October 12-14, 2003

In the Information Age, the name of the game is ACCESS.

Personal Connectedness impacts all careers and companies in the 21st century. Success depends upon the ability to access information, talent, ideas, materials, and money through a large and effective personal network, your "Structure of Connectedness". The Mid-Continent Section AAPG meeting in October 2003 offers a unique and unparalleled opportunity for you to gain access and become connected.

No one works alone. We are all part of a vast, interconnected web. How well we understand and use that web is the difference between success and failure. Our lifelong task is to create a personal structure of Cascading Connectedness, a structure of nodes and links, hubs and end points, that is alive with opportunities hidden to most people.

The flood of information and images coming your way feeds your creative spirit and foresight. Creativity is the art of rearranging input in novel ways; foresight is a matter of creating viable, alternative futures. Both need constant flow and renewal of the "stuff" to which you are exposed.
People seeking independence…freedom of expression, movement, and choice… will discover that their connectedness is the foundation on which their dreams are built. Build it and they will come!
Reverse the flow to sell yourself, your ideas, your causes, and your products. Good networks are pipelines that both push and pull information. By exchanging information, by helping others, you help yourself.

Everyone must manage his/her own career. Everyone must sustain his/her intellectual expertise. Everyone must build influence and add value lifelong. And everyone must learn to work with others. The common thread, the universal theme, the essential skill, to accomplish these tasks is Connectedness. Get connected in Tulsa at the AAPG Mid-Continent Section Meeting in October.


HIGHLIGHTS

TECHNICAL PROGRAM: Access to New Technologies and Expertise
Oral and Poster Sessions:
• Evolution of New Play Concepts: What's Next for the Mid-Continent?
• Enhanced Geological Prediction from Data Mining • New Technologies and Geological Insights in the Practice of Environmental Geosciences (Organized by DEG)
• The Confluence of New Technologies and Old Shows, Fields and Plays: Case Histories
• Case Histories of the Successful Application of Geochemistry
• Coal Bed Methane: What Makes for Economic Success?
• Hot Plays in the Basins of the Mid-Continent (TBA)
• Stratigraphic and Sedimentologic Resolution of Mid-Continent Reservoir Units (Organized by SEPM)

Free Half-day Technical Workshop Sessions:
• Watershed and Floodplain Management
• "Best Practices" of the Petroleum E&P Industry from North America (Organized by PTTC)
• Frontiers of Petroleum E&P: New Technologies from Government Research Laboratories (Organized by DOE)
• Keys in Profitable Acquisition of Oil and Gas Producing Properties

Other Workshops
• Gemini: Web-based Geological Analyses
• ASBOG Test Preparation

Special Symposium Honoring Prof. David W. Stearns, University of Oklahoma:
New Structural Plays and Concepts in the Southern Mid-Continent
(Organized by Prof. Roger Slatt, School of Geology and Geophysics, University of Oklahoma)

CAREER CENTER: Access to Career Building Tools
The Career Center at MCS 2003 will provide Access to Information and Experts about Job Search, Career Self-Management, and personal Career-Building adaptive skills. It will feature continuous, free, short-burst, oral sessions to address the major career needs of ALL geoscientists in the 21st century. Multiple topics will be rotated in twenty minute sessions starting Sunday afternoon before the Icebreaker and continuing on a rotating basis through Tuesday. The Career Center will have space for job posting and interviews, on-line job search, a classroom setting for the free, meeting long sessions, and connections for free, personal Career Coaching.

Free Career Building Sessions Include: How To
• Use the Convention as a Career-Building Event
• Become a Walking, Talking Resume
• Build your Network through Cascading Connectedness
• Market Your Talents
• Manage Mid-Career Change
• Anticipate the Future and Overcome Uncertainty
• Manage your Own Career
• Sustain Technical Expertise
• Build Professional Influence Life-Long
• Become Independent
• Use Self-Discovery to Energize Your Career
• Enhance Innovation and Creativity
• Achieve Mastery of Career-Building Skills.

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