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Volume 46, Number 3 THE PROFESSIONAL GEOLOGIST MAY/JUNE 2009 A Publication of the American Institute of Professional Geologists Professionalism Is Our Purpose www.aipg.org TTPGP G Volume 46, Number 3 THE PROFESSIONAL GEOLOGIST MAY/JUNE 2009 Inside This Issue AIPG 2009 Annual Meeting Edition Welcome Letter 3 Meeting Program 4 Field Trips 5-9 5 Short Courses 10-11 Social Events 12 Exhibitor Opportunities 13 Sponsorship Opportunities 14 Registration Form 15 FEATURES AIPG National Officers-Candidate Articles and Biographies 24 Applications for the Forms Challenged Lawrence (Larry) Austin, CPG-05181 52 7 PEER REVIEWED ARTICLE-Field Collecting in the Pikes Peak Batholith, Steve Maslansky, CPG-04481 55 Geologic Models as Teaching Aids; Some Personal Examples Paul Lindberg, CPG-06844 60 Groundwater Exploration and Development in Haiti James Adamson, MEM-1532 and Stuart Dykstra 62 AIPG Raft Trip on the Colorado River 7 Holly Walton-Buchanan, PhD 64 Anthropogenic Hillside-Erosion and Floodplain Inundation, Cul-de-Sac, Haiti Barney Popkin, CPG-06547 66 58 ON THE COVER - Blossoming Orchards in Grand Junction, Colorado. Photo courtesy of Grand Junction Convention and Visitors Bureau. 2009 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE PRESIDENT - John L. Bognar, CPG Leggette, Brashears & Graham, Inc. O: (314) 845-0535 / [email protected] PRESIDENT-ELECT - Michael D. Lawless, CPG DEPARTMENTS Draper Aden Associates O: (540) 552-0444 / [email protected] PAST-PRESIDENT - Daniel J. St. Germain, CPG 17 Editor’s Corner Malcolm Pirnie, Inc. O: (201) 398-4381 / [email protected] 18 Section News VICE PRESIDENT - Timothy L. Crumbie, CPG Geoscience Consultants, Inc. O: (502) 868-0975 / [email protected] 22 Members in the News SECRETARY - David P. Palmer, CPG ElPaso Natural Gas Company 23 Test Your Knowledge O: (602) 438-4203 / [email protected] TREASURER - David R. Rhode, CPG 33 President’s Message RBC Wealth Management O: (303) 488-3645 /[email protected] 34 Student Membership Application EDITOR - Robert A. Stewart, CPG LFR Inc. O: (860) 290-9300 / [email protected] 35 Executive Director’s Column ADVISORY BOARD REPRESENTATIVES Robert W. 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Opinions and (603) 773-0075/FAX (603) 773-0077 views expressed by the authors are their own and do not necessarily reflect those of the American Institute of Professional Geologists, its staff, or its advertisers. [email protected] Printed in U.S.A. by Modern Litho-Print Company in Jefferson City, Missouri. For AIPG news and activities go to www.aipg.org. AAIPG’sIPG’s 4466tthh AAnnualnnual MeetingMeeting GGrandrand Junction,Junction, ColoradoColorado AIPG’s 46th Annual Meeting will be held October 3-7, 2009 in Tuesday, October 6th (half-day trips) Grand Junction, Colorado, located at the boundary between the • Oil Rig Site Tour Rocky Mountains and the Colorado Plateau. The meeting is being • Water System Operations in the Grand Valley: co-sponsored by AIPG, the Colorado Section of AIPG, the Grand Dave Merritt leader Junction Geological Society, and Mesa State College. Given the • Colorado National Monument: Bill and Sandy Hood leaders incredibly diverse geology occurring within a half day’s drive of Grand Junction, the meeting’s schedule is designed to allow you to • Grand Valley Winery Tour: Robert Fakundiny leader take in this geological wonderland with a variety of field trips and technical sessions. We are also offering a variety of short courses. Wednesday, October 7th The following technical sessions, field trips, and short courses are • Origins of the Unaweep Canyon: Bill Hood, Andreas Aslan and being planned. Fuller descriptions of the field trips and short courses Red Cole leaders can be found on AIPG’s website, www.aipg.org. Actual registrations • Late Jurassic Dinosaur Localities of Rabbit Valley: will affect which field trips and short courses will actually occur, so John Foster leader please register as soon as possible. • Mass Movement and Landslides: Jon White leader Technical Sessions (specific sessions will depend on what abstracts are submitted) Thursday and Friday, October 8th & 9th • The challenges of mountain road building and maintenance • San-Juan Geology/Mining History: Rob Blair and • Oil & gas, coal, and uranium development in western Colorado: Bob Larson leaders technical and environmental challenges • Colorado River Headwaters and Trans-Mountain Diversions: • Uses, diversions, and water accounting in the Upper Colorado Peter Barkmann and David Merritt leaders River Basin • Surface Coal Mining and Reclamation NW Colorado: • Landslide problems created by western interior shales Jim Burnell leader • Acid waters, natural and man-caused: what is natural, what is not, and what can be done about it? • The impacts of resource development on local communities Short Courses • Permitting and regulations affecting development of all types Friday, October 2nd • Natural resources: geology, development issues, and trends • Subsurface Data Management, Analysis and Visualization using RockWorks (at Mesa State’s computer lab) presented by Jim Reed Field Trips and Allison Alcott. Saturday, October 3rd • Utah’s Arches/Canyonlands and Dead Horse Point: Tom Chidsey Saturday, October 3rd leader • GIS I-Intro To ArcGIS for the Earth Scientist (at Mesa State’s • Douglas Pass: Eocene Plant and Insect Fossil Collecting: computer lab) presented by Jim Russell and Verner Johnson John Foster leader • Two-Phase Extraction - Innovative Applications with Multiple • Underground West Elk Mine Tour: Wendell Koontz leader Remediation Technologies and Recirculation presented by Mehmet Pehlivan and Jim Jacobs Saturday, October 3rd and Sunday, October 4th • Mass-wasting Features Associated with the Lake City Caldera, Sunday, October 4th San Juan Mountains, Colorado: Joe Fandrich leader