Distinguished Lecturer
Tours for 2007-08
by William Sassi & Peter Lloyd
The IDL (International Distinguished Lecturer) program was set up in the mid 1990s by Ed Purdy and enjoyed great success through 2001 (the Robbie Gries Presidential Tour), after which it went into temporary decline. A rejuvenation effort was kicked off in mid-2004 with Frank Picha coordinating East and Central Europe and Peter Lloyd covering Western Europe. Since then there have been three tours, including a Presidential Tour in 2005, and two tours in 2006. Our most recent DLs are Richard Swarbrick 2005, Carlo Doglioni 2005, Pete Rose 2005 (Presidential Tour), and Mateu Esteban, second quarter 2006 and Henry Posamentier, third quarter 2006.
As from June 2006, the current IDL sub-committee of the AAPG’s European Regions are currently working to make Distinguished Lecturer candidate proposals and selections, and to assist with coordinating the logistics of their tours. The current members of this sub-committee are:
- Chair of merged European Committee: William Sassi (Scotland) – William@mve.com
- Logistics coordinator: Barbara Davis (Tulsa) – bdavis@aapg.org and at the
- European AAPG Office, Steve Veal – europe@aapg.org
- Scotland: Aberdeen Student Chapter President, Vanessa Kertznus, mentored by Andrew Hurst – a.hurst@abdn.ac.uk
- England: Edmund Nickless – Edmund.nickless@geolsoc.org.uk
- France: Francois Roure – francois.roure@ifp.fr
- Norway: Knut Bjorlykke – knut.bjorlykke@geologi.uio.no
- Netherlands: Jeroen Peters – jeroen.peters@shell.com
- Switzerland: Helena Dubrova – Helena.dobrova@ihsenergy.com
- Austria & Germany: Wolfgang Nachtmann – Wolfgang.Nachtmann@rohoel.at
- Spain: Mateu Esteban – mestebanc@repsolypf.com
- Italy: Carlo Doglioni – carlo.doglioni@uniroma1.it
- Hungary: Andras Galacza – galacz@ludens.elte.hu
- Czech Republic: Vlastimila Dvorakova – dvorakovav@cgu.cz
- Poland: Jan Golonka – golonka@yahoo.com
- Bulgaria: George Ajdanlijsky – ajdansky@mgu.bg
- Rumania: Victor Mocamu – vi_mo@yahoo.com
- Russia: John Dolson – jcdolson@aol.com
In 2007 we are pleased to welcome John Walsh from Dublin University and Larry Peterson, Miami University, who will be speaking on “Fault Zones & Fault Systems” and “climate change & deep sea sedimentation processes,” respectively. Their resume and abstracts will be soon released on the AAPG web site at www.aapg.org/education/dist_lect/international.cfm.
Please contact either William Sassi, Barbara Davis and Steve Veal, or one of the committee members, if you would like one of these speakers to talk to your local society or student chapter.
The next European Tour session will start as from July 2007.