Southern Illinois University Carbondale Department of Geology 2008-2009 Calendar Years

Dear Alumni and Friends, Faculty

Much has happened in the two years since we last connected with you. Last fall, we Ken Anderson, Professor; James Conder, Assistant Professor; John C. Crelling, completed an internal and external review of all of our programs. This is something Research Professor; Joe Devera, Adjunct Instructor, Russell Dutcher, Emeritus; all departments on campus must go through every eight years. The review teams Steven Esling, Associate Professor and Chair; Eric Ferré, Professor; Richard H. examined a self-study document, toured the department, met the faculty in small Fifarek, Associate Professor; Charles O. Frank, Emeritus; Stanley Harris, Emeritus; group meetings and interviewed the staff as well as representatives of the Scott E. Ishman, Professor; Liliana Lefticariu, Assistant Professor; John E. Marzolf, undergraduate and graduate students. Associate Professor; Nicholas Pinter, Professor; Susann Pinter, Lecturer; Sue Rimmer, Professor; Dale Ritter, Emeritus; Paul D. Robinson, Emeritus; John L. Both review teams had a very positive impression of the department. The internal Sexton, Professor; James R. Staub, Emeritus; Jay Zimmerman, Emeritus. review team noted “that the department provided a strong and positive environment for research, scholarship and service.” The external review team found “a robust, Staff engaged faculty, who are collegial and producing scholarship of the highest level.” Later they noted that “…the scholastic accomplishments within the department are Richard Black, Office Manager; Harvey Henson, Research Project Specialist; substantial by any measure” and that “…the productivity of the faculty is superior, William Huggett, Researcher; Katheryn Fifarek, Office Systems Specialist. both in terms of quality and quantity.”

On May 8, 2009 the campus was hit by a bizarre storm, which the National Weather Service called a derecho. Wind speeds over large areas exceeded 100 miles per hour, and this along with the very wet soil lead to an extensive number of uprooted trees, damaged roofs, and frightened students and faculty. We went to the basement once we heard the sirens and waited for some time. This was finals week, and students from one class were sitting on the floor in the basement trying to complete their exam. The power went out and did not return to the campus for several days. Graduation was scheduled the next day and normally the College of Science holds its ceremonies in Shryock Auditorium. Instead we gathered in McAndrew stadium on a dreary, intermittently wet day, with temperamental generators humming in the distance. The College of Science awarded Jim Lightner, one of our graduates, its outstanding alumnus award at the ceremony. He spoke to all of the College graduates and his commencement speech is reproduced in its entirety in this newsletter.

We have been searching for a new coal geologist ever since Jack Crelling retired some time ago. After a couple of failed searches for an assistant professor, the University gave us permission to seek an established coal geologist and we were able to lure Professor Sue Rimmer from her position in the Department of Geology, University of Kentucky. Sue joined the faculty in January, 2009 and has established new x-ray and rock preparation laboratories. She has also revitalized our Petroleum Geology course. A rather grainy old photograph, taken at John Utgaard’s retirement party. From I do have some sad news to report. Dr. John Utgaard passed away early morning on left: Jay Zimmerman, Stan Harris, John Utgaard, and Russell Dutcher. September 8, 2009. John served the Department for nearly 40 years as a dedicated teacher, distinguished paleontologist, and respected chair. Most of us knew him as a dear friend and colleague. John’s family has suggested gifts to the Dutcher-Utgaard Field Course fund as a memorial. Jay Zimmerman has prepared a summary of John Utgaard and the Summer Field Course John’s career and this newsletter also provides a listing of his publications. John Edward Utgaard was born in Annamoose, North Dakota, on January 22, 1936. Sharon Simons, a longtime member of the office staff retired in 2009. That was a bit Having grown to maturity in the agricultural environment of the northern plains, he earlier than she planned. Sharon had a serious fall and could not work for an completed his education, married, helped raise and provide for a family, and extended period of time. She also lost her sight and could not resume her job once established a distinguished career in his chosen field of Geology. He passed away on she recovered from the fall. We miss her. September 8, 2009 in Carbondale, Illinois, his home of forty-four years.

We welcomed Katheryn Fifarek as part of the office staff in the fall, 2009. Things John attended the University of North Dakota, graduating in 1958 with the degree of are again running smoothly in the main office. B.S. in Geology and membership in Phi Beta Kappa. At Indiana University, supported in part by fellowships from Standard Oil of Texas and the National Science Foundation, he completed requirements for the A.M. degree in 1961 and continued preparation for his Ph. D. in Geology with a specialty in invertebrate paleontology and major emphasis on bryozoology.

Following marriage to Mary Susan Baker, of Bloomington, Indiana in August 1961 and the birth of first son Erik in the fall of 1962, John was awarded the Ph. D. degree in 1963. The family then moved to Washington, D. C., where John spent two years as Research Associate at the U. S. National Museum, Smithsonian Institution.

In the Spring of 1965 John, Susan, Erik, and recently-arrived son Sigurd (Sig) moved to Carbondale, Illinois, where John continued his professional career at Southern Illinois University at the rank of Assistant Professor. Soon after his arrival at SIU, John assumed responsibility for the department’s summer field course, GEOL 454. Initially, he changed its location from southern Illinois to Cardwell, Montana, site of the Indiana University field course in which he had previously served as Teaching Associate. The headquarters of the SIU course were shifted from Cardwell to the Yellowstone Bighorn Research Association (YBRA) facility at Red Lodge, Montana, following Russ Dutcher’s 1971 appointment as chairman of the SIU Department of Geology. This move established the longstanding close relationship between YBRA and our department.

During the first years at the new location, John completely revamped the field course Dr. Sue Rimmer mid vitrinite reflectance analysis. with the help of Dale Ritter and Russ Dutcher, combining some field exercise sites used by YBRA with others familiar from the IU course and adding new ones. John Homecoming this coming year is the weekend of October 9th and 10th. Again we also saw the educational and morale advantages of interrupting sequences of local will have our annual picnic on Sunday (10/10/10). Please try to join us and exercises with trips to other parts of the region, some as distant as Craters of the reconnect with the faculty and staff. Moon National Monument and Glacier National Park.

My best to everyone. I had the good luck to join the field course as instructor in the summer of 1975. I found that John and the others had put together a well-conceived but demanding Steven P. Esling variety of mapping exercises that were graduated in both geological and physical Associate Professor and Chair difficulty. The intent was to pitch the material to senior-level students who had

1 completed all other course work for the BS degree but who were essentially John retired from his position at the University in 1998. His official send-off was beginners in the field. In fact, although many or most of our students took GEOL 454 celebrated by students, former students, friends, and colleagues at what I believe to as the last BS degree requirement before graduation, we also permitted third-year be the last Buffalo Tro to be sponsored by the department. It was a big evening, but students to take the course on a case by case basis. all of us survived, and John almost immediately turned up at his old office in Parkinson Laboratory with a new title: Visiting Professor of Geology and Professor While SIU geology students were always first in line, John understood the advantage Emeritus. Not only did he continue publishing for several years but also advised of including as many students from other institutions as feasible. This policy students and fulfilled the occasional teaching assignment. During this period, John enriched the experiences of all of us who participated and probably enabled the and Susan spent most summers in Red Lodge, renting a house on the beach near the continuation of the course after departmental enrollment decreased dramatically in golf course and hosting the Utgaard boys and their respective wives and children. the mid-1980s. Throughout all this, John pursued his interest in painting and captured any number of local scenes (typically field course mapping sites) on canvas. There are aspects of John’s work in the field course that stand out in my memory. First of all, he was a talented field geologist. He could map well (a skill that we emphasized in GEOL 454) and had a solid understanding of northern Rocky Mountain geology. Of course as an invertebrate paleontologist he had the fossils down cold, but with his other areas of strength in carbonate sedimentology and petrology, he could unravel the paleoenvironmental subtleties of the Paleozoic and Mesozoic carbonate units that we encountered on a near-daily basis and set them firmly into the regional evolutionary framework. Not limited to carbonates alone, on the outcrop John could make nearshore clastic facies sing.

John was a strong believer in a working trip from Carbondale to Red Lodge where the real summer fun was to begin. Why should all of that great geology between Illinois and Montana go to waste? In the late 1970s our route led west across Missouri, Kansas, and Colorado to the Rocky Mountain front at Walsenburg, south of Denver. After a day at the Spanish Peaks we headed north through Golden to Rocky Mountain National Park. We next turned west past the Florissant Fossil Beds to Dinosaur National Monument in Utah for a day. Finally, the caravan struck northward through Wyoming (Flaming Gorge, Green River lake beds, Bighorn Basin) to Montana and YBRA. At the end of this nine-day march, a group of forty or so students and instructors, most of whom had begun as near or total strangers, had been welded into a collegial group prepared for the real work of the summer. Or so the theory went.

In fact the theory worked pretty well, but after three or so years of this, we decided that a shorter, more direct approach in a course limited in length to six weeks was warranted, possibly because the senior instructional staff was now well established in middle age. So the standard “trip out” which most former students will remember Bill Huggett, researcher in the coal laboratory, receives recognition for 25 years of was conceived. This route pointed across Missouri to Kansas City, north to Sioux service. From left: Steven Esling, Bill Huggett, Ken Anderson, and John Mead, Falls, South Dakota, and then west to Wall Drug, the Badlands and the Black Hills. Director of the Coal Research Center . After two days of geological reconnaissance in that area and a night at Devils Tower we arrived at YBRA ready for dinner and a “cold one “ after a mere five days in the As much as he loved the Montana mountains, John also deeply appreciated the carryalls. countryside of southern Illinois. On many occasions I’ve met him and Susan by chance on the roads of Giant City Park or Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge. On the road, John was impressive. Sure, he knew the geology and where to go to see We’d stop and trade observations about the weather or birds or wildflowers before it, but he had also zeroed in on every scenic camping place, every small-town café driving on. with a monstrous breakfast, every restaurant that specialized in super-steaks, and every buffet that served pickled herring in cream, in at least five states. For several In early 2009, John was notified that he had been selected the recipient of the Arthur years I piloted the last carryall in the string through heat, rain, mud, and clouds of Gray Leonard Award, presented to distinguished alumni by the Department of dust, over good roads and awful roads, following John from outcrop to outcrop and Geology and Geological Engineering at the University of North Dakota. He was to from one camping place to the next. The students and I always hoped that he knew receive the Leonard Medal at a banquet in October. John passed away in Carbondale where he was going and had some purpose in mind. On many mornings during those on September 8, 2009, at the age of 73. first few years I could wake up in my tent, having crawled into the sleeping bag long after dark the night before, with absolutely no recollection of where I was: maybe Dr. Steven Hageman, in his memorial published in the Bulletin of the International somewhere in western Montana, maybe not. Even if the students didn’t know, and I Bryozoology Association, put it this way: “To everyone who knew him personally, didn’t know, John had it figured. And I can’t remember that he ever took the wrong John will be remembered as a genuine friend and a notably nice guy.” road. Jay Zimmerman Among the constant factors of our trips to Red Lodge and our days in YBRA was the entire Utgaard family. Where John went, so went Susan and the boys. Following Erik and Sig were the arrivals, through the years, of Peter (Pete), and finally, John (Johnny). When the boys were old enough to travel, out to Montana they went. As a result, the Utgaard boys joined the offspring of other faculty members in spending John Utgaard Publications summer weeks on the edge of the Beartooth Mountains. Not a bad place to start growing up. And then there was Sparky Utgaard, the single-minded, gopher-hunting Published Papers dachshund. Sparky had many notable adventures at the YBRA camp – but those are other tales for other days. Hattin, Donald E., Edmund Nosow, R.D. Perkins, E.C. Stumm, M.D. Mound, and John Utgaard, 1961, Field excursion to the Falls of the Ohio: Guidebook for Field John’s leadership of the SIU summer field course was only one aspect of a Trips, Cincinnati Meeting, Geological Society of America, p. 295-350. distinguished career. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 1968 and to Professor in 1973. Throughout his tenure at the Department of Geology he Boardman, R.S., and John Utgaard, 1964, Modification of study methods for maintained a standard of quality research and refereed publication. He was elected a Paleozoic Bryozoa: Journal of Paleontology, v. 38, p. 768-770. Fellow of the Geological Society of America in 1972 and became a recognized authority on paleobryozoology with his authorship of definitive chapters on Utgaard, John, and R.S. Boardman, 1965, Heterotrypa Nicholson, 1879, and Cystoporate bryozoa in the revised Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology (1983) and Peronopora Nicholson, 1881 (Bryozoa, Trepostomata); Proposed designation of a other research contributions. type-species in conformity with generally accepted usage: Bull. of Zoological Nomenclature, v. 22, p. 112-118, 1 table. His performance in the classroom mirrored his contributions in research. John taught across the entire curriculum from entry-level geology to advanced graduate courses Boardman, R.S., and John Utgaard, 1966, A revision of the Ordovician bryozoan and supervised the research of some thirty graduate students. He was voted College genera Monticulipora, Peronopora, Heterotrypa, and Dekayia: Journal of of Science Outstanding Teacher in 1978. Paleontology, v. 40, no. 5, p. 1082-1108, pls. 138-142, 9 text-figs.

John was awarded numerous research and teaching grants. He served on a long list of Utgaard, John, 1968, A revision of North American genera of ceramoporoid College and University Committees, was a member of fourteen professional and bryozoans (Ectoprocta): Part I; Anolotichiidae: Journal of Paleontology, v. 42, no. honorary societies and an officer in several. He was a member of the YBRA Council 4, p. 1053-1041, pls. 129-132. for multiple terms and served as its President from 1989 to 1991. Utgaard, John, 1968, A revision of North American genera of ceramoporoid In 1984 John assumed the chairmanship of the Department of Geology, succeeding bryozoans (Ectoprocta): Part II, the Ceramoporidae Crepipora, Ceramoporella, Russ Dutcher, and remained in that position until 1993. During that span of years he Acanthoceramoporella, and Ceramophylla: Journal of Paleontology, v. 42, no. 6, p. ceded the leadership of the summer field course to me. I inherited a smoothly 1444-1455, pls. 181-184. running course with a solid reputation for organization and quality of instruction but can attest that the view from the leading vehicle in the caravan is different from that Utgaard, John, 1969, A revision of North American genera of ceramoporoid of the last in line and not entirely because the dust is thinner in front. During those bryozoans (Ectoprocta): Part III; the Ceramoporidae Ceramopora, Papillalunaria, summers John was usually at YBRA to lend a hand with teaching and with good Favositella, and Haplotrypa: Journal of Paleontology, v. 43, no. 2, p. 289-297, pls. advice when needed. Rich Fifarek rode shotgun in those days, and Jim Staub, John 51-54. Marzolf, and John Weber taught from time to time. Fraunfelter, George, and John Utgaard, 1970, Middle Pennsylvanian edrioasteroid from southern Illinois: Journal of Paleontology, v. 44, no. 2, p. 297-303, pls. 59-60, 12 text-figs.

