President-Elect 2001-2002

A native of Oklahoma City, Campbell received his bachelor's degree in geology from the University of Tulsa and his master's from the University of Oklahoma. He served four years in the U.S. Naval Reserve during his undergraduate studies and served two years active duty in the U.S. Army prior to entering graduate school.

He began his career with Lone Star Producing in Oklahoma City in 1957, then joined Tenneco Oil in 1965, serving as exploration project geologist in Denver, district exploration geologist in Oklahoma City and mid-continent division geological consultant.

In 1977 he joined Leede Exploration, and in 1980 formed Earth Hawk Exploration. From 1983-96 the firm was affiliated with PetroCorp, with Campbell serving as division general manager from 1992-96.

An active member of AAPG since 1956, Campbell is a Certified Petroleum Geologist.

Campbell is a delegate-at-large of the House of Delegates, where he served as chairman in 1981-82, served on the Advisory Council as an elected councilor of the Mid-Continent Section from 1984-87 and also as Energy Minerals Division councilor from 1992-94.

He is a member of the Committee on Committees, which he chaired from 1992-98, the Astrogeology Committee and has served on the Membership and Convention Coordinating committees, as well as chair of two special ad hoc committees reviewing certain association policies.

He served as AAPG vice president in 1990-91.

AAPG honors include the Distinguished Service Award and Honorary Membership.

A Foundation trustee associate, he is also serving a five-year term as a member of the Foundation Corporation. Campbell served on the Advisory Board for the Treatise of Petroleum Geology from 1986-91.

He is a member of EMD and was a charter member of the Division of Environmental Geosciences.

Other professional affiliations include the Society of Independent Professional Earth Scientists; Petroleum Exploration Society of Great Britain; Houston and Tulsa geological societies; Sigma Xi; the New York Academy of Sciences; a charter member of the Geological Society of Moscow, Russia; and is an honorary life member of the Oklahoma City Geological Society. He was the founding president of The Oklahoma City Geological Foundation, formed in 1994.

Currently a member and past chairman of the Alumni Advisory Council of the School of Geology and Geophysics at the University of Oklahoma, Campbell is also a member of the OU Foundation Associates.

Campbell is listed in the current/recent editions of Who's Who in Science and Engineering, Who's Who in America and Who's Who in the World.

Why I Accepted the Invitation to be a Candidate for AAPG Office

Daniel L. Smith, a candidate for president-elect of AAPG, is a Houston independent.

A native Houstonian, he received a bachelor's degree in geology from the University of Texas at Austin.

His professional career began with Pan American petroleum (now BP Amoco), and in 1967 he joined Roberts and Whitson Petroleum as exploration manager.

Over the following years he worked for Texoil Co. as part owner, executive vice president and exploration manager. In 1992 he joined Texas Meridian Resources (now The Meridian Resource Corp.) as a consultant and later joined the company as vice president of exploration, retiring in 1999 as vice president-new ventures.

An Active member of AAPG since 1959, Smith is a Certified Petroleum Geologist.

He has been active in the House of Delegates for 18 years as a delegate and foreman from the Houston Geological Society (HGS). He has served as chair of the Constitution and Bylaws Committee, Nominations Committee, Special Resolution Committee on International and Domestic Representation, and a member of the House Procedures Committee.

Smith was HOD chairman and on the AAPG Executive Committee in 1997-98. In 2000 he was the first recipient of the HOD Distinguished Service Award.

His AAPG committee activities include the Committee on Conventions, the Committee on Committees and the Visiting Geologists Committee. At the 1995 annual meeting he was DPA vice chairman, DPA program chairman and the recipient of the DPA Best Paper Award.

He was co-chair of the Summit on Sections Meeting in 1997.

Active in the Houston Geological Society (HGS), he was president in 1987 and has received the HGS Honorary Membership Award and its Distinguished Service Award. He is currently chairman of the Graduate Memorial Scholarship Board and the HGS Advisory Committee.

Smith was general co-chairman of the Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies (GCAGS) annual convention in 1991 and remains chairman of the GCAGS Conventions Committee. From GCAGS he has received Honorary Membership and Distinguished Service awards.

He is the current chairman of GCAGS' Distinguished Visitors Committee, and is a member of its Program Committee. This year's GCAGS Transactions is dedicated to Smith.

He also is an AAPG Foundation Trustee Associate.

Other memberships include the Society of Independent Professional Earth Scientists, the American Institute of Professional Geologists, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, Houston Producers Forum, Onshore Exploration Independents of Houston (co-founder), Chief Geologists of Houston and the Association of Houston Exploration Managers.

Why I Accepted the Invitation to be a Candidate for AAPG Office