President’s Perspective: APGO Is Busy Planning For the New Year and The Future
	Book Review: Canada Rocks - The Geologic Journey written by Nick Eyles and Andrew Miall (2007) Fitzhenry & Whiteside
	Your Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Form - Tips and Hints

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• Under the new policy effective October 1, 2007, an eligible guarantor (P.Geo.) must: Be a Canadian citizen 18 years of age or older; hold a five-year Canadian passport that is valid or has been expired for no more than one year; have been 16 years of age or older when they applied for their own passport; and have known the applicant personally for at least two years. You can act as a guarantor for your family as well. Audrey Benjamin, Assistant to the Registrar Association of Professional Geoscientists of Ontario

1. December 3, 2007 Dakota name of dinosaur with preserved soft tissue.

2. December 1, 2007 A view of the Popocatepetl volcano Related News Photo: Mexico's Popocatepetl volcano erupts Mongabay.com - 30 minutes ago
Volcano spews steam and ash in Mexico PUEBLA, Mexico (AFP) — Mexico's Popocatepetl volcano spewed ash and steam on Saturday in a giant plume stretching some 3,000 meters (two miles) high, authorities said.

3. Tuesday, 16 October 2007 Explorers' quest for key ice data By Rebecca Morelle Science reporter, BBC News It was a feat many thought was utterly impossible. To trek alone, without re-supply, from Canada to the North Pole was deemed so difficult experts said it was an endurance act too far. But in 2003, Briton Pen Hadow made history by becoming the first person to do just that, and next year he plans to return. However, this time he has more on his mind than just adventure. I met him at the Royal

4. Study says past climate change marked by extinctions. By SETH BORENSTEIN – OCT 24, 2007 By SETH BORENSTEIN – OCT 24, 2007

5. Boulder CO (SPX) Oct 31, 2007
Western Canada's Glaciers Hit 7000-Year Low
Tree stumps at the feet of Western Canadian glaciers are providing new insights into the accelerated rates at which the rivers of ice have been shrinking due to human-aided global warming... What he wanted to know was how long ago the glaciers made their first forays into a long-lost forest to kill the trees and bury them under ice.

6. Wednesday, 31 October 2007, 13:27 GMT Iraqi dam 'at risk of collapse'
The largest dam in Iraq is at risk of an imminent collapse that could unleash a 20m (65ft) wave of water on Mosul, a city of 1.7m people, the US has warned.
In May, the US told Iraqi authorities to make Mosul Dam a national priority, as a catastrophic failure would result in a "significant loss of life". It was built on water-soluble gypsum, which caused seepage within months of its completion and led investigators to describe the site as "fundamentally flawed".

7. World gold prices could hit $850 by year’s end, GFMS says Forecast also suggests $1,000/oz possible in 2008 By Tom Stundza -- Purchasing, 11/20/2007 11:21:00 AM

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Book Review: Canada Rocks - The Geologic Journey written by Nick Eyles and Andrew Miall (2007) Fitzhenry & Whiteside - 512pp $60

By Claudia Cochrane, P.Geo.

Somebody once proposed that every geologist should have a world list of must-see outcrops to visit similar to bird-watcher’s life lists. If so, Canada Rocks - The Geologic Journey would be a good place to start that list. For this is Canada's story, built up rock by rock and terrane by terrane, over billions of years. A significant number of the rocks revealed at these sites are exotic slabs of real-estate acquired from foreign continents and oceans the world over.

The authors have scouted our country from coast to coast to find the outcrops that best depict their account of these events, and then have applied the most up-to-date geological and geophysical research to explain their origins.

Consider if you will this sampling from the book:

• the Acasta Gneiss in the Northwest Territories - at a little over 4 billion years of age, it is the oldest rock on the planet; 
• the crater formed by a meteorite which hit Sudbury 1.8 billion years ago;
• pillow lavas in Newfoundland, resulting from extrusions of lava on the floor of the ancient Iapetus Ocean; 
• carbonate-capped sandstone hoodoos, which resemble giant Walt Disney mushrooms, overlooking the Red Deer Valley near Drumheller, Alberta; 
• diamonds from northern Canada created in former deep mantle 'hot spots'; 
• fossil tree stumps of Carboniferous age still standing in the Joggins Coal Beds Formation of Nova Scotia;  and,
• (in a note of whimsy) the beautiful Tyndall Stone from Manitoba,  illustrated with a picture of an amused Queen Elizabeth standing in front of one such building block,  her patterned dress blending in perfectly with the mottled bioturbated sediments of the carbonate rock.

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By Todd McCracken, P.Geo. – Chair, CPD Sub-committee

The Continuing Professional Development (CPD) subcommittee has completed the audits of the 2006 Continuing Professional Development forms. The APGO and the CPD subcommittee would like to thank all those who participated in the audit process. APGO member submissions showed dedication to the profession, ingenuity and commitment to their community.

The general consensus from members contacted following the audit process was that the process was neither as complicated nor as onerous as they initially thought it to be. The APGO through the CPD subcommittee and with the continued involvement of members will continue to improve the program.

A collection of common ‘pitfalls’, omissions, and helpful hints gleaned from the audit process are compiled below. Also appended are a few of the creative and interesting as well as eligible activities submitted by members. The CPD subcommittee hopes that these tips and hints will make completing future CPD forms an even easier task. The next CPD filing for members is due on or before June 30, 2008!

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The Petroleum Human Resources Council of Canada (Petroleum HR Council) is pleased to announce that the new www.careersinoilandgas.com website is now live!

The Careers website is the result of many months of work and collaboration among eight key partners: the Petroleum HR Council, Enform, CAPP, PSAC, CAODC, SEPAC, CEPA and CAGC. The Petroleum HR Council and its partners developed this website as another way to attract a variety of skilled workers to the oil and gas industry, so our industry has the skilled employees it needs, when it needs them.

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