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Utgaard, John, and Terry Givens, 1973, Middle Pennsylvanian depositional Utgaard, John 1979, Paleobiological significance of preserved organic remnants in environments; Delta Mine, Williamson County, Illinois: Thirty-Seventh Annual Tri- Paleozoic cystoporate bryozoans: Abstracts of the Annual Meeting, Illinois State State Field Conference, p. 90-106, 1 table, 3 figures. Academy of Science, p. 34.

Fraunfelter, George H., John Utgaard, Charles F. Mansfield, John T. Popp, Stanley Deshowitz, M.P., and John Utgaard, 1979, Paleoenvironmental interpretation of the E. Harris, Jr., Russell J. Jacobson and Richard D. Harvey, 1979, Depositional and Energy Shale (Middle Pennsylvanian) in southern Illinois. Abstracts of the Annual Structural History of the Pennsylvanian System of the Illinois Basin, Part I, Road Meeting, Illinois State Academy of Science, p. 34. Log and Descriptions of Stops: Guidebook for Field Trip No. 9, Ninth International Congress on Carboniferous Stratigraphy and Geology, Illinois State Geological Utgaard, John, 1979, Review of Carboniferous cystoporate bryozoan genera: Survey Guidebook Series, p. 82-112. Abstracts of Papers, Ninth International Congress of Carboniferous Stratigraphy and Geology, p. 219. Utgaard, John, 1979, Paleoecology and depositional history of rock strata associated with the Herrin (No. 6) Coal, Delta Mine, Williamson County, Illinois: Depositional Dutcher, Russell, R., and John E. Utgaard, 1979, Geology of the Illinois Coal Basin: and Structural History of the Pennsylvanian System of the Illinois Basin, Part 2, Abstracts of Papers, First Conference on Ground Control Problems in the Illinois Invited Papers: Guidebook for Field Trip No. 9, Ninth International Congress on Coal Basin, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. Carboniferous Stratigraphy and Geology, Illinois State Geological Survey Guidebook Series, p. 86-92, 2 figs., 1 table. Deshowitz, Marc P., and John Utgaard, 1980, Facies, paleoecology, and depositional environments of the Energy Shale Member (Middle Pennsylvanian) and their Healy, Neil D., and John Utgaard, 1979, Ultrastructure of the skeleton of the relation to low-sulfur coal deposits, southern Illinois: American Association of cystoporate bryozoans Ceramophylla, Crassaluna. and Cystodictya: in Larwood, Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, vol. 64, no. 8, p. 1283. G.P., and Abbott, M.B., eds., Advances in Bryozoology, The Systematics Association Special Volume No. 13, Academic Press, London, p. 179-194, 2 plates. Deshowitz, Marc P., and Utgaard, John, 1981, Facies, paleoecology, and depositional environments of Energy Shale Member (Pennsylvanian) and their Utgaard, John, 1981, Lunferamita, a new genus of Constellariidae (Bryozoa) with relation to low-sulfur coal deposits in southern Illinois: 2nd Annual Program of Coal strong cystoporate affinities: Journal of Paleontology, v. 55, p. 1058-1070, 10 tables, Review, Coal Extraction and Utilization Research Center, Southern Illinois 3 plates. University at Carbondale.

Jaeger, Paul, and John Utgaard, 1983, Facies, depositional environments, diagenesis, Utgaard, John, 1981, Depositional environments of the Brereton Limestone: A and porosity and permeability of the Salem Limestone in Southwestern and Southern possible aid to predicting roof stability in underground mines in the Herrin (No. 6) Illinois: in Frank, C.O., editor, Field Guide for the Eastern Section, American Coal: Illinois Mining and Mineral Resources Research Institute, Southern Illinois Association of Petroleum Geologists, Carbondale - 1983, p. 2-29 - 2-41, 9 figs. University at Carbondale, p. A-32 - A-33.

Dutcher, Linda A.F., Dutcher, Russell R., and John E. Utgaard, 1983, Geology of the Burk, Mitchell K., and John Utgaard, 1983, Facies and depositional environments of No. 5 and No. 6 Coals of southern Illinois: in Frank, C.O., editor, Field Guide for Energy Shale Member (Carbondale Formation, Pennsylvanian), southwestern the Eastern Section, American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Carbondale - Jefferson County, Illinois: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, 1983, p. 1-52, 17 figs. vol. 67, no. 9, p. 1454.

Utgaard, John E., 1985, The origin of variations in the thickness and character of Guzan, Michael J., and John Utgaard, 1983, Petrography and thickness variations of roof strata important in mines in the Herrin (No. 6) Coal in southern Illinois: in Brereton Limestone Member (Carbondale Formation, Middle Pennsylvanian) – an Chugh,Y.P. editor, Proceedings: Second Conference on Ground Control Problems in important roof-rock in part of the Illinois basin: American Association of Petroleum the Illinois Coal Basin, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, p. 28-30. Geologists Bulletin, vol. 67, no. 9, p. 1455.

DeJarnette, Mark L., and John E. Utgaard, 1986, Facies and depositional O'Connell, Dennis B., and John Utgaard, 1983, Biofacies and habitats of Brereton environments of a mixed carbonate-clastic sequence in the Sundance Formation Limestone Member (Carbondale Formation, Middle Pennsylvanian), southwestern (Jurassic), northeastern Bighorn Basin, Montana and Wyoming: in Geology of the Illinois: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, vol. 67, no. 9, p. Beartooth Uplift and adjacent basins: Montana Geological Society and Yellowstone- 1458. Bighorn Research Association Joint Field Conference and Symposium, p. 27-31, 3 figs.,1 plate. Utgaard, John E., Cleaveland, Thomas H., Bird, Shane R., and Dennis B. O'Connell, 1983, Depositional environments and variability of the Brereton Limestone Member Wescott, William A., and John E. Utgaard, 1987, An Upper Mississippian trace (Pennsylvanian, Desmoinesian), an important coal mine roof rock, in southwestern fossil assemblage from the Tar Springs Sandstone, southern Illinois: Journal of Illinois: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, vol. 15, no. 6, p. Paleontology, v. 61, no. 2, p. 231-241, 6 figs. 710.

Burk, Mitchell K., Deshowitz, Marc P. and John E. Utgaard, 1987, Facies and Utgaard, John E., 1984, Sedimentation on an abandoned delta-plain peat swamp: depositional environments of the Energy Shale Member (Pennsylvanian) and their The Middle Pennsylvanian Herrin (No. 6) Coal, Energy Shale, Anna Shale and relationship to low-sulfur coal deposits in southern Illinois: Journal of Sedimentary Brereton Limestone Members in southern Illinois: Geological Society of America, Petrology, v. 57, no. 6, p. 1060-1067, 1 table, 6 figs. Abstracts with Programs, vol. 16, no. 3, p. 203.

Vice, Mari A. and John E. Utgaard, 1989, Depositional Environments in the Mission DeJarnette, M.L., and John Utgaard, 1984, Shoal, lagoonal and tidal flat carbonates Canyon Limestone (Madison Group, Mississippian), Northern Bighorn Basin and sandstones in the Hulett Sandstone Member of the Sundance Formation Region, Montana and Wyoming: in Geologic Resources of Montana, vol. 1: (Jurassic): northeastern Bighorn Basin, Montana and Wyoming: Geological Society Montana Geological Society, Centennial Field Conference Guidebook, p. 55-64, 10 of America, Abstracts with Programs 1984, vol. 16, no. 6, p. 485-486. figs. Mansholt, M.S., Utgaard, J.E., and R.L. Langenheim, 1985, Paleoecology and Vice, Mari A, and John E. Utgaard, 1996. Sedimentation and Early Diagenesis on depositional environments of Wolfcampian carbonates in Arrow Canyon, Clark the Mississippian Mission Canyon Platform in the Northern Bighorn Basin Region: County, Nevada: Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, Midyear in Resources of the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming Geological Association Guidebook, p. Meeting Abstract Volume. 145 - 157, 22 figs., 3 tables, 1 plate. Utgaard, J.E., O'Connell, D.B., Cleaveland, T.H., and Bird, S.R., 1988, Paleoecology Vice, M. A., R. H. Fifarek, and J. E. Utgaard, 2000, Diagenesis of the Mississippian applied to coal geology: the relationship of the distribution of biofacies in the Mission Canyon Formation, northern Bighorn Basin region, south-central Montana Brereton Limestone Member (Carbondale Formation, Middle Pennsylvanian) to and northern Wyoming: in R. A. Schalla and E. H. Johnson, eds. Montana variability in coal-mine roof strata in southwestern Illinois: Geological Society of Geological Society, 50th Anniversary Symposium, Montana/Alberta Thrust Belt and America, Abstracts with Programs 1988, vol. 20, no. 5, p. 393. (Invited paper). Adjacent Foreland, Vol. 1, p. 83 - 96. Vice, Mari A., and John E. Utgaard, 1989, Depositional environments in the Mission Published Abstracts Canyon Limestone (Madison Group, Mississippian), northern Bighorn basin region, Montana and Wyoming: Montana Geological Society, 1989 Field Conference Utgaard, John, and T.G. Perry, 1960, Fenestrate bryozoans from the Glen Dean Guidebook, vol. II, p. xvii. Limestone (Middle Chester) of southern Indiana: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 71, no. 12, pt. 2, p. 2027. Vice, Mari A., and John E. Utgaard, 1990, Microfacies and diagenesis in the Mission Canyon Limestone, south-central Montana and northern Wyoming: Geological Utgaard, John, and T.G. Perry, 1963, Trepostomatous bryozoan fauna of the upper Society of America, Abstracts with Programs 1990, vol. 22, no. 7, p. A89. part of the Whitewater Formation (Cincinnatian) of eastern Indiana and western Ohio: Geological Society of America, Special Paper no. 67, p. 171. Vice, Mari A., and John E. Utgaard, 1991, Local facies variability in the Mission Canyon Limestone, west flank, Bighorn Mountains, Wyoming: American Utgaard, John, 1971, An undescribed genus of Constellariidae with strong Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, V. 75, no. 6, p. 1143. cystoporate affinities: Second International Conference on Bryozoa, International Bryozoological Association, Programme, Abstract No. 48, Durham, England. Vice, Mari A. and John E. Utgaard, 1992, Carbonate sedimentation on the Mississippian Mission Canyon platform: response to tectonism and sea level Utgaard, John, 1973, Mode of colony growth, autozooids and polymorphism in the changes: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, vol. 24, no. 7, p. bryozoan Order Cystoporata: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with A109. Programs, v. 5, no. 4, p. 359-360. Vice, Mari A., Bensley, David F., and John E. Utgaard, 1992, Fluorescence Utgaard, John, and Neil D. Healey, 1977, Ultrastructure of the skeleton of the spectroscopy: a promising tool for carbonate petrology: Geological Society of cystoporate bryozoans Ceramophylla, Crassaluna, and Cystodictya: Program of America, Abstracts with Programs, vol. 24, no. 7, p. A230. Fourth International Conference on Bryozoa, International Bryozoological Association, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Mass., 1977, p. 46.

3 Vice, Mari A and John E. Utgaard, 1993, Sedimentation and early diagenesis on the sequences of southern Illinois: Thirty-Seventh Annual Tri-State Field Conference, Mississippian Mission Canyon Platform: response to tectonism and sea level 158 pp., 30 figs. fluctuations: Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists and Global Sedimentary Geology Program, Program and Abstracts for Carboniferous to Jurassic Pangea Conference, p. 321.

Utgaard, John E., and David F. Bensley, 1995, Using computer-enhanced, scanned College of Science Outstanding Alumnus images of polished rock surfaces to study lamina thickness variations in thinly laminated tidal deposits: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, The College of Science, Southern Illinois University Carbondale awarded James vol. 28, no. 7, p. A-450. Lightner its outstanding alumnus award in 2009. Jim earned his Bachelor’s degree in Geology here in 1974, and a Master’s degree in Geology as a Fulbright Fellow Murphy, Steppen, Staub, James R., Utgaard, John E., and Gastaldo, Robert A., 1996, from the Australian National University. Distribution and ecology of Holocene foraminifera within the Lassa distributary of the Rajang River delta, Sarawak, East Malaysia: Geological Society of America, Jim has over 25 years of oil and petroleum industry experience, including holding Abstracts with Programs, vol. 28, no. 7, p. A-485. internships with AMOCO Oil, serving as non-Executive Chairman of Forest Oil, Inc., as Vice President and General Manager and Exploration Manager of the Denver Kruge, M. A., J. E. Utgaard and W. Ferry, 1999, A biogeochemical comparison of Division of EOG Resources, Inc., and as Chairman, President and Chief Executive fossil (Carboniferous) and modern crustose red algae: European Association of Officer of Tom Brown, Inc. He was also CEO of Orion Energy Partners and is a Organic Geochemists 19th International Meeting on Organic Geochemistry, Tubitak founding partner in Beacon E&P, LLC. Jim has served as a director of IPAMS and Marmara Research Center, Earth Sciences Research Institute, Abstracts, Part 2, COGA, and is a member of the National Petroleum Council, AAPG, SEG and p.695-696. IPAA.

Cope, K. H., J. E. Utgaard, and J. M. Masters, 1999, The fauna of the Clayton Jim serves on various Boards, and as a proud alumnus of Southern Illinois Formation (Paleocene, Danian) of southern Illinois: Geological Society of America, University, established the Dutcher-Utgaard Geology Field Course Endowment as a Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 31, No 7, p. A-464. means of supporting a summer field experience he credits with allowing him to receive hands-on learning in the field of Geology. Vice, M. A., Fifarek, R. H. and J. E. Utgaard, 2000, Diagenesis of the Mississippian Mission Canyon Formation, northern Bighorn Basin region, south-central Montana and northern Wyoming: in R. A. Schalla and E. H. Johnson, eds., Montana Geological Society, 50th Anniversary Symposium, Montana/Alberta Thrust Belt and Adjacent Foreland, Vol. 2, p. 32. James Lightner May, 2009 Commencement Speech Cuffey, R. J., R. A. Davis, and J. E. Utgaard, 2001, The Cincinnati Paleobryozoologists. International Bryozoology Association & The Society for the Good morning graduates, friends and family members, faculty and administration. I History of Natural History, From John Ellis to Bryostatins: The History of Study of am very happy to be here and need to thank the students and the university, because Fossil and Living Bryozoans, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, Abstracts, p. 8. this is my first college commencement. I was in your exact same position 34 years ago except that I didn’t have the pleasure of attending a commencement ceremony. I Published Books didn’t discover geology until the first semester my junior year so it took me an extra half year to graduate. After leaving here I got married (which was and still is the Utgaard, John and T.G. Perry, 1960, Fenestrate bryozoans from the Glen Dean best thing that has ever happened to me), spent 2 ½ years obtaining my Masters Limestone (Middle Chester) of southern Indiana: Indiana Department of Degree in Australia, followed by 32 years working in the private sector finding and Conservation, Geol. Survey Bulletin 19, 31 pp., 6 pls., 12 text-figs. producing domestic “home-grown” energy for this great country of ours. My wife and I have lived in Canberra Australia, Houston Texas, Billings Montana, and Utgaard, John and T.G. Perry, 1964, Trepostomatous bryozoan fauna of the upper Denver Colorado. We have two sons – one who just graduated from college and one part of the Whitewater Formation (Cincinnatian) of Eastern Indiana and Western who just finished his sophomore year in college. What I would like to do this Ohio: Indiana Department of Conservation, Geological Survey Bulletin 33, 111 pp., morning is share some thoughts and observations about life after college that I have 23 pls., 1 text-fig., 62 tables. accumulated over the last 34 years.

