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Upcoming Seminars:
- BEG in Houston November 18, 2008
- Sequence Stratigraphy and Depositional Systems of the Woodbine Group in East Texas Field: Core Workshoper
- BEG in Houston November 20, 2008
- Questions, Answers, and Challengs in Mudrock Systems Research: Technologies and Applications for Shale Reservoir Successions
- SWS AAPG at TCU December 9, 2008
- Integrated Approaches to Modeling Late Paleozoic Petroleum Reservoirs in the Greater Midcontinent
Please see the Newsletter for information on our next meeting November 10th at the Fort Worth Petroleum Club.
This month's speaker is Lynn N. Hughes, United States District Judge; whose topic is:
Dilemmas of Trust.
To RSVP for the meeting; please send an email with your name and the number attending to:
Lynn N. Hughes
United State District
Judge
Houston, Texas
Judge:
United
States District Court, Houston, 1985 –; Texas Civil District Court,
1979-85.
Adjunct Professor:
South Texas
College of Law, 1973-2003; University of Texas, 1991, 2000.
Member:
Judicial Advisory Board, Law &
Economics Center, George Mason University School of Law; Advisory Board, Houston
Journal of International Law, 1980- (chair, 1989-99); American Anthropological
Association; Council on Foreign Relations.
Education:
University of Virginia School of Law, LL.M.; University of Texas Law
School, J.D.; and University of Alabama, B.A.
Advisor:
European Community, Moldova, Albanian
opposition, Ukraine, Belorussia, Albania, Romania, Russia. 1989 –
98.
Dilemmas of Trust Mixing principles and examples with economics and anthropology, a
thoughtful and practical perspective on integrity is developed. Often in ethics
– as in science – identifying the problem is harder than knowing the solution,
making recognition the critical first step in ethical analysis. Good things, like cooperation, can become negative when they are not tethered to an external reality and the larger society. Also, because our ideology and psychology can blind us to the nature of our choices, we need balance, feed-back, and thought to resolve the ethical aspects of the ordinary and unfamiliar. |
Attendance Satisfies the Annual Ethics
Requirement for the Texas Board of Professional Geoscientists
Attendance certificates will be available following the meeting
Attendance certificates will be available following the meeting
The Barnett Shale Play
Phoenix of the Fort Worth Basin
A History
The Fort Worth and North Texas Geological Societies are proud to announce the publishing of Dan Steward's book on the history of Barnett Shale drilling in the Fort Worth Basin. The book will be available from the F.W.G.S. for $35 plus $5 shipping and handling. Click here for a link to the order form. The books are on back-order; so please allow extra time for delivery.
Contact Frank Paniszczyn, Frank_Paniszczyn@xtoenergy.com for information.