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Bickford Honored with 2009Alumni Achievement Award

Dr. Marion E.Bickford was select-

ed by faculty membersto receive the 2009Alumni AchievementAward, honoring Dr.Bickford’s distin-guished contributionsto geology as both aresearcher and an edu-cator. His illustriouscareer spans nearlyfive decades andexemplifies theDepartment ofGeology’s core missions of education,research, and public engagement.

As a child growing up in Memphis,Tennessee, Bickford was always interest-ed in chemistry and by the time his fam-ily moved to Minnesota in 1943, therewas little doubt that he would find hiscareer path in the sciences. Followinghigh school graduation, Bickford attend-ed Carleton College on scholarship,where he majored in chemistry until thesecond semester of his sophomore year,when he found himself questioningwhether or not laboratory work was theright fit for him. Ironically, after chang-ing his major to geology, he discoveredthat what interested him most was thechemistry of natural materials and hesoon returned to the lab, this time withthe assurance of his passion for rocksand minerals.

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The Sedimentary Geology andStructure and Tectonics Divisions

of the Geological Society of Americarecently announced the newStephen E. Laubach Research inStructural Diagenesis Award, namedfor Illinois alum, Dr. StephenLaubach (PhD ’86).

The award aims to promoteresearch combining structural geolo-gy and diagenesis, and curriculumdevelopment in structural diagene-sis. The award also addresses therapidly growing recognition thatfracturing, cement precipitation anddissolution, evolving rock mechani-cal properties and other structuraldiagenetic processes can governrecovery of resources and sequestra-tion of material in deeply buried,diagenetically altered and fracturedsedimentary rocks. To help promotethe cross disciplinary emphasis ofthis annual award, the SedimentaryGeology and Structural Geology &Tectonics Divisions have been desig-nated to jointly select the recipient.

ResearchAward Namedfor Alum

After graduating from Carleton in1954, Bickford spent a summer studyingthe Minnesota Iron Ranges and thenenlisted in the U.S. Army. After servinghis country for three years, Bickfordapplied for graduate school and wasoffered a fellowship at the University ofIllinois, where he began his graduatestudies in 1957. Under the direction ofthe late Carleton A. Chapman, Bickfordfocus his M.S. and Ph.D. studies on thepetrology of gabbros in coastal Maine.His dissertation eventually led to a paperon the subject that was published in theJournal of Geology in 1963.

Upon receiving his Ph.D., Bickfordtook a position at San Fernando ValleyState College (now California StateUniversity at Northridge), where hetaught for three years. During this time,

Back at the Eidsvoll flagstone quarry, Saetra Nappeof the Norwegian Caledonides

In the midst of unprecedented finan-cial difficulty faced by the State and

the University of Illinois, I write toassure you that as a world-class institu-tion of higher learning, our campus issimply too outstanding to fail. The per-formance of our Department also hasbeen equally excellent.

Which two campuses received thelargest amounts of funding from theNational Science Foundation in thepast few years? If you are thinking ofsome well-known private institutionsor other elite public-assisted universi-ties, here is a clue: Think Orange andBlue. To this end, expenditure of exter-nal grants in our Department averagedover $200,000 per FTE (full-time equiv-alent) faculty last year. Our instruction-al activities are just as successful,reaching about 10,000 students peryear total in all the courses offered.Some of the most popular Geologycourses now take place at theFoellinger Auditorium. Furthermore,we generate more instructional unitsper teaching staff (including teachingassistants) than just about any otherdepartment in the College of LiberalArts and Sciences.

Like most other geosciencesdepartments in the country, our onevulnerability lies in the small size of

faculty and majors, even though 60majors is a respectable number amongpeer programs in geosciences. With theformation of the School of Earth, Societyand Environment three years ago, weare making good progress in size, as anindependent major under the auspice ofthe School now has grown to about 150majors and 50 minors, effectivelyincreasing the footprint of each of thethree departments under the School by50 majors.

Many measures of austerity are tak-ing place on campus. One that greatlyimpacts just about every unit, includingour Department, is a voluntary programfor retirement of faculty and separationof staff. The current estimate is that theCollege as a whole, there will be areduction of 10% in faculty by fall of2011. Last fall, our Department wasauthorized to make a new hire in GlobalChange Geology but a hiring freeze atthe beginning of this year put the searchprocess on hold. Nonetheless, we arepromised that hiring of this position willresume, as soon as the temporary freezeis over, without another round of com-petition (only 14 out of 65 proposalswere approved by the College last fall.)

Dr. Ruth Watkins, current Dean ofthe College of Liberal Arts and Sciences,and her predecessor, repeatedly pointedout at public occasions that aside fromour performance in teaching andresearch, strong support from you—ouralumni and friends—sets us apart. Thisis to your credit and a reflection of yourown success in various endeavors, andyour continual financial contributionsand being steadfast advocates for theDepartment and the University. On

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Letter From The Head

behalf of everyone in the Department,our hats off to you! We need your sup-port more than ever in this financial crisis.

One recent visitor, lecturing for theRIDGE distinguished lecture series,commented that as everyone “circlesthe wagon,” the morale in theDepartment is very high – somethingbeing reflected by various reports in thisissue. Highlights include the appoint-ment of Prof. Jay Bass as the Presidentof COMPRES (Consortium for MaterialsProperties Research in Earth Sciences)and Prof. Craig Bethke as a FacultyAssociate at the Center for AdvancedStudy on campus and the Allen CoxFellow at Stanford University where heplans to spend his sabbatical startingfall of 2010. Congratulations, Jay andCraig! In addition, to prepare for thearrival of the USArray component of theEarthScope national initiative—thelargest project ever in geosciences—tothe mid-continent, Prof. Steve Marshakconvened a national workshop at theIllini Union in April. About 50 scientistsparticipated in two days of planning tounveil the subsurface geology of theNorth American platform. Please enjoyreading this issue, stay in touch, andvisit us, in person or on-line, wheneveryou have a chance.

Best wishes,Wang-Ping Chen

Greetings

Year in Review is published once a year by theDepartment of Geology, University of IllinoisUrbana-Champaign, to highlight the activitiesand accomplishments within our department andfeature news from our alumni and friends.Department Head: Wang-Ping Chen

(wpchen@illinois.edu)Office Administrator: Marilyn Whalen

(mkt@illinois.edu)Editor: Kim Schmidt (kimsch@illinois.edu)

www.geology.illinois.edu

— Our performance has been excellent —

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Graduate students as well as post-graduate and faculty scholars in thisemerging field are eligible to submitproposals. The award will be presentedyearly during the GSA Annual Meetingin alternating SGD and SG&T awardsceremonies beginning this year with theSG&T awards ceremony in Denver. Thedeadline for proposals is July 1, 2010. Dr. Laubach is currently a SeniorResearch Scientist at the Bureau ofEconomic Geology, University of Texasat Austin, and was recently a speakerin the Geology Department Colloquium.He is also organizing several upcominginternational conferences in the UnitedKingdom at the end of this year, includ-ing The Geology of Unconventional GasPlays, October 4-7, and Advances onCarbonate Exploration, November 4-5.

Laubach was also recently electedto a two-year term as editor of theAAPG Bulletin.

Bickford Honored with 2009 Alumni Achievement Award(continued from page 1)

Research Award Named for Alum(continued from page 1)

he began a research relationship withProfessor George W. Weatherill, a pioneerin geochronology and isotope geochem-istry, who had just built a lab at UCLA.From 1963 to 1964, Bickford worked full-time at UCLA as a post-doctoralresearcher in Weatherill’s lab. He creditsthis experience as a foundation for hisfuture investigations into the history andevolution of the earth’s continental crust.

Following his time in Weatherill’slab, Bickford accepted a position at theUniversity of Kansas, where he taughtand carried out research for twenty-fiveyears. Along with Dr. W.R. Van Schmus,a fellow former student of Weatherill’slab, Bickford built the IsotopeGeochemistry Laboratory, where the paircarried out numerous joint research pro-jects, including a notable study of theburied crystalline basement rocks of themid-continent area.

In 1990, Bickford joined theDepartment of Geology at SyracuseUniversity as a professor and chairman,where he continued teaching andresearching until his “retirement” in

1997. Not quite ready to leave hisresearch behind, Bickford has remainedworking at Syracuse four days a weekand has recently completed studies ofzircons from Adirondack anorthositesand their implications for petrogenesisand tectonic setting.

