TBPG 2020 Customer Service Survey

2020 Customer Service Survey

We have extended the deadline for TBPG's 2020 Customer Service Survey.

If you haven't already done so, please take a moment to let us know how we are doing, and how we can improve our service to you. The survey takes only a couple of minutes. 

To participate, please follow this link: Customer Service Survey.

Please respond by Monday, May 11, 2020.  All surveys that are submitted on or before that date will be included as part of our Report on Customer Service and will be submitted to the Legislative Budget Board and the Governor's Office as part of TBPG's Strategic Plan. 

Survey results will be posted on our website once the Strategic Plan has been submitted. 

Thank you for participating!

Rene D. Truan

Executive Director

Texas Board of Professional Geoscientists

*New* GSA Publishes Edwards Aquifer Memoir

The Edwards Aquifer – The Past, Present, and Future of a Vital Water Resource

Edited by Jack Sharp, Ron Green, and Geary Schindel

“The Edwards aquifer system is one of the great karstic aquifer systems of the world. It supplies water for more than 2 million people and for agricultural, municipal, industrial, and recreational uses. The Edwards (Balcones Fault Zone) Aquifer in the San Antonio, Texas, area was the first to be designated a sole source aquifer by the Environmental Protection Agency in 1975. The Edwards Aquifer also hosts unique groundwater, cave, and spring ecosystems. This 27-chapter memoir reviews the current state of knowledge, current and emerging challenges to wise use of the aquifer system, and some of the technologies that must be adopted to address these challenges.” (from GSA webpage)

The price is $60 for GSA members and $86 for non-members. Note there are 8 chapters that are free to download.
click here for a link to the book and chapters.

Editors Ron Green, Jack Sharp, and Geary Schindel at the Phoenix GSA in 2019.

Editors Ron Green, Jack Sharp, and Geary Schindel at the Phoenix GSA in 2019.


In Memorium: Bruce Fink

AGS Founding Member Bruce Fink passed away on August 22nd, 2019. Bruce Fink was a charter member and has been a member of the Austin Geological Society since its inception in 1965. He was an officer in 1968, 1985, and President in 1988. In 1950, he graduated from Downs High School. He served in the U.S. Army before receiving his Bachelor of Science degree in Geology from Kansas State University. The Austin Geological Society thanks Bruce and appreciates his many years of dedication and service and wishes Bruce and his family Godspeed. We are indeed thankful to Bruce for his dedication and service and send our condolences to his family.

—provided by Jimmie Russell and John Berry

A memorial service will be held at Smith Chapel at Riverbend Church, 4214 N Capital of Texas Hwy, on Sunday, September 15, 2 p.m to 3:00 pm.