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.AIPG NATIONAL NEWS
AIPG Mentoring Program
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AIPG believes mentoring is integral to encouraging geoscientists throughout their careers. This can include discussions on many different topics, including but not limited to:
- specific geoscience topics or questions
- education and experience required for specific career tracks
- any geoscience topic of interest
- geoscience employment search
- selecting the best-suited geoscience career track
- work abroad experiences in geosciences
AIPG is setting up this mentor site to encourage one-on-one AIPG-member discussions. We encourage the mentor and mentee to include others in their discussions and research as needed. A mentor may or may not have applicable experience or knowledge related to a mentee's area of interest, but the mentor will help find information and/or an alternate mentor.
AIPG Members interested in becoming a Mentor can submit the online Mentor form.
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2022 Call for Abstracts
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AIPG 2022 National Conference
Call for Abstracts
AIPG is currently accepting abstracts for oral presentations and poster presentations for the 59th American Institute of Professional Geologists' National Conference that will be held in Marquette, Michigan, on the beautiful shores of the world's largest freshwater lake.
This year’s meeting theme is “Geology: The Cornerstone of our Future”. Geology plays a significant role in today’s society and will become ever more important in the years to come. Our reliance on basic resources and building materials such as sand and gravel for roads, limestone for concrete, iron for structural purposes, and other base metals for electronics and other applications will not diminish; rather, it will become a greater concern as existing deposits are depleted or rendered inaccessible.
The ever-increasing number of applications of rare earth elements has created a greater demand on extraction and several of these elements will be needed in ever greater quantities to assist in the transition to a reduced carbon emission future. Geologists will be needed to identify, quantify, and yes, help with extraction of these mineral deposits.
A reliable source of clean freshwater is a basic necessity for life, and the onset of climate change is impacting these resources. Changing climate patterns mean that widespread areas may become stricken with drought. This will mean that significant depletion of groundwater aquifers and surface water reservoirs will occur in these areas as withdrawals exceed natural replenishment. This is already affecting agricultural practices and driving migration of human populations to areas where this precious resource may be found, resulting in conflict and/or political unrest. In addition, anthropogenic activities have contaminated some water resources and have made these resources locally unusable or require expensive treatment.
The national conference provides opportunities to present and learn from experts in various geology and geoscience fields, with networking opportunities throughout the conference. Earn CEUs too!
SUBMIT AN ABSTRACT
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Student Poster Contest
AIPG
Students - Present and Win Cash Prizes!
Students can submit an abstract for a poster presentation and enter the poster contest to win cash prizes! Submit your abstract using the button above.
The two categories for the student poster contest are:
Undergraduate Cash Prize - 1st Place: $500, 2nd Place: $200, 3rd Place: $100
Graduate Cash Prize -1st Place: $600, 2nd Place: $250, 3rd Place: $100
To be entered into the student poster competition you must be a student member of AIPG. Student membership is free. Join Now!
Poster contest categories (undergraduate and graduate) will be based on the student's enrollment at the time the abstract is submitted.
AIPG reserves the right to reduce the number of prizes if there is an insufficient number of qualified entries.
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2022 AIPG Member Photo Challenge
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Challenge categories:
- Scenic Wonder - show us a beautiful landscape.
- Geologic Disaster - geologic processes in action impact communities.
- Geologists in Action - people at work.
- Environmental Impact - manmade effects on the environment.
Entries must be original and taken by a member. Entry authorizes publication of the image in The Professional Geologist by AIPG with credit given to the photographer.
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Call for Abstracts - 11th AIPG Michigan Section Technical Workshop
AIPG
Call for Abstracts
The American Institute of Professional Geologists (AIPG) Michigan Section is calling for abstracts for the 2022 Environmental Risk Management Workshop to be held June 14-15, 2022, at the Ralph A. MacMullen Conference Center in Roscommon, Michigan.
The Michigan Section is looking forward to hosting this event in person in 2022! We provide high quality technical training that focuses on practical application and case studies for environmental professionals. We bring together a broad base of topic expertise and perspectives from the consulting, regulatory, academic, and industry sectors. This unique workshop forum promotes collaboration and partnership to solve complex environmental problems in a peer-to-peer learning format.
Click here for more details.
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.OTHER INDUSTRY NEWS
Earth Science Week 2022 Theme Announced: 'Earth Science for a Sustainable World'
AIPG
The American Geosciences Institute (AGI) is pleased to announce that the theme of Earth Science Week 2022 will be "Earth Science for a Sustainable World." The event, to be held October 9-15, 2022, will emphasize the essential role of Earth science in helping people make decisions that maintain and strengthen the planet's ability to support thriving life.
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March 15, 2022 — AIPG Texas Webinar — Tectonic Reconstruction of SW North America and Implications for Minerals Exploration
AIPG
The North American Craton began forming in the Archean (2.4+Bya) and a lot has happened since then. Tectonic reconstructions provide important context to Economic Geologists. The North American Craton contains numerous metallogenic terranes and being able to interpret mineralization in the proper context is important.
We will step through the development of Western North America and discuss several Mines from the different metallogenic terranes. Arizona Projects will be the focus of this talk; Early Proterozoic through Tertiary Rocks are exposed in The Copper State.
