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Imperial Barrel Award Results
March 2008
The 2008 Rocky Mountian Section-AAPG Imperial Barrel Award competition was held Saturday, March 1 at Colorado School of Mines. Teams from Colorado School of Mines and the University of Colorado-Boulder participated in the competition. A committee of geoscientists representing various disciplines judged the competition and awarded CSM first place and CU second place. A cash prize of $4000 will be given to the AAPG Student Chapter at CSM and $3000 will given to the AAPG student chapter at CU.
RMS appreciates the contributions of Steve Sonnenberg at CSM and Randi Martinsen at University of Wyoming in making the IBA competition happen. RMS also appreciates the contributions of time and money by various individuals and companies.
More information on the Imperial Barrel Award
Annual Meeting 2008 on the Horizon
January 2008
2008 will find our RMS-AAPG members in Denver where we will host the Annual Meeting jointly with COGA (Colorado Oil and Gas Association). The dates are July 9-11, 2008 at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver. The theme of the 2008 meeting will be “Energy Epicenter” - the Denver team is hard at work organizing the event. General Chair Donna Anderson can be contacted at danderso@rmi.net. More information on the event is now posted on this site at /2008_meeting/index.asp.
AAPG's National Annual Convention will be held in San Antonio April 20-23 of 2008.
And - mark your calendars for:
Snowbird ‘07 Meeting Big Success
November 2007
We had a great turnout for the October 2007 Annual Meeting in Snowbird. We had almost 700 folks! The total count was 696. The group was divided into 57% Professional AAPG members, 14% Professional non-members, 4% Students, 13% Exhibitors and 12% Spouse/guests.
Member Michael Vanden Berg's images of the meeting are on the UGA web site. Take a look! Great pictures and lots of fun.
The links are:
They may be viewed and downloaded at will.
Imperial Barrel Award Announcement
Our RMS Section Executive Committee voted to support a new program for students called the Imperial Barrel Award. This program is based on a 30-year program from Imperial College London. It is an exciting competition for graduate geoscience students in which University teams are given an industry-supplied prospect data set to interpret. The students analyze the data and then make presentations to a panel of professional industry judges. Prize money is awarded for the first, second and third place teams. We are sending $10,000 to the RMS Foundation to provide prize money to winning schools in the RMS geographical area. For more information, contact Steve Sonnenberg at sasonnenbg@aol.com or go to www.aapg.org/iba.
Maps in Schools Program
A program called 'Maps in Schools' is attracting the attention of many AAPG Sections as a way to promote geoscience education in the schools. The program was initiated by the Corpus Christi Geological Society wherein they purchase and frame colorful USGS geologic maps of the US and donate them to public schools. The maps come with instruction for the teachers on how to read the geologic history from the beautiful patterns on the map. The idea’s creator, Owen Hopkins (owenh@suemaur.com) reports that these maps are raising curiosity about the geosciences in schools where they have been installed. Our RMS Section is sending $10,000 to the RMS Foundation to provide money for the program in the RMS geographical area. Disbursements will be handled by the Foundation. For more information, visit www.ccgeo.org/phase1.asp. Please think about working with the Foundation to get maps into the schools in your area.
Odd and Ends
Tom Anderson was voted in as your new RMS Secretary-Treasurer elect. Congratulations, Tom!
Help!
Please send your news items to:
Tom Anderson:
tom.anderson@rmotc.doe.gov
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