News & Announcements

Congratulations to the 2012-2013 L. Austin Weeks Undergraduate recipients! The AAPG Foundation awarded 59 grants. The disbursement of the grant consists of $500 per qualified AAPG Student Chapter and $500 per selected undergraduate student. The grant award is used to support geoscience-related educational activities.

Chris Bolhuis, ninth grade earth science teacher at Hudsonville Freshman Campus in Hudsonville, Mich., has been named winner of the 2013 AAPG Foundation Excellence in Teaching Award (Earth Science Teacher of the Year).

David “Scotty” Holland, former CEO of Pennzoil Exploration and Production and a longtime, award winning supporter of the AAPG Foundation, died Jan. 5 in Houston. He was 81.

Richard Baile has been identified as the AAPG Foundation’s 2013 Chairman’s Award recipient. But this isn’t Dick’s first rodeo, as they might say in Houston. The Texan is a long-time Foundation supporter…to the tune of over three decades long.

The AAPG Foundation has announced the Teacher of the Year finalists for each Section