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Article by Bonnie Milne and Guest Night Committee Chairman, Bill Osten Featured speaker: Dr Jim Reilly, NASA Commander Rick Sturchow and Mission specialist Jim Reilly on the space shuttle in July 2008. Reilly will be the Guest Night speaker This year’s HGS Guest Night program features a presentation by geoscientist and NASA Astronaut Dr. James Reilly, PhD as the evening’s keynote speaker in the Houston Museum of Natural Science’s IMAX theatre. Dr. Reilly, a... [More Info]

T37. The Western Interior Seaway (Posters) Paleontological Society; GSA Sedimentary Geology Division; Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Dee Ann Cooper, Roger W. Cooper This will be a multidisciplinary session devoted to all studies and aspects of the Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway and its global correlatives.

GSA 2008 Pre-Meeting Field Trip to Trans-Pecos, TX and Big Bend National Park.

The Wise Report Henry M. Wise, P.G. May 3, 2008 I try to be as accurate a possible, but occasionally things get reported incorrectly. Recently I reported that the Texas Board of Professional Geoscientists has come up with new guidelines for when you may be exempted from taking the ASBOG exams. I've been corrected in that only the first exam, the Fundamentals of Geology exam, is the only one that the Board may allow an exemption on. You'd still have to take the second exam, the... [More Info]

HGS Website Redesign May 5, 2008 We hope you find the redesigned Website a place where you can do your HGS business easier. Here are a few tips to help: To register for a meeting or event, click on the large brown button (left), "View Technical Program" to go to the calendar. Then click on the event to register exactly the same way as you did on the old website. Note you can also go to the Monthly Calendar by clicking the horizontal green Menu Tab "Activities and... [More Info]

May 2008 President's Letter 2008 International Year of Planet Earth: Expanding Public Awareness of Geology and Geophysics by Linda Sternbach This year is anything but ordinary! For one, it’s the Year of Planet Earth! For another, we’ve got a big event coming right here in Houston: HGS and GCAGS volunteers are busy with program planning for a joint meeting between Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies (GCAGS), Geological Society of America (GSA) and the Tri-Societies (Agronomy,... [More Info]

May 2008 Editor's Letter Do Good and Have Fun by Steve Earle By the time you read this, I will have completed my 17th MS 150. As many of you know, the BP MS 150 is a two-day bicycle ride from Houston to Austin pedaling through the rolling hills and wildflowers along the way. If you start at Tully Stadium and have trained, it is 171 miles of the most fun you can legally have. The serious side of this ride is that it is the largest fundraising event of its kind in the country, with a goal... [More Info]

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The Wise Report Henry M. Wise, P.G. April 27, 2008 The annual update of the TRRP Tier 1 PCL tables is now available on the TRRP PCLs web page at http://www.tceq.state.tx.us/remediation/trrp/trrppcls.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Damon Waresback, with Eagle Construction & Environmental Services, L.P. sent me notification from the TCEQ that a drinking water survey report (DWSR, also known as a HB3030... [More Info]

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Peak Oil and Future Challenges Wednesday, April 30th 5:30-7:30 p.m.Biology Labs #131 With Panelists: Dr. Amy Myers Jaffe Wallace S. Wilson Fellow in Energy Studies Baker Institute for Public Policy, Rice University Dr. Nansen G. Saleri Independent consultant to the Oil and Gas industry Paul S. Wallace Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Hunton Energy Moderated by: Dr. Steve Danbom Geophysical consultant and adjunct faculty at Rice... [More Info]

University of Louisiana at Lafayette wins regional Imperial Barrel team contest The first place winner of the GCAGS graduate student contest was University of Louisiana at Lafayette! Team members were John Rosen, Fleur Bases, Derek Hargrove and John Salsbury. Their academic advisor is Dr. Brian Locke. This team will compete for the top Imperial Barrel award at the AAPG Annual Meeting in San Antonio which will includenational and international teams. Thanks to GCAGS President Ken Nemeth... [More Info]

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