Year in Review 2010–2011 Depa rtment of Geology

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Plans for NHB Renovation Underway

he Natural History Building may be clos - Director of the School of Earth, Society, Ter to becoming a model of 21st century and Environment (SESE), “But it has also learning and research – due in large part to afforded us the opportunity to start the a bit of termite damage and a century-old process of turning NHB into an efficient, architectural error. advanced setting that will utilize the mod - The building, which currently houses ern concepts of how people teach and do the Departments of Geology and teaching research today.” facilities for biology, was slated for restora - The original building was built in tion at some point in the future; and for 1892, with two additional sections added years has been hovering at about No. 15 in 1908 and 1921. Serious structural defi - on the list of university renovation projects. ciencies were uncovered in the 1908 addi - But the discovery of sagging concrete floors tion while facilities workers were inspect - in the south and west wings last summer ing the building in the spring of 2010, has led the campus to move the complete forcing a hasty evacuation of that part of renovation of NHB to the top of its priority the building. Essentially, the concrete list. floors were inadequately made with near - “Admittedly, the current closure of ly one-fourth of the necessary reinforce - about 40% of the building has created ment bars, so the floors have little to no Steel beams support the sagging floors of the major challenges to its occupants,” says load-bearing strength. Due to safety con - Natural History Building Steve Marshak, Geology professor and cerns, the decision to move people out of

(continued on page 3) Curriculum Expands Global Reach

hree faculty members made a trip to Van Vuong and Do TVietnam this past January as part of the Minh Duc, Dean Geology Department’s ongoing exchange and Associate Dean program with the Hanoi University of of the Faculty of Science (HUS). Department Head Wang- Geology to visit the Ping Chen, Steve Marshak, and Michael Geology Department Stewart spent a week in northern Vietnam, here in Champaign- teaching classes, helping curriculum devel - Urbana. Like many opment, and visiting unique geologic other campuses in exposures in an effort to further the the Vietnam Department’s global outreach and foster National University its relationships with prominent universi - System, HUS is in the process of collabo - Karst topography at Halong Bay, Vietnam ties overseas. rating with various US institutions to The trip was part of an ongoing revise their curriculum. Attracted to the curriculum in geosciences after the exchange that began in the fall of 2009 international reputation of UIUC in general Department’s current offerings. when Dr. Bui Duy Cam, the Rector of HUS and that of the Department in particular, Immediately after the initial visit, led a delegation that includes Drs. Nguyen officials from the HUS plan to model their faculty from HUS began observing (continued on page 3) Letter from the Head

…We have rightfully regained our position as a top-20 graduate program…

he National Research Council released Many of you know that the latter is one of iPad2’s are going with the students. These Tits evaluation of doctoral programs on only two places on the Earth where the brand-new units—acquired through your September 28, 2010. The usual fuzziness Moho is exposed. Some of you may even generous support—are already loaded and statistical caveats notwithstanding, remember that a former member of our with an integrated set of new tools for among 141 graduate programs in geo - faculty and an alumnus, R. J. Kirkpatrick, fieldwork (compass that automatically sciences, ours ranked at the 18th in the was involved in a drilling project of the corrects for magnetic declination, cli - survey-based and the 22nd in the regres - Troodos ophiolite. In any event, please nometer, GIS, photography that can be sion-based rankings, respectively (or top read the articles about these memorable annotated on the spot, written/audio/ 15 on a percentile basis.) This progress is trips and more, including an excursion to video records, etc.) We are very excited particularly significant in that it is the Red River shear zone and the Halong about this new approach! I have written a achieved in spite of dwindling support Bay in Vietnam. brief tutorial and would welcome your from the State. In other words, your gener - In northern Vietnam, children are still comments and suggestions (https:// ous support of the Department played a finding slag-like materials in the field, www.uiuc.edu/goto/pubs/Geol417 major role in helping our students, staff, probably left by carpet-bombing in the Summer2011/GeoClino4Fieldwork.pdf). and faculty who worked tirelessly and per - 1960-70’s, but the people are extremely After 30 years of service at UIUC, sistently to improve the quality of instruc - friendly and as a whole, there is optimism with the last four as Department Head, I tions, research, and public engagement. and construction everywhere as the econo - am leaving the campus to focus more on This is much needed good news my takes off. As our exchange with research. I would like to take this oppor - amidst the Natural History Building’s Vietnam becomes a routine, there are ini - tunity to thank all of you, our alumni and unnatural disaster which came to light on tial discussions with colleagues in China friends, for your unwavering support of the morning of June 10, 2010. I learned the and Jordan to further the global impact of the Department and the campus. As I bad news as I was boarding a flight to San our curricula and research. To this end, we often remarked at our receptions in con - Francisco (then on to the Western Gneiss also welcome suggestions from you who junction with annual meetings of the GSA Region of Norway) and this issue of the already have collaborations and contacts in and the AAPG, interacting with you in Newsletter includes a full write-up on that many corners of the globe. As always, we person is among the best parts of being story. For happier news, we report several love to hear from you. Head. I shall maintain on-going ties with high-profile awards garnered by our alum - As I tap out this message on my lap - the Department and the campus so I look ni, and feature the profile of another top, 16 students from our Department are forward to seeing you again in the future. recent alumnus who has accomplished a heading out to field camp. This time, the – Wang-Ping Chen lot in just a few years after obtaining his yearly ritual is anything but routine—ten doctoral degree from the Department. Before the recent surge in study abroad and programs in global studies, we always knew that such experiences are Greetings to the U of I Geology Community! particularly important for geoscientists whose field areas are the Earth and other pon Wang-Ping's retirement, I will be stepping up to become Head planets. While field excursions to exoplan - Uof the Department. I look forward to working with, and getting to ets (including the so-called super-Earth) know, all of you who connect to the department and have benefitted are not yet realizable, our students and from its academic and research prowess over the years. The next sever - faculty are taking full advantages of field al years are going to be both exciting and challenging, to an extent not experience ranging from local geological seen around here in the 14 years I have served on the faculty. issues to the Troodos ophiolite in Cyprus. We're glad to see rising interest in Geology here on campus and increased recruitment of our graduates. We're also working with Atmospheric Sciences and Geography, our partners in the School of Earth, Society and Environment, to build an enormously successful new major that bears the same name. And within the next five Year in Review is published once a year by the years, we expect to rebuild and restore the Natural History Building so our home on the Department of Geology, University of Illinois Urbana- Champaign, to highlight the activities and accom - quad can return to full function and serve new generations of Geoscientists. Of course, plishments within our department and feature news this involves enormous effort and disruption in the next few years. Similarly, the expect - from our alumni and friends. ed retirement of several key faculty members during the same time period presents us Department Head: Wang-Ping Chen (wpchen@illi - with both the challenge and the excitement of rebuilding the faculty. nois.edu) Office Administrator: Marilyn Whalen This is an exciting time around here and I am happy to serve the department as we ([email protected]) work toward a bright future. We'll update you on our progress; please do stop in to see Editor: Kate Quealy-Gainer ([email protected]) how it's going! 2 www.geology.illinois.edu – Tom Johnson Plans for NHB Renovation Underway (continued from page 1) the building took effect the next day after the fall semester with minimal disruption School of Integrative Biology (SIB) will the engineering report was received on to the learning experience for students. also need to fit into the building. To do June 10 of 2010. Still, the current solutions to the this, it is possible that the entire building “It was all quite dramatic,” says building’s space issues (including a rolling will have to be gutted and then redone Marshak, “We were told to leave the 1908 trolley of computers and doubled up labs completely, but Marshak is hopeful that part of building immediately, with only and offices) are simply not sustainable. such a process can occur in stages, mini - our necessary personal items.” Therefore, the University has hired a team mizing the impact on people. Eight of the fourteen faculty mem - of architects to develop a plan to redesign The University has requested nearly bers, along with numerous graduate stu - the building completely. $78 million from the State for the renova - dents and staff members, had to squeeze The main objective of the new plans tions. Due to the financial challenges fac - into either the structurally sound wings of is to create a building that lends itself to ing the State and the University, alternative the building or move out of the building needs of a 21st century teaching and and/or additional funding will most likely altogether. In addition, the business opera - research institution. Hopefully, all three have to be explored as well, says Marshak. tions of SESE and the administrative departments of the SESE—Geology, “NHB is on the National Registrar of offices of the Geology Department and Atmospheric Science, and Geography— Historic Places and is a core building of three major research labs were also affect - will be brought under a single roof, giving the Quad,” he says, “With the right plans ed. Just about everyone in the each access to modernized classrooms, and enough funding, it could become a Department, including faculty, staff, and labs, and amenities while facilitating mul - real gem on the Illinois campus.” graduate students worked overtime to tidisciplinary research and intellectual dis - ensure that classes still started on time for course. The teaching component of the

