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NOTES from the CHAIR: the Newsletter of the Department of Geosciences, North Dakota State University Volume 15, December 2013 The newsletter of the Department of Geosciences, North Dakota State University Volume 15, December 2013 NOTES FROM THE CHAIR: Greetings GeoAlums and Friends! years, many with the plan then to continue on to graduate studies. We’re finishing off another productive year at Thanks to the continued generosity of our NDSU Geosciences. It is a historic one as well, alumni and friends, the GeoAlumni Endowment for Allan Ashworth will fully retire from teaching continues to grow, with 100% of the proceeds this month after many great years of service. dedicated toward support of our undergraduates’ A job ad is posted for a “Sed/Strat/Paleo” scholarship and field training opportunities. The faculty member to replace Ashworth – but Allan state of North Dakota might even provide a 1:2 will be a tough act to follow. He leaves a legacy match for pledges/donations to the endowment of terrific students (you!), outstanding research, exceeding a certain threshold. If you are and service to the university, community, state, interested, please contact me. and profession. We all are going to miss him. What hasn’t changed over the years is that we We’re now at 60 majors. Our classrooms in continue to produce great students, who continue Stevens Hall, of course, cannot easily expand to on to become great professionals. accommodate this growth, and so faculty and We always enjoy hearing from GeoAlums and students are daily practicing stress/strain hope you will drop a line, become a fan of the relationships to make it all happen. More and department's Facebook page, or stop by for a visit! more women are choosing to major in Geology On behalf of the students and faculty, thank you here, with NDSU now approaching the national for your support – and best wishes for the New average of ≈42% women. The booming oil/gas Year from all of us at NDSU Geosciences! development in western North Dakota, of course, spurs interest in the profession. Most of our graduates elect to work in the oil patch for a few SOME REFLECTIONS ON THE LIFE AND TIMES OF ALLAN ASHWORTH On December 6th, Allan Ashworth finished But fortunately (for us!), his science teacher’s teaching his last lecture class (Stratigraphy & (Mr. Allchin’s) influence won . as Allan’s love Sedimentology). This coming May, Allan will of geology took center place. Allan entered the officially retire, although he plans to keep his University of Birmingham, where he excelled in research program active. For all of us, an era is geology and later became president of the ending. We are grateful for Allan’s years of university’s Lapsworth Geological Society. service, and we wish Allan and Hazel well in Along with his fellow students in geology, retirement. The following are some reflections on Allan sailed the rocky seas of a science that in the the life and times of Allan Charles Ashworth. mid-1960's was undergoing changes of tectonic Allan was born in Fischergate, Sussex, to Jim (or should I say, “plate tectonic”) magnitude. and Barbara Ashworth. It was 1944, Great Britain It was in 1964 at Birmingham that Allan met a was at war, and Jim was in Egypt – having fought beautiful woman by the name of Hazel Heward. Rommel as part of the North African Campaign. Hazel was then working at the University of Jim would not see his first-born until Allan was a Birmingham for the Clerk of the Guild of toddler. Undergraduates. They fell in love and married in As a boy growing up in Sussex, in this 1966. spectacular setting between the sea and the downs, It was also in 1966 that Allan graduated from young Allan collected fossils from the Cretaceous the University of Birmingham. Allan was then chalks. His interests in geology and paleontology accepted for graduate studies at Birmingham, were spurred on by his school science teacher, Mr. under the supervision of a truly remarkable Allchin, who would take Allan and the other boys geologist: G. Russell Coope. It was Coope who on long bike rides into the countryside to view had recognized that bits of insects preserved in geology and to collect fossils. peats could themselves provide a fascinating story The Headmaster for the High School for Boys of past climatic and environmental change. Under in Worthing wrote of Allan, “Ashworth is an Coope’s guidance, Allan entered into this new and excellent boy in every way. He has good academic exciting science. ability . he is a good crickateer, and a good As Allan was finishing up his graduate soccer player.” studies, NDSU Geology professor John Brophy Being athletic and enamored by soccer (errr, arrived at Birmingham to spend his sabbatical “football”), Allan considered going professional. learning the art of Quaternary paleoentomology 2 from Coope. It was here that