Simon Fraser University

Detailed Conference Schedule

 Monday, May 4thTuesday, May 5thWednesday, May 6th Thursday, May 7thFriday, May 8th
Morning
Afternoon
 
Evening
  
Posters
   

Monday A, May 4th (morning) ASSC 10081

8:30-8:40

Welcome

 

Glaciological Aspects of Interest to Quaternarists and Geomorphologists

8:40-8:45

Gwenn Flowers

Session introduction

8:45-9:15

Garry K. C. Clarke, Patrick Lajeunesse, Guillaume St-Onge (INVITED)

A PROCESS MODEL FOR THE ARCUATE ICEBERG SCOURS FORMED BY THE FINAL FLOOD FROM GLACIAL LAKE AGASSIZ

9:15-9:40

Christian G. Schoof (INVITED)

MARINE ICE SHEET DYNAMICS

9:40-10:00

Kristyn Adams, Vanessa Vallis, Christina Tennent, Brian Menounos, Gerald Osborn

MEASUREMENT OF DEFLATION OF A DEBRIS-COVERED GLACIER IN OPABIN BASIN, YOHO NATIONAL PARK (student presenter)

 

Coffee

10:30-10:50

Lev Tarasov, Art Dyke, W.R. Peltier

RESULTS FROM A MULTI-YEAR CALIBRATION OF A GLACIOLOGICAL MODEL FOR NORTH AMERICA

10:50-11:10

Chris R. Stokes, Lev Tarasov

ICE STREAMING IN THE LAURENTIDE ICE SHEET: A COMPARISON BETWEEN NUMERICAL MODEL OUTPUT AND GEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE

11:10-11:30

Michèle Koppes

CLIMATE CHANGE AND GLACIAL EROSION: ARE MODERN GLACIAL DYNAMICS APPROPRIATE FOR UNDERSTANDING QUATERNARY LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION?

11:30-11:50

Bernhard T. Rabus

INVESTIGATION OF GLACIER EROSION WITH A FINITE ELEMENT MODEL

11:20-2:00

Lunch

CANQUA Executive meeting 12:30-2:00 Room: BLU 10031


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Monday B, May 4th (morning) ASSC 10041

 

Coastal Pacific Northwest Deglaciation, Biogeography, and Implications for Early Human Presence

10:25-10:30

Michael Wilson and Estella Leopold

Session introduction

10:30-10:50

Michael C. Wilson

COME TO THE ISLANDS: EARLY POSTGLACIAL PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY, INSULAR MEGAFAUNA, AND COMMUNITY SUCCESSION IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST

10:50-11:10

Estella B. Leopold, Rudy J. Nickmann, and Fred Sharpe

POSTGLACIAL HISTORY AND REVEGETATION OF THE SAN JUAN ISLANDS, WASHINGTON

11:10-11:30

D. Mazzucchi, R.J. Hebda

HIGH ELEVATION LANDSCAPES ON VANCOUVER ISLAND DURING THE LATE PLEISTOCENE AND EARLY HOLOCENE

11:30-11:50

Melanie M. Diedrich

PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIVE SEEDS: THE CREATION OF A COMPARATIVE SEED LIBRARY FOR ARCHAEOLOGY

11:50-12:10

Paul McNeil, Len Hills, Brian Kooyman, and Shayne Tolman

ARE EQUUS CONVERSIDENS AND EQUUS LAMBEI CO-SPECIFIC?

11:20-2:00

Lunch

CANQUA Executive meeting 12:30-2:00 Room: BLU 10031


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Monday C, May 4th (afternoon) ASSC 10081

 

Special Session in Honor of Bob Gilbert's Retirement in 2009 (Sponsored by CGRG)

2:00-2:05

Scott Lamoreux, Joseph R. Desloges, and Brian Menounos

Session introduction

2:05-2:25

Olav Slaymaker

LAKE-CATCHMENT SYSTEMS AS INDICATORS OF LANDSCAPE CHANGE

2:25-2:45

Jon Tunnicliffe, Michael Church, Randy Enkin

THE POST-GLACIAL SEDIMENT BUDGET OF THE CHILLIWACK LAKE WATERSHED, CHILLIWACK, BRITISH COLUMBIA

2:45-3:05

Slawek Tulaczyk, Poul Christoffersen, Nigel J. Wattrus

LARGE SUBGLACIAL LAKE BENEATH THE LAURENTIDE ICE SHEET INFERRED FROM SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCES

3:05-3:25

John J. Clague , Janice Brahney , Brian H. Luckman, Thomas W.D. Edwards, Brian Menounos, Robert Gilbert, Duane Froese, Britta J.L. Jensen, and Alberto V. Reyes

THE UPS AND DOWNS OF KLUANE LAKE DURING THE LATE HOLOCENE

3:25-3:45

Joseph R. Desloges, Robert Gilbert

SEDIMENTATION PATTERNS IN QUESNEL LAKE , BRITISH COLUMBIA : IMPLICATIONS FOR LATE-GLACIAL AND HOLOCENE ENVIRONMENTS

3:45-4.05

Scott F. Lamoureux, Ted Lewis, Hilary Dugan, Jaclyn M.H. Cockburn

DECIPHERING THE ENVIRONMENTAL SIGNAL IN VARVES THROUGH INTENSIVE WATERSHED AND LAKE PROCESS RESEARCH AT CAPE BOUNTY, ARCTIC CANADA

4:05-6:00

Posters and beer ASSC / First Nations Atrium


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Monday Evening

7:00 – 9:00 MOCA Meeting Room BLU 10031


Tuesday A, May 5 th (morning) ASSC 10081

 

