University of Memphis SEG Student Chapter

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General information

The University of Memphis SEG Student Chapter is a registered student organization in the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) since 2012. The chapter is hosted by the Center for Earthquake Research and Information (CERI). It serves as a platform between you and the geoscience profession, so you can develop skills, acquire knowledge, and learn about industry internships and job opportunities. The student chapter currently has more than 20 members with diverse backgrounds.

Joining this student chapter has many benefits, including:

  • Attending the SEG/Chevron Student Leadership Symposium (SLS) program
  • Attending the SEG/ExxonMobil Student Education (SEP) program
  • Attending the SEG Challenge BowlAttending the SEG EVOLVE program
  • Attending the SEG field trip programs
  • Travel grants to SEG conferences and for scientific research
  • Meet with recruiters from the oil industry for possible internships and job opportunities
  • Opportunities for visits from SEG distinguished and honorary lecturers
  • Monthly issues of The Leading Edge (TLE) for the student chapter's library

The student chapter is not just for geophysicists! Engineers, geologists, physicists, mathematicians, and others also benefit from participation. Membership in the Geophysical Society is available to anyone who is a full-time graduate or undergraduate student and in good standing at the University of Memphis.

Current Officers

External links

2025-2026 Events and Activities

Meetings

  • August 13, 2025: First meeting with faculty advisor
  • August 27, 2025: First meeting with Student Body

Activities

Fall 2025

  1. August 29, 2025: CERI Seminar – Speaker: John Leeman (Leeman Geophysical)
  2. September 12, 2025: CERI Seminar – Speaker: Ross Maguire (University of Illinois)
  3. September 13, 2025: Shelby Farm Hangout
  4. September 13, 2025: Grant Writing: Best Practices, Tips, and Tricks
  5. September 26, 2025: CERI Seminar – Speaker: Zhi Ye(South Dakota School of Mines)
  6. October 3, 2025: CERI Seminar – Speaker: Katherine Guns (USGS)
  7. October 10, 2025: CERI Seminar – Speaker: Ahmed Ghassemi (University of Oklahoma)
  8. October 15, 2025: Poster Making Seminar
  9. October 24, 2025: CERI Seminar – Speaker: Jay Sui Tung (Texas Tech)
  10. October 29, 2025: Annual Pumpkin Carving – CERI students and postdocs
  11. October 31, 2025: CERI Seminar – Speaker: Samantha E Hansen (University of Alabama)
  12. November 07, 2025: CERI Seminar – Speaker: Folarin Kolawole (Columbia University)
  13. November 14, 2025: CERI Seminar – Speaker: Ryan D. Gold (USGS)
  14. November 19, 2025: Professional Scientific Speaking Seminar: Oral Presentations

Spring 2026

January 23, 2026: CERI Seminar – Speaker: Yuval Tal (Ben Gurion University/ Boulder CO) February 2, 2026: CERI Seminar – Speaker: Marine Donelle (University of Washington) February 13, 2026: CERI Seminar - Speaker: Maceira Monica (Oak Ridge National Lab) February 20, 2026: CERI Seminar - Speaker: Kathrine Guns (United States Geological Survey) February 25, 2026: Career Skills Series "From Draft to DOI: How to Write a Scientific Paper That Survives Peer Review" - Speaker: Chuck Langston (University of Memphis, CERI) February 27, 2026: CERI Seminar - Speaker: Magali Isabelle Billen (University of California, Davis) March 3, 2026: CERI Seminar - Speaker: David C. Bolton (University of Texas Institute for Geophysics)

2024-2025 Events and Activities

Officers


Meetings

  • October 15, 2024: Pumpkin carving organization
  • October 9, 2024: General Meeting with students
  • October 4, 2024: Second meeting for year agenda
  • September 26, 2024: Budget meeting with CERI Director
  • September 23, 2024: Academic year agenda
  • September 18, 2024: First meeting with faculty advisor

Activities

Fall 2024

  1. December 4, 2024: End of Semester Potluck event at CERI
  2. November 22, 2024: CERI Seminar – Speaker: Ahmed Elbanna (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
  3. November 15, 2024: CERI Seminar – Speaker: Michael S. Steckler (Columbia University)
  4. November 8, 2024: CERI Seminar – Speaker: Allison Shumway (USGS)
  5. October 30, 2024: Annual Pumpkin Carving – CERI students and postdocs
  6. October 11, 2024: CERI Seminar – Speaker: Julien A. Chaput (University of Texas El Paso)
  7. September 27, 2024: CERI Seminar – Speaker: Eric Sandvol - (University of Missouri)
  8. September 20, 2024: CERI Seminar – Speaker: Steve Horton - (CERI, The University of Memphis)

