EDITOR’S CORNER
The Annual Meeting, Talented Students, Diversity and More
John L. Berry, CPG-04032
I am really looking forward to our Annual Meeting in Burlington, Vermont. I strongly recommend going as both the program and the field trips sound excellent, the country is beautiful, and the leaves will just be turning. For those who are interested in the early history of both the United States and Canada this area has a lot to offer: it was the scene of important campaigns during the Revolutionary War. In an important sense, these campaigns determined the history of both countries.
Just as important to us as a profession, this area and New York State just across the lake, as well as the adjacent
in Geology. Come and enjoy this wonderful historical, geological and scenic region!
In this issue of TPG we also showcase the essays written
by the students who have received scholarships this year from AIPG. The essays are remarkably well-written, and they highlight the idealism and enthusiasm of the new generation of geologists. To me it is remarkable how many of the students came to geology rather late in their college careers: there is a theme of an early interest in, and curiosity about, nature, followed by a lack of certainty about the course of study in col- lege, and then a sudden awakening to their real interests when they encountered, sometimes by accident, their first course in geology. It seems there are some remarkably good and inspiring geology teachers in American universities.
We have a concentration
of articles that center around various aspects of diversity. David Abbott’s column and Jessica Davey’s piece both focus on an example of a dis- paraging comment about the roles of women, whereas Heidi Harwick’s focusses on the sup- port that she has received both at school and at work as a time-constrained part-time student. Shirley Mensah dis- cusses the benefits that speak- ing several languages brings in terms of a broader cultural understanding.
We also have a set of great Fig.1 credit:
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southern part of Quebec, may be regarded as the cockpit of early geology in North America. It is where the work of Amos Eaton (1776-1842), Ebenezer Emmons (1799-1863), and James T. Hall (1811-1898, “The Founder of Modern Geology” and of the New York State Geological Survey), as well as, on the Canadian side, William Logan (1798-1875, founder of the Canadian Geological survey) overlapped. Logan and Emmons both recognized the frontal thrust of the Appalachian Mountains, Logan’s Line (or Emmons’ Line, Fig.1), which runs along the valley of the St. Lawrence and then past Burlington to the Hudson Valley. Eaton’s 1830 Geological Map of New York extended into the Burlington area of Vermont: he was appointed Professor of the Medical College at Castleton, Vermont in 1820. I think the romance of Logan’s Line was one of the things that first interested me
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articles that discuss aspects of engineering geology (Nygård, Jeanty and Gooding). Although
I couldn’t manage to get an article on the Revolutionary War campaigns in the Burlington area, we do have an excellent article on the influence of geology on the siting of Civil War Camp Nelson in Kentucky, our newest National Monument, and the campaigns waged from it (Spalding).
Finally, a very important article by Howald is actually a blue-
print for becoming an entrepreneur in the mining exploration business. We solicited this article because we believe that for many professionals, especially young professionals, the prospect of starting one’s own company is daunting, the mechanics are mysterious, and the skills required seem to be unattainable. We hope that this article will show that it isn’t all that complicated, and inspire many to “take the bull by the horns” and become entrepreneurs.
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