Schedule

Fireside Chat with Minister Caitlin Cleveland Moderator: Kenny Ruptash

Chair: Seamus Daly (Aurora Research Institute) The Northwest Territories is experiencing rapid and cumulative environmental changes driven by climate, natural disturbances, and human activity. This session highlights research and monitoring that improves understanding of these changes and their implications for terrestrial, aquatic and atmospheric systems. By highlighting a range of research, monitoring, remediation and reclamation projects this session will explore strengths, emerging challenges and persistent issues in tracking and responding to environmental change in Northern Canada.

Chairs: Rebecca Canam (GNWT-NTGS) , Kayla Sanderson (GNWT-NTGS) & Gideon Lambiv Dzemua (GNWT-NTGS) This session will showcase a variety of mineral prospects in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut, summarise mineral-exploration activities that took place in both territories over the past year, and provide the latest results of geoscience research and mapping projects. Presenters are from government, academia, and industry.

Chairs: Ashley Rudy (GNWT-NTGS) & Alexandre Chiasson (GNWT-NTGS) Permafrost thaw is the main cause of climate-driven landscape change in the north and has a major effect on ecosystems and infrastructure. This session will showcase research that contributes to understanding the distribution of thaw-sensitive terrain across the north. This is critical to predict the future state of the environment and water resources of the Northwest Territories and for climate change adaptation planning. Data collection, processing, storage, and dissemination strategies are essential to effectively address permafrost thaw-related issues. This session will feature monitoring efforts across the NWT, data management and database development, and strategies to coordinate the workflows. We invite northerners, data generators, data users, and other permafrost practitioners to contribute to this session.

Moderator: Matt Spence Panelists:, Darrell Beaulieu (Denendeh Investment), MLA Danny McNeely

Moderator: April Hayward (Li-FT Power) JoAnne Deneron (MVEIRB) Mark Cliffe-Phillips (MVEIRB) Tanya MacIntosh (MVLWB) Chris Hotson (MVLWB) Violet Camsell-Blondin (TG) Nathalie Oldfield (GNWT ECC)

Chair: Seamus Daly (Aurora Research Institute) The Northwest Territories is experiencing rapid and cumulative environmental changes driven by climate, natural disturbances, and human activity. This session highlights research and monitoring that improves understanding of these changes and their implications for terrestrial, aquatic and atmospheric systems. By highlighting a range of research, monitoring, remediation and reclamation projects this session will explore strengths, emerging challenges and persistent issues in tracking and responding to environmental change in Northern Canada

Chairs: Rebecca Canam (GNWT-NTGS) , Kayla Sanderson (GNWT-NTGS) & Gideon Lambiv Dzemua (GNWT-NTGS) This session will showcase a variety of mineral prospects in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut, summarise mineral-exploration activities that took place in both territories over the past year, and provide the latest results of geoscience research and mapping projects. Presenters are from government, academia, and industry.

Chairs: Ashley Rudy (GNWT-NTGS) & Alexandre Chiasson (GNWT-NTGS) Permafrost thaw is the main cause of climate-driven landscape change in the north and has a major effect on ecosystems and infrastructure. This session will showcase research that contributes to understanding the distribution of thaw-sensitive terrain across the north. This is critical to predict the future state of the environment and water resources of the Northwest Territories and for climate change adaptation planning. Data collection, processing, storage, and dissemination strategies are essential to effectively address permafrost thaw-related issues. This session will feature monitoring efforts across the NWT, data management and database development, and strategies to coordinate the workflows. We invite northerners, data generators, data users, and other permafrost practitioners to contribute to this session.

Lunch 11:30-12:30 | AGM 12:15-13:30

Buffets will be set up to accommodate our 600 delegates! Delegates are encouraged to eat and then browse the trade show to make space for everyone to sit down and eat.

Regional Mapping of Permafrost and Ground Ice Using Airborne Electromagnetic (AEM) Data from the Central Mackenzie Valley and Inuvik-Tuktoyaktuk Corridors, NWT Presented by Duane G. Froese, Professor, Faculty of Science - Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Duane Froese is a Professor in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences and Director of the Permafrost Archives Laboratory at the University of Alberta. He has worked in northern Canada for nearly 30 years, leading research in understanding past permafrost and recent changes. His research group carries out collaborative work with northern communities and governments, strengthening the practical applications of permafrost research. His group focuses their work regionally in the Sahtu region and the Mackenzie Delta. Over the last 4 years, he has led the Transport Canada National Trade and Corridors Fund project: Airborne Electromagnetic mapping of permafrost and ground hazards in northwestern Canada that will be the focus of the presentation.

Gerald Panneton Chairman and CEO

Matthew Breen, Chief Operating Officer

Kevin Gostlin, Mine General Manager

Chair: Niels Weiss (GNWT-NTGS) This specialised poster session is designed to provide an informal presentation and discussion opportunity. The Soapbox session combines oral and poster presentation styles.

This poster session provides an informal opportunity for presenting researchers and delegates to engage in discussion, ask questions, and delve into topics at varying levels of detail.

A Public Lecture Sponsored by the Northwest Territories and Nunavut Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists (NAPEG). Is the North Hot Enough? Geothermal Energy from the Ground for People Living on the Territory Presented by Jasmin Raymond, P. Geo., Ph.D.Chair holder of the Institut nordique du Québec and granted by UNESCO Jasmin Raymond, interested by heat transfer applied to Earth Sciences, Professor Raymond is a hydrogeologist conducting research on geoenergy systems at the Institut national de la recherche scientifique in Québec City. His research involves very low to high temperature geothermal resources, natural hydrogen and underground storage of green hydrogen, with projects from the arctic to the tropics, helping to develop sustainable energy solutions. Chair holder of the Institut nordique du Québec and granted by UNESCO, Professor Raymond leads the Laboratoire ouvert de géothermie to characterise thermophyscial properties of rocks essential to model geoenergy systems of all kinds. The main objective of his projects is to improve the efficiency and profitability of geoenergy systems by providing scientific and social innovations.