A magnitude 3.3 earthquake hit northern Arizona about mid-way between Flagstaff and Grand Canyon village on Saturday, Sept. 26 at about 4:14 pm, local time. [Right, orange star marks quake epicenter. Credit, USGS]
Later that evening, at 9:23 pm, a magnitude 2.9 event occurred about 7 miles SSW of Kachina Village. This could be another aftershock to last November's M=4.8 earthquake between Flagstaff and Sedona.
The region from around Flagstaff to Grand Canyon is the most seismically active in the state.
Monday, September 28, 2015
Thursday, September 24, 2015
Symposium on sustainable mining in the Southwest US & NW Mexico
The University of Arizona Global Initiatives group is working with UA Mining & Geological Engineering to host a 3-hour symposium on Mineral Resources: from Exploration to Environmentally Sustainable Mining in the SW United States and NW Mexico.
It will be held Monday, September 28, 2015,09:00 to 12:00.
Location: ENR2, Room S 225, University of Arizona, Tucson
The full program can be viewed at
https://global.arizona.edu/mineral-resources-exploration-environmentally-sustainable-mining-sw-united-states-and-nw-mexico
Wednesday, September 23, 2015
Expanding the national geothermal data system
We're in the last day of the Geothermal Resources Council annual meeting in Reno, with an exhibit booth in the Geothermal Energy Association's Expo, giving demonstrations of the National Geothermal Data System (www.geothermaldata.org).
AZGS manages the NGDS on behalf of the rest of the state geological surveys, with 65+ data providers in all 50 states contributing over 10 million data records currently. Any geothermal energy project funded by the US Dept. of Energy has to make their data publicly available through the NGDS. Most projects chose to send their data to the Geothermal Data Repository node on NGDS. GDR is run by the National Renewable Energy Lab in Colorado.
We've been meeting with leaders of various research projects in the Play Fairway Analysis and FORGE programs to discuss adding their growing reams of data into NGDS. We've also had conversations with representatives from East African countries about supporting their data management programs for the booming geothermal development in that region. [Right, AZGS' Steve Richard -right- talks with Andrew Palmateer with the US Energy Association's East Africa Geothermal Program, and Rick Zehner with Geothermal Development Associates, about data needs in East Africa]
AZGS manages the NGDS on behalf of the rest of the state geological surveys, with 65+ data providers in all 50 states contributing over 10 million data records currently. Any geothermal energy project funded by the US Dept. of Energy has to make their data publicly available through the NGDS. Most projects chose to send their data to the Geothermal Data Repository node on NGDS. GDR is run by the National Renewable Energy Lab in Colorado.
We've been meeting with leaders of various research projects in the Play Fairway Analysis and FORGE programs to discuss adding their growing reams of data into NGDS. We've also had conversations with representatives from East African countries about supporting their data management programs for the booming geothermal development in that region. [Right, AZGS' Steve Richard -right- talks with Andrew Palmateer with the US Energy Association's East Africa Geothermal Program, and Rick Zehner with Geothermal Development Associates, about data needs in East Africa]
Sunday, September 20, 2015
"Life as Geoscientist" photo contest
The American Geosciences Institute (AGI) looking for entries in its 2015 "Life as a Geoscientist" Photo Contest
They are looking for any and all geoscience images featuring your internships, research, or geoscience work as a whole. Photos can be entered into three different categories: Outdoor Lab, Indoor Lab, and Data Visualization. They "want your best photos showing what geoscience work and research looks like and why you love being a geoscientist. Submitting epic photos allows participants the opportunity to win prizes."
All submitted materials should be sent to workforce1@americangeosciences.org
Deadline to submit is November 6th, 2015
http://www.americangeosciences.org/workforce/life-geoscientist-photo-contest
Friday, September 18, 2015
Search engine allows access to 19 environmental databases
The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) announced it now has available through its website an online search engine allowing faster, more direct access to the agency’s 19 environmental databases containing information such as a facility’s operating permits and compliance history.
[excerpted from from the ADEQ announcement]
Geothermal data repository reaches 500 submission
The Geothermal Data Repository node on the National
Geothermal Data System has received its 500th submission of data and
results from DOE-funded geothermal projects -http://energy.gov/eere/articles/geothermal-data-repository-reaches-500-submissions. NGDS was developed by the Arizona Geological Survey on behalf of the Association of American State Geologists and other participants, with funding from the US Dept. of Energy. [Right, map of the US highlighting the locations of GDR users.
Critical data about the subsurface is added to the GDR from sites all
across the country. Credit: Jon Weers, NREL.]
The GDR is managed by the National Renewable Energy Lab and
is the online repository for the results of any DOE-funded geothermal project if the
project does not want to host the data themselves. We are
developing additional data content models to accommodate new data types
submitted to DOE by the various projects. [Bottom, relative amounts of different types of data useful to the
geothermal community, housed by the GDR. Credit: Jon Weers, NREL]
We will have an exhibit booth at the Geothermal Resources
Council annual meeting in Reno next week to demonstrate the system to the geothermal industry.
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