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.AIPG NATIONAL NEWS
Environmental Careers for Geologists Webinar
AIPG
One-hour webinar on Environmental Career Opportunities for Geologists, presented by Ron Wallace, CPG.
- Different Services Consultants Offer
- Types of Work for New Employees
- Other Companies that Offer Services to Consultants that Hire Geologists
- Geotechnical Services
- State and Federal Programs
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Geoscience Online Learning Initiative (GOLI) webinar course: Introduction to Forensic Geology/Petrography — Dec. 9
American Geoscisnces Instititue
The American Institute of Professional Geologists and the American Geosciences Institute are pleased to offer the next Geoscience Online Learning Initiative (GOLI) webinar course, Introduction to Forensic Geology/Petrography with Chris Braaten, PG, CPG on December 9, 2020 from 1:00PM to 2:00PM EST.
Thanks to sponsorship by JEOL, all webinar attendees will receive 0.1 CEUs at no cost from the American Institute of Professional Geologists.
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Undergraduate Scholarships — February 1
AIPG
Scholarship awards in the amount of $1,000.00 - $3,000 each will be made to eligible students attending a college or university in the U.S. Scholarships are intended to be used to support tuition and/or room and board.
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Graduate Scholarship — February 1
AIPG
Scholarship award is in the amount of $1,000.00 to an eligible graduate student attending a college or university in the U.S. Scholarships are intended to be used to support tuition, room and board, and/or research.
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2021 AIPG membership renewal now available
AIPG
Log in to your membership record and select renew now. Annual membership dues are due and payable January 1, 2021, in accordance with Article 8, Section 8.2.1, of the Bylaws.
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CEUs available — AGI/AIPG Geoscience Online Learning Initiative (GOLI)
AIPG and American Geosciences Institute
GOLI on-demand online courses provide learners with the flexibility to self-pace their progress, since on-demand courses do not have a set schedule like traditional academic semester-based courses. Brought to you via the OpenedX Learning Management System (LMS), learners are able to browse course descriptions, enroll in specific courses, access content, and complete any course completely free of charge. All learners who complete online courses offered through the GOLI platform with a passing grade of 70% or higher are eligible to purchase Continuing Education Units (CEUs) for a nominal charge.
Sample courses:Click here for a full course listing.
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.AIPG SECTION NEWS
AIPG Section Newsletters
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.OTHER INDUSTRY NEWS
Can mining make the world a greener place?
AIPG
This is the question asked by the Horizon 2020 research projects PACIFIC and INFACT which co-organise an event hosted by the Natural History Museum of London on December 3 and 4.
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SME Annual Conference & Expo and CMA 123rd National Western Mining Conference — March 1-5, 2021
SME Annual Conference
While we would prefer to hold our flagship meeting in person, it is far more important to uphold the exchange of information found in our technical program. Be inspired and support important industry causes through your participation.Mining’s most anticipated technical conference will bring fresh perspectives from around the world on a range of hot topics including COVID-19 recovery, critical minerals, water issues and tailings management – connect directly from your home, office or job site.
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Geological Society of Nevada Symposium, with Pre- and Post-Meeting Field Trips and Short Courses — May 17-20, 2021
AIPG
The Geological Society of Nevada will host its eighth symposium May 17-20, 2021, in the scenic Reno/Lake Tahoe region of northern Nevada. Symposia are held every five years and draw an international audience from the minerals industry, government and universities. GSN symposia are the preeminent regional venue combining geology and exploration in the U.S. The 2021 theme, Vision for Discovery, emphasizes the goal of science to explore and make new discoveries in the Basin and Range province.
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.FROM THE AIPG ONLINE STORE
AIPG face masks available
AIPG
- This non-medical facemask is made from 100% 4-ply cotton.
- Binding and ear loops are made from a 95/5 cotton/spandex blend.
- Mask has not been FDA cleared or approved.
- These cloth face masks are washable and reusable.
- Size: One size fits most; 5" x 7".
AIPG Member Price: $10 includes shipping.
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T-Shirt with Screen Print — Geologists are Gneiss, Tuff and a Little Wacke
AIPG
- Heavy Cotton Tee
- Choice of colors: white, ash gray, and black
- 5.3-ounce, 100% preshrunk, open-ended carded cotton (except gray shirts which are 99% cotton and 1% other fibers)
- Classic loose fit for all-day comfort
- Shoulder-to-shoulder tape and seamless collar
- Double-needle neck sleeve and bottom hem
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Ladies Silk Touch Polo
AIPG
This NEW Port Authority® Ladies Silk Touch™ Performance Polo wicks moisture, resists snags and thanks to PosiCharge™ technology, holds onto its color for a professional look that lasts. There’s just no higher performing polo at this price!
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.INDUSTRY NEWS
Piecing together the Alaska coastline's fractured volcanic activity
University of Massachusetts Amherst via ScienceDaily
Among seismologists, the geology of Alaska's earthquake- and volcano-rich coast from the Aleutian Islands to the southeast is fascinating, but not well understood. Now, with more sophisticated tools than before, a team reports unexpected new details about the area's tectonic plates and their relationships to volcanoes.
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Structure and mineralogy of hydrophilic and biwettable sub-2 μm clay aggregates in oil sands bitumen froth
Minerals
A primary concern of commercial mined oil sands operations is the extent to which one can minimize the content of water and solids contaminants in the solvent-diluted bitumen products resulting from the bitumen production processes. During bitumen production, particles of about 2 µm or less may be responsible for the stabilization of water-in-bitumen emulsions that form during aqueous extraction of bitumen and purification of bitumen froth subsequently during the froth treatment processes, thus leading to the presence of those contaminants in solvent-diluted bitumen products. In this study, we separate and analyze sub-2 µm clay solids isolated from typical bitumen froth fed to a froth treatment plant at a commercial mined oil sands operation.
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Volcanic eruptions igniting coal and oil in siberia helped usher the Permian-Triassic mass extinction event or the 'Great Dying'
Nature World News
Paleontologists termed the event like the Great Dying or Permian-Triassic mass extinction. This occurred approximately 252 million years in the past, where in the span of tens of millennia, 96% of every marine life and around 70% of all terrestrial life disappeared. The area of what is currently called Siberia had ancient volcanoes disgorge massive amounts of lava and magma for approximately a million years, covering land equal from one-third up to one-half of the entire surface the U.S. Two recently published papers from different research teams discussed the causative factors of the Great Dying. They reported that volcanism itself was not the sole cause of the extinction event.
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New trilobite fossil reveals cephalic specialization of trilobites in Middle Cambrian
Phys.org
Trilobites achieved their maximum genetic diversity in the Cambrian. However, unlike this diversity measure, the morphological disparity of trilobites based on cranidial outline reached the peak in the Middle to Late Ordovician. Early to middle Cambrian trilobites with a specialized cephalon are rare, especially among the ptychoparioids. Even with a few exceptions, ptychoparioids exhibit a monotonous pattern of head specialization, characterized by additional cephalic border spines.
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New tool predicts the flow of groundwater in abandoned coal mines
Mining.com
A new tool that uses satellite radar imagery to capture millimetre-scale measurements of changes in terrain height may help authorities manage public safety and environmental issues in recently abandoned coal mines. The tool has been developed by researchers at the University of Nottingham and its measurements can be used to monitor and forecast groundwater levels and changes in geological conditions deep below the Earth’s surface in former mining areas.
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