Atlantic Geoscience Society Colloquium 2025

Welcome to the 51st Atlantic Geoscience Society Colloquium!

The organizing committee is happy to welcome you to the 2025 AGS Colloquium!

The 2025 AGS Colloquium will be held at the Delta Hotel in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, February 7-8th, 2025.

Registration is open on Fourwaves in the Registration tab. Abstracts are to be submitted on Fourwaves in the Abstract Submission tab.

Expanded information on Special Sessions and Workshops can be found on the AGS Colloquium 2025 website.

Important Dates

7 January: deadline for nominations for Gesner Medal, Laing Ferguson Award, Nelly Koziel Award

8 January: last day to apply for student travel grants

8 January: last day for hotel block booking

10 January: early registration rate ends

10 January: last day to submit abstracts

31 January: last day to purchase Luncheon & Banquet tickets

31 January: last day to register for Workshop/Short Course

After January 31st there are no refunds for registration or meals.

Accommodation & Travel

Accommodations at the Delta Hotel are being held in a booking block for $149-189 (standard to king suite, includes free parking) until January 8th, whereupon they will be released. After January 8th availability at the hotel cannot be guaranteed. To receive conference rates, please indicate when booking that you are part of the Atlantic Geoscience Society. The hotel is located at 240 Brownlow Avenue, Dartmouth NS. Reservations can be made by calling 902-468-8888 or using this link Delta Hotel website.

Special note for students travelling long distances: The AGS Student Travel Grant has been established to enable up to 4 students to attend and present at the AGS Annual Colloquium. Application details are on the AGS Colloquium 2025 website.

Abstract Submission

At this point we invite you to consider submitting an abstract for the Colloquium using the Fourwaves system (Abstract Submission tab at the top). The deadline for submission of abstracts is Friday January 10^th, 2025. Abstracts will be submitted via the Fourwaves system which will have sections for all the required inputs (authors, affiliations, text body, etc.). For ease of preparation, we recommend preparing your abstract in a word processing program, then copying information into Fourwaves. Please note abstract text body is limited to 300 words. Please indicate in the required section whether it is for (a) poster or oral presentation, (b) which special session, (c) if you are an undergraduate or graduate student.

Presentations will be in-person only and 20 minutes total: 15 minutes to present and 5 minutes for questions.

Your abstract will only be officially accepted after you register for the Colloquium.