Southern Illinois University Carbondale Department of Geology

2010-2011 Calendar Year Dear Alumni and Friends, It has been about two years since we last communicated and I have much news to report on the Department of Geology. First, we added a new member of the faculty. As you may know, the Department has been without a petrologist ever since Dr. Charles Frank retired last century. I am happy to report that we were allowed to search for a petrologist during the fall, 2010 and we found an outstanding young scientist who joined us in August, 2011. Dr. Justin Filiberto works in planetary geology, with a focus on Mars and he also has a strong background in volcanology. Jokes about how he does his field work notwithstanding, he already has obtained external funds for his research program, hired a post-doctoral researcher, and his new laboratories are taking shape. We expect big things from Justin. Watch for a more detailed background on him later in the newsletter. I am also pleased to report that the Illinois Board of Higher Education has approved our petition to reactivate our Ph.D. Program. Four very strong doctoral students joined us last fall and we have several promising applicants for next year. We still participate in the Environmental Resources and Policy Program (ER&P), but the Doctoral Program in Geosciences gives many of our faculty access to students that do not fit well with ER&P’s mission. Since we last made contact, enrollment in the Department has increased dramatically. Just two years ago, we had only 35 undergraduate majors. In the fall of 2010 we hit 50, and in the fall of 2011 we hit 70. The growth in domestic energy and mineral resource production has energized geology programs around the country and we expect enrollments to continue to rise. Dr. John Marzolf suddenly retired in the summer of 2011. Unfortunately, because of longstanding severe budget problems, the University has not allowed us to search for his replacement. We are holding on with temporary instructors, but our graduate program suffers without a tenure track position in stratigraphy and sedimentology. We are hopeful that the University will allow us to search for John’s replacement during the fall, 2012. Parkinson has had some rather significant renovations over the past two years. Sue Rimmer was able to remodel two laboratories in the 201 complex and Justin Filiberto is remodeling room 213 as well as a room in the basement of Parkinson for his laboratories. Ken Anderson secured funds to do major renovations in the Coal Laboratory a few years back. Parkinson also had a facelift around its main entrance. The University replaced the very worn front steps, finding the

exact same limestone from an Indiana quarry. They also replaced the front doors with a design that recalls the original entry in 1928. The parking garage which ruined the view from the front of Parkinson was removed last fall, making way for a new student services building now under construction. MacAndrew stadium is also gone, replaced by the new Saluki football stadium located just east of a remodeled arena. Tragically, Dr. Russell R. Dutcher passed away on February 15, 2011. Russ was an internationally renowned scientist and educator and he provided strong, dignified leadership as Chair of the Department, and later as Dean of the College. The Department grew under his guidance and he was instrumental in establishing our Doctoral Program. The Department would not have the prestige it now holds without his efforts. We highlight many of his outstanding accomplishments in this newsletter. We still have a very active coal geology program and Sue Rimmer describes some of the research in organic petrology that she and her students do later in this newsletter. Although technically retired, Jack Crelling continues his work as a Research Professor in the Department. Ken Anderson is an organic geochemist and recently he and his research team developed a revolutionary technology that can dissolve coal in water. The method has been patented and will soon be commercialized. Homecoming this year is October 13th and we will have our annual picnic on Sunday, the 14th. Please try to join us and reconnect with the faculty and staff. You might also consider a visit in the Spring, 2013 when we have our annual banquet. Recently, this event has become very special with the phenomenal efforts of Katheryn Fifarek, Sue Rimmer, Steve Hurst, Anja Meksem, Ken and Lois Anderson, Susan Pinter and a host of student volunteers. A special thanks go to Kelsey Manuele, an undergraduate student that went way beyond the call of duty to make the event a success. More that eighty people participated in 2011, with a menu that included steak, roast lamb, and vegetarian lasagna. We now hold the event at Starview Vineyards, a beautiful setting in the hills of southern Illinois. We are also organizing an Alumni Field Trip to Hawaii over Thanksgiving. Watch for details later in the newsletter. The cost of sending a newsletter to all of our alumni now exceeds $2,200, so this may very well be the last one we send to everyone in print form. That does not mean we will not share news about the Department with you, but that we need to find a more cost-effective way. The electronic version of this newsletter with color photographs is posted on our Web page, (http://www.geology.siu.edu/) and perhaps that would

be the best way of sharing news with you in the future. We will need an email address for each of you to let you know where and when the newsletter is posted. We would also like to hear from you regularly, and email provides the most effective way of doing this. I encourage each of you to send an electronic message to geology@geo.siu.edu to us the day you receive the newsletter so that we can add your address to our files. This is also an opportunity to share your news with us and with other alumni. If you must receive a paper version of future newsletters, let us know and we will print one specially for you. Paper correspondence should be sent to: Katheryn Fifarek Alumni News Department of Geology Southern Illinois University Carbondale Carbondale, IL 62901. My best to everyone.

Steven P. Esling Associate Professor and Chair

Faculty

Ken Anderson, Professor; James Conder, Assistant Professor; John C. Crelling, Research Professor; Joe Devera, Adjunct Instructor; Steven Esling, Associate Professor and Chair; Eric Ferré, Professor; Richard H. Fifarek, Associate Professor; Justin Filiberto, Assistant Professor; Charles O. Frank, Emeritus; Stanley Harris, Emeritus; Scott E. Ishman, Professor; Liliana Lefticariu, Assistant Professor; John E. Marzolf, Emeritus; Nicholas Pinter, Professor; Susann Pinter, Lecturer; Sue Rimmer, Professor; Dale Ritter, Emeritus; Paul D. Robinson, Emeritus; John L. Sexton, Professor; James R. Staub, Emeritus; Jay Zimmerman, Emeritus.

Staff

Richard Black, Office Manager; William Huggett, Researcher; Katheryn Fifarek, Office Systems Specialist, Beth Ellison, GIS Specialist, Paul Giesting, Post-Doctoral Researcher in Petrology; Fredrik Huthoff, Post-Doctoral Researcher in Geomorphology; Anja Meksem, IGERT Office Manager

Geology Alumni Field Trip The SIU Geology Department is now organizing its 1st annual Geology Alumni Field Trip during Thanksgiving week of 2012. Entitled "Hawaii: Lava and Lore," this will be a 7-day, 6-night trip to the Big Island of Hawaii. The trip will visit Kilauea, Mauna Loa, Mauna Kea, and other geologic (and some touristic) features of the island. If there is an active and accessible lava flow at that time, trip participants will visit the flow.

The trip is open to SIU Geology alumni and family members. The cost will be $1450 pp, not including airfare from the mainland. The trip will include: double-occupancy accommodations in Hilo and the Kona area (single option available), full guided itinerary with SIU faculty and current students, local transportation, group activities and entrance fees, and most meals.

Kilauea Crater, Hawaii.

In order to keep costs modest, lodging will be in rental apartments (clean, spacious, and comfortable), with several group-cooked meals. The trip will end in Kona, and participants are encouraged to add additional days of beach time as their schedules (and wallets) permit. Participation will be limited, and trip planning depends on early registration. For more information and to reserve a preliminary spot, please contact Susann Pinter at spinter@geo.siu.edu or call the Geology office at 618-453-3351. Mahalo.

Sea turtle off the coast of Hawaii.

Russell R. Dutcher Obituary

By Jack Crelling for the International Journal of Coal Petrology Russell R. Dutcher, an outstanding professor, a talented researcher, a wise administrator, and a distinguished editor of The International Journal of Coal Geology, died on the 15th of February 2011 in Carbondale, IL after a short illness. He was born Oct. 28, 1927, in Brooklyn, NY and was raised in Montclair, NJ and in Sheffield, MA where he graduated from Berkshire School in 1945. He earned his B.A. degree in geology in 1951 from University of Connecticut, his M.S. degree in geology in 1953 from University of Massachusetts and his Ph. D. degree in geology from the Pennsylvania State University in 1960. He then became the assistant director of the Coal Research Section at Penn State where he worked closely with William Spackman. He became a faculty member in the Department of Geology and Geophysics at Penn State in 1963. In 1970, he joined the faculty of Southern Illinois University Carbondale (SIUC) as chair of the Department of Geology. He established the Coal Characterization Laboratory in the department. He was also instrumental in starting the Coal Research Center at SIUC and served as its first director. In 1983 he was appointed Dean of the College of Science at SIUC and served in that position until his retirement in 1993. His main areas of research were coal carbonization, coal metamorphism, applied coal petrology, and coalbed methane. His research on coal metamorphism due to igneous activity on coal seams is still cited and still being followed up by current researchers. He did some of the earliest work using the electron microprobe on coal and mineral matter as well as using laser-mass spectrometry for coal analysis. He also did innovative studies on the microhardness of macerals and high temperature and pressure experimental studies of anthracite coals. He published 39 journal papers on these topics. He edited the American Society for Testing and Materials Special Technical Publication 661, Field Description of Coal and co-edited the Geological Society of America Special Paper No. 153, Carbonaceous Materials as Indicators of Metamorphism. He also co-edited both the road log and invited papers volumes of the IX International Conference on Coal held in 1979. Based on his early work on coal composition related to carbonization he was a co-recipient of the Outstanding Research Paper of the Year Award from the American Iron and Steel Institute in1960. Forty years later in 2000 he was honored with the Gilbert H. Cady Award from the Coal Geology Division of the Geological Society of America for his outstanding contributions to the field of coal geology. As a professor he was a gifted and inspiring teacher who demanded the best from his students. He taught courses in physical geology, field geology, and coal petrology. He was well known for his short courses in coal petrology sponsored by the Geological Society of America and the Society for Sedimentary Geology. Under his guidance seventeen students completed their M. S. degrees and three completed their Ph. D. degrees in coal geology and coal petrology. In 1984, he

received the Gordon H. Wood Jr. Memorial Award of the Eastern Section of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists for outstanding contributions to the science of coal geology and in recognition of a long and distinguished teaching career.

Russell R. Dutcher He viewed professional service as a responsibility and served on a number of university, government, civic, and professional committees and organizations. He served as both vice-president and president of the Coal Geology Division of the Geological Society of America, the Society for Organic Petrology, the Eastern Section of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, the SIUC chapter of the Society of Sigma Xi, the Midwest Coal Section of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers, and the Yellowstone-Bighorn Research Association. He also served in positions in the American Society for Testing and Materials and the American Institute of Professional Geologists. In recognition of his service he was awarded the Distinguished Service Award by the Coal Geology Division of the Geological Society of America, the Martin C. Van Couvering Memorial Award from the American Institute of Professional Geologists for his outstanding contributions, and the first “Russ Dutcher” Distinguished Service Award from the Yellowstone-Bighorn Research Association. After the retirement of William Spackman, the founder and first editor, he took over the International Journal of Coal Geology as Editor-in Chief. He oversaw the publication of 29 volumes (64 issues) of the journal including 14 special issues. He added a number of talented editors and reviewers, encouraged industrial contributions, and maintained the international nature of the journal. He became honorary editor in January of 1999.

In Memoriam Russell R. Dutcher

Remarks by Jack Crelling at the Memorial: I first met Russ Dutcher at the annual GSA meeting in New York City in 1963. I was trying to get into a grad school Master’s program and one of my professors from the University of Delaware who had gone to graduate school with Russ introduced us. Russ was then the chair of the admissions committee for the Penn State Geology Department. He asked me how my grades were and I took a transcript from Delaware from my pocket and gave it to him. The fact that I had a transcript with me must have impressed him (my grades certainly didn’t) because he teased me about it more than once over the years of our association. He took a real chance on me and accepted me into Penn State for the spring quarter.

John Utgaard and Russ Dutcher at Homecoming sometime in

the 1970’s. When I went to Penn State that spring it was the furthest west that I had ever been in my life. That summer he arranged for me to take the field course in Lima, MT and then took me to Colorado as his field assistant. Of course, like Russ, I immediately loved the west. Being his field assistant in the Spanish Peaks area was the experience of a lifetime. He taught me how to observe geology in the field, how to take proper samples, and in fact he started to teach me the craft of research. Being with him was also a lot of fun and we had some adventures together. He took me underground into a coal mine near Walsenberg, CO. It was my first time underground and I will never forget it. The miners were using a technique called conventional mining where they drill holes in the coal at the face of the mine, pack them with explosives, and then blast the

coal loose. Russ and I were collecting a channel sample in an area away from the active face of the mine. The mine was not high enough to stand or even sit so we were collecting the sample while laying on our bellies. When the miners detonated the explosives the whole mine shook and we could hear and feel the blast. In truth, I was beginning to get a little scared but I looked over at Russ and he seemed unconcerned so I figured everything was OK and I have never been scared in a coal mine since then. Another time we were looking for a reported outcrop of spheroidal coal in a canyon near the town of Hastings, CO. While we were both geologists and certainly could read topographic maps, we never did find the coal or the town. We drove around in the area where the map indicated the town was but there we could find no sign of the town except one ruined building with two walls still standing and a few foundations. It was actually a bit spooky. The mystery was solved when we found a tombstone-like monument that said:

In memory of the 121 men that lost their lives in the Hastings mine explosion, April 27, 1917.

After the explosion the town ceased to exist and the mining company cleared the land to avoid taxes on improved land. When we checked our map, the latest one available from the USGS in 1964, it was dated 1895. I have used this experience to urge my students to always check the dates on their maps. One final story from that summer was when we were driving along the back roads in the canyons in the Spanish Peaks. At the entrance to one canyon up on a bluff we saw a concert structure that to me looked just like a pill box. Russ thought that I had been watching too many John Wayne movies and gave me a hard time about the idea. However, when we got back to the town where we were staying, La Veta, CO, I asked the local historian, Proctor Hayes, about what I had seen. Surprisingly, he said it was indeed a pill box that the striking coal miners had built to protect their camp. There had been considerable labor related violence in the area, and indeed, the site of the Ludlow Massacre, where 19 men, women, and children were killed by the Colorado National Guard in 1917, was nearby. I remember visiting this site with Russ. Russ taught me the craft of research in the laboratory as well. He taught me many lab techniques including the art of using a microscope to point count macerals to determine coal composition and the use of reflectance measurements to determine coal rank. (We did not have computers or even digital equipment in those days. The reflectance detector I used was a volt meter with a needle that swung back and forth.) However, it was still good data. Another professor asked me to measure the reflectance on some jet (a type of coal) that he was studying. Sometime later, after the equipment had become considerably better, he had somebody else check the reflectance of the same sample. The results were the same. Russ always kept up with the latest developments in analytical equipment. When I was doing my thesis work he sent me to the research labs of Bethlehem Steel to check on my samples

with some new instruments. Seven years later after completing a tour in the army and my Ph. D. I went to work in that very same lab. When I arrived here at SIU the Coal Characterization Lab was the best equipped coal lab in the country. Russ had even obtained a state of the art fluorescence microscope that Bethlehem Steel didn’t have. Russ had strong feelings about searching the scientific literature and he made sure his students did good literature searches. In my literature search for my Master’s degree I came across a paper by a fellow named Harry Marsh from Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England. I would meet him sometime later at an NSF sponsored meeting that Russ sent me to when I was a new professor here. I invited Harry to visit SIU. It was the start of a long association. Harry came here as a visiting professor for three years after he retired and he added much to our coal effort. Russ and I became good friends with Harry. Russ also taught us to contribute to the literature. As soon as I completed my Master’s thesis we wrote it up and submitted it to the GSA Bulletin. I also recall a long weekend here at SIU when we completed two short papers. We also taught a number of short courses together and published the short course notes.

