March 2002
Features

AAPG to honor heritage as basis for the future

What's scheduled for the technical program, exhibits and events at the annual American Association of Petroleum Geologists meeting, Houston, March 10-13


Mar. 2002 Vol. 223 No. 3 
Feature Article 

AAPG PREVIEW

AAPG to honor heritage as basis for the future

Preview of the technical program for the annual meeting of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Houston, March 10 – 13

Just when some of the best weather of the year brings the spring blossoming of the azaleas, Houston will host the annual convention of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG), its divisions and the Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM), March 10 through March 13. The three AAPG divisions include Energy Minerals, Professional Affairs and Environmental Geosciences. Venue for the event will be the George R. Brown Convention Center.

The theme of AAPG’s meeting, "Our Heritage: Key to Global Discovery," is meant to honor and derive value from AAPG members’ predecessors and their vast experience. As geologists, members will be encouraged to use their heritage as a key to unlock new discoveries worldwide. In the words of the Convention Coordinating Committee, this "is truly a case of the past being a key to our future."

 

This year’s attendance is projected to reach or exceed 8,000, which would be a greater figure than when the event was last held in Houston in 1988.

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An extensive technical program will feature sessions and papers covering 12 different themes. In addition, numerous field trips and short courses will be conducted. There will be 14 field trips fanning out from Houston in all directions. Some of these will be held before or after the regular convention. The 19 short courses will emphasize how to recognize better opportunities for exploration and development. Again, some of these sessions will be held before or after the convention.

The exhibition hall will feature more than 300 commercial and non-profit exhibits, the AAPG Center, the International Pavilion, the Career Center, the Virtual Café and the Sidewalk Café. The Opening Session in the General Assembly Hall on the afternoon of Sunday, March 10, will again be a multi-media spectacular. Images and music will capture the excitement of the profession and the triumphs of the industry.

Attendance/Exhibits

Given that the convention will be held in Houston, the U.S. oil and gas capital, AAPG officials expect this year’s event to be highly attended. Last year’s attendance in Denver totaled 7,122 geoscientists and other industry professionals, and this was the highest figure since the event was last held in Houston in 1988 (7,645 attendees that year). The projection this year is that more than 8,000 people will attend.

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Houston’s George R. Brown Convention Center

The exhibit hall at the 2002 annual meeting will represent many divergent, yet related, areas of the petroleum industry. Technology displayed in the hall will be complemented by several enhancements that have evolved and improved over past years. More than 300 commercial and non-profit exhibitors will be present.

Other features of the exhibit hall include the AAPG Center. This venue features member services, divisions, AAPG’s publications, General Store, Foundation, future meetings, AAPG/ Datapages and more. In addition, the Career Center will be in booth 149. All job openings, information on prospective employers, job interview schedules, and résumés will be available for review online in the exhibit hall. The International Pavilion (see following page) is where more than 40 countries will tell convention attendees about the oil and gas E&P opportunities in their respective petroleum basins.

Half-day Poster Sessions also will be held in the exhibit hall. They will change in the morning and at noon, each day. Situated near the Poster Sessions and the AAPG Center will be the Sidewalk Café, where attendees can enjoy a meal or snacks with business associates, clients, and guests. The Virtual Café is where attendees can surf the Web, check and respond to e-mail, view the online version of the International Pavilion and follow links to exhibitors’ websites.

