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CE—Meeting members' needs

CE chairman

Bob Bruce

CE vice chairman

Corresponding author: D. Herron, herronda@bp.com

Corresponding author: B. Bruce, bruce.bob.rj@bhp.com.au

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	Suggestions needed for additions, improvements to the curriculum

 
Currently, the SEG Continuing Education (CE) program is organized into six categories for a total of 23 courses in geophysics: seismic data acquisition (3 courses), processing (5), and interpretation (7); general studies, i.e., potential field/nonseismic (2); near-surface geophysics (2); and exploration and production geophysics (4). These categories are natural subdivisions of the overall subject of geophysics as applied in exploration for and development of oil, gas, and minerals. SEG Continuing Education (CE) instructors are asked to do a lot—develop a course, generate materials, have them scrutinized, field reviewers' questions, discuss and make modifications, present the course, submit to student evaluation, and then repeat the process on a regular basis.

In filling out, or "whitening the spectrum," of the curriculum, we are often left to our own devices to solicit instructors for specific topics that we think would be important additions to the program. However, as we may have said many times before, we need the input from members about the types of courses we should provide—we can't supply the demand if we don't know what the demand is. Therefore, we extend an open invitation to all to contact any . . . [Full Text of this Article]