Curriculum Expands Global Reach (continued from page 1) instructional activities and exchanging using a second language. Their dedi - ideas with instructors in the Department. cation is apparent.” Since then, HUS has sent a delegation of In spite of record-breaking low instructors every semester and has already temperatures, UIUC faculty members started offering classes under the revised also took several trips out into the field curriculum at their own campus. during the visit, exploring natural “Their plan is an ambitious one,” attractions and geologic features that says Wang-Ping Chen, “HUS teaches not make Vietnam a distinctively interesting only natives of Vietnam but also many region for research. One trip was dedicat - international students from surrounding ed to explore parts of the famous Red countries. The curriculum modeled after River sheer zone. Along this major strike- ours now has a global reach and we are slip fault system, high-grade metamorphic Faculty members study rock formations in Vietnam excited to encourage the propagation of rocks are exhumed and evidence of recent knowledge as well as good will.” faulting and remnants of the Indonesian Faculty members of the Department orogeny, a major tectonic event in south - geous natural setting and the booming have a standing invitation to visit HUS to ern Asia during the Mesozoic era, are economic development, it was truly continue collaborating on all facets of both present. In addition, UIUC faculty and captivating place to be.” teaching, research, and public engage - was treated to a visit to Ha Long bay, The exchange program continues ment. famous for its towering limestone karsts as currently a delegation from Hanoi is “We were very impressed with both where a 1997 James Bond movie visiting campus, sitting in on classes the ongoing instructions and the quality (“Tomorrow Never Dies”) was filmed. taught by Marshak and Steve Altaner. of students,” says Chen, “All instruction is “Our hosts were incredibly gracious Plans for another reciprocal visit to given in English, so students are not only and the entire trip was simply fascinat - Vietnam are also being considered. learning the content of courses, but also ing,” says Marshak, “Between the gor - 3 Recent Alum Excels In the Field and the Classroom

rowing up as a kid in the Chicago sub - especially when they'd have that ah-hah endowed postdoctoral fellowship at the Gurbs, Michael Brudzinski (PhD 2002) moment.,” he says, “Once I got to college I University of Wisconsin-Madison and then knew two things for certain: one, the beach realized that there were teaching opportuni - joined the faculty at the Miami University and the woods are far more interesting than ties that would allow me to also do scientif - in Ohio. His current research focuses on the manicured landscape that surrounded ic research; so I realized a faculty position low level seismic vibrations, called tecton - him, and two, helping other people learn at a college or university would be an ideal ic tremors, that recently have been discov - was just as fun as learning himself. These career for me.” ered in a few subduction zones. He has two insights have taken him from the Working with Dr. Chen and other geol - ongoing seismic recording experiments in Midwest to the sunny state of Florida, the ogy faculty members prepared Brudzinski the Pacific Northwest and Mexico, where Pacific Northwest, southern Mexico, and for just such an academic career. student workshops are an integral part in finally, back to the Midwest again last year, Brudzinski found himself learning the art of developing these field projects. He hopes when he earned tenure as a geology profes - writing a detailed, scientific paper as well to strengthen the integration of his differ - sor at the Miami University in Ohio. familiarizing himself with other disciplines ent activities through a National Science “I always knew I wanted to be a scien - and understanding how different scientific Foundation CAREER Award, in which he tist,” Brudzinski says. At a young age, he fields benefitted from cross-fertilization. seeks to expand the inquiry-based learn - was fascinated by natural settings, particu - The resources of the UIUC campus and the ing approach to other classes, to build larly the woods and the beach, where he Department also helped Brudzinski build undergraduate research experiences, and would investigate the living and eating his teaching philosophy and portfolio. to offer new workshops for teaching envi - habits of the resident critters. As a fresh - “I learned to integrate the research and ronmental science in high schools. man at Eckerd College in Florida, teaching components of my career,” he “I have enjoyed finding a position Brudzinski initially pursued a degree in says “I feel like research is just a special - where I can devote time to teaching and marine biology but soon changed tracks ized form of learning, and teaching is all research equally.” Brudzinski says, “I am after taking a class on plate tectonics and about learning.” most proud that I have been able to work seafloor exploration. After receiving his doctorate from on both new research ideas as well as “I happened to be watching Planet Illinois, Brudzinski went on to receive an many new ideas in my classroom. Earth on PBS the night before I chose some of my autumn classes and decided to give that course my top choice,” Brudzinski says, “I thoroughly enjoyed the class and it Powers Medal Awarded to Shelton led me to change my major to focus on plate tectonics and geophysics. I am partic - ohn W. Shelton (MS ’51, PhD ’53) was named the 2011 recipient of AAPG’s highest ularly grateful to Sarah Kruse, the daughter Jhonor, the Sidney Powers Medal, and was recognized for his work as a scientist, consul - of Illinois emeritus professor Uli Kruse, who tant, map maker, data digitizer, and teacher at the opening session of the 2011 AAPG taught my autumn term course and was my Annual Convention and Exhibition in Houston. undergraduate research adviser.” Shelton’s career has taken him from the river basins of Montana to the shores of After receiving his undergraduate North Africa and China. He was an early developer of the concepts and application of degree in marine geophysics, Brudzinski sedimentary petrology and depositional environments to petroleum exploration. At Shell moved to Champaign-Urbana to pursue his Research he was among the pioneers in applying depositional environments to prospect doctoral degree in tectonics and geophysics. definition. Shelton also later took lead roles as both director and contributor on major The relocation held both professional and projects in the North Sea, North Africa, the Mediterranean, Africa, and China. personal promise: Dr. Wang-Ping Chen Shelton was the editor of several AAPG publications for four years during the 1970s (current Head of the Department) offered a and later developed the AAPG Datapages, the Association’s digital library and publishing research program geared toward his interest program. His leadership continued the growth of the digital library, and an award in his in seismololgy, and Brudzinski’s then girl - name is now annually given to recognize the best contribution to the Search and friend (now wife) was finishing up her Discovery website. undergraduate degree at the U of I. Besides his research and data digitization projects, Shelton has dedicated much of “It seemed like a good match all his time to teaching. Generations of young geologists have benefited from his field around,” says Brudzinski. expertise and practical wisdom during Shelton’s twenty-year career as a professor at By this point, Brudzinski knew he Oklahoma State University. wanted to be both a researcher and an The Sidney Powers Medal is approved by the Executive Committee of the AAPG and instructor. “I found it very rewarding when 4 given to a geologist who defines the profession through a prestigious career. Shelton is I had a chance to teach my fellow students, the 64th person to receive the award since AAPG started presenting it in 1945.

