geology News
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`Boiling hot` leads to cool results: Army employs hot new approach to environmental remediation
Army officials are breaking ground on a decades-long environmental remediation project to lift contaminants out of acres of land located on Redstone Arsenal near Huntsville, Alabama. Across football field-sized areas that became contaminated with industrial chemicals, workers employ a hot new approach to soil and groundwater remediation. They use an environmental treatment method called ...
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August Mack announces new hires and promotions
August Mack Environmental, Inc., a full-service environmental, health and safety (EH&S) consulting firm, is pleased to announce the hiring of Dawn Knipe-Book in the Indianapolis office, the promotion of Kimberly Mayes and Erin McClendon in the Indianapolis office and the promotion of Eric Cooper and Geoff Westphal in the Dublin, Ohio office.Dawn Knipe-Book joined August Mack as a field ...
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Australia’s ocean research ship open to Sydneysiders
RV Southern Surveyor is the only dedicated Australian research ship equipped to perform marine research in the offshore waters of Australia and Oceania. It is used by Australian universities, CSIRO and other research organisations and their international collaborators to improve our understanding of the marine environment. Australia’s ocean territory is the third largest in the world and only ...
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Geosoft announces geochemistry extension for ESRI ArcGIS
Geosoft Inc., a world leader in software and solutions for earth exploration, announced today the commercial availability of their Geochemistry for ArcGIS™ extension for ESRI's ArcGIS software. The Geochemistry for ArcGIS extension adds a powerful geochemical workflow to ArcGIS, enabling geoscientists to efficiently conduct their geochemical QA and analysis inside ESRI.Geosoft is focused on ...
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Enforcement key to earthquake survival in Asia
Up to a quarter of the world's population lives in earthquake-prone South Asia where enforcement of building codes could vastly reduce deaths from future tremors, says a paper in Science. Fatalities from earthquakes since 1900 in this region have exceeded those in previous centuries due to both a growing population and the fragility of construction methods, according to the paper published ...
By SciDev.Net
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TGS Expands Multi-Client Seismic Data Library in Europe with New Barents Sea PSDM Project
ASKER, NORWAY (05 May 2010) TGS announced today that it has launched a 2,600 square kilometer 3D pre-stack depth migration (PSDM) project over the Hoop Fault Complex, offshore Norway in the Barents Sea. This will be the first multi-client project of its kind in the European region. The project will be managed by the TGS processing center in Bedford, United Kingdom. Original data was acquired by ...
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TROLL 9500 Used In Combined Remedy Approach at Former Dry Cleaning Site Contaminated with PCE
A former dry-cleaning site in the Pacific Northwest, Ultra Custom Care Cleaners, was found to be contaminated with PCE (perchloroethylene). According to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), PCE was widely used in the dry cleaning of fabrics since the 1940s. PCE is one of the most frequently detected VOCs (volatile organic carbons) in groundwater at a national scale (Moran 2004). PCE is highly ...
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TRS group expands into international markets and thermally enhanced oil recovery
Thermal Remediation Services, Inc. (TRS) announced that it has changed its corporate name to TRS Group, Inc. (TRS Group). The name change recognizes corporate expansions to deliver its core technology, Electrical Resistance Heating (ERH), into both the global environmental market and the thermally enhanced oil recovery market. For the last 10 years, TRS has been the market leader and premier ...
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PM Environmental, Inc. Expands Midwest Presence with Cincinnati Office
PM Environmental, Inc. (PM) is pleased to announce further expansion in the Midwest with the opening of its Cincinnati, Ohio regional office, as well as the appointment of Regional Manager & Senior Consultant, Ms. Renee McFarlan. The new office is located at 119 East Court Street, Cincinnati, Ohio 45202, and is PM’s 16th regional office. McFarlan will be focusing on Due Diligence, ...
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The Focus-Abengoa Foundation presents the second seminar of the series `Road to Paris 2015` under the Energy Transition and Climate Change Forum framework
The Focus-Abengoa Foundation today held the second of its regular seminars of the series "Road to Paris 2015", this time entitled "Climate change and new global energy scenario. From Lima to Paris via Saudi Arabia.” The event is included in the sessions that take place within the Energy Transition and Climate Change Forum framework. These seminars aim to generate debate on the state of ...