Besides teaching and researching,Bickford has also served as the editorof the journal Geology and is currentlyin his fifth year as the science editorfor the Geological Society of America.He has received numerous awards andaccolades during his impressive profes-sional career, including theChancellor’s Award for Excellence inTeaching from the University ofSyracuse in 1997 and the GSADistinguished Service Award in 2008.

He feels most proud, however, ofhis fifty-five year long marriage to hiswife Betsy and his children and grand-children. Dr. Bickford visited theUniversity of Illinois on April 30th toreceive the Alumni Award and give aseminar.

Twenty Department of Geologyinstructors were named to the

University’s List of Teachers Rankedas Excellent by Their Students for thespring, summer, and fall 2009 semes-ters.

Faculty and academic profes-sionals appearing on this list includeStephen Altaner, Jim Best, CraigBethke, Chu-Yung Chen, Bruce Fouke,Tom Johnson, Ann Long, SteveMarshak, and Michael Stewart.

Graduate students Gideon Bartov,Mirona Chirienco, Samantha Dwyer,Jessica Hellwig, Meijuan Jiang, MattKyrias, Stephanie Mager, Philip Miller,Eric Obrock, Mara Orescanin, andMauricio Perillo were named to the listfor their work as teaching assistants inthe Department.

Six instructors received the highestranking of “outstanding.” During thespring semester, this ranking was earnedby Mara Orescanin (Geology 208). In the

fall, Stephen Altaner (Geology 110),Craig Bethke (Geology 470), BruceFouke (Geology 390, 415, 515) JessicaHellwig (Geology 107), and StephanieMager (Geology 411) earned top hon-ors.

Rankings are released everysemester and are based on studentevaluations maintained by the Centerfor Teaching Excellence on the Illinoiscampus.

Students and Faculty Named ‘Excellent’ Instructors

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by Lecturer Michael Stewart

Over the past few years, the field campstudents have enjoyed a spring field

trip across South Dakota and Wyomingon their way to the Wasatch-Uinta FieldCamp based in Park City, Utah. Alongthe way, I’ve led the students to a num-ber of classic locations including theBadlands, Black Hills, BighornMountains, the Absaroka Range, andYellowstone largely with the generoussupport provided by Ed (BS ‘56) andAlison Franklin. But it’s no secret thatWyoming is barely out of winter byearly June, and in the past our studentshave set-up camp under rather tryingconditions including thunderstorms atDevils Tower, knee-deep snow atop theBighorns, and a blizzard that closed theLoop Road in Yellowstone. So we were

hopeful of good weather when this pastyear Dr. Norb Cygan (BS ’54, MS ’56,PhD ’62) invited the students to headsouth through Colorado and stop atDinosaur Ridge and Red Rocks Park out-side of Morrison.

With the hope of better campingconditions, we tripped across Nebraskainto Colorado and then on into Utah.This new route was great preparation forfield camp, for it exposed the students torelevant stratigraphy, some dinosaurpaleontology, and some truly excellentnational parks. Norb kindly guided ourtour of Red Rocks and Dinosaur Ridge,providing the students with an in-depthintroduction to the flatirons of Red RocksPark, the fossils of Dinosaur Ridge, anda Uranium roll-front in the Dakota sand-stone.

From the Denver area, the field tripheaded over the Front Range, camped onSouthpark, traversed the Sawatch Range,camped along the Gunnison River at thehead of Black Canyon, traversed the SanJuan Volcanic Field and the classicsequence of Paleozoic through Mesozoicstrata exposed along the drive fromOuray to Durango where we spilled outonto the Colorado Plateau. FromDurango, we went on to visit MesaVerde, Canyonlands, and Arches NationalParks. The weather, though initially notany warmer than Wyoming, was a bitmore tame—sleet, but no snow outsideof Denver and rain, but no lightening, onthe Front Range. Once we hit Durango,however, the sun came out to stay andwe were in shorts and t-shirts until we

At Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park, students observe metamorphosed basement that was intruded by Proterozoic granitic rocks and overlain byMesozoic sedimentary formations, all uplifted by the Laramide orogeny. From left to right: Luke O’Sadnick, Ian Dennehy, Diane Cheung, Ryan Quinn, Seth Chiles,and Amanda Peter, our TA.

In the Field

Traveling to Field Camp — A Learning Opportunity!

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Bass LeadsCOMPRESProfessor Jay Bass is the new

president of COMPRES(Consortium for MaterialsProperties Research in EarthSciences). He assumed his dutieson January 1, 2010.

“In the past decade, COMPRESmade available cutting-edge facili-ties to the mineral physics commu-nity and enabled interdisciplinarycollaborations. We are excited thatunder Jay's leadership, theDepartment and the campus will bepart of a leading effort in shapingthe study of geo-materials for yearsto come,” said Department HeadWang-Ping Chen.

Bass took over the positionfrom Professor Robert Liebermannof Stony Brook University, who hasagreed to stay on as past presidentuntil the 2010 Annual Meeting inJune to cooperate in this transition.Liebermann had served in the posi-tion since 2003.

Quentin Williams, chair of theExecutive Committee of COMPRES,made the announcement onNovember 30, 2009. In hisannouncement he said, “Jay hascontributed extensively to COM-PRES through his thoughtful andforward-looking leadership in thepast, having served with distinctionon the COMPRES ExecutiveCommittee from 2003 to 2008, asthe initial President of the organiza-tion in 2002, and as one of the orig-inal architects of the organiza-tion…It is with this mix of newopportunities, past successes andfuture challenges that we look for-ward to Jay's experienced leader-ship in taking COMPRES into itssecond decade.”

reached field camp on the Wasatch Front.With several days of experience undertheir hammers, the students were readyto attack the challenge of mapping, strati-graphic analysis, and structural studythat they would face for the next sixweeks at the Wasatch-Uinta Camp, underthe supervision of Illinois alum, Dr. KurtBurmeister (PhD ‘05), who serves as fieldcamp director.

Norb Cygan explains a uranium roll front in roadcut west of Denver. Ryan Quinn is on the out-crop and Diane Cheung is in the foreground.

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In March 2010, juniorKamil Stelmach was

named a GoldwaterScholar by The BarryM. GoldwaterScholarship andExcellence inEducation Foundation.The Foundation award-ed 278 scholarships forthe 2010–2011 academ-ic year to undergradu-ate sophomores andjuniors from the UnitedStates.

Stelmach is anactive undergraduatemember of the labresearch group lead byProfessor Bruce Fouke. He is majoringin biology, chemistry, and astronomy,and intends to pursue a Ph.D. in evolu-tionary biology or geochemistry. Hewould like to conduct research in geo-chemistry and evolutionary biology asa professor or as a research scientistworking for NASA.

“I feel really lucky and thankful.Receiving the scholarship was anhonor I could not hope to get withoutthe help and support of Dr. BruceFouke and Dr. Rob Sanford from theDepartment of Geology and Dr. JohnCheeseman from the School ofIntegrative Biology,” said Stelmach.

The Goldwater Scholars wereselected on the basis of academic meritfrom a field of 1,111 mathematics, sci-ence, and engineering students whowere nominated by the faculties of col-leges and universities nationwide. Theone- and two-year scholarships will

cover the cost of tuition,fees, books, and room andboard up to a maximum of$7,500 per year.Stelmach’s research inFouke’s lab played a majorrole in receiving this award.Stelmach has worked withFouke’s lab group to run acontrolled laboratory experi-ment to evaluate the role ofmicrobiota on CaCO3 bio-mineralization. The experi-mental device is called thein situ kinetic apparatus(ISKA), which was original-ly built for deployment inYellowstone and has nowbeen modified for use inour campus laboratories.

“Stelmach has conducted parallel con-trolled experiments uti-lizing twoSulfurihydrogenebium-associated microbial iso-lates that we previouslyobtained from MammothHot Springs,” said Fouke.“Both microorganismsare excellent representa-tives of the Aquificalesmicrobial community,which is directlyinvolved in aragonitenucleation based on our16S rRNA gene sequenceanalyses as well as pre-liminary metagenomicanalyses. We currentlyhave metagenomic analy-ses of these microbes inprogress, which will per-

mit Kamil to identify genes coding forkey proteins.”

Stelmach is the second undergrad-uate member of Fouke’s researchgroup to receive a GoldwaterScholarship. In 2000, Dr. David Fike,now an assistant professor atWashington University in St. Louis,received the award.

