ANNUAL REPORT 2003
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Flashes of the year |
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Bustling activity on the international scene
Throughout the year, researchers from GEUS have made their mark in international publications. At the 6th Petroleum Geology Conference in London in October 2003, 12 articles were presented on subjects ranging from limestone reservoirs research in the North Sea to exploration on the Faeroe Islands and studies of sediment basins in Greenland. In the field of oil and gas, a longer article has also been published in the magazine Petroleum Geoscience describing the geological development of the Faeroese part of the North-East Atlantic Margin in the Tertiary period.The article elucidates the chances of discovering oil in the Faeroese subsurface. In October 2003, a special issue was published of the international magazine Precambrian Research, which describes the results of several years of surveys in the 3.7-3.8 billion year-old greenstone belt at Isua in West Greenland.The objective of these surveys, which were carried out by an international research group, was to map the early Archaean processes on Earth. GEUS contributed with three articles for this publication, and a GEUS researcher edited the publication together with two foreign colleagues. |
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Posters and photos for the Night of Culture in Copenhagen
Again in 2003, the citizens of Copenhagen had the chance of a geological experience in the Night of Culture. Many people went to the Geological Museum where GEUS, together with its partners at Geocenter Copenhagen, presented a photo symphony of Greenland's landscapes and a large collection of posters about our vital fresh water which was prepared by school classes from all over Denmark. The youngsters' knowledge and view of the water were compiled in connection with a poster competition staged by the Danish Water Resources Committee and the Ministry of Education to celebrate the UN International Year of Freshwater 2003. The winning class later received the first prize of DKK 70,000 at an event at Geocenter Copenhagen. |
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Prize for best article
At a symposium in Galveston,Texas in June, the Society of Professional Well Log Analysts, which has more than 2,500 members worldwide, revealed that senior researcher Peter Frykman from GEUS was awarded the prize for best article in their international journal Petrophysics together with his co-author Clayton Deutsch from the University of Alberta. The article describes how to best find a correlation between core and log data from wells in the North Sea by means of statistical methods and laws of scaling. The authors describe the theoretical background and show practical examples of how to combine data from different scales. The examples are selected from the Dan Field and the Harald Field where the geological strata sequence in the limestone and the shallow-marine sandstones respectively contains the variations in porosity which can be analysed with the scaling laws. |
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New newsletter for users
In 2003, GEUS introduced another newsletter called "Vand & Data" (water & data) to improve the communication of its activities within the field of groundwater and data. The initiative came from a study in 2001 where GEUS asked its users how satisfied they were with its services in the groundwater area. The newsletter contains information about new research projects, significant results, publications, services and databases. In 2003, two printed issues of Vand & Data were published, and here the users could read about a new method for stakeholder involvement in groundwater protection, results and objectives in EU research projects, methods for well logging, the national water resource model and additions to GEUS databases. The newsletter is also published electronically and can be read or downloaded in Danish from: http://www.geus.dk/vand-og-data/vd-dk.htm.You can also find links here to central water and data information from GEUS, including groundwater monitoring, groundwater modelling, databases, services and popular-scientific publications about water. |
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Danish Geology Prize awarded
In April 2003, GEUS awarded the Danish Geology Prize 2002 of DKK 25,000 to the director of the Danish Lithosphere Centre, Hans Christian Larsen. The prize, for which the Geological Society of Denmark nominates the winner, was awarded at a meeting of the Society where it was also possible to hear about the research at the Danish Lithosphere Centre. Hans Christian Larsen was awarded the prize for his great efforts for international research into the geological processes of the Earth's crust and the understanding of the dynamics behind the break-up and the plate-tectonic spreading of continents. Hans Christian Larsen's deep commitment to many international research projects has helped in placing Danish geology on the world map. |
