Oil & Gas, Pipeline Session: Adrienne Jones, Chairperson

R. DiLabio - NRCan's research program related to the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline. (Download)

M. Fowler - The new ESS Secure Canadian Energy Supply Program - with emphasis on its northern Canada activities. (Download)

S. Grasby and Z. Chen - Fresh water intrusion and biodegradation in the Beaufort-Mackenzie Basin.

A. Graw and M. Vandell - Oil and Gas in the Northwest Territories. (Download)

K. Hansen et al. - Exploration Activity in the Summit Creek discovery area, Central Mackenzie Valley, NWT. (Download)

D. Issler et al. - Overpressure distribution in the Beaufort-Mackenzie Basin from log, pressure test and drilling data.

G. Lowey - A summary of rock-eval data for the Whitehorse Trough, Yukon: implications regarding the hydrocarbon potential of a frontier basin.

B. MacLean - New seismic mapping of the central Mackenzie Valley and Great Bear Plain subsurface - some new insights.

L. Pyle, et al. - 2005 reconnaissance programme: regional geoscience studies & petroleum potential, Peel Plateau & Plain. (Download)

R. Smith et al. - Creation of a seismic shot hole log geodatabase for the NWT: application and benefits for future resource development. (Download)

General Session: Scott Cairns, Chairperson

Exploration and Geoscience Session: Linda Ham, Hendrik Falck and Luke Ootes, Chairpersons

A. Armitage - Commander Resources - Baffin Island Gold Project.

S. Burgess et al. - Sabina Silver Corporation - 2005 update from Hackett River, Nunavut: An emerging silver deposit?

R. Burns - Tamerlane Ventures Inc. - Pine Point - As Precious as Diamonds!

S. Buse et al. - Nd and U-Pb isotopic evidence for crustal evolution in the Wecho River area, Southwestern Slave Province, NWT.

L. Corriveau and H. Mumin - Prospective Iron oxide Cu-Au (Ag-U-Co-Bi-Ni) systems along the 400 km Great Bear Magmatic Zone.

G. Davidson and K. Curtis - Cumberland Resources Ltd.- Meadowbank Gold Project, NU: The future is looking good.

L. Ham and S. Goff - Overview of Nunavut and NWT Exploration.

V. Jackson et al. - South Wopmay bedrock mapping project and integrated studies: preliminary results from 2005, the second field season.

A. Mills et al. - Committee Bay Gold Corp. - Committee Bay Project: results of 1:25,000 scale geological mapping.

D. Morgan - Great Northern Mining and Exploration - Arctic Nickel - northern Victoria Island revisited.

S. Pehrsson et al. - Scope and mineral potential of a new moderate to high pressure granulite domain in the Rae: surprises from the southeast frontier of the NWT 50 years on. (Download)

J. Robins and R. Carpenter - Kaminak Gold Corporation - Introducing Kaminak Gold Corporation: A new approach to exploration in the North

J. Ryan et al. - Preliminary results of regional bedrock mapping of the Kugaaruk (57A), Rae Strait (57B), and Harrison Islands (57D) map sheets, Boothia Mainland area, Nunavut.

M. Schultz et al. - Queen Maud begins to reveal.

R. Sharp et al. - An overview of carbonate hosted Zn-Pb showings in the Mackenzie Mountains, Western NWT.

R. Sherlock - Miramar Mining Ltd. - Development of Hope Bay project, NU

M. St-Onge et al. - South and Central Baffin Island Digital Geological Atlas: Synopsis and Tectonic Evolution Model.

M. Stubley - Stubley Geoscience - Kilometre-scale sheath folds in the Slave craton.

Education and Outreach Session: John Ketchum and Donna Schreiner, Chairpersons

L.-M. Bowes-Lyon et al. - Mining and socioeconomic development in Nunavut: Learning from Polaris and Nanisivik.

