Spheres of Influence

This issue introduces you to our lead editors, Michele Cooney and Jennifer Delaney, gives a preview of the upcoming issue of Environmental Geosciences, and presents the topic of the Keystone XL Pipeline project, “Good, Bad, and Ugly” style. We also offer a “Rant” on risk perception, so please read on.

In this issue: Meet our new Secretary/Treasurer; Carbon, Taxes, Attitudes to Global Warming, and AAPG — A Response; Climate Change Committee Proposal; Beauty in Geology — Monterey, California.

In this issue: Meet our New Vice President Dirk A. Nieuwland, Message From the Editors-In-Chiefs Desk, Carbon, Taxes, Attitudes to Global Warming, and AAPG, and Petroleum Firsts... First Recognition of the Greenhouse Gas Effect.

In this issue: Introducing our New President Jeffrey G. Paine, Message From the Editors-In-Cheifs Desk, and Petroleum Firsts....

In this issue: Message From the Editor-In-Chief’s Desk, Hydraulic Fracturing in the News: Kansas task force to explore possible hydraulic fracturing, earthquake link, Book Review: Evidence from the Earth: Forensic Geology and Criminal Investigation.

In this issue: Message From the Editor-In-Chief's Desk, A Look-back Into the Archives: Sustainability of Energy and Water,

In this issue: The Need for Evangelizing the Educated, Message From the Editor-In-Chief’s Desk, The Polish Geological Institute Visits Pennsylvania, and Kris Carter Participates in AAPG’s Editorial Board’s Work on Open Access Policy.

In this issue: Message From the Editor-In-Chief’s Desk, and Book Review; Full Rip 9.0: The Next Big Earthquake in the Pacific Northwest.

In this issue: Message From the Editor-In-Chief’s Desk, Featured Biography: DEG President-Elect Douglas E. Wyatt, Jr., PhD., P.G., and Fracing in the News: PA DCNR and PCPG Complete Technical Rebuttal to Article Claiming a Link between Hydraulic Fracturing and Groundwater Contamination.

In this issue: Message from the Editor-In-Chief’s Desk, Book Review, and The Rant: Good Science and the Scientific Method Kristin Carter, Pennsylvania Geological Survey.