Business News for the week of 18 February 2013

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CGG acquires new multiclient BroadSeis seismic program in Central North Sea

19 February 2013—CGG has commenced acquisition of a new highly prefunded 3D multiclient program in the Central North Sea (CNS) using BroadSeis, its broadband marine solution, with BroadSource, its broadband source option, to deliver imaging for enhanced interpretation.

Quad 30 Phase 7 of CGG's cornerstone CNS data set covers over 5500 km² in the Q29, 30 and 38 areas and is being acquired by the CGG Oceanic Phoenix operating with a 10 x 100 x 6000m long-offset streamer configuration. A number of major oil companies have precommitted to the project and a fast-track data delivery will be available from September 2013.

 

AGI releases Faces of Earth series in HD on YouTube

19 February 2013—The American Geosciences Institute has released its award-winning Faces of Earth series on YouTube in full high definition (http://www.youtube.com/user/AmericanGeosciences).

Conveniently packaged into four informative and energetic videos, the Faces of Earth series seamlessly flows from an exciting introduction to the geosciences, to a deeper understanding of what fuels our planet for a more advanced audience. Building the Planet, episode one in the four-part series, travels back in time and strips away the layers of Earth to witness the explosion that formed the planet. Earthquakes rumble, volcanoes explode, and lands transform as we explore the science behind plate tectonics is explored in Shaping the Planet, the second episode in the series. In Assembling America, the third installment in the Faces of Earth series, viewers travel with geoscientists and explore how time and the forces of nature have shaped the continent and influence the United States. Finally, discover the delicate balance between Earth and its inhabitants in the fourth and final video, A Human World. In this video, viewers learn how Earth has shaped human evolution, and how humans, in turn, are now shaping the evolution of Earth through geologic, climatic, and other changes.

 

AGI announces first recipient of the Harriet Evelyn Wallace Scholarship for Women in Geoscience

19 February 2013—Kelly M. Deuerling is the first recipient of AGI's new Harriet Evelyn Wallace Scholarship for women in geoscience. Deuerling, is a PhD candidate and NSF Graduate Research Fellow at the University of Florida. Her current work as a PhD candidate focuses on the chemical weathering of the glacial foreland in western Greenland, using tracers of subglacial hydrologic systems and oceanic fluxes of radiogenic isotopes. The timeliness of her research, as well as its broad appeal and potential impacts on the greater geoscience community, helped to distinguish Deuerling as a promising young scientist within the geoscience profession.

Given annually in honor of Harriet Evelyn Wallace, a founding member of the Geoscience Information Society (GSIS), a national organization and AGI member society that facilitates the exchange of information in the geosciences, the new Harriet Evelyn Wallace Scholarship is awarded to a female student pursuing a thesis-based master's or doctoral degree in the Earth sciences. The scholarship is awarded to the applicant who most exemplifies the strong likelihood of a successful transition from her graduate studies to the geoscience workforce. The successful candidate receives US $5000 for her first scholarship year, and will be eligible for a second year scholarship of $5000 upon successful completion of her first year. Each year, a second $5000 award will be given to a new female graduate student for a total of two awards per year starting in 2014. For more information on the scholarship please visit www.agiweb.org/scholarships/wallace.