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Ohio

Registration Status:

None

Effective Date:

Exemptions:

ASBOG® Membership:

No

Update:

An ad-hoc committee of the Ohio Section, AIPG, was unsuccessful in a 1999 effort to link geologist registration with the Ohio State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Surveyors.  The Ohio Section, AIPG, plans to continue its efforts to develop support for geologist registration in Ohio, but no specific initiative is currently underway.

State Contact:

Lawrence H. Wickstrom

Title:

Division Chief & State Geologist

Address:

Ohio Department of Natural Resources

 

Division of Geological Survey
2045 Morse Road
Building C
Columbus, OH  43229-6693
 

Phone/Fax:

(614) 265-6598 (614) 447-1918

E-mail

larry.wickstrom@dnr.state.oh.us

Web site

www.dnr.state.oh.us/geosurvey

Board Composition:

Requirements:

Education:
Experience:
Exam:
Continuing Education:

Grandfathering:

Cooperative Licensure - (Comity/Reciprocity):

Registrant count:

PGs:

GITs:

Information updated::

October 26, 2011

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Oklahoma

Registration Status:

Statutory Definition

Effective Date:

1993

Exemptions:

ASBOG® Membership:

No

Update:

Nothing is being done at present to introduce a bill for registration of geologists.

State Contact:

Charles J. Mankin, Ph.D.

Title:

Director

Address:

Oklahoma Geological Survey
100 East Boyd Street
Suite N131
Norman, OK  73019

Phone/Fax:

(405) 325-3031 (405) 325-7069

E-mail

cjmankin@ou.edu

Web site

www.ou.edu

Board Composition:

Requirements:

Education:
Experience:
Exam:
Continuing Education:

Grandfathering:

Cooperative Licensure - (Comity/Reciprocity):

Registrant count:

PGs:

GITs:

Information updated::

October 26, 2011

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Oregon

®

Registration Status:

Practice Regulation; one of three states with engineering geology specialty registration.

Effective Date:

1977

Exemptions:

None.

ASBOG® Membership:

Member Board

Update:

2011-Oregon Supreme Court ruled the Board has the ability to establish standards of practice in the community through expert testimony on a case-by-case basis. 

State Contact:

Christine Valentine

Title:

Administrator

Address:

Oregon State Board of Geologist Examiners
  The Association Center
707  13th Street SE, Suite 260
Salem, OR  97301

Phone/Fax:

(503) 566-2837 (503) 485-2947

E-mail

  osbge.info@state.or.us  or  christine.valentine@state.or.us

Web site

http://www.oregon.gov/OSBGE/index.shtml

Board Composition:

Four Registered Geologists (one must be certified as an Engineering Geologist) and one Public Member are appointed by the Governor. The State Geologist serves as an ex-officio member.

Requirements:

Education:

BS/BA in geology with a degree that includes a minimum of 45 quarter hours of geology of which 36 hours are upper division or graduate courses; without a degree in geology, transcripts must present a minimum of 45 quarter hours of geology courses which includes 36 upper division or graduate course hours.

Experience: Seven years; (BS/BA count for two of required seven years; post baccalaureate degrees count toward experience requirement.)
Exam:

ASBOG® Examination for RG; ASBOG® Fundamentals Examination for GIT; four-hour Oregon-Washington Engineering Geology Examination for CEG specialty registration.

First ASBOG® Exam: April 1996
Continuing Education: No

Grandfathering:

Ended 1978

Cooperative Licensure - (Comity/Reciprocity):

Must meet Oregon requirements.

Registrant count:

RPGs:

1,161 CEGs

290

GITs

53
(Note: Registration as a Registered Geologist is required for any Certified Engineering Geologist.)

Information updated::

October 26, 2011

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