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2002 NEWSLETTERThe Jackson Vision

2002 NEWSLETTERThe Jackson Vision

The University of Texas at AustinDepartment of Geological SciencesGeology FoundationJohn A. and Katherine G. Jackson School of Geosciences

The University of Texas at AustinDepartment of Geological SciencesGeology FoundationJohn A. and Katherine G. Jackson School of Geosciences

The Jackson Bequest:An Event without Precedent

On March 2, 2002, President Larr yFaulkner announced the largest monetary giftever made to a single public university in thenation. Honorary Life Member of the GeologyFoundation Advisory Council, Mr. John A.Jackson, on behalf of himself and his late wifeKatherine, indicated his intent to commit theresidue of his estate to the Geology Foundationof The University of Texas at Austin. In hisletter to Dr. Faulkner, Mr. Jackson indicatedthat the current value of the estate residue isbetween $150 million and $200 million.Elsewhere in this Newsletter, Mr. Jackson stateshis belief that the residue of the estate couldreach $300 million. Mr. Jackson’s bequestand recent gifts add to Geology Foundationassets with a current market value of about$55 million.

The gift to the Foundation is to be in supportof the John A. and Katherine G. Jackson Schoolof Geosciences, which was created by the Boardof Regents in July 2001 and initially endowedby Mr. Jackson at $25 million. In his letter toDr. Faulkner, Mr. Jackson stated that it is hisdesire that the Jackson Endowment address thesubjects of geology; geophysics; energy, mineral,and water resources; as well as the broad areasof the earth sciences, including the earth’senvironment.

In making his bequest, Mr. Jackson indicatedhis hopes that the geosciences programs at UTAustin would be among the top in the nation.He states that the resources of the earth havebeen important to him and to what Katie andhe were able to achieve. The continued studyand understanding of geology and the en-vironment and resources of the earth will beimportant long into the future, he states, andhis intent to commit the residue of his estate isin that spirit.

Jack Jackson is a 1940 graduate in geologyfrom The University and has been a memberof the Geology Foundation Advisory Councilsince 1975. His fellow members of the Councilvoted him Honorary Life Member in 1998.Jack and Katie have long been supporters ofUT Austin geology, endowing a teachingfellowship, a fellowship in geohydrology, anda special fund in exploration geophysics, amongnumerous other gifts.

All the friends of geology at UT Austin andthe faculty, staff, and countless students to comesalute this unique couple—Jack and KatieJackson—for their unprecedented gift, for theirvision, and their hopes for the future. It will bethe challenge to the many, many futurebeneficiaries of the Jacksons’ generosity toensure that the goals of Jack and Katie areachieved and even exceeded. They have givenus the means to do unprecedented things.

GARY A. KOCUREK, CHAIRMANDepartment of Geological Sciences

WILLIAM L. FISHER, DIRECTORGeology Foundation and John A. and Katherine G. Jackson School of Geosciences

ALICE RENTZManaging Editor

AMANDA R. MASTERSONEditor

JAMIE H. COGGINLayout and Design

Photos by JOSEPH JAWORSKI except as noted.

No State-appropriated funds were used to publish this Newsletter.

Front Cover: John A. and Katherine G. Jackson, circa 1980

Back Cover: An Editorial from the Austin American-Statesman. Copyright 2002 Austin American-Statesman, reprinted with permisssion.

2002

NEWSLETTER

The University of Texas at Austin

Department of Geological Sciences

Geology Foundation

John A. and Katherine G. Jackson School of Geosciences

The University of Texas at AustinDepartment of Geological SciencesGeology FoundationJohn A. and Katherine G. Jackson School of Geosciences2002 NewsletterVolume 52

Table of ContentsThe Jackson Vision: Report from the DirectorDepartment of Geological Sciences NewsReport from the Chairman .............................................................................................................. 1Graduate Studies Committee and Staff Listing ......................................................................... 2Faculty Personal Notes ...................................................................................................................... 5An Open Letter from Mr. John A. Jackson ................................................................................ 14Jackson School of Geosciences Chartered and Geology Foundation

By-Laws Revised .......................................................................................................................... 16Fisher Named First Director of the John A. and Katherine G. Jackson

School of Geosciences ............................................................................................................. 16News of the New Building ............................................................................................................. 17Exploration Geophysics Initiative: 2002 Update ...................................................................... 18Field Research in Tamaulipas, Mexico,

Works to Develop New Methods of Aquifer Mapping ................................................... 19Outreach Lecture Series ................................................................................................................ 20Faculty Awards and Honors .......................................................................................................... 21Flawn Receives Lamar Medal ........................................................................................................ 22Fisher to Receive Boyd Medal ...................................................................................................... 22Muehlberger Named Distinguished Educator ......................................................................... 23Robert K. Goldhammer Receives Knebel Award .................................................................... 24New Faculty:

Robert J. Ferguson ..................................................................................................................... 25Zong-Liang Yang ......................................................................................................................... 25

Biographical Sketches of Deceased Former Faculty .............................................................. 26UT-Austin Exes at Helm of AAPG ................................................................................................. 26Charles Weiner Named Legendary Oilman.............................................................................. 26David Dunn to Receive GSA’s Distinguished Service Award............................................... 27In Memoriam:

Anne Egdorf Bloomer ............................................................................................................... 27Laura Brooks Flawn, M.D. ........................................................................................................ 28Claude Wendell Horton, Sr. .................................................................................................... 28Bill R. Payne .................................................................................................................................. 29

Staff Awards and Honors ............................................................................................................... 30Speakers—Faculty and Staff in the Department of Geological Sciences ...................... 31Endowed Lecturers .......................................................................................................................... 32

Visiting Speakers .............................................................................................................................. 34Student Speakers

Other Talks by Graduate Students ........................................................................................ 37Technical Sessions ..................................................................................................................... 38

Student Awards and ActivitiesSummer Field Camp 200—GEO 660 .......................................................................................... 40Basin Analysis Class Tours the Ouachita/Arkoma Basin Province ..................................... 41Field Excursion to the Iberian Peninsula—GEO 381R .......................................................... 42Student Awards and Honors ........................................................................................................ 44Placement Office Update ............................................................................................................... 45Student Officers for Fall 2001 and Spring 2002 ........................................................................ 45Graduate Student Executive Committee ................................................................................... 46Research and Teaching Assistants and Assistant Instructors—2001–2002..................... 47Graduate Fellowships, Scholarships, and Awards .................................................................. 48Graduate Degrees in Geological Sciences Conferred by

The University of Texas at Austin—2001–2002 ................................................................. 50Undergraduate Scholarships and Awards ................................................................................ 52Undergraduate Degrees in Geological Sciences Conferred by

The University of Texas at Austin—2001–2002 ................................................................. 54A Groundbreaking Year for the UT Student Chapter of AAPG .......................................... 55

Other Geosciences Units of The UniversityBureau of Economic Geology ....................................................................................................... 56Institute for Geophysics (UTIG) ................................................................................................... 59Environmental Science Institute .................................................................................................. 62Walter Geology Library ................................................................................................................... 64Donors of Books and Materials—Walter Geology Library: 2001–2002 ............................ 65Texas Memorial Museum ............................................................................................................... 66

Geology Foundation NewsGeology Foundation Advisory Council News .......................................................................... 68Geology Foundation Advisory Council ..................................................................................... 72Gifts to the Geology Foundation, June 1, 2001, through May 31, 2002 ............................. 74Geology Foundation Endowed Accounts ................................................................................. 77

Memorials .....................................................................................................................................82

Notes from the Alumni ...................................................................................................87

We Always Need and Appreciate Your Help ............................................ 115

The Jackson VisionReport from the Director

A great school is known by the quality of students it attracts and graduates, the facultyand staff that people it, and the support provided it by former students and friends. TheUniversity of Texas at Austin has a splendid record in its graduates, in number the largest inNorth America, many of whom have had a profound impact on the science, on society, andon their fellow man. Our faculty and research staff, past and present, have been and are wellregarded, and a number of our programs are top ranked in the Nation.

But, I think the unique, perhaps even defining, mark that UT Austin makes in thegeosciences is due to the long and continuing support it receives from former studentsand friends—support in the form of resources, support in the form of counsel, andsupport in the form of interest and identification. The focus of this support is theGeology Foundation and its Advisory Council, which was created in 1953 by the Boardof Regents. The vision of the early members of the Advisory Council—Morgan Davis(first Chairman), L. T. Barrow, Ed Owen, Scott Petty, Guy Green, Wayne Bowman, WallacePratt, Everette DeGolyer, Charlie Yager, among others—and then-Department Chairman,Sam Ellison, and the many who have followed, has brought us to where we are today.

Their counsel through the years has strengthened our programs, and their contributionof resources has made the Geology Foundation one of the strongest in the Nation.

Now enters John A. Jackson, a 1940 graduate of the Department, an Honorary LifeMember of the Advisory Council, and a member since 1975, to carry us to new,unprecedented heights. Jack notes in his open letter elsewhere in this Newsletter that theAdvisory Council is the best board, by far, that he has ever served on. His regard for theCouncil and this University, his confidence in the people here in the geosciences, andmost of all what we call the Jackson Vision are the motivation for his and Katie’s magnificentinvestment.

Those of us here and to come and those who counsel us must measure up to thechallenge of the Jackson Vision. We are underway, ideas are brewing, and the new JacksonSchool of Geosciences is vibrant. Jack says he wants us to have the advantage of somelong-term thinking and planning. We should be deliberate, but we must be bold.

I urge all of you with interest in this great School of Geosciences and what it willbecome to give us your continued support and your best ideas. Together we will meetand realize the Jackson Vision.

Bill Fisher

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Report from the Chairman

What a year! Foremost, the Jackson School is being created in both philosophyand practice. Created on July 10, 2001, by President Faulkner and made possibleby an “investment” by John A. Jackson on behalf of himself and his late wife,Katherine G. Jackson, the Jackson School is a wholly new concept for geosciencesat The University of Texas at Austin. The mission in education, research, andservice by the Department, the Bureau of Economic Geology (BEG), and theInstitute for Geophysics (UTIG) is now under the common umbrella of the JacksonSchool, and embracing what can only be termed unparalleled opportunity. Theinitial manifestations are competitive recruitment packages for graduate students,fuller support for both graduate and undergraduate students, incorporation ofUTIG and BEG research scientists into our classrooms, the launching of a post-doctoral program, the right of thesis supervision by an initial group of researchscientists, and matching money for external grants. The more challenging aspectlies in the creative process of identifying and developing programs that can placegeosciences at The University of Texas at Austin at the forefront of the science fordecades to come.

On the physical facility front, during the past year it has been difficult to findan area of the building not in a construction phase. The main addition to thebuilding, made possible by a gift from John A. and Katherine G. Jackson, is onschedule, and we eagerly anticipate moving into this nearly 60,000-square-footaddition in time for the spring 2003 semester. The rear entry area of the buildingwas remodeled so that there is now a patio where vehicles used to be parked. Afteryears of repairs, both elevators are being totally replaced. The conference room onthe third floor has been beautifully remodeled and named after the Barrow Family,who funded the work. Because of a major gift by the Walter Family, the library isundergoing a very major expansion and renovation.

In spite of all the changes taking place, this Department retains its traditionalsense of community, which one recent foreign guest described as a “small town ina big place.” Days of jackhammers vibrating through the building were met withrelatively good humor. Faculty, research scientists, staff, and students walked aroundconstruction sites to continue their jobs. Our alumni and friends continue to supportthis Department in ways that are unparalleled elsewhere.

Gary Kocurek

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GRADUATE STUDIES COMMITTEE AND STAFF LISTING

Ian W. D. DalzielProfessor; Associate Director,Institute for Geophysics; andJohn A. and Katherine G.Jackson Research Fellow

Alan R. DuttonResearch Scientist,Bureau of Economic Geology

Robert J. FergusonAssistant Professor

William L. FisherProfessor; Leonidas T. BarrowCentennial Chair in MineralResources; Director, GeologyFoundation; Director,John A. and Katherine G. JacksonSchool of Geosciences; andSenior Research Scientist,Bureau of Economic Geology

Clifford R. A. FrohlichAssociate Director,Institute for Geophysics

William E. GallowayProfessor and Morgan J.Davis Centennial Chair inPetroleum Geology

Robert K. GoldhammerAssistant Professor andElf Aquitaine Petroleum FacultyFellow in Geological Sciences

Stephen P. GrandProfessor and Dave P. CarltonCentennial Professor in Geophysics

Bob A. HardageSenior Research Scientist,Bureau of Economic Geology

Martin P. A. JacksonSenior Research Scientist andJohn A. and Katherine G.Jackson Research Fellow,Bureau of Economic Geology

Charles KeransSenior Research Scientistand John A. and Katherine G.Jackson Research Fellow,Bureau of Economic Geology

Gary A. KocurekProfessor; John E. “Brick” ElliottCentennial Endowed Professor inGeological Sciences; and Chairman,Department of Geological Sciences

J. Richard KyleProfessor; The Third Mr. andMrs. Charles E. Yager Professor;and Graduate Advisor

Stephen E. LaubachSenior Research Scientist,Bureau of Economic Geology

Leon E. LongProfessor; The Second Mr. andMrs. Charles E. Yager Professor;and Undergraduate Advisor

F. Jerry LuciaSenior Research Fellow,Bureau of Economic Geology

William P. MannSenior Research Scientist,Institute for Geophysics

Randall A. MarrettAssociate Professor;Elf Aquitaine Petroleum FacultyFellow in Geological Sciences;and Joyce Bowman PayneTeaching Fellow

Earle F. McBrideProfessor and J. Nalle GregoryChair in Sedimentary Geology

Sharon MosherProfessor and William StampsFarish Chair in Geology

Graduate StudiesCommittee

James A. Austin, Jr.Senior Research Scientist,Institute for Geophysics

Jay L. BannerProfessor; Dave P. CarltonCentennial Fellow in Geology;and Director, EnvironmentalScience Institute

Christopher J. BellAssistant Professor andJohn A. Wilson Fellow inVertebrate Paleontology

Philip C. BennettProfessor; Dave P. CarltonCentennial Professor in Geology;and John A. and Katherine G.Jackson Centennial TeachingFellow in Geological Sciences

Donald D. BlankenshipResearch Scientist,Institute for Geophysics

Richard T. BufflerProfessor and Senior ResearchScientist, Institute for Geophysics

William D. CarlsonProfessor and Peter T. FlawnCentennial Chair in Geology

Mark P. CloosProfessor and Getty OilCompany Centennial Chairin Geological Sciences

James N. ConnellyAssociate Professor and William T.Stokes Centennial TeachingFellow in Geological Sciences


Yosio NakamuraProfessor and Senior ResearchScientist, Institute for Geophysics

Timothy B. RoweProfessor; J. Nalle Gregory RegentsProfessor in Geological Sciences;and Director, VertebratePaleontology Laboratory

Bridget R. ScanlonSenior Research Scientist andJohn A. and Katherine G. JacksonResearch Fellow,Bureau of Economic Geology

Mrinal K. SenSenior Research Scientist,Institute for Geophysics

John M. Sharp, Jr.Professor and ChevronCentennial Professor in Geology

Thomas H. ShipleySenior Research Scientist andJohn A. and Katherine G. JacksonResearch Fellow,Institute for Geophysics

Douglas SmithProfessor and Albert W. andAlice M. Weeks CentennialProfessor in Geological Sciences

James T. SprinkleProfessor and The First Mr. andMrs. Charles E. Yager Professor

Libby A. SternAssistant Professor and GeologyFoundation Advisory CouncilCentennial Teaching Fellow inGeological Sciences

Paul L. StoffaProfessor; Shell CompaniesFoundation Distinguished Chairin Geophysics; and Director,Institute for Geophysics

Robert H. TathamProfessor and Shell CompaniesFoundation Centennial Chairin Geophysics

Scott W. TinkerProfessor; Edwin Allday Chair inSubsurface Geology; and Director,Bureau of Economic Geology

Willem C. J. van RensburgProfessor; J. H. HerringCentennial Professor inPetroleum Engineering

Clark R. WilsonProfessor and Wallace E. PrattProfessor in Geophysics

Lesli J. WoodResearch Scientist,Bureau of Economic Geology

Zong-Liang YangAssistant Professor

Professors Emeriti

Milo M. BackusShell Companies FoundationDistinguished Chair Emeritus inGeophysics

Daniel S. BarkerFred M. Bullard Professor Emeritusin Geological Sciences

Robert E. BoyerPeter T. Flawn Centennial ChairEmeritus in Geological Sciences

Leonard F. Brown

Stephen E. ClabaughFred M. Bullard Professor Emeritusin Geological Sciences

Peter T. FlawnPresident Emeritus andLeonidas T. Barrow ChairEmeritus in Mineral Resources

Robert L. FolkDave P. Carlton CentennialProfessor Emeritus in Geology

Edward C. Jonas

Lynton S. LandEdwin Allday Centennial ChairEmeritus in Subsurface Geology

Wann Langston, Jr.The First Mr. and Mrs. Charles E.Yager Professor Emeritus

Ernest L. LundeliusJohn A. Wilson Professor Emeritusin Vertebrate Paleontology

Arthur E. Maxwell

John C. MaxwellWilliam Stamps Farish ChairEmeritus in Geology

William R. MuehlbergerPeter T. Flawn CentennialChair Emeritus in Geology

Amos SalvadorMorgan J. Davis CentennialProfessor Emeritus inPetroleum Geology

John A. Wilson

Keith YoungJ. Nalle Gregory ProfessorEmeritus in Sedimentary Geology

Lecturersand ResearchScientists

Matthew W. ColbertResearch Associate

Wulf A. GoseResearch Scientistand Senior Lecturer

Mark A. HelperSenior Lecturer

Todd B. HoushResearch Scientist


Eric W. JamesResearch Scientist Associate

Richard A. KetchamResearch Scientist

John M. LansdownResearch Scientist Associate

Lawrence E. MackResearch Scientist Assistant

Kathryn A. ManserResearch Scientist Associate

Fred W. McDowellResearch Scientist andSenior Lecturer

Kitty L. MillikenResearch Scientist and Lecturer

PostdoctoralFellows

Nathan R. DaczkoPostdoctoral Fellow withSharon Mosher

Jessica A. MaisanoPostdoctoral Fellow withTimothy B. Rowe

Guo-Yue NiuPostdoctoral Fellow withZong-Liang Yang

Technical Staff

Ryan R. BiggsTechnical Staff Assistant

Roger O. GaryTechnical Staff Assistant

Nelson A. GudaProgram Coordinator,Environmental Science Institute

Jeffrey S. HorowitzSenior Computer Illustrator

Effie L. JarrettSenior Systems Analyst

Joseph JaworskiPhotographer

J. Tyler LehmanSenior Systems Analyst

Gregory L. ThompsonTechnical Staff Assistant

Dennis R. TrombatoreLibrarian, Walter Geology Library

AdministrativeStaff

Philip A. GuerreroAdministrative Associate

Angela JowersAdministrative Assistant

Kathryn B. OheimTechnical Staff Assistant

Miriam L. PashbyAdministrative Associate

Willa L. PorterAdministrative Assistant

John R. ReadySenior Procurement Officer

Alice RentzAdministrative Associate

Debra Sue TrinqueAccounting Technician

Renee A. WatersAcademic Advisor

William I. WoodsExecutive Assistant

GeologyFoundation

William L. FisherDirector

Mary E. KochSenior Administrative Associate


Faculty Personal NotesDan Barker has spent

his second and third years ofretirement simultaneouslytrying to justify his retentionof an office in the GeologyBuilding and spending aslittle time in it as possible.Construction noise is aplausible excuse. He nowhas a computer system athome, so that he can workon manuscripts underconditions more suitableto productivity (barefoot,smoking, and l isteningto music). Ro continuesher volunteer service in theGeology Librar y, doingwhat she can to help DennisTrombatore prepare forthe library’s move prior torenovations.

Since the summer of2000, Dan has attendedfour meetings, presentedtwo papers, co-led two fieldtrips, and had three paperspublished (a guidebook toTuff Canyon in Big BendPark, a paper about themechanism of emplacementof a sill near Lajitas, andanother paper on thechemistry of carbonatiteliquids). His work on theTrans-Pecos igneous rocksand the Llano granites con-tinues, and he is startinga mapping project in BigBend.

Also in the last two years,he and Ro went on geolog-ically motivated trips toWyoming, South Dakota,

Hawaii , New Mexico,Colorado, Utah, NewHampshire, Massachusetts,and Rhode Island, and onseveral forays into Trans-Pecos Texas. They look for-ward to seeing Alaska forthe first time in June, andgoing to the InternationalMineralogical Associationmeeting in Edinburgh withfield trips in Scotland inAugust and September.

On more personal mat-ters, Dan’s daughters Mollyand Amy are both happilymarried and living in Austinand in New York, respec-tively. Molly and Amy losttheir mother, BarbaraMackin Barker Warner, tocancer ear ly in January,and Dan and Ro thus lost avery dear friend. They lastsaw Barbara in Utah inSeptember 2001, at a sympo-sium organized by the UtahGeological Associationand the Pacific Section ofAAPG honoring the mem-ory and accomplishmentsof Barbara’s father, J. HooverMackin. The meetingindeed did honor to theman, and Barbara was verymoved by it and gratefulthat she could attend.

This year, Bill Carlsonreaped his reward for the7 preceding years of admin-istrative service, in the formof a year-long researchleave. With only his continu-ing duty on the design/build

team for the new JacksonBuilding addition to keephim on campus, travel forresearch, and collaborationfilled much of the last year.

Last summer began witha trip to the Paul ScherrerInstitute, the Swiss nationalparticle accelerator facilityoutside Zurich, to explorethe possibilities of neutrontomography on geologicalmaterials; this was followedby field work in the CentralAlps with student CharnaMeth. In late summer, aneclogite conference and fieldtrip in Shikoku, Japan, pro-vided a great opportunity tosee amazing rocks in a fan-tastic setting.

Much of Bill’s researcheffort during the academicyear was centered on expand-ing and improving theDepar tment’s analyticalequipment and facilities.He continued to direct theUT High-Resolution X-rayComputed Tomographylab, and with Rich Ketchamsuccessfully sought arenewal of its status as anNSF-sponsored nationalshared user facility. WithPhil Bennett and KittyMil l iken as co-PIs, Bil lalso secured $1.1 million infunding from the W. M. KeckFoundation and The Univer-sity for purchase of a newenvironmental scanningelectron microscope and anew state-of-the-art electron

probe microanalyzer. Headded a laser-ablation sys-tem to the Department’sinductively coupled plasmamass spectrometry lab, andhe helped acquire fundingfor a complete upgrade tothe analytical software in theX-ray diffraction lab. Withall this, expectations arehigh for a renaissance ofpetrologic geochemistry inthe Department’s near future!

Bill proudly notes thatsince his last report in thesepages, several of his studentshave completed their de-grees, including Dave Hirsch(Ph.D., now an AssistantProfessor at Western Wash-ington University) andMaster’s students SusanAnderson, Charna Meth,and Kate Herrell.

Of course, it hasn’t beenall work. With both sonsnow in college, Bill andSusan took advantage ofthe extra freedom to travelfor pleasure. In additionto their annual kayaking tripto the San Juan Islands,Bill and Susan also spent2 weeks in French Polynesia,celebrating their 25thwedding anniversary (only3 years too late!), and amid-winter trip to CentralAlaska fulfilled Bill’s long-time wish to see a spectacu-lar display of the auroraborealis.

Mark Cloos taughtStructural Geology to under-


graduates in the fall, and forthis he revived the Arbuckle/Ouachita field trip. He wasthe lead instructor for thenew Tectonics g raduatecourse in the spring that hadexcellent presentations byfaculty and research scientistsat the Institute for Geo-physics and the Bureau ofEconomic Geology whogave lectures on their areas ofexpertise. He continuesto work with students inpublishing papers basedupon their Ertsberg projectstudies. Last year, majorpapers were published onbubbling magma chambersand porphyry copper de-posits and the origin ofmagmatism in collisionaldelamination sett ings.Papers on volcanism andfaulting in the highlandsof New Guinea were sub-mitted to journals.

Jim Connelly taughtintroductory geology, fieldcamp, and a graduate coursein isotopes and continuedresearch activities with hisgraduate students in Pre-cambrian tectonics, conti-nental reconstructions, andisotope systematics. Fieldwork brought him toWest Greenland, theScottish Highlands, andthe American Southwestto examine field relation-ships and collect samplesfor U-Pb geochronology.

The U-Pb laboratorycontinues to turn out high-quality ages under the stew-ardship of Kathy Manser,providing temporal con-straints for projects in Pre-

cambrian belts of Brazil,Sweden, South Africa, andAntarctica. In addition tothe conventional isotopefacility, advances were madein establishing in situ U-Pbanalyses using a laser ablationmicroprobe connected toour new inductively coupledplasma mass spectrometer.This abil i ty to analyzespots of zircons as smallas 40 microns offers excit-ing new possibilities to re-solve ages for complex rocks(where each analysis takesless than a minute!).

Jim and his studentspresented results of theirresearch at annual meetingsin Boston (GSA) and St.John’s, Newfoundland(GAC) and at severalworkshops. He also pre-sented an invited lecturein Derby, England, to theMineralogical Society aboutthe challenges of preciselydating metamorphism.

Jim and Kathy are stillflying themselves around insmall planes, with extendedtrips recently to Canadaand the Grand Canyon atChristmas (cold camping butvery quiet). They have alsotaken up kayaking thispast year and are enjoyingexploring the rivers ofCentral Texas from a differ-ent perspective.

This last school yearsaw many changes forRob Ferguson and hisfamily. Beginning onAugust 8, 2001, Rob andCorrine left California,where they had worked re-spectively as a Lead Research

Scientist with Chevron anda Researcher with theUniversity of California, tomove to Austin. Arriving in100+ degree heat and around100 percent humidity, Roband Corrine moved intotheir small apartment onHart Lane in NorthwestAustin. For the fall semes-ter, Rob taught GEO 312K,while Corrine, who wasabout five months pregnant,began the search for a perma-nent residence. Gigi, bornGiselle Kayla Ferguson,arrived on the morning ofDecember 30, 2001, to thedelight of her parents. In thewinter session, Rob taughtGEO 486K while Corrineand Gigi established rou-tines. In May, the Fergusonspurchased a house just northof campus and, after a fewrenovations, plan to movein by August 2002.

Besides his teachingduties, Rob enjoyed op-portunities to be a guestspeaker. He visited UT-Dallas, the Institute forGeophysics, the Explora-tion Geophysics EDGERForum within the Depart-ment, and Technical Sessionsto present work on wave-field extrapolation, marineseismic processing, aniso-tropy, and multi-componentAVO.

Rob’s research activitiesproved fruitful this academicyear, with papers preparedfor and presented at a num-ber of conferences. The firstrequired a trip to Houstonto the Offshore TechnologyConference to present a

paper on marine statics.The next stop providedan opportunity for theFergusons to return toCanada, where Rob pre-sented a paper at theCanadian Society of Ex-ploration Geophysicistsconference. From Canada,Rob pressed on alone to Italyto present at the EuropeanSociety of Geoscientistsand Engineers meeting inFlorence. Rob presently hasan abstract in review forpresentation at the Society ofExploration Geophysicistsconference in Salt Lake Cityin the fall.

This has been a good yearfor Rob in the publishingrealm, with articles appearingin the journals Geophysics andGeophysical Prospecting.

Rob also took time thisyear to look for additionalgeophysical inspiration byattending the Sub BasalImaging workshop inCambridge, UK, the Aniso-tropy workshop inTutzing, Germany, andthe annual conference ofthe American GeophysicalUnion in San Francisco.

Rob is spending thesummer building a seismicimaging capabil i ty onLinux clusters and con-ducting research into newanisotropic wavefield ex-trapolation operators as arecipient of a SummerResearch Appointment. Heis also working with theEDGER Forum in ex-tending the capabilities ofmulti-component seismic.


Bill Fisher spent muchof the past year chairing thecommittee to draft a charterand operating proceduresfor the new Jackson Schoolof Geosciences and, as thenewly named Director of theSchool, getting it under way.He also directs the GeologyFoundation and teaches twopopular graduate courses—Sequence Stratigraphy and,with Scott Tinker, ReservoirGeology.

Bill is currently super-vising 22 graduate stud-ents and co-super visinganother 6, working in theGulf of Mexico offshore,the Gulf Coast, West Texas,New Mexico, Utah, Colo-rado, Oklahoma, Mexico,Indonesia, New Zealand,Northwest Australia off-shore, and Venezuela. Six stu-dents are graduating, in-cluding Claudia Rassi (Ph.D.)joining ChevronTexaco inSan Francisco, AdrianBadescu (Ph.D.) workingwith bp in Houston,Donna Cathro (Ph.D.) re-joining Geoscience Australia(the geological survey ofAustralia), Patricia Montoya(M.S.) rejoining PDVSAin Caracas, Rob Koch(M.S.) joining Anadarko inHouston, and FernandoCerda (M.S.) working forWesternGeco in Houston.

Bill continues to giveseveral invited lectures andis active in the AGI andAAPG Foundations, theNational Research Council,the National Academy ofEngineering, and theNational Petroleum Council.

Peter T. Flawn , asPresident Emeritus, contin-ues his service on a numberof University commissions,boards, and committees. Heis a Director of the South-west Research Institute aswell as several corporationsand partnerships. In March,his book, Silver in the SierraMadre –The Story of the SantaCruz Mine and Phi l ip W.Beckley, was published byEakin Press.

Whew! Bob Folk canfinally come out of the closetwithout embarrassment.The reason he does fieldwork in Italy is because in1973 in Milano his familyfell in love with Italian food,opera, vino, language, archi-tecture—the whole lifestyle(perhaps some of you hadalready suspected that). In1974, Earle McBride becameinfected as well , and in1979, Bob was looking foranother excuse to do researchthere. Bob persuaded HankChafetz to go to Italy tolook at the origin of Romantravertines. By dumb luck,they discovered these rockslargely made of bacterial pre-cipitation, and this chanceevent changed both of theirresearch directions.

After Bob retired in 1988,through the kindness ofthe BEG in supportingfuture field work there, heagain made a brainless dis-covery—the hot springsof Viterbo, where for thefirst time the little worldof nannobacteria was re-vealed in rocks (thanks toa new SEM). Who would

have thought that this chancefinding would have ledNASA to have searched for,and found, nannobacteriain the Martian meteorite, orto have unveiled the greatimplications that nanno-bacteria have for humanhealth? Thanks to beingretired, Bob did not haveto waste his time in writingrejected grants. (Who wouldhave funded this, given thatthere was almost unani-mous rejection of the idea ofdwarf bacteria by the bio-logical community.)

This past year, thanksto Jeri C. Rodgers (graduatestudent here) and her hus-band, cardiologist George P.Rodgers, they have made alink-up with the Mayo Clinic,and they have done thebiology to prove the “life” ofnannobacteria, while theyhave done the SEM’s onhuman arterial plaque—yes, it is hydroxyapatite andproveably precipitated bynannobacteria. This ideawas presented at GSABoston and also at severalcardiology conferences.Bob also got a tiny piece ofpyroxenite mother rockof the Martian meteoriteALH84001, and yes, thehypersthene is badly infectedwith Martian nannobacteria;paper in press in Meteoriticsand Planetary Science. Workcontinues on the little bugsprecipitating carbonates,pyrite, weathering clays, etc.

In the summer, Bobwent to Italy with AnnetteSummers Engel, who hasa good microbiology back-

ground. Her husband Scottand elderly former student,Tim Diggs, went along forthe first part. They touredMilano, Monterosso, andRoma before starting workat the hot springs of Viterbo.Annette had done workpreviously at the spectacularcaverns at Frasassi (southof Ancona), so they wentthere to do some more sam-pling on the sulfur bacteria.Dumb luck again: theylanded at Gubbio just onthe Sunday they were hav-ing their annual festa anda crossbow-shooting con-test with a neighboringtown. There were paradeswith flagthrowers, fanfares,gorgeous chicks, and im-pressive men in medievalcostume, drummers, pen-nants, bell ringing, as wellas crossbow shooting. InItaly, there is always some-thing exciting.

Toward the end of thetrip, they took the trainfrom Milano NE to Tirano,then got off on a dinkylittle train that crossed theSwiss border at Poschiavo,and went high up into theAlps. Bob had boughttickets to a station called“Bernina Diavolezza” nothaving any idea what itwas, but assuming there wassomething there. Well, itturned out to be only thebase of a ski lift that wasnot running this time ofyear. There were no shops,no bar, no restrooms, novillage, and no people. Boband Annette collected igne-ous pebbles among the ice


and snow. (SEM shows that,yes, nannobacterial wea-thering is taking place evenunder glacial conditions.)But they had no round-triptickets—and no station tobuy them from. Besides that,they had only Italian mon-ey…what to do? Anyway, thedinky train finally came andluckily they could use theirlire to buy tickets from theconductor. They celebratedby going to High Mass inthe Duomo of Milano.

During the year, Margeand Bob spent a few daysin Castroville, Texas (“LittleAlsace”), and over Christmaswent to Corpus Christi andPort Aransas with theirdaughter and family. In May,they took a mini-vacationto tour the Texas Panhandle;Amaril lo, Per ryton, andDalhart, and did five statesin one day: Oklahoma,Kansas, Colorado, NewMexico, and Texas. Theyknocked off eleven countiesin Texas that they hadnever seen before, plusthe Oklahoma Panhandle.Interesting country, espe-cially the Canadian RiverBreaks.

Bill Galloway spentthe past year dividing timeamong teaching the usualcourses, Terrigenous ClasticDepositional Systems, BasinAnalysis, and PetroleumGeology, working on theGulf Basin DepositionalSynthesis (GBDS) project atUTIG, and practicing beingthe father of an upper-division teen (pretty mucha futile endeavor) and a

still-new grandfather (muchmore enjoyable).

The highlight of theyear was their family rafttr ip through the GrandCanyon, as a tourist ratherthan a professional. Theyhad a great guide, marvelousweather that even includedcloudy days with showersand cool nights when thesleeping bag felt good, andnature’s scenery at its finestto entertain them. Bill says,“I knew I was having agreat time because I sleptreally great on the ground,and I have never slept wellon the ground in my life.”Later that summer, Bil lvisited Jack Sharp’s home-town in Minnesota to tryout f ishing in northernwaters for exotics such aswalleye and pike. Bill saysthat he wasn’t the mostsuccessful fisherman of thegroup, but he caught enoughto make it a memorableadventure.

Bill also had a chance toagain tour the classic south-ern Ouachita/Arkoma basinoutcrops along with thebasin analysis studentsunder the leadership of MacMcGilvery (former studentnow working at Phillips).As always, a great trip andgreat fun for everyone.

Bill’s current studentscontinue work on theMiocene depositional frame-work of the East-CentralGulf of Mexico and onlate Quaternary deposits ofTexas rivers. Co-supervisedstudents at the Institute arelooking at late Quaternary

features and facies of theAtlantic and Pacific shelves.Bill will join Bob Folk inthe distinction of having apaper published despitethe strong objections ofseveral JSR reviewers; Billsays, “We’ll see if my hard-headedness proves equallyjustified.”

Robert K. Goldhammercompleted his f irst ful lyear at the Department andfinally convinced his wifeto give up her careerwith Anadarko Petroleumin Houston, sell the house,and join him in Austin.Having accomplished that,they have settled into theirnewly renovated ’70’s stylehome with their 3-year-olddaughter Nora, who recentlygot a new baby brother(Maximilian “Axel” Robert,born May 25, 2002). As arelatively new AssistantProfessor in the Depart-ment, Goldhammer con-tinues to adjust to life inacademia, much differentfrom that of the “industry.”

Goldhammer offeredtwo new graduate classesrelated to carbonate rocksand also taught half of416M (the undergraduatesedimentary rocks class).Teaching-related highlightsinclude: (1) the creation ofa new carbonate graduateresearch lab with all thelatest high-tech equipmentand an enormous teachingcollection with l i teral lythousands of polished rockslabs, thin sections, cores,and samples—coveringeverything from the Protero-

zoic to the Holocene (a sig-nificant contribution fromthe Bahamas by Art Sallerand Tom Elliott of Unocalis a real jewel); (2) the com-pletion of an up-to-dateseries of lectures and labscovering all aspects of car-bonate geology; (3) takinggraduate students on somefairly pleasant field trips,notably the fall 2001 tripto Belize and the Spring2002 trip to Mexico (specialthanks to Dr. Fisher andthe Foundation for theirfinancial assistance withthe Belize trip); and (4) re-ceiving the Knebel Awardfor outstanding efforts inthe classroom.

On the research front,Goldhammer’s activit iesinclude: (1) creating anindustry-sponsored researchconsortium (“MesozoicMargins”), which deals withthe tectono-stratigraphicand paleogeographic evolu-tion of Mesozoic divergentmargins (including offshoreAngola, Brazil, and bothonshore and offshoreMexico); several companiesjoined and they managed tohave their f irst annualmeeting in Mexico, includinga value-added field trip;(2) successfully procuringan offshore 1996–1998vintage regional 2-D seismicdata set from WesternGeco(London New Ventures)valued in excess of$800,000 for pursuinghis Angola-related interests;(3) convincing six (origi-nally innocent) graduatestudents to work with


him on graduate degrees,with three more comingin fall 2002.

A myriad of projects arebeing pursued by the “kids,”including: (a) salt-related tec-tonics and carbonate stratig-raphy (Mexico, Angola);(b) the role of hierarchicalstratigraphic architecture ininfluencing structural stylesin folded carbonates (fracturedistribution and locationof detachment surfaces);(c) outcrop and experimen-tal (with Bruno Vendevilleof the BEG) investigationsof early mechanical com-paction in Lower Ordoviciancarbonates of the ArbuckleMountains (yes, they are inOklahoma); (d) dolomitiza-tion fronts adjacent to frac-tured and karsted LowerOrdovician carbonates in theFranklin Mountains (WestTexas) and mapping paleo-permeabil ity pathways;(e) evaluation of allocyclicversus autocyclic forcingof Triassic platform carbon-ates in Northern Italy; and(f) facies analysis and earlymarine diagenesis of the LaPopa Reef (Paleocene) inNortheast Mexico.

Goldhammer also pub-lished three papers (geologyof Northeast Mexico, areview of cyclicity in thestratigraphic record, and areview of mixed carbonate-siliciclastic deposits), andpresented two poster ses-sions at the AAPG meetingin Houston (tectonics ofAngola, and salt-relatedstratigraphic evolution ofthe La Popa Reef, Northeast-ern Mexico). He gave a talk

on the role of syndeposi-t ional salt tectonics oncarbonate stratal archi-tecture to the Houston“Sequence StratigraphyResearch Group,” and hepresented three talks toPEMEX and one to theAMGP meeting in Villaher-mosa in an effort to pursuecollaborative research withPEMEX.

Goldhammer will spendhalf the summer examiningTriassic outcrops in Bavariaand Tyrolia, Jurassic spongereefs in Southern Germany,and Pennsylvanian carbon-ates of the Four Cornersregion. Consortium-relatedactivities this summer in-clude a trip to Calgary andwork sessions in Houstonand Oklahoma City.

Rich Kyle taught theundergraduate course onTexas geology and mineral re-sources and the graduate eco-nomic geology course duringfall semester. He also taughtthe upper division mineralresources elective in thespring and physical geologyduring the summer.

Rich continues as Gradu-ate Advisor and Chair ofthe Graduate Admissionsand Support Committee.Thus, a great deal of thenuts-and-bolts issues con-cerning changes to thegraduate program withinthe Jackson School ofGeosciences has fallen tohim (for which he receivedthe Alvin C. York awardfrom Chairman Kocurekduring the Department’sAwards Ceremony!).

Rich and his graduatestudents continue to con-duct research on diversetopics within the broadfield of economic geology.Jenny Head completedher thesis on the silver de-posits at Shafter, Texas’largest metal producer. AsifMuzaffar completed histhesis on cap rock formationand mineral ization withsalt dome development atDavis Hil l in SoutheastTexas. New projects includeresearch on carbonate re-placement zinc-lead-silverdeposits at Hecla, Montana(Mac McGuire), gold de-posits at Cripple Creek,Colorado (Alison Mote),and historical mining inCentral Texas (FabienneGrellet-Tinner).

This year Rich chairedthe Central Texas Section ofthe Society for Mining,Metallurgy, and Explora-tion. Rich began his touras the Society of EconomicGeologists’ Thayer Lindsleyvisiting lecturer that will con-tinue into the fall semester.

Leon Long team-taughtGEO 303 (the big introduc-tory course) with LibbyStern in the fall semester,and with Steve Grand inthe spring. For the secondtime, Leon facilitated thenew course designed to ac-quaint graduate studentswith the vast scope of sub-jects within geological sci-ence. By designation andtemperament, it seems, Leonis the Department’s general-ist geologist. He also taughtthe field course for non-

majors, attended by studentscoming from all corners ofcampus.

Last November, Leonco-authored a poster at theGSA meeting in Boston. Abig push was to prepare anOutreach Lecture, GeologicWonders of Central Texas ,17th in a continuing seriessponsored by the Environ-mental Science Institute.A CD with more than 70images, many of them com-plex drawings, accompaniesthe lecture. Leon is bothhis own author and artist.

Leon was pleased to winthe Chancellor’s CouncilOutstanding TeachingAward for 2001-2002. It isthe premier teaching award,given in any year to onlyone recipient in all of UT!

Besides that, Leon con-tinued as the Department’sundergraduate advisor, didwriting, submitted a long-maturing manuscript, servedon committees, led numer-ous field excursions, de-livered guest lectures, etc.For a holiday, Mary andhe toured remote parts ofthat beautiful place calledNewfoundland.

Ernest Lundelius con-tinues to enjoy retirement.He is active in several re-search projects involvingQuaternary faunas in bothNorth America and Aus-tral ia. He spent severalweeks in Austral ia andNew Zealand in Novemberand December visiting col-lections and attendingmeetings in New Zealand.


He has been working withChris Bell and others onthe revision of the Pliocene-Pleistocene chapter ofCenozoic Mammals of NorthAmerica: Geochronology andBiostrat igraphy edited byM. O. Woodburne. He alsoenjoys visiting his grand-children—no paleontolo-gists yet—but all are knowl-edgeable about dinosaurs!

Earle McBride taughtSandstone Petrology, Super-vised Teaching for GraduateStudents, and the clastics partof Sedimentary Rocks in thefall and Introductory FieldMethods and SedimentaryRocks in the spring. He re-duced his participation inGEO 660 (Field Geology)to only 4 days this sum-mer. Earle has been work-ing with Kitty Milliken andPh.D. student Suk-Joo Chohon the construction of aninteractive tutorial onsandstone petrology thatruns on a PC. The goal ofthis project, the brainchildof Kitty, is to speed thelearning of thin-sectionpetrography of sandstonesby showing images ofphotomicrographs on thecomputer screen. Studentscan click on active areas ofthe image to learn the signi-ficance of specific textures,minerals, pore types, etc.Both provenance and dia-genesis concepts are imaged.A version of this tutorialwon first prize as a poster atthe SEPM meeting lastyear. Earle and Kitty hopeto expand this tutorial andmake it available to the geo-logic community at large.

Several short field tripswere made during the sum-mer to accompany studentscollecting samples and datarelated to thesis and dis-sertation projects.

Donna suffered a strokeon Valentine’s Day and hasbeen undergoing extensiverehab on several fronts sincethen. Serving as a caregivercurtailed some of Earle’sresearch activities duringthe spring and summer.Donna improves daily, andthe sky is the limit!

Only two people broughthim alleged meteorites toidentify this year: one wasan iron-oxide-cementedOphiomor pha burrow, theother was a piece of slag.One of Earle’s greatest pastfailures occurred when aman wanted a rock sampleidentified. “Sure, let me lookat it,” Earle said. The manreplied that he didn’t havethe sample with him, buthe could describe it. “Itweighs 232 grams, isshaped l ike a walnut, isdark brown …….”

Sharon Mosher had avery full year as Presidentof the Geological Society ofAmerica (GSA), and as pastpresident for the past fewmonths, in addition to her“real life” of teaching, gra-duate supervision, research,and being a mother of twoteenage daughters. All inall, it was a very educationaland interesting year.

One of the most signi-ficant activities she wasinvolved in was workingtoward establishing a geo-

science society electronicjournal ag gregate withRobbie Gries (President ofthe American Associationof Petroleum Geologists;UT alumni) and Walt Lynn(President of the Societyfor Exploration Geologists).This aggregate wil l in-clude a large number ofgeoscience societies work-ing together to develop aseamlessly interl inkedonline set of geosciencejournals (see GSA Todayv. 12, no. 3, Dialogue col-umn, www.gsajournals.org/gsaonline/). This collab-oration is just one of manyjoint efforts that are under-way among geosciencesocieties.

Sharon has also becomevery involved with theCouncil of Scientif icSociety Presidents, nowserving as Treasurer, andis working with otherscientif ic societies onissues of mutual interest.Early in the year, she hostedthe Earth System Processesmeeting, cosponsored byGSA and the GeologicalSociety of London (GSL) inEdinburgh, Scotland, forwhich she had been on theorganizing committee. (IanDalziel, Institute for Geo-physics and Department,was co-chair of the pro-gram committee.) She saysthe meeting was the mostscientifically stimulatingmeeting she has attendedin years, and it was thehighlight of the entire year.She learned a tremendousamount about the complexinteractions between the

atmosphere, hydrosphere,biosphere, and lithosphereand was pleased to see livelydiscussions between scien-tists in different disciplines.

During the year, Sharonworked closely with GSAstaff and Acting ExecutiveDirector Dave Stephenson(UT Geology FoundationAdvisory Council member)while GSA was undergoinga search for a new ExecutiveDirector. Between learninghow to do accrual account-ing, formulating budgets,negotiating contracts, re-writ ing bylaws, deal ingwith employee issues, andlearning how to set up apublications aggregate, shefeels like she has greatlyexpanded her ski l l set ,though little of this is use-ful as a professor! She en-joyed the opportunity totravel and meet with a widevariety of people and togive talks and write editorialcolumns on both scienceand on science initiativesand policy. Her Presidentialaddress in Boston was on“Plate Boundaries to Politics:Pursuing Passions in Science”(GSA Today, v. 12, no. 2,w w w. g s a j o u r n a l s . o r g /gsaonline/).

Field time included atrip to Macquarie Island(1500 km south of NewZealand) for a couple ofweeks in March with MikeCoffin (Institute and Uni-versity of Tokyo) to meetwith Karah Wertz (Ph.D.student) and Nathan Daczko(postdoctoral scientist). Theyhad just completed a verysuccessful 6-month field


season. She had an un-eventful trip this time (un-like 1999, when she wasstranded there) and hadjust enough time on the is-land to get an overview ofwhat they had accomplished.The highlight of the tripwas a helicopter survey ofthe entire island, which is asliver of oceanic crust andupper mantle that has beenuplifted in situ along theAustral ian/Pacific plateboundary. She also wasable to go in the field withVanessa Svihla (Ph.D. stu-dent) in the Big MariaMountains, California, fora few days in the fall. TipMeckel (Ph.D. student) work-ing on the Hjort trenchmade major progress thisyear investigating sub-duction init iat ion, andKate Herrell (M.S. student)finished her Master’s thatinvestigated the mechanismsfor forming large isolatedfeldspar augen in shearzones and documented apegmatite disaggregationmechanism. In the fall, shehad the opportunity to teacha new graduate course,Tectonics I, that used thecombined expertise ofmany faculty and researchscientists from the Institutefor Geophysics; next yearit will also be open to under-graduates. In the spring,she taught Structural Petrol-ogy to a large class of grad-uate students.

Sharon is looking for-ward to being in Austinmore, working with herstudents, teaching, doing

research, and being with herfamily. Her daughters aregrowing up; Lisa is a fresh-man and Sarah a senior inhigh school. Sarah will bea freshman at University ofColorado at Boulder nextyear, which is ironic sinceSharon won’t need to go toBoulder all the time forGSA anymore. The girlshave grown into wonder-ful young women andconstantly remind Sharonthat there is more to lifethan work.

Bill Muehlberger re-ports that the AAPG AnnualMeeting in Houston wasthe high point of last yearbecause UT-ex Robbie Gries,AAPG President, presentedhim with a DistinguishedEducator Award. He hadnever hugged a Presidentbefore!

September 11 canceledthe astronaut candidatefield tr ips to NorthernNew Mexico. Bill has ledthem since the beginningof the Shuttle era. Budgetcuts look to have knockedthis class out of the trip.

Last fall, Sally and Billwent on a trip to Florence,followed by a cruise downthe Po River, with day tripsto various historical sites,and ending after severaldays in Venice. Great! Aspring trip to Belgium andHolland was truly memo-rable–they had never seenso many blooming flowers.They hit the peak of thetulip season! Absolutelyspectacular!

GSA Boston was anopportunity to renew oldfriendships and to listento lots of good papers.

Low point of last yearwas Thanksgiving week,spent recovering from theremoval of a malignant tu-mor from his upper colon—no evidence of any othertumors elsewhere! Christ-mas was spent in QuebecCity to see what cold weatheris all about. Of course, theywere having the warmestwinter to date! It snowedChristmas Eve, and thatmade it all right, however!Talks to church travelgroups, Texas Water Devel-opment Board GIS Meeting,and Sul Ross State Uni-versity filled in the wintermonths.

The end of May in-cluded a trip with astronautand geological colleaguesto set up a field trip to theRio Grande Gorge near Taos,New Mexico, where theyhave a full-size model ofthe Hadley Rille that theApollo 15 crew landed be-side. The Rille and the RioGrande Gorge are both cutin basalt flows and are thesame size–1 mile across and600 feet deep. The problemis to get buses to some ofthe points used for thegeological simulation forthe Apollo astronauts, onroads not designed forbuses! This is for a field tripfor a September meetingconcerning the Moon, whathas been learned from pastexploration and what todo for future exploration.

During 2001, AmosSalvador devoted most ofhis time to the estimationof the consumption andpossible sources of energyduring the 21st century. Hecompleted the sections onhydrogen and fuel cells, andon electricity. In the lastsection, which he is work-ing on now, he will developseveral scenarios based ondiverse consideration of thebasic information developedin previous sections of thestudy, and on the evaluationof some of the more basicdemographic, economic,technological, and environ-mental factors that maydetermine the amount ofenergy needed in the 21st

century, and how it willbe supplied.

