Eric Groessens
Professor Eric Groessens is a distinguished worker at the University of Louvain la Neuve where he specialises in Carboniferous limestones and in conodont microfossils. He is also a senior member of the Service Géologique de Belgique.
However it is for his contribution to the field of professional geology that we propose to honour him. Eric Groessens was one of the original delegates representing Belgium at the foundation of the Federation in Paris in July 1980 and he has been involved with the Federation in many ways ever since.
In 1995 he became the Chair of the Federation’s Registration Committee and oversaw the scrutiny of applications for the EurGeol title, with his panel of committee members. A role that developed as the title developed and which he passed on to Richard Fox in June 2001.
Whenever the EFG has met in Brussels in recent years, Board and Council venues in the Belgian Geological Survey or the National History Museum, have been organised by him. We are deeply indebted to him for this also.
However the culmination of his contribution to professional geology in Europe has been the quiet organisation of a situation whereby the EFG, through the collaboration of the national member, the UBLG, has opened its new office in the Belgian Geological Survey in 2001.
We are proud to propose Eric as an Honorary European Geologist.
However it is for his contribution to the field of professional geology that we propose to honour him. Eric Groessens was one of the original delegates representing Belgium at the foundation of the Federation in Paris in July 1980 and he has been involved with the Federation in many ways ever since.
In 1995 he became the Chair of the Federation’s Registration Committee and oversaw the scrutiny of applications for the EurGeol title, with his panel of committee members. A role that developed as the title developed and which he passed on to Richard Fox in June 2001.
Whenever the EFG has met in Brussels in recent years, Board and Council venues in the Belgian Geological Survey or the National History Museum, have been organised by him. We are deeply indebted to him for this also.
However the culmination of his contribution to professional geology in Europe has been the quiet organisation of a situation whereby the EFG, through the collaboration of the national member, the UBLG, has opened its new office in the Belgian Geological Survey in 2001.
We are proud to propose Eric as an Honorary European Geologist.
PROPOSER: EurGeol Gareth Ll. Jones, President
SECONDER: EurGeol Manuel Regueiro, Past President