Mackay Lecture I

8:30-835

Steve Wolfe

INTRODUCTION TO THE MACKAY LECTURE

8:35-9:15

Ian J. Walker

ARE WE SEEING THE DUNES FOR THE PROCESSES? PROGRESS IN THE MEASUREMENT AND MODELING AEOLIAN DUNE SYSTEMS

 

Sedimentary Processes and Landscape Evolution (Sponsored by CGRG)

9:15-9:20

Jeremy Venditti

Session introduction

9:20-9:40

Stephen A. Wolfe,  Christopher H. Hugenholtz, Tom Barchyn

POST-LITTLE ICE AGE WARMING STABILIZED CANADIAN PRAIRIE DESERT DUNES

9:40-10:00

Tom E. Barchyn, Chris Hugenholtz
SURFACE CONTROLS ON AEOLIAN SAND TRANSPORT IN A COLD-CLIMATE DUNEFIELD (student presenter)

 

Coffee

10:30-10:50

Timothy G. Fisher, Edward C. Hansen,Walter Loope, Alan F. Arbogast
AEOLIAN COASTAL DUNES ALONG THE SOUTHEAST SHORE OF LAKE MICHGAN: GEOMORPHIC HISTORY AND PALEOCLIMATE RECORDERS

10:50-11:10

Peter D. McIntosh, David M. Price, Adrian J. Slee, Roland Eberhard, Timothy T. Barrows, Ralph Bottrill
PERIGLACIAL AND ASSOCIATED DEPOSITS OF TASMANIA: A REVIEW

11:10-11:30

Michael W Milner
GLACIAL FLOOD PLACERS: THE POTENTIAL FOR PLACER CONCENTRATION, AS OPPOSED TO DISPERSION, IN GLACIAL CHANNEL FLOW

11:30-11:50

Daniel H. Shugar, John J. Clague
THE SEDIMENTOLOGY OF FOUR ROCK AVALANCHES ON TWO GLACIERS IN ALASKA (student presenter)

11:50-12:10

Martin R.Gibling, Rajiv Sinha, S.K. Tandon, Mayank Jain
MONSOON-GENERATED FLUVIAL SEQUENCES: CLIMATIC CONTROL IN THE GANGA PLAINS OF INDIA OVER THE PAST 130,000 YEARS

12:10-2:00

Lunch Break

CGRG AGM 12:15- 1:15 RM ASSC10081


Mackay Lecture II Rm ASSC 10081

1:15-1:20 Introduction - Steve Wolfe


1:20-2:00 Thomas Buffin-Bélanger

TURBULENCE AND GRAVEL-BED RIVER FLOWS


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Tuesday B, May 5 th (morning) ASSC 10041

 

Putting the Ecology Back into Paleoecology (Sponsored by the Canadian Association of Palynologists)

9:15-9:20

Terri Lacourse and Marlow Pellatt

Session introduction

9:20-9:40

Marlow G. Pellatt

CAN PALEOENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES HELP CONSERVATION ECOLOGISTS RESTORE ECOSYSTEMS AND MANAGE FOR ECOLOGICAL INTEGRITY?

9:40-10:00

Alexandra M. Gerber, Douglas J. Hallett, Brian F. Cumming

A HOLOCENE-SCALE ANALYSIS OF FOREST FIRE REGIMES NEAR ST.-LAWRENCE ISLANDS NATIONAL PARK, ONTARIO, USING CHARCOAL AS A PALEOINDICATOR (student presenter)

 

Coffee

10:30-10:50

Rolf W. Mathewes and Simon Goring

COMPARING HISTORIC ANTHROPOGENIC DISTURBANCE AND PALEOENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES USING MODERN AND FOSSIL POLLEN FROM A TEMPERATE RAINFOREST

10:50-11:10

Terri Lacourse

THE ROLE OF LIFE HISTORY VARIATION IN POSTGLACIAL VEGETATION DYNAMICS

11:10-11:30

Gail L. Chmura, I. Florin Pendea

RECONSTRUCTING WETLAND SUCCESSION ON REBOUNDING COASTLINES USING MODERN ANALOGUES

11:30-11:50

Vera Pospelova, Thomas F. Pedersen

LATE QUATERNARY CLIMATE AND MARINE PRODUCTIVITY CHANGES ALONG THE CALIFORNIA MARGIN

11:50-12:10

Richard J. Hebda, Olav B. Lian, Stephen R. Hicock

TIMING AND ENVIRONMENTS OF THE OLYMPIA NON-GLACIAL INTERVAL IN THE FRASER LOWLAND OF BRITISH COLUMBIA

12:10-2:00

Lunch Break

CAP AGM Meeting 12:30 – 2:00 Room BLU 10655


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Tuesday C, May 5 th (afternoon) ASSC 10081

 

Sedimentary Processes and Landscape Evolution (continued)

2:00-2:05

Jeremy Venditti

Session introduction

2:05-2:25

J. Wesley Lauer, Ian Tromble
HOLOCENE MORPHODYNAMIC EVOLUTION AND SEDIMENT AGING IN THE FLY RIVER SYSTEM, PAPUA NEW GUINEA

2:25-2:45

Melanie C Grubb, Brian Menounos, Robert Gilbert
LATE HOLOCENE SEDIMENTATION CHANGE IN KITSUMKALUM LAKE, NORTHWESTERN BRITISH COLUMBIA (student presenter)

2:45-3:05

Tobi Gardner, Peter Ashmore
MORPHOLOGIC AND SEDIMENTARY DYNAMICS OF A COARSE-GRAINED BRAIDED RIVER (student presenter)

3:05-3:25

Thomas Millard, David Campbell, Marwan Hassan, and Dan Hogan
FLUVIAL FAN CHANNEL NETWORKS NEAR TASEKO LAKES, BC: THE ROLE OF SEDIMENT SUPPLY

