Rocky Mountain Section - 69th Annual Meeting - 2017

	WEDNESDAY 7 June	THURSDAY 8 June		FRIDAY 9 June		SATURDAY 10 June		SUNDAY 11 June
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Discipline Sessions				Earth and Planetary Science (Posters) 9:00 AM-6:30 PM Paleontology and Paleoecology (Posters) 9:00 AM-6:30 PM	Luncheon Talk: Victor R. Baker, High-Energy Megafloods and Ice Sheets 12:20 PM-1:20 PM		Luncheon Talk: Jeffrey T. Freymueller, Earthscope: Accomplishments, Legacy, and Future Opportunities 12:20 PM-1:20 PM
Other Events	CANCELED- FT3. Effects of Sedimentology and Facies on Structural Styles in the Canadian Rocky Mountain Fold and Thrust Belt: 7–8 June 7:30 AM-11:55 PM FT4. Late Cretaceous Geology and Fossils of Dinosaur Provincial Park: 7–8 June 7:30 AM-11:55 PM	FT11. New Looks at Old Paradigms—Semi-Radical Interpretations of Geomorphology and Cenozoic Rocks and Sediments in the Red Deer River Valley: 8 June 7:00 AM-7:30 PM CANCELED- FT1. Hot and Cold Running Water in the Canadian Rockies: 8 June 7:30 AM-5:00 PM CANCELED- W4. Using Virtual Field Experiences (VFEs) to Enhance Learning in Undergraduate Geology Courses 8:00 AM-1:00 PM CANCELED. W1. Clastic Sedimentology Workshop— Applications and Examples from the Energy Industry (Students, K–12 Teachers, and Geoscience Educators) 8:00 AM-6:00 PM	W2. Digital Field Methods for Sed/Strat and Structural Geology: Use of Tablet-Based Apps for Mapping and Measurements in Undergraduate Courses 1:00 PM-5:00 PM Registration 4:00 PM-7:00 PM Exhibits Set-up 5:00 PM-7:00 PM Welcome Reception 5:00 PM-7:00 PM Speaker Ready Room 5:30 PM-7:00 PM Official Opening and Evening Address 7:00 PM-8:00 PM Social Event 8:00 PM-10:00 PM	Registration 7:30 AM-4:30 PM Speaker Ready Room 8:00 AM-5:30 PM Geoscience Career Workshop Part 1: Career Planning and Informational Interviewing 9:00 AM-10:00 AM Exhibits Open 9:00 AM-6:30 PM Geoscience Career Workshop Part 2: Geoscience Career Exploration 10:00 AM-11:00 AM	Roy J. Shlemon Mentor Program in Applied Geoscience Luncheon 12:00 PM-1:30 PM Lunchtime Keynote Address 12:20 PM-1:20 PM Poster Session Social 4:35 PM-6:30 PM Picnic and Hikes 7:00 PM-9:00 PM	Registration 7:30 AM-2:00 PM Speaker Ready Room 8:00 AM-2:00 PM Geoscience Career Workshop Part 3: Cover Letters, Resumes and CVs 9:00 AM-10:00 AM Exhibits Open 9:00 AM-6:30 PM	John Mann Mentors in Applied Hydrogeology Program Luncheon 12:00 PM-1:30 PM Lunchtime Keynote Address 12:20 PM-1:20 PM Rocky Mountain Business Meeting 2:00 PM-4:00 PM Poster Session Social, and Student Awards 4:35 PM-6:30 PM Exhibits Tear-down 6:00 PM-7:30 PM	CANCELED- FT10. Canadian Rocky Mountain Fold and Thrust Belt for Geoscience Educators: 11 June 7:30 AM-6:30 PM FT9. Montney Analogue Field Trip: The Sulphur Mountain Formation around Canmore and Kananaskis: 11 June 7:30 AM-6:30 PM FT5. Biota, Brines, Sandstones and Mines: Geology of the Early-Mid Cambrian of the Canadian Southern Rocky Mountains: 11–12 June 7:30 AM-11:55 PM FT7. Geology of the Waterton-Glacier National Parks Area: 11–13 June 7:30 AM-11:55 PM FT8. Evidence for Catastrophic Subglacial Processes across Alberta, and a refined Deglacial Chronology in the Zone of the Purported Ice-Free Corridor: 11– 12 June 7:30 AM-11:55 PM CANCELED- FT6. Carbon Capture and Storage: A Trip to Visit Past and Recent Changing Environments in Alberta’s Plains and Shell’s World-Leading Quest CCS Project: 11–13 June 8:00 AM-11:55 PM W5. Virtual Geological Tours—3-dimensional Geological Modeling of Outcrops utilizing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles 8:30 AM-12:30 PM W3. Planning for the future of the Canadian Cordillera Array and EarthsCAN 8:30 AM-4:30 PM
Theme Sessions				Proterozoic Evolution of Western North America 9:00 AM-12:10 PM Revisiting Marginal Marine Environments through the Integration of Paleontology, Paleoecology, and Process Sedimentology 9:00 AM-12:10 PM Proterozoic Evolution of Western North America (Posters) 9:00 AM-6:30 PM The Cambrian of Western Laurentia (Posters) 9:00 AM-6:30 PM Geothermal Systems in the Thrust Belt and Adjacent Areas (Posters) 9:00 AM-6:30 PM Characterization of Fine-Grained Unconventional Plays (Posters) 9:00 AM-6:30 PM	The Cambrian of Western Laurentia I 1:30 PM-4:40 PM Characterization of Fine-Grained Unconventional Plays 1:30 PM-4:40 PM Using the Rocky Mountains as a Natural Laboratory for Teaching the ‘What’ and the ‘How’ of Geology 1:30 PM-4:40 PM	From Earthscope to EarthsCAN and the Canadian Cordillera Array 9:00 AM-12:10 PM Cretaceous Stratigraphy of the North American Foreland 9:00 AM-12:10 PM From Earthscope to EarthsCAN and the Canadian Cordillera Array (Posters) 9:00 AM-6:30 PM Cretaceous Stratigraphy of the North American Foreland (Posters) 9:00 AM-6:30 PM Tertiary and Quaternary Landscapes (Posters) 9:00 AM-6:30 PM	The Cambrian of Western Laurentia II 1:30 PM-4:40 PM Tertiary and Quaternary Landscapes 1:30 PM-4:40 PM