1st Meeting of the semester is Tuesday, Sept. 2nd at 5:30 pm in room BESC 380. Sverre Henriksen is the guest speaker. The talk is entitled: Shelf edge and shoreline trajectories; a dynamic approach to stratigraphic analysis. Examples from offshore Norway, Brazil, Venezuela and Niger Delta.

6th Annual Rocky Mountain Rendezvous: Click here for info on the Rendezvous September 19-22 in Laramie, Wyoming

Petroleum-company recruiting through our department (September and October). See Barbara Amaral to sign up for an interview. Generally this is for graduate students, but some companies will meet with upper-level undergraduate students. She will have the sheets near her desk.

AAPG Grants-in-Aid (~$1500 to $2500 per grant) – 3 of our students received them last year! These are not due until January, but the date generally sneaks up quickly: Click here for the AAPG Grants-in-Aid webpage

L. Austin Weeks Undergraduate Student Grant ($500 to the student; $500 to the AAPG Student Chapter) Click here for info on the AAPG L. Austin Weeks Grant This grant is an automatic grant that is awarded to each “ACTIVE” AAPG Chapter. We need undergrads that are interested to complete a brief “application” to be considered for this grant.

Also check out funding opportunities through the following societies:

SEPM Student Research Grants Click here for the link to SEPM Student Grants

SEG Foundation Student Scholarships Click here to see the recipients from last year

EAGE Student Funds Click here for the link to EAGE Student Grants

SPWLA Student Grants Click here then click on Foundation

GSA Student Grants Click here for the link to GSA Student Grants

IAMG - International Association for Mathematical Geosciences Student Grants Click here for the link to IAMG Student Grants
Students have received these in the past; esp. for reservoir modeling research