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Emeritus Admins Faculty Staff Department of Geosciences One Bear Place #97354 Waco, TX 76798-7354 Change Service Requested Geosciences ALUMNI NEWSLETTER | FALL 2018 Faculty Staff Dr. Stacy Atchley Dr. Lee Nordt Sharon Browning Chairman & Professor Dean, College of Arts & Teaching Lab Coordinator Sciences & Professor Dr. Peter Allen Wayne Hamilton Professor Dr. Daniel Peppe Program Consultant, Associate Professor & Laboratory Safety Coordinator Dr. Kenny Befus Graduate Program Director Assistant Professor Liliana Marin Dr. Elizabeth Petsios Geoscience Instrumentation Specialist, Dr. Vincent Cronin Assistant Professor Luminescence Geochronology Research Professor Dr. Jay Pulliam Tim Meredith Dr. Steven Driese W.M. Keck Foundation Instrumentation Specialist and Associate Dean for Research, Professor of Geophysics Computer Systems Admin, Graduate School & Professor Paleomagnetism and Geophysics Labs Dr. Joe Yelderman Dr. John Dunbar Professor Dr. Ren Zhang Associate Professor Stable Isotope Mass Dr. Steve Dworkin Spectrometry Technician Professor & Undergraduate Program Director Dr. Steve Forman Emeritus Professor Dr. James Fulton Dr. Harold Beaver Admins Assistant Professor Dr. Rena Bonem Dr. Tom Goforth Dr. Don Greene Paulette Penney Dr. Don Parker 04 07 43 50 Professor Office Manager Dr. William Hockaday Janelle Atchley Associate Professor Administrative Associate From the Chair Faculty Staff More Dr. Peter James Jamie Ruth Assistant Professor Administrative Associate A new look and new Catch up on the latest Our talented and Follow along with Field faculty transitions. Here, and greatest from dedicated staff share Camp. See our recent Dr. Scott James Dr. Stacy Atchley shares our esteemed faculty. what's new in their areas— graduates and awards. Assistant Professor what's new with the And meet our newest everything from lab Catch up with our alumni. department this year. professor. analyses to lab safety. And more! BAYLOR GEOSCIENCES CHAIR Dear Friends A letter from Dr. Stacy Atchley, Chair of the Geosciences Department and Professor of Petroleum and Stratigraphy I hope you're enjoying our “new look” that Dr. Bonem was an excellent teacher. She articles and delivered 25 presentations at newsletter, which we debuted last year. It's was exceptionally well organized, excited professional society meetings. In addition, gotten many compliments, and credit goes about the rich subject matter, and most 4 Ph.D. and 5 M.S. students graduated this to our new graphics design and copy editor, importantly, cared for her students. Although past year. Elizabeth Befus, wife of Assistant Profes- retiring, Dr. Bonem will stay in Waco, and in sor Dr. Kenny Befus. She brings a great deal Fall 2018 will teach her last section of Inverte- Remembering Dr. Brown of industrial graphic design and copy edit brate Paleontology as a temporary Lecturer. Finally, it is with a heavy heart that I report experience. Although our previous newslet- This gives our newly hired invertebrate the passing of Emeritus Professor Dr. Bill ters were good, our redesigned newsletter is paleontologist, Dr. Elizabeth Petsios, time to Brown on January 17, 2018, and his beloved outstanding. Many thanks to Elizabeth! set up her research space and develop her wife Claretta on March 10, 2018. Our heartfelt curriculum. We welcome Dr. Petsio’s arrival in condolences are extended to their family Let's connect. Beyond the newsletter, we're also currently August 2018! Dr. Petsios received her B.Sc. and friends. I was also an undergraduate overhauling our departmental web page, from Cornell University and Ph.D. from the student at Baylor when Dr. Brown joined the under the leadership of Dr. Dan Peppe. Our University of Southern California. She special- Department of Geology in 1981 and had the hope is to go live with the new site sometime izes in echinoderms, with particular interest privilege of being a student in his inaugural Follow us on social media for news about upcoming in 2019. Stay tuned! in their evolutionary response to events lead- Structural Geology class. I recall fondly Dr. events and info about our activities and research. ing to mass extinction. Brown’s enthusiasm in sharing topics such Faculty updates as “down-plunge viewing” and the signifi- We've had some key faculty transitions this By the numbers cance of “rabbit-ear” structures. Even more Facebook: facebook.com/baylorgeosciences year. Dr. Rena Bonem retired in May 2018, and Our undergraduate program currently has fondly, I remember field trips to the Arbuckle the Department of Geosciences hosted a cel- 55 majors and 7 minors. The majors include Mountains where Dr. Brown introduced me to Twitter: twitter.com/BaylorGeo ebration of her career on May 1, 2018. Many 50 Geology, 3 Earth Science, and 2 Geophys- camping in sub-freezing weather and Pick’s thanks to Dr. Bonem’s friends, colleagues, ics. We also have 42 students enrolled in our Tamales in Ardmore Oklahoma. and students