International Pavilion

Government ministries, commercial and energy-related agencies and national oil companies from various regions across the globe will exhibit at the International Pavilion, also in the exhibit hall. Initiated in 1994, this venue has grown in participation to more than 40 countries. Some of the countries featured include: Algeria (Sonatrach); Angola; Australia (AGSO); Azerbaijan (ASPG); Benin; Brazil (IGP); Canada (British Columbia); Colombia (Ecopetrol); Congo; Cote d’Ivoire; Ecuador; Egypt (EGPC); Equatorial Guinea (Ministerio de Minas y Energia); Eritrea (Ministry of Energy & Mines); the Falkland Islands (Dept. of Mineral Resources); France (DIMAH-DGEMP); Gabon; Ghana; Greenland (Bureau of Minerals & Petroleum); Indonesia (Pertamina); Malta; Morocco (ONAREP); Namibia (Namcor); New Zealand (Crown Minerals); Peru (Perupetro); Poland (Dept. of Geology, Polish Oil & Gas); Senegal; South Africa (Petroleum Agency of S.A.); Suriname (Staatsolie); Uganda (Petroleum E&P Dept.) and Ukraine (State Committee on Geology and Utilization of Mineral Resources). Given the expanding international portfolios of many oil companies, this has grown to be a popular part of the exhibition. This year, a newly enhanced, map-based online version of the pavilion will be available in the Virtual Café.

Technical Program

As usual, there will be an impressively large assortment of technical sessions and presentations. There are 115 sessions of all kinds, and at least 914 presentations scheduled within them over three days. There will be 56 oral sessions hosting 437 paper presentations. In addition, poster sessions will total 54 and include 450 individual presentations. There are also five "Interactive E-Poster" sessions (26 presentations).

This year, technical content is spread over 12 different themes. These include business, opportunity and vision; worldwide E&P activities; exploration techniques; technology; hydrocarbon source / generation / alteration and migration; sequence / stratigraphy / biostratigraphy; siliciclasitc depositional systems; carbonate depositional systems; reservoir geology and characterization; diagenesis; environment; and other conferences. For convenience, this article includes several tables that list each theme’s technical sessions, plus the date and time of each set of presentations.

Seven of the oral sessions actually amount to panel discussions, three of which are listed as "executive sessions." The first of these executive sessions will be on Monday morning (March 11). It is entitled, "Business challenges facing deepwater development." Invited panelists include Dave Blackwood, vice president – deepwater development, BP; Jose Coutinho Barbosa, director of exploration, Petrobrás; Johnny Hall, vice president, ExxonMobil Development Co.; Rich Sears, vice president – Evaluation and Development Planning, Shell International E&P.; Hoshbaht Yusufzade, vice president, SOCAR (Azerbaijan); and Ian Ashcroft, head of North America Energy, Wood-Mackenzie.

The second executive session on Monday afternoon is "Technology trends – keys to profitability." Invited panelists include Christophe de Margerie, executive vice president, E&P, TotalFinaElf; William T. Drennen, III, vice president, Geoscience, ExxonMobil Upstream Research Co.; Tim R. Marchant, exploration manager, BP Saudi Arabia; Mathias F. Bichsel, director, Deepwater Services, Shell Technology EP; A. G. Dore (company unlisted at press time); and John G. Khaldi, director, National Centre of Petroleum Geology and Geophysics, University of Adelaide.

The final executive session on the morning of Tuesday, March 12, is entitled, "Gas in the marketplace – strategies for development." Invited panelists include Audie P. Setter, ChevronTexaco; David H. Lehman, ExxonMobil; Rob R. Ryan, Shell; Luis Ramierez-Corzo, Pemex; and Xavier Preel, TotalFinaElf.