Jack Sharp f inishedhis nearly 8 years as the Geo-logical Society of America’sco-editor of Environmentaland Engineering Geoscienceand celebrated with a2-month stint down under,including 3 weeks’ vacationin New Zealand andAustral ia with Carol.Another highlight was atrip to Zacatón, Mexico,with Mark Helper andJack’s student Marcus Gary,who is trying to under-stand this unique karsticsystem. The tick bites sub-side after 2 months!

On the travel downside,Jack and student JasonKrothe were in Munichduring September 11, andit dimmed the joy of themany reunions in Germany.The field trip in the Alps,


however, was special .Finally, the unsuccessfulsearch for our hydrogeologyposit ion did cancel hisvisit to Nebraska as a BigXII Faculty Fellow. He ishoping that an energeticnew hydrogeologist will behired next year.

On the research front, thelong-delayed publicationson free convection appearedin the Journal of ContaminantHydrology, and the AAPGBulletin publication on freeconvection appeared aroundNew Year’s Day. Jack was alsoinvited to present synopsesof regional groundwaterflow in Trans-Pecos Texas attwo symposia, 2 weeks apart,in Alpine, Texas. Other talksby Jack and his studentswere presented at GSA, theSEPM Research Conference,the Karst Waters Institute,in Minnesota (AIH and theUniversity of Minnesota), atBrigham Young University,and at the Austin GeologicalSociety. A special AmericanInstitute of Hydrology(AIH) session was convenedby Jack–it was entit ledGroundwater Challengesfor the 21st Century. Speakersfrom government, academ-ia, and industry were verystimulating; it should havebeen bottled. Both chal-lenges and opportunitiesabound. Then, after theAIH, he rediscovered thechallenges of woodcock(“timberdoodle”) hunting athis folks’ land in Minnesota.

Jack is also pleased tonote that the job marketfor hydrogeology students

remains strong and thatwith the Jackson Schoolinitiative UT should becomeeven stronger in the field.

Jim Sprinkle had an-other busy year of teaching,research, and travel. Hetaught the junior-levelPaleobiology, a substantialwriting component course,to 20 Geology majors and1 biologist in the fall, alongwith a GEO 391S seminaron echinoderm systematicsto 4 graduate students, thefirst time he has ever taughta specialized version suchas this. He also presentedtwo lectures in Leon Long’sModern Geological Sciencescourse to seven new grad-uate students in earlySeptember. In early Novem-ber, he was co-author withTom Guensburg of a talkat GSA in Boston on cupplating in the earliest crinoids.

After classes ended, Jimspent Christmas vacationfinishing a book chaptermanuscript on echinodermdiversity during theOrdovician Radiation.Chris Schneider helped Jimprepare five beautiful full-page diversity plots thatwere sent off as an e-mail at-tachment to the book editorin Australia. Unfortunately,there was a one-letter mistakein the editor’s e-mail address,so his carefully preparedfigures went sailing off intohyperspace never to be seenagain! Three days later, Jimsent off the now-completedchapter text, this time to thecorrect e-mail address, andwas puzzled when the editor

replied that he was still wait-ing for the figures. Thesewere finally resent to thecorrect address and arrivedsafely only 8 days after thedeadline for manuscripts.“Snail mail” may be a lotslower than e-mail, but atleast the poor malignedPost Office would almostcertainly have gotten a pack-age addressed to “Macguarie(instead of Macquarie)University” in Austral iadelivered to the right place!

In January, G.K. got afull-time job as a naturalist-interpreter at the GrandCanyon, which she couldtake because 2002 is anoff-year for the Texas Legis-lature, and she left Austinon January 15 to starttraining for that position.During the spring, J imtaught the freshman-levelPlate Tectonics and EarthHistory course to 70 under-graduates, and had 8 gra-duate students and anundergraduate honorsstudent in his GEO 383KPaleoecology seminar.Desmond Coll ins, fromthe Royal Ontario Museumin Toronto, visited in earlyMarch to present a talk forTech Sessions on the faunasof the Burgess Shale, andspent the next 5 days withJim studying and describingsome of the echinodermsfrom this unit. Jim thenflew out to Flagstaff to visitG.K. for the rest of springvacation, and after 2 days oflight snow at the Canyon,had to drive back to Flagstaffon wet slippery roads and

fly home. Now he remem-bers why he happily leftsnowy New England andDenver, Colorado, for warmsunny Texas so long ago!

After finals ended inmid-May, Jim spent severalweeks revising the Ordovi-cian diversity book chapter,which had come back fromreview, preparing sl idesfor a talk on the same sub-ject for the InternationalPalaeontological Congressto be held in Sydney,Australia, in early July, andpreparing for several weeksof field work in the Rockiesin mid-to-late June, partlywith Bryan Wilbur, who willbe out there trying to collectEarly Cambrian echino-derms. During the first weekof June, Jim flew up to visitTom Guensburg in Rock-ford, Illinois, to finish workon their joint crinoid originand systematics paper (now80 manuscript pages long)that has been in prepara-tion for the past 5 years.

Scott W. Tinker ,Director of the Bureau ofEconomic Geology, StateGeologist of Texas, andProfessor, enjoyed hissecond year at UT. Scottco-taught with Bill Fishera graduate class on ReservoirGeology in the fal l of2001 with 25 students repre-senting 15 countries and5 continents! He sits on afew graduate student com-mittees, is co-chair forM.S. candidate Ted Playton,and will serve as co-chairfor three incoming studentsin the fall of 2002.


The news of the day isthe Jackson School. Scottsits on the Steering andExecutive Committees ofthe School, and he has beenactively involved in theSchool formation process.The BEG, now a compo-nent of the Jackson School,is healthy and enjoyingbroad funding distributedevenly across State, Federal,and private sources. Excitingtimes, to be sure.

The BEG AdvisoryCommittee continues tomeet twice a year for tech-nical presentations andstatus reports and has beena great resource to the BEG.The BEG put together aVirtual Tour of Texas inthe ACES facility for theChancellor’s Council meet-ing this year, which high-lighted several aspects ofTexas geology in animated3-D. Scott was also askedto be featured in a piece onwater in Texas in the We’reTexas video put togetherby the President’s office.

Scott traveled to Mexicoseveral times, the MiddleEast, and almost everytown in Texas that has alocal geological society.He was named a Societyof Petroleum EngineersDistinguished Lecturerfor 2002–2003 and washonored with a Distin-guished Service award bythe West Texas GeologicalSociety (WTGS). He pre-sented lots of invited talkson “Technology for theComing Gas Economy,”“3-D Modeling of Aquifers

and Hydrocarbon Reser-voirs,” “Carbonate SequenceStratigraphy,” “Fundamen-tals of Petroleum Geology,”and “The Status of theBEG” at various societymeetings, conferences, anduniversities in Texas andMexico. He gave keynotetalks at the first annualAPPEX meeting in Hous-ton, the Department ofEnergy (DOE) PRIMEConference in Houston,and a WTGS symposiumin Midland. He also presentedinvited talks to the NationalScience Foundation-sponsoredEarthscope workshop inBoulder, the General LandOffice-sponsored BorderEnergy Forum in Tucson,and the DOE-sponsoredNatural Gas TechnologyConference in Houston.

Scott spent many daysin Washington, D.C., withthe Association of AmericanState Geologists (AASG),with the Petroleum Tech-nology Transfer Council(PTTC), and with the DOE.He presented an invitedpaper to the DOE Benefitsof Research Conference inWashington and also pre-sented invited testimonyto the Texas Legislature.

Scott serves on severalAASG committees, AmericanAssociation of PetroleumGeologists (AAPG) Commit-tees, and the Steering Commit-tee for the 2002 Gulf CoastAssociation of GeologicalSocieties Annual Conven-tion, for which he is Tech-nical Program Chairman.He served as President-elect

of the Austin GeologicalSociety for 2001–2002 andwill serve as President for2002–2003. He is also amember of the TrinityUniversity Board of Visitors,ser ved on the selectioncommittee for the ChiefGeologist of the WesternDivision of the U.S. Geologi-cal Survey, and in a momentof weakness agreed to serveas the SEPM General Chairfor the annual AAPG/SEPMMeeting in Dallas in 2004.

Scott has a paper in pressin an AAPG Memoir, pub-lished a paper for the SEPM75th Anniversary DiamondJubilee, helped lead a fieldtrip down the Pecos River(OK, was along for the rideand the rocks!), taught a3-day short course in VeraCruz, Mexico, and had inter-views published in Geotimesand the AAPG Explorer.All in all, another full year.

Clark Wilson’s teachingactivities during the fall se-mester included Computa-tional Methods in GeologicalSciences and a graduateseminar on gravity andmagnetics. He hopes to de-velop this seminar topicinto a full, organized courseoffering, probably in the fallof 2003. During the springsemester, he taught Geologyof Engineering to over 100Civil, Petroleum, and Archi-tectural Engineers. TheGeophysics Colloquiumduring the spring semesterincluded once-a-week visitsto various geophysical labsaround Austin, finishingwith a weekend field trip to

the McDonald Observatory.Clark continues to be inter-ested in a variety of researchproblems, ranging fromspace geodesy to appliedseismology.

Travel this year includedthe Society of ExplorationGeophysicists meeting inSan Antonio, the AmericanGeophysical Union meetingin San Francisco, and thespring European Geo-physical Society meetingin Nice, France. Clark andEllin set their schedules bywhat teenage daughtersKirsten and Sissel are doing;both will be in high schoolnext year. Clark continuesto commute to campus bybicycle, on his bike datingfrom his student days. Onthose days when he doesdrive, it is in his ’69 VWBus that has also servedhim since his days as agraduate student.

Zong-Liang Yang isan Assistant Professorspecial izing in cl imatemodeling and global hy-drological cycles. He joinedthe department in August2001. Over the past year,he taught “Living with aPlanet,” “Earth, Wind andFire,” and “Hydrocli-matology.” He will teach“Climate Change: Past,Present and Future” in theupcoming fall semester.


John A. Jackson shownwith a photograph ofhis late wife, Katie.Photograph by DickClintsman. Courtesy ofPresbyterian HealthcareFoundation.

The following is an open letter fromMr. John A. Jackson, giving some of his lifeperspectives, his intent in supporting theGeology Foundation, and his broad goals forthe new John A. and Katherine G. JacksonSchool of Geosciences. Mr. Jackson providedthe letter to Bill Fisher and Mary Ann Rankinin Dallas, for publication in the Newsletter.

Dear Friends:

I am often asked what is the most important thing in my life. I always say there are two things–marrying Katie Graeter, and getting my degree in geology from the University of Texas. Katie wasmy partner, counselor, and best friend for 60 years. My degree in geology allowed me to pursue anexciting and rewarding career and to provide critical resources for our Nation.

I was born in Lufkin and sort of grew up in the oil fields of East Texas. I lost my father when I wasthree, but my mother was a saint who raised me well and instilled in me the virtues of integrity andhonesty, values that always served me well in life and in my career.

After graduation in 1940, I worked for Arkansas Fuels, but soon the War broke out and I enlistedin the U.S. Navy. Before long, the President realized the Nation did not have access to the alumi-num ore necessary to construct the planes and equipment of war. Bill Wrather, Director of the U.S.Geological Survey at the time, needed geologists with experience in core drilling. Under the WarServices Act of December 1941, the President could assign people wherever needed, and I soonfound myself attached to the USGS with a War Service appointment running core rigs in thebauxite district of Arkansas. It was with this drilling effort that we determined that the nephelinesyenite formed buried hills and the weathered product, bauxite, was transported to the topographiclows. We were able to map the ore bodies and the buried hills in great detail, and the informationwas later published as a professional paper.

I tell the experience of the bauxite fields not only because it was important in the war effort, butbecause the geological ideas I developed there I carried to Wise County a decade later. As geologicfate would have it, I determined that the Bend Conglomerates–the principal gas reservoirs–were theproduct of buried hill erosion. In working leases I started to drill not on structure as everyone thendid, and a lot of people still insist on doing today, but off structure in the lows and along flanksof the hills. We discovered a lot of natural gas in Wise County, some from reentering previous dryholes, with these geological concepts; in fact, the wells we drilled in the 1950’s are still producing

June 6, 2002

FROM JOHN A. JACKSON


today, and the giant Boonsville field has yielded trillions of cubic feet of gas. In my opinion, thefield, as well as the entire Fort Worth Basin, still has lots of remaining potential.

So, the resources of the Earth have been good to me and played a major role in what Katie and I wereable to achieve. Geology was, and still is, very important to me, and so I have long stayed in touchwith The University of Texas, the source of my geological training. I joined the Advisory Council ofthe Geology Foundation in 1975 and continue today as an Honorary Life Member. I have the utmostrespect for that organization and the many fine geologists who have served on the Council. I haveoften said that of all the boards on which I have been involved, the Geology Foundation Council is,by far, the best. Through the years, Katie and I were able to support a number of fellowships andother endowments in the Foundation, and it has long been my intent to leave the bulk of my estateto the Foundation. I explained all this to Foundation Director Bill Fisher and showed him my will tothat effect back in 1991 in a meeting he and I had in Dallas at the Hyatt Regency Hotel.

Although the bulk of my estate has long been dedicated to the Geology Foundation, Katie and Idecided we wanted to do some things during our lifetimes. So when Bill Fisher and Peter Flawnindicated that the Department was in desperate need of additional space, Katie and I were happy toprovide $15 million to get the job done, or as Katie liked to say, “get the show on the road.” Shortlyafterward I lost Katie, but not her spirit of getting things done, and so I immediately began workingwith the people at The University to put together a major School of Geosciences. This was an idea ofthe Geology Foundation Advisory Council for many years, and I realized that I was in a position tomake it happen, and so we did. I was very pleased that the Board of Regents, upon President LarryFaulkner’s recommendation, named the school for Katie and me.

I want the John A. and Katherine G. Jackson School of Geosciences to be among the top fivegeological schools in the Nation and a premier place to study geology. So I provided the School withan initial endowment of $25 million that, along with other assets of the Geology Foundation, builtup over nearly 50 years, gets us well under way.

Just this February I decided that Dean Mary Ann Rankin, School Director Bill Fisher, and the peopleof the new Jackson School needed to be in a position to do some long-term planning, and with thatI announced my intent to leave the residue of my estate to the Foundation and the School. Wecurrently estimate the residue of my estate to be between $150 million and $200 million, figures thatI indicated in my letter to Dr. Faulkner informing him of my intentions. I have also stated thateventually the residue of my estate could be as much as $300 million, but that depends on the future ofstocks and other investments I hold, and also–and this is important, as any petroleum geologist willunderstand–on the future price of natural gas from the royalties I hold in Wise County.

I am told that the eventual endowment of the School will be the largest in the Nation, by far. That isgood, but it will only be as good as the ideas and concepts the people of the School develop andpursue. I have confidence in them–I always have. Katie and I never looked upon ourselves asphilanthropists–but rather as investors. In this case, we are investing in the future of a countlessnumber of people at The University of Texas at Austin, who will study and will continue to learn ofthe geology, the earth sciences, and the resources and the environment of the Earth. I know ofnothing more worthwhile.

So now, as Katie would say, “Let’s get the show on the road.”

Best regards,

John A. Jackson

Dallas, Texas


Jackson School of Geosciences Charteredand Geology Foundation By-Laws Revised

Fisher Named First Director of the John A. andKatherine G. Jackson School of Geosciences

In September 2001, Dean Mary Ann Rankin of the College of Natural Sciencesannounced the appointment of veteran educator William L. Fisher as the first Director ofthe new Jackson School of Geosciences. Fisher also continues as the Leonidas T. BarrowChair and Professor in the Department of Geological Sciences, as well as Director of theGeology Foundation, and as Senior Research Scientist with the Bureau of EconomicGeology.

Dr. Fisher joined the University in 1960 as a Research Scientist with the Bureau ofEconomic Geology. He served as Director of the Bureau from 1970 to 1994, except fora leave in 1975-77, when he served as Assistant Secretary of Energy and Minerals inthe Department of Interior. He was appointed Professor in Geological Sciences in 1969,serving as Department Chairman from 1984 to 1990. He came to the Department full timein 1994 and is currently actively involved in teaching and graduate student supervision.

The Charter for the John A. and Katherine G. JacksonSchool of Geosciences was approved by the Dean of theCollege of Natural Sciences and the Provost and ExecutiveVice President on September 26, 200l. Revised By-Laws andProcedures of the Geology Foundation Advisory Council andthe Geology Foundation Executive Committee were approvedby the Geology Foundation Advisory Council on September28, 2001, during their regular fall meeting. The By-Laws andProcedures were last revised in 1983.

Under the By-Laws and Procedures, the stated purposesof the Council “are to promote the recognition, welfare, andprogress of the John A. and Katherine G. Jackson School ofGeosciences, The University of Texas at Austin, and to en-courage financial support of the Geology Foundation.”

Under the revised By-Laws, the Geology Foundation Ex-ecutive Committee replaces the previous Faculty Review Com-mittee. The Executive Committee is chaired by the Directorof the Foundation and includes the Chairman of the Depart-ment of Geological Sciences, the Director of the Bureau ofEconomic Geology, the Director of the Institute for Geo-physics, and, as ex officio, the Director of the Jackson Schoolof Geosciences. The Director of the Foundation is appointed

by the Dean of the College of Natural Sciences, after con-sultation with members of the School and members of theGeology Foundation Advisory Council, and reports to the Deanof the College of Natural Sciences.

Under the School Charter, the School is governed by aSteering Committee chaired by the School Director andconsists of the Chairman of the Department of GeologicalSciences, the Director of the Bureau of Economic Geology,and the Director of the Institute for Geophysics. In addition,the head of each component selects a member from theirrespective units, subject to approval by the Dean of theCollege of Natural Sciences; they serve 3-year terms. TheDean of the College of Natural Sciences, in consultation withthe School Director and Steering Committee, has the optionof appointing two additional members to the SteeringCommittee. The Director of the Geology Foundation serveson the Steering Committee, as ex officio. The Director ofthe School is appointed by the Provost, upon recommenda-tion of the Dean of the College of Natural Sciences, inconsultation with members of the School, or appropriatecommittees representing them, and the Geology FoundationAdvisory Council.


NEWS OF THENEW BUILDINGBy the time you read this, construction ofthe new 60,000-square-foot addition to theJohn A. and Katherine G. Jackson GeologicalSciences Building will be nearly complete.In the spring semester of 2003, theDepartment of Geological Sciences will beholding classes in new state-of-the-artclassrooms and conducting research inefficiently organized work groups designedto foster creativity and interaction. Thetop floor of the new addition will providea fitting and permanent home for theGeology Foundation and the administrativeheart of the new Jackson School ofGeosciences. The building will standas a tangible and enduring tribute tothe Jacksons’ vision for the geosciencesat The University of Texas at Austin.

Plans are currently under way for acelebration to honor both the 50th yearof the Geology Foundation as wellas the dedication of the newbuilding. We will provide detailsto everyone as the date drawsnear. Come celebrate with us!


Left to right, Fred Hilterman, keynote speaker,Bob Hardage, and Bob Tatham.

The Exploration Geophysics Initiative,established by the Geology Foundation, hasmatured into a true, focused program withinvolvement of elements of the Jackson Schoolof Geosciences and the petroleum industry.

The “Exploration Geophysics Initiative,” established by the GeologyFoundation in 1999, continues to gain momentum as it has evolvedinto a focused program with petroleum industry involvement and acooperative program. In particular, the program hosts an annual tech-nical symposium addressing a current technical issue, that providesindustry feedback and cooperation with other academic institutions,and direction for graduate student research projects. This year’ssymposium, held at the Bureau of Economic Geology in January, focusedon “New Directions in AVO” with active participation by about70 scientists. This was the most successful symposium sponsored bythe Exploration Geophysics Program to date, and actually led to thedefinition of research projects for participating graduate students.Earlier symposia included the kick-off for the Exploration GeophysicsProgram in 1999, and addressed “The Future of Exploration Geophysics:Meeting the Needs of Industry and Academia,” and the secondaddressed the topic of “Seismic Estimation of Reservoir Seals,” one ofthe least determined factors in evaluating exploration drilling risk.

Dr. Robert J. Ferguson joined the faculty as an Assistant Professorin Fall 200l, and is now an active teaching and research member ofthe Exploration Geophysics Program. Dr. Ferguson completed his Ph.D.at the University of Calgary in January of 2000 and worked for nearly2 years with Chevron Research in San Ramon, California. One of theprimary objectives of the Exploration Geophysics Initiative was to addtwo new faculty members. With Dr. Tatham joining the faculty in 1999and Dr. Ferguson in 2001, this objective has been fully realized.

Students continue to join the program at both undergraduate andgraduate levels. Graduate student research is maturing, and summerinternships with industry are a routine feature of our graduate students’experience. The Exploration Geophysics Fellowship continues to bea major incentive for recruiting new graduate students. For the 2002-2003 academic year, the fellowship was awarded to Patricia Yu,a resident of Bartlesville, Oklahoma, and a graduate of UC-Berkeley.Other awardees have included Jason Gumble, a graduate of ColoradoSchool of Mines, and Matt Morris, a graduate of the University ofMissouri-Rolla. This fellowship of $20,000, plus $2,000 for discretionaryresearch and travel, is administered by the Geology Foundation andawarded to a first-year graduate student.

The EDGER (Exploration and Development Geophysics Education andResearch) Forum continues to be a successful vehicle for industryinvolvement in the Exploration Geophysics Program. Support fromindustry is used to recruit and support graduate students and theirresearch as well as some faculty research and activities that benefit allthe members of the Forum—such as the annual technical symposium.

The Forum focuses support on students who will ultimately beemployable by industry. One technical project supported for the benefitof all members is the development of a database organizing publi-cations of successful interpretation examples using multicomponentseismic data. Support includes undergraduate work-study students whowill either go directly to work in the industry or continue their graduatestudies in exploration geophysics.

Overall, the EDGER Forum provides an open platform for interactionbetween industry participants, between graduate students and the industry,and between academic groups working on common research problems.This is in addition to industry access to students, the research results ofgraduate students and faculty, and the other activities of the Forum.

One very tangible activity in the Exploration Geophysics Program isthe 3D Seismic Interpretation Lab. Established with Geology Foundationsupport, the Lab consists of six state-of-the-art interpretation work-stations. The focus of the Lab is a high-speed (1 gigabyte per second)storage area network attached to a disc server with 0.6 terabytes ofstorage. This allows students nearly instantaneous access to numerous3D seismic data sets from any one of the interpretive workstations.

The Lab not only supports students studying exploration geophysics butalso is open to all soft-rock geology students. Essentially all petroleumgeologists will, at some point in their careers, find themselves in frontof an interactive workstation examining 3D seismic data. This Lab isdesigned to support those students. In fact, most of the studentsroutinely working in the Lab are petroleum geology students utilizing3D seismic data in their thesis research. We anticipate that this trendwill continue and ultimately include petroleum engineering students aswell. Such integration of disciplines working with 3D seismic data isconsistent with the industry trend of employing multidisciplinary workteams in nearly all aspects of exploration and development.We anticipate that the Exploration Geophysics Program will continueto evolve and ultimately lead to something larger—such as a full-scale “Education Center of Excellence in Exploration Geophysics,” hereat UT-Austin. Students entering industry and continued researchactivities will increase the visibility and expand the vision of the GeologyFoundation in establishing the Exploration Geophysics Initiative.

Exploration Geophysics Initiative:2002 Updateby Robert H. Tatham


At the base of theSierra de Tamaulipas innortheastern Mexico,possibly the deepestwater-filled pit in theworld, known as ElZacatón, has developedin Cretaceous carbonatesnext to a Pleistocenevolcanic extrusion. Ateam of devoted cave-diving pioneers hasbeen exploring thishydrothermal karstsystem for over 10 years,and even set a worldrecord deep dive in1994 when Jim Bowden,a University of TexasSCUBA diving instruc-tor, dropped to nearly1,000 feet below thewater’s surface. MarcusGary, a team memberfor the deep effort andcurrent graduate stu-dent in the JacksonSchool of Geosciences,was inspired by theunique hydrogeologyof this amazing areaand now strives to un-derstand the geologicprocesses that formedsuch massive windowsinto the Earth’s subsur-face.

In January 2002, a group of explorers andscientists, including Jim Bowden and Marcus Garyas well as University of Texas geology professorsJack Sharp and Mark Helper, began mappingthe sinkholes and caves of the area using state-of-the-art technology. We first had to survey theperimeter of each of the sinkholes. This was notas easy as one might think. The Sierra deTamaulipas is known for its harsh vegetation,appropriately termed “Tamaulipas Thorn Forest.”

Field Research in Tamaulipas, Mexico,Works to Develop New Methods of Aquifer Mapping

by Marcus Gary

Almost every tree,shrub, and plant hassome sort of pricklythat can puncture theskin or create some sortof dermal reaction thatis more than un-pleasant. To completethe survey, areas werecleared of vegetationusing machetes andsaws. We all receivedour fair share of blis-ters. One other draw-back of working inthis area is the in-festation of ticks. Itwas not uncommonfor each of us to pulldozens off every day.But even with the lessappealing qualities ofthis place, it is stillvery beautiful andmysterious.

Our camp isaround the 350-foot-deep thermal pool(water is a pleasant90 degrees Fahrenheit)called La Pilita. Here,unique biological matscoat the underwater wallsof the sinkhole andpossibly host sulfur-based ecosystems thatcould provide answers

to how life evolves in extreme environments.We spend the evenings going over the datacollected that day and discuss theories as to howthe sinkholes formed. Since this is only the firstyear of study here, there are many more questionsthan answers to explain the unique nature ofEl Zacatón and the surrounding aquifer. Manyyears of exciting research at The University of Texasare planned to help us understand this incrediblesystem.

TOP: Team members survey the edge of El Zacatón. Thewater here is at least 1,100 feet deep, but the bottom hasnot been located yet. Round floating grass islands movefreely about on the water surface. Photo by Mark Helper.

BOTTOM: Marcus Gary explains the geologic historyof the karst aquifer to his advisor, Jack Sharp.Photo by Robin Havens.


It’s seven o’clock on a Fridaynight. What are all these peopledoing in Welch Hall?

The Outreach Lecture Series,sponsored by the EnvironmentalScience Institute and the Depart-ment of Geological Sciences, is infull swing. Dr. Leon Long is edu-cating and entertaining thestanding room only crowd on thetopic of “Geologic Wonders ofCentral Texas.” Over 500 people–school teachers, students, andinterested members of the com-munity–have braved Austin’sFriday night traffic and the infa-mous UT parking situation toattend one of the several outreachlectures presented this year as partof the series.

In addition to Dr. Long’spresentation, the series alsoexplored the topics of climatechange, energy, myths aboutaddiction, and black holes. Thepresentations this year were:

Energy: A Global Challenge, byDr. William Fisher, Departmentof Geological Sciences; ExploringMyths about Addiction, byDr. Carlton Erickson, College ofPharmacy; Global Warming:Impacts on Wildlife and Society, byDr. Camille Parmesan, Sectionof Integrative Biology; andSupermassive Black Holes: GalaxyMonsters, by Dr. John Kormendy,Department of Astronomy.

This lecture series is designedfor the public in general and forK-12 science teachers in parti-cular. It is an opportunity forteachers to learn about the mostcurrent research in the sciences,long before it appears in text-books. The purposes of this seriesare: 1) to disseminate informationand teaching materials in thenatural sciences to teachers fromCentral Texas school districts;2) to inform the public about on-going science research at UT; and

3) to expose the public and studentsto areas in science they may notordinarily encounter. The aim is notonly to entertain but also to exciteteachers and students into thinkingbeyond the established K-12science curriculum. The teachersearn professional developmentcredit for attending, and they receivea CD-ROM containing the lecturematerials and supporting docu-ments that can help them take theinformation back to their classrooms.

Webcasting of the lectures hasrecently been added to expand thereach of the series. Anyone withInternet access can download thePowerPoint images of the lectureand follow along with the audiostream. At the end of the lecture,the speaker answers questionssubmitted on-line.

More information on theOutreach Lecture series can befound at www.geo.utexas.edu/outreach/lectures.html.

Outreach Lecture Series

Dr. Leon Long (left) answers questions after his outreach lecture on“The Geologic Wonders of Central Texas.”


During 2001-2002 several faculty members of the Departmentof Geological Sciences received awards, honors, and recognition:

Christopher J. Bell, Assistant Professor and John A. WilsonFellow in Vertebrate Paleontology, was awarded the Dad’sAssociation Centennial Teaching Fellowship by The Universityof Texas at Austin. This award is chosen by the Provost froma group of nominations provided by UT-Austin deans. Thisfellowship recognizes teaching excellence in those who areactively engaged in the instruction of freshman undergraduates.

In February 2002, William D. Carlson, Peter T. Flawn CentennialChair in Geology, was designated as a Fellow of the AmericanAssociation for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Accordingto the AAAS, the rank of Fellow is bestowed on scientists whose“efforts on behalf of the advancement of science or its applicationsare scientifically or socially distinguished.”

William L. Fisher, Leonidas T. Barrow Chair in MineralResources, Director of the Geology Foundation, and Director ofthe Jackson School of Geosciences, will receive the Don R. BoydMedal for Excellence in Gulf Coast Geology, the highest honor ofthe Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies (GCAGS). Inaddition, he received the Texas Independent Producers and RoyaltyOwners Association’s (TIPRO) Hats Off! Award, given to publicservants who distinguish themselves not only in their fields butalso in service to royalty owners and independent producers.Dr. Fisher is the only person within academia ever to receive thisaward in its 50-year history. He also received the Houston Oil andMinerals Corporation Faculty Excellence Award at the Departmentof Geological Sciences Awards Ceremony on May 2, 2002.

Peter T. Flawn, Leonidas T. Barrow Chair Emeritus in MineralResources, received the Mirabeau B. Lamar Medal from theAssociation of Texas Colleges and Universities. This medal, namedfor the second president of the Republic of Texas who was knownas the “Father of Education,” has been awarded since 1977 tothose who provide exemplary service to Texas higher education.In addition, he had a book published in March 2002, titledSilver in the Sierra Madre—The Story of the Santa Cruz Mineand Philip W. Beckley.

William E. Galloway, Morgan J. Davis Centennial Chair inPetroleum Geology, will receive Honorary Membership in theGulf Coast Section of SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology)Also, for the second time, Dr. Galloway has been named theRoy M. Huffington Distinguished Lecturer for AAPG. He willlecture in Southeast Asia.

Robert K. Goldhammer, Elf Aquitaine Petroleum FacultyFellow in Geological Sciences, was awarded the G. Moses andCarolyn G. Knebel Distinguished Teaching Award. The awardis made for outstanding teaching and is decided by votes fromgraduate students and undergraduate geology majors. It carriesa $1,500 monetary award from the Geology Foundation,and was presented at the Department of Geological SciencesAwards Ceremony, held this year on May 2, 2002.

Mark A. Helper, Senior Lecturer, was awarded a NaturalSciences Teaching Excellence Award, created to recognizeexceptional faculty within the College of Natural Sciences atThe University of Texas at Austin.

J. Richard Kyle, Graduate Advisor and The Third Mr. andMrs. Charles E. Yager Professor, chaired the Central TexasSection of the Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration(SME) in addition to beginning a tour as the Society of EconomicGeologists’ (SEG) Thayer Lindsley visiting lecturer.

Leon E. Long, The Second Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. YagerProfessor, was awarded the Chancellor’s Council OutstandingTeaching Award for 2000-2001. This award is given to a seniorfaculty member for a distinguished career in teaching at theundergraduate level. It is given to only one professor each year.

Earle F. McBride, J. Nalle Gregory Chair in SedimentaryGeology, along with Research Scientist Kitty Milliken andgraduate student Suk-Joo Choh, won Best Poster at the AAPGAnnual Meeting in Denver, Colorado, for their poster titled“Interactive Sandstone Petrology: A Digital Tutorial for FutureReservoir Geologists.”

William R. Muehlberger, Peter T. Flawn Centennial ChairEmeritus in Geology, received a Distinguished EducatorAward from the American Association of Petroleum Geologists(AAPG). This award is given “in recognition of distinguishedand outstanding contributions to geological education.”

Scott W. Tinker, Director of the Bureau of Economic Geologyand Edwin Allday Chair in Subsurface Geology, was selectedas one of six inaugural Distinguished Lecturers for the newSPE/AAPG/SEG Distinguished Lecture Program. He was alsoawarded a Distinguished Service Award by the West TexasGeological Society (WTGS).

Faculty Awards and Honors

Leon Long (right) accepts the Chancellor’s Council OutstandingTeaching Award from UT President Dr. Larry Faulkner (left).Photo provided by Leon Long.


Fisher to Receive Boyd Medal

Peter T. Flawn, President Emeritus of UTAustin and Honorary Life Member of the GeologyFoundation Advisory Council, received theMirabeau B. Lamar Medal from the Associationof Texas Colleges and Universities in October2001. The honor recognizes Flawn’s life-longdedication to building the educational infra-structure of Texas.

Dr. Flawn joined the University in 1949 as aResearch Scientist with the Bureau of EconomicGeology. He was named Director of the Bureauand Professor of Geological Sciences in 1960and served as Director until 1970. He served asExecutive Vice President of UT Austin, thenPresident of UT San Antonio, and in 1979assumed the presidency of UT Austin, servinguntil 1985, and again as ad interim Presidentin 1997 and 1998.

Dr. Flawn has also received the Cross Medalfrom Yale, the Campbell Medal from the AmericanGeological Institute, and the Parker Medal fromthe American Institute of Professional Geologists.Last year he received the coveted Santa RitaAward from the UT Board of Regents.Peter Flawn (left) accepts the Lamar Medal from

UT Austin President Larry Faulkner.

At the annual meeting of the GulfCoast Association of Geological Societ-ies in Austin in October 2002, Bill Fisherwill receive the Don R. Boyd Medal forExcellence in Gulf Coast Geology. TheMedal was established by the GCAGSBoard in 2000 to honor Don Boyd,an Honorary Life Member and PastChairman of the Geology FoundationAdvisory Council. Boyd was the firstrecipient of the Medal. It is the highesthonor of GCAGS and is awarded forexcellence in Gulf Coast geological

research, professional leadership, andoil and gas exploration. A recipientmust be recognized in at least two of thethree criteria listed for consideration.

Fisher has previously received thePowers Medal from the American As-sociation of Petroleum Geologists, theTwenhofel Medal from SEPM (Societyfor Sedimentary Geology), the ParkerMedal from the American Institute ofProfessional Geologists, the CampbellMedal from the American GeologicalInstitute, and the Hedberg Medal from

the Institute for the Study of Earth andMan.

Scott Tinker’s citation reads: ToBill Fisher, for his unselfish commit-ment to advancing the science of geol-ogy across government, industry,and academia; a man with uniquecombination of intelligence, energy,vision, and passion, who possesses thecourage to take risks, regardless of theodds.

Flawn Receives Lamar Medal


At the annual meeting of the AmericanAssociation of Petroleum Geologists inMarch in Houston, William R. Muehlbergerreceived the Distinguished EducatorAward from the Association. Muehlbergerjoined the faculty of the Department ofGeological Sciences in 1954 and retiredfrom active teaching in 1992. He served asDepartment Chairman from 1966 to 1970.

Dr. Bill St. John, who served as ProfessorMuehlberger’s citationist, noted that “Billis well known for his work with theastronauts and their training, but it is as ateacher that he will be remembered andloved by the thousands of undergraduate

students he taught and the 59 M.S. and 25Ph.D. students he supervised. Nowhere isthe respect and admiration earned byWilliam R. Muehlberger shown morestrongly than by the support andcontributions given by his students andfriends to the William R. MuehlbergerField Geology Scholarship at UT.”

His citation by Bill St. John reads: ToWilliam R. Muehlberger for five decadesof dedicated and inspired teaching tothousands of earth sciences students, forapplication of an inquisitive mind not onlyto the earth around him but to the moonabove, and for a role model for all.

Muehlberger named

Distinguished Educator

William Muehlberger


Robert K. Goldhammer Receives Knebel Awardby James Sprinkle

Bob Goldhammer is this year’s win-ner of the G. Moses and Carolyn G. KnebelDis t inguished Teaching Award in theDepartment of Geological Sciences. Thisaward for outstanding teaching comeswith a $1,500 check from the GeologyFoundation and a framed plaque. Thewinner is chosen each spring by a voteof Geological Sciences undergraduatemajors and graduate students, the onlydepartmental award chosen in this man-ner. Bob came to the Depar tment o fGeological Sciences in January 2001, asa new Assistant Professor after a 12-yearcareer in industry, and it is a tribute toBob’s teaching ability that he won sucha prestigious teaching award in only hissecond year here.

Bob is a field-oriented carbonate sedi-mentologist and sequence stratigrapher.

He is most interested in combining facies data from surface outcrops ofthick carbonate sections with subsurface data sets, including seismic data,well logs, and cores, to work out the cyclic and sequence stratigraphy andthe basin history of these rocks. He has worked in the Triassic of the ItalianDolomites, in the Early Ordovician of the Appalachians and Arbuckles, inthe Cretaceous of east-central Mexico, and in the Tertiary of the Gulfof Mexico, and in offshore Angola, West Africa. Most of Bob’s work hasindustry applications to hydrocarbon exploration. He has been busy thisfirst year trying to secure funds from industry sources for prospectivestudent research projects.

Bob teaches the graduate GEO 383M course, Petrography of Carbonates,in the fall, usually to 12 to 14 students. In the spring, he team-teacheswith Earle McBride the carbonates half of GEO 416M, our sophomore-levelsedimentary rocks course with 70 to 80 geoscience majors and petroleumengineers, along with the graduate GEO 383N, Carbonate and EvaporiteFacies and Stratigraphy. The student course evaluation ratings for boththe undergraduate and graduate courses in Bob’s first year have been verygood to excellent, with the undergraduate course ratings almost as highas the graduate ratings, a very unusual occurrence.

In class, Bob is very well organized with handouts for the students andoverheads summarizing the course topics to be covered, along with Landsatand aerial photographs of field areas, enlarged photos of thin sections,and long seismic and cross sections tacked up on the chalkboard. He useshumor to keep the students engaged and encourages them to keep comingto class and doing their best. He also emphasizes his industry experienceand how the course material could help them in an industry job. Lastspring, he even offered to take the best students from the undergraduatecourse on an all-expense-paid industry field trip to Mexico after the semes-ter ended. No wonder he’s so popular in this required undergraduate course.

Bob has led field trips for his two graduate courses to look at bothancient and modern carbonates, and recently he spent a weekend show-ing a long continuous section in the Arbuckle Mountains of Oklahoma toa new Master’s student who was starting a field project. Bob has also ledmany industry and AAPG-SEPM field trips to field areas he had studied inWest Texas, in Oklahoma, in Mexico, and elsewhere.

Bob grew up in Massachusetts, went to school at Colgate for his B.S. in1979, continued at the University of Oklahoma for an M.S. in 1982, andgot his Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins University in 1989, working with LawrenceHard ie on sed imentary cyc l e s in the spec tacular l y exposed Midd leTriassic carbonates in the Dolomites of Northern Italy. Bob then workedfor 12 years in industry, including 7 years for Exxon, 2 years as a consult-ant, and several years for Texaco, before coming here to Texas in 2001.

We congra tu la te Bob Go ldhammer fo r be ing the ove rwhe lmingstudents’ choice for this year’s Knebel Teaching Award.

Robert K. “Bob” Goldhammer


Robert J. Ferguson

Zong-Liang Yang

New Faculty

Zong-Liang YangDr. Zong-Liang Yang joined our faculty as an Assistant Professor

on September 1, 2001, as part of the Department’s New Directionprogram in Global/Environmental Geosciences.

Already involved in an active research program in Tucson since1993, Liang brought with him Dr. Guo-Yue Niu as a Post-DoctoralFellow. Together they have been working on global climate modeling,and in particular quantifying the effects of sub-grid-scale topographyand vegetation on seasonal snow cover as it relates to snowmelt andrunoff. Liang’s new grant proposal, “Parameterization of snow coverfraction in climate and weather prediction models,” has recently beenfunded by the NASA/NOAA GAPP Program for $375,000. Liang taughtan introductory course, “Living with a Planet,” last fall, and started agraduate course, “Hydroclimatology,” the past spring. He will opena new introductory course, “Climate Change: Past, Present andFuture,” in the fall.

Yang received his B.S. with Honors in Meteorology from NanjingInstitute of Meteorology, his Diploma in English in 1985 from theShanghai Institute of Foreign Language, his M.S. with Honors inMeteorology from Melbourne University in 1989, and his Ph.D. inPhysical Geography/Atmospheric Sciences from MacquarieUniversity. He is a member of the American Geophysical Union andthe American Meteorological Society. Liang’s wife and two childrenwill join him in Austin this summer, as soon as she finishes her M.S.in Tucson.

Robert J. FergusonJoining the Department on September 1, 2001, was

Robert J. “Rob” Ferguson, in the area of Exploration Geophysics.He will be assisting in the instruction of “Geology of Engineering,”“Computational Methods,” and “Research in Geophysics.”Prior to joining our faculty, Rob was a Lead Research Scientistat Chevron in San Ramon, California, working in the SeismicImaging Group.

Rob received his B.Sc. in Geophysics from the University ofBritish Columbia in 1989, and his M.Sc. (1996) and Ph.D. (2000)in Geophysics from the University of Calgary. He is a member ofthe American Geophysical Union, Canadian Society of Explora-tion Geophysicists, European Association of Geoscientists andEngineers, and Society of Exploration Geophysicists. He is alsoa former member of the American Federation of Musicians.

Recently, Rob and his wife Corrine celebrated the birth ofa daughter, Giselle Kayla, and have just purchased theirfirst home in Austin.


BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF DECEASED FORMER FACULTY

Brief biographical sketches of former faculty members who retired from teaching at UT-Austin aregiven on the departmental Web site at www.geo.utexas.edu/in_memory/index.html. Informationfor the sketches was obtained from University memorial resolutions, which were written by a smallcommittee of faculty colleagues of deceased faculty members, memorials that appeared in geologicaljournals, departmental records, and recollections of present faculty and faculty emeriti. The sketcheswere edited by Earle McBride.

UT-Austin Exesat Helm of AAPG

As Robbie Gries (M.A., 1970),Geology Foundation AdvisoryCouncil Member, leaves theoffice of President for AAPG(the first woman ever to servein the position), she is followedby three prominent Texas Exes.Dan Smith (B.S., 1958), whoserved last year with Robbieas President-Elect, assumedthe Presidency in July. CharlieMankin (B.S., 1954; M.A., 1955;Ph.D., 1958) begins the secondyear of his term as Secretaryand Paul Weimer (Ph.D., 1989)starts his first year of his2-year term as Treasurer.

These 4 Exes join 13 others whohave served on the ExecutiveCommittee previously, some inmore than one office, includingDick Bloomer, Don Boyd, TobyCarleton, Ben Carsey, MorganDavis, Will Green, J. R. Jackson,Moses Knebel, Susan Longacre,Harry Miller, George Pichel,Ken Seewald, and Ed Turner.Several other members of theGeology Foundation AdvisoryCouncil as well as faculty andstaff have also served on theExecutive Committee of oneof the finest geologicalorganizations in the world.

Charles Weiner NamedLegendary OilmanCharles Weiner (B.A., 1948), member of the Geology

Foundation Advisory Council, was awarded theColonel Edwin L. Drake Legendary Oilman Award bythe Drake Well Foundation at its semi-annual OilHistory Symposium on June 22, 2001, in Oil City,Pennsylvania. This award is given to recognize andhonor the life-long contributions and achievementsof those in the oil industry.

Charles Weiner was one of the founding partnersof the Texas Crude Oil Company in 1941 and becamethe Chief Operator in 1962. Currently he is Chairmanof Texas Crude, Inc. He, along with his brothers, helpedto pioneer the development of under-balanced drillingcompletion techniques using hydraulic fracturing, theinitial design and development of jack-up and semi-submersible drilling rigs, and drilling with hydraulicdrilling efficiency.

In 1967, Texas Crude Oil Company merged, alongwith other dril l ing companies, into The FluorCorporation. Then, in 1969, Charles Weiner became amember of the Board of Directors for the FluorCorporation and served until he resigned in 1994.Texas Crude and, later, the Fluor Corporationparticipated in thousands of wells, both wildcat anddevelopment, and over 180 oil and gas discoveries allaround the world.

Mr. Weiner is still active in oil and gas developmentalong with wildcat exploration. He is a CertifiedPetroleum Geologist, a member of the AmericanPetroleum Institute, and the American GeophysicalUnion, a Trustee Associate of the AmericanAssociation of Petroleum Geologists Foundation, anda member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers, theGeological Society of America, the American Instituteof Professional Geologists, and the AmericanGeological Institute, as well as other professionalorganizations. He is also a member of the President’sAssociates as well as the Geology Foundation AdvisoryCouncil at The University of Texas at Austin.


David Dunn (Ph.D., 1964) will receive GSA’s DistinguishedService Award for his significant contributions to theGeological Society of America at its annual meeting inDenver this fall. Dunn just stepped down as GSA’s Treasurer,a post he held with distinction for 9 years. During this timehe served with three executive directors and providedmuch needed financial continuity at the leadership level.Dunn has a long history of contributions to GSA, includingbeing chair and a founding member of the Structure andTectonics Division, GSA’s largest division, and serving onnumerous committees. Dunn now serves as a member ofthe GSA’s Foundation Board of Trustees and brings hiswide experience with GSA’s finances to the Investmentcommittee. Dunn recently retired as Dean of NaturalSciences and Mathematics at The University of Texasat Dallas. Dunn is an active UT Austin alumnus and wasinstrumental in the formation of the Muehlberger FieldGeology Scholarship Fund to honor his Ph.D. supervisoron his retirement.

In Memoriam:ANNE EGDORF BLOOMERANNE EGDORF BLOOMERANNE EGDORF BLOOMERANNE EGDORF BLOOMERANNE EGDORF BLOOMER

Anne Egdorf Bloomer passed away at the age of 71 on May 19,2002, in Austin, Texas. She was born on September 30, 1927, inWichita Falls, Texas, to Dr. Otto Charles and Kathleen Egdorf. She wenton to attend the University of Texas, and graduated in 1948 with a B.A.in geology. She was also a member of Delta Delta Delta sorority.She was married on June 7, 1948, to Dr. Richard R. Bloomer at theUniversity of Virginia. The couple relocated to Abilene in 1952,where they opened an office as independent petroleum geologists.They retired and came to live on the shores of Lake Travis in 1992.

Mrs. Bloomer was a member of the American Association ofPetroleum Geologists, The National Society of Colonial Dames XVIICentury, and the Daughters of the American Revolution, and was asustaining member of the Junior League. Dr. and Mrs. Bloomer werealso members of UT Lamp, Chancellor’s Council, and the Universityof Texas Littlefield Society.

New Faculty Hires

David Dunn to Receive GSA’s Distinguished Service Award

She is survived by her husband, RichardBloomer, a member of the Geology FoundationAdvisory Council and former Chairman of theCouncil; daughter Carol and husband WilliamNelson; son Charles and wife Lisa; and fourgrandchildren, Caroline and Laura Nelson andLindsey and Richard Bloomer.

David Dunn.Photo provided by Sharon Mosher.

Anne Egdorf Bloomer.Photo provided by Richard Bloomer.


In Memoriam:LLLLLAAAAAURA BRURA BRURA BRURA BRURA BROOKOOKOOKOOKOOKS FLS FLS FLS FLS FLAAAAAWNWNWNWNWN, M.D., M.D., M.D., M.D., M.D.

Dr. Laura Brooks Flawn, daughter of President EmeritusPeter T. Flawn and Priscilla Flawn, was killed in a highway collisionon October 20, 2001. She was an orthopaedic surgeon specializingin diseases of the spine and spine trauma, and she was a member ofthe Scoliosis Research Society. A graduate of The University of Texasat Austin and The University of Texas Health Science Center atSan Antonio, Dr. Flawn did her residency and a fellowship at theHospital for Special Surgery in New York. In Austin, she practicedwith the Austin Orthopaedic Clinic.

She is survived by her parents, her sister, Tyrrell Flawn of Washing-ton, D.C., daughter Priscilla Flawn-Chopp, and son, Thomas Flawn-Chopp. The Laura B. Flawn, M.D. Endowment has been established atthe Marine Science Institute to assist students working on problems ofthe Texas Coast. The Laura B. Flawn, M.D. Lectureship in Diseases ofthe Spine and Spine Trauma has been established at The University ofTexas Health Science Center at San Antonio.

In Memoriam:CLCLCLCLCLAAAAAUDE WENDELL HORUDE WENDELL HORUDE WENDELL HORUDE WENDELL HORUDE WENDELL HORTTTTTONONONONON, SR., SR., SR., SR., SR.By Dr. Wendell Horton

Claude Wendell Horton, Sr., age 86, of Austin died March 2, 2002.Claude Horton was born in Cherryvale, Kansas, on September 23,

1915, to Marie Terwilliger Horton and Roy Wesley Horton. He receiveda B.A. from Rice University in 1935 and an M.A. from Rice in 1936. Heworked as an Assistant Seismologist and Party Chief for Shell Oil from1936 to 1943 and as a Research Assistant at the Harvard UnderwaterSound Laboratory from 1943 to 1946. He received his Ph.D. from theUniversity of Texas, Austin, in 1948, became an Associate Professor ofPhysics at UT in 1950 and Professor in 1953. He was Chairman of thePhysics Department from 1956 to 1964. He was also a Professorin the Department of Geology at UT and a Research Scientist at theApplied Research Laboratory (formerly Defense Research Laboratory).He was a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America and theAmerican Physical Society. He received the Pioneers of UnderwaterAcoustics Medal from the Acoustical Society of America in 1980.

At the University of Texas he supervised 27 Ph.D. and 30 M.A./M.S.students. Among his students were leaders of the growth of science

and technology in Austin, including ChesterMcKinney and Loyd Hampton, former directors ofthe Applied Research Laboratory, Richard Lane,founder of Tracor, and James Truchard, a co-founder

Laura Brooks Flawn, M.D.Photo provided by Peter Flawn.

Claude Wendell Horton, Sr.Photo provided by Dr. Wendell Horton.


In Memoriam:BILL R. PBILL R. PBILL R. PBILL R. PBILL R. PAAAAAYNEYNEYNEYNEYNE

Bill R. Payne passed away on August 10, 2001, in Houston, Texas,at the age of 84. He was born January 14, 1917, in Milam County,Texas. He moved with his family to San Benito/Harlingen, Texas,in 1926 and graduated from Harlingen High School in 1933. He thenenrolled in the University of Texas, Austin, and received both a B.A.(1940) and an M.A. (1941) in geology. He joined the U.S. Navy andMidshipmen School in New York City and received a commissionas Ensign in January 1942 and was assigned to the South Pacific.He was released from the Navy in 1946, was commissioned as aLieutenant Commander, and remained in the Naval Reserves until1954.