Earn 0.1 CEU / 1 PDH for attending! Certificates will be emailed after the webinar.
Cost: Members - $10, Non-Members - $25, Student Members - $0
All proceeds go to the TX Section Scholarship Program.
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11th International Symposium on Managed Aquifer Recharge
AIPG
ISMAR11 includes a full day of pre-conference workshops, three days of technical sessions, plenary sessions, awards luncheon, field trips and great networking, socializing, and entertainment opportunities.
Stay connected by signing up for the ISMAR11 mailing list for the latest information on abstracts, registration information, etc.
Conference website - https://www.ismar11.net/#about
Call For Abstracts
We want to hear from you! Managed Aquifer Recharge covers such a wide variety of activities that it is impossible to capture all the potential topics in a call for abstracts. What we have listed in the link below is a general guide to how topics may be organized at the conference. Don’t feel constrained by this list, just submit your abstract!
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.AIPG SECTION NEWS
Feb. 15, 2022 — AIPG Texas Webinar — The 2022 Texas State Water Plan
AIPG
5 pm Pacific, 6 pm Mountain, 7 pm Central, 8 pm Eastern) via Zoom
Every five years, the legislature is delivered a plan to address Texas' water supply needs during a recurrence of drought, most recently in October 2021. On a separate schedule, a five-year planning cycle occurs for the groundwater management areas in the state. This presentation will provide an overview of the state's water planning process and a summary of the results, with a focus on the groundwater management planning considerations in the water supply plans.
You can still earn 0.1 CEU's for attending tonight. However, please let me know if you DO NOT want to continue with your registration tonight. Then, we can move your registration forward to next month's 'Tectonic Reconstruction of SW North America and Implications for Minerals Exploration.' We apologize for any inconvenience.
Earn 0.1 CEU / 1 PDH for attending! Certificates will be emailed after the webinar.
Cost: Members - $10, Non-Members - $25, Student Members - $0
All proceeds go to the TX Section Scholarship Program.
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AIPG Colorado section annual dinner and mentoring event
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Date and Time: Friday, April 1, 2022
- Check-in begins at 5:00 pm
- Student and Early Career Professional mentoring session 5:30 to 6:30 (grad school representatives and professionals will be present for this session)
- Dinner at 6:30
Location: SpringHill Suites by Marriott, Auraria Campus, Denver, CO
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AIPG Texas Section Field Trip — West Texas Bolson Hydrogeology
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Trip to Eagle Peak (highest point in Hudspeth County); overview of Precambrian thrusting and metamorphism, Laramide thrusting, tertiary rifting and volcanics: Dal-Tile Talc Mines at Allamoore; Sierra Blanca rare earth mine; Bonanza Mine in northern Quitman mountains; view of blue origin spaceport and more!
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T-shirt Earth is Our Coloring Book
- Heavy Cotton Tee
- Choice of colors: white and ash gray
- 5.3-ounce, 100% preshrunk, open-ended carded cotton (except gray shirts which are 99% cotton and 1% other fibers)
- Classic loose fit for all-day comfort
- Shoulder-to-shoulder tape and seamless collar
- Double-needle neck sleeve and bottom hem
*Price includes shipping.
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Tall Cafe Mug
This tall 16 oz. cobalt blue cafe mug has a glossy finished exterior with an easy to hold handle. It is safe in the microwave and features the AIPG logo in microwavable metallic gold.
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Baseball Cap
AIPG's baseball cap has a velcro enclosure and embroidered lettering.
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.INDUSTRY NEWS
Tilting of Earth's crust governed the flow of ancient megafloods
EurekAlert!
As ice sheets began melting at the end of the last ice age, a series of cataclysmic floods called the Missoula megafloods scoured the landscape of eastern Washington, carving long, deep channels and towering cliffs through an area now known as the Channeled Scablands. They were among the largest known floods in Earth’s history, and geologists struggling to reconstruct them have now identified a crucial factor governing their flows.
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Secondary cratering on Earth: The Wyoming impact crater field
ScienceDaily
Several dozen small impact craters, 10-70-m in size, have been discovered in southeastern Wyoming. A team of U.S. and German geoscientists found these ancient craters in exposed sedimentary layers from the Permian period (280 million years ago). After discovering the first craters, the team initially suspected that they are a crater-strewn field, formed by the breakup of an asteroid that entered the atmosphere.
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'Blue Blob' near Iceland could slow glacial melting
EurekAlert!
A region of cooling water in the North Atlantic Ocean near Iceland, nicknamed the "Blue Blob,” has likely slowed the melting of the island's glaciers since 2011 and may continue to stymie ice loss until about 2050, according to new research.
The origin and cause of the Blue Blob, which is located south of Iceland and Greenland, is still being investigated. The cold patch was most prominent during the winter of 2014-2015 when the sea surface temperature was about 1.4 degrees Celsius (2.52 degrees Fahrenheit) colder than normal.
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Earth's core leaves scientists stumped as it's discovered in rare 'superionic' state
Express
This means that the inner core of the Blue Planet has a strange composition of elements that make it both solid and liquid at the very same time. The core is a 1,220-kilometer (760 mile) ball buried deep beneath the crust of Earth. It was thought that the inner core was solid and made up mostly of iron, providing a magnetic field that shields the Earth from solar radiation.
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