Yellowknife Geoscience Forum
November 17-19, 2009
Forum 2009 was a great success!
The next Forum will be held November 16-18, 2010. See you there!
The 2009 award winners for best student technical presentations:
Oral
A New Look at Slave Lithosphere Palaeogeotherms and the “Diamond Window"
Mather, K. A., Pearson, D. G., Kjarsgaard, B. A., and Stachel, T.
Poster
Diavik Boart – Unrelated to Gem Diamond and Fibrous coats?
Marcheggiani-Croden, V., Hunt, L., Stachel, T., Muehlenbachs, K., and Eichenberg, D.
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2009 SESSION DESCRIPTIONS & CHAIRS
Technical Program Chair
Doug Irwin
Energy in Canada's North
Chair: Adrienne Jones
The Energy session will feature geoscientific studies related to petroleum exploration and development in the Mackenzie Corridor, Beaufort-Mackenzie Delta, and Arctic Islands. Speakers from industry, government, and academia will highlight and summarize exploration and research activity in the Canadian north.
Exploration & Geoscience
Chairs: Edith Martel, John Ketchum, Pattie Beales
The Exploration and Geoscience session is a blend of exploration, regional mapping, and geoscience research. This theme-oriented session will highlight new discoveries, current trends in the mineral industry, and showcase research projects in Canada's north.
Mining & Environmental Management
Chairs: Kirsty Ketchum, Erika Nyyssonen
This session will feature current and innovative geoscience and environmental science research relating to the mining industry. This inter-disciplinary session will focus on environmental impact assessments, environmental monitoring, remediation, regulation, and other environmental issues pertaining to mining in the north.
Geoscience Outreach
Chairs: Diane Baldwin, Fritz Griffith
Education and outreach have rapidly evolved to become essential geoscience activities and encompass a wide range of endeavours. This year’s session will highlight a variety of activities and case studies.
Regulatory Issues
Chairs: Andy Graw, Angie Norris
Climate Change
Chairs: Steve Kokelj , Carl Ozyer
This session will feature current and innovative climate change research relating to the north.
Mining Practice and Northern Infrastructure
Chairs: Val Gordon, Fraser Fairman
Mining Practices will include up-to-date metallurgy, safety practices, and infrastructure advancements applicable to mining and exploration in Canada's north.
Poster's Session
Chairs: Beth Fischer, Valerie Jackson
The Poster Session allows presenters to highlight their research and discuss results with colleagues. Continuing this year is the ever-popular 5-minute ‘soap-box’ talks.
Abstract Volume compilers (Erin Palmer and Valerie Jackson)
ALL SPEAKERS, POSTER PRESENTERS, AND CHAIRS MUST REGISTER FOR THE CONFERENCE. BADGES WILL BE CHECKED AT EVERY VENUE.
Both full and single day registration passes are available. Click here for more information. |
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CHARLES CAMSELL TALK
Tuesday November 17, 2009; 7 pm
Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre (PWNHC)
open to the public (free)
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Treasures of the Burgess Shale; A paleontological windfall revisited |
Dr. Jean-Bernard Caron
Associate Curator of Invertebrate Palaeontology
Royal Ontario Museum |
A profound curiosity about fossils during his childhood led Jean-Bernard Caron to collect and curate his own personal fossil collection in his native France. By the age of 10, he knew he wanted to become a professional palaeontologist. As a teenager, he often joined various professional field crews across Europe for summer field expeditions collecting fossils, and the experience gained as a volunteer field assistant led to an invitation from Desmond Collins, then Curator of Invertebrate Palaeontology at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM), to join his field crew at the famous Burgess Shale fossil deposit in British Columbia. This was his first visit to Canada, and he returned to the Burgess Shale as a ROM volunteer for the following two summer field seasons.
His Master's thesis dealt with Banffia constricta, one of the most bizarre animals known from the Burgess Shale. By the end of his Ph.D. project, Jean-Bernard had examined about half the Burgess Shale specimens (more than 70,000 fossils) stored at the ROM, which houses what can now be considered the world’s largest collection of its kind. He joined the ROM as Associate Curator of Invertebrate Paleontology in early 2006, thus finally fulfilling his long-standing childhood dream.
At present, his main responsibilities are to curate and interpret fossils from the very large ROM Burgess Shale collection. This represents a real Pandora’s Box for science, with many new organisms still to be described. He also studies fossils from other deposits, particularly in China, where there are sites of similar age and quality of preservation. These Burgess Shale-type deposits yield spectacularly preserved soft-bodied organisms. Because of their great age (about half a billion years old), they are of crucial importance for the study of the origins of animal groups during the Cambrian evolutionary bloom.
KEYNOTE
THE MOUNTAIN RIVER EMERALD OCCURENCE, NORTHWEST TERRITORIES: A NEW ENVIRONMENT FOR EMERALD FORMATION IN THE CONTINUUM OF GEM-BERYL AND EMERALD DEPOSITS WORLDWIDE |
Marshall, D.a; Mercier, M.b, Ootes, L.c, Loughrey, L. a, Lalonde, A. d and Martel, E. c |
a Earth Sciences Department, Simon Fraser University, Burnably, BC, CANADA. b Department of Earth Sciences, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, CANADA. c Northwest Territories Geoscience Office, Yellowknife, NT, CANADA. dDepartment of Earth Sciences, Université d’Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, CANADA. |
Dan Marshall is a professor in the Earth Sciences Department at Simon Fraser University. His research focuses on a variety of ore deposits including gold, silver and gems.
Dr. Marshall’s lecture will cover the occurrences of emerald within the Canadian Cordillera. The talk includes information on the various types of emerald and gem beryl occurrences, exploration models and background information on the Canadian occurrences in a global framework.
Dr. Marshall was born and raised south of Ottawa. He attended Carleton University for his Basic and MSc studies finishing his MSc in 1990. He completed his DSc in Switzerland in 1995 studying the PTt path of the Mont Blanc massif using a variety of thermobarometric techniques, specifically fluid inclusions, on a variety of sub-economic ore occurrences. He did a one year NSERC post-doctoral fellowship on the Sudbury mineralization, followed by a sessional lectureship at Carleton University. In 1998 he moved to the nascent Geology program at Simon Fraser. Currently, his research remains focused on thermobarometry applied to a variety of mineralization types and PTt studies.
The Howard Street Robinson Lecturer is chosen by the Mineral Deposits Division and the Precambrian Division of the GAC® in alternate years. It is funded by the Robinson Fund of the GAC® that was established in 1977, following the bequest to GAC® from the estate of Howard Street Robinson, a founding member of GAC®. The bequest was "for furtherance of scientific study of Precambrian Geology and Metal Mining." |
