2008-2009 Officers President Chris Gordon Ohio Geological Survey 2045 Morse Rd. Bldg. C-1 Columbus, OH 43229 (614) 265-6594 chris.gordon@dnr.state.oh.us Vice President Steve Zody Zody Geoscience P.O. Box 921 Wooster, OH 44691 (330) 262-4323 zodyoil@sssnet.com Secretary Amy Lang Forman Energy, Ltd. P.O. Box 340346 Columbus, OH 43234 (614) 717-9262 amy.lang@formanenergy.com Treasurer John Miller EnerVest Operating, LLC 110 E. Wilson Bridge Rd. Worthington, OH 43085 (614) 436-4631 jmiller@enervest.net

Summer Break assignments… I hope that you have been enjoying your summer break from the Society’s meetings thus far. Even though our next meeting isn’t until next fall, there are two events over the summer that you should not miss. A field trip to Seneca Caverns and the annual golf outing have been scheduled for August 1st and September 17th. Please mark these dates and be sure to invite friends and family as well. Larry Wickstrom and John Forman have been elected to serve again as our delegates to AAPG. Thanks everyone who voted. Steve Zody and Paul Archer have agreed to serve as alternates for the same term. If anyone is interested in representing the Society at the national level, or finding out more information about what the positions entail, please contact one of our delegates or your officers. Ohio’s Seneca Caverns have been open to the public since 1933. The guided walking tour leads you through 7 different rooms as deep as 110 ft. below the surface! The caverns are owned by one of our own members, Richard Bell, who will be personally leading us on the tour of the caverns that day. Please mark your calendars and stay tuned for more details – including sign-up forms – about the trip. This tour, although geologically-oriented, is a great opportunity to bring friends and family along to see the wonders that geology has to offer! The software users group has had a decent response so far, but we need more of you to come forward in order to get this initiative off the ground. If you use the software GeoGraphix, Global Mapper, Surfer, NeuraSection, ESRI Arc products, MapSource, DeLorme, or SMT, you are not the only one. Users of these software packages have added their names to the list in order to locate other users with the same software. Please send me your contact information with the industry-related software products that you use, and you will be kept in the loop on updates and quick-fixes that you may otherwise never hear about! Bill Hlavin’s talk, A New Look at the Mayfield Gas Pool, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, on Friday, May 15 was very well-attended. Bill provided a historical background on the history of the Mayfield gas pool development. It was a great talk to end the year. We also provided an Honorary Membership to Fred Haeberle as a tribute to his commitment to the oil and gas community (50 years) as well as the Society. Here’s to another successful year for The Ohio Geological Society! Chris Gordon

An Affiliate (1963) of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG)

The Newsletter of the Ohio Geological Society June 2009

AAPG Membership / Ohio Geological Society Grant

If you are an AAPG member, you should have recently received your dues statement. If you are not an AAPG member, we would highly recommend you consider joining.

In 2005, OGS established the Ohio Geological Society named grant which is being administered by the AAPG Foundation. The initial $12,500 donation will provide an annual $500 grant to a deserving student studying the geology of Ohio, or secondly, a geology student enrolled at an Ohio college or university. More donations have been made since the grant was initiated, and we would like to continue to build this fund to $25,000 so that the annual grant can be increased to a more meaningful $1000.

There is a very simple way to contribute! The past few years, AAPG has included on the dues statement a voluntary AAPG Foundation contribution based on years of membership. To insure that this contribution (or more, if you wish) is earmarked toward the OGS grant, simply check “Grants-in-Aid” on the back of the dues statement and write “Ohio Geological Society Named Grant” in the space provided.

One additional item to double check on your dues statement is your affiliated society. You will find this printed on the statement. If Ohio Geological Society is not listed as your society affiliation, please consider changing this entry. Our representation to AAPG’s House of Delegates is determined by this count.

John Forman AAPG Delegate Larry Wickstrom AAPG Delegate Steve Zody OGS Vice President

OGS/MBGS/AIPG Field Trip

Saturday, August 1st

2:00 pm

Seneca Caverns 15248 East Thompson, TR178

Bellevue, OH 44811 http://www.senecacavernsohio.com/

(Jeff A. Spencer collection)

Mark Your Calendar!