With all of these things Russ taught me the art of being a professor. He was a firm and demanding taskmaster but also kind and understanding. He liked to have fun and he enjoyed being with his students and colleagues. I remember beer seminars with him from State College, PA, to Red Lodge, MT, to Trinidad, CO and places in between. He had a good sense of humor. At one of the annual Geology Department parties at Penn State his graduate students really wanted to play a joke on him. Because he was very protective of his Land Rover field vehicle we wanted to steal the spare tire and decorate it for him. Anticipating our intent he carefully locked it up in his garage the night of the party. So after he had arrived at the party some of the students went to his house, knocked on the door and asked the baby sitter to speak to his son, Rick. When he came to the door they asked him if he wanted to play a trick

on his father. Of course, Rick agreed. Russ took the presentation of his garishly decorated tire in very good humor. Russ was my mentor, my friend, and my colleague. I miss him. I will end my remarks with a quote from Shakespeare that brings Russ to mind:

His life was gentle; and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up, And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN!

Remarks by Sue Rimmer at the Memorial: When I first arrived at SIU, I had only been in the US for a couple of years. College seemed a bit strange here in the US; come to think of it most things did. But here in the department, I found a home. A great group of faculty including Russ Dutcher, John Utgaard, and Bill Hood took me under their wings. I went to field camp, taught by Russ and John (I was even one of those who didn't make the rendezvous point ... long story there). But when graduation came, Russ called up Hal Gluskoter at the Illinois State Geological Survey and said "Hire her!"... which he did, in the Coal Section, and so began my lifelong career in coal geology. I am the latest of a train of coal people to go from Penn State to SIUC: Art Cohen, Alex Cameron, John Jobling, Jack Crelling, and, of course, Russ Dutcher. For me, it is like coming home again. I will always have fond memories of Russ Dutcher and be forever grateful for the influence he had on my early career.

Russell Dutcher Publications Published Papers Berry, W.F., and Dutcher, R.R., 1955, Coal Petrography: Remarks on Terminology and Methodology: The Compass, vol. 32, no. 4, pp. 305-318. Dutcher, R.R, Berry, W.F., and Koppe, E.F., 1957, Coal Petrography: Aid to Science Industry: Mineral Industries, vol. 26, no. 6, pp. 1-4. Dutcher, R.R., Fenn, J.C., Flint, N.K., and Williams, E.G., 1959, The Pennsylvanian of Western Pennsylvania: Geol. Soc. of America Guidebook for Field Trips, Pittsburgh Meeting, pp. 61-114. Dutcher, R.R., Moses, RG., and Mansfield, S.P., 1959. The Transition from Bituminous to Anthracite Coals: Preprint of Am. Chem. Soc., Spring Meetings, pp. 59-62. Walsh, M., Jr., and Dutcher, R.R., 1959, Properties and Reactions Exhibited by Anthracite Lithotypes Under Thermal Stress: Preprint of Am. Chem. Soc., Spring Meetings, pp. 63-79. Spackman, W., Berry, W.F., Dutcher, R.R., and Brisse, AH., 1961, Coal and Coal Seam Composition as Related to Preparation and Carbonization: Am. Iron and Steel Inst. Regional Technical Meetings - 1960, pp. 403-450.

Dutcher, R.R., White, E., and Spackman, W., 1963, Ash Distribution in Coal Components - Use of the Electron Probe: Proc. 22nd Iron-making Conf., Iron and Steel Div. of A.I.M.E., vol. 22, pp. 463-483. Babu, S.K., and Dutcher, R.R., 1964, Petrological Investigation of Two Gondwana Coal Seams from Madhya Predesh, India: Current Science, vol. 33, no. 15, pp. 457-458. Babu, S.K., and Dutcher, R.R., 1966, Petrographic Investigation of Two Gondwana Seams from Madhya Predesh, India: Am. Chem. Soc., Advances in Chemistry Series No. 55, p. 284 - 306. Dutcher, R.R, Campbell, Donna L., and Thornton, C.P., 1966, Coal Metamorphism and Igneous Intrusives in Colorado: Am. Chem. Soc., Advances in Chemistry Series No. 55, pp. 708-723. Dutcher, R.R., Jones, E.B., Lovell, H.L., Parizek, R.R., and Stefanko, R., 1966, Mine Drainage· Part I: Abatement, Disposal, Treatment: Mineral Industries, vol. 36, no. 3, pp. 1-7, entered in Congressional Record. Dutcher, R.R., Jones, E.B., Lovell, H.L., Parizek, R.R., and Stefanko, R, 1967, Mine Drainage Part ll: The Hydrogeologic Setting: Mineral Industries, vol. 36, no. 4, pp. 1-7, entered in Congressional Record. Hryckowian, E., Dutcher, R.R., and Dachille, R., 1967, Experimental Studies of Anthracite Coals at High Pressures and Temperatures, Economic Geology, vol. 62, no. 4, pp. 517-539. Reidenouer, D.R., Williams, E.G., and Dutcher, R.R., 1967, The Relationship Between Paleotopography and Sulfur Distribution in Some Coals of Western Pennsylvania: Economic Geology, vol. 62, pp. 632-647. Crelling, J.C., and Dutcher, R.R., 1968, A Petrologic Study of a Thermally Altered Coal From the Purgatoire River Valley of Colorado: Bull. Geol. Soc. of America, vol. 79, pp. 1375-1386. Vastola, F.l., Pirone, AJ., Given, P.H., and Dutcher, R.R., 1970, The Analysis of Coal with the Laser-Mass Spectrometer, Spectrometry of Fuels, Plenum Press, pp. 29-36. Newton, Goeffrey B., and Dutcher, R.R., 1970, An Inexpensive Student Sample Splitter, Jour. of Sed. Pet., vol. 40, pp. 1051-1052. Podwysocki, M.H., and Dutcher, Russell R., 1971, Coal Dikes that Intrude Lamprophyre Sills: Purgatoire River Valley, Colorado, Bull. Econ. Geol., vol. 66, no. 2, pp. 267-280. Flueckinger, Linda A., Dutcher, Russell R and Cameron, Alex R., 1972, Statistical Evaluation of Coal Compositional Data, Jour. of Geology, vol. 80, pp. 237-247.

Dutcher, Russell R., 1975, Coal Extraction and Utilization Research Center: Proc. of Illinois Mining Institute, 83rd Annual Meeting, p. 93-95. Harvey, Richard D., Crelling, John C., Dutcher, R.R., and Schleicher, J.A, 1979, Petrology and Chemistry of Coals in the Illinois Basin, vo1. II, Field Trip 9, IX-ICC, May 1979, p. 127-142. Crelling, J.C., and Dutcher, R.R., 1980, Fluorescent Macerals in Colorado Coking Coals, Resource Ser. No. 10, Colo. Geol. Survey, p. 58-61. Childs, Susan M., Crelling, J.C., and Dutcher, R.R., Goolsby, S.M., 1980, Petrology and Coking Potential of Selected Coals from the Piceance Creek Basin, Colorado, Resource Ser. No. 10, Colo. Geol. Survey, p. 55-57. Crelling, J.C., and Dutcher, R.R., 1980, Principles and Applications of Coal Petrology: Short Course Notes No.8, Soc. Econ. Paleontologists and Mineralogists, 127 p. Dutcher, Russell R., Crelling, John C., and Cascia, Malvin C., 1982, Petrography and Fluorescence Properties of Bituminous Coals of the Spanish Peaks Region, Colorado; Bull. 118, Utah Geological and Mineralogical Survey, pp. 179-186. Crelling, John E., Dutcher, Russell R., and Lange, Rolf V., 1982, Petrographic and Fluorescence Properties of Resinite Macerals from Western U.S. Coals, Bull, 118, Utah Geological and Mineralogical Survey, p. 187-191. Crelling, J.C., and Dutcher, R.R., 1982, Principles and Applications of Coal Petrology: Short Course Notes No.8, Soc. Econ. Paleontologists and Mineralogists. Revised and reprinted, second edition, 127 p. Dutcher, Linda, A.F., Dutcher, Russell, R., and Utgaard, John E., 1983, Geology of the No. 5 and No. 6 Coals of Southern Illinois, in Frank, C.O., ed., Guidebook for Field Trips, Eastern Section Mtgs., Am. Assoc. Petrol. Geologists, p. 1-52. Dutcher, Russell R., Gunter, Mickey and Crelling, John C., 1984, Field Acquisition, Processing, Storing and Monitoring of Premium Coal Samples, Preprint Vol, 1984 Int. Gas Research Conf., Gas Research Inst., p. 251-257. Dutcher, Russell R., Gunter, Mickey and Crelling, John C., 1985, Field Acquisition, processing, storing and monitoring of premium coal samples, Proc. 1984 Int. Gas Research Conf. pp. 356-366. Dutcher, Linda A.F., Jobling, John L. and Dutcher, Russell R., 1986, Stratigraphy, Sedimentology and Structural Geology of Laramide Synorogenic Sediments Marginal to the Beartooth Mountains, Montana and Wyoming, in Garrison, Paul, B., Ed., Geology of the Beartooth Uplift and Adjacent Basins, Montana Geology Society - Y.B.RA. 50th Anniversary Guidebook, pp. 33-52.

Foose, R.M., Wise, Donald U., Fanshawe, J.R., Dutcher, Linda, A.F., Dutcher, Russell R. and French, Don E., 1986, Tectonics and Geologic History of the Beartooth Uplift, Road Log: Red Lodge to Dead Indian Hill via Clarks Fork Canyon, in Garrison, Paul, B., Ed., Geology of the Beartooth Uplift and Adjacent Basins, Montana Geological Society - Y.B.R.A. 50th Anniversary Guidebook, pp. 291-306. Ritter, Dale F. and Dutcher, Russell R., 1990, Geomorphic Controls on the Origin and Location of the Tolman Ranch Ventifact Site, Park County, Wyoming, USA, Jour. of Geology, vol. 98, pp. 943-954. Close, Jay C. and Dutcher, Russell R., 1990, Update on Coalbed Methane Potential of Raton Basin, Colorado and New Mexico, Soc. of Petrol. Engineers, SPE 20667, pp. 497-508. Close, Jay, and Dutcher, Russell R., 1990, Prediction of Permeability Trends and Origins in Coal-Bed Methane Reservoirs of the Raton Basin, New Mexico and Colorado, in Tectonic Development of the Southern Sangre de Cristo Mountains, New Mexico, New Mexico Geol. Soc. Guidebook 41st Field Conference, pp. 387-395. Dutcher, L.A.F. and Dutcher, R.R., 1991, Coal Utilization, the Environment, and the Role of Geologists. In: D.C. Peters (Editor), Geology in Coal Resource Utilization, Energy Mineral Div. of Am. Assoc. of Petrol. Geologists, Tech Books, Fairfax, VA. pp. 453-456. Close, Jay C. and Dutcher, Russell R., 1993, Processes and Timing of Coa1ification in the Raton Basin, Colorado and New Mexico, Proc. 1993 Intl. Coalbed Methane Symp., Birmingham, Al., pp. 383-393. Close, Jay C. and Dutcher, Russell R, 2002, Geomorphology of Drainage Patterns: Clues to Coal Gas Natural Fracture Timing, Orientation and Location, Raton Basin, Colorado-New Mexico, Rocky Mt. Assoc. of Geologists, Coalbed Methane of North America, II. pp. 25-48. Dutcher, Russell R. and Spackman, William, 2002, Memorial to Alexander Rankin Cameron 1927-2000, Geol. Soc. America Memorials vol. 32, pp.l-4. Published Abstracts Barthauer, G.L., and Dutcher, R.R., 1954, Evidence of Need for Further Subclassification of Petrographic Entities: in summaries of papers presented at the Bureau of Mines Conf. on Coal Microscopy, Nov. 8 & 9, pp. 7-8. Dutcher, R.R., and Spackman, W., 1954, Thin Section, Polished Surface and Broken Opal Analysis: A Comparative: in summaries of papers presented at the Bureau of Mines Conf. on Coal Microscopy, Nov. 8 & 9, pp. 10-11. Dutcher, R.R., Trotter, C.L., and Spackman, W., 1957, Petrographic Examination of Coals from the Arctic Slopes of