  Technical sessions, oral and poster, themes 1 – 2  
  Theme 1: Business, Opportunity and Vision  
    Business Challenges Facing Deepwater Development  Mon. 8:00 a.m. – noon  
    Student Session: Discoverers of the 21st Century  Mon. 8:00 a.m. – noon  
    Poster: International Research in Gas Hydrates Commercialization Mon. 8:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.  
    Technology Trends – Keys to Profitability Mon. 1:25 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.  
    Changing the Game in the Deepwater GOM: Cazy Horse and Beyond  Mon. 5:10 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.  
    U.S. Energy Policy – Progress or Political Stagnation Mon. 1:25 p.m. – 3:10 p.m.  
    Portfolio Economics and Management Mon. 1:25 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.  
    Poster: Student Session – Disccoverers of the 21st Century  Mon. 1:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.  
    Gas in the Marketplace – Strategies for Development Tues. 8:00 a.m. – noon  
    Discoverers of the 20th Century Tues. 8:00 a.m. – noon  
    Changing Business Conditions in Developing Countries  Tues. 8:00 a.m. – 11:40 a.m.  
    The Future of Petroleum R&D Tues. 1:25 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.  
    Interactive E-Poster: Portfolio Economics and Management Wed. 8:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.  
    Improving the DPA Certification Process for Int’l. AAPG Members Wed. 3:20 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.  
  Theme 2: Worldwide E&P Activities  
    North American Resources: Remaining Expl. Potential Offshore Mon. 8:00 a.m. – noon  
    Poster: E&P Activities of Northern So. America and the Caribbean Mon. 8:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.  
    Poster: E&P Activities in North Africa and the Arabian Platform Mon. 8:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.  
    E&P Activities of Northern So. America and the Caribbean Mon. 1:25 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.  
    Poster: E&P Activities in Southeast Asia and Australia Mon. 1:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.  
    Poster: No. Amer. Resources – Remaining Expl. Potential Offshore Mon. 1:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.  
    E&P Activities in North Africa and the Arabian Platform Tues. 8:00 a.m. – noon  
    Poster: The Petroleum Geology of Mexico – Past, Present & Future Tues. 8:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.  
    The Petroleum Geology of Mexico – Past, Present & Future Tues. 1:25 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.  
    E&P Activities in Eastern Canada Tues. 1:25 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.  
    North Sea and Beyond – Exploration and Production Tues. 1:25 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.  
    Poster: E&P Activities on the African Atlantic Margin Tues. 1:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.  
    Poster: E&P Activities in the Caspian Tues. 1:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.  
    E&P Activities on the African Atlantic Margin Wed. 8:00 a.m. – noon  
    E&P Activities in the Caspian Wed. 8:00 a.m. – noon  
    Poster: Brazil Partnerships – Status of E&P Activities Wed. 8:30 a.m. – noon  
    Brazil Partnerships – Status of E&P Activities Wed. 1:25 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.  
    Exploring the World at Large Wed. 1:25 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.  


  Technical sessions, oral and poster, themes 3 – 4  
  Theme 3: Exploration Techniques  
    NASA: Human Exploration of Earth, Moon and Mars Mon. 8:00 a.m. – noon  
    Poster: Understanding Complex Traps – Structural & Stratigraphic Mon. 8:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.  
    Beyond amplitudes: Examples of Geophysical Techniques Leading to Successful Development of Non-to-Marginal Amplitude Plays Tues. 1:25 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.  
    Understanding Complex Traps – Structural & Stratigraphic Tues. 1:25 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.  
    Understanding Complex Traps – Focus on Compression Tues. 8:00 a.m. – noon  
    Poster: New Frontiers in Coal and Coalbed Methane Tues. 8:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.  
    Understanding Complex Traps – Focus on Extension & Inversion Tues. 1:25 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.  
    New Frontiers in Coal and Coalbed Methane Tues. 1:25 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.  
    Poster: Techniques, Best Practices Developed to Succeed Subsalt  Tues. 1:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.  
    Salt Tectonics Exploration Issues, Gulf of Mexico Wed. 8:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.  
    Poster: Exploring Deep Ocean Basins – DOD, MMS and O.R. Wed. 8:30 a.m. – noon  
    Poster: Recent Advances in Global Salt Tectonics  Wed. 8:30 a.m. – noon  
  Theme 4:Technology  
    Poster: Geospatial Information Systems – Integration of Technologies and New Sensors Mon. 8:30 – 12:30 p.m.  
    Geosp. Info. Systems – Integration of Technologies, New Sensors Mon. 1:25 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.  
    Poster: Basin Models – Input Sensitivity and Implications Tues. 8:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.  
    Poster: Application of Geostatistics to E&P  Tues. 1:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.  
    Poster: Application of 3-D/4-D Seismic to Reservoir Geology Tues. 1:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.   
    Poster: Stratigraphic Insights from New, Integrated Logging Techniques Wed. 8:30 a.m. – noon  
    Poster: Successful Application of Non-Seismic Techniques to Expl. Wed. 8:30 a.m. – noon  
    Poster: Quantitative Frontier of Stratigraphy and Sedimentology – New Tools and Techniques for Outcrop Studies Wed. 8:30 a.m. – noon  
    Successful Application of Non-Seismic Techniques to Exploration Wed. 1:25 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.  


