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Sunday, 26 June 2016
As Britain exits the European Union, the Arizona Geological Survey is exiting Arizona state government for a new future as a research and service center at the University of Arizona. We have one year of partial transition funding to become entirely self-supporting from grants and fees for services.
AZGS shut down the retail store on Thursday, emptied out the library of all remaining
Nyal Niemuth retired yesterday, after more than 35 years with the State of Arizona, most with the Dept. of Mines & Mineral Resources, and the last 5 years with AZGS after the two agencies were merged. [Photo credit, Mining Foundation of the Southwest]
Nyal served as Chief Engineer at ADMMR and became Chief of the Economic Geology section at AZGS. He is universally known across Arizona
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<![endif]-->The Arizona Experience store will close by the end of June when AZGS is transferred to the University of Arizona. We are working with the UA Stores to carry
We have been working non-stop the past week with University of Arizona and State of Arizona officials on transferring the Arizona Geological Survey from the State to the University. On Friday, the Arizona [Tucson] Daily Star, ran a front page story
The Arizona Geological Survey will move out of our state offices in Tucson by June 30 and move into the office space recently vacated by the Arid Lands Resource Sciences on the east end of the University of Arizona campus. This is a result of the Governor's consolidation of state agencies. AZGS is transferred to UA effective July 1.
The space will be considerably smaller than what
The Senate Appropriations Committee is meeting now to hear the dozen or so budget bills, including SB1530, Agency Consolidation, which transfers the duties of the Arizona Geological Survey to the University of Arizona. The hearing is being webcast at http://azleg.granicus.com/Mediaplayer.php?publish_id=5
The budget and budget bills were only released this morning.
The House
AZGS put out a news release today on the earthquake swarm in northwest Arizona that reported 42 earthquakes have been detected since March 28. That was out of date very quickly. There was another event just before midnight on the 18th (ML=1.3) and a ML=2.3 just after noon today. Our colleagues at the Nevada Seismic Laboratory who are providing key data on earthquake locations say this
The earthquake swarm in northwest Arizona continues with two events occurring shortly before 1 a.m. this morning, one at magnitude 2.7 and another two minutes later with magnitude 2.2. The locations are being replotted by Dr.Jeri Young here at AZGS, using data from the Arizona Broadband Seismic Network that we manage. This could result in the epicenters being revised by a number of
The first 8 earthquakes in this week's swarm in northwest Arizona have been relocated by Dr. Jeri Young at AZGS using our local seismograph stations to improve accuracy from the USGS regional network. The vertical white line in the figure at right is the Nevada-Arizona border. Magnitudes of the quakes are shown in white.
The Mesquite and Grand Wash faults are shown in red.
Three
Governor Ducey's Office of Strategic Planning and Budget has released new details on his proposal to consolidate the Arizona Geological Survey into the University of Arizona. An addition to the Executive Budget states:<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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Arizona's burgeoning wine industry is now showcased in a new online interactive Wine Trail Map, built here at AZGS as part of a new Arizona Wine Country page on the Arizona Experience website.
Three regions in Arizona are growing grapes for wine: Sonoita in Santa
Cruz County, Willcox in Cochise County, and the Verde Valley in Yavapai
County. View the Arizona’s Wine Trail Map.
The map
The USGS turned down our funding request to characterize the most active fault in Arizona to better understand earthquake hazards. Ironically, the letter informing us that the proposal was denied, arrived just hours after a series of earthquake shook most of the population of the state.
AZGS proposed doing detailed work on the Lake Mary fault in northern Arizona under the National
Notable earthquakes with magnitudes of 4.0 and 4.1 hit a few miles north of Black Canyon City around midnight Sunday, with a foreshock of magnitude 3.2 at 9 pm [top, location map from USGS] Dr. Jeri Young, who manages the seismic monitoring network run by AZGS, calculates that the location of the mainshock is a few miles further north than reported by the USGS, using information from
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<![endif]-->AZGS has posted a geologic classic online for free viewing and downloading. Special Paper #5, "Geologic Diversity of Arizona and its Margins: Excursions
A bomb threat to the Attorney General's office prompted evacuation this morning just after 10 am, of the State Office Complex in Tucson where AZGS is housed. Police just gave us clearance to return to our offices after 3 and a half hours. They brought in bomb-sniffing dogs and a robot from the Tucson Police Bomb Squad [right, robot rolling off the ramp. bottom, robot on its way
Gov. Doug Ducey reappointed four members and one new member to the Arizona Oil & Gas Conservation Commission. This is the first time in a number of years that all the positions are filled.
The AZOGCC consists of five members appointed by the Governor and one ex-officio member, the State Land Commissioner. The Arizona Geological Survey (AZGS)
provides administrative and staff support.
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<![endif]-->The June episode of Arizona Mining Review is now on YouTube at https://youtu.be/PGhJT945Ksw
The interview with Dr. Jon Spencer, Chief Geologist here at AZGS,
The AZGS just put out a new map that shows a partial listing of the Breccia pipes in Northern Arizona.MapThe high density areas with many black features are the areas that have been mapped in detail. This implies that there are many more pipes out there that are not yet mapped.Harry
The Arizona [Phoenix] Republic ran an extensive story on the fate of the former Arizona Mining & Mineral Museum and the proposal to transfer it to AZGS.
The one thing I added to the article by Mary Jo Pritzl was a comment that the situation was complicated by the fact that Senate Bill 1200 would have required us to re-open it at the Mining, Mineral, and Natural Resources Education Museum,
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