2008-2010 Department Annual Report - Department of Earth ...

Department of Geological Sciences 

2008 – 2010 

Biennial Report

Front Cover: Students in Beverly Saylor’s GEOL 317 course, in Death Valley 

10900 Euclid Avenue 

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CHAIR’S MESSAGE 

Dear Students, Alumni, and Friends of the 

Department of Geological Sciences, 

The Department was so busy last fall that we simply 

were unable to complete our Annual Report in time, 

so we decided to combine the 2008-2009 and 2009- 

2010 years to produce a single issue. So what were 

we so busy doing? Last fall saw the Department 

conducting searches for a new tenure track faculty 

position; with over 120 applications we were simply 

swamped. Then, in November the EPA announced 

an unprecedented amount of funding for the Great 

Lakes Restoration Initiative which several of the 

faculty pursued. Before we noticed the school year 

had zoomed by and here we are combining two 

years into a single report. Lots has happened and 

we are pleased to highlight some of our more 

interesting accomplishments here. 

Ralph Harvey completed his 22 nd field season as 

part of the Antarctic Search for Meteorites 

(ANSMET) program. Steve Hauck received his 

promotion to Associate Professor with tenure 

(Congratulations Steve!) and served as a guest 

Editor for a special issue of Icarus on the 

Messenger mission to Mercury. Peter McCall 

remains Faculty Advisor for the campus radio 

station (WRUW-FM) and taught for just the second 

time a 3-week field trip course (GEOL 100) in May. 

Beverly Saylor made another trip to an early 

hominid site in Ethiopia with the Cleveland 

Museum of Natural History paleoanthropologists. 

Jim Van Orman has undertaken significant 

professional service, serving on the Executive and 

Annual Meeting Program Committees of 

COMPRES, on the Goldschmidt Organizing 

Committee, and co-Chairing the Mineral Physics 

Long Range Science Planning Workshop. Peter 

Whiting continued as Associate Dean for SAGES 

and remains a Board member of the Chagrin River 

Watershed Partners. I taught for the first time a 

course in Environmental Studies (GEOL 202 Global 

Environmental Problems). 

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Ralph Harvey and Jim Van Orman arranged for the 

College to accept the gift of a JEOL 8900 Electron 

Microprobe from the Energizer corporation. 

Creating a functioning laboratory around this 

instrument is a major challenge for the Department. 

Naming rights and other, smaller levels of donation 

for the new lab are available if you'd like to 

contribute to the cause! 

The Department has three post-doctoral Research 

Associates (Leslie Hayden, James Karner, and Carlo 

DeMarchi). Research Associates are a huge asset to 

the Department - they cost the University almost 

nothing since they are completely supported on 

research funds but they contribute to the research 

productivity of the graduate students and the faculty 

and to the overall intellectual atmosphere of the 

Department. The downside is that they usually don't 

stay very long since they eventually find more 

permanent employment elsewhere. You'll find their 

synopses toward the end of this report. 

Faculty, alumni and friends enjoyed the annual holiday 

party at the Pink Pig. From left: Bob Chaikin (BA 1981), 

Joe Hannibal (CMNH), Gerry Matisoff, Phil Banks 

(retired), and Susan Augustine (MS 1997).

The Department realized some growth in the 

graduate program. Last year we had seven PhD 

students. One, Andreas Ritzer, just graduated and is 

off to British Columbia for post-doctoral work. We 

anxiously await (and wait, and wait, and wait, ...) 

the completed dissertations of two others (Katherine 

Crispin and Dejun Tan). Hopefully next year I will 

be able to report their graduations. Undergraduate 

student, Andy Opsitnick, won the CWRU 

Undergraduate Source Fair award (2009) for science 

students for his poster that examined the potential 

for gas wells at the University's Squire Valleevue 

Farm. Two years ago (2009) as a Junior Rita Cabral 

received the Department's Carol Wien Walker 

Senior Award for best Senior Project and this past 

year (2010) Senior Drew Enns received the award. 

The Department also awarded Rita (in 2009) and 

Clark Short (in 2010) the Charles S. Bacon Prize for 

outstanding contributions to the Department while 

Annie Griswold (2009) and Maya Alunkal (2010) 

were awarded the Philip O. Banks Award for 

outstanding academic achievement. Our 

undergraduates are doing well: Clark Short, Laura 

Mulvey, Andy Opsitnick, Rita Cabral, Maya 

Alunkal and Drew Enns all are pursuing advanced 

graduate degrees in either geological or 

environmental sciences, Evan Scott is working at 

the CMNH, and Annie Griswold headed off to 

medical school. 

This year the Department had four visitors: Glenn 

Odenbrett, formerly of the Office of Student 

Community Service and a SAGES writing 

instructor is now the Director of CLEAN 

(Collaborative Learning for Environmental Action 

Network), a consortium of undergraduate faculty 

from Northeast Ohio institutions of higher 

education who are committed to service-learning 

and community-based research activities which will 

empower the region's citizens to engage in the 

preservation and enhancement of its environmental 

resources. Glenn provides a more detailed 

description of his science education and outreach 

activities later in this report. We were also able to 

host Dr. Ananias Tsirambides from the Department 

of Mineralogy-Petrology-Economic Geology of the 

School of Geology, Aristotle University of 

Thessaloniki, Greece during his sabbatical. 

Weichun Tao volunteered to assist Dr. Carlo 

DeMarchi on his research. Dr. George Collins, an 

Ohio State University Emeritus Professor of 

Astronomy, and an Adjunct Professor in our 

Department taught GEOL 117 Weather and Climate 

during both years. 

The faculty maintained progress toward 

improvement of our relationship with the Cleveland 

Museum of Natural History (CMNH). Joe 

Hannibal, Curator of Invertebrate Paleontology and 

David Saja, Curator of Mineralogy at the CMNH 

continued their Adjunct appointments in the 

Department. Steve Hauck ran a GEOL 119 lab at 

CMNH in conjunction with David Saja. Beverly 

Saylor traveled to Ethiopia to participate in the 

Woranso-Mille project, led by Drs. Yohannes 

Haile-Selassie, Curator and Head of Physical 

Anthropology, and Bruce Latimer, both of The 

Cleveland Museum of Natural History. 

Department visitor Ananias Tsirambides (MS 1977) and 

Glenn Odenbrett. 

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The faculty continue their active engagement in 

College-wide teaching and curricular initiatives. 

Peter McCall remains Director and the main 

teaching faculty member in the Environmental 

Studies Program and remains Director of WRUW, 

the University’s radio station. The Department has 

discussed on more than one occasion the possibility 

of making Environmental Studies (which is a 2nd 

major only) into a first major. Currently there are as 

many majors in Environmental Studies as in our 

three Geological Sciences degrees combined. 

Further, several other departments have gotten on 

the environmental bandwagon, with new hires in 

environmental history, ethics and policy, so in some 

ways in makes sense to provide a first major in 

Environmental Studies. However, the additional 

teaching load cannot be accommodated without the 

addition of more faculty and that does not seem too 

likely in the near future. This is a terrific 

opportunity for someone to endow a professorship 

for this position to help start the program. Peter 

Whiting remains Associate Dean of SAGES. The 

faculty continued their supervision of the SAGES 

requirements for a Department Seminar and a 

Senior Capstone Experience. Steve Hauck taught 

the SAGES Department Seminar, GEOL 390. In 

Spring 2009 seniors, Clark Short, Andy Opsitnick, 

Evan Scott, and Annie Griswold and Junior Rita 

Cabral presented their SAGES Capstone projects as 

an oral presentation at the Department Senior 

Project Day and as a poster presentation at the 

College-wide SOURCE Symposium (senior 

capstone fair). They were followed in 2010 by 

Seniors Nicole Pilasky, Drew Enns and Maya 

Alunkal. Beverly Saylor taught a SAGES 

University Seminar in the Spring Semester. The 

SAGES program is up for review this coming year, 

so Peter Whiting will have his hands full. More on 

that next year. 

I am pleased to announce that the department 

received in September a new gift from the estate of 

Mary and Arthur Wolf (he is a former alum). This 

gift will literally double the size of our endowments 

and will make a huge difference in our abilities to 

expand our activities. Over the next few months the 

faculty will be developing a long-term plan on the 

best uses for this income. 

Last year the Dean and the Provost perceived that 

the hiring climate for faculty would be poor, so that 

it presented an opportunity for CWRU to recruit 

particularly high quality faculty. They were correct: 

the Department conducted a broad search in the 

areas of planetary geology and environmental 

geosciences and received some truly outstanding 

applications. Unfortunately, as the budget tightened 

we were not permitted to proceed to interviewing 

and lost the opportunity to snag a growth position. 

The Department did not propose to search this 

coming year, but our strategic plan still targets 

growth in those subject areas. One of the stumbling 

blocks to adding faculty is start-up funds, so growth 

of our endowment to a point where there is 

sufficient income to meet start-up funding 

requirements has become a Department priority. 

The Department resides in AW Smith Building, 

which is 'new Smith'. 'Old' Smith, which houses 

Chemical Engineering has actually been renovated 

(twice) since 'new' Smith was built. Unfortunately, 

there are some real difficulties in renovating our 

side of the building, for example with new, energy 

efficient windows, because there is no wholebuilding 

air conditioning. We are among the last 

buildings on campus with small room A/C units in 

every window. The master plan was to bring chiller 

water into the building, but I guess that didn't 

happen because the system didn't have enough 

capacity. So in the meantime, the University 

decided to renovate our hallways to accommodate 

an updated smoke detection system. Below I've 

included 'during' and 'after' photos of the second 

floor hallway. Unfortunately, we still have the ugly 

lockers... 

Social events included a welcome back picnic at 

Ralph Harvey's house to kick off the school year, 

the annual holiday party at the Pink Pig, informal 

dinners and get-togethers such as going out to 

dinner with guest speakers, and a picnic following 

Commencement 2009 at my house and a reception 

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in the Department following Commencement 2010 

in the Department. 

This report, complete with high resolution versions 

of the pictures not used in the print version, is 

available on the Department web site: 

http://geology.cwru.edu/ 

Gerald Matisoff 

Professor and Chair 

August 13, 2010 

The AW Smith 2 nd floor hallway. During the 

renovation (right) and after the renovation (left). 

Volleyball at the Welcome Back Picnic 

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History of the Department 

The Federation of Case Institute of Technology (CIT) and Western Reserve University (WRU) on 7/1/67 

brought about the formal combining of two Geology Departments into Case Western Reserve University. CIT 

had a Dept. of Geology and Mineralogy, and WRU had a Dept. of Geology and Geography. CIT had one 

faculty member, Dr. Charles Bacon, who served as both chairman and instructor. WRU had three geologists, 

Stehli, Donner, and Hall, and two geographers, Walmsley and Carlson. 

1826 - Western Reserve College is founded by David Hudson in Hudson, OH. The first geology course is 

taught in 1833 by Elizur Wright, Sr., one of the founders of the college and 72 yrs. old at the time. He 

also taught Astronomy, Meteorology, and Natural History. 

1838 - Samuel St. John is appointed professor of Geology, Mineralogy and Chemistry. 

1843 - Western Reserve College builds a new facility to house labs and the collections for the study of 

Geology, Mineralogy, and Paleontology. 

1852 - Samuel St. John resigns position from Western Reserve College over controversy with college President 

Pierce. 

1856 - Western Reserve College Board of Directors announces a new “Scientific Course” which encompassed 

Chemistry, Geology, Mineralogy, and Physics, among other sciences. 

1880 - Case School of Applied Science (CSAS) is founded and located near Public Sq.; the property is 

bequeathed by Leonard Case, Jr. and is a portion of his estate. First Geology course taught in 1886 by 

Hudson A. Wood, professor of German language. In 1888 no Geology class is taught, and in 1889 

Albert W. Smith, a chemical-mining engineer, begins to teach a Geology course. 

1882- Western Reserve College is renamed Western Reserve University and is moved to University Circle. 

1882 - Case School of Applied Science is moved to University Circle. 

1885 - Rivalry develops between CSAS and WRU and a fence is erected between them. Beginning in 1929, 

numerous movements to join the two side by side universities are attempted but fail. 

1897 - CSAS hires as instructor Dr. Frank Van Horn to teach Geology and Mineralogy. 

