Nominees for 2026

President – Bonnie Frey

Bonnie Frey is a geochemist at the New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources (NMBGMR), where she is the associate director of laboratories and manager of the Analytical Chemistry Laboratory.

Bonnie's first NMGS fall field conference was the 2003 Zuni Plateau conference. Since then she has led two field conferences (2016, Belen with Shannon Williams, and May 2022, Mt. Taylor with Shari Kelley) and two spring meetings (2017 and 2025). She organized three student / professional mixers during the NMGS spring meeting (2017-2019). This year, as vice president of the NMGS Executive Committee and at the request of the Executive Committee, she organized a new NMGS Development Committee. She received the NMGS honorary membership award in May 2022.

Bonnie holds an English degree from Goshen College, which was followed by 10 years working for the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, then a New York Times regional paper. She received geology degree (B.S.) from the University of South Florida in 1997. She arrived at New Mexico Tech two years later to pursue a master's degree, studying the geochemistry of Central Arizona's Iron King Formation with her advisor, Kent Condie, and graduating in 2002 (M.S.). She has since specialized contaminant transport and water quality studies in New Mexico. She is a co-PI on a project with Navajo Tech to identify wells on the Navajo Nation that are suitable for filtration systems and to provide workforce development for the next generation of Indigenous water resource scientists. She also studies critical minerals in surface water and groundwater. In 2022, she was appointed a commissioner of the New Mexico Water Quality Control Commission representing the NMBGMR.

Vice-President – Susan Hoines

Susan spent her formative years in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota.  She has an MS in Hydrology, New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology (1993); a BS in Hydrology, University of Arizona (1990), and a BS in Geological Engineering, South Dakota School of Mines & Technology (1987).  She worked for the New Mexico Environment Department for five years (1993-1998) before filling a position within the Hydrology Bureau at the New Mexico Office of the State Engineer (NMOSE).  She retired from the NMOSE Hydrology Bureau in 2019.  She has been happily retired ever since, traveling with her husband on his vacations, and/or with her sister on trips across the USA and beyond.  Susan’s husband is Peter Burck, a lifetime member of NMGS,  a hydrologist in the US Bureau of Land Management.

Susan has a lifetime membership to NMGS.  Her first fall field conference was the 2002 White Sands Fall field conference.  She has attended every fall field conference since 2002.  She is a real fan, if not a faithful member of NMGS.

Treasurer – David Lemke

David Lemke is a retired geophysicist who settled in Pecos, NM in 2016. David received a BS degree in Geological Sciences at the University of Texas-Austin in 1982, an MBA in Finance from the University of St. Thomas in Houston in 1996, and a Project Management certificate from the University of California- Irvine in 2001. He spent his 34-year professional life in Houston Texas working for a variety of oil and gas service and operator companies like Hess Corporation, Computer Sciences Corporation, Halliburton, and a few companies that have dropped by the wayside. His work included technical team management, seismic data processing, exploration systems and data management, R&D exploration software development, and R&D program management.

In retirement, David operates a fly fishing school at his home on the Pecos River. He's also been involved as Treasurer with the Upper Pecos Watershed Association (2017-2019), current President of the Friends of Pecos National Historical Park, current webmaster for the Santa Fe Extension Master Gardeners, and current Publications Chairperson for NMGS. David has been an NMGS member since 2015.

Secretary – Paul Parmentier

Paul Parmentier grew up in the (then Belgian) Congo's copper mining district, inciting his interest in geology. He graduated from the University of Brussels with a BS in geology and later obtained a MS in geochemistry of geothermal alteration at the University of Kyushu in Japan under a scholarship from the Japanese Government.

After working for 5 years as an exploration geologist/geochemist in the Western US, Alaska and Japan, he worked for 30 years as a Professional Geologist and Certified Hydrogeologist in Southern California, working on groundwater and soil contamination issues for private companies, Department of Defense sites and municipalities. He was active in South Coast Geological Society, eventually leading as president of the Society the annual field trip in 2013 to the Eastern Mojave Desert. He retired to Los Lunas, New Mexico, in 2020, where he writes a monthly column on geology in the Valencia County News Bulletin.

Past-President – Johanna Blake (ex officio)

Dr. Johanna Blake is a Research Hydrologist with the United States Geological Survey (USGS) in the New Mexico Water Science Center. She earned a B.S. in Earth and Planetary Sciences from the University of New Mexico (UNM), and a M.S. and PhD in Earth and Environmental Sciences from Lehigh University. Dr. Blake was a post-doctoral fellow with the EPSCoR program at UNM where she studied uranium geochemistry on tribal lands. While with the USGS, she has continued to work on uranium geochemistry issues, works on geochemical questions in the northwestern part of New Mexico (NM) following the Gold King Mine spill, source water questions related to the Fort Stanton-Snowy River cave system near Captain, NM, and oil and gas questions in the southeastern part of NM. In addition, she is part of a group of USGS scientists evaluating water quality related to wildfires in the western U.S. Dr. Blake has lived and worked in NM for over 13 years and collaborates with scientists and staff from UNM, the NM Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources, New Mexico Tech, New Mexico Environment Department, Navajo Nation EPA, NASA, the Bureau of Land Management, and USEPA. She is an adjunct professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at UNM and has served on undergraduate and graduate student committees at UNM and New Mexico Tech.

Director – Bob Newcomer

Bob Newcomer is a mining, environmental and water resources consultant. He has over 45 years of professional experience, spending the last decade as a subject matter expert to the mining industry in permitting, feasibility studies, exploration and mine development projects in various parts of the world and serving local clients in New Mexico and Arizona. He has worked previously with various consulting firms, including Telesto Solutions, Golder Associates (now WSP), Tetra Tech, Daniel B. Stephens & Associates (now Geo-Logic Associates) and John Shomaker & Associates. He started his career as an exploration geologist, seeking gold and silver resources for Freeport Exploration. He holds a Master of Science degree in Geology from New Mexico State University and a Bachelor of Science degree in Geology from Northern Arizona University. He also completed additional post graduate work in hydrogeology at the University of Arizona and geochemistry at Pennsylvania State University. He was an Executive Committee member and Past President of the New Mexico Geological Society in 1994 and has been on the Foundation Board since 2017.

Director – David (“D.J.”) Ennis

David (“D.J.”) Ennis is the Program Manager for the Mining Act Reclamation Program which regulates active hard rock mining and exploration in New Mexico.

He has worked on numerous mining and exploration projects across the state, including new open pit copper mines and uranium mines in McKinley and Cibola counties. He has been with the Mining Act Reclamation Program for 15 years and has another 15 years of experience in environmental consulting and regulatory compliance in multiple states. His experiences in environmental consulting includes soil and groundwater sample collection, hydrology and well siting studies, mine waste sampling, petroleum storage tank investigations, solid waste landfill permitting, and NEPA compliance. D.J. is a graduate of New Mexico Tech with a B.S. in Geology (1994) and M.S. in Geochemistry (1996) under his advisors Dr. Nelia Dunbar and Dr. Andy Campbell. He previously served on the NMGS Executive Committee from 2013 to 2017 and is proud to be considered for election to the NMGS Foundation.