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Top AIPG eNews Articles of 2019
As 2019 comes to a close, AIPG would like to wish its members, partners and other industry professionals a safe and happy holiday season. As we reflect on the past year for the industry, we would like to provide a look back at the most accessed articles from the year. Look for more of the top articles from 2019 in the Dec. 31 issue. Our regular publication will resume Tuesday, Jan. 7.
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Live Science
From July 9: On July Fourth, the most powerful earthquake to hit Southern California in nearly 20 years struck a remote part of the Mojave Desert. A day later, an even larger temblor rocked the same area.
Though earthquakes beget earthquakes, there's generally thought to be just a 5% chance that one quake will be followed by an even more powerful one, according to geoscientists. But that wasn't the only unusual feature of this earthquake duo in SoCal.
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The New Yorker
From April 2: A young paleontologist may have discovered a record of the most significant event in the history of life on Earth.
The site may hold a precise geological transcript of the asteroid strike that almost wiped out life on the planet 66 million years ago.
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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
From Aug. 27: New research from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) published Aug. 19, in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science provides evidence of the formation and abundance of abiotic methane on Earth and shows how the gases could have a similar origin on other planets and moons, even those no longer home to liquid water. Researchers had long noticed methane released from deep-sea vents. But while the gas is plentiful in the atmosphere where it's produced by living things, the source of methane at the seafloor was a mystery.
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Phys.org
From March 19: When UC Santa Barbara geology professor emeritus James Kennett and colleagues set out years ago to examine signs of a major cosmic impact that occurred toward the end of the Pleistocene epoch, little did they know just how far-reaching the projected climatic effect would be. The Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis postulates that a fragmented comet slammed into the Earth close to 12,800 years ago, causing rapid climatic changes, megafaunal extinctions, sudden human population decrease and cultural shifts and widespread wildfires (biomass burning).
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Sci-News
From Nov. 12: Microfossils provide information about the antiquity of life on Earth and the nature of the early biosphere, however some mystery still surrounds how they were preserved.
It generally thought that many of the oldest microfossils formed when silica grew on their cell walls encasing the micro-organism. But a previously unrecognized mode of fossilization of ancient microbes may explain how some of Earth's oldest microfossils formed, according to new research.
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| Jan. 29-30, 2020
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6th Annual Well Site Automation 2020 |
Houston |
| Feb. 8, 2020
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AIPG Arizona Section Event — Tucson, Gem, Mineral & Fossil Showcase |
Tucson, Arizona |
| Feb. 25-26, 2020
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7th Annual Cost-Effective Artificial Lift Strategies Permian Basin 2020 |
Houston |
| Feb. 27, 2020
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Beyond the Theoretical: What's Working for PFAS Management? |
Middleton, Wisconsin |
| March 20-22, 2020
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GSA Southeastern and Northeastern Sections Annual Meeting — Geoscience Careers for New Geoscience Graduates |
Reston, Virginia |
| April 6-10, 2020
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AAG Annual Meeting |
Denver |
| April 7-8, 2020
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AIPG Georgia Section 9th Innovative Environmental Assessment and Remediation Technology |
Contact Ron Wallace |
| April 20-24, 2020
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The 16th Sinkhole Conference |
San Juan, Puerto Rico |
| April 30, 2020
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The 2020 Western South Dakota Hydrology Conferencee |
Rapid City, South Dakota |
| May 12-24, 2020
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Geological Society of Nevada 2020 Symposium |
Contact Eric Struhsacker |
| Oct. 3-6, 2020
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2020 AIPG National Annual Conference |
Sacramento, California |
Phys.org
From Oct. 1: For many decades, scientists have hypothesized that there are areas deep in the Earth's interior that contain material untouched since the planet was formed.
These domains of primordial material are leftovers from the ancient event that saw the separation of our planet's core from the silicate component which makes up most of the Earth's crust and mantle.
Now, new University of Melbourne research is shedding some light on this puzzle using kimberlites — an igneous rock.
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AIPG
From Oct. 29: Our latest factsheet is the first in a series on professional licensure of geologists. Less than 11% of geoscience graduates receiving a BA/BS or MA/MS degree develop a career in academia and/or research. Research by the American Institute of Professional Geologists, National Association of State Boards of Geology and AGI indicate that geologists are predominantly securing employment in three broad sectors: environmental remediation and management, natural resource discovery and utilization, and engineering and construction. In this factsheet, we examine the types of work geoscience professionals perform in these industry sectors.
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ZME Science
From May 14: Researchers have long puzzled over a plain, featureless area off the coast of Portugal. The seemingly-boring area stood out in 1969 when it triggered a massive earthquake that generated a tsunami. This was highly unusual — earthquakes don't just happen in random areas. Most often, they take place in tectonically active areas, at the edges of tectonic plates. The correlation is so good that if you look at a global map of large earthquakes, it looks like a map of tectonic plates. So why then did a 7.9 earthquake shake the coast of Portugal? A marine geologist from the Instituto Dom Luiz at the University of Lisbon, believes he has the answer.
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Science News for Students
From March 12: On Jan. 21, something smacked into the moon, creating a flash of light. Things hit the moon all the time. But this time one thing was different. Thousands of people were watching. The impact took place during a total lunar eclipse. And there are pictures to prove it.
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Geophysical Research Letters
From Aug 6: The processes that accompany the death of an oceanic plate, as a ridge nears a trench, remain enigmatic. How the plate might reorganize, fragment, and eventually be captured by one of the bounding plates are among the unresolved details. We present a tomographic model of the Pacific Northwest from onshore and offshore seismic data that reveals a hole in the subducted Juan de Fuca plate.
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