REGION NEWS
Student Chapters
by Elkie Lonnkvist
Since becoming involved with the AAPG Student Chapters for the ER I have managed to gain contact with the majority of those active in Europe today.
Currently active chapters include University of Aberdeen, University of Manchester, University College London, Warsaw University, Moscow State University, University of Bucharest, the Ivano-Frankivsk Technical University of Oil and Gas (Ukraine), Kazakh National Tech University (Kazakhstan), Alexandru Ioan Cuza University IASI (Romania) and Babes-Bolyai University (Romania).
All of these chapters are very active and hold weekly to monthly talks and summer field trips.
Other chapter activities include a large AAPG-University College London collaboration in November this year. We hope that this will be a big event with many student chapters attending and also some industrial collaboration. This will be a great opportunity for students to give presentations to industry representatives and to gain valuable advice from the companies attending.
New chapters which we are hoping to launch this year include Istanbul Technical University, University of Lisbon, University of Derby, Royal Holloway University London and Bristol University.
I will personally be helping to organize a big launch day for Bristol's chapter at which we hope to have some distinguished speakers and a number of small UK-based petroleum and geoservices companies giving careers talks and advice.
Other UK universities which we hope to set up a chapter in the near future include Cardiff, Liverpool and Cambridge University (UK).
As part of improving student-industry collaborations and relationships, we hope that some smaller UK-based companies will get involved with the UK chapters, offering talks, short workshops and summer work-placements for undergraduates. These negotiations are still ongoing.