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AAPG
Energy Minerals Division (EMD)
Serving the Greater AAPG Membership by Increasing:
 Member Benefits,
 Communications with AAPG Leadership and
Technical Standing Committees, and
 Cooperation with the DEG and DPA.
2010
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How Does the EMD Serve Today?
As a Supporting Technical Wing of the AAPG that :
1. Serves as an integral part of a global professional community for
geoscientists in developing so-called unconventional and
alternative energy resources, whether they are hydrocarbonbased, carbon-based, nuclear-based, or geothermal-based,
2. Serves as a recognized center of information for unconventional
and alternative energy-related geoscience and technology
within the AAPG,
3. Serves as part of a global organization that effectively promotes
the exchange of unconventional and alternative energyrelated geoscientific information and the dissemination of
associated research (from Government, University, and
Industry Sources), and
4. Serves as a center of respected professionals who encourage the
appropriate standards for ethical and environmental practice
in unconventional and alternative energy development in
cooperation with AAPG’s DPA and DEG.
Unconventional Energy Resources
Oil Shale
Oil Sands
Tight Gas Sands
Gas Shales
Coalbed
Methane
Gas
Hydrates
Alternative Energy Resources
Uranium (Nuclear Minerals)
Coal
Geothermal Energy
Renewable Energy
Energy Economics & Technology
The AAPG – EMD Focus
• Public Awareness
• Professional Awareness
• Information Transfer
• Member Recruitment
To EMD Public Page
The AAPG – EMD Focus
• Members Only
• Members Involvement
• Member Benefits
• Member Networking
• Member Recruiting
• Member Training
• Member Advantage
Elected EMD Officers
Go to EMD Officers
Appointed
EMD Chairs
Go to EMD Chairs
2010 / 2011 Initiatives
1. Enhance the technical committee structure and committee
membership.
Action: Provide assistance to committee chairs with addition of Technical
Vice Chairs including:
a) Industry,
b) Government,
c) University,
d) DEG Representative, and
e) DPA Representative.
2. Provide member benefits and services on unconventional and
alternative energy resources that create value within the global
geoscientific community.
Action: Deliver benefits and services through:
a) EMD Commodity and Supporting Committees,
b) EMD and AAPG Webpages,
c) Meetings, Short Courses, and Field Trips, and
d) EMD-Generated Publications (Memoirs, Special Publications, etc)
EMD Example Technical Committee
Structure with Vice Chairs, etc.
Example EMD Technical Committee
Functions: 2010-2011
Example of EMD Commodity Members’ Only Webpages
How is the EMD Evolving?
Developing a Web Portal to Integrate Energy and Environmental Concerns
AAPG-EMD Web Portal plus
AAPG’s Search & Discovery
make a difference !
Example of EMD Commodity Members’ Only Webpages
Now Advisory Committees
48 (Number of Members)
How is the EMD Evolving?
By Developing a Member Profile to Encourage Participation in Committees
Commodity
Selection
Advisory
Committee
Commodity
Selection
Observing
Committee
How is the EMD Evolving?
By Opening Membership to AAPG Community
2010 / 2011 Initiatives
3. Invite AAPG membership to participate in EMD commodity
activities.
Action: Deliver additional benefits and services through:
a) EMD and AAPG websites (offering Commodity–Specific Technical
Information, Web Portal, Search & Discovery),
b) Blast E-mails to AAPG members to advise on regional and national,
and international meetings, and brochure mailings.
4. Strengthen and streamline the communications between the AAPG
Standing Committees and EMD.
Action: Promote geoscientific research & applied technology through:
a) An organizational structure that facilitates two-way communications
between AAPG and EMD, i.e., AAPG President-Elect with EMD
President and EMD President-Elect with AAPG Technical Standing
Committees, and EMD VP w/ AAPG Education & Publications.
b) Eliminating EMD’s GIS, Education, & Outreach Committees and by
creating the EMD Unconventional Resources Committee to
consolidate communications with AAPG Technical Standing
Committees through one EMD Officer, and
c) Design communications pathways between AAPG & EMD to maintain
communications and to provide support for EMD activities.
AAPG – EMD Organizational Structure
AAPG HOD
AAPG
Executive Committee
AAPG
President
AAPG
President-Elect
AAPG Executive
Director
EMD
Treasurer
EMD President-Elect
Chair: Elected by Vote of Chairs of the Committee
Vice-Chair: EMD President-Elect
Coal Committee
Renewable Energy Committee
DEG
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Reservoir Development Committee
Publications Committee
Unconventional Resources Committee
EMD
Secretary
Geophysical Integration Committee
Education Committee
AAPG-EMD
Division Manager
EMD President
Research Committee
EMD Vice-President
Publications Committee
Uranium Committee
Geothermal Energy Committee
Economics & Technology Committee
EMD Reporting Responsibilities
Lines of AAPG-EMD Communication
2010/2011 Initiatives
5. Assist AAPG to be financially strong.
Action: Provide income opportunities where EMD helps to:
a)
b)
c)
d)
Organize content and presenters for meetings,
Prepare AAPG-EMD publications,
Generate exposure for AAPG functions by display ads on EMD Website, and
Recruit new members.
6. Build relationships with affiliated societies, sister societies, and
other recognized organizations, such as: AIPG, NGWA, etc.
Action: These relationships will be delivered as follows:
a)
b)
c)
d)
Hold preliminary discussions with officers of other organizations to
establish mutual relationships,
Attend meetings of other organizations to evaluate culture, size, financial
conditions,
Create proposals for AAPG Executive Director to pursue concepts of
mutual cooperation with AAPG, and to evaluate feasibility of joint meetings,
and
Maintain professional relationships with others in outside organizations to
recruit members for AAPG-EMD, and also for DEG and DPA.
The New Division Policy and Procedures
Document – 2010 AAPG & EMD
Purpose: Clarify relationship between AAPG and Divisions for
seamless, joint operations of AAPG Standing committees,
Divisions and Tulsa Headquarters.
A. Communications - Redefined
B. Division Relationships with AAPG Committees - Redefined
C. Coordination of Division Products and Services with AAPG
Committees - Redefined
D. Division Affiliation with Other Societies - Pursued
E. Financial Support of Divisions by Approved Budget - Redefined
F. Division Support at AAPG Headquarters - Pursued
EMD Executive Committee
2010-2011
President
President-Elect
Vice President
Secretary
Treasurer
Past President
Michael D. Campbell
Stephen M. Testa
Genevieve B. Young
Frances J. Hein
Kent A. Bowker
Frank E. Walles
AAPG
Energy Minerals Division (EMD)
Thank you!
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