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2018, April 5th-6th


Keynote Speaker: 
Dr. Reed Scherer

Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, USA

April 5, Tory 3-36, 12:00pm:
"What a tiny fossil can teach us about a big ice sheet"
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April 6, ESB 3-27, 5:00pm:
"Paleoclimatology: Is What's Past, Prologue?"

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Graduate Student Talks to be held in Tory 3-36
Undergraduate Student Poster Session to be held in CCIS PCL Lounge April 5th from 5:30 - 8:00 pm


Symposium Schedule
Undergraduate Poster Abstracts
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Schedule of Speakers & Events


Thursday, April 5th

8:00 - Coffee and Snacks 

                         .: Session 1 :.

8:15 -
Brette Harris: Chemostratigraphy and sedimentology of the Devonian Hare Indian Formation, Northwest Territories, Canada
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8:30 - 
Nabilah Adani: Paleogeographic Reconstruction and Tight Sandstone Reservoir Characterization of the Falher "F" Member of the Spirit River Formation in Western Alberta

8:45 - Elaine Lord: Sedimentology of the Alberta Salts: a world without compare

9:00 - Morgan Snyder: Salty stuff: integrating seismic, bathymetry, aeromagnetic, and field data to understand deformation in Bay St. George, southwest Newfoundland

9:15 - Alison Thomas: Multidisciplinary investigation of primary and secondary salt welds in the late Paleozoic Antigonish sub-basin of Nova Scotia

9:30 - Jared Kugler: Seismic and outcrop investigation of fault development in the transtensional Moncton Subbasin at the McCully gas field, southern New Brunswick, Canada

9:45 - Hanna Brooks: Mineral solubility in complex saline aqueous fluids at crustal and upper mantle conditions

10:00 - Coffee Break 

                           .:
Session 2 :.

10:15 -
Mei Yan Lai: Spectroscopic analysis of yellow diamond

10:30 - Matthew Wudrick: Age and Characteriatics of the Lithospheric Mantle Beneath the Karowe Diamond Mine, Botswana

10:45 - Xinchen Xia: Mineral inclusions in diamonds from Chidliak (Nunavut, Canada): constraining the source paragenesis

11:00 - Denelle Smyth: Preliminary Petrology of the Pikoo Kimberlites, Saskatchewan

11:15 - Natasha Barett: Geochemical and Os Isotope signatures in the SW Pacific lithospheric mantle: insights from Fijian Island xenoliths

11:30 - Margo Regier: A cross section of oxygen isotopes in the deep mantle

11:45 - Lunch 
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12:00 - Keynote Speaker Dr. Reed Scherer: "What a tiny fossil can teach us about a big ice sheet" 



                         .: Session 3 :. 

13:15 -
Jamie Robbins: The biological origin to banded iron formation

13:30 - Konstantin Von Gunten: Life at a permeable reactive barrier – metal contamination-induced changes in the microbial community

13:45 - Brendan Bishop: Surface reactivity of cyanobacteria: Implications for marine trace metal availability

14:00 - Tyler Warchola: Chemostratigraphy of the Boolgeeda Iron Formation, Western Australia


         17:30 - 19:00 Undergraduate Poster Session


Friday, April 6th

​7:45 - Coffee and Snacks

                               .:
Session 4 :.

8:00 - 
 Weiduo Hao: Relationship between ionic strength and the proton interaction of clay minerals

8:15 - Samuel Bowman: The hunt for molybdenite: Imaging techniques for Low-Level Highly Radiogenic (LLHR) As, Cu, and Fe sulfides

8:30 - Yaqian Long: How machine learning work on hyperspectral data for rock mapping

8:45 - Wenbo Zhang: Stress-induced magmatism on a flexural plate: correlating temporalspatial relationships between the Cretaceous Omineca Magmatic Belt and the Central Cretaceous Kimberlite Corridor

9:00 - Benjamin Gruber: Effects of pressure and water on electrical conductivity of carbonate melt with implications for conductivity anomaly in continental mantle lithosphere


9:15 - Coffee Break

                        .:
Session 5 :.

9:30 - 
Evan Renaud: Geothermal Resource Characterization of the Slave Point Formation at Clarke Lake Field, Fort Nelson, B.C., Canada

9:45 - Merilie Reynolds: Diagenetic controls on the formation of the Anarraaq sediment hosted Zn-Pb deposit, Red Dog district, Alaska, USA

10:00 - Theron Finley: Concave convergent margin geometry and its relation to historical and ongoing oroclinal bending in the Cascadia forearc

10:15 - Alix Osinchuk: The Origin of Granites in the Boothia Peninsula, Nunavut: Preliminary Insights into Precambrian tectonic regimes of the Canadian Arctic

10:30 - Erin Bros: Observations of the Mary River Group at Long Lake, northern Baffin Island, Nunavut: stratigraphy and structure of an Archean supracrustal sequence

10:45 - Coffee Break

                       .: Session 6  :.

11:00 - 
Ilona Ranger: Punctuated, long-lived emplacement history of kimberlites from the Renard cluster, Superior Province, Canada indicated by new high precision U-Pb groundmass perovskite dating

11:15 - Grayson Bilak: Prospecting for ancient terrestrial crust using geochemical signatures of Pleistocene glacial sediments from the Acasta Gneiss Complex

11:30 - Madisen Sagan: A new approach to understanding the geological evolution of the Canary Islands: A detrital zircon study of Fuerteventura beach sand

11:45 - Jonathon Toma: Direct Re-Os ages of the Sinemurian-Pliensbachian time-scale boundary

12:00 - Lunch

                            .:
Session 7 :.

12:30 -
Md. Samrat Alam: Thermodynamic analysis of heavy metals adsorption to biochar

12:45 - Neil MacPherson: Solubility of Sulfate and Chloride Green Rusts during Ageing and Transformation to Magnetite

13:00 - Teruhiko Kashiwabara: Stable isotope fractionation of tungsten during adsorption on Fe and Mn (oxyhydr)oxides

13:15 - Danny Hnatyshin: Osmium in groundwater, how much is there and what does it tell us?

13:30 - Isabel Plata Enriquez: Membrane filtration and aeration approaches to treat hydraulic fracturing flowback and produced water

13:45 - Kristina Barclay: Snails on acid: Effects of ocean acidification and fear on gastropod shell defenses

14:00- Coffee Break

                       .: Session 8 :.
14:15 - Chimedlkham Enkhbaya: Community perception of the Cooperation agreement in Mongolia: A Case Study of Oyu Tolgoi Cu-Au mine

14:30 - David Chunn: Application of SWAT-MODFLOW Software to Evaluate Groundwater Surface Water Interaction in West-Central Alberta

14:45 - Leila Taheriazad: Automatic generation of DTM in forested area using LiDAR remote sensing

15:00 - Marissa Castro Magnani: Ecosystem services in Tropical Dry forests: assessing carbon sequestration

15:15 - Darcy Reynard: Carbon Pricing in Canada–from government policy to the impact on urban mobility and social exclusion

15:30 - Darren Epperson: Fragmentation and Conversion of Agricultural Land - Analysis of Values to Inform Policy

​15:45 - Arshad Khan Khalafzai: Participatory Flood Mapping and Disaster Risk Reduction: The Case of Kashechewan First Nation, Northern Ontario, Canada

17:00 - Public Keynote Lecture by Dr. Reed Scherer: "Paleoclimatology: Is What's Past, Prologue?"

18:30 - ATLAS Symposium Banquet
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