Memorial to Juergen Reinhardt 1946-1991 - … to Juergen Reinhardt 1946-1991 WILLIAM J. FRAZIER...
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Memorial to Juergen Reinhardt 1946-1991 WILLIAM J. FRAZIER Department of Geology, Columbus College, Columbus, Georgia 31907-2097 Juergen Reinhardt was killed in an automobile accident on September 18, 1991, in Clark County, Wisconsin. That accident cost the geological profession one of its brightest young men. Juergen was an insightful geologist, an engag- ing colleague, and a caring friend. Juergen was born in West Germany in 1946 and became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1958. He received his undergraduate training at Brown University, graduating in 1968. His doctoral degree (1973) was taken at Johns Hop- kins University. His major field of interest in graduate school was sedimentology, and his dissertation dealt with Cambro-Ordovician carbonates in the Frederick Valley of Maryland. Parts of this work were published in a Society of Economic Paleontologists Special Publication. Juergen worked for the Maryland Geological Survey from 1973 to 1975, at which time he joined the U.S. Geological Survey. He worked with the USGS until July 1991, at which time he took the position as state geologist and director of the Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey. He had only started the new job when the accident occurred that took his life. He had been visiting the Survey’s geologists in the field to acquaint himself with their work and was returning home when his vehicle swerved into the left-hand lane and collided with a heavy truck. Juergen began his service with the USGS in the Branch of Eastern Regional Geology and conducted various sedimentologic and structural studies in connection with the Survey’s Reac- tor Hazards East project. These studies included mapping and stratigraphic analysis of Upper Cretaceous strata in western Georgia and eastern Alabama, stratigraphic study of the Oak Grove, Virginia, corehole, and work on the Belair fault around Augusta, Georgia. In 1982, Juergen joined the Department of the Interior’s Coastal Barrier Task Force; he also worked on the Coastal Barrier Study Group. In 1983, he taught for several months at the Institute for Quaternary Geology in Qingdao, People’s Republic of China, in cooperation with the United Nations. Juergen stepped into Survey administration in 1983, becoming deputy chief for program development. In this capacity, he organized and managed the federal and state Cooperative Geo- logic Mapping Program (COGEOMAP); in recognition of this work, he was given the Survey’s Superior Service Award in 1985. Juergen also served on the Earth Science Advisory Committee for the Savannah River Nuclear Site and the coordination committee with the Soil Conservation Service. He coordinated the Geologic Division’s research on acid rain. As an administrator, Juergen was highly organized, courteous, and thoughtful. He was skilled in working effectively with all kinds of people. By 1985, Juergen was anxious to get back out in the field and returned to the Eastern Regional Branch, where he resumed his sedimentologic studies of the eastern Gulf Coastal Plain. In addition, he began a mapping project in Cambrian and Ordovician strata in Maryland and was involved in work on Cretaceous paleosols and bluff failure along the western shores of 191
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Memorial to Juergen Reinhardt1946-1991
W IL L IA M J. FR A Z IE R Department o f Geology, Columbus College, Columbus, Georgia 31907-2097
Juergen Reinhardt was killed in an automobile accident on Septem ber 18, 1991, in Clark County, W isconsin. That accident cost the geological profession one of its brightest young men. Juergen was an insightful geologist, an engaging colleague, and a caring friend.
Juergen w as born in W est G erm any in 1946 and became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1958. He received his undergraduate training at Brown University, graduating in 1968. His doctoral degree (1973) was taken at Johns Hopkins U niversity. H is m ajor field o f interest in graduate school was sedimentology, and his dissertation dealt with Cambro-Ordovician carbonates in the Frederick Valley of Maryland. Parts o f this work were published in a Society of Economic Paleontologists Special Publication.
Juergen worked for the Maryland Geological Survey from 1973 to 1975, at which time he joined the U.S. Geological Survey. He worked with the USGS until July 1991, at which time he took the position as state geologist and director of the Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey. He had only started the new job when the accident occurred that took his life. He had been visiting the Survey’s geologists in the field to acquaint him self with their work and was returning home when his vehicle swerved into the left-hand lane and collided with a heavy truck.
Juergen began his service with the USGS in the Branch of Eastern Regional Geology and conducted various sedimentologic and structural studies in connection with the Survey’s Reactor Hazards East project. These studies included mapping and stratigraphic analysis of Upper Cretaceous strata in western Georgia and eastern A labama, stratigraphic study o f the Oak Grove, Virginia, corehole, and work on the Belair fault around Augusta, Georgia.
In 1982, Juergen joined the Department of the Interior’s Coastal Barrier Task Force; he also worked on the Coastal Barrier Study Group. In 1983, he taught for several months at the Institute for Quaternary Geology in Qingdao, People’s Republic of China, in cooperation with the United Nations.
Juergen stepped into Survey administration in 1983, becoming deputy chief for program development. In this capacity, he organized and managed the federal and state Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program (COGEOMAP); in recognition of this work, he was given the Survey’s Superior Service Award in 1985. Juergen also served on the Earth Science Advisory Committee for the Savannah River Nuclear Site and the coordination committee with the Soil Conservation Service. He coordinated the Geologic D ivision’s research on acid rain. As an administrator, Juergen was highly organized, courteous, and thoughtful. He was skilled in working effectively with all kinds of people.
By 1985, Juergen was anxious to get back out in the field and returned to the Eastern Regional Branch, where he resumed his sedimentologic studies o f the eastern G ulf Coastal Plain. In addition, he began a mapping project in Cambrian and Ordovician strata in Maryland and was involved in work on Cretaceous paleosols and bluff failure along the western shores of
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Lake Michigan. His most recent work for the USGS involved Quaternary geology and coastal erosion in the Mississippi coastal area.