who attended. As some of you graduate program: 15 M.S. and 27 Ph.D. Plus, I miss Dr. Brown. ▲ Instagram: instagram.com/baylorgeosciences know, I received my B.S. degree from Baylor we have 4 new M.S. and 3 Ph.D. students Geology in 1984 and was a student in Dr. joining us in Fall 2018. Our graduate students Bonem’s inaugural Paleontology class in 1981. have once again been very productive, and So I can speak from first-hand experience over the past year have authored 12 journal COVER PHOTO BY JUSTIN LEUBKE NEWSLETTER FALL 2018 4 4 Explore Faculty Staff Dr. Peter Allen | 7 Sharon Browning | 44 Dr. Stacy Atchley | 9 Wayne Hamilton | 45 Dr. Kenny Befus | 11 Liliana Marin | 47 Dr. Rena Bonem | 13 Dr. Ren Zhang | 49 Dr. Vince Cronin | 15 Dr. Steve Driese | 17 Dr. John Dunbar | 19 More Dr. Steve Dworkin | 21 Dr. Steve Forman | 23 Field Camp | 50 Dr. Jamey Fulton | 25 Graduates & Awards | 61 Dr. Don Greene | 27 Student Orgs | 63 Dr. Bill Hockaday | 29 Homecoming | 65 Dr. Peter James | 31 Alumni news | 67 Dr. Scott James | 33 Department directory | Back Dr. Daniel Peppe | 35 Dr. Elizabeth Petsios | 37 Dr. Jay Pulliam | 39 Dr. Joe Yelderman | 41 PHOTO BY LACEY RAPER 5 6 BAYLOR GEOSCIENCES FACULTY Dr. Peter Allen Another great year full of interesting classes, Professor of Hydrology & b hydrology projects, and a trip to Chennai, India. Engineering Geology a Key projects use of the SWAT Watershed model, which was some ground-breaking work in 3D modeling of adopted for use by the Water Ministry for all streams in which he is able to model full-blown John Dunbar and I worked diligently on two of India. turbulence. ▲ projects with Halff Engineering Inc. in the City of Coppell, north Dallas. The first project We are planning to help scientists at the Uni- involved assessing erosion and subsequent versity as they assess sedimentation, erosion, deposition of sand transport in a levee district and water supply issues over the next years. and its potential impact on flood potential c India is facing extreme water shortages; it is in the region. The second project involved estimated that 600,000,000 people are deal- assessment of erosion hazard of a stretch ing with high to extreme water shortage (the of Denton Creek, also in north Dallas, in A year in country has 16% of the world’s population but which about 45 homes were having erosion only 4% of global water). As 80% of the water problems and the timing and extent of the is used for irrigation and agriculture, models problem had to be evaluated for the city. like SWAT can help to better understand the pictures scope of the problem and perhaps lead to This spring, John Dunbar, Joseph White (Biol- better management practices within a very ogy), and I began another interesting project complicated water structure. on assessing the erosional stability and A. Teaching "Dynamic Earth" as usual going flood implications of the Blanco River in San Teaching and students on 40 years. Marcos. In this study, we used our first drone assessment of critical erosion areas, which we I continue to teach classes in Physical Geol- f B. Denton Creek North Texas Levee District ogy and Hydrology. And my MS student, coupled with ground-based surveys and sub- study downstream of Grapevine Dam for Halff Lance Auguste, finished up his Master's and merged jet testing and analysis. This project Associates, Inc. Sand from upstream degrada- is now employed by Vertex. will be finished up early this summer. tion is filling the levee, which can contribute to flooding. On the home front Publications In the Fall, Annabel (daughter #3) completed We continue to publish articles on the ap- C. Denton Creek, City of Coppell. Erosion of the Chicago Marathon. In January, I ventured plication and enhancement of ecohydrologi- stream impacts about 45 homes. We evalu- to Denver for Christmas with Maggie (daugh- cal models as SWAT including papers on 1) ated rates of erosion and relationship to exist- ter #2) and both grandchildren (Simon and Decision Tables to Simulate Management in ing homes. Eloise), and then got on a plane for India. Modeling, 2) a Gully headcut advance model for assessing the impact of gully erosion D. Trip to Chennai, India in January for SWAT A trip to India in watersheds, 3) a paper on streambank 2018 International Conference. There, I was a erosion within large scale watersheds, 4) a keynote speaker. In January, I also traveled to the 2018 paper on regional baseflow (Georgia), and 5) e International SWAT Conference. Here I gave papers illustrating the structure of the new Spring semester, I taught Hydrology and a keynote address along with Jeff Arnold E. SWAT model called SWAT+. I have worked Dynamic Earth. d (USDA/ARS) at IIT (Indian Technological on the periphery of exciting work with Kathy University) Madras in the city of Chennai. We Breen on using AI (directed by Scott James) in This spring, I studied channel stability and also met with scientists from all over India and F.
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