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I'm pleased to invite you to the AIPG IL/IN Section meeting at the Morton Arboretum on Oct. 19. The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. and end at approximately 9 p.m. Please join other professional geologists from the area and meet with some of our vendor sponsors for an evening that will include three very interesting and relevant presentations for practicing geologists. Follow the "Read More" link for details. Members and non-members are welcome. Also, don't hesitate to forward this email and/or post the announcement in your office.
Jeff Groncki, AIPG IL-IN Section President
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Understanding Tenorm-Related Challenges Associated With Michigan Basin Hydrocarbon Production — Dec. 1
Featured Speaker: Don Carpenter, Arcadis
Location: Weber's Inn, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Cost: Free for students, $30 for members, $50 for non-members. Registration is payable electronically via Eventbrite (see link below) or at the door by cash or check.
Time: Cash Bar 5:30-6:30 p.m., Dinner 6:30 p.m. and Speaker 7:30-9 p.m.
RSVP: On the Eventbrite website no later than Nov. 28. Note: Space is limited; sign up early!
2016 Student Poster Contest
When: 5-7:30 p.m., Dec. 1
Where: Weber's Inn, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Prizes: First prize in the graduate and undergraduate categories is $1,000; runner up prize in each category is $500.
All student members of AIPG are welcome and encouraged to bring a poster depicting their original geological research to the Michigan Section's annual meeting. Posters will be displayed during the social hour and dinner. Judging will be done by attending members; votes will be collected by the executive committee immediately prior to the evening technical presentation. The winners will be announced following the presentation. Register for the meeting. Indicate that you will be bringing a student poster to the event. Remember, student members register and attend for free!
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The AIPG Colorado Section Newsletter — Fall 2016
The AIPG Michigan Section Newsletter — October 2016
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December 1, 2016 - Holiday Inn & Suites Marlborough, 265 Lakeside Avenue, Marlborough, MA 01752
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December 15, 2016 - Holiday Inn Concord Downtown, 172 North Main Street, Concord, NH 03301
This is a half-day workshop was developed to provide water utility personnel, engineers, hydrogeologists, regulatory officials, and other interested persons in understanding about the sand and gravel and bedrock aquifers their wells are located in and how and why well performance declines over time along with options that are available to rehabilitate your well. The workshop begins with an introduction of the geology and aquifers of New England. From plate tectonics to glacial geology along the effects of weathering that have created the majority of high-yield aquifers located throughout New England. A quick trip through well types, water well terminology, groundwater flow into well screens, and a discussion of specific capacity as it applies to sand and gravel and bedrock aquifers. Specific capacity is easy to calculate and use as a measure of the performance of your well, but something that is often overlooked. Moving forward, there is a segment on declining well performance including a discussion of the chemical, physical, and microbiological factors that are the cause for drop in performance in wells. Improving the performance of your well will be discussed by examining physical and chemical methods to rehabilitate your well and improve specific capacity. Understanding the permitting considerations along with the costs of well rehabilitation services will be discussed. The final segment of the workshop will be case studies on well rehabilitation. This will tie together all of the other segments of the workshop. Registration Fees: $100 AIPG Members / $125 Non-Members | Register online or Registration Form | Event Details | Earn 4 Contact Hours or .4 CEU’s
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The experts involved in the EU-funded INTRAW project gathered in Cornwall (U.K.) from Oct. 5-7 for their second workshop in order to provide the project consortium with suggestions on how to enhance the European Union's International Observatory for Raw Materials that will be launched by the end of the projects' lifetime.
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AGI
The American Geosciences Institute is running a photo contest entitled "Life as a Geoscientist." Like the title suggests, they are looking for photo submissions that depict the life and work of a geoscientist. Prizes will be awarded to the best photo in each category: field, lab and data visualizations. AGI will also have a prize for the best student photo. Submissions are due on Nov. 19. The contest webpage has full details about the contest.
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Produced Water Quality Recycling & Reuse 2016
 Delivering what the market really needs now, the Fifth Annual Produced Water Quality Recycling and Reuse 2016, looks not only at where the industry is today but also at the anticipated ramp up. And for the first time, operator case studies will be backed by regulatory updates to deliver a holistic 360-degree view on water management in the Rockies.
Visit the AIPG Booth!
