October 2005 ISSUE
POTPOURRI
DoodleTrain Pulls Into Station For Continuing Education Week
That train you hear a-comin’ just might be the DoodleTrain. Once again, the Canadian Society of Exploration Geophysicists is roaring down the professional development tracks with its annual continuing education week.
Dates this year are Oct. 31 to Nov. 4 at a number of Calgary venues. Keynote speaker is Dr. Enders Robinson, discussing Geophysical Exploration: Past and Present. Dr. Robinson is the Maurice Ewing and J.L. Worzel Professor of Geophysics at Columbia University in New York City. He gained international prominence in the early 1950s when he founded the Geophysical Analysis Group at MIT.
The group’s research led to the digital revolution in geophysics a decade later. Dr. Robinson published more than 25 books on digital signal analysis, seismic data processing and wavelet estimation. He helped found Digicon in 1965; there he developed the first commercial programs for academic positions, including the McMan Distinguished Professor of Geophysics at the University of Tulsa.
Dr. Robinson is the highest honoured scientist in the field of geophysics. He is a recipient of the Society of Exploration Geophysicsts’ Reginald Fessenden Award of 1969, the European Association of Exploration Geophysicists’ Conrad Schlumberger Award of 1969, and the Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers’ Donald G. Fink Prize Award of 1984, the Alexander von Humboldt Research Award and the Thayer Academy Alumni Achievement Award.
He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1988 and is a fellow of the European Academy of Science. In 2001 Dr. Robinson received the SEG Maurice Ewing Gold Medal. He is an honorary member of SEG and EAEG.
DoodleTrain classes fall under six categories — data acquisition and management,
processing, interpretation, rock properties and advanced techniques, remote sensing,
and multidisciplinary.
For more information, visit www.cseg.ca.