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Friday, March 12, 2010 |
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6:30 – 9:00 pm |
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Northern Lights College, FSJ Campus, ITC Building, Room 154/155 |
| Speaker: |
Caroline Westra, Supervisor - Internship and Experience Assessment. |
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After a short networking opportunity, the speakers will discuss the benefits of becoming a P.Eng/P.Geo, application forms, the law and ethics seminar, the ethics test, examples of applicable experience, how to record/document experience, and more.
It is worthwhile for all members (EIT, GIT, P.Eng and P. Geo) to come to the event since this is our first EIT/GIT seminar and the next one may not be happening in the next few years. It is also a great opportunity to mingle with other professionals working in the area. |
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$5 (Pizza and pop will be provided) |
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Please register online by March 10th. Thank you. |
We’re back! The monthly Peace Region Professionals Pro-D events recommence on Tuesday September 8. Sci-Tech North manages the logistics of organizing local professional development events for the Coordinated Continuing Professional Development Initiative as our mandate includes the promotion of scientific and technical education. The initiative now involves members from APEGBC, BCIA (Agrologists), BCLS (Surveyors), ABCFP (Forest Professionals), APBBC (Biologists), ASTTBC (Technologists and Technicians), and ABCCA (Archaeologists). These locally held events are recognized towards fulfilling member’s mandatory continuing professional development requirements. The fall program kicks off with a presentation by Laurence Meadows, Business Development Director for MITACS. MITACS plays a leadership role in linking businesses, government and not-for-profits with universities to increase research and development in Canada.
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Thursday, January 7th, 2010 |
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7:00 pm – 9:00 pm |
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North Peace Cultural Center Theatre
Corner of 100th and 100th
Fort St John, BC |
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$20 cost recovery fee. Payable through APEGBC online registration or at the door
Registration: Register Online
or RSVP to lisa@scitechnorth.bc.ca
“Dam construction on the Peace River has significantly reduced peak water flows while leaving sediment delivery into the river largely unchanged”
In 1967 British Columbia Hydro and Power Corporation closed W.A.C.Bennett Dam on Peace River, and thereby definitively changed the flow regime of the river. At the time, this was the fifth largest hydropower project in the world (it currently ranks eleventh). Important questions arise as to the effects on the river, effects that have often been debated and asserted, but never followed up in detail. Dr Mike Church has periodically surveyed the river since the dam was closed and has compiled some details of the physical adjustment of the river over the first 40 years of the project. The results lead to some predictions about the likely effects of additional dams and about the ultimate adjustment of the river, and they form a context for ecological changes and for changing patterns of human use of the river. This research may be the most detailed follow-up study to the damming of a major river ever attempted, and is unique in its attention to a boreal river.
Dr. Mike Church is Professor emeritus of Geography in the University of British Columbia, where he taught for 38 years. His teaching was focused on environment and resources, geomorphology and research methods. His own research is focused on sediment transport and morphology of rivers. He has underway a long term study of Peace River to understand the downstream effects of the Peace River dams. He has also conducted long-term studies of sediment transport and sedimentation in lower Fraser River, which has led to proposed management programs for the river. In addition, he is interested in the stability of mountain channels. At UBC, he directs a programme of experimental studies of river processes. He has a long experience of applied work, including participation in development of riparian management regulations for forest streams, hydrometric network reviews, and sediment management strategies. Professor Church is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and has received awards from the British Society for Geomorphology and the United States National Academy of Science. This year he was awarded the Massey Medal of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society for contributions to expanding knowledge of Canadian geography by his studies of Canadian rivers. |
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Tuesday November 3 2009 |
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Time: 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Location: North Peace Cultural Center
Corner of 100th & 100th, Fort St John BC
Event: A Peace Region Professionals recognized Pro-D event
Open to the Public
Cost: $5 cost recovery fee charged at the door
Register: email lisa@scitechnorth.bc.ca
or call Sci-Tech North 250 785 9600
1) Why? The beginnings of the Peace Region Palaeontology Research Centre: Lisa G. Buckley
2) Palaeontological Resources and Industry in Western Canada: Richard T. McCrea
3) British Columbia’s First Complete (?) Dinosaur – results, updates & objectives: Richard T. McCrea & Lisa G. Buckley
Rich and Lisa are the leaders of BC's only vertebrate palaeontology research program at the Peace Region Palaeontology Centre where the rich fossil heritage of the region and the province is documented, studied, assessed, interpreted and protected. Rich serves as Curator of Palaeontology, Lisa as Collections Manager. Their role at the PRPRC includes ongoing field research throughout the region – wildly successful research which has yielded the discovery and excavation of BC’s first articulated dinosaur, a hadrosaur (duckbilled dinosaur). |
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February 27, 2010 |
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11:00 am |
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RL Angus Elementary, Fort Nelson, BC |
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Your help is required! For more information or to help out with the event, please contact Ivy Chan Ivy.Chan@gov.bc.ca
Transportation can be arranged if necessary. |
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March 13, 2010 |
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11:00am |
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Totem Mall, Fort St John, BC |
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Your help is required! For more information or to help out with the event, please contact Ivy Chan Ivy.Chan@gov.bc.ca
Transportation can be arranged if necessary. |
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March 26, 2010 |
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11:00 am |
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Tumbler Ridge Elementary, Tumbler Ridge, BC |
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Your help is required! For more information or to help out with the event, please contact Ivy Chan Ivy.Chan@gov.bc.ca
Transportation can be arranged if necessary. |
Those supporting our events include:
In the Bronze Category:
Ministry of Forests and Range
Dayton & Knight Ltd.
