Please see below for the final speaker line-up & schedule for this week’s symposium.
DATE: Tuesday November 26th
LOCATION: St John’s College, UBC – Social Lounge (2111 Lower Mall)
| Time | Speaker | Topic |
| 8:00 – 8:30 | Coffee&Tea | Registration |
| 8:30 – 8:40 | Opening remarks | |
| 8:40 – 9:10 | Ken Witherly | Porphyry Copper |
| 9:10-9:40 | Nathan Hayward | Geophysical investigations and tectonic reconstruction of IOCG occurrences: Great Bear magmatic zone, NT |
| 9:40 – 10:10 | Mika McKinnon | Science in Fiction: the role of science consultants in the film industry |
| 10:10- 10:30 | Break | |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Sean Walker | Sensitivity vs Resolution in Geophysical Inversion |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Magdel Combrinck | Developing an efficient modelling and data presentation strategy for ATDEM system choice and survey design |
| 11:30 – 12:00 | John McGaughey | Virtual Geo-Teams – The challenges of building multidisciplinary exploration teams outside large companies |
| 12:00 – 12:15 | Discussion | |
| 12:15- 1:15 | Lunch | |
| 1:15 – 1:45 | Thomas Wade | Recent AEM case study examples using a Full Waveform time-domain system for hydrogeology and mineral exploration |
| 1:45 – 2:15 | Greg Hodges | MULTIPULSETM EM: Increasing the Sensitivity of Airborne TDEM |
| 2:15-2:45 | Dave Hildes | ELF – a new ground EM system |
| 2:45 – 3:00 | Break | |
| 3:00 – 3:30 | Casey Vandenberg | Open source GIS software and its applicability to geophysics |
| 3:30 – 4:00 | Vicki Thomson | Unmanned Airborne System Opportunities for Volume Determination of Coal Stockpiles |
| 4:00 – 4:30 | Discussion | |
| 4:30 – 5:30 | Social Hour at Mahoney’s & Sons |
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