OGS/PTTC Workshop

September 1-2, 2009

Reservoir Engineering for Petroleum Geologists

Richard G. Green

Hilton Columbus at Easton 3900 Chagrin Drive

Columbus, OH 43219 http://www.hiltoncolumbus.com/

More details to follow

2009 OGS Honorary Membership

Frederick R. Haeberle Delaware, OH Fred holds BS and MS degrees in Geology from Yale University, as well as an MBA in Finance from Columbia University. He spent 5 years in the Army in WWII, serving in the Pacific. Employment History: Geologist - Standard Oil Co of Texas (Chevron) from 1948-1952 Chief Geologist, JJ Lynn Oil Division, Abilene, Texas, 1952-1953 Division Manager, Mayfair Minerals, Abilene, Texas 1953-1954 Consulting Geologist, Abilene, Texas 1954-1957 Log Analyst, Venezuelan Atlantic Refining Company, Caracas, Venezuela 1957-1960 Senior Geologist, Mobil Oil Company 1962-1983 serving in Philippines, Tripoli-Libya, and Dallas-TX Consulting Geologist, Dallas, TX 1983-1998 Teaching History: Part-time Instructor at the University of Houston 1948-1950 Adjunct Professor at McMurray University, Abilene, Texas 1954-1957, started Geology Department Published: 29 technical papers in various journals including: 11 in the Oil and Gas Journal 4 in Bulletin of the American Association of petroleum Geologists 3 in Texas Academy of Science Bulletin 2 in American Journal of Science

State Science Day 2009 was held May 9th at The Ohio State University. This year the Ohio Geological Society awarded $700 in cash prizes, certificates and a one year student OGS membership to the top judged projects of our Geological Award. Judges this year were John Miller, Jim McDonald, Paul Archer, Jeff Pigott, and Chris Gordon. We congratulate our award winners and thank our judges for the time they volunteered. 1st Place ($250) Noah T. Glinski - 7th grade at Bellbrook MS, Bellbrook Under pressure: Sand under lateral compression 2nd Place ($200) Nicole L. Nelson - 8th grade at John C Dempsey MS, Delaware A study of rock corrosion from acid rain 3rd Place ($150) Kasandra J. Dalton - 7th grade at Zane Trace MS, Chillicothe Do soil properties affect a geothermal system’s efficiency? 4th Place ($100) Abhimanyu A. Gupta - 7th grade at Mason MS, Mason Permeability and Darcy’s Law Honorable Mention Certificates Joseph A. Norris - 7th grade at Bishop Flaget, Chillicothe Do geomagnetic storms affect GPS signals? Katherine E. Bauer - 10th grade at Clay HS, Portsmouth Earthquake risk assessment for Portsmouth, Ohio Maggie C. Mochty - 7th grade at St. Brigid ES, Xenia Archaeological dig Jeremey E. McLaughlin - 7th grade at Wheelersburg MS, Wheelersburg What materials make the best levee? Kaitlyn N. Stalnaker - 8th grade at Lake Ridge Academy, N Ridgeville Crystalline patterns of synthetically grown crystals Katie M. Peck - 7th grade at Geneva JS, Geneva

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Welcome New Members!  

     

Edmund Baffoe-Twum Kent State University Kent, OH

Phil Bambach Wittenberg University Dublin, OH

Daniel Brennan Wittenberg University Springfield, OH

Natalie Cope Kent State University New Waterford, OH

Kasandra Dalton Zane Trace MS Chillicothe, OH

Michael Farinacci Kent State University Kent, OH

Kelly Foley Wittenberg University Dublin, OH

Carrie Frisky Kent State University Vermilion, OH

Noah Glinski Bellbrook MS Bellbrook, OH

Abhimanyu Gupta Mason MS Mason, OH

Bill Hlavin Bass Energy, Inc. Akron, OH

Angela Hull Kent State University Canal Fulton, OH

Madan Maharjan Kent State University Kent, OH

Daniel McElwain Wittenberg University Lima, OH

Nicole Nelson John C Dempsey MS Delaware, OH

Daniel Pratt Kent State University Kent, OH

Saskia Smith Ohio State University Columbus, OH

Ian Van Donkelaar University of Cincinnati Bellbrook, OH    

 

    

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Congratulations to the new 2009-2010 OGS Executive Committee! President – Chris Gordon Vice President – Steve Zody Secretary – Amy Lang Treasurer – John Miller Trustees – Bill Rike, Nicole Venteris, Don Jennings, Frank Majchszak & Clark Scheerens AAPG Delegates – John Forman & Larry Wickstrom AAPG Alternates – Paul Archer & Steve Zody Webmaster – Jim McDonald

Ohio Geological SocietyP.O. Box 14304 • Columbus, OH 43214

http://www.ohgeosoc.org/

CALENDAR

Information available for OGS meetings at: www.ohgeosoc.org or contact Steve Zody at zodyoil@sssnet.com, 330-262-4323.

