Astronaut? Yes, you read it correctly - Department of Geology

January 2001NEWS FROM THE DEPARTMENTASTRONAUT:-Astronaut? Yes, you read it correctly: AndrewFeustel (Ph.D. >95) has been selected as a missionspecialist for the Astronaut Candidate Class of 2000 atNASA=s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. Theclass includes seventeen men and women, seven ofwhom are pilots and ten are mission specialists. Andrew=sPh.D. thesis at Queen=s is titled ASeismic attenuationin Underground Mines: Measurement Techniquesand Applications to Site Characterization@ and wassupervised by Paul Young (now Head of Earth Sciencesat Liverpool University) and Herb Helmstaedt. He alsoreceived expert advice from Drs. Cezar Trifu and TedUrbancic (Ph.D. >91) of the Engineering SeismologyGroup Canada (ESG) in Kingston, with whom heworked after his graduation.AWARDED: To George Ardies, recent graduate of theDepartment, the Ontario Petroleum Institute=s awardfor the best M.Sc. Thesis. The thesis, supervised by Dr.R.W. Dalrymple, examined the deposits of a paleovalleysystem in the subsurface of Alberta and providedgeneral guidelines for petroleum exploration in suchdeposits.AWARDED: To the Foothills Project, a University ofCalgary - Queen=s partnership with 23 industry partners,a Synergy Award sponsored by NSERC and theConference Board of Canada. The Foothills Project wasfounded six years ago by Don Lawton and DeborahSpratt (U of C) and John Dixon (Queen=s) and aims at abetter understanding of the formation of oil-bearingstructures. John Dixon (now Associate Vice-Principal,Academic) and his students contribute to the projectwith deformation studies on small-scale geologicalmodels in the centrifuge of the Queen=s ExperimentalTectonics Laboratory.BIRTHDAY: Dr. Al Gorman celebrated his 75 th birthdayon October 18 th . The front lawn of Miller Hall wasdecorated with numerous dinosaurs and a sign to markthe event. A Departmental reception for Al was held inthe Reading Room and featured a hockey stick guard ofhonour, hockey decorated birthday cake and many,many best wishes. Al continues to teach and playshockey weekly with the grad students. He also edits ourNewsletter.CITED: Robert MacNaughton (former postdoctoralfellow), Terry Lukie, (M.Sc. ‘99) and Maggie Cole(B.Sc. ‘99) were cited in the science journal Equinoxfor their discovery of the tracks of a crab-like arthropodin wind-blown sands that are about 500 million yearsold. These tracks, which occur in an outcrop ofPotsdam Group sandstone just north of Kingston, arenearly 50 million years older than the next oldest terrestrialtraces and thus are the oldest known evidence ofanimals venturing onto land.ELECTED: Dr. Bob Dalrymple was elected as a Queen'sSenator last spring. The vote was close, but a recountwas not requested.INTERVIEWED: Guy Narbonne, by a television crewfilming for the BBC show AHorizon@, which will reporton the controversial ASnowball Earth@ hypothesis allegingthat the entire Earth was frozen at the end of theProterozoic era.DR. GORMAN’S75TH BIRTHDAYOCTOBER 18, 2000Geological Sciences & Geological Engineering at Queen’s1

January 2001Miller Museum: A fossil starfish which is thought to bea 470-million-year-old rarity has been donated to theMiller Museum by Mr. Gerrit Zier van der Zwan ofAmherst Island. The exquisitely preserved fossil, whichwas originally discovered in a limestone fragment off thesouth-shore of Amherst Island, is possibly one of theearliest starfish in existence and is one of only two foundin the province. The Miller Museum also acquired threefossil dinosaur eggs to be exhibited in our soon torefurbished dinosaur display. Mark Badham, our Curatoris appealing for contributions from alumni to purchase asuitable display case.FOSSIL DINOSAUR EGGS , NEWLY ACQUIRED