HGRHOOSIER GEOLOGIC RECORD 2013-14 1| Indiana University College of Arts and Sciences Alumni Association HOOSIER GEOLOGIC RECORD HOOSIER GEOLOGIC Alumni Newsmagazine of the Department of Geological Sciences 2013-2014 RECORD This magazine is published by the Indiana University Table of Contents Alumni Association, in cooperation with the Depart- Chair’s Welcome ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 3 ment of Geological Sciences and the College of Arts and Vision Statement: Major Advancement of Research and Sustained Excellence ...................................................................................... 3 Sciences Alumni Association, to encourage alumni inter- Critical Centers of Activity in the Department .......................................................................................................................................... 4 est in and support for Indiana University. For activities 1. Global Climate and Environment ....................................................................................................................................................... 4 and membership information, call (800) 824-3044 or Focus: Sedimentary Geology .............................................................................................................................................................. 4 send e-mail to [email protected]. 2. Origin and Evolution of Life................................................................................................................................................................ 5 Focus: Geobiology/Geoanthropology ................................................................................................................................................ 5 DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES 3. Solid Earth Dynamics ......................................................................................................................................................................... 6 Focus: Geophysics ............................................................................................................................................................................. 6 Chair: Lisa M. Pratt 4. Mars as an Earth-Like Planet .............................................................................................................................................................. 7 Graphic Arts: Ruth Droppo Focus: Astrobiology/Biogeochemistry ............................................................................................................................................... 7 Focus: Mineralogy/Petrology ............................................................................................................................................................. 8 Editor: David Polly 5. Energy, Resources, and Sustainability ................................................................................................................................................ 9 Focus: Atmospheric Science ............................................................................................................................................................... 9 Staff Photography: 6. Leadership in Field Geosciences ...................................................................................................................................................... 10 Barbara Hill and John Day Focus: The Judson Mead Geologic Field Station .............................................................................................................................. 10 College of Arts and Sciences Focus: G188 Field Trip: Volcanoes of the Eastern Sierra Nevada ..................................................................................................... 11 7. Geosciences Library - Transitioning to Electronic Access ................................................................................................................. 12 Interim Dean David Zaret 8. Responding to Changing Demands for Geological Sciences Training ............................................................................................... 13 9. Geosciences Staff ............................................................................................................................................................................. 14 Senior Director of Development and Alumni Focus: The Mary Iverson Graduate Fellowship ................................................................................................................................ 14 Programs 10. Development Activities and Foundation Accounts ........................................................................................................................... 16 David Ellies Focus: Benefactors ...................................................................................................................................................................... 15-16 IU Alumni Association Executive Director History: Geological Sciences 50/25/10 years ago .................................................................................................................................. 17 J Thomas Forbes Emeriti Notes and Faculty Timeline ............................................................................................................................................ 18 and 19 Alumni News .......................................................................................................................................................................................... 20 Senior Director, Constituent and Affiliate In Memory: Al Rudman ......................................................................................................................................................................... 21 Groups Nicki Bland Editor for Constituent Periodicals We encourage alumni and friends to send us prints, photos, or slides that would interest our readers. Please be sure to provide a Sarah Preuschl Anderson complete caption and label the material with your name and address so that it can be returned. |2 Welcome from the Chair Major Advancement of Research and Sustained Excellence in Teaching: A Vision for the 21st Century Department of Geological Sciences, Indiana University A Brief History of the Geological Sciences at Indiana University From the arrival of Richard Owen, son of New Harmony founder Robert Owen, in 1864, geology at IU has been taught with a practical emphasis using what Owen called “education through the eye”. Now 150 years later, we continue to teach theory combined with practice. Nearly all of our undergraduate classes include a laboratory section in which students make observations, take measurements, record data, and develop interpretations. Our faculty lead 8-10 field trips each semester enabling our students to experience both ancient rocks and the modern geological processes that govern them. Between the junior and senior year, we immerse our students in the physically rugged and intellectually challenging environment of Indiana University’s Judson Mead Geologic Field Station (IUGFS) in Montana. The IUGFS course has been taught every year since 1949. Over the past five years, a total of 380 students drawn from 110 colleges and universities have completed the IUGFS summer course. Combined excellence in theory and practice is the core of undergraduate teaching, graduate training, and faculty research at IU’s Department of Geological Sciences. The limestone-clad Geology building on 10th Street was completed in 1962, centering the Department’s laboratories, classrooms, and offices in a single location that served the needs of faculty and students forty years. With increasing demand for advanced analytical facilities and high-resolution measurements in the 1990’s, Geological Sciences was a campus leader in advocating for the Multidisciplinary Science Building II (MSB-II) just across the street from the Geology Building. When MSB-II was completed in 2009, the biogeochemical, the analytical chemistry, and stable isotope research facilities graduated into world-class research space. The 4th floor of MSB-II houses numerous instruments and experimental apparatuses for organic geochemical and hydrochemical research as well as a cleanroom for preparation of geological samples for measurement of metal isotope ratios. The expanded laboratory facilities in MSB- II were key ingredients in recent successful proposals for highly competitive awards from NSF and NASA, including a multi-collector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer and two stable-isotope mass spectrometers. In addition to new major instruments, the Department has an electron microprobe, a scanning electron microscope, two X-ray diffraction units, two ion chromatographs, an atomic absorption spectrophotometer, three isotope mass spectrometers, a piston-cylinder pressure apparatus and numerous field meters and data-logging devices. Students in geophysics have access to data from IRIS, which is the most advanced seismic network for monitoring of Earth’s dynamic movements, because members of our faculty were among the visionary founding members of this university consortium sponsored by NSF. These facilities, combined with the field resources at the IUGFS, our internationally ranked paleontological research collection, our extensive stratigraphic collection, and our experimental