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Student Chapters Activities GeoCast By SEG Student Chapter of the National University of Tucumán From Tucumán, the smallest province in Argentina, a great proposal was born at the initiative of our Advisor, José Pablo López, PhD. Committed to scientific disclosure, in 2017 he published his first book on the subject: "Essential Geology", today he is carrying out an inspiring project, GEOCAST, a YouTube channel designed to spread geology in areas outside the academic environment. This initiative is aimed at the general public and aims to communicate, teach, and inspire students, to geosciences enthusiasts, and even to primary and secondary school teachers so that the content of the channel can be used as a trigger to develop the geoscientific interest and knowledge in schools. The premises are clear and simple: always base on scientific knowledge and approach it with academic rigor; transmite it in simple language and have fun with the creative process of GEOCAST, a channel where anyone can bring themselves to interpret a landscape, classify a rock or a ground, or simply understand what surrounds us and that many times has been presented as “incomprehensible”.
which it would be destined as well as the depth with which we should work. The rest was dare and experiment. Soon after, many colleagues from diverse specialties joined in and made their contribution therefore expanding the limits of our own knowledge. Personally, I hope GEOCAST will be a channel with much more than Geology, since Geophysics, for example, also has a lot to say, and as we grow, new ideas, new proposals and new horizons will emerge. If you ask me about my expectations, actually I like to imagine that GEOCAST can become a medium in which many of us can express ourselves, communicate and make a great contribution to the geoscientific knowledge of our time.” José Pablo López Biography: José Pablo López, PhD In Geology, Professor of the Petrology seat and member of the Postgraduate Career of the Faculty of Natural Sciences of the National University of Tucumán, researcher at the Higher Institute of Geological Correlation (INSUGEOCONICET), advisor of the student chapter (UNT) of the SEG, editor of "Essential Geology" and creator of the You Tube channel of scientific dissemination GEOCAST.
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When asked how the idea came up? JP (pseudonym by which the university community knows him) told us: “With the pandemic, virtuality forced me (like all my colleagues) to explore beyond my comfort zone; I had to learn about "new-old" technologies, try new dynamics in my classes, learn from my students, younger and less structured ... That is how we came up with this idea and it started taking shape in talks with colleagues until, in mid-November 2020, we uploaded the first video. With colleagues and students we gave it the format, we agreed on the characteristics and the platform, we decided the audience to
As student chapter related to SEG and our responsibility to share information about Geophysicist to students, professors, workers of geosciences and the public, our chapter in collaboration to another chapters from Mexico decided to create activities with different specs that could be helpful to students and professionals to learn about new opportunities on geophysics in Mexico. To achieve our goal, we create and collaborate in these activities: Courses SEG UJAT promoted three different courses on April, May and June 2021, those courses as an introduction to our associates in these areas: Seismic data processing by our classmate and founder of our chapter Luis Oscar Ascencio Vera. Oil seismic interpreta-
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