], and writes, “Will Services Group Manager at EMCON, in Fort finish my three years on the D.P.A. Executive Mark S. Shield (B.S., 1988), e-mail address Worth, Texas, and writes, “Our nine acres on Committee in July. Have enjoyed my of [email protected], is Senior Test Coordina- the Woodbine have all the wonders of nature association with UT grads, Gene Mear, Pete tor in Austin, Texas, and writes, “Still with and more chores than daylight will allow. Rose, Royce Carr, and Dan Smith.” Landmark Graphics developing test processes Hydrogeology of landfills continues to for NT versions of our UNIX geological occupy my workdays. Ann continues to look Holmes A. Semken, Jr. (B.A., 1958, products.” for just the right horse.” E-mail address is M.A., 1958) is a Professor of Geology in the [email protected]. Department of Geology at the University of Bren Sidereas (B.S., 1973) lives in Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa, and writes, “Elaine Rockwall, Texas, and is a staff geologist with Charles Smith (B.S., 1978) is Senior and I took a coastal ferry in Norway last June Coho Energy in Dallas, Texas (e-mail address, Geologist at Duke Engineering and Services and had three good days for the midnight [email protected], and Internet: in Austin, Texas, with an e-mail address of sun; next it’s the northern lights. I partici- [email protected]). Bren writes, “Coho’s [email protected]. pated in four conferences in 1998. The best reserve base significantly eroded away was the Lundelius Symposium at UT.” because of low oil prices. We’re now ‘over- Dan L. Smith (B.S., 1958), Vice-President borrowed.’ Stock has plunged–options worth with New Ventures Meridian Resources Corp. Greg Sengelmann (B.S., 1982) lives in nothing. Continue to hang on by a thread in Houston, Texas, writes, “Still very active Rosanky, Texas, and is a geologist with (banks will work with us), but for how long? doing voluntary work for AAPG, SIPES, and Applied Earth Sciences, Inc. in San Antonio, Wife, Carolyn, back in graduate school. Son, the Houston Geological Society,” and has an Texas. Steven, working and attending Blinn Jr. e-mail address of [email protected]. College. Daughter, Nicole, at Texas A&M Sachin Shah (B.S., 1998), e-mail address dating Aggies? Someone please save me. Edwin L. Smith (B.S., 1951) is an indepen- [email protected], is an Associate Still live for UT sports. Looks like we’re on dent geologist in Wichita Falls, Texas, and Geologist at Radian International in Houston, the right track here.” writes, “I am enjoying a relaxed schedule, as Texas, and writes, “I am learning a lot about well as my five grandchildren. Does make hydrogeology and water resource manage- Leila Eyoub Sigmon (B.A., 1945), retired one realize we are getting a bit older.” ment (Senate Bill #1). Consulting has been in Midland, Texas, writes, “Spend time with an excellent experience for me.” horses and riding, writing, and travelling–just Harry L. Smith (B.S., 1951, M.A., 1956) returned from Barcelona, Catalan, and is retired in Boerne, Texas, and writes, “Not William W. (Bill) Sharp (B.S., 1950) is an Santiago de Compostella, Spain.” much change from last year. Keep busy investor/consultant geologist in Dallas, Texas, playing golf and being home handyman. and writes, “Building a second home on ‘Red Clint Simmons (B.A., 1982) is a supervisor My daughter is making a name for herself in Bud Ranch’ in Grayson County. Enjoyed in the Remediation Division of the Texas the journalistic field. Her byline is Sheryl ‘Tejas’ annual meeting in Dallas. Returned to Natural Resource Conservation Commission Smith-Rodgers.” Lafayette, Louisiana, for ‘Red’ Dumesnil’s in Austin, Texas. E-mail address is: March retirement party as ex-President of [email protected]. J. T. Smith (B.S., 1950, M.A., 1956) is Guaranty Bank. Also visited with Calvin retired from the Sun Oil Company, living Thomas, retired Chief Geologist of the Samuel J. Sims (M.A., 1957), e-mail in Fredericksburg, Texas, and writes, “Still Louisiana Office of Conservation, before address of [email protected], is a consulting enjoying retirement in the beautiful Texas whom I appeared for 16 years as ‘expert geologist in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and Hill Country.”

