12 Dr. Jeffrey Byrnes Assistant Professor; Volcanology; Planetary Geology and Remote Sensing Jeffrey Byrnes: As my time in OSU’s Boone Pickens School of Geology draws to a close, I have spent time reflecting on the years I have devoted to the department as well as time looking forward to the possibilities ahead of me. I have been fortunate to have developed close relationships with many colleagues during my time at OSU and have been laying the foundation to continue some collaborations in the future. I will greatly miss interacting with the students in the department, both through teaching and research; I hope to stay in touch with many of you after I leave. Leading up to my departure, I have continued to be busy with my research, teaching, service, and other responsibilities. My research activities have focused primarily on helping the students I have been mentoring complete their research projects. I also have been a part of proposal efforts outside the School of Geology to secure funding for various geophysics/remote sensing activities, some of which have been successful. Additionally, I have been fortunate to actively continue my exploration geophysics/remote sensing consulting work assessing onshore prospects for hydrocarbon potential despite the difficult times in the petroleum industry. Finally, in keeping with the Land Grant mission of the University, I conducted a small research project coupling remote sensing and geomorphology to help constrain the history of the Red River. Although my future plans include continued learning, informal teaching, and mentoring, finishing each of the courses I offer for what will likely be the last time I ever teach them has been bittersweet. On the personal front, my family continues to do well. My wife’s research program has taken on an international scope and my kids continue to thrive, both in and out of school. I managed to break my femur in a bicycling accident, but am now back on two feet (and two wheels) and continue the long recovery process. Dr. Michael Grammer Professor; Chesapeake Energy Chair of Petroleum Geology; Carbonate Sedimentology and Stratigraphy, Petroleum Geology Dear Alumni and Friends of the BPSoG: It has been another busy and challenging year, but as always, very rewarding on multiple levels. Year 3 of the Mississippian Unconventional Reservoir Consortium had another very successful year (more on that elsewhere in the Newsletter) and has kept myself and others quite busy. In the Fall, we entered into discussions with AAPG about developing an AAPG Memoir that combines our work here at OSU and as well as at other institutions over the last few years. We are pleased to announce that our subsequent proposal was accepted, and that we have 27 papers committed to the volume, which will be entitled “Mississippian Reservoirs of the Mid-Continent, U.S.A.”. The Editors of the Volume include the OSU group (myself, Jay Gregg, Jim Puckette, Priyank Jaiswal) as well as Sal Mazzullo (Wichita State), Matt Pranter (OU) and Bob Goldstein (Univ. of Kansas). Nearly all of the papers from OSU are either first authored or co-authored by our students. Just to ensure that I wouldn’t have too much extra time to get myself into trouble after my Memoir duties, I also accepted an invitation from GSA to be lead editor on a GSA Special Publication. Following another lengthy proposal process and search for papers, we are well underway with a Special Publication on the “Paleozoic Stratigraphy and Resources of the Michigan Basin”, co-edited by my former colleagues at Western Michigan University, Bill Harrison and Dave Barnes. We have 19 papers committed for this volume, which will summarize a lot of the modern sedimentological and stratigraphic work done over the last decade or so in the Michigan Basin, much of which was done at WMU. Field Seminar to the Bahamas In the past year, a number of students have successfully completed their graduate degrees from our group. Miranda Childress (MS, now at Devon), Keller Flinton (MS, now at AEP) and just last week, Taylor Thompson (MS, moving to Pennsylvania for an Environmental position) leave a full group of students still working feverishly down in the Grammer Dungeon in the basement of NRC. Space limitations preclude me going into detail, but all of the students are doing well and include: Beth Vanden Berg, PhD student (carbonate nano-porosity and permeability prediction), Yulun Wang, PhD student (integrated sequence stratigraphic and chemostratigraphic reservoir characterization), Ibukun Bode, PhD student (NMR characterization of carbonate nanopore systems), Ahmed El Belasy, PhD student, (linking diagenesis with sequence stratigraphy, Sinai, Egypt), Ashley Dupont, MS student (chemostratigraphy to identify global signals in the Mississippian and for regional correlation), Lara Jaeckel, MS student (high resolution sequence stratigraphy from core and logs), Scott Shelly, MS student (outcrop 3D modeling of later Mississippian strata), C.J. Appelseth, M.S. student (regional
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