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Tasks of a Professional Geologist

Tasks of a Professional Geologist

Research, Field Methods and Communications / Structural (continued from previous !Plan and conduct field operations including human (continued from previous column) column) and ecological health, safety, and regulatory !Determine suites of types !Correlate separated structural features considerations !Characterize mineral assemblages and probable !Develop and interpret tectonic history through !Evaluate property/mineral rights genesis structural analyses !Interpret regulatory constraints !Plan and conduct mineralogic or petrologic !, interpret, and monitor movement !Select and interpret appropriate base for field investigations !Identify geological structures, lineaments, fracture investigations !Identify minerals and rocks and their characteristics systems or other features from surface or !Determine scales and distances from remote !Identify and interpret rock and mineral sequences, subsurface mapping or remote imagery imagery and/or maps associations, and genesis Tasks of A !Identify, locate and utilize available data sources !Plan and conduct field operations and procedures to !Plan and conduct applicable paleontologic Professional ensure public protection !Evaluate geochemical data and/or construct investigations !Construct borehole and trench logs geochemical models related to rocks and minerals !Correlate rocks biostratigraphically !Design and conduct laboratory programs and !Establish analytical objectives and methods !Identify fossils and fossil assemblages and make Geologist interpret results !Make determinations of sorption/desorption paleontological interpretations for age and !Evaluate historic land use or environmental reactions based upon aquifer mineralogy paleoecological interpretations conditions from remote imagery ! Statement by the National Association of Assess the behavior of dissolved phase and free !Develop and utilize Quality Assurance/Quality State Boards of Geology phase contaminant flow in groundwater and surface Control procedures water systems !Evaluate geomorphic processes and development The National Association of State Boards of !Construct and interpret maps and other graphical !Assess salt water intrusion of landforms and soils Geology (ASBOG®) is a non-profit organization presentations !Design, implement and interpret fate and transport !Identify and classify landforms comprised of state boards that have developed and !Write and edit geologic reports models !Plan and conduct geomorphic investigations administer national competency examinations for !Interpret and analyze aerial photos, satellite and !Identify minerals and rocks based on their chemical !Determine geomorphic processes and development the licensure/registration of geologists. The other imagery properties and constituents of landforms and soils ASBOG® exams have been adopted by all of the !Perform geological interpretations from aerial !Determine absolute or relative age relationships of states in the U.S. and the territory of Puerto Rico photos, satellite and other imagery / landforms and soils which have geologic practice regulation acts. The !Design geologic monitoring programs !Plan and conduct sedimentologic, and stratigraphic !Identify potential hazardous geomorphological following areas of professional practice contain !Interpret data from geologic monitoring programs investigations conditions generalized and some specific activities which may !Read and interpret topographic and bathymetric !Identify and interpret sedimentary structures, !Identify flood plain extent be performed by qualified, professional geologists. maps depositional environments, and !Determine high water (i.e. flood) levels !Perform geologic research in field and laboratory provenance !Evaluate stream or shoreline and transport Professional geologists may be uniquely qualified ! to perform these activities based on their formal Prepare soil, sediment and geotechnical logs !Identify and interpret sediment or rock sequences, processes !Prepare lithological logs positions, and ages !Evaluate regional geomorphology education, training and experience. Under each !Interpret dating, isotopic, and/or tracer studies !Establish relative position of rock units major heading is a group of activities associated !Plan and evaluate remediation and restoration !Determine relative and absolute ages of rocks with that specific area of geoscience practice. The programs !Interpret depositional environments and structures !Select methods of geophysical investigations major areas of professional, geologic practice !Identify geological structures, lineaments, or fracture and evaluate post-depositional changes !Perform geophysical investigations in the field include, but are not limited to: Research; Field systems from surface or remote imagery !Perform analyses !Perform geological interpretation of geophysical Methods and Communications; Mineralogy; !Select, construct, and interpret maps, cross- !Correlate rock units data Petrology; Geochemistry; Stratigraphy; Historical, sections, and other data for field investigations !Interpret geologic history !Design, implement, and interpret data from surface Structural, Environmental, , and !Design, apply, and interpret analytical or numerical !Determine and establish basis for stratigraphic or subsurface geophysical programs including data ; Geophysics; Geomorphology; models classification and nomenclature from borehole geophysical programs Paleontology; ; Geochemistry; and !Establish stratigraphic correlations and interpret !Identify potentially hazardous geological conditions Geology and Energy Resources. These Mineralogy/Petrology rock sequences, positions, and ages by using geophysical techniques areas are specifically included in the ASBOG® !Identify minerals and their physiochemical !Establish provenance of sedimentary deposits !Use wireline geophysical instruments to delineate examinations to assure geologic competency. properties stratigraphic/lithologic units Again, this list represents only a cross-section of !Identify mineral assemblages !Conduct geophysical field surveys and !Determine probable genesis and sequence of !Plan and conduct structural and tectonic interpretations, e.g. petrophysical wellbore logging possible activities, and does not include all mineral assemblages devices, seismic data (reflection and refraction), potential professional practice activities. investigations !Predict subsurface mineral characteristics on the !Develop deformational history through structural radiological, radar, remote sensing, electro- Also included in this publication is a listing of basis of exposures and drill holes analyses conductive or resistive surveys, etc. Includes “Other related activities which may be performed by !Identify and classify major rock types !Identify structural features and their delineation of mineral deposits, interpretation of qualified Professional Geologists.” These activities, !Determine physical properties of rocks interrelationships depositional environments, formation delineations, although not specifically geoscience in content, !Determine geotechnical properties of rocks !Determine orientation of structural features faulting, salt water contaminations-intrusion, may be performed by a qualified, professional !Determine types, effects, and/or degrees of rock and !Perform qualitative and quantitative structural contaminate plume delineations and other geologist. mineral alteration analyses structural/stratigraphic inferences !Map structural features

