The I2M Web Portal is made available to I2M Clients, Associates, geoscientists and the general public worldwide with a focus on geoscientific and other matters deemed important to I2M management listed under the general and specific categories below. A brief mini-webinar is available that discusses the basic features of the I2M Web Portal (here). The site contains thousands of selected online resources including recent and historical industry and government reports, industry news items, and other credible sources of information available on the Internet today regarding energy, critical resources, and associated environmental issues, among other topics of interest. Some are abstracted and some contain internal critical review comments, using the guidelines adopted in an earlier publication by I2M staff (here). We also encourage publishing technical notes, papers, etc. based on previous projects, confidentially not-withstanding. This has been discussed further (here).
I2M Web Portal editors review the selections for relevancy and for bias providing comments/ annotations when appropriate. In some items, mostly technical news items or opinion articles, additional reference links are often added beyond that provided by the author(s) of the articles for educational purposes. Also, we have begun to add background links to the cited authors of the news articles, when available, to aid the reader in assessing bias potential. Here is a short-cut to What’s News.
David Campbell, P.G., I2M’s Senior Principal and Senior Program Manager, released the new and improved I2M Web Portal early November, 2017. The database has passed the 13,500 records mark as of January 17, 2024. The subject inventory of the database for 2022 is presented here.
Search the portal or browse a list of categories here as shown in the screenshot below. To restrict your search, use “quotes”, e.g. “Serpent Mound” rather than Serpent Mound, which would also return all “Serpent” and all “Mounds” in the records within the database.
For a short YouTube video on the function and use of the I2M Web Portal, see the I2M YouTube Channel (here).
The I2M Web Portal MySQL database consists of topical selections that are implemented by the interests of the I2M management, Associates of I2M, and clients, and are made available as a public service to other geoscientists, and the discerning general public. The topical coverage as of July 1, 2021 is illustrated in the graphic provided (here), and by zooming in you will see the coverage involved as of the date cited.
Historical search summaries can now be obtained with the multi-word searches on such topics as the development of the small nuclear reactors (e.g., using the term: SMR, and by filtering for sequential date or relevance), topics related to Russian interests in U.S. uranium, and on new environmental methods and remedial solutions to managing difficult contaminants (e.g., using terms “remedial options“).
An Index to the subjects covered are listed on the Portal’s Home page under category headings, while the most recent entries have been captured in the “What’s New” page (past-90-days).
I2M Consulting personnel also monitor hazardous field conditions around the world via the Field Alerts program, the cybersecurity conditions via the Security Alert program, and the ongoing Confronting Media Bias Alerts program, see more below.
Should you have particular website candidates (PDFs only) for adding to the I2M Web Portal database, such as reports, announcements, historical or other documents that may be of interest to the I2M management, Associates, Interns, and geoscientists in general, please send them by e-mail to: mdc@i2mconsulting.com.
Field Alerts
Through the I2M Web Portal, I2M Consulting has initiated a “Field Alerts” program to advise geoscientists, engineers, and others concerning reports of potential health and safety threats that may be present when personnel are working in the field or when working in, or reporting on, potentially hazardous conditions. As reports are selected by I2M from the general readership, I2M Web Portal editors will consider them for listing as a “Field Alert” via a listing in the I2M Web Portal. Reports will be evaluated as a Field Alert as soon as possible. Please be aware that the editors at I2M Consulting neither guarantee nor imply that all potential hazards will be reported herein.
Security Alerts
A Security Alert program has also been implemented, which will present articles via search results on cybersecurity and associated issues. The need to protect your own data, documents, and personal information (and those of your company’s) grows everyday as those who either have nothing better to do, or those who are paid by crooks or by hostile governments to create havoc via the Internet.
Confronting Media Bias Alerts
I2M Consulting has developed the Confronting Media Bias program as part of the I2M Web Portal for clients and the general public. Since 2005, I2M personnel have noticed an increase in the number of inaccurate and deceptive articles that were produced by various types of media on the subject of nuclear power, uranium exploration and mining, and other associated environmental issues. So have others (more), (more); see the search results for current reports from the I2M Web Portal on nuclear-power matters (more), and especially on the natural gas industry regarding hydraulic fracturing (more). For a summary of the current reports on hydraulic fracturing, see the search results from the I2M Web Portal (here).
The subject biased reports and articles come from the national media, film producers, national and local adversarial groups, local citizens groups and the attorneys who represent them. Although all such articles incorporate the bias of the writer, those selected seem to exhibit many shortcomings in common (e.g., unfounded bias based on greed, political and/or commercial inclinations). I2M Consulting has agreed to continue to encourage I2M personnel to prepare reviews from their independent perspective and to comment on articles selected through a process involving at least three and perhaps additional Associates and to publish their collective reviews via this I2M Associates web page as an educational contribution to the clients, the regulatory community, and the general public, which are the common targets of media bias. Please note that the opinions expressed here are not necessarily those of the owners of I2M Consulting.
Continuing Professional Education
In addition to providing important health and safety, cybersecurity, and media bias input to you and to the personnel in your company, the time spent on reviewing the above articles and the other technical articles and reports herein may be allowed as credit for online Continuing Professional Education in many state professional licensing programs. Check your state’s professional licensing board for guidance. I2M monitors CPE activities and lists them on the CPE webpage herein (more) for selected I2M personnel. Please note: Not all qualifying CPE activities are reflected there. The individual professional is responsible for maintaining their own record of CPE activities.
Feel free to contact us to discuss any of the above issues or your project needs.
