AGI Announces G. Warfield 'Skip' Hobbs as its 2011 President

Alexandria, VA — The American Geological Institute (AGI) is pleased to announce Mr. G. Warfield “Skip” Hobbs as its new President. He will be inducted at the Geological Society of America A Meeting in Denver, Colorado.

Hobbs, founder and Managing Partner of Ammonite Resources Company, received his B.S. in geology from Yale College, and his M.S. in petroleum geology from the Royal School of Mines, Imperial College, University of London.

Before founding Ammonite Resources, an international petroleum geotechnical and business consulting firm, Hobbs was employed as an exploration geologist by Texaco, Inc. in Ecuador, Great Britain, Indonesia and Portugal, and then by the Amerada Hess Corporation in New York. In 2008, Hobbs founded and serves as the president of Ammonite Nova Scotia Corporation, the operator of two petroleum exploration licenses offshore Eastern Canada.

Hobbs served on the AGI Executive Committee as Member-at-Large from 2004 to 2007. He has also served as President of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) Division of Professional Affairs, Past-President of the Eastern Section of AAPG, was on the Board of Directors of the Sierra Madre Foundation for Geological Research, and the Board of the Burgess Shale Geoscience Foundation in Field, British Columbia. In 2005, Hobbs was presented with the Honorary Membership Award of the AAPG. He is a trustee of the New Canaan Nature Center, in his hometown of New Canaan, Connecticut.