Associate Professor honored by American Association of Petroleum Geologists
Rebecca Dodge, associate professor of geosciences and a member of the North Texas Geological Society, was honored Sunday, April 11 in New Orleans by the American Association of Petroleum Geologists.
She received the AAPG Distinguished Service Award, which was presented during the opening session of the AAPG's annual convention at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center.
Dodge has worked in the field of applied remote sensing for years.
She received her master's and doctorate from the Colorado School of Mines, where her research concerned the mapping and dating of active faults in northwestern Nevada.
Her early professional career continued this focus and involved airborne and spaceborne photography and imagery. She spent more than a decade in the oil exploration business applying remote sensing technology for exploration and environmental purposes.
Her petroleum exploration career began at Exxon Production Research, where she applied remote sensing to structural interpretation, international and domestic frontier play analysis and environmental impact analysis.
She continued these applications for Hunt Overseas Oil Company and Eastward Oil Company, participating in frontier exploration programs in Argentina, Ethiopia, Portugal and China.
She continues to consult and to provide training in the applications of remote sensing for mapping and exploration.
Dodge also is active in the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, having visited more than 25 universities in the past 20 years and having served as president of the Energy Minerals Division and the Division of Environmental Scientists.
Since joining academia 14 years ago, she has been researching and teaching the uses of remote sensing from satellite platforms for resource and environmental management applications. She teaches geology and environmental science courses at Midwestern State University.
She also is deeply committed to training and educating future science teachers on environmental observation techniques, with an emphasis on the integration of field observations and geospatial technology.