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The Science Explorer
Earth has been around the block a few times — more than 4.5 billion times in fact. In its travels, the planet has been bombarded by asteroids and comets, extremely heated and cooled, and experienced numerous mass extinctions. But despite this maturity, Earth has a fairly young looking surface. The only material we have from very early Earth comes in the form of tiny, naturally occurring zircon crystals, which are estimated to be more than four billion years old. But where did the crystals come from?
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University of Southampton via Science Daily
Rainwater may play an important role in the process that triggers earthquakes, according to new research. Researchers have identified the sources and fluxes of the geothermal fluids and mineral veins from the Southern Alps of New Zealand where the Pacific and Australian Plates collide along the Alpine Fault.
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Forbes
Finding and sampling the moon's ancient interior mantle — one of the science drivers for sending robotic spacecraft and future NASA astronauts to the moon's South Pole Aitken basin — is just as likely achievable at similar deep impact basins scattered around the lunar surface. At least that's the view reached by planetary scientists who have been analyzing the most recent data from NASA's Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory and its Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter missions, as well as from Japan's SELENE lunar orbiter.
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AIPG
The AIPG quarterly journal, The Professional Geologist, April/May/June 2016 issue is available online in pdf and digital version (active links and pages flip like paper copy). This issue includes: AIPG National Conference information; Tales from the Field — Light at the End of the Tunnel; AIPG National Officer Ballot; The Sedimentology and Stratigraphy of the Upper Cretaceaus Strata in Western Staten Island, New York; Our Saves Count Also; Geothermal Energy-Current Status and Future Possibilities; The Reading Geologist — Book Reviews; and much more — now available online. All back issues of TPG are available online.
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The AIPG Ohio Section Newsletter — April 2016
The AIPG California Section Newsletter — Spring 2016.
The AIPG Georgia Section Newsletter — April 2016.
The AIPG Michigan Section Newsletter — March 2016
The AIPG Colorado Section Newsletter — Spring 2016.
The AIPG Texas Section Newsletter — March 2016.
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Students, you are invited to submit an abstract! Technical sessions will be held on Monday, Sept. 12, and Tuesday, Sept. 13. They will consist of podium and poster presentations, and will include a student poster competition. To have your abstract considered for a presentation or poster, please click here to submit an abstract online by June 6.
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To have your abstract considered for a presentation or poster, please click here to submit an abstract online by June 6.
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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.
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The AIPG Section Leadership Award was established by the Executive Committee in 2013 to recognize one or more of our members who have demonstrated a long-term commitment and have been long-term contributors to AIPG at the section level. AIPG has many sections where one or more individuals have demonstrated exceptional leadership for their section and in many instances kept the section together and moving forward. These individuals are commonly not known at the National level or by AIPG members outside of their sections, however, their contributions have been vital to their sections and they perform this work because of their commitment to our profession and AIPG. The award will consist of a plaque (or similar) that will be presented to the awardees at the annual meeting of AIPG.
Based on the above criteria the Awards Committee may select multiple nominees for the award.
The AIPG Section Leadership Award is administered by the Executive Committee of AIPG. The selection of the winning member(s) will be decided by the AIPG Awards Committee. The deadline for submittal of nominees for the AIPG Section Leadership Award, to AIPG National Headquarters, is May 31 of each year. The nomination form for AIPG Section Leadership Award (pdf file or Word doc). The awardees will be announced in early July so they may attend the annual meeting.
| Date |
Event |
More Information |
| May 14-15 |
AIPG Texas Section Field Trip |
Registration |
| May 18-19 |
GSA Rocky Mountain Section |
Moscow, Idaho |
| May 20-21 |
AIPG Ohio Section Field Trip: Exploring the Lexington-Point Pleasant and Kope Formations in Northern Kentucky |
More information |
| June 14-15 |
6th Annual AIPG Michigan Section Technical Workshop — Environmental Risk Management: Why, When, Where and How |
Roscommon County, Michigan |
| June 25 |
AIPG Executive Committee Meeting |
Thornton, Colorado |
| Aug. 8-11 |
NCSL Legislative Summit |
Chicago |
| Aug. 17-18 |
17th Annual Energy Exposition |
Loveland, Colorado |
| Aug. 22-25 |
Rocky Mountain Energy Summit |
Denver |
| Aug. 27-Sept. 4 |
35th International Geological Congress |
Cape Town, South Africa |
| Sept. 10-13 |
AIPG 2016 National Conference |
Santa Fe, New Mexico |
| Sept. 18-24 |
Association of Environmental &
Engineering Geologists 2016 Annual Meeting |
Kona, Hawaii |
| Sept. 25-28 |
GSA National Conference |
Denver |
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Available colors: black, dark green, maroon, navy, red, royal, steel grey and white. Available sizes: small through 4XL.
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U.S. Geological Survey
A recent scientific study shows new, important information about how groundwater can both contribute nutrients such as nitrogen to lakes, and can also carry it away. Nitrogen is an important nutrient but harmful when over-supplied. The fate and transport of nitrogen are critically important issues for human and aquatic ecosystem health because discharging nitrogen-contaminated groundwater can cause harmful algal blooms, foul drinking water, kill fish and other aquatic organisms, release toxins and diminish the aesthetic and recreational value of lakes and streams.
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RT
An earthquake registering 5.0 on the Richter scale has struck the southwest of France near the city of La Rochelle. The quake hit at 8:45 a.m. local time, April 28, at a depth of 15 kilometers. The last time France was hit by a deadly earthquake was in 1909, when the town of Lambesc near Marseille was struck by a magnitude-6 tremor, which killed 46 people and injured a further 250.
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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign via Science Daily
Biologists have completely sequenced the mitochondrial genome for the Hispaniolan solenodon, filling in the last major branch of placental mammals on the tree of life. The study confirmed that the venomous mammal diverged from all other living mammals 78 million years ago, long before an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs.
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Gizmodo
The Danakil Depression, a hydrothermal system stretching from Dallol Volcano to Lake Assal in Ethiopia, is one of the weirdest and most inhospitable environments on Earth. Rain and seawater, heated by underground magma, bubble to the surface at near-boiling temperatures. It's laced with an elixir of salts that form lumpy terrain reminiscent of a coral reef steeped in radioactive waste. Chlorine and sulfur-rich vapors produce an acrid fog that can sear the lining off human lungs.
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The Oklahoman
A pair of updated maps released by the Oklahoma Geological Survey on April 27 attempt to document how much the state's oil and natural gas industry has changed over the past 14 years.
Horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing have opened new fields and expanded others as producers have sought to recover oil from throughout the state.
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Around the O
Wine enthusiasts say the strangest things. When describing a particular glass of grape, they seem to draw from a colorful and endless array of terms that baffle the average consumer.
A wine might be minerally. It might be chalky. Perhaps it's slaty or earthy or evocative of wet stones.
"Taste experiences like these are often attributed to the soil in which the wine grapes were grown," said Greg Retallack, a University of Oregon geologist and expert on fossil soils.
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The Associated Press via San Francisco Chronicle
Off the off-road tracks deep in Egypt's eastern desert, prospectors are ramping up the hunt for the treasure once revered by the Pharaohs as the "skin of the gods" — gold. Essential for ancient artifacts like the famed burial mask of Tutankhamun and still highly desired in Middle Eastern culture today, gold has been mined in Egypt for millennia. But experts say the country is heavily underexplored and that modern technology now allows much deeper excavation of the ancient sites shown on Pharaonic treasure maps.
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