S. Daniel and K. Bruce - Experiential Science 10-20-30, A New Pathway for NWT High School Students.

L. Ham and C. Riveros - Nunavut outreach programs - partners sharing best practices and overcoming challenges.

P. Hébert - Meeting Human Resources Challenges in the Canadian Minerals and Metals Industry.

G. Nowlan - Geoscience Outreach in the Geological Survey of Canada's Northern Resources Development Program: An Update.

S. Morison et al. - Gartner Lee Ltd. - Developing Canada’s north: the new challenge.

C. Relf et al. - University of Alberta's 2005 NWT Field School: Experiencing bedrock mapping first-hand.

C. Roots et al. - Klondike to Cantung: Geo-information for Yukon folks and kids.

D. Schreiner - 2005 Community Mapping Programme: Tsiigehtchic, NWT.

M. Willett - Your Land, Your Future: Engaging Youth in Resource Development and Sustainability Issues.

E. Williams - EdGeo and Beyond: Teacher Education and Community Outreach.

Digital Data in the Geosciences: Doug Irwin, Chairperson

G. Buller et al. - Ganfeld: A geoscience data collection system.

H. Epp and S. Schwarz - Progress: Mackenzie Delta and Valley Mapping Program.

J. Harris et al. - Making a lithologic map from hyperspectral data: examples from southern Baffin Island.

R. Krishna - SUNRAM Systems - Digital data conversion of bedrock geology maps.

E. Martel et al. - Remote predictive mapping and regional bedrock mapping team up: A new approach.

K. Newman et al. - Committee Bay Resources - Implementation of the Pocket PC for data capture, mapping and exploration.

B. Piché - New geospatial data initiatives to benefit northern Canada.

D. Whalen et al. - Using topographic LiDAR to predict coastal flood extent and magnitude in the Beaufort-Mackenzie region, NWT and Yukon.

K. Witherly - Condor Consulting - A broad look at what is new in airborne geophysics.

Regulatory Session: Kelly Emon, Kelly Mahoney and Rhian Christie, Chairpersons

T. Burlingame - New Developments at the Mackenzie Valley Land and Water Board.

C. Inglangasuk - Inuvialuit screening and review process.

D.Jessiman - Mine Reclamation plan and Financial Assurances Legislation, NWT and Provincial Comparisons.

J. Lawrance - INAC Claims update

K. LeGresley Hamre and S. Mackenzie - Gwichin Land Use Plan implementation.

D. Quirion - An Update on the Canada Mining Regulations.

R. Schuh - New Guidelines for Environmental Assessment in the Mackenzie Valley.

K. Tunaley - NIRB draft guidelines and information requirements

L. Wilson and S.Francis - Working Landscapes: Integrated Ecosystems

Diamond Session: Hamish Sandeman and Thomas Stachel, Chairpersons

J. Armstrong - Stornoway Diamond Corp. - Recent kimberlite discoveries on Wales Island: A new kimberlite field in central Nunavut.

S. Creighton et al.- Thermal structure of diamondiferous mantle: evidence from garnet peridotite xenoliths, Diavik Diamond Mine, NWT

R. Davies et al. - Geochemical characteristics and the origins of diamonds from the central Slave Craton.

B. Fortin - Ekati Diamond Mine - Panda Koala and Fox, can these animals be caged? Geotechnical considerations and ground support at the EKATI Diamond Mine™.

J. Gravel et al. - Acme Analytical Laboratories Ltd & GGL Diamonds - Soil and lake sediment geochemistry in diamond exploration: NWT, Canada.
J. Heimbach - Ekati Diamond Mine - Panda, Koala and Fox, are these animals related? A comparison of ore body geology at the EKATI Diamond Mine™.

S. Matveev and T. Stachel - FTIR spectroscopy of kimberlitic olivine: a new tool in diamond exploration.

C. McLean - Diamondex Resources - An update on the Lena West Project.

U. Naeher - SouthernEra Diamonds Inc. - An update on SouthernEra Diamonds 2004-2005 diamond exploration programs in the NWT.