FOR OURDINOSAUR DISPLAYQueens Campaign: Queen=s has launched its new campaign with a bold article by Principal Leggett in theSeptember-October 2000 issue of the Alumni Review: AQueen=s at the Crossroads@. The Principal challengesalumni and friends to help the University raise its own standards by contributing resources that counteract everdecreasing government funding. Each department was asked to name a project considered vital for its future. OurDepartment=s project is to Arestore and maintain our reputation of having the best geological field program in theCountry@. All funds contributed will go directly to our departmental field trip endowment fund, the interest ofwhich will be used solely to enhance the field program. If you are asked to contribute to the Campaign, pleaseconsider this project.Queen=s Geology Reunion at PDAC 2001: On the occasion of the 25 th anniversary of our Mineral ExplorationMaster=s Program (MinEx), the Department is hosting a reunion of all its graduates to coincide with the annualconvention of the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada in Toronto. It will take place on Monday,March 12 th , 2001, from 7:00 p.m. until 11:00 p.m. at The Delta Chelsea Hotel, 33 Gerrard Street W, Toronto, ONM5G 1Z4. Brochures are being sent by separate mail. In addition we have included a reunion response in place ofour alumni update at the end of this Newsletter.Retirement Dinner: The Department held a Dinner on December 13, 2000, at the University Club, to honourtwo of its recently retired members, Dr. Ray Price (1998) and Dr. Leigh Smith (1999). It was Ray=s fourthretirement (twice from the GSC and twice from Queen=s), but Leigh=s first. Pete Roeder gave a humorous slideshow documenting their legendary careers and contributions to the Department. Both are continuing with theirresearch, and we wish them many more healthy and productive years.Travel Anyone? Ron Peterson will lead a field trip next summer to the Ilimmausaq intrusion of south-westGreenland, famous for its exotic minerals and spectacular igneous layering in alkaline rocks. The trip runs fromJuly 18 to 28 th , 2001 and is outfitted by Black Feather well known for trips down arctic rivers. The cost is $2400USD (all inclusive from Ottawa). Eight people have signed up as of December 1 st and the trip is limited to 15participants. Send Ron an e-mail at peterson@geol.queensu.ca if you want more information.Geological Sciences & Geological Engineering at Queen’s2

January 2001THE FIFTH DECADE1934 - 1944 DEPRESSION AND WARAt the beginning of the decade, the combined geology andmineralogy departments had four professors, Manley Baker, EdHawley, Louie Bruce, and Bruce Rose, all graduates of Queen's.A new instructor, Harold W. Fairbairn, another Queen's grad,was added in 1936, but moved on in 1938, ending up at M.I.T forhis Ph.D, where he later continued his teaching career. He wasreplaced by Newton Buerger, who stayed with Queen's till theend of the decade. Mackenzie Keith, M.Sc., Queen's, 1936, wenton to a Ph.D.. at Yale, then joined the department in 1940. MacKeith later became a geochemistry prof at Penn State.. So thedecade ended with six professor to serve the needs of a rapidlyexpanding department. In the first four decades, 93 degrees hadbeen awarded, but 70 degrees were awarded in the fifth decadealone, in spite of a sharp drop-off in numbers in the war years,when so many young men were going into the services instead ofthe universities. No B.A.'s were awarded between 1941 and1946.appear on the Internet site.In addition to 9 Honours B.A.'s, 26 B.Sc.'s, 19 M.A.'s,and 15 M.Sc.'s, this decade saw the Queen's Department ofGeology award it's first Ph. D., to James Merritt Harrison. JimHarrison attended university in his home town of