PRESIDENT'S LETTER. NAMS will be well represented at AAPG/SEPM in Houston (Apr. 9-12). The activities begin with the NAMS annual board

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1 NAMS NEWS April, 2006 Volume 27, No. 1 Newsletter of the North American Micropaleontology Section, SEPM NAMS SEPM I ll begin by announcing the 2006 election results, offering congratulations to Ron Waszczak, who will become our new President-elect and Rob Campbell, our new Secretary. I would also like to extend my thanks and appreciation to Tony D Agostino and Josh Miller for their willingness to run for NAMS office during these incredibly busy times. Congratulations are due also to Jennifer O Keefe, this year s winner of the Garry Jones Memorial Grant for NAMS Student Research. She is investigating the depositional environment, and plant communities and what they indicate about paleoclimate in the Upper Mississippi Embayment, using lignite petrology and palynology. Jennifer s proposal was one of several very impressive submittals. Please refer to the related article for more details. It is exciting to see how much the Fund has grown over the past year, primarily due to the addition of the proceeds from the Geologic Problem Solving with Microfossils Conference last year. At present the fund balance is ~$50,000 which has allowed us to increase the award to $1,500! I am pleased to report that our NAMS website has been moved to the SEPM site and is up and running thanks to the efforts of Pete McLaughlin and Jason Lundquist our webmaster. Now it is up to us to provide Jason with updated information along with any suggestions on how to make our website more affective. PRESIDENT'S LETTER NAMS will be well represented at AAPG/SEPM in Houston (Apr. 9-12). The activities begin with the NAMS annual board meeting to be held at Hilton Americas from 3:00-5:00 on Sunday, April 9. It is open to all members and anyone else who is interested, so please come. We value your input. Monday will feature two SEPM/NAMS sponsored sessions beginning with a morning poster session, CHRONOS: Constraining the Geologic Record, followed by an afternoon oral session on Integrating Biostratigraphy into Geologic Models. Monday evening the Marine Micropaleontology and Quantitative Stratigraphy Research Groups will hold a joint session featuring Kenneth Miller who will speak on Phanerozoic Sea Level Changes: Implications to Phytoplankton Evolution ; Jim Ogg will give an update and demo on Time-Scale Creator, and Kerstin Lehnert and Walt Snyder will give a combined talk and demo on several NSF digital information systems: SedDB, PaleoStrat, and SESAR. Finally, on Tuesday morning, please stop by the Student Award Poster Session and visit Maria Auxilio Esparza Alvarez, the winner of the Mobil Foundation Student Participation Grant for NAMS student members. She will be presenting her poster entitled Interdecadal variability in the southern part of the California Current for the last century: Diatom assemblages from laminated sediments in San Lázaro Basin. Hope to see you in Houston! Jim Gamber NAMS President NAMS NEWS Spring

2 GARRY JONES GRANT FOR STUDENT RESEARCH The North American Micropaleontological Section (NAMS) of SEPM annually offers a student research grant to support the work of a NAMS student member with a substantial micropaleontological component. Last year, this award was named in the memory of Garry Jones, a former president of NAMS, and the amount of the award increased to $1500. NAMS is pleased to announce that the winner of the 2006 Garry Jones Memorial Grant for NAMS Student Research is Jennifer M. K. O Keefe, for her project Paleogene mirelands of the Upper Mississippi Embayment, Kentucky and extreme Northern Tennessee. Ms. O Keefe is a doctoral student at the University of Kentucky and an instructor in the Department of Physical Sciences at Morehead State University in Kentucky. She earned a B.A. in Geology from Cornell College and a M.S. in Geology at Texas A&M University. Her doctoral project utilizes palynology, petrography, and geochemistry to understand the depositional and decompositional history of these Paleogene mire deposits and the composition and climatic significance of the plant communities that produced them. The reviewers were encouraged by the quality of all of the proposals submitted this year. Ms. O Keefe s project proposal was rated at the top of a group of four excellent submittals we received. Proposals are ranked by based on scientific merit, faculty recommendation, and financial