1899 - CSAS appoints Van Horn as Assistant Professor of Geology. 

1902 - CSAS appoints Van Horn as Professor of Geology. 

1916 - CSAS: Richard Barrett, mining engineer, is an assistant to Van Horn. Van Horn is also one of the 

founders of the Mineralogical Society of America and is its secretary from 1923 – 1933. 

1920 - CSAS: Geology course becomes Engineering Geology because the latter was required for a degree of 

Engineer of Mines until 1945. 

1931 - CSAS: Richard Barrett becomes an instructor, then Dept. Head of Geology. Van Horn travels to Africa, 

has an accident while there, returns to US but becomes ill. 

1933 - CSAS: Dr. Van Horn dies. Prior to death he finishes up, with the assistance of Richard Barrett, labeling 

and cataloging the rest of the 10,000 + mineral specimens which he had collected during his life. In 

1977 the collection is moved and kept by Museum of Natural History. 

1945 - Richard Barrett resigns; Geology is without a Department Head. 

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1945-46 – CSAS: Geology attendance drops dramatically because the Geology and Mineralogy courses are no 

longer required for Engineer of Mines Degree. 

1946-48 – WRU: Henry Donner is Professor and Dept. Head of Geology and Astronomy. 

1948 - Case School of Applied Sciences is renamed Case Institute of Technology (CIT). 

1948 - CIT appoints Dr. Charles Bacon as new Dept. Head for Geology and Geography; the courses are 

reorganized as well as all the equipment. Faculty for the dept. remains small. One of the faculty 

members for a Geology and Geography course is Ben Moulton, who was a geography professor. 

1959 - WRU and CIT collaborate between the Geology departments. (Donner, Hall, Stehli, Walmsley and 

Carlson, were WRU faculty; no CIT personnel could contribute at the time.) 

1960 - WRU and CIT initiate a Masters Degree program. Henry Donner of WRU is now Chair of Geology and 

Astronomy through 1961. 

1961 - Dr. Francis G. Stehli is Dept. Head. 

1963 - WRU and CIT add a Ph.D. program. 

1965-1967 – WRU: Alan Cain is Chair of Geology and Astronomy. 

1965 - Commission to explore the feasibility of unification is established and is funded by Carnegie Corp, 

Cleveland Foundation., and the Greater Cleveland Associated Foundation. 

1966 - First Ph.D. awarded as well as three Masters Degrees in Geological Sciences. 

1967 - The three separate boards of the unification commission meet and vote in favor of consolidating WRU 

and CIT. 

1967-1972 - CWRU appoints Professor Francis Stehli as Chair of the “Dept. of Geology”. 

1968 - The joint Dept. of Geology has 11 faculty, 4 support staff, 22 graduate students, 25 undergraduate 

majors. 

1974 - Dr. Wilbert Lick, an engineer, becomes Chairman of the Geology Department. The Department is 

renamed the Department of Earth Sciences. 

1977-1982 - Dr. Samuel Savin is Chairman of the Earth Sciences department. 

1979 - Department is renamed again, now known as Geological Sciences. 

1982-1990 - Dr. Phillip O. Banks is Chairman of Geological Sciences. 

1990-1992 - Dr. Steve Stanley is recruited from outside the University to take Chair position. 

1992-1996 - Dr. Peter McCall is Chairman. 

1996-1999 - Dr. Phillip O. Banks is Chairman again. 

1999-Present - Dr. Gerald Matisoff is Chairman. 

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FACULTY, ADJUNCT FACULTY, APPOINTMENTS, AND PROMOTIONS 

Faculty 

Ralph P. Harvey, Associate Professor 

University of Pittsburgh, 1990 

Planetary Geology 

Steven A. Hauck, II, Associate Professor 

Washington University, 2001 

Planetary Dynamics 

Gerald Matisoff, Professor and Chair 

Johns Hopkins, 1977 

Low T/P Geochemistry 

Peter L. McCall, Professor 

Yale, 1975 

Paleobiology 

Beverly Z. Saylor, Associate Professor 

MIT, 1996 

Sedimentary Geology 

James Van Orman, Associate Professor 

MIT, 2000 

High T/P Geochemistry 

Peter J. Whiting, Associate Professor 

UC Berkeley, 1990 

Geomorphology 

Joint Appointments 

Peter L. McCall, Secondary Faculty, 

Department of Biology 

Emeriti 

Samuel M. Savin, Jesse Earle Hyde 

Professor Emeritus of Geological Sciences 

and Dean Emeritus of The College of Arts 

& Sciences 

Caltech, 1967 

Stable Isotope Geochemistry 

Adjunct Faculty 

Philip O. Banks, Adjunct Associate Professor 

Caltech, 1963 

Geochronology/Radioisotopes 

George Collins, Adjunct Professor 

Univ. of Wisconsin, 1962 

Astronomy 

Andrew Dombard, Adjunct Associate Professor 

Washington University, 2000 

Planetary Geophysics 

Joseph Hannibal, Adjunct Associate Professor 

Cleveland Museum of Natural History 

Kent State University, 1990 

Paleontology 

Michael Ketterer, Adjunct Professor 

Northern Arizona University 

Univ. of Colorado, 1985 

Analytical Chemistry 

David Saja, Adjunct Assistant Professor 

Cleveland Museum of Natural History 

Univ. of Pennsylvania, Phil., PA. 1999 

Structural Geology 

Richard C. Schmidt, Adjunct Professor 

Formerly of Pickands, Mather 

McGill, 1956 

Economic Geology, Metals 

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GRADUATE STUDENTS 

Ph.D. Candidates 

Jeff Balcerski 

Katherine Crispin 

Jian Han 

Ruth Jacob 

Eliza Kaltenberg 

Andreas Ritzer 

Dejun Tan 

Awards - Graduate Assistantships 

Jeff Balcerski 

Katherine Crispin 

Jian Han 

Ruth Jacob 

Eliza Kaltenberg 

Andreas Ritzer 

Dejun Tan 

Hello. My name is Dejun Tan. Welcome to my World. 

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DECLARED MAJORS AND MINORS IN GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES 

Name Major Year 

(2008-09, 2009-10) 

Sam Alpert BS Geology 2 

Maya Alunkal BA Environmental Geology 3, 4 

James Boyle BS Geology 2, 3 

Lauren Brown BA Environmental Geology 3, 4 

Rita Cabral BS Geology 3, 4 

Andrew Enns BS Geology 3, 4 

Geoffrey Goodman BA Geology 2 

Julianne Griswold BA Geology 3, 4 

Emily Haines BA Environmental Geology 2, 3 

Laura Mulvey BA Environmental Geology 4 

Andrew Opsitnick BS Geology 4 

Nicole Pilasky BA Geology 3, 4 

Evan Scott BA Geology 4 

Clark Short BA Geology 4 

Minors 

Caitlin Burkman 3, 4 

Rebecca Hagan Biology 3 

Brian Hirsch Chemistry 3, 4 

Cassandra Pallai Economics 4 

Anna Wieser Anthropology, German 4 

DECLARED MAJORS IN ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES 

Name Major Year 

(2008-09, 2009-10) 

Maya Alunkal Environmental Geology 3, 4 

Lauren Brown Environmental Geology 3, 4 

Rebecca Ciciretti Sociology 4 

Cecelia Fusco Anthropology 3,4 

Nicole Hofert Political Science 4 

Erica Hoffman Nutrition 4 

Kathryn Ibbotson Chemistry 3, 4 

Cassandra McFadden Political Science 4 

Cassandra Pallai Economics 3, 4 

Sarah Robinson Anthropology 3, 4 

Sarah Tolbert Political Science 4 

Mariya Topolyanskaya Psychology 4 

Michelle Udem Economics 3, 4 

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STAFF 

Research 

Carlo DeMarchi 

Research Associate 

Leslie Hayden 

Research Scholar 

Jim Karner 

Sr. Research Associate 

Office 

Linda Day 

Department Assistant 

Karen Payne 

Department Assistant 

Undergraduate Research 

Assistants 

Rita Cabral (Matisoff, Van 

Orman ) 

Chris Carlson (Matisoff, 

McCall) 

Andrew Enns (Hauck) 

Paul Manglona (Saylor) 

Marinda Mitchell (Hauck) 

Laura Mulvey (Matisoff) 

Andrew Opsitnick (Saylor) 

Nicole Pilasky (Matisoff) 

Clark Short (Van Orman) 

Abigail Small (Matisoff) 

Mimi Toohey (Hathaway 

Brown School) (Matisoff) 

Geology 119 lab students use 'Play-Doh' to study geologic structures and rock deformation. 

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ENDOWED FUNDS 

Interest from the Glasmann Endowment Fund was 

mostly allowed to accumulate during the 2008-2009 

and 2009-2010 fiscal years. 

Much of the income from the June Campbell Wien 

and Carol Wien Walker Endowment was allowed to 

accumulate. Some funds were expended to partially 

underwrite the field trip expenses for the spring 

field trip course to Death Valley (GEOL 317) and 

the new GEOL 100 field trip course taught by 

Professor McCall. Other minor uses for the funds 

included partial funding for a computer, for office 

furniture, and for student travel and student research 

supplies. 

GIFTS TO THE DEPARTMENT 

We thank the following individuals for their gifts to the Department. These gifts were either provided directly 

to the Department or indirectly through institutional (Case Alumni Association, College of Arts and Sciences, 

etc.) solicitations. Their contributions help us maintain and improve our educational and research missions. 

Monetary Contributions 

Ms. Lynne Cohen (1973) 

Mr. Richard Cotman (1980) 

Dr. Robert E. Criss (1973) 

Mr. S. Daniel Day (1973) 

Rev. Larry Dunlap-Berg (1972) 

Dr. Crawford Elliott (1988) 

Ms. Diane M.A. Eskenasy (1974) 

Dr. John Fisher (1979) 

Mr. Thomas B. Houston (1955) 

Ms. Patricia Kelly Hunt (1973) 

Mrs. Jane E. Hunter (1980) 

Dr. Robert G. Johnson (1947) 

Mr. Steven Joliat (1978) 

Dr. Jeffrey A. Karson (1972) 

Dr. Christopher Khourey (1981) 

Dr. Elena Lobl (1970) 

Mr. Herbert Frank Mausser (1982) 

Dr. John William Parker (1949) 

Mr. Steven Reiner (1984) 

Dr. Robert C. Rettke (1976) 

Dr. Paul Segall (1976) 

Mr. John Simpson (1951) 

Dr. Frederick M. Soster (1984) 

Dr. William Stuart 

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DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIA 

Dr. Leslie Hayden, UCLA 

Grain Boundary Diffusion: Metal and Carbon Fluxes Through the Mantle? 

August 14, 2008 

Dr. Neyda Abreu, Penn State University - DuBois 

Effects of Aqueous Alteration and Brecciation on Matrices of Primitive CR Carbonaceous Chondrites 

September 12, 2008 

Dr. Richard Binzel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 

Where Do Meteorites Come From? 

October 3, 2008 

Dr. Erik Venteris, Ohio Division of Geological Survey 

Statewide Mapping of the Background Levels of Metal and Metalloids in Soils and Stream Sediments 

October 17, 2008 

Dr. Robert Hazen, Carnegie Institution of Washington 

Mineralogical Co-Evolution of the Geo- and Biospheres” 

November 6, 2008 

Dr. Nicholas Christie-Blick, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University 

Confronting the Low-Angle Normal Fault Paradox 

November 14, 2008 

Dr. Stewart Nelson 

Re-Discovering the World’s First Arctic Submarine: Nautilus of 1931 

December 12, 2008 

Dr. Steve Vance, Jet Propulsion Laboratory – NASA 

Serpentinization and the Habitability of Ocean-Bearing Worlds 

January 23, 2009 

Dr. David Walker, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory 

How Could the Earth’s Core Leak? 