July 8-9 IOGA-NY Annual Summer Meeting, Findley Lake, NY. http://iogany.org August 1 OGS/MBGS/AIPG Field trip - Seneca Caverns, Bellevue, OH. http://www.senecacavernsohio.com/ August 2-4 2009 Annual OOGA Summer Meeting. Sawmill Creek Resort, Sandusky, OH. www.ooga.org September 1-2 OGS/PTTC Workshop – Reservoir Engineering for Petroleum Geologists, Richard Green. Hilton Columbus at Easton, Columbus, OH. September 17 OGS Golf Outing – Chapel Hill Golf Course, Mount Vernon, OH. September 20-22 ES-AAPG Annual Meeting – Evansville, IN. www.esaapg2009.org/ October 16 Fossil Tour of Capitol Square. The Ohio Statehouse, Columbus, OH. www.ohiostatehouse.org October 20 2009 OOGA Fall Technical Conference. The University Center at Kent State – Stark Campus. www.ooga.org

Check the OGS website at www.ohgeosoc.org or PTTC’s at http://karl.nrcce.wvu.edu for other meetings and events.

Publications of the Ohio Geological Society now available as a CD-ROM and online with AAPG/Datapages.

OGS is the newest collection added to the Marketing Partners program in AAPG/Datapages whereby local and regional geological societies list their publication archives in the online literature database for upstream E&P. We now host more than 30 publishers in our program.

All the Archive papers of the OGS are included in CD-ROM format, and available for sale at a regular price of $120. The CD-ROMs can be purchased at the website:

WWW.AAPG.ORG

All the individual papers also are online for search-and-retrieval at the AAPG/Datapages Combined Publications Archives website. Non-subscribers can access these at our Transactional (pay-per-view) website:

http://payperview.datapages.com/

Publications of the Ohio Geological SocietyOn CD-ROM

Figure Caption: Grand Lake St. Marys, near Celina, Ohio, may have been the site of the first overwater drilling operation of oil-and-gas wells. Starting in 1891, the drilling of oil-and-gas wells of the Lima-Indiana fields extended into the lake. Over 100 wells had been drilled into the lake by the time the field was abandoned after 1910.

Ohio Geological Society Publications

The in-print publications of the Ohio Geological Society may be purchased from the Ohio Division of Geological Survey. Members of the Society receive a discount; the member price is in parentheses (M:). For more information on the Society, write the Ohio Geological Society, P.O. Box 14304, Columbus, OH 43214. OGS 4. Clinton sandstone papers presented at the Ohio Oil and Gas Association Winter Meetings 1961 to 1978 (abridged reprint of 1980 volume). 228 p., 1985. $25.00 (M: $20.00). OGS 5. The new Clinton collection--1985, edited by Jack Gray, Andy Maslowski, Warren McCullough, and W. E. Shafer (2nd printing). This edition includes a transcript of "Deeper Clinton-Medina drilling in southeastern Ohio" from a March 1986 Ohio Geological Society meeting. 257 p., 1985. $25.00 (M: $20.00). OGS 7. Computer-aided analysis of geologic data, edited by Lawrence H. Wickstrom. A collection of papers from a seminar presented at the 1987 AAPG Eastern Section meeting. 100 p., 1987. $15.00 (M: $12.00). OGS 8. Maps and cross sections of the Cambrian and Lower Ordovician of central Ohio, by G. G. Shearrow. 31 p., 8 pls., 1987. $12.00 (M: $10.00). OGS 10. The Ohio Geological Society anthology, the Morrow County, Ohio "oil boom" 1961-1967 and the Cambro-Ordovician reservoir of central Ohio, edited by William E. Shafer. 452 p., 1994. $25.00 (M: $20.00). OGS 14. Ohio Geological Society Fifth Annual Technical Symposium. Proceedings from the November 1997 technical symposium held in Akron, Ohio. 11 papers. 117 p., 1997. $25.00 (M: $20.00). OGS 15. Petroleum seismology in the digital age. Course notes from the Ohio Geological Society's 3-D Seismic Seminar presented at the 1998 AAPG Eastern Section meeting. $20.00 (M: $15.00). OGS 17. Into the new millennium: The changing face of exploration in the Knox play. Proceedings from the Sixth Annual Fall Symposium held in Akron, Ohio, October 1999. 16 papers. 120 p., 1999. $25.00 (M: $20.00). To order any of the Society's publications contact: The Geologic Records Center, Ohio Division of Geological Survey, 2045 Morse Road, Columbus, Ohio 43229-6693. Telephone (614) 265-6576. FAX: (614) 447-1918. E-mail: geo.survey@dnr.state.oh.us.