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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 |2025-08-04T13:47:17-05:00April 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 |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 |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 |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 |2025-08-04T13:56:25-05:00April 10th, 2020|AIPG-TX News|

Ignite Your Career to Success – National AIPG Conference Call

A New Idea from Your National AIPG Center It is time to ignite your career to success by writing strategic resumes and developing talking points that transform your job interviews. AIPG is conducting the fifth annual “Ignite Your Career to Success” Conference Call on Friday, January 24, at 4 pm PST (5 pm MST, 6 pm CST and 7 pm EST, 5:30 am Saturday morning India time zone). Senior AIPG members that have demonstrated success in the earth sciences and a successful young professional will be led by Stephen Baker, hydrogeologist and AIPG Executive National Committee member. This one-hour session [...]

By |2025-08-04T14:01:49-05:00January 21st, 2020|AIPG-TX News|

Results of the AIPG Climate Change Questionnaire

David Abbott, in cooperation with Peter Dohms and John Berry,  on behalf of the AIPG, asked its members to select one of ten statements that summarized a view about climate range. The range of statements varied from climate alarmist through those denying that humans have any effect on climate change to those with no opinion at all. Those summarizing statements were: If drastic worldwide measures are not begun immediately to combat climate change, civilization  as we know it will end in 10 to 12 years. Climate change caused by human activity is a serious threat requiring significant corrective action [...]

By |2025-08-04T14:09:06-05:00January 2nd, 2020|AIPG-TX News|

Planning for GeoDayz 2020 has begun in Austin

Henry Wise, President, AIPG Texas Section, announced during a meeting held in Austin last week that planning has begun for holding the GeoDayz 2020 training program for senior students and young professionals in the Austin area in September or October, next year. Those attending the initial planning meeting were (L to R): Steve Musick, Robert Rice, Mary Musick, John Berry, Henry Wise, Mike Cooper, and Roger Lee. The above photo was taken by Michael Campbell. The previous GeoDayz 2018 program was a great success. It was held over three days in Nacogdoches, Tx. For a summary of that program, [...]

By |2025-08-04T15:24:12-05:00December 15th, 2019|AIPG-TX News|

3rd Quarter Search Results for Top Ten Web Portal Categories

The I2M Web Portal is made available to I2M Clients, Associates, AIPG members and other geoscientists, and the general public worldwide with a focus on geoscientific and other matters deemed important to I2M management listed under the general and specific categories.  The site contains thousands of selected online resources including industry and government reports, industry news items, and other sources of information available on the Internet today. I2M Web Portal editors review the selections for relevancy and for bias  providing comments when appropriate. This is a focused database, Google, on the other hand, will eventually find whatever you need [...]

By |2025-08-04T15:20:16-05:00October 27th, 2019|AIPG-TX News|