Mike Forrest has a lifelong and extraordinary record of service to the Society particularly on the Foundation and its Trustee Associates. Mike joined the SEG Foundation Board in 2008 and his subsequent contributions have been and are enormous: -Mike was one of the top five volunteers in the $17 million fundraising campaign (2005-08). He is a key member of the Development Committee and has been instrumental in developing relationships between corporations and the Foundation. -Mike made it his mission to increase membership in the Trustee Associates. Through his singlehanded efforts in the past three years, membership has grown to over 200. Mike has been tireless in giving short “pitches” at Section meetings on behalf of financially supporting SEG. -Mike has hosted an annual summer reception at his home on Galveston Island to promote Trustee Associate camaraderie and attract new members. He has also cohosted an annual winter reception for the same purpose at Lakeside Country Club in Houston. Even after a professional career of over 55 years, Mike continues to selflessly promote SEG and exploration of geophysics. He is still making a difference. Mike is a well regarded and visionary geophysicist, well known within Shell Oil for his early recognition and adoption of bright spots as an oil and gas indicator. The roots of bright spot technology originated in the 1970s. Mike has always been an oil finder. He is widely recognized for his near photographic memory of seismic sections, well data, stratigraphy and basin processes. He continues to be one of the driving forces in the DHI Consortium of Rose & Associates.