8 colleagues Sal Mazzullo and Brian Wilhite along with Cory Godwin a PhD student. These papers include Revision of the surface stratigraphic nomenclature of the four state area (Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas and Oklahoma), zonation of Osagean conodonts, and high frequency stratigraphic analysis of the St. Joe Group of southwestern Missouri. These should be published in 2013. I am also working with Lynn Watney of the Kansas Geological Survey on conodont biostratigraphy of the Wellington Mississippian core in southern Kansas. With the onset of the Mississippian consortium commencing January 1, 2013, a major part of my research will be to finish the outcrop analogue model for The Mississippian with Jim Puckette and Mike Grammar, and to work towards an accurate up to date subcrop map based on new conodont biostratigraphic data obtained for cores in Kansas and Oklahoma. Jeffrey Byrnes: Over the past year, I have been continuing to develop my courses, research program, and collaborations with external colleagues in industry and academia. In addition to my standard teaching responsibilities, I also developed and conducted a training program for use of the OSU LIDAR Core Facility that I direct. Being at OSU, an ever-increasing proportion of my efforts are directed toward petroleum-related work. My consulting work for a small Texas-based company continues to expand, involving geophysical/geochemical analysis of satellite-based data for hydrocarbon exploration. During the Fall 2012 and Spring 2013 semesters, I have begun advising one new Ph.D. student and three new M.S. students, all of whom are applying various geophysical/geochemical approaches (via satellite- or laboratory-based data) to examine various aspects of petroleum systems. Two of these projects have received some support from Chesapeake Energy, including access to core, laboratory analyses, and other datasets. Work on the other two projects will hopefully involve collaborations with AAPG and a small independent oil company in Oklahoma. I do still conduct research pertaining to volcanology and planetary geology, and have two pending NASA grant proposals to support these research efforts and provide student support. On the personal side, my daughter Lily Marie Steets Byrnes was born last May. She has already developed some strong opinions on various subjects (especially my music performance) and is not shy about communicating them. Also of importance, without any prompting my son David started his own rock collection this past August; his first rock is a vesicular basalt from the San Francisco Volcanic Field that he collected. Joseph Donoghue: In this first year in Stillwater I have been busy establishing a sedimentology program and a research lab. My research examines sedimentary processes and products in marine and aquatic environments, Quaternary geochronology, the sedimentologic effects of sea-level change, and environmental geology. At OSU I have been teaching the lecture course Geology and Human Affairs (GEOL-1014) and the graduateundergraduate Marine Geology course (GEOL-5513/4413). I will also be offering Sed-strat (GEOL-3034) and Quaternary Geochronology (GEOL-5093). I’ve been continuing the advisement of some remaining students at Florida State University, where I came from. One of the PhD students, Jennifer Coor, just graduated in December. Two other PhD students and two MS students are nearing the end of their degree programs. I am currently also advising a master’s student at OSU, Tyler McNabb, and am starting to join other graduate student committees. In the fall I assembled nine faculty investigators from five departments (BPSoG, Physics, Geography, Sociology, and Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering) to develop a proposal that was submitted to the OSU Core Facilities Support competition. The proposal was for the development of an optically-stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating facility at OSU. The lab would serve OSU researchers and students who utilize this new dating tool, and would provide dates for external users on a fee basis. The proposal was well received but was not funded due to the need for a mechanism to support a dedicated technician. We will rework the proposal and hope to get it funded in the near future. Our research group presented several papers at the GSA national meeting in Charlotte, NC, in October, including two oral papers in a session devoted to the detection and significance of storms in the sedimentary geologic record. We published one recent journal paper and have submitted two others. I’ve also served as co-PI on two NSF proposals submitted in the past 6 months. In late 2012 I concluded a 3-year investigation as PI on an interdisciplinary DoD project "Effect of Near-Term Sea-Level Rise on Coastal Infrastructure." We are revising the final report and working on several journal papers resulting from that field and modeling project. Mike Grammer: Dear Alums and Friends of OSU Geology – my first semester here at OSU has been as rewarding as I expected, and also quite eventful. On the teaching end, this past Fall I taught a graduate level class in Carbonates with a total of 23 students in the class, which was the largest graduate level course I have ever taught. Speaking of carbonate classes, Jay Gregg and I are hoping to capitalize on our collective carbonate backgrounds and are planning to offer 3 graduate level classes directly related to carbonates (Carbonate Deposi-
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