St. Lawrence Geology Alumni

News From the Department

The SLU Geology Department is now on Facebook too!
SLU Geology talks and posters by students, faculty and alumni at the Northeast Geological Society of America Meeting March 18-20 in Brenton Woods, NH - Added March 14, 2013
Winter 2012 Newsletter now online - Updated February 1, 2013
SLUGAC 8 Website

If you are presenting at any conferences (GSA, AGU, LPSC, AAPG, etc.) this year, please email Sarah and she will make a program of Alumni, Faculty and Student presentations.
If you have not been receiving newsletters, we must not have the correct mailing address for you. Check the Missing Alumni link as well (updated March 3, 2012). Please send email to Sarah
Check our In the News page for profiles of faculty and alumni on the SLU web site and other news stories (updated April 7, 2011)
To send your news to the department - submit the form at the department web site.

SLU Geology Alumni announce fellowship in honor of J. Mark Erickson

At the alumni gathering at GSA in Houston on October 5th, 2008, we caught Mark off guard with a card and the announcement of the creation of the J. Mark Erickson Fellowship for Geology.

This endowed fund has received several big boots from sizable pledges from a handful of alumni. You too can help get the JME fund fully funded...once that happens, students can then be considered for the fellowship. Bill van Wie '67 has established the Geology Alumni Expendable University Fellows Fund* that we all can donate to in support of the JME on an expendable basis while the endowed fund is completed which enables the scholarship committee to award fellowships to qualified geology students now.

For more information about the JME fellowship and ways to donate. Please look here.
*Also known as "Alumni Geology University Fellowship." Donations to this fund are included in the Alumni Giving Rate.

Mark mentioned in the Spring Newsletter that he had written a letter announcing his retirement that was emailed to all alumni we had addresses for. This letter was written when retirement discussions had just finished and were not yet available for public knowledge. The Alumni Council now has permission to release the letter and Mark has asked that we make it available for all alumni to read.

The April 2011 Edition of Momentum. The University's publication about "Momentum St. Lawrence" featured 2 articles related to the Geology Department. One was about the Dr. J. Mark Erickson Geology University Fellows Endowment and its formation and the other on the "Involving Students in Faculty Research Programs: Examples from the Geology Department" seminar given at the celebration to the end the campaign. Read both here.

More news can be found in our Facebook group
	Drew Twitchell '14 was awarded and Innovation Grant for his project "Accommodative Services iPad Pilot Project" Read more: here Added January 25, 2013	Sigma Gamma Epsilon inducts 3 new members: Daniel Curran, Michelle Goldberg and Saddie Serviss. Read More here Added January 25, 2013
Tim Beaupre '12 makes furniture using local Vermont Slate and chemical staining techniques. Added Janaury 25, 2013	Mimi Katz '81 has been named a 2012-2013 Ocean Leadership Distinguished Lecturer. For more information see here (with schedule) and here. Added October 2, 2012	Ben Rendall '11 was honored with a first prize at the 2012 AAPG Rocky Mountain Section Annual meeting for his poster on accomodation space changes in Devonian Guilmette Formation carbonates that bracket breccia deposits of the Alamo Impact Event. Added October 2, 2012
David M. H. Baker '08 was awarded the 2011 Nininger Meteorite Award for his paper “The transition from complex craters to multi-ring basins on the Moon: Quantitative geometric properties from Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA) data” Read more. Added September 20, 2012	Jeff Chiarenzelli '81 has been appointed to the James Henry Chapin Professorship of Geology and Mineralogy at St. Lawrence University. SLU News College Classes Added September 20, 2012	A paper by Dan Bisaccio '76 about teaching science to grade 9-12 students...teach science by doing. Read the paper in the British Journal of Arts and Social Sciences,Volume 07 No. 02 July 2012 Added September 20, 2012
Terry Cox '14 was selected as a scholar in the Ronald E. McNair Post Baccalaureate Achievement Program for 2012. His project "Dendrochronological Investigation of Lampson Falls, NY: Naturally Felled Trees -- Related to Geology and Weather?" was advised by Alexander Stewart . Read more about the McNair Program. He presented his research at the McNair Research Conference. Read more about this conference. Departmental news page. Added September 20, 2012	Dr. Antun Husinec was awarded Certificate of Appreciation in recognition of outstanding contributions to The Geological Society of America, Committee on Research Grants. Added September 20, 2012	Krystyna M. Kornecki '12 received the W.A. Tarr Award from Sigma Gamma Epsilon during Moving Up Day. (more here) She also published An Article In The April/March Issue Of The Professional Geologist - the article can be found here. Added September 20, 2012

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If you have any news for the newsletter send email to Mark Erickson or Sarah McElfresh '98.

Last Updated
March 14, 2013

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