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2.3. Collaborations with other organizations
2.3.1. Collaboration with the U of <strong>Bucharest</strong> SEG <strong>Student</strong> Section
The collaboration with the SEG <strong>Student</strong> Section is very important for BSC; it has
been as long as 4 years now and it consists of more aspects. The most important one is a
project which consists of a yearly international <strong>geo</strong>physical field camp financed by the SEG
Foundation.
This year the project was
organized in Romania. Two graduate
students from the University of
<strong>Bucharest</strong> (UB) and BSC members
coordinated and led a small-scale,
applied <strong>geo</strong>physical field camp for 10
UB undergraduate <strong>geo</strong>physics
students and 4 German students from
their twinned SEG <strong>Student</strong> Section at
the Free University of Berlin (FUB). This project was a continuation of the previous years‟
collaboration with the Stanford University (SU) <strong>Student</strong> Section, in the idea of passing
forward the knowledge accumulated
in the two years experience. In the
summer of 2008, the FUB students
traveled to Romania, where, together
with other 10 inexperienced UB
students attended a field camp
guided by the two experienced UB
students and three UB teaching
assistants who provided mentorship
during the planning and acquisition stages of a number of near-surface <strong>geo</strong>physical surveys
at four Romanian mining waste deposits sites.
The investigations were focused on environmental issues, having as goals the
<strong>geo</strong>physical investigation of some mining waste deposits in order to obtain information
about their internal structures and <strong>geo</strong>chemical processes, information to be used
furthermore in rehabilitation processes.
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