Winnipegbefore coming to Queen's. He obtained his M.A. in 1941 and hisPh.D in 1943. He became the Director of the GSC in 1956, andheld that position till he retired. He died in Ottawa as a result ofa biking accident in 1990. During a distinguished career, hereceived many honours, including honourary degrees from bothManitoba and Queen's. In 1971, he became a companion of theOrder of Canada. Other Queen's grads swelled the ranks of theGSC in Ottawa. Ira Brown got a mining degree in 1940, then anM.Sc. in geology in 1942. After obtaining a Ph.D. at Harvard, hejoined the GSC. A early worker in hydrogeology, he finished hiscareer with the Department of the Environment. Harold Quinnfollowed a similar path, a B.Sc. in Mining (where he was themedallist in 1941), an M.Sc. in Geology in 1942, a Ph.D. in theStates, this time Cornell, and then on to the GSC. However, he isbest known as a world-travelling exploration geologist. One ofhis attention-getting exploits was to donate a $2000 Klondykegold nugget as a door prize at the 1980 Prospectors and DevelopersConvention. Geoffery Leech got an M.Sc. in 1944, then wenton to Princeton for a Ph.D. before joining the GSC. He retired in1982 as Director, Economic Geology Division. Robert J. W.Douglas obtained his B.Sc. in 1942. He later obtained a Ph.D. atQueens before joining the GSC. When he retired, he was the headof the Mineralogy Division. Grant Wright, B.Sc., 1940, M.Sc.,1947, Ph.D., Yale, was another Queensman who ended up withthe GSC, as was Clifton Bartley, B.Sc., 1941.At least two grads from this decade ended up withprovincial geological surveys, Paul Auger in Quebec and DonHewett in Ontario. George Russell, M.Sc. '36, opted for ateaching career, and ended up at Manitoba. The majority of thedecade's graduates found careers in mineral exploration, and thereis just not enough room to describe the careers of all those othersI have some knowledge of. If possible, a list of all graduates willDR. AL GORMAN, NEWSLETTER EDITOR,CELEBRATED HIS 75TH BIRTHDAYOCTOBER 18, 2000.Geological Sciences & Geological Engineering at Queen’s3

January 2001ALUMNI UPDATE1931Homer Franklin Zurbrigg, B.Sc., Eng., M.Sc., '33, Queen's, appears to be our oldest graduate. He started at INCO in 1933as mine geologist at the Creighton Mine, and retired as Vice-President, Exploration, in 1974, after a career that took himaround the world.1939Walter Clarke, BSc., Eng, had his career interupted by WW II, when he was a lieutenant in the Royal CanadianEngineers.He then worked as mine geologist/manager/director in Ontario, Alberta, NWT and the Yukon. In 1973, he set uphis own consulting business and continued working till 1997.1960Dennis Sharp, now Chair and CEO of UTS Energy, sent material after returning to Calgary from Homecoming, outlining hiscompany's involvement with The Athabasca Tar Sands.1964John Woodside, B.Sc., Hon., M.Sc., MIT, Ph.D., Cambridge, has been into marine geophysics since graduation, in theMediterranean, off our East Coast, off Thailand and Indonesia. He left the Atlantic Geoscience Centre and in 1989, he addedteaching at the Free University of Amsterdam to his research duties, and last year won a "best teacher award". He's marriedwith a family of four.1966Bill Roscoe, B.Sc., Eng., Ph.D.. McGill, is president of Roscoe Postle Associates, a geological and mining consulting firmwith offices in Toronto and Vancouver. See www.rpacan.com. Bill reports that much-travelled Doug Ellenor is now locatedin Vancouver and that Ted Glenn, retired from Chevron, is in Calgary. (wroscoe@rpacan.com)1973Bernie Maclean, B.Sc., Eng., is a Research Geophysicist with the GSC in Calgary. He is studying the geologic history of thedeep subsurface rocks of the Western Plains and foreland areas of the mainland NWT. Earlier, he was