need. A call for proposals for next year s award will be sent to members late this year, with an anticipated February deadline. Congratulations to Jennifer O Keefe, this year s recipient of the Garry Jones Memorial Grant for NAMS Student Research! Please Remember to Renew your NAMS Membership NAMS Renewal Information The last NAMS News you recieved would have had a note on the mailing label indicating your dues status. If you don t know you are paid up into the future, please take a moment to print this form and mail in your dues payment. Thank you. remit to: PLEASE RENEW NOW 2006 or later - dues are paid up NAMS, SEPM please pay $10.00 for 2005 dues BEFORE YOU FORGET! Martin Farley, Treasurer Geology & Geography please pay $10.00 for 2004 dues, $10.00 for 2005 dues, and $.50 late fee you must pay $31.00 this year or you will be dropped from membership!! University of North Carolina at Pembroke If you are a Micropaleontology subscriber you are entitled to free NAMS membership. Pembroke, NC Send us a copy of your JM renewal so we can credit your account. NAME AFFILIATION ADDRESS CITY STATE ZIP COUNTRY PHONE FAX SPECIALIZATIONS IS THIS A RENEWAL? Y N YEARS YOU ARE PAYING FOR NEW APPLICATION? Y N MICROPALEONTOLOGY SUBSCRIBER? (enclose JM renewal) Y N PLEASE INDICATE YOUR STATUS a) student (please provide information about your interests/project and, if you would like, any career goals or directions you might wish to share). b) academic/government professional c) industry professional d) retired/consultant/self-employed/other ENCLOSE A CHECK PAYABLE TO NAMS, SEPM FOR $10.00 each year of membership $0.50 each late penalty (dues prior to 2005) Thanks! AMOUNT ENCLOSED $ 2 NAMS NEWS Spring 2006

3 Table of Contents President's Letter 1 Garry Jones Memorial Award 2 NAMS Membership/Renewal Form 2 Treasurer's Report 3 Meeting Calendar 4 Summer Course Announcement 4 AAPG Happenings 5 ICS News 6-7 TREASURER'S REPORT As of 1 April 2006, the NAMS treasury contained about $10,800, including expenses incurred for recent newsletters. Since my last report in October, NAMS received $747 from member dues and interest. Expenditures have included the newsletter and minor items. For the last 12 months, receipts totaled $1423 and expenditures $1223, principally the newsletter and the student research award. Major expenses associated with printing the newsletter have been generously subsidized by BP, so our expenses are lower than they might otherwise be. I remind members to look at the number on their mailing labels to see through which year their dues are paid. If you arent paid through 2006, we would appreciate your payment to bring your membership to date. I remind NAMS members that they can be a member at no cost if they are also individual subscribers to Micropaleontology. Please see for further information. --Martin Farley, NAMS Treasurer April Visit NAMS online at: About NAMS What is Micropaleontology Membership Newsletters Meetings Science News Networking Resources for Students Micropaleo Links Welcome to the NAMS Home Page NAMS is the North American Micropaleontology Section of the Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM). The purpose of the Section is to promote all aspects of micropaleontology through application, research and education dealing with morphology, biostratigraphy, ecology/paleoecology, and geologic history of all groups of microfossils occurring in the stratigraphic record. The field of micropaleontology covers a diverse array of micro - fossils groups, including foraminifera, ostracodes, nannofossils, palynonmorphs, radiolaria, diatoms, and silicoflagellates. NAMS serves as a center point for these many fields of study and provides a venue for exchange of information among micropaleontologists in academia, industry, and government. NAMS is the sponsor of the Marine Micropaleontology Research Group, a formal research group within SEPM which reports to the SEPM research committee. NAMS/SEPM OFFICERS President James H. Gamber BP America Inc. 501 Westlake Park Blvd. Houston TX, (281) gamberjh@bp.com President-Elect Nancy L. Engelhardt-Moore Devon Energy Corporation 1200 Smith Street Houston, Texas (W); (H) nancy.engelhardt-moore@dvn.com Secretary Robert S. Nail Chevron North America Exploration & Production 15 Smith Road, Office 3339 Midland, Texas rnail@chevron.com Treasurer Martin B. Farley Geology & Geography University of North Carolina at Pembroke Pembroke, NC (910) mbfarley@sigmaxi.org Newsletter Editor Jason J. Lundquist BP America Inc. 501 Westlake Park Blvd. Houston TX, (281) lundqujj@bp.com Past-President Peter P. McLaughlin, Jr. Delaware Geological Survey University of Delaware, DGS Building Newark DE (302) ppmclau@udel.edu NAMS NEWSLETTER ADVISORS John Van Couvering Ken Finger Mervin Kontrovitz Annika Sanfilippo Patricia Whalen Fay Woodruff NAMS NEWS is published two times a year, just before the GSA meeting in the fall and AAPG meeting in the spring, by NAMS. Submissions are always welcome. Copyright NAMS NEWS Spring