Sci-Tech North
School District 59
School District 81
Peace River Coal
McElhanney Geomatics Ltd.
Totem Mall
B. Miller, P.Geo.
A.D. Zackodnik, P.Eng.
In the Silver Category
Jim Jarvis Engineeriing
Canadian Natural Resources Ltd
Integrated Land Management Bureau
Peace Region Palaeontology Research Centre
In the Gold Category
Devon Canada
Spectra Energy
In the Platinum Category
The Oil and Gas Commission
Encana
The Peace River Branch of APEGBC together with their government (Oil and Gas Commission, the Integrated Land Management Bureau, the Ministry of Forests and Range), corporate (EnCana Corporation, Devon Canada, Spectra Energy, Canadian Natural Resources Ltd., Dayton and Knight Ltd., Peace River Coal, McElhanney, and Jim Jarvis Engineering), and institutional (Peace Region Palaeontology Research Centre, Sci-Tech North) supporters held Popsicle Stick Bridge Competitions and
Geosciences Fun-time events in Fort St John, Fort Nelson, and Tumbler Ridge in February and early March. The overall strongest bridge held a colossal 416 lbs and was built by a grade 7 student from Fort Nelson. The second strongest bridge was built by the Fish and Wildlife section of MoE, which held 320lbs.
The third strongest bridge was built by another grade 7 student from Fort Nelson, which held 293 lbs. The events attracted participation from diverse communities including the regular schools, rural schools, First Nation schools, faith-based schools, and home-schoolers. Participants were from as far away as Lower Post, Yukon and Fort Liard, NWT. 113 bridges were tested at the Fort St John event; 62 at the Fort Nelson event; and 51 at the Tumbler Ridge event. Many more participated in building bridges, but were unable to attend one of the competitions. The overall level of participation increased by about 60% from the previous year.
The greatest increase in participation was seen at the Fort Nelson competition, which had an approximate 160% increase in participation from the previous year. This year, a concerted effort was made to attract the First Nation communities to the events. As a result of these efforts, the Fort Nelson event saw participation from the Kaska Dena, Fort Liard First Nation, and Fort Nelson First Nation communities. The Kaska Dena, for their part, had plans to bus their kids the 8 hour, one-way trip to the Fort Nelson competition, but events conspired against those plans.
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Above: Fort St John event had 113 teams submitting a bridge for testing.
This number represents a significant increase in participation from previous years. |
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| Above: Two contestants at the Fort Nelson competition watch their creation |
Above: Pierre Johnstone, MoE - Ecosystems, oversees kids getting down and dirty at a display depicting river geomorphology in action. |
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Above: Some of the contestants and volunteers at the Fort Nelson competition.
The volunteers from left to right are: Anthony Baru, ILMB, Brendan Miller, ILMB,
Peter Smith, OGC, Jim Jarvis, Jim Jarvis Engineering, Jason Vissers, Spectra,
Brian Grabowski, Dayton and Knight, Al Zackodnik, formerly ILMB,
Mandy Nelson, OGC |
Above: The Fort Nelson crowd cheers as the overall winning bridge surpasses a load of 400 lbs. |
Current suggestions are one of new coal mines and a presentation on wind power generation in Peace River area. We always appreciate input from our members so if you have any tour ideas you would like to see, please let the Branch Chair, Brendan Miller, know.
The APEGBC Mentoring Program is one of the many services provided to the members. It is to help Engineers-in-Training and Geoscientists-in-Training obtain the advice, counselling and assistance required to allow them to achieve professional status. For information on how the program works and who can get involved in the program, click here.
If you are a new member who has recently or is about to receive your certificate, please contact our Branch Chair for a frame, and to arrange a certificate presentation at an upcoming dinner meeting.
New member Invocation (for certificate presentation to new members)
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Chair: Doug Barry, P. Eng., Spectra Energy
Vice Chair: Ivy Chan, P.Eng., OGC
Treasurer: Don Buckland, P.Eng., OGC
Secretary: Al Zackodnik, P.Eng., Self Employed
Event Coordinator: Mandy Nelson, P.Eng., OGC
FSJ Rep: Kevin Parsonage,P.Eng., OGC
Fort Nelson Rep: Jason Vissers, E.I.T., Spectra Energy
Immediate Past Chair: Greg Lever, P.Eng
Past Chair & Geosciences Sector Rep: Brendan Miller, P.Geo., Ministry of Transportation |
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