1999 was very productive–a year full of travel and new experiences. Research focused in new and old projects. New projects include work in cores from ODP Leg 182, drilled on the continental slope of southern Australia, seismic imaging of an exposed Wolfcampian shelf margin, and the Oligocene shallow and deep water carbonate of southeastern Spain. These projects incorporate sedimentologic, sequence stratigraphic and chemostratigraphic aspects. Some of the projects I am working on are in hydrostratigraphy and mechanical stratigraphy of shelf carbonates with field areas in Wisconsin and elsewhere. Environmental sedimentology is becoming to be an important "new" science and I find myself very interested in the topic. Of course, west Texas continues to be a wonderful place to do fieldwork and I continue research in Permian carbonates and siliciclastics.
Two trips were significant. The first one was to participate in a NSF initiative to identify new priority research initiatives. The workshop had 10 sedimentologists representing all the disciplines in sedimentary geology. The interactions among the different areas and the conclusions reached were really interesting. The second trip was to Colombia, Venezuela and Brazil as an SEPM a Distinguished Speaker.
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