“Kamil is an extremely dedicatedand capable student. Kamil has beeninvolved in all aspects of this work,from the painstaking construction andmechanical modification of the ISKA,to developing experimental design,conducting aqueous geochemistry, col-lecting and analyzing travertine depo-sition using optical and chemicalmethods, and the microbial work,”said Fouke.

The scholarship program honoringSenator Barry M.Goldwater was designed tofoster and encourage out-standing students to pur-sue careers in the fields ofmathematics, the naturalsciences, and engineering.The Goldwater Scholarshipis the premier undergradu-ate award of its type inthese fields.

In its twenty-four-yearhistory, the Foundationhas awarded 6,079 schol-arships worth approxi-mately fifty-eight milliondollars.

Stembach Named Goldwater Scholar

“I FEEL REALLY LUCKY

AND THANKFUL.

RECEIVING THE SCHOL-

ARSHIP WAS AN HONOR I

COULD NOT HOPE TO

GET WITHOUT THE HELP

AND SUPPORT OF DR.

BRUCE FOUKE AND DR.

ROB SANFORD FROM

THE DEPARTMENT OF

GEOLOGY AND DR.

JOHN CHEESEMAN FROM

THE SCHOOL OF

INTEGRATIVE BIOLOGY.”

“KAMIL IS AN EXTREMELY

DEDICATED AND CAPABLE

STUDENT. KAMIL HAS

BEEN INVOLVED IN ALL

ASPECTS OF THIS WORK,

FROM THE PAINSTAKING

CONSTRUCTION AND

MECHANICAL MODIFICA-

TION OF THE ISKA, TO

DEVELOPING EXPERI-

MENTAL DESIGN, CON-

DUCTING AQUEOUS GEO-

CHEMISTRY, COLLECTING

AND ANALYZING TRAVER-

TINE DEPOSITION USING

OPTICAL AND CHEMICAL

METHODS, AND THE

MICROBIAL WORK.”

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Carly Hill, Density Banding in CoralSkeletons: Abiotic and BioticResponse to Increased Sea SurfaceTemperature

Matthew Phillip Kyrias, MonitoringDissolved Gases and Ions inGroundwater Using an In SituSampling Technique

Jessica Palmer, The Flow Structure ofInteracting Barchan Dunes

Justine Petras, Genesis andSedimentation of an Ice-WalledLake Plain, Northeastern Illinois

Derik Strattan, Gene Expression ofDissimilatory Sulfite Reductase inDesulfovibrio Vulgaris as a Markerfor the Rate of Sulfate Reduction inNatural Systems

Karen Wong, Under the auspices of theTeaching of Earth Science Program

Doctor of Philosophy Degrees

May 2009Zhaohui Yang, Seismic Studies on the

East African Rift System and theTibetan Plateau: Implications forthe Rheology of Lithosphere and theEvolution of Rifts in Continents

Bin Chen, Nature and Dynamics ofEarth and Planetary Cores fromHigh-Pressure Properties of Iron-RichAlloys

Bachelor of Science Degrees

May 2009Erin Brittany DaunSamantha E. DwyerMari Ruth GordonJason K. HongKayla Renae IrelandDouglas John LandgrafAndrew Thomas MigaczDonald J. NowakDanielle Victoria PostulaKristin M. ReadKurt Douglas RuhnkeKurt James SchleinzMark SmithNicholas P. Whitcomb

August 2009Seth Donn Chiles

December 2009Shun Heng ChanMichael A HaywoodAnchelle M. LomibaoRyan Joel QuinnJustin Andrew Rosenblume

May 2010Daniel CukierskiIan DennehySamantha GoldbergSara HahnJeffrey OehlerkingAndrew OstendorfJacob PorterMegan ScottKrysta TheobaldErik VanDusenRochelle Winkler-Groschen

Master of Science Degrees

May 2009Vineeth Madhavan, The Interplay of

Climate and Landscape EvolutionAlong the Western Ghats of India

Holly Vescogni, Microbial Biomarker:Mineralogy, Crystal Fabric andChemistry of Calcium CarbonateMineralization

Amanda Raddatz, Natural Reduction ofHexavalent Chromium in an OxicBasalt Aquifer: Evidence fromConcentration and Isotope Analysis

August 2009Mara Orescanin, An Experimental Study

of the Dynamics Governing SupersonicVolcanic Jets: Mount St. Helens, May18, 1980

October 2009Nathan Webb, An Investigation of the

Origin of the Ridged Drift of the LowerKaskaskia Basin, Southwestern Illinois

May 2010Mirona Chirienco, Interpretations of

Paleoclimate and Speleogenesis fromSpeleothems in Donnehue’s Cave,Indiana

Jared T. Freiburg, The Timing,Composition, and Source of SubsurfaceDiagenetic Waters Responsible forSulfide and Carbonate Mineralizationin Solution Cavities of the OrdovicianGalena Group Limestone, NorthAurora, Illinois, USA

Jessica Hellwig, The Interaction ofClimate, Tectonics, and Topography inthe Olympic Mountains of WashingtonState: The Influence of Erosion onTectonic Steady-State and the Synthesisof the Alpine Glacial History

Degrees Conferred in 2009-2010

Windows into the Past

Dam Sites, Subways, and Bomb Shelters

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by Ralph L. Langenheim

Editor’s Note: “Windows into the Past” is aregular feature of the Year in Review con-tributed by Professor Emeritus Ralph L.Langenheim. Ralph’s writing represents along-serving faculty member’s recollectionsand his perspectives of the Department’spast.

Before 1955, our engineering geologyprogram consisted of one introductory

course called “Geology for Engineers”and advanced courses and research bear-ing on problems of drilling and waterflooding which served geology studentsseeking careers in the oil industry andengineering students who wanted aminor. Don Deere’s joint appointment inthe Geology and Civil EngineeringDepartments initiated instruction andresearch in geology applied to supporttunneling, dam building and design, andthe construction of large undergroundspaces.

Deere obtained his BS in miningengineering at Iowa State College (nowIowa State University) in 1943, took hisMS in geology at the University ofColorado in 1949, and completed hisgraduate studies with a Ph.D. in civilengineering at the University of Illinois in1955. Between 1943 and 1944 he servedas a junior mining engineer with thePhelps Dodge Corporation in Arizona.From 1944 to 1947 he was a mining engi-neer in the exploration department of thePotash Company of America in southeast-ern New Mexico. From 1947 to 1951 heserved on the faculty of the Departmentof Civil Engineering at the University ofPuerto Rico at Mayaguez, rising to theheadship in 1949-50.

In 1955, Deere accepted a jointappointment at Illinois as an associateprofessor in the Departments of Geology

and Civil Engineering, joining a programin geotechnical engineering that was onits way to preeminent stature. As heworded it in the title to one of his profes-sional publications, his mission was to“put the ‘Geo’ in GeotechnicalEngineering,” and, in both departments,to supervise graduate research, and orga-nize and teach a graduate course in rockmechanics.

He also taught graduate courses inengineering geology and in soil mechan-ics. In 1956, he taught undergraduatemineralogy in the Geology Departmentand, in 1960, was a staff member at theGeology Field Camp in Sheridan,Wyoming. Deere supervised nine doctor-al students in the Geology Department:Paul Heim, 1963 (jointly with PaulShaffer); Reginald Hugh Grice, 1974;Franklin D. Patton, 1977; Richard F.Coon, 1968; Andrew H. Merritt, 1968;George F. Pindar, 1968; Owen White,1971; James C. Gamble, 1971; and BrianJ. Sinclair, 1972.

He also advised the following MScandidates: Paul Kratz, 1964; NolanMitchell, 1965; Sergio N. A. DeBrito,1970; Richard Van Ryswyk, 1972; andSohrab Shayani, 1972. Ronald Heuer,who completed a MS mapping inChiapas, Mexico as part of a paleontolog-ical—stratigraphic program, transferredto Deere’s geotechnical program in civilengineering for his PhD. In addition,Deere advised civil engineering graduatestudents.

Deere published more than fiftytechnical and research publications onengineering geology, rock mechanics,dam foundations and tunnels. He is thecoauthor, with John Duncliff, ofJudgment in Geotechnical Engineering:Professional Legacy of Ralph B. Peck,published by John Wiley and Sons in1984.

In addition to teaching and super-vising graduate students in geotechnicalengineering at Illinois, Deere was ahyperactive consultant and advisor onmajor engineering works all over theworld. He advised the New York PortAuthority in regard to foundations forthe World Trade Center’s Twin Towers.He also helped the Department ofDefense evaluate Cheyenne Mountainas a host for the large underground cav-ity needed to protect NORAD’s head-quarters. For more than twenty years,he advised and consulted on construc-tion of the Washington D. C. metro sys-tem. Trans-Manche Link sought hisadvice on digging the cross-channeltunnel and Fenix and Scisson, alongwith the Atomic Energy Commission,used him in designing undergroundopenings for atomic bomb tests.

