2013, April 4th-5th

Featuring the Keynote Lectures:

"Secular variations in seawater chemistry: fluid inclusions, causes and influence on marine life" 
& 
"Long term survival of microorganisms and DNA preservation in fluid inclusions - Jurassic Park?"

Dr. Tim Lowenstein
Binghamton University, New York

Schedule of Speakers & Events

Thursday, April 4th

9:30AM
Yannick Bussweiler; A Solution to the Olivine Macrocryst Problem

9:50AM 
Katie Nichols, Thomas Stachel, Richard Stern; Diamond Sources beneath the Hall Peninsula, Nunavut: A Preliminary Assessment Based on Micro-Diamonds

10:10AM
Laura Brin, Graham Pearson, Amy Riches; The age and origin of lithospheric mantle beneath central Victoria Island and Parry Peninsula

10:50AM
Jamie Robbins, Kurt Konhauser; Zn in Banded Iron Formations: Implications for Eukaryotic and Marine Evolution      

11:10AM
Cheryl Hodgson, Murray Gingras and JP Zonneveld; Intertidal Animal-Sediment Interactions in the Middle to Outer Estuary of Netarts Bay, Oregon, USA

11:30AM 
Kristina Barclay, Lindsey Leighton, Chris Schneider; Sclerobiont and brachiopod host relationships: more data mean more questions

Lunch Break - Keynote #1

1:50PM
Andrew Lawfield, Murray Gingras, George Pemberton; The Ichnology, Taphonomy and Epibiota of Unionid Bivalves

2:10PM 
Ben Collins, Lindsey R. Leighton; Functional morphology of passive suspension feeding in Composita sp. (Brachiopoda, Athyridida)

2:30PM 
Sandra M. Durán, G. Arturo Sánchez-Azofeifa; Tree diversity and aboveground carbon storage in secondary tropical dry forests.

2:50PM
Christopher Wong, John Gamon; Seasonal adjustment in evergreen conifer leaves: what happens to pine needles in the winter?

3:30PM
Gabrielle Gascon, Martin Sharp, David Burgess, Peter Bezeau; Three-dimensional changes of the stratigraphy of the accumulation area of the Devon Ice Cap, Nunavut, Canada, during a period of climate warming

3:50PM
Craig Thompson, Carl Mendoza, and Kevin Devito; Groundwater-Surface Water Interactions in the Western Boreal Plain of Alberta

4:10PM
Gabriela Gonzalez, Karlis Muehlenbachs; Deuterium isotopic exchangeability of resin and amber under hydrous conditions at 50 °C and 90 °C. Amber as a reliable inland paleoclimatic indicator.

4:30PM
Giselle Norville, Karlis Muehlenbachs; Characterization of shale gas in the Horn River Basin using carbon isotope geochemistry
Friday, April 5th

9:30AM

Morgan Snyder, John Waldron; Origin of Soft-sediment deformation structures in Nova Scotia

9:50AM
Rong Li, Brian Jones; Diagenetic patterns of the Pleistocene Ironshore Formation, Grand Cayman, British West Indies

10:10AM
Emma Jones, Alexander P. Wolfe; Inferring Holocene fire history using environmental spectroscopy: an example from Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, USA

10:50AM
Qiqi Wang, Theresa Garvin, Candace Nykiforuk; The lived experience and sense of place among urban and suburban elderly Chinese immigrants in Edmonton

11:10AM
Fujie Rao, Robert Summers; Factors Influencing the Management of Retail Development:A Multi Case Study of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and Portland, Oregon, USA

11:30AM
Léanne Labossière, Tara McGee; Taking it into their own hands: innovative wildfire mitigation techniques at the local government level

Lunch Break

12:50PM
Yesuf H. Abdela, Theresa Garvin; The lived experience and sense of belonging among Somali youth and adult immigrants/refugees in Edmonton, Alberta

1:10PM
Morgan Tymko, Damian Collins; When You Smoke, They Smoke: Children’s Rights and Opinions about Vehicular Smoking Bans

1:30PM
Daniel A. Petrash, Kurt O. Konhauser ; Investigating the significance of transition metal geochemistry in multigenic dolomite

2:10PM
Shaunaugh Whelan, Sarah Gleeson, Stern, R.A., and Buchanan, C.; Au Mineralization at 3Ace, South-East Yukon

2:30PM
Nelson, F. Bernal, Sarah A. Gleeson, Abbie S. Dean, Xiao-Ming Liu and Paul Hoskin; The Source of Halogens in Geothermal Fluids from the Taupo Volcanic Zone, North Island, New Zealand.

3:00PM Undergraduate Poster Competition

5:15PM Keynote #2