2017 Symposium Schedule and Abstracts

Thursday, April 6th

8:30 - Coffee and Snacks with Welcome Address 

       .: Session Chair: Margo Regier :.
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9:00 - Nicole Meyer: A new look at diamonds from the Koffiefontein Mine employing in situ techniques for trace element analyses

9:15 - Theetso Motsamai: The compositional structure and thermal state of the lithospheric mantle beneath the western edge of Zimbabwe Craton

9:30 - Matthew Hardman: New graphical approaches to the discrimination of crust- and mantle-derived low-Cr garnet: major-element-based methods

9:45 - Garrett Harris: Mantle Composition, Age, and Geotherm beneath the Darby Kimberlite field, West Central Rae Craton

10:00 - Stéphane Poitras: Evidence for a > 200 km thick diamond-bearing root beneath the Central Mackenzie Valley, Northwest Territories, Canada: Diamond indicator mineral geochemistry from the Horn Plateau and Trout Lake regions

10:15 - Coffee (20 min)

     .: Session Chair: Merilie Reynolds :.

10:35 - Mike Belosevic: A new frontier for the Acasta Gneiss Complex: The oldest evolved crust on Earth

10:50 - Devon Smith: Trace Element Distributions in Sphalerite from the Anarraaq Zn-Pb-Ag Deposit, Red Dog District, Alaska

11:05 - Tylor Pollard: Mobilization and Mineral Hosts of Gold in Mantle Rocks

11:20 - Tim McIntyre: Petrography and Geochemistry of the Tuvssaq Ultramafic Complex

11:35 - Federico Rueda Chaparro: Origin of the Petroliferous dolomite beds in the Uteland Butte Member, Lower Green River Formation, Uinta Basin, Utah, USA

11:50 - Lunch

12:00 -Dr Koko Warner: Research directions: How can science contribute to sustainable development and climate action?

      .: Session Chair: Pedro Waterton :.

13:15 - Zhe Zhang: Multiple sulfur isotopic insights into 2.7 Ga sulfur cycle

13:30 - Yingzhou Li: Investigation of Nitrogen variability of silicate rocks in Mica Creek area, BC

13:45 - Yuying Deng: Experimental determination of nitrogen isotope fractionation for NH4+(aq)–NH3(g) system at low temperature

14:00 - Kan Li: Revaluating the carbon budget of altered oceanic crust

14:15 - Coffee (20 min)

      .: Session Chair: Simone Booker :.

14:35 - Darrin Molinaro: From shell to whorling shell: morphological shape change in Tegula funebrale along a known energy and predation gradient.

14:50 - Steven Mendonca: Is Half Enough? The Validity of Using Single Valves in Studies of Predation on Brachiopods.

15:05 - Donald Prenoslo: The Sedimentology, Stratigraphy and Reservoir Characteristics of the Montney D1 and D2 Horizons in the Greater Pouce Coupe Area

15:20 - Min Ren: Spatial variations in the properties of Miocene dolomite from Grand Cayman

15:35 - Erjun Zheng: Environmental controls on alternating aragonite-calcite laminations in notch-speleothems from Cayman Brac, Cayman Islands, British West Indies

16:00 - Poster Session (Winners announced at 18:00)

​Friday, April 7th

8:30 - Coffee and Snacks

       .: Session Chair: Arshad Khan Khalafzai :.

9:00 - Nurmaiya Brady: Female Self-help Groups as an Alternative Public Service Delivery Mechanism in Rural India

9:15 - Henock Asfaw: Wildfire evacuation and emergency management in remote First Nation communities in Canada: The case of Sandy Lake First Nation, Northern Ontario

9:30 - Ranon Soans: Promoting sustainable and vibrant retail environments: An investigation of Edmonton, Alberta

9:45 - Ariel MacDonald: The Alberta Legislature: A Cultural Landscape Analysis

10:00 - Konstantinos Koukouzikis: Everything flows in Pak Mun dam? From lower Mekong river to human mobilities.

10:15 - Coffee (20 min)

10:35 - Meryn Severson: Housing in Transition: The housing choices of Canadian young adults

10:50 - Emma Sanborn: An investigation of Edmonton's winter patios through the lens of climate-sensitive design

.: Session Chair: Noga Vaisblat :.

11:05 - Manuel Cossio: Removal mechanism of Hexavalent Chromium using Wheat Straw Biochar

11:20 - Saulo Castro: Drought effect on carbon sequestration in a Tropical Dry Forest

11:35 - Branko Hilje Rodriguez: Liana abundance effect on the avian acoustic community in tropical dry forests

11:50 - Lunch

.: Session Chair: Anja Rutishauser :.

13:00 - Sophie Norris: Glacial geomorphology of northwest Saskatchewan: inferring deglacial dynamics of the Laurentide Ice Sheet

13:15 - Joe Young: Quaternary stratigraphy of the lower Athabasca River Valley: implications for glacial Lake Agassiz meltwater drainage

13:30 - Ebberly MacLagan: Emplacement of the Steen River Impact Structure - Insights into mixed-target impact cratering

13:45 - Aimee Gegolick: Sedimentology, Ichnology and Biogenic Permeability of the Upper Montney Formation, NE British Columbia.

14:00 - Derek Hayes: Applications of Structure-from-Motion Photogrammetry for Determining the Depositional Architecture of McMurray Formation Outcrops

14:15 - Coffee (20 min)

17:00 - Dr. Koko Warner: (ESB 3-27) Climate migration: trends, knowledge gaps, and how research can contribute to policy

18:30 - Symposium Banquet at the Faculty Club
(Dinner service starts at 19:00)

Undergraduate Posters