SEG Research Committee Goals

The SEG Research Committee has the following goals and objectives:

• Foster research for the benefit of the Society,
• Help disseminate the results of relevant research,
• Advise and make recommendations of matters involving research,
• Interact with other committees and societies on research issues to ensure integration,
• Provide new ways in which the Society and its members could be served,
• Promote a balanced treatment of applied technology, short term and long term research,
• Assist the industry and government entities on decisions regarding research funding.

RC proposed goals at 2007 Winter meeting in black: 

• Foster research for the benefit of the Society,
  • Promote a balanced treatment of applied technology, short term and long term research,
  • Think tank for geoscience research
  • Emphasis on basic research and multidiscipline integration
  • Foster research efforts not related to immediate applications
• Help disseminate the results of relevant research,
  • Provide new ways in which the Society and its members could be served,
  • Globalization setting up local offices
  • Foster dialogue, communication, and network  between researches
  • Promote decentralization of research activities
  • Run multiple workshops Organize cool workshops
  • Supporting out the box research convention speaker
• Advise and make recommendations of matters involving research,
  • Recognize and honor researches that have worked in the good of society
• Interact with other committees and societies on research issues to ensure integration,
  • Force interaction with other societies and build bridges
  • Foster relationships with the academic people
  • Interact with other committees and societies
• Assist the industry and government entities on decisions regarding research funding
  • Identify the 10 grand problems of applied geosciences

• Committees specially the RC needs to be empowered
• Ownership of geosciences

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