Alaska: Bull. Geol. Soc. Am., vol. 68, no. 12, pt. 2, pp. 1719-1920. Mansfield, S.P., and Dutcher, R.R., 1958, Petrography and Mode of Sulfur Occurrence of a Column of Pittsburgh Seam Coal: Bull. Geol. Soc. of Am., vol. 69, no. 12, pt. 2, pp. 1609- 1610. Davis, A., Dutcher, R.R., Dachille, F., and Spackman, W., 1960, High Temperature-Pressure Studies of Wood: Bull. Geol. Soc. Am., vol. 71, no. 12, pt. 2, pp. 1848. Dutcher, R.R., and Spackman, W., 1960, Electron Microscopic Observation of Vitrinitic Materials: Bull. Geol. Soc. Am., vol. 71, no. 12, pt. 2, p. 1855. Mansfield, S.P., and Spackman, W., and Dutcher, R.R., 1960, Sulfur Studies of Selected Bituminous Coal Seams in Pennsylvania: Bull. Geol. Soc. Am., vol. 71, no. 2, pt. 2, p. 1922. Dutcher, R.R., 1961, Physical, Chemical and Thermal Properties of Selected Vitrinitic Substances: Dissertation Abstracts, Vol. XXI, no. 9. Dutcher, R.R., and Neavel, R.C., 1961, Vitrinoid Material from a Coalified Log in Cretaceous Sandstone: Geol. Soc. Am. Spec. Paper 68, pp. 168-169. Spackman, W., and Dutcher, R.R., 1961, Microhardness Variation, with Temperature, of Vitrinitic Materials: Geol. Soc. Am. Spec. Paper 68, pp. 276-277. Hryckowian,E., Dachille, R., and Dutcher, R.R., 1962, Pressure Temperature Studies of Anthracite in Closed Systems to 2Kb and 900oC: Geol. Soc. Am. Spec. Paper 73, p. 175. Campbell, Donna L., and Dutcher, R.R., 1963, Study of Natural Coke Xenolith: Geol. Soc. of Am. Spec. Paper 76, p. 27-28. Vastola, F.J., Pirone, AJ., Given, P.R., and Dutcher, R.R., 1967, The Analysis of Coal with the Laser Mass Spectrometer, Abstracts of Papers, 154th Mtg. Am. Chem. Soc., pp. 1059. Reidenouer, D.R., Williams, E.G., and Dutcher, R.R., 1968, Relationship Between Paleotopography and the Distribution of Pyritic Sulfur in Some Coals of Western Pennsylvania: Geol. Soc. Am. Spec. Paper 115, pp. 287-288. Flueckinger, Linda., Dutcher, R.R., and Cameron, A.R., 1969, Statistical Evaluation of Coal Compositional Data, Geol. Soc. America Spec. Paper 121, pp. 99-100. Podwysocki, Melvin H., and Dutcher, Russell R., 1969, A Petrographic and Chemical Study of Dikes Intruding Lamprophyre Sills in the Purgatoire River Valley of Colorado, Geol. Soc. America, Spec. Paper 121, p. 240. Vastola, P.J., Given, P.H., Dutcher, R.R., and Pirone, A.K., 1970, A Laser-Micropyrolosis System for the Study of

Organic Sediments and Inclusions: Adv. in Organic Geochemistry, 1966, Proc: of London Conf., Pergamon Press, p. 427. Dutcher, Russell R., Crelling, J.C., and Podwysocki, M.H., 1970, Thermal Alteration of Coals and Coal Materials, Geol. Soc. Amer., Abs. with Programs, v. 2, no. 7, pp. 543-544. Flueckinger, L.A., and Dutcher, R.R., 1972, Stratigraphy, Petrography and Origin of Tertiary Sediments of the Front of the Beartooth Mountains, Wyoming-Montana, Geol. Soc. Amer. Abs. with Programs, v. 4, no. 5, pp. 320-321. Jobling, John L., and Dutcher, R.R., 1972, Laramide Sedimentary Rocks Adjacent to Northeast Front of the Beartooth Mountains, Red Lodge, Montana, Geol. Soc. Amer. Abs. with Programs, v. 4, no. 5, pp. 327-328. Dutcher, Russell R., White, E.W., Lebiedzik, J., and Hoover, M.R., 1973, Quantitative SEM Image Analyses - Application to Coal and Coke Microscopy, Geol. Soc. Amer. Abs. with Programs, v. 5, no. 2, pp. 157-158. Lebiedzik, J. and Dutcher, R.R., 1977, Characterization of Pyrite in Polished Coal Sections Using Computer Controlled Image Dissector Camera on a Reflected Light Microscope, Geol. Soc. of Amer. Abs. with Program, v. 9, no. 5, p. 621. Dutcher, R.R., Ritter, D.P., and Frank, E.O., 1979, Ventifacts and Possible Human Activity in Northwestern Wyoming, Geol. Soc. of Amer., Abs. with Programs, v. 12, no. 6, pp. 270-271. Crelling, J.C., Chinweze, K.F., Childs, S., and Dutcher, R.R., 1979, Fluorescent Macerals in Illinois Coals, Ill. State Acad. of Sci., Abs. of Ann. Mtg., pp. 36. Chugh, Y.P., Scher, P.L., and Dutcher, R.R., 1979, Effect of Lithotypes on the Strength of Herrin (No.6) Coal, Ill. State Acad. Sci., Abs. of Ann. Mtg., pp. 37. Dutcher, Russell R., and Utgaard, John E., 1979, Geology of the Illinois Coal Basin, First Conf. on Ground Control Problems in the Illinois Coal Basin, Southern Illinois University Mining Eng., Abs., p. 2. Crelling, John C., and Dutcher, Russell R., 1979, Secondary Resinite in Some Utah Coals, Geol. Soc. of Amer., Abs. with Prog., vol. 11, no. 7, pp. 406. Markowski, Antonette K., and Dutcher, Russell R., 1983, Geology and Petrology of Tertiary Lignites Adjacent to Beartooth Mountain Front, Montana-Wyoming, abs., Bull. Am. Assoc. Petrol Geol., v. 67, no. 9, p. 1457. Cohen, Mitchell, L. and Dutcher, Russell R., 1983, Petrography of Variously Ranked Puget Lowlands Coals, abs., Geol. Soc. Am., Abs. w. Prog., v. 15, no. 6, pp. 546-547.

Dutcher, Russell R., 1984, Alteration of two samples of Western U.S. Coals Under Extreme Storage Conditions, Geol. Soc. Am., Abs. w. Programs, vol. 16, no. 6, p. 497. Close, Jay C. and Dutcher, Russell R., 1991, Depositional Environments and Geometry of Coalbed Natural Gas Reservoirs in the Raton Basin, Colorado and New Mexico Cabs.), Bull. Am. Assoc. Petrol Geologists, vol. 75, no. 6, p. 1124. Dutcher, Russell R., 1994, Some Thoughts on What We Do, The Professional Geologist, vol 31, no. 9, p. 16.

Russ Dutcher at the microscope. Laboratory Manuals Dutcher, Russell R., Frank, C. O., Mansfield, C.F., and Zimmerman, Jay, Jr., 1976, Earth Science Laboratory Manual, Burgess Pub. Co., 93 pp. Dutcher, Russell R., Frank, C. O., Mansfield, C.F., and Zimmerman, Jay, Jr., 1977, Earth Science Laboratory Manual, Burgess Pub. Co., 2nd ed., 99 pp. Frank, C. O., Torzynski, C.A., Mansfield, C., Dutcher, R.R., and Zimmerman, J., 1989, Earth Science, Burgess Publishing Co., Edina, MN, 237 pp. Book Reviews Dutcher, R.R., 1970, Rev., Coal and Coal Bearing Strata, Ed. by D.G. Murchinson and T.S. Westoll, Jour. of Geol., v. 78, no. 3, pp. 375-376. Dutcher, Russell R., 1970, Rev. Coal Mining Geology by Iain A. Williamson, Jour. of Geol, v. 78, no. 6, p. 752.

Editorships Carbonaceous Materials as Indicators of Metamorphism, Geol. Soc. Amer., Spec. Paper No. 153, edited by R.R. Dutcher, P.A. Hacquebard, J.M. Schopf and J.A. Simon, Foreword by Russell R. Dutcher, 1974, 108 pp. Field Description of Coal, American Society for Testing & Materials, Spec. Tech. Pub. 661, edited by Russell R. Dutcher, Foreword and Summary by R.R. Dutcher, 1978, 71 pp. Depositional and structural history of the Pennsylvanian System of the Illinois Basin, IX-ICC, Part I Roadlog, edited by J.E. Palmer and R.R. Dutcher, 1979, 116 pp. Depositional and structural history of the Pennsylvanian System of the Illinois Basin, IX-ICC, Part II invited Papers, edited by J.E. Palmer and R.R. Dutcher, 1979, 158 pp. Organic Petrology Research at Southern Illinois

University By Sue M. Rimmer: Since coming to SIU in January 2009, I have been able to build on the renowned coal petrology and geochemistry infrastructure established by my colleagues Jack Crelling and Ken Anderson, adding state-of-the-art facilities in organic petrology, density-gradient centrifugation, and x-ray diffraction. In addition to wrapping up thesis and dissertations with my students at the University of Kentucky, I have also had the opportunity to work with some excellent students here and start collaborative work with several colleagues.

Figure 1. Maggie McPherson Sanders performing vitrinite reflectance analysis of Antarctic coal using our new Leica reflected-light microscope equipped with a J&M vitrinite

reflectance/spectral fluorescence system.

Over the past three years, the main thrusts of our research in organic petrology at SIUC have been on intruded coals (here in Illinois, Colorado, and Antarctica), black shale depositional systems (focusing on the Devonian-Mississippian New Albany Shale and the Ohio Shale), and controls on sulfur content in coal, specifically looking at roof rocks above the Herrin (No. 6) Coal. We have also had the opportunity to work with colleagues on more applied aspects, looking into the role of different macerals and minerals in gasification processes (with Tomasz Wiltowski in Mechanical Engineering and Energy Processes) and in the novel OHD (Oxidative Hydrothermal Dissolution) process developed by Ken Anderson and Jack Crelling.

Figure 2. Luke Hagemann helping Wahid Rahman collect samples underground at a site in southern Illinois for Wahid's

study on intruded coal. The coal he is sampling here is directly next to the intrusion and is extremely hard to sample

(and it has a vitrinite reflectance above 4%).

Why the interest in intruded coals? Some recent publications have linked intrusion of coals and organic-rich shales to climatic shifts and extinctions (such as the end-Permian and the Toarcian extinction events). The idea is that the intrusions caused widespread release of methane, an effective greenhouse gas. To test this hypothesis we have looked at intruded organic-rich rocks (including coals) to see if there is any isotopic evidence for this; one would expect to see an enrichment in d13C of the coal or dispersed organics approaching an intrusion as methane gas would have been enriched in 12C rather than 13C. Maggie McPherson Sanders, one of the students who transferred with me to SIUC from Kentucky, has just completed her M.S. thesis as part of an NSF-funded project that looked at the petrography and geochemistry of coals from Antarctica. These Permian-age coals are heavily intruded by Jurassic dikes and sills associated with the Karoo-Ferrer Large Igneous Province, and provide an opportunity to evaluate the influence of such intrusions on the isotopic composition of coals. We are working on these sediments because some of the largest isotopic excursions recorded at the Permo-Triassic

boundary have been determined on organic matter collected from Antarctica. But as the coals and shales were later intruded during the Jurassic, does the organic matter accurately record changes in the isotopic composition of the Permian atmosphere? These are amazing coals of extremely high rank including anthracites, meta-anthracites, and natural cokes, with some even approaching graphite. The extent of the contact metamorphism and the higher heat flow in general turned out to be much more extensive than previously thought (and Maggie looked at over 150 samples from the U.S. Polar Rock Repository at Ohio State University) (Fig. 1). This thermal alteration has likely influenced the isotopic composition of the coals and this must be considered in any interpretation of atmospheric conditions at the end of the Permian.

Figure 3. Wahid Rahman running our new density-gradient centrifugation set up to separate individual coal macerals for

his work on intruded coals. Following up on this work, Ph.D. student Mohammed (Wahid) Rahman is looking at maceral-specific isotopic changes approaching intrusions (Fig. 2). Most of the earlier isotopic work on intruded coals and sediments has been done on bulk organic matter; our next challenge is to understand how individual macerals change geochemically, including their isotopic compositions. To do this we are using the new density-gradient centrifugation (DGC) facility we set up in the coal lab (Fig. 3) with equipment purchased by an NSF grant while I was still at Kentucky and was able to transfer here to SIUC. Bill Huggett has been invaluable in setting up this new lab and instructing Wahid on this unique procedure. So we now have two complete DGC facilities, one here on campus and one out at the lab in Carterville. One of the intriguing studies we have done on intruded sediments involved a return to the M.S. thesis site of none other than Jack Crelling. Quite by coincidence, I sampled the exact same site along the Purgatoire River in southern Colorado with one of my Ph.D. students at Kentucky (Lois Yoksoulian) a few summers back during a statewide search for intruded coals. These samples baffled us for a while as the textures we were seeing did not make much sense. Jack held the key. Whereas we had samples of shale adjacent to an intrusion that were accessible not far above the road level,

Jack had sampled high along the road cut in the coal itself (there are photographs of a young Jack Crelling balancing on a very tall, rickety ladder) now inaccessible as it is covered with shotcrete, and he still had the samples and pellets. Then it all started to make sense. By comparing our samples to the coal itself, we realized that what we had found was a pocket of natural petroleum coke - we think the first ever reported (Fig. 4). We are currently writing up the paper for publication (although we do have a teaser published in the Outcrop – a newsletter published by the Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists).

Figure 4. Photomicrograph of natural petroleum coke from an intruded shale along the Purgatoire River near Medina Plaza, CO. Scale bar is 20 microns. Other areas of work include that of Seare Ocubalidet, Jesse Sanders, and Luke Hagemann who are working on depositional environments of the New Albany and Ohio shales. Seare and Jesse are using trace-element redox parameters and C-S-Fe systematics to understand the extent of anoxia during accumulation of these important source rocks. They are using an extensive data set on black shale cores completed in the 1980’s at the Center for Applied Energy Research (CAER) in Lexington, KY, much of which has not been published in the literature. Luke has just defended his M.S. thesis and used another approach, pyrite framboid size analysis, to evaluate the redox conditions in these black shales. With these data we should be able to ascertain just how extensive periods of anoxia were (or possibly were not) during organic matter accumulation. In addition, I have started to develop some collaborative work with Scott Elrick of the Illinois Geological Survey. Working with M.S. student Josh Linthicum, we are looking at the Energy Shale above the Herrin (No. 6) Coal. Previously described as a crevasse splay, this shale appears to be made up of cyclical thick and thin laminae and may represent a tidal deposit. Beneath this shale the coal is thicker and higher quality (representing the "Quality Circle") than in other places in the basin, so understanding the nature of the depositional setting of this roof rock is important for refining coal exploration models.

So, it has been an exciting (and busy) three years since I returned to Carbondale. It is great to be in a dynamic department such as this and to have such good colleagues for collaboration, both here in the department, and across the campus and the state.

