PROFESSIONAL ETHICS AND PRACTICES - COLUMN 170


Topical Index-Table of Contents to the Professional Ethics and Practices Columns


A topically based Index-Table of Contents, “pe&p index.xls” cov ering columns, articles,


and letters to the editor that have been referred to in the PE&P columns in Excel format is on the AIPG web site in the Ethics section. This Index-Table of Contents is updated as each issue of the TPG is published. You can use it to find those items addressing a particular area of concern. Suggestions for improvements should be sent to David Abbott, dmageol@msn.com


Compiled by David M. Abbott, Jr., CPG-04570 5055 Tamarac Street, Denver, CO 80238 303-394-0321, dmageol@msn.com


Field Camp Tales Experience in the field is a vital part


of geoscience education as reflected in the “Don’t Forget Your Hand Lens!” discussion in column 169. Field camp is the most comprehensive way of getting this experience for most geoscientists and is commonly described as a “cap- stone” experience1 and as a part of the “Student to Professional Geoscientist Metamorphosis” Victoria Stinson describes. Several contributions in the January 2019 TPG point out that field camp is about more than learning to measure strikes and dips. The experi- ence can teach you a lot about yourself. Shirley Tsotsoo Mensah’s reflections on her field camp experience demon- strate this. Like many, Mensah had no previous camping and/or hiking experi- ence. As Mensah notes, “The thought of the possibility of ticks hiding in my hair, poison ivy causing irritation to my skin, and snakes hiding in the field was not


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Metropolitan State University of Denver (MSU) gives its students field problems with each class along with having short- er field trips that provide the equivalent field time in a much more time and money affordable basis for its non-tradi- tional students. Being in Denver where rocks hang out helps a lot. In addition, MSU offers field trips to Europe and else- where as Dani McDowell describes in her “Unforgettable Applied Volcanology in Italy.” My own undergraduate field class used a similar approach. New Hampshire has granites and metamor- phic rocks covered by glacial deposits and lots of trees. So the field geology course included a week mapping folded sedimentary rocks in New York and 3 weeks in Guatemala and El Salvador clambering around volcanoes.


Ingvild Haneset Nygard, Elijah J. Chandler, and Alexander C. Reimers each contributed articles on their experiences with Western Michigan


fer testing, well drilling installations, groundwater sampling and monitoring, surface geophysics, remediation design and implementation, and includes HAZWOPER training.2 This focused field camp experience will certainly be a plus for those wishing to pursue a hydrologic career. On the other hand, generalized geology has its virtues. As G.K. Gilbert remarked in 1906, “It is the natural and legitimate ambition of a properly constituted geologist to see a glacier, witness an eruption, and feel an earthquake.”3


Continuing Relevance of Field Camp Dan Wood and Jeffrey Hedenquist’s


article, “Mineral exploration: discov- ering and defining ore deposits,” in the January 2019 issue of the SEG Newsletter makes the point that “fewer deposits are likely to be discovered near the surface;” that the days when the


I suggest that field camp will remain as important as ever, perhaps even more so.


fun news to me. I freaked out…!” Then there were the standard field problems as Mensah reports, “Aside from battling critters, I was having some trouble map- ping since I had not had much exposure to structural geology out in the field. As mapping continued, however, I started to understand a lot of things out in the field which were previously abstract to me.” Mensah deserved being the cover photo for the January TPG.


While the traditional 6-week summer


field course is great, if you can afford the time and money, there are alternatives.


University’s Hydrology Field Course based in Kalamazoo, MI. None of them are WMU students; Nygard is Norwegian, Chandler attended Humboldt State University, and Reimers received his BS from North Dakota State University and is now at Clemson University. Their home-school diversity reflects the fact that only a few schools offer field camps and those that do welcome students from elsewhere in order to get the enrollments needed to keep the camps going. Western Michigan’s Hydrology Field Camp is obviously focused on hydrology, aqui-


stereotypical old prospector and burro discovered new metallic deposits has passed. Wood and Hedenquist argue that the discovery of deeper deposits will be made by exploration teams using increasingly sophisticated geophysical and geochemical tools that can penetrate to greater depths and who are willing to drill deeper holes using improved drill- ing technologies. Wood and Hedenquist’s paper expresses an opinion about the future of metallic mineral exploration that I’ve had for some time. Mineral exploration is or will be following the


1. Pourtabib, Kristina, 2013, A Capstone Experience, TPG, Sep ′13; Jarvis, Stephanie, 2011, Notes from the Field, TPG, Sep ′11; and other articles listed in the “field work” and “geoscience education” topics in the PE&P Index.


2. When I visited Western Michigan and the Michigan Geological Survey (on campus) last fall, I learned that Wayne County, which includes Detroit and surrounding area, has only one rock outcrop in the whole county. I also learned that WMU is the place to go to focus on the geology of Michigan south of the UP.


3. Gilbert, G.K., 1906, The investigation of the San Francisco earthquake: Popular Science Monthly, 96:97. www.aipg.org Apr.May.Jun 2019 • TPG 41


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