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Invited AIPG Luncheon Speakers

Date Speaker Organization Sponsor Topic
6/4/13 Spring Social Pace    
summer hiatus        
Previous Speakers & Topics
5/14/13 Heidi Breid Winona State University Establishing a Lysimeter Network in Southeastern Minnesota to Assess Nitrate Transport Through the Root Zone of Agricultural and Non-Agricultural Soils
4/2/13 Beth Wenell UM-TC   Quantifying the Soil-Rock Interface
3/5/13 Dr. Jimmy Randolph Heat Mining Company, LLC Innovations in geothermal electricity generation: CO2-based geothermal heat mining and waste energy recovery from hydrocarbon production operations
2/5/13 Val Chandler Minnesota Geological Survey Passive-aggressive geophysics: An evaluation of the horizontal-to-vertical spectral ratio (HVSR) passive seismic method for determining glacial deposit thickness in Minnesota
1/8/13 Jim Tieberg Polymet Mining An Overview of PolyMet Mining’s Northmet Project in the Duluth Complex
12/4/12 Scott Clark UW-Eau Claire Plate tectonics: A well-known theory that isn't so well known
11/6/12 Nathan Eklund Pace US EPA Method TO-17
10/2/12 cancelled   members encouraged to attend Midwest Groundwater Conference  
9/4/12 Randy St. Germain Dakota Technologies applying laser-induced fluorescence (LIF) screening tools toward characterizing LNAPL and DNAPL sites
5/1/2012 Matt Manor UMD Dept. Geological Sciences Late Pleistocene climate in sediments of Lake Chalco, Basin of Mexico: project implications and benefits of undergraduate research
4/3/2012 Dr. Karen Gran UMD Dept. Geological Sciences Evolving Sediment Sources in the Minnesota River Basin: Implications for Resource Management
3/6/2012 Amy Hadiaris MPCA Reinventing TCAAP – An MPCA Perspective
2/7/2012 Bruce Brown Wis. Geological Survey Wisconsin’s Frac Sand Rush of 2011
1/10/2012 Steve Lee MPCA Environmental expectations and the origins of the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency in 1967
12/6/2011 Erik Gulbranson University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee The Antarctic - Permian-Triassic mass extinction and the emplacement of the Ferrar-Karoo Large Igneous Province
11/1/2011 Dr. Kyungsoo Yoo University of Minnesota Feather River California: Tectonically-triggered river incision shapes the gemorphology and geochemistry of the N. Sierra Nevada landscapes
Oct-2011     No Meeting - GSA National Conference  
9/6/2011 Dr. Vince Matthews Colorado Geological Survey

