2015 AIPG HONORS AND AWARDS
the Sedimentary Geology Division 2004- 2005. She was President of the New Mexico Academy of Sciences (2012). She has served as Special Publications Editor for SEPM (2001- 2007), and Associate Editor for GSA Bulletin (2008-2012), Geology Magazine (1993-95; 1996-98) and Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (2006-2008). She was appointed Regent’s Lecturer at UNM (1997-1999), was Distinguished Lecturer for the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (1995-1996), and was elected Geological Society of America Fellow in 2008.
Combined Response
We are deeply honored to accept the 2015 Outstanding Achievement Award from the American Institute of Professional Geologists. We were also (admittedly) very pleasantly surprised to receive this honor. We attended last year’s meeting in Prescott Arizona and helped lead a fieldtrip to the Trail of Time at Grand Canyon with a group of great geologists (who here was on that trip?). It is a long ways from the depths of Grand Canyon to the heights of Denali, but the mantra of “geologists without borders” resonates with us, and love of geology unites disparate places and dif- ferent people as evidenced by the group here today.
As long-term academic researchers and teachers, we feel very connected to the training of students toward lifetime careers in the Geosciences. Looking back at the ~ 100 students we have worked with on BS, MS, and PhD theses, and the thousands of students in our classes over the years, we are both convinced that Geology is a field that enriches indi- viduals in terms of personal development and also leads to diverse and satisfy- ing professions. Laurie has been espe- cially active in training and mentoring under-represented groups in the Earth Sciences, especially Women, Hispanic, and Native American students. In all our teaching, our message is that the understandings of Geologic Time and Earth processes are assuming increas- ing importance as human populations exceed 7 billion on our small planet. Cognition of geologic time provides the vital and difficult-to-comprehend con- nection between human time scales, societal needs, and the million-year heartbeat of the Earth.
Geologists are known as some of the first scientists to apply new technolo- gies. It was soon after the discovery of radioactivity by the Curies that geolo- gists used this new technology to learn
that the Earth was 3-4 billion years old. Geologists KNEW which rocks to date and were waiting for the way to do it. Karl’s father, Thor Karlstrom worked for the USGS in Alaska from 1949- 1960; he was first author on the colorful “Surficial Deposits of Alaska” that was published in 1964. He KNEW there was a rich story to be unraveled in the gla- cial units of the Cook Inlet area of the Kenai Peninsula, as well as throughout Alaska, and he started applying the new and then controversial radiocarbon dating method to Quaternary geology of Alaska. His results starting showing cyclic climate alternations that led him to Milankovitch theory and to a long career in paleoclimate research.
Our department at the University of New Mexico is lucky to have world class analytical laboratories that we can apply to research and educate students with. But we feel equally lucky that our field laboratories include the Grand Canyon, the Colorado Plateau, and the Rocky Mountains. The field laboratory is still ultimately where geology begins because it is here that one discovers the key rocks to date, the key problems to solve, and it is in the field where students often begin see the importance and challenge of understanding Earth’s history.
Improved geoscience public education is essential as human societies flourish on our planet of limited resources. The Trail of Time Geoscience Exhibition at Grand Canyon was designed and installed by us because we wanted to reach the world’s public with the results of our going research and the excit- ing stories encoded in Grand Canyon rocks. We worked on this from 1995 to 2010, with support from the National Science Foundation and Grand Canyon National Park. The exhibit won the 2011 Award from the National Association of Interpretation, The Trail of Time encourages many of the Park’s 5 million annual visitors to ponder, explore, and understand the magnitude of geologic time and the stories encoded by Grand Canyon rocks, landscapes, and waters.
As a final note, we take this award as an endorsement of accomplishments that we feel have resulted from careers that have been a blend of research, of teaching and mentoring, of outreach, of our love for science, and of fun. Each of these facets of being a professional geolo- gist enriches the others.
Thank you for this recognition. AIPG Section Leadership Award
The purpose of the AIPG Section Leadership Award is to recognize one or more of our members who have demonstrated a long-term commitment and have been long-term contributors to AIPG at the section level. AIPG has many sections where one or more indi- viduals have demonstrated exceptional leadership for their section and in many instances kept the section together and moving forward. These individuals are commonly not known at the National level or by AIPG members outside of their sections, however, their contribu- tions have been vital to their sections and they perform this work because of their commitment to our profession and AIPG.
Recipients of the 2015 AIPG Section Leadership Award
Paul A. Lindberg, CPG-6344 Arizona Section
Paul Lindberg moved to Sedona, Arizona in 1978, received his CPG from AIPG in 1983, and from our records, has been a volunteer with the Arizona Section for several decades. As a consult- ing geologist primarily in the mineral resources and structural geology fields, Paul often traveled to some remote areas, mainly in the US, Canada, Peru, and Chile working for the Anaconda Company and then as an independent consulting geologist. Paul’s work was focused on structural geology of tectoni- cally deformed Precambrian ore depos- its. Paul always had such interesting stories of his geologic mapping in these remote areas. He also spent a lot of time mapping the geology of central and northern Arizona, gaining a better understanding of the complex geology in those areas. He had several reports/ papers and maps of the area published through the Arizona Geological Survey.
Over many years, Paul volunteered to lead numerous field trips for the Arizona Section and at the two national annual AIPG meetings hosted by the Arizona
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