8:50 – KENNETH B.S. BURKE - Historical seismicity in New Brunswick - one key to future earthquake activity

9:10 – JOE WALLACH and ARSALAN MOHAJER - Extension of the St. Lawrence fault zone into, and beyond, western Lake Ontario

9:30 – A.A. MOHAJER and J.L. WALLACH - Earthquake hazard uncertainties in the low seismicity intraplate environment of eastern Canada

9:50 – JOE WALLACH and ARSALAN MOHAJER - A damaging earthquake could occur in the western Lake Ontario area

10:10 – COFFEE

10:40 – DARRYL PUPEK – New Brunswick and water management

11:00 – DAVID MONAHAN and SUE NICHOLS - Whose environment is it anyway? A search for environmental accountability over areas in the coastal zone and the offshore

11:20 – IAN S. SPOONER, MICHAEL BRYLINSKY, and BROOKE COOK - Where’s the science? Rethinking river restoration and enhancement

11:40 – K.E. BUTLER - Geophysical imaging of a shallow aquifer: initial field tests at Fredericton

12:00 - 1:30 – LUNCH

1:30 – DAVID LIVERMAN, MARTIN BATTERSON, DAVID TAYLOR, and JANICE RYAN - Avalanches in Newfoundland

1:50 – ADRIAN F. PARK and BRUCE E. BROSTER - Glacigenic fault reactivation and enhanced groundwater flow; a previously unrecognized hazard to restoration of abandoned mine sites

2:10 – DON FOX - Differences in pyrrhotite and pyrite reactivity in acidic solutions and the possible influence on acid base accounting prediction techniques

2:30 – *MICHELLE MISKELL and ALI E. AKSU - Anthropogenic pollution in St. John’s Harbour and the degree of contamination of the nearshore zone east of the Narrows: heavy metals in surface samples

2:50 – COFFEE

3:10 – TIM WEBSTER – Radarsat: a tool for environmental monitoring and terrain evaluation

3:30 – G.K. MANSON and D.L. FORBES - Episodes of rapid coastal change on the eastern shore of Nova Scotia: are they related to the North Atlantic oscillation?

3:50 – A.G. PRONK - The use of regional geochemistry data in environmental assessment and planning: ignorance or missed opportunities?

4:10 – *TRECIA M. SCHELL - Holocene paleoproductivity in the northwestern Pacific determined by foraminiferal assemblages in some fiords of Vancouver Island, British Columbia

Thursday 7:00PM – 10:00PM; Friday 8:00AM – 12:00 AM; Saturday 8:00AM – 5:30PM

DON FOX - GIS-based map modelling using the weights of evidence method applied to acid rock drainage prediction in the Meguma Supergroup, Nova Scotia

DON FOX and ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY II CLASS OF 1999-2000 - Hydrogology, water quality and groundwater protection of the Miramichi East (former town of Chatham) aquifer, northeastern New Brunswick

JIM McCARRON, HENRIETTA MANN and FRANK THOMAS - A comparison of the internal and external biogeological structure of rusticles from the RMS Titanic

*J.A. PAASCHE, *T. GILMAN, and K.E. BUTLER - Ground penetrating radar and seismic methods applied to detection of "windows" in the clay aquitard overlying the Fredericton Aquifer

D.B.SCOTT, E. S. COLLINS, P.T.GAYES, and E. WRIGHT - Hurricane records on the South Carolina coast: patterns of periodicity over the last 5000 years

*ANDREW J. STUMPF and BRUCE E. BROSTER - The application of stratigraphic and mapping studies in delineation of landslide hazards: an example from British Columbia

7:00 – CEES VAN STAAL - The geological history of the Brunswick subduction complex in Bathurst, northern New Brunswick - an important clue to understanding the tectonic evolution of the Northern Appalachian Orogen.

