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Los Angeles Times
Each year, more than 3,000 tons of space dust fails to burn up in our planet's atmosphere and falls instead to Earth's surface.
These micrometeorites are just a few microns in diameter, but scientists say that embedded in the fossilized specks of this extraterrestrial debris are chemical clues that suggest Earth's upper atmosphere had almost as much oxygen in it 2.7 billion years ago as it does today.
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Motherboard
For most of the 20th century, Mount St. Helens kept silent vigil over the Pacific Northwest. Looming 9,600 feet above sea level, the young stratovolcano remained deceptively quiet throughout the early 1900s, with only a few grumbles occurring in 1903 and 1932. Then, in 1980, a plinian eruption of ash, lava and debris would devastate Washington state and kill 57 people. Now, the U.S. Geological Survey's Volcano Hazards Program has detected a number of earthquakes beneath the dormant volcano that indicate its once volatile magma chambers are slowly recharging. Mount St. Helens, the volcanologists said, "is still very much alive."
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The Science Explorer
In a first, geologists have compiled a set of global observations of the movement of the Earth's mantle — the 3,000-kilometer-thick layer of hot silicate rocks between the crust and the core. To their surprise, it looks very different from predictions made by geologists over the past 30 years.
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AIPG
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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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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AIPG
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.
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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 Wisconsin Section Newsletter — Spring 2016
The AIPG Ohio Section Newsletter — April 2016
The AIPG California Section Newsletter — Spring 2016
The AIPG Georgia Section Newsletter — April 2016
The AIPG Colorado Section Newsletter — Spring 2016
| Date |
Event |
More Information |
| 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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Stainless Steel Travel Mug — 18 oz., with blue color grip and slider spill-proof lid mechanism.
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Soil Science Society of America via Science Daily
In the basic water cycle, water falls on the land in some type of precipitation (rain or snow). It either is soaked into the ground or runs off into a body of water — storm water or natural. Eventually, it returns to the atmosphere. But the story about water movement in soil is complex. Soil scientists call this topic "soil hydrology." Experts now explain how soil texture, soil structure and gravity influence water movement.
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Tech Insider
The Solomon Islands in the South Pacific and Baffin Island, Canada, might seem as far away as two places could get. However, they now share an earthshaking connection.
Richard Walker, a geologist at the University of Maryland, and his colleagues announced that they've found "birthmarks" of Earth at both locations: 4.5 billion-year-old rocks preserved just below the surface.
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University of Cincinnati via Science Daily
Methane comes from various sources, like landfills, bacterial processes in water, cattle and fracking. In testing methane sources at three national sites, geologists found no evidence fracking affected methane concentrations in groundwater in Ohio. At sites in Colorado and Texas, methane sources were founded to be mixed, divided between fracking, cattle and/or landfills.
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Phys.org
There is a wealth of evidence, collected over the past few decades, that suggests liquid water was abundant in the early history of Mars — one of our nearest and most studied neighbors. However, the size, evolution and duration of standing bodies of water, such as lakes, on Mars' surface are still a matter of great debate. A recent study, using data from several spacecraft operating at Mars, paints a detailed picture of the rise and fall of standing bodies of water in a region of Mars, which once hosted one of its largest lakes.
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Huffington Post
Breakouts of lava have been slowly consuming sections of forest on the rural southeast corner of Hawaii's Big Island for several months.
Kilauea, one of the world's most active volcanoes, has been continuously erupting for more than 33 years. It claimed one home and threatened a small community in 2014. But because the flow isn't currently staring down any populated areas, the lava is pretty much out of sight and out of mind. And from a bird's eye view, it's completely mesmerizing.
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The Siberian Times
Fragments of rock are seen as proof of the discovery of islands structurally akin to Hawaii in Central Asia. "We have found in the mountains of the southern Tien Shan fragments of oceanic islands," Novosibirsk scientist Dr. Inna Safonova said. The islands were in an ocean or major sea called Turkestan, or South Tien Shan paleo-ocean, located between modern day Kazakhstan and northwestern China.
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Alaska Dispatch News
The cancelation of Shell's Arctic offshore exploration program and the relinquishment of most Chukchi Sea oil and gas leases clearly mark the end of the most recent phase of hydrocarbon exploration in the region. But the rocks under the Chukchi's frigid waters have not changed: The region continues as a world-class, relatively unexplored petroleum province.
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