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.AIPG NATIONAL NEWS
AIPG National Officer Candidates
AIPG
The online ballot will be available soon for the AIPG 2023 National Officers to be elected. An email will be sent out to members with a link to the ballot. A printed ballot will be included in 2nd quarter (April/May/June) issue of The Professional Geologist.
President-Elect
- Shanna Schmitt, Minnesota Section
- Brent Smith, Ohio Section
Vice President
- Dave Heidlauf, Illinois/Indiana Section
- Dennis Pennington, Pennsylvania Section
Treasurer
- Bill Brab, Kentucky Section
- Mark Schaaf, Capitol Section
Editor
- Adam Heft, Michigan Section
- Paul Pribyl, Alaska Section
Early Career Professional
- Bruno Abersol, Pennsylvania Section
- Brigitte Petras, Ohio Section
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AIPG Mentoring Program
AIPG
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
AIPG
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
AIPG
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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.OTHER INDUSTRY NEWS
March 16, 2022 — Critical Minerals Mapping Initiative
AIPG
This forum will present an update on the Critical Minerals Mapping Initiative (CMMI), a joint research program between the Geological Survey of Canada (GSC), the U.S. Geological Survey, and Geoscience Australia (GA). Presenters will provide the latest updates to the critical mineral portal (www.criticalminerals.org), the Critical Minerals in Ores database (CMiO), and its underlying deposit classification system. New critical mineral research and modelling results will also be presented from each of the three geological surveys. The forum will conclude with a question and answer period that will allow participants to interact with the speakers and engage on the topics of critical mineral research and public geoscience.
For more information about the event, including registration details, please visit: www.americangeosciences.org/webinars/cmmi-forum-2022
Please contact Christopher Lawley at christopher.lawley@NRCan-RNCan.gc.ca with any questions about this webinar series.
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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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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
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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AIPG Texas Section Field Trip — West Texas Bolson Hydrogeology
AIPG
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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AIPG Colorado section annual dinner and mentoring event
AIPG
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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.MARK YOUR CALENDAR
.AIPG ONLINE STORE
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
Scientists discover Antarctica's hidden geological past
Phys.org
East Antarctica is the least known region of Earth. Studying this remote part of the continent is extremely difficult, requiring researchers to look beneath kilometers of blanketing ice.
A team of scientists from the European Space Agency (ESA) and British Antarctic Survey (BAS) have done exactly this though for a new study published today in the journal, Communications Earth & Environment.
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Fast-melting alpine permafrost may contribute to rising global temperatures
EurekAlert!
From the ancient sludge of lakebeds in Asia's Tibetan Plateau, scientists can decipher a vision of Earth's future. That future, it turns out, will look very similar to the mid-Pliocene warm period — an epoch 3.3 million to 3 million years ago when the average air temperature at mid-latitudes rarely dropped below freezing. It was a time when permanent ice was just beginning to cling to the northern polar regions, and mid-latitude alpine permafrost — or perpetually frozen soil – was much more limited than today.
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Geologists have closely analyzed two bizarre 'blobs' detected deep inside earth
Science Alert
Earth's interior is not a uniform stack of layers. Deep in its thick middle layer lie two colossal blobs of thermo-chemical material.
To this day, scientists still don't know where both of these colossal structures came from or why they have such different heights, but a new set of geodynamic models has landed on a possible answer to the latter mystery.
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