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.AIPG NATIONAL NEWS
2021 Ballot for 2022 AIPG National Officers
AIPG
2022 PRESIDENT-ELECT (2023 PRESIDENT)
Dawn Garcia, CPG-8313, Arizona Section
Jim Jacobs, CPG-7760, California Section
2022 VICE PRESIDENT
Colin Flaherty, CPG-11465, Ohio Section
Anne Murray, CPG-11645, Florida Section
2022-2023 SECRETARY
Bill Brab, CPG-11693, Kentucky Section
John Sorrell, CPG-11366, New Mexico Section
2022 EARLY CAREER PROFESSIONAL
Hannah Blaylock, ECP-679, Tennessee Section
Dylan Young, ECP-358, Louisiana Section
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AIPG 2021 National Conference
AIPG
Call For Abstracts / Student Poster Contest
AIPG is currently accepting abstracts for oral presentations and poster presentations for the 58th American Institute of Professional Geologists' National Conference that will be held in Sacramento, California, from October 23-26, 2021.
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!
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.AIPG SECTION 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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AIPG Sections — Assistance with Zoom Meetings
AIPG
If you would like the AIPG National Office to assist your section in hosting a Zoom meeting please contact Cathy Duran, AIPG Professional Services Manager, at cld@aipg.org or 720-588-9778. We have started a speaker list for virtual meetings for sections to use. If you are interested in being added to the speakers' list or know someone you think would be good to have added please let us know.
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AIPG Section Events
AIPG
April 6th - AIPG Minnesota Meeting — TILL: SPATIALLY VARIABLE, COMPLEX AND DENSE!
Till is sediment that is the product of erosion, transport and direct deposition by ice. But because glacial processes are highly spatially and temporally variable, till can be variable, both vertically and horizontally, in composition, structure, fabric and therefore hydrologic properties. Tills in Minnesota may have also been subject to several glacial and interglacial cycles over the last two million years.
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.INDUSTRY NEWS
Scientists plumb the depths of the world's tallest geyser
ScienceDaily
When Steamboat Geyser, the world's tallest, started erupting again in 2018 in Yellowstone National Park after decades of relative silence, it raised a few tantalizing scientific questions. Why is it so tall? Why is it erupting again now? And what can we learn about it before it goes quiet again?
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Ice hunter: Idaho's 'Glacier Hunter' and geologists say there are more glaciers out there
Idaho Falls Post Register
Call him the Glacier Hunter.
About mid-September each year, Collin Sloan, of Boise, sets out into the mountain wilderness tracking the elusive Idaho glacier.
Sloan is convinced that Idaho has more glaciers than just the one officially recognized glacier, the Borah Glacier. It was Sloan's efforts that pushed the Forest Service and other government entities to officially recognize the Borah Glacier tucked into a shaded cirque on the north side of Idaho's highest peak.
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Study of Redoubt and other volcanoes improves unrest detection
ScienceDaily
Volcanologists do what they can to provide the public enough warning about impending eruptions, but volcanoes are notoriously unpredictable. Alerts are sometimes given with little time for people to react.
That may soon change.
Work led by research assistant professor Társilo Girona, with the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute, has revealed a method by which scientists — and the public — can have perhaps years of advance warning about a potential eruption.
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UH geologists discover powerful 'river of rocks' below Caribbean
University of Houston
Geologists have long thought tectonic plates move because they are pulled by the weight of their sinking portions and that an underlying, hot, softer layer called asthenosphere serves as a passive lubricant. But a team of geologists at the University of Houston has found that layer is actually flowing vigorously, moving fast enough to drive plate motions.
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UVM researchers find Greenland ice sheet rapidly melting
WCAX-TV
New research out from the University of Vermont found ancient fossilized plants beneath mile-deep ice in Greenland.
That shows that within the last million years, Greenland's ice sheet melted. That allowed plants to grow where currently there's a massive sheet of ice.
UVM researchers say their findings point to a need to combat climate change because the ice sheet is more fragile to temperature changes than they previously thought.
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Geologists have a new tool for reconstructing the ancient climate
Eos
The early Paleozoic era was an action-packed stretch when it came to the diversity of life on Earth.
First came the Cambrian explosion, when most of the major animal groups first burst onto the scene. The great Ordovician biodiversification event followed — species richness skyrocketed, and life spread from shallow seafloors and shorelines across entire oceans.
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