He was married to Joyce Florence Bowman in 1943. In 1946he was hired by Humble Oil and Refining Company and worked inSouth Alabama doing surface geology. He then moved to Houstonand continued to work for the same company under its many names.

Bill was a member of the Houston Geological Society and theAmerican Association of Petroleum Geologists for over 50 years. Inaddition he was a member of many oil industry groups throughout hislife, including the Texas Mid-Continent Oil and Gas Association, the NewMexico Oil and Gas Association, and the American Petroleum Institute.In addition he was very interested in academics at The University ofTexas at Austin and was a charter member of the Littlefield Society.He established a Teaching Fellowship in honor of his first wife, JoyceBowman Payne, and the Board of Regents at The University createda matching grant, the Bill R. Payne Centennial Teaching Fellowship.

He is survived by his wife, Laune Hecht Payne and children, Johnand wife Rose; Marianne and husband Gardner Parker; and Tom and wifePamela; as well as by grandchildren Mason and wife Robin, Frannie andNatalie Parker, and Austin and Ross Payne; and a sister, Frances Payne.

of National Instruments. While a broad range of topics is representedin his publications and patents, the underlying theme is that of thedetection and signal processing of scattered sound waves andelectromagnetic waves. Several early works were classified bythe U.S. Navy, which also sponsored his writing a book, SignalProcessing of Underwater Acoustics Waves, published in 1969.

He married Louise Charlotte Walthall on November 23, 1938,in Houston. He is survived by his wife Louise, a writer and artist;

his son Wendell Horton and wife Elisabeth; andhis daughter Margaret Elaine Morefield. He isalso survived by his grandson John W. Hortonand his wife Johauna of Santa Barbara, California,and their children Jaclyn, Jayna, and Joseph,and his grandson Mike A. Horton and his wifeMelissa of Santa Clara, California.

Bill and Joyce Payne.Photo provided by John Payne.


Staff Awards and HonorsBoth William “Bill” Woods, Executive Assistant,and John Lansdown, Research Scientist Associate,received the Distinguished Service Award at theDepartment Awards Ceremony held May 2, 2002,in GEO 100. The award is made by the Departmentfor the most outstanding contribution to thefacilities or operations of the Departmentthroughout the previous year. The winner isevaluated based on nominations from faculty,staff, and students and is chosen by theFoundation Executive Committee.

Alice Dewberry, Office Assistant, andCarol Russell, Library Assistant II, in theGeneral Libraries both received the ThelmaLynn Guion Geology Library Staff Award. Thisaward is given to recognize excellent performanceby staff members of the Joseph C. Walter, Jr.and Elizabeth C. Walter Geology Library.

We also want to offer our congratulationsto Joseph Jaworski and Philip Guerrero,both of whom received The University of Texasat Austin Service Awards for 15 years of service.They were recognized at the Department AwardsCeremony on May 2, 2002, where they eachreceived a certificate for the number of yearsof their service.

FROM TOP:Bill Woods,John Lansdown,and Carol Russell.

LEFT TO RIGHT:Alice Dewberry,Philip Guerrero,and Joseph Jaworski.

Staff Awards and Honors


Speakers

FACULTY AND STAFF IN THE DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Fall 2001

Robert J. Ferguson“Grafting Time Migrationonto Shallow Depth Migration:Fixing a Statics Problem inthe Norwegian Sea”October 18, 2001

William L. Fisher“Energy: A Global Challenge”October 12, 2001

Robert L. Folk“Pathologic Calcium Diagenesiswithin the Human Body…Arterial Disease, Kidney Stones,Cataracts…NannobacteriaDeclared Guilty!”November 26, 2001

William E. Galloway“The Many Faces of SubmarineErosion: Theory Meets Reality inSelection of Sequence Boundaries”October 8, 2001

Robert K. Goldhammer“Chaos in El Paso”September 13, 2001

Richard A. Ketcham“Past and Future Applicationsof High-Resolution CT toProblems in Fluid Flow”October 19, 2001

Spring 2002

Mark P. Cloos“Plate Tectonic Controlson Porphyry-Cu Mineralization”February 6, 2002

James N. Connelly“The Other Side of the Table:GSA Grant Proposals”January 17, 2002

Wulf A. Gose“Regional and Global Applicationsof Paleomagnetism: Results fromVenezuela and South Africa”April 24, 2002

Leon E. Long“Geologic Wonders of Central Texas”March 22, 2002

Randall A. Marrett“Random Adventures withDiscrete Phenomena”January 29, 2002

Zong-Liang Yang“Use and Abuse of ClimateModels for Impact Studies”February 5, 2002

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Jim Irwin and Dave Scott(left to right) on the rim of theRio Grande Gorge, near Taos,New Mexico, during a fieldexercise designed to simulatetheir Apollo 15 lunar traversalong the rim of Hadley Rille.The lower part of the gorge isthe same size as Hadley Rille:1 mile across, 600 feet deep; bothare cut in lava flows—one by a river of water, the otherby a river of lava. NASA photoS-71-23469, March 1971. Photoprovided by William Muehlberger.


Endowed Lecturers

Fall 2001

Lee F. KrystinikLitho-Logic, Ltd.Fort Worth, Texas

Don R. and Patricia KiddBoyd Lectureship inPetroleum Exploration

“Finding SubtleTraps using SequenceStratigraphic andSynsedimentary TectonicAnalysis, AlmondFormation, SouthwestWyoming”November 28, 2001

“Hunting Fractures 5 kmDown: IntegratedReservoir Geology toSite Horizontal Wells,UPR/DOE Rock Island4-H Well, SouthwestWyoming”November 28, 2001

“Sequence StratigraphicVariability in ForelandBasins, an Examplefrom the CretaceousWestern Interior Seawayof North America”November 28, 2001

Ronald J. SteelDepartment of Geologyand GeophysicsUniversity of WyomingLaramie, Wyoming

Judd H. and CynthiaOualline CentennialLecturer in PetroleumGeology

“Space-Time Relationshipof Sandbodies inDeepwater LowstandComplexes, Barremianand Eocene Spitsbergen”November 12, 2001

“Shelf Deltas: Their Rolein Sediment Deliveryto Shelf Margins andDeepwater Basins,Examples fromEocene, Spitsbergen”November 13, 2001

“Unusual Features ofa Wave RavinementComplex in a High-Sediment SupplyDeltaic System, EbroBasin, NE Spain”November 14, 2001

“High-ResolutionRegression and Trans-gression of ShorelineTongues (CretaceousWestern Interior Basin),and Response in UpdipFluvial Successions”November 15, 2001

TOP: Lee Krystinik, Litho-Logic,Ltd., Fort Worth, Texas.

BOTTOM: Ronald Steel, Universityof Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming.


Spring 2002

John M. ArmentroutCascade StratigraphicsClackmas, Oregon

Don R. and Patricia KiddBoyd Lectureship inPetroleum Exploration

“Glaciomarine Stratigraphyof the Neogene YakatageFormation, Gulf of Alaska”April 22, 2002

“Seismic Sequence Stratig-raphy: Rediscovery ofStratigraphicFundamentals”April 23, 2002

“A Positive Perspective onthe Future of PetroleumGeology and thePetroleum Industry”April 24, 2002

“Application of Biostratigra-phy to SequenceStratigraphic Analysisof Basin History”April 25, 2002

“Tectonic Controls onNeogene TurbiditeSystems, OffshoreNigeria”April 25, 2002

F. Grant FerrisDepartment of GeologyUniversity of TorontoToronto, Ontario, Canada

TOP: John Armentrout, CascadeStratigraphics, Clackmas, Oregon.

MIDDLE: Grant Ferris, University ofToronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

BOTTOM: Ed Stolper, California Instituteof Technology, Pasadena, California.

Judd H. and CynthiaOualline CentennialLecturer in GeologicalSciences

“Microscopic toMacroscopic Perspectiveson Microbial MineralFormation”February 13, 2002

“CarbonateBiomineralization andGeomicrobiology”February 13, 2002

“Behavior of Bacteriaas GeochemicallyActive Solids”February 14, 2002

Edward M. StolperDepartment of Geologicaland Planetary SciencesCalifornia Instituteof TechnologyPasadena, California

Edwin Allday Lectureshipin Geological Sciences

“Results of the HawaiiScientific Drilling Project”April 2, 2002

“A Simple Analysisof Adiabatic MantleMelting”April 3, 2002


Visiting Speakers

Fall 2001

Jorge Aranda-GomezUniversidad Autonoma de Mexico“Synextensional, Plio-Pleistocene EruptiveActivity in the Camargo Volcanic Field,Chihuahua, Mexico”October 3, 2001

“Tectonomagmatic Evolution of the MexicanPortion of the Basin and Range Province(Eocene-Present): A Review”October 4, 2001

Carlton K. EricksonCollege of PharmacyThe University of Texas at AustinAustin, Texas“Exploring Myths About Addiction”November 16, 2001

Paul M. “Mitch” HarrisChevronHouston, Texas“Geological Framework of the Tengizand Korolev Fields, Kazakhstan–Carboniferous Isolated Carbonate Platforms”

“Stratigraphic Framework andNew Exploration Concepts for theLower Cretaceous Shelf MarginCarbonates of Texas”August 31, 2001

Donald HaynesRetired Petroleum Geologist“Geologic Assessment: From FieldWork to Sewer Line Trenches”September 28, 2001

Richard E. JacksonDuke Engineering and Services(DE&S) GeosciencesAustin, Texas“Performance Assessment ofRemediation of DNAPL Zones”October 5, 2001

Robert H. LanderGeocosmAustin, Texas“Exploring the Links BetweenQuartz Cementation and FractureFormation in Sandstones”September 18, 2001

W. Paul MannInstitute for GeophysicsThe University of Texas at AustinAustin, Texas“Tectonics of the Solomon Islands”September 19, 2001

Kathleen MarsagliaCalifornia State University at NorthridgeNorthridge, California“Sand, Cycles, and Sea Level Changein the Post-Messinian Section of theWestern Mediterranean Sea”November 15, 2001

Paul E. MurrayBureau of Economic GeologyThe University of Texas at AustinAustin, Texas“Geophysics in the 21st Century:Opportunities, Frontiers, and Careers”November 19, 2001

Julie NewmanTexas A&M UniversityCollege Station, Texas“Temperature-Stress-Strain Rate Path alonga Peridotite Shear Zone: Implications forDynamic Processes within the Upper Mantle”November 14, 2001

Jeffrey G. PaineBureau of Economic GeologyThe University of Texas at AustinAustin, Texas“Hydrogeological Applications of AirborneElectromagnetic Induction Imaging”October 23, 2001

R. Jay PulliamInstitute for GeophysicsThe University of Texas at AustinAustin, Texas“Development of a Broadband Ocean BottomSeismograph for Recording Earthquakes”September 6, 2001

Jürgen SchieberDepartment of GeologyThe University of Texas at ArlingtonArlington, Texas

“Studying Shales for Fun and Profit”“Of Mudstones, Microbes, and Mars”October 15, 2001

Raymond SladeU.S. Geological SurveyAustin, Texas“Storms in the Hill Country in Central Texas”October 12, 2001

Wighard von KoneigswaldInstitut für Paläontologie derUniversitäet BonnBonn, Germany“Eocene Mammals from Messel, Germany:Preservation and Biological Reconstruction”October 15, 2001

Lesli J. WoodBureau of Economic GeologyThe University of Texas at AustinAustin, Texas“Down to De Island Man: TertiaryClastic Depositional Systems of theSoutheastern Caribbean Margin”October 1, 2001

Juliette A. WoodsInstitute for Computational Mechanics andApplied MathematicsThe University of Texas at AustinAustin, Texas“Modeling Mayhem: Salinity in Australiaand the Dubious Veracity of Models”September 20, 2001


Spring 2002

Douglas AlsdorfDepartment of Earth and Space SciencesUniversity of California at Los AngelesLos Angeles, California“Satellite Observations andModeling of Water Storage Changeson the Amazon Floodplain”April 11, 2002

Ronald AmundsonDepartment of Geology and GeophysicsUniversity of California at BerkeleyBerkeley, California“Paleoclimatic and GeochronologicalApplications of Soil Carbonates:What We Know and Don’t Know”February 28, 2002

James A. “Jamie” AustinInstitute for GeophysicsThe University of Texas at AustinAustin, Texas“Planning for an Integrated, International,Multi-Platform Scientific Ocean DrillingProgram: Where Do We Stand?”February 7, 2002

Michael BrownDepartment of GeologyUniversity of MarylandCollege Park, Maryland“Migmatites and Leucogranites in Orogens:Relationships and Consequences”March 19, 2002

“Deducing Peak P-T Conditionsand the P-T Evolution of Ultra-HighTemperature (UHT) Metamorphic Rocks”March 20, 2002

David BuddBig 12 Faculty FellowDepartment of Geological SciencesUniversity of Colorado at BoulderBoulder, Colorado“Compaction of Carbonate Grainstonesand the Destruction of Permeability–A Simple View of the Hole Truth”January 28, 2002

Douglas A. BurnsWatersheds Research SectionU.S. Geological SurveyTroy, New York“Methods for Age Dating YoungGroundwater: Applications in theGeorgia Piedmont and Catskill Mountainsof New York”April 8, 2002

M. Bayani R. CardenasDepartment of GeosciencesUniversity of Nebraska at LincolnLincoln, Nebraska“Inference of Three-DimensionalPermeability Structure of StreambedDeposits Based on Multi-Techniques”February 22, 2002

Desmond CollinsRoyal Ontario MuseumToronto, Ontario, Canada“Marine Communities of theBurgess Shale”March 7, 2002

Anthony DausGeomatrix ConsultantsAustin, Texas“A Water Crisis in Rural Brazil:Responding to an Emergency”March 22, 2002

Scott EngleURS CorporationAustin, Texas“Large Scale Hydrological Investigation ofa Karst Groundwater System at Fort Knox,Kentucky”April 19, 2002

Graham E. FoggDepartment of Geology and GeophysicsUniversity of California at DavisDavis, California“Plume Behavior in HeterogeneousGeologic Systems: Natural Attenuation,Remediation, and the Role of Diffusion”March 1, 2002

Peter FureyDepartment of Geological SciencesUniversity of ColoradoBoulder, Colorado“Using Time Series of Streamflow andRainfall Data to Estimate Base Flow inRiver Basins”April 11, 2002

Thomas GardnerDepartment of GeosciencesTrinity UniversitySan Antonio, Texas“The Caribbean Plate Margin inCosta Rica: A Case of Yo-Yo Tectonics?”February 21, 2002

Ivan GillDepartment of Geology and GeophysicsUniversity of New OrleansNew Orleans, Louisiana“Reefer Madness: Reefs, Coral Growthand Six Millennia of Climate Recordsfrom the Northeast Caribbean”January 31, 2002

Brian K. HornbuckleCollege of EngineeringUniversity of MichiganAnn Arbor, Michigan“Questioning Some Common Assumptionsabout the Radiometric Sensitivity toSoil Moisture at 1.4 GH”April 4, 2002

David W. HyndmanDarcy Lecturer, National GroundwaterEducation FoundationDepartment of Geological SciencesMichigan State UniversityEast Lansing, Michigan“Efficient Large-Scale Bioremediation ina Heterogeneous Aquifer: The SchoolcraftBioaugmentation Experiment”April 12, 2002

Robert S. KierRobert S. Kier ConsultingAustin, Texas“Review of Proposed GroundwaterMonitoring Plan for the Industrial WasteUnit at Austin Community Landfill”January 25, 2002


John KormendyDepartment of AstronomyThe University of Texas at AustinAustin, Texas“Supermassive Black Holes:Galaxy Monsters”April 19, 2002

Lindsey LeightonDepartment of Geological SciencesSan Diego State UniversitySan Diego, California“Exploring the Latitudinal DiversityGradient through Deep Time with anExample from Productide Brachiopods”April 19, 2002

Barbara MahlerU.S. Geological SurveyAustin, Texas“Surface GroundwaterInteraction in Karst”April 1, 2002

David R. MaidmentCivil Engineering Center forResearch in Water ResourcesThe University of Texas at AustinAustin, Texas“GIS in Water Resources”March 29, 2002

Peter J. McGoldrickCentre for Ore Deposits ResearchUniversity of TasmaniaHobart, Tasmania“Australian Sediment-Hosted BaseMetal Deposits in Proterozoic Rift Basins:Are They Giant Microbial Self(S)-Sourcing Puddings?”March 6, 2002

Michael A. MurphyDepartment of GeosciencesUniversity of HoustonHouston, Texas“Raising Tibet”January 23, 2001

“Tectonic Evolution of the KarakoramFault System and its Role in Segmentationof the Himalayan Fold-Thrust Belt”January 24, 2001

Wenge Ni-MeisterNASA – Goddard Space Flight CenterGreenbelt, MD“Land Atmosphere Interactionand Remote Sensing”April 2, 2002

Jon E. OlsonDepartment of Petroleum andGeosystems EngineeringThe University of Texas at AustinAustin, Texas“A Geologist’s Guide to ExplainingNatural Fracture Phenomenawith Fracture Mechanics”February 19, 2002

Camille ParmesanSchool of Biological SciencesThe University of Texas at AustinAustin, Texas“Global Warming: Impactson Wildlife and Society”January 25, 2002

Sylvia PopeCity of Austin Watershed ProtectionAustin, Texas“Dye Trace Attempts in theStillhouse Hollow Springs Area”February 8, 2002

Rainer SengerDuke Engineering and ServicesAustin, Texas“The GMT Experiment at the GrimselTest Site (GTS), Switzerland: Real-TimeAnalysis and Visualization of Two-PhaseFlow Associated with Gas Migrationfrom an Engineered Barrier System”March 8, 2002

Kerry E. SiehDivision of Geological andPlanetary SciencesCalifornia Institute of TechnologyPasadena, California“Paleogeodesy of the Sumatran Sub-duction Zone from Coral Micro-Atolls”March 28, 2002

Rebecca C. SmythBureau of Economic GeologyThe University of Texas at AustinAustin, Texas“LIDAR River Water Elevation Data”May 3, 2002

Stuart S. SumidaDepartment of Geological SciencesCalifornia State UniversitySan Bernadino, California“Late Paleozoic Terrestrial VertebrateAssemblages of Europe and NorthAmerica: Working Toward BetterUnderstanding of Early PermianBiogeography and the Evolutionof the Terrestrial Ecosystems”April 18, 2002

Andrew WeinbergBechtel S CorporationAustin, Texas“Isotope Hydrogeology inthe Developing World”February 1, 2002

Michael L. WilliamsDepartment of GeosciencesUniversity of MassachusettsAmherst, Massachusetts“Small-Scale Applications with Large-Scale Implications: New Uses of theElectron Microprobe for Structural,Metamorphic, and Tectonic Studies”February 25, 2002

“Looping P-T Paths, Polymetamorphism,and the Behavior of the Middle Crust:Proterozoic Evolution ofSouthwestern North America”February 26, 2002

Alicia M. WilsonDepartment of Geological SciencesUniversity of South CarolinaColumbia, South Carolina“Predicting Spatial Patterns ofDiagenesis in Carbonate Platforms”April 5, 2002

Hongliu ZengBureau of Economic GeologyThe University of Texas at AustinAustin, Texas“From Seismic Stratigraphy to SeismicSedimentology: A Sensible Transition”February 12, 2002


Fall 2001

M. Jennifer Cooke,Ph.D. Candidate“Sr Isotopes as a PotentialRecord of Soil Erosion”October 22, 2001

Timothy A. Meckel,Ph.D. Candidate“Tectonic Morphologyof the Hjort Trench”November 21, 2001

Laura I. Net,M.S. Candidate“Using PetrographicImage Analysis (PIA) toCharacterize SandstonePorosity: an Examplefrom the PaganzoBasin, Argentina”October 29, 2001

Spring 2002

Christopher A. Berg,Ph.D. Candidate“Oxygen IsotopeSystematics in Multiply-deformed MetamorphicRocks: Assessment ofMajor Element andIsotopic Equilibrium”February 20, 2002

Chris R. McFarlane,Ph.D. Candidate“Granulite P-T-t Pathsfrom Al Zoning inOrthopyroxene:Tectonic History onthe Head of a Pin?”April 10, 2002

H. Seay Nance,Ph.D. Candidate“Aquifer Architectureand Groundwater Flow,Edwards-Trinity AquiferSystem, EdwardsPlateau, Texas”February 15, 2002

Timothy L. Pierce,Ph.D. Candidate“Morphologic andTopographic Analyses ofMartian Debris Aprons”April 17, 2002

Ted E. Playton,Ph.D. Candidate“Slope and BasinalDeposits Shed from aLate WolfcampianTectonically-ActiveCarbonate Ramp Margin”March 25, 2002

Brook C. D. Riley,Ph.D. Candidate“Resetting of the FissionTrack Chronometer inRadiation-DamagedZircon: Hot Rocks inSoutheastern Arizona”March 27, 2002

Vanessa L. Svihla,Ph.D. Candidate“A Whole Lot of SheathFolding Going On”May 1, 2002

Other Talks by Graduate Students inthe Department of Geological Sciences

GEO 380 (Sequence Stratigraphy) Spring Break field trip 2002 in Last ChanceCanyon, Guadalupe Mountains, New Mexico. Photo provided by W. L. Fisher.


Fall 2001

Abdulaziz S. Al-AslaniPh.D. Candidate“3-D multiple attenuation:analysis and algorithms”October 2, 2001

Aaron A. BergM.S. Candidate“The sensitivity of land surfacemodel simulation to biascorrection of a reanalysis product”November 1, 2001

Donna L. CathroPh.D. Candidate“Three-dimensional relationshipsbetween Late Paleogene-EarlyNeogene seismic stratalsurfaces and paleobathymetry,Northern Carnavon Basin,North West Shelf, Australia”October 25, 2001

David L. DufeauM.S. Candidate“Shuvuuia Deserti, a weirdtheropod dinosaur from theGobi Desert of Mongolia,and its bearing on theevolutionary history of birds”November 20, 2001

Berhane N. GhebretensaeM.S. Candidate“Sedimentation and tectonicsin Northern Dankalia,Eastern Eritrea, Africa”September 25, 2001

Jennifer A. HeadM.S. Candidate“Stratigraphic and structuralcontrols on Permian carbonate-hosted silver (Pb-Zn) mineral-ization, Presidio County,Shafter, Texas”October 16, 2001

Katherine A. HerrellM.S. Candidate“Pegmatite-containingshear zones: a mechanismfor the formation ofisolated feldspar augen”November 1, 2001

Daniel J. KrauseM.S. Candidate“Development of DNA-labeledclay particles for use asgroundwater tracers”November 20, 2001

Staci L. LoewyPh.D. Candidate“The Arequipa-Antofallabasement: evolution of thepre-Andean Margin andreconstruction of Rodinia”October 11, 2001

Charna E. MethM.S. Candidate“Syn-deformationalcrystallization, LukmanierPass, Switzerland”October 30, 2001

Thomas E. MiskellyM.S. Candidate“Structural framework anddepositional systems of a complextransform margin: blocks 104and 105, Ivory Coast, West Africa”September 4, 2001

Faustino S. Monroy-SantiagoPh.D. Candidate“Interrelationships betweencarbonate diagenesis and fracturedevelopment: example fromMonterrey salient, Mexico, andimplications for hydrocarbonreservoir characterization”November 27, 2001

Anubrati MukherjeePh.D. Candidate“Normal moveout, traveltimecomputation and imaging intransversely isotropic media”September 27, 2001

Thet NaingM.S. Candidate“Spatial interpolation ofpermeability structure forOgallala aquifer of Texas”December 6, 2001

Jennifer L. PerryM.S. Candidate“The environmentalimpacts of Class A foam”October 9, 2001

STUDENT SPEAKERS – TECHNICAL SESSIONS


Thandar PhyuM.S. Candidate“Transient modeling of solutetransport in a dual porosity mediawith fracture skin”October 9, 2001

Claudia RassiPh.D. Candidate“Production prediction withina sequence stratigraphic frame-work—does it make sense?”December 4, 2001

Brad H. ReidM.S. Candidate“Sedimentation of the GilaGroup and Late Cenozoicbasin fill history, DuncanBasin, southeastern Arizona”October 30, 2001

Tony J. TroutmanM.S. Candidate“Reservoir characterizationof the Redwall paleokarst”September 25, 2001

Spring 2002

Adrian C. BadescuPh.D. Candidate“Integrating 3-D seismic, sequencestratigraphy and reservoir proper-ties to enhance secondary gasrecovery of two major MioceneGulf of Mexico offshore fields”April 9, 2002

Juan Bermudez-SantanaPh.D. Candidate“Sequence stratigraphy anddepositional history of the upperCañon del Tule, Las Imagenesand lower Cerro Grandeformations, Central ParrasBasin, Northeastern Mexico”March 26, 2002

Robert L. BurgerPh.D. Candidate“Mid-Pleistocene to presentstratigraphic responses in atectonically-driven depositionalsetting: Eel River Basin,northern California”March 5, 2002

Ricardo I. Combellas-BigottPh.D. Candidate“Depositional history and sequencestratigraphic framework of theMiddle Miocene depositionalepisode, eastern-centralGulf of Mexico”April 30, 2002

Pedro T. Gomez-CabreraPh.D. Candidate“Structural and stratigraphicanalysis of the Neogene sedimentsof the offshore portion (Marbellaarea) of the Salina del Istmo basin,southeastern Mexico”April 11, 2002

Cem O. KilicPh.D. Candidate“Characterization and quanti-fication of Middle Miocenereservoirs, offshore Louisiana(Vermilion #30, #31, #50 andSouth March Island #210,#217, #218, #219) usingNeural-Network (NN) patternrecognition and statistics”April 23, 2002

Robert L. KochM.S. Candidate“Characterization of SpringCunningham Sand in thesoutheast Bradley SpringerUnit of the Golden Trend”April 16, 2002

Daniel J. KrauseM.S. Candidate“Development of DNA-labeledclay particles for use asgroundwater tracers”March 21, 2002

Jason N. KrotheM.S. Candidate“Effects of urbanizationon groundwater flow”March 21, 2002

Patricia T. MontoyaM.S. Candidate“Characterization of a sandstonefractured reservoir: from coreto 3-D seismic analysis,Northern Basin, Venezuela”April 4, 2002


bioherms in the Sacramento Mountains.Beginning with a stop at White SandsNational Monument, the emphasis shiftedto aeolian sediments, as Drs. Banner,Kocurek, and Stern took the group toGhost Ranch, near Abiquiu, NewMexico, for a 2-day project that examinedthe Entrada and Todilto Formations.The group then spent 5 days at Ft. LewisCollege, Durango, Colorado, whereprojects with Drs. McBride, Kocurek, andStern examined San Juan Basin fluvial-deltaic sediments, paleosols, redbeds,Pennsylvanian cycl ical deposit ion/tectonism, and glacial geomorphology.

A 2-day drive northward took theclass through calderas of the San JuanMountains, monoclines of the ColoradoPlateau, Dinosaur National Monument,the Uinta Mountains, and several of thebasins and uplifts of Wyoming beforearriving at Greybull, Wyoming, on the

western flank of the Big Horn Mountains.Here, with Drs. Marrett, Helper, andStern, students mapped portions ofSheep Mountain and Goose Egg Anticlinesand examined the thick-skinned struc-tural style of the Big Horn Mountainson a 1-day trip through the range. A shorttrip to the west brought the group toYellowstone and Grand Teton NationalParks where, while camped at ColterBay, they spent 2 days examining thegeology of Yellowstone caldera andthe neotectonic and glacial history of theJackson Hole region. From the parks,the class traveled northward to Lewisand Clark Caverns State Park, near ThreeForks, Montana, their base for a 3-daymapping project of a displacementtransfer zone in the Sevier fold-thrustbelt. A single-day trip led by Dr. Marrettthrough the Big Belt Mountains nearHelena examined large- and small-scalegeometries of deformation in a spectacularthrust belt cross section farther north.This trip was a prelude to a final 3-daythrust belt mapping project, based outof Western Montana College in Dillon,Montana. Here students mapped complexthrust and folded thrust geometries inthe Sevier Belt along the Big Hole River.

Fieldwork culminated with a finalproject in the high Pioneer Mountains,west of Melrose, Montana, that focusedon the geology of the Hecla miningdistrict, once the state’s largest silver dis-trict. While primitive camping, studentsdocumented, mapped, and reported onrelat ionships among deformation,metamorphism, mineralization, plu-tonism, and ore genesis during a 4-dayexercise with Drs. Connelly and Helper.A 4-day drive home allowed stops onthe Snake River Plain near Idaho Falls,Idaho, on the Colorado Plateau at Priceand Arches National Monument in Utah,and a day trip through the Valles Calderain the Jemez Mountains, New Mexico.

Further details and photos from this andprevious years’ classes can be found at the 660website at http://www.geo.utexas.edu/courses/660.

An eager group of 33 studentsdeparted Austin on May 21 for 6 weeksof field projects and travel through someof the most spectacular geology in theWest. As in years past, the class was staffedby a diverse group of faculty who, overperiods of 5 days to 4 weeks, joined thegroup to teach their specialties, and by anexperienced group of five TAs who taughtfor 3- or 6-week periods.

With minor exceptions, the camp thisyear traveled the same route as groupsof the last 4 years, beginning in WestTexas and concluding with a project insouthwest Montana. This year, Drs.Banner and Goldhammer brought thegroup from Austin to Carlsbad, NewMexico, where they spent 3 days study-ing the Permian geology of the Guada-lupe Mountains before moving on toAlamogordo for a brief look at mixedcarbonate/clastic sedimentation and

TOP: Folded Paleozoiccarbonates, Sevierfold-thrust belt, Big BeltMountains, Montana.

MIDDLE: Dr. Marrett withstudents (left to right) HollyBarton, Jon Snatic, and AnnieHoffman, Big Belt Mountains,Montana.

BOTTOM: John Hooker (right)and Kristin Goddard on LionMountain, Hecla, Montana.

Photos provided by Mark Helper.

SUMMER FIELD CAMP2001-GEO 660

by Mark Helper


Basin Analysis Class Tours theOuachita/Arkoma Basin Province,

or, Back to Toad Suck FerryTwelve graduate students joined Bill Galloway in a return trip to the stratigraphic

and depositional wonders of the Ouachita/Arkoma outcrops of Arkansas and Oklahoma.As in past trips, Dr. Thomas “Mac” McGilvery, of Phillips Petroleum Company, journeyedfrom Bartlesville to lead the 4-day field trip.

In addition to visiting such well-known localities as DeGray Spillway and Big RockQuarry to view deep marine turbidite system facies, the class marveled at the enigmaticToad Suck Ferry outcrops and were regaled by stories of doing field geology in Arkansasand by reports on the challenges of global exploration in the 21st century. The trip endedwith a visit to the flooded Calymites forest located near Heavener, Oklahoma.

In addition to describing regional and outcrop geology, the guidebook providedabundant insight into the history of the states and towns visited. Nature provided anincredible example of “exploding” pollination by pine trees.

Our thanks to Mac for again leading an informative, exciting, and fun trip, and toPhillips Petroleum for donating his time, guidebooks, and logistical support.

Mac points outattributesof slopeturbidite beds.Photo providedby Bill Galloway.


Rich Kyle’s GEO 381R course,Regional Studies of Mineral ResourcesGeology, continues to provide opportuni-ties for graduate students to experienceinternational fieldwork. The studentsspend the spring semester studying thegeology and mineral deposits of a regionto be visited. After introductory lectures,each student selects a topic of interest onthe regional geology and resources andprepares a contribution for a guidebook.The group meets for final presentationsand preparation to visit the region onwhich the trip has focused.

In May 2001, graduate studentsChristine Fox, Karah Wertz, and JamesMcGuire participated in a tour of theIberian Peninsula, a region with anancient mining history. The focus of thetrip was the Iberian Pyrite Belt (IPB),which contains numerous large volcanic-hosted massive sulfide (VMS) deposits, theancient equivalents of modern sea-floorhydrothermal vent systems. Over 2 weeks,the students toured many of the larger oredeposits in Southern Spain and Portugal,while experiencing Iberian culture andhistory. Thanks to generous fundingfrom the Geology Foundation, thestudents were able to gain directexperience with the regional geologicframework and mineralization inIberia that they had studied in class.

The group, sponsored in part bythe Society of Economic Geologists,met in Lisbon, Portugal, and consistedof 22 students and professionals fromthe University of Utah, New Mexico Tech,and The University of Texas at Austin(for additional coverage, see http://www.mines.utah.edu/pyrite/spain2001/index.html). Fees collected from partici-pating institutions and companies helpeddefray transportation and housing costs

during the IPB tour. Group leaders were economic geologists Dr. Bill Chavezof New Mexico Tech and Dr. Erich Petersen of the University of Utah.

The first stop on the tour was the relatively new Neves-Corvo mine,outside the small Portuguese hamlet of Castro Verde, where the groupenjoyed terrific seafood. The Neves-Corvo deposit is a “blind” orebody thatwas discovered almost entirely with geophysics and is a very large VMS depositcharacterized by high copper grades and high tin zones. At Neves-Corvo, thegroup learned the frighteningly simple, but effective, approach used whenlogging core in the IPB: a basal metamorphic phyllite-quartzite (PQ), overlainby a volcano-sedimentary sequence (VS), capped by the flysch group. Typically,VMS orebodies like those at Neves-Corvo are found at the top of the VS.

The next stop was the inactive Aljustrel VMS deposits that currently areundergoing a feasibility study for zinc production. Students examined cores

Field Excursion to the Iberian Peninsula–GEO 381Rby Mac McGuire

Open pit for massive sulfide deposit, Los Frailes copper mine, Spain.Photo by Christine Fox.


for orebodies at Aljustrel that averaged1 percent Cu and 5 percent Zn, andlearned an important lesson about howeasily sphalerite can be overlooked whenlogging core. The group moved on toLousal, a site of Roman tunnels precari-ously perched on steep hillsides, wherechildren were forced to labor in the gossanto provide gold for the Empire. The SaoDomingo deposits, next on the itinerary,are VMSs initially operated as an open pitby the Romans, but more recently wereused to provide pyrite for the productionof sulfuric acid. Acid mine drainage fromthe workings had a pH of 2 (!), and bothSao Domingo and Lousal have receivedattention recently as the Portuguese havebegun to recognize the environmentallegacy of abandoned VMS mines.

Nowhere were these effects moreapparent than at the group’s next stop,Spain’s historic Rio Tinto open pit mine.At the mine’s museum, mining implementsfrom the area believed to be 9,000 yearsold were displayed. There has been almostcontinuous activity for the past 2,000 years,as the Romans and Phoeniciansinitially exploited its riches. In excessof 500 million tons of massive sulfideore have been removed from the mainorebody. Rio Tinto is so named becauseof the blood-red color of the river thatcaptures all of the runoff from the area.The Rio Tinto has a pH of 2, and biologistswho specialize in extreme environmentsstudy its oxygen-generating bacteria, theonly creatures hardy enough to live in it.

At Spain’s Aguas Teñidas, Spanish for“dyed waters,” the group saw more smallVMSs with acid mine drainage problems.Due to these historic environmentalproblems, the Las Cruces mine, anotherSpanish VMS deposit visited by the group,has been developed with very strict

environmental standards. The Las Cruces orebody has no surface expressionand was discovered by drilling a gravity anomaly. Production will begin soon,and Las Cruces will be one of Europe’s largest mines, meeting 6 percent ofits copper demands. After visiting the Las Cruces offices in Seville, studentswere given a day to wander the city. The UT students explored the city’smain plaza and many cathedrals, while other students sought out the firstMcDonald’s since arrival!

Los Frailes, the last VMS system visited, was perhaps the most infamous.A tailings dam broke in 1998, spilling its contents down a river to a sanctuarythat is the breeding grounds for many European waterfowl. Poor evaluationof the properties of the underlying marl led to the dam failure. The resultingenvironmental disaster is a primary reason that the mine is set to shut downin the next year, though significant reserves and resources remain. Witnessingdisasters like this made everyone acutely aware of the need for interactionbetween geologists and engineers in all phases of a project.

After Los Frailes, the group spent a day in Córdoba. The day’s festivitiesincluded attending the Córdoba fair, visiting La Mezquita, a Moorish mosquebuilt 1,200 years ago, and viewing Roman ruins. The remaining destinationswould be out of the IPB, examining some of the other ore deposit types inCentral Spain and Portugal.

Almadén, a mercury deposit that is the world’s oldest continually activemine, has accounted for at least one-third of global mercury production.Regardless of the economic aspects, Almadén is a remarkable geochemicalanomaly essentially without equal for any element on the planet. Thesestratabound cinnabar deposits are monometallic and thought to be relatedto seafloor mafic volcanism. Grades are as high as 20 percent mercury, butthe cutoff grade is 3.5 percent. Students descended to an active stope and brokeopen pieces of ore to find droplets of native mercury and shiny red crystals ofcinnabar in the shale host.

The group explored the scenic mountain-top villa of Marvão, Portugal,on the way to Panasqueira, the last tour on the itinerary. Panasqueira is atin-tungsten mine located in north-central Portugal, and is known worldwideby mineral collectors for its assortment of large crystals of quartz, apatite,arsenopyrite, and wolframite. The 2-to-5-foot-wide quartz veins that host thetin-tungsten minerals formed during the Hercynian orogeny (~300 Ma). Afterthe mine tour, each member of the group was given a prize mineral specimen.

Each member of the group returned to Lisbon having greatly increasedhis or her respective knowledge of Iberian geology and ore deposits. Equallyimpressive were the increases in luggage weight, as despite my best efforts atbeing selective, my bag contained nearly 40 pounds of rocks! The success ofthis trip, and previous GEO 381R trips to Chile in 1999 and Perú in 2000,bodes well for opportunities for future international field courses. Tentativeplans are for a trip to Western Australia in May 2003.


The following students were presented with awards at the annualDepartment of Geological Sciences Awards Ceremony, held onMay 2, 2002, in GEO 100.

Graduate Student Executive Committee (GSEC)Student Service Award

(A plaque from the Geology Foundation)

Awarded for outstanding service by a geology graduatestudent to the graduate student community. Selectionmade by GSEC.

James V. Jones, III

Technical Sessions Best Speaker Awards

(A plaque and $200 monetary awardfrom Robbie Gries and the Geology Foundation)

Awarded for superior oral presentationsin Technical Sessions. Selection basedon student evaluations.

Charna E. Meth (M.S., fall 2001)“Syn-deformational crystallization,Lukmanier Pass, Switzerland”

Staci L. Loewy (Ph.D., fall 2001)“The Arequipa-Antofalla basement:evolution of the pre-Andean marginand reconstruction of Rodinia”

Patricia Montoya (M.S., spring 2002) “Characterizationof a sandstone fracture reservoir: from core to 3-D seismicanalysis, Northern Basin, Venezuela”

Robert L. Burger (Ph.D., spring 2002)“Mid-Pleistocene to present stratigraphic responsesin a tectonically-driven depositional setting:Eel River Basin, northern California”

Student Awards and Honors

Outstanding Teaching Assistant Awards

(A plaque and $750 monetary awardfrom the Geology Foundation)

Awarded for outstanding performance bya teaching assistant, one in lower-division courses,one in upper-division or graduate courses. Selectionby the Geology Foundation Executive Committee,based on nomination by the faculty.

Dennis P. Dunn

Alejandro Escalona

Barbara A. Tillotson

Brian C. Wilbur

R. L. Folk and E. F. McBride Petrography Awards

(A plaque and a $500 monetary award for graduatesand a $250 monetary award for undergraduates fromthe Geology Foundation)

Awarded for superior performance inpetrographic identification and interpretationin an annual contest.

James V. Jones, III (graduate)

Erin E. Fonken (undergraduate)

Estwing Hammer Award

Awarded annually since 1996 to an undergraduate studentwho has demonstrated outstanding skills in field geology,as judged by performance in GEO 420K and GEO 660.Selections are made by the field camp directorand undergraduate advisor. A geologic rock pickis donated each year by the Estwing Corporation.

Timothy D. Gibbons

Timothy Gibbons (left) accepts the Estwing Hammeraward for outstanding skills in field geology fromDr. Mark Helper (right).

Brook Riley (left) and James Jones (right), the recipient ofthe GSEC Student Service Award.


StudentOfficers forFall 2001 andSpring 2002

Graduate StudentExecutive CommitteeChair: Brook C. D. RileyVice-Chair: Holly A. NanceTreasurer: Melissa C. EdwardsSecretary: Ryan C. EwingAt-Large Members: Christopher L. Edwards Dennis R. Ruez Barbara A. Tillotson

American Association ofPetroleum GeologistsStudent ChapterPresident: Eric TuitjerVice-President: Matthew G. MorrisTreasurer: Tina R. FosterGraduate Student Liaison: Claudia RassiUndergraduate Student Liaison: A. Dax McDavidRecruitment Committee: Russell K. Barrett Brian T. Moore Raymond F. Schiltz

PlacementOffice Update

The 2001-2002 academic year was anactive one for the Geological SciencesPlacement Office. Sixty-four students usedthe services, coordinated by MiriamPashby, in the fall and spring semesters.Of these students, 17 were candidatesfor B.S. or B.A. degrees, 27 for M.S. orM.A. degrees, and 20 for the Ph.D. degree.

Seventeen organizations used theservices of the Placement Office. Shelland Schlumberger interviewed in theDepartment during the spring, andrepresentatives from Anadarko PetroleumCorporation, bp, Cabot Oil & Gas,Chevron Corporation, Conoco, Inc.,ERM Southwest, ExxonMobil Exploration,ExxonMobil Production and Research,Marathon Oil, Ocean Energy, OccidentalOil, Phillips Petroleum, Schlumberger,Shell Oil, Texaco, Inc., TotalFina Elf,and URS Corporation visited theDepartment during the fall.

A survey was taken by the PlacementOffice wherein 54 responses werereturned out of 64 mailed. Accordingto this survey, 9 full-time positions and35 summer jobs/internships were offeredto undergraduates and graduate studentsby various companies this past year.

The following salaries were offered bythe companies interviewing throughthis office:

Full-time job monthly salaries:

M.S./M.A. $5,000Ph.D. $5,830

Summer job/internship monthly salaries:

B.S./B.A. $2,400 - $4,000M.S./M.A. $4,300 - $4,525Ph.D. $4,500 - $5,900


Graduate Student Executive CommitteeThe GSEC (Graduate

Student Executive Com-mittee) participated in anumber of differentevents during 2001-2002.The majority of theirtime and effort was spenton the prospective stu-dent weekend visits.Thirty-six prospectiveM.S. and Ph.D. studentsvisited on two differentweekends in March, anda great time was had byall. Prospective studentstoured the Department,the Bureau of EconomicGeology, the Institutefor Geophysics, and theVertebrate and Non-Vertebrate PaleontologyLabs. They also hadplenty of time to meet

potential supervisorsduring Friday lunches/group meetings/tours,and at Friday andSaturday get-togethers.Students were treated tothe Austin social sceneand various live musicofferings to round outthe weekend. GSECwould like to thank allinvolved for makingthese weekends a tre-mendous success.

Along with enter-taining and hostingprospective graduatestudents, GSEC likes totake care of their currentgraduate students. GSECwas involved with a se-ries of functions thisyear, including the

Halloween, Christmas,and year-end parties,Beverages in the Park,and Geology Night ata Round Rock Expressbaseball game.

This year’s studentservice award was pre-sented to Jamey Jonesduring the 2002 AwardsCeremony. Jamey’s pro-fessional administrationof Hard Rock Seminarsand his unparalleled con-tributions to varioussocial events, includingthe prospective studentweekends, remind every-one in the geosciencescommunity how im-portant each person’scontribution can be.

As always, much ofthe work done byGSEC was generouslysupported by the Geol-ogy Foundation. GSECwould also like to thankConoco for its contribu-tion to the thesis bindingfund. Finally, GSECwould l ike to extendthanks to Debra SueTrinque for her dona-tion of a quilt raffledoff during the Christ-mas party, and toDennis Trombatore forhis memorialization ofFinal Bedlam.

Left to right: Erin Fonken,Peggy Hairston, andPrecious Williams measurethe azimuth of cross-bedsand ripple marks in theCambrian Hickory Sandstoneat Crabapple Creek nearFredericksburg, Texas.Photo provided byE. F. McBride.


Dufeau, David L.Dunn, Dennis P.Edwards, ChristopherEngel, Annette S.Escalona, AlejandroEwing, RyanFox, Christine R.Franzosa, Jonathan W.Fuller, Roy W.Garcia-Fresca, BeatrizGhosh, AyatiGrellet-Tinner, Fabienne M.Gudapati, KrishnavikGuhl, Meredith D.Gumble, Jason E.Hare, Christopher M.Harrington, Daniel F.Hemphill, LloydHerrell, Katherine A.Hobbs, Amy E.Jones, James V.Koch, Robert L.Kowalczyk, AmyKrawiec, Adam W.Krothe, Jason N.Lane, Edward D.Makowitz, AstridMcGuire, James B.Meckel, TimothyMote, AlisonNance, H. SeayNance, HollyPaterson, John T.Pierce, SuzannePierce, Timothy L.Riley, Brook C. D.Roller, ElizabethRuez, Dennis R.Schneider, Christie L.Shi, MingjuanSimmons, Nathan A.Svihla, Vanessa L.Triche, NinaTuitjer, EricValentine, D. ShaneWagner, Jonathan R.Walker, JudsonWallace, Tania C.Wilbur, Bryan C.

Assistant InstructorsMcFarlane, Christopher R.Valentine, D. Shane

Researchand TeachingAssistantsand AssistantInstructors—2001-2002Research Assistants,Bureau of Economic GeologyAcevedo, Jose L.Badescu, Adrian C.BudiyonoCampbell, Matthew A.Christian, Lance N.Combs, Deanna M.Correa-Vivar, Luciano L.El Shayeb, Tarek A. S.Escalona, AlejandroGarcia, JavierGomez, Leonel A.Hooker, John N.Kilic, Cem O.Liu, XuejiaoMakowitz, AstridMontoya, Patricia T.Naing, ThetOrtega, Orlando J.Park, Yong-JoonPhilip, Zeno G.Phyu, ThandarPlayton, Ted E.Redwood, Ayanna S.Sarikaya, HasanSukhavasi, Nandakishore V.Van Berkel, Diego J.Xu, LiyingYang, Haiyan E.Zhou, Dingshan

Research Assistants,Institute for GeophysicsAhmed, ImtiazBurger, Robert L.Cathro, Donna L.Combellas, Ricardo I.Felina, Irina

Ghebretensae, Berhane N.Kumar, DhananjayLoewy, Staci L.Lu, HongboNordfjord, SylviaRogers, Robert D.Sena, Armando R.Sylvia, Dennis A.Wang, ChengshuWu, XinxiaXun, Hao

Research Assistants,Department ofGeological SciencesBeveridge, Carrie A.Choh, Suk-Joo S.Cooke, M. JenniferDelgado, Jose F.Edwards, Melissa C.El Shayeb, Tarek A.S.Engel, Annette S.Ewing, Ryan C.Foster, Tina R.Gao, WeiGarcia-Fresca, BeatrizGudapati, KrishnavikGuhl, Meredith D.Gumble, Jason E.Jass, Christopher M.Knebl, Marla R.Krause, Daniel J.Krothe, Jason N.Leuro, ErickMacrini, Thomas E.McFarlane, Christopher R.Meth, Charna E.Paterson, John T.Riley, Brook C. D.Seo, Ki-WeonShi, MingjuanSimmons, Nathan A.Van Berkel, Diego J.