Geology Graduates 2010

John M. Larson, May,2010, BS

Joseph L. Mulvaney-Norris, May,2010, BS Zachary S. Ishman, December, 2010, BS David W. Melosi, December, 2010, BS

Shibaji Chatterjee, May, 2010, MS Douglas A. Kolb, May, 2010, MS? Michael C. Marsh, May, 2010, MS Patrick D. McGill, May, 2010, MA Luis A. Parra Avila, May, 2010, MS

Yosief T. Segid, May, 2010, MS Bradford L. Luckett, August, 2010, MA Rachel L. Berger, December, 2010, MS

Christine D. Black, December, 2010, MA Megan L. Carlson, December, 2010, MS

Elizabeth N. Evanoff, December, 2010, MS Molly O. Patterson, December, 2010, MS Anthony J. Stevens, December, 2010, MS

Geology Graduates 2011

Allison J. Albert, May, 2011, BS

Jennifer R. Barrick, May, 2011, BS Ross H. Basnett, May, 2011, BS Bibi A. Gillum, May, 2011, BS

Matt T. Hebbard, May, 2011, BS John R. Kinney, May, 2011, BS

Daniel J. Wiemeler, May, 2011, BS

Kenny D. Basnett, May, 2011, MA Jennifer R. Brand, May, 2011, MS

Artur M. Canumbila, May, 2011, MA Devin Gillum, May, 2011, MA

Nicole Bellino, December, 2011, MS Kevin C. Butak, December, 2011, MS

Samantha J. Hayes, December, 2011, MA Nathaniel T. Liodas, December, 2011, MS

Sarah A. Friedman, August, 2011, MS Karen E. Godfrey, August, 2011, MS Dion K. Joseph, August, 2011, MS

Samantha E. Kroenke, August, 2011, MS Rajesh Singh, August, 2011, MS

Brendan Lutz, December, 2011, PhD

New Theses in Geology Rachel BERGER- Foraminifera and Associated Environments of Bahía Inglesa, North-Central Chile (27°s) Megan L. CARLSON- Using HAZUS-MH as a Floodplain Management Tool: Evaluation of River Engineering Effects on Flood Losses for the Middle Mississippi River Elizabeth EVANOFF- Assessment of Causal Mechanisms on Flood Conveyance on The Tisza River, Hungary Using One-Dimensional Retro- and Scenario Modeling Doug KOLB- The Quaternary Geology of the Evansville, Illinois 7.5 Minute Quadrangle Michael MARSH- Magma Dynamics in Gabbroic Sills, Karoo, South Africa: Constraints From Magnetic Investigations And Magnetic Fabrics Molly O'Rourke PATTERSON- Foraminifera Fauna Recovered From Andrill’s (ANtarctica geological DRILLing program) Southern McMurdo Sound (SMS) Project Yosief SEGID- Evaluation of The Tab-Simco Acid Mine Drainage Treatment System: Water Chemistry, Performance and Treatment Processes Nichole BELLINO- Locating Background Intraplate Microseismicity in Southern Illinois from a Small, Short Duration, Seismograph Array. Kevin BUTAK- Multi-Scale Magnetic Stratification Of An Ultramafic-Mafic Complex: Example Of The Great Dyke Of Zimbabwe And Implications For Magmatic Differentiation Jennifer DIERAUER- Using HAZUS-MH to Calculate Expected Annual Damage for Floodplain-Management Scenarios along the Middle Mississippi River Sarah FRIEDMAN- Magnetic Properties of Mantle Xenoliths and Implications for Long Wavelength Magnetic Anomalies Dion JOSEPH- Facies Analysis Depositional Environments And Sequence Stratigraphy Of The Ste. Genevieve Limestone In Johnson, Union, Franklin And Williamson Counties Southern Illinois Nathan LIODAS- Petro Structural Anisotropy of the Pukaskwa Batholith Margaret SANDERS- Geochemistry and Petrography of Thermally Metamorphosed Antarctic Coal: Implications for 13c –Depleted Methane Release Rajesh SINGH- An Evaluation of The Sequential Extraction Method for Quantifying Sulfur Fractions in Coals from the Illinois Basin

New Dissertations with Geology Faculty Advisors

Brendan Lutz – Late Miocene and Pliocene Paleoceanography of the Low Latitude Northern Hemisphere and its Implications for Future Climate Change

Students at the 2011 Field Course at Red Lodge

Foundation Report I know that this stagnant economy has brought hard times to many and that some of you may have lost your jobs. These times have also seriously impacted university funding as well. We are holding on, and have been able to maintain, and even grow our summer field course because of your past generosity and the establishment of the Dutcher Utgaard Field Course Fund. In the last two years, this endowment has supported teaching assistants and provided scholarships to students attending the course. We have also been able to continue offering scholarships and fellowships to deserving undergraduate and graduate students during the regular academic year. Please remember us in your annual giving.

Scholarships and Awards 2010

Bill D. Allen Geology Memorial Scholarship Zachary Ishman Ira E. Odom Memorial Scholarship Allison Albert Matt Hebbard John Larson Jordan Mars Daniel Mikalian Amberly Tobin Stacey Malawy

John L. Jobling Memorial Geology Fellowship Sarah Friedman Caldwell Payne Joe Porter Geology Memorial Fellowship Jennifer Dierauer Frank Pollock Feng Jiang Memorial Scholarship Justin Cowart Michael Hustedde Memorial Scholarship Severin Presswood Outstanding Senior Zachary Ishman

Scholarships and Awards 2011

Bill D. Allen Geology Memorial Scholarship Heather Hortenstine Severin Presswood Ira E. Odom Memorial Scholarship Derek Belknap Thomas Brand Nicholas Chastain Justin Cowart Jordan Mars Daniel Mikalian Margaret Sheehan Amberly Tobin John L. Jobling Memorial Geology Fellowship Nathaniel Liodas Joe Porter Geology Memorial Fellowship Lucas Hagemann Terry J. Givens Memorial Scholarship Sarah Cosby Louis Boren Memorial Scholarship Benjamin Elliot Casey Lepp Memorial Scholarship David Voris Stan and Jane Harris Scholarship Jamie Waddell Kelsey Manuele Caleb Macer Michael Jones Minka Bentley George Fraunfelter Memorial Scholarship Dax Volle Jordan Pennell

Faculty and Staff News Several faculty prepared statements summarizing events in their lives over the last two years: James Conder Time flies quickly as I am moving into my fourth year as Assistant Professor of Geophysics in the department of Geology. My first two MSc students, Karen Godfrey and Nicole Bellino, both graduated this year with successful defenses of their theses. Karen’s thesis was focused on hydrothermal flow and earthquake generation near mid-ocean ridges and Nicole’s thesis focused on local microseismicity as detected by a small seismograph array deployed around Cedar Lake (see figure below). Determining a thorough catalog of small earthquakes sheds light on intraplate tectonic processes and improve assessments of seismic hazard. Nicole found small earthquakes along the “aseismic” Pomona fault and a tantalizing correlation of earthquakes and rainfall along in river flood plains for the first few of months of 2010. Karen and Nicole are now both working in Houston. Karen is with Schlumberger and Nicole with MicroSeismic, Inc. Moving into my lab is Suresh Dande from Hyderabad, India. Suresh is beginning research using data from ocean bottom seismographs to determine the downdip limit of the seismogenic zone in Tonga. The downdip limit is a limit on the fault rupture for tsunamigenic earthquakes. This region may also be key to controlling the volcanic arc location above a subduction zone.

Small earthquakes (< M2) located in Carbondale/Cedar Lake

region from Jan – April, 2010 Justin Filiberto I am delighted to have joined the faculty this past July as an assistant professor of petrology. I moved from a postdoctoral research position at Rice University in Houston. Thankfully, I got to escape the horrible heat of this past summer in Texas. Before moving to Texas and now SIU, I grew up on Long Island, NY. I received my bachelors of science from the University of Miami (the one in Florida) in marine science and geology with an honors thesis studying a subglacial volcano in British Columbia. From there I went

back to NY for a PhD at the State University of New York, Stony Brook University experimentally studying Martian basalts. After my PhD, I moved to Houston, TX and I was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Lunar and Planetary Institute continuing my work on Martian basalts. I was fortunate to be funded through the NASA Mars Fundamental Research Program while at the LPI and have brought the grant money with me to Rice and now to SIU. My research focuses on mineralogic and petrologic investigations into basalt formation in order to constrain crustal and mantle evolution. I combine detailed mineralogy and petrology of basalts with high-temperature, elevated-pressure experiments to understand how basalts formed and crystallized. These experiments are conducted in a piston-cylinder apparatus on synthetic terrestrial, lunar, and Martian compositions. My research focuses on 4 main topics: 1) how halogen elements (Cl and F) affect basalt genesis and crystallization, 2) how differences in bulk chemistry affect element partitioning, 3) understanding the origin of the Martian olivine-phyric shergottite meteorites and 4) constraining the pre-eruptive volatile contents of Martian magmas.

Justin Filiberto in the field. I am currently building a high-pressure, high-temperature petrology lab in the basement of the building as well as a lab to study dissolved water and carbon dioxide in basalts. While setting the labs up, I am currently teaching volcanology to both graduate students and undergraduates and this spring will be teaching igneous and metamorphic petrology. Liliana Lefticariu Greetings! Stable isotopes are powerful tools in studying the Earth’s systems and the interactions between the hydrosphere, biosphere, lithosphere, and

atmosphere, offering insights beyond classical methodologies. Therefore, we are pleased to announce that the recently acquired Thermofinnigan DELTA V Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometer (IRMS) is up and running! Actually it has been running since January 2011. All necessary internationally certified organic and inorganic, solid and liquid standards have been acquired and also most laboratory standards have been created. The IRMS allows us to measure isotope ratios of hydrogen, oxygen, carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur in a wide range of geological samples (e.g., water, inorganic and biological carbonates, coal, sulfates, oxides, and biological materials). The interest in using the instrument for research has been steadily increasing and many projects led by SIUC and off campus researchers are currently benefiting from the stable isotope data provided by the Delta V Plus. Most projects are led by SIUC researchers and they include carbon and oxygen analyses of carbonates, hydrogen analyses of organic materials, oxygen and hydrogen isotope analyses of natural waters, and nitrogen and carbon isotope analyses of organic materials. Additional projects are underway such as the measurement of oxygen and hydrogen isotope composition of tree ring and sulfur isotope composition of sulfur-bearing compounds. I have benefited greatly from the cordial collaboration with my colleagues from Geology, Chemistry, Zoology, Geography and I am looking forward to working together with researchers from Anthropology, too. Current off campus projects include carbon and oxygen isotope analyses of carbonates in collaboration with the Illinois State Geological Survey. As always, if you are interested in stable isotope analyses and in what my research group is doing feel free to stop my office, give me a call, or just send me an email. My students and I are always happy to show the lab and the projects we are doing. Until next time, best regards.

Summer Field Course 2011

Alumni News Richard Klimstra Retired. 3 grandchildren; Amy Rudd (Daughter), Abby (7), Andrew (6) Beth Keck (Daughter),

Emily (5). Both in St. Louis. Enjoy grandkids and our daughters and husbands. We are blessed. Occasionally work for company – they can’t do without me? Glen Ritter I graduated with a BS in Geology in 1982. Having just received the newsletter I learned of the passing of John Utgaard. He was truly one of the great teachers I have had and I feel honored to have considered him my friend. I am so sorry I had not heard of his death before now. To his entire family I can only pass along my best wishes. In the way of an update I have recently accepted a position at West Nottingham Academy in Maryland to teach Chemistry and Biology. I will also be the Science Dept. Chair. During the summer I teach Paleobiology for Johns Hopkins CTY program in Lancaster, Pa. Good luck to all at SIU geology. Robert Warthen Our new company is doing well with over 55,000 leased acres onshore. Cook Inlet Basin, 100% working interest and numerous drillable prospects. We plan on commencing the drilling program in September this year (2010). The summer field course in the Elk basin for current students looks intriguing. It’s far different than what our generation of students experienced in Tennessee, North Carolina and southeast Missouri. Best wishes to those colleagues and staff that remember me. Linda Woods I received a notice of your alumni information and regretfully have to tell you that Charles (Buzz) Walker PHD died January 15, 2004. He had colon cancer which he fought for 3 years. He spoke very fondly of Southern Illinois University. I am his widow. Beverly Vesper I just received the Alumni News in the mail...My husband, James L. Vesper passed away August 29, 2009...He was a proud graduate of your school...

Department Research and Professional Service

2010-2011 The faculty of the Department of Geology authored or co-authored 31 peer reviewed journal articles, one book, one patent, and nine proceedings during 2010 and 2011 calendar years. They also participated in 55 presentations at international meetings and 15 presentations at National meetings. Faculty in the Department submitted 35 grant proposals and collaborated on 15 interdisciplinary proposals. Grant activity is summarized in tables later in this document. The awards come from prestigious National sources, such as NSF, NASA, Department of Energy, Office of Surface Mining and Reclamation, the Walton Family Foundation, and U.S. Steel as well as important state agencies such as the Illinois Clean Coal Institute, Illinois Board of Higher Education, Illinois State Board of Education, and Illinois Emergency Management Agency. Nine of the eleven faculty in the Department either have active grants or submitted at least one

grant application in the last two years. The new Doctoral Program in Geosciences has four students. The Department still keeps a presence in the Environmental Resources and Policy Doctoral Program, with two students from that program advised by Department of Geology faculty. Faculty in the Department remained highly visible Nationally and internationally last year. Ken Anderson was awarded a provisional patent on production of organic materials using the Oxidative Hydrothermal Dissolution (OHD) method. He has established Thermaquatica, Inc. to commercialize the OHD process and received a $950,000 grant from the State of Illinois for these efforts. He was also nominated and ran for the ACS Board of Directors. James Conder served on the Illinois State Seismic Safety Task Force and convened a session on the Lithospheric Anisotropy of the Archean Shield at the Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America (GSA) and another on Hydraulic Fracturing and Fluids in the Shallow Subsurface at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) fall meeting. Eric Ferre participated in the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) in an expedition investigating crustal spreading, served on committees for the American Geophysical Union Publications and for the 23rd African Geology Congress (Pretoria 2010). He also convened two sessions at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting; one on Partial Melting and Deformation Processes in Continental Lithosphere and the other on Recent Progress in Magnetic Fabrics and Applications to Earth Sciences. Richard Fifarek was the President of the Yellowstone-Bighorn Research Association, organized a conference for the 75th anniversary of that organization, and was appointed to the Technical Advisory Board of Snowstorm Exploration, LLC. He also served on the Technical Advisory Board of Snowstorm Exploration, LLC. Justin Filiberto co-convened a session at the AGU fall meeting on preparing for the science of Mars sample return. He also served on the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference Program Committee and served as a judge for the Stephen E. Dwornik Planetary Geoscience Student Award at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. Scott Ishman participated in the Field Stations and Marine Labs Planning Workshop. Liliana Lefticariu co-organized a session on the Impact of Energy Use on Human Health and the Environment for the 20th Annual Goldschmidt Conference. Nicholas Pinter received a Marie Curie Fellowship from the European Commission and was a panelist for the U.S. National Academy of Science Committee on Missouri River Recovery and Associated Sediment Management Issues. He was also a member of the Policy Committee, for the Corps Reform Network and was the Director of the Integrative Graduate Education Research and Training program in Watershed Science and Policy. Sue Rimmer is Chair of the Coal Geology Division of the GSA and served on the Medlin Award Committee and the Joint Technical Program Committee for the annual meeting of that organization. The faculty contributed professionally as editors or associate editors of important journals such as the Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth (Eric Ferre); Geochemical Transactions (Ken Anderson); Environmental and Engineering Geoscience (Nicholas Pinter); the Annals of

University of Craiova: Chemistry Series (Liliana Lefticariu); and Solid Earth (Sue Rimmer). The faculty also provided service to their disciplines, reviewing papers for important journals such as Nature; Geology; Lithos; Geophysical Journal International; Geophysical Research Letters; Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems; Earth and Planetary Science Letters; Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta; Meteoritics and Planetary Science; Chemical Geology; Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology; Organic Geochemistry; Groundwater; Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science; Geological Magazine; Environmental Science and Technology; Science of the Total Environment; Geomorphology; Environmental and Engineering Geoscience; Global and Planetary Change; International Journal of Earth Sciences; Nature Geoscience; Tectonophysics; Terra Nova; Solid Earth; Chemical and Biochemical Engineering Quarterly; International Journal of Coal Geology; AAAS; and Journal of Geophysical Research. Richard Fifarek reviewed manuscripts for the Geological Society of Nevada Great Basin Evolution and Metallogeny Symposium. Faculty reviewed proposals funded through National and international agencies, such as NSF, EPSL, NASA, USGS, Swiss National Science Foundation, Oak Ridge Associated Universities, and the Georgia National Science Foundation.

