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Department of GeosciencesOregon State University
The Three Sisters have been in the news recentlybecause of satellite-based observations of an
area to the west that is uplifting at a rate of 2centimeters per year. The concern is that the upliftis due to magma risingtoward the surface,possibly toward aneruption.
This part of theOregon Cascades hasbeen mapped by EdTaylor and his studentsover several decades, sothis is clearly Beavercountry. Major contri-butions were made byEd’s PhD studentsBrittain Hill and ScottHughes and by MS stu-dent Rick Conrey, whocontinued workingthere after moving toWashington State Uni-versity for his PhD.
The tradition con-tinues with MariekSchmidt, a PhD studentworking with ProfessorAnita Grunder. Mariekand Anita are focusingon the North Sister tounderstand deepcrustal magmatic processes in a subduction zone.Their project is in collaboration with DanaJohnston (University of Oregon), who will sub-ject samples collected from North Sister to pres-sures and temperatures expected at the base of thecrust 35 km down.
Ed Taylor has characterized North Sister as“the most monotonous stack of lavas you’ll eversee.” Mariek’s analytical work has confirmed Ed’sdescription, and when combined with argon iso-
topic ages, it shows thatthis composition per-sisted for several hun-dred thousand years.North Sister is 500,000 to200,000 years old, incontrast to Middle andSouth Sister that are nomore than a few tens ofthousands of years old.
Mariek hasmapped North Sisterwith the help of AnitaGrunder and severalundergraduate andgraduate students, ac-companied by her fieldassistant, Blackberry, ablack Labrador retriever.Field mapping has re-vealed that North Sisteris actually a compositeof at least two differentcones. The first, ex-posed in the deeply-eroded north side of thevolcano, is made upmainly of thin falls of
scoria that alternate between red oxidized layersand bright yellow palagonitized (altered) layers.This earlier and more explosive cone erupted par-tially through ice, as indicated by the palagoniteand by the occurrence of pillowed lava fragments.The pyroclastic (explosively fragmental) older
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OSU Geoscientists focus on Three Sisters Volcanoes
Mariek Schmidt (foreground) and Anita Grunder atNorth Sister, with Mount Washington on the skyline.
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North Sister cone is overlain by the younger cone,a thick pile of thin agglutinated lavas, the lowestof which is glassy and pillowed at its margins,indicating that it banked against a glacier.
Abundant radial dikes lace the whole edi-fice. Finally, magma rose along an 8-kilometer-long dike system beginning at North Sister andpropagating northward to produce the MatthieuLakes Fissure, which is about 15,000 years old andis a series of cinder cones and agglutinated lavas.These volcanic rocks are chemically related toNorth Sister despite being much younger.
An undergraduate, Andy Uhrig, will do asenior thesis on the petrography of rocks fromNorth Sister, and two graduate students, AndersCarlson and Mehgan Blair, are studying the gla-cial history as part of a class project for ProfessorPeter Clark.
Cascade volcanoes provide a window intothe underlying mantle, and this will be the subjectof work by PhD student Mike Rowe with AssistantProfessor Adam Kent and Geosciences ChairRoger Nielsen, building on earlier work by Rick
Conrey. The trick is to analyze microscopicinclusions of frozen magma inside olivine crystals;these serve as miniature time capsules ofmagmatic history. Analyses are done using laser-probing technology and inductively coupledplasma mass spectrometry at OSU. In addition,they will be analyzing water and carbon dioxideconcentrations in these tiny inclusions incollaboration with Paul Wallace at the Universityof Oregon.
Meanwhile, the uplift west of South Sistercontinues to grow. Justin Iverson did a senior the-sis on waters in the Sisters area that revealed ageochemical anomaly associated with the uplift.He was coauthor of a report on this work pub-lished in 2002 in Geophysical Research Letters (v.29, p. 1-4). Mariek Schmidt continues to monitorsprings in the McKenzie River drainage; she iscoauthor of a paper in press in Geology. In addi-tion, Anne Jefferson, a PhD student working withCourtesy Professor Gordon Grant, is trying to fig-ure out how water flows in the subsurface of thevolcanic landscape of the Sisters area.
