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FAL L 198 9 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS }^U Faculty and Staff Letter from the Head < Departmental News Profile: R.James Kirkpatrick -O Alumni News -^>- Reply Form ^> FAL L 1989 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS Department of Geology, GeoSciences is the alumni newsletter for the published in University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. It is September and February of each year. Department Head: R. James Kirkpatrick GeoSciences Fall 1989 Assistant to tbe Head: Department of Geology Peter A. Mlchalove University of Illinois at Editor: Urbana-Champaign Johlas Michelle Sanden 24S Natural History Bldg. Designer: 1301 W. Green Street Jessie J. Knoi llrbana, III. 61801-2999 Administrative Secretary (217) 333-3542 Patricia Lane GeoSciences Faculty Graduate Students Stephen P. Altaner, assistant professor Istvan Barany Jr., TA David E. Anderson, professor David Breedon, TA Thomas F. Anderson, professor/associate dean, Ten-Hung Chu, TA LAS Xian-Dong Cong, RA Jay Bass, associate professor Tom Corbet, RA Cameron Begg, research microprobe analyst James A. Cremeens, TA Craig M. Bethke, associate professor Brandon Curry, ISGS Daniel B. Blake, professor Eric Daniels, RA Chu-Yung Chen, assistant professor Michael Duffin, RA Wang-Ping Chen, associate professor Mary Ann Glennon, RA Richard L. Hay, Ralph E. Grim Professor Dave Grimley, TA Albert T. Hsui, associate professor Steve Hageman, fellow W. Hilton Johnson, professor Ed Hajic R. James Kirkpatrick, professor/department Daniel Hayba head Eric Holdener, TA George deVries Klein, professor Hue-Hwa Hwang Ralph L. Langenheim Jr., professor Honn Kao, TA C. John Mann, professor Douglas J. Kelly, assistant professional scientist, Stephen Marshak, associate professor ISWS Peter A. Michalove, assistant to dept. head Joanne Kluessendorf, museum RA Alberto S. Nieto, professor Jennifer Kupperman, USGS Charles Norris, research associate Rob Lander, RA Lois M. Pausch, acting librarian Kurt Larson, fellow Philip A. Sandberg, professor Timothy H. Larson, RA/ISGS Ming Kuo Lee, RA Adjunct/Emeritus Faculty Wan Bing Li, RA Albert V. Carozzi, emeritus Jay Matthews, RA Keros Cartwright, adjunct/ISGS Patrick O'Boyle Carleton A. Chapman, emeritus Hans Papenguth, RA Brian Phillips, J. James Eidel, adjunct/ISGS RA Leon R. Follmer, adjunct/ISGS Bruce Railsback, RA Donald L. Graf, emeritus Christopher Roemmele, TA Ralph E. Grim, emeritus Fred Siewers, RA Arthur F. Hagner, emeritus Steven Sroka, TA Donald M. Henderson, emeritus Nita Tolia, TA Morris W. Leighton, adjunct/ISGS Dan J. Van Roosendaal, ISGS Robert Reynolds, adjunct/professor Chyi Wang Harold W. Scott, emeritus Hong Wang Kim Weborg-Benson, TA Charles A. Weiss Jr., RA Nonacademic Staff M. icott Wilkerson, fellow LuAnn P. Cliff-Crooks, clerk typist III Yuehui Xiao, RA Jean E. Daly, chief clerk Murle Edwards, chief clerk Barbara Elmore, transcribing secretary ISGS = Illinois State Geological Survey Jessie Knox, cartographer ISWS = Illinois State Water Survey Eddie Lane, electronics engineering assistant RA = research assistant Patricia Lane, administrative secretary TA = teaching assistant Mary Ann Quinn, library clerk II USGS = United States Geological Survey Alice Reed, library clerk II Gwyn Truitt, clerk typist III Diana L. Walter, library technical assistant II Letter from the Head and even come back part- A been be organized. Based on the may V 1/ he last year has work so far and the help we time to make our thin sections. one of rapid change for V have received from the archi- Dedy has moved to Washington the Geology Department, and tects and engineers, it looks State to pursue his painting we expect the upcoming year like we can make the NHB into and will consult on geoscience to be the same. This newsletter a first-rate teaching and library issues. is part of that change. We hope research facility. Don Henderson is compiling you like it; let us know what Other news is that we have a history of the Department you think. The new style, for- redesigned both our under- (see the article on page five) mat, and content are the work graduate and graduate curric- and needs your input. If you of Michelle Sanden Johlas, a ula. At the undergrad level, we have any information, pho- freelance editor with many added a geophysics major and tographs, or just good stories years of newsletter experi- changed many of the courses (printable in a family publi- ence; Jessie Knox, the Depart- for the geology majors, in- cation) about the department ment cartographer (who is also cluding adding geophysics and and its goings-on, he would a pretty good artist—come by geochemistry as required very much appreciate hearing the Department to see some of courses. The new curricula from you. his work); and Pat Lane, the will provide the basis for our Also, don't forget to attend Department secretary, whom graduates to be more flexible the Departmental receptions at many of you know. All of this in the changing job market for GSA and AAPG this coming was organized by Peter Micha- geologists. year. And make sure to attend love, our new assistant to the At the graduate level, we the party after the Homecom- head. reduced the number of formal ing game, October 28! GeoSciences will be coming courses, added to the number Finally, we have a request. out twice a year, in September of research courses, elimi- As you know, the employment and February. Make sure that nated the foreign language situation in Geology is less you get news about yourself requirement (yea or boo, than fantastic, and our stu- and other alumni to us so that depending on your view!), and dents need as much help as we can include it. changed the required general possible finding jobs. If you The big news about the exam to be more research ori- work for an organization that Department is that we will be ented. The overall purpose is sends recruiters to campuses, staying in the good old Natural to put more emphasis on please encourage them to come History Building and that our research training to make our to the Department. If your space is being remodeled. The graduates more competitive. organization does not send work started this summer with We also want to announce recruiters, please send us an- the refurbishing of two in- four retirements: Professors nouncements of open posi- structional laboratories, in Albert V. Carozzi and Donald tions. Pat Lane coordinates our time for this fall's classes. M. Henderson, Jack Pullen, placement activities; contact The architects are working long-time thin section maker, her for either purpose. on the designs for the remain- and Dedy Ward, the Geology der of our teaching and librarian. Albert and Don will research space now. Construc- be staying in the Department tion will start this winter and as emeritus professors and are will take two or three years, as active as ever. Jack will V-^ depending on how the work can continue to live in Champaign Departmental News Remodeling begins with two labs Work crews were busy this summer as they remodeled two of the department's teaching labs, used primarily for intro- ductory geology classes. According to department head R. James Kirkpatrick, the complete refurbishing—paint, flooring, lab tables, chalk- boards, and the like—of Rooms 241 and 251 is part of a four- year plan to remodel Geology's space in the Natural History Building. A member of the work crew The construction is "part of prepares one of upgrading our instructional the labs for efforts and part of the overall construction. remodeling of department Below, David Livingston, of the space," Kirkpatrick said. University's Architects also worked this Operation and summer to finalize plans for the Maintenance Divi- rest of the remodeling, tenta- sion, tackles the tively set to resume during the painting in Room 241 , one of two 1989-90 academic year. The labs remodeled construction concentrates on this past summer. instructional and research lab space, not on offices, said Kirk- patrick. He said that the overall remodeling project currently is budgeted at $1.2 million. The cost of the project is funded by the University of Illinois and is not taken from departmental funds. Several years ago university officials decided not to move Geology to another building as previously had been discussed; because of that, funds were promised to the department to improve the existing space in the Natural History Building. Fall 1989 -0> Information sought for dept. history if readers have seen such memo- The Department of Geology is from before World War II. He in the rials, they need only supply the asking all former students, fac- and others interested are name of the journal, along with ulty, and staff for help in col- history of the department the issue date and page number lecting information for a afraid important and interesting infor- departmental history that will information will be lost forever with the appropriate be written sometime in the near as these older departmental mation. deadline for future. friends and alumni die. Although a in the material has not According to Dr. Donald M. Henderson said personal sending encouraged Henderson, professor emeritus anecdotes as well as factual been set, Henderson submit their remi- and coordinator of the informa- information are welcome. "We'd everyone to soon as possible, tion-gathering, a definite like any recollection of signifi- niscences as see if enough infor- timetable has not been set for cant and/or interesting infor- partially to mation can be gathered to make the project. He pointed out, how- mation on the department, its the project a reality. ever, that "if we don't get the activities, the faculty of the all information to: Dr. information now, this history time, and fellow students," he Send Donald M. Henderson, Attn: will never be able to be written commented. Project, Department of later." The department also is History Geology, University of Illinois, The department is hoping to seeking citations or copies of 245 Natural History Building, hear from as many people as any memorials about former fac- 1301 Green St., Urbana, IL possible, especially the "old ulty, staff, and alumni which W. 61801-2999. timers," as Henderson affection- might have appeared in profes- said ately calls alumni and faculty sional journals. Henderson Duffin takes third in iocal Sigma Xi contest; dozen Geology students initiated into chapter Sigma Xi organization Michael E. Duffin, a graduate 28, 1989. Of the four initiates national during the past year. About half student in geology, took third promoted from associate to full of the 2,000 requests for sup- place in the annual Chapter Stu- membership at the banquet, were granted for a total of dent Research Paper Competition three were from the Department port $1,400,000. Of the 1,000 or so sponsored by UIUC's chapter of of Geology: Linda Bonnell, recipients, seven were at UIUC. Sigma Xi. His paper, "Nature of Christine Kaszycki, and Joanne Departmental recipients were the Origin of Authigenic It- Kluessendorf. Istvan Barany Jr., "Structural Feldspar in Precambrian Base- Other geology students who Analysis of Polyphase Deforma- ment Rocks of the North Ameri- were initiated as new members tion in Minas, Gerias, Brazil"; can Midcontinent," tied with two were: James A. Creemens, Michael Duffin, "Potassic Alter- others for third place from the Michael E. Duffin, Steven J. of Precambrian Basement 30 papers submitted for judging. Hageman, David E. Haymes, ation and Cambrian Sandstones in the Each third-place winner Joseph D. Miller, Hans W. Upper Midcontinent U.S.A."; received $100. Duffin's advisor Papenguth, Loren B. Railsback, Siewers, and and Marlon S. Wilkerson is Richard L. Hay. Frederick D. "Experimental and Computer The Illinois Chapter of Sigma Michelle R. Waldeck. also Modeling of Three-Dimensional Xi, the Scientific Research Soci- Three geology students Grants-in-Aid of Fold-Thrust Geometries." ety, held its annual banquet and received the initiation of new members April Research monies from GeoSciences Commencement banquet, awards mark end of year Nine students and their fam- were announced. ilies, along with eight faculty Joanne Kluessendorf received and staff members and their two of those honors—Outstanding families, marked the end of the Teaching Assistant and Out- 1988-89 year with the annual standing Woman Graduate Stu- Geology Commencement Buffet. dent. She received $300 and a This year's luncheon was certificate for her work as a TA held in the Illini Union during the Fall 1988 semester. following the morning com- The $1,000 award for outstand- Dr. Thomas F. Anderson converses mencement on May 21. Dr. R. ing woman graduate is based with colleagues at the 1 989 Com- James Kirkpatrick, department upon financial need and the mencement Buffet. head, handed out diploma covers candidate's potential; it is to the graduates and gave an funded through an individual, informal speech. private donation. Earlier in the month, the The Chevron Fellowship was Department of Geology awarded to Steve Hageman for announced its undergraduate the 1988-89 academic year. awards for the year. Jay Matthews received $500 Kathryn Desulis received the from the Morris M. Leighton Brunton Award, presented annu- Memorial Fund, established "for ally to an outstanding senior. support of student expenses to This year's Eastwing Pick cover such things as field award, given annually since expenses, travel expenses to before 1967 by the Eastwing meetings, thin sections, chemi- Manufacturing Company in cal analyses, and other expenses Rockford, Illinois, to an out- incurred while working toward a standing undergraduate, was degree (either undergraduate or Joanne Kluessendorf was honored bestowed upon Gavin Lawson. graduate)." with two graduate awards. Four graduate awards also Sharon Lisa Horstman relaxes with family and friends at the Geology Com- mencement Buf- fet at the Illini Union. Fall 1989 27 students receive geology degrees "Carbonate Microfacies, The Department of Geology at Boundary at Arrow Canyon, Nevada"; October Depositional Models and Diagen- the University of Illinois at Clark County, Middle Devonian in Urbana-Champaign granted 1988. esis of the Joong Illinois, Eastern Iowa and Mis- degrees to 27 students between In January 1989, Youn souri" was Roger James Kocken's May 1988 and May 1989. Of Kim received his degree, with a X-ray thesis for his degree, granted in those, 15 were bachelor degrees, thesis on "Powder Transmission May 1989. 8 were master of science Diffraction and of degrees, and 4 were doctorates. Electron Microscopic Study Silicon-Aluminum Disordering Bachelor degrees in Annealed Amelia Albite and Bancroft Oligoclase." Bachelor degrees were Three students completed the granted to: John F. Rakovan and requirements for a master of Alan Robert Singleton, August Faculty members science degree in May 1989: 1988; Steven John Chillson and honors Terri Pleibel Adams, receive Joseph Daniel Miller, October and Biostratigra- Many members of the Geology Cremeens, "Paleoecology 1988; and James Alan honors phy of the Zone 21 faculty receive special James George Longson, and Tracy (Pennsylvanian) Brachiopod and awards during the academic Ann Schneider, January 1989. Fauna, Bird Spring Formation, year, as well as being invited to Students who received their Arrow Canyon, Clark County, present papers and to moderate degrees in May 1989 were: Rod- Daniels, "Origin or convene panels at profes- Kathryn Nevada"; Eric J. ney Robert Caldwell, cannot pro- and Distribution of Minerals in sional meetings. We Desulis, Stacey Lyn Dur- Leigh list of those Shale and Coal from the An- vide an exhaustive ley, Brian Robert Harder, Sharon Region, Eastern Penn- accomplishments here, but some Richard thracite Lisa Horstman, Gavin recognitions sylvania"; and Mary E. Holden, of the most notable Lawson, Terry Robin Pollock, "Copper, Zinc, and Lead Ab- are: and Edward Gerard Stermer. chosen sorption by Soils and Sediments Chu-Yung Chen was Board to from the Des Plaines River Wet- by the UI Research Master degrees Research lands Demonstration Site, Illi- receive a Beckman master of science degree A nois." Award for 1988. was awarded in May 1988 to Stephen P. Altaner was Rimmer the Clay Paula Gail Doctoral degrees elected to the council of (announcement of her degree was Minerals Society, for a term In May 1988, a doctoral omitted from the alumni from 1988 until 1991. degree was granted to Carl Pius newsletter of May 1988). Others Craig M. Bethke was named Weibel, whose thesis was who earned their M.S. are: David a Beckman Associate at the "Stratigraphy, Depositional Charles Watso, with a thesis on Center for Advanced Study, UI, History, and Brachiopod Pale- "The Effect of Tectonic Subsid- for 1988-89. ontology of Virgilian Strata of ence on Sedimentation Processes W. Hilton Johnson was East-Central Illinois." Donald during Deposition of Four Late elected a panel member of the Von Bergen received his Ph.D. in Cambrian Formations, Upper Geomorphology and Quaternary October 1988 for "Natural and Middle West, United States of Geology Division of the Experimentally-Simulated America," August 1988; David Geological Society of America, Stylolitic Porosity in Carbonate Edward Haymes, with a thesis on for the 1988-90 term. Rocks." Christine Anne "An Isotopic Study of East Albert V. Carozzi Kaszycki in January 1989 African and Canadian Carbon- received the History of Geology earned her doctorate for atites," October 1988; Cynthia Division Award from the "Quaternary Geology and Glacial Susan Shroba, with a thesis on Geological Society of America. History of the Haliburton "Brachiopod Biostratigraphy and Region, South Central Ontario, Paleoenvironments across the Canada: A Model for Glacial and Chesterian/Morrowan (Missis- Proglacial Sedimentation." sippi an/Pennsylvani an) GeoSciences Michalove joins staff as asst. to head Peter A. Michalove joined the department when he arrived Department of Geology in Febru- have been upgraded to match the ary as assistant to the head, a capabilities of the new equip- new position. ment. Michalove, 38, came to Geol- Michalove says one of his ogy after serving for eight years primary goals as assistant to the as director of business affairs head is to "establish regular for the University of Illinois contact with alumni and keep in Alumni Association. touch on a regular basis." He Although he has no formal wants to continue and expand on training in geology, Michalove the organization and involve- doesn't feel overwhelmed by his ment regarding alumni that Dr. new role. "I attended the U of I," demic personnel, organizing the David E. Anderson developed he explains, "and I've worked department's administrative during his recent tenure as here for 10 years. My wife, system of personal computers, department head. Sharon, also has worked here for coordinating the remodeling of Michalove became a certified 10 years [currently in the Geology space, and developing public accountant in 1981. His Engineering Publications and maintaining alumni previous training was in music: Office], so it's like home." relations. a bachelor of music from the As assistant to the head, Already he has increased the University of North Carolina in Michalove has five main areas of number of personal computers 1972, a master of music from the responsibility: directing for the administrative staff from University of Michigan in 1973, accounting and business-related three to eight. And the three and a doctor of musical arts activities, overseeing nonaca- computers that were in the from UIUC in 1977. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting: November 6-9, 1989 St. Louis, Missouri Preregistration deadline: October 13 UIUC Alumni Cocktail Party November 6 7-9:30 p.m. Adam's Mark, Directors Row 29 Fall 1989 Geology Club hosts annual open house support and participation in Displays from the Illinois many of the different fields, as people making the open house a State Geological Survey, the Illi- possible" to the many Engi- success. nois Department of Energy and who attend the annual Because the open house is Natural Resources, fossil dis- neering Open House. Lawson provided an "pretty expensive to put plays, drill bits, and a Geiger said that displays together," the club received counter were among the items overview of the field of geology, financial help from the Illinois viewed by visitors to the Geology as well as a few specialized Geological Survey and the Open House, held March 3-4, concentrations. Informational State Department of Illinois Department of Energy 1989, in the Natural History packets about the and Natural Resources. Building. The departmental open Geology also were available. Lawson said the geology house was coordinated by the "We were pleased with the department began holding its Geology Club and held in con- turnout," Lawson said. "We had on open house as part of the Engi- junction with the long-running a continuous flow of people neering Open House four years Engineering Open House spon- Friday." an ac- ago and that continuing partici- sored by the College of Engi- Although officially Club, pation in the event will be neering at UIUC. tivity of the Geology and determined on a yearly basis. According to Gavin Lawson, Lawson said both members Election of club officers and co-president of the Geology Club nonmembers of the club were hosting plans for the 1989-90 academic during the 1988-89 academic active in planning and also credits year are under way. year, the club saw the open the open house. He Kirkpatrick, house as a positive way "to show Dr. R. James head, with strong as many aspects of geology, as department Scanning electron microscope donated Grim continues to support department Altaner, the "The University of Illinois has "A true scientist never terial, said Stephen professor in charge of been extremely good to me and retires," says UI Geology pro- Geology provided everything a scientist fessor emeritus Ralph Grim. the new lab. and analyzer could want—research facilities, Coming to work every day during The microscope the space, freedom to teach the 22 years in retirement, he's also can "give geologists courses I like and to roam the living proof. ability to interpret the in world to do my research." Grim, 87, was honored last paragenesis of minerals minerals, The gifts to the department, October by his colleagues in the rocks, the origin of he said, were given because "I Geology Department for his the temperature and pressure formation for the want, in a small way, to repay financial gifts since his conditions of composition all that's been done for me, and retirement. Grim and his wife, rock, as well as the affected a rock, because I want the UI to be the Fran, have endowed a permanent of fluids that in dominant university for clay teaching chair that bears his and the nature of fossils Altaner said. mineralogy in this country." name and is held by Richard L. rocks," father of Hay. They also have contributed Grim, known as the mineralogy, began working This was adapted from an article a $160,000 scanning electron clay Geological written by Catherine Foster for microscope and X-ray chemical for the Illinois State joined Illini Week. analyzer. Survey in the 1930s and The new instrument provides the UI Geology faculty in 1941. what you're high-quality data on the form, "I'm honored by told the group structure, and chemical doing," Grim composition of geological ma- gathered for the dedication. <- GeoSciences Letters to the editor are welcome! GeoSciences welcomes letters to the editor. If you would like to comment on the newsletter, the Department of Geology, the University of Illinois, or topics of professional interest, address your letter to: Editor, GeoSciences Department of Geology University of Illinois 245 Natural History Bldg. 1301 W. Green St. Urbana, IL 61801-2999 Please limit letters to 500 words. Letters must be signed and are subject to editing for Wilma and Arnold (A.B. 42, M.S. 47) Eddingsof Bloomington, Illinois, enjoy the brevity, conciseness, and meal at the 1988 Homecoming Brunch at Levis Faculty Center. clarity. The Geology Department at the University of Yes! I'll support the Geology program. I'd like Illinois continues to be known for its my gift to go toward: outstanding program and talented students. As Teaching Materials the cost of materials and resources increases, Lab Equipment your financial help is needed to help keep Student Support your department strong and proud. Unrestricted Department Use Enclosed is my gift of: $10 $25 $50 Other Amount . Please make your check payable to: UIF/Department of Geology. Name Address Class Year Please send me information about testamentary giving. Return this form along with your check to: UIF/Department of Geology University of Illinois 245 Natural History Building 1301 W. Green St. Urbana, IL 61801-2999 Fall 1989 o Geology revises course requirements require- from written to oral. The exam Dr. R. James Kirkpatrick, comply with new LAS now will be more research- head of the Geology Department, ments. students now face an oriented as well. has announced changes in the Graduate Kirkpatrick emphasizes that curriculum and in course increased amount of research, changes were made to better requirements. Kirkpatrick says, but the the required courses has the education of Geology At the undergraduate level, number of reduced. The change was students at UIUC. The the department has added an been Geology "more in department has not reduced option in geophysics. And, made to keep the work required by admission standards to bolster effective in the 1989-90 line with declining enrollment, a problem academic year, students will be other departments." require- at schools throughout the required to take courses in The foreign language country. geochemistry and geophysics. ment has been dropped. The department also has Also, the department has qualifying exam revised its course offerings to changed the We salute you! Nonacademic personnel perform an invaluable service to the depart- ment. Clockwise, from upper left: Patricia Lane, Gwyn Truitt, LuAnn Cliff-Crooks, and Barbara Elmore. Not pictured are Jean Daly and Murle Edwards. About our cover. . . The cover of this issue of Ge.oSciences displays three photographs. In the upper left photo, then-recent alumni gathered at the 1985 GSA annual meeting in Orlando. From left: Bill Benzel, Meg Saunders, Steve Laubach, Ilham Demur, Keith Hackley, and Karen Fryer. In the center, the Natural History Building as it appeared decades ago. In the lower right, David Livingston, a member of the University's Operations and Maintenance Division, begins painting Room 241, one of two labs remodeled during the summer. GeoSciences Steve Hageman looks on as Dr. Donald M. Henderson works with one of the department's Macintosh computers. Dr. Donald M. Henderson retires Dr. Donald M. Henderson have seen the faculty grow to and study. At the 1986 meeting became professor emeritus of more than 20. of the International Mineralogi- Geology on August 21, 1989, the "The growth in the depart- cal Association, Henderson date of his retirement from the ment and in the field has been demonstrated some programs he University of Illinois. phenomenal," Henderson—or had written for mainframe com- For some people, retirement Hendy, as he's known around the puters and later adapted for use signals a major upheaval in department—says. on the Macintosh. He is a charter daily routine and responsibili- Mineralogy and crystallogra- member of the Macintosh Users ties. Henderson says, though, phy have been the focus of Hen- Group in Urbana-Champaign, and that "retirement won't be all derson's career. Most recently, is quite active in the group. that different a life for me. I'll he has concentrated on the local He earned an A.B. in geology be coming in pretty regularly to structures of minerals from Brown University in 1943. work on my ongoing projects and (particularly feldspars) and He then worked as a junior geol- following up on other things." their study via nuclear magnetic ogist in Strategic Minerals In addition to those activi- resonance, electron diffraction, Investigations for the U.S. Geo- ties, the department has asked and transmission electron logical Survey from 1944 to him to coordinate the informa- microscopy. 1945. That work involved fluo- tion-gathering for a departmen- Another of his emphases is rite deposits in Colorado, Utah, tal history, which he will write the use of microcomputers in and Nevada. later. education. He says his interest He received an A.M. from He is well-qualified to spear- goes back to the days of the Harvard in 1946 and a Ph.D. in head such a project. Henderson, large mainframe computers. He geology from Harvard in 1950. 68, came to UTUC in 1948 as has been instrumental in the Henderson came to UIUC as an "the eighth or ninth faculty Geology Department's use of instructor in geology and rose member" in the Department of microcomputers (especially the through the ranks to become a Geology. The intervening years Apple Macintosh) for research full professor. He also has worn Fall 1989 < many other hats in the depart- continues, "and the memories of Staff member Pullen ment, including educational them— all my former students retires over summer coordinator. and colleagues. I hope when they Jack 0. Pullen, physical sci- educational coordinator, come through here, they'll As stop ence technician for the depart- "simply looked after by and see me. Everyone knows Henderson ment, retired from the univer- the undergraduate programs where I am." all sity this past summer. and the graduate programs, and Pullen came to Geology in carried out policy as set by the November 1967. For the past 22 head and the advisory commit- years, he has prepared thin tee." In addition he supervised sections for department stu- the academic advising process dents and faculty. and oversaw both teaching and He began his work with thin assistants. research sections Retirement gala% at CalTech under the When speaking of teaching planned for instruction of Rudolph von assistants, the self-described Huene. "punster" says laughingly, "I Henderson "I learned to make thin sec- have learned that it's a good idea The lobby of the Krannert Art tions by making hundreds of to be nice to your TAs, because Museum, Peabody Drive in sets of rocks and minerals for they might become your boss!" Champaign, will be the site for Ward's Natural Science Estab- Current department head R. Dr. Donald M. Henderson's lishment to sell to colleges and James Kirkpatrick used to work retirement party. universities." with Henderson as a TA. The Department of Geology After working at CalTech, Henderson's many accom- has chosen Saturday, October Pullen moved to California State plishments and memberships 21, for the event, which will College, to be "on my own for illustrate his involvement and begin at 5 p.m. A short musical about two years." expertise. He was a Guggenheim program will be followed by a He came to Urbana-Champaign Fellow at University College, catered, sit-down dinner. because he had told von Huene Swansea, Wales, during 1958-59, Other details of the party he was interested in such a where he investigated the min- were not available when this move; his mentor passed that eralogy and boron chemistry of issue of the newsletter went to information along to Professor the lower Coal Measures in the press, but for more information Fred Donath at the University of South Wales coal basin. He is a or to make reservations for the Illinois. fellow of the Geological Society party, call Patricia Lane, "One of the most impossible of America, a charter member of department secretary, immedi- things I had to do," Pullen says, the American Crystallographic "was to make some difficult lit- ately . Her phone number is Association, and a member of tle samples for Professor (217) 333-3542. other numerous organizations. Donath. All these samples were Testimonial letters and other In 1984 he was named a fel- enclosed in copper jackets, and remembrances are being low of the American Association he wanted me to make thin sec- gathered into a volume for Dr. for the Advancement of Science. tions. But he also said no mate- Henderson. All alumni inter- Additionally, he is a long-time rial could be lost but I had to ested in sending something for — reviewer of NSF proposals. saw or grind those jackets to that scrapbook, or in sending asked recount the When to make the sections!" donations for the retirement most satisfying experience of Now that he's retired, Pullen gift, should contact Pat Lane in teaching at UIUC, Henderson and his "very grand wife," Geology, or to Duane M. Moore. doesn't hesitate. Norma, plan to travel and even- Send mail to his attention at the "It's the total experience of tually may move closer to fam- Illinois State Geological Survey, teaching, and then seeing so ily. In the meantime, however, 615 E. Peabody, Champaign, EL many people go out from here 61820. they continue to live in Cham- and make a big name for them- paign, and he will return to the selves in this field. department on an "as needed "I treasure my association basis" to make thin sections. with the alumni," Hendy o- GeoSciences 19 Bon voyage" to Dr. Albert V. Carozzi Traveling for and writing Carozzi and his wife, Mar- to give credit to the people in- about geology has become a way guerite, have an apartment in volved in a project, so he empha- of life for Dr. Albert V. Carozzi, Geneva, a city they visit fre- sizes that the book, which con- and he has no intention of quently. But he points out that tains much of the work under- changing that lifestyle now that they "will keep a base here in taken by graduate students he's retired from the Depart- Urbana-Champaign." He jokes under his tutelage, is not his ment of Geology. that he's still "commuting to individual effort. Carozzi, 64, describes geology work—4,000 miles away." "Students have contributed as "my full-time job and my avo- One other major writing proj- greatly to my work," Carozzi cation." ect on the agenda is a textbook says, "and I work very closely Since his official retirement on sedimentary petrology that is with my students. This is from the department in August, due at Prentice-Hall Publishers something we did." he already has spent consider- in 1991. Carozzi's fields of specialty able time in his native Geneva, Although Carozzi is the are statistical petrology and Switzerland, reading proof copy author, translator, or editor of environmental interpretation of of a 1,000 -page memoir he com- some 286 papers and 54 books, clastic and carbonate sedimen- piled at the request of the Natu- he quickly responds when asked tary rocks by microfacies ral History Society of Geneva. to name the most important to approach. He also is very inter- The volume, which he says has him. ested in the history of geology, turned out to be "an encyclope- "Carbonate Rock Depositional with an emphasis on theories of dia," is being published to com- Models: A Microfacies Approach the earth during the 18th memorate the society's bicen- is a synthesis of my whole century. tennial in 1990; it covers the career," he explains. He is a The University of Illinois era from 1790 through 1815. person who thinks it's important became home for Carozzi in 1955 when he was named an assistant visiting professor of geology. And although he's been on the faculty since then, he's often been away from campus because of overseas sabbaticals or con- sulting work. Those journeys include a two- year stint as invited professor of geology at Federal University of Ouro Preto in Minas Gerais, Brazil, and a one-year term as associate professor of geology at the University of Poitiers in France. Additionally, he has field experience around the globe: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, France, Italy, Ivory Coast, Morocco, Peru, the Philippines, Spain, South China Sea, and Switzerland. "I am grateful," he says, "for the freedom I was given to do consulting and overseas work." He says the university directly Fall 1989 - benefitted from the arrange- seen tremendous change and ment, since what he learned growth in the department and from his trips was shared with the field of geology as a whole. Carozzi party set students at UIUC, and he helped "My contact with graduate stu- for GSA meeting bring international students to dents has been the most The retirement party for Dr. the Geology Department. He also enriching and rewarding," Albert V. Carozzi is scheduled brought back numerous samples Carozzi says, "but my writing for Monday, November 6, at the and thin sections for student probably has been my biggest meeting of the Geological Society and faculty use. achievement." of America. He is quite serious when he The dinner, which is by adds, "Nothing would have been reservation only, will be served possible without an under- at 8:30 p.m. in the Promenade standing wife. For her, I give Ballroom (E or F) at the Adam's thanks." Mark. The Department of Geol- Carozzi earned an M.S. in Librarian Ward also ogy's alumni reception is being geology and mineralogy from the retires from Ul held earlier that evening at the University of Geneva in 1947, Dederick C. Ward, known hotel. and one year later received his around the department as Dedy, The party will feature slides doctor of science in geology and was Geology librarian and asso- and a "roast" of Dr. Carozzi by mineralogy from the same ciate professor of library former students. A scrapbook of institution. He then taught there administration from August testimonials and memories also from 1953 through 1957. 1980 until he retired last May. will be presented. Alumni who Carozzi became a United States He has moved to Anacortes, have something to contribute to citizen in 1963. Washington, since his retire- the book should send their Recipient of many awards and ment. He plans to continue his materials immediately to honors, he most recently was painting, do some traveling, and Michael R. Owen at the address named winner of the Geological act as a consultant on geoscience below. Society of America's "History of library issues. Owen, who studied under Geology" divisional award. For Ward came to UIUC from the Carozzi and received his Ph.D. the five years, he also has past at Boul- University of Colorado in 1984, is coordinating the been a member of the United der, where he had served as event. States Committee for the History science librarian for quite some The "Albert V. Carozzi of Geology. time. Library Fund" has been estab- He is a member of many other Ward was especially inter- lished to help purchase books professional organizations, ested in the history of geology. for research. All donations Associa- including: American faculty He and Geology member should be made payable to U of I tion of Petroleum Geologists, Albert V. Carozzi in 1984 pub- Foundation and mailed to Owen, Society of Economic Paleontolo- lished Geology Emerging, a cat- who will collect them and turn gists and Mineralogists, Ameri- rare alog of UIUC's book collec- them over to the Geology can Association for the Ad- tion in geology. Department. vancement of Science, Inter- Because he had master's For tickets to the dinner in Association of Sedi- national in geology and degrees both St. Louis, send $30 per person mentology, and the Association science, was library Ward adept to: Michael R. Owen, Department of Geoscientists for Interna- at acquiring books for the de- of Geology, Saint Lawrence Uni- tional Development. partmental library. versity, Canton, NY 13617. When reflecting upon his 35- For the current academic Deadline for dinner reser- year career in teaching and year, Lois M. Pausch has been vations is October 13. For researching geology, Carozzi named acting librarian for Geol- more information, call Owen at admits to being most fascinated ogy. She is also assistant math- (315) 379-5975. the "building of school by up a ematics librarian and associate of thinking geology" that about professor of library adminis- occurs over such a time. tration at UIUC. A nationwide also offers several other He search for a permanent Geology thoughts about a career that has librarian is under way. : GeoSciences Profile R.James Kirkpatrick The Deep Sea Drilling Project Dr. R. James Kirkpatrick had The road to the University of Institution of "mixed emotions" about becom- Illinois began at Cornell Univer- of the Scripps York. It was Oceanography provided Jim's ing head of the Geology Depart- sity in Ithaca, New next experience. He character- ment, but one year into his there that "a friend of mine interests at that time as appointment, the 43-year-old said, 'For some reason, rocks izes his "about half of the 'usual' stuff professor seems at ease in the make sense to you,'" and there [crystallization kinetics] and post. that Jim earned an A.B. in geol- half the petrology and geochem- Tipped back in his chair with ogy in 1968. istry of mid-ocean ridge and feet propped on the desk, Jim ocean island igneous rocks." (as he prefers to be known) Attended field camp recounts his first identifiable While enrolled at Cornell, he experience with geology. attended the University of Illi- Back to the U of I "My dad tells this story all nois Field Camp. At the time, In 1978, Jim returned to the time," he says with a Cornell had arrangements for its UIUC as an assistant professor chuckle. "I collected my first students to attend the UI camp in the Department of Geology. says, rock when I was six years old since it didn't have one of its He came back, he and we were on a fishing trip in own. because "I felt it was a place the Catskills. The rock looked That experience led him to with an outstanding program in chemistry like it had shells in it, but it enroll as a graduate student at materials science and turned out to be Devonian bra- UIUC. He completed his Ph.D. in and one of the best places I chiopods. My parents still have geology in 1972. At the time, his could do my work on crystal- that rock in their house." primary concentration was on lization processes." Growing up in the Adiron- the crystallization kinetics of Jim was promoted to associate dacks provided plenty of expo- igneous rocks. professor in 1980 and to profes- sure to the natural world, and Although the specific focus of sor in 1983. He continued his Jim says he's wanted "to be a his work has changed over the work with crystallization, and geologist since the ninth grade." years, "my research interests in 1982 became interested in He didn't know then that have always been in geochem- "the then newly developed field" magnetic geology would lead him to live in istry, mineralogy, and of solid-state nuclear four different states and in petrology," he says. resonance spectroscopy. Cambridge, England, or that he He worked as a senior Topics for research broad- would become head of a depart- research geologist for Exxon ened: structure of minerals, ment brimming with "quality Production Research in Houston structure of glasses and melts, and enthusiasm in the faculty." for one year, then became a processes of weathering and postdoc research fellow at Har- hydrothermal alteration, struc- vard University. During his two ture of clay minerals, and clay- years there, he continued to water interaction. explore the crystallization One highlight of his career This article was written by kinetics of igneous rocks, occurred in 1985, when he was Michelle Sanden Johlas, editor including lunar samples. appointed an Overseas Fellow at of GeoSciences . Churchill College in Cambridge, Fall 1989 *o England. He explains that only Beginning about four years ago, four such fellows are named per the department—like other geol- year, and "it was quite an honor. ogy departments across the There is an outstanding miner- country—started seeing a alogy group at Cambridge, I and decrease in enrollment. collaborated with them on min- Jim adds, "One other major eral structure work." problem we're facing is the lack He continues, "That was the of jobs for geologists." That fact start of much of the work we've makes it hard to attract quality been doing on phase transfor- faculty and students, among mations of minerals." other things. Named dept. head An integrated view Another career highlight He does, however, have hope came in 1988 when he was for the field of geology in gen- named head of the department. Jim leads a summer faculty meeting in eral. "I believe geology is head- He replaced Dr. David E. Ander- the Wanless Room. ing towards an integrated view son, who relinquished the post of how the earth works and how so he could devote more time to it worked in the past. teaching and research. "The underlying, overall Jim admittedly had mixed of the outstanding earth science principle in both teaching and emotions about taking the new departments in the country." research in geology is the need post, partially because of the Although he believes the to understand the earth—and all time constraints it would place department is ranked in the Top planetary bodies—as integrated on research. "But I was very 20, he would like to see it move systems. And even though we gratified to find out I had very into at least the Top 10. He might take different specific broad support across the fac- acknowledges that this is not a approaches, we're all trying to ulty," he says. "It was a chal- new goal for the department; it understand the earth as an lenge." has "been ongoing for 10 years, entity. I feel very strongly that Before he will even since John Hower came. Dave discuss the divisions between hard-rock his goals for the department [Anderson] made important or and soft-rock geology no longer the things he has accomplished contributions in that regard, as exist. We move in and out of so far, Jim lauds the faculty. well. A goal like that can't be specific research topics as the "They've all reached in just a few years." worked hard and field evolves." put their own time and effort That long-term goal has five Just as the discipline of geol- into projects, like the course main components, Jim says. He ogy has evolved, so has Jim's and curriculum revisions. That would like to improve and outlook after his first year as makes increase outside funding of the a tremendous difference." department head. He names the quality department, broaden and main- and "I try to be a hands-on enthusiasm of faculty members tain alumni support, improve administrator, but I'm not afraid as the department's greatest the department's instructional to delegate," he says. asset. efforts, attract more quality "Professionally, I see myself as graduate students, and improve pretty intense, but when I set the quality of the department's Getting in the Top 10 that aside, I try to relax." research facilities. His immediate short-term Jim also comments, "I work All of those areas currently goals include the remodeling of really hard and have some orga- are being addressed, with some the Natural History Building, nizational abilities, but my results already obvious. For revision of the department's biggest asset as head is my example, two labs were remod- general education offerings, and commitment to the department, eled this summer, and plans are filling two open faculty both as an alumnus and as a fac- under way for further renova- positions. ulty member." tion. Jim articulates one long-term He has discovered "how to Jim knows there are some goal as department head: "I want become much more efficient in obstacles in the path of success. to return this department to one my research efforts," since he o- GeoSciences has less time for such pursuits. Still, he gets "very involved with my grad students and their research." He says, "My favorite part of teaching is still field trips, because there is a lot more learning going on than in the classroom, and you get to know the students personally." He continues to teach a petrology course and a graduate course, in addition to research on phase transformations in minerals, structure of mantle minerals, and reactions in cement. When he's not at the office, Jim likes to do things outdoors, such as hiking and fishing. He likes to read as well, and describes his tastes as "eclectic." He and his wife, Carol—former graduate/under- Kirkpatrick sits at the computer that runs one of the nuclear magnetic graduate secretary in the depart- Jim resonance spectrometers that his research group uses to investigate mineral ment—both like to garden. chem- and glass structure, the chemistry of mineral-water interaction, cement until last year, Jim And up minerals. lab, which Jim runs istry, and structural phase transitions in The competed in six or eight track Department, was the first of jointiy with Professor Eric Oldfield of the Chemistry field meets annually. (below) also is part of the lab and its type in the earth sciences. The oscilloscope Around 1980 he became a com- set-up. petitor in the Master's Track and Field Program, picking up the javelin and discus throwing he had done while in college. The weight-lifting and squash-playing he did for training and conditioning paid off: he came in second in the 35- 39 age group in the National Weight Pentathalon. In 1988 he was ranked in the Top 20 nationally in shot put/discus/ javelin for people 40 to 44 years old. His job as department head has put a stop to competition, but he still lifts weights, throws, and plays squash. Although his track career may be over, Jim Kirkpatrick is determined to use that competi- tive spirit to help make the Geology Department the best it can be. Fall 1989 < Some alumni still "missing" In the May 1988 newsletter, a list of "lost" alumni was printed along with an alumni directory. We heard from quite a few of those missing alums in response to that list. This issue we're again printing an updated listing of Geology's "missing" alumni; if you know the whereabouts of one (or more!) of these individuals, please drop a note to Pat Lane, department secretary. Thanks for your help! Budd B. Adams Jeanne Seaman Farnum Joseph J. Letko Leslie R. Schenck Bruce R. Adamson James Norman Fears Robert A. Linka Sohrab Shayani Allen Arthur Aigen Dan Edwards Feray Teresa Luning Lucas- Kenneth Ray Sheppard Alan Aller Susan M. Camp Fiello Salgado Fred R. Shirley David William Allman Paulo M. Figueiredo- Tso-An Ma Joan Caperton Shorter Ernie D. Allsop Filho David Walter Mack Raymond Shrode Glen P. Anderson Mark Edward Finley Roger Conway Malan Sushil Kumar Leslie Grove Anderson Larry S. Foreman Raul D. Maruri Siddhanta Sumner M. Anderson Timothy Devine Fosser Donald Leo Maurer Alan F. Skrzyniecki Pauline Babet Stanley Harold Frost Jorge I. Maycotte Raymond Leroy Jeannine Balsamo Mark Theodore Fulmer Elmo James McGovem Slovinsky Evyn G. Barnard Linda Provo Fulton Jr. Earl Lloyd Soley Jr. Richard B. Beals Jay Owen Gallagher Samuel Carl McMackin Charles Arnold Sorrell Vivian Beeler Jr. George J. Gatsis Michael G. McMahon Roy H. Spitzer Allan G. Bird Constance Elaine Gawne Albert Lawrence Donald West Sprouse Lowell R. Bostrom Douglas Gleim Meyers Rakchai Srilenawat William P. Brackin Michael Edward Michael Charles Moore Thomas R. Stewart Steven M. Brennecke Glowacz Faris Knoble Moyer Kenneth Allen Stone Mary E. Brownlee James Edward Goodin James B. Murowchick Hayashi Sugahara Edward F. Buck Stephen F. Greb Robert E. Murphy Jr. Bruce Irvin Susong Craig E. Butler Kurt A. Grove Lynn L. Napoleoni Robert J. Szumal Louis W. Butler II Peter L. Hahn Joseph Ichiro Naruishi Linda A. Tills Jean McGinnis Callahan Latif Said Hamdan Wilbur Fayette Near Jr. John E. Trummel Terry L. Carius Susan P. Harp Mark Denny Nelson Robert Francis Urbano Peter Alexander Carr Denver Harper Marylinn Nicholson Richard L. Vega Brian Williams Carss Lois Schulz Herring Donald Eugene Noll Arthur Lee Vincent Paul Edward Cassity Peter A. Hetherington Frank John Nowak Carl Wayne Vinyard Sheryl A. Chargo Philip R. Hodgson James P. O'Connor John William Vukovich Livingston Chase Paul E. Holm Kathleen M. O'Neil Beulah M. Waggoner Russell J. Church James Roy Howard Kenneth Gene Page Elizabeth A. Rorig Sally A. Cole John Bancroft Hunt Robert L. Painter Wahlgren James W. Dean Richard Francis Inden Gary L. Patterson Margaret M. Pendleton Sergio Na Debrito Thomas L. Jones Jr. Dwight Pearce Weber John James Delimata William Kagami Patrick T. Philbin Melvin Irenaeus Andrew T. Denaray Jr. Atilla U. Kaprali Ruth Violet Roselle Weidner George A. Dickie Fred Kern Jr. Plain William Charles Welch Harlan Bernard Dodge Elsa M. Kiwiet Donald Robert Ramberg Edward G. Wildanger Bruce Edward Dollahan Rodney A. Klassen Michael T. Reade Timothy N. Willand Eugene Gerald Dorn William J. Knapp Richard B. Ridley Breno Wolff Frank W. Doyle Alfred George Knoll William Franklin Larry Don Wood Erhan Dulekoz Donald Carl Kochinski Ripley William Frederick John K. Eccles Anthony C. Kuhn Donelson A. Robertson Wrath Richard Alden Elliott John Thomas Kummer John Robert Rogers Ronald Jacob Yochem Michael J. Erickson Michael B. Lamport Leah L. Rogers Warren Gilbert Ziebell Wesley Tyler Erickson Ralph George Larson Robert W. Root Ronald K. Zimmerman John Wood Fanning Yaghoob Lasemi Jack J. Rosecrans Jr. GeoSciences ber 31. In his acceptance The heart of any alumni Company. He had held that 1978. Previously speech, Dietz cited two of his newsletter is, of course, infor- position since mentors from UIUC: Professor mation about the alumni them- he had worked for Cities Service Frances P. Shepard and Harold selves. This material is gathered Oil Company. R. Wanless. primarily from the reply forms Since his retirement, Decker Dietz is a geologist and and correspondence you send to has traveled and also done some oceanographer at Arizona State the department, although some geological work in Oklahoma. University in Tempe. tidbits are provided by faculty Clinton and staff who have seen or heard Governor Bill Dr. William Pampe (A.B. from you. The news in this issue appointed Charles J. Hoke the Arkansas State 47, M.S. 48), Regents' professor is the latest information we have (A.B. 37) to of geology at Lamar University about these individuals. Board of Registration for Profes- for a in Beaumont, Texas, was named Take time to complete and sional Geologists in 1987, Distinguished Faculty Lecturer return the reply form at the end term that will expire October 1, last October 17. He presented an of this section—your news is 1990. address on the "History of the important to us! Industry in Southeast For your convenience, this Oil Texas." section has been broken down Pampe joined the Lamar fac- into decades. If an individual FORTIES ulty in 1966 after working as an was in Geology from part of one exploration geologist for the decade into another, he or she Pure Oil Company in Oklahoma will be listed according to the (B.S. for 12 years. date of the last degree granted James E. Lewark 39, from UIUC. (Please note that M.S. 40) retired from Exxon in service with K. O. Emery (B.S. 35, Ph.D. items do no_L appear in alpha- 1977 after 37 years predecessors. 41) is living in Falmouth, Mas- betical order within each Exxon and its sachusetts, where he is working decade.) After working in the Midwest level and the Southeast, in 1967 on problems of relative sea neotec- Lewark moved to Houston, where change caused by local tide gauges of he is still living. He and his tonism, using wife like to travel and do vol- world, archaeology, and sedi- unteer work; he also reports that mentology. until 1962, he he is playing tennis and golf and From 1945 THIRTIES working on genealogy. taught marine geology, oceanog- raphy, and similar subjects at The Geological Society of the University of Southern Cal- ifornia. After that, Emery Willis M. Decker (B.S. 39) America awarded the Penrose S. Dietz (A.B. conducted research at Woods retired in 1986 as vice presi- Medal to Robert last Octo- dent of exploration at Jet Oil 37, M.S. 39, Ph.D. 41) Fall 1989 -o> Hole Institution Oceanographic and who merits their highest Fairbanks, Alaska, is home until 1979. respect." for Wilford F. Weeks (B.S. Droste joined the faculty at 51, M.S. 53), professor of geo- Allen F. Agnew (A.B. 40, Indiana in 1957. physics at the Geophysical M.S. 42) retired in 1981, but he Institute, University of Alaska- still is courtesy professor at Gene W. Heien (B.S. 59) Fairbanks. He is continuing his Oregon State University, where was appointed chair of the research on the geophysics of he teaches one course each fall Department of Geological Sci- sea ice and also serving as chief quarter, alternating between ences at Ohio University in July scientist at the Alaska Synthetic engineering geology and hydro- 1988. He has been on the faculty Aperature Radar Facility (ASF). geology. since 1966. Weeks explains that ASF is chairs He the Oregon Board of the U.S. receiving station for Geologist Registration. Agnew Carl G. Davis (B.S. 59) earth-viewing radar data from a also leads the Ground Water teaches basic chemistry, earth series of three satellites that Advisory Committee to the science, geology, and physical will be launched beginning in Oregon Department of Water science at Danville (Illinois) 1990. The collected data "will Resources. Area Community College. He greatly advance studies of the In 1988, he and two others reports that especially popular world's sea ice covers (which is co-wrote Perspectives on Water: topics are continental drift, vol- where I fit in) and contribute to Use and Abuse, a collection of canoes, and earthquakes; stu- all sorts of other studies in essays covering "the gamut of dents do not, however, generally oceanography, glaciology, and our water quantity and quality share his enthusiasm for his- geology." problems and opportunities." torical geology and the Pleis- In 1988 he was elected a fel- tocene. low of the American Geophysical Robert Harold Kennedy Union. This past August he was (B.S. 41) retired from Inland awarded the Seligman Crystal by Steel Company in East Chicago, the International Glaciological Indiana, in 1981. He served 10 Homecoming party Society. years as a research metallurgist planned for '89 and 30 years as an industrial All Geology alumni and Richard H. Howard (M.S. engineer. friends are invited to the 55), geologist with the Illinois Homecoming '89 cocktail State Geological Survey, was party, to be held at the named 1988 Petroleum Profes- home of department head R. sional of the Year by the Illinois FIFTIES James Kirkpatrick and his Oil and Gas Association. The wife, Carol. award was given in recognition The party will begin of his 30 years of "highly valued after the Homecoming foot- service to the petroleum indus- Lester W. Clutter (B.S. 48, ball game against Wiscon- try and to the Geological Sur- M.S. 51) is a consulting Log sin, October 28. Kirk- vey." He joined ISGS in 1958. Analyst in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He patrick said that alumni Howard's work has enhanced is an certified AAPG petroleum and friends do not need to petroleum exploration in the geologist. attend the game in order to Illinois Basin. He received a come to the party. Best Paper Award at a regional Indiana University awarded Please RSVP by October meeting of the Geological Society its "Brown Derby Award" to Dr. 15 to Patricia Lane in the of America for his work focusing John B. Droste (B.S. 51, M.S. Department of Geology: call on a buried ancient river system 53, Ph.D. 56) last April. An (217) 333-3542, or write to beneath southern Illinois and authentic brown derby and a her care of the department, nearby Indiana and Kentucky. bronze plaque are presented an- University of Illinois, 245 His study of petroleum-filled nually "to the faculty member Natural History Building, sandbars within the ancient who is deemed outstanding and 1301 W. Green St., Urbana, valleys provided a game plan for popular with his/her students, IL 61801-2999. future oil exploration in the basin. GeoSciences <- John (Jack) Pierce The 1988-89 academic year M. William Pullen (Ph.D. band, Florida. (B.S. 49, M.S. 50) have lived in found Dr. Ronald Willis 50) is living in Largo, professor emeritus in Annadale, Virginia, for 26 (Ph.D. 58) in Baghdad, Iraq, on a He became at Purdue Univer- years. They are the parents of Fulbright grant. In addition to geosciences 1979. His four daughters. He works for the learning about the people and sity in September subsurface geology Smithsonian Museum as a sedi- culture of Iraq, he taught specialty is field geol- mentary geologist. courses in petroleum geology, from boreholes and world- biostratigraphy, and sedimen- ogy; he had an extensive practice in Richard M. Winar (B.S. 53, tation. wide consulting subsurface M.S. 55) is vice president of Willis has been acting chair solution mining and disposal. environmental sciences and of the geology department at the storage and manager of the Albuquerque University of Wisconsin-Eau (B.S. 55, office of Deuel & Associates, an Claire. Alan J. Scott science and engi- Ph.D. 58) is chief scientist, Gulf environmental International, neering firm. Since 1986, Dale Owen Coast, for RPI Boulder, Colo- Reese (B.S. 56) has been an which is based in Univer- Francis W. Allen (B.S. 54) independent consultant and oil rado. Scott taught at the for many is superintendent of technical producer exploring for and pro- sity of Texas at Austin before joining the private training and services at The ducing oil and gas in Texas, years Peoples Gas Light and Coke Com- Louisiana, and Mississippi. sector in 1984. pany in Chicago. Previously, he After his undergraduate work Since 1984, R. Budiharto had spent seven years as man- at UIUC, he earned an M.S. from has been general man- ager of operations at North Shore the University of Kansas and (B.S. 59) Digicon Mega Gas Company, Peoples's sister worked for two years with ager with P. T. Indonesia. company in Waukegan. Allen has Aramco in Saudia Arabia. That Pratama in Jakarta, been with Peoples Gas since was followed by four years with From 1974 until he took his he was 1956. Pan American in Jackson, Mis- early retirement in 1984, staff geophysi- sissippi, then four years as an with Arco as a independent in Jackson, and cist. another four years for various Jackson companies. In 1974 he The Desert Research Institute the University of moved to Dallas to work with building at named in Bridger, Lear, Vaughn, Adena. Nevado, Reno, has been Burke Although he left the firm in memory of George 55-62), who Stephen H. Kirby (B.S. 67) 1986, he continues to live in Maxey (professor, executive is halfway through his term as Dallas. died in 1977. He was Tectonophysics director of DRI's Water secretary of the of the American Geo- William W. Hay (M.S. 58, Resources Center at the time of Section physical Union. His term began former staff member) and his his death. July 1, 1988, and expires June colleagues used a computer to Association of 30, 1990. Kirby is senior draw a map of the Earth as it The American year research geophysicist in the looked when dinosaurs lived. Petroleum Geologists last (M.S. tectonophysics branch, U.S. Although that was some 10 years elected John W. Shelton president. He Geological Survey, in Menlo ago, France has issued an air- 51, Ph.D. 53) vice AAPG's board Park, California. mail stamp with that map on it began his term on to commemorate the 10th July 1, 1988. of Stefan Gartner Jr. (M.S. anniversary of the Deep Sea Shelton is vice president Tulsa, 62, Ph.D. 65) teaches in the Drilling Project in the South Masera Corporation in Department of Oceanography at Atlantic. Oklahoma, and the V. Brown Geology at Texas A&M University. The project is an interna- Monnett Professor of tional effort to understand land Oklahoma State University. and ocean conditions in the (Solliday) Mesozoic era. Beverly Ann Pierce (B.S. 50) and her hus- Fall 1989 ^> Mohamed T. El-Ashry "I like to work out the geol- than 10 countries and was (M.S. 63, Ph.D. 66) works at the ogy of an area and see my ideas enjoying it "enormously." World Resources Institute in and prospects tested by the Washington, D.C. drill bit," he writes. "I've drilled my share, or more, of Since 1984, George H. dry holes, but have lucked out a Keller (Ph.D. 66) has been vice few times with some field dis- president for research and coveries. Despite the depression graduate studies at Oregon State in the oil industry I have some- The associate dean of gradu- University. In January 1987, he how managed to stay employed." ate studies in the Office of Aca- also assumed responsibility for Williams and his wife, demic Affairs at the University international programs: inter- Elaine, have established the of Wisconsin-Green Bay is national students at OSU, the Swinging W ranch in eastern Ronald Stieglitz (M.S. 67, student and faculty exchange Oklahoma, where they raise Ph.D. 70). He assumed the half- program with 24 institutions in Brangus cattle and grow pecans. time position at the beginning of 15 countries, and research and They plan to retire there in a 1989; he continues to teach in development. few years. the university's natural and Involved in research projects Williams also reports that applied sciences program. He in the People's Republic of one of his five children, Charles joined the faculty in 1976. China since 1979, he recently Sidney, is a senior geologist for Stieglitz was honored by his completed a three-year study of the Gulf Corporation in Calgary, colleagues in 1983 with the sediment stability and bottom Canada. Founders Association Award for dynamics associated with the Excellence in Scholarship. He outer part of the Yellow River Joan Gordon (M.S. 62) spent was cited for his effectiveness delta. the summer of 1988 helping to in involving both graduate and Keller also chairs the Uni- renovate a 12th-century undergraduate students in his versity National Oceanographic chateau-fort in the Ardeche research and for increasing the Laboratory System, an associa- (southern France), just above visibility of the university's tion of 56 universities with Aix. She "had a good time and earth sciences program through responsibility for coordinating saw a few rocks." his professional activities use of the nation's oceano- beyond campus. graphic facilities, as well as Robert W. Pierce (Ph.D. planning and designing new 69) chairs the Department of Robert W. Von Rhee (M.S. ones. Physical Sciences at Eastern 77) now lives in Tulsa, working New Mexico University, where as an independent petroleum Doug Anderson (B.S. 69) he also is director of the elec- geologist. has a consulting firm in Hazle- tron microscope facility. He was ton, Pennsylvania. elected president of the Portales Bill Rice (M.S. 74) works Kiwanis Club in 1988. with hydropower for Wisconsin Margaret S. Leinen (B.S. Electric in the Upper Peninsula 69) is associate professor and Richard A. Davis Jr. of Michigan. He is in charge of associate dean of the School of (Ph.D. 64) has been appointed to the entire Menominee River Oceanography at the University a Distinguished Professorship at system, running the reservoirs of Rhode Island. the University of South Florida. that control 13 dams. Rice was elected to the local The Kerr-McGee Corporation In March 1988, Chris Heath school board in 1988 (he has two in Oklahoma City employs (M.S. 63, Ph.D. 65) was trans- daughters) and also is active in Donald R. Williams (M.S. 62) ferred from Cairo to London and helping the county locate a new as a senior exploration geolo- is now working on "new ven- landfill site. gist. He has worked for several tures" for Amoco Production North American oil and gas Corporation in Europe, Africa, Mark Reinbold (M.S. 77) exploration firms in several and the Middle East. By Decem- works for RPI in Boulder, locations, including Midland, ber, he had traveled to no fewer Colorado, and as of December Texas, and Calgary, Canada. ) *>- GeoSciences The home of Ed Bushman (B.S. 41 —second from left in the photo—in Laguna Beach, California, was one of eight homes where a severe storm on January 17, 1988, cut approxi- mately 30 feet deep into the shore- line. He reports that among other things, he and his family lost their sewer line and stairs from their beachfront house. More than 500 feet of shore was severely eroded. Repair work on the beach was quite extensive and, among other things, involved 14 million pounds of granite. Bushman comments, "An interesting, if quite expensive, les- son in marine shoreline erosion." office to help with the cleanup trating on the Basin and Range. Much of his work focuses on the 1988 was involved in a Siluro- of the Rocky Mountain Arsenal. of Nevada. Devonian West Texas project. "All visitors in Denver are Paleozoics welcome to call: (303) 460- Although health problems wheelchair four Chevron transferred Jay 1162!" "put me in a I can still spend Scheevel (B.S. 79) from Mid- years ago, exploration budgets with the land, Texas, to San Francisco, Jerry P. Walker (M.S. 75) Sierra best of them." where he is working on Chev- is chief geologist for and his wife, Nancy, have ron's exploration program in Resources in Reno, Nevada. He three-year-old daughter, Cabinda, West Africa. a Margaret Watson Jennifer. Steve Tissue (M.S. 77) was Rutledge (B.S. 74) earned a David W. Rich (M.S. 77, promoted to division geologist in master's in scientific and engi- Ph.D. 79) is president of Geotech the production department for neering management from West Computer Systems, which pro- Chevron in New Orleans. Coast University in 1984. Now soft- she is manager of financial ser- vides computer hardware, Anadarko transferred Mike vices for Mesa Consolidated ware, and services to earth scientists in oil and gas, mining, Hansen (Ph.D. 75) from its Water District in Costa Mesa, environmental/groundwater, Denver operation to Dallas. California. She reports to the general manager/CEO and is government, and education. As include Steve Jamrisko (B.S. 71) responsible for finance, cus- president, Rich's duties marketing, sales, declined an assignment to Yoko- tomer service, and data management, and some hama and has another three-year processing. She says "the job training, project work, programming. tour of duty in Washington, would be impossible without a In August 1988, he reported where he is an officer in the technical background." of Naval Supply Corps. She has a three-year-old son, that the company moved out Andrew, who loves to backpack the house and into an office firm then con- John Drew Mitchler (B.S. and "is crazy about rocks." Her building; the of three full-time and two 78) received his M.B.A. in 1987 husband, Jim, is a tenured fac- sisted employees. "Things from the University of Illinois. ulty member in physics at the part-time moving along," he said, He then moved to Novato, Cali- University of California at are it takes long hours fornia, where he joined Harding Irvine. "although still doesn't pay as well as Lawson as project coordinator and job. It is for hazardous waste cleanup Hunt Oil Company in Denver my oil company to help peo- projects. He recently trans- employs John J. Barnes (M.S. rewarding, though, problems, so I'm ferred to Harding's Denver 73) as a senior geologist in ple solve frontier exploration, concen- enjoying it." Fall 1989 < Chang L. Lin (Ph.D. 70) is Emory, the Board of Trustees Nancy Beresky (B.S. 78) chief of water resources plan- voted to close the Geology works as a hydrologist for the ning for the Nova Scotia Depart- Department, effective August State of Arizona, Department of ment of the Environment. The 31, 1989. Replacing it will be a Water Resources. She is involved International Association of much diluted 'Program in the in projects that determine Hydrogeologists (Canadian Geosciences.'" groundwater conditions in all National Chapter) sponsored an Size chaired the geology hydrologic basins in Arizona; International Groundwater Sym- department, which offered B.A., that information is used in reg- posium in Halifax in May 1988. B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. programs. ulations concerning water use in Lin edited the symposium's pro- Its introductory geology courses the state and to assure the water ceedings, 29 technical papers. enrolled 600 per two-semester supply over the next century. academic year. She was promoted to hydrolo- Donald R. Ganser (B.S. 71) He organized a symposium on gist in November 1988 after 10 works with Chen & Associates in migmatite formation and migra- months as a water resource Denver as chief hydrogeologist. tion, held at the International specialist, which involved field He is responsible for all Geological Congress in Wash- measurements of pumping water groundwater work and directs ington, D.C., in July. wells. She says, "You haven't projects related to groundwater really done fieldwork until you contamination and groundwater The University of New spend eight hours in 115° heat." supply. Orleans employs W. H. Busch Beresky consulted as an Previously, he spent 12 years (M.S. 76) as an associate profes- independent petroleum geologist with Woodward-Clyde Consul- sor of geology. in the Illinois Basin until she tants in Denver and New York/ moved to Tempe in 1986 to take New Jersey. He was lead The American University of graduate courses at Arizona geologist for the Merrill Creek Beirut employs Mohamad R. State University. Reservoir Project in western New Khawlie (M.S. 72, Ph.D. 75) as Jersey and resident hydrogeolo- associate professor and chair of Harold (Duke) Wilber gist at the Rio Blanco Oil Shale the geology department. He (B.S. 71, M.S. 73) spent the Project. teaches undergraduate courses summer as a seasonal park in mineralogy and petrology, as ranger/interpreter in Craters of This past January, Frank R. well as various graduate the Moon National Monument. He Ettensohn (Ph.D. 75) went to courses. His research interests, is a secondary science teacher Novosibirsk State University in reflected in his 30-plus publi- in Springfield (Illinois) School the Soviet Union to teach geol- cations on the topics, are min- District 186. He is one of five ogy as a Fulbright Scholar. eral resource development finalists for district "Educator Ettensohn is professor of (notably industrial minerals) of the Year" for 1988. geology at the University of and in land use and environ- Wilber and his wife, Rita, a Kentucky, where he has been mental protection. teacher's aide, have two chil- employed since leaving UIUC. He He joined the faculty in 1978 dren: Matt, 15, and Sarah, 12. teaches a variety of courses and after working for Lebanon's They have spent several sum- also recently continued research National Research Council on mers traveling the West, from on the relationships between minerals exploration, freelanc- Wyoming to Nevada "where I did epeiric, marine black shales, ing as a geologist in Saudia my undergrad thesis with Dr. and tectonism with NSF support. Arabia, and working for Dames Langenheim." He is married and the father & Moore in London. of two children: Clare, six, and As consultant to the African Marc, three. Prentice-Hall has published Development Bank, Citoyen Clastic Depositional Sequences: Remy Tshibangu (B.S. 73) William B. Size (Ph.D. 71) Processes of Evolution and reviews loan and investment is at Emory University in Principles of Interpretation by proposals on development proj- Atlanta. He writes: "After a 50- Gordon S. Fraser (B.S. 68, ects in Africa. year history of the Geology M.S. 70, Ph.D. 74). He earned an M.B.A. (75) and Department at Emory Univer- M.S. in finance (76) from UIUC sity, and my own 15 years at and worked for a time for Conti- « GeoSciences holds a concurrent ager of an ordance engineering nental Bank in Chicago. Since He also at company. leaving the bank, he has con- adjunct professorship Illinois University and Hosack left CSC and worked sulted on various development Northern of Manchester in for eight years at ORI Inc., also projects in Africa; work-related the University Kingdom. on space-related projects. Last travel took him all over Europe the United year she accepted her current and north and west Africa, of post at CSC. although he maintained a home The Geological Society awarded its 1989 She and her husband have a base in Chicago with his wife America has (Donath son, Aaron Jesse, three, and and two children. Young Scientist Award (B.S. were expecting another child Last year he was required to Medal) to Mark P. Cloos in the Depart- when she wrote last January. relocate to the Ivory Coast for a 76), who teaches Sciences at The family has traveled exten- few years. He writes, "My two ment of Geological Austin. sively in Colombia, Israel, and boys enjoy the experience of the University of Texas, Italy; they hope to go to Tunisia studying overseas, and my wife (B.S. 75) was next year. practices 'real long-distance James Luhr commuting' since her job as featured in the November 1988 Alumni News chief marketing officer keeps issue of Illinois with the volcano her in Chicago." for his work Colima in Mexico. Luhr, a geol- EIGHTIES Richard J. Reeder (B.S. ogy professor at Washington University in St. Louis, was 75) is an associate professor in special meeting in the Earth and Space Sciences invited to a to Jack (John) Yamold (B.S. Department at the State Univer- Mexico in January 1988 and 87) has been awarded a Depart- of New York in Stony Brook. discuss with area residents sity He scientists the volcano's activity ment of Defense fellowship. people is working toward a graduate Mike Kirby (B.S. 79) is and how it may affect the degree at the University of one-half of Petrex Energy Inc., living near it. Arizona, Tucson. an oil and gas firm in Texas that Hosack does consulting and prospect Beryl A. (Horn) David B. Bieler (Ph.D. 83) generation in the Texas and (B.S. 77) has returned to Com- (CSC) teaches geology, geography, and Louisiana Gulf coasts. He helped puter Sciences Corporation geophysics at Centenary College begin the enterprise last fall. in Beltsville, Maryland, as Since in Shreveport, Louisiana. He After he was laid off from senior computer scientist. continues his work on stratigra- Enserch Exploration in 1986, June 1988 she has been direct- phy, structure, and petrology of Kirby taught geology at Alvin ing a task under contract to eastern Blue Ridge in Community College (south of NASA: developing a concept of part of the Alabama. Houston) on a part-time basis operations for a ground data used by Bieler recently completed a for two years. He also brokered handling system to be and manuscript with Dr. Lisa Kanter seismic data. the space station Freedom a other missions during that era. (Memphis State) concerning for tectonic regionalization of the Earlier this year, James W. She taught earth science continent regimes of the Castle (Ph.D. 78) accepted a one year in rural Maryland, then stable world with respect to their position as senior staff geologist joined CSC as an analyst in sys- on seismic phenomena. for Cabot Oil and Gas Corpora- tems engineering, working processing tion in Pittsburgh. the LANDSAT image (B.S. facility at Goddard Space Center. Grant Olson 81) Geophysical Services Daniel E. Lawson (M.S. 74, CSC selected her to obtain her worked for Univer- Inc. in Denver for four months Ph.D. 77) is a research physical M.S. (George Washington in 1982 before returning to scientist, Geological Sciences sity 81) in information systems UIUC, where he completed a B.S. Branch, in the U.S. Army Corps through a special corporate vet medicine (85) and a of Engineers, Cold Regions program. in D.V.M. in 1987. He then had a Research and Engineering Lab. It was there she met her hus- mixed animal practice in Lan- He has received its "Sustained band, Glen, who is general man- Superior Performance Award." Fall 1989 < caster, Wisconsin, until July southern Africa, India, Aus- moved to San Diego for addi- 1988. tralia, China Seas, Korea, the tional flight training. He was Olson is now a mixed animal Philippines, and Japan. relocated to Jacksonville, practitioner, "mostly dairy cows Florida, which is now his home and dogs," in Winona, Min- Jeff S. Rauh (B.S. 81) has base. "I'm currently deployed in nesota. He says he eventually spent four years as an officer in the Great Seasnake Lake, or Per- plans to "open a 'Pet Rock' vet- the U.S. Army Infantry. He has sian Gulf as you know it, and erinary clinic in order to utilize been pursuing an M.B.A. at can't wait to get back home to my both degrees to the fullest." Northern Illinois University and surfboard! I'm tired of people planned to receive his degree shooting at me." Ventura, California, is now this past August. home for Robert F. Babb Lee M. Hirsch (B.S. 81) (Ph.D. 81), a geophysicist with Valla D. Jones (B.S. 84) received a Ph.D. from the Uni- Chevron Exploration and Pro- married Dr. David A. Earl in versity of California at Berkeley duction Services. He does December 1988. They are living in 1987, with a dissertation assorted exploration and pro- in Bozeman, Montana. focused "on the effects of high- duction activities, mostly with temperature creep on electrical computers. Petrobras employs Renato conduction in olivine for the He worked for Gulf Oil in Taden Bertani (M.S. 83, Ph.D. purpose of better understanding Houston and then in Midland, 84) as a district exploration high conductivity zones in tec- Texas, and was absorbed by manager in Natal, Brazil. He tonically active regions of the Chevron when it took over Gulf. works on the petroleum explo- upper mantle." Babb married Laurie ration of the Potiguas Basin, a He reports, "Since leaving Hartline (M.S. 81) in 1983. lower Cretaceous basin cur- Illinois I, happily, have done no rently listed as the second oil field geology; although I still Dwayne Martin Keagy producer of all Brazilian basins. enjoy camping. My research for (B.S. 84) has been working on a He comments that it is still the past several years has master's degree in hydrogeology immature from the exploration involved laboratory studies of at Eastern Kentucky University point of view. the physical properties of rocks in Richmond. He also works for Natal is "a medium-size town and minerals." He also has been Merck, Sharpe, and Dohme in located in the northeast corner involved in electrical measure- Barceloneta, Puerto Rico, in of Brazil, full of beautiful ments on rock samples recovered conjunction with Richmond- beaches and very pleasant from the Cajon Pass deep hole in based Ewers Water Consultants. weather." California. While in Puerto Rico, he is Hirsch currently is a postdoc gathering material for his Lt. Keith Archbold (B.S. at Los Alamos National Lab, thesis. 