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  1. Newsletter (University of Texas at Austin. Department of Geological Sciences) ; no. 48, 1998
    1. A Report from the Chairman

    2. Faculty and Staff Listing

    3. Professors, Associate Professors, Assistant Professors, and Lecturers

    4. Professors Emeriti

    5. Research Scientists

    6. Visiting Scholars

    7. Technical Staff

    8. Administrative Staff

    9. Geology Foundation

    10. Faculty Personal Notes

    11. Department of Geological Sciencs Hosts Special Fall Symposium

    12. Spring Symposium: Space-based Geoscience Observations — Looking Down at the Future

    13. Student and Departmental Support from Companies Reaches $181,800 for 1997-1998 School Year

    14. SMT Donates Major Software Package

    15. Texaco Donates 3-D Seismic and Well-Log Data Suite

    16. TGS-Calibre Geophysical Company Donates Seismic Traverses

    17. Foundation Receives Major Scholarship Bequest from Banks Estate

    18. New UT President Dr. Larry Faulkner Visits Department

    19. Renovations to Potassium-Argon Dating Laboratory

    20. Paleomagnetic Laboratory

    21. Inaugural Celebration Honors Supporters of CT Lab

    22. Dinosaur News

    23. Bella Italia

    24. Faculty Awards and Honors

    25. Staff Awards

    26. Knebel Award: Brenda Kirkland George — Educator Extraordinaire

    27. Leon E. Long Selected for 1998 College of Natural Sciences Teaching Excellence Award

    28. Philip C. Bennett Named 1997 Henry Darcy Distinguished Lecturer

    29. Professor Milo Backus Retires

    30. Professor Lynton Land Retires

    31. Professor Ernest Lundelius Retires

    32. In Memoriam: Virgil E. Barnes

    33. The 1947 "Brady Bunch" Class Reunion

    34. Report from the Outreach Committee

    35. Endowed Lecturers

    36. Visiting Speakers

    37. Student Speakers

    38. Research and Teaching Assistants

    39. Research Assistants

    40. Teaching Assistants

    41. Assistant Instructors

    42. Summer Field Camp 1998—GEO 660

    43. The Texas High School Coastal Monitoring Project

    44. GEMS— Geology's Emerging Scholars

    45. Graduate Seminar in Sedimentary Basin Analysis

    46. Placement Office Update, 1997-1998

    47. Student Awards and Honors

    48. Andria Bilich Receives Several Honors

    49. Eleanor Camann Receives Award and Plaque from Houston Geological Society

    50. Christie Rogers Gives Fall 1997 College Graduation Ceremony Speech

    51. Student Officers for Fall 1997 and Spring 1998

    52. Graduate Student Executive Committee

    53. Graduate Scholarships and Fellowships

    54. Scholarships, Fellowships, and Grants from Other Agencies, 1997-1998

    55. Undergraduate Scholarships and Awards

    56. Scholarships and Fellowships from Other Agencies

    57. Degrees Awarded

    58. Graduate Degrees

    59. Undergraduate Degrees

    60. Institute for Geophysics

    61. Vertebrate Paleontology Laboratory

    62. Bureau of Economic Geology

    63. Walter Geology Library

    64. Geology Foundation Advisory Council News

    65. New Endowments Established

    66. Scholarship Gift

    67. Don R. Boyd Inducted into Hall of Honor

    68. Gifts

    69. Gifts to the Geology Foundation From July 1, 1997, through May 31, 1998

    70. Business, Society, and Estate Contributors

    71. Donors of Books and Materials—Walter Geology Library

    72. Geology Foundation Endowed Accounts

    73. Geology Foundation Advisory Council

    74. Chairman

    75. Vice Chairman

    76. Director

    77. Members

    78. Honorary Life Members

    79. Memorials

    80. Notes from the Alumni

    81. Alumni Honors

    82. We need your help

  2. Illustrations
    1. Front and Back Covers Southern Zagros Mountains, Iran

    2. This page View west along a 200-mile reach of the Altyn Tagh fault, China

    3. Mark Cloos

    4. Dr. Suki Manabe of Princeton University and NOAA describes climate models and their implications for future global temperatures

    5. Dr. Heinrich Holland of Harvard University explains his theory of the evolution of atmospheric oxygen

    6. Dr. Rich Forester, Dr. Fred Mackenzie, Dr. Suki Manabe, and Dr. William Schlesinger discuss global element cycles and their role in global change

    7. Dr. D. James Baker, Under Secretary for Oceans and Atmospheres, Department of Commerce, gives the keynote address to the symposium

