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Smithsonian
In late November, a high-tech network of cameras scattered about the Australian outback spotted a meteorite plummeting through the atmosphere. Just over a month later, on New Year's Eve, a group of geologists finally found the 3.7 pound, 4.5 billion-year-old space rock buried in a crater near Lake Eyre, extracting it only hours before heavy rains would have washed away any traces of the rock.
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- Graduate Student Research Grants: Grants to partially fund research for graduate-level geoscience students. Deadline: 1 February 2016
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Independent
NASA has released more incredible images of the surface of Mars, this time sharing pictures of giant Martian sand dunes taken by their Curiosity rover. The newly-released pictures were taken on Dec. 18, which was Curiosity's 1,197th Martian day in operation. Now that Curiosity has arrived in the region, researchers from the U.S. Geology Survey's) Astrogeology Science Center will start conducting tests and experiments on the surface material.
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Alaska Dispatch News
The first fully digitized geological map of Alaska, the product of two decades of work, was released Jan. 5 by the U.S. Geological Survey. To create the map and its voluminous supporting material, "I basically used everything I could possibly find," said USGS research geologist and lead author Frederic Wilson. That included everything from field notes made by geologists in the 1950s and earlier — even some information more than a century old — to the most modern information available from sources like Google Earth and satellite imagery, he said.
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The 2016 membership dues are available to pay online. Annual membership dues are due and payable Jan. 1 in accordance with the bylaws. Members that have not paid as of Feb. 15 will be suspended. An additional $20 (late fee) is required for payments received after Feb. 15.
You are encouraged to login to the AIPG Member portion of the website to pay your dues for 2016. Paying online helps save on printing and postage costs. Call if you have any questions 303-412-6205. Click on MEMBER LOGIN to pay dues, make a donation and purchase insignia items. Your login is your email and the system has you setup your password if you haven't already. You must login to pay dues, search the directory or make changes to your record.
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The 2016 AIPG "Water Resources Unplugged: A Multi-Dimensional Workshop" Planning Committee is soliciting abstracts, session proposals and panel discussion topics on the latest approaches, practices, processes, techniques,
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The AIPG Michigan Section Newsletter — January 2016
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Nominations for awards, accompanied by a supporting statement should be sent via mail (to AIPG, 12000 Washington Street, Thornton, Colorado 80241-3134), fax (303-253-9220), or email by Jan. 15 to the AIPG National Headquarters. National awards include the Ben H. Parker Memorial Medal, the Martin Van Couvering Memorial Award, the John T. Galey, Sr. Memorial Public Service Award, Honorary Membership, and the Outstanding Achievement Award. (Click on award to go to the awards description.) Click here for AIPG National Awards Nomination Form in pdf.
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118th National Western Mining Conference & Expo |
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Santa Fe, New Mexico |
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The Associated Press via ABC News
Meteorologists say the current El Niño has stormed its way into the record books, tying 1997-1998 as the strongest recorded. Mike Halpert, deputy director of the federal Climate Prediction Center, said initial figures for October-November-December match the same time period in 1997 for the strongest El Darth Niño. Meteorologists measure El Darth Niño based on how warm parts of the central Pacific for three consecutive months. Records go back to 1950.
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GCN
The U.S. Geological Survey alone consists of about 8,500 scientists and staff in more than 200 different locations. It not only creates maps and datasets in biology, hydrology, geography and geology for Earth science research in the United States, according to Kevin Gallagher, associate director to the Core Science Systems of USGS, but its work also supports larger multidisciplinary areas, such as environmental health, energy and minerals, and responding to natural hazards. That kind of data management was the impetus for the Community for Data Integration.
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Gizmodo India
Ever since New Horizons zipped past Pluto in July, we've marveled over the dwarf planet's complex terrain . Among the biggest puzzles Pluto presents us with is a vast, crater-free ice field informally known as Sputnik Planum. The leading hypothesis for how this surface came to be? An epically violent collision.
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Science News for Students
Earth offered a harsh environment for its earliest inhabitants. It now appears that some of them survived by living in a bubble. A beach bubble. The earliest life would have been single-celled microbes. Pockets of gas trapped along ancient shorelines would have given them a cozy place to call home about 3.2 billion years ago. Or so scientists reported in Geology. Such a snug hideout could have shielded microbes from ultraviolet radiation. And not only on Earth, the scientists say, but perhaps on Mars as well.
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Peninsula Daily News
The multitude of slow slip tremors geologists have measured over the past few days in the Pacific Northwest are not unusual and probably don't portend earthquake activity, experts said.
Since New Year's Day, the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network has registered over 2,000 of the low slip and tremor events beneath the Peninsula, the Strait of Juan de Fuca and Vancouver Island.
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KCTS-TV
We're surrounded by oceans, but scientists know more about the topography of Mars than they do about the seafloor. The University of Washington's School of Oceanography wants to change that through high-tech sonar mapping equipment.
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Independent
Scientists believe that they have identified the oldest known images of erupting volcanoes, daubed in red and white pigments over other cave paintings in southeastern France around 36,000 years ago. The puzzling and apparently abstract images were first found in 1994 among startlingly precise paintings of lions, mammoths and other animals at a complex of caverns at Chauvet in the Ardèche.
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