Alexandria, VA – The American Geological Institute (AGI) is pleased to announce Mr. G. Warfield “Skip” Hobbs as its new President. He was inducted at the Geological Society of America Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado in November.

Hobbs, founder and Managing Partner of Ammonite Resources Company, an international energy and mineral resource geotechnical and business consulting firm, received his B.S. in geology from Yale College, and his M.S. in petroleum geology from the Royal School of Mines, Imperial College, University of London.

Before founding Ammonite Resources in 1982, Hobbs was employed as an exploration geologist by Texaco, Inc. in Ecuador, Great Britain, Indonesia and Portugal, and then by the Amerada Hess Corporation in New York. In 2008, Hobbs founded and is the president of Ammonite Nova Scotia Corporation, the operator of two petroleum exploration licenses offshore Eastern Canada.

Hobbs served on the AGI Executive Committee as Member-at-Large from 2004 to 2007. He has also served as President of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) Division of Professional Affairs, and was the 1993-1995 Secretary of the AAPG. He also previously served on the board of directors of the Sierra Madre Foundation for Geological Research, and the Burgess Shale Geoscience Foundation in Field, British Columbia. In 2005, Hobbs was presented with the Honorary Membership Award of the AAPG. He has been a trustee of the New Canaan Nature Center, in his hometown of New Canaan, Connecticut since 2000.