The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), which houses the Geo-Institute, announced that the 2016 revision of its ASCE Minimum Design Loads and Associated Criteria for Buildings and Other Structures will, for the first time, contain a chapter on tsunamis. Part of the creation of this chapter was the establishment of a committee to study the response of buildings, and their internal structures, to tsunamis. The committee was officially established in February of 2011, just weeks before the devastating Tohoko Earthquake and Tsunami in Japan. Click for more:  

The American Association of Geographers (AAG) will be hosting their next #AAGChat on Twitter to answer questions people may have on careers in geography. From 3:00-4:00 pm EST on Thursday, January 12th, AAG will be answering questions through their twitter account @theAAG.

The Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) outreach program, Geoscientists Without Borders® (GWB), is seeking applications from scientists that have an idea for a geoscience project with a humanitarian focus. GWB offers up to $50,000 in funding.

The Geological Society of America (GSA) asked their journal and book editors to pick some of the top articles published in the 2016 year.

Join AGI Geoscience Policy Program Director, Maeve Boland, as she presents "What Next? Translating AGI’s 2015 Guidelines for Ethical Professional Conduct into Practice" today at 11:44am PST in session PA12B-07.

In the latest issue of "The Professional Geologist," the American Institute of Professional Geologists published a thoughtful editorial titled "The Measure of a Geologist." AIPG Editor Jean M.

The American Association of Geographers (AAG) announced a call for paper presentations and panel sessions on the 2016 elections. They are especially interested in research, analysis, discussion and dialogue for late-breaking sessions for the AAG Annual Meeting, that will be held in Boston in April 2017. The deadline to submit is November 29, 2016. 

Many societies offer travel grants. The Seismological Society of America (SSA) was able to interview some of their Annual Meeting Travel Grant recipients, and ask them how receiving a travel grant impacted their year, and their career. For many of those interviewed it allowed them to attend their first annual meeting, and as with all scientific conferences, it provided them the opportunity to network and advance their career.

If you weren't able to make it to Goldschmidt 2016, fear not. A summary report of Goldschmidt 2016 was published in Elements Magazine. The report provides overview the number of attendees and which countries they represented as well as summaries of different student programs hosted at the meeting, for instance, the "Meet the Plenary" luncheons.

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The Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration (SME) Foundation is pleased to announce the application period for the Ph.D. Fellowship and Academic Career Development Grants will run December 1, 2016 – January 31, 2017. The program was implemented in 2015 to address the long-term sustainability of U.S. mining engineering, mineral processing and extractive metallurgy academic degree programs, and particularly the declining number of senior faculty members teaching those programs.