Registrants participated in:

Thursday night mixer at the University U-Club
Friday Field trips to
- (1) The Story Beneath the Scenery - Going Back in Time in the Wolfville Area
  - Join Acadia professor Sandra Barr for a field trip that begins in the morning in the late Triassic, looking for amethyst and zeolite minerals along the shore of the Bay of Fundy in the Scots Bay limestone/chert and North Mountain basalt, and continues into the early Triassic by searching for evidence of gypsum and salt crystals in playa lake deposits of the Cape Blomidon area and for evidence of early dinosaurs in the river deposits of the underlying Wolfville Formation. The afternoon stops will take you down through the early Paleozoic of the enigmatic Meguma terrane, including Devonian granite of the South Mountain Batholith and the lower Paleozoic rocks that it intruded, including quartzite and graptolite-bearing metasiltstone and slate.
- (2) South Shore of Nova Scotia geology (NOW FULL)
  - Join Acadia adjunct professor John Waldron for a field trip down to the picturesque south shore. This trip will dominantly explore the most outboard component of the Appalachian mountains: the Meguma terrane. Visit the Ovens Provincial Park, where panning for gold can enrich your minds while also enriching your bank account. The trip will continue through the Halifax and Goldenville Groups exposed from Green Bay to Lunenburg. The trip will examine the effect of contact metamorphism on rocks of the Halifax Group as a result of the intrusion of the South Mountain Batholith.
- (3) Surficial features and geohazards around the Annapolis Valley
  - Join Acadia professors Mo Snyder and Aaron Taylor as we trek around the Annapolis Valley looking for (or avoiding) cliffs, hills, and valleys. The day will start at Kingsport Beach, where coastal erosion and archaeological materials abound in equal measure. We will then venture up to Medford to get an overall view of the Annapolis Valley. The afternoon will be investigating evaporite-related geohazards associated with the Carboniferous Windsor Group. These spectacular features are exposed on river banks, roadsides, and in quarries. We will then travel to Irishmans Road Recreation Site and take a scenic hike in-and-around more sinkholes than any one person could count.
Friday Challenge Bowl at the Lions Club in Wolfville
- CSEG sponsors this fast-paced Jeopardy-style geoscience/geophysics-based quiz game
- Groups of two are invited to compete for two chances for an expense-paid trip to Calgary to compete in the national Challenge Bowl competition during Geoconvention in May 2023
Saturday talk and poster session at the KC Irving Centre
- Lunch speaker Carla Skinner P.Geo
Saturday evening banquet at Fountain Commons
- Banquet speakers Dr. John Waldron and Sydney Lancaster

Early-bird registration ended October 14 (students $60, professionals $75). After October 14 the registration cost was $75 for students and $90 for professionals.

4:00 PM

Arrive at Old Orchard Inn

7:00 PM

Conference Registration and Mixer