AASG presents 2019 Distinguished Service Awards

At the AASG Annual Meeting in Montana, the 2019 Distinguished Service Awards were presented, as follows:

• Rick Allis, Utah; Statistician, 2009-2013, 2017-2018; Annual Meeting Host, 2009
• John Parrish, California; Past President, 2014-2015; President, 2013-2014; President Elect, 2012-2013
• Chacko John, Louisiana; Past President, 2008-2009; President, 2007-2008; President Elect, 2006-2007; Vice President, 2005-2006
• Karl Muessig, New Jersey; Annual Meeting Host, 2010; Editor, 2004-2010
• Michael Hohn, West Virginia; Annual Meeting Host, 2008; Treasurer, 2012-2014

Frye Award to Delaware

The AASG/GSA Frye Award recognizes the best nominated state geological survey & GSA publications in environmental geology. The 2019 Frye Award has been presented to the Delaware Sea-level Rise Technical Committee, for the publication:  Callahan, John A., Benjamin P. Horton, Daria L. Nikitina, Christopher K. Sommerfield, Thomas E. McKenna, and Danielle Swallow, 2017. Recommendation of Sea-Level Rise Planning Scenarios for Delaware: Technical Report, prepared for Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control (DNREC) Delaware Coastal Programs. 114 pp.

Rich Ortt, AASG President, 2019-2020

Richard Allen Ortt, Jr., Director of the Maryland Geological Survey, is the 2019-2020 AASG President. Rich has been with the Survey since 1992, where he has worked on geologic engineering topics such as erosion, transport, deposition and accumulation in reservoirs and shipping channels. Rich holds a degree in Biomedical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University. He and his wife Janine have four children.