HERE FROMHEADER THE EDITORS
Acquisition Editor’s Pen Visty Dalal, AEG News Acquisitions Editor All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages. – William Shakespeare
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his quote appropriately describes my feelings about my tenure as the Acquisitions Editor with AEG News since October 2019. All good things must come to an end and so this is my final post as a member of the AEG News editorial board. I thoroughly enjoyed making new contacts and learning from you about your areas of research and the projects that you were affiliated with. AEG is bestowed with great talent and knowledgeable professionals who are eager to share their experiences and expertise with others. It is this quality that makes the AEG family so unique and desirable.
With my transition to working with the Strategic Initiative Committee (SIC), I will continue to interact with a lot of you on several committees that the SIC members “sit-in.” This gives us a holistic view of what is going on several AEG committees and how we can assist the committees as well as be their proponents to the upper management. I am still learning about the functions of the SIC from Renee Wawczak. Martha Whitney, a fellow AEG member residing in France, has kindly agreed to volunteer as the new Acquisitions Editor and is looking forward to interacting with fellow AEG peers. With Bill Roman and Martha at the helm of the AEG News, I feel confident that they will take this magazine to new heights and bring in a lot of changes. Please welcome Martha whenever you interact with her. I wish her the best in this new endeavor! So long my AEG friends and family! Please keep in touch and I hope to see you in San Antonio, Texas, in September. Ever grateful for the opportunity to serve you!
In this issue…
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Bill Roman, Content Editor
he editors welcome you to the Spring 2021 issue of AEG News, which is chock-full of the optimism and opportunity the new year brings us. On our cover, we are delighted to share a photo from AEG’s Southern Nevada Chapter’s January 2021 field trip—one of the first field trip photos received by AEG News since the advent of COVID-19. Ann Backstrom provides details of the Southern Nevada Chapter’s field trip to Sand Dike near Anniversary Narrows in her story on page 31. AEG’s officers optimistically explore a variety of AEG and geoscience tangents in their reports. President Bill Godwin shares the results of some geoscience web surfing while also imploring us to get outside with others to explore the real world. Vice President Maddie German envisions a soap opera (As AEG Turns), which all AEG members have the opportunity to help script. Treasurer Nate Saraceno summarizes AEG’s 2020 year-end financial condition, which can be improved by increasing membership. Secretary Sarah Kalika reflects on the successes of 2020 and shares her optimism for the opportunities 2021 offers us, especially for AEG becoming more diverse and inclusive. Deb Green’s column (Field Notes) echoes Sarah’s optimism as Deb provides a personal reflection on her odyssey and invites us to join her on the path to conquering all forms of discrimination and oppression. Isaac Pope shares experiences Spring 2021
from his fantastic journey through 2020 and offers us an optimistic student perspective on the value of seizing opportunities. In this issue, we are also pleased to feature a reflection by Rebekah Bieber (Member Profile), introduce Martha Whitney, who has generously seized the opportunity to succeed Visty Dalal as AEG News’ Acquisitions Editor, and pay homage to AEG member Roy Spitzer, who passed in January. In our technical contributions, we celebrate 2021 as the International Year of Caves and Karst by offering two cave and karst-related papers. Isaac Pope discusses the interesting geological and archeological aspects of Washington’s Layser Cave, and Bill Roman describes the repair of a Pennsylvania roadway so notorious for sinkholes that an adjacent watering hole calls itself the Sinkhole Saloon & Grille. Visty Dalal rounds out our technical contributions with his paper on the rehabilitation of historic Lake Roland Water Supply Dam in Baltimore, Maryland. In addition to the Southern Nevada Chapter report, our HomeFront section presents reports from the Oregon, St. Louis, San Francisco Bay Area, and Texas Chapters. So, while we hope you enjoy this issue, we also hope that you seize the opportunity to submit your own and/or your group’s news and experiences to share in the Summer issue of AEG News.
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