99 Paul K. Smith (B.S., 1984) is an exercise hope to return to the States and finish my orange.’ Look forward to those fall weekends physiologist and hatha yoga instructor at Master’s at Baylor with Professor Karen attending football games with my dad (B.S., North Austin Medical Center in Austin, Carter. Honk ’em Horns!” 1961), son, and brother. Cameron (son) Texas, with an e-mail address of wants to be the first UT ice hockey player!” [email protected]. Jean Stark (B.A., 1940) is retired in College Station, Texas. Michael W. Strickler (B.S., 1978) is Traci Trauba Smith (B.S., 1985) is an Senior Vice-President of Exploration and office administrator in Lake Jackson, Texas, Walter W. Stein (B.S., 1952, M.S., 1952) is Land with Mariner Energy, Inc., in Houston, e-mail address [email protected]. an independent oil producer in Dallas, Texas. Texas. E-mail address is mstrickler@mariner_energy.com. Frederick C. Smyth (B.S., 1947) is retired Burgess Stengl (B.S., 1985) is a geologist in Dallas, Texas. with the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Hal Stubblefield (B.A., 1954) retired in Commission. He writes, “I am still working 1998 and lives in Kingwood, Texas. He Jairo Marcondes de Souza (M.A., 1982) in municipal solid waste permits at the TNRCC, writes, “Wife Barbara and I are still going resides in Brazil. and Angela is still teaching second grade. strong. Gardening, golfing, traveling, and Our son, Kyle, was born on August 2, 1998, seven grandkids keep us busy.” Stephen W. Speer (M.S., 1983) is general the day after Shara turned 18 and moved out partner at Speerex Limited Partnership in to go to UT Austin. Susan is doing great in Martin Stupel (B.S., 1988) is Manager of Roswell, New Mexico, and writes, “All is gymnastics and will be in the seventh grade. Program Development for Western Geophysi- well with the Speer household. We have They say having a baby will keep you young. cal in Houston, Texas, e-mail address is truly been blessed. As far as the oil patch However, I often question that saying! Life is [email protected], and writes, goes, I prefer to see a half full cup. Still very interesting with a sophomore in college, “Enjoying bumping into alumni in all areas of staying busy working on numerous projects a near teenager, and one learning how to the world. Most recent endeavor has been all over the place. Visited Austin this spring. crawl. I’ll let you know how things are going revising course material for SEG class— You have grown considerably.” E-mail is next year if we survive.” Planning and Executing a Marine 3-D [email protected]. Survey.” Tom Stidham (B.S., 1995) published a short Fred Spindle (B.S., 1949) is retired in Sugar paper in the November 5, 1998, issue of Colin D. Sumrall (M.A., 1991, Ph.D., Land, Texas, and writes, “We soldier on! This Nature describing a lower jaw fragment from 1996) informs us that he is Curator of difficulty in recalling whatever we are trying a possible parrot, the oldest Invertebrate Paleontology at Cincinnati to recall has its good points. Now we can occurrence of this avian group known from Museum Center in Cincinnati, Ohio. E-mail hide our own Easter eggs! Given our age and the fossil record. Tom is now a Ph.D. student address is [email protected]. weight, we are in pretty good shape and at the University of California, Berkeley. trying to enjoy whatever comes down the W. C. (Dub) Swadley (M.A., 1952) is pike.” Jim Stimac (M.A., 1983) is Geoscience retired in Littleton, Colorado, and writes, Coordinator with Geothermal Energy in the “No news, just retired.” Bill St. John (B.S., 1958, M.A., 1960, Ph.D., Philippines and writes, “We moved to the 1965) is manager of New Ventures of Vanco Philippines in May of 1998 and welcomed Cindy Swinbank (B.S., 1971) and Energy Company in Houston, Texas, has an Cameron into the world in September. He Tom Swinbank (B.S., 1971) reside in e-mail address of [email protected], and seems to be enjoying life in Asia so far, Georgetown, Texas. Cindy is a science writes, “Vanco Energy concentrating on West despite the economic downturn. Geothermal teacher, and Tom is a consulting geologist. Africa Deep Water (1,000 – 10,000 feet). continues to struggle along, despite low They write, “Tom is working for Winn New. Different. Exciting. Have two blocks energy demands and prices. The volcanoes Exploration in Corpus Christi and Welder- offshore Gabon; one off Morocco. Negotiat- and coral reefs are fun–come visit.” E-mail Heger Energy in San Antonio. Kids: Chris ing for five in other West African countries at address is jstimac@1_manila.com.ph. is moving to La Grange to start his own this time.” business. Sam started Viridion Engineering in William T. Stokes (B.S., 1950) is President Austin. Hannah is a junior in Interior Design Theodore Stanzel (B.S., 1956), President of Stex Energy Company in Dallas, Texas, and in Austin at UT. Claire is All-WAC