John met young of dollars of grants, awarded primarily from the Ashworth. As Allan was completing his National Science Foundation. Allan served as the dissertation, he received an invitation from Brophy to come to the U.S. to teach at NDSU. John Brophy and Allan Ashworth, relaxing at the end of a Black Hills field trip, 1971. Allan and Hazel arrived in 1969, just after the major flood. Their plane landed in Winnipeg, and Allan Ashworth holding early Holocene from there they rode a Greyhound bus south to wood from the Poplar River Formation, Seminary site, Fargo, 1984. Fargo. Allan’s one thought as he stared through the bus window at this flat, unending landscape so Chair of the USNC INQUA and as a Vice- distant from the sea was, “Oh my gosh!” (Well, President for INQUA. His work was featured in his actual words were somewhat different). the film “Ice People,” the NOVA documentary Arriving with Allan, as well, onto the North “Secrets Beneath the Ice,” and in Science and in American continent was the science of fossil Nature. Fossil discoveries made in Antarctica insect analyses. Allan’s first major study was the were featured in articles in National Geographic 18-Mile River site in Ontario, a work that still and in the world press. In 2007, a glacier in the today stands as both classic and pioneering. From Supporters Range of Antarctica was named in his this initial effort developed a body of North honour: the Ashworth Glacier. Likewise, in American literature that is awesome. lasting legacy, entomologists have named four species of beetles after Allan: all of them ashworthi. And, should you ever be in need of this service, Allan turns out to be an expert in the Heimlich Maneuver – having on separate occasions saved the lives of two individuals choking to death. But, if the world knows Allan for his research, his students at NDSU have known him for his passion in teaching – both in the classroom and in the field. His fellow faculty have known him as a mentor, a wonderful colleague, a role model, and Allan Ashworth, field studies in Chile, 1979. a great friend. NDSU has recognized Allan through a series of honors, capping it in 2007 with But Allan was not to stop here. He extended the title University Distinguished Professor. Allan his fossil insect field studies to South America, has served this university and the world then to China, then to the high Arctic of Canada community of geologists as a dynamic teacher and and Alaska, and then to Antarctica. Over the the role model of professionalism. years, Allan’s research was supported by millions Mr. Allchin would be so proud. 3 PILLOWS: A SOFTER LOOK FOR MAPS? This colorful pillow (left) was produced in 2013 by Esri from a GIS-based map created by Jackie Stenehjem, under the mentorship of Peter Oduor. At this year’s Esri International User Conference Williston officials have worried about safety if the in San Diego, a map from research work primarily dam were to fail. conducted by Jackie Stenehjem with mentoring Jackie’s flood study found if Fort Peck Dam for GIS work from NDSU professor Peter Oduor were to catastrophically fail at full capacity, was re-published by Esri . but on a pillow! Williston city officials would have barely two “I never . (ahem) . ‘dreamt’ that one of days to evacuate all of its residents. Once flood my former students would be published on a waters reached the city, the protective levee south pillow,” smiles Peter. “Now, how do I convince of the city would be overtopped with 24 feet of my department Chair that this is a high impact water. factor publication?” Funding for this research came in part from The map was part of a dam failure study National Science Foundation (NSF), NASA, and which used GIS and remote sensing technologies National Geographic Education (NCGE), through to analyze risks and potential losses for the city of iGETT (Integrated Geospatial Education and Williston should Fort Peck Dam catastrophically Technology Training). This iGETT catastrophic fail. Williston is located 227 miles downstream dam failure study was done as a community from the dam. Since construction of the dam, service project with a key public outreach component. Alumni, students, faculty, and former faculty of the department gathered for the annual NDSU GeoAlumni Breakfast, October 28, 2013, at the Geological Society Annual Meeting (Denver). Clockwise from the lower-left: Jackie Wrage, Cheyanne Jacobs, Adam Lewis, Meridith Ramsey, Ashley Steffen, Jane Willenbring, Sara Evanoff, Andrea Oswald, Bernhardt Saini-Eidukat, Charles Metzger, and Stephanie Day. 4 TRANSITIONS: DR. ALEXIS VOLBORTH (1924 – 2009) We have learned of the death of Dr. Alexis mineralogy (PhD), 1954; philosophy (mineralogy, Volborth, who served as mineralogist/petrologist geology chemistry) (MS), 1954; Philosophy, faculty at NDSU Geology from 1975 to 1978.
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