8:00 – DENIS LAVOIE and OSMAN SALAD HERSI - A Cambrian carbonate platform in the Quebec Reentrant: new insights from in situ platform core data and slope conglomerates

8:20 – M. STEVE KING and RICK J. HORNE - Application of combined enhanced aeromagnetic and digital elevation data in the geological interpretation of the eastern Meguma Terrane of Nova Scotia

8:40 – RICK HORNE, CHRIS WHITE, CATHERINE MUIR, and MIKE YOUNG - Geology of the lower to middle Paleozoic metamorphic rocks in the Digby-Weymouth area, southwestern Nova Scotia

9:00 – DANIEL J. KONTAK - New insights into the classification and formation of zeolites hosted by the North Mountain Basalt, Annapolis Valley, southern Nova Scotia

9:20 – J. BRENDAN MURPHY, R.A. STRACHAN, R.D. NANCE, D.K. PARKER, and M.B. FOWLER - Evolution of Proto-Avalonia: a 1.0 Ga tectonothermal event and geodynamic linkage to the breakup of Rodinia?

8:00 – TIM WEBSTER - Applied geomatics research at the Centre of Geographic Sciences (COGS)

8:20 – *RACHEL SPELLER and ALEX HAY - Pock marks in the nearshore and their relationship to forcing conditions and lunate megaripple genesis

8:40 – *DORIS FOX, J.DUNCAN KEPPIE, JARDA DOSTAL, and F. ORTEGA-GUTIERREZ - Structure of the San Miguel ultramafic body and its host rock, Acatlan Complex, southern Mexico: a fragment of the Iapetus or Rheic oceans

9:00 – *GRAHAM A.J. NICKERSON, JOHN G. SPRAY, and LARRY A. MAYER - Investigation of integrated geologic and geophysical data using GIS: Crooked Creek and Decaturville impact structures, Missouri

9:20 – *GORDON R. OSINSKI, JOHN G. SPRAY, and P. LEE - Haughton-Mars Project 1999: geology of the Haughton impact structure, Devon Island, Nunavut, Canada

8:20 – ROB J. RYAN - Thermal evolution of the Maritimes Basin: hydrocarbon implications

8:40 – DAVE KEIGHLEY, STEPHEN FLINT, and ANDREA MOSCARIELLO- Sequence-stratigraphic interpretations of alluvial-lacustrine basins: Uinta Basin, Utah, as an analogue of the Moncton Basin, New Brunswick

9:00 – *TANYA COSTAIN - Stratigraphic analysis and possible tidal influence in the Stellarton Basin, Nova Scotia

9:20 – CLINT ST. PETER, SUSAN C. JOHNSON, and GRAHAM DOLBY - Advancements in the lithostratigraphy, palynology and boundary relationship of the Upper Carboniferous Cumberland and Pictou groups in southeastern New Brunswick

9:40 – COFFEE

10:00 – *JERRY DEWOLFE and DANIEL J. KONTAK - Geological investigation of the Coxheath Cu-Mo-Au System, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia: structurally controlled porphyry-type mineralization

10:20 – *MARNI LYNNE DICKSON, BRUCE E. BROSTER, and MICHAEL A. PARKHILL - Delineation of glacial dispersal patterns in areas of thick overburden and multiple ice-flow events, northeastern New Brunswick

10:40 – *CHRIS D. MACDONALD - The Willett Cu-rich massive-sulphide deposit, Bathurst Mining Camp, New Brunswick: general geology, deposit characteristics, and felsic volcanic chemostratigraphy

11:00 – DAVID J.W. PIPER, GEORGIA PE-PIPER, and IOANNIS KOUKOUVELAS - Emplacement style of the Wentworth plutonic complex, Cobequid Highlands

11:20 – RUDOLPH R. STEA and GEORGIA PE-PIPER - Using whole rock geochemistry to locate the source of igneous erratics from drumlins on the Atlantic coast of Nova Scotia

11:40 – *ELISABETH LEVAC, ANDRE ROCHON, and PETA J. MUDIE - Holocene paleoceanography: marine palynology records from Atlantic Canada

