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Newsletter July 2017 | Issue 3

INSIDE THIS ISSUE:

Message from our President

“Every day, the IAGC strives to be the most credible and effective
voice for ensuring a safe, environmentally responsible and
competitive geophysical industry.”

Sometimes our work entails victories that result in publicized and significant
government actions, like last newsletter’s highlight of the recent executive and
secretarial orders touting the importance of the geophysical industry to energy Zooplankton Report 2
development in the United States. We are eager to mirror that increased
visibility of our industry in our engagement with governments around the Industry Partners 3
world. At other, and often many times in between, we are focused on the
details that may never garner any attention, as even the smallest of issues Regulatory News 4-10
can pose a significant risk to our members’ operations.
This month, that small Gulf of Mexico Workshop 11
issue was the smallest of
ocean creatures-microscopic Acquatic Noise & JIP 12
zooplankton. A report in Nature
Ecology & Evolution magazine, Global Fisheries Workgroup 13
published the results of a study out
of Australia purporting to examine Recent Events 14-15
the impacts of the sound from
seismic surveys on zooplankton, Past Chairmen’s Lunch 16
a small but significant and critical
part of the marine life food chain. IAGC in the News 18
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