Teaching AssistantsAlexander, Nedra D.Balanoff, Amy M.Berg, Christopher A.Bever, Gabriel S.Campbell, Amy L.Campbell, Matthew A.Carter, Sasha P.Christian, Lance N.Combs, Deanna M.Cooke, M. JenniferDodd, Daniel Jackson


Graduate Fellowships,

Scholarships, and Awards

Thomas R. Banks Memorial ScholarshipChristopher A. Berg Spring 2002Sasha P. Carter Fall 2001M. Jennifer Cooke Fall 2001Staci L. Loewy Spring 2002Charna E. Meth Fall 2001John T. Paterson Spring 2002Vanessa L. Svihla Fall 2001

Laura Thomson BarrowGraduate FellowshipKarah L. Wertz Fall 2001

Leonidas T. Barrow CentennialChair in Mineral ResourcesCem O. Kilic Fall 2001,

Summer 2002Diego J. Van Berkel Summer 2002

Wayne Franklin BowmanEndowed Presidential ScholarshipBrook C. D. Riley Fall 2001,

Spring 2002Dennis R. Ruez Fall 2001,

Spring 2002

British Petroleum/Amoco ScholarshipDonna L. Cathro Summer 2002Robert L. Koch Summer 2002Claudia Rassi Spring 2002

Jesse L. Brundrett MemorialEndowed Presidential ScholarshipJason E. Gumble Fall 2001,

Spring 2002

Hal H. Bybee Memorial FundFabienne M. Grellet-Tinner Summer 2002Amy A. McCole Summer 2002Tania C. Wallace Summer 2002

Dorothy Ogden CarseyMemorial Scholarship FundDaniel J. Dodd Summer 2002

Chevron USA, Inc. ScholarshipNedra D. Alexander Spring 2002William H. Asquith Spring 2002Kevin A. Bain Spring 2002Sasha P. Carter Summer 2002Christopher L. Edwards Spring 2002Tina R. Foster Summer 2002Matthew G. Morris Spring 2002Timothy L. Pierce Summer 2002Ted E. Playton Spring 2002Nathan A. Simmons Spring 2002

Conoco, Inc.Timothy A. Meckel Summer 2002

Joseph S. Cullinan MemorialScholarship in Geological SciencesBarbara A. Tillotson Fall 2001

Robert H. Cuyler EndowedPresidential ScholarshipChristopher R. McFarlane Fall 2001,

Spring 2002Robert D. Rogers Fall 2001,

Spring 2002

Ronald K. DeFord FieldScholarship FundChristopher A. Berg Summer 2002Gaberiel S. Bever Summer 2002Matthew A. Campbell Summer 2002Jose F. Delgado Summer 2002Marcus O. Gary Summer 2002Christopher Jass Summer 2002James V. Jones, III Summer 2002Thomas E. Macrini Summer 2002Astrid Makowitz Summer 2002James B. McGuire Summer 2002Holly A. Nance Summer 2002Laura I. Net Summer 2002Ted E. Playton Summer 2002Elizabeth A. Roller Summer 2002Christie L. Schneider Summer 2002Bryan Wilbur Summer 2002

Michael Bruce DuchinCentennial Memorial EndowedPresidential ScholarshipAmy E. Hobbs Fall 2001,

Spring 2002

Peter T. Flawn CentennialChair in GeologyChristopher A. Berg Summer 2002Edward D. Lane Summer 2002Elizabeth A. Roller Summer 2002

Getty Oil Company CentennialChair in Geological SciencesWidodo R. B. Sudomo Summer 2002

Graduate Fellowship inExploration GeophysicsMatthew G. Morris Fall 2001,

Spring 2002

J. Nalle Gregory Chair inSedimentary GeologyD. Shane Valentine Fall 2001

John A. and Katherine G. JacksonFellowship in GeohydrologyWilliam H. Asquith Fall 2001Jason N. Krothe Fall 2001

J. Hoover Mackin MemorialScholarship FundTina R. Foster Summer 2002Timothy L. Pierce Summer 2002

George W. Marshall, Jr. MemorialEndowed Presidential ScholarshipJames V. Jones, III Fall 2001,

Spring 2002

William R. Muehlberger FieldGeology Scholarship FundJose F. Delgado Summer 2002Katherine A. Herrell Fall 2001


Pennzoil and Pogo ProducingCompanies–William E. GipsonScholarshipsFabienne M. Grellet-Tinner Summer 2002Bradley H. Reid Spring 2002

Louis and Elizabeth ScherckGeology ScholarshipLloyd H. Hemphill Fall 2001,

Spring 2002Timothy L. Pierce Fall 2001,

Spring 2002Elizabeth A. Roller Fall 2001,

Spring 2002

Scholarships, Various DonorsYounis K. Altobi Spring 2002Thomas E. Macrini Fall 2001,

Spring 2002

Walter Benona Sharp MemorialScholarship in GeologyMatthew A. Campbell Fall 2001,

Spring 2002Sasha P. Carter Summer 2002James V. Jones, III Summer 2002

John and Elizabeth M. TeagleScholarship in Petroleum GeologyTarek A. S. El Shayeb Spring 2002Christine R. Fox Spring 2002Jennifer A. Head Spring 2002Claudia Rassi Summer 2002Ricardo Torres-Vargas Spring 2002Xinxia Wu Spring 2002

Texaco, Inc. ScholarshipClaudia Rassi Fall 2001Jason A. Stine Spring 2002Barbara A. Tillotson Spring 2002

Glenn and Martha VargasEndowed Presidential ScholarshipJames B. McGuire Fall 2001,

Spring 2002

Albert W. and Alice M. WeeksFund in GeologyChristopher A. Berg Fall 2001,

Spring 2002Sasha P. Carter Fall 2001,

Spring 2002David L. Dufeau Summer 2002Tarek A. S. El Shayeb Summer 2002Mulugeta Y. Feseha Spring 2002Fabienne M. Grellet-Tinner Summer 2002Edward D. Lane Spring 2002Adrien L. Lindley Summer 2002Eric M. Matzel Fall 2001Laura I. Net Summer 2002Nina E. Triche Fall 2001,

Spring 2002,Summer 2002

Francis L. Whitney EndowedPresidential ScholarshipAmy M. Balanoff Fall 2001,

Spring 2002Thomas E. Macrini Fall 2001,

Spring 2002

Scholarships,Fellowships, andGrants fromOther Agencies

American Association ofPetroleum Geologists (AAPG)Grants-in-Aid 2001-2002John N. HookerLaura I. NetTed E. PlaytonClaudia RassiBarbara A. Tillotson

American Federation ofMineralogical SocietiesThomas E. Macrini

Environmental Science InstituteS. Chris CaranMarcus O. GaryAmy A. McCole

Geological Society of America (GSA)Beatriz Garcia-FrescaAstrid MakowitzPatrick J. MicklerKristin M. MillerChristie L. SchneiderKarah L. Wertz

Gulf Coast Association ofGeological Societies (GCAGS)Adrian C. BadescuBeatriz Garcia-FrescaLeonel A. GomezJohn N. HookerAstrid MakowitzChristie L. Schneider

Hagerman National MonumentDennis R. Ruez

National Park ServiceDennis R. Ruez

Society of Independent ProfessionalEarth Scientists (SIPES) FellowshipTarek A. S. El Shayeb

Texas Academy of ScienceDennis R. Ruez

UT Austin Graduate SchoolDavid Bruton, Jr. Graduate FellowshipDennis R. Ruez


MASTER OFSCIENCE,AUGUST 2001 (5)

AL-SALEH, SALEH MOHAMMADB.S., Geophysics, 1996,University of the PacificProcessing and Imaging of Multi-Component Ocean Bottom CableData in the PlaneWave DomainSupervisors: Paul Stoffa, Mrinal SenCommittee Member: Robert Tatham

DAVIS, MARCY BROOKEB.S., Geological Sciences, 1998,University of California, Santa BarbaraSubglacial Morphology and StructuralGeology in the Southern TransantarcticMountains from Airborne GeophysicsSupervisors: Donald Blankenship,Ian DalzielCommittee Member: James Connelly

GRELLET-TINNER, GERALDPhylogenetic Interpretation ofEggs and Eggshells and ItsImplication for Paleognathae PhylogenySupervisor: Timothy RoweCommittee Members: Christopher Bell,E.L. Lundelius

OZKAN, AYSENB.S., 1996,Middle East Technical UniversityDiagenesis and Porosity Evolution ofthe Flathead Sandstone (Middle Cambrian),Wyoming and MontanaSupervisor: Earle McBrideCommittee Members: Kitty Milliken,Gary Kocurek

SANCHEZ, MAREL ALEXANDRAB.S., Geophysical Engineering,1995, Universidad Simón BolívarSequence Stratigraphy and StructuralFramework of Southeast Caribbean Margin:Offshore Orinoco Delta, VenezuelaSupervisors: William Fisher, Lesli WoodCommittee Member: Scott Tinker

MASTER OFSCIENCE,DECEMBER 2001 (6)

BERG, AARON ANDREWB.S., Geography, 1995,University of LethbridgeM.S., Geography, 1997,University of LethbridgeThe Sensitivity of Land Surface ModelSimulations to Bias Correction of theEuropean Centre for Medium-RangeWeather Forecasts ReanalysisSupervisors: Clark Wilson,James FamigliettiCommittee Members: John Sharp,Zong-Liang Yang

CERDA, FERNANDO ANTONIOB.S., Geophysical Engineering,1996, Colorado School of MinesTime-Lapse (4-D), VP/VS Interpretationof Reservoir Depletion in Teal South,Gulf of MexicoSupervisors: William Fisher, Robert TathamCommittee Member: Bob Hardage

HARRINGTON, DANIEL FRANCISB.A., Geology, 1999, Amherst CollegeDeformation of Blocks and Matrix inFranciscan Melange, San Simeon,California: Implications for Melange GenesisSupervisor: Mark CloosCommittee Members: Richard Ketcham,Randall Marrett

MUZAFFAR, ASIFB.S., Geology, 1996,University of KarachiRelations Among Sedimentation, Diapirismand Cap Rock Formation at the Davis HillSalt Dome, Liberty Co., TexasSupervisors: J. Richard Kyle,Bruno VendevilleCommittee Member: William Galloway

PERRY, JENNIFER LEIGHB.S., 1997, College of William & MaryThe Environmental Impact ofClass A Firefighting FoamSupervisor: Philip BennettCommittee Members: Randall Charbeneau,John Sharp

RUSH, JASON WINDROWB.S., Geography, 1996,Southwest Texas State UniversitySequence Architecture of a LateGuadalupian Carbonate Rimmed Shelf,Walnut Canyon, New MexicoSupervisors: Charles Kerans,William FisherCommittee Member: Robert Goldhammer

DOCTOR OFPHILOSOPHY,DECEMBER 2001 (4)

AL-ASLANI, ABDULAZIZ SALEHB.S., Geophysics, 1989, King FahdUniversity of Petroleum & MineralsM.A., 1995, Rice University3-D Seismic Surface Multiple Attenuation:Algorithms and AnalysisSupervisors: Paul Stoffa, Mrinal SenCommittee Members: Stephen Grand, YosioNakamura, William Galloway

BRANSTETTER, MARCIA LYNNEB.S., 1986, Southwestern UniversityM.A., 1995, The University of Texas at AustinDevelopment of a Parallel RiverTransport Algorithm and Applicationsto Climate StudiesSupervisor: James FamigliettiCommittee Members: Warren Washington,Libby Stern, John Sharp, Clark Wilson

Graduate Degrees in Geological Sciences Conferredby The University of Texas at Austin—2001-2002


CASTILLO, MARIA VERONICAB.S., Geology, 1995,Universidad Central de VenezuelaStructural Analysis of Cenozoic FaultSystems Using 3-D Seismic Data in theSouthern Maracaibo Basin, VenezuelaSupervisors: William Fisher, William MannCommittee Members: Albert Bally,Randall Marrett, Robert Tatham,Thomas Shipley

CHAILLE, JOHN LEEA.B., Zoology, 1973,Homboldt State UniversityM.S., Geology, 1980,South Dakota School of Mines &TechnologyThe Relationship of MammalianMorphometric Diversity to EnvironmentalVariations and Its Use in PaleoclimaticReconstructionsSupervisors: Timothy Rowe, E.L. LundeliusCommittee Members: Richard Klein, JamesSprinkle, Stephen Hall

MASTER OFSCIENCE,MAY 2002 (5)

GHEBRETENSAE, BERHANE NEGASSIB.S., Geology, 1983,Haile Sellassie I UniversityLate Cenozoic Sedimentation andTectonics of the Bada, Dandero-Mahableand Abdur Areas, Northern DanakilDepression, Eritrea, AfricaSupervisor: Richard BufflerCommittee Members: Robert Walter,Earle McBride

HEAD, JENNIFER ADAIRB.S., Geology, 1999,James Madison UniversityStratigraphic and Structural Controlsof Permian Carbonate-Hosted Silver(Pb-Zn) Mineralization, Shafter,Presidio County, TexasSupervisor: J. Richard KyleCommittee Members: Robert Goldhammer,William Muehlberger

HERRELL, KATHERINE ANNEB.S., Geological Sciences, 1997,The University of Texas at AustinPegmatite-Containing Shear Zones:A Mechanism for the Formation ofIsolated Feldspar Augen Megacrystsat Willimantic Dome, Central ConnecticutSupervisors: Sharon Mosher,William CarlsonCommittee Member: Douglas Smith

METH, CHARNA ELYSEB.S., Geological Sciences, 1999,The University of Texas at AustinDiffusion-Controlled Growth from aHeterogeneous Precursor: GarnetCrystallization at Passo del Sole,SwitzerlandSupervisor: William CarlsonCommittee Members: Sharon Mosher,Douglas Smith

REID, BRADLEY HAMILTONB.S., Geological Sciences, 1998,The University of Texas at AustinSedimentology and DepositionalHistory of the Late Cenozoic Gila Groupin the Central Duncan Basin,Greenlee County, Southeast ArizonaSupervisor: Richard BufflerCommittee Members: Stephen Enders,William Galloway

DOCTOR OFPHILOSOPHY,MAY 2002 (5)

FESEHA, MULUGETA YEBYOB.S., Geology, 1990,Addis Ababa UniversityM.A., Geological Sciences, 1996,The University of Texas at AustinSequence Stratigraphy, Petrography, andGeochronology of the Chilga Rift BasinSediments, Northwest EthiopiaSupervisors: Gary Kocurek,John KappelmanCommittee Members: Wulf Gose,William Fisher, Richard Buffler

LE CALVEZ, JOEL HERVEM.S., 1995, Université de NicePhysical Modeling of Normal Faultsand Graben Relays above SaltSupervisors: Randall Marrett,Bruno VendevilleCommittee Members: William Galloway,Mark Cloos, Martin Jackson, Jon Olson

MUKHERJEE, ANUBRATIB.S., Geological Sciences, 1996,Indian Institute of TechnologySeismic Data Processing in TransverselyIsotropic Media: A Plane Wave ApproachSupervisors: Paul Stoffa, Mrinal SenCommittee Members: Stephen Grand,Yosio Nakamura, Robert Tatham

ORTEGA PEREZ, ORLANDO JOSEB.S., Geology, 1990,Universidad Central de VenezuelaM.S., Geological Sciences, 1997,The University of Texas at AustinFracture-Size Scaling and StratigraphicControls on Fracture IntensitySupervisor: Randall MarrettCommittee Members: Robert Goldhammer,Stephen Laubach, Earle McBride,John Sharp, Jon Olson

SYLVIA, DENNIS ASHTONB.S., Geology, 1978,Arizona State UniversityM.S., Civil Engineering, 1994,The University of Texas at AustinResponse of the Brazos River DispersalSystem to Latest Pleistocene ClimaticVariation and Eustatic ChangeSupervisor: William GallowayCommittee Members: Michael Blum,Jay Banner, William Fisher,Stephen Hall, Gary Kocurek


Amerada Hess Corporation

Scholarships

Nathan A. Bryant Summer 2002

Millard B. Arick Memorial Fund in

Petroleum Geology

Carrie A. Beveridge Fall 2001

Austin Gem and Mineral Society

Jonathan R. Bumgarner Spring 2002

Luis A. Crespo Spring 2002

David C. Dunbar Spring 2002

Chris M. Urbina Spring 2002

Thomas R. Banks

Memorial Scholarship

Jonathan R. Bumgarner Fall 2001

Spring 2002

Summer 2002

Hallie K. Garrett Summer 2002

Jayne B. Hayden Fall 2001

Spring 2002

Summer 2002

John S. Larkin Fall 2001

Spring 2002

Summer 2002

Calvin A. Lee Fall 2001

Spring 2002

Francois M. Lux Fall 2001

Spring 2002

Eric S. Lyons Fall 2001

Spring 2002

Petros K. Papazis Fall 2001

Spring 2002

Summer 2002

Molly S. Purcell Fall 2001

Spring 2002

Christopher B. Strganac Fall 2001

Spring 2002

Adolphus F. Wilson Fall 2001

Spring 2002

Summer 2002

Bloomer Fund for

Motivated Students

Evan J. Androl Fall 2001

Ronald L. Dildine Spring 2002

Steven S. Gainer Summer 2002

Annie E. Hoffman Fall 2001

Spring 2002

Kimberly D. Huebel Fall 2001

Spring 2002

Michael A. Leonard Spring 2002

Julie A. Pecarina Spring 2002

Crystal L. Strickland Spring 2002

Wayne Franklin Bowman Endowed

Presidential Scholarship

Thomas P. Eiting Fall 2001

Spring 2002

Brahman Energy Company

Scholarship Fund

Megan S. Avants Summer 2002

W. Kenley Clark Memorial

Endowed Presidential

Scholarship

Christy M. Kohl Fall 2001

Spring 2002

Guy E. Green Endowed


Alka K. Tripathy Fall 2001

Spring 2002

Karl Frederick Hagemeier, Jr.

Memorial Endowed Presidential

Scholarship

Calvin A. Lee Fall 2001

Spring 2002

Marathon Oil Company

Scholarships

Megan S. Avants Summer 2002

Russell K. Barrett Summer 2002

Undergraduate

Scholarships and Awards

Mr. and Mrs. L. F. McCollum

Scholarship in Geology

Rafael E. Herrera Summer 2002

Paul B. Kirby Spring 2002


Michaux Scholarship Fund

Kevin E. Burns Fall 2001

Carroll C. Miller Endowed


Hallie K. Garrett Fall 2001

Spring 2002

Wes Ogden Memorial

Scholarship in Geophysics


Phillips Petroleum Company

Scholarship

Deanna R. Eames Summer 2002

Steven S. Gainer Summer 2002

Rafael E. Herrera Summer 2002

Meagan L. McMeans Summer 2002

Louis and Elizabeth Scherck

Geology Scholarship

John F. Bacon Fall 2001

Jason L. Clayton Fall 2002

Spring 2002

Rafael E. Herrera Spring 2002

Charles L. Hurst Summer 2002

F. W. Simonds Endowed


Whitney E .Goodrich Fall 2001

Spring 2002

John and Elizabeth M.

Teagle Scholarship in

Petroleum Geology

Glen A. Anderson Summer 2002

Rachel E. Autenrieth Spring 2002

Carrie A. Beveridge Fall 2001

Donald Campbell Summer 2002


Luis A. Crespo Summer 2002

Yann A. Curtis Fall 2001

Spring 2002

Ryan M. Deutsch Summer 2002

David C. Dunbar Spring 2002

Patrick T. Fortson Spring 2002

Hallie K. Garrett Summer 2002

John W. Hammond Summer 2002

Jennifer D. Haney Spring 2002

Daniel E. Jones Summer 2002

Brian T. Moore Summer 2002

Ryan M. Parks Spring 2002

Anthony C. Rodriguez Summer 2002

Adrienne U. Ruppelt Fall 2001

Dietrich B. Sanders Fall 2001

Melissa Seay-Morales Summer 2002

Timothy M. Shepard Spring 2002

Todd B. Willis Spring 2002

Texaco, Inc. Scholarship

Megan S. Avants Fall 2001

Spring 2002

Joseph L. Mehring Fall 2001

Spring 2002

Michael N. Michaelides Fall 2001

Spring 2002

David S. Thayer Memorial

Scholarship Fund

Joseph L. Mehring Summer 2002

Udden Memorial

Scholarship Fund

Marcus O. Gary Fall 2001

Glenn and Martha Vargas

Gemological Scholarship

in Geological Sciences

Paul B. Kirby Spring 2002

Dominique K. Schmid Spring 2002

Albert W. and Alice M. Weeks

Fund in Geology

Hunter A. Danque Fall 2001

Spring 2002

Ryan M. Deutsch Spring 2002

Melissa Seay-Morales Fall 2001

Summer 2002

Jonathan M. Wybar Fall 2001

Addison A. and Mary E.

Wilkinson Endowed


in Geological Sciences

Benjamin D. Dameron Fall 2001

Spring 2002

Charles E. Yager Undergradu-

ate Field Scholarship Fund

Donald A. Campbell Summer 2002

Francois M. Lux Summer 2002

Scholarships

and Grants from

Other Agencies

Society of Exploration

Geophysicists (SEG)

Robert B. Riley Fall 2001

Spring 2002

Jack Sharp, Craig Simmons(Flinders), and Neville Robinson(CSIRO) brainstorming aboutmajor future issues inhydrogeology. Photo providedby Jack Sharp.


Undergraduate Degrees inGeological Sciences Conferred byThe University of Texas at Austin—2001-2002

Bachelor of ArtsAugust 2001 (1)Clarence S. Winzer

Bachelor of ScienceAugust 2001 (10)Miriam R. AkselrodAustin K. BaldwinRobert L. Chandler, Jr.Michael C. DawidczikLeighton L. DevineKristin A. GoddardJames E. GradneyKimberly A. HighKenneth M. MosleyKristopher S. Villarreal

Bachelor of ArtsDecember 2001 (4)Melissa A. GunterAustin C. LarnerKathryn WoodruffJonathan M. Wybar

Bachelor of ScienceDecember 2001 (10)Evan J. AndrolJulianna S. ArseneauCarrie A. BeveridgeJennifer A. CoteMarcus O. GaryKelley E. KeeseJames M. LevySusan C. PalachekClaudia E. RobinsonAdrienne U. Ruppelt

Bachelor of ArtsMay 2002 (4)Calvin A. Lee – Special HonorsKristen A. MeekPaul R. MurachEvan A. Royal

Bachelor of ScienceMay 2002 (10)Holly L. BartonAnne M. ChristianDavid Charles DunbarWhitney E. GoodrichChadwick A. HintzChristy M. Kohl – High HonorsAmanda J. McCutcheonKevin W. StaffordChristopher B. StrganacErik D. Wofford

The new Barrow FamilyConference room thatreplaces the previous310 conference room.Remodeling and expansionof the Conference Roomwas supported by AdvisoryCouncil Honorary LifeMember Dr. Thomas D.Barrow on behalf of theBarrow Family.


AAPG2001-2002

Officers

President

Eric Tuitjer

Vice-President

Matt G. Morris

Treasurer

Tina R. Foster

Graduate Student Liaison

Claudia Rassi

Undergraduate Liaison

A. Dax McDavid

Recruitment CommitteeRussell K. Barrett

Brian T. MooreRaymond F. Schiltz

Faculty Sponsor

William L. Fisher

A Groundbreaking Year ForThe UT Student Chapter of AAPG!

career in the energy industry,AAPG@UT organized severaltalks by distinguished speakersfrom industry. Dr. JohnArmentrout gave a talk entitled“The Positive Aspects of the OilIndustry.” Dr. Stacy Atchley spokeabout “Successes in a PetroleumCareer.” Dr. Peter Rose hosted aresume-writing seminar. Finally,Cliff Crowe, a former Texacorecruiter, gave a talk aboutpreparing for the interview process.

If you’re an undergraduate orgraduate Geoscience or PetroleumEngineering major, we encourageyou to attend the next AAPGmeeting in the fall. It mightjust be the best decision youever made for your career!

AAPGThe AAPG student chapterat The University of Texasat Austin took several majorstrides toward the goal ofbecoming the premier AAPGstudent chapter in the nation.Under the guidance ofDr. Bill Fisher, the officersset this year’s priorities:

1) Recruitment2) Involvement3) Professional Development

RecruitmentThis year’s membership

ballooned to 80 members, makingthe Jackson School of Geoscienceshome to one of the largest AAPGstudent groups in the country.

Of those 80 members,half took the extra step to stayinvolved, meeting the minimumactive membership requirement.Congratulations go to thesestudents for making ourorganization the successthat it is.

InvolvementMeetings, seminars, technical

talks, and conventions… you nameit, we did it. AAPG@UT hostedeight extracurricular events thisyear besides our monthly meetings.This year we even made severaltrips to Houston—the heart ofthe energy industry.

Professional DevelopmentIn order to prepare students

for the challenges of an exciting

S T U D E N T C H A P T E R

The AAPG@UT Mission

Founded in 1917 the AmericanAssociation of PetroleumGeologists is currently the world’slargest professional geologicalsociety. Here at The University ofTexas at Austin, the JacksonSchool of Geosciences houses oneof the largest student AAPGchapters in the country. Eachsemester, we strive to educatestudents in both a technicaland a professional sense. It isour ultimate goal to prepareundergraduate and graduatestudents alike for the challengesthat lie ahead as they enterthe energy industry.


Director Scott W. Tinker continues to set highstandards of research, partnerships, public education,and outreach at the Bureau of Economic Geology.Associate Directors Douglas C. Ratcliff (Administra-tion), Jay A. Raney (Environmental Programs), andEric C. Potter (Energy Programs) contribute greatlyto the Bureau’s mission, particularly since theestablishment of the John A. and Katherine G. JacksonSchool of Geosciences.

Bureau researchers are leaders in their fields. Thoseresearchers to contribute most recently to the Bureau’sreputation for excellence received major awards withinthe past year. William L. Fisher received the William H.Twenhofel Medal for Excellence in SedimentaryGeology, the highest award given by SEPM (Society forSedimentary Geology). Julia F. Gale (nee Stowell) andStephen E. Laubach received one of two HonorableMention Oral Presentation awards for their researchpresented at the 2001 Society for Sedimentary Geology(SEPM) Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado. Bob A.Hardage was awarded the A. I. Levorsen MemorialAward for Best Paper at the 2001 Southwest Section,American Association of Petroleum Geologists annualmeeting in Dallas. A paper written and presented byauthor James W. Jennings, Jr., and coauthor F. JerryLucia for the Society of Petroleum Engineers, wasselected as a highlight article for the November 2001issue of the Journal of Petroleum Technology andchosen to be presented again in the “Best of SPE”session at the 2002 Annual Meeting of the AmericanAssociation of Petroleum Geologists. Charles Keranswas chosen as an American Association of PetroleumGeologists International Distinguished Lecturer for2002. Stephen E. Laubach received an HonorableMention Poster Presentation award for researchpresented at the 2001 Society for Sedimentary Geology(SEPM) Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado. Robert G.Loucks received second place in the Thomas A. PhilpottExcellence in Presentation Awards for his poster sessionat the 2001 Annual Convention of the Gulf CoastAssociation of Geological Societies. Bridget R. Scanlon(BEG) and Robert E. Mace, Texas Water DevelopmentBoard, received the 2000 Barton Springs EdwardsAquifer Conservation District Award for Research for

their groundwater model of the Barton Springs segmentof the Edwards aquifer. Scott W. Tinker was named aDistinguished Lecturer in the inaugural (2002) jointlecture series of the Society of Petroleum Engineers/Society of Exploration Geophysicists/American Associa-tion of Petroleum Geologists. Bruno C. Vendeville wasnamed a Fellow in the Geological Society of America.Lesli J. Wood received the 2001 J. C. “Cam” SprouleMemorial Award from the American Association ofPetroleum Geologists for her paper published inAAPG Bulletin and an Honorable Mention PosterPresentation award for research presented at the2001 Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM)Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado.

Members of the Bureau staff also hold office andserve on wide-ranging committees. Shirley P. Duttonand Stephen C. Ruppel were Transactions Co-Editorsfor the 2002 Gulf Coast Association of GeologicalSocieties Annual Meeting; Stephen E. Laubach servedas Research Committee Vice-Chair for the AmericanAssociation of Petroleum Geologists and as memberof the Editorial Board for SPE Reservoir Evaluationand Engineering, Society of Petroleum Engineers;Robert G. Loucks was a Research Committee memberfor the SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology) andfor the American Association of Petroleum Geologists;Douglas C. Ratcliff served as General Chairman for the2002 Gulf Coast Association of Geological SocietiesAnnual Meeting; Bridget R. Scanlon was workshopfacilitator for Groundwater Fluxes Across Interfaces,National Academy of Sciences; Scott W. Tinker,Regional Lead Organization Director for the TexasRegion Petroleum Technology Transfer Council,also was a Member of the Oil Field Cleanup AdvisoryCommittee appointed by State of Texas LieutenantGovernor Bill Ratliff; Ramon H. Treviño served asTreasurer for the 2002 Gulf Coast Association ofGeological Societies Annual Meeting; Sigrid J. Cliftwas Assistant Director of the Texas Region PetroleumTechnology Transfer Council; Khaled Fouad served onthe Technical Program Committee for the 71st Societyof Exploration Geophysicists Annual Meeting; Bob A.Hardage was Technical Program Committee Chairmanfor the 71st Society of Exploration Geophysicists Annual

BUREAU OF ECONOMIC GEOLOGY


Meeting; James W. Jennings, Jr., was Technical Editorfor the Society of Petroleum Engineer’s journal titledReservoir Evaluation and Engineering; Jeffrey G.Paine was Associate Editor for Environmental andEngineering Geoscience; Eric C. Potter reviewedGrant-in-Aid Proposals for the American Associationof Petroleum Geologists while on the ScholarshipCommittee; Shinichi Sakurai served on the TechnicalCommittee for the Society of Professional Well LogAnalysts; and Lesli J. Wood was Offshore TechnologyConference subcommittee member for the AmericanAssociation of Petroleum Geologists.

This past year the Bureau welcomed the follow-ing new research staff: Sergey Fomel, Rebecca H.Jones, Jeff Kane, Paul E. Murray, H. Seay Nance,and Jean-Philippe Nicot. New support staff includePaula Beard, Cari Breton, William Doneghy,John Mercado, Randy McDonald, Cary Urso,and Tatiana Fomel.

The Bureau continues to increase its involve-ment at local, national, and international conven-tions. These include those hosted by the AmericanAssociation of Petroleum Geologists, AmericanGeophysical Union, American Institute of Profes-sional Geologists, Association of American StateGeologists, CAST (Conference for the Advancementof Science Teaching), Coastal GeoTools, Geological

Society of America, GEO Middle East GeoscienceConference, New Mexico Geological Society, Societyof Exploration Geophysicists, Society of PetroleumEngineers, SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology),and the geological societies of East, West, and SouthTexas. The Bureau is playing a major role in prepar-ing for the 2002 Gulf Coast Association of Geologi-cal Societies Annual Convention scheduled forOctober 30 through November 1, in Austin, Texas.

Texas-Based Research

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is afunding partner for Bureau research both withinand outside Texas. The DOE currently supportsTexas-based research into CO

2 sequestration,

West Texas and New Mexico reservoir character-ization, gas-hydrate and four-component seismicapplications, engineered covers for toxic-wastecontainment, updating Permian Basin datacontained in the Atlas of Major Texas OilReservoirs, the Offshore Secondary Gas Recovery(SGR) program, and the Texas Region PetroleumTechnology Transfer Council.

Other Texas projects includeULARI: University Lands Advanced RecoveryInitiative; a long-term partnership with theUniversity of Texas System designed to increaseoil and gas production on UT leases in West Texas.STARR: The State of Texas Advanced ResourceRecovery project; another long-term, UT–Stateproject designed to increase royalties to thePermanent School Fund.STATEMAP: a joint Bureau–U.S. GeologicalSurvey project that generates geologic mapsof regions vital to Texas.Groundwater Availability Modeling projectfor the Texas Water Development Board,designed to provide standardized groundwaterdata for the public.Advanced airborne geophysical surveys to identifyunderground water sources in the Lower RioGrande Valley and elsewhere.LIDAR (light detection and ranging) surveys tocreate detailed topographic surveys for monitoringcoastal erosion and storm hazards along theTexas and other Gulf shorelines.

Students get hands-on instruction about careers in waterresources at the 2001 Austin Earth Science Career Fair Dayheld at the UT Austin J. J. Pickle Research Campus.


In spring 2002, the Bureau and UT becamebenefactors of British Petroleum’s generousdonation of its state-of-the-art core laboratory inHouston, Texas. This brings to three the numberof Core Research Centers (CRC’s) owned by UT andmanaged by the Bureau. This new CRC will increasethe size and holdings of UT-owned and Bureau-managed geologic core and cuttings by 35%. Itwill enable the Bureau not only to vastly increasecore inventory and provide easy access of geologicmaterial to geoscientists throughout Texas, but alsoto open up facilities for short courses, workshops,and public outreach.

Research around the World

Bureau scientists conduct global researchthrough four well-established, industry-supportedIndustrial Associate Programs.

Applied Geodynamics Laboratory (AGL):tectonic processes and related salt movementassociated with oil and gas.Exploration Geophysics Laboratory (EGL):multicomponent seismic technologies to help“image” oil and gas reservoirs.Fracture Research and Application Consortium(FRAC): characterization and prediction offractures and faults at reservoir scale.Reservoir Characterization Research Laboratory(RCRL): characterization of carbonate reservoirs.

2001 was a significant and productive year forresearch and collaboration between the Bureau andgeoscientists at Mexico’s PEMEX Exploration andProduction. Two multidisciplinary studies of basinsin eastern Mexico were completed, a new basinanalysis collaboration was begun, and a secondproject will begin before the end of the year.

Bureau researchers are also continuing to work inBelize. The current research project, funded by NASA,involves evaluating new imagery acquired by the EO-1satellite. Although researchers are mainly comparingLandsat 7 imagery with new data, the new imagery alsocaptured the effects of Hurricane Iris (October 2001)on southern Belize. Hurricane Iris cut a swath throughfoliage and forest that can be mapped on the EO-1data. This information, valuable to the Government

of Belize, is an opportunity for compelling researchas well.

In October 2001, the Bureau purchased a state-of-the-art ILRIS 3-D ground-based Lidar scanner. It helpsresearchers scan vertical targets (such as outcrops)and produce 3-D grayscale images with centimeter-point spacing. To date, ILRIS 3-D surveys have beenmade of deepwater carbonate outcrops in WestTexas, Spain, and Chile.

Education and Outreach

In its capacity as the Texas geological survey,the Bureau serves the public by maintainingCore Research Centers, the Data Center(composed of the Geophysical Log Facilityand the Reading Room), and Publication Sales.These facilities are open to the public Mondaythrough Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

The Texas High School Coastal MonitoringProgram: Bureau researchers work with highschool students and teachers, teaching them howto measure the topography, map the vegetationline and shoreline, and observe weather andwave conditions.Together with the American Geological Institute,researchers continue to develop interactive,Web-based education modules for training ingeological, geophysical, and engineeringmethods of reservoir characterization.Career Fair Day, in celebration of the nationwideEarth Science Week, is held at the J. J. PickleResearch Campus. Middle-school students spendthe day with geoscience experts who discuss theirwork as geologists, paleontologists, meteorologists,space engineers, museum curators, educators,hydrologists, and geochemists. The third annualfair will be October 15, 2002. In addition to the fair,the Bureau now hosts the Texas Earth ScienceWeek Website.Texas Region, Petroleum Technology TransferCouncil (PTTC): Funded by the DOE, the TexasRegion PTTC works to identify the technologicalneeds of independent oil and gas producers andthen transfers the technology to them via thewebsite, workshops, and newsletters.

Visit our website at www.beg.utexas.edu.


INSTITUTE FOR GEOPHYSICS (UTIG)by Katherine Ellins

WAGN: WEST ANTARCTIC GPS NETWORK(Sponsors: National Science Foundation and Leica Geosystems)

UTIG Scientists Ian Dalziel and Fred Taylor teamed upwith colleagues from the Pacific GPS Facility at the Universityof Hawaii and the Center for Earthquake Research andInformation at the University of Memphis on a multi-yearproject to study the tectonic activity beneath the West AntarcticIce Sheet.

The goal is to understand how these motions influencethe behavior of the overlying ice sheet, an area of criticalimportance to global climate and, particularly, future changesin global sea level. The scientists made one set of GPS positionmeasurements in the 2002 austral field season at 15 differentsites. They will re-measure the positions of the sites in 2004to determine the magnitude and rates of the vertical andhorizontal motions of the underlying bedrock.

GEOCLUTTER(Sponsor: Office of Naval Research)

UTIG Scientists James Austin, John Goff, Sean Gulick, andCraig Fulthorpe are carrying out a series of cruises offshoreNew Jersey to explain and predict geologic features that canproduce false alarms on naval sonars, or “geologic clutter.”GEOCLUTTER supports two graduate students.

DATA-INTENSE CHALLENGE:THE INSTRUMENTED OIL FIELD OF THE FUTURE(National Science Foundation: $2 million)

UTIG Scientists Mrinal Sen and Paul Stoffa, together withMary Wheeler and her colleagues at the Texas Institute forComputational and Applied Mathematics, the University ofOhio, and the University of Maryland, are collaborating on aproject to advance computational technologies that will allowindustry to create a new generation of data-driven, interactivestrategies for subsurface characterization, and hydrocarbonreservoir management of the oil field of the future.

The researchers will use parallel computers to obtainreservoir models using diverse data types including seismics,well-logs, petrophysics, reservoir history, and fluid flow data.The goal is to improve analytical techniques to permit rapidvisualization of the large volume of time-lapse image data.

EXAMPLES OF UTIG ACTIVITIES 2001-2002WAGN: West Antarctic GPS Network(NSF and Leica Geosystems)

GEOCLUTTER (ONR)

The Instrumented Oil Field

Gas Hydrates: ODP Leg 204 and Two-Ship Converted Wave Experiment (NSF, DOE, and Schlumberger)

Trinidad and Venezuela: Stratigraphy, Structure and Depositional Processes

Numerical Climate Modeling Initiative (Vetlesen Foundation)

K-12–New Initiatives

The Integrated Ocean Drilling Program

UTIG Fellowship Recipient Seminars (May 2002)

Other Field Programs:(1) Nicaragua–Costa Rica Seismic

Reflection/Refraction Project (NSF)

Field work area in West Antarctica.Photo provided by Katherine Ellins.


(2) Western Pacific Warm Pool Paleoclimate Recordsfrom Solomon Islands Corals

(3) WAIS-CORES–the Western Antarctic IceSheet Inland Core Site Selection Project

(4) SOAR Field Season and

(5) Chicxulub Intercontinental Drilling Program Project

GAS HYDRATES: ODP LEG 204 ANDA TWO-SHIP CONVERTED-WAVE EXPERIMENT

The Ocean Drilling Program Leg 204 (July and August2002) will drill offshore Oregon to study gas hydrates onconvergent margins. In conjunction with Leg 204, NSF hasfunded a two-ship program to conduct converted-waveexperiments in the ODP boreholes with offset-vertical seismicprofiles (VSPs).

UTIG Scientists Nathan Bangs, Mrinal Sen, YosioNakamura, and Ingo Pecher, and two graduate students fromthe Department of Geological Sciences will participate in thisprogram. Their goal is to obtain the first-ever continuous shearwave velocity profile through gas-hydrate-bearing marinesediments, permitting calibration of converted-wave studiesof gas hydrate reservoirs worldwide. To do this, the scientistswill deploy a seismometer from the drillship into each bore-hole to record seismic shots generated by an energy sourceon the second ship.

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) National EnergyTechnology Laboratory has awarded the Joint OceanographicInstitutions (JOI) nearly $1 million to study gas hydrateson ODP Leg 204. JOI, a consortium of 16 U.S. academicinstitutions, manages ODP, which is an international partner-ship to study the evolution and structure of the Earth frominformation contained in seafloor sediments and rocks. UTIGis a member of JOI. Paul Stoffa, the Director of UTIG, is thechair of the JOI Board of Governors. Schlumberger, FUGROUSA, FLIR Systems, and Rice University are partners withJOI in this project.

STRATIGRAPHY, STRUCTURE, ANDDEPOSITIONAL PROCESSES,OFFSHORE EASTERN TRINIDADAND VENEZUELA(Sponsored by an industry consortium)

Trinidad and Tobago and its offshore margins are aleading source of oil and natural gas to the U.S. market andwill continue to be so for the early part of the 21st century.

UTIG Scientist Paul Mann and BEG colleague Lesli Wood areinvolved in a project to characterize the Pleistocene andHolocene stratigraphy, structure, and depositional processesoffshore Eastern Trinidad and Venezuela. They will integrateexisting industry 3-D seismic data for the shelf, slope, anddeep basin of the Eastern offshore region of Trinidad.

The project is supported by a consortium of companies,including Shell, Conoco, Norsk-Hydro, BHP-Billiton,Talisman, and TotalFinaElf. The Trinidad Ministry ofEnergy will also provide data.

The Trinidad project builds on the success of the GulfBasin Depositional Synthesis (GBDS) project, now in itsseventh year and currently funded by 16 major oil companies.William Galloway and Richard Buffler are the GBDS projectdirectors; Patty Ganey-Curry is the project manager.The project provides an overall geologic framework for theGulf of Mexico and is used as an exploration tool. Throughoutits history, the GBDS project has supported undergraduateand graduate students, as well as postdoctoral fellows.

UPDATE ON UTIG’S NUMERICAL CLIMATEMODELING INITIATIVE (VETLESEN FOUNDATION)

UTIG’s numerical climate modeling group has grown toinclude Paul Stoffa, Mrinal Sen, Donald Blankenship, FredTaylor, Charles Jackson, Robert Scott, and two postdoctoralfellows, Qiaozhen Mu and Yuolong Xia. The group collaborateswith colleagues in the Department of Geological Sciences andthe Environmental Science Institute.

The goal of the program is to characterize the uncertain-ties of the climate system using numerical climate modelsand other analytical tools to evaluate observational climatevariations preserved in the geologic record. Projects currentlyunderway include estimating uncertainty within a three-dimensional climate model, an investigation of the portabilityof the NCAR climate model to the SGI Origin and DEC Alphamachines, the application of the reduced dimension climatemodel for use in uncertainty estimates of surface forcing ofNorth Atlantic over the last glacial cycle, and estimatingoptimal parameters and their uncertainty for land surfacemodels using a dataset from a site in The Netherlands.

Fred Taylor serves as co-chair of the Environmental ScienceInstitute Climate Change Working Group.

K-12 EDUCATION – NEW INITIATIVESGK-12 Fellowship Program: The National Science

Foundation has awarded the Environmental Science Institute(ESI) at The University of Texas at Austin $1.52 million to


partner graduate students in the sciences with K-12 teachersin Texas to enhance science education through new class-room activities, workshops, and field projects. UTIG researchersIan Dalziel and Katherine Ellins are two of the co-principalinvestigators on the project. The 3-year project will supportnine graduate fellows and four advanced undergraduatefellows each year to serve as resources for K-12 students andteachers in science and mathematics in Texas. Three graduatestudents from the Department of Geological Sciences will beawarded fellowships to assist with three UTIG outreach projects:Adopt-A-School, Teachers in the Field , and TEXTEAMSLeadership Training for teachers of the Texas high schoolcourse: Geology, Meteorology, and Oceanography.

Katherine Ellins is involved in education and outreachplanning for EarthScope, a major new geoscience initiativeto understand the structure and deformation of the NorthAmerican continent supported by NSF, NASA, the USGS, andDOE.

UPDATE ON THE INTEGRATEDOCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

The Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) (1984-2003) and theDeep Sea Drilling Project (1968-1983) comprise the longest-running, most successful, collaborative international projectin the Earth Sciences. In 2003, the Integrated Ocean DrillingProgram (IODP) will succeed ODP. IODP will use new resourcesto support technologically advanced ocean drilling research,including a riser vessel built by Japan, and a non-riser shipsponsored by the United States. The use of additional plat-forms for drilling in shallow water and ice-covered regions isincorporated into the scientific planning.

With the new technology provided by the two ships,additional platforms, and enhanced shore-based facilities,IODP will enable investigation of Earth’s regions and pro-cesses that were previously inaccessible and poorly understood.IODP science will focus on three primary themes: The DeepBiosphere, Environmental Change and its Impact on Life,and Solid Earth Cycles and Geodynamics.

UTIG Scientists Jamie Austin, Paul Stoffa, Nathan Bangs,Tom Shipley, and Katherine Ellins are heavily involved inplanning for IODP and the U.S. participation in the new

program. Funding for IODP will be provided by the U.S., Japan,and consortia of other countries. The U.S. contribution willbe about $120 million, provided by NSF, toward a non-riserdrillship, and $60 million (NSF) per year to support scienceprograms.

SPECIAL EVENTSIn May, UTIG hosted a two-part seminar series to allow

graduate students who had received UTIG fellowship supportfor the 2002 spring semester to present their work. Thefollowing fellowship recipients made presentations:

Imtiaz Ahmed (Phillips Petroleum Fellowship), MultichannelSeismic Imaging of the Lower Slope, Offshore Nicaragua

Bob Burger (Ewing-Worzel Fellowship), Eel River BasinSequence Morphologies

Kris Gudapati (Gale White Fellowship), Study of the Openingof the Bransfield Basin Using GPS

Dhananjay Kumar (Ewing-Worzel Fellowship), SeismicModeling in Heterogeneous Media

Hongbo Lu (Ewing-Worzel Fellowship), Global and LocalControls on Depositional Cyclicity: the Canterbury Basin,New Zealand

Tip Meckel (Gale White Fellowship), Neotectonics at the HjortTrench Pacific-Australia Plate Boundary

Anubrati Mukherjee (BP Fellowship), Seismic Data Processingin Transversely Isotropic Media: A Plane Wave Approach

Sylvia Nordfjord (BP Fellowship), Quaternary Geologic Historyof the New Jersey Middle and Outer Shelf

Hao Xun (Gale White Fellowship), Evaluating the Distributionof Gas Hydrate and Free Gas beneath Hydrate Ridge, OregonContinental Margin, from AVO Analysis

NEW APPOINTMENTSHarm van Avendonk, Research Associate (Marine Geology

and Geophysics). Ph.D., 1998, Scripps; B.S., 1993, Geophysics,Utrecht University, The Netherlands.

Robert Scott, Research Associate (Computer Climatology).Ph.D., 1999, McGill University; M.S. Eng., 1995, and B.S.Eng., 1988, Queens University, Canada.


This has been a busyand exciting year for the En-vironmental Science Institute(ESI). Formed in October 2000with the help of the Departmentof Geological Sciences, theInstitute’s mission is to bringtogether faculty and students inthe life, Earth, physical, and socialsciences to form a focused,interdisciplinary program ofenvironmental research. Under theleadership of Director Jay Banner,ESI has pursued this missionthrough the creation of WorkingGroups, the continuation ofthe Outreach Lecture Series(co-sponsored by the Departmentof Geological Sciences), andgraduate student fellowships.With a recent grant award fromthe National Science Foundationand the continued success ofconferences and outreachactivities, it doesn’t look likethings will slow downanytime soon.

GK-12 ProgramIn May, ESI was awarded

a $1.52 million grant from theNational Science Foundation topartner graduate students in thesciences with K-12 teachersin Texas to enhance scienceeducation through new classroomactivities, workshops, and fieldprojects. The GK-12 programwill build on existing outreachactivities involving the universityand local school systems withinTexas. These include the MarineScience Institute’s Study ofArctic Change, the EnvironmentalScience Institute/Departmentof Geological Sciences OutreachLecture Series, and the Institutefor Geophysics Adopt-A-School,

Teachers in the Field andTEXTEAMS LeadershipTraining for teachers of the Texashigh school course, Geology,Meteorology, and Oceanography.

The 3-year project willprovide support for nine graduatefellows and four advancedundergraduate fellows each yearto serve as resources for K-12students and teachers in scienceand mathematics in Texas.The program will emphasizecollaboration in K-12 classroomsand in field projects on Texaswatersheds, estuaries, andocean-going vessels. Principalinvestigators for the project areDrs. Ken Dunton of the MarineScience Institute, Jay Bannerof the Department of GeologicalSciences, Ian Dalziel andKatherine Ellins of the Institutefor Geophysics, and JamesBarufaldi of the Departmentof Curriculum and Instruction.Details of the program canbe found at: http://www.geo.utexas.edu/esi/gk12/.

Workshops and SymposiaESI sponsored three

conferences this year, startingin August 2001 with a workshopon the Edwards-Trinity aquifersystem. Held at the Lady BirdJohnson Wildflower Centerin Austin, the event wasco-sponsored by the U.S.Geological Survey (USGS) andthe San Antonio Water System(SAWS). The purpose of theworkshop was to provide anopportunity for local, state,and federal agencies involved inEdwards-Trinity issues tostrategically plan a comprehensivecourse of investigation and data

collection for the Edwards aquifer,its catchment area, and the floraand fauna of the associatedecosystem. An overview of theaquifer system was provided byDr. Jack Sharp of the Departmentof Geological Sciences, withnumerous presentations byresearchers from The Universityof Texas at Austin, as well as staffof the Texas Water DevelopmentBoard, USGS, and SAWS.

In February, ESI addressedthe challenges for future researchalong the Mexico-Texas border.Water along the Mexico-TexasBorder: Challenges for FutureResearch, held in the Bass LectureHall at the LBJ School of PublicAffairs, brought together expertsfrom both sides of the border todiscuss the water quality andquantity challenges facing thatregion. The afternoon sessionincluded a simulation exercise ofwater allocation under conditionsof drought, with the U.S. andMexican water managers as theplayers. This event was co-sponsored with the College ofNatural Science, Teresa LozanoLong Institute of Latin AmericanStudies, College of Liberal Arts,and the LBJ School of PublicAffairs.

In May, the ESI ClimateChange Working Group sponsoreda mini-symposium on climatechange research at The University.Climate change is a research topicof growing significance thatrequires multidisciplinaryapproaches. The presentationsby researchers throughoutThe University showcased theirongoing projects, includingclimate modeling and analysis,global and regional paleoclimate

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records, and environmental andecosystem response to climatechange. The main goal of thesymposium was to inform theresearch community of themultidisciplinary opportunitiesthat can be developed in thisgrowing field.

AnnouncementsESI is now served by

three Associate Directors:Dean Hendrickson, Kelley Crews-Meyer, and Melba Crawford.Dr. Hendrickson is Curator ofIchthyology, Texas NaturalHistory Collections and theTexas Memorial Museum, andis a Lecturer in the section ofIntegrative Biology. His researchfocuses on conservation, ecology,evolution, and biogeography offreshwater ecosystems,particularly those of NorthAmerican deserts. Dr. Crews-Meyer is an Assistant Professorin the Department of Geography.Her research and teachinginterests include remote sensing,Geographic Information Science,

land use/land cover change,human-environment interactions,environmental policy, Thailand,Amazonian Ecuador, and globaltropics. Dr. Crawford is aProfessor in the Departmentof Mechanical Engineering.Her expertise is in the develop-ment of algorithms for analysisof digital imagery, with parti-cular focus on earth resourcesapplications using remotely senseddata. Dr. Crawford is also headof the remote sensing and imageprocessing group at the UTCenter for Space Research.

Three graduate studentsfrom the Department ofGeological Sciences were amongthose awarded an ESI 2002Graduate Summer Fellowship:Marcus Gary, Amy McCole,and Christopher Caran.

The focal point of Mr.Gary’s research is a karst aquiferin Northeastern Mexico containinga 350-meter-deep sinkhole. Thissinkhole is part of a complexunderwater cave system thatprovides a unique window into

the depths of the aquifer. Thedata gathered will be integratedinto a Geographic InformationSystem so it can be interpretedto support theories as to theorigin and development ofdeep phreatic aquifers.

Ms. McCole’s researchwill trace the water source usedby Ashe Juniper trees in the HoneyCreek Watershed in Central Texasthrough the use of stable isotopesof hydrogen and oxygen. Thisinformation will aid in formula-ting an accurate model of thewatershed system which can thenbe applied to management of thewatershed vegetation communityto best enhance productivity andwater yield to the Edwardsaquifer.

Mr. Caran’s researchfocuses on spring-moundtravertine deposits and therecord they provide of regionalQuaternary paleo-environmentalconditions in Central Texas.The resulting multi-proxyenvironmental history of thisregion will test climatic modelsthat are linked to orbital forcingfunctions and coupled ocean-atmosphere oscillation cycles.

OutreachThe Outreach Lecture

series has had a busy year, aswell. Cindy Yates joined theOutreach Lecture SeriesCommittee in January as theProgram Coordinator for theseries. Cindy’s backgroundincludes teaching multimediadevelopment classes at AustinCommunity College, creatingeducational CD-ROMs, andeven some time working as anenvironmental engineer. For moreinformation on the lecture series,see “Outreach Lecture Series”in this issue of the Newsletter.

Susan Combs, (center) Commissioner of the Texas Department of Agriculture,discusses the challenges of regulating water quantity and quality in the Rio Grande/Rio Bravo at the Water Along the Mexico-Texas Border: Challenges for FutureResearch conference. Photo by Doug Marshall, LBJ School Communications.


