Amy Leventer       It's hard to believe that I'm finishing my sixth year at Colgate! I'm having a great time, both in the classroom and in the field. I continue to teach Introduction to Oceanography almost every other semester, a great way to meet lots of students and to try to attract new majors. On the other end of the spectrum is Marine Geology, a 400-level class that takes a much more in depth look at the oceans. Despite worries about rain and rough waters, the highlight of the course this year was a weekend trip to Lake Champlain (not quite the ocean) aboard Middlebury's research vessel. Nobody got seasick and we collected cores that went back to the time when Lake Champlain was marine. My other favorite course is Climate Change and Human History, a Core Scientific Perspectives class. Over the years, I have felt an increasingly strong need to teach students something that I feel is of critical importance to society. I hope that this class helps students become more conscious of their responsibility to global issues and their ability to make economic, social and political decisions that are based on scientific realities. I've also started team-teaching Earth and Environmental Processes. The best part of the course is the lab - every Tuesday afternoon we're outside, usually at the Bewkes Center, but also on trips to the Adirondacks and Onondaga Lake. Finally, each year I find myself spending more time on the Geology Off Campus. Bruce Selleck has been very generous in showing me the ropes on the Canyon Loop - I still can't believe I'm paid to do this!       My research on climate change in the Antarctic is progressing well, thanks to lots of help from many, many students. So far I have participated in fourteen scientific field expeditions to the Antarctic and am fortunate to have shared this experience with so many Colgate students, including Athan Barkoukis '03, Kate Clark '99, Emily Constantine '04, Mark Hayes '98, Beth McAndrews '99, Meredith Metcalf '02, Natalie McLenaghan '02, Caroline Olson '02, Allison Ridder '99, Anna Rubin '02 and Eric Williams '01. The cruises have ranged from two weeks to two months, with the longest project approved as a Colgate Study Group, with the students receiving three course credits during the cruise. On every expedition, student efforts have been critical to the scientific success of the cruise; they worked 12-14 hours every day, monitoring geophysical instruments, working on deck to recover coring equipment, and in the lab to describe and sub-sample sediment cores. Of course, the friendships, scenery and memories of our field work are exceptional as well!