Bootstrap Geologist: My Life in Science

Index

Index Page numbers in italics refer to illustrations AAPG. See American Association of Petroleum Geologists AAPG Global Climate Change Committee, 252–53 Abelson, John, 238 Abelson, Phil, 238 Acanthaster (crown-of-thorns starfish), 97–99 Acropora cervicornis (staghorn coral), 44–46, 98–99, 157–61, 160 Acropora palmata (elkhorn coral), 42, 161, 201, 281n1 Adey, Walter, 92, 126–27 Aerobiologia, 225 African dust: agency agendas and, 227–29; air plants related to, 220; amount of, 220–21; anthrax and, 230–31; baseline on, 233; beryllium -7 in, 226, 239, 285n1; Betzer on, 226; chemical sensitivity related to, 229–30, 235; clay related to, 221; Cuba and, 227–28, 284n2; EPA related to, 229; Feldman, G., for, 233; fluctuations of, 222; fungi in, 226–27; Garrison and, 225; Griffin on, 234; Hickey and, 224; India related to, 238–39; iron in, 221; locusts and, 227–28; from Mali, 233–34; Maynard on, 221–24; military and, 229–31; nutrients and, 220; politics of, 227–30; Prospero on, 221–22; publication on, 229; rotifers in, 228; terrorism related to, 226–27, 230–32, 284n2 AGI. See American Geological Institute Agouron Institute, 237–39 Air Force, 167, 235–36 Air plants, 220 Alda, Alan, 232 Alibek, Ken, 230 Allen, Thad, 275–76 American Academy of Environmental Medicine, 229–30 American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG), 137–38, 240–41, 248; climate change and, 252–53 American Geological Institute (AGI), 162 American Petroleum Institute (API), 103 Andrea Doria, 175 Andrews, Sarah, 231–32 Andros Island, 50–53; Little Lucky Lake field compared to, 55–56 Anhydrite, 60 Anthrax, 230–31 API. See American Petroleum Institute Aquarius, 268 Arab embargoes, 108–9, 117 Arab people, 70. See also Qatar Aragonite, 72–73, 95–96 Archie, Gus, 282n3 Armed Forces Pathology Research Institute, 230 Army Corps of Engineers, 14, 211 Arnold, Paul, 29 Aronson, Richard, 161 Art Deco, 16, 146–47 Aspergillus sedowii, 226–27 Asthma, 224, 226 Atlantic Ocean: groundwater toward, 214–17; water level of, 214–15 Index 288 Atlantis research, 243; alternative science and, 245–46; beachrock in, 242; rock age in, 244; stratification in, 242, 244; television for, 243–44 Atlantis Rising, 245–46 Australian Great Barrier Reef Commission. See Great Barrier Reef Commission Awards, 127, 215, 232, 240; after retirement, 254–56; from Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, 49–50 Baars, Don, 37 Babbitt, Bruce, 188, 211 Bahamas: blue holes in, 103, 175; DEA in, 141–42; Lee Stocking Island, 176, 177–78; ooids in, 203– 4; San Salvador, 219–21; whitings in, 137–41 Bahrain, 79, 80, 81 Bakker, Dan, 53–54 Ball, Mahlon, 37, 38, 200–201 Barber, Richard, 223–24, 228 Bard, Allen J., 263–64 Barite (barium), 159–60 Barron, Eric, 254 Barry, Dave, 147 BASIS, 263–64, 286n1 Bathurst, Robin, 46, 49 Beach, David, 152 Beach erosion, 195–96, 200 Beachrock, 242, 245 Belize, 137 The “bends,” 35–36 Bernoulli effect, 218 Berra, Yogi, 277 Beryllium-7, 144–45, 226, 239, 285n1 Bethel, 6–9, 281n2 Betzer, Peter, 194–95, 226, 237 BHP. See Broken Hill Propriety Bimini, 242–46, 243 Biohazard (Alibek), 230 Birdseye structure, 283n4 Black long-spined sea urchins (Diadema antillarum ), 219 Blackwelder, Pat, 143–44 Blowout: at Ixtoc, 155, 272, 274–75; recovery device for, 155–56. See also Deepwater Horizon Blowout preventer (BOP), 272, 274–75 Bloxsom, Walter, 52 Blue holes, 103, 175 Boats, 40, 50–52, 64–65; Andrea Doria, 175; Calypso, 50, 103–4, 104, 109–10, 175; Captain’s Lady, 137–38, 208; Damon B. Bankston, 270; Delta, 168, 168–69, 183; dhows, 78–81; Egabrag, 167–68, 169; ferry, 125–26; Halimeda, 127–28, 129, 136, 200, 202, 208; Mama-San, 192; Nuestra Señora de Atocha, 180; offloading from, 141; Papa-San, 192; Sea Angel, 136–38, 141; Vaughan, 209, 212; Weatherbird II, 275; Wellwood, 189–90 Bohlen, Steve, 234 BOP. See Blowout preventer Bored surfaces, 76, 118 Bottom-feeders, 139–40 Bouma sequence, 54 BP Oil Company. See Deepwater Horizon Bright, Tom, 161 Broecker, Wally, 95–96, 144 Broken Hill Propriety (BHP), 98 Brown and Root, 155 Browner, Carol, 207 Buccaneer gas field, 109 Bug Spring, 156, 270 Bulletin of Marine Science, 182 Burrow casts, 148; publication on, 49–50; for research, 48–50, 104 Bush, George H. W., 224 CAA. See Civil Aeronautics Administration Calcium carbonate, 285n5; aragonite as, 72–73 Caliche, 58–59, 79, 186 Callianassa (shrimp), 49 Calypso, 103–4, 109–10, 175; burrow casts on, 50, 104 Captain’s Lady...