playing of Victor Stanzel Company and President writes, “Another year in the oil patch. It has basketball at San Diego State. Joe is going of the Stanzel Family Foundation in been great to see Bill Lacy and Jack Frizzell. into the ninth grade.” Their e-mail address is Schulenburg, Texas, writes, “In business to Fifi and I have a new grandchild, Emily Ann [email protected]. provide airplane toys for the air-minded, Stokes. Brad is the father, and he is Regional young and old. Come to Schulenburg to Manager and Geologist for his firm in Corpus James B. Tartt (B.S., 1948) is retired in view the museum which has on exhibit 30 Christi.” Bill is a member of the Geology Houston, Texas, and writes, “Best wishes to static displays of the history of model aircraft Foundation Advisory Council. all UT alumni.” designed by Victor and Joe Stanzel.” Mike Stowbridge (B.S., 1982) lives in George W. Taylor (B.A., 1949) is a retired Colleen P. Stapleton (M.A., 1991), a Ph.D. Abilene, Texas, is a well-site geologist/ Exxon geologist-rancher-pilot of WWII student at the Department of Geology at the mudlogger with Geosite, Inc. in San Angelo, aircraft. University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia, Texas, and writes, “I continue to serve the writes, “After graduating from UT, I moved to independent oil producers in West Texas. Dick Teel (B.S., 1941) is a geological London and worked in Her Majesty’s Civil Constant worry over oil prices characterizes systems consultant in Houston, Texas, e-mail Service as a geologist at the British Museum most of us here.” address [email protected], and writes, (the one with the mummies). In January “Still working for P.I., now IHS Energy. Still 1999, I started at UGA’s geoarchaeology Robert E. Stowers (B.S., 1961) is an hunt and photo in Africa each year. Going to program to continue my research on re- international petroleum exploration consult- Namibia in July, will hunt and also photo in constructing ancient Egyptian glassmaking ant in Houston, Texas. Etosha game park.” technology. Igneous petrology has many applications!” E-mail address is Robert E. Stowers, II (B.A., 1986) is Eilene Theilig (B.S., 1976) is Project [email protected]. Environmental Project Manager with Mustang Element Manager with the Jet Propulsion Engineers and writes, “New job opportunity Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and Mike Starcher (B.A., 1988) is unemployed presents challenge of starting an environmen- writes, “It has been an exciting ten years and and writes, “Got laid off from British Gas in tal services group for Mustang Engineers. I’m the Galileo Spacecraft is still flying. I now January. My visa runs out in August, so I proud to say I now have my son ‘bleeding manage the Spacecraft and Sequence Team,

100 which is responsible for spacecraft operations “Continuing my consultant work to two oil Robert Chan Tysor (B.A., 1952) is a and building the commands telling it what to companies. Working with 3-D seismic consultant to CICO Oil & Gas Company in do. Even though I vicariously get to tour the continues to be exciting. Will be looking Houston, Texas, and resides in Sugar Land, Jupiter system, I miss the field trips to Big forward to the next Newsletter.” Texas. Bend.” Robert F. Travis (B.A., 1957) is retired in James R. Underwood, Jr. (M.A., 1956, George L. Thomas (M.A., 1960) is retired Corpus Christi, Texas, and, “Still working Ph.D., 1962) lives in Austin, Texas. He is in San Antonio, Texas, and writes, “Well, I’ve hard at not working.” Professor Emeritus at Kansas State University finally retired (November 30, 1998), and I and Visiting Scholar at The University of already know that it doesn’t suit me at all. Jennifer Winkler Truax (B.S., 1992), e- Texas at Austin. He may be e-mailed at So, I’m looking for some other employment mail: [email protected], writes from Rowlett, [email protected]. He informs us, “Margaret to keep me busy. Eloise is well and still Texas, “After leaving ARCO in January 1999, I Ann and I are enjoying our new home in working. Three children and five grandchil- decided to change career paths and hang up Austin and new and old friends. What an dren are also well. We are building a house the old hiking boots and hardhats. I am interesting community in which to live, a bit in the country, near Bergheim, Texas. Should currently working on my Oracle Database different from the one we left in 1962 to go to move in July or August 1999.” E-mail address Administration Certifications at Southern Baghdad with Dr. and Mrs. Bullard and others is [email protected]. Methodist University. I will be finishing with of the UT program there. Our major news the certifications in June 1999.” since last year is a new son-in-law and a new Karen (Bergeron) Thompson (B.S., granddaughter. Greetings to all.” 1992) is an environmental specialist with the Arthur J. (Art) Tschoepe (B.S., 1951) is