Candidates for AAPG office have been given the opportunity to respond briefly to the subject: "Why I Accepted the Invitation to be a Candidate for an AAPG Office."
Their responses and biographical information were provided by each candidate and edited only for grammar, spelling and format.
This information will also be provided as hard-copy in the January issue of the EXPLORER and available on the AAPG Web site through the election period. Ballots will be mailed, online in the first quarter of 2009. Results will be posted mid-May 2009.
Candidates were asked to limit their biographies to 350 words and responses to 500 words.
2008-09 President-Elect Candidate
Donald D. Clarke
Consulting Geologist
Born 1949 in Los Angeles, California
Academic Degrees
- 1972: B.S., geology, California State University, Northridge
- 1972-74: Graduate work at CSUN, CSU Long Beach and CSU Los Angeles
Experience
- 2005-present: Consulting geologist, clients include Tidelands Oil Production Company, Signal Hill Petroleum, Vintage, Terralog
- 2004-present: Petroleum Geology Instructor at the University of Southern California
- 1990-2004: Geology Instructor at Compton Community College
- 1981-2004: Department of Oil Properties, City of Long Beach, Senior Geologist to Division Engineer
- 1974-1981: California State Lands Comission, Energy and Minerals Resources Engineer to Senior Geologist
AAPG Activities
Joined AAPG 1986, DEG charter member, EMD
- 2008: AAPG Membership Recruitment Committee
- 2006-09: House of Delegates, At Large member
- 2006-08: Committee’s manager
- 2006-07: Advisory Council
- 2005-08: Membership Recruitment
- 2005-07: DEG Committee, chairman, Annual Meeting
- 2005-06:
- House of Delegates, chairman
- Graduated Dues Ad Hoc Committee, vice chairman
- HoD Committee, newsletter
- 2004-05: Domestic Sections ad hoc, chairman
- 2002-04:
- HoD Resolutions Committee, chairman
- Geo Tours ad hoc Committee, chairman
- 2002: AAPG President's Summit on Energy, Washington D.C.
- 2001-06: Public Outreach
- 2001-04: DEG Advisory Board, Pacific Section
- 1999-2002: Reservoir Development, vice chairman
- 1999-2001: AAPG officer candidate, treasurer
- 1999-2000:
- Budget Review Committee
- Honors and Awards Committee
- 1998-2004: Reservoir Development Committee
- 1994-95: HoD Constitution & Bylaws committee
Affiliated and Associated Societies and Sections and major offices held
- 2008-09: Pacific Section, president
- 2007-08: Pacific Section, officer
- 2001-03: Advisory Council, Pacific Section
- 1999-2002: Los Angeles Basin Geological Society, president
AAPG Honors and Awards
- AAPG Certificate of Merit; 2004, 2005, 2008
- HoD House Recognition of Service Award, 2006
- DEG Public Outreach Award, 2004
- AAPG Distinguished Service Award, 2002
Publications
- Over 60 published papers and abstracts
- Three geological guidebooks and several informal guidebooks
- National Research Council Committee “Geoscience Data and Collections, Natural Resources in Peril.”
- One brief screen credited appearance in the Swiss movie “A Crude Awakening,” 2007