By the time this Newsletteris in your hands, the old WalterLibrary will no longer exist.Beginning in June, thanks to a$1.2 million gift from the Walterfamily, the library will becompletely vacated, and a totalrenovation will have begun. Bythe time the new building opensin January, we should be hard atwork reinstalling shelving andmoving the books and maps backinto the newly renovated space.The renovation will handsomelycomplement the new entrancearea opening of the JacksonSchool building.

The new Library will bequite a change from the aging’60’s era space. We will have amore coherent and open layout,2,000 additional square feet, amore functional staff work area,and much nicer furniture anddecor. Thanks to the Walters’ gift,the new space will open seamlesslyinto the renovated space, andthe much maligned “back room”area will get the structuralmodifications and facelift itneeds (windows, too!) to make theLibrary a single, integrated space.The old entrance will become anemergency exit, and the TobinMap Collection will move to theformer entry area to arrange themap cases more efficiently.Pardon our dust, and watch thisspace next year for pictures!

For the fall semester, theLibrary will not have nightor weekend hours. If you areplanning a research trip tocampus, be sure to check our Website (http://www.lib.utexas.edu/geo/) for news and details on howto request materials fromstorage, or call us at (512) 495-4680to plan your visit for maximumproductivity.

This year has been a stressfulone for the staff, planning thecomplex procedures required toprovide continuous services to our

Walter Geology Libraryby Dennis Trombatore

users while the collection is off-site. Our goal is to offer access/delivery within one working dayas we page materials from theoff-site storage facility. We expectthat the online availability of alarge number of our major currentjournals for campus users will alsohelp to minimize user frustration.

Complicating the year’sactivities, several staff membershave battled significant health-related problems this year, buteveryone has rallied, and wewere able to maintain servicesdespite the added tasks (andmeetings!) required for renovationpreparation. To recognize theirefforts in particular, AliceDewberry and Carol Russell havebeen awarded this year’s ThelmaLynn Guion Geology Library StaffAward. My personal thanks tothem and to everyone on thestaff, and our heartfeltcondolences to our colleagueJim McCulloch, whose much-lovedwife, Kay Sutherland, died ofleukemia in May.

In other news, DennisTrombatore continues to serve onthe GeoRef Advisory Committee,and the Walter Library’s collec-tion continues to be a regularcontributor of citations to addto the database. Dennis was alsoasked by Sharon Mosher to serveas an advisor to a GSA joint societycommittee studying an e-journalaggregate project. Dennis joinedwith his colleagues from theUT Science Libraries again toteam-teach the Science ReferenceSources class for the LibrarySchool this spring. Meanwhile,the ARCO library gift review isongoing, with the expectationof completing that project thiscoming year.

The Walter Library Web sitealso sports a new collection guideto Trans-Pecos Geology (http://www.lib.utexas.edu/geo/trans_pecos.html), created by

former staffer Piper Martin, andour grant-funded project todigitize the Third GeologicalSurvey of Texas (the DumbleSurvey) has also been completed(http://www.lib.utexas.edu/books/dumble/index.html). The DumbleSurvey project grant was fromthe Texas State Library, withadditional support from theWalter Fund, and the GeneralLibraries has applied for anotherTexas State Library grant todigitize more early Texasgeology publications.

All in all, it has been quite ayear, with more excitement tocome, including another smallcutback in subscriptions to keepus within funding limits. Never adull moment! Thanks, as always,to all our alumni, donors, andregular users for their supportand encouragement.

As a “final” note, subsequentto the demise of Bedlam this May,a number of files of Bedlam-related memorabilia haveappeared in the Library. Weare organizing this materialand will eventually deposit it inThe University archives for theDepartment, to document the50-year history of this uniqueand delightful tradition. If youhave songs, skits, and (especially)identified photographs fromBedlam’s past, please send themto us, and we’ll include them inthe collection. Our postal addressis Walter Geology Library,Department of Geological SciencesC1100, The University of Texasat Austin, Austin, Texas,78712-1100, and the e-mail addressis [email protected].


Antar Abdel-WahabDaniel F. BarkerE. William BehrensChris BellRobert BlodgettPatricia BobeckJulia ButaSueng Soo ChunMark CloosPatricia W. DickersonWilliam L. FisherRobert L. FolkWilliam GallowayStephen HallBob HardageRobert W. HookAnatoly Kaplan

Brenda KirklandJ. Richard KylePiers LarcombeJöel LeCalvezLeon LongRoy LuckErnest Lundelius, Jr.Kinji MagaraFred McDowellKitty MillikenWilliam MuehlbergerEmilio Mutis-DuplatAysen OzkanGeorges PardoVickie PruittAmos SalvadorThomas Serenko

Donors of Books and Materials-Walter Geology Library: 2001-2002

John M. SharpJames SprinklePeter SprouseLibby SternArthur StrahlerChris SwezeyRobert N. TaylorBruce TurbevilleGlen VargasAlbert WadsworthDavid W. H. WaltonLeslie P. WhiteMichael A. WileyJames L. WilsonCharles M. Woodruff, Jr.Keith Young

Bill Muehlberger, with Harrison H.“Jack” Schmitt and Dick Gordon(right), back-up crew for Apollo15, discussing the geology ofArroyo Hondo, near Taos, NewMexico, in preparation for doinggeologic traverse along the rim ofthe Rio Grande Gorge. NASA PhotoS-71-24835, March 1971. Photoprovided by William Muehlberger.


INVESTIGATE ANOTHER BRANCH OF THENON-VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY LAB (NPL)!

completing a mineral survey in Grimes Countyre-focused his interests and set Dr. Barnes on atrack to become a world famous tektite researcher.His field and laboratory research was funded bythe National Science Foundation. This researchmade a critical contribution to the understandingof tektite origins (most importantly, that theyformed from earth materials and not fromextraterrestrial sources), and ultimately earnedhim the highly acclaimed Barringer Medal,presented to him in 1989 at the MeteoriticalSociety meeting in Vienna, Austria.

An important aspect of the NPL tektiteproject has been the production of an educationalCD-ROM, Impact: Texas!, which draws uponmeteorite and tektite material held in both theMuseum and the Department. We have usedGeographic Information System (GIS) software(ESRI’s ArcView) to display world-wide tektitestrewn fields and to locate craters and meteoritefinds and falls within the State of Texas.

This GIS mapping project introduced aninteresting historical dimension to the topic.Numerous finds in the High Plains during the

Virgil Barnes: A Remarkable Geologistby Ann Molineux

Assisted by funding from the GeologyFoundation, the Barnes family, and the SusanVaughan Foundation, the NPL spent a significantfraction of this year accessioning the tektitecollection of the late Virgil Barnes into thegeological collections of the Texas MemorialMuseum. The project has involved physicalrelocation and curation of specimens, creationof a database (set to go on-line in the summerof 2002), a meteorite/tektite website, and aninteractive CD-ROM. The focus is to make surethe specimens and data gathered by Dr. Barnesare preserved and made accessible for teachingand research.

Exploring the collection and writings ofDr. Barnes has provided all of us at NPL withan insight into the dedication and meticulousscientific endeavors achieved by this remarkablegeologist. During his 58 years at the Bureau ofEconomic Geology, Dr. Barnes completedextensive systematic geologic and mineralmapping of Texas, culminating in his directionof the Geologic Atlas of Texas, a 1:250,000-scaleseries of 38 maps published by the Bureau.

A chance encounter with a tektite (distal ejectafrom some meteorite impact sites) while

Virgil Barnes (left) receiving the Barringer medal in Vienna,Austria, in 1989. Image by Christian Koeberl, University of Vienna.

A Muong Nong layered tektite, collected by Virgil Barnes. Longdimension 8 cm. The accompanying CT scan illustrates thebubble structures within the specimen. Original images byTim Gibbons and Matt Colbert, final collage by Melissa Gunter.

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the world is allowing us the opportunity to createa lively and interactive product. We were able totalk with many of those scientists at this year’smeeting of the Lunar and Planetary Institute inHouston. Although much work remains to bedone, we hope to start testing the CD ineducational environments by fall 2002.

Other NPL News

Other activities at the Lab have also continuedto thrive. The latest tally on conservation andcomputerization of the collection shows that weinventoried another 62,000 specimens this year,bringing the total to date to 212,000. Food forthought...if we continue at this meager rate ofinventory it will take us 65 years to completethe task! This summer we will be experimentingwith ways to streamline and accelerate this vitallynecessary process. The computer catalog hasburgeoned to 43,000 entries, about 25 percentof all printed catalog records. Plans are underway to make the catalog accessible on the Webby the end of the year.

Over the course of the year, 143 visitorsprovided diversion into rudist taxonomy andsystematics, brachiopod development, oysterevolution, ammonite biostratigraphy, and evenpotential use of leaf stomata as proxies forpCO2 changes over time. If you have no ideawhat a rudist is, wait until 2005, when we hopeto host the International Rudist Convention!We were especially pleased to host Drs. VirgilBarnes, II, Linda Barnes, and Dr. Louise Barnes,who made time in their busy research schedulesto encourage and enable the tektite project.

The nascent Keith and Ann Young Fund for theCuration of Non-vertebrate Collections has now reachedover $15,000...well over half the amount requiredto endow the fund. On behalf of the Museum,our Director, Ed Theriot, has pledged to matchthe earnings of the Fund when it is endowed.This is a wonderful opportunity for us to increasethe pace at which we can provide access to thesecollections and preserve them for future use.

If you were thinking about donating but justnever quite made it to the mail with the envelope,now is definitely the time to act!

1940’s and 1950’s tie in well with the drilling ofthe Ogallala Aquifer and development of cropfarming. Additionally, H. H. Nininger, writing in1952, noted that the late 1930’s and 1940’sinvestigation of the Plainview meteorite shower(probably occurring in 1902 or 1903) includedhouse-to-house contact with farmers who wereencouraged to look for the meteorites and offeredfinancial rewards for specimens! Many fewerspecimens have been recovered from the moreheavily vegetated parts of Texas.

A fascinating series of Computed Tomographyscans generated for us by the CT Lab reveals theelongated nature of “bubbles” within the layeredMuong Nong tektite, a feature that would bedifficult to define by more traditional sections.Ingenious student input has also enabled us tocreate movies with very simple “home made”equipment, to show 360o views of the externalfeatures of individual specimens. A group inTICAM (Texas Institute of Computational andApplied Mathematics) is modeling the Odessameteorite impact for inclusion as well. Odessais one of the best studied crater sites, and wewere able to provide the group with quite detailedgeological data and a description of the meteorite-strewn field. A virtual tour of the Museum’sexhibit of meteorites, supplemented withspecimens held by the Department, is alsoincluded on the CD. Input from scientists around

Dr. Louise Barnes talks with Tim Gibbons about the tektiteproject. Image by Ann Molineux.


The Geology Foundation was established by The University of Texas Boardof Regents in 1953 to enhance and enrich geological education, training, andresearch at UT Austin. It stands as one of the best endowed foundations insupport of the geosciences in the Nation with 122 endowed accounts and a currentmarket value of about $55 million.

The Foundation is governed by the Executive Committee consistingof the Foundation Director, the Chairman of the Department of GeologicalSciences, the Director of the Bureau of Economic Geology, and the

Director of the Institute forGeophysics. The Director of theJackson School of Geosciencesserves on the committee as exofficio. William L. Fisher,Leonidas T. Barrow Chair andProfessor, has served asFoundation Director since1984.

The prominent part ofthe Geology Foundation isits Advisory Council, currentlyconsisting of 40 members, plus

Geology FoundationAdvisory Council News

Left to right, Geology Department Chairman Gary Kocurek, UT President Larry Faulkner, John A. Jackson, Directorof the Bureau of Economic Geology, Scott Tinker, Dean of the College of Natural Sciences, Mary Ann Rankin,Tom Barrow, and Bill Fisher at the reception celebrating the formation of the new Jackson School, September 27, 2001.

John A. Jacksonaddresses the attendeesof the celebration forthe new Jackson School,September 27, 2001.

John A. Jackson (left)with President Emeritus Peter T. Flawn(right) at the fall Advisory Council meeting, September 28, 2001.

Geology FoundationAdvisory Council ChairmanL. Decker Dawson speaksat the reception held tocelebrate the new JacksonSchool, September 27,2001.

UT Chancellor Dan Burckat the receptioncelebrating the newJackson School,September 27, 2001.


6 Honorary Life Members, drawn from the energy and environmental industries, government, andacademia. The Council supports and counsels the Director and the Executive Committee. The currentChairman is Mr. L. Decker Dawson, Chairman of Dawson Geophysical Company in Midland, Texas.Mr. James C. Patterson, retired from Conoco, of Houston, is Vice Chairman. A committee of theCouncil, chaired by Russell Slayback, serves as an advisory committee to the Bureau of Economic

Geology. The Advisory Council meetstwice a year in Austin, in the springand fall.

Joining the Advisory Council inSeptember 2002 is Ms. Annell R. Bay,Vice President of North AmericaExploration of Kerr-McGee RockyMountain Corporation in Denver,Colorado. Completing terms at the endof August 2002 are Dr. John R.Hopkins, retired from Conoco inHouston, Texas, and Mr. Richard M.Coffelt with Phillips PetroleumCompany in Bartlesville, Oklahoma.

To these outgoingmembers we express oursincere appreciation fortheir service, support,and counsel.

The evening pre-ceding the fall meeting ofthe Advisory Council inSeptember was devotedto a celebration of thenew Jackson School ofGeosciences. It was

Left to right, Tom Barrow, UT President Larry Faulkner, John A. Jackson,and Bill Fisher at the reception celebrating the new Jackson School,September 27, 2001.

UT President LarryFaulkner addresses thecrowd at the receptioncelebrating the newJackson School,September 27, 2001.

Annell Bay, the newestmember of the GeologyFoundation AdvisoryCouncil.

Advisory Council MemberBill Reynolds pictured atthe fall Advisory Councilmeeting, September 28,2001.

John A. Jackson (right) speaks with Dean Mary Ann Rankin(left) at the fall Advisory Council meeting, September 28,2001.

John A. Jackson (right) with his sister-in-law, Anna Louise Graeter, attending thereception held to celebrate the newJackson School on September 27, 2001.

John A. Jackson (right) with Jackson SchoolDirector Bill Fisher (left) at the fall AdvisoryCouncil meeting, September 28, 2001.


attended by more than 200 Advisory Council members, and special honoree Jack Jackson, Universityofficials, faculty, research staff, and spouses.

During the 2001-2002 academic year, four new accounts were established in the GeologyFoundation. The Don R. Boyd Endowed Fund was created by Patricia Kidd Boyd and family inmemory of her husband and their father, along with many friends of Don Boyd. This fund is to beused at the discretion of the Director of the Geology Foundation to enhance geological training andresearch. Don Boyd was an Honorary Life Member of the Advisory Council, a past-Chairman, and aDistinguished Graduate of the Department of Geological Sciences. He died in December 2000.

The John A. and Katherine G. Jackson Endowed Fund in Geosciences was established by a majordonation from John A. Jackson on behalf of himself and hislate wife to support the Jackson School of Geosciences. TheSchool includes the Department of Geological Sciences, theBureau of Economic Geology, and the Institute for Geophysics.Mr. Jackson is an Honorary Life Member of the AdvisoryCouncil and a member since 1975. Katherine G. Jackson diedin March 2001.

The John C. and Marian B. Maxwell EndowedUndergraduate Scholarship in Geological Sciences wasestablished in the Geology Foundation by the Maxwellsto support aspiring, needy undergraduate students inthe Department of Geological Sciences. John is a long-timemember of the faculty and currently the Farish Chair Emeritus.

Pictured left to right, Dr. Chuck Williamson,Dr. John Hopkins, and Vice Chairman ofthe Geology Foundation Advisory CouncilJim Patterson, at the fall AdvisoryCouncil meeting, September 28, 2001.

Dr. Tom Barrow, Honorary Life Member of theGeology Foundation Advisory Council, speaks at thereception to celebrate the new Jackson School,September 27, 2001.

L. Decker Dawson presents a plaque to outgoing AdvisoryCouncil member Dr. John Hopkins at the spring AdvisoryCouncil Meeting, March 8, 2002.

Advisory Council member Bill Stokes (left) speakswith Ken Barrow at the spring Advisory Councilmeeting, March 8, 2002.

Former Chancellor Bill Cunningham (left) and John A. Jackson at the receptionheld to celebrate the Jackson School, September 27, 2001.

Weyman Crawford (left)and Rusty Walter (right) atthe spring Advisory Councilmeeting, March 8, 2002.


The Walter Geology Library Renovation Fund was established by Elizabeth C. Walter, Joseph C.Walter, III, and Carole Walter Looke. The purpose of the fund is for renovation and addition con-struction of the Joseph C. Walter, Jr. and Elizabeth C. Walter Geology Library. The Walters are long-time supporters of the Geology Foundation. Joe and Liz originally endowed the Walter Library in 1981.Joe was an Honorary Life Member and a past Chairman of the Advisory Council. Joseph C. “Rusty”Walter, III, is currently a member of the Advisory Council.

The Barrow Family Conference Room has been completed. Renovation, remodeling, and expansionof the Conference Room was supported by Dr. Thomas D. Barrow, Honorary Life Member and pastChairman of the Advisory Council. The Barrows have been long-time supporters of the GeologyFoundation. Tom, his father, Mr. Leonidas T. Barrow, and his mother, Mrs. Laura Thomson Barrow,

Advisory Council Chairman L. Decker Dawson (left) withDr. Bill Preeg.

Left to right, Ad Wilkinson, Jim Gibbs, and Robbie Gries,at the fall Advisory Council meeting, September 28, 2001.

Pictured left to right, Jerry Gilbert, Bill Gipson, George Donnelly, andToby Carleton at the fall Advisory Council, meeting, September 28, 2001.

Jerry Gilbert (left) speaks with President Emeritus PeterFlawn (center) and Bureau of Economic Geology DirectorScott Tinker (right) at the fall Advisory Council meeting,September 28, 2001.

all have been elected Distinguished Graduates of theDepartment. A third-generation Barrow, Mr. Kenneth T.Barrow, is also a member of the Advisory Council.

Companies including BP Amoco, Chevron, Conoco,Phillips, and Texaco provided $90,500 for graduatescholarships. Companies that provided support in theamount of $21,500 for undergraduate scholarshipsincluded Amerada Hess, Marathon, Phillips, and Texaco.Support for other programs in the Department andGeology Foundation came from Anadarko, BP Amoco,Chevron, Conoco, Devon, ExxonMobil, McMurry,Pan Canadian, Phillips, Shell, Sipetrol, and Texaco,in the amount of $142,000. The total in contributionsfrom companies for the 2001-2002 academic year was$254,000. Total contributions from companies, ex-students, and fr iends were $1,872,671 in much-appreciated expendable funds during the June 1, 2001,through February 28, 2002, period. The Foundation alsoreceives income in the form of scholarships from theDorothy B. Banks Charitable Trust, administered by theSan Antonio Area Foundation, in the amount of$109,487 for this past academic year.


ChairmanMr. L. Decker DawsonChairmanDawson Geophysical Co.508 West WallSuite 800Midland, TX 79701-5010Telephone (915) 684-3000Fax (915) 684-3030

Vice ChairmanMr. James C. Patterson12331 Broken Arrow St.Houston, TX 77024-4962Telephone (713) 827-0611

Honorary Life MembersDr. Thomas D. Barrow5847 San FelipeSuite 3830Houston, TX 77057-3011Telephone (713) 789-0090Fax (713) 789-0192

Dr. Robert E. Boyer7644 Parkview CircleAustin, TX 78731Telephone (512) 345-2886Fax (512) 795-9350

Dr. Peter T. Flawn3718 Bridle PathAustin, TX 78703-2005Telephone (512) 480-0044

Mr. William E. GipsonGas Fund, Inc.808 Travis StreetSuite 1512Houston, TX 77002-5702Telephone (713) 227-1003Fax (713) 227-1540

Mr. John A. Jackson10325 Gaywood RoadDallas, TX 75229-6608Telephone (214) 368-8153

Mr. James R. MoffettChairman & CEOFreeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold, Inc.P. O. Box 51777New Orleans, LA 70151Telephone (504) 582-1618Fax (504) 582-1661

Geology Foundation Advisory Council

MembersDr. Ronald A. Bain9406 Fenchurch DriveSpring, TX 77379Telephone (281) 370-5494Fax (281) 370-5494

Mr. Kenneth T. Barrow5847 San FelipeSuite 3830Houston, TX 77057-3011Telephone (713) 789-0090Fax (713) 789-0192

Ms. Annell R. BayVice PresidentNorth America ExplorationKerr-McGee Rocky MountainCorporation1999 BroadwayDenver, CO 80202Telephone (303) 296-3600Fax (303) 296-1189

Dr. David S. Birsa6001 Bollinger Canyon Road (D-1044)San Ramon, CA 94583Telephone (925) 842-2025Fax (925) 842-2061

Dr. Richard R. BloomerLakeshore Ranch17800 Inspiration CircleLago Vista, TX 78645-9706Telephone (512) 267-2846Fax (512) 267-0915

Mr. Thomas M. BurkeConsultant8519 Manhattan DriveHouston, TX 77096-1316Telephone (713) 667-8564

Mr. A. T. (Toby) CarletonPresidentTocor Exploration414 West Texas Ave., #308P. O. Box 293Midland, TX 79702-0293Telephone (915) 685-1209Fax (915) 685-1229

Mr. Weyman W. Crawford10026 Sugar Hill DriveHouston, TX 77042-1540Telephone (713) 782-0595

Mr. Dodd W. DeCampSenior Vice PresidentWorldwide ExplorationPhillips Petroleum Company1500 Plaza Office Bldg.Bartlesville, OK 74004Telephone (918) 661-4282Fax (918) 662-2780

Dr. Rodger E. Denison15141 Kingstree DriveDallas, TX 75248-5210Telephone (972) 239-9709Fax (972) 233-2678

Mr. George A. Donnelly, Jr.The Eastland Oil CompanyP. O. Box 3488Midland, TX 79702-3488Telephone (915) 683-6293Fax (915) 683-6295

Mr. Thomas E. Fanning20 Tiburon DriveAustin, TX 78738-1556Telephone (512) 261-4285Fax (512) 261-9620

Mr. James W. FarnsworthVice PresidentGulf of Mexico-DeepwaterBP Amoco501 Westlake Park BoulevardHouston, TX 77079-2696Telephone (281) 366-4777Fax (281) 366-7985

Mr. James A. GibbsFive States Energy Company, L.L.C.1220 One Energy Square4925 Greenville AvenueDallas, TX 75206-4026Telephone (214) 363-3008Fax (214) 363-5734

Mr. Gerald M. Gilbert10815 BridlewoodHouston, TX 77024-5414Telephone (713) 972-6382Fax (713) 757-9034

Ms. Robbie R. GriesPresidentPriority Oil & Gas LLCP. O. Box 27798Denver, CO 80227-0798Telephone (303) 296-3435Fax (303) 296-3436


Dr. Charles G. GroatDirectorU.S. Geological SurveyMail Stop 10012201 Sunrise Valley DriveReston, VA 20192Telephone (703) 648-7411Fax (703) 648-4454

Dr. Paul R. Gucwa842 PlainwoodHouston, TX 77079Telephone (281) 496-0548

Mr. Doug HallThe W. D. Hall CompanyP. O. Box 161656Austin, TX 78716Telephone (512) 306-8444Fax (512) 306-0471

Mr. David S. “Scotty” Holland1 River WaySuite 1700Houston, TX 77056-1904Telephone (713) 552-1074Fax (713) 552-1095

Mr. Mark S. LeonardDirectorShell Deepwater ServicesShell International EP Inc.200 North Dairy AshfordHouston TX 77079Telephone (281) 544-3199Fax (281) 544-4228

Dr. Susan A. Longacre11721 Joan of Arc DriveHouston, TX 77024-2637Telephone (713) 954-6068Fax (713) 954-6113

Mr. Jack H. Mayfield, Jr.Goldston Oil CorporationP. O. Box 570365Houston, TX 77257-0365Telephone (713) 355-3408Fax (713) 355-3429

Mr. Fred L. OliverPresidentPVT, Inc.4625 Greenville AvenueSuite 205Dallas, TX 75206-5044Telephone (214) 739-2895Fax (214) 987-3776

Mr. Robert G. PiotrowskiExploration ManagerNear Term ProductionWorldwide ExplorationMarathon Oil CompanyP. O. Box 3128Houston, TX 77253-3128Telephone (713) 296-3801Fax (713) 296-4310

Dr. William E. Preeg8311 North RR 620Austin, TX 78720Telephone (512) 331-3710Fax (512) 331-3373

Mr. William F. ReynoldsJ. C. & W. F. Reynolds Oil Producers719 Scott Avenue, Suite 700Wichita Falls, TX 76301-2669Telephone (940) 723-6657Fax (940) 322-9034

Mr. Stephen L. ShawSenior Geological AdvisorMid Continent DivisionBurlington Resources3300 North A Street, Building 6Midland, TX 79705Telephone (915) 688-6871Fax (915) 688-6015

Mr. Don B. Sheffield3741 Chevy Chase DriveHouston, TX 77019-3011Telephone (713) 672-1671Fax (713) 672-9420

Mr. Russell G. SlaybackChairmanLegette, Brashears & Graham, Inc.126 Monroe TurnpikeTrumbull, CT 06611Telephone (203) 452-3100Fax (203) 452-3111

Dr. David A. StephensonVice PresidentS. S. Papadopulos & Associates, Inc.PMB-520, 970 West BroadwayJackson, WY 83001-9475Telephone (307) 734-4432Fax (307) 734-4436

Mr. William T. StokesConsultant7703 Southwestern Blvd.Dallas, TX 75225-7929Telephone (214) 369-4788

Mr. David B. StoryExxonMobil Production Co.800 Bell, Room 30730Houston, TX 77002Telephone (713) 656-9987Fax (713) 656-3733

Mr. Joseph C. Walter, IIIPresident and CEOWalter Oil and Gas Corporation1100 Louisiana, Suite 320Houston, TX 77002Telephone (713) 659-1221Fax (713) 756-1199

Mr. Charles G. WeinerChairmanTexas Crude, Inc.P. O. Box 56586Houston, TX 77256-6586Telephone (713) 599-9900Fax (713) 599-9910

Mr. Addison A. Wilkinson128 Shannon RoadLafayette, LA 70503Telephone (337) 984-6312Fax (337) 984-6312

Dr. Charles R. WilliamsonChief Executive OfficerUnocal Corporation2141 Rosecrans AvenueSuite 4000El Segundo, CA 90245Telephone (310) 726-7693Fax (310) 726-7609

Mr. Phillip E. Wyche126 Firebird StreetAustin, TX 78734-3808Telephone (512) 261-4721Fax (512) 261-4722

Members, Ex-OfficioDr. Larry FaulknerPresidentThe University of Texas at Austin

Mr. Johnnie D. RayVice President for DevelopmentThe University of Texas at Austin

Dr. Mary Ann RankinDean, College of Natural SciencesThe University of Texas at Austin

Dr. William L. FisherDirector, Geology FoundationThe University of Texas at Austin


Individual Contributors

Abbott, Patrick L.Adcock, Floyd J.Alcorn, GeorgeAllday, Doris F.Amsbury, Dr. and Mrs. David L.Anderson, Nancy J.Ariz, GeorgeAvakian, Arten J.Ayers, Walter B., Jr.

Bain, Ronald A. and ConnieBaker, Carol S.Barnes, LouiseBarnes, Virgil E., IIBarrow, Thomas D. and Janice H.Beaver, Ralph J.Becker, Bruce D.Becker, Fred H. and Teresa H.Birsa, David S. and CarolBlodgett, Robert H.Bloomer, Richard R.Bostwick, Douglas L.Bowen, D. AndrewBoyce, William M. and Susie B.Boyd, David Patrick and VivianBoyd, Michael A. and KelleyBoyd, Patricia KiddBraithwaite, Philip and BarbaraBranstetter, Marcia L.Brewer, Herbert L.Brigham, Ben M. and Annie L.Bristol, David A., Jr.Brunson, Wallace E., Sr.Bryant, Leonard C.Bryne, James R.Bullard, Thaïs FredaBurke, Ray A.Burke, Thomas M.Burnett, T. J., Jr.Burnett, William M.

Gifts to the Geology Foundation

June 1 , 2001 , through May 31 , 2002

Bybee, Robert W. and ElizabethBybee, Sarah L.Byerley, Leon G., Jr.

Cage, Warren J, Jr. and Susan K.Cahoon, Frank KellCallender, Dean L. and Marilyn J.Camp, Rodney J. and Martha O.Campbell, Donald H.Carballo, Jose D., Jr.Carleton, Toby and CorinneCarpenter, James A.Cassell, Dwight E. and Linda S.Cather, Steven M. and MarthaCaughey, Charles A.Cazier, Edward C., IIICervantes, Michael A.Chamberlain, Dr. and Mrs. Robert M.Chapin, Robert I.Chatham, E. Walter, Jr.Clabaugh, Stephen E.Clanton, Uel S., Jr.Cleaves, Wilbur R.Clutterbuck, D. B.Combes, Janet M.Cornish, Frank C.Couch, Andree B. and Vince

Dante, John H. and Rosalia O.Darwin, C. Barnes, II and PamelaDavis, Ross M.Dawson, L. DeckerDe Lancey, Charles J.Dean, Henry C.Dedeke, Leslie A., Jr.DeFord, Marion WierDeMis, William D.Denison, Rodger E.Denson, J. Lane, III, The ReverendDickerson, Patricia W.Donnan, Gary T. and Jennifer K.Donnelly, George A., Jr.

Doty, Gene C.Drechsel, Colby C.Duchin, Ralph C. and Sally P.Dunbar, Don, Jr.Dupre, William R. and ElaineDyer, Byron and Constance

Eifler, Gus K., Jr.Evans, Allene D. and Tom Herod, Jr.Everett, H. Rizer

Fakundiny, Robert H.Fanning, Thomas E. and AnneFeibelman, Irma M.Fisher, William L. and MarileeFox, Hewitt B.Friddle, Annabelle B.Froneberger, Mark D.

Gambini, Iacopo J.Garrett, Chester M., Jr.Garza-Hernandez, AbelardoGates, Cornelia H.Gayle, Henry B. and Margaret W.Gell, Christianne M.George, Clement E., IIIGermiat, Steven J.Gibbs, James A.Gibson, Fred M.Gilbert, Edwin F.Gillis, Gretchen M.Gipson, William E.Goodson, Mr. and Mrs. Phil PatrickGordon, James E., Jr.Grasso, Volker C.Gray, Charles D.Greenberg, Joseph G.Greenberg, Redge L.Gries, RobbieGroat, Charles G.Grubbs, Gregory S.Gucwa, Paul R. and Cheryl H.Guess, Roy H., Jr.


Haenggi, Walter T.Haertlein, AlbertHaertlein, James A. and F. RosamondHalbouty, James J.Hale, Bryan M.Hall, DougHalloran, Maureen A.Haring, Louis H., Jr.Harmon, Russell S.Havholm, Karen G.Hawes, Mr. and Mrs. Laurence H., Jr.Herrington, Karen L.Hixon, S. B.Holland, Bill D.Holland, David S., Sr.Holmes, Ned S.Hooper, Ben P.Hoover, Eleanor M.Hopkins, John R.Hord, John Alan and RuthHouser, Richard T.Howard, Derek AldenHoward, Douglas JonesHuffington, Terry L.Hummel, Gary A.Huston, Daniel and Holly

Jackson, Mr. and Mrs. J. R., Jr.Jackson, Jim BobJackson, John A.Jackson, Russell W.Jennett, Gaston P.John, Charles B.Johns, Ronald A.Johnson, Charles G.Johnson, L. ChrisJohnson, Melissa Boyd and KenJones, Mrs. Gene F. KeyserJones, Jonny R., Jr.

Kalinec, James A.Kendrick, Andrew W.Kent, Robert T. and SuzieKier, Robert S.Kirchner, David L.Koch, Mary and HerbertKocurek, Gary A. and DiannaKoenigsberger, Charles

Koenigsberger, MichaelKonnecke, Lis K.Kyle, J. Richard

Laguros, George A.Land, Lynton S. and Judith C. LangLee, H. LouisLehman, David H.Lipstate, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene J.Locklin, Allen C. and NancyLong, LeonLonggood, Theodore E., Jr.Longman, Mark W.Looke, Carole WalterLu, Emily L.Luck, Roy BurvilLudwick, Lester E.Lundelius, Ernest L., Jr. and Judith

Maler, Michael O.Mankin, Charles J.Marshall, Sabin W.Martinez, Louis M.Maxwell, John C. and MarianMay, David J.Mayfield, Jack H., Jr.McBroom, Robert L., Jr.McCarty, Mr. and Mrs. Robert B.McCravey, LeroyMcDowell, Fred W. and KarinMcLellan, Robert J.McNeil, Larry A. and PatMcQueen, Jereld E. and JoyMcRae, A. D. and MonaMeans, John A.Mear, Charles E. and Tonie K.Merrill, Charles M.Miller, Wayne D.Mills, Herbert G. and Martha BybeeMolineux, Ian J. and M. AnnMoredock, Duane E.Muehlberger, William R. and SallyMueller, Harry W.

Neavel, Kenneth E.Newcomb, John H.Newman, Louis M., IIINicot, Jean-Philippe and Ellen

Noe, David C. and DeniseNorman, Isaac W., Jr.

O’Brien, Bob R.Oden, Josh W.Olander, A. M. and RoseOliver, Fred L.

Pasternak, Kevin I.Patterson, James C.Potter, Lee S.Preston, John W.Primrose, Luke B.Pritchett, Joseph L.Probandt, W. T.Pugh, A. Leo, Jr.Pustka, David A.

Ragsdale, James A.Ray, Robert R.Reagan, M. Allen, Jr.Reaser, Donald F. and Bette F.Reeser, Louise N.Reiss, Bernard W.Reynolds, W. F.Richardson, H. Gene and CarolRoach, Jess P. and MaxineRoane, Gay A.Roback, Robert CliffordRobertson, Tex and PatRodan, William BirdRoden, Michael F.Rogers, James E.Rose, Peter R. and AliceRosenberger, Randall S.Ross, Lucy O.Rowley, Peter D.

Sabins, Floyd F., Jr.Sagebiel, James C.Salyer, James L.Sanders, Jack S.Schneider, TomSchulenberg, John T.Semken, Holmes A., Jr.Sharp, John M., Jr.Shaw, Stephen L. and NancyShomette, David B.


Sims, Elmer R., Jr.Slayback, Russell G. and Judith A.Sloan, Benjamin J.Smart, Marriott W.Smith, Daniel and LauraSmyth, Rebecca C.Spiegelberg, Frederick, IIISprinkle, James T. and G. K.Stimac, James A.Stout, John L. and JoanStowbridge, Michael J.Sumner, Dorothy Carsey

Thames, C. B., Jr.Thomas, Sterling J. T.Thompson, Elizabeth B.Thompson, George M.Toepperwein, Douglas N.Travis, Everette J. and Mary EllenTrombatore, Dennis R.Tucker, Delos R. and Frances R.Turner, Clyde W.Turner, Neil L.

Udden, R. AndrewUnderwood, James R., Jr. and Margaret

Van Gestel, Jean-PaulVersfelt, Joseph W.Vest, Harry A.Vickers, R. B., Jr.

Wagner, Bryan C.Walker, Mark C.Walker, Mark C. and Kathleen C.Walston, Virgil A., Jr.Walter, Elizabeth C.Walter, Joseph C., IIIWard, Bernie H., Jr.Ward, William C.Warner, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph H.Watkins, B. F.Weiner, Charles G. and AnitaWeise, Bonnie R.White, Jamie V.White, Leslie P.White, Steven L.Whiteside, Wilfred D. and Shirley

Wiemann, Warren J.Wik, Bruce D.Wilkinson, Addison A. and BettyWilliamson, Charles R.Wilson, James Lee, Sr.Wilson, John A.Winans, Melissa C.Winter, Jan A.Woodruff, Charles M., Jr.Woods, Mary C.Worrel, Charles J.Worthington, DavidWright, John B.Wright, Stephen S.Wynne, J. R.

Yilmaz, Pinar OyaYoung, Keith and Ann S.

Zabriskie, Walter E.Zachos, Louis G. and Susan G.

Business, Society, and

Estate Contributors

AFMS Scholarship FoundationAlcorn Interests, Inc.Edwin Allday EstateAmerada Hess CorporationAmerican Association of Petroleum GeologistsAmerican Federation of Mineralogical SocietiesAnadarko Petroleum CorporationAT&T CorporationAustin Gem and Mineral SocietyDorothy B. Banks Charitable TrustBarrow Family FoundationThe Don R. and Patricia Kidd Boyd FoundationBP Amoco OilBP FoundationCampbell Petrographic Services, Inc.ChevronChevronTexaco E&P Technology Co.

Collier Consulting, Inc.Coltex Petroleum, Inc.Communities Foundation of TexasConoco, Inc.Devon Energy CorporationThe Dow Chemical Company FoundationThe Dun & Bradstreet Corp. FoundationEGA Consultants LLCExxonMobil CorporationExxonMobil FoundationFidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundFiduciary Trust Company InternationalHolland Exploration, Inc.Houston Arboretum and Nature CenterHoward Exploration, Inc.Hunter 3-D, Inc.Imagine Resources LLCKatie Foundation FundThe W. M. Keck FoundationRobert S. Kier ConsultingJ. D. and V. L. Langston FoundationLWC of Austin, Inc.Marathon Oil CorporationMayfield I, Ltd.McMurry Oil CompanyMineral Acquisition Partners, Inc.PanCanadian Petroleum LimitedPearson Royalty AccountingPennzoil-Quaker State CompanyPet AssociatesPhillips Petroleum CompanyPhillips Petroleum Foundation, Inc.R & T Robertson FoundationSan Antonio Area FoundationSeismic Micro-Technology, Inc.Shell Oil Company FoundationSipetrol USA, Inc.Texaco, Inc.Unocal FoundationUSX Foundation, Inc.Wilkinson Family FoundationWilliams Companies


Book Value Market Value

Edwin Allday Centennial $885,401 $1,655,383Chair in Subsurface Geology Income supplements salary and supports research of recipient

Edwin Allday Lectureship $193,430 $313,183in Geological Sciences Provides for guest lectures in geological sciences

Mary and Ben Anderson Endowment $43,980 $70,206for Graduate Studies in Geology Supports graduate students and graduate programs in geology

Millard B. Arick Memorial Fund in $13,433 $15,173Petroleum Geology Supports students to further interest in finding and producing more oil in Texas

Virgil E. and Mildred L. Barnes $46,467 $49,393Distinguished Lecture Series in Geology Provides for guest lectures in geological sciences

Col. E. M. Barron Trust Account $134,527 $281,914 Supports of the Barron Mineral Collection

Leonidas T. Barrow Centennial $1,147,406 $2,484,080Chair in Mineral Resources Development of programs of excellence in mineral resources; income supplements salary and supports research of recipient

Laura Thomson Barrow $255,688 $452,372Graduate Fellowship Supports graduate students specializing in natural resources; special consideration for female students and students concentrating in field-oriented studies

Barrow Periodical Fund $222,682 $294,140 Purchase periodicals for the Walter Geology Library

Bloomer Fund for Motivated Students $137,222 $245,999 Financial aid for students not qualified for scholarships

Leslie Bowling Professorship $283,558 $420,071 To attract persons from industry and government for short-term appointments of the faculty


Wayne Franklin Bowman Endowed $122,117 $270,414Presidential Scholarship Unrestricted geology scholarships

Don R. Boyd Endowed Fund $44,650 $45,224 Enhance geological training and research

Don R. and Patricia Kidd Boyd $62,299 $119,755Lectureship in Petroleum Exploration Provides for guest lecturer in petroleum exploration

Brahman Energy Company $20,798 $47,335Scholarship Fund Senior field course scholarship

Charl A. M. Broquet Memorial $14,427 $14,775Endowed Scholarship Fund Graduate student scholarship

Jesse L. Brundrett Memorial Endowed $51,725 $88,993Presidential Scholarship Graduate student scholarship

Fred M. Bullard Professorship in $381,014 $469,509Geological Sciences Excellence in teaching, income supplements salary and supports research of recipient

Fred M. Bullard Student Research Fund $23,837 $22,214 Supports student research in volcanology, geothermal energy, and related fields of study

Thomas and Ray Burke $251,771 $270,319Student Job Program Jobs for students in geologic work related to faculty research

Hal H. Bybee Memorial Fund $126,042 $189,544 Student field support or support of students researching geologic issues related to public policy

Hal P. Bybee Memorial Fund $631,319 $1,329,876 Faculty use for research, travel, study, etc.

L. W. Callender Memorial Fund $62,509 $143,554 Department use, unrestricted

Dave P. Carlton Centennial $737,652 $1,545,945Professorship in Geology Income supplements salary and supports research of recipient

Geology Foundation Endowed Accounts Values as of May 31, 2002



Dave P. Carlton Centennial $577,445 $1,284,880Professorship in Geophysics Income supplements salary and supports research of recipient

Dorothy Ogden Carsey $226,770 $360,623Memorial Scholarship Fund Geology scholarships, any level, special consideration to micropaleontology students

J. Ben Carsey, Sr. $202,410 $294,377Special Maintenance Fund Maintains teaching and research equipment

Chevron Centennial $288,969 $598,003Professorship in Geology Income supplements salary and supports research of recipient

S. E. Clabaugh Fund $47,504 $89,063in Hard-Rock Geology Supports research in hard-rock geology

W. Kenley Clark Memorial $53,320 $113,454Endowed Presidential Scholarship Geology scholarships, any level

Joseph S. Cullinan Memorial $47,308 $110,787Scholarship in Geological Sciences Scholarship in petroleum or field geology

Robert H. Cuyler Endowed $73,423 $152,297Presidential Scholarship Undergraduate (upper-division) and graduate scholarships

Morgan J. Davis Centennial $967,566 $1,964,653Chair in Petroleum Geology Income supplements salary and supports research of recipient

L. Decker Dawson Fund in $1,014,857 $987,811Exploration Geophysics Supports activities in exploration geophysics

Ronald K. DeFord $228,910 $469,592Field Scholarship Fund Field studies for graduate students

Alexander Deussen Professorship $284,602 $482,219in Energy Resources Development of programs of excellence in energy resource, income supplements salary and supports research of recipient


Michael Bruce Duchin $56,437 $106,800Centennial MemorialEndowed Presidential Scholarship Scholarship for Master’s candidate with preference toward general geology

Elf Aquitaine Petroleum Faculty $213,768 $371,562Fellowship in Geological Sciences Income supplements salary and supports research of junior faculty member

John E. “Brick” Elliott Centennial $356,382 $804,501Endowed Professorship inGeological Sciences Income supplements salary and supports research of recipient

Samuel P. Ellison, Jr. Fund $105,901 $210,759 For Department Newsletter and support of faculty-alumni functions

Energy and Mineral Resources Fund $34,400 $77,230 Supports programs and students in energy and mineral resources

William Stamps Farish $483,842 $1,031,072Chair in Geology Income supplements salary and supports research of recipient

Peter T. Flawn Centennial Chair in Geology $837,033 $1,729,387 Income supplements salary and supports research of recipient

R. L. Folk/E. F. McBride $27,931 $27,472Petrography Fund Supports petrography program and annual awards to students

Robert L. Folk Excellence Fund $80,747 $90,666in Geological Sciences To support excellence in geological sciences

Geology Foundation Advisory Council $117,353 $213,871Centennial Teaching Fellowship Income supplements salary and supports research of junior faculty member

Geology Foundation Excellence Fund $112,290 $178,312 Unrestricted funds for any purpose of the Foundation

Getty Oil Company Centennial $991,954 $2,149,749Chair in Geological Sciences Income supplements salary and supports research of recipient



Graduate Fellowship in $527,993 $520,232Exploration Geophysics Provides one graduate fellowship in exploration geophysics

Miss Effie Graves Scholarship Fund $30,370 $75,665 Geological sciences student scholarships

Guy E. Green Endowed $36,900 $81,432Presidential Scholarship Geology scholarships, any level

J. Nalle Gregory Chair $766,822 $1,472,583in Sedimentary Geology Development of program of excellence in sedimentary geology, income supplements salary and supports research of recipient

J. Nalle Gregory Regents $335,577 $582,373Professorship in Geological Sciences Income supplements salary and supports research of recipient

Thelma Lynn Guion Geology $16,695 $20,697Library Staff Award For recognition of excellence by Geology Library Staff

Karl Frederick Hagemeier, Jr. Memorial $46,622 $82,622Endowed Presidential Scholarship General geology scholarships, any level, with preference to students from Brazoria or Kerr Counties

George S. Heyer Memorial Fund $105,594 $254,530 Any purpose of the Foundation

Bill D. Holland Endowed Presidential $41,985 $46,474Scholarship in Geological Sciences Scholarship for a Texas student who plans to pursue a career in the oil and gas industry

Houston Oil and Minerals Corporation $59,634 $131,020Faculty Excellence Awards In recognition of outstanding service and special contributions to the teaching and research programs

F. Earl Ingerson Graduate Research $61,189 $100,852Assistance Fund in Geochemistry Research assistance to graduate students in geochemistry

John A. and Katherine G. Jackson $176,422 $333,592Centennial Teaching Fellowshipin Geological Sciences Income supplements salary and supports research of junior faculty member


John A. and Katherine G. Jackson $5,000,000 $5,064,230Endowed Fund in the Geosciences Supports the Jackson School of Geological Sciences

John A. and Katherine G. Jackson $25,579 $25,246Exploration Geophysics Fund Supports Department’s activities in the area of exploration geophysics

John A. and Katherine G. Jackson $281,816 $378,609Fellowship in Geohydrology Graduate fellowship in geohydrology

G. Moses and Carolyn G. Knebel $102,908 $222,633Teaching Fund Promotes teaching excellence in geological sciences

Martin B. Lagoe Student Research Fund $34,383 $41,397for Micropaleontology Supports students studying in the area of micropaleontology

Clara Jones Langston Centennial $26,722 $55,566Lectureship in Vertebrate Paleontology Provides for guest lectures in vertebrate paleontology

J. Donald Langston $315,792 $493,148Special Operations Fund Purchases teaching and research equipment

Wann and Marietta Langston Research $128,015 $268,860Fund in Vertebrate Paleontology Faculty research in vertebrate paleontology

Jack K. Larsen-Mesa Petroleum Company $164,173 $357,544Fund in Sedimentary Geology Supports student fieldwork in sedimentary geology

Howard R. Lowe Vertebrate $38,872 $82,732Paleontology Endowment Supports student fieldwork in vertebrate paleontology

J. Hoover Mackin Memorial $29,147 $61,773Scholarship Fund Graduate geology scholarship

George W. Marshall, Jr. Memorial $41,188 $65,199Endowed Presidential Scholarship Graduate scholarship in general geology

John C. and Marian B. and Maxwell $5,000 $5,064Undergraduate Scholarship inGeological Sciences Supports aspiring undergraduates in Geological sciences



Jack H. Mayfield, Jr. Fund for $481,770 $799,011Excellence in Geological Sciences For innovative projects in geoscience instruction and research and for unrestricted support for continuing programs of teaching and research

John H. and Lujza McCammon $13,700 $31,125Endowed Scholarship Upper-division undergraduate scholarship

Mr. and Mrs. L. F. McCollum $28,074 $58,108Scholarship in Geology Geology scholarship, any level

Michaux Scholarship Fund $13,469 $29,199 Geology scholarship, any level

Joan A. Middleton Endowed $11,059 $13,465Scholarship in Geology Geology scholarship to students, especially hydrogeology students

Carroll C. Miller Endowed $36,917 $82,539Presidential Scholarship Geology scholarship to students pursuing careers in energy industries, preference to students from South Texas

William R. Muehlberger Field Geology $109,022 $152,312Scholarship Fund Supports field studies at graduate or undergraduate levels

Wes Ogden Memorial Scholarship $13,985 $23,950in Geophysics Geophysics scholarship to students pursuing careers in energy industries

Fred L. and Frances J. Oliver $76,625 $140,906Lectureship in Texas Hydrologyand Water Resources Provides for guest lectures in water resources

Judd H. and Cynthia Oualline $101,269 $172,292Centennial Lectureshipin Geological Sciences Provides for guest lectures in geological sciences

Judd H. and Cynthia Oualline $93,729 $160,559Centennial Lectureshipin Petroleum Geology Provides for guest lectures in petroleum geology

Judd H. Oualline Endowment Fund $22,764 $46,510 For special needs of the Department


Ed Owen-George Coates Fund $126,506 $280,444 Publication of geological research by faculty and graduate students

James C. Patterson Fund for Excellence $121,594 $119,059in the Geophysical Sciences Supports excellence in the geophysical sciences

Bill R. Payne Centennial $113,497 $216,885Teaching Fellowship Income supplements salary and supports research of junior faculty member

Joyce Bowman Payne Centennial $111,312 $204,360Teaching Fellowship Income supplements salary and supports research of junior faculty member

Pennzoil and Pogo Producing $201,610 $357,073Companies-William E. Gipson Scholarships Scholarships for UT graduates seeking Master’s degrees at UT

O. Scott Petty Geophysical Fund $225,120 $462,572 Development of program of excellence in geophysics

Wallace E. Pratt $231,293 $476,840Professorship in Geophysics Development of program of excellence in geophysics, income supplements salary and research of recipient

Louis and Elizabeth Scherck $117,397 $219,145Geology Scholarship Undergraduate (upper division) and graduate scholarship

Wilton E. Scott $306,241 $674,760Centennial Professorship Income supplements salary and supports research of recipient

Walter Benona Sharp Memorial $46,403 $109,566Scholarship in Geology Scholarship in petroleum or field geology

Shell Companies Foundation $1,070,705 $2,140,886Centennial Chair in Geophysics Income supplements salary and supports research of recipient

Shell Companies Foundation $1,253,500 $2,433,748Distinguished Chair in Geophysics Income supplements salary and supports research of recipient



F. W. Simonds Endowed $32,601 $79,369Presidential Scholarship Scholarship to undergraduate (upper division) and graduate students

William T. Stokes $179,072 $360,454Centennial Teaching Fellowshipin Geological Sciences Income supplements salary and supports research of junior faculty member

Structural Geology $128,733 $224,373and Tectonics Fund Supports faculty and student research in structure and tectonics

Harlan Tod Sutherland $50,658 $88,269Memorial Scholarship Fund Supports summer research for graduate students

John and Elizabeth M. Teagle Scholarship $741,059 $1,301,337in Petroleum Geology Scholarship to students with interest in petroleum geology

David S. Thayer $32,700 $73,925Memorial Scholarship Fund Senior field course scholarship

Tobin International $90,819 $215,260Geological Map Collection Fund For purchase of maps and photos, storage and viewing facilities for these items

Udden Memorial Scholarship Fund $21,599 $37,231 Geology scholarship, any level

Glenn and Martha Vargas $41,079 $64,328Endowed Presidential Scholarship Graduate-level scholarship in geological sciences

Glenn and Martha Vargas Endowment $75,748 $129,507for Gems and Gem Minerals Instruction For course-related materials and instruction on gems and gem minerals

Glenn and Martha Vargas Fund for $65,111 $66,665Gem and Mineral Curation For curating and maintaining the gem and mineral collections of the Department

Glenn and Martha Vargas Gemological $19,471 $35,973Scholarship in Geological Sciences Scholarship for students interested in gemology or mineralogy


Joseph C., Jr. and Elizabeth C. Walter $739,523 $1,088,641Geology Library Fund Acquisition of books, maps, and other library materials

Albert W. and Alice M. Weeks $226,488 $433,715Centennial Professorshipin Geological Sciences Income supplements salary and supports research of recipient

Albert W. and Alice M. Weeks $605,040 $990,414Fund in Geology Scholarship in geological sciences, any level

E. A. Wendlandt Fund $10,009 $20,981 Purchase of books and journals in German or English translations

Arno P. (Dutch) Wendler $128,002 $272,692Professional Development Fund Supports graduate student presentations at professional meetings

Francis L. Whitney Endowed $52,241 $117,221Presidential Scholarship Geology scholarship, any level, paleontology and stratigraphy preferred

Francis L. Whitney $51,618 $82,850Memorial Book Fund For purchase of paleontological books for library

Addison A. and Mary E. Wilkinson $62,107 $71,492Endowed Presidential Scholarshipin Geological Sciences Geology scholarship for graduate and undergraduate students

John A. Wilson Professorship $209,639 $393,992in Vertebrate Paleontology Development of program of excellence in vertebrate paleontology, income supplements salary and supports research of recipient

Charles E. Yager Undergraduate $61,153 $133,640Field Scholarship Fund Supports students taking GEO 660

The First, Second, Third Mr. and Mrs. $520,773 $1,189,268Charles E. Yager Professorships Three professorships in any discipline for faculty who participate in field instruction


CHARLES CLARENCE ALBERSCharles Clarence Albers passed

away on September 21, 2001, at theage of 76 in Cypress, Texas. He wasborn in Brenham, Texas, on June 9,1925. He graduated from theUniversity of Texas, Austin with aB.S. degree in 1948. He then wentto work as a micropaleontologistfor Amoco for 38 years.