 

Coffee

3:55-4:15

Robert Humphries, Jeremy G. Venditti, and Leonard S. Sklar
THE EFFECT OF HYDROGRAPHS ON SEDIMENT PULSE DYNAMICS IN GRAVEL-BEDDED RIVERS

4:15-4:35

Peter Ashmore
THE LINK BETWEEN INTENSITY AND CHARACTERISTIC LENGTH OF BRAIDED CHANNEL PATTERNS

4:35-4:55

 


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Tuesday D, May 5 th (afternoon) ASSC 10041

 

Paleo-ice sheet dynamics

2:00-2:05

Tracy Brennand and Olav Lian

Session introduction

2:05-2:25

P. Blundon, T. Bell, M. Batterson : THE GEOMORPHIC FOOTPRINT OF A LATE WISCONSINAN ICE STREAM IN NORTHEAST NEWFOUNDLAND (student presenter)

2:25-2:45

Roberta Adams, Martin Ross, Janet Campbell : INVESTIGATION OF LARGE PALEO-ICE STREAM SYSTEMS IN THE CANADIAN PRAIRIES (student presenter)

2:45-3:05

Slawek Tulaczyk, Chris R. Stokes, Chris D. Clark, Olav B. Lian, Colm O'Cofaigh : INTERNAL RADAR STRUCTURE OF ICE STREAM BEDFORMS FROM NUNAVUT, CANADA

3:05-3:25

Stephen Hicock, Olav B. Lian : STICKY SPOTS IN MOUNTAIN VALLEYS DRAINING THE SOUTHWEST FRINGE OF THE LAST CORDILLERAN ICE SHEET

 

Coffee

3:55-4:15

Jon L. Riedel : THE CORDILLERAN ICE SHEET IN SKAGIT VALLEY DURING MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE 2

4:15-4:35

Douglas H. Clark, Eric J. Steig : A NEW INTERPRETATION FOR ICE DYNAMICS OF THE TERMINAL PHASE OF THE PUGET LOBE, NORTHWEST WASHINGTON

4:35-4:55

Alain Plouffe, Jan M. Bednarski, Crystal A. Huscroft, and Shirley J. McCuaig : ICE-FLOW HISTORY AND GLACIAL TRANSPORT IN THE BONAPARTE LAKE MAP AREA OF SOUTH CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA


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Tuesday Evening

CANQUA - CGRG Banquet 6 – 11 PM
Diamond Alumni Centre
Open Bar 6 PM, Dinner 7 PM

Wednesday – Mid Conference Fieldtrips

All trips leave from in front of the Simon Hotel . Please be there 15 minutes before the departure time specified below. Lunch will be provided for all trips.



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  Thursday A, May 7 th (morning) ASSC 10081

 

Natural Hazards and Risk (Sponsored by the SFU Centre for Natural Hazard Research and CGRG)

8:40-8:45

Dan Shugar and John Clague

Session introduction

8:45-9:05

Norm Catto, Steve Tomblin
TREACHEROUS TERRAIN, DARK NATURE, AND TWILLICKS: RESPONSE TO NATURAL HAZARDS IN NEWFOUNDLAND

9:05-9:25

Peter T. Bobrowsky, Lynn M. Highland
REDUCING LANDSLIDE RISK THROUGH EFFECTIVE NONTECHNICAL COMMUNICATION

9:25-9:45

Marta Chiarle, Riccardo Beltramo, Jean Pierre Fosson, Giovanni Mortara, Chantal Trèves, Ingrid Troyer
THREATS AND CHALLENGES TO HIGH MOUNTAIN INFRASTRUCTURES AND ACTIVITIES DUE TO CLIMATE CHANGE

9:45-10:05

A. Tamburini, M. Giardino, W. Alberto, M. Broccolato, S. Ratto
COMBINED GEOMORPHOLOGICAL AND PSINSAR APPROACH TO THE STUDY OF DEEP-SEATED GRAVITATIONAL SLOPE DEFORMATIONS IN THE AOSTA VALLEY (NW-ALPS, ITALY) 

 

Coffee

10:35-10:55

Peter Ashmore, Mariane Ferencevic
DEM-BASED STREAM POWER ESTIMATES FOR FLUVIAL EROSION HAZARD

10:55 -11:15

Denny Capps, Greg Wiles, and John Clague
DENDROCHRONOLOGY TO THE BEAT OF A DIFFERENT DRUMMER: LAKES DAMMED BY A TIDEWATER GLACIER OUT OF PHASE WITH CLIMATE (student presenter)

11:15-11:35

Marit Heideman, John J. Clague, Brian Menounos
FLOOD HAZARD ANALYSIS IN LILLOOET RIVER VALLEY, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA (student presenter)

11:35-11:55

Jonathan F. Hughes, Brian L. Sherrod, and Richard J. Blakely
SUBMERGED FOREST AND NEAR-SURFACE MAGNETIC ANOMALIES RECORD HOLOCENE SLIP ALONG THE SADDLE MOUNTAIN FAULT, OLYMPIC PENINSULA, WASHINGTON 

11:55-12:15

Panya S. Lipovsky, Gordon J. Seitz, Peter J. Haeussler, Anothony J. Crone, David P. Schwartz, John J. Clague, Stéphane Mazzotti, Rosie Cobbett
NEOTECTONICS INVESTIGATIONS IN SOUTHWESTERN YUKON 

12:15-2:00

Lunch Break
CANQUA AGM Room: ASSC 10081

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Thursday B, May 7 th (morning) ASSC 10041

 

