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On July 1, 2009 Gerard T. Schuster will officially resign as Professor of Geophysics at the University of Utah and assume the position of University of Utah Adjunct Professor.

This summer he will begin working at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) as Professor of Geosciences; KAUST is a new university 50 miles north of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia that is patterned after MIT and has strong collaborations with MIT, Stanford, Cambridge University, and University of Texas.

Professor Schuster hopes to extend this collaboration profile to the University of Utah where he is talking to officials about setting up a partnership between the Geology and Geophysics program at Utah and KAUST. He hopes this partnership will include exchange classes and a dual degree program in exploration seismology.

He will continue the UTAM (Utah Tomography and Modeling/Migration) consortium (with 20 member companies for 2008) for one more year at the University of Utah with the annual meeting held in Salt Lake City in the middle of January 2010.