In addition he consulted on manylarge hydroelectric projects in Argentina,Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, CostaRica, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador,Egypt, Greece, Hong Kong, Israel,Mexico, Panama, Peru, Rhodesia,Turkey, Venezuela, and New Zealand.Deere’s enthusiasm for consulting wasmade apparent by the world map onthe wall of his home office, on whicheach job was memorialized by a pinmarking the site.

Don Deere conducting compression testson rock samples from the New York WorldTrade Center foundation site.

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Deere has been honored multipletimes for his work. Deere is one of thefew elected to both the NationalAcademy of Science (1971) and theNational Academy of Engineering(1966), groups that honor the mostprestigious scholars in their respectivefields. More exotically, he is a memberof the Argentine National Academy ofSciences. In 1983, he was honored byThe Moles, an organization of individu-als who work in heavy construction, foroutstanding achievement in construc-tion. In 1990, he was awarded the RockMechanics Award by the Society ofMining Engineers and was also honoredby the Beavers, a group concerned withdam construction, who gave him theirannual award.

In 1971, he served as Chairman ofthe U. S. National Committee onTunneling Technology. President Reaganappointed Deere to a four year term(1989-1991) as chairman of the newlycreated Nuclear Waste Review Board.He was on the first board of directors ofthe International Society for RockMechanics, was president of theirCommission on Standardization of FieldLaboratory Testing of Rock, and, also,served as president of the Society.

At the end of Spring Semester 1971,Deere resigned from the University ofIllinois faculty in order to “devote all ofhis time to consulting in engineeringgeology and rock mechanics.” In 1972,he became an affiliated professor ofgeology and civil engineering at theUniversity of Florida, joining formerUniversity of Illinois Professors MikeWahl and Jim Eades and InstructorRobert Pierce in what, on occasion, wasfacetiously referred to as, U. of I.Gainesville! Alberto Nieto-Pescetto, suc-ceeded him at Illinois.

I am indebted to Don Deere and AlbertoNieto for their interest and insights.Thanks are also due to Steven Hurst forgreatly improving poorly photocopied illus-trations. Information for the essay wasmostly gathered from University of IllinoisArchives and the newsletters of the Geologyand Civil Engineering Departments.

Jay Bass was elected a fellow of theAmerican Geophysical Union in 2009. AGUmembership exceeds 50,000 and annually,less than 0.5% of the members can beelected as Fellows.

Susan Kieffer was appointed to theNational Research Council Board onScience Education. The National ResearchCouncil is the operating arm of theAcademies of Science and Engineering,and the Institute of Medicine.

The Annual Research Review, now a jointevent in the School of Earth, Society andEnvironment, took place on Feb. 27, 2009at the Ballroom of the Alice CampbellAlumni Center. Isotech Laboratories Inc. ofChampaign, IL is a major sponsor of thisevent.

Jie Li was named a Helen Corley PetitScholar in LAS for “outstanding achieve-ment in both teaching and scholarship.”

Susan Kieffer gave the ShoemakerLecture at the 2009 fall AGU meeting on“Enceladus: Oasis or Ice Ball?”

About fifty geologists and geophysicistsfrom around the country attended a two-dayEarthScope Workshop at the Illini Union inApril, 2010. The workshop, sponsored bythe National Science Foundation and coor-dinated by Stephen Marshak, wasdesigned to stimulate discussion of newresearch to take advantage of the broad-band seismometers (the USArray) to be setup in the Midcontinent region during 2011and 2012, as part of the multi-yearEarthScope program. The instrumentationwill provide a unique opportunity to imagethe interior of Earth and, hopefully, gaininsight into the structure of the continentallithosphere.

In the winter of 2009-10, Jieyuan (Jerry)Ning, a professor of geophysics at theSchool of Earth and Planetary Sciences,Peking University, People’s Republic ofChina, spent two months in the Departmentto conduct collaborative research. Dr. Yingalso spent one year as a visiting scholar inthe Department in the 1990s. This time,however, he brought along three graduatestudents from Peking: Jing Liu, Kai Tao,

and Chunquan Yu, setting a new mode forextensive visits between Peking and Illinois.

During August 26-28, 2009, a high-level del-egation from Hanoi University of Science(HUS), Vietnam, observed several lecturesand laboratory sessions in the Departmentand reached a memorandum of under-standing for collaboration in instruction andcurriculum development with theDepartment. The delegation was lead by Dr.Bui Duy Cam, Rector (Provost) and wascomprised of the following members: Dr.Nguyen Van Vuong, Dean of the Faculty ofGeology; Dr. Do Minh Duc, Vice-Dean ofthe Faculty of Geology; and Mr. Phan DuyNga, Director of the Department ofInternational Relations. Since that time, theHUS has sent seven other faculty membersto visit the Department.

On August 13, 2009, a delegation of deansand faculty members from the BeijingUniversity of Aeronautics andAstronautics visited the campus andreceived a briefing from the Department.During this briefing, members of theDepartment emphasized our connectionswith the private sector and alumni.

In June of 2009, Wang-Ping Chen conclud-ed his three-year term on the AdvisoryCouncil of COMPRES (Consortium forMaterials Properties Research in EarthSciences).

Starting the summer of 2009, students ofthe Summer Field Camp now visit DinosaurRidge, an education and outreach facilitynear Denver, and are hosted by Dr. NorbCygan (BS ’54, MS ’56, PhD ’62). Dr.Cygan also hosted a trip to the DinosaurRidge on June 8, 2009 which was attendedby special guest Ms. Natalie Handley, whoretired as an officer of the U of I Foundationin July 2009. She took an active role in thefundraising efforts of the Department’sGeoThrust Committee and is now retiringfrom the University after many years of ser-vice. Patrick Hayes, an advancement officerof the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences,and Wang-Ping Chen also joined the trip.

In November 2009, George Devries Klein,Professor Emeritus, published his memoir,“Rocknocker: A Geologist’s Memoir.”(www.ccbpublishing.com/gdklein.html).

Around the Department

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Alumni News

1960sJohn Tubb (PhD ’63) has been namedthe 2009-2010 president-elect of theHouston Geological Society, the largestlocal geological society in the world witha membership of nearly 4,400.

1970sJames W. Castle (PhD ’78) is a profes-sor and program coordinator of theHydrogeology Graduate Program atClemson University. In 2009 he wasnamed editor-in-chief of the journal,Environmental Geosciences.

Kathie M. Marsaglia (BS ’79, MS ’82)received the Outstanding FacultyMember award from the California StateUniversity at Northridge where she is aprofessor of Geology.

1980sSnehal Bhagat (BS ‘84, MS ‘88) is asenior geologist at Marshall Miller &Associates in Mission, Kansas.

1990sScott Lockert (BS’90) lives in Seattle andworks in the development of ecological

Obituaries

Dalias A. Price (AB ’37, MS ’38) diedOctober 3, 2009 at the age of 96.

Harmon E. Eveland (BS ’47, MS ’48,PhD ’50) died May 9, 2009 at the ageof 85. He founded the geology depart-ment at Lamar University in 1951 andcontinued as Chair until his retirementin 1983, at which time he was namedprofessor emeritus.

Jack A. Glendening (BS ’48) diedAugust 26, 2009 at the age of 85. Hewas a petroleum geologist whoexplored in North Africa, Venezuela,Australia, and North America. Anexpert in photomosaic geomorpholo-gy, his studies contributed to thePrudhoe Bay discovery well in theNorth Slope of Alaska.

Wilson G. Harris, Jr. (BS ’48) diedSeptember 11, 2009 at the age of 87.He was a petroleum geologist.

Ronald L. Norris (BS ’48) died onJune 27, 2009 at the age of 88. Heworked as a petroleum geologist atChester Oil Company. He was also aconsulting geologist for the KentuckyGeological Survey and Har-Ken Oil.

His most notable achievement is thediscovery of the New Hebbardville OilField in 1978.

Robert M. Davison (BS ’49) diedOctober 25, 2009 at the age of 84.

Gene D. Wilson (MS ’54) died January9, 2009 at the age of 84. After earninghis degree, he worked for Standard Oil,where he led the effort to use aerialphotography for oil exploration. In1960, he started Gene D. Wilson andAssociates Photogeologists, an oilexploration consulting company.

