AAPG Student Outlook

The Student Chapter YouTube video contest returns for 2013 in time for ACE Pittsburgh! -Deadline quickly approaching.
After a successful trial at last year’s AAPG ACE meeting in Long Beach, CA with Suez Canal capturing the top video prize:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qJuxdTVhak

http://www.aapg.org/explorer/2012/06jun/wwwupdate0612.cfm

The AAPG Student Chapter Committee would like to announce that the 2013 AAPG Student Chapter YouTube competition is now underway and will award $1,000 for the top video, $300 for 2nd and $100 for 3rd place.

To participate please have your chapter create a video and upload it to YouTube. Then send the link to Mike Mlynek at AAPG mikem@aapg.org

Rules:

Videos should highlight your Chapter and your activities.

Videos should not be longer than 3 minutes.

Only 1 video entry per AAPG Student [more] …

I have been asked to share the below information with the AAPG Students.
****NOTE CHANGE IN APPLICATION DEADLINE****  now 1 June 2013
The Stephen E. Laubach Structural Diagenesis Research Award Fund promotes research combining structural geology and diagenesis, and curriculum development in structural diagenesis. The donors believe multidisciplinary approaches often reveal new insights into long-standing problems and expose productive avenues for enquiry. To help promote the cross disciplinary emphasis of this annual award, the Sedimentary Geology and Structural Geology & Tectonics Divisions have been designated to jointly select the recipient.

Graduate students, postgraduate and faculty level researchers are eligible.

This award addresses the rapidly growing recognition that fracturing, cement precipitation and dissolution, evolving rock mechanical properties and other structural diagenetic processes can govern recovery [more] …

If you are a Student or Student YP and are traveling to ACE 2013 in Pittsburgh you may be starting to plan out you meeting. Here are some can’t miss activities you need to take advantage of: http://www.aapg.org/pittsburgh2013/StudentActivities.cfm.

If you haven’t already registered for ACE 2013 do it here
1. IBA Short Course
If you are interested in possibly competing in the IBA program in the future and want a jump start the IBA prep class may be for you. The IBA class will be on Sunday May 19th from 8:30 a.m. -2:30 p.m. in room 306/307 of the David L. Lawrence Convention Center

How to sign up: To sign up for this exciting course taught by Bob Stewart [more] …

September and October of 2012 will contain four of AAPG’s premier Student Expo and Career Fair events for Geoscience students and companies to meet, network and hire top talent for the energy industry. Events will range in location from Houston, Texas and Laramie, Wyoming to Cleveland, Ohio and Northridge, California. These AAPG events help students to land a career in the energy industry and energy companies to find their top talent for the future.
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For a video of last years RMR please click on the image below.