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Newsletter
Summer 2003
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August 1, 2003 -- Congratulations to hydrology graduate students David Boutt and Suzanne Mills and former MIT graduate student Enrique Vivoni! These New Mexico Tech-associated folks received three of the 15 awards given for Outstanding Student Paper in Hydrology at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) 2002 Fall Meeting in San Francisco, California. The titles of these award-winning papers are:

• David Boutt (PhD Candidate in Hydrology): An analysis of the role of fluids in fracture initiation and propogation using direct simulation of the coupled fluid-solid system
• Suzanne Mills (Masters Candidate in Hydrology): Quantifying salinization of the Upper-Middle Rio Grande using a basin-scale water and chloride mass balance model
• Enrique Vivoni (Assistant Professor of Hydrology): Triangulated irregular networks and similarity in landscape processes

The awards were announced in the July 15, 2003, issue of EOS.

June 16, 2003 -- Peter Mozley, Associate Professor of Geology, returned to his office this week after a harrowing run-in with a rock on May 4th. Peter, pictured holding a friendly sedimentary rock, was riding his bicycle at about 15 mph down the steep road from Langmuir Lab where he encountered a fiesty igneous rock that caused him to lose control of his bicycle. Peter remembers seeing a huge wild turkey right before he went sailing over the handlebars. He landed hard on his hip, fracturing the ball joint, and then waited about an hour before a friend happened along and found him. And, no, there was not a hungry mountain lion circling him as was widely believed. Other local myths Peter wants to dispel include a plunge off a cliff where he had to climb back up to be rescued, and a slip on the sidewalk while walking to his office.

Fellow sedimentologist Dana Ulmer-Scholle and other well-wishers erected a shrine outside Mozley's office to honor their fallen colleague. Peter especially appreciates the training wheels donated by Rick Aster's 7-year-old daughter (who no longer needs them.)

June 16, 2003 -- Research Associate Professor of Caves and Karst Penny Boston and other members of the "Slime Team" were featured in Astrobiology Magazine, sponsored by NASA's Astrobiology Program. Click here to read more.

June 16, 2003 -- Congratulations to Joy Rosen and Andrew Mioduchowski who were recently married. Joy is currently an MS student in Geology. Andrew graduated in 2001 with an MS in Geology and is now employed in Wyoming. The happy couple will reside in Wyoming, once Joy has finished writing her IS this summer at Tech.

June 10, 2003 -- Geophysics professor Rick Aster talks about the recently approved EarthScope-USArray proposals and their impact on New Mexico Tech and the E&ES department's Geophysics Program. Click here for complete article. Photo courtesy Rick Aster.

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