EDITOR’S CORNER
Looking Forward to Working Together
Adam W. Heft, CPG-10265
Greetings once again to all AIPG members! It has been several years since I’ve last been a part of the National Executive Committee, and as I rejoin it for 2021 and 2022, we are seeing many changes to our world resulting from a year of chaos. Covid-19 has had a huge impact on local, state and national events, the economy, and so much more. Many of our members have lost friends or family members to the virus. Nearly all AIPG events in 2020 were cancelled or were moved to a virtual platform. It has been many months since we have seen each other face-to-face. Indeed, 2020 will be known as the year without an annual meeting – a first in AIPG’s 57-year history! More recently, we’ve also had the distraction and divisiveness of the Presidential election and its aftermath, which, as I write this, the results have still not been acknowledged by all parties.
I look forward to 2021 with hope that the future will be brighter. Although Covid-19 is still raging throughout the country and the world, and things may get worse before they get better, we are starting to see a glimmer of hope. We are getting a more consistent message that wearing masks and continuing to social distance are the most significant things we can do to help prevent the spread of the virus, and hopefully the message is starting to sink in. And there are vaccines that have been developed and are nearly ready for distribution. With luck, we will be able to get back to a sense of “normalcy” and hold in-person events early in 2021.
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The diversity of our members makes us strong and brings different per- spectives to what we do; this may well offer different solutions to problems we may be trying to solve.
President-Elect Biden, unlike his predecessor, is promot- ing a “work together” approach, rather than an “us and them” mentality that we’ve seen in politics in recent years. This is something that we need to do, not just as a nation, but as an organization as well. While AIPG is comprised of members in various disciplines of geology, we are all geolo- gists. All aspects of the science are important, as are the men and women of whatever race, creed, and background who practice it. The diversity of our members makes us strong and brings different perspectives to what we do; this may well offer different solutions to problems we may be trying to solve. Engaging in productive discussions with each other to better understand one another is a worthy goal. To this end,
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AIPG has created a Diversity and Inclusion Committee, which is working on developing a session for the 2021 Annual Meeting and that will be widely available to the membership. Look for additional information about this in the future.
As you know, this is my first edition of TPG as Editor. I want to thank John Berry, who has served as Editor for the past four years, for the tremendous job he has done with improving the quality of TPG and providing me with guidance for taking over from him. I hope that the transition will be seamless, and that there will not be any “dropped balls” because of it. I also acknowledge all the other individuals who help produce TPG and make it what it is today, including the associate editors, those who regularly contribute articles (David Abbott, Robert Font, Rasoul Sorkhabi, and Aaron Johnson), Headquarters staff Dorothy Combs, Cathy Duran, and Wendy Davidson, and TPG Design Editor Sara Pearson.
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