G.
Warfield "Skip" Hobbs Elected to Executive Committee
of the
American Geological Institute
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New Canaan, Connecticut geologist Skip Hobbs at the site of the UNESCO
World Heritage Burgess Shale Fossil Site high in the Canadian Rockies in Yoho National Park, British Columbia during July 2003.
The 525 million year old Cambrian Age fossils from this locality are among
the world’s most unique, and include the first known
chordate. |
G. Warfield "Skip" Hobbs, Managing
Partner of Ammonite Resources, has been elected to a three year term on the
Executive Committee of the American Geological Institute ("AGI").
Skip will serve as Member at Large on the AGI Executive Committee in
The American Geological Institute was founded in 1948 and
is the national not-for-profit "umbrella" organization that
represents 44 geoscience professional societies with
approximately 130,000 members. Its member organizations include such diverse
geological societies as the American Association of Petroleum Geologists; the
American Geophysical Union; the National Earth Science Teachers Association;
the Society of Exploration Geophysicists; Society of Vertebrate Paleontology;
Clay Minerals Society; the American Institute of Hydrology; Society for Mining,
Metallurgy, and Exploration; National Association of Black Geologists and
Geophysicists; and the Soil Science Society of America. AGI is a major
publisher of geoscience books and pamphlets;
publishes a monthly earth sciences magazine; manages an important geological
sciences online published reference database; and plays a major role in
developing national K-12 and university earth science curricula. AGI’s outreach efforts promote public awareness of the role
the earth sciences play in our standard of living; educate the public about
natural geologic hazards such as earthquakes, volcanoes, erosion, and floods;
and publicize the environmental challenges that result from society’s
insatiable demand for mineral and water resources. The Government Affairs
office of the AGI tracks legislative issues concerning the geosciences – i.e.
the Yuca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository in