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Honors due at the opening session
Welte Leads the List of Awardees in Pittsburgh
By SUSIE MOORE, Communications Project Specialist
Dietrich Welte, a leader in research
and development of the concept and
software in 3-D numerical basin and
petroleum system modeling and author of
the first comprehensive textbook used in the
field of geochemistry, will receive the 2013
Sidney Powers Memorial Award, AAPG’s
highest honor, during the opening session of
the AAPG Annual Convention and Exhibition
in Pittsburgh.
Welte is a retired professor emeritus
from Technical University RWTH, Aachen,
Germany, and adjunct professor from
Jacobs University in Bremen, Germany – a
university he helped initiate.
In winning the Powers award he joins two
others, Martin Jackson and Robert Weimer,
as the most honored geologists in AAPG
history, all having won five awards.
Joining Welte at the top of this year’s
AAPG awardees list is Stephen A.
Sonnenberg, Boettcher Distinguished Chair
of Petroleum Geology at Colorado School of
Mines, Golden, Colo., who has been named
the winner of this year’s Michel T. Halbouty
Outstanding Leadership Award.
Also honored will be AAPG Honorary
member and past president Robert
“Bob” Gunn, this year’s recipient of the L.
Austin Weeks Memorial Medal, the AAPG
Foundation’s highest award.
They and 52 others will be honored
during the ACE opening session, set
Sunday, May 19 at 4 p.m., at the David L.
Lawrence Convention Center in the Spirit of
Pittsburgh Ballroom.
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The program is preceded in the same
room at 3 p.m. by the AAPG Imperial Barrel
Award ceremony.
In addition to honoring the awardees, the
opening session also will feature the official
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welcome from ACE general chair Michael
R. Canich and the presidential address from
AAPG President Ted Beaumont.
AAPG awards, approved by the
Executive Committee, are presented
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annually at the ACE opening session to
recognize individuals for service to the
profession, the science, the Association and
See Awards, page 14
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