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There’s a good way for you to save up to $120 on your registration fee for this year’s AAPG Annual Convention.

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The abstracts are in hand and the final technical program for this year’s AAPG International Conference and Exhibition is being finalized for posting within the next several weeks.

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The coastal Louisiana landscape was built from sediments supplied by the Mississippi River and deposited on its delta or along adjacent shorelines, carried there by longshore currents.

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The Energy Minerals Division (EMD) will be sponsoring an unprecedented number of sessions, forums and short courses at the upcoming 2008 AAPG Annual Convention, which will be held April 20-23 in San Antonio.

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Just how valuable is the Gulf of Mexico? Valuable enough for one group to start an initiative to ensure its protection – from both natural and man-made threats.

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The climate change position statement rewrite process in AAPG brought to light several interesting characteristics of our membership and AAPG as an organization.

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Researchers have studied the possibilities of practical nano-scale science for 25 years, with special emphasis on the properties of materials at that scale. Today, nanotech involves many disciplines, including (but not limited to): Chemical engineering, Materials science, Applied physics, Electrical engineering, and Mechanical engineering.

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Andrew Miall writes a book called 'Canada Rocks, The Geologic Journey'. It takes you into a geologic (and scenic) tour of Canada, that celebrates the role geology has played in the country’s history.

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El-Baz believes that the provision of water to all who need it, in addition to resources that can be used for economic (agriculture and agro-industries) purposes, can ease the pressures that are contributing to a brutally violent war there and provide stability to the entire country.

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Learn who has appointed to the Global Climate Change Solutions Committee.

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Explorer Director’s Corner

Perhaps you did a double take pulling the April issue of EXPLORER from the mailbox. What is this? If you joined AAPG in the last 40 years, you’ve only known EXPLORER in its long-standing tabloid format. It worked well for many years as our advertisers – particularly seismic companies – loved the large format and the ability to display their data on a sweeping canvas. For readers, it was a little more awkward.

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Carbon capture and sequestration reduces emissions, but it cannot work past cost barriers without the revenue opportunities provided by utilization and storage. 

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Nihal Darraj, carbon capture and storage researcher at Imperial College, London shares barriers to CCUS commercialization, including costs, technology, permitting and more. 

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The Paris Basin offers times of both discoveries and failures, from its first well drilled near Normandy in the 1920s to today. 

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