- Santa bought me some books I've needed to expand/improve national park articles in general, Grand Canyon, periodic table and the biochem sections of element articles. Yippee! (Giftmas 2009)
- Developed a timeline for Geology of the Grand Canyon area that I'll use in other geology articles (4 Oct 2009)
- Converted the last 63 element infoboxes to new format (26 Sep 2009)
- Saved Geology of the Grand Canyon area from de-featuring by addressing FAR concerns and expanding the article (31 July to 21 Sep 2009)
- Expanded Mono-Inyo Craters (24 to 26 July 2009)
- Uploaded most of the below images to commons. See commons:User:Mav/Gallery/California 2009 trip (24—26 July 2009)
- Traveling and hiking in Eastern California, Death Valley, the Imperial Valley and surrounding environs taking lots of photos (4 to 17 July 2009)
- Improving the vital article Grand Canyon to FA quality (15 Mar 2009 ; on hold - need better sources)
- Helped improve zinc to FA standard and successfully put through FAC (10 Jan 2009 to 28 Arp 2009)
- Saved Zion National Park from de-featuring by addressing FAR concerns (14 Dec 2008 to 7 Feb 2009)
- Saved Bryce Canyon National Park from defeaturing by addressing FAR concerns (16 Nov 2008 to 5 Jan 2009)
- Improved plutonium to FA standard and successfully put through FAC (25 Oct 2008 to 31 Dec 2008)
- Saved Death Valley National Park from de-featuring by addressing FAR concerns (16 Sep 2008 to 9 Oct 2008)
- Saved Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve from de-featuring by addressing FAR concerns (24 Aug 2008 to 24 Sep 2008)
- Expanded Yttrium and put through FAC (2 Aug 2008 to 16 Sep 2008)
- Saved Geology of the Zion and Kolob canyons area from de-featuring by addressing FAR concerns (11 Aug 2008 to 10 Sep 2008)
- Uploaded my cleaned-up Egypt photos to commons:User:Mav/Gallery (1 Sep 2008)
- In Egypt on vacation and attending Wikimania 2008 (13-22 July 2008)
- Helped get Oxygen featured (11 Sep 2007 - 6 Feb 2008)
- Saved Geology of the Bryce Canyon area from de-featuring (9 July - 13 August 2007)
- Put Geology of the Lassen volcanic area through FAC (17 July 2007)
- Expanded Geology of the Grand Teton area (16 June - 9 July ; on hold)
- Helped save 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens from de-featuring (5 June 2007)
- Got uranium featured (3 Mar 2007)
- Helped save Yosemite National Park from de-featuring (12 Feb 2007)
- Saved Titanium from de-featuring (2 January 2007)
- Saved Mount St. Helens from de-featuring. (28 Nov 2006)
- Expanded Geology of the Lassen volcanic area (21 & 25 September 2006)
- Expanded Lassen Peak (18 Sep 2006)
- Expanded Cinder Cone and the Fantastic Lava Beds (17 Sep 2006)