84) is a U.S. Navy pilot, who as working on computer modeling of September 1988 was detach- of point defects in minerals with Dartmouth College awarded a ment air operations officer the goal of better understanding doctorate in geology to Charles deployed in the Persian Gulf. conduction, diffusion, and Benjamin Connor (B.S. 82) in After graduation from UIUC, solid-state deformation in the June 1988. He received a mas- he moved to Florida and worked lower crust and mantle. ter's degree from Dartmouth in as a facilities analyst for 1984. American Inc., doing network Heidi Hoffmann (B.S. 84) analysis and traffic engineering went to Oregon State University U.S. Navy Ensign Michael E. while working on his M.B.A. at in 1984 to work on her master's Lynch (B.S. 88) is a diving offi- night. To fulfill a "lifelong degree; she was a research cer in charge of supervising dream to fly," he went to avia- assistant in the soil science repair and salvage work and tion officer candidate school in department there. Her thesis weapons handling on an ammu- Pensacola and was commissioned was titled "Petrographic Analy- nition ship. The ship's home an ensign in the U.S. Navy in sis of the Limestone-Dolomite port is Guam, where there is "all May 1985. Facies Change in the Middle kinds of geology here!" His tour Archbold completed flight Devonian Denay Limestone, of duty should include time in school in September 1986 and Northern Antelope Range and ^ GeoSciences She was a member of Gamma Phi Fish Creek Range, Southern certification program at Eureka County, Nevada." She Northern Illinois University. Beta. birth She married Robert Baldridge planned to defend her work just They also announce the Jillian Reedy on June 8, 1946. He died before last Christmas. of their daughter, April 22, 1980. She also was "working (my Christine, on March 7, 1989. Mrs. Reedy worked as secre- paying job!) on soil mineralogy, tary to the Department of Geol- soil solution chemistry, and age After leaving UIUC, ogy and as a research assistant dating of marine terraces Michelle Corlew (B.S. 86) sciences in paleontology at the Univer- through use of soil data. I love taught math and earth sity of Kentucky, 1942-46. my work and spend a lot of time in her hometown of Edwards- After her marriage she worked hiking, skiing, and windsurfing. ville, Illinois, for one year and graduate-level math at various firms around the I live in the country and have a took an engineering wonderful, productive garden courses at Southern Illinois country as draftsman, steel detailer, and and have been canning fruits, University. senior statistical secretary. vegetables, making wine (Pinot For the past several years, After her husband's death, Noir), and brewing beer." she has been teaching earth sci- ence and other science courses Mrs. Reedy moved to Albu- querque where she co-founded John M. Fox (M.S. 87) is at Waubonsie Valley High School Diversified Art Associates, Inc., part of Ward's Natural Science in the Naperville/Aurora, Illi- representative busi- Establishment, which publishes nois, area. Corlew plans "to pur- an artists' also was co-owner of Ward's Original Collector's sue a master's degree in paleon- ness. She El-Dor Galleries and El-Dor Corner, a mail-order catalog for tology in the near future, as well Boutique in Old Town, Albu- geological specimens. as work to establish environ- mental and geology classes at querque. She is survived by one sister, John L. Shepard (M.S. 80) the high school." one brother, one daughter, one is senior geologist for onshore three grandchildren. exploration with Shell Western The Denver-based geological son, and E & P Company in Houston. In consulting firm The Discovery its president Frederick E. Williams the fall of 1988 he also Group has as (M.S. 51) died in August 1988. recruited for Shell and vis- Robert Cluff (doctoral student He retired from Morrison- ited the UIUC Geology Depart- 78-83). in 1984 and ment. Knudsen Company lived with his wife, Nancy, in Another alum working for Boise, Idaho. Earlier in his career, he had Shell Western is David C. worked for Allied Chemical Cor- Watso (M.S. 88), who joined the Consolidated Coal Gulf Coast Division in July 1988 poration, Company, Aluminum Company of as a geologist. He lives in Illinois State Houston. Robert "Bob" Everett America, and the Gernant (B.S. 63) of Mequon, Geological Survey. Mr. Bruce E. Phillips (M.S. Wisconsin, died in June 1988. His widow reports that Williams's career was about 86) is a hydrogeologist for the evenly divided between coal State of Illinois Bureau of Mines Dorothy Geneva (Quirke) exploration and fluospar in Springfield. Reedy (A.B. 42) died October 1, 1988, in Albuquerque following exploration. He had worked in Morocco, David T. Heidlauf (M.S. a short illness. England, France, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, and 86) is a hydrogeologist with C. She was born September 13, Canada, as well as in the United C. Mahlhotra & Associates in 1920, and was raised in Urbana. Chicago. He and Lisa Harstad She graduated from University States. (M.S. 86) were married in 1986. of Illinois High School and the She has completed a teacher University of Illinois (major in geology and minor in English). Fall 1989 Please take a few moments to let us and your classmates know what you've been doing: promotions, publications, election to office, marriages, parenthood, moving, awards. We'd all like to hear from you! Response date Name Address. Check here if this is a new address. Degrees from Illinois (with year) Degrees from other universities _ Present employer and brief job description Other news you would like to share Your comments on the alumni newsletter Deadline for February 1990 newsletter: November 17, 1989. Place Stamp Here Michelle Sanden Johlas Editor, GeoSciences Department of Geology University of Illinois 245 Natural History Building 1301 W. Green Street Urbana, IL 61801-2999 . . .Late-breaking news. . , Profs. Ralph Grim and Jack Hough die As this issue of GeoSciences The Clay Mineral Society of went to press, the Geology Spain created its Gold Medal Department received word that especially to honor Ralph, and Ralph E. Grim, professor emeri- he received that in 1972. tus, and Dr. Jack L. Hough, a Ralph was an honorary fellow former professor here, both had of the National Academy of Sci- died. ence of India, the Ceramic Soci- ety of Brazil, and the Ceramic Ralph E. Grim Society of France. He was a fel- Dr. Ralph E. Grim, professor low of the Geological Society of emeritus in the Geology Depart- America and of the Mineralogi- ment for 22 years, died August cal Society of America; he 19, 1989. He was 87 years old. served MSA both as vice presi- Ralph was born February 25, dent and president. 1902, at Reading, Pennsylvania. Ralph belonged to many pro- He married Frances Brown in fessional organizations, including Urbana on January 1, 1964. She the American Ceramic survives. Society, the Mineralogical Soci- In 1931, Ralph received his ety of Great Britain, the British Dr. Ralph E. Grim Ph.D. from the State University Ceramic Society, the Society of of Iowa. He had earned a Ph.B. Economic Geologists, the Ameri- from Yale University in 1924. can Association of Petroleum He was an assistant professor Geologists, Sigma Xi, the Society In honor of his numerous at the University of Mississippi of Economic Paleontologists and contributions to the field of and an assistant state geologist Mineralogists, and the American geology, to the department, and in Mississippi from 1926 until Crystallographic Society. to the university, Ralph was 1930. In 1931, he became a He chaired the International awarded an honorary doctor of petrographer for the Illinois Committee for the Study of Clays science degree by the University State Geological Survey; in 1945 and was a member and first of Illinois in 1984. he became principal geologist at chairman of the U.S. National Ralph's other awards ISGS. Research Council Committee on included the Roebling Medal of Ralph joined the Geology Clay Minerals. the Mineralogical Society of Department at UIUC in 1948 as a Ralph was a delegate to sev- America, which he received in research professor. In 1967 he eral geological congresses and 1974. He also received the first retired from the university, had lectured at research labo- Distinguished Member Award although he continued his work ratories and universities in from the Clay Mineral Society of using the department as a base. England, France, Australia, New America. Ralph was a longtime and gen- Zealand, India, Japan, the Union Additionally, in 1973 he was erous benefactor to the Geology of South Africa, Brazil, Ar- designated a Chevalier of the Department. In 1976 he estab- gentina, Germany, Italy, and the Ordre Nationale of the Republic lished the Ralph E. Grim Profes- U.S.S.R. His research also took of the Ivory Coast and received sorship in Geology. That him to Iran, Nicaragua, El Sal- the Medal of the Ordre endowed chair was filled in vador, and South Vietnam. Nationale. Ralph had served as 1983 by Richard L. Hay. Ralph In addition to his consulting scientific advisor to the state also began a fund for purchasing work, Ralph wrote three text- corporation in the Ivory Coast equipment for the department, books and numerous articles for that was administering UN funds most notably the scanning elec- professional journals. granted to help that country tron microscope and X-ray Memorial contributions may develop its mineral resources. chemical analyzer (see the news be made to the University of article on page 9 in this issue). Illinois Foundation, the First United Methodist Church of The Geology of the Great Lakes. Champaign, or The Empty Tomb. From 1949 until 1961 he served as editor of the Journal of Sedi- mentary Petrology. Jack L. Hough Dr. Hough joined the faculty Dr. Jack L. Hough, professor of the University of Michigan in of geology at the University of 1964 as professor of oceanogra- Illinois from 1947 until 1964, phy and geology. He was a died July 10, 1989, at the research scientist in the Great Borgess Nursing Home in Kala- Lakes Research Division. mazoo, Michigan. He was 80 He served as president of the years old. Society of Economic Paleontolo- He was bora March 30, 1909, gists and Mineralogists (SEPM) in Chicago. He is survived by his in 1966 and 1967. Western wife, Maxine Bow; a son, R. Michigan University awarded Anton Hough; a daughter, Bar- him an honorary doctorate in bara Locke; and four grand- 1969; four years later he children. received honorary life member- Dr. Hough was a specialist in ship in SEPM. marine geology and one of the He retired from the Depart- leading authorities on the ment of Meteorology and glacial geology of the Great Oceanography (now Oceanic Sci- Lakes. ences) at the University of He received his B.S. in geol- Michigan with emeritus status ogy in 1932 from the University in 1974. of Chicago. It was there he also After his retirement, Dr. earned his M.S. in 1934 and Hough and his wife spent time Ph.D. in 1940. building and then cruising their He began his professional schooner, "Tondaleyo." They employment with the U.S. Soil also traveled around the United Conservation Service. After a States and Europe. brief stint with the Humble Oil Company, he worked for the U.S. Navy and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, where he served as supervisor of oceanographic research and as an oceanographic advisor to submarine commanders during World War II. In 1945 he worked for the Standard Oil Development Co. One year later, he was marine geologist and oceanographer on Admiral Richard Byrd's final Antarctic expedition. In 1947, Dr. Hough joined the UI faculty as an associate pro- fessor in geology, then became a professor of geology. During a leave of absence in 1954-55, he headed the Depart- ment of Geology and Geophysics at the Indian Institute of Tech- nology in India. In 1959 he received the Kirk Bryan Award from the Geological Society of America for his book, V •epartme. GeoSciences Alumni Newsletter Winter 1990 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS STAFF Department Head: R. James Kirkpatrick Assist, to the Head: Peter A. Michalove Editor: Michelle Sanden Johlas Designer: Jessie J. Knox Admin. Secretary: Patricia Lane GeoSciences Cover: Dr. Richard L. Hay, Ralph E. Grim Professor of Geology at UIUC, is well-known for his work at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. See story on page 1 Photo by Jessie J. Knox Faculty and Staff 2 Letter from the Head 3 Departmental News 4 Computer lab - GeoThrust - Honors - Remodeling - Klein receives Fulbright - Retirement parties - Alumni event in Boulder Profile: Richard L Hay 10 Rob Lander 14 Alumni News 15 Reply Form 23 GeoSciences is the Alumni newsletter for the Department of Geology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. It is published in September and February of each academic year. WINTER 1990 Department of Geology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 245 Natural History Building, 1301 W. Green Street, Urbana Illinois, 61801-2999, (217) 333-3542 GeoSciences Faculty Graduate Students Stephen P. Altaner, assistant professor Istvan Barany Jr., TA David E. Anderson, professor David Breedon, TA Thomas F. Anderson, professor/associate dean, Ten-Hung Chu, TA LAS Xian-Dong Cong, RA Jay Bass, associate professor Tom Corbet, RA Cameron Begg, research microprobe analyst James A. Cremeens, TA Craig M. Bethke, associate professor Brandon Curry, ISGS Daniel B. Blake, professor Eric Daniels, RA Chu-Yung Chen, assistant professor Mary Ann Glennon, RA Wang-Ping Chen, associate professor Dave Grimley, TA Richard L. Hay, Ralph E. Grim Professor Junpeng Guo, TA Albert T. Hsui, associate professor Steve Hageman, RA W. Hilton Johnson, professor Daniel Hayba R. James Kirkpatrick, professor/department Eric Holdener, TA head Sharon Horstman, TA George deVries Klein, professor Hue-Hwa Hwang Ralph L. Langenheim Jr., professor Honn Kao, TA C. John Mann, professor Douglas J. Kelly, assistant professional Stephen Marshak, associate professor scientist, ISWS Peter A. Michalove, assistant to dept. head Joanne Kluessendorf, museum RA, TA Alberto S. Nieto, professor Jennifer Kupperman, USGS Charles Norris, research associate Rob Lander, RA Lois M. Pausch, acting librarian Kurt Larson, fellow Philip A. Sandberg, professor Ming Kuo Lee, RA Norma Vergo, research associate Wan Bing Li, RA Jay Matthews, RA Adjunct/Emeritus Faculty Patrick O'Boyle Albert V. Carozzi, emeritus Hans Papenguth Keros Cartwright, adjunct/ISGS Brian Phillips, RA Carleton A. Chapman, emeritus Christopher Roemmele, TA Fred Siewers, RA J. James Eidel, adjunct/ISGS Leon R. Follmer, adjunct/ISGS Steven Sroka, TA Donald L. Graf, emeritus Nita Tolia, TA Arthur F. Hagner, emeritus Kim Weborg-Benson, TA Donald M. Henderson, emeritus M. Scott Wilkerson, fellow Yuehui Xiao, Morris W. Leighton, adjunct/ISGS RA Robert Reynolds, adjunct/professor Harold W. Scott, emeritus Nonacademic Staff ISGS = Illinois State Geological Survey LuAnn P. Cliff-Crooks, clerk typist III ISWS = Illinois State Water Survey Jean E. Daly, chief clerk RA = research assistant Murle Edwards, chief clerk TA = teaching assistant Barbara Elmore, transcribing secretary USGS = United States Geological Survey Jessie Knox, cartographer Eddie Lane, electronics engineering assistant Patricia Lane, administrative secretary Mary Ann Quinn, library clerk II Alice Reed, library clerk II Gwyn Truitt, clerk typist HI Diana L. Walter, library technical assistant II Winter 1990 « letter from the Head Greetings from a cold and Wahl for the work he has done Those of us directly involved snowy Champaign-Urbana, and during his time as chair. in education have a clear as I write this, "Happy New Without him, the committee responsibility, and one of my Year!" have been We very would not have got off the priorities is to get the depart- pleased with the positive ground. You will hear more from ment more involved with stu- response have we received from the GeoThrust Committee in the dents before they reach us. you all about GeoSciences. We future. There are, however, things that will continually strive to We also want to announce all of us can do both individu- improve it. Please send us your that Dr. Joel Massmann will join ally and through our employers. ideas and, especially, news our faculty next summer. Joel is Individually, we can get about what you have been doing. a hydrogeologist. He received involved with youth groups of This past semester has his Ph.D. from the University of all types and introduce young continued to be a period of British Columbia in 1987 and people to science (geology is a rapid change and excitement for has been teaching at Michigan natural—kids love to get outside the department. We have Tech since then. In 1988 he and do things) and show them implemented the new undergrad received the Presidential Young that science is not always and graduate requirements, Investigator Award, and his something done by nerds cooped continued with remodeling arrival makes our hydrogeology up in a lab. design, worked to finalize new program one of the strongest in Employers can do such things general education courses, and the country. We are pleased to as develop intern programs, searched for a new faculty welcome him and his wife Rees have special supportive rela- member in geophysics. Robinson to the community. tionships with individual Major events included Finally, I want to again schools, and allow employees retirement parties for Don encourage all of you to do what- time to be involved in these Henderson and Albert Carozzi, ever you can to help increase programs. Many companies are the alumni get-together in the number of young people developing a wide variety of Boulder, the alumni party at interested in the earth sciences programs of this sort. I Homecoming, and the annual and in science in general. There encourage you to become alumni cocktail party at GSA. is no doubt that the number of involved in any way you can! All were most enjoyable, and it undergraduates interested in a has been a pleasure for me to science career has dropped sig- meet old friends and make new nificantly over the last few acquaintances. Please make years and that the undergradu- plans now to attend next year's ate population's overall back- ; \A\ \A< Ptcw >o\< cocktail J N ? party at GSA and ground in science is poorer. The Homecoming in Champaign- implications of this trend for Urbana. future national economic health As most of you know, Alan have been much discussed, and I Scott has agreed to be the new think are ominous. The sociolo- chair of the GeoThrust gists can argue all they want Committee. He will do an about why this is, but in my excellent job, and I want to view it is up to us in the thank him for agreeing to take it sciences to do something about on. I also want to thank Mike it. GeoSciences Departmental News Computer lab improved with new SPARCstations The computer laboratory has just acquired four Sun them." currently housed in Room 106 of SPARCstations, which Michalove Kirkpatrick also said that the Natural History Building is says "are much, much more special geological applications being upgraded, and eventually powerful than personal for use on the Macintosh II are will be moved to an interior computers." Department head R. being developed via Mathematica room in the basement remodeled James Kirkpatrick describes the software. specifically to house such Sun configurations as "very The department continues to equipment. high-end personal work- pursue plans to develop a com- According to Peter A. stations." plete network of computers Michalove, assistant to the head, Both students and faculty within the department. the lab currently has four may use the computer lab for Funding for the computer lab Apple Macintosh computers, two teaching and research, and improvements comes from laser printers, and one "rough- Michalove points out that departmental resources and draft quality" printer. "they're getting a lot of use; from the College of Liberal Arts In addition, the department people are always working on and Sciences. Homecoming '89 a success Forty-two people attended the Homecoming cocktail party held at the home of department head R. James Kirkpatrick and his wife Carol. Two special guests were Grace and Carl (B.S. 31) Grub, who was the oldest graduate present. Alumni traveled from as far away as Camp Hill, Pennsylva- nia, and Red Lodge, Montana, to attend Homecoming 1989 activities. Department head R. James Kirkpatrick (right) welcomes alumni to the Homecoming party, held at his home. Winter 1990 -0- GeoThrust names new leader Alan Scott, an independent chair Michael Wahl stepped Letters recently were sent to oil consultant in Boulder, Col- down earlier in the year. alumni and friends who still orado, has been named new chair According to department had pledge commitments to of GeoThrust, the departmental head R. James Kirkpatrick, the meet. A follow-up mailing to all fundraising program. GeoThrust committee structure alumni was sent in December. Scott assumed the position is being reexamined and may be early in November, after former reorganized in the future. Editor seeks your help with magazine As editor of GeoSciences, it Photographs. If you have signed and are subject to editing is my privilege to meet many good photographs —preferably for conciseness and clarity. different people associated with black-and-white, but color ones Story ideas. If you know a the department. Some of you I are OK, too—of what you've been person, project, or location that meet in person, others through up to, either at work or in your you think other UIUC alumni your letters and reply forms. more unusual leisure-time would enjoy reading about, let I want to express a hearty activities, please send them to me know. A team of 1,200 news- "Thanks!" to all who returned me. We would like to include gatherers is bound to have more the reply forms from the Fall more photos of our alumni, but ideas than one or two individ- 1989 issue; the news you sent in we need your help to do that! uals. Also, if you or someone begins on page 15. It is All photos will be returned you know has received some sort interesting to read about the to you in good condition, unless of honor, pass that information many different places you live you say they can be kept on file along. You'd be surprised at how and work, and the varying here in the department. many of you are too modest to avenues you have traveled since Comments and sugges- toot your own horn! leaving the University of tions. As you know, the alumni Illinois. newsletter has undergone a In this issue of the newslet- Some of you passed along transformation this past aca- ter, we continue to fine-tune information about other alumni demic year, and I'm anxious for some of the design and content who had been "lost" to us and your feedback. Many of you changes. I, along with Jim, our computer files. I encourage made favorable comments on Peter, Jessie, Pat, and the others all of you to do the same, even if your reply forms, and your involved in preparing this you think someone else might is appreciation heartening. edition, hope you find it send that same information. We Please feel free to make gen- entertaining and informative. have now "recovered" 13 alumni, eral comments and suggestions. The next regular issue of and none of the information we These can take the form of more GeoSciences will appear early received was duplicated. Your "personal" comments to me or to next fall. efforts do make a difference! the department head, or they Enjoy! I sincerely believe that can be letters to the editor, GeoSciences, as the department's which would be published in the QA&Ouls alumni publication, serves an following issue. important role in keeping the Letters to the editor allow Michelle Sanden Johlas lines of communication open you to comment on the newslet- Editor, GeoSciences between the folks still in the ter, the Department of Geology, Department of Geology department and those who have the University of Illinois, or University of Illinois gone on to other things. To keep topics of professional interest. I 245 Natural History Building that street a two-way one, I'm do ask that you limit letters to 1301 W. Green St. asking your help with several 300 words. All letters must be Urbana, II 61801-2999 things. GeoSciences Faculty, one student honored Jennifer B. Kupperman, the knowledge of the geology of a graduate student in geology, the State of Ohio." has been awarded a research Dr. White was fifth head of grant by the North-Central Sec- the Ohio Survey, working there tion of GSA. Her research from 1946-47. He and his wife focuses on "Short-term Tectonic came to the University of Illi- Subsidence Analysis of Penn- nois in 1947. He continued to sylvanian Cyclothems in a Tran- work summers at the Ohio Sur- sect from a Platform to a Fore- vey during his tenure at UIUC, land Basin." The section and according to Mrs. White, he awarded two research grants had 50 years service with the this year. survey before he died. That work was represented in Dr. Chu-Yung Chen and the last map Dr. White pre- Dr. Wang-Ping Chen pared, a four-foot square map of announce the birth of their son some 15 counties in Ohio, pub- Andrew Ian on August 4, 1989. Phillip Celnar, one of the members who lished in 1982. Dr. White for the Andrew joins sister May-Anne, selected George award, presents the Mather Medal six years old. Dr. Philip A. Sandberg plaque to White's widow, Mildredjn her spent last semester at the Uni- Champaign home. Behind them is the Dr. George White, head of versity of Leiden, The Nether- map Dr. White prepared shortly before the UIUC Geology Department lands. Working in the Depart- his death. from 1947 until 1965 and geol- ment of Biochemistry, he was ogy professor emeritus from conducting immunological- biochemical studies dealing 1971 until the time of his death Mather, first head of Ohio's phylogeny of in 1985, has posthumously been Survey. with the molecular and with awarded the Mather Medal by The award, "presented by the fossil vertebrates, of organisms the Ohio Geological Survey. Division of Geological Survey of identification contributing fine grained car- Earlier this fall, Mildred White the Ohio Department of Natural sediments. received the plaque indicating Resources," cites Dr. White's bonate the award, named after William "outstanding contributions to Geology and Life Sciences trade Space exchange part of remodeling Remodeling the space used by ter than in the old labs. I'm very ences, effective at the end of the Department of Geology pleased with the results." this spring semester. The trade continues on track, with results Meanwhile, plans are being provides four labs and two good- of the summer's work already finalized for the remodeling and sized offices to the Geology evident. refurbishing of other selected Department. During the summer of 1989, faculty labs. Construction times Michalove says this will two instructional labs were have not yet been set, but Peter allow the department to fully remodeled and completely A. Michalove, assistant to the occupy the basement and first refurbished. Department head R. head, says work will begin floor of the Natural History James Kirkpatrick says, sometime this spring. Building, while life sciences "Everybody I've talked to says In another significant devel- will be on the third and fourth teaching in them or taking opment, the Department of Geol- floors. Previously, space was classes in them is so much bet- ogy negotiated a space exchange shared by both departments on with the Department of Life Sci- the same floors. Winter 1990 Klein receives Fulbright Dr. George deVries Klein type cyclothems, and those of professor of geology at UIUC, the Russian platform are more has just completed a semester as like Kansas-type cyclothems. a Senior Fulbright Research "This facies distribution can Fellow at the Vrije Universiteit be correlated to lateral in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. decreasing magnitude of flexu- Dr. Klein, who joined the UI ral intensity as one traces these faculty in 1970, spent 17 weeks rocks away from the studying European Pennsylva- Appalachian foreland basin. nian cyclothems. His research is Kansas-type cyclothems also aimed at determining what appear, according to some, to be magnitude of sealevel change, caused by eustatic sealevel which forms cyclothems, is change driven by Milankovitch caused by changing plate stress, orbital parameters, but recent compared with climatic causes. changes in the Pennsylvanian Cratonic basins and Pennsyl- time scale, and recently pub- vanian cyclothems have been lished work showing that the focal points for much of Dr. periodicity of Milankovitch Klein's recent research. He orbital parameters decreases explains that cyclothems are with increasing geological age, cyclically recurring rocks that places this finding in doubt. show alternating marine and Instead it is far-field tectonic nonmarine sediments. The term Dr. George deVries Klein effects in the form of flexural originally was coined from stress that dominate the facies rocks of Pennsylvanian explained his current age findings patterns of cylcothems, and found in Illinois. this way: climate-driven (glacial) eustasy Dr. Klein has been working "It is the linkage of foreland appears to be subordinate." with Professor Sierd Cloetingh and cratonic basins which of the division of tectonics at explained one of the older con- Paper accepted Vrije Universiteit since the troversies of geology, the origin Early during his sabbatical summer of 1988. Professor of Pennsylvanian cyclothems. In Dr. Klein also wrote a paper, Cloetingh has developed com- North America, these show a "Pennsylvanian Time Scales and puter modeling programs to lateral facies change ranging Cycle Periods," which has been provide methods of analyzing from marine-dominated lime- accepted for publication in tectonic stress change stone and shale cycles in from the Geology. stratigraphic data. continental interior platform Dr. Klein briefly returned to Dr. Klein points out, "If this (Kansas-type), to mixed marine the United States partway method works on Pennsylvanian and nonmarine sandstones, through his leave to teach a cyclothems, then we can use it shale, coal, and limestone in the short course prior to the with rocks of any age that show Illinois cratonic basin (Illinois- national meeting of the Geologi- cyclic patterns." type), and nonmarine-dominated cal Society of America. His research in The Nether- sandstones, coal, shale, and Fulbright Fellowships are lands already has "established accessory limestone in the funded by the Council for that cyclic change is definitely Appalachian foreland basin International Exchange of correlated in part to flexural (Appalachian-type). A similar Scholars and the U.S. Informa- deformation." The cyclothems of regional distribution appears to tion Agency, as well as by the North America and Europe are characterize European government of the host country. similar, Dr. Klein says. cylcothems inasmuch as those of Thus, Fulbright Fellows are Writing in GeoScoop, a the southeast Netherlands, considered part of a "people-to- departmental magazine Belgium, and western Germany at Vrije people ambassador" program. Universiteit, Dr. Klein are identical to Appalachian- GeoSciences Profs retire with style Two longtime UIUC geology In addition, the "C-U Rock More than $2,000 was raised professors who retired this past Opera Company" performed from alumni to buy geology fall were feted in style at "Hendy on the Glide Plane" to books—especially those con- parties in their honor. the tune of "Charlie on the cerned with the history of the MTA." Performers were discipline—for the departmental Henderson serenaded Michalove, Dr. Jay Bass, Dr. library. These books will be Dr. Donald M. Henderson was Stephen Altaner, Dr. Duane given in honor of Carozzi and honored October 21 with a Moore, Dr. R. James Kirkpatrick, his work. recital and dinner at the accompanied by Brian Phillips Just prior to Carozzi's Krannert Art Museum. on guitar. retirement dinner, the annual Approximately 80 people, in Dr. Winton Solberg, professor Alumni Reception was held. addition to Henderson's wife of history at UIUC and longtime Some 100 people attended the and five children, attended the friend of Henderson, spoke, as reception. According to event, which featured music by did Dr. Gil Haight, emeritus Michalove, approximately 60 the UI's School of Music Gradu- professor of chemistry. UIUC alumni attended the ate String Quartet. Alberto Benavides, a friend annual GSA meeting in St. Louis. In addition to traditional from Henderson's graduate music by the old masters, school days, traveled from Peru Henderson was treated to the to attend the party. He also said premiere of an original compo- a few words, and noted that he sition written for him by Dr. hadn't seen Henderson since Peter Michalove, assistant to the 1957. head of the Department of The entire event was coordi- New recruitment Geology. nated by Dr. Duane Moore of the Michalove says that when Illinois State Geological Survey, tool sent out Henderson learned of the plan to who also handled gathering the This fall, the Department of have a string quartet at the testimonial letters. Geology sent out 400 brochures party, he said, "I don't want to Donations received for outlining its areas of graduate hear any of those old warhorses Henderson's retirement gift study and profiling the research that we've all heard 100 times were pooled so he could pur- interests of its faculty members before. I want something new." chase a piece of computer to alumni who are faculty hardware. members at other colleges and universities. Carozzi feted at GSA The brochure was a A more traditional party straightforward effort this year, was held to honor Dr. Albert V. but department head R. James Carozzi during the 1989 annual Kirkpatrick hopes to make it a meeting of GSA in St. Louis. more substantial and "slicker" Coordinated by former stu- publication in the future. dent Michael R. Owen, the The brochure was accompa- November 6 event featured a sit- nied by a letter asking that down dinner and speeches by these UIUC alumni encourage other former students. Forty- their current students to take a four people attended the dinner, look at all the UIUC Geology which was videotaped for Department can offer for gradu- Carozzi. ate study. Carozzi himself spoke at the If you would like a copy of event, and listed all 34 of the this brochure, please contact Dr. Donald M. Henderson enjoys the doctoral students he had super- Pat Lane at (217) 333-3542. festivities at his retirement party. vised during his tenure at UIUC. Winter 1990 ^ Alumni gather in Boulder Although the September 16 football game between the Fighting Illini and the Colorado Buffaloes didn't turn out the way John Mackovic wished, the Geology Department was quite pleased with its turnout for the day. Prior to the game, the department held an alumni breakfast reception at the Clarion Harvest House in Boulder. About 40 people attended the party, which pleased department head R. James Kirkpatrick. Kirkpatrick discussed plans About 40 people attended the Department of Geology's alumni breakfast in Boulder, and for goals the department, Colorado, before the September 1 6 football game. then opened the floor for a question-and-answer session. where the department is going. Given the success of this Peter A. Michalove, assistant They were asking perceptive first effort, Michalove said to the head, was in Colorado, and questions and making good similar events may be planned he said there "was a lot of comments." for the future. thoughtful conversation about Department awards 12 degrees The Department of Geology the Mass and Location of Sub- Basin and Sediment Diagenesis granted seven degrees in the surface Reef Structures Using in the Lyons Sandstone." last half of 1989. Borehole Gravimetry." Four students completed In August, Laurence Loren Bruce Railsback their doctorates last month: Charles Smith received a received his Ph.D. in October Linda M. Bonnell, "Quantity bachelor of science. Students for "Ordovician Paleoceanogra- and Isotopic Composition of who earned master's degrees in phy: Stable Isotope and C-S-Fe Reduced Sulfur in Cretaceous August were Mark L. Evidence from the Caradocian Organic-Rich Shales"; Michael Kerasotes, "Woodfordian Trenton Group, Mohawk Valley, E. Duffin, "Potassic Alter- Stratigraphy and Glacial Geology New York." Also earning a doc- ation of Cambrian-Ordovician in the Upper Illinois Valley torate then was Charles A. Sandstones and PreCambrian Region, North Central Illinois"; Weiss Jr., whose thesis Basement Rocks of the North and Gang Lu, "Paleomagnetic focused on "The Structural American Midcontinent"; Consequences of Late Paleozoic Environments of Cations Edwin R. Hajic, "Late Pleis- Tectonic Diagenesis in Carbon- 133 Adsorbed onto Clays: A Cs tocene and Halocene Landscape ate Strata of the Midcontinent, MAS NMR Spectroscopic Study." Evolution, Depositional Sub- United States of America." One student received a systems, and Stratigraphy in the Two students earned their master's degree in January Lower Illinois River Valley and master's degrees in October: 1990: Ming-Kuo Lee, for Adjacent Central Mississippi Hong Wang, "Elasticity of "Quantitative Models of the River Valley"; and Timothy H. Silicate Glasses"; and Thomas Paleohydrology of the Denver Larson, "Interpretation of J. Zychinski, "Determining Shallow Geothermal Surveys." «£ GeoSciences Profile: Richard L. Hay Hay helps to establish environments of human evolution in Africa The office is lined with Professor of Geology at UIUC, is hominid remains having an age books, journals, and rock sam- Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania. It of 3.5 to 3.8 million years. Hay ples, not unlike the offices of was there that Hay made a name says a highlight of the expedi- other geology professors. In one for himself with his work on the tions was discovery of volcanic corner sits a good-sized micro- paleoenvironments of early ash layers with abundant foot- scope— "my third and essential humans. prints, including those of early eye"—and nearby is a computer. Hay's involvement began as a hominids. These footprints show The casually dressed 63-year- result of the K-Ar testing that that the hominids walked old strokes his salt-and-pepper dated tool-making early humans upright, with a fully human beard, then adjusts his glasses. at Olduvai Gorge 1.75 million gait, despite many primitive "I had my first rock collection years ago, a date published in features. at the age of four or five," says 1961 by two of his then-col- Dr. Richard L. Hay. "Most kids leagues at the University of "Preadapted" for Olduvai grow out of it, but I didn't, and California at Berkeley. The sci- Hay's earlier work on sedi- look where it's taken me." entific world was "astounded" at ments of Searles Lake proved a Among the places geology has this great antiquity for tool- key to understanding the nature taken Hay, the Ralph E. Grim making hominids, and the date of the Bed I lake and paleocli- was criticized by some because mate at Olduvai. Prior to going the stratigraphy of Bed I, which to Olduvai, Hay had found that contains the hominids, had not zeolites and K-feldspar were been determined. formed in sediments of Searles Hay was invited to work out Lake, a highly saline and alka- that stratigraphy in 1962. The line playa-lake in the arid geology of Olduvai Gorge proved region of California to the east "irresistible," and Hay stayed of the Sierra Nevada. on as resident geologist at the Lake deposits at Olduvai camp of Louis and Mary Leakey Gorge contain these same miner- until 1974. In 1976 Hay pub- als, pointing to a saline, alka- lished his final synthesis: Geol- line lake in a closed basin with ogy of the Olduvai Gorge: A a semiarid or arid paleoclimate. Study of Sedimentation in a The hominids {Homo habilis and Semiarid Basin. Australopithecus boisei) occu- From 1975 through 1982, pied lake-margin terrain in the Hay was a member of Mary vicinity of rivers from the vol- Leakey's expeditions to the canic highlands. This X-ray diffractometer is an important Pliocene site of Laetoli, about The hominid remains at Lae- tool in Richard Hay's work. 20 miles from Olduvai Gorge. toli, by contrast, are in sedi- Laetoli contains deposits with ments deposited in a semiarid Winter 1990 grassland savannah, distant Among those "newcomers" On this last trip, Hay also from lakes and lacking major was Robert Blumenschine from assisted geologists from the rivers. Hay says the hominid Rutgers University. Blumen- Berkeley Geochronology Center footprints and those of migra- schine has developed a method in sampling ash layers from tory animals were made in ash called "landscape archeology," different stratigraphic levels. layers deposited during the which involves sampling a for- These samples will be dated by rainy season, suggesting that mer land 40 39 surface over a wide the single-crystal Ar/ A r the hominids, like the associ- area, in an attempt to put laser fusion method. Because ated migratory animals, occu- archaeology in the context of a single crystals are dated, pied the Laetoli area only landscape. detrital crystals can be readily during the rainy season. This work complements that detected, unlike the potassium- of Mary Leakey, who studied argon method used previously. Helping new generation major concentrations of stone Thus, Hay says, more accurate Hay returned to Olduvai tools and bones, representing dates can be obtained by this Gorge last summer. "Mary campsites and butchery sites. newer method. Leakey retired," he explains, Hay says that landscape arche- Hay emphasizes that he's "so I went to help a new team of ology will give a more complete "still learning things about archeologists get started the picture of on the scope and inten- Olduvai," and his trips back to stratigraphy there." sity of early human activities. Africa now allow him "to correct On Hay's trip to Olduvai this Gorge past summer, Tanzanian strata in the Gorge and nearby areas. Manega is a doctoral Paul Manega helped provide some radiometric dating of the candidate. The two are standing at the Gorge's edge. « GeoSciences my own errors in the original work." He still seems a bit sur- prised at the praise given him for his work at Olduvai, but he also is proud of his contribu- tions to understanding the "geology of early man." "I really had no idea until the end of 10 years' work what it would turn into," Hay says. "Others think it was a fine job, and I get a great feeling of sat- isfaction from that." Evidence of the importance of Hay's work is easy to find. In 1978 he received the Kirk Bryan Award from the Geological Soci- ety of America for his mono- graph on Olduvai Gorge. That same year he also received the Dr. Hay and one of his graduate students, Rob Lander, take a few minutes to pose for a photo in one of the department labs. Lander and Hay have been awarded a Arnold Guyot Award from the grant by the American Chemical Society to study White River Group sediments. National Geographic Society for his "geological research in East Africa." base, in the Caroline Islands of New research under way the southwest Pacific. Hay's main body of work may "Couldn't refuse" U of I Baton Rouge became home be behind him, but he has Born in Goshen, Indiana, Hay while Hay was an assistant pro- undertaken several new topics later earned both a bachelor's fessor of geology at Louisiana of research since coming to Illi- and master's in geology from State University, from 1955 to nois. Northwestern University. He 1957. From there he went on to One is related to Olduvai: " earned his Ph.D. from Princeton Cal-Berkeley, where he spent now he is studying the clay University in 1952. the next 26 years. mineralogy of the Gorge. "I want While at Princeton, he Hay joined the University of to further my understanding of became acquainted with Hisashi Illinois faculty in 1983 as the chemical processes in sediments Kuno, a post-doc. Hay says, "I first Ralph E. Grim Professor of of this ancient desert lake," he owe a lot to Kuno, who showed Geology. says. me the significance of recog- "Even after a quarter-cen- Another project, undertaken nizing former minerals by their tury at Berkeley, this was an with Dr. Stephen Altaner of shape and association, after offer I couldn't refuse. An UIUC, is the study of sediments they've been replaced by some- endowed chair at this institu- in the Creede Caldera in Col- thing else. This is now a routine tion! This move also gave me the orado. This is a volcano whose part of my petrographic work." opportunity to further my top has collapsed, and the Upon finishing his doctorate, research in clay mineralogy. caldera is filled with tuffs and Hay was drafted into the U.S. Ralph Grim had established this tuffaceous sediments. The two Army, where he worked in the department as a center of clay men are studying the interplay Corps of Engineers on "terrain mineral research. of saline, alkaline lakewater and intelligence studies." "Shortly before Ralph's hydrothermal solutions in After discharge from the death," Hay adds, "he gave the altering the sediments to zeo- army in 1954, he joined the U.S. department a state-of-the-art lites, clay minerals, and K- Geological Survey, where he scanning electron microscope, feldspar. worked on the geologic mapping which maintains the excellence Hay, who likes to fish, of Truk, a former Japanese naval of the department in clay min- points out that "one particular eral research." benefit of this study is the pro Winter 1990 o> ductive trout stream that runs rooms. Hay also has started through the caldera." meadow mushrooms in his own Hay is also studying mineral yard. reactions in Cambro-Ordovician Hay says he likes to interact rocks of the Midcontinent. He is with his colleagues and stu- particularly interested in the dents, and this shared attitude K-feldspar and illite formed at is one of the things that makes low temperatures, and is the Department of Geology an exploring their possible con- attractive place to work. nection to lead-zinc deposits in "It's an exciting environ- the Upper Mississippi Valley. ment, one that's moving forward Duffin, Mike a student of Hay's, under its new leadership," Hay recently completed a doctoral says. He also cites the quality dissertation on this subject. and variety of research as Another project is with doc- "invigorating" and lauds the toral candidate Rob Lander. The contributions of younger fac- two have been awarded a grant ulty, "who are so exciting to be by the American Chemical Soci- with." ety to study the zeolites and Hay's colleagues characterize clays of the White River Group. him as an original thinker and (See related article, next page.) Hay's "third eye" —a microscope—sits in keen observer, with the persis- Jay Matthews, a doctoral candi- a corner of his office. tence to see a complex problem date jointly supervised by Hay to the end. These qualities have and Altaner, is studying the identifying mushrooms and har- led to his success in working origin and transformation of vesting the edible ones. It's out the environments of early clay minerals in saline, alkaline something he continues in humans in Olduvai Gorge and lakes of Oregon. Illinois. Laetoli. Hay says he and two other As Mary Leakey says in her Lover of life "mushroom addicts" in Urbana- foreward to Hay's seminal vol- In addition to golfing and Champaign harvest eight to ten ume: "The following lines from fishing, Hay enjoys hunting edi- kinds of mushrooms in nearby Emerson truly reflect Richard ble mushrooms, something he's woods. He was lucky last fall, he Hay's contribution: 'What is been doing since 1975. says, because a stump in his originality? It is being one's While living in California, neighborhood provided a con- self and reporting accurately his neighbors introduced him to tinuous supply of oyster mush- what we see.'" o GeoSciences Lander studies White River Group rainfall from the Gulf Coast in Rob Lander, a geology stu- the Great Plains, compared to dent at UIUC one year away from the present day, indicating that completing his Ph.D., is a stu- atmospheric circulation was dent Dr. Richard Hay describes much different in the mid- as a "ball of fire." Together, Lander and Hay Tertiary." Lander, who has worked two have been awarded a grant from summers for ARCO Oil and Gas the American Chemical Society on sediments near Santa Bar- for "A Model for Zeolitic Alter- bara, California, and from off- ation of White River Group secure a Sediments." This work closely shore China, hopes to academic parallels Lander's dissertation research-oriented position he finishes his focus: "Pedogenic and Burial when will Diagenetic Alteration of White doctorate. He says he also research River Group Sediments." consider working in a group in a government agency or Lander says he is "trying to understand what's controlling in the oil industry. to name his mentors, mineralogical changes in these Doctoral student Rob Lander points out Asked River Lander quickly lists three: rocks," especially the textural the area of his work with White Duane Moore, and geochemical changes. Group sediments. Lawrence DeMott, The White River Group, cen- and Richard Hay. DeMott, who has died, was Lander's "great tered in Wyoming and fanning these sediments, using the teacher" at Knox, the one who out over six states, came to facilities of the department's sparked Lander's inter- Lander's attention while he was Laboratory for Supercomputing really est in geology. Duane Moore, a geology student at Knox Col- in Hydrogeology. He hopes to also a professor at Knox who lege in Galesburg, Illinois. He use these results to construct a is with the Illinois State and a Knox professor—a verte- predictive model for alteration now Geological Survey, got Lander brate paleontologist—did field- of volcanic glass to smectite, immersed in research projects work in the area, concentrating silica, and zeolite. on paleomagnetic stratigraphy In addition to his work on very early on. has exerted a and mammalian fossils. While silicate diagenesis, Lander has Hay degree of influ- researching an undergraduate been studying the stable iso- "remarkable on him, Lander says. "One honors thesis, Lander also topic composition of calcite in ence" of the most unique things about learned that zeolites were White River Group sediments. Richard is his uncanny ability present in those sediments. The calcite isotopic signatures to the substance of the When the geology program at record climatic conditions to get problem. More than anything Knox was cut, Lander turned to during the deposition of these I hope to emulate his clear the University of Illinois and rocks, and also document the else, thinking and ability to make the finished his B.A. under Hay's diagenetic conditions that led to essential observations." supervision. (Still, Lander's the emplacement of petroleum Lander characterizes Hay as 1986 bachelor's degree was reservoirs and uranium "one of the best field geologists granted from Knox.) He knew of deposits. ever been with," and says Hay's work with zeolites and In November, Lander pre- I've the climatic that example has been impor- said it "seemed an obvious sented a paper on in his own fieldwork. choice." work at GSA's annual meeting. tant This "up-and-coming geolo- Lander has spent four sum- Lander says he's had two Hay puts it, has a final mers doing fieldwork in the surprises in his work so far: gist," as compliment for his mentor: White River area, and has col- "The isotopic signatures indi- large "Richard has contributed more lected some 1,500 samples from cate that there was a of the important geologic works over a 30 locales. He now is ready to mountain range west wider range than anyone else I model the past flow and chemi- study area. They also show that proportion of know of." cal evolution of groundwaters in there was a larger Winter 1990 -O* The heart of any alumni Take time to complete and from UIUC. Please note that newsletter is, of course, infor- return the reply form at the end items do not appear in mation about the alumni them- this — of section your news is alphabetical order within each selves. This material is gathered important to us! decade. primarily from the reply forms For your convenience, this and correspondence you send to section has been broken down the department, although some into decades. If an individual tidbits are provided by faculty was affiliated with the Depart- and staff who have seen or heard ment of Geology from part of one from you. The news in this issue decade into another, he or she is the latest information we have will be listed according to the Willis M. (Bill) Decker about these individuals. date of the last degree granted (B.S. 39) has been attending sev- eral Elderhostel schools each year since his retirement. In January, he and his wife spent Adolf Pabst marks 90th birthday three weeks in Cordoba, Argentina, visiting a former Adolf Pabst (A.B. 25) cele- Homecoming cocktail party, A.F.S. student who lived with brated his 90th birthday this Pabst wrote: them in Oklahoma City during past November 30. "Though I have not been back the 1959-60 school year. A birthday celebration was to Champaign-Urbana since my planned by and held at the Uni- graduation in 1925, I still look versity of California-Berkeley, back to my years at [the] U of I where Pabst had been a faculty as the best of my long life, and I member before his retirement. am still in touch with two of my UIUC's Richard Hay attended the fellow students from those party. Donald Henderson, who times. Allen F. Agnew (A.B. 40, knew Pabst as a graduate stu- "Over the years I have visited M.S. 42) has just completed a dent, sent a space-group puzzle or been a faculty member at four-year term on the national and a computer-drawn crystal of various universities in the executive board and as secre- pabstite, the tin analogue of U.S.A., Canada, England, Nor- tary of his fraternity, Alpha benitoite. way, Germany, and Austria, but Kappa Lambda. He continues to James Schroeder, dean of the this extensive experience has serve as chapter advisor to the College of Liberal Arts and Sci- only served to reinforce my fond Phi Chapter of AKL at Oregon ences at UIUC, sent congratula- memories of the of I." U State University, where he is tions and wishes best from the Pabst worked on crystal courtesy professor of geology. University, and pictures of the structures and received the He writes, "Our motor home Urbana-Champaign campus. Roebling Medal of the Miner- makes trips to the coast and Pabst is a life member of the UI alogical Society of America, of mountains comfortable and thus Association. Alumni which he had been president. enjoyable for age-ing responding When to the (euphemism, 'maturing') bones invitation attend last to fall's and muscles, for F.F.F. (Favorite Frau Frances) and me." GeoSciences their son Michael's graduation fields. At present, our investor from college in 1989. backing comes from Canadian At the 28th International Hunter, a large independent Geological Congress in Wash- Canadian oil and gas explo- ington, D.C., last summer, he ration and production finished five years as head of company." the U.S. group of the Interna- Threet retired from Shell Oil in 1987. He joined the Charles R. Dellenback tional Association of Hydroge- Company of the firm in 1951, and had served as (B.S. 52, M.S. 53) retired in ologists and as member corporate head of exploration 1986 after 32-plus years with National Research Council. He for nine years just prior to his Exxon. He lives in Midland, says that he "enjoyed working retirement. Texas. His retirement activities with several Illinois grads on pro- He continues his involvement include golfing, camping in the planning the hydrogeology with AAPG, where he serves as western mountains, trout fish- gram of the 28th IGC." after he trustee associate for the AAPG ing, and reading; "Who could Immediately Foundation. He serves on ad hoc ask for anything more?" "retired" from the Secretary's Office of the Department of the committees to raise corporate funds for AAPG's major publi- The City Colleges of Chicago Interior in 1987, Doyle resumed Petroleum employ Milton F. Langer consulting work with the non- cation, Treatise of in San Geology. He also is director and (B.A. 51, M.S. 55) to teach earth, profit MITRE Corporation vice chair of the Offshore Tech- physical, and environmental Antonio. They advise the Air material nology Conference in Houston. sciences. He currently is at the Force on hazardous management. He and his wife Katy now R. J. Daley College campus. cleanup and spend winters in Houston and For the 1987-88 academic summers in Pagosa Springs in year, Langer was selected as the In early September 1989, southwest Colorado. colleges' faculty representative John B. Droste (B.S. 51, M.S. of the physical sciences in 53, Ph.D. 56) received the Out- Europe. The City Colleges of standing Educator Award from Chicago has a contract to teach AAPG. The award cited his work military personnel college-level with numerous students in 32 University, and courses in Europe. Langer was years at Indiana based in Stuttgart, Germany, his many professional member- Paul L. Plusquellec (M.S. and traveled as much as 150 ships and honors. 66, Ph.D. 68) lives in Gretna, miles to teach for one-and-a- Louisiana, where he is vice half hours. Jack C. Threet (B.S. 51) is president of operations for CNG During his free time in cofounder, partner, director, Producing Company, New Europe, Langer traveled to more and vice president of Energy Orleans. He supervises all engi- than 12 countries, including Exploration Management Com- reservoir engineering, Romania, Hungary, France, and pany, in Houston. Founded in neering: drilling, production, and oper- England, and also reviewed some early 1989, the company is ations, both offshore and of their environmental problems involved in the search for oil is a wholly owned and programs. and gas deposits across the inland. CNG Nat- United States onshore. The other subsidiary of Consolidated Company in Pittsburgh. Robert N. Grinnell (B.S. four cofounders of the company ural Gas of explo- He and his wife Betty have 51, M.S. 52) retired nearly five are all retired heads three college-aged children: years ago from Mobil Oil. He ration at major oil firms; five men have Paul Jr., Alan, and John. and his wife divide their time between them, the between Houston and Jackson nearly 200 years' of exploration abroad. Since 1979, Norman J. Hole, Wyoming. experience at home and Ph.D. 61) has "Our initial focus," Threet Page (M.S. 60, independent oil and Frank Lawrence (Larry) explains, "is U.S.A. onshore, been an significant exploration consultant in Doyle (Ph.D. 58) and his wife where we believe exists for dis- Houston, for both domestic and Giovanna are living in San opportunity still he oil and gas international clients. Lately Antonio. They are enjoying covery of profitable Winter 1990 -0- has been particularly active in the university is fully sup- South America, in association portive." with Robertson Research. This With the new post, however, month he is completing two Bickford had to relinquish his years as project director for role at Geology magazine, which Robertson in a B.I.D. -financed he had edited since 1987. exploration program for In November, Bickford and Petroperd. his wife Betsy became grand- Since leaving Illinois, Page parents for the first time. has worked for Standard Oil in Corpus Christi, Tenneco in J. William (Bill) Soder- Nigeria and Lafayette, Union man (M.S. 60, Ph.D. 62) lives in Carbide in New York City, and Orchard, Texas, where he works Ashland Exploration in Hous- for BHP Petroleum. As vice ton, where he was manager of president for new ventures- international exploration from Americas, Soderman oversees Mark CIoos 1974 to 1979. strategic exploration for hydro- carbons in the Western Hemi- evolution of modern and ancient David L. Gross (M.S. 67, sphere. convergent plate margins has Ph.D. 69) has taken a one-year He writes, "I survived sale of produced new understanding of leave of absence from the Illi- one company and two restruc- how the same processes can nois State Geological Survey, turings at present employer. It produce different kinds of mar- where he has worked for 20 is reassuring, however, to be gins. His interest in blueschist years. Currently he is serving employed by a financially facies metamorphism and ther- as the first executive director sound company that sees much mal history, melanges, and of a new arm of government in of its future in oil and fluid-inclusion and isotopic the State of Illinois: the Gover- minerals. analysis of mineralized veins in nor's Science Advisory Com- "Three grandchildren make accreted sediments has pro- mittee. Jan's and my life richer as duced several significant con- As chief of staff, Gross works well!" tributions and new ideas on with the governor's science these subjects." advisor, Dr. Leon Lederman CIoos currently is associate (Nobel Prize in Physics, 1988), professor at the University of to make recommendations about Texas at Austin and a research science and technology, associate at the UT Institute of including suggestions for the Geophysics. state's new $20 million chal- Mark P. CIoos (B.S. 76) lenge grant program. received the first GSA Young John Nelson Jr. (M.S. 73) Scientist Award, the Donath is on a one-year exchange with a As of January 1, Marion E. Medal, at the society's 1989 geologist from the Montana (Pat) Bickford (M.S. 58, Ph.D. annual meeting in St. Louis. The Bureau of Mines and Geology. 60) became Jessie Page Heroy award, established in 1988, While living in Butte, he will Professor of Geology and chair recognizes a scientist 35 years study the structural develop- of the department of geology at old or younger for outstanding ment of the Cat Creek anticline, Syracuse University, New York. achievement in contributing to located about 75 miles east of He is ordering equipment and geologic knowledge through Lewistown in the central part of designing laboratories for new original research that marks a the state. The first commercial isotope geochemistry research major advance in the earth oil field entirely in Montana facilities. He intends "to sciences. was developed on this structure. improve an already strong GSA News and Information Apparently the anticline is department at Syracuse until it (October 1989) said that Cloos's underlain by a fault that is one of the best in the coun- "research on the processes that underwent recurrent movement try. My new colleagues share in affect the structural, metamor- since Precambrian time. my enthusiasm for this goal and phic, and sedimentological o GeoSciences with rocks In 1988, Chevron transferred Thomas P. L. Dowell Jr. He worked moon then Gerry Valenti (B.S. 77) to (M.S. 72, Ph.D. 73) retired in from 1971 until 1981, into the oil business, first Papua New Guinea, where he is 1983 at the age of 57 and now went then doing structural interpretation lives in Marianna, Florida. with Texas Eastern and Energy Reserves Group, in a remote fold and thrust belt After completing his doctor- with which eventually bought in the country's southern high- ate, he worked for a year in was lands. quality assurance in Park out. After the oil bust in 1986, Ridge, Illinois. In 1974 he Simonds worked as an aerospace Toni Jost Nicholson (B.S. transferred to Anchorage, consultant, mostly with lunar, consultant Mars, and space station 79) is working in engineering Alaska, and became a geology and hydrogeology for a year later. He contracted with projects. heads the dance the U.S. Army Corps of Engi- the Corps of Engineers to His wife Jan University of neers, Savannah District. She determine the cost of removing program at the have has been with the corps since World War II debris from "these Houston-Clear Lake. They 1984. beautiful islands (about $120 two children: Jennifer, 16, and She worked part-time as a million)." Scott, 13. petroleum and coal geologist for He also worked for the State William I. Ausich (B.S. a small consulting firm in Lex- of Alaska Capital Site Planning both a master's ington, Kentucky, while going to Commission as an environmental 74) earned doctorate graduate school at the Univer- consultant. He wrote the envi- (1976) and (1978) Indiana University. He sity of Kentucky. She earned ronmental guidelines for devel- from is associate professor her master's in geology there in oping a new capital at Willow, currently of geology 1983, with a thesis on "Geology Alaska, and says, "Politics in the department Ohio and the Accumulation of Hydro- killed the move." and mineralogy at The University, Columbus. He carbons in the 'Big Lime' and Dowell prepared community State Bordon Group (Mississippian) profiles for Alaska's Depart- already has received the and Pre-Chattanooga (Silurian- ment of Community Affairs. department's Distinguished Devonian) of Knox, Laurel, and This required "floating the Teaching Award. Whitley Counties, Kentucky." Yukon and Kuskokwing rivers, Ausich also chairs the of the In September 1981 she mar- visiting 14 native villages, North-Central Section Society. ried Bill Nicholson, a civil inventorying infrastructures, Paleontological engineer. They live in Guyton, and writing environmental pro- Georgia. files for these villages." Tom (B.S. 72) and Maxine are in Indonesia, She writes, "I never outgrew The last three years he spent Perkins now is working for Oxy on my love of horses and presently in Alaska were as a computer where he a well being drilled in Iryan have two that I ride daily unless applications specialist in the Guinea. They expect I'm out of town doing field- exploration department of ARCO Jara, New work." Alaska. to be there for another year. Since his retirement, he has Susan (Wunder) Wintsch spent most of his time traveling Hani Khoury (Ph.D. 79) is dean of the faculty of sci- (M.S. 74) lives in Bloomington, throughout the United States, vice ence at the University of Jordan Indiana, where she is a contract Canada, and Mexico. Jordan. He is work- writer and editor, currently in Amman, an international with the National Science Foun- Charles H. (Chuck) ing with team on the storage of dation (Mosaic Magazine) and Simonds (M.S. 69, Ph.D. 71) is research radioactive waste. the Congressional Office of manager of life support devel- Technology Assessment. She opment at Lockheed Engineering Since January 1989, Neil H. earned a master of arts in jour- and Sciences, Houston. He man- HI (M.S. 76) has nalism from Indiana University ages a mechanical engineering Whitehead worked as a petroleum geologist in 1977. research and development team with the New Mexico Bureau of Wintsch's son Timmy is now for space suits, tools, and and Mineral Resources. three-and-a-half years old. equipment used in space and on Mines and the surface of the moon, Phobos, He maps fractures, joints, and Mars. cleats in the San Juan Basin to Winter 1990 aid understanding coalbed sciences at the University of methane production from Upper Missouri at Kansas City. He Cretaceous coals. He previously teaches physical geology, min- worked as an exploration and eralogy, ore microscopy, intro- development geologist for Gulf duction to geochemistry, and Oil E & P, and then for Chevron, groundwater geochemistry. He U.S.A., living in Casper, has ongoing research in low- Robert Dziak (B.S. 85) Wyoming, Oklahoma City, and temperature iron sulfides and lives in Newport, Oregon, where Houston. Most of his work then in metalliferous black shales. he is a marine geophysicist with was with the Powder River Basin Murowchick earned both a the National Oceanic and Atmo- and Kansas. master's (1979) and doctorate spheric Administration. He (1984) in geochemistry and assists with and develops Steamboat Springs, Colorado, mineralogy from Penn State research projects to study the is home for John Morrone University. He then held a two- geology and tectonics of the (B.S. 79), where he is district year post-doc position at the Juan-De-Fuca Ridge and their geologist for the Crary District University of Alberta in relation to existing hydrother- Office of the Bureau of Land Edmonton, Canada. He taught mal systems along the ridge. Management. He does fieldwork, chemistry and geochemistry at He writes, "My job requires mineral appraisals, coal explo- Mercyhurst College in Erie, me to spend a couple of months ration work, some oil and gas Pennsylvania, for one year each year at sea, and how to deal and groundwater work, and before joining the faculty at the with seasickness isn't some- occasionally some teaching. University of Missouri. thing they taught me in my geo His wife Pam is an environ- classes at the U of I." GeoMet Incorporated in mental engineer at the Midwest He earned a master's in geo- Birmingham, Alabama, employs Research Institute. physics from Memphis State Linda Lottman (B.S. as 77) Murowchick plans to visit University. His thesis was on vice president and geologic con- south China this summer for his the source parameters of large sultant in the coalbed methane black shale work. earthquakes near North Island, industry. She does fieldwork, New Zealand. He also worked for mapping, computer evaluations, Leah L, Rogers (M.S. 79) is a year at a geotechnical con- sales, and reporting; currently a doctoral candidate at Stanford. sulting firm in Northbrook, she is involved in projects in She married Gregory Faris in Illinois. the Warrior Basin of Alabama, June 1988. San Juan/New Mexico, and the Steve Greb (B.S. 82) lives Northern Appalachians. She Craig B. Smith (B.S. 74) in Lexington, Kentucky, where also worked in Australia for two works for BPI Geophysics at the he works for the Kentucky Geo- months in 1989. University of the Witwatersrand logical Survey. Before joining GeoMet in in Johannesburg, South Africa. 