March 20, 2009 

Dr. Barbara Tewksbury, Hamilton College 

Fragile Glass: Edifice Collapse and Cataclasis in Subglacially Erupted Tuffs in Iceland 

March 26, 2009 

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Dr. James Karner, University of New Mexico 

The Partitioning of Cr and VB Between Pyroxene- 

Melt in Martian Basalt QUE 94201 

June 23, 2009 

Dr. Gareth Morgan, Brown University 

Investigating Gullies on Mars Through the 

Utilization of Terrestrial Analogs in the Antarctic 

Dry Valleys 

June 24, 2009 

Dr. Weichun Tao, CWRU 

Water Use Efficiency and Water Allocation for 

Poverty Reduction and Environmental 

Rehabilitation: A Case Study in Arid Areas of 

China 

October 2, 2009 

Dr. Alan Howard, University of Virginia 

Fluvial and Lacustrine Processes of Ancient Mars 

October 23, 2009 

Dr. Tracy Gregg, University at Buffalo 

Diving in the Dark: Exploring Mid-Ocean Ridges 

with an HOV 

November 6, 2009 

Dr. Ananias Tsirambides, Aristotle University of 

Thessaloniki 

The Contribution of Processed and Synthetic 

Minerals in the Improvement of our Life. The 

Mineral Sector in Greece 

December 15, 2009 

Dr. Jonathan Aurnou, UCLA 

Behavioral Transitions in Planetary Core Dynamics 

& Magnetic Fields 

January 25, 2010 

Dr. David London, University of Oklahoma 

The Experimental Foundations of Granite 

Petrology 

March 19, 2010 

Dr. Harry Green, University of California 

How do Earthquakes Occur Deep Inside the Earth? 

April 9, 2010 

Students talk to colloquium speaker Stewart Nelson. 

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SENIOR PROJECT DAY 

Ninth Annual Senior Project Day: April 24, 2009 

Rita Cabral 

Particle Mixing of Marine Sediment by Capitellid Worm Heteromastus filiformis 

Advisor: Gerald Matisoff and Peter L. McCall 

Julianne Griswold 

An Examination of the Hesperian/Noachian Geological Contact in Northeast Syrtis Major 

Advisor: Ralph Harvey 

Andrew Opsitnick 

Accumulations of Oil and Natural Gas in Clinton Sandstone near CWRU’s Squire Valleevue Farm 

Advisor: Beverly Saylor 

Clark Short 

The Effect of Cation-Vacancy Bound Pairs on Diffusioin of Trivalent Cations through Forsterite 

Advisor: Jim Van Orman 

Andrew Opsitnick on the Ninth Annual Senior Project Day 

Maya Alunkal on the Tenth Senior Project Day 

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Tenth Annual Senior Project Day: April 23, 2010 

Maya Alunkal 

Examination of Solar Power Potential in Cleveland’s Greater University Circle 

Advisor: Peter Whiting 

Drew Enns 

Numerical Simulations of Crater and River Interactions on Mars 

Advisor: Ralph Harvey 

Nicole Pilasky 

The Depositional Flux of Phosphorus in Lake Erie 

Advisor: Gerald Matisoff 

DEGREES CONFERRED 

January 2009 

Graduate Students 

Joshua Angelini (M.S. Geological Sciences) 

August 2009 

Undergraduate Students 

Andrew Opsitnick (BA) 

Evan Scott (BA) 

Clark Short (BA) 

January 2010 

Julianne Griswold (BA) 

Laura Mulvey (BA) 

May 2010 

Maya Alunkal (BA) 

Geology undergraduate students (2nd from left) Andy Opsitnick, Evan 

Scott, Rita Cabral, Clark Short. 

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RESEARCH SHOWCASE 

Research ShowCase is held on campus every 

year and showcases cutting-edge research 

taking place at Case Western Reserve 

University. 

2009 

Josh Angelini 

Geochemical Correlation of Volcanic Ash 

Deposits in the Woranso-Mille 

Paleontological Study Area in the Afar 

Region of Ethiopia 

Rita Cabral 

Particle Mixing of Marine Sediment by the 

Capitellid Worm Heteromastus filiformis 

Julianne Griswold 

An examination of the Noachian/Hesperian 

Geological Contact in Northeast Syrtis Major, 

Mars, 

Jeff Balcerski at Research Showcase 2010 explains his 

poster to one of the judges. 

Leslie Hayden 

Using Hf-W Isotopes to Understand the 

Evolution of Early Solar System Materials 

Clark Short 

The Effect of Cation-Vacancy Bound Pairs on 

Diffusion of Trivalent Cations through 

Forsterite 

Dejun Tan 

Little Fluctuations in Antarctic Plateau 

Interior Since Later Pliocene Revealed by 

Cosmogenic Exposure Dating 

2010 

Jeffrey Balcerski 

The Effect of Local and Regional Thermal 

Conditions on Lunar Impact Basin Evolution 

Ruth Jacob at Research Showcase 2010 

Ruth Jacob 

Quantifying CO2 Solubility as a Means 

Toward Understanding Carbon Sequestration 

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Josh Angelini and his prize winning poster at Research Showcase 2009 

STUDENT AWARDS 

DEPARTMENT 

The Philip O. Banks Award for Outstanding Academic Achievement in Geological Sciences 

2009 Julianne Griswold 

2010 Maya Alunkal 

The Carol Wien Walker Award for an Outstanding Senior Project 

2009 Rita Cabral 

2010 Andrew Enns 

Charles Bacon Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Department of Geological Sciences 

2009 Clark Short 

2010 Rita Cabral 

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GRANTS AND CONTRACTS 

University of Michigan/National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration 

“Adaptive Integrated Framework: A New 

Methodology for Managing Impacts of Multiple 

Stressors in Coastal Ecosystems” 


Ohio State University Research Foundation/NOAA 

“Preparing Coastal Communities for Climate 

Change: Translating Model Results to Prepare 

Ports, Harbors, and Storm Management Facilities 

in an Era of Climate Variability and Scientific 

Uncertainty” 


University of Michigan – CILER/National Oceanic 

and Atmospheric Administration-GLERL 

“Comparative Analysis of Net Basin Supply 

Components and Climate Change Impact on the 

Upper Great Lakes” 


University of Michigan - CILER/National Oceanic 

and Atmospheric Administration-GLERL 

“Next Generation Large Basin Runoff Models” 


National Aeronautics and Space Administration 

“Impact Basins and the Evolution of the Lunar 

Crust and Lithosphere” 

Steven A. Hauck, II 


“Contributions to MESSENGER and the 

Geophysical Structure and Evolution of Mercury” 


National Aeronautics and Space Administration – 

Goddard Space Flight Center 

“Cryogenic Evaporite Formation at Lewis Cliff, 

Antarctica: A Mars Analog Study” 

Ralph Harvey 


"Recovery and Study of Antarctic Martian 

Meteorites" 

Ralph Harvey 

National Science Foundation 

Office of Polar Programs-Antarctic Geology and 

Geophysics Program 

“Antarctic Search for Meteorites Program 

(ANSMET)” 

Ralph Harvey 

National Science Foundation-Offic Polar Programs 

"Antarctic Search for Meteorites” 

Ralph Harvey 

Buffalo State College/EPA –GLNPO NOLENS 

“Lake Erie Central and Eastern Basin Studies of 

Nearshore/Offshore Nutrient Fluxes and 

Interactions” 


United States Department of Agriculture 

“Soil and Sediment Testing” 


Ohio State University Research Foundation Sea 

Grant 

"Rates of Oxygen and Nutrient Exchange Between 

Sediments and Water in Lake Erie" 


Lake Erie Protection Fund/Ohio State University 

Research Foundation Sea Grant 

“Improved Estimates of Sediment Oxygen Demand 

in Lake Erie Hypoxia Forecasting” 


U.S. Army Core of Engineers 

“Laboratory Experiments Determination of 

Bioturbation Coefficients in Contaminated 

Sediments: Phase 2” 

Gerald Matisoff/Peter McCall 

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U.S. Geological Survey 

“Soil and Sediment Testing” 


Ohio University/ Ohio Coal Development 

"CO2 and SO2 Co-Solubility and Reactions in 

Ohio’s Deep Brine Formations" 

Beverly Saylor 


"Diffusion in Lower Mantle Minerals" 

James Van Orman 

National Science Foundation – Equipment 

“Multi Anvil High Pressure Press” 



“Influence of Volatile Components on the Physical 

Properties of Magmas: Molecular Simulation of 

H2O and CO2 – Bearing Silicate Melts” 


National Aero and Space Administration 

“Experimental and Numerical Modeling Studies 

Applied to Understanding Isotopic Evolution in 

Early Solar System Materials” 



“Experimental Investigations of Chemical 

Interactions at the Core-Mantle Boundary” 



“EAGER: Collaborative Investigations of Isotopic 

Diffusion and Thermal Migration” 


A cold day for a field trip - is there any other kind? Professor Matisoff explains 

coastal processes to his Introductory Oceanography GEOL 115 class. 

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FACULTY ACTIVITIES, RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS 

Ralph Harvey 

One of our sayings in the Antarctic Search for 

Meteorites (ANSMET) program is that a successful 

ANSMET field team member has five distinct 

qualities: 

1) Incredible stamina 

2) A high tolerance for pain 

3) A poor memory 

4) ........And I forget the other three.......... 

This comes to mind because as I started writing this 

piece, I couldn't find anything to talk about; I was 

convinced that not much has happened over the past 

few years. THEN the memories started surfacing; 

clearly ANSMET quality #3 was in full force, as 

well as one of those healthy doses of repression, the 

kind that lets us get back on a horse that's thrown 

us. In a nutshell, it's been a very busy time I can 

barely keep track of. But let me try and fill you in 

anyway. 

The ANSMET program remains healthy and active, 

and we're about one year away from the program's 

40th anniversary. Through the last decade we've 

often had two parties in the field during each austral 

summer; we took a break from that for a few years 

recently, but for the the 2010-2011 field season 

we'll once again have two field seasons. Joining the 

ANSMET team here at Case is Dr. Jim Karner, a 

Mars meteorite researcher I've known since he was 

an undergrad at Bemidji State. Jim fills the "second 

science lead" role previously held by Dr. Nancy 

Chabot and Dr. Michael Rampey, and in the 

coming season he'll take over leadership of our 

bigger field party when I sneak out halfway through 

the season. The coming season will be a very active 

one, with our systematic searching team going to 

the Davis-Ward nunataks and our smaller 

reconnaissance team visiting a number of sites in 

the "western" parts of the East Antarctic plateau, 

from the eastern extremities of the LaPaz icefields 

all the way to the Omega nunataks (so named 

because it was the last rock seen for 2000 miles by 

an early traverse of the continent). As we have 

done on a number of previous expeditions, we plan 

to update a weblog on the ANSMET website, so if 

you're interested, please tune in! 

Speaking of Antarctica, graduate student Dejun Tan 

is (hopefully) 8-10 months away from finishing his 

Ph.D. In 2007-2008 he went with us to the Miller 

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Range, and on days when the weather was a bit 

windy for meteorite recovery he collected quartzrich 

rock we could use for cosmogenic exposure age 

dating. Over the past few years he's turned 

kilograms of quartz into tiny little vials rich in 10 Be 

and 26 Al produced by cosmic rays; and using the 

accelerator mass spectrometer at Purdue's PRIME 

lab we're turning that stuff into data that should 

reveal much about how the East Antarctic icesheet 

has waxed and waned over the past few million 

years. 

Mars still occupies a favored spot in my skies, and 

there've been a number of interesting projects going 

on. A few years ago I got very involved in the 

process of chosing a landing site for the next 

martian rover, the Mars Science Laboratory. Two 

of the sites I proposed made the top ten, but none 

made the top 5 (though the NE Syrtis site was 

considered for revival briefly before permanent 

elimination). Shortly thereafter MSL's launch was 

delayed two years (now slated for 2011) but my 

interest in these sites remain, and became the theme 

for two undergraduate research projects. First, 

Annie Griswold did a detailed examination of how 

lava flows in NE Syrtis interacted with the older 

terrain beneath; it suggests these younger lavas 

have buried much of the older terrain and suggests 

signs of hydrous minerals in the region are due to 

metamorphism rather than preservation of a pristine 

old surface. The following year, Drew Enns did 

some sophisticated geomorphological modeling of 

how craters can be breached by rivers on Mars. 

That may sound simplistic, but in fact it's hard to 

do on Mars- with limited tectonic uplift and burial 

of terrain, crater breaches seem very dependent on 

later impacts doing the "breaching". 

