The GCAGS/GCSSEPM held their 52nd Annual Convention in Austin, Texas, Oct. 30-Nov. 1, 2002 which had a greater than expected turnout of more than 1300 attendees. On Wednesday, Oct. 30th, the Opening Session and Awards Ceremony was held in Ballroom C of the Austin Convention Center between 5:00 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. Doug Ratcliff, General Chairman, Peter R. Rose, GCAGS President, Tony D'Agostino GCSSEPM President and Peter McCabe, SEPM President, opened the Session with brief addresses.

Tony D'Agostino presented the 2001 GCAGS/GCSSEPM Grover E. Murray Best Published Paper awards to the senior authors; 1st Place to Edward M. Norwood and Lise Brinton for their paper "Re-examination of Late Jurassic Reef Building in the East Texas Basin: a Maturing Gas Play"; 2nd Place to Ernest A. Mancini and William C. Parcell "Outcrop Analogs for reservoir Characterization and Modeling of Smackover Microbial Reefs in the Northeastern Gulf of Mexico Area", and 3rd Place to Ezat Heydari and Roger N. Townsend "Fluvial Sedimentation in the Cotton Valley Group in Stringer Field, Jasper County, Mississippi".

Tony D'Agostino was pleased to present the 2002 GCSSEPM Honorary Membership Awards to Peter R. Vail and William E. Galloway. Michael J. Nault received his second GCSSEPM Distinguished Service Award following a biographical summary given by close friend and associate Sylvester Q. Breard. Along with several other recipients, GCSSEPM Past-President, Charles C. Smith, received the GCAGS Distinguished Service Award from Pete Rose.

Two of this year's GCSSEPM Foundation Ed Picou Fellowship Grant for Graduate Studies in Earth Science recipients are shown on either side of Ed, Astrid Makowitz (left) and Laura Net (right).

Peter J. McCabe, SEPM President shown with Tony D'Agostino, gave an outstanding presentation for the GCSSEPM Luncheon entitled "The Fourth Dimension: Time and Scale in Stratigraphy and Sedimentology" on Friday, Nov. 1 at 11:30 a.m. in the Travis Room at the Radisson Hotel.

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