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Young Professionals are leaving AAPG, or simply not joining, for several reasons, but primarily because of competition from other professional societies. This is according to feedback from YPs at the ninth annual Young Professional Leadership Summit in Houston.

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Latin America Blog

AAPG camaraderie was in full swing in December, which featured social projects and holiday celebrations throughout the region. The AAPG family in Trinidad & Tobago Chapter hosted visitors from the University of Suriname Chapter and took them on a 7-day Trinidad GeoTour featuring outcrop tours, industry visits and classroom sessions.

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In the fast-paced world of technological innovations, training often has a hard time keeping up. In addition, the geoscientists and engineers who need to update their knowledge and skills are best served by on-demand micro-learning, which is both engaging and effective. Welcome to an interview with Shipeng Fu, Knowledgette (http://www.knowledgette.com), who has envisioned a training platform as well as content for on-demand micro-training, and which is free for AAPG members.

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Latin America Blog

AAPG LACR volunteers had an active month in November, representing the Association at events in Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia and Mexico. Students and young professionals taught more than 3100 grade school students about geosciences at Earth Science Week activities.

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Latin America Blog

In October 2018 the AAPG Latin America and Caribbean Region held its first-ever joint event with the SPE Colombia Section. The workshop, Optimizing Geosciences and Engineering to Maximize Colombia’s Offshore Potential, included high profile speakers and state-of-the-art technical presentations.

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The first AAPG Beijing Geosciences Technology Workshop, October 26-28, took place in Beijing and represented a number of 'firsts.' The theme was 'Deep and Ultra-Deep Petroleum Systems: What We Know and Don't Know' and the event featured a strong technical program and international cases and topics.

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Asia Pacific Blog

AGSCE – Empowering Future Geoscientists Asia Geoscience Student Conference & Exhibition (AGSCE) 2018, a monumental milestone, hosted by Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP), was a 2-day international event held from 29th October to 30th October 2018. To empower the geoscience student community in Asia, EAGE UTP and AAPG UTP Student Chapters worked in tandem to organise the first edition of AGSCE, which was participated by over 400 attendees from 6 countries, 16 different universities from Asia as well the endorsement of 17 sponsors and exhibitors.

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Imagine if Siri or Alexa went to school, got an advanced degree in Petroleum Engineering and Geoscience, then went to work in the oilfield for several years, attended technical conferences, read journals and books; envision the product and the process, and you’d have NESH, the Smart Assistant for oil and gas. In addition, you have a chance to try out NESH and collaborate and explore a customizable artificial intelligence. It’s a tremendous opportunity. Welcome to an interview with Sidd Gupta, founder of NESH.

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We are pleased to announce that AAPG has scheduled this research conference to be held June 18-20, 2019 in Houston, Texas. Convenors for this conference are Dr. Dietmar (Deet) Schumacher and Dr. Gary K. Rice.

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Latin America Blog

AAPG had a strong presence at regional events in September, with stands at the Mexican Petroleum Congress in Acapulco, the Peruvian Geological Congress in Lima and volunteer support at Rio Oil & Gas in Rio de Janeiro.

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