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APGO
Don't delay! Register early and avail yourself of the early bird rate for the June 14, 2019 conference. Attendance to the Annual General Meeting and Reception is free. Participation in the event counts towards your continuing professional development hours.
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APGO
APGO gratefully acknowledges Steve Holysh and Rick Gerber for generously volunteering their time to present on "The Oak Ridges Moraine Groundwater Program (ORMGP) — Online Portal to Groundwater Data" via webinar. Steve and Rick walked the participants through the different features of the ORMGP's website showing the benefits of the online resource to their day-to-day hydrogeological work. To get a glimpse of what the online portal has to offer, please click here.
Disclaimer: The events and media articles featured in Field Notes do not express or reflect the opinions of the Association of Professional Geoscientists of Ontario, or any employee thereof.
International Association of Hydrogeologists
The International Association of Hydrogeologists invites nominations for the 2019 Applied Hydrogeology Award.
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Kawartha Region Earth Sciences, Engineering, and Metallurgists (KREEM)
Tuesday May 7th, 2019
6:30 p.m. — 10:00 p.m.
Kings Crossing Tap and Grill (2nd floor meeting room)
197 George Street, Peterborough
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Disclaimer: The media articles featured in Field Notes do not express or reflect the opinions of the Association of Professional Geoscientists of Ontario, or any employee thereof.
Environmental Registry of Ontario
We are releasing a discussion paper to consult Ontarians on a modern vision for the environmental assessment program. The discussion paper explains key features of the environmental assessment process, communicates some immediate actions we are proposing, and sets out a vision to modernize the almost 50-year-old environmental assessment program.
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Conservation Ontario
Recently on a TV interview on the Ontario floods, we were asked what exactly we wanted from the Province. It would be easy to just say "funding!" because, yes, that is desperately needed.
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Science Daily
Changes in temperature and precipitation have already impacted the amount of nitrogen introduced into U.S. waterways. This can lead to toxin-producing algal blooms or low-oxygen dead zones called hypoxia.
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Sudbury.com
With the mining environment in Canada changing on a regular basis, an innovative new way to bring mine rescuers to the job is taking place at a couple of Northern Ontario gold mines.
The change was the creation of the Dräger MRV9000, a new self-contained mine rescue vehicle that allows rescuers to drive to deeper and to more remote areas of an underground mine without endangering the rescuers themselves.
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Northern Ontario Business
A Sudbury lithium exploration company has struck a partnership with Queen's University and Glencore to devise a way to produce lithium hydroxide for the North American battery industry.
Frontier Lithium has inked a strategic partnership agreement to work with XPS Expert Process Solutions, a Glencore spinoff company, and Queen's University professor Ahmad Ghahreman to develop a process to refine spodumene concentrate into lithium hydroxide.
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CBC News
Officials are warning communities in Ontario's cottage country that more devastating flooding could be on the way as thousands of residents are "fighting a pretty tough battle" to save their homes.
Environment Canada recently issued a rainfall warning for the Muskoka Region, saying localized flooding in low-lying areas is possible. The alert covers Bracebridge and Huntsville, part of which are already under water as a result of surging lakes and rivers.
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Orangeville.com
The Ontario Clean Water Agency will be shipping out treated sludge from the Shelburne wastewater site in the second or third week of May.
The Town of Shelburne was expecting the shipment to take place in late April, but with the warm and sunny weather, there is more capacity in the plant, due to quicker breakdown of material.
"Stuff is breaking up more," said Jim Moss, Shelburne's director of development and operations, explaining that warmth causes septic sludge to break down faster, making more room in the septic holding tanks.
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National Post
As Lynne Jereza gazes out at the hillocks and gullies rolling across the Cheltenham Badlands in southern Ontario, she feels a sense of calm wash over her.
"You can meditate here," Jereza said as peered down at the desolate landscape, red clay still drying from a spring shower the night before.
Her relative, Joanna Jose, wanted to give the California resident a taste of the natural splendour in Caledon, about an hour's drive northwest of Toronto.
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Gizmodo
Every several years, magnetic field observatories record quick changes to the position or strength of the planet's magnetic field, so-called geomagnetic jerks. The cause of these shifts has remained a mystery.
Improvements to ground-based observatories and more magnetic field measurements from satellites have given scientists new insights into the planet's magnetic behavior.
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