Faculty Awards and Recognitions

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2003 - 2004 President's Award

This award has been established to honor members whose extraordinary efforts or unique contributions deserve special recognition.

This article is from HGS Bulletin June 2004 Volume 46 Number 10 page 51.


Carl Norman has been selected to receive the President's Award for his many years of volunteerism and leadership for the HGS.

Through the urging of Mr. Warren Calvert, Carl became secretary of the HGS Warren L. and Florence W. Calvert Scholarship Fund in 1974. He served in that position until his appointment as chairman of the Calver Scholarship Fund board in 2001 and continues to serve in that position. This represents an amazing 30 years of continued dedicated service to this important HGS committee! This fund has awarded $182,300 in scholarships to 47 graduate students from 15 universities.

Carl holds a BS in geology form the University of Minnesota, and an MS and PhD in geology from Ohio State University. Carl served 4 years in the Air Force working as an aircraft and engine mechanic, enlisting shortly after the outbreak of the Korean War in 1950. After completion of his Masters degree in 1959, Carter Oil (soon after Humble Oil and Refining) employed him. Carl returned to pursue his PhD in the early 1960s.

Following the completion of his PhD in 1967, he accepted a permanent faculty position as a professor of geology at the University of Houston. He remained at the university for 33 years until his retirement in June 2000. Carl was an instructor for the university summer field camp for 12 years. He taught physical geology to over 6500 students during his career. He was honored with the Outstanding Educator Award by the GCAGS in 1992.

Carl has guided numerous HGS field trips and is sought to instruct because of his extensive knowledge of active faults in the Gulf Coast region. His 30 years of commitment to the Warren L. and Florence W. Calvert Scholarship Fund, along with numerous hours of additional service to the HGS, deem Carl E. Norman an honored recipient of the President's Award.