Boardman, R.S., Cheetham, A.H., Blake, D.B., Utgaard, J.E., Karklims, O.L., Cook, I would like to touch on science first. When I arrived on campus 39 years ago in P.L., Sandberg, P.A., Lutand, G., and T.S. Wood, 1983, Treatise on Invertebrate 1970, the so-called enlightened hippy movement was beginning to wind down and Paleontology, Part G, Bryozoa, Revised, vol 1: Geological Society of America and we celebrated the very first Earth Day event. The organized focus on our the University of Kansas, 625 pp., 295 figs. environment was well-intentioned and very beneficial – I have no doubt that we all want to treat our environment responsibly. But let me share some predictions made Chapters in Published Books on that historic occasion 39 years ago.

Utgaard, John, 1973, Mode of colony growth, autozooids, and polymorphism in the  We have about 5 more years at the outside to do something! (famous bryozoan Order Cystoporata: in Animal Colonies, Development and Function ecologist) through time: Dowden, Hutchinson and Ross, Inc., p. 317-360, 74 figures.  Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken Cuffey, Roger J., and John E. Utgaard, 1999, Bryozoans: in R. Singer, ed., against problems facing mankind. (Harvard biologist) Encyclopedia of Paleontology, Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Vol. 1, p. 204 - 216.  Population will inevitably and completely outstrip whatever small increases Chapters in Treatise in food supply we make. The death rate will increase until at least 100 to 200 million people per year will be starving to death in the next 10 years. Utgaard, John, 1983, Paleobiology and taxonomy of the Order Cystoporata: in (Stanford biologist) Boardman, R.S., Cheetham, A.H., Blake, D.B., Utgaard, J.E., Karklims, O.L., Cook, P.L., Sandberg, P.A., Lutand, G., and T.S. Wood, Treatise on Invertebrate And you may not remember but we had experienced a significant 30-year cooling Paleontology, Part G, Bryozoa, Revised, vol. 1, Geological Society of America and spell from 1940 to 1970. We were being told the earth was going into another ice University of Kansas, p. 327-357, figs. 142-155. age and that human activity was to blame. I would like to humbly suggest that all of the above “alarmist” statements were not scientifically based but stemmed from a Utgaard, John, 1983, Systematic descriptions for the Order Cystoporata: in passionate belief system that seems to consistently find fault with mankind. Boardman, R.S., Cheetham, A.H., Blake, D.B., Utgaard, J.E., Karklims, O.L., Cook, P.L., Sandberg, P.A., Lutand, G., and T.S. Wood, Treatise on Invertebrate Today we are facing dire predictions of run-away global warming primarily due to Paleontology, Part G, Bryozoa, Revised, vol. 1, Geological Society of America and human CO2 emissions. The Environmental Protection Agency has recently issued an University of Kansas, p. 358-439, figs. 156-215. endangerment finding for CO2 emissions and it is now considered a pollutant. A pollutant? Sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide, ozone, carbon monoxide, particulate Laboratory Manuals matter and lead are pollutants everyone can agree on. But CO2? A naturally occurring trace gas that is essential to plant life on earth. More CO2 means more Utgaard, John, and George Fraunfelter, 1970, Introduction to paleontology: plant life and therefore more animals? An essential building block of life as we laboratory exercise for GSA 321: Schultz Publishing Co., Evansville, Indiana, 75 p. know it? Without its natural greenhouse gas effect our earth would be a frozen ice- covered planet. Book Reviews So why do I think we should all be concerned with this issue? Because something Utgaard, John 1968, Review of "Bryozoan Tabulipora carbonaria in Wreford that is so natural and obviously beneficial to our ecosystems is now labeled a Megacyclothem (Lower Permian) of Kansas", by Roger J. Cuffey, 1964, The pollutant solely due to a theory and extremely complex computer models that predict University of Kansas Paleontological Contributions, Bryozoa, Article 1, 96 p. 9 pls.: runaway global warming caused by increasing levels of man-made emissions of Journal of Paleontology, v. 42, no. 2, pp. 601-603. CO2.

Utgaard, John, 1974, Review of "Rhabdomesid bryozoans of Wreford These computer model predictions can’t be tested or verified. And these conclusions Megacyclothem (Wolfcampian, Permian) of Nebraska, Kansas and Oklahoma", by are being reached without an open honest scientific debate. Does that make any Geoffrey B. Newton, 1971, The University of Kansas Paleontological Contributions, sense to you? If we had a debate we would find out that there is a rapidly growing Article 56 (Bryozoa, Article 2), 71 p., 2 pls., 10 tables, 19 text-figs.: Journal of number of highly respected scientists who question the current so-called consensus. Paleontology, v. 48, no. 3, p. 612-613. That they believe the data shows that more than half of the last 10,000 years were warmer than we are now. Most recently that it was warmer in the Medieval Warm Editorships Period from around 700-1100 years before present (when Greenland was settled for grazing – have you ever wondered why they called it Greenland?) That 1936 was Ethridge, Frank G., George Fraunfelter, and John Utgaard, editors, 1973, the warmest year in the last century? What about the current concern for polar Depositional environments of selected Lower Pennsylvanian Upper Mississippian bears? The Department of Interior in May of 2008 listed them as “threatened” under

4 the Endangered Species Act. The World Wildlife Fund has warned that polar bears business. I humbly suggest you strive to be that type of employee. But what if, after might stop reproducing by 2012 and become functionally extinct in less than a being on the job for a year or two, you discover that you really don’t like your job? decade. But polar bears survived much warmer periods than we have now and their Fine – that’s life. You have no contract keeping you there. But don’t quit – never global population has increased dramatically from about 5,000 bears in the 1960’s to quit without having another job lined up. Go ahead and get serious about finding about 25,000 today. your next position. But know full well that your chances for landing a new quality job are significantly better if you currently hold a job. That tells the prospective Did you know that our beloved planet has not warmed since 1998 and in fact has employer a lot about you. Keep all your options open – quitting early does not do cooled over the last 6-7 years? Have any of us heard that in the nightly news? None that for you. of the complex climate models predicted this. In fact none of the models have been able to even replicate past climate change. Have you ever read that the historical Once you have this first job out of college how do you obtain the freedom and ease climate record shows no causal correlation between CO2 and temperature? This of mind that come with truly being independent? You must live within your means. statement is true on every time scale – millennia, centuries or decades. In fact the Supposedly over 50% of college graduates get into a precarious financial situation data shows CO2 levels increase about 400 to 800 years after warming periods begin – within several years of leaving college. That first new job and resultant steady not before. What we do know and can verify is that there is a close correlation income prompt many folks to go on a buying binge. Don’t let it happen to you. One between solar and orbital variability and climate change. This data documents a of the many reasons our economy is in the tank is that way too many of us were proven causal correlation with climate change and, in fact, predicted the current living beyond our means – living with large amounts of debt. If you remember one cooling. thing from this grey-haired geologist please remember that debt is truly a four letter word. Sure you will probably need a car loan and a house mortgage someday but only buy what you can afford to pay off. No one really needs a new car – not much in life is certain but you can be 100% certain that your shiny new car will be a significant money-loser. Credit cards are highly overrated and very dangerous. I suggest you only have one and use it only for emergencies. Do you really want to borrow money at 12 to 24% interest? Don’t fall into these common traps.

Commit to learn as much as you can about personal finance and responsible financial habits. If you get savvy about personal financial responsibility now, it will be one of the most important tools you use for the rest of your life. Just remember our buying decisions should be about what we need, not what we want. There is a big difference, and confusing the two is how we get into trouble. I have come to the conclusion that, all other things being equal, a person with a decent savings account will be more content, more independent, and more able to weather life’s ups and downs than a person without any savings.

You will be receiving a well-earned diploma today. There is no doubt you worked hard for it. Even though the current job market is tough, remember that you have a great advantage over those unable to attend college. So immediately after receiving your diploma go straight to Mom and Dad (or whoever aided you financially), give them a big hug, look them in the eye and say Thanks! Do it from the bottom of your heart. You will find out 20-25 years from now that putting your kids through college is a huge financial sacrifice. They do it because they love you, because they want the best for you and because they want you to have the opportunity to use your abilities to the fullest. But make no mistake, it is a sacrifice – please don’t ever take it for granted. May, 2009 commencement, from the left: Dr. Jay Means, Dean of the College of Science; James Lightner, Outstanding Alumnus; Steven Esling, Chair, Department of I would like to address one other topic before I turn you loose to your diploma and Geology well-deserved celebration. I would like to challenge you to decide what kind of life you want to lead. I am going to borrow some words here from Tony Dungy who led There are 6.2BB people on our planet and 1.6BB of those unlucky souls do not have the Indianapolis Colts to Super Bowl victory in February 2007. I don’t know the and have never had electricity. In the third world access to fossil fuels is critical. man (but wish I did) but from what I know of him, he is one of my role models. Two and a half billion people use biomass such as wood, waste and dung to cook and Tony Dungy believed that his primary job as an NFL coach was to build men worthy keep warm. This obviously causes serious environmental degradation and of being role models to a nation of boys who look up to them. Men of character, deforestation. About 1.3MM people – mostly women and children – die each year integrity and courage. Men with both confidence and humility. Men who know the from heavy indoor air pollution. A switch from biomass to fossil fuels would value of family and faith as well as career. “The life you lead is totally up to you. It dramatically and immediately improve 2.5BB lives. It is a fact that fossil fuels is not affected whatsoever by income, position or service. What kind of person do provide 85% of global energy needs. The global economy and your quality of life you want to be? Today, I have friends of all ages, races and economic backgrounds. are fueled by reliable affordable energy. If the economy is not healthy the But my closest friends are people of high character – I don’t hang around with environment suffers. This presents an interesting paradox: A healthy environment people I can’t trust. Character is tested, revealed and further developed by the requires a healthy economy; that economy requires energy and today that energy is decisions we make in the most challenging times.” What kind of character will you largely fossil fuels. As we all sit here today expelling our newly designated pollutant be proud of? Do you want to be a person of humility and integrity? “The great thing every 3 seconds or so we should at least demand an open scientific debate before about integrity is that it has nothing to do with position, wealth, race or gender. It is strangling the world’s energy supplies. not determined by shifting circumstances, cultural dynamics or what you’ve achieved. From the moment you are born, you and you alone determine whether you Are you a believer or a denier? Friends, these are not scientific terms. I have my will be a person of integrity. Integrity does not come in degrees – low, medium or own opinions but I’ll be the first to admit I have no idea what the real answer is. high. You either have it or you don’t.” Do you want to be the best friend anyone You have all been provided a wonderful science education from this fine institution could have in the whole world, the best spouse, the best parent? Think about what of higher learning. As you go through life I urge you to use that training and the your mentors and your role models meant to you and imagine what a huge positive time tested scientific method to demand open debates and to do your own research influence you could have on others. which will enable you to make up your own mind, rather than listening to the media or politicians. Get involved. I guarantee you will have plenty of opportunities to do “Each one of us is born with unique gifts, abilities and passions. How well we use so. those qualities to have an impact on the world around us determines how ‘successful’ we really are.” So now, armed with a highly educated, open, inquiring mind, you leave this campus in search of what is next. You are heading out into the thick of a painful recession. “The messages pounded into us daily by modern society are a cop-out – messages of Nice timing! Let me share some observations from 32 years in private industry. sexual conquest, financial achievement, of fame or victory in general!!” Most of you probably have no idea what you want to do or what you want to be. That is very normal – get used to it. Most people your age haven’t discovered what “If we get caught up in chasing what the world defines as success we can use our their true passions are yet. My advice is to find your passion and follow it. You time, talent and energy to do some great things. We might even become famous. want to enjoy what you are going to be doing for a large part of the rest of your life. But in the end what will it mean?” It may take numerous jobs or occupations to determine this but these learning experiences are invaluable. There really is no substitute. “What will people remember us for? Are other people’s lives better because we lived? Did we make a difference? Did we use to the fullest the gifts and abilities I would implore you not to count on the government or anyone else to take care of God gave us? Did we give our best effort and did we do it for the right reasons? you. You want to be in charge of your own future. Please be aware that no one Definition of success is really one of ‘significance” – the significant difference our owes you a job – you have to earn it and you better be darn good at what you do. lives can make in the lives of others. The significance doesn’t show up in your net You will always be competing against other job seekers and you will want every worth or your titles or your list of publications or long resume. It is found in the competitive edge you can get. Please do not be close-minded about where you want hearts and lives of the people who you have come across in your life who are better to live as you search for these jobs. Go live in Hell’s Half Acre if you have to, to get in some way because of the impact you had in their life.” that first job – who knows, you may actually find that you like it there! If not, you now have the all-important experience factor and after 3 years or so you can start So graduates, it is up to you to decide what kind of life you want to lead– and you focusing on finding a job where you want to live. will continue to make those decisions every day for the rest of your lives. Congratulations on your wonderful achievement. You have unlimited potential and What kind of employees are employers constantly searching for? I suggest that you no idea where the future will lead you. Think of how exciting that is! You are the imagine starting your very own business. Wow, straight out of college and you are future of our beloved country. As you embark on the next journey of your life I urge the boss running the whole show. You are responsible for keeping the business you to live a life of true significance – that is how you will make a real difference. healthy and sustainable. Now ask yourself what type of employee would you want Godspeed and God bless. Thank you. to help you achieve this success? I would want hard-working, committed, problem- solving, value-creating people with strong morals and winning attitudes. People that never lose their desire to learn. Why would you want anything different? These individuals would give us the best shot at building a profitable competitive on-going

5 Layne Britton – Depositional History of a Low Sulfur Coal in a Typically High Summer Field Course Sulfur Basin

We thought you might like to read a poem by Christine Black, one of our Andrew Flor – Evaluating Levee Failure Susceptibility on the Mississippi River undergraduate students, recited on the last day of the field course in 2009: Using Logistic Regression Analysis and GPS Surveying

Lament of the Field Camp Student Teresa Zimmerman Russin – Origin of the Auriferous Barite-Base Metal and Goethite Stages of the Summitville High Sulfidation Gold Deposit, Colorado, USA We used to think classroom learning was a bore; We wanted to go to the field and explore! Christopher York – Combustion Property of Density Separated Inertinite Macerals in Now the thought leaves us crying on the floor; the Herrin #6 and Murphysboro Coal Seams We are field camp students. Drew Downs – In Search of the Triassic-Jurassic Boundary: Palynostratigraphy and Our feet have all been torn to shreds, Carbon-Isotope Stratigraphy of the Lower Dinosaur Canyon Member on the Our boots are slowly losing their treads, Colorado Plateau (Kanab, Utah) But the largest pains are in our heads; We are field camp students. Laura Bordelon – Austral Autumn and Winter Seasonal Affectson Benthic Foraminiferal Communities: Bransfield and Northern Gerlache Straits We wanted to spend time under the stars, Instead we spend it all in the cars. Luis Parra-Avila – Rediscovering Southeast Missouri Mississippi Valley-Type Pb- Well, that and getting in fights in bars; Zn Deposits: The Co-Ni Enriched Higdon Deposit, Madison and Perry Counties We are field camp students.

