2025 KEG HYBRID Lecture Series

Since 2003, KEG has presented a lecture series for the general public free of charge to promote the interest of mining, earth sciences and mineral exploration. In 2022, our talks committee put together a wonderful series with diverse topics and speakers presented in a virtual format, which you can continue to watch on demand.

Click on the speakers name for their biographies and the title for an abstract of the talk.

2025 KEG Hybrid Lecture Series On Demand

Date	Speaker	Title
Not available	Christian Stenner	Contemporary Cave Exploration in Canada
On Demand	Dr. Robert Young	The Way in - Re-evaluation of Terrestrial Routes into the Americas for the First Peoples
On Demand	Dr. Yannick Le Moigne	Chronology and Dynamics of Canada’s Deadliest Volcanic Eruption: the 1700 CE Eruption of Tseax Volcano, BC
Not available	Aaron Wylie	Autonomous Haulage Implementation at Teck Highland Valley Copper
Not available	Brent Ward	Earthquake Hazards in BC
N/A	Social	Join us at Match Eatery & Public House from 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM for a social/ networking event. Light snacks and cash bar. Come by and meet the KEG Directors and industry reps.
On Demand	Conner Morison	Mount Garibaldi: A Long-Dormant Volcano in the Pacific Northwest
On Demand	Dr. John Clague	Landslides into Lakes and River Valleys in BC -- An Unappreciated Hazard

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We have put together helpful hints/ instructions to walk you through the process once you have clicked the link above (when available) for the lecture. You can also download it here to print.

Once you have clicked the Zoom Webinar link to join the 2021 KEG Lecture Series, you will need to register

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If you can't hear the webinar, ensure your computer speakers are not muted and the volume is turned up. You can test your speakers using the audio settings which is at the bottom left corner of your screen.

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At anytime during the lecture, you can click the Q&A box and type in a question. Your question may be answered during the lecture or at the end by the speaker either live or replied back in the Q&A box.

Watch past series On Demand

2024 KEG Virtual Lecture Series

Click on the speakers name for their biographies and the title for an abstract of the talk.

WATCH ON DEMAND

Date	Speaker	Title
On Demand	Dr. Catherine Hickson	The Truth About Geothermal Energy: There is Plenty of Hot Water Beneath Our Feet
On Demand	Dr. Eva Enkelmann	Rocky Voices – Geological Stories from the Rocky Mountains
On Demand	Dr. Philip Currie	Collecting Titanosaurid Sauropods in Mongolia
On Demand	Dr. John Jamieson	Volcanoes, Hydrothermal Vents, and Living Fossils – Exploration and Discovery Along the Submarine Galapagos Rift
Not Available	Josh Parsons	New Afton Update
On Demand	Lorne Warner	World Travelling Geologist - Oh, The Places You’ll Go! – “Dr. Seuss”
On Demand	Emily Cross	Differentiatng Ankylosaur Dinosaur Tooth Shapes with Implications for Paleobiogeography
On Demand	Dr. Danny Coutts	Demystifying Machine Learning in Geoscience – A Pragmatic Approach to Modern Geoscience

2023 KEG Virtual Lecture Series

2023 KEG Lecture Series

Click on the speakers name for their biographies and the title for an abstract of the talk.

WATCH ON DEMAND

On Demand	Speaker	Title
On Demand	Jerome Lesemann	Meltwater Corridors and Eskers of the Keewatin Region of the Laurentide Ice Sheet, Canada: Their Significance for Understanding Ice Sheet Decay and Improving Mineral Exploration Models.
On Demand	John Thompson	Technology Metals and Critical Minerals – Opportunities and Challenges
On Demand	Neil Wildgust	Carbon Capture and Storage - Principles and Deployment
Not Available	Adrienne Mayor	Indigenous Americans’ Contributions to Paleontology
On Demand	Dr. Haydon Mort	People of the Planet: How Earth’s History Has Influenced Our Minds
On Demand	Dr. Steve Quane	What Lies Beneath? How Fire & Ice Have Shaped Lake Floors in the Sea to Sky Region of British Columbia
On Demand	Bruce Madu	Dang, Being a Geologist is a Hoot
On Demand	Jeffrey Bond,Chief Roberta Joseph - Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in,Elizabeth Hall	Nun Cho Ga: The Story of a Mummified Baby Woolly Mammoth Found in the Klondike

2022 KEG Virtual Lecture Series

Click on the speakers name for their biographies and the title for an abstract of the talk.

WATCH ON DEMAND

On Demand	Speaker	Title
On Demand	Dr. Philip Currie	Hunting Dinosaurs in the Gobi Desert of China and Mongolia
On Demand	Dr.John Jamieson	Deep-Sea Mineral Resources: Mining’s Newest Frontier
On Demand	Dr.John Clague	The 2021 Southern BC Flood—A Foreseeable Disaster
On Demand	Victor R. Baker	The Ancient Oceans of Mars: My Five Decades of Mars Geological Research
On Demand	Dr. Victoria Arbour	Dinosaurs of the Sustut Basin in Northern British Columbia
On Demand	Andrew Cooper	Energy Conservation – The Cornerstone of your Low Carbon Objectives
On Demand	Sally Pehrsson,Roger Paulen,John Percival	Rocks, water, and time: The science of whisky

2021 KEG Virtual Lecture Series

Since 2003, KEG has presented a lecture series for the general public free of charge to promote the interest of mining, earth sciences and mineral exploration. In 2021, our talks committee put together a wonderful series with diverse topics and speakers presented in a virtual format, which you can continue to watch on demand.

Click on the speakers name for their biographies and the title for an abstract of the talk.

Watch On Demand

On Demand	Speaker	Title	Sponsor
On Demand	Dr. Catherine Hickson	The 1980 Eruptions of Mount St. Helens; Forty Years and Counting!	ALS
On Demand	Dr. Phillip Currie	Polar Dinosaurs	Ximen Mining Corp.
On Demand	Roger C. Paulen	Modern Glacial Concepts Applied to Indicator Mineral Dispersal Trains	Ximen Mining Corp.
On Demand	Dr. Rob Young	You Are What You Eat – Or Are You? An Exploration of the Environments That Made Us Who We Are	Ximen Mining Corp.
On Demand	Lee Groat	Metamorphic and Magmatic Gem Deposits and Their Potential in British Columbia	Ximen Mining Corp.
On Demand	JoAnne Nelson	Location, Location, Location: Long-Lived Lineaments Provided Prime Real Estate for B.C.’s Cu-Au Porphyries	Ximen Mining Corp.
On Demand	Dr. Brent Peyton&Dr. Lisa Kirk	How – and Why - Do Natural Microbes Remove Nitrate and Selenium from Mine-Affected Water?	Ximen Mining Corp.
On Demand	Dr. Christopher West	The Red Lake Fossil Flora: A Miocene Forest From The Interior Plateau, British Columbia	Ximen Mining Corp.