Other news- some of you probably recall that I had 

brought an old electron microprobe to the 

department about 15 years ago. While the lab had 

a few instances of activity, in general the old probe 

took way too much effort to keep running, and for 

the past 5 years or so I've let it lie fallow. Roll the 

clock forward a bit, and Cleveland's Energizer 

company contacted me to see if I was interested in 

buying their lightly-used microprobe. To make a 

long story short, Energizer ended up donating the 

instrument to the College and the College in turn is 

covering the costs of disassembling the microprobe 

and reassembling it in our Department. Jim Van 

Orman and I are spearheading the effort to create a 

more functional lab around this new probe, 

complete with technician. It will probably take us a 

few years to get all our ducks in order but I have a 

lot of confidence in the eventual creation of this 

new lab. 

On a personal note, my family has grown yet 

again- last summer my wife and two kids (Tucker, 

now 12, and Eli, now 8) went to China to pick up 

our adopted daughter Scout. Scout is now twoand-a-half 

and is princess-perfect at keeping her 

parents and older brothers hopping. Her first twoword 

sentence was "Move Butt", and that gives 

you an idea of who's now in charge at my house. 

Stay in touch! Like all the other faculty I would 

love to hear how life is treating you nowadays. 

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It has been an exciting and enjoyable past two 

years. We’ve been working with MESSENGER 

data, modeling the Moon and sundry other things in 

the Planetary Geodynamics Lab. Andreas Ritzer 

saw his first paper published in Icarus in 2009, 

defended in June 2010 and is now a postdoc at the 

University of British Columbia. Jeff Balcerski 

completed his first two years and candidacy exams 

in our graduate program. We also had Marinda 

Mitchell (B.A. 2010), an undergraduate Physics 

student join us in the lab working on analyzing 

MESSENGER laser altimetry data. Finally, in the 

Spring of 2009 I had the privilege of earning tenure 

and being promoted to Associate Professor. 

Research 

Mercury and the MESSENGER mission are 

continuing to drive much of what we are doing now. 

On October 6, 2008 and September 29, 2009 we had 

our second and third flybys of Mercury. Like the 

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first the second was a complete success and the 

third perfectly set the spacecraft up for entering 

orbit on March 18, 2011, though an anomaly 

prevented collection of all the scientific data that 

were planned for the encounter. We know have 

views of over 95% of the planet and collected 

another fantastic data set that is already starting to 

change our understanding of the planet. Indeed, we 

just completed and a special issue of the journal 

Icarus on the first two flybys of Mercury by 

MESSENGER that I co-edited with David Blewett 

and Haje Korth of the Johns Hopkins Applied 

Physics Lab. We have been focusing primarily on 

the laser altimeter and gravity data to date and 

trying to understand what they are telling us about 

both tectonics at the surface and the structure of the 

interior of the planet. Furthermore, we are heavily 

engaged in preparing for the orbital phase of the 

mission. Recent graduate Andreas Ritzer (Ph.D. 

2010) developed new techniques for analyzing the 

orbital radio science data to elucidate greater detail 

in the gravity data than was originally planned. In 

his dissertation Andreas also looked at the laser 

altimeter data to constrain the structure of several 

large thrust faults on Mercury. We are also 

continuing to expand our ideas on how shallow, 

solid iron precipitation (iron snow) in planetary 

cores may drive and modify magnetic field 

generation. We continue to collaborate with Sabine 

Stanley (U. Toronto) and her student Ryan Vilim on 

models of dynamo action in an iron snow regime 

and their potential implications for Mercury and 

Ganymede and have a manuscript in press. 

Moon The Moon, and especially its large impact 

basins and mare are becoming a new and greater 

focus in the lab. In collaboration with Andrew 

Dombard (UI-Chicago, and CWRU adjunct) we 

have a project aimed at understanding how the 

largest impact basins have evolved through time. 

Our main focus is on understanding how localized 

heat sources, such as the heat deposited during 

major impacts, affect their evolution. Ph.D. 

candidate Jeff Balcerski is involved in this project 

and presented the first findings at the Lunar and 

Planetary Science Conference in March 2010.

Teaching 

We had an active and engaged group of students 

graduate this past couple of years, all of whom took 

a turn through one or both of the upper level courses 

I taught. In Fall 2009 I had a good group of 

undergraduate and graduate students in the GEOL 

330/430 Geophysical Field Methods class – even 

better, we had decent weather for most of our field 

experiments. The GEOL 119 Geology Laboratory 

has fortunately had active groups of students. In the 

Spring 2009 semester I taught GEOL 315/415 

Structural Geology and Geodynamics course, 

fortunately with the help of Andreas Ritzer for a 

couple of weeks as we welcomed our second child, 

Abigail, to the family. Fall 2009 saw the largest 

group of students I have had in the GEOL 101 The 

Earth and Planets, which made for a lively and 

engaging course. Finally, in Spring 2010 I added a 

section to our GEOL 390 Introduction to Geological 

Research for our graduate students to give them a 

start on proposal writing and hypothesis formulation 

– it was a good experiment and the students made 

good progress. 

Service 

In the past two years I have continued contributing 

to the broader aims of the Department and 

University through participation in a typical slate of 

committees, etc. Most notable are the Advisory 

Committee on Research Computing that is guiding 

the development of major computing resources on 

Campus and the Faculty Search Committee last 

year. Outside the Department, I co-edited a special 

issue of Icarus on MESSENGER's flybys of 

Mercury. I also had the privilege of being a 

member of the Inner Planets Panel serving the 

National Research Council Solar System 2013 – 

Planetary Science Decadal Survey. This work 

focused on collecting community insight and 

developing recommendations for priorities for 

NASA, NSF, and Congress with respect to 

exploration of the Solar System over the next 

decade. This was easily the most engaging, 

educational and consuming of the committees on 

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which I have served – going so far as guiding the 

science goals and implementation of a possible 

future mission to the surface of Mercury. 

Recent Publications and Selected Abstracts (* = 

student) 

*Vilim, R., S. Stanley, S. A. Hauck, II, Iron snow 

zones as a mechanism for generating Mercury’s 

weak observed magnetic field, Journal of 

Geophysical Research, in press. 

Zuber, M. T., L. G. J. Montesi, G. T. Farmer, S. A. 

Hauck, II, *J. A. Ritzer, R. J. Phillips, S. C. 

Solomon, D. E. Smith, M. J. Talpe, J. W. Head III, 

G. A. Neumann, T. R. Watters, C. L. Johnson, 

Lithospheric strain accommodation on Mercury 

from altimetric profiles of ridges and lobate scarps 

measured during MESSENGER flybys 1 and 2, 

Icarus, in press. 

Smith., D. E. M.T. Zuber, R. J. Phillips, S. C. 

Solomon, G. A. Neumann, F. J. Lemoine, S. J. 

Peale, J. Margot, M. H. Torrence, M. J. Talpe, J. W. 

Head, S. A. Hauck, C. L. Johnson, M. E. Perry, O. 

S. Barnouin-Jha, R. L. McNutt, J. Oberst, The 

equatorial shape and gravity field of Mercury from 

MESSENGER flybys 1 and 2, Icarus, in press. 

*Ritzer, J. A., and S. A. Hauck, II, Lithospheric 

structure and tectonics at Isidis Planitia, Mars, 

Icarus, 201, 528-539, 2009. 

Watters, T.R., S.C. Solomon, M.S. Robinson, J.W. 

Head, S.L. Andre, S. A. Hauck, II, and S.L. 

Murchie, The tectonics of Mercury: The view after 

MESSENGER's first flyby, Earth and Planetary 

Science Letters, 285, 283-296, 2009. 

*Balcerski, J. A., S. A. Hauck, II, A. J. Dombard, 

E. P. Turtle, The influence of local thermal 

anomalies on large impact basin relaxation, 41st 

Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, The 

Woodlands, TX, 2535 (cdrom), 2010.

*Ritzer, J. A., S. A. Hauck, II, O. S. Barnouin, S. 

C. Solomon, T. R. Watters, Mechanical Structure of 

Mercury's lithosphere from MESSENGER 

observations of lobate scarps, 41st Lunar and 

Planetary Science Conference, The Woodlands, TX, 

2122 (cdrom), 2010. 

Hauck, S. A., II, S. C. Solomon, S. J. Peale, J.-L. 

Margot, R. J. Phillips, D. E. Smith, M. T. Zuber, 

Constraints on the internal structure of Mercury 

after three MESSENGER flybys, 41st Lunar and 

Planetary Science Conference, The Woodlands, TX, 

2107 (cdrom), 2010. 

Barnouin, O. S., M. T. Zuber, J. Oberst, F. Pruesker, 

D. E. Smith, G. A. Neumann, S. C. Solomon, S. A. 

Hauck, R. J. Phillips, J. W. Head III, L. M. 

Prockter, M. S. Robinson, The morphology of 

impact craters on Mercury: Results from the 

MESSENGER flybys, 41st Lunar and Planetary 

Science Conference, The Woodlands, TX, 1243 

(cdrom), 2010. 

Phillips, R. J., M. T. Zuber, D. E. Smith, S. C. 

Solomon, G. A. Neumann, F. G. Lemoine, S. J. 

Peale, J. Margot, C. L. Johnson, S. A. Hauck, T. R. 

Watters, G. T. Farmer, M. E. Perry, AGU Fall 

Meeting, P23D-02 (cdrom), December 2009. 

*Vilim, R., S. Stanley, S. A. Hauck, Dynamo 

models incorporating iron “snow zones” consistent 

with Mercury’s weak magnetic field, AGU Fall 

Meeting, San Francisco, CA, P31C-1264 (cdrom), 

December 2009. 

Stofan, E. R., S. J. Mackwell, B. A. Cohen, M. S. 

Gilmore, L. S. Glaze, D. H. Grinspoon, S. A. 

Hauck, A. Howard, C. R. Shearer, D. Stetson, E. 

M. Stolper, A. H. Treiman, Mercury, Venus, and the 

Moon: The Next Decade, Fall AGU Meeting, San 

Francisco, CA, P51H-01 (cdrom), December 2009. 

Solomon, S. C., A. M. Freed, S. A. Hauck, II, J. W. 

Head, L. Kerber, R. J. Phillips, M. S. Robinson, T. 

R. Watters, M. T. Zuber, The geophysical evolution 

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of Mercury, GSA Annual Meeting, 197-2 (cdrom), 

October 2009.*Vilim, R., S. Stanley, and S. Hauck, 

Dynamo models incorporating iron “snow zones” 

consistent with Mercury’s weak observed magnetic 

field, Spring AGU Meeting, Montreal, Canada, 

DI71A-02 (cdrom), May 2009. 

Solomon, S. C., A. M. Freed, S. A. Hauck, II, J. W. 

Head, III, L. Kerber, R. J. Phillips, M. S. Robinson, 

T. R. Watters, and Maria T. Zuber, 

MESSENGER’S newly global perspective on 

Mercury: Some implications for interior evolution, 

40 th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, 

League City, TX, 1750 (cdrom), 2009. 

Zuber, M.T., G. T. Farmer, S. A. Hauck, II, *J. A. 

Ritzer, R. J. Phillips, S. C. Solomon, D. E. Smith, J. 

W. Head, III, G. A. Neumann, M. S. Robinson, T. 

R. Watters, C. L. Johnson, J. Oberst, O. Barnouin- 

Jha, R.L McNutt, Jr., Observations of ridges and 

lobate scarps on Mercury from MESSENGER 

altimetry and imaging and implications for 

lithospheric strain, 40 th Lunar and Planetary 

Science Conference, League City, TX, 1813 

(cdrom), 2009. 

Hauck, S.A., II, Connecting spacecraft 

observations to planetary evolution, Fall AGU 

Meeting, San Francisco, CA, P44C-04 (cdrom), 

December 2008. 

*Ritzer, J. A., S. A. Hauck, II, C.L. Johnson, R. J. 

Phillips, and M.T. Zuber, Prospects for the 

Representation of Geophysical Fields from 

MESSENGER Observations of Mercury Using 

Harmonic Radial Bases, Fall AGU Meeting, San 

Francisco, CA, U21A-0010 (cdrom), December 

2008. 

Mohit, P.S., R.J. Phillips, C.L. Johnson, S.A. 

Hauck, M.T. Zuber, G. A. Neumann, and S.C. 

Solomon, Lateral viscosity variations and the 

contractional history of Mercury, Fall AGU 

Meeting, San Francisco, CA, U21C-0016 (cdrom), 

December 2008.