American Geosciences Institute
Oct. 27-28 at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colorado.
Gain insights from a diverse group of experts from the geoscience, economics and policy sectors, and explore regional groundwater issues and lessons to be learned from the High Plains/Ogallala Aquifer (HPA) experience.
Join the conversation to examine two important questions:
- How have experts and stakeholders in HPA states addressed depletion of regional groundwater resources?
- Are there lessons learned/best practices from the HPA and other aquifers?
The 2016 Critical Issues Forum is hosted by the
2016 Critical Issues Forum sponsors
The 2016 Critical Issues Forum is a product of AGI's Center for Geoscience & Society.
Phys.org
A Florida State University geology researcher is going deep below the Earth's surface to understand how some of the most abundant minerals that comprise the Earth's crust change under pressure. In a paper published in Scientific Reports, Assistant Professor of Geology Mainak Mookherjee explores how feldspar, one of the most important minerals in the Earth's crust, changes under pressure. Typically, materials become stiffer when pressure is applied, but Mookherjee found that these pale-colored crystals actually become softer under extreme pressures.
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Astrobiology Magazine
Geomorphologists who study Earth's surface features and the processes that formed them have long been interested in how floods, in particular catastrophic outbursts that occur when a glacial lake ice dam bursts, for example, can change a planet's surface — not only on Earth but on Mars. Now geoscience researchers at the California Institute of Technology have proposed and tested a new model of canyon-forming floods which suggests that deep canyons can be formed in bedrock by significantly less water than previously thought.
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Daily Mail
It is a stunning animation showing exactly how the earth moves. Researchers at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History have unveiled the E3 map — showing eruptions, earthquakes and emissions. The team behind it say the map is akin to watching the pulse of our planet.
The map tracks every recorded volcanic eruption, earthquake and major sulfur dioxide emission since 1960.
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Phys.org
The deep cracking faults that lie within the Earth's crust are significant geologic surfaces for oil exploration and earthquake prediction. A team from KAUST developed an algorithm that smoothly detects faults and other 3-D surfaces with high computational efficiency even amid noisy and cluttered data sets.
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OilPrice.com
The latest 3-D seismic surveys suggest that there may be billions of barrels of undiscovered oil in the Barents Sea, according to a geology and geophysics expert. The 3-D data gives a much better picture than previous two-dimensional images, the expert said. Several large and reasonably shallow areas may contain oil, including the area close to the Norwegian-Russian delimitation line in the southeastern part of the Barents Sea, the expert noted.
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National Geographic
Nearly four billion years ago, when Earth was coming alive, Mars was gradually choking to death. The thick atmosphere that had warmed the red planet was leaking into space, and plummeting temperatures caused Martian lakes and rivers to freeze, turning the wet surface into a dry wasteland. But it's possible life took root in those early years. And very soon, a NASA robot will arrive at Mars with the goal of collecting rock samples that might contain ancient fossils.
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Scientific American
Meteorites have punched at least 222 impact craters into the moon's surface in the past seven years. That's 33 percent more than researchers expected, and suggests that future lunar astronauts may need to hunker down against incoming space rocks. Planetary geologists will also need to rethink their understanding of the age of the lunar surface, which depends on counting craters and estimating how long the terrain has been pummelled by impacts.
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The Times of India
Half the original mass of India and Eurasia disappeared into the Earth's interior before the two landmasses began their slow-motion collision about 60 million years ago, a new study has found. The study by researchers at University of Chicago has important implications for our understanding of when the continents grew to their present size and how the chemistry of the Earth's interior has evolved.
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ScienceAlert
Researchers are investigating Australia's Wurdi Youang stone arrangement, and say they have new evidence to suggest that it could be the world's first observatory. Besides being the first physical evidence of humans using tools to observe the activity of the sky, the site could reveal exactly how Aboriginal astronomers tracked the sun's movement throughout the year, and what these observations meant to their culture.
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Forbes
A thorny West African palm is the first plant known to grow overtop diamonds associated with underground kimberlite pipes. Diamond explorers had a stroke of good luck when the plant was identified to grow overtop diamond deposits, a helpful identifier to use deep within the African jungle. The plant, Pandanus candelabrum, is found specifically in Liberia and has adapted to certain mineral conditions in soil above potentially diamond bearing kimberlites.
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