He was active in manyorganizations and causes, includingthe Lutheran Outdoor RetreatMinistries, Habitat for Humanity,the Gulf Coast Section ofthe Society of EconomicPaleontologists and Mineralogists,the Boy Scouts, and Texas LutheranUniversity. He also was a chartermember of the Rejoice! LutheranChurch located in Tomball, Texas.

He is survived by his wife of54 years, Judy, his children, Carland Monica Albers, Nancy andRandy Baden and Ruth and ChuckAnderson, sisters Edith Bliese andLois Holck, brother KennethAlbers and grandchildren Clay,Matthew, Julie, Joel, and Tessa.

DAVID AMSBURYDavid Amsbury passed away on

August 16, 2002, in Kerrville, Texas.He received his B.S. in geology fromSul Ross University in Alpine, Texas,in 1952. He then attended theUniversity of Texas, Austin, where hereceived his Ph.D. in 1957. At the timeof his graduation from UT he wasthe youngest person ever to get aPh.D. in geology. After completinghis degree, he went to work for ShellDevelopment Company. In 1967,he began working for NASA at theJohnson Space Center in Houston,Texas, where he stayed until hisretirement. Starting in 1975 he taughtseveral Environmental Managementand Geology classes, at both theUniversity of Houston, Clear Lake,and The University of Texas atSan Antonio. After retirement hecontinued to pursue his life-longinterest in the Lower Cretaceousof Central and West Texas. He

was recently recognized as anoutstanding graduate of Sul RossUniversity in Alpine, Texas.

PAULA JOSEPHINE BLACKPaula Josephine Black, 62,

died November 19, 2001, at theHospice of the Texas MedicalCenter. Ms. Black’s experience asa geologist involved extensivetravel throughout the world. Whilenearly 80 percent of Ms. Black’sexperience was international, shealso conducted studies, prospectevaluations, and field evaluationsboth onshore and offshore alongthe United States Gulf Coast.She was an avid golfer, playing asfrequently as she could atvarious courses.

Ms. Black was originally a nativeof Ohio, where she lived until, asa teenager, she moved to Bellaire,Texas. After graduating fromBellaire High School in 1957, sheattended the University of Texas,Austin, where she received aBachelor of Science degree inGeology in 1961. She thenattended The University of Texas atArlington and received a Master ofScience degree in Geology in 1974.She resided in Dallas from 1966 to1988 before moving to Houston.

In 1969 she began her career asa geologist with Core Laboratories,Inc. She was later transferred toHouston in 1988, when thecompany merged with WesternAtlas Integrated Technologies.Later, the company became knownas Petresim Integrated Technologies,then Smedvig Technologies. Ms.Black retired as a Senior Geologistfrom Smedvig with over 31 yearsof service in the field of geology.

Ms. Black was a CertifiedPetroleum Geologist and also wasa registered geologist in the State ofArkansas. She was a member of theAmerican Association of PetroleumGeologists, the Houston GeologicalSociety, and the honorary societiesof Sigma Gamma Epsilon andSigma Xi. She also was a member

of the Central CongregationalChurch of Houston. Survivorsinclude her brother, Donald L. Blackof Vienna, Virginia, and five nieces.

JULIUS A. “BUCK” BUCHANANJulius A. “Buck” Buchanan

passed away December 5, 2001, atthe age of 84. He was born October15, 1917, in Itasca, Texas. He livedin Waco, then his family relocated toCleburne, Texas, where he graduatedfrom Cleburne High School. Hethen went on to graduate from theUniversity of Texas, Austin in 1941with a Bachelor’s degree, thencompleted a Master’s degree at TexasA&M University in Commerce.

During World War II, he servedin the Army, receiving two FlyingMedals, a European CampaignRibbon with four bronze stars,the Victory Medal, and two BronzeStars. He worked with UnionProducing Company as anoil scout, petroleum geologist,and eventually head of ExplorationResearch Section. In addition,he was a consulting geologist inTyler, Texas, as well as a teacherand chairman of the PetroleumTechnology Department at TylerJunior College.

He was a member of severalorganizations, including the EastTexas Geological Society, AmericanAssociation of Petroleum Geol-ogists, University of Texas Ex-Students Association, Society ofSons of the American Revolution,Cleburne High School Class of ’36Alumni, and the Retired TeachersAssociation of Tyler Junior College.In addition, he was a member of theFirst Baptist Church and Christiansin Action Sunday School Class.

He is survived by his wife,Virginia Pinkerton Buchanan, son,Dr. Paul Clarence Buchanan, anddaughter, Ann Elizabeth Buchanan.

GEORGE B. COFFIN, IIIGeorge B. Coffin, III passed

away February 8, 2002, in Houston,Texas, at the age of 67. George was

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born on July 25, 1935. He graduatedfrom the University of Texas,Austin with a B.S. in geology in1959 and then worked for M.I.,L.L.C. for 35 years as a DrillingFluids Engineer, retiring in April1999. He was married to EllenCoussan on October 28, 1967. Hewas a lifetime member of severalorganizations, including theHolland Masonic Lodge #1 AF& AM, Scottish Rite, TexasEx-Student’s Association, ArabiaOriental Band, Arabia ShrineTemple, Memorial Drive UnitedMethodist Church, and the BridgeBuilders class at Memorial DriveUnited Methodist Church. Healso did volunteer work for theMemorial Drive United MethodistChurch SoupMobile and for theMemorial Area Ministries. He wasalso a faithful supporter and fanof The University of Texas atAustin football program.

He is survived by his wife,Ellen, his mother- and father-in-lawDoucet and Jacqueline Coussan,as well as several cousins andnumerous friends.

JERRY HICKS COLLINSJerry Hicks Collins died on

December 18, 2001, at the age of 73.He was born on October 8, 1928, inGroveton, Texas, where he attendedGroveton High School. He thenenrolled at the University of Texas,Austin, where he graduated withboth a B.S. (1953) and a B.A. (1954)degree in geology. He worked as ageophysicist with Sinclair, Mobil,Monsanto, Burmah, Aminoil, andPennzoil. He retired as a DistrictGeophysicist with Pennzoil in 1986.

He served his country in theKorean conflict as an instructorat Lackland Air Force Base. Inaddition, he was Chairman of theGovernment Liaison Committee forDisaster Services for the HoustonArea American Red Cross as well asa 32nd degree Mason and member ofArabia Shrine. He was also an avidcar enthusiast, loved to travel, andhad a great sense of humor.

He is survived by his wife of49 years, Jerrie Collins, his sonsJohn and his wife Sherry, Jay andhis wife, Julie; daughter CarolJensen and her husband Mark;grandchildren Ryan, Lindsey,Christopher, and Keri; and hissister, Frances Manry, and brother,Col. John Collins.

RUSSELL WALTERS CUMLEYby Rosemary Cumley

Dr. Russell Walters Cumleywas born in Anson, Texas, in 1910.He attended the University of Texas,Austin, and received his B.A. inGeology and Chemistry in 1931; hisM.A. in Geology and Anthropologyin 1931; and his Ph.D. in Zoology,Bacteriology, and Botany in 1938.He died on October 21, 1999.

The Bureau of EconomicGeology (BEG) hired him as adraftsman in 1929. This jobsupported him through his B.A.and M.A studies and ignitedhis life-long love for the BEG.

From 1938 to 1943 Dr. Cumleyserved on the staff of theUniversity of Wisconsin, Madison.Geology remained his interestand hobby, and in 1941, RussellCumley published Roughneck:The Way of Life in the Oil Fields,and America’s Oil in 1942. DuringWorld War II, Cumley servedwith the U.S. Army in the MedicalIntelligence Division, U.S. 5th and 7th

Armies in France, Italy, and Austria.Subsequently, Dr. Cumley joined

the staff of Abbott Laboratories asmedical editor and writer for theirprofessional publication, What’sNew. He was also a freelance editorfor Nelson’s Encyclopedia of Medicineand an original editor andcolumnist for Postgraduate Medicine.

Dr. Cumley was also theCo-Editor of The Book of Healthand of Year Book of Cancer, andthe Executive Editor of The CancerBulletin, The Psychiatric Bulletin, andThe Heart Bulletin, and the Publisherof Medical Record and Annals. Hewas the author of hundreds ofscientific papers in biology,medicine, and geology.

Dr. Russell W. Cumley held thepositions of Professor of MedicalJournalism, Emeritus, The Univer-sity of Texas Graduate School ofBiomedical Sciences, Houston,1974 to 1999, Editor and Head,Department of Scientific Publica-tions, The University of Texas M.D.Anderson Hospital and TumorInstitute, Houston, 1947 to 1974,Professor of Medical Journalism,The University of TexasPost-graduate School of Medicineand Graduate School of BiomedicalSciences, Houston, 1954 to 1974,and Director and General Manager,The Medical Arts PublishingFoundation, Houston, 1949 to 1974.

In 1975, Dr. Cumley received theDistinguished Service Award fromthe Physicians Referral Service atThe University of Texas SystemCancer Center’s M. D. AndersonHospital and Tumor Institute.

Dr. Cumley had membershipsin Sigma XI, Genetics Society,American Naturalists, and A.A.A.S.

He lost his wife Dolores in1987. He is survived by hisdaughter Rosemary and grand-children Ishmael and Nicolle.

HENRY WILLIAM “HANK”DESCHNER

Henry William “Hank” Deschnerdied on January 18, 2002, inCorpus Christi, Texas. He was bornSeptember 29, 1925, near Gonzales,Texas. He joined the United StatesMarine Corps and served inboth World War II as well asthe Korean War. He graduatedfrom Southwestern University inGeorgetown and went on to dograduate work at the Universityof Texas, Austin. He thenbecame a petroleum geologist.

Hank was very involved incommunity activities including theAmerican Legion Post 248 and theCorpus Christi YMCA as well asbeing a 32nd degree Mason and anactive member of First UnitedMethodist Church. His greatestinterest, however, was scouting,particularly Boy Scout Troop 3.


Debby Holt, and Sandy Borofsky,and 10 grandchildren.

HUBERT JAMES HARRISONHubert James Harrison died

January 10, 2002, at the age of 72.He was born on July 6, 1929, inBeaumont, Texas. He graduatedfrom Highland Park High School inDallas, then went on to earn both aB.S. and an M.A. degree in geologyfrom the University of Texas,Austin, where he was also electedto the geological honor society. Hethen began work as a geologist withSeaboard Oil Company in CorpusChristi, Texas, in 1953, then becamean independent petroleum geologist.In 1963, he and his wife, Wadene,returned to Austin.

He had many interests andhobbies, and he loved the oilbusiness, even with its uncertainty.He was devoted to his family andalso enjoyed American history andearly American architecture andfurniture. His other interestsincluded woodworking, gardening,mineral collecting, home remodel-ing, the environment, and politics.He was a member of WestminsterPresbyterian Church.

Hubert is survived by his wife,Wadene, his sons Shawn, Keith andwife Karen, and Mark and wifeIrene, as well as two grandchildren,Kristy and Ross. He is also survivedby his sister, Jo Fay Godbey, ofDallas, Texas.

THOMAS BRIGGSHENDERSON, JR.

Thomas Briggs Henderson, Jr.,died August 4, 2001, in CorpusChristi, Texas, at the age of 72.He was born April 14, 1929, inCharlotte, North Carolina. Heattended Phillips Academy inAndover, Massachusetts, DukeUniversity in Durham, NorthCarolina, and the University ofTexas, Austin. He was a naturalistand innovator and was active inalumni boards at Duke and Phillipsas well as many community groupsand local professional organizations.

He was Scoutmaster of Troop 3for 20 years and was activelyinvolved in scouting for 40 years.He guided over 100 scouts to thehighest rank available, Eagle.

He also enjoyed the art ofbonsai, and was a member of theCorpus Christi Bonsai Society.In addition, he volunteered atthe Corpus Christi Museum andutilized his geology knowledgeto help organize their collectionsof rocks and minerals.

He was married to MargaretGlendenning Deschner for 51 years.He is survived by his sons Steve,and wife Bonnie; Kern and his wifeRhonda; Paul and his wife Annette;Nathan and his wife Anita andTim; as well as his daughter CarolLeidlein and her husband Eric;three brothers, Arlye and his wifePeggy, R.P. and his wife Rebecca,and Everett and his wife Carolyn.In addition, he is survived by hisfourteen grandchildren.

WILLIAM JACKSON EVANSWilliam Jackson Evans died

March 7, 2002, in Houston, Texas,at the age of 79. He was bornJune 24, 1923. He graduated fromthe University of Texas, Austin in1950 with a B.S. degree in geology.He was preceded in death by hiswife Lydean. He is survived byhis four children, Aubin Cloyd,Alison Thames, Charles Evans,and William Douglas Evans; hismother Irene Clark; sister JuanitaHansen; four grandchildren, aswell as numerous other relativesand friends.

WILLIAM JAMES FENNESSYWilliam James Fennessy died

May 30, 2002, at the age of 82,in Houston, Texas. He was bornMarch 31, 1920, in Wichita Falls,Texas. He served in World War II,and upon returning he enrolled inthe University of Texas, Austin andgraduated in 1948 with a B.S. degreein geology. He then went on towork for Exxon in Houston, Texas.He was preceded in death by hiswife, Juanita. He is survived by

his daughters Karen and husbandBill Driscoll, and Beverly, grandchildChip and wife Charlotte, and great-grandchildren Courtney, Joseph,and Cathryn Driscoll.

JARVIS GARSTJarvis Garst died June 5, 2002,

in Austin, Texas, at the age of 94.He was born in Carroll County,Georgia, on April 27, 1908. Hegraduated from The University ofTexas, Austin in 1924 with a B.A. ingeology and became a petroleumgeologist as well as a real estate broker.

He loved nature and the land,and enjoyed walking 30 miles a weekon Austin trails until the age of 90.

He is survived by his daughterGretchen Garst, granddaughtersAnn Patten, Leslie Vogl, and MeredithGarst as well as five great-grand-children, Andrew and Isabel Patten,Joseph, Thomas, and James Vogl.

JOHN LAFAYETTE “BILL”HARMON

John Lafayette “Bill” Harmondied on January 31, 2002, at the ageof 72. He was born June 24, 1929,in Hillsboro, Texas. He attendedthe Allen Military Academy inBryan, Texas, and then went onto graduate from the Universityof Texas, Austin in 1952 with B.S.degrees in geology and petroleumengineering. He also served in theArmy during World War II.

He went to work for the oilindustry after graduation and in1963 started J.L. Harmon andAssociates in Abilene, which heowned and operated until 1986.He then went on to work withTexland Petroleum, Inc., of FortWorth, as a drilling and productionsupervisor. He retired in 1994.

He was listed in Who’s Whoof the South and Southwest, was amember of the Petroleum Club ofFort Worth, the Geological Societyof Abilene, and De Cordova BendC.C. and was a senior member ofPetroleum Engineers of A.I.M.E.

He is survived by his wife,Bettye, sons Christopher and Davidand stepchildren Kevin Frost,


He is survived by his wife,Judy Henderson, daughter, CorneliaHenderson, and his brother,Graeme Henderson, as well asby friends and extended family.

VIRGINIA WOOD HENDERSONVirginia Wood Henderson died

July 22, 2001, at the age of 42, inCorpus Christi, Texas. She was bornin Uvalde, Texas, on April 1, 1959.She attended St. James EpiscopalSchool and Richard King HighSchool in Corpus Christi. She thenattended The University of Texasat Austin, where she earned a B.S. ingeology and a B.A. in anthropology,after which she received a Master’sdegree in geology from Duke Univer-sity in Durham, North Carolina.

Virginia was an explorationgeologist and formed a partner-ship with her late father, TomHenderson. She was a passionateenvironmentalist and an avid sailor.She is survived by her mother, JudyHenderson, and her sister, CorneliaHenderson Gates, as well as by herextended family and many friends.

CHARLES JULIUS KATZ, SR.Charles Julius Katz, Sr., died at

the age of 82 on January 22, 2002.He was born March 18, 1919, inSan Antonio. He attended RiceUniversity and then graduated fromthe University of Texas, Austin. Hewas married to Dorothy Paul Levyon October 17, 1942. He served asan officer in the Army Air CorpsPhotographic Intelligence Divisionin World War II, rising to therank of Captain. After the War, hereturned to San Antonio, where heserved as President and Chairmanof the Board of Katz Oil Company,an oil exploration company that hefounded with his father, Sid Katz.

He served on many boards oflocal organizations in support ofmedicine, the arts, education,and culture, including GoodwillIndustries, Jewish Federation ofSan Antonio, Southwest TexasMedical Foundation, United Way,San Antonio Library Foundation,and the Boy Scouts of America.

He also loved to spend time withhis family, fishing, attending theaterperformances, and playing golf.

He is survived by his wife of59 years, Dorothy Levy Katz, aswell as their three children Candy(and Buddy Gardner), Charles (andRoberta), and Stephen (and Sara);as well as eight grandchildren andone great-grandchild.

L. GIFFORD KESSLER, IIL. Gifford Kessler, II died on

December 11, 2001, in Houston,Texas, at the age of 57. He wasborn on June 6, 1944, in Erie,Pennsylvania. He graduated fromAcademic High School in Erie andwent on to receive an Honors B.S.degree from Williams College inMassachusetts in 1965. He thenattended the University of Texas,Austin and earned an M.A. degree,and finished up his education atThe University of New Mexico inAlbuquerque with a Ph.D. in 1969.

He took his first job in the oilindustry with Union Pacific Railroadin Wyoming in 1969. In 1972, hebecame an exploration geologistwith Canada Cities Services inCalgary. He then moved on toPhillips Petroleum in 1974. In1982, he went to work for MarathonOil in Denver in the RegionalExploration and CharacterizationGroup. He then moved withMarathon to Houston in 1994.

In addition to geology, Giff ’sother loves were politics, sports,and trivia. He is survived by hismother, Marty.

CHARLES GARDLEY MOONCharles Gardley Moon died

October 27, 2001, in Houston,Texas, at the age of 84. He was bornJune 17, 1917 in McNeil, Texas.He graduated from Seguin HighSchool in 1935 as salutorian.He then went on to attend theUniversity of Texas, Austin, gettinghis B.A. in 1940, his M.A. in 1942and his Ph.D. in 1950, all ingeology. While he was attendingthe University, he received the firstHumble Oil Fellowship in Geology.

He worked with Humble Oil andExxon as a geologist for over20 years. He also taught geologyat both The University ofOklahoma and the University ofTexas. He is survived by friendMary Lou Mayes, niece Mary BethReed, great-niece Carol Marquisand husband Ken, great-nephewDavid Reed and wife Twila, aswell as other relatives and friends.

BRYANT SANER, SR.Bryant Saner, Sr. passed away

in Kerrville, Texas, on November 3,2001, at the age of 78. He was bornin Chicago on June 23, 1923. Hemoved to Kerrville in 1937. Heattended the University of Texas,Austin, graduating in 1946 witha degree in petroleum geology. Heworked for Gulf Oil from 1946 to1949, at which time he relocated toRogers, Arkansas, and became thegeneral manager of a family-ownedsilica mine. In 1950, he returnedto Kerrville, where he owned andoperated a chicken farm until 1969.At that time, he moved to Dallaswhere he worked in a furniturestore until 1972. He then movedto San Antonio, where he workedfor Swing Machinery until 1981.He then worked as a computeroperator for Church’s FriedChicken in San Antonio untilhis retirement in 1993. His wife,Betty Carolyn Poole, predeceasedhim in February 2000.

He is survived by a large family,including his son Bryant Saner, Jr.,and his wife, Karyn, two brothers,Walter and Charles Saner, as wellas numerous nieces, nephews, grand-children, and great-grandchildren.

A. RICHARD “DICK” SMITHA. Richard “Dick” Smith passed

away on July 4, 2001, at his home inFort Worth, Texas, at the age of 62.He was born on September 22,1939, in Odessa, Texas. He gainedan interest in caving at a young ageand while in high school joined theNational Speleological Society (NSS).He first attended Rice University asa math major, but then transferred


to the University of Texas, Austinand received a degree in geology in1964. He married Elizabeth Kelleyand they had two sons, Geren andPreston. He began work on hisPh.D. at UT Austin, but left hisdissertation unfinished so that hecould keep up with his personaland family life.

He was noted for his contri-butions to the Texas SpeleologicalSurvey (TSS) throughout hislife; he served TSS as geologist,cartographer, publisher, and editor.He also had an office in the UTgrotto and served as the Chairmanfor the Texas SpeleologicalAssociation. He enjoyed cavingthroughout Texas, as well as in NewMexico, Guatemala, and Mexico.

In September 1997, Dick wasawarded the first OutstandingService Award given by the TSS,the highest honor offered by thatorganization and given only tothose who have made long-termcontributions to Texas speleology.He is survived by his wife, Ann.

FRED DEAN SPINDLEFred Dean Spindle of Houston,

Texas, died on November 21, 2001.He was born on December 29, 1927,in Drexel, Missouri, and movedmany times throughout his child-hood but eventually ended up inPaola, Kansas. This was whereFred met his wife, Betty. After highschool, Fred enrolled in the NavyAir Corps Five program and spentpart of his college years at DoaneCollege and The University ofNotre Dame. After World War II,Fred enrolled at the University ofTexas, Austin and received a degreein Petroleum Geology in 1949.He began his career in the oilindustry with Marathon Oilin Sidney, Nebraska. He workedthroughout the world andeventually rose to the positionof Vice President of Exploration–International. In addition, heobtained professional certificationsin petroleum engineering andgeophysics.

In addition to his work, healso enjoyed spending time withhis family, fishing, and golfing.He was a licensed pilot and an avidreader and also did volunteer workat St. Theresa’s Catholic Church.

He is survived by his wife Betty,daughter Teresa Huntington andher husband Dale, grandchildrenElizabeth, Chip, and ChrisHuntington; son Mike, grandsonRyan Spindle, and granddaughterMolly White.

JAMES B. TARTTJames B. Tartt passed away

November 12, 2001, at the age of81 in Houston, Texas. He was bornJuly 22, 1920, in Timpson, Texas.He served in World War II in theU.S. Army Air Corps. He graduatedfrom the University of Texasin Austin in 1948 with a B.S. ingeology. He then went to work withHalliburton in Houston, Texas.He is survived by his wife of58 years, Helen; daughterConnie; sister Judith Ann Graaf;grandchildren Liza Crosson, JacobCrosson, Revor Crosson and wifeKris, and Devin Marie Granberg,as well as great-grandsonCorbin Crosson.

JOHN JEFFERSON TERRELLJohn Jefferson Terrell died

February 1, 2002, at the age of 88.He was born in 1913 in Paris, Texas,and went on to graduate from theUniversity of Texas, Austin in 1945with a B.S. degree in geophysics.

John published the officialState Mileage Guide of Texas, wasthe Executive Vice President ofthe Texas Association of HomeBuilders, and was one of the firstPresidents of the Austin JuniorChamber of Commerce. Inaddition, he was a CirculationManager of the Austin American-Statesman and a member ofthe downtown Rotary Club.

He is survived by his sonJeff and his wife Penny, hisdaughter Sarah Terrell Williams,grandchildren Anne Williams

Mitchell and husband Kenneth,Travis Williams and fiancée EricaHughes, Terrell Williams and wifeDr. Helen Ragsdale, Erica Halland spouse Scott, and MeredithTerrell, in addition to great-grandchildren Lauren, James,and Kyle Mitchell and Chris,Cole, and Mauriette Williams.

We have learned of the deathsof the following persons but haveno additional information:

Frederick Brechtel(attended 1945)

Robert Paul Foster(attended 1955)

James Alton Fowler(B.A., 1931)

William Ramsay Gray(B.A., 1940)

Joe Alfonce Hybner(B.S., 1952)

William Le Croix(B.S., 1949)

Max Levin(B.S., 1947; M.A., 1951)

Mary Cunnin McCampbell(B.A., 1941)

John Brittian Means, Jr.(B.S., 1940; M.A., 1940)

Kathleen Pfannkuche(B.A., 1928)

Arvin F. Scott(B.A., 1930)


at New Mexico Institute of Mining andTechnology in Socorro, New Mexico, andwrites, “I have started work toward anM.S. in hydrology working under BrianMcPherson. We are studying whateffects CO

2 sequestration has on deep

basin host formations, especiallyemphasizing diagenetic changes.Katy, my wife and UT alumna, isteaching in nearby Magdalena. Sheloves what she does.” Aaron can bereached at [email protected].

Samuel C. Adair, Jr. (B.S., 1956)is retired and living in Montgomery,Texas. He and his wife Doris are stilltraveling a lot. The next trip they planto take is to South America and a cruisearound the Horn. Their granddaughtergraduated from UT in June 2002. He canbe reached at [email protected].

Jim W. Adams (B.S., 1951) is aconsulting geologist in Midland, Texas,and writes, “enjoyed touring one weekeach in England, Scotland, and Wales,especially hiking in the hills anddriving all around the Lake District,the Cotswolds, and the Isle of Skye. Itwas weird visiting the red lithothamnianreefs in Scotland that I had last seenoffshore Florida. Also went deep-seafishing off Cabo San Lucas (Baja,California) and caught two excitingblue marlin. The Second AnnualGrandchildren’s Week allowed us toteach them about the glorious strati-graphy of Grand Canyon, Arizona.Our first great-grandson is expectedin 2001. God has been good to us.” Jimcan be reached at [email protected].

Floyd J. Adcock (B.S., 1955) isretired from Marathon Oil Co. and isliving in Henderson, Texas. He says the“fishing is great–the view of the lakeis magnificent. Retirement is wonderful,

but I still go to East Texas GeologicalSociety meetings in Tyler, Texas. I can’tget oil exploration out of my system!”

Stephen Allen (M.A., 1997) is anOracle Developer with AT&T Wirelessin Austin, Texas, and says he’s working“when not at the Alamo DrafthouseTheatre, on the golf course (disc ortraditional), or at Barton Springs(all seasons).” He can be reached [email protected].

Nancy Jenswold Anderson(B.A., 1950) says she has been stayingcloser to home since 9/11/01, but hasbeen exploring parts of Texas she hasn’tknown too well. She is recovering fromrecent knee replacement surgery, so“rock climbing is out for a while.”Though she is retired, she has stillbeen giving some input to local urbanplanning and design issues in CedarHill, Texas. She can be reached [email protected].

Payton V. Anderson (B.S., 1945)is a Partner at W. D. Anderson and Sonsand writes, “Evelyn and I are about tocelebrate our 57th wedding anniversary.Our three girls are married and okay.I’m active in most of onshore Mid-Continent oil and gas operations.I spend most of my time in worldtravel–had to quit golf.”

Tom Anderson (M.A., 1967; Ph.D.,1969) is a Professor of Geology at theUniversity of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania.He reports that “I stepped down from thechairmanship in summer of 2000 after13 years of interesting, stimulating butultimately frustrating experiences.Took a sabbatical for a year–wrotein an effort to catch up and rejoinresearch team. Currently hope togenerate special paper on Mexico work.”

Notes from the AlumniPeyton O. Abbott (B.S., 1950) is

retired from his career as a hydrologistand has been enjoying reading, traveling,and having a daily swim at his home inPueblo, Colorado.

Aaron Abel (B.S., 2000) is aGraduate Student and Research Assistant

AlumniHonors

Donna Balin (B.S., 1978) waselected Vice President of the SouthTexas Geological Society.

David E. Dunn (Ph.D., 1964) is amember of the Board of Trustees ofthe GSA Foundation.

Will Green (M.A., 1955) was electedPresident of the Board of Directors atMidland College.

Paul Hoffman (B.S., 1975) finishedhis year as President of the HoustonGeological Society.

John Huelsenbeck (M.A., 1992)won a 2002 Guggenheim Award.

Raul Mosmann (attended 1968-1969)was elected Honorary Member of AAPG.

Peter R. Rose (B.S., 1957;M.A., 1959; Ph.D., 1968) waselected Honorary Member of AAPG.

Dan Smith (B.S., 1958) isPresident of AAPG.

Paul Weimer (Ph.D., 1989) isTreasurer of AAPG.

Charles Weiner (B.A., 1948) wasnamed Legendary Oilman by theDrake Well Foundation.

James Lee Wilson (B.A., 1942;M.A., 1944) was awarded theSidney Powers Medal by AAPG.


Arten Avakian (M.A., 1989) is aGeologist with the TNRCC in Austin,Texas, and notifies us that he“settled in Austin, with family–one son.” Arten can be reached [email protected].

T. Dale Bagwell (B.S., 1979)is a Geoscience System Analyst withLandmark in Houston, Texas, andwrites “great fun helping E&Pprofessionals utilize Landmark’ssoftware. Exciting to be back in E&Pafter 12 years in gas marketing andteaching high school.” Dale can bereached at [email protected].

Carol Swenumson Baker(B.S., 1984) is currently a Geophysicistat ExxonMobil Exploration Co. inHouston, Texas. She can be reachedat [email protected] reports that “Rodney and I aregetting older, and so are the kids.Grant started middle school andAndrew is in the first grade.”

Donna Balin (B.S., 1978) is aconsulting geologist in San Antonio,Texas. She writes, “My husbandAndrew Scott and I moved back to myhometown in May 2001. Andrew isespecially happy with the movebecause we live close to my motherand he finally gets some good cooking.We are both consulting geologists andshare an office together. I’ll be servingas VP of the South Texas GeologicalSociety this year, and Andrew is finishinghis term as President of the EnergyMinerals Division of AAPG. Friends pleasee-mail me at [email protected].”

Thomas D. Barrow (B.S., 1945;M.A., 1948) is president of T Bar X inHouston, Texas. He just returned froma “visit to the fiords, geysers, and goldmines of New Zealand.” Dr. Barrow isan Honorary Life Member of theGeology Foundation Advisory Council.

Joe Beard (B.S., 1942) is retiredand living in Wichita Falls, Texas.

Robert E. Beatty, Jr. (B.A., 1950;B.S., 1954) is retired and living inSan Antonio, Texas. He writes that heis “still going–doing ‘play things’.”

Roy Beckelhymer, Jr. (B.S., 1952)is retired and reports he is “enjoyinglife in Lakeway (Texas) and keeping upwith the Longhorns. Did some traveling,last year England and France plus severalautomobile trips in the lower 48.”

Lynn S. Beeler (B.S., 1962) iscurrently living in The Colony, Texas.

Walter E. Belt, Jr. (B.S., 1943)is retired and lives in Flatonia, Texas.He reports that “at 80 years Virginiaand I appreciate–and appreciateeven more.” He can be reached [email protected].

Don G. Bilbrey (B.S., 1953;M.A., 1957) is retired and living inNew Orleans, Louisiana, and reports,“finally shot my age in golf, 72, after5 straight years of frustration gettingwithin one stroke of that goal. Guessthat shows where my priorities are inretirement. Otherwise, I’m in goodhealth and have a new granddaughter.”Don can be reached [email protected].

Keith Bjork, M. D. (B.S., 1984)is an orthopedic surgeon in Amarillo,Texas. He can be reached [email protected].

Tom Bjorklund (M.A., 1962) isa consultant in Houston, Texas, andreports, “I finally graduated this yearfrom the University of Houston with aPh.D. in geology. The dissertationsubject was the Whittier fault in theLos Angeles basin. Interested personscan read all about it in Geology (May)

and the Journal of Structural Geology(September). I plan to continue studiesof transform fault systems and consultin the petroleum industry.” Tom canbe reached at [email protected].

Barbara Smith Blaisdell (B.S.,1978) is working for ExxonMobil andwrites, “another merge, another move,this time to Houston with ExxonMobil.Our kids are now teenagers. Time flieswhen you’re having fun! Our 7th movein 10 years finds us coming home toThe Woodlands (Texas). We love livingin a forest. No regrets in being a full-time mom after hanging up my hardhat!” She can be reached [email protected].

Asa Blankenship (B.A., 1950; M.A.,1952) says he is “retired and bored” andliving in Houston, Texas. He reports thatit is the “same old–same old–pleasesomebody from my class call! I retiredas a Vice-President from Bank of Americain Houston in 1997, but still active inthe investment business.” He can bereached at (713) 771-2936.

Robert H. Blodgett (Ph.D., 1990)is a Professor at Austin CommunityCollege in Austin, Texas. He can be e-mailed at [email protected] andwrites, “teaching at ACC continues to beenjoyable. Our plans for an automatedwater quality monitoring well in theEdwards aquifer continue to moveforward with the design of the 250-square-foot wellhouse nearing comple-tion. At home, we are midway throughrenovating and adding on to our housein Rosedale.”

Robert Bluntzer (B.S., 1960) retiredas a Groundwater Geologist from theTexas Water Development Board in 1993.He is currently working part time as ahydrogeologist with various consultantsin the Austin area and spends his freetime traveling overseas. He can bereached at [email protected].


Patricia Bobeck (M.A., 1985) livesin Austin, Texas, and writes, “I’m in theprocess of translating Henry Darcy’s 1856book entitled Les Fontaines publiquesde la ville de Dijon from French toEnglish. The book is an account of howDarcy built a water supply system forDijon in the 1830s. In an appendix, hedescribes the experiments he conductedthat led him to formulate Darcy’s law.I hope to finish the 650-page book byJuly, 2002. I’m still working at theTexas Natural Resource ConservationCommission overseeing hazardous wastecleanups. My 15-year-old son Denniswill learn to drive this summer.I’m looking forward to having achauffeur.” Patricia can bereached at [email protected].

Ricky Boehme (B.S., 1989) isa geologist for ChevronTexaco inLafayette, Louisiana.

Julie Bonner (B.S., 1983) is aLead Drilling Engineer withChevronTexaco in Houston, Texas, andwrites, “I haven’t written for a while,and a lot has happened. Two years ago,I was in a near-fatal car accident. I washit by a two-ton six-wheeler, spun andflipped, crushing in all four sides andthe top of my Explorer by a foot. Isuffered a broken neck, temporarilyparalyzed arms, and had broken bothsides of my right ankle. The MRIrevealed that I had broken my neckbefore in the same place, but neverknew because it didn’t show on x-rays,and now had broken it a second time.Also, I had exploded the disk under thebreak, all the spinal fluid had left myneck, and my bones were directlypinching my spinal cord. Miraculously,I am not paralyzed, though just a bitmore force would have severed my spine.I spent three weeks of Christmas and Y2Kin the hospital between ICU, surgery, andin rehab learning to walk and use myarms again. My rehab doctor’s name wasKevorkian! What a scream! I spent three

months in rehab overall, working frommy home in the meantime.

I’m now bionic! I have titaniumplates and screws in both my neckand ankle, and since 9/11, I set off thealarms in airports! It’s funny, but I’mgetting tired of being frisked. I’m not100 percent, but I’m in the 90’s, andyou’d never know I was in a wreck bylooking at me. I’m still travelingoverseas constantly, doing most of mywork in Sumatra, China, Norway, andthe North Sea right now. The injuryhasn’t slowed me down much. Sixmonths after the wreck, I was back tomy outdoor hobbies (against my doctor’sadvice to wait a year or more). Sincethen, I’ve snorkeled a shipwreck inAruba, hiked the entire Kiluea Volcanoand Diamondhead, did beach dives inCozumel and Tobago, and went Class Vwhitewater rafting in California and Bali,among other adventures. Life is good,and I’ve been blessed. Don’t takeanything for granted, guys. You neverknow when you might get creamedby a truck!” Julie can be reachedat [email protected].

Andrew Bowen (B.S., 1991)reports that he has “made a jump to thetechnology industry and am still enjoyingliving in Austin. I have fond memoriesof my geology days and still have theremnants of many field trips throughoutmy house.” He may be reached [email protected].

Walt V. Boyle (B.S., 1954; M.A.,1955) is a retired consulting geologistliving in Houston, Texas. He writesthat “Vada Marie and I are enjoyingour retirement. We keep busy travelingthe world, participating in churchactivities, and gardening.”

Philip Braithwaite (M.A., 1958)is retired and living in Dallas, Texas.He lets us know that “Barbara and Iare still enjoying retirement.”

Robert F. Brandt (B.S., 1957) is anAdjunct Instructor of Geology at HoustonCommunity College in Houston, Texas.He is teaching Physical Geology andEnvironmental Science exclusively asDistance Education via the Internet. Hereports that it “seems to be an effectiveway to learn, although I miss the humancontact of an on-campus course.” Hecan be reached at [email protected].

Marcia Branstetter (M.A., 1995;Ph.D., 2001) is a Research Associatewith Oak Ridge National Laboratory inOak Ridge, Tennessee, and writes, “Irecently joined the climate dynamicsgroup at DOE’s Oak Ridge NationalLaboratory. It’s an exciting time heresince they’ve just started constructionof a new state-of-the-art computationalfacility on the ORNL campus. We’rebuilding the new Climate and CarbonResearch enterprise as part of theCenter of Computational Sciences to takeadvantage of the computational resourceshere to study climate change.” She canbe reached at [email protected].

Herbert L. Brewer (B.S., 1947) isthe Director of Toreador Resources Corp.in Dallas, Texas, and writes, “mergedMadison Oil Co., Inc., into ToreadorResources Corp. (TRGL on NASDAQ)effective 12/31/01. Madison is now theinternational arm and wholly ownedsubsidiary of Toreador. My son and Icontinue in the oil business as ToreadorDirectors. I enjoyed the opportunity tosee and visit with a lot of old friends atthe AAPG Convention in Houston thispast March.” Herbert can be e-mailedat [email protected].

Ben M. “Bud” Brigham (B.S.,1983) is the CEO and President ofBrigham Exploration in Austin, Texas,and writes, “Anne and children(Elizabeth, 6; Amanda, Conner, andMary Anne, 3) are all doing great!Enjoying good oil prices, improving gas


prices, and UT football.” Bud can bereached at [email protected].

M. H. “Buddy” Brock (B.S., 1956)is self-employed and living in Edna,Texas, and reports “nothing really newsince last Newsletter. Strange how wefall into a daily routine as we get older!Still following 10 grandkids around andwatching their many school events.”

C. Douglas Brown (B.S., 1984)is the President of BXP, Ltd., in Dallas,Texas. He tells us that he is “activelyinvolved in oil and gas acquisition anddevelopment in South Texas.” He canbe emailed at [email protected].

Wallace E. Brunson (B.S., 1942;M.A., 1954) tells us that “although Ihave been retired for over 22 years,I still keep an office with Big ‘6’ DrillingCo., being around younger peoplehelps! Wife Betty and I celebrateour 60th anniversary this year.”They are living in Houston, Texas.

J. E. “Woody” Bryant (B.S., 1943;M.A., 1948) is an independent geologistliving in Fredericksburg, Texas. Hewrites that he is “working on a coupleof prospects in south Texas. Our healthis holding up pretty good; family isstatus quo.” He can be reached [email protected].

Leonard C. Bryant (B.S., 1957)is an independent geologist living inHelotes, Texas.

Thaïs Freda Bullard (M.A., 1951)is in real estate management inAustin, Texas, and can be reached [email protected]. She writes that“the Fred Bullard Student ResearchFund has been established, and it will beenhanced as is needed, by any additionalcontributions! Thanks for your support.”

Ben Buongiorno (M.A., 1955) isthe President of Good Day Energy, Inc.,

in Houston, Texas. He lets us know thathe is “still exploring for oil and gas” andcan be e-mailed at [email protected].

T. J. “Jeff” Burnett, Jr. (B.S., 1949)is retired and living in Houston, Texas.He writes, “I lost my wife, Cathe, after53 years. Our granddaughter, Sarah, isat UT Austin. All 7 of our other grand-children are doing well.” His e-mailis [email protected].

Leon G. Byerly (B.S., 1951) isliving in Midland, Texas, and says heis “semi-retired” and is “still enjoyingcoming to my office daily but doing onlyas much or as little as I want to do.”

Michael Cademartori (B.S.,1995) is a Sales Representative at SunMicrosystems in Stamford, Connecticut.He can be reached at [email protected].

Frank Cahoon (B.S., 1956) is anindependent oil operator in Midland,Texas, and lets us know that he is“enjoying my children and grand-children.”

Dean L. Callender (B.S., 1956;M.A., 1958) is a Senior Vice President atLBS PaineWebber in Houston, Texas. Hecan be reached at [email protected] states, “The next few years will beincredible for geologists and geophysi-cists as the world recognizes there isnot an unending supply of oil and gas.Don’t let Wall Street grind you down!”

Eleanor Camann (B.S., 1999)is living in Beaufort, North Carolina,and can be reached [email protected].

Amy L. Campbell (B.S., 1997) isa Financial Advisor with Morgan Stanleyin Austin, Texas, has an e-mail addressof [email protected], and writes,“Although financial services/wealthmanagement is quite a change fromhydrogeology, I am very happy at

Morgan Stanley. Other exciting news–my trip to Australia!”

Donald H. Campbell (M.A., 1962)is a petrographer with CampbellPetrographic Services, Inc., inDodgeville, Wisconsin. He reports that“petrography of Wisconsin Paleozoicrocks, as well as concrete, mortar,and aggregates nationwide, keep mequite busy.” He can be reached [email protected].

Donald M. Campbell (B.A., 1955)is retired and reports, “We have movedcloser to family–now in Abingdon,Maryland. Still working in the schoolsystem with special needs children.Still miss my traveling but findingstaying close to home not too bad–still go to the beach (Ocean City)several times a year.” Donald can bereached at [email protected].

A. T. “Toby” Carleton (B.S., 1951;M.A., 1952) is an independent geologistand rancher in Midland, Texas. Hereports, “no changes since last year,except I am older but no wiser. Icontinue to be active in the oil andgas and ranching businesses in WestTexas.” Mr. Carleton is a member of theGeology Foundation Advisory Council.

Marvin T. Carlsen (B.S., 1952) isa retired geologist, teacher, and mud-logger living in Midland, Texas, andwrites that “I am very pleased aboutthe generous endowment given to theGeology Department by Jack and KatieJackson. The new building additionswill no doubt attract additional geologyand post-graduate students. I’m gratefulfor all the excellent professors whohelped me graduate 50 years ago!”

Richard F. Carroll (B.S., 1980) isa Senior Exploration Geologist withDominion Exploration and Production,Inc., in Houston, Texas, and writes,“I left ExxonMobil last fall to get back


into the oil and gas business. I guessI just don’t know what’s good for me.Now I’m actually drilling wells againin South Texas, I only have about 1/10th

the number of meetings to attend, andthere are almost no forms to fill out.How could I have been so foolish?Other than that, I’m still doing welland spending as much time as possiblewith my two boys, 8-year-old Ian and7-year-old Austin.” Richard can bereached at [email protected].

Jack C. Cartwright (B.S., 1951;M.A., 1955) lives in Midland, Texas,and has an e-mail address [email protected]. He writes that“year 2002 is the first year of the next50 years in the West Texas oil business–not as active, but still upright andgoing forward. Barbara and I still enjoyrelatively good health. Good newsconcerning the new geoscience center!”

Dwight E. Cassell (B.S., 1955; M.A.,1958) is a consultant in Austin, Texas.He can be reached at [email protected] says he is “continuing to scratch upa location or two to keep shallowproduction alive. Linda and I go touringor cruising when possible. Fortunate tohave daughter Sally and two grandkidsnearby. Come see us!”

John Patrick Castagna (Ph.D.,1983) is a Professor at the Universityof Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma.He can be e-mailed at [email protected].

Martha Cast Cather (B.S., 1981;M.A., 1986) is living in San Antonio,New Mexico, and reports that she andSteven (M.A., 1980; Ph.D., 1986) “arestill working at New Mexico Tech. He’sfinishing up mapping a quadrangle, isplotting summer field work in northernNew Mexico and Colorado, and is alwaysknee deep in manuscripts he’s writing orediting. I’ve drifted into management–heading up a group that provides data

and education to the regional oil andgas community and coordinating theactivities of the Southwest PTTC. I get todo things ranging from learning GIS toorganizing research planning workshops.

We finally finished our house, after10 years, and have room for guests.Still have lots of horses (raising Morgansnow), cats, and dogs. We did a third tripto Italy with Dr. Folk a couple of yearsago, then had to take a break to finishthe house. Last summer’s excitement wasrafting down the Colorado River throughthe Grand Canyon on a geology researchtrip (hot, hot, hot!). Once you are in thebottom, looking up, you know why it iscalled ‘grand.’ If anybody from our longstint at UT is ever out here, feel free togive us a call.”

Henry “Hank” Chafetz (Ph.D.,1970) is a Professor in the Departmentof Geosciences at the University ofHouston in Houston, Texas, and writes,“Janet and I are still at the same ‘shop’(UH); she still chairs the SociologyDepartment, writes books, etc., andthey still pay me to play with carbonates,bacteria, and hotsprings. Big newsfor our family: Josh graduated fromYale and is now a Rhodes Scholarat Oxford, for us, all else we’ve donepales by comparison. Regards to allold grads.” Hank can be reached [email protected].

Steve Chang (B.S., 1987) is aProject Manager with WesternGeco inLondon. He writes, “I’m current projectmanager overseeing our development ofnew technology from survey acquisitionto reservoir characterization. Moved thefamily from Houston, Texas, to Londonlast March, and it’s been an interestingexperience. Stefanie (4) is calling thebackyard the back garden (Englishterm for yard), there’s plenty of football(soccer), the weather is cooler thanTexas, and the beer is warmer. I’vetraveled a lot on business all over the

world, and we have been exploring theContinent. Still on the list of places tosee are Scotland, Italy, Switzerland,and Ireland.” Steve can be reached [email protected].

Walter Chatham (B.A., 1948;M.A., 1950) can be reached [email protected]. He isretired and living in Mineral Wells,Texas, and says “these years arepassing too fast.”

C. A. Chimene (B.S., 1950) issemi-retired and living in Houston,Texas. He writes that he is “still activein a small way–writing, SeniorOlympics, investments, the oil biz,and pecan farming.” He can bereached at [email protected].

Stephen Patrick Chung (B.S.,1984) is an Attorney for Conoco, Inc.,in Houston, Texas, and writes, “It’sbeen 18 years since graduation andI’ve never written in. I’ve worked forthe Texas Natural Resource ConservationCommission like many of my brethren.I then decided to go to law school andam now an environmental lawyer forConoco. My practice centers aroundSuperfund as well as site remediation soI still get to use my geology background.My wife Kim and I have a 10-month-olddaughter, Natalie, and she is already adaddy’s girl. I’d like to say hello toMark Martin and Bruce Gates since Ihave not seen or heard of them sincegraduation.” Stephen can be reachedat [email protected].

Tom Clark (M.A., 1972) is aSenior Hydrologist at the MinnesotaPollution Control Agency in St. Paul,Minnesota. He can be e-mailed [email protected]. Hereports that “Cindy and I becamefirst-time grandparents in February2001. Still trying to further the causeof ground water in the Land of 10,000


Lakes and Jesse Ventura. Home e-mail:[email protected].”

W. R. Cleaves, M.D. (B.A., 1960)is living in Corpus Christi, Texas.

Guy Cleveland (B.S., 1981) is aBusiness Development Manager withProfessional Services Industries, Inc.in New York City, New York, has ane-mail address of [email protected],and writes, “I am finally submittinginformation to reach out to all from theclass of ’81. I am living in New York City,believe it or not. After several yearsworking as a geologist for the State ofTexas, I rode a wild hare, and moved toNew York City to pursue a new careerin business development and I love it!Both have been successful and haveeven acclimated to this big and excitingcity. A big HELLO to Martha, Sandy,Moira, Hochstein, Dennis Dann, Jay,Mike Darr, and Mr. Clinch.”

Kelton Cloud (B.S., 1973) is aconsulting geologist in Granbury, Texas.He writes that he is “still prospectingfor gas. Built a greenhouse last falland enjoyed growing various plantsthrough the winter. JoBeth is stillteaching science.” He can be reachedat [email protected].

