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A new study of sunken vessels in the Gulf of Mexico has ramifications for the oil industry — and it asks the question, can man-made reefs be beneficial in the deep water, too?

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Consider this scenario: It is the mid-21st century. All continental U.S. cities, towns and hamlets are now connected to one another by a continent-wide system of water pipelines.

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Explorer Article

A Position Paper that takes to task a Wilderness Society report on recoverable resources in the Western United States has been approved by the AAPG Executive Committee.

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Explorer Article

Biodiversity has become an important buzz word, and the industry is responding with increasing awareness of sensitive areas.

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The technical program is in place and the time to register has arrived for an international event that has huge benefits for all.

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A strong emphasis in environmental geology and a 'significant increase' in the number of international graduate geoscience students at North American institutions are revealed in the latest AAPG Status of Academic Geoscience Departments report.

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Explorer Regions and Sections

The impressively large response to the call for papers is an indication that the 2004 AAPG International Conference and Exhibition in Cancun, Mexico, is shaping up to be one of the year's most important meetings.

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Explorer Article

T. Boone Pickens joked that it took 25 years for him to be asked to speak at an AAPG annual meeting -- and when the opportunity finally arose the topic was water, not oil and gas.

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Honey, I shrunk the … vibroseis truck? Robert Stewart, a professor of geophysics at the University of Calgary (Canada), is the alter ego of the fictional movie scientist who accidentally shrinks his kids in an experiment that goes terribly wrong.

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The mystery deepens — what did happen to the dinosaurs? In the Case of the Mass Extinction, the earth's geologic record is providing some new and, for some, surprising clues.

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Field Seminar
Houston, Texas
Saturday, 1 February 2025, 8:30 a.m.–1:00 p.m.

Everyone in Houston lives within a few miles of a bayou. Some people think of them as permanent, but the bayous are constantly changing, especially during high water events like Hurricane Harvey. This trip is a 2.5 mile walk down a section of Buffalo Bayou where we will look at the archives of past storms and discuss what to do for future storms.

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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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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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