Russell B. Lennon (MS ’57) died onJanuary 9, 2009 at the age of 79. Hewas a production geologist with ShellOil, and developed oil and gas fieldsthroughout the United States for 33years.

John R. Rogers (MS ’59) died January28, 2009 at the age of 73. He workedfor Texaco, Inc. and later for BrownEngineering Corp. and Chrysler Corp.in Huntsville, Alabama where heworked on research projects related tothe early stages of lunar exploration.

credits that offset environmental liabili-ty. He has helped develop BluefieldHoldings Company.

M. Scott Wilkerson (PhD ’91) receivedone of three University Professorships atDePauw University. According to theDePauw announcement, “UniversityProfessorships are awarded for sustainedexcellence in teaching, professionaldevelopment, and service.”

Laura Becker Stevens (BS ’94) is nowthe Regulatory Coordinator for the NewYork State Department of EnvironmentalConservation.

Tim Paulsen (PhD ’97) and ChristieDemosthenous (MS ’96) welcomeddaughter Elanor Rose Paulsen on May 7,2010. Both Tim and Christie work in theGeology Department at the University ofWisconsin, Oshkosh.

2000sJudd Tudor (MS ’00) and his wifeHollie Lamb, have a new son, CastorRobert Tudor, born on July 8, 2009.Judd works with Schlumberger in Texas.

Steve Marshak received word thatChris (BS ’03) and Jaime Majerczykhave a son, Miles Steven Majerczyk.He was born May 27, 2009.

Joannah Metz (BS’04) is finishing herPh.D. at Cal Tech, where she works onplanetary geology with JohnGrotzinger. According to her website, “Icurrently work operations for the MarsExploration Rovers (MER) and myresearch involves using data from MERto investigate sedimentology on Mars. Ialso use images from the HiRISE cam-era on the Mars ReconnaissanceOrbiter to study the structure andstratigraphy of Melas Chasma in VallisMarineris.”

Tai-Lin (Ellen) Tseng (PhD ’07) joinedthe Department of Geosciences,National Taiwan University (NTU) asan assistant professor in August of2009. For over 60 years, NTU neverhad a geophysics program, but nowadded Dr. Tseng as the fourth seismolo-gist/geophysicist on the faculty.

Charles E. Pflum (BS ’60) died on July18, 2009 at the age of 76. He went on toearn a master’s degree in oceanographyand went to work for Humble OilCompany as a micropaleontologist. Hethen took a position with Exxon, wherehe stayed for 30 years.

Ralph G. Maertz (BS ’64) died onNovember 9, 2009 at the age of 77. Heworked as a petroleum geologist andfounded his own consulting firm,Devonian Development, in 1981.

Margaret “Peggy” Henderson, widowof the late professor emeritus DonHenderson, died December 28, 2009 atthe age of 88, in Urbana, Illinois.Department Head, Wang-Ping Chensaid, “Peggy was involved with manydepartmental activities and we’ll missher dearly.”

No further information available:William G. Lang (BS ’48)Wayne E. Moore (BS ’46)James A. Savage (BS ’50)John E. Stone (MS ’58, PhD ’60)William L. Vineyard (BS ’49, MS ’50)

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Bopp C.J. (IV), Lundstrom C.C.,Johnson T.M., and Glessner J.G.Variations in 238U/235U in UraniumOre Deposits: Isotopic Signaturesof the U Reduction Process?Geology, 37: 611-614.

Burmeister K.C., Harrison M.J.,Marshak S., Ferré E.C., andKodama K.P. Comparison of FryStrain Ellipse and AMS EllipsoidTrends to Tectonic Fabric Trendsin Very Low-strain Sandstone ofthe Appalachian Fold-thrust Belt.Journal of Structural Geology, 31:1028-1038.

Cantero M.I., Balachandar S., andParker G. Direct NumericalSimulation of StratificationEffects in a Sediment-ladenTurbulent Channel Flow. Journalof Turbulence, (10)27: 1-28.

Cantero M.I., Balachandar S.,Cantelli A., Pirmez C., andParker C. Turbidity Current witha Roof: Direct NumericalSimulation of Self-StratifiedTurbulent Channel Flow Drivenby Suspended Sediment. Journalof Geophysical Research, 114,C03008, doi:10.1029/2008JC004978, 20 p.

Chakraborty P., Gioia G., andKieffer S.W. VolcanicMesocyclones, Nature,458(7237): 457-500.

Chatanantavet P. and Parker G.Physically Based Modeling ofBedrock Incision by Abrasion,Plucking, and Macroabrasion.Journal of Geophysical Research,114, F04018, doi:10.1029/2008JF001044, 22 p.

Ding X., Sun W., Huang F.,Lundstrom C.C., and Li J. HighMobility and Fractionation of Nband Ta under a Large ThermalGradient. International GeologyReview, 51: 473-501.

Hedman K.M., Curry B.B., JohnsonT.M., Fullagar P., and EmersonT.E. Variation in StrontiumIsotope Ratios of ArchaeologicalFauna in the Midwestern UnitedStates: A Preliminary Study.Journal of ArchaeologicalScience, 36: 64–73.

Huang F., Lundstrom C.C.,Glessner J., Ianno A., BoudreayA., Li J., Ferre E.C., Marshak S.,and DeFrates J. Chemical andIsotopic Fractionation of WetAndesite in a TemperatureGradients: Experiments andModels Suggesting a NewMechanism of MagmaDifferentiation. Geochimica etCosmochimica Acta, 73: 729-749.

Huang F., Lundstrom C.C.,Glessner J.G., Ianno A., andZhang, Z.F. Magnesium IsotopicComposition of Igneous RockStandards Measured by MC-ICP-MS. Chemical Geology 268: 15-23.

Jin Q. and Bethke C.M. CellularEnergy Conservation and theRate of Microbial SulfateReduction. Geology, 37:1027–1030.

Kieffer S. W., Barton P., ChesworthW., Palmer A.R., Reitan P., andZen, E. Mega-scale Processes:Natural Disasters and HumanBehavior. In Mary Chapman andLaszlo P. Keszthelyi (eds.) GSASpecial paper 453: Preservationof Random Mega-scale Events onMars and Earth, 77–86

Kieffer S.W., Lu X., McFarquhar G.,Wohletz K.H. Ice/vapor Ratio ofEnceladus’ Plume: Implicationsfor Sublimation, 40th Lunar andPlanetary Science Conference,Woodlands, Texas, March 23-27,2009, No. 2261.

Kieffer S.W., Lu X., McFarquhar G.,and Wohletz K.H. ARedetermination of theIce/Vapor Ratio of Enceladus’Plumes: Implications forSublimation and the Lack of aLiquid Water Reservoir. Icarus,203(1): 238-241.

Kim W., Mohrig D., Twilley R.,Paola C., and Parker G. LandBuilding in the Delta of theMississippi River: Is it Feasible?Eos, October 20, 2009.

Kokfelt T.F., Hoernle K., LundstromC.C., Hauff F., and Bogaard V.D.Time-scales for MagmaticDifferentiation at theSnaefellsjökull Central Volcano,

Western Iceland: Constraintsfrom U-Th-Pa-Ra Disequilibria inPost-Glacial Lavas. Geochim.Comochim. Acta. 73: 1120-1144.

Lu X. and Kieffer S.W.Thermodynamics and MassTransport in Multicomponent,Multiphase H2O Systems ofPlanetary Interest. AnnualReview of Earth & PlanetarySciences, 37: 449–77.

Lundstrom C.C. Hypothesis forOrigin of Convergent MarginGranitoids and Earth’sContinental Crust by ThermalMigration Zone Refining.Geochim. Comochim. Acta. 73:5709-5729.

Nesbitt S.W. and Anders, A.M.Very High ResolutionPrecipitation Climatologies fromthe Tropcial Rainfall MeasuringMission Precipitation Radar.Geophysical Research Letters, 36,L15815,doi:10.1029/2009GL038026.

Panno S.V., Lundstrom C., HackleyK.C., Curry B.B., and Fouke B.W.Major Earthquakes Recorded bySpeleothems in Midwestern USCaves. Bulletin of Seismology,99(4): 2147-2154, doi:10.1785/0120080261.

Park, J., Sanford R.A., and BethkeC.M. Microbial Activity andChemical Weathering in theMiddendorf Aquifer, SouthCarolina. Chemical Geology, 258:232–241.

