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The Victoria Branch will be holding a fun “9 and Dine” golf event for APEGBC members on August 28, 2010 at the Royal Oak Golf Club (540 Marsett Pl., enter just north of Saanich Commonwealth Place), see http://www.royaloakgolfclub.com/ for details. Cost of the event will be $32 (including HST) which covers nine holes of golf and a dinner which consists of your choice from their BBQ (see below) and selection of salads.

Dinner Choices from the BBQ:

·        Steak
·        Chicken
·        Salmon
·        Back Ribs
·        Prawns

Note that cart, club and beverage costs are not included in the event fee. 
Places are limited and will be confirmed on a first-come first-served basis on August 21st; registration closes on August 20 so register early to be certain of your spot. This will be a great opportunity to meet other APEGBC members on a fun and informal outing. 

Register Online (You be prompted to login with your 6-digit system ID #)
Registration Deadline: Friday, August 20th

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Time: 7:30 PM

Location: Engineering and Computer Science Building Room 125
Experts from the Canadian Reconnaissance Team to Chile will be presenting observations and lessons learned from the recent 8.8 magnitude earthquake in Chile.
Speakers:
John Cassidy, Geological Survey Canada, Sidney
Sharlie Huffman, Ministry of Transportation & Infrastructure, Victoria
Carlos Ventura, University of British Columbia, Vancouver

Chile, Canada and the US have much in common – modern structural codes, high-rise buildings, busy coastal cities and ports, well developed emergency response plans and public expectations of engineering quality. We have similar geology to Chile and will also face severe shaking and punishing tsunamis only we can anticipate an earthquake with twice the energy as hit Chile. In Chile, nature’s laboratory has provided us with valuable lessons on what worked and what needs improvement from public awareness and emergency response to how we design our buildings and bridges.

This event is free and open to the public.

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Centre of the Universe / Dominion Astrophysical Observatory Tour and AGM
http://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/eng/ibp/hia/about/more-about.html
http://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/eng/locations/directions/victoria.html

5:30 pm social and dinner
6:00 AGM
6:30 Tour and presentation begins

AGM only: free
Dinner and tour: $25.

Register Online

A social continental dinner (sandwiches, coffee, dessert) will be provided at 5:30 at the Centre of the Universe.  (No bar.)

At the AGM, we will give you a quick overview of the year and then elect our Victoria executive members for 2010 / 2011.  Nominations are open to any member or member-in-training.  There is a small time commitment and we welcome new faces.  If you have any questions about a position, please feel free to contact either the branch chair, Magnus McElroy, or any of the executive members. 

The agenda for the AGM is as follows:

1. Call to order
2. Accept new agenda and old minutes (to be distributed at the meeting)
3. Executive reports:  Treasurer, Chair,  (to be distributed at the meeting)
4. Handover to nominating committee for election.
5. Election of executive* and introduction of new executive
6. Talbot fund report 
7. New business**
8. Adjournment

*The executive positions are:
Chair
Vice-Chair
Past Chair (not electable)
Secretary*
Treasurer
Communications*
Events Co-ordinator*
Speaker Co-ordinator
Recognition
Member-at-Large (4 total, 3 with back-up duties for *ed exec positions)

**As a courtesy to other members, we request that new business be brought to the attention of the executive before the meeting. 

After the AGM, Eric Chisholm, Manager of Public Outreach for NRC / Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics will be guiding a tour of the facility and showcasing how this home-grown observatory and research centre remains on the leading edge of astrophysics after 92 years of operation.  This is an exceptional tour, and the presentation will focus on the technological achievements of Victoria's observatory and how research in Victoria echoes across Earth and beyond...

I look forward to seeing you there. 

Magnus McElroy
Chair, Victoria Branch.

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Ambrosia Conference & Event Centre
638 Fisgard Street,
Victoria, BC V8W 1R6

Dr. Tom Pedersen, Director of Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions (PICS)

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Dr Tom Pedersen, Director, Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions (PICS)
Born and raised on an orchard in British Columbia’s verdant Okanagan Valley, Tom Pedersen completed an undergraduate degree in Geology at the University of British Columbia in 1974 and began his professional career as an Exploration Geologist, searching for ore deposits in Canada’s north. Curiosity about the earth, and particularly the ocean, propelled him back to graduate school two years later and in 1979 he graduated from the University of Edinburgh with a Ph.D. in Marine Geochemistry.

