As customary, Ammonite held its annual dinner for its consultants, clients and friends on May 20, 2013 during the annual convention of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists in Pittsburgh.  Guests of honor included representatives of senior management and technical staff of CPC Corporation-Taiwan, the Taiwanese National Oil Company, which Ammonite advised on exploration due diligence last October; Dr. Patrick Leahy, Executive Director of the American Geosciences Institute; and Dr. M. Ray Thomasson and Dr. Thomas Ahlbrandt of Thomasson Partner Associates, Denver, Colorado.  The dinner was held in a private room at Cioppino, an upscale Italian restaurant. During the evening, Ammonite’s Senior Exploration Advisor Dr. Robert Merrill provided some intellectual nourishment with a brief after dinner talk about how the skill sets of a petroleum geoscientist can be put to good use in better understanding geothermal reservoirs. His talk was titled “Integrated 3D Modeling of Structural Controls and Permeability Distribution in the Patua Geothermal Field, Hazen, NV.  This paper was based on work Ammonite has done for a geothermal client.  Bob’s presentation was followed by a wonderful talk by Ammonite Senior Geoscience Consultant Susan Eaton about her recent expedition to South Georgia and Antarctica.  Susan showed some of her dramatic photographs of glaciers, mountains and wild life taken during the recent Geological Society of America Expedition to Antarctica. Skip Hobbs, in addition to touching on some of the highlights of Ammonite’s past year, diverged from geoscience a bit, to show guests pictures of his Scottish Highland cows, bee hives and garden – his “other life” as a farmer in Massachusetts.