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Latest News
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Faculty position filled! The Geology Department has hired a new faculty member, Dr. Kevin Stafford, a specialist in cave and karst development. We are looking forward to having him with us this Fall!
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Faculty News
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Our still new faculty member, Dr. Wesley Brown, is a geophysicist who graduated from UT-El Paso. Dr. Brown 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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Dr. LaRell Nielson has been promoted to Chairman of the Geology Department. Congratulations!
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Dr. Ernest Ledger has just retired and is now an emeritus professor with the Geology Department. We wish him the very best for a great retirement and thank him for his many years of service to SFA. We look forward to seeing him on a regular basis in the department.
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Dr. Chris Barker recently 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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