Chairperson's message for October 2005

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View from the chair. . . Dear LA Basin SPE Members, I am honored to be the Chairperson of the SPE Los Angeles Basin Section for the 2005-06 year, and look forward to communicating with you through this column regarding our Section’s activities. On October 1, we welcome two new members to the LASPE Board: Tony Taglieri and Rudy Weibel. We are fortunate to have them join our team of Board members and thereby increase even more its depth of experience in industry and education. Collection, dissemination, and exchange of technical information are at the heart of the SPE mission statement. At the Section level, our monthly Forum program is very useful in having top-notch industry experts speak tous on important technical topics. We are also exploring additional ways to help our members maintain and upgrade their individual technical competence. One approach has been to increase emphasis on continuing education, and to this end, we are fortunate to have Scott McGurk again chair the Section’s efforts in this area. Another similar theme is to increase intersociety collaboration, an area where our Section has had previous success. We are considering, for example, combining the 2007 Western Regional Meeting with a large AAPG meeting scheduled for Long Beach. th dress below. This past year was one of significant achievements for our Section, and it was due in large measure to the tireless leadership provided by our outgoing chairperson, Raj Upadhyay. On behalf of our Section, I thank Raj for his dedicated service. I am also glad to report that Raj has agreed to continue to serve the Section as Western Regional Meeting and Interdisciplinary Liaison for 2005-2006. Our Section’s programs and activities must be relevant to the needs of the members. Therefore, I invite you to share wime your thoughts on what you expect from your local section, and how LASPE could be more helpful to you. Please email me at the ad Finally, I would like to ask members to continue their efforts to aid the victims of Hurricane Katrina. The Gulf Region of course is a key energy region and home to nearly 1,500 SPE members. I suggest everyone visit the SPE website, www.spe.org, to learn about how you can help Pat Shuler Chairperson, SPE Los Angeles Basin Section pjshuler@peer.caltech.edu