Maria Dolores Proubasta i Ruiz is from Barcelona, Spain, where she studied journalism, worked in film production, in the medical press, and later was founder and editor of Orbe Medico. After moving to the United States, she continued humanities and English language studies, taught college Spanish, and became managing editor of Petroleo Internacional, the Latin American sister publication of Oil and Gas Journal. After a return to medical publishing in Chicago and a second two-year tour at PI, she joined The Society of Exploration Geophysicists as associate editor of The Leading Edge. She has be...