AAPG - AIPG-TX

Beyond Hydrocarbons … The Rest of the Story

Michael D. Campbell, I2M’s Chief Geologist (and VP-Eastern Texas - AIPG Texas Chapter), and Chairman of UCOM said in a recent AAPG - EMD virtual conference that serious competition is now underway to determine which energy source will dominate the power-grid of the foreseeable future. With coal declining rapidly, only natural gas, uranium (and nuclear power), hydroelectric power, and renewables (wind and solar) are in the running. Both natural gas and nuclear power are providing back-up to the power grid because of the inherent drawbacks of wind and solar, (where the former does not blow all the time and the [...]

By Editor|2025-08-04T12:50:38-05:00December 18th, 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|

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|

Mentions of AIPG-Texas Section’s Vice President by AAPG’s EMD President in Editorial

See EMD's Uranium (Nuclear and REE) Committee (Here)

By Editor|2025-08-04T14:06:11-05:00January 7th, 2020|AIPG-TX News|

Texas AIPG Team Produces Series of Publications over Past Two Years

Michael D. Campbell (AIPG-TX VP-Eastern Texas), Henry M. Wise (AIPG-TX President), Roger W. Lee (AIPG-TX Councilor-at-Large), Glen Collier (AIPG-TX Councilor-at-Large), M. David Campbell (AIPG-TX Webmaster), and others have produced a number of papers over the past two years. Some are chapters/sections in papers and some are stand-alone papers for the Energy Minerals Division (AAPG), while others are papers based on earlier I2M-precursor projects involving: brine contamination of rural groundwater in Ohio; uranium, thorium, and REE in Alaska; siderite in Oklahoma-Arkansas; editorials to encourage professional geologists to publish in the new open-access journals involving: media and academic bias against uranium [...]

By Editor|2025-08-04T18:09:04-05:00January 14th, 2019|AIPG-TX News|

AAPG Total Solar Eclipse Seminar & K-T Boundary/Impact Crater Field Trip Guide, Casper, Wyoming – August 18-22, 2017

This Seminar and Field-Trip Guide was compiled by Doug Cook who gathered the materials discussed during this Seminar and Field Trip. The primary objective of the seminar was to observe the total solar eclipse that passed over the Casper, Wyoming area. Side field trips were also taken to observe impact craters and K-T boundary in outcrop. Jack Schmitt and Jim Reilly, whose tireless participation and enthusiasm in AAPG's Committee on Astrogeology, provided their professional perspectives and expertise on the subjects at hand. Kent Sundell, Casper College, and staff and students contributed to the organizing, guiding, and operations of the field [...]

By Editor|2025-08-04T20:24:05-05:00September 25th, 2017|AIPG-TX News|

Free, Low-Cost, & Open Access Data & Software for Petroleum Exploration & Production

Susan S. Nash, Ph.D., AAPG Director of Education and Professional Development, Tulsa, OK, Bryan Flynn, Geophysicist, HGS Continuing Education Committee, Houston, and Thom Tucker, C.P.G., HGS Continuing Education Committee, Houston have prepared a comprehensive list of reports, surveys, databases, maps, and software of use to the petroleum geologist and geophysicist. There are also filings and legal reports which can help in decision-making. The fact that the information is readily available via the Internet, and that there are many free cloud-based collaborative tools, makes it more viable than ever to work in teams to quickly put together ideas, evaluate ideas, and make recommendations (see [...]

By Editor|2025-08-04T19:53:23-05:00March 11th, 2016|AIPG-TX News|