FacultyLaurence Becker, Assistant Professor of Geography (Regional and
human geography) [email protected] H. Bloomer, Professor of Geology, Dean of Science
(Marine geology) [email protected] U. Clark, Professor of Geology (Glacial and Pleistocene
geology) [email protected] E. Cook, Instructor of Geography (Environmental geogra-
phy) [email protected] H. Dilles, Professor of Geology (Mineral deposits)
[email protected] E. Doel, Associate Professor of Geosciences (History of
science) [email protected] L. Grunder, Professor of Geology (Igneous petrology)
[email protected] D. Haggerty, Associate Professor of Geology, Director of
Geology Program (Hydrogeology)[email protected]
Philip L. Jackson, Professor of Geography, Director of GeographyProgram (Physical geography) [email protected]
Julia A. Jones, Professor of Geography (Forest geography)[email protected]
Adam J.R. Kent, Assistant Professor of Geology (Igneous petrol-ogy) [email protected]
A. Jon Kimerling, Professor of Geography (Cartography andremote sensing) [email protected]
Stephen T. Lancaster, Assistant Professor of Geology (Geomor-phology and fluvial hydrology) [email protected]
Robert J. Lillie, Professor of Geology (Geophysics)[email protected]
Andrew J. Meigs, Assistant Professor of Geology (Tectonicgeomorphology) [email protected]
Roger L. Nielsen, Professor of Geology, Chair of Geosciences(Igneous petrology) [email protected]
Nolin, Anne W., Assistant Professor of Geography (Remotesensing, physical geography) [email protected]
Dorte Wildenschild, Assistant Professor of Geosciences(Hydrogeology) [email protected]
Aaron T. Wolf, Associate Professor of Geography (Water resources)[email protected]
Dawn J. Wright, Professor of Geography (Geographic informationsystems, marine geosciences) [email protected]
Emeritus FacultyCyrus W. Field, Professor Emeritus of Geology (Mineral deposits)
[email protected] E. Frenkel, Professor Emeritus of Geography (Wetland
geography) [email protected] D. Lawrence, Associate Professor Emeritus of Geology
(Structural geology) [email protected] E. Matzke, Professor Emeritus of Geography (Resource
geography) [email protected] W. Muckleston, Professor Emeritus of Geography (Water
resourses geography) [email protected] R. Niem, Professor Emeritus of Geology (Sedimentary geology)
[email protected] Lee Nolan, Professor Emeritus of Geography (Cultural
geography) [email protected] R. Pease, Professor Emeritus of Geography (Conservation
geography) [email protected] L. Rosenfeld, Professor Emeritus of Geography (Geomor-
phology and remote sensing) [email protected] H. Taubeneck, Professor Emeritus of Geology (Igneous
petrology)Edward M. Taylor, Professor Emeritus of Geology (Mineralogy,
volcanology) [email protected] S. Yeats, Professor Emeritus of Geology (Earthquake geology)
StaffMarion Anderson, Accounting AssistantKaren L. Logan, Accounting ManagerMelinda L. Peterson, Office Manager,
[email protected] M. Van Geest, Administrative Secretary
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From the Department Chair
As many of you know, these are troubled times in higher educationnationwide, as we struggle to respond to budget cuts. The OSU
administration has responded with a series of changes, encapsulated in astrategic plan presented by our new president, Ed Ray. This plan is basedon a vision of focused excellence and priorities on specific themes. Thesethemes, on which the university will concentrate its resources, wereselected in order to best use our current talent and future resources.
The Earth Sciences are prominently placed as one of five focalareas for the university (the others are Natural Resources, Engineering andBusiness, Arts and Sciences, and Biosciences and Public Health). Al-though the next few years promise to be difficult, I am confident that wehave the talented people in place in the department and the mandate fromthe university leadership to do great things in the years ahead.
This fall, we admitted over 40 new graduate students, bringing ourgraduate student population to almost 100, and making us the largestgraduate program in the OSU College of Science. To encourage students
to communicate what they are working on to the department community, we will begin a new tradition in thespring in which graduate students present their research in a conference format. This Graduate StudentConference will take place on May 14, 2004, and will be open to the public. We urge our alumni and friendsto attend and to meet our newest graduate students.
Our graduate program continues to excel in quality as well as quantity. We had several students winnational awards this past year, and OSU was ranked 21st nationally in the May 2003 Geotimes in terms of theproduction of geoscientists in academia.
Our undergraduate programs are also healthy, with over 150 majors in the four disciplines we supervisein our department (Geology, Geography, Natural Resources, and General Science with an Earth Scienceoption). Furthermore, our new Earth Sciences major (designed to replace the General Science, Earth Scienceoption) was approved this year. This promises to be an attractive degree for many students who choosecareers in elementary and secondary education, the military, and science interpretation.
We sponsored new events for alumni in the past year. The largest of these was a reunion in June of thealumni of the Geology Field Camp. As many of you know, we have run a field station near Mitchell, Oregon,for the past 70 years. Literally hundreds of students have received an education in basic field geology ineastern Oregon at our field camp. The reunion was a great success, and a report is provided elsewhere in thisNewsletter and on the department website, www.geo.oregonstate.edu.
