This message was sent to ##Email## To advertise in this publication please click here October 1, 2020 .NEWS Check out PGO's career page PGO Check out the latest job postings on PGO’s career page. If your company is a PGO Certificate of Authorization holder, you can post your jobs on PGO’s career page for free. Please send an email to Bernard Kradjian at bkradjian@pgo.ca for details. .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. Great Lakes Local Action Fund Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks (MECP) The Ontario Government is investing $1.67 million in the first round of the Great Lakes Local Action Fund to help Ontario protect, restore and conserve the Great Lakes. The program provides funding up to $50,000 for local small-scale community projects that have a positive environmental impact on the Great Lakes, as well as social or economic benefits for their communities. Deadline to apply for funding is November 6, 2020. READ MORE Great Lakes Local Action Fund Webinar Ministry of the Environment, Conservation & Parks (MECP) October 8, 2020 at 1:00 p.m. RSVP by October 1, 2020 This webinar will provide an overview of the Great Lakes Local Action Fund and the application process. READ MORE Mitigating Social Conflict in Mining CIM Toronto Online, October 22, 2020 at 12 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. This is a panel discussion featuring Keynote Speaker, Dr. Paul Haslam, Associate Professor at the School of International Development and Global Studies, University of Ottawa. READ MORE Check Out this Online Resource! Personal Brand Workshop Geodude Corner Attention students! The Personal Brand Workshop is an online, learning experience to help students and professionals effectively market their unique difference-making qualities and skills. READ MORE Better Workplace Virtual Conference Conference Board of Canada October 26–30, 2020 The Better Workplace Conference 2020 will bring together thought leadership, case studies, and engaging discussions to address unique challenges and opportunities that are emerging for Canadian organizations. READ MORE Ethics and Communications Guidance for Canadian investigators Canadian Water Network The COVID-19 Wastewater Coalition has developed ethics and communications guidance for measuring and reporting signals of SARS-CoV-2 in community wastewater across Canada. READ MORE .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. Laurentian University researchers receive federal funding to study permafrost CBC News A team of Laurentian University professors is getting financial support from the federal government to support research into climate change and its effect on the permafrost. The team is waiting on private contributions and a provincial contribution, but said in total about $600,000 will be put towards purchasing equipment and tools to conduct the research. The work is being done by professors in a variety of departments, including mining, environment and biology. READ MORE Geraldton mine project offers 'generational' opportunities for First Nations Northern Ontario Business Hopes have been raised — and dashed — over the years in training Indigenous people to take part in mine development in the often-delayed Ring of Fire. The lack of government, community, and industry coordination has consistently moved back the project completion goal posts, leaving many First Nations trainees with no jobs in the pipeline to graduate into. Three northwestern Ontario First Nation communities appear to have hitched their collective wagons to more of a sure thing surrounding a shovel-ready, open-pit gold mine project south of Geraldton. READ MORE Unexpected wildfire emission impacts air quality worldwide Lab Manager Magazine In lab studies of wildfire, nitrous acid seems like a minor actor, often underrepresented in atmospheric models. But in the real-world atmosphere, during wildfires, the chemical plays a leading role—spiking to levels significantly higher than scientists expected, driving increased ozone pollution and harming air quality, according to a new study led by the University of Colorado (CU) Boulder and the Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy. READ MORE World-leading water scientists warn of ecological risks Yorkton This Week Conversion of large swaths of land to uniform tree plantations and single-crop species may lead to unintended consequences for the water cycle, putting ecosystems at greater risk for fires, floods, droughts and even hurricanes, warns a think-tank group of almost 30 water scientists from 11 countries. READ MORE Lessons from a cooling climate UC Santa Barbara Geologists glean insights about how Earth went from a hothouse to an ice age, and what that may mean for the future. READ MORE How earthquake swarms arise Stanford University A new fault simulator maps out how interactions between pressure, friction and fluids rising through a fault zone can lead to slow-motion quakes and seismic swarms. 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