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Our paper characterizing this expe- rience is now being reviewed by the Journal of Geoscience Education, and we have submitted two abstracts to the Geological Society of America Annual Meeting. Ironically, this international meeting will be held online as well, so sadly no trip to the great city of Montreal will be held this year.
For the duration of the in-person field course, there were no incidences of elevated body temperatures, and no students needed to stay in for a day due
to any COVID-like symptoms. Now that we have reached just over two weeks fol- lowing the conclusion of the field-based part of the course, there have been no reported incidents of symptoms or infec- tion since the students, instructors and logisticians returned home. While the challenges were numerous, we continue to be thankful for being able to get out- doors and study geology in the field this year, as well as get out of our homes, and hopefully all of our hybrid online and field course participants continue
to stay healthy, happy and enthusiastic about the many benefits of field geology.
Written by Jon Rotzien, Ryan Sincavage, Nuri Uzunlar, Harry Filkorn and Yann Gavillot with guidance from the entire team of instructors repre- senting the South Dakota Mines, Black Hills Natural Sciences Field Station on August 15, 2020, who are all thankful they briefly escaped their homes to lead a field geology course this summer in the beautiful Black Hills, USA.
Section Round-Up John L. Berry, CPG-04032
(working title). Watch for an announcement in early January, with the webinar to be held in late February.
Michigan Section
The Section newsletters this Quarter are full of field trips, meetings, and seminars canceled by the COVID-19 pandemic. However, many other activities have continued, and meet- ings have, in some cases, gone virtual with great success: often with a higher attendance than in-person meetings have traditionally had.
Colorado Section:
Jim Russell has a link on p. 11 of the Colorado Section’s Fall 2020 Newsletter to his excellent Colorado Geological Road Log that is accessible free and runs on ESRI’s ArcGIS Story Map software.
Illinois/Indiana Section:
The Fall 2020 Newsletter of the Illinois/Indiana has an inter- esting update on the Federal and IL/IN state of PFAS/PFOA legislation and regulation p.7), as well as a fascinating short report on the Pogo gold deposit in Alaska by Paul Hohback, CPG 11432 (p.8).
Wisconsin Section:
Speaking of PFAS, the WI section is working on a webinar for 2021 on How to Read and Understand a PFAS Lab Report
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The Michigan Section has held two “ lunch and learn virtual platform events featuring experts in Natural Source Zone Depletion and Establishing Soil Background for Metals. We hosted the live events inviting not only our members, but all professionals interested in the topics to join us. We offered con- tinuing education credits and because of the virtual platform, professionals from other states as well as other countries tuned in. It was great to hear feedback, not only from our members here at home, but from members across the country. If you missed these events, we did record them, and they are avail- able on the Michigan Section’s YouTube channel by following the links on the titles above. We are currently in the process of planning more “ (quoted from the Michigan Section Oct. 2020 Newsletter, p.7). In my mind some of the most important things about these meetings are that (1) they were open to non-AIPG Members, and (2) they were open to people across the world, and attracted people in both these categories. This is a tremendous way to make the value of our organization widely known.
Northeast Section Virtual Fall meeting a great success:
The NE Section has also had a successful virtual meeting. From their newsletter: “(The) NE/AIPG Fall Meeting 2020 presentation of “Remediation and Final Resolution of Environmental Impacts Associated with the Retsof Salt Mine Collapse,” by John M. Nadeau, CPG, PG, was a huge success! …Our first-ever virtual meeting was attended by over thirty registrants. I want to thank John M. Nadeau for putting together the presentation and pulling together great content for the NE Section. The Retsof Salt Mine was the largest salt mine in North America, located in Livingston County, New York. The mine, which reached approximately 1,000 feet below ground surface, extracted salt from a natural deposit, for use as road salt and table salt. In March, 1994, the ceiling of an underground chamber collapsed, causing the mine to infill with groundwater. Mr. Nadeau described the conseequences of this collapse, hydrologically, environmentally, and politically.
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