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The next St. Lawrence Geology Alumni Conference (SLUGAC) will be October 8-10, 2010 with the theme
"St. Lawrence Geology from Pole to Pole: As Exemplified by the Achievements of Albert P. Crary '31"  
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Alice QuackenbushIt is with a sad heart we pass along the news that  Alice Lu Quackenbush, Geolgy Department Secretary for 26 years died unexpectedly Saturday, Oct. 3, 2009 at Canton-Potsdam Hospital at the age of 72. She went above and beyond her duties as such and in 2007 she was recognized by the alumni as a W. T. Elberty, Jr. Medal recipient.   Statement from President Fox . Obituary from the Watertown Daily Times. 

At SLUGAC 7 a tree will be dedicated in Alice's memory on the St. Lawrence Campus.

    JMESLU 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 fund and another recieved a big boost from sizeable pledges from a handful of alums.  You too can help get the JME fund fully funded...once that happens, students can then be considered for the fellowship.

    For more information about the fellowship and ways to donate.  Please look here.
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  • Check our In the News page for profiles of faculty and alumni on  the SLU web site and other news stories (updated June 3, 2010)

Congratulations are in Order
  • To Profs Jeff Chiarenzelli '81 and Antun Husinec and their students - Hannah Cowan '11, Krystyna Kornecki '12, John T. Murphy '11, Amelia Oates '12 - who have been named as University Fellows this summer.  Read more in the SLU Press Release
  • To  Kyle Marvinney '11 for being named to this year's Eastern Intercollegiate Ski Association (EISA) All-Academic roster. SLU Press Release

Added June 3, 2010
trishaTrisha Smrecak '06 is a co-author on this new book on climate change entitled "Climate Change - Past, Present, and Future: a Very Short Guide"
Museum of the Earth information about the book
SLU Press Release
You can also follow Trisha and a friend at the  Climate Change 101 blog.
Added June 3, 2010
JudithWakhunguJudith Wakhungu '83 to recieve Alumni Citation at SLU Reunion.  Judith is from Nairobi, Kenya and is  executive director of the African Centre for Technology Studies, the first African independent think-tank on the application of science and technology to development.
SLU Press Release
Added March 23, 2010
Holly Snyder Solano '92 Holly (Snyder) Solano '92 won first place in Points of Departure, a juried national photography exhibition hosted by The Metropolitan Center for the Visual Arts in Rockville, Maryland.
SLU Press Release
Added April 3, 2010
Katie HoskinsonKatie Hoskinson '11,  won one of 15 Outstanding Undergraduate Student Poster Awards for her poster presentation at the 2010 Joint Northeastern-Southeastern Sections Meeting of the Geological Society of America in Baltimore, Maryland. Some 253 undergraduate students presented posters at the meeting

SLU Press Release.

Katie was also informed she was one of the finalists for the Eastern Section of the Society for Sedimentary Geology Outstanding Presentation Awards at Baltimore GSA.
Added March 7, 2010
peterJust brought to our attention...

Peter deMenocal '82
recieved the prestigious 2007-2008 Distinguished Columbia Faculty Award.
Added March 7, 2010
Barn TewksburyBarbara Tewksbury '73 is part of a team that has won the 2009 Science Prize for Online Resources in
Education
sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science and Science magazine.
The web site is "On the Cutting Edge: Professional Development for Geoscience Faculty."

Oneida Courier
Utica Daily News
Hamilton College- News
Added February 9, 2010 Updated March 7 & 9, 2010, June 3, 2010
WaldDavid Wald '84 appeared on CNN's The Situation Room and was quoted in various AP reports after the earthquake in Haiti on January 12th.

He was also quoted in a March 1st Wall Street Journal Articls "Why Bigger Quakes Sow Less Damage."  His quotes were picke dup on the wires an appeared in multiple articles [1,2]  about the Earthquake in Chile.

David appeared on the NBC Nightly News on March 6th.  Watch  at msnbc.com

David was quoted in the Seattle Times on April 15, discussing the Baja earthquake.

Added February 9, 2010, June 3, 2010
Derrick PittsDerrick Pitts '78 named to TheGrio's list of the 100 Black History-Makers in the Making.

SLU Press release
MSNBC Cosmic Log

On February 1st, Derrick appeared on Countdown with Keith Olbermann  to talk about the space  program. His comments start 1:34 in to the clip

Derrick appeared on Countdown with Keith Olbermann again on  April 14th to talk about the Moon and the space program.  He appears around 1:30min in the clip.

PAST FEATURES

If you have any news for the newsletter send email to Mark Erickson .  If you want your email address or recent publications added to the appropriate pages or are able to contribute to the current students section, please send email to Sarah McElfresh '98.

Thanks for stopping by.  Hope you are doing well.


Last Updated
June 21, 2010

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