The current chair and past chairs of the HGS North American Explorationists group attended Charles Sternbach’s talk on Monday April 25 at the Westchase Hilton hotel. Sternbach’s presentation “Petroleum Resources of the Great American Carbonate Bank” was attended by 75 people who wanted to preview material from the upcoming AAPG Memoir book due out in 2012 on Cambro-Ordovician stratigraphy and oil resources dedicated to James Lee Wilson. Committee Chair Steve Getz presented poster sessions on cross sections of the midcontinent basins. The North American Explorationists ‘ group has been running monthly or bi-monthly talks since 1990 on oil and gas resources and plays of the U.S. and Canada, that are beyond the scope of the Gulf of Mexico. in photo below Steve Earle (HGS President Elect) Steve Getz, Steve Levine, and Charles Sternbach. All are present or past chairs of the North American Explorationists’ group. Steve Getz is the current chairman.