CANDIDATE FOR AIPG NATIONAL VICE PRESIDENT
Candidate for AIPG National
Vice President
Christine F. Lilek, CPG-10195 Juneau, Wisconsin
Growing and broadening our Wisconsin AIPG membership has been a challenge throughout our 26 years as a Section. There are many student and professional geoscience organi- zations our members can join in Wisconsin, but our Section continues to provide geoscience purpose, perseverance, part- nerships and personal experiences. As Vice President of AIPG National Board, I would bring these 4 P’s to our National Organization.
Our members and students want an organization that plays an active purpose in their education and careers. The students and professors have a need for show casing their cur- rent research findings; and WI AIPG has sponsored student presentation days and workshops where undergraduate and graduate students presented posters and oral presentations. Professionals need to hear about the latest groundwater moni- toring technologies; and WI AIPG has organized and sponsored webinars and workshops presenting the newest technologies.
Wisconsin also experiences periods of professional geologist devaluation where the state legislature proposes to eliminate the Wisconsin Professional Geologist License. We persevere in actively responding to this threat to our profession by con- necting with our geoscience professionals across Wisconsin and providing real time examples to our legislators why Professional Geologists are needed to grow our economy and protect our citizens and natural resources.
Growing our AIPG membership and providing financial sta- bility for our own organization can only be achieved in today’s complex world by developing partnerships. Partnerships with colleges, businesses, geoscience organizations and other AIPG Sections allow us to share resources, staff and event expenses. AIPG’s visibility increases as we participate in larger events with a multitude of partnerships. Wisconsin AIPG has had numerous partners in supporting our: Geology Day at the Capitol, Frac Sand Webinar and the scheduled National Sand Mine Life Cycle Seminar, Earth & Water Student Presentation Day, Student Presentation Days at River edge Nature Center, the scheduled Groundwater Technology Webinar and the scheduled “Why Geology Past is Important to Our Future” MI-WI fieldtrip.
Finally, we must remember that providing personal learn- ing experiences is just as important as providing economic and professional development resources. As Vice President of our Association, I would highlight and encourage replication of the personal learning experiences our Sections and other earth science organizations are providing throughout our nation. I would also encourage matching young professional geologists with mentors and advisors. Paper and web documents provide a wide variety of learning experiences, but if you connect the student and young professional with a real life location and mentor, we can provide a deeper, life- long connection to geol- ogy and to our Association.
We’ve taken the local geology/human connection concept serious in Wisconsin. One of the programs that our Section helped create was the Wisconsin State Master Naturalist training program. Geology is now one of prominent portions of the training program for nature educators. We teach our educators and the educators then teach students of all ages that Wisconsin geology is a living part of our state. It is not only a beginning point, but geology changes and supports us through time. It is enduring part of the Wisconsin story.
Geoscience purpose, perseverance, partnerships and per- sonal experiences have been made thorough out my geology career as: a graduate student organizing Watershed Basin and Wellhead protection training events locally and nationwide, a hydro geologist and licensed geologist (PG) at the Wisconsin DNR, Wisconsin Electric Power Company and Mid-State Associates, and as Wisconsin’s Section’s Vice President, President and News Letter Editor.
As one of your National AIPG Board Advisors from 2014- 2015, I worked hard with the other advisors to reach out to the Sections and share resources and ideas between the Sections. Many of the Sections are now joining together to sponsor events and resources and the current advisory board continues to spread this support throughout our Association.
It would be an honor and privilege to serve as your National Vice President by sharing geoscience purpose, perseverance, partnerships and personal experiences. I believe providing these 4 P’s to our National Organization will ensure life-long connections to geology and AIPG!
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