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Twenty Years of Partnership Celebrating the Formation of APEGS ThE ProFESSIonAl EDGEI S S U E 167 mArCh/APrIl 2017 Twenty Years of Partnership Celebrating the Formation of APEGS G E o S C I E n C E Achieving a Safe and Prosperous Editorial provided by: Martin Charlton Communications Future through Engineering and #300 - 1914 Hamilton Street, Regina, Saskatchewan S4P 3N6 Geoscience T: 306.584-1000, F: 306. 584-5111, E: [email protected] Editor: Lyle Hewitt, Managing Director, Martin Charlton Communications E: [email protected] Design and layout: Jo Anne Lauder Publishing & Design, T: 306.522-8461, E :[email protected] Opinions expressed in signed contributions are those of the individual authors only, and the Association accepts no responsibility for them. The Association reserves the right to make the usual editorial changes in manuscripts accepted for publication, including such revisions as are necessary to ensure correctness of grammar and Professional Edge Committee spelling. 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Elsewhere - $20/year. 3 Table of Contents I S S U E 1 6 7 MARCH/APRIL 2017 05 President’s Message 07 Twenty Years of Partnership 16 Member Profile 8 17 SES Awards high hopes for helium 18 Children’s Discovery Museum by mArTIn ChArlTon CommUnICATIonS 19 Professional Misconduct 20 Awards Winners & Banquet 22 Cardboard Boat Races 23 CSSE Fellowship Awards 10 24 The Story on Solar mother nature’s Tough love 25 Annual Meeting by mArTIn ChArlTon CommUnICATIonS 29 Council Notes 31 Reporting PD Credits 33 Continuing Professional Development 34 Volunteer Orientation Course 13 35 Volunteering with APEGS A Tale of Tailings 36 Safety Moment by mArTIn ChArlTon CommUnICATIonS 38 News Beyond Our Borders 40 News From The Field CorrECTIon noTICE: 46 Dream Big: Engineering Our In Issue 166, “Profiles in Achievement” on page 9, the K+S fluid storage system was erroneously referred to as a World “tailings storage” system in the title. The editorial staff of The Professional Edge extends our apologies to K+S for any 48 Calendar of Events embarrassment this error may have caused. 4 President’s Message leah mcDonald, President Zrymiak, Tammy roney by the USS Klondike in Whitehorse n March of 1997, APES/APEGS President Henry Feldkamp, P.Eng. said, “Professional engineers and geoscientists have joined forces to provide even more value-added services for a safe and Iprosperous quality of life for all,” and Highways and Transportation We’re all in this together – from Minister Andy Renaud said, “The marriage of these two groups is a welcoming geoscientists into the logical result of today’s increasingly complex society.” Association 20 years ago, to Since then, APEGS has been proud to include several geoscientists working with our sister regulators on each council and to work together and share learnings between to optimize our service to the our closely connected professions. The way I see it, geoscience is public across the country, to the starting point for a lot of what engineers do because engineers consulting with other self- use the information and data from geological study of the Earth as the basis for most of our applied science. Geoscientists may regulating professions in our comprise less than 10 per cent of our membership but they are province in areas of common important contributors to our overall mandate. interest like continuing You will see in the APEGS Annual Report each year summaries of the professional development. annual activity of a number of geoscience-based groups including When we work together, Geoscientists Canada, the geology departments and geology everybody wins! student clubs at the U of R and the U of S and the Saskatchewan Geological Society (SGS). All of these groups make impressive contributions to the advancement of geoscience in the province. For example, over the past year the SGS has sponsored 13 technical 5 where they have initiated discussions with the government to consider adding geoscientists to their association. The spring meeting of the Engineers Canada board in Ottawa was very interesting with pending adjustments due to the CEO change and discussions about strategic planning and evolution of the accreditation process. The recurring themes throughout the three days of meetings were focus and transparency. I am looking forward to attending the Annual Meetings of APEGA and PEO in April as well. As I head into the final few months of my term as APEGS President, this is my last message in The Professional Edge. To say that serving the Association in this role has been an honour and a privilege is a gross understatement, as it has been a tremendous growth experience for me personally as well. Participating in the board meetings of Engineers President Zrymiak presenting Colton Vessey with the Walter Canada and Geoscientists Canada, annual meetings of Kupsch Award at the SGS AGm most of our sister associations (apologies to Newfoundland Labrador and Quebec) and PNWER summits has opened my eyes to the multitude of different presentations on topics ranging from rethinking the ways and means that can be employed to achieve the cretaceous climate to modelling uranium deposits to the same general needs. I hope that I was able to pass some NASA mission to Pluto. They also sent a number of of these learnings back to our own Association and students on a field trip to Jasper/Hinton, held a golf members through my participation in Council, board and tournament, published their popular geological calendar committee meetings as well as many other events. and put on what has been rated as the best open house in I would like to thank all the members of Council and the country this year. especially Executive Committee members Ernie Barber, I was pleased to be invited to the annual SGS Awards Stormy Holmes, P.Eng., Margaret Anne Hodges, P.Eng., Banquet recently, where their outgoing president, Ryan FEC and Bob McDonald, P.Eng.,, LL.B, FEC for their support Morelli, P.Geo., gave an engaging address titled “Some and encouragement throughout the year. I would also like Thoughts on the Link Between Geology and Art.” He first to thank all of the staff in the APEGS office – it’s a cliché, took us all on a pictorial tour with his family of the but it’s true that we couldn’t do it without them. I also wonderful architecture and sculptures in Rome. He went want to thank my family for their support, specifically my on to discuss rock as a medium for art and as an daughter Alexandra for being my proofreader/editor and inspiration for art of many forms: paintings of geological my mom Doreen for being my travelling companion.
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