ATLAS Symposium 2014: Full event schedule
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Please see individual session schedules for full abstracts.
Please see individual session schedules for full abstracts.
Thursday April 10th
Time |
Presenter |
Title |
| 8:30 AM | Coffee & snacks |
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| 9:00 AM | Janina Czas |
Reworking of lithospheric mantle beneath the sask craton, Canada: Re-Os and platinum group element systematics |
| 9:20 AM | Laura Brin |
The age and origin of lithospheric mantle beneath central Victoria Island and Parry Peninsula |
| 9:40 AM | Pedro Waterton |
Preliminary work on the ~1.9 Ga Rabbit Point Komatiite |
| 10:00 AM | Nicholas Castle |
Observational and Experimental Results for Tissint Magma Formation: The Story Thus Far |
| 10:20 AM | Coffee break |
|
| 10:40 AM | Evan DeLancey |
Hyperspectral remote sensing of boreal forest tree diversity at multiple scales |
| 11.00 AM | Danny Hnatyshin |
Introduction to Paleomagnetic Dating |
| 11:20 AM | Jesse Reimink |
An Iceland-like Setting for Generation of Earth’s Earliest Known Continental Crust |
| 11.40 AM | Coffee break |
|
| 12.00 PM | Dr. Richard Carlson |
Keynote Talk - Pacific Northwest Volcanism: The Connection of Mantle Dynamics and Continent Formation |
| 1.00 PM | Coffee break |
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| 1.20 PM | David Dockman |
The High Arctic Large Igneous Province (HALIP): A study in geochemistry and variations in lithospheric thickness |
| 1:40 PM | Robert Dokken |
Detrital zircon geochronology of the Fredericton Trough, New Brunswick: Evidence for Silurian closure of an Iapetus remnant |
| 2:00 PM | Mandy Krebs |
Variability in diamond population characteristics across the size range 0.2 – 2.4 mm – A case study based on diamonds from Misery (Ekati mine) |
| 2:20 PM | Yannick Bussweiler |
Carbonate-rich Polymineralic Inclusions in Megacrysts from Kimberlites – a Link to the Parent Magma? |
| 2.40 PM | Coffee break |
|
| 3:00 PM | Sean Tombe |
The Brucejack Porphyry-Related Epithermal Au Deposit, Northwestern British Columbia |
| 3:20 PM | Lijuan Liu |
Geochronology, geochemistry, and fluid inclusion study of the Newton epithermal gold deposit, British Columbia |
| 3:40 PM | Lin Chen |
Further Re-Os arsenopyrite geochronology from selected Meguma Au deposits, Meguma terrane, Nova Scotia: Possible evidence for a protracted gold-forming system |
| 4:00 PM | Joe Magnall |
Can widespread euxinic conditions still be considered a prerequisite for sedimentary exhalative mineralization in the Selwyn Basin? |
| 4:20 PM | End of talks, Day 1 |
Friday April 11th
Time |
Presenter |
Title |
| 9:00 AM | Gabrielle Klappstein |
Shallow hydrogeological and hydrochemical characterization of the Aquistore CO2 sequestration site in Estevan, Saskatchewan |
| 9:20 AM | Laura Gillard |
Pathways and variability of melt from the Greenland Ice Sheet into the Atlantic Ocean over 1960 to 2000 |
| 9:40 AM | Ting Liang |
Deciphering the impact of sea-level changes and tectonic movement on erosional sequence boundaries in carbonate successions: A case study from Tertiary strata on Grand Cayman and Cayman Brac, British West Indies |
| 10.00 AM | Matt Mahony |
50,000 years of paleoenvironmental change from central Yukon permafrost |
| 10:20 AM | Coffee break |
|
| 10:40 AM | Neil Beaton |
[Absent] Diagenetic Controls on Hydrothermal Fluid Flow in the Osiris, Isis, and Isis East Carlin-type Au showings, Nadaleen Trend, Yukon |
| 11:00 AM | Nurmaiya Brady |
The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme: A Pathway to enhanced Food Security and Well-being in India? |
| 11:20 AM | Alison Cheesbrough |
Everyday Wild: How do preserved natural areas in the City of Edmonton contribute to health and wellbeing? |
| 11:40 AM | Jia Li |
Transitions around Smoking: The Experiences of Chinese Migrants to Edmonton |
| 12.00 PM | Lunch |
|
| 1.20 PM | Carolyn Furlong |
The Ecology, Neoichnology and Sedimentology of Siliciclastic Hard Ground Communities: Implications for Trypanites Assemblages in the Rock Record |
| 1:40 PM | Sergey Kuflevskiy |
Dolomite recrysallization along the Rimbey-Meadowbrook reef trend, Western Canada Sedimentary Basin, Alberta, Canada |
| 2:00 PM | Naomi Miles |
Timing of source rock deposition in the Georgina basin, Australia |
| 2:20 PM | Michelle Speta |
Hyperspectral imaging for the determination of bitumen content in oil sands core samples |
| 2.40 PM | Coffee break |
|
| 3.00 PM | Undergraduate Poster Session |
|
| 4.00 PM | Afternoon break |
|
| 5.00 PM | Dr. Richard Carlson |
Keynote Talk - A History of Earth Formation |
| 6:00 PM | End of talks, Day 2 |
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| 6.30 PM | Symposium Banquet |