SEG Challenge Bowl

Contestants should be student members of SEG and may be at the graduate or undergraduate level.

Each team consists of 2 players who are usually from the same university.

The contest itself is in the form of a short answer/multiple choice quiz in the geosciences (geology, geophysics, geography and some geodesy), as well as some questions about the history of our science and the SEG itself. Questions will range in difficulty from 2nd or 3rd year undergraduate level to perhaps first year graduate school.

The contest will consist of 3 legs of 3 rounds each—9 rounds in total. All teams participate in the first leg, after which the 4 teams with the lowest cumulative score on the first 3 rounds retire leaving the 4 top teams to continue playing.

After the second leg of 3 rounds, the 2 teams with the lowest cumulative score on the second leg only (not including the first leg scoring) retire leaving the top 2 teams to compete in the final 3 rounds.

Scoring is reset for each leg rather than being carried over between legs.

To sign up for a Challenge Bowl event, simply follow the link to the hosting organization and follow the directions. If you have any problems, feel free to contact cb@seg.org.

15 November 2011
5th Annual Italian Challenge Bowl, Trieste, Italy
Held in conjunction with 30^th Annual Meeting GNGTS (National Group of Solid Earth Geophysics)
Letizia Pini – University of Florence
Cosimo Nencioni – University of Florence

1 March 2012
6th Annual Rocky Mountain Challenge Bowl, Denver, Colorado, USA
Held in conjunction with DGS's 18th Annual 3D Seismic Symposium
Bharath Shekar – Colorado School of Mines
Conrad Newton – Colorado School of Mines

6 March 2012
6th Annual Middle East Challenge Bowl, Manama, Bahrain
Held in conjunction with DGS's GEO 2012 – 10th Middle East Geosciences Conference and Exhibition
Mina Salib – Petroleum Institute
Hasan Zakaria – Petroleum Institute

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16 March 2012
6th Annual Sooner Challenge Bowl, Norman, Oklahoma, USA
Held in conjunction with the AAPG/SEG Spring Break Expo
David Sigward – University of Oklahoma
Sumit Verma – University of Oklahoma

11 April 2012
6th Annual Gulf Coast Challenge Bowl, Houston, Texas, USA
Held in conjunction with the GSH-SEG Spring Symposium
Brandon Bush – Texas A & M University
Sireesh Dadi – Texas A & M University

31 May 2012
SEG Challenge Bowl in Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia
Held in conjunction with the 3rd International Geosciences Student Conference

16 May 2012
6th Annual Canadian Challenge Bowl, Calgary Alberta, Canada
Held in conjunction with the GeoConvention 2012
Keneth Silva – University of Calgary
Abdolnaser Yousetz Zadeh – University of Calgary

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31 July 2012
Latin America Challenge Bowl in Cartagena, Colombia
Held in conjunction with the XI Symposium of Exploration in Subandean Basins
Soledad Rocio Lagos – Universidad Nacional de La Plata
Gabriel Ricardo Gelpi – Universidad Nacional de La Plata

16 Sept 2012
China SEG Challenge Bowl, Anhui, China
Held in conjunction with Stanford - University of Science and Technology, China – MIT Geophysics Camp Rall Walsh – Stanford University
Jide Ogunbo – University of Science and Technology, China

19 Sept 2012
SEG European Challenge Bowl, Istanbul, Turkey
Held in conjunction with Istanbul 2012 International Geophysical Conference and Oil & Gas Exhibition
Henry Debens- Imperial College London
Matthew Wilks – University of Bristol

5 Nov 2012
7th Annual SEG International Challenge Bowl Finals, Las Vegas, Nevada
Held in conjunction with SEG 82nd International Exhibition and Annual Meeting
Darragh O'Connor – Dalhousie University
Adrian Smith – University of Calgary