AASG presents the Pick and Gavel Award to distinguished friends of geology who have made significant contributions to advancing the role that geoscience plays in public policy. The 2022 recipient is Senator John Barrasso M.D. of Wyoming. Senator Barrasso was sworn in to US Senate in 2007, and previously served in the Wyoming Senate from 2003 to 2007. He is the ranking member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. He also serves on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the Senate Finance Committee. During 24 years as an orthopedic surgeon, he served as President of the Wyoming Medical Society and was named Wyoming Physician of the Year. Senator Barrasso received his M.D. from Georgetown in 1978, and conducted his residency at Yale Medical School in New Haven, Connecticut.
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