Beyond the Ice Sheets: New Records and Approaches to Beringia and the Unglaciated Fringes of North American Ice Sheets

8:30 -8:35

Duane Froese and Grant Zazula

Session introduction

8:35-9:05

Beth Shapiro (Keynote)

The rise and fall of the beringian megafauna

9:05-9:25

Thomas R. Lakeman, John H. England

REVISED LATE WISCONSINAN ICE MARGINS FOR CENTRAL BANKS ISLAND, NWT: NEW CONSTRAINTS ON THE NORTHEAST EXTREMITY OF BERINGIA (student presenter)

9:25-9:45

Kristen E. Kennedy, Duane Froese, Grant Zazula, Bernard Lauriol, Svetlana Kuzmina

LGM AGE FOR THE NW LAURENTIDE MAXIMUM FROM THE EAGLE RIVER SPILLWAY AND BRAID DELTA COMPLEX, NORTHERN YUKON

9:45-10:05

Julian B. Murton, Mark D. Bateman, James T. Teller, Zhirong Yang MACKENZIE OUTBURST FLOODING INTO THE ARCTIC OCEAN NEAR THE START OF THE YOUNGER DRYAS

 

Coffee

10:35-10:55

Derek G. Turner, Brent C. Ward, Jeffrey D. Bond, Britta J.L. Jensen, Duane G. Froese, Alice Telka, Nancy H. Bigalow, Grant D. Zazula

PLEISTOCENE STRATIGRAPHY AND PALEOENVIRONMENTS OF THE WHITE RIVER, YUKON (student presenter)

10:55 -11:15

Alberto V. Reyes, Duane G. Froese, Britta J.L. Jensen PERMAFROST DEGRADATION DURING THE LAST INTERGLACIATION IN EASTERN BERINGIA – IMPLICATIONS FOR FUTURE THAW (student presenter)

11:15-11:35

Svetlana Kuzmina, Duane Froese, Alice Telka, Alberto Reyes, Britta Jensen

NON-ANALOGUE CONDITIONS DURING THE LAST INTERGLACIAL IN EASTERN BERINGIA BASED ON FOSSIL INSECT STUDIES: A ROLE FOR MEGAFAUNA IN MAINTAINING THE MAMMOTH-STEPPE?

11:35-11:55

Les C. Cwynar, Joshua Kurek, Mark B. Abbott, Thomas A. Ager, Erin M. Barley, Mary E. Edwards, Bruce P. Finney, Fonya Irvine, Cy Pedersen, Reinhard Pienitz, Julien M.J. Racca, Lydia Stepanovic, Ian R. Walker

LATE-QUATERNARY PALEOCLIMATE OF EASTERN BERINGIA

11:55-12:15

O.G. Zanina

LATE PLEISTOCENE VEGETATION OF NORTHEAST YAKUTIA FROM MICROFOSSIL ANALYSIS OF PALEOSOLS

12:15-2:00

Lunch Break
CANQUA AGM Room: ASSC 10081

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Thursday C, May 7th (afternoon) ASSC 10081

 

Natural Hazards and Risk (continued)

2:00-2:05

Dan Shugar and John Clague

Session introduction

2:05-2:25

Andrée Blais-Stevens, Robert Kung
HISTORICAL LANDSLIDE EVENTS AND LANDSLIDE SUSCEPTIBILITY MAPPING ALONG THE SEA TO SKY CORRIDOR

2:25-2:45

Marten Geertsema, Marta Chiarle, Stephan Gruber, Menno van Hees
Recent Landslides on frozen Rupture surfaces in British Columbia 

2:45-3:05

Marco Giardino, Sara Ratto, Walter Alberto, Marco Armand, Luigi Perotti
SLOPE INSTABILITIES IN MOUNTAIN REGIONS: THE ”IFFI” LANDSLIDE INVENTORY IN VALLE D'AOSTA (NW-ITALY) 

3:05-3:25

Chris Hugenholtz
TERRAIN INSTABILITY AND TOURISM AT THE ATHABASCA GLACIER 

3:25-3:45

Nicholas J. Roberts, Stephen G. Evans
THE GIGANTIC PRE-HISTORIC VALLEY OF THE ROCKS ROCK AVALANCHE, ROCKY MOUNTAINS, CANADA

3:45-4:05

Ben Kerr

HAZARD ESTIMATION IN FLUVIAL ENVIRONMENTS USING GIS.

4:05-6:00

Posters and beer ASSC/First Nations Atrium

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Thursday D, May 7th (afternoon) ASSCV10041

 

Beyond the Ice Sheets: New Records and Approaches to Beringia and the Unglaciated Fringes of North American Ice Sheets (continued)

2:00-2:05

Duane Froese and Grant Zazula

Session introduction

2:05-2:25

Alwynne B. Beaudoin, Simon Robinson, Duane G. Froese, and Charles E. Schweger

LATE PLEISTOCENE SPRUCE MACROFOSSILS AND POLLEN FROM THE YUKON FLATS: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE HISTORY OF SPRUCE IN EASTERN BERINGIA

2:25-2:45

Eric G. DeChaine, Jessica L. Metcalf , Kurt E. Galbreath, Grant Zazula, Joseph A. Cook, Alan Cooper

HISTORY HIDDEN WITHIN A MIDDEN: THE EVOLUTION OF THE STEPPE TUNDRA INFERRED FROM MODERN AND ANCIENT DNA

2:45-3:05

Jessica L. Metcalf, Eric G. DeChaine, David Nogues-Bravo, Beth Shapiro, Robert P. Guralnick, Alan Cooper

