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Volunteer Profiles

Brad Hayes

I've been a CSPG volunteer since the early 1980's, when I joined Shell Canada. My earliest involvement (I think) was with the One-Day Field Trip Committee, helping to do logistics on a number of really interesting trips. I remember in particular a trip led by Bill Arnott and Fran Hein to view the Gog Group in Kicking Horse Pass. I was at the back of the group climbing a steep slope, and took a pretty good-sized rock on the head.

That convinced me to move on to other CSPG activities. I helped organize the technical program for the Mesozoic of Middle North America Conference in 1983, then moved on to chair the Technical Lunch Committee in the mid-1980's. I was Book Review Editor for the Bulletin for a couple of years, and then an Assistant Editor. In the middle of this, I served a one-year term as Secretary of the Society. With changing jobs and a new family, I didn't have as much time for the CSPG in the early 1990's, but I was called back to serve on the 1995 Convention Committee, organizing the Poster Sessions. After that, I helped in an unsuccessful effort to build a Education course on Upper Cretaceous stratigraphy and prospectivity for the CSPG Advantage Program.

In 1999, Terry McCoy asked me to stand for election as CSPG Vice-President. I was honoured to do so, and I thoroughly enjoyed the subsequent years as President and Past-President. Today, I stay involved as Chair of the University Outreach Program, and am serving another term as Assistant Editor of the Bulletin.

The CSPG has been a central part of my career in the petroleum industry for over 20 years. I have learned a great deal about organization and management. I've met some great people, and have greatly expanded my network of friends and colleagues. The CSPG has helped me enormously as a consultant, because many potential clients know of my CSPG work, or know somebody that I've worked with in the Society who will give me a good reference. I'm very fortunate today to be able to work with a great group of younger geologists at the beginning of their CSPG volunteer careers.