Under the tutelage of Amanda Cook ('00), President, the Geology Club enjoyed a particularly productive year. For the past year or so, we have been an officially chartered organization through Campus Council on the Wooster campus. Besides the usual weekly meetings with outside speakers and Senior Seminar presentations, we again had lunch together in Lowry Center after each meeting, partied with the Department of Philosophy during our Holiday luncheon in December, hosted "A Look at the Lunar Eclipse" in January, designed another new Geology T-shirt, and sponsored a departmental Open House for Earth Day 2000.

Officers for the 1999-2000 Geology Club:

President Vice President Treasurer

Amanda Cook ('00) Ryan McAllister ('00) Evan Berliner ('00)

Presentations during 1999-2000 included:

September 9	Dr. Jeff Karson Div. of Earth & Ocean Sciences Duke University	"Tectonics of Seafloor Spreading"
September 16	Amanda Cook ('00)	Senior Seminar: "A Phylogenetic Study of the Nymphalids and Their Hostplant Affinities, Florissant Formation (Late Eocene, Colorado)"
September 16	Ryan McAllister ('00)	Senior Seminar: "The Geomorphic and Dendrochronologic Evolution of the Tana Dunes, Alaska"
September 23	Miranda Loflin ('00)	Senior Seminar: "Acid Sulfate Alteration, Bonanza Caldera, San Juan Volcanic Field, Colorado"
September 23	Ryan Oates ('00)	Senior Seminar: "Sulfur Isotope Analysis of the Troodos Ophiolite, Cyprus"
September 30	Allison Cornett ('00)	Senior Seminar: "Petrological and Isotopic Features of an Unusual Sea Level Event Recorded in Fossil Coral Reefs of The Bahamas"
October 7	Megan Hooker ('00)	Senior Seminar: "Paleoenvironments of the Simsima Formation (Maalstrichtian, Late Cretaceous), Arabian Peninsula"
October 7	Mike Gluck ('00)	Senior Seminar: "A Paleomagnetic Evaluation of the Troodos Ophiolite, Cyprus"
October 14	Evan Berliner ('00)	Senior Seminar: "Geophysical Prospecting Techniques in Archaeological Site Surveying"
October 14	Ryan Hanson ('00)	Senior Seminar: "Tree Ring Analysis as a Correlative Tool in Glacial Deposits in the Cincinnati Region"
October 21	Dr. David Green Department of Geology Denison University	"Sierran Roof Pendants and the Antler Orogeny"
November 4	Mr. James St. John ('91) Dept. of Geological Sciences The Ohio State University	"Why So Many Cambrian Lagerstatten: Explaining the Relative Abundance of Exceptionally Preserved Fossils in the Cambrian"
November 11	Dr. Thomas Lowell Department of Geology University of Cincinnati	"Climate Changes and Glacial Changes: Northern and Southern Views"
November 18	Dr. Lori Bettison-Varga, Dr. Robert Varga, Dr. Greg Wiles and Dr. Mark Wilson Department of Geology The College of Wooster	"Where Do We Go From The College of Wooster?: a discussion of jobs, résumés, field camp, and graduate school"
December 2	Dr. Lori Bettison-Varga Department of Geology The College of Wooster	"Magmatism in an Extensional Accommodation Zone, Black Mountains, Arizona"
January 27	Dr. Beverly Z. Saylor Dept. of Geological Sciences Case Western Reserve University	"Reconstructing Latest Precambrian Earth History: the View from the Kalahari Craton, Namibia"
February 4	Ryan McAllister ('00)	Senior Seminar: "Dendrogeo- morphology and Recent History History of the Tana Dunes, South Central Alaska"
February 4	Evan Berliner ('00)	Senior Seminar: "Applying Geophysical Techniques to Archaeological Site Surveying"
February 10	Miranda Loflin ('00)	Senior Seminar: "Origin of Acid Sulfate Alteration at the Porphyry Peak Rhyolite, Bonanza Caldera, San Juan Volcanic Field, Colorado"
February 10	Ryan Oates ('00)	Senior Seminar: "Sulfur Isotope Analysis of the Troodos Ophiolite, Cyprus: Explanations for d34S Enrichment"
February 17	Allison Cornett ('00)	Senior Seminar: "Petrological and Isotopic Features of an Unusual Sea Level Event Recorded in Fossil Coral Reefs of the Bahamas (Substage 5e, Eemian, Pleistocene)"
February 17	Mike Gluck ('00)	Senior Seminar: "A Paleomagnetic Evaluation of the Timing of Rotation of the Troodos Ophiolite, Cyprus"
February 24	Megan Hooker ('00)	Senior Seminar: "Paleo- environments of the Late Cretaceous Simsima Formation, Oman Mountains"
February 24	Ryan Hanson ('00)	Senior Seminar: "Tree Ring Analysis as a Correlative Tool for Glacial Deposits in the Cincinnati Region"
February 24	Amanda Cook ('00)	Senior Seminar: "A Phylogenetic Study of the Nymphalids and Their Hostplant Affinities, Florissant Formation (Late Eocene, Colorado)"
March 2	Dr. Paul Mayewski Climate Change Research Center University of New Hampshire	THE 2000 OSGOOD LECTURE: "The Ice Core Time Machine"
March 9	Dr. Pete Dahl Department of Geology Kent State University	"New Mineral-Dating Techniques Resolve Old Tectonic Problems in the Archean Wyoming Province"
March 30	Dr. Mark Wilson Department of Geology the College of Wooster	"The Paleontology and Sedimentology of Mid-Holocene Sea-Level Changes in the Enriquillo Valley of the Southwestern Dominican Republic"
April 6	Dr. David P. Hawkins Department of Geology Denison University	"A Trigger Mechanism for Explosive Volcanic Eruptions: the View from Hades (well, actually from coastal Maine)"
April 20	Dr. Dan Goldman Department of Geology The University of Dayton	"Stratigraphic Distribution of Graptolites in the Upper Ordovician Utica Shale of New York: Evolutionary Succession or Response to Relative Sea Level Change?"
April 27	Dr. Patricia Heiser Department of Geology Ohio University	"Quaternary of Alaska"

The Officers for the 2000-2001 Geology Club:

President Vice President Treasurer

Kirk Lapham ('01) Aaron Shear ('01) Tim Conklin ('01)

Front Row: (l. to r.) Laura Clor, Sarah Gaudio, Kathy Bremar, Doro Blaho, Rich Poole, Sara Austin, Daniele Davies
Second Row: Karrie McAllister, Aaron Shear, Laura Long, Andrea Martin, Leslie McCluskey, Jaymie Strecker, Kristina Brady, Erin Popelka, Megan Kennedy
Third Row: Amy White, Mark Wilson, Debbie Prinkey, Jerome Hall, Abby Bowers, Katherine Nicholson, Suzanne Lucas
Fourth Row: Bob Varga, Russ Kohrs, Allen Dodson, Greg Wiles, Kirk Lapham, Mike Oswald, Josh Peters

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