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Registration Opens March 1 - to take part in the field trips offered here, you must be registered by Thursday, April 29!

Please note that you must be registered as a full Convention delegate in order to register for any of the field trips or short courses listed here.

Students!

Click here for information on a field trip subsidy offered by GAC, designed to encourage students to attend field trips, make connections with other sedimentary geologists and learn something about the local geology.

This interesting half-day tour examines the rocks, sedimentary features and fossils beautifully displayed on the buildings of Calgary. We will also see the building rocks used by our landscapers and sculptors. The rocks range in age from PreCambrian to Tertiary, and come from as far away as Scandinavia and India; some were even quarried locally.

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Dr. W.G. (Bill) Ayrton has been involved in exploration in Western Canada for over 40 years. As an independent geologist, he is retained by oil and gas companies primarily in evaluating oil and gas prospects and investment opportunities. Bill has founded two private oil and gas companies, Ayrton Exploration Consulting Ltd. and Flame Resources Ltd. of which he is still president.

More recently, he has focused his interest on presenting courses, mentoring, leading field trips, developing and facilitating corporate training programs and corporate games.

Dr. Ayrton was elected President of the Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists in 1976, received the Society’s Best Oral Presentation of a Paper Award in 1973, and in 1975 was Co-Chairman of the joint CSPG-CSEG Convention in “Advances in Exploration Technology”. He was awarded the Calgary Convention Center North American Award in 1981. In 1996, Bill was awarded the APEGGA Frank Spragins Technical Summit Award for technical expertise and professional contribution to the industry, and Honorary Membership in the CSPG in 1999.

Bill Ayrton received his B.Sc.(Hons.) in Geology from McGill University and his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Geology from Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. His professional experience also includes positions with the Quebec Department of Mines in the Gaspe Peninsula; Amoco Canada in Calgary where he was Chief Geologist for 5 years, and District Superintendent for 2 years; Petromark Minerals and Bluesky Oil & Gas Ltd. in Calgary where he was Vice-President of Exploration, and Canadian Westgrowth where he was Chief Operating Officer.