4 American Association of Petroleum Geologists 2006 Annual Meeting April 9-12, 2006 Houston, Texas International Nannoplankton Association Conference - INA11 September, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA. ites/ina/ina2004.x-html European Palaeobotanical- Palynological Conference September, 7-12, 2006 Prague, Czech Republic. FORAMS The International Symposium on Foraminifera September & 14-15, 2006 Natal, R i o Grande do Norte State, Brazil MEETING CALENDAR The Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies & LIOGA s Gulf Coast Prospect Expo 2006 Convention Visualize the Possibilities September 25-27, 2006 Lafayette, LA Geological Society of America Annual Meeting October 22-25, 2006 P h i l a d e l p h i a, Pennsylvania AASP 39th Annual Meeting, October 22-25, 2006 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Meeting jointly with GSA American Association of Petroleum Geologists 2007 Annual Meeting April 1-4, 2007 Long Beach, California Geological Society of America Annual Meeting October 28-31, 2007 Denver, Colorado Geological Society of America Annual Meeting October 5-8, 2008 Houston, Texas Please consider submitting meeting dates, announcements, or information to the editor for inclusion in future editions of the NAMS News SUMMER COURSEMEETING ANALYTICAL NEWS PALEOBIOLOGY PALEOBIOLOGY DATABASE INTENSIVE SUMMER COURSE IN ANALYTICAL PALEOBIOLOGY The Paleobiology Database ( is sponsoring an intensive course in analytical paleobiology that will be held at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis at the University of California, Santa Barbara. The course will take place between Tuesday, June 27th and Monday, July 24th Topics will include community paleoecology, quantitative biostratigraphy, diversity curves, speciation and extinction, morphometrics, and phylogenetics. Both simulation modelling and data analysis methods will be explored. The course will combine lectures and labs, and students will be given hands-on instruction in programming and the use of analytical software, with an emphasis on R. In addition to the course coordinator, each week a new instructor will be present. Participating instructors are expected to include John Alroy, Michael Foote, Nigel Hughes, Mark Patzkowsky, Pete Wagner, and Mark Webster. There is no fee for registration, and students will be housed for free in apartments on the UCSB campus. Students are urged to apply for travel funds from their home institutions. If such funds are not available, all travel expenses beyond the first $400 will be reimbursed completely, regardless of the country of origin. Students are responsible for meal expenses. Additional funding for students from outside of the United States, Canada, and Western Europe may be provided. There are no other charges of any kind, and no other major expenses are likely. Participating students should be in the early stages of their own research in paleontology. They should have a background in basic statistics, and preferably also programming. The course is open to all students, but first or second year graduate students are particularly encouraged to apply, as are international students. Applications from professionals who have completed their studies will be considered, but strong preference will be given to students. Applications should be submitted in PDF form to John Alroy (alroy@nceas.ucsb.edu) no later than March 1st. Applications should consist of a one page statement, plus a recommendation letter written by the student s academic advisor and ed separately. No form needs to be filled out. The statement should include a description of current research plans, a list of relevant classes taken and degrees earned, and an account of the student s background in statistics and programming. Applicants are encouraged to explain why the topics addressed by the course are of special interest to them, and which of these subjects are taught at their home institutions. 4 NAMS NEWS Spring 2006

