Canadian Exploration Geophysical Society

KEGS News

June 22nd, 2009

KEGS Golf Day, Wednesday, June 24^th, 2009 at Richmond Hill Golf Club – First Announcement – Get your golf clubs ready!

Exploration Trends and Developments 2008 – The Pat Killeen Article in Northern Miner PDAC edition

Philip Hallof Nomination to Canadian Mining Hall of Fame – Request for Letters of Support

University of Western Ontario – Accelerated Masters in Geology & Geophysics

KEGS 2009 Membership Renewal – To check your current membership status, click here.

KEGS Foundation Update

KEGS Foundation Website

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KEGS Golf Day, Wednesday, June 24^th, 2009 at Richmond Hill Golf Club – First Announcement – Get your golf clubs ready!

Date: Wednesday, June 24^TH, 2009.

Time: Tee off time starts at 2 pm. 4-player Best Ball format. Meal and trophy presentations afterward

Venue: Website: http://www.rhgolf.com 8755 Bathurst Street, Richmond Hill, ON L4C0H4

Organizer: KEGS own Micki Allen (mickiallen@marac.com)

For a PDF of the registration form, click here.

 Exploration Trends and Developments 2008 – The Pat Killeen Article in Northern Miner PDAC edition

KEGS is once again the patron and major sponsor of the Killeen article this year, with the generous financial support of:

• Teck Cominco Ltd.
• Diamondex Resources Ltd.
• Cameco Corporation
• Kennecott Canada Ltd.
• Areva Resources Canada Inc.

The article is posted by Ken Witherly on the following ftp site.

http://www.condorconsult.com/Trends2008

ID: trends2008

Password: trends

For a PDF of the article "Trends_2008_full.pdf", click here.

For a PDF of the table "2009 Mining Geophysical Equipment Commercially Available in Canada.pdf", click here.

For a PDF of the table "2009 Canadian Airborne Geophysical Survey Contractors.pdf", click here.

For a PDF of the table "2009 Capabilities of Airborne Geophysical Survey Contractors.pdf", click here.

For a PDF of the table "2009 Commercially Available IP Equipment.pdf", click here.

For a PDF of the table "2009 Manufacturers of Mining Geophysical Equipment in Canada.pdf", click here.

Philip Hallof – Nomination to Canadian Mining Hall of Fame – Request for Letters of Support

Support for Nomination of Dr. Philip Hallof to the Canadian Mining Hall of Fame

Dr. Hallof’s nomination to be inducted into the Canadian Mining Hall of Fame has been submitted. The only remaining requirement for the Nominations Committee to consider Phil for induction is the submission of letter’s of support from the exploration community. Please, if you knew Phil professionally, or stories of his discoveries and technological developments, help support the effort to give Phil the recognition that his devotion to Canadian geophysics deserves, by submitting a short letter of support.

Please send your letters to;

Attn: Keith Morrison

c/o Gedex Inc

407 Matheson Blvd. East

Mississauga, Ontario

Canada

L4Z 2H2

905 281 0722 XT 1105

keith.morrison@gedex.ca

University of Western Ontario - Accelerated Masters in Geophysics & Geology

Graduate Opportunities – Accelerated Masters in Geophysics & Geology

The Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Western Ontario is pleased to announce the creation of a program stream leading to an Accelerated Masters degree in Geophysics and another leading to an Accelerated Masters degree in Geology. Our comprehensive and flexible streams provide a rigorous foundation in either Geophysics or Geology. These new streams are designed to meet the rapidly growing demand in industry for highly-trained applied geophysicists and geologists. They are an important component of our Initiative to Enhance Economic and Energy Resource Geology, an endeavor that we are pursuing in collaboration with Industry Partners and which places us at the forefront of Earth Sciences in Canada across a broad range of applied Earth Science disciplines.

Students in either of the accelerated streams will take seven half-courses over two terms (eight months), followed by an intensive 4-month research project. The selection of courses for each student will by individualized based on interests and career objectives, in consultation with a faculty advisor. Each stream is designed to be completed in one year, minimizing time away from other commitments. Because the accelerated M.Sc. relies more heavily on courses than the conventional M.Sc. thesis-based degree, students from broader educational backgrounds such as Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science or Engineering will be considered. Each of these program streams will enhance the career of earth scientists by providing training that may be needed for industry applications or professional accreditation, or as a stepping stone to further research within a program offering a PhD degree. Partial funding support will be made available for qualified recipients.

Students interested in obtaining more information on these new streams and the admission process should contact our Graduate Coordinator, Mrs. Mary Rice, at mrice@uwo.ca. Additional information about the Department, Western, and the surrounding area can be obtained at www.uwo.ca/earth. While we recommend that all interested students (and particularly international applicants) begin the application process in a timely fashion, as there are a limited number of available spaces and individual administrative issues can delay the process, applications for this coming September will be accepted on a continuing basis through June 30, 2009.

