16 Oct, 2017
By AIPG-TX News

AIPG-TX Arranges Deal for Members with Midwest Geosciences Group for Continuing Education


The Texas Section of the American Institute of Professional Geologists and Midwest GeoSciences Group have partnered to provide discounted continuing education webinars to AIPG-TX members on important topics such as groundwater and karst, hydrogeology, soil and rock mechanics, seismic hazards, Google Earth PRO, engineering geology, drones, geologic issues with risk assessment, environmental site characterization and remediation, and geologic resource management.

Hydrogeologic and geotechnical webinars available 24/7 via prices reduced for AIPG-TX members. See upcoming webinars.

25 Sep, 2017
By AIPG-TX News

AAPG Total Solar Eclipse Seminar and K-T Boundary/Impact Crater Field Trip Guide, Casper, Wyoming – August 18-22, 2017

This Seminar and Field-Trip Guide was compiled by Doug Cook who gathered the materials discussed during this Seminar and Field Trip. The primary objective of the seminar was to observe the total solar eclipse that passed over the Casper, Wyoming area. Side field trips were also taken to observe impact craters and K-T boundary in outcrop.

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26 Jul, 2017
By AIPG-TX News

FactSheet on Geoscience in Texas

Workforce in Texas

  • 59,000: geoscience employees (non-federal/self-employed) in 20151
  • $103,500: average median geoscience employee salary1
  • 270,000: jobs in extractive industries in 20152
  • 80: academic geoscience departments3

Water in Texas

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22 Jul, 2017
By AIPG-TX News

Petrossian and Team Release TWDB Transborder Aquifers Report

Rima Petrossian, Ph.D., P.G., C.P.G., Manager of the Groundwater Technical Assistance Group of the Texas Water Development Board and her team just released: Texas Water Development Board Groundwater Management Report 17-01;  TWDB Trans-Border Aquifers Report: A Summary of Aquifer Properties, Policies, and Planning Approaches for Texas, Surrounding States, and Mexico (here).  Dr. Petrossian also serves as Vice President – Western Texas, of the American Institute of Professional Geologists.

Groundwater in Texas is a valuable natural resource shared with eight national and international states: New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana, in the United States; and Tamaulipas, Nuevo León, Coahuila de Zaragoza, and Chihuahua, in Mexico. Of the 30 Texas aquifers that provide groundwater, 23 are shared with one or more other states. Internationally, Mexico and Texas share four major aquifers and three minor aquifers, based on the Texas definition of aquifers.

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27 May, 2017
By AIPG-TX News

The Wise Report

The State Legislature is still in session. The following is a list of bills of potential interest to geologists. There are no new bills of interest this week. New information is listed in bold:

House Bills

HB 484, by Spring, Relating to training required to qualify for or renew a license issued by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. The TCEQ must provide a location within 100 miles of the place of employment of a person who is required to receive the training, reimbursement for travel and lodging expenses incurred if training isn’t available within 100 miles, or online training. 3/14/2017 Left pending in committee. For more information go to: http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/BillLookup/history.aspx?LegSess=85R&Bill=HB484

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23 May, 2017
By AIPG-TX News

The Wise Report

The State Legislature is still in session. The following is a list of bills of potential interest to geologists.

There are no new bills of interest this week. New information is listed in bold:

HB 484, by Spring, Relating to training required to qualify for or renew a license issued by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. The TCEQ must provide a location within 100 miles of the place of employment of a person who is required to receive the training, reimbursement for travel and lodging expenses incurred if training isn’t available within 100 miles, or online training. 3/14/2017 Left pending in committee. For more information go to: http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/BillLookup/history.aspx?LegSess=85R&Bill=HB484

HB 815, by Burkett, Dale, Rick Miller, and Paul, Relating to the regulatory analysis of rules proposed by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. “Before adopting an environmental rule, the commission shall conduct a regulatory analysis that considers the costs and environmental effects and benefits expected to result from implementation of and compliance with the rule.” 3/14/2017 Withdrawn from schedule. For more information go to: http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/BillLookup/history.aspx?LegSess=85R&Bill=HB815

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14 May, 2017
By AIPG-TX News

The Wise Report

The State Legislature is still in session.

The following is a list of bills of potential interest to geologists.
There are no new bills of interest this week. New information is listed in bold:

HB 484, by Spring, Relating to training required to qualify for or renew a license issued by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. The TCEQ must provide a location within 100 miles of the place of employment of a person who is required to receive the training, reimbursement for travel and lodging expenses incurred if training isn’t available within 100 miles, or online training. 3/14/2017 Left pending in committee. For more information go to: http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/BillLookup/history.aspx?LegSess=85R&Bill=HB484

HB 815, by Burkett, Dale, Rick Miller, and Paul, Relating to the regulatory analysis of rules proposed by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. “Before adopting an environmental rule, the commission shall conduct a regulatory analysis that considers the costs and environmental effects and benefits expected to result from implementation of and compliance with the rule.” 3/14/2017 Withdrawn from schedule. For more information go to: http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/BillLookup/history.aspx?LegSess=85R&Bill=HB815

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11 May, 2017
By AIPG-TX News

IET Guide to Houston Growth Faulting and Subsidence Reaches 1,000 Views

According to Academia.edu, as of this date, the publication has been reached by 1,000 interested persons through that venue in the Houston area and in counties up and down the Gulf Coast, but also including Arizona, and California where similar problems exist, and in some 48 countries, including China, Russia, India, many African countries and others where over-pumping of groundwater from unconsolidated and consolidated sediments exist along with similar geological conditions where growth faulting is a dominant structural feature within soft sediments.

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09 May, 2017
By AIPG-TX News

The Wise Report

The State Legislature is still in session.
The following is a list of bills of potential interest to geologists.

There is one new bill of interest this week. New information is listed in bold:

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29 Apr, 2017
By AIPG-TX News

2017 AIPG-Texas Section Scholarship Committee Announces Award Selections: Updated

Glen A. Collier, P.G., C.P.G., Chair of the AIPG-Texas Section’s Scholarship Committee announced that four scholarships have been awarded to the following students:

2017 Shoemaker Graduate Scholarship ($2,500.00)

  1. Victor H. Garcia, University of Texas at El Paso; Recommendation by Dr. Aaron A. Velasco, University of Texas at El Paso, Texas (Essay), (Plaque); plus a copy of the book, Shoemaker by Levy: The Man Who Made an Impact, by David H. Levy, with the inscription (here). Presentation by Michael Jacobs (District I Representative, AIPG Texas Section) of Shoemaker Book, with Department Chairman James Kubicki, Ph.D.; Photo taken by Ben Brunner, Ph. D.) (Book Presentation).
  1. Philipp Tesch, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas; Recommendation by Dr. Robert S. Reece, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas (Essay), (Plaque); plus a copy of the book, Shoemaker by Levy: The Man Who Made an Impact, by David H. Levy, with the inscription (here).

2017 Foss Undergraduate Scholarship ($1,000.00)

  1. Sarah Giles, Texas A&M University, College Station; Recommendation by Dr. Steven M. Quiring, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio (Essay), (Plaque)
  1. Jordan Scarborough, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, Texas; Recommendation by Dr. Chris A. Barker, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, Texas (Essay), (Plaque).
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