Bruce Selleck After nine years of deaning and department chairing, I am enjoying my role as "Joe Faculty Member" immensely. Paul Pinet has graciously stepped in to lead the department, and Connie Soja will be doing the job in an interim role this year. As all of us who have done the job know so well, the department chair is mostly about pushing paper and meeting deadlines, so I don't miss it one bit! One great thing about being chair is the close involvement with searches for new colleagues. We are so pleased to have Amy Leventer and Karen Harpp join us in the department. They have made the geology department at Colgate an even better place. My teaching duties have expanded to include offering courses in Colgate's new Environmental Studies program. Two years ago I taught the introductory Earth and Environment course, and this fall am team-teaching the Environmental Studies Senior Seminar with Ellen Kraly from the Geography Department. Our focus is 'The Adirondacks', with students from Geology, Biology, Geography and Economics departments participating. We are taking five fieldtrips to the 'dacks, and will get to see lots of fall foliage. The Website for that course is: http://offices.colgate.edu/-bselleck/Enst480.htm if you wish to take a look. I continue to offer "Seds" (http://offices.colgate.edu/bselleck/geology302title.htm), as well as the 200- and 400-level hydrology courses. I have also had the good fortune to take the Geology "OC" to the western US for the Canyon Loop (Denver, Arches, Canyonlands, Bryce, Zion, North Rim) for the last few years. Research projects in Alaska (stable isotopes and climate change in Tertiary sediments) and the Adirondacks (fluids, stable isotopes in late veins; Paleozoic fluid effects) and Taconics (fluid inclusions) continue, and I have taken more interest in local Pleistocene and Holocene sediments of late. Two student projects this past summer led to interesting results that will require further work. One project, taken up by Janet Baran (class of 2001) focussed on the origin of carbonate cements in kame terrace gravel. Jeb Benzing (class of 2000) developed a surface water model of Woodman Pond to contrast the pre-Chenango Canal version of the pond with the modern systems. On the personal side, Nancy and I continue to reside on River Road in Randallsville. Daughter Caity is a senior in high school this year, so we are in college tour mode. Beth, who is in eighth grade, was able to join the Canyon Loop portion of the OC this past summer, and had a great time with the students.