Emerging professionals, emerging technologies

摘要

As we welcome in a new year, we reflect on the past year's successes and hardships. The exploration market is dynamic, and, as geoscientists, we need to adapt. Periods of economic downturn can be especially overwhelming to recent graduates looking for their first jobs, or those who have never navigated an economic downturn and therefore are uncertain about job stability. As a professional society, we need to clearly identify how to effectively help these members - through the good times and the bad. The discussion of inspiring and supporting tomorrow's geoscientists has long been a focus of SEG. As stated in the "President's Page" in the May 2012 issue of TLE, it was the goal of the Board of Directors to "promote geophysics as a career to sustain constant growth of the profession and SEG." This is still critical more than four years later and will always be a goal of the Board of Directors. If a society is unable to retain new members, membership inevitably will decline.