View our latest Heads & Chairs webinar on “Geoscience Society Diversity Initiatives.” This free #webinar features a discussion of #diversity initiatives within #geoscience societies. Speakers include heads and chairs from several organizations. View now: https://t.co/ak6Axtqgdq
KGS is sad to acknowledge the passing of our advisory board chair Greg Yankey. A civil engineer and member of our advisory board for 12 years, Greg had recently been reappointed by Gov. Beshear and reelected as the board’s chair. We will miss his friendship, insight, and wisdom.
The Illinois Basin holds a wealth of resources & is a valuable resource to mitigate climate change by storing carbon dioxide deep underground. It is truly a #geological gift that keeps on giving! 🌧️
Learn More About The Illinois Basin Here ➡️ https://t.co/WUJmMgRGqI
A huge well done to the runners up of our Schools Geology Challenge 2022: newcomers @SuttonGr and @TheHBSchool!
Finalists worked incredibly hard on this year's problem-solving exercise: developing solutions to dispose of radioactive waste near the fictional town of 'Burlington'.
The site of the former coal-fired power station at Ratcliffe-on-Soar in Notts, has been shortlisted as one of five potential locations for a new nuclear fusion reactor. https://t.co/Tf1STi0tyf #netzero#renewableenergy
Mendenhall Research Fellowship Program: 20-38. Developing regional- and national- scale methods for assessing underground thermal energy storage, focusing on aquifer and reservoir thermal energy storage -
https://t.co/axSWkqdnKu
With funding from the US Geological Survey's Data Preservation program, our GIS team is updating digital data for maps in our 'Digital Geologic Map' series. Updates include geodatabase and KMZ files for viewing the maps on GE. @USGSAZ
Our DGM series at https://t.co/Z1CLfEcRkW
71% of the Earth’s surface is covered in water, but less than 3% is freshwater! @ENERGY & @NREL's @AMCPrizes Solar Desalination Prize is leveraging the sun to improve freshwater access. Check out the new challenge and submit your ideas by July 15. https://t.co/Xc7USHb1gT
In what would be the world’s biggest carbon carbon and sequestration project, Exxon, with partners, would build a facility to collect emissions from refineries, petrochemical plants and other industrial facilities along the Houston Ship Channel https://t.co/Nslux0HizD
Breaking Bioenergy News! Today, @ENERGY’s Bioenergy Technologies Office released a funding opportunity of up to $61.4M to support the growth and innovation of low carbon biofuels and associated bioproducts. Apply today, and spread the word! https://t.co/5W7BeJ09WQ
The U.S. is expected to almost triple its wind and solar capacity over the next 10 years, but that still won’t be enough to meet Biden’s 2035 climate goal https://t.co/1909i6i5VS
The Publication Pipeline Team is having a second "Book Fair - Give Away" on Saturday April 17th from 10 AM to 4 PM. This is open to all Geoscientists, HGS & AAPG members.
CHART OF THE DAY: Recovering from the Texas freeze, US refiners processed last week the most oil since the pandemic started. @EIAgov shows refinery inputs of 14.9 million b/d. Total product supplied (demand proxy) was 2nd highest since pandemic started at ~20.3m b/d | #OOTT
EDF, the world’s biggest operator of atomic plants, sees a huge global market for small reactors from the next decade to replace fossil-fuel generators https://t.co/kDPC8nnjY6