5 Annual Report 2009 100 Years of Scientific Impact Annual Report 2009 The Bureau Celebrates 100 Years On October 9, 1909, the Board of Regents of the University of Texas established the Bureau of Economic Geology as a research unit of the university and the geological survey of Texas. [...] of the state was in its best interest, and so in 1909, the Bureau of It kept the Bureau always in the real world, kept the competitive Economic Geology was created, the first organized research unit edge always there, and kept a measure of relevance always in of the University. [...] First was the application of the just-developing science of Sellards recruited some very prominent scientists to the Bureau, process sedimentology flowing out of the corporate research labs among them Walter Scott Adkins, a well-known Mesozoic stratigrapher in Houston and the development at the Bureau of the concept and paleontologist, and Virgil Barnes and Henryk Stenzel, both of of depositional. [...] Recognition of the much-enlarged potential of reserve growth I left the Bureau in 1994 to go full time with our academic in oil and gas reserve additions in the 80’s, which was to department and geology foundation, and Noel Tyler became the become a major phenomenon in Texas and the world seventh director of the Bureau. [...] By the end of the 20th century, the Bureau could claim to The hundreds of thousands of Bureau publications, purchased be one of the best, if not the best, fundamental and applied by individuals and institutions not only in Texas, but throughout geologic research organization in the world.
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