Piggot A.M., Fouke B.W., SivaguruM., Sanford R., and GaskinsH.R. Change in Zooxanthellaeand Mucocyte Tissue Density asan Adaptive Response toEnvironmental Stress by theCoral Montastraea Annularis.Marine Biology, 156: 2379-2389.

Rowland J., Dietrich W.E., Day G.,and Parker G. Formation andMaintenance of Single-thread TieChannels Entering FloodplainLakes: Observations from ThreeDiverse River Systems. Journalof Geophysical Research, 114,F02013, 19 p.

Sequeiros O.E., Naruse H., EndoN., Garcia M.H. and Parker G.Experimental Study on Self-accelerating Turbidity Currents.Journal of GeophysicalResearch, 114, C05025, 26 p.

Sequeiros O.E., Spinewine B.,Garcia M.H., Beaubouef R.T.,Sun T., and Parker G.Experiments on Wedge-ShapedDeep Sea Sedimentary Depositsin Minibasins and/or onChannel Levees Emplaced byTurbidity Currents. Part I.Documentation of the Flow.Journal of SedimentaryResearch, 79(7-8), 593-607.

Spinewine B., Sequeiros O.E.,Garcia M.H., Beaubouef R.T.,Sun T., Savoye B., and ParkerG. Experiments on Wedge-Shaped Deep Sea SedimentaryDeposits in Minibasins and/oron Channel Levees Emplacedby Turbidity Currents. Part II.Morphodynamic Evolution ofthe Wedge and of theAssociated Bedforms. Journalof Sedimentary Research, 79(7-8), 608-628.

ten Brink U.S., Marshak S., andGranja Bruna J.-L. BivergentThrust Wedges SurroundingOceanic Island Arcs: Insightfrom Observations andSandbox Models of theNortheastern Caribbean Plate.Geological Society of AmericaBulletin, 121: 1522-1536.

Tomkin J.H. NumericallySimulating Alpine Landscapes:The GeomorphologicConsequences of IncorporatingGlacial Erosion in SurfaceProcess Models.Geomorphology, 108: 180-188.

Tseng, T.-L., Chen W.-P., andNowack R.L. NorthwardThinning of Tibetan CrustRevealed by Virtual SeismicProfiles, Geophys. Res. Lett., 36,L24304,doi:10.1029/2009GL040457.

Wang H., Lundstrom C.C., ZhangZ., Grimley D.A., and BalsamW.L. A Mid-Late QuaternaryLoess-paleosol Record inSimmons Farm in SouthernIllinois, USA. Quaternary Sci.Rev. 28: 93-106.

List of Publications for 2009

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Annual Report for 2009

FacultyStephen Altaner (Associate Professor) Alison Anders (Assistant Professor)Jay Bass (Grim Professor)Jim Best (Threet Professor)Craig Bethke (Grim Professor)Chu-Yung Chen (Associate Professor & Director

of Educational Affairs for Geology, School ofEarth, Society & Environment)

Wang-Ping Chen (Professor and Head) Bruce Fouke (Associate Professor)Thomas Johnson (Associate Professor)Susan Kieffer (Walgreen Professor) Jie Li (Assistant Professor) Craig Lundstrom (Associate Professor)Steve Marshak (Professor & Director, School of

Earth, Society & Environment) Gary Parker (Johnson Professor)Xiaodong Song (Professor)

Department AffiliatesMarcelo Garcia (Seiss Professor, Civil and

Environmental Engineering)Feng Sheng Hu (Professor, Plant Biology)Bruce Rhoads (Professor & Head, Geography)

Academic Staff, Post-Docs,Visiting StaffPinaki Chakraborty (Post-Doctoral Research

Associate)Eileen Herrstrom (Teaching Specialist)Stephen Hurst (Research

Programmer/Geologist)Ann Long (Teaching Specialist) Xinli Lu (Post-Doc Research Associate)Daniel Saalfeld (Visiting Research Programmer)Rob Sanford (Senior Research Scientist)Michael Stewart (Lecturer)Jonathan Tomkin (Research Assistant Professor

& Assoc. Director, School of Earth, Society,and Environment)

Hasan Yavas (Post-Doctoral ResearchAssociate)

Sharon Yeakel (Research Programmer)Zhaofeng Zhang (Visiting Scholar)

Adjunct FacultyRobert FinleyLeon R. Follmer Hannes Leetaru Thomas PhillipsWilliam ShiltsWolfgang SturhahnM. Scott Wilkerson

Emeritus FacultyThomas F. AndersonDaniel B. BlakeAlbert V. CarozziDonald L. GrafArthur F. HagnerAlbert T. HsuiGeorge D. KleinRalph LangenheimC. John MannAlberto NietoPhilip Sandberg

Library StaffLura Joseph (Librarian) Sheila McGowan (Library Assistant)Diana Walter (Senior Library Specialist)

Department Support StaffJulie Dyar (Office Support Specialist)Marilyn Whalen (Office Administrator,

Assistant to the Head)

Graduate StudentsElizabeth ArmstrongGideon BartovAnirban BasuCharles BoppMirona ChiriencoSamantha DwyerVal FinlaysonTheodore FlynnJared FreiburgLili GaoJessica HellwigCarly HillAna HousealMeijuan JiangMatt KyriasXiaoxiao LiChris MajerczykPhillip MillerEric ObrockJessica PalmerMauricio PerilloJustine PetrasEric W. ProkockiPragnyadipta SenDerik StrattanKaren WongZhen XuJin ZhangJessica Zinger

COURSES TAUGHT IN 2009

GEOL 100 Planet Earth

GEOL 101 Introductory Physical Geology

GEOL 103 Planet Earth QRII

GEOL 106 Extinction: Dinosaurs to Dodos

GEOL 107 Physical Geology

GEOL 110 Exploring Geology in the Field

GEOL 116 The Planets

GEOL 117 The Oceans

GEOL 118 Natural Disasters

GEOL 143 History of Life

GEOL 199 Undergraduate Open Seminar

GEOL 201 History of Geology

GEOL 208 History of the Earth System

GEOL 333 Earth Materials and theEnvironment

GEOL 380 Environmental Geology

GEOL 390 Individual Study

GEOL 391 Individual Honors Study

GEOL 411 Structural Geol and Tectonics

GEOL 415 Field Geology

GEOL 417 Geology Field Methods, Western US

GEOL 432 Mineralogy and Mineral Optics

GEOL 436 Petrology and Petrography

GEOL 440 Sedimentology and Stratigraphy

GEOL 450 Physics of the Earth

GEOL 451 Methods in Applied Geophysics

GEOL 460 Geochemistry

GEOL 470 Introduction to Hydrogeology

GEOL 481 Earth Systems Modeling

GEOL 492 Senior Thesis

GEOL 493 Honors Senior Thesis

GEOL 497AB Geomicrobiology & Geochemistry

GEOL 497 ALG/ALU Challenges of Sustainability

GEOL 497CI Illinois Quaternary History,Landscapes and Glacial Processes

GEOL 511 Advanced Structural Geology

GEOL 515 Advanced Field Geology

GEOL 553 Chemistry of Earth’s Interior

GEOL 560 Physical Geochemistry

GEOL 571 Geochemical Reaction Analysis

GEOL 579 Isotope Hydrogeology

GEOL 591 Current Research in Geoscience

GEOL 593 Advanced Studies in Geology

GEOL 599 Thesis Research

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AIR FORCEWang-Ping Chen—Frequency-dependent

Characteristics of Regional Seismic Phases:Propagation of Pn in Western China

BRITISH PETROLEUM ENERGY BIOSCIENCESINSTITUTEBruce Fouke—Microbially Enhanced

Hydrocarbon Recovery

EXXONMOBILCraig Bethke—Geochemical Reaction Analysis

Gary Parker—Testing of Numerical Models ofEstuary Morphodynamics

ILLINOIS BOARD OF HIGHER EDUCATIONJ.H. Tomkin—The Lifelong Learning In Illinois

Project (I-LLINI project)

INTERNATIONAL GREAT LAKESCOMMISSION/US CORPS OF ENGINEERSJim Best—Combined Multibeam, Echo Sounder

and Acoustic Doppler Profiler Mapping ofthe Upper St Clair River: Morphology, GrainSize, Bedload Transport Paths and FlowDynamics

NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATIONAlison Anders—Co-Evolution of Orographic

Precipitation Patterns and Topography in theWestern Ghats, India

Jay Bass—Sound Velocities and Elasticity ofDeep-Earth Materials at High Pressures andTemperatures

