Field school participants will get to share their findings with a wider audience thanks to APEGA.
This year, APEGA (Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta) is sponsoring the wrap-up session for PHYS 436, commonly known as "field school."
At field school, undergrad and graduate students go out in the field for a week in late August. Students are reminded of the basic theory behind geophysical measurements and taught how to operate geophysical equipment, carry out surveys with this equipment, and perform basic analyses and interpretation.
With 25 students led by seven geophysics graduate student teaching assistants and three Physics department staff members, this summer's class was the largest in course history. Students were organized into small groups that rotated through 10 geophysics tasks in the Milk River and Writing-on-Stone Park areas of Alberta.
"In years past, they wrote reports," says professor Doug Schmitt, who ran this summer's field school. "This is the first time they've done posters."
The poster session is open to the public. Tom Sneddon from APEGA will also be on hand to share what he sees as the future for geophysics in Alberta.
The event takes place in the Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies (CCIS) at 3:30 p.m. on the 4th floor of the West Atrium (the section with the model solar system display).