THE NEXT STEPPE IN CLIMATE ENVELOPES: TRACKING THE NICHE OF NORTH AMERICA BISON THROUGH TIME USING ANCIENT DNA

3:05-3:25

Tyler S. Kuhn, Pamela Groves, Arne Ø. Mooers, Beth Shapiro

GENETIC RELATIONSHIPS AMONG PRESENT DAY AND ANCESTRAL CARIBOU HERDS IN SOUTHWEST YUKON: ADNA EVIDENCE FOR PARTIAL REPLACEMENT AND LONG-TERM ADMIXTURE (student presenter)

3:25-3:45

James Haile, Eske Willerslev, Tom Gilbert, Mary Edwards, Pierre Taberlet, Ludovic Gielly, Martin Zobel, Nigel Yoccoz, Kari Bråthen, Hendrik von Stedingk, Tomasz Goslar, Alan Cooper, Jeremy Austin, Duane Froese, Bert Roberts, Thomas Higham, Anne Brysting, Christian Brochmann, Per Möller

PLANT DNA FROM ARCTIC SEDIMENTS: THE RECONSTRUCTION OF PRESENT AND PAST FLORAL COMMUNITIES

3:45-4:05

Charles Schweger

BERINGIAN RESEARCH: THEN AND NOW

4:05-6:00

Posters and beer ASSC/First Nations Atrium

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Friday A, May 8th (morning) ASSC 10081

 

Mackay Lecture III

8:30 -835

Steve Wolfe

Introduction to the Mackay Lecture

8:35-9:15

Brian Menounos

GLACIER FLUCTUATIONS DURING THE HOLOCENE AND LATEST PLEISTOCENE IN WESTERN NORTH AMERICA

 

New Advances and Techniques of Terrestrial Cosmogenic Nuclides

9:15-9:20

John Gosse

Session introduction

9:20-9:50

John O.H. Stone, L.Keith Fifield, Jefferson D.G. Hungerford, Frank A. Trusdell

COSMOGENIC NUCLIDE MEASUREMENTS ON VERY YOUNG AND VERY OLD ROCKS

9:50-10:10

Kenneth Hewitt, John Gosse, John J. Clague

TCN AGES, GEOMORPHIC MARKERS AND DEVELOPMENTS IN LANDSLIDE-INTERRUPTED RIVER VALLEYS, UPPER INDUS BASIN, NORTHERN PAKISTAN

 

Coffee

10:40-11:00

Roy D. Coulthard, Daniel J. Utting, John C. Gosse

RETREAT OF THE BARNES ICE CAP, NORTH-CENTRAL BAFFIN ISLAND , BASED ON TERRESTRIAL COSMOGENIC NUCLIDE DATING (student presenter)

11:00 -11:20

Timothy F. Johnsen, Helena Alexanderson, Derek Fabel, Stewart P.H.T. Freeman

NEW 10 BE COSMOGENIC AGES FROM THE VIMMERBY MORAINE CONFIRM THE TIMING OF SCANDINAVIAN ICE SHEET DEGLACIATION IN SOUTHERN SWEDEN (student presenter)

11:20-11:40

Alan J. Hidy, John C. Gosse

COSMOGENIC 10BE-DERIVED SEDIMENT YIELDS TO THE WESTERN GULF OF MEXICO OVER MULTIPLE GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLES (student presenter)

11:40-12:00

John Gosse, Natalia Rybczynski

COSMOGENIC NUCLIDE BURIAL DATING OF THE LATE CENOZOIC BEAUFORT FORMATION AND EQUIVALENT DEPOSITS IN WESTERN AND HIGH CANADIAN ARCTIC

12:00 – 1:40

Lunch Break


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Friday B, May 8 th (morning) ASSC 10041

 

General Session

9:25-9:30

Peter Bobrowsky

Session introduction

9:30-9:50

Chanone Ryane, Mary Samolczyk, Gerald Osborn, Brian Menounos

INCONSISTENCIES IN LATEST PLEISTOCENE AND HOLOCENE GLACIAL HISTORIES IN THE CENTRAL NORTH AMERICAN CORDILLERA (student presenter)

9:50-10:10

Vanessa G. Vallis, Darren Sjogren, Gerald Osborn, Christina Tennent, Brian Menounos

SPATIAL VARIABILITY OF GLACIER EXTENT IN THE CANADIAN ROCKIES: INVESTIGATING THE EFFECT OF TOPOGRAPHY DURING THE LITTLE ICE AGE (student presenter)

 

Coffee

10:40-11:00

Kate Johnson, Dan J. Smith

LATE HOLOCENE GLACIAL ACTIVITY OF WHITE AND SOUTHER FLAT GLACIERS, NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA COAST MOUNTAINS, CANADA (student presenter)

11:00 -11:20

Bethany L. Coulthard, Dan J. Smith

A DENDROGLACIOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION OF GLACIAL HISTORY AT CONFEDERATION GLACIER, CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA COAST MOUNTAINS, CANADA

11:20-11:40

Sarah J. Hart, Dan J. Smith, John J. Clague

A DENDROGEOMORPHIC RECONSTRUCTION OF LITTLE ICE AGE PARAGLACIAL ACTIVITY IN THE VICINITY OF THE HOMATHKO ICEFIELD, BRITISH COLUMBIA COAST MOUNTAINS, CANADA (student presenter)

11:40-12:00

Amber Church, John Clague

RECENT DEGLACIERIZATION OF THE UPPER WHEATON RIVER WATERSHED, YUKON TERRITORY (student presenter)

12:00 – 1:40

Lunch Break


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Friday C, May 8th (afternoon) ASSC 10081

 

