2012, April 12th-13th

Featuring the Keynote Lectures:

"Reduced, reused, recycled: The 3780 Myr-old Nuvvuagittuq Supracrustal Belt (Quebec, Canada)" 
& 
"The Geology of Stars"

Dr. Steve Mojzsis
Universite Claude Bernard Lyon, France
The 2012 symposium featured the first annual undergraduate poster competition. Congratulations to human geography undergrad Stephanie Mah on her winning poster!

Schedule of Talks & Events

Thursday, April 12th

9:30-9:50
Frank L. Forcino, Lindsey R. Leighton; The lazy paleontologist: Evidence for doing less and getting the same meaningful result

9:50-10:10
Allison M Neumann, John-Paul Zonneveld; Sedimentology and stratigraphy of highly fossiliferous fluvial and lacustrine sediments from the northern margin of the Red Desert Basin, Greater Green River Basin, Wyoming

10:10-10:30
A. Jorge C. Magalhaes; Sequence stratigraphy of the Mesoproterozoic Tombador Formation, Chapada Diamantina, Brazil

10:30-10:50: Coffee Break

10:50-11:10
Daniel Petrash, Murray Gingras, Stefan Lalonde, François Orange, Ernesto Pecoits, Kurt Konhauser; Controls on accretion and lithification of modern gypsum-dominated thrombolites, Los Roques, Venezuela

11:10-11:30
Set Castro-Contreras, Ernesto Pecoits, Natalie R. Aubet, Daniel Petrash, Murray K. Gingras, Kurt O. Konhauser; Geochemical and textural characterization of fresh water microbialites of Laguna Bacalar, Mexico

11:30-11:50
Aleksandra M. Mloszewska, Ernesto Pecoit, Nicole L. Cates, Stephen J. Mojzsis, Jonathan O'Neil, Kurt O. Konhauser;The composition of Earth's oldest iron formations: the Nuvvuagittuq Supracrustal Belt (Québec, Canada)

11:50-12:30: Catered Luncheon, Tory 3-76

12:30-1:30
Keynote Lecture: Dr. Steve Mojzsis; Reduced, reused and recycled: The 3780 Myr-old Nuvvuagittuq supracrustal belt (Québec, Canada) - Tory 3-36

1:50-2:10
Chelsea Horton, Carl Mendoza, Kevin Devito; Characterizing Groundwater-Surface Water Flow Patterns in Two Constructed Wetlands in the Oil Sands Region

2:10-2:30
Tibor Lengyel, Ben Rostron; Geothermics of the Phanerozoic Strata of Saskatchewan - an update

2:30-2:50
Danny Hnatyshin, Robert A. Creaser; Applicability of pyrite Re-Os geochronology to MVT style ore deposits

2:50-3:10
Nathaniel Walsh, Thomas Chacko, Larry Heaman, S. Andrew DuFrane, John Duke, Jacek Majorowicz; Geochronology and heat-production capacity of Precambrian basement from the Fort McMurray area, Alberta

3:10-3:30: Coffee Break

3:30-3:50
Natasha M. Oviatt., S.A. Gleeson, R.C. Paulen, M.B. McClenaghan, S. Paradis; Indicator Mineral and Till Geochemical Signature Associated with the Pine Point Pb-Zn Mississippi Valley Type (MVT) Deposits, Northwest Territories, Canada

3:50-4:10
Eric J. Thiessen, S.A. Gleeson, S.A. Dufrane; Paragenetic and geochemical constraints of the Tiger Zone, the first significant Tertiary intrusion related gold deposit in the Yukon

4:10-4:30
Jennifer Newman; Whitecourt iron meteorites: external morphology as an expression of internal texture and modification

4:30-4:50
Amy J. V. Riches, Graham Pearson, Richard Stern, Ryan Ickert, Simon Jackson, Akira Ishikawa, Bruce Kjarsgaard; In-situ oxygen-isotope and mineralogical constraints on the shallow origin of a Roberts Victor eclogite
Friday, April 13th

 9:30-9:50
Heather Mosher, Alexander P. Wolfe; Through the eyes of a tree: Monitoring the environmental change using stable isotope dendrochemistry

9:50-10:10
Saulo M. Castro-Contreras, Lawrence B. Flanagan, John A. Gamon; A case study for modeling carbon fluxes through optical remote sensing

10:10-10:30
J. Alec Casey, Stephen Howell, Adrienne Tivy, Christian Haas; Assessment of ALOS/PALSAR and RADARSAT-2 ScanSAR imagery for sea ice type identification during the summer melt period

10:30-10:50: Coffee Break

10:50-11:10
Sharlene Hartman, John W. F. Waldron; LiDAR assisted mapping and deformation history of Crowsnest Pass, Alberta

11:10-11:30
Sady Barreto; Tectonomagmatic, Structural, and Metallogenic Evolution of the Northern Andes

11:30-11:50
Hayley Pothier, John W.F. Waldron, David I. Schofield,
A. DuFrane, S.M. Barr and C.E. White; Cambrian-Ordovician successions and detrital zircon geochronology of North Wales and Nova Scotia: terrane interactions between Ganderia and Megumia

11:50-12:50: Lunch Break

12:50-1:10
Meghan Black, Brian Jones; The Effects of Dolomitization on Porosity and Permeability Development in the late Devonian Graminia Formation (Blueridge Member), Northeastern Alberta

1:10-1:30
Tian Dong, Nicholas B. Harris; Effects of organic and inorganic composition and thermal maturity on porosity development in Woodford and Horn River shales

1:30-1:50
Edwin I. Egbobawaye; Tight Gas Reservoir Characterization of the Lower Triassic Montney Formation, Northeastern British Columbia, Canada

1:50-2:10: Coffee Break

2:10-2:30
Jen Baker, Tara McGee; Backcountry snowmobilers’ risk perceptions, avalanche related information seeking behaviours, and decision-making process when dealing with avalanches and backcountry risk

2:30-2:50
Sirina Hamilton-McGregor, Robert Summers; Local residents’ perceptions and use of the 124th street commercial corridor

3:00-4:00
Undergraduate Poster Competition - Tory 3-76

5:00-6:00
Keynote Lecture: Dr. Steve Mojzsis; The geology of stars - ESB 3-27