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The AIPG California Section Newsletter — March 2017
AIPG Section Newsletters from Spring 2016 - February 2017 are available here.
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Everyone is in favor of good moral and professional ethical behavior but few have thought about them rigorously. What constitutes common morality and professional ethics? This webinar, hosted by David M. Abbott Jr., AIPG Certified Professional Geologist 4570, will explore the basic concepts and definitions of and the differences between common morality and professional ethics. This includes the distinction between moral rules and moral ideals. What steps are used to determine the legitimate basis for an allowable violation of a moral or ethical rule? What is the relationship between ethical behavior and integrity? Case histories will illustrate the concepts presented and the methodology of ethical analysis.
AIPG accredited — 1 hour webinar = 1 Professional Development Hour (PDH) or .1 CEUs.
Live webinar prices:
- $35 for AIPG CPG Members
- $50 for AIPG Members
- $65 for Non-Members
- $20 for Students
Register online.
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Music City Rocks — Geology in the Past, Present and Future
How geology has shaped our history, provides present day resources and prepares us for tomorrow's challenges.
Sept. 23-26, in Nashville, Tennessee.
Nashville Airport Marriott
600 Marriott Drive
Nashville, TN 37214
(615) 889-9300 | (888) 228-9290
Call for Abstracts is now open! Submit by May 1.
Book your group rate for American Institute of Professional Geologists.
Marriott hotel(s) offering your special group rate: Nashville Airport Marriott for $149 per night
Sept. 22-27. The last day to book is Sept. 1.
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The Kentucky Section-AIPG is organizing and hosting a technical short course "Modern Carbonate Analogs for the Geologic Record," March 11-18, at San Salvador Island, Bahamas.
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This conference will focus on innovative assessment and remediation technologies being used in the environmental field. Case studies will include petroleum hydrocarbons and chlorinated solvents sites. Presenters will include representatives from private consultants, regulatory personnel, industry and legal backgrounds. Attendees will earn 14 personal development hours of continuing education.
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Registration is $45 for AIPG and HAGS Members; $60 for non-AIPG Members. Checks for registration should be sent to Kevin Kelly at: Langan Engineers, 2700 Kelly Road, Suite 200, Warrington, PA 18976-3653.
For more information, contact Dennis Pennington at pennden15@gmail.com.
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Hosted by the AIPG National and the AIPG Wisconsin Section
in cooperation with the AIPG Minnesota Section, Wisconsin DNR, WGNHS, and Wisconsin Industrial Sand Association.
Join us for a sand mine life-cycle seminar specifically designed for mining manager, operators, educators, students, regulators, geologists, engineers, equipment manufacturers and land use planners involved in siting, permitting, operating and reclaiming sand mines in the Midwest.
- May 11 — WPDES Nonmetallic Mining Permit Process Seminar — Schedule
- May 12 — Sand Mine Life Cycle Seminar — Speaker Schedule
- May 13 — Field Trip: Industrial Sand Resources of West-Central Wisconsin
Jay Zambito, Lisa Haas, and Bill Batten with the Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey will lead the field trip Industrial Sand Resources of West-Central Wisconsin on Saturday, May 13. The trip will depart from the Holiday Inn Eau Claire at 9 .a.m and return to the hotel at approximately 4 p.m. The cost of the trip includes transportation, lunch and water.
May 11-13, 2017
Holiday Inn Eau Claire South
4751 Owen Ayers Court
Eau Claire, Wisconsin 54701
Registration and more information available here.
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The trip will visit various historical and outcrop sites, current uranium mines, processing plants and other related sites of interest. The field trip is to be held May 19-21, backtracking to San Antonio, Austin and then Houston by sundown. Register your interest in the field trip and to reserve your seat on the bus (first come, first saved), send us an email with your name and email and the number of seats you wish to reserve. For more information, go to AIPG Texas Section — May 2017 Field Trip Announcement .
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Sponsorship Opportunities
Ralph A. MacMullan Conference Center, Roscommon County, Michigan
The presentations at this workshop will focus on how to identify risk management remedies ranging from aggressive removal to long term exposure maintenance, what are the right questions to ask, and how to collect the data to answer those questions. This workshop will provide the same thought provoking, high quality technical presentations and discussions that have come to be expected of the AIPG Michigan Section's annual workshop. As professionals working in the environmental in-dustry, we make decisions regarding potential and real exposures daily using tools developed from the latest advances in science and technology, statutory requirements and professional experience.
