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 2013. Results will be posted mid-May 2013.
Candidates were asked to limit their biographies to 350 words and responses to 500 words.
2012-13 Vice President, Regions Candidate
John G. Kaldi Learn about John G. Kaldi
Australian School of Petroleum, University of Adelaide - Adelaide, Australia
Why I Accepted the Invitation to be a Candidate for an AAPG Office ...
I am honored to be nominated to stand for the office of Vice President-Regions. I agreed to stand because of the opportunity to “give back” to our profession in a role for which my background and skills seem fairly well suited.
My career to now has been an extremely rich tapestry woven around life in the petroleum industry around the world. I was born in Hungary, and am very fortunate to have had the opportunity to live and work in five other countries including the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Indonesia and Australia.
Having both international and U.S. experience, I believe I have a balanced view of some of the issues faced by both domestic and international members. In addition, I have an understanding of some of the different roles and drivers of our membership, having worked for major oil and gas companies, a government geological survey, a non-profit research body and academia.
The common thread in my career has been my involvement in professional societies. Having experienced the ups and downs of our industry in the past few decades most geoscientists understand that we may have multiple employers during our careers, but our professional “allegiance” is likely to be to our professional society, and no geoscience society has a higher profile around the world than AAPG!
Because our industry is increasingly becoming more global, AAPG will need to increase our visibility overseas, while at the same time maintaining the trust and confidence of our colleagues domestically. We must raise our awareness of international issues and of the social and political underpinnings driving professional activities around the world. For instance, National Oil Companies are now major international players and small independents are dominating activities in many countries outside North America. Our industry is greying and there just aren’t enough students from traditional Western universities to replace those who have or will be leaving the industry; the most likely source of professional staff in the future will be outside North America.
It is of utmost importance that these young geoscientists are provided with the quality of learning to prepare them to meet a global industry’s needs. We need to start at grass-roots to ensure that international students become aware of our industry and the opportunities for careers therein. This is a formidable challenge and meeting it lies squarely with AAPG and its affiliates and Student chapters, especially in the international regions.
I hope to help our international Regions realize their potential to grow significantly in membership in the next decade. The first step will be improving communications with the regions to emulate the excellent work done by the domestic sections. AAPG Regions and Sections must function as a seamless entity.
If elected I will do as I counsel students and my own kids: work hard, try to do some good and have fun! It is a great honor to be asked to stand, and I believe I have the energy, experience, wisdom and sense of humor to serve you as Vice President-Regions.
About John G. Kaldi ...
Professor, Australian School of Petroleum, University of Adelaide, Australia
Born 1950, Budapest, Hungary
Academic Degrees
1980
Ph.D., Cambridge University, England
1974
B.S., Queens College, City University of New York
Experience
2005-present
Chief scientist, Cooperative Research Centre for Greenhouse Gas Technologies (CO2CRC) and professor (chair of Geosequestration) University of Adelaide.
2003-05
Head of School, Australian School of Petroleum, University of Adelaide.
1998-2003
Director, National Centre for Petroleum Geology & Geophysics, University of Adelaide
1997-98
Chief geologist, VICO, Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia
1995-97
Chief development geologist Pagerungan gas field, ARCO Bali North, Jakarta, Indonesia
1991-95
Geological specialist; ARCO Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia
1987-91
Senior reservoir geologist; ARCO Oil and Gas, Plano, Texas
1982-87
Senior research geologist, Shell Canada, Calgary, Canada
1980-82
Research geologist, Saskatchewan Geological Survey, Regina, Canada
1978-80
Contract geologist/petrographe; InterCon Geological Consultants, Cambridge, England
AAPG Activities
1999-2014
HoD delegate, Asia Pacific Region
2004-13
Visiting Geoscientist Program chair 2008-11, vice chair 2005-08
2007-13
Education Committee
2009-11
HoD Honors and Awards Committee
2009-10
Distinguished Lecturer, Europe Region
2007-10
100th Anniversary Ad Hoc Committee
2005-09
HoD Nominations & Election Committee
2001-08
International Regions Committee; chair, 05-08
2005-07
HoD Resolutions Committee (Vice chair Int'l 06-07)
2004-06
Tech Program Committee chair/Program Perth 2006 ICE
2004-05
HoD Resolutions Committee
2002-05
Advisory Council
2002-05
President, Asia Pacific Region
2003-04
HoD Nominations & Election Committee
2003
Convener, Hedberg Conference - Sealing Potential of Faults & Caprocks, (Adelaide, Australia)
2002-03
Distinguished Lecturer, Asia Pacific Region
2000-01
HoD Future of Earth Scientists Committee
1998-2000
Technical Program Committee chair/Program Bali 2000 ICE
1999-2002
Asia Pacific Region officer secretary
1995-96
Special Lecturer, Asia Pacific Region
1993
Convener, Hedberg Conference - Seals and Traps, (Crested Butte, Colo.)
1992-98
International Regions Committee
1990-93
Reservoir Development Committee
1984-87
Research Committee
1983-86
Grants-in-Aid Committee
AAPG Honors and Awards
2009
AAPG Honorary Member Award
AAPG Division of Environmental Geology Outreach Award
2006
AAPG Certificate of Merit
2005
AAPG Distinguished Service Award
AAPG Certificate of Merit
2004
AAPG Certificate of Appreciation
2001
AAPG Certificate of Merit
1997
AAPG Special Commendation Award
Publications
Over 100 publications on carbon capture and storage, seal evaluation, reservoir geology, carbonate sedimentology and diagenesis.
Over 300 technical abstracts and conference presentations.
AAPG Vice President, Regions Responsibilities as defined by AAPG Bylaws, Article II, Section 4.
The Vice President, Regions, when elected earlier than the Vice President, Sections, shall perform the duties of the President in the absence or inability of the President to serve. The Vice President, Regions, when elected earlier than the Vice President, Sections, shall assume the office of President in case of a vacancy for any cause in that office; and shall perform such duties as may be assigned by the President. The Vice President, Regions shall, with his or her other duties, concern himself or herself with the activities of the Association in respect to International Regions. A Vice President, Regions elected pursuant to the provisions of Section 12 of this Article II shall be presumed for the purposes of this Section 4 to have been elected on the date of his or her predecessor’s election.