Here is a link to Barry Beck's Obituary. http://www.oakridger.com/obituaries/x711437432/Barry-F-Beck
>From Brad Stephenson, It is with great sadness that I report the passing of Dr. Barry F. Beck, a long-time ETGS member who contributed much to our society and to the international karst geoscience community. Barry passed away early this morning, following an extended illness. A funeral service and burial will be held Wednesday afternoon. Martin Funeral Home in Oak Ridge will handle the arrangements. Additional details will be provided once they are known. Barry wife, Penny, sends her love and gratitude for all of your support through his illness. For those who did not know Barry, he made a career of studying and consulting in the engineering and environmental challenges of karst settings around the world. Since the mid-1980s, Barry organized a series of conferences on those topics, and the 13th conference in that series is being planned for Carlsbad, Mexico in May 2013. He worked for geological surveys in Georgia and Puerto Rico and directed the Florida Sinkhole Research Institute. About 20 years ago, Barry opened the Oak Ridge office of P.E. LaMoreaux & Associates, Inc., where he served as Vice President and Chief of Operations. While teaching geology at Georgia Southwestern College in 1979, he was involved in an adventure in which he and a group of geology students were "trapped" for a day or two by flood water in a cave south of Chattanooga. That event was the subject of a segment on the Weather Channel's "Storm Stories" last year. Barry was a dear friend, as well as a colleague and mentor. Please keep Penny and the rest of Barry's family in your thoughts. J Brad Stephenson PG Assistant Webmaster East Tennessee Geological Society www.discoveret.org/etgs<http://www.discoveret.org/etgs>
