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Show Computers use in geologic analysis to be discussed in lecture series H. Roice Nelson CEDAR CITY - The use of computers to analyze three-dimensional three-dimensional geologic data will be discussed Aug. 5 at Southern Utah State College, the last presentation in the college's Distinguished Lecture Series. H. Roice Nelson, general manager of the Allied Geophysical Laboratories at me University of Houston, is the guest speaker. Sponsored by the SUSC Division of Continuing Education, the lecture is free to the public and will begin at 12 noon in the Thorley Recital Hall. "We are fortunate to have Mr. Nelson as our guest lecturer," Phillip C. Carter, assistant vice president for academic programs, said. "His presentation will be a very informative one, a very interesting and fitting conclusion to the highly successful lecture series." Since the Distinguished Lecture Series began in June, a wide range of subjects have been discussed, from a historical look at SUSC and the founding of Cedar City to discussions on writing children's books, dental advances, nuclear energy, teaching reading and a performance by "Music Man" Warren Burton. Nelson received a B.S. in geophysics from the University of Utah in 1974 and an M.B.A. from Southern Methodist University in 1981. He was employed by Amoco Production Co. in the summers of 1970 and 1973, and from 1974 to 1980 held various, geophysical positions with Mobil Exploration and Production Services, Inc., in Dallas, Texas. The SUSC speaker became a senior research scientist with the Seismic Acoustics Laboratory at the University of Houston in January 1980, a position he held until 1981 when he was appointed to his present position as general manger of Allied Geophysical Laboratories, five industry-sponsored research laboratories where evaluations are made of exploration geophysics and three-dimensional three-dimensional seismic techniques. In addition, Nelson is a member of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists Research Committee. The author of 32 papers and presentations since he began working at the University of Houston, , Nelson has had the opportunity op-portunity for extensive travel. In the past four months he has coordinated coor-dinated and taught a school for seismic interpreters in-terpreters in Kristian-sand, Kristian-sand, Norway; presented a paper at the European Association of Exploration Ex-ploration Geophysicists Conference in Cannes, France; conducted a school and lectured in three-dimensional seismic techniques at Wolfson College, Oxford University, England; and presented an executive seminar, "Using Computer Com-puter Graphics for Seismic Interpretation," for the Control Data Corporation in Minneapolis, Min-neapolis, Minn. "Interactive Computer Graphics for Analyzing Three-Dimensional Data" is the tjtle of his Aug. 5 lecture at SUSC. Nelson has written a 10-, 10-, part series of articles for : "World Oil" which will be published in December by Gulf Publishing under the title "New Technologies in Ex portation Geophysics: An Examination of Trends and New Developments in Oil and Gas Exploration Methods Using Reflection Seismology." Nelson is the son of Howard and Pauline Nelson, Cedar City, and is a graduate of Cedar High School. He is married to the former Martha Sharp, and they are the parents of five children. |