Winter 1998 Issue of the AAPG Student Outlook

Geological Salary Survey Slides

AAPG President Eddie David, has requested that each student chapter receive a set of four slides concerning career matters. Slides have been distributed to each chapter. We hope this information is useful to you. In choosing a career, interests and aptitude are of paramount importance but salaries are important too. The information presented here was gathered for 1996 and is an indicator of salaries being paid to professionals in North America. In launching your career it is important to know a variety of aspects about your profession including salaries. AAPG provides this, and other professional information as well as being the world's largest publisher of petroleum geology science. In your career journey, AAPG can and will continue to provide this information and services. Please let us know if we can help! Remember to enter or update your internet database used by potential employers in searching for interns or hires, this service at AAPG web-site is free to you as an AAPG student member. 1996 Geological Salary Survey Years Experience High Average Low 0 - 2 $65,000 $48,000 $39,000 3 - 5 $65,000 $56,600 $45,000 6 - 9 $82,400 $65,700 $50,000 10 - 14 $110,000 $76,800 $55,600 15 -19 $150,000 $84,700 $58,000 20+ $170,000 $99,800 $62,500 1996 Geological Salary Survey Years Experience High Average Low 0 -2 $40,600 $47,200 $56,000 3 -5 $54,000 $56,800 $61,000 6 -9 $70,000 $65,400 $65,800 10 -14 $77,600 $74,800 $102,500 15 -19 $82,300 $86,400 $85,000 20+ $100,800 $97,700 $109,100

Chapter Reminder Semi-annual reports due! Please e-mail an update on your chapter events from the past few months. This is essential in keeping your active status with MPG, it is also a requirement. This is one of the points reviewed when deciding on the chapters who will be eligible for the new Austin Weeks Undergraduate Grant Program. We need this information immediately. I plan to use these reports to encourage the exchange of ideas among the chapters. Please mail them to: Student Affairs Coordinator Announcing Two New Student Chapters This Month!! Rice University, Houston University of London, Royal Holloway, England

Student Update
Outstanding Student Chapter Award... Stephen F Austin State University, Nacogdoches, Texas, was given the Outstanding Student Chapter Award by MPG at the 1997 MPG Annual Convention for its consistent, active participation in MPG activities. The award included a $500 cash award, contributed by Schlumberger, along with a plaque. This year the award will be based on the feedback received by each chapter through their reports (due now). Note from MPG Student Chapter Committee Chairman, Henry Legarre: The 1998 annual meeting ought to be one worth attending, it will be located in Salt Lake City, surrounded by some of the most spectacular geology in the country. The technical sessions and field trips planned for the meeting is looking great. And no exception to this will be the Cretaceous Facies Tract, Book Cliffs Area, and Ferron Deltaic Complex in Utah. Aspects of sequence stratigraphy, sedimentology, and reservoir quality prediction will be discussed. Field observations will include the issues of reservoir scale, heterogeneity, and hydrocarbon production performance, as well as the application of analog field and outcrop investigations for more accurate reservoir characterization. 1998 Student Authors Announced For SLC Principle Authors For The Paper/Poster Student Session At 1998 MPG Annual Convention are: ORAL Allison McGurk -University Of Leeds, England Adam Woods -University Of Southern Cal Per Avseth -Stanford University Donald Sherlock -Curtain University, Australia Andrew Hanson -Stanford University Fuping Zhu -Texas A&M Aileen Mcleod -University Edinburgiscotland Anne Grau -Colorado School Of Mines Diahn Hawkins -University Of Alabama Elise Bekele -University Of Minnosota POSTER Tingguang Song -Curtain University., Australia Carmen Garcia CarballidoScotland, Aberdeen Alexander Aviantara -University Of Tulsa Kai Anderson -Stanford University Elizabeth Mason -Stanford University Thomas Reed -University of Kentucky, Lexington Julitta Kirkova -Loulsiana State University Denise Hodder -University of Calgary Maerten Laurent -Stanford University Mary Beck -University of Montana, Missoula		According to Dan Wrona, president of the Michigan Tech Chapter, they have 16 members this year. Out of Dallas, Southern Methodist University's announced their chapter president, Vladimir Liakovitch. Hardin Simmons University in Abilene, Texas has been an affiliated MPG Chapter since 1982.Their current officers are: Daron Scott, president; Gabe Waggoner, vice-president; Jennifer Jimenez, secretary and the sponsoring advisor is Dr. Bobby Bammel. Aaron Kullman, president of the Colorado School of Mines chapter, briefed us on a few past meetings: Panel discussion with Mines faculty on 'How to interview! Presentation from BP Petr. recruiters on the Caspian Sea. Marathon speaker, Scoff Tinker, talks on reservoir modeling. Frank Hernandez, president of the Baylor chapter, Waco, Texas reported that they currently have 15 MPG student members. Jeffrey Bryden of the University of Wyoming chapter wrote, "one of our main activities have included the monthly meeting and our yearly 'bowling for oil! This mid-winter activity gives us the opportunity as an organization to get the entire geology department together in a social atmosphere. It is a fun evening of bowling where the prizes are petroleum-based products. In past years attendance has been around 50 people, all with one goal win some oil. Past prizes have included quarts of oil, oil changes, lip balm and any other oil based products!" Carter Keairns, Texas Tech chapter president, let us know that they have 18 members (8 grad, 10 undergrad) and are taking advantage of the MPG Visiting Geologist Program. Tulsa University chapter officers are as follows: Kelsey Azar, president Monica Furr, vice president April Olinghouse, secretary Justin Bellamy, chapter president, Stephen F. Austin University, Nacogdoches, Texas, submitted the student chapter activities for Fall 1997 and Spring 1998: Reg. mtg. held 1st Mon. of each month. Llano area field trip scheduled Student chapter Christmas banquet Trip to offshore drilling rig museum Trip to Kilgore oil museum Joint field trip with other TX schools Attend the MPG annual convention in SLC