Department of Environmental Quality in an independent geologist and oil operator in Paulus H. Van Der Ven (M.A., 1983) Helena, Montana, with an e-mail address of Leakey, Texas, and writes, “Still working and writes, “After four years in London, acting as [email protected]. giving my oil and gas away and enjoying my the Exploration Manager for PETROBRAS UK wonderful family.” in the North Sea, I am now in the same M. Gary Thompson (B.S., 1975, M.A., function as the head for exploration for 1977) resides in The Woodlands, Texas, is James J. (Jeff) Tucker (B.S., 1948) is PETROBRAS in the Espirito Santo-Mucuri Venture Operations Advisor with Exxon retired in Jackson, Mississippi. Basin, southeastern Brazil. After a lot of work Exploration Co. in Houston, Texas, and in seismic and drilling, we are finding a lot of writes, “Presently involved with operations in John D. Tuohy (B.S., 1939), retired in oil and gas. Deep waters are coming next, a dozen venture offices in overseas locations. Canyon Lake, Texas, writes us, “Still enjoying probably with a lot of excitement, like our The work is challenging enough without the retirement on this Texas Hill Country site and neighboring Campos Basin. Now that Brazil added civil wars, coups, diseases, etc.” still making our annual trek to Ireland–a great has opened up for exploration by foreign place. The people, the scenery, the pubs just companies, I have already met some ex-UT Bert C. Timm (M.A., 1941) is retired and can’t be beat. Kids and grandkids are doing alumni, which is a great pleasure.” lives in Plano, Texas, and writes, “We very well. On April 2, Evelyn and I cel- enjoyed our cruise to Canada so much last ebrated our 50th wedding anniversary. It’s a James B. Vanderhill (Ph.D., 1986) and year that we plan to go to Quebec again this great life.” Amy Laura Vanderhill (B.S., 1983) reside fall for foliage and fabulous ‘New France.’ in Houston, Texas. James is a staff geologist Tectonic geology from a St. Lawrence Neil L. Turner (Ph.D., 1970), a petroleum with Mobil Exploration & Producing U.S. Inc. seaway westbound cruise ship, Laurentian consultant in Fulshear, Texas, writes, “1998 in The Woodlands, Texas, e-mail address Pre-Cambrian, to the north, Appalachian was my second year working on my own on [email protected]. Amy carbonates to the south, following a conti- carbonate fields and exploration. I partici- is a district geologist with Pogo Producing nental subduction fault. The late glacier pated in the Amoco Cotton Valley reef play in Company in Houston, Texas, e-mail address gouged out the schist in the fault zone and East Texas in the first half of the year. [email protected]. They write, “We are still formed the valley. Myrna enjoyed the fall Continuing field studies.” in Houston, coping with decreased budgets foliage, whales, Quebec, and the Montreal and increased uncertainty. Jim is working underground shopping because it rained M. LeeRoy Tydlaska (B.A., 1949, M.A., South Louisiana onshore for Mobil and Amy that day.” 1951) is retired from Amoco and writes us is working South Texas onshore for Pogo. from Metairie, Louisiana, “No news at this After lots of activity last year, things have William E. Tipton (B.S., 1949, M.A., 1951) time. I have decided to stay retired, even as slowed down considerably. By the time you is a retired artist, residing in Ridgeway, the petroleum industry seems on the way to read this, who knows what our situation will Colorado. He writes, “Julie and I are another recovery. I had to miss the mock be? But in any case, we are hoping to stay in celebrating our 50th this year with a cruise/ Amoco funeral, but the casket burned the Houston area for the foreseeable future. tour to Alaska! Otherwise, I spend most of brightly, I am told.” The girls (Ceili, Shannon, and Meagan) are my time in front of the easel slinging the 10, 8, and almost 6, and will be starting fifth, brush!” E-mail is [email protected]. Grace Nell Tyner (M.A., 1979, Ph.D., third, and first grades in the fall. They are 1984) is with the Texas Natural Resource looking forward to a great summer of fishing, Douglas N. Toepperwein (B.S., 1974) Conservation Commission (TNRCC), lives since we didn’t have any hard freezes this lives Fair Oaks, Texas, and is a geologist with in Austin, Texas, and writes, “Dennis and I winter.” Sage Energy Company in San Antonio, Texas. moved to Houston, Texas, in 1993 when I E-mail address is [email protected]. was offered a position as a group leader for Tracy Vaught (B.S., 1980) is owner of an environmental consulting firm. Then in Backstreet Café, Prego in Houston, Texas, and Elsworth (El) Tonn (B.S., 1955) is 1996, I became a Project Manager in the writes, “Daughter, Sophia Elizabeth, is now 2. President/CEO of KAMEL Corporation in Superfund Cleanup Section of the TNRCC, Looking forward to our second visit to cook Houston, Texas. and we made it back to Austin. I