At the start Bruntons we were lent, Now we're all completely spent, And on the Bruntons nary a dent, We are field camp students.

Geology Graduates 2008

John Boyd, May, 2008, BS Sarah Garner, May, 2008, BS Adam Shaw, May, 2008, BS Thomas Reeves, May, 2008, BA Christopher DeBoer, August, 2008, BS Elizabeth Evanoff, August, 2008, BS Jennifer Klopfenstein, August, 2008, BS Timothy Pool, August, 2008, BS Thomas Fullingim, December, 2008, BS Justin Skord, December, 2008, BS

Jennifer Kelley, May, 2008, MS Neil Shannon, May, 2008, MS Alicia Stanfill Dye, August, 2008, MS Brendan Lutz, August, 2008, MS Elizabeth Geiger, December, 2008, MS Kristen Krug, December, 2008, MS Dominic Smith, December, 2008, MS Rob Venczel, December, 2008, MS

Geology Graduates 2009

Joseph Batir, May, 2009, BS Joe Batir, one of the outstanding seniors for 2009 at the May, commencement. Kiel Keller, May, 2009, BS Kenny Basnett is behind him. Jennafer Purdy, May, 2009, BS Kenny Basnett, August, 2009, BS New Dissertations with Gary Vancil, August, 2009, BS Geology Faculty Advisors Christine Black, December, 2009, BS

Tony Tobenski, August, 2009, BS Christopher Williams – Recent natural and anthropogenic ecosystem change to the

marine environments of Biscayne Bay, Florida Layne Britton, May, 2009, MS

Andrew Flor, May, 2009, MS Jonathan Remo – Utilizing Archival Data to Assess Historic Changes in Flood Flow Teresa Russin, May, 2009, MS Conveyance of the Mississippi River Chris York, May, 2009, MS

Drew Downs, August, 2009, MS John Keller – Creation of Highly Accurate Radial Numerical Models for the Laura Bordelon, December, 2009, MS Analysis of Aquifer Tests

Christopher Williams, December, 2009, PhD

Scholarships and Awards New Theses in Geology 2008

Jennifer L. Kelley – Glassy Tephra of Yasur Volcano, Vanuatu: A Magnetic, Bill D. Allen Geology Memorial Scholarship Petrographic, and Crystallographic Study of Implications for Devitrification Elizabeth Evanoff

Neil Shannon – Mississippian (Chesterian) Brachiopods of the Illinois Basin: A Ira E. Odom Memorial Scholarship Paleoecologic and Paleoenvironmental Analysis of the Clore Formation in the John D. Boyd Illinois Basin Matthew McIndoo John Larson Alicia Stanfill Dye – Geophysical Investigation of the Subsurface Structure of the Kiel Keller Pennsylvanian and Younger Strata associated with the Inman East Fault, Gallatin Thomas Fullingim County, IL Adam Shaw Gary Vancil Elizabeth Geiger – Paleoecology of Pleistocene Gastropods in Glacial Lake Deposits in Southern Illinois/Missouri John L. Jobling Memorial Geology Fellowship Brendan Lutz Brendan Lutz – Late Neogene Planktonic Foraminifera of the Cibao Valley (Dominican Republic), Biostratigraphy and Paleoceanography Joe Porter Geology Memorial Fellowship Ryan Scroggins Rob Venczel – Historical and Seasonal Patterns in the Conveyance Capacity of the Tisza River, Hungary David Beals Memorial Scholarship Joseph Batir

6 Stan and Jane Harris Scholarship Eric C. Ferré  The main news item concern my 6 months sabbatical leave in Christopher DeBoer France where I was able to perfect my already extensive analysis of French cheeses. I visited three areas to collect smelly samples, in the South (where I spent 3 months Outstanding Senior at the University of Montpellier), in the North (1 month at the University of Cergy- Elizabeth Evanoff Pontoise) and in the West (at the University of Nantes). Since the cheeses were equally good in all places, I had to keep myself busy with other activities, the French TV being as boring as the US counterpart. Scholarships and Awards 2009 In Montpellier, I worked on two mantle-related projects since this is their area of expertise. Bill D. Allen Geology Memorial Scholarship John Larson Xenomag Project – This new project started from a brainstorming session between Ferré and his colleague Martin-Hernandez (Madrid) aimed at identifying new high Ira E. Odom Memorial Scholarship visibility projects in rock magnetism. The two scientists are aware that despite Ashton Terry publication of their results in good journals their respective citations indices are not Michael Harris as high as in other disciplines such as geochemistry for example. One of the Kenny Basnett strategies considered to improve is to embark on new projects that would attract Christine Black significant interest from one of the leading communities in geosciences that focuses Tony Tobenski on mantle processes. To this effect, the two investigators decided to start a new Matt Hebbard project on the magnetic properties of the lithospheric mantle based on analysis of Melissa Mesmer mantle xenoliths. Samples for this project have been taken from collections in Montpellier and St Etienne. This project resulted in a grant proposal submitted in John L. Jobling Memorial Geology Fellowship December 2009. Elizabeth Evanoff Humboldt Corridor Project – Ferré has collected samples of a unique subhorizontal Ed Cox Memorial Scholarship shear zone in the ophiolite of New Caledonia in 2007. These samples have been Kiel Keller analyzed in Montpellier in collaboration with a post-doctoral researcher. A publication on these results is in preparation for the journal Tectonophysics. Jerry Aler Memorial Scholarship Joseph F. Batir While in Montpellier, I also developed two new projects related to pseudotachylytes (rocks formed by frictional melting during earthquakes). Outstanding Senior Joseph F. Batir and Kiel Keller

Joseph Batir was not only an outstanding student in the Department of Geology, he excelled as a student in the University, earning a prestigious McArthur Fellowship. He was also selected to the All-USA College Academic Team by USA Today and was named a Fulbright Scholar for his graduate studies.

Faculty and Staff News

Many of the faculty prepared statements summarizing events in their lives over the last two years:

James Conder  I am delighted to have joined the department as an assistant professor of geophysics in 2008. Conveniently, the move wasn’t far, as I am coming from Washington University in St. Louis, where I was a researcher in the seismology group. It has been a great experience getting to know the faculty, students, and other members of the department. Some quick background on me: I grew up in Salt Lake City and received an undergraduate degree in Geology with a minor in Mathematics from the University of Utah. After graduation, I worked for a short time at Mt Shasta, September, 2008 Kennecott Exploration, a precious metals mining company, before continuing with graduate studies at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. My research Pseudotachylyte Tomography Project – This new project stemmed from an original focuses on seismology and geodynamics, with an emphasis on subduction zones. idea of Ferré based on a flaw in the resolution of the determination of seismic slip Much of my recent work has been closely tied to the NSF MARGINS program direction and seismic slip sense of pseudotachylytes in a recent paper published in which aims to present an integrated understanding of the many geological processes Nature. A solution to the problem is currently investigated and is based on samples occurring at both oceanic-continental and oceanic-oceanic boundaries. collected in the Italian Alps and processed as serially cut slabs across large veins of pseudotachylyte. The geometric solution requires a freeware image stitching In addition to moving house and setting up my office and research lab, I spent my software used to create a 3-D rendering from which the vein asymmetry can be first semester, Fall 08, teaching and developing the class Solid Earth Geophysics, determined. comprising both graduate and undergraduate students, and representing SIU on the Illinois State Seismic Hazards Task Force Committee. In September, I presented a Pseudotachylyte Fabric Project – The issue of determining seismic slip direction and poster titled Arc and backarc melt production and interaction of the Mariana system slip sense can also be addressed by using the internal fabric of pseudotachylyte from geodynamical modeling at the American Geophysical Union Chapman veins. To avoid ambiguity regarding the origin of the fabric Ferré has selected a Conference on Shallow Mantle Composition & Dynamics (5th International unique example of paramagnetic pseudotachylyte in which the anisotropy of Lherzolite Conference) at Mt. Shasta, CA. This work explores the structure (seismic, magnetic susceptibility is controlled by small oriented flakes of phyllosilicates. New thermal, and petrologic) and behavior of mantle beneath the volcanoes making up the measurements of the crystallographic orientation of these very small crystals have Mariana island chain. This chain is associated with robust backarc spreading, with been performed on the European instrument CrystalProbe installed in Montpellier in marked along-strike changes in morphology, petrology, and arc-spreading center the Spring 2009. The material of this study is the core of a manuscript in preparation distance. This work helps put each of these changes in a geodynamic context where for the journal Nature. arc-spreading center distance is a primary factor in melt retention and mixing in the Mariana mantle and likely at other arc-backarc systems. I look forward to continuing The sabbatical month in Cergy-Pontoise was dedicated to pseudotachylyte projects. researching and teaching as part of the SIU geoscience community. New samples were collected during two field missions in the southern part of Massif Central, near the small town of Chirac (which has nothing to do with a former Steven P. Esling In the opening letter to the newsletter, I told you about the May, French president) and in the classic area of Val Gilba in the Italian Alps. Doing field 2009 storm. It hit my family hard. Some of you may recall that I live in a geodesic work in Italy is always a challenge because food is good that you can barely crawl to dome and you may also recall the ancient oak that grew just to the northwest of my the outcrops. Nevertheless, my three French colleagues and I were able to find new home. Well that tree came down on the house crashing through the roof at one point localities and geometric criteria for fault propagation direction. and knocking my bed about six feet across the room. Numerous other trees were down blocking most entrances to the house and we were without power for about a Nantes is in the part of France where my father is from, so it was a kind of return to week. Structural damage has been repaired, but I still need a new roof as well as ancestral roots and talking about roots Nantes on the month of April had their floral cosmetic repairs to the house. garden competition. It was really amazing to see the floating gardens on the canals. Nantes has been nicknamed the Venice of the West. My work in Nantes consisted in John Keller and I submitted another paper together this year to Ground Water on an wrapping up an old long overdue project on the Bushveld Complex of South Africa. Excel file that serves as an interface to the Kansas Geological Survey slug test I had worked on this with Patrick Launeau back in 1999. The manuscript is now in program. This is a useful tool for practicing professionals that would like to apply good shape and will be submitted soon. I also had opportunities to talk about Mars state-of-the-art methods in the determination of hydraulic conductivity. John with their planetary group and learned a lot about hyperspectral imagery with completed his dissertation in the summer, 2009 and has recently accepted a teaching Launeau. position in Nevada. Doug Kolb completed his thesis on the Quaternary deposits of a quadrangle in southern Illinois. He is now in Utah, gainfully employed. Back to Carbondale in June, I took off immediately to teach our field camp in Montana. Everything went smoothly at YBRA and we have now added Grand My family is doing well, but I am going to make some of you feel very old. Ellen Tetons to the list of National Parks that we visit. I find GTNP a lot more friendly graduated high school and will start at Southern this coming fall. Do any of you than Yellowstone. remember babysitting her? Molly is about to complete her freshman year in high school. Time moves much much too fast. All the best in the coming year. The main event of the Fall 2009 was our field mission to South Africa during which we collected samples from the Karoo dolerites. The goal of this project is to figure out if the magma flow pattern was determined by the underlying mantle plume or if

7 it was locally controlled by the dike network. The results have already been Science so please support him and the Department in whatever way you see fit. presented at the American Geophysical Union Fall meeting by Aneesa Lehman, one Come and visit and see what we are up to! of the SIU undergraduate students who participated in the South Africa adventure. During that trip we also visited localities such as the Kimberley diamond mine and Liliana Lefticariu  Greetings! The biggest news from the Biogeochemistry group the Vredefort asteroid impact craters. is that National Science Foundation has approved funding for a brand new Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometer (IRMS). The instrument has arrived on campus and will be Richard H. Fifarek  My professional highlight of 2008 was the opportunity to probably installed over the summer and fully functional by fall. The IRMS will allow consult for a privately funded company conducting "grass roots" exploration for gold us to measure isotope ratios of hydrogen, oxygen, carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur in a deposits in a highly favorable area of northern Nevada. It was the first time since wide range of geological samples (e.g., water, inorganic and biological carbonates, graduate school (back in the Neoproterozoic?) that I had engaged in such summer coal, sulfates, oxides, and biological materials). The instrument will provide much activities. Even though no major discoveries were found, the experience was very needed analytical support for research, education, and training not only for the challenging and enjoyable. As late as August, 2008 metal prices were high and it students from the Geology Department but also for students from other departments. was difficult for exploration companies to find geologists or drill rigs. Of course, I do cordially invite everybody interested in stable isotope research to contact me for this was prior to the worldwide plunge in demand for commodities and the sharp current and future projects. downturn in the industry that prompted even the gold companies to lay off employees and pull back on exploration and other expenditures. In the latter part of In addition to stable isotopes, I am working on other projects involving energy & 2009 there were hopeful signs of recovery in the mining industry. environmental topics. Together with Yosief Segid (Geology Department) and Dr. Kelly Bender (Microbiology Department), I finished a preliminary biogeochemical In 2009, Terri Russin completed her MS degree based on research emphasizing the evaluation of a coal-generated acid mine drainage system in Southern Illinois. Yosief origin of the late, gold-bearing, barite-base metal and goethite (weathering) stages of has included most of the geochemical data in this thesis which he successfully the Summitville, Colorado gold deposit. The stable isotope and fluid inclusion defended this April. I am currently working at securing additional funding support characteristics of barite, along with some 40Ar/39Ar dates on alunite and jarosite, for continuing the fieldwork at the site with my student Paul Behum (Environmental allowed her to constrain the T-P-X conditions and timing of gold precipitation. Luis Resources and Policy Program). The acid drainage is a serious environmental Parra completed his MS research involving the Ni-Co mineralogy of the Higdon Pb- problem in Southern Illinois. In addition, I have two project related to energy issues. Zn deposit in SE Missouri. His research methodology included extensive core Rajesh Sigh (Geology Department) is working at deciphering sulfur distribution in logging as an intern for The Doe Run Co. and detailed petrographic and microprobe Illinois coal. He has obtained unique results that will be part of his MS thesis. Wahid studies. Rahman (Environmental Resources and Policy Program) is in the process of collecting and interpreting data on the trace elements of environmental concerns in On the personal side, Katheryn was hired as a secretary in the Department of Illinois coal. The last two projects are in collaboration with Dr. Paul Chugh Geology on a 10 month appointment that will allow her to travel with me to the (Department of Mining and Mineral Engineering). In summary, my research group is YBRA camp and other points farther west during the summer. We have enjoyed developing into a diverse and interdisciplinary research group to address the visiting our children and grand daughter in 2008 and 2009 and count the days to the fundamental biogeochemical processes in the environment. next family gathering. Besides research, I continue to enjoy teaching a mix of undergraduate and graduate Have a golden year and please stay in touch. classes. My teaching portfolio included new classes. The Planets (GEOL 330) has been a sold-out event for the last two spring semesters. In this class we explore many interesting topics related to the space exploration and life on other planets. During the lab session, the students search for and build a planet with the necessary characteristics for life and/or human habitation. The class is really fun for students regarding of their background or major. In addition, I developed and taught a new hybrid classroom and online course “Earth and Space Science for Teachers” for teachers (GEOL 585), which was quite a success. The students, who are middle and high school teachers, enjoyed learning about rocks & minerals, energy resources, and planets. The field trip that I co-organized with Joe Devera (ISGS) was very enlightening since most of the participants had no idea how interesting the geological history of Southern Illinois is. I also thought two graduate classes in Isotope Geochemistry and Geochemistry of Natural Waters. Of course the very good, hard working students made teaching challenging and enjoyable.