By Abengoa
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Live Webcast - Tuesday, March 24, 2015. Raman Spectroscopy Adds Chemical ID to Particle Analysis
This webinar will discuss the growing interest in combining Raman spectroscopy to image-based particle analysis techniques, in order to provide fast, non-destructive chemical identification of the particles. Such particle characterization is currently being applied in a wide range of fields, including pharmaceuticals, geology and mining exploration, and environmental analysis. Introductory ...
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TDHI at Produced Water Society 30th Anniversary Seminar
At this year’s Produced Water Society (PWS) Seminar, TDHI’s Chip Westaby will present a “Comparison of Advanced Water Treatment Technologies.” Join TDHI for the presentation and check out the new TD-550 and TD-560 oil in water analyzers—perfect for the measurement of light hydrocarbons and gas condensates in water. This year marks the 30th anniversary of the PWS ...
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Environmental Equipment Rental Company VP Brian Chew Criticizes Idea to Kill South Carolina's Geology Licensure Board
Brian E Chew Sr, PG, a recognized remediation equipment expert and Vice President of environmental equipment rental, sales and service firm Enviro-Equipment Inc., is taking aim at a report by Catherine B. Templeton, the former Director of South Carolina’s Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation (LLR), which recommends killing the state’s Geology Licensing Board. The ...
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Corporate Announcement
Enviro-Audit & Compliance, Inc. is pleased to announce two recent events contributing to the current and future growth of the company. In April 2006, Joe K. Buerhop, previously Division Manager, acquired the company and is now the sole owner and ready to take the company into the future. Mr. Buerhop is a licensed Professional Geologist with over 25 years of experience in environmental ...
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August Mack Environmental, Inc. Announces Promotion of Indianapolis Employee to Senior Technical Manager
INDIANAPOLIS – August Mack Environmental, Inc., a full-service environmental, health and safety consulting firm, is pleased to announce the promotion of Darci Thomas to Senior Technical Manager in its Indianapolis office. Since joining August Mack in 2004, Thomas has served as a staff geologist and project manager before taking on her new role as senior technical manager. With over twelve ...
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Socio-economic factors affect risk of alien species invasion
Omitting socio-economic factors from invasive alien species (IAS) risk assessments could result in serious underestimations of the area at risk, new research suggests. Including factors such as population density and proximity to ports in risk assessments was found in this UK study to increase the size of the area predicted as suitable for invasion by up to six times. Species distribution models ...
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Bulgarian Chamber for Mining and Geology recognises EnviroChemie plant technology
On 18 August 2015, the Bulgarian Chamber for Mining and Geology held their annual miners' day. During the event, EnviroChemie was honoured in the Environmental Protection category for its rainwater treatment project at Aurubis Bulgaria. At Aurubis' Bulgarian site, grade A copper in the form of marketable copper cathodes made from copper concentrates is produced. The environmental protection ...
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English EPA responds to radioactive disposal research
The Environment Agency has published a report scrutinising the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority’s (NDA) research and development work on gas generation and migration from a geological disposal facility. The Environment Agency would be responsible for regulating disposal of radioactive waste to such a facility, and the NDA must satisfy the Environment Agency that people and the environment would ...
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Systems Analysis: A new way mining sites can practice sustainability
Mining companies looking to cut costs while incorporating sustainable practices in their life cycle analyses have a new tool in their toolbox. With expertise in hydrology and geology, Integral scientist Dr. Ken Kolm has developed an approach known as “Hydrologic and Environmental Systems Analysis,” or HESA, which is being used by the mining industry to ensure all relevant controlling factors of a ...
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Environmental Risk Innovations, LLC Announces Key Hire – Bill McGuinness
Environmental Risk Innovations, LLC (ERI) is pleased to announce the recent hire of Bill McGuinness as a sign of the company's continued commitment to expand its environmental risk management services. Mr. McGuinness possesses over 25 years of experience in the environmental consulting field and will serve as ERI's Hydrogeologist and Environmental Risk Scientist. Prior to joining ERI, Mr. ...
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