APRIL 2007 ISSUE
STUDENT COLUMN
The Field Calls Out
for U of A Geo Students
BY PEGGY ELSEN
University of Alberta Student Columnist (Geosciences)
The school year is wrapping in up, and once finals are written and field school
completed, we will all split up and head off in our respective directions.
I think one of the best things about geology is being to spend time in the field.
We get to be outside, hiking around and doing what we love – and we get
paid for it.
I will be working for the University of Alberta, for Dr. Carl Mendoza, P. Eng., P. Geol. I will spend half of my summer in Fort McMurray, and I’m very excited about experiencing the tar sands for myself.
I’ll experience the craziness of a booming province, right at the source. However, it’s not oil I’ll be after. Rather, I’ll be monitoring water levels, taking water samples and doing other jobs.
I’ll try to learn and experience as much as I can while I’m out there. For one, I hope to take an oil sands tour.
Trad Cup Not Ours
I feel obliged to give a nod to the Calgarians who won the Trad Cup for a second
year in a row. This hockey game took place on March here in Edmonton.
For those of you who don’t know what Trad Cup is, it’s an annual hockey game between geoscience students from Edmonton and Calgary.
Sadly enough, in this battle of Alberta, the Rock Stars from Calgary came out on top this year, winning 14-6. No amount of cheering and posters from the loyal Edmontonians could change the outcome.
The Rock Stars can be sure, however, that we will see them next year at Alberta arena to battle it out again – and of course do our best to regain possession of a cup that we held so dearly for a few years in a row.
Election Time
As always at the end of the year, the PS Warren Society executive elections are
held. The current team wraps up the year and passes the torch onto a new batch
of fresh faces with high hopes and plans for the future.
Because elections were after The PEGG deadline, I can’t tell you who takes over, but it is all looked very promising. The majority of the executive team will again be second-year students.
Next year is going to be especially busy with the organization of the Western Inter-University Geoscience Conference, which will be held Edmonton in January.
I wish the new team lots of luck and excitement. It is fun to be in involved in academic societies, because before you know it, you belong to a tight-knit geology family, made up of people with the same passion: rocks.
The graduate banquet was held March 23 at the Delta South, where we had dinner with the friends and family who supported us over our university careers.
Our Earth Ring ceremony was March 31, another event that happened after The PEGG deadline. Many of the graduating students were looking forward to going through this ritual.
The ring shows the dedication we applied in four years of hard work - and the work we are committing to do in the future.