Enjoying fantastic weather at the 2012 annual picnic Students mentored by faculty were recognized and a number of them have presented their research at professional meetings. In our undergraduate program Ben Elliott held a Saluki Scholars Research Opportunity and Heather Hortenstine received an Honors Research Award. In our graduate program, Elif Uz won an Institute for Rock Magnetism Visiting Fellowship and Mohammad Wahid Rahman won the Spackman Award from the Society for Organic Petrology. Caldwell Payne obtained a National Association of Geology Teachers-United States Geological Survey internship. Anthony Moorehead received a Society of Economic Geologists Fellowship Award (internationally competitive) and was selected as a field trip participant (competitive selection) by the same organization. Brendan Lutz, a doctoral student working with Scott Ishman, received the Outstanding

Ph.D. Research Award. Sarah A. Friedman won the 2010 Geological Society of America Geophysics Division Allan V. Cox award. One of our undergraduate students, Aneesa Lehman received a REACH award for research on the Karoo Large Igneous Province. John Boyd received a Sigma Xi poster award. Geology faculty remained visible on campus and in the community. James Conder gave a talk to the Carbondale Science Center and he participated in the St. Louis Area Undergraduate Research Symposium along with one of his students. He was interviewed on television (WSIL, WSIU) and radio (WSIU, Vocalo 89.5 in Chicago) regarding geophysical issues. Liliana Lefticariu demonstrated laboratory studies at the 20th annual Expanding Your Horizons conference and served as a poster judge for the Illinois Junior Science and Humanities Symposium. She also organized and participated in the 2011 Junior Science Symposium Labs and developed a summer workshop on Science for Elementary School Teachers: Earth Science, Life Science, & Physical Science. Scott Ishman was Chair of the Graduate Council. Ken Anderson served on the Faculty Senate and won the Southern Illinois University Innovator of the Year award. Harvey Henson managed most outreach activities. He is a co-principal investigator on a project to develop inquiry-based ecological and environmental education, funded through NSF, and a principal investigator on a project to develop an earthquake awareness program funded by the Illinois Emergency Management Agency. He also co-directs the Science, Mathematics, and Action Research for Teachers (SMART) program funded by the Illinois Board of Higher Education.

Publications by Faculty and Students 2010

Articles Dickinson, W.R., Gehrels, G.E., and Marzolf, J.E. (2010). Detrital zircons from fluvial redbeds of the Michigan basin: Presumptive confirmation of a transcontinental Jurassic paleoriver system. Geology 38(6): 499-502. Dickinson, W.R., Gehrels, G.E., and Marzolf, J.E. (2010). Detrital zircons from fluvial Jurassic strata of the Michigan basin: Implications for the transcontinental Jurassic paleoriver hypothesis: Reply. Geology Forum December 2010 38:229 doi:10.1130/G31658Y.1 Flor, A.D., Pinter, N., and Remo, J.W.F. (2010). The ups and downs of levees: GPS-based change detection, Middle Mississippi River USA. Geology, 39:55-58. Flor, A.D., Pinter, N., and Remo, J.W.F. (2010). Evaluating levee failure susceptibility on the Mississippi River using logistic regression analysis. Engineering Geology 116:139-148. Frank, T.D, Gui, Z. and the ANDRILL SMS Science Team (including Ishman, S.) (2010). Cryogenic origin for brine in

the subsurface of southern McMurdo Sound, Antarctica. Geology 38: 587-590. Kruckenberg, S.C., Ferré, E.C., Teyssier, C., Vanderhaeghe, O., Whitney, D.L. , Skord, J.A., and Seaton, N. (2010). Viscoplastic flow in migmatites deduced from fabric anisotropy: An example from the Naxos dome, Greece. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 115:B09401 doi:10.1029/2009JB007012. Martín-Hernández, F., Osete López, M.L., Belley, F. and Ferré, E.C. (2010). Comparison between the anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility (AMS) and the structural stretching lineation in the Ronda peridotites: towards a method for the identification of lineations in the absence of markers in ultramafic rocks. Física de la Tierra 22:125-141. Lefticariu, L., Pratt, L.M., LaVerne, J. A. & Schimmelmann, A. (2010). Radiolysis of water coupled to oxidation of pyrite as a source of biosustaining energy. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 292(1-2):57-67. doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2010.01.020 Lefticariu, L. (2010). Biogeochemical evaluation of a passive acid mine drainage treatment system from Illinois, USA. Romanian Journal of Mineral Deposits 84: 54-61. Pinter, N., Fiedel, S., and Keeley, J.E. (2010). Fire and vegetation shifts in the Americas at the vanguard of Paleoindian migration. Quaternary Science Reviews, 30:269-272. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.12.010. Pinter, N., Jemberie, A.A., Remo, J.W.F., Heine, R.A., and Ickes, B.A. (2010). Empirical modeling of hydrologic response to river engineering, Mississippi and Lower Missouri Rivers. River Research and Applications 26: 546-571. Pinter, N. (2010). Historical discharge measurements on the Middle Mississippi River, USA: No basis for “changing history.” Hydrological Processes 24:1088-1093. Rimmer, S.M., Rowe, H.D., Hawkins, S.J., and Francis, H. (2010). Geochemistry of the Cleveland Member of the Ohio Shale, Appalachian Basin: Indicators of depositional environment during sediment accumulation. Kirtlandia 57: 3-12. Scott, A.C., Pinter, N., Collinson, M.E., Hardiman, M., Anderson, R.S., Brain, A.P.R., Smith, S.Y., Marone, F., and Stampanoni, M. (2010). Fungus, not comet or catastrophe, accounts for carbonaceous spherules in the Younger Dryas ‘impact layer’. Geophysical Research Letters, 37:L14307, doi:10.1029/2010GL043345. Books

National Research Council (including Pinter, N.) (2010). Missouri River Planning: Recognizing and Incorporating Sediment Management. National Academy Press Washington, DC.

William Kipp, one of our undergraduate students, at the picnic

in 2012. In addition to the bean bag toss, we also played touch football.

Other Anderson, K.B., Crelling, J. C., Huggett, W.W. (2010). Process for the dissolution of coal, biomass and other organic solids in superheated water. PCT Int. Appl. WO 2010093785 A2 20100819 Daulton, T.L., Pinter, N., and Scott, A.C. (2010). No evidence of nanodiamonds in Younger Dryas sediments to support an impact event. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107:16043–16047. Rust, J.; Singh, H., Rana, R.S., McCann, T., Singh, L., Anderson, K.B., Sarkar, N., Nascimbene, P.C., Stebner, F., Thomas, J.C., et al. (2010). Biogeographic and evolutionary implications of a diverse paleobiota in amber from the early Eocene of India. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 107(43):18360-18365 Schmidt, A.R., Perrichot, V., Svojtka, M., Anderson, K.B., Belete, K.H., Bussert, R., Doerfelt, H., Jancke, S., Mohr, B., Mohrmann, E., et al. (2010). Cretaceous African life captured

in amber. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 107(16):7329-7334.

Publications by Faculty and Students 2011

Articles Lefticariu, L., Blum, J., Gleason, J. D. (2011). Mercury Isotopic Evidence for Multiple Mercury Sources in Coal from the Illinois Basin. Environmental Science and Technology, 45:1724 - 1729. Anderson, K., Conder, J. A. (2011). Discussion of multicyclic Hubbert modeling as a method for forecasting future petroleum production. Energy and Fuels. Conder, J. A. , Wiens, D. A. (2011). Shallow seismicity and tectonics of the central and northern Lau Basin. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 304:538-546. Kruckenberg, S., Vanderhaeghe , O., E. Ferré, Teyssier , C., Whitney, D. (2011). Flow of partially molten crust and the internal dynamics of a migmatite dome, Naxos, Greece. Tectonics, doi:10.1029/2010TC002751. Titus, S., Maes, S., Benford, B., Ferré , E., Tikoff, B. (2011). Fabric development in the mantle section of a paleotransform fault, New Caledonia. Lithosphere, doi:10.1130/L122.1. Heine, R., Pinter, N.. (2011). Levee effects upon flood levels: An empirical assessment.. Hydrological Processes, DOI: 10.1002/hyp.8261. Bormann, H., Elfert, S., Pinter, N. (2011). Hydrological signatures of flood trends on German rivers: flood frequencies, flood heights and specific stages. Journal of Hydrology, 404: 50-66. Flor, A., Pinter, N., Remo, J.W.F. (2011). The ups and downs of levees: GPS-based change detection, Middle Mississippi River USA. Geology, 39:55-58. Pinter, N., Scott, A.C., Daulton, T.L., Podoll, A , Koeberl, C., Anderson, R.S. , Ishman, S.E. (2011). The Younger Dryas impact hypothesis: A requiem. Earth-Science Reviews, 106:247-264. Pinter, N., Fiedel, S., Keeley, J.E. (2011). Fire and vegetation shifts in the Americas at the vanguard of Paleoindian migration. Quaternary Science Reviews, 30:269-272. Filiberto, J., Dasgupta, R. (2011). Fe2+-Mg partitioning between olivine and Martian magmas: application to genesis of olivine-phyric shergottites and conditions of melting in the Martian interior. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 304:527-537. Gross, J., Treiman, A., Filiberto, J., Herd, C. (2011). Primitive olivine-phyric shergottite NWA 5789: Petrography,

mineral chemistry and cooling history imply a magma similar to Yamato-980459. Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 46(1):116-133. Burns, A., Pugh, C., Behum, P., Segid, Y., Lefticariu, L., Bender, K. (2011). Microbial community dynamics of a sulfate-reducing bioreactor treating coal generated acid mine drainage. Biodegradation. Behum, P., Lefticariu, L., Segid, Y. T., Bender, K., Pugh, C., Burns, A. (2011). Remediation of coal-mine drainage by a sulfate-reducing bioreactor: A case study from the Illinois coal basin, USA. Applied Geochemistry, 26 (1):162-166. Klaus, J., Lutz, B., McNeill, D., Budd, A., Johnson, K. , Ishman, S. (2011). Rise and fall of Pliocene free-living corals in the Caribbean. Geology, 39:375-378. Samal, A., Sengupta, R., Fifarek, R. (2011). Modeling spatial anisotropy of gold assay data using GIS-based contour maps and variogram analysis: implications for structural control of mineralization. Journal of Earth System Science, 120(4):583-593. Crelling, J., Rimmer, S. (2011). An occurrence of natural pitch coke, Raton Formation, Purgatoire River Valley, Colorado. Outcrop, Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists, 60(6):5-9. Proceedings Teagle, D., Ildefonse, B., Blum, P., Abe, N., Abily, B., Adashi, Y. , Alt, J., Anma, R., Baines, G. , Deans, J. , Dick, H., Endo, D., Ferré, E. , France, L., Godard, M., Guérin, G., Harris, M. , Kim, Y. , Koepke, J., Kurz, M., Lissenberg ,C., Miyashita, S., Morris, A., Oizumi, R., Payot, B. , Python, M., Roy, P. , Till, J., Tominaga, M. , Wilson, D., Zakharova, N. (2011). Battling through the thermal boundary layer: Deep sampling in ODP Hole 1256D during IODP Expedition 335. InterRidge Newsletter, 20. Boslough, M., Nicoll ,K., Holliday ,V., Daulton, T. L., Meltzer, D., Pinter, N. , Scott, A. C., Surovell, T., Claeys, P., Gill, J., Paquay, F., Marlon, J., Bartlein, P., Whitlock, C., Grayson, D., Jull, T. (2011). Arguments and evidence against a Younger Dryas impact event. American Geophysical Union: Chapman Conference Proceedings. Fifarek, R., Samal, A., Miggins, D. (2011). Genetic implications of mineralization and alteration ages at the Florida Canyon epithermal Au-Ag deposit, Nevada. Geological Society of Nevada Symposium, Great Basin Evolution and Metallogeny 2010, 861-879. Breit, G., Hunt, A., Wolf, R. , Koenig, A., Fifarek, R., Coolbaugh ,M. (2011). Are modern geothermal waters in northwest Nevada forming epithermal gold deposits? Geological Society of Nevada Symposium, Great Basin Evolution and Metallogeny 2010, 833-844.

