38 to Receive Association Honors

Lawrence W. Funkhouser
One of the world's leading geologists

Funkhouser, retired vice president of exploration and production for Chevron Corp. and a past president of AAPG and chairman of the AAPG Foundation will receive the Sidney Powers Memorial Award, AAPG's highest honor.

The awards ceremony is part of the opening session of the AAPG annual meeting, which will take place at 4 p.m. Sunday, April 18, at the Dallas Convention Center.

The session will include a multi-media look at Dallas and its place in the petroleum industry's history, welcoming remarks from general chairman Terrence G. O'Hare and the presidential address from AAPG President Steve Sonnenberg.

Immediately following the awards ceremony will be the Icebreaker reception in the nearby exhibits hall.

AAPG awards, approved by the Executive Committee, are presented annually to recognize individuals for service to the profession, the science, the Association and the public.

Two of the award winners, Stewart Chuber of Schulenberg, Texas, and Royce P. Carr, of Mount Pleasant, Texas, will receive two awards in Dallas: Chuber will receive AAPG Honorary Membership and a House of Delegates Distinguished Member award, and Carr will receive both an AAPG Distinguished Service Award and HoD Honorary Membership.

For Funkhouser, noted by nominators as a "geologist's geologist," the Powers Medal caps a long career filled with superlatives.

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

Those award winners who will be honored along with Funkhouser in Dallas are:

Honorary Membership Award

Presented to members who have distinguished themselves by their accomplishments and through their service to the profession of petroleum geology and to AAPG. This year's honorees are:

Martha Lou Broussard
Rice University, Houston

Stewart Chuber
Fayette Exploration Co., Schulenburg, Texas

Douglas G. Patchen
West Virginia Geological Survey, Morgantown, W.Va

Dietrich H. Welte
IES Integrated Exploration Systems, Aachen, Germany

Michel T. Halbouty Human Needs Award

Honors an individual for the outstanding application of geology to the benefit of human needs, recognizing scientific excellence.

Hugh Davies
University of Papua New Guinea

Outstanding Explorer Award

Presented to members in recognition of distinguished and outstanding achievement in exploration for petroleum or mineral resources, with an intended emphasis on recent discovery.

Clayton H. Riddel
Paramount Resources, Calgary, Canada

Grover E. Murray Memorial Distinguished Educator Award

For distinguished and outstanding contributions to geological education, both at the university level and toward education of the general public. This year's honorees are:

Knut O. Bjorlykke
University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

William E. Galloway
University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas

Andrew D. Miall
University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Edward C. Roy Jr.
Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas

Special Award

For those whose area of work may not qualify for one of the existing awards, but is worthy of the Association's recognition.

Dietrich H. Welte
IES Integrated Exploration Systems, Aachen, Germany

Public Service Award

To recognize contributions of AAPG members to public affairs — and intended to encourage such activities.

John C. Dolson
BP Amoco, Houston

Distinguished Service Award

To those who have distinguished themselves in singular and beneficial long-term service to AAPG. This year's honorees are:

Royce P. Carr
Pentad Oil & Gas, Mount Pleasant, Texas

Pete G. Gray
Independent Geologist, Lafayette, La.

Jeanne E. Harris
G&H Production Co., Denver

Barry J. Katz
ChevronTexaco, Bellaire, Texas

Lowell K. Lischer
Consultant, San Antonio, Texas

Deborah K. Sacrey
Auburn Energy, Houston

Wallace E. Pratt Memorial Award

To honor and reward the author(s) of the best AAPG BULLETIN article published each calendar year.

Donald S. Stone
for "Morphology of the Casper Mountain Uplift and Related, Subsidiary Structures, Central Wyoming: Implications for Laramide Kinematics, Dynamics and Crustal Inheritance," which appeared in the August 2002 BULLETIN.

Robert H. Dott Sr. Memorial Award

To honor and reward the author/editor of the best special publication dealing with geology published by the Association.

Alan R. Huffman
for "Pressure Regimes in Sedimentary Basins and Their Prediction."

Glenn L. Bowers
for "Pressure Regimes in Sedimentary Basins and Their Prediction."

