Katherine Greacen Nelson (December 9, 1913 – December 29, 1982), born in Sierra Madre , California , was an American geologist . She was one of the first women to receive a degree in geology , obtaining a PhD from Rutgers University . Growing up in a military family exposed to nature and traveling at an early age, Nelson showed an eagerness for geology by devoting her days to learning the various geological processes that encompass the earth, eventually winning a prize for an excellence in geology from Vassar College .
33-653: (Redirected from Byron Nelson Award ) Nelson Award may refer to: Katherine Greacen Nelson Award in Geology of the Weis Earth Science Museum, named for geologist Katherine Greacen Nelson Byron Nelson Award in Golfing, named for golfer Byron Nelson Byron Nelson Award (PGA Tour) , lowest adjusted scoring average for the year in golf Byron Nelson Award (Champions Tour) , lowest scoring average for
66-402: A Donald Trump speech held on August 13, 2019, or take the day off without pay, losing about $ 700 from overtime and per diem. During his address, Trump called out specific union leaders to declare their voting loyalty. Many of the union leaders present were not consulted before the event, and memos sent to contractor management forbade any protest. Federal law prohibits a corporation from making
99-500: A consortium of companies in 2024. The acquiring consortium is Renaissance, which includes ND Western, Aradel Energy, First E&P, Waltersmith and Petrolin. The assets include 15 onshore leases and three shallow water fields. The deal needs to be approved by the national government before it can be finalized. Until the mid-1980s, Shell's business in the United States was substantially independent. Limited direct involvement from
132-456: A long battle with cancer. Nelson is survived by her husband, Attorney Frank Hubert Nelson, her brother Robert A. Greacen, and thousands of loving friends and former students all over the world. Katherine Greacen received her Bachelor of Science from Vassar College in 1934, being acknowledged for her excellence in geology. Katherine wrote several papers but was best known for the time she devoted teaching students about Earth, bussing kids down to
165-471: A new segment named Integrated Gas. The Shell Oil Company's former Natural Gas, and energy divisions are now Shell Energy North America , a closely integrated, but a distinctive entity that runs across North America and is headquartered out of Houston, Texas . Shell is the market leader through approximately 14,000 Shell-branded fuel stations in the U.S. which also serve as Shell's most visible public presence, and comes closest to serving all 50 states, lacking
198-955: A presence only in Montana . At its gas stations, Shell provides diesel fuel , fuel and LPG . Shell Oil Company was a 50/50 partner with the Saudi Arabian government -owned oil company Saudi Aramco in Motiva Enterprises , a refining and marketing joint venture which owns and operates three oil refineries on the Gulf Coast of the United States . However, Shell is currently divesting its interest in Motiva. Shell products include oils, fuels, and car services as well as exploration, production, and refining of petroleum products. The Shell Martinez Refinery in Martinez, California ,
231-530: A specialized memorial volume of Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Literature. Her department named and created a scholarship to honouring her. Shell Oil Company Shell USA, Inc. (formerly Shell Oil Company, Inc. ) is the United States –based wholly owned subsidiary of Shell plc , a UK -based transnational corporation " oil major " which is among
264-447: A tour guide to students when visiting museums and offering information about the field, believing that her work should stem past college-education. She became deeply entrenched in the media by freely writing many newspaper articles as well as giving media interviews. She was devoted to helping geology hobbyists in their range of work by offering her knowledge to everyone. She was influential in the area of preserving glaciers as she explained
297-495: A way to help out with the war effort. At the end of WWII, she returned to Milwaukee-Downer College to continue teaching in both geology and geography. During her time teaching there she also spent time teaching at the Milwaukee-Downer Seminary and YWCA . In 1954 when the school merged with Lawrence College (under the name UW–Milwaukee), Nelson decided to once again leave Milwaukee-Downer College. In 1956,
330-489: Is both real and dangerous." Between 1978 and 1995, Shell Oil produced polybutylene pipes, which corrode when exposed to chlorine. A class action lawsuit was filed in 1995 against Shell Oil when the polybutylene pipes caused flooding in many households in the U.S. and Canada. The settlement required Shell Oil to pay for the re-installation of piping for millions of houses for claims filed through May 2009. About 6,000 Shell workers and contractors were instructed to attend
