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PGO acknowledges Regional Councillors, CPD event speakers and staff
PGO
Fall is a very busy time for PGO as this is the time when PGO ramped up its outreach to universities to provide information to geoscience students about P.Geo. registration process. We thanked the faculty and administrative staff of universities across Ontario for collaborating with us on this initiative. PGO also provided a number of great continuing professional development opportunities at no cost to our registrants and student members.
PGO’s work is greatly supported by a solid volunteer-staff collaborative framework. PGO would like to acknowledge its Regional Councillors — Bryan Brassington, David Leng, Mark Goldie, Tafa Gomwe and Pizye Nankamba for co-leading with staff on the outreach to universities across Ontario. We thank Eilidh Lewis, Deputy Registrar, for partnering with our Regional Councillors to deliver the information sessions online providing students with knowledge and understanding on various requirements they need to fulfill in order to become a P.Geo. Many thanks to Ami Mogaji, Office Manager, for ensuring the provision of Zoom platform for all of these online sessions.
PGO gratefully acknowledges the following professionals who generously contributed to PGO’s CPD programming this fall. The knowledge and expertise they shared made for excellent learning experience.
Craig Waldie, P.Geo. and Jim Whyte, P.Geo. — Overview of NI 43-101 and Mining Disclosure Basics and followed up by an overview on Technical Reports on Mineral Resource Estimates
David Leng, P.Geo. — Online QP Short Course for Students: Your Career and Public Reporting
Robert Wilson and Candace Pietras — National Secondary Professional Liability Insurance Program
We thank all our CPD event attendees for their participation and feedback. Your input is valuable in our CPD programming and we are pleased to see that the CPD offerings we provided to date were well received and highly informative. Please click on this link to access the webinar presentation slides.
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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.
APGO Education Foundation Awards 2 Scholarships to Geoscience Students
APGO Education Foundation
The APGO Education Foundation (“the Foundation”) is pleased to announce the recipients of its annual awards under the Scholarship Program to support post-secondary students entering the fourth year of a geoscience degree program at an Ontario university.
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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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.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.
National mining organization will hold convention online in 2021
TimminsToday.com
The Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum (CIM) said holding its 2021 convention and expo virtually will “expand its reach and keep delegates safe.”
Citing concerns about the COVID-19 pandemic, the national mining body announced on recently that its annual event would take place May 3-6 online only.
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Canadian researchers turn to wastewater tests at long-term care homes to detect COVID hot spots
CBC News
Several Canadian universities are preparing to test wastewater from long-term care homes in Ottawa, Toronto and Edmonton to get early warnings of COVID-19 outbreaks.
Researchers in municipalities in six provinces are already testing wastewater for traces of SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for the disease. Many of those infected shed the virus through their feces, even if they don't have symptoms, according to researchers.
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Preparations begin for Canadian borehole
World Nuclear News
Construction of the first drill pad and access to the site is currently under way, NWMO said. Pre-drilling activities, including an environmental due diligence walkover, a survey of the features of the surface of the land, an archeological survey, cultural verification and a pre-drilling private drinking water well survey are in progress or have already been completed.
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Ontario Power Generation commits to being a net-zero company by 2040
Power Engineering
Ontario Power Generation (OPG) in Canada has released its Climate Change Plan that includes ambitious goals aimed at driving efficient, economy-wide decarbonization and economic renewal, while protecting the environment.
The plan establishes two major commitments: to being a net-zero-carbon company by 2040, and to being a catalyst to help the markets where OPG operates achieve net-zero-carbon economies by 2050.
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New water well improvement program to protect groundwater quality
Belleville Intelligencer
Saugeen Valley Conservation Authority (SVCA) and the Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) are pleased to announce they have partnered together to offer a Water Well Improvement Program that will financially support landowners in their efforts to protect groundwater. The NWMO has donated $50,000 to directly fund water well improvement projects.
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Geoscientists use zircon to trace origin of Earth's continents
Penn State University
Geoscientists have long known that some parts of the continents formed in the Earth’s deep past, but the speed in which land rose above global seas — and the exact shapes that land masses formed — have so far eluded experts.
But now, through analyzing roughly 600,000 mineral analyses from a database of about 7,700 different rock samples, a team led by Jesse Reimink, assistant professor of geosciences at Penn State, thinks they’re getting closer to the answers.
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Seismic activity of New Zealand's alpine fault more complex than suspected
Seismological Society of America
A rupture along the full length of the fast-slipping Alpine Fault on New Zealand’s South Island poses the largest potential seismic threat to the southern and central parts of the country. But new evidence of a 19th century earthquake indicates that in at least one portion of the fault, smaller earthquakes may occur in between such large rupture events.
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Stanford engineers combine light and sound to see underwater
Stanford School of Engineering
Stanford University engineers have developed an airborne method for imaging underwater objects by combining light and sound to break through the seemingly impassable barrier at the interface of air and water.
The researchers envision their hybrid optical-acoustic system one day being used to conduct drone-based biological marine surveys from the air, carry out large-scale aerial searches of sunken ships and planes, and map the ocean depths with a similar speed and level of detail as Earth’s landscapes.
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Mine ponds amplify mercury risks in Peru's Amazon
Nicholas School of the Environment
The proliferation of pits and ponds created in recent years by miners digging for small deposits of alluvial gold in Peru’s Amazon has dramatically altered the landscape and increased the risk of mercury exposure for indigenous communities and wildlife, a new study shows.
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