AGI Announces Dr. Peter McCabe as its 2008 President

Alexandria, VA — The American Geological Institute (AGI) is pleased to announce Dr. Peter J. McCabe as its new President. He will be inducted on October 30, 2007 at the Geological Society of America annual meeting in Denver, Colorado.

McCabe received a B.Sc. in geology from the University of Hull and then his Ph.D. from the University of Keele, both in the United Kingdom. He has worked as an Assistant Professor at the University of Nebraska, as a research geologist for Exxon Production Research Company, and was Manager of Coal Geology for the Alberta Research Council. From there, he spent 20 years at the U.S. Geological Survey in Denver Colorado where he directed a project to study Cretaceous strata of the Western United States and was active in assessing world oil and gas resources. Currently, McCabe is working for CSIRO in Sydney, Australia where he is the Theme Leader for the Petroleum Resources Division and is studying the petroleum notional of frontier basin exploration.

In addition to his involvement at AGI, he has been active in a number of geoscience organizations including, the Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM), Geological Society of America, and American Association of Petroleum Geologists. McCabe is a Past-President of SEPM, a Fellow of the Geological Society of London, and is the American Association of Petroleum Geologists Distinguished Lecturer for the Asia Pacific Region 2007-08.