AGS Awards first Regional Endowed Scholarship
Austin T. Arnold became the first recipient of the Austin Geological Society Regional Endowed Scholarship. Although born in Redwood City, California, Austin Arnold has lived most his life in Texas. Growing up in San Antonio he enjoyed exploring the outdoors with his father, avid outdoorsman. Austin attended Ronald Reagan High in San Antonio before moving to Covington, Washington where he graduated from Tahoma High School. Following high school he moved to Austin where he is completing coursework in Environmental Studies at Austin Community College (ACC). In addition to receiving the first Austin Geological Society Regional Endowed Scholarship, Austin will join a select group of ACC students this summer to participate in a National Science Foundation Summer Research Experience Course at the University of Texas at Austin and ACC. When not working part-time and attending college, Austin enjoys hiking, fishing, camping, and volunteering for environmental/ greenbelt clean-up projects in Central Texas.
In memoriam: Robert "Luigi" Folk
It is with great sadness to report that Robert Folk passed away June 4, 2018. Bob gave a talk to AGS as recently as recently as October 2015 with Earl McBride. Click here to see abstract.
AGS GB 37. Less Frequented Springs of the Austin Area, Texas
AGS GB 37 has been on the Bureau Store site for some time now; please see:
at a selling price of $25 per copy, either as hard copy or as a downloadable PDF.
New Groundwater Educational Videos
The Hays Trinity Groundwater Conservation District just released two public outreach videos on our dedicated monitoring well and dye trace projects. The content and the cinematography are very well done.
Monitor Well Program: https://youtu.be/Rk2-cg6rKxk
Dye Trace: https://youtu.be/0GBwO_lemis