    8. Speaker John Wahr

    9. Speaker Don Blankenship

    10. Speakers Tom Herring and Paul Segall

    11. Speaker Clark Wilson, with Institute for Geophysics Director Paul Stoffa

    12. Speaker David Sandwell

    13. Speaker Alex Goetz, organizer Jay Famiglietti, and speaker Floyd Sabins

    14. Speaker Steve Nerem

    15. North along dike to Ship Rock, northwestern New Mexico, 1955

    16. Jack Gregory and Cliff Crowe formally present the Louisiana OCS data set to Bill Fisher before a meeting of Technical Sessions

    17. Plaque accompanying the Texaco OCS digital data set

    18. Jack Gregory, Jean-Paul van Gestel, Bill Galloway, and Cliff Crowe celebrate successful loading of the Texaco OCS 3-D data onto the Department's SGI workstation

    19. West Africa Well Tie Survey, Phase I, Cameroon, on display at the Department of Geological Sciences

    20. Jim Connelly, UT President Larry Faulkner, and Jay Banner during Dr. Faulkner's visit to the Department of Geological Sciences

    21. Fred McDowell in front of the new argon vacuum line with liquid nitrogen.

    22. Wulf Gose performs the initial testing and calibration of a new instrument

    23. Professor William Carlson introduces special guests Thomas Fanning, Sandra Glass, Daniel Weill, and UT President Peter Flawn

    24. This skull of Herrerasaurus, the world's oldest known dinosaur, was brought to UT to be scanned in the Department's new High-Resolution X-ray CT facility

    25. Stone carvings piled up outside an Italian church

    26. Jay L Banner presented with the Houston Oil & Minerals Corporation Faculty Excellence Award by Mark Cloos

    27. Brenda Kirkland George presented with the Knebel Distinguished Teaching Award by Mark Cloos

    28. Dennis Trombatore and Rosemary Barker at the Department of Geological Sciences' award ceremony

    29. Mark Cloos presents Debra Sue Trinque the Distinguished Service Award at the Department of Geological Sciences' award ceremony

    30. Brenda Kirkland George precariously perched above an outcrop on the Permian Reef Geology Trail

    31. Leon E. Long

    32. Shell fragments and feathers prevent sand erosion by the prevailing wind, Pacific Beach, Washington, August 1989

    33. Milo M. Backus

    34. Professor Lynton S. Land at his retirement roast

    35. Ernest L. Lundelius

    36. Dr. Virgil E. Barnes (1903-1998)

    37. The "Brady Bunch" with Governor George W. Bush during tour of the Capitol

    38. Part of the "Brady Bunch" and spouses at brunch at Dick and Anne Bloomer's home, Sunday, September 14, 1997

    39. Paleogene melange and broken formation at Ruby Beach, Olympic National Park, Washington

    40. Julie Dacanay, Andria Bilich, and Lisa Tarde record strike and dip during mapping at Clarks Gulch, Big Belt Mountains, Montana

    41. Professor Randall Marrett leads students along a transect through the Sevier fold and thrust belt, Big Belt Mountains, Montana

    42. Students involved in the Texas High School Coastal Monitoring Project learn to use a hand level to survey the profile of the beach

    43. GEMS students visiting Enchanted Rock

    44. Thomas (Mac) McGilvery, Bill Galloway, and Sedimentary Basin Analysis students assembled for the ritual field trip photograph at the famous Toad Suck Ferry locality on the Arkansas River

    45. Ronald S. Tykoski receives Technical Sessions Best Speaker Award for a Master's Candidate during fall 1997 from Mark Cloos

    46. Staci Loewy with MaryLynn Musgrove right after MaryLynn's receipt of GSEC Student Service Award at Department's award ceremony, May 7, 1998

    47. Jennifer L. Beall receives Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award from Mark Cloos Department Chairman, at Department ceremony.

