President's Perspective - APGO Council
	Interesting Geoscience Initiatives in Europe...
	Mining Industry Human Resources Study
	Metamorphosis of Geologists - Trained Geoscientists...
	Your Editor Wants to Hear From You!

• Are you a Headliner?
• In Memoriam - Bernie Schnieders, P.Geo.
• Dr. Robert Hodder, P.Geo. appointed as the CUDGO designate to APGO Council
• Public Register and Membership Update

• "INFO FOR MEMBERS" Amendments to By-Law No. 3
• APGO PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE SEMINAR
• CCPG/CCGP Employment Opportunity
• NPPEAC Professional Practice and Ethics Exam subjected to Validation Survey
• Upcoming Events

Discipline Case - "Business Ethics Scutinized by Discipline Committee in Saskatchewan" - To view the APEGS Summary and Decision for this disciplinary case click here.

Rare Pompeii Silver Dinner Set Unveiled
(bbc.co.uk - July 2005)

Oil's diamond in the rough
(Justin Blum, The Washington Post - July 2005)

As I plan for the second APGO council meeting of my presidency, set for September 16 in Ottawa, I thought I might share with you a little about how the APGO council is set up, how it operates and how you, as a member, can get involved.

Typically, Council meets 5 times a year, usually in Toronto, but we do endeavour to meet at least once a year outside the “GTA”...

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Interesting Geoscience Initiatives in Europe…
The “Earth Heritage and Geodiversity Manifesto” and the “Geologos del Mundo”

Oliver Bonham, M.Sc., P.Geo.
Executive Director/Registrar

As a registered Eur Geol, I receive the magazine “European Geologists”, the twice-yearly publication of the European Federation of Geologists (EFG). While reading much discussion around challenges and issues that are the same as those we face on this side of the pond, I am often struck by the different issues that are the focus of discussion in the practice of professional geoscience in Europe...

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Mining Industry Human Resources Study

Those members of the APGO from the mining sector as well as all Geoscientists in Ontario may be interested in the huge projected short fall of trained mining workers in the mining industry. A recent study by the Mining Industry Training and Adjustment Council-Canada (MITAC) has projected as many as 81,000 mining sector employees are needed to meet current and future needs...

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Metamorphism of Geologists – Trained Geoscientists … now Exhibiting Artists

Oliver Bonham, M.Sc., P.Geo.
Executive Director/Registrar

An art exhibition that ran this summer (June 29 to July 30) at the Agnes Jamieson Gallery in Minden, Ontario, entitled Earth Patterns, has to have been a first! All of the works on display - huge colourful “geological” oil paintings juxtaposed against exquisite artistic outcrop photographs - are by two individuals who took Optical Petrology, studied Structural Geology and went to Field School just like the rest of us! The works on display were by trained geologists turned visual artists...

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Your Editor Wants To Hear From You!

Wendy Diaz, P.Geo. - Field Notes Editor

The No. 9 August issue of Field Notes almost completes a full year of this Internet publication for the benefit of APGO members. It was my pleasure to read a variety of articles these past few months - from exploration initiatives in Northern Ontario to environmental manifestos from Europe, from members volunteering to help the homeless in Toronto to members receiving awards for helping enhance streams in the watershed of the Whitchurch-Stouffville area...

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