~ Dave’s giving talks at URI and UVM in the coming month, and is just back from participating in the First Antarctic Climate Evolution symposium in Granada, Spain, where he and Amy did some reconnaissance sampling of the Sierra Nevada and environs.

~ Nick Swanson-Hysell and Sarah Cadwallader tied the knot in Vermont; even the New York Times is excited!

~ Dave gave a talk in the Department of Earth & Ocean Sciences seminar in late August.

~ Dave submitted his application for tenure and promotion to the rank of Associate Professor.

~ Dave was featured on the Geo Quiz on BBC/PRI’s The World. Listen here.

~ Hyunmee, Dave, Alan and Denise have had their paper on Appalachian foreland basin detrital-zircon geochronology accepted for publication in Journal of Geology. We appreciate co-author George Gehrels’ continuing support and assistance with our research.

~ Our new detrital-zircon data from the Trinity Peninsula Group and Mt. Flora Formation of the Antarctic Peninsula have been accepted for publication in Antarctic Science.

~ Our U-Pb zircon geochronology paper on the southern Rocas Verdes basin of Argentine Tierra del Fuego was accepted for publication in G-Cubed.

~ Willy Guenthner and David Gombosi have generated new and valuable thermochronometric data from the northern Antarctic Peninsula and the Fuegian Andes that shed interesting light on the kinematic history of the greater Scotia Arc. Gombosi et al. is in press at Terra Nova. Guenthner et al. is in review in G-Cubed.

~ We’ve filled in some important gaps in our detrital-zircon provenance data from the Magallanes foreland basin, which now reveal a peak of tectonic activity in the Fuegian Andes at ca. 39 Ma -- precisely between Scher & Martin’s (2006) record of Pacific water-mass penetration into the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean, and the onset of the Oi-1 glaciation. These results were published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters in July 2009.

~ Nick Swanson-Hysell and Dave’s manuscript on alluvial-fan lithostratigraphy in Earth and Planetary Science Letters has led to some discussion from our esteemed Catalan colleagues.      Our Reply.

~ Comings & Goings: Amanda Savrda has joined Team Barbeau from Auburn University....David Gombosi completed his M.S. and is off to Syracuse for his Ph.D....Beth Ann Bell completed her Honors College B.S. and is now at UCLA working on her Ph.D....Kendra Murray has started her Ph.D. at Arizona.

~ Dave is giving a keynote talk in a session on geochemical provenance at GSA 2009 in Portland. Zahid is also delivering a talk in the clastic sediments session.

~ Plans are in the works for cruise LMG 09-11 aboard the R/V Laurence M. Gould. Team Barbeau will be joined by research teams led by Ross MacPhee, Joe Kirschvink and Peter Ward. We’re also assembling plans for a post LMG 09-11 cruise aboard Northanger from Punta Arenas, Chile to Ushuaia, Argentina to improve our thermochronology and sediment provenance sample suites.