In April, AAPG’s Digital Media Team launched four topic-specific e-newsletters for geoscientists. Each of these e-newsletters is sent once weekly to subscribers via email and is written by a geoscience expert for geoscientists and geology enthusiasts.
The purpose of these newsletters goes beyond sharing relevant geoscience information and news: AAPG hopes each newsletter will create an engagement platform for its members and the energy professional community at large. Now, the conversation will extend into print via four new sections in EXPLORER, each named after one of the four e-newsletters. The articles in EXPLORER will expand on topics covered in the newsletters, providing even more information on topics that resonated with the digital readership and creating continuity across AAPG’s digital and print media.
Core Elements
Core Elements, is written by Rasoul Sorkhabi and will cover the latest news, trends and developments in geoscience research and projects. Sorkhabi is a geoscientist, professor and researcher at The University of Utah’s Energy and Geoscience Institute in Salt Lake City. The digital version of this section is sent via email every Monday and speaks to the unique challenges and triumphs of the geoscience industry. For the debut of Core Elements in EXPLORER, Sorkhabi has chosen to touch on a new study looking at what happened to remnants of a protoplanet, Theia, that researchers hypothesize to have collided with Earth.
Well Read
Well Read, in EXPLORER, is written by Shangyou Nie, a retired strategy adviser from Shell and non-resident fellow at the Center for Global Energy Policy at Columbia University. Every Wednesday, Nie sends out the Well Read digital newsletter, which covers news updates and trends in upstream energy business. Topics extend from investments to M&A deals and beyond. In this story for EXPLORER, Nie analyzes the growing gap in valuations between the European and American majors, what might be causing it, and if it may narrow in the future.
Enspired
The Enspired section builds off AAPG’s tech and innovation e-newsletter that is emailed to subscribers every Tuesday. Written by Sarah Compton, a geoscientist and founder of Compton Integrated Analytics, it covers new technology, innovative ways to use existing technology, and the role that geoscientists play in technology’s responsible use and development. Compton’s first section in EXPLORER analyzes results from a recent survey that AAPG conducted to examine what fuels individual innovation in oil and gas according to geoscientists.
GeoLifestyle
GeoLifestyle, which is sent every Thursday by geologist and geo-communicator Cate Larsen, covers ways to incorporate geology into everyday life. From crafts, books and movies to self-care methods and gifts, GeoLifestyle suggests creative ways to combine geology and leisure. For this issue of EXPLORER, the GeoLifestyle section will cover five geology-inspired ways to spend summer down time.
You can sign up to receive any (or all!) of AAPG’s four weekly e-newsletters at AAPG.org/Newsletters. Members are not automatically subscribed, so you must opt in online. The e-newsletters are free and available to the public, so please share them with your larger community of geology enthusiasts and geoscientists, even if they are not AAPG members. We hope these new sections spark conversations between you, your geoscience peers and the larger AAPG and energy professional communities. If you have any feedback, insights or ideas for topics we should cover, you can reach the AAPG digital media team via email at [email protected].