GCAGS Call for Papers

Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies & Gulf Coast Section of SEPM

58th Annual Convention
October 6th – 7th, 2008
Houston, Texas

The Houston Geological Society is proud to host the 2008 Joint Annual Meeting for GSA/SSSA/ASA/CSSA/GSAGC/GCSSEPM. This joint meeting, which will run from October 5^th-9^th, 2008, will include GCAGS sessions on Monday October 6^th and Tuesday October 7^th. GCAGSS needs your assistance to continue our long tradition of presenting the best in geoscience from the Gulf Coast and then publishing these materials in the “GCAGS Transactions”. We want you to be part of this tradition by submitting a contribution to our technical program and the “2008 GCAGS Transactions”

TECHNICAL SESSIONS (Oral & Poster)

1. Energy Budgets & the Global Markets
2. Applied Micropaleontology
3. Shale Gas
4. Hydrates and Shallow Gas
5. Integrated Pore Pressure Predictions: Case Studies
6. Geology of the Gulf Coastal Plain: Insights into Offshore Exploration
7. Faults: Friend and Foe
8. Allochthonous Salt: Impact from Exploration to Production
9. Visualization of Depositional Systems
10. Predictive Models for Deep-Water Reservoir Distributions: The Subsalt Challenge
11. Old Fields-New Life: How New Technologies or New Ideas Have Made a Difference
12. Advances in Seismic Imaging-Impact on Exploration through Production: Case Studies
13. Depositional Systems: Insights from Outcrops, Shallow Seismic, or Coastal Studies
14. Uncertainty Assessment & Its Impact on Decision Making
15. Gulf of Mexico Coastal Plain Paleontology
16. Environmental Geology & Hydrology

HOW AND WHEN TO SUBMIT:

Abstracts for oral and poster presentations should be submitted by June 3rd, 2008 to www.acsmeetings.org/2008. The required accompanying paper, which will be published in the “2008 GCAGS Transactions”, is due by June 24th. Contact information for the technical session chairs, as well as “2008 GCAGS Transactions” instructions for authors, can be found at the GCAGS website www.gcags2008.org. Due to the compressed time lines for this year’s joint meeting, we ask you to submit abstracts ASAP, as well as contact the individual session chairs listed on the GCAGS website to notify them of your interest and reserve a spot in the technical program. Manuscript submissions prior to the June 24th deadline would be much appreciated by the “2008 GCAGS Transactions” editors. For general questions on the technical program please contact Dr. Art Donovan, the 2008 GCAGS Technical Program Chair. He can be contacted via e-mail at: art.donovan@bp.com.