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AIPG. In that capacity he oversaw the review of 21 applicants for the $1000 AIPG scholarships. This year, given the number and the quality of the applicants, seven awards will be announced in the fall. He is pleased to see that one Illinois State student will be receiving the award. Bob also is an active member on the departmental Means Committee, reviewing candidates for the Margaret Means Stipend and George R. Means Geography Scholarship. This year, as a result of the settlement of the Means estate, several awards were possible. Bob continues as an active member of the Geology Board of Professional Regulation (Illinois). He is continuing with rehabilitation exercises, but remains frustrated by the slow progress. Email: rcorbett@ilstu.edu James E. Day, Professor of Geology. B.S., 1979, Oregon State University; M.S., 1984, Northern Arizona University; Ph.D., 1988, The University of Iowa. Over the past year Dr. Day taught two sections of GEO 202 (Evolution of the Earth), a section of GEO 295 (Sedimentology-Stratigraphy I) in the fall of 2009, and a section of GEO 385 (Invertebrate Paleontology) during the spring of 2010. He serves as a Titular Member (representing Canada) of the Subcommission on Devonian Stratigraphy of the International Union of Geological Sciences-Commission on Stratigraphy. He was also an author or co-author of four abstracts, presented at a variety of professional conferences in the United States, and four journal articles. Those co-authored articles appeared one each in Earth and Planetary Science Letters and the IUGS-ICS Subcommission on Devonian Stratigraphy Newsletter, and two in Palaeontographica Americana. The field trip for GEO 295 examined Ordovician-Pleistocene aged sedimentary rocks in central and western Illinois and eastern Iowa. The spring field trip for GEO 385 was successful (no rain or snow) and looked at the Ordovician to Devonian stratigraphy and paleontology of Wapsipinicont and Cedar Valley Group and older Ordovician rocks in eastern and northeastern Iowa. He hosted a variety of guests who examined Devonian brachiopods and conodonts in his lab. These included an Indian Ph.D. candidate from Indiana University, Dr. Poul Emsbo of the USGS-Denver, and master’s student from Idaho State University. Dr. Day also worked with Illinois State undergraduate students Simone Runyon (Carboniferous fish from Iowa), Justin Calhoun (Milwaukee Formation of Wisconsin), and Amie Hinds (Devonian brachiopods). Andrew Hardwick, Erik Munson, and Charlie Hatch assisted with contract work on Devonian conodont biostratigraphy of Devonian cores from northern Nevada. He attended the North American Paleontological Convention in Cincinnati, Ohio, and was an author or co-author of two invited oral presentations at that conference. He attended the North-Central Section meeting of the GSA in Branson, Missouri, and made two oral presentations at that meeting. Email: jeday@ilstu.edu Tasha L. Dunn, Assistant Professor of Geology. B.S., 2000, Tulane University; M.S., 2005, Geology, University of Tennessee; Ph.D., 2008, Geology, University of Tennessee. After serving as a Visiting Assistant Professor during the 2008-2009 academic year, this year marks the end of Tasha’s first year as a full-time member of the faculty. She continues to teach Mineralogy, Petrology, Evolution of the Earth, and Planetary Geology and will be teaching at field camp again this summer. She is also working to develop a new regional studies course on the Appalachian Mountains that she hopes to offer during the 2011- 2012 academic year. In addition to teaching, Tasha has had a productive year of research. She continued her research in X-ray diffraction of ordinary chondrites this year with the help of a student, Ben Brooker, who presented his work at the University’s Undergraduate Research Symposium. Tasha presented current research on spectroscopy of chondrites at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Houston, Texas, and published two papers on X-ray diffraction and metamorphism of ordinary 44
chondrites in Meteoritics and Planetary Science. A third paper on chondrite spectroscopy is in press and will be published in Icarus later this year. Tasha plans to spend most of her summer developing a new research project that will focus on metamorphism of the enstatite chondrites, but she will continue to work on metamorphism of ordinary chondrites and to explore new research projects with students. Email: tldunn@ilstu.edu Karen Dunton, Staff Clerk. Karen continues to be busy as President of the Clerical and Support Staff Union on campus. It has been almost nine years since Karen joined the Geography-Geology Department, and she is still glad to be working here. Karen continues to be busy as President of the Clerical and Support Staff Union on campus. They have been in contract negotiations since June of 2009. The uncertainty of the Illinois budget has significantly impacted Illinois State with late payments, which has contributed to the slow negotiations. Karen is enjoying her new apartment and second job. The perks are the incredible views from her apartment windows, but sometimes the work involved is significantly time consuming. Karen was not able to travel last year, but her good friend from the United Kingdom came to visit in the fall as the leaves were changing. Email: kkedunt@ilstu.edu Johanna Haas, Assistant Professor of Geography. B.A., (Phi Beta Kappa, Summa Cum Laude), 1993, English and Medieval and Renaissance Studies, West Virginia University; J.D. (with honors in law), 2001, The Ohio State University; Ph.D., 2008, Geography, The Ohio State University. Last summer, Johanna went on a follow-up research trip to Alaska with two students, Dawn Heckmann and Amanda Landers. They stayed in the town of Palmer to research the community response to coal-bed methane development. The trio conducted a number of stakeholder interviews, completed archival research at the local library and historical society, and trekked to a couple of potential well sites. They even took part in a yearly softball game held by a group who fought against coal-bed methane development a couple of years earlier. Both Dawn and Amanda were injured–the lengths to which we go to get a good interview! Johanna’s GEO 205 class (Living in the Environment) has launched a number of interesting projects. This year’s class completed a two-year environmental assessment of Felmley Hall. Additionally, a number of students were able to use the class as a launching board for their own projects. Cristina Morales and Kelly Schneider used the class to create a proposal for a studentrun herb garden that would provide fresh herbs to the dining services; and that garden is currently going up on west campus. Tony Pagan, Joshua Burdick, and Jon Dove used the class to construct and run an internet survey about the willingness of students to pay a sustainability fee. That project resulted in a real vote of the student body, a vote that overwhelmingly approved paying the fee. Cristina also used a short paper from 205 to form a senior thesis in anthropology on bottled water, which Johanna oversaw. The new GEO 313 course in Energy and Sustainability ran for the first time this spring. Fifteen students gathered twice a week in a seminar-style class reading about and discussing a large number of issues related to energy and energy policy. As last summer’s tomatoes never ripened, Johanna still requests good tomato vibrations. Email: jmhaas2@ilstu.edu Terry L. Harshbarger, Lecturer in Geography. A.B., 1964, University of Illinois; M.S., 1970, and Ph.D., 1974, Purdue University; and M.S., 1996, Indiana State University. Terry taught one night section of World Geography each semester at Illinois State during the 2009- 2010 academic year; but his primary responsibilities are teaching World Geography, Geography of Underdeveloped Areas, Economic Geography, and Aviation at Parkland 45
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