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PGO would like to acknowledge the work of Regional Councillors for spearheading PGO’s outreach to universities across Ontario. We would like to thank Mark Goldie, P.Geo. (Central Councillor), David Leng, P.Geo. (South West Councillor), Paul Hubley, P.Geo. (South East Councillor) and John McBride, P.Geo. (Former North West Councillor) for conducting the PGO Registration Information Session at a number of universities across the province with support from the PGO staff. We thank our Assistant Registrar, Eilidh Lewis, P.Geo. for being the staff partner on the outreach at Central Region. We thank the universities’ faculty and staff and student societies for greatly helping us in organizing these information sessions. To date, PGO’s student membership stands at 770, which is a 25 per cent increase from last year. For more information about student membership, please click on this link.
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.
CIM
Feb. 5-6, 2020
Co-hosted by CIM and PACE.global
Feb. 5 & 6, 2020 in Sudbury
After two successful years connecting mining industry challenges with the right people, process and technology solutions, the third annual Beyond Digital Transformation (BDT2020) held in Sudbury on Feb. 5-6, 2020, will expand its digital reach to connect with the true “future” of mining.
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MERC
Metal Earth and Smart Exploration
Feb. 27, 2020 in Toronto
The Metal Earth and Smart Exploration projects present a workshop on the application of novel seismic and electromagnetic methods for mineral exploration.
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Canadian Water Network
May 8-7, 2020 in Toronto
Save the date! Blue Cities 2020 will connect the dots among leading people and ideas so that Canadian communities can set the course to proactively address their unique challenges.
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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.
Sudbury.com
It is going to take imagination, better communications and some good listening skills for the mining industry to attract and retain enough workers skilled in data-driven and digital technology.
Those were some of the comments during a recent panel discussion held in Sudbury at the annual general meeting of SAMSSA (Sudbury Area Mining Supply and Service Association).
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The Kingston Whig-Standard
The governments of Canada and Ontario are committing further funding to help farmers make their operations more environmentally sustainable to improve water quality in the Lake Erie and Lake St. Clair watersheds.
Beginning Jan. 15, 2020, applications will be accepted for a new intake of cost-share funding under the Lake Erie Agriculture Demonstrating Sustainability (LEADS) initiative.
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The Hamilton Spectator
An environment ministry order issued against the infamous Waterdown Garden Supplies property in Flamborough has imposed a timeline and several requirements to assess the damage from the mountains of fill that have been deposited on-site.
But public comments attached to the ministry's order express deep frustration from nearby residents and concerned citizens that the problem was allowed to develop in the first place and that they were ignored when they voiced concerns.
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The Star
The artesian well that feeds Rob MacKay’s farm suddenly stopped bubbling.
A small silver pipe near the barn had always gushed water drawn from deep below his property in the Township of Centre Wellington, about 100 kilometres west of Toronto, known for its rushing, white-water gorge that helps supply the town’s needs. But in July of last year, the water lay still for the first time.
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Orangeville.com
Wellington Dufferin Guelph Public Health is taking a stand to protect local drinking water and municipal autonomy.
In a recent board of health report, public health staff are calling on members to send a letter to the Minister of Natural Resources in opposition of a proposed change to the Aggregate Resources Act (ARA).
Currently the province is proposing to waive municipalities right to regulate the depth of a local mine or quarry in their zoning bylaws.
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Northwestern University
New evidence gleaned from Antarctic seashells confirms that Earth was already unstable before the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs.
The study, led by researchers at Northwestern University, is the first to measure the calcium isotope composition of fossilized clam and snail shells, which date back to the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction event.
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University of California Irvine (UCI)
A University of California, Irvine-led team of glaciologists has unveiled the most accurate portrait yet of the contours of the land beneath Antarctica’s ice sheet — and, by doing so, has helped identify which regions of the continent are going to be more, or less, vulnerable to future climate warming.
Highly anticipated by the global cryosphere and environmental science communities, the newly released Antarctica topography map, BedMachine, and related findings were published recently in the journal Nature Geoscience.
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