J. Pell et al. - Peregrine Diamonds - DO-27: A new chapter in an evolving story.

D. Snyder et al. - 3-D model of the central Slave craton.

K. Witherly & J. Jansen - Condor Consulting & TeckCominco - The Tli Kwi Cho kimberlite - a geophysical case study.

Environmental Session: David Livingstone, Chairperson

R. Case - Barren-ground Caribou populations - cycles and consequences.

R. Chouinard - The application of western science, traditional knowledge and best practices to the development of mine remediation guidelines for the NWT. (Download)

D. Cluff - Boreal caribou conservation in the NWT - north Slave perspective.

D. Cluff and I. Jonsen - Movement Patterns of Wolves on Extended Trips on the Tundra.

B. Coedy - Monitoring the recovery of a tailings lake at Colomac Mine using phosphorus treatment. (Download)

R. Jenkins - Effects of vegetation and snow cover and soil temperatures at abandoned drilling-mud sumps, Mackenzie Delta, Northwest Territories, Canada. (Download)

K. Johnson - Incorporation of geoscience information in the protected areas strategy - case studies. (Download)

S. Kokelj - Environmental conditions across tree line, Mackenzie Delta region: The influence of thermokarst slumping on the water quality of small upland lakes. (Download)

C. Mills - Development of the Colomac remediation plan - integration of western science and traditional knowledge.

M. Palmer - Variation in snow cover and ground-temperatures across treeline, Mackenzie Delta region. (Download)

D. Panayi - A Methodology for Monitoring Wolverine Activity at Northern Mining Developments. (Download)

J. Wilson, et al. - An approach to identifying core representative areas within each ecoregion of the Northwest Territories, to meet Goal 2 of the Protected Areas Strategy. (Download)

POSTER SESSION PRESENTATIONS

Wednesday November 16th, 2005

Poster Session, Capitol Theatre Lobby: Valerie Jackson, Chairperson

C. Bergquist - A Tale of Two Surveys, Oil & Gas Prospecting with Surface Geochemistry in the Canadian Arctic.

L. Blackburn and T. Chacko - Granulite facies paragneisses of the Tsu Lake area: remnants of an Archean/Paleoproterozoic basin?

O. Brown et al. - Classification experiments using Landsat TM and RADARSAT-1 data for mapping surficial geology in northern Baffin Island.

M. Bruneton and D. Snyder - Probing the lithosphere of the Slave Craton through seismic surface wave analysis. (Download)

T. Brzozowksi et al. - Field and petrographic characteristics of two mafic plugs from the southern Bear and Slave structural provinces.

P. Budkewitsch - Landsat Mosaic of the Sverdrup Basin, Canadian Arctic Archipelago. (Download)

S. Cairns - Metal uptake in plants over selected mineral showings: towards an efficient biogeochemical exploration tool. (Download)

M. Caron et al. - Nahanni Mineral and Energy Resource Assessment: trends in spring geochemistry. (Download)

G. Clarke and R. Young - Unique Upper Stratigraphy of the A154N Kimberlite

R. Couture et al. - Regional terrain hazards and landslide mapping, Mackenzie Valley: description of the project and preliminary results from the 2005 field campaign and mapping. (Download)

S. Day - National Geochemical Reconnaissance: Drainage geochemical surveys in NWT

K. Dewing et al. - Geological assessment of known Zn-Pb showings, Mackenzie Mountains, NWT. (Download)

L. Donnelly et al. - The characterization of diamonds and their mineral inclusions from the Diavik Diamond Mine, Lac de Gras, NWT, Canada.

A. Duk-Rodkin and D. Huntley - Surficial geology and glacial limits of the southern Mackenzie Mountains and foothills.

S. Ewanchuk and L. Heaman - Distribution and nature of diabase dykes, Tsu Lake, NWT.

H. Falck et al. - The metallogeny of the Nahanni watershed: a MERA update.

L. Gal and J. Lariviere - Non-renewable Resource Assessments (NRA) - Progress Report (Nov. 2004 - Nov. 2005). (Download)

J. Gibson - A Complete Ortho-rectified Landsat-7 Mosaic of Baffin Island, Nunavut. (Download)

S. Goff and L. Ootes - Metallogeny of the South-Central Wopmay.

D. Huntley and A. Duk-Rodkin - Landslides of the southern Mackenzie Valley region, NWT.

D. Huntley et al. - Quaternary landscapes of the southern Mackenzie Mountains, NWT.

R. Hyndman et al. - Earthquakes and seismic hazard in the Yukon-Beaufort-Mackenzie.

V. Jackson et al. - South Wopmay bedrock mapping project and integrated studies: preliminary results from 2005, the second field season.