Anderson, K., Crelling, J. C., Huggett, W. W., Perry, D., Fullinghim, T., Mcgill, P., Kaelin, P. (2011). Oxidative Hydrothermal Dissolution (OHD): An efficient, environmentally friendly process for the dissolution of coal and biomass in aqueous media, for the production of fuels and chemicals. Proceedings of the 36th International Technical Conference on Clean Coal and Fuel Systems, Clearwater, Florida, USA, June 5-9, 51- 59. Anderson, K., Crelling, J. C., Huggett, W. W., Perry, D., Fullinghim, T., Mcgill, P., Kaelin, P. (2011). Oxidative Hydrothermal Dissolution (OHD) of Coal and Biomass. American Chemical Society, Division of Fuel Chemistry, 56(2), 310-311, 310 - 314.

Oral Presentations 2010 International Behum, P.T. Jr., Y. P. Chugh, Y.Teklehaimanot, L. Lefticariu. June 2010. Results of simulated weathering of coal stockpiles and coal refuse disposal areas. 20th Annual Goldschmidt Conference, Knoxville, TE. http://www.goldschmidt2010.org/abstracts/abstractView?abstractId=3057 Bellino, N., and Conder, J.A. December 2010. Improving intraplate seismicity detection through lake-deployed hydrophones, Abstract S21B-2022. American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA. Bohnenstiehl, D.R., R. Dziak, H., Matsumoto, T.A. Lau, M. Fowler, C. Scheip, K.E. Cook, K.W. Warren, J.A. Conder, and D.A. Wiens. December 2010. Hydroacoustic monitoring of seismic and volcanic activity within the Lau Basin, Abstract T11E-02. American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA. Boiron, T., J. Bascou, P. Camps, E.C. Ferré, C. Maurice, B. Guy, and M.C. Gerbe. May 2010. Structural studies in columnar basalts from crystallographic and magnetic fabrics. European Geoscience Union, Vienna, Austria. Boiron, T., J. Bascou, P. Camps, E.C. Ferré, C. Maurice, B. Guy, and M.C. Gerbe. December 2010. Structure, magnetic and crystallographic fabrics of columnar lava flows from the French Massif Central France. American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA. Conder, J.A. August 2010. The central Lau nanoplate. Eos Trans. AGU, 91(26) Abstract T43B-03. The Meeting of the Americas. Foz do Iguassu, Brazil. Conder, J.A. December 2010. Recent nanoplate creation in the central Lau basin, Abstract T13B-2191. American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA. Cook, K.E., D.R. Bohnenstiehl, R. Dziak, H., Matsumoto, M. Fowler, J.A. Conder, and D.A. Wiens. December 2010. Monitoring of volcanic processes through analysis of hydroacoustic signals originating from Monowai Seamount,

Abstract T13B-2192. American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA. Crelling, J.C., and S.M. Rimmer. October 2010. Revisiting intruded coals and shales along the Purgatoire River valley, CO: An occurrence of natural pitch coke. Geological Society of America. Denver, CO. Ferré, E.C., S.A. Friedman, D. Ravat, F. Martín-Hernández, and J. A. Conder. December 2010. Quantification of induced and remanent magnetization in the lithospheric mantle and consequences for long wavelength magnetic anomalies. American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA. Ferre, E.C., S.A. Friedman, J.A. Conder, F. Marin-Hernandez, and D. Ravat. December 2010. Quantification of induced and remanent magnetizations in the lithospheric mantle and consequences for long wavelength magnetic anomalies, Abstract GP21A-0987. American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA. Friedman, S.A, E.C. Ferré, F. Martín-Hernández, D.A. Ionov, J.L. Till, and J.M. Feinberg. December 2010. Ferromagnetic minerals in peridotite xenoliths and petrological implications for lithospheric mantle fO2. American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA. Geissman, J.W., E.C. Ferré, S.M. Maes, and J.S. Marsh. December 2010. Paleomagnetism of gabbroic sills forming the floor of the early Jurassic Karoo Large Igneous Province, South Africa. American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA. Godfrey, K.E., J.A. Conder, and R.A. Dunn. December 2010. Microseismicity along the Eastern Lau Spreading Center as determined from the L-SCAN experiment, Abstract OS21C-1524. American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA. Kruckenberg, S.C., E.C. Ferré, O. Vanderhaeghe, C. Teyssier, and D.L. Whitney. December 2010. High-temperature flow and dynamics of an anatectic migmatite dome: example from Naxos, Greece. American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA. Ishman, S. and M. Patterson. September 2010. Cenozoic foraminiferal associations of SMS drill core AND-2A in the Victoria Land Basin margin, Antarctica. International Symposium on Foraminifera, Bonn, Germany. Ishman, S., E.W. Domack, A. Leventer. and S. Brachfeld. September 2010. A Holocene paleoclimate record from the northern Antarctic Peninsula margin: Vega Drift, Antarctica. 114. International Symposium on Foraminifera, Bonn, Germany. Kontar, Y., F. Boadu, J.A. Conder, Y. Hashash, A.M. Ismail, M.D. Long, R.S. Nelson, W.J. Nelson, and M. Zhdanov. August 2010. Wabash Valley geophysical experiment in Illinois. Eos Trans. AGU, 91(26) Abstract NH32A-06. The Meeting of the Americas. Foz do Iguassu, Brazil.

Lang, D.M., A. Rathburn, Z. Bailey, R.D. Taylor, M.E. Perez, J.B. Martin, and S. Ishman. November 2010. Temporal changes in living (stained) benthic foraminifera from the Gerlache Strait, Antarctica. Abstracts with Programs, 42(5): 599. Geological Society of America, Denver, CO. Lefticariu, L., J. D. Blum, J. D. Gleason. June 2010. Mercury isotopes in Illinois Basin coal: organic and inorganic constituents. 20th Annual Goldschmidt Conference, Knoxville, TE http://www.goldschmidt2010.org/abstracts/abstractView?abstractId=1325 Lefticariu, L., September 2010. Biogeochemical evaluation of a passive acid mine drainage treatment system from Illinois, USA. SEGR-2010. Mineral Resources of the Carpathians Area – 7th International Symposium on Economic Geology, Baia Mare, Romania. Lehman, B.A., E.C. Ferré, S.M. Maes, J.W. Geissman, M.C. Marsh, L.P. Maré, and J.S. Marsh. December 2010. Normal and anomalous AMS fabrics in gabbroic sills: examples from the Karoo Large Igneous Province. American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA. Natter, C.J., S.A. Brachfeld, E.W. Domack, C. Lavoie, A. Leventer, S.E. Ishman, K. Yoo, S. Jeong, J.S. Wllner, M. Vernet. December 2010. Environmental magnetism survey of a Late Holocene sedimentary record from Barilari Bay, western Antarctic Peninsula. Abstract GP13B-0775. American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA. Patterson, M. and S.E. Ishman. December 2010. Benthic foraminifer paleoenvironmental record for AND-2A, Southern McMurdo Sound, Antarctica. Abstract C43B-0541. American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA. Pinter, N. August 2010. The Younger Dryas impact hypothesis: A requiem. American Quaternary Association, Biannual Meeting, Laramie, WY. Remo, J.W.F., N. Pinter, E. Ellison, and Z. Ishman. November 2010. Earthquake loss estimation using FEMA’s HAZUS-MH for mitigation planning in Illinois. Paper No. 140-5. Geological Society of America, Denver, CO. Scheip, C., D.R. Bohnenstiehl, H., Matsumoto, R. Dziak, T.A. Lau, M. Fowler, J.A. Conder, and D.A. Wiens. December 2010. Acoustic transmission loss and prolonged coda durations of seismic airgunning at intermediate ranges in the Lau Back-Arc Basin, Abstract T13B-2190. American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA. Schmidt, A. R., V. Perrichot, M. Svojtka, K.B. Anderson, K. H. Belete, R. Bussert, H. Dörfelt, S. Jancke, B. Mohr, E. Mohrmann, P.C. Nascimbene, A. Nel., P. Nel, E. Ragazzi, G. Roghi, E. E. Saupe, K. Schmidt, H. Schneider, P. A. Selden, & N. Vávra. August 2010. The Ethiopian amber forest, Abstracts, 166-167. The 5th International Conference on Fossil Insects, Arthropods and Amber. Beijing, China.

Segid YT, P,T. Behum, K.S. Bender, C. C. Pugh , A. S. Burns, & L. Lefticariu. June 2010. Geochemical and microbial evaluation of the Tab Simco treatment system. 20th Annual Goldschmidt Conference, Knoxville, TE. http://www.goldschmidt2010.org/abstracts/abstractView?abstractId=3150 Taylor, R.D., A. Rathburn, Z. Bailey, D.M. Lang, M.E. Perez, D. Minor, J.B. Martin, and S. Ishman. December 2010. Intra-annual changes in benthic foraminiferal assemblages inhabiting the shelf of the western Antarctic Peninsula. Abstracts with Programs, 42(5): 599. Geological Society of America. Denver, CO. National Breit, G.N., A. Hunt, R.E. Wolfe, A.E. Koenig, R.H. Fifarek, and M.F. Coolbaugh. May 2010. Are modern geothermal waters in NW Nevada forming epithermal Au deposits? Geological Society of Nevada Symposium. Reno, NV. Dunn, R.A., F. Martinez, and J.A. Conder. September 2010. Crustal production and rapid mantle transitions beneath the eastern Lau spreading center, NSF Earth dynamics workshop, Experiments with portable ocean bottom seismograph. Snowbird, UT. Fifarek, R.H., and A.R. Samal. May 2010. Genetic implications of mineralization and alteration ages at the Florida Canyon epithermal Au-Ag deposit, Nevada. Geological Society of Nevada Symposium. Reno, NV. Liodas, N.T., E.C. Ferré, A. Gébelin, S. Lin, and G. Misgna. October 2010. Interplay between gneiss dome development and transcurrent tectonics in the Archean: example of the Pukaskwa Batholith and Hemlo Shear Zone, Superior Province, Canada. American Association of Petroleum Geologists/Society of Exploration Geophysicists. Laramie, WY. McPherson, M., J. Sanders, S.M. Rimmer, and H. Rowe. April 2010. Geochemical, isotopic and petrographic analysis of Permian coal and Carbonaceous shales from Antarctica: importance of rank and maceral composition. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Joint North Central-South Central Meeting. Branson, MO. Pinter, N. March 2010. Empirical hydrology in river and water-related projects and planning. Corps Reform Network, Annual Meeting. Washington D.C. Pollock, F.A., D.T. Gillum, L.M. Hagemann, J.C. Linthicum, J.R. Stephenson, S.M. Rimmer, and H. Rowe. April 2010. Intruded coals of the Raton Basin: evaluation of metamorphic effects on coal seams. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Joint North Central-South Central Meeting. Branson, MO.

Oral Presentations 2011 International Kurz, M., J. Curtice, N. Abe, B. Ildefonse, D. Teagle, G. Guérin, N. Zakharova, B. Abily, Y. Adachi, J. Alt, R. Anma, G. Baines, J. Deans, H. Dick, D. Endo, E. Ferré, L. France, M. Godard, M. Harris, Y. Kim, J. Koepke, C. Lissenberg, S. Miyashita, A. Morris, R. Oizumi, B. Payot, M. Python, P. Roy, J. Till, M. Tominaga, D. Wilson. Dec 2011. Noble gases in the oceanic crust: preliminary results from ODP hole 1256 D.San Francisco, CA, USA.(Eos Trans. Suppl., V21B-2487). American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA, USA. Teagle, D., B. Ildefonse, P. Blum, N. Abe, B. Abily, Y. Adashi, J. Alt, R. Anma, G. Baines, J. Deans, H. Dick, D. Endo, E. Ferré, L. France, M. Godard, G. Guérin, M. Harris, Y. Kim, J. Koepke, M. Kurz, C. Lissenberg, S. Miyashita, A. Morris, R. Oizumi, B. Payot, M. Python, P. Roy, J. Till, M. Tominaga, D. Wilson, N. Zakharova. Dec 2011. Battling through the thermal boundary layer: Deep sampling in ODP Hole 1256D during IODP Expedition 335. (Eos Trans Suppl., V21B-2487). American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA, USA. Filiberto, J., F. Abernethy, I. Butler, J. Cartwright, E. Chin, J. Day, C. Goodrich, M. Grady, J. Gross, I. Franchi, C. Herd, S. Kelley, U. Ott, S. Penniston-Dorland, S. Schwenzer, A. Treiman. Dec 2011. Maximizing the science return from 3.3 g of Martian meteorite: A consortium study of olivine-phyric shergottite Northwest Africa 6234. American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA, USA. Dunn, R. A. , R. Austin, J. A. Conder, M. M. Conley, E. L. Emry, F. Martinez, J. D. Sleeper. Dec 2011. Magmatic and tectonic processes along the Eastern Lau Spreading Center. (OS11B-1496). American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA Zha, Y., S. Webb, D. Weins, J. Conder, D. Blackman, R. Dunn. Dec 2011. Imaging upper mantle seismic structure beneath Eastern Lau Spreading Center using ambient noise cross-correlation analysis of fundamental and higher mode Rayleigh waves. (OS11B-1497). American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA. Leventer, A., E. Domack, S. Ishman, S. Brachfeld, M. Vernet, M. Cape, B. Rosenheim, M. Gunter, K. Vadman, J. Santoro. Dec 2011. Benthic foraminifera inhabiting the western Antarctic Peninsula margin. (Abstract PP33B-1928) American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA. Matulaitis, I., S. Ishman, A. Leventer, S. Brachfeld, S. Jeong, E. Domack. Dec 2011. LARISSA: Benthic Foraminiferal Analysis from Barilari Bay, western Antarctic Peninsula margin. (Abstract PP33B-1939) American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA. Crelling, J. C. , K. Anderson, W. W. Huggett. Oct 2011. Chemicals from Coal by Oxidative Hydrothermal Dissolution

