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As 2015 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 the readers of AIPG eNews a look at the most accessed articles from the year. Our regular publication will resume Tuesday, Jan. 5.
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Phys.org
From Aug. 18: When an explosion beneath the sand at Salty Brine State Beach in Narragansett, Rhode Island, injured a visiting vacationer, state and local police and the bomb squad found no evidence of what may have caused the blast. So state officials turned to scientists at the University of Rhode Island's Graduate School of Oceanography for answers. It didn't take long before they had solved the mystery.
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Forbes
From Aug. 25: As with any good science fiction, part of our fascination with Star Trek comes from the combination of real science and fantastic possibilities. When you think of science in the show, disciplines like spaceship engineering, astronomy, physics and biology probably spring to mind first. However, the show actually features a lot of geology.
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The Daily Galaxy
From July 21: The new image of an area on Pluto's largest moon Charon has a captivating feature: a depression with a peak in the middle, shown here in the upper left corner of the inset, covering an area approximately 240 miles (390 kilometers) from top to bottom, including few visible craters. "The most intriguing feature is a large mountain sitting in a moat," said Jeff Moore with NASA's Ames Research Center, in Moffett Field, California. "This is a feature that has geologists stunned and stumped."
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Live Science
From Sept. 1: Geologists hauling hundreds of pounds of 250-million-year-old rocks from Siberia, through Russian and American customs, say luck was on their side. Not only did they successfully transport the huge haul, but they also may have confirmed the cause of Earth's worst mass extinction.
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Laboratory Equipment
From Feb. 24: Research by New York University Biology Professor Michael Rampino concludes that Earth's infrequent but predictable path around and through our galaxy's disc may have a direct and significant effect on geological and biological phenomena occurring on Earth. In a new paper in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, he states that movement through dark matter may perturb the orbits of comets and lead to additional heating in the Earth's core, both of which could be connected with mass extinction events.
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National Geographic
From July 21: New images from the New Horizons spacecraft's close encounter with Pluto this week show the dwarf planet emerging in wonderfully perplexing detail. One new image shows a curiously young terrain marked by smooth, icy plains that's north of a spiky mountain range. Another piece of data shows an unexplained clump of carbon monoxide ice clustered over the left ventricle of the smooth, heart-shaped patch on Pluto's face. "This landscape is just astoundingly amazing," Jeff Moore of NASA's Ames Research Center said.
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The Washington Post
From Nov. 10: An enormous shelf cloud shocked onlookers as it rolled off the Pacific ocean toward Sydney's Bondi Beach on the afternoon of Nov. 6. Photographs and videos show a tall and menacing cloud wall that steadily encroached on the coastline. The Australian Bureau of Meteorology issued a severe thunderstorm warning as it blew ashore mid-afternoon, cautioning large hail, heavy rain and damaging winds were possible.
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Mining.com
From Nov. 3: Simply put, you just have to be out of the office, in the field and drilling holes if you want to be making discoveries according to legendary explorer and geologist, Dave Lowell. This past century's most successful mining explorer, Lowell — who has discovered an unprecedented seventeen ore bodies including, the world's largest copper mine — distilled his years of wisdom into nine rules on making discoveries.
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Cosmos
From Sept. 1: The middle layer of our planet is a mystery. It makes up 84 percent of the Earth's volume, but we've little idea what's in there, how much heat it produces or how it affects the plate tectonics our planet depends on. That's about to change thanks to a technique that measures ghostly anti-particles slipping out of their radioactive graves in the mantle below.
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NASA via Science Daily
From July 28: NASA's Kepler mission has confirmed the first near-Earth-size planet in the "habitable zone" around a sun-like star. This discovery and the introduction of 11 other new small habitable zone candidate planets mark another milestone in the journey to finding another "Earth."
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| 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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