SGE Poster Session at GSA Meeting

At the recent Geological Society of America Annual Meeting in Toronto the SGE Poster Paper session was very well received. All participants are to be congratulated for their excellent presentations.

A special congratulations goes to Carlos Picornell, winner of the $100 Austin A. Sartin Best Paper Award. Carlos is a member of Gamma Omicron Chapter at the University of New Orleans. The title of his poster was Fold Style of Archean Marbels of the Indian Creek Metamorphic Suite, Tobacco Root Mountains, Southwestern Montana.
Honorable Mention and a $50 prize goes to Thomas Fewless, who presented a paper entitled Petrologic Investigations of the Pole Creek and Juniper Ridge Tuffs, Sonoma Range, North-Central Nevada. Thomas worked with John J. Hayes, David Matty and Stephen Stahl, and he is a member of the Epsilon Kappa chapter of Central Michigan University.

The other participants in the SGE Poster session were:

• Ryan D. Christensen, with James G. Kirchner (Department of Geography-Geology, Illinois State University)
  CHEMICAL VARIATIONS IN GLAUCONITE FROM THE CAMBRIAN DEADWOOD FORMATION, BLACK HILLS, SOUTH DAKOTA
• Gregory A. Buchoveckey, with Donald J. Stierman (Geology Department, University of Toledo)
  BICYCLE MAGNETOMETER SURVEY OF THE SENECA ANOMALY, NORTHERN OHIO
• Marie Plummer Minniear (Geology Department, University of Toledo)
  FORECASTING THE PERMANENT DECLINE IN GLOBAL PETROLEUM PRODUCTION
• Steven P. Loheide II, with Mohammad Z. Iqbal (Department of Earth Science, University of Northern Iowa)
  HYDROGEOLOGIC FLOW IN THE CEDAR HILLS SAND PRAIRIE, BLACK HAWK COUNTY, IOWA
• Kimberly M. Berends (Earth Science Department, Northeastern Illinois University)
  WATER BUDGET ANALYSIS OF THE MIDDLE FOX RIVER BASIN, ILLINOIS
• Stephen J. Gustafson, with Steven W. Bennett (Department of Geology, Western Illinois University)
  RANGES OF HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY ESTIMATES PREDICTED FROM GRAIN SIZE DATA AND THEIR EFFECTS UPON ANISOTROPY
• R. C. Thomas, with C. S. Romanek (Department of Geology and Savannah River Ecology Laboratory, University of Georgia)
  REMEDIATION OF ACID-SULFATE RUNOFF ORIGINATING FROM A COAL STORAGE PILE USING A MODIFIED CONSTRUCTED-WETLAND TECHNOLOGY
• Susan E. Block, with Berry W. Lyons (Department of Geology, University of Alabama)
  MAJOR ELEMENT AND NUTRIENT GEOCHEMISTRY OF FIVE SUBURBANIZED STREAMS IN TUSCALOOSA COUNTY, ALABAMA: IMPACT OF VARIOUS LAND USES
• Theresa M. Barber, with David J. Matty, Jane M. Matty (Department of Geology, Central Michigan University)
  ANALYSIS OF IRON-MANGANESE OXIDE COATINGS ON STREAM SEDIMENTS