(OHD). (Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 43, No. 5, p. 499 ). Geological Society of America, Minneapolis, MN. Rahman, M., A. Moorehead, C. Flora, S. Rimmer. Oct 2011. Geochemistry of thermally altered coals: A case study of the Springfield (No. 5) Coal, Illinois Basin. Geological Society of America, Minneapolis, MN. Yoksoulian, L., S. Rimmer, H. Rowe. Oct 2011 Effect of contact metamorphism on coal geochemistry and petrography: Implications for the large-scale release of 12C-enriched methane. Geological Society of America, Minneapolis, MN. Mcpherson, M., S. Rimmer, H. Rowe. Oct 2011. Geochemistry and petrography of thermally metamorphosed Antarctic coal: Implications for 13C-depleted methane release. Geological Society of America, Minneapolis, MN. Ferré, E., J. Geissman, A. Gillum, S. Maes, M. Marsh. Oct 2011. Magma flow above the Karoo mantle plume. (Abstracts with Programs, Paper 148-11). Geological Society of America, Minneapolis, MN. Teklehaimanot, L., E. Ferré, A. Gébelin, C. Teyssier, J. Conder, N. Christensen. Oct 2011.Archean crustal petrofabrics in the Minnesota River Valley Complex, Superior Province and implications for seismic anisotropy. (Abstracts with Programs, Paper 175-1). Geological Society of America, Minneapolis, MN. Liodas, N., E. Ferré, A. Gébelin, S. Lin, G. Misgna. Oct 2011. Petrostructural anisotropy of an Archean gneiss dome: example of the Pukaskwa batholith, Superior Province, Canada. (Abstracts with Programs, Paper 175-2). Geological Society of America, Minneapolis, MN. Friedman, S., E. Ferré, F. Martin-Hernandez, J. Feinberg, J. Conder, D. Ionov. Oct 2011. Mantle xenoliths of the North American subcontinental mantle: magnetic properties and petrologic and tectonic implications. (Abstracts with Programs, Paper 143-10). Geological Society of America, Minneapolis, MN. Ishman, S., E. Domack, A. Leventer, S. Brachfeld, C. Lavoie, B. Huber, J. Wellner, I. Matulaitis.Oct 2011.LARISSA: Understanding the impact of climate change on an ice shelf system. (Abstracts with Programs, Paper 192-15). Geological Society of America, Minneapolis, MN. Bedrava, S., B. Paddack, R. Taylor, A. Rathburn, M. Perez, D. Lang, J. Martin, D. Miner, S. Ishman. Oct 2011. Benthic foraminifera inhabiting the western Antarctic Peninsula margin. (Abstracts with Programs, Paper 276-10) Geological Society of America, Minneapolis, MN. Ishman, S., E. Domack, A. Leventer, S. Brachfeld, B. Huber, J. Wellner, C. Smith, M. Vernet, M. Mccormick, E. Mosley-Thompson, T. Scambos, E. Petitt, G. Balco, M. Truffer, K. Yoo, LARRISSA Team. Sep 2011. LARISSA: Using integrated system science to understand the impact of climate

change on an ice shelf system. Eighteenth Annual WAIS Workshop, Loveland, CO. Anderson, K., J. C. Crelling, W. W. Huggett, D. Perry, T. Fullinghim, P. Mcgill, P. Kaelin. Aug 2011. Oxidative Hydrothermal Dissolution (OHD) of Coal and Biomass. ACS National Meeting, Denver CO. Anderson, K. B. , J. C. Crelling, W. W. Huggett, D. Perry, P. Mcgill, P. Kaelin. Jun 2011. Oxidative Hydrothermal Dissolution (OHD): An efficient, environmentally friendly process for the dissolution of coal and biomass in aqueous media, for the production of fuels and chemicals. 36th International Technical Conference on Clean Coal and Fuel Systems, Clearwater, FL. Lefticariu, L., Y. Segid, K. S. Bender, P. Behum, C. Pugh, A. Burns. Jun 2011. Remediation of coal-mine drainage by a sulfate-reducing bioreactor: A case study from the Illinois coal basin, USA. Boulder, Colorado, USA. Denny, B., R. Guillemette, L. Lefticariu. May 2011. Rare earth mineral concentrations within fluorite in the Illinois-Kentucky Fluorite District and igneous intrusives at Hicks Dome Cryptoexplosive Complex, SE Illinois and NW Kentucky. Champaign, IL. Filiberto, J., S. Schwenzer. Mar 2011. Hydrothermal Alteration Mineralogy of Home Plate: Thermochemical Constraints for their Formation Conditions. Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Houston, TX. Filiberto, J., A. Treiman, R. Dasgupta. Mar 2011. Comparing the Effects of H2O, F, and Cl on Near-Liquidus Phase Equilibria of a Model High-Fe Basalt: Implications for Volatile Induced Mantle Melting. Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Houston, TX. Gross, J., A. Treiman, J. Filiberto. Mar 2011. Constraints on the geochemical variations and evolution of the lunar crust and mantle as revealed by Fe, Mn and Cr concentrations in olivine. Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Houston, TX. National Anderson, K. Nov 2011. Characterization of Product Streams from the OHD Coal Conversion Process. ICCI Program Review Committee annual meeting, Collinsville, IL, Teklehaimanot, L., E. C. Ferre, A. Gebelin, C. Teyssier, J. Conder, N. Christensen. Oct 2011. Archean crustal petrofabrics in the Minnesota River Valley complex, Superior Province and implications for seismic anisotropy. Geological Society of America, Minneapolis, MN. Friedman, S., E. C. Ferre, F. Martin-Hernandez, J. Feinberg, J. Conder, D. Ionov. Oct 2011. Mantle xenoliths of the North American subcontinental mantle: Magnetic properties and petrologic and tectonic implications. Geological Society of America, Minneapolis, MN.

Abe, N., B. Ildefonse, D. Teagle, G. Guérin, N. Zakharova, B. Abily, Y. Adachi, J. Alt, R. Anma, G. Baines, J. Deans, H. Dick, D. Endo, E. Ferré, L. France, M. Godard, M. Harris, Y. Kim, J. Koepke, M. Kurz, C. Lissenberg, S. Miyashita, A. Morris, R. Oizumi, B. Payot, M. Python, Roy. P, J. Till, M. Tominaga, D. Wilson. Sep 2011. The progress of the oceanic basement drilling - the status of MoHole Project. Annual Meeting of the Japan Association of Mineralogical Sciences, Chugh, Y. P., P. Behum, L. Lefticariu. Aug 2011. Alternate Coal Processing Waste Disposal Technology. Marion, Illinois. Kroenke, S., Cory Cantrell, Richard Smith, John L. Sexton. Apr 2011. A Study of the Herald-Phillipstown Fault in the Wabash Valley using Drillhole, 2D and 3D Seismic Reflection Data. Part 1-Invited Lecture. Illinois Geological Society Meeting, Grayville, Illinois Sexton, J. L. Apr 2011. Geophysical Studies in the Wabash Valley Fault Zone. (Part 2- Invited Lecture) Illinois Geological Society Meeting, Grayville, Illinois Cantrell, C., John L. Sexton. Apr 2011. Experiences with 3D Seismic Reflection Exploration for Oil in the Illinois Basin. (Part 3 Invited lecture). Illinois Geological Society Meeting, Grayville, Illinois.

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Grant and Contract proposals submitted by faculty and staff from the Department of Geology during calendar year 2010.

Investigator(s) Agency/Title Amount

M. Whiles; N. Pinter; L. Chevalier; H. Henson; F. Mumba

National Science Foundation Integration of Small Moveable Bed River Models into Undergraduate Science and Engineering Curricula

$567,921

L. Lefticariu United States Department of the Interior; Office of Surface Mining Improved Sulfate-Reducing Bioreactors for the Remediation of High Total Dissolved Solids Drainage Associated with Coal Mining and Processing in the U.S.

$190,541

F. Mumba; L. Bu; H. Henson; M. Wright

Illinois Board of Higher Education Southern Illinois Partnership for Achievement in Math and Science (SIPAMS)

$298,936

M. Wright; H. Henson; K. Renzaglia; F. Mumba

National Science Foundation Southern Illinois Fellowships for Teachers in Rural Schools (SIFTRS) - Planning Phase

$74,544

L. Lefticariu; P. Behum American Society of Mining and Reclamation Cyclic Leaching of Coal Combustion Byproducts and Opportunities for Coal Mine Applications

$2,500

J. Crelling; S. Rimmer Illinois Clean Coal Institute Creation of a Digital Coal Literature and Image Database

$31,673

T. Wiltowski; M. Mohanty; S. Rimmer

Illinois Clean Coal Institute The Effect of Mineral Content and Maceral Composition on Illinois Coal Gasification

$156,037

S. Rimmer; K. Anderson; S. Secchi; D. Lightfoot; T. Wiltowski

National Science Foundation IGERT: Interdisciplinary, Team-Based Graduate Training and Research in Energy Systems for the Future

$2

L. Lefticariu Illinois Clean Coal Institute Preliminary Investigation of Carbon Sequestration via Iron Carbonates Formation

$49,996

S. Rimmer Illinois Clean Coal Institute Effects of Geologically Rapid Heating on Organic and Inorganic Composition in Coal

$66,624

M. Wright; H. Henson; F. Mumba; L. Bu

Illinois State Board of Education SIUE-Elementary IMSP "SMART"

$249,928

S. Rimmer National Science Foundation Collaborative Research: The Permian-Triassic Transition in Antarctica: Evaluating the Rates and Variability of Carbon Isotope Fluctuations in Terrestrial Organic Matter

$41,015

S. Harpalani; S. Rimmer United States Department of Energy Storage and Mobility of Supercritical Carbon Dioxide in Gas Bearing Coal and Organic Shales

$576,565

J. Conder National Science Foundation Collaborative Research: Seismic Experiment in the Wabash Valley

$271,441

E. Ferre; S. Ishman; K. Ibrahim National Science Foundation Acquisition of a Superconducting Magnetometer System for Geology, Paleoclimatology and Biomagnetism Research at Southern Illinois University

$601,116

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Grant and Contract proposals submitted by faculty and staff from the Department of Geology during calendar year 2010 (continued).

S. Secchi; J. Remo National Science Foundation Strategic Floodplain Reconnection Using Stacked Ecosystem Service Payments

$260,675

K. Renzaglia; H. Henson; M. Wright; F. Mumba

National Science Foundation Southern Illinois Partnerships to Transform Middle School Science

$9,291,265

E. Ferre National Science Foundation Collaborative Research: Is the Moho Truly a Magnetic Boundary?

$275,880

J. Remo; N. Pinter National Science Foundation Effects of River Training Structures on Flow Dynamics, Flood Levels, and Habitat

$255,881

M. Mohanty; B. Zhang; H. Akbari; S. Shin; K. Basnett

United States Environmental Protection Agency Sustainable Utilization of Coal Combustion Byproducts through the Production of High Grade Minerals and Cement-less Green Concrete

$14,841

Total $13,277,381

New and Active Grants and Contracts awarded to faculty and staff in the Department of Geology for calendar year 2010.

Investigator(s) Agency/Title Amount

K. Renzaglia; S. Sipes; D. Gibson; H. Henson; F. Mumba

National Science Foundation Heartland Partnerships: Inquiry-Based Ecological and Environmental Education at SIUC

$261,764

K. Renzaglia; S. Sipes; D. Gibson; H. Henson; F. Mumba

National Science Foundation Heartland Partnerships: Inquiry-Based Ecological and Environmental Education at SIUC

$443,581

K. Renzaglia; S. Sipes; D. Gibson; H. Henson; F. Mumba

National Science Foundation Heartland Partnerships: Inquiry-Based Ecological and Environmental Education at SIUC

$444,906

K. Renzaglia; S. Sipes; D. Gibson; H. Henson; F. Mumba

National Science Foundation Heartland Partnerships: Inquiry-Based Ecological and Environmental Education at SIUC

$269,914

S. Ishman National Science Foundation Collaborative Research: Testing the Impact of Seasonality on Benthic Foraminifera as Paleoenvironmental Indicators

$85,369

S. Ishman National Science Foundation Collaborative Research in IPY: Abrupt Environmental Change in the Larsen Ice Shelf System, a Multidisciplinary Approach - Marine and Quaternary Geosciences

$67,362

S. Ishman National Science Foundation Collaborative Research in IPY: Abrupt Environmental Change in the Larsen Ice Shelf System, a Multidisciplinary Approach - Marine and Quaternary Geosciences

$67,036

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New and Active Grants and Contracts awarded to faculty and staff in the Department of Geology for calendar year 2010 (continued).

S. Ishman National Science Foundation Collaborative Research in IPY: Abrupt Environmental Change in the Larsen Ice Shelf System, a Multidisciplinary Approach - Marine and Quaternary Geosciences

$69,197

S. Ishman University of Nebraska Using Foraminifera to Resolve the Neogene History of Southern McMurdo Sound

$49,713

N. Pinter Illinois Emergency Management Agency Southern Illinois Multi-Hazard Mitigation Planning Initiative

$323,201

N. Pinter National Science Foundation Collaborative Research: Testing a Hypothesis of Latest Pleistocene Paleo-Environmental Collapse, Northern Channel Islands, California

$155,824

J. Conder National Science Foundation Collaborative Research: Assessment of T-Wave Processes and Hydroacoustic Monitoring Capabilities in Lau Basin

$52,856

S. Ishman University of Nebraska Reconstructing Miocene Glaciomarine Environments of SMS Using Foraminifera

$78,930

J. Conder Washington University Collaborative Research: Crusted Accretion and Mantle Processes Along the Subduction-Influenced Eastern Lau Spreading Center

$20,032

J. Conder Washington University Collaborative Research: Crusted Accretion and Mantle Processes Along the Subduction-Influenced Eastern Lau Spreading Center

$18,934

L. Lefticariu; G. Kinsel; G. Whitledge

National Science Foundation Acquisition of an Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometer for Geochemical, Biological, and Petrologic Research, Education, and Training at Southern Illinois University Carbondale

$407,335

K. Renzaglia; J. Spears; H. Henson National Science Foundation Green Scholarships: Training the Next Generation of Environmental Experts

$70,270

K. Renzaglia; H. Henson National Science Foundation Green Scholarships: Training the Next Generation of Environmental Experts

$529,730

K. Anderson; J. Crelling; S. Rimmer

Illinois Clean Coal Institute Characterization of Product Streams from the OHD Coal Conversion Process

$310,586

J. Sexton Illinois Petroleum Resources Board Computer System for Geophysical Research and Teaching

$17,200

H. Henson Illinois Emergency Management Agency Earthquake Hazard Mitigation and Education Video

$45,444

N. Pinter; C. Lant; M. Whiles; L. Chevalier; S. Baer

National Science Foundation IGERT: Multidisciplinary, Team-Based Training in Watershed Science and Policy

$599,999

N. Pinter; C. Lant; M. Whiles; L. Chevalier; S. Baer

National Science Foundation IGERT: Multidisciplinary, Team-Based Training in Watershed Science and Policy

$650,000

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M. Wright; H. Henson; F. Mumba Illinois State Board of Education

ISBE-IMSP-Science Math & Action Research for Teachers (SMART) Implementation Continuation

$249,106

E. Ferre National Science Foundation Collaborative Research: Magma Dynamics in Sill-Dike Systems - Constraints from Magnetic Fabrics and Paleomagnetism in the Karoo Large Igneous Province

