Atlantic Universities Geoscience Conference
2023 Award Winners
The 2023 Atlantic Universities Geoscience Conference (AUGC) was held October 19 to 21, at the Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Review the conference program and abstracts.
Science Atlantic Best Paper Award
Oral Presentation
Abigail Kennedy
Memorial University of Newfoundland
Mapping and petrographic analysis of the gold bearing rocks beyond the known deposit zone - Marathon Gold
Frank S. Shea Memorial Award in Economic or Applied Geology
Oral Presentation
Gabriela Fuentes Waye
Saint Mary's University
Timing and structural controls on mineralization in the Prairie Creek zinc-lead-silver deposit, Northwest Territories
Imperial Oil Best Poster Award
Poster Presentation
Hayley Newell
Acadia University
MeHg and THg concentrations of Hawaiian invertebrates and surface soils: potential volcanogenic influence
Atlantic Geoscience Society (AGS) Environmental Geoscience Award
Oral Presentation
Lauren Kew
Dalhousie University
Reconstructing changes in the Northwest Atlantic 14C depth gradient using deep water bamboo corals
Canadian Energy Geoscience Association (CEGA) Award
(Formerly known as the Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists (CSPG) Award)
Poster Presentation
Kira Evans
Memorial University of Newfoundland
Building the foundation for a 3D offshore model of Newfoundland
Previous Award Winners
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
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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