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Student Chapter Annual Report FormThis form is used to report on Student Chapter activities over the previous year. The report provides a useful medium to doc-ument the status and progress of individual chapters. Annual Reports are used to evaluate applications for SEG support and tokeep information up-to-date on the SEG website. Please provide a summary of chapter activities in a concise form as suggest-ed below. Description of programs may be supported by a limited number of photographs and figures in a format appropriatefor publishing on our website.

Submission Deadline: September 30th Submit to: studentprograms@segweb.org

Month/Year Reported: From _______________________(mm/yyyy) – To _______________________(mm/yyyy)

Chapter Name: ________________________________________________________________________________________

Chapter Mailing Address: _______________________________________________________________________________

Chapter E-mail: _______________________________________________________________________________________

Chapter Website: ______________________________________________________________________________________

Chapter Facebook: _____________________________________________________________________________________

Chapter Executive Committee (in office during the time frame captured on this report) (type “Vacant” if position not filled):

President: __________________________________________ __________________________________________Name E-mail

Vice President: __________________________________________ __________________________________________Name E-mail

Secretary: __________________________________________ __________________________________________Name E-mail

Treasurer: __________________________________________ __________________________________________Name E-mail

Chapter Academic Sponsor (SEG Fellow membership in good standing):

______________________________________ ______________________________________ ______________________Name E-mail Phone

_____________________________________________________________________________ ______________________Address Fax

Chapter Industry Sponsor (SEG Fellow membership in good standing and not affiliated with the student chapter’s institution):

______________________________________ ______________________________________ ______________________Name E-mail Phone

_____________________________________________________________________________ ______________________Address Fax

Sponsoring Institution or Company (name): _________________________________________________________________

Attach: 1. a list of names of all Student Chapter members (please indicate by * if SEG Student Member).2. complete Student Chapter Membership Information form with the current Executive Committee listed on page 1.

On a separate page(s) provide a summary of student chapter annual activities:

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1. Regular meetings, lectures2. Field trips (dates, area visited, field trip leaders, num-

ber of participants, sponsors, benefits for students).Note: this is not the place for a detailed field tripreport that is required from a chapter who has receivedfunding from the Stewart R. Wallace Fund.

3. If your chapter received funding from the Stewart R.Wallace Fund, please submit a separate actualaccounting of how chapter funds were spent/used.

4. Organization of conferences, workshops, short courses (theme, number of participants, benefitsfor students)

5. Participation in conferences, workshops, short courses (theme, number of participants from thechapter, benefits for students)

6. Fund-raising programs7. Other programs8. Future plans

12/2014 10/2015Student Chapter of UFBA - BR

facebook.com/Student-Chapter-UFBA-SEG-187579754627874

Michelli Santos michelly_bia@hotmail.com

Tiago Sacramento Vasconcellos tiago.vasc@hotmail.com

Renato Fanha fanhageologia@gmail.com

João Gabriel Lessa joaoglessa@hotmail.com

Aroldo Misi misi@ufba.br 55 71 3341-1617

Alameda das Algarobas, 143 (Caminho das Árvores), 41820-500 Salvado

João Batista Guimarães Teixeira jbgteixeira@gmail.com 55 71 3375 2661

Rua Camuripeba, 13 - Piatan, 41650-035 Salvador - Bahia - Brazil

Independent Consultancy

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List of names of all Student Chapter members:

Name E-mail

Andréia Rangel andreiageologia@hotmail.com

Charles Meireles charles.meireles@hotmail.com

Felipe Fernandes felipe.fernandes00@hotmail.com

João Gabriel Lessa(*) joaoglessa@hotmail.com

João Paulo Ribeiro jpthesurfer@hotmail.com

Michelli Santos(*) michelligeologia@gmail.com

Naiara Ramalho naiararamalho@yahoo.com.br

Pedro Garcia(*) pmpg_splinter@yahoo.com

Ramon Borges(*) ramongeo@live.com

Ramon Martins(*) rmogeo@live.com

Renato Fanha(*) fanhageologia@gmail.com

Ruy Pereira ruysoueu@gmail.com

Tiago Vasconcelos(*) tiago.vasc@hotmail.com

Yuri Figueiredo yurifigueiredo@hotmail.com

The “Student Chapter of Economic Geology of UFBA” has been formed by undergraduate

and graduate students of the Geology course at the Federal University of Bahia. The group

is headquartered in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, and it is in operation since August 2011, when

it has been declared officially as “Student Chapter of Economic Geology”.