He joined the University of British Columbia as a post-doctoral fellow that year. UBC subsequently appointed him to faculty and in 1994 he was promoted to Professor. He served as Associate Dean, Research, for the Faculty of Graduate Studies at UBC from 2000 to mid 2002 before joining the University of Victoria in 2002 as Director of the School of Earth and Ocean Sciences.

In 2003, he took on the role of Dean of Science at UVic and, in September 2009, became Director of
the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions. He has published extensively in the field of Paleoceanograhy (the history of the oceans), and uses geochemical and isotopic measurements of marine sediments as fingerprints of physical, biological and chemical oceanic processes.

Dr. Pedersen has received several honours for his scholarship including a UBC Killam Outstanding Teaching Award in 1990, a Killam Faculty Research Fellowship in 1997, and the Michael J. Keen Medal of the Geological Association of Canada in 2002. He was elected to Fellowship in the Royal Society of Canada in 2002, and Fellowship in the American Geophysical Union in 2006. Although he enthusiastically enjoys his academic role, he remains in his heart a farmer who is still very curious about the ocean.

Background of PICS
BC Premier Gordon Campbell announced on January 25 that his government will seek legislative approval for $94.5 million to create the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions (PICS), to be hosted and led by the University of Victoria in collaboration with the University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University and the University of Northern British Columbia.

The Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions was officially established by the University of Victoria Senate (7 March 2008) and Board of Governors (11 March 2008). The transfer letter and the funding for PICS were received from the British Columbia Ministry of Environment on 31 March. The funding consists of the $90M endowment as well as $4.5M in operational funding for the first year of PICS.

"Linking British Columbia's climate researchers together, and with other national and international researchers, will help us develop and apply knowledge to British Columbia situations," says University of Victoria President David Turpin. "It will also ensure that research is meaningfully transferred to government, industry and the public, and secure BC's leadership in this important area."

"The Institute will benefit from all of the hard work put into its development by members of the academic community from across the disciplines," adds Turpin. "I want to acknowledge those efforts as well as the contributions of our partners at the collaborating institutions - SFU, UBC and UNBC. PICS will provide immense benefits for BC, Canada and the world, and exciting opportunities and insights for researchers, staff and students at all of the participating universities for years to come."


Note: If you have recently received your P.Eng., P.Geo, EIT or GIT and wish to receive your APEGBC certificate and complimentary dinner at this or upcoming events, please contact Magnus McElroy, Branch Chair at magnus@shaw.ca

$35 = P.Eng./P.Geo./EIT/GIT
$30 = MAPS
$10 = Lecture only – no dinner

Note: Sign up on the APEGBC web site. Limited seating – sign up early. Cash Bar

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UVic Cadboro Commons Building, Victoria, BC
http://www.uvic.ca/buildings/com.html

Dr Mairi M.R. Best
Associate Director (Science) for NEPTUNE Canada.
Mairi is a marine scientist interested in biological, physical, and chemical factors that control
the preservation of calcium carbonate skeletons: our primary source of paleo-biological
information and the primary way carbon is transferred from the atmosphere-ocean to the
crust in the carbon cycle. Production and preservation of calcium carbonate are affected by
ocean “acidification”. After her B.Sc. honours in Geology from Laurentian University,
including scuba-based research on reefs of St Lucia, Mairi worked on fossil and modern
reefs in Papua New Guinea through the Australian Institute of Marine Science.

From there she did a PhD at the University of Chicago with fellowships at the Smithsonian Tropical
Research Institute. As assistant professor at McGill University, she expanded her research
program into temperate and polar latitudes, including experiments deployed on the VENUS
cabled observatory. She continues this research as an Adjunct Professor in the University
of Victoria’s School of Earth and Ocean Sciences.
Mairi fosters and facilitates the efforts of a growing community of NEPTUNE Canada
scientists – those designing the pioneer suite of instruments and experiments deployed in
2009, and developing approaches to data analysis and integration. She also manages the
integration between the vision of the scientific community and the engineering and
information technology infrastructure.

