CAPPA CPD Luncheon: 

A Geoscientists’ Approach to Climate Change Fact and Fiction

June 22, 2016

Registration: 11:20 am – 11:30 am
Lunch will be served at 11:40 am
Presentation: 11:50 am –1:00 pm

Venue: University of Calgary, Downtown Campus, 906 – 8th Ave. SW, Calgary

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Please note there are no walk-up onsite registrations.

At this time, we have moved our CPD Luncheons to the U of C downtown campus at the corner of 8th St SW and 8th Ave SW.   With the current economic environment and corresponding lower member attendance we have needed to secure a more cost efficient venue.  The U of C downtown campus has very nice luncheon meeting space and catering allowing us to avoid increasing participant fees.  The location is also just steps away from the LRT stations.  Join us for great presentations, an opportunity to connect with colleagues and a superb meal.

Presentation Description:

The recent Paris conference on climate change brought the important issue of global warming to the forefront.  The public is overwhelmed with media hype, and social networks are alive with heated debates on the topic.  Our Provincial and Federal governments are currently making big strategic and financial commitments in connection with climate change, so it is vitally important for the public and politicians—and us as geoscientists—to have the correct information to discuss the issue with our colleagues, families and friends, and help to properly guide the