. Leinen Receives LAS Alumni Achievement Award

argaret Leinen (BS ’69) was award - Study, an integral part of global climate Most recently, Leinen has accepted Med the 2010 LAS Alumni research and considered to be one of the a new position as Executive Director of Achievement Award for her work as an most ambitious ocean biogeochemical the Harbor Branch Oceanographic oceanographer, biogeochemist, paleo - research programs ever mounted. She Institute, and Associate Provost for ceanographer and science administra - has served on a multitude of national Marine and Environmental Initiatives at tor. and international committees dealing Florida Atlantic University. In addition Although she began her under - with oceanography and climatology as to administering the Harbor Branch graduate career as a chemistry major, a well as serving as an Assistant Director Oceanographic Institute, she will work field trip with several geology profes - of the National Science Foundation with all seven campuses of FAU. sors to the Sangamon River sparked an (NSF) where she led the Geosciences The LAS Alumni Achievement interest in geology, which eventually Directorate and managed a $700 million Award is given to an alumnus or alum - led her to research in ocean sedimen - annual budget between 2000 and 2007. na who, by outstanding achievement, tology and biogeochemistry. Now Leinen is also the founder of two has demonstrated the values derived known internationally for her studies of nonprofit environmental organizations: from a liberal arts and sciences educa - the ocean and its effect on the world’s Climos, a company that supports tion. Winners are selected by the climate, Leinen has helped organize research on ocean fertilization, and the Alumni Association board. In 2003, and administer a number of far-reach - Climate Response Fund, an organization Leinen was also the recipient of the ing, multidisciplinary research projects. that looks at issues and supports Department of Geology’s Alumni In the early 1980s, Leinen helped research on other possible climate Achievement Award. launch the Joint Global Ocean Flux techniques to slow the rise of global temperatures.

Threet Honored by U. of I, AAPG

ack C. Threet (BS ’51) was recognized generous benefactors of the Association, is led discovery efforts in the deep water of Jby two institutions in the last year for presented annually by the Foundation in the Gulf of Mexico, the northwest shelf of his work as an exploration geologist and recognition of extraordinary philanthropy Australia, onshore Syria and offshore independent entrepreneur. and service in advancing the mission of Malaysia, Cameroon and Brazil. During The University of Illinois honored the AAPG Foundation. It is the the last nine years of his time at Shell, he Threet with the 2010 LAS Dean’s Foundation’s highest honor, and Threet served as Vice President and Head of Quadrangle Award. As the Distinguished now becomes the fourth recipient. Exploration. He retired from Shell in 1987, Alumnus lecturer during the Department Threet is currently a president and and in 1989, he started his company and of Geology’s fall colloquium, he presented CEO of Threet Energy, Inc., an indepen - his career as an independent explorer. "Musings of a 1951 Illini Geology dent oil and gas exploration company in Threet is an active member of the Graduate- From Junior Stratigrapher to Houston, Texas. After receiving his bache - American Association of Petroleum Head of Exploration: A 60-Year Look Back lor’s degree in geology from the University Geologists and a trustee associate and and a 60-Year Look Forward." of Illinois in 1951, Threet began a 36-year chairman of the board of the AAPG Threet has also been named the career with the Shell Oil Company, begin - Foundation. He is also a trustee of the recipient of this year’s L. Austin Weeks ning as a junior stratigrapher in explo - American Geological Institute Foundation Memorial Medal from the AAPG ration department. Over the years, he held and past vice chairman of the Offshore Foundation. The Weeks Medal, created numerous positions of increasing respon - Technology Conference. and named in honor of one of the most sibility in exploration and production, and

5 In the Field

Goldman Honored with 2010 Alumni Local Field Trips Offer Valuable Achievement Award Learning Experiences he students of Professor Steve Altaner’s r. Charles R. Goldman (BA ’52, MS ‘55) has been selected by faculty members to TEnvironmental Geology class don’t have Dreceive the 2010 Alumni Achievement Award, highlighting his lifetime accomplish - to go far to understand the role geology ments as a distinguished limnologist and oceanographer. Dr. Goldman’s work as a sci - plays in understanding the impact of entist, instructor, and environmentalist encapsulate the Department of Geology’s core human activity on the surrounding environ - missions of research, education, and public engagement. ment. With trips to a local water treatment Dr. Goldman has spent nearly four decades studying freshwater lakes, focusing plant, a sanitary landfill, and a wind tur - predominantly on the biological, chemical, and physical interactions between surround - bine—to name just a few—students get a ing watersheds and lakes. During his tenure as the director of the Tahoe Research chance to see classroom concepts in action. Group, Dr. Goldman’s sustained research on Lake Tahoe, and in particular his studies “It is always an eye-opening and mem - of its eutrophication, have led directly to engineering solutions and legal decisions that orable experience to view million gallon aim toward the conservation and protection of aquatic resources and wetlands. tanks of drinking water,” says Altaner, “Or “My colleagues often comment that Charles Goldman to limnology is what Walter to see the inflow to the sewage treatment Munk to oceanography”, said Department Head Wang-Ping Chen. plant, or a 50 ton landfill compaction vehi - In 1998, Dr. Goldman’s research-social action efforts earned him the Albert cle. The massive dragline excavators (power Einstein World Award of Science, bestowed annually to a single individual by a council shovel) at one site can move 200 tons of of eminent scientists which includes 25 Nobel laureates, and recognizing those who rock in one scoop, and at another, a coal have accomplished scientific and technological achievements that have advanced scien - furnace reaches the ~3,000°F.” tific understanding and benefited humanity. In addition to the aforementioned sites, As an instructor, he developed the first courses in limnology and oceanography at students travel through the semester to a the University of California at Davis, served as Chair of the Division of Environmental sewage treatment plant, a reclaimed coal Studies from 1988-1992, and was founding Director of the Institute of Ecology, serving mine in Kickapoo State Park, a glacial from 1966-1969 and again in 1990-92. During his 40-year tenure at UC Davis, he has moraine, a natural coal outcrop, a fossil fuel mentored over a hundred graduate and postdoctoral students. power plant, an active coal strip mine, a Dr. Goldman’s most recent endeavors have brought him overseas to Lake Baikal in limestone quarry, an underground natural Russia, where he is working toward a better understanding of lake processes and mea - gas storage field, a carbon sequestration sures to preserve the water quality of lakes. He remains a professor at UC Davis and well, and a 150-foot wind turbine. Most of the director of the Tahoe Research Group. the trips occur during lab time but there are also all-day trips to a coal mine near Sullivan, Indiana and a rock quarry in Charleston, Illinois. Students and Faculty Named Excellent Instructors “The learning experiences on the tours are extremely valuable,” says Altaner, “At wenty two Department of Geology instructors were named to the University’s List of the natural gas storage field and carbon TTeachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students for the spring, summer, and fall 2010 sequestration well my students learn about semesters. the critical role that geologic formations Faculty and academic professional appearing on this list include Stephen Altaner, play in keeping the natural gas or CO2 Alison Anders, Craig Bethke, Chu-Yung Chen, Bruce Fouke, Eileen Herrstrom, Tom underground, for example. At the glacial Johnson, Hannes Leetaru, Ann Long, Steve Marshak, Michael Stewart, and Jonathan moraine and geologic outcrops of coal and Tomkin. glacial sediment, they learn about the geo - Graduate students Samantha Dwyer, Carly Hill, Jessica Hinton, Matt Kyrias, logic history of Illinois, which plays an Stephanie Mager, Eric Obrock, Mauricio Perillo, Eric Prokocki, Pragnyadipta Sen, and extremely important role in environmental Karen Wong were named to the list for their work as teaching assistants in the issues such as exploration for natural Department. resources, waste disposal, acid mine Thirteen instructors received the highest ranking of “outstanding.” Stephen Altaner drainage, and maximizing wind energy (Geology 110, 333, 380), Steve Marshak (Geology 411, 512) and Stephanie Mager potential.” (Geology 100, 401, 411) all earned this ranking during both the spring and fall semes - Students enthusiastically agree that the ters. Craig Bethke, Matt Kyrias, Ann Long, Eric Prokocki, and Karen Wong also took top trips make for outstanding educational honors in the spring semester while Bruce Fouke, Carly Hill, Tom Johnson, Hannes experiences. “It always makes learning easi - Leetaru, and Eric Obrock earned this ranking in the fall semester. er when you can witness the real world Rankings are released every semester and are based on student evaluations main - implications of the class concepts,” says 6 tained by the Teaching Excellence on the Illinois Campus. one student, “To be able to do so locally just makes it that much better.” Students explore rare rock formations during overseas trip

