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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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AIPG needs a new Chair of the Ethics Committee. David Abbott, who has held this position for many years, would like someone to fill the position while Abbott can help advise and assist the new Chair learn the details of the position. The primary duty of the Ethics Committee Chair is the administration of AIPG's Disciplinary Procedures. The amount of time required varies from year to year as can be seen in the compilation of disciplinary actions on the AIPG website that is updated on an annual basis. The other duty of the Ethics Committee Chair is promoting professional ethics education through presentations and articles. The primary means of ethics education has been through the Professional Ethics & Practices column, which Abbott intends to continue compiling. The new Chair will be free to contribute to the PE&P column as desired.
Desired skills for the position include:
- Must be a CPG.
- Interest in professional ethics and recognition of the importance of disciplining those few members who violate the Code of Ethics.
- Experience with legal proceedings through work at a regulatory agency or otherwise.
- The ability to write carefully and clearly.
- Investigative experience—all geoscientists investigate geoscience problems but specific experience with litigation support and such activities are desirable.
- Being something of a geoscience generalist rather than having a specific, narrow professional focus.
- Familiarity with geoscientists across the geosciences. The inquiries into alleged unethical conduct can require knowledge of a particular geoscience specialty. No one practices in all fields so that the ability to identify investigators with the required skills is needed.
- Willingness to serve for a number of years.
If you are interested in the position and/or obtaining more details, please contact David Abbott at 303-394-0321 or dmageol@msn.com.
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The AIPG National awarded 18 $1,000 scholarships to the following undergraduate students: Lindsey Abdale, University of Michigan; James Bader, California University of Pennsylvania; Melanie Bowen, Texas A&M; Katie Brower, Western Washington University; Kristina Butler (Sponsored by the Alaska Section), Universty of Alaska Anchorage; Elizabeth Ellis, Pomona College; Allan Foster III, Colorado School of Mines; Shane Houchin, Pasadena City College; Jessica Jagdeo, University of Florida; Katherine Landoni, Oregon State University; Sierra Melton, Colorado College; Logan Moore, University of North Georgia; Sydney O'Brien, West Georgia University; Kasandra Saiki, University of Alaska Anchorage; Anna Stanczyk (Sponsored by the Alaska Section), University of Alaska Anchorage; Seth Sutton, Eastern Carolina University; Jonathan Valentine, Southern Florida University; and Xiangming Zhao, Kent State University. Jessie McCraw, University of Arizona, and Daniel Foley, Northern Arizona University received $500 scholarships, sponsored by the Arizona Section.
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The Foundation of the American Institute of Professional Geologists awarded William J. Siok Graduate Scholarships of $1,000 to Ann Hislop, University of Kentucky, and Tyson Smith, University of Houston. Congratulations!
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Come represent AIPG at the Energy Expo in Loveland on June 21 and 22. This event is free and open to the public. Exhibitors are primarily from upstream and downstream oil and gas, and field service providers. We'd love your help to get AIPG's name out there and to talk to potential members! Join us at the Ranch Events Complex, right off of I-25 near Loveland. For more information, please go to energyexposition.com.
Sign up to volunteer.
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The Foundation of the American Institute of Professional Geologists will hold a Silent Auction on Sunday, Sept. 24, at the Welcome Reception of the AIPG Annual Meeting in Nashville for the benefit of the Foundation and its programs. More details about the silent auction, including donating items for the auction, will be available soon.
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The AIPG Michigan Section Newsletter — May 2017
AIPG Section Newsletters from Spring 2016 – April 2017 are available here.
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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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If you are interested in presenting a webinar for a new online course, please contact us at 303-412-6205 or email aipg@aipg.org. Information is available on the AIPG National website:
INTRAW
The INTRAW consortium has recently launched three operational reports providing insights on best practices and weaknesses of raw materials research and innovation, education and outreach and industry and trade in the project's five Reference Countries: Australia, Canada, Japan, South Africa and the United States.
