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Christine McEntee appointed as IAPG expert on 

"Harassment and Discrimination in Geosciences"

Christine McEntee is Executive Director and CEO of the American Geophysical Union (AGU). She is an association leader and innovator, building a record of achievement in leading large organizations through changes in strategy, governance, membership, programs, and the fluid public policies that confront them. She actively works to improve workplace climate issues and diversity in staff and leadership positions. She has been honored as CEO Update's CEO of the Year (2016), is an American Society of Association Executives Fellow and recipient of the Women Who Advance America award and received the America's Top Women Mentoring Leaders award in 2011 from Women of Wealth magazine. She serves on several medical institution’s boards of directors. Ms. McEntee holds a Master’s in Health Administration from The George Washington University, a bachelor’s degree in Nursing from Georgetown University, and is a graduate of Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management Advanced Executive Program.

List of IAPG Experts: http://www.geoethics.org/ccs

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A new co-coordinator for IAPG-Portugal

Paulo Emanuel Talhadas Ferreira da Fonseca (Department of Geology, University of Lisbon) is the new co-coordinator of IAPG-Portugal. 

He replaces António José Correia de Almeida, and joins Clara Maria da Silva de Vasconcelos in this position.

Paulo Fonseca is a geologist born in 1960 in Lisbon, teaching at the Lisbon University - Geology Department, since 1987. He was graduated in Geology in 1985 at Faculty of Science Lisbon University and in 1995 he achieved the PhD title in Structural Geology – (Internal Geodynamics) at the same University. His main research activities range from Structural Geology, Tectonics and Geodynamics – (Ophiolites essentially during Variscan Orogeny) to Geology Education - experimental geology (adults and persons with disabilities). Other interests are focused in Atlantic Island Geology (Madeira), Geochronology, Oil and Gas Storage (LPG) and Reservoirs (Fluid Circulation), Shale oil and gas geology, CO2 and Carbon sequestration, Environmental Geology and Groundwater Geology, Geological Heritage and Geoconservation.
List of IAPG National Section: http://www.geoethics.org/sections.

IAPG thanks the former co-coordinator, António Almeida, for the work done to establish the section and to create an IAPG network in Portugal.

List of IAPG National Sections: http://www.geoethics.org/sections

International Association for Promoting Geoethics Nigeria - Official blog

IAPG Roundtable
"Geoethics in Peru: 
implications for Geosciences"

XVIII Peruvian Congress of Geology
Lima (Peru)
19 October 2016, 15:55 - 17:10

The roundtable is organized by IAPG-Peru (SEGCGS-SGP)

Chairperson: 
Shianny Vasquez

Venue: 
Hall Nro. Uno (Polideportivo) site of the Pontificia universidad católica del Perú - PUCP, Lima

Scientific Programme: http://www.sgp.org.pe/congresoes/programa-cientifico/

International Association for Promoting Geoethics Nigeria - Official blog

IAPG-Brazil: Training course 2016 on 

Ocean Governance, Ocean Sciences and Geoethics

Training course 2016 on Ocean Governance, Ocean Sciences and Geoethics, by the Training Centre for Latin America and the Caribbean (International Ocean Institute - Brazil, in collaboration with IAPG-Brazil).

Geoethics module (by Eduardo Marone, IAPG-Brazil):
- Ethics and Environment.
- Sustainable Development as an Ethical concept.
- Ocean Governance, Science & Ethics.
- The Concept of the Common Heritage of Mankind.
- Geoethics. Confronting Ocean Governance ethical dilemmas.
- Responsible Conduct of Research.
- Recognizing ethical dilemmas in the first instance. Developing the strategies and skills needed to responsibly participate in the profession, and gain experience in ethical decision-making.
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IAPG - International Association for Promoting Geoethics is partner of the Internationa Ocean Institute - Brazil.

More information in the homepage of the IAPG website:
http://www.geoethics.org

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The new IAPG flyer

Download, print and share the new IAPG flyer among your colleagues. 

You find it at: 
http://media.wix.com/ugd/5195a5_5268d0da9ced4061a6b1e274bcac49fb.pdf.

Thank you!

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The IAPG Secretary General elected in the IUGS Executive Committee

IAPG is proud to announce that its Secretary General, Silvia Peppoloni, was elected as IUGS Councillor 2018-2022 on 1st September 2016, during the 35th International Geological Congress (IGC) in Cape Town (South Africa).

Many congratulations to Silvia for her hard work in the last years and for her new responsabilities in the international geoscience community!

IAPG - International Association for Promoting Geoethics is affiliated to IUGS - International Union of Geological Sciences from 2013.

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Robert Frodeman is the new IAPG Corresponding Citizen Scientist 

on the topic "Geoethics and Philosophy"

Robert Frodeman

Robert Frodeman is Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Texas. 

His work ranges across environmental philosophy, the philosophy of geology, the philosophy of science and technology policy, and the philosophy of interdisciplinarity. 

He is the author and/or editor of 9 books, including Geo-Logic: Breaking Ground between Philosophy and the Earth Sciences (SUNY, 2003), the Encyclopedia of Environmental Ethics and Philosophy (MacMillan, 2008), and the Oxford Handbook of Interdisciplinarity (OUP, 2010). 

He was the founding Director of the Center for the Study of Interdisciplinarity at UNT. 

Sustainable Knowledge: a theory of interdisciplinarity (Palgrave McMillan) was published in 2013. Socrates Tenured: the Institutions of 21st Century Philosophy (Roman and Littlefield) will be published in 2016.

The Wikipedia page on Robert Frodeman:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Frodeman


List of IAPG Corresponding Citizen Scientists:
http://www.geoethics.org/ccs.html