1986, she was a geologist in coal He earned a Ph.D. there in 1983. John M. Kruger (B.S. 83), and minerals for USX Corpora- Currently Smith heads a formerly of Missoula, Montana, tion, working in the Illinois radiogenic isotope research visited the department early Basin, Northern Appalachians, group of 10 to 15 scientists, this fall. He is now pursuing a Warrior Basin, and in several postgraduates, and technicians. doctorate at the University of coal basins in Utah. They research diamond geology, Wisconsin-Madison. She recently took a two-week crystal evolution, Antarctic scuba-diving trip to Australia's geology, base metal and gold Valla Dee (Jones) Earl Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea deposits, K-T boundary, Pre- (B.S. 84) lives in Sheridan, upon a live-aboard dive boat, cambrian chronostratigraphy, Wyoming, where she is teaching where she also learned all about and environmental topics. Sili- engineering graphics at Sheri- underwater photography. con, lead, and neodymium iso- dan College. She is expecting a topic systems are being used as baby in June. James B. Murowchick chronometers and as chemical (B.S. 76) is assistant professor tracers in these studies. Scott Krueger (M.S. 85) in the department of geo- recently left British Petroleum — GeoSciences animal tion with Macquarie Univer- to join Cox and Perkins, an bling in small sity." independent oil company in (companion animal) medicine I plan soon to move Houston. He is an exploration and surgery. Faith Stanke Fitzpatrick geologist for onshore Texas. on to a small animal practice con- (M.S. 88) works for the U.S. Geo- He and his wife Kim live in closer to civilization and Survey, Water Resources Sugarland with their three sons. centrate on more leisure-time logical activities. [There are] Far too Division, on the National Water Assessment of the David Thiel (B.S. 83) com- many late-night and early-a.m. Quality upper Illinois River basin in pleted his master of computer calls in dairy and horse prac- Illinois, Indiana, and Wiscon- science at the University of tice. with geol- sin. With the aid of a geographic Wyoming last August. He is an "My only contact information system, she application support engineer ogy at this point is my pre- presently is studying the with the Hewlett-Packard Net- ferred way to study hydrology of human and natural work Printer Operation in windsurfing. (Nancy Beresky effects factors on stream quality. Boise, Idaho. would be appalled!)" She married William Fitz- After graduating from UIUC, patrick on December 8, 1989. he spent six years doing Robert S. Mayer (B.S. 81) is a scientist with the Illi- biotechnology research at the is self-employed as a personal He nois State Water Survey. They University of Wyoming. He computer consultant in North- live in Urbana. notes that "while in Wyoming, I brook, Illinois. He specializes shot my first deer on the famed in local area networks and Vermont, is home Bear Claw Ranch!" database design. He spends Woodstock, about half his time training for Sandra Sopkin Haupt (B.S. who is now studying British Petroleum Explo- end-users from the introduc- 80), environmental law at Vermont ration employs Michael L. tory through the advanced School. She says "it's a Sweet (M.S. 83) as a sedimen- levels. Law great field for people with tech- tologist for its research group. He is married to Kathy nical environmental back- He earned his Ph.D. from the Romano, and they have a two- grounds (i.e, geology)." She has University of Texas at Austin in and-a-half-year-old son, Scott. Switzer Envi- 1989. They were expecting another been awarded the child in November. ronmental Fellowship, a grant for students in Scott Mansholt (B.S. 82) is $10,000 an environmental field in New now a senior staff hydrologist Polly Lee Knowlton (M.S. California. with Hydrologic Consultants, 80) earned a master's in science England or She writes: "Vermont is an Inc., in Lakewood, Colorado. education from the University of Tennessee in 1985. She incredible place to live—lots of geology, beautiful Rasool Okhravi (M.S. 81, taught high school chemistry interesting farms, and even some culture Ph.D. 83) lives in Tehran, Iran, ("heavy on the geochem!"') in (we're 30 minutes from Dart- where he teaches petrography, Knoxville until her first son mouth)." depositional models, and was born. microfacies. One of his graduate In 1984 she married J. Robin Michael T. Reade (M.S. 80) students is working on the Do B. Cockett, a theoretical com- Southfield, Michigan, Baradar Reef about 150 kilome- puter scientist from London, lives in while he is pursuing a library ters south of Tehran. Others are England. They have two sons: A. science degree. His wife Greta planning to work on carbonate Grayson B. Cockett, four, and Dickerson, who spent one year hosted lead and zinc deposits. Archa Rowan B. Cockett, 15 months. at UIUC, works as a geohydrolo- gist. They have two daughters, Grant Olson (B.S. 81) still The family is "leaving the Janice and Corin. is a mixed animal veterinarian glorious view of valley and with Town and Country Vet ridge and Great Smokies of Donald Von Bergen (M.S. Clinic in Winona, Minnesota. Knoxville for two years in Syd- 85, Ph.D. 88) lives in Lafayette, He writes: "Still currently ney, Australia, where Robin has Louisiana, where he works as a slaving away in manure and fly- a mathematical research posi- development geologist with infested dairy barns and dab- Winter 1990 «> Chevron U.S.A. 's Western Divi- stepfather of David Fee, 13. He The MSU department of geo- sion. He works one of the firm's and his wife have a daughter, logical sciences recently named most active offshore areas, Michelle, just over one year old. and dedicated its neutron acti- developing recently discovered vation and X-ray fluorescence gas fields. labs the "John T. Wilband His second daughter, Sarah Analytical Laboratory." Grace, was born October 18, The department also has 1989. established the "John T. Wilband Memorial Scholarship Greg Jarvis (B.S. 85) lives John Truax Wilband in Geological Sciences" to be in Westminster, Colorado, where (Ph.D. 65) died May 18, 1989, used primarily to support stu- he works for the U.S. National while attending a meeting of the dents attending field camp. Park Service. He and his wife Geological Society of Canada. Contributions should be made Traci became parents of their He was born in Montreal, payable to "MSU/Wilband first child, Kiersten Jo, on Quebec, on May 26, 1938. He Memorial" and mailed to: Devel- November 8, 1989. attended the University of New opment Office, College of Natu- Brunswick in Fredericton, New ral Science, 103 Natural Science Eric W. Lipman (M.S. 82) Brunswick, Canada, where he Building, Michigan State Uni- lives in Houston, where he is earned a bachelor's (1960) and versity, East Lansing, MI taking courses that should master's (1962) in geology. 48824-1115. enable him to work in the area Mr. Wilband taught at the Mr. Wilband is survived by of hazardous waste assessment University of Toledo, Ohio, from his wife Vivian; their two sons, and treatment (i.e., groundwater 1965 until 1975. He then joined John and Lee; one daughter, hydrology, groundwater geo- the faculty of Michigan State Kimberley; and one grandson. physics). University in East Lansing, In June 1986 he married where he was professor of geo- Deborah Rabson Fee and is the logical sciences. GeoSciences Help us find your "lost" classmates! printed. heard from—or about— few of those In last fall's newsletter, a list of "lost" alumni was We a of geology alumni, we will missing alums in response to the list. In preparation for a future directory the whereabouts of one (or continue to print an updated listing of "missing" graduates; if you know Thanks for your help! more!) of these individuals, please drop a note to Pat Lane, department secretary. Fred R. Shirley Budd B. Adams James Norman Fears Teresa Luning Lucas- Joan Caperton Shorter Bruce R. Adamson Dan Edwards Feray Salgado Raymond Shrode Alan Aller Susan M. Camp Fiello Tso-An Ma Sushil Kumar David William Allman Paulo M. Figueiredo- David Walter Mack Malan Siddhanta Ernie D. Allsop Filho Roger Conway Maruri Alan F. Skrzyniecki Leslie Grove Anderson Larry S. Foreman Raul D. Leroy Sumner M. Anderson Timothy Devine Fosser Donald Leo Maurer Raymond Slovinsky Pauline Babet Stanley Harold Frost Jorge I. Maycotte Lloyd Soley Jr. Jeannine Balsamo Mark Theodore Fulmer Elmo James McGovern Earl Charles Arnold Sorrell Evyn G. Barnard Linda Provo Fulton Jr. H. Spitzer Richard B. 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Place Stamp Here Michelle Sanden Johlas Editor, GeoSciences Department of Geology University of Illinois 245 Natural History Building 1301 W. Green Street Urbana, IL 61801-2999 c~ Department of Geology 6 LIBRARY V Alumni Newsletter Fall '90 <«* ." J N I V E R SITY OF ILLINOIS .,:;,;;••. . «*;*#;/ GeoSciences Homecoming Alumni Newsletter FALL 1990 October 20, 1990 Illinois vs. Michigan Letter from the Head 2 Postgame Cocktails Departmental News 3 1504 W.William St. Champaign, II. Issues: The Changing Nature of Resource Patterns Lecture by Brian Skinner 11 RSVP by October 1 217-333-3542 Profiles: Craig R. Bethke 14 217-244-4066 J. Massmann 18 Brian Phillips 20 Alumni News 27 GSA Meeting Reply Form 31 Dallas, Texas Oct. 29 to Nov. 1 Cover illustration: Electron photomicrograph (magnification = 4300X) of a diagenetic Preregistration magnetite sphereule. This is the first image to clearly demonstrate that such spherules, which September 28 occur in Paleozoic limestone of midcontinent North America, are composed of euhedral micro- crysts of magnetite, and cannot be detrital. The image was taken by Gang Lu (M.S. 89) during his thesis research on the resetting of paleomagnetic poles in strata of the midcontinent. His Information: work, under the direction of Prof. Steve Marshak, is the first to demonstrate that all paleopoles of GSA Meetings Dept. the midcontinent region were reset at the time of the Alleghanian orogeny. Such evidence is P.O. Box 9140 compatible with the proposal by Prof. Crag Bethke that major pulses of regional brine migration Boulder, CO 80301 can be triggered by tectonic uplift along the margins of sedimentary basins. To make this image, 303-447-2020 Lu used the Geology Department's new JEOL scanning electron microscope. This instrument, part of the clay mineralogy lab directed by Prof. Stephen Altaner, was a gift to the department by the late Prof. Ralph Grim. Lu's results are published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters, and the image was reprinted in Annual Reviews of Earth and Planetary Science. GeoSciences is the Alumni newsletter for the Department of Geology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. It is published in September and February of each year. Staff: Department Head: R. James Kirkpatrick; Asst. to the Head: Peter A. Michalove; Editor: Mary Daniels; Designer: Jessie Knox; Admin. Secretary: Patricia Lane. Brian Skinner's photograph courtesy of Yale University, Office of Information. Letter from the Head of the most Meanwhile, Steve Marshak and The past six months have seen Accordingly, some Philip Sandberg have taken a continued rapid change in many exciting new changes have come in under- campus-wide lead in developing the aspects of the geology department, our educational program. The use of computer-aided audio-visual including curricula, faculty, and the graduate geology and geophysics systems and have used them in remodeling of the Natural History majors and the revised general graduation requirements we proposed teaching introductory courses. As Building. It has been exciting if at are in full effect. Equally Philip Sandberg says, ours is a times noisy (I write this in July last year also visual profession; being able to against the sound of the builders' important, the Department has major "show" students as well as "tell" pneumatic drills), but I am ex- approved a new undergraduate This them is a major teaching advance. tremely enthusiastic about these in Environmental Geology. I expect to see more courses de- changes and very pleased with the program will allow our students the option either Finding employment veloped that can use these capabil- results. of or continu- ities, either wholly or in part. One exciting news item is that directly upon graduation particular, In addition, Tim Clarke will be Joel Massmann has joined Craig ing in graduate school. In undergraduate sequence will joining our faculty in January. Tim Bethke in hydrogeology, making UI this new continue in a is a seismologist with a Ph.D. from unique in boasting two Presidential allow the students to program in Cambridge University in England. Young Investigators in this field. new, nine-unit master's Applied Geology. This latter will You'll read about him in the next We expect this program to be environmental issue of GeoSciences, and we'll also among the strongest in the country. include studies in report in depth on Philip Sandberg's All of the recent innovations geology, engineering geology, and possi- work in developing the Depart- reflect the Department's hydrogeology. More job enrollment and ment's own computer-aided instruc- commitment to the highest quality bilities mean higher tional system. At long last, we will of education and research, your ultimately a stronger profession. also have "after" pictures of the re- commitment as alumni to support The new master's program is after the highly successful modeled facilities. Whenever you're us in this respect, and the modeled in town, please drop by to see what University's belief in our mission. program in UI's Civil Engineering not only is happening to your old lab. In large part, these innovations also Department. It is designed students but I'm looking forward to seeing reflect the changing nature of our for our own bachelor's you at Homecoming, and hope that own profession. also to attract outstanding students as many of you as possible will As you know, the dominant from other universities. I believe come back for it. Please let Pat role of geologists as seekers of new strongly that these new programs quality of Lane know if you need tickets for resources has been supplemented in will increase the depth and while enhancing the football game. We'll be meeting the past few years by an equally training we offer, of UI's again at my house for cocktails significant role in environmental the visibility and importance afterwards please come. I also look preservation and management. Brian Department of Geology across the — forward to seeing you at GSA in Skinner speaks of the global reper- nation. October. Both occasions will give cussions of our changing resource In keeping with technological are you the chance to let me know what patterns in this issue of Geo- advances within the field, we you think about all of the new Sciences, and in the past several also heavily involved in developing developments, and me the chance to years an increasing number of you computer-based courses and share my enthusiasm about them have found employment in computer-aided instruction. Craig classroom of with you. environmental fields. As a result, Bethke has developed a and his geochem- we in the Geology Department are computer stations, making the changes needed to ical modeling course last Spring prepare our students for these new Semester was a test run that went very well. functions. , ^H^|!r?X Departmental News GEOLOGY INSTRUCTION GOES HI-TECH Marshak wins grants to develop new course PLANET EARTH (Geology 100), a While lecturing, the instructor new hi-tech geology course with can call up video (or film) clips or Hollywood-style graphics, makes computer graphics, or use the video its debut this fall. camera for live-action demonstrations. Developed by Stephen Marshak, The images are projected onto a ten- the new course is designed to attract foot, diagonal back-lit screen and are non-science majors to geology by visible in full light. fulfilling the general education "The course will also use com- requirements of LAS in physical puter simulations to illustrate the sciences. progressive development of geologic The new course uses the Inte- features," said Marshak. "One of the Steve Marshak grated Teaching System (ITS) devel- programs to be used was written by oped by the university's Division of Dave McEachran (M.S. 85), who These will be available for use in all Instructional Media and Technology. now works for Rockware, Inc. in undergraduate geology courses. ITS is an integrated unit containing Denver. That program illustrates the Funds to develop the new course a Mac II and an IBM P/C computer, consequences of rock deformation." were provided by an Undergraduate a video camera, a video tape player, While preparing visual aids for Instructional Awards Program grant and a 35mm slide projecter-all in the new course, Marshak accumulated supplemented by a grant from the one box that sits on the instructor's a collection of some 2,500 slides and Division of Instructional Media and lectern. 35 recently produced video tapes. Technology. Sandberg to develop department's own facilities IN A FURTHER DEVELOPMENT, rooms. At the moment there are Marshak, who suggested I try to get Professor Philip Sandberg, along only four of those on campus. into the ITS computerized classroom with Marshak, has been awarded "Last [Spring] semester I made controlled by the Office of Instruc- an Apple "Seedling" for two some use of embedding graphics tional Resources. That room was advanced Macintosh computers within a hypertext lecture outline," available, but only for one of my two and imagers in order to develop said Sandberg, "but this year I will Geology 102 sections. computer-based education in be doing much more." Sandberg was undaunted by the introductory geology courses. Sandberg decided to obtain a prospect of teaching by computer. Sandberg's plan is to develop facility for the department itself "I'd got my first Mac in the spring the department's own facilities so after having the opportunity to use of 1984 when they first came out, so that it need not rely on the limited computerized instruction earlier Mac work was something I could do number of ITS -converted class- than he had planned. in my sleep." "Last [Spring] He had been in the habit of semester, the en- computerizing his lecture out- rollment in my line, and with a hypertext program Geology 102 he already owned, he embedded (History of the within it graphics, definitions, and Earth) course answers to questions he anticipated was larger than from the class. Using the ITS the capacity of system, he projected his new out- the classroom line onto the screen. I had been "The only big problem," Sand- assigned. No berg said, was that the computer- other classroom ized oudine made it too easy to go was available too fast." As a corrective, he used on campus, and students' feedback to adjust his pace. in desperation I Sandberg remarked that the new talked to Steve method is a nonlinear way of GeoSciences / Fall 90 New facilitiesfconf.) Daniels awarded first teaching, but one that allowed his Geothrust Fellowship computer class to grasp the material better than the section he taught in a The alumni-supported Geothrust "traditional" classroom. fund has established the Geology "I did notice that a few students in Department Annual Fellowship the traditional class said, 'I don't know carrying a $12,000 stipend for where we're going,' but none in the twelve months. For the academic computer class noted that problem," year 1990-91, the department's said Sandberg. "Some students were Admissions Committee voted to skeptical about the computerized award the fellowship to Eric lectures in the beginning," he added, Daniels. "but [their] reaction at the end of the Daniels is working on his course was overwhelmingly positive." Ph.D. thesis, which examines the Summing up the experience, he origins of clay minerals in coal of said, "I think that the inclusion of from the Anthracite region of the attention of a wide variety graphics is very important because eastern Pennsylvania. geologists including those Geology is such a visual science and Says his thesis supervisor, interested in coal, clay minerals, relies so heavily on images of Stephen Altaner, "Eric's results structural geology, tectonics, and maps, suggest that Alleghenian-age hydrogeology. cross sections, rocks, fossils, and tectonic uplift induced the uplift His awards include Best field relationships. In that sense it's induced the flow of deeply Student Paper at both the 1988 doubly important for Geology to in- circulating, hot groundwaters, Clay Minerals Society meeting corporate graphics because it is so which affected patterns of and the 1989 Organic Petrology a part of the discipline." much broad region of Society Meetings; the Antoinette making diagenesis over a Sandberg spent the summer Scholarship from the Appalachian basin. The Lierman Medlin further refinements to his system and postulated hydrothermal fluids the Geological Society of will introduce them this fall in Geol- produced a mineralogically and America to support excellent ogy 143 (History of Life), a course chemically distinct assem-blage of student research in coal science, colleague, also taught by his close the Clay clay minerals in joint sets of the and a research grant from Dan Blake. coal. Minerals Society. has recently Self-teaching "In addition, Eric proposes Stephen Altaner three-year grant from that the heat transported by the received a exercises planned Foundation upwelling fluids significanUy the National Science won an Dr. George deV. Klein has reduces the postulated depth of to suport this research. computer his B.A. Apple Seedling grant for a burial for the Anthracite region, Eric Daniels received he'll use to develop computer- which has long been regarded as from SUNY at Binghamton, and his in UI's simulation exercises in both an enigmatic thermal hot spot." is beginning his fifth year courses. lower and upper level Daniels' research has attracted geology department. Simulation exercises provide an opportunity to "not only teach stu- Geothrust committee to Henderson project laws and paradigms dents the basic over Homecoming "slow" of geology, but permit them to work meet more freely and independently on their The Geothrust Committee will meet Professor Donald M. Henderson's pro- own," said Dr. Klein. In this way, during Homecoming Weekend, ject of collecting informal personal students can "directly become involved October 19-20, to plan fund-raising recollections from alumni that will be in scientific experimentation well strategies for the coming year. added to the University archives is beyond the standard approaches now Chaired by Alan J. Scott, the new "going slowly," he said. "The archives common to scientific instruction." members are Glenn R. Buckley have a lot of documented information, The department has supplied funds (Ph.D. 73), Harold J. Gluskoter but what I want is the undocumented is to for the software, and the next step (B.S. 56), Morris W. Leighton material." hire a computer resercher. He expects to (B.S. 47), Hayden H. Murray Alumni who wish to contribute have the programs operating within (B.S. 48, M.S. 50, Ph.D. 51), Jack their reminiscences to his project are eighteen months, he said. Curtis Threet (A.B. 51), and urged to contact him. Caner Zanbak (Ph.D. 78). Departmental News Midwest will quake, Construction update rattle again—Chen Earthquakes in similar seismic zones tend toward "temporal Friendly chaos reigned in the Na- clustering" quiet periods that can Fault lines cut the globe into "pieces" — tural History Building last summer like those of a jigsaw puzzle, says last for centuries, followed by active as Geology and Life Sciences com- lasting for years. professor Wang-Ping Chen, whose periods 200 to 300 pleted their space swap and con- In the mid-continent of China, for specialty is seismology. Because they tractors worked to finish Stage One have been "'worked' over the years with example, a seismic zone dormant for of the construction by the end of millennia active, with nine minor movements that occasionally became September. Students returning in major quakes over a 400- year period. erupt in earthquakes, many of those the fall found a new geophysics area pieces are in poor condition." Those in Other major seismic areas in and new labs and offices for the eastern United States may be in eastern North America include the Professors Jay Bass, Hilton worse condition than those in the Wabash Valley Fault System, Johnson, Philop Sandberg, Stephen traitionally quake-prone West. which runs through central Illinois Altaner, Craig Bethke and Joel Although most of the noticeable and Indiana to Ohio; a seismic zone Massmann. quake activity takes place in the west- near Charleston, S.C.; another near The second stage of the work em part of the United States, there is Boston; and one along the St. Law- will run from September to Decem- rence River Valley in also considerable minor activity Canada. ber, as further lab space is carved throughout the East, Chen said, with a In an effort to improve predic- out for Bethke, for the geophysics major quake expected, most probably tion, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory program, and as offices for Dr. in the New Madrid Seismic Zone from commission has established a George deV. Klein and Bethke are Missouri to southern Illinois. national seismic network to finished. Midcontinent quakes, unlike those examine characteristics of eastern Said Peter Michalove, "we're along the coast, do not weaken away and midcontinent earthquakes. Most really excited about the changes and of America's nuclear power plants from the epicenter but cause very think it will be a more pleasant, strong seismic waves over a wide area. are located east of the Rockies, and a more efficient place for students and Chen said that the last major nuclear power plant "has not yet faculty to work." activity along the New Madrid area stood the test of an earthquake," Funds for the department's new said. occurred when it sustained three major Chen look came from the Urbana Cam- earthquakes just weeks apart during Chen encouraged the establish- pus, the Division of Operations and the winter of 1811-1812. They were ment of statewide earthquake moni- Maintenance, the Office of the Vice- mighty enough to change the course toring programs in those states, like Chancellor, and the College of of the Mississippi River and create Illinois, that do not already have Liberal Arts and Sciences. two waterfalls along its route. them. Such a network would help "The sequence of three shocks with the siting of critical facilities, Geology hosts amounts to the most drastic Midwest- with seismic risk analysis, and with ern earthquake," Chen said. "The con- collection and management of data, Open House sensus among geologists is that earth- Chen said. Adapted from Illinois Week, quakes will recur in that seismic zone. January 11, 1990. A fluorite sample weighing several hundred pounds, fossils, drill bits, and a core with oil-bearing sandstone were some of the exhibits on show at the Geology Department's annual Open House. "But our newest exhibit was a geology display in Loomis Lab with a geology rock quiz by Jennifer Distlehorst, designed to generate interest in our exhibits at NHB," said Geology Club President Scott Keithly. Expressing thanks to Dr. James R. Kirkpatrick, the instructors who loaned rooms, and to members of the club, Keithly added, "We had a large turnout, including a number of people who expressed interest in attending our Students wait their turn to peer through the microscope at the mineralogy exhibit department." GeoSciences / Fall 90 New field camp for geology students THIS SUMMER, Geology students from Illinois joined forces with their peers from several Big Ten univer- sities to spend an intensive six weeks developing their field skills at the Wasatch-Uinta Field Camp in Park City, Utah. Ten students drove two carryalls from Urbana to Park City. En route, they toured Rocky Mountain Na- tional Park and Dinosaur National Monument. Arriving in Park City on June 17, they checked into their rooms at the Chateau Apres, a dorm-style ski lodge with a heated pool and a view of the 3,300-meter-high mountain peaks. At 7:30 A.M. each day, the with Steve Marshak students assembled for a drive of Camp director Tim Hoist (right) plans traverse strategy from 15 to 45 minutes to a given field area. During the first three weeks, they worked on mapping and their observational abilities. measurement exercises in the key geologic concepts and section the project," "Instructors emphasized Precambrian through Cenozoic practices involved in the developing and testing Stephen Marshak of the Univer- method of strata. For the final three weeks they said multiple working hypotheses," he studied igneous and metamorphic sity of Illinois. continued. "[They] spent most of If necessary, the group returned terranes. out review any structures their time in the field seeking Exercises lasted between two and to the field to students to check maps and field ending with a debrief- they had missed. five days, each provide had ample opportunity notes," and otherwise ing session. In the debriefings, "Students field mapping advice. "described the accepted to practice specific faculty Field has techniques," said Wasatch-Uinta Camp interpretation of the geology of the and measurement years by encouraged to been run for some 25 pointed out common errors Marshak, "and were area, of Big Ten geologic intuition and various combinations made by the students, and reiterated develop their universities. This year, the 30 students who attended were drawn from Michigan State and the Universities of Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Minnesota at Duluth. Faculty were Tim Hoist (director) from Minnesota, Mark Reagan from Iowa, and Stephen Marshak from Illinois. Marcia Schulmeister (B.S. 85), now a grad student in geochemistry at Michigan State, was the teaching assistant. Left: Group catching its breath after a three-kilometer hike up Ankara Ridge Departmental News TA Marcia Schulmeister (B.S. 85) discussing com- ;«.?5^;5a£'--' 5M# -,- pass technique with Illinois student Scott Lockert in an alpine meadow at 3,200 meters Students on an optional field trip to the Bingham Copper Mine. The mine geologist is pointing out alteration zones. At this locality, the students are at the bottom of "the biggest hole in the world. Student-faculty diversity "It was difficult to break with tradition," said Marshak, "but the move to Utah was necessitated by spiraling costs and decreasing geology enrollments. The co- operative effort at the Wasatch- Uinta not only decreases the camp kto cost to students and departments, but has the added benefit that our % £» Ji students get to know and learn from fc-£ jfJ'-f a diversity of students and faculty '" [lllfrs- ****?jj from several schools. ./r-.jV , "Also" he added, "the camp's •» ""^k locality-at the boundary between the < Basin Range and the Colorado Pleateau, within the Sevier and Laramide orogenic belts— is ideal for providing access to a variety of geology." tf Student response to the new camp was positive, said Marshak, "and it looks as if we will continue Students measuring stratigraphic section our affiliation in the near future." at the crest of the Wasatch Mountains GeoSciences / Fall 90 Department Grants 1 3 Degrees Kingston-Middletown area, south- The Department of Geology awarded Thrust, Fourth Lake, New York); eastern New York), and Lizabeth Bachelor of Science degrees to the Laura Lynn Keefer-Harbison; Clair Cahill. following students. The titles of their G. Scott Keithly; Steven James Russell A Ph.D. was granted to Joanne papers are in parentheses. Murphy; Mark Douglas and Andrew K. Finley (Late (Interpretation of gravity data for the Kluessendorf (Depositional taphonomic Aspects of a Silurian Chesterian/Early Morrowan Sea Level southern end of the Leinster granite in (Brandon Bridge, Llandovery-Wenlock) Fluctuations at Arrow Canyon, Clark southern Ireland); Kelly Arthur Konservat Lagerstatte from County, Nevada); Edwin Earl Rust; and Michael Andrew Fossil Wisconsin (USA), predict- Hardt; Christopher Alan Smith. Waukesha, of North American Silurian Hedlund (Lateral Variation in dis- Master of Science degrees were ability Konservat Lagerstatten, and placement and geometry near the awarded to Chyi Wang (Structures Fossil some insights into Ichnofacies." northern termination of the Whiteport in Ordovician rocks of the Catskill- GEOLOGY'S FIRST Honors and Awards ACCOUNTING TECH Marsha Powell, the newest member of Geology's staff, is responsible for the Mary Ann Glennon was day-to-day business functions of the named Outstanding Woman Graduate department. Powell transferred into Geology Student for the 1990-91 school year. from the university's Accounts Glennon, who has comnpleted her Payable Department in May, and second year in the Ph.D. program, is while this is her third year as an currenUy studying the source para- Account Technician, she is the first meters of deep-focus earthquakes in such for Geology. She is on hand to the Kuril-Kamchatka subduction zone. Christopher Alan Hedlund assist Peter Michalove. Having completed almost two graduated Magna cum Laude with years of accountancy studies, Powell Departmental Distinction. find time to pick up Eric Holdener has received the would like to but her busy life Morris W. and Ada B. Leighton award more courses, currently includes caring for her for graduate study in geology. and a second job Edwin Earl Hardt was awarded daughter Morgan (10) at Carle Clinic. Her older daughter, the Estwing Pick, an honor Mark Russell celebrates with his Jamie, recently married. that goes to the outstanding under- advisor, Ralph Langenheim, Jr., "This is the first time I've worked graduate of any year at the Commencement Buffet. Mark Douglas Russell, B.S directly with the professors," says Powell. "I enjoying the Physics, Anthropology, and Geology, am experience; they are a lot less formal has been named a Bronze Tablet than I expected." scholar—the University's highest distinction. Honn Kao was named Outstanding Russell graduated Summa cum TA for the 1989-1990 school year. Laude in May with departmental He also received an Exxon Summer Distinction in Geology, and has Research and Training Award for won a Regent's Fellowship from the for research during the summer of University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1990. to pursue graduate studies in Kurt Larson has been geophysics. awarded a University of Illinois Kelly Arthur Rust received the Fellowship. Brunton Award, an honor given the Laura Peterson received the Marsha Powell outstanding senior. Harold Scott Scholarship. ° Departmental News - Faculty notes January. He also attended the Western experimentally simulated stylolitic Pacific Geophysics Meeting in porosity in carbonate rocks. Kanazawa, Japan, in August. Carozzi's collection of thin Stephen P. Altaner has received sections of types of calcareous algae $165,000 from the National Science Albert V. Carozzi received the was the object of a catalog published Foundation for a three-year study of History of Geology award of the in June by the Paleontological "Relations between diagenesis of Geological Society of America at its Section of the Museum of Natural organic and inorganic phases and annual meeting in November. He has History of Geneva, where this tectonic processes: Formation of also been appointed to the board of material is preserved, in its periodical, anthracite coal." He has also received editors of a new periodical, Journal of Revue de Paleobiologie. from the and $7,500 $15,000 NSF South American Earth Sciences Together with Marguerite Carozzi from the University of Illinois (Pergamon Press). he has also translated from the French Research Board for "Upgrading of an Carozzi divides his retirement time a 300-page book by Gabriel Gohau X-ray diffractometer." between the Rare Book Library of the entitled History of Geology, the first Recent publications include: University of Geneva, Switzerland, and textbook for advanced undergraduates Daniels, E. J., Altaner, S. P., his office in the Geology department. to be published in this country on Marshak, S., and Eggleston, J. R. In Geneva he transcribes and studies behalf of Rutgers University Press. It (1990). Hydrothermal alteration in 18th century manuscripts on geology. will released anthracite from eastern be in 1991. Pennsylvania: Implications for These are further studied and prepared In the field of sedimentary rocks, for publication in Urbana. Carozzi is currendy mechanisms of anthracite writing Introduction In formation. Geology 18, 247-50. 1987, Carozzi was com- to Sedimentary Petrography, a text for Weiss, C. A., Kirkpatrick, R. missioned to write a history of the advanced undergraduates to be released in J., and Altaner, S. P. (1990). The earth sciences in Geneva during the 1991 by Prentice-Hall. structural environments golden period of the city's Society of of cations adsorbed onto clays: Physics and Natural History. The Richard Hay was the Judd H. and l-"Cs variable-temperature MAS monograph, a quarto volume of 416 Cynthia S. Ovalline Lecturer in NMR spectroscopic study of pages and 1 10 illustrations entitled Geological Sciences at the University hectorite. Geochimica Cos- History of geology in Geneva between of Texas (Austin) in February. mochimica Acta 54: 1655-69. 1790 and 1815 based on the In March, Hay and F. H. Brown of unplublished documentsfrom the the University of Utah travelled to Daniel B. Blake and his student archives of the Society of Physics and Shahpur, near Islamabad, to assist the Steve Hageman, attended a Natural History of Geneva, was British Archae-ological Mission to morphometries workshop at SUNY at published in January. The society Pakistan in dating a site with geofacts Stony Brook in June. The workshop celebrates its bicentennial in October. more than a million years old. was given for advanced graduate In Archives des Sciences, Carozzi Closer to home, he lectured at the students and faculty, a third of which (with John K. Newman of the University of Wisconsin in April. came from Europe and Canada. Department of Classics) has recendy Morphometries is the study of published an annotated translation George deV. Klein has won a how organisms change shape in from the Latin of a 1774 manuscript $99,899 grant from the National evolution. The techniques are also of the naturalist H.-B. de Saussure, Science Foundation for a two-year used in medicine: one student was On the origin of mountains, as well study using quantitative methods to comparing the skeletal distortions of as an annotated translation from the discriminate tectonic from eustatic Down's Syndrome children in an French of Saussure's On the components of sea level change during attempt to determine how much they classification of avalanches in the alps the deposition of Pennsylvanian could participate in athletics. (1795). cyclothems of North America and Recent publications include: Meanwhile, his translation from northwest Europe. Recent publi- Blake, D. B. (1990). Hettangian the French of a 400-page volume cations include: Asteriidae (Echinodermata: entitled Petrology of Soils and Willard, D. A. and Klein, G. deV. Asteroidea) from Southern Germany: Chemical Weathering by Daniel (1990). Tectonic subsidence history Taxonomy, phylogeny, and life the of habits. Paldont. Zeitschrift 64 Nahon of University of Aix- the Central Appalachian Basin and its (1/2): 103-23. Marseille will be released shortly by influence on Pennsylvanian coal Blake, D. B. (1990). Adaptive John Wiley, New York. deposition. Southeastern Geology 30: zones of the class Asteroidea. Bull. The doctoral thesis of one of his 217-39. Mar. Sci. 46. last students, Donald Von Bergen, Klein, G. deV. (1990). Pennsyl- was published as a joint paper in the vanian time scales and cycle periods. Wang-Ping Chen testified before Journal ofPetroleum Geology in Geology 18: 455-57. the Governor's (of Illinois) Task Force April. The thesis dealt with on Earthquake Preparedness in GeoSciences / Fall 90 — The following invited publications are complete stratigraphic sequence will in press: through the system boundary, Klein, G. deV. (1990). Geodynamic compare the fossils he collects with Getting away to and geochemical aspects of classi- his own collection, the material the "real" world Jour. fication of sedimentary basins. becoming part of the data making it African Geol. Sci. possible to recog-nize that boundary For Fred W. Cropp (M.S. Klein, G. deV. (1990). Origin and in any part of the world. 56, Ph.D. 58), the Grand evolution of North American cratonic "Sverdrup Basin is of interest," he Canyon represents the "real basins. South African Jour. Geology. adds, "because it may become an world—not the world in which Six papers in Eidel, J. J., and important producer of hydrocarbons we normally spend most of Force, E.R., eds. Major sediment- the potential to rival that our days." hosted ore deposits: Basin analysis perhaps with Cropp, a geology professor and Sedimentary processes in mineral of the north coast of Alaska. But exploration. Reviews in Econ. exploration is only in its beginning at The College of Wooster in Geol.,v. 6. stages." Ohio, invites alumni into that world by joining him on a Ralph L. Langenheim Jr. has Stephen Marshak received a two- rafting/hiking trip through the taken over as book review editor for year grant from the National Science Grand Canyon next summer. the Journal of Geological Education. Foundation for a collaborative field From May to July each "Any of you who have an interest project in the Brazilian Highlands. In year, Cropp conducts a series in reviewing should get in touch, and field seasons over the next two of nine -day trips down the notify me of topics, frequency of summers, he will work on the Colorado River, but equal in availability, etc. You get the book, proterozoic tectonic development of significance to the thrills of so, if there is an expensive the South American shield with rafting are the visits his group monograph you'd love to have but geologists from the Federal University makes to many of the 25 side would hate to pay for, give me a try." Ruro Preto in Minas Gerais, Brazil. canyons. He and his wife Shirley attended the The Lamont-Doherty Geological "As a 1984 River Rat said Second International Congress on Observatory of Columbia University when he looked at the valley of Brachiopods in Dunedin, New Zealand will provide geochronological Tapeats Creek and up at the in January-February. In a precongress support. majestic flow of water from the field trip on the Gondwana brachiopoda Last November, Marshak spent Thunder River, rafting down the of Tasmania, they made substantial almost three weeks on an expedition river is great, but this is the collections for the UI Museum. to Zabargad Island, in the middle of Grand Canyon! They also attended a postcongress the Red Sea near the Sudan-Egypt Many of his "river rats" have field trip on the Permian and Triassic of border, studying marble-derived reported thrilling, therapeutic, southern New Zealand, which included peridotite. Zabargad has been a major even transcendental experiences, a visit to Lake Wakatipu and Milford source in the world of gem-quality says Cropp, and a number of Sound. "This trip was conducted by a peridots since the time of Alexander them return year after year. To geologist as well as a paleontologist," the Great, though no mining is now date he has guided more than he said, "so we got a good briefing on taking place. 3,000 people through the the complex geology of the south Canyon. island of New Zealand." Harold W. Scott sends thanks to The College of Wooster Langenheim's paper on paleo- all former students who bought a copy sponsors the trips. For non- biogeographic relationships between of The Sugar Creek Saga and therefore smokers only, they are run the Amazon Basin, southern Nevada, contributed to the departmental by the Hatch River Expedition and the Canadian Arctic, will appear fellowship that has been set up in his Company. in the published proceedings "any day name. The fellowship, to be used to All boatpersons are expe- now. It was promised last May!" bring outstanding graduate students rienced; on average they've In early July, Langenehim and five with an interest in petroleum geology been on the river for eight to other scientists visited Ellesmere and related fields to the University of ten years. Island at the invitation of the Illinois, has grown to about $24,000. Interested? Then write for Geological Society of Canada. They further details to F. W. Cropp, investigated the sequencing of Department of Geology, The carboniferous rocks at Sverdrup Basin. College of Wooster, Wooster, The GS of C believe that this is a Ohio, 44961, significant place to locate the boundaries of the Mississippian and Pennsyl-vanian systems. Langenheim, who has an uninterrupted and 10 Departmental News As part of the nationwide observance of Earth Day 1990, the Department of Geology invited Dr. Brian Skinner, professor of geology and geophysics at Yale University, to the UIUC campus to participate in the Millercomm lecture series. Skinner focused his April 25 Brian J. Skinner: comments on "A century of resource use: Can the next century's feast be as rich?" Noting that 20th century geolo- gists, miners, and oil drillers have The Global been highly successful in locating and producing a multitude of natural Nature resources upon which today's society population is now totally dependent is based, Skinner said that many people on maintenance of an enormous and of Resource are surprised to learn that "geologists complex supply chain of resources. spend a good deal of time and effort Each of us, no matter where we live, worrying about the adequacy of has now become dependent, directly or Patterns resources." indirectly, on hundreds of natural Geologists realize, he said, "that minerals." as populations grow larger, they will Skinner cited numerous figures to have to find new deposits faster. They illustrate his point, including the fact are concerned that their very success that individual consumption on a may guarantee their ultimate failure." global basis is now about ten metric Over the past century, geologists tons per person, per year. A century and industrialists have been adept at ago, per capita consumption was only finding new resources, and technology two metric tons annually. has led to new ways to treat ores and In 1989, the world's five billion provide better distribution systems. people consumed 50 billion tons of Because of this, resource issues that mineral products. This includes only were previously thought of as na- the material actually used (to feed, tional concerns now "have global clothe, transport, heat, cool, and dimensions." entertain—and doesn't include In light of that, Skinner looked everything moved in order to enable at the earth's resources from three per- mining, construction, or any of the spectives: need, supply, and the conse- other disruptions to the earth's crust. quences of their use. The question of Population density offers another supply, he believes, will not be the perspective, he said. "Excluding those most important issue for coming portions covered by permanent ice, generations. and those places above 5,000 meters, What is important, said Skinner, there are about 133 million square "is the consequence, large or small, kilometers of dry land on which we that use of a given resource has on the can conceivably live, and from which environment. No resource is totally we can produce or recover resources. free of environmental consequences." Some, of course, is pretty mean land and climates are very inhospitable, but Need or dependency? even so, each square kilometer can Skinner quickly pointed out that with- serve to supply some resources." out a need, a commodity does not be- Today's population density is one come considered a resource. And when person for a square 160 meters on an needs are fulfilled (if daily life is safer edge just about the size of a city or easier, or doing tasks become more — block. Skinner called this one's efficient), "a resource need can quickly "personal support square—the scrap of become a resource dependency." land that must supply all the resources According to Skinner, "this is an individual uses throughout a life, what has happened. The world's and that must fulfill the same purpose 11 GeoSciences / Fall 90 course, many deposits are yet for others who follow. Somehow, that When this happens, countries must Of explored in the developing space must also consume most of the begin to import needed resources. to be countries, "areas of difficult terrain, solid wastes left over." This is already happening in many or places with histories of political By the year 2000, Skinner esti- industrialized nations, including the instability." mated that the support square will be United States. Skinner looked at resource supply 140 meters per edge, eventually dim- Skinner contended that "physical for fossil fuels and concluded that inishing to 100 meters. A century exhaustion of resources need not be a should expect the next oil crisis ago, the support square was 300 problem a century hence. Sufficiency, "we between 1992 and 1995." meters per edge. in a global sense, is not likely to be a sometime He also believes that most of earth's "It is surely obvious," said limiting issue, but inhomogeneities energy use will be as electricity Skinner, "that such a densely packed of geographic distribution will almost future generated by nuclear methods. Later, herd of large mammals—the human certainly continue to be a major combination of solar and fusion herd—must inevitably cause massive problem." a is power is likely. All of these factors changes in the environment by simply What seems likely, he said, indicate that lifestyles will need to being alive. that major shifts in prices and supply and Skinner believes the next "One of the issues that faces us," patterns will occur for many mineral change, century "will be a time of astonishing he continued, "is whether or not those resources. This is so, Skinner said, refinements driven by massive changes are also detrimental because we will have to exploit "less technological in the concerns about energy supplies." changes that will force our descendants attractive, more expensive ores rising costs for energy," to live mean lives." face of level or and we will "have to start paying for Two quiet crises An adequate supply the environmental costs of producing Skinner admitted the importance of Examining resources from a supply and using mineral resources." environmental issues that have received the key perspective, Skinner said In the future, Skinner believes much media attention in the past few mineral resources issue is whether we are likely to see a resurgence of years: carbon dioxide, methane, ozone, needs of the are adequate to meet the mining in North America and Europe, contaminants in the ocean, air pol- population. In that regard, he are "two earth's although it would likely be in "blind lution. But, he said, there said, "no country in the world is deposits hidden beneath thick blankets quietly developing crises" that will be completely self-sufficient." of barren surface rocks." far more serious for the long term. One thing, however, that geolo- Some ore bodies already have The first is that "more and more gists have learned is that "today's been found beneath nearly a half- of the world's groundwater supplies mineral-rich country is tomorrow's kilometer of cover in a few favorable are being withdrawn for irrigation and mineral-poor country." places, but this kind of work currently for household and industrial use in rich, and easily ex- The large, is expensive. Geologists must use densely populated cities." ploited mineral deposits are the first three-dimensional mapping techniques Because pumps and the fuel to at least down, until to be worked out, or to look for these buried deposits. run them are cheaper than damming they are no longer profitable. stint as chief of its branch of experimental Brian Skinner, the Eugene Higgins Professor of Geo- a four-year and mineralogy. logy and Geophysics at Yale, may be best known for geochemistry Among many other activities, Skinner serves on the two of his textbooks, Physical Geology and Earth Geology Publishing Resources. board of directors for the Economic chairs the U.S. National Committee for His recent trip to UIUC was not his first; he had Company and also chairs the Board of Earth Sciences been here some 20 years ago, first to see the llinois Geology. He for the NRC. State Geological Survey, then to visit Fred Donath and Resources Economic Geology, considered and Don Grath. Skinner is editor for journals in geology. He also Skinner was pleased to be invited to speak in one of the most influential Scientist, American Journal of connection with the observance of Earth Day. works with American Science, and with Oxford University's "Monographs "I think it's very appropriate that the Geology Department sponsor an Earth Day event," he said in the Geological Sciences." honors include the Distinguished before the lecture. "The most important of the natural His numerous the Association of Earth sciences to understanding the environment is Contributions Award by the Silver Medal from the geology. Understanding and appreciating the role Sciences Editors (1979), of Economic Geologists (1981), being named of geology is essential to all of us and our lives." Society International Lecturer by the Society of Economic Raised in Australia and educated at the University an Geologists and an appointment as Joubin-James of Adelaide (B.S.) and at Harvard (A.M. and Ph.D.), (1985), Lecturer at the University of Skinner has taught at Yale since 1966. He previously Visiting Professional had worked with the U.S. Geological Survey, including Toronto in 1987. 12 Issues — — — — rivers and building distribution sys- intensive application of fertilizers. One program that could lead the tems,"groundwater usage has been Two massive consequences follow: way to that new mindset is "A Study seen as a good alternative. Accord- "Soil degradation and increased rates of Global Change." This project of ingly, said Skinner, "withdrawal rates of erosion." the International Council of Scientific (of groundwater) in many places Quoting the work of Sheldon Unions and the International around the world equal or exceed Judson, Skinner said that around the Geosphere Biosphere Program is recharge rates." world, annual soil loss amounts to designed to describe, understand, and At first glance, it seems that stop- about 25 billion tons per year monitor all of earth's interactive ping the pumping would solve the 5 tons per person per year." physical, chemical, and biological problem. But "food raised by irrigation To have that much material processes and the impact human is needed for the growing population, redistributed "is a geological problem actions have on those systems. and cities that rely on pumped water of global magnitude, and if continued This kind of study, Skinner said, cannot afford to pay for new dam unchecked, must eventually have "will lead to an understanding of our systems." massive consequences both for the earth that is hard to imagine today. "The water problem is an enor- environment and for food production." Our narrow, discipline-oriented mous one because it is so clearly Another of Skinner's concerns is approach to the natural sciences will related to the population density the use of fertilizers and other chemi- disappear. ... I predict that our problem," continued Skinner. "More cals on the arable land remaining. We thinking will change dramatically people, more wastes, more fertilizers, are changing the local geochemistry, we cannot stop the human herd from more contaminated wells—and daily he pointed out, and we do not know changing the environment, but we more and more aquifers are dying." how that might be changing the can learn which stresses cause the A declining supply of arable land distribution and life-cycles of the greatest rates of change, and before is the second crisis point, with soil planet's living species. the next century has passed, we will erosion as a major culprit. Intensive have learned to modulate the rates. use of marginal land has drastically A new mindset "If we fail to do so, it will not stripped some areas of soil and But Skinner is optimistic that the be due to limitations of geological rendered it unusable. global society's thinking can be resources, but rather, limitations As a result of the reduced acreage changed so we can live "in balance of the greatest resource of all available, farmers must increase yields with our environment, as the handful human intelligence." on their available land. That is achieved of hunter-gatherers—our ancestors through "continual cropping and the were a hundred thousand years ago." 13 GeoSciences / Fall 90 — Craig Bethke, the 33-year-old associate professor behind Illinois' innovative hydrogeology program, tries to run his bailiwick as a confraternity of peers. "One of my goals," he says, "is to give my students the freedom to come up with their own creative solutions to problems." By allowing his students a framework in which each performs independently, Bethke is able to combine the prolix duties of teaching and administration with his own, at times, controversial research. If an oil rig unexpectedly hits an Bethke overpressured zone, the fluid will Profile Accordingly, a profile of that fluid is is really one of Bethke & Co., his blow out the well. When students and employees, the super- a hydrocarbon—oil or gas—the BETHKE & CO. computing lab he created, and the situation can be explosive. of lab's 12 industrial affiliates. A driller who expects a pocket overpressure can compensate by making The research "Hydrogeology in general is the sure the drilling mud matches the heart of the program is Bethke's study of the movement of water At the pressure below. But a mistake by an- of sedi- underground. interest in the hydrogeology ticipating an overpressure where none " warped Ninety percent of hydrogeo- mentary basins, crustal areas exists can fracture the rock and let the logists are concerned with obtaining down and filled with sediments. He hydrocarbon bleed away. Either way, a water supplies, or monitoring they unfold analyzes their processes as well can be lost. contaminants and pollutants. Most through geologic time. The controversial nature of are therefore concerned with man's To do so, Bethke and his group Bethke's work arises from the way he interaction with water. generate computer simulations com- believes overpressures are formed. The "A small group is concerned posed of thousands of numerical is but until with geologic processes and how theory he holds not new, equations and combined with data from they react over time. Our portion of the onset of super-computer tech- basin's stratigraphic, sea level, and the discipline is less traditional." a nology, it could not adequately be histories. —Tom Corbet plate tectonic tested. His close associate and Ph.D. contain almost all Because basins student, Chuck Norris, explains it and many deposits of hydrocarbons this way: work important minerals, Bethke's "If the environment were static, has important implications for we would expect [fluid] pressure move, he says, geologists. Oil can at a specific level of the earth to or more from sometimes 100 miles approach hydrostatic—equal to the its source. same pressure as a column of water. in eight wildcat wells "Only one But in coastal basins, the pressures comes in," says Bethke, "so strategies can be 2-1/2 times that pressure of for lengthening those odds are high enough to fracture rock." intense interest to oil companies." As explained by Norris, severe geochemical pro- Insights about overpressure is the predictable result sedi- cesses are of further interest to of the normal compaction of the the mentary geologists, who study sediment that forms these basins: react with ways fluids and sediments the weight of compaction increases each other. For environmental faster than the fluid can run out, thus geologists, basins can be the places forming a pressure pocket. where toxic and nuclear garbage might Consequently, overpressures are for be buried and forgotten 10,000 transient phenomena that occur in a years. world at the mercy of dynamic If Bethke's work is significant, change—fluids flow not just at the controversial. An aspects of it are also surface but in the subsurface below. overpressures example is his study of If you shut off that process, the area and their possible origin. will revert to a steady state. 