Data from across the disciplines of Ocean and Earth science are streaming live from the
Northeast Pacific, and these data are freely and openly available to the world through the
Internet. They are provided by the NEPTUNE Canada regional cabled ocean observatory
which spans the northern Juan de Fuca Plate.
NEPTUNE Canada will transform our understanding of biological, chemical, physical, and
geological processes across an entire tectonic plate from the shelf to the deep sea (17-
2700m). Real-time continuous monitoring, archiving, and long time series allow scientists to
capture the temporal nature, characteristics, and linkages of these natural processes in
ways never before possible.

$37.50 = PEng/EIT/GIT
$15= Students (Pay at the door)
$5 = Lecture only – no dinner
Note: Sign up on the APEGBC web site. Limited seating – sign up early. Cash Bar

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The province of BC has only a little more than half the number of engineering students per capita as the Canadian average. Historically the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Victoria has focused on information technology and related "high tech" areas. Since the inception of the Faculty of Engineering 26 years ago, our graduates have
helped to make the technology industry the biggest industry on Vancouver Island. Over the past 10 years there has been a steady nationwide increase in demand for student places in Civil Engineering programs. In response to this demand and to address the shortfall in engineering places in BC, the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Victoria
proposes to expand it's engineering program to include a Civil and Environmental Engineering program. We are actively engaged in seeking input from stakeholders, to help define the new program. Sustainability is expected to be a central theme.

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Menu - The menu is the Rathskeller Plate, served Family Style. The plate includes Wiener
Schnitzel, Cordon Bleu, Jaegar Schnitzel (pork schnitzel topped with mushrooms, onions
and bacon) and Bratwurst (our homemade German sausage). Also there will be potato
pancakes, fried potatoes, and spaetzle (egg noodle), along with red cabbage and
sauerkraut. Family Style means everyone will get an empty plate and all the food is brought
out in bowls and platters to be passed around. Just like at home. Rye bread is served at the
start, and coffee and tea is included. Beer is on tap at your own cost.


Note: If you have recently received your P.Eng., P.Geo, EIT or GIT and wish to receive your
APEGBC certificate and complimentary dinner at this or upcoming events, please
contact Magnus McElroy, Branch Chair at magnus@shaw.ca

$30 = Register before February 19th
$35 = Register after February 19th or at the door
$15 = Students

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Description: 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.

Cost: $5 (Pizza and Pop will be provided)

Executive Members

Chair

Magnus McElroy

magnus@shaw.ca

Vice Chair

Richard Summers

Richard.Summers@forces.gc.ca

Past Chair

Eric Pettit

Eric.Pettit@aecom.com

Secretary

Kathy Lokhorst

Lokhorst@camosun.bc.ca

Treasurer

Peter Fell

FellP@camosun.bc.ca

Communications

Simon Skey

sskey@shaw.ca

Events Coordinator

Duane Marriner

duane@wakefieldacoustics.com

Volunteer Members (ex-officio)

Speaker Coordinators

Marcel Gingras/

marcel.gingras2@forces.gc.ca

Andy Jani (assisting)

Andy.Jani@gov.bc.ca

Recognition

Gary Bartlett

garybartlett@ralmax.com

Member-at-Large (Secretary backup)

Gordon Porritt

gporritt@telus.net

Member-at-Large (Communications backup)

Bruce Sellers

Member-at-Large  (Events Assistant)

Elizabeth Mah

Member-at-Large

Marty Cole

martycol@telus.net

Liaison List (ex-officio)

UVIC Liaison

Poman So

Poman.So@ECE.UVic.ca

Camosun Liaison

Peter Fell

FellP@camosun.bc.ca

Spaghetti Bridge

Peter Fell

FellP@camosun.bc.ca

Talbot Fund

Tom McLean

tmclean@wellwest.ca

Math Counts

Duane Marriner

duane@wakefieldacoustics.com

Science Fair

Joshua Hayes

joshua_hayes@telus.net