with the GSC inDartmouth, working on the Scotian Basin, offshore Nova Scotia.Bob Park, B.Sc., Hon., is in Calgary with American Leduc Petroleums, Ltd.1976Gordon Davidson, B.Sc., Hon., Diploma in International Trade, Transportation Logistics, BCIT, 2000, is now living inNorth Vancouver.1977Jane (Murray) Werniuk, B.Sc., Hon., after a start in field work, has spent the last 14 years writing articles, mainly for theCanadian Mining Journal, one of Canada's oldest publications (It started in 1879). She feels there are two areas in ageologist's education that could be stressed more; technical writing and second languages.1979Jeff Austin, B.Sc., Hon., is a geological Systems Analyst with Berkley Petroleum Corp. in Calgary.Peter Bolton, B.Sc., Hon., after 17 years with Mobil, in Calgary, B.C., and on the East Coast, joined Canrise Resources astheir eighth employee and Vice President, Exploration. When it was bought out two years later, half the employees formedIntegra Resources, and started a busy drilling program. His wife Lorraine and two daughters spend part of the summer at theQueen's Suzuki Music and Art School.Norm Corbett, B.Sc., Hon., is Senior Exploration Geologist with PanCanadian Petroleum in Calgary.Pat McLellan, B.Sc., Eng., M.Sc., Alberta, is President, Advanced Technology Inc., Consulting in petroleum engineeringand geoscience.Mike Rose, B.Sc., Hon., is the President of Berkley Petroleum Corp. of Calgary.Neil Stalport, B.Sc., Hon., LL.B., Dalhousie, is with Oberon Resources, a business consulting firm in Calgary.Paul MacKay, B.Sc., Hon., Ph.D., Calgary, now runs Paul MacKay Geoconsultants, Ltd.1980Geoff Wilcox, B.Sc., Hon., Vice President, Arcis Corporation, Calgary, was at GeoCanada 2000, recalling some of theGeological Sciences & Geological Engineering at Queen’s4

January 2001attractions of Grant Bartlett's 1979 Bermuda Field Trip.Isobel (Wolfson) Tucker, B.Sc., Hon., M.Sc., Dalhousie, and Greg Tucker, B.Sc., Eng., '81 have returned to Canada after4 years enduring the heat of Mt. Isa, Queensland. Is, between jobs, is looking after Sarah, 6, while Greg works as chief mineengineer with Kemess' open pit mine. They have a house in Prince George, and can be reached at iwtucker@bcgroup.net1981Lynda Bloom, M.Sc., considers herself lucky to still be employed in minex, working for Analytical Solutions Ltd. ofToronto.Bob McMechan, Ph.D., is a staff geologist with Shell Canada, working on Foothills Development.Mark Tindall, B.Sc., Hon., BA (Biology) Queen's, '77, moved to Vancouver in 1981. In 1992, he started Tindall GeoservicesLtd., in Minex consulting, and has worked in Canada, the U.S., Mexico, Central America, and the Far East. He is presentlyevaluating a lead-zinc prospect in the NWT. (Tindallgeoservices@compuserve.com)1982Sean Trueland, B.Sc., Hon., is presently a senior investment advisor and Vice President, Branch Manager of the BMONesbitt Burns office in Brampton.1983Steve Coulter, B.Sc., Hon., MBA, '90, Queen's, spends most of his time dealing with oil and gas companies on the CanadianVenture Exchange. In June, 2000, he was transferred from Vancouver to Calgary, and is trying to fit his gunrack in the backof a Honda. He'll be a real Calgarian when he switches to a pickup.1985Karen Costello, B.Sc, Hon., after 15 years in Flin Flon working in Minex, has shifted to the Manitoba Industry, Trade andMines Office in La Pas, where she is the Mineral Claims Inspector for the northern half of the province. She's atcostello@mb.sympatico.ca.Rick McCreary, B.Sc., Eng., M.Sc., '90, MBA, McGill, '95, is now Vice President, Mining Investment Banking, TDSecurities, dealing with customers worldwide. He's at McCreR@TDSecurities.com.1986Carol Evenchick, Ph.D., is a Research Scientist working for the Cordilleran and Pacific Geoscience