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.AIPG NATIONAL NEWS
Foundation of the American Institute of Professional Geologists
AIPG
Giving Tuesday is a global day of giving where everyone, everywhere can do something to support the good causes that mean so much to them. Giving Tuesday, celebrated on the Tuesday following Thanksgiving, Black Friday, and Cyber Monday, is a reminder of the charitable season when many of us focus on the holidays and end-of-year giving. This year, Giving Tuesday is November 30, 2021.
As part of Giving Tuesday, I ask you to consider sending monetary donations to the Foundation of the American Institute of Professional Geologists. Every donation helps the Foundation to contribute toward building the future of geology. The Foundation supports a variety of programs of the AIPG that includes student scholarships, student and young professional workshops, educational programs aimed at practitioners, the public, and policy makers, and some special needs requested by AIPG or other professional organizations. The Foundation is proud to be able to serve AIPG and the geosciences by providing financial support for these programs. Information about donations is on the Foundation web page of the AIPG web site http://aipg.org/foundation. You may donate on-line or send your donation check by mail to:
Foundation of the AIPG
1333 W. 120th Avenue, Suite 211
Westminster, CO 80234-2710
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Call for Abstracts - 11th AIPG Michigan Section Technical Workshop
AIPG
Call for Abstracts
The American Institute of Professional Geologists (AIPG) Michigan Section is calling for abstracts for the 2022 Environmental Risk Management Workshop to be held June 14-15, 2022, at the Ralph A. MacMullen Conference Center in Roscommon, Michigan.
The Michigan Section is looking forward to hosting this event in person in 2022! We provide high quality technical training that focuses on practical application and case studies for environmental professionals. We bring together a broad base of topic expertise and perspectives from the consulting, regulatory, academic, and industry sectors. This unique workshop forum promotes collaboration and partnership to solve complex environmental problems in a peer-to-peer learning format.
Click here for more details.
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AIPG Membership Renewal Notice - Due January 1, 2022
AIPG
2022 President's Message and AIPG Dues Renewal Information
To pay your dues go to aipg.org, Sign In, and click on Renew Now at top of page by credit card (MasterCard, VISA, American Express, Discover) or PayPal.
We’ve made yet another full trip around the Sun since our past President, Nancy Wolverson, reminded everyone to pay their annual dues. This year, that task falls on my shoulders. Please pay your annual dues in a timely fashion and commit to the AIPG mission. Geologists become members of AIPG for a whole host of reasons, and those reasons can change over time much as your maturing career changes over time.
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TPG October/November/December Issue available online
AIPG
FEATURES
Understanding of Aquifer Systematics Can Aid Water Planning and Policy, W. Peter Balleau, CPG-2716
Implementing Stealth Education in the Geosciences – Part 3, James F. Howard, Ph.D., CPG-2536
Underground Natural Gas Storage and the Future of Carbon Sequestration, James L. Gooding, MEM-3070
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.OTHER INDUSTRY NEWS
Dec. 2 — Groundwater Modeling for Non-Modelers
AIPG
December 2, 2021, 12 - 1 PM EST
Groundwater models are often useful tools in the environmental and hydrogeology fields. Groundwater modeling is a specialized skill, and this webinar will provide the basics of groundwater modeling for non-modelers to better understand what a "groundwater model" means, when (and when not!) to use a groundwater model, data needed to build a groundwater model, what important questions to ask when reviewing a groundwater model, and how groundwater models can be responsibly applied to problems of environmental compliance. This webinar was developed in collaboration with Barr Engineering Co. and the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy to provide a look into groundwater modeling from both the consulting and regulatory perspectives.
Presenters:
Katy Lindstrom, Barr Engineering and Chris Christensen, EGLE Remediation and Redevelopment Division
Katy Lindstrom is a senior environmental engineer at Barr Engineering Co. and has over 13 years of experience in environmental consulting. She obtained her master's degree in Hydrologic Science and Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines and uses her background in hydrogeology and groundwater modeling to help clients assess and remediate contaminated sites, achieve environmental compliance, and address groundwater management issues.
Chris Christensen is an Environmental Hydrogeologist with the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy, Remediation and Redevelopment Division, in Grand Rapids since 1992. Chris works on both Leaking Underground Storage Tank sites as well as chlorinated solvent and surficial soil contamination sites. He is on Technical Teams related to Incremental Sampling, Non Aqueous Phase Liquids, Risk-based Corrective Action and Groundwater Modeling. Chris has a BS in Geology from Michigan State University and a MS in Hydrogeology from Western Michigan University.
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11th International Symposium on Managed Aquifer Recharge
AIPG
ISMAR11 includes a full day of pre-conference workshops, three days of technical sessions, plenary sessions, awards luncheon, field trips and great networking, socializing, and entertainment opportunities.
Stay connected by signing up for the ISMAR11 mailing list for the latest information on abstracts, registration information, etc.
Conference website - https://www.ismar11.net/#about
Call For Abstracts
We want to hear from you! Managed Aquifer Recharge covers such a wide variety of activities that it is impossible to capture all the potential topics in a call for abstracts. What we have listed in the link below is a general guide to how topics may be organized at the conference. Don’t feel constrained by this list, just submit your abstract!
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.AIPG SECTION NEWS
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- 5.3-ounce, 100% preshrunk, open-ended carded cotton (except gray shirts which are 99% cotton and 1% other fibers)
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*Price includes shipping.
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Tall Cafe Mug
This tall 16 oz. cobalt blue cafe mug has a glossy finished exterior with an easy to hold handle. It is safe in the microwave and features the AIPG logo in microwavable metallic gold.
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Baseball Cap
AIPG's baseball cap has a velcro enclosure and embroidered lettering.
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.INDUSTRY NEWS
The oldest mineralized sponges in the world found in Ciudad Real
Phys.org
An international and multidisciplinary piece of research involving the participation of Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) concludes with the discovery of the mineralised fossil remains of the oldest sponges in the world — 530 million years old—in phosphate deposits in Fontanarejo (Ciudad Real).
These deposits were described for the first time some 50 years ago, but had not been studied in detail until now.
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Stalagmites as key witnesses of the monsoon
EurekAlert!
The ice sheets of Greenland are melting at an alarming rate. This causes large amounts of freshwater to flow into the North Atlantic, thereby slowing the Gulf Stream. Researchers fear that this will have noticeable effects on the climate worldwide. Densely populated tropical areas that depend on monsoon rains for their freshwater supply are particularly at risk. In order to make reliable predictions for future climate change, climate researchers are looking far back into the past.
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Seismic shockwave pattern may be redirecting earthquake damage
Phys.org
New research from The University of Texas at Austin could change the way scientists think about potential damage from earthquakes.
The study examined data from one of the densest seismic arrays ever deployed and found that earthquakes emit their strongest seismic shockwaves in four opposing directions. The effect, which leaves a pattern resembling a four-leaf clover, has been known for decades but never measured in such vivid detail.
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Antarctic ice-sheet destabilized within a decade
EurekAlert!
After the natural warming that followed the last Ice Age, there were repeated periods when masses of icebergs broke off from Antarctica into the Southern Ocean. A new data-model study led by the University of Bonn (Germany) now shows that it took only a decade to initiate this tipping point in the climate system, and that ice mass loss then continued for many centuries.
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'Volcanic winter' likely contributed to ecological catastrophe 250 million years ago
Science Daily
A team of scientists has identified an additional force that likely contributed to a mass extinction event 250 million years ago. Its analysis of minerals in southern China indicate that volcano eruptions produced a "volcanic winter" that drastically lowered earth's temperatures — a change that added to the environmental effects resulting from other phenomena at the time.
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