My first AGU meeting. Lot's of CO2 sequestration talks yesterday; fault permeability, basin-scale storage capacity, steel tubulars corrosian rates, CO2 accounting strategies.
AGU is quite different from SEG. Abstracts are only a paragraph or two, rather than the 4-page exanded SEG format. Talks are similar length/style, but session chairmen give a nice intro that SEG could use. Another good idea at AGU is in open areas near meeting rooms, these are populated with large round tables with 8-10 chairs. On each floor of Moscone West were maybe 50-60 such tables. Great discussion pods. Also, a series of long tables with power strips for laptop hookup.
The exhibition floor is smaller than SEG and only opens on Tuesday (curious). But the shocker is the poster area: Easily larger than SEG exhibit floor, a vast warehouse of poster stands including large theme signs. Seismology, tectonophysics, deep earth physics, etc. Clearly the real scientific exchange here is at the poster. Compare this to SEG which puts the poster area in strange places that seem designed to deter all but the hardiest. At SEG 2009, the posters sat in a cavernous concrete space away from exhibit hall and presentation rooms. Downright gloomy, if not actually depressing.
Anyway, AGU got the poster thing right and SEG could learn a lesson or two from them.
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Prof. Christopher L. Liner
Prof. Liner is Associate Dean of Fulbright College of Arts & Sciences at the University of Arkansas, holds the Maurice F. Storm Chair of Petroleum Geology, served 6 years as UA Geosciences Department Chair, and served as 2014/5 SEG President.
Liner earned a BS in Geology (U. Arkansas, 1978), MS. in Geophysics (U. Tulsa, 1980), and PhD in Geophysics (Colo. School of Mines, Center for Wave Phenomena, 1989). He has 11 years industrial experience in exploration (Conoco) and geophysical research (Western Geo, Fairfield, Saudi Aramco). From 1990-2004 Liner was a faculty member in Geosciences at The University of Tulsa. In January 2008 he joined the faculty of the University of Houston as Professor and Associate Director of the Allied Geophysical Labs industrial consortium. In fall 2011 he was named Department Associate Chair and Interim Chair in spring 2012.
Prof. Liner’s research interests include geothermal power generation, energy transition, petroleum seismic imaging and interpretation, CO2 sequestration, and near surface geophysics. He has served as Editor of Geophysics (1999-2001), authored many technical papers, scientific meeting abstracts, The Leading Edge column Seismos (since 1992), and the text book Elements of 3D Seismology soon in 3rd edition. Liner is a member of SEG, AAPG, AGU, EAGE and the European Academy of Sciences.