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"This year's Annual Meeting will give attendees a bursting-at-the-seams Exhibit Hall." -Annual Meeting General Chairman, Ken Helm | Note from the President My year as your president has come during an exciting time for SEG. Our ever-growing membership has surged past 32,000. Student chapters, a measuring stick for estimating future membership, are also at an all-time high and seemingly on an exponential growth curve. We have members in more than 100 countries and our meetings, publications, and professional development programs are structured to support all of them, from the leading-edge researcher to the first-year undergraduate student. As always, a major focus of the Annual Meeting is an extensive Technical Program. Geophysical technology is advancing at a rapid pace in all directions and this is put into dramatic relief by the number of abstracts submitted for consideration by the Technical Program Committee – 1150, the second highest on record. Choosing the best presentations from this extremely large number of high-quality submissions is difficult and is accomplished only by a huge volunteer effort from your fellow members. Each accepted abstract is independently peer-reviewed three times, a rigorous process that involves more than 650 reviewers and hundreds of hours. The SEG Forum will again "kick off" the Technical Program. The goal of this series is to highlight areas where technology and industry intersect. This year's topic is "Exploration Frontiers: Geography, Technology, and Business Models." The superb Technical Program, however, is just one way to advance your geophysical knowledge. Other opportunities include a wide range of continuing education courses, special-interest luncheons, and workshops. Perhaps the quickest way to get up to date regarding what's happening in our field is just to walk around the huge exposition floor which will again be, as it has been for several decades, the world's premier showplace for state-of-the-art geophysical instrumentation and technology. And, finally, attending the SEG Annual Meeting is the best way to renew those long-standing friendships, and make new friends (possibly with some of the outstanding students who will soon be the leaders of our profession), who are important to so many of our members. So don't miss this opportunity to update your professional knowledge and skills and fully appreciate the excitement of being a geophysicist during this amazing time for our Society. Sincerely, Klaas Koster |
As president of your Society, it is my pleasure to invite you to attend SEG's International Exposition and 81st Annual Meeting. It is unquestionably an exciting time to be a geophysicist, and the SEG Annual Meeting is the focal point of our crammed professional calendar. So I strongly advise you to immediately register to attend and join the thousands of your colleagues who will travel to San Antonio, always a popular venue for our members, in September. This meeting is annually the best opportunity to network with friends and colleagues from around the world and to get updated on the latest progress toward finding solutions to the many formidable technical challenges that we face in a routine workday.