Division of the GSC.Rob Harrap, B.Sc., is a grad student, consultant, and now teacher at Queen's. He is making good use of our new computerlab by offering our first course in the use of computers in geological research.Sue (Riddell) Rose, B.Sc., Eng., is a Corporate Operating Officer with Paramount Resources Ltd. of Calgary.Griff Murphy, B.Sc., Eng, and Anne Raymond, B.Sc., Eng, '87, were moved by LASMO to Venezuela last year, in time tocatch the massive mudslides that devastated the country in December, 1999. At the time of the slides, they were on a holidayscuba diving around Aruba. Earlier, they managed a trip to the 979m high Angel Falls in Southern Venezuela.Peter Taylor, B.Sc., Hon., is working for the Ontario Ministry of the Environment in Kingston.1991Dan Morehouse, B.Sc., Eng., is presently an environmental manager with Sungai Bera Remediation in Brunei, Borneo,directing the cleanup of 200,000 tonnes of contaminated soil and sludge.Marc Rougier, B.Sc., Eng., was working on slope stability and hydrogeology for Golder. He learned Spanish while workingin SA. He acquired a wife, Kimberly Barker, in 1997, and a daughter, Elize in the spring of 2000. (MRougier@Golder.com)Dave Scott, Ph.D., is the Chief Geologist, Canada-Nunavut Geoscience Office, Iqaluit, Nunavut.1992Jen (Chown) Kennedy, B.Sc., Eng., M.Sc.(Civil) Queen's, '95, and Dan Kennedy, B.Sc., Eng., M.Sc (Civil), Queen's, '94,have taken their son to Toronto, where Dan is finishing up a U. of T. MBA. Their new email address is jencdank@home.com.1993Lisa Coyne, B.Sc., Eng., has been with Golder for over 6 years, mostly working on Toronto's new Shepard Subway. Shemarried a former rodeo rider who she met when his horse kicked her on her first-ever trail ride. Undeterred, she lives on atwo-horse farm near Orangeville, where she'd welcome friends. (LCoyne@golder.com)1995Geological Sciences & Geological Engineering at Queen’s5

January 2001Jay Harrington, B.Sc., Hon., M.Sc., 1998, McGill, left Amoco to become an AEC exploration geologist in the U.S.Rockies, but is now working on carbonates in Northeastern B.C., still with AEC. His email address is JasonHarrington@aec.ca.Joanne Muzzin, B.Sc., Eng, M.Sc., (Civil), '97, Queen's, reports that the Queen's Alumni Boston Branch now has a website, http://www.geocities.com/queensboston/ and would love to hear feedback to better tailor the site for its audience.Would that more grads were as good as Joanne in providing me with news.Jon Sliwinski, B.Sc.,Eng., after 4 years as a field engineer, has been promoted to sales engineer, Tucker Wireline Services,Calgary.Jill Rutherford, B.Sc., Hon., B.Sc., Eng., '98, Queen's, has joined the Queen's crowd at A.E.C. in Calgary, and is workingon shallow gas development in NE Alberta. She says that Erin Lamb, B.Sc, Eng., 2000, is also with A.E.C.(JillianRutherford@aec.ca)1996Jenny Hazzard, B.Sc., Eng., M.ASc., UBC, '98, married Colin MacLennan, and after a short stay at the GSC in Ottawa,moved to Glasgow, where she is working on site rehabilitation, groundwater, landfills, and a bit on air quality forEnviroCentre. She's also piping competetively and playing in a pipe band. She's at: reeds@maclellan.fsnet.co.ukHillar Lilles, B.Sc., Eng., left Amoco and has worked for 1 1/2 years for AEC as a geophysicist on the Grande PrairieTeam. He meets with the Queen's Mafia to discuss plans for taking over the oil patch.Dan Polley, B.Sc., Eng., enjoyed his B.Sc. on Precambrian rocks, so now, working with AEC in Calgary, he's drillingrocks with some potential as oil producers. He's more successful repairing his Heritage home. (DanPolley@aec.ca)1997Jason Crowder, B.Sc., Eng., passed his comps at U of T, and now needs to write a thesis to complete his Ph.D. There is apossibility he may be studying tailings