This was a busy year for the Quats. Our SLIP (Southern Laurentide Ice Sheet Project) is moving along. Paul Cutler has been enhancing the model of the Green Bay lobe and developing a model for the Lake Michigan lobe. We are continuing to compile landforms over a broad area into a G.I.S. to support the modeling effort. Three students are working in the Uintas on various aspects of Quaternary history. It has also been interesting to begin mapping Door County along with a grad student and with Al Schneider, who is retired from UW-Parkside. Other parts of Wisconsin haven’t been forgotten either—one student is working along the state line south of Madison and another in Sheboygan County. Tuncer Edil, in Civil Engineering, and I have been working on a shore erosion project with folks at the University of Michigan and the Ohio Survey (including U.W. alumnus, Scudder Mackey. More information on these projects and our upcoming trip to Iceland, is on our Quat web page, which can be reached via the department web site.
Last summer I finished my four-year term as president of the INQUA Commission on Glaciation, but didn’t get to the INQUA meeting in South Africa. Administration began in earnest late in the summer when I took over as Chair of the Geological Engineering Program. The lack of an administrative assistant during fall made it quite time consuming. Hopefully, this will improve once someone is hired. A high point of the summer was a trip to Norway that started with a little work with a UW grad student and with Eiliv Larsen of the Norwegian Geological Survey. Vin and I then got married over there and traveled for about a week, then had a few days in Amsterdam before coming back and setting up our household together.
We enjoyed going to Denver for GSA in October and seeing many UW alumni. We hope to see more of you at various events in the future and invite you to join our Iceland glaciers field course next summer!
Alumni Baraboo Field Trip - Dave Mickelson
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