As always, if you are interested in what the Biogeochemistry group is doing fell free to stop by office, give me a call, or just sent me an email. My students and I are always happy to show the lab and the projects we are doing. Until next time, best regards.

Radar map showing the May, 2009 storm that devastated Carbondale.

Scott Ishman  Hi All. Another year has come and gone. This past year was a busy one for me in preparation for my next big Antarctic excursion, LARISSA (LArsen Ice Shelf System Antarctica). This is an International Polar Year (IPY) project funded by NSF to investigate the collapse of the Larsen Ice Shelf and its ecological and oceanographic impact as a small-scale model. This project includes participation from Belgium, UK, Chile and Argentina and will entail ice coring, GPS and Seismicity studies, glacial geology, marine biology and marine geology; truly a multi-national and interdisciplinary project. I left for southern Chile December 27 to catch the ship so you will have to wait and read the 2010 news to find out what happened! Preparations for the cruise included meetings in DC AND Dunk Training. This is where they fasten you into a cage resembling the fuselage of a helicopter, submerge you in a pool, flip you upside down and expect you to extract yourself before drowning. Well, obviously I passed and fortunately didn’t have to practice the skills acquired.

In addition to cruise preparations I bode my time teaching in the Spring, Micropaleontology and Carbonate Petrology with Joe Devera, and Fall covering Invertebrate Paleontology and Dinosaurs and the Age of Reptiles. Joe and I took the Carbonate group to the Florida Keys, stopping on the way down in Tennessee, doing some modern environment study in the Keys (this required a boat and snorkeling gear) and a great quarry in Florida on the way back.

Laura Bordelon finished up her thesis and moved on to a PhD program in Germany. Molly Patterson and Rachel Berger are writing away hoping to finish this summer. Sue Rimmer collecting samples of intruded coal underground with Ry Stone of the We welcomed two new MS students into the lab, Gary Vancil and Tony Tobenski. Bowie Mine (Colorado) in 2008 as part of Lois Yoksoulian’s research (University of All is well at home. Zach is now a Senior at SIUC looking forward to field camp Kentucky Ph.D. student … she took the photo). this summer. Ali is a Senior at CCHS and will be a Marketing major at SIUC starting in the Fall. Amy continues to be the anchor (I like using nautical terms) of the Sue Rimmer  I guess I am considered the “new guy” this year, although perhaps I household, both in my absence and when I am at home. could be considered the “player to be named later” in the trade… let me explain. I joined the faculty at SIUC this past January after teaching at the University of Again I encourage ALL the alumni to participate in as many functions as possible. Kentucky for 25 years. Just a year before that Kentucky hired away one of SIUC’s We welcome your e-mails, visits etc. As you all know these are particularly hard faculty members, Tiku Ravat. It was a great hire for Kentucky and I was fortunate to financial times but the department has a great advocate in the Dean of the College of call Tiku a colleague for a year or so. But, SIUC had an opening for a “senior” person in coal research and I was fortunate to be hired … thus, the trade. This has

8 been a great move for me and for my family, husband Steve and 10-year old Evan, and co-chaired a symposium on Innovative Applications of Isotope Geochemistry in and we love being part of such a vibrant department. My oldest son, James, is a Environmental Geology at the Geological Society of America North-Central Section veterinarian in Indianapolis so he’s not too far away. Meeting in 2008. Liliana Lefticariu also co-organized a symposium on the Geochemical and Isotopic Studies of Rocks, Minerals and Fluids at the Geological It’s really great to be back here in Carbondale. I received my B.S. degree here in Society of America North-Central Section Meeting in 2009. She also contributed to 1975, after which I went on to the University of Illinois (Champaign-Urbana) for my three NASA white papers and participated in the Earth Science Literacy Initiative M.S. degree, and then on to Penn State for my Ph.D. (1985). I’d been at U.K. ever (ESLI), funded by NSF. Ken Anderson played a significant role in the Professional since, as both a faculty member and an administrator. Science Masters Steering Committee to help develop the Professional Science Masters in Advanced Energy and Fuels Management on campus. He also committed My research involves the study of coals and oil and gas source rocks. Currently, I am time to the Coal Fuels Alliance Technical Steering Committee, a group that has been focusing on four main areas: 1) coal maturation and the role of heating rate (contact successful in securing considerable funding for energy-related research on campus. metamorphism vs. burial maturation); 2) biogeochemical cycles in organic-rich John Marzolf was an invited participant to the ExxonMobil Bighorn Basin field sediments; 3) controls on stable isotope composition of organic matter and seminar. John Sexton received a data grant from Royal Drilling and software grants interpretation of C and N isotope records in organic-rich sediments and coals; and 4) from both Geomodeling Technology and HCI. linkages between organic matter and past atmospheric composition. I will be using my start-up funds to build on the coal and source rock capabilities here. This is Nicholas Pinter won the College of Science Outstanding Scholar Award and received obviously a great place to do coal research and I look forward to collaborating with a prestigious Marie Curie Fellowship (IIF) from the European Commission. Ken others here. Anderson traveled to Australia as invited visiting scholar to Monash University, giving multiple presentations to university and Australian brown coal industry I was fortunate to have one of my U.K. M.S. students move here with me, Maggie representatives concerning coal research, development and deployment activities at McPherson who is working on Antarctic coals, along with her fiancé Jesse Sanders Southern Illinois University Carbondale. He also participated in a State of Illinois who is now also a graduate student in the geology program. But I will still be logging trade delegation to the European Union/UK as technical expert at the request of the a fair bit of time along I-64 this year going back and forth to Lexington as I get the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity. rest of my graduate students (4 more) wrapped up there. Our group here also includes senior Jen Stephenson who is an undergraduate research assistant working in coal petrology, and M.S. student Seare Ocubalidet who started at U.K. this past January and is working on the New Albany Shale. For the first couple of years, I will be focusing on graduate classes. I team-taught petroleum geology (to 18 students) this past spring and I am teaching coal petrology (to 16 students) this fall. It’s great to have such healthy enrollments in our graduate classes here!

Department Research and Professional Service 2008-2009

The faculty of the Department of Geology authored or co-authored 32 peer reviewed journal articles, six book chapters, one long contribution to a proceedings, and one book during the 2008 and 2009 calendar years. Faculty and students also participated in 57 presentations at international meetings and 21 presentations at National meetings. Total external funding increased substantially, with $1,348,830 in new grants that involve faculty and staff in the Department in 2008 and $3,075,656 that involve faculty and staff in the Department in 2009. The awards come from prestigious National sources, such as the National Science Foundation Parkinson gets a new roof, courtesy of the May storm. (NSF) and the United States Geological Survey (USGS) as well as important state agencies such as the Illinois State Board of Education, Illinois Clean Coal Institute, Students mentored by faculty were recognized and a significant number of them and Illinois Emergency Management Agency. Eight of the ten faculty in the have presented their research at professional meetings. Luis Parra was awarded a Department either have active grants or submitted at least one grant application over grant from the Society of Economic Geologists in support of thesis research and the last two years. The Department keeps a presence in the Environmental obtained an internship from the Doe Run Company. P. Sargent Bray, along with Resources and Policy Doctoral Program, with two students from that program Ken Anderson, won the Best Paper Award for their presentation at the Australian advised by Department of Geology faculty. Organic Geochemistry Conference in Adelaide, Australia. John Boyd, an undergraduate student, won the Sigma Xi Award for his poster presented at the Faculty in the Department remained highly visible Nationally and internationally. Undergraduate Research Forum on campus in 2008. Two of our graduate students Ken Anderson served as a Member of the Council for the Division of Geochemistry (Mohammad Rahman, and Margaret McPherson) won the Antoinette Lierman for the American Chemical Society. He also served on the Committee on Medlin Scholarship from the Geological Society of America Coal Geology Division. Committees for that same organization. James Conder was the co-chief scientist on McPherson also won the Spackman Research Award from the Society for Organic the active source ocean bottom seismograph L-SCAN experiment. Jack Crelling Petrology. Michael Marsh earned a grant from the Institute for Rock Magnetism, won the Ralph Gray Award for Outstanding Book on Coal and Coal Petrography University of Minnesota. Two undergraduate students (Aneesa Lehman and Jennifer from the Society of Organic Petrology. Sue Rimmer served as the 2nd Vice Chair Stephenson) received undergraduate assistantships. Lehman also was awarded a for the GSA Coal Geology Division. Richard Fifarek was the President of the travel grant from the American Geophysical Union. Eric Ferré took three students Yellowstone-Bighorn Research Association. on an NSF funded research mission to South Africa, providing them with a rich and unique research experience. Scott Ishman again brought an undergraduate student The faculty contributed professionally as editors or associate editors of important and graduate student with him on an NSF research vessel off the coast of Antarctica. journals such as Acta Crystallographica (Paul Robinson); Geological Society of Two of our recent graduate students, P. Sargent Bray and Drew Downs have begun America Bulletin (Eric Ferré); Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth (Eric studies at Universities in the southern hemisphere in the last two years. Drew is at Ferré); Geochemical Transactions (Ken Anderson); Geomorphology (Nicholas the University of Auckland in New Zealand and Sarge is at Macquarie University in Pinter); Environmental & Engineering Geoscience (Nicholas Pinter); Journal of Australia. Environmental Micropaleontology, Microbiology, and Meiobenthology (Scott Ishman); and the Annals of University of Craiova: Chemistry Series (Lefticariu). Geology continues to maintain its strong outreach program. Scott Ishman made Eric Ferré was a guest editor of a special issue of Lithos. The faculty also provided presentations to students in Giant City School and Dongola High School, instructing service to their disciplines, reviewing papers for important journals such as the them on dinosaurs, fossils, rocks, and minerals. Ken Anderson and James Conder International Journal of Coal Geology; Chemical Geology; Geophysical Journal organized and led a field trip for 5th grade science classes at Unity Point School International; Geophysical Research Letters; Organic Geochemistry; Global and (Millstone Bluff and Fossil collecting from Mississippian strata near Vienna, IL). Planetary Change; Marine Micropaleontology; Journal of Asian Earth Sciences; Ken Anderson, James Conder, and Scott Ishman organized and led a field trip for the Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth; Journal of Structural Geology; 7-8th grade IMSA science enrichment program (Giant City State Park). Harvey Journal of Volcanology & Geothermal Research; Tectonics; Tectonophysics; Henson manages most outreach activities. He is a co-principal investigator on a Isotopes in Environmental and Health Studies; Chemical and Biochemical project to develop inquiry-based ecological and environmental education, funded Engineering Quarterly; Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems; Computational through NSF, and a principal investigator on a project to develop an earthquake Geosciences; Micropaleontology; Palaeo Palaeo Palaeo; Journal of Quaternary awareness program funded by the Illinois Emergency Management Agency. He also Science; Earth and Planetary Science Letters; Bulletin, Geological Society of co-directs the Science, Mathematics, and Action Research for Teachers (SMART) America; Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta; and the Proceedings of the National program funded by the Illinois Board of Higher Education. He participated in two Academy of Sciences. Eric Ferré was elected top reviewer of the year by the editors other activities in 2009, to name just a few, including the Young Earth Scientist and of Tectonophysics in 2008. Basics in Geology programs.

Faculty reviewed proposals funded through National and international agencies, such as NSF, the American Chemical Society Petroleum Reseach Fund, Canadian Natural Publications by Faculty and Students Sciences and Engineering Research Council, Swiss National Science Foundation, Oak Ridge Associated Universities, NASA Peer Review Panel for the Outer Planets 2008 Program, the Québec FQNRT Research Foundation, the German Research Foundation, the Georgia National Science Foundation, and the Azerbaijan-U.S. Articles Bilateral Grants Program. Bray, P. Sargent and Anderson, Ken B., (2008). The nature and fate of natural Nicholas Pinter served as a panelist for the U.S. National Academy of Science, resins in the geosphere XIII: a probable pinaceous resin from the early Cretaceous Committee on Missouri River Recovery and Associated Sediment Management (Barremian), Isle of Wight. Geochemical Transactions, 9(3). Issues. James Conder served on the Illinois State Seismic Safety Task Force and served as a judge for student papers submitted to the Natural Hazards Section of the Esling, S.P., Keller, J.E., and Miller, K.J., (2008). Reducing capture zone American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting. Eric Ferré convened a Special Session uncertainty with a systematic sensitivity analysis. Ground Water, 46(4), 570-578. at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting and Liliana Lefticariu organized

9 Jemberie, A.A., Pinter N., and Remo, J.W.F., (2008). Hydrologic history of the Ferré, E.C., and B. D. Marsh. 2009. Special Issue: Physical and chemical processes Mississippi and Lower Missouri Rivers based upon a refined specific-gage approach. in layered mafic intrusions. Lithos 111:1-2, vii-viii. doi:10.1016/j.lithos.2009.03.004. Hydrologic Processes, 22, 7736-4447, doi:10.1002/hyp.7046. Ferré, E.C., S. M. Maes, and K.C. Butak. 2009. The magnetic stratification of Lambert, Joseph B., Santiago-Blay, Jorge A and Anderson, Ken B., (2008). layered mafic intrusions: natural examples and numerical models. Lithos 111:1-2, Chemical signatures of fossilized resins and recent plant exudates. Angewandte 83-94. doi:10.1016/j.lithos.2009.03.042. Chemie, 47(50), 9608-9616. Fischer, M. P., C. I. Higuera-Diaz, M. E. Evans, E. C. Perry, and L. Lefticariu. Lutz, B.P., Ishman, S.E., McNeill, D.F., Klaus, J.S., and Budd, A.F., (2008). Late 2009. Fracture-controlled paleohydrology in a map-scale detachment fold: insights Neogene planktonic foraminifera of the Cibao Valley (northern Dominican from the analysis of fluid inclusions in calcite and quartz veins. Journal of Structural Republic): Biostratigraphy and paleoceanography. Marine Micropaleontology, 69, Geology 31(12):1490-1510. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2009.09.004 282-296. Gröcke, D. R., S. M. Rimmer, L. E. Yoksoulian, B. Cairncross, , H. Tsikos, and J. Maes, S., Ferré, E.C., Tikoff, B., Brown, P. and Marsh J.M., (2008). Magneto- van Hunen. 2009. No evidence for thermogenic methane release in coal from the stratigraphy of a mafic layered sill; a key to the Karoo volcanics plumbing system. Karoo-Ferrar large igneous province. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 277:204- Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 172, 75-92. 212.