disposal in Tanzania as part of his thesis.Erin O'Neill, B.Sc., Eng., says Agandi Munywandi (Hello, friends) from Uganda. She left her job in Vancouver lastsummer to work on a water supply project in the Rubingo district. She's living in tents while working a pipeline project, butspends weekends in an old missionary house near Mbarara in southwestern Uganda.1998Ryan Fraser, B.Sc., Hon., is at Calgary, doing a mapping/structural thesis in the Mackenzie Mountains, Yukon.Apparently, he briefly shared a fly-camp with a bear. You can reach him at rfraser@geo.ucalgary.ca.Gavin Grant,BSc., Eng, just completed an M.Sc in Civil at Queen's and is job-hunting. He was down in Florida inDecember to see Simone's dad blast off.Rob Panek, B.Sc., Eng., M.Sc., '00, Calgary, is now with Talisman Energy in Calgary and, when last heard from, wasplanning an October, '00 wedding. (RPanek@talisman-energy.com)1999George Ardies, M.Sc., is an exploration geologist with PanCanadian in Calgary. (George_Ardies@ pancanadian.ca)Jenn Corkery, B.Sc., Eng., is back at Queen's doing an M.Sc. in Civil.Karen Wright, M.Sc, is living in Vancouver and working on projects in the NWT for Winspear Diamonds Inc.2000Don Simmons, B.Sc., Hon., is enjoying life in Calgary, and is part of the Queen's crowd at AEC.BRAD SMITH, DARRYL MCFARLANEAND MICHELE BROUILLETTEGEM & MINERAL SHOW 2000IN THE MILLER MUSEUMGeological Sciences & Geological Engineering at Queen’s6

January 20011 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 1213 1415 16 17 18 1920 21 22 2324 25 26 2728 29 30 3132 33 34 35 36 3738 3940 41 42 43 44 45 4647 48 49 5051 52 5354 55 56 57 5859 60 61 62 6364 65 6667 68ACROSS1 *Agitation ofswamp7 *Lost after lunch13 Make up for14 Started15 *Rested drunk18 *Really beautiful20 Trait of Scots21 Clark & Gorman23 *Bad guy, huh24 Country mail trail25 * No barking at all27 Abundant element28 Holy lady29 Regimental CommandingOfficer30 Bar bill32 City of Angels33 Element34 By another name35 Neutral pronoun36 Half salt38 Drill product39 Hexagonal water crystal40 British "Goodby"42 Goes with behold43 Low number4546InfraredNegative response47 Time periodPUNNY GEOCROSSWORD, FOR LAUGHS OR GROANS49 Royal Society of Canada50 Plating metal51 Alien visitor52 *Places to stay whenthe sun is up53 Rifle Platoon54 Arret in Alberta56 Much -- about nothing57 Feel sad58 Wine storage area62 *Taking rudely64 The law in Levis66 Nauru's mineralwealth67 *Added to tub water68 *Funeral fire ritualsDOWN1 * Mare gave birth2 Greenpeace concern3 Jail, slang4 Youngster5 Compass direction6 Concerning7 0% AN8 Hat hanger9 New Ont. geogroup10 *Pavin' roadFor “starred” definitions, use geologicalspelling, e.g., for "became ill', use felsic, not fellsick, and for "raiding Catholic sisters", usenunatak, not nun attack. And Dr. Smith inAntarctica is coulee.12 Make comfortable16 Hearty artery17 *Good footing outhere, but ______19 Expensive water2122Cadabra prefixGreek portico25 Measures air pressure26 *Last step, Nellie'swashing28 *Time to go home31 *At your side33 *Holler36 *Ripped41 *Which Butler wasaround Tara43 Whale of an animal44 Outside prefix46 *Short snooze48 Island rings53 Mechanical worker54 Strike breaker55 Humble request57 Handy prefix58 Terminates60 Totally6162DecayTent rope63 Not SAR radar65 ExistsLAST CROSSWORD SOLUTION1T 2R 3A 4P 5T 6H E 7S 8T 9E 10M11R A D I 12O I 13T E M P E14A R 15P R 16E S 17E N T 18I SI 19R E 20B T U 21S 22S S23T 24H E 25A B O R T 26K 27E Y28O A 29R 30S R O 31K I M32A G L O W I 33N E P A L34A G E 35B O 36W 37A M I38D N A 39A L G A E 40A L 41PA 42R 43H 44U R L 45A N R46T 47O 48A 49B R A D 50E S 51S I52E R 53O D E P 54R A 55D O N56D E K E 57T H E 58P A S TGeological Sciences & Geological Engineering at Queen’s7

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