Michigan Section events for 2017
- March 17 — Newsletter release date
- April 13 — Section Meeting (Joint with MBGS), Lansing/East Lansing, speaker and topic TBA
- May 12 — Newsletter release date
- May 16 — Golf Outing, Moose Ridge Golf Course, South Lyon
- June 13-14 — 7th Annual Technical Workshop, Ralph A. McMullan Center, Roscommon
- Aug. 12-13 — Joint Michigan/Wisconsin Field Trip, details forthcoming
- Aug. 25 — Newsletter release date
- Sept. 7 — Section Meeting, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, speaker and topic TBA
- Oct. 20 — Newsletter release date
- Nov. 30 — Annual Section Meeting, Weber's Inn, Ann Arbor, speaker and topic TBA
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| Date |
Event |
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| March 11-18 |
KY Section-AIPG technical short course: "Modern Carbonate Analogs for the Geologic Record" |
San Salvador Island, Bahamas |
| March 28 |
Live webinar: Fundamentals of Professional Ethics: Elements and Examples |
Register online |
| April 18-19 |
GA Section presents 7th Conference on Innovative Environmental Assessment and Remediation Technology |
Kennesaw, Georgia |
| April 20-21 |
AIPG Pennsylvania Section Spring Conference: Emerging Contaminants |
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 |
| May 19-21 |
AIPG Texas Section — Field Trip to Uranium Country |
South Texas |
| 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 |
Call for Sessions flyer
Conference Brochure |
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Universe Today via Phys.org
In 2006, during their 26th General Assembly, the International Astronomical Union adopted a formal definition of the term "planet." This was done in the hopes of dispelling ambiguity over which bodies should be designated as "planets," an issue that had plagued astronomers ever since they discovered objects beyond the orbit of Neptune that were comparable in size to Pluto.
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University of Maryland via Phys.org
Today's Earth is a dynamic planet with an outer layer composed of giant plates that grind together, sliding past or dipping beneath one another, giving rise to earthquakes and volcanoes. Others separate at undersea mountain ridges, where molten rock spreads out from the centers of major ocean basins. But new research suggests that this was not always the case.
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PBS
They may have been frozen inside giant crystals for tens of thousands of years, but these ancient microbes are still kicking. Miners discovered spectacular crystals in the Naica Mine below Chihuahua, Mexico, about a century ago. Since then, they've become a source of fascination for geologists, who have scoured the hot, acidic environments for signs of extremophiles. In particular, what they've found is that microbes up to 50,000 years old have sat dormant inside small blemishes in the crystals.
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Nature
Narrow bands of water vapor that typically travel over the ocean and dump huge volumes of rain on land, often causing flooding and landslides, come with another hazard — extreme wind. Duane Waliser of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and Bin Guan of the University of California, Los Angeles compared global data on these "atmospheric rivers" with data on wind and precipitation extremes between 1997 and 2014. They found that across most mid-latitude regions, up to half of the most extreme wind and rain storms were associated with atmospheric rivers.
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Eos
The Deep Carbon Observatory is entering a new phase, in which it will integrate 10 years of discoveries into an overarching model to benefit the scientific community and a wider public.
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Scientific American
The world changed forever some three million years ago, scientists have thought. At that time, for the first time, a ribbon of dry land connected North and South America, as the Isthmus of Panama shook free of the water around it. The new land bridge allowed plants and animals free travel between the two continents, colonizing new worlds. It also changed ocean currents and ushered in an ice age. Now this textbook date is being challenged.
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HPCwire
As with many fields, computing is changing how geologists conduct their research. One example: the emergence of digital rock physics, where tiny fragments of rock are scanned at high resolution, their 3-D structures are reconstructed, and this data is used as the basis for virtual simulations and experiments.
Digital rock physics complements the laboratory and field work that geologists, petroleum engineers, hydrologists, environmental scientists and others traditionally rely on. In specific cases, it provides important insights into the interaction of porous rocks and the fluids that flow through them that would be impossible to glean in the lab.
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New Atlas
One June day in 1994, Derek K. Armstrong of the Ontario Geological Survey was dropped by helicopter in a remote region of Ontario. There he chipped away samples from the exposed rock and brought them back to the Royal Ontario Museum. Years later another team of geologists from the University of Bristol would stumble upon the samples and make a startling discovery — the fossil of a giant worm with large snapping jaws. Their find has been described recently in the journal Scientific Reports.
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San Clemente Times
Major earthquakes and tsunamis that could threaten San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) are probably less of a problem than once perceived, according to geologists who studied the seismic landscape of the area for six years.
But that doesn't mean they can't happen, they said.
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National Geographic
At Piton de la Fournaise on the island of Réunion, every day is like a glimpse of our planet's violent youth: chunks of boiling lava spew upward like molten fireworks, while rivers of fire cut across an ashen, constantly repaved landscape of gray. Sitting more than 400 miles off Madagascar's eastern coast, the volcano has been grumbling for 530,000 years, producing extremely fluid, basalt-rich lava flows. It's no surprise that the French-held island’s 900,000 inhabitants treat the volcano with caution. But thanks to drone pilot and Your Shot photographer Jonathan Payet, we get to sneak a peek at the furnace in remarkable detail.
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