Candidates for AAPG office have been given the opportunity to respond briefly to the subject: "Why I Accepted the Invitation to be a Candidate for an AAPG Office."
Their responses and biographical information were provided by each candidate and edited only for grammar, spelling and format.
This information will also be provided as hard-copy in the January issue of the EXPLORER and available on the AAPG Web site through the election period. Ballots will be mailed, online in the first quarter of 2008. Results will be posted mid-May 2008.
Candidates were asked to limit their biographies to 350 words and responses to 500 words.
2007-08 President-Elect Candidate
John C. Lorenz
President and Janitor, Geoflight LLC
Born 1950, Toledo, Ohio
Academic Degrees
- 1972
- B.A., double major, geology and anthropology, Oberlin College
- 1975
- MSc, geology, University of South Carolina
- 1981
- PhD, geology, Princeton University
Experience
- 2007-present
- Geoflight LLC: Geological consultant
- 1981-2007
- Sandia National Laboratories; Distinguished Member of Technical Staff
- 1975-77
- U.S. Geological Survey, geologist
- 1972-73
- Peace Corps, Morocco, teacher
AAPG Activities
- AAPG Elected Editor: 2001-2004
- EC Liaison to Research, Astrogeology, History of Geology, Publications and Publications Pipeline committees
- Ad Hoc committee on Bulletin reformat: 2003-2004
- Ad Hoc Membership Survey Committee: 2002-2003
- HoD Delegate: 1994-1997
- Publications Committee
Chair, 2006-present
Vice chair, 2004-2006
Member, 1985-1987 - Distinguished Lecturer Committee: 1990-1996
- Tactical Operations Committee: 2004-2006
- Advisory Council: 2000-2001
- Education Committee: 2005-present
- Associate Editor (Bulletin): 1991-2001
- Field trip leader: 1995
Affiliated and Associated Societies and Sections and major offices held
- Albuquerque Geological Society
- Vice president (1991-1992)
President (1992-1993)
Secretary (2006-2007) - Rocky Mountain Section AAPG
- Secretary-Treasurer (twice: 1988-1989; 1999-2000)
Technical Program chair for RMS meeting (1989) - Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists
AAPG Honors and Awards
- 2007
- AAPG Distinguished Service Award
- 2004
- AAPG Certificate of Merit
- 1990
- AAPG Leverson Award
- 1988
- AAPG Jules Braunstein Award
Publications
- Numerous peer-reviewed publications and presentations on sedimentology, stratigraphy and natural fractures and their effects on permeability within hydrocarbon reservoirs.
- Published book on Triassic rift-basin sedimentology (Van Nostrand-Reinhold, 1988)