14- Profile This directly opposes a theory According to Corbet, they evolve out the unexpected to occur." that sustains a large segment of of the process of basin erosion. As- Meanwhile, Ming-Kuo Lee, the funded scientific research and guides the rock relaxes, it becomes more first of Bethke's students to receive a the work of some major oil porous; if the fluid cannot move in, degree (M.S. 89), studies sediment companies. the pressure drops. diagenesis. His master's thesis on the In that theory, overpressures are "Craig is looking at fluid flow Lyons sandstone in the Denver Basin, viewed as an artifact of physically below sea level and at basins still a petroleum resource in Colorado, isolated pressure cells in the receiving sediments," he says. "My showed how chemical reactions could subsurface; cells with their own interest is in computer simulations precipitate minerals in the pore space integrity that remain unchanged for of how groundwater flow changes over of the rocks and seal the petroleum millions of years. How they were time as erosion modifies the surface into reservoirs at depth in the basin. formed remains mystery, a but it is of the basin and changes the shape (Alumni familiar with Professor believed that only under special of flow patterns. Grim's work will find this of conditions will the fluids migrate. "Erosion takes enough weight off particular interest.) "Because a rock is million 60 the remaining sediments, which expand In his thesis, Lee demonstrated years old," says Norris, "it is a naive so that pore spaces enlarge and water that oil migration into the Lyons and jump to say that any given, observ- pressure decreases—all at a low rate the diagenetic attenuation that sealed able condition within that rock has over tens of millions of years. If the reservoirs occurred in response to the existed for 60 million years. The rocks have low permeability, areas of uplift of the Rocky Mountain Front thrust of UI research is that we think low pressure will be maintained so Range in the Eocene period. we really don't need the pressure cell that water will flow toward those areas Knowing that he will meet with concept to explain the existence of to make up the pressure deficit and strong resistance to this idea in some over- and underpressures." seek equilibrium. This was a pattern sectors of the scientific community, As with many heated scientific we didn't expect." Lee quotes his advisor: "Craig says, controversies, this one has led to Corbet became interested in 'If your research is good, some ad hominem attacks. Pinned on the underpressures when he worked with people may not like you, but they bulletin board in the Hydro lab is the Jozsef Toth at the University of will respect you.'" following quote from an article Alberta. At the time they were exa- submitted to a geophysics journal: mining the connection of petroleum Getting in on "The permeability structure used in deposits with ground-water flow the ground floor . . . models of regional scale fluid patterns in an attempt to explain how Bethke's interest in using numerical flow [in Bethke's calculations] is oil fields form. models for basin study developed a convenient fiction." "We noticed strange pressure and in 1980, the year he worked on flow conditions inexplicable in terms sediment diagenesis at Exxon Tom Corbet and Ming-Kuo Lee are of modern topography," said Corbet. Production Research in Houston. dealing with other aspects of sub- He came to Illinois to run simulations "I was lucky to get in on the surface flow. Corbet, who in De- to see if the conceptual models he ground floor," he says. "It has become cember will be the first of Bethke's generated in Alberta were reasonable. a much larger topic now." students to receive a Ph.D., has "Some were," he said, "but some He moved to Illinois in 1982 developed equations that can explain to were very wrong. The strength of the work with Pat the cause of underpressures. Domenico on basin simulation tool is that it can allow hydrology. In the meantime, however, Domenico had accepted a job at Texas A&M. Although Domenico offered Bethke the choice of joining him there, Bethke decided to stay at Illinois. This left him to complete his hydro studies on his own. Perhaps Bethke tries to give his students a similar independence now. To develop his prototype hydro- logic models of sedimentary basins, Bethke needed computers. There were none in the department, so he used the facilities offered him by Exxon and by ARCO, where he'd worked in the summer of 1983. From left to right: Gordon Madise (sitting), Walter Kreiling, "They donated the computer time Chuck Norris, Jeff Biesiadeki, and Ming-Kuo Lee to me," he recalled, "but I had to go - 15 GeoSciences / Fall 90 architecture, Bethke oversaw of the Gulf of Mexico and then do to Texas to do the modeling." vector on an something with the results. The new In 1985 Bethke received his the design of a lab centered using computers jumped the scale of what Ph.D. and joined the department as Alliant mini-supercomputer we could investigate." associate professor. In the following that. is now outfitted With the work of Bethke's grad year, the 28-year-old (by then) assis- The computer processors that students, the original software has tant professor won a Presidential with ten inexpensive work in grown to six programs. Young Investigator award. share a common memory and "Most of the grad students here The PYI award, given by the parallel to rapidly compute the hydro- develop research interests requiring White House to promising young logic models of basin evolution. It of a Cray computer programs that don't exist," researchers, includes research funding works at 70% of the speed fraction says Corbet. "These are created by over five years that can be combined supercomputer, but only at a adapting other software. This becomes with funding from industry. Some of of the cost. were the part of the material that goes out to the the award was used to bring talented Bethke and his group appli- consortium. Each student adds to it." students like Corbet and Lee into the first in any field to publish set-up. The grads work on the basic codes, department; some of it went to set up cations of such a but four computer experts, Walter Illinois' own computer facilities. Kreiling, Jeff Biesiadeki, Gordon As Chuck Norris says, "it was a Reconstructing Madise, and Brian Healy, take care of time when the hardware was catching geologic time such as tempera- different aspects of the programming. up to the conceptualization." Using information student in com- ture, fluid flow and rates of compac- Jeff, a graduate guru" The hydro lab tion from classical geology, Bethke puter science, is a "numbers studies have quickest and most Traditionally, basin and his students break it all down into who finds the centered on either direct observation computer-friendly numerical equations, elegant equations to express the codes, or on laboratory simulations. Norris combine those with graphics to and Walter and Brian design the here after Ad- recalls that when he came illustrate the processes, and watch a graphics. Gordon is the Systems his master's in 1970, hydrogeologists given basin evolve through geologic minstrator who sets up and oversees other things, worked in the basement, using time to see if a targeted phenomenon the hardware and, among connections of the pegboards and electrical develops as predicted. adapts the software to a variety to simulate flow patterns. "The model he developed lets one lab's machines. had been Corbet. Synthetic flow models look at millions of years of basic "It's really nice," says the early developed in the 70s, but evolution in a few minutes," says "Otherwise we would never get Previously models had to rely on slower digital Chuck Norris. through [with our research]. yielded visualize results was computers. Such methods "It is a model that lets you look the only way to could only with a pen plotter. insights, but observations at a process as opposed to a condition. by simple pictures the of a be made about the instant when Before, we could only observe Now, they can render the results Analyzing video hard data was collected. conditions and hypothesize about the simulation on color prints or equivalent to a physical what was roughly process." tape in either two or three "snapshot" made it difficult to All current models are derived dimensions." extrapolate those results with any from two fundamental programs, certitude over geologic time. Basin! and Gt. The industrial connection What Bethke wanted was the Basin2 describes the flow of Bethke, of course, had good rapport photography equivalent of time-lapse liquids through rock buried miles with a number of companies. The evolution of a basin over to capitalize showing the deep in basin strata. trick was to find a way years. only way to academic-industrial millions of The Gt is a reaction model that de- on the sort of with achieve that was by supercomputer scribes chemical interactions among relationship that he shared basin pro- simulations that analyzed fluids and minerals. Both models are Exxon, ARCO, and Amoco. natural time and distance Norris joined the cesses on used to study how basins evolve, but When Chuck Bethke tapped scales. at the moment they do not work as a department in 1987, rely large politics Supercomputers on single entity. into his experience of both run memories and use special architecture Supplementing these is Act2, and the oil industry. Norris had and had to perform calculations rapidly by a teaching/learning tool that helps the for Congress in Colorado, technique oil means of an acceleration researchers understand what is hap- been president of his own com- called "vectorization." But Vector pening geochemically. Less a re- pany there before the "bust" in the are expensive his social computers like the Cray search tool than a reference, Norris '80s. In C-U he continues to manufacture and maintain. via environmental says that it can produce insightful involvement Aware that David Kuck, an observations. politics. science, Norris recalls, Illinois professor of computer With this arsenal, Norris says, Between them, had conceptualized a novel parallel- "one could take on a problem the size they "brainstormed the idea of an 16- Profile industrial consortium as a way to Norris. "We get feedback as to how but one (it has been decided by both provide a resource base for the lab good our tools are, what problems they Bethke and Lee's new wife, Sheen) and to gain exposure in the industrial don't address, and what problems they crucial for him to communicate his world." work on that we never considered ideas. It took a year to work out the testing against. It makes the tools Joel Massmann, Bethke's fellow details of a contract acceptable to the much stronger themselves and rein- PYI who recenUy joined the depart- University and the companies. To forces the credibility of the work we ment, has taken over some of the keep it simple, they set corporate do here." courses that Bethke taught and is funding at a "low-approval" level, working with the grad students. so that a research department could The coming year The advantage of creating an make the decision to join. The con- In September, Bethke left for a year's independent entity is clearly that it ract runs for three years, thus guaran- sabbatical to study at the Paris School has a life of its own. When Bethke teeing a predictable economic base. of Mines, the world's foremost insti- returns, the innovations he dreams up In return for modest but con- tution for statistics and geological in Paris will probably be matched in tinuing funding, the companies modeling. kind by the program he has momen- receive license to the software and "I'm hoping," he said, "to get a arily left behind. access to the group's research. In addi- better description of real rocks as fluid tion, the hydro lab runs an annual flows through them. A big drawback THE SUGAR CREEK SAGA short course to transfer the tech- of current work is that the theories are nology they develop to industry. based on uniformity of that process, Consortia have been set up else- when it actually varies by the scale on where, but those have a high entry which you observe it. I'm going to level, says Norris. learn about an area I've never worked "We run much leaner here and in," he continued, "but this type of we deal directly with the researchers. understanding is very important to us In addition, none of the research in the and the work we're doing here at lab is proprietary; we publish all of Illinois." HARUI.D W. SCOTT the results." In his absence the department first carries The contracts were with on. Through the lab's elec- "The last chapter should be some of Bethke's early associations: tronic wizardry, Bethke said that he required reading to all of us Texaco, Amoco, and Exxon. But cur- will probably be in better contact who are elected. ..." iously, says Norris, the first formal with the program than he wishes: he Hon. Richard Geist member was Mobil (he ascribes this took along a computer that can speak Penna. House of Representatives to their "quick-moving lawyers"). direcdy to computers here in The 12 members of the Champaign-Urbana. IN THIS EVOCATIVE AND RICHLY consortium represent a substantial Tom Corbet will join Sandia detailed memoir, Harold Scott cross section of the oil industry Research in Albuquerque as soon as uses the backdrop of his own (Mobil, Exxon, Unocal, Japan he finishes his dissertation. He'll be own life to privide an insider's Oil, National ARCO, Conoco, making flow models over, to him, a view of the birth, growth, and Texaco, British Petroleum, and "short" period of around 10,000 years decline of the oil industry. Marathon), and three computer firms as he works on the problem of Scott's story opens with the (Alliant, Silicon Graphics, and burying nuclear waste—possibly in new century and the agrarian QMS). salt caverns lying several thousand simplicity of life in rural Illinois, "We are not independent of grants," feet below an area of southeastern continues with university life in the 30s as he earns his education says Norris, "but the industrial support New Mexico. The salt's plastic as a geologist, then moves to the supplies stability." texture means that the caverns won't Middle East in the 50s, where he Although the consortium is a fracture; their chemical make-up conducted oil explorations for funding vehicle, Norris says, "it puts us guarantees low porosity. Belhke will Hunt International. in contact with [different] types of fly back from France in December so He concludes with penetrat- research interests, it lets students have that Corbet can defend his thesis. ing analyses of the oil crisis a better feel for jobs in private industry, Chuck Norris continues to spend industry today. and it lets them apply what they are "brushfire days" running the con- To order The Sugar learning now." Ph.D. student Kurt sortium; Jean Daly, Bethke's assis- Creek Saga, make your Larson, for example, spent this past tant, continues to oversee the budget; check for $20.00 payable to U.I.F. Harold Scott Fellow summer in Tokyo working with the and Ming-Kuo Lee, who is working ship, and mail it to LuAnn Japan National Oil Company. on the Illinois Basin for his Ph.D., is Cliff-Crooks, Department "It's also an excellent testing buckling down to English instruc- of Geology. vehicle for our software," continued tion—a lower level skill, admittedly, 17 GeoSciences / Fall 90 Geology's newest faculty member, Joel Massmann, is fascinated with groundwater. As an undergraduate at Ohio State, he developed an aware- ness of how "vital" it is and an appreciation for its "incredible effects on demographics" while working summers as a hydrogeologic field assistant for the USGS. Now a hydrogeologist with a B.S. and M.S. in civil engineering, Massmann's work puts him at the cutting edge of his field. No ivory Profile tower academic, he worked part-time as a civil engineer while pursuing his A case in point is Massmann's master's and for a year full-time after- work for Martin Marietta, who run the wards; then two years full-time as a Oak Ridge National Laboratory. JOEL hydrogeologist while he pursued his The company is the most recent MASSMANN doctorate. sponsor for his PYI award. In 1987, the new Ph.D. joined the faculty of Michigan Tech. A year How much is enough? later, his work in hydrogeology was For Martin Marietta, Massmann is recognized with a Presidential Young generating computer models to help Investigator award. them locate a disposal facility for (PYIs receive $25,000 a year for low-level radioactive materials. His The changing nature of our envi- their projects. If they can locate an information will form part of their ronment has expanded the role of annual $37,500 in industrial support environmental impact statement. geologists who, along with finding to build the NSF matches it for a total of "Martin Marietta wanted new resources, are increasingly $100,000 a year.) a facility, but management required called upon to preserve the ones Ever since he arrived in C-U in them to characterize the hydrogeology we've got. June, Massmann has been camping of the site beforehand," he said. Water itself is in "quiet" crisis, little basement office "They put in monitoring wells, as Brian Skinner pointed out. out in a cramped collected a tremendous amount of data, "More people lead to more until the builders finish with his lab. flow of groundwater. waste, more fertilizer, more con- "A major project this summer and predicted the into the taminated wells. ..." and more is to get my window opened," he began But when they dropped dye and more aquifers are endangered with a grin. aquifer to test their assumptions, they from pollution. Born in Deshler, Ohio (pop. 2000), were off by 45 degrees in the flow he's one of seven children. As the mid- direction and off by ten times on the dle child, Massmann sees himself as magnitude of flow rate—it was ten "well-adjusted." times faster than they expected. Perhaps his family background "One of the questions they've it with and his work in the "real world" have asked us is, 'If you can't do allowed him to achieve such a good that much data, then how much data balance between the practical concerns do you need to characterize a site?' of the civil engineer and the more "On a given site," he went on, open-ended mindset of the geologist "there are a thousand possible part is Massmann, who is both, understands geologies. The exciting both, and he uses the best qualities of generating a synthetic geology that each to try to solve groundwater makes some sense." problems. He paused, and looked divided. What Massmann does is generate "You can argue against geologists computer models that simulate ground- here. If you have $10 million to spend water flow and combine those with on a site, would it be better to spend probabilistic models that simulate the whole amount on the best pos- uncertain geological environments. sible construction and design? million His purpose is to help management "Or is it better to spend $5 million make better decisions about handling characterizing the site and $5 the environment. actually building it?" 18 Profile — . "On the one hand you have the he includes more geology in the said, "but courses concerned with engineer. Engineers want to solve models and he designs them as groundwater had been given for many problems. In training you are given management tools. years before that. Many of the 'big problems with a 'right' answer that names' in hydrogeology have been you put in a box. For geologists there Canadian beginnings associated in some manner with the is no one answer. Geologists want Massmann's work with probabilistic U of I." knowledge. They'll go on and on." models began at the University of All of this made Massmann open How to resolve this dilemma? British Columbia in 1983, when he to a move to Illinois when the "The interesting thing to me," he said, enrolled on a fellowship to work with department's offer came—an offer that "is the personalities and the politics. Alan Freeze. also affords him the opportunity to try It's important to have both groups on "Freeze was into numerical to apply probabilistic models to the these projects, and what these models modeling of groundwater flow—using oil business. are trying to do is to bring together computers to simulate the behavior of "One of my students is working the geologist and the engineer. Their aquifers and using those models to for Shell this summer, and he's inter- approaches are different, their thought simulate the speed and movement of ested in doing that," says Massmann. processes are different, but both are contaminants," he recalled. For oil, the flow and geology united for the same purpose." On a three-year project funded by models will of necessity be different. the Canadian government, Massmann The goal there would be to construct Foresight and hindsight assisted Freeze with modeling risk management models that show, In the case of Oak Ridge, management assessment and designing the data among other things, the number of is aware of the potential problems to collection and monitoring networks production wells and test wells. the aquifer a disposal site may cause. for waste management sites. In uncertainty modeling, how- In many cases, however, damage has ever, Massmann thinks that the oil inadvertently been done. The work industry is ahead of him. Massmann is doing at the Savannah On a given site there are a "A lot, I am sure, has already River nuclear power plant in North thousand possible geologies. been done in oil, and the problem is Carolina illustrates another category The exciting part is generating a getting these people to apply their of questions he's grappling with. synthetic geology that makes models to groundwater problems." For Westinghouse, Massmann is sense. Given his background, it is constructing a model to be used to inevitable that Massmann will clean up an aquifer contaminated with involve himself in two departments. tritium—low-level radioactive waste Besides working with Bethke in His first independent experience with with a half-life of twelve years. The Geology, he'll work with Al Valochi design, however, came with his tritium was dumped into unlined and Weyland Erheart in Civil dissertation on groundwater contam- evaporation ponds, and the contam- Engineering. They'll be combining ination from waste management sites, inant seeped down through the sandy flow models with geologic models to a study of the interaction between bed into the aquifer. design monitoring networks around risk-based engineering design and "They'd put a cap where the ponds landfills and contaminated sites. regulatory policy. used to be," he said, "but the cap was Massmann gets a positive feeling "This spawned a lot of interest," very expensive. One question we are from being involved in projects like he says, and several papers soon looking at is, 'Was it worth doing it?' these. "At least we are cleaning followed. One is puckishly entitled We are also looking at different something up in the environment," "Some uncertainties about strategies for cleanup. For example, he said. uncertainties." if we pump out the contaminants, Brian Skinner has characterized In 1987, the new Ph.D. moved to how many wells will we need? Right the next hundred years as ones where Michigan Tech as assistant professor, now they have lots of monitoring geologists will focus on consequen- and the following year he received his wells up there." ces: "It will be a time of astonishing Young Investigator Award. The Department of Energy pro- technological refinement driven by a vides Massmann with geologic and concern about energy supplies. . . The future is now groundwater data that he incorporates Insightful management will be the Joel Massmann met Craig Bethke in his flow models. This is a rela- way of the future." shortly after he received his award. tively straightforward process At UIUC, with the addition of Massmann, who respects his fellow software for flow models, he says, can Joel Massmann to the faculty, the PYI as a first-rate scientist, also knew be had "off the shelf." A number of future has already arrived. of Illinois' long involvement in people across the country are also hydrogeology. combining flow models with "The first course in hydrogeology probabilistic models, but to this was taught at Illinois in 1963," he Massmann adds two new "twists": 19 GeoSciences / Fall 90 "I was really tired of school," he recalls. "I had a job, a girlfriend, and was playing guitar in a 'raw' rock-and- roll band. Then Jim Kirkpatrick called me up and asked me if I was serious about coming to Illinois." "Brian was a good candidate," said Kirkpatrick. "He had excellent—grades, the right courses, high GRE's " To convince him that Illinois was the best place to be, Kirkpatrick offered the Phi Beta Kappa a fellowship and a teaching assistantship, and in the fall of 1984 Phillips joined the ranks of Illini. Phillips Profile: Brian "Jim gave me a box of rocks" Phillips's field is mineralogy. "The catchphrase these days is 'mineral THE and ASKING physics' solid state chemistry One of the charms of the Natural — History Building to remain unsullied physics applied to minerals," he says. RIGHT remodeling process is the For the past few years he has been in the peculiar numbering system on its studying phase transitions. "It's a only few dozen QUESTIONS doors that answers to a fuzzy logic all small community— a very specialized." of its own. When you try to reach people—and his Brian Phillips's office in room 334, Phillips was introduced to his advisor, Kirkpatrick. you find that it is not on the second specialty by technique, floor (where 300s happily coexist "We had this new (Nuclear Magnetic with 200s) nor is it on the third applying NMR solids," (where the 400s are). Only after you Resonance) spectroscopy to applied to enter an unmarked door on the half- said Phillips. "NMR field since flight of stairs between the two floors mineral science is a new four places do you find a sign directing you to the '80s and only three or were doing this." 334. This is the "mezzanine," a floor in earth sciences the between floors on which several small Phillips uses NMR to study behavior offices are sandwiched, almost as an structure and thermodynamic afterthought. of minerals and their phase reversible Phillips's office, which he shares transitions—spontaneous, structure brought with Rob Lander, is cluttered and changes of atomic of temperature. His cozy. It is saved from claustrophobia about by a change stable by a window that overlooks the green goal is to discover how their with changing sweep of the quad. He likes this out- configurations change and of-the-way spot, one that seems to external conditions of pressure reflect his own self-contained and self- temperature. of the sufficient personality. It's a quiet "Since the beginning that space where his imagination can range century scientists have known place in minerals," as he visualizes the structure of miner- transitions took "but the transitions als as they lay deep within the earth. says Kirkpatrick, simple. We've For Phillips, "the really interesting were considered fairly the last ten things happen down below." only begun to realize in years that they can affect thermo- important and Transitions dynamic properties in complex ways." X-ray diffraction Six years ago, however, when he provides limited and inconclusive graduated from Bowling Green State, information about local atomic Phillips had no idea that this is what arrangements, but with NMR he would be doing with his life. 20 Profile spectroscopy, the complex nature of similar to—and show the same and high temperature) and deduce what these transitions is beginning to behavior as—minerals, but are easier is going on from those. We're actually reveal itself. "But," cautions to study by NMR," says Phillips. The able to see, specifically, what is Kirkpatrick, "we are still in the papers here deal with changes in their happening on an atomic scale." early stages of understanding how atomic structure. The pairing of Si-sites and the these take place." Because of the much more com- correspondingly more symmetrical plex nature of anorthite, however, configuration of anorthite at higher Fruitful collaborations Phillips studied a well-ordered sample temperatures is just one of the Phillips sees Kirkpatrick not so much as free as possible from iron. In NMR transitions this complex mineral as a mentor but as a collaborator. spectroscopy, Phillips explained, the undergoes. Two others are the "Jim is very good at asking nucleus of an atom acts like a radio disordering of Al and Si on the questions about the work I 'm doing transmitter/receiver. The sample is framework sites and the substitution and makes me think what's impor- placed in a large magnet, then of Si+Na for Si+Ca. tant," he says. bombarded with electromagnetic Different teams of scientists are Their collaboration has been fruit- radiation. The frequencies the nucleus studying these transitions, and ful. With the support of a variety of absorbs and then transmits are ultimately, says Phillips, National Science Foundation Grants governed by the arrangement of-the mineralogists hope to be able to and the facilities of the University's atoms around the nucleus. Different calculate the original temperature/ Laboratory for Supercompuung atomic arrangements around the same pressure of any piece of feldspar to Hydrogeology, Phillips has published element show up as different peaks. ascertain the conditions under which papers that provide new insights into it was formed. Mg-rich vesuvianite (American Mineralogist 72:1190-95); Al, Si "Things couldn't have ordered alkalai feldspar series (Physics worked out better" and Chemistry ofMinerals 16: 261- NMR applied to mineral After finishing his thesis and taking 75); and Si, Al ordering in leucite his exams, Phillips joined his friend, science is a new field since (Physics and Chemistry of Minerals Katherine Sugg, a Ph.D. student in 16: 591-98). He has also submitted a the '80s and only three or comparative literature, in Avignon for of Si, Al ordering in natural and study four places in earth a three-week holiday in France and synthetic sapphirines to American England. sciences were doing this Mineralogist and another, on syn- In the fall he returned to campus thetic An 100 feldspars, is in prepara- for a year of postdoctoral work, tion. His presentations include an spending half his time in Geology and informal paper delivered to a NATO the other half working with Eric Advanced Study Institute in Cam- "We then do this experiment at Oldfield in the chemistry department. different the bridge, England. temperatures and changes His goal is to learn other techniques see in the spectra tell "Especially since Brian's got into we us how the in chemistry that he can apply to the his thesis work," says Kirkpatrick, structure is changing with temper- study of minerals. In a year's time, he "I've learned a lot from working with ature," he says. sees himself as a researcher with him." Since the 1960s it has been another university or with some known that at 240 degrees the number national research facility. Three with one blow of Si-sites of a unit cell of anorthite "In retrospect," says Phillips, Phillips spent the month of July become halved from 8 to 4 as pairs of "things couldn't have worked out writing his thesis, a study of the Si-sites equivalent. become The better. The situation is perfect for me phase transitions of Sr2Si04 structure becomes correspondingly because of the world-class facilities, (strontium silicate), AIPO4 more symmetrical. and because I am free to develop my (aluminum phosphate), and calcium "In the NMR study," says own ideas. . . . But I still don't have feldspar (anorthite). All were chosen Phillips, "we actually see peaks a handle on what the important because they had known transitions corresponding to Si-sites, and see the questions are—that takes the longest and each will be published as a pairs (of peaks) moving together, time to learn." separate paper. until at high temperature they are the "Strontium silicate and aluminum same. Other studies of anorthite have phosphate are synthetic phases that we measured the diffraction patterns (the made in the laboratory. They are very way the phase scatters X-rays at low 21 GeoSciences / Fall 90 — AAPG HONORS SCHNEIDERMANN FOR HIS LEADERSHIP roles in en- both his B.S. and M.S. degree in hancing international cooperation, Geology from the Hebrew University worldwide professionalism, and in Jerusalem. In 1969, Schneidermann knowlledge of Geology, the AAPG came to Illinois. After earning his honored Nahum Schneidermann Ph.D. from UIUC in 1972, he taught (Ph.D. 72) with its Distinguished marine geology for two years at the Service Award at its annual conference University of Puerto Rico. last June. Two years later, Schneidermann moving ALUMNI "Nahum excels in bringing work- joined Gulf Oil Corporation, in ers together in challenging, effective, to Chevron Overseas Petroleum congenial settings," wrote Roger G. 1985. While he was initially involved geology, he soon moved NEWS Alexander Jr. "His leadership and in- with domestic terest in people are extraordinary." to increasingly international work. Schneidermann was born in Zoyadan, Since 1976 Schneidermann has Uzbekistan, U.S.S.R., in 1943. served, in series or in tandem, on a his number of important AAPC commit- The heart of GeoSciences is When he was three years old, served as Tech- information about you yourselves. family emigrated to Poland, and in tees. This past year he of the This material is gathered primarily 1959, when he was sixteen, they nical Program Coordinator from the reply forms and corre- moved once more to Israel. He earned Conference. spondence you send to the depart- ment, although some tidbits are provided by faculty and staff who have been in contact with you. This QUIRKE RETIREMENT is the latest information we have about you. TERENCE T. QUIRKE, JR. (B.S. 51), Take Time to complete and whose father was chair of the Geology return the reply form at the end of Department from 1919-28, retired from this section your news is important — ACNC (American Copper & Nickel to us. And please send pictures last June after thirty years. they will be returned. Co.) Let us know whenever your ACNC is the U.S. exploration sub- achievements are honored by sidiary of INCO Ltd., the world's sending us any press releases foremost producer of nickel. about you. After earning his M.S. and Ph.D. been broken This section has in economic geology from the Uni- If you were affiliated into decades. versity of Minnesota, Quirke spent with the Department of Geology two years as assistant professor at the from part of one decade and into University of North Dakota, Grand listed according another, you will be for company. Forks, then moved with his wife applications the last degree granted from UIUC. to the plan to Anne, to Quirke and his wife Ruth Please note that the items Ruth, and daughter, (which Ruth join as senior remain in their home appear in date order, and not in Thompson to INCO designed) in Genessee, just west of alphabetical order. field geologist By 1972, Quirke was foothills of the regional manager of exploration in Denver in the Rockies. They look forward to con- charge of all INCO explorations west their genealogical reseach. of the Red River and North of the tinuing recendy published a book 49th parallel to the pole. Quirke has mother's family (Mcllraith) and In 1975, Quirke moved to Mil- on his thinks that if he'd spelled the subject waukee to assist in the start-up of properly on his university entrance ACNC and to take charge of all ex- he probably would have been a ploration east of the Mississippi. In forms, instead of a geologist. 1979, he moved to ACNCs regional genealogist, Quirke's advisor at UCIC was headquarters in Denver to become member of supervising senior staff geologist. C.A. Chapman. He was Club and Alpha Among his responsibilities were initi- the Men's Glee fraternity. ating and supervising all computer Kappa Lambda 22 Alumni News " THIRTIES Engineering Geology (Wiley, 1988). Carl G. Davis (B.S. 59) writes that Johnson plans to remain in Fort "My students like fossils, minerals, After Sidney E. Ekblaw (A.B. 29, Collins doing occasional consulting stars and constellations, and M.S. 30) earned his doctorate from in engineering geology and volcanoes. They dislike topographic Clark University in 1934, he joined geophysics. maps, any formulas, and any math." the University of Kansas City (later "Our hobbies continue to be Davis, who earned an M.S. from mountain wildflower photography, Illinois the University of Missouri, Kansas Northern University in 1969 , City). From 1942-48 he was Chair of histories of our mountain mining teaches earth science, geology, the Department of Geology, and communities as shown by cemetery chemistry, and physical science at retired in 1970. "Although 86," he headstone styles, computer applica- Danville Area Community College. writes, "I am still interested in the tions in geology, travel, slide presen- Davis's daughter, Elizabeth, will crust and face of the earth. ations, teaching specialty courses at enter high school this year. "Younger alumni might be CSU as needed, and in general, interested to know that the Canadian enjoying life!" Bruce E. DoIIahan (B.S. 59), a Geological Survey named a quadrangle regional merchandise manager for after W. Elmer Ekblaw, (A.B. 10, Sears, is now semi-retired. He has A.M. 12). He was a geologist and My regards to Dr. Carozzi, a worked for Sears for 29 years. botanist with the Crockerland Expe- great teacher. (Thanks for getting in touch—we've dition to the Arctic in 1913-17, and —Charles Ruble (B.S. 57) crossed you off the "lost" list. -Ed.) carried on explorations on the eastern side of Ellesmere Island. The glacier David L. Stum (B.S. 59) visited named after him lies to the west of the Geology Department at Spring Smith Sound. The SE corner of the Break. He was in town to pick up his Since retiring from the USPHS Indian quad, known as Ekblaw Glacier, is son, who is studying aeronautical Health Service in 1987, George T. 78°00'N and 74°00'W." engineering Fries (B.S. 52) has worked part-time here. FORTIES for architectural firms as project manager for building construction. SIXTIES In 1951-52 Fries worked with From January to June, Allen and Jack Leuin Hough plotting the Robert F. Lundin (M.S. 61, Frances Agnew (A.B. 40, M.S. 42,) contour of the bottom of the Great Ph.D. 62) is Professor of Geology at toured the U.S. in their motor home. Lakes. "That work probably showed Arizona State University, Tempe. He I saw Bob Dietz (A.B. 37, M.S. 39, up in Jack's prize-winning book, The is continuing studies of Ostracoda Ph.D. 41) in Tempe back in Geology the Great Lakes." of from the Silurian of Gotland and February, and he's busy cranking out England. "[I am also] coordinating the good stuff. I'm retired! Russell B. Lennon (M.S. 57), a revision of the Ostracoda volume of senior staff geological engineer with the Treatise on Invertebrate Shell Oil, is developing FIFTIES gas fields in Paleontology, which my mentor south Texas. He recently finished a Harold W. Scott coordinated in the teaching assignment in Shell's John Shelton (M.S. 51) spent the late 1950s and early 1960s." training schools, and continues to first ten years after his graduation teach in the University of Houston's with Shell, and the next twenty years John D. Sims (B.S. 63) earned his graduate petroleum engineering on the faculty of Oklahoma State M.S. at the University of Cincinnati program. "I'm looking forward to University. For the past seven years in 1965 and his Ph.D. from North- retirement, probably this year." he has worked with a consulting western University in 1967. A project group in Tulsa, Oklahoma. chief for the USGS, Sims is studying Charles L. Ruble (B.S. has 57) neotectonics and post-Oligocene retired from Amoco Corporation after evolution of the San Andreas fault in Robert B. Johnson (Ph.D. 54) is working as a petroleum geologist for central California. As a follow-up to Professor of Geology Emeritus the at 29 years-24 of which were spent the October, 1989, Loma Prieta earth- Department of Earth Resources, abroad quake, he is also studying the history Colorado State University. He retired of paleoliquefaction events on in 1988 following 21 years on the the Geothrust chairman Alan Scott J. Loma Prieta segment of the San faculty, including one term as depart- (B.S. 55, Ph.D. 58) resigned from Andreas fault. ment chairman and two years as RPI in order to join with two partners Sims is a member of the acting department head. He is the USGS in building a new consulting group, Parkfield Earthquake senior coauthor of Principles Prediction of CGS in Boulder, Colorado. 23 GeoSciences / Fall 90 (Ph.D. is Experiment working group and author Goodfield married Shari Thulin, a William B. Size 71) director of the Geosciences program at of a major paper, "Chronology of claims adjuster for the Illinois State University in Atlanta. He was displacement on the San Andreas fault Medical Society, in 1984. Their Emory 19 years old. in New Zealand until August on in central California: Evidence from daughters are 13 and sabbatical leave, working on two reversed positions of exotic rock large granitic complexes located in the bodies near Parkfield, California." Daniel A. Textoris (Ph.D. 63), the Univer- fold belt of the southern Alps on the "I recently hosted a Japanese professor of Geology at South Island. His project was colleague from Tokyo University for sity of North Carolina, is occupied sponsored by The New Zealand one year, during which time we con- with full-time teaching and research Geological Survey. ducted research on Holocene slip rates (mainly petrographic studies on sedi- of the San Andreas fault on the mentary rocks). Hedel (B.A. 73) researched Carrizo Plain, California." Textoris is also involved in Chuck applied geology of site selection of tectonics and active faulting for the low-level radioactive waste, and has USGS in Menlo Park, California, for been doing "lots of research on seven years after graduating from Triassic basins of the eastern United UIUC. After receiving his M.S. from States." In 1989, he gave a talk on San Jose State in 1980, he joined his Triassic basin research to the 28th CHAM HILL's Portland, Oregon, International Geological Congress in office as an engineering geologist. Washington, D.C. Hedel provides geological input On research leave in Fall, 1989, leading to the design of industrial and Textoris spent considerable time municipal civil engineering projects, evaluating the earth science programs and also manages remedial investi- in the Florida university system, then gations of hazardous waste sites. worked on geoarchaeology in Greece. "I also had the pleasure and honor On the 1990-91 cover of Ward's Geology, Neal O'Brien (M.S. 61, of giving the keynote address at the retirement dinner at the Best regards to Phil Sandberg, Ph.D. 63) discusses the computer Albert Carozzi software he helped develop for GSA in St. Louis." Art Hagner, and Hilton teaching about the rock cycle with Johnson." John Fox (M.S. 87), Ward's Bruce M. (Chip) Nichols —Chip Nichols (68) the mineralogist (left), and Steve Bryson, (B.S. 68) earned an M.S. from Ward's Director of Geology. O'Brien University of Washington (Seattle). consultant and is professor of Geology at Potsdam He is an independent Margaret Watson Rutledge (B.S. College, SUNY. In 1987 he received an investor in the Australian mining 74) earned her M.S. in scientific and the prestigious Potsdam College industry. engineering management from West President's Award for excellence in "We may be returning to the Coast University. She is treasurer- research and creative endeavors. United States after having been in manager of financial services for Mesa Australia for twenty years!" Consolidated Water District in Costa Alan G. Goodfield (M.S. 63, Mesa, California, responsible for Ph.D. 65), engineering geologist for SEVENTIES customer service, accounting, data the Illinois Department of Transpor- processing and long-range planning. tation, prepares foundation treatment "My technical degree has been a Allan Schmidt (B.S. 70) received recommendations and reviews consul- critical part of my success in manage- his M.S. from the University of tants' treatments for all in-house de- ment. I have instant credibility with Florida in 1972. For the past six signs of bridges and culverts and technical types, who abound in the years he has been employed by many retaining walls. He examines water business." Geraghty & Miller, Midland, Texas, all primary bridges and many local Rutledge's son Andrew is three as a senior geologist/project manager road projects. years old, and her husband Jim is a with special emphasis on environ- "As the only geologist in the tenured professor at the University of mental, ground water, and hydro- bureau, I serve as the geological California at Irvine. carbon services. reference. In addition to structure Schmidt has been married for 17 foundations, I also work with mine David Rich (M.S. 77, Ph.D. 80) is years. He and his wife Cindy have a subsidence and earthquake design still owner of Geotech Computer seven-year-old daughter, Susan. aspects." Systems, now up to seven 24 Alumni News employees, selling computer products of Illinois at Chicago, and is a sys- Valla Jones Earl (B.S. 1984) and services for the earth sciences. tems analyst at People's Energy became parent of Jonathan David Earl "We are expanding into more Corporation. on May 21, 1990. Jonathan weighed environmental applications and 61b., 9oz., and was 19" long. selling more internationally." Snehal S. Bhagat (B.S. 84) is working for the Environmental EIGHTIES Geology Industry in Chicago. His "More pictures and current Master's thesis was published in the information on other alumni Journal of Structural Geology, v. 12. would Christopher A. Kotlarz (B.S. 80) be great." —Christopher A. Kotlarz (B.S. 80) is a systems engineer with EDS Heidi Hoffmann Humphrey Corporation, Piano, Texas, (B.S. Commerce 82, B.S. Geology "supporting Sacramento Savings and 84) is enjoying the travel associated Loan Association Rachel Carlin (B.A. 85) earned her through EDS' with her work as a hydrogeologist M.S. from integrated financial systems (IFS)." Portland State University with CHAM HILL in Oregon. She Kotlarz (Oregon) in 1988. Her thesis was "A recently joined the works predominately on groundwater geochemical corporation after an eight-year career study of the Eagle Creek remediation on hazardous waste sites, formation [volcanic as a naval flight officer flying the P- mudflows] in the and is also an Oregon-registered Columbia River Gorge, Oregon." Orion aircraft. "Even though I 3C geologist. Carlin is enrolled in the D.Env. haven't worked in the geology field, I Humphrey, who was married in believe geology degree has given program in environmental science and my 1989, received her M.S. in geology engineering me a 'macro' understanding of the at UCLA. She also works and civil engineering from Oregon part-time world and business, and superior ana- for the Toxic Substances State this year. She and her husband Control Program of the lytical skills necessary for success." California Mark have bought a house out in the Department of Health Services, country. "[We] have a dog and a cat regulating hazardous waste treatment, but no kids yet. I love it here in — storage, and disposal ("i.e., enforcing Hi Pat Lane! Hi to Jack Pullen. Oregon." RCRA"). She'll I wish I chould have stopped continue full-time in January 1991 as part of the two-year back to see him before David N. Moore (B.S. 82), a internship required to earn her degree. retirement. refractories analyst at Flow-Con In September, 1991, Carlin plans —Jim Miner (B.S. Systems in Champaign, is 87) to be married to Kevin Segal, a math responsible for new product, process, Ph.D. student whom she met at UCLA. and procedure development for John L. Shepard (M.S. 80) is still refractories used in the steel industry. Karen H. Fryer (M.S. 82, Ph.D. a senior project geologist with Shell Moore and his wife Ella have two 86) is now Professor of Geology at Oil, but was transferred from Houston sons, Jason and Jacob (7) (4). Ohio Wesleyan University. to New Orleans in late 1989. John R. Tabor (B.S. 83) received Steve Laubach (M.S. 83, Ph.D. Theodor (Ted) W. Hopkins (B.S. his Ph.D. from the University of 86) is at the Texas Bureau of 81) is a geologist with Shannon Minnesota in 1988 and recently & Economic Geology, publishing Wilson, Inc., a soils engineering firm accepted a position with Shell Oil prolifically, and on his way to in Seattle. "There are a lot of of I Swepi, in Houston, Texas. U becoming a nationally recognized alums there," he writes, "but all from Previously, as a postdoctoral expert in microfracture. civil engineering." research associate under Dr. Robert D. Hopkins, who recently visited the Hatcher at the University of Nancye Dawers (M.S. 87) has been department while he was on campus Tennessee, Tabor worked on the a research scientist at Lamont-Doherty on business, has been married for four structural geology and tectonics of the and plans to start her Ph.D. soon. years to Diane Wilkins, a software crystalline southern Appalachians. engineer with Boeing. They met at Mark Fischer (B.S. 87) is now Texas A&M University, where he Stephen Bouchard (A.B. 84) pursuing his Ph.D. in structural geo- completed a Master's in geology. received his M.S. from UIC in 1988. logy at Penn State. He recently pre- He is a permit writer for facilities sented a paper on his work in fold- David Wear (B.S. 81) lives in Ever- managing hazardous waste in the state thrust tectonics to a meeting in green Park, Illinois. of Ohio for the He earned his U.S. Environmental London. MBA in 1989 from the University Protection Agency. 25 GeoSciences / Fall 90 Science Letter. (See Jim Miner (B.S. 87), who Book Cliffs, Utah" with Dr. Margie Planetary Contents page, cover caption for more earned his M.S. from Northern Chan and expects his M.S. 1991. is on Gang Lu's research-Ed.) Illinois University in 1989, is now (University of Utah) in He enrolled in their doctoral program. married to Jackie Nietfeldt, a 1990 in Applied Life "Although it may be too early to tell, UTUC graduate they were expecting NINETIES I think I can resist the urge for a Sciences, and salary long enough to finish the their first child in April. program. Winter work on Lake James A. Cremeens (M.S. 90) is geologist with Chen- Michigan (for both Master's and Terrie Adams (M.S. 89) and an engineering (B.S. M.S.86) Northem, Inc., in Denver. Ph.D.) is especially beautiful, but Steve Adams 82, into on four acres up very cold!" welcomed Betsey Lew Adams "I have a house their family on April 26, 1990. in the mountains southwest of is and Karl Newman (B.S. 87) is currently Betsey is their first child. Denver. The job interesting division manager of environmental Terrie is an environmental keeps me very busy. What else could services for Professional Service geologist with the Illinois State you ask for?" Industries, Inc., in Champaign. He Geological Survey in Chicago, and (B.S. works with environmental site assess- Steve teaches high school science at Andrew (Andy) Finley 90) Finley ments, monitoring well installation, St. Charles High School in St. and Sandra (Marquez) contamination assessment, modeling, Charles, Illinois. (B.S. 88) became parents to their first and remediation. child, Elena, in July. The Finleys his from California to Newman is finishing his thesis Gang Lu (M.S. 89) is pursuing have moved that Andy can on "Sequence stratigraphy of the Ph.D. at Louisiana State University Laramie, Wyoming, so Campanian Panther Tongue sandstone in paleomagnetics. His Master's begin graduate school at the member of Star Point formation, thesis will appear shordy in Earth and University of Wyoming in the fall. 26 Alumni News CONDOLENCES Norma Vergo Altaner Norma Vergo, a talented geologist asset to a group that was previously who combined her career with lacking in mineralogical expertise," family life, died on January 28, wrote David M. Sherman of the 1990, from complications during USGS. "In her few years," he con- her second pregnancy. tinued, "she touched the lives of "Norma effused a verve and love many colleagues and became dearly returned, / and saw under the for life that enveloped and affected loved and respected by those who sun, that the race is not to the all who were fortunate to know knew her." swift, nor the battle to the her," wrote Richard H. April of In 1985, Norma and Steve strong, neither yet bread to the Colgate University. She graduated accepted positions in the Geology wise, nor yet riches to men of with honors from Colgate in 1981. Department at Illinois, where understanding, nor yet favor to That fall, she entered the Uni- Norma continued her research. men of skill; but time and versity of Illinois, a school she Norma published twelve papers. chance happeneth to them all. chose over the University of Her latest, with R. N. Clark et al., is — Massachusetts after hearing about it "High resolution reflectance spectra Ecclesiastes from Stephen Altaner. Steve was a of minerals," Journal of Geophysi- Colgate graduate who was working cal Research. It is in press. toward his Ph.D. in clay mineralogy Norma's friends and colleagues at Illinois. at Colgate University have estab- In 1984, Norma completed her lished the Norma Vergo Prize in master's. In her thesis, "The Geology. The prize will be awarded wall rock alteration of the Bulldog each year to a geology major who, Mountain mine in the Creede like Norma, significantly contrib- district in Colorado," she demon- utes to the spirit of excellence strated a new approach to determine among fellow students in the reaction time in a hydrothermal department. system. In that happy and eventful Here in Illinois, the mothers year, she and Steve married, and and children of the playgroup to moved to Reston, Virginia, to work which Norma and her son belonged at the U.S. Geological Survey. are donating children's books in her There, she collaborated with a group name to the Champaign Public interested in mapping the Library. In Robeson Park near her mineralogy and lithology of the home, trees have been planted in her earth's surface using visible-to- memory. infrared spectra obtained remotely by She is survived by her husband, satellite. Professor Stephen Altaner, and their "Norma's background in clay two-year-old son, Sam. mineralogy made her an important Norma was thirty years old. 27 GeoSciences / Fall 90 George Cohee four of them); represented that George Cohee (B.S. 31, M.S. cations, including a number of and charts. In organization on four boards; was 32, Ph.D. 37), a very strong oil and gas maps Univer- ah associate editor for five years; supporter among our alumni 1950, he moved to the Chairman of and served as Secretary-Treasurer and an influential geologist in sity of Arkansas as of Geology. Two for two years. He has received the USGS, died on December 29, the Department the USGS Distinguished Service Awards 1990. years later, he rejoined from the Department of the "George was one of the most as chairman of the Geologic of Interior and the American Assoc- widely known, respected, and Names Committee and chief headed that iation of Petroleum Geologists. loved geologists of his genera- the Review Staff. He for years until his "I knew George Cohee very tion," writes Ralph Miller. "His committee 25 Similarly, well," said Harold Scott. "In the sunny, friendly, unassuming retirement in 1977. com- Fall of 193 1 , we were graduate personality endeared him to his Cohee chaired an AAPG system of students together. I saw George associates inside and outside the mittee that developed a at many of the AAPG USGS." computerizing stratigraphic data annually system, and GSA meetings and consid- In 1933, while earning his from oil wells. This and ered him a very good friend. master's, Cohee worked part-time available to oil companies the "George was admired and re- for the Illinois Geological others, is installed at Oklahoma. spected by all geologists who on Survey, then joined it full-time University of a stratigrapher, knew him. He was above politi- in 1936. From there he moved to Principally the USGS as cal disputes, and had an admirable the Indiana Geological Survey as Cohee represented of the personality that enabeled him to Assistant State Geologist, prin- member or as chairman Stratigraphic get along with everybody. He cipally involved in petroleum North American years. was one of the most likeable studies. In 1942, when the world Commission for many Scott explains the fellows I have ever known." was at war and petroleum Harold Writes Ralph Miller, "there supplies were of strategic con- work of that commission:: has a were three great loves in George's cern, he moved to the USGS in "Every rock in America wife Vera, the USGS Washington, D.C. name. Some names are duplicated life: his are not and the AAPG. . . . Those who During his early years with in different states; some The comittee were his friends are richer for the USGS, Cohee worked on properly identified. having known him." regional subsurface geology in tried to straighten this out." served George Cohee was 83. the Michigan Basin. While in For the AAPG Cohee Michigan, he authored 22 publi- on 20 commmittees (chairing Adolf Pabst received Adolf Pabst (A.B. 25), an expert Berkeley home to his office. Born in Chicago, Pabst from the n rare minerals and former Professor Pabst's research his bachelor's degree Illinois and his professor at the University of earned him the Roebling Medal University of joined California at Berkeley, died in of the Mineralogical Society of Ph.D. from Berkeley. He faculty as a lecturer Berkeley on April 3, 1990. America, the group's highest the Berkeley Pabst taught mineralogy at honor. He served as the Society's in 1927 and bedame full 1944. U.C. Berkeley for forty years, president in 1951. professor in brother and had remained active since his A specialist in crystal defor- He is survived by his Evanston, retirement in 1967. He continued mation, he was the author of Edmund G. Pabst of his research in mineralogy and obout 100 scientific papers. In 111., and his sister Imma Tweed X-ray crystallography and lec- 1965, a new mineral was of Elgin, 111. Reprinted from the San Francisco tured frequently. As rrecently as described and named Pabstite in Chronicle. February, he walked from his recognition of his work 28 Alumni News HELP US FIND YOUR "LOST" CLASSMATES Since the publication of our last newsletter, eighteen alumni have been "found." In preparation for a future directory of gology alumni, we will continue to print an updated listing of "missing" graduates. If you know the whereabouts of any of these individuals, please drop a note to Pat Lane, department secretary. Adams, Budd B. Erickson, Michael J. Lamport, Michael B. Shayani, Sohrab Adamson, Bruce R. Erickson, Wesley Tyler Larson, George Ralph Sheppard, Kenneth Ray Aller, Alan Fanning, John Wood Linka, Robert A. Shirley, Fred R. Allman, David William Dulekoz, Erhan Lucas-Salgado, Teresa L. Shorter, Joan Caperton Allsop, Ernie D. Farnum, Jeanne Seaman Ma, Tso-An Shrode, Raymond Anderson, Leslie Grove Fears, James Norman Mack, David Walter, Siddhanta, Sushil Kumar Anderson, Sumner M. Feray, Dan Edwards Malan, Roger Conway Skrzyniecki, Alan F. Babet, Pauline Fiello, Susan M. Camp Maruri, Raul D. Slovinsky, Raymond Leroy Balsamo, Jeannine Figueiredo-Filho, Paulo M. Maurer, Donald Leo Soley, Earl Lloyd, Jr. Barnard, Evyn G. Foreman, Larry S. Maycotte, Jorge I. Sorrell, Charles Arnold Beals, Richard B. Fosser, Timothy Devine McGovern, Elmo James Jr. Spitzer, Roy H. Beeler, Vivian Jr. Frost, Stanley Harold McMackin, Samuel Carl Sprouse, Donald West Bird, Allan G. Fulmer, Mark Theodore McMahon, Michael G. Srilenawat, Rakchai Lowell, R. Bostrom Fulton, Linda Provo Meyers, Albert Lawrence Stewart, Thomas R. Brackin, William P. Gatsis, George J. Moore, Michael Charles Stone, Kenneth Allen Brennecke, Steven M. Gawne, Constance Elaine Moyer, Faris Knoble Sugahara, Hayashi Brownlee, Mary E. Gleim, Douglas Napoleoni, Lynn L. Susong, Bruce Irvin Buck, Edward F. Glowack, Michael Edward Naruishi, Joseph Ichiro Szumal, Robert J. Butler, Craig E. Goodin, James Edward Near, Wilbur Fayette Jr. Tills, Linda A. Butler, Louis W. II Grove, Kurt A. Nelson, Mark Denny Trummel, John E. Callahan, Jean McGinnis Hahn, Peter L. Nicholson, Marylinn Urbano, Robert Francis Carius, Terry L. Hamdan, Latif Said Noll, Donald Eugene Vega, Richard L. Carr, Peter Alexander Harp, Susan P. Nowak, Frank John Vincent, Arthur Lee Carss, Brian Williams Harper, Denver O'Neil, Kathleen M. Vinyard, Carl Wayne Chargo, Sheryl A. Herring, Louis Schulz Page, Kenneth Gene Vukovich, John William Chase, Livingston Howard, James Roy Painter, Robert L. Waggoner, Beulah M. Church, Russell J. Kagami, William Pearce, Dwight Weber, Margaret M. Pendleton Cole, Sally A. Kaprali, Atilla U. Philbin, Patrick T. Weidner, Melvin Irenaeus Dean, James W. Kern, Fred Jr. Plain, Ruth Violet Rosclle Welch, William Charles Debrito, Sergio Na Kiwiet, Elsa M. Ramberg, Donald Robert Wildanger, Edward G. Delimata, John James Knapp, William J. Ridley, Richard B. Wood, Larry Don Denaray, Andrew T. Jr. Knoll, Alfred George Rogers, John Robert Wrath, William Frederick Dickie, George A. Kochinski, Donald Carl Root, Robert W. Yochem, Ronald Jacob Dodge, Harlan Bernard Kuhn, Anthony C. Rosecrans, Jack J. Jr. Ziebell, Warren Gilbert Dorn, Eugene Geral Kummer, John Thomas Schenck, Leslie R. 29 GeoSciences / Fall 90 Faculty Graduate Students Istvan Barany, ISGS Stephen P. Altaner, associate professor Ten-Hung Chu, TA David E. Anderson, professor Xian-Dong Cong, RA Thomas F. Anderson, professor Tom Corbet Jay D. Bass, associate professor Brandon Curry, ISGS Craig M. Bethke, associate professor Eric Daniels, fellow Daniel B. Blake, professor Glennon, RA Chu-Yung Chen, assistant professor Mary Ann Wang-Ping Chen, associate professor Georg Gratoff, TA Grimley, Timothy.L. Clarke, assistant professor David TA Richard L. Hay, Ralph E. Grim Professor Junpeng Guo Steve Hageman, RA Albert T. Hsui, associate professor Holdener, TA W. Hilton Johnson, professor Eric Sharon Horstman, TA R. James Kirkpatrick, professor/dept. head Hwang, ISGS George deVries Klein, professor Hue-Hwa Kao, TA Joan Kluessendorf, research associate Honn Yeongkyoo Kim,RA Ralph L. Langenheim Jr., professor Jennifer Kupperman, TA/USGS C. John Mann, professor Lander, RA Stephen Marshak, associate professor Rob Kurt Larson, fellow Joel W. Massmann, associate professor Ming-Kuo Lee, RA Peter A. Michalove, assistant to dept. head Bing Li, RA Alberto S. Nieto, professor Wan Liu, Charles Norris, research associate Junzhe RA Matthews, RA Lois M. Pausch, acting librarian Jay Karen Murphy, RA Philip A. Sandberg, professor Joseph Quinnan, RA Adjunct/Emeritus Faculty Christopher Roemmele, TA Kelly Rust, RA V. Carozzi, emeritus Albert Fred Siewers, RA Cartwright, adjunct/ISGS Keros Steven Sroka, TA Carleton A. Chapman, emeritus Nita Tolia, TA adjunct/ISGS J. James Eidel, David Voorhees, TA Leon R. Follmer, adjunct/ISGS Lili Wang, TA Donald L. Graf, emeritus Kim Weborg-Benson Arthur F. Hagner, emeritus John Werner, TA Donald M. Henderson, emeritus M. Scott Wilkerson, fellow Leighton, adjunct/ISGS Morris W. Yuehui Xiao, RA (with plant biology) T.L. Phillips, professor Woo-Sun Yang, RA adjunct/professor Robert Reynolds, Yu-Lien Yeh, TA emeritus Harold W. Scott, Robert Ylagan, fellow NanYu Nonacademic Staff LuAnn P. Cliff-Crooks, clerk typist III Jean E. Daly, staff clerk Murle Edwards, chief clerk Barbara Elmore, transcribing secretary Jessie Knox, cartographer Eddie Lane, electronics engineering assistant Key Patricia Lane, administrative secretary ISGS = Illinois Slate Geological Survey Marsha Powell, account technician I ISWS = Illinois State Water Survey Mary Ann Quinn, library clerk II RA = research assistant Alice Reed, library clerk II TA = teaching assistant Diana L. Walter, library technical assistant II USGS = United States Geological Survey 30 Alumni News Please take a few moments to let us and your classmates know what you've been doing: promotions, publications, election to office, marriages, parenthood, moving, awards. We'd all like to hear from you! Response date Name Address Check here if this is a new address. Degrees from Illinois (with year) Degrees from other universities _ Present employer and brief job description Other news you would like to share Your comments on the alumni newsletter Deadline for February 1991 newsletter: December 30, 1990 Place Stamp Here Mary Daniels, Editor, GeoSciences Department of Geology University of Illinois 245 Natural History Building 1301 W. Green Street Urbana, IL 61801-2999 Department of Geology 245 Natural History Building 1301 W. Green Street University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign c- >L0^ o v. ' Department of Geology Alumni Newsletter Spring '91 ?Fii$f^ <9 ^3 U N I V E R SITY OF ILLINOIS GeoSciences Alumni Newsletter SPRING 1991 Message from the Department Head 2 GeoNews 3 Issues: A Talk with GeoThrust Committee 5 Chairman Alan Scott Profiles: Philip A. Sandberg 7 Timothy Clarke 10 Scott M. Wilkerson 12 Alumni News 14 Reply Form 19 Cover Illustration: Four steps from an animation sequence showing transgression.The animation was generated by Professor Philip Sandberg in a three-dimensional modelling program on the Macintosh computer. This represents the first trial in the planned development of tutorial hypermedia modules for instruction in introductory general education geology courses. CeoSciences is the Alumni newsletter for the Department of Geology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. It is published in September and February of each year. Staff: Department Head: R. James Kirkpa trick; Asst. to the Head: Peter A. Michalove; Editor: Michael Knezovich; Designer: Jessie Knox; Admin. Secretary: Patricia Lane. Message from the General education require- resources and the environment, the ments have been a hot topic on our history of life and the global view of Department Head campus, and in higher education in earth sciences; and an approach to general, in recent years. The Uni- teaching general geology through and Friends, Dear Alumni versity is seeking the funding for the the geology of the nation's National additional faculty and facilities nec- Park system. in the De- Change and growth essary to reduce the size of general We've been at this process of at healthy partment continued a education classes, and to improve revision and improvement for a fall 1990 semester. pace over the the way they are taught. In addi- year and a half now, and the results The GeoThrust Committee met at tion, it is reallocating existing re- are gratifying, to say the least. meeting was Homecoming; the sources for these purposes. Compared to three years ago, en- productive and the committee's The Geology Department, of rollment in our general education holds great promise for the work course, is a part of this effort, and courses is up by nearly a factor of Remodeling of our Department. strongly supports the overall pro- three. The students I talk with per- Natural History space in the cess. At any research university, sonally are very enthusiastic about is complete, and we're all Building there is some inherent tension be- the material covered, and the qual- to enjoy the benefits. beginning tween research/graduate teaching ity of instruction. I might add that Tim Clarke has joined the faculty, and undergraduate general educa- our non-science students bring to us from Memphis State coming tion, and it's easy to perceive that something of their own to our University, where he was part of the time spent on one is at the expense classes—perspectives we'd be un- Center for Earthquake Research of the other. One of the U. of I. 's likely to get if we were isolated Information. and major responsibilities is under- within our own department and dis- I'd like to take this opportunity graduate education, however, and cipline. to focus on a couple of especially thus it is everyone's job to see that Our experience so far is con- points. important undergraduate education is not firming what the University and First, regarding the GeoThrust shortchanged. what we in the department already restate an im- Committee, let me We in the Geology Depart- believed: that we can offer a high about its work is portant point why ment have a special responsibility quality general education program This year, only 42% of so important. in this regard, as some of the most in the earth sciences without com- of Illinois budget the University critical issues facing us as a society promising the vitality of our re- Illinois. As comes from the state of and nation have to do with energy, search, or the quality of education more and time goes on, we become natural resources, and the envi- received by our undergraduate private institutions in our more like ronment. We have both the re- majors and graduate students. It is from alumni reliance on support sponsibility and the opportunity to our commitment to continue to do the Department. I and friends of give non-scientists the basis they'll so. this in mind if and hope you bear need to deal with these issues from of the of the when a member their perspectives as policy makers, Committee contacts you GeoThrust as managers, as citizens. concerning some of the Depart- Consequently, we've revised specific needs. ment's and added to our general education Second, I'd like to bring you up offerings to better serve the needs important, ongoing to date on the of non-science students. One such issues regarding the University's revision is the application of innova- general education requirements. tive, computer-based instruction requirements cover the These methods (the kind that Professor work that each student must course Philip Sandberg, profiled elsewhere do outside his or her major. in this issue, is pioneering); new ap- proaches to teaching about natural GEOLOGY LIBRARY Seaber Escapes Kuwait after Iraqi Invasion Paul Seaber, who earned his Ph. D. here in 1962, and headed the water resources section of the Illinois Geological Survey 1987-90, experienced some harrowing times GeoNews before escaping from Iraqi- occupied Kuwait this past fall. His wife, Gerda, had been I'm not over the shock. I'm glad allowed to leave Kuwait on to be out, but it hasn't hit me. September 12 with 427 other his 31 years of marriage. In addition There are people in great danger refugees, mostly women and to learning how to cook, he passed back there. ..and I feel bad about that. children. She was permitted to take the time reading novels and - Paul Seaber - along only a suitcase, and had to listening to sketchy news reports on leave behind most of her Voice of America, BBC, Canadian, belongings. Australian and other foreign radio broadcasts. Seaber, 57, did not make it back Three days a week for to the U.S. until the end of October. an hour a day, he could also tune in He had gone to work for the Kuwaiti the Cable News Network on television, government in April. On August 2, broadcast from a station he and Gerda were woken by Iraqi in Bahrain. canon fire. "We also watched Iraqi TV," he After that, he says that he said. "Saddam Hussein and..., it was almost never left home until his all propaganda." eventual escape. "We did not go Upon his return, he was happy, out. The Americans and Brits and tired, and concerned about those others were being picked up and left behind. "I came back here, had taken to Iraqi military installations." a cup of coffee, and went to bed. I Seaber probably got out just in slept all day. time. 'They were starting to do "I'm not over the shock. I'm house-to-house searches, knocking glad to be out, but it hasn't hit me. on doors," he said. "The Iraqis were There are people in great danger looting the country. They were just back there.. .and I feel bad about taking stuff out of apartments and that." loading it into yellow trucks headed Today the Seabers are for Iraq." regrouping and making new plans. While in hiding, Seaber did Their plan had been to work in receive food from those of his Kuwait for a few years and save the friends who could still move around money for retirement. Now, most of safely. The invasion left him with what the couple owns is still in little money, and that was quickly Kuwait. They are, nonetheless, gone. "We bought a lot of food and grateful for their safe return. put it away, and we cut back on our (Article adapted from diets," he explained. Champaign-Urbana News Gazette, With the help of a cookbook November 3, 1990.) that Gerda says she has toted around the world for 31 years, Seaber used part of his time learning how to cook—something he Photo Courtesy of photographer Joel Dexter, hadn't had to do in earnest during Illinois State Geological Survey GeoThrust Committee on Campus for Homecoming The GeoThrust Committee was on hand for Homecoming weekend, October 18-20, this past fall. The committee, chaired by alumnus Alan Scott, met formally at the Illini Union on the Friday before Homecoming. There, members were brought up to date by Department Head Jim Kirkpatrick and Assistant Head Peter Michalove on the status of the department. From there, the committee went on to discuss its agenda and priorities. Department head Jim Kirkpatrick (left) with GeoThrust Committee Chairman Alan J. Scott (center) and committee member Jack Curtis Threet All the committee members members will be calling on alumni were very positive about where the about specific needs. also discussed department is going, and about The committee is so helping the department achieve its some procedural points and goals. The immediate objective of doing, decided to meet twice a year, the committee will be to assist the once each spring and fall, to their in its fund raising maintain the momentum that Alumni gathered at Kirkpatrick's home for a Department Homecoming get-together. efforts; initially, committee efforts are building. new clay lab, Construction is specific examples: a GeoSciences Needs new labs for sediment analysis, Your Help! Complete! Quaternary geology, and a new geophysics complex. First, you'll take the time to settles, the department we hope As the dust Funds for the department's fill out the reply sheet at the back of can breathe a sigh of relief and new look came from the Urbana 9- the newsletter. We and your satisfaction on completion of the Campus, the Division of Operations classmates want to know what month-long remodeling of offices and Maintenance, the Office of the you're doing. and facilities. Vice-Chancellor for Academic But you don't have to limit your all, project In the $1 million Affairs, and the College of Liberal contributions to personal news. covered 34 rooms, improving Arts and Sciences. Send in news of noteworthy events enhancing 40% of the and/or To all the displaced and department's total space. Most that we can use in GeoNews. inconvenienced faculty and to hear what you important are the six teaching labs We also want students, thanks for your patience . newsletter, good and eleven research labs or lab think about the think you'll find it well- We your complexes. The changes will and bad. And, we invite rewarded. about the profiles, improve instruction at all levels, suggestions regular increasing computer-based and wet feature articles, and features that you would like to see lab research capabilities. Some in GeoSciences. To help the department keep up with its changing needs, the GeoThrust Committee needs both the perspective to understand where the department has been and the vision to see where it's headed. It's hard to imagine a person better qualified to chair and Issues: guide the committee than Alan Scott. Scott, a native of Lincoln, Conversation with A earned both his B.S. (1955) and Ph. GeoThrust Chairman D. (1959) here at Illinois; his time must see building what we want to here also included work at the Alan Scott build as a long-term process. You Illinois Geological Survey. In 1959, build something like this patiently he took a position at the University and steadily." of Texas at Austin; he was there "Governmental support for higher He sees GeoThrust's work as until he took an early retirement to education is going down, not up. It's especially important given current start a consulting firm in 1984. In more important than ever to funding circumstances. 1987, he and his firm moved to communicate to alumni, and the "Governmental support for Boulder, Colorado. community at large, that if you higher education is going down, not At Texas, he was on hand to believe in something, you should up. It's more important than ever to experience a period of phenomenal support it." communicate to alumni, and the growth, both in the department and community at large, that if you of the entire university. In addition believe in something, you should to his teaching and research, Scott support it." headed the Texas department's He's careful to point, out fund raising efforts during his however, that financial support is tenure. That experience has him only part of GeoThrust's broader optimistic about what GeoThrust mission; that is to foster personal can achieve for our department. and professional camaraderie that "One of the things I saw in lasts a lifetime, the kind of Texas, in general, was absolutely camaraderie you can't put a price enormous support for their tag on. educational system, and that "Between my years here and at manifested itself in our department, Texas, I've been able to call on a too. In my last years at Austin I held vast network of people. The an endowed professorship that was contacts and camaraderie are very paid for by alumni; as a special." department, we moved from about Scott thinks that part of the five endowed positions to nearly all committee's work is especially the faculty positions being important in view of the way he's endowed." seen geology education change "Of course, the circumstances through the years. of the two campuses and "I taught 25 years at Texas and I departments are different, but I still currently teach at Colorado School see great potential in GeoThrust's of Mines as an adjunct. Combined work." with my experience here, I've seen "It's important for us all to geology move toward more consider GeoThrust's work as emphasis on quantitative and lab ongoing work with a long range work, which always has been a vision and agenda. I saw it work at dimension, and away from field Texas, and I can tell you that you work. The old naturalist type of role had tremendous advantages, I generalises field, and I think it will audience, but we need to do just think-a lot of time with your continue to have that advantage. that." professor on trips and talks, etc. I Virtually every field has an In general, Scott emphasizes, think that idea molded a whole interdisciplinary component today, "We can't be complacent, we need generation of geologists. That's and a geologist, by training, is ready to tell the public about geology and its importance." what I believed I was getting into ith for that. Educationally, you have with geology, and that's how my the chance to get a little bit of career has gone." everything in addition to geology. As a result, continues Scott, 'There has always been a sense of We can't be complacent, GeoThrust Committee family in the departments where we need to tell the public I've worked. Sitting here and seeing We'd like to take this its Wanless's portrait on the wall, I about geology and opportunity to thank the immediately recall the enormous importance. members of the GeoThrust influence he had on students here Committee for their time and while he was teaching. And of effort on behalf of the George White and the Within the field, we've seen periods course, department. others. where there has been a focusing, 'That kind of environment but the survivors in the long run are Alan J. Scott, Chair fosters personal ties that last a the generalists. For example, I did lifetime. I've been at events in my Ph. D. in micropaleontology, Glenn R. Buckley Denver attended by more and I continued with that work for (Ph. D 73) afterward, but I members of my classmates than I about five years can count. We're talking about 30 haven't been involved in that field Harold J. Gluskoter years and a 1000 miles away from at all since." (B.S 56) the UIUC campus and these ties "And of course, the new focus issues will have are still strong. There was talk of on environmental Morris W. Leighton professors and field camps." many implications for us. It makes (B.S. 47) our role still more important, because the issues are so complex. Hayden H. Murray think he's It's important all to I mean, a person can for (Ph.D. 51) saving the environment by walking consider GeoThrust 's out of the store using a paper bag work as ongoing work Jack Curtis Threet instead of a plastic one, without a long-range vision (A.B. 51) with knowing the consequences of the and agenda. manufacture and disposal of that Caner Zanbak paper bag." (Ph. D. 78) "We may also begin to see a "With the new emphasis on change in who will be drawn to quantitative and lab work, research geology and why, and in where can more individualized; become geology fits in any one person's entrepreneurial even. That makes education who might take geology it even more important for the courses as electives. All these department and the committee to things present tremendous foster and maintain these kinds of opportunities for us." ties among students and faculty." "We need to begin cultivate As much as things have people at the high school level and it's important changed, Scott thinks even earlier. The profession as a they've to remember how much whole has to consider this. Giving the in geology. stayed same talks at schools and at career days, "An advantage that I think you find that kids can be a tough geology has always had is that it is a As a result of what he de- scribes as a peripatetic childhood following his geologist father, A. E. Sandberg, around Latin America, Professor Philip A. Sandberg de- veloped a facility for language that has resulted in a knowledge of eight foreign languages. To date, he has lived for over 12 years in Profile foreign countries. His research studies have ranged from the ecology, zoogeog- Philip A. Sandberg raphy, and anatomy of brackish- water ostracodes (microscopic bi- valved crustaceans) through car- Philip Sandberg and his graduate research "It is very important," assistant, Fred Siewers, Sandberg be- bonate sedimentology to the admiring one of the lieves, "for the general student samples from their hardground collection. molecular phylogeny of modern population to have an appreciation and fossil animals, applying ad- invited me to come to Stockholm. for the evolution of the earth and life vanced tools such as the scanning Fortunately, I had a three-year fel- on earth as a basis for dealing with electron microscope and lowship that present and future global changes." radioim- allowed foreign study. munoassay techniques. The fact that three of my grand- Sandberg was one of the parents were Swedish had a very founding members of the local strong influence on my decision; it Macintosh Users Group, and he is was a means of reestablishing my very involved in developing the roots. As a result of living three Macintosh as an instructional tool. years there, both of my children His non-geological interests, which were born in Sweden, so I guess we are diverse, include cooking, pot- have come full circle as a family." tery, acting, linguistics, and with his "It was quite different in Swe- wife, Susan Brown-Sandberg, den," he notes about his years in managing the farm which they Stockholm. 