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New Historian
A lost island, home to the ancient Greek city of Kane, has been found, and a longstanding mystery solved. The newly discovered island located in the Aegean province of Izmir's Dikili district in Turkey is one of three islands ancient texts refer to as the Arginus islands. The other two islands still exist and are referred to jointly as the Garip Islands. Although located in the same area, until this discovery experts were uncertain the Garip Islands were in fact part of the Arginus Islands, because of the missing third island.
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USA Today
A portion of the central Pacific Ocean registered its warmest water on record for a single week, a further signal that weather troublemaker El Niño is approaching record territory.
Sea water in the region soared over the past week to a temperature of about 85.5 degrees, more than 5 degrees above average, according to meteorologist Jan Null of Golden Gate Weather Services.
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Science News for Students
Microscopic vampires may have prowled ancient seas some 750 million years ago. Scientists have found the fossilized remains of their punctured victims. Those fossils may be the oldest direct evidence of predators hunting eukaryotes. This domain of complex life includes both plants and animals. The monstrous microbes probably didn't look like tiny Count Draculas. But, "they're just as terrifying, at least if you're a single-celled organism," said Susannah Porter, a paleontologist at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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AIPG
The 2016 membership dues are available to pay online. Annual membership dues are due and payable Jan. 1 in accordance with the bylaws. You are encouraged to login to the AIPG Member portion of the website to pay your dues for 2016. Paying online helps save on printing and postage costs. Call if you have any questions 303-412-6205. Click on MEMBER LOGIN to pay dues, make a donation and purchase insignia items. Your login is your email and the system has you setup your password if you haven't already. You must login to pay dues, search the directory or make changes to your record.
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AIPG
The AIPG Texas Section Newsletter — November 2015
The AIPG Colorado Section Newsletter — Fall 2015
The AIPG Georgia Section Newsletter — November 2015The AIPG Michigan Section Newsletter — October 2015
The AIPG Ohio Section Newsletter — October 2015
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Nominations for awards, accompanied by a supporting statement should be sent via mail (to AIPG, 12000 Washington Street, Thornton, Colorado 80241-3134), fax (303-253-9220), or email by Jan. 15 to the AIPG National Headquarters. National awards include the Ben H. Parker Memorial Medal, the Martin Van Couvering Memorial Award, the John T. Galey, Sr. Memorial Public Service Award, Honorary Membership, and the Outstanding Achievement Award. (Click on award to go to the awards description.) Click here for AIPG National Awards Nomination Form in pdf.
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AIPG Student Scholarship applications for undergraduate and graduate are due Feb. 15.
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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.
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AIPG
The AIPG quarterly journal, The Professional Geologist, Oct./Nov./Dec. 2015 — new digital version or pdf — includes AIPG Annual Meeting Photos; AGI/AIPG Summer Interns become "Policy Wonks"; Low-Energy Alternatives for Removing Contaminant; Plumes in Groundwater; General Stratigraphy of the Usibelli Coal Mine, Healy, Alaska; The Central Alaska-Nenana Coal Province; Connections and Networking in Unusual Places: Awareness of Sewer Air and Vapor intrusion; A Unique Metal with a History in Colorado; plus much more! All back issues of TPG are available online.
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AIPG
The American Institute of Professional Geologists is accepting applications for the position of Executive Director. The position is to be filled as soon as a qualified candidate is vetted. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled.
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AIPG
Introduction to Well Log Analysis for New Hires (earn up to 1 CEU)
An Introduction to Landslides or Mass Wasting (earn up to 3.5 CEUs)
Basic Reservoir Engineering for Geoscientists (earn up to 5 CEUs)
Basics of Seismic Petroleum Exploration for New Hires (earn up to 1.0 CEU)
Critical and Strategic Minerals: Concepts and Status (earn 0.1 CEUs)
Geotechnical Properties & Engineering Problems-TX Clay Shale (earn up to 0.6 CEUs)
Global Energy Resources: Current Trends and Short Term Predictions (earn 0.1 CEUs)
Practical Petroleum Geoscience (earn up to 8 CEUs)
The Geology of Texas-The Basal Cretaceous (earn 1 CEU)
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AGWT — Colorado Groundwater Issues |
Denver |
| Dec. 9 |
AIPG New England Aquifers: Elusive and Complex Conference |
Marlborough, Massachusetts |
| Dec. 16 |
AIPG New England Aquifers: Elusive and Complex Conference |
Glastonbury, Connecticut |
| March 21-24, 2016 |
118th National Western Mining Conference & Expo |
Denver |
| April 5-6, 2016 |
AIPG Water Resources Unplugged Conference |
Orlando, Florida |
| June 14-15, 2016 |
6th Annual AIPG Michigan Section Technical Workshop — Environmental Risk Management: Why, When, Where and How |
Roscommon County, Michigan |
| Sept. 10-13, 2016 |
AIPG 2016 National Conference |
Santa Fe, New Mexico |
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This fleece scarf provides comfort against the cold breeze. Made of anti-pill polyester, this scarf features a matching whipstitch with an embroidered AIPG logo. It is 60 inches long and 9 inches wide.
World Oil
Paradigm has released Paradigm Geolog 7.4, the latest version of its industry-leading Geolog formation evaluation software suite.
Geolog 7.4 offers a rich set of new engineering functionalities that expand the product's reach into additional phases of the production cycle. This release also extends third-party connectivity, including support for Petrel 2015, enabling users to bring the power of Geolog into workflows based in other products.
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Astronomy Now
The Curiosity rover's next destination is a moving mound of wind-blown dark sand blanketing the base of Mount Sharp, the focal point of the Mars mission's research, scientists said.
It will take a few days to reach the dunes, and rover drivers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory must be careful to avoid guiding Curiosity too far into the dune field and getting stuck.
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Clovis News Journal via Albuquerque Journal
A group of geologists from New Mexico Tech University may be mapping the Clovis-Roosevelt basin — part of the Ogallala Aquifer — to see how much water is left through digital mapping, how it recharges and how long it could last if no one changes how they use water, according to Clovis Commissioner Randy Crowder.
The group met with city and county officials from both Curry and Roosevelt counties to discuss how the project would work and how much it may cost, he said.
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Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Despite a flurry of advances in modern science, scientists are still grappling with understanding many of the key functions of basic proteins relevant to human and environmental health. To help decipher some of these processes, a team led by Amro Hamdoun at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, is using the embryos of spiny marine creatures known as sea urchins to help uncover some of these mysteries, especially as they play out during the early life stages of development.
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Phys.org
David Pollard spends his days with numbers. Lots and lots of numbers. Pollard researches how the Earth's ice sheets have changed and evolved, using data on ice extents — the amount of land and ocean that's covered by ice — and sea levels to predict how they'll continue to change in the future.
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KHTS-AM
A slow-moving landslide has destroyed part of the road along Vasquez Canyon Road, in Los Angeles County, California, sending sections of the pavement as high as fifteen feet in the air, closing the road indefinitely. The landslide was still moving as of Nov. 20 and is continuing to push sections of the road higher. Geologists are currently unable to take samples and examine the hill for the cause of the movement, as the land is private property and the owner has not been notified of the landslide.
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KSAZ-TV
Located about 14 miles north of Flagstaff, Arizona, in the Coconino Forest is the Lava River Cave. Visitors come to explore the nearly mile-long cave that was formed more than 700,000 years ago. There is no other place like it in Arizona, so we decided to explore.
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