Spring 2025

  1. April 25, 2025: Seismogram Reading – Processing, Interpretation and discussion of Seismic activity
  2. April 11, 2025: Tools of the Trade for CERI students- GPS Processing
  3. March 28, 2025: CERI Seminar – Speaker: Brian W. Stump (Southern Methodist University)
  4. March 21, 2025: CERI Seminar – Speaker: Urbi Basu (New Mexico Tech Seismological Observatory)
  5. March 19, 2025: Tools of the Trade for CERI students- INSAR processing with Python
  6. March 7, 2025: Seismogram Reading – Processing, Interpretation and discussion of Seismic activity
  7. February 28, 2025: Tools of the Trade for CERI students- Surface deformation modeling with Pylith
  8. February 21, 2025: CERI Seminar – Speaker: Diego Melgar (University of Oregon)
  9. February 19, 2025: Movie night at CERI - CERI students and postdocs
  10. February 14, 2025: Seismogram Reading – Processing, Interpretation and discussion of Seismic activity
  11. February 7, 2025: CERI Seminar – Speaker: Will Levandowski (Tetra Tech)
  12. January 31, 2025: CERI Seminar – Speaker: Daniel Larsen (DES, The University of Memphis)

2023-2024 Events and Activities

Officers

Meetings

  • Sep 20, 2023: Meeting with new officers
  • October 11, 2023: Meeting with Director about budget
  • October 25, 2023: Pumpkin carving meeting
  • Sep 6, 2023: Committee change meeting
  • June 11, 2023: Ping-Pong tournament meeting
  • March 29, 2024: Meeting for New Madrid seismic zone visit
  • Feb 28, 2024: Meeting with new director: Vadim

Activities

Fall 2023

  1. October 3, 2023: Seismograph Reading Day – Weekly events on Tuesday afternoons (3:30 p.m.)
  2. October 20, 2023: CERI Seminar – Speaker: Eh Tan, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
  3. October 26, 2023: Annual Pumpkin Carving – CERI students and postdocs decorated the CERI building with beautiful pumpkin carvings.
  4. October 27, 2023: CERI Seminar – Speaker: Arleen Hill, DES, University of Memphis
  5. November 3, 2023: CERI Seminar – Speaker: Jenn Pickering, CEASER, University of Memphis
  6. November 10, 2023: CERI Seminar – Speaker: Jeff Nunn, Chevron
  7. November 17, 2023: CERI Seminar – Speaker: Kent Moran, CERI, University of Memphis
  8. December 1, 2023: CERI Seminar – Speaker: Ruth Harris, USGS

Spring 2024

  1. January 19, 2024: CERI Seminar – Speaker: Thomas Goebel, CERI, University of Memphis
  2. March 1, 2024: CERI Seminar – Speaker: Qiquan Xiong, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  3. March 15, 2024: CERI Seminar – Speaker: Amanda Gaggioli, History, University of Memphis
  4. March 29, 2024: CERI Seminar – Speaker: Shahram Pezeshk, Civil Engineering, University of Memphis
  5. March 12, 2024: CERI Seminar – Speaker: Christos Kyriakopoulos, CERI, University of Memphis
  6. May 3, 2024: Earth Day 2024 – DES, CERI, and the SEG Student Chapter coordinated and organized Earthquake Day 2024.

2022-2023 Events and Activities

Officers:

Meetings

  • Sep 29, 2023: First Committee meeting
  • Oct 6, 2023: Pumpkin Curving Arrangement
  • Jan 12, 23: Planning for future activity
  • June 21, 23: Ping Pong Tournament Arrangement Meeting
  • Sep 5, 23: New Student Orientation
  • Oct 6, 23: Committee Change Meeting

Activities

  • Annual Pumpkin Carving Contest

Date: Thursday, 21 October 2022

Participants: CERI students and faculty

  • Chili Cookoff Party

Date: Friday, 9 December 2022

Participants: CERI students, faculty, and Stuff

  • CERI annual poster competition: March 20th to 23rd display, winners announced on Friday the 24th
  • Earth Day Event 2023

Collaborative event with U of Memphis Department of Earth Sciences. This was an outreach event where we taught the University Middle School students about earthquakes, seismic waves, liquefaction, and more. There were a total of 6 booths where CERI SEG were in charge of.

