The Imperial Barrel Award: Finding the Next Legend. Presented by Chris Zahm at Houston Geological Society Legends Night in Houston, Texas on 19 January, 2015.

HGS hosted a dinner, January 19, honoring two university professors and Geology Department faculty advisors who have dedicated their time and energy to produce winning teams of the AAPG Imperial Barrel Award. AAPG thanks the Houston Geological Society for making these presentations available to the AAPG membership.  This program was made possible through the fund raising efforts of the HGS Legends Committee and its scholarship foundations.  Special recognition goes to John Tubb, Ashley Garcia, John Adamick, Jeff Lund, and Dick Bishop.

Chris Zahm is a Research Scientist at the Bureau of Economic Geology and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Geological Sciences at the Jackson School of Geosciences, The University of Texas at Austin. Chris has taught Petroleum Basin Evaluation for six years and has been the UT Imperial Barrel Award Team Advisor since 2009. Prior to joining the BEG in 2007, Chris worked 5 years at ConocoPhillips in Houston. Dr. Zahm received his BS in Geology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1993, MS from The University of Texas at Austin in 1998 and PhD at the Colorado School of Mines in 2002.