CBS Sunday Morning broadcast an extensive piece this week on sinkholes with spectacular footage from around the world, featuring Florida State Geologist Jon Arthur. They added this link to their accompanying on-line
story: “Contact your state's geological survey about sinkholes
at stategeologists.org”
Tuesday, May 07, 2013
Friday, May 03, 2013
Rep. Betty McCollum receives 2013 AASG Pick & Gavel Award
The
recipient of the 2013 Pick and Gavel Award from AASG is Congresswoman Betty
McCollum of Minnesota.
The
presentation was made at the Pick and Gavel Banquet at the Cosmos Club in
Washignton DC, on March 12th.
Minnesota State Geologist Harvey Thorleifson said that in a
decade in Congress, she has emerged as an influential advocate for issues such
as safe drinking water.
"She has worked closely with the National Ground Water Association, for example to advance development of a national groundwater monitoring network.Betty is a member of the House Interior appropriations subcommittee, and she has gone to bat for us in very real ways in multiple years, with significant results regarding StateMap and Data Preservation funding.She also has spoken up for geologic mapping in USGS budget hearings - this was noticed and later commented upon by USGS managers.Betty is very highly regarded, for example in the Minnesota water science and policy community."
John C. Frye Award goes to Montana Bureau of Mines & Geology publication
The
recipients of the 2014 John C. Frye Environmental Geology Award will be Elizabeth Meredith, John
Wheaton, and Shawn Kuzara, for
the publication “Coalbed Methane Basics: Ten years of lessons from the Powder
River Basin, Montana,” published
by Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology as Information Pamphlet 6 in 2012.
The Frye Award is presented annually by the Geological Society of America in cooperation with the Association of American State Geologists (AASG),
for the best paper on environmental geology
published either by GSA or by one of the state geological surveys.
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