A summary of the main activities undertaken by the group is given bellow:

1. Regular meetings, lectures

The group has been holding fortnightly meetings, where has been discussing the planning and the division of tasks for each member. Everything has been recorded in the minute’s book; this is the responsibility of the secretary. Eventually we invite students who were working in some exploration companies as a trainee for share some experience and bring some knowledge about regional geology and deposit model.

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2. Field Trips

Unfortunately this year was not possible to accomplish the field trip planed. In the

present year Brazil is undergoing an economic and political crisis, which has led to

a budget cut of 30% by the Federal Government for UFBA, making impossible to

obtain resources such as transportation, field material and lodging allowance.

Allied to it, the Professors, Public Servers and Student decided to hold a strike,

which has just ended and lasted 5 months.

For all that, we have decided to hold back the project and wait for a more

opportune moment.

3. Stewart R. Wallace Fund

The funding acquired has still not been used. As told before, we were planning to use

the money for the Field Trip. The Student Chapter is still studying the best way to use

the fund. Further information regard it will be sent soon.

4. Organization of conferences, workshops, short courses.

For this year, the group organized three events. Two conferences and one workshop.

Find more details below:

Geology week Organization

The Geology week occurred from May 25th to 29th, 2015 in the Institute of Geosciences

- UFBA, Salvador - Bahia in partnership with Academic Center (Figure 1). The chapter

members João Gabriel and Michelli Santos were invited to spoke about The Student

Chapter for the freshmans and the general public.

I Week of Metalogenesis / Geological Friday

The project formerly named Week of Metalogenesis, has changed to Geological Friday

and is being organized along with the Metalogenesis group of UFBA and with our

sponsor Aroldo Misi. The objective of the project is to invite an exploration geologist

from different deposits of Bahia for a lecture about the genesis of the ore deposit, and

after, open the theme for discussion. We decided it would be more interesting to have

one lecture for week instead of a week of lectures, to reach the most students possible

from the University.

Weekly tematic presentations.

This was the main project of the year, the idea is to encourage the members to study

one type of ore deposit and present a lecture about it to the students of Geology from

UFBA (Photos 1 and 2). The theme was selected according to the knowledge of which

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member, so that they could all have the best performance possible. It was a huge

success. This project is still in progress.

Photo 1. Lecture of “Ultramafic Magmatic Deposits”, by Tiago Vasconcelos.

Photo 2. Lecture of “Genesis of Banded Iron Formations” by Felipe Fernandes.

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5. Participation in conferences, workshops, short courses.

The Student Chapter of UFBA was present at:

SNET – National Symposium of Tectonic Studies

This symposium occurred from May 18th to 21st in Vitória, Espírito Santo. The SNET

occurs in a National and International level as an important forum of discussion about

new concepts and discoveries in the areas of Structure and Tectonic Geology, Basins

Evolution, as well as, techniques of structural analysis and theoretical and

experimental tectonic modeling. The SNET also opens discussion in the importance and

Picture 1: Official Program of the Geologist Week 2015.

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influence of tectonics in structure control of ore deposits. During this event, our

Chapter President, Michelli Santos, presented her Master's theme (Picture 2).

XXVI Northeast Geology Symposium

This Symposium brings together professionals from different areas of Geology to discuss

and present results of their researches and the developing of regional themes in a

national relevance, besides discussions and actions regarding the approach of the

academy with society. The theme of the Symposium this year was Geology and

Developing. During this event, our Chapter Vice-President Tiago Vasconcelos presented

about the mineralization in apatite in Maracás, Bahia (Picture 3).

Picture 2: Banner presented during SNET.

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Picture 3: Banner presented in the XXVI Northeast Geology Symposium

6. Other programs

The Student Chapter of UFBA is working alongside with the University Professor of

Economic Geology in order to prepare a Metallogenesis Showcase to be displayed

in the Geosciences Institute of UFBA. This showcase will be used to exhibit ore

samples and their respective host rocks of the main deposits visited by the Student

Chapter Members. We already have 15 samples of different ore deposits. The

showcase inauguration was predicted to October, 2014, but it had to be postponed

due to the Economic Crisis already explained in this report. The showcase is around

60% concluded as shown in Picture 4.

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Picture 4: Metallogenesis Showcase