INNOVATION July-August 2016

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Geoscientists Canada has bestowed fellowships on three APEGBC members for service given to Canada’s geoscience profession. The fellowships for Brendan Miller, P.Geo., FGC, Julie Orban, P.Geo., FGC, and Dr. Michael Wrinch, P.Eng., FEC, FGC (Hon.) (Shown, with 2015/2016 Geoscientists Canada President George Eynon, P.Geo., FGC), were announced in June at the 43rd annual meeting of Geoscientists Canada, in Calgary, Alberta. The Geoscientists Canada Fellowship honours individuals who have given noteworthy service to the profession, through service to Geoscientists Canada, to one of the provincial and territorial regulatory bodies that are the constituent associations of Geoscientists Canada, or in another capacity. Also at the meeting, Hendrik Falck, P.Geo. (NAPEG), FGC, took office as president of Geoscientists Canada for 2016/2017. Geoscientists Canada is the national organisation of the nine provincial and territorial regulatory bodies that govern Canada’s professional geoscientists and geoscientists-in-training.

Three BC Members Made Geoscience Fellows

Mission: Innovation As APEGBC’s official publication, Innovation aims to publish information that is of interest and relevance to the professions, is balanced, objective and impartial, affects the conduct of members, and showcases innovative engineering and geoscience work of members. A secondary aim is to provide a forum for the exchange of views among APEGBC members through the publication of letters to the editor.

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