2:00 – *BRAD J. MACLEAN, TOM A. AL, and DAVID W. BLOWES - The use of hydrogeochemistry for mineral exploration in areas of thick glacial overburden: Tillex Cu-Zn deposit, Matheson, Ontario

2:20 – *MALLORY L. GILLISS, TOM A. AL, GWENDY M. HALL, and DAVID W. BLOWES - Distribution of metals derived from weathering of mineral deposits under glacial cover: Tillex Cu-Zn deposit, Matheson, Ontario

2:40 – *TRACY A. COCHRANE, TOM A. AL, and ROBERT A. BUTLER - Geochemical trends in a river receiving treated mine water, Bathurst, New Brunswick

3:00 – *DUNCAN JOHANNESSEN, DOROTHY GODFREY-SMITH, JOEL KRONFELD, and MARCOS ZENTILLI - Isotope and chemical hydrogeology of the Avon River drainage basin, Nova Scotia

3:20 – COFFEE

3:40 – JAMES WHITEHEAD and ADRIAN F. PARK - The search for the Fredericton Fault: new exposures along the Longs Creek to Fredericton section of the (toll-free) Trans-Canada Highway

4:00 – *ELLIE MACINNES and JOESEPH C. WHITE - Detailed structural analysis of a transpressional terrane boundary, Minas fault system, Nova Scotia

4:20 – *MICHAEL YOUNG, RICHARD HORNE, and NICHOLAS CULSHAW - Minor folds and their relationship to regional fold evolution, central Meguma Terrane, Nova Scotia

4:40 – MICHAEL A. MACDONALD and ALAN RUFFMAN - A forensic petrological study of granite blocks from the Sambro Lighthouse

A.J. ANDERSON, J.B. MURPHY, R.F. CORMIER, and R.A. CREASER - Dating alkali feldspar granites: revised age and tectonic interpretation of the Georgeville Granite, Antigonish Highlands, Nova Scotia

J.L. BATES, S. BALDWIN, H.V. DONOHOE, JR., R.A. FENSOME, R. GRANTHAM, L. HAM, I.A. HARDY, N. KOZIEL¹, H. MANN, J. SHIMELD, K. SILVERSTEIN, and G.L. WILLIAMS - The Parrsboro EdGEO Workshop

J.L. BATES, S. BALDWIN, E. FRITH, A. HENRY, G. NOWLAN, J. SHIMELD, K. SILVERSTEIN, I. SPOONER, P. MOIR, C. VODDEN, J. WALDRON, and G.L. WILLIAMS - EarthNet: a Canadian education resource has its roots in the Maritimes

*RYAN CAMPBELL, DAVID SCOTT, and RAY CRANSTON - Metal impact on benthic populations within Baie des Chaleurs, New Brunswick: a reconnaissance review of marine geochemistry and species diversity

*S. BROOKE COOK, IAN S.SPOONER, and MICHAEL BRYLINSKY - An assessment of in-stream restorative structures on tertiary streams in the Annapolis Valley, Nova Scotia

*IAN A. DEWOLFE - Structural and geometrical analysis of saddle reef folds at the mesothermal gold deposit, Port Dufferin, Halifax County, Nova Scotia: implications for future exploration and resource assessment

*MICHELLE DEYOUNG, DANIEL J. KONTAK, and JARDA DOSTAL - Documentation of abundant intergranular felsic mesostasis in the Jurassic North Mountain Basalt, Annapolis Valley, Nova Scotia: product of silicate liquid immiscibility

*CHRISTIE DYBLE - A high resolution stratigraphic and petrological investigation of the Braeburn Member, Charlie Lake Formation, Peace River Arch, northwestern Alberta: reservoir implications?

