Remembering Bill Normark
40 Years of Innovation on Submarine Fans
San Antonio, Texas
Monday, April 21, 2007, 7-10PM
Chairs: Rick Beaubouef and David Pyles
Special Collaborators: Andrea Fildani and Brian Romans
This year’s meeting was a special tribute to the late William R. Normark. In the words of his dear friend David Scholl, “Early in the evening of Saturday, January 12, Bill Normark, at home with his wife, went quietly to map the big fan in the sky. The pearly offshore will now be meticulously observed, recorded, and, at last, understood. Yes, he took an AUV with him.”
Please join us in a program of talks and presentations given in honor of Bill’s professional and personal legacy:
Rick Beaubouef and David Pyles, “Introduction” (5 min)
Andrea Fildani and David Scholl, “Tribute to Bill Normark” (10 min)
Letter from Emiliano Mutti (read by Andrea Fildani) (5 min)
David Piper, “Remembering Bill Normark: Forty Years of Innovation on Submarine Fans” (15 min)
Bruno Savoye “Geometry of Sediment Waves on Quaternary Turbidite Levees: A Review - Comparison with Outcrops” (15 min)
Gary Parker “Geometry of Sediment Waves in the Laboratory” (15 min)
Charlie Paull, “Large wave-shaped bedforms in the axial channel of Monterey Submarine Canyon: Monterey Bay, California” (15 min)
Brian Romans, “Coarse-Grained Sediment Delivery to the Holocene Santa Monica Basin: Evaluating Source-to-Sink Flux at Millennial Time Scales” (15 min)
Eighty-five people attended the meeting; however, only 65 signed the roster. A session char was not designated for the following year but we will resolve this in the next few days. I will forward their information to you after we get formal nominations. There was no verbally expressed interest in creating a web site or Research Group Meeting.