'There was no specific bought in Pennsylvania. Although course work requirement, and the the terrain at the farm is beautiful expectation for intense indepen- wooded hills, the carbonate sedi- dent study was daunting at first. At mentologist in him bemoans the least at that time, one was expected fact that it is all shales and sand- to produce a magnum opus that stones. rendered any further work on the Sandberg, a native of Cincin- topic unnecessary for decades." nati, Ohio, received both a B.S. His dissertation, which, in the cum laude and an M.S. in geology Swedish system, had to be pub- from Louisiana State University. lished before it could be defended, His graduate education there was a zoogeographic-taxonomic focused on micro-paleontology, study of a major genus of brackish- invertebrate zoology, and ecology. water ostracodes with nearly After leaving L.S.U., his studies worldwide distribution. took on an international character. Sandberg recalls, quite clearly, Following six months on active duty defending his dissertation. "Every with the U.S. Army as a Military doctoral defense is announced in Intelligence officer, he went to the newspapers, and anyone inter- Sweden to do his doctoral work at ested can attend and ask ques- the University of Stockholm. tions. The Swedes claim that their "The head of the department doctoral defense was modeled from Stockholm had spent a year after the Danish court martial at L.S.U. while I was still in high system; in fact, your examiners are school," explains Sandberg. "Just as called 'opponents'. Both the thesis I was investigating European uni- and the defense are graded, and versities for my doctoral studies, he without a sufficiently high grade, — you cannot get a Swedish university Israel, where he lectured at He- Sandberg recalls an episode position." brew University and conducted that has resulted in his undertak- Obviously, he survived the marine studies in the Gulf of Elat. ing a major new area of study: "At trial, and completed his filosofie During the late 1960s and early the 1984 Bathurst meeting on car- licentiat and filosofie doktor 1970s Sandberg was one of the in- bonate sedimentology in Liverpool, degrees in historical geology. In structors on field courses that Illi- England, I was fascinated by a pa- addition, he set up an exchange nois ran in the Bahamas. Observa- per on the application of immunol- program between his department tions he made during those trips ogy to paleontology presented by in Stockholm and the Czech led to an interest in carbonate Peter Westbroek. I ended up talk- Geological Survey and Charles sedimentology and diagenesis. His ing with Peter until nearly 3 a.m." University in Prague, and went to long term involvement in the study The application of immunol- lecture in Prague and make field of modern carbonates included ogy to paleontology has been part studies in Moravia and Bohemia. teaching appointments at the Uni- of his work since. During two versity of Miami, and the devel- semesters, one in 1986 and another opment of his field course in 1989, Sandberg worked in ...an avid investigator "Introduction to Modern Marine Leiden, the Netherlands, with driven by the complex Carbonate Environments." Westbroek and his group. Peter's His studies on carbonates also group is the main center of work in way in which different came to have a significant bearing geoimmunology today. In prepa- scientific disciplines on the question of the original ration for his first visit, Sandberg interlink... mineralogy of ancient skeletal and took a course in immunochemistry non-skeletal carbonates and the taught by Professor Voss in the clues that those hold regarding Department of Microbiology this busy pe- Sometime during long-term oscillations in ancient another instance in which being on riod, visit the head of the De- a by ocean-atmosphere composition. the Illinois campus has enhanced of Geology at the Univer- partment Sandberg became interested his work. The biological training sity of Illinois, Professor George in the origin of carbonate mud par- necessary for this research was White, led to Sandberg eventually ticles and the changes by which facilitated by appointments both Illinois as an assistant coming to those muds are converted into as an Associate in the Center for 1965. professor in the spring of fine-grained limestones. "Few Advanced Study and as a Fellow in his work on Sandberg continued people looked closely at such lime- the "Study in a Second Discipline" years here, ostracodes in his early stones, because they knew they program of the College of Liberal grants the Na- supported by from wouldn't find anything. However Arts and Sciences. His work with Foundation, as have tional Science we have been able to find evidence his Dutch colleagues in this area all of his subsequent research been of the original carbonate mud min- shifted to an immunologic-bio- programs. Being on the Illinois eralogy can be preserved." chemical study of the potential use campus allowed him to advance that work in unforeseen ways. "My work in micropaleontology was greatly aided, and redirected, by the advent of the scanning electron microscope. In 1967, Bill Hay, I, and others acquired one of the first SEM instruments at any univer- sity." His expertise in micropale- ontology resulted in a one- semester appointment in 1970 as a visiting associate professor at the University of Minnesota. Eventually his investigations shifted to skeletal ultrastructure and its use in understanding modes of skeletal growth. That work continued during his NATO fellowship at the British Museum in 1972-73. Based there, he was able to make an extended visit to The new cathodoluminescence microscopy facility. of one resistant bone matrix pro- tein in molecular phylogeny of modern and fossil vertebrates, in- cluding an attempt to evaluate affinities of the dinosaurs. Much of Sandberg's work has been at the interface between the fields of biology and geology, but the crossover into biochemistry and immunology is a fairly new one, not only for him, but for paleontology in general. Much of Sandberg's work has been at the interface between the fields of biology and geology... Sandberg at the console of the computerized multimedia classroom. "Because this is a new area quite different from what paleon- as Acting Department Head for rapid compression and decom- tologists generally do or have lab the 1977-78 year. pression of complex images are equipment for, cooperation on the Over the years, he has re- about to become possible on the part of biologists is essential," says mained very committed to the Mac, Sandberg sees great potential Sandberg. "I've found that the col- general education geology courses, for the development of interactive, leagues in the biological sciences, and, although he has regularly self-help instructional modules, us- such as Ed Voss and also John taught introductory geology since ing hypermedia techniques and Clark in Biochemistry, have been arriving at Illinois, Sandberg's re- CD-ROM storage, that could be very helpful and supportive. cent teaching represents another made available to geology students Without the benefit of their sort of crossover. For the last three in a lab setting. counsel and their willingness to semesters, he has been active in His career and work are too make their lab facilities available, the development of use of the rich and varied to be adequately the work in molecular paleontology Macintosh in computer-aided in- covered in such a short article. could not have advanced." struction (CAI) for introductory However looking at them, the pat- Another major current area of geology courses. tern emerges of an avid investiga- interest concerns marine hard- "It is very important," Sand- tor driven by the complex way in grounds— carbonate sediment berg believes, "for the general which different scientific disci- layers cemented on the sea floor student population to have an plines interlink and able to bring a and then exposed to corrosion, appreciation for the evolution of broad background to bear in re- abrasion, and infestation by boring the earth and life on earth as a vealing important relationships. and attaching organisms. That re- basis for dealing with present and He is willing to follow his intellec- search, which is in collaboration future global changes." He feels tual curiosity wherever it takes him, with a graduate student, Fred that CAI can play an important role whether to another country to work Siewers, concentrates on the Or- in this educational process and, to- with colleagues, or to a lab across dovician of the Great Basin. They day, he uses the Mac and associ- campus to learn new techniques to are investigating changes in the ated video equipment in one of the bring to bear on his work. No nature of submarine cementation multimedia classrooms (developed doubt his work in computer-as- and its controlling factors, as well by the Office of Instructional Re- sisted instruction will spawn ideas as the possible role of hardgrounds sources) for classroom presenta- for other new projects- that has as a supplement to biostratigraphic tion in Geology 102 "The History of been the pattern in Sandberg's ca- correlation of depositional se- the Earth", and in Geology 143 'The reer. Each area of focus opens quences. History of Life." Under an Apple other areas for fruitful study. In addition to his research and Seedling Program grant, he is in Surely, as a result, the department teaching contribution which he has the process of developing some in- and the entire field will continue to made, and continues to make, to troductory modules on fundamen- benefit. the department, Sandberg served tal geologic principles. Now that Tim Clarke, our newest faculty member, brings to his work in seis- mology a strong theoretical back- ground combined with a keen ap- preciation of the practical aspects of geology. Clarke's studies began with a distinctly theoretical emphasis. Profile He completed his undergraduate degree in mathematics at Cambridge University. He was pur- Timothy Clarke suing a Ph. D. in theoretical physics at Cambridge when, for a variety of reasons, he decided to make a ma- "In still be seismology, you can jor change in direction. and practical. In work, I've been part of the whole process- my "I was taking courses in things theoretical and practical. In my able to not only formulate theories, like astronomy, cosmology, and par- work, IVe been able to not only but to go out and place the seis- ticle physics. As I thought more formulate theories, but to go out mometers to test them." and place seismometers to test about my career, I began to have Clarke's first stop in the U.S. them." doubts about maintaining that was at Cornell University, where he course. For one thing, I wondered, worked under a post-doctoral grant as a practical matter, what kind of from the Office of Naval Research. work I could find in the field." Working in Cornell's departments He also wondered about the of theoretical and applied mechan- very nature of the work in physics. ics, his research was in acoustic "I have always liked the idea of be- seismology. ing part of the entire scientific pro- After two years at Cornell, he cess coming up with a theory, test- was awarded a research fellowship ing it, and adjusting as necessary. with the Carnegie Institution in In most of physics, it seemed to me Washington, D.C. Under what that you would be one small person might be described as an accident testing one small part of a huge ex- of history, he worked in a division of periment," he explains. "In terms of the Institution called the theory, you would be left to work Department of Terrestrial with one small piece of a much Magnetism. 'The department was larger picture." established by Andrew Carnegie at About the time he was having a time when there was great interest doubts about pursuing a Ph. D. in in mapping the earth's magnetic physics, he talked with a faculty ad- fields. They sent a ship out around viser. "During our discussion, he the world and drew the map and talked to me about the earth actu- that was that, but the name re- ally drawing a diagram showing the mained. The department now has core, mantle, etc." It was that early, people doing work in astronomy, elementary discussion that led to geophysics, and geochemistry. Of Clarke's eventual decision to make course, there is also another de- a change. He stayed at Cambridge partment called the Geophysical but pursued a Ph. D. in seismology. Lab that doesn't do geophysics." It was a drastic change, considering His three-year affiliation with he had no previous background in Carnegie, which was also supported the field, but Clarke has been by an NSF grant, included a happy with his decision. semester at Yale, where he taught a "In seismology, you can still be course on seismic imaging, and an- part of the whole process theoretical 10 other at Johns Hopkins, where he Clarke expects to continue and an undergraduate degree in math; worked on observation-based re- perhaps broaden his work in this in addition, she has an M.S. in mu- search. area now that he's at Illinois, and sic, and can speak "who knows how Between his time at Carnegie he's eager to make full use of the many languages," according to her and his move here, Clarke worked advantages that the Urbana- spouse. at the Center for Earthquake Champaign campus presents. Research and Information at One immediate advantage Memphis State University. His he sees is being part of a larger, "One of my main work included teaching and re- broader-based department. "I'm emphases has been to search. going to appreciate having more exploit the large "I'm still involved in collabora- geologists to talk to. Even though tive research with colleagues from my work is highly theoretical, the amounts of existing Carnegie and M.S.U., thanks to the people I want to talk to and learn data..." wonders of computer networks," he from are geologists." explains. That research is con- He's also excited about being cerned with the boundaries the dis- on the campus of a comprehensive Of course, the couple's first continuities in the transition zone, research university. "I'm looking order of business is to simply get 300-700 kilometers below the earth's forward to working with people out- settled in the Urbana home that surface. side the department, too. There's they moved into over the Christmas Seismic data reveal the discon- much to gain from having access to holidays. Between ice storms, sev- tinuities in the transition zone, but faculty and students working in eral schedule changes on the part it's more problematic other disciplines here, particularly of the mover, and a night in a to identify the cause of the disconti- with the nature of my work, which Memphis motel full of Liberty Bowl nuities. Clarke has been working on crosses disciplinary boundaries. football fans, the move itself was no computer-based techniques to dis- For example, in my work, I must be small feat. And at the time of this tinguish discontinuities caused by concerned with the nature of waves. writing, Tim was still wrestling with boundaries between distinctly dif- Here, I can talk to people whose reconstructing sofas and other ferent materials from discontinu- main concern is wave propagation." household items, not to mention ities caused by different crystal His wife, Akiwata Mayi-Clarke, getting his office work station in structures of the same material. also plans to make the most of the order. University. She has tentative plans But with the bulk of the move to study for her M.B.A., and to study completed, it's safe to say, as the "I'm still involved in Russian language beginning in the song goes, that the best is yet to collaborative research fall. Originally from Brazil, she has come. with M.S.U., thanks to the wonders of computer networks." "Basically, the technique is based on inverse theory; we com- pute, based on models, synthetic seismograms of what we think we should see and compare them to what we actually observe," he ex- plains. "One of my main emphases has been to exploit the large amounts of existing data, rather than to formulate a model based on an idealized version of data that we might expect to get in the future." 11 "It seems funny now, but I was afraid of computers when I started as an undergraduate at Murray State University (Murray, Ky.)," says graduate student in structural geology Scott Wilkerson. "I didn't even want to take a computer course." But at the urging of one of his Profile professors, Wilkerson did take a computer course, and since then his studies and career have thoroughly Scott Wilkerson incorporated the computer as a re- search tool, much as the entire field of geology has done. Of course, to- eventual decision to day in geology, computing technol- Wilkerson's I think of myself as a structural come to Illinois. Wilkerson had geologist first-that's why I am in ogy is a commonplace tool, and choices in terms of a graduate insti- this field. since his undergraduate years, Wilkerson has worked to exploit tution, but, he says, "In talking with I that asked insight- that tool's" usefulness. Specifically, Steve, found he he has developed and used com- ful questions about what I wanted to people puter programs to model fault-re- do. He was one of the few lated folds through the construction I'd talked to who was willing to let of area-balanced cross sections, me do what I wanted to do in terms volume-balanced block diagrams, of research, rather than making me and computer-generated structure- do what he wanted me to do." In contour and geologic maps. addition, Scott had some strongly ideas graduate programs. At Murray State, he was under focused "Having grown up in southern Illi- a full scholarship that encouraged I the sense of Illi- independent study and research. nois, already had nois as first-class institution," says That situation allowed him to work a Wilkerson. with MSU professor and mentor Illinois, Wilkerson has been Steven Usdansky to develop a At continue his analysis of cross-section modeling program able to folds, work that has for IBM PCs. fault-related by an NSF Usdansky also figured into been greatly enhanced fellowship. Three components Wilkerson's eventual choice of Illi- dissertation deriving nois for graduate study. Together, comprise his equations develop- the two arranged to bring Professor geometrical and describing Stephen Marshak, a structural ge- ing computer models three-dimensional relationships ologist here at Illinois, to speak at the fault-related folds, applying these Murray State. Wilkerson still of to seismic interpretations smiles when he tells that story: concepts their "We invited him to our campus, of real structures to test meaningfulness, and simulating and I think that he probably displace- expected 20 people or so to show true three-dimensional paths using physical models up. But we filled an auditorium ment It's the po- with four or five hundred people and X-ray tomography. including the dean of the college of tential to develop these three-di- that make this sciences. Steve had come directly mensional models potentially valuable to geol- from some field work in southern work so ogists in industry and the academic Illinois, so I think he was a little world. nervous at first. I still kid him about While he values the computer it today." work, Wilker- But the lecture was well re- as a crucial tool in his ceived, and Marshak, who is now son makes a point of emphasizing Wilkerson's adviser, also influenced that it is just a tool within a larger 12 context: "I think of myself as a well data." "Besides," adds Wilker- His experience at Exxon con- structural geologist first that's why I son, "it's just a good, broadening tinues to pay dividends. People in am in this field. I'm not a computer experience to be out in the so-called industry have learned of his work, jock who happens to be interested real world." and he of theirs, and that has led to in geology. Using the computer informal collaborations on particu- adds an interesting dimension to lar problems. In addition, Exxon my work—it seems I learn some- has supplied actual seismic data thing new every week. But the from the Arkoma Basin, Oklahoma, computer is important only because for Wilkerson to use in testing his of its applications, and potential three-dimensional models, a crucial applications, within my field." component in his work. 'The programs I've helped de- Due to finish his work here this velop are useful to industry and the upcoming summer, Wilkerson is in- academic world alike to teach about terviewing in both industry and the and interpret seismic data," ex- academia. Although he's not certain plains Wilkerson. "They're graphic, of where he'll land, his internship 'what if?,' tools for structural geolo- made a positive impression about gists. They can be used in conjunc- working in industry. "It's attractive, tion with seismic data to generate I think, because you can do more an idea of what's happening in the exciting geology you have access to subsurface." actual data sets that only an indus- try setting can provide." Whatever he finally chooses, In talking with Steve we're sure that he'll continue to make the kind of important contri- (Marshak), I found that butions to structural geology that he he asked the insightful Physical model apparatus that simulates 3D has already begun to make with his geometries and kinematics above oblique fault questions about what I work here at Illinois. ramps. Internal structures were described to wanted do. using computerized tomography while at Marathon Oil Company's research lab. Figure 1. While his first program, Fault!, (a) Cutaway block diagram was written for an IBM platform, he depicting the three-dimensional fold geometry of a parallel now programs on a Macintosh. He fault-bend fold Fold parameters defined are: &=ramp cutoff angle, /J=forelimb angle, 6=displacemcnt has marketed his programs pri- gradient (given as an angle), /=length along strike over which Sis maintained, and (^shortening for a given cross section vately with some success. "It's a at length /. Axial surfaces for pretty specialized product for a the fold are: A'=foreland syncline, A=foreland anticline, fi'=hinterland anticline, and fl=hinterland syncline. (b,c) Map patterns a parallel fault-bend rather limited market, so it's not a of fold with Q= 30° and 5= 15°. These correspond 1-3 thriving business or anything, but diagrams to sections in pan (a). Arrow indicates sense of movement, more of a hobby that provides a (b) Structure-contour map of a layer above the upper flat. Map-view platform to get the ideas and tech- axial-surface angles of interest are: ri=angle between B and B', a*=angle between a nology out. The money is sec- vertical plane parallel to the ramp strike and axial surface A, and e=angle between a ondary, but it did allow me to buy vertical plane parallel to the ramp srnke and axial surface A', (c) Horizontal geologic (b) my own Mac," says Wilkerson. map of three layers above fault. Heavy lines indicate axial traces. His work has also opened doors one of them at Exxon Production Research in Houston, Texas, where he was a research intern over the summer of 1990. It's an experience that has enhanced his work here at Illinois, and one he strongly rec- ommends to other students. "It was my first chance to actu- ally apply structural techniques to (c) real-world problems, and that was exciting. I learned a great deal about interpreting both seismic and 13 GeoSciences is for alumni and mento, California, in 1948. largely about alumni. Although He was responsible for the man- some tidbits are supplied by faculty agement and execution of major in- and staff, most of the information vestigations of ground water of the for each issue is gathered primarily San Joaquin and Sacramento val- from the reply forms and corre- leys. spondence that alumni like you He served with the U.S.G.S. un- send to the department. til 1982, making contributions in a Please take the time to com- multitude of capacities. Beginning Alumni first as staff geologist, then plete and return the information in 1959, form you'll find at the end of each as assistant chief and later as chief News GeoSciences issue. Don't be shy in the Annual Review Office, he was just as you like to read about class- responsible for preparation of the mates and other alumni, they'd like USGS annual report and for the re- to know about you your news is im- view and approval of technical pa- portant to them and to us in the de- pers for publication in the Geologi- partment. And please send pic- cal Survey Research Series. His tures they will be returned. Also, time with the U.S.G.S. was punctu- don't hesitate to send along any ated by a stint with International press releases or formal an- Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, nouncements of your achieve- Austria. ments. Since leaving the U.S.G.S., he This section has been divided served as senior hydrologist with by decade; if you were affiliated with S.S. Papadopoulos and Associates the Department of Geology part of in Maryland, and is currently senior one decade through to the next, you consultant, hydrogeology, with will be listed according to the last Woodward-Clyde Consultants in degree granted. Within each Gaithersburg, Maryland. decade, items are listed in yearly sequence, not alphabetically. THIRTIES GSA Honors Davis Donald C. Barrett (B.A. 31) writes that he enjoys the GeoSciences Congratulations to George H. Davis newsletter, and that he has moved. (B.S. 42), who last October received Retired from the Honeywell Switch the Award for Distinguished Service Division since 1972, he and his wife in Hydrogeology from the Hydro- now reside in Lakeland, Tennessee. geology Division of the GSA. He describes receiving the award as "The most notable event in my FORTIES career." the GSA's The award, which by George H. Davis (B.S. 42) received on "history of description is based a the Award for Distinguished Service creditable service to the sustained, in Hydrogeology from the GSA. profession," certainly hydrogeologic (See article at front of this section.) befits a most distinguished career. assistant with Davis was a research Robert W. Zinser, who took his Illinois State Geological Survey the undergraduate degree here in 1948, graduate work from 1942-46. After and earned an M.S. from Kansas at and a stint with Eastman UCLA University, writes that he is enjoying Survey, Davis joined the Oil Wells his retirement from the Sun Oil U.S. Geological Survey in Sacra- 14 1 Company (now ORYX Energy) in George D. Hockman (B.S. 53) SIXTIES Kingwood, Texas, playing golf, went on to a career in education traveling, and just generally relax- after taking an M.S. in education Stephen M. Born (B.S. 61), Profes- ing. from Southern Illinois University in sor of Planning and Environmental 1961 and an M.S. in biology from Studies at the University of Wis- James D. Herold (B.S. 49), whose Kansas State in 1966. "In 1987," he consin-Madison, reports that he's career with Gulf Oil has taken him writes, "I retired from teaching ge- recently completed a stint as chair to locations including the United ology and biology at a high school ir of the water resources management Kingdom and Nigeria, continues to Littleton, Colorado. In 1989, program at that school. Born, who do consulting work since retiring moved into my passive solar re- earned an M.S. at the University of from Gulf at chief geologist, U.K. tirement home in Estes Park, Col- Oregon, another M.S. at Wisconsin- He also continues to travel. This orado. I still work as a summer Madison, and a Ph. D. at Madison past September, he paid a visit to ranger-naturalist in Rocky Moun- adds that "over the years I have be- fellow alum Darrell Helmuth in tain National Park." Sounds like a come addicted to fly fishing for Oregon he dropped us note about nice way to retire. trout." the visit along with Helmuth's ad- His son is now majoring in ge- dress to add to our mailing list. Marvin J. Andresen (B.S. 55, M.S. ology/environmental studies at 56) went south to earn his U.W. -Madison. Ph. D. at the University of Missouri FIFTIES in 1960. Eventually, his career took I. Edgar Odom (M.S. 58, Ph. D. 63), him north, far north, to the Univer- vice president, research and devel- sity of Alaska-Fairbanks. He and F.W. Cropp (M.S. 56, Ph. D. 58), opment with American Colloid now a professor at his wife, Pat, who was in the math the College of Company in Arlington Heights, 111., department there, are now both re- Wooster, Ohio, wrote to us en route writes that his recent work has fo- tired from the university. to last fall's GSA conference. He con- cused on bentonite deposits, and tinues to work as a self-employed 'Thanks for the Brian Skinner arti- the use of modified smectites for computer software developer cle," writes Cropp in reference to and fixation of toxic organic compounds. consultant, while she works, on a the profile that appeared in the last His youngest daughter, Alison, part-time basis, as director of the issue of GeoSciences. "I'll use it in is beginning her own career she honors program at the university. my physical geology class." Cropp graduated from the U. of I. in 1989 The couple became grandparents also expressed appreciation that in industrial engineering. for the first time this past October. the newsletter was printed on recy- cled /recylable paper, and hoped Daniel A. Textoris (Ph. D. 63), Pro- Raymond F. McAllister (M.S. 51) that "future issues will also be on re- fessor of Geology at the University is a professor of Ocean Engineering cycled paper." (Rest assured that of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, de- at Florida Atlantic University in will be the case, and you might be votes his teaching and research to Boca Raton, Florida. McAllister, interested to know that the entire areas of Triassic rift basin sedimen- who earned his Ph. D. at Texas A & University is making a point of us- tation and the determination of cy- M in 1958, now teaches oceanogra- ing recycled stock wherever possi- cles, Appalachian carbonates and phy, and is involved in counseling ble.-Ed.) siliciclastics, and Devonian vol- and recruiting. He scuba dives on a Cropp also noted that he has caniclastics of the eastern U.S. regular basis for pleasure and for introduced more than 1,350 people "I presented a Triassic lake cy- work "I've participated in a number to the Grand Canyon on 38 9-day cle paper at the 13th annual Inter- of underwater archaeological pro- trips. By the end of 1991, he adds, "I national Sedimentological Congress jects; Atocha, Margarita; the Last will have taken 43 trips with more in Nottingham, UK this past Au- Galleon, and Flight 19 (lost in the than 1,500 people. Noting that the gust. Linda came along, also, and 'Bermuda Triangle' in 1943-44), to trips are booked for 1991, he en- we both attended a field trip to courages name a few." He adds that he'd like interested Geology norther Scotland and the Orkney Is- to hear more from his classmates of alumni to write him at Environmen- lands. Had a ball with Richard Hay, '51. tal Experiences, P.O. Box 8114, who also attended. Our oldest son, Wooster, OH, 44691. Steven, is an environmental geolo- 15 investigating ground- and Midland, Texas, before the gist in Tampa. Our second son, Department, problems in the Columbia transfer to Cork. My wife, Gail, and James, is home from one year of water aquifers in I have five children, ages 10, 8, 8, 5, teaching English in South Korea. River Basalt Group Illinois is still home." Daughter An graduated from the north-central Oregon. and 6 months. wife, Lisa, who holds Dallas Institute of Art in Septem- "I met my in geology/art special William I. Ausich (B.S. 74) was re- ber, 1990, and will soon be working a degree from the State University of cently promoted to full professor in as a professional graphic artist. studies N.Y.) while we the Department of Geology and Also, added one Great Dane puppy New York (Fredonia, employed by a geologi- Mineralogy at Ohio State Univer- to the household of two cats and were both sity. attended Indiana one Dalmatian." cal/hydrological consulting firm in Ausich, who Tuscaloosa, Alabama. We have two University for his A.M. and Ph. D., received the 1990 Schuchert Award Eric, and Kevin, 1 . Regards Paul L. Plusquellec (M.S. 66, Ph. boys, 4, to Hilt Johnson, Ralph Langenheim from the Paleontological Society. D. 68), is vice president of opera- A.V Carozzi." tions for CNG Producing Co., a sub- and Thomas L. Chamberlin (M.S. 71, sidiary of Consolidated Natural Gas Ph. D. 75) is an assistant professor in Co. His work in Louisiana includes Jim McGovney (B.S. 73) went to the Department of Earth, Space, oversight of the drilling and com- the University of California-River- and General Science at the Univer- pletion of wells, the production of side for his M.S. and then the Uni- sity of Indianapolis. He's currently gas and oil, construction of offshore versity of Wisconsin-Madison for teaching earth science and meteo- platforms and facilities, field opera- his Ph. D. He's currently living in rology courses. tions and reservoir engineering. Houston and working for Exxon, eleven years in the oil concerned with exploration in "After industry, I went back to southwest Asia. and gas SEVENTIES school. I earned my Ph. D. before I was married, so my wife thought she James W. Mercer (M.S. 71, Ph. D. would never have to support a stu- 73) is president, GeoTrans, Inc., of Terry L. Carius (B.S. 70) has dent/husband. She went back to Sterling, Virginia; his focus is on worked for Exxon since earning his work, nonetheless, while I went back groundwater applications. M.S. in marine geology at Lehigh for teaching certificate through "Returned to the University of my University in 1973. He's currently the University of Northern Col- Illinois for the first time since my manager of computing and orado. What a trooper!" thesis defense in 1973 to participate telecommunications for Exxon's in a distinguished lecturer sympo- western production division in the Gerry Valenti (B.S. 77) worked for sium sponsored in part by the De- Los Angeles area. in Casper, Wyoming partment of Civil Engineering." Exxon Mineral in 1977-78. He earned his M.S. from Julie Kraut Carius (B.S. 71) and I the University of Wyoming in 1980, David K. Beach (B.S. 73) has vis- have been married for twenty years and went on to work for Chevron in ited some faraway ports of call since this year (1990). We've lived in Denver from 1980-88. his days at Illinois. In 1976 he took Houston and Kingsville, Texas, and He's currently senior geologist an M.S. in marine geology at the have been in the Los Angeles area hydrocarbon University of Puerto Rico, with Chevron doing since 1976. I'm hoping the Illini Mayaguez. Afterward, he received exploration of the highlands of make it to the Rose Bowl this year Guinea. "My family his Ph. D. in marine geology, car- Papua, New because that's the time I manage for 2-1 bonate sedimentology from the and I lived in New Guinea /2 see school friends who come out for recently relocated to University of Miami, Florida. years and the game! (Sorry to disappoint, I'm continuing He's now working as explo- Brisbane, Australia. Terry, but hope you continue to stay work using Landsat and radar ration manager for Marathon my in touch with your school friends imagery to plan field geology and Petroleum, Ireland, Ltd. through the newsletter .-Ed.) seismic program for structural "We've been living in Ireland analysis and prospect definition. since December, 1989. Began Michael J. Zwert (B.S. 73) went on 1 married Linda working with Marathon beginning "In 1977, for an M.S. at the University of Mayer, a Casper College nurse in 1979 in exploration in Casper, Delaware. He's currently working I met at field camp in Sheri- Wyoming. Made stops in Houston whom for the Oregon Water Resources 16- dan, Wyoming. We have a daugh- M. Scott Mansholt (B.S. 82) Valla (Jones) Earl (B.S. 84) has re- ter (Shannon, 7) and a son (Tim, 5). earned an M.S. at Southern Illinois ceived civil engineering degree Presently, we're all learning to University and took a second M.S. from Montana State University. speak Australian! in hydrogeology last year from the Her husband, David, a physician, P.S.-Did Hendy ever decide to put Colorado School of Mines. He's has recently set up a new practice in his mineralogy labs into a textbook? currently employed by Texaco, Cody, Wyoming. where he's environmental regula- "We're living in the boonies Dave Rich (M.S. 77, Ph. D. 79) is tory and compliance coordinator. about 12 miles from Cody, below president, Geotech Computer Sys- Carter Mountain." She and her tems. He reports that his geologic Jaymee E. (Soldevilla) Delaney husband have a son, Jonathan computing company keeps him (B.S. 83) is a first-year medical stu- David Earl, who will be a year old busy, and that the focus is shifting dent at the Oregon Health Sciences this May. to service and that his client base is University in Portland. shifting to larger petroleum com- "I've had one paper published Bryan G. Huff (B.S. 81, M.S. 84) did panies and environmental compa- and two abstracts; another paper is well site work after getting his M.S. nies. pending in ophthalmology. I have He joined the Illinois State Geologi- "(Sons) Mike and Jerry are now very fond memories of my two short cal Survey in 1986, and was pro- studying karate, and Mike is an or- years in Urbana, Illinois, and of moted to associate staff geologist. ange belt (I'm an instructor). My wandering the Bighorn mountains He tracks oil and gas development wife Toni was recently profiled on during field camp. My husband, in the state and provides technical German national T.V. as a typical Frank, who graduated from Illinois support to individuals, companies, American working mom. The cat is in 84, is finishing his residency in and state and federal agencies. still worthless." neurosurgery this coming July. We He's also authored or co-authored are proud parents of Kristin Ellen about a dozen publications on the Delaney, who will be three years old oil and gas industry in Illinois. EICHTIES this July." "More people should write, but I'm not one to talk this is my first re- Susan E. Collins (B.S. 83) is work- sponse!" Gary M. Fleeger (M.S. 80) is the ing for Shell Oil in Houston, computer systems coordinator with repro- cessing old Shell and purchased N. the Pennsylvania Department of Amy Stecyk (B.S. 81, M.S. 85) is seismic data to improve project Environmental Resources, Bureau sections for a manager with Versar, Inc., interpretation. of Oil and Natural Gas Manage- She was married last of Greeley, Colorado, investigating August to Randolph M. Collins, hazardous chemical contamina- ment. The bureau is the regulatory who is a project manager for Western tions. Stecyk, who a agency for the oil and gas industry was Fighting Atlas International; he works in R & Illini volleyball player during 1977- in Pennsylvania. He was married in D on their rotary coring tool. 78, was recently profiled in a 1988 and reports that he and his Cham- "I loved the last issue, but I was paign-Urbana News Gazette article. wife bought a home in the wilds of sad to hear that field camp has In it, she talked about the central Pennsylvania Ap- her work: moved from Sheridan, Wyoming, "I'm palachians. to a generalise I work in geology, Utah. I've lots of fond memories in communications using presenta- from camp." Martha H. (Hoskins) Schwartz tion skills, and in business in dollars and sense. It's very interesting (B.S. 82) is in charge of procuring and Keith Archbold (B.S. 84) is a lieu- it's very important. technical articles, journals, and tenant in the U.S. Navy. He cur- "It's the best books for Hazen Research, a pro- job I've ever had. rently is stationed in San It's cess metallurgy and hazardous Diego as significant in how it may impact an instructor pilot. He's also pursu- the water that residents waste treatment facility in Denver, drink, use, ing an M.B.A., with an international swim or fish from. Colorado. Husband Lee is a project focus, at the University of San manager for a hazardous waste She also speaks of enjoying the Diego Graduate School of Business. good things life, treatment consulting firm. They in including search- 'Time to dust off those old ing for fossils and crystals along have a daughter, Erin Leigh, who is French books; language Colorado five years old. proficiency mountainsides, skiing, goes out the window in a heartbeat." 17 playing soccer, tennis, and yes, vol- fice of sediment and wetland stud- leyball. ies. They live in Urbana. Bowden (B.S. 86) is working Jerry Faculty on his M.S. in Geology while em- Stephen P. Altaner, associate professor ployed at Patrick Engineering, Inc., David E. Anderson, professor in Glen Ellyn, Illinois. He works in Thomas F. Anderson, professor helping to the geology division, Jay D. Bass, associate professor conduct environmental and Craig M. Bethke, associate professor geotechnical investigations. Bow- Daniel B. Blake, professor den is engaged to be married this Chu-Yung Chen, assistant professor spring. Wang-Ping Chen, associate professor Timothy L. Clarke, assistant professor Richard L. Hay, Ralph E. Grim Professor Dae-Kyo Cheong (M.S. 87) did his Albert T. Hsui, associate professor doctoral work at the University of W. Hilton Johnson, professor South Carolina. His dissertation in- R. James Kirkpatrick, profcssor/dept. head corporated a knowledge-based ex- George deVries Klein, professor system to character- pert computer Joan Kluessendorf, research associate hydrocarbon fields. He's re- ize Ralph L. Langenheim, Jr., professor turned to South Korea to work at the C. John Mann, professor Korea Ocean Research and Devel- Stephen Marshak, associate professor opment Institute (KORDI) as a se- Joel W. Massman, associate professor nior research scientist. He's cur- Peter A. Michalove, assistant to dept. head S. Nieto, professor rently researching coastal, shallow Alberto Charles Norris, research associate and deep marine depositional set- Lois M Pausch, acting librarian tings around the Korean peninsula. Philip A. Sandberg, professor Yarnold (B.S. 87) is a Ph. John C. Adjunct/Emeritus Faculty D. candidate at the University of Albert V. Carozzi, emeritus Arizona-Tucson. He has worked Keros Cartwright, adjunct/lSGS with BP America in Anchorage, Carleton A. Chapman, emeritus Alaska; with Chevron U.S.A. in Den- J. James Eidel, adjunct/ISGS Geological ver, and with the U.S. Leon R. Follmer, adjunct/ISGS Survey in Menlo Park, California. Donald L. Graf, emeritus "I'm in the middle of field work, Arthur F. Hagncr, emeritus but thought I'd bring you up to date. Donald M. Henderson, emeritus I just returned from a workshop in Morris W. Leighton, adjunct/ISGS Phillips, (with plant biology) the Soviet Union where I gave a T.L. professor adjunct/professor talk. That may result in some joint Robert Reynolds, emeritus monitoring between me and some Harold W. Scott, American colleagues and Soviet Staff scientist of a synthetic catastrophic Non-Academic staff clerk rock avalanche that will be trig- Jean E. Daly, David Ehrensperger, library clerk II gered in the U.S.S.R. in 1997. Best Murle Edwards, clerk regards to all" Barbara Elmore, transcribing secretary Jessie Knox, cartographer Keefer (B.S. 85) and Laura Don Eddie Lane, electronics engineering assistant (B.S. 90) both work Harbison-Keefer Patricia Lane, administrative secretary at the Illinois State Geological Sur- Gordon L. Madise, system administrator vey. Don works in the groundwater Marsha Powell, account technician I protection section, and is working Diana L. Walter, library technical assistant II on his M.S. Laura works in the of- 18' Please take a few moments to let us and your classmates know what you 've been doing: promotions, publications, election to office, marriages, parenthood, moving, awards. We'd all like to hear from you! Name _ Response date Home Address Office Address Home Phone Office Phone Degrees from Illinois (with year) Degrees from other universities Present employer and brief job description Other news you would like to share Your comments on the alumni newsletter Place Stamp Here Editor, GeoSciences Department of Geology University of Illinois 245 Natural History Building 1301 W. Green Street Urbana, IL 61801-2999 Department of Geology 245 Natural History Building 1301 W. Green Street University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Department of Geology Alumni Newsletter Fall '91 RAB P TUC P TAB P KTG EIL AFI TAB HNR NDI 60 mm MUN< 60s I V E R SITY OF ILLINOIS i GeoSciences Alumni Newsletter FALL 1991 Message from the Department Head 2 GeoNews 3 Issues: Soviet mineralogist 7 Arnold S. Marfunin visits UIUC Profiles: Tom Anderson 8 Mary Ann Glennon Alumni News 12 Reply Form 15 Cover Illustration: Result of waveform inversion for the earthquake of Jan. 1, 1969 which is located in the southern portion of the Kuril-Kamchatka arc. In this region, earthquakes show of down-dip extension which persists to an unusually large depth of 450 km. Examples of P-wavetrains and the P-wave radiation pattern are shown. GeoSciaices is the Alumni newsletter for the Department of Geology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. It is published in September and February of each year. Department Head: Staff: R. James Kirkpatrick;; Asst to the Head: Peter A. Michalove; Editor: Vanessa Faurie; Designer: Jessie Knox; Admin. Secretary: Patricia Lane. Message from the Department Head what to write in this letter, it occurred to me that this past year was As I sat down last night to think about liked. Further reflection, however, made certainly an interesting one—more interesting than we would have have increased, significant new research programs me realize that it hasn't been all that bad. Enrollments place and remodeling of the Natural are underway, our new undergraduate and graduate programs are in History Building continues. it could have been much worse. The big news was the fire last February. Despite the significant damage, of Natural History Most importantly, the irreplaceable collections of the Geology Library and the Museum floors, and most of the damage was were not damaged. The fire itself was confined to the fourth and fifth of water through the caused by water. Apparently, the firefighters pumped more than two million gallons building. About 15 percent of our space was significantly damaged. affected. They had The seismology group (Wang-Ping Chen, Tim Clarke and their students) were most under the fire. They lost several computers just moved into remodeled offices and labs and were directly lost any and many books, maps and other paper forms of data. Fortunately, none of the students the computer tapes. We found the group irretrievable data, although it was touch-and-go with some of some temporary space in the Beckman Institute; they may not want to come back. facility were damaged enough to force In addition, four faculty offices and the Departmental cartography lab also knocked out of people to move out temporarily. Tom Anderson's mass spectrometer was damaged commission. The University has been very good about repairing the building and replacing the be equipment and personal belongings. Most of the damaged rooms are now repaired, and we expect to fully operational by early fall. will have funds to continue the As the fire damage was being repaired, we received word that we developing computational remodeling of the Natural History Building. Our emphasis this year is on geophysics lab for Albert Hsui's research facilities. The four major labs to be renovated are a computational upper-level and program: two computer instruction labs, one for the introductory courses and the other for graduate courses; and the general Departmental computer lab. this Department is taking a strong Computer-aided instruction is developing rapidly at the U. of I., and Sandberg and Albert Hsui have leadership role in that effort. As described in an article in this issue, Philip will buy will be the core of the received grants for new instructional computers. The ten computers Philip instructional lab for the general education courses. expect to have our Enrollment in our general education courses continues to increase rapidly. We only does this increased laboratory instructional facilities for these classes nearly saturated this fall. Not majors in earth enrollment enhance our reputation at the University at a time of decreased numbers of education concerning resource and science nationwide, but it increases the number of citizens with some object for rational environmental issues, how the earth works and the knowledge that the earth is an senior level courses, the number of scientific study. Based on preliminary enrollments for the junior and what many of us majors appears to be increasing slightly. None-the-less, the numbers are far below picture improves. remember. I do not see large increases until the employment general has also seen Although the financial status of the University and the state of higher education in to universities in other states. We have a flat better days, the U. of I. did relatively well this year compared costs of such items as library budget, meaning a decrease in funds for instruction because of the increased worse. In many ways, the materials and utilities. Many other states, such as New York, have it much older people returning to situation in higher education is similar to the late 1940s and early 1950s with many them. Many people, often with college. Unfortunately, there is no program similar to the GI Bill to help country depends on our having young children, are trying to finance college on their own. The future of this state legislature and administration, whatever a highly educated population. I hope that you will urge your to educatiuon and especially to financial state you live in, to increase the fraction of the state budget going aid. The United States cannot afford not to do it. ,\A/«- Fire causes more than another fireman was treated for $2 million in damage exhaustion. Geophysicists Wang-Ping Chen and Tim Clarke lost sensitive computer JYlost of the cleanup and repair equipment and seismological data work in the Natural History from smoke and Building has been completed water damage and collapsed ceilings. Seven offices since a February 26 fire caused and two labs were no longer useable, more than two million dollars in and some GeoNews faculty members and graduate damage, including the loss of students computer equipment and other were temporarily Department of Geology property relocated. Tom Anderson's lab had It took firefighters from Urbana, as a result of smoke and water a hole in the ceiling, and before Champaign and the University damage. repairs could be made, a heavy three hours to get the blaze rain caused A welder's torch is believed to some flooding. His lab, under control because it was however, was still have been the cause of the fire, operable. located in the rafters of the old, which was generally isolated on the Damage to department property dry structure and, therefore, fourth floor of the building's and costs for relocating staff difficult to get at. northeast side where construction totaled about $110,000. The work was going on in the School of Museum of Natural History Life Sciences. received only minimal damages. And the When the alarm sounded during well-known bison encased afternoon classes, the building was in glass had to be blow-dried and quickly evacuated. Some people combed. took what materials they could The building, which dates back to gather from the building, including 1892 and is on the National Register some caged hamsters belonging to of Historic Places, was biologists in the School of Life closed for a little more than a day, except the north Sciences. It took firefighters from end remained Urbana, Champaign and the closed off for several days after that. University three hours to get the Officials said the building would be fully repaired blaze under control because it was and located in the rafters of the old, dry operational and staff members back in structure and, therefore, "difficult to their offices by the time get at. Part of a ceiling collapsed students returned to campus in and slightly injured two firemen; this fall. Firefighters battle the fire from the roof of the Natural History Building. (Photo courtesy Illinois Alumni News) Part of the roof collapsed in Tim Clarke's Illinois Alumni News) A Fireman uses an axe to gain access to the fire's source. (Photo courtesy new office extensive amount of computer equipment was lost. Debris was scattered throughout Clarke's office. An — Altaner named measurements can be used to University Scholar delineate tectonic processes taking place in remote areas. Chaos is used to mode non-linear fracture When Professor Steve Altaner dynamics such that earthquake (Ph.D. 85) found out he was occurrence can be studied. named a 1991 University Scholar, it One of the present objectives of came as a complete surprise. the Department of Geology is to "I didn't expect to receive the provide students with more award at all," he said. "But it was quantitative training so they will be better very much appreciated. I wasn't prepared to tackle modern sure they had the right name." geological problems. The U. of I. University Scholars To help achieve this goal, Albert award honors faculty members Hsui, professor of geophysics, has who've made notable contributions received a "NeXT at Illinois" grant to research and teaching. for the purchase of $24,000-worth of My strong feeling is that the two NeXT computer equipment to are intertwined in job," develop hands-on, practical my Altaner Steve Altaner said. "I can think of several exercises. enable Altaner to extend his projects that have come about Unlike the Macintosh computers, research into areas he's not able from the classroom. to NeXT computers can handle the support with grants, such as "Graduate students are a large amount of data and foreign travel and some additional tremendous resource," he added. computations (such as geographic, equipment. "My goal is to get students to think, topographic, gravity and other In the fall, he will be on speak and write at a much higher geophysical data) needed to make sabbatical to continue his research level. They're initially hesitant to the exercises meaningful. With and to explore some new projects. say much to criticize a paper, but the aid of a work station such as Altaner will join Richard Hay in they soon start thinking and NeXTcube, students can gain southwest Colorado to look at questioning." greater appreciation of the volcanic sediment in tuffs (layers Altaner teaches graduate courses interaction between quantitative of rock made up of fine-grain in his areas of research interest analysis and realistic geological volcanic debris). Two drill holes are mineralogy, petrology and behavior. planned for that location as part of geochemistry of clay minerals. He Hsui will develop three exercises the Continental Scientific Drilling examines the crystal structure of to demonstrate how surface Program. The sedimentary basin is clay minerals and strives to geophysical measurements next to a large silver deposit, and determine the origin, occurrence change as subsurface geology Altaner will examine the core's and significance of clay minerals in varies: seismograms and mineralogy and geochemistry. their natural environment. earthquake studies; gravity and "Clay minerals tell different forward/inverse problems; and stories in different settings," stresses and coordinate Altaner said. "They can determine transformation. something about deeper Hsui develops hands-on problems. The chemical exercises with NeXT conditions, temperature, time and computer award pressure that the minerals formed under can reveal the geological history of an area. From small pieces of coal, we can draw Louring the past two decades, conclusions about the plate geology has moved from a tectonics of an area." descriptive science to a more Altaner's studies currently range quantitative discipline. Many of from coal in east Pennsylvania to the modern concepts in physics modern lake deposits in central find applications in geology. Oregon to rocks from a modern For example, fractal analysis is geothermal west of Naples, Italy. used to study surface topographic The monetary portion of the structure of different tectonic University Scholars award will provinces so that space-based Albert Hsui Computer lab to open made use of a number of lanuary 1991 geological programs in Honn Kao (Earthquakes Along the for beginning geology demonstration," Sandberg said. Ryukyu-Kyushu Arc Strain students "We have acquired and developed Segmentation, Lateral profiency with a number of Compression and the Thermo- graphics, animation and 3-D Mechanical State of the Plate Departmental computer- A modeling programs and produced Interface) facility made possible instruction some animations using them." Core will by a recent Apple Award With the appropriate software, May 1991 learning provide a significant new students can even leave responses Douglas Joseph Kelly (Collection opportunity for students in the to exercises via computers in the and Interpretation of Pneumatic geology courses. introductory laboratory and can receive Slug Test Data in a Highly Professor Philip Sandberg feedback from their teaching Permeable Aquifer) received the award, which is jointly assistant. In earlier years, such sponsored by the Educational material was presented as Doctoral Technologies Board and Apple overheads or slides, and was October 1990 Computer, to purchase ten difficult or impractical to have computers Brian L. Phillips (Investigation of instructional Mac Ilsi student review. them accessible for Structural Phase Transitions in to supply the lab. "Instead of spoon-feeding the Minerals and Analogue Systems In addition to enhancing student answer, we can ask questions and by High-Temperature Magic- understanding of processes and combine graphics and texts that Angle-Spinning Nuclear Magnetic spatial relationships in geology, the expand," Sandberg said. Resonance Spectroscopy) lab will provide a means for "We need to be ready to take students to review lecture material, pedagogical advantage of all the lanuary 1991 including graphic images shown in advances, and the laboratory will Robert Hal Lander (White River class. Geology 100 (Planet Earth) make that possible." Group Diagenesis) and 143 (History of Life) will make use of the lab beginning in the fall May 1991 semester. Most of the other Thomas F. Corbet Jr. (Effects of general education courses will Erosion on Pore Pressure and begin to use it within the next two GRANTED DEGREES Groundwater Flow in the Western semesters. Canada Sedimentary Basin) Through the efforts of Sandberg and colleague Stephen Marshak, Bachelor of Science Hans William Papenguth Geology 100 and 143 are already August 1990 (Experimental Diagenesis of Lime heavily involved in computer- Jeff Bernstsen Mud) aided instruction, have recently J. Richard Daniel Kendrick Jr. made dramatic increases in Brian Keith Soltermann enrollment and have materials ready to use in the new laboratory. HONORS AND January 1991 Since geology deals with three- AWARDS Joseph Patrick Fagan Jr. dimensional distribution of Theresa Ann Henry features ranging from the large- Outstanding Teaching Scott Duane Lockert scale layering within the earth to Assistant Award the atomic scale structure of Eric Holdener, May 1991 minerals, such relationships can Kim Weborg-Benson Chad Michael Dobrei be modeled by means of computer Richard Dennis Poskin graphics. For example, the and Ada B. Leighton Stephanie Marie Shakofsky Morris W. HyperCard core module on plate Award tectonics presently being Grimley, Honn Kao Science David developed by Sandberg will form Master of expansion which August 1990 the basis for an Harold Scott Scholarship modules on some of James Alan Cremeens (Uplift and will include John Werner the diverse ways in which plate Strike-Slip Faulting in Response to Basin Subsidence: The Rough tectonic mechanisms control the Chevron Undergraduate nature of earth processes. Creek Fault System of Western Scholarship "Over the past few years, we have Kentucky and Southeastern Scott Lockert, Illinois) Anahita Tikku Soviet mineralogist prestigious Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Marfunin has also visits UIUC worked extensively in the field of applied mineralogy, particularly in Ixenowned Soviet mineralogist regard to the untapped potential uses for Arnold S. Marfunin spent most of diamonds. his two-month visit to the United States last May and June in the U. Issues: of I. Department of Geology at his Marfunin has also own request. worked extensively in The chairman of the mineralogy the field of applied department at Moscow University mineralogy, particularly Arnold S. Marfunin was in Urbana to exchange knowledge and ideas with UI in regard to the scholars and to collaborate on an untapped potential uses investigation of the structure of "I appreciate the scientific and for diamonds. ... potassium feldspars before going human atmosphere here in the on to brief visits at the department," he said of Urbana- University of Chicago, the California Champaign. "I like the atmosphere Institute of The honored Soviet guest was of university towns. New York and Technology and UCLA. Marfunin Chicago are for more general also took advantage of the time enthusiastic about the value and impressions. But in Urbana, I've away from his usual duties in quality of his UI visit, which was met nice people and specialists to Moscow to work on his ambitious sponsored by the Midwest work with." editing project: a four-volume work Universities Consortium for entitled. Higher Mineralogy. International Activities. "I need just this intense work in the department here to have an enjoyable stay," he said. Marfunin is credited with charting a new course in mineralogy by involving the concepts and techniques of solidstate physics. ... You're invited "I appreciate the scientific and Take note. The human atmosphere here in the Department of Geology is department," he said of Urbana- hosting an alumni Champaign. "I like the atmosphere reception at the annual of university towns. New York and meeting of the Geological Chicago are for more general Society of America at 7 impressions. But in Urbana, I've p.m., October 21, in the met nice people and specialists to Torrance Room of the San work with." Diego Marriott. Jim Although he studied mining Kirkpatrick and several engineering initially, Marfunin is other faculty members will credited with charting a new be on hand to visit with course in mineralogy by involving alumni. the concepts and techniques of solid-state physics. He is the author of the landmark textbook familiar to many geology alumni, Physics of Minerals, as well as Spectroscopy, Luminescences and Radiation Centers in Minerals. A corresponding member of the " Anderson returns participates with others in Geochemistry of Sediments and to teaching full time Natural Waters and Physical Geochemistry, along with a rotation of teaching Geology 101. After taking time out to Anderson is also the resident administrative side experience the expert in oceanography at the 300- academe, Professor Tom of to 100-foot level. "It has its own in the Anderson was back allure," Anderson says of the field. classroom this past year on a full- Profile "Kind of like astronomy." time basis. Anderson's research focuses on Anderson split his In 1987, how the isotopes of light elements professional time to participate in Thomas F. Anderson are distributed in the Earth, how the College of Liberal Arts & waters evolve and the temperature administration as Sciences that minerals precipitate from associate dean and secretary of the "Teaching is an opportunity water, as well as the degradation of faculty. He made the move to bring others to understand organic matter. because he believed the point of the work you do," he says. The interest in such matters view of someone from the sciences who "It's formalized in courses evolved from a young boy was lacking in college affairs. the world operated to take stock, explore wondered how at the University for Having been looked at rocks and tried to things. But undergraduates and almost twenty years, Anderson figure out how they got there. But have to be exposed to a knew the campus operated. how interest in the actual profession variety of things." job also provided a new The didn't develop until Anderson was personal challenge. in college and saw courses offered in geology. "It's like combining an avocation with a vocation. "I was intrigued by it right away," he says. "It's like combining an avocation with a vocation." The time he spent at the Lamont- Doherty Geological Observatory from 1961-67 was particularly interesting to Anderson because "many guiding principles were being turned around." As continuous geological data was being analyzed, new interpretations about plate tectonics and continental drift were hotly debated. "I was not more than an Although he enjoyed the observer," Anderson says, "but I experience, learned a lot and had a front -row seat." interacted with people from other In 1966, a former instructor from disciplines, Anderson missed the Columbia was named head of the involvement with students on a department at the U. of I. And full-time basis and felt it was time after a year of post -doctoral work at to come back. the University of Chicago, Given his geochemistry Anderson then joined the background, he teaches Stable department in 1968. He says the Isotope Geochemistry and campus did not have many attractions then, and he didn't "You hope to have experiences study an organic-rich shale from anticipate staying at the U. of I. for like those," he says, then laughs. "It England, and several projects in long. makes a lot of frustrations the Illinois Basin, analyzing water- But nor did it interest him to go worthwhile." rock interactions, basin fluids, and into the oil business. Anderson He describes his teaching style in rock and sediment. likes the intellectual challenge of two ways. First, he makes sure he working with students. He can't has organized the important imagine himself ever not teaching. material to cover and question in the class. But then he also strives to exude enthusiasm for the subject, "not just to entertain," he says, "but to get them enthused." But in courses such as 101, that's not always easy. "I was not more than an observer, "Anderson says, "but I had a front- row seat." "In teaching 101, direct communication is lacking," 'Teaching is an opportunity to Anderson says. "You can't use bring others to understand the tactics of give-and-take between work you do," he says. "It's students and instructors. It's also formalized in courses to take stock, hard to get (the students) to ask explore things. But questions." undergraduates have to be That ability to communicate is Along with his research and exposed to a variety of things." one of the reasons why he enjoys teaching, Anderson finds some Perhaps one of the more the research work he conducts with time to travel with his wife and rewarding aspects of his teaching colleagues and graduate students. work in his garden. He also likes to is when students who may not have And now that he's back in the cook various foods that are done so well in his class come back department full time, Anderson indigenous to the countries and and tell him that they really plans to focus his research efforts cultures he has visited over the appreciated a course. on a joint, international effort to years. Perhaps one of the more rewarding aspects of his teaching is when students who may not have done so well in his class come back and tell him that they really appreciated a course. And during that time, as it is today, the man who once thought his stay at the U. of I. would be short still calls Urbana home. day, Glennon seemed settled in puts in her Glennon and at ease wearing shorts and a time on underground Banana Republic T-shirt. But the is anything research nature of her research but easy-going. It takes some time and thought to explain just what it is she does so that anyone who's not a seismologist can understand. "I was interested in trying to put Even her family is still kind of in some constraints on the plate Profile the dark. tectonics, and I think seismology is "Generally, my family knows that a good way to do that, a I work with earthquakes," Glennon quantitative way," says Mary Ann Mary Ann Glennon says. 'That's as far as it goes. It's Glennon. "When I came back to kind of funny." school— I was working several years—I found that in order to do "Generally, my family knows the work that I really wanted to do that I work with earthquakes," "When I started, the and get the responsibilities, the That's as far Glennon says. Ph.D. was important." concepts of physics and as it goes. It's kind of funny." And that's how Glennon found math were not obvious herself at the U. of I. three years to me. It took a lot of ago to begin work on a Ph.D. in work to understand. It's geology with a specialization in earthquake seismology. She has a intriguing." bachelor's in geophysics from Boston College and a master's from Michigan Technical Glennon studies deep-focus University. earthquakes in the Her work at the U. of I. is with Kuril/Kamchatka north of Japan. Professor Wang-Ping Chen. After She gathers data from a February fire in the Natural seismograms recorded from History Building caused some stations throughout the world that offices to be damaged, Glennon show patterns of earth movement. was displaced and took up Earhtquakes are characterized by temporary residency at the the seismic radiation they emit in Beckman Institute. all directions. The earthquakes In her office there one summer Glennon studies are deeper than 10 doesn't just all click in your head one day. "It presented a real challenge," Glennon says. "When I started, the concepts of physics and math were not obvious to me. It took a lot of work to understand. It's intriguing." One aspect of her field that is immediately obvious is that there are few women. But fortunately for Glennon, that aspect has never been an issue, much less a disadvantage. "It's been that way since I started my undergraduate more than ten years ago now," she says. 'There are a lot of women in this Perhaps when the Ph.D. is in department, graduate students. hand, about two years from now, And in a way it's different than my she'll have more time for other undergraduate and master's where interests. She'd eventually like to there were maybe two. But as a do research at a national two hundred kilometers, and they student, I don't think there's ever laboratory or for the U.S. show unusual patterns in the strain been any problem." Geological Survey. The obvious of the slab. As much as Glennon works, she place for her to go as a At this point in her study, she is might not even notice if there were seismologist is California, but to be finishing her first paper and a problem. Living and breathing closer to family, she'd like to be in gathering data for the last leg of one's work while earning a Ph.D. is the Midwest or the East. the project. Although the what most graduate students do, in In the meantime, she's putting in earthquake activity she's her mind. The work paid off though a lot of hours. interested in is north of Japan, she when Glennon was named the 1990 "It comes with the territory," she studies them in Urbana. The data Outstanding Woman Graduate says. "But I try to have some time printouts are gathered from the Student. during the week away from here." Lamont-Doherty Geological Institute in Palisades, New York. "It's less than glamorous work," A northwest-southeast cross section (without vertical exaggeration ) of the northern end of the she says, "sitting in front of a Kuril-Kamchatka arc. The locations (small symbols) and directions of rupture propagation (large symbols) of earthquakes microfiche reader-printer for are plotted. Notice that event Z is located west of the well- defined Wadati-Benioff zone and indicates that a portion of the subducted hours." slab is deflected or detached at the base of the upper mantle. The original hypothesis of wholesale slab penetration She estimates that she spent one into the lower mantle Jordon ,1977] was based on earthquakes in this region. month of solid research there, but not at one stretch. "You can't do it," she says and laughs. The rest of NW SE her work is conducted on computer. 'The technique of putting the data into the computer is not very difficult. You digitize the seismograms and then you do some calculations to get it in a form the computer can read. That part is very routine. But in order to correctly describe the wave forms around the globe, that's more ID* 19* difficult." Seismology is not an easy field to Sft *ai_ chose. Learning it, understanding it is an evolutionary process. It Northern Kuril-Kamchatka - 11 GeoSciences is for alumni and at the 55th Departmental Honor largely about alumni. Please take Awards Convocation May 8 in the time to complete and return Washington, D.C. Wolff lives in the information form you will find Bluemont, Virginia. at the end of each issue. Just as you like to read about classmates and After retiring from the U.S. other alumni, they'd like to know Geological Survey in September more about you. Your news is 1990, William E. Wilson (Ph.D. important to them and to us in the 63) has moved to Switzerland Alumni Department. Send a recent photo where he will be working on a Swiss for along, too, but let us know if you nuclear waste disposal program one to two years. News want it returned. The following notes are divided by decade. If you were affiliated Known for his expertise on with the Department part of one international land and water decade through to the next, you management issues, Mohamed will be listed according to the last T. El-Ashry (M.S. 63, Ph.D. 66) was degree granted. Within each named director of the World decade, items are listed in yearly Bank's Environment Department. sequence, not alphabetically. He previously was senior vice president of the World Resources Institute, an independent policy FACULTY research center in Washington, D.C. El-Ashry also serves as senior The Distinguished Member Award environmental adviser to the of the Clay Minerals Society (CMS) United Nations Development was made posthumously to Program and special adviser to the Professor John Hower at the secretary-general of the 1992 society's annual meeting in "Earth Summit," the U.N. Columbia, Missouri, last October. Conference on Environment and Hower was head of the U1UC Development. Department of Geology from 1978 until his death in 1983. He was Dave Ripley (B.S. 65, UIC M.S. 72) president of the CMS in 1976 and is the hydrologist manager for the was associate editor of Clays and North Dakota State Water Clay Minerals for five years. Commission in Bismarck where he manages the state groundwater resources. Ripley has been active iai:i«i:H in various Bismarck and North Dakota soccer organizations as an Although he retired from his full- organizer, coach and referee. He's time duties at Syracuse also involved with the creation of a geology department in University's new ninety-five-acre multi-use 1989, Professor Emeritus Ernest recreational park in Bismarck. H. Muller (M.S. 49, Ph.D. 52) and continues to conduct research SEVENTIES teaches an occasional course. His research focuses on the Bering Ph.D. 70) is Glacier in Alaska and on New York Ron Stieglitz (M.S. 67, graduate studies glacial geology. He lives in associate dean of of Syracuse, New York. and research in the Department Geology at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. ggjgggl Tom Chamberlin (M.S. 71, Ph.D. An Honor Award was presented to 75) is in the Department of Earth, Wolff (M.S. 60, Ph.D. Roger G. Space and General Sciences at the of the interior 61) by the secretary University of Indianapolis. 