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Available online! PGO's 2020-2021 Annual Report and Audited Financial Statements
PGO
The past year will be remembered as “the year we worked from home” as Ontario remained locked down for the past 15 months due to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, among the barking dogs, screaming children and dinner bells in the background, all of us found a way to get things done. At PGO we haven’t missed a beat. While our staff has been working from home, the transition has been seamless, registrations continue to grow and the organization has taken on and moved forward on many initiatives. Geoscience remains both essential and relevant to society and Ontarians whether based in geology, geophysics, geomorphology or environmental practices.
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Final reminder! Complete the Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) Survey
PGO
Deadline: June 30, 2021
There is still time to complete the Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) survey. To assist PGO in better understanding diversity and inclusion issues, we need your help by completing the D&I survey which takes 10-15 minutes. The information collected will greatly help in developing D&I resources that align with the mandate of public protection. Please complete the survey by June 30, 2021.
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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.
Kevin Ansdell, P. Geo., FEC (Hon.), FGC takes office as President of Geoscientists Canada for 2021-2022
Geoscientists Canada
On June 4, 2021, at the 69th Meeting of the Board of Directors of Geoscientists Canada, held virtually, Dr. Kevin Ansdell, P.Geo., FEC (Hon.), FGC, took office as President for the 2021-2022 year, after serving a year as President Elect. Dr. Ansdell resides in Saskatoon, SK, and is a Professor with the Department of Geological Sciences, University of Saskatchewan.
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SGS provides quality fit-for-purpose geochemistry solutions across the project life cycle in the mining industry. Our network of commercial laboratories, sample preparation facilities and mine-site and mobile labs link to create a network across North America which is backed by an unparalleled global network.
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2020 Expert Assessment of Carbon Pricing Systems Report
Prepared by Canadian Institute for Climate Choices (CCIC)
The Canadian Institute for Climate Choices (CICC) was contracted by Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) in fall 2020 to conduct an independent assessment of federal, provincial, and territorial (FPT) carbon pricing systems within Canada. The assessment’s mandate flows directly from a commitment in the Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change. Access the report here.
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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.
Federal government needs to protect critical minerals industry as China tightens grasp, report says
National Post
The federal government is due for a “wake-up call” on the need to protect Canada’s critical minerals industry, as China tightens its grip on supplies of rare earths and other crucial materials, a new Parliamentary report says.
The minerals, which include magnesium, lithium and cobalt, are used to make electric car batteries, mobile phone components, solar panels and guided missiles.
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Earn your MSc in Mineral Exploration – Geology in 1-2 years at Laurentian University’s Harquail School of Earth Sciences to upgrade your credentials and your career.
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Training will prepare workers for construction and mining jobs in Greenstone
Wawa-news.com
The Ontario government is investing $3.6 million to help 150 Indigenous people receive training to start careers building and running the new Greenstone Gold Mine in Geraldton. They will learn the skills they need to become construction craft workers, heavy equipment operators, truck drivers, crane operators, welders and millwrights.
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Mayors of Ingersoll, Zorra Township move to deny support for proposed Walker landfill
CBC News
The heads of four municipalities plan to each bring motions at their July council meetings announcing they will not be supporting a proposal by Walker Environmental to build a massive landfill in a limestone quarry in Zorra Township, close to Ingersoll. Ingersoll Mayor Ted Comiskey said he will bring a motion to an upcoming meeting of Ingersoll town council that will "make our position perfectly clear to Walker Environmental" that the town will not be supporting the landfill, which the company wants to locate on 37th Line (Oxford County Road 6) only a few kilometres from downtown.
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What happened to... acid rain
Global News
In the 1980s, the threat of acid rain in Canada and the U.S. had become a brewing environmental crisis.
In areas of Southern Ontario, lakes that once were teeming with wildlife were on the verge of becoming dead lakes, void of fish and other aquatic species. Acid rain occurs when sulphur dioxide and other pollutants mix with moisture in the air to form rain droplets with a high level of acidity.
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Water treatment internship empowers Indigenous youth and their communities
National Post
An Anishinaabe Tribal Council is tackling the clean water crisis among its member First Nations by addressing a human resource problem.
“One of our biggest concerns is there’s a lack of certified operators in our communities to operate the water treatment plants. Some of them are getting older and we don’t have the succession line to take their place,” says Adam Peacock, tech services officer for the Bimose Tribal Council of nine communities in northwestern Ontario.
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Warming stripes show over 100 years of climate change at a glance
The Weather Network
Ed Hawkins from the University of Reading knows there are many sources of complex information that provide detailed evidence of climate change. His warming stripes, according to the #ShowYourStripes website, have a different objective: “These graphics are specifically designed to be as simple as possible, and to start conversations about our warming world.”
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The Earth has a pulse — a 27.5-million-year cycle of geological activity
New York University
Geologic activity on Earth appears to follow a 27.5-million-year cycle, giving the planet a “pulse,” according to a new study published in the journal Geoscience Frontiers. “Many geologists believe that geological events are random over time. But our study provides statistical evidence for a common cycle, suggesting that these geologic events are correlated and not random,” said Michael Rampino, a geologist and professor in New York University’s Department of Biology, as well as the study’s lead author.
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Analyzing volcanoes to predict their awakening
Université de Genève
What causes an eruption? Why do some volcanoes erupt regularly, while others remain dormant for thousands of years? A team of geologists and geophysicists, led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland, has reviewed the literature on the internal and external mechanisms that lead to a volcanic eruption. Analyzing the thermo-mechanics of deep volcanic processes and magma propagation to the surface, together with magma chemistry, the geologists determined that most of the magma rising from depth actually does not cause a volcanic eruption.
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Massive icebergs once made epic trek all the way from Canada to Florida
ScienceAlert
Deep below the ocean's waves, ancient tracks left by a long-hidden migration are etched into the submerged landscape of the seafloor.
These mysterious imprints were not made by deep-sea creatures moving from one place to the next, but rather by a flotilla of ancient icebergs drifting aimlessly for thousands of miles across the ocean.
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