1999 was a tough year to get through, but the hard work appears to have set things up for a fantastic year in 2000. The spring flew by, kept busy by my new duty as associate editor for JGR and intensive recruiting efforts that brought two new post-docs (Florian Haslinger and Renate Hartog) and a new graduate student (Megan Mandernach) to Madison over the summer to join my research group. The summer was mostly spent traveling, with a trip to Hawaii to collect data and make preparations for a seismic field project, a trip to Cyprus for an international workshop on seismic tomography and earthquake location, and a family vacation in Alaska. The fall's activities included making arrangements for the start of the Kilauea East Rift field project and hounding authors to complete their chapters for a book I am editing (not to mention finishing my own two chapters for the book). The year was capped off with a bang, as five years of effort to obtain support to carry out seismic field work at Parkfield, California finally payed off. The project will set the stage for the San Andreas fault-zone drilling project, which is in President Clinton's budget on its way to Congress as part of the huge "Earthscope" project.
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