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I2M Web Portal for Geoscientists Passes 10,000 Records. Get Ready for the Future: 2021 & Beyond

The I2M Web Portal is made available to geoscientists, and to the general public worldwide with a focus on geoscientific and other matters of interest to I2M management. The database just passed 10,000 records and counting. Searches can be conducted using single words, phrases or exact phrases (if you put them in quotes), for example: a simple phrase might be Russian interests in U.S. uranium whereas an exact phrase is "vapor intrusion". I2M Consulting personnel and associates also monitor hazardous field conditions around the world via our Field Alerts program, cybersecurity conditions on the Internet in our Security Alert program, and relevant [...]

By Editor|2025-08-04T12:54:15-05:00June 20th, 2020|AIPG-TX News|

AIPG-TX Section’s Vice President – Eastern Texas Presented the 2020 Annual Uranium (Nuclear & Rare Earth) Report at AAPG’s EMD Zoom Conference

Michael D. Campbell, P.G., P.H. CPG, also serves as Chairman of the Uranium (Nuclear and REE) Committee (UCOM). He presented a summary of the 2020 Annual UCOM report to the Energy Minerals Division‘s Executive Committee, Commodity Chairs, other Committee Chairs, and special guests during a special Zoom presentation during the EMD Annual Meeting on June 6, 2020. The Annual AAPG-EMD Conference was originally scheduled for early June, 2020 in Houston, but has been cancelled because of the increasing spread of the coronavirus in the the Houston area and in the cities around Texas in general. The final 2020 UCOM [...]

By Editor|2025-08-04T12:58:48-05:00June 8th, 2020|AIPG-TX News|

Dr. Rima Petrossian Recognized for Outstanding Service as an Officer of the AIPG Texas Section

Henry M. Wise, President of AIPG Texas Section, and Michael D. Campbell, Vice-President – Eastern Texas, made a presentation recently by FedEx of a commemorative plaque to Dr. Rima Petrossian. This action allows the Officers and the Advisory Board the opportunity to formally thank Rima for her efforts on behalf of the Texas Section of the AIPG over many years since the Texas Section was revitalized 10 years ago. Her efforts in guiding the planning and execution of the 2016 AIPG TX Field Trip of 2016 to Central Texas, and in serving as Vice-President-Western Texas, in your support of [...]

By Editor|2025-08-04T13:44:46-05:00April 28th, 2020|AIPG-TX News|

President Henry Wise Appoints New Senior Student Councilor to the AIPG-TX Board

President Henry Wise announced today the appointment of Christian Martinez as the new Senior Student Councilor to the AIPG-TX Board. Mr. Martinez received his B.S. degree in geology with a minor in geophysics in 2018 from the University of Houston (Main Campus). He is finishing his work on a M.S. in geology. His thesis is on determining the magmatic history/ages of extraterrestrial materials and their relationships to early planetary evolution using Pb-Pb chronology and petrology, under Dr. Thomas Lapen. His relevant course work to date involved: Hydrogeology, Environmental Geochemistry, GeoChemical Reaction Transport Modeling, Geospatial Information’s Systems, Sequence Stratigraphy, Structural [...]

By Editor|2025-08-04T13:47:17-05:00April 25th, 2020|AIPG-TX News|

The Wise Report

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) is providing an opportunity for public comment and a notice and comment hearing on the draft Oil and Gas General Operating Permit (GOP) Numbers 511, 512, 513, & 514. The draft GOPs contain revisions based on recent federal and state rule changes, which include updates to the requirements tables; the addition of new requirements tables; and updates to the terms. The renewal also corrects typographical errors and updates language for administrative preferences. For more information go to: https://www.tceq.texas.gov/permitting/air/nav/titlev/news.html Comments may be mailed to Ms. Sherry Davis, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, Office [...]

By admin|2025-08-04T13:48:27-05:00April 25th, 2020|AIPG-TX News|

Glen Collier Recognized for Outstanding Service to AIPG Texas Section

Henry M. Wise, President of AIPG Texas Section, and Michael D. Campbell, Vice-President - Eastern Texas, made a presentation recently by FedEx of a commemorative plaque to Glen Collier of Nacogdoches, Texas. This gives the Officers and the Advisory Board the opportunity to formally thank Glen for his efforts on behalf of the Texas Section of the AIPG over the past 6 years. His efforts in guiding the well-received AIPG Texas Section Scholarship program, in managing the highly successful 2018 GeoDayz training program, and in participating as a Counselor-at-Large in the Advisory Board of the AIPG Texas Section are [...]

By Editor|2025-08-04T13:50:21-05:00April 23rd, 2020|AIPG-TX News|

Texas Earthquakes

Pennington and Davis, both of the Institute of Geophysics of the University of Texas at Austin, Texas. reported that Texas has experienced more than 100 earthquakes of magnitude 3 or greater since 1847. However, because the density of both seismographs and people has been very low in Texas, knowledge of the state’s seismicity is undoubtedly incomplete. The largest known earthquake in Texas occurred on Aug. 16, 1931, near the town of Valentine in Jeff Davis County. The total felt area exceeded one million square kilometers (about 400,000 square miles). Ten earthquakes had epicenters near El Paso. Several of these [...]

By Editor|2025-08-04T13:52:01-05:00April 10th, 2020|AIPG-TX News|

The Energy Transition and/or Revolution? – 2020

Edith Newton Wilson, President of the Energy Minerals Division of AAPG, asked: A Revolution? What's in a name? Should we call it a transition? A convergence? A transformation? A revolution? A tipping point? A paradigm shift? Consider that perhaps the name is largely irrelevant, except to sell conference tickets. There's a radical shift afoot that affects the business model for global energy delivery and consumption. And with it comes with a wealth of opportunities for energy geoscientists, as well as an obligation for every professional society to help its members prepare for the future. It's Our Job Whether it's [...]

By Editor|2025-08-04T13:54:33-05:00April 10th, 2020|AIPG-TX News|

AAPG Climate Change Poll Results – 2020

In September - October 2019, Aldrich and Shoup designed and oversaw the AAPG email-based poll of all members concerning whether or not AAPG should have a position paper and, specifically, should AAPG have a statement on anthropogenic climate change. The AAPG Executive Committee has reviewed the results of that poll and considered every comment provided by the members. We now wish to share the results of that poll with the membership. The raw numbers are shown in the table below. However, the Executive Committee spent some time to sort through the data to try and understand the distribution of [...]

By Editor|2025-08-04T13:56:25-05:00April 10th, 2020|AIPG-TX News|

The Wise Report

The TCEQ discovered and fixed several errors found in the soil TPH calculator (columns E and I of the excel sheets) for the >C12-C16 Aliphatic, >C16 – C21 Aliphatic, and the >C21-C35 Aliphatic carbon ranges. The errors were caused by the incorrect referencing of cells within the PCL calculation equation for the listed aliphatic carbon ranges. Instances of the errors occurred in the TotSoilComb, GWSoilIng, GWSoilClass3, and AirSoilInh-V TPH excel sheets. The soil TPH calculator has been updated and posted on the TCEQ external webpage: https://www.tceq.texas.gov/remediation/trrp/trrppcls.html. The revised version (V 3.0 - 02/2020) should be used moving forward. The Railroad Commission of Texas proposes amendments to §3.30, relating to [...]

By admin|2025-08-04T13:57:40-05:00March 8th, 2020|AIPG-TX News|