HR0570 104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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HOUSE RESOLUTION

WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of Representatives wish to congratulate Dr. Christopher "Chris" Stohr on being named the 2025-2026 Jahns Distinguished Lecturer by the Association of Environmental and Engineering Geologists (AEG); and

WHEREAS, Dr. Stohr has worked professionally for more than 40 years in the fields of applied geology, research, and humanitarianism in the midwestern U.S., South America, and Africa; and

WHEREAS, Dr. Stohr obtained a Bachelor of Science in Geology at Saint Joseph's College in Rensselaer, Indiana and a Master of Science in Engineering Geology at Purdue University, developing applications for innovative digital image processing of remotely sensed imagery at the Laboratory for Applications of Remote Sensing; he began work at the Missouri Geology and Land Survey, performing investigations for dams, sewage lagoons, hazardous and nuclear waste sites, dye tracing, and dumps and landfills in the Ozarks and throughout that state; and

WHEREAS, Dr. Stohr directed an inventory of 3,600 dams and conducted a site selection study for hazardous waste disposal facilities in Missouri; he worked as part of team, conducting special fault studies, reconnaissance mapping, trench mapping, and paleomagnetic studies for a nuclear power plant in central Iran using U.S. NRC procedures; and

WHEREAS, Dr. Stohr, at the Illinois State Geological Survey, Prairie Research Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, participated in or led research on landslides, trench covers, groundwater, agronomic analysis of lake sediments, downhole geophysics, precision agriculture, remote sensing, coastal erosion, close range photogrammetry and terrestrial and aerial laser scanning, archeology, glacial geology, height modernization [geodetic surveying], and geologic sequestration of carbon dioxide; and

WHEREAS, Dr. Stohr was a Fulbright Senior Specialist at Beni Suef University, Egypt and participated in and led international humanitarian development projects in Malawi, Africa; he is a professional geologist and certified engineering geologist in Illinois and Oregon and sits on the Illinois Board of Licensing for Professional Geologists; he is an active member of ASPRS, AEG, and GSA; and

WHEREAS, Dr. Stohr was elected to the Champaign County Board for three terms and was twice appointed to serve on the Mahomet Aquifer Council; and

WHEREAS, Dr. Stohr, as a recipient of this award, will promote student awareness of environmental and engineering geology through annual lectures at academic institutions and by visiting AEG chapters during the year; therefore, be it

RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE HUNDRED FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we congratulate Dr. Christopher "Chris" Stohr on being named the 2025-2026 Jahns Distinguished Lecturer by the Association of Environmental and Engineering Geologists (AEG); and be it further

RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be presented to Dr. Stohr as a symbol of our respect and esteem.