363-692: The Official Fuel of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway In 2023, the first deliveries of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) to Shell Trading (US) Company (Shell) from Montana Renewables took place. The companies have entered into a multi-year agreement, with the fuel received being distributed by Shell and subsidiaries across the country to accelerate decarbonization . Shell is preparing to sell its onshore business in Nigeria 's Niger Delta for $ 2.4 billion (€2.2 billion) to
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#1732787708257396-617: The University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee obtained the Milwaukee-Downer campus. Due to her heavy involvement in both the museum and university, Nelson took the initiative to purchase the Greene Museum from Milwaukee-Downer. She created an active public education program for the less wealthy where more than 20,000 people have benefited from its teachings. In this same year, Nelson was named the first faculty member and chair of
429-844: The Department of Geological & Geophysical Sciences at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. In 1978 Katherine was selected as the first woman to ever accept the prestigious Neil Miner award for her contribution the earth science. Nelson continued to be a part of the Governing board of the academy as well as being a nominee for the Earth Science Section of the American Association for the Advancement of Science until her death on December 29, 1982. As
462-645: The Greene Museum with the thought of a possible Ice Age Scientific Reserve in Wisconsin. Four years after graduating from Vassar, Nelson attended Rutgers University and became one of the first women to earn a PhD in geology. Nelson went directly into teaching at Milwaukee-Downer College , as well as being the curator at the Thomas A. Greene Memorial Museum . During World War II , Nelson left teaching and began working in petroleum geology and paleontology working for Shell Oil Co . (later transitioning to Hunt Oil Co.) as
495-462: The acquisition, however, Shell Oil remained a fairly independent business. This was due in part to complex legal reasons, as Royal Dutch Shell feared that there could be onerous liability problems if closer control of Shell Oil's affairs was exercised by the "parent company". One consequence of this independence was that the Shell logo used in the U.S. was slightly different from that used in the rest of
528-543: The aim of bringing solar renewable options to U.S. customers. The company paid up to an estimated $ 217 million to take over from former minority shareholders Partners Group . In October 2018, the company installed a 285-foot-high quench tower at the Shell Chemical Appalachia L.L.C. Pittsburgh plant, which transfers heat absorbed by the water circulation process to use across other areas of the site. Shell Puget Sound Refinery, Anacortes, Washington ,
561-446: The energy market. So it employs a team of big-thinking futurists, called scenario planners, to keep it a step ahead. In 2008, the company released a fresh pair of scenarios for how the world might respond to climate change over the coming decades. Both were predicated on what the company called 'three hard truths': that global energy demand is rising, that the supply of conventional energy will not be able to keep up, and that climate change
594-700: The first Shell refinery in the United States, supplied Shell and Texaco stations in the West and Midwest until its sale to PBF Energy in 2020. Shell fuel previously included the RU2000 and SU2000 lines (later there was a SU2000E) but they have been superseded by the V-Power line. In 2023 Shell USA (North American division of Shell plc ) became the Official Fuel of the NTT IndyCar Series they will supply 100% Ethanol -sourced fuel. They are also
627-536: The first women ever nominated for the Presidency of Chapter E in the latter society. In addition, she was the first woman to receive the Neil Milner Award in 1978 for making prestigious contributions to earth science education. She also acquired the position of first female president of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, & Letters from 1952-53. As a result of the assistance she provided, she
660-527: The first women to graduate with a PhD in geology from Rutgers University, Nelson made many fundamental contributions in her field. Therefore, she received numerous awards, including the Midwest Federation of Mineralogical & Geological Societies Educator of the Year Award in 1982, while working as a professor at University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee . At the time of Nelson's death she was one of
693-564: The importance of Wisconsin's glacial feature to politicians, which would later lead to the establishment of the National Ice Age Scientific Reserve. Throughout all of this, Nelson inspired a new generation of geological interest in students. In 1982, she was named Educator of the Year by the Midwest Federation of Mineralogical and Geological Societies owing to her many contributions to the geological community. At
