2011 - ATLAS

2011, April 7th-8th

Featuring the Keynote Lectures:

"Cenozoic Evolution of the Tibetan Plateau"
&
"Earthquakes in Chine: the Neotectonic-Hazards-Tectonic Connection"
Dr. Clarke Burchfiel

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Thursday, April 7th
Time	Presenter	Title
8:30 AM	Prang Sinhabaedya¹	Seismic Stratigraphy and Geomorphology of the Exmouth Plateau, North-western Australian shelf.
8:50 AM	Khalid M. Javaid²	Subsurface structural interpretation of the Kennetcook-Windsor Basin: Nova Scotia, Atlantic Canada.
9:10 AM	Tiffany Playter³	Detailed mineralogical characterization of the Upper Montney fine-grained ‘shale’ interval using micro-CT and electron microprobe analyses.
9:30 AM	Robynn Dicks⁴	Neoichnological Trends at the Fluvial-Tidal Transition of the Columbia River Delta, northwest U.S.A.
9:50 AM	Coffee break
10:10 AM	Luke McHugh⁵	Geochemical characterization and correlation of the Cathedral Bluffs Tongue, southwestern Wyoming.
10:30 AM	Daniel Brown⁶	Temperature, precipitation, and lightning modification in the vicinity of the Athabasca oil sands.
10:50 AM	Carolyn Currie⁷	Clearwater Formation, Cold Lake Oil Sands Deposit: Estuarine Incised Valley Complex?
11:10 AM	Jenna Phillips⁸	Identification of an estuarine-embayment transition in the McMurray Formation of the MacKay River area, north-eastern Alberta.
11:30 AM	Lunch break
12:00 PM	Clarke Burchfiel ^{Keynote 1}	Keynote 1: Cenozoic Evolution of the Tibetan Plateau.
1:20 PM	Rui Wang⁹	Tectonomagmatic Evolution of the Tibetan Margin from Pre-Collision, through Collision, to Post-Collision.
1:40 PM	Dennis Rippe¹⁰	Quantifying crustal flow in Tibet with magnetotelluric data.
2:00 PM	Letian Zhang¹¹	A Three Dimensional Magnetotelluric study of North China and the Tibetan Plateau.
2:20 PM	Coffee break
2:40 PM	Matthew Comeau¹²	Magnetotelluric imaging of the Altyn-Tagh Fault, China.
3:00 PM	Yan Zhan¹³	The Section Deep Electric Structures of Haiyuan Active Fault in Tibet and its Seismic Activity.
3:20 PM	Dunia Blanco¹⁴	Paleomagnetism and Tectonic Rotation in the Northern Junggar Basin, Northwest China: Evidence for major intracontinental shortening between Junggar and Europe after 20 Ma.
3:40 PM	Coffee break
4:00 PM	Chelsea Fefchak¹⁵	The sedimentological framework of an aeolian sandstone reservoir: An Example from the Upper Triassic Charlie Lake Formation, Northeastern British Columbia.
4:20 PM	Alexandra Der¹⁶	Evolution of an isolated carbonate bank: deposition and sea level fluctuations during Miocene times, Grand Cayman, British West Indies.
4:40 PM	Hongwen Zhao¹⁷	Origin of Cenozoic dolostones, Cayman Brac, British West Indies.
5:00 PM	Tibor Lengyel¹⁸	Geothermics of the Phanerozoic strata of Saskatchewan.
5:20 PM	End of talks, Day 1

Friday, April 8th
Time	Presenter	Title
8:30 AM	Rameses D'Souza¹⁹	The geochemistry and geochronology of the Sparrow, Tsu Lake, and Uranium City mafic dykes.
8:50 AM	Daniel Tersmette²⁰	Geology and metamorphic conditions of the Queen Maud block, Canadian Shield, Arctic Canada.
9:10 AM	Shauna Coombs²¹	Age, composition and thermal history of lower crustal xenoliths from the Slave Craton.
9:30 AM	David van Acken²²	Pyroxenite Formation in the Totalp Ultramafic Massif, Switzerland: Constraints from Highly Siderophile Elements.
9:50 AM	Coffee break
10:10 AM	Jason Hong²³	Jarosite Occurrences in the MIL 03346 Nakhlite: Implications for Water on Mars.
10:30 AM	Jennifer Peats²⁴	Aviat Diamonds: A Window into the Deep Lithospheric Mantle beneath the Northern Churchill Province.
10:50 AM	Karen Smit²⁵	Major and Trace Element Chemistry of Peridotitic Xenocrysts from the Victor Kimberlite, Superior Craton.
11:10 AM	Theodore Oramah²⁶	Opportunities and challenges for rural sustainable development based on small-scale mining in Sub-Saharan Africa: Nigeria as a case study.
11:30 AM	Lunch break
12:30 PM	Darrin Molinaro²⁷	Building a better matrix: A phylogenetic analysis of cornuproetid trilobites (Order Proetida) with implications towards proetid character selection and coding.
12:50 PM	Frank Forcino²⁸	Getting more from less: Evidence that multivariate analyses require smaller sample sizes.
1:10 PM	Donald Wehlage²⁹	Monitoring the effect of moisture regime on rangeland productivity with optical remote sensing.
1:30 PM	Cassidy Rankine³⁰	Wireless Sensing Networks in Ecological Monitoring: Improving in situ measurements of primary productivity in tropical forest environments.
1:50 PM	Coffee break
2:10 PM	Steven Mamet³¹	Looking through the wooden time machine: tree-ring investigations of terrestrial ecosystem change in the western Hudson Bay Lowlands.
2:30 PM	Qiang Wang³²	Flow pathways through the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.
2:50 PM	Laura Castro de la Guardia³³	Modelling the sea ice seasonal cycle in Hudson Bay.
3:10 PM	Ben Lange³⁴	2011 Arctic Sea Ice Observations from International and Interdisciplinary Research Campaigns.
3:30 PM	Coffee break
4:30 PM	Clarke Burchfiel ^{Keynote 2}	Keynote 2: Earthquakes in Chine: the Neotectonic-Hazards-Tectonic Connection.
5:30 PM	End of talks, Day 2
6:00 PM	Symposium banquet