ANNUAL REPORT 2008 - Jackson School of Geosciences - The ...

GeoFORCE Annual Report 2008
On the cover:
Students from the GeoFORCE Houston 11th grade academy
enjoy the geology of Crater Lake, Oregon during their June 2008 field trip.
Contact information:
GeoFORCE Texas
Jackson School of Geosciences
The University of Texas at Austin
PO Box B, University Station
Austin, TX 78713-8902
Phone: 512-471-6048
www.jsg.utexas.edu/geoforce
GeoFORCE Texas Honored
with Silver Star
Monte King (Manager of Workforce Development, Shell Oil Company) and Marshall Schott
(Assistant VP, Instructional Support and Outreach, University of Houston), Co-Chairmen of
the Energy Collaborative Workforce Committee of the Greater Houston Partnership, presented
GeoFORCE Texas the Silver Star.
This award recognizes outstanding performance by programs that are part of the Partnership’s
portfolio of priority initiatives. ExxonMobil and Mike Loudin, manager, global geoscience
recruiting at ExxonMobil, also received a Silver Star for their role in bringing GeoFORCE
to the Houston region. This award acknowledges all the hard work and effort put forth by the
GeoFORCE staff (including Doug Ratcliff, Julie Spink, Cristina Rodriguez, Danielle Horton,
Edgar Garza, Justin Hance, Jessica Gordon, Liliana Martinez, and Heidi Penix).
A private, non-profit organization, the Greater Houston Partnership is the primary advocate
of Houston’s business community, dedicated to building regional economic prosperity.