AAPG EXPLORER UNDERHILL ASQUITH LOCKLEY BROUN CUZELLA Nieuwenhuise FOX LAMERSON JOHNSON TROLL APLIN MACQUAKER McCLAY SHAW SUPPE 14 MAY 2013 WWW.AAPG.ORG Deveugle Awards from page 10 Verwer the public. Welte began his career with Shell International as a research geochemist in 1959. Three years later he returned to his alma mater, University <strong>of</strong> Würzburg, Germany, where he worked four years. He later returned to the industry as a senior research geochemist for Chevron Oil Field Research (USA) in 1967. Welte’s textbook, “<strong>Petroleum</strong> Formation and Occurrence,” first published in 1978 and expanded in 1984, is still used today in teaching petroleum geochemistry. He founded the Institute <strong>of</strong> <strong>Petroleum</strong> and Organic Geochemistry at then-Kernforschungsanlage, now Forschungszentrum Jülich, in Germany in 1979, and later founded and was director <strong>of</strong> Integrated Exploration Systems in 1985. Welte’s previous awards from AAPG include the President’s Award (1966), International Special Commendation Award (2000), the Special Award (renamed the Harrison Schmitt Award in 2011) (2004) and Distinguished Service Award (2006). (See related story, page 22.) Sonnenberg, who is the seventh recipient <strong>of</strong> the Halbouty Outstanding Leadership Award, given in recognition <strong>of</strong> outstanding and exceptional leadership in the petroleum geosciences, received AAPG Honorary membership in 2008. He has been actively involved in AAPG leadership roles over the last three decades, serving three times on the AAPG Executive Committee, as vice president 1995-96, as president-elect/president from 2002-04, and as chair <strong>of</strong> the House <strong>of</strong> Delegates in 2009-10, as well as serving on various committees. (See related story, page 28.) Bob Gunn will receive the L. Austin Weeks award in recognition <strong>of</strong> his “extraordinary service in advancing the mission <strong>of</strong> the AAPG Foundation.” Gunn, a nationally noted petroleum geologist, was AAPG president in 1978. He also is one <strong>of</strong> AAPG’s most honored members – past awards include the Sidney Powers Memorial Award, the Public Service Award and the DPA Heritage Award. Biographies and citations <strong>of</strong> all award winners will be included in a future BULLETIN. Award winners announced by AAPG and who will be honored along with Welte, Sonnenberg and Gunn in Pittsburgh are: Honorary Member Award Presented to members who have distinguished themselves by their accomplishments and through their service to the pr<strong>of</strong>ession <strong>of</strong> petroleum geology and to AAPG. p Abdulla A. Al Naim, Aramco, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia (presented posthumously). p Jeanne E. Harris, G&H Production, Denver. p Kenneth E. Peters, Schlumberger Information Systems, Mill Valley, Calif. p Daniel J. Tearpock, Subsurface Consultants, Houston. Norman H. Foster Outstanding Explorer Award Presented to members in recognition <strong>of</strong> distinguished and outstanding achievement in exploration for petroleum or mineral resources, with an intended emphasis on recent discovery. p William A. Zagorski, Range Resources, Caraopolis, Pa. (See related story, page 32.) Robert R. Berg Outstanding Research Award AAPG’s newest award, presented to honor a singular achievement in petroleum geoscience research. p Ronald A. Nelson, Broken N Consulting, Cat Spring, Texas. p J. Frederick Sarg, Colorado School <strong>of</strong> Mines, Golden, Colo. Distinguished Service Award Presented to those who have distinguished themselves in singular and beneficial long-term service to AAPG. p Eugene L. Ames III, Ames Energy Advisors, San Antonio. p Mark J. Gallagher, Encana USA, Plano, Texas. p Frances J. Hein, Alberta Energy Resources Conservation Board, Calgary, Canada. See Honors, page 16
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