HONORS AND AWARDS
always willing to share his knowledge. I am thankful for my connection with John Stewart and the memories and advice he shared with me before his passing. He truly touched my heart and guided my professional goals.
Brandy M. Barnes MEM-3175
Cary, North Carolina John Stewart Memorial Early Career Professional Award
In 2014, I founded an AIPG Student Chapter at Middle Tennessee State University and I never could have imag- ined the incredible journey it would start. Since graduating, I have been honored with AIPG leadership roles from state sections to the national board. I’ve had opportunities to host and coordinate events, volunteer on field trips and AIPG booths, and I’ve presented and mentored in several geoscience organizations. It has been a blast!
As for my AIPG friends and staff, I can never thank you enough. I am grateful for the calls and emails you’ve answered, the encouragement and advice over beers, and the dinners and laughs at meetings. You are special to me and have changed my life.
To AIPG members, David Wilshaw of Integrity Drilling and Geophysical Services, LLC, John Palmer and Mike Lawless of Draper Aden Associates, thank you for being amazing mentors and investing in me as a professional geologist. I have adored the opportuni- ties within these two organizations, and I look forward to continued growth in the geotechnical, geophysical, and environ- mental industries.
I want to thank my fiancé Brandon. You see me and encourage me to hold space for myself, the people I love, the things I cherish, and the courage to keep setting goals. Thank you for taking the time to understand why I love AIPG and supporting my professional career.
Also,
Finally, I would like to say that I am honored to receive the John Stewart Young Professional Award. John Stewart was a wonderful mentor and friend. I met John early in 2017 and instantly he took interest my goals as a young profes- sional. He was kind, thoughtful, and
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Lately, I have been very interested in literature about leadership, courage, and vulnerability, which has led me to the research of Dr. Brene Brown. One of her books is inspired by a Teddy Roosevelt quote and I believe it speaks of our good friend John Stewart and his bravery to be a leader in AIPG, the geosciences, and his community.
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achieve- ment, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.”
John’s enthusiasm and encouragement to stay involved. As an early graduate student, I was a bit in shock that my perspective was so valued by AIPG as to be invited to the meeting, but John made it clear to me that students and early career professionals were a top priority of AIPG and we should make our voices heard. He also insisted I pick something better out of the AIPG merch closet than a hat, and the fleece he gifted me that day has served me well.
My affiliation with AIPG began dur-
ing my junior year of college, when I applied for and received the National Scholarship and incorrectly thought submitting an article to the TPG was a condition of the scholarship. That sub- mission set off a series of events I could never have imagined: several years as the Student’s Voice columnist, a meet- ing at the following GSA in Denver, CO, with now great friend and mentor David Abbott, a job, a couple years on the Colorado Section board, and many meetings and fieldtrips. I vividly remem- ber my dad’s response when I told him I had been asked to be a columnist for TPG—I was unsure at the time I could should take it on and he pointed out that I would be “incredibly stupid” to pass on an opportunity to make myself known to potential employers.
While
AIPG connections did lead me to a job, I’d say I’ve gotten so much more out of the organization than that.
Stephanie K. Jarvis SA-1495
Boulder, Colorado John Stewart Memorial
Early Career Professional Award I was incredibly honored and surprised
to learn I received the John Stewart Early Career Professional Award. Upon reading the letter, I spent some time reflecting on John and my interaction with him at the 2012 National Executive Committee Meeting. I had been invited to the meeting to share my thoughts on how AIPG could better reach students. Eight years later, I can still remember
I grew up in Shelby County, Kentucky and received a BA in Geology and Biology from The College of Wooster and a MS in Geology from Southern Illinois University. After my Masters, I worked as an environmental consultant for ERO Resources in Denver. During that time, I served for 2 years as the Secretary of the Colorado Section. After 2.5 years of consulting, my love of teaching took me back to graduate school and I am cur- rently a PhD student at the University of Colorado Boulder.
The relationships I have developed
within AIPG have made clear to me the importance of AIPG for students and early career geologists and have served as a source of inspiration to make the field of geology better for those mem- bers. I am incredibly grateful for the friendships, mentoring, and perspective on such a diverse field as ours offered by AIPG and am humbled by this rec- ognition.
I’d like to thank my dad for
is ever-practical advice, my mom for years of column editing, and David and Sue Abbott for giving me a home away from home.
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