Please join us on Tuesday November 9 at Hollytree Country Club for our November meeting. In our move to Hollytree for meetings, we could not initially get all the dates we wanted for our normal schedule but next year we will be back to our mid-month Wednesday timing. Thanks to all that attended our October Golf Tournament and Bo Henk’s ETGS field trip to Lake Grapevine.

For November’s meeting, you will get to see and hear discussions on several poster sessions presented last week at the GeoGulf 2021 in Austin by SFA faculty and students. The poster presentations are as follows:

Jamie Singer
“Statistical Correlation of Rare Earth Minerals of the Salina Group”

Rodrigo Valasquez
“Mapping Allochthonous Salt Bodies of the Jurassic Louann Salt, Offshore Gulf of Mexico”

Tyler West
“Reservoir Characterization of the Utica Shale Play within Columbiana County, Ohio using Well Logs, Rock Mechanics and Geochemical Data”

Will Thompson
“Stratigraphic Analysis of the Capps Limestone in the Norton Oil Field in Runnels County, Texas”

The SFA Geology Program, that your Society helps support, received incredible recognition at this year’s GCAGS, GeoGulf 2021 convention in Austin this past week. SFA received 28 certificates and 3 plaques! Awesome job SFA! The awards included:

Alex Blizzard M.S. 21 –
Best Student Paper Award and an Honorable Mention Grover E. Murray Award for Best Published Paper + JBloxson

Lenora Perkins M.S. 2021 -
first place Gordon I. Atwater award for Best Poster Presentation + Wesley Brown

Brian Lesh B.S. 2019 – current M.S -
second place Gordon I. Atwater award for Best Poster Presentation + Melinda Faulkner

Barbara Kemeh M.S. 2021 -
third place (tie) Gordon I. Atwater award for Best Poster Presentation + JBloxson

SFA Department of Geology
an Honorable Mention for the Gordon I. Atwater Award for Best Poster Presentation

Your ETGS Board has decided that the date ETGS could arrange with Hollytree for a December meeting of December 22 was too much in the middle of Holiday events to proceed, so the December meeting is canceled. At our January 19, 2022 meeting, David Allen will discuss “Challenges and Solutions of Low Resistivity Pay”.

ETGS has had to make commitments to Hollytree for numbers of participants, so please support your Society and RSVP as soon as possible.

Hope to see you Tuesday, November 9!

Ernie LaFlure

November 1, 2021