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A friendly reminder to all practising and limited licensees that the deadline to file your CPD hours is midnight EST, March 31, 2020. The CPD online module will be closed after this date. For more information on PGO’s CPD program requirements, please click on this link.
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Attention Certificate of Authorization (C of A) Holders! Are you hiring?
Did you know that as a C of A holder, you can post your geoscience jobs on PGO’s website for free. Send an email to bkradjian@pgo.ca for more information.
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The next PPE exam dates are slated for April 6, 7 & 8, 2020. The deadline to apply to write the PPE exam in April is Feb. 28, 2020. To be eligible to write the Professional Practice and Ethics Examination, an applicant must have an active application for Professional Membership/Limited Licensure or be enrolled as a Geoscientist-in-Training and have submitted a change of designation request.
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Ministry of Energy, Northern Development and Mines
Ontario Geological Survey
Enhance your skills and prepare for your future by working as a summer field assistant with the Ontario Geological Survey!
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Ontario Geological Survey, the Geological Survey of Canada and Conservation Authorities
Feb. 19 & 20, 2020 in Waterloo, ON
The 2020 open house for the southern Ontario Groundwater Community will consist of two days of presentations and posters hosted collaboratively by the Ontario Geological Survey, the Geological Survey of Canada and Conservation Authorities.
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Canadian Water Network
Feb. 11, 2020 from 12 noon to 1:15 p.m.
Canada’s water sector is feeling the pinch. The costs of infrastructure repair, climate change and development are continuing to increase, while revenues decrease as a result of better water efficiency and conservation.
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Disclaimer: The media articles featured in Field Notes do not express or reflect the opinions of Professional Geoscientists Ontario, or any employee thereof.
Northern Ontario Business
The provincial government has an ambitious agenda for the mining sector, according to the minister of energy, northern development and mines.
Greg Rickford was in town recently for the Timmins Chamber of Commerce's State of Mining event. He talked to about 100 people about the industry and what the government is doing to make business easier.
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Financial Post
In a development that could resuscitate Canada’s rare earths metals’ sector, the U.S. government is putting up millions of dollars for the construction of processing plants in North America, according to a document obtained by the Financial Post.
Rare earths metals are considered increasingly important for cutting-edge military and technological applications, but the supply chain is almost entirely located in Asia with Chinese companies dominating the sector.
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Wiarton Echo
Ontario Power Generation says it will explore other options for the permanent disposal of low- and intermediate-level nuclear waste after Saugeen Ojibway Nation members overwhelmingly rejected OPG's proposal to create a deep geologic repository at the Bruce nuclear site near Kincardine.
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Brockville Recorder & Times
One of the rainiest January's on record is contributing to the ongoing problem of high water levels on Lake Ontario and the upper St. Lawrence River, according to the Cataragui Region Conservation Authority (CRCA).
A water safety statement that has been in effect since Dec. 5 was extended recently. The lake-wide level as of recently was about 0.5 metres above average for this time of year, and the CRCA indicated the level continues to rise.
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The Kingston Whig-Standard
Waste Management is taking responsibility for the illegal dumping of leachate at its closed Richmond Landfill site in Napanee two weeks ago. A spokesperson for Waste Management said the company agrees that the incident was “not a permitted release of leachate,” after a tanker truck dumped approximately 16,000 litres (3,500 gallons) of leachate collected from the landfill into a wooded area at the site.
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The Conversation
In recent years, the daily news has been flooded with stories of water woes from coast to coast to coast.
There are melting glaciers and ice sheets in northern and western Canada and lead in drinking water in the older neighbourhoods of many cities in Canada. We see toxic blue green algae threatening pets, livestock and drinking water as well as catastrophic floods, droughts and fires.
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University of Edinburgh
New research techniques are being adopted by scientists tackling the most visible impact of climate change — the so-called greening of Arctic regions.
The latest drone and satellite technology is helping an international team of researchers to better understand how the vast, treeless regions called the tundra is becoming greener.
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Carnegie Institution for Science
A new approach to analyzing seismic data reveals deep vertical zones of low seismic velocity in the plumbing system underlying Alaska's Cleveland volcano, one of the most-active of the more than 70 Aleutian volcanoes. The findings are published in Scientific Reports by Helen Janiszewski, recently of Carnegie, now at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, and Carnegie's Lara Wagner and Diana Roman.
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Seismological Society of America
Nearly 40 years ago, analog data tapes faithfully recorded intense seismic activity in the two months before the historic eruption of Mount St. Helens in Washington State in May 1980. It took some lengthy and careful restoration efforts — including a turn in a kitchen oven for some of the tapes — to recover their data.
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