The Global Scramble for Natural Resources—Its Potential Impact on America
6/7/2011 Bob DeGroot Mini-field trip Pace Labs Bridal Veil Superfund Site
5/3/2011 Karen Jackson Macalester College Bed Sediment Grain size Distribution and Flow Dynamics- Indianhead Reservoir St. Croix River
4/5/2011 Kate Kleiter AET   TAKE THIS OUT OF THE BALLPARK - Geology and Environmental Remediation of the new Twins Ballpark Site
3/1/2011 Bill Bangsund Barr   Wind Energy & the Environment: A Geologist's Role
2/1/2011 Brad Koons ARCADIS   LNAPL in Porous Media:  Theory and Practical Application
1/4/2011 Mark Toso MPCA   The Impact of Biofuels Releases on Minnesota’s Water Resources
12/7/10 Tony Runkel MGS   Southeastern Minnesota Paleozoic Hydrostratigraphy: Fractures in Aquifers, Aquitards, and Aquitardifers
11/2/10 Scott Pearson DNR   South Central Minnesota Groundwater Monitoring and Geologic Atlas—Project Update
10/5/10 Steve Thompson MPCA Recent Stratigraphic Discoveries in Pierce County, Wisconsin: Cretaceous Bedrock and Pre-Wisconsin Drift
9/7/10 Mindy Erickson USGS   Crude Oil at the Bemidji Site
5/4/10 Kelly MacGregor Macalaster Geology Dept.   Modern-day and historical sediment transport in the St. Croix River, MN/WI: preliminary analysis and implications for native mussel populations
4/6/10 Heather Arends MDNR MN aggregate resources and the DNR aggregate mapping program 
3/2/10 Ginny Yingling Minnesota Department of Health   An Update on Perfluorinated Chemicals in Minnesota - Persistent in Both the Environment and Powerpoint!
2/2/10 Gregory Brick     Subterranean Twin Cities
1/5/10 E. Calvin Alexander UM-Twin Cities   SE Minnesota's Trout Springs
12/1/09 Mark Jirsa MGS   Ten Minutes of Chaos: The Sudbury Impact Layer in the Lake Superior Region
11/3/09 Frank Ongaro Mining Minnesota   The Next Generation of Mining: Opportunities, Economic Benefits, and Challenges Facing Non-Ferrous Mining in Minnesota
10/6/09 Michael Convery Minn. Dept. Health   Arsenic in Minnesota Groundwater
9/8/09 Daryl Peterson Pace Analytical   Laboratory Perspective of Vapor Intrusion
5/5/09 Cabin Ross Univ. St. Thomas   Structural Analysis of Bitter Springs Quad, Lake Mead, Nevada
4/7/09 Michelle LaRue UM-Antarctic Geospatial Information Center   Antartica
3/3/09 Sue Langer & Chris Sanocki USGS   Synoptic Study of Ground-water Level Changes in Major Aquifers in the Twin Cities Metropolitan Area
2/3/09 Larry Kinsman ORIN Remediation Technologies   Environmental Remedial Implementations, Including Good and Bad Experiences of Chemical Oxidation and Why
1/6/09 Ernie Lehmann Franconia Minerals Birch Lake Project
12/2/08 Ginny Yingling MDH   Perfluoronated Chemicals in Washington County: The Saga Continues - Groundwater Investigations and Public Response in the Midst of Uncertainty
11/4/08 Jim Miller UMD-Geology   Preparing Students for Jobs in the Booming Mining and Minerals Exploration Industries at the University of Minnesota Duluth
10/7/08 Scott Wolter American Petrographic Services   Hooked X
9/8/08 Dr. Harvey Thorleifson MGS   Carbon Capture and Storage - climate change strategy options for Minnesota
5/6/08 Bill Newman Remediation & Natural Attenuation Services, Inc.   In Situ Bioremediation Using Vegetable Oil Emulsions and Colloidal Insoluble Buffers
4/1/08 Carrie Jennings Minnesota Geological Survey   Sediment dynamics in agricultural watersheds of the Minnesota basin
3/4/08 Mark Jirsa Minnesota Geological Survey   What Forest Fires in the BWCAW Reveal: Volcanic Eruptions, Meteorite Impact, and other Natural Disasters
2/5/08 Terry Boerboom Minnesota Geological Survey   Geology of the North Shore near Grand Marais
1/8/08 Ray Rogers Macalaster Geology Dept.   bonebeds, and other interesting stuff
12/4/07 Ginny Yingling Minnesota Department of Health   Perfluoronated Chemicals - Groundwater Investigations and Public Health Response in the Midst of Uncertainty
11/6/07 Eric Mohring MN Board of Water and Soil Resources   Tracking Conservation And Natural Resource Management Accomplishments Achieved Through State-Local Partnerships
10/2/07 Harvey Thorleifson Minnesota Geological Survey   Indicator mineral survey of Minnesota
9/4/07 Larry Kinsman Orin Technology   Ex-Situ Chemical Oxidation of Pentachlorophenol at a Former Manufacturing Facility in Lester Prairie, Minnesota
5/1/07 Ernie Lehman Franconia Minerals   PMGs & the Birch Lake Project
4/26/07 Dr. Jim Cotter UM-Morris   9th Annual Spring Social
4/3/07 Mindy Erickson MPCA   MPCA's Ambient Ground Water Sampling Activities
2/6/07 Dr. Kevin Theissen Univ. St. Thomas   Paleoecology of Shallow Lakes in the Prairie Pothole Region of Minnesota
2/6/07 Barb Gnabasik MPCA   Reserve Mining Scrapyard Cleanup - Silver Bay, Minnesota
1/9/07 Charles Tiller American Engineering Testing   Adventures in Yellowstone Geology: a coming-of-age tale
12/5/06 Brad Ullery Target   Target Corporation's Approach to Due Diligence Protocol
11/7/06 Karen Campbell St. Anthony Falls Lab.   Big Science, Big Education: Research, Practice and Education at a National Laboratory in the Mississippi River
9/23-28   AIPG   AIPG 43rd Annual Meeting
9/5/06 James Arndt NRG   Hydrogeology, Pedology, and Botany of the Seminary Calcareous Fen, Carver County, Minnesota
 

Monthly Meetings start at 11:45 AM, the first Tuesday of each month. Monthly meetings are held at:

Radisson Hotel Roseville
2540 North Cleveland Avenue (I-35W and County Road C)
Roseville, Minnesota 55113
Telephone: 651-636-4567

The luncheon price is $15 for AIPG members, $20 for non-members.

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