2019, April 10th-11th
Wednesday/Thursday, April 10th and 11th 2019
Wednesday, April 10th: all in Tory 3-36 Graduate Student Talks All Day (9 AM - 3:45 PM) @ Noon - Dr. Catherine Cooper Keynote Talk "The Making & Breaking of Cratons" @ 4 - 7 pm - Undergraduate Poster Session. Prizes for the best posters! Undergrad Poster Session Schedule Thursday April 11th: Graduate Student Talks All Day (9 AM - 3:15 PM) - Tory 3-36 @ 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM **NEW** Informal "Communication and Diversity in Science" Discussions! EAS Graduate Students can use this to get an hour of P.D.! In Tory 3-36 SIGN UP HERE @ 5 pm - Dr. Catherine Cooper Public Lecture, ESB 3-27: Plate Tectonics: How the Earth’s Interior Impacts Elections, Cell Phones, Global Climate, and You @ 6:30 pm - Symposium Banquet @ Earls on Campus, Tickets to be sold prior to event |
Schedule of Speakers & Events
Wednesday, April 10th
8:40 - Opening Remarks, Coffee and Snacks
.: Session 1: People: Their Systems and Environments :.
9:00 - Lynne Mbajiorgu: Wildfire, Floods and Droughts: How Small Alberta Municipalities Adopt Risk-based Approaches in Land Use Planning
9:15 - Leah Anderson: Transportation and Social Isolation in Alberta's Senior Population
9:30 - Nicole Bonnet: What is the Extent of Adaptation Integration in Strategic Planning Documents: The Case of Vancouver Island
9:45 - Theron Finley: Geothermal energy resources around the world: play types, socioeconomic factors, and some takeaways for Canada
10:00 - Coffee Break
.: Session 2: Earth Observation and Structure :.
10:20 - Iain Sharp: Characterization of an in-situ fraction of Photosynthetic Active Radiation product for use in validating satellite products
10:35 - Jing Chen: Spatial Dynamic Modeling of Tropical Forest Change and the Relevant Spatiotemporal Analysis
10:50 - Kayla Stan: Environmental Change in Costa Rica: Land Cover, Climate, and Ecosystem Services
11:05 - Mike Duvall: The influence of structural inheritance of the Indian plate on Himalayan foreland basin deposition, Nepal
11:20 - Cedar Hanneson: A Regional Resistivity Model of the Southeastern Canadian Cordillera from 3-D Inversion of Magnetotelluric Data
11:35 - Lunch
12:00 - Dr. Katie Cooper - KEYNOTE PRESENTATION: The making and Breaking of Cratons
13:00 - Coffee break
.: Session 3: Crust and Mantle:.
13:10 - Ben Neil: U-Pb zircon chronology of basement gneisses and granitoids in the Nonacho Lake area, Northwest Territories: Correlations to the Rae craton and Queen Maud block
13:25 - Ben Gruber: Temperatures and Heat Production in the Slave Craton Lower Crust: Evidence from Xenoliths in the Diavik A154 Kimberlite
13:40 - Christian Veglio: Behavior of ore forming elements in the subcontinental-lithospheric mantle below the Slave Craton
13:55 - Will Siva-Jothy: Inclusion and host studies of diamonds from Gahcho Kué
14:10 - Coffee Break
.: Session 4: Water and Weather :.
14:30 - Patrick Williams: Marine-terminating glaciers and the Greenland Ice Sheet as sources of bioessential nutrients to downstream ecosystems
14:45 - Kelly Hokanson: Shallow groundwater systems in sub-humid, low-relief Boreal Plain landscapes: Interactions between glacial landforms, climate, and topography
15:00 - Ujjwal Tiwari: A Relationship between Ural-Siberian Blocking and Himalayan Weather Anomalies
16:00 - 19:00 Undergraduate Poster Session
SEE SCHEDULE HERE
8:40 - Opening Remarks, Coffee and Snacks
.: Session 1: People: Their Systems and Environments :.
9:00 - Lynne Mbajiorgu: Wildfire, Floods and Droughts: How Small Alberta Municipalities Adopt Risk-based Approaches in Land Use Planning
9:15 - Leah Anderson: Transportation and Social Isolation in Alberta's Senior Population
9:30 - Nicole Bonnet: What is the Extent of Adaptation Integration in Strategic Planning Documents: The Case of Vancouver Island
9:45 - Theron Finley: Geothermal energy resources around the world: play types, socioeconomic factors, and some takeaways for Canada
10:00 - Coffee Break
.: Session 2: Earth Observation and Structure :.
