ALEXANDRIA, Va. — The American Geosciences Institute (AGI) is saddened to share the news that colleague and friend John G. Mulvihill passed away recently. Mulvihill served for 25 years as Director of AGI's GeoRef Information System, the world's premier bibliographic database for geoscience research literature. He greatly expanded GeoRef's content, which topped 2.1 million references in 40 languages by the time of his retirement in 1998. Mulvihill received the William B. Heroy Award for Distinguished Service to AGI in 1998 and the Geoscience Information Society's Mary B.