AEG Awards Committee Solicitation for Nominations for 2009

The AEG Awards committee is soliciting nominations for the three awards for which our committee is responsible. The Awards are: Claire P. Holdredge Award, Floyd T. Johnston Service Award, and the Douglas R. Piteau Outstanding Young Member Award. Please consider making a nomination. There are many deserving members, but they must be nominated for consideration. Send nominations to the Committee Chair (Roz Munro) for the Awards Committee to evaluate. The AEG Awards Committee consists of: Rosalind Munro (Chair), Jessica Humble, and Kenneth Neal.

1. The Claire P. Holdredge Award is presented for a publication within the previous five years by an AEG Member that is judged to be an outstanding contribution to the Environmental & Engineering Geology Profession. Nominations for this award are made by the membership at large to the Awards Committee. Please submit a nomination with the name(s) of the AEG publication member(s), the title of the publication, and the publisher information.

2. The Floyd T. Johnston Service Award is presented to an AEG Member for outstanding active and faithful service to the Association over a minimum period of nine years to coincide with Floyd's tenure as Executive Director. Contemporary Board members are not eligible until one year after leaving office. Nominations for this award are made by the membership at large to the Awards Committee. For nominations to be valid, they must be endorsed by three members having different AEG Section affiliations. Please submit a nomination with the nominee endorsed by the required three members from different AEG Sections.

3. The Douglas R. Piteau Outstanding Young Member Award is given presented to an AEG Member who is age 35 or under (who is not 36 until January 1 in the year following the Annual Meeting at which the Award is given) and has excelled, either singly or in combination, in the areas of Technical Accomplishment, Service to the Association, and/or Service to the Environmental & Engineering Geology Profession. Please submit your nomination, or a nomination by your AEG Section. Each AEG Section may choose and publicize the name of an individual deserving of the Award and nominate that individual to the Award Committee.

All Award nominations must be submitted to the AEG Awards Committee by March 31st . All nominations for the Awards must be supported by descriptions of the individual’s accomplishments and/or service to the industry or publication’s merit (as appropriate to the award). The AEG Awards Committee, at its discretion, selects the final candidates from the nominees for each Award. Then the AEG Awards Committee forwards the Award selection recommendations to the President for confirmation.

Please send or email your nomination to the Awards Committee Chair at the address below.


Rosalind Munro, Chair

e-mail: rmunro@mactec.com
(323) 889-5366
MACTEC Engineering and Consulting, Inc.
5628 E. Slauson Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90040

Mentor Award

Most of us have one or two people we can point to in our career that have helped motivate us, educate us and provide the necessary guidance to help us excel in our professional lives. Many times, these mentors have helped dozens of colleagues improve in their professional careers. Now there is a way to recognize this tremendous gift to others.

The AEG Board of Director's at the Midyear Board Meeting, May 17-18, approved a new national award to be given to an AEG member, The Karl and Ruth Terzaghi Outstanding Mentor Award. It is to be awarded annually to an AEG member that has provided exceptional service as a mentor to younger environmental and engineering geologists, helping them to advance in the practice of their specialty. The mentor can have worked as a consultant, in a governmental agency or as an university educator. It is the desire of the Board that this first award be given at the next Annual Meeting in New Orleans.

President Dorian Kuper has appointed Terry West, Immediate Past President, to serve as the Chair of the selection committee, Rex Upp, Past President; Bob Valentine, Honorary Member; Abdul Shakoor, Johnston Award recipient; Matt Morris, Piteau Award recipient: and John Williams and Susan Steele Weir as recipients of several of the above awards. This last appointment will be filled in the future by a recipient of the Mentoring Award.

If you would like to nominate someone who has been an outstanding mentor to you and/or others, please send your nominations to Becky Roland at broland@aegweb.org, to be subsequently forwarded to Terry West for committee consideration. You may be asked later to help obtain a CV for the individual you nominate. Nominations are due July 18, 2008.