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AIPG
Greetings to all AIPG members! I hope that everyone had a happy, healthy and prosperous 2016 and that your 2017 will be even better. I'd like to thank everyone again for the privilege to serve as your National President this year. I am honored. I am looking forward to advancing the Institute's mission and working with the other members of the National Executive Committee and Headquarters staff to provide increased value to all of our members.
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AIPG
AIPG Student Scholarship applications for undergraduate and graduate are due Feb. 15.
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American Geosciences Institute
Assessing, Mitigating, and Communicating Flood Risk
Feb. 8 — 1 p.m. EST/10 a.m. PST
Flooding is a perennial hazard for rivers and coasts alike. Every year, flooding results in billions of dollars of damage and the loss of dozens to hundreds of lives across the United States. Efforts to mitigate this hazard rely on the work of geoscientists, planners and communicators to assess and minimize risks, prepare and inform communities, and ensure that lives and livelihoods are prioritized before, during and after flood events.
This webinar features experts from federal and state government, who will discuss recent and ongoing activities co-ordinated at national and local levels to assess, mitigate and communicate flood risk.
CFMs who participate in the entire live webinar will earn 1 CEC.
To register, please visit: http://bit.ly/flood-webinar.
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European Federation of Geologists
EFGeoWeek is a weekly publication by the European Federation of Geologists. It is issued each Tuesday and is complementary with EFG's monthly newsletter GeoNews. EFGeoWeek compiles information from the EFG website, the social media and other publicly accessible media sources relevant for European geoscientists. In addition EFGeoWeek promotes each week one of the articles published in the bi-annual European Geologist Journal.
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American Geosciences Institute
The AGI Workforce Program presents a new visualization in Geoscience Currents #116 called a Sankey diagram. This visual is a horizontal flow diagram in which populations are shown proportionally along the flow paths using ribbons and nodes. The data for this visualization come from the National Science Foundation's Survey of College Graduates 2013 data release, and the data were sorted to include anyone with a graduate degree that also has at least one degree in the geosciences. This Sankey diagram shows the flow of geoscientists through their education paths from high school through their multiple postsecondary degrees into their primary job position. The development of this Sankey diagram to view geoscientists' educational pathways was as an investigation on the usefulness of this type of visualization for AGI's workforce data. AGI views this as a effective tool to address more questions related to the education and careers of geoscientists.
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European Federation of Geologists
This month we inform you about the launch of EFGeoWeek, a weekly news compilation published by EFG and the launch of the EAGE/EFG photo contest 2017. We also remind you that there are still places available for the EFG/UNECE conference "International collaboration on raw materials."
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Event |
More Information |
| Feb. 8 |
AGI Critical Issues Seminar: Assessing, Mitigating, and Communicating Flood Risk |
San Salvador Island, Bahamas |
| Feb. 19-22 |
2017 SME Annual Conference & Expo CMA
119th National Western Mining Conference |
Denver |
| March 11-18 |
KY Section-AIPG technical short course: "Modern Carbonate Analogs for the Geologic Record" |
San Salvador Island, Bahamas |
| April 18-19 |
GA Section presents 7th Conference on Innovative Environmental Assessment and Remediation Technology |
Kennesaw, Georgia |
| May 11-13 |
AIPG Sand Mine Life Cycle Seminar and Nonmetallic Mining in Wisconsin: Water Management Operations and Environmental Protection Seminar |
Eau Claire, Wisconsin |
| June 13-14 |
7th Annual Michigan Section Technical Workshop |
Roscommon County, Michigan |
| June 24 |
AIPG National Executive Committee Meeting, AIPG Headquarters Offices |
Thornton, Colorado |
| Sept. 23 |
AIPG National Executive Committee Meeting, Marriott Hotel |
Nashville, Tennessee |
| Sept. 23-26 |
AIPG 2017 National Annual Conference |
Nashville, Tennessee |
| June 16-21, 2018 |
Resources for Future Generations: Energy — Minerals — Water — Earth |
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University of Granada via Phys.org
A team of Andalusian scientists led by the University of Granada has been able to reconstruct for the first time what the Gibraltar Arc was like 9 million years ago. It's one of the narrowest landforms on Earth. The researchers have been able to prove that, since then, large blocks of land with sizes of about 300 kilometers long and 150 kilometers wide have rotated clockwise (in the case of the Baetic System mountain range) and counterclockwise (in the case of the Rif mountain range, in the north of Morocco). These movements have completely reshaped the Gibraltar Arc.
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Forbes
The Arizona Geological Survey is monitoring a 2-mile long crack that has opened up in the Arizona desert. Recent drone flights over the crack reveal that it has continued to grow both in length and width in Pinal County, to the southeast of Phoenix. Scientists are actively monitoring the crack and took drone video of the extent of the fissure as normal documentation of an area prone to large cracks in the Earth.
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Chemistry World
Understanding how cracking patterns develop in desiccated surfaces like old oil paintings or dried mud is surprisingly difficult. Now a Chilean scientist has established the first mathematical model of cracked surfaces that could help conservators preserve old paintings or give geologists information about the thickness of cracked clay or salt layers, and the stress they've been subjected to.
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Room, The Space Journal
An "extinct meteorite" that was discovered in Sweden last year is prompting a rethink of our current understanding of the history and development of the solar system, due to the rare and unknown minerals contained within this "meteorite dinosaur." The meteorite known as Österplana 065 was given the label "extinct" because it's unusual mineralogy, which is different from all known groups of meteorites, points to an origin from a celestial body that was destroyed a very, very long time ago.
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The Durango Herald
The largest cylindrical sandstone weathering pit on Earth, unknown but to a few, lies within the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. Geologists informally refer to this singular landform as the Inselberg Pit — German, island mountain. It is even more casually known as the Cosmic Navel. It is unique for its size, central pedestal and active interior sand dune.
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WHIO-TV
The first of four new satellites is now successfully sending high-definition images.
The first images from the GOES-16 satellite, launched by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, were released Jan. 23. The new technology provides a vivid look at our hemisphere from a geostationary weather satellite.
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The Siberian Times
Fossilized shark teeth are the most extraordinary find in a graveyard of extinct animals lying on the bed of the Tobol River, on the edge of Western Siberia. They were discovered along with woolly mammoth relics during a dive that was part of an expedition this month led by Sergey Kondrashin, member of the Russian Geographical Society. Experts are examining 50 shark teeth to ascertain if they are from a known type of the predator.
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Nothern Ontario Business
The Ontario Geological Survey completed the first year of a three-year geological mapping project along the Highway 11 corridor last summer, a project that will guide land use planning for the corridor between Cochrane and Kapuskasing. Quaternary or surficial mapping is the study and cataloguing of the loose material atop the bedrock, left behind by the movement of receding glaciers.
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Science News For Students
Thirty trillion tons. That's how much debris and disturbed land people have left behind across Earth's surface, according to a new study. It's a jumble of everything from plowed-up fields to ancient Roman ruins, plastic bags and those earbuds you lost last week. And these findings amount to more than just trash talk. Poeple have created an entire new geologic layer, explains study leader Jan Zalasiewicz, a geologist at the University of Leicester in England.
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Carnegie Institution for Science via ScienceDaily
New remote sensing maps of the forest canopy in Peru identify new regions for conservation effort. Scientists used airborne laser-guided imaging spectroscopy, to identify preservation targets by undertaking a new approach to study global ecology -- one that links a forest's variety of species to the strategies for survival and growth employed by canopy trees and other plants.
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