12 Tom Perkins (B.S. 72), his wife, Washington, D.C., that promotes Award which will fund travel to Maxine, and their two boys are still progressive public policies such as Argentina and Brazil later this living in Jakarta, Indonesia. an energy-efficient economy, year. He will conduct research at Perkins was involved in a recent access to health care and several institutions during his substantial gas discovery in Iryan reproductive rights. three-month stay in South Jara. Larson received master's a America. Leary will examine degree in 1977 from the University collections of fossil plants, do field Elisabeth Brouwers (B.S. 72, M.S. of Wisconsin-Madison. work and discuss paleobotanical 77) works for the U.S. Geological research with colleagues. He will Survey in Denver, Colorado. She Christine (Hettlinger) Griffith also examine early- and pre- conducts research on Tertiary (B.S. 75) is currently involved in Glossopteris floras of Brazil and rocks of the Pacific Basin, using exploration in California for Shell Argentina, including possible ostiacodes to reconstruct Oil Company. She also has worked Stephanian Euramerican paleogeography, on projects in Oklahoma, west elements. paleoenvironments and Texas and the Gulf Coast for Shell. Leary has been at the Illinois biostratigraphic zonations. Her Griffith has two sons, Matther (7) State Museum since 1962. His current field efforts have been in and Michael (5). research deals with Early Alaska, Pakistan and Abu Dhabi, She received an M.S. from the Pennsylvanian non-swamp examing Pliocene and Paleocene- University of Wisconsin-Madison ("upland") floras, paleoecology, Eocene rocks. in 1977. paleogeography and evolution of Brouwers received a Ph.D. in 1985 upland taxa such as Lesleya and from the University of Colorado. Mark Reinbold (M.S. 77) is with Megalopteris. Last year, Leary's the Colorado Geological Survey, paper stating that Lesleya is the Still writing and editing on a free- working on various environmental earliest known ancestor of cycads, lance/contract basis, Susan projects. His second child, Sarah, is a group of plants living in the (Wunder) Wintsch (M.S. 74) of 21 months old; and son Adam is 4 tropics today, was published in Bloomington, Indiana, recently has 1/2 Science. written about solar neutrinos for His research also deals with the National Science Foundation's Steve Tissue (M.S. 77) is the broader, more theoretical aspects Mosaic Magazine and a special division geologist for Chevron in of paleobotany. report on dolphins for World Book Lafayette, Louisiana, as well as a Encyclopedia's Science Year. She is Cub Scout den leader. Alice Benkovich-Shilhanek (B.S. also doing some editing for the 81) and her husband, Jay, have a Congressional Office of Jay Scheevel (B.S. 79) and his girl, Kelly Marie, who was born July Technology Assessment. Wintsch wife, Mary Beth, live in Livermore, 25, 1990. She was seven pounds, received an M.A. in journalism California. Scheevel is engaged in three ounces and twenty inches from Indiana University in 1977. an exploration venture off the long. Benkovich-Shilhanek is still "I've gotten back into dairy shore of Namibia. working on her thesis but has farming!" she writes. "It began taken a leave of absence from a gradually, milking occasionally at a EIGHTIES geotechnical job. local dairy farm. Now I milk five to six times a week and have eight Sandra (Sopkin) Haupt (B.S. 80) Becky (Birch) Mudge (B.S. 81) growing heifers. is an energy policy analyst for had a girl, Rosemary, in May. She "Son Timmy (5 years old) loves Central Vermont Public Service also enjoyed a visit with Julie the eighty-acre 'playground.'" Company, the state's largest utility. Wulff (B.S. 82, UIC M.S. 86) in She also has an M.S. in geophysics New Zealand after the Brachiopod Bill Rice (M.S. 74) is president of from Penn State and an M.S.L. in Symposium in Dunedin last the school board in Kingsford, environmental law from Vermont January. Becky will be moving Michigan. He remains with Law School. from Sydney to Melbourne, Wisconsin Electric in its On May 16, Haupt gave birth to Australia. hydroelectric power enterprise in Evan Samuel. "Evan is the Hebrew Iron Mountain, Michigan. word for rock," she notes. Steven L. Forman (B.S. 81) received his Ph.D. in geology from David W. Larson (B.S. 75) works Curator of geology (paleobotany) the University of Colorado-Boulder with the Communications at the Illinois State Museum in 1986. He is now on the faculty at Consortium, a public-interest Richard L. Leary (Ph.D. 80) Ohio State University, pursuing his media relations company in received a Fulbright Research research and teaching interests in 13 Former staff member and now and committee of the National quaternary geology president of Cornell University in Association of Professional geomorphology. Forman went to Frank Rhodes Communicators. Ithaca, New York, Arctic this summer to Environmental the Soviet (Hon. 86) delivered the 1991 Franz all scientists unravel the glacial history on "I firmly believe that commencement address at the Josef Land. He says he hopes to should learn to communicate University of Michigan. work with Hilt Johnson in the better with the press and the future on the loess stratigraphy in general public by using simpler (B.S. 87) Edward J. Kandl the Midwest. language (i.e. drop the buzzwords) received an M.S. in geology last He also reports that wife Judy and real-life examples," she says. from Southern Illinois 3- for his year (Schneider) (B.U.P. 81) and "I commend Dr. Sandberg University. He is now assistant year-old son Jacob have made the efforts to introduce computers to hydrologist and water quality transition from Colorado to Ohio. basic geology courses: thank you specialist for the Yakima Indian for caring about educating the Nation's Water Resources Grant Olson (B.S. 81, B.S. 85, layperson." Planning Program in Toppenish D.V.M. 87) of Sturgeon Bay, In 1987, she married filmmaker Creek Basin on the Yakima Indian Wisconsin, is a small-animal and writer Scott Bresler. The Reservation, including balance of veterinarian at Door Animal couple live in a coach house in salts and sedimentation and Hospital treating dogs, cats, birds, Chicago with two cats and a dog. erosion. He also assists in the bunnies and exotics. "No Close friends and field campers ferrets, groundwater program. more cows, horses, anticlines, George and Kari (Bechtel) Kandl hopes to get the funding to synclines and thumper trucks," he Graettinger (B.S. 84, M.S. 89) live present some of the findings of the nearby. says. Water Resources Program at the He also offers this invitation: "Like other graduates, we have Geological Society of America "Want to go sailing? Meet me in sweet memories of Sheridan, (GSA) meeting in San Diego, Sturgeon Bay. Beautiful limestone Wyoming," Bresler says. "Some of California. outcrops, glacial landscapes, my favorites—wandering over Last year was hectic, Kandl erratics along the way!" green hills, fighting thomy reports. He worked for the Bureau and traversing rivers brambles Vale, our of Land Management in Sharon Geil (B.S. 82, A.B. 82) is an completely lost; taking cover in Oregon, and then was laid off. He environmental protection red Suburban to dodge a cattle finished his master's thesis and specialist for HQ/Military Airlift drive; stomping divots at a polo took a job with the U.S. Forest Command at Scott Air Force Base match; scrambling up a muddy Service at Mount Hood National in Illinois. river bank to come face-to-face Forest. He then graduated from with a rancher, his rifle and a SIU and attended GSA in Dallas, Kathleen Marsaglia (B.S. 79, slobbering Saint Bernard; and Then he was laid off from in Texas. M.S. 82) is an assistant professor surfing down Mount Thermopolis. the forest service ("more budget ranch life, the geological sciences I learned as much about woes") and finally took a job with department at the University of wildlife (mad cows and the Yakima Indians. "Hope this Texas-El Paso. She received a rattlesnakes and bears, oh my!) one lasts," he says. Ph.D. from UCLA, participated on and life in the wild as I did about the ODP cruise to Izu-Bonin ARC rocks." and started teaching "on the border" all in 1989. She married Peter Leffler (B.S. 86) is a Bob Merrilees in 1988. hydrologist for the environmental "I love the weather and the consulting firm of J.V. Lowney & friendly people in the Southwest," Associates in Palo Alto, California, she says. "But I miss the ocean!" where he performs soil and groundwater quality investigations. Carolyn (Arden) Bresler (B.S. He received an M.S. in University 83) has been the publicity and hydrogeology from the publications coordinator for The of Nevada-Reno in 1989. Leffler Chicago Academy of Sciences for was married in Malaysia last June, to the last two years. She's also a free- and then the couple returned lance writer and editor and is a the United States to make their former assistant editor for Outside home. magazine. 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L161—O-1096 GEOLOGY L/BRARY GeoSciences Alumni Newsletter SPRING 1992 Message from the Department Head GeoNews: Hilton Johnson named associate head of Department Dan Blake, new head of Museum of Natural History Lois Pausch, new Geology librarian Sharon Mosher wins Outstanding Educator Award New remodelling project Student awards Profiles: Morris Leighton-alumni Steve Altaner-faculty Eric Holdener-student Alumni News 12 Reply Form 19 Cover Photograph: Rectifenestella limbata (Foreste) from two (of Eric Holdener's Master Thesis) localities in east-central Kansas. Figures 1-t are from (Eric's) locality 5-8 A; are from (his) locality B. Figures 1 and 5 are views of colony exterior surfaces, whereas 2A and 6-8 are various views of the colonies' internal structure. Eric recognized discrete morphological differences within his species between the two localities. GeoSciences is the Alumni newsletter for the Department of Geology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaien It is published in September and February of each year. Staff: Department Head: R. James Kirkpatrick; Asst. to the Head: Peter A. Michalove; Editor: Vanessa Faurie- Designer: Jessie Knox; Admin. Secretary: Patricia Lane. Dear Alumni and Friends, Message from the The University of Illinois and all of higher education are presently in a state of flux, as are the organizations for which many of you work. For the University, Department Head and especially for the Geology Department, this situation presents both opportunities and problems. Like many of you, we are being asked to do more with less; but at the same time we are being expected to change, so there is an R. James Kirkpatrick opportunity for improvement. For the Department as a whole, the most pressing issue is to make a significant contribution toward improving scientific literacy among the University's student body and, thus, our portion of the general population. Despite the fact that our students are among the most qualified in the country, many of them come to us with no coherent picture (or worst yet, a distorted one) of how the earth works and what it means to think about natural phenomena in a scientific way. And it is no news that the citizens of this country will be asked to make progressively more public and private decisions concerning resources, the environment and the relationship of Homo sapiens to them. Over the past few years, the Department has been aggressively pursuing improvements in our courses for non-science students, and these efforts are clearly paying off. Enrollment in these courses is now at the highest it has been in the time for which we have records, and we are teaching just about as many students for which we have the time and space. At the present level of enrollment, something in the order of 25 percent of the University's undergraduates will take a Geology course. The new courses and the revamped old ones are accessible and interesting to students not majoring in a science and yet provide a solid, factual background and insight as to how to investigate the earth in a scientific way. Fortunately, this improved teaching has not come at the expense of graduate education and research. External funding continues to increase, and we are pleased that most of our students are able to find quality employment even in these tough times. On other matters, our recovery from the fire/flood is now essentially complete, except for minor painting. All the damaged space is repaired and fully occupied again, and things are back to normal (whatever that is!). Additional remodelling of the Natural History Building continues. We are presently remodelling the former mineralogy lab and classroom into a geophysics lab and general-use classroom (perhaps eventually to be a computer classroom) and should soon begin remodelling the Departmental computer center. I also want to take this opportunity to thank Alan Scott for serving as chair of the GeoThrust Committee for the past two years and to welcome Jack Threet as the new chair. Alan did a great job, and I know that Jack will do the same. I also want to thank all of you who have contributed to GeoThrust. Your generosity is truly an important factor in allowing us to continue to strive for excellence even in difficult times. (? ?\ v.^ to " Hilt Johnson fills new associate head post In order to improve the quality of the education offered by the De- partment, Head James Kirkpatrick appointed Professor W. Hilton GeoNews Johnson (M.S. 61, Ph.D. 62) to the new position of Associate Head last August. "I I guess felt I could make Johnson's a difference to faculty and responsibilities include students." working closely with teaching assis- From 1969-77 Johnson held a simi- tants in - Hilton Johnson the supervision and assign- lar position in the Department as ment of their duties; helping coordi- Educational Coordinator. In addition nate course offerings, schedules and to his new duties, Johnson continues classroom assignments; and coordi- to teach graduate courses in geo- nating departmental committee ac- morphology, glacial geology and qua- tivities relating to student affairs. ternary geology. Basically, Johnson said he's "trying He also has been developing the to make things go easier for the fac- ulty and staff and students" in the "The position gives students Department. access to someone else to "I am extremely pleased that Hilt go to if they has agreed to take on the have a problem. responsibilities of Associate Head," I want to try to make the Kirkpatrick said. "Enrollments in our Department better from an general education courses have educational standpoint. increased so much that more extensive management of our course and lab manual for Geology instructional activities was sorely 104, "Geology of National Parks and needed. Hilt is very experienced at Monuments," as a general education educational management and class. "We use parks as a starting understands well what it takes to point to learn about geology," John- provide a high-quality educational son said. "That's been a fun course." environment." Although he may kid at times about room," Library. being in the Department too long, also is developing a "living an Geology that Johnson is serious about the intent of interactive place where people, es- "Part of the reason I stayed was his new position. pecially children, can handle and my husband had a full-time position at University af- "I guess I felt I could make a differ- look at items, observe living animals here, and being the ence to faculty and students," he and conduct experiments—with light forded me the scope and intellectual said, "to do things that no one else and magnetism, for example. challenge I was looking for." has been able or had the time to do. Blake said the museum will also try (The position) gives students access to incorporate several valuable col- to someone else to go to if they have lections into the museum, such as a problem. I want to try to make the Albert Carozzi's petrographic collec- Department better from an educa- tion and the paleontology collection. tional standpoint." These collections will augment the significant herpetological, mammal- ogy and malacologic collections al- ready in the museum. All collections Dan Blake appointed are accessed by an international au- director of Museum of dience. A more developed first-floor Natural History area and some new lighting and paint will also help improve the mu- seum, he added. Professor Dan Blake (B.S. 60) be- "It's fun," Blake said, who has been came the new director of the Mu- a Geology faculty member since seum of Natural History last July. He 1967. 'The museum is important to now splits his time between the De- the University, to the public and for partment and running the museum. the collections." Lois Pausch named The big task for Pausch now is to try Geology librarian to maintain the Geology Library's ex- cellent reputation despite financial Although Lois Pausch (B.S. 58, constraints that don't appear to be M.S. 71) has been acting Geology li- letting up in the foreseeable future. brarian since September 1989, she "Our goal is to maximize the now has claim to the official title as of strengths of the library," Pausch said, last August. "and try to keep it from eroding." Pausch found out early on in her Last year's 10 percent budget cut career that teaching biology was not meant cancelling "far too many jour- for her, nor was being a high school nal titles." But with the consultation librarian. But the public service role of faculty and staff, the titles marked she has in dealing with Department for cancellation were the least faculty, staff and graduate students painful ones to lose. Any necessary suits her well. cuts for this year are not known yet. 'The people here couldn't be nicer," "It's a case of trying to work so that she said. "And I've had to learn the things we cancel will be those that His main goal for the museum is to collection. I didn't start out with a will hurt the least," Pausch said. "But broaden its emphasis as a scientific geology background." any more cuts will be getting to the museum to better serve the college, Pausch has worked in various li- meatier parts of the collection. the University and the outside com- brary positions at the U. of I. since 'The Geology Library has a reputa- munity. As a part of its new scope, a 1972, including assistant math librar- tion for being very comprehensive. large mural of the early formation of ian and mathematical statistics bib- (The budget crunch is) unfortunate, the solar system is underway. Blake liographer, before coming to the but it's happening nationwide." Alumna Mosher their behalf." an increase in undergraduates tak- Mosher thanked many people in ing geology courses. Some cumber- receives Outstanding her acceptance speech for the award, some tables with unnecessary cabi- Educator Award including U. of I. professors Don nets were replaced with new tables Henderson, Dave Anderson and that allow more students in the room. Ph.D. supervisor Dennis Wood. The increase in students taking 100- Sharon Mosher (B.S. 73, Ph.D. "I never could have been a success- level courses is attributed to the new 78), a professor in the Department of ful educator without very good stu- introductory course developed by Geological Sciences at the University dents or excellent colleagues who Steve Marshak, the computer-based of Texas (UT) at Austin, received the feel as strongly about education as I instructional materials developed by 1990 Outstanding Educator Award do," Mosher said. Marshak and Philip Sandberg, and from the Association for Women the new University-wide general-ed- Geoscientists Foundation. ucation requirements. Some of the She teaches courses in structural 100-level courses meet the physical geology and petrology, earth tecton- Three classrooms get science requirement. ics, conducts field camps and chairs face-lift The funding for these three room thesis committees. Mosher has re- remodelling projects came from ceived numerous department some $145,000 in University funds awards since she first arrived at UT New remodelling projects in three that was left over from last year's re- as an assistant professor in 1978, in- classrooms were recently completed modelling project. Two other projects cluding the Stokes Centennial in the Natural History Building be- on line, meanwhile, include renovat- Teaching Fellowship (each year since fore the start of the 1992 spring ing the general department com- 1986) and the Knebel Distinguished semester. puter lab or moving it to another Teaching Award in 1989. Room 109 has been refurbished as room so that it can also function as a Her work in professional and uni- a computer classroom. The atmo- classroom and a new computer lab versity organizations include chairing sphere is brighter for students and for Professor Philip Sandberg's ten the Geological Society of America's cleaner for computer equipment. recently acquired Macintosh Ilsi Division of Structural Geology and Electrical cords are suspended from computers. Tectonics and serving as associate the ceiling to allow for optional hook- editor of the GSA Bulletin. ups for computers, electronic micro- The Journal of Geological Educa- scopes and other equipment that is tion published various comments of not always in use. The cords can be support from Mosher's students and raised out of the way when not in use. HONORS AND colleagues. Nearby in Room 106, geophysics "She provides strong moral support Professor Albert Hsui's new NeXT AWARDS to help students through difficult or computer lab is up and running. The B. Leighton adverse situations," said Karen E. biggest problem in its renovation was Morris M. & Ada Carter, a Ph.D. student at UT and insulating the ceiling to eliminate Award Supports work graduate now a postdoctoral fellow in Italy. dust and dirt that can damage or field for "Through this type of support, her cause malfunctions in the comput- students Kao, geophysics students learn how to reach for op- ers. This lab is the tangible benefit of Honn portunities, prepare well-received Hsui's "NeXT at Illinois" grant he re- David Grimley, quaternary geology lectures and write successful grant cently received with which he is de- proposals, each important in terms of veloping hands-on exercises to Alumni Fellowship career advancement." demonstrate how surface geophysi- Support for year from GeoThrust Professor of structural geology at cal measurements change as subsur- donations Berger, hydrogeology UT, Mark P. Cloos (B.S. 76), said, face geology changes. The NeXT Amy "She is well known for going the extra computers can handle the additional Harold Scott Scholarship mile for all students by helping them amounts of data and computations Rewards outstanding students with their thin-section petrography, needed for these exercises. Lee, hydrogeology commenting on their grant propos- The paleontology and sedimentol- Ming Kuo als, reviewing and editing their ogy classroom in Room 120 was manuscripts and writing letters in spruced up to make more room for Head of ISGS follows father's lead While growing up in Urbana, Morris W. Leighton (B.S. 47) didn't know he was going to follow in his fa- ther's footsteps as chief of the Illinois State Geological Survey on the U. of His intitial interest was in Profile I. campus. chemistry. 'The reason I got into geology was Leighton Morris the result of a request of my father," Leighton said. "He said, 'Brud (a "I accompanied my father family nickname), I would like for on trips, and even today, you to take a course in geology so in going back over these you'll have an appreciation of your I in areas, recall his words surroundings.' And I said, 'Well sure, explaining the extent of a I'll do that.' lake bed, for example. It "I accompanied my father on trips, have made a much must and even today, in going back over bigger impression than I hydrocar- these areas, I recall his words in ex- methods and ideas to find even realized at the time." plaining the extent of a lake bed, for bons, and therefore improve explo- example. It must have made a much ration success. bigger impression than I even real- It was an exciting time. While in ized at the time." Switzerland heading up Exxon's (then Leighton majored in chemistry, Standard Oil of New Jersey's) first with a minor in geology, at the U. of I. overseas study group, his group He was in the Navy V-12 officer's learned of the discovery of the training program that was trans- largest gas field yet found in The ferred to the university from Indiana Netherlands. His group then put to- State Teacher's College. gether the first analysis for Exxon His master's and Ph.D. work was identifying and mapping oil and gas completed at the University of plays in the North Sea, which of Chicago involving field mapping of a course later became a major hard rock complex, chemical analy- petroleum-producing site. ses of the distribution of elements "That was like Christmas every and how the rock units got where day," Leighton said. "It's a tremen- they did. 'The study of emplacement dous feeling." of grinites was a popular issue in Leighton's family joined him in those days," he said. Switzerland, and they all settled into For the next thirty-two years, life in Europe. His youngest of three Leighton worked throughout the daughters attended a French-speak- world for Exxon Corporation or one of ing kindergarten class and could fluently. its affiliates. His first position was as a speak the language research geologist for the Carter Re- Leighton again found himself, as his developing an search Lab in Tulsa, Oklahoma. father once suggested, At the time, Leighton had no desire appreciation for his surroundings. to raising a to work abroad. But assignments in There were advantages Leighton said. His Sicily, Libya and Switzerland family on the go, have an inde- changed that. He was conducting children, he believes, work on carbonate rocks, doing basin pendence and poise about them that different analyses and working to develop new enables them to adapt to " cultures easily and make decisions initial work with the research lab in natural resources, the issues of waste for themselves. Yet he also believes Tulsa. management and the need for there are advantages to having a Leighton enjoyed a long and happy groundwater protection. deep sense of roots in one area such career with Exxon Corporation. That's as he developed from growing up in why it was such a difficult decision "/ wouldn't trade thirty-two Urbana. when his father's old job, head of the years with Exxon for any- The family did return stateside and Illinois Geological Survey, became " thing. he said, "and I then went to New York City in the available with the retirement of mid-sixties. Leighton was geological Robert E. Bergstrom. wouldn't trade what I'm adviser and coordinator of other 'The attraction of coming back to doing now." study groups established by Exxon Urbana was too strong," Leighton around the world. Four years of long said. "It seemed the thing to do." Such issues are often politically and commutes into and out of the city So in September 1983, Leighton emotionally charged, but it is the were enough for Leighton to request walked back into the old Natural Re- Survey's role to report its findings ob- a change of assignment. sources Building that he used to walk jectively and maintain its indepen- into as a boy with his father when its dence. walls were first being constructed. "It's tough to do sometimes," "The chair I sit in is his Morris M. Leighton was chief of the Leighton said. "But we have to main- chair. I think he'd be ISGS for thirty-one years from 1923- tain our credibility in science. We surprised and pleased. 54. produce the data and let the chips fall where they may." 'The chair I sit in is his chair," Shortly afterward, the family Leighton said with a small grin that Among the top items on the Sur- vey's headed for Sydney, Australia, where revealed a great amount of pride. agenda is to develop a plan for creating more detailed geological Leighton was exploration manager 'The memories did flood back. I for Esso Australia Ltd. and again en- think he'd be surprised and pleased." maps of the state that are necessary for better joyed the excitement of finding oil The mission of the ISGS, to study siting and identification of favorable and getting it on production. the geology and mineral resources of areas for resources. An- other goal is to A brief time at Esso Production & Illinois and report its findings to the maintain coal, oil and gas as viable Research Company in Houston fol- public, has remained essentially the fuels—for example, finding lowed four years later until Leighton same in the time that the two men ways of removing sulphur from Illinois' high-sulphur became chief geologist in 1974 for first took its helm. But today there coal and Esso InterAmerica in Coral Gables, are more complex issues with which encouraging the wise use of coal so that Florida, helping that affiliate conduct to deal, according to the current miners can keep working. Striking a balance exploration ventures for Central and chief. The problems of the state have between a healthy South America. The family lived expanded with the increased aware- economy and a healthy envi- ronment, Leighton there for the next nine years—their ness of the environment, geological said, is really at the heart of the ISGS and its longest stay in one place since the hazards, the need for wiser use of employ- ees, who have expertise in a wide va- riety of areas. 'That's what it takes to tackle the complex problems we're dealing with today," Leighton said of the multi- disciplinary makeup of the organiza- tion. 'That's what makes this Survey tick. It's the people." Leighton's job with the Illinois Geo- logical Survey has fit in well with his long record of professional accom- plishment and satisfaction. "I wouldn't trade thirty-two years with Exxon for anything," he said, "and I wouldn't trade what I'm doing now." Teaching and research their origin, occurrence and signifi- cance in their natural environment. go hand-in-hand But the teaching isn't a problem be- cause Altaner has always looked His sabbatical was for the fall 1991 upon graduate students as a semester, but Associate Professor tremendous resource, not a neces- Stephen Altaner (Ph.D. 85) didn't sary evil. feel like he was on sabbatical until Research and teaching are happily about December. intertwined in his job. And that phi- Profile What with fixing broken equip- losophy is in part thanks to some im- ment, receiving visitors and travelling portant influences in Altaner's edu- some himself, it was only in the cation while working on his Ph.D. at Stephen Altaner beginning of December that Altaner the U. of I. in the early eighties. was able to start any writing. His initial adviser was then-De- "There's a lot of competition in After receiving a 1991 University partment Head John Hower, from (geology). The U. of I. has a lot Scholar award, Altaner took a break whom he learned about clay miner- going for it in the degree of from his teaching load in part to con- alogy, how to think critically and how collaboration and open ness, duct some field work with Professor to approach a problem. There's not a lot of, well, I call it Richard Hay and graduate student "He gave an enormous amount of chest-puffing." Dave Finkelstein in Creede, Col- personal interaction with graduate orado, in the San Juan mountain students," Altaner said. "His philoso- range. The three geologists are phy rubbed off to some extent. He looking at volcaniclastic sediments thought teaching graduate students from two drill holes that are part of was one of the most important things the Continental Scientific Drilling you could do because then they Program. would go off and teach others. Now with the spring semester un- "He was remarkable," Altaner derway, Altaner is back with his added. "You couldn't help but get graduate students, researching the excited about working." mineralogy, petrology and geochem- Hower died in 1983, and the istry of clay minerals and looking at beloved Department Head was their crystal structure to determine sorely missed. As a way to help cheer Altaner uses a scanning electron microscope. " up the Department, Altaner and his wife and fellow graduate student, Norma Vergo (M.S. 84, now de- ceased), had the idea to introduce a new member of the staff in the late part of 1983: a two and a half-month- old shepherd-collie mix named Lana from the Champaign County Hu- mane Society. She quickly became a permanent fixture in the offices of the Natural History Building as the official Geology Dog, and her photo was included on the staff board alongside her fellow Department members. Occasionally, the University Police remind Altaner that dogs aren't al- lowed in University buildings, but 300 290 280 270 260 250 240 Lana is careful to stay out of the way Time (my. and is usually quiet and discreet. ABOVE: Schematic temperature-time history for diagenesis of coal-bearing strata in the Eastern Middle anthracite "Stress is what it. field of Pennsylvania. you make of Bold curve is a schematic representation of the temperature-time path for the rocks. Brackets show My job can be extraordinarily approximate temperature range over which mineral reactions and jointing occurred, (from Eric Daniels Ph.D. thesis 1991). distracting. You have to change focus rapidly and be efficient at short bursts. Just after taking up daily residence in the back offices of the basement, however, Lana thwarted a would-be burglar during the lunch hour when everyone was gone. The suspect, who was six-foot -six, was the one to alert police because Lana had pinned him in a corner, but he was still able to reach a phone and call for help. When Altaner and his colleagues re- lumed to their office, the dog warden was there to greet them with a fine for having a loose dog. Nothing hap- pened to the man (after Lana was through with him), but Altaner knew he had no business being in their of- fice. When Altaner is working, Lana is a long groan. It was perfectly timed." not a lot of, well, I call it chest-puffing. calming influence. She also accom- With a companion like Lana, the "If you're successful, particularly in panies him to his graduate classes. on-the-job stress that can build up is getting grants, then it's not a high- "One or two times this has hap- less troublesome. stress job," he added. "Stress is what pened," Altaner said and began to "There's a lot of competition in you make of it. My job can be ex- laugh. 'Toward the end of class I'll (geology). The of I. has U a lot going traordinarily distracting. You have to say, 'I have one more thing to say be- for it in the degree of collaboration change focus rapidly and be efficient ,' fore you go ... and Lana let out this and openness," Altaner said. "There's at short bursts." honored with the Leighton Memorial Those fossils can tell an Award, and in the spring of 1991, he interesting tale received the Department's Out- standing TA Award. When Eric Holdener (M.S. 91) "I always wanted to teach," Hold- was growing up, he loved to play in ener said, dressed casually and sit- the mud and poke around at fossils ting at a lab table in his basement along the creek and in the woods by office in the Natural History Build- his Belleville, Illinois, home. ing. 'This stuff kind of comes natu- Profile That's his explanation for how he rally." became interested in paleontology, He is popular with his students be- which he is studying at the U. of I. cause he can present all the scientific Eric Holdener with Dan Blake. information so that it makes sense to He also relates the story his mother non-geology majors as well as the "Fossils and rocks are tools likes to tell. She says that when Hold- majors by using language and con- that tell the story of ener was about four years old, he saw texts they can understand. He says organisms. It's always amazed the Sinclair Oil Company's dinosaur he tries to relate the past processes me how much common float in a parade in St. Louis, "and to things that occur today. During a sense is in geology. that's what started it." discussion in his "History of Life" in- "It's challenging to make it But regardless how his interest troductory course, he may ask stu- interesting to (the students)," started, Holdener hasn't been disap- dents where they would find gravel There's no problem with it pointed. He received his undergrad- today. Near creek beds, they imme- being interesting to me." uate degree in physical anthropology diately answer. And eventually the from Washington University in St. students begin to make interpreta- Louis. Then, not knowing what he was tions of the data. going to do with his degree, he had a Holdener also likes to use an anec- brief diversion at the University of dotal approach to teaching. After all, Michigan's law school for a few he says, rocks and fossils merely tell months. a story. When Holdener arrived at the U. of "There's this thread of time that I. in 1988, it didn't take him long to runs through that makes it a story," start making a name for himself on he says. "Fossils and rocks are tools campus. In the spring of 1990, he was that tell the story of organisms. It's Q7"W Holdener uses an Ultraphot microscope. 10- AAW SND[ OBVERSE SURFACE B REVERSE SURFACE ROW Figure 1-View of generalized fenestrate bryozoan (approxiamtely x80) illustrating exterior morphometric characters (modified from Snyder 1984, 1991). always amazed me how much com- mon sense there is in geology. "It's challenging to make it interest- ing to (the students)/' he adds. "There's no problem with it being in- teresting to me." Holdener concentrates his research attentions on fenestrate bryozoans— extinct, marine organisms whose re- mains he has collected from 300 mil- lion-year-old rocks in east-central TRANSVERSE Kansas. On a fingertip, they are frag- SECTION ile, thin, tan-colored flecks; but under a microscope, they are beautiful, in- tricate, geometric structures. B TANGENTIAL SECTION He has recently begun his Ph.D. project—to analyze morphological variation within and among several Figure 2-View of generalized fenestrate bryozoan (approxiamtely x80) species of fenestrate bryozoans to LONGITUDINAL SECTION illustrating interior morphometric characters (modified from better understand the evolutionary Snyder 1984, 1991). process. "I'm not planning to get out of here open the tiny bryozoans. But he he does, he simple says that he stud- soon," Holdener says and laughs, not wouldn't enjoy the research if he ies fossils to get a handle on evolu- expecting to finish his doctorate until couldn't teach as well. That's what he tion. Then if they want to know more, 1994 or '95. hopes to do down the road—land an he'll go into the details. "I'll try to make sense of what I see. academic position and continue "It's important to understand the It's not frustrating to have a project teaching. history of the planet and the life on it. change, that's part of science. Hope- Non-geologist friends still may kid I'm probably not going to solve the fully, I can at least get pointed in the him at times, making remarks now world's problems," Holdener says right direction." and then like, "So, Eric, do you work?" and then laughs. "But then, many ac- enjoys He collecting the data, pho- But he usually takes it in stride. And tivities cause the problems of the tographing, measuring and cutting when somebody wants to know what world." 11 GeoSciences is for alumni and Woodruff, who was born December largely about alumni. Please take the 30. time to complete and return the in- formation form you will find at the Professor Emeritus Harold W. column published end of each issue, fust as you like to Scott had a guest read about classmates and other last July in the Sumner Press titled, alumni, they'd like to know more "Notion of U.S. oil 'glut' a serious about you. Your news is important to misconception." Scott retired from them and to us in the Department. the U. of I. in 1967 and was head of Send a recent photo along, too, but the University of Michigan's geology for six years. He is a con- Alumni let us know if you want it returned. department The following notes are divided by sultant to the petroleum industry with the throughout the world. News decade. If you were affiliated Department part of one decade through to the next, you will be listed THIRTIES according to the last degree granted. Within each decade, items are listed D.C. Bennett (B.A. 31) attended his in yearly sequence, not alphabeti- sixty-fifth high school class reunion cally. in October. He used to work for W.T. Rawleigh, Procter & Gamble, Inter- FACULTY city BoxxPater and Honeywell. But now he'd "rather play than work." His hobbies include motorcycles, Former Geology Librarian Dede various hunting, trap & skeet shooting, golf Ward works full time in his art stu- and traveling in an R.V. His home dio in Anacortes, Washington, since base is Lakeland, Indiana. taking early retirement from the University of Colorado in Boulder. He and wife Susan Parke, director of FORTIES The Valley Museum of Northwest Although he officially retired in 1981 Art, live in Anacortes. (thirteen years with the U.S. Geologi- cal Survey, ten years with state geo- Little did Thomas Anderson and logical surveys, ten years with univer- his wife, Nancy, know when they sities and eight years with the Con- traveled to the Soviet Union last Au- gressional Research Service), Allen gust that they'd be walking in on an (A.B. 40, M.S. 42) continues attempted-coup-in-progress. Ander- F. Agnew to work as a courtesy professor of ge- son had planned to meet with Soviet ology at Oregon State University, to colleagues while Nancy, a U. of I. serve on thesis committees and to mathematics librarian, attended a advise students in geology and geog- conference in Moscow. Strangely raphy. enough, most of their business went With his "FFF" (Favorite Frau on as scheduled, despite tanks and Frances), he headed the motorhome anti-coup demonstrators in the to Mesa, Arizona, in winter and to streets. "I did get out to one lab," An- Oregon state parks in the summer. derson told the Champaign-Urbana writes that he enjoys being within News-Gazette, "but then there was He one hundred miles of three children this revolution that got in the way." eight grandchildren. Although they considered leaving and "I don't get to attend annual geolog- the country earlier than planned be- ical meetings regularly anymore," cause of the turmoil, the coup soon Agnew writes, "and thus regret not crumbled and the couple continued seeing UIUC colleagues there—both their stay. ancient mariners and the newer breed but delight in reading their Associate Professor Craig M. — wisdom in the professional journals Bethke (Ph.D. 85) and his wife, Abi- and news of their activities in this gail Papenguth Bethke (M.A.S. 88) alumni newsletter." welcomed their son, Henry Agnew lives in Corvallis, Oregon. 12' Willard C. Lacy (M.S. 40) is princi- field studies in nearshore oceanog- tounding changes in life and politics pal of Lacy & Associates, geological raphy in the past twenty-seven years take place over the four-year period," and geotechnical consultants. He and recently did some field assis- he writes. was awarded honorary fellowship in tance with Project 19, trying to locate Spencer lives in Lakewood, Col- the Australasian Institute of Mining Flight 19 (Navy Avengers) lost in the orado. and Metallurgy and received the "Bermuda Triangle." Ben Dickerson Award for outstand- is He president of McAllister Ma- Robert L. Brownfield (M.S. 55) is ing professionalism by the Society of rine, which conducts light marine studying theology at Holy Apostles Mining and Exploration. lives He in salvage, marine surveys, light marine Seminary in Cromwell, Connecticut. Green Valley, Arizona. construction, beach erosion studies He expects to earn his M.Div. degree and inspections. From 1988-90 he was and ordination to the Roman A memorial service in Livingston on two advisory committees for Palm Catholic priesthood this spring. He County Circuit Court, Illinois, last Oc- Beach County pertaining to artificial will serve the diocese of Davenport, tober honored Darrell H. Reno reefs and waterways regulation. Iowa. His son and U. of I. engineering (B.S. 42, LL.B. 48), who died in 1989. McAllister is a World War II vet- graduate, David, is currently a priest He had served as an associate judge eran and lives in Lighthouse Point, in Davenport. from 1971 until his retirement in 1982. Florida. Gene Thomas Fox (B.S. 59) retired Robert C. Honea (B.S. 46, M.S. 48) Wilford F. "Willy" Weeks (B.S. 51, after twenty-nine years as an earth lived in Santa Fe, New Mexico, from M.S. 53) is a professor of geophysics science teacher, planetarium direc- 1980-89 doing consulting geology in at the University of Alaska in Fair- tor and science/math supervisor in New Mexico, west Texas and the banks and chief scientist at the Virginia. He presently works part Four Corners area. In 1989 he moved Alaska Synthetic Aperture Radar Fa- time with AGI in Alexandria, Virginia, back to west Texas and now lives in cility. In his own words, Weeks to help extend its efforts in earth sci- Abilene, still working in consulting "investigates the behavior of the ence education for grades K-12. Fox geology. world's sea ice covers and their geo- lives in Manassas, Virginia. logical consequences and confuses Max C. Firebaugh (B.S. 47) of grad students and drinks wine." ciMmni Mount Vernon is retired. Last austral summer, he spent three months in the Antarctic. This James C. "Jim" Bloom (B.S. 60) of past winter he BBEgg] operated a project out Walnut Creek, California, retired in of Barrow, Alaska. "I am too damn August 1990 from Chevron after Judd Noble (B.S. 50), of Columbus, old to still be doing this," he writes, twenty-nine years as a geolo- Ohio, died April 16, 1991. He formed "but I figure that frost-bite slows gist/geophysicist and manager. He Noble Oil Corp. in 1972 and ac- was down the aging process. How are and his wife are now proud grand- tive in many industry organizations, things amidst the cornfields? I spent parents and play a lot of golf. including the Ohio Oil & Gas Associ- about twenty-two years in Cham- ation, the Ohio Geological Society, paign (I was a local), and THAT'S Richard E. Smith (M.S. 60) is direc- the American Association of ENOUGH!" tor of the Technical Assurance Divi- Petroleum Geologists and the Society sion in the Office of Technical Man- of Petroleum Engineers. Richard M. Winar (B.S. 53, M.S. 55) agement, Strategic Petroleum Re- is manager of the GeoSciences serve (SPR), U.S. Department of En- Robert S. Roth (M.S. 50, Ph.D. 51) Group for Entrix in Wilmington, ergy headquarters in Washington, delivered the Sosman Memorial Lec- Delaware, offering environmental D.C. He is responsible for the envi- ture last May. The talk, "Phase Equi- and remedial services associated ronment, safety and health functions libria and Crystal Chemistry in with investigations of contamination of the SPR's Project Management Complex Oxide Systems" was spon- of soil, earth and groundwater. He Office. sored by the Basic Science Division lives in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania. His oldest daughter, Andrea, is an of the American Ceramic Society. engineer employed by Air Products Roth is a research chemist in the Charles W. Spencer (M.S. 55) for- and is married to a professor of ma- Ceramics Division of the National mally retired from Texaco and now terial science at LeHigh University in Institute of Standards and Technol- works with the U.S. Geological Sur- Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. His ogy in Gaithersburg, Maryland. vey. has He worked in southern youngest daughter, Melissa, is a se- Brazil. From 1986-89, he made ten nior at the College of Wooster Raymond F. McAllister (M.S. 51) is trips to Hungary and worked with oil (Ohio). No geologists, Smith writes, a professor of oceanography at companies there on studies of oil and but points out that Melissa took two Florida Atlantic University in Boca gas generation, migration and map- semesters of geology at Wooster. Raton. He has conducted various ping stratigraphic traps. "I saw as- 13 applies to coal mining geologic ex- John Moore (B.S. 61) was named by is a former employee of Shell Oil geologic en- ploration. Ledvina designs software Illinois Governor Jim Edgar to be the Company and a former systems for PC-based and small state director of the Department of gineer at Tenneco Oil Corp. Upon exploration Energy and Natural Resources. He the request of the citizens group, mainframe interactive work stations. He also was previously director of the Divi- Norris began studying the Mar- and mapping devotes part of his time to mathe- sion of Petroleum and Chemical tinsville, Illinois, site in July 1989, modeling of repositional Safety in the State Fire Marshal's Of- matical processes within ancient and modern fice and was honored for his envi- SEVENTIES sedimentary basins. ronmental improvement efforts by (Ph.D. After graduating, Ledvina worked the U.S. Environmental Protection Terry (William H.) Wright the coal section of the ISGS for Agency. 70) is on sabbatical "in snowy, north in New Hampshire, writing and doing three years and then was assistant superintendent of Freeman-United John Bredehoeft (M.S. 57, Ph.D. 62) field work after a year spent as visit- College Coal Mining Co.'s Crown II mine was elected to the Russian Academy ing professor at Wellesley seminar near Springfield. He obtained certifi- of Natural Sciences for his contribu- teaching intro, structure and Last he cation as mine manager, mine exam- tions to the study of ground water on terrane analysis." June Lili iner and electrical hoisting engineer. and its use as a water resource and married Cunningham. for the study of water wells in predict- ing earthquakes. He is a senior re- Don Ganser (B.S. 71) of Lakewood, search geologist with the U.S. Colorado, was named district man- Geological Survey in Menlo Park, ager and regional environmental di- California. rector of ATEC Associates, Inc., Den- ver district and Northwest region, re- of the John W. Hawley (Ph.D. 62) is senior spectively. He is also chairman environmental geologist and man- Rocky Mountain Section of the Asso- ager of the Albuquerque Branch Of- ciation of Engineering Geologists. fice of the New Mexico Bureau of Mines & Mineral Resources, Office John Darabaris (B.S. 73) was Kear- of the State Geologist, at New Mexico named a vice president of the Kear- Tech in Socorro. He is also a faculty ney/Centaur Division of AT. adjunct in geology and a collaborator ney Inc. international management with the Earth and Environmental consulting firm in San Francisco, Cal- Science Division of Los Alamos Na- ifornia. His specialties include geo- tional Laboratory. logic engineering, environmental science and regulations, natural re- Daniel A. Textoris (Ph.D. 63) is a source exploration economics, and professor of geology at the University environmental finance and account- Califor- of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. He ing. He lives in San Ramon, teaches and conducts research in nia, with his wife, Elizabeth. In September 1978, while an exam- sedimentary petrology. iner with Old Ben/Ziegler Coal Co., is an caught in a roof fall ac- He also serves on the landfill Christopher Ledvina (B.S. 74) Ledvina was the next search committee for his home assistant professor of earth sciences cident (cave in) and spent hospital "nearly county, the board of directors of the at Northeastern Illinois University in two years in the "I from water and sewer authority for the Chicago. He is developing a program dead," he writes. emerged one in this in a wheelchair, but, thank God, county and is helping on the Triassic in engineering geology and well as in- all the important stuff basin site for a potential low-level ra- environmental sciences, as alive and with dioactive material depository. ternship programs in coal mining intact and working." "Linda, three working/professional geology. He tackled mathematics and re- from children, and two dogs and two cats Other activities include curating ceived a master's in geology at the in 1988. Last year he are all fine," he writes. and directing fossil collection Northeastern Mazon Creek locality near Braid- received his Ph.D. in mineral re- from Northwest- Charles Norris (B.S. 69) was the first wood, operation of the department's source engineering University. "Over the years, I witness for Concerned Citizens for seismology station and coordinating ern for accumulated a fair list of publi- Clark County (Illinois) to be admitted Midwest and local field geology have have acquired skills that by the Low-Level Radioactive Waste majors and non-majors. cations and surprise those who knew me in Facility Siting Committee. Norris is a His research involves mathemati- may geostatistics as it the early seventies," Ledvina writes. research associate at the U. of I. He cal geology and 14 He and his wife of almost ten years, for ten years. He specializes in newick, Washington, where she is Nancy, live in Chicago and are plan- petrologic characterization of or- employed by Batelle Research Labo- ning to start a family. ganic-rich rocks in Oklahoma and is ratories as a computer programmer. "I sincerely thank the U. I. of De- specifically involved in ongoing She was married March 17, 1991, to partment of Geology for all the help studies of coals, hydrocarbon source John Williams, who is also a pro- and encouragement provided," rocks and asphaltite deposits. He is grammer at Batelle." Ledvina adds. "Special thanks go to vice president and will be co-host of Dennis Wood, Hilt Johnson and Al- the 1993 annual meeting of The Soci- Nancy Beresky (B.S. 77) of Irvine, berto Nieto for enthusiastically en- ety for Organic Petrology. California, has been an associate hy- couraging me to go to graduate He and wife Kathy have been mar- drogeologist with McLaren/Hart school. I thank a fellow alumnus, Bill ried for fourteen years and have two since April 1990. Her job includes Dawson, for repaying favors one children, Lauren and Evan. The fam- project management of soil and thousand times over (I got his ily him recently moved to a new house in groundwater investigations for sites first three I jobs). also have fond Norman, Oklahoma. contaminated by petroleum (bulk memories of Albert Carozzi. I espe- storage facilities, gas stations), sol- cially remember some fellow stu- Beryl A. (Horn) Hosack (B.S. 77) is vents and /or metals (manufacturing dents, including Tom Chamberlain, senior computer scientist for Com- facilities). She is also managing the Nelson, John Bob Ringler, Mark puter Sciences Corporation (CSC). removal of an eleven-acre hydrocar- Reinbold and Bill Rice—these guys She is working in a joint venture be- bon plume floating on top of are great! tween CSC and Alenia SPA in Italy to groundwater at a Marine Terminal in "My fondest memories are from support the European Space Opera- Los Angeles. field camp and Dave Anderson and tions Center in Darmstadt, Germany. From 1988-90, she was a hydrologist Jim Kirkpatrick (1972) and is great cold She developing an expertise in with the Arizona Department of Wa- nights in Arrow Canyon. Great times mission planning (for scientists and ter Resources and worked in its com- were had in Murphy's, Treno's and as instrument developers) for both ESA puter modeling section for about one a member of the KESMLTST Club. participation with the space station year. Prior to that, she consulted in The truest and most sincere thanks and with other free flyers. Hosack the Illinois Basin oil industry for six- go to George Klein, Ralph Langen- has been in Italy the past two years plus years. heim and Jack Simon—my greatest and has recently signed on for an- inspirations! Hello to all." other year. James W. Castle (Ph.D. 78) of She and husband Glen have two Cabot Oil and Gas Company re- William I. Ausich (B.S. 74) is a pro- boys, Aaron and Jeremiah. ceived the A.I. Levorsen Memorial fessor at The Ohio State University. "We are enjoying our overseas ex- Award for best oral paper at the 1991 He is currently enjoying a Fulbright perience immensely," she writes. "I Eastern Section annual meeting of Research Fellowship for the spring travel a lot on business to Rome, the American Association of and at summer Trinity College in Frankfort and other cities. We have Petroleum Geologists in Pittsburgh, Dublin, Ireland. His wife, Regina, traveled extensively while here—Tu- Pennsylvania. and three children are with him. His nis, Yugoslavia and northern Europe. research includes the study of Lower We have all learned Italian and have EIGHTIES Carboniferous crinoid evolution. acquired two large dogs. Lots of in- teresting geology here in the south of Richard J. Kent (B.S. 80) works in Margaret (Watson) Rutledge Italy, too!" sales for Heritage Environmental (B.S. 74) is manager of finance for Services of Laguna Hills, California, Mesa Consolidated Water District in After working for several different involving hazardous waste disposal Costa Mesa, California. She reports companies and surviving a period of and remediation. to the general manager and runs the unemployment during the oil crunch customer service, accounting in 1986, Patricia and DP "Pat" Maas (B.S. Ron Richman (B.S. 80) is District 5 departments. 77) is back at Western Geophysical materials engineer for the California Her second child, Marion Virginia, Co. in Houston, Texas, as a geophysi- Department of Transportation. He is was born December 12, 1990. Rut- cist. In May, she and husband, Larry responsible for the design, construc- ledge also has five-year-old a son, Pedigo, became parents of twin girls, tion and maintenance input in areas Andrew. Her husband, Jim, received Allison Jean and Amy Leigh. Maas of geology, geotechnical engineering, his Ph.D. in physics from the U. of I. has taken some time off to take care materials and pavements, and haz- in 1978. of the girls. ardous waste. A staff of fourteen cov- "My good friend, Betty Evans (B.S. ers a four-county area, including Brian Cardott (B.S. J. 77) has been 78), completed her MIS degree at the Monterey, Santa Barbara and the an organic petrologist and geologist University of Arizona in Tucson," she Big Sur coast. Richman lives in Atas- at the Oklahoma Geological writes, Survey "and has moved to Ken- cadero, California, and has a two- 15 year-old son, Matthew Arron. minerals. nois Environmental Protection Agency in Champaign. He inspects Don Neeley (B.S. 80) has been Jeffrey Fritz (B.S. 78, M.S. 81) has industrial facilities with groundwater working with International Teams. been with Shell for eleven years, the monitoring and underground waste addition to in- For the last two years, he and Rusty last seven years in Pecten working on injection programs, in have been living twenty kilometers exploration projects in Africa. "I've specting other solid waste and haz- south of Vienna, Austria, working enjoyed the opportunities of visiting ardous waste facilities. with refugees. such places in Africa as Tanzania, "I am finishing my fifth year back in "We work out of 'The Oasis' and do Somalia, Kenya and Guinea Bissau," Champaign-Urbana," he writes, "and our best to meet their needs—physi- he writes. my fourth year with Illinois EPA. It's cal,spiritual, emotional—or refer His wife, Mary L. Olsen (B.S. 78) is great to live and work here and enjoy them to others who can help in areas currently an assistant professor of the benefits the U. of I. brings to the take ex- we can't," he writes. "We give out medicine in the Division of Rheuma- area without having to any clothing, have three coffee bars a tology and Clinical Immunogenetics ams!" week (an open time when all can at the University of Texas Health come in, warm up, talk, read or play Science Center in Houston. The Valla (Jones) Earl (B.S. 84) of Cody, some chess and drink some free cof- couple have two sons, Tyler and Wyoming, had a boy, Daniel Joseph, fee) and give out Christian literature Carter. on May 30. "This is the last," she in about fifty languages." writes. 'Two years of pregnancy is Neeley planned to return to the Joseph K. Schrodt (M.S. 81, Ph.D. enough! I am very please with the re- United States in January and to be- 83) is a research physicist at the sults, though!" gin looking for a new job in the oil Naval Coastal Systems Center in and gas industry. Before living in Panama City, Florida, working in the Andrew Reeve (B.S. 86) is currently Austria, he had worked for seven area of mine countermeasures. He working on his Ph.D. in geology at years at Amoco in New Orleans, previously was with Standard Oil of Syracuse University in New York. He Louisiana. Ohio (now BP America) as a research plans to do research on wetland hy- geophysicist. drogeology and geochemistry, most Polly Lee (Knowlton) Cockett He and wife Christi have three chil- likely in the Hudson Bay Lowlands or (M.S. 80) and husband, Robin, have dren, Julie, Lisa and Kevin, who are the Yucatan Peninsula. two boys and are expecting their all in school. "Some of you may re- He started his master's work at third child in April. The family just member Julie, who was one and a Northern Illinois University after spent one and a half years in Sydney, half years old when we left Urbana," graduation. His thesis work involved Australia, and managed to explore he writes. "We enjoy living along the the hydrogeology and aqueous geo- most of the coastline from the tropics Gulf Coast and do not miss the frigid chemistry of the western north coast north of Townsville, Queensland, and Illinois winters. There are 'snowbirds' of the Yucatan Peninsula. But he in- the Great Barrier Reef, all the way arriving in town now for the winter. terrupted that work for a two-year along New South Wales, around Vic- Illinois is well represented." stint as a hydrogeologist for ATEC toria and shipwreck coast to Hallett Environmental Consultants. Cove strations, Blue Mountains, Paul V. Heinrich (M.S. 82) earned In August 1990, he married Becky South Highlands and, their favorite, his Ph.D. in geology/geotechnical Brackensick and started working for volcanic remains in Warrumbungles, engineering last fall from Louisiana Argonne National Laboratories as an NSW. 'The boys are both great bush State University in Baton Rouge. He environmental scientist in the Envi- walkers and rock collectors," she is an environmental and archaeolog- ronment, Safety and Health Division. writes. "Really missing Australia ical geologist for Coastal Environ- He finished his master's thesis in Oc- while now sitting under a snow drift in ments, Inc. Heinrich also has had a tober 1990 and received his M.S. de- the High Prairies, looking at Cana- review of the geoarchaeology of the gree in December of that year. dian Rockies, and it's not even Hal- Louisiana Coastal Zone accepted for loween yet. ..." publication. Mark P. Fischer (B.S. 87) is working He is now studying the geoarchae- on his Ph.D. in geology at Penn State. Lee M. Hirsch (B.S. 81) recently be- ology of segments of the Texas With the help of a research fellow- gan a position with Exxon Production coastal plain and continental shelf. ship, he is working with Terry En- Research in Houston, Texas, involv- "It is strange being able, in a study, to gelder (Steve Marshak's adviser at ing research on fluid flow through mix sequence stratigraphy and ar- Columbia) on some fracture me- porous media. His previous position chaeology," he writes. chanics problems. was as a postdoctoral fellow at Los In November, he wrote that he and Alamos National Lab, where his re- Jeff Turner (B.S. 83) is an environ- his wife, Tamara, were expecting search centered around understand- mental geologist and regional their first baby December 28. ing the physical properties of mantle groundwater coordinator for the Illi- 16- NINETIES James A. Cremeens (B.S. 88, M.S. Faculty 90) is a project engineer in the Min- ing Group of Golder Associates, en- Stephen P. Altaner, associate professor gineering consultants in Lakewood, David E. Anderson, professor Colorado. He is primarily involved in Thomas F. Anderson, professor site characterization and slope stabil- Jay D. Bass, associate professor ity analysis for mining excavations Craig M. Bethke, associate professor and occasionally performs the same Daniel B. Blake, professor function for waste disposal sites. Chu-Yung Chen, assistant professor "This is exactly the type of work I had Wang-Ping Chen, associate professor hoped to do," he writes. "I couldn't be Timothy L. Clarke, assistant professor happier." Richard L. Hay, Ralph E. Grim professor Albert T. Hsui, associate professor W. Hilton Johnson, professor R. James Kirkpatrick, professor/dept. head George deVries Klein, professor Joan Kluessendorf, research associate Ralph L. Langenheim Jr., professor C. John Mann, professor Stephen Marshak, associate professor Peter A. Michalove, assistant to dept. head Alberto S. Nieto, professor Charles Norris, research associate Lois M. Pausch, librarian Philip A. Sandberg, professor Adjunct/Emeritus Faculty Albert V. Carozzi, emeritus Keros Cartwright, adjunct/ISGS Carleton A. Chapman, emeritus J. James Eidel, adjunct/ISGS Leon R. Follmer, adjunct/ISGS Donald L. Graf, emeritus Arthur F. Hagner, emeritus Donald M. Henderson, emeritus Morris W. Leighton, adjunct/ISGS T.L.Thillips, professor (with plant biology) Robert Reynolds, adjunct/professor Harold W. Scott, emeritus Non-Academic Staff Jean E. Daly, staff clerk David Ehrensperger, library clerk II Murle Edwards, clerk Barbara Elmore, transcribing secretary Jessie Knox, cartographer Eddie Lane, electronics engineering assistant Patricia Lane, administrative secretary Gordon L. Madise, system administrator Marsha Powell, account technician I Diana L. Walter, library technical assistant II 17 Professor Craig Bethke. Systems analyst Gordon Madise (left) and graduate student Brian Healy (center) talk with Associate Graduate student and Harold Scott Scholarship recipient Ming Kuo Lee. 18' Please take a few moments to let us and your classmates know what you 've been doing: promotions, publications, election to office, marriages, parenthood, moving, awards. We'd all like to hear from you! Name _ _— Response date Home Address Office Address (indicate if changed) Home Phone Office Phone Degrees from Illinois (with year) Degrees from other universities Present employer and brief job description Other news you would like to share Your comments on the alumni newsletter Place Stamp Here Editor, GeoSciences Department of Geology University of Illinois 245 Natural History Building 1301 W.Green Street Urbana, IL 61801-2999 Department of Geology 245 Natural History Building 1301 W. Green Street University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Department of Geology c Alumni Newsletter Fall 1992 J N I V E R SITY OF ILLINOIS I GeoSciences Alumni Newsletter FALL 1992 Message from the Department Head GeoNews: Natural History Building celebrates 100 years Robert S. Dietz to receive LAS Achievement Award Homecoming 1992 invitation Open House/Commencement activities Degree recipients Craig M. Bethke receives GSA honor Grad student David Ulciny accepts award Profiles: Jack Threet -- alumni 7 Jay Bass -- faculty 10 Steve Hageman - student 12 Alumni News 15 Reply Form 19 Coper Photograph: Part of the laser spectroscopy system used in Professor Jay Bass's research with Brillouin scattering techniques. GeoSciences is the Alumni newsletter for the Department of Geology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaien It is published in September and February of each year. Department Staff: Head: R. James Kirkpatrick; Asst. to the Head: Peter A. Michalove; Editor: Vanessa Faurie; Designer: Jessie Knox; Admin. Secretary: Patricia Lane. Dear Friends, Message from the Despite the generally difficult situation for education nationally, I am Department Head glad to be able to report continued improvement in the educational and research environment of the Department and a special honor for an alumnus. Bob Dietz (A.B. 37, M.S. 39, Ph.D. 41) is receiving the University of Illinois Kirkpatrick R. James LAS Alumni Achievement Award this fall for his contributions toward the development of plate tectonics and understanding the geological role of meteor impacts. Bob will receive the award at Homecoming, and I hope as for all many of you as possible can make it back here to help us honor him he has done for the profession. On the educational front, enrollment remains strong in our general education courses and has essentially reached the limit of our resources. A great many young people, whether or not they are science majors, are very interested in the earth and concerned about the environment and potential the kind of future changes. I am very pleased that our courses provide background they need to make the informed and rational decisions that will be required of citizens in the future. Computerization of instruction is taking a big leap forward this fall with the opening of a Macintosh computer laboratory for the introductory courses and a laboratory of eight newly acquired IRIS Indigo work stations for upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses. The IRIS work stations are an unexpected surprise and were obtained by a group of faculty headed by Craig Bethke through a competitive University program. This lab will be one of the most powerful computer classrooms on campus. The hydrogeology, geophysics, geochemistry and mineralogy courses should benefit greatly from the new equipment. received an NSF grant for I also am pleased to announce that we have additional remodeling of the Natural History Building, and planning is already underway. As was the case with the previous stages of the remodeling, most of the efforts will go toward renovating laboratory this project, and facilities. We need to find additional matching funds for you will be hearing more about it during the GeoThrust campaign. The timing of the remodeling program is especially appropriate because the Natural History Building is one hundred years old this year. We have planned a birthday party for the building October 11. If you can make it, we would be pleased for you to attend. Contact the Department for times. Sincerely, ,vA/«- R. James Kirkpatrick Professor and Head Natural History A special Mass Transit District shuttle bus will Building take guests back and forth between the Natural History celebrates 100th Building and the Dinamation ex- birthday hibit. The bus won't be hard to find—it will have a large papier mache di- nosaur head attached on the front. The GeoNews 1 he grand old Natural History "Dinosaurs Alive!" exhibit is a group of twelve life-size robotic di- Building will be the guest of honor at nosaurs, including Stegosaurus, a party to celebrate its 100th year, Tyrannosaurus rex and Apatosaurus, The "Dinosaurs Alive!" exhibit is and you're invited. that a group of twelve life-size move and roar as if the extinct robotic The event is being planned in con- creatures were back roaming the dinosaurs, including Stegosaurus, junction with the Natural History earth. Paleontological Tyrannosaurus rex and Apatosaurus, Museum-sponsored Dinamation research con- tributed to determining how the di- that move and roar as if the extinct exhibit, "Dinosaurs Alive!," at Lincoln nosaurs would have moved and what creatures were back roaming the Square Mall in Urbana that runs earth. Paleontological research they may have sounded like. from October 10 through January 1, Additional information contributed to determining how the 1993. and displays will be featured throughout the ex- dinosaurs would have moved and The Natural History Building will hibit area, including interactive what they may have sounded like. be open from 2-5 p.m., Sunday, Octo- di- nosaurs operated by joysticks and ber 11. An enormous dinosaur will other hands-on items. greet visitors as they enter the build- It's a fun way for visitors ing to partake of birthday cake-one of all ages to learn about in the shape of the building and one dinosaurs, and what the Museum hopes will be adorned with dinosaur decorations. a spark for children to become Three display cases will feature interested in memorabilia such as the original program from the dedication cere- mony and photographs of the build- ing's construction and early years. Designed by Nathan Clifford Ricker in the American High Victo- rian Gothic style, the original build- ing was only 50 feet by 90 feet. Addi - tions have increased the dimensions to 90 feet by 180 feet. "Natural History Hall" is dedicated in 1892. ,y_,\ '- The Natural History Building nears completion. - weekend by the College of Liberal science and scientific careers. Ad sights and contributions set the as one of its 1992 mission to the exhibit is $5 for adults; agenda for much of modern geologi- Arts and Sciences $4.50 for seniors and Museum cal scientific research," said Professor Alumni Achievement Award Friends; and $2.50 for children 2-12. and Department Head R. James recipients. A colloquium by Dietz, rates are Special student group Kirkpatrick (Ph.D. 72). known as one of the two principal available, too. "Dr. Dietz and the designer of the founders of the plate tectonic theory, Bathyscaph, Dr. Jacques Picard, were will be presented at 4 p.m. Saturday, October 24, features the 1 receive the first humans to explore the floors Pioneer Dietz to the of ocean trenches by making deep p.m. football match-up between LAS Achievement manned submersible dives," Profes- Illini and Northwestern, with a post- at the home of Award sor George deV. Klein wrote in a game party for Dietz Head R. nominating letter to LAS. "His con- Professor and Department clusions from this work was that the James Kirkpatrick. of the two principal founders 217/333-3542 One mid-ocean ridges were areas where R.S.V.P. to Pat Lane at hotel rooms of the plate tectonic theory will sea-floor spreading processes oc- if you can attend. A few issued on a accept a College of Liberal Arts and curred whereby new crust was have been reserved to be Sciences Alumni Achievement formed, and as a consequence, con- first-come, first-served basis. during Homecoming 1992. Award tinents were pushed apart. ... This concept was controversial, but Student makes senior through late work by Dietz and oth- ers, it has become the basic year memorable paradigm for understanding the evolution of the earth's crust, the Duane Kreuger (B.S. 92) saw a concept of plate tectonics." problem during his senior year and Dietz also advanced the concept of went about solving it. terrestrial impact structures to ex- Despite the relatively few plain the origin of craters on the moon and other impact sites on the earth. In recognition of his many contribu- tions to marine geology, oceanogra- phy, meteoritics, plate tectonics and organic evolution, Dietz has been awarded numerous honors over the years, including the prestigious Wal- ter H. Bucher Medal in 1971 from the Dietz American Geophysical Union and (A.B. M.S. Robert S. Dietz 37, 39, the Penrose Medal in 1988 from the Ph.D. 41), professor emeritus of Geological Society of America. r geology at Arizona State Univer sity, Kreuger will return to his alma mater in Octo - undergraduates in the Department ber to participate in a weekend full of us for Join compared to the graduate student activities on the college and depart- population, Kreuger wanted to make ment level. (See accompanying story Homecoming his last year at the U. of I. a memo- for details.) rable one, particu larly for the Geol- Dietz built his reputation by ad - Mark your calendar for U. of I. Club. vancing bold, and often controver- Homecoming October 23-25. The ogy special events So in conjunction with the annual sial, concepts that received abundant Department has some College of Engineering Open House supporting evidence in subsequent planned just for you. 3:15 during the last week of February, the years to make them widely accepted Friday afternoon begins with a sponsored one of its and even considered commonplace p.m. reception in the Department for Geology Club most successful Geology Open by today's scientists. Robert S. Dietz (A.B. 37, M.S. 39, Houses. "In many ways, his pioneering in- Ph.D. 41), who is being honored that Jennifer Wilson (B.S. 92) had a sci- (B.S. 92) began planning a small re- ence display about XY chromosomes ception at the Levis Faculty Center in dinosaurs and their inheritance for May 16. Personal invitations were characteristics. sent to faculty and staff members Mineral boxes for hands-on explo- and their families, as well as the six ration were put together by Jennifer seniors and their families. Distlehorst (B.S. 92), prompting From 4-6 p.m., people trickled in many to inquire about the possibility and sampled some food and punch of a "hands-on" room for the Mu- while visiting with each other at small seum. tables in a very informal atmosphere. Kreuger estimated that 500-1,000 "It was a big hit," Kreuger said. 