We also sponsored alumni events at national meetings, and will continue to inform you of developmentsin the department. Toward that end, we request email addresses from all of you so that we can distribute ournewsletter electronically. This will allow us to keep you informed at reduced cost, and give you a conduit forproviding us immediate feedback. One note of assurance: we do not share our addresses—mail or email—with anyone.
A quick scan of the list of faculty on the facing page will show you how much the department haschanged in a short time. In the past 3 years, we have added 6 new tenure-track and research faculty, repre-senting approximately 1/3 of the department. I include myself in that total because I joined the departmentfull time as of last July, after having had a split position with Oceanography for the previous 15 years. Giventhe number of changes in the faculty, it is the department’s challenge in the next few years to integrate a newvision for the department including both the new and veteran faculty. We must take the opportunities pro-vided to us without sacrificing the strengths that we are known for. This will only be possible with yourcontinued help. The funds contributed by our friends and alumni have been critical in our ability to fill in thegaps, particularly with respect to resources for students.
Thanks to all of you for your continued interest and support for the department. We hope to hear fromyou soon.
Roger Nielsen
Roger Nielsen
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Reflections on a Career Transition
Entrepreneurs are a people set apart from themasses by their ability to discern opportuni-
ties, their willingness to assume risks in the pur-suit of business ventures, and the satisfaction theyderive from practicing the art of “the deal”. Al-though financial success may result from their ef-forts, entrepreneurial alumni tell me their real joyis found in the meeting of the challenges presentedby new opportunities, not in the ac-cumulation of wealth. Although mycareer as a university professor willnever be confused with that of abusiness entrepreneur, my transitiontoward retirement allows me a cer-tain space to reflect on some of thechallenges I’ve enjoyed in the 42years since I enrolled in my first classas a university freshman.
I entered the university as ascared first-generation college stu-dent whose older siblings hadmoved into the working world with-out a 4-year detour into the strangeworld of academia. My first chal-lenge was to grasp the opportunityto learn rather than to hate the taskof studying. Opportunities to learnwere everywhere. In the dormitory elevator, I en-countered my first international student, and thatencounter was the genesis of my life-long passionfor African studies. It was a class in physiogra-phy that allowed me to see the familiar Midwest-ern landscape as an artifact of past glaciation andredirected my career path toward the study of ge-ography. The challenge of studying was trans-formed into a desire for lifelong learning. I’venever tired of watching this transformation in sub-sequent generations of students.
Gordon Matzke
My geography PhD cohort in 1975 includedonly 4% women. In all of my years of study, onlyonce did I encounter a woman professor (she wasa sociologist). For me, the challenge was to un-derstand what I had missed as a result of this ex-perience. I have a deep sense of gratitude to themany women students who cared enough to pointout the shortcomings in my masculine perspec-tives on a wide variety of issues. As myworldviews shifted, so has the gender mix of my
academic colleagues. Our stu-dents are well served by thistransition.
A retired academic ad-ministrator once told me thathe lived during the “pinnacleof disciplinary ascendancy inacademia”. Departments builtwalls about themselves, cor-ralled students within thosewalls, and pretended that theirdiscipline had a strangleholdon some version of the truth.If only the world were sosimple! The Geosciences De-partment has 13 years of expe-rience in fuzzing the bound-aries of disciplines. This hasbeen a challenge, but it hasbeen extremely rewarding.
Students and faculty have rich collaborationswithin the department and across much of the uni-versity. Faculty in our department have academicappointments in the Colleges of Agriculture, En-gineering, Forestry, Liberal Arts, and Oceanogra-phy. Likewise, we draw on the expertise of col-laborators from colleges, government researchlaboratories, the private sector, and some very ac-tive emeritus professors. Moving into the ranksof the emeritus professors is my next challenge.
Gordon Matzke
Our New Website
Computer Science graduate student Kris Anumolu and Gordon Matzke have designed a new websitefor the department, and it has a new address. Check it out at
http://www.geo.oregonstate.edu
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L arry Becker arrived as a new assistantprofessor of Geography in September 2002.
Now, in the halls of the Department ofGeosciences, it is not uncommon to hear a WestAfrican language being spoken. Larry’s PhD isfrom the University of London, and he and hiswife Laurie lived in Mali for 9 months and in IvoryCoast for 2 years. He is interested in how peasantfarmers feed their families through a combinationof subsistence farming and income generation,
and how their land-management practices copewith national laws that are influenced by thepractices of the former colonial powers, France,Portugal, and Great Britain. How do local ricefarmers compete with massive imports of cheap,government-subsidized rice from Southeast Asiaand the United States? Answer: They don’t,without state intervention. The recent criticismsof the International Monetary Fund and the WorldBank publicized in the media are a reflection ofthe difficulties facing small-holder West Africanfarmers.
