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AIPG
AIPG will be exhibiting at the GSA Regional Meetings. AIPG Headquarters is looking for volunteers to help staff our display booth. If you would like to volunteer, please email the AIPG Headquarters office at aipg@aipg.org or use the online Volunteer Sign Up app (links provided below).
This provides us with an excellent opportunity for public outreach. This is a great chance to build our membership and talk about the benefits of AIPG. Thank you for your assistance and support! Our volunteers help AIPG accomplish goals that we could not reach without them.
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The purpose of the AIPG Student Chapter of the Year Award is to recognize the most outstanding student chapter for their participation in, and contribution to, the American Institute of Professional Geologists. The award will consist of a plaque to be presented to the student chapter, a certificate to each of the officers of the chapter at the time of their submittal, a $500 award for the chapter, and a trip for one member of the winning student chapter to the annual AIPG conference and executive meetings. The student that attends the annual meeting will observe the organization and functions of AIPG and participate in the executive board meeting.
The submission deadline is April 15.
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AIPG
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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Presenter: Dr. Abani R. Samal, Ph.D., AIPG Certified Professional Geologist 11143
Construction of a computerized model to estimate mineral resources is a common practice in mineral exploration projects and mining operations. Many times a technical report is the done as per international reporting standards such as NI-43-101 or JORC to meet requirement of certain stock exchanges in the world. In all these standards there are certain minimum suggested requirements that have to be met for reporting mineral resources and reserves. The standards are not and cannot be prescriptive. However, irrespective of standards of reporting it is important that the mineral resource estimation be done following "the best practices" in this area. This is to ensure that the resource estimation is reliable and based on valid parameters.
This webinar will highlight the best practice followed in mineral resource assessment by many mining companies in order to get the best predictable resource estimation of a mineral deposit. The topics include data-collection, storage and ownership, geological modeling, drill hole data analyses (compositing, capping / high grade data analyses), application of geostatistics, grade estimation, resource classification and reporting. With some real but anonymous examples the topics will be explained.
AIPG accredited — 1 hour webinar = 1 Professional Development Hour (PDH) or .1 CEUs.
Live webinar prices:
- $60 for AIPG CPG Members
- $75 for AIPG Members
- $90 for Non-Members
- $20 for Students
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AIPG
Register online.
- 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 — Itinerary
AIPG
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
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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.
AGI
Geoscience Policy Recommendations for the New Administration and the 115th Congress
Geoscience Policy works with AGI member societies and policy makers to provide a focused voice for the shared interests of the geoscience profession in the federal policy process. Geoscience Policy tracks and analyzes policy issues; updates the geoscience community through news briefs that cover federal legislation, appropriations, and hearings; organizes meetings, briefings, testimony and written submissions on geoscience policy issues.
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AGI
Friday, May 12
Time: 1 p.m. EST
Joint AGI/AGU webinar
Free
The AGU and AGI policy staff will discuss the details of the new administration's budget and what it means for the geosciences. Register for this free webinar here.
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AGI
Friday, April 14
AGI Policy & Critical Issues webinar
Time: 2:00 pm ET
Register for this free webinar here.
This webinar features experts from state government in Oklahoma, Texas, and Ohio, who will discuss the range of state-level actions and approaches taken by these three oil- and gas-rich states to monitor and reduce the occurrence of...
View additional webinar details, including speaker information and additional resources.
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Intraw
As part of the European Commission's Horizon 2020 Program for Research & Innovation, the 36-month project INTRAW has been launched in February 2015 to foster international cooperation on raw materials. The EU-funded INTRAW project has been set up to map and develop new cooperation opportunities related to raw materials between the EU and other technologically advanced countries, such as Australia, Canada, Japan, South Africa and the United States.
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EFG
Travel grant
EFG and AGG offer special support for fifteen young professionals. If you have less than 30 years and are a student or young professional in geosciences, you may apply for a grant of 100 EUR supporting your travel and accommodation costs.
If you are interested in this offer, please write a short story of maximum 400 words about "Geothermal — the Energy of the Future" and return it together with the following form to info.efg@eurogeologists.eu. The deadline for application is 24 March 2017 and we will inform you in the first half of April if you were selected for the travel grant.
Call for posters: Geothermal — the Energy of the Future
The organizers invite you to submit your one-page abstract by 15 April 2017. The theme of the call relates to the workshop topic: Geothermal — the Energy of the Future. Poster submissions must be in English.
Please note that we require at least one presenter per accepted poster to attend the conference. Final posters should be in either portrait or landscape format with the following maximum dimensions: 594 x 841 cm.
Click here for more information about the EuroWorkshop.
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More Information |
| March 28 |
Live webinar: Fundamentals of Professional Ethics: Elements and Examples |
Register online |
| April 12 |
Live webinar: Best Practices in Mineral Resource Estimation & Reporting |
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 |
New Cumberland, Pennsylvania |
| 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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This fleece scarf provides comfort against the cold breeze. Made of anti-pill polyester, this scarf features a matching whipstitch with an embroidered AIPG logo, 60" long, 9" wide.
Available colors: Black or Navy
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AIPG
A warm, stylish accessory. Constructed from 100% acrylic, this beanie comes in a variety of solid colors, or with a contrasting trim, embroidered with the AIPG logo.