Joel Coffman (B.S., 1984) is livingin California and writes, “I’m still thelead regulator for Napa County for USTleaks and cleanups and enjoying that forthe most part. This year has been a greatone for me as I married my high schoolsweetheart (Susan) from over 25 yearsago, and we are doing very well! Mydaughter Amber (18) is making CDsas she plays guitar and sings and iscurrently in Flagstaff. Susan’s daughterShaina (19) is studying at Howard PayneUniversity in Brownwood. Still travelinga lot locally to Yosemite, Monterey Bay,San Francisco, Tahoe, and points North.We are beginning to get homesick forTexas. I have been here 13 years now,

and the Lone Star is starting to call usback. I hope you all are doing well, ’83grads should look me up!” Joel can bereached at [email protected].

James W. Collins (B.S., 1956) is thePresident of Collins Resources, Inc., inCorpus Christi, Texas, and lets usknow that he has “been anindependent geologist for 32 years.”

Tom Connally (M.A., 1981) canbe reached at [email protected] writes, “After 11 years in Saudi withAramco, I’ve returned to Austin, still inthe trade. As an instructor of geologicsoftware for Landmark, I’m learning alot of useful computer geology skills.Hope to see you UT alumni in thecoming year.”

Mary Beth Cooper (B.A., 1966;M.A., 1969) is a Registered PediatricNurse at the Denver Health MedicalCenter in Denver, Colorado. She writes,“I’m still working part-time as apediatric and neonatal nurse–I love it.”

Casey (B.S., 1988) and SusanCornett (B.S., 1986) live in Houston,Texas, where Casey is a softwareconsultant and Susan is a homemaker.They write, “Casey just moved into theR&D unit at BMC after 150 nights inMarriotts last year, consulting. Susan iseaten up with the golf bug. Marshalland Stuart are into all the sports. Thisyear, we’ll be around Houston, so pleasecall and drop by!” They can be reachedat [email protected].

Frank Cornish (M.A., 1975) is theRegional Manager of SW Speaks Drillingin Corpus Christi, Texas, and can bereached at [email protected] reports, “SW Speaks Drilling is stillexpanding the field. Now in the relent-less pursuit to acquire as much 3-D aspossible before everyone else works itto death.”

Bill C. Cotner (B.S., 1953) isa rancher in Midland, Texas.

Raymond W. Cozby, III (B.A., 1983)is a Vice President and Trust Officer atRegions Bank Trust in Tyler, Texas. Hesays he doesn’t have any news, “but Ienjoy the Newsletter!” He can bereached at [email protected].

Fredrick E. Crawford (B.S., 1983)can be e-mailed at [email protected]. He is a Manager of the LCRASurveying and Mapping Department inAustin, Texas. He lets us know that“after 13 years with the same companyI am still having fun.”

Milton W. Crusius (B.S., 1949)writes, “I enjoy fossil hunting andhave done most of my collecting inthe Cretaceous of Texas, especiallyGlen Rose Formation. Since I moved toArlington (Texas) in 1993, I’ve beenusing Roadside Geology of Texas asa guide to make some great trips tocollect from the Pennsylvanian beds.Have gotten two grandsons interested.”He can be reached at [email protected].

Tom Culbertson (M.A., 1948) isretired and living in San Antonio, Texas.He says, “I hope for more science of theEarth.”

Steve Cumella (B.S., 1977; M.A.,1981) is a Senior Staff Geologist withWilliams Production in Denver,Colorado. He can be reached [email protected].

Hugh W. Curfman (B.S., 1948)is a retired geologist, living in Lafayette,Louisiana. He let us know that he is“glad to read about our group whenthey write in.”

Harris P. “Koop” Darcy (B.S., 1951)is an independent geologist in Houston,Texas, and writes, “hope you will watch


Dr. Carl Baugh on Trinity BroadcastingNetwork (TBN) on Sat. and Mon. at8:00 p.m. Great TV program. Visit orwrite to Institute for Creation Research,P.O. Box 2667, El Cajon, California,92021-0667 for their catalog. They havea great report on the geology of theGrand Canyon and Mount St. Helens.”

E. Julius Dasch (M.A., 1960) isa Manager at the NASA Space Grantand EPSCoR Programs in Washington,D.C., and can be reached at [email protected]. Julius reports, “I’ll retirefrom NASA at the end of the year.Then? Not sure, but sooner or laterPat and I will move to Alpine(10 miles south of town).”

Ben Davis (B.S., 1987) is a Scienceand AP Biology teacher at South ForsythHigh School in Alpharetta, Georgia,has an e-mail address of [email protected], and writes, “I just finishedup my first year teaching at my newlocation north of Atlanta here in theburbs. Quite a big change from ruralsouth Georgia, but tons of fun. A changefor the better for the most part, but thetraffic is maddening.

I helped marry off Paul Neumannin January to his lovely bride and wishthem all the best. Meeting and thendrinking with the Neumann family wasvery entertaining. Kiss the bride for me,

Paul. Take care everyone, and I hopewe can all get together someday andchew the fat.”

Mary Q. Davis (B.S., 1948) writes,“still retired. I enjoy visiting Austinoccasionally.” Mary is living in Tyler,Texas.

Ross Davis (B.S., 1980) is ageologist in Houston, Texas, andwrites, “In addition to drilling wildcats,I am actively involved in high-temperature superconductivity.”

William Hill Davis (B.S., 1941)is retired and living in San Antonio,Texas, and writes, “I am keeping upthe house and yard.”

Michelle Mallien Debus (B.S., 1990)is a geologist and co-owner at OakrockExploration Co. in San Antonio, Texas.She writes that “Richard and Iare doing well in our pursuit for naturalgas at our company. We have threechildren, Kathleen (9), Allison (6),and John (2). Sara is now a freshmanat Tulane University. Hope to see youat the conventions, we don’t miss any.”Michelle can be reached at [email protected].

Leslie A. Dedeke, Jr. (B.S., 1955)writes “I’m retired and living in NewBraunfels–‘The Beauty Spot of Texas.’”

Carlos H. Deere (B.S., 1950) isretired and living in Bellville, Texas,and writes, “I’m being rejected so muchby Hollywood that I’m about ready toholler uncle. But, if I can get a womangeologist to be a nightclub stripperwithout her boyfriend finding out, I’llbe heading out West in style. That’s if amother lode earthquake doesn’t hit first.”

Charles J. DeLancey (B.S., 1940;M.A., 1942) is retired and living inHouston, Texas, and reports, “definitely

feel my good years have gone by and nowwe stay home more and more. But am sothankful for our many years of travel.”

Johanna Devereaux (M.A.,1998) works with the Texas NaturalResource Conservation Commissionin Austin, Texas, and can be reachedat [email protected].

James E. “Jim” Dobkins, Jr.(M.A., 1968) is a Computing Supervisorin Kingwood, Texas, and writes, “I amretiring after 34 years with ExxonMobilExploration this June. However, the timein Tahiti with Bob Folk studying beachand river pebbles seems like yesterday!”

John D. Doehring, Jr. (B.A., 1981;B.S., 1982) is President of InspironDynamics Consulting Group, LLC, inCharlotte, North Carolina, and reports,“working hard to make new business(sales effectiveness consulting/training)successful. Wife Megan expectingat end of June, our first. EnjoyingCharlotte in the spring, but missTexas, too.” John can be reachedat [email protected].

George Donnelly (B.S., 1940)lives in Midland, Texas, and writes, “stillchecking deals, hoping for the elephant.”Mr. Donnelly is a member of theGeology Foundation Advisory Council.

Gene C. Doty (B.S., 1954) is aretired hydrologist living in Las Vegas,Nevada, and reports, “Mopsy and I arestill plugging along, and the grandkidsare still growing like weeds. Our bestto one and all.”

Larry Doyle (B.S., 1950) is thePresident of HydroGeology Internationalin San Antonio, Texas, and lets us know“doing research in geomorphology whilewaiting for the start of a new contractwith the Air Force advising on environ-mental cleanup matters. Giovanna and

Field camp (GEO 660), summer 1993.Photo provided by Colby Drechsel.


I still plan to return to foreign work–our ‘natural habitat.’”

Robert E. Doyle (B.S., 1955) isthe President of American EnergyInvestment Group in Houston, Texas,and can be reached at [email protected]. He reports, “We are nowinvolved in drilling horizontal wells inRussia and U.S. Most of the drilling isin existing fields involving lower risk–which is quite a change for the oil andgas business. Send me an e-mail.”

Colby Drechsel (B.S., 1994) is livingin Wyoming and writes, “Hi everyone,still alive and well! Staying activelyemployed with engineering/consultingcompany work on turning a refineryinto a golf course. Still climbing, ridinga new bike and can’t sit still as usual.Hope you like the picture I sent, takenduring GEO 660 in summer, 1993. Whatis everyone in this picture doing thesedays? 10 years, surely you havesomething to tell us!” Colby can bereached at [email protected].

Ralph C. Duchin (M.A., 1955) isan independent geologist in Tucson,Arizona, and writes, “nearly 12 yearsin Arizona and still love it. Still visitHouston 5-6 times a year for oilbusiness activity.”

Philip Duggan (B.S., 1982) writesto let us know “I’m not dead yet.”

Don Dunbar, Jr. (B.S., 1951), ageneral partner at Dunbar Oil and GasLP in Corsicana, Texas, reports: “Familylimited partnership is new this year.New granddaughter in Lafayette. David’sB.S./Geophysics due in May at UT. Donthe third is with Arcadis in Houston–he was awarded BSA Silver Beaver lastspring. Smackover chicken soup inWayne County, Mississippi, and Wolf-camp in Permian Basin are new for us.”Don can be reached at [email protected].

David E. Dunn (Ph.D., 1964)is retired and living in Richardson,Texas. He can be reached at [email protected]. He let us know that “aftera decade of service as Treasurer, I haveretired from active management at GSA,but I am joining the Board of Trusteesof the GSA Foundation. Joining me as arookie Trustee is Bill Muehlberger!Should be fun.”

William R. Dupré (B.S., 1968;M.A., 1970) is an Associate Professor inthe Department of Geosciences at theUniversity of Houston in Houston, Texas,and reports, “Our youngest son, Phillip,graduated from UT this spring, joininghis brother, mom, and dad as alums.Elaine is still teaching second gradeand counting the years (2?) until shecan retire. I’m still teaching at U of H,where the good days outnumber thebad.” William can be reached [email protected].

Steve Dworkin (Ph.D., 1991) is aProfessor at Baylor University in Waco,Texas. He writes, “Acceptance of theconcept of ‘self organization’ begetsacceptance that the genesis of all geo-logic features has now been satisfactorilyexplained. My reluctant acceptance ofself organization has therefore inevitablyled me to the sad conclusion that theanswer to the question, ‘what thenremains to be studied?’, is ‘nothing’.”

Fred A. Ealand (B.S., 1948) isretired and living in Houston, Texas,and lets us know “life is good! Twograndchildren have graduated fromcollege, one is a freshman at Vanderbilt,and six more are not far behind! My wifeand I are in reasonably good health. Whatmore could one want?” Fred can bereached at [email protected].

Roy E. “Ernie” Easley (B.S.,1980) is the Vice President of Hunt OilCompany in U.S. Offshore Explorationin Dallas, Texas, and can be reachedat [email protected].

Laura Elliott (M.A., 1985) is aSenior Geoscience Consultant withInternational Reservoir Technologies,Inc., in Lakewood, Colorado, and can bereached at [email protected].

Patricia Mench Ellis (Ph.D.,1985) is a hydrologist with the DelawareDepartment of Natural Resources andEnvironmental Control in Newark,Delaware, and writes, “I’ve been ahydrologist with the Delaware Under-ground Storage Tank Program for12 years, during which I have beenresponsible for the investigation andremediation of more than 500 leakingUST sites. I’m still active in the crusadeto get the additive MTBE out of gasoline.It’s been almost three years since theEPA Blue Ribbon Panel that I served onrecommended the elimination of MTBE,and we’re still waiting for eitherCongress or the EPA to get rid of it.At least the Senate finally looks likethey might act on it this year. Delawarehas had between 20 and 25 percent ofits public wells contaminated at leastslightly by it, and more than 50 domes-tic wells. I’m still serving on EPA,ASTSWMO, and ITRC workgroupsdealing with MTBE and making therounds on the lecture circuit at variousmeetings, including the keynote addressat an NGWA MTBE conference last year.I also co-edit a quarterly newsletter onMTBE, and serve as a technical advisorand some-time author of the newsletterLUSTLine.

In my ‘free’ time, I share chauf-feuring duties with my husband forJohn and Katie for karate classes, guitarlessons, assorted cross country, lacrosse,field hockey, wrestling, and tennisevents, school musical rehearsals, etc.Katie will be a high school senior inthe fall, and is currently trying to pickcolleges that will put her parents inthe poorhouse (does anything cost lessthan $35,000 a year?). John will be ahigh school freshman next year. Hegrew more than six inches last year,


which has improved his award-winningcross-country stride. I’ll add to mysummer chauffeuring by hauling himto assorted 5K races in the area. In my‘personal’ free time, I read mysteriesand make quilts.” Patricia can bereached at [email protected].

Joe Elo (B.S., 1956) is a retiredindependent geologist living in FortWorth, Texas. He let us know “I reallyenjoy reading about the wonderfulprogress that Earth Science is taking atthe University. Exes notes are fun too!”

Rojelio P. Espinosa (B.S., 1985) isa Senior Explorationist with EEX Onshorein San Antonio, Texas. He can be reachedat [email protected]. He writes,“My wife Allison and I are expecting ourthird child in September. Big brothersJonathan (3½) and Nicolas (18 months)are as excited as we are!”

David A. Evans (B.S., 1988)is Division Manager of PetroleumServices at ATC Associates in Boston,Massachusetts. He writes, “new year,new place to call home. Moved fromIdaho to New Hampshire through a jobrelocation. Have been working for ATCAssociates for five years as an environ-mental consultant. I never thoughtI’d call New England home but do enjoythe four seasons and mild summers.I’ve lost touch with all former UTclassmates, so would really enjoy ane-mail. Linda (A&M, 1983) and I havebeen married 10 years, and Stuart isnow 6. Time does move quickly. Lovinglife, enjoying work and miss Austin.”David can be reached at [email protected].

Thomas E. Fanning (B.S., 1956),formerly a Vice President of Interna-tional Exploration with Marathon OilCompany, is retired and living in Austin,Texas. He writes, “still enjoying servingon the Geology Foundation Advisory

Council. Thanks to Jack Jackson’swonderful gift, this has been a verymemorable year.” Tom is pastChairman of the Geology FoundationAdvisory Council.

Dorman N. Farmer (B.S., 1950)is a geologist and owner of FargoExploration Company in Abilene, Texas.He writes, “continuing to maintain myoffice and still looking for explorationpossibilities.”

Irma Morgan Feibelman(B.S., 1959) is retired and living inCanyon Lake, Texas, and can bereached at [email protected].

Murray Felsher (Ph.D., 1971)is a consultant and publisher inGermantown, Maryland, and reportsthat he’s “still undertaking consultingactivities related to satellite remotesensing of the earth, for governmentagencies and aerospace companies,as well as publishing WashingtonRemote Sensing Letter.” Murraycan be reached at [email protected].

Peter B. Fisher (B.S., 1990) isSenior Technical Coordinator withthe Texas Railroad Commission inAustin, Texas, working in the statefunded cleanups of abandoned oiland gas operations.

Walter M. “Dub” Fitzgerald(B.S., 1953), formerly a geologist forTemple Inland, is retired and living inLufkin, Texas, and writes, “still enjoyingretirement–golf and hunting arethings of the past since turning 82last November.”

Cindy Fong (B.S., 1988) is livingin Hilo, Hawaii, and writes, “Aloha all,enjoying the tropics with my familyand photographing. Been active expos-ing young kids (preschool to 5th grade)to rocks and minerals and helping

my volcanologist buddies videotape/photograph the active lava flows whentime permits. Gotten really fun oppor-tunities to helicopter (without doors)over the Pu’u O’o vent (Kiluaea volcano)and land on the Pali next to some veryhot and fast moving lava flows–trulyawesome, words do little justice tothe experience. If any of my collegeclassmates are out here, e-mail me andlet’s see if we can get together.” Cindycan be reached at [email protected].

Thomas F. Foster (B.S., 1984)is a geosteering engineer workingin Trinidad and can be reached [email protected]. He writes,“In 1998, we relocated in Corpus Christi,Texas. The oldest son, Robbie, finisheshigh school this year and is off to collegein September. The youngest son, Justin,starts high school this fall and is doingvery well. Sherry and I just returnedfrom Las Vegas, where we celebrated20 years of marriage. Hope all is well.”

Jesse Charles Fowler (B.S., 1974) is a partner with Northwind Explorationin Houston, Texas, and can be reachedat [email protected].

Hewitt B. Fox (B.A., 1947; B.S.,1948; M.A., 1948) is the president andowner of Hewitt B. Fox, Inc., in CorpusChristi, Texas, and writes, “After eightyears of getting acquainted with someof the most complicated geology in thispart of the world, I have been fortunateto locate several drillable prospects inUtah and Nevada while continuing tooperate a few ancient properties inSouth Texas.” Hewitt can be reachedat [email protected].

Curtis C. Franks (B.S., 1950) isretired and living in Fair Oaks Ranch,Texas, has an e-mail of [email protected],and writes, “my space has changedvery little but the world around me hasgone berserk. Dealing with a few logs


and contours keeps me sane. A fewrocks in the head never hurt anybody.”

Abelardo Garza-Hernandez(B.S., 1975) is a consultant in Mexicoand can be reached at [email protected].

Henry B. Gayle (B.A, 1958;M.A., 1958) is retired and living in SanAntonio, Texas. He writes, “Margee andI are enjoying retirement, gardening,traveling, and watching our grand-children grow. We took a five-weektour of China–13 cities from Beijingto Hong Kong. We were in Hong Kongon 9/11 so wound up with fiveunplanned extra days.” Henry can bereached at [email protected].

Thurman Geddie (B.S., 1945) isa petroleum geologist living in Austin,Texas, and has an e-mail address [email protected]. He lets us know “aliveand well, still drilling for oil and gas.”

Christianne “Christi” Gell(B.S., 1996) is the Business DevelopmentManager for Magic Earth for Landmark’sAsia Pacific organization in KualaLumpur, Malaysia, and writes, “Charlieand I moved to Kuala Lumpur at theend of April. Charlie is now the SystemGeneral Manager for Data Managementwithin Asia Pacific. Please drop us ane-mail if you are ever in Asia!” Christican be reached at [email protected].

Steven J. Germiat (M.A., 1988)is a hydrogeologist with Aspect Con-sulting LLC on Bainbridge Island,Washington, has an e-mail addressof [email protected] reports, “After 13 years at myprevious firm, I joined Aspect Consultingeffective 1/1/02. On the home front,our family remains healthy, and ourdaughters, Hannah (8) and Emily (5),continue to grow.”

Fred M. Gibson (B.A., 1951) isliving in Austin, Texas, and writes, “stillsemi-retired and doing statistical work.”

Paul Giraudin, Jr. (B.S., 1948)is retired and living in Corpus Christi,Texas, and writes, “no special news,just glad to be here.” Paul can bereached at [email protected].

Charles A. Goebel (B.S., 1980) isthe President and CEO of Santa RitaEnergy Services in Plano, Texas, andlet us know “after years with a majortraveling and working E & P opportuni-ties worldwide, I am running my owncompany, Santa Rita Energy Services(www.santaritaenergy.com), an inte-grated services company. Still learning,technical and business wise, that’s a goodthing. Still based in Plano, travelinga fair bit, including to the fair city ofAustin. Friends, fellow alums, potentialbusiness partners, please contact usvia our website.”

L. K. “Rusty” Goetz (M.A., 1977)is a Senior Geological Explorationist inDevelopment Ventures at Conoco inHouston, Texas, and writes, “enjoyedseeing a lot of the gang at the HoustonAAPG. Still traveling a lot both domesti-cally and internationally. We are allwaiting with bated breath to see howthe ConocoPhillips merger works out.”Rusty can be reached at [email protected].

Eugene M. Goltz (B.S., 1949) isan independent geologist in Abilene,Texas, and asks that “when in the areaplease call just for ‘old’ times’ sake.I still work the West Central Texasarea and enjoy seeing UT ex-studentsat our geological meetings.”

W. Leonard Goode (B.A., 1953)is a consulting geologist in Midland,Texas, and lets us know that “all iswell in West Texas.”

Ian Gordon (M.A., 1997) is aProduction Specialist with HewittAssociates in Lincolnshire, Illinois,and can be reached at [email protected].

Mark B. Gordon (Ph.D., 1990) isa Depth Imager with GX Technology inHouston, Texas, has an e-mail addressof [email protected], and writes,“I continue to work for GX Technologyin Houston doing seismic processing.I grabbed a chance to take a vacationto Guatemala to attend a conferenceon the Motagua fault in January. It wasgreat to get back to my geological rootsand the research I did at UT and Rice.I also spent part of the year workingwith Paul Mann and Lisa Gahagan(UTIG) on giant oil fields.”

Peggy Gormley (B.A., 1946) isretired and living in Dallas, Texas,and reports that she “just got backfrom a ‘flying Longhorn’ great trip toNormandy. Three geologists were inthe group. We made it to the top ofMont Saint Michel, the abbey on agranite island off the coast.” Peggy canbe reached at [email protected].

Volker C. Grasso (B.S., 1949) isretired and living in Oklahoma City,Oklahoma, and writes, “nothing newto report. Just getting older which,I suppose, is better than the alternative.”

C. D. “Digger” Gray (B.S., 1957)is retired and living in Kerrville, Texas,and writes, “looking forward to an openhouse perhaps when the new JacksonGeosciences Center is completed.What an endowment he gifted toan already great school of geology/geophysics, perhaps even the best!”

Will Green (M.A., 1955) is anindependent geologist in Midland,Texas, and writes, “Have a gas prospectin New Mexico and looking for partners.


Play a lot of tennis during the warmmonths and ski in the winter. Nowserving as President of the Board ofDirectors of Midland College.”

Steve Grimes (Ph.D., 1999) is aPost Doctoral Fellow in the Departmentof Earth Sciences at the MemorialUniversity of Newfoundland in St. John’s,Newfoundland, Canada, and writes,“I’m working on Archean tectonicsof West Greenland and soaking up thatNewfoundland ambience and scenery.Sure, sometimes the weather suckshere–like it doesn’t in Houston?Drop me a line, or better yet, comeup for a visit!” Steve can be reachedat [email protected].

Paul R. Gucwa (M.A., 1971; Ph.D.,1974) is the President of Texas 3 StarEnergy Investment, LLC in Houston,Texas, and lets us know he’s “enjoyingsemi-retirement. Children in school inCalifornia and Connecticut, so I get to do a lot of traveling.” He can bereached at [email protected]. Dr. Gucwais a member of the Geology FoundationAdvisory Council.

Roy H. Guess (B.A., 1939; M.A.,1940) is a consulting geologist in Casper,Wyoming. Roy can be e-mailed [email protected] and writes, “At presentoil and gas prices and with the degreeof risk, it is difficult to get wildcat wellsdrilled, so I work with the stock market–especially fuel cell companies, i.e.,Ballard and Millennium.”

Albert Haertlein (B.S., 1978) is ageologist with the Kiva Energy Companyin Spring, Texas. He can be reachedat [email protected] and reports,“I recently visited the Geology Buildingduring Parents Weekend in the spring.It brought back great memories.Best wishes to all in the ’78 class.”

Rosamond A. Haertlein (B.A., 1947)is retired and living in Fredericksburg,

Texas, and writes, “still enjoyingFredericksburg. Adopted two dogsfrom the SPCA, that keeps us busy!”

C. Clyde Hamblin (B.S., 1950),formerly a petroleum landman, is retiredand living in Midland, Texas, and writes,“hang in despite ups and downs in priceof oil and exploration activity. Same wife,Martha, after 58 years–hope to hold ontwo more.”

James M. Hancock, Jr. (B.S., 1962)is a consulting petroleum geologist inStafford, Texas.

James Vincent Hardwick (B.S.,1940) is retired and living in Midland,Texas.

Jennifer Thompson Hare(B.S., 1986) is a Senior Geophysicistat Zonge Engineering and Research inTucson, Arizona. She can be reachedat [email protected].

Robert W. Hare (B.S., 1979) is ageologist at Producers Service Companyin Fort Worth, Texas.

Louis H. Haring, Jr. (B.S., 1938)is the President of Haring EnergyCompany in San Antonio, Texas, andwrites, “participating in a few drillingdeals but mainly enjoying relaxingwith my family and friends.”

Wiley B. Harle (B.S., 1950) isretired and living in Houston, Texas, andreports, “retired since 1985 and am stillwondering how I ever had time to work.”

Karen (B.A., 1970) and RussellHarmon (B.A., 1969) are living inRaleigh, North Carolina. Karen is ahydrogeologist with the State of NorthCarolina, and Russell is a geologistwith the U.S. Army. They can bereached at [email protected] write, “We continue to enjoy life inthe piedmont region of North Carolina;

the boys (Jonathan and Brendan) havemade the transition to college thisyear, and Russ has just returned fromfieldwork in Panama where he ismapping the geology and geochemi-cally analyzing the Late Cretaceous–Early Tertiary igneous rocks of theChagres River Basin.”

Edward F. Haye (B.S., 1951) isthe President of Benchmark Explorationin Houston, Texas, and writes, “enjoyedNational Association of Metal FinishersConvention in Cancun March 2–7(son-in-law is President), followedby AAPG in Houston, March 10–12.”

James H. Helland (B.S., 1943) is thePresident of Inland Ocean, Inc., in SanAntonio, Texas, and reports, “Low gas andoil prices are killing us. Two-and-threeyear payouts on wells are not attractive.”

Larry R. Hensarling (B.S., 1956)is retired and living in San Antonio,Texas, and writes, “enjoying retirement.Glad to hear the good financial newsconcerning the future of the Depart-ment.” Larry is a former member ofthe Geology Foundation Advisory Council.

Rev. Reid Hensarling (M.A., 1981)is the Rector at the Church of theRedeemer Episcopal in Cordova,Tennessee, and offers “congratulationsto the University of Texas Departmentof Geological Sciences, the Bureau ofEconomic Geology, and the Institutefor Geophysics. So many wonderfuland exciting new developments havetaken place in the last year!”

Charles W. Henslee (B.S., 1951)is retired and living in Houston, Texas,and lets us know “the oldest of 8grandchildren (Christina) graduatedfrom A&M in 2001 with a degree inGeology and is employed by an environ-mental company. I had melanomasremoved from my ear and lung inJuly 2001 and am in an experimental


immunization program and doing fine–started playing golf again in September.”

Harold T. Henslee (B.S., 1950) isan independent geologist in Amarillo,Texas, and reports that he is “semi-retired. Still attend football gamesin Austin. Enjoy visiting. Trying togenerate a few good oil and gas pros-pects. Have 6 grandchildren to enjoy.”

Jon Herwig (M.A., 1982) is the VicePresident of Amec Earth and Environ-mental in Honolulu, Hawaii, and reports,“The islands are still great but spendinga lot of time in Korea and Japan sellingand doing environmental services. Canread Korean and speak a little Japanese,still working on speaking Korean andreading Japanese. Annyonghaseyo,Konnichiwa, and Aloha to all.” Joncan be reached at [email protected].

Charles H. Hightower, Jr. (B.S.,1956) is an independent petroleumgeologist in Lafayette, Louisiana.

Jeffrey D. Hildebrand (B.S.,1981; M.S., 1985) is the Presidentof Hilcorp Energy Company inHouston, Texas. Jeffrey can bereached at [email protected].

David M. Hirsch (Ph.D., 2000) isan Assistant Professor at WesternWashington University in Bellingham,Washington. He can be e-mailedat [email protected].

Nolan Hirsch (B.S., 1944) is retiredand living in Midland, Texas, and writes,“I say retired, but maintain an office andcontinue to participate in deals, etc., butat a much slower pace. Feel okay, Sue isstill battling cancer and is a real fighter.”

Dave Hixon (M.A., 1959) is a semi-retired consultant in Friendswood, Texas,has an e-mail address of [email protected], and reports, “My wife died in

1999, remarried Elfie S. Hixon. I servedas a ‘helper’ at the AAPG Conventionin Houston (Spring 2002).”

Carroll Ann Hodges (B.A., 1958)is a Town Councilman in Woodside,California, and writes, “A challengingre-election campaign last fall returnedme (gratifyingly!) to Town Council,though happily I have passed on theMayor’s gavel. Controversies overdevelopment and growth never end,but at least we still have horses–andI have a new one who is the smartest,most loveable equine on the wholeplanet! My previous horse died, alas,while I was on a fantastic traveladventure in Namibia last spring–incredible country scenically,geologically, and biologically–highly recommended!” Carroll canbe reached at [email protected].

Paul F. Hoffman (B.S., 1975) isExecutive Vice President of Duncan Oil,Inc., in Houston, Texas, has an e-mailaddress of [email protected],and writes that he is “wrapping up aneventful year as President of HoustonGeological Society. Am still impressed byhow often that truly impressive geologistsI meet turn out to be UT alumni. It’sbeen fun working with so many of themin our E&P activities and in HGS effortsthrough the years. Exploration remainsa challenge, but still offers more thanenough fun to hold my interest.”

David S. “Scotty” Holland (B.S.,1957) is retired and living in Houston,Texas, and has an e-mail address [email protected]. He reports,“retired from PZL 12 years ago. Stillactive as Chairman of Trend ExplorationCompany UCI and many other volunteeractivities. Bird hunting and fishingbecome more important each day!”Mr. Holland is a member of theGeology Foundation Advisory Council.

Edward Hooper (B.S., 1982) isliving in Oxford, United Kingdom, andwrites, “I am currently in the middleof a year off to spend time with ouryoung family (Austin, 3; Jasmine, 6).We are in the UK, but will return toPerth in October.”

Eleanor M. “Ellie” Hoover(B.S., 1952; B.S., 1956) is a consultantin Conroe, Texas, and reports, “plan onchecking out the AAPG and OTC this yearin the Oil Capital of the World. Alwayslook forward to and enjoy the Newsletter.Completed another year with EmergencyService District. Firefighters and medicalresponders are a very energetic andmuch-appreciated group.”

Carlton W. Hornbeck (B.S., 1953)is an independent petroleum geologistin Round Rock, Texas, with an e-mail [email protected] and writes “still workingon new prospects. Would like to invitegeologists and petroleum engineers inthe Austin area to check out the localS.I.P.E.S. group. Several Texas Exes aremembers, and it is an active group.”

G. B. “Bill” Howard, IV (B.S.,1982) is the President of Flare Re-sources, Inc., in Houston, Texas, andhas an e-mail address of [email protected].

Ed W. Hughston (M.A., 1950) isan independent petroleum geologist inTaos, New Mexico. Ed can be reachedat [email protected] and writes,“continuing to be active in Gulf Coastand other exploration projects. Leftthe big cities’ heat 23 years ago, inexchange for the cool mountains.”

Emmett A. Humble (B.A., 1949;M.A., 1951) is retired, living in Houston,Texas, and reports he “still enjoys thefrontier areas of the world but spendmost of my time sitting in front of a‘half-smart’ computer and workingwith community service organizations.”


Emmett can be reached at [email protected].

Elvin M. Hurlbut, Jr. (B.S., 1943)is retired and living in Tyler, Texas, andwrites, “Congratulations, Jim Wilson,on winning the Sidney Powers Medal. Yousurely deserve it. Virginia and Iand the cat are still functioning. I wasgratified to read that a Marine consideredmy Army division’s (77th) World War IIwar effort better than the U.S. Marines’.”

Jim Immitt (M.A., 1981) is aController with Advanced Microdevicesin Austin, Texas, and writes, “Pam,Angela (7), Adrian (10), and I (I’m nottelling!) continue to enjoy Austin. We’reinvolved in scouting and have had theopportunity to help the Scouts learnabout and see some geology in thearea on our campouts. Look us upwhen you visit.” Jim can be reachedat [email protected].

James R. Jackson (M.A., 1969) isthe President of Trace Oil and Gas inBaytown, Texas, and writes, “just working3-Ds in the Gulf Coast.” James can bereached at [email protected].

James R. Jackson, Jr. (M.A., 1940),formerly of Exxon, is retired and livingin Houston, Texas, and reports, “like anold ’57 Chevy, still running but not veryfast, need lots of maintenance, repairs,and upkeep; but still going. Lots of oldfriends moving on to a better lifewithout war, taxes, or politicians.”

Russell W. Jackson (B.S., 1976)is employed by Tyler Oil and Gas, Inc.,in Tyler, Texas. He can be reached [email protected] and writes,“a rather short boom in 2001. Looks likethings are coming back around. Enjoyedseeing lots of Exes at the Prospect Expo.”

S. Lance Jackson (B.S., 1979) isthe Director of Offshore Exploration withthe J. M. Huber Corporation in Houston,

Texas, and lets us know “2001 wasanother great year and we started 2002with a discovery offshore. My oldestdaughter graduated from UT inDecember of 2001, I only have 4more to go.” Lance can be reachedat [email protected].

Otis L. James, Jr. (M.A., 1952) isself-employed in Gainesville, Texas,and lets us know that there have beenno changes since his last report.

Jim Janssen (B.S., 1979) is ageologist with Walter Oil and Gas inHouston, Texas, and writes, “anothergreat year but no big news in theJanssen family.”

Kenneth L. Jarratt (B.S., 1957)is the owner of Jarratt Reality in Edna,Texas, and reports, “still in real estate.Now have son John on board so I canfish and hunt more. Went to seeD. K. Royal at UT Exes meeting inVictoria, sure did enjoy his comments.”

Borden Jenkins (B.S., 1978) isan independent petroleum geologist inCorpus Christi, Texas, and writes, “I triedthis year to get my daughter to go to UTand study geology. She ended up going toCollege Station and studying journalism.Oh well, with the oil business in aslump again, maybe it’s not a bad idea.”

Gaston P. Jennett (B.S., 1975)is a Systems Effectiveness Managerof Advanced Programs with RaytheonMissile Systems in Tucson, Arizona.Gaston can be reached at [email protected].

Leslie “Les” Jeske (B.S., 1984) is ahydrogeologist with ETTL Engineers andConsultants, Inc., in Tyler, Texas, has ane-mail address of [email protected],and writes, “kids are growing up fast.Abbey (10), Walker (9), Martha (6),and Ginnie (3) and Wendy and I areenjoying every minute. Environmental

consulting business continues toprosper in northeast Texas.”

Charles B. John (B.S., 1951) isa geologist with the Bureau of LandManagement in Tulsa, Oklahoma, andwrites, “I am in my sixth post-docyear at BLM, working principally inthe frontal and central thrust belts ofthe Ouachita Mountains of southeastOklahoma. Norma and I are in our56th year of marriage. I thank Godfor his blessings.”

Charles G. Johnson (B.S., 1983)is a geologist with McGowan WorkingPartners, Inc., in Jackson, Mississippi,has an e-mail address of [email protected], and writes, “buying productionin Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippiand managing to keep up with decline.Hardly seems like twenty years sinceGeo days at UT. All four kids arehealthy and growing fast.”

Gene Funkhouser Keyser Jones(B.S., 1948) is living in Midland, Texas,and has sad news to report: “On April 15,2002, my husband, Phil, died after ahard-fought battle with throat cancer.It is a little early to tell what this yearwill hold, but I plan to stay right herein Midland, watching what new unfoldsindustry-wise, world-wise, and person-ally. My best to all.”

J. Phil Jones (B.S., 1964) is aland consultant with Devon Energy inOklahoma City, Oklahoma, and reportsthat he is “watching grandchildrengrow. The domestic energy businesscontinually becomes more complexand muddled which, of course, meansmore work for attorneys and accountants.Regards to all.” He can be reached [email protected].

James A. Kalinec (B.S., 1982)is a Senior Development Geologistwith ChevronTexaco in New Orleans,


Louisiana, and writes,“I’ve been back inNew Orleans since 1997 and still enjoydrilling wells in Bay Marchand, one ofthe oldest oil fields in the Gulf of Mexico.At home Linda and I have been stayingbusy keeping up with our 7-year-olddaughter, Katherine. Howdy to all myold friends from the ’82-’83 graduatingclasses!” James can be reached [email protected].

Edwin N. Kasper, Jr. (B.S., 1951)is retired and living in Houston, Texas,and writes, “Austin was beautiful inmid-April when I came to visit theAustin Radio Control Association’sWar-Bird fly-in. B.B. Weber broughthis B-29 Enola Gay, and I flew co-pilot.Luckily we took back to Houston theaward for the best World War II aircraftat the show. Retirement is fun!”

Steven G. Katz (Ph.D., 1975) isManaging Partner at G. Liebermanand Sons, Ltd., in Granville, Ohio, andreports, “Connie and I continue to enjoylife in Granville, Ohio. Made two tripsto Australia in the last 12 months–fantastic geology, flora, and fauna!Regards to all at UT.” Steven canbe reached at [email protected].

Daniel N. Keeler (B.S., 1980) isliving in Midland, Texas, and writes,“I plan to graduate from The Universityof Texas, Permian Basin with a B.S. incomputer science in May, 2002. Andreaand I will probably relocate fromMidland over the summer.”

Ed R. Kennedy, Jr. (B.S., 1948;M.A., 1949) is a consulting geologist inMidland, Texas, and reports, “workingshorter hours, but still enjoy working.Still concentrate on the Delaware Basin.”

Don Kerr, Jr. (B.S., 1960) is withKerr Construction Services in Houston,Texas.

Denise Harrington Ketcham(M.A., 1994) is a multimedia program-mer at the Center for InstructionalTechnologies at UT-Austin and can bereached at [email protected].

Marcus Key (B.S., 1983) is anAssociate Professor at Dickinson Collegein Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and writes,“I am busy with my wife and four kids,teaching paleo., sed., strat., andresearching bryozoan evolution witha field course in the Galapagos.” Hecan be reached at [email protected].

Howard W. Kiatta (B.S., 1958) is anindependent geologist in Houston, Texas.

Robert J. Killian (B.A., 1977) isan exploration geologist with Alcorn-Texas and Texana Resources in Houston,Texas, and reports, “still working GulfCoast and East Texas; lost my wifeSuzanne of 17 years to colon cancerlast May; raising 9- and 12-year-oldskeeps me busy.” Robert can be reachedat [email protected].

David L. Kirchner (B.S., 1973)is President of Basin and RangeHydrogeologists, Inc., in Phoenix,Arizona, and reports, “I am healthyand happy living in Phoenix, Arizona,with my wife Kathy (retired geologist)and our two sons, Kory (11) and Kody(9). I am quite active and busy withmy environmental consulting firm,which I founded in 1987. The firmprovides hydrogeological site charac-terization, environmental permitting,soil and groundwater remediation,and litigation support services to itsprivate-sector clients. Most of myprojects are located within the greatstate of Arizona.

I have been enjoying my personaltime managing/coaching my sonKody’s Little League Baseball team andparticipating in numerous Cub Scoutactivities. Kathy spends most of her

time being a fine and responsiblemother, helping at the neighborhoodschool, playing tennis, gardening,and raising funds for the Orme Schoolnear Mayer, Arizona.

If you ever make it to Phoenix,please stop and say hello to the Kirchnerfamily. They have room for you, yourkids, and their horse(s). I am proudto have attended the best geosciencesschool in the nation, and I am hopefulit will continue to grow and prosper.”David can be reached at [email protected].

Don L. Kirksey (B.S., 1960) isin waste management consulting inOklahoma City, Oklahoma, and writes,“We spent a lot of time last year in ourtravel trailer in Oklahoma state parks,enjoying nature, but also working on anew course for those who wish to changecareers. In June, we will offer trainingin waste management consulting. Mychange from exploration geology, after30 years, to waste management has beenenjoyable. One field was slowing downin 1988 while the other was taking off.My wife, B.J., and I have a good thinggoing, being married, and sharing skillsthat made our career change successful.Also, we sure enjoy our three grandkids.”

Glenn Klimchuk (M.A., 1993) isthe Director of Oil and Gas BusinessConsulting with Andersen in Moscowand writes, “I’m a director in Andersen’sbusiness consulting practice here inMoscow helping Russian oil companiesrestructure themselves and implementwestern business practices.” Glenn canbe reached at [email protected].

Lis Konnecke (M.S., 1977) is aSenior Geophysicist for WesternGecoin Austin, Texas.

Erwin K. Krause (B.S., 1949; M.A.,1954) is retired and living in Houston,


Texas, and reports, “still cruising andlooking for new places to visit–so manyplaces, so little time. A grandson joinedthe five granddaughters last year.”

Karen Carter Krogh (M.A., 1985;Ph.D., 1990) is a stay-at-home mom inApex, North Carolina, and writes, “raisinga beautiful soul. Stop by when you’re inthe area!” Karen can be reached [email protected].

J. Scott Kuykendall (B.A., 1975)is a Project Manager with EngineeringConsulting Services, Ltd. in San Antonio,Texas, and can be e-mailed [email protected].

Ted Lacaff (B.S., 1950) is livingin Santa Fe, New Mexico, and writes,“Great Newsletter! However, it ismissing a lot of grads from the classesof ’49, ’50, and ’51! Either they’re NOTgetting their mail, NOT able to open theirmail, can’t SEE to read their mail, don’tKNOW where their mailbox is, OR simplydon’t want the rest of us to know whatthey are up to (which we probablydon’t want to know?), BUT, whateverthe reason is, get someone to help yourespond because the rest of us would liketo know about you! ME: I’m having thetime of my life with my wife of 50 years,in Santa Fe and enjoying watching the’Horns get to the Final Four.”

George Laguros (M.A., 1987), ageophysicist with Marathon Oil Companyin Houston, Texas, may be reached [email protected]. He writesthat he’s “working the production side ofthe business in the Gulf of Mexico withMarathon in Houston. Virginia, Michael(12), and Daniel (9) are doing well.”

James L. Lamb, Jr. (B.S., 1956)is an oil and gas producer in Austin,Texas, and has an e-mail address [email protected].

David M. Levin (B.A., 1978) is theowner and President of Power Petroleumin San Antonio, Texas, and writes, “PowerPetroleum is busy drilling explorationand development wells in lower SouthTexas on 3-D programs it shot andacquired over the last year. In Memo-riam: Max Levin, M.S. geology, 1951;died June, 2001.” David can bereached at [email protected].

Paul S. Lewis (M.A., 1978) isliving in Austin, Texas, and writes tosay “I enjoy reading the Newsletter.”

Walter S. Light, Jr. (B.S., 1977) isthe President of Thunder Exploration,Inc., in Houston, Texas, and reports“presently working up Wilcox, Frio,Yegua prospects using 3-D data sets.” Hecan be reached at wthunderx@ aol.com.

Tim Lignoul (B.S., 1982) anenvironmental attorney in LosAngeles, California, with an e-mail [email protected], writes, “I continueto use my training and experiencein geology on a daily basis.”

Tung-Hung Thomas Lin (M.A.,1984) is an advising geophysicist withUnocal Corporation in Houston, Texas,and can be reached at [email protected].

Eugene Lipstate (B.S., 1949) isretired and living in Lafayette, Louisiana,with an e-mail of [email protected], andreports, “just celebrated my 52nd weddinganniversary. First grandchild leavesfor college this fall. Looking forwardto the ’Horns 2002 football season.”

Nancy Elizabeth Green Lister(B.A., 1955) is a homemaker in Houston,Texas, and writes, “Ray is still workingfull time. We love being grandparents.Emily is almost three, and our newgrandson will come in March. Rayhunts and fishes, and we travel when-

Leon M. Lampert (B.S., 1951; M.A.,1953) is the owner of Lampert Explora-tion Corporation in Dallas, Texas, andlets us know he is “still exploring andoperating in South Texas, also buyingroyalties in Oklahoma and Texas. Was inFrance and Italy in summer 2001. Hopeto go to northern Europe in summer2002. Have 2 granddaughters in Dallasand 3 grandsons in Denver (ages 6 yearsto 1 month).

Richard Lanfear (B.S., 1981)is a geologist with Tri-C Resources inHouston, Texas, and can be reachedat [email protected].

J. Earle Lawless (B.S., 1951) is apetroleum consultant living in CorpusChristi, Texas, and lets us know thathe is “still in the game.”

Bill Layton (B.S., 1981) is apetroleum geologist in San Antonio,Texas, can be reached at [email protected], and writes, “still drilling alongthe Texas Gulf Coast with Burk RoyaltyCompany. Jessica is starting college inSeptember, and Jordan starts high school.K.C. and I are working hard and playinghard. Hi to all 660 (1981) buds…thephantom rules… e-mail me!”

Jöel Le Calvez (Ph.D., 2002) is ageologist with Schlumberger in CollegeStation, Texas, and can be reached [email protected].

H. Louis Lee (B.S., 1954; M.S.,1958) is a consulting geologist in Austin,Texas, and offers “Congratulations toKeith Young on getting the Fund for theCuration of Non-vertebrate Collectionsstarted. Now let’s all generously supportthis fund. Still enjoy exploring the GulfCoast for more reserves. 3D seismicand lots of subsurface geology can workwonders. It’s still fun.” He can bereached at [email protected].


ever possible.” Nancy can be reachedat [email protected].

Erwin R. “E. R.” Lochte, Jr.(B.S., 1956) is a petroleum geologistin San Antonio, Texas, and reports,“enjoying the semi-retired life andspending lots of time at our HillCountry ranch.”

Allen C. Locklin (B.S., 1954) is anindependent petroleum geologist in Tyler,Texas, and writes, “I’m still involved inexploration but to a lesser degree. Nancy(Summers) and I will celebrate 48 yearsof marriage this summer. Moved myoffice to home in October, got everythingin one pile. Seem to spend lots of timeat funerals, being 72 it’s expected. Havetwo granddaughters at Texas Tech, anda third will be at UT next year. Enjoythe Newsletter.”

Susan Longacre (B.S., 1964; Ph.D.,1968) is a semi-retired independent rockreader in Houston, Texas, and lets usknow “although I will continue to beactive as a ChevronTexaco Fellow doingmentoring and making technologyvisits, I’m turning to buying/remodeling/building a new home in Kerrville. Kenand I will be unplugging from Houstonfor the next year or so; then we’ll makea new life in the Hill Country. Someconsulting anticipated–reading fizzyrocks.” Susan may be reached [email protected]. Longacre is a member of the GeologyFoundation Advisory Council.

Donald R. “Don” Longenecker(B.A., 1949) is living in Wilson, Wyoming.

Emily Lu (B.S., 2000) is anassociate geologist with ExxonMobilin Houston, Texas.

Lester E. Ludwick (B.S., 1950)is living in El Paso, Texas, and writes“enjoying retirement, keeping up with

’Horns sports activities, and UT news.”He can be reached at [email protected].

Robert Mace (Ph.D., 1998) is theAssistant Division Director for the TexasWater Development Board in Austin,Texas, and writes, “doing a heap ofgroundwater modeling for the Stateof Texas, restoring a ’58 Isetta, andremixing classic country.” Robert canbe reached at [email protected].

Frank Leroy Manville (B.A., 1955)is retired and living in Brownsville,Texas, and lets us know, “I retired frommy job at the County Engineers’ Office9 years ago, and I have done no worksince. I moved into a small apartmentand have lived in peace and quietsince then.”

Sabin W. Marshall (B.S., 1952),formerly of Texas Gas Transmission,is retired and living in Houston, Texas,and writes, “looking forward to the 50th

reunion of the Class of 1952 in Austin,April, 2002.”

Dave Martens (B.S., 1984) is theDirector of Geology at Unocal Thailand,has an e-mail address of [email protected], and reports, “My familyand I are still in Bangkok enjoyingevery minute. We have been here 9years now. Work keeps me busy with220 wells to be drilled in 2002.”

Owen Martin (B.A., 1990) is anInside Sales Manager with NexTec Groupin Houston, Texas, has an e-mail addressof [email protected], andreports “got out of the Navy a coupleof years ago. Just before getting out I gotto see Mount Etna erupting and passedwithin a couple of miles of Stromboli.Neat stuff for those of us who tookVulcanology. Currently I’m working forNexTec Group, a Longhorn owned andoperated consulting company. My focusis selling IT/Accounting solutions to

the energy and related industries inHouston.”

Christina Massell (M.A., 1997) isa Graduate Student at Scripps Institutionof Oceanography in La Jolla, California,and writes, “I am completing my Ph.D.at Scripps this spring and am pursuing aninterest in science policy.” Christina canbe reached at [email protected].

Robert L. McBroom, Sr. (B.A.,1951) is a consulting petroleum geologistin Wichita Falls, Texas, and writes, “stilllooking for oil in North Texas and writingan oil column for The Times and RecordNews newspaper in ‘The Falls.’” Robertcan be reached at [email protected].

Bill J. McGrew (B.S., 1954; M.A.,1955) is retired and living in Columbia,Tennessee, and lets us know that“things are quiet here. I plan to visitmy Texas friends this year.”

Wayne Eugene McIntosh(B.S., 1956) is a consultant in RioRancho, New Mexico, and writes,“doing quite a bit of consulting. Enjoythe work but the traveling is getting old.Son Scott and wife Nadine have a newboy, Peter Ross, who we hope willfollow his dad and grandpa to UT.Enjoy the Newsletter.” Wayne canbe reached at [email protected].

W. N. “Mac” McKinney, Jr.(B.A., 1960; M.A., 1963) is a consultantin Spring, Texas, has an e-mail addressof [email protected], andreports, “Well, I’ve finally moved backto God’s country just in time for theslump. I’m also finally getting royaltyfrom three wells. Hope to make it foursoon, if prices ever go up.”

Temple McKinnon (B.S., 1991)is a Research Specialist with the TexasWater Development Board in Austin,Texas, and can be reached [email protected].


Robert J. McLellan (B.S., 1949)is retired and living in Kerrville, Texas,and writes “beginning to feel like adinosaur. I don’t own a computer or acell phone–I don’t even own an SUV.”

Jerald E. McQueen (B.S., 1961;M.A., 1963) is a consultant in Kingwood,Texas, and lets us know that while therehave been no major changes with him,“it is wonderful that the Departmentand Foundation are striving to becomethe best geosciences school in thenation.” He can be reached at [email protected].

Asa D. McRae (B.S., 1942) is retiredand recently moved to Dallas, Texas.

Steve McVey (B.S., 1985) is a SeniorGeologist at PBS&J in Austin, Texas, andcan be reached at [email protected].

Joe N. Meadows (B.A., 1962) isan attorney in Woodway, Texas, canbe reached at [email protected],and writes, “trying to play more golfand scuba dive more. Thank goodnessI don’t dive as badly as I play golf.”

