Regular Monthly Articles: • From the President • From the Editor • Webnotes • HGA/GeoWives • Members of the Move Feature Articles: • Before Long, Russia Won’t Be Able to Satisfy the World’s Oil Thirst • An Aging Question: The Discovery of Radioactivity was Pivotal to Scientifically Determining the Age of the Earth • Book Review: Gorgon—Paleontology, Obsession and the Greatest Catastrophe in Earth’s History • Mars Exploration Day at the Houston Museum of Natural Science • 2004 North American Prospect Expo (NAPE) Upbeat Abstracts of Monthly Meetings: • Creating Value in East Texas • Latest Developments in Coal-bed Methane • Stratigraphic Entrapment of Hydrocarbons in the Upper Cretaceous Lewis Shale and Lower Fox Hills Sandstone, Eastern Green River Basin, Wyoming • Gas Hydrates in the Gulf of Mexico’s Complex Geologic Setting: Future Energy Resource of Just Another Geohazard?