Tuesday, 21 October 2014: 9:00 AM-6:30 PM
Vancouver Convention Centre-West Exhibition Hall C
GSA Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology Division; GSA Planetary Geology Division; GSA Environmental and Engineering Geology Division; GSA Geology and Society Division

 

Jerome-Etienne Lesemann, Steven Pawley and Hazen A.J. Russell, Advocates
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LIDAR AND LANDSAT BASED MAPPING OF PEATLAND AND PERMAFROST TERRAIN USING OBJECT-BASED CLASSIFICATION, NORTHEAST ALBERTA
PAWLEY, Steven, Alberta Geological Survey, 402 Twin Atria Building, 4999-98 Avenue, Edmonton, AB T6B 2X3, Canada, Steven.Pawley@aer.ca and UTTING, Daniel, Alberta Geological Survey, 402 Twin Atria Building, 4999-98 Avenue, Edmonton, AB T6B 2X3, Canada
QUANTITATIVE MAPPING OF ESKERS USING DEM AND MULTISPECTRAL DATA
BROSCOE, David, Algonquin College, Ottawa, ON K2G1V8, Canada and RUSSELL, Hazen A.J., Geological Survey of Canada, 601 Booth Street, Ottawa, ON K1A 0E8, Canada, Hazen.Russell@NRCan-RNCan.gc.ca
AUTOMATIC CHARACTERIZATION OF LUNAR IMPACT CRATER DEGRADATION
MAHANTI, Prasun1, ROBINSON, Mark S.2, and STELLING, Richard2, (1) School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, pmahanti.lroc@gmail.com, (2) School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University, PO Box 871404, Tempe, AZ 85287-1404
A NEW METHOD FOR THE SEMI-AUTOMATED MAPPING OF DRUMLINS AND MEGA-SCALE GLACIAL LINEATIONS
JORGE, Marco G. and BRENNAND, Tracy A., Department of Geography, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6, Canada, mjorge@sfu.ca
THE FUTURE OF AUTOMATED DRILL CORE LOGGING: CHARACTERIZING KIMBERLITE DILUTION BY CRUSTAL MATERIAL AT THE SNAP LAKE DIAMOND MINE (NT, CANADA) USING SWIR (1.90-2.36 µM) AND LWIR (8.1-11.1 µM) HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERY
TAPPERT, Michelle C.1, RIVARD, Benoit1, ROGGE, Derek2, FULOP, Alexandrina3, FENG, Jilu1, TAPPERT, Ralf4, and STALDER, Roland4, (1) Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2E3, Canada, michelle.tappert@ualberta.ca, (2) German Remote Sensing Data Center, DLR, Wessling, 82234, Germany, (3) DeBeers Canada, Toronto, ON M3C 3G8, (4) Institute of Mineralogy & Petrography, Universität Innsbruck, Innsbruck, A-6020, Austria
AUTOMATIC SELECTION OF KNICKPOINTS IN LONGITUDINAL RIVER PROFILES USING  OPEN-SOURCE R SCRIPT AND A COMBINATION OF NORMALIZED STEEPNESS, SMOOTHED SLOPE, AND SUM OF THE DIFFERENCES
HILL, Jesse S., Department of Geological Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Mitchell Hall, Campus Box 3315, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, hilljs@live.unc.edu and STEWART, Kevin G., Department of Geological Sciences, Univ of North Carolina, 122 Mitchell Hall, CB 3315, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3315
REMOTE PREDICTIVE MAPPING OF SURFICIAL GEOLOGY USING RANDOM FOREST CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHMS: EXAMPLES FROM NORTHERN CANADA
LESEMANN, Jerome-Etienne, Department of Earth Sciences, Vancouver Island University, 900 Fifth Street, Nanaimo, BC V9R 5S5, Canada, Jerome.Lesemann@viu.ca, PARKINSON, William, Open Spatial Solutions, Ottawa, ON K1Y 4M2, Canada, and RUSSELL, Hazen A.J., Geological Survey of Canada, 601 Booth Street, Ottawa, ON K1A 0E8, Canada
