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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
Earth Science Week 2021 Contest Winners Announced
APMP's Winning the Business
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — The American Geosciences Institute (AGI) congratulates the winners and finalists of this year's Earth Science Week art, photo, essay, and video contests, whose creative submissions addressed the Earth Science Week 2021 theme of "Water Today and for the Future." Organized by AGI, Earth Science Week is an annual celebration and public awareness campaign reaching millions of people worldwide each year with information about geoscience.
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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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.AIPG ONLINE STORE
T-shirt Earth is Our Coloring Book
- Heavy Cotton Tee
- Choice of colors: white and ash gray
- 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
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*Price includes shipping.
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Baseball Cap
AIPG's baseball cap has a velcro enclosure and embroidered lettering.
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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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.INDUSTRY NEWS
Tectonic shift in Southern Ocean caused dramatic ancient cooling event
EurekAlert!
New research has shed light on a sudden cooling event 34 million years ago, which contributed to formation of the Antarctic ice sheets.
High-resolution simulations of ocean circulations show that the tectonic opening of Southern Ocean seaways caused a fundamental reorganisation of ocean currents, heat transport and initiated a strong Antarctic surface water cooling of up to 5°C.
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China's Mars rover has amassed reams of novel geological data
Nature
More than 30 scientists across mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau are rushing to process data collected by China's Mars rover, Zhurong, and by the nation's Tianwen-1 spacecraft, which is in orbit around the planet. Several studies have trickled out, but researchers say that more are coming in the next weeks and months, offering insights on the climate, geology and history of Mars's northern hemisphere.
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As new vents open in La Palma, experts say volcanic eruption could be longest in 500 years
El Pais
For residents of the Spanish island of La Palma, Monday brought little hope that the volcano in Cumbre Vieja natural park will go quiet any time soon.
The volcanic eruption in this corner of the Canary Islands, located off the northwestern coast of Africa, entered its 72nd day with no signs of letting up. In fact, experts now believe it has a good chance of becoming La Palma’s longest eruption in 500 years.
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Earth's ancient mountains rose up with help from the ocean's tiniest organisms
ScienceAlert
Without an explosion in ocean life more than 2 billion years ago, many of Earth's mountains might never have formed, according to new research.
When tiny organisms in the shallows of the sea, like plankton, die and sink to the bottom, they can add organic carbon to Earth's crust, making it weaker and more pliable.
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Recycling of tectonic plates a key driver of Earth's oxygen budget
Phys.Org
A new study co-led by a Cornell researcher has identified serpentinite—a green rock that looks a bit like snakeskin and holds fluids in its mineral structures—as a key driver of the oxygen recycling process, which helped create and maintain the sustaining atmosphere for life on Earth.
"This cycle is a really a big deal," said Esteban Gazel, associate professor of earth and atmospheric sciences in Cornell's College of Engineering, and co-lead author on the study.
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