Evolving Early Earth
Invitation
5IAS, the premier international symposium dedicated to Precambrian geoscience, will be held on 5-9 September 2010 at the Burswood Entertainment Complex, Perth, Western Australia. It continues the series of highly successful IAS meetings held every decade by Geoconferences (WA) Inc.
The Organising Committee has arranged an exciting program of presentations, a workshop and excursions reflecting a decade's worth of advances in our understanding of how the Early Earth evolved.
We invite academic, government and industry geoscientists with an interest in the early Earth to attend the
5th International Archean Symposium. We welcome you to our beautiful city, Perth, not only to enjoy the scientific and social program, but also to visit classic Archean and early Paleoproterozoic geology and mineral deposits in the Yilgarn and Pilbara Cratons, and Hamersley Basin.
Steve Beresford (5IAS Chair)
Tim Griffin (Geoconferences Chair)
Information & Registration brochure now available for
download (1MB PDF).
Technical program
As for previous Symposia, the single-session format will encourage collaboration and integration among researchers. A combination of Keynote Addresses and Invited Presentations, as well as submitted presentations and posters will cover the following themes.
Planet formation, crustal growth and the evolving lithosphere
Includes Keynote Addresses by John Valley (University of Wisconsin, What can we agree on before 4 Ga?) and Tony Kemp (James Cook University, An isotopic roadmap of Early Earth evolution – progress and potholes).
Invited Speakers include Bill Griffin (GEMOC, Macquarie University), Mattias Willbold (Bristol University), Jean-François Moyen (Stellenbosch University),
Jonathan O'Neil (McGill University) and Alex Nemchin (Curtin University of Technology).
Diversity in tectonic regimes
Includes Keynote Addresses by Peter Cawood (The University of Western Australia, Early Earth tectonics – was it the same?) and John Percival (Geological Survey of Canada, Tectonic-metallogenic linkages in the Superior Province, Canada, as deduced from a modern, craton-scale, 4D framework).
Invited Speakers include Jean Bedard (Geological Survey of Canada), Gary Stevens (University of Stellenbosch), Patrice Rey (University of Sydney), Richard Ernst (Ernst Geosciences), Clark Johnson (University of Wisconsin), and Martin Van Kranendonk and Stephen Wyche (Geological Survey of Western Australia).
Unique mineral systems?
Includes Keynote Addresses by Graham Begg (Minerals Targeting International, The lithosphere, geodynamics and metallogeny) and Andy Barnicoat (Geoscience Australia, Mineral systems and the evolution of the Early Earth).
Invited Speakers include Steve Beresford (The University of Western Australia), Shane Evans (Moombarriga Geoscience), Boswell Wing (McGill University),
David Snyder (Natural Resources Canada), Phil Thurston (Laurentian University) and Scott Halley (Mineral Mapping).
Establishing a habitable planet
Includes Keynote Addresses by James Farquhar (University of Maryland, Isotopic evidence for evolving atmospheric and oceanic chemistry and the early evolution of life on earth) and Nora Noffke (Old Dominion University, Microbial mats, evidence for the early evolution of life).
Invited speakers include David Wacey (The University of Western Australia), Kevin Zahnle (NASA Ames Research Centre), Kurt Konhauser (University of Alberta) and Ariel Anbar (Arizona State University).
Oral presentations
The oral presentations will be a mix of Keynote, Invited and submitted contributions.
Keynote Speakers have been allocated 40 minutes, including 5 minutes question time. The aim of the Keynote talks is to give both the specialist and generalist an up-to-date review of developments and likely future directions within each Theme.
All other oral presenters (Invited and submitted) will be allocated 20 minutes, including 5 minutes question time.
Poster presentations
Poster sessions will form an integral part of the program, and each poster presenter will have an opportunity to highlight their key findings via a formal 5 minute PowerPoint presentation shown on a large video screen set up within the poster display area. Presenters wishing to avail themselves of this opportunity should bring their presentation on a USB flash drive (thumb drive).
For more details visit the Presenter Information page.
Field excursions
Field excursions will be to classic Archean and early Paleoproterozoic geology in the Pilbara Craton and
Hamersley Basin (Diversity in tectonic regimes and Establishing a habitable planet); and the Yilgarn Craton (Planet formation, crustal growth and the evolving lithosphere, Diversity in tectonic regimes and Unique mineral
systems?).
Travel grants
Travel grants will be available to assist full-time postgraduate students and post-doctoral fellows from
developing countries (awarded PhDs within the last 5 years) who wish to present their research results at the
symposium. For details visit the Geoconferences website.