This has been a transitional time in my research in 

which I have completed a few smaller projects and 

am about to start on a couple, larger new ones. I 

continued my work on sediment-oxygen demand in 

Lake Erie, had a project on determining the 

depositional flux of nutrients in Lake Erie, finished 

a project on Chernobyl fallout in soils in Poland and 

Sweden, and completed my work with Peter McCall 

on bioturbation by marine macrobenthos. I started 

a new project with Peter McCall on the relationship 

between the functional ecology of benthos and 

contaminant uptake in marine benthos. We have a 

new graduate student, Eliza Kaltenberg who will be 

working on that project - more details to follow next 

year. I also will be starting a new Great Lakes 

Restoration Initiative project next year. 

Research 

Lake Erie Hypoxia 

The project, funded by Ohio Sea Grant and the Lake 

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Erie Protection Fund, was to improve estimates of 

sediment oxygen demand (SOD). I last reported on 

this project in the previous 2007-2008 Annual 

Report. I worked with Keely Lavelle and Mimi 

Toohey, both Hathaway Brown students that I am 

mentoring, and Abigail Small, a Case Chemical 

Engineering major for the computer simulations. 

Abby took Keely's and Mimi's data and other data 

from the literature and compiled a sediment pore 

water and solids concentrations data set that she 

used to calibrate the biogeochemical reaction 

network simulator (BRNS) model and then 

modified the model to calculate the SOD. Abby 

solved the problem by incorporating two different 

pools of organic matter of different reactivities (one 

highly reactive representing fresh organic matter 

and one more refractory representing older organic 

matter), adding in secondary and equilibrium 

reactions, and calculating SOD as the depth 

integrated sum of reactions that consumed oxygen. 

Abby also conducted one additional set of 

simulations to evaluate the significance of 

bioirrigation on SOD and derived results that 

supports previous findings that macrobenthos 

increase SOD. 

Lake Erie Nearshore/Offshore Nutrient Fluxes 

This was a joint project with scientists (all 

biologists, except me) from Buffalo State 

University, Ohio State University, Heidelberg 

University, and Kent State Unviersity and funded 

by the EPA Great Lakes National Program Office. 

The problem is that although the nutrient abatement 

strategies implemented in the Lake Erie watershed 

have reduced nutrient inputs to target levels (i.e., 

~10,000 tons/yr), there are still nutrient-related 

issues. Early modeling efforts used to establish 

target nutrient load levels assumed the lake would 

mix like a large beaker where no part of the system 

had overriding control over other parts of the 

system. One major difference between early model 

representations of lake behavior and current 

conditions has been the influx of dreissenid mussels 

to the nearshore environment. The arrival and

eventual establishment of dreissenid mussels has led 

to huge alterations in the ecology of Lake Erie. It 

has been proposed that the success of dreissenid 

mussels in the nearshore environment has resulted 

in a cascade of effects which potentially make the 

nearshore zone overly significant in controlling 

whole lake dynamics (i.e., the nearshore shunt). If 

true, then early models used to establish lake-wide 

nutrient targets will be invalid. The purpose of this 

research project was to identify the major 

phosphorus pools in the nearshore and in the 

offshore regions of the Central and Eastern Basins 

of Lake Erie. My piece of the project, which 

became the Senior Project for Nicole Pilasky, was 

to conduct sediment coring and sediment trap 

deployment to determine the depositional fluxes of 

phosphorus and nitrogen along three near-shore to 

off-shore transects and ascertain if the fluxes have 

been increasing in recent years, to determine if the 

fluxes are greater in the nearshore compared to the 

offshore, and to compare the depositional fluxes of 

phosphorus and nitrogen in the eastern, central and 

western basins. We had a lot of trouble with the 

field work in this project. Many of the sediment 

traps were lost because of the rough weather 

conditions. Further, we were not able to obtain 

cores suitable for dating at some of the sites because 

the bottom was either clean sand or hard bottom. 

Still, Nicole graduated, so she’s happy! 

Sediment Bioturbation 

Peter McCall and I completed a 3-year project with 

the Army Corps of Engineers to conduct 

bioturbation experiments with common marine 

macrobenthos. The past two years we conducted 

experiments with Heteromastus, a head-down 

deposit feeding polychaete. Two years ago 

undergraduate student Rita Cabral conducted a 

series of experiments using artificial cores, and 

Laura Mulvey conducted a series of experiments 

using natural bottom sediments collected from the 

sites where we collected the worms. This year we 

ran another set of natural bottom sediments for an 

extended time period. Undergraduate student, Chris 

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Carlson, spent this past summer processing all of 

the data from all three sets of experiments, which, 

somehow, Peter and I will need to condense into a 

paper during this next academic year. 

An interesting outcome from the undergraduate 

Senior Projects (especially Nicole's, Rita's and 

Laura's described above) has been that I have 

discovered that my current data processing methods 

were either cumbersome or subject to too much 

student error. Certainly Rita and Laura can attest to 

the cumbersome nature of their data sets. I was 

using an old FORTRAN program that was written 

by a former PhD student, Xiaosong Wang (1995). 

While it worked, one had to manually enter all the 

data from our gamma scanner - Xiaosong never 

wrote a code to take the scanner data directly into 

the curve fitting program. So Rita and Laura had to 

enter thousands (yes, thousands!!) of data points 

one at a time. After watching them struggle I 

decided to re-write the code to take the data files 

directly off the gamma scanner and just paste them 

into another program. After some thought I ended 

up using Excel and wrote the code as a Visual Basic 

macro. It has worked out beautifully. Most 

students already know how to use Excel, I actually 

improved the model fitting code over that which 

Xiaosong wrote (sorry Xiaosong!), and Excel 

automatically graphs the results - no second step to 

graph it as required previously. It worked so well 

that I had Chris Carlson rerun all of Rita's and 

Laura's data and do the new experiments. And he 

was able to do it in half the time we expected. So, 

buoyed by this great success I also wrote code to 

calculate the sedimentation rate from 210 Pb and 

137 Cs activity profiles in sediment cores that Nicole 

needed to calculate sediment and nutrient fluxes. 

Nicole had used a commercial program for 210 Pb 

that also required entering the data manually one 

point at a time. I got carried away and the program 

now calculates the sedimentation rate using the CIC 

and CRS models for 210 Pb with two different 

porosity models and by using a sediment

ioturbation model for 210 Pb and for 137 Cs. So not 

only do I get the sedimentation rates, I also get the 

conducting some of the experiments. Eliza also 

plans to develop new optode techniques for 

monitoring contaminant concentrations and/or 

contaminant bioavailability of sediments. 

Hopefully we'll have much more to report next year. 

Soil Bioturbation by Earthworms 

I am mentoring another Hathaway Brown student, 

Mimi Toohey, and have started her on a soil 

bioturbation experiment. Mimi is part of a 

mentoring program described by Patty Kelly Hunt 

(1973) in her write-up in our 2006-2007 Annual 

Report. Patty reports that this type of early 

mentoring of girls leads to a significant increase in 

their ultimately choosing to major in one of the 

STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) 

disciplines in college. Patty has been very 

successful in this program and has received several 

awards. There are quite a few CWRU faculty that 

she has matched as mentors for her Hathaway 

Brown students. 

Students conduct a resistivity profile in Hydrogeology. 

bioturbation mixing rate and depth. Pretty cool. 

Sorry Nicole! 

Peter and I have a new project, also funded with the 

Army Corps of Engineers (through SERDP) to 

improve the accuracy of contaminant exposure 

assessments in sediments by including explicit 

consideration of the functional ecology of benthic 

organisms and how they interact with sediment 

particles, porewater, and overlying water. We have 

a new graduate student, Eliza Kaltenberg, on that 

project. She spent this past summer at the USACE 

Waterways Experimental Station in Vicksburg, MS 

Most people don't know that it was Darwin who 

first described bioturbation by studying earthworms. 

His book, "The Formation of Vegetable Mould 

Through the Action of Worms, With Observations 

on Their Habits, published in 1881", sold even 

better than "On the Origin of Species" during his 

lifetime. It is available free by download from the 

net, and is a quick and entertaining read - check it 

out! So Mimi and I are conducting bioturbation 

experiments in soils, similar to the ones described 

above for sediments. So far we have tried Eisenia 

hortensis, the European Nightcrawler. Planned are 

additional experiments with it and with Lumbricus 

terrestris, the Canadian Nightcrawler and with the 

Alabama Jumper (Amynthas gracilus). Don't you 

just love the common names for these worms? 

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Teaching 

Since we teach all of our upper level classes on an 

every-other-year basis, over the last two years I 

have taught a complete cycle of my courses: 

Aquatic Chemistry, Global Environmental 

Problems, Introduction to Oceanography (twice), 

Chemistry of Natural Waters, and Hydrogeology. 

What's new is that one time (summer 2009) I taught 

the Introduction to Oceanography in the summer 

semester instead of in the spring semester. The 

field trip is definitely more pleasant in the summer! 

In addition, we were fortunate enough to have the 

EPA monitoring ship R/V Lake Guardian dock in 

town during the course, so I called the Captain and 

he gave the class a tour of the ship! Also new was 

that I taught the Global Environmental Problems 

class for the first time. This is a course that satisfies 

an Environmental Studies requirement, so we tend 

to get different students in that class. 

was supposed to meet for about 6 months and ended 

up meeting for about 2 1/2 years, submitted its final 

recommendations this past spring. There was a lot 

of interest in the Task Force's work, so I think that 

led the OEPA to proceed very cautiously and 

slowed things down a bit. 

Publications 

Smith, D.A. and G. Matisoff 2008. Sediment 

oxygen demand in the central basin of Lake 

Erie. J. Great Lakes Res. 34: 731-744. 

Edwards, W.J., F. Soster, G. Matisoff, and D.W. 

Schloesser 2009. The effect of mayfly 

(Hexagenia spp.) burrowing activity on 

sediment oxygen demand in western Lake 

Erie. J. Great Lakes Res. 35: 507-516. 

Service 

Over the past couple of years I've been very busy in 

service obligations. I participated in several 

admissions programs (Get Connected, Saturday 

Sampler, Experience Case), emails, department 

visits, and phone calls and tried to attract majors at 

the Major/Minor Fair for existing freshmen. I 

served on the Chair Council. I was again the 

Department's academic advisor for all our geology 

majors. I served on the College of Arts and 

Sciences Promotion and Tenure Committee. I again 

ran a Science Olympiad activity; one year the theme 

was plate tectonics and the following year it was 

Earthquakes and Volcanoes. I enticed some of our 

undergraduate students to assist me (Maya Alunkal, 

Annie Griswold, and Emily Haines in 2009; and the 

following year Maya and Emily helped again). 

Professionally, I was Chair of the Publications 

Committee for IAGLR. I also served on the Ohio 

Lake Erie Phosphorus Task Force. Our ad hoc 

group, which was administered by the Ohio EPA, 

Hathaway Brown school student Mimi Toohey 

collects a soil sample for her earthworm experiments. 

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Peter L. McCall 

eventually comprise about 90% or more of the benthic 

biomass. Armed with a better dataset and methods of 

data analysis, we have shown that indeed there have 

been large and persistent declines in benthic 

components dependent on organically rich muds that 

are most likely due to the zebra mussel invasion. 

These changes are especially evident in the nearshore 

mud habitat closest to the concentration of zebra 

mussels. Next year will mark the 30 year anniversary 

of our work together, and we’ll be out on the water 

again collecting more benthos. Lake Erie is subject to 

frequent biotic invasions, we expect more changes, 

and these little invertebrates and the mud they inhabit 

are sensitive monitors of ecological change. 

Peter McCall (left) and Rob Ross (right) at Ross’ Museum of the 

Earth in Ithaca, New York, after a day on Devonian outcrops. 

