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James Evans, Ph.D., teaches Structural Geology at the Utah State University College of Science in Logan, Utah. He is the recipient of the 2013 AAPG Foundation Professorial Award. The award was presented at the AAPG Rocky Mountain Section meeting by Michael D. Vanden Berg, president of the AAPG Rocky Mountain Section.

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The Grants-in-Aid (GIA) Program has a rich history of awarding aspiring geoscience professionals with grants needed to conduct essential geological research in the field. This program is intended to support graduate and post-graduate students in their geoscience field research. Past grant recipients have used scholarship funds to survey lands as far away as the Bogda Mountains of northwest China and as close as Dinosaur National Monument in Colorado, USA.

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Terry Engelder, a leading authority on the recent Marcellus gas shale play, will be touring Austria, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Romania and Switzerland from October 7-17, 2013.

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The Teacher of the Year (TOTY) award, given by the American Association for Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) Foundation, will once again be granted to a K-12 teacher within the United States who has demonstrated outstanding leadership in the field of geoscience education.

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The AAPG Foundation has recently established a Military Veteran’s Scholarship Program to provide much-needed funding to military veterans who are pursuing a college education in the geosciences.

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William (Bill) Fisher served diligently on the AAPG Foundation Board of Trustees for 12 years and the last six as its chairman.

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The AAPG Foundation Trustees approved nominations for the Trustee Associate Service Award for 2012 and 2013. A committee assembled for this particular purpose submitted Jack Martin for the 2012 award and Ken Masters for the 2013 award. The reason both awardees were named this year is because the award was established last year but it wasn’t until this year that the selection process was established.

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Trustee Associate Bret Fossum, along with a matching gift from ConocoPhillips, has established a university subscription for Lomonosov Moscow State University.

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The AAPG Foundation Annual Report for 2012 is available online. Read about the Foundation’s progress, programs, management and funds that you can support. http://foundation.aapg.org/documents/AnnualReport2012web.pdf.

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Jon Major received the AAPG Horst & Jessie von Bandat Memorial Grant in 2009 which has contributed to a soon-to-be published journal article.

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