Atlantic Universities Geoscience Conference
2024 Award Winners
The 2024 Atlantic Universities Geoscience Conference (AUGC) was held October 24 to October 26, at Dalhousie University.
Atlantic Geoscience Society (AGS) Environmental Geoscience Award
Oral Presentation
Hayley Newell
Acadia University
Mercury in Soil Horizons from Southwestern Nova Scotia: Relationships with Vegetative Bioindicators and Mineralogy
Canadian Energy Geoscience Association (CEGA) Award
Oral Presentation
Tess Gates-Flaherty
Acadia University
The taxa world sure can be taxing! Creating an open-source Windsor Group fossil database
Canadian Society of Exploration Geophysicists (CSEG) Award
Oral Presentation
Abbey Smith
Acadia University
"Get off my lawn”: Coastal erosion in Hantsport, NS
Imperial Oil Best Poster Award
Poster Presentation
Gabriela Fuentes Waye
Saint Mary's University
Timing of Mafic Magmatism and Nature of Metasomatism at Clarke Head, NS
Science Atlantic Best Paper Award
Oral Presentation
Brooke Reid
Dalhousie University
Carboniferous Sarcopterygian Fish Fossils and the Marine Paleoenvironment at Joggins Fossils Cliffs, Nova Scotia, Canada
The Frank S. Shea Memorial Award
Oral Presentation
Tiernan Davies
Acadia University
Geology and economic mineral potential of the central Jeffers block, Cobequid Highlands, Nova Scotia, Canada
Previous Award Winners
2023 Earth Science Award Winners
The 2023 Atlantic Universities Geoscience Conference (AUGC) was held October 19 to 21, at the Memorial University of Newfoundland
Atlantic Universities Geological Conference 2022 Award Winners
The 72nd Atlantic Universities Geological Conference (AUGC) was held October 27 to 29, 2022, at Acadia University
AUGC 2022 Award Winners
The 72nd Atlantic Universities Geological Conference (AUGC) was held October 27 to 29, 2022, at Acadia University
Thank you to our generous conference sponsors!
Science Atlantic Best Paper Award
Claire Gullison
University of New Brunswick,
Fredericton
Microplastic in Beach Sediment from Marys Point, Shepody National Wildlife Area, Southeast New Brunswick
Imperial Oil
Best Poster Award
Leila Rashid
Saint Mary's University
Documenting Recent Human Influences Using Remote Sensing Techniques on the Tekes River Alluvial Fan, Xinjiang, China
Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists (CSPG) Award
Nikita Lakhanpal
Saint Mary's University
Survey of Porewater Geochemistry within Deep Marine Hydrocarbon Seep Sediments of the Scotian Slope, Canada
The Frank S. Shea Memorial Award
in Economic Geology
Taylor Mugford
Memorial University of Newfoundland
Mineralogy of the Boundary Volcanogenic Massive Sulfide (VMS) Deposit of the Tally Pond Group, Victoria Lake Supergroup, Newfoundland Appalachians
The Canadian Society of Exploration
Geophysicists (CSEG) Award
Megan MacDonald
Dalhousie University
Machine-learning Focal Mechanism Inversion for Hydraulic Fracking-induced Earthquakes
Atlantic Geoscience Society (AGS)
Environmental Geoscience Award
Julianna Whelan
Memorial University of Newfoundland
Methane Flux, Source, and Lipid Biomarkers of Serpentinite-hosted Groundwater Springs at Contrasting Sites of Terrestrial Serpentinization