Larry recently spent 6 months in Ivory Coastunder a National Science Foundation grant study-ing rice growing systems there. He continues along Geosciences tradition of working in Africabegun by Gordon Matzke, recently retired Profes-sor of Geography and a fluent Swahili speaker.
Larry loves to teach, and he has taken overthree large-volume courses, Geography of theWestern World, Geography of the Non-Western
New-Faculty Sketches
Larry Becker (right) with rice farmers nearAgnibilékrou, Côte d’Ivoire.
World, and Human Geography, which enrolled1,700 students the first year he was in thedepartment. The large number of students whohave taken his courses gave him instant celebritystatus: he is recognized in the Corvallis FarmersMarket as well as on the Tam-McArthur Rim Traileast of the Three Sisters.
Before coming to Oregon, Larry was chairof the Department of Geography at the Univer-sity of Nebraska at Kearney. Laurie’s backgroundis in Land Resources, and she teaches an introduc-tory course in Geographic Information Systems.They have two children.
Adam Kent, one of the newest members of theDepartment of Geosciences, was hired in
September 2002 as part of a dual package with hiswife Dr. Dorthe Wildenschild (stay tuned for newsabout Dorthe in an upcoming newsletter). Adamreceived a PhD in Economic Geology andGeochemistry in 1995 from the Australian Na-tional University in Canberra and arrived inCorvallis from Copenhagen, after spending timeat the Danish Lithosphere Centre. Prior to this he
had postdoctoral research appointments in Cali-fornia at Caltech and Lawrence Livermore Na-tional Laboratory. Adam and Dorthe are celebrat-ing the recent birth of their son—Mads (rhymeswith “bass”) Christian Wildenschild Kent.
Adam’s research interests center around thedevelopment and application of analytical tech-
Adam Kent noting a tsunami warning on Izu-Oshima, an island south of Tokyo.
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niques for small-scale (really, really tiny)geochemical analyses of materials such as rocks,glasses, minerals, shells, and otoliths (fish earbones). Using equipment such as the electronmicroprobe, ion microprobe, and laser-ablationICP-MS, the chemical and isotopic composition ofthese materials may be characterized at scales ofjust a few micrometers. OSU, through the Depart-ment of Geosciences and the Keck Collaboratoryfor Plasma Spectrometry in the College of Oce-anic and Atmospheric Sciences, is a national leaderin the development of such techniques and has aunique array of analytical facilities available. Andthe list continues to grow—Adam and RogerNielsen, together with Portland State’s MartinStreck (OSU PhD 1994), have recently been suc-cessful in obtaining funding from the NSF andHewlett-Packard for a brand new state-of-the-artelectron probe.
One application of all this involves a sub-stance of interest to several other folks in the De-partment of Geosciences—water. Water plays acritical role in forming the magmas that erupt atcontinental-margin volcanoes like those of theCascades. Knowledge of the water content of thesemagmas helps to constrain processes of magmageneration and provides a key to understandingwhat types of eruptions may occur at a given vol-cano. Until recently, however, it was not possibleto directly measure the water content in magmas,as most water is released as vapor before it reachesthe Earth’s surface. The key is to look for tiny blebsof magma trapped within crystals. These blebstrap water and other gases, providing “fossil”samples of magma, but they are prohibitivelysmall for conventional analysis. Now, by usingdifferent microanalytical tools we can measure thewater content of these blebs, as well as the con-centration of a wide range of other importantchemical elements.
Two projects underway are one in the Cas-cades to survey the water abundances in differentmagma types at the Three Sisters and NewberryVolcano (see the article on page 1). The other iscurrently going on in the Izu Islands, a volcanicchain extending south from Mt. Fuji. This work,funded by the NSF MARGINS program, is aimedat understanding how elements such as water aretransferred between the crust and mantle duringsubduction. Recent fieldwork by Adam and OSUgraduate student Mike Rowe with Jun-IchiKimura (Shimane University) bought back over
100 lava samples from this island chain. The workalso was a unique cultural experience, as Adamand Mike stayed in remote traditional Japaneseinns, and they returned to Oregon seriously ad-dicted to sushi.