have just at the James Beard House in New York in moved into the Corrective Action Section August.” Everette J. Travis (M.A., 1951) is retired of the TNRCC as a Senior Project Manager, and, “Still living on Lake Buchanan in Llano and I’m looking forward to the new Van N. Veenstra (B.S., 1974) is Geological County. Lake is down, but fishing has been challenges that will bring. Dennis and I Services Manager with Exxon Exploration great! Experienced the geology of Alaska and just finished having a house built in north- Company in Houston, Texas, and writes, “In western Canada last summer.” west Austin. Ask me if I’ll ever do that again! spite of $12.00 oil, Exxon Exploration I hope to catch up with old friends now that continues to be very active worldwide, with Lloyd R. Travis, Jr. (B.A., 1948) is a the house is finished, and life should return recent large discoveries offshore West Africa, consultant in Houston, Texas, and writes, to normal.” and ongoing operations in Trinidad, Peru,

101 Sakhalin, the Caspian Sea, and Kuwait, children, and nine grandchildren! I still Ralph H. Warner (M.A., 1961), retired in among others. Anxiously awaiting 1) the appreciate the good work and news of the Kingwood, Texas, writes, “Everything much price of oil to go back up, and 2) the pending Newsletter. Geology is still very interesting.” the same as last year. Will Y2K change Mobil merger. My wife (Cheryl) and two anything? Probably not. See you next teenagers (Adam and Eric) continue to keep David A. Wallace (B.S., 1986) lives in century.” life quite interesting.” Austin, Texas, will be starting with the Executive Development Program (EDGE) with L. Coy Warren (B.S., 1948) is semi-retired Harry A. Vest (M.A., 1959) is retired in U.S. West, Inc. in Denver, Colorado, and lets in Abilene, Texas, and writes, “My stepson Houston, Texas, with an e-mail address of us know, “Just finished the two-year UT (Greg King) and I still drill some oil wells [email protected], and writes, “What a M.B.A. program and will be starting my new each year. It’s still fun after 50 years. football season we had last year (1998). high-tech life in Denver. Was accepted into Enjoyed reunion of class of 1947 and 1948.” Didn’t see many of my old classmates but an executive development program, which had one hell-of-a-good-time, especially at the will provide a good overview of the telecom Leslie Leland Warren (B.S., 1985) lives in UT-OU game. Are they having a 40th reunion industry during the first two years. Going Katy, Texas, is an E & P Workflow Consultant this year for the Class of 1959?” into the data side of the business, where I will with Schlumberger GeoQuest in Houston, be marketing Intranet and Internet solutions Texas, and writes, “It’s hard to believe 14 R. B. Vickers (B.S., 1947) writes, “Retired to large business and government customers. years have passed since the 660 GeoDogs of in Abilene, Texas. Two daughters, one If ever in Denver, please look me up, 1985 said goodbye! I have been with teaching in Ellensburg, Washington, the other especially in ski season! I’ll always have Schlumberger for eight years now, and I’m retiring from sales of advertising, living in an open room.” E-mail address is still enjoying it. Scott and I stay busy keeping Round Rock, Texas. Two grandsons, both [email protected]. up with our 7-year-old sports enthusiast, married, both working. Married now 55 Kyle–soccer, basketball, and baseball games years to the same fine wife. Can it be?” F. B. Wallis (B.S., 1941), a geophysicist on Saturdays, along with ski trips in the E-mail address is [email protected]. retired from Texaco, Inc., writes, “Retired, winter and camping in the spring and fall taking things easy, and living in Rosenberg, fill our plates. We had fun this New Year’s J. Mac Vilas (B.S., 1984) is a technical Texas, to be near my daughter, who is a Day at the Cotton Bowl cheering on our specialist with the Texas Natural Resource geophysicist employed by Texaco, Inc. favorite team and our neighbor’s son- Conservation Commission, in Austin, Texas. Eldest son is a Methodist minister in Florida. Hook ’Em!” E-mail address is E-mail address is [email protected]. Younger son is stock manager in New [email protected]. Orleans, Louisiana.” William Vrana (B.A., 1939) is retired in John Allen Watson (B.S., 1956), retired Corpus Christi, Texas, and writes, “No Anne H. Walton (M.A., 1986) lives in from the Texas Natural Resource Conserva- exciting news to report, just reporting for Granby, Massachusetts, is a Visiting Scientist tion Commission, is a geologist and hydrolo- the roll call. Still make most of the local at Pratt Museum of Natural History at gist with Creation Evidence Museum in Glen geological society luncheons to keep up-to- Amherst College, and writes, “My son, Rose, Texas, lives in Austin, Texas, and date with newly developing technology and Alexander, is almost 3 years