KEGS 2009 Membership

For the membership renewal form, click here.

To check your current membership status, click here.

Dear KEGS Member, January, 2009

Whether you have been a previous member, or are signing up for the first time, the continual growth depends on your support, your energy and your ideas. Here are examples of the many contributions KEGS has continued to provide in the past year:

• Increased relationships with other geophysics societies across Canada, namely in BC and Quebec.
• Support and promotion of Canadian, North-American and worldwide geophysics events, such as at PDAC, AEM-2008, MGLS -2008, SAGEEP, and SEG conferences, as well as the yearly Killeen Article on geophysics activity.
• Organizing the inaugural Kegs-Québec geophysics breakfast event at the annual Quebec- Exploration 2008 conference, held in the old city of Quebec in November, during its 400^TH anniversary year.
• Building a stronger relationship with the KEGS Foundation, with substantial donations for geophysics scholarship recipients, and promoting of student participation at our monthly meetings and activities.
• Email publication of the KEGS monthly bulletin containing timely and important information (reaching more than 700 geoscientists worldwide)
• Maintaining an excellent roster of monthly speakers, with dates deviating from the normal 2nd Tuesday of every month in order to accommodate world-class speakers passing though Toronto.
• Presenting this year mini AEM-2008 symposium, for those members unable to travel to Helsinki in May-08, to be held prior to Kegs-Xmas party, in December.

KEGS has also maintained a number of social and educational events to keep you in contact with your colleagues:

• KEGS Christmas Party at the University of Toronto Faculty Club on December 2ND, 2008
• KEGS PDAC Breakfast (available to members who confirm attendance)
• KEGS/BCGS Roundup Breakfast (available to members who confirm attendance)
• KEGS PDAC Symposium (Saturday prior to the PDAC)
• KEGS Golf Tournament in June
• KEGS/CGI Annual BBQ and pool party in July (available free to all members and family)

All of this is made possible through your yearly $55 KEGS membership dues and support.

Once again, you can also support and obtain membership in the KEGS Foundation (a scholarship fund for Canadian students studying geophysics in Canadian institutions) by making a minimum donation of $20. Tax receipts are issued by the KEGS Foundation for donations of $20 or greater.

Canada is fortunate to have an organization fully dedicated to mining, environmental, and engineering geophysics. We urge you to renew your membership so that KEGS can continue to support the interests of geophysicists in Canada.

 The 2009 KEGS Executive:

President: Jean Legault (905) 841-5004, ext. 218, jean@geotech.ca

Vice President: Chris Vaughan (905) 881-2059, cgigeo@rogers.com

Secretary Treasurer: Nick Valleau (416) 369-0111, Nick.Valleau@geosoft.com

Past President: Paolo Berardelli (905) 841-5004, paolo@geotech.ca

Executive Director: Micki Allen (905) 474-9118, mickiallen@marac.com

KEGS Foundation Update:

Although slowed by the continuing economic turbulence in the resource sector, the Foundation continues to advance towards its current goal of $100,000 in endowed scholarship funds, including a recent significant donation by ValeInco in honour of Inco's former chief geophysicist and KEGS pioneer, John Dowsett.

The Foundation is pleased to note that two scholarship recipients, Sara Lise Underhay of McMaster and Jon Rigg of Waterloo , have been selected to attend the prestigious Student-Industry Mining Exploration Workshop held in Sudbury in May and organized by the PDAC.  In addition, David Milgard, one of the two current Don Salt scholarship recipients at the UofT, has also been chosen to attend.

The usual rush of last-minute scholarship applications for the upcoming academic year (2009/2010) is now occurring, just ahead of the April 30th deadline.

Efforts are underway in concert with KEGS to secure the SEG discount for KEGS members for the upcoming AGU/CGU Joint Assembly, and to foster enhanced recognition of both organizations among Canadian and U.S. universities and students.

Jerry Roth
KEGS Foundation chairman

KEGS Foundation website link

The KEGS Foundation website can be accessed by following this link KEGS Foundation.

KEGS Contact Info:

Mailing Address: 5863 Leslie Street - Suite 517 - Willowdale, ON, M2H 1J8

Your 2009 Executive:

President - Jean Legault ph. (905) 841-5004 ext. 218

Vice-President - Chris Vaughan ph. (905) 881-2059

Secretary/Treasurer – Nick Valleau ph. (416) 369-0111

Past-President - Paolo Berardelli ph. (905) 841-5004

Executive Director - Micki Allen ph: (905) 474-9118 fax: (905) 474-1968

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