Pinter, N., and Ishman, S.E., (2008). Impacts, mega-tsunami, and other Huang, F., C. C. Lundstrom, J. Glessner, A. Ianno, A. Boudreau, J. Li, E.C. Ferré, extraordinary claims. GSA Today, 18(1), 37-38. S. Marshak, and J. DeFrates. 2009. Chemical and isotopic fractionation of wet andesite in a temperature gradient: Experiments and models suggesting a new Pinter, N., and Ishman, S.E., (2008). Reply to comments on “Impacts, mega- mechanism of magma differentiation. Cosmochimica Geochimica Acta 73:729-749. tsunami, and other extraordinary claims.” GSA Today, 18(6), e14. doi:10.1016/j.gca.2008.11.012.

Pinter, N., Jemberie A.A., Remo J.W.F., Heine, R.A., and Ickes, B.S., (2008). Knight, T. K., P. S. Bingham, D. A. Grimaldi, K. B. Anderson, R. D. Lewis, and C. Flood trends and river engineering on the Mississippi River system. Geophysical E. Savrda. 2010. A new Upper Cretaceous (Santonian) amber deposit from the Research Letters, 35, L23404, doi:10.1029/2008GL035987. Eutaw Formation of Eastern Alabama, USA. Cretaceous Research 31:85–93.

Polteau, S., Ferré, E.C., Planke, S., Neumann, E.-R. and Chevallier, L., (2008). Marchesi, C., C. J. Garrido, M. Godard, F. Belley, and E. C. Ferré. 2009. How are saucer-shaped sills emplaced? Constraints from the Golden Valley Sill, Migration and accumulation of ultra-depleted boninitic melts in the Massif du Sud South Africa. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 113, B12104, ophiolite (New Caledonia). Chemical Geology 266:180-195. doi:10.1029/2008JB005620. Pinter, N., A. A. Jemberie, J.W. F. Remo, R. A. Heine, and B.A. Ickes. 2009. Remo, J.W.F., Pinter N., Ickes, B., and Heine, R., (2008). New databases reveal Empirical modeling of hydrologic response to river engineering, Mississippi and 200 years of change on the Mississippi River System. Eos, 89(14), 134-135. Lower Missouri Rivers. River Research and Applications. doi: 10.1002/rra.

Samal, A.R., Mohanty, M.K., & Fifarek, R.H., (2008). Backward elimination Pozgay, S. H., D.A. Wiens, J. A. Conder, H. Shiobara, and H. Sugioka. 2009. procedure for a predictive model of gold concentration. Journal of Geochemical Seismic attenuation tomography of the Mariana subduction system: Implications for Exploration, 97, 69-82. thermal structure, volatile distribution, and slow spreading dynamics, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 10:Q04X05. doi:10.1029/2008GC002313, 2009 Szilagyi, J., Pinter, N., and Venczel, R., (2008). Application of a routing model for detecting channel flow changes with minimal data. Journal of Hydrologic Remo, J. W. F., N. Pinter, and R. A. Heine. 2009. The use of retro- and scenario- Engineering, 13, 521-526. modeling to assess effects of 100+ years river engineering and land cover change on Middle and Lower Mississippi River flood stages. Journal of Hydrology 376:403– Wiens, D. A., Conder, J.A. and Faul, U., (2008). The seismic structure and 416. dynamics of the mantle wedge. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 36, 421-55, doi: 10.1146/annurev.earth.33.092203.122633. Rimmer, S. M., L. E. Yoksoulian, and J. C. Hower. 2009. Anatomy of an intruded coal, I: effect of contact metamorphism on whole-coal geochemistry, Springfield Xie, S., O'Hearn, C.R., and Robinson, P.D., (2008). Racemic 4-(4-tert- (No. 5) (Pennsylvanian) coal, Illinois Basin, International Journal of Coal Geology butylphenyl)-2,6-dimethylcyclohex-3-enecarboxylic acid. Acta Cryst, E64, o554- 79:74-82. o554. Rowe, H., S. Ruppel, S. M. Rimmer, and R. Loucks. 2009. Core-based Book Chapters chemostratigraphy of the Barnett Shale, Permian Basin, Texas. Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Transactions 59: 675-686. Crelling, J.C., (2008). Coal Carbonization in Applied Coal Petrology. In I. Suarez- Ruiz and J.C. Crelling (Eds.), Applied Coal Petrology (pp. 173-192), Elsevier, New Sargent, B. P. and K. B. Anderson. 2009. Identification of carboniferous (320 York. million years old) Class Ic amber. Science 326 (5949):132-134.

Crelling, J.C. and Suarez-Ruiz, I., (2008). Other Applications of Coal Petrology in Applied Coal Petrology. In I. Suarez-Ruiz and J.C. Crelling (Eds.), Applied Coal Petrology (pp. 1289-1301), Elsevier, New York.

Pinter, N., (in press). Non-stationary Flood Occurrence on the Upper Mississippi- Lower Missouri River system: Review and Current Status. In R. Criss (Ed.), Proceedings of Flooding Symposium, Nov. 11, 2008, St. Louis University.

Suarez -Ruiz, I. and Crelling, J.C., (2008). Coal-Derived Carbon Materials in Applied Coal Petrology. In I. Suarez-Ruiz and J.C. Crelling (Eds.), Applied Coal Petrology (pp. 173-192), Elsevier, New York.

Books

Suarez -Ruiz, Isabel and Crelling, John C., Eds., (2008). Applied Coal Petrology. Elsevier, New York, 388 p.

Publications by Faculty and Students 2009

Articles

Anderson, R. S., S. Starratt, R. B. Jass, and N. Pinter. 2009. Fire and vegetation history on Santa Rosa Island, Channel Islands: Long-term environmental change in southern California. Journal of Quaternary Science. doi: 10.1002/jqs. Faculty often donate their time in outreach activities. This shot shows students from the Unity Point School on a field trip to Giant City State Park. The last two on the Belley, F., E. C. Ferré, F. Martín-Hernández, M. J. Jackson, M. D. Dyar, and E. right are James Conder and Scott Ishman. J.Catlos. 2009. The magnetic properties of natural and synthetic (Fex, Mg1-x)2 SiO4 olivines. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2009.05.016. Book Chapters

Burmeister, K. C., M. J. Harrison, S. Marshak, E. C. Ferré, R. A. Bannister, and K. Lefticariu, L. 2009. Oxidation of sulfide minerals: from acid mine drainage to life th P. Kodama. 2009. Relationship of AMS and normalized Fry measurements to on Mars. In: Special Publication dedicated to the 70 anniversary of Professor Dr. tectonic fabric in low-strain sandstones of the Appalachian fold-thrust belt. Journal Emil Constantinescu, Mineralogy and Geodiversity, 8 pp. of Structural Geology. doi:10.1016/j.jsg.2009.03.010. Pinter, N. 2009. Non-stationary flood occurrence on the Upper Mississippi-Lower Esling, S.P., and J. E. Keller. 2009. A user interface for the Kansas Geological Slug Missouri River system: Review and current status. In: R. E. Criss and Timothy M. test model. Ground Water 47(4): 587-590. Kusky (Eds.) Finding the Balance Between Floods, Flood Protection, and River Navigation (pp. 34-40). Saint Louis University, Center for Environmental Sciences.

10 Proceedings Apparent Polar Wander, and Camp Emplacement. Geological Society of America, Annual Meeting, Houston, Abstracts with Program, 40(6), 253 Lefticariu, L., M. W. Rahman, R. Singh. 2009. Distribution and mode of occurrence of mercury and sulfur in Illinois coal. In: Proceedings to the 26th Annual Michelsen, K.J., Keller, K.G., Boyd, J.D., Ferré, E.C., Cañón-Tapia, E. and Ernst, International Pittsburgh Coal Conference. 10 pp. W.G., (2008). Origin of the variations in magnetic susceptibility with depth in the Barcroft granodiorite pluton, White Mountains, California. Eos Trans. AGU, Fall Meet. Suppl., 89(53), Abstract GP21D-0798 Oral Presentations 2008 Rathburn, A.E., Martin, J.B., Ishman, S.E., Miner, M.R., Perez, M.E., and Bailey, International Z., (2008). Antarctic Seasonality and Living Benthic Foraminiferal Carbon Isotopes: Applications for Assessments of Paleoenvironmental Change. Eos Trans. AGU, Fall Belley, F., Ferré, E.C., Martín-Hernández, F., Jackson, M.J., M. Dyar, D. and Meet. Suppl., 89(53), PP51D-02 Catlos, E.J., (2008). Fe-Ti oxide inclusions in natural and synthetic (Fex, Mg1-x)2 SiO4 olivines. Eos Trans. AGU, Fall Meet. Suppl., 89(53), Abstract GP31B-0800 Raymond, R., Sigman, D., Mislowack, B., Onstott, T.C., Pratt, L. M., Lefticariu, L., (2008). Radiolytic destruction of NH3 as a subsurface source of NO3 and ultimately Bormann, H., Pinter N., Elfert, S., (2008). Hydrological signatures of flood N2. Astrobiology Science Conference 2008, SETI Institute, Santa Clara, California, magnification on German rivers. European Geophysical Union. Geophysical April 14-17, 2008, http://abscicon.seti.org/ Research Abstracts, 10: EGU2008-A-01428 Skord, J., Belley, F., Ferré, E.C., Martín-Hernández, F. and Garrido, C.J., (2008). Bray, P.S., and Anderson, K. B., (2008). Carboniferous (~320 Ma) Amber and Tectonic significance of magnetic fabrics in the serpentinized lherzolite of the Ronda Resinite Recovered from an Illinois Coal Analyzed by Pyrolysis-Gas Massif, Spain. Eos Trans. AGU, Fall Meet. Suppl., 89(53), Abstract T43C-2036 Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry. Australian Organic Geochemistry Conference, Adelaide, Australia, September Titus, S. Davis, J.R., Ferré, E.C. and Tikoff, B., (2008). Quantifying strain across a paleotransform fault using incremental deformation, Bogota Peninsula, New Conder, J.A., (2008). Arc and backarc melt production and interaction of the Caledonia. Geological Society of America, Annual Meeting, Houston, Abstracts with Mariana system from geodynamical modeling. Abstracts AGU Chapman Program, 40(6), Abstract 3-288-16 Conference on Shallow Mantle Composition & Dynamics 5th International Orogenic Lherzolite Conference, Mt. Shasta, CA Titus, S.J., Davis, J., Ferré, E.C., and Tikoff, B., (2008). Quantifying strain across a paleotransform fault in the mantle using incremental models of deformation, New Conder, J.A., Wiens, D.A., and Heath, S., (2008). Microseismicity in the Lau Basin Caledonia. Eos Trans. AGU, Fall Meet. Suppl., 89(53), Abstract GP43E-04 from T-phases recorded by the LABATTS ocean bottom seismograph experiment. Abstracts, R2K community-wide science meeting, The Mantle to Microbe: Integrated National Studies at Oceanic Spreading Centers meeting, Portland, Oregon Chatterjee, Shibaji and Sexton, John L., (2008). Seismic Reflection and Drillhole Domack, E.W., Ishman, S.E., and McCormick, M. L., (2008). Geobiological Study of the Herold-Phillipstown Fault in the Wabash Valley, AAPG/SEG Student Association of Cold (Methane) Seeps and Ancient to Modern Glacial Marine Expo, Program with Abstracts, October 8-9, Houston, TX, 21 Sequences. Eos Trans. AGU, Fall Meet. Suppl., 89(53), Abstract PP21B-1422 Flor, A., and Pinter, N., (2008). Identifying the potential factors contributing to Eugene Domack, E., Leventer, A., Brachfeld, S., Ishman, S., Wellner, J., and Balco, levee failures on the Mississippi River. Geological Society of America, North- G., (2008). Interdisciplinary Investigation of the LARsen Ice Shelf System, Central meeting, Evansville, IN, Abstracts with Program, 40(5) Antarctica (LARISSA): A New IPY Program. Geological Society of America, Annual Meeting, Houston, Abstracts with Program, 40(6), Abstract 235-13 Lefticariu, L., Crelling, J.C., Atudorei V., (2008). Carbon and sulfur isotope geochemistry of Illinois 5 coal. Geological Society of America, North-Central Ferré, E.C., Galland, O., Kalakay, T. and Montanari, D., (2008). Granite meeting, Evansville, IN, Abstracts with Program, 40 (5), emplacement in thrust flats and ramps. 33rd International Geological Congress, http://www.geosociety.org/sectdiv/Northc/08mtg/index.htm Oslo, Norway Marzolf, J.E. and Steiner, M.B., (2008). Correlation of Triassic and Jurassic Ferré, E.C., Geissman, J.W., Zechmeister, M.S. and Hill, M.J., (2008). Coseismic tetonosequences of the Colorado Plateau and the North American Apparent Polar and postseismic magnetization events recorded in fault pseudotachylytes: thermal, Wander Path. Geological Society of America, Cordilleran meeting, Las Vegas, NV, AF and microwave methods. International Conference on Rock Magnetism and its Abstracts with Program, 40(1), 88 Earth Science Applications, Cargèse, France Podoll, A., O'Leary, S., Henson, H., Mumba, F. and Pinter, N., (2008). NSF GK-12 Ferré, E.C., Ranaweera, C.K., Marsh, M., Maes, S.M. and Geissman, J.W., (2008). partnership for effective earth science education. Geological Society of America, Magma flow sense in mafic dikes: is grain-size dependence an alternative to the North-Central meeting, Evansville, IN, Abstracts with Program, 40(5) “imbrication fabric” model? Eos Trans. AGU, Fall Meet. Suppl., 89(53), Abstract GP21D-0797 Remo, J.W.F., and Pinter, N., (2008). Retro-modeling the Middle and Lower Mississippi Rivers to assess the effects of river engineering and land-cover changes Ishman, S., Johnson, K., Sprovieri, M., and Lirer, F., (2008). Foraminiferal Record on flood stages. Geological Society of America, North-Central meeting, Evansville, From Drillcore AND-2A, Southern McMurdo Sound, Antarctica. Eos Trans. AGU, IN, Abstracts with Program, 40(5) Fall Meet. Suppl., 89(53), Abstract C21B-0525 Smith, Dominic and Sexton, John L., (2008). Magnetics and Electromagnetics on Ishman, S., Rathburn, A.E., and Martin, J., (2008). Seasonal Ecological Analysis of Monks Mound at the Cahokia World Heritage Site near St. Louis, Missouri. Seafloor Organic Nutrient Supplies (SEASONS) on the Western Antarctic Peninsula Geological Society of America, North-Central meeting, Evansville, IN, Abstracts Margin. Geological Society of America, Annual Meeting, Houston, Abstracts with with Program, 40(5), 86 Program, 40(6), Abstract 235-14 Smith, Dominic and Sexton, John L., (2008). Magnetics and Electromagnetics on Kruckenberg, S.C., Teyssier, C., Whitney, D.L., Ferré, E.C., Chapman, A. and Monks Mound at the Cahokia World Heritage Site near St. Louis, Missouri. Vanderhaeghe, O., (2008). Compatibility of deformation between upper crust and AAPG/SEG Student Expo, Program with Abstracts, October 8-9, Houston, TX, 22 flowing partially molten crust in "hot" orogens. European Geoscience Union, Geophysical Research, 10, A-11363, Vienna, Austria, Invited Steiner, M.B. and Marzolf, J.E., (2008). Of camp and cusp: The coincidence of the emplacement of the Camp Lip and the abrupt westward motion of North America Lefticariu, L., (2008). What can we learn from studying sulfate minerals on Earth that terminated at the J-1 Cusp of the NA APW Path. Geological Society of about surface processes on Mars? Simpozion Naţional de Geologie si Geofizica GEO America, Cordilleran meeting, Las Vegas, NV, Abstracts with Program, 40(1), 87 2008, May 23-24, Bucharest, Romania, http://www.unibuc.ro/uploads_ro/44056/Program_G2008.pdf Venczel, R., and Pinter, N., (2008). Historical and seasonal trends in flood conveyance, Tisza River, Hungary. Geological Society of America, North-Central Lefticariu, L., Pratt, L. M., Onstott, T.C., (2008). Sulfate Formation on Mars by meeting, Evansville, IN, Abstracts with Program, 40(5) Radiolytic Oxidation of Sulfide Minerals. 18th Annual Goldschmidt Conference, July 13-18, Vancouver, Canada, http://www.goldschmidt2008.org/abstracts/L.pdf Other

