Hi Folks,
Just wanted to make sure you were aware that the voting is open for the 2016-2017 slate of SEG leaders.
SEG Active members may cast their votes for new leadership in the 2015 Society of Exploration Geophysicists election, which opens 3 June and closes 31 July. Active SEG members whose e-mail addresses are on file will receive personalized pass code information in an e-mail on 3 June from Survey and Ballot Systems (SBS), the company managing the SEG election.
Results of the election will be announced mid-August. The new board will begin its term at the end of the 2015 Annual Meeting and complete its term at the end of next year's Annual Meeting. Elected District Representatives will begin their terms at the 2015 Annual Council Meeting and serve through the 2017 Council.
Only Active, Emeritus, Honorary, and Life members are eligible to vote on all matters submitted to the membership; however, members failing to pay dues by 1 June will not be eligible to vote in the 2015 election.
For questions regarding the election, please contact SEG. For information on how to become an Active member of the Society and be eligible to vote in future elections, please visit the SEG Membership Web site.
Nominees for Board of Directors
The following Active Members have been selected by the SEG Committee on Nominations and agreed to be candidates for the 2015-2016 board of directors:
President-elect
Bill Abriel and Nancy J. House
Second vice president
Bud Pope and Jie Zhang
Editor
Mauricio Sacchi
Director-at-large
Bob Brook, Rocco (Rocky) Detomo, Jr., Ricardo Rosa Fernandes, and Vladimir Grechka
SEG's current president-elect, John Bradford, will serve as president, Christopher Liner will serve as past president, Eve Sprunt will serve as first vice president, Alison Small will continue as treasurer, and Guillaume Cambois, Gustavo Carstens, Xianhuai Zhu, and Maurice Nessim will continue as directors-at-large on the 2015-16 board of directors. An election for chair of the Council will be held this summer.
District Elections
In addition to the board of directors election, ten districts are holding elections for representatives. Districts 1, 4, 5, 6, 8, and 11 have one seat to fill and Districts 2, 3, 7, and 10 have two open seats. The nominees are:
District 1
Baishali Roy, Michael Cogan, Jeremy Zimmerman, and Malleswar Yenugu
District 2
Kyle Spikes, Gerard Beaudoin, and Dennis Yanchak
District 3
Michael Albrecht, Stewart Levin, and Jonathan Ajo-Franklin
District 4
Robert Jacob and William Harbert
District 5
Madeline Lee
District 6
Jose Arce
District 7
Per Eivind Dhelie, Colin MacBeth, and Olav Inge Barkved
District 8
Sandra Tegtmeier-Last and Salvador Rodriguez
District 10
Tariq Alkhalifah and Maria Angela Capello
District 11
Hong Liu
Election Campaign Policy
SEG Bylaws provide for the annual election of officers by the Active Members the Society. Member participation in the election process serves to ensure that those individuals selected to direct the activities of the Society share the goals, aims, and values of the SEG Membership. To ensure an informed electorate, it is necessary that those qualified to vote know the qualifications of the candidates and their positions on issues important to the success of the Society. It is, however, in the best interests of the Society that, in providing the electorate with this information, the election process be fair to all candidates, and be free from divisiveness and rancor. To this end, the Society has adopted rules governing the election process which can be found in the SEG Procedures Manual.
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Paul Wehking
Senior Solutions Advisor
Higher Logic
Arlington,VA
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