Available colors: Gray, Black, Gray/Black, Navy, Navy/Natural
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AIPG
This Hanes ultimate cotton pullover hooded sweatshirt is made of a 7.8-ounce, 50/50 cotton/poly PrintPro® XP low pill, tag-free label, high-stitch density fleece, single-ply hood with dyed-to-match draw-cord, triple-needle stitching along hood, cuffs, pockets and waistband, front pouch pocket and embroidered AIPG logo with pick and gavel.
Available Colors: White, Ash, Light Steel, Black, Deep Forest, Deep Royal, Deep Red, Light Blue, Maroon, Navy
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Los Angeles Times
Southern California could be overdue for a major earthquake along the Grapevine north of Los Angeles, according to a sobering new study by the U.S. Geological Survey. The research found earthquakes happen there on average every 100 years. The last major temblor occurred 160 years ago, a catastrophic geological event that ruptured an astonishing 185 miles of the San Andreas fault.
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Phys.org
The mechanisms which cause earthquake cycles to begin up to 40km below the earth's surface in the interior of the continents are to be explored in a new research project led by the University of Plymouth. Such earthquakes account for around 30 per cent of intracontinental seismic activity, but very little is presently known about what causes them and the geological effects they leave behind. Now academics from the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences have been awarded £451,340 by the Natural Environment Research Council to develop greater understanding about the short and long term behaviour of the lower crust.
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Energy Information Administration
Conventional hydroelectric generators account for 7 percent of the operating electricity generating capacity in the United States and about 6 percent to 7 percent of U.S. electricity generation each year. Conventional hydroelectric plants are different from pumped-storage facilities, which produce electricity from water previously pumped to an upper reservoir. Many of these generators are among the oldest power plants in the United States. Hydropower plants account for 99 percent of all currently operating capacity built before 1930. Until 2014, hydroelectricity exceeded the electricity produced by all other renewable sources combined.
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National Georgraphic
In the middle of eastern Washington, in a desert that gets less than eight inches of rain a year, stands what was once the largest waterfall in the world. It is three miles wide and 400 feet high — ten times the size of Niagara Falls — with plunge pools at its base suggesting the erosive power of an immense flow of water. Today there is not so much as a trickle running over the cataract's lip. It is completely dry.
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The Christian Science Monitor
The famed Great Barrier Reef has been hit by a mass bleaching for the second year in a row, according to Australian authorities. In 2016, the coral in the reef saw the worst bleaching in recorded history due to warm ocean temperatures, made even warmer by the El Niño weather pattern. Researchers had hoped that the reef might get a break during 2017 with the end of El Niño, but instead, the reef is suffering an unprecedented second mass bleaching in as many years.
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Repsol
Repsol and partner Armstrong Energy have made in Alaska the largest U.S. onshore conventional hydrocarbons discovery in 30 years. The Horseshoe-1 and 1A wells drilled during the 2016-2017 winter campaign confirm the Nanushuk play as a significant emerging play in Alaska's North Slope. The contingent resources identified with the existing data in Repsol and Armstrong Energy's blocks in the Nanushuk play in Alaska could amount to approximately 1.2 billion barrels of recoverable light oil. Repsol has been actively exploring Alaska since 2008, and since 2011 the company has drilled multiple consecutive discoveries on the North Slope along with partner Armstrong.
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Iowa State University News Service
Today's geology lesson is all about anticlines. Students can read all they want about geological folds, axial planes, hinge lines, antiformal synclines and synformal anticlines. But it can still be a challenge to visualize just what geologists are talking about. A better option is putting boots on the ground – such as a trip to Iowa State University's Carl F. Vondra Geology Field Station near Shell, Wyoming. The field station is in the north-central part of the state, on the western flank of the Bighorn Mountains. Nearby is Sheep Mountain, a well-known and typical anticline.
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Wired Science (commentary)
Erik Klemetti, a contributor for Wired Science, writes: "Next week, I'll head off into the wilds of Arizona and Utah to visit some great geologic locales. Along with geoscience students from Denison University, I'll visit classics like the Grand Canyon and Zion — along with a place where only 1,000 years ago, some of the most recent volcanism in the lower 48 states occurred. It is a place where over 600 volcanic vents have been active over the past 6 million years. It is a place where lava flows dammed a river and sent molten rock up and down a canyon for over 10 miles. It is a place where Native Americans likely watched an eruption and made art with the lava that was pouring out over the land."
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Daily Caller
New research found naturally-occurring methane contaminated water in two Texas counties where the Environmental Protection Agency once investigated leaks from hydraulic fracturing operations. University of Texas at Austin researchers said high levels of methane in well water was likely caused by naturally-occurring, shallow natural gas deposits, not leaks from fracking operations near Fort Worth. Researchers found no correlation between high-methane water and the distance to the nearest fracking site, but did find a strong correlation between the water and underground gas deposits.
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Energy Information Administration
Warmer than normal weather throughout much of the United States resulted in the first recorded net natural gas injection during a week in February since weekly storage data has been collected. For the week ending Feb. 24, the amount of natural gas in storage in the Lower 48 states increased 7 billion cubic feet. While some weeks during March in previous years had recorded injections, net injections of natural gas into storage do not typically occur until at least April.
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The Christian Science Monitor
Two years after a humble potato patch co-starred in "The Martian," scientists have found that fictional astronaut Mark Watney's strategy for surviving on the Red Planet could actually work. Early last year, a spud was planted in soil from Peru's Pampas de La Joya desert, which boasts "the most Mars-like soils found on Earth," according to NASA scientist Chris McKay. The experiment, sponsored by the International Potato Center, took place in a CubeSat built by Peru's University of Engineering and Technology with guidance from NASA's Ames Research Center.
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