Field Trips

Registration for 2008 Convention Field Trips is now CLOSED.

PRE-CONVENTION FIELD TRIPS

FTPRE01
Virgelle Member at Writing-on Stone Provincial Park, southern Alberta: Analogue for a Subsurface Exploration Target
Leaders: Rudi Meyer
Date: May 7 - 8, 2008
Trip Fee: $550
FTPRE02
Geological Walking Tour – The Building Rocks of Calgary
Leader: Bill Ayrton
Date: May 7, 2008
Trip Fee: $125
FTPRE03
Triassic Sedimentary Framework and Sequence Stratigraphy, Williston Lake, British Columbia
Leader: John-Paul Zonneveld, Ph.D.
Date: May 20-23 (*was previously scheduled May 6-9)
Trip Fee: $2,975 (Trip begins and ends in Fort St. John -- Airfare not included)

POST-CONVENTION FIELD TRIPS

FTPST01
Lower Tertiary Porcupine Hills (Paskapoo equivalent) Fluvial and Crevasse Splay Deposits
Leaders: Derald Smith & Peter Putnam
Date: May 16, 2008
Trip Fee: $375
FTPST02

Upper Cretaceous Shelf and Shoreface Sandstones:  Montana Outcrops and Alberta Basin Cores
Leaders: Peter Putnam & Derald Smith
Date: May 20 - 22, 2008
Trip Fee: $1,499
FTPST03
Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous deposits of northeast British Columbia: Exploring the Surface and Subsurface
Leaders: Godfried Wasser
Date: May 20 - 23, 2008
Trip Fee: $2,975 (Trip begins and ends in Fort St. John -- Airfare not included)
FTPST04
Major Dolostone Reservoir Types, Outcrops and Subsurface Analogues Western Canada: Distinct Types or Continuum?
Leaders: Graham Davies & Jack Wendte
Date: May 21 - 22, 2008
Trip Fee: $825
FTPST05
Geology of the Athabasca Oil Sands
Leaders: Mike Ranger & Murray Gingras
Date: May 26 - 28, 2008
Trip Fee: $1,950 (Trip begins and ends in Ft. McMurray -- Airfare not included)