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Available Online: PGO Diversity and Inclusion Survey Report
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PGO believes in the importance of diversity and inclusion for everyone who wants to participate and engage with each other in the geoscience field and with the organization. This survey aimed at understanding the rich mosaic of persons registered with PGO, volunteers sitting on Council or Committees, staff working for PGO, and the geoscience students studying in Ontario who are potential future PGO registrants.
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PGO Thanks David Leng and Bailey Walters
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PGO acknowledges David Leng, P.Geo. and Bailey Walters, P.Geo. for generously volunteering their time to provide the QP Short Course for Students — Your Professional Career and Public Reporting. Thank you both for giving your time and sharing your knowledge with our participants. Based on the feedback received, participating students and GITs found the online course, developed by Geoscientists Canada, very helpful and informative — providing a high level introduction to expanding topic of public reporting and the role of a Qualified Person. We also thank our attendees for their participation in this one-day course. For information on ongoing learning opportunities provided by PGO, please visit PGO’s Events page.
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.WHAT'S NEW
Disclaimer: The events and media articles featured in Field Notes do not express or reflect the opinions of Professional Geoscientists Ontario, or any employee thereof.
Climate Change and Water Security in Urbanized Watersheds summer school
Water Institute, University of Waterloo
May 30 to June 17, 2022
Hosted by the Water Institute and the Interdisciplinary Centre on Climate Change (IC3), the summer school is aimed at graduate students and practitioners who are passionate about learning more about applying interdisciplinary approaches to water security challenges in urbanizing watersheds under climate change.
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Reform to the Charter of the French Language
Fasken
An Act respecting French, the official and common language of Québec (Bill 96) has been adopted. In addition to carrying out a major reform of the Charter of the French Language, commonly known as Bill 101, this Act also amends the Constitution Act, 1867, the Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms and the Civil Code of Québec.
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.IN THE MEDIA
Disclaimer: The media articles featured in Field Notes do not express or reflect the opinions of Professional Geoscientists Ontario, or any employee thereof.
The significance of Ontario's Ring of Fire to Canada's climate goals
GeoscienceINFO
When you hear the term “Ring of Fire,” you might think of Johnny Cash’s famous song by that name. Or, if you remember grade school geography, you might think of the Pacific Ring of Fire — an area of high volcanic activity that surrounds the Pacific Ocean like a ring.
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Experts applaud $11 million move by feds toward critical minerals
CTV News
A new call for proposals by the federal government for critical minerals development has the support of many people in the industry.
It's called the Critical Minerals Research Development and Demonstration program (CMRDD) and it's looking to infuse another $11 million worth of funding.
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As your projects accelerate through the mining lifecycle, your software should too. With smart technology solutions that span from exploration to mine operation, Micromine is with you every step of the way. Discover their full portfolio of products at Micromine.com .
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Niagara Falls will eventually erode away but we'll never see it happen
inNiagaraRegion
Where Niagara Falls is located now is not where it started. Over 12,000 years ago, it’s estimated Niagara Falls was located where the Queenston-Lewiston Bridge is currently sitting. That’s 11.4 kilometres or 7.1 miles down the river where Niagara-on-the-Lake is now situated.
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Ecological impact of Mount Polley mine disaster confirmed by new study
CBC News
A newly published scientific study confirms the deep ecological impact of the Mount Polley mine disaster in B.C.'s Cariboo region nearly eight years ago.
The study, published recently in the academic journal Environmental Science and Pollution Research, shows small invertebrates taken from lake water affected by the tailings spill disaster had a higher concentration of copper and other metals than those taken from unaffected lake water.
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The Harquail School of Earth Sciences and the Mineral Exploration Research Centre (MERC) at Laurentian University offer amazing geoscience research & education opportunities.
Find fully-funded research projects, enhance your knowledge through intensive graduate Modular Courses, or earn your Applied MSc in Geology in only 1 year!
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Situation critical for Canadian minerals extraction
Business in Vancouver
In 2014, the Stephen Harper Conservative government rejected the New Prosperity mine project, said to be one of Canada’s largest undeveloped copper deposits.
Now, the Justin Trudeau government is so anxious to secure a domestic supply of critical minerals and metals, including copper, that it earmarked $3.8 billion in the recent federal budget to implement a new critical minerals strategy.
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Scientists 'see' puzzling features deep in Earth's interior
University of Cambridge
New research led by the University of Cambridge is the first to obtain a detailed "image" of an unusual pocket of rock at the boundary layer with Earth’s core, some three thousand kilometres beneath the surface.
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Immense crater hole created in Tonga volcano
BBC News
Researchers have just finished mapping the mouth of the underwater Tongan volcano that, on Jan. 15, produced Earth's biggest atmospheric explosion in over a century.
The caldera of Hunga-Tonga Hunga-Ha'apai is now four kilometres (2.5 miles) wide and drops to a base 850 metres below sea level.
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