President's Perspective - The Year Ahead
	Meet Your Councillor - Kristin Hanson, P.Geo.
	What is the Oil, Gas, and Salt Resources Library
	Help Raise the Level of Compliance with our Act...
	Discipline Committee Pool of Members

• Are you a Headliner?
• Public Register and Membership Update

• APGO 2005 Members Photo Competition Results
• How to Request an APGO Letter of Good Standing
• Note as received from GAC Publications Dept...
• Third Circular, Landslide Symposium
• Upcoming Events

Discipline Case - "individual jailed and fined for misrepresenting qualifications" - To view the PEO Media release for this disciplinary case click here.

Mexican Volcano Fires Up
(Kathryn Hansen, Geotimes - June 2005)

As your new President I am excited about the year ahead. The Association is now firmly established, fiscally healthy and is poised to strengthen into a superior regulatory body that is shaped by its members.

Meet Your Councillor
Kristin Hanson, P.Geo.

Toronto hydrogeologist offers leadership in promoting membership in the APGO and responds to members concerns

Crystal Spekking, APGO's Northern Ontario Communications Officer

Kristin has always had a major interest in the field of science. As a high school student, she got really excited about science while working with a great botany/zoology teacher on a science fair project. When she got to university, Kristin had a difficult time deciding on which science field to major in, so she tried almost all of them. In Geology at the time, the big employers were the petroleum exploration companies...

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What is the Oil, Gas and Salt Resources Library?

Terry Carter, P.Geo., M.Sc.

Geoscientists whose practice does not include the petroleum industry, and this includes most geoscientists in Ontario, are probably not familiar with the Oil, Gas and Salt Resources Library. The Library is a public resource center for the study of the subsurface Paleozoic bedrock geology of Ontario. It specializes in collection, generation, and dissemination of information and knowledge relevant to the oil, gas, salt and underground hydrocarbon storage industries, consequently most of its traditional clients are employed in these industries...

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APGO’s One Geo Challenge!!
Help Raise the Level of Compliance with our Act

Stephen Wilson, P.Geo. - APGO Councillor

The Association of Professional Geoscientists of Ontario (APGO), now has over 1,200 members, but practice by non-members is continuing at an unacceptably high rate. The APGO is a relatively small association and does not possess the financial or staffing resources that some larger regulators, such as the Professional Engineers of Ontario (PEO), enjoy. In order to decrease the number of non-compliant geoscientists, the Association needs the help of its members. This assistance can be provided in a number of ways...

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Discipline Committee Pool of Members

Wayne Caston, P.Geo. - APGO Councillor

The Discipline Committee of Association of Professional Geoscientists of Ontario ("APGO") is establishing a pool of members (“Discipline Pool”) that will serve on an as needed basis on APGO Discipline Panels.

The Discipline Committee chair will select a panel of not less than three persons from the Discipline Pool to conduct a hearing related to matters of professional misconduct, negligence or incompetence against a member or a Certificate of Authorization holder....

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