Poster Session (November 09, 2009)

The Mineral Exploration Roundup Poster Session highlights the activity and results of public geoscience and geoscience research activities, with a particular focus on British Columbia and the Cordillera. It features the results of geological mapping, economic geology studies and new ideas, new technologies, and access to geoscience databases. Government and university related database systems and information, such as those found on the MapPlace.ca and other geoscience sites, are available live.

Approximately 90 posters highlighting results from projects of the BC Geological Survey, Geological Survey of Canada, and Geoscience BC are the main attraction as well as research results from numerous university researchers, particularly students.

This session is particularly designed for one-on- one discussions and information exchange with those geoscientists most familiar with the geology and working within your area of interest. There will be posters presenting geological, geophysical, and geochemical surveys from across the Cordillera, including: bedrock and surficial geoscience surveys in British Columbia from within the Mountain Pine Beetle impacted zone; geological mapping surveys from BC’s north coast, Northern Vancouver Island, and many parts of southern British Columbia (e. g. Quesnel Arc, Kootenays, Purcell Basin, Princeton area), southern Yukon (e. g. Kluane, McQuesten, and Windy McKinley Terrane) and western NWT (Mt. Eduni); research on a wide variety of deposit types across the highly varied geology of the Cordillera.

Yukon-related posters from the Yukon Geological Survey will be displayed in the Yukon Room. The main focus of the poster session is the Canadian Cordillera but topics of national and international interest are included as space allows.

New for 2010, work of high school geology students will be displayed during the poster session. BC’s Geology 12 high school course is very similar to Geology 101 at university.

This year Ms. Jennifer Artibise’s Geology 12 students from West Vancouver Secondary School have been invited to display their projects in the main exhibit hall at Mineral Exploration Roundup on Monday, January 18. They will be joined that day by students from other secondary schools to explore careers in our industry at Roundup.

For more information please contact Marianne Quat at RoundupPosters@nrcan.gc.ca or 604.666.2550.