2012 Fall Faculty News

Regents' Professor Vic Baker will be the inaugural GSA (Geological Society of America) Distinguished International Lecturer this fall, giving lectures on "Megafloods on Earth, Mars, and Beyond" and "Geological History of Water on an Earth-like Planet" during a tour across Europe in October. Congratulations to Vic on the honor, and

Dr. Joellen Russell, Associate Professor in the UA Department of Geosciences, has been named to a courtesy joint appointment in the Department of Planetary Sciences (PTYS) and Lunar and Planetary Laboratory. Professor Russell is currently serving as the major advisor for PTYS graduate student Juan Lora. She is collaborating with

Professor John Lewis retired from LPL in 2010. From the update he recently shared with us, however, it seems he is busier than ever!

Although I am nominally Emeritus, I am not exactly living life in an intellectual backwater. I do about one University speaking gig per month. The subject