Anne Nolin was hired in December 2002 asan assistant professor in the Department of
Geosciences. Her route to a degree in geographywas circuitous, involving a BA in anthropology(1980) from the University of Arizona, followedby a stint as an archaeologist in New Mexico andArizona. She received an MS degree from theDepartment of Soils, Water, and Engineering at UAin 1987. Her PhD (1993) was from the Departmentof Geography at the University of California, SantaBarbara, where she studied snow hydrology andremote sensing. During her time at UCSB, Annewas a post-graduate fellow at NASA’s JetPropulsion Laboratory. Following graduateschool, Dr. Nolin worked as a postdoctoral fellowat the Cooperative Institute for Research inEnvironmental Sciences (CIRES), University of
Colorado and was then hired as a ResearchScientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center,part of CIRES, where she worked until coming toOSU.
Anne’s research focuses on what she refersto as “snow hydroclimatology”, which involvesintegrative research in snow hydrology,climatology, modeling, and remote sensing to
Anne Nolin drilling ice cores on the Greenland IceSheet.
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address questions in global and regional waterresources and climate change. Toward this end,she uses satellite remote sensing for mapping andmonitoring snow and ice in the climate system.She has spent several field seasons drilling icecores and measuring snow albedo on theGreenland Ice Sheet and more recently has beenperforming fieldwork in the California SierraNevada and the Colorado Rocky Mountains. InFebruary 2000, she was named as a Science TeamMember of NASA’s Multiangle ImagingSpectroRadiometer (MISR) team, and in January2002 received a NASA Group Achievement Awardas part of the MISR team.
Dr. Nolin’s teaching role in the departmentincludes updating existing courses in RemoteSensing of the Environment, Digital Image Pro-cessing, and developing new courses in SnowHydrology and Advanced Remote Sensing. Sheis organizing a Geosciences seminar entitled For-mulating Policy for an Uncertain Earth for the win-ter term of 2004. This seminar series will examinehow geospatial information is linked to policydevelopment and decision-making, the role of sci-entific prediction for policy purposes, and the con-cept of balancing natural hazards and risk man-agement.
Dr. Nolin is a member of the Association ofAmerican Geographers, the American Meteoro-logical Society, the International Glaciological So-ciety, and the American Geophysical Union.
On the personal side, Anne is married toSteve Drake, a software engineer at OSU. On May27th, they became the proud parents of Seth NolinDrake. In addition to being a busy new mom andprofessor, she still enjoys whitewater kayaking,rock climbing, hiking, and telemark skiing.
Profiles of Alumni Stars
Richard A. Marston (OSU MS 1976, PhD 1980,under the direction of Chuck Rosenfeld) is
the 2003 recipient of the Ronald F. Abler Distin-guished Service Honors Award from the Associa-tion of American Geographers. After teaching atthe University of Wyoming, the University ofAlaska Southeast, and the University of Texas ElPaso, he accepted a position in 1999 as Professor
and Sun Chair in the School of Geology at anotherOSU—Oklahoma State University in Stillwater.
Dick Marston has conducted research inFrance, Brazil, Mexico, the Himalaya, and thewestern United States, plus six summers on theJuneau Icefield in southeast Alaska. On theIcefield, he conducted research on streams thatmeander across the top of the glacier. Such streamsmeander as much in a single day as an alluvialriver like the Willamette River would do in a de-cade. Dick describes these extraordinary fieldexperiences as a chance to “…work with some ofthe most talented, motivated, and high-spiritedstudents in the world.”
Dick is a Certified Professional Hydrologist,and he is Coeditor-in-Chief of the Elsevier journal
Richard Marston at the base of an icefall on theJuneau Icefield.
Our New Department Logo
We hope you like our new logo, usedfor the first time at the head of thisNewsletter. The graduate students or-ganized a contest to design a logo forus, and five excellent designs camein. The whole department then voted,and the voters had to make a tough
decision. The winning design is by PhD candidate EdKohut. Congratulations!
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George Sharp (BS 1967, MS 1969), recentlyretired after 25 years with Weyerhaeuser
Company, is a new member of the Department ofGeosciences Board of Advisors. George is also aTrustee of the GSA Foundation and an AssociateTrustee of the AAPG Foundation.
He was born and raised in Portland and re-ceived BS degrees in geology in 1967 and in math-ematics in 1968 at OSU. He attended the OSUField Camp in Mitchell when it was taught by DocWilkinson and Keith Oles. Planetable work hadto be completed by 10 a.m., before the heat waves
Geomorphology. He is a Fellow of the GeologicalSociety of America, Royal Geographical Society,and Explorers Club. He was selected to run forVice President of the Association of AmericanGeographers in 2004.
His wife, Linda, is a professional cartogra-pher (OSU MS 1977) and professional geoscienceeducator. They have two children.
Dick serves as a member of the OSU Depart-ment of Geosciences Board of Advisors.
George and Danielle Sharp in Patagonia
got too intense, and lunch consisted of the tradi-tional peanut butter sandwiches and oranges.
