Following on from last year’s huge success, on Thursday February 26, 2015 Jim Anderson of ExxonMobil conducted another “Short course in sequence stratigraphy, the ExxonMobil Approach.” Twenty-one undergraduate and graduate students expanded their knowledge of sequence stratigraphy and seismic interpretation for petroleum geoscience applications with help from an expert in the field. The seven-hour course included three lectures and five exercises. Jim used an effective layered teaching approach. He started with a basic stratigraphic correlation exercise (sedimentary layer tracing) and finished with a complex seismic interpretation exercise requiring students to apply the basic skills they learned to a more realistic and significantly more complex petroleum environment. The course was another fantastic opportunity for our students to learn new skills and interact with an industry expert.
The course was followed up by an evening Q&A session with students and faculty lead by Jim concerning the oil industry in the current price climate (photo).
Special thanks to Jim Anderson for his unwavering commitment to our students’s professional development, and effort in preparing and delivering another highly successful short course.
