New York State Council of Professional Geologists Annual Conference in Saratoga Springs Nov 2023.

 Photos from the New York State Council of Professional Geologists Annual Conference in Saratoga Springs 13-15 Nov 2023.

Long Island Geo Minds At Work

 

Congratulations to Laurel Environmental Associates, Ltd. for your successful completion of the Classroom Intensive, TAKING THE MYSTERY OUT OF THE SUBSURFACE.   Your enthusiasm and positive energy was contagious!   You nailed ALL of the soil classifications of the samples, and your practice soil boring log exercises were PERFECT!

You're the doctor and the soil core is your patient!   Way to go!

Great companies don't happen by accident.  Laurel Environmental Associates has a big advantage by it's excellent and visionary leadership, Scott Yanuck.  

Learning to Translate the Sedimentary Sequence to Soil Boring Logs

 

Congratulations to the geoscience-minded professionals at Crawford & Associates Engineering & Land Surveying, PC in Hudson, New York!    Each participant successfully completed the day-long training TAKING THE MYSTERY OUT OF THE SUBSURFACE.  

This group gets the award for the most thoughtful questions so far.  Their engagement and dialogue enriched the depth of the training experience for me, the instructor, Dan Kelleher.  But also their excellent questions helped each other relate to how they USE soil boring logs, not just CREATE them.  Well done!

Modern Technologies for Fractured Bedrock Investigations

Thank you to the participants of "Modern Technologies and Emerging Techniques for Assessing Complex Hydrogeologic Systems in Fractured Bedrock" in Calgary. 

What a great group!! 

The positive energy and enthusiasm stood out to the instructors and me.  Special thanks to Matrix Solutions, Inc., Pathway Environmental Solutions, Inc., (and the Calgary Flames NHL Hockey Team too).

Aquifer Testing Course 2023

We as instructors and organizers often measure the success of courses based on participant engagement and energy.   Each year, the aquifer testing course seems to overflow with enthusiastic participants with a noticeable positive energy, and this year was no exception.

Thank you to all of the participants for making 2023 a truly enjoyable and enriching experience. Let's keep working together.

-Dan Kelleher.

New Pint Glasses: GeoMan and GeoWoman

 Just released in time for EARTH DAY 2023!

Earth Day 2023 April 22

 

This year is a special year.

Grateful for Friendships

Midwest GeoSciences Group recently received an unexpected and cherished gift.   In response to receiving a Hydro(beer)ology Pint Glass along with the pint koozies, Tim "GeoMan" Miller, created a brilliantly designed tribute to the GeoMan concept.

It's Tim Miller's design.  There is no other tribute like this one. He created this platform from his personal vision and then made it with this hands using wood, paint, and a wood burner.   

Tim created this platform to hold a "his" and "her's" Hydro(beer)ology Pint.   And although I appreciate Tim's kind words about the GeoMan concept, it's a humbling gesture he used in writing.  

Tim is a very, very special friend in my life.  He lives in Raleigh, North Carolina today but he and I grew up in the same small rural town in Illinois.  Tim and I were close friends from Kindergarten and we remained friends through elementary, middle, and high school.  He was a notable HS athlete but my favorite times with Tim were during our summertime baseball seasons when Tim would pitch and I played short stop.  I'm also going to mention our mutual friend here too, Bob Crippen, who was also a close friend since childhood and was our baseball teammate too.  Bob often was the catcher behind home plate for the times that Tim pitched.  Bob moved to NC last year.  Today these childhood friendships are stronger than ever.  I don't take them for granted.

So when this personalized item arrived in the mail a few weeks ago, I knew that there's no official Thank You that could express how grateful I am for it, but more importantly for friends like Tim (and Bob).   -Dan Kelleher