George decided to go into the oil and gasindustry and selected an MS thesis project in theMontana Disturbed Belt under the direction ofProfessor Dave Bostwick. He married just beforestarting fieldwork, and he and his new wife,Danielle, started married life camped along BirchCreek, several hours from the nearest town. Hefinished his MS at OSU in 1969.
After several years as an explorationgeologist with Shell Oil Company and DivisionGeologist with Tenneco, George becameGeological Manager for Weyerhaeuser Companyat their corporate headquarters in Federal Way,Washington, near Tacoma. At that time,Weyerhaeuser had not systematically inventoriedits mineral holdings, nor had the companyapproached its mineral resources as a separatebusiness unit. George became Director of MineralResources and managed all of Weyerhaeuser’smineral holdings in the United States and Canada.Along the way he built a staff of up to 21geologists, engineers, landmen, and accountants,and established oil and gas production in theArkoma Basin, Black Warrior Basin, MississippiSalt Basin, and the Gulf Coast, as well as mines ineight states and Vancouver Island. Because a largeportion of Weyerhaeuser’s mineral holdings arein Washington and Oregon, George was able toobtain thesis and research support for several OSUstudents working on MS projects including ChuckPayne, Derik Kleibacker, and Mark McCutcheonunder Alan Niem in southwest Washington, andPhD projects including Mike McCulla under CyField in the Washington Cascades and In-ChangRyu under Alan Niem in the Tyee Basin.
George and Danielle have taken to the roadsince retirement, including a trip to southernPatagonia, where the photo was taken. Their son,Justin, works in Denver, and their daughter,Audrey, is a graduate student in Olympia.
2003 OSU Geosciences Newsletter
Editor: Bob YeatsProduction: George Moore
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Geology Field Camp Reunion
Well, those of you who weren’t there, youmissed a great time. Our first reunion of
OSU geology field camp alumni met in Prineville
and Mitchell the weekend of June 27-29, 2003. Partof the alumni group met in Corvallis on Fridaymorning and got a tour of the department’s cur-rent facilities in Wilkinson Hall. The full groupthen met in Prineville on Friday evening for a re-ception and dinner (a cozy affair for 52), wherewe shared photos and stories.
Roger Nielsen made a short presentation onthe current state of the department, which isgood—over 20 faculty members, 150 undergradu-ate majors, almost 100 graduate students—and hasa strong commitment to a balance between fieldand laboratory science. John Dilles spoke on thecurrent state of the field camp, which is also good.The 2003 camp had 35 students and is financiallystable. As in past years, the students engaged in 6weeks of field exercises focussing on geologicmapping. They learned using traditional penciland paper mapping methods, and we have alsotried new computer techniques of “digital map-ping”. Although we need a constant input of newfunds for the regular replacement of hardware, thenew higher technologies that are coming on linewill require substantial funding to implement.
Ed Taylor gave a presentation on the 70-yearhistory of field-techniques education at OSU. Mostinteresting was his explanation for why the stu-
dents now work in our industry- and alumni-sup-ported air-conditioned field station rather thanin tents with war-surplus cookstoves. The alumnidisplayed their initial reaction with a heartfeltround of derisive hoots. However, Ed was very
convincing in making the point that theeducation program has benefitedgreatly from being able to focus fully onthe teaching. But today’s students dodiffer from the old in that they chooseto sleep in their own small tents underthe trees along bubbling Keyes Creek.
Following Ed’s excursion into thepast, many of the attendees shared sto-ries of their favorite memories of people,places, and peanut butter sandwiches.
On Saturday, we all gathered inMitchell for a trip down memory lanebeginning on the Mitchell Fault led byEd Taylor and Alan Niem. The fieldtripcontinued to the Painted Hills, followedby lunch, and then it split into twogroups. Many of the alumni chose to tryto chase down the students in ruggedMyers Canyon with varying success.
The remainder went with Alan Niem on a seriesof geologic stops around Mitchell.
Ed Taylor leading a trip that includes Bob Rose (‘64), BobYeats, Liz Tepper (‘96), Tim Berger (‘85), and Rich Rinne (‘71).
Alan Niem pointing out historic structures in thetown of Mitchell to Glen Strachan (‘73) and BillHamlin (‘57).
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In the evening, we all got together for a BBQdinner with the current field camp students, mak-ing a total of almost 90 for supper. Dale Reynolds,the camp cook, managed to pull it off with amaz-ing efficiency with the help of Nicole Armstrong,a 2003 alumna, who had helped to organize thewhole event.