$16,200

N. Pinter Kendall County, IL Illinois Multi-Hazard Mitigation Planning Initiative, Kendall County

$54,750

N. Pinter Schuyler County, IL Illinois Multi-Hazard Mitigation Planning Initiative, Schuyler County

$54,750

N. Pinter Macoupin County, IL Illinois Multi-Hazard Mitigation Planning Initiative, Macoupin County

$54,750

J. Means; H. Henson; F. Mumba West Kentucky Community & Technical College New Energy Workforce System (NEWS) Teach Workshops

$30,000

N. Pinter Menard County, IL Illinois Multi-Hazard Mitigation Planning Initiative, Menard County

$54,750

N. Pinter Knox County, IL Illinois Multi-Hazard Mitigation Planning Initiative, Knox County

$54,750

N. Pinter McDonough Co, IL Illinois Multi-Hazard Mitigation Planning Initiative, McDonough County

$54,750

N. Pinter Christian Co., IL Illinois Multi-Hazard Mitigation Planning Initiative, Christian County

$54,750

N. Pinter Fulton Co, IL Illinois Multi-Hazard Mitigation Planning Initiative, Fulton County

$54,750

S. Rimmer National Science Foundation Collaborative Research: The Permian-Triassic Transition in Antarctica: Evaluating the Rates and Variability of Carbon Isotope Fluctuations in Terrestrial Organic Matter

$41,015

F. Mumba; L. Bu; H. Henson; M. Wright

Illinois Board of Higher Education Southern Illinois Partnership for Achievement in Math and Science (SIPAMS)

$298,936

R. Fifarek Snowstorm Exploration Snowstorm Economic Geology Research

$37,805

M. Wright; H. Henson; F. Mumba; L. Bu

Illinois State Board of Education SIUC-Elementary IMSP "SMART" (Science, Mathematics and Action Research for Teachers)

$249,928

M. Wright; H. Henson; K. Renzaglia; F. Mumba

National Science Foundation Southern Illinois Fellowships for Teachers in Rural Schools (SIFTRS) - Planning Phase

$73,725

N. Pinter IUPUI Illinois Multi-Hazard Mitigation Planning Initiative, Richland County

$9,338

Total $6,483,236

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Grant and Contract proposals submitted by faculty and staff from the Department of Geology during calendar year 2011.

Investigator(s) Agency/Title Amount

E. Ferre Ocean Leadership Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Superfast Spreading Rate Crust 4 Expedition 335

$37,993

F. Mumba; H. Henson; L. Bu; M. Wright

Illinois Board of Higher Education Southern Illinois Partnership for Achievement in Math and Science (SIPAMS)

$311,499

N. Pinter National Science Foundation Collaborative Research: Community Resilience Through Pro-Active Flood Mitigation in the Rural Midwest

$222,635

L. Lefticariu American Chemical Society; Petroleum Research Fund Experimental Investigation of Carbon Sequestration via Ferrous Carbonate Formation

$99,942

K. Renzaglia; H. Henson; M. Wright; F. Mumba; L. Bu; J. Waggoner; W. Calvert

National Science Foundation A Community of Problem-Solvers: Teachers Leading Problem-Based Learning in Southern Illinois

$3,250,000

S. Ishman National Science Foundation Collaborative Research: Abrupt Environmental Change in Larsen Ice Shelf System

$57,028

T. Wiltowski; S. Rimmer; M. Mohanty

Illinois Clean Coal Institute The Effect of Mineral Content and Maceral Composition on Illinois Coal Gasification

$141,004

N. Pinter IUPUI E174 Emergency Management Institute Curricula: HAZUS-MH for Earthquakes

$18,975

N. Pinter U.S. Steel Levee-Breach Modeling, Metro East Sanitary Distric, Granite City, IL

$22,400

J. Conder; E. Ferre Honda Foundation Earthquakes Workshop for High-School Juniors in the Midwest

$44,481

J. Garvey; D. Glover; M. Whiles; N. Pinter

National Science Foundation RAPID: A Massive Floodplain Reconnects: Physical and Biotic Responses of the Birds Point Levee Breach in the Mississippi River

$191,121

K. Anderson Penn State SIU Coal Lab Subcontract to Penn State University

$19,987

S. Esling Thermaquatica SIU Analytical Services Subcontract to Thermaquatica, Inc.

$50,000

L. Lefticariu; Y. Chugh Illinois Clean Coal Institute Field Demonstration of Alternate Coal Processing Waste Disposal Technology

$80,969

S. Rimmer; K. Anderson; J. Crelling

Illinois Clean Coal Institute Influence of Maceral and Mineral Composition on OHD Processing of Illinois Coal

$162,810

M. Wright; H. Henson; F. Mumba; L. Bu

Illinois State Board of Education Science, Mathematics, and Action Research for Teachers (SMART)

$250,000

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Grant and Contract proposals submitted by faculty and staff from the Department of Geology during calendar year 2011.

J. Filiberto Planetary Science Retrieving the Parent Magmas of Martian Meteorites from Melt Inclusions: Development of a Verifiable Analytical

$91,021

E. Ferre Ocean Leadership Shape-Preferred Oreintation (SPO) of Oceanic Gabbros at IODP site 1256D and Implication for Magmatic Processes

$15,000

J. Filiberto NASA Constraining the Volatile Budget of Mars: Experimental and Analytical Studies of Halogens in Martian Basalts

$642,869

J. Conder National Science Foundation Collaborative Research: Seismic Experiment in the Wabash Valley

$269,118

L. Lefticariu Illinois State Geological Survey Synchysite and Other Rare Earth Minerals within the Illinois-Kentucky Fluorspar District: Implications for a Carbonatite Complex and Potential Economic Accumulations of Rare Earth Elements in the Midwest (USA)

$5,000

N. Pinter; C. Anz Walton Family Olive Branch Relocation Initiative: Community Design and Disaster-Recovery Networking

$60,000

N. Pinter; F. Huthoff; J. Remo American Rivers A Prototype Decision Support System for Guiding Flood-Risk Reduction and Floodplain Reconnection on the Mississippi River

$50,000

Total $9,682,587

New and Active Grants and Contracts awarded to faculty and staff in the Department of Geology for calendar year 2011.

Investigator(s) Agency/Title Amount

K. Renzaglia; S. Sipes; D. Gibson; H. Henson; F. Mumba

National Science Foundation Heartland Partnerships: Inquiry-Based Ecological and Environmental Education at SIUC

$261,764

K. Renzaglia; S. Sipes; D. Gibson; H. Henson; F. Mumba

National Science Foundation Heartland Partnerships: Inquiry-Based Ecological and Environmental Education at SIUC

$444,906

K. Renzaglia; S. Sipes; D. Gibson; H. Henson; F. Mumba

National Science Foundation Heartland Partnerships: Inquiry-Based Ecological and Environmental Education at SIUC

$269,914

S. Ishman National Science Foundation Collaborative Research in IPY: Abrupt Environmental Change in the Larsen Ice Shelf System, a Multidisciplinary Approach - Marine and Quaternary Geosciences

$67,036

S. Ishman National Science Foundation Collaborative Research in IPY: Abrupt Environmental Change in the Larsen Ice Shelf System, a Multidisciplinary Approach - Marine and Quaternary Geosciences

$69,197

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New and Active Grants and Contracts awarded to faculty and staff in the Department of Geology for calendar year 2011 (continued).

S. Ishman National Science Foundation Collaborative Research in IPY: Abrupt Environmental Change in the Larsen Ice Shelf System, a Multidisciplinary Approach - Marine and Quaternary Geosciences

$57,028

S. Ishman University of Nebraska Using Foraminifera to Resolve the Neogene History of Southern McMurdo Sound

$49,713

N. Pinter National Science Foundation Collaborative Research: Testing a Hypothesis of Latest Pleistocene Paleo-Environmental Collapse, Northern Channel Islands, California

$155,824

J. Conder National Science Foundation Collaborative Research: Assessment of T-Wave Processes and Hydroacoustic Monitoring Capabilities in Lau Basin

$52,856

S. Ishman University of Nebraska Reconstructing Miocene Glaciomarine Environments of SMS Using Foraminifera

$78,930

J. Conder Washington University Collaborative Research: Crusted Accretion and Mantle Processes Along the Subduction-Influenced Eastern Lau Spreading Center

$18,934

J. Conder Washington University Collaborative Research: Crusted Accretion and Mantle Processes Along the Subduction-Influenced Eastern Lau Spreading Center

$18,408

L. Lefticariu; G. Kinsel; G. Whitledge

National Science Foundation Acquisition of an Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometer for Geochemical, Biological, and Petrologic Research, Education, and Training at Southern Illinois University Carbondale

$407,335

K. Renzaglia; H. Henson National Science Foundation Green Scholarships: Training the Next Generation of Environmental Experts

$529,730

K. Anderson; J. Crelling; S. Rimmer

Illinois Clean Coal Institute Characterization of Product Streams from the OHD Coal Conversion Process

$310,586

H. Henson Illinois Emergency Management Agency Earthquake Hazard Mitigation and Education Video

$45,444

N. Pinter; C. Lant; M. Whiles; L. Chevalier; S. Baer

National Science Foundation IGERT: Multidisciplinary, Team-Based Training in Watershed Science and Policy

$650,000

N. Pinter; C. Lant; M. Whiles; L. Chevalier; S. Baer

National Science Foundation IGERT: Multidisciplinary, Team-Based Training in Watershed Science and Policy

$648,839

N. Pinter Kendall County, IL Illinois Multi-Hazard Mitigation Planning Initiative, Kendall County

$54,750

N. Pinter Schuyler County, IL Illinois Multi-Hazard Mitigation Planning Initiative, Schuyler County

$54,750

N. Pinter Macoupin County, IL Illinois Multi-Hazard Mitigation Planning Initiative, Macoupin County

$54,750

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New and Active Grants and Contracts awarded to faculty and staff in the Department of Geology for calendar year 2011 (continued).

J. Means; H. Henson; F. Mumba West Kentucky Community & Technical College New Energy Workforce System (NEWS) Teach Workshops

$30,000

N. Pinter Menard County, IL Illinois Multi-Hazard Mitigation Planning Initiative, Menard County

$54,750

N. Pinter Knox County, IL Illinois Multi-Hazard Mitigation Planning Initiative, Knox County

$54,750

N. Pinter McDonough Co, IL Illinois Multi-Hazard Mitigation Planning Initiative, McDonough County

$54,750

N. Pinter Christian Co., IL Illinois Multi-Hazard Mitigation Planning Initiative, Christian County

$54,750

N. Pinter Fulton Co, IL Illinois Multi-Hazard Mitigation Planning Initiative, Fulton County

$54,750

S. Rimmer National Science Foundation Collaborative Research: The Permian-Triassic Transition in Antarctica: Evaluating the Rates and Variability of Carbon Isotope Fluctuations in Terrestrial Organic Matter

$41,015

F. Mumba; L. Bu; H. Henson; M. Wright

Illinois Board of Higher Education Southern Illinois Partnership for Achievement in Math and Science (SIPAMS)

$298,936

F. Mumba; L. Bu; H. Henson; M. Wright

Illinois Board of Higher Education Southern Illinois Partnership for Achievement in Math and Science (SIPAMS)

$311,499

R. Fifarek Snowstorm Exploration Snowstorm Economic Geology Research

$37,805

M. Wright; H. Henson; F. Mumba; L. Bu

Illinois State Board of Education SIUC-Elementary IMSP "SMART" (Science, Mathematics and Action Research for Teachers)

$249,928

M. Wright; H. Henson; F. Mumba; L. Bu

Illinois State Board of Education SIUC-Elementary IMSP "SMART" (Science, Mathematics and Action Research for Teachers)

$250,000

M. Wright; H. Henson; K. Renzaglia; F. Mumba

National Science Foundation Southern Illinois Fellowships for Teachers in Rural Schools (SIFTRS) - Planning Phase

$73,725

N. Pinter IUPUI Illinois Multi-Hazard Mitigation Planning Initiative, Richland County

$9,338

E. Ferre Ocean Leadership Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Superfast Spreading Rate Crust 4 Expedition 335

$40,993

E. Ferre Ocean Leadership Shape-Preferred Orientation (SPO) of Oceanic Gabbros at IODP Site 1256D and Implication for Magmatic Processes

$12,000

N. Pinter Cass County, IL Illinois Multi-Hazard Mitigation Planning Initiative, Cass County

$54,750

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New and Active Grants and Contracts awarded to faculty and staff in the Department of Geology for calendar year 2011 (continued).

T. Wiltowski; M. Mohanty; S. Rimmer

Illinois Clean Coal Institute The Effect of Mineral Content and Maceral Composition on Illinois Coal Gasification

$141,004

N. Pinter IUPUI E174 Emergency Management Institute Curricula: HAXUS-MH for Earthquakes

$18,975

N. Pinter U.S. Steel Levee-Breach Modeling, Metro East Sanitary District, Granite City, IL

$22,400

K. Renzaglia; H. Henson; F. Mumba; L. Bu; J. Waggoner

National Science Foundation A Community of Problem Solvers: Teachers Leading Problem-Based Learning in Southern Illinois

$1,640,821

L. Lefticariu United States Department of the Interior; Office of Surface Mining Improved Sulfate-Reducing Bioreactors for the Remediation of High Total Dissolved Solids Drainage Associated with Coal Mining and Processing in the U.S.

$190,541

M. Mohanty; B. Zhang; H. Akbari; S. Shin; K. Basnett

United States Environmental Protection Agency Sustainable Utilization of Coal Combustion Byproducts Through the Production of High Grade Minerals and Cement-Less Green

$14,841

N. Pinter Saline Co, IL Illinois Multi-Hazard Mitigation Planning Initiative, Saline County

$54,750

J. Filiberto Universities Space Research Association Acid Fog on Mars II: Experimental and Analytical Studies of Halogens in Martian Basalts and Their Fluids

$9,000

J. Filiberto Universities Space Research Association Acid Fog on Mars II: Experimental and Analytical Studies of Halogens in Martian Basalts and Their Fluids

$87,026

N. Pinter IUPUI Illinois Multi-Hazard Mitigation Planning Initiative, Piatt County

$8,213

N. Pinter; C. Anz Walton Family Olive Branch Relocation Initiative: Community Design and Disaster-Recovery Networking

$60,000

Total $8,232,004

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Geology field course students examining outcrops of a detachment fault, Bitterroot Range, Montana.