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TABLE OF CONTENTS Morgan Prairie From the Editor’s Desk Christmas Catastrophe Inside Front Cover iii iv EarthScope: Unlocking Secrets/Robert S. Nelson 1 Building an Archive/Geoffrey J. Martin 3 Geography Interns: Class of 2009 6 A Gift to Earth/Ellen Dietz 10 A Good Spring for Geography Club 14 Route 66: Down through the Years/Anthony D’Anza 15 Dos Cartógrafos en Chile/Michael D. Sublett (Editor) 20 Midyear Commencement 31 Student Awards 32 First Majors and Graduate Students 33 Conference Presentations 36 Faculty and Staff Sketches 42 Familiar Faces 55 Yesteryears/Michael D. Sublett 56 Mementos of Chile Inside Back Cover
FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK N owadays it happens all too often. I receive a request from the editor of a newsletter, or even a journal, asking that I agree to access their publication electronically and forgo the printed pages. They tell us they are hoping to reduce printing and mailing costs, speed up delivery to the reader, or become more in tune with the green times in which we live. Sometimes they want to send me a periodic email with the publication attached. Others tell me I can go to their Website and find the newsletter or whatever they may be relegating to the electronic world. I usually agree to such offers, but I much prefer the printed predecessor to the modern marvel on my computer screen. My tendency is to skim the electronic whereas I like to sit and ponder the printed version. I have saved newsletter and journal runs for decades and wonder if their electronic successors will be there for readers and researchers to consult into the future. All of this prefatory prose brings me to Glacial Deposits. So far we are still going forward with the print format as our primary means of dissemination, although we do put an electronic version on the departmental Website. I appreciate the commitment of departmental funds to print a couple hundred or so copies of the yearbook so I do not have to join other editors in asking readers to look for it online or in their email inboxes. Writing this column always signifies that we are approaching the end of a something I consider worth doing. Authors who agreed months or a year ago have fulfilled their promise to produce an article. Photographers have come through with images we can use. Conversations with authors have enabled me to corroborate claims and to eliminate here and enhance there, making the final text more readable (I hope). Dialog with photographers has helped me prepare captions that will allow the photos to stand as much on their own as possible. We have five solid articles for Volume 38 plus several photo segments and the usual series of departmental accomplishments (awards, presentations, sketches). “Yesteryears” is a short piece of prose that I enjoy researching and composing each year. This time the computer jumped out as common theme linking volumes from one, two, and three decades ago. Of course, I have to thank a host of helpers, such as the five authors: colleagues Skip Nelson, Jim Carter, and John Kostelnick; geographer Geoffrey Martin; and former students Ellen Dietz and Anthony D’Anza. Bill Morgan agreed to the use of his poem and to our traipsing around on his micro prairie. Others, including botanist Joseph Armstrong, assisted by answering questions as I did my fact checking. Deb Lescher prepared the text for press, and Jill Freund Thomas handled the graphics segments. Dave Malone made the funds available so we could avoid the aforementioned electronic replacement of the printed word. Photos, besides my own, came from Skip Nelson, Geoffrey Martin, Bill Morgan, Ellen Dietz, Larry Haigh, Mark McCleary, Anthony D’Anza, Andrew Nordstrom, Mark Lofrano, Dagmar Budikova, Jim Carter, and John Kostelnick. We hope our readers find something of interest herein, and we are on the lookout for new material to fill the next volume. MDS iii
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Page 9 and 10: BUILDING AN ARCHIVE WITH SPECIAL RE
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Page 13 and 14: Libby Townley (center) was Geograph
Page 15 and 16: Our main contact for internships in
Page 17 and 18: The prairie plot, itself, is inside
Page 19 and 20: Restoration To make a prairie it ta
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Page 25 and 26: There is just something about sideb
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Page 29 and 30: That evening we had the formal open
Page 31 and 32: Jim: Thursday, 19 November—I took
Page 33 and 34: At the top of the hill, a number of
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Page 37 and 38: MIDYEAR COMMENCEMENT The Department
Page 39 and 40: FIRST MAJORS AND GRADUATE STUDENTS
Page 41 and 42: Earth & Space Science Education (co
Page 43 and 44: “Acid Rain: Where are the Rest of
Page 45 and 46: “The Impacts of Storm on Thermal
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with Willy Hunter (Center for Math,
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Department recruited him to teach t
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Contaminant Transport and a seminar
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FAMILIAR FACES People make good sub
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MEMENTOS OF CHILE In addition to th
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