  Technical sessions, oral and poster, themes 5 – 6  
  Theme 5: Hydrocarbon source, generation alteration & migration  
    Crude Oil Alteration – Processes and Examples  Mon. 8:00 a.m. – noon  
    Interactive E-Poster: Deepwater Source Rocks and the Petroleum Systems of the Atlantic Margin Mon. 8:30 a.m. – noon  
    Poster: Lacustrine Basin Source Rocks and Reservoirs – Case Studies and Modern Analogs Mon. 8:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.  
    Poster: Geochemical Indicators of Depositional Enviornments Mon. 1:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.  
    Poster: Sources Rock Development: Bioproductivity, Organic Preservation, or Sedimentation Rate?  Tues. 8:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.  
    Poster: Pathways of Hydc. Migration, Faults as Conduits, Seals Wed. 8:30 a.m. – noon  
    Poster: Hydrocarbon Seeps – Their Geochemistry, Biostratigraphy and Ecology Wed. 8:30 a.m. – noon  
    Biogenic Gas Formation, Occurrence and Implication  Wed. 1:25 – 5:00 p.m.  
  Theme 6: Sequence stratigraphy, biostratigraphy  
    Eustatic, Tectonic and Sedimentary Control on Depositional Sequences: Relative Importance – I Mon. 8:00 a.m. – noon  
    Eus., Tec. and Sed. Control on Dep. Seq.: Rel. Importance – II Mon. 1:25 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.  
    Poster: Chronostratigraphy and Sequence Stratigraphy – Pushing the Limits of Correlation and Resolution  Mon. 1:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.   
    Chronostratigraphy and Sequence Stratigraphy – Pushing the Limits of Correlation and Resolution Tues. 8:00 a.m. – noon  
    Poster: Sequence Stratigraphy of Fluvial, Estuarine and Near-Shore Deposits – Depositional Models and Resv. Architecture Tues. 8:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.  
    Sequence Stratigraphy of Fluvial, Estuarine and Near-Shore Deposits: The Influence of Base Level and Climate Tues. 1:25 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.  
    Poster: Sequence Stratigraphy in Tectonically Active Basins Tues. 1:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.  
    Poster: Biostratigraphy and Sequence Stratigraphy – Biotic And Taphonomic Response to Sea Level Fluctuations Wed. 8:30 a.m. – noon  
    Poster: Condensed Sections and Abandonment Surfaces – The Stratigraphy of Source Rocks and Seals Wed. 8:30 a.m. – noon  
    Biostratigraphy and Sequence Stratigraphy – Biotic And Taphonomic Response to Sea Level Fluctuations Wed. 1:25 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.  
    Miocene Systems, Seq., Cycles and Resv. of Mexico Basin Wed. 1:25 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.  


