This message was sent to ##Email## To advertise in this publication please click here November 19, 2020 .NEWS Reminder! Register for PGO's Online Learning Events! PGO There is still time to register for PGO’s free CPD events. Check out our Events page to see PGO’s online CPD offerings for the remainder of November. .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. The 2020 Latornell Student Symposium — Diversity: Foundation of Our Ecosystems & Societies Latornell Conservation Symposium Virtual, Nov. 20, 2020 at 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Featuring Dr. Nicolas Brunet, University of Guelph The 2020 Latornell Student Symposium theme is “Diversity: The Foundation of Ecosystems & Societies.” This symposium aims to emphasize interconnectedness in sustainability by creating a platform that highlights diversity, equity, and inclusion in conservation research and practice. This is a free virtual event. READ MORE Advancing workplace diversity and inclusion CIM National CIM 2020 Technical Program Series Online, Dec. 4, 2020 at 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. The presentation will cover topics on diversity and inclusion in the workplace. 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 Sustainable Technologies Evaluation Program's (STEP) Call for Abstract Submissions STEP Deadline: Nov. 30, 2020 STEP will be hosting the 2021 Water Webinar Series and it is inviting industry professionals to submit presentation abstracts. READ MORE Toronto Geological Discussion Group Event TGDG Nov. 24, 2020 at 4:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Featured Talk: Battle North Gold’s Bateman Gold Project Feasibility Study Review Speaker: George Ogilvie, President and CEO, Battle North Gold Corp. Battle North Gold plans to deliver a maiden Feasibility Study for the shovel-ready Bateman Gold Project, after several years spent de-risking the asset. 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. Environmental review panel selected for Marathon palladium mine project Northern Ontario Business A joint review panel has been established to carry out the environmental assessment (EA) process of a once-mothballed palladium mine project near the north shore of Lake Superior. The federal and provincial governments are re-establishing the panel — shelved for the last six years — for the EA of Generation Mining's proposed Marathon Palladium Project, 10 kilometres north of the town of Marathon. READ MORE College receives FedNor funding Strathroy Age Dispatch Northern College will be receiving over $1.5 million in funding to grow innovation, applied research and development (R&D) activities, and product commercialization, due to an investment from the Federal Economic Development Initiative for Northern Ontario (FEDNOR). READ MORE Regional assessment for Ring of Fire announced NetNewsLedger The Impact Assessment Agency of Canada is inviting the public, Indigenous communities, and organizations to provide input to support the planning of the regional assessment in the Ring of Fire area. Participants may provide their input to the Agency in either official language until Jan. 21, 2021. READ MORE Laurentian University project addresses climate change in northern Ontario Indigenous communities CBC News Researchers at Laurentian University are working with Indigenous communities in northern Ontario to come up with a plan to address climate change. The project is being co-led by Grand Council Treaty 3, and five tribal councils in northern Ontario. Local climate specialists with each council are sharing current science and traditional knowledge with their communities. READ MORE Plastic trap: New project pulls plastics out of the lakes, one floating garbage can at a time Great Lakes Now An estimated 9,887 metric tonnes (22 million pounds) of plastics make their way into the Great Lakes every year. Now a new project aims not only to suck out some of that plastic but stop it from getting into the lakes in the first place. It began last summer with Toronto Harbour’s installation of three Seabins — devices that look like trash cans in the water but behave like vacuum cleaners, said Christopher Hilkene, CEO of Pollution Probe. READ MORE Former piece of Pacific Ocean floor imaged deep beneath China Rice University In a study that gives new meaning to the term “rock bottom,” seismic researchers have discovered the underside of a rocky slab of Earth’s surface layer, or lithosphere, that has been pulled more than 400 miles beneath northeastern China by the process of tectonic subduction. The study, published by a team of Chinese and U.S. researchers in Nature Geoscience, offers new evidence about what happens to water-rich oceanic tectonic plates as they are drawn through Earth’s mantle beneath continents. READ MORE New tool predicts geological movement and the flow of groundwater in old coalfields University of Nottingham A remote monitoring tool to help authorities manage public safety and environmental issues in recently abandoned coal mines has been developed by the University of Nottingham. The tool uses satellite radar imagery to capture millimetre-scale measurements of changes in terrain height. Such measurements can be used to monitor and forecast groundwater levels and changes in geological conditions deep below the earth’s surface in former mining areas. READ MORE The connectivity of multicomponent fluids in subduction zones Tohoku University A team of researchers has discovered more about the grain-scale fluid connectivity beneath the earth's surface, shedding new light on fluid circulation and seismic velocity anomalies in subduction zones. Lithospheric plates collide at convergent boundaries. Here, the less dense oceanic lithosphere subducts below the continental plate, and releases an abundance of water due to a progressive metamorphic reaction at high pressure and high temperature. 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