HGS is the host Society
for the next AAPG Convention and Exhibition,
April 10-13 2011 at the
George R. Brown Convention Center
Attendance at the last AAPG in Houston in 2006 was a record 8300 people.
HGS is working hard to launch the next big convention ; the sky is the limit!
This upcoming 2011 convention celebrates “Making the Next Giant Leap in Geosciences” as the slogan, marking the 50 th anniversary of the launch of the Moon shot program, initiated by JFK here in Houston in 1962. Steve Levine (ConocoPhillips) is the 2011 General Convention Chairman; he served as HGS President 2004-2005.
The call for submission of oral papers and posters is live now at www.aapg.org/houston2011.
The deadline to submit a paper is September 23, 2010. Use the online website at http://aapg2011ace.abstractcentral.com
The abstract site is set up so that presenters will choose a theme after entering user name and password and entering text. Abstracts are limited to 2500 characters.
Here are the eleven themes for the Houston 2011 convention:
Theme 1: Molecules to Marketplace: the Business of Energy
Chair: Jeff Lund (Corridor Resources)
Theme 2: Global Deepwater Reservoirs: Giant Leaps in E&P
Chair: Art Donovan (BP)
Theme3: Worldwide E&P: Opportunities of the New Decade
Chair: Robin Hamilton (Shell)
Theme 4: Challenged Resource Frontiers
CoChairs: Keith Shanley and Kevin Bohacs (ExxonMobil)
Theme 5: Mudstones and Shales: Unlocking the Promise
Chair: Dan Jarvie
Theme 6: Siliciclastics: Advancing Research to Resource
Chair: Janok Bhattacharya (U of H)
Theme 7: Insight into Carbonates and Evaporites
Chair: Steve Bachtel (Chevron)
Theme 8: Breakthroughs: Tectonics, Salt and Basin Analysis
Chair: Martin Perlmutter (Chevron)
Theme 9: Integrating New Technology, Geophysics
and Subsurface Data -- Chair: R. Randy Ray
Theme 10: Energy and Environmental Horizons
Chair: Anthony Gorody
Theme 11: The Next Geo-Generation: Who, What , Where?
Chair: Denise Butler (Shell)
For Technical Program questions, contact:
Linda Sternbach, linda.sternbach@gmail.com, 281-679-7333
Carl Steffensen, Carl.Steffensen@bp.com, 281 366 0809