hile plenty of college students headed Right: Steve Marshak Wsouth towards the sunny shores of holding up notebook on Florida for their spring break, the stu - the beach at Petra tou dents of Geology 415/515, along with Rominou on day 1, stop 1. The outcrop is mixture of their instructors Craig Lundstrom, Steve chalks, pillow lavas, ultra - Hurst, and Michael Stewart found them - mafic rocks selves in the historic mountain town of and marbles. Kakopetria on the island of Cyprus. Their destination was quite purpose - Below: Students sitting on ful: Kakopetria is located in the heart of a basaltic dike swarm in the Troodos mountains, a veritable geo - Akaki Canyon. Day 2, logic gem with a complete suite of Stop 2 exposed ophiolites – one of only two known cases in the entire world – just waiting to be studied. Funded in part by Shell Oil, the trip represented the practi - cal application of classroom concepts in the real world and was the capstone to a series of lectures and laboratory prepara - tions in Geology 415/515. “The field course is run every year to give our students experience with seeing real rocks and geology in action,” says Lundstrom, “Besides providing access to some of the most spectacular geology in the world, they get to learn about doing field work in a foreign country and just experiencing life outside the US.” Each day in the field was devoted to the ocean floor and several kilometers The Troodos Ophiolite of Cyprus and the thorough examination of the individual below Earth's surface. This was an oppor - the Semail Ophiolite of Oman are the units that make up the complete ophiolite tunity to see rocks that give us information most complete and studied ophiolites in sequence, including deep-sea sediments, about plate tectonics and the formation of the world, making Cyprus an ideal choice extrusive lavas (pillow lavas, sheet flows, Earth's crust.” for this year’s trip. An ophiolite repre - and hyaloclastites), intrusive igneous In the weeks leading up to the trip, sents remnants of the oceanic crust and dikes, gabbros, and peridotites. Students students were assigned an intensive study the mantle beneath it—essentially a slice visited key outcrops that allowed them to of the current scholarly literature regarding of the oceanic lithosphere that was plas - view not only the rocks, but also the all- the formation and subsequent deformation tered onto a continent during conver - important contacts between them. To this of the oceanic lithosphere, specifically gence of tectonic plates. While ophiolites end, Chen made Gigapan photographs for focusing on the studies of ophiolite and are common along ancient and active all to see on the world-wide web Cyprus. Throughout the semester, they zones of convergence, the oceanic mantle (https://www.uiuc.edu/goto/pubs/ also made several group presentations but was exposed only in Cyprus and Oman. GigaPanLinks.txt). (Using a robot devel - the capstone of the class will actually The choice of instructors is no acci - oped for the Mars Rover, hundreds of high- occur after the trip, when students make a dent either. Lundstrom, Stewart and resolution photographs were taken system - presentation that combines concepts and Hurst are all very experienced in the atically and then stitched together with knowledge learned in the classroom and study of the oceanic crust, including sev - special software to produce a panorama the first-hand observations and practical eral deep-sea dives in the submarine that gives both overview and fine details knowledge gained during their field work. Alvin by Hurst. In addition, Stephen in an image pyramid.) Lundstrom hopes to return to Cyprus Marshak (current Director of the School The stratigraphic completeness of the with a future class. “We would like to do of Earth, Society and Environment) and Troodos ophiolite made the trip an invalu - the trip again if able—there is a 4 year Wang-Ping Chen (current Head of able experience for faculty and students rotation of trips currently so if we do it Department) added expertise in structural alike. “The rocks we saw here only occur again, it would be that far away,” he says, geology and rheology/global tectonics, in a few small areas on the planet,” says “But the trip was very successful and it 7 respectively. one student, “They are formed between should be easier to do the second time.” Windows from the past . s e v i h c r A s Fingers Crossed? Let’s drill this i o n i l l I

