· GSTT UPDATE
2nd GSTT CONFERENCE: Thirty five responses have been received to date from authors interested
in presenting their work at the technical sessions; however only six authors have submitted Abstracts. Nine of
the twenty-nine authors who have indicated an interest in presenting papers at the Symposium on the Cretaceous
have supplied Abstracts. Eight persons have indicated an interest in presenting their work as poster .
Four post-conference field trips will be run from 6th to 8th April 1990 and include: (1) Geological Field Trip
to Tobago (A. Snoke, University of Wyoming, leader); (2) Structural Styles in Trinidad (R. Ahmad, U.W.l., Mona,
Leader); (3) Middle Miocene to Cretaceous Sediments in Trinidad (W. Ali, Trintopec, leader); and (4) Non-petroleum
Economic Geology of Trinidad (R. Bertrand, Trinidad Cement Ltd, leader).
Conference circulars and registration forms are available from: John Keens-Dumas Trinidad and Tobago Petroleum
Company Ltd.,Santa Flora, Trinidad, W.l. Fax -(809) 6495810.
· The GSTT delivered a lecture on "The Restless Earth - A Guide to Plate Tectonics" to 150 A level
geography and geology students at Presentation College, San Fernando on 26th September, 1989. The lecture was given
by Winston Ali, senior geologist at Trintopec, and was geared to supplement the GCE A level geology and geography
syllabus. Participating students came from St. Joseph's Convent, Narparima Girls and Boys Colleges and Presentation
College. Additional lectures on Plate Tectonics and other topics relevant to the syllabus are planned at venues
in north and south Trinidad for the benefit of A level geology and geography students.
· SHORT COURSES Two schools/short courses will be put on by the GSTT in 1990. These are a 2 day
Organic Geochemistry School, scheduled for January 1990, to be conducted by Dr. Kirton Rodrigues, geochemist (Trintoc)
and a 5-day Mud Engineering and Directional Drilling Techniques in Trinidad School in March 1990, to be put on
by Enos Thomas, Senior Petroleum Engineer (Trintoc).
· ON THE MOVE: Ken Abdulah,geophysicist (Trintoc) has gone to Rice University in Houston to pursue an M.Sc.
in Geophysics. Ken has worked as a geophysicist at Trintoc since 1978.
Phillip Cosgrove, geologist (Trintoc) has taken up employment as a development geologist in Qatar, effective
October 1989. Phillip has been employed as a petroleum geologist at Trintoc since 1981.
Bill Chaitan, geophysicist (Trintoc), has resigned effective November 1989. Bill has been employed with Trintoc
since 1985 and plans to start up his own consultancy service - BOWS Geophysical Consultants.
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