EAGE Newsletter Students Issue 1 2015

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EAGE NEWSLETTER

STUDENTS

Issue 1 2015

Reflections on our Australian debut Hon Prof Peter Lloyd.

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eter Lloyd, co-chair, EAGE Student Affairs Committee, reports on the EAGE student programmes at the ASEG/ PESA 24th International Geophysical Conference and Exhibition in Perth, Western Australia, and the lead up to Madrid 2015. We came, we quizzed, we partnered! Maybe not quite as dramatic as Caesar’s words after his Pontic triumphs, but EAGE’s first foray into Australasia nevertheless felt as if it had been planned with almost military precision. Though instead of taking prisoners, we made friends. ASEG and PESA put on one of the best conferences in Perth that I have ever attended anywhere, in terms of the quality of the technical sessions and the level of engagement in the exhibition hall. It was a privilege for EAGE to be involved and to contribute as part of the conference’s student outreach programme, which also included mentoring, mock interviews and career talks.

Win a prize with the correct answer! Who will kick off with an inspirational talk during the Student Chapter Meeting on 4 June in Madrid? Send your answer to students@eage.org and receive one of of our selected books for free!

The University of Western Australia won the honours at the EAGE Geo-Quiz night facilitated by our EAGE Asia Pacific Office team, headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Twenty teams, from 10 universities across the continent, faced off under the ‘Southern Cross’ for a wonderful open-air evening event. The victors were decided on the very last question, winning by a margin of just two points from a possible 1000. Nail-biting stuff! The winning WA team will now head to Madrid for the Annual Conference in June and compete against previous Geo-Quiz champions like Imperial College, Heriot Watt University and Institut Francais du Petrol (IFP). As winners, their travel, accommodation and conference fees will be sponsored by the EAGE. Special thanks to Adrian Noetzli and his Perth committee for helping compose 50 excellent questions, and encouraging so many strong university teams to compete. And that was not all we had to celebrate. We welcome Aaron Girard as our new Australasian representative on the Student Affairs Committee, and Dr Gaynor Paton has kindly agreed to be our new student lecturer for the 2015-2016 tours of Australasia and the Far East. With EAGE student representation and programmes in the America’s, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Russia, India, China, the Far East and now Australasia, we might be tempted to say that the SAC has now joined that elite group ‘upon whom the sun never sets’. I have to confess that I thought this was a Churchillian saying about the Brits in the late 1800s, but the basic idea appears to have come from Herodotus’ Histories, Xerxes and the Persian invasion of Europe in 480 BC (Georg Buechmann, 1864). So let’s not get too carried away, and be reminded that pride goes before the fall (as it certainly did with Read more on page 2 ➤

Madrid 2015 Student Programme is made for you!

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y June, the academic year will be winding down for students. But before the summer break, don’t forget to attend the Student Programme at the EAGE Annual Conference on 1-4 June in Madrid. This will provide a perfect opportunity to network and expand your geoscience horizons. The technical programme consists of student poster presentations, a field trip on Monday exploring the Spanish Central System, motivational speeches on Tuesday and Thursday and a series of short courses on Tuesday and Wednesday. Over the years, the student short courses and workshops have become an integral part of the Student Programme. For the 77th

EAGE Conference and Exhibition in Madrid, we will continue this tradition with the organization of three student short courses, on Tuesday 2 June and Wednesday 3 June. On Tuesday, students can participate in the courses on ‘Tectonics-Sedimentation Relations’ presented by Josep Poblet (Universidad de Oviedo) and ‘Potential Fields Methods for Hydrocarbon Exploration’ presented Read more on page 2 ➤

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