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tributed by Professor Emeritus Ralph L. dents include: William W. P Langenheim. Ralph’s writing represents a Hay, Robert J. Kesling, Alan long-serving faculty member’s recollections Agnew, Doris Nodine Zeller, and his perspectives of the Department’s past. William Oliver, Howard Ross Cramer, rather than remains of individual, separate Richard H Benson, Robert and Ann Fox, species. In 1968, much later in his career, arold Scott left an autobiography of James Fisher, Frank Lyons Salin, Mark Rich, Scott conducted a major investigation of Hsocial, political and environmental com - Robert Lundin, Albert Guber and Norman F. extremely rare (only eight specimens in tons menta ry, The Sugar Creek Saga: Chronicles of Sohl. Hay, who was attracted to Illinois by of rock) impressions of soft bodied animals a Petroleum Geologist, (1986, Cushing Scott, later joined the Illinois faculty after which enclosed conodont assemblages in Malloy, Ann Arbor, Michigan). In it Scott completing his doctorate at Stanford. While their gut region. He and William Melton, presents his political and social ideas, a mix - here, he was instrumental in introducing who first found these fossils, considered ture of social Darwinism, very conservative electron microscopy to the university and the them to be remains of the long sought “con - politics and an analysis of global energy department. He had an extremely distin - odont animal.” Their enthusiasm, however, problems from the point of view of a suc - guished career in coccolithophiorid paleon - was countered by many skeptics, including cessful petroleum explorationist. He also tology and organized a prominent oceano - Samuel Ellison, a major conodont specialist describes his evolution from an early twenti - graphic research program. Frank Rhodes who vigorously argued that Scott and eth century Iroquois County farm boy to a came from England to Illinois in 1950 as a Melton’s fossils were remains of an animal professor of geology. Fulbright scholar studying conodont assem - that had fed on the elusive conodont ani - Scott attended a one-room country blages with Scott. He returned as a staff mal. The controversy persisted for several school and the small rural Milford, Illinois member before going back to the U.K., years but was finally settled in the minds of high school before hitch-hiking to Urbana to where he was a professor at Durham and most by a discovery in the Scottish enroll at the University of Illinois. He was head of the Geology at the University of Carboniferous of worm-like animals with attracted to geology by T. E. Savage, who Wales. He returned to the U.S. as a staff conodont assemblages in their feeding ori - became one of his mentors. He completed member at the University of Michigan, fice and by subsequent similar discoveries his AB in 1929, followed by an MS, under where he rose to Vice President of Academic in rocks of other ages and in other localities. Arle Sutton, in 1931. He then transferred to Affairs. Finally, he served as President of The consensus at present is that Scott’s and the University of Chicago, completing his Cornell university from 1977 to 1995. Melton’s fossils are remains of predators doctorate in 1935 under Carey Croneis. From Rhodes gave Illinois’ 1986 commencement that fed on the “conodont animal.” 1933 to 1937 he was a staff member at the address, during which he acknowledged his Scott was the principal author, compil - Montana School of Mines and a summer debt to Scott, George White and the Geology er and editor of the Ostracode volume of the employee of the Montana Bureau of Mines Department Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology and of and Geology. In 1937, Scott joined the Scott’s academic research was concen - John Walker and His Lectures on Geology. faculty at Illinois, remaining until 1968 trated in micropaleontology, stratigraphy and The latter is a reprint of Walker’s lecture when he became Chairman of the Geology petroleum geology. During his first field sea - notes, which antedate Hutton’s, Theory of Department at Michigan State University, son in Montana he described the Big Snowy the Earth. According to Scott, Walker’s was from which he retired in 1975. Group, recognizing its petroleum potential the first university course to use the word, While at Illinois, Scott taught and discovering its conodont assemblages— “geology.” Scott also published 33 profes - Elementary Geology, Historical Geology, probably his two most important research sional articles, 11 abstracts and five reviews Paleontology, Micropaleontology, Principles accomplishments. According to his account, of geological works. An additional two of Stratigraphy, Paleozoic Stratigraphy, his work on the Big Snowy Group brought books, Memorable Americans (1984) and Mesozoic Stratigraphy, Structural Geology, petroleum exploration to the Williston Basin, More Memorable Americans (1985), with Geomorphology and Physical Geography. He a major economic advancement for the University Librarian Robert Downs, were supervised fourteen Honors, fifty-five Northern Rockies. His discovery of conodont written for school children. In 1949 he was Masters and seventeen Ph.D. theses at assemblages, synchronous with a German named an American Association of Illinois. The largest number of these, thirty- discovery, demonstrated that conodonts, Petroleum Geologists Distinguished Lecturer, eight at least, dealt with ostracodes. Fifteen those enigmatic, ultramicroscopic, tooth-like speaking on the Pennsylvanian Stratigraphy concerned subsurface stratigraphy in the fossils, actually were parts of a larger animal of the Rocky Mountains. 8 Scott left the Illinois geology depart - serving in Libya, Egypt, Turkey, Greece, time, it is at present a major energy ment in 1968, variously styling his depar - Italy, Pakistan and the islands of the source for Pakistan. In spite of a generous ture as a retirement or a resignation, and Eastern Mediterranean. In Libya, he salary, $1,777 per month, and an invita - became Chairman of the Department of negotiated a concession for the Hunts tion to remain in charge of Hunt’s inter - Geology at Michigan State. While at and initiated and directed exploration national efforts, Scott found permanent Michigan State he presided over substan - leading to discovery of a 3.5 billion barrel expatriate life unattractive and returned tial restructuring and expansion of the oil field. His former student, Bob Fox, to the University Illinois and his “regular Geology Department, but retained his who did the field work and ultimately consulting work.” house and legal residence in Urbana. made the discovery, ran over a WWII After returning from Michigan State, Scott’s first geological employment mine while in the field. Blown up, Scott continued lecturing and writing on was as a student summer-employee at the injured, and left stranded in the desert, diverse topics: the relationship of energy Illinois State Geological Survey. Later he he was rescued only after his field-part - supplies, mostly oil, to the rise and con - was employed by the Gulf Oil Company ner made a grueling escape on foot tinuation of modern civilization and the and also worked as consultant to the through the mine field. In Pakistan Scott need to limit population growth to limits Butte, Montana gas utility while at the found a large gas field. Although it could set by availability of energy supplies and Montana School of Mines. He continued not be economically exploited at the other essential resources. . independent commercial work for the remainder of his life, holding a 10% inter - est in the Harold Brown Oil Company from 1949 through most of his profession - al career, generating prospects, finding and SESE 2011 Research Review Poster Contest leasing prospects, drilling for oil, manag - ing production and organizing water-flood projects. He was active mostly in the Illinois Basin, but his efforts ranged widely from the Gulf Coast to the Williston Basin and from West Texas to Michigan. He introduced many of the undergraduate and graduate students that he hired to their careers as professional petroleum geolo - gists. In the late 1940s though1959 he was a participant in U. S. Yttrium, a rare earth mining and development venture, which went through a complex series of reorgani - zations and mergers before finally dis - banding in the absence of a viable market for rare earth metals. In 1951 he organized Geological Services, Inc., which discovered the Cowpens Louisiana Oil Field. Intending to convert the Fishhook Gas Field, in Pike and Adams Counties, Illinois, to a gas storage reservoir, he formed the Fishhook Gas Company in 1961. Difficulty in obtaining cooperation of 1st place winning poster in the 2011 Research Review Poster contest for Geology Division, lease holders in the field and in finding a Xiangli Wang’s , “Wait a minute…Testing the Robustness of the Rayleigh Model Used in company willing to use the facility, led to Monitoring the Remediation of Hexavalent Chromium Contamination in Groundwater Systems. sale of the project in 1967. From July 1954 to September 1955, Scott, on leave from Illinois, was Director of Foreign Operations for the Hunt International Oil Company, 9 Alumni News

1950s 1960s John W. Shelton (MS ’51, PhD ’53) was named Margaret Leinen (BS ’69) has accepted a new position brate the top technology products and process - the 2011 recipient of AAPG’s highest honor, the as Executive Director of the Harbor Branch es of 2010, for the development of corrosion- Sidney Powers Medal and was recognized for his Oceanographic Institute, and Associate Provost for resistant vitreous enamel coating for bonding work as a scientist, consultant, map maker, data Marine and Environmental Initiatives at Florida Atlantic concrete to steel. digitizer, and teacher at the opening session of University. In addition to administering the Harbor the 2011 AAPG Annual Convention and Branch Oceanographic Institute, she will work with all 1990s Exhibition in Houston (see story for details). seven campuses of FAU. She also received the 2010 Christine Clark (McCracken) (MS ‘97), her hus - LAS Alumni Achievement Award (see story for details). band Fred Corbett and son Jack, welcomed their Jack C. Threet (BS ’51) is the recipient of this daughter, Anna Christine Corbett, on August 5, year’s L. Austin Weeks Memorial Medal, given by Suzanne Mahlburg Kay (BS ’69, MS ’72) was elected 2010. Christine is an associate professor in the the AAPG Foundation. Threet, an Honorary an AGU Fellow this year. Department of Geography and Geology at AAPG member and Foundation Trustee Eastern Michigan University. Associate, is president and CEO of Threet Energy. 1970s He previously had a 36-year career with Shell William I. Ausich (BS ’74), Director of the Orton geo - 2000s Oil, holding various executive positions in the logical Museum at Ohio State University, has received Kurt Burmeister (PhD ’05) recently received United States, Netherlands, Australia and the 2009-10 Harlan Hatcher Arts and Sciences tenure at the University of the Pacific in the Canada . In addition, he received the 2010 LAS Distinguished Faculty Award, which recognizes profes - Earth & Environmental Science department. He Dean’s Quadrangle Award (see story for details). sors who “have truly exceptional records in teaching, and his wife also welcomed a baby girl this past W. F.“Willy” Weeks (BS ‘51, MS ’53) recently research, scholarly/creative work, and service.” year. published On Sea Ice , University of Alaska Press, 1980s Andrew Ostendor f (BS ‘ 10) was recently hired 2010. Weeks is a geophysicist researching the As part of the U.S. Army Engineer Research and by Newmont Mining as a production geologist ice covers of the polar oceans. Development Center (ERDC), Charles Weiss (MS ’87, at the company’s Leeville Underground Mine PhD ’89) received a 2010 R&D 100 Award, which cele - operation in northeastern Nevada.