Jay Bass—Pressure Scales for SimultaneousHigh Pressure-Temperature Research withthe Diamond Anvil Cell

Jim Best—Collaborative Research: A Field andNumerical Study of the Morphology, Flow,Sedimentary Processes, and Stability ofSand-Bed Fluvial Bifurcations

Jim Best and Bruce Rhoads—SGER: FluvialDynamics of a Large-River Meander Cutoff

Jim Best, Bruce Fouke, Marcelo Garcia, GaryParker, and Bruce Rhoads—Acquisition ofa State-of-the-Art Shallow Water MultibeamEcho-sounding System at the University ofIllinois Urbana-Champaign

Jim Best, Ken Christensen, Joanna AustinGreg Elliott, and Marcelo Garcia—MRI:Development of a Large-Scale Refractive-Index Matched Flow Facility

Wang-Ping Chen—Collaborative Research:Lithospheric-Scale Dynamics of ActiveMountain Building along the Himalayan-Tibetan Collision Zone

Wang-Ping Chen—CSEDI CollaborativeResearch: A Study of Deep SubductionIntegrating Broadband Seismology andMineral Physics

Wang-Ping Chen—Collaborative Research:Imaging the Continental Lithosphere withEarthquake Sources

Bruce Fouke—Integration of ExpeditionYellowstone with Biocomplexity Studies atMammoth Hot Springs

Thomas Johnson—Collaborative Research:Chromium Isotopes as Redox Indicators-Oxidation and Isotopic EquilibrationExperiments

Thomas Johnson and Craig Lundstrom—Technical Support for the MC-ICP-MSLaboratory at University of Illinois atUrbana-Champaign

Craig Lundstrom and Steve Marshak—Assessing Diffusive Differentiation duringIgneous Intrusion using IntegratedTheoretical, Experimental and Field Studies

Craig Lundstrom—Collaborative Research:Probing Mantle Plumbing beneath PacificRidges through Study of the Lamont andVance Seamount Chains

Craig Lundstrom—EAGER: CollaborativeInvestigations of Isotopic Fractionation byThermal Diffusion and Thermal Migration

Gary Parker—STC: National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics

J.H. Tomkin—Glacial Erosion in thePatagonian Andes: Testing the Buzzsaw

J.H. Tomkin—WAIS Grounding-ZoneMigrations in Eastern Basin, Ross Sea andthe LGM Dilemma: New Strategies toResolve the Style and Timing of OuterContinental Shelf Grounding Events

NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY Craig Lundstrom—26Mg Evolution in a

Carbonate Aquifer: Technical TestingAgreement

SCK-CEN (BELGIAN NUCLEAR AUTHORITY)Craig Bethke—Fate and Transport of

Radionuclides

SHELL OILGary Parker—Channelized Turbidity Currents

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, OFFICE OF THEVICE PRESIDENT FOR PUBLICENGAGEMENTBruce Fouke—SciFlix: A Series of 5-Minute

Distance Learning Podcasts HighlightingScientific Discovery

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGYJay Bass—Aqueous Geochemistry at High

Pressure and Temperature

Craig Bethke and Robert Sanford—IntegratedField, Laboratory, and Modeling Study ofMicrobial Activity in Pristine Aquifers

Bruce Fouke, Robert Sanford, and StephenMarshak—Understanding the Impact of CO2

Injection on the Subsurface MicrobialCommunity in an Illinois Basin CCS reser-voir: Integrated Student Training inGeoscience and Geomicrobiology

Hannes Leetaru and Bruce Fouke—AnEvaluation of the Carbon SequestrationPotential of the Cambro-Ordovician Strata ofthe Illinois and Michigan Basins

Robert Sanford—Growth of Anaeromyxobacterand Other Iron Reducing Bacteria(Argonne NL SFA)

U.S. DEPT. OF ENERGY ENVIRONMENTALREMEDIATION SCIENCE PROGRAM

Thomas Johnson—Chromium Isotopes asIndicators of Hexavalent ChromiumReduction

Tom Johnson, Craig Lundstrom, and RobertSanford—MURMoT: Design and Applicationof Microbial Uranium Reduction MonitoringTools

US GEOLOGICAL SURVEYCraig Lundstrom—Major Earthquakes

Recorded by the Initiation and/or Regrowthof Speleothems in Midwestern U.S. Caves

UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON (UK) WITH UKNATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCHCOUNCILJim Best—Dynamics and Deposits of Braid-

Bars in the World’s Largest Rivers:Processes, Morphology & SubsurfaceSedimentology

UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM (UK) WITHUK NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCHCOUNCILJim Best — Fluid Dynamics across the

Interface in Gravel-Bed Rivers:Quantification and Numerical Modeling ofFlow in the Hyporheic Zone

UNIVERSITY OF DURHAM (UK) WITH UKNATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCHCOUNCILJim Best—Development of a Combined

Lagrangian / Eulerian Approach toUnderstand Coherent Flow Structures inGravel-bed Rivers

Jim Best — How Does Aquatic VegetationModify the Kinematic & GeometricCharacteristics of Coherent Flow Structuresin Open Channels?

Research Grants Active in 2009

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Colloquium Speakers for Spring and Fall 2009, Spring 2010

April 3Fred Phillips, New Mexico Tech“The Rio Grande: Too Little

Water, Too Much Salt”Glenn and Susan BuckleyLecture in EnvironmentalGeology

April 8David Walker, Columbia

Universitytwo talks:“A Warp in the Force: Curiously

Bent D’s of Mo and Pd” and“How could the Earth’s coreleak?”

COMPRES DistinguishedLecturer

April 8Jim Fleming, Colby College“Historical Perspectives on

Climate Change”SESE Colloquium

April 10Jonathan Marcot, University of

Illinois Department of AnimalBiology

“Effects of CenozoicEnvironmental Change on theEvolution and Fossil Recordof Ungulate Mammals”

April 17David Fike, Washington

University, St. Louis“Sulfur Isotope Variability in

Microbial Mats: New SIMS-Based Insights into SulfurCycling”

April 24Devon Burr, University of

Tennessee, Knoxville“A Dense Population of Young,

Inverted, MeanderingChannels on Mars:Discoveries and Questions”

Special Brown Bag SeminarsMarch 30Stefano Mazzoli, University of

Naples (Italy)“Miocene-Quaternary tectonic

evolution and exhumationprocesses in the southernApennines (Italy)”

October 16Paul Wignall, University of

Leeds“Permian Mass Extinctions” Threet Lecture in Sedimentary

Geology

October 23Colin Stark, Columbia

University“Erosion is a Vector: What

Makes Lateral Cutting byLandslides and MeanderingRivers so Important?”

W. Hilton Johnson Lecture

October 30Matt Huber, Purdue University“A Sensitive Earth: Implications

of Eocene Climate for FutureGreenhouse Projections”

November 6Peter McMahon, U.S. Geological

Survey“Nitrate Concentrations in

Regional Aquifer Systems ofthe United States: A Case ofCreeping Normalcy?”

Glenn and Susan BuckleyLecture in EnvironmentalGeology

November 13Roger Kasperson, George

Perkins Marsh Institute, ClarkUniversity

“Closing the Gap betweenScience and Practice”

A Climate and SocietyPresentation and SESEColloquium

December 4Xiaoning (David) Yang, Los

Alamos National Laboratory “Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaties and

Monitoring Seismology”

Special Brown Bag SeminarNovember 4Robert W. Von Rhee, (M.S., ’77)

Managing Partner, KVREnergy, Tulsa, OK

“Introduction to the Oil & GasIndustry”

Spring 2009

January 23Howard Falcon-Lang, Univ. of

Bristol (currently at ISGS)“Joggins: Ice, Fire and Ancient

Forests”

January 30Gary Parker, University of

Illinois, Geology and Civil andEnvironmental Engineering

“Experiments on TurbidityCurrents: Flow, SedimentTransport and Bedforms”

February 6Surangi Punyasena, University of

Illinois, Department of PlantBiology

“Fossil Pollen and thePaleoclimatic History ofTropical Bolivia”

February 13Hersh Gilbert, Purdue University“Lithospheric Foundering in

Continental Deformation”

February 20An Yin, University of California,

Los Angeles“Formation of the Tibetan

Plateau: A Process from LargeIntra-Continental Basins to aWide Orogen”

R.E. Grim Lecture

February 26Bill Soderman (MS ‘60, PhD ‘62)“Rocks Around the Clock and A

Million Frequent Flyer Miles”Geology 2008 Alumni

Achievement Award Recipient

March 6Goran Ekström, Columbia

University“Seismological Detection and

Analysis of Recent Landslidesin Alaska and the Yukon”

March 13Mike Leeder, University of East

Anglia “Basin-Fill Incision, Rio Grande

and Gulf of Corinth Rifts:Convergent Response toClimatic and Tectonic Drivers”

Threet Lecture in SedimentaryGeology

April 1Motohiko Murakami, Institute

for Study of the Earth’sInterior, Okayama University

“The post-perovskite phase inthe D” layer above the core-mantle boundary.”