1:24,000 SCALE MAPPING REVEALS DYNAMIC AND CLIMATIC LANDFORMS RIDING A KINEMATIC WAVE ALONG THE BURNT RIVER, BAKER COUNTY, NORTHEAST OREGON
MORRISS, Matthew C., Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, mcmorri3@ncsu.edu, WEGMANN, Karl, Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, and VEZIE, Claire, Department of Geology, Whitman College, 345 Boyer Avenue, Walla Walla, WA 99362
ASSESSING THE LOCATION OF GLACIAL LAKE AGASSIZ DURING THE MOORHEAD PHASE WITH COMPACTION RIDGES
DILWORTH, John, Dept. Environmental Sciences, University of Toledo, 2801 West Bancroft Street MS #604, Toledo, OH 43606, john.dilworth@rockets.utoledo.edu and FISHER, Timothy G., Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH 43606
HIGH RESOLUTION DIGITAL MAPPING AND GEOMORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF THE MOUNT MEAGER ROCK-DEBRIS AVALANCHE (BC, CANADA)
ROBERTI, Gioachino1, CLAGUE, John2, FRIELE, Pierre A.3, GIARDINO, Marco4, MASERA, Diego1, PEROTTI, Luigi5, and VAN WYK DE VRIES, Benjamin6, (1) Earth Sciences Department, University of Torino, Via Valperga Caluso 35, Torino, 10125, Italy, (2) Earth Sciences, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, BC V5A1S6, Canada, (3) Cordilleran Geoscience, Consultant, Squamish, BC, Squamish, BC V8B 0A5, Canada, (4) Earth Sciences, University of Torino, Torino, I-10125, Italy, (5) Earth Sciences Department, University of Torino, Via Valperga Caluso 35, Torino, 10090, Italy, luigi.perotti@unito.it, (6) Laboratoire Magmas et Volcans, University Blaise Pascal, 5 rue Kessler, Clermont-Ferrand, 63038, France
GEOMORPHOLOGY AND GEOMATICS FOR THE STUDY OF LANDFORMS AND DEPOSITS RELATED TO THE FLIMS AND TAMINS LANDSLIDES (RHEIN VALLEY, SWITZERLAND)
MASERA, Diego1, CALHOUN, Nancy2, CLAGUE, John3, GIARDINO, Marco4, PEROTTI, Luigi5, POSCHINGER, Andrea6, and ROBERTI, Gioachino1, (1) Earth Sciences Department, University of Torino, Via Valperga Caluso 35, Torino, 10125, Italy, (2) Earth Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC V5A 1S6, Canada, (3) Earth Sciences, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, BC V5A1S6, Canada, (4) Earth Sciences, University of Torino, Torino, I-10125, Italy, marco.giardino@unito.it, (5) Earth Sciences Department, University of Torino, Via Valperga Caluso 35, Torino, 10090, Italy, (6) Bavarian Environment Agency, Augsburg, D-86179, Germany
3D PHOTOGRAMMETRIC MODELING OF GLACIAL SAND AND GRAVEL DEPOSITS IN A METROPOLITAN AREA
MIAO, Xiaodong, STOHR, Christopher, and THOMASON, Jason F., Illinois State Geological Survey, Prairie Research Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 615 E. Peabody Dr, Champaign, IL 61820, miao@illinois.edu
DISCRIMINATING DESERT PAVEMENTS, CRUSTS, AND OTHER MORPHO-CLIMATIC SURFACES WITH MULTI-TEMPORAL THERMAL AND VISIBLE TO NEAR-INFRARED REMOTE SENSING OBSERVATIONS
LOMELI-URIBE, Erika A., Department of Geoscience, University of Nevada Las Vegas, 4505 S. Maryland Pkwy, Las Vegas, NV 89122, lomelie@unlv.nevada.edu
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