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AIPG TEXAS CHAPTER ANNOUNCES GEODAYZ 2022 TRAINING PROGRAM IN EARLY AUGUST, AUSTIN, TEXAS

Henry Wise, President of the AIPG-TX Chapter, announced today the group is planning the 2022 GEODAYZ Training Program to be held August 4th and 5th 2022, in Austin, Texas.
The Convener for the program is Dr. Roger Lee, P.G,, Austin, Texas.

Featuring Demonstrations and Presentations for Students and Professionals:

  • Project Management Practices: Scope of Work, Health and Safety, Laboratory Selection, Duplicates and Blanks, Project Preparation, Practices, and Case Histories.
  • Tour and lectures regarding purposes and uses of the Core Repository at the Texas Bureau of Economic Geology
  • Sampling of soils, sediments and groundwater, using various technologies such as direct-push, drilling and coring methods, methods of environmental soil sampling, OVM screening, logging, & decontamination protocols, and construction & testing of monitor wells
  • Demonstration of sampling methods of surface water and groundwater using micropurge technique.
  • Geophysical Well Logging: Use of well-logging technologies to obtain subsurface geology & physical characteristics.
  • Surface Resistivity Geophysical Methods and mapping: Demonstrate aquifer mapping through the use of identification and mapping of sands, silts, clays, carbonates, and other aquifers using state-of -the-art geophysical methods.
  • Drone uses for airborne geophysics and other applications: Demonstrate utilization of drones for surveys and mapping.
  • Storage and retrieval or sequestration research in the deep subsurface formations such as salt domes. BEG research will be presented for materials such as hydrogen storage and retrieval and carbon dioxide sequestration.
  • Historical and present efforts of combined public awareness and actions, Local and Federal government support, law interpretations and legal actions, and ongoing scientific investigations to delineate hydrogeology, geochemistry, and ecology in the Barton Creek watershed and at spring discharges, to protect the iconic Barton Springs in Austin, Texas for the present and for posterity.

 

August 4th: Hosted by Texas Bureau of Economic Geology, at J.J. Pickle Research Center Austin, Texas

August 5th: Hosted by the Save Barton Creek Association, at Zilker Park, Austin, Texas

Estimated Cost:
Student (Undergraduate and Graduate): $85.00
Professionals (Member of AIPG): $150.00
Professionals (Non-Member of AIPG): $200.00

There will be a limited enrollment of 60 people: To reserve your place now, e-mail us that you plan to attend, and you will be placed on the List of Attendees (to be paid by credit card before July 15, 2022)
Send your e-mail reservation to Dr. Melissa Hill, P.G., CPG, Vice President, Western Texas at: MelissaHill@AIPG-TX.org

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The previous GeoDayz program was presented in 2018 at Nacogdoches, Texas. This is the Guidebook from that 2018 training program: (here).
The Post-2018 GeoDayz wrap-up summary of the proceedings is also available as an example of what to expect for the 2022 GeoDayz program (more).

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12JAN, 2022

By AIPG-TX News

AIPG TEXAS SECTION FIELD TRIP TO WEST TEXAS IN OCTOBER, 2022

 

A Field Trip is being planned for 2022 to West Texas.  Scheduling depends on the status of the Pandemic. Areas covered: Eagle Peak area (highest point in Hudspeth County); overview of Precambrian thrusting and metamorphism, Laramide thrusting, Tertiary rifting and volcanics: Dal-Tile Talc Mines at Allamoore; Sierra Blanca Rare Earth Mine; Bonanza Mine in northern Quitman Mountains; view of Blue Origin Spaceport and more!

Stay turned for announcements. There will be a fixed enrolment so sign up as soon as the announcement is made…. in a few weeks.

Henry Wise, P.G., CPG
President, AIPG Texas Section

 Export to Your Calendar 10/6/2022-10/9/2022
When: Thursday, October 6, 2022
Where: El Paso, West Texas

 

Sponsors of the 2022 AIPG-TX GEODAYZ Training Program:
  • C&S Environmental Consulting
  • SCS Engineers
  • Hydrex Drone Division
  • Eocene
  • Eureka Water Probes
Sponsors of the 2018 AIPG-TX GEODAYZ Training Program:
  • Best Drilling Services
  • American Plant Food Corporation
  • Russell Drilling Company
  • Geoprobe
  • The Earth Science department at Rice
  • Environmental Science at Stephen F. Austin State University
  • Mount Sopris Instrument Company
  • Southside Bank
  • XENCO Laboratories
  • EnviroPhase
  • The Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Houston
  • SWS Environmental Services
  • I2M Associates News
  • Terrain Solutions, Inc.
  • Geochem Data, Inc.
  • Pioneer Natural Resources Company
  • W.D. Hall Company
  • Hydrex Environmental, Inc.

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