Annual Report 2011: FY July 1, 2010-June 30, 2011
Publications
The AAPG Publications Committee has continued to solicit, review, and process proposals for publications as AAPG Special Publication volumes. Reviewers (committee members and sometimes nonmembers with specific areas of expertise) have contributed to revisions of proposals that have strengthened the final texts and made sure the volumes are related to hydrocarbon geology and are relevant to the AAPG membership. The Publications Committee received and reviewed seven proposals this year; five were accepted, one was accepted provisionally, and a revised proposal was requested for another. Of those accepted, one was withdrawn by the submitter.
The accepted proposals that are moving ahead were on the Haynesville Formation, the Khuff Formation, salt tectonics, and electron microscopy of shale hydrocarbon reservoirs.
The chair, vice-chairs, Elected Editor, and staff have maintained a schedule of monthly teleconference calls to assess the progress of each project, and helped shepherd various authors along the paths towards completion of projects. Fourteen approved book projects are currently in production, not including the digital “Getting Started” series.
The annual committee meeting continued our focus on several aspects of our mission:
- Streamlining the book publication process, to make publication with AAPG more attractive to prospective authors
- Laying groundwork for potential publications to come out of high-interest sessions at major meetings (ACE, ICE, 3P)
- Factors inhibiting book proposals
- Increasing visibility of AAPG special pubs on major citation indices, also to increase the appeal of publishing with AAPG
The collaboration site (MyAAPG) is actively being used, to make materials (agendas and status spreadsheets) available for teleconferences, and to archive proposals for special publications, decision letters and prior reports. A blueprint for redesigning the Publications pages of the AAPG website has been submitted to the Communications Department, and rollout is expected by the end of July 2011.
Three Getting Started volumes were issued this year: Microbial Carbonates, Shales, and Arctic Geology. Another on Gas Shales is in preparation.
The following titles were released during the 2010–2011 year:
- Memoir 92—Dipmeter and Borehole Image Log Technology
- Memoir 93—Shale Tectonics
- Getting Started 19—Microbial Carbonates
- Getting Started 20—Shales
- Getting Started 21—Arctic Geology
- Discovery Series 15—Carbonate Petrology: An Interactive Petrography Tutorial
- Publications of the North Dakota Geological Society on CD
- Publications of the Montana Geological Society on CD
- Publications of the Alabama Geological Society on CD
- Publications of the Saskatchewan Geological Society on CD
In addition, of the 14 publications currently in production, 8 are scheduled for release in the 2011–2012 year as well as several digital publications, with an additional 15 projects, both print and digital, approved by the Committee and in preparation by various authors and editors. Three publications in progress are joint efforts with other organizations, the BEG, SEG and RMAG.
The eight currently in production scheduled for release in 2011–2012:
- Memoir 42 7th Edition—Interpretation of Three-dimensional Seismic Data
- Memoir 94—Thrust Fault-related Folding
- Memoir 96—Uncertainty Analysis in Reservoir Characterization
- Memoir 99—BEG Salt Mine
- Archie 2—Resistivity Tool Response Modeling
- Hedberg 4—Basin and Petroleum System Modeling
- Studies 61—Sediment Transfer from Shelf to Deep Water
Studies 62 (which is also a digital Discovery Series pub)--USGS Geologic Assessment of Coal in the Gulf of Mexico Coastal Plain
Vice-chair Colin North is the new committee chair, effective 7/1/11. Twelve members of the committee are finishing their three-year appointments; several will be asked to rejoin (contingent on approval by AAPG President Paul Weimer). The committee welcomes several new members this year and thanks members leaving the committee for their diligence. Close cooperation with the Elected Editor, Stephen Laubach, is required and provided on all publications efforts.
Finally, AAPG Headquarters staff, including Geoscience Director Jim Blankenship, has kept the publications effort moving in the right direction. We couldn’t achieve our mission without the active involvement of HQ, notably Beverly Molyneux and Paula Sillman.
Terri Olson, Chair
Committee members:
Tim Carr, Robert Countryman, Timothy Diggs (vice-chair), Ashton Embry III, Don Gautier, Gretchen Gillis, Alexis Godet, Steven Goolsby, Carolyn Green, Cathy Hanks, Barry Katz, Howard Johnson, Heather LaReau, John Lorenz, Ernie Mancini, Colin North (vice-chair), Terri Olson (chair), Marty Parris, Jack Pashin, Doug Peters, Dean Potter, Marty Robinson, Atle Rotevatn, Francois Roure, Timothy Sheeby, Russell Stands-Over-Bull, Denise Stone, and Mike Sweet (vice chair)