Date: Friday, April 21, 2023

Participants: Faculty and students from CERI and DES (Department of Earth Science, UofM)

  • Ping-pong tournament 2023

Date: July 10-11; Participants: CERI students, faculty, and Stuff

  • Movie Night

Date: September 7 at 3.15 pm (Tremors, 1990)

Participants: CERI students, faculty, and Stuff

Seminar 12: September 9: Jim Kaklamanos (Merrimack)

  • SEG Officers Elections: September 11 - 13

Spring 2023 (9 speakers: 7 males, 2 female)

Seminar 1: Jan 20, 2023 - Mostafa Mousavi (Stanford)

Seminar 2: Feb. 3, 2023 - Randel Cox (U. of Memphis)

Seminar 3: Feb 17, 2023- Ross Stein (temblor)

Seminar 4: Feb 24, 2023 - Brian Young (Sandia National Labs)

Seminar 5: March 24      - Erin Wirth (USGS/U. Of Washington)

Seminar 6: March 31      - Sungho Lee (U. of Memphis)

Seminar 7: April 5           - Sylvain Barbot (University of Southern California)

Seminar 8: April 11         - Jacob Walters (U. of Oklahoma)

Seminar 9: April 14         - Patricia Persaud (LSU)

Summer 2023 (1 speaker: male)

Seminar 10: May 24/25   - Dr Gareth Funning (UC Riverside)

Fall 2023 (7 speakers: 4 males, 3 female)

Seminar 11: September 5: Welcome back SEG meeting

2021-2022 Events and Activities

CERI Ping Pong Tournament

  • Date: Monday, 13 June, 2022
  • Participants: CERI students and faculty

University of Memphis Earth Day

  • Collaborative event with U of Memphis Department of Earth Sciences. This was an outreach event where we taught the University Middle School students about earthquakes, seismic waves, liquefaction, and more. There were a total of 6 booths CERI SEG were in charge of.
  • Date: Friday, April 22, 2022
  • Participants: Faculty and students from CERI and DES (Department of Earth Science, UM)

Annual Pumpkin Carving Contest

  • Date: Thursday, 28 October, 2021
  • Participants: CERI students and faculty

Ghost River Canoe Trip

  • Date: Sunday, 23 October, 2021
  • Participants: CERI students and faculty

2020-2021 Events and Activities

This year we had a mandated social distancing and were unable to meet in person. We held virtual weekly Seismo Coffee meetings where we discussed current research and read some papers.

2019-2020 Events and Activities

2018-2019 Events and Activities

Meetings

Three meetings were held in this academic year that centered on preparing the chapter for future events. The faculty advisor and all officers participated in the meetings and created an effective plan to incorporate more events, increase participation, and place students with more experience in leadership positions going forward.

Activities

The chapter held and participated in three major events in the past year.

SEG Honorary Lecturer, by Dr. Christine Krohn

  • Topic: The complexity just below our feet and the implications for the fidelity of land seismic data
  • Date: 9/21/2018
  • Participants: Faculty and students from CERI and DES (Department of Earth Science, UM)

Ghost River Canoe Trip and Barbeque

  • Date: 10/20/2018
  • Participants: CERI students and faculty

Short course on Machine Learning by Phil Bording

  • Date: 1/27/2018 – 1/30/2018
  • Participants: CERI students and faculty


2017-2018 Events and Activities

2016-2017 Events and Activities

4th Annual Pumpkin Carving Potluck

SEG Colloquium Series

  1. "Apollo lunar seismic experiment", presented by Dr. H. James Dorman on September 9, 2016


2015-2016 Events and Activities

3rd Annual Pumpkin Carving Potluck

  • October 30, 2016

Bad Science Movie Night

  • February 23, 2016

Education and Outreach

  1. Seismic hazards talk: 5th graders from local elementary school, March 2, 2016
  2. Herff Scholars Day: High School students interested in engineering seismology, March 5, 2016

CERI Trivia

  • April 8, 2016

Ping Pong Tournament

  • March 18, 2016

Seismic Instrument Workshop

  • April 11-13, 2016

SEG Colloquium Series

  1. "Research Talks", presented by Dr. Charles Langston, John Meredith, Mostafa Mousavi, Yang Yang and Akram Mostafanejad on September 18, 2015
  2. "Strain on the Plains isn't just the faults' fault: Stress in the central U.S.", presented by Dr. Will Levandowski on October 9, 2015
  3. "Geodymanic Research at CERI: Achievements and plans”, presented by Dr. Eunseo Choi on October 16, 2015
  4. “Earthquake Hazard Research: Urban, Regional, Q, Stress Drop, GMMs, Historical, Tectonic, and EEW”, presented by Dr. Chris Cramer, Mahesh Dhar, Nayeem Al Noman, Jerry Kutliroff, Luke Philip Ogweno on October 23, 2015
  5. “Earthquake Rupture Simulation: Theory and Examples” presented by Dr. Eric Daub, Chunquan Wu, David Tovar, Naeem Khoshnevis, Khurram Aslam, Sabber ahamed, Yang Yang on October 30, 2015
  6. "Seismological research along collision and subduction plate boundaries -- from oceans to continents" presented by Dr. Jer-Ming Chiu on November 20, 2015
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