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"Making Waves” The Geophysical Society of Houston would love to hear from you! We’re introducing a new section in the GSH Newsletter devoted to you and your personal news. You are invited to submit personal items that may be of interest to the broader geophysical community. Our intent is to provide a forum for our readers to share their personal achievements, recognition, and accomplishments and/or share stories of ...

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HISTORICAL PRESERVATION GROUP An event in Tulsa, where museum space at SEG was lost to IT, has precipitated the formation of a group to consider the combination of GSH & SEG artifacts in Houston. Bob Wyckoff chairs the group and it may lend artifacts to a proposed Museum near Glenpool. The GSH Museum Committee and Guy Flanagan are Houston members who would welcome your ideas as to the site of either storage or of a Houston Museum with curator. This decision by Oklahoma SEGers is a tribute to ...

President’s Column by George Marion, President This is the swan song of the President’s Column for the 2007-08 term. It has been both a pleasure and an honor to have served the GSH as President this year. The out-going Board has done an excellent job and we are truly proud of our accomplishments. The in-coming Board are all professionals with excellent credentials who I am confident will lead the GSH to another banner year in 2008-09. I’ll report briefly on some events which ...

President Frank Dumanoir President Elect Mike Graul 1st VP Bill Fahmy 2nd VP Robert Ayers Secretary Jackie Ming Treasurer Peter Eick Editor Glenn Bear

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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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...