News from Ian Skilling

PhD student co-supervised by Dr. Skilling won the award for best student presentation at the 2nd International Maar Conference (Hungary, September 2004). Murray McClintock's presentation was entitled, Phreatomagmatic Vent Complexes Emplaced During the Opening Phase of Karoo LIP volcanism, South Africa. Murray is now based at the University of Otago, New Zealand. His PhD research was funded by an NSF award to Dr. Skilling and Professor Bruce Houghton (University of Hawaii). Please see the following for further details: http://www.otago.ac.nz/geology/students/mcclintock/mcclintock.htm

Dr. Skilling will co-chair a session at the joint GSA-AAPG-SEPM meeting in San Jose (29 April to 1 May 2005) with Professor Cathy Busby (University of California-Santa Barbara) entitled, Volcaniclastic Strata: Process, Paleogeography and Tectonic Reconstructions. Please contact Dr Skilling for further details.