Rockfest Talks
Rockfest is going virtual!
The traditional Friday afternoon event will continue in the 3:00 to 4:00 pm time slot bringing members of the Department of Earth Sciences together to share knowledge and research. Talks are 15 to 20 minutes.
Are you interested in giving a talk? Send an email to Rockfest organizer Octavio Acuña Avendaño (octavio.acunaavendano@mail.utoronto.ca) or sign up here
Topic: Rockfest 2021
Time: Mar 5, 2021 03:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting
https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/84508243395
Meeting ID: 845 0824 3395
Passcode: 886877
Date | Speaker 1 | Title | Speaker 2 | Title |
05 February 2021* |
Sam Athey – Ph.D. Candidate Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Toronto |
The Widespread Environmental Footprint of Indigo Denim Microfibers from Blue Jeans | Krystal Nason– Ph.D. Student Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Toronto | Tracing Sources of Mercury Using Mercury Stable Isotopes in Amazonian Aquatic Ecosystems |
12 February 2021 |
Jacob Kvasnicka – Ph.D. Candidate Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Toronto | Textiles as Conveyors of Chemical Contaminants from Indoors to Outdoors – Model Development and Evaluation | Katie Maloney – Ph.D. Candidate Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Toronto | New multicellular marine macroalgae from the ca. 950 Dolore Creek Formation, Yukon Territory |
19 February 2021 |
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26 February 2021 |
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5 March 2021 | Mathew G. Wells – Associate Professor Dept. of Physical and Environmental Sciences, UTSC | Turbulence Processes Within Turbidity Currents | Joe Desloges – Faculty, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Toronto | A case study of a catastrophic debris flow-turbidity current deposit – Failure of the Mt. Polley tailings pond |
12 March 2021 |
Xu Chu – Assistant Professor Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Toronto |
Deerite-bearing high-pressure quartzite from Western Tianshan | ||
26 March 2021 | Nabila Rahman – Ph.D. Candidate Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Toronto | TBA | Tim Rodgers – Ph.D. Candidate, Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto | Is it worth measuring physicochemical properties? A comparison of in silico estimates with final adjusted values produced with a novel Bayesian technique. |
02 April 2021 | Riddhi Mandal – Ph.D. Candidate Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Toronto | TBA | Octavio Acuña Avendaño – Ph.D. Student Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Toronto | Geology of Las Pailas Geothermal Field |
09 April 2021 | Fried Schwerdtner – Emeritus Professor Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Toronto | Outcrop-scale structural features of Proterozoic Grenville gneisses decorating deep-crustal thrust faults | ||
16 April 2021 |
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23 April 2021 |
Don Davis – Associate Professor Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Toronto | Lies, damn lies and statistics: a new regression method for isotopic data | Heriberto Rochin – Ph.D. Candidate Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Toronto | U-Pb dating of fossils and diagenetic minerals |
30 April 2021 | Domenica Lee – M.Sc. Student Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Toronto | TBA |