5 2006 AAPG Annual Meeting April 9-12 George R. Brown Convention Center Houston, Texas Selected Highlights CHRONOS: Constraining the Geologic Record (SEPM/NAMS) Monday Morning Poster Session, April 10, Room Exhibition Hall C, 8:30 AM to 12:00 PM Co-Chairs: R. F. Waszczak and P. P. McLaughlin Integrating Biostratigraphy into Geologic Models (SEPM/NAMS) Monday Afternoon Oral Session, April 10, 2006 Room 306 1:15 PM to 4:40 PM Co-Chairs: P. Sikora and J. Gamber SEPM Quantitative Stratigraphy / Marine Micropaleontology Research Group Meeting Monday Evening, April 10, 2006 The Hilton Americas Hotel Room 337B, 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM (see note below) RESEARCH GROUP MEETING We would like to invite you to attend the joint research group meeting of the NAMS/SEPM Marine Micropaleontology Research Group and the SEPM Quantitative Stratigraphy Research Group at the upcoming SEPM/AAPG Annual Meeting in Houston, TX. The meeting will be held on Monday, April 10th from 7 to 10 p.m. at the Hilton Americas Hotel Room 337B, which is connected to the George R. Brown Convention Center. Please come and join us for several short talks, demos and discussions. The meeting will begin promptly at 7:00 p.m. with a short social period including refreshments that have been kindly sponsored by Devon Energy Corporation. The program will begin at 7:30 p.m. with a presentation by Dr. Kenneth Miller on Phanerozoic Sea Level Changes: Implications to Phytoplankton Evolution. On behalf of the International Commission on Stratigraphy and CHRONOS, Dr. Jim Ogg will give an update and demo on Time-Scale Creator Phanerozoic Stratigraphy Database and Chartmaking Visualization Package, an earth history tool for all stratigraphers. Finally, Kerstin Lehnert and Walt Snyder will give a combined talk and demo on several NSF digital information system projects. Their talk is entitled SedDB, PaleoStrat, and SESAR A Partnership for International Sedimentary Geologic and Paleontologic Geoinformatics. There will be plenty of opportunity for questions and feedback. So, please join us for an eventful evening. MOBIL TRAVEL GRANT Thanks to the generosity of the Mobil Foundation, NAMS is once again able to send a student to the annual national SEPM/AAPG convention. The SEPM Mobil Foundation Student Participation Grant program allows nominees from each section to present his/her work in an SEPM Best Student Poster Awards session at the meeting and provides a generous grant to support the student s travel expenses. NAMS has selected Maria Auxilio Esparza Alvarez to present a poster entitled Interdecadal variability in the southern part of the California Current for the last century: Diatom assemblages from laminated sediments in San Lázaro Basin at the upcoming 2006 SEPM/AAPG Annual Meeting in Houston. Ms. Esparza is a doctoral student at the Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada (CICESE), Baja California, México. The selection committee received five high-quality abstracts from NAMS student members and were happy to be able to nominate Ms. Esparza for this award. We encourage all NAMS members who attend AAPG to visit the student poster session and see this interesting work. NAMS NEWS Spring

6 INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION ON STRATIGRAPHY NEWS User Generated Time Scale Graphics and Charts and Geologic Time Scale 2008 Felix Gradstein and James Ogg Summary The International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS) has produced an electronic version of the international standard Cenozoic-Mesozoic-Paleozoic bio-magneto-sequence, timescale charts. This JAVA package, called TS-Creator, can be freely downloaded from the ICS website ( Time Scale 2008 (GTS2008) is presently in preparation by ICS. It will be a full colour, fully updated, improved and expanded version of GTS2004. The book will be online under as a standard PDF file, plus a sophisticated search and browsing front menu. Background The calibration of the geologic time scale to numerical ages is an essential tool for Earth Science. There has been a progressive improvement of both the inter-calibrations of types of paleontology, sea-level oscillations and other events of Earth history, and of the assignment of numerical ages from radiometric dating and orbital-cycles tuning (= Milankovitch-type climate oscillations reflected in sediments). In 1998, a team of specialists led by Jan Hardenbol (Exxon) published a detailed set of large-format charts summarizing the Mesozoic-Cenozoic correlations and ages of biostratigraphic (dozens of types), sequence stratigraphic, geomagnetic