old, and in May, reports, “Creation Evidence Museum keeps to visit with old friends.” I will be attending the International Confer- on excavating about one human footprint ence on Neotropical Cenozoic Evolution in (per forensic experts) for three tridactyl Martin James Wachel, Jr. (B.S., 1956) is La Paz, Bolivia. Keep up the good work.” dinosaur tracks excavated in Cretaceous retired in Laird Hill, Texas, and “Enjoying Glen Rose Limestone near Glen Rose, Texas. retirement and Newsletter. Presently serving Bernie Ward (B.A., 1955) is a geologist in But ‘mainstream,’ elitist secular scientists, as School Board Trustee for my old high Tyler, Texas, and writes, “Look for the silver numbed by evolutionary theory, continue to school, which I attended (Leverett’s Chapel lining. West Texas intermediate crude make ‘armchair’ decisions as to what the High School).” climbing!” footprints really are, or make no decision at all. Is there no one that will come dirty their A. H. Wadsworth, Jr. (B.S., 1941, M.A., Bill Ward (B.S., 1955, M.A., 1957) and hands, preferring evidence to speculation? 1941) is an independent geologist in Kathy Ward (B.S., 1957) reside in Autumn We’re getting reports of frozen dinosaur Houston, Texas, and writes, “After 57 years as Glen, Texas, and write, “Kathy continues as bones taken out of the Alaskan tundra. Later a practicing geologist, I still go to work every Curriculum Specialist at Our Lady of the Lake we may be examining these and asking day because I enjoy it.” University for a NASA grant for training appropriate questions concerning their middle-school teachers in earth and space indicated age: too young?” Tommy Waggoner (B.A., 1957) is C.O.B. science. Bill made ‘last’ trip to Mallorca; still of Waggoner Barbados, Ltd. and lives in going to Mexico with J. L. Wilson, and getting Gerald E. Weber (M.A., 1968) is a self- Spicewood, Texas. He writes, “Still trying to involved in Cibolo Nature Center.” Their employed consultant geologist and lecturer in learn how to retire. Stay active on our e-mail address is [email protected]. Earth Sciences at the University of Southern Barbados development project. My wife and California, and writes from Santa Cruz, “Still I love living on Lake Travis and enjoying UT Dan L. Ward (B.A., 1949, M.A., 1950) is teaching summer field at UCSC and working sports events.” His e-mail address is retired in Grand Junction, Colorado. as an expert witness. Trying to spend as [email protected]. much time as possible rafting, scuba diving, David A. Wark (M.A., 1983, Ph.D., 1989) and drinking beer. Not bad for a dummy, Hershel Walker (B.S., 1950) is in Corpus is a Research Associate Professor with huh?” E-mail address is Christi, Texas, and writes, “Retired since July Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, [email protected]. 1996. Have enjoyed hunting, fishing, golf, New York, has an e-mail address of and travel since then. Thanks for the [email protected], and writes, “Having left Nelson Webernick (M.A., 1952) is a self- Newsletter; helps to keep up with old school Austin, Texas, over 10 years ago to accept a employed petroleum geologist in Midland, mates.” ‘temporary,’ soft-money position in upstate Texas. New York, I’m still here to this day. With a Joe Dudgeon Walker, Jr. (B.S., 1951, mortgage, wife Cris, and two delightful Chas Weiner (B.A., 1948), e-mail M.A., 1954) is “Retired but still keep up a few munchkins (aged 3 and almost 1), plus a [email protected], is “Trying to retire” in Houston, Wilcox maps.” He resides in Houston, Texas, vegetable garden with the requisite assort- Texas, and also writes, “Dry hole in south- and further writes, “Things have stayed much ment of hot peppers, I seem to be settling in west France. Discovery in Australia, drilling the same, which is very good these days with more every day. Still miss, however, Austin, coalbed methane wells in Ordos Basin, so many of my contemporaries having passed the UT DOGS, and the good times had at China. Family health good. Thank God.” on. Good health for me, my wife, three the Posse East…..”

102 Bonnie R. Weise (B.S., 1974, M.S., 1979) is Senior Explorationist at Venus Exploration, Inc., in San Antonio, Texas. Her e-mail address is [email protected].

Brian Wenzel (B.S., 1997) is a geophysicist in Richmond, Texas. E-mail address is [email protected].

Jim Westgate (Ph.D., 1988), an Associate Professor of Geology in the Geology Department of Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas, writes, “I am the 1999-2000 President of the Texas Academy of Science and invite everyone to our Y2K meeting the first Friday of March 2000 at Texas A & M University in Kingsville.” E-mail address is [email protected].

David J. White (B.S., 1941) is retired. He writes, “My wife and I are getting old. That is, we have two young great-grandsons. Actually, physically, we are both very healthy, hale, and hearty.”

