Three speakers from the AAPG-AAPG Foundation’s Global Distinguished Lecture Program will be on tour in November, making stops in the western parts of North America and throughout the Asia-Pacific Region.
The lecturers, representing AAPG’s flagship initiative for offering audiences the latest in geologic science, will be speaking to AAPG affiliated geological societies and university groups.
Touring in November will be:
♦ Bruce Fouke, director of the Roy J. Carver Biotechnology Center and professor of geology, microbiology and the Institute for Genomic Biology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Ill.
Fouke is this year’s Roy M. Huffington Lecturer, and he will be offering three talks, ranging from “state-of-the-art oil field geobiology” to coral reef ecosystems to “insights from the deep microbial biosphere.”
His lecture itinerary is:
Nov. 3 – VNU University of Science, Vietnam National University, Thanh Xuan, Hanoi, Vietnam.
Nov. 5 – Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Onna-son, Kunigami-gun, Okinawa.
Nov. 10 – James Cook University, Townsville, Australia.
Nov. 12 – University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Nov. 14 – University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
♦ Ken Miller, Distinguished Professor, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Rutgers, Piscataway, N.J.
Miller is this year’s Dean A. McGee Lecturer, and he also offers three talks, on subjects ranging from with sea-level rise, deep sea isotopic records and sequence stratigraphy.
His lecture itinerary is:
Nov. 3 – Grand Valley State University, Allendale, Mich.
Nov. 4 – Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, La.
Nov. 5 – Albuquerque Geological Society, Albuquerque, N.M.
Nov. 6 – University of Oklahoma Student Chapter, Norman, Okla.
Nov. 7 – Four Corners Geological Society, Durango, Colo.
Nov. 10 – Wyoming Geological Association, Casper, Wyo.
Nov. 11 – Montana Geological Society, Billings, Mont.
Nov. 13 – Saskatchewan Geological Society, Regina, Canada.
♦ Lisa Towery, senior geologist, BP America, Houston.
Towery’s lecture is titled “Appropriate Reservoir Modeling: Integration Across Subsurface Disciplines.”
Her lecture itinerary is:
Nov. 18 – Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colo.
Nov. 19 – Wyoming Geological Association, Casper, Wyo.
Nov. 20 – Montana Geological Society, Billings, Mont.
Nov. 21 – Saskatchewan Geological Society, Regina, Canada.