GeoCanada 2010
Session Themes


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Involvement by such a diverse group of earth scientists will make GeoCanada an exciting venue for thought-provoking discussion. Presentations that integrate the various disciplines of the geosciences, engineering, the environment, and business are preferred.

In order to offer something for everyone, we have designed a technical program that includes large, general themes that encourage multi-disciplinary contributions, as well as smaller, more detailed sessions that will be of high interest to smaller audiences. The list of sessions presented here is not necessarily the final list. Some sessions may be dropped, some added, and some re-named to better reflect the content of the submitted abstracts. Ultimately the final list will be dependent on the number and variety of submissions.

Session List

Northern Development
Northern Development 1: Exploration, Sedimentation and Resource Potential of Northern and Arctic Canada
Northern Development 2: Infrastructure and Development in the Far North
Northern Development 3: Tectonics, Circum-Arctic Geology and Paleogeography

Sustainable Development of Resources
Innovative Groundwater Exploration and Discovery Methods
Expensive Nuisance or Invaluable Commodity? Managing Groundwater in Resource Development
Long-term Nuclear Waste Management in Canada
Groundwater Contamination and Remediation 1: Innovations in Bioremediation
Groundwater Contamination and Remediation 2: New Methods in Soil and Groundwater Remediation
Carbon Storage – From Concept to Implementation
Geoengineering Carbon Mineralization
Advances in Seismic Acquisition

Unconventional and Emerging Resources
Alternative Energy: Geothermal, Wind, Nuclear
Basin-Centered Tight Gas
Comparative Studies of a Spectrum of Shale Plays
Shale Gas: Characterization, Operations and Production
Coal-Bed Methane
Oil Sands Mining: Water and Landscape Design
Heavy Oil: Subsurface
Economics and Business of Unconventional Plays

New Frontiers in Earth Science
Practical Applications of new Petrophysical Technologies
Advances in Core Analysis Techniques
Geoscientific Instrumentation in Extreme Environments: Earth, Ocean, Space
Geochemistry in Hydrocarbon Exploration
New Frontiers in Earth Science

Earth Science For Society
GeoScience Education
Communicating Earth Sciences to the Public
International Exploration and Development of Mineral and Energy Resources
Asset Valuation: Technical Case Studies of Marketable Oil & Gas Prospects.
Future of Geosciences in Canada
Resources and the Future
GeoScience Information Management in a Spatially-Enabled Online World.
Mineral Exploration and Mining Practice: The Role of Professional Geoscientists
Geohazards – Risk Identification, Mitigation and Management
Energy Practice – Resources Data Management, Estimation and Reporting.
Frontier Practice – Professionalism at the Forefront
Climate Change Through Time

Earth and Planetary Evolution
General Structure and Tectonics
Cratons, Kimberlites and Diamonds
Tectonostratigraphy
Recent Advances in Structural Mineralogy
Interplay between Thermodynamics, Kinetics and Deformation in Metamorphism
Paleoproterozoic tectonic Assembly of the W. Canadian Shield: New Findings & Implications for Paleocontinental Reconstruction
Organic Geochemistry & Petrology: Applications in Exploration Geology & Environmental Issues
Cordilleran Magmatism, Tectonics and Resources
Cordilleran Fold and Thrust Belt Structural Geology and Geophysics
Early Crust Evolution
Geological Processes over time in Central Canada
Meteorites
Alkali porphyry Cu-Au-PGE Deposits: Revised Models, Exploration Tools and Links to other Ore Deposits Associated with Alkalic Magmatism
Comparative Studies of the Earth, Moon and Mars: Implications for Life, Resources and Planetary Evolution

Characterizing Geological Systems
Advances in Geomodelling
Practical Applications in Geomodelling
Offshore Canada Exploration and Development
Sequence Stratigraphy/Seismic Stratigraphy
Geophysical Exploration 1: Gravity, Magnetics, MTEM, Remote Sensing
Geophysical Exploration 2: Lidar, Sonar, Hi-Res Seismic
Clastic Sedimentology 1: Fluvial/Alluvial Systems
Clastic Sedimentology 2: Shore to Shelf
Clastic Sedimentology 3: Deep Water
Carbonates
Mud - The Forgotten Sediment: Sedimentary Processes, Sequence Stratigraphy and Diagenesis
Modern Analogs for the McMurray Fm
Stress, Strain, Anisotropy and Natural Fractures
Hydrothermal Systems and Ore Deposits
Hydrothermal Systems in Ore Genesis and Mineral Deposit Discovery
Signal Processing and Algorithms
Subsurface Imaging and Structure
General session on Mineralogy, Petrology, Geochemistry
Seismic Interpretation and Case Studies
Geological Environments hosting Uranium Deposits

Surface and Near Surface Processes
General Hydrogeology Contributions
Advances in Stable Isotope Geochemistry in Energy and Environmental Research

Bio-Geoscience
Rise of Oxygen and Early Life on Earth
Ichnology
Bacteria-Metal Interactions in the Natural Environment
Ancient Life on Many Scales: Papers on Palynology, Paleontology and Paleoecology in Honour of Prof. Leonard V. Hills
Great Canadian Lagerstatten