AAPG - European Region News
The London Office Report
Steve Veal
We are pleased to announce two new additions to the AAPG European Office (London Office) staff. Ms. Lika Chambers has joined us as the new European Region Conference Manager. Lika has extensive experience in conference and event management and will be responsible of the logistical organization and operation of the APPEX program, the region’s Imperial Barrel Award program, the Annual Regional Conference (this year to be held in Oslo on October 6 & 7) and various education, short course, and fieldtrip programs. Lika is a UK citizen but is originally from Georgia and will be heavily involved in the AAPG Polar Petroleum Potential conference in Moscow to be held in late 2009. Also joining the staff later this month will be Ms. January Arnold as the new office administrator. January joins us having recently worked at the Natural History Museum in London and brings a steady consistent operation to the office management.
Lika and January can be reached via the office contact and at +44 -207-594-3283). Lika can emailed directly. Please join us in welcoming these two new important additions to the AAPG staff.
The Pemberton Course
The London Office is also working with various members in organizing and operating a series of new student courses located in various places within the regional. The first event for this series was held on February 26th and 27th at Imperial College in London.
Dr. George Pemberton with the University of Alberta conducted his course on Applied Ichnology: The Use of Trace Fossils in Sequence Stratigraphy, Exploration and Production Geology. We thank George for this dedicated effort and for presenting a superb course, well attended by students from throughout the United Kingdom. The details for the course are posted at the office website and we thank all students for their support in attending this course. We are working with George and other key industry geologists to present more programs in this series this year and asked interested members and students to visit the website.
Also at the website will be the latest posted information for the monthly Aberdeen explorationist Luncheon, and a variety of new AAPG services, programs, and opportunities for members that are in development. Please contact the office with any request for membership service.
AAPG New Publication
The title is Atlas of Deep-Water Outcrops, AAPG Studies in Geology 56. Edited by: Tor Nilsen, deceased, Roger Shew, Gary Steffens and Joseph Studlick. Co-published by AAPG and Shell Exploration & Production.
It has 520 printed pages plus an additional 791 pages of material on a CDROM in the back of the book including a GoogleEarth file that locates all of the 103 outcrops discussed in the book. There are 154 chapters—116 of them printed, and the remainder make up the additional material on the CD-ROM. The book is global in scope and includes some papers that discuss how to study outcrops and a global overview of deep-water outcrops. A list of countries represented are:
Argentina Australia Borneo Canada Chile China France Ireland Italy |
New Zealand Nicaragua Norway Pakistan South Africa Spain Turkey USA |
It will sell for US$189 AAPG Members, and US$239 non-members. The first meeting at which it will be available for purchase is the AAPG Annual Convention in San Antonio, Texas, 20-23 April 2008.