J.C. "Cam" Sproule Memorial Award

To honor and reward the best paper published by AAPG or by an affiliated society, division or Section in 2002, by a member 35 years of age or younger.

Tobias H.D. Payenberg
for "Evidence of First Order Tectonic Control and Point Load Migration in the Upper Cretaceous Milk River -- Basal Belly River Interval in the Alberta Foreland Basin."

George C. Matson Award

To honor and reward the best oral presentation at the AAPG Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City.

Frank J. Peel
with BHP Billiton Petroleum, Houston, for "Styles, Mechanisms and Hydrocarbon Implications of Syndepositional Folds in Deepwater Fold Belts; Examples from Angola and the Gulf of Mexico."

Jules Braunstein Memorial Award

To honor and reward the best poster presentation at the AAPG Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City.

Alan P. Byrnes
with the petroleum research section of theKansas Geological Survey, Lawrence, Kan.,for the poster "The Role of Moldic Porosity in Paleozoic KansasReservoirs and the Association of Original Depositional Faciesand Early Diagenesis With Reservoir Properties."

Evan K. Franseen
with the petroleum research section of theKansas Geological Survey, Lawrence, Kan.,for the poster "The Role of Moldic Porosity in Paleozoic KansasReservoirs and the Association of Original Depositional Faciesand Early Diagenesis With Reservoir Properties."

W. Lynn Watney
with the petroleum research section of theKansas Geological Survey, Lawrence, Kan.,for the poster "The Role of Moldic Porosity in Paleozoic KansasReservoirs and the Association of Original Depositional Faciesand Early Diagenesis With Reservoir Properties."

Martin K. Dubois
with the petroleum research section of theKansas Geological Survey, Lawrence, Kan.,for the poster "The Role of Moldic Porosity in Paleozoic KansasReservoirs and the Association of Original Depositional Faciesand Early Diagenesis With Reservoir Properties."

Journalism Award

Presented for notable journalistic achievement, in any medium, which contributes to public understanding of geology, energy resources or the technology of oil and gas exploration. This year's honorees are:

Roy C. Davies
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, U.K., for the paper "Ultra High Resolution Correlation Using Coal Seam Micro-Stratigraphy."His co-authors were John A. Howell, of the Geologisk Institut, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway; Stephen S. Flint, also of the University of Liverpool; and Claus Diessel and Ron Boyd, both of the School of Environmental and Life Sciences, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, Australia.

Gabriel Dengo Memorial Award

To honor and reward the best paper from the AAPG international meeting in Barcelona, Spain.

Halfden Carstens
Janobsli, Norway, for his geological magazine "GEO" and his Internet newspaper "GEO Aktuelt.

Halka Chronic
for her "Roadside Geology" series books.

Ziad Beydoun Memorial Award

To honor and reward the international best poster at the AAPG international meeting in Barcelona.

Tore M. Loseth
Norsk Hydro Research Center, Bergen, Norway
for "Visualization and Utilization of 3-D Outcrop Data."

John Thurmond
Department of Geosciences, University of Texas at Dallas
for "Visualization and Utilization of 3-D Outcrop Data."

Kristian Soegaard
Norsk Hydro Research Center, Bergen, Norway
for "Visualization and Utilization of 3-D Outcrop Data."

Jan C. Rivenaes
Norsk Hydro Research Center, Bergen, Norway
for "Visualization and Utilization of 3-D Outcrop Data."

Ole Martinsen
Norsk Hydro Research Center, Bergen, Norway
for "Visualization and Utilization of 3-D Outcrop Data."

House of Delegates Honorary Membership Award

The House's highest honor, presented in recognition of consistent, dedicated and exemplary service to the HoD.

Halfden Carstens
Janobsli, Norway, for his geological magazine "GEO" and his Internet newspaper "GEO Aktuelt.

House of Delegates Distinguished Member Award

Presented to honor unique or exemplary service to the House through committee work.

Stewart Chuber
Fayette Exploration Co., Schulenburg, Texas

John R. Hogg
EnCana Corp., Calgary, Canada

Donald W. Lewis
Consultant, Lafayette, Calif.