In Memorium

Kyle Marshall Fagin (BS ’30) died on July 1, the director of the Wisconsin Geological and Thomas W. Smoot (PhD ’59) died Oct. 6, 2010 2010 at the age of 101 . During his illustrious Natural History Survey, and a professor at the at the age of 77. A scientist and inventor, he career, he worked as the assistant chief engi - UW-Madison Department of Geology and was named on ten U.S. patents from 1963 to neer at Magnolia Petroleum (now Geophysics. 2010, most recently for a fire-retardant materi - ExxonMobil), served as the editor of The al. He also owned a chemical manufacturing Petroleum Engineer magazine, and was the Charles Tranter (MS ’54) died on November business until 2001. manager for oil and gas loans at 16, 2010, at the age of 80 . During his 39-year career with Mobil Oil Corporation, he was Southwestern Life Insurance Company. In William Eldridge (MS ’61) died May 13, 2010 at the exploration manager for the Denver and 1973, he became one of the founders and the age of 81. He worked for Gulf Oil Texas divisions , where he was responsible for served as President of Fagin Associates Corporation and retired from P&M Coal Mobil’s exploration programs for the coast- International, Inc. which conducted numer - Company, a part of Chevron, in 1990. ous oil and gas studies in the U.S. and to-coast and offshore northern U.S., Alaska, abroad. Marshall was a prominent member California, Texas, and New Mexico. During his Richard Coon (PhD ’68) died on March 26, of the Texas oil and gas industry serving as last five years with Mobil, Charlie worked out 2010. He was the principal geotechnical engi - President of Nomads, Petroleum Engineers of corporate offices in New York and Fairfax neer for CH2M Hill for 27 years. Club and several other organizations. as the chief geologist for the company . Mark F . Hoffman (BS ’72) died on July 25, 2010 Philip P. Wolcott Sr. (BS ’35, MS ’36) , died on William Paul Agster (BS ’57) died June 10, at the age of 61. He worked as a network man - January 6, 2010 at the age of 96. 2010 at the age of 74. William was a retired ager for the Illinois State Treasurer’s Office after exploration geologist for Texaco. working for IRS as a consultant for many years. Edmond G. Otton (BS ’39) died on April 25, 2010 at the age of 92. He was a ground- Allen Braumiller (MS ’57) died on January No further information available: water geologist for the U.S. Geological 29, 2010, at the age of 75. He was with Exxon Paul E. Schnurr (BS ’51) Survey. He became an expert on the ground- for 12 years as a geologist and then water resources of the State of Maryland. He Helmerich & Payne as Vice-President of retired from the USGS in 1983 and traveled exploration until his retirement. He opened extensively with his wife . his own company, Braumiller & Braumiller, Inc. where he was active until his death from Meredith E. Ostrom (MS ‘54, PhD ‘59 ) “Buzz” complications of pneumonia. He was a 50- died on November 11, 2010 at the age 79. He year member of AAPG, Tulsa Geological was a geologist for the State of Wisconsin , Society, and a director of the Petroleum Club.

10 Around the Department

The Annual Research Review was held at the also served as a guest editor for special journal George Devries Klein, Professor Emeritus, has co- Alice Campbell Alumni Center on February 25, issues of Sedimentology and Earth Surface authored a book, The hydrocarbon potential of 2011, highlighting research posters from all Processes and Landforms. Peru: Lima, Peru, BPZ Exploración & Producción. three departments in the School of Earth, Klein has also been elected to serve a three-year Society and the Environment. The Department Wang-Ping Chen presented the 2010 Birch term to the House of Delegates of the American of Geology awarded Xiangli Wang first place for Lecture, “Global Tectonics Ties Quakes, Rocks, and Association of Petroleum Geologists. his poster, “Wait a minute…Testing the robust - Volatiles in the Mantle Transition Zone,” at the fall ness of the Rayleigh model used in monitoring meeting of the American Geophysical Union in Xiaodong Song completed a three-year tenure as the remediation of hexavalent chromium conta - San Francisco. The Birch Lecture, named after the Chair of the Global Seismic Network Standing mination in groundwater systems.” Parker Francis Birch who was a founding-father of mod - Committee (GSNSC) of the Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (IRIS) Consortium in Laubach’s poster “Using 238 U/ 235 U measurements ern geophysics, is part of the Bowie Lecture Series to study uranium geochemical processes in of the AGU. Chen’s entire lecture is available on- December 2010. The GSN runs over 150 stations groundwater contamination at the Rifle, line (http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm10/lec - and arrays in 69 nations with annual budget of Colorado UMTRA site” earned second place, tures/lecture_videos/T34B.shtml; and $3.5 millions. GSNSC is the oversight committee while Julia Waldsmith took third place with her http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm10/lectures/vide for GSN. poster, “Trevertine deposits record the last flow os.php). The work of two Geology Department researchers of water within the Anio Novus aqueduct of Bruce Fouke received the 2011 Samuel von made the cover of Nature in 2010, accompanied ancient imperial Rome, Italy.” by photos. Pinaki Chakraborty’s work on the Pufendorf Visiting Research Fellowship in the Jay Bass was appointed to the Board of Pufendorf Institute for Advanced Studies at Lund macroscopic effects of the spectral structure in Governors of the Consortium for Advanced University in Sweden, in recognition of his geo - turbulent flows was highlighted in June, and Radiation Sources (CARS), 2010. Bass was also science and genome-enabled research on hot- Jonathan Tomkin’s research on glaciation as a voted a member of the User Executive springs, coral reefs and the deep subsurface bios - destructive and constructive control on mountain Committee for the National Synchrotron Light phere. Lund University is one of Europe’s foremost building was featured in September . Source (Brookhaven Nat. Lab), 2010-2012. universities and Sweden’s strongest in research. The Geology Library , formerly located in the Jim Best presented the 2010 Oualline Lecture at Susan Kieffer was selected for the inaugural Natural History Building, permanently closed to the Jackson School of Geosciences, University of interview in the newsletter of the planetary geol - the public on August 6, 2010. Materials housed in Texas at Austin, “Flow and sedimentation in big ogy section of the American Geophysical Union. the Geology Library can now be found in several rivers: confluences, bifurcations and bars – are The interview can be found online at the AGU other units, including the Grainger Engineering large rivers different to small channels?” Best website. Library, the Map and Geography Library, and the Oak Street Library Facility.

Faculty Research Staff, Post-Docs, Visiting Staff Department Staff Stephen Altaner (Associate Professor) Gianluca Blois (Post-Doctoral Research Associate) Marilyn Whalen (Office Administrator) Alison Anders (Assistant Professor) Pinaki Chakraborty ( Research Assistant Professor) Julie Dyar (Office Support Specialist) Jay Bass (Ralph E. Grim Professor) Yiran Dong (Post-Doctoral Research Associate) Jim Best (Threet Professor) Eileen Herrstrom (Teaching Specialist) Library Staff Craig Bethke (Ralph E. Grim Professor) Stephen Hurst (Research Programmer/Geologist) Chu-Yung Chen (Associate Professor & Director Ann Long (Teaching Specialist) Lura Joseph (Geology Librarian) of Educational Affairs for Geology, in the Jeffrey Nittrouer(Post-Doctoral Research Associate) School of Earth, Society & Environment ) Daniel Saalfeld (Research Programmer) Graduate Students Wang-Ping Chen (Professor and Head) Rob Sanford (Senior Research Scientist) Elizabeth Armstrong Philip Miller Bruce Fouke (Professor) Michael Stewart (Lecturer) Gideon Bartov Eric Obrock Tom Johnson (Associate Professor) Jonathan Tomkin (Research Assistant Professor & Anirban Basu Mauricio Perillo Susan Kieffer (Walgreen Professor) Associate Director, School of Earth, Society, and Alex Bryk Eric W. Prokocki Craig Lundstrom (Associate Professor) Environment) Ron Cash Liqin Sang Steve Marshak (Professor & Director of the Sharon Yeakel (Research Programmer) Jessica Colberg Mary Seid School of Earth, Society & Environment) Samantha Dwyer Pragnyadipta Sen Gary Parker (Johnson Professor) Brian Farrell Sam Slaven Xiaodong Song (Professor) Adjunct Faculty Ercan Alp Hannes Leetaru Val Finlayson Zheng Tang Ken Christensen William Shilts Ted Flynn Doug Torbeck Affiliate Faculty Przemek Dera Wolfgang Sturhahn Carly Hill Xiangli Wang Marcelo Garcia (Seiss Professor, Civil & Environ. Howard Falcon-Long Charles Werth Jessica Hinton Zhen Xu Eng.) Robert Finley M. Scott Wilkerson Jing Jin Guimiao Zhang Feng Sheng Hu (Professor and Head of Leon R. Follmer Marissa Kelly Jin Zhang Department of Plant Biology) Xiaoxiao Li Jessica Zinger Bruce Rhoads (Professor and Head of Stephanie Mager Department of Geography) Emeritus Faculty Thomas F. Anderson George D. Klein Daniel B. Blake Ralph Langenheim Albert V. Carozzi C. John Mann Donald L. Graf Alberto Nieto Arthur F. Hagner Philip Sandberg Albert T. Hsui 11 Annual Report for 2010-2011

