PROFESSIONAL ETHICS AND PRACTICES - COLUMN 155
I’ve benefited a great deal from taking a variety field trips focused on areas outside mining geology. I’ve learned about landslides and other forms of ground failure on engineering geology-focused trips and ground failures can be a real issue at some mining properties. Karst features are likewise important in some areas as is “seeing through” glacial drift and similar features. As Robert and many others have noted, the geosci- entist who sees the most rocks wins.
Students: Do You Want a Job/ Internship? Use Email
I’m aware that most young people, those born after 1980 or “after Nixon” as it has been put, prefer texting, Facebook, Twitter, and other forms of social media as means of com- munication. Apparently, email and phone calls are “so 20th century.” This knowledge was re-enforced at the GSA Divisions and Affiliated Societies meeting at the end of March where the mostly academic attendees expressed their frustration that they can’t get students to apply for scholarships, grants, etc. using email. News flash, without using email, you won’t get a job or an internship. The communications required for such applications are necessarily longer than a Tweet soundbite.
I’ve learned that texting is sometimes very handy for short messages. But if I have to write a paper, I’d almost rather use a typewriter—that ancient technology I had to use going through college and grad school—rather than text. My fingers just aren’t that nimble on my phone. I prefer a computer’s keyboard. The people who can offer you jobs, scholarships, internships, grants, etc. have the same bias. Humor us, use email, and you might get a job, etc.
2015 Proposed AGI Guidelines for Ethical Professional Conduct: Update
2015 AGI Guidelines for Ethical Professional Conduct. At that time, the proposed Guidelines were distributed to the AGI member societies for comment. A variety of comments were received and considered by the committee drafting the guidelines, which resulted in a number of changes to the proposed version included in column 153. The revised Guidelines were approved by AGI’s Executive Committee on April 13, 2015. The revised version is available at http://www.
americangeosciences.org/community/agi-guidelines-ethical- professional-conduct. The AGI Ethics Committee’s members were: David Mogk, Chair and NAGT; David Abbott, AIPG; Linda Gunderson, AGU; Murray Hitzman, SEG; Robert Tepel, AEG; Denise Hills, AWG; Monica Ramirez, AWG; Edmund Nickless, GSL; Lee Phillips, CUR; Joe Gillman, AASG; Robert Finkelman, IMGA; Doug Walker, GSA; Pat Leahy, AGI; and Maeve Boland, AGI.
AIPG Disciplinary Procedures Updated
At their May 15th meeting, the National Executive Committee approved an update and revision to AIPG’s Disciplinary Procedures. The main changes include:
process,” that they reflect review and judgment by one’s professional peers.
An over-cored sandstone.
Chairman is responsible for the review of allegations and the administration of the Procedures.
call for an Adjudicatory Hearing even if the respondent has resigned in egregious cases so that findings of fact and conclusions regarding ethical violations can be reached in order to protect the public.
video conference to save travel expenses by those participat- ing in a Hearing.
- ies having an enforced code of ethics or conduct, licensing boards, and other governmental bodies of the results of a Disciplinary Proceeding.
be made via email or other electronic means.
The updated Disciplinary Procedures are posted on the AIPG website.
Ban Indiscriminate Hammering and Other Outcrop Destruction
current draft of the 2015 Proposed AGI Guidelines for Ethical Professional Conduct that was being circulated to the member societies of the American Geoscience Institute for comments. An additional item addressing outcrop preservation has been proposed:
- served for future study.
The proposed language is a summary of points con- tained in the Geologist’s Association Geological Fieldwork Guide,
http://www.geologistsassociation.org.uk/downloads/ Code%20of%20conduct/Code%20for%20fieldwork%20com- bined.pdf. I urge all professors, students, and other geoscien- tists to download this excellent short (2 page) Fieldwork Guide.
- ning, “Students demonstrate their enthusiasm for geology on field trips by leaping from their transporting vehicles, ham- mer in hand, charging the nearest outcrop, and whacking away with gusto.” This practice must be stopped due to the resulting destruction of significant features of outcrops. As pointed out in the Geological Fieldwork Guide, repeated coring for geomagnetic or other types of samples similarly degrades outcrops and is unnecessary; see Photo 1 in column 127 and the photo below. Similar marring occurs when someone spray
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