10:20 - Iain Sharp: Characterization of an in-situ fraction of Photosynthetic Active Radiation product for use in validating satellite products
10:35 - Jing Chen: Spatial Dynamic Modeling of Tropical Forest Change and the Relevant Spatiotemporal Analysis
10:50 - Kayla Stan: Environmental Change in Costa Rica: Land Cover, Climate, and Ecosystem Services
11:05 - Mike Duvall: The influence of structural inheritance of the Indian plate on Himalayan foreland basin deposition, Nepal
11:20 - Cedar Hanneson: A Regional Resistivity Model of the Southeastern Canadian Cordillera from 3-D Inversion of Magnetotelluric Data
11:35 - Lunch
12:00 - Dr. Katie Cooper - KEYNOTE PRESENTATION: The making and Breaking of Cratons
13:00 - Coffee break
.: Session 3: Crust and Mantle:.
13:10 - Ben Neil: U-Pb zircon chronology of basement gneisses and granitoids in the Nonacho Lake area, Northwest Territories: Correlations to the Rae craton and Queen Maud block
13:25 - Ben Gruber: Temperatures and Heat Production in the Slave Craton Lower Crust: Evidence from Xenoliths in the Diavik A154 Kimberlite
13:40 - Christian Veglio: Behavior of ore forming elements in the subcontinental-lithospheric mantle below the Slave Craton
13:55 - Will Siva-Jothy: Inclusion and host studies of diamonds from Gahcho Kué
14:10 - Coffee Break
.: Session 4: Water and Weather :.
14:30 - Patrick Williams: Marine-terminating glaciers and the Greenland Ice Sheet as sources of bioessential nutrients to downstream ecosystems
14:45 - Kelly Hokanson: Shallow groundwater systems in sub-humid, low-relief Boreal Plain landscapes: Interactions between glacial landforms, climate, and topography
15:00 - Ujjwal Tiwari: A Relationship between Ural-Siberian Blocking and Himalayan Weather Anomalies
16:00 - 19:00 Undergraduate Poster Session
SEE SCHEDULE HERE
Thursday, April 11th
8:40 - Breakfast and Coffee
.: Session 5: Sedimentology :.
9:00 - Sara Biddle: Ichnological Expressions of Low Oxygen Settings: An Integrated Ichnological and Sedimentological Analysis of the Canol Formation, Northwest Territories, Canada
9:15 - Haolin Zhou: Identification of Triggers for Organic Matter Accumulation of the Middle and Upper Devonian Horn River Shale, Canada
9:30 - Calla Knudson: Trace element distributions in sediments and surface waters of Arcachon Bay and the Gironde Estuary, Southwestern France
9:45 - Coffee Break
.: Session 6: Tracking Climate: Then and Now :.
10:20 - Simone Booker: Utility of δ18O for paleotemperature determinations from Pleistocene (80 to 500 ka) corals: case study based on the Ironshore Formation, Grand Cayman, British West Indies
10:35 - Cole McCormick: Delineation of the Brac Unconformity on Grand Cayman, BWI Implications for Late Oligocene - Early Miocene Paleoclimate and Glaciation
10:50 - Casey Buchanan: Modelling variations in active layer thaw depth and the implications for paleo climate reconstruction
11:05 - Danielle Loiselle: Impacts of a changing climate on sediment and organic carbon yields of the Elbow River watershed
11:20 - Early Lunch
.: Session 7: Fluid, Melt and Glass Geochemistry :.
11:40 - Vanessa Elongo: Sr isotope constraints on the origin of the mineralizing fluids from Cantung and Mactung skarn-hosted tungsten deposits, Yukon-NWT, Canada
11:55 - Wyatt Bain: Apatite and melt inclusion compositions From the Buena Vista deposit, Nevada
12:10 - Jordan Harvey: Glass geochemistry of the set B Castle/Pine Creek tephra beds at Mount St. Helens, Washington State
12:25 - Matthew Bolton: Quantitative geochemical fingerprinting: Machine learning to trace tephra to source
12:40 - Coffee Break
.: Session 8: Environmental and Petroleum Geochemistry :.
13:00 - Wujun Feng: Geochemical Signatures of Doig Sourced Hydrocarbons: Can Doig Phosphate Source Rock Generate Two Different Types of Oils?