Colloquium Speakers for Fall 2010 and Spring 2011 Courses Taught in 2010-11

Fall 2010 Spring 2011 GEOL 100 Planet Earth August 27 January 28 GEOL 101 Introductory Physical Geology Prof. Jim Ehleringer, Univ. of Utah Thomas Johnson, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana- GEOL 103 Planet Earth QRII Champaign (Dept. of Geology ) “CSI: Crimes Solved with Stable Isotopes” “Chromium Isotopes and the Fate of Chromium Isotech Laboratories Lecture in Isotope GEOL 104 Geology of the National Parks Contamination in Groundwater.” Geochemistry GEOL 106 Extinction: Dinosaurs to Dodos September 3 February 4 GEOL 107 Physical Geology Stanley Ambrose, Univ . of Illinois at Urbana- Hannes Leetaru, Illinois State Geological Survey GEOL 110 Exploring Geology in the Field “The Geology of the Mt. Simon Sandstone in Champaign (Dept. of Anthropology ) Illinois and its Importance in Carbon “The Toba Supervolcano and the Evolution of GEOL 117 The Oceans Humans” Sequestration” GEOL 118 Natural Disasters September 10 February 11 GEOL 143 History of Life Jim Best, Univ . of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Frank Pazzaglia, Lehigh Univ. GEOL 199 Undergraduate Open Seminar (Dept. of Geology) “Bedforms in Watery “Unsteady Uplift and Erosion of the Late Environments: Time for a Dirty Story?” Cenozoic Appalachians” and GEOL 201 History of Geology “”Broadband Geodesy and Active Tectonics of September 17 the Northern Apennines, Italy” GEOL 208 History of the Earth System Saad Haq, Purdue University R. James Kirkpatrick Lectures in Geology GEOL 333 Earth Materials and the Env “Mechanics of Oblique Margins: Insights Using Quantified Analog Models” February 18 GEOL 380 Environmental Geology Brandon McElroy, U.S. Geological Survey GEOL 390 Individual Study September 24 “Not all Rates are Created Equally- Quantifying Youssef Hashash, Univ . of Illinois at Urbana- Variability in Topographic Evolution” GEOL 391 Individual Honors Study Champaign (Dept. of Civil and Environmental GEOL 406 Fluvial Geomorphology Engineering ) March 4 “Field Observations from the February Maule, Michael Lamb, California Institute of Technology GEOL 411 Structural Geol and Tectonics “Groundwater Sapping, Waterfall Erosion and Chile Earthquake” GEOL 415 Field Geology the Formation of Bedrock Canyons on Earth and October 1 Mars” GEOL 432 Mineralogy and Mineral Optics Heather Watson, Northern Illinois University W. Hilton Johnson Lecture in Geomorphology “Evolution of the Earth’s Core: An Experimental GEOL 436 Petrology and Petrography Perspective” March 14 GEOL 440 Sedimentology and Stratigraphy Dr. William Haneberg, Haneberg Geoscience October 8 “The Landslide that Ate Laprak GEOL 451 Methods in Applied Geophysics Kevin Rosso, Pacific Northwest National The AEG Jahns Distinguished Lecture in GEOL 454 Introduction to Seismology Laboratory Engineering Geology “Iron Biogeochemistry at Microscopic Scales: A GEOL 460 Geochemistry Frontier in Environmental Geology” April 1 GEOL 481 Earth Systems Modeling The Buckley Lecture in Environmental Geology Hannes Brueckner, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and Queens College, City University GEOL 492 Senior Thesis October 15 of New York GEOL 493 Honors Senior Thesis James Conder, Southern Illinois University “Subducting Continents: An Explanation for “Nanoplates, Microseismicity, and Whales: Deformation, Metamorphism and Melting in the GEOL 497 Special Topics in Geology Acoustics of the Central and Northern Lau Cores of Collisional Mountains. AB—Geomicrobiology & Basin” The Richard Hay Lecture in Geology Geochemistry October 22 April 8 SK—Geological Fluid Dynamics Jack Threet, (BSc ‘51) Mark Frank, Northern Illinois Univ . “Musings of a 1951 Illini Geology Graduate- “Copper and Gold in Magmatic-Hydrothermal GEOL 511 Advanced Structural Geology From Junior Stratigrapher to Head of Systems” GEOL 515 Advanced Field Geology Exploration: A 60-Year Look Back and a 60-Year Look Forward” April 15 GEOL 540 Petroleum Geology D’Arcy Meyer-Dombard, Univ. of Illinois, Chicago 2010 LAS Quadrangle Award Recipient and GEOL 552 Geodynamics Distinguished Alumnus Lecturer “Investigations into Carbon and Nitrogen Cycling in Terrestrial Hydrothermal Systems” GEOL 562 Isotope Geology November 5 Linda Warren, St. Louis University April 22 GEOL 563 Analytical Geochemistry “Deep Earthquakes, Slab Deformation, and Bill Dietrich. Univ. of California, Berkeley GEOL 575 Alluvial Boundary Layer Dynam Subduction Forces” “Is There a Topographic Signature of Life?” Threet Lecture in Sedimentary Geology GEOL 591 Current Research in Geoscience November 12 GEOL 593 Advanced Studies in Geology Linda Elkins-Tanton, Massachusetts Institute of April 29 Technology Wang-Ping Chen, Univ . of Illinois at Urban a- GEOL 599 Thesis Research “Building Rocky Planets: From Planetesimals to Champaign (Dept. of Geology) Ocean Worlds” “Tectonic Pathways & Petrological Causes of Seis - The R. E. Grim Lecture in Geology and Mineralogy mic Anomalies, Deep Earthquakes, and Volatiles in the Mantle Transition Zone”