General Session

1:40-1:45

Derek Turner

Session introduction

1:45-2:05

Thomas Buffin-Bélanger, Geneviève Allard, Normand Bergeron

A CONCEPTUAL MODEL FOR THE STUDY OF FLUVIAL AND RIVER ICE DYNAMICS

2:05-2:25

Alice S. Chang, Ingrid L. Hendy, Thomas F. Pedersen

LATE QUATERNARY GLACIAL INFLUENCE ON COASTAL SEDIMENTATION, PALEOPRODUCTIVITY AND SEDIMENTARY REDOX, SOUTHWEST BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA

2:25-2:45

Benoit Vigneault, Bernard Hétu, Pascal Bernatchez

LITHOSTRATIGRAPHIC FRAMEWORK OF MAGDALEN ISLANDS (ÎLES DE LA MADELEINE), QUÉBEC, CANADA (student presenter)

2:45-3:05

Sarah E. Agosta, Bernard Lauriol, Denis Lacelle, Ian D. Clark, Jean Pierre Pozzi

CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC, GEOCHEMICAL AND GEOMAGNETIC PALEOINTENSITY RECORD OF A TERTIARY-AGE SPELEOTHEM, NORTHERN YUKON TERRITORY, CANADA (student presenter)

3:05-3:25

Paul T. Sanborn, Scott Smith Alejandra Duk-Rodkin, David Huntley, Jeffrey Bond

SOIL AND GEOMORPHIC EVIDENCE FOR A COMPLEX ORIGIN OF THE NAHANNI KARST LANDSCAPE, NORTHWEST TERRITORIES

3:25-3:45

John H. England, Mark F. A. Furze, Jonathon P. Doupé

REVISION OF THE NW LAURENTIDE ICE SHEET: IMPLICATIONS FOR PLAEOCLIMATE, THE NORTHEAST EXTREMITY OF BERINGIA, AND ARCTIC OCEAN SEDIMENTATION


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Friday D, May 8th (afternoon) ASSC 10081

 

General Session

1:40-1:45

Peter Bobrowsky

Session introduction

1:45-2:05

Michelle A. Hanson, Olav B. Lian, John J. Clague

OPTICALLY STIMULATED LUMINESCENCE DATING OF THE DRAINING AND REFILLING OF GLACIAL LAKE MISSOULA (student presenter)

2:05-2:25

Farrah Dell'Oste, Martin Roy, Michel Parent, Jean J. Veillette, Maxime Ménard

INSIGHTS ON THE EVENTS SURROUNDING THE DRAINAGE OF LAKE OJIBWAY BASED ON JAMES BAY LOWLANDS STRATIGRAPHIC SEQUENCES (student presenter)

2:25-2:45

I. Florin Pendea, Gail L. Chmura, Andre Costopoulos, Colin Nielsen

NEW SHORELINE DISPLACEMENT MODEL FOR THE LAST 7 KA FROM EASTERN JAMES BAY, NORTHERN QUÉBEC (student presenter)

2:45-3:05

Olivier Caron, Michel Lamothe, William W. Shilts

MIDWISCONSINAN SEDIMENTOLOGY, 3D STRATIGRAPHIC MAPPING AND PALEOGEOGRAPHY IN THE APPALACHIANS OF SOUTHEASTERN QUÉBEC (student presenter)

3:05-3:25

Olav B. Lian, John J. Clague

RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN THE UNDERSTANDING OF THE TIMING OF POSTGLACIAL FLUVIAL INCISION, FRASER RIVER VALLEY, SOUTH-CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA

3:25-3:45

 


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POSTER PRESENTATIONS: Monday, May 4 th , 4:05-6:00 pm

    Sedimentary processes and landscape evolution (Sponsored by CGRG)

  1. Leonora King : GEOMORPHIC SIGNIFICANCE OF LARGE WOODY DEBRIS IN STREAMS AFFECTED BY WILDFIRE AND MOUNTAIN PINE BEETLE IN THE SOURTHERN INTERIOR, BRITISH COLUMBIA (student presenter)
  2. Stephen A. Wolfe, Christopher H. Hugenholtz, Olav B. Lian, and John A. Westgate : TIMING AND RATES OF HOLOCENE EOLIAN DEPOSITION IN THE EASTERN CANADIAN ROCKIES: PRELIMINARY RESULTS
  3. Stephen DeCock, Chris Hugenholtz : RAPID STABILIZATION OF SAND DUNES IN THE MIDDLE SAND HILLS OF ALBERTA (1938-2005) (student presenter)
  4. Emily F. Helmer, Grahame A. Gielens, Ashleigh A. Gilbert, and Jonathan F. Hughes : INTERTIDAL SEDIMENTATION, PEAT ACCUMULATION, AND VEGETATION COMMUNITY ANALYSIS AT THE HEAD OF RIVERS INLET, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA (student presenter)

  5. Special Session in Honor of Bob Gilbert's Retirement in 2009 (Sponsored by CGRG)

  6. Kyle R. Hodder : THE EFFECT OF LOW LEVEL SALINITY ON RESUSPENDED LAKE SEDIMENTS
  7. Nicole A. Chow, Joseph R. Desloges, Sarah Finkelstein, Krish Chakraborty, Robert Gilbert : LATE GLACIAL AND HOLOCENE ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE INFERRED FROM SEDIMENTARY ARCHIVES OF KUSAWA LAKE, BOUNDARY RANGE MOUNTAINS, YUKON TERRITORY, CANADA (student presenter)

