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has assumed the duties of teaching of Groundwater Geology, part of Aquife
and other courses. He became acclimated easily and is beginning to get in
thesis direction.
James Carter has been on the geography faculty for some years. He is a p
geography professor, with a BS degree in geology. He has loads of admini
experience, is an excellent scientist and is well known in his fields of exper
the director of the Laboratory for Integrated Learning and Technology at Illi
and of the Illinois GIS Association. The reason for including him here is tha
gradually assuming the responsibilities of graduate coordinator in the hydro
Program, so he will have some duties in the geology half of the department
his duties in the geography part. He has interests in physical geography, ca
GIS and conservation, and he brings a special insight to the graduate prog
Bob Corbett (our designated worrier) continues to look out for the needs o
Department. The stream of paperwork and the endless brush fires to put ou
drive most people crazy. Yet, he maintains a positive attitude and continue
opportunities with every apparition of doom that appears on the horizon. In
finds time to mentor individual students with research projects, to give man
presentations of his own and to publish articles regularly. His idea of a vaca
lead a group down the Colorado River, as you can see elsewhere in this Ne
James E. (Jed) Day has had a very productive year. He has a number of p
to his credit and served as a co-editor for the Geological Society of America
Special Paper 306, Paleozoic Sequence Stratigraphy, Views from the North
Craton. Jed is planning a sabbatical leave for next fall, in which he will be in
about six months to work on Devonian fauna and stratigraphy, with folks fro
Canadian Geological Survey. Jed is also looking forward to the move to Fe
because he will have a large lab in which to spread out the fossils that now
small lab in 234.
Jed’s big news personally is the arrival of a second son, Patrick, in October
Kathy are doing well. Jed and family also moved to a new house this past s
Jim Kirchner: I continue to teach my usual courses of Intro., Mineralogy, P
and Field Geology. In the spring, I was honored to receive the College of A
Sciences Outstanding Teacher Award for the Sciences. Outside of class, I
active participant in the Rocky Mountain Section of the GSA meeting in Ra
April. I presented a paper on some significant inclusions found in a phonoli
organized a symposium on alkaline magmatism in the Northern Rockies an
two-day field trip. Also, I was a co-editor of a book, Geology of the Black Hi
published in association with the meeting and had two articles in it. In Octo
presented a paper at the Denver meeting of the GSA. Based on that paper
invited to write the guest commentary for the March 1997 issue of Geotime
On a personal note, I have yet another grandchild (#6), and another due in
leave keeping track of all their birthdays to Kathe. This summer, after ten y
ownership, I sold Cinnabar, my sailboat. In its place I bought a 23-foot pow
of yet unnamed. I am not sure this was a good move.
Dave Malone continues to be active in fieldwork, as you saw from previous
and in his one-on-one work with undergraduates. He has had several stude
research projects (currently five), mainly centering on Baraboo and LaSalle
student, Jeff Menken, received an undergraduate research grant from GSA
Dave’s students gave presentations at the annual Undergraduate Research
Symposium on campus. In addition, Dave has been active with presentatio
publications of his own, as you can see in the section on Faculty Productiv