PGI is governed by a nine-member Board of Directors. At least eight of the nine Board members must be Indiana Licensed Professional Geologists. The Board runs the business of PGI, but also raises funds, runs the Continuing Education Seminar, Annual Meeting, hosts field trips and performs public education at events such as Earth Day.
The Board officers (president, vice-president, secretary and treasurer) are elected annually by the Board and serve two-year terms, which can be extended to a maximum of four years. Below are the current Board of Directors.
Kevin Strunk
President
Kevin has been an independent energy, aggregates, environmental and economic consulting geologist with Wabash Resources & Consulting, Inc.located in Indianapolis since 1984. He has special interests in karst and regional structure and stratigraphy. Kevin has a BS in Geology from IUPUI, and an MS in Geology from Southern Illinois University and has a professional geologist licensure in Indiana (LPG #906) as well as in Kentucky and Illinois, and he is also an Indiana Licensed Real Estate Broker. He has previously served on the PGI board as President and currently serves as the PGI Delegate to AAPG. In addition, he also is the Vice President of Indiana Geologists, and in in charge of lining up speakers for the monthly meeting.
Mattew Dagon
Vice President
Matt is a former PGI Board member and past President. Currently with Stantec, he has over 27 years of experience as an environmental consultant and 22 years as a licensed professional geologist. His primary efforts have been related to coal combustion residual (CCR) facility management, site characterization and remediation, facility decommissioning, and site redevelopment. Matt has managed multiple aspects of soil, bedrock, sediment, groundwater and surface water characterization at active and closed manufacturing facilities including coal-fired electricity generation plants, former manufactured gas plants, rail yards, train derailment sites, foundries, steel mills, and industrial manufacturing facilities. He is a Professional Geologist in IL, IN, MS, NE, TN. Matt lives in Indianapolis with his wife and has two college age boys.
Jen Halgarth
Secretary
Jennifer Hallgarth is a Licensed Professional Geologist and Licensed Real Estate Broker with over 20 years of experience in the environmental consulting industry, providing expertise for contaminated properties throughout the Midwest. Her technical work has been focused in providing services for due diligence, investigation, risk assessment, third-party review, and regulatory compliance projects. She has also been responsible for oversight of company operations, team leadership, and fulfillment of key business functions.
Ms. Hallgarth holds a Bachelor of Science in Geological Sciences from Indiana University and a Master of Science in Environmental Engineering from Colorado School of Mines. She served as an Adjunct Lecturer at Indiana University Bloomington’s School of Public and Environmental Affairs, instructing E 311 Intro to Human Health Risk Assessment.
Marty Ryan
Earth Science Education/Outreach (Chair)
Marty has been an LPG in Indiana since 2001 when he moved to Fishers, Indiana from Nashville, Tennessee. A native of Springfield, Illinois, Marty doubled majored at Eastern Illinois University where he obtained a BS in geology and a BS in botany. In 1992, Marty obtained his MS in geology from Eastern Kentucky University where he completed a karst hydrogeology thesis. From 1990 to 1993 Marty was employed by the National Park Service at Mammoth Cave National Park, Resource Management Division as a hydrologic technician from 1990 to 1993 where he collaborated with the park hydrologist and others implementing a multi-year, EPA-funded water quality study of the Green River and associated karst groundwater basins within the park. Since 1993, Mr. Ryan has been employed by the international consulting firm Environmental Resources Management (ERM). where he currently holds the title of Consulting Director. While at ERM, Marty has participated in and led a wide variety of water resource and contaminated site investigation and remediation projects throughout the U.S., as well as Mexico, Puerto Rico, and Nicaragua. In addition to PGI, Marty is a member of Midwestern States Environmental Consultants Association, the Indiana Water Resources Association, and the White River Alliance, and is currently an active volunteer with the White River Alliance, River Assessment Field Team ( RAFT).
Jonathon Jordan
Treasurer
Professional Geologists of Indiana
Michael Dorsey Jr.
Website/Communications (Chair)
Professional Geologists of Indiana
Bill Karban
Legislative (co-Chair)
Bill Karban is a Senior Geologist at EnviroSolutions, Inc., managing their South Bend, IN, office. Bill has been involved in environmental consulting and remediation since 1998, starting as a field geologist for Trileaf Corporation in St. Louis, MO, and moving to EnviroSolutions in 2000. He studied at the University of Dayton, earning a B.S. in Geology with a second major in Psychology. He completed the executive management program from the University of Notre Dame in 2014. Bill has served several terms on the board in various officer positions.
Bill adds, “PGI is a great forum for members of our profession to work together and demonstrate the great value professional geologists bring to our state!”
Dave Nance
Continuing Education (Chair)
Professional Geologists of Indiana
Ben Datillo
Field Trips Committee (Chair)
Dr. Benjamin Dattilo is an Associate Professor of Geology at Purdue University Fort Wayne where he has taught geology, sedimentology and paleontology since 2007. His research emphasis is in carbonate and mixed carbonate-shale systems in the midcontinent Paleozoic with emphasis on process sedimentology, high resolution stratigraphy, and petrology. He received his Ph.D. in geology from the University of Cincinnati in 1994, and has taught at Weber State University, the University of Nevada Las Vegas, and Alice Lloyd College.