The 7th Canadian Permafrost Conference was held in Quebec City in late September 2015. Papers presented at the Canadian Conference are reviewed and published. It is not possible to give a presentation without submitting a paper about 4 months before the meeting. This ensures the quality of the presentations.
The Carleton permafrost group presented 13 papers at the conference. They are listed below. Links are provided for you to access and read them.
Fourteen past and present members of the Carleton group attended the conference.
The photo shows (L to R, sitting): Marcus Phillips (PhD student), Brendan O’Neill (PhD student), Graham Gilbert (BSc/’11, now a PhD student at UNIS, Svalbard), Steve Kokelj (PhD/’03, now with the Geological Survey of the Northwest Territories), Peter Morse (PhD/’13, now with the Geological Survey of Canada), Pascale Roy-Léveillée (PhD/’15, now Assistant Professor at Laurentian University), Kumari Karunaratne (PhD/’11, now with the Geological Survey of the Northwest Territories); and (L to R, standing): Tim Enson (MSc/’11, now with Golder Associates), Loriane Perier (M.Eng, Laval, co-supervised by Chris Burn), Jeff Moore (MSc student), Adrian Gaanderse (MSc/’15), Professor Stephan Gruber, Michelle Côté (MA/’02, now with Geological Survey of Canada), Professor Chris Burn.
Awards
Brendan O’Neill and Marcus Phillips won the prize for best paper by a student at the Conference, sponsored and adjudicated by the Permafrost Young Researchers Network of the International Permafrost Association. Their prize is for two papers, which the adjudicators were unable to separate on merit, so they were equal first!
Here are Marcus (left) and Brendan (right) receiving their award, from Elena Kuznetsova (USSR and Norway) and Stefanie Weege (Germany).
Papers presented
Burn, C.R. 2015. The geocryological bibliography of J. Ross Mackay (1915-2014). Paper 239. Proceedings, 68th Canadian Geotechnical Conference and 7th Canadian Permafrost Conference, 21-23 September 2015, Quebec City, QC, Canadian Geotechnical Society, Richmond, BC. 7 p. [PDF]
Burn, C.R. and O’Neill, H.B. 2015. Subdivision of ice-wedge polygons, western Arctic coast. Paper 252. Proceedings, 68th Canadian Geotechnical Conference and 7th Canadian Permafrost Conference, 21-23 September 2015, Quebec City, QC, Canadian Geotechnical Society, Richmond, BC. 6 p. [PDF]
Burn, C.R., Moore, J.L., O’Neill, H.B., Hayley, D.W., Trimble, J.R., Calmels, F., Orban, S.N., Idrees, M. 2015. Permafrost characterization of the Dempster Highway, Yukon and Northwest Territories. Paper 705. Proceedings, 68th Canadian Geotechnical Conference and 7th Canadian Permafrost Conference, 21-23 September 2015, Quebec City, QC, Canadian Geotechnical Society, Richmond, BC. 8 p. [PDF]
Gaanderse, A.J.R., Wolfe, S.A., and Burn, C.R. 2015. Origin and composition of a lithalsa in the Great Slave Lowland, Northwest Territories. Paper 259. Proceedings, 68th Canadian Geotechnical Conference and 7th Canadian Permafrost Conference, 21-23 September 2015, Quebec City, QC, Canadian Geotechnical Society, Richmond, BC. 7 p. [PDF]
Gruber, S., Burn, C.R., Arenson, L., Geertsema, M., Harris, S., Smith, S.L., Bonnaventure, P., and Benkert, B. 2015. Permafrost in mountainous regions of Canada. Paper 169. Proceedings, 68th Canadian Geotechnical Conference and 7th Canadian Permafrost Conference, 21-23 September 2015, Quebec City, QC, Canadian Geotechnical Society, Richmond, BC. 8 p. [PDF]
Idrees, M., Burn, C.R., Moore, J.L., and Calmels, F. 2015. Monitoring permafrost conditions along the Dempster Highway. Paper 703. Proceedings, 68th Canadian Geotechnical Conference and 7th Canadian Permafrost Conference, 21-23 September 2015, Quebec City, QC, Canadian Geotechnical Society, Richmond, BC. 8 p. [PDF]
Karunaratne, K.C., Kokelj, S.V., Palmer, M., Wolfe, S.A. & Gruber, S. 2015. Metadata protocol for ground temperature records in the Northwest Territories. Paper 744. Proceedings, 68th Canadian Geotechnical Conference and 7th Canadian Permafrost Conference, 21-23 September 2015, Quebec City, QC, Canadian Geotechnical Society, Richmond, BC. 8 p. [PDF]
Kokelj, S.V., Tunnicliffe, J., Lacelle, D., Lantz, T.C., and Fraser, R.H. 2015. Retrogressive thaw slumps: From slope process to the landscape sensitivity of northwestern Canada. Paper 104. Proceedings, 68th Canadian Geotechnical Conference and 7th Canadian Permafrost Conference, 21-23 September 2015, Quebec City, QC, Canadian Geotechnical Society, Richmond, BC. 8 p. [PDF]
O’Neill, H.B., and Burn, C.R. 2015. Permafrost degradation adjacent to snow fences along the Dempster Highway, Peel Plateau, NWT. Paper 219. Proceedings, 68th Canadian Geotechnical Conference and 7th Canadian Permafrost Conference, 21-23 September 2015, Quebec City, QC, Canadian Geotechnical Society, Richmond, BC. 7 p. [PDF]
O’Neill, H.B., Burn, C.R., and Kokelj, S.V. 2015. Field measurements of permafrost conditions beside the Dempster Highway embankment, Peel Plateau, NWT. Paper 380. Proceedings, 68th Canadian Geotechnical Conference and 7th Canadian Permafrost Conference, 21-23 September 2015, Quebec City, QC, Canadian Geotechnical Society, Richmond, BC. 7 p. [PDF]
Périer, L., Doré, G., and Burn, C.R. 2015. Influence of water temperature and flow on thermal regime around culverts built on permafrost. Paper 089. Proceedings, 68th Canadian Geotechnical Conference and 7th Canadian Permafrost Conference, 21-23 September 2015, Quebec City, QC, Canadian Geotechnical Society, Richmond, BC. 6 p. [PDF]
Phillips, M.R., Burn, C.R., Wolfe, S.A., Morse, P.D., Gaanderse, A.J., O’Neill, H.B., Shugar, D.H., and Gruber, S. 2015. Improving water content description of ice-rich permafrost soils. Paper 372. Proceedings, 68th Canadian Geotechnical Conference and 7th Canadian Permafrost Conference, 21-23 September 2015, Quebec City, QC, Canadian Geotechnical Society, Richmond, BC. 7 p. [PDF]
Roy-Leveillee, P., and Burn, C.R. 2015. Geometry of oriented lakes in Old Crow Flats, northern Yukon. Paper 284. Proceedings, 68th Canadian Geotechnical Conference and 7th Canadian Permafrost Conference, 21-23 September 2015, Quebec City, QC, Canadian Geotechnical Society, Richmond, BC. 8 p. [PDF]