President's Perspective -
	Meet Your Councillor - Ken Petersen, C.M.C.
	Water Issues in Israel
	Mobility/Portability - Increasing Frustration
	Professional Geoscientists Salary Survey

• Are you a Headliner?
• News of the Registrar
• Kristin Hanson, P.Geo.-Member in the News

• KEGS Golf Day
• APGO 2005 Annual General Meeting
• Natural Resource & Energy
  Year-End with Dr. Jan Carr, Ontario Power Authority
• Upcoming Events

1980-2005 Eruption 25th Anniversary
Mount St. Helens at 25
Reflection and Renewal
(USDA Forest Service, May 2005)

"UCD team forecasted Sumatra quake"
(California Aggie, May 2005)

Discipline Case involving a P.Eng. in Ontario - To view the PEO Decision Statement for this disciplinary hearing click here

In coming to the end of my term, I reflect on the past year as your President.

Firstly, some important information to pass on. For those of you in the field or away from your regular mail, a reminder that the APGO is holding its Second Annual General Meeting on Thursday, June 2, 2005 at The Toronto Board of Trade, Room A-D, First Canadian Place Click here for further details. Also a print version of the Annual Report has now been circulated to all members. To view the 2004 Annual Report in color, please click here...

View the complete article

Meet Your Councillor
Ken Petersen, C.M.C., M.B.A - Non-Member Public Appointee to Council

Certified Management Consultant in Natural Resources Development Offers Expertise in Developing APGO

Crystal Spekking, APGO's Northern Ontario Communications Officer

Ken is a Certified Management Consultant and provides independent third party business advice to a variety of businesses and industry sectors, including mining. He works with numerous professionals on construction projects and natural resources development including forestry, tourism and mining, and management training. Ken has deep domain experience in forestry and tourism...

View the complete article

Water Issues in Israel - Part One

Scott MacRitchie, P.Geo.

My family and I are currently enjoying a two-month stay in Israel courtesy of the Weizmann Institute of Science ( http://www.weizmann.ac.il ) located just south of Tel Aviv. My wife, Professor Miriam Diamond of the University of Toronto, was awarded a visiting professorship in environmental science for two months at the Weizmann Institute and husband and children are along for the stay...

View the complete article

Increasing Frustration - Mobility/Portability

George Wahl, P.Geo. - APGO Councillor

APGO’s Mobility Subcommittee is hearing from more and more practitioners from across Canada including British Columbia, Alberta, Northwest Territories/ Nunavut, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Quebec that the current system of needing to deal with differing regulations and requirements in each province they work in, and the need to take out full registration in every province they practice in, is excessive and may not be in keeping with Canada’s Agreement on Internal Trade...

View the complete article

Professional Geoscientists' Salary Survey

Salary Surveys - some useful links to other association surveys

By tradition, some of the longer standing professional associations in Canada with large engineering and geoscience memberships and resources (such as Alberta’s joint engineering-geoscience association APEGGA, with greater than 42,000 members), routinely undertake annual and quite detailed salary surveys...

View the complete article