Ed Taylor has constructed a new webpagefor the field camp that contains photos from this
New Alumni, 2002–2003
GeographyBoright, Jonathan W. , MS 03Chastain, Kurt J., BS 03Dale, Becci, MS 02Easter, David A., MS 03Fields Jr., Ryan B., BS 03Friedman-Sowder, Zeph W., BS 03Graves, Matt W., BS 03Hoffbuhr, Tyler J., BS 03Laufer, Eric A., BS 03Lindeman, Dale R., MS 03Lovelady, Suzanne M., BS 03Lumban-Tobing, Pago L., PhD 03Mater, Josh R., BA 03Matsumoto, Kyoko, MS 03McDougle, Sean P., BS 03
Nicolello, Jon G., MS 03O’Donnell, Melinda J., BS 03Odom, Mark R., BS 03Oetter, Douglas R., PhD 03Quillin, David C., MS 03Riech, Sarah L., HBS 03Rinterknecht, Vincent R., PhD 03Sullivan, Lawrence J., MS 03Taddesse, Michael W., BS 03Taddie, Marissa C., MS 03Theirl, David M., MS 03Wood, Nathan J., PhD 03Young, Stephen L., MS 03Zamora-Arroyo, Jose, PhD 03
GeologyArmstrong, Nicole D., BS 03Davis, Kelsay M., BS 02Dickerson, Eric B., BS 03Essman, James E., MS 03Gray, Brian T., BS 03Gordo, Kimberly R., BS 03Horstman, Sheryl L., BS 03Krugh, William C., MS 03Marcott, Shaun A., BS 02
Morehead, Seth R., BS 02Osterbur, Allison K., BS 03Pritchett, Lynnette K., BS 03Rezentes, Vernon F., BS 03Roy, Martin, PhD 03Vacco, David A., MS 03VanLaningham, Samuel J., MS 03Wickum, Jason R., BS 03
year’s reunion plus year-by-year photos fromcamps as far back as the 1930s. To view the pic-tures go to our new website at http://www.geo.oregonstate.edu. Then at “Alumni andPhilanthropy”, click on “Events”. Finally, click on“Geology Field Camp Memories” to open Ed’spage. If you have additional photos from pastcamps, please send them to Ed in care of the de-partment, so they may be added to the website.
Spring Break Geosciences Student Trip to South Africa
Geology and Geography students of thedepartment’s Geoclub are launching ourfirst-ever international fieldtrip. A seminarduring Winter Term on the geology, geog-raphy, and history of South Africa will befollowed by a faculty-led 2-week trip. You
are invited to donate to our efforts. Ear-mark funds to Geo Fieldtrip, OSU Foun-dation. Some alumni may be able to jointhe trip, and the faculty contacts are AnitaGrunder and John Dilles.
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Geosciences Department Benefactors (11/02–11/03)
Nicole Armstrong • Claus & Betty Axelsen • Mark Bailey • Dan & Linda Baker • Gordon Bardy • Kenneth &Donna Barrow • Richard Bastasch & Yvonne Bashor • Sarah Battelle • John & Mollie Bedfod • Kevin Behm •Peter Behr • Elizabeth Benson • Kathryn Berger • Timothy Berger • Kenneth Bevis • John & Donna Blakley •Heidi and Eric Blischke • John and Beth Boyd • Christopher Boyette • Tyson and Eva Broad • Phillip &Louise Brogan • William Brown • Ronald Bruce • Mary Brugo • John and Janet Bubb• Brian & RebeccaButler • Drusilla Butler & Einar Skinnarland • John & Shirley Byrne • Craig Calder • John Campbell •Richard and Patricia Carlton • Gary Carnahan • William Carolan • James and Jane Carter • Mason Case •Scott and Genie Chur chill • Jean Bowman Clark • Charles Ciecko • Robert and Linda Coble • Joel andJosephine Coffey • Robert Coleman • Clarence Conrad • Richard Conrey • Thomas and Cindy Crosby •Kenneth Crouse • Timothy and Mollie Cudmore • Judith & Gary Darke • Howard & Shirley Davis •Marshall Deacon • Robert Deacon • Michelle Deplois • John Dilles • Eric & Sara Dobroth • Ronald Doel •Mr & Mrs Earl Down • Darrell & Natalie Siderius Downs • Richard Dyhrman • Frederick & Rebecca Eberlie• David & Laurie Edwards • John Erickson • Donald & Geraldine Esch • Charity Fechter • Brian & SibylIshtar Felts • Jack & Louise Fenton • Anne Fiedler • Cyrus & Rebecca Field • Maryla Fitch • Paul Forsythe •John & Kathleen Engelke Franklin • William & Jacquelyn Fretwell • Owen & Harriet Furuseth • Richard &Beverly Gaarenstroom • John & Teresa Gallagher • Nikolaus Gerhardt • Mike & Judy Gerstenberger •Norman & Donna Gilmont • Jerry Glenn • Jeffrey Goalen • Donald & Margaret Grettum • Anita Grunder •Andrew Gutgesell • William & Jane Hamlin • Jay & Jeannie Hammitt • Jonathan Hanson • William & PaulaHanson • Jerry & Ronnelle Harrold • Jane Harrison • Kevin & Barbara Harrison • Eric & Valerie Heller •Daniel Henderson • Sandra Henderson & Anthony Selle • Thomas and Kristen Horning • Mark & JoanHouser • John Hruska • Jonathan & Janell Huggins • Scott Hughes & Vivian Hughes Golightly • Gary &Shelly Hunt • Steven & Karen Hunter • Father Ben Innes • Philip & Patricia Jackson • Danny Jacobs • Gary& Clara Jarman • Jere Jay • Betty Johnson • Charles & Carol Hunt Johnson • Robin Johnson • Michael &Susan Jones • James Kennedy • Adam Kent • Amjad Khan • Jeremiah Knoche • Paul & Nancy Krupin •Clarence & Hazel Larsen • Tai-Kwan Andy Lau • Timothy & Linda Lauer • Robert and Nina Lawrence •Harold & Alice Legard • Michael & Mary Lewis • Reed & Karen Lewis • Robert Lillie • Joseph Licciardi •Greg & Mary Liljedahl • David Maher • Douglas & Vicky Manske • John Marshall • Richard & LindaMarston • Jack & Jane Martin • Gordon and Mary Ann Matzke • Eric Mayes • Kevin & Dina McCarty •Bonnie & Terry McCord • Cynthia Schneider McDonald • David & Maria Hinds McLean • Brian & KathyMiller-Hicks • Andrew & Katherine Monaco • Dave McLean • Andrew Meigs • Bryan Miller-Hicks • GeorgeMoon • George & Ellen James Moore • Jim & Sharron Moore • Keith & Elizabeth Muckleston • DavidMuerdter • Daniel Myers • David & Katrina Myers • Robert & Patricia Myers • Jeanne Negley • NancyNething • Roger & Elizabeth Nielsen • Alan Niem • Ronald & Sherry Nutting • James & Linda Olson •Mark Ostlind • Carl & Barbara Palmer • Kenneth & Lynn Parker • Dorothea Peavy • Curt & Carolyn PughPeterson • Heather & Greg Petry • Donald Piepgras • Judy Peitsmeyer • Charles Pine • Eleanor Pine •Theodore & Jean Pine • Ernesto Podaca • John & Rebecca Preston • George & Paula Priest • Kenneth &Katherine Rathje • Jack Rebman • William Rense • Richard & Margery Rinne • David & Cynthia Robnett •Robert & Ann Rose • Rand Rydell • Daniel Saul • Robert & Aida Schmidt • Craig Schneider & Rene Laberge• Alexander & Margie Schriener • Sigmund Schwarz • George & Danielle Sharp • Peter Shields & Wen JuangWu • Amy & Wytse Sikkema-Young • Michael & Loralyn Simmons • Wayne & Cheryl Sitkei • Tracy &Penelope Smith • Rachel Sours-Page • Serena St Clair • Wayne Stout • Glen & Jean Strachan • Martin &Soraya Streck • Kathleen & Kirby Stross •William Taubeneck • Edward and Beverly Taylor • Liz Tepper •Patrick & Robin Tolson • Ernest & Nancy Tuchek • Hiroyuki Tsutsumi • Gerald & Christine Tunstall •Michael Twiss • Scott Urban • Joanne Van Geest • Richard and Jacque Wanderscheid • Michael Warwick &Susan Bailey • James Webb • Shelley Wendt • Willis & Maurla White • Lance & Wende Wilber • JohnWilkins • John Williams • Randi Williams • Stanley & Marjorie Williams • Eric & Brandy Wilson • Steven &Louise Wilson • Bernard Wong • Dawn Wright • Robert & Angela Yeats • Mark Yinger • Helene & GraenemYoffe • Mark Younger • Christopher Zanger
Corporate and Matching Gifts
BP Amoco Fountation • Columbia Stone Inc • ExxonMobil Foundation • GeoDesign Inc • GlaxoSmithKlineFoundation • International Business Machines • Marathon Oil Foundation Inc • Merrill Family Foundation •OSU Alumni Association • Shell Oil Company Foundation Inc • State Farm Companies • Unocal Foundation• Weyerhaeuser Company Foundation • Willamette Geological Service • Williams Gas Pipeline West • XcelEnergy Foundation
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