R.A. FENSOME, G.L. WILLIAMS, and the AGS BOOK COMMITTEE - "The Last Billion Years"

*JANET FOWNES and IAN SPOONER - Recognition of a modern sediment oscillation in Loon Lake, Halifax County, Nova Scotia: implications for paleoclimate and environmental research

*JULIEN GAGNON, DENIS LAVOIE, and ALAIN TREMBLAY - Stratigraphy and structural geology of the Rivière-du-Loup area, external domain of the Humber Zone, Quebec

PETER S. GILES - Geology of Windsor Group salt deposits, central Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia

*KAESY GLADWIN, S.M. BARR, and A.S. MACDONALD - Stratigraphy, structure, and mafic sills in a section through the Halifax Group, Black River area, Kings County, Nova Scotia

*ELIZABETH M. GRACE and SANDRA M. BARR - Determination of protoliths and pressure-temperature conditions of metamorphic rocks in the "Pocologan mylonite zone", southern New Brunswick

DANIEL J. KONTAK and JARDA DOSTAL - Observations on the nature of aplite-pegmatite sheets in the Peggy’s Cove area, Halifax County, Nova Scotia

D. LAVOIE, D. LEBEL, S.R. MCCUTCHEON, S. COLMAN-SADD, A. TREMBLAY, O. SALAD HERSI, S. CASTONGUAY, M. ROCHER, K. LAUZIÈRE, L. NADEAU, Y. LEMIEUX, and J. GAGNON - Appalachian foreland and platform architecture in Quebec, New Brunswick and Newfoundland: an up-to-date NATMAP contribution to the Geological Bridges of Eastern Canada

*LISA A. MACDONALD, SANDRA M. BARR, CHRIS E. WHITE, and JOHN W.F. KETCHUM - Stratigraphy, geochemistry and age of the White Rock Formation in the Yarmouth area, Nova Scotia

M.J. MCLEOD and S.R. MCCUTCHEON - Gold environments in New Brunswick

P.N. MOIR and P.B. LAKE - BASIN: a hydrocarbon exploration database and model for data distribution

*DONNETTE M., MUGRIDGE - Spatial distribution and grades of conjugate veins associated with mesothermal saddle reef gold mineralization, The Ovens, Nova Scotia: implications for an open pit resource

*JASON MUISE, J. DOSTAL, J.D. KEPPIE, and F. ORTEGA-GUTIERREZ - Petrology of the San Miguel ultramafic body, Acatlan Complex, southern Mexico: an oceanic fragment of the Iapetus or Rheic oceans?

MICHAEL PARKHILL, TOON PRONK, REX BOLDON, MARNI LYNNE DICKSON, PETER FRISKE, and STEPHEN DAY - Quaternary mapping and till, stream-sediment, and water geochemical surveys in northern New Brunswick: a NATMAP contribution to the Geological Bridges of Eastern Canada

GEORGIA PE-PIPER and DAVID J.W. PIPER - New 1:50 000 geological maps of the Cobequid Highlands, Nova Scotia

A. G. PRONK, G. M. ALLABY, and B. E. BROSTER – Pleistocene glacial history of the Petitcodiac area, southeastern New Brunswick

D.B. SCOTT and R.R. STEA - Late Quaternary relative sea-level variations in the North Atlantic: comparison of mid-Holocene highstands to the last interglacial (isotope stage 5e) highstands

ALLEN A. SEAMAN - Glacial dispersal in west-central New Brunswick

JOHN W. SHIMELD and R. ANDREW MACRAE - Sequence stratigraphic interpretation of regional Upper Cretaceous limestone units, offshore eastern Canada

M.E WEBER - D ¹⁸O prediction from corelog data – high-resolution paleoclimate proxy generation

C.E. WHITE, S.M. BARR, R.A. JAMIESON, and P.H. REYNOLDS - The Hammondvale metamorphic suite: part of an exhumed Neoproterozoic convergent margin in the Avalon terrane, southern New Brunswick

R.A. WILSON, J.P. LANGTON, and J.I. CARROLL - Geological Bridges of Eastern Canada NATMAP Project: bedrock mapping in Restigouche County, New Brunswick

THOMAS O. WRIGHT - Post-Horton Group, pre-Windsor Group recumbent folding and cleavage deformation in the St. Peters area, Nova Scotia

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