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U.S. Geological Survey
The 2017 Western South Dakota Hydrology Conference will be held April 6, 2017, at the Rushmore Plaza Civic Center in Rapid City, and will include technical sessions, a keynote speaker (TBD), and a combined poster session and evening social with free refreshments in the evening. The theme for the 2017 conference is "Feast and Famine: Floods and Droughts." The 2017 conference will also include no-cost field seminars (or trips) on Friday, April 7, 2017, as part of this conference.
This email serves as an abstract call (speakers and posters), vendor call and field trip leader call for the 2017 conference. The 2017 conference is organized by the National Weather Service, RESPEC, South Dakota Department of Environment and Natural Resources, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, U.S. Geological Survey and the West Dakota Water Development District. We have had wonderful speakers and attendance at previous conferences (around 300 people), and hope that the 2017 conference will be no different.
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The Geological Society of America
Hawaii Convention Center — Honolulu
May 23-25, 2017
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AIPG
December 1, 2016 - Holiday Inn & Suites Marlborough, 265 Lakeside Avenue, Marlborough, Massachusetts 01752
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December 15, 2016 - Holiday Inn Concord Downtown, 172 North Main Street, Concord, New Hampshire 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, Earn 2 LSP Technical Credits, Earn 4 NH Water Works Operator TCHs.
AIPG
Send in your nominations for AIPG National Awards and AIPG Section Leadership Awards by Jan. 15.
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AIPG
Articles submitted for The Professional Geologist are reviewed by at least two associated editors before printed. AIPG Members that are interested in becoming an associate editor can fill out the required questionnaire. The questionnaire is in pdf format and can be filled out using the Adobe Reader hand tool. After you have filled out the questionnaire save it and email it to aipg@aipg.org.
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AIPG
Annual membership dues are due and payable Jan. 1, in accordance with Article 8, Section 8.2.1, of the Bylaws.
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AIPG
"The Foundation of the American Institute of Professional Geologists (Foundation) supports a variety of programs of the American Institute of Professional Geologists that include student scholarships, educational programs aimed at practitioners, the public, policymakers and, on occasion, some special needs requested by AIPG," writes Barbara Murphy, CPG-6203, Chairperson, Foundation of American Institute of Professional Geologists. "The Foundation may also support public information forums, public education meetings, teacher seminars and geological seminars for other professionals such as engineers, architects, planners and others; thus coordinating the expertise of several professions for a better understanding of the geosciences and global issues. The Foundation is proud to be able to serve AIPG and the geosciences by providing financial support for these programs."
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AIPG
We would like your help in submitting articles that will assist our student members in knowing what to be prepared for. Students are also encouraged to submit articles. This information will be placed in the upcoming January/February/March 2017 Student Issue of TPG. Your submittal can be a couple of paragraphs, a letter, an opinion piece, an article on what you are currently working on, student chapter information, a geologic field trip or field camp (include photos), etc. Please see the requirements for submitting an article for TPG. The deadline for submitting an article is Dec. 1. Articles are always welcome so if you cannot make the deadline, please send it in when you can. Email articles and photos to aipg@aipg.org.
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| Date |
Event |
More Information |
| Dec. 1 |
AIPG 2016 New England Aquifers: Elusive and Complex |
Holiday Inn & Suites Marlborough, Marlborough, Massachusetts |
| Dec. 15 |
AIPG 2016 New England Aquifers: Elusive and Complex |
Holiday Inn Concord Downtown, Concord, New Hampshire |
| Jan. 13 |
Abstracts due for the 7th Annual Michigan Section Technical Workshop |
Contact Rick Dunkin or Sara Pearson |
| Jan. 18-19 |
FES/FAPG-AIPG 3rd Annual Winter Water Seminar |
Florida State University |
| Feb. 19-22, 2017 |
2017 SME Annual Conference & Expo CMA
119th National Western Mining Conference |
Denver |
| June 13-14, 2017 |
7th Annual Michigan Section Technical Workshop |
Roscommon County, Michigan |
| Sept. 23-26, 2017 |
AIPG 2017 National Annual Conference |
Nashville, Tennessee |
| June 16-21, 2018 |
Resources for Future Generations: Energy — Minerals — Water — Earth |
Call for Sessions flyer
Conference Brochure |
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Phys.org
Saint Louis University researchers report new information about conditions that can cause the Earth's tectonic plates to sink into the Earth. In a paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) Saint Louis University researchers report new information about conditions that can cause the Earth's tectonic plates to sink into the earth.
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The Times of India
In a big discovery, geologists in Akal area of Jaisalmer, India, have found trace fossils in about 150-180 million-year-old rocks that are part of the Lathi formation found in Lower Odania. This type of study is being conducted for the first time. According to geologists, these fossils are of plant eater animals and possibility is very high that vegetarian dinosaurs used to roam in these places.
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Science Recorder
The U.S. Geological Survey plans to fly an elecftromagnetic ring over Yellowstone later this month in order to map the park's underground plumbing. This is part of a new initiative in which researchers from the USGS, the University of Wyoming and Denmark's Aarhus University will study the flow of hot water through Yellowstone's various geysers.
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RT
As space enthusiasts geared up for the much-anticipated supermoon on Nov. 15, a New Zealand seismologist is more skeptical towards the phenomenon, saying it could have triggered the powerful earthquake that struck the country on Nov. 14 that triggered hundreds of aftershocks and killed at least two people.
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Phys.org
Scientists have found a key indicator in determining whether the presence of carbon, found in the Earth's mantle, is derived from continental crust — a step toward better understanding the history of crustal formation on Earth's surface and the rate at which tectonic plates have moved throughout geologic time, which can be linked to the cooling of Earth's mantle.
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Houston Chronicle
NASA has long given up on trying to find human-sized Martians on the red planet, but the space agency still believes in the possibility of finding microscopic life forms. They, and other scientists around the world believe in the one rule that has been proven true on Earth: where there's water, there's life. This is why researchers at the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics have hedged their bets on a strangely shaped depression on Mars as a good place to look for signs of life.
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EOS
Software engineer Bob Simonoff didn't realize that he was looking at a never-before-described mineral when he peered through his daughter's microscope at a sample of tanzanite one day in 2011. Covering the blue mineral were tiny, wirelike black structures, nothing like the senior Simonoff, a mineral enthusiast, had ever seen.
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Lund University via ScienceDaily
Six years ago divers discovered the oldest known stationary fish traps in northern Europe off the coast of southern Sweden. Since then, researchers at Lund University in Sweden have uncovered an exceptionally well-preserved Stone Age site. They now believe the location was a lagoon environment where Mesolithic humans lived during parts of the year.
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Forbes
Volcanoes are a sort of large-scale laboratory not only for geologists but also biologists interested in the question how plants and animals can colonize new land. In August 1883 the small island of Krakatoa, located in the middle of the Sunda Strait, annihilated itself almost completely in one of the most violent volcanic eruptions of recent history. The sad remains were covered by a 98-foot thick layer of pumice. Geologists collecting rock samples just three weeks after the catastrophe didn't spot any signs of animals or plants.
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The Washington Post
The White Cliffs of Dover, those brilliant mineral deposits along the southern coast of Britain, are eroding. And in the past 150 years they have beat a retreat nearly 10 times hastier than they did in the previous 7,000. The reason, researchers say, is a thinning of the beachfront separating the 90-million-year-old bluffs and the sea.
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