AIPG-TX

Henry M. Wise, P.G., C.P.G. announced today the appointment of Roger W. Lee, P.G., Ph.D., Austin, Texas and John L. Berry, P.G., C.P.G., Austin, Texas as Councilors-at-Large for the Texas Section of the AIPG.  Mr. Wise indicated that he was particularly pleased about the new Councilors joining the Officers and other Councilors-at-Large and Members-at-Large, and District Representatives of the AIPG Texas Section Board.  They will help us move forward into the future with new programs for the benefit of the members of the Texas Section of the AIPG. Summaries of their backgrounds are presented below:

Roger W. Lee, P.G., Ph.D., was born in Long Beach, California and raised in Pasadena and Deer Park, Texas. After undergraduate college at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas with a BS in chemistry, he worked at Lubrizol Corp. as a quality control chemist for 5 years. In 1973, he returned to Texas Tech for a MS in Geology. Upon receiving his MS he embarked on a 31-year career with U.S. Geological Survey, Water Resources Discipline as a hydrologist and geochemist that took him to duty stations in Billings, MT, Atlanta, GA, Nashville, TN, Austin, TX, and Dallas, TX. While in Nashville, he was selected to participate in the USGS Graduate Training Program, and attended University of Texas in 1989 for one year of coursework and 6 years of on-the-job research, earning a Ph.D. in Geological Sciences in 1996.

Dr. Lee has 47 years’ work experience, including 31 years with the US Geological Survey, with experience in aqueous geochemistry research, environmental & contaminant geochemistry, hydrogeology, quality assurance duties as colleague and peer reviewer of papers and journal articles, and preparation of quality assurance documents for private and government clients as a consultant. Dr. Lee served eight years as technical support and USGS/EPA liaison for Region 6 Superfund in Dallas, TX on more than 70 Superfund sites.  Responsibilities included data collection and oversight, report review and quality assurance editing, and meeting with other Department of Interior trustees to assist with Natural Resources Damages Assessments in conjunction with Superfund sites. Dr. Lee prepared quality management plans and quality assurance project plans for EPA on behalf of USGS and helped offices of USGS prepare quality assurance project plans, field sampling plans, and health and safety plans prior to retiring from government service in 2006. Dr. Lee rose from an entry-level position of GS-5 technician to GS-14 research scientist over the course of his career. Following retirement, Dr. Lee entered the consulting world, serving in a similar capacity with ERM, Inc., and is presently Senior Environmental Geochemist with NewFields Environmental and Engineering, LLCA, and a Geochemical Associate for I2M Consulting, LLC.

John L. Berry, P.G., C.P.G. was born in Liverpool, England and moved to the U.S. becoming U.S. Citizenship in 1978. He is a of graduate of the University of Pennsylvania (BA, Geology, 1963), and of Columbia University (MS, Geology/Geophysics/Oceanography, 1966). He also conducted post-graduate work at the  Royal School of Mines, London, 1971-1973. In 1963, he worked for Arctic Research Lab, Summer 1963:  Ice Station T-3 (Navigation, Gravity, Magnetic and weather observations, and at the Arctic Section, Lamont-Doherty, 1963-1966 as well as having part-time work on gravity and magnetic  maps of the Canada Basin and Alpha Rise. During 1965-1966, Mr. Berry worked for Prof. R.W. Fairbridge,  and translated and abstracted articles in several European languages for the “Bibliography of Quaternary Shorelines”.

From 1966 to 1972, he was employed by the Anglo-American Corporation, Kitwe, Zambia, conducting  exploration for stratabound copper deposits, limestone and groundwater. During 1973 through 1975, Mr. Berry was employed by Southwestern Technical Institute, Sylva, NC, where he initiated, developed and taught Associated Degree program in Environmental Science. As an independent geological consultant, based in Sylva, NC, from 1975 to 1977, he conducted evaluations of phosphate lands in SE Idaho for a Federal-State land swap; also an environmental study of Bear lake, ID-UT;  a study of weathering rates on instrumented watersheds at the  Coweeta Forest research establishment, Franklin, NC. He also contributed to a mine plan for ruby-bearing corundum mine at Chunky Gal Mountain, NC for Appalachian Resources, Inc.

During 1977 through 1982 Mr. Berry was employed by the Earth Satellite Corporation, Bethesda, as Director of Mineral Exploration. Assignments included helping set up a GIS system for Chilean mineral resources, lead-zinc exploration in Minas Gerais, Brazil, and a major study of the Tarim Basin, performed in the client offices in Tokyo, Japan. In 1982 he joined Shell Mining Co through 1986 in gold exploration in Nevada and South Dakota. For the Shell Oil Company, he set up remote sensing group at research center, and worked on hydrocarbon charge oil determination in the GoM, and deepwater offshore Angola, Brazil, China, Indonesia, etc. to 1999.

From 1999 to the present, Mr. has been serving as an independent remote sensing consultant, Austin, Texas with  major assignments in Korea, India, Libya, Australia, Canada, Burkina Faso, Mexico, Honduras, etc. Br. Berry is also serving the AIPG as the Editor of the journal, The Professional Geologist.