AAPG Student Chapter Success

The Aberdeen Student Chapter of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists has just been awarded the Outstanding International Student Chapter prize for 2012 - the first UK university to do so. AAPG has more than 30,000 student members in 146 chapters, so this is a significant award

April 2012

Vacancies

• Chair in Geophysics
• 2 further posts: Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Geophysics

A key area of strategic investment in GPG, forming part of the University recruitment campaign.

Full details are at: https://www.abdn.ac.uk/thefuture/positions. Informal approaches to the chair of the search committee,

March 2012

PGR Poster success at TSG and BSRG

Emma Michie won the Best Poster award at the Tectonic Studies Group annual meeting in Edinburgh (4th – 6th January) with a poster entitled "Architecture of Fault Zones in Carbonates".

Luke Fairweather won the Best Poster award at the British Sedimentological Research Group annual meeting in London (18th – 21st December) with a poster entitled "Mass-transport deposit (MTD) internal structure; implications for MTD erosion and flow kinematics".

January 2012