The next meeting HAGS meeting will be 6:30 pm Thursday Sept ember 9^th, 2010. Ben Edwards of Dickinson College will present: The Vikings Revenge, the saga of how a small Icelandic eruption brought European airspace to its knees.    In the wake of the global financial crisis, which hit the Icelandic economy harder than almost any European nation, two relatively small eruptions from Eyjafjallajökull volcano sent European air travel to the brink. Although this series of Icelandic eruptions was the fifth since 1996, and not really catastrophically larger then the previous four, it had far worse consequences. Why? This talk will focus on the dynamics of lava-snow-ice interactions during the 2010 eruption and explore how such eruptions can pose much more serious local-regional-global hazards than subaerial eruptions. Meeting at GTS Technologies 441 Friendship Road, Harrisburg, PA.

 

Please join us for dinner before at the Lancaster Brewing Company on 469 Eisenhower Blvd. for dinner from 5:00 – 6:15 PM.  Please RSVP so we can get tables for everyone.

 

Field Conferences:

• Field Conference of Pennsylvania Geologists is Sept 23^rd to 25^th, and located right here in Lancaster this year. Tectonics of the Pennsylvania Piedmont along the Susquehanna

River (75th anniversary of the founding of the FCOPG) Early registration is Sept. 2^nd!  Visit http://fcopg.org/ for details.

 

• Great Valley Water Resources Science Forum, Sept. 15-17, Shepardstown, WVa. Registration is due by Sept 1!!!! Visit http://www.rivernetwork.org/events/great-valley-water-resources-science-forum for details. 

 

Visit http://www.fcopg.org/HAGS/UpcomingEvents.htm for regular additions.

 

Job Openings:

Several new job openings have come up:

• Ohio Geological Survey/Geologist 3 (apps due Sept 3^rd)
• Synergy Environmental, Inc. (Project Environmental Scientist/Geologist/Engineer, Staff Environmental Scientist/Geologist/Engineer, and Environmental Technician)

 

And still searching is

• AWK Engineers (Registered Structural/Geotechnical Engineers)
• Chester County Water Resources Authority (Water Resources Specialist)

 

We continue to post and update our HAGS jobs website so, job hunters, be sure to visit http://www.fcopg.org/HAGS/JobOpenings.htm

 

 

And other events:

32nd Annual National Association of Abandoned Mine Land Programs (NAAMLP) Conference, Scranton, Pennsylvania, September 19-22, 2010.  Please visit the NAAMLP2010 website, www.NAAMLP2010.com, to register for the conference and to book your room at the Hilton Scranton & Conference Center. 

 

Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Section of Invertebrate Paleontology, Geology Seminars, Field Trips, and Classes 2010 http://www.carnegiemnh.org/ip/schedule.htm

 

Society of Vertebrate Paleontology 70^th Anniversary Meeting, 10/10/10 through 10/13/10 at David L. Lawrence Convention Center & Westin Convention Center, Pittsburgh

http://www.vertpaleo.org/meetings/2010hostcmtewelcome.cfm

 

Buy-A-Bone Campaign as part of the Newly Remounted Marshalls Creek Mastodon Exhibit by Friends of the State Museum, 300 North St., Harrisburg, www.pabookstore.com

 

Interstate Technical Group on Abandoned Underground Mines (ITGAUM) 8^th Biennial Workshop 9/21/10 through 9/23/10 at Hilton Hotel and Conference Center, Scranton  http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/engineering/geotech/hazards/mine/minework.cfm  In conjunction with: National Association of Abandoned Mine Land Programs 32^nd Annual Conference 9/19/10 through 9/22/10 at Hilton Hotel and Conference Center, Scranton http://naamlp2010.com/index.htm

 

 

Thanks, and hope to see you all soon!