I have this year completed an examination of changes 

in the invertebrate populations that live in the mud 

bottom (that’s the geology part) of lake Erie during an 

important 20 year period. We call such organisms 

benthos. The work is a collaboration with former 

student, now colleague, Dr. Fred Soster (CWUW 

PhD, ‘84). While it seems not very long ago to me, 

we began taking benthos samples in Western Lake 

Erie ‘way back’ in 1981 as part of a grant that funded 

Fred’s thesis research. Fred was both smart and 

diligent, and he periodically visited a number of 

western stations before, during , and after the nowfamous 

zebra mussel invasion of North America that 

reached lake Erie in 1986. Some previous studies 

suggested little change in Lake Erie benthos due to 

invading mussels, and others had reported a positive 

effect in some other habitats: mussels increased the 

abundance of other fauna. We thought that this was 

most unlikely in the western basin, where the ring of 

zebra mussels on the shallow rocky bottom filtered the 

water and grew on suspended sediment formerly 

destined for deposition on the mud bottom to 

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These and other benthos burrow and feed in the soft 

sediment they inhabit, and these activities both affect 

the physical and chemical properties of the sediment 

and transport pollutants between overlying water and 

bottom sediment. Prof. Matisoff and I continue our 

long term research program on these mixing 

processes, called bioturbation. We have moved in the 

past few years to the study of the marine organisms 

under the auspices of the Army Corps of Engineers, 

who are interested in the transport of materials 

through the sediment caps they put on submarine 

dredge spoils . Both Gerry and I began our careers on 

coastal marine sediments, so it’s déjà vu all over again 

for us. We have characterized the mixing of a two 

important marine species in our mid-continent 

laboratory using our gamma scan system, which is the 

world’s only currently operating device that nondestructively 

and continually monitors sedimentattached 

radiotracers in animal-sediment aquaria, and 

we’ll add to the menagerie of mixers over time. We 

have a new graduate student from Poland, Eliza 

Kaltenberg, who is working on clever new fluorescent 

tracer technologies for use in pore waters associated 

with sand and mud bottoms. 

I continue to teach the story of earth rocks, oceans, 

atmospheres, and life over time, which many of you 

will recognize as Historical Geology, to a steady 

audience. Probably I should change the name to

something more descriptive and add some 

combination of ‘System’ ,‘Sustainable’, and ‘Global’ 

to the title to attract more attention. This last summer I 

reprised the three week field course cum introduction 

to geology first offered in 2008. Eight students, nonmajors 

all, and I visited sites in Ohio, New York 

(where Dr. Robb Ross, B.A. ‘89, gave us a day of his 

expertise on the Devonian Catskill delta), and 

Maryland over a couple of weeks of tent camping, 

before ending for a week in a cabin/house in Smoke 

Hole, Pendleton County, West Virgina. Former 

students and faculty will recognize the latter as the 

former locus of our Spring field trip. It was and is a 

great place to do Appalachian geology, but against our 

advice the University migrated the start of spring 

break faster and earlier than global warming has 

migrated spring temperatures, and now West Virginia 

is too snow-covered for field mapping over the 

academic break. As our more recent geology students 

will know, Dr. Saylor has solved the problem by 

flying students to Las Vegas and mapping in 

DeathValley! 

I continue to direct our undergraduate 

multidisciplinary program in Environmental Studies 

and teach a number of courses — the introductory 

course, a law course, and a department seminar— in 

that Program. It is still only available as a second 

major, but already has more majors than the BA 

program in Geological Sciences. They end up taking 

some geology, which is good, but there is still plenty 

of room at the inn here, and lots of opportunity for 

undergraduate interaction and research collaboration 

with our faculty, so tell your sons and daughters and 

younger acquaintances. 

Figure 1. (a) Location of the study area and the four sampling stations. (b-c, e-f) 

Temporal trends 1981-2004 in species composition of benthos using 2 nd stage 

multidimensional scaling. Arrows connect temporally adjacent samples. Offshore 

station 4 shows little trend compared to inshore stations. (d) Comparison of the 

temporal trend of stations with one another via Spearman rank correlations of 

their respective similarity matrices. 

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Beverly Z. Saylor 

Joshua Angelini completed his Master’s degree with 

a thesis entitled “Tephrostratigraphy in the 

Woranso-Mille study 

are in the Afar region 

of Ethiopia”. His 

work documented 

correlation of 

volcanic tephra layers 

across the field area, 

as well as , for some 

layers, correlation to 

volcanic layers in 

Kenya and in a deep 

sea core in the Gulf of 

Aden. These volcanic 

eruptions were 

comparable in scale 

to eruptions from the 

caldera beneath 

Yellowstone. Dr 

Mulugeta Alene, a 

collaborator on the Woranso Mille project will be 

visiting the department for six months, starting in 

January 2011, as a Fullbright Senior Research 

Scholar. He is going to be conducting petrographic 

studies and geochemical analyses on basalt samples 

from the Woranso Mille area in an effort to refine 

the stratigraphy and relate the volcanic history to 

the tectonic evolution of the area. 

Ruth Adler, a Ph.D student working with me, has 

been making good progress on CO 2 - and SO 2 -CO 2 

co-solubility experiments and models, with a focus 

on solubility in high ionic strength, multicomponent 

brines. These solubility studies are important for 

carbon capture and storage because the solubility 

influences how quickly and how much injected CO 2 

becomes gravitationally stable as an aqueous 

solution that is more dense than native brine. It also 

influences reactions with the minerals and cements 

plugging wells and faults. These reactions can trap 

CO 2 as a solid, but they also can contribute to 

leakage. The amount of mixed-in O 2 and SO 2 will 

depend on the process by which CO 2 is separated 

from the power plant emission stream and, of 

course, the regulations that are developed for carbon 

capture and storage. 

Once again we had 

a field methods 

course in and 

around Death 

Valley. Most years I 

warn the students to 

be prepared for 

weather ranging 

from sub-freezing 

with high winds and 

snow to baking hot, 

with temperatures 

above 100 degrees. 

This year, to my 

regret, I omitted the 

warnings about 

snow. See the 

picture of camp to see the result. On the other hand, 

I repeatedly promised the students the loss of half a 

day to buying and installing a new tire, and so, for 

the first time, we made it through the trip with no 

flats. 

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fractionation of isotopes along a temperature 

gradient. Jian Han is just getting started on his PhD 

research and has begun experiments to determine 

the influence of oxygen on trace element 

partitioning in iron alloys. 

Over the last year the research in my group has 

focused mainly on the chemical evolution of 

planetary cores, the fundamental controls on 

diffusion in minerals, and the properties of magmas 

in the deep Earth. Katherine Crispin is nearing the 

end of her PhD, and this year published an 

important paper showing for the first time that the 

crystal field effect has a strong influence on the 

chemical diffusivities of transition metals in 

minerals. Dr. Leslie Hayden has produced two 

large and beautiful data sets on the partitioning of 

trace elements in complex multi-component iron 

alloy systems relevant to planetary cores. Dr. 

Gaurav Goel has been studying the isotope effect on 

diffusion in silicate melts using molecular dynamics 

simulations, and has begun a novel set of 

simulations to study the thermal conductivity of 

magmas under deep Earth conditions, and the 

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Recently I have become more involved in 

COMPRES, an NSF-sponsored consortium that 

supports mineral physics research in the Earth 

sciences. This year I was elected to a term as vicechair 

of the Executive Committee, and am preparing 

to begin a tour as Distinguished Lecturer that will 

take me to seven colleges and universities across the 

country. 

I just finished co-editing an advanced textbook, 

“Timescales of Magmatic Processes: From Core to 

Atmosphere.” It is on schedule to be published by 

Wiley-Blackwell later this year. 

Recent Peer-Reviewed Publications 

Van Orman J.A., Crispin K.L. (2010) Diffusion in 

Oxides. Reviews in Mineralogy and 

Geochemistry, in press. 

Van Orman J.A., Saal A.E. (2010) Diffusion 

constraints on rates of melt production in the 

mantle. Chapter in “Timescales of Magmatic 

Processes: From Core to Atmosphere”, A. 

Dosseto, S. Turner, J.A. Van Orman, Eds., in 

press. 

Zhang L., Van Orman J.A., Lacks D.J. (2010) 

Molecular dynamics investigation of MgO-CaO- 

SiO 2 liquids: Influence of pressure and 

composition on density and transport properties. 

Chemical Geology 275, 50-57. 

Van Orman J.A. (2010) Our planet’s internal 

weakness. Nature 465, 432-433. 

Crispin K.L., Van Orman J.A. (2010) Influence of 

the crystal field effect on chemical transport in 

Earth’s mantle: Cr 3+ and Ga 3+ diffusion in

periclase. Physics of the Earth and Planetary 

Interiors 180, 159-171. 

Zhang L., Van Orman J.A., Lacks D.J. (2009) The 

influence of atomic size and charge of dissolved 

species on the diffusivity and viscosity of silicate 

melts. American Mineralogist 94, 1735-1738. 

Zhang L., Lacks D.J., Van Orman J.A. (2009) 

Diffusivity calculation on noble gas silica systems 

using first principles molecular simulations. 

Molecular Simulation 35, 942-952. 

Van Orman J.A., Saal A.E. (2009) Influence of 

crustal cumulates on 210 Pb disequilibria in basalts. 

Earth and Planetary Science Letters 284, 284- 

291. 

in periclase. Physics of the Earth and Planetary 

Interiors 172, 34-42. 

Recent Invited Talks 

“Experimental and Theoretical Constraints on the 

Chemical Evolution of the Outer Core”, Keynote 

Talk, Goldschmidt Conference, Knoxville, TN, 

Jun. 18, 2010 

“Chemical Evolution of the Outer Core: Insights 

from High-Pressure Experiments”, SEDI 

conference, Santa Barbara, CA, Jul. 21, 2010 

Touboul M., Kleine T., Bourdon B., Van Orman 

J.A., Maden C., Zipfel J. (2009) Hf-W 

thermochronometry: II. Accretion and thermal 

history of the acapulcoite-lodranite parent body. 

Earth and Planetary Science Letters 284, 168- 

178. 

Goodrich C.A., Fioretti A.M., Van Orman J. (2009) 

Petrogenesis of augite-bearing ureilites Hughes 

009 and FRO 90054/93008 inferred from melt 

inclusions in olivine, augite and orthopyroxene. 

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 73, 3055- 

3076. 

Zhang L., Van Orman J.A., Lacks D.J. (2009) 

Effective radii of noble gas atoms in silicates from 

first principles molecular simulation. American 

Mineralogist 94, 600-608. 

Bourdon B., Van Orman J.A. (2009) Melting of 

enriched mantle beneath Pitcairn seamounts: 

Unusual U-Th-Ra systematics provide insights 

into melt extraction processes. Earth and 

Planetary Science Letters 277, 474-481. 

Van Orman J.A., Li C., Crispin K.L. (2009) 

Aluminum diffusion and Al-vacancy association 

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Peter J. Whiting 

land use change. It is too expensive to rebuild all 

culverts and storm sewers to accommodate expected 

larger flows, so how can we reduce runoff? Can we 

develop arrays of instrumentation to help us validate 

key predictions of flow through drainage basins? 

TEACHING AND ADMINISTRATIVE ROLES 

I remain an Associate Dean in the College or Arts 

and Sciences and Director of SAGES. In fall 2009, I 

taught Geomorphology and as is traditional we had 

three main projects – glaciation near Mono Lake, 

hillslope stability in northern California, and 

channel restoration in the Chagrin. I won’t be 

teaching in 2010-11 and I hope to get some papers 

out. 

RESEARCH 

I am trying to get various papers out from work 

over the past few years. 

My colleagues and I are hoping to begin work on 

the societally very relevant question of how to adapt 

our runoff handling infrastructure to climate and 

PUBLICATIONS 

Casas, M.A., S.N. Lane, R.J. Hardy, G. Benito, and 

P.J. Whiting, 2010, Reconstruction of subgrid scale 

topographic variability and its effect upon the 

spatial structure of three dimensional river flow: 

Water Resources Research, 

doi:10.1029/2009WR007756. 

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RESEARCH STAFF 


Research 

My research interests follow two main lines: the 

development of computer models and methodologies 

for evaluating water movement, soil erosion, and 

point and nonpoint pollution loads at the watershed 

level and the application of remote sensing and 

computer models to better understand and predict 

hydrological processes. 

