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The Outcrop2014-15 The Outcrop 2014-15 Chair’s Letter, Harold Tobin...................................................1 The Outcrop, 2014-15 Board of Visitors’ Report, Doug Connell ...............................2 John Valley–Faculty liaison ([email protected]) Gifts, 2014 .................................................................................3 Mary Diman–Editor, graphics, production ([email protected]) Distinguished Alumni Awards for 2015 ...............................4-5 Bob Dott–Department historian ([email protected]) Outstanding Gifts .....................................................................5 ©2015 Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System Students in the Field Spring Break, Shanan Peters .........................................6 A Seminar Field Trip .......................................................7 Alumni and Friends: Please notify the department if you Undergrad GeoClub Fall Trip .........................................7 have a mailing address or email address change. The UW Summer Field Work, Shaun Marcott ..................................8-9 Alumni Association or US Postal service may not share Cosmogenic Isotope Lab Renovation ...................................10 new information with us. Degrees Awarded ..................................................................11 We’d like to hear from you! Send professional and personal Bailey (贝利) in China: A Precious Benefit, Huifang Xu .. 12 updates, feedback, news and photos In the News, Honors and Acknowledgements ...............13-14 for Outcrop 2015-16 (will be published fall 2016) to: Student Awards and Scholarships .........................................14 The Outcrop c/o Mary Diman GLE Report, William J. Likos ................................................15 Email: [email protected] Geofuels: Energy and the Earth, Alan Caroll .....................16 1215 W. Dayton St., Room 239 Cover: Getting the Big Picture from Madison, WI 53706 Small Spots in Tiny Microfossils, Clay Kelly ................17 Alumni News .....................................................................18-19 The Outcrop on the web: In Memoriam ..........................................................................19 http://geoscience.wisc.edu/geoscience/alumni-friends/ Faculty News for 2014-15 ..................................................20-25 outcrop/ Emeritus Faculty News for 2014-15 .................................26-27 The New CAMECA .................................................................28 The Outcrop is produced in the Department of Geoscience and NCGSA Meeting .....................................................................28 supported entirely by alumni gift funds. HiRes 2015 ..............................................................................29 Published October 2015. Printed on 100% recycled paper. AbGradCon .............................................................................29 The Geology Museum ...........................................................30 50th Anniversary of Field Camp ............................................31 Department of Geoscience Gifts to the Department, 2014 ..............................................32 University of Wisconsin-Madison Speakers in 2014 ...........................................Inside back cover Lewis G. Weeks Hall for Geological Sciences 1215 West Dayton Street Madison, Wisconsin 53706-1692 Phone: 608-262-8960 Save the Dates for these Alumni Events Fax: 608-262-0693 Please join us: E-mail: [email protected] Geobadger Alumni Receptions at national meetings: www.geoscience.wisc.edu • AAPG Calgary, Alberta, Canada; June 19-22, 2016 • GSA in Denver, September 25-28, 2016 NEW! We have a quarterly email newsletter. geoscience.wisc.edu/geoscience/newsandevents/e-newsletter Send an email to [email protected] to receive our department’s e-newsletter. Cover Illustration: Magnified image of 56 million year old shell of a planktonic foraminifer grown near sea surface cemented to diagenetic crystals composed of optical grade calcite that precipitated on sea floor. Note numerous blades of secondary (diagenetic) calcite protruding from shell surface. Materials recovered from deep-sea core taken atop seamount located in central Pacific Ocean (image courtesy Reinhard Kozdon). See page 17 for Clay Kelly’s article. From the Chair Dear Alumni and Friends– days with his geologist I am excited to be able to introduce this year’s edition of The brother Dean. It was quite Outcrop recapping an eventful year in Weeks Hall and for a finale for a celebration of GeoBadgers all over the world. You’ve likely heard about some a remarkable year. of the budget challenges the UW faces with state government Another real milestone: tightening its