Colgate Geology Connections Down Under       Connections between Colgate's Geology Department and Australia and New Zealand continue to provide great opportunities for students and faculty. Colgate's Wollongong Study Groups have been led by geology department faculty Jim McLelland, Charlie McClennen, Bruce Selleck ad Paul Pinet, and William Peck will lead a group in the spring of 2007. A number of recent geology majors have participated in the study groups. Students from Colgate have engaged in joint research with faculty at the University of Wollongong's School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, and students from Wollongong have engaged in research with faculty here at Colgate. This summer two students from Wollongong, David Wesley and Narelle Simpson, supported by funding from a Colgate Mellon Foundation Grant, traveled to the western US with the Geology Department's summer field program. Liz Rampe ('05) and Linda Chernak ('05) recently received Honors in Geology based on research projects begun while in Australia, and Jason Kaplan ('06) worked on analyses of contact metamorphic rock collected during his study group visit to Wollongong during the spring of 2005. Recent faculty research exchanges to University of Wollongong have included Rich April and Bruce Selleck. Paul Carr and Nicholas Gill of Wollongong's School of Earth and Environmental Sciences have spent research leaves at Colgate in the last two years.       "The academic exchange between Colgate and Wollongong has been very productive for both students and faculty. The opportunity to engage our colleagues for extended periods of time has led to a number of innovative research projects, and new approaches to teaching. For students, going on an international study group is a wonderful learning opportunity, but when it is coupled with real research that is specific to that place, the experience is all the more meaningful." (Bruce Selleck)       Colgate geology faculty and student research abroad has also included New Zealand. In January 2005, Art Goldstein of the Geology Department, along with colleague Keith Klepeis (University of Vermont; CU '82) and Colgate student Darren Karn ('05) visited South Island, NZ to study the evolution of the Alpine Fault, site of one of the earth's highest rates of tectonic uplift. Shortly thereafter, Bruce Selleck visited South Island to study sediments accumulating on the south coast near Dunedin. On arrival Selleck crossed paths, completely by chance, with Karen Harpp in airport customs in Christchurch, NZ, as Harpp was returning from a research excursion to Antarctica. Christchurch is the home of the New Zealand Antarctic Center and has also served as a departure point for scientific expeditions carrying Amy Leventer (Colgate Geology department) and her students studying the sedimentary record of glacier and ice-shelve melting on the Antarctic coast.