For what regards watershed hydrology, erosion 

processes, and pollution load evaluation, I have been 

working with Dr. Thomas Croley at Great Lakes 

Environmental Research Laboratory (GLERL) and 

Dr. Chansheng He at Western Michigan University 

(WMU) to improve the hydrology component of 

GLERL’s Distributed Large Basin Runoff Model 

(DLBRM) and to apply it to 34 watersheds in the 

Great Lakes basin and to the Heihe river basin in 

China. I am currently working on including sediment 

and nutrient generation and transport in the DLBRM, 

which will be used as part of a study funded by 

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NOAA-SARP for preparing Great Lakes coastal 

communities to Climate Change ($600K for 2008- 

2011). Also, I am a leading PI for the watershed 

assessment component in NOAA’s study of multiple 

stressors in Saginaw Bay ($3.4M for 2007-2011), a 

work that has already produced five publications and 

several presentations. For this project I also helped to 

design the river water quality sampling campaign and 

to conduct the outreach workshops. 

As part of my research effort in the general hydrology 

and remote sensing field, I am developing a thorough 

evaluation of the Net Basin Supply components for 

the International Joint Commission’s International 

Upper Great Lakes Studies (IUGLS), which includes 

the first assessment of uncertainty in runoff estimates 

used in the Great Lakes Net Basin Supply timeseries, 

the use of National Centers for Environmental 

Prediction (NCEP)’s Multisensor Precipitation 

Estimates (MPE) for estimating over-lake 

precipitation, and comparison of lake evaporation 

models with the first Eddy Covariance measurements 

of Lake Superior evaporation, and the combination of 

these results in a Monte Carlo analysis of the overall 

NBS uncertainty. My future research will build on 

the work I described earlier. On the water quality 

component, I am interested on improving the 

DLBRM's hydrology component, by increasing the 

detail of the interception, infiltration, and 

evapotranspiration processes, and on expanding the 

water quality component, by refining the description 

of the interaction between plants and fertilizers. In 

this respect, CWRU received an initial grant from 

NOAA GLERL to continue working on the DLBRM 

and applying it to other watersheds. On the 

hydrological side of my future research, I plan to 

collaborate with GLERL scientists to update the 

watershed runoff component of GLERL's Advanced 

Hydrologic Prediction System from a lumped 

technology to a distributed technology based on the 

DLBRM and in improving the interaction between 

this and high resolution atmospheric models for long 

and medium term hydrologic forecasting. Further, I 

plan to promote the use of new sensors (conventional 

rain gages in islands and buoys; underwater acoustic 

rain gages; satellite remote sensing; meteorological

adars) and techniques for better estimating 

hydrological processes in the Great Lakes and for 

better evaluating how they would be affected by 

climate change. 

Publications 

He, C., DeMarchi, C., Tao, W., and Johengen, T.H. 

(2010). Modeling Distribution of Point and 

Nonpoint Sources Pollution Loadings in the 

Saginaw Bay Watersheds, Michigan. In: 

Lawrence, P. edited book: Urban GIS and Water 

Resources. Wiley and Son Co. (in press). 

DeMarchi, C., Dai*, Q., Mello*, M.E., and Hunter, 

T.S. (2010). Uncertainty Quantification in the Net 

Basin Supply of Lake Erie and Lake Michigan. 

Proceedings of the International Conference 

SimHydro 2010: Hydraulic modeling and 

uncertainty, June 2-4, 2010, Sophia-Antipolis, 

France. Société Hydrotechnique de France, Paris, 

France. 

DeMarchi, C., Tao, W., Johengen, T.H., and Stow, 

C.A. (2010). Uncertainty in Estimating the 

Phosphorous Load Estimation from a Large 

Watershed in the Great Lakes Basin. Proceedings 

of the International Conference SimHydro 2010: 

Hydraulic modeling and uncertainty, June 2-4, 

2010, Sophia-Antipolis, France. Société 

Hydrotechnique de France, Paris, France. 

DeMarchi, C., F. Xing*, T.S. Croley II, C. He, and Y. 

Wang (2010). Application of a Distributed Large 

Basin Runoff Model to Lake Erie: Model 

calibration and analysis of parameter spatial 

variation. Journal of Hydrologic Engineering (in 

press). 

Cha, Y., C.A. Stow, K.H. Reckhow, C. DeMarchi, 

and T.H. Johengen (2010). Phosphorus load 

estimation in the Saginaw River, MI using a 

Bayesian hierarchical/multilevel model. Water 

Research, 44(10): 3270-3282. 

Tao, W., DeMarchi, C., Johengen, T.H. , He, C., and 

Stow, C.A. (2010). Estimating Phosphorous Load 

from a Large Watershed in the Great Lakes Basin. 

Proceedings of the 2010 International Conference 

on Challenges in Environmental Science and 

Computer Engineering (CESCE 2010), March 6- 

7, 2010, Wuhan, China. IEEE Computer Society’s 

Conference Publishing Services, Los Alamitos, 

California USA, pp. 427-430. 

He, C., DeMarchi, C., Feng, Q., and Xiao, H. (2010). 

Allocation of river flow for rehabilitation of 

downstream ecosystem in the Heihe watershed, 

Northwest China. Water Resources Management 

(In press). 

He, C., and DeMarchi, C. (2010). Modeling Spatial 

Distributions of Point and Nonpoint Source 

Pollution Loadings in the Great Lakes 

Watersheds. International Journal of 

Environmental Science and Engineering, 2(1): 24- 

30. 

International Upper Great Lakes Study [IUGLS], 

2010. Impacts on Upper Great Lakes Water 

Levels: St. Clair River. Final Report to the 

International Joint Commission. International 

Joint Commission, Ottawa, Ontario; Washington, 

D.C., 244 pp. Contributor. 

International Upper Great Lakes Study [IUGLS], 

2010. Impacts on Upper Great Lakes Water 

Levels: St. Clair River. Summary Report to the 

International Joint Commission. International 

Joint Commission, Ottawa, Ontario; Washington, 

D.C., 28 pp. Contributor. 

DeMarchi, C., Dai*, Q., Mello*, M.E., and Hunter, 

T.S. (2009). Estimation of Overlake Precipitation 

and Basin Runoff Uncertainty. Prepared for the 

International Upper Great Lakes Study Case 

Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. 64 

pp. 

Quigley, M.A., C.E. Sellinger, S.B. Brandt, D.M. 

Mason, J. Wang, and C. DeMarchi (2009. Impact 

of Climate Change on the Great Lakes Ecosystem: 

A NOAA Science Needs Assessment Workshop 

to Meet Emerging Challenges - Full Final Report. 

NOAA Technical Memorandum GLERL-147a. 

NOAA-GLERL, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 61 pp. 

*Students whom I have mentored. 

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Leslie Hayden 

After studying subduction zone fluids as a post-doctoral 

researcher at UCLA, I joined the Department of 

Geological Sciences at Case in 2008 to work on trace 

element partitioning and diffusion in planetary materials 

as a post-doctoral researcher with Prof. James Van 

Orman. 

RESEARCH 

Trace element partitioning in multiple-light-element 

metallic systems 

Element partitioning in metal-light element systems is 

important to our understanding of planetary 

differentiation processes. Metallic liquids play a crucial 

role in a number of such processes: the crystallization of 

magmatic iron meteorites in asteroidal cores; the 

separation of a metallic core from a silicate mantle 

during core formation; and the crystallization of Earth’s 

solid inner core from its liquid outer core. My work 

investigated trace element partitioning between metal 

and sulfide phases in the graphite-saturated Fe-S-C±P 

systems, and its implications for planetary 

differentiation and the thermal history of ureilites, 

which are meteorites that are believed to represent the 

mantle of a carbon-rich asteroid. This study shows that 

partition coefficients in these systems are significantly 

higher than in pure Fe-S. This can result in significant 

fractionations at very high temperatures (above 

1300°C). The results also show that some elements (W, 

Mo, As) have a complex relationship with different light 

elements present in a system, which previous work had 

not modeled or predicted effectively. In terms of 

ureilites, it seems likely that a C- 

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rich liquid was involved in the core formation processes 

on these asteroids. When P is added to the system, the 

field of liquid immiscibility that exists in Fe-S-C 

expands to lower temperatures (

Jim Karner 

those processes with relevance to our planet. The goal 

is to develop an understanding of geological processes 

on the widest possible scale; what forces drive them, 

and how they influence the various planetary bodies. 

Teaching the class was a great challenge and I gained 

invaluable experience in developing lectures, activities 

and exams mostly from scratch. I really enjoyed the 

experience and hope to do more teaching in the future. 

Research: 

My main research interests lie in the study of meteorites 

and planetary samples from a comparative planetary 

mineralogy standpoint. In other words, I look at rocks 

from Earth, Moon, Mars and asteroids in order to 

compare and contrast the geochemical makeup of their 

silicate minerals. This allows me to obtain 

understanding of the genesis and evolution of the rocks 

and their parent planets. The main tools I use to study 

the samples are the electron microprobe, scanning 

electron microscope and secondary ion mass 

spectrometry. I also employ synchrotron X-ray 

absorption near-edge spectroscopy (XANES) in order to 

assess the valence state of V and Cr in samples. 

I came to Case in September of 2009 to work as a 

Senior Research Associate under Dr. Ralph Harvey. 

Field work: 

My main job at Case is to assist Dr. Harvey in the 

organizing and execution of an annual Antarctic Search 

for Meteorites (ANSMET) expedition to Antarctica in 

order to collect meteorites. The 2009-10 trip ran from 

December 2009 through January 2010 and entailed six 

weeks of systematic searching for meteorites in the 

Miller Range region of Antarctica. This region is 

located about 500 miles from the South Pole and is 

characterized by large (several square kms) blue ice 

fields between and among the Miller Range mountains. 

Our expedition was blessed with fantastic weather and 

clear searching conditions for the majority of the season. 

As a result we collected a near record 1100 meteorites, 

many of which were rare or uncommon meteorite types! 

Teaching: 

In the summer of 2010 I taught Geology 101, Earth and 

Planets, to 11 summer session students. The class is 

basically a tour of the terrestrial planets with an 

emphasis on the processes that have shaped the planets 

and moons of the inner solar system, and specifically 

Recent publications: 

Karner, J.M., Papike, J.J., Sutton, S.R., Burger, P.V., 

Shearer, C.K., Le, L., Choi, Y., and Newville, 

M. (2010) Partitioning of Eu between augite and 

a highly spiked martian basalt composition as a 

function of oxygen fugacity (IW-1 to QFM): 

Determination of Eu 2+ /Eu 3+ ratios by XANES. 

American Mineralogist, 95, 410-413. 

Papike, J.J., Karner, J.M., Shearer, C.K., Burger, P.V. 

(2010) Silicate mineralogy of martian 

meteorites. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 

73, 7443-7485. 

Karner, J.M., Papike, J.J., Sutton, S.R., Shearer, C.K., 

McKay, G., Le, L., and Burger, P.V. (2008) 

Valence state partitioning of V between 

pyroxene-melt: effects of pyroxene and melt 

composition and direct determination of V 

valence states by XANES. Application to 

martian basalt QUE 94201 composition. 

Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 43, 1275- 

1285. 

Shearer, C.K., Burger, P.V., ----- Papike, J.J., Karner, 

J.M.-----(2008) A unique glimpse into asteroidal 

melting processes in the early solar system from 

Graves Nunatak 06128/ 06129 achondrites. 

American Mineralogist, 93, 1937-1940. 

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Glenn Odenbrett 

From 2008 – 2010, I continued my Visitor status with 

the Department as an undergraduate curriculum 

development specialist and coordinator of CLEAN 

(Collaborative Learning for Environmental Action 

Network), a project of the Western Reserve Resource 

Conservation focused on linking undergraduate 

coursework with community-based governmental and 

non-profit organizations engaged in stewardship of 

the Lake Erie ecosystem in Northeast Ohio. 

In November of 2008, I became a Leadership Fellow 

of SENCER (Science Education for New Civic 

Engagements and Responsibilities), a nationwide 

curriculum-development program funded by a grant 

from the National Science Foundation to the National 

Center for Science and Civic Engagement (NCSCE). 

As a Leadership Fellow, I focused my attention on 

environmental stewardship challenges of the Great 

Lakes basin and encouraged undergraduate faculty at 

colleges and universities throughout that ecosystem to 

integrate these issues into their curricula. 

