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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
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@ 5 pm - Dr. Catherine Cooper Public Lecture, ESB 3-27:
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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
Symposium Schedule
Undergraduate Posters
Undergraduate Poster Abstracts
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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 

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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 
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12:00 - 
 Dr. Katie Cooper - KEYNOTE PRESENTATION: The making and Breaking of Cratons

13:00 - Coffee break
                     
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Session 3: Crust and Mantle:. 
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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
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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

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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
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17:00 - Public Keynote Lecture by Dr. Katie Cooper, ESB 3-27

18:30 - ATLAS Symposium Banquet
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