AGS & Geoscience News
1) This one has been out for a while. The USGS geologic map viewer allows you to find and download geologic maps of all varieties and scales. Click here to visit the page.
2) This is a new tool for finding and searching for USGS geophysical logs. Click here to visit the page.
AGS has donated 25 hard bound copies of Texas Through Time to the UT Austin OnRamps teacher training program: https://onramps.utexas.edu/. Peter Pope had stickers printed that read: Donated by Austin Geological Society, which will be placed inside each book.
AGS member Jim Sansom proviedes a few thoughts and memories of AGS's first present. Click here to visit the AGS In Memoriam page.
On May 1 AGS held it's annual elections. Congratulations to the new officers!
Greetings AGS members. This is Scott Tinker, and I want to update you on the Switch Energy Project. I started Switch in 2009 when I teamed with film director Harry Lynch, and in 2012, produced a feature-length movie to present how our future energy transition would likely happen, based on sound investigation and the practical realities of energy resources, scale, economics, infrastructure, and technology. The film has now been seen by over 10 million viewers and on more than 1,000 college campuses. If you have not seen SWITCH, you can view it online at the following link, using the provided password:
https://vimeo.com/arcosfilms/review/65772747/1ea0c55e95
Password: energyeducation
The Switch Energy Project includes a major video-based website with professional, short-format primers, interviews, site visits, and the Switch Energy Lab series, providing exactly the kind of educational materials the public needs and wants. The global penetration has been remarkable.
http://www.switchenergyproject.com/index.php
But we can and will do more.
We have embarked on the making of a second film, Switch On, focused on global energy access and underpinned by the same high-quality storytelling delivered in Switch. In addition to a second film, this next phase includes new educational components. First, a major new social media presence to leverage and grow the substantial Switch following. Second, the Switch Energy Corps, providing an opportunity for young professionals to engage in bringing first electricity to unpowered and impoverished villages globally. And in the not-too-distant future, a revolutionary Energy Course to bring web-accessible, objective, balanced energy education into the college classroom, where it is desperately needed. All of this is part of the Switch Energy Alliance (SEA), a Texas not-for-profit company formed expressly for the purpose of energy education.
I donate my time and energy to this effort, but I need your support. It does not have to be major—$100 or $1000; $10k or $100k—every dollar is put to good use. Perhaps you can contribute as an individual; maybe with a company match. Or perhaps you are in a position to encourage your company to contribute.
We have partnered with the American Geosciences Institute Foundation, which receives tax deductible gifts and routs them directly to SEA.
AMERICAN GEOSCIENCES INSTITUTE FOUNDATION
Attention: Walt Sisson wsisson@agiweb.org
Tax ID: 52-1361803
4220 King St
Alexandria, VA 22302-1502
Credit to: Switch Energy Alliance
My objective is to deliver high-quality, objective energy education. We are doing exactly that. Help us continue to provide the kind of energy education that matters by contributing today.
Thanks,
Scott W. Tinker
Chairman, Switch Energy Alliance