  8. Paleo-ice sheet dynamics

  9. Dale P. Hess, James Goodacre, John Menzies : HIGHLY STRAINED SUBGLACIAL DIAMICTON NEAR LOWBANKS , ONTARIO , CANADA
  10. Chris R. Stokes, Chris D. Clark, Robert Storrar : MAJOR CHANGES IN ICE STREAM DYNAMICS DURING DEGLACIATION OF THE NORTH-WESTERN MARGIN OF THE LAURENTIDE ICE SHEET
  11. Chris R. Stokes, Matteo Spagnolo, Chris D. Clark : A REVIEW OF THE INTERNAL STRUCTURE OF DRUMLINS
  12. P. Blundon, T. Bell, M. Batterson, D. Liverman : AN EVALUATION OF SRTM DIGITAL ELEVATION DATA FOR GLACIAL LANDFORM MAPPING IN NEWFOUNDLAND, CANADA (student presenter)

  13. General session

  14. Jan Bednarski, Alain Plouffe, Crystal A. Huscroft, and Shirley J. McCuaig : ELEMENTS OF SURFICIAL GEOLOGY AND GLACIAL HISTORY OF THE BONAPARTE LAKE MAP AREA
  15. Justine R. Cullen, Olav B. Lian : REINTERPRETATION OF A SIGNIFICANT LITHOSTRATIGRAPHIC UNIT RESTING ON THE LAST INTERGLACIATION MUIR POINT FORMATION, SOUTHWESTERN BRITISH COLUMBIA (student presenter)
  16. Jerome-Etienne Lesemann, Tracy A. Brennand, Olav B. Lian : RE-EXAMINATION OF A MIS 4 CORDILLERAN STRATOTYPE: OKANAGAN CENTRE SECTION, SOUTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA (student presenter)
  17. Adrian S. Hickin, Victor M. Levson, Olav B. Lian : CONSTRAINING THE TIMING OF CORDILLERAN AND LAURENTIDE ICE SHEETS SEPARATION AND THE INITIATION OF GLACIAL LAKE PEACE DURING THE LATE WISCONSINAN IN NORTHEAST B.C. (student presenter)
  18. Kennedy Munyikwa, James K. Feathers, Heather Shrimpton : CHRONOLOGICAL CONSTRAINTS ON THE LATE WISCONSINAN RETREAT OF THE LAURENTIDE ICE SHEET FROM WESTERN ALBERTA USING OSL AGES FROM POSTGLACIAL AEOLIAN DUNE SEQUENCES
  19. Patrick Lajeunesse, Guillaume St-Onge, Mathieu J. Duchesne, Hubert Gagné : A LATE PLEISTOCENE STRATIGRAPHIC MARKER IN THE ST. LAWRENCE ESTUARY AND GULF AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR A 400-M THICK QUATERNARY SEQUENCE
  20. Guillaume St-Jacques, Jean J. Veillette, Martin Roy, Serge Paradis : GLACIAL AND LATE-GLACIAL (COCHRANE) EVENTS IN THE COCHRANE AREA, NORTHEASTERN ONTARIO (student presenter)
  21. Philippe X. Normandeau, Michel Lamothe : LATE GLACIAL DRAINAGE HISTORY OF THE BEAUCE AREA, QUÉBEC (student presenter)
  22. Lev Tarasov, project members : THE MELTWATER ROUTING AND OCEAN-CRYOSPHERE-ATMOSPHERE RESPONSE (MOCA) PROJECT
  23. Donald Reichmuth : DID A GIGANTIC FRESHWATER ARCTIC LAKE TRIGGER MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE 2?
  24. Martin Margold, Krister Jansson : EVALUATION OF DATA SOURCES FOR MAPPING GLACIAL MELTWATER FEATURES (student presenter)

  25. Putting the Ecology Back into Paleoecology

  26. Alwynne B. Beaudoin : THE VALUE OF REFERENCE COLLECTIONS IN PALAEOECOLOGY
  27. Diana Tirlea, Rolf D. Vinebrooke, Alwynne B. Beaudoin : CLIMATE-MEDIATED TERRESTRIAL-AQUATIC LINKAGES IN SMALL ALPINE CATCHMENTS IN BANFF NATIONAL PARK, ALBERTA (student presenter)
  28. Simon J. Goring, Terri Lacourse, Marlow G. Pellatt, and Rolf W. Mathewes : HOW SENSITIVE ARE POLLEN-BASED CLIMATE MODELS TO LARGE-SCALE VEGETATION CHANGE? AN EXAMPLE FROM MARION LAKE, BRITISH COLUMBIA (student presenter)
  29. Alanna Krepakevich, Vera Pospelova : THE IMPACT OF SEWAGE DISCHARGE ON COASTAL BAYS OF SOUTHERN VANCOUVER ISLAND (BC, CANADA) REFLECTED IN PHYTOPLANKTON SEDIMENTARY RECORDS (student presenter)
  30. Svetlana Esenkulova, Vera Pospelova : DINOFLAGELLATE CYST PRODUCTION IN THE CENTRAL STRAIT OF GEORGIA (BC, CANADA) IN RESPONSE TO 1997-98 EL-NIÑO EVENT (student presenter)

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POSTER PRESENTATIONS: Thursday, May 7 th , 4:05-6:00 pm

    Beyond the Ice Sheets: New Records and Approaches to Beringia and the Unglaciated Fringes of North American Ice Sheets

