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 Geology, Mineralogy, Field Methods, and Field Camp.

Mr. Martinez’s role on the Board is to represent the interests of all students enrolled as geology majors in the state of Texas, and their needs as they prepare to enter the profession in industry, government or academia. He will be evaluating the material presented on the AIPG Texas Statewide Student Chapter looking for new ways to help students. As a student thinking about geology as a major, or if you have just begun to look for employment, feel free to contact Christian Martinez, or any officer or member of the Board for any questions you may have about your career as a geologist in the years to come.