Hugh G. White, III (B.S., 1952) is a retired geologist and college student in Midland, Mark Norman and Greg hard at work on mapping project, summer 1986. Photo Texas, and writes us, “Becoming inured to provided by David A. Wallace. retirement with my two new knees. Taking courses and accumulating knowledge at Midland College. New degrees in English, History, and Economics. An idle mind is the Roger Wiggin (M.A., 1987), e-mail address made it back to the Austin area–Lake Travis to devil’s workshop (I’m in the apprentice [email protected], resides in Englewood, be exact!” program). Marvelous Newsletter. Keep it Colorado, and writes, “Finally made it to up!” E-mail address is [email protected]. Denver—my native Colorado family is Robert R. Williams (B.S., 1954) is a ecstatic. Currently Vice-President of consultant in Dallas, Texas, and writes, Jane Brite Dunkle White (B.A., 1946) is Exploration and Development at Tipperary “Look forward to hearing news from a cattle rancher at the Brite Ranch in Marfa, Corp, active in the Rockies, Permian, and everyone. Eight grandchildren and holding Texas, and writes, “We’re dry, need rain– Gulf Coast Basins, plus C.B.M. in Australia. at latest count.” cattle market terrible! One of you come find Run into John Curchin (working on a Ph.D. at some oil, gas, gold, or silver for us. Please!” Colorado University) and Joel Schneyas Charles R. Williamson (Ph.D., 1978) (President of Mercantile Resource Finance) resides in Villa Park, California, is Executive Leslie P. White (B.S., 1956) is a consultant occasionally.” Vice President of International Energy, Unocal in Austin, Texas, e-mail [email protected], Corporation in El Segundo, California, and and writes, “Dianne and I continue to enjoy John A. Wilcox (B.S., 1990) is a geologist/ writes, “Trying to weather the down cycle. life in Austin. Thanks for the Newsletter that chemist with LATA in Los Alamos, New Seems more demanding every year but still keeps us all together.” Mexico. He writes, “Howdy, everyone. I am finding oil and gas, seeing lots of Asia, and currently working in support of the environ- enjoying the international business. Oldest Steve White (B.S., 1978) reports, “Still mental restoration program at Los Alamos son at university in Washington (Whitman) enjoying consulting for the oil business in National Labs. In addition, my wife Suzanne but no interest in geoscience!” E-mail Tyler, Texas.” and I are raising a couple of aspiring address is [email protected]. paleontologists (dinosaur fossil junkies). Fred L. Whitney (B.S., 1943) is retired in Hook ’em Horns!” His e-mail address is J. B. Willman (B.S., 1979) lives in Brady, Kerrville, Texas, and writes, “Greetings to all [email protected]. Texas, is a consultant in Houston, Texas, and friends, old and new. Write if you wish. I writes, “The 315-mile commute from Brady promise to reply.” James Richard Williams (B.S., 1950) is to Houston is beginning to get old, but there retired in Bullard, Texas, and writes, “Doing is no place like Houston to sell a prospect.” Jim Whitten (B.S., 1956) is a self-employed fine. Still golf, fish, and hunt. Also, visit petroleum geologist in Midland, Texas, and children and grandchildren in Minnesota, Clayton H. Wilson (B.S., 1983, writes, “I’m still prospecting for gas in Colorado, and Austin. I have appreciated M.A., 1985), e-mail address Midland.” this Newsletter since graduation in 1950.” [email protected], lives in Humble, Texas, works in Houston, Texas, for Exxon Frederick W. Wiegand, Jr. (B.S., 1969) is Jefferson Williams (B.A., 1988) is a Exploration Company, and writes, “I have a substitute teacher with an e-mail address of consultant with Borehole Acoustics and been working offshore Brazil for the last two [email protected] in Lockhart, Texas, and Microseismics and lives in Los Angeles, years. My first son, Lance (who was born writes,“Family is okay.” California, with an e-mail address of while I was in graduate school), is now as [email protected]. tall as I am, and likely to pass me soon!” Warren James Wiemann (B.S., 1998) lives in Austin, Texas, and is a field Larry E. Williams (B.S., 1978) lives in Douglas H. Wilson (B.S., 1980) lives in geophysicist with Western Geophysical in Spicewood, Texas, is an explorationist Spring, Texas, is employed as a Senior Houston, Texas. E-mail address is with Ballard Exploration Co., in Houston, Principal Geologist at Vastar Resources, Inc. [email protected]. Texas, and writes, “After 20 years, I finally in Houston, Texas, e-mail [email protected],

103 and writes, “I am working Mississippi Heartland Network (Blanco River sauropod Phil Wyche (B.S., 1951) lives in Austin, Canyon and Desoto Canyon in the trackways and Glen Rose paleoenvirons) and Texas, and is retired from Gulf Oil Corpora- Deepwater Gulf of Mexico. Becky and for Wild Basin Wilderness Preserve (Geology tion. Phil is a member of the Geology Rachel are doing very well. Rachel and of Wild Basin Trails). Glad to welcome Ted Foundation Advisory Council. I are enjoying camping with the Indian Longgood and Jim Underwood back to the Princess program.” Austin area and into the Austin Geological Bob Wynne (B.A., 1957) is an independent Society. Another pleasant surprise is that my consultant in Fort Worth, Texas, and writes, William Feathergail Wilson (B.S., 1960, Apache Mountain field assistant (1962), Phil “Maintaining health more a concern than oil M.A., 1962) is President of Strata Geological Koepp, is also back in town!” prices. Would be great to have both!” Services in Tarpley, Texas. He resides in Bandera, Texas, and his e-mail address is Robert L. Wood, Jr. (B.A., 1956) is retired John C. Yeager (M.A., 1960) is an [email protected]. He writes to let