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Nature World News
A team of geologists from the University of Tokyo has made a surprising discovery. In their study, the researchers state that the full moon can trigger enormous earthquakes. They found strong evidence after examining three separate databases on large scale seismic activities.
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World Oil
The advent of broadband seismic acquisition, combined with new deghosting/imaging algorithms and exponential increases in computer processing power, has generated improved seismic images. These advances give scientists an opportunity to re-evaluate a region's subsurface geology. The new interpretation, combined with geology-based datasets, is now being studied in conjunction with modern and historical seismic data, to fully understand petroleum prospectivity.
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Phys.org
In the coming decades, the world's largest space agencies all have some rather big plans. In all cases, geological studies are going to be a major aspect of the missions. For this reason, the ESA recently unveiled a new training program known as the Pangaea course, a study program which focuses on identifying planetary geological features. This program showcases just how important planetary geologists will be to future missions.
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AIPG
- President — Adam Heft, CPG-10265, Michigan
- President-Elect — Doug Bartlett, CPG-08453, Arizona
- Past-President — Helen Hickman, CPG-07535, Florida
- Vice President — Matt Rhoades, CPG-07837, New Mexico
- Secretary — Keri Nutter, CPG-11579, Alaska
- Treasurer — Jim Burnell, CPG-11609, Colorado
- Editor — John Berry, MEM-2155, Texas
- Advisory Board Representatives:
- Jeff Frederick, CPG-10989, Northeast
- Mehmet Pehlivan, MEM-01546, California
- John (Rusty) Sewell, MEM-02487, Tennessee
- Nancy Wolverson, CPG-11048, Nevada
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The AIPG 53rd Annual National Conference was held Sept. 10-13, in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with almost 200 attendees that enjoyed technical sessions, field trips, awards presentations and networking. To see photos from the meeting, visit the AIPG Facebook page.
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Cash prizes were awarded to six students for the AIPG Student Poster Contest that was held at the AIPG Annual National Conference.
Graduate Students: — Shannon Rentz, SA-5142, (Examining Ash Fall Sequences in Calk-Alkaline Subduction Related Volcanism, Southern New Mexico), Missouri State University, Springfield, Missouri.
Second Prize $250 — Ashlynne Winton, SA-8070, (The Characterization of Abandoned Uranium Mines in New Mexico), New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, New Mexico.
Third Prize $100 — Dina London, SA-7006, (Improving Ocean Stewardship through Acquisition of Oceanic Data), University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, Colorado.
Undergraduate Students: — Sephania Zneimer, SA-7930, (Modeling Regional Weather Patterns in Southern Illinois by Integrating Stable Water Isotopes Found in Precipitation to Distinguish Various Controls on the Local Hydrologic Cycle), Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois.
Second Prize $200 — Benjamin Eppley, SA-8024, (Development of a Low Cost, Field Portable, Geochemical Gold Test), Metropolitan State University of Denver, Denver.
Third Prize $100 — Travis Sullivan, SA-6122, (Experimental Cerargyrite (AgCI) Formation in Sandstone), Metropolitan State University of Denver.
Congratulations!
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The AIPG California Section Newsletter — September 2016
The AIPG Illinois-Indiana Section Newsletter — Summer 2016
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The AIPG Ohio Section Fall 2016 Meeting and Dinner Presentation will be held on Thursday, Sept. 22, at La Scala Italian Bistro, 4199 W. Dublin-Granville Road, in Dublin. Social hour begins at 5 p.m. Dinner starts at 6 p.m. followed by the presentation at 7 p.m. The topic will be "Bioremediation & Beneficial Reuse Process & Facility Presentation," with featured speaker Chris Elliott, of Ohio Soil Recycling, LLC. More details are available here. Please RSVP to aipgohio@gmail.com if you plan to attend.
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Support stable land, clean water and energy for Wisconsin by supporting Wisconsin geoscientists!
For each $5 given to this fundraiser, you will receive one vote.
Thousands of Geoscience Professionals in Wisconsin work daily on projects that provide stable building sites, clean water and soil, and energy for our state and our nation!
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The AIPG Expandable Briefcase has the AIPG logo, durable 600 denier polyester fabric and a large, padded main compartment with a laptop sleeve. It contains an organizational panel under the flap with a front slip pocket, a large zippered pocket in the front flap, detachable, adjustable, padded shoulder strap and a dual buckle closure on the front. Available in black, chili red, forest green, navy and twilight blue.
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Sky & Telescope
It's hard to believe that more than four years have passed since the Curiosity rover dropped onto the broad floor of Gale crater and began its marathon exploration of Mars. Curiosity is now reaching the lowermost slopes of Mount Sharp, but it's kept busy with imaging and sampling studies along its path. Most recently it spent time in Murray Buttes. The buttes, it turns out, are eroded remnants of ancient sandstone beds.
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Cosmos
Stalagmites in ancient caves may hold clues about some of the oldest earthquakes known to science, a new study has found. A team from the U.S. and Japan studied four stalagmites in a cave in southern Indiana, searching for signs of earthquakes over hundreds of thousands of years. Interruptions in the development of these historic spikes can offer clues of geological unrest.
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Press TV
The U.S. Geological Survey has released detailed footage of a lava lake, located on top of a famed volcano in Hawaii.
The action is taking place on top of Kilauea. The lava splatters near the southern edge of the lake in the crater. At least one earthquake was felt, along with other smaller events.
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CBC News
You would think the largest crater on Earth would be an easy thing to spot. But evidence of where a meteorite, or even a larger asteroid, would have struck the Earth can be so hard to find because it can actually be microscopic. Still, a team of Quebec geologists believe they have pieced together traces of a 500-kilometer crater in the Chibougamau area, 500 kilometers north of Montreal.
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Phys.org
Utilizing a wide range of analytic tools, researchers at North Carolina State University have figured out why pockets of the southeastern Piedmont region contain high concentrations of manganese in well water, particularly in more shallow wells. The findings highlight the importance of testing well water to ensure its safety.
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Smithsonian
When a six mile-wide asteroid struck the Earth 66 million years ago, it was one of the worst days in the history of the planet. About 75 percent of the known species were rapidly driven to extinction, including the non-avian dinosaurs like Tyrannosaurus, the flying pterosaurs, the coil-shelled squid cousins called ammonites and many more. Life was not totally extinguished, however, and the close of the Age of Dinosaurs opened up the path to the Age of Mammals. Now a new study has helped put a timer on how quickly life bounced back from the devastation.
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The Tribune
Before the start of the aviation era, the sight of a glory — one of the more striking optical phenomena in meteorology — was rarely seen except by mountain climbers. A glory is rings of colored light, mostly magenta and yellow, that surround an aircraft's shadow against the top of clouds or a fog bank — such as those of a saint's halo. If you look down on a cloud from an aircraft or even from a very tall structure when the sun is out, you can sometimes spot one.
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