belt; Even though we face our share of the cuts, I am Professor Dana Geary happy to be able to report that we have more than made up for retired in 2015 after 29 them through ever-more-robust activity. years on the faculty, In the fall semester of 2015 we welcomed another large group and immediately headed out to hike seemingly every trail in the of new graduate students, bringing the population up to 70 in all. Colorado Rockies and California’s Sierra Nevada (more about Undergraduate numbers remain at highs not seen since the 1980s Dana’s retirement in the Outcrop for 2015-16). Her hiking boots as well, with 56 bachelor’s degrees granted in this past academic will be hard to fill around here. The state budget cuts mean we’ll year! This continues to challenge us on the teaching front (how have to be patient through a hiring freeze before we can seek a do you run a Mineralogy class, now with 90 students?!), but the new faculty member to maintain our full strength. generosity of our alumni and friends (you) has allowed us to keep Perhaps the most long-lasting highlights of this eventful year will offering those hands-on lab and field experiences. be two major new endowed funds that we are happy to announce. We’ve had many highlights this past year inside and outside First, the very generous sustained effort made by Sherry and David of the walls of Weeks Hall. We’ve welcomed Luke Zoet (glacial Lesar to endow the Geology Museum Directorship (see page 5), processes) as our newest faculty member. Shaun Marcott’s team with a gift matched by the Morgridge Fund to make a total of did a truly adventurous field project in Greenland (pg. 8), the nearly $4 million, will finally place our gem of a museum on richly- Laguna del Maule project in Chile saw a very active field season deserved secure financial footing. Our stellar museum staff will be with many faculty members and students riding in boats, on horses, able to do even bigger and better things. Second, Jamie and Stella and in 4WD trucks, not to mention on foot, to pull off the multi- Robertson have just recently created a new Graduate Fellowship disciplinary integrated study of this potentially awakening caldera endowed fund that takes advantage of the Nicholas Family system. GeoBadgers were seemingly everywhere, even featured as matching opportunity (still open!) to help us keep our graduate the cover story in GSA Today two months in a row with the Chile program as strong as it can be. project followed by Richard Becker’s Ph.D. project on the joint We are deeply appreciative of the generosity of the Lesars, the systems of Yosemite’s Toulumne Meadows region in the High Robertsons, and every one of our many donors and supporters. I Sierra. hope that they will inspire others to help us as we strive to be even Field trips headed out to Greece, Vancouver and San Juan better. Contributions to the Nania Fund will do exactly that, as will Islands, the St. Francois Mountains, and many other places. We gifts to our Field Experience and Field Camp Funds, as well as all hosted the North Central GSA meeting, as well as several other the other funds listed on the giving page. research conferences, reinforcing how central Madison is to our Finally, speaking of Field Camp, if you are a Wasatch-Unita field. Our students garnered a record number of GSA field work survivor (I mean alumnus!) and want to re-experience the glories grants, 13 in all. Our faculty and students were recognized with of the Chateau Apres, stay tuned for announcements of the 50th numerous awards, which you can read all about in these pages. Anniversary celebration coming in summer 2016! And finally, a real highlight of the year came during our annual Spring Banquet, when John Morgridge regaled us with hilarious tall tales of roaming the Geology Department in the Science Hall Harold Tobin http://geoscience.wisc.edu 2014-15 The Outcrop 1 The Board of Visitors meeting in Weeks Hall, October 18, 2015: Left to right: Martin Shields, Mark Solien, Mark Emerson, Kirt Campion, Charlie Andrews, Christine Griffith, Evan Franseen, Liz Clechenko (front), Bob Nauta (back), Jim Davis (front), Steve Johannsen (back), Harold Tobin (Department Chair), Tom Doe, Jeff Pietras, Doug Connell (BOV Chair). Photo, Mary Diman. Greetings GeoBadgers The Board of Visitors As you’ll see elsewhere in this edition of We can all be proud of the recognition that Board Members / Contact the Outcrop, it’s been an eventful year, and the Department receives, and we particularly Doug Connell, Chair [email protected] one that highlights the importance and impact want to congratulate the Geology Museum’s Tim Berge [email protected] of alumni support for the Department. Your director Rich Slaughter for his new title Donald Cameron [email protected]
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