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by Lisa Buckner – Outreach Committee Chairperson The GSH Outreach Committee is looking for volunteers for several projects inside and outside the classroom. Are you interested in giving a classroom or career day presentation to a local school? We want to develop lists of interested volunteers based on school grade level of interest and/or school location. We also need help outside of the classroom. USGS Tapestry of Time and Terrain Map We currently need volunteers to... [More Info]

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TRANSISTORS & GEOPHYSICS SMALL WORLD STORIES by Tom Fulton With transistors now 60 years old and so very important in our lives you might like some ties between transistors and exploration. John Bardeen, born in 1908, shares Nobel Prizes for both the invention of the transistor and discover of superconductivity. He was also a geophysicist for Gulf Oil 1930 - 1933 and produced the first formulae for upward and downward continuation of potential fields. The Sunday Chronicle here had a... [More Info]

President’s Column by Steven Cochran, GSH Treasurer As I am writing this, oil has today, for the first time, reached $100. I do not know what, if any, the psychological effect of having hit triple digit oil prices will be, nor how long the price may stay there, though it will be interesting to watch it all play out. 2007 was a record year for energy prices and also a strong financial year for the Geophysical Society of Houston. Currently, the books are in the black and we have no need... [More Info]

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The role of amplitude and phase in processing and inversion The object of seismic exploration is encoded in the data that are acquired on or near the surface of the earth. The goal of decoding these data is, essentially, to find out where and what this object is. Although we record our information in space and time, we always, at some stage, follow the teachings of Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier and transform our measurements into the frequency domain. In this domain, our data live in the... [More Info]

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Party aside... New Year's Eve is a time to look back on the year that has past and to look forward to the promises of the year ahead. As midnight approaches, the countdown begins 10...9...8...7... anticipation mounts 6...5...4...we wait anxiously as a whole year is put behind us in just these last few seconds 3...2...1...Happy New Year! Party aside... New Year's Eve is a time to look back on the year that has past and to look forward to the promises of the year ahead. As midnight approaches

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Museum News by Tom Fulton Idea Acceptance and Gravity A good idea is accepted by friends and implemented. 2007 was very good to me in that I got to see the ideas of Geoscience Day at the BEG and Living Legends at the SEG beautifully implemented with plans that they be repeated. Haynie Stringer, Gene Womack, Bill Gafford and others built the former while Cheryl Stevens and Benegene Kring organized the latter. Both exceeded my expectations. I mentioned the need for a museum... [More Info]

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