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PRESIDENT’S AWARD

JOHN VARSEK

JOHN TOWNSLEY

The CSPG President’s Award is the Society’s highest service award. It is generally bestowed on one or more individuals for the critical role they have played in staging a hallmark event. During 2007, that hallmark event was the CSPG-CSEG Annual Convention.

Once again, the Annual Convention was a great success, drawing in 4,578 delegates to a four day event that reached out to all geoscientists. Total revenues were $1.79 million while total expenditures were $1.01 million, yielding a gross profit of $0.78 million. Due to increased charge backs on the part of each society and the removal of Continuing Education profit from the Convention portfolio, the final remittance to the CSPG was $380 thousand, which once again broke records and made this the most profitable convention to date. The 2007 Convention boasted some great innovations — a streamlined package pickup and improved online registration system made getting . . . [Full Text of this Article]