Lutz, B.P., Ishman, S.E., Dowsett, H.J., (2008). Late Miocene to early Pliocene Anderson, K.A., (2008). Geochemistry of Amber, Presented at Monash University, planktonic foraminiferal sea surface temperature estimates from DSDP Site 103 Australia, September 2008, (Invited speaker) (northern Blake-Bahama Outer Ridge) based upon the Modern Analog Technique. Eos Trans. AGU, Fall Meet. Suppl., 89(53), Abstract PP21B-1431 Conder, J., (2008). Observations and Geodynamics of the Tonga-Lau Arc-Backarc System, University of Houston, Houston, TX Lutz, B.P., Ishman, S.E., McNeill, D.F., Klaus, J.S., and Budd, A.F., (2008). Late Neogene planktonic foraminifera of the Cibao Valley: biostratigraphy and Conder, J., (2008). Subduction zone geodynamics seen through the lens of the Lau paleoceanography. Geological Society of America, Annual Meeting, Houston, Basin, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL Abstracts with Program, 40(6), 19 Conder, J., (2008). Seismic structure and dynamics of the Tonga-Lau Arc-Backarc Maes, S.M., Ferré, E.C., and Geissman, J.W., (2008). Magnetic stratification and System, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, CO the internal structure of layered intrusions. Eos Trans. AGU, Fall Meet. Suppl., 89(53), Abstract GP21-0800 Ferré, E.C., (2008). Invited Talk, Council for Geosciences, South Africa.

Marzolf, J.E., Steiner, M.B., Cornet, B, Downs, D, (2008). The Dinosaur Canyon Ferré, E.C., (2008). Invited Talk, Rhodes University, South Africa. Tectonosequence: The Non-Marine Triassic – Jurassic Boundary, North American Ferré, E.C., (2008). Invited Talk, University of Johannesburg, South Africa.

11 Lefticariu, L., (2008). Radiolytic oxidation of pyrite: a possible source of sulfate on enriched Higdon deposit, Madison and Perry Counties. Geological Society of Mars? Geology and Geophysics Department, Bucharest University, Romania. America Annual Meeting, Portland, OR.

Lefticariu, L., (2008). What can we learn from studying sulfate minerals on Earth Pinter, N., S. Baer, L. Chevalier, C. Lant, and M. Whiles. October 2009. Watershed about surface processes on Mars. SIUC Celebrating Scholarship By and About Science and Policy IGERT program at SIUC. Binghamton University Women Panel, Southern Illinois University. Geomorphology Symposium, Binghamton, NY.

Pinter, N., S. Baer, L. Chevalier, C. Lant, and M. Whiles. October 2009. Watershed Oral Presentations 2009 Science and Policy IGERT program at SIUC. Binghamton University Geomorphology Symposium, Binghamton, NY.

International Pinter, N., A. Podoll, A. C. Scott, and D. Ebel. October 2009. Extraterrestrial and terrestrial signatures at the onset of the Younger Dryas. Geological Society of Allison, C. M., R. Dunn, K. Brooks, J. A. Conder, F. Martinez, and M. M. Conley. America Annual Meeting, Portland, OR. December 2009. The L-SCAN Experiment: Mapping the Axial Magma Chamber Beneath the Eastern Lau Spreading Center. American Geophysical Union, San Rahman, M. W., R. Singh, L. Lefticariu. October 2009. Concentration and Francisco, CA. distribution of trace elements in coals from Illinois Basin. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Portland, OR. Carlson, M. L., J. Remo, and N. Pinter. October 2009. Assessing levee impacts on flood hazard with flood-loss modeling and retro-modeling. Geological Society of Ranaweera, C. K., E. C. Ferré, S. Polteau, M. C. Marsh, L. Maré, J. M. Marsh, S. America Annual Meeting, Portland, OR. M. Maes, and J. W. Geissman. December 2009. Magma flow pattern inferred from magnetic fabrics in a 100 km-long dolerite dike, Karoo LIP, South Africa. American Conder, J. A., R. A. Dunn, and K. Godfrey. December 2009. Preliminary Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA. examination of microearthquake activity along the Eastern Lau Spreading Center and the southern Lau basin. American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA. Remo, J. W. F., and N. Pinter, October 2009. River training structures: Effects on flow dynamics, channel morphology, and flood levels. Geological Society of Dierauer, J. R., J. W. Remo, and N. Pinter. October 2009. Modeling effectiveness America Annual Meeting, Portland, OR. of levee set-backs using combined 1D hydraulic modeling and flood-loss simulations. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Portland, OR. Rimmer, S. M. and L. E. Yoksoulian. October2009. The effect of heating rate on organic maturation: contact metamorphism versus burial maturation. Geological Evanoff, E., J. W. Remo, N. Pinter, and G. Balint. October 2009. Assessment of Society of America Annual Meeting, Portland, OR. causal mechanisms on flood conveyance along the Tisza River, Hungary using one- dimensional retro- and scenario-modeling. Geological Society of America Annual Rowe, H., S. Ruppel, S. M. Rimmer and R. Loucks. September 2009. Core-based Meeting, Portland, OR. chemostratigraphy of the Barnett Shale, Permian Basin, Texas. Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies 59th Annual Convention, Shreveport, LA. Feiner, K., V. Bianchi, S. M. Maes, E. C. Ferré, B. A. Lehman, and J.W. Geissman, December 2009. Regional stress and basement structure controls on dike orientation Russin, T. Z. and R. H. Fifarek. October 2009. Origin of the late auriferous barite- in the Karoo Basin. American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA. base metal sulfide and goethite-hematite stages at the Summitville high-sulfidation Cu-Au-Ag deposit, Colorado. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Fifarek, R. H. October 2009. Evidence for the brittle-ductile transition at the Portland, OR. Summitville high-sulfidation Au deposit, Co based on petrographic, thermometric and LA-ICP-MS analysis of fluid inclusions. Geological Society of America Annual Singh R., M. W. Rahman, L. Lefticariu. October 2009. Sulfur Illinois Coal. Meeting , Portland, OR. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Portland, OR. Friedman, S. A., E. C. Ferré, F. Martín-Hernández, A. Tommasi, and, F. Belley. Taylor, R., J. D. Waggoner, Z. Bailey, A. E. Rathburn, M. E. Perez, D. Miner, J. B. December 2009. Magnetism of mantle xenoliths: Potential clues on tectonic setting Martin, and S. Ishman. October 2009. Seasonal comparisons of rose Bengal stained and extraction processes. American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA. benthic foraminifera inhabiting the Western Antarctic Peninsula Shelf. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Portland, OR. Garrido, C. J., C. Marchesi, M. Godard, F. Belley and E. C. Ferré. June 2009. Migration and accumulation of ultra-depleted subduction-related melts in the Massif Yoksoulian, L. E., and S. M. Rimmer. October 2009. Contact metamorphosed coal du Sud ophiolite (New Caledonia). 19th Annual Goldschmidt 2009 Conference, and global warming: is there evidence for a large-scale release of methane? October Davos, Switzerland. 2009. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Portland, OR. Knight, T. K., P. S. Bingham, D. A. Grimaldi, K. B. Anderson, R. D. Lewis, and C. York, C., K. B. Anderson, and J. C. Crelling. October 2009. Properties of E. Savrda. October 2009. Upper Cretaceous (Santonian) Amber from the Ingersoll Inertinite Macerals. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Portland, OR. Shale (Eutaw Formation), Eastern Alabama: Modes of Occurrence, Character, Fossil

Inclusions, and Paleobotanical Affinity. Geological Society of America Annual National Meeting, Portland, OR. Behum, P. T. Jr., Y. P. Chugh, Y. Teklehaimanot, and L. Lefticariu. April 2009. Lant, C., N. Pinter, L. Chevalier, M. Whiles, and S. Baer. November 2009. NSF Geochemistry of Coal Mine Drainage in Response to Improved Material Handling: IGERT at Southern Illinois: Watershed Science and Policy. American Water Preliminary Results of Kinetic Testing. Geological Society of America Annual Resources Association Annual Water Resources Conference, Seattle, WA, Meeting, North-Central meeting, Rockford, IL. Lefticariu, L. October 2009. Oxidation of sulfide minerals: from acid mine Carlson, M., J. Remo, and N. Pinter. April 2009. Using HAZUS-MH as a drainage to life on Mars. Scientific session “Mineralogy and Geodiversity” floodplain management tool: Two southern Illinois case studies. Geological Society dedicated to the 70th anniversary of Professor Dr. Emil Constantinescu, Bucharest, of America, North-Central meeting, Rockford, IL. Romania. Conder, J. A. October 2009. Lau Basin mantle dynamics using geodynamic Lefticariu, L., P. T. Behum, Jr., and Y. P. Chugh. June 2009. Geochemical modeling in conjunction with seismic observations. Ridge 2000 Integration and Evaluation of Coal Processing Facility Drainage: Preliminary Results of Kinetic Synthesis Workshop: Developing a holistic view of oceanic spreading center Testing. 19th Annual Goldschmidt 2009 Conference, Davos, Switzerland. processes, St. Louis, MO. Lehman, B. A., E. C. Ferré, J. W. Geissman, J. S. Marsh, M. C. Marsh, L. Maré, C. Dunn, R., J. Conder, and F. Martinez. October 2009. The L-SCAN seismic K. Ranaweera, and S. M. Maes. December 2009. Magma flow pattern in a giant experiment. Ridge 2000 Integration and Synthesis Workshop: Developing a holistic dolerite sill and implications for the Karoo mantle plume hypothesis. American view of oceanic spreading center processes. St. Louis, MO Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA. Dunn, R., C. M. Allison, R. Austin, K. Brooks, J. A. Conder, M. M. Conley, E. Maré, L. P., C. K. Ranaweera, E. C. Ferré, M. C. Marsh, and J. S. Marsh. Emry, F. Martinez, and J. D. Sleeper. The L-SCAN Seismic Tomography and December 2009. Magnetic evaluation of the thermal history of the Karoo Basin, Geophysical Mapping Experiment. Ridge 2000 Integration and Synthesis South Africa. American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA. Workshop: Developing a holistic view of oceanic spreading center processes. St. Louis, MO. Marsh, M. C., E. C. Ferré, B. A. Lehman, C. K. Ranaweera, L. Maré, S. M. Maes, and J. W. Geissman. December 2009. Fabrics, internal zonation and magma flow in Evanoff, E., J. W. F. Remo, N. Pinter, and G. Balint. April 2009. One-dimensional small gabbroic sills, Karoo, South Africa. American Geophysical Union, San retro- and scenario modeling for two time steps across the middle Tisza River, Francisco, CA. Hungary. Geological Society of America, North-Central meeting, Rockford, IL. Martín-Hernández, F., E. C. Ferré, F. Belley, V. C. Ruiz-Martinez, C. J. Garrido, Lefticariu, L., M. W. Rahman, R. Singh. September 2009. Distribution and mode and M. L. Osete. December 2009. Magnetic signature and fabric of serpentinized of occurrence of mercury and sulfur in Illinois coal. 26th Annual International mantle rocks in the Betic-Rif Arc and tectonic implications. American Geophysical Pittsburgh Coal Conference, Pittsburgh, PA. Union, San Francisco, CA. Lefticariu, L., P. T. Behum, Jr., K. S. Bender, A. S. Burns, and C. W. Pugh. April Miner, D., J. B. Martin, A. E. Rathburn, and S. Ishman. October 2009. Seasonal and 2009. Biogeochemical Evaluation of The Tab Simco Mine Drainage Treatment spatial variations in porewater chemistry in the Bransfield and Gerlache Straits, System. Geological Society of America, North-Central meeting, Rockford, IL. Antarctica. Geological Society of Annual Meeting, Portland, OR. Marzolf, J. E., March 2009. (Invited Speaker). Sequence stratigraphy of the Aux Parra, L. A., G. A. Childers, and R. H. Fifarek. October 2009. Rediscovering Vases, Ste. Genevieve, Salem interval of the Illinois Basin. Illinois Oil and Gas southeast Missouri Mississippi Valley-Type Pb-Zn deposits: The cobalt-nickel Association Annual Meeting, Evansville, IN.

12 Remo, J. W., and N. Pinter. April 2009. The development of best practices for the Ferré, E. C., March 2009. (Invited Speaker) The magnetic properties of fault use of HAZUS-MH to estimate earthquake losses in southern Illinois. Geological pseudotachylytes & implications for magnetization processes. University of Society of America, North-Central meeting, Rockford, IL. Montpellier, Montpellier, France.

Singh, R. and L. Lefticariu. April 2009. Distribution and Mode of Occurrences of Ferré, E. C., April 2009. (Invited Speaker) The Magnetic Stratification of Mafic Sulfur and Trace Elements in Illinois Coal. Geological Society of America, North- Magma Chambers: Natural Examples and Numerical Models. University of Central meeting, Rockford, IL. Montpellier, Montpellier, France.

Other Ferré, E. C., May 2009. (Invited Speaker) Peridotitic laterites: a new analog for the Martian regolith? University of Nantes, Nantes, France. Conder, J. A., February 2009. (Invited Speaker) Volcanic Arcs and Subduction Zones, National Science Foundation R/V Marcus G. Langseth. Ferré, E. C., April 2009. (Invited Speaker) The magnetic properties of fault pseudotachylytes & implications for magnetization processes. University of Cergy- Conder, J. A., March 2009. (Invited Speaker) Microseismicity of the central and Pontoise, Paris, France. northern Lau basin, National Science Foundation R/V Marcus G. Langseth. Ferré, E. C., May 2009. (Invited Speaker) Petrology and dynamics of the Conder, J. A., November 2009. (Invited Speaker) Microseismicity and other continental crust. University of St-Etienne, Saint-Etienne, France. acoustic signals of the central and northern Lau basin. St. Louis University, St. Louis, MO. Lefticariu, L., November 2009. (Invited Speaker). Introduction to Water Resources. Southern Illinois University Expanding Your Horizons Conference, Carbondale, IL.

Grants and Contract proposals which included faculty and staff of the Department of Geology during calendar year 2008.