  1. Svetlana Kuzmina, Duane Froese : ANDREI SHER –BERINGIAN SCIENTIST (1939-2008)
  2. Elizabeth Hall, John Storer, Duane Froese, Grant Zazula : LATE IRVINGTONIAN – EARLY RANCHOLABREAN MICROTINES IN THE LOWER OLD CROW BASIN, YUKON TERRITORY (student presenter)
  3. Martin Ross, Michel Lamothe, Bassam Ghaleb : DATING INTERGLACIAL SEDIMENTS AND ORGANICS FROM NORTHERN YUKON USING LUMINESCENCE AND U-SERIES METHODS
  4. Britta J. L. Jensen, Duane G. Froese : BIEDERMAN TEPHRA: A POTENTIAL MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE 7 MARKER HORIZON IN EASTERN BERINGIA (student presenter)
  5. Paul T. Sanborn, A. J. Timothy Jull : THE PEDOLOGICAL RECORD OF LOESS DEPOSITION, FIRE, AND SLOPE PROCESSES, KLUANE LAKE, YUKON TERRITORY
  6. Véronique Germain, Michel Lamothe, Duane Froese : TIMING AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SANDSHEETS DEPOSITION, YUKON RIVER, WESTERN YUKON
  7. Lesley Dampier, Paul Sanborn, John J. Clague, Jeff Bond, Scott Smith : SOIL GENESIS IN RELATION TO GLACIAL HISTORY, CENTRAL YUKON (student presenter)
  8. B. Lauriol, M. St-Jean, D. Lacelle, I.D. Clark, G. Zazula : DRAINAGE OF GLACIAL LAKE OLD CROW, INTRUSIVE ICE AND THAW LAKE DEVELOPMENT BETWEEN 19 AND 8 ka BP: EVIDENCE FROM THE EAGLE RIVER MELTWATER CHANNEL, NORTHERN YUKON, CANADA
  9. Richard J. Hebda, Kendrick L. Marr, Geraldine A. Allen : LIMITATIONS ON CORDILLERAN GLACIATION IN THE LATE PLEISTOCENE OF NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA: GEOMORPHIC, WEATHERING AND DNA EVIDENCE AT HIGH ELEVATIONS
  10. Michael Avery, Jacobo Weinstock, Duane G. Froese, and Beth Shapiro : GOING DEEP: RECOVERING THE POPULATION DYNAMIC HISTORY OF EASTERN BERINGIAN HORSES OVER MULTIPLE GLACIAL CYCLES (student presenter)
  11. Tyler S. Kuhn, Simon J. Goring , Arne Ø. Mooers : LATE QUATERNARY EXTINCTIONS AND THE SHAPE OF MAMMALIAN TREE OF LIFE (student presenter)

  12. General session

  13. Bobbi Bartek, Chris Hugenholtz : RIVER CHANNEL MIGRATION AND EROSION OF A NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE IN SOUTHERN ALBERTA (student presenter)
  14. Owen Brown, Chris Hugenholtz : AN EVALUATION OF TWO FIELD SURVEY TECHNOLOGIES FOR GEOMORPHOLOGICAL MAPPING: REAL-TIME KINEMATIC GPS VERSUS A ROBOTIC TOTAL STATION (student presenter)
  15. M. Catharine Woodfield, Jed Gregory : GIS STATISICAL ANALYSIS OF THE UPLAND MESAS AND BUTTES IN THE WIND RIVER MOUNTAIN RANGE, WYOMING
  16. Mark McNeil, Norm Catto : VULNERABILITY OF SELECTED BEACHES TO PETROLEUM CONTAMINATION, PLACENTIA BAY , NL
  17. Matthew N. Schumacher, Martin Ross, Anthony L. Endres : THREE-DIMENSIONAL SEDIMENTOLOGICAL AND HYDROSTRATIGRAPHICAL MAPPING OF COMPLEX AQUIFERS (student presenter)
  18. Norm Catto : AEOLIAN TRANSPORTATION EFFECTS ON MINERALOGY AND MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY IN LOESS

  19. Natural Hazards and Risk (Sponsored by the SFU Centre for Natural Hazard Research and CGRG)

  20. Thomas Buffin-Bélanger, Marie-Andrée Lelièvre, and François Morneau : THE STUDY OF FLUVIAL HAZARDS USING THE HYDROGEOMORPHOLOGICAL METHOD: AN ILLUSTRATED EXEMPLE FOR THE VALLEY OF RIVIÈRE-AU-RENARD, QUÉBEC
  21. Roger T.J. Phillips : TIGHTENING THE RIVER MEANDER-BELT: SOME PROBLEMS WITH PLANIMETRIC RIVER HAZARD ASSESSMENT IN POST-GLACIAL LANDSCAPES – AN EXAMPLE FROM HIGHLAND CREEK, ONTARIO (student presenter)
  22. Martin J. Batterson, Carmen Serpa, G. Keith Guzzwell : ASSESSING THE POTENTIAL FOR ARSENIC CONTAMINATION IN DRINKING WATER FROM PRIVATE GROUNDWATER WELLS, AVALON PENINSULA , NEWFOUNDLAND
  23. James I. McDonald, Brent C. Ward, Tom Millard : THE EFFECTS OF TIMBER HARVESTING AND WINDTHROW ON LANDSLIDE INITIATION ON VANCOUVER ISLAND, bc (student presenter)
  24. Grégoire Ledoux, Patrick Lajeunesse, Emmanuel Chapron, Guillaume St-Onge : MULTIBEAM BATHYMETRY OF LATE QUATERNARY MASS MOVEMENTS IN LAKE LE BOURGET, NW ALPS (FRANCE)
  25. Patrick Lajeunesse, Guillaume St-Onge, Bryan Sinkunas, Kevin Randall, Amélie Moreau-Labrecque : SEISMICALLY INDUCED MASS-MOVEMENTS IN LAC-JACQUES-CARTIER, EASTERN QUÉBEC
  26. Jan Bednarski, Garry Rogers : PALEOSEISMIC INVESTIGATIONS ON THE LEECH RIVER FAULT ZONE, SOUTHERN VANCOUVER ISLAND
  27. Ahren Bichler : ROCKFALL CATCHMENT FENCES AND AVALANCHE PROTECTION SYSTEMS: FLEXIBLE STRUCTURES FOR FLEXIBLE SOLUTIONS

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