Past Symposiums
ATLAS Symposium 2024
April 10th to 12th
The Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Department is invited to attend the 2024 ATLAS Research Symposium Annual Meeting to be held in Edmonton, University of Alberta, April 10-12, 2024.
The ATLAS Symposium is an annual student-run event, organized by the graduate student society, ATLAS, of the Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Department. It comprises a series of academic talks that are mainly driven by graduate students and a poster session prepared by undergraduate students, showcasing research projects on topics including geoscience, paleontology, environmental studies, human geography, and urban planning. The yearly ATLAS symposium is a valued tradition of our department, boasting a community of over 150 graduate students and 50 faculty members. It allows our students to share their research interests and learn from their peers and invited speakers. It also provides them with a great opportunity to work on their oral presentation and time management skills, for their future professional careers.
1. Hosts and Sponsors
The 2024 ATLAS symposium is hosted by the EAS - ATLAS student group. The graduate student oral presentations will be held in the Ruth South 1-17 (Henderson Hall), University of Alberta, from 9 am – 4 pm, April 10-12, 2024. The undergraduate poster session will be held in room 1-39 Earth Sciences Building, from 5-7 pm on April 10, 2024. Alongside the talks, ATLAS is hosting a small banquet where students are offered the chance to interact with each other and our industry and academia invited speakers.
The 2024 ATLAS symposium is sponsored by the ATLAS graduate society and the Faculty of Science, Undergraduate Research Initiative, PS Warren Geological Society, Dr. Pilar Lecumberri-Sanchez, APEX Geoscience, the Sustainability Council and Community Housing Canada, APEGA, and the Grace Anne Stewart Speaker Series (GASSS), all to whom we would like to express our warm gratitude.
2. Meeting Format
The 2024 ATLAS symposium will include three days of multiple sessions, including the graduate student presentations, workshops, extended talks, keynote presentations and post-meeting banquet.
April 10: Ice-breaker breakfast, ATLAS-GASSS workshop, morning and afternoon graduate student presentations and late afternoon undergraduate poster session.
April 11: Morning and afternoon graduate student presentations.
April 12: Morning and afternoon graduate student presentations and closing late afternoon banquet.
3. Special Sessions
April 10: Extended session: APEGA Licensure General Information
April 11: Dr. Runa Das Keynote Speech: “Canada’s households and the zero-carbon transition”.
April 12: Keynote: Dr. Márta Berkesi Keynote Speech: “Tracing lithosphere-scale fluid transport in the Pannonian Basin (central Europe)”.
4. Workshop
The Grace Anne Stewart Speaker Series (GASSS) and ATLAS present the workshop “Breaking Barriers: Navigating Mental Health in Academia” with Jasmine Bajwa (PhD, R Psych) from UofA Counselling and Clinical Services.
5. Social program
There will be a hybrid event involving an icebreaker breakfast and mental health workshop in the Ruth South 1-17 (Henderson Hall), University of Alberta, on the morning of April 10, from 9:00 am - 10:20 am; a late-afternoon Poster Session on April 10, from 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm; and a closing banquet on the evening of April 12, from 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm on the Papaschase Room of the University Club.
Schedule
Abstracts
Keynote Talks
Canada’s households and the zero carbon transition
Tracing lithosphere-scale fluid transport in the Pannonian Basin (central Europe)
Graduate Student Talks
Unveiling surface and subsurface contributions to evapotranspiration in in a snow-dominated watershed in western Canada
Permafrost mass wasting in the Mackenzie Valley, NWT
Constraining the Role of Authigenic Magnesium Rich Clays on Carbonate Precipitation in Alkaline Lacustrine Environments
Investigating the role of cyclonic storms in deep water formation in the Labrador and Nordic Seas
Tides, mixed layer eddies, and deep convection in the Labrador Sea: Simulations at resolutions consistent with coupled climate models
Elevation-dependent variability of snowpack triple oxygen isotopes, St. Elias Mountains, Yukon
Determining tree diversity indicators in tropical forests using orbital hyperspectral sensors
Understanding the atmospheric dynamics over high-altitude glaciated regions in the central Himalaya using high-resolution numerical simulations
Holocene eruptive activity in northwestern British Columbia: an unacknowledged hazard
Alaska ashes illuminate post-glacial eruption trends
Ice core paleovolcanic records from Mount Logan, Yukon
The Olympic orocline, a mountain formation from orogen-parallel deformation
Framing the human right to adequate housing: An analysis of United Nations Special Rapporteur country reports
Good Homes Take Work: Increasing the Accessibility of Edmonton’s Community Housing
The Agricultural Food System in Alberta: Exploring the Knowledge Systems
Creating future-ready bus stops: Promoting equity, safety, and climate resiliency in future bus stop planning guidelines
Whose mobility is enhanced? Analyzing the implications of GBA+ in new capital infrastructure projects – A case of the proposed BRT corridor in Edmonton, Canada
Evolving riders’ preferences towards transit crowding in Metro Vancouver
Preferences and Patterns of Ordovician Sclerobionts between three brachiopod host species
Crabs vs. bivalves: Attack strategies and resulting damages
Fantastic refugia and how to find them
Petrology and geochronology of kimberlites from the Victoria Island field, NU/NT, Canada
Magmatic expressions of the Mesoproterozoic Midcontinent Rift
Sublithospheric Diamonds from DO27 Kimberlite, Slave Craton, Canada – Geochemistry, Age and Origin
Diamonds from Archean rocks: insights on early Earth geodynamics
Characterization of the sediment-hosted AurMac Au deposit in the Tombstone Gold Belt, Yukon, Canada
Ore Mineralogy and Paragenesis of the Easter-Duffy Deposit, NWT, Canada
Characterization of fluids related with alkalic porphyry deposits in British Columbia, Canada
Investigating the geothermal energy potential in Nunavut with magnetotelluric data
Magnetotelluric exploration at the Tres Virgenes geothermal field, Mexico: Evaluating the subsurface resolution
Using frequency domain airborne electromagnetic data to map permafrost along the central Mackenzie Valley, NWT, Canada
Evaluation of Nickeline (NiAs) as a Re-Os Chronometer: A Case Study of Five-Metal Association veins in the Northwest Territories, Canada
Magnesium Doping for Enhanced Stability of Lithium Manganese Oxide Ion-sieves for Lithium Recovery from Flowback and Produced Water
Undergraduate Student Posters
Sustainability Paradigms: Indigenous Voices and the Confrontation of Imperialist, Colonialist, and Capitalist Systems
Palaeoecological Reconstruction of latest Pleistocene steppe-tundra from relict permafrost at Mint Gulch, central Yukon
Apatite Grain-Size: A Novel Approach to Tephra Characterization and Source Identification
Paleoenvironmental and Paleoclimate Controls on Ground Ice Content Over the Last 50,000 Years in Central Yukon
Water quality in the (unmixed) Yukon River
The significance of encrusting taxa and boring ichnotaxa on marine bivalves in the Miocene, shallow marine Calvert and Choptank Formations, Calvert Cliffs, Maryland
UreC Diversity and the Potential for Microbially Induced Calcite Precipitate in Permafrost
Sediment sources in the Upper Devonian Duvernay formation from immobile trace element data
Brucite and Portlandite Synthesis, Carbonation and Phase Transitions: Implications for Carbon Capture and Mineralization