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May 11-13
Eau Claire, Wisconsin
Holiday Inn Eau Claire — 715-830-9889 — Room block rate — $111.95 per night. Be sure to mention "American Institute of Professional Geologists" for the room discount.
May 11 — WPDES Nonmetallic Mining Permit Process Seminar — pdf schedule
May 11 — Networking Reception, 5-6:30 p.m.
May 12 — Sand Mine Life Cycle Seminar — pdf schedule
May 13 — Field Trip: Industrial Sand Resources of West-Central Wisconsin — Itinerary
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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
Nashville, Tennessee
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Glen A. Collier, P.G., C.P.G., Chair of the AIPG-Texas Section's Scholarship Committee announced that four scholarships have been awarded.
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For the 17th consecutive year, the California Section of AIPG presented awards at the California State Science Fair at the California Science Center in Los Angeles. Mark Rogers and Dave Sadoff, AIPG California Section Southern and Northern Vice Presidents, respectively, judged 12 Junior Division geoscience projects.
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1. Seal the entire borehole.
2. Map contaminants on 1" to 2' scale.
3. Map the conductivity profile on 6" scale.
4. Map the formation head distribution.
5. Monitor water quality and head history.
Using innovative devices like this linear capstan.
How are these done?
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American Geosciences Institute
Enrollments in U.S. geoscience programs remained robust during the 2015-2016 academic year, with undergraduate enrollments slipping about 5 percent, while graduate enrollments dipped slightly. In 2016, 29,471 undergraduates and 10,054 graduate students were enrolled in U.S. geoscience programs.
Degree production at U.S. geoscience programs also remained strong with bachelor's and doctoral degrees rebounding, and master's degrees dropping slightly. The total degrees awarded in 2016: 3,827 bachelor's, 1,270 master's and 690 doctorates.
For more details, view the latest Geoscience Currents online.
Western Slope Conservation Center
The Western Slope Conservation Center invites community leaders and restoration professionals to attend a two day community river restoration and mining reclamation workshop on June 1-2. Many communities with mining legacies across the country are faced with major challenges of transitioning their local economies while also stewarding their lands and watersheds. Creative, community oriented reclamation can turn environmental liabilities into community centerpieces, generating valuable economic, environmental, and recreational opportunities. The Paonia River Park in Paonia, Colorado, is a prime example of a successful and sustainable postmining reclamation project. Formerly an instream gravel mine, the Paonia River Park is now a fully functioning public access park with a boat ramp, beach and swimming holes, picnic areas, new trail network and ADA accessible features.
At this workshop, attendees will tour the river park, learn about the technical aspects of restoration, social impacts of the park, discuss WSCC's successes and lessons learned, explore creative funding techniques, network with fellow practitioners and community leaders from mining regions and leave with an overall sense of what it means to undergo a community directed reclamation project. Stay for our 17th annual Float Fest on June 3 and tour the improvements along the North Fork of the Gunnison River.
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| Date |
Event |
More Information |
| 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 12 |
AGI webinar: How the New Administration's Budget Impacts the Geosciences |
Register online |
| May 12 |
AIPG/Georgia Ground Water Association Joint Meeting |
Contact Greg Cherry |
| May 19-21 |
AIPG Texas Section — Field Trip to Uranium Country |
South Texas |
| June 1-2 |
Gravel Mine to Green Space: A Workshop on Community Directed Approaches to
Mining Reclamation and River Restoration Paonia, Colorado |
Paonia, Colorado |
| June 13-14 |
7th Annual Michigan Section Technical Workshop |
Roscommon County, Michigan |
| June 21-22 |
Energy Exposition 2017 |
Loveland, Colorado |
| June 23 |
2017 Colorado Field Trip — Portland Cement Plant and Niobrara Quarry |
Colorado |
| June 24 |
AIPG National Executive Committee Meeting, AIPG Headquarters Offices |
Contact AIPG |
| June 26-28 |
3rd Annual Production Chemicals Optimization 2017 |
Houston |
| 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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White T-shirt with AIPG logo on the front and "Geologists are Gneiss, Tuff and a Little Wacke" the on back. Available sizes: Small-2XLarge. (An additional $1.50 will be added for 2XL.) The AIPG member price is $23. (Price includes shipping.)
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Show off your AIPG membership with this sturdy tote that is perfect for day trips, errands and more. White durable canvas with double stitched black handles and bottom has the AIPG logo printed on one side.
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University of Wisconsin-Madison via Newswise
Using radioactive elements trapped in crystallized, cream-colored "veins" in New Mexican rock, geologists have peered back in time more than 400,000 years to illuminate a record of earthquakes along the Loma Blanca fault in the Rio Grande rift.
It is the longest record of earthquakes ever documented on a fault, showing 13 distinct seismic events — nine of which occurred at regular intervals averaging 40,000-to-50,000 years and four that clustered together just five-to-11,000 years apart.
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Trinity College Dublin via ScienceDaily
Meteorite impacts can produce more than craters on Earth — they can also spark volcanic activity that shapes its surface and climate by bringing up material from depth. That is the headline finding of an international team, led by geochemists from Trinity College Dublin, who discovered that large impacts can be followed by intense, long-lived and explosive volcanic eruptions.
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Nature
Mantle plumes are buoyant upwellings of hot rock that transport heat from Earth's core to its surface, generating anomalous regions of volcanism that are not directly associated with plate tectonic processes. The best-studied example is the Hawaiian–Emperor chain, but the emergence of two sub-parallel volcanic tracks along this chain1, Loa and Kea, and the systematic geochemical differences between them have remained unexplained. Here, researchers argue that the emergence of these tracks coincides with the appearance of other double volcanic tracks on the Pacific plate and a recent azimuthal change in the motion of the plate.
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GlacierHub
Thanks to a research grant from the Chilean Council of Sciences and support from the National Forest Corporation, this last year researchers began a research project to study the features of the atmospheric boundary layer above glaciers and snow, where they expect to provide better understanding of several microclimatic features, including the glacier wind, especially in a regional scenario of less snow and increasing glacier melt and recession. In this research, they combine several methods: climatic observations, numerical climate modeling and surveys using unmanned aerial vehicles.
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Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies
As a doctoral student at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, Ashley Keiser's research examined natural processes occurring at the microscale. Her dissertation work, for instance, focused on how microbes in the soil respond to changing conditions aboveground, such as new leaf litter from an introduced tree species.
But as her research has shown, those microscale processes can have very big impacts across the landscape.
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Eos
The author of a prize-winning paper published in Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems describes new insights into crustal mechanics and the formation of the Himalaya.
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CNN
Scientists are calling the "new" continent Mauritia, because fragments of it were discovered on the tropical paradise island of Mauritius. The new discovery isn't a massive piece of land that visitors can sail to. It's pieces of continent that got stranded when the ancient continent of Gondwana broke apart and India, Africa and Madagascar drifted apart.
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