The findings of these operational reports also contribute to the design of the International Observatory on Raw Materials that is to be launched by the end of 2017. The Observatory will be a permanent international body that will remain operational after the end of the project, aiming at the establishment and maintenance of strong long-term relationships with the world's key players in raw materials technology and scientific developments.
The operational reports and their summaries are available through the project website. We also invite you to follow the project's seven-weeks-long social media campaign that provides further insights into the operational reports on Facebook, Twitter and Linkedin.
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Tohoku University via Phys.org
Earth's history should include "pre-plate tectonic" and "plate tectonic" phases beginning less than a billion years ago, according to a team of geoscientists in the journal Geology. Earth formed about 4.6 billion years ago. As the surface cooled, it formed a crust over a molten magma interior. Geoscientists disagree over when plate tectonics began — specifically when the top layer of the crust, the lithosphere, began to slide over the underlying mantle. Estimates range from as early as a few tens of millions of years after the Earth formed, to as late as 750 million years ago.
Part of the debate surrounds how to define plate tectonics.
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Laboratory Equipment
Looking at NASA images of Mars a few years ago, Brown University geologist Peter Schultz noticed sets of strange bright streaks emanating from a few large-impact craters on the planet’s surface. The streaks are odd in that they extend much farther from the craters than normal ejecta patterns, and they are only visible in thermal infrared images taken during the Martian night. Using geological observation, laboratory impact experiments and computer modeling of impact processes, Schultz and Brown graduate student Stephanie Quintana have offered a new explanation for how those streaks were formed.
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Nature World News
The landscape of early Earth was a far different picture than the one we know now, more of a water world than the complex formations present in the present planet. Researchers from the Australian National University found that during the planet's first 700 million years or so, the Earth was likely barren, mountainless and nearly completely underwater with just a few tiny isles.
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Rice University via Phys.org
U.S. and Chinese geologists studying China's Yellow River have created a new tool that could help Chinese officials better predict and prevent the river's all-too-frequent floods, which threaten as many as 80 million people. The new tool, a physics-based formulation to calculate sediment transport, can also be applied to study the sustainability of eroding coastlines worldwide.
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U.S. Geological Survey
Natural geysers are rare on Earth; there are fewer than 1,000 worldwide, and about half of them are in Yellowstone National Park. Geysers, whose eruptions range from small bubbling pools, to roaring jets of water and steam that can reach a few hundred meters high, fascinate all who have the good fortune of witnessing one. In a newly published paper, researchers synthesize the current state of knowledge about geysers.
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Smithsonian.com
Some of the earliest life on Earth may have dwelled in 3.5 billion-year-old Australian hot springs, a new study finds. If that's true, it could mean that life on land dates back 580 million years earlier than we thought — and might offer valuable clues to those who seek evidence of life on Mars and other planets.
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U.S. Geological Survey
A new set of high-resolution geologic maps reveal complex geologic processes that suggest a dynamic, wet environment once existed on early Mars, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. These maps show that the western Candor Chasma region is an important location for future human and robotic exploration of Mars' astrobiologic resources.
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The Associated Press via PennEnergy
Certain approaches to hydraulic fracturing and directional drilling appear the secret to successfully tapping a previously unprofitable oil deposit, according to a Wyoming State Geological Survey report.
For decades, geologists thought the Codell Sandstone of southeast Wyoming was too dense to make drilling worthwhile.
Then came the two techniques that have opened access to such deposits nationwide.
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TASS
Researchers from the Institute of the Novosibirsk-based Institute of Oil and Gas Geology and Geophysics together with the Krasnoyarsk subsidiary of Russian oil giant, Rosneft, are creating new methods of 3-D seismic survey to search for oil and gas fields in the Arctic. These methods will yield precise results regardless of the season in order to create 3-D models, said project head Vladimir Cheverda of the Institute of Oil and Gas Geology and Geophysics.
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