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3/28/2006
much more. I don’t say this as nostalgia for the good old days, but as a way
that the University has been changing over the years, has developed a mo
professional attitude, and has required us to contribute, beyond teaching, to
geology profession and to the science. While this has meant more dedicati
parts, it is all to the good and has made us all better professionals. You can
mean by “being busy” by looking at the activities described by each faculty
and by the list of accomplishments under the heading: Faculty Productivity
so years ago such a list would have been very short.
Field trips galore!!! We have been involved in field trips this year, above an
those offered in our courses. Bob Corbett lead a ten-day trip down the Gree
Colorado rivers, following part of the route of John Wesley Powell. This fall
Dave were co-leaders of a public field trip, sponsored by the ISGS, to tour
around the LaSalle area. Several hundred people attended. Dave also wen
faculty sponsor of a Geology Club field trip to West Texas over spring brea
addition, Dave designed a four-day trip to the Absarokas in Wyoming for th
GSA meeting in Denver. Unfortunately, after writing the better part of a 40+
guidebook, the trip was canceled because there were too few people signe
as well, had he gone, he would have been snowed in. Dave is also plannin
to look at Precambrian structures in the Baraboo area, in association with t
Central GSA meeting in Madison next spring. At the Rocky Mountain Sectio
of the GSA, in April, I co-lead, with two others, a two-day field trip to look at
intrusions and gold mines in the Black Hills. We had snow there, too, Skip,
several students went on the Tri-State Geology Field Conference trip at Am
October. Next year we (ISU faculty) will be organizing the Tri-State trip to lo
geology of the LaSalle area. The dates will be October 3-5, 1997. You may
late next summer for further information if you are interested in attending. In
everything, including the changes taking place in geology, we are keeping
the ground.
In 2001 this Department will be hosting the North-Central Section meeting
(more field trips). This is a major task that will require all of us to contribute
We now have a Web Page. It can be accessed via the home page for ISU,
, or directly via