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Latest News
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Last year's faculty position filled! The Geology Department recently hired a new faculty member, Dr. Wesley Brown, a geophysicist who graduated from UT-El Paso. Dr. Brown came on-board last Fall and is already proving to be a popular teacher. He is now offering our first geophysics course in several years and co-teaching the Arkansas weekend field trip. We are delighted to have him with us!
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Faculty News
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Dr. LaRell Nielson has been promoted to Chairman of the Geology Department. Congratulations!
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Dr. Ernest Ledger was a featured speaker at SFA' s "Bright Ideas" conference highlighting research by our faculty and students. Dr. Ledger is planning to retire at the end of this academic year. Congratulations on both counts!
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Dr. Chris Barker has just completed a year as Chair of the Faculty Senate.
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Retired Professor Martin Deuth has passed away.
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More detail about recent faculty activities.
Geology Club News
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Students Attend AAPG Convention in Houston, Spring 2006. Several SFA geology majors, along with Dr. Nielson, attended the AAPG convention and student field trip. Here's the whole group of students from several universities. Click to enlarge.
Katy, Marcie, Matt and Joe on their way to a sunburn. Click to enlarge.
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The Geology Department's student chapter of the AAPG (American Association of Petroleum Geologists) won the 2005 Outstanding Chapter Award!
 This was their third win in approximately 10 years -- an extraordinary accomplishment. Congratulations! Here is the group just after winning the award at the AAPG annual convention in Calgary, Canada, in June 2005. (Click on the picture to see a larger image.)
We also went on the AAPG Student Field Trip, which was a spectacular visit to the overthrust belt of the Canadian Rockies. Almost half the people in the picture below are part of our SFA group. It was a little brisk on this June day. (Click on the thumbnail image to see a much larger picture.) 
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Last year, the student chapter of the AAPG went to the convention in Dallas and on the student field trip to the Arbuckle Mountains of Oklahoma. It was a great trip to classic structural locations and to two quarries. About 17 of the folks in this picture are from SFA, including the club's faculty advisor, Dr. LaRell Nielson (he's wearing a white hat!).
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Student News
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SFA geology graduate students Manetta Dillingham (L) and Patrice Barlow recently received the first award of the new "Patricia S. Sharp Geology Graduate Fellowship." This fellowship was made possible by a very generous contribution from former geology teaching assistant, Richard Merrill. Thank you, Richard! And congratulations to Manetta and Patrice!
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Alumni News
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