'The people (mostly high school and reception was a lot of fun." grade school students) attended the He also credited Department Head Open House in the Natural History Jim Kirkpatrick for his role in making Building. "The more inquisitive ones the event a success. are the younger ones," he said. "He saw what we were doing, and it "We only had one month to put it together," Kreuger said. "I thought if we pulled it off as a big success, maybe younger groups would con- tinue the trend." Club members worked on new dis- plays and, with the help of some De- partment funds, revamped old ones that had been damaged by last year's fire. Some of the more popular exhibits included a collection of computer programs on seismology by Associ- Visitors attend the Geology Open House. ate Professor Wang-Ping Chen and Other club members who con- seemed to strike a spark in him," Don Colby in which visitors watched tributed to making the Open House Kreuger said. "He was in Washing- earthquakes on a screen. Grade a success included Rich Dentzman ton and came back to be with us for school teachers asked for more in- (B.S. 92), Tim Dona, Kathy the day and then went back. The formation to use in their own class- Vieregge (B.S. 92), Ed Othon, Pat parents got to meet him. It really hit rooms. Manion, Debbie Vanderlinden, Ka- home with the families." Ralph E. Grim Professor Richard L. lene Caffarella and Todd Cole. In a small ceremony, Kirkpatrick Hay, who had worked with the But an open house wasn't Kreuger's was introduced and then the faculty Leakeys at Olduvai Gorge in Tanza- last extracurricular activity for the members in attendance. The stu- nia, and Kreuger updated the Laetoli year. dents names were announced as footprint display. When he found out that nothing they received diploma covers. Museum of Natural History Cura- was being planned on a department Making the observation that the tor Joanne Kluessendorf's (B.S. 83, level to recognize the six graduating larger campus commencement cer- M.S. 86, Ph.D. 90) contribution was a seniors because of a lack of interest emony is too impersonal, Kreuger display case of dinosaur bones that in past years, the wheels were set in said the department reception gave "was a big attention-getter," Kreuger motion one more time. the seniors the chance to be recog- said. Again with the Department's sup- nized individually. "Just to have the Professor Philip A. Sandberg and port, Kreuger and Anahita Tikku faculty come around and shake and Geodynamics of the Arkoma Pe- The award is given annually to the ripheral and the Idaho-Wyoming author or authors of a published pa- Retro-Arc Foreland Basins per or body of papers of distinction advancing the science of hydrogeol- May 1992 ogy or some related field such as Kurt William Larson — non-thesis groundwater hydraulics or geochem- istry. The award will be presented to annual meet- Kim A. Weborg-Benson - Cladistic Bethke at the Society's Ohio, in October. Analysis of the Ptilodictyina ing in Cincinnati, publications he is being [Bryozoa] The two honored for are "Modeling subsur- face flow in sedimentary basins," Ge- ologische Rundschau, 1989 (v. 78, no. "Supercomputer Doctoral 1, p. 129-154) and analysis of sedimentary basins," Sci- hands with my parents ...," he said as October 1991 ence, 1988 (v. 239, p. 261-267), which his voice trailed off. Marlon Scott Wilkerson - Three- was co-authored with W.J. Harrison, "It made it seem more worth it," he Dimensional Kinematics and C. Up son and Associate Professor added, "like there was a conclusion. Geometries of Thrust-Related Folds Stephen P. Altaner. We didn't feel lost in the shuffle." Bethke' s acceptance speech will be lanuarv 1992 published in an upcoming issue of Eric Joseph Daniels - Nature and the GSA Bulletin. DEGREES GRANTED Origin of Minerals in Anthracite From Eastern Pennsylvania Bachelor of Science HONORS & AWARDS August 1991 Bethke receives GSA Joseph Anthony Klemp Graduate student David Ulicny Roderick Joseph Padgett honor for publications received a SEPM SED (Student Katherine Anne Panczak Excellence and Development) Award for 1992 from the Society for .Associate Professor Craig M. May 1992 Sedimentary Geology in recognition Bethke (Ph.D. 85) will accept the Curtis Charles Abert of outstanding young geoscientists. 1992 O.E. Meinzer Award from the Jennifer Ann Distlehorst Ulicny is studying with Professor Geological Society of America for two Duane Thomas Kreuger George deV. Klein. publications he authored or co- James Richard Stasi The award includes a year's authored. Anahita Ani Tikku Bethke membership in SEPM, back issues Jennifer A. Wilson of its journals and current one-year subscriptions to Palaios and the Master of Science Journal of Sedimentary Petrology. August 1991 Eric James Holdener — Numerical Taxonomy of Fenestrate Bryozoans: Evaluation of Methodology and Applicability to Analyses of Mi- croevolu tion Rosemary Ann Schmidt — Residual Shear Strength of Unsaturated Kaolinite in a Thin Seam October 1991 Jennifer Beth Kupperman -- Com- parative Tectonics, Sedimentation One company suited in Tulsa before World War I; he was a telegraph operator Threet for a career for an oil and gas pipeline. Threet had traveled some with his family, but living on his VV hile working on his master's own in Tulsa was a lonely existence. In mid-sum- degree, Jack Threet (B.A. 51) got a mer, Katy joined him and they summer job at Shell Oil Company in rented a humble apartment above a Tulsa, Oklahoma, thanks to Harold two-car garage. Threet remembers Scott, his principal adviser in the ge- Profile having to borrow a fan to try to keep ology department, who knew a re- cool that summer. cruiter there. But the job ended up Under an industrial deferment, Jack Threet lasting thirty-four years. Threet stayed in Tulsa for two years Today Threet is retired after mov- before being drafted into the Army in ing up in the ranks and around the 1953. He worked in a products testing 'We never know enough before world with Shell. But back in 1951, he lab in Pasadena, Texas, checking the drilling to say there's a one-in-four says, he didn't know one company quality and consistency of chance of hitting oil," Threet says. from another. He just knew he had a petroleum-related products that the "We developed a system for getting strong interest in development and Army used such as lube oil, gas and geologists to use parameters and application of technology by people, kerosene. quantitative terms. Shell handled its and Shell turned out to be an upbeat But by 1955, Threet was back at exploration economics better than company that was strong in explo- Shell—the only oil company for which any other company. It was pioneering ration. he ever worked. He was in the strati- the field, and it was important as Newly married to wife Katy, who (Shell) graphic department doing detailed became more and more of was working at the U. of I. to help put drill cuttings from wildcat a business." him through school, Threet boarded wells. It was a new technology. a train and headed for Tulsa. Inter- "I liked stratigraphy," he says, "even estingly, his father's first job was also in school." Jack and Katy Threet at his Shell retirement party in 1 987. " Much of his work was in the Willis- ton Basin, located in North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and up into "Then I went to Denver and began in jobs across the coun- try, " he says. "They weren't always steps up, but if not they were good steps sideways. Canada. In 1950, oil was discovered in that basin, and exploration fever hit. Threet had entered the oil business at a time of great expansion. He soon moved into the mid-conti- nent area of Oklahoma and Texas as part of the exploration team. His family was expanding, too, with the births of two daughters. Linda was born in 1954 in Texas, and Judy was born in 1955 in Oklahoma. By 1959, Threet took on his first team man- ager position in Amarillo. 'Then I went to Denver and began in jobs across the country," he says. "They weren't always steps up, but if not they were good steps sideways." For a brief time he took over as di- vision manager in the Appalachian Basin in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, but his first true division manage- in Lafayette, Above: The Threets with then-Shell President ment position was that centralized the Billings and John Bookout and his wife. Below: The Threefs Louisiana. Then in 1965, it was Den- oldest daughter, Linda Mott, and her family. Top Casper divisions. newly ver where he headed the right>Threet can now spend more time with Next on Threet's move up the Shell Mountain Division grandchildren Helen and Debbie. Bottom right: formed Rocky first corporate as- Jack and Katy Threet enjoy playing golf together. ladder was his signment in New York as manager of exploration economics, which meant analyzing the economic merit of ex- ploration techniques. The problem was that he hadn't had any real eco- nomic education prior to his ap- pointment. "It was baffling," he says. "It was puzzling. What made it interesting was the challenge that it was." He readily admits that he had a lot of help and borrowed heavily from those already doing such analyses. The goal was to quantify the element of risk in exploration-that is, the chances of hitting a dry hole. "We never know enough before drilling to say there's a one-in-four chance of hitting oil," Threet says. "We developed a system for getting geologists to use parameters and " quantitative terms. Shell handled its Canada. The two major frontiers for exploration economics better than exploration there were the mouth of any other company. It was pioneer- the Mackenzie River and off the east ing the field, and it was important as coast of Nova Scotia. (Shell) became more and more of a When the next transfer came business." through for New Orleans, Threet's After that experience, the family daughters remained in Canada for moved back to Denver for a short their college educations. In 1975, time and then on to Los Angeles Threet went to Shell-Houston, which where Threet was the Pacific area used to be domestic only, to head a exploration manager. new international exploration effort. "A lot of the jobs were more of the "I saw a lot of the world," he says of same," he says of his moving around. that opportunity, "its challenges, its "Rocks are rocks. Oil is oil. And peo- problems and its people. It was the ple are people." most interesting job I had had." In 1969, however, the Threet family While still in Houston, Threet was left the liberalism of California for asked to become head of exploration the conservatism of Australia. His for Shell across the board, domestic daughters certainly had interesting and foreign. For the last six years, up educations, Threet says, as they ad- until his retirement in 1987, Threet's been found in the preliminary explo- justed from attending school in free- job mostly involved dealing with en- rations (off California and Alaska). wheeling California to wearing school vironmental opposition to off-shore But we don't have valves to just start uniforms in Australia. exploration. His job was to get the turning on the Atlantic Coast oil Threet was general manager of ex- message out via radio, TV talk shows, supply, for example, when we need ploration and production in Mel- Congressional hearings, etc. it." "What we were trying to do was get After thirty-four years with Shell access to explore," he says, "not pro- "I saw a lot of the world, " he and almost as many moves, Threet duce. We didn't know if oil was even says of that opportunity, "its retired—if it can be called retiring. there. For the nation's security and challenges, its problems and Threet is now very active on the geol- economy, it is important to have a its people. It was the most ogy department's GeoThrust Com- supply for long-term needs that is interesting mittee, as well as being active in the job I had had. safely produced." American Association of Petroleum Threet says it is safer to produce oil Geologists, Rotary and his church bourne, which included on-shore and with off-shore-to-on-shore pipelines and sitting on boards of a small bank off-shore sites. He was there for two and wells than it is to have it shipped and a geophysical firm. He also years before moving to Canada as by tankers from overseas. helped start an oil and gas explo- vice president and head of explo- "Nothing in your life is ever going to ration company in Houston in 1989, ration and production for Shell- be risk-free," he adds. "Very little has but it is now operating at about 25 percent of what it once was. He and Katy split their time be- tween homes in Houston and Pagosa Springs, Colorado. They enjoy having the time to play golf and see their grandchildren more often. But being a part of the GeoThrust Committee is an important commitment for Threet. 'Those of us who've been to the university have something to offer back," he says. "We can take the ex- periences we've had and look at what's going on at the U. of I. It's a chance to make something, even slightly, better. "You just never seem to make time for that kind of thing when you're working." Looking to the light travel through the crystal. These are sound waves that answers the same sorts of for some are generated by earthquakes, for about the earth example. "So you have a method of measuring something in the liarth" is a word that gets tossed laboratory that is comparable to Somebody can about pretty casually. something you can observe in to earth or try to move be down nature—which is how fast earthquake earth or figure out where Profile heaven and waves, or large-scale sound waves, he put his car keys. Sure it's on earth travel through the earth." planet we live on. But we don't Jay Bass the Sound waves can be measured it's made of, even know what through many substances, but think we know what it although we Professor Bass uses materials that "So you have a method of Quite literally, we've only should be. are the kinds of things found in the something in the measuring scratched the surface. We can't just earth in order to study deep earth laboratory that is comparable it far enough to find get down inside the chemical to something you can observe structure and else is there. out what earth. He is also in nature-which is how fast composition of the That's an interesting challenge for earthquake waves, or large- interested in the effect water has on Professor of mineralogy scale sound waves travel Associate minerals and subsequently their Bass. His research involves laser through the earth." Jay sound velocities. Then Professor Bass spectroscopy, which means he shines wants to compare the results of his through crystals and exam- a laser experiments on minerals with the ines the light that is consequently results that seismologists gather on scattered by them. how fast earthquake waves travel 'The set of light components that through the earth. comes off is different due to the 'They (seismologists) can tell you at sound waves that propagate in the a depth of 2,000 kilometers in the crystal," Professor Bass said. "Sound earth how fast sound waves travel," waves are basically vibrations of the he said. "So this is a measure of the in the crystal. When you look atoms properties of the earth at high pres- at the light which is scattered sure and at high temperature." you can tell how through the crystal, Such approaches are necessary fast sound waves, or pressure waves, O V Professor Bass in his lab 10 " getting the answer, I think." undergraduate mineralogy course, Measuring sound velocities with some graduate specialty courses or laser spectroscopy is a relatively new current topic seminars, and "Geology technique (known as Brillouin in the National Parks," a general scattering), but other methods were course for non-majors that he enjoys used years ago. The data for this field because it appeals to a lot of people." was apparent as far back at the 1920s One of his interests that has a select and '30s, according to Professor Bass, following, at least in Urbana- but the methods required large Champaign anyway, is the sport of crystals. squash. Professor Bass took up the "Basically, they ran out of materials sport while he was a student at to do these measurements on," he SUNY-Stony Brook when he couldn't said. "There are only so many find any handball partners. His minerals that occur as huge adviser from MIT was a squash specimens. So for a long time, this player. field was more or less at a standstill." "I love squash," Professor Bass said The laser development and new and laughed. "When I came here, spectroscopic techniques made it possible to use much smaller sam- ples: "things that are the size of a since the deepest part of the earth human hair in thickness, for for which there are actual rock sam- example," Professor Bass said. ples is only about 200 kilometers During the 1991-92 academic year, down. With the earth's radius being more than 6,300 kilometers, that's not much. "It would probably be a lot "It would probably be a lot easier to easier to put a man on Mars put a man on Mars than to pull a than to pull a sample from, sample from, say, 500 kilometers say, 500 kilometers down. down." If the sound velocities at high pressure and high temperature were Professor Bass went to the Max known for every possible material Planck Institute in Mainz, Germany, that could be down in the earth, as a Humboldt Fellow to learn some Professor Bass said, "then you could new high pressure techniques, try to find some collection of enabling him to make synthetic different materials or make up a rock samples of what he said may be that gave you the right velocities for present hundred or even thousands all depths in the earth. And then of kilometers below the earth's sur- you'd know the chemical compo- face. sition." Making the measurements is an of the One problems with this interesting part of his job. But technique, however, is that there is Professor Bass also enjoys teaching. no unique solution. Other evidence The two harmonize in his hands-on there were some people who play. has to come into play. approach in the lab. Jim Kirkpatrick is a formidable 'The thing that I like about my "I'm a person who spends a lot of opponent." approach is that we have a way of time in the laboratory and makes Anymore, though, with his research comparing something you can measurements and trains students and teaching and the important time measure in the lab with actual on the instruments myself," he said. he spends with his three children properties and material that are at "There's not a lot that goes on down (ages 6, 9 and 12), the problem for high temperature and high pres- there, at least in the experiments, Professor Bass these days isn't sure," Professor Bass said. "It's the that I don't know." finding a squash player, it's finding most directly comparable way of Professor Bass teaches the the time to play at all. 11 Ph.D. in hand, "Finishing a dissertation is such a thing; there are so many Hageman looks for diffuse stages," Hageman said. "It's very an- next opportunity ticlimactic. You give an oral defense for the department. Then, several weeks later, you give a closed de- V_yne of the more difficult things fense for the committee. Then you about being in the latter stages of make changes on that, and you walk grad school is that you're just by yourself and turn it in at the Grad Profile operating entirely on self-motiva- College, which I just did last week. tion/' Steve Hageman observed You give it to them, and there are a after recently completing the dis- Steve Hageman few things they want you to change. sertation for his Ph.D. in paleon- So then I walk back a second time tology. "1 guess you get a little burned five that been retyped "I think it's more important, or with pages had out. I've been in grad school seven almost as important, to have a and give it to them in a folder. You years and the last four at the Ph.D. good adviser. If you go some- walk away thinking, well, OK. I level. where, even the best school, walked over to The Daily Grind and with "But that's not really negative," he and you dont get along got a tea." afford to take a adviser-forget it." reasoned. "You can your The celebratory tea was a subdued break. As long as you budget your ending to years of work. His thesis, time well, you can do whatever you Morphometric Approaches to Sys- want. So that's what I like about it. The hardest part is enjoying the time you have to enjoy and not worrying "If you took two clones of the that you should be working." same organism and put them All the years and effort paid off, in different environments, " however, in the form of a finished Hageman said, "one would dissertation—a series of five grow to look morphologically manuscripts, three of which have al- different than the other, but ready been published. Despite the they have the exact same accomplishment, any grand, emo- genetic material. So I wanted tional fanfare for such a finale was to test those limits in different not to be. Hageman environments." tematics and Microevolution: Appli- cations from Paleozoic Bryozoa, is explained as taking a descriptive ap- proach to paleontology and integrat- ing it with a more theoretical mode. Hageman tested some new methods of measurement and shape analysis as well as biological theory. "One of the things I did was look at a data set that another person had developed of fenestrate bryozoans," Hageman said. "And I looked at it with some numerical tests to try to determine if I could recognize species objectively with just the num- bers. Not only is it supporting their work, but it's supporting the recogni- tion of species in fossil organisms. "One of the criticisms paleontolo- 12 gists get is that you're just looking at up into multivariant space, you could Blake, as the main reason why he de- morphologic shapes so you can't get see a trend from south to north that cided to stay on at the U. of I. for his at true species," he continued. "But the skeletons thicken as you go Ph.D. there have been some recent stud north. It's very subtle. They're not "We worked together really well, ies people working with modern genetically identical, but I don't think and I really respect him," Hageman bryozoans where one person does they're sub-groups or sub-species. I said of Blake. "I think it's more im- the morphometric analysis and one think what we're actually seeing is a portant, or almost as important, to person does the genetic analysis, and change in water depth going out into have a good adviser. If you go some- they're coming out 100 percent in the deeper part of the basin. What's where, even the best school, and you agreement. Their work in the modern important about that is that the rock don't get along with your adviser- says that our work in the Paleozoic is looks the same along this transect. forget it." probably recognizing biologic All you're seeing is a response to en- Professional and personal integrity species." vironmental change that the organ- are the qualities that Hageman re- He initially wanted to test the rates isms record and the rocks don't." spected most in Blake. Given the of speciation. But when he looked at For paleontology, this could be big pressures to publish, Hageman be- other previous studies, very few had news. Critics have been saying that lieves there are too many opportuni- accounted for or examined environ- studying the skeletons that organ- ties to conduct less-than-thorough mental effects. isms have left behind isn't enough to research. "If you took two clones of the same answer fundamental biological "He's very thorough," Hageman organism and put them in different questions. Hageman thinks he's said, "but not to the point of not get- environments," Hageman said, "one showing that there is enough to go ting things done. He does good, solid " "It's weird, he said. "I go to conferences and I see people my age working (the people) like politicians. work that you don't fret over too long. Once it reaches a certain level or standard, then you go ahead and publish. I tend to be much more of a wild idea person and say, 'Hey, let's do this.' And Dan will say, 'Well, let's think about it.' Sometimes he's right, but other times I've convinced him to proceed. It's been a mutual thing." It was also Blake who encouraged Hageman has written several time-saving computer programs to analyze data. Hageman to take statistics and com- would grow to look morphologically on, but he hesitates at shouting it puter courses to help his research. different than the other, but they from any rooftops. Hageman has written several com- have the exact same genetic mate- "I'm excited to pursue this line of puter programs that collect and ana- rial. So I wanted to test those limits in research," he said. "But it's a little lyze data thereby decreasing the different environments." difficult as a student to come out and chance for error. Hageman compared populations try to sound big about something be- "Up to that point, it's just kind of from a stratigraphic layer about ten it cause happens all the time and gee-whizzy. But then it dumps the centimeters thick in Kansas at eight fades. I then intend to publish a pa- data into an Excel spreadsheet that is locations from the Kansas-Oklahoma per and let people see it, but not go already calibrated for magnification. border almost to Nebraska. out and push it. Let the work speak So a lot of time is saved. Then I can "It wasn't obvious when you looked itself. for Then I'll do another paper dump it into any computer on cam- at the specimens, but when you and let it speak for itself." pus and run all different kinds of looked at the numbers and plotted Hageman cites his adviser, Dan numerical analysis on it." 13 Epidermis Cuticle Lab preps aren't tedious, but getting results back is the thrill. To some this may all sound like te- dious work, and Hageman can't deny that it is sometimes. "I know a friend who gets excited because every time he opens a bry- ozoan," Hageman said. "It's some- thing new that nobody's looked at. It's been laying there for 300 million years, and nobody has ever been in there except for him. I do that to a degree; it's pretty interesting, but I get much more of a thrill when I start getting results back. But I don't hate doing the lab prep. It's something you can listen to music and think about other things while you're doing it." FIGURE 1 , reconstruction of a Worthenopora growing tip in longitudinal section, illustrating Until recently, one of the biggest Granular Skeleton topology of skeletal and tissue layers.2, things on Hageman's mind was find- Lamellar Skeleton reconstruction of an early growth stage of Worthenopora (ancestrula and first ing a job. In a time of tight budgets asexual clone) in longitudinal section, illustrating topology of skeletal and t and gloomy economic outlooks, it issue layers. seemed nothing was available and "It's weird," he said. "I go to confer- the frustration ran high. ences and I see people my age work- "It was more of a disappointment ing (the people) like politicians. I re- Hageman did secure a one-year than I thought it would be not to get a alize that you have to do some of that sabbatical replacement, beginning job, a permanent position," he said. or you won't make it. I do enough this fall, at Appalachian State Uni- "Psychologically, I could see the pat- that I feel comfortable with it. I have versity in Boone, North Carolina. He tern happening. But nevertheless, af- enjoyed meeting people from all will teach courses on invertebrate ter so many years of schooling, it's over the world. It's fun, then, to go to paleontology and historical geology, still disappointing that the situation another conference and see people and analyze the data he has col- I. Ideally, isn't different. I'm not blaming any- again. So I hope it's my friends and lected at the U. of he would to one or anything; it's just that you colleagues that I'm making sincere like to obtain the grant funding setup and can't do what you want to do. I think I contacts with that are the ones that recreate the computer have a lot to offer. pay off." programs he developed at Illinois. 14 FACULTY attained the rank of lieutenant junior grade. His wife, daughter, brother, two sis- Associate Professor Jay D. Bass ters and grandson survive. was named to the board of associate editors of the American Mineralogist journal. Howard E. "Ed" Simpson (M.S. 42) has published Bedrock Geology the Bristol Quadrangle, Keros Cartwright, principal geol- of Hartford, Litchfield and New Haven Alumni ogist and head of the Special Studies Counties, Connecticut, and Hydrogeology Research Labora- (1990, U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1573). News tory at the Illinois State Geological Survey and adjunct professor in the Edward L. Dillon (B.S. Department, has received an award 47, M.S. 49) GeoSciences is alumni for and is owner and president of Eastern for distinguished service in hydroge- largely about alumni. Please take the Shelf Production Co., a Midland, ology from the Geological Society of time to complete and return the America. Texas-based consulting company information form you will at the find engaged in originating and reviewing end this issue, of fust as you like to exploration Structural geologist and former programs for oil and gas read about classmates and other in West Department faculty member from Texas, New Mexico, North alumni, they'd like to know more Africa and Israel. In August 1989, 1963-64 Hans Laubscher was fea- he about you. Your news is important to retired as chairman of the board tured in the September 1991 issue of and them and to us in the Department. chief explorationist for Reserve GSA Today. He recently retired from De- Send a recent photo along, too, but velopment Corp. in Dallas. the faculty of the University of Basel, let us know you want it returned. if Dillon was recently honored by the where he also received his Ph.D. in The following notes are divided by 1947. American Association of Petroleum decade. Those who were affiliated Geologists at a Dallas reception for He continues to be a productive re- with the Department during part of former searcher involving the interpretation AAPG Distinguished Lectur- one decade through to the next are ers. of deep seismic profiles. listed according to the last degree re- He married Barbara Ann Barker in ceived. Within each decade, items April 1987. They have five children are listed in yearly sequence, not al- FORTIES (three his, two hers) and six grand - phabetically. children (his). They will soon have Paul K. Sims (A.B. 40, M.S. 42) is at two more grandchildren (hers). the U.S. Geological Survey in Denver, "We enjoy living in Colorado, specializing in Precam- Steamboat brian geology of the Lake Superior Springs," he writes, "and find little region. He received a U.S. Depart- difficulty in operating a Texas-based ment of Interior Distinguished Ser- consulting business from here by fax, vice Award in May 1991 for research phone and Federal Express." and administrative duties at the USGS and the Minnesota Geological lalam^H Survey. Robert E. Murphy (B.S. 50) retired in William Prescher (B.S. 42) of December 1988 after thirty-five years Casper, Wyoming, died March 6 af- with Chevron as development ter a short illness at the age of sev- geologist, exploration geologist and entyone. From the late sixties until formation evaluation specialist. He he retired in 1985, Prescher was as- worked at several locations in Texas, sociated with the Bureau of Land the Los Angeles gulf coast and Management. Bahrain Island in the Persian Gulf. He was a Navy veteran of World His last assignment was as formation evaluation War II, serving as a photo inter- consultant for Chevron's preter on the USS Independence. He eastern region in New Orleans. 15 professor of biology at Cali- moved to Connecticut in January In 1991, he was a contributing au- LAS) is a University. 1991 after having served as its geo- thor of "Gulf Coast Logging," which fornia Lutheran science manager for the Illinois low- appeared in the New Orleans Geo- "Buzz" Ostrom (M.S. level waste siting project. logical Society publication, An Intro- Meredith E. the 1991 re- duction to Central Gulf Coast Geol- 54, Ph.D. 59) was named the Public Service Award John B. Vercellino (B.S. 56) is re- ogy- cipient of by the American Institute of Profes- tired and raises Brangus cattle on his vari- Texas ranch. He retired in 1986 Haydn H. Murray (B.S. 48, M.S. sional Geologists. He has held a East with the Illinois State as chief production geologist for 50, Ph.D. 51) teaches graduate ety of positions the Wiscon- after thirty years, then had courses in clay mineralogy, geology Geological Survey and Exxon History Sandefer Offshore as chief and applications of industrial min- sin Geological and Natural joined as state geologist operating officer. erals, coal geology and X-ray tech- Survey. He served director in Wisconsin niques in the Department of Geolog- and survey Richard F. Mast (B.S. 57, M.S. 60 ical Sciences at Indiana University. Eng.) received an Honor Award from He went to IU in 1973 after sixteen the Secretary of the Interior at the years with the Georgia Kaolin Com- 56th Departmental Honor Awards pany. In that time, he has supervised Washington, D.C., approximately seventy-five masters Convocation in last May. and Ph.D. theses. He most recently had four postdoctoral research asso- ciates and was supervising seven MMillrtd Ph.D. students in the final year of the Valentine E. Zadnik (M.S. 58, dissertations. Ph.D. 60) is the contracts and grants Last year, Murray was president of officer for the U.S. Geological Survey the American Institute of Profes- Office of Energy Resources and Ma- sional Geologists. He also has been rine Geology in Reston, Virginia. He the IU faculty athletic representative receives, evaluates and funds re- since 1984-a time consuming but search proposals from university and enjoyable job, he writes. state geological surveys for research areas of geology and geophysics re- Lorence Collins (B.S. 53, M.S. 55, lated to energy research, marine ge- Ph.D. 59) co-authored the recently Ostrom ology and coastal research. published Expanding Geospheres until 1990. Ostrom is also a professor His sons, Rudy and Jerry, will have with Canadian economic geologist C. emeritus in the Department of Envi- received masters and Ph.D. degrees Warren Hunt and Russian seismol- ronmental Science at the University this summer from Georgia Tech in ogist E.A. Skobelin. of Wisconsin-Extension. electrical engineering. His daughter, "(It) includes many new hypotheses He has served on more than two Janelle, is a mechanical engineer. on the origin of granite, earthquakes, hundred state, federal and profes- ore deposits, diamonds, oil and coal," sional committees and councils, John Bredehoeft (M.S. 57, Ph.D. Collins writes. "It breaks with tradi- chairing more than forty of them. Os- 62) received the 1991 Science Award tional views on the evolution of the trom is also known throughout Wis- from the National Ground Water earth and plate tectonics. It gives an- consin for his appearances in the Association. He also was appointed swers to the enigma of Po halos and media to educate the public on geo- editor of the Journal of Ground Wa- discordant zircon dates as well as logic matters. ter, in Dublin, Ohio. Bredehoeft is a puzzling dates obtained from Rb-Sr research geologist for the U.S. Geo- and Sm-Nd ratios. It promises to up- Donald L. Ballmann (B.S. 55, M.S. logical Survey in Menlo Park, Cali- set the apple cart in regard to mod- 56, Ph.D. 59) is the project geoscience fornia. ern dogma." manager for Battelle Memorial Insti- Collins is a professor of geology at tute that is searching for a suitable Director of environment for the California State University- site for a low-level radioactive waste World Bank Mohamed T. El-Ashry Northridge. His wife, Barbara disposal facility in Connecticut. In his (M.S. 63, Ph.D. 66) was featured in the Schenck Collins (Ph.D. 55, M.S. 60 tenth year with Battelle, Ballmann 16 - March 1992 issue of Geotimes, pub- ing on worldwide Mesozoic/Cenozoic (sheeted dikes in the equitorial Pa- lished by the American Geological biostratigraphy. cific). Institute, in an article titled "Earth Naslund has three children: Ster- Scientist at the International Devel- Donald Eggert (A.B. 71) is an envi- ling (5), Skye (3) and Neelam (11 opment Front." ronmental geologist at the Indiana months). Geological Survey who is responsible Daniel A. Textoris (Ph.D. 63) for seismic hazards reduction. He's "After twenty years in the teaches undergraduate oil and and graduate been involved with mapping soil liq- gas industry, working Texas to geology courses at the University of uefaction and collecting soil shear- Alaska, Horida to California, North Carolina-Chapel I've fi- Hill and per- wave data. nally fallen victim to the L-word forms research in sedimentary geol- Eggert recently finished two pro- (layoff)," Jim Hooten (M.S. 72) ogy. He spent a week with F. jects to collect downhole shear-wave writes. "Great experiences, great fun, Michael Wahl (M.S. 57, Ph.D. 58) velocity data for nine Indiana urban great people-but with the industry reviewing the geology departments areas, with emphasis on Evansville, still in decline (thanks to our wise at Tulane, the University of Or- New Indiana. He also has been involved lawmakers), I've come to the realiza- leans and LSU for the Board of Re- in the mapping of soil liquefaction tion that it's time to move on." gents. He also met with many U. of I. features produced by a major prehis- Hooten is now the Colorado ac- alumni, including Ray Ferrell (M.S. toric earthquake in the Wabash count representative for the 65, Ph.D. Denver- 66) and James Roche (M.S. Valley. based EarthSense Companies, spe- 67, Ph.D. 69). "If you are still looking for Denver cializing in bioremediation product "Wish more of my early '60s class- Harper (B.S. 71)," Eggert writes, "he for hydrocarbon contaminated sites. mates would write and let us know is two doors down the hall here at the He says it's "a small, newly formed how life is treating them," he says. IGS. He finished his Ph.D. several company with state-of-the-art tech- years ago and is working on hydro nology resulting in substantial Professor of geology cost at the Univer- logic problems related to coal min- and time savings" and welcomes sity of Wisconsin-Parkside James ing." phone calls from anyone curious or Shea (Ph.D. 64) was honored by the interested. National Association of Geology William Size (Ph.D. 71) is director Teachers for excellence in geo- of the Geosciences Program at The expanded goals of the Ameri- science writing by receiving the first Emory University in Atlanta, which is can Association James H. Shea Award, of Petroleum Geolo- established in slowly rebuilding after the recent clo- gists were outlined his honor. by Nahum sure of the Geology Department. Schneidermann (Ph.D. 72) in the For the past seventeen years, he Size recently returned from six September 1991 issue of Explorer. has been editor of the Journal of months' leave in New Zealand where Schneidermann is head of Geological Education, an interna- AAPG's he was working on a field project with Committee on International Liaison. tional publication for geology a layered gabbrodiorite complex on teachers. The journal features arti- the South Island. Now he has moved Patricia A. Santogrossi (B.S. cles by leading world geologists on 74, back into a newly renovated Geology M.S. 77) is senior geologist with new approaches to teaching geology, Building. Size wrote that he also was Marathon research Oil Company in Houston, results and educational looking forward to the International Texas. applications of innovations and Geological Congress in August in Ky- instrumentation. oto, Japan, as well as field trips. Brian Cardott (B.S. 77) has Shea joined UW-Parkside's J. been geology an organic petrologist/geologist at department in 1967. H. Richard Naslund (B.S. 72) is the Oklahoma Geological Survey an associate professor and chairman since 1981. He does petrol ogic char- SEVENTIES of the Department of Geological Sci- acterization of organic-rich rocks in ences and Environmental Studies at Oklahoma, specifically involved Bruce A. Masters (Ph.D. in 70) ac- the State University of New York at ongoing studies of coals, cepted early retirement from Amoco hydrocar- Binghamton. His research projects bon Production Co. source rocks and asphaltite de- in Tulsa, Oklahoma, include Skaergaard Intrusion, Green- posits. where he was a special research as- land; Palisades Sill, New York and Cardott is the 1991-92 vice president sociate. He will enter private consult- New Jersey; and ODP Hole 504B of The Society for Organic Petrology 17 (TSOP), co-host of the 1993 TSOP an- has its headquarters at Scott Air vice in Spencer, Indiana. nual meeting and co-editor of Okla- Force Base in Illinois. IRP is the De- He was a rural forestry extension homa Geological Survey Circular for partment of Defense's version of Su- agent in Senegal, West Africa, with 1993. He and his wife, Kathy, have perfund, she says. She works with the the Peace Corps from June 1989- two children: Lauren (10) and Evan bases and HQUSAF to clean up haz- September 1991. His plans were to (7). They recently moved into a new ardous materials sites across the Air marry fellow Peace Corps volunteer custom-built home in Norman. Military Command. Amy Stephenson this past August 15. She bought a house in December Bruce A. Johnson (B.S. 79, B.S. 79 1991 and plans to put in a couple of Virginia "Ginny" Colten-Bradley Eng.) is the reservoir engineering acres of native prairie on an old, (Ph.D. 85) is working on Yucca Moun- manager in the Offshore Producing over-used horse pasture. tain for the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Division of Texaco E & P Inc. in New Commission. Orleans, Louisiana. He's been with Valla (Jones) Earl (B.S. 84) is a Texaco since graduate and was re- transportation engineer with the Mark P. Fischer (B.S. 87) and cently transferred to New Orleans af- Washington State Department of Tamara (Webb) Fischer (B.S.W. ter four years in Jakarta, Indonesia, Transportation. She and her hus- 87), had a seven-pound, twelve and a with a Texaco affiliate. band, David, purchased a home on half-ounce girl December 10. Her He and his wife, Ann, have a son, 5.5 acres near Fairchild Air Force name is Sarah Caroline. "Almost Russell Alan, who was born in Base, where David is practicing as a three weeks early and quite a sur- September 1991. flight surgeon. They have two boys: prise," the new father writes. "We all Jonathan David (born May 21, 1990) are enjoying ourselves to the fullest." EIGHTIES and Daniel Joseph (born May 30, The family lives in State College, 1991). Pennsylvania. John Jenkins (B.S. 80) moved to "The spare time we are afforded," Oregon in 1990, "happily away from she writes, "is spent hunting, travel- Charles Weiss (M.S. 87. Ph.D. 89) projects in the urban sprawl of Cali - ing, horse back riding and romping and Jean (Schwartz) Weiss (B.S. fornia." His work for Cascade Earth with our boys. 86) are the parents of Lauren Eliza- Sciences Ltd. is mainly hydrogeologic 'To Carolyn & Kari: The tattoo has beth. She was born at 5:26 p.m. on investigations of sludge and waste faded!" April 13. Lauren weighed in at eight water re-use sites, landfills and some pounds, nine ounces and was twenty- leaking UST sites. David F. Brutcher (B.S. 85) is a one inches long. The family lives in He and his wife, Gretchen, a fellow hydrogeologist for the Collier County Clinton, Mississippi. Illinoisan he met in California, now Government Environmental Services have a son, Ryan, "who, incidentally, Division in Naples, Florida. He pro- Russ Perry (B.S. 88) is an environ- is about one week younger that vides ground water resource man- mental project manager for Grow- Sandy Sopkin-Haupt's (B.S. 80) agement and protection, wellhead mark, Inc., a regional agricultural baby." protection ordinance development supply cooperative in Bloomington, "We love Portland as there is plenty and implementation, monitoring and Illinois. For the last three years, he of good jazz and fresh air," he says. assessment of potable ground water was a hydrogeologist involved with resources and technical assistance to environmental site investigations for Corinne Pearson (M.S. 81) mar- permit reviewers. Burlington Environmental Inc. in ried Tom Krisa in 1987. She left her Brutcher recently has become cer- Columbia, Illinois. job and Houston, Texas, when Tom tified in the state of Florida as a pro- was offered a transfer to London. fessional geologist. Their daughter, Caroline, was born 'The surf, sun and subtropical cli- CORRECTION Nov. 17, 1991, so Mom plans to pro- mate of Florida's southwest coast '31) vide her full-time care for a few years. have won me over," he writes. Donald C. Bennett (A.B. lives in Lakeland, Tennessee. This was in- Sharon Geil (B.S. 82, A.B. 82 LAS) Neil T. Patterson (B.S. 85, M.S. 89 correctly reported in the spring 1992 is program manager for the Installa- Ag.) is a soil scientist working on the issue of GeoSciences. tion Restoration Program (IRP) for Soil Survey Update for Owen County the Air Military Command, which for the USDA Soil Conservation Ser- 18 Please take a moments to let us and few your classmates know what you 've been doing: promotions, publications, election to office, marriages, parenthood, moving, awards. We'd all like to hear from you! Name Response date Home Address Office Address Home Phone . Office Phone Degrees from Illinois (with year) Degrees from other universities Present employer and brief job description Other news you would like to share Your comments on the alumni newsletter Place Stamp Here Editor, GeoSciences Department of Geology University of Illinois 245 Natural History Building 1301 W.Green Street Urbana, IL 61801-2999 Department of Geology 245 Natural History Building 1301 W. Green Street University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign GEOLOGY LIBRARY Department of Geology Alumni Newsletter C Spring 1993 SfftvOfr 1^ o J N I V E R SITY OF ILLINOIS GEOLOGY UBRMW GeoSciences Alumni Newsletter SPRING 1993 Message from the Department Head GeoNews: Haydn Murray Albert V. Carozzi's book Share the memories Reception invitation 100th Birthday & Dinamation photo spread Ralph Langenheim's retirement -- Profiles: Robert S. Dietz alumni 8 Wang-Ping Chen - faculty 10 David Finkelstein — student 13 Alumni News 15 Reply Form 19 Cover Photographs: Top: Sample 1R132-A6.6, 1174.8' (depth); unit: 52.8' thick tuff; Autogenic quartz and later smectite fill a pore in a sample taken from the middle of the tuff. The autogenic quartz and late smectite represent a higher grade of alteration observed in the Hosselkus drill hole. Bottom: Sample 2R105-A7.25, 1086.25' (depth); unit: 1.4" tuff; A pore filled with smectite (early) and dinoptilolite. GeoSciences is the Alumni newsletter for the Department of Geology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. It is published in September and February of each year. Staff: Department Head: R. James Kirkpatrick; Asst. to the Head: Peter A. Michalove; Editor: Vanessa Faurie; Designer: Jessie Knox; Admin. Secretary: Patricia Lane. Dear Alumni and Friends: Message from the The University of Illinois, like most other universities, is undergoing a Department Head period of self-evaluation and analysis, and the Geology Department is part of that process. It is clear that the resources needed for business as usual in higher education are no longer available. The University must look to to meet future challenges and R. James Kirkpatrick reallocation as a major source of funds needs. At the campus level, a Budget Priorities Committee is evaluating possible large-scale shifts of funding and people. Within the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, each department was evaluated last fall, and a college-wide committee is now considering those evaluations and will make final recommendations in the spring. Based on an interim report, we feel the Geology Department will fare quite well in those recommendations. Part of the campus-level process is the so-called Environmental Task determine Force, which I will chair. The major objectives of this group are to the present activities on campus regarding environmental education, research and service; to recommend areas of potential expansion of these activities; and to evaluate ways of better integrating these activities across of this task force campus. I am looking forward very much to the work in because its viewpoint is foresighted (How can we improve?), rather than some sense negative (Where will we take reductions?). The Department was well out in front of the University on this issue when we proposed the Environmental Option in our B.S. curriculum about two to years ago. That curriculum is now in place, and we hope that it will begin attract students this year. News from within the Department includes the remodelling program that for this will take place mostly over the summer. As I noted last fall, funding program is coming from the National Science Foundation and the campus. At this time, the architectural and engineering plans are nearly complete, and we hope to go out for bids in the next month or so. We expect this to be 85 the last phase of the remodelling program. When it is completed, about percent of our teaching and research space will have been significantly improved. Enrollment in our introductory courses continues to expand beyond our expectations, with the enrollment now far exceeding any on record. We estimate that approximately 20 percent to 25 percent of the undergraduate students on campus now take a Geology course. Sincerely, ,\A/«- R. James Kirkpatrick Professor and Head New GeoThrust chair overview of the entire field that he hopes will appeal to professional ge- receives honor as ologists and students alike. outstanding educator There are two reasons why Carozzi decided to write the new textbook: First, he believes is one of the last Haydn H. Murray, B.S. 48, M.S. he left has an overview of field 50, Ph.D. 51, who recently was named who a now teeming with specialists; and GeoNews chairman of the GeoThrust Committee, received the 1992 Out- second, the book features 192 high- standing Educator Award from the quality color plates of representative "(The book) focuses on fundamental Eastern Section of the American As- classes of sedimentary rock as seen observations under the petrographic sociation of Petroleum Geologists. through a petrographic microscope. microscope, their classification, and The Indiana University professor practical their theoretical and was recognized "for attaining global implications, than rather on stature as mentor to two generations speculations and far-reaching of aspiring economic geologists and theories," Carozzi writes. to the world community of industrial mineralogists." After serving in World War JI and earning his doctorate at the U. of I., Murray began teaching at Indiana in the early fifties. In 1957, he then be- gan a sixteen-year tenure with the Georgia Kaolin Company and was executive vice president when he left to return to Indiana in 1973. For the next eleven years, Murray served as Geology Department chairman. Throughout these years, Murray received many honors for his work and served on the board of various professional organizations. Professor Emeritus Albert V. Carozzi In 1984, he stepped from the down With an emphasis on practicality, department chairmanship but has he covers ten major rock groups: continued his writing, research and sandstones, rudaceous rocks, argilla- teaching. He also has been the fac- ceous rocks, volcaniclastic rocks, ulty representative from Indiana limestones, dolostones, siliceous University to the Big Ten Conference rocks, phosphorites, ironstones and and to the NCAA. evaporites. Murray's more recent honors in- "(The book) focuses on fundamen- clude serving as president of the So- tal observations under the petro- ciety of Mining Engineers (1987-88), graphic microscope, their classifica- president of the American Institute tion, and their theoretical and practi- of Professional Geologists (1991) and cal implications, rather than on trustee of the American Geological speculations and far-reaching theo- Institute Foundation. ries," Carozzi writes in the book's preface. "... the value of any theory or Carozzi writes interpretation is a direct function of the quality of the observations on text on sedimentary which it is based." petrography The categories of sedimentary rocks are presented in systematic Professor Emeritus Albert V. packages that include introduction, Carozzi recently published his classification, depositional environ- fourth book, Sedimentary ment, detailed petrography and dia- Petrography, which is a practical genetic evolution. Then each subject ends with reservoir properties and updated references in order to pur- sue more information from special- ized sources. The color plates of pho- tomicrographs enable the reader to make first-hand observations of the more important and textural details of those rocks. Share the It took Carozzi three years to com- plete the book, and he readily credits his graduate students for their con- memories tributions to the work. Carozzi has published three previous volumes Do you remember a funny or touching moment from fast-moving area of geol- about this one of your field trips? ogy. His first book about sedimentary petrography was published in French in 1953. The second was printed in Send us a memorable anecdote about a field trip you went on 1960 shortly after Carozzi came to the during your time in the Geology Department. United States, and he re-edited it in What happened? When was it? What faculty members were 1972. along? If we get some interesting responses, we'll share them with current book) attempts to "(The fellow GeoSciences readers in a future issue. If you have any regardless of show that a synthesis, good photos, send those, too. We'll return them. its potential shortcomings, is an in- dispensable and opportune intellec- Send your (legible) remembrance along with your name, address tual exercise, particularly at a time and daytime phone number to: when extreme specialization threat- ens to lead toward the loss of the general overview indispensable to Field Trips students and professionals alike," c/o GeoSciences Editor Carozzi writes. Department of Geology Looking back, he says he is pleased with the new book. "I'm satisfied. 245 Natural History Building Yes," he says and smiles. "I only hope 1301 W. Green Street I have to do it a fourth time." don't Urbana, IL 61801 Carozzi is now spending his time writing about the history of geology in the eighteenth century on what he calls the theories of the earth, and in particular, the ideas of Horace Benedict de Saussure. Attend a reception for all U. of I. Geology alumni Monday, April 26 5:30-7:30 p.m. Eglinton & Winston Room New Orleans Hilton The national meeting of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists that will be held in New Orleans at that time. Department Head Jim Kirkpatrick Others shared their thoughts on the made some comments about Lan- occasion of his retirement: genheim's career, as did others. And "I have always appreciated and a bound volume featuring letters of admired your strong commitment to remembrance and well wishes from getting students into the field, both at colleagues, friends and former stu- the 100-level and with our majors. dents was presented. You have influenced a large number "I realize what a significant and of students in the field, and it defi- positive effect you have had on the nitely has been to their benefit." development of many people who — Professor & Associate Head have been students here," Kirk- Hilt Johnson patrick wrote to Langenheim in the M.S. 61, Ph.D. 62 book. Mahomet Professor Ralph langenheim Party honors retirement of Langenheim Under the pretense of attending a wedding reception with a friend, Professor Ralph Langenheim un- Langenheim spoke to guests at a dinner honoring him on the occasion ot his retirement. suspectingly walked in to a surprise Colleagues, students and Iriends surprised the guest of honor. retirement dinner in his honor Jan- uary 16 at his favorite area restau- rant, The Bayern Stube in Gibson City. Organized by Pius Weibel, M.S. 82, Ph.D. 88, of the State Geological Survey, and Administrative Secretary Pat Lane, the event featured guests dining on German fare amid an at- mosphere of beer steins, mounted elk antlers and polka music. A slide presentation showed Langenheim from various stages of his life going as far back as infancy. Guests had to interrupt frequently to share an anecdote here and there when a particular image sparked a memory. A research fund also was established for Langenheim to continue his work. "I could write endless pages on the suming the 'Langenheim Surprise' numerous hilarious episodes which breakfasts and meat(?) with cheese punctuated our many trips to Arrow sandwiches packed for lunch and the Canyon as much as we filled pages of evening gatherings around the ol' many periodicals on the original sci- camp fire for dinner and discussion. entific results we all reached in this ... You were my academic and per- endeavor." sonal mentor during my formal — Professor Emeritus graduate education at U. of I. You Albert V. Carozzi were an inspiration and example to Champaign follow by your dedicated, outspoken, straightforward and hands-on ap- "So now the last of les originates has proach to research, investigation and left ... the flock. Those youngsters will study. ... You also brought out the just have to manage howsoever they need to strive for excellence, perse- can without us." vere to complete a task and the 'thrill — Professor Emeritus of the hunt' for undiscovered or un- Donald M. Henderson explained geologic truths." Urbana — John W. (Wally) Marks Students came away from the field camps with memories M.S. 66 as well as knowledge. "Ralph, you've participated in a Spring, Texas and classes year after year after year. positive way in the lives of so many ... I will always be indebted to you be- people, with a never-ending sense of "Thank you for having faith in me cause if it weren't for your steadfast humor and spontaneity sprinkled and for being more than just a pro- encouragement during my stay in with just the right amount of guid- fessor—for being a friend." Urbana, I would not have continued ance while allowing full latitude to — Sharon Geil in geology and thus would have been your students to follow their own in- B.S. 82 robbed of all the enjoyment and in- stincts." Smithton trigue that the field of geology has — Joan Gordon given me, and will continue to offer M.S. 62 "Well I'll be damned (I've always me in the years to come. I owe you a Chicago wanted to use that on you, as you very, very big thank you, Doc. I hope have for years every time I call or see that perhaps I could have such a pos- you!); you are retiring." itive impact on someone during my — Mike Hansen life." Ph.D. 75 — Alice Benkovich Shilhanek Dallas, Texas B.S. 81 Bellington, Washington "A great deal of our time together has been on field trips. These experi- A Langesaurian Limerick ences have proven to me that you are a true Natural Historian. Your com- There once was a Professor named bined knowledge of geology, botany Langenheim and cultural history is a living exam- Whose eyebrows roamed Arrow ple of the "Liberal Arts" education Canyon every Wintertime which you so strongly advocate." But his geological mania — C. Pius Weibel Led him to Albania M.S. 82, Ph.D. 88 And curatorial stasis In a Natural History Museum Pan- The Grand Teions wore the backdrop lor many a field Champaign camps over the years. tomime! "Many memories linger, and they 'There are very, very few people — Dean Rose include the hot, cold, wet, dusty Ar- who would put so much energy and B.S. 83 row Canyon Range days: watching devotion into dealing with crazy col- Champaign the preparation of and actually con- lege kids on field trips, field courses He's a rebel as a scientific pioneer, when he was a student struggling to make ends with a few causes meet. In the early thirties, he hitchhiked Robert Dietz, A.B. '37, M.S. '39, from New Jersey "with a bag full of Ph.D. '41, is a controversial figure, to rocks and fossils" and arrived at Illi- say the least. His geological theories Alumni nois to study geology. about sea-floor spreading and "I lived in a closet with no windows," meteorite impacts took years to gain Profile: he said. "But the price was right—five widespread acceptance and are now dollars a month. Those were tough established models. What we now years, but they were good years, too." Robert S. Dietz take for granted as the theory of Through the National Youth Ad- plate tectonics was once just the "I never said I told you so. If I think I'm ministration program established by bizarre notion of a young scientist in right, that's enough for me. I've made Franklin D. Roosevelt, Dietz and a the early fifties. some mistakes, but I also have a pretty friend each earned twenty-five cents oddball "I never said I told you so. If I think good batting average on rather an hour working for Professor Francis ideas." I'm right, that's enough for me," Di- Shepard. Dietz also went through etz said. "I don't really have to con- ROTC training, primarily for the six- vince anyone else. I've made some teen dollar-a-month pay. mistakes, but I also have a pretty "Buses in town were five cents, so I good batting average on rather odd- couldn't afford to ride the bus," he ball ideas." said and laughed. "I used to go on That batting average led to Dietz's Coke dates for ten cents, or a library return to Urbana last fall to accept a date, which was free." 1992 LAS Alumni Achievement One time, as a way to get free food, Award for his ground-breaking theo- Dietz participated in a nutrition ex- ries. He has also received the Walter periment. H. Bucher Medal, the Alexander von "We would have a basic diet for Humboldt Prize and the Penrose three weeks," he said. 'Then we'd Medal, among others. During his have a diet with something special. visit to the U. of I., the 78-year-old Part of this diet was three weeks of Arizona State professor emeritus re- carrots—500 grams a day of carrots. called the days before his notoriety We had carrot pie, raw carrots, carrot Professor and Associate Head Hilt Johnson with Dietz. . covered and found to have rifts, this made sense to have what I call sea- floor spreading. The idea was from many sources when I worked on the jigsaw about how earth fits together— Humpty Dumpty problems. The missing evidence came from the ocean floor really because the oceans are our windows to the upper mantle." In 1954, while Dietz was working for the Office of Naval Research, he also forged a collaboration with Jacques Piccard on the development and use of the bathyscaph for manned, deep submersible dives. In many ways, Dietz was a little Dietz presented a colloquium lor the Department when he was on campus last tall to receive the sorry to have what he described as LAS Alumni Achievement Award. "bootleg" work finally become ac- everything else. The pigment in car- Kentland, Indiana, and looked at cepted and recognized. "It was more rots is carotene, so in the middle of these features. They're cones, you fun to be iconoclastic," he said and winter, I had this beautiful Mongo- see. You could tell whether the force laughed. "I hate to be mainstream." lian tan. This is one of the devices came from above or from below. The Dietz seems to like his role as the you go to when you're a student. I like rocks are on end, but if you turn outsider. In fact, he's still raising the carrots in moderation, but 500 grams them to their pre-event position—you eyebrows and, at times, the tempers a day is a bit much." rotate them counterclockwise—then of fellow scientists and many others It was during these lean times that the cones point up and that means with his current areas of interest. Dietz started nurturing his interest in the force came from above. That possible impact sites on the earth. started me off on locating impact He had wanted to do a Ph.D. thesis sites based on shatter coning, which on the surface of the moon, but it was no one really believed until about turned down as "an inappropriate 1970 or so." subject for investigation." So he set- Although the beginning stages of tled for marine clays. the plate tectonics theory had their In 1941, the ROTC graduate was roots in the thirties when Dietz was called into service and was a Navy pi- working with Professor Shepard off Dietz visited with faculty and students while on lot in the Army Air Corps' photo the coast of California, it wasn't until campus recently. mapping wing. He received five he went to Japan as a Fulbright fellow "My most meaningful contribution medals for his service during World in 1953 that he said he really got in- now is fighting creationism, working War II. volved with the ideas behind it. on the interface between science and "I wrote a paper during my time in "We began to study the ocean floor religion of the far right," he said. the Army Air about Corps meteorite after World War II, and we encoun- "Population explosion is not the total impact origins the on moon," Dietz tered many surprises," Dietz said. problem, but it's problems one said. 'This was a new idea then. This "Some of these sea mounds which we through nine out of the first ten, was the first paper since that 1895 thought to be very ancient like the aided and abetted by religion. But I anyone suggested than lunar craters mountains on the moon turned out can't convince people I shouldn't talk were formed by meteorite impacts. to be rather young geologically. about gene pools and population ex- "Then I started looking at impact When I made the study of the plosion and religion versus science. sites the on continents. I used to fly northwest Pacific, I became con- They never get any exposure be- around quite a bit, ferrying planes. vinced that the trenches were zones cause they're off limits." One time I stopped in Rantoul and of great underthrusting. Later on Just the sort of topics Dietz likes to hitchhiked over to (the quarries at) when the mid-ocean ridges were dis- take on. Professor studies strive to maintain a balance between two academic careers and a family of earthquakes for two young children. Consequently, everyone's benefit Jennifer, age nine, and Ian, age three, travel extensively with their Professor Wang-Ping Chen parents and have their own frequent- Faculty experienced a lot of earthquakes flyer accounts. while growing up in Taiwan. So be- Regarding his research interests, Profile: coming a seismologist seemed like a Chen focuses on two major areas. logical career choice, particularly af- One is how the lithosphere deforms Wang-Ping Chen ter one episode. through its life cycles; the other is the "In my senior year, seismologists in physics of earthquakes. "Plate tectonics says that the litho- "There's so much data involved Taiwan just started a new seismic sphere is created along mid-ocean in the work to understand one network," Chen said. "I was actually earthquake. But if you've carefully taking a class in geophysics when an ridges underneath the ocean," Chen done all the work, it tells you a earthquake struck. We went down to explained. "As new lithosphere story. It happens to me in almost the basement, where the central grows, it loses heat and forms the every project." recording site in located, and I could ocean floor. Eventually, the litho- actually see how seismic waves prop- sphere would have to be recycled agate through the island and trigger back into the mantle of the earth. different seismograph stations." That happens at places called sub- Then he laughed. "I know it sounds duction zones where one piece of like a fantasy, but that's exactly what lithosphere goes underneath an- J happened." other. Chen went on to get his Ph.D. from "Once that happens, the litho- the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- sphere then plunges deeper into the nology in 1979. He then did postdoc- upper mantle, to depths of at least toral work there until his wife, Associ- 650 kilometers, perhaps even ate Professor Chu-Yung Chen, was deeper." close to finishing up her studies. In The whole process takes many mil- late 1981, he arrived at the U. of I. as lions of years. But along the way, the Department's first seismologist. Chen said the lithosphere deforms in Since moving to Urbana, the Chens various ways. Near the earth's sur- Chen collects some of his seismographic data via direct-link computer access. 10 of microfilm archives, direct-link the pouring over data begins to re- computer access and gigabytes of veal a story. off-line data provides Chen with the 'There's so much data involved in information to analyze different the work to understand a single types of earthquakes. earthquake," he said. "But if you've 'The biggest advance in seismology carefully done all the work and stud- is that now we have very high-resolu- ied m^ny earthquakes, they tell you a tion data," he said. 'This is something story. It happens to me in almost ev- that we've known in principle for ery project. Each individual piece many, many years, but the technol- doesn't tell you anything. Every time ogy just wasn't there. An analogy you dig a little deeper, then the work would be in the old days, geologists pays off. So I haven't been disap- only looked at rocks with their eyes pointed yet." and maybe a lens, and all of a sud- For example, Chen once studied a den somebody invented the electron large earthquake that occurred in an microscope. It's quite exciting that active sedimentary basin in China in you're going to get better data and 1976. The puzzling aspect was that no more of it." other large earthquake was known to But despite the mass of informa- Chen has established a geophysics program that utilizes occur in a sedimentary basin. Chen the strengths of the University's other departments. tion, Chen does not get overwhelmed then theorized that perhaps the face, there is what's called intraplate to the point that there is no clear be- basin was formed by the faults pro- deformation within the lithosphere; ginning and end to a project. ducing the earthquakes. At the time, at "In of subduction zones where two plates the sense understanding Chen said, it was perceived as "a interact, there is interplate deforma- each and every earthquake, there is pretty far-out hypothesis." But now, tion. Once the lithosphere passes no end," Chen said. "But for me, it many people are finding a lot of in- through this step, according to Chen, does. Typically, every three to five dependent evidence to support that it interacts with different layers in the years I feel enough has been done on thinking. mantle. one subject, and I would like to move Chen also works to eliminate the "Eventually, the lithosphere has to to another geographic location or dif- misunderstandings non-scientists disappear," he said. 'The final fate of ferent type (of earthquake) or as- have about earthquakes. The high- the lithosphere happens somewhere pect." profile attention on earthquakes in below the depth of 650 kilometers. The real pinnacle of any research populated areas causes much con- Some people say the lithosphere project for Chen is the time when all cern and interest among people. all goes the way down to several Although a lot ol time is spent analyzing volumes ot data, a story eventually emerges, according to Chen. thousand kilometers; others say it re- cycles back. My research basically covers many aspects of this life cycle. "Right now, the evidence shows that right around the boundaries of the upper and lower mantle, near a depth of 500-660 kilometers, the lithosphere definitely deforms. That would suggest that, if the lithosphere does go through the base of the up- per mantle, it doesn't go through in a very clean way. It has to deform. That's about all we can say at this point." To study earthquakes, Chen relies on the voluminous data collected by seismograph stations positioned throughout the world. A combination 11 Volcanic Accretionary Arc Wedge A schematic cross section showing major seismogenic structures along the Kuril-Kamchatka subduction zone. The transitional thrust zone is apparently embedded in subducted oceanic crust and connects the plate interface at shallow depths to a double seismic zone within subducted Pacific plate. The occurrence of a transitional thrust zone reflects differences in the interaction of subducting lithosphere with a strong overriding plate at shallow depths and with the upper mantle at greater depths. Honn Kao and W.P. Chen hypothesized that the transitional earthquakes indicate a locked plate interface which will rupture during the next great earthquake in Kuril-Kamchatka. ters that I've been very fortunate to 'They're basically concerned about teaching, particularly in undergrad - have some very capable graduate safety, whether they should buy uate courses, is to help his students students," he said. "They have con- earthquake insurance, for instance," become better-informed citizens to tributed greatly to my research pro- Chen said. "People are interested in make future decisions. gram. "I like to at least illustrate what sci- earthquake prediction. That's very "What we need to strive for is more important, but here is perhaps where ence is about and how it works," cooperation within the Department the most misunderstanding is. Chen said. 