Fall 2009

August 28Troy Shinbrot, Rutgers

University“Granular Electrostatics”Charles R. Walgreen Lecture in

Geophysical Fluid Dynamics

September 4Ginny Catania, University of

Texas, Austin“Understanding Ice Sheet

Change: Towards ImprovedPrediction”

September 11Ken Kemner, Argonne National

Lab“Investigating Mineral-Metal-

Microbe Interactions withHard X-Ray Radiation”

September 18Mike Rowe, University of Iowa“Mantle Sources and Magma

Evolution: Insights from MeltInclusion and MineralGeochemistry”

September 25Susan Kieffer, Charles R.

Walgreen Professor ofGeology, University of Illinois

“Enceladus, the Tiny, FrigidSatellite of Saturn: Life? NoLife? No Conclusion?”

October 2Yevgeniy Kontar, Illinois State

Geological Survey“Hazards Related to

Groundwater-Surface WaterInteractions”

October 9Roberta Rudnick, University of

Maryland“Recycling of the Deep

Lithosphere beneath theNorth China Craton”

R. James Kirkpatrick Lecture

Honor Roll of Donors

April 9Bill Shilts, Director, Institute of

Natural ResourceSustainability, University ofIllinois

“Geochemistry in GlacialLandscapes”

April 16Ed Garnero, Arizona State

University“Tracking Mantle Chemistry

and Dynamics with HighResolution Seismology”

Richard L. Hay Lecture inGeology

April 23Nathan Yee, Rutgers“Genetics and Geochemistry of

Selenium-Respiring Bacteria”Glen abd Susan Buckley Lecture

in Environmental Geology

April 30Pat Bickford, Syracuse

University“U-Pb-Hf-O Isotopic Studies of

Adirondack Anorthosites:Implications for the TectonicSetting and Petrogenesis ofMassif Anorthosites”

Geology 2009 AlumniAchievement Award Recipientand R.E. Grim Lecturer

Dr. and Mrs. Franklin W.Schwartz

Dr. and Mrs. John W. SheltonMr. and Mrs. Roger A. SippelDr. J. William SodermanMr. Carl K. SteffensenDr. Gary D. StrickerDr. Michael L. SweetDr. Daniel A. TextorisDr. Edwin W. TookerDr. John B. Tubb Jr.Mr. Robert C. Vaiden and

Ms. Judy A. MollerMr. Robert W. Von RheeDr. F. Michael WahlDr. James G. WardMr. and Mrs. Carleton W.

WeberMr. Eldon L. WhitesideMr. Harold T. WilberMr. Jack L. WilberMr. Lawrence WuDr. Valentine E. Zadnik

CorporationsArcadis US Inc.The Boeing Gift Matching

ProgramBP FoundationCampus Auxiliary Services,

Inc.ChevronThe Collins Family TrustConocoPhillips CorporationDominion FoundationEstwing Manufacturing

Company, Inc.ExxonMobil Biomedical

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Illinois, LLCShell Oil CompanyShell Oil Company

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Mr. and Mrs. Daniel W. HarmsDr. and Mrs. Henry J. HarrisDr. Joseph R. HatchDr. Mark A. Helper and Dr.

Sharon MosherMr. and Mrs. Mark F. HoffmanDr. Roscoe G. Jackson IIDr. William D. Johns Jr.Mr. and Mrs. Bruce A. JohnsonMr. John M. JohnstonDr. Suzanne Mahlburg KayDr. John P. KemptonDr. and Mrs. John D. KieferMr. Robert F. KrayeDr. Robert H. Lander and Dr.

Linda M. BonnellMr. Rik E. LantzDr. Stephen E. LaubachMr. Stephen C. LeeDr. Hannes E. LeetaruDr. Morris W. LeightonMs. Crystal Lovett-TibbsMr. Walter R. LundwallDr. Andrew Madden and Dr.

Megan Elwood MaddenMr. John W. MarksDr. and Mrs. Stephen MarshakMr. Alan R. MayMr. James A. MillerMs. Linda A. MinorDr. John E. MooreMs. Melanie J. MudarthDr. Haydn H. MurrayMr. Bruce W. NelsonMrs. Toni NicholsonMr. and Mrs. Brian Donald NoelMs. Nina Michele O’ConnellMrs. Corinne Pearson and Mr.

Thomas E. KrisaMr. Bruce E. PhillipsMrs. Beverly A. PierceDr. and Mrs. Robert I. PinneyDr. Paul L. PlusquellecMr. Paul J. RegorzMr. Ronald L. RichmanMr. Donald O. RimsniderMr. David P. RipleyMr. William F. RipleyDr. Nancy M. RodriguezDr. Richard P. SandersMrs. Patricia A. SantogrossiMr. Michael L. SargentMs. Nancy A. SavulaMr. Jay R. ScheevelDr. David C. Schuster

Prof. Thomas F. AndersonDr. Robert F. Babb II and Ms.

Laurie E. HartlineMr. Rodney J. BalazsMs. Debbie E. BaldwinMr. Douglas Stephen BatesDr. and Mrs. David K. BeachDr. William M. BenzelDr. Marion E. BickfordLTC (Ret.) Ronald E. Black Mrs. Heidi BlischkeDr. Michael G. BradleyDr. Virginia A. Colten-BradleyMs. Annette BrewsterMr. and Mrs. Ross D. BrowerDr. Henry S. BrownDr. Glenn R. BuckleyMr. and Mrs. Steven P.

BurgessDr. Thomas C. BuschbachDr. James W. CastleDr. Charles J. ChantellMr. Lester W. ClutterDr. Barbara J. CollinsDr. Lorence G. CollinsMr. Randolph M. CollinsMr. and Mrs. James N.

CumminsDr. Norbert E. CyganMs. Janet A. DechoDr. Ilham DemirMs. Stephanie DrainMs. Sophie M. DreifussDr. and Mrs. Mohamed T. El-

AshryDr. Frank R. EttensohnDr. Peter FennerMr. Gary M. FleegerDr. and Mrs. Leon R. FollmerMr. Gary R. FooteDr. Richard M. ForesterMr. Jack D. FosterMr. Robert E. FoxMr. Edwin H. FranklinDr. Linda P. FultonMr. Barry R. GagerDr. James C. GambleMr. John R. GarinoMs. Theresa C. GierlowskiDr. and Mrs. Richard A.

GilmanMr. Robert N. GinsburgDr. and Mrs. Stuart

GrossmanDr. and Mrs. Albert L. Guber

The following is a list of friends and alumni of the Department of Geology whohave donated to the Department during the 2009 calendar year.

Spring 2010

January 29Steve Laubach, Texas Bureau of

Economic Geology and UT-Austin

“Structural Diagenesis”

January 25Cin-Ty Lee, Rice University“Regulating Continent Growth

and Composition byChemical Weathering”

Ralph E. Grim Lecture

February 5 Brandon Curry, Illinois State

Geological Survey “Temporal Constraints on High

Sediment Flux of the LakeMichigan Lobe, NEIllinois, during the LastDeglaciation”

February 19Dan Whaley, CEO, Climos and

Lewis Rothstein, Universityof Rhode Island

“Geoengineering Approaches toCountering Climate Change”

February 26Mike Blum, Exxon Mobil

Upstream Research Company“Global Sea-Level Rise,

Subsidence, and SedimentMass Imbalance: TheInevitable Drowning of theMississippi Delta”

Threet Lecture in SedimentaryGeology

March 12Scott Olson, University of

Illinois, Department of Civiland EnvironmentalEngineering

“Snapshots from Haiti: AnEngineering Perspective”

April 2 Bill Seyfried, University of

Minnesota “Magmatic and Tectonic Effects

on the Chemical Evolution ofHydrothermal Vent Fluids atMid–Ocean Ridges”

Ridge 2000 DistinguishedLecture

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