and other events through the Mesozoic and Cenozoic eras of the past 250 million years (Graciansky et al.,1998). These charts were scaled to the numerical age scales of 1995 (SEPM Spec. Vol. 54). Now these charts are being updated and re-calibrated to Geologic Time Scale 2004 (GTS2004). The time-scale summary charts posted on the ICS website ( had attracted much attention and usage. These included the international divisions of geological time, and selected time-scale charts from Gradstein, Ogg et al. (2004), referred to as GTS 2004 (Geologic Time Scale 2004). In 2005, the ICS undertook the conversion and enhancement of the extensive Hardenbol et al. charts, plus inclusion of Paleozoic stratigraphic data. The project is sponsored by the U.S. National Science Foundation, BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil, Shell and the NORGES Project. Present Stratigraphic Products Paleozoic, Mesozoic and Cenozoic Sequence Charts under development by the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS) include: (1) Tables of Cambrian through Holocene stratigraphic events calibrated to Geologic Time Scale 2004 (GTS2004) ages. There are nearly 10,000 biostratigraphic, sea-level, and magnetic zones and datums, plus a suite of geochemical curves. Documentation of zonal definitions, relative age assignments, and how these events were recalibrated to the 2004 time scale was also compiled. This included updating cross-correlations and enhancing detail for selected stratigraphic methods (e.g., trilobites, conodonts, graptolites, ammonoids, fusulinids, chitinozoans, megaspores, nannofossils, foraminifera, dinoflagellates, radiolarians, diatoms, strontium-isotope and C-org curves, etc.). Paleozoic sea-level sequences included the global compilation prepared for the GeoArabia journal s Cambrian- Triassic Arabian Platform Cycle Charts of Sharland et al. (2004), and Haq and Al-Qahtani (2005). Numerical ages are calculated within the database using the calibrations; therefore, all ages can be automatically recomputed when control ages are improved in future time scales. Regional scales of selected areas (e.g., Russia, China, North America) are also included. (2) Charts that display all of these events recalibrated to the GTS 2004 scale. These are in a similar format (but in color) as the original Hardenbol chart series (Graciansky et al., 1998). (3) The recalibrated ages of Paleozoic, Mesozoic and Cenozoic events are compiled as a database for digital input to other databases and look-up tables. This enabled the powerful TS-Creator display package. The TS-Creator Visualization Package User-Generated Time-Scale Graphics include: (1) An application (in JAVA programming language) called TS-Creator has been designed that automatically takes the reference database, gets instructions from the user on the stratigraphic interval and stratigraphic information to be displayed, and then generates both onscreen and scalable-vector graphic (SVG) renditions that directly input into Adobe Illustrator and other drafting programs. As explained above, when future enhancements are made to the database of stratigraphic scales or ages, then new graphics can be instantly produced. (2) Query-capable on-line charts. Click on a value, zone or boundary, and a window opens with an explanation of the calibration, definition and interpolated age. This hot-linked chart suite is currently a back-looking reference to information in the source tables, but in the future will also provide links to other tables and text from the Geologic Time Scale 2004 book, images of stage-boundary sections and taxa, and the additional 6 NAMS NEWS Spring 2006

7 enhancements anticipated during the Geologic Time Scale 2008" update. A Geologic Time Scale 2004 Edited by Felix M. Gradstein (Universitetet i Oslo), James G. Ogg (Purdue University, Indiana) and Alan G. Smith (University of Cambridge). Paperback (ISBN-13: ISBN-10: ); Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP) = Price: Quotation from the publisher: An international team of over forty stratigraphic experts has helped to build the most up to date international stratigraphic framework for the Precambrian and Phanerozoic. This successor to A Geologic Time Scale 1989 by W. Brian Harland et al. (CUP ) begins with an introduction to the theory and methodology behind the construction of the new time scale. The main part of the book is devoted to the scale itself, systematically presenting the standard subdivisions at all levels using a variety of correlation