EMD 2016 Honors and Awards
AAPG’s Energy Minerals Division (EMD) is pleased to announce the recipients of its 2016 awards for service to the organization and for presentations (oral and poster) given at the 2015 Annual Convention and Exhibition (ACE) in Denver.
EMD Honorary Membership is bestowed upon Division members who have distinguished themselves by their service to the Division and devotion to the sciences involved with energy minerals geology:
- Peter Warwick, in honor and recognition of many years of dedicated service to the EMD, including serving on EMD commodity committees, serving as principal editor of AAPG Studies in Geology 62, serving as EMD vice president and serving as EMD president.
The EMD Distinguished Service Award is given in recognition of a member’s continuous, outstanding, exceptional and meritorious service to the Division:
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AAPG’s Energy Minerals Division (EMD) is pleased to announce the recipients of its 2016 awards for service to the organization and for presentations (oral and poster) given at the 2015 Annual Convention and Exhibition (ACE) in Denver.
EMD Honorary Membership is bestowed upon Division members who have distinguished themselves by their service to the Division and devotion to the sciences involved with energy minerals geology:
- Peter Warwick, in honor and recognition of many years of dedicated service to the EMD, including serving on EMD commodity committees, serving as principal editor of AAPG Studies in Geology 62, serving as EMD vice president and serving as EMD president.
The EMD Distinguished Service Award is given in recognition of a member’s continuous, outstanding, exceptional and meritorious service to the Division:
- Jeremy Boak, in honor and recognition of many years of dedicated service to the EMD as chair of the Oil Shale Committee and as president, 2013-14.
EMD Past President’s Award is given to recognize a year of dedicated, energetic service to the Division by its past presidents:
- Fran Hein, in honor and recognition of outstanding leadership and dedicated service to the EMD as president, 2014-15.
The EMD Certificate of Merit is presented to persons contributing to the overall success of the Division’s activities by service at national or international annual or biennial meetings of the Division, by outstanding service on committees, or through other significant forms of service to the Division (such as at AAPG Section Meetings). This award recognizes recent or cumulative outstanding contributions, such as serving as a member of the local EMD planning committee for an annual meeting:
- Fran Hein, for outstanding service as EMD vice co-chair at the 2015 AAPG International Conference and Exposition (ICE) in Melbourne, Australia.
- Simon Horan, for outstanding service as EMD vice co-chair at the 2015 AAPG ICE in Melbourne, Australia.
- Jeff Aldrich, for outstanding service as EMD vice chair at the 2015 AAPG ACE in Denver, Colo., and for tabulating the EMD technical session judging results from the convention.
EMD Presentation Winners for Denver 2015 AAPG ACE
The Frank Kottlowski Memorial Award is presented to the author(s) of an oral presentation that is judged to be the “best oral paper” in any EMD-sponsored technical session at an AAPG ACE:
- James F. Reilly, for “Surviving the Red Planet: Preparing the Visiting Geologist to Live and Work on Mars.”
A President’s Certificate for Excellence in Oral Presentation may be presented to the author(s) of a runner-up oral paper:
- Gregory S. Benson, for “Fitting Deterministic Arcuate Map View/Sigmoidal Cross Section Surfaces to IHS Beds in Heavy Oil Fluvial Point Bars.”
- Paul Oldaker, for “Twenty Years of CBM Production and Monitoring of the Pine River Subcrop and Gas Seeps, No Depletion.”
A Loyd Carlson Memorial Best Poster Award is awarded to the author(s) of the best poster presentation in any EMD-sponsored session at an AAPG ACE:
- Xuejun Wang, Lirong Dou, Yuguang Zhao, Demin Mao, Qunwei Zhang and Xiaodong Wei, for “Fractured Granite Basement Reservoir Discoveries in the Bongor Basin of Chad.”
A President’s Certificate for Excellence in Presentation may be presented to the author(s) of a runner-up poster paper:
- Lin Ma, Kevin G. Taylor, Peter D. Lee, Kate J. Dobson, Patrick J. Dowey and Loic Courtois, for “Multi-Scale 3-D Imaging and Quantification of Pores, Organic Matter and Minerals: An Example From the UK Carboniferous Bowland Shale.”
- Cosima Theloy, Jay E. Leonard and Sarah C. Smith, for “Comparison of Yet-To-Find Methods for the Determination of Recoverable Reserves From the Bakken: An Uncertainty Assessment Approach.”
The honorees and awardees will be recognized at the EMD Luncheon being held Wednesday, June 22 at the 2016 AAPG ACE in Calgary, Alberta.