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."
Video included.
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 2011. Results will be posted mid-May 2011.
Candidates were asked to limit their biographies to 350 words and responses to 500 words.
2010-11 President-Elect Candidate
Edward A. "Ted" Beaumont
Independent, Tulsa
Born 1951, Albuquerque, N.M.
Academic Degrees
- B.S., geology, University of New Mexico
- M.S., geology, University of Kansas
Experience
- 1985-present Independent consulting geologist
- 1980-85 AAPG Science Director
- 1976-80 Exploration geologist, Cities Service Oil Co.
AAPG Activities
Joined AAPG 1974, Member DPA
Foundation Trustee Associate
- 2009-present Editor, Search and Discovery
- 2004-present 100th Anniversary Ad hoc Committee
- 1997-present AAPG short course instructor: Creative Petroleum Exploration
- 2009-10 Tactical Operations Ad-Hoc Committee
- 2008-09 Global Corporate Structure Ad hoc Committee
- 2007-09 AAPG Secretary
- 2006-09 Group Insurance Committee
- 2005-08 Geophysical Integration Committee
- 2002-07 HoD delegate, Tulsa Geological Society
- 2004-06 Tactical Operations Ad-Hoc Committee
- 2002-05 Grants-in-Aid Committee
- 1986-92 Distinguished Lecture Committee
- 1986-88 Associate editor, BULLETIN
AAPG Honors and Awards
- 1992 AAPG Distinguished Service Award, AAPG Certificate of Merit
- 1991 AAPG Special Award for publication of the Treatise of Petroleum Geology, Australian Petroleum Exploration Association Distinguished Lecturer
- 1990 AAPG Special Lecturer China University of Geosciences
Publications
Co-editor with the late Norman H. Foster for the AAPG Treatise, which is composed of three series:
- The Atlas of Oil and Gas Fields (eight volumes);
- The Reprint Series (20+ volumes);
- Exploring for Oil and Gas Traps (2000) - the final of the three Handbooks of Petroleum Geology and capstone of the Treatise project.
Editor of Exploration Techniques in North America (1992) and numerous other papers.