Secretary 2001-03

Timothy (Tim) R. Carr, a candidate for secretary of AAPG, is with the Kansas Geological Survey and is co-director of the University of Kansas Energy Research Center.

A native of Lafayette, Ind., Carr received his bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, his master's in geology from Texas Tech University and his doctorate in geology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

He began his career as the owner of an industrial security company, and after receiving his doctorate he joined Arco as senior and principal research geologist/geophysicist in Plano, Texas. With Arco, he later worked in exploration and development in California and in Midland, Texas.

He joined the Kansas Geological Survey in 1992, where he is chief of petroleum research. He also is an adjunct geology professor at the University of Kansas.

A member of AAPG since 1993, Carr is on the Preservation of Samples and Cores Committee; the Web Site/Geological Computing Committee; is chairman of the Reservoir Development Committee; and is part of the Visiting Geologist Program.

Other AAPG activities include serving on the organizing committee for the 1999 Hedberg Conference on International Horizontal and Extended Reach Well Symposium, and being co-editor of the subsequent publication.

A member of the Division of Environmental Geosciences, Carr is a courtesy member of the Division of Professional Affairs' Governmental Affairs Committee, and is active in the Kansas Geological Society.

A member of a number of other professional organizations, Carr has authored 57 technical publications and 63 abstracts. He received the Levorsen Best Paper Award at the 1992 Pacific Section Meeting, and also received the AAPG Certificate of Merit this year.

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

Charles J. Mankin, a candidate for secretary of AAPG, is director of the Oklahoma Geological Survey.

A native of West Texas, he received his bachelor's, master's and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Texas at Austin, completing his studies there in 1958. He then spent one year as a post-doctoral fellow at the California Institute of Technology.

Mankin began his career as an assistant professor of geology at the University of Oklahoma and as a part-time geologist with the Oklahoma Geological Survey in 1959. In 1963, he was appointed director of the School of Geology and Geophysics and served in that role until 1977.

He was also appointed director of the Oklahoma Geological Survey in 1967, and he continues in that position. In 1978, he was appointed executive director of the Energy Resources Institute, serving in that capacity until 1987.

During his career, Mankin has served on and chaired numerous boards, committees and study panels of the National Research Council, federal executive branch agencies, and other academic and professional organizations.

He is a member of a number of local and national earth-science organizations, and has served as an officer for the Association of American State Geologists, the American Institute of Professional Geologists and the Geological Society of America. He has been recognized by a number of these organizations for service to them and to society. These include the U.S. Department of the Interior Conservation Service Award, the AGI Ian Campbell Medal, the AIPG Martin van Couvering Memorial Award and Ben H. Parker Memorial Medal, AIPG honorary life membership and the GSA Public Service Award.

A member of AAPG since 1954, he served on the Academic Liaison Committee from 1966-70 and again from 1973-85; on the Education Committee from 1971-78; on the Research Committee from 1968-74; on the Stratigraphic Correlations Committee from 1977-88; and on the Geological Highway Map Committee from 1966-70.

He currently serves on the Committee on Resource Evaluation and on the Global Climate Change Committee.

He also serves on the Division of Professional Affairs' Government Affairs Committee and chairs the Government Liaison Subcommittee.

Mankin received the AAPG Public Service Award in 1988 and honorary membership in 2000.

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