This online learning event has been designed by professional geoscientists for professional geoscientists. It will present must-have emerging information and highlight key tools relevant across all geoscience subdisciplines and specializations. This symposium covers a broad array of themes that will also be of interest to the broader professional and geotechnical community including regulators, government staff, professional and technical societies, insurers, legal practitioners, proponents of geoscience-related projects and the general public. For professional geoscientists in Ontario and across Canada, this is…

Avoiding Disaster – The Case for Building a Stronger Future by Including Diversity in Decision Making Four accomplished leaders will outline real life disasters and how they could have been mitigated through inclusion of greater diversity in key decisions and provide real-world examples of the crisis our profession is facing due to a lack of diversity and inclusion. In addition, the panel will present statistics to illustrate how the COVID-19 pandemic is impacting women disproportionately. Tools and information will be…

Risky Business: A Changing Paradigm of Managing Risks in a Changing World Geoscientists from entry-level to highly experienced all have to navigate through an evolving landscape of risks. Just as the geologic record is characterized by slow methodical change punctuated by sudden events that dramatically alter the landscape, trends and events in risk management can change the risk paradigm for practicing geoscientists.

Resource Management: Infinite Wants and Minimal Wastes No matter how abundant resources are, human wants always find a way to make them scarce. Successful resource management needs both a strong scientific basis and a practical approach. This session looks at aspects of managing some very different resources - minerals, groundwater, and soils - and also the scarce resource of "somewhere to put those soils". The presentations discuss how policies affect projects, how to back regulation up with sound science, how…

Innovation in Geoscience: Implications of Emerging Technologies and Their Applications The world is changing for everyone, including geoscientists. Our sources of energy, advancements in monitoring, the use of machine learning and the handling of “big geoscience data” will be explored by our four speakers. The green economy requires new resources for renewable energy while monitoring and operations on geoscience-related projects are taking new paths with advanced learning approaches through machines and other means. Advancements in geoscience are generating large volumes…