AWARDS

Friedman is Powers Winner

AAPG To Honor 35 Geologists

 Sidney Powers

Honorary Membership

Michel T. Halbouty Human Needs

Distinguished Educator

Special

Public Service

Pioneer

Distinguished Service

Journalism

Memorial Awards: J.C. "Cam" Sproule

Robert H. Dott Sr.

Wallace E. Pratt

George C. Matson

Jules Braunstein

International
Best Paper
Best Poster

Gerald M. Friedman, with the Rensselaer Center of Applied Geology, Brooklyn College (C.U.N.Y.), Troy, N.Y., heads the list of those who have been named to receive the Association's highest honors and awards for 2000.

AAPG awards are presented to recognize individuals for service to the profession, the science, the Association and the public.

Friedman is this year's recipient of the Sidney Powers Memorial Award, AAPG's highest honor.

He has had a long career of activities and dedicated service to AAPG, the Eastern Section, education and to the science of geology, including a term as AAPG vice president. He also has been an AAPG distinguished lecturer and winner of the Distinguished Educator Award.

Friedman is one of 32 people approved by the AAPG Executive Committee to be honored this year, and most will receive award during the AAPG annual meeting April 16 in New Orleans.

The list includes three international award winners, who will be recognized at the AAPG international conference and exhibition Oct. 15, 2000, in Bali, Indonesia.

Also being honored also in New Orleans will be the previously announced winners of the George C. Matson and Jules Braunstein awards, technical awards earned with presentations at the 1999 annual meeting in San Antonio, as well as the technical award winners from the recent AAPG international conference in Birmingham.

Full biographies and citations of all award winners will be included in a future BULLETIN.

Those to be honored in New Orleans are:

Sidney Powers Memorial Award

Gerald M. Friedman, distinguished professor of geology, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York.

He has served on many AAPG committees, and was AAPG vice president in 1984-85.

Friedman has received many awards in his service to AAPG, including Honorary Membership (1990) and AAPG's Distinguished Service Award (1987) and Distinguished Educator Award (1996).

This is AAPG's highest honor reflecting contributions to petroleum geology. An article dealing specifically with his achievements will be carried in a future EXPLORER.