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AAPG House of Delegates
 URL: http://www.aapg.org/business/hod/index.cfm
 Mission: The AAPG House of Delegates (HOD) is not a committee of the HGS. It is the legislative body of AAPG and consists of one delegate per 70 active AAPG members. The Houston area has 57 representatives in the HOD and is the largest local delegation to AAPG.

Academic Liaison
 Mission: The purpose of the Academic Liaison Committee will be to work with teachers, schools, and other groups to promote interest in, and appreciation of the geosciences. The Academic Liaison Committee made more than 100 presentations to junior and senior high school students. The committee provided speakers with slides, rocks, minerals, fossils, maps, and cross sections. In addition, this committee judges science fairs sponsored by the schools and other organizations. We are always looking for more

Awards
 Mission: The Awards Committee recommends candidates and chooses recipients for all awards established by the Executive Board. These HGS awards are Honorary Life Membership, Distinguished Service and President's Awards, Earth Science Teacher Award, Outstanding Student Awards, Best Paper Award, and Student Poster Awards. The Awards Committee is also responsible for nominating qualified candidates to the Executive Board for various GCAGS and MPG awards. The Awards Committee chairman is a member of the HGS F

Ballot
 Mission: The Ballot Committee is responsible for getting the ballots printed, collated, and mailed to the entire membership by April 20 and returned by May 10. This committee counts the ballots and reports the results to the HGS president as soon as possible.

Calvert Scholarship Fund
 Mission: The Calvert Memorial Fund provides scholarship support to graduate students in the earth sciences who are U. S. citizens. It seeks contributions from HGS members and from corporate sponsors. It is managed by a board of five HGS members. Contributions by check to the Calvert Memorial Fund can be sent to the HGS Office, or you can donate online here.

Community Outreach
 Description:

 
Nine Outreach Volunteers at Montgomery County Food Bank
 
 Mission: The goal of the Community Involvement Committee is to generate and communicate ideas that may lead to increased involvement of HGS members in their organization and in their community. For committee details, please read the DOC file you can download.

Continuing Education
 Description:
The HGS Continuing Education committee organizes and presents short courses, seminars and symposia for HGS members and the local geoscience community.

We pride ourselves on using the efforts of the many talented members of the Houston geoscience community to present high quality, state of the art programs on timely topics.  Most of our programs are 1 day or 1/2 day courses and symposia.

Continuing Ed can always use volunteers.  There are a couple of patterns for committee volunteers in Con Ed:

1) If you've ever wanted to learn about a particular topic, you can join the committee temporarily, organize a course (with help, of course) by finding an instructor, speaker or series of speakers, arranging for space, finding sponsors (if desired), and publicizing the program.  You can shepherd your course through and then leave the committee, or...

2) You can join as a regular member and help someone else put together course by doing some of the tasks listed above, for one or several courses.
 Mission: The HGS Continuing Education committee organizes and presents short courses, seminars and symposia for HGS members and the local geoscience community. We using the efforts of many talented members of the Houston geoscience community to present high quality, state of the art programs on timely topics. Past programs have included: 2011: Salt tectonics of passive margins 2011:

Directory
 Mission: The purpose of the Directory Committee is to prepare and distribute the Society Membership Directory. This Committee coordinates with the HGS Executive Board, GSH and committee chairmen as necessary to publish the joint society directory.

Earth Science Week
 URL: http://www.agiweb.org/geoeducation.html
 Description:
Looking Ahead-Earth Science Week 2011

We would like to thank all our volunteers, sponsors and participants for making our Earth Science Week activities a huge success this year. We look forward to seeing everyone again next October!
 
Click here to view the pictures for the Earth Science Week 2010.
 Mission: Earth Science Week, observed annually in the United States, Canada and, increasingly, in other countries, is an opportunity to understand the impact of the earth sciences in our daily lives. The Houston Geological Society is honored to join in the celebration each year. As geologists, we hope to: Give people, particularly students, special opportunities to learn about the Earth science

Engineering Council Liaison

Environmental and Engineering Geology
 Description: Click here to see this month's Environmental and Engineering Geologists events.
 Mission: The Environmental & Engineering Geology Committee provides educational opportunities for HGS and public by promoting better understanding of the environmental industry. This committee arranges field trips, speakers at monthly dinner meetings, short courses and seminars. The committee also publishes technical papers on environmental subjects in the HGS Bulletin, as well as field guidebooks.

Exhibits
 Mission: The Exhibits Committee publicizes the HGS and represents the Society at conventions and other appropriate meetings. The committee is responsible for transporting and manning the HGS exhibits booth at the AAPG, GCAGS and local conventions.

Field Trips
 Mission: The Field Trip Committee provides opportunities to see and learn more about field examples of geologic processes of interest to geologists in the Houston area. The committee organizes society field trips, maintains the virtual field trip section of the society's web page, and provides information on field trips by other related groups. Sites for field trips are selected to recognize new discoveries or new interpretations of previously visited localities, and to provide classic field examples of

Finance
 Mission: The Finance Committee writes the annual budget. The budget is developed from estimates of revenue and expenses for the various HGS committees and the Executive Board. By request of the Executive Board, the Finance Committee also undertakes research and makes recommendations concerning the disposition of HGS funds.

Foundation Fund
 Mission: The Houston Geological Society Foundation was established in 1984 with the intent of providing scholarships to deserving undergraduate geoscience majors. Seven Texas universities participate in the Foundation’s scholarship program. Each school nominates two candidates and one scholarship is normally provided to each university. Contributions by check to the HGS Foundation Fund can be sent to the HGS Office, or you can

Golf Tournament
 Mission: There is not one chairman for an "Entertainment Committee". Instead, this is a group of individual committees, each responsible for different social events for the members. The group is quite large and their basic function is to organize and publicize each event including: Shrimp Peel , BBQ, Tennis Tournament , Golf Tournament , Skeet Shoot , and the Bass tournament . More than 2000 people attended these events each year.

Government Affairs
 Mission: The Education on Government Affairs Committee is responsible for monitoring all activities at every level of government that may affect the profession of geology, and to promptly inform the membership through articles and other communications published in the HGS Bulletin, as well verbally with timely public statements at meetings of the society. The education of the membership on government issues affecting our profession is of great importance, and the primary viewpoints on issues should be co

Guest Night
 Mission: The Guest Night Committee is responsible for the annual event fro HGS members to invite a guest and enjoy an evening of entertainment. For the past few years the event has been held at the Houston Museum of Natural Science and included a tour or the museum, a catered buffet dinner, pen bar, guest speaker and ended with a I-Max Movie. 2011: Derek Main, "Wildfire Paleoecology along the Cretaceous Coast of Texas.” 2010: Dr. Patricia Wood Dickerson, "Bi

HGS Executive Board
 URL: http://www.hgs.org/en/cms/3371
 Mission: We are here to serve you, both our members and the general public, with information about our organization and its activities. The HGS is governed by a twelve person Executive Board, consisting of six Officers, four Directors, and the Bulletin Editor and Editor-Elect. In addition, there are 41 standing committees, two Scholarship Committees, and several Special Representatives. The current members of the Executive Committee are listed

Houston Energy Council