12 Research Grants Active in 2010

Jim Best, Ken Christenson, Joanna Austin, Robert Sanford —Field-Constrained Quantitative AIR FORCE Greg Elliot, and Marcelo Garcia— MRI: Model of the Origin of Microbial and Wang-Ping Chen— Frequency-dependent Development of a Large-Scale Refractive- Geochemical Zoning in a Confined Fresh- Characteristics of Regional Seismic Phases— Index Matched Flow Facility Water Aquifer (Renewal) Propogation of Pn in Western China Wang-Ping Chen— CSEDI Collaborative Robert Sanford —Understanding the Impact of Xiaodong Song— Joint Inversion of Crustal and Research: A Study of Deep Subduction CO 2 Injection on the Subsurface Uppermost Mantle Structure in Western China Integrating Broadband Seismlogy and Microbial Community in an Illinois Basin CCS ARCADIS US Mineral Physics Reservoir: Integrated Student Tom Johnson —Stable Isotope Analysis Wang-Ping Chen —Collaborative Research: Training in Geoscience and Geomicrobiology Imaging the Continental Lithosphere with J.H. Tomkin —Center for Global Studies Course ARGONNE NATIONAL LABS Earthquake Sources Development Jay Bass— High-Resolution Inelastic X-ray Bruce Fouke— Geobiology and the Emergence Scattering at High P&T: A New Capability for U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY ENVIRONMEN - of Terraced Architecture during Carbonate the COMPRES Community TAL REMEDIATION PROGRAM Mineralization Robert Sanford —Growth of Anaeromyxobacter Craig Lundstrom, Robert Sanford, and Tom Bruce Fouke —Integration of Expedition and Other Iron Reducing Bacteria Johnson— U(VI) Reduction by Yellowstone with Biocomplexity Studies at Anaeromyxobacter: Design of BRITISH PETROLEUM/ENERGY BIOSCIENCES Mammoth Hot Springs Bioremediatation INSTITUTE Tom Johnson— Collaborative Research: Robert Sanford —MURMoT: Design and Bruce Fouke— Microbially Enhanced Hydrocarbon Chromium Isotopes as Redox Indicators— Application of Microbial Uranium Reduction Recovery Oxidation and Isotopic Equilibration Monitoring Tools Experiments EXXON-MOBIL Craig Lundstrom— Collaborative Research: Jim Best— The Sedimentology of Tidally- U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Integrated Investigations of Isotopic Influenced Fluvial Bars in High-energy River Craig Lundstrom— Using 235 U/ 238 U Analysis to Fractionation in Magmatic Systems Systems: the Modern Columbia River Understand U Ore Deposit Formation Craig Lundstrom —Collaborative Research: at Redox Fronts NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE Investigating MORB Differentiation Through Steve Marshak— Architecture of Fold-Thrust Belt ADMINISTRATION Non-traditional Stable Isotope Analyses Structures along the Helderberg Susan Keiffer —An Experimental Investigation of Craig Lundstrom— Collaborative Research: Escarpment in the Hudson Valley, New York Conditions Conducive to Groove and Ridge Probing Mantle Plumbing beneath Pacific Formation at Double-Layer-Ejecta (DLE) Craters Ridges through Study of the Lamont and UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON (UK) WITH UK on Mars Vance Seamount Chains NATURAL ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH Susan Keiffer —Simulation of the Effects of Vent Craig Lundstrom— EAGER: Collaborative COUNCIL Geometry and Canopy Interactions on the Investigations of Isotopic Fractionation by Jim Best— Dynamics and Deposits of Braid-Bars Plumes and Deposits on lo: (UIUC part of a Thermal Diffusion and Thermal Migration in the World’s Largest Rivers: joint proposal with UT ) Steve Marshak— NSF Pre- Earthscope Workshop Morphology, Processes and Subsurface Susan Keiffer —Thermodynamics and Fluid Proposal: Tectonic Targets for Sedimentology Dynamics in Multicomponent Systems Earthscope in the Midcontinent Jim Best— Morphodynamics and Sedimentology Relevant to Enceladus Xiaodong Song— Collaborative Research: Joint of the Tidally-influenced Fluvial Zone (TIFZ) Inversion of Crust and Upper Mantle NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION Structure in Central and Eastern Tibetan UNIVERSITY OF BURMINGHAM (UK) WITH UK Jay Bass— Sound Velocities and Elasticity of Deep- Plateau and its Margins NATURAL ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH Earth Materials at High Pressures and COUNCIL Temperatures PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY Jim Best— Fluid Dynamics Across the Interface in Jay Bass— Community Facilities and Infrastructure Craig Lundstrom— Rifle IFRC Uranium Isotope Gravel-bed Rivers; Quantification and for High-Pressure Mineral Physics and Characterization Numerical Modeling of Flow in the Hyporheic Geosciences: COMPRES II U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY Zone Jay Bass— Collaborative Research: High Pressure Jay Bass— Aqueous Geochemistry at High Calibration at High Temperatures in the Pressures and Temperature UNIVERSITY OF DURHAM (UK) WITH UK Diamond Anvil Cell Tom Johnson— Exploratory Research Mercury NATURAL ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH Jim Best— Collaborative Research: A Field and Stable Isotopes as Indictors of the COUNCIL Numerical Study of the Morphology, Flow, Biogeochemical Cycling of Mercury Jim Best— Development of a Combined Sedimentary Processes, and Stability of Sand- Bruce Fouke, Robert Sanford, Steve Lagrangian / Eulerian Approach to Understand Bed Fluvial Bifurcations Marshak— Understanding the Impact of CO 2 Coherent Flow Structures in Gravel-bed Rivers Jim Best, Bruce Fouke, Marcelo Garcia, Gary Injection on the Subsurface Microbial Jim Best— How Does Aquatic Vegetation Modify Parker, and Bruce Rhoads— Community in the Illinois Basin: Integrated the Kinematic & Geometric Acquisition of a State-of-the-art, Shallow Water Student Training in Geoscience and Characteristics of Coherent Flow Structures in Multibeam Echo-sounding System at the Geomicrobiology Open Channels? University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Hannes Leetaru and Bruce Fouke— An Jim Best— Bedform Related Macroturbulence: (UIUC MBES) Evaluation of the Carbon Sequestration Topology and Kinematics Jim Best and Bruce Rhoads— Fluvial Dynamics of Potential of the Cambro-Ordovician Strata of a Large-river Meander Cutoff the Illinois and Michigan Basins Jim Best— Morphodynamics of Complex Meander Bends on Large Rivers 13 Annual Report for 2010-2011

Articles Published in 2010

Anders M., Fouke B.W., Zerkle A., Edmonds D., Slingerland R., Best J., tance of geochemical controls on Reynard, B ., Bass J .D., Brenizer J . High- Tavernelli E., Alvarez W., and Harlow Parsons D. and Smith N. The microbial community structure temperature elastic softening of G.E. The role of calcining and basal response of delta channel networks and function. PLoS One , 5, 1-15. orthopyroxene and seismic proper - fluidization in the long runout of to changes in river discharge, Jacobson A., Zhang Z., Lundstrom C. ties of the lithospheric upper man - carbonate slides: An example from Geophys . Res . Lett ., 37 , L12404, and Huang F. Behavior of Mg iso - tle. Geophys. J Int ., 181, 557-566, the Heart Mountain slide block, doi:10.1029/ 2010GL043269. topes during dedolomitization in doi: 10.1111/j.1365- Wyoming and Montana, U.S.A., J. Ellwood B.B., Algeo T.J., El Hassani A., the Madison Aquifer, South 246X.2010.04524.x . Geol ., 118, 577-599. Tomkin J.H., and Rowe H.D.. Defining Dakota, Earth Planet Sci. Lett. , 297, Sambrook Smith G.H., Best J.L., Anders A.M., Mitchell S.G., and Tomkin the timing and duration of the 446-452. Ashworth P.J., Lane S.N., Parker N.O., J.H. Cirques, peaks, and precipitation Kačák Interval within the Kostaschuk R., Best J.L. and Villard P.V. Lunt I.A., Thomas R.E. and Simpson patterns in the Swiss Alps: Eifelian/Givetian boundary GSSP, The influence of dunes on mixing C.J. Can we distinguish flood fre - Connections among climate, glacial Mech Irdane, Morocco, using geo - in a migrating salt-wedge: Fraser quency and magnitude in the sedi - erosion, and topography, Geology , chemical and magnetic susceptibili - River estuary, Canada. Earth Surface mentological record of rivers? 38, 239-242. ty patterns, Palaeogeogr . Process . Landform ., 35 , 460–465, Geology, 38, 579-582. Andrews A.H., Stone R.P., Lundstrom Palaeoclimat . Palaeoecol ., doi: 10.1002/esp.1928. Sambrook Smith G.H., Best J.L., doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2010.10.012. 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