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 Carmel Meeting "WOWS" Trustee Associates
A field trip to beautiful Point Lobos State Reserve
was included in the meeting agenda.
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The 2004 annual AAPG Foundation Trustee Associates meeting was held at Quail Lodge, Carmel Valley, California, September 22 to 26, with 110 in attendance, including trustee associates, spouses and guests. To use the word of Bob Bybee describing some of the more exciting experiences of his long oil career WOW! So the same for our convention. WOW!
Quail Lodge, now owned by the world famous hotel corporation, The Peninsula Group, had just completed a total renovation of the resort. The weather was outstanding and the venue of activities exciting and interesting.
As usual Foundation member Bob Esser (Cambridge Energy Research Associates) gave an outstanding presentation on the state of worldwide gas resources.
In a report on the Foundation financials, Jack Threet, Chairman, discussed the assets, contributions and expenses of the Foundation and the many programs receiving support from the Foundation.
Rick Fritz, Executive Director of the Foundation, presented the need for a major funding drive and asked the Trustee Associates to participate in the program both as donors and as members of the solicitation teams.
All work and no play leads me to several outside activities, and they certainly deserve a WOW!
A half-day field trip and picnic lunch was held at nearby beautiful Point Lobos State Reserve, a classic area for studying early Tertiary turbidites. Because of the immense worldwide interest in oil turbidite reservoirs currently being explored in many areas of the world (deep water Gulf of Mexico, Nigeria, Angola, Brazil, etc.), oil and gas geologists and reservoir engineers are visiting this area like never before. The field trip leader Steve Graham, Stanford professor, and Ed Clifton, park docent and former president of SEPM, gave outstanding presentations. Several other docents assisted the group in presenting the details of park history, its fauna and flora.
An evening dinner trip was made to the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Founded by David Packard (of Hewlett-Packard fame) and under continuous expansion, the aquarium is considered the largest and finest in the world, combining aquarium viewing and deepwater research. Their most recent additions in the new Outerbay Wing contain extraordinary beautiful live jellyfish, sharks, and fish exhibits. A delicious candlelit dinner was served in front of a major aquarium window of fish and the now famous great white shark which continues to be the longest living aquarium-fed white shark in existence. (How do they save the fish in the same tank as the shark and keep the shark happy? Answer—the shark is fed several pounds of fresh salmon filets every four hours.)
Other activities included two half-days of golf, a half-day of deep sea fishing where all participants caught their limit, and a half-day trip covering the Seventeen Mile Drive, lunch at Pebble Beach Lodge, and a few hours of shopping and art gallery viewing in Carmel.
On behalf of the Foundation members, thanks to Diane Keim and staff for their work. Jean and I hope to see all of you at Branson, Missouri on October 12-16, 2005.
– Bill Crain, Trustee Associate Chairman 2004
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