Indiana University College of Arts & Sciences Alumni Association HOOSIER GEOLOGIC HOOSIER GEOLOGIC RECORD RECORD This newsmagazine is published annually by the Indiana University Alumni Alumni Newsmagazine of the Department of Geological Sciences Association, in cooperation with the Department of Winter 2002-03 Geological Sciences and the College of Arts and Sciences Alumni A~sociation, to encourage alumni interest in and support for Indiana University For activities Table of Contents and membership informa­ tion, call (800) 824-3044 Chair's Greeting ......................................................................................... l or send e-mail to iualumni@ indiana.edu. Editor's Note ............................................................................................. 2 Around the Department ............................................................................. 3 Department of Geological Sciences Department of Geological Sciences Faculty and Staff ..................... 12 Chair Chris Maples Colloquium Series and Presentations ............................................. 13 Director ofDevelopment Other Presentations ....................................................................... 13 Lee Suttner Editor Geologic Field Station Update ................................................................. 14 J. Robert Dodd Co-editor Indiana Geological Survey Update ........................................................... 15 Sara Marcus Faculty News ........................................................................................... 17 Indiana Geological Faculty Research Grants ................................................................ 23 Survey Photography Student News ........................................................................................... 24 Barbara Hill and John Dav Alumni Notebook .................................................................................... 27 College of Arts & Sciences Advisory Board ............................................................................. 28 Dean In Memoriam ................................................................................ 31 Kumblc R. Subbaswamv Executive Director of 2001-02 Donors ...................................................................................... 31 Development & Alumni Programs Class Note Form ...................................................................................... 32 Tom Herbert Department Photo ............................................................. inside back cover IU Alumni Association President/CEO Ken Becklev Assistant Alumni Director Nicki Bland Editor jiJr Constituent Editor)s note: lli urge alumni and friends to send us Periodicals prints, photos, or slides that would interest our readers. Julie Dales Please be sure to provide a complete caption and label the Editorial Assistant material rvith your name and address so that it can be Brook Northcutt returned. lli can't promise to include all submissions, but rve can promise to return them. rtJoLLEGE Chair's greeting How has the endowment campaign helped? April 2000 seems like such a short time support of research as part of the offer that the university and the College of Arts and ago! That's when the department's historic brought them to ru. Many of these Sciences is for start-up funds (which have endowment campaign officially ended. And students have used the money to purchase a been well into the hundreds of thousands of yet it also seems like the distant past as well computer, but funds have been used in dollars for each of our recent hires), salary because so many things have happened support of research in a variety of other (most of which cannot be offset by the 5 since then - things that are direct results of ways as well, including attending profes­ percent income generated by the professor­ the can1paign effort. Although everyone sional meetings, field work, and analytical ships and chairs), and other support (such here can see these dramatic changes, many services. We have supported 36 students as secretarial and technical staff and student of them may not be evident to our alumni (for a total of $36,000) over the past two support for the professor or chair). and friends outside the department. So this years with these funds. Needless to say, your support has leveraged year's chair's statement is a discussion of DOGS Daze is a student-run, student­ an enormous amount of support from the some (but certainly not all) of the major only research fair that is conducted each university and the College that, over the areas in which you and your generosity year in the spring. This year will mark the years, will be at least five times the support have been directly beneficial to us. The list third annual DOGS Daze, which will be that comes directly from these funds (the of support is a long one and your help held on March 7. DOGS Daze, which multiplier in the short term is even larger already is evident - but don't just take our originated with SAC, provides a forwn to when one takes start-up funds into ac­ word for it; see for yourselves below! highlight student research through oral and count). Direct student support. - Direct support poster presentations. The presentations are Mark Person holds the Malcolm and of student learning and research has been judged and cash awards are given to Sylvia Boyce Chair in Geological Sciences. our top priority for as long as I can winners. Last year, a total of $2,000 was Mark, who came to ru from the University remember. However, our support for awarded to winners in various categories. of Minnesota, brought with him a pro­ students has not been particularly well The endowment campaign also has grammer (David Dal1lstrom), who is advertised. Thanks to the success of the resulted in direct student support in the supported directly by funds from the endowment campaign, we are now able to form of fellowships and other positions. Malcolm and Sylvia Boyce Chair. In provide even more support to students and, Two students are supported with funds addition, Mark has used these funds to of equal importance, that support is more generated by the Malcolm and Sylvia Boyce support a graduate student, field trips, widely known and appreciated. Chair. Another student is supported with visiting scientists and speakers, and We continue to support field trips that funds from the Daniel S. Tudor Fellowship. numerous other enhancements to the are offered with classes taught in the In addition, we have been able to increase overall educational experience of our department. Last year alone we were able to our support for students to attend field students and faculty. use nearly $35,000 to support field trips camp, take courses offered off-campus, and David Bish has accepted our offer to associated with our classes! travel to meetings to attend short courses. begin as the Haydn Murray Chair in We continue to support the research Combined, this support totals well over Applied Clay Mineralogy beginning in experiences of graduate students in the $50,000. August 2003. Renovations to his lab and department, and we promote knowledge of Direct faculty support. - Probably the office in the Geology Building currently are that support to help us recruit high-quality best and most widely known support for under way. students. Each of our graduate students in the mission of the Department of Geologi­ Lee Suttner holds the Robert R. Shrock the past two years has received $1,000 in cal Sciences comes from the professorships Professorship in Sedimentary Geology. By and chairs that were direct results of the awarding the Shrock Professorship inter­ endowment campaign. These faculty nally, we were able to negotiate another positions represent a tremendous commit­ position in sedimentary geology. That ment to the department by you - our position allowed us to recruit Juergen alumni and friends, by ru (tl1anks to tl1e Schieber to IU from the University of negotiated matching program from then­ Texas, Arlington. Schieber, who joined the President Myles Brand), and by the College department in August 2002, already has of Arts and Sciences. The general structure had a noticeable effect on students and of this support deserves some explanation. faculty alike. In addition, he brought two A named professorship requires a minimum students with him from his previous of $500,000, and a named chair requires a institution. We would not have been able to minimum of $1 million to go into effect. recruit Schieber to IU without the Shrock Each of these two named positions Professorship. generates an average of 5 percent income The Judson Mead Professorship in that can be spent in pursuit of the research Applied Geophysics currently is unfilled. and teaching goals of tl1e person who holds We made an offer to a top-notch candidate the position. That means that a named this past year, but that person's home professorship generates approximately institution made a counter-offer that, quite $25,000 per year and a named chair honestly, was beyond anything tl1at Indiana generates approximately $50,000 per year University was capable of matching. (market conditions have not had too much Although disappointing, it is an indication Chris Maples, chair, Department of effect on these values thus far, but that that we continue to identify and recruit Geological Sciences likely will not last). The commitment from (continued on page 2) 1 From the editor How does the Hoosier Geologic Record compare? hope you will excuse me ifI