Twenty two state geological surveys contributed to a special poster display showing the evolution of geologic maps in their states at the just concluded annual meeting of the Geological Society of America in Denver.
The map display was the central attraction down the main hall of the convention center.
Thursday, October 31, 2013
Sunday, October 20, 2013
Happy Geologic Map Day
As Earth Science Week draws to a close, we would like to wish
you all a happy Geologic Map Day. For the
second year in a row AASG, USGS, AGI, NPS, and Esri joined together in this
worthy endeavor. One of the activities coming out of Geologic Map Day is
the "Best Student Geologic Map Competition" that will be held soon at
the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America in Denver. [Right, geologic map of the Holy Cross quadrangle, Colorado]
As GSA celebrates its 125 birthday, the National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program, working with GSA
Foundation, AASG, AGI, AIPG, and the Journal of Maps has launched this
competition to encourage students to produce high quality geologic maps.
This also will become an annual event and one that we hope will really
blossom in the future. Those of you who will be at GSA--please join us in
congratulating the winners on Tuesday evening, October 29 from 5-6:30 pm in the
Poster Session area of the Exhibit Hall.
[provided by Peter
Lyttle, USGS] Nick Tew, Jr. Assumes American Geosciences Institute Presidency for 2013-2014
The American Geosciences Institute (AGI)
is pleased to welcome the 2013-2014 President, Dr. Berry H. (Nick) Tew, Jr. He
will be inducted at the Friends of AGI Reception held during the Geological
Society of America (GSA) Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado on October 28,
2013. Tew, who holds B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in geology, has substantial
administrative, research, and service experience and has been a leader in an
array of geoscientific endeavors at all levels of government and with numerous
geoscience societies and other organizations. AGI looks forward to his
leadership in the upcoming year.
Nick has volunteered his time to the geoscience and
natural resource communities in various leadership and other roles. He served
as President of the Association of American State Geologists (2008-2009),
Chairman of the North American Commission on Stratigraphic Nomenclature (2009),
Chairman of the U.S. Department of the Interior, Outer Continental Shelf Policy
Committee (2004-2007), and Vice-Chairman (Chief Operating Officer) of the
Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission (2010-2011). He is a member of the
National Petroleum Council, a Natural Resource Trustee for the State of Alabama,
a Fellow in the Geological Society of America, and member of the American
Association of Petroleum Geologists. Tew was the 2013 recipient of the
Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission's highest honor, the E.W. Marland
Award. He has served on the AGI Executive Committee since 2010 in the roles of
Secretary and President-Elect.
AGI is honored to have such a fine leader and scientist
at the helm for the upcoming year, and we congratulate Nick on this honor.
[reprinted from the AGI news release]
Scott Tinker presented AGI award for Outstanding Contributions to the Understanding of Geoscience
Very few people have impacted the public
understanding of geoscience as much as Dr. Scott Tinker. His documentary
Switch, co-produced with Harry Lynch as part of the Switch Energy Project, has
screened at over 350 universities, and reached an estimated 3 million people
globally. In 2013, it will be distributed in thousands of Earth Science Week
kits to students worldwide. For this, and many other esteemed accomplishments,
Tinker has been presented the American Geosciences Institute award for
Outstanding Contributions to the Understanding of Geoscience.
Tinker is actively engaged in building bridges between
academia, industry, and government. He weaves energy, the environment, and the
economy into his talks, in which he envisions a very challenging, but positive,
global future. In 2000, after 17 years in the oil and gas industry, Tinker
joined the University of Texas at Austin, where he holds the Allday Endowed
Chair in the Jackson School of Geosciences. He has given more than 500 invited
and keynote lectures and visited nearly 50 countries. Dr. Tinker is the
Director of the Bureau of Economic Geology (BEG) and the State Geologist of
Texas, and a past President of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists
and the Association of American State Geologists.
The award is presented to a person, organization, or
institution in recognition of an outstanding contribution to the public
understanding of geology. The contribution may be in geology as a science or in
geology as it relates to economic or environmental aspects of modern
civilization. The award may be given to a geologist or non-geologist, or to an
organization or an institution that is geologic or non-geologic in character.
[reprinted from the AGI news release]
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