Mission
The American Association of Petroleum Geologists Foundation and Oklahoma State University Geoscience and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Consortium exists to create, accelerate and sustain digital peer-reviewed GIS products, carried out through OSU’s Geology and Geography Departments and the AAPG Spatial Publications Standing Committee. The products will have direct application to the search for and development of petroleum and energy-related mineral resources, and / or related to environmental geology or related economic issues.
Established in 2008 through funding by T. Boone Pickens, the Boone Pickens Digital Geology Fund accelerates and sustains AAPG Datapages’
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) publishing program through the AAPGF-OSU Geoscience GIS Consortium. Mr. Pickens’ pledge gift of $7 millon provides $240,000 per year for this program.
Example of Projects for Funding Consideration
- Those needing cartographic work (maps and derivatives including vectorizing, attribution, preparation of metadata and geo-referencing)
- Creation of GIS-based databases, reports, studies
- Projects with a focus on geology, energy, geography, energy and economics
- Submitted with a coordinating editor
- Projects where copyright is released to the AAPG, or permission to publish or re-use is granted
Example of Completed Project
Letter of Intent Requirement and Guidelines
The Letter of Intent (LOI) should be not more than two pages and include as a minimum the following information:
- Project name
- Principal investigator (P.I.) and contact information (address, email, phone)
- Source organization (if applicable)
- Secondary authors
- Project proposal summary / abstract
- Amount requested (to be completed by AAPG per OSU Cartography Department estimation)
- Technical merit; how does this specific project fit into your overall research?
- Scope of work (separate PDF attachments of map examples requested)
- Description and list of maps
- Input file formats
- GIS tasks
- Technical work
- GIS and / or print deliverables
- Impact / who will benefit
The Letter of Intent will be reviewed by the Consortia Advisory Committee and should be submitted directly to OSU-GIS Consortium or mailed to:
AAPG-OSU GIS Consortium
c/o AAPG Foundation, Attn: Christina Hall
1444 S. Boulder Avenue
Tulsa, Oklahoma 74119 USA