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#1732787708257726-536: The joint ventures. In 2002, Shell began converting these Texaco stations to the Shell brand, a process that was to be completed by June 2004 and was called "the largest retail re-branding initiative in American business history". In recent years, The Shell Oil Company's Midstream, and Downstream, in particular, have become limited to petroleum, and chemical products. This has come as a result of Royal Dutch Shell breaking off its Natural Gas and power businesses into
759-492: The largest oil companies in the world. Approximately 18,000 Shell employees are based in the U.S. Its U.S. headquarters are in Houston, Texas . Shell USA, including its consolidated companies and its share in equity companies, is one of America's largest oil and natural gas producers, natural gas marketers, fuel marketers and petrochemical manufacturers. In 1979, Shell purchased Belridge Oil Company for $ 3.65 billion, which at
792-542: The main office in The Hague , Netherlands , and having its stock "Shell Oil" traded on the New York Stock Exchange were factors. However, in 1984, Royal Dutch Shell made a bid to purchase those shares of Shell Oil Company it did not own (around 30%) and despite some opposition from some minority shareholders which led to a court case, Shell completed the buyout for a sum of $ 5.7 billion. Despite
825-409: The time of her death, she was a nominee for president of Chapter E. She was also president of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters in 1952-53 making her the first female president of this organization. On January 15, 1983, her colleagues honoured her life by hosting a paleontological symposium that featured the work from several of her students. Papers of her students were published in
858-574: The time was called the "biggest cash takeover in American history" by US government sources. In 1997, Shell and Texaco entered into two refining/marketing joint ventures. One combined their Midwestern and Western operations and was known as Equilon. The other, known as Motiva Enterprises , combined the Eastern and Gulf Coast operations of Shell Oil and Star Enterprise, itself a joint venture between Saudi Aramco and Texaco. After Texaco merged with Chevron in 2001, Shell purchased Texaco's shares in
891-471: The title Nelson Award . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nelson_Award&oldid=1146362845 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Katherine Greacen Nelson She
924-746: The world's largest petrochemical producers. The facility was also the second-largest source of air pollution in Harris County , which ranked among the lowest in the nation in several measures of air quality. According to Sierra Club and Environment Texas, analysis of Shell's reports to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, air pollutants released at Deer Park since 2003 exceeded the EPA's emissions limits. Will Oremus from Slate magazine states, "The company's business depends on being able to anticipate and respond quickly to seismic shifts in
957-433: The world. In the 1980s, Shell Oil's independence began to gradually erode as the "parent company" took a more hands-on approach to running the business. The logo used in the United States is the same as that used elsewhere since June 1, 1998. In January 2018, Royal Dutch Shell acquired a 44% interest in solar energy company Silicon Ranch, run by CEO Matt Kisber . The takeover was part of the global New Energies project, with
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1023-487: Was chosen as an honorary curator at the Milwaukee Public Museum. She purchased the Greene Museum from Milwaukee-Downer and put together a public teaching program that gave more than 20,000 people the opportunity to learn from her, Nelson had major influences on others lives through her teachings. The Nelson Award was created to honor her contributions to education in the field of geology. Nelson acted as
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1056-551: Was fined $ 291,000 from 2006 to 2010 for violations of the Clean Air Act making it the second most-fined violator in the Pacific Northwest . As of 2011 , it has been listed as a "high-priority violator" since 2008. In 2008, a lawsuit was filed against Shell Oil Company for alleged Clean Air Act violation. Shell Deer Park Refinery 20 miles east of Houston, was the nation's eighth-largest oil refinery and one of
1089-540: Was later hired by Milwaukee-Downer College as part of college's expanding geological and geographical sciences department eventually leaving her position in 1943 to help as a petroleum geologist as part of the war effort. Nelson went on to give many lectures that helped inspire students of all genders towards the field of geography and geology. She died in December 1982 at the age of 69 in Milwaukee , Wisconsin after
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