Explorer August 2009 Issue: Exploration Innovations

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Candidates Announced for 2010-11

AAPG officer candidates have been announced for the 2010-11...

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Matson, Braunstein Awardees Announced

The best paper and poster presenters have been selected fro...

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Women Weigh-In on Workplace

The results are in: AAPG's PROWESS Work Force Retention Survey provides insights into toda...

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Curriculum Accreditation Needed

Commentary: A study indicates that accreditation for geolog...

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Geology Art Shows Set

What happens when the world of art combines with geology? Art displays the different way earth scientists think about the eart...

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Global Satellite View Revealing

A day at the beach: A team of geoscientists says remote sensing techniques may provide an efficient way of understanding later...

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Gas Has a Big Future to Live Up To

There’s a lot of talk about the need for more natural gas in the energy mix. But there’s a big, unanswered questio...

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It Takes a Team To Tackle Strat

A lot of work must take place separately for geologists and geophysicists before they can synchronize their data and come up w...

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Elm Coulee Idea Opened New Play

Oil and gas finders are enamored with the Williston Basin these days, looking for the next big find in the upper Devonian-Lowe...

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Researchers Are Thinking Small

It’s not a big thing – except, perhaps, in its world-changing potential: Nanotechnology continues to grow in influence a...

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'Reporters' Look for Leftovers

Telling a new story: 'Nano-reporters' are the smallest 'next big thing' for the energy industry, and what they're finding has ...

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It Takes Big Ideas To Drill Big Wells

Air power? Getting heavy drilling equipment into challenging areas – the Arctic, for example – may be easier thanks to an old ...

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What's In It For Me?

If you're reading this you're probably already an AAPG member, but you also probably get questioned from time to time about wh...

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Our Goal: No Geologist Left Behind

As part of the focus on providing the best science, AAPG is reviewing all of our products and services against the needs of th...

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EMD an Unconventional Resource

Are you passionate about unconventional energy resources? Would you like to learn as much as possible about the latest concept...

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Welding Geology to Seismic Images

Vertical seismic profiling (VSP) is a measurement procedure in which a seismic sensor is lowered to a sequence of selected dep...

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The 'Sausage' of Climate Change

As is often the case with legislation in the U.S. Congress, it takes a crisis to pass it. Absent a handy crisis, a looming Con...

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Wanted: Data Sets For Barrel Award

The AAPG Imperial Barrel Award has had two years now of dramatic growth and enthusiasm.

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Corporation Members Re-Elected in Denver

Six Members of the AAPG Foundation Corporation were re-elected as regular members at ...

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