Atlantic Geoscience Society Abstracts: 44th Annual Colloquium & General Meeting 2018

The 2018 Colloquium & Annual General Meeting was held at the Holiday Inn, Truro, Nova Scotia, on February 2nd and 3rd. On behalf of the society, we thank Colloquium organizers Robert Raeside and Chris White, as well the numerous student volunteers and judges, for facilitating an excellent meeting with about 100 submitted abstracts. AGS acknowledges support from the corporate sponsors and partners of the meeting: Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources, Nova Scotia Department of Energy, Atlantic Gold, Nova Scotia Geoscientists, Geological Association of Canada, New Brunswick Department of Energy and Resources, Dexter Construction, and Acadia University. In the following pages, we are pleased to publish the abstracts of oral and poster presentations from the meeting on a variety of topics. The meeting included several sessions: (1) Rocks, Maps, and Tectonic Models; (2) Advances in Assessing Arctic Geohazards; (3) Records of Environmental Change from the Atlantic Provinces and Beyond; (4) Basin-forming Processes during Supercontinent Assembly: New insights from the Devono–Permian Record of Atlantic Canada; (5) The Meguma Terrane: its place in the Appalachian Orogen and Beyond; (6) Paleontology and Sedimentology in the Maritimes and Beyond; (7) AGS Outreach Innovations: Past, Present and Future; (8) Methane Emissions from Legacy Fossil Fuel Sites in the Maritimes; (9) Petroleum Geoscience on the Atlantic Margin; (10) Techniques in Earth Science; and a general session (11) on Igneous rocks, Mineralogy and Mineral Deposits. Also included with the conference were two full-day workshops: (1) Your Career and Public Reporting A QP short course for students (and others) by Amy Tizzard and sponsored by Geoscientists Nova Scotia and (2) Subsurface Methods how to use and interpret drill-hole data and other subsurface data for both industry and academia by Robin Adair, outgoing president of the AGS. The guest speaker at Saturday evening’s banquet and social was Deanne van Rooyen (Cape Breton University) who gave an entertaining talk entitled “Folds, furs, and flies: adventures in northern research” about her exploits in northern Quebec and Labrador.