Editor 2001-04

John C. Lorenz, a candidate for AAPG elected editor, is a distinguished member-technical staff with Sandia Laboratories in Albuquerque, N.M.

A native of Toledo, Ohio, Lorenz earned his bachelor's degree from Oberlin College, and served in the Peace Corps, assigned to Morocco. Upon his return, he earned his master's from the University of South Carolina and worked for the U.S. Geological Survey for two years, leaving the USGS to earn his doctorate from Princeton University.

Lorenz then joined joined Sandia Laboratories as a geologist-technical staff in 1981. His research projects as he moved through the ranks at Sandia have focused on reservoir characterization, including a Multi-Well Experiment in Colorado, the San Juan Basin and the Lisburne Limestone in Alaska.

His work in the past 15 years has emphasized natural fracture studies in the United States and internationally.

Lorenz joined AAPG in 1982. AAPG activities include serving on the Distinguished Lecturer Committee from 1990-96; he was a Visiting Professional Geologist in 1990-91; was on the Publications Committee from 1985-87; was a delegate to the AAPG House of Delegates in 1994-97; and has been an AAPG associate editor since 1991.

Lorenz has presented a number of technical papers at AAPG and other professional meetings, and has published numerous publications through both his AAPG and Sandia activities. He also has authored Triassic-Jurassic Rift Basin Sedimentology in 1988 and Energy Frontiers in the Rockies, published by the Albuquerque Geological Society.

AAPG awards include the Jules Braunstein Award in 1988 and the Levorsen Award in 1990. He has been secretary/treasurer of the AAPG Rocky Mountain Section in 2000 and also in 1989.

Other professional affiliations include SEPM, the Society of Petroleum Engineers and the Albuquerque Geological Society, of which he is a past president.

Why I Accepted the Invitation To Be a Candidate For AAPG Office

Laird B. Thompson, a candidate for AAPG elected editor, is a Dallas-based consultant and adjunct professor at Utah State University who had a 25-year career with Mobil Oil.

A native of Port Washington, N.Y., Thompson received his bachelor's degree from Stanford University and his master's from the University of California, Davis. Joining Mobil after receiving his master's in 1974, Thompson earned his doctorate at the University of Texas at Dallas in 1982.

At Mobil, he began as a biostratigrapher specializing in foraminiferal studies. He worked the Plio-Pleistocene Gulf of Mexico offshore for several years. By the mid-1980s he was working in Canada analyzing the East Coast of Canada, including the Hibernia and Scotia Shelf discoveries, moving into the role of general stratigrapher and basin analyst.

Returning to Dallas in 1987, Thompson worked on reservoir scale deformation elements, heading the Mobil fractured reservoir research and development program by 1995. He also co-taught Mobil's reservoir characterization field seminar, retiring as senior geological advisor.

Thompson joined AAPG in 1993. AAPG activities include being an instructor in the AAPG Borehole Image Analysis school in 1996, and being an associate editor since 1999. He also is editor of the recently released AAPG Datapages Atlas of Borehole Images CD publication. He has authored numerous in-house reports for Mobil on specific wells and field studies, as well as training manuals for borehole imaging and fractured reservoirs.

He also is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers; an inaugural member of the North American Micropaleontological Society; and was the first president of the International Downhole Imager Society, a chapter-at-large of the Society of Professional Well Log Analysts.

Why I Accepted the Invitation To Be a Candidate For AAPG Office