As a result of his various scientific activities, Juergen published more than 80 professional articles, reports, and maps. He prepared the first completely digital geologic map of the southeastern United States. He was widely recognized as an important scholar and scientist. Juergen’s analysis of the relation between sea-level fluctuations and sedimentological response for Upper Cretaceous Coastal Plain strata in the eastern Gulf region presaged current sequence-strati- graphic analyses and provided a conceptual framework that has guided subsequent research.
Juergen was a Fellow of the Geological Society and served the Society on the membership committee and as an associate editor of the GSA Bulletin. He was also active in various capacities in the Society’s Northeastern and Southeastern sections and the Sedimentary Geology Division. Juergen was a member of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, the Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, the International Association of Sedimentolo- gists, the Georgia Geological Society, the Geological Society of Washington, and the Reston Pick and Hammer Club. He was involved in the International Geological Congress and was a member of the Organizing Committee and Co-chair of the Field Trip Committee for the 1989 IGC meeting in Washington.
Beyond these professional and scientific activities, Juergen was also a concerned citizen. He was a member of the Salvation Army’s Service Unit, a soccer coach, an organizer and judge for science fairs, a Boy Scout leader, and a member of the Leesburg United Methodist Church.
Juergen was a good friend and trusted colleague for many of us in the profession. He treated everyone he encountered as an equal—professional geologists, students, or nongeologists. He always tried to include everyone around him in discussions and in meetings was typically to be found in the center of a cluster of people. As an administrator, his gift was to bring together people of disparate backgrounds and interests to form a consensus. He had a quick and ready wit and loved to laugh. Juergen was passionate about geology: he loved field work, reading professional articles, discussing controversial ideas, learning new geological concepts, and traveling in unfamiliar areas. He frequently attended professional field trips and took short courses to upgrade his skills. Juergen’s love of geology was infectious; I have seen him light up the interest in students’ eyes as he explained some detail or related an insight to them. His interests, however, ranged widely beyond geology, and he could converse with authority on literature, the arts, politics, and philosophy.
Juergen was a devoted and loving husband and father. He is survived by his wife Judy, daughter Kirsten, son Stephan, and by the hundreds of others whose lives were touched by this brilliant and caring person. The profession of geology is lessened and we are all diminished by his passing.
SELECTED BIBLIO G R A PH Y OF J. R EIN H A R D T
1974 Stratigraphy, sedimentology and Cambro-Ordovician paleogeography of the Frederick Valley, Maryland: Maryland Geological Society Report of Investigations, no. 23,74 p.
1975 (and Wall, Edward) The Tomstown Dolomite (Lower Cambrian), Central Appalachians and the habitat of Salterella conulata: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 86, p. 1377-1380.
1976 (and Hardie, L. A.) Selected examples of carbonate sedimentation, Lower Paleozoic of Maryland: Maryland Geological Survey Guidebook, no. 5,33 p.
1977 Cambrian off-shelf sedimentation, central Appalachians: in Cook, H. E., and Enos, Paul, eds., Deep-water carbonate environments: Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists Special Publication 25, p. 83-112.
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1978 (and Cleaves, E. T.) Load structures at the sediment-saprolite boundary, Fall Line, Maryland: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 89, p. 307-313.
------ Factors affecting land modification in the Middle River Quadrangle, Maryland: MarylandGeological Survey Atlas no. 4, map 2, scale 1:24,000.
1980 (and Newell, W. L., and Mixon, R. B.) Tertiary lithostratigraphy of the core, in Geology of the Oak Grove core: Virginia Division of Mineral Resources Publication 20, part 3, p. 1-13.
------ (and Christopher, R. A., and Owens, J. P.) Lower Cretaceous stratigraphy of the core, inGeology of die Oak Grove core: Virginia Division of Mineral Resources Publication 20, part 3, p. 31-52.
------ (and Gibson, T. C.) Upper Cretaceous and lower Tertiary geology of the ChattahoocheeValley, in Frey, R. W., ed., Excursions in southeastern geology, v. 11 (Geological Society of America Annual Meeting guidebook): American Geological Institute, p. 385-463.
------ (and Christopher, R. A., Prowell, D. C., and Markewich, H. W.) Paleocene pollen fromWarm Springs, Georgia: Its stratigraphic and structural significance: Palynology, v. 4, p. 105-124.
1982 Lithofacies and depositional cycles in Upper Cretaceous rocks, central Georgia to eastern Alabama: Georgia Department of Natural Resources Information Circular 53, p. 89-96.
1983 (and Sigleo, W. R.) Mesozoic paleosols: Examples from the Chattahoochee River Valley, in Carrington, T. J., ed., Current studies of Cretaceous formations in eastern Alabama and Columbus, Georgia: Alabama Geological Society Guidebook for the Twentieth Annual Field Trip, p. 3-10,33-35.
1984 (and Li Shoaquan, Han Chunrui, and Ren Yuean) Field guide to Quaternary deposits in eastern Shandong Province: Results of a field seminar: Marine Geology and Quaternary Geology, v. 4, no. 4, p. 87-107.
1985 (with Sigleo, W. R.) Cretaceous paleosols from the eastern Gulf Coastal Plain: Southeastern Geology, v. 25, no. 4, p. 213-223.
1987 (and Miller, D. M.) COGEOMAP: A new age in cooperative geologic mapping: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1003,12 p.
1988 (with Sigleo, W. R.), editors, Paleosols and weathering through geologic time: Geological Society of America Special Paper 216,181 p.
1990 (with Jibson, R. W., and Staude, J. M.) Coastal bluff retreat along the Lake Michigan shoreline in Illinois and southern Wisconsin, in Barnes, P. W., ed., Coastal sedimentary processes in southern Lake Michigan: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 90-295, p. 32-41.
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