Explorer President’s Column

What’s the easiest way to enter a heated argument with your co-worker, neighbor or perhaps even your spouse? Just start talking about the range of possible reasons for the climate changes we have recorded in the past century.

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Explorer Article

This article discusses how the United States and other countries will dispose high-level radioactive waste. The challenge is finding ways of storage that provides adequate protection for hundreds of thousands of years.

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Explorer Article

The Yucca Mountain in Nevada is a proposed geologic repository for high-level radioactive waste.  According to John Stuckless, 'the plan is sound from an earth science perspective'.

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Explorer Article

This year’s Distinguished Lecture program, funded in part by the AAPG Foundation, will offer 14 lecturers largest slate of speakers in the program’s history– nine domestic and five international.

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Explorer Article

Read an interview of U.S. Geological Survey Director Mark Myers. He's an AAPG member, was nominated by President Bush and confirmed by the Senate in 2006, and heads up an entity that has more than 10,000 scientists, technicians and support staff. It covers a range of issues, from research to funding to the tricky areas of politics and science.

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Explorer Emphasis Article

Don't feel bad if you haven't grasped the uses and benefits of geophysical tools in unconventional plays -- you're not alone. But here's something you need to know.

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Explorer Policy Watch

This month marks the twentieth month of operation for the AAPG Geoscience and Energy Office in Washington, D.C., and we will debate on energy legislation and defense spending.

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Explorer Emphasis Article

Today’s high product prices and demand for oil make tertiary recovery projects important and even necessary. Carbon dioxide injection, better known as CO2 flooding, is a technique of choice for enhanced recovery from older oil fields. Ironically CO2 tertiary recovery projects and sequestration research are stymied by the same, restrictive problem: There isn’t enough CO2.

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Explorer Article

Eduardo Berendson, Valary Schulz, and Rebecca Dodge share their experience and expertise as part of AAPG's Visting Geoscientist Program, a program that brings professional geoscientists together with students from throughout the United States, Canada and 30 other countries.

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Explorer Article

The 14 AAPG Position Statements have been reviewed and updated by the DPA Government Affairs Committee and approved by the AAPG Executive Committee, including the much-discussed Climate Change statement.

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Short Course
Houston, Texas
Friday, 28 April 2023, 9:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.

To go through the different stages of a CCS project and discuss which geophysical data/methods are pertinent: workshop format with short presentation and lots of discussion/Q&A

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Short Course
Houston, Texas
Friday, 28 April 2023, 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.

As part of the international effort to combat global warming, significant attention is being given to ways to sequester (store for the long-term) carbon dioxide, which is a major contributor to the greenhouse effect. This one-day course will look at some of the ways in which carbon dioxide can be stored and provide a detailed review of the SRMS framework prepared by the Society of Petroleum Engineers to classify and categorize the storage volumes.

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Workshop
Lviv, Ukraine
Thursday, 21 September Friday, 22 September 2023, 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.

Join us for a workshop where experts will  explore the Carpathian foreland and the Dnieper-Donetsk rift basins with a focus not only on hydrocarbons, but the utilization of geothermal resources, hydrogen exploration and CCUS.

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DL Abstract

Local sea-level changes are not simply a function of global ocean volumes but also the interactions between the solid Earth, the Earth’s gravitational field and the loading and unloading of ice sheets. Contrasting behaviors between Antarctica and Scotland highlight how important the geologic structure beneath the former ice sheets is in determining the interactions between ice sheets and relative sea levels.

Request a visit from Alex Simms!

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DL Abstract

President Biden has laid out a bold and ambitious goal of achieving net-zero carbon emissions in the United States by 2050.  The pathway to that target includes cutting total greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030 and eliminating them entirely from the nation’s electricity sector by 2035. The Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management will play an important role in the transition to net-zero carbon emissions by reducing the environmental impacts of fossil energy production and use – and helping decarbonize other hard-to abate sectors.

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Request a visit from Jennifer Wilcox!

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