John A. Means (M.A., 1948) isretired and living in Richardson, Texas,and says that he is “going to morefunerals than I would like to. Waitingon good fishing weather. Al Candela,please call me at (972) 234-0168.”

Peter Megaw (B.A., 1976; M.A.,1979) is working for IMDEX, Inc.,in Tucson, Arizona.

Charles M. Merrill (B.S., 1956)is retired and living in Austin, Texas,can be reached at [email protected], and writes, “still enjoyingthe good retirement life in far SouthwestAustin. Enjoy reminiscing about theold summer field trip days when passingthrough the old ‘Central Mineral Region’and hiking the Big Bend country.”

Anne Smith Miller (B.A., 1983) is aProject Manager with the Texas NaturalResource Conservation Commission andreports, “Rocks continue to play anintegral part in our lives. Both sonsmanage to collect buckets of gravel intheir sneakers at the playground and areavid collectors of good skipping stones.”

Ginger Braswell Miller (B.S.,1987) is a homemaker in Englewood,Colorado, has an e-mail address [email protected], and lets us know“Bill and I welcomed the arrival ofnumber four, William, in August. I’mholding my head above water. At least wehave had a mild winter here in Denver.Looking forward to a pleasant summer.”

Michael Reed Miller (B.S., 1980)is an Environmental Geologist with CitySurvey in Austin, Texas, and writes,“This past year I have been working onnominating family property in Louisiana(Valverda Plantation) to the NationalRegister of Historical Places. Plan to‘retire’ from LPST program next yearand travel to Europe, Southeast Asia,

and meet family in the Philippines.Hi to Geology Dept. Scum alumni!”

Wayne D. Miller (M.A., 1957) is aconsulting geologist in Midland, Texas,and lets us know “staying busy withmy consulting business. Have gotteninvolved in the horizontal Devonianand Montoya drilling geologicalconsulting. Hope to get one of myprospects finally drilled this year.Wife, children, and grandkids areall doing great.”

Mike Moore (B.S., 1980) is the VicePresident of Esenjay Exploration, Inc. inCorpus Christi, Texas, and writes, “As thedust settles, scum always rises to the top.To all GDS members, I salute you!” Mikecan be reached at [email protected].

R. McKay Moore (B.A., 1952) isa consultant in Shreveport, Louisiana.

Charles Motz (B.S., 1960) is retiredand living in New Braunfels, Texas.

Todd J. Muelhoefer (B.S., 1991) isa Senior Project Geologist with Terraconin Wheat Ridge, Colorado, and can bereached at [email protected].

Harry W. Mueller, III (Ph.D.,1975) is a geologist with Saudi Aramcoin Dharan, Saudi Arabia, and can bereached at [email protected] writes, “I’m doing the same thingfor Aramco that I was doing for Exxon,but I’m five minutes from my office bybike. James (the oceanographer, 23) isin Navy Jet School. Kristen (19) ismajoring in philosophy, English, orcreative writing at Colorado StateUniversity. My fortune-telling walletsees many years of school ahead.”

James Gerhardt Muncey (B.S.,1981) is a Business Analyst and Con-sultant with ChevronTexaco in Houston,

Pat Murta from a Wal-Martcommercial in which he starred.Photo provided by Pat Murta.


Texas, and reports “having fun workingthe business of exploration in a strategicsourcing project for seismic services. Iam also helping my wife Susan run ourFredericksburg, Texas, bed and breakfastfrom Houston. Daughters Ali (7) andElizabeth (12) are more fun every day!”

Pat Murta (B.A., 1941) is retiredand living in Tulsa, Oklahoma, andwrites that he is “swimming about ¾miles a week. Feel pretty good for being82 in August 2002. Hard to believe howbig Austin, the University, and theGeology Department have gotten.”

G. Allan Nelson (B.S., 1947) is aconsultant in Denver, Colorado, andwrites that he is “in my 45th consecutiveyear as a consultant. Doing lots of well-sitting lately. Won’t be 80 until May.After 55 years the only other damnYankee in the famous 1947 class,John Osmond, is in my building.”

Dan Neuberger (M.A., 1987) isthe Owner of Neu Oil and Gas, L.L.C.in Corpus Christi, Texas, and writes“quit my job with Suemaur Explorationand started my own company.” Dan canbe reached at [email protected].

John Newcomb (M.A., 1971) isa staff geologist with Hunt PetroleumCorporation in Houston, Texas, andwrites, “Exploring for oil and gas on theGulf of Mexico shelf. Daughter Wendygraduated from Saint Thomas Universityand is working for WesternGecoGeophysical as a seismic data analystin Houston.” John can be reached [email protected].

Dalia Gonzalez Niederer (B.S.,1980), formerly of Mobil Oil, is retiredand reports, “My family, husband Arlo,daughter Rachel, and son Derek nowlive in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, skiing,hiking, and having fun.” She can bereached at [email protected].

Isaac W. Norman (B.S., 1948)is retired and living in Taylor, Texas.

John F. O’Donohoe (B.S., 1950)is President and CEO of CoastlineExploration, Inc., in Houston, Texas.

A. M. “Red” Olander (B.S., 1948),formerly of Exxon, is retired and livingin Austin, Texas, and writes, “recentlyelected moderator of the Synod of theSun Presbyterian Church USA. The Synodof the Sun includes the states of Texas,Louisiana, Arkansas, and Oklahoma.”

Pamela R. Owen (Ph.D., 2000)is the Collections Manager for theVertebrate Paleontology Laboratoryat The University of Texas at Austin.She can be reached at [email protected].

Kenneth Ira Owens (B.A., 1954)is retired and living in Austin, Texas,and lets us know “still enjoying beinga surrogate grandfather, tutoring highschool students.”

Robert M. Owens (B.S., 1951) isa consultant in Cypress, Texas, andwrites, “I visit and rap weekly with otherUT geologists: Bill Lacy, Gene Austin,Chuck Tysor, etc., at our Gulf CoastGeological Library here in Houston.”

Donald Bryan Pairsh (B.S., 2000)is a geologist with the GroundwaterProtection Team at the TNRCC inAustin, Texas. He can be reached [email protected].

Jack M. Park (B.S., 1950) is livingin Lindale, Texas, and has “retired to thegolf course in Hide-a-Lake, Texas.”

Robert Timothy Parks (B.S., 1988)and Leah Kelley Parks (B.S., 1987) areliving in Houston, Texas, where Robertis a geologist for El Paso Production.They report, “We have a new addition,

Jane Katherine, born in January.Her sister Meggan is 8, her brotherSteele is 6, and her dogs Charlie andLucy are just old.” They can bereached at [email protected].

J. F. Patterson (B.S., 1952) isliving in Bellaire, Texas.

Garner Peterson (B.S., 1999) is anAssociate Scientist and GIS Technicianwith Parsons Engineering Science inAustin, Texas, and can be reached [email protected].

Robert W. Pettigrew (B.S., 1952;M.A., 1954), formerly of ExxonMobil,is retired and living in Spring Branch,Texas, has an e-mail address [email protected], and says he is“enjoying retirement in the HillCountry. Trying to raise somethingon the Glen Rose other than rocks.”

Loren Phillips (B.A., 1982) is ageologist with the U.S. Army Centerfor Health Promotion and PreventativeMedicine in Bel Air, Maryland, andwrites, “New son, Daniel, was bornAugust 28, 2001. Both Daniel andAdam (now 13) are keeping me busy.Drinking water source assessmentsand artillery impact area environmentalinvestigations are occupying my timeat work.” Loren can be reached [email protected].

George B. Pichel (B.S., 1951)is retired and living in Dana Point,California, and can be reached [email protected] and reportsthat it is “hard to believe growth ofgeological sciences. I hope jobopportunities are keeping up with thegrowth. Rented an apartment inRio de Janeiro for 2 months last year–this year, Provence.”

Timothy L. Pierce (B.S., 1997) iscurrently a geology graduate student at


The University of Texas at Austin and canbe reached at [email protected].

James N. Piper (B.A., 1988; M.A.,1997) is a Research Scientist withApplied Research Laboratories in Austin,Texas, and writes, “Last year was a realbusy one. Spent a total of three monthsat sea conducting underwater acousticresearch for the Navy. Looks like thisyear will be the same!” James can bereached at [email protected].

Gerald S. “Jerry” Pitts (B.S., 1954)is retired and living in Midland, Texas,has an e-mail address of [email protected], and reports, “lookingfor Permian Basin properties topurchase! Should be a good year asprices are weak, and many propertiesare already on the market.”

Robert B. “Bob” Porter (M.A.,1951) is semi-retired from RBP LandCompany in Midland, Texas, and writes,“broke my leg last November (fell downa mountain up at Ruidoso) but movingpretty good again now. New great-grandson born last summer. Polly andI celebrate 56 years together this June.Do they still have artificial moonlightin Austin? I suppose not. But maybethey still do the cotton-eyed-Joe out atDessau Hall. Come see us. Semper Fi.”

J. Dan Powell (Ph.D., 1961) isretired and living in Grand Junction,Colorado, and reports, “now workingfull time: keeping me off the streetsand out of the bars!” Dan can bereached at [email protected].

Dennis Prezbindowski (Ph.D.,1981) is Chief Geologist with 4DConsulting, Inc., in Indianapolis,Indiana, and can be reached [email protected].

John Proctor (B.A., 1950) is retiredand living in New Braunfels, Texas, and

writes, “Last August, we went on a cruiseof the Baltic Sea. The highlight was theHermitage in St. Petersburg, though forme it was Helsinki. The Finns are likeTexans of former times, they still honortheir heroes.”

Leo Pugh (B.S., 1952) is retiredand living in Houston, Texas, where he is“doing babysitting with grandchildren.Still helping wife in her flea marketbusiness. Regards to all old friends.”

Walter K. Rainbolt, Jr. (B.A.,1957) is the President of DynamicExploration, Inc., in Lafayette, Louisiana.

Nathan Rakestraw (B.S., 1980) isa Senior Drilling Engineer for DominionExploration and Production in Jane Lew,West Virginia, and writes “I have justcompleted my 20th year drilling andcompleting wells in the AppalachianBasin. Living in West Virginia withmy wife Paula and two kids Ryan andRebecca, it has truly been a great placeto raise a family.”

Sherri Kay Randal (B.S., 1999) isa student in Arlington, Texas, living inEuless, Texas, and can be reached [email protected].

Clyde M. Rascoe (B.S., 1949) isthe President of Merit Oil Company inSan Angelo, Texas, and writes, “notdoing much in the oil business, butstill working on my old house.”

M. Allen Reagan (B.A., 1950) isretired and living in Houston, Texas,and lets us know “still traveling quitea bit–France and England last year.Sue Ann and I are enjoying our11 grandchildren ranging in agefrom 30 years to 6 months.”

Robert M. “Rob” Reed (B.S., 1985;Ph.D., 1999) is a Postdoctoral Fellow atthe Bureau of Economic Geology in

Austin, Texas, and writes, “I am stillworking on fractures in sedimentaryrocks. In my ‘spare’ time I continuemy work on the Proterozoic rocks ofCentral Texas.” Rob can be reachedat [email protected].

Jeffrey C. Reid (M.A., 1973) is aSenior Geologist in Raleigh, NorthCarolina, and reports, “Our daughter,Sarah, graduated from college and isteaching first grade at a nearby school.Our son, Sam, will begin college thisfall. Mary is a pharmacist now employedby a national chain pharmacy. I amstill doing geology (mineral resourceinvestigations and GIS) at the stategeological survey. I also teach GIS atN.C. State University, where I am onthe faculty.” Jeffrey can be reached [email protected].

James V. “Jim” Richards (B.S.,1956) is a consulting geologistin Houston, Texas, can be reached [email protected], and writes, “I amnever retiring–enjoying explorationtoo much. Still generating prospectsin the Gulf Coast and becoming moreproficient at working 3-D seismic.”

Harold “Gene” Richardson(B.S., 1958) is retired and living inSan Antonio, Texas, and reports “justcompleted four wonderful days exploringmany areas of Big Bend.” Gene can bereached at [email protected].

Wade C. Ridley (B.S., 1953; M.A.,1955) is the President of Ridley OilCorporation in Tyler, Texas, and says“not retired de jure but I guess I amde facto. I’m still here every day, socome see me.” Wade can be reachedat [email protected].

Jess P. Roach (B.A., 1941) is retiredand living in Austin, Texas, and writes,“One hospital stay per year hasn’taccelerated, so I guess I’m doing okay.”


Ron S. Robinson (B.S., 1958) isthe owner of Robinson Real Estate inEl Dorado, Arizona, has an e-mailaddress of [email protected],and writes, “2001 Newsletter–best ever!Contacted former roommates andclassmates in four states this past year.Our directory and e-mail have madethe difference. The extended Robinsonfamily continues to grow with sevengrandchildren. We are blessed!”

William B. Rodan (B.S., 1942) isretired and living in Metairie, Louisiana,and writes, “retired for the second time.Not as great as I had expected, butwhat can you expect when you get old.”

Jennifer Roberts Rogers(Ph.D., 2000) is an Assistant Professorat the University of Kansas in Lawrence,Kansas, and can be reached [email protected].

Rollins M. Roth (B.S., 1958)works in product support inBreckenridge, Texas, and writes,“still active in the oil patch drillingand completing and workovers–no plans to retire.”

Sally Rothwell (M.A., 1987) is aPermit Coordinator with Phillips Alaskain Anchorage, Alaska, and reports she’s“happily employed obtaining environ-mental permits for oil and gas projectson the North Slope of Alaska. Lovingthe skiing, boating, hiking, and otherwonders of Alaska living.”

Jimmie Norton Russell (B.S., 1952;M.A., 1954) is an Educational AssistantIII with GOALS Learning Center with theRound Rock, Texas, I.S.D., and writes“continuing to educate middle and highschool emotionally disturbed studentsas part of the Round Rock, Texas, publicschool system. Recently joined the AustinCommunity College’s pool of adjunctgeology instructors.”

Floyd Sabins (B.S., 1952) isretired and living in Fullerton,California, and has an e-mail addressof [email protected].

Chester C. Sadler, Jr. (B.S., 1953)is the owner of Tejas Real Estate inGatesville, Texas.

Chris Sagebiel (B.S., 1993; M.S.,1998) is the Curator of Geology at theSan Bernardino County Museum inRedlands, California, and writes,“Currently, I am living a double life.At the museum I am completing workon the largest paleontological projectever conducted–the Diamond Valleyreservoir project–and also workingon various projects in California andNevada. I am also developing grantmoney to revamp the mineralogicaldisplays and the collections at themuseum.

My other life is as a graduate studentat the University of California, Riverside.I received a fellowship in the Geneticsand Bioinformatics program to studySouth American mammals usingcombined analyses of genetics andmorphology.” Chris can be reachedat [email protected].

James L. Salyer (B.S., 1948) isretired and living in Sedona, Arizona,and writes, “I work as a volunteer atthe Museum of Northern Arizona inFlagstaff in the geology departmentdirected by Dave Gillette. Boy, amI learning about dinosaurs!”

Philip Sampler (B.S., 1951)is retired and living in Richardson,Texas, has an e-mail of [email protected], and reports, “Retirementgives us time to do things we neverhad time to do! Luci and I are takingcomputer courses at Richland College.We are now into digital imaging anddesktop publishing. It blows your mindwhat you can do with photographs!”

Charles E. Sandidge (B.S., 1978)is an independent geologist in Tyler,Texas, and can be reached [email protected].

George W. Schneider, Jr.(B.S., 1958) is retired and living inMadisonville, Louisiana, and says heis enjoying life on the river. George isa former member of the GeologyFoundation Advisory Council.

Paul E. Schnurr (M.A., 1955)is retired and living in Concord,California, and writes, “mostly enjoyingmy family, especially the grandchildren.Attending track meets, soccer games,dance reviews, concerts, stage plays,and in the summer, the Oakland A’s.Doing some traveling and lots ofgardening.”

Ted Schulenberg (M.A., 1958) isa geologist in Kerrville, Texas, can bereached at [email protected] and writes,“no news, just happy to still be around.”

Rubin A. Schultz, Jr. (B.S., 1961)is a District Maintenance Manager withthe Texas Department of Transportationin Corpus Christi, Texas, and reports,“not much change, still working forTxDOT and enjoying a little travel.Still making our yearly stay on Maui,Hawaii, in May. We did move to alarger house last March (have tohave room for visiting grandkids!!)”

Eugene P. Scott (B.S., 1957)is a petroleum geologist consultantin Corpus Christi, Texas.

Sandra J. Scott (B.S., 1985) is aconsultant and CPA in Dallas, Texas, andcan be reached at [email protected].

John E. Seale (B.S., 1941) is retiredand living in Houston, Texas, and writes“enjoy the Newsletter and enjoy newsabout the oil business. At this stage of


my life, most of my activities concernfamily and home.”

Kenneth O. Seewald (Ph.D., 1964)is an independent geologist affiliatedwith Thomasson Partner Associates inDenver, Colorado, and reports, “ThanksUT Geology Department for hosting awell-attended alumni party at AAPGHouston! Mary and I enjoyed visitingwith everyone. Still searching fornatural gas in West Texas and theRockies.” Kenneth can be reachedat [email protected].

William W. “Bill” Sharp (B.S.,1950; M.A., 1950) is a geologic consult-ant and investor in Dallas, Texas, andwrites, “made additional donationsof photos to Benson (a relative) LatinAmerican Library. Photos of Motilonecommunity dwelling–west side LakeMaracaibo–east flank Perija Mountains,Venezuela. Need to find a home for thediary of a Japanese captain killed byan American patrol after the end ofWorld War II, the Nimitz Museum saysit is a historic document. Onwardthrough the fog.”

Stephen L. Shaw (B.S., 1971; M.A.,1974) is the Senior Geological Advisorwith Burlington Resources in Midland,Texas, and reports that he is enjoyingserving on the Geology FoundationAdvisory Council. He can be reachedat [email protected].

Steve Shelburne (B.S., 1985)is a Claims Supervisor with FarmersInsurance in Austin, Texas, and reports“still in Texas and bike racing in theTexas State Mountain Bike ChampionshipSeries. Rosemary is pregnant with twins,so soon I will have two newborns and twoteenagers! WOW!” Steve can be reachedat [email protected].

William T. “Bill” Sherman(B.S., 1951) is an independent geologist

San Ramon, California, and reports,“Having moved out of Texas for thefirst time since 1987, I am happy toreport I’ve become a strict New Ageneo-buddhist ovo-lacto vegan environ-mental wacko. Hook ’em ’Horns!”

Marriott Wieckhoff Smart (B.S.,1957) is retired and living in Centennial,Colorado, and writes, “John and I are stillin Colorado. We have been traveling–last year to Canada, this year toGermany. Always glad to be home inthe U.S.” Marriott can be reached [email protected].

Tommy T. Smiley (B.S., 1951)is retired and living in San Antonio,Texas, and writes “enjoying life andlooking forward to next football season.Hook ’em ’Horns!”

Charles D. Smith (B.S., 1978) isa Senior Geologist and Project Managerfor Intera, Inc. in Austin, Texas, andcan be reached at [email protected].

Charles E. Smith (B.S., 1954) livesin Dallas, Texas, and writes, “I am nowworking as Southwest Representative forFactory Outlet Consultants, Washington,D.C., worldwide.”

Harry L. Smith (B.S., 1951; M.A.,1956) is retired and living in Boerne,Texas, and reports, “My daughter andson got my wife and me involved withcomputers. So now this household spendsa lot of time exploring the many thingsthat can be done with them.” Harrycan be reached at [email protected].

J. T. Smith (B.S., 1950; M.A., 1956),formerly of Sun Oil Company, reports“still enjoying retirement inFredericksburg, Texas” and can bereached at [email protected].

Paul K. Smith (B.S., 1984) is ayoga and fitness instructor at Lake Austin

in Houston, Texas, and writes “stillworking, still showing, still breathing,still 3 putting, and double faulting. Greatschool and great campus–hope to seemore of it in the near future.”

Scott Simmons (B.S., 1987) isthe Director of Business Developmentwith Techni Graphic Systems, Inc., inWooster, Ohio, has an e-mail address [email protected], and writes,“I really seem to have become hookedon this GIS stuff. I am now the Directorof the GIS application developmentdivision of TGS and split my timebetween Wooster, Ohio, and Fort Collins,Colorado. I still do some geology-relatedwork, but mostly save the UT Geologyeducation for trivia at bars. I’ll beback in Fort Collins full time in late2002 unless I go nuts and decide thatI like dreary weather.”

Samuel J. Sims (M.A., 1957) isa consulting geologist in Bethlehem,Pennsylvania, and reports, “I stillcontinue keeping busy as a consultantin the commercial and chemicalstone business here in southeasternPennsylvania.” Samuel can bereached at [email protected].

Robert Samson Singer (B.S.,1961) is a Senior Petroleum EngineerConsultant with Sproule Associates,Inc., in Houston, Texas, has an e-mailaddress of [email protected],and reports, “Prices are better butprospects are smaller. Still working as anengineer and keeping geologists honest.”

Cole E. Singletary (B.S., 1948) isretired and living in Midland, Texas, andcan be reached at [email protected].

David K. Skidmore (B.S., 1976)is the Vice President of Ventex Oil andGas, Inc., in Dallas, Texas.

Ben Sloan (Ph.D., 1995) is ageologist with ChevronTexaco in


Spa Resort in Austin, Texas, and can bereached at [email protected].

Traci Trauba Smith (B.S., 1985)is the Office Manager for Birdsong RealEstate in Lake Jackson, Texas, and has ane-mail address of [email protected].

Frederick C. Smyth (B.S., 1947)is retired and living in Dallas, Texas.

Deana Sneyd (B.S., 1984) is aSenior Geologist and Associate withGolder Associates, Inc., in Atlanta,Georgia, has an e-mail address [email protected], and writes“still working at Golder Associates parttime and raising my daughter Aliyah,who turned 4 on December 31, 2001.”

Stephen W. Speer (M.A., 1983) isa General Partner with Genesis LimitedPartnership/Speerex Limited Partnershipin Roswell, New Mexico, and reports:“Still busy chasing gas and oil inSoutheast New Mexico. This industrynever ceases to amaze me with itscyclicity, especially with the seeminglyshorter duration of the price/demandcycles and the ferocity of its amplitudes.It’s gotta be similar to the plight ofthe animals and plants that chasedthe Virgilian shoreline around in theSacramento Mountains: huh? Where’dit go? Anyhow, the Lord has seen to itthat I have plenty to do and hasgraciously given us reasonable successto boot. And despite my share of dryholes, it is still a whole lotta funhunting elusive hydrocarbon resources;makes me feel like Wez the Pirate!!

Therese and I are both doing great,and the kids are all growing up toorapidly. Our oldest, Sarah, is now ajunior at Liberty University in Virginia,Janine is a high school junior here, andErik follows as an 8th grader. Therese isnow finishing her bachelor’s degree hereand is working part-time as a medicalassistant.

After about 20 years here inthe mesquite, we are contemplating whatit must be like to live in a coastal setting,so we are considering making a movesometime soon, the Lord permitting.Hope all is well with all the rest of theDirty Dozen; drop a line if you get achance.” Stephen can be reached [email protected].

Scott Dunbar Spradlin (B.S., 1974;M.A., 1980) is a geologic associate withExxonMobil in Nova Scotia, Canada, andreports, “Moved to Halifax, Nova Scotia,this January. Working Eastern CanadaDevelopment offshore Newfoundland.People are great, weather is cool andcomfortable, and the Screech and Codtongues aren’t bad!” Scott can bereached at [email protected].

Theodore E. Stanzel (B.S., 1956)is the President of Victor StanzelCompany and the Stanzel FamilyFoundation in Schulenburg, Texas, andreports “continuing as wholesaler forStanzel Model Airplane toys manufactur-ing by Victor Stanzel Company. TheFamily Foundation awards scholarshipsto Schulenburg and Weimar studentsand is collaborating with Texas A&MSchool of Rural Public Health toimprove the health of the communitiesof Schulenburg and Weimar.” He canbe reached at [email protected].

Frederick L. Stead (M.A., 1950)is a part-time consultant in Addison,Texas, and writes “drilling for Cambro-Ordovician natural gas in westernNew York state at the north end ofthe Appalachian Basin.” He can bereached at [email protected].

Burgess Stengl (B.S., 1985) is aProject Manager with Schaumburg andPolk, Inc., in Tyler, Texas, and writes,“The Stengl family is finally completelysettled in Tyler, and we are loving it.The consulting business is treating me

good, with work piling up (of course,there’s always room for more). I amwith Schaumburg and Polk, Inc., with14 people in Tyler and around 50 peoplein Beaumont. It is very interesting tosee the TNRCC from the ‘other side.’Having worked there 11 years, I nowclearly see both sides of the issues.I am definitely learning many newthings that I would have never seenwhile working at the State. I am stillworking on municipal solid wasteprojects that are ‘old hat’ for me(trash is my business!), but I am alsoworking on Federal and State grantprojects as well as street projects.

As for the rest of the family, Angelais teaching second grade at OwensElementary in Tyler ISD and enjoyinga smaller school district. Shara hasgraduated from UT Austin and isfollowing in her mom’s footsteps as anelementary school teacher and will bestaying in the Austin area. Susan is in9th grade at White House High Schooland is gaining many new friends. Shejust made cheerleader, also. She stillgets back to Austin as often as she can,and plans on attending UT Austin in afew years. One more year and she will bedriving (ugh!). Kyle keeps me very busyand will be 4 in August. Of course, heloves cars, like me, and enjoys riding inour recently purchased ’59 F-100 pickup.

If you’re ever in the East Texasarea, or need a great consulting firmanywhere in the state, look me up.P.S. The azaleas and dogwood treesare beautiful in the spring!” Burgesscan be reached at [email protected].

Bill St. John (B.S., 1958; M.A.,1960; Ph.D., 1965) is the owner of NewVentures, L.L.C. in Vanderpool, Texas,has an e-mail address of [email protected], and reports “preparing reportto be titled Western Indian Ocean–Petroleum Potential of Undiscoveredand Unexplored Rift Basins. Looks likeit’ll be about 600 pages and include


around 200 maps and illustrations.Wonder if it’ll sell?”

Winston L. “Skip” Stokes(B.S., 1957) is retired and living inThe Woodlands, Texas, and writes“leaving soon for five weeks inLondon. Side trip planned for a safariin Kenya and Tanzania. Up to sixgrandchildren now. Kathryn and I arehaving a great time in retirement.”

John L. Stout (B.A., 1953) is retiredand living in Lonetree, Colorado, andcan be reached at [email protected].

Ted Stout (B.S., 1985) is a Super-visory Park Ranger at Mount RainierNational Park in Ashford, Washington,and writes “going on my 6th year atMount Rainier National Park. TheNisqually earthquake and a good sizeddebris flow in 2001 have helped torenew interest in the dynamic geologyof this large glacier-covered volcano.I am excited about starting work on anew exhibit focused on geology at theSunrise Visitor Center.” Ted can bereached at [email protected].

Bert L. Stovall (B.A., 1948) isretired and living in Casper, Wyoming.

Mike Stowbridge (B.S., 1982) is aconsulting geologist in Abilene, Texas,and reports “still working with Geosite,Inc., in San Angelo. I’m taking moretime between wells to map oil and gasfields and find new prospects. I can’tbelieve it’s been 20 years since gradua-tion! Hello back to Charles Brasier!”

Robert E. Stowers, II (B.A., 1986)is an Environmental Compliance Coor-dinator for the Houston Ship ChannelPipeline Relocation Project in Houston,Texas, and reports, “time keeps moving;kids keep growing; UT Geology keepsimproving. The past is the key to thefuture! Best wishes to all.” He can bereached at [email protected].

John L. Stripling (B.A., 1940) isretired and living in Fort Worth, Texas,and writes, “Marjorie and I are stilltraveling–mostly to the Austin areaand the Gulf Coast. Still enjoy golf twoor three times a week. We hope tohear from some old classmates, andwish all you the best.”

Bruce Swartz (B.S., 1983) is anindependent geologist in San Angelo,Texas, and reports, “I have been inbusiness for 19 years despite myself.Sometimes the oil and gas businessdrives me insane. My three childrenare doing well, and my oldest will attendThe University in 2004. I have enjoyedreading about our classmates in theNewsletter, it is nice to catch up withthem. Drop me a note sometime.”Bruce can be reached at [email protected].

Dick Teel (B.S., 1941) is a Geologi-cal Systems Consultant with IHS Energy

in Houston, Texas, has an e-mail addressof [email protected], and writes,“life about the same–hunted in SouthAfrica in July 2001, their coldest month,going to Canada in May 2002 for bear.”

C. B. “Tim” Thames, Jr. (B.A.,1954; M.A., 1957) is retired and livingin Buchanan Dam, Texas, and reports,“Retirement is a good thing, recom-mended to all. Plenty of time for hobbies,including looking at rocks. Regards toall old friends.”

George L. Thomas (M.A., 1960),formerly of the Texas Department ofTransportation, Fort Worth District, isretired and living in Boerne, Texas,and writes, “I’ve been retired sinceDecember 1998; Eloise is still workingat Methodist Hospital in San Antonio.Two more grandchildren born December2001 and February 2002 (boy and girl,respectively).” George can be reachedat [email protected].

On the banks of South Onion Creek (left to right): Jim Underwood, Steve Clabaugh,Bill Ward, Bill Lindemann, and Les White, 2002. Photo provided by Les White.


Sterling Thomas (B.S., 1982) isa veterinarian in The Dalles, Oregon,and reports, “Hi to all in the class of ’82.After leaving the Bureau of EconomicGeology in 1984, could not find workin the Northwest, so I changed careers.Have been a practicing veterinarianfor 12 years. I miss the hot summers.”Sterling can be reached at [email protected].

Karen Bergeron Thompson(B.S., 1992) is an independent con-ference planner in Helena, Montana,and can be reached at [email protected].

T. J. Thompson (B.S., 1957) isthe owner of Toro Exploration Companyin Rockwall, Texas, and writes, “enjoyedthe brief natural gas boom. Maybe againone of these days? Straight ahead, withbest regards.”

John M. Thomson (B.S., 1982) isa Senior Exploration Geophysicist withExxonMobil Indonesia, Inc., and isliving in Jakarta. He writes, “In 2001,I returned to Jakarta after 14 years andhave settled wife and three boys intoa satisfying, though chaotic, lifestyle.Plenty to do and not enough time todo it. Central Java onshore proving tobe a very challenging and interestingproject area. Around town, manypeople identify us by the burntorange Longhorn decal on the backof our SUV.” John can be reached [email protected].

Guy Tidmore (B.S., 1982) is withthe U.S. Environmental ProtectionAgency, Region 6 in Dallas, Texas, hasan e-mail address of [email protected], and writes “more regs thanrocks these last several years, but thepay is good and steady.”

Joe Tondu (M.A., 1976) is thePresident of Tondu Corporation in

Houston, Texas, and can be reachedat [email protected].

Deborah Travis (M.A., 1988) is anattorney in Corpus Christi, Texas, andwrites, “Life is good, Dan Neuberger(M.A., 1987) and I are expecting ourthird child in November, 2002.” Deborahcan be reached at [email protected].

Everette Travis (M.A., 1951) isretired and living in Buchanan Dam,Texas, and says he is “enjoying retire-ment on Lake Buchanan. Mary Ellenand I are not traveling as far or as fast.”

Robert F. “Bob” Travis (B.A., 1957)is retired and living in Corpus Christi,Texas, and writes “no news–stillfishing, painting, and traveling.” Bobcan be reached at [email protected].

Arthur J. “Art” Tschoepe (B.S.,1951) is an independent geologist andoil operator in Leakey, Texas, and sayshe is “working and enjoying mywonderful family!”

James J. “Jeff” Tucker (B.S.,1948) is retired and living in Jackson,Mississippi.

John D. Tuohy (B.S., 1939) isretired and living in Canyon Lake, Texas,and writes “still doing well and livinghappily in the Hill Country. Sad to seefewer and fewer names of the Class of’39 in the Newsletter. It was a greatgroup, but asi es la vida.”

Neil L. Turner (Ph.D., 1970) isa consulting petroleum geologist inFulshear, Texas, and writes “continuingmy work on carbonate fields. Our tripto China last fall was eventful–manyremarkable sights and occurrences.”

Robert Chan Tysor (B.A., 1952)is an independent geologist in SugarLand, Texas, and reports “teamed up

with another UT Ex geologist, BobOwens, trying to get wells drilled inthe Texas Gulf Coast area.”

Martin Ullrich (B.S., 1974) is ageologist with Caldine Natural Gas inHouston, Texas, has an e-mail addressof [email protected], and writes,“Julie and I are still here with two incollege this fall. I have one left athome, and she is my last chance tohave one of the kids go to Texas. Helloto everyone and best wishes to all.Has it really been almost 30 years??”

Don Urbanec (B.S., 1960) is anindependent geologist in San Antonio,Texas, and writes “still trying to puttogether a few drilling deals andoperating a few wells.”

Jean-Paul Van Gestel (Ph.D.,2000) is a geophysicist with bp inHouston, Texas, and reports “currentlywith the Upstream TechnologyGroup. For more information checkwww.vangestel.com.” Jean-Paul canbe reached at [email protected].

Joseph W. Versfelt (B.A., 1984) is aSenior Geologist with AEC International(USA) Inc., in Houston, Texas, andreports, “For those who might havekept up or noticed, I offer a condensedrecap here: after UT, did M.S. Geology atDuke along with Project PROBE seismicacquisition in East Africa rift lakes,then 10 years at Texaco International,3½ years at CMS Nomeco, and now I am1 year on at AEC (Alberta Energy Co. ofCanada) working international E & P.I would love to hear from anyone ofUT Geology ’84 time frame.” Josephcan be reached at [email protected].

Charles D. Vertrees, Jr. (B.S., 1951)is retired and living in Dallas, Texas,and writes, “Retirement is great. Nancyand I play lots of golf. Health is good ifyou ignore all the aches and pains of


getting old. Both daughters live in theDallas area with two grandchildren,so we do some babysitting.”

Harry A. Vest (M.A., 1959) is retiredand living in Houston, Texas, and reports“Just celebrated my 73rd birthday, whosaid ‘the good die young’? Still lookingforward to those football games andScholz Biergarten each fall.” He canbe reached at [email protected].

R. B. “Bob” Vickers (B.S., 1947)is retired and living in Abilene, Texas,has an e-mail address of [email protected], and writes, “I unhappilyreport that Martha, my wife of 57 years,died last August, 2001, due to cancer.Since then I have been trying to getnormal and handle details that needto be taken care of.”

Kenneth D. Vogel (M.A., 1985) is aSenior Associate with Leggette, Brashearsand Graham, Inc., in St. Paul, Minne-sota, and reports, “Environmentalconsulting is still a challenging field,but not as challenging as having threeteenage boys!” He can be reached [email protected].

William Vrana (B.A., 1939) is aformer consulting geologist, now retiredand living in Corpus Christi, Texas, andwrites, “Still attend local GeologicalSociety luncheons. This provides someexposure to the oil patch and my pastcareer. Our local newspaper ceasedpublishing the Oil Page, perhaps toprovide space for more commercials.”

Martin James Wachel, Jr. (B.S.,1956) is retired and living in Laird Hill,Texas, and writes that he is “presentlyserving as Vice President of Leverette’sChapel ISD. Enjoy the Newsletter.”

A. H. Wadsworth, Jr. (B.S., 1941;M.A., 1941) is a consulting geologist inHouston, Texas, has an e-mail address

of [email protected], and writes,“Last August marked my 60th year asa geologist. Where did the years go?Still working and actually sold a deal.”

Tom Waggoner (B.A., 1957) issemi-retired and living in Spicewood,Texas, and reports “love living inthe Hill Country–enjoy UT athleticsand seeing old friends at the games.”

Frank H. “Trey” Wagner, III(B.S., 1996) is a graduate student inTucson, Arizona, and reports “gotmarried to Jennifer Miller in January,2002. Still working on my Ph.D. hereat the University of Arizona, passedmy orals this semester.” Trey can bereached at [email protected].

J. Dudgeon Walker, Jr. (B.S., 1951;M.A., 1951) is retired and living inHouston, Texas, and writes, “Shall wesay, I and the family made anotheryear! Still basically the same as lastyear. Still staying as active as possibleindoors and outdoors. Wife Shirley,three children, and ten grandchildren.Still trying to record as much contempo-rary history as possible but populationdiversity ‘will cast it aside’.”

Mark C. Walker (B.A., 1981) is ashareholder in the law firm of Mounce,Green, and Myers in El Paso, Texas, andcan be reached at [email protected].

Bernie Ward (B.A., 1955) is ageologist in Tyler, Texas, and reports,“We took a group trip to the ‘LandsDown Under’ in February. Spectacularbeauty, very impressed with the landand people. Trip almost too long, butworth it. Have added two more grand-children: another boy in Longview anda first girl in Wichita Falls.”

Bill (B.S., 1955; M.A., 1957) andKathy (B.A., 1957) Ward report thatKathy is a Curriculum Specialist at

Our Lady of the Lake University, andBill has retired from the University ofNew Orleans in New Orleans, Louisiana.They write, “Kathy continues trainingmiddle school teachers in earth/spacescience, helps run a program on science-teacher mentoring, and still conductsGLOBE training. Bill volunteers at CiboloNature Center and is active in the NativePlant Society of Texas. Recently hewent on a great trip to the Solitariowith Muehlberger, Amsbury, Haenggi,and Les White. Also enjoyed the recentriverside lunch on Les White’s ranchwith Clabaugh, Underwood, White, andLindemann.” They can be reached [email protected].

Ralph H. Warner (M.A., 1961)is retired and living in Kingwood, Texas,and writes “hanging in with the 21st centuryas everything continues to change. Bestwishes for a prosperous 2002!”

Joel S. Watkins (Ph.D., 1961) isthe E.F. Cook Professor of Geoscience atTexas A&M University in College Station,Texas, and reports, “I am retiring fromTAMU after 17 years. These Aggies aregood people. Billie continues to co-runher bookstore with daughter Christi.We had a great trip last time to Tromso,Norway, and Ireland.” Joel can bereached at [email protected].

John Allen Watson (B.S., 1956) isretired and living in Austin, Texas, andreports, “I’m now a supporter of MountBlanco Fossil Museum of Crosbyton, Texas(Joe Taylor, Director) in addition toactivity with Creation Evidence Museumof Glen Rose, Texas. The past year hasbeen quite eventful for me: diagnosedwith Parkinson’s disease in an earlystage, so it is treatable. Then apparentlyas I was lowest in my spirit with thedisease, praying increasingly about itall, supported by friends, the Lord couldwork according to II Corinthians 12:9 inHis strength, to make things happen for


His glory. They came as Mount BlancoFossil Museum staff picked up on myrough draft manuscript Phosphate Rocks/Bone Phosphates of South Carolina,and revised it under the title Man,Dinosaurs and Mammals Together.”

John E. Watson (B.A., 1972) is thePresident of Seabridge Gold Corporationin Evergreen, Colorado, and can bereached at [email protected].

Joseph Watzlavick (B.S., 1941) isliving in Bellaire, Texas, and reports heis “still looking for another discovery.”

Gerald Weber (M.A., 1968), a formerlecturer at The University of California,Santa Cruz, is retired and living in SantaCruz, California, and writes he “retiredafter 18 ½ years teaching field geologyat UCSC. Still consulting (part-time)in engineering geology–expert witnesswork. Largely working on my paintingand drawing skills, helping out in awinery, and trying to float rivers andgo scuba diving.” Gerald can bereached at [email protected].

Nelson Webernick (M.A., 1952)is an independent geologist inMidland, Texas.

Bonnie R. Weise (B.S., 1974;M.A., 1979) is a Senior Explorationist forVenus Exploration, Inc. in San Antonio,Texas, and has an e-mail address [email protected].

James V. White (M.A., 1995) is ageologist with ExxonMobil and writes“relocated to Jakarta, Indonesia, in May,2002, to work on Miocene carbonates.”

Leslie P. White (B.S., 1956) isretired and living in Austin, Texas, andwrites, “A highlight of the year was aget-together with Steve Clabaugh andsome of my classmates in his 1952mineralogy class. We ate chili on thebank of South Onion Creek, then

strolled along the creek to view apuzzling, pitted surface of a middleGlen Rose bed. We speculated aboutinterference ripples, algal mats, andtadpole nests and, finally, decided notto decide. Geology never ceases to beentertaining, and our Foundation,faculty, and staff seem to nevercease achieving remarkable results.Congratulations on a spectacular year.”

Rex H. White, Jr. (B.S., 1956; M.A.,1960) is an attorney and counselorat law in Austin, Texas, and reports,“This has been a banner year forgrandchildren. Granddaughters bornon October 11, 2001, and December 27,2001. Brenda and I are getting ourshare of babysitting in between mybusy work schedule. Grandson Rankinis 3, and we will go fossil hunting thissummer. High five to Les White andBill Ward.” Rex can be reachedat [email protected].

Steve White (B.S., 1978) is aconsulting geologist in Tyler, Texas,and says he is enjoying it.

Fred L. Whitney (B.S., 1943) isretired and living in Kerrville, Texas,and writes “happy to send greetings toold friends and new.”

James C. Whitten (B.S., 1956)is self-employed and says “still anindependent geologist in Midland, Texas.I’ve been retired about 10 years.”

Frederick W. Wiegand, Jr. (B.S.,1969) is a consultant in Lockhart, Texas,and reports “worked in Yemen duringJanuary 2002. Visited the outcrops of theSafter salt mines about 100 miles eastof Mareb. Spectacular structural geologyin the mountains.” He has an e-mailaddress of [email protected].

Warren James Wiemann (B.A.,1998; B.S., 1998) is the Vice President

of Engineered Semiconductor Products,Inc., and has an e-mail address [email protected].

Michael A. Wiley (B.S., 1957;M.A., 1963; Ph.D., 1970) is a consultantin Canyon Lake, Texas, has an e-mailaddress of [email protected],and writes “enjoying semi-retirementat Canyon Lake. Staying busy withcommunity and AAPG activities. Stillworking on graphical data manage-ment software for oil patch andenvironmental remediation.”

Richard A. Wiley (B.S., 1942) isa retired geologist, living in Lafayette,Louisiana, and reports “enjoyingretirement after 40 years employment(also enjoyed) with Amerada Hess Corp.”

Addison A. Wilkinson (B.S.,1956) is retired and living in Lafayette,Louisiana, has an e-mail address [email protected], and writes, “I enjoythe Newsletter and hearing about thecurrent activities and old classmates.”Mr. Wilkinson is a member of theGeology Foundation Advisory Council.

James Richard Williams (B.S.,1950), formerly of Chevron, is retiredand living in Bullard, Texas, and tells us“Thanks for the Newsletter. Ouitau andI are still going strong at our activitiesand doing fine, and our kids and grand-kids are okay. I am an octogenarian now.Still in Emerald Bay on Lake Palestine.Been here 20 years.”

James C. Willrodt (B.S., 1977)works for ExxonMobil in Houston, Texas,and writes, “Well, I’m still a driller.I finished in the Sahara Desert of Algeriaand now moved in to deepwater opera-tions off of Angola. Karen, Erika, Alec,and I are still in Houston and keepingup with all the busy happenings here.Best wishes to all.” He can be reachedat [email protected].


John Willrodt (B.S., 1982) is aDirector of Retail Compliance with ValeroEnergy Corporation in San Antonio,Texas, and writes “was ‘upstream’ untilthe mid-80’s, got to do some neat stuff;since then have settled ‘way downstream’and am enjoying it! A lot is happening inrefining and marketing these days!‘Hello’ to everyone from Mary and me!”

Doug Wilson (B.S., 1980) is anExploration Supervisor for AnadarkoPetroleum Corporation in Houston,Texas, has an e-mail address [email protected], and writes,“I’m still exploring the deepwaterGulf of Mexico and enjoying everychallenging minute.”

James Lee Wilson (B.A., 1942;M.A., 1944) is living in New Braunfels,Texas, has an e-mail address of [email protected], and writes “still workingstratigraphy and regional geology inMexico. I received the Sidney PowersAward this year from AAPG.”

Jennifer Wilson (B.S., 1995; M.S.,2001) is a hydrologist with the U.S.Geological Survey in Austin, Texas,and reports “I FINALLY finished myMaster’s and got hired on at the USGS.Our sediment coring team did fieldworkin Alaska and Canada during Augustand September. What a trip!” Jennifercan be reached at [email protected].

Irwin T. Winter (B.S., 1953)is retired and living in Fort Worth,Texas, has an e-mail address [email protected], and says,“Remember the names Bullard,Bybee, Clabaugh, DeFord, Folk,Whitney, Yager, and Ellison?Well, I do–do you?”

Brad D. Wolaver (B.S., 1995)is an Associate Hydrogeologist withMontgomery Watson Harza in Pasadena,California. He writes, “Los Angeles is

big, but in terms of culture, outstandingrestaurants, and entertainment–Ihave enjoyed myself. The San GabrielMountains (formed as a result of a bendin the San Andreas fault) are Pasadena’sbackyard, and I’ve really taken advan-tage of the excellent mountain bikingopportunities here. However, my familystill lives in Austin and I’m happy everytime I get a chance to return. If youare in the Los Angeles area, look meup in Pasadena!” Brad can be reachedat [email protected].

Amy Wood (B.S., 1985) is taking anextended leave from her programmingcareer to be at home with her baby inAustin, Texas, and announced the birthof her son, Ian Wood Shaw, on May 1,2001. She can be reached at [email protected].

Robert L. Wood, Jr. (B.A., 1956)is retired and living in Houston, Texas.

Arnold Woods (M.A., 1981) is aconsulting geologist in Casper, Wyoming,and reports, “International consultingand local paleontological projects keepme busy. Helping out a bit this summerat Bob Bakker’s Como Fluff digs.Anybody coming through Caspershould stop at the Tate Museum–lots to see.” Arnold can be reachedat [email protected].

Leroy A. Woollett (M.A., 1951) isretired and living in Houston, Texas, andcan be reached at [email protected].

David A. Worthington (B.A., 1986)is the president and CEO of EGAConsultants in Costa Mesa, California,and writes, “Greetings, my erstwhileclassmates, professors, and other Texashooligans! I’m still enjoying social lifeon the rock pile, consulting, racingbicycles, and loving my darling wife,Kimberly. Big news: Shiner Bock nowavailable here. Chuy’s pending? Will

John B. Wrightand his dog,Bear. Photoprovided byJohn Wright.


always savor the Texas flavor.” Davidcan be reached at [email protected].

John B. Wright (M.A., 1956) isa retired geologist in New Orleans,Louisiana, and can be reached at3661 Mimosa Court, New Orleans,Louisiana, 70131; (504) 394-2237.

Michael Wright (B.S., 1985) isthe Western Region Manager for VertexEngineering in Rohnert Park, California,and writes he “opened a new office inSonoma County, California, 40 milesnorth of the Golden Gate Bridge andSan Francisco. Vertex Engineering is aTetraTech company. We are searchingfor geoscientists and engineers to joinus in environmental geotechnical andconstruction management consultingbusiness.” Michael can be reachedat [email protected].

Steve Wright (M.A., 1980) is aDevelopment Geologist with ChevronUSA Product Corporation in Anchorage,Alaska, and reports, “Alaska geology isas fascinating and challenging as ever!Natural gas development will lead thenext Alaska boom…only question iswhen! Let’s all push to make it soonerrather than later.” He can be reachedat [email protected].

Phil Wyche (B.S., 1951) isretired and living in Austin, Texas.Phil is a member of the GeologyFoundation Advisory Council.

Bob Wynne (B.S., 1957) is anindependent petroleum geologist in FortWorth, Texas, and reports “not active inbusiness but still enjoying a rathersedentary life. Family all doing great.”

Photo from 1979 UT field trip to Chihuahua,Mexico, led by Fred McDowell. Pictured leftto right: Emil Bramson, Mary (last nameunknown), Peter Megaw, David Ward, JimStimac, and Tucker Barrie. Photo providedby Peter Megaw.

John C. Yeager (M.A., 1960) is stillactive as an independent geologist inLafayette, Louisiana, and has an e-mailaddress of [email protected].

Francis Scott Zimmer (B.S., 1986)is a Senior Public Health Sanitarianwith the Oneida County Health Depart-ment in Vernon, New York, and writes,“Hi geobuddies–a very productive yearfor Melanie and me. Melanie’s ‘DancingBear Puppet Theatre’ is taking off.She is doing puppetry and storytellingat schools and on the road. I am enjoyingmy position at the Health Department(always something new). This yearexpecting a drought (yes, even inNew York). House gets paid off thisyear (yeah!) Hope everyone is doingwell. Feel free to drop a line.” Franciscan be reached at [email protected].


We always need and appreciate your help—

We are launching a major new enterprise in the geosciences at UT Austin, the largest in the

country, one we aim to be the very best, and one in which we can all take pride. Jack Jackson’s marvelous

bequest will bring us to unprecedented heights. We very much want all our Exes and friends to be a

part of the great enterprise. Your continued gifts along with your support in counsel and identification

are as vital as ever to our efforts. We have the chance to make the new Jackson School truly unique.

This past year the Geology Foundation received gifts from over 300 friends and Exes and from nearly

60 corporations and groups. We appreciate each and every gift and pledge to make the most of your

support in ever enhancing the geologic training, research, and public service that goes on here.

This year, we had responses from more than 400 Exes for the Alumni Notes. We are thankful for

these, but we would like to have more, for this section of the Newsletter is the most important and the

most read. We strive to keep your current address on our mailing list and ask your cooperation in

advising us if you move. If you know of other alumni who do not receive our letters, please send us their

names and addresses.

Contributions to the Geology Foundation may be made in the form of cash, bonds, life insurance,

gift annuities, and tangible property such as real estate. Many major corporations provide matching

funds for contributions made by employees and their spouses. The Foundation staff can assist in the

arrangement of the match.

For assistance or information, you may contact Mary Koch at (512) 471-6048 or e-mail at

[email protected] or me at (512) 471-5600 or e-mail at [email protected]. You may

also visit us at our two Web sites, the Department of Geological Sciences at http://www.geo.utexas.edu

or the Geology Foundation at http://www.geo.utexas.edu/foundation/. We appreciate your support.

Bill Fisher, Director

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· The University of Texas at Austin Department of Geological Sciences Geology Foundation John A. and Katherine G. Jackson School of Geosciences 2002 Newsletter Volume 52 Table of