  Technical sessions, oral and poster, themes 7 – 9  
  Theme 7: Siliciclastic Depositional Systems   
         
    Poster: Fluvial, Estuarine and Near-Shore Processes – Lessons from the Quaternary Mon. 8:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.  
    Poster: Deepwater Systems from Source to Sink  Mon. 8:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.  
    Fluvial, Estuarine and Near-Shore Processes – Lessons from the Quaternary Mon. 1:25 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.  
    Poster: Modern Deepwater Systems as Analogs for Deepwater Plays Mon. 1:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.  
    Modern Seafloor Swath & Subsurface Seismic 3-D Images: Implications for Deepwater Systems Models & Deepwater Plays Tues. 8:00 a.m. – noon  
    Poster: Seismic Facies Analyses and Lithology Predictions in Fluvial, Coastal and Shallow-Marine Environments: Toward Improved Reservoir Predictions Tues. 8:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.  
    Are Major Deltas Complete Petroleum Systems unto Themselves? – Evidence and Controversies  Wed. 8:00 a.m. – noon  
    Intraslope Compared to Ocean Basin-Floor Turbidite Systems  Wed. 8:00 a.m. – noon  
  Theme 8: Carbonate Depositional Systems  
    Stratigraphy and Controls on Develop. of Isolated Carbonate Platforms Mon. 8:00 a.m. – noon  
    Oligocene and Miocene Carbonate Platforms Mon. 1:25 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.   
    Poster: Climatic Controls on Facies and Reservoir Stacking in Carbonate Rocks – Icehouse vs. Greenhouse vs. Transitional Periods Mon. 1:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.  
    Poster: Stratigraphy and Controls on Development of Isolated Carbonate Platforms  Tues. 8:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.  
    Poster: Seismic Analysis of Carbonate Reservoirs and Systems Tues. 8:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.  
    Carbonate and Evaporite Sequence Stratigraphy: Recent Advances and Controversies  Tues. 1:25 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.   
    Poster: Geology and Reservoir Development of Carbonate Slopes – Microbial Boundstones to Sediment Gravity Flows Tues. 1;30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.  
    Mesozoic Carbonate Reservoir and Outcrop Analogs: Circum Gulf of Mexico and Arabian Gulf Wed. 1:25 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.  
  Theme 9: Reservoir Geology and Characterization  
    Poster: Tight Gas Reservoirs  Mon. 8:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.  
    Interactive E-Poster: Rock Physics: The Missing Link Between Geology, Geophysics and Production – I Mon. 1:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.  
    Poster: Fractured Reservoirs and Multi-phase Fluid Flow Mon. 1:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.  
    Interactive E-Poster: Rock Physics: The Missing Link Between Geology, Geophysics and Production – II Tues. 8:30 a.m. – noon  
    Poster: A New Look at Old Fields – Examples of Reworked Fields Yielding Significant New Reserves Tues. 8:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.  
    Interactive E-Poster: Rock Physics: The Missing Link Between Geology, Geophysics and Production – III Tues. 1:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.  
    Poster: Utilization of Petrophysical Techniques and Reservoir Simulation Models to Improve Hydrocarbon Recovery from Carbonate and Siliciclastic Reservoirs Tues. 1:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.  
    Poster: Variation in Petrophysical Properties as a Function of Pore Type Tues. 1:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.  
    A New Look at Old Fields – Examples of Reworked Fields Yielding Significant New Reserves Wed. 8:00 a.m. – noon  


  Technical sessions, oral and poster, themes 10 – 12  
  Theme 10: Diagenesis  
    Poster: Variation of Diagenetic Processes within a Sequence    
    Stratigraphic Framework Mon. 8:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.  
    Poster: Early Diagenesis of Carbonate & Siliciclastic Sediments Mon. 1:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.  
    Basin Scale Fluid Flow and Diagenesis  Tues. 8:00 a.m. – noon  
    Poster: Scale Fluid Flow and Diagenesis Tues. 1:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.   
    Poster: Effects of Deep Burial on Reservoir and Seal Quality Wed. 8:30 a.m. – noon  
  Theme 11: Environment  
    Uranium Energy: Source to Power to Repository Mon. 8:00 a.m. – noon   
    Poster: New Developments in CO2 Sequestration Mon. 1:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.  
    Remediation of Affected Soil and Groundwater Tues. 1:25 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.   
    Gulf of Mexico – Naturally Occurring Oil Seeps,     
    Impact of Synthetic Muds and Discharge of Cuttings  Wed. 9:55 a.m. – noon   
    Poster: Remediation Technologies  Wed. 8:30 a.m. – noon  
  Theme 12: Other Presentations  
    Selections from the Society of Petroleum Engineers: SPE 2001 Mon. 8:00 a.m. – noon  
    Poster: Selections from International Meetings Mon. 8:30 a.m. – noon  
    Poster: SEPM Student Grant Winners Mon. 8:30 a.m. – noon  
    Selections from the Society of Expl. Geophysicists: SEG 2001 Mon. 1:25 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.  

