ATLANTIC GEOSCIENCE SOCIETYNEWSLETTER | |||
| VOLUME 28 NO.1 | January1999 | ||
Jennifer Bates Geological Survey of Canada (Atlantic) Bedford Institute of Oceanography P.O. Box 1006 Dartmouth, Nova Scotia B2Y 4A2 Tel: (902) 426-4386 Fax: (902) 426-4848 E-mail: bates@agc.bio.ns.ca
Contents President's Forum 1 News from Acadia University 2 Geological Events 3 AGS Colloquium and AGM - Final Call for Papers and Registration (attachment) Deadline for next issue: March 5, 1999 PRESIDENT'S FORUM This newsletter brings you lots of information about the upcoming annual general meeting in Amherst in February. The details are elsewhere in this newsletter, but I would like to use this column to highlightsome of the activity that your executive and council have been involved in through the fall. It seems a long time ago since our AGS distinguished lecturer tour. Gerta Keller from Princeton University spoke in both Halifax and Fredericton on the topic of the K-T boundary, and whether we must blame wandering asteroids for all the fuss. Her talk was well received in both locations, to audiences that included both members of the Society and membersof the public. Thanks are due to Marcos Zentilli and Peter Wallace who largely spearheaded the organisation of the lecture tour, and to APICS,with which we split the bill. Have you visited our website recently? It's at
http://ags.earthsciences.dal.ca/ags.htm. Don Fox has largely been responsiblefor its design and keeping
it up to date, and has included some interesting sets of links to university and government departments, Atlantic
Geology,employment opportunities, and, importantly for the upcoming meeting, the most
up-to-date information (short of phoning Peter Wallace) on the AGM. Last year I used the webpage extensively to post
information about the Wolfville meeting,and from the comments I received then it was a useful tool. In that last week
before you drive to Amherst you can check and see when your talk has been scheduled. For the those less technologically
challenged, note Peter Wallace is organising what promises to be a very interesting Friday afternoon session on
geo-science software for the professional and the teacher.
While I am on the topic of computers, note also that weare allowing the use of computer projection facilities at the
AGM - now you can animate your slides in PowerPoint, or pull in some motion clips! It was my privilege to attend the
Atlantic Universities Geological Conference in October and present the AGS awards to nine speakers, and I noted that
computer-assisted presentations are very much taken for granted by our students today. The opportunities that computer
projection open up are well worth considering (not to say the possibility of making last minute corrections to embarrassing
spelling errors - or even more last minute writing of the talk!)
The 100th anniversary of the death of Sir William Dawson occurs in 1999. Although Dawson
worked in various areas across Canada and USA, he had a major influence on the early work on the Carboniferous basins
in Atlantic Canada, and we will focus a special session at our AGM on the Geology of the Maritimes Basin in his memory.
Ken Adams at the Fundy Geological Museum is eager to see other activities associated with this event, like last summer's
field in the Parrsboro area, led by John Calder, with over 100 people participating. Lastly, an
advance notice of the GAC-MAC conference in 2001 in St. John's - being promoted as the first GAC-MAC of the new
millennium (I suspect Calgary is saying the same thing for the 2000 conference!). We have been invited to suggest ideas
for the technical program and/or to consider making a proposal to sponsor a session of interest. Although not specifically
invited yet, I suspect we will also receive an invitation to suggest and lead field trips. This is a good opportunity to
showcase and advance the work that is being done in the Atlantic region - give its ome thought and bring your suggestions
to Amherst. I look forward to seeing many of you in Amherst - Peter Wallace and Laing Ferguson
are working hard to ensure it will as educational,scientifically stimulating, and fun as always. Rob Raeside, AGS President