Column 1 of 8 - ASBOG Listing, December, 2004 Column 2 of 8 - ASBOG Listing, December, 2004 Column 3 of 8 - ASBOG Listing, December, 2004 Column 4 of 8 - ASBOG Listing, December, 2004 Geophysics (continued from previous column) (continued from previous Other related activities which may be performed by Other related activities which may be performed by !Identify and delineate /seismic hazards column) qualified Professional Geologists qualified Professional Geologists (continued from !Interpret paleoseismic history !Develop and interpret engineering geology !Provide data and complete permit applications for previous column) investigations, characterizations, maps, and cross RCRA, Solid Waste, NPDES/POTW, Storm Water, !Prepare post spill assessments and remediation Hydrogeology/Environmental Geochemistry sections Sludge, Water supply, Solid Waste Sites, UIC, plans !Plan and conduct hydrogeological, geochemical, !Evaluate materials resources Wetlands, and Mining !Develop and implement site safety plans and and environmental investigations !Plan and evaluate remediation and restoration !Implement siting plans for the location of lagoons environmental sampling plans !Design and interpret data from hydrologic testing programs for hazard mitigation and land restoration and landfills !Provide educational outreach related to geological, programs including monitoring plans !Evaluate geologic conditions for buildings, dams, !Environmental contaminant isocontour mapping geotechnical, hydrologic, emergency response and !Utilize geochemical data to evaluate hydrologic bridges, highways, tunnels, excavations, and/or !Conduct water well inventories other activities conditions other designed structures !Determine geotechnical aquifer parameters !Respond to natural disaster events (i.e. floods, !Develop and interpret groundwater models !Define and establish site selection and evaluation !Land and water (surface and ground water) use , etc.) for protection of human health !Apply geophysical methods to analyze hydrologic criteria utilized in planning, land usage, and other and the environment conditions including geophysical logging analysis !Design and im plement field and laboratory determinations !Participate in pre-planning for spill events in coastal and interpretation programs !Determine sampling parameters and provide field or other environmentally sensitive environments !Determine physical and chemical properties of !Describe and sample soils for geologic analyses oversight. !Develop resource(s) and infrastructure vulnerability aquifers and vadose zones !Describe and sample soils for material !Environmental Site assessments (Phase I, II, and III) assessment plans and reports related to potable !Define and characterize groundwater flow systems properties/geotechnical testing !Use of Global Positioning Systems (GPS) and/or and non-potable water supplies, waste water !Develop water well abandonment plans including !Interpret historical land use, landforms, or Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and/or treatment facilities, etc. monitoring and public water supply wells environmental conditions from imagery, maps, or Remote Sensing (RS) instruments, techniques, and !Develop/interpret analytical, particle tracking and other records software to delineate the following: mass transport models !Conduct geological evaluations for surface and ‚Contamination of and earth materials !Design and conduct aquifer performance tests underground mine closure and land reclamation ‚Ore deposits (including , gravel, and !Define and characterize saturated and vadose zone !Laboratory permeability testing of earth and earth other economic deposits) flow and transport materials ‚ deposits !Evaluate, manage, and protect groundwater supply ‚Physical, structural and/or other features and resources Economic Geology, , and Energy components of the earth including !Potentiometric surface mapping and interpretation Resources (including metallic and non-metallic topography, naturally occurring or man-made. !Design and install groundwater exploration, ores/minerals, and energy resources, ‚Depiction of other spatially dependent data development, monitoring, and pumping/injection building stones/materials, sand, gravel, clay, etc.) including but not limited to: wells !Plan and conduct mineral, rock, hydrocarbon, or

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