D. James et al. - Current activities of the Canada - NU Geoscience Office.

J. Ketchum and W. Bleeker - Crustal growth vs. crustal reworking in the western Slave Province based on zircon U-Pb and Hf isotopic data.

D. Kerr and R. Knight - Development of an overburden thickness model as an aid to drift prospecting: an example from Lac de Gras and Aylmer Lake. (Download)

J. Kraft et al. - A new Paleoproterozoic(?) supracrustal sequence in the Rae Domain, southern Boothia Peninsula, NU: A possible correlative of the Chantrey Group?

J. Landry et al. - Detailed relationships of IOCG-type alteration zones at DeVries Lake, southern Great Bear Magmatic Zone, NWT.

J. Lariviere - Richardson Mountains, Travaillant Lake and Horn Plateau geochemical data interpretation, including kimberlite indicator mineral (KIM) probe data.

C. Leslie and L. Heaman - U-Pb age constraints on the geologic evolution of the Tsu Lake area, Taltson Magmatic Zone.

E. Martel et al. - Sekwi Mountain project; results of 2005 reconnaissance mapping and digital compilation.

M. Moroskat et al. - Structural and metamorphic analysis of a folded Archean – Proterozoic boundary, Mattberry Lake, NWT.

H. Mumin and L. Corriveau - Iron-oxide Cu-Au-Ag-U-Co-Bi mineralized systems of the Contact Lake Belt, Great Bear Magmatic Zone, NWT.

L. Nadeau et al. - Brittle fracture pattern of the Boothia Mainland area, NU: An analysis of dykes and lineaments.

A. Okulitch et al. - Update: geological compilation of the Mackenzie Mountains, NWT.

L. Ootes et al. - Two distinct turbidite sequences in the southwestern Slave craton: SHRIMP U-Pb detrital zircon evidence with regional correlations.

S. Pehrsson et al. - New results from the Western Churchill metallogeny project.

L. Pyle et al. - 2005 reconnaissance program: regional geoscience studies and petroleum potential, Peel Plateau and Plain. (Download)

K. Rasmussen and J. Mortensen - Geochronological and lithogeochemical study of intrusive rocks in the Nahanni Region, Mackenzie Mountains, NWT and YK.

C. Relf et al. - Geology of the Tsu Lake area, NWT: newly-discovered tectonites and other titillating highlights. (Download Part A, Part B)

J. Ryan et al. - Preliminary results of regional bedrock mapping of the Kugaaruk (57A), Rae Strait (57B), and Harrison Islands (57D) map sheets, Boothia Mainland area, NU.

H. Sandeman - Kimberlites and other intracratonic, mantle-derived suites in the NWT and NT: activities of the NWT Geoscience Office.

L. Sankeralli and J. Taylor - Granular aggregate assessment survey, Iqaluit, NU.

C. Sidwell et al. - Surficial geology of the Wrigley area, Mackenzie Valley, NWT.

S. Tella et al. - Bedrock geology and regional synthesis, parts of Hearne Domain, NU, Canada.

E. Turner - A lithofacies-constrained structural control on mineralisation at the Gayna River Zn-Pb deposit, Mackenzie Mountains NWT.

B. Wang et al. - Geotechnical studies of permafrost-related landslides in the Mackenzie Valley, NWT. (Download)

D. Whalen et al. - Using topographic LiDAR to predict coastal flood extent and magnitude in the Beaufort-Mackenzie Region, NWT and YK. (Download)

E. Williams - Geoscience education in BC: Where is it going?

J. Yuvan et al.- A distal expression of a protracted skarn-forming event? Oxygen isotope and fluid inclusion studies of quartz-scheelite veins in the Cantung Mine, NWT.