Rich April Continues in Administrative Post Rich April is beginning his second term as Director of the Division of Natural Sciences. The post is nominally a 1/2 time administrative load, but is especially demanding in the fall term, when the Division Directors, as members of the Dean's Advisory Council, make all-important recommendations about tenure and promotion of faculty across the campus. Rich continues to teach Mineralogy and Geochemistry. Charlie McClennen recently completed his stint as Associate Dean of Faculty and is currently leading the Australia Study Group. Charlie's administrative duties kept him away from the department in terms of teaching, but he did manage to advise a number of student research projects, including work on the Lagoon of Venice and Lake Ontario shoreline. A two year grant from the Nature Conservancy ($18,000) will support three students doing GIS airphoto analysis of Eastern Lake Ontario coastal evolution. Charlie is also working along the eastern shore of Lake Ontario with a team of geologists on a newly-formed committee of the Nature Conservancy (Sand Transport Advisory Committee). Charlie will be on sabbatical leave in 2000-2001.