'They should feel that and with others to launch large-scale "First of all, there is no reliable way geology is a lot of fun. Teaching def- experiments to fully realize our po- of predicting earthquakes. initely takes away the time (from re- Moreover, tential. What we have going for us is prediction does not alleviate prop- search), but it's a necessary process. a very strong engineering college, erty damage. It has a potential of sav- If I didn't have a good introductory particularly physics, electrical engi- ing many lives, which is important, course in geology, I would not be neering, mathematics and applied but it also has a potential of causing here today because I would have lost mechanics. The students cannot do problems. If there's a prediction of a all interest." very well in geophysics if they don't large earthquake, it's going to cause Chen also has spent his time at the have a strong background in those panic, a lot of traffic accidents and U. of I. building a research program areas. such. It's a very touchy issue. It's not and teaching a number of courses on "That's one of the attractions and purely scientific; it's political, it's eco- seismology and geophysics. And he strengths of this campus," he added, nomical. There are a lot of societal is- is pleased with the quality of the geo- "and I think our students are very sues involved." physics program in the Department. well trained because of these One of the goals Chen has in his "I should mention in big block let- strengths." 12 Not enough hours they were saying Illinois, they were actually saying Steve Altaner." in the day for this Shortly after arriving at Illinois, research assistant Finkelstein sat down with Associate Professor Altaner and discussed the Clay mineralogy surprised Dave research projects he is currently in- Student Finkelstein. He started out in volved in. Finkelstein is now working structural geology at the University on clay and zeolite mineralogy in the Profile: of Massachusetts but thought he was Creede Formation in the San Juan too much of a cynic for that field. Af- volcanic region of Colorado. ter trying environmental sciences for "It sounded interesting," he said. David Finkelstein a year, he ended up taking a class in "After reading more and seeing what clay mineralogy and liked it. people have done, you're just "I thought it was the most amazing spurred on to do something." "I thought it was the most amazing thing," Finkelstein said. "You see lot Sediments were deposited in the thing. You see a lot of different a of different things in clay moat of the Creede caldera, and things in clay mineralogy." mineral- ogy-" Finkelstein is looking at the ash lay- His master's project focused on the ers and the alteration products, try- Mancos Shale in Colorado and Ari- ing to see the general trends of zona. There had been a large seaway what's going on in the clays and zeo- extending from Kansas to Arizona, lites. and small fossils indicate how the wa- As part of the National Science ter once circulated. The project Foundation's Continental Litho- looked at samples from zones where sphere Program, two holes were the warm and cold water were be- drilled in the sediments. The hole lieved to have mixed. called Airport was drilled just oppo- "In the end, we looked at the clay site the ore district, and the Hos- mineralogy as a paleo-environmental selkus hole was drilled off to the side indicator," Finkelstein said. and closer to the edge of the caldera. While presenting some of his data "Ideally, when I first went out to on the Mancos Shale at a GSA con- Denver to pick over the samples and ference in 1989, he was advised to get collect what I wanted," Finkelstein his Ph.D. So he began to look at vari- said, "I thought the Airport would ous programs. show highly altered material being "I was asking around about enthu- opposite the Creede Ore District, siastic advisers," he said. "And when and the Hosselkus drill hole would David Finkelstein 13 - An Working long hours are just habit for Finkelstein. Studies on the ores themselves have revealed highly saline fluids, and it has been suggested that there must have been saline-alkaline lakes Finkelstein examines data taken from two drill holes in the Creede Formation. such as the kind seen in highly evap- orative environments. workaholics' routines. Despite all the "We don't have any of the minerals testing and analyses yet to do, he is (you would find in that environment, shooting for a June 1994 completion such as evaporites)," Finkelstein said. date for his thesis. "Maybe it wasn't such a saline-alka- "I'm hoping," he said. "Given the line lake. Maybe it was just a dilute volume of work and my personal lake. So that's part of the study. The habits of loving to work long hours, I real questions are, 'What kind of lake consider that a tangible goal. Not too was this? What kind of alteration are far out." we seeing?'" Most of his work during the aca- To examine the alterations of the demic year is a balance between re- tufts, Finkelstein is utilizing numer- search and class work. And the ous methods. X-raying the volcanic summers are almost always devoted tuffs show the structure and abun- to research. He does enjoy doing - dance of minerals, the scanning elec- other things, however, such as read tron microscope show the minerals' ing poetry and running ("when I'm shapes. He will also do some oxygen not spraining an ankle or knee"). But show pretty much nothing. What was isotope work and potassium-argon when he gets into his research and surprising to me was that it was the dating. The petrographic microscope starts asking himself more questions, exact opposite. The Airport hole will tell him what came first. And fi- it's hard to stop him. showed less alteration than the Hos- nally, a microprobe provides the "It's not uncommon for me to pull a selkus." chemical data. twenty-hour day and then take two To explain this, he reasoned that "I'm doing methods now that are days to sleep it off," Finkelstein said. the edge of the caldera (near the not destructive to the samples," he "Sometimes it's just really hard to Hosselkus site) has coarser sedi- said. "You always have to keep that in walk away from something. There are days, you ments. The closer toward the middle mind: What will my methods do to times when, for a couple (where the Airport site is located), the the samples?" don't even want to look at it. And I say, 'Give finer the sediments became. The hot Finkelstein is very careful and curi- then there are times when more fluids, then, could move more easily ous about his work. And the time he me ten more minutes. Just ten minutes. ..." through the coarser sands. devotes to it seems to rival most 14 FACULTY Colorado pass," Bushman writes. Associate Professor Stephen P. Al- "We had just enough ginger ale left taner (Ph.D. 85) and Dorothy Fuller to get the radiator and the Ford over were married August 15, 1992. the pass." Dorothy teaches at University High School in Urbana. Retired geologist William F. Prescher (B.S. 42) of Casper, Professor of botany and geology Tom Wyoming, died March 6, 1992. after Alumni L. Phillips was awarded the Gilbert a short illness. Born in Bloomington, H. Cady Award in October by the he moved to Casper in 1947 and News Geological Society of America's Coal worked for several major companies Geology Division. He was honored in Wyoming. From the late sixties through his retirement in 1985, GeoSciences is for alumni and for his pioneering studies of the plant Prescher worked for the largely about alumni. Please take the composition of Pennsylvanian-age Bureau of Land Management. time to complete and return the coals. information form you will find at the Throughout his long tenure at the Robert C. Honea (B.S. 46, M.S. 48) end of this issue, fust as you like to U. of I., Phillips has trained students read about classmates and other in plant morphology, palynology, pa- died September 8, 1992, in Abilene, Texas. alumni, they'd like to know more leoecology and coal petrography. He was an independent operator in the oil business about you. Your news is important to From 1984-88, he was head of the and former chief geologist them and to us in the Department. Department of Plant Biology. He for Tenneco Send a recent photo along, too, but also has been a research affiliate in Oil Company. let us know if you want it returned. the Illinois State Geological Survey The following notes are divided by since 1977. Lorrie Ross-Holmin (A.B. 46, A.M. decade. Those who were affiliated 49 LAS) is retired but has done ex- FORTIES with the Department during part of tensive work on researching the No- one decade through to the next are Edwin F. Bushman (B.S. 41) is a bel family in Russia prior to the 1917 listed according to the last degree re- semi-retired consultant and regis- Revolution. Although everyone ceived. Within each decade, items tered professional engineer. He is a knows of Alfred Nobel, she writes, his are listed in yearly sequence, not al- specialist in manufacturing, indus- brother, Ludvig, literally founded the phabetically. trial plastics, composites molding Russian oil industry, as well as pio- and applications, as well as a techni- neered mechanical engineering cal writer in the field of polymers. equipment. While living in Stock- Bushman holds eight patents and holm, Sweden, Ross-Holmin knew has written more than seventy tech- many members of the Nobel family and began her research about ten nical articles. He and his wife, Louise, years ago. illus- have developed and operate two or- She now conducts trated lectures about her work. She ange groves in the Sierra Nevada to Norfolk, Virginia. foothills in Tulare County, California. recently moved The couple have six children and live in Laguna Beach. ggflggj (B.S. is executive Bushman had worked for several Clyde Fisher 53) Lifetime Learning years on ocean bottom mapping for director of the Center, school for adults fifty Francis P. Shepard with Kenneth O. a age and older based in Seattle, Washing- Emery and Robert S. Dietz in Ur- ton. is a retired U.S. lieu- bana. After Bushman left Gulf Refin- He Army assistant ing Co. in Mattoon in June 1941, he tenant colonel and retired rode out to California Institute of director of continuing education at - Technology-Pasadena with Dietz, Southern Illinois University-Ed who was soon to enter USAAF active wardsville. duty. His brothers are also Geology (A.B. 43 LAS, "His Ford steamed going up a high alumni: James Fisher 15 M.S. 49, Ph.D. 53) is a retired geology Petroleum Research Fund to support such as mine subsidence. professor in East Lansing, Michigan, his shale research. O'Brien has been Goodfield was active with the work- and Robert Fisher (B.S. 53, M.S. 56) a member of the Potsdam faculty ing committee in 1992 that devel- is editor of a geology newsletter in since 1963. He and his wife, Kathryn oped the Professional Geologist Denver, Colorado. (Gronberg) O'Brien (B.S. 58, M.S. Registration Act in Illinois, but it was 63) live in West Stockholm, New eventually vetoed by Governor Jim Denver-area scientist with the U.S. York. Edgar. Geological Survey Richard F. Mast (B.S. 57, M.S. 60 ENG) received a Robert W. Luce (M.S. 62) joined Margaret S. Leinen (B.S. 69) was Distinguished Service Award in May the senior professional staff of the appointed vice provost for Marine 1992 for his work in developing a U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Re- Programs and dean of the Graduate major petroleum research program view Board in Arlington, Virginia. The School of Oceanography at the Uni- within the USGS and contributing to board reviews the technical and sci- versity of Rhode Island. "increased national awareness and entific validity of the work being done SEVENTIES understanding of petroleum reserves by the Department of Energy to growth, of resource potential in fron- manage the nation's spent nuclear Professor at Florida State University tier and mature areas for both fed- fuel arid high-level defense nuclear in Tallahassee Sherwood W. Wise eral and private lands, and of the sci- waste. Jr. (M.S. 65, Ph.D. 70) was elected ence of petroleum resource assess- Luce has been involved with re- president-elect of the Society for Sed- ment." search, field work, geological map- imentary Geology (SEPM). Mast joined the USGS in 1972 after ping, mineral exploration and hydro- more than a decade of service with geologic investigations with such or- Terry Wright (Ph.D. 70) is a profes- the Illinois State Geological Survey. ganizations as the U.S. Geological sor of geology at Sonoma State Uni- He and his wife live in Wheat Ridge, Survey, Cripple Creek Mining and versity in Rohnert Park, California, Colorado. Development Corp. and Billiton Ex- teaching structure, field geology and ploration USA. He lives in Reston, introductory courses, including one HK^iH Virginia. on geologic violence and plate tec- Bruce Mueller (M.S. 60) teaches tonics called "Earthquakes, Volcanos earth science and astronomy at Daniel Textoris (Ph.D. 63) is a pro- and Mountains." He recently re- Auburn High School and owns two fessor of geology at the University of turned to California after teaching at businesses, the GemShop in down- North Carolina in Chapel Hill who Wellesley College in 1991 and town Rockton and the C&M Rock teaches sedimentary petrology and spending last year in northern New Shop near Traverse City, Michigan. conducts research on Newark basin Hampshire on sabbatical. He was featured in an April 1992 arti- evolution and reviews of geoscience cle in the (Rockford) North Suburban programs in the United States and James (Jim) Miller (M.S. 72) is chief Herald. Saudi Arabia. operating officer and vice president Textoris was at the GSA meeting in of GeoEngineers, Inc., a consulting Valentine E. Zadnik (M.S. 58, Ph.D. Cincinnati for only the last two days, firm of one hundred fifty people 60) is the staff geologist for contracts he writes, but he did see a few Illinois based in Redmond, Washington, and grants in the Office of Energy graduates. specializing in geotechnical engi- and Marine Geology, U.S. Geological neering, engineering geology, haz- Survey, Reston, Virginia. He received Alan G. Goodfield (M.S. 63, Ph.D. ardous waste assessment and reme- the Meritorious Service Award from 65) is a geologist in the Foundations diation, and groundwater engineer- the Secretary of the Interior at the Unit of the Illinois Department of ing. September 1992 awards convocation Transportation's Bridge Office in in Washington, D.C. Springfield. He conducts foundation A professor of geological sciences at analyses of bridges and culverts on The Ohio State University, William Professor of geology at Potsdam most state/federal routes and some I. Ausich (B.S. 74) and his family re- State University College Neal R. county/city/township routes; slope cently returned from a five-month O'Brien (M.S. 61, Ph.D. 63) received stability analyses of slopes at struc- stay in Ireland, where he was working a two-year $19,975 research grant tures; and settlement analyses and at Trinity College in Dublin on a Ful- from the American Chemical Society evaluations of potential geo-hazards bright research fellowship. Ausich 16 studied lower Carboniferous crinoid at the new aquarium at Scripps Insti- nois alumni and faculty have re- systematics, taphonomy, paleoecol- tute of Oceanography. ceived the honor from the Hydroge- ogy and stratigraphic distributions. ology Division of the Geological So- Mary Sue (Juricic) Miller (B.S. 86) ciety of America. Debbie Bliefnick (B.S. 75) has is a technical service chemist for moved to Trondheim, Norway, to Henkel Corporation in La Grange. 1971 work for a research company that She does polyamide synthesis in a Former faculty member G.B. works with oil companies there that development lab. Maxey, Hydrogeology of desert are involved in North Sea explo- "I noticed in the last newsletter that basins: Ground Water, v. 6, no. 5, p. ration. my roommate from summer field 10-22, 1968. EIGHTIES camp, Jean Schwartz Weiss, had her first baby the same day we did," 1972 Polly Lee Knowlton Cockett (M.S. Miller writes. "I married Jeff Miller in J.F Poland and G.H. Davis (B.S. 42), 80) and her husband, Robin, wel- December 1989, and we had our first Land subsidence due to withdrawl of comed the birth of their daughter, baby, Christopher, on April 13." fluids: Geological Society of America, Audrey Lane Knowlton Cockett, on Reviews in Engineering Geology, v. NINETIES 2, April 16, 1992. They call her K.C. or p. 187-269, 1969. Casey, and she has two older broth- Rose Schmidt (M.S. 91) is working ers. The family lives in Calgary, Al- for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers 1973 berta, where Robin teaches in the in Boston. She stopped by the De- William Back (A.B. 48) and B.B. computer science department at the partment for a visit on the way to her Hanshaw, Comparison of chemical University of Calgary. parents in Springfield for an early hydrogeology of the Carbonate "Have met lots of geo-types in Cal- Thanksgiving dinner. Peninsulas of Florida and Yucatan: gary," she writes, "mostly unem- Journal of Hydrogeology, v. 10, no. 4, ployed. ..." Robert H. Lander (Ph.D. 91), along p. 330-368, 1970. with colleagues S. Bloch, S. Mehta Alice Benkovich Shilhanek (B.S. and CD. Atkinson of ARCO Oil and 1971 81) received her master's degree in Gas Co. in Piano, Texas, received J.D. Bredehoeft (M.S. 57, Ph.D. 62) geology last May from Western honorable mention from the Society and G.F. Pinder (Ph.D. 68), Mass Washington University in Belling- for Sedimentary Geology for their transport in flowing groundwater: ham, Washington. She has done ex- paper, "Burial Diagenesis of Pale- Water Resources Research, v. 9, no. tensive field work in and around osols in the Giant Yacheng Gas Field, 1, p. 194-210, 1973. Puget Sound. People's Republic of China." The pa- per was published in the Journal of 12Z6 Bernard Lindsey (B.S. 83) is senior Sedimentary Petrology, Volume 61, S.P. Neuman and P.A. Wither- staff geologist for Converse Envi ron- No. 2. Lander works at Exxon Produc- spoon (Ph.D. 57), Field determina- mental West in San Diego, Califor- tion Research in Houston, Texas. His tion of the hydraulic properties of nia. He supervises an operation and wife, Linda M. Bonnell (A.B. 73 leaky multiple aquifer systems: Wa - maintenance program for remedia- LAS, M.S. 80 LAS, Ph.D. 90), is a re- ter Resources Research, v. 8, no. 5, p. tion equipment at various gasoline search associate in the geology de- 1284-1298, 1972. stations in southern California and is partment at Rice University. field geologist for subsurface investi- 1979 gations of potential and hazardous J.M. Sharp Jr. (M.S. 74, Ph.D. 74) materials sites. The Meinzer Award's and former faculty member P.A. "I resigned my commission from Domenico, Energy transport in thick the U.S. Navy during 1990 and was Illinois connection sequences of compacting sediment: discharged in February 1991, with an Geological Society of America Bul- adventurous trip to the Persian Gulf With the presentation of the 1992 letin, v. 87, no. 3, p. 390-400, 1976. in between," Lindsey writes. O.E. Meinzer Award to Associate He and his wife enjoy camping in Professor Craig M. Bethke (Ph.D. 1984 the Anza-Borrego Desert region east 85), a little research revealed that be- F.W. Schwartz (Ph.D. 72) and L.J. of South Dakota. He also volunteers tween 1971 and 1992, numerous Illi- Smith, Mass transport, 1, A stochastic 17 analysis of macroscopic dispersion: study, 6, Hydrogeochemistry: Journal Water Resources Research, v. 16, no. of Hydrology , v. 63, no. 1 /2, p. 136-176, 2, p. 303-313, 1980; L.J. Smith and May 1983. F.W. Schwartz, Mass transport, 2, Analysis of uncertainty in prediction: 1992 Water Resources Research, v. 17, no. Faculty member CM. Bethke 2, p. 351-369, 1981; L.J. Smith and (Ph.D. 85), Modeling subsurface flow F.W. Schwartz, Mass transport, 3, in sedimentary basins: Geologische Role of hydraulic conductivity data in Rundschau, v. 78, no. 1, p. 129-154, prediction: Water Resources Re- 1989; and CM. Bethke, W.J. Harri- search, v. 17, no. 5, p. 1463-1479, 1981; son, C. Upson and faculty member D.H. Tang, F.W. Schwartz and L.J. S.P. Altaner (Ph.D. 85), Supercom- Smtih, Stochastic modeling of mass puter analysis of sedimentary basins: transport in a random velocity field: Science, v. 239, p. 261-267, 1988. Water Resources Research, v. 18, no. 2, p. 231-244, 1982; and F.W. Schwartz, L.J. Smith and A.S. Crowe, A stochas- tic analysis of macroscopic disper- sion in fractured media: Water Re- sources Research, v. 19, no. 5, p. 1253- 1265, 1983. 1985 D.S. MacFarlane, J.A. Cherry (Ph.D. 66), R.W. Gillham and E.A. Sudicky, Migration of contaminants in groundwater at a landfill: a case study, 1, Groundwater flow and plume delineation: Journal of Hy- drology, v. 63, no. 1/2, p. 1-29, May 1983; J.A. Cherry, R.W. Gillham, E.G. Anderson and P.E. Johnson, Migra- tion of contaminants in groundwater at a landfill: a case study, 2, Ground- water monitoring devices: Journal of Hydrology, v. 63, no. 1 /2, p. 31-49, May 1983; B.C.E. Egboka, J.A. Cherry, R.N. Farvolden and E.O. Frind, Mi- gration of contaminants in ground- water at a landfill: a case study, 3, Tritium as an indicator of dispersion and recharge: Journal of Hydrology, v. 63, no. 1/2, p. 51-80, May 1983; E.A. Sudicky, J.A. Cherry and E.O. Frind, Migration of contaminants in groundwater at a landfill: a case study, 4, A natural-gradient disper- sion test: Journal of Hydrology, v. 63, no. 1/2, p. 81-108, May 1983; and R.V. Nicholson, J.A. Cherry and E.J. Rear- don, Migration of contaminants in groundwater at a landfill: a case 18 Please take a few moments to let us and your class mates know what you 've been doing: promotions, publications, election to office, marriages, parenthood, moving, awards. We'd all like to hear from you! Name Response date_ Home address Office Address. (indicate if changed) Home Phone Office Phone. Degrees from Illinois (with year) Degrees from other universities. Present employer and brief job description. Other news you would like to share- Your comments on the alumni newsletter Place Stamp Here Editor, GeoSciences Department of Geology University of Illinois 245 Natural History Building 1301 W. Green Street Urbana, IL 61801-2999 Department of Geology 245 Natural History Building 1301 W. Green Street University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Department of Geology Alumni Newsletter Fall 1993 U N I V E R SITY OF ILLINOIS GeoSciences Alumni Newsletter FALL 1993 Message from the Department Head GeoNews: Letter to the editor 3 Holdener award Philip Sandberg awards 4 Alumni cycling Sohl memorial fund Student awards 5 Langenheim discusses Albania 7 IGS fieldtrip sites Profiles: Haydn H. Murray - alumni 8 Stephen Marshak - faculty 11 Amy Berger - student 14 Alumni News 16 Reply Form 19 Cover Photographs: Geology 31 1 class (plus Professor Stephen Marshak's son, David) taking in view of Devil's Lake, near Baraboo, during the annual fieldtrip to Wisconsin and Northern Michigan. GeoSciences is the Alumni newsletter for the Department of Geology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. It is published in September and February of each year. Staff: Department Head: Hilton W. Johnson; Asst. to the Head: Peter A. Michalove; Editor Vanessa Faurie; Designer: Jessie Knox; Admin. Secretary: Patricia Lane. Dear Alumni and Friends, It is a real pleasure for me to have this opportunity to send greetings from the the Message from Department. Jim Kirkpatrick is taking a well-earned leave this year, and I am serv- Department Head ing as Head. One of the more enjoyable parts of the job will be the contacts it brings with you through the newsletter and at national meetings. Details of the GSA alumni reception are given in the newsletter; please stop by for a visit with alumni and friends. W. Hilton Johnson In news of the Department, George Klein has taken early retirement after serving on the faculty for 23 years. George reviewed his years here in a fitting colloquium last spring. He now serves as president of the New Jersey Marine Sciences Consortium. George will be at GSA, and I know many of you will want to wish him well in his new position. The new school year has just begun here. Although these are challenging and in some ways, discouraging times in the Department, we are off to a positive start, and I sense a strong resolve by the faculty to come together and meet each challenge one by one. Enrollments in our several general education and service courses continue to attract more students, and enrollments in mineralogy and structural geology are above 20 for the first time since the large drop in enrollments in the mid-'80s. The latest remodeling project is in full swing and should be finished by the end of the year. It was made possible in part by your generous contributions, as GeoThrust funds did double duty in helping match a grant from the National Science Foundation. Thanks to that support, we are remodeling nine rooms, providing more efficient and better lab space for research and learning. Last year, Jim Kirkpatrick reported that both campus and college reviews were un- derway with respect to future reallocation of funds within the University. The Col- lege review, although positive in most respects, suggested an orderly reduction in the size of the Department. We have responded with a strong statement on the importance of the geosciences and our current faculty needs, as well as a long range plan to accom - modate some size reduction. We believe it is a valid and realistic plan, and we will be strong advocates of it in further discussions with the higher administration. In the meantime we experience continued reductions in our operating budget at the same time we are teaching more students and have greater needs. As you can gather from the above, the Department has needs. In these times of de- creasing internal support, your gifts through GeoThrust are critical to the continued vitality of our educational and research programs. You will be contacted later with re- gard to this year's GeoThrust campaign. Gifts at all levels are important and will be greatly appreciated. However, some of our greatest needs, such as graduate fellow- ships and named professorships require substantial endowments, and I hope those of you who are in a position to consider a gift of this nature will do so. I would be pleased to discuss these and other giving opportuni ties with you. Finally, I would like to extend an open invitation to you to visit the campus and De- partment when you are in the area. If you can't visit, I hope you will write to let us know of your recent activities and to share them with other alumni in the spring newsletter. I look forward to seeing many of you at GSA. With warm regards, the Editor the Mississippi River south of To Chester, 111. I am enclosing a copy print made Thanks for the nice mention in the from an old Kodachrome slide by a Spring 1993 issue of GeoSciences. U. of I. grad, Robert F. Kennedy '40. This has jarred me into dropping a This was taken of a Professor Harold rare note off to Bob Dietz, featured in Wanless course field tour, "Geology GeoNews that issue. of Illinois" in April 1941. The well was Bob, as a graduate student, was "Carter #2 Grimes," Hoodville Pool, always a lot of fun and jokes. He Hamilton County, 111. Jack Simon Sohl was a leading authority helped my undergraduate thesis re- '41, M.S. '46, and Karl Koenig '41, on Cretaceous gastropods and search by doing some X-ray studies M.S. '46, Ph.D. '49, are in the top row; biostratigraphy and enjoyed a of clays I recovered from Grand I am in the lower right. long career in science and Tower Is horizons, an "insoluable — Ed Bushman '41 science administration. residues" study of a big rock along Laguna Beach, Calif. Holdener receives best paper honor A paper presented in March by graduate research assistant Eric J. Holdener at the North-Central section meeting of the Geological Society of America in Rolla, Mo., was selected by the awards committee to receive a Best Paper Award. The poster session paper was titled, "Assessment of Fenestrate Cryp- tostromes for Evolutionary Analysis: Reproducibility and Intracolonial Variation." Eric Holdener Sandberg Alumni cycle in the Netherlands receives honors for teaching,~ innovation Professor Philip Sandberg was chosen by his students and colleagues last spring to receive a William F. Prokasy Award for Excel- lence in Undergraduate Teaching in the College of Liberal Arts and Sci- ences. Sandberg was one of four professors honored with the award. Other recipients were Stephanie Alexander, mathematics; Larry Danielson, En- Seymour "Sy" Jaye '54, M.S. '55, of Boulder, Colo., (at left) and John D. Shafer '54 of Olney, III., (right foreground) met on an Elderhostel/lnternational Bicycle Tour in the Netherlands in June. The men were joined by their wives and Louise Turpin of Champaign (in background). Sohl memorial fund established for paleontology research A fund to support graduate field Philip Sandberg and Snyder work in paleontology was established glish; and William Martin, sociology. in the Department in memory of The award is named in honor of the Norman F. Sohl '49, M.S. '51, Ph.D. former dean who founded the award '54, who died April 14, 1993, at the age to promote exceptional achievement of 68. in undergraduate teaching. Recipi- Sohl was a leading authority on ents each receive $1,000, an annual Cretaceous gastropods and bios- salary base increment of $3,500 and a tratigraphy and enjoyed a long ca- plaque. reer in science and science adminis- Sandberg also received an Amoco tration. Foundation Award for Innovation in The decorated World War II vet- Instruction, which comes with $1,750 eran who participated in the D-Day cash. The award honors faculty invasion taught at Illinois and Bryn members who have made particu- Mawr College before moving to Oak- larly successful innovations in in- ton, Va., and joining the U.S. Geolog- struction through funding provided ical Survey. He was chief of the by the Undergraduate Instructional Branch of Paleontology and Stratig- Award, IBM Innovations or Apple raphy from 1968-73 and member and Seedlings grant programs. chair of the Geologic Names Com- Norman F. Sohl mittee from 1968-81. He received the two highest awards of the U.S. De- partment of the Interior, the Merito- rious and Distinguished Service Awards. His professional associations in- cluded serving as president of the In- stitute of Malacology (1970-74), trea- surer of the International Paleonto- logical Union (1968) and president of the Paleontological Society (1985-86). In 1991 he received the Paleontologi- cal Society Medal. Sohl also had been an adjunct pro- fessor at George Washington Uni- versity and a visiting professor at the University of Kansas. He is survived by his wife, Dorothy, and son, Norman Jr. Memorial contributions may be made to the University of Illinois Foundation, The Sohl Graduate Re- search Fund in Paleontology and sent to Peter Michalove, Dept. of Geology, University of Illinois, Ur- bana, IL 61801. Students garner Department awards A number of awards were presented to students by the De- partment at a ceremony in March. At left: State awardees Debbie VanderLinden, Todd Cole, Amy Berger, David Voorhees, Theresa Beckman, Robert Ylagan and Christie Demosthenous. Top: Department Head Jim Kirkpatrick, Robert Ylagan and David Voorhees. Second from top: Professor Alberto Nieto, graduate student Todd Cole and Kirkpatrick. Robert Ylangan (spring 1992) and David Voorhees (fall 1992) each re- ceived the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award. This award is fi- nanced from funds donated in memory of the late Professor George White, Department Head from 1947 to 1965. Todd Cole received a Brunton compass for field work as part of the Geology Alumni Senior Award, se- lected by the Department's Under- graduate Study Committee. Top left: Theresa Beckman, Christy Demosthenous and Professor Emeritus Donald Henderson. Middle left: Jim Kirkpatrick and Amy Berger. Bottom left: Debbie VanderLinden and Jim Kirkpatrick. Above: Postdoc Ming Kuo Lee. Theresa Beckman and Christie Demosthenous received Alumni Fellowships, which are funded through GeoThrust donations. Amy Berger was the recipient of the Outstanding Woman Graduate Student Award. And Debbie Van- derLinden received a pick for field work as part of the Estwing Award, sponsored by the Estwing Manufac- turing Co. Honn Kao was honored with a University Fellowship, which is awarded by the University to a stu- dent in the Department as recom- mended by the Graduate Study Committee. strong associations with the tributed definitive work on the tran- Langenheim Department. Professor Emeritus sition from the Kokomo algal mat discusses A.V. Carozzi's group, for example, environment to the calcilutites of the intensively studied the carbonate Kenneth Formation. Finally, Ray situation in petrography of Hanging Rock, the Gutschick has conducted continu- Albania Wabash Reef, Rich Valley and the ing studies at Kentland for more Delphi Quarry, and were responsible than 30 years as the infinitely com- for working out the sequence of plex structure has been Professor Emeritus Ralph L. events in which the biogerms progressively brought to light by Langenheim presented a talk on became established and eventually quarry operations. the present economic and political grew to atoll-type reefs. A new guidebook for these conditions of Albania to the Peoria Linda Sindelar Tollefson con- localities has been made available. Area World Affairs Council on June 17. He spent September and early Oc- tober 1992 in Albania on an IESc mis- sion to advise the Polytechnic Uni- versity of Albania in regard to the The U. of I. Geology Department curriculum and organization of the geology and mining faculty. He also invites you to an attended a working conference of ALUMNI RECEPTION the IUGS Ophiolite Study Group, which took him into the field in at the Geological Society of America meeting in Boston northern Albania. This and October 25 additional travel along the coast to the south gave him a crash course on 7-9:30 p.m. a nation in transition from in the White Hill Room of the Park Plaza Hotel communism and dictatorship to free enterprise and democracy—an Hope to see you there. exciting time. The trip also served to illuminate some of the Balkan problems and opened thought to ways in which to handle the situation. The latter attracted the Foreign Affairs Council. Share the memories Do you remember a funny or touching moment from one of your field trips? IGS field trip sites have strong link Send us a memorable anecdote about a field trip you went on during your time in the Geology Department. to Department What happened? When was it? What faculty members were along? If we get some interesting responses, we'll share them with fellow GeoSciences C.J.Mann, R.L. Langenheim, readers in a future issue. If you have any good photos, send those too. Pius Weibel and Brian Huff led We'll return them. an Illinois Geological Society field (legible) with trip, Silurian Reefs and Stratigraphy— Send your remembrance along your name, address and daytime The Kentland Disturbance, on April phone number to: 16 and 17. The group visited the Delphi Field Trips Quarry, Rich Valley, the Wabash c/o GeoSciences Editor Reef, Hanging Rock, the Department of Geology Engineering Materials Quarry at 245 Natural History Building Logansport, Ind., and the Kentland 1301 W. Green Street Astrobleme. All of these are classic Urbana, IL 61801 localities, and many of them have Career runs gamut from academe to industry World War II played a particularly was undergoing officer training, he Alumni important role in determining the was told he would remain in the course of Haydn H. Murray's life. United States for at least six months Profile: Because of the war, he became in- before going overseas. That terested in geology and received prompted him to call his high school Haydn H. Murray three degrees from the University of sweetheart, Juanita Appenheimer, Illinois (B.S. '48, M.S. '50 and Ph.D. and the two were married in Decem- '51). on, has always was on a 10-day 'I have always felt the training And from then he ber while Murray that you get sort of paves the way managed to be in the right place at leave. However, he was soon sent out for your future. Illinois was a very the right time throughout his illustri- to Fort Lewis, Wash., and informed good training ground for me.' ous professional life. of his pending overseas duty. "So I called my new bride, and it took her about four or five days to get a space on the train from Chicago to Seattle," Murray said. "She came out and we had another 10-day leave. We drove down to San Francisco, and then I left and didn't see her for a couple of years." Murray served as a lieutenant in an aviation engineering battalion in the Philippines. His work involved raw materials to build roads, bridges and airstrips. Using volcanic ash and see- ing several active volcanoes in the area, he became more interested in geology and decided that was what he wanted to do. But it was a long wait. Although the war ended in August 1945, Murray was the last officer of his battalion to come home. He did not get out of the Haydn H. Murray service until September 1946, and Born and raised on a farm near classes at the University of Min- Toulon, 111., Murray thought about his nesota had begun in August. future and decided he wanted to be- "I was so anxious to go to school come a doctor or an engineer. that I decided to come down to Ur- "Rocks always fascinated me, for bana and enroll because Illinois some reason," he said. "And I con- didn't start until late September that cluded that becoming a doctor would year," Murray said. "Of course, it take too long. So I went into mining turned out to be a very lucky move. engineering." 'Then I had no intention of going all But it was the University of Min- the way, but I got a teaching assis- '48. nesota, not Illinois' land grant school, tantship after I graduated in And that Murray attended in 1942. He was then I got the Illinois Clay Products in the middle of his third quarter at Fellowship to go on for the Ph.D. So I Minnesota when his military duty stayed and got all three degrees from took precedence in his life. When he Illinois." Murray received the Hal Williams Hardinge Award in 1976. Professor Ralph Grim's teachings Having always enjoyed teaching, he pany was the third largest in that had a tremendous influence on Mur- remained at Indiana for six years. field of kaolin production," he said, ray's professional development. Then an unexpected offer came up describing his biggest accomplish- "He was always a gentleman, one of that was hard to refuse. ment with GKC, "and when I left, the nicest people I ever met," Murray "When oil company representa- they were No. 1 in production and said of his mentor. "I remember tives would come through, it always new product developments. So tak- when I gave the first paper that I ever boggled me when they said profes- ing the company and seeing it de- gave before an actual meeting, and I sors had their heads in the clouds, in velop and hiring the research staff was scared to death. He said, 'Don't an ivory tower and that they weren't and watching the development of worry. Just remember, you know practical. So the president of the new products was probably the most more about that subject than anyone company I was doing some consult- exciting thing." else in that audience.' And I've al- ing work for offered me double my The owner of the company died in ways thought, well, you really do salary at Indiana. So I decided I 1973 and the business was sold. But know your subject, or should know it, would try industry." instead of being out of a job, Mur- better than anybody. And that always In 1957, Murray moved to New Jer- ray's timing for new employment was stayed with me. I tell my students sey and the Georgia Kaolin Co. for still sharp. "I've been in the right that, too." the next 16 years. He started out as place at the right time so many times As it turned out, Professor Grim was director of research, eventually that luck has been on my side," he good friends with the state geologist making his way to executive vice said. In April, Murray was asked to at Indiana University, and when the president in which he was responsi- return to Indiana to head the geology job opened, it required a clay miner- ble for all aspects of the company, department. alogist. "I knew I was going to get that including research and development "You know, since returning to teach- job a year before I was finished," of resources. ing, my feeling is that everybody Murray remarked. "When I went with them, the corn- should have industrial experience. The learning experience, the practi- Hardinge Award from the American it," he said. "I love athletics." (He still cal applications, the people relation- Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and roots for Illinois teams when they ships are very, very important. I re- Petroleum Engineers in recognition play anyone but Indiana.) turned a much better teacher and of outstanding achievement in the Sports is not the only connection administrator than I would have field of industrial minerals. Murray maintains with Illinois. He been without the industrial experi- He also has been involved in vari- has been active with the GeoThrust ence." ous international assignments. From Committee of the U. of I. Geology Murray's goals for the department 1974-82 he was chairman of a UN- Department since its inception and were to heighten its stature and ESCO working committee on kaolin currently serves as chairman. broaden its base in all areas of geol- genesis and age correlation, and in "I have always felt, and I tell other ogy, all the while continuing his 1988 he conducted a survey of Chile's teaching and research. In the 11 industrial mineral potential at the years he held the administrative request of its government. Murray post, eight new positions were added, also worked as a consultant for the 'I think the making it one of the largest depart- National Research Council's Office teaching and ments in the Big 10 today. of International Affairs to evaluate supervision of Another time-consuming part of bentonite clays and kaolins for AID graduate students being chair, but one Murray believed projects in Egypt. One of these pro- is the most was essential to attracting good peo- jects resulted in the discovery of a rewarding --to see ple, was to participate in various pro- large sodium montmorillonite de- them develop and fessional societies and organizations. posit between Cairo and Alexandria, go into their establishing a new industry to pro- professions and duce drilling muds and foundry clays watch for Egypt and other countries in the them mature and The learning Middle East. become experience, the During these hectic years, time successful.' practical management was one thing Murray applications, the learned from his industrial experi- people ence that was invaluable. relationships are "My wife would say that I was never people this, the training that you get very, very home in the evenings," Murray said sort of paves the way for your future," important. I and laughed. "I'd come home for he said. "Illinois was a very good returned a much dinner and then go back to the office. training ground for me. Professor better teacher and A lot of my writing and research were Grim was outstanding, and other pro- administrator than done between eight and midnight. fessors also. They sort of mold the I would have been "I never really did like the adminis- way that you perform and act. So I without the tration," he added. "I think the always felt that I owed the University industrial teaching and supervision of graduate a lot and have tried to give back." experience.' students is the most rewarding—to Murray plans to teach one more see them develop and go into their year and then retire. But he said he professions and watch them mature will still have graduate students fin- and become successful. I think I ishing up their work. And he'll con- Over the years he has held leading have former graduate students in tinue his research with emeritus sta- positions with such groups as the every major clay company in the tus. And then there's the new posi- Clay Minerals Society; the Society for country." tion he just acquired recently when Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration; In 1984, Murray opted not to be he was elected president at the In- the American Institution of Profes- reappointed department chair. He ternational Clay Minerals Society sional Geologists; the American Geo- has continued teaching and doing meeting in Australia. logical Institute; and the Geological research. And, since that time, he has There is a sneaking suspicion that, Society of America. served as the faculty athletics repre- retired or not, Haydn Murray will In 1976, Murray was pleasantly sur- sentative to the NCAA and the Big remain as busy as ever. prised to receive the Hal Williams Ten. "It takes a lot of time, but I enjoy 10 Field geology still at the heart of his work" Professor Steve Marshak may returned to the East when he went to Faculty look like a mild-mannered structural Columbia University for his Ph.D. geologist, but he's really a master While at Columbia, Marshak man- Profile: juggler. He can conduct field studies aged to participate in exotic field ex- in Brazil, develop an introductory peditions to Tunisia, Italy, Antarctica Stephen Marshak geology course, teach a core under- and Chile. Strangely enough, his own graduate course, lead a field camp in thesis focused on the Hudson Valley Utah, supervise a group of graduate in New York State. 'There are 37,000 students at this students, or just kick back at home When he's asked about these out- university," Marshak said, "and if and write a textbook. ings, it's easy for a travel story or two we're only teaching 1 00 of them a Perhaps the reason why he does so to come to mind. year, we are not serving the best much is because he simply enjoys it For example, imagine the Antarctic interest of science education or of all. From an early desire to under- geology.' in 1979. Marshak was driving a skidoo stand the mountains he backpacked pulling a supply-laden sledge. While through in high school, Marshak al- going down an ice fall, a Russian ways liked structural geology and named Vladimir who was riding on field work in the great outdoors. the sledge yelled to Marshak, "It's much more pleasant to be out "Giddyap! Giddyap!" (that's what he'd under the open sky than in an office," heard American movie cowboys tell he said. their horses). But Marshak was al- Marshak takes a lunch break atop a mountain in Brazil. Hailing from Rochester, N.Y., Mar- ready going full throttle, and when shak started out at Cornell for his the sledge started going faster than undergraduate work, then moved to the skidoo, they soon reached the the University of Arizona for his mas- end of their rope, literally. The sledge ter's because "there are lots of rocks flipped over and the two went flying. and lots of mountains there." But he Fortunately, they were not hurt and 11 stresses created during orogenic events at continental margins are transmitted into the interior of the continent," Marshak said. 'Traditionally, people viewed conti- nent-continent collisions to be somewhat like a collision between two Volvos, where the (impact) is all in the front area and the back end is just fine. But more likely, it's like a collision between two Yugos, where the whole thing gets deformed—obvi- ously more in the front but some de- formation toward the rear." The ability to explain something so complex with an easy-to-grasp anal- ogy like two totaled Yugos is one of the reasons why Marshak has had successes inside the classroom, as well. "I thoroughly enjoy teaching," he Graduate students on a recent field trip to southwest Arizona studied extensional tectonism. said. "It's a challenge to find ways to had started to right the equipment last year on granite-greenstone belt explain complicated material to stu- when a colleague on another skidoo architecture. dents." yelled for them to move quickly. It In addition to his Brazil project, Marshak teaches two graduate seemed they had landed on a snow Marshak also is working on the courses, as well as undergraduate bridge that spanned a 10 meter-wide three-dimensional geometry of struc- structural geology and a revamped crevice. tures in fold-thrust belts and on the introductory course, Geology 100. In Later, safely at camp, they re- nature of tectonic movements in the latter course, he has tried to ap- learned some more laws of nature continental interiors. peal to a larger number of students when they discovered that the wine "There is growing evidence that without sacrificing scientific content. bottles they lugged along had had A visit to Zabargad Island in the Red Sea near the Egypt-Sudan border. frozen and cracked. Fortunately, the beer was fine, since the cans had ex- panded. So at the end of that particu- larly long day, they threw a few cans into boiling water until they melted enough to be consumed. The field work Marshak now con- ducts concentrates on a portion of the Brazilian craton. For the last six years, he has taught a three-week short course on geotectonics at a university in Brazil. He naturally be- came interested in the geology of the area and began to collaborate with a professor there. With a National Sci- ence Foundation grant secured, the two are studying the Precambrian origin and evolution of this craton. Some of the initial results of this work led to publication of a Nature article 12 In the last few years, course enroll- teach beyond the reach of the major- On a recent trip, and as he usually ment has essentially quintupled. ity." does, Marshak had his students "We use quite a bit of audio-visual Marshak is currently working with measure structure features of rocks material to spice up the course," he Professor Philip Sandberg on an in- with a compass. There is a noticeable said. "It's sort of a multi-media ap- troductory textbook that incorporates change in the orientation of struc- proach to geology." their shared philosophy about how to tures from where they begin the day The increasing enrollments in Ge- interest undergraduates. Marshak to where they finish. When Marshak ology are important. explained that geology education asked this group how the last mea- 'There are 37,000 students at this underwent a fundamental revolution surement compared to the first, the university," Marshak said, "and if in the early 1970s when plate tecton- students were silent. David, who was we're only teaching 100 of them a ics made its way into the introductory 6 at the time, said, "Wasn't the other year, we are not serving the best in- curriculum. Now, he said, it is time one north 80 east?" terest of science education or of ge- for a change in the way things are "All the students stared at him be- ology. We should try to attract a big- done. cause it was the right answer," Mar-, ger audience and reach a larger per- With his combination of teaching shak said. centage of students so that when and research, Marshak's schedule is So as the new academic year gets they get out of here, they're literate in often bulging at the seams. Class underway, Marshak continues his ef- concepts about how the Earth works. field trips, the Utah field camp, forts to spend time with his family, Those are the people who are going meetings, and research expeditions which also includes his 4-year-old to have to make decisions about nat- conspire to keep him away from daughter Emma and his wife Kathy. ural hazards and resource utiliza- home. Often, the external demands Reminders of the kids are proudly tion." force the more important goals to a displayed on his office wall in the lower spot on the priority list. form of their original artworks. Mar- shak also is proud of the work his past graduate students—his extended family—have gone on to accomplish, is growing 'There and this year he is supervising five evidence that stresses new graduate students. created during orogenic When he does get some free time events at continental to himself, he writes. Along with the margins are transmitted text he is working on with Sandberg, into the interior of the Marshak is co-authoring a structure continent.' and tectonics textbook. After teach- ing a course for a number of years, it seems like a natural step for him to put what he's learned from teaching "A lot of times you have many down on paper for others to share. short-term tasks that require an im- His first book on structure and tec- mediate response, which means the tonics was published in 1988 and is long-term projects often get put now in its sixth printing. Marshak wades to a field area in Brazil aside. It's a frustration." "What I do for relaxation in the But sometimes Marshak can com- Although, Marshak admits it can be evenings is basically write textbooks-- bine his work with other priorities. frustrating to try and teach students I find it more interesting than collect- For example, Marshak took his fam- who don't begin the course with a ing stamps," he said and laughed. ily to Australia last year while he was real interest in geology, he finds that on a sabbatical there, and his 8-year- the frustration is offset when the stu- old son David loves going on the dents surprise themselves and real- structure trip to Marquette, Mich. ize that they actually end up enjoying 'The funny thing about it is that the course. he's heard me repeat things so many "You can't teach to the lowest times that he knows the geology bet- common denominator," he said. "But ter than some students." at the same time, you don' t want to 13 Getting a Ph.D. in hydrogeology is no waltz She reads Elizabethan history, ward for all the hard work. She Student makes quilts, loves Winnie the Pooh bought running shoes, biking shorts and trips the light fantastic with a and material for a new quilt. Profile: ballroom dancing club. Oh, she also But that wasn't the only reward she is a hydrogeologist working on her has received recently. In August, she Amy Berger Ph.D. under Professor Craig Bethke's was officially notified of her ap- supervision. pointment to the Department of En- 'The dancing geologist," Amy ergy's Office of Environmental 'I'm not the type of person who can Berger called herself and laughed. Restoration & Waste Management stand up in the front of the room "Dancing was my thing to do when I Graduate Fellowship program. The and tell jokes. I try to organize my was growing up. It's kind of an escape 12-month appointment includes a lectures so that there is a lot of for me. I absolutely forget anything at class participation.' summer practicum in 1994 a DoE I'm worried about." lab or facility. Lately, there was plenty she worried In 1993, Berger received the De- about. On May 10 she went through partment's Outstanding Woman her qualifiers—"one of the top five Graduate Student Award, and in 1992 worst experiences" of her life. From she received the Alumni Fellowship. the end of March until that day, her It's hard to believe when this accom- whole life was focused on that goal, plished student says she "fell into and to her, May 11 didn't exist. geology by accident." "It was that absorbing and terrify- She went to Pomona College in Cal- ing," she said. "It's like, 'Let's throw ifornia for her undergraduate work, you into a pit of burning coals and which began as a double major of see if you can climb out.'" chemistry and history. That decision Berger did climb out and passed, was inspired by some special high much to her relief. She even treated school teachers who passed along herself to a shopping spree as a re- their excitement for their subjects to Amy Berger Berger. "I tend to be a very teacher-ori- ented learner," she said. "But I took chemistry my first year at Pomona and got murdered, basically." She also discovered that she really didn't like studying history, either. So she began to sample various courses, including physics and math, which she attributes to the influence of her mathematician father. Another of those sample courses was a geology class for non-majors because the professor came highly recom- mended. Most geology majors didn't come from that class, but Berger did. And the geology department was small enough that the people all knew each other and Berger could take every course. During her junior year, she was a geology liaison to en- 14 and talking. Being a teaching assistant herself has really put those beliefs into perspective, she said. "I'm not the type of person who can stand up in front of the room and tell jokes," Berger said. "I try to organize my lectures so that there is a lot of class participation. It was really hard at first; a bombed a couple of times. But I started teaching and thought, 'This is really fun.'" courage more majors into the de- mining and acid mine drainage. The partment. variety of directions to explore in- "I didn't know what I was interested trigued Berger, and she decided to in except that I thought I was inter- write her thesis proposal on acid ested in sedimentary geology," she mine drainage. said. Other work with Bethke includes After college, Berger considered preparing an annual three-day law school and going into environ- course for labs that fund his research. mental law. But when that avenue Bethke's students teach participants seemed a bit much for her, she how to use the group's software, so thought about environmental con- the graduate students have been sulting. She looked around for a hy- writing labs and working out the dro program and visited three bugs. One program, for example, schools, including Illinois. dumps out a data file and another 'That was an eye-opener," she said. one plots the information into corre- "As an undergrad, the schools are sponding color images. She passes that fun along by re- trying you out. When I applied for "Craig is really good to work with," warding exceptional papers with gold graduate school, it was completely Berger said. "He's involved in so star stickers. She especially takes de- reversed. Everybody wants you. Pur- many things, and he knows an in- light in seeing typically stoic engi- due and Illinois offered fellowships. credible amount. And he seems to be neering students checking each oth- The people she met at UIUC were really well respected by hydrology ers' papers to see who got a star. Ul- of various ages and seemed to be and geology people. timately, Berger's professional goal is doing projects that sounded interest- "He does such a wide range of to teach at a small college like ing to Berger. "At Purdue, it was more things that I have a lot to choose Pomona where she can have more of like professor to student," she said, from. He doesn't say, 'This is your a personal, one-on-one interaction "whereas here it was more like re- project.' He throws a lot of things with students. searcher to researcher." your way, and he's open to a lot of But first she has to get through an- Her work with Bethke took her to ideas." other May again. In 1994, it will be Denver, Colo., in April to participate What truly impresses Berger about the prelims, and all the studying and in a short course called good teachers is when they are ex- fretting that goes them. "May is just "Environmental Geochemistry of cited about what they do and "attack" not a good month," she joked. "But Mineral Deposits," regarding envi- a subject in a way that involves the for now I can go home at five and I ronmental damage from hard-rock class, rather than just standing up don't have to come back in at seven." 15 FORTIES planned for August bound for the Southern Ocean. (Ph.D. Charles Noble Beard 41), a He and Marilyn plan to leave retired geology professor at Fresno Alaska in 1996 and move to Portland, (Calif.) State University, died at the Ore. age of 86. He was department chairman at FSU from 1966-69. He Alumni Charles E. Tranter (M.S. 54) retired retired in 1970 after 33 years there. in December from Mobil Oil Co. did research with the U.S. Beard after nearly 39 years. He had been News Army Corps of Engineers in Arizona chief geologist since March 1987. and was a field geologist for groundwater survey in Tennessee. GeoSciences is for alumni and Carl G. Davis (B.S. 59) of Westville He was a fellow of the Geological largely about alumni. Please take the teaches geology, physical science Society of America. Beard is survived time to complete and return the and chemistry at Danville Area Com- his wife, son by Mary, a and two munity College. He received a one- information form you will find at the grandchildren. semester leave last fall to write The end of this issue, fust as you like to Geology of Vermilion County and read about classmates and other Harold White (B.S. 47, M.S. 48), Nearby Geologic Sites. alumni, they'd like to know more president and of White Explo- CEO "My main sources of information about you. Your news is important to ration, Ltd., has closed out his corpo- were the Illinois State Geological Sur- them and to us in the Department. ration and retired in December 1992. vey, the Indiana Geological Survey lives in Miss. Send a recent photo along, too, but He Jackson, and the Illinois State Water Survey. let us know if you want it returned. All of these agencies went out of their Jack A. Glendening (B.A. 48) is The following notes are divided by way to help me in this project. I want retired and lives in Big Cabin, Okla. decade. Those who were affiliated especially to thank Drs. Hilton John- son and John Kempton for their help with the Department during part of N. (B.S. Robert Ginsburg 48), in the glacial and groundwater areas. one decade through to the next are professor of marine geology and geo- The U. of I. Geology Library also gave listed according to the last degree re- physics at the University of Miami, me a courtesy card and this library ceived. Within each decade, items received a Fulbright Award for study was a very useful resource. are listed in yearly sequence, not al- abroad in Morocco. "The book was written for the pur- phabetically. pose of bringing together the many laladirU items concerning this country's geol- ogy, especially in the area of eco- Wilford F. Weeks (B.S. 51, M.A. 53) nomic resources. moved to Fairbanks, Alaska, in 1986. "I did some field work east of West- He is a professor of geophysics at the ville in the Grape Creek area in Geophysical Institute at the glacial deposits. Several of these sites of University Alaska-Fairbanks and were described in Eveland's 1952 retired in 1989 as chief scientist at the paper on the geology of the Danville Alaska Synthetic Aperture Radar area. I also looked for the 'lost fossil (SAR) Facility (which radar makes beds' along the Vermilion River first of the earth space). At images from reported by Worthen, 1882, without UA, Weeks "teaches a grad course any luck. I am still puzzled by many students, on sea ice, supervises grad aspects of the Grape Creek area; the worries over the science program at depression called Langley Bottoms the facility, does field work in SAR and its relationship with the buried bizarre places most of which you Danville Valley, a tributary of the would not want to visit, and writes the Teays River system. Writing the usual sleep-inducing technical book was a very enjoyable papers." experience." In 1987 and '88, he ran field studies near the North Pole, has worked at Barrow every winter from 1988 to the SSSEg present, and was in the Antarctic in Charles E. Pflum (B.S. 60) retired 1990. Another Antarctic trip was from the Exxon Production Research 16 Co. in August 1992 after 29 years of vice. He hopes to introduce older vot- Bradley Krumpolz (B.S. 78) teaches service. He and his wife, Betty, ers to the need for geologic advice on physical science and earth science at moved to Kerrville, Texas, in the land use decisions and perhaps the Downers Grove South High School. "heart of the hill country to enjoy a need for "city geologists." He taught earth science for one year little slower pace of life." He also says he was "delighted to at Niles North High School and earth see the Department developing an science, physical science, physics Paul L. Plusquellec (M.S. 66, Ph.D. environmental program"—something and chemistry for three years at 68) is vice president of operations he advocated in the early 1970s. North Chicago High. He lives in with CNG Producing Co., supervising Mount Prospect, 111. inland and offshore development Bill Rice (M.S. 74) has been elected and all field operations for pro- vice president of the Kingsford, John Morrone (B.S. 79) is a district duction. He lives in Gretna, La. Mich., School Board. geologist for the U.S. Department of I-BLM in Crory, Colo. He works with SEVENTIES Jim Brossman (B.S. 74) joined coal, sodium minerals, oil shale and Amoco Oil Co. in 1990 as an environ- the saleable minerals programs, Steven W. Leavitt (B.S. 71) has mental coordinator for hazardous which consists of coal corelations, been an associate professor at the waste. Before that, he worked for the mapping and resource valuation, Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research in Environmental Protection Agency detail mapping of small tracts and Tucson, Ariz., since 1990 and is acting and ENSR Consulting and mine claims for mineral value. He is director for the 1992-93 academic Engineering. He and his wife, Nancy, "happily living" in a self-built log year. From 1984-90 he was an assis- celebrated their 20th anniversary in home in Steamboat Springs and tant and then associate professor of Hawaii last year. And this year, they "recreating (skiing, hiking, camping, geology at the University of Wiscon- took their kids-Eric (14), Michael (10) cycling, mountain biking, etc.) sin-Parkside. He planned to return to and Alex (6)—to Colorado, Wyoming whenever possible." He welcomes China this summer for field work in and South Dakota. "Our drive old classmates and faculty to visit the Qinling Mountains as part of a through the Sheridan area brought when they are in the area. project to reconstruct monsoonal back many memories of 'Camp circulation over the past 400-600 Ralphie,'" he writes. EIGHTIES years. Jerry P. Walker (M.S. 75) is chief Richard Leary (Ph.D. 80) curator of Cmdr. Steve Jamrisko (B.S. 71) geologist at Sierra Energy Corp. in geology at the Illinois State Museum, retired from the U.S. Navy in July Reno, Nev. He is president of the will be an invited lecturer on board after 20 years of service. He plans to Nevada Petroleum Exploration Soci- Orient Lines cruise ship Marco Polo remain in Washington, D.C., and ety. Walker also serves on the Citi- in January 1994. The 15-day cruise hopes to find a place in zens Advisory Committee of the begins in Buenos Aires, Argentina, environmental work. Reno School Board and sits on the Jan. 12, visits the Malvinas/Falkland committee that evaluates and selects Islands, makes several stops along H.R. (Dick) Naslund (B.S. 72), chair science textbooks to be used in the the Antarctic Peninsula and ends in and associate professor of geological school system. Punta Arenas, Chile, Jan. 27. Leary studies and environmental studies at also will lecture on regional geology the State University of New York at James W. Castle (Ph.D. 78) re- and paleobotany and share his Binghamton. His current research is ceived the 1992 A.I. Leverson Award experiences in Patagonia (1991) and on Skaergaard intrusion, Palisades from the eastern section of the AAPG western Argentina (1986). He and his sill and an ocean drilling program. during the fall 1992 meeting in wife, Eleanor, reside at 837 Roanoke He and his family live in Vestal, N.Y. Champaign. The award is given to Dr., Springfield, IL 62702. the individual who presents the most Thomas P.L. Dowell Jr. (M.S. 72, outstanding paper at the section's Michael R. Owen (M.S. 80, Ph.D. Ph.D. 73) is retired. He writes that he annual meeting. While at the U. of I., 84) from St. Lawrence University in now has a sailboat and will enjoy sail- Castle was supervised by Professor Canton, N.Y., was elected president ing the Gulf Coast of northwest George D. Klein. of the Society for Luminescent Mi- Florida. He also gives presentations croscopy and Spectroscopy. on "Energy and the Environment" to Caner Zanbak (Ph.D. 78) has Florida State University's Senior Con- formed his own environmental and Marilynn (Nicholson) Schwanitz nection, Academy for Resourceful mining consulting company, EMCZ (B.S. 78 Plant Biology, A.B. 81) is a Retirement in the Center for Profes- Inc., in Streamwood, 111. science teacher who has various sional Development and Public Ser- special assignments in several 17 - science departments in the An- sion," he writes. "I still work a lot with with colleague M. Anders for their chorage (Alaska) School District. She volcano observations in Colombia, dataset presented at the Geological worked and lived in Midland, Texas, Nicaragua and Mexico, learning Society of America meeting in for five years after graduation where better ways to monitor volcano Cincinnati. They work at the Lamont- she was a development geologist for degassing and heat transfer. 1 got Doherty Geological Observatory in what is now Chevron. Her husband, very lucky last January when I was Pallisades, N.Y. The dataset, which Brian, is an engineer. They have two too sick to visit the crater of Galeras was part of a theme session on children, Erin (9) and Christopher (7). volcano, Colombia, the day of a formation of fault systems, showed Schwanitz recently completed her serious eruption. Bueno Suerte! self-similarity over three orders of teaching certification and says they Laura and my three kids, Michael, magnitude in the length have "wonderful geology programs" Matthew and Jennifer, where glad to displacement relationship of faults in the high school and junior high in get me home that time!" from the "Volcanic Tablelands" of Acnchorage. "Alaska is phenomenal- eastern California. -a geomorphologist's dream. My kids David Bieler (Ph.D. 83) was pro- have a great rock collection gathered moted to associate professor of geol- Jennifer M. Wagner (B.S. 88) was from the many hikes around Anchor- ogy and granted tenure in the fall of married to Daniel D. Rath Nov. 30, age bowl." 1992 at Centenary College in Shreve- 1991, in Oak Brook, 111. Jennifer works port, La. He keeps busy teaching for Allstate as an actuarial student. Becky Birch (B.S. 81) and her family structure, metamorphic and field The couple live in Schaumburg. have moved to the Melbourne area methods, plus the introductory from the Sydney area in Australia. courses. He also teaches hydro oc- Sandra Finley (B.S. 88) of Casper, casionally, saying "I'm the only one Wyo., has been put in charge of the Alice Benkovich-Shilhanek (B.S. comfortable with numbers." He still distribution committee for the 81) of Bellington, Wash., gave birth does field studies in Alabama and Wyoming Geological Association. to a son, Karl, on Oct. 7, 1992. She Arkansas. completed her master's degree in Terry Pollock (B.S. 89) is employed geology at Western Washington Michael L. Sweet (M.S. 83) says he by the New Mexico Bureau of Mines University in April 1 992. Although managed to survive a wave of layoffs and Mineral Resources in Socorro, she is occupied at home at the in 1992 at BP Exploration and was working on Precambrian present, she would like to find part- recently transfered to its office in geochronology of New Mexico under time work with a geotechnical firm or Aberdeen, Scotland, where he works Dr. Paul Bauer with a publication other geological work within a year. as a sedimentologist. The high point soon to be released. He planned to of 1992, he adds, was the birth of his finish his master's thesis in May. His Grant Olson (B.S. 81, B.S. 85 Vet. son, Philip. research deals with Proterozoic Med., D.V.M. 87) is a small-animal deformation and metamorphism in a veterinarian at Door Animal Christopher Fielitz (B.S. 84, B.S. 89 multiple deformed terrain bordering Hospital in Sturgeon Bay, Wis. He Biology) has started toward his Ph.D. the west edge of the Rio Grande rift. says he hopes to get back to a mixed at the University of Kansas in practice eventually. Lawrence. He is working on the sys- NINETIES tematics of a group of extinct Creta- Chuck Connor (B.S. 82) worked on ceous fishes known as the En- As a way to better understand the volcanoes Mexican after he received chodontids. His master's work was on evolution of thrust belts, Marlon S. his Ph.D. from Dartmouth in 1988. a Cretaceous fish fauna from the Wilkerson (Ph.D. 91) of Houston, Then he went to Florida International Canadian Arctic. In his spare time, Texas, and U of I. Geology Professor University, where for five he worked Fielitz bicycles a lot and brews his Steve Marshak created a sandbox years as assistant an professor own beer. model that documented a linear studying Latin American volcanoes. relationship between the distance received He tenure last year, but Mark P. Fischer (B.S. 87) and his from the backstop to the first-formed then quit to go to Southwest wife, Tamara (B.S.W. 87), celebrated thrust and the initial layer thickness Research, a non-profit research the birth of their daughter, Sarah (The Effect of Overburden Thickness consortium. Caroline, on Dec. 10, 1991. The family on Thrustbelt Geometry and "At Southwest, my bread-and- lives in State College, Pa. Development; Tectonics, v. 11, n. 3; p. butter is assessing volcanic risk at the 560-566). proposed high-level nuclear waste Nancye Dawers (M.S. 87) was repository at Yucca Mountain for the singled out in Ceotimes' Annual U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commis- Geoscience Highlights for 1992 along 18 101 07/00 DTj; ,c cqi;r _ .. i Please take a few moments to let us and your class mates know what you 've been doing: promotions, publications, election to office, marriages, parenthood, moving, awards. We'd all like to hear from you! Name Response date_ Home address Office Address. 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