Receptions/Luncheons

The exhibition officially opens with the Icebreaker Reception on Sunday evening, March 10, from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. Attendees, guests and exhibitors will be able to mingle throughout the exhibition floor of the George R. Brown Convention Center.

On Monday, March 11, the All-Convention Luncheon will take place in the Convention Center from 11:30 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. Featured speaker will be Rep. Joe Barton (Republican-Texas). Congressman Barton has been an advocate of legislation that promotes high supply, low demand and consumer-friendly prices.

The All-Alumni Cocktail Party will be held on the evening of Monday, March 11, at the Hyatt Regency Hotel. AAPG members will be able to look up former classmates and rendezvous at cash bars located throughout the ballroom. Signs identifying participating colleges and universities will be posted throughout the area. In addition, private receptions have been scheduled by a number of universities.

On Tuesday, March 12, AAPG’s Professional Affairs and Society of Professional Earth Scientists will host a joint luncheon in the convention center, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Featured speaker will be renowned Houston explorationist, Michael Halbouty. In addition, a number of noted individuals who form part of AAPG’s "heritage" will serve as hosts to individual tables at the luncheon.

Also on Tuesday, SEPM’s Business Meeting / Luncheon will be held from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the Doubletree Hotel, Allen Center. Dr. Jonathan Overpeck will be the speaker. He is the director of the Institute for the Study of Planet Earth (ISPE) at the University of Arizona, where he is also a professor of geosciences. Dr. Overpeck’s research focuses on studying past climate and ecosystem change with a goal of understanding what changes might take place in the future. He was awarded the U.S. Department of Commerce Gold Medal for his climate research. Most recently, he was selected as the 2001 Walter Orr Roberts Lecturer of the American Meteorological Society.

In addition, AAPG’s Division of Environmental Geosciences will hold a luncheon on Tuesday from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the Houston Astros Conference Center in Enron Field. Featured speaker will be Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (Republican), who is also chairman of the Interstate Oil & Gas Compact Commission. His topic will be "Energy Supply Policy – A Complex Puzzle." A tour of Enron Field will also be included.

On Tuesday afternoon, the Mini-Breaker Reception – a "mini" version of the Icebreaker – will be held from 4:30 to 6:00 p.m., again in the exhibit hall. Meanwhile, on Tuesday evening, the SEPM President’s Reception and Awards Ceremony will take place from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. at the Doubletree Hotel, Allen Center. The Twenhofel Medal, SEPM’s highest award in recognition of outstanding contributions to sedimentary geology, will be presented to Noel P. James. Honorary Membership will be awarded to Paul M. Harris. Other recipients include James P. Kennett, the Francis P. Shepard Medal for excellence in marine geology; Charles A. Ross, the Raymond C. Moore Medal for excellence in paleontology; M. Dane Picard, the Pettijohn Medal for excellence in sedimentology; and Paul A. Wilson, the Wilson Award for excellence in young scientists.

The final event is the Energy Minerals Division Luncheon on Wednesday, March 13, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., at the convention center. Chip Groat, director of the U.S. Geological Survey, will speak on the topic, "Is there life after 25?" WO

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