Investigator(s) Agency/Title Requested Support M. Whiles; N. Pinter; K. Williard; J. National Science Foundation $271,039 Garvey; H. Henson Collaborative Research: Integration of Small Moveable Bed River Models into Undergraduate Science and Technology Curricula L. Lefticariu; G. Kinsel; G. National Science Foundation $407,335 Whitledge Acquisition of an Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometer for Geochemical, Biological, and Petrologic Research, Education, and Training at SIUC S. Ishman; B. Lutz Evolving Earth $3,000 Late Neogene Foraminiferal Paleoecology of Shallow and Deep Water Environments of the Carribean and Eastern Equatorial Pacific Related to the Uplift of Panama J. Means; M. Wright; F. Mumba; H. National Science Foundation $299,161 Henson SIUC Math-Science Partnership: Start Partnership for Improved Math and Science Education in Southern Illinois N. Pinter; C. Lant; M. Whiles; L. National Science Foundation $3,200,000 Chevalier; M. Davenport IGERT: Multidisciplinary, Team-Based Training in Watershed Science and Policy K. Anderson; J. Crelling Illinois Clean Coal Institute $112,347 Structure of Virtinite S. Ishman University of Nebraska $94,940 Reconstructing Miocene Glaciomarine Environments of SMS Using Foraminifera Y. Chugh; S. Esling; L. Lefticariu Illinois Clean Coal Institute $105,853 Field Demonstration of Alternate Coal Processing Waste Disposal Technology for Sulfate Discharge Control L. Lefticariu Illinois Clean Coal Institute $84,995 Integrated Study of Mercury and Other Trace Elements Distribution in Illinois Coal J. Crelling; K. Anderson Illinois Clean Coal Institute $99,840 Reactivity of Inertinite Macerals N. Pinter; J. Garvey National Science Foundation $286,481 River Training Structures: Effects on Flow Dynamics, Flood Levels, and Habitat F. Mumba; H. Henson; M. Wright Illinois State Board of Education $199,758 Science, Mathematics and Action Research for Teachers (SMART) K. Anderson; T. Wiltowski; K. Illinois Clean Coal Institute $28,600 Mondal Wet Scrubber for Carbon Dioxide Capture from Flue Gas K. Renzaglia; J. Spears; H. Henson National Science Foundation $600,000 Green Scholarships: Training the Next Generation of Environmental Experts J. Conder National Science Foundation $86,624 Collaborative Research: Assessment of T-Wave Processes and Hydroacoustic Monitoring Capabilities in Lau Basin N. Pinter; C. Lant; M. Whiles; L. National Science Foundation $3,179,181 Chevalier; M. Davenport IGERT: Multidisciplinary, Team-Based Training in Watershed Science and Policy H. Henson; F. Mumba; M. Wright Illinois State Board of Education $249,900 ISBE-MSP-Science Mathematics & Action Research for Teachers Total $9,309,054

13 Grants and Contracts awarded to faculty and staff in the Department of Geology during calendar year 2008.

Investigator(s) Agency/Title Total Support E. Ferré National Science Foundation $145,651 Collaborative Research: Magma Dynamics in Sill-Dike Systems - Constraints from Magnetic Fabrics and Paleomagnetism in the Karoo Large Igneous Province N. Pinter Illinois Emergency Management Agency $323,201 Southern Illinois Multi-Hazard Mitigation Planning Initiative N. Pinter National Science Foundation $155,824 Collaborative Research: Testing a Hypothesis of Latest Pleistocene Paleo-Environmental Collapse, Northern Channel Islands, California K. Renzaglia; S. Sipes; D. Gibson; National Science Foundation $422,292 H. Henson; F. Mumba Heartland Partnerships: Inquiry-Based Ecological and Environmental Education at SIUC J. Conder National Science Foundation $42,761 Collaborative Research: Assessment of T-Wave Processes and Hydroacoustic Monitoring Capabilities in Lau Basin K. Anderson; T. Wiltowski; K. Illinois Clean Coal Institute $28,600 Mondal Wet Scrubber for Carbon Dioxide Capture from Flue Gas L. Lefticariu Illinois Clean Coal Institute $84,995 Integrated Study of Mercury and Other Trace Elements Distribution in Illinois Coal F. Mumba; H. Henson; M. Wright Illinois State Board of Education $42,355 Science, Mathematics and Action Research for Teachers (SMART) S. Ishman University of Nebraska $78,930 Reconstructing Miocene Glaciomarine Environments of SMS Using Foraminifera J. Conder Washington University $19,221 Collaborative Research: Crusted Accretion and Mantle Processes Along the Subduction- Influenced Eastern Lau Spreading Center R. Fifarek Various Donors $5,000 Economic Geology Research Total $1,348,830

Grants and Contracts funded during previous years, but still active during calendar year 2008.

Current Year Investigator(s) Agency/Title Support S. Ishman National Science Foundation $185,696 Collaborative Research: Paleohistory of the Larsen Ice Shelf System, Phase II N. Pinter; C. Casanova National Science Foundation $15,000 Morphotectonic Evolution of the Mejillones Peninsula, Northern Chile Using Precise GPS Measurement of Uplifted Coastal Terraces K. Anderson Honeywell $2,670 Analytical Services - Various H. Henson U.S. Department of the Interior; NPS $15,000 Remote Sensing Investigation at Campground Church Cemetery near Anna, Illinois K. Anderson; J. Crelling Illinois Clean Coal Institute $113,869 Oxidative Hydrothermal Dissolution of Illinois Coal D. Ravat US-Egypt $30,000 Spectral Analysis of Aeromagnetic Data for Geothermal Reconnaissance of West of the Red Sea Region in Egypt N. Pinter National Science Foundation $45,749 Collaborative Research: Multivariate Geospatial Modeling of Levee Impacts on Flood Heights, Lower Mississippi River N. Pinter United States Geological Survey $27,000 Development of a Hydrologic and Geospatial Data Repository for the Mississippi River System K. Renzaglia; S. Sipes; D. Gibson; National Science Foundation $261,764 H. Henson; F. Mumba Heartland Partnerships: Inquiry-Based Ecological and Environmental Education at SIUC N. Pinter National Science Foundation $29,779 Collaborative Research: Multivariate Geospatial Modeling of Levee Impacts on Flood Heights, Lower Mississippi River S. Ishman National Science Foundation $85,369 Collaborative Research: Testing the Impact of Seasonality on Benthic Foraminifera as Paleoenvironmental Indicators E. Ferre National Science Foundation $5,200 Acquisition of a Vibrating Sample Magnetometer for the Rock Magnetism Laboratory at Southern Illinois University S. Ishman National Science Foundation $178,867 Collaborative Research in IPY: Abrupt Environmental Change in the Larsen Ice Shelf System, a Multidisciplinary Approach - Marine and Quaternary Geosciences S. Ishman University of Nebraska $49,713 Using Foraminifera to Resolve the Neogene History of Southern McMurdo Sound K. Anderson; J. Crelling Illinois Clean Coal Institute $174,991 Environmentally Benign Production of High Value Chemicals from Illinois Coal T. Wiltowski; K. Mondal; K. Illinois Clean Coal Institute $1,419,979 Anderson I-Lab: Coal to Liquid Fuels Research Facility L. Lefticariu Illinois Clean Coal Institute $39,986 Distribution and Model of Occurrence of Sulfur and Trace Elements in Illinois Coal F. Mumba; H. Henson; M. Wright Illinois State Board of Education $167,675 Science, Mathematics and Action Research for Teachers (SMART) K. Anderson Pulsewave, LLC $54,717 Application of Pulsewave Disintegration to Comminution, Drying, and Cleaning of Illinois Coal Total $2,903,024

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Grants and Contract proposals which included faculty and staff of the Department of Geology during calendar year 2009.

Investigator(s) Agency/Title Requested Support J. Conder National Science Foundation $51,723 Collaborative Research: Crusted Accretion and Mantel Processes Along the Subduction- Influenced Eastern Lau Spreading Center M. Whiles; J. Garvey; L. Chevalier; National Science Foundation $493,484 H. Henson; N. Pinter; F. Mumba Integration of Small Moveable Bed River Models into Undergraudate Science and Technology Curricula K. Anderson; J. Crelling Illinois Clean Coal Institute $58,369 Structure and Maturation of Vitrinite N. Pinter; J. Remo National Science Foundation $120,789 RAPID: Effects of River Training Structures on Flow Dynamics and Flood Levels K. Renzaglia; H. Henson; J. Spears Chicago State University $979,500 SIUC Bridge to the Doctorate J. Crelling; K. Anderson Illinois Clean Coal Institute $98,231 Combustion Properties of Inertinite Macerals in Illinois Coal L. Lefticariu Illinois Clean Coal Institute $108,657 Occurrence, Distribution, and Geochemical Correlations of Trace Elements in Illinois Coal N. Pinter National Science Foundation $47,721 Collaborative Research: Testing a Hypothesis of Latest Pleistocene Paleo-Environmental Collapse, Northern Channel Islands M. Wright; H. Henson; F. Mumba Illinois State Board of Education $249,106 ISBE-IMSP-Science Math & Action Research for Teachers (SMART) Implementation Continuation K. Renzaglia; H. Henson; L. Illinois State Board of Education $248,645 Achenbach DNA Summer Institute: Building the Model from the Molecule K. Anderson; J. Crelling; S. Illinois Clean Coal Institute $310,586 Rimmer Characterization of Product Streams from the OHD Coal Conversion Process E. Ferré; J. Conder National Science Foundation $377,177 Collaborative Research: Seismic Anisotropy of the Continental Crust in the Superior Province, Minnesota & Tectonic Signific J. Sexton Illinois Petroleum Resources Board $17,250 Computer System for Geophysical Research and Teaching M. Wright; K. Renzaglia; H. National Science Foundation $8,618,413 Henson; J. Means Southern Illinois Partnership for Achievement in Middle School Math and Science E. Ferré National Science Foundation $16,200 Collaborative Research: Magma Dynamics in Sill-Dike Systems - Constraints from Magnetic Fabrics and Paleomagnetism in the K S. Secchi; G. Wilkerson; J. Remo National Science Foundation $1,294,514 Stacking Ecosystem Services in Reconnected Floodplains: Liking Socioeconomic and Biophysical Analysis to Improve Floodplain K. Anderson; T. Wiltowski; S. National Science Foundation $694,304 Kraft; I. Altman Science Masters Program: Professional Science Master's (PSM) in Advanced Energy and Fuels Management N. Pinter National Science Foundation $31,091 Testing Paleo-Environmental Fingerprints on Landscape in Scandinavia J. Conder National Science Foundation $199,417 Collaborative Research: Wabash Valley Geophysical Experiment in Illinois E. Ferré National Science Foundation $324,627 Collaborative Research: Towards a New Magnetic Model for the Lithospheric Mantle Total $14,339,804

15 Grants and Contracts awarded to faculty and staff in the Department of Geology during calendar year 2009.

Investigator(s) Agency/Title Total Support K. Renzaglia; S. Sipes; D. Gibson; National Science Foundation $443,581 H. Henson; F. Mumba Heartland Partnerships: Inquiry-Based Ecological and Environmental Education at SIUC M. Wright; H. Henson; F. Mumba Illinois State Board of Education $166,529 ISBE-MSP-Science Mathematics and Action Research for Teachers L. Lefticariu; G. Kinsel; G. National Science Foundation $407,335 Whitledge Acquisition of an Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometer for Geochemical, Biological, and Petrologic Research, Education, and Training at Southern Illinois University Carbondale S. Ishman National Science Foundation $67,362 Collaborative Research in IPY: Abrupt Environmental Change in the Larsen Ice Shelf System, a Multidisciplinary Approach - Marine and Quaternary Geosciences K. Renzaglia; J. Spears; H. Henson National Science Foundation $70,270 Green Scholarships: Training the Next Generation of Environmental Experts K. Renzaglia; S. Sipes; D. Gibson; National Science Foundation $444,906 H. Henson; F. Mumba Heartland Partnerships: Inquiry-Based Ecological and Environmental Education at SIUC K. Anderson; J. Crelling; S. Illinois Clean Coal Institute $310,586 Rimmer Characterization of Product Streams from the OHD Coal Conversion Process J. Conder National Science Foundation $52,856 Collaborative Research: Assessment of T-Wave Processes and Hydroacoustic Monitoring Capabilities in Lau Basin J. Sexton Illinois Petroleum Resources Board $17,200 Computer System for Geophysical Research and Teaching H. Henson Illinois Emergency Management Agency $45,444 Earthquake Hazard Mitigation and Education Video N. Pinter; C. Lant; M. Whiles; L. National Science Foundation $599,999 Chevalier; S. Baer IGERT: Multidisciplinary, Team-Based Training in Watershed Science and Policy M. Wright; H. Henson; F. Mumba Illinois State Board of Education $249,106 ISBE-IMSP-Science Math & Action Research for Teachers (SMART) Implementation Continuation J. Conder Washington University $20,032 Collaborative Research: Crusted Accretion and Mantle Processes Along the Subduction- Influenced Eastern Lau Spreading Center E. Ferré National Science Foundation $16,200 Collaborative Research: Magma Dynamics in Sill-Dike Systems - Constraints from Magnetic Fabrics and Paleomagnetism in the Karoo Large Igneous Province N. Pinter Kendall Sheriff $54,750 Illinois Multi-Hazard Mitigation Planning Initiative, Kendall County N. Pinter Schuyler County $54,750 Illinois Multi-Hazard Mitigation Planning Initiative, Schuyler County N. Pinter Menard County $54,750 Illinois Multi-Hazard Mitigation Planning Initiative, Menard County Total $3,075,656

Current Year Investigator(s) Agency/Title Support S. Ishman National Science Foundation $185,696 Collaborative Research: Paleohistory of the Larsen Ice Shelf System, Phase II N. Pinter; C. Casanova National Science Foundation $15,000 Morphotectonic Evolution of the Mejillones Peninsula, Northern Chile Using Precise GPS Measurement of Uplifted Coastal Terraces K. Anderson Honeywell $2,670 Analytical Services - Various H. Henson U.S. Department of the Interior; NPS $15,000 Remote Sensing Investigation at Campground Church Cemetery near Anna, Illinois N. Pinter National Science Foundation $29,779 Collaborative Research: Multivariate Geospatial Modeling of Levee Impacts on Flood Heights, Lower Mississippi River S. Ishman National Science Foundation $85,369 Collaborative Research: Testing the Impact of Seasonality on Benthic Foraminifera as Paleoenvironmental Indicators S. Ishman National Science Foundation $178,867 Collaborative Research in IPY: Abrupt Environmental Change in the Larsen Ice Shelf System, a Multidisciplinary Approach - Marine and Quaternary Geosciences S. Ishman University of Nebraska $49,713 Using Foraminifera to Resolve the Neogene History of Southern McMurdo Sound K. Anderson; J. Crelling Illinois Clean Coal Institute $174,991 Environmentally Benign Production of High Value Chemicals from Illinois Coal T. Wiltowski; K. Mondal; K. Illinois Clean Coal Institute $1,419,979 Anderson I-Lab: Coal to Liquid Fuels Research Facility Total $2,157,064

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