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 Vice President - Sections Candidate
David H. Hawk
Consultant, Energy Analysis and Answers
(Recently retired J.R. Simplot Company, Boise, Idaho)
Born 1944, Duncan, Oklahoma
Academic Degrees
- 1967
- B.S., geology, University of Idaho
- 1970
- M.S., geology, University of Oklahoma
Idaho, Registered Professional Geologist, 466
Experience
- 2007-Present
- Consultant, Energy Analysis & Answers, Boise
- 1984-2007
- Director, Energy Natural Resources, J.R. Simplot Company (Boise, Idaho)
All energy related activities, exploration, production, legal, regulatory, utilities, hydro, conservation (Retired 1-2007)
- 1983
- Consultant, Boise
- 1981-1983
- Senior vice president, exploration & production, Horn Resources Corporation, Denver and Boise
- 1980-1981
- Vice president, exploration, Sundance Oil Company, Denver
- 1973-1980
- Vice president and general manager, IGC Production Company, an exploration and production sister company to Intermountain Gas Company, a public utility for all of Southern Idaho, and a manager for Intermountain Gas, Boise
- 1972-1973
- Exploration geologist, Tenneco, Denver
- 1970-1972
- Exploration geologist, Atlantic Richfield Oil & Gas, Dallas and Lafayette
Additional Experience:
- 1999-2004
- Chairman of the Board, Remington Oil and Gas
- 1979-1997
- President, Cornucopia Placers, Boise
- 2007
- Member, Board of Directors, Intrepid Technology & Resources Inc.
AAPG Activities
Member, 1969-Present; Member EMD & DEG
- 1984-1994 & 1997 to present
- House of Delegates, Delegate (Idaho Assoc. of Professional Geologists)
- 2005-2007
- HoD Constitution & Bylaws Committee; chair 05-07, vice chair 04-05
- 2002-2004
- HoD Honors & Awards Committee; chair 03-04
- 2001-Present
- Public Outreach Committee; vice chair (present)
- 2005-present
- Membership Planning Committee
- 1982-2005
- Membership Committee
- 1980s-1990s
- Government Affairs Instant Response Committee
- 2000-2001
- HoD ad hoc Visions Committee
Various AAPG Annual and Section meetings judge, presenter and session chair
Affiliated and Associated Societies and Sections and major offices held
- 2003-2004
- Rocky Mountain Section president
- 2001-2003
- RMS Secretary/Treasurer; president-elect
RMS ad hoc Committee on Meetings - 1987
- RMS Annual Meeting general chair
- 1974-Present
- Member, Idaho Association of Professional Geologists
- 1977
- President, Idaho Association of Professional Geologists
- 1976 and additional years
- IAPG Southwest Area Chair
- 1973-Present
- Member, Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists
- 1971-1972
- Member, Lafayette Geological Society
AAPG Honors and Awards
- 2007
- House of Delegates Long Service Award
- 2004
- AAPG Certificate of Merit; President, Rocky Mountain Section
Publications
- Numerous public lectures on energy and the oil and gas industry, including economics, transportation, distribution and generation.
- Numerous public interviews and testimony before judicial, regulatory and legislative bodies.