Dr. Grant Wach, Professor of Petroleum Geoscience at Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia has been named the 2012 American Association of Petroleum Geologists’ Foundation Professorial Award recipient. The honor comes with a $1,000 prize from the AAPG Foundation. This is the first year for this exciting new award, which is given to an individual professor for Excellence in the Teaching of Natural Resources in the Earth Sciences.