As part of the strategy for doing so, in early 2009 I 

planned and coordinated the international conference 

“Meeting the Challenges of Great Lakes Stewardship” 

in collaboration with SENCER. Hosted by Case 

Western Reserve University, the Cleveland Botanical 

Garden, and the Great Lakes Science Center, this 

conference featured a broad range of speakers and 

presenters from the Midwest and Canada and focused 

on addressing issues facing the Great Lakes basin 

through inclusion of environmental service-learning 

components in undergraduate STEM (Science, 

Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) courses. 

The conference ended with the formation of a Great 

Lakes-wide stewardship network: GLISTEN (the 

Great Lakes Innovative Stewardship Through 

Education Network). I then assisted the National 

Center for Science and Civic Engagement in drafting 

a proposal for a multi-year grant from the Corporation 

for National and Community Service to launch this 

network. Funded in August of 2009, GLISTEN now 

has faculty affiliates in nearly 40 higher education 

institutions in the 8 Great Lakes states. Faculty from 

Case Western Reserve University participate in 

curricular activities of the Northeast Ohio 

Collaborative Cluster of GLISTEN, which also 

includes faculty from the University of Akron, 

Baldwin-Wallace College, Cuyahoga Community 

College, Oberlin College, and Hiram College. 

During the launch of the GLISTEN network in the fall 

of 2009, I served as the instructor of a SAGES 

University Seminar entitled “Restoring the Great 

Lakes: Opportunities and Challenges.” In this 

seminar, students learned about the geology, biology, 

hydrology, history and economics of the lakes and 

their use by humans. They were also introduced to 

current restoration efforts, and participated in teambased 

service-learning projects benefiting 

community-based organizations engaged in Great 

Lakes ecosystem stewardship and education, 

including the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District, 

the Great Lakes Science Center, and the Nature 

Center at Shaker Lakes. Themes for these projects, as 

well as for final research papers, included 

contamination from pharmaceuticals and personal 

care products, restoration of native plant habitat, and 

public education on the “hidden” fresh water use 

involved in providing everyday goods and services. 

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Students conducting macroinvertebrate sampling with Glenn Odenbrett at Credible Data 

Training Workshop 

Students at the 2010 Science Olympiad. 

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Course Roster 

GEOL 101 

GEOL 110 

GEOL 115 

GEOL 117 

GEOL 119 

GEOL 188 

GEOL 196 

GEOL 202 

GEOL 210 

GEOL 220 

GEOL 225 

GEOL 301 

GEOL 303 

GEOL 305 

GEOL 307 

GEOL 314 

GEOL 315 

GEOL 317 

GEOL 318 

GEOL 330 

GEOL 336 

GEOL 341 

GEOL 344 

GEOL 345 

GEOL 349 

GEOL 352 

GEOL 360 

GEOL 367 

GEOL 390 

GEOL 391 

GEOL 392 

GEOL 394 

GEOL 396 

GEOL 405 

GEOL 415 

GEOL 421 

GEOL 425 

GEOL 436 

GEOL 437 

GEOL 444 

GEOL 445 

GEOL 455 

The Earth and Planets 

Physical Geology 

Introduction To Oceanography 

Weather and Climate 

Geology Laboratory 

On Being A Scientist 

Energy and Society 

Global Environmental Problems 

Historical Geology/Paleontology 

Environmental Geology 

Evolution 

Stratigraphy and Sedimentation 

Environmental Law 

Geomorphology and Remote Sensing 

Evolutionary Biology and Paleobiology of Invertebrates 

Economic Geology 

Structural Geology and Geodynamics 

Introduction to Field Methods 

Topics in Field Methods 

Geophysical Field Methods and Laboratory 

Aquatic Chemistry 

Mineralogy 

Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology 

Planetary Materials 

Geological Problems 

Environmental Geochemistry 

Summer Field Camp 

Topics in Evolutionary Biology 

Introduction to Geological Research 

Senior Project 

Professional Presentation 

Seminar in Evolutionary Biology 

Undergraduate Research in Evolutionary Biology 

Geomorphology and Remote Sensing 

Structural Geology and Geodynamics 

Hydrogeology 

Geotectonics 

Aquatic Chemistry 

Chemistry of Natural Waters 

Flow and Sediment Transport 

Planetary Materials 

Isotope Geochemistry 

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GEOL 494 

GEOL 503 

GEOL 504 

GEOL 506 

GEOL 509 

GEOL 511 

GEOL 512 

GEOL 536 

GEOL 601 

GEOL 651 

GEOL 701 

USFS 100 

USNA 206 

ESTD 101 

ESTD 398 

Seminar in Evolutionary Biology 

Seminar: Geomorphology/Glacial Geology 

Seminar: Geochemistry 

Seminar: Geophysics 

Seminar: Graduate Research 

Special Readings in Geology 

Special Readings in Geology 

Seminar in Great Lakes Issues 

Special Problems and Research 

Thesis M.S. 

Dissertation Ph.D. 

First Seminar 

Land and Life 

Intro to Environmental Thinking 

Seminar: Environmental Studies 

Beverly Saylor leads the 2010 spring field trip in Death Valley. 

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COURSES TAUGHT 

Fall 2008 

GEOL 101 The Earth and Planets Ralph Harvey 

GEOL 110 Physical Geology James Van Orman 

GEOL 119 Geology Laboratory Steven A. Hauck, II 

GEOL 202 Global Environmental Problems Gerald Matisoff 

GEOL 220 Environmental Geology Peter Whiting 

GEOL 225 Evolution Patricia Princehouse (Philosophy) 

GEOL 303 Environmental Law Peter McCall 

GEOL 330 Geophysical Field Methods Steven A. Hauck, II 

GEOL 336 Aquatic Chemistry Gerald Matisoff 

GEOL 367 Topics in Evolutionary Biology Cynthia Beall (Anthropology) 

GEOL 391 Senior Project Staff 

GEOL 392 Professional Presentation Staff 

GEOL 396 Research in Evolutionary Biology Staff 

GEOL 405 Geomorphology & Remote Sensing Peter Whiting 

GEOL 421 Hydrogeology Gerald Matisoff 

GEOL 425 Geotectonics Staff 

GEOL 430 Geophysical Field Methods Steven A. Hauck, II 

GEOL 436 Aquatic Chemistry Gerald Matisoff 

GEOL 467 Topics in Evolutionary Biology Cynthia Beall (Anthropology) 

GEOL 509 Seminar/Graduate Research Ralph Harvey 

GEOL 511 Special Readings in Geology Staff 

GEOL 601 Special Problems & Research Staff 

GEOL 651 Thesis M.S. Staff 

GEOL 701 Ph.D. Dissertation Research Staff 

ESTD 398 Seminar Environmental Studies Peter McCall 

Spring 2009 

GEOL 117 Weather and Climate George Collins 

GEOL 301 Stratigraphy/Sedimentation Beverly Saylor 

GEOL 307 Evolutionary Biology/Paleobiology Peter McCall 

GEOL 315 Structural Geology & Geodynamics Steven Hauck 

GEOL 345 Planetary Materials Ralph Harvey 

GEOL 349 Geological Problems Staff 

GEOL 367 Topics Evolutionary Biology Cynthia Beall (Anthropology) 

GEOL 390 Intro to Geological Research Steven A. Hauck, II 

GEOL 392 Professional Presentation Jim Van Orman 

GEOL 396 Research Evolutionary Biology Cynthia Beall (Anthropology) 

GEOL 415 Structural Geology & Geodynamics Steven Hauck 

GEOL 445 Planetary Materials Ralph Harvey 

GEOL 437 Chemistry of Natural Waters Gerald Matisoff 

GEOL 467 Topics Evolutionary Biology Cynthia Beall 

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Undergraduate students Abigail Small and Lauren Brown 

collect resistivity data in Hydrogeology. 

GEOL 509 Seminar: Graduate Research Staff 




GEOL 701 Dissertation Ph.D. Staff 

ESTD 101 Intro Environmental Thinking Peter McCall 

Summer 2009 

GEOL 115 Intro to Oceanography Gerald Matisoff 

GEOL 396 Undergrad Research-Evol Biology Cynthia Beall 

GEOL 601 Special Problems and Research Staff 



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Fall 2009 

GEOL 101 The Earth & Planets Steven Hauck 

GEOL 110 Physical Geology Ralph Harvey 

GEOL 119 Geology Laboratory Steven Hauck 



GEOL 341 Mineralogy James Van Orman 


GEOL 391 Senior Project Staff 



GEOL 509 Graduate Research Staff 


GEOL 601 Special Problems and Research Staff 



ESTD 398 Environmental Studies Seminar Peter McCall 

FSNA 113 Facts and Values in Environmental Beverly Saylor 

Decisions 

Spring 2010 

GEOL 115 Introduction to Oceanography Gerald Matisoff 

GEOL 117 Weather & Climate George Collins 

GEOL 210 Historical Geology/Paleontology Peter McCall 

GEOL 225 Evolution Patricia Princehouse (Philosophy) 

GEOL 317 Intro to Field Methods Beverly Saylor 

GEOL 344 Igneous & Metamorphic Petrology Ralph Harvey 


GEOL 350 Geochemistry James Van Orman 

GEOL 390 Introduction to Geological Research Steven A. Hauck, II 

GEOL 392 Professional Presentaton James Van Orman 

GEOL 396 Evolutionary Biology Cynthia Beall (Anthropology) 

GEOL 450 Geochemistry James Van Orman 

GEOL 509 Graduate Research Staff 

GEOL 512 Special Readings Geology Staff 




ESTD 101 Intro Environmental Thinking Peter McCall 

Summer 2010 

GEOL 100 Intro Field Geology Peter McCall 

GEOL 101 The Earth & Planets James Karner 


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Ralph Harvey and his Petrology students pose with rocks. From left: Rita Cabral, Nicole Pilasky, Ralph Harvey and Drew 

Enns. 

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NEWS FROM ALUMNI 

Crawford Elliott 

Greetings from the deep, deep south. I have been 

here since 1995, and it does not feel that long ago. 

However, it has been a long time. I now feel 

acclimated to all things southern. I can take the 

trash out in shorts in February. I can play golf all 

year long. I chuckle to see everyone panic and head 

to the grocery store at the forecast of flurries to one 

inch of snow. I live in a townhome in Avondale 

Estates. I walk to the MARTA heavy rail to get 

downtown keeping that habit acquired in Cleveland 

of walking to work as much as possible. I have two 

cats Jack and Kyra whom I adopted from a rescue 

no-kill shelter last Christmas. They are happy and 

healthy dark tabby cats, I highly recommend that 

route for adoption as it frees up space for a cat or 

dog that needs shelter and a chance. Read the link 

for PAWS-Atlanta as an example of a wonderful 

no-kill shelter. 

All that said, during my forty hours and then some 

each week, I am Associate Professor and Chair of 

Geosciences at Georgia State University. I can say 

that I have had a better run in my work here that I 

thought I would have. I continue to work on K-Ar 

dating of illite, smectite to illite. I have some oil 

company money supporting that work. I branched 

into more environmental things like sorption of 

cesium by Piedmont soils which was funded by 

DOE. Some highlights include winning the Junior 

Faculty award at Georgia State University in 1998, 

tenure and promotion in 2001, becoming chair of a 

combined geology-geography department in 2007. 

The chair-ing part is a change in life. In terms of 

things that you can imagine addressing, if you name 

it, then I have seen it. The best part of the job is 

doing something to help someone do their job better 

and succeed, be it student, staff and faculty member. 

The merge with geography was done in 2006 and 

we are still merging, much like CWRU's path. It 

makes sense from many standpoints. I am learning 

much about geography. It is a discipline that has not 

done well in the states. There is a rich body of 

knowledge that is worth knowing. My approach is 

to strengthen both geology and geography toward 

finding areas where synergies occur. Those areas 

will likely be our signatures. The study of the urban 

environment (physical and human), geovisualization 

(mapping, spatial media) and informatics are likely 

candidates to me right now. 

I see a few of my contemporaries from CWRU from 

time to time. Of course, we hear and see Enriqueta 

B. I had a nice dinner with Giday Gabriel at his 

home near Los Alamos. I see Bill Hart from time to 

time at GSA. I enjoyed very much coming up for 

Sam Savin's retirement and POB's retirement 

parties. Give me a shout if you are nearby or drop a 

line at: wcelliott@gsu.edu 

Best wishes to all. 

Crawford Elliott (Graduate Studies,1988) 

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