NEWS FROM ADADIA UNIVERSITY Dr. Cliff Stanley has joined the department as an assistant professor, taking over from Jack Colwell, who recently retired (and now is "on safari" in the Indian subcontinent). Cliff is an economic geologist/appliedgeo-chemist, and comes to us from UBC, where he has been for the last 7 years. Cliff was born in the USA, attended Dartmouth College as an under-graduate,and then worked for several years as a geochemist for Anaconda Minerals Company, an international mining giant, in Denver, Colorado. He then returned to undertake graduate work at UBC, doing a M. Sc. in economic geology and Ph.D. in mathematical geology. After a post-doctoral fellowship in metamorphic and igneous petrology at the University of Calgary, and a research associateship in applied geochemistry at Queen's, he returned to UBC to become adjunct professor in the Mineral Deposit Research Unit, undertaking research in support of the mining industry. There he led two research projects, one studying alkalic porphyry Cu-Au deposits in British Columbia, and a second developing new lithogeochemical exploration data analytical procedures. This latter project has taken him to study areas in such exotic locations as Bolivia, Greenland, Australia, New Zealand, Nova Scotia, and Indonesia. In his role at UBC, he supervised six M.Sc. and two Ph.D. students in their thesis research. Cliff presently has two research projects underway. The first is studying the subtle hydrothermal alteration haloes surrounding the Faro sediment-hosted Pb-Zn deposits in the Anvil Range mining camp,Yukon. The second is examining the 100 m thick soil (regolith) developed over the Golden Grove volcanic-hosted massive sulphide deposits, Western Australia, to determine how to detect the presence of hydrothermal alteration minerals in the weathered profile. Both of these projects will significantly assist geologists in searching for additional mineral deposits within these and other mining camps. Cliff also has a number of research initiatives in the formative stages, including developing techniques to use infrared spectro-metry to determine mineral modes and compositions, examining weathering reactions in tailings impoundments, and hydrogeochemistry of ground-waters in the Annapolis Valley. He will be teaching mineralogy, mineral deposits, mineral exploration and in alternate years, geochemistry and geophysics. Cliff's interests and background will also allow him to supervise B.Sc.honours theses in both Geology and Environmental Science. We also look forward to the M.Sc. students that Cliff will bring to Acadia as part of his research activities. We welcome Cliff, his wife Sonya, and their three children (Olivia, 6, Nathaniel, 5, and Georgia, 3) to the Wolfville area, and look forward to the substantial contributions that he will make to both the Geology Department and Acadia University. Ian Spooner, Acadia University GEOLOGICAL EVENTS February 3, 1999 Talk by M. St-Onge entitled "Crustal and Thermal Architecture of the Quebec-Baffin Segment on the Trans-Hudson Orogen: Plate Convergence During the Paleoproterozoic and a Template for NE Laurentia" 1:30 p.m., Saint Mary's University, Department of Geology,Halifax, NS February 5-6, 1999 AGS Colloquium, Amherst, NS February 15, 1999 Geological Association of Canada E.R.W. Neale LectureTour: Talks by Alan Morgan, University of Waterloo. 12:30 p.m., "The Eruption of Heimaey, Iceland" 7:00 p.m., "Global Change: Some Comments on a ChangingWorld" Acadia University, Department of Geology, HSH 336, Wolfville,NS February 16, 1999 Geological Association of Canada E.R.W. Neale LectureTour: Talks by Alan Morgan, University of Waterloo. 11:30 a.m., "Global Change: Some Comments on a ChangingWorld", Dalhousie University, Room TBA, Coffee LSC 3006 at 11:00 a.m.,Halifax, NS 1:00 p.m., "Global Change: Some Comments on a ChangingWorld", Saint Mary's University, Department of Geology, Halifax, NS May 26-28, 1999 Annual GAC-MAC Conference, Sudbury, ON June 5-6, 1999 (tentative dates) International Workshop for a Climatic, Biotic, and TectonicTransect Across Triassic-Jurassic Pangea, Acadia
University, Wolfville,NS | |||
| Executive
President: Rob Raeside Department of Geology Acadia University Wolfville, Nova Scotia B0P 1X0 Tel: (902) 585-1323 Fax: (902) 585-1074 E-mail: raeside@acadia.ca | Vice President:
ChrisWhite
Treasurer: Ken Howells Secretary: Peter Giles Past President: Peter Wallace Publicity/Web Page: Don Fox Editor: Jennifer Bates 1999 AGS Colloquium Laing Ferguson |
Councillors
Jennifer Bates, Hugo Beltrami, Bruce Broster, Paul Durling,Laing Ferguson, Linda Ham, John Hill, Randy Miller, Michael Parkhill, GeorgiaPe-Piper, Alan Ruffman, Clint St.Peter, Ian Spooner, Dick Wardle, Tim Webster | |
| FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS AND REGISTRATION ATLANTIC GEOSCIENCE SOCIETY COLLOQUIUM AND ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING THEMES FOR PAPERS AND POSTERS State the author(s)in order of decreasing contribution if more than one. Indicate with an asterix (*) if speaker/ presenter is a student. Givea complete mailing addresses of all authors, and optional e-mail addresses.The text should be in Word 7 or WordPerfect 7 or lower, or ASCII text format,references or formulas are generally unacceptable (chemical symbols areallowed), and length should be between 250 - 300 words. Submit electronically by disk or e-mail (no faxes) to: Peter Wallace, Department of Earth Sciences, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 3J5, or <Peter.Wallace@Dal.ca>.Deadline for submission: January 8, 1999. Rupert MacNeill Award - given for the best oral presentation by a student. Graham Williams Award - given for the best poster presentation by a student. Noranda Award - given by Noranda Mining and Exploration Ltd. for the best paper by a student on Economic Geology (both oral and poster presentations are considered). This award involves summer employmentwith Noranda so you must indicate with your abstract submission whetheror not you wish to be considered. A student submission with no indication will be considered a NO. SPECIAL SESSION Geoscience Software for the Professional, Teacher, and Student Several companies have been invited to demonstrate their software in a special session Friday afternoon. They will have a specialarea in the poster section on Friday night and all day Saturday for additional demonstrations and to talk to registrants. In addition, there will be time at the end of the special session for registrants to demonstrate or talk about their own software.If you wish to participate in this session please indicate on the registration form or contact Peter Wallace before January 8, 1999. FIELD TRIP Cancelled. MOTEL ACCOMMODATION Geomixer, Friday night free, cash bar - A geologist's kitchen party. Stand around talking about northward subduction culminating in a transpressional plate margin bordering on a micro continent outboard of the Iapetus Ocean or bring a guitar and/or other musical instrumentand play into the wee hours of the morning where you'll be appreciated. There are a lot of musical talents in the AGS and I encourage you to participate in a musical get-together. AGS Annual General Meeting and Luncheon $7.50 tax included- At the AGM there will be reports from the various AGS subcommittees, election of officers for 1999, a financial report, and any other business related to the society. If you have any concerns, queries, or comments this is the forum to state them. AGS Awards Banquet $20.00 tax included - The speakersawards (Rupert MacNeill, Graham Williams, and Noranda), Distinguished Scientist- Gesner Award and Distinguished Service Awards are all presented at thisfinal event of the Colloquium. Mike MacDonald, of the Nova Scotia Department of Mines will give an illustrated talk on his leave of absence sojournin South East Asia. TENTATIVE SCHEDULE Friday, February 5, 1999 1 - 5 p.m. Special Session: Geoscience Software for theProfessional, Teacher and Student 5 - 8 p.m. Registration 7 - 10 p.m. Colloquium/Posters 10 p.m. - 1 a.m. Geomixer, Posters Saturday, February 6, 1999 8 a.m. - noon Colloquium/Themes/Posters 12 - 2 p.m. Lunch and AGS Annual General Meeting 2:30 - 5 p.m Colloquium/Themes/Posters 7:30 p.m. Banquet and Geomixer, Presentations of Awards (please print clearly) Name: _________________________________________________________________________________ Address: _________________________________________________________________________________ Affiliation: ________________________________________________________________________________ Phone #: _____________________________ E-mail: _________________________________ Wish to get the AGS Newsletter by e-mail or not (circle one)?: yes no Colloquium Registration: Professional $30.00 Student $12.00______________ (registration includes membership to AGS) Register for the Special Session (free but we need to know approximate numbers) ______________ Wish to present at the Special Session (if yes contact P. Wallace) yes no Atlantic Geology Subscription: ($30 per year members,$35 non-members) ______________ Meals Saturday AGM luncheon $7.50 ______________ Saturday AGS banquet $20.00 ______________ Total ______________ Copy and print the above registration form and then fill in the appropriate amounts. Send the form along with a cheque (made out to the Atlantic Geoscience Society) to: The Atlantic Geoscience Society c/o Earth Sciences Department Dalhousie University Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 3J5 (receipt can be picked up at the Colloquium) | |||
