L. Austin Weeks Undergraduate Grant Program 2007-2008 October 24, 2007
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The AAPG Foundation is pleased to announce the L. Austin Weeks Memorial Undergraduate Grant Program for the 2007-2008 school years. L. Austin Weeks Undergraduate Grant is a grant provided through the AAPG Foundation to benefit and support undergraduate geoscience students and their departments with educational expenses. The disbursement of the grant for the current school year will consist of a maximum amount of $1,000 per qualified student chapter. Half of the calculated grant will be given to a qualified undergraduate student. The remaining is for the geoscience department, and should be used to support educational activities of the Student Chapter, i.e. for equipment, conferences, fieldtrips, etc.
The application must be completed, and the list of student chapter officers and members must be received at AAPG Headquarters by DECEMBER 15, 2007.
References:
1. L. Austin Weeks Undergraduate Grant
2. Announcement and Application Form (PDF)
AAPG Asia Pacific – July 2007 Report August 14, 2007
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First half of 2007 Activity Review:
- Distinguished Lecturer / Visiting Geologists Program
- Craig Shipp (DL) visited West Malaysia, Japan, China, Vietnam, Malaysia, Thailand, India, Bangladesh and Pakistan.
- Herman Darman (VGP) visited Perth and organizes a field trip for University Malaya, Malaysia.
- Geovani Christopher (VGP) visited 2 universities in China
- Syed Tariq Hasany (VGP) visited 1 university in Pakistan
- Peter Lloyd (VGP) in Indonesia visited about 9 universities in Indonesia.
- Conference / Meeting
- February: AAPG Leadership ConferenceAsia Pacific region sponsored Dr. Lee Chai Peng, president of the Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM), an affiliate society of AAPG, to attend the conference.
- March: PAPG – SPE Pakistan conference
- AP Region President was invited to contribute an opening letter for the conference proceedings.
- AAPG display a poster in the conference.
- April: SEAPEX conference Singapore
- AP Region President gave an award to Richard Lorentz, SEAPEX past president, for his support on AAPG student chapters in Indonesia. SEAPEX donated S$10,000 for AAPG SC in Indonesia
- AAPG display a poster in an exhibition booth.
- Asia Pacific region executive committee meeting was held to discuss various issues.
- April: Long Beach conference
- AP Region sent our delegates to attend AC and HoD meeting. The delegates were led by Mick McWalter (Region Secretary) and John Kaldi (Past President)
- May: IPA conference in Jakarta, Indonesia
- AAPG sponsored 4 students to join the conference
- AAPG student chapter open an exhibition booth to display their activities.
- Student Chapters: AAPG Student Chapters in the Asia Pacific region are very active. They organized workshops, field trips, and lectures. They prepared mid year reports, which are available online in here
- China: 3 new student chapters were formed
- India: 2 new student chapters were formed
- Australia: incorporating PESA student chapters, they will be treated the same as AAPG student chapter.
- Philippines: preparing one student chapter.
- Pakistan: preparing one student chapter.
- Indonesia: AAPG SC of University of Indonesia received an award from AAPG as the Outstanding AAPG Student Chapter – International for 2007
- Others:
- Web site: Agus M. Ustad, new volunteer to help in maintaining AAPG Asia Pacific website.
- AAPG Cape Town Conference 2008: Asia Pacific region will actively support this conference by organizing some session to cover India-Pakistan-Bangladesh and Southeast Asia – Pacific regions.
Next half of 2007 Planning
- Mature the formation of the Regional Advisory Council.
- DL:
- Peter Mc Cabe: to visit various cities in Australia
- Don Lawton: to visit several countries in Asia
- September: Circum Pacific Energy Conference in China
- Regional office: continue to evaluate the opportunity to open an office in the region.
AAPG Student Chapter of University of Malaya Organized a Field Trip to Northwest Borneo (Sarawak and Brunei) July 30, 2007
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On May 4, 2007, 30 students of AAPG Student Chapter of University Malaya, Kuala Lumpur – Malaysia, came to Miri for 3 days field trip. This group of students, were accompanied by 2 lecturers Prof. Dr. Wan Hasiah Abdullah and Prof. Denis Tan. The field trip itself was led by Shell geologists: Navpreet Singh and Govarthanan Gangatharan (Shell Malaysia) and Herman Darman (Shell Brunei, who also the AAPG Asia Pacific region president).