markers. Extensive use is made of isotope geochronology, geomathematics and orbital tuning to produce a standard geologic scale of unprecedented detail and accuracy with a full error analysis. A wall chart summarizing the whole time scale, with paleogeographic reconstructions throughout the Phanerozoic, is included in the back of the book. The time scale will be an invaluable reference source for academic and professional researchers and students. Contents Part I. Introduction: 1. Introduction; 2. Chronostratigraphy - linking time and rock; Part II. Concepts and Methods: 3. Biostratigraphy; 4. Earth s orbital parameters and cycle stratigraphy; 5. The geomagnetic polarity time scale; 6. Radiogenic isotope geochronology; 7. Stable isotopes; 8. Geomathematics; Part III. Geologic Periods: 9 and 10. The Precambrian: the Archaen and Proterozoic eons; 11. The Cambrian period; 12. The Ordovician period; 13. The Silurian period; 14. The Devonian period; 15. The Carboniferous period; 16.The Permian period; 17. The Triassic period; 18. The Jurassic period; 19. The Cretaceous Period; 20. The Paleogene period; 21. The Neogene period; 22. The Pleistocene and Holocene epochs; Part IV. Summary: 23. Construction and summary of the geologic time scale; Appendices; References. A Geologic Time Scale 2008 A Geologic Time Scale 2008 (GTS2008) is presently in preparation. It will be a full colour, fully updated, improved and expanded version of GTS2004. The book will be online under as a standard PDF file, plus a sophisticated search and browsing front menu. There are more chapters than in GTS 2004, including potential chapters on Planetary scale, Cryogenian-Ediacaran Periods scale, Prehistoric scale, Sequence Stratigraphic scale, and more emphasis on stable isotope chemostratigrapy. Use will be made of the most modern insights in error analysis of radiogenic isotope analysis for age dating; orbital tuning will be extended from Neogene downward into Paleogene and Cretaceous. Significant scale updates do not come so much from new age dates but from much progress in ICS with the formal definition of the boundaries of stages and periods in the Phanerozoic. For quick and easy use of GTS 2008 a pocket edition, not unlike an atlas of the Geologic Time Scale is also under planning by ICS. REFERENCES Gradstein, F.M., J.G. Ogg, A.G. Smith, F.P. Agterberg, W. Bleeker, R.A. Cooper, V. Davydov, P. Gibbard, L. Hinnov, M.R. House ( ), L. Lourens, H-P. Luterbacher, J. McArthur, M.J. Melchin, L.J. Robb, J. Shergold, M. Villeneuve, B.R. Wardlaw, J. Ali, H. Brinkhuis, F.J. Hilgen, J. Hooker, R.J. Howarth, A.H. Knoll, J. Laskar, S. Monechi, J. Powell, K.A. Plumb, I. Raffi, U. Röhl, P. Sadler, A. Sanfilippo, B. Schmitz, N.J. Shackleton, G.A. Shields, H. Strauss, J. Van Dam, J. Veizer, Th. van Kolfschoten and D. Wilson A Geologic Time Scale Cambridge University Press, 589p. Graciansky, P., J. Hardenbol, Th. Jaquin and P.R. Vail Mesozoic and Cenozoic Sequence Stratigraphy of European Basins. SEPM Special Publication no. 60, 786 p. Haq, B.U. and A.M Al-Qahtani Phanerozoic cycles of sea-level change on the Arabian Platform. Geoarabia. vol. 10, no. 2, p and 2 charts. Hardenbol, J., J. Thierry, M.B. Farley, Th. Jaquin, P.C. Graciansky and P.R. Vail, Mesozoic and Cenozoic Sequence Chronostratigraphic Framework of European Basins. SEPM Special Publication no. 60, 8 charts. Sharland, P., D.M. Casey, R.B. Davies, M.B. Simmons and O.E. Sutcliffe Arabian Plate Sequence Stratigraphy. Geoarabia. vol. 9, no. 1, p , and 2 charts. Gradstein, Felix M. Geological Museum University of Oslo P.O.Box 1172 Blindern N-0318 Oslo Norway felix.gradstein@geologi.uio.no Ogg, James G. Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Civil Building 1397 Purdue University West Lafayette, Indiana USA jogg@purdue.edu NAMS NEWS Spring

8 The next issue of NAMS News will be published before the 2006 GSA Annual Meeting. Please send news to the Editor through Oct 6, News regarding meetings, symposia, people, books, internet information, software, new journal articles, and just about anything else regarding micropaleontology is welcome. Submit your news by (preferred), FAX, letter, or phone to the Editor: Jason J. Lundquist NAMS News Editor BP America Inc. 501 Westlake Park Blvd. Houston, TX Tel. (281) Fax (281) NAMS SEPM Jason J. Lundquist, NAMS News Editor BP America Inc. 501 Westlake Park Blvd. Houston, TX 77O79 FIRST CLASS ADDRESS CORRECTION REQUESTED PLEASE FORWARD 8 NAMS NEWS Spring 2006

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