13:15 - Adam Seip: Selective Lithium Extraction from Hydraulic Fracturing Flowback Fluid: Optimization of Conditions and Characterization of Sorbent
13:30 - Alvin Kwan: PAH characterization of reworked bitumen contributions to the lower Athabasca River
13:45 - Sean Funk: Sorption characteristics of inorganic and organic compounds found in hydraulic fracturing flowback and produced water: Implications for fate and transport
14:00- Coffee Break
.: Session 9: Geobiology and Paleontology :.
14:20 - Rong Jin: Fraction distribution and risk assessment of heavy metals in sediments of North Saskatchewan River
14:35 - Yuhao Li: Characterization and settling rate of cyanobacteria-ferrihydrite aggregates formed during oxygenic photosynthetic Fe(II) oxidation
14:50 - Kristina Barclay: Snails on acid: Effects of ocean acidification and fear on gastropod shell defenses
15:05- Closing Remarks
15:30 - *Behind The Scenes* - Informal Discussion w/ Dr. Cooper, Counts as one hour of professional development
SIGN UP HERE
17:00 - Public Keynote Lecture by Dr. Katie Cooper, ESB 3-27
18:30 - ATLAS Symposium Banquet
8:40 - Breakfast and Coffee
.: Session 5: Sedimentology :.
9:00 - Sara Biddle: Ichnological Expressions of Low Oxygen Settings: An Integrated Ichnological and Sedimentological Analysis of the Canol Formation, Northwest Territories, Canada
9:15 - Haolin Zhou: Identification of Triggers for Organic Matter Accumulation of the Middle and Upper Devonian Horn River Shale, Canada
9:30 - Calla Knudson: Trace element distributions in sediments and surface waters of Arcachon Bay and the Gironde Estuary, Southwestern France
9:45 - Coffee Break
.: Session 6: Tracking Climate: Then and Now :.
10:20 - Simone Booker: Utility of δ18O for paleotemperature determinations from Pleistocene (80 to 500 ka) corals: case study based on the Ironshore Formation, Grand Cayman, British West Indies
10:35 - Cole McCormick: Delineation of the Brac Unconformity on Grand Cayman, BWI Implications for Late Oligocene - Early Miocene Paleoclimate and Glaciation
10:50 - Casey Buchanan: Modelling variations in active layer thaw depth and the implications for paleo climate reconstruction
11:05 - Danielle Loiselle: Impacts of a changing climate on sediment and organic carbon yields of the Elbow River watershed
11:20 - Early Lunch
.: Session 7: Fluid, Melt and Glass Geochemistry :.
11:40 - Vanessa Elongo: Sr isotope constraints on the origin of the mineralizing fluids from Cantung and Mactung skarn-hosted tungsten deposits, Yukon-NWT, Canada
11:55 - Wyatt Bain: Apatite and melt inclusion compositions From the Buena Vista deposit, Nevada
12:10 - Jordan Harvey: Glass geochemistry of the set B Castle/Pine Creek tephra beds at Mount St. Helens, Washington State
12:25 - Matthew Bolton: Quantitative geochemical fingerprinting: Machine learning to trace tephra to source
12:40 - Coffee Break
.: Session 8: Environmental and Petroleum Geochemistry :.
13:00 - Wujun Feng: Geochemical Signatures of Doig Sourced Hydrocarbons: Can Doig Phosphate Source Rock Generate Two Different Types of Oils?
13:15 - Adam Seip: Selective Lithium Extraction from Hydraulic Fracturing Flowback Fluid: Optimization of Conditions and Characterization of Sorbent
13:30 - Alvin Kwan: PAH characterization of reworked bitumen contributions to the lower Athabasca River
13:45 - Sean Funk: Sorption characteristics of inorganic and organic compounds found in hydraulic fracturing flowback and produced water: Implications for fate and transport
14:00- Coffee Break
.: Session 9: Geobiology and Paleontology :.
14:20 - Rong Jin: Fraction distribution and risk assessment of heavy metals in sediments of North Saskatchewan River
14:35 - Yuhao Li: Characterization and settling rate of cyanobacteria-ferrihydrite aggregates formed during oxygenic photosynthetic Fe(II) oxidation
14:50 - Kristina Barclay: Snails on acid: Effects of ocean acidification and fear on gastropod shell defenses
15:05- Closing Remarks
15:30 - *Behind The Scenes* - Informal Discussion w/ Dr. Cooper, Counts as one hour of professional development
SIGN UP HERE
17:00 - Public Keynote Lecture by Dr. Katie Cooper, ESB 3-27
18:30 - ATLAS Symposium Banquet