You know by now that Robert L. Folk passed away, peacefully in his sleep on June 4, 2018. Dr. Folk, recognized as a premier sedimentary geologist, had a most successful teaching and research career at the Geology Department of the University of Texas at Austin.  Two of his Ph.D. students, Dr. Miles O. Hayes and Dr. Murray Felsher, are organizing an outreach effort aimed at his colleagues, friends, and former students to solicit commentary, photographs, stories, anecdotes, and similar Folkian memorabilia.  They plan to publish the material as a "Memorial", dedicated to a person who many consider to have been a uniquely remarkable teacher, scientist, scholar, and researcher. Specifically, this solicitation is not aimed at producing a technical "Festschrift," replete with geological papers.  Instead, the "Memorial" hopes to represent the replica of the living man whose whimsy and wisdom had so profoundly impacted the global geological community for nearly 70 years.  As such, material contributions to the "Memorial" will be published as submitted, with no editing (except in a case of poor taste and/or bad spelling).

 

Please submit all materials to BOTH mhayes@researchplanning.com and felsher8@verizon.net