Acadia Hosts AUGC 2010
AUGC 2010 - Acadia University
The Fletcher Geology Club and Department
of Earth and Environmental Science hosted the 60th Annual Atlantic
Universities Geological Conference (AUGC) on Oct. 28-30th. The conference was attended by approximately
85 students from Acadia, Dalhousie, Memorial, Saint Mary's, Saint Francis
Xavier, and UNB. In addition to social
events, the conference included three different field trips led by Acadia
professors on Friday and student presentations on Saturday, including 18 oral
presentations - the most ever at an AUGC - and seven posters. At the closing banquet on Saturday evening, Acadia
honours geology student Nor Afiqah Mohamad Radzi was awarded the Imperial Oil best
poster prize for her poster on her honours thesis research entitled
"Petrography of stratigraphic units in the subsurface in the Phetchabun Basin,
Thailand", supervised by Dr. Sandra Barr. For a more complete report on the conference
visit this page.
Nor Afiqah Mohamad Radzi receiving the Imperial Oil poster award from Sarah Trend of Imperial Oil Resources, St. John's, NL.