This message was sent to ##Email## To advertise in this publication please click here December 10, 2020 .NEWS Reminder: 2021 Renewal of P.Geo. Registration PGO A friendly reminder to all registrants that the 2021 membership renewal is due by Jan. 1, 2021. There is a 15-day grace period ending on Jan. 15, 2021. Registrants in arrears as of Jan. 16, 2021 will have their registration suspended. Please make sure that your 2021 membership fee is paid on or before Jan. 15, 2021. If you require any assistance, please contact PGO at info@pgo.ca. .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. Job Posting: Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Engineers and Geoscientists British Columbia (EGBC) Read more about the CEO job position here. Provide your Input! Proposed Implementation of Updates to Ontario's Water Quantity Management Framework Ministry of Environment, Conservation and Parks (MECP) MECP is seeking input on draft guidance to help manage water taking in areas where water quantity is a concern and where there are competing demands for water. Deadline to submit your comments is Feb. 7, 2020. READ MORE Applied MSc in Mineral Exploration 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. LEARN MORE Free Webinar! Rare Earth Elements (REE): Markets and Considerations for the Future Economy CIM Toronto Dec. 17, 2020 at 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. Speaker: Darren L. Smith, M.Sc., Dahrouge Geological Consulting Rare earth elements (REEs) permeate our everyday way of life; however, their contribution is often not recognized due to their typically obscure use and consumption in small quantities per application. READ MORE Global Survey Finds: Institutional Investors find Alpha in Climate Risk Matrices (CRM) Intact Centre on Climate Adaptation, Global Risk Institute and the Stanford Global Projects Center The report presents results from a global survey of 13 institutional investors managing $2 trillion. It identifies a void regarding practical means by which physical climate risks — associated with floods, wildfires, heat waves and other extreme weather events — can be integrated into portfolio management. Read the report here. Climate Science 2050: Advancing Science and Knowledge on Climate Change Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) This report reflects the voices of scientists and decision-makers from academia, all levels of government, private sector, non-governmental organizations, and the National Indigenous Organizations. READ MORE TGDG Holiday Jingle Mingle Beer Tasting Toronto Geological Discussion Group Dec. 15, 2020 from 4:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. The TGDG has teamed up with Toronto's own Granite Brewery to bring you an online holiday event unlike any other. 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. Rapid COVID-19 testing arrives on the James Bay, remote mining camps in northern Ontario CBC News Rapid COVID-19 testing has arrived in northern Ontario. The hospital in Moose Factory is quickly processing test samples from the outbreak in Attawapiskat and Songbird Lifescience has sold its rapid testing system to some of the region's remote mining camps. But Dave Bullock, general manager of Songbird Lifescience, says they've had much more interest in their product from other provinces such as Manitoba. READ MORE Ford government to strip some powers of conservation authorities Global News The Ontario legislature is moving ahead with a Ford government bill to remove powers that allow local environmental regulators to protect communities against flooding and erosion. This despite warnings from those local environmental authorities that the changes would give new powers to provincial cabinet ministers to make political decisions about construction and industry projects that are not based on scientific evidence. READ MORE Researchers say widespread lake drainage on tundra another sign of climate change CityNews Scientists say a year in which almost 200 tundra lakes drained away could point to what’s in store for Canada’s North. Between 2017 and 2018, 192 lakes in northwest Alaska lost at least a quarter of their area as the permafrost that held them melted. Canada has plenty of the same kind of landscape and can likely expect the same effects, said Claude Duguay, a University of Waterloo researcher and co-author of a new paper in the journal Cryosphere. READ MORE Newly discovered Greenland plume drives thermal activities in the Arctic Tohoku University A team of researchers understands more about the melting of the Greenland ice sheet. They discovered a flow of hot rocks, known as a mantle plume, rising from the core-mantle boundary beneath central Greenland that melts the ice from below. The results of their two-part study were published in the Journal of Geophysical Research. READ MORE Rochester researchers uncover key clues about the solar system's history Rochester University In a new paper published in the journal Nature Communications Earth and Environment, researchers at the University of Rochester were able to use magnetism to determine, for the first time, when carbonaceous chondrite asteroids — asteroids that are rich in water and amino acids — first arrived in the inner solar system. READ MORE Cluster of Alaskan islands could be single, interconnected giant volcano American Geophysical Union A small group of volcanic islands in Alaska’s Aleutian chain might be part of a single, undiscovered giant volcano, say scientists presenting the findings recently at AGU’s Fall Meeting 2020. If the researchers’ suspicions are correct, the newfound volcanic caldera would belong to the same category of volcanoes as the Yellowstone Caldera and other volcanoes that have had super-eruptions with severe global consequences. 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