us know in Houston, Texas, and writes, “Doing some independent geologist in Lafayette, Louisiana. he is, “Semi-retired, teaching, working on a consulting.” new in the Hill Country, Susan Wygart Young (M.A., 1985) is a consulting as an expert witness, chief LeRoy Woollett (M.A., 1951) is in geological advisor with Conoco, Inc. and hydrogeologist for EFSI, running samples on Houston, Texas, and writes, “Still an active writes, “We’re moving to Houston, Texas, in water wells in Bandera County, and is an representative for Aetna. Grandson at Baylor, June with Conoco. Caroline is 8 and Conrad environmental and petroleum geologist.” grandson at UT Austin, and granddaughter at 7 (first and third graders). I worked the University of Kansas. Daughter Edie at the Williston Basin (Lodgepole) until September; Wynant S. Wilson (Attended 1953) writes U.S. Embassy in Moscow.” currently in the San Juan Basin, and will from Abilene, Texas, “To survive I have begin working South Texas in June.” E-mail had to switch into gas exploration and Charles J. Worrel (B.S., 1951) lives in San address is [email protected]. development.” Antonio, Texas, is employed by Worrel Exploration, Inc. with e-mail address of William C. Young (B.A., 1961) is in Marc D. Wink (B.S., 1985) lives in [email protected], and lets us know, Hemphill, Texas, and writes, “Still enjoying Houston, Texas, is a manager with EnFORM “It is difficult to write these personal notes retirement on Toledo Bend Lake. Fishing, Technology, LLC, and has an e-mail address about yourself. Here goes. I have been a bridge, golf, and chess occupy most of my of [email protected]. consulting and exploration geologist for 44 time.” years—all types of consulting work—and Kurt Wiseman (B.S., 1976) lives in participated in approximately 20 discoveries Xiaomei (Mei) Zhou (B.S., 1997) resides Houston, Texas, and writes, “Since oil and over many years, with varying degrees of in Austin, Texas, works as an onboard marine gas prices are down and business slowing, economic success. We have four children, processor (geophysics) on the Polar Princess I guess I will fish and dive offshore all graduates of the University of Texas—two (Veritas DGC) out of Houston, Texas, and more.” E-mail address is All-American swimmers and two Phi Beta writes, “The job I have is ideal for those B.S. [email protected]. Kappas. We are very proud of our associa- graduates who are flexible and who are tion with the University of Texas. Many looking for an alternative working environ- Megan McCrary Wisersky (M.A., 1985) memories flow through my mind when I ment. The best thing about this job is you get resides in Stoughton, Wisconsin. She is a struggle to express what is in my heart. six months out of a year vacation time! And Senior Analyst with Madison Gas & Electric Particularly our contact with classmates the pay is great!” The e-mail address is in Madison, Wisconsin, and writes, “Busy through reunions. You all should be very [email protected]. handling electric deregulation issues or how proud of the department you have created to take a monopoly and make it a competi- and carried on through the years. My best.” Francis Scott Zimmer (B.S., 1986) lives in tive entity. My husband, Dave, and my son, Vernon, New York, is Director of Environ- Tom, now 4 years old, insure that I’m always Danny Worrell (B.S., 1980) is an attorney mental Laboratory/Environmental Consultant on the go. Best regards to all.” Her e-mail with Brown McCarroll and Oaks Hartline with Hygeia of New York, Inc. in Utica, New address is [email protected]. L.L.P., in Austin, Texas. He writes, “Gail (Gail York, and writes, “Hello GeoBuddies–hope Fisher 1982) and I have two children–Sophie all are doing well. Melanie and I are doing Ed Wolcott (B.S., 1966) is President of Edco (age 4) and Anna (age 3). Gail does environ- well with our Greyhound, Gale, and our Petroleum, Inc. in Dallas, Texas, and writes, mental regulatory compliance for a major oil home in snow country (mild this year). Did “Trying to live on low price oil no thanks to company.” some fossil collecting around New York State President Clinton and Senator Phil Gramm, this past year. More involved with environ- who believe we should work for nothing so Steve Wright (M.A., 1980) lives in Eagle mental geology at work.” E-mail address is they can chase girls and serve chemical River, Alaska, is Senior Staff Exploration [email protected]. companies.” Geologist with Chevron U.S.A. in Anchorage, and writes, “My family and I have been in Robert L. Zinn (B.A., 1952, M.A., 1953) is Amy Wood (B.S., 1985) is a programmer/ Anchorage for a year and a half now, and the owner of Zinn Petroleum Company in analyst in Austin, Texas, with an e-mail we’ve enjoyed every minute…great geology, Houston, Texas, and writes, “Though the ‘oil address of [email protected]. spectacular scenery, and incredible wildlife. patch’ is getting a bit quiet, I continue to Stop by if you’re up our way.” E-mail address participate in exploration. I believe that John W. Wood (Ph.D., 1965) is retired and is [email protected]. petroleum that is found now will be worth writes, “Still located in Sunset Canyon Sub- more in the near future.” division near Dripping Springs, Texas. After Lori Wrotenbery (B.S., 1980) is Director of career in petroleum industry, have enjoyed the Oil Conservation Division of the Energy, recent forays into ‘general’ geology in form of Minerals & Natural Resources Department in lectures and field trips given for L.B.J. Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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Beached boats in Port Lavaca following Hurricane Carla, September 1961.

Photo provided by Ernest L. Lundelius.