    48. Mark A. Helper congratulating Bradley H. Reid on receipt of Outstanding Field Geologist Hammer Award at Department ceremony

    49. Andria Bilich

    50. Eleanor Camann

    51. Christi Rogers

    52. Bo McCarthy presents William L. Fisher with plaque for Dr. Fisher's help as faculty advisor of the student chapter of AAPG

    53. Church buried by lava from Paricutin volcano, Mexico, July 1956

    54. Galindo Elementary students celebrating their first-place win at Austin Science Fun Day

    55. Exposure of submarine-channel and levee deposits in the Upper Permian Cherry Canyon Formation, Delaware Mountain Group, West Texas

    56. Damp sand capped with one day's accumulation of blowing sand, Great Sand Dunes National Monument, Colorado

    57. John A. Jackson

    58. J. Donald Langston

    59. Advisory Council member and past chairman Scotty Holland visits with Bill Carlson and Sharon Mosher at fall Advisory Council meeting

    60. Advisory Council member Jack Mayfield and Bill Carlson during fall Advisory Council meeting

    61. David S. Birsa

    62. Paul R. Gucwa

    63. John R. Hopkins

    64. Fred L. Oliver

    65. Joseph E. Sullivan

    66. Foundation staffers Debra Sue Trinque and Mary Koch at spring Advisory Council meeting break

    67. Tom Fanning, Advisory Council Chairman, with Honorary Life Member Tom Barrow at spring meeting.

    68. President ad interim Peter T. Flawn addresses the Advisory Council at its spring meeting

    69. Honorary Life Member Bill Gipson visits with Advisory Council member Scotty Holland and Decker Dawson at the spring meeting

    70. Advisory Council members Chuck Weiner and Eddie Williamson chat with Bob Folk at the spring meeting

    71. Don R. Boyd

    72. Charles W. Alcorn, Jr.

    73. Erzebet Lujza Pataky McCammon (1913-1997)

    74. Thais Bullard and her father, Fred Bullard, at Faculty Center in 1992

    75. Darcy (Brooks) Cuthill and Kary Cuthill, rafting in central Alberta in 1995

    76. W. L. Fisher and Jennifer Beall lead GEO 380 during spring break in March 1998 at Last Chance Canyon, Guadalupe Mountains, New Mexico

    77. Bob Folk showing off a small octopus stuck to the bottom of his tennis shoe in Yucatan, Mexico, during summer 1959

    78. Spring 1987 320K class at Spider Mountain

    79. Ben Purcell, Janie Hopkins, and Bob Folk in Amalfi, Italy, 1997

    80. Lynton and Judy Lang Land visiting hot springs at Viterbo, Italy, in 1996

    81. Pipe Creek field trip in 1997 near Bandera, Texas

    82. Flash flood, Reynolds Creek, Marathon Basin, Texas, Summer 1958

    83. Larry Templeton testing the strength of the flash flood about one minute after the front went by the 1958 Geology 660 field camp

    84. Inks Lake State Park in May 1997

    85. Joseph W. Versfelt in Amazonian rain forest, Marajo Island, Brazil, during 1988 seismic shoot in Cretaceous-age Marajo rift basin

    86. Roasting wieners somewhere in southern Colorado during field camp in summer 1986

    87. Monterrey, Mexico

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President ad interim Peter T. Flawn addresses the Advisory Council at its spring meeting

Honorary Life Member Bill Gipson visits with Advisory Council member Scotty Holland and Decker Dawson at the spring meeting

Honorary Life Member of the Council and President Emeritus, Peter T. Flawn, assumed the Presidency of UT Austin on an interim basis on July 1, 1997, and served until April 13, 1998, when Larry Faulkner was installed as the new President. Pete Flawn has been with The University of Texas at Austin since 1949 and served as a widely regarded and successful President of The University from 1979 to 1985. After his second tour in the tower, he is now back to his office in the Geology Building.

At the Salt Lake City, Utah, meeting of American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Advisory Council member, Robbie Gries, was elected Honorary Member of the Association for her achieve ments in geology and her contributions to the profession. Honorary Membership is AAPG's second highest honor. In May, Dr. Thomas D. Barrow, Honorary Life Member of the Foundation, gave the commence ment address to the College of Natural Sciences 1998 graduating class.

New Endowments Established

The children of Virgil and Mildred

Barnes, along with friends, have established the Virgil E. and Mildred L. Barnes Distinguished Lecture Series in Geology, to honor Dr. and Mrs. Barnes. Virgil was a long time member of the Bureau of Economic Geology and Professor Emeritus of the Department of Geological Sciences. His wife, Milk, was a frequent collaborator with Virgil, especially on tektites. Earnings from the endowment are dedicated to the Departments Distinguished Lecturers in the many areas of geology to which Virgil contributed.

Mr. James C. Patterson has established the James C. Patterson Fund for Excellence in the Geophysical Sciences. Jim spent much of his career with Conoco and has been a member of the Geology Foundation Advisory Council since 1989.

Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Vargas have cre ated the Glenn and Martha Vargas Fund for Gem and Mineral Curation. Since 1975, Glenn and Martha, who serve as lecturers