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.AIPG NATIONAL NEWS
Minnesota Section of AIPG — FG Grant Information
AIPG
The Minnesota Section of the American Institute of Professional Geologists (AIPG) awards grants to students taking the Association of State Boards of Geology® (ASBOG) Fundamentals of Geology (FG) exam. Grants are $200 each, which covers the ASBOG portion of the exam fee. Approximately 10 grants will be awarded each academic year, five for the Autumn FG examination and five for the Spring FG examination. Applications for the 2021 Spring FG Grant will be accepted through March 19, 2021.
For more information about the professional licensure exams and how to register for them in Minnesota, please see our Professional Licensure in Minnesota webpage.
FG Grant Requirements:
- Applicant must be an undergraduate or graduate student, enrolled in a Minnesota college or university geoscience program.
- Applicant must be Student Member of AIPG. Membership for students is FREE. Become a member by filling out the application on the AIPG National website: https://aipg.org/page/MembershipApps.
- Applicant must not have been previously awarded an AIPG MN Section FG Grant.
- Applicant must demonstrate proof of approval to site for the Spring or Autumn FG examination.
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Pennsylvania Section — Scholarships
AIPG
Scholarship Announcement - Apply Now!
Eligibility
- For any undergraduate student who is majoring in geology (or earth science)
- Who is at least a sophomore
- Attending a two-year or four-year accredited college or university in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
- Is an AIPG student member or must have applied for student membership at the time the application for scholarship is submitted
Eligible applicants must submit:
- The AIPG Pennsylvania Section Application
- A 600 to 800 word essay about your background and what inspired your interest in geology. Was it a person, a place seen while traveling, A TV show or movie background? What do you hope to do with your degree?
- One letter of recommendation from a geology/geoscience professor that provides emphasis on your performance and activities in the classroom, in the department, and your character in how you work and help other students.
- College transcript with GPA
Contact the Pennsylvania Section for more information.
Two scholarships will be awarded. Each scholarship amount is $500.
Deadline to submit the application and necessary documentation is March 15, 2021.
Contact the Pennsylvania Section for more information or to submit your letter of interest.
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Earn your MSc in Mineral Exploration – Geology in 1-2 years at Laurentian University’s Harquail School of Earth Sciences to upgrade your credentials and your career.
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CEUs available — AGI/AIPG Geoscience Online Learning Initiative (GOLI)
AIPG and American Geosciences Institute
GOLI on-demand online courses provide learners with the flexibility to self-pace their progress, since on-demand courses do not have a set schedule like traditional academic semester-based courses. Brought to you via the OpenedX Learning Management System (LMS), learners can browse course descriptions, enroll in specific courses, access content, and complete any course completely free of charge. All learners who complete online courses offered through the GOLI platform with a passing grade of 70% or higher are eligible to purchase Continuing Education Units (CEUs) for a nominal charge.
Click here for a full course listing.
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AIPG Section Newsletters
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.OTHER INDUSTRY NEWS
COVID-19 impacts on geoscience business staffing in 2020
AIPG
Dear Colleague,
This data brief provides insights from the most recent results from the Geoscience COVID-19 study regarding impacts to geoscience employers in 2020 related to employees and staffing. We examine trends in permanent and temporary and contract staffing, changes in workplace policies available to employees, changes in the distribution of employees across workplace environments, hiring trends, and share feedback from employers about the benefits and challenges in conducting work and research during the pandemic.
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Conversations with GSA's Bromery Awardees
AIPG
This series of conversations with scientists will feature past awardees of the Geological Society of America's Randolph W. "Bill" and Cecile T. Bromery Award for Minorities. This award was established 1999 to recognize geoscientists of color who have made significant contributions to the sciences, or who have been instrumental in opening the geoscience field to other geoscientists of color.
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EFGeo mentoring
AIPG
Are you about to start your career in geosciences? Or would you like to take your career to the next level? The European Federation of Geologists (EFG) invites you to participate in the EFGeoMentoring scheme.
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EAGE/EFG photo contest
AIPG
The 2021 edition of the EAGE/EFG photo contest is now open for entries! All members of EAGE and EFG's National Associations are invited to submit their photos under the theme "Legends of Geoscience".
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AGI invites applications for new scholarship for advancing diversity in the geoscience profession
AIPG
The American Geosciences Institute (AGI) is pleased to announce its new Scholarship for Advancing Diversity in the Geoscience Profession. The scholarship is a one-time $5,000 award supporting geoscience graduate studies by a U.S. citizen or permanent resident who self-identifies as a member of an underrepresented minority (Black, Indigenous, or Person of Color) and is within two semesters of completing a recognized geoscience program.
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.INDUSTRY NEWS
NASA releases jaw-dropping video and audio from Mars, with an assist from AWS
GeekWire
For the first time ever, NASA has captured video of a rover landing on the surface of Mars, plus audio of the wind whistling past it after the landing — and Amazon Web Services is playing a key role in making all those gigabytes of goodness available to the world.
The stars of the show are NASA's Perseverance rover and the hundreds of scientists and engineers supporting the mission to Mars at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and other institutions around the world.
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The imminent calving retreat of Taku Glacier
Eos
Along the rugged Southeast Alaska coast, 30 kilometers northeast of the state capital Juneau, a tidewater glacier has largely defied global trends by steadily advancing for most of the past century while most glaciers on Earth retreated. This 55-kilometer-long and nearly 1,500-meter-thick tidewater glacier, named Taku Glacier, or T'aaḵú Ḵwáan Sít'i in the language of the Indigenous Tlingit people, has been the focus of continuous scientific study for more than 70 years.
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Rock of ages: How chalk made England
The Guardian
On the British Geological Survey's map, chalk is represented by a swathe of pale, limey green that begins on the east coast of Yorkshire and curves in a sinuous green sweep down the east coast, breaking off where the Wash nibbles inland. In the south, the chalk centres on Salisbury Plain, radiating out in four great ridges: heading west, the Dorset Downs; heading east, the North Downs, the South Downs and the Chilterns.
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Fuel for earliest life forms: Organic molecules found in 3.5 billion-year-old rocks
News Wise
A research team including the geobiologist Dr. Helge Missbach from the University of Cologne has detected organic molecules and gases trapped in 3.5 billion-year-old rocks. A widely accepted hypothesis says that the earliest life forms used small organic molecules as building materials and energy sources. However, the existence of such components in early habitats on Earth was as yet unproven.
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Hints of a recent eruption
Earth Observatory
The Kamchatka Peninsula of far eastern Russia has more than 300 volcanoes, 29 of which are active. This photo, taken by an astronaut onboard the International Space Station, captures a few of the region's active volcanoes — with some showing signs of recent eruptions. The photo was taken at a highly oblique angle with a long camera lens, giving a strongly three-dimensional perspective of the towering peaks.
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