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Administrative duties were central to his efforts as he finished his eighth year as
Department Chair in December. One of the highlights of his efforts in this capacity was
Geography-Geology's selection as the College Development Award for work with alumni.
He saw graduate students Erin Roche and Drew Carlock successfully defend their thesis
research, and is pleased that each is now gainfully employed by ExxonMobil and BHP,
respectively. Their research efforts were supported by the U.S. and Illinois State
Geological surveys in the amount of $45,000. Each has geologic maps published by the
Illinois State Geological Survey. New graduate students Jodi Lau, Nicole Fox, and Eric
Avalos will keep him busy over the next set of years. Undergraduate students Simone
Runyon, Chris Longton, and Brad King all completed research projects under his
direction. Longton, King, and Runyon also had their geologic maps published. In addition
to the geologic mapping, Malone published "Oxygen Isotope Evidence of Heated Pore
Fluid Interaction with Mafic Dikes at Cathedral Cliffs, Wyoming" in Mountain Geologist,
and "Dynamics of the Emplacement of the Heart Mountain Allochthon at White
Mountain: Constraints from Calcite Twin Strain, Anhysteretic Magnetic Susceptibility,
and Thermodynamic Calculations" in the Geological Society of America Bulletin. On the
personal side, Malone continues his efforts in Boy Scouts and football coaching. His 5-
6th grade football team reached the league semifinals (one game below last year). He
led several trips for the Boy Scouts, which included a week to the Porcupine Mountains
of Michigan, a 50-mile bike ride along the Great River Trail in western Illinois, a weekend
adventure to Blue Spring Cavern and Vincennes National Historic Site in Indiana, and a
spring break train ride to Flagstaff and a three-night hike to the bottom of the Grand
Canyon. A sabbatical leave awaits in the fall of 2010.
Email: dhmalon@ilstu.edu
E. Joan Miller, Adjunct/Emerita Professor of Geography. B.A. (Hons.) Class Two; M.A., in
Geography, and Graduate Certificate in Education Class One, all from Cambridge
University (Girton College and Cambridge Training College for Women), England, United
Kingdom; Ph.D., Geography, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Miller
reports that she has yet to find answers to the following questions concerning the history
of the Department. (1) Why did Douglas Clay Ridgley not return to Illinois State Normal
University in 1922 when the work he had done with high school students and
undergraduates had made Geography at ISNU known nationwide (2) Did Ridgley
initiate the chain migration from ISNU to Clark University and was George R. Means part
of it She no longer drives so she had exerted much energy, time, and money to achieve
a new lifestyle. Four years ago Faith in Action, a nationwide venture, was established in
Bloomington-Normal. Their mission is to help seniors, like Dr. Miller, continue to lead
active lives and to stay in their homes; and she has called on them for rides to
appointments, etc. She has also found a company selling tapes for her Brother word
processor, a company that also sells ribbons for typewriters!
Email: ejmille@ilstu.edu
Robert S. Nelson, Associate Professor of Geology. B.A., 1965, Augustana College; M.S., 1968,
and Ph.D., 1970, The University of Iowa. This year was particularly eventful for Dr.
Nelson. On April 29, 2009, the request for proposals on stimulus funded teacher
workshops was issued by the Illinois State Board of Education. Actual funding was
through the U.S. Department of Education. He had been in contact with the Illinois State
Board of Education math and science director discussing the potential a EarthScope
teacher workshop. The closing date was May 29, a one-month turn-around time. Using
the Illinois Association of Aggregate Producers teacher workshop participant list for the
previous three years, he conducted a needs survey (47 responses), wrote the proposal
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