Left, Bill Galloway receives the Bureau of Economic Geology’s first alumnus of the year award from Bureau Director Scott Tinker at the 2003 American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Convention in Salt Lake City. |
William E. Galloway has the distinction of being named the first Bureau of Economic Geology alumnus of the year when the award was created in 2003. Bill Galloway also has the unique perspective of being the only alumnus to date to have held appointments in all three units of the Jackson School—the Bureau, the Department of Geological Sciences, and the Institute for Geophysics. The Bureau is proud to have been the first unit to claim him as one of its own. |
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During his tenure at the Bureau, Galloway continued to focus on energy resources research. He was involved in a wide range of studies that included the geologic framework of the Gulf Coast Frio Formation and uranium and hydrogeology in South Texas. Galloway is the senior author of 17 Bureau publications, including the Atlas of Major Texas Oil Reservoirs, which was published by the Bureau in 1983. Galloway’s research at the Bureau resulted in the publication of two major reports detailing the Miocene depositional episode of the Texas coastal plain and continental shelf. These reports describe the geologic framework, facies, and hydrocarbon resources of the area. His work on the Texas coastal plain is also captured in a series of cross sections of the Paleogene section, published by the Bureau in 1994. He is also the coauthor of the popular reference book Terrigenous Clastic Depositional Systems, the second edition of which was published in 1996. Galloway has published more than 100 papers and abstracts on topics such as clastic sedimentology, sequence stratigraphy, petroleum geology and resource evaluation, hydrogeology, and uranium geology. He has received several awards for his publications, including the A. I. Levorsen Memorial Award (twice) in 1977 and 1986, the Wallace Pratt Memorial Award in 1983, and the Energy Minerals Division Best Paper Award in 1979, all from the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG). In addition to his award-winning publication record, Galloway has twice toured as a distinguished lecturer for AAPG. He has been a fellow of the Geological Society of London and is an honorary member of the Gulf Coast Section of SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology). He has taught many short courses for industry and professional societies. Galloway was a visiting professor at the National Centre for Petroleum Geology and Geophysics at the University of Adelaide, Australia, in 1993 and 1994. He also taught petroleum geology as a visiting professor at the University of Berger, Norway, in 1990. Galloway left the Bureau in 1987 to teach full time in the Department of Geological Sciences. He holds the Morgan Davis Centennial Chair in Petroleum Geology, now as an emeritus professor. He was recognized by the Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies for his teaching abilities, receiving their Outstanding Educator Award in 1993. He also received the Grover E. Murray Memorial Distinguished Educator Award in 2004 from AAPG. He joined the Institute for Geophysics as a research professor to lead the industry-funded Gulf of Mexico Basin Depositional Synthesis Project. He has served as principal investigator of this effort since 1998. The project is focused on understanding the Cenozoic fill of the basin and exploring how the depositional history affects reservoir distribution patterns. Results are compiled in a digital data base and have yielded publications that together are building a comprehensive sedimentary history of the Gulf Basin. |
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