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" April 6, ESB 3-27, 5:00pm: "Paleoclimatology: Is What's Past, Prologue?" ~ 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 |
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
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
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
8:00 - Coffee and Snacks
.: Session 1 :.
8:15 - Brette Harris: Chemostratigraphy and sedimentology of the Devonian Hare Indian Formation, Northwest Territories, Canada
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
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
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