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Los Angeles Times
For the first time, scientists have produced a computer image showing huge sections of California rising and sinking around the San Andreas fault. The vertical movement is the result of seismic strain that will be ultimately released in a large earthquake. The San Andreas fault is California's longest earthquake fault, and one of the state's most dangerous. Scientists have long expected that parts of California are rising — and other parts sinking — around the fault in a way that is ongoing, very subtle and extremely slow.
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Science News
The deep, dark ocean bottom teems with far more oases of life than once thought. Searching along the sunless seafloor where tectonic plates pull apart, regions known as spreading ridges, researchers discovered that heat-spewing hydrothermal vents are at least three to six times as abundant as previously assumed. The finding also significantly boosts the likely number of marine ecosystems huddled around vents, researchers report.
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Eos
Iron sulfide is one of the most common minerals found in diamonds, but it is rare inside the Earth's mantle where diamonds form. New findings published in Nature Communications explain this paradox — for the first time sulfide has been shown to play an active role in the formation of diamond crystals. The results provide valuable new information about the depth of diamond formation and suggest that sulfide is more than a flaw introduced from the host rock, the study authors said.
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AIPG
The American Institute of Professional Geologists, a service and educational organization serving the geosciences since 1963, has announced the selection of Aaron W. Johnson, PhD as its new executive director. Johnson will fill the vacancy created by the retirement of William J. Siok, CPG. The selection was made after a national search and selection process.
"We are very pleased to announce this appointment," reported AIPG President Helen Hickman. "Dr. Johnson will bring new leadership and creativity to AIPG’s programs and a fresh perspective to AIPG's continuing mission in support the geosciences and its practitioners."
Dr. Johnson's resume includes over 20 years of planning, administration, communications, fund-raising and teaching experience in the academic sector. He was awarded a doctorate in Geological Sciences in 2003 from the University of Missouri-Columbia, and has been the recipient of numerous awards and honors for his outstanding contributions to teaching and research.
"My work with non-profit organizations has allowed me to develop a management philosophy grounded in the concept that people are the most important resource in an organization." remarks Johnson. I believe it's imperative to "strike a balance between dedication to the mission of the organization and outlining a bold vision for the future." Dr. Johnson will officially assume the role beginning Aug. 22.
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AIPG
Compiled by Mark B. Carpenter and Christopher M. Keane
For more than 40 years, AGI's Data Sheets have been a critical tool for the geoscientist in field, the lab, and the classroom. For decades its bright orange cover and three-ring binding was distinctive in the geoscience community. The book evolved into its current, full-color and spiral bound format with the 2005 debut of the 4th edition.
Now AGI has tapped some of the best minds in the geosciences to produce this 5th edition. Featuring the contributions of over 240 experts worldwide in their respective fields, this new, expanded edition is over 470 full-color pages. Three years of work went into the Handbook to broaden its scope across the disciplines. With more than 170 complete new data sheets, and full revisions of prior data sheets, over 85% of the content is either new or revised for the fifth edition. The Geoscience Handbook is the quick reference tool for key metrics and concepts, a guide to cornerstone papers and recent developments, as well as short tutorials on topics that may not be familiar to all geoscientists.
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AIPG
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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AIPG
Showcase your company! Sign up for a one year business card size ad in AIPG's The Professional Geologist (TPG) publication (four quarterly issues). The TPG Professional Services Directory lists companies with experience and expertise in all phases of geology and is distributed to more than 15,000 in the geosciences around the globe. TPG is printed, placed online and emailed. The journal is made available at all the conferences that AIPG hosts and attends. For only $400 (AIPG members) and $500 (nonmembers) it is a great deal!
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AIPG
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Science Daily
A team of researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego compared sand levels on several San Diego beaches during the last seven winters. The El Niños of winter 2009-10 and 2015-16 were the two most erosive. Three San Diego County beaches that received imported sand in 2012 were about 10 meters wider, and one to two meters higher in 2015-16 than in 2009-10, with the coarseness of the sand apparently aiding the effectiveness of the effort.
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NASA
Scientists have discovered an unexpected mineral in a rock sample at Gale Crater on Mars, a finding that may alter our understanding of how the planet evolved. NASA's Mars Science Laboratory rover, Curiosity, has been exploring sedimentary rocks within Gale Crater since landing in August 2012. In July 2015, the rover collected powder drilled from rock at a location named "Buckskin." Analyzing data from an X-ray diffraction instrument on the rover that identifies minerals, scientists detected significant amounts of a silica mineral called tridymite.
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Bloomberg
The shale gas revolution brought the U.S. both energy-superpower status and a short list of headaches. There are engineering challenges — many wells have a disappointingly short productive lifetime, and those lifetimes can vary even within the same field. Then there are the much-debated environmental trade-offs. Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, requires copious water. An Australian researcher and two scientists from France, which has banned fracking, now suggest there may be a better way.
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CNN Money
The U.S. oil boom has time and again proven very hard to kill. Despite OPEC's strategy of flooding the oversupplied market with tons of crude, American oil production has not fallen off a cliff. And now that prices have rallied back to $50 a barrel, there are early signs that U.S. shale is on the rebound, too. Just look at how the closely-watched Baker Hughes oil rig count has stopped collapsing — and started rising.
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Midland Reporter-Telegram
The outcrop of rocks that ring the Permian Basin tell the story of the area's formation and deposition of its crude and natural gas riches with every fold, fracture and fault. A new research project, the Permian Basin Joint Industry Project, a venture between San Antonio-based Southwest Research Institute and area producers, aims to take information gleaned from those outcrops and develop information producers can use in planning drilling programs.
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Science Daily
Improved publication strategy for authors who use hydrological modeling software will make model data easier for readers to understand and reuse, according to an international team of researchers. A growing number of computational models, such as the Penn State Integrated Hydrologic Model, show coupled surface and subsurface water flow and its role in the diversity of Earth system processes. These models conceptualize representations of the physical processes governing the movement of water on, above and below the Earth's surface.
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