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Volume 49, Number 1 THE PROFESSIONAL GEOLOGIST JAN/FEB 2012 TPG Volume 49, Number 1 THE PROFESSIONAL GEOLOGIST JAN/FEB 2012 Inside This Student Issue 6 Features 2012 SME Annual Meeting & Exhibit 3 Scholarship Program 4 Starting a Geology Student Club Public Outreach Program Sammy Castonguay, SA-2047 5 Note To Self--Get a Good Solid Education William J. Elliot, CPG-04194 7 “Get Involved”- Career Advice for Graduate and 15 Undergraduate Students Michael J. Urban, MEM-1910 8 What Geology Students Need To Know About Professional Licensure Robert E. Tepel 10 Undergraduates Conference Attendance, a Win-Win Situation for Students and Their Home Institution S.A. Isiorho, CPG-07788 12 Towers, Tarantuals and Towbots Stephanie Jarvis, SA-1495 13 “Geobassador” Larry Cerrillo, CPG-02763 14 The Permitting Process for Land Development Impacts to Section 404 Waters by the Army Corps of Engineers: A Case Study Taylor M. Bell 36 15 New Yellowstone Website Provides Interactive Maps on Volcanic Activity 40 Studies Shed New Light on Denver Basin Groundwater 42 The view looking south from the mouth of Danger Bay on Afognak Island across Marmot Bay to Peer Reviewed Article Kodiak Island, Alaska. Parrot Island sits in the Assessing a Groundwater Monitoring Network at a Dense foreground. Whale Island is located between Afognak and Kodiak (to the right). Sharatin Non-Aqueous Phase Liquids Remediation Site using Mountain and Elbow Mountain are snowy white Groundwater Temperature, Level and Analytical Data in the setting sun. Photo taken March, 2011, by Kevin Svitana, MEM-1840 45 Christina Coulter, YP-0008. AIPG National Executive Committee DEPARTMENTS PRESIDENT - Barbara H. Murphy, CPG Clear Creek Associates O: (480) 659-7131 14 In Memory [email protected] PRESIDENT-ELECT - Ronald J. 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South Eugene, Oregon. grade students from Oak Hill Middle School in Eugene, Oregon. Both as an undergraduate and now as -Find your campus ‘Geology Club’ (or a graduate student, I have worked with similar). If one does not exist, start the University of Oregon Geology Club show them you are organized and one through your student government to create a cohesive outreach program. also give them the chance to suggest and Geology Department. That being said, it is not yet consolidated. changes to the material. -Get involved in the ‘Clubs’ outreach In nearly three years, the program -Go into the classroom with confidence program. Again, if there isn’t one, has reached out to elderly communities, and lots of energy. Always engage the start one. public and private schools grades 1-12, students with eye contact and ques- detention centers, community organized Tips on starting and outreach program: tions. You are a guest speaker, it is free-schools, and across campus. -Look up schools in your area, any level, easy for them to write you off and not Some suggestions for students inter- or any place open for public exchange. listen, so keeping them engaged and ested in becoming involved in an out- Really, the possibilities are endless. focused is important. reach program: -Design some basic labs, or use some Our outreach program seems to be of your introductory moving toward an 8-10 lab curriculum course material.
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  • The Late Triassic Timescale: Age and Correlation of the Carnian–Norian Boundary

    The Late Triassic Timescale: Age and Correlation of the Carnian–Norian Boundary

    Archived version from NCDOCKS Institutional Repository http://libres.uncg.edu/ir/asu/ The Late Triassic timescale: Age and correlation of the Carnian–Norian boundary By: A.B. Heckert, S.G. Lucas, L.H. Tanner, H.W. Kozur, & R.E. Weems Abstract The Late Triassic timescale is poorly constrained due largely to the dearth of reliable radio-isotopic ages that can be related precisely to biostratigraphy combined with evident contradictions between bio-stratigraphic and magnetostratigraphic correlations. These problems are most apparent with regard to the age and correlation of the Carnian–Norian boundary (base of the Norian Stage). We review the available age data pertaining to the Carnian– Norian boundary and conclude that the “long Norian” in current use by many workers, which places the Carnian– Norian boundary at ~228 Ma, is incorrect. The evidence supports a Norian stage that is much shorter than proposed by these workers, so the Carnian–Norian boundary is considerably younger than this, close to 220 Ma in age. Critical to this conclusion is the correlation of the Carnian–Norian boundary in nonmarine strata of Europe and North America, and its integration with existing radioisotopic ages and magnet-ostratigraphy. Three bio- stratigraphic datasets (palynomorphs, conchostracans and tetra-pods) reliably identify the same position for the Carnian–Norian boundary (within normal limits of bio-stratigraphic resolution) in nonmarine strata of the Chinle Group (American Southwest), Newark Supergroup (eastern USA–Canada) and the German Keuper. These biostratigraphic datasets place the Carnian–Norian boundary at the base of the Warford Member of the lower Passaic Formation in the Newark Basin, and, as was widely accepted prior to 2002, this correlates the base of the Norian to a horizon within Newark magnet-ozone E13n.