During this 3 days trip, the students went to observe a number of excellent outcrops in Northwest Borneo, visited Shell office in Miri to see some presentations, and also visited onshore drilling site in Brunei. The students learnt a number of petroleum geology aspects from this trip. This trip was ended on May 6, and the students flew safely back to Kuala Lumpur. The organizers and participants of this trip would like to thank Shell Malaysia as the sole sponsor for this program.
AAPG Asia Pacific Region 2007 Award July 30, 2007
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Richard Lorentz (Pearl Oil – Singapore) received AAPG Asia Pacific Region award during the SEAPEX conference, 24 April 2007 in Singapore. Richard is the past president of SEAPEX (Southeast Asia Petroleum Exploration Society) which is based in Singapore. This organization, has sponsored AAPG Student Chapter activities in Indonesia in the last couple of years. With this sponsorship, the AAPG Student Chapters in Indonesia have organized annual leadership meetings. The meetings were held in Jakarta and attended by about 12 student chapters from all over Indonesia. Last year the meeting was also attended by a representative of AAPG Student Chapter in University Malaya (Kuala Lumpur – Malaysia).
This AAPG region award is the first award given in the Asia Pacific Region. There will be more award for recognize excellent members who contribute and / or dedicate to AAPG activities and program in the region. The Regional Advisory Council will give their nomination once a year. Proposal for candidates will be received by the region president or any of the executive committe member.
Mid Year Reports 2007 July 26, 2007
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These are some of Mid Year Reports of Asia Pasific Student Chapters. You can find more informations about their activities by reading their reports.
CUP06 SC of AAPG – Indonesia
UGM SC of AAPG – Indonesia
UNDIP SC of AAPG – Indonesia
UM SC of AAPG – Malaysia (updated Aug 2, 2007)
PU SC of AAPG – China (updated Aug 16, 2007)
IITR SC of AAPG – India (updated Aug 16, 2007)
Geovani’s Message July 3, 2007
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Dear AAPG Student Chapter’s Leaders in Asia Pacific Region,
Upon thinking of a better way to spread information on AAPG Student Chapter (SC) Operation to all student chapter’s leaders throughout the region effectively, I finally found that putting a note every particular period (once a month?) through this AAPG Asia Pacific Region web is one of the best. Therefore, I don’t have to repeat the same message to every one for a certain important thing that I would like you to know (as what I have done). In addition to that, this web has been a place for SC activity highlights, which you have to visit to get inspirations.
One milestone in SC life is now coming. No one who claims that he/she got an active SC doesn’t comply with this duty. And never ever to do this if your chapter thinks it’s rich enough to fund all activities, and ungrudgingly to let US$1000 flies away. It is one of Annual Reports that dues sometime in July or August according to the Bylaws and SC Operational Manual (see attachment). It is the End Term or Final Report that every single SC has to submit to Mike Mlynek at student@aapg.org (cc to myself).
Petroleum System Trip in Cepu Field by UGM Student Chapter July 2, 2007
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The activity was held in two days field trip with direct method come to field. The Fieldtrip was held on Sunday and Monday at December, 3rd – 4th 2006 in Cepu,Central Java. The title is “Petroleum System Trip in Cepu Field”. This is the activities each stop sites :
Sequence Stratigraphy workshop and field trip by China University of Petroleum Student Chapter May 31, 2007
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Topic 1, Sequence Stratigraphy and its Applications in the Field
Pingping Li, the vice president of CUP06 SC of AAPG, China, give an outline of Sequence Stratigraphy, reviewed the history and the latest progresses of this subject (Fig. right). He proposed that, to identify sequence boundaries is critical to set up a framework of the strata in a studied area. These boundaries can be recognized by several characteristics, especially in the field. As an example, the field work in the West of Sichuan Basin, as well as in the front of Longmen Shan Mountain, West China, is introduced (Fig. right).
AAPG Outstanding Student Chapter – International for 2007 (Univ. of Indonesia) April 18, 2007
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Dear University of Indonesia AAPG Student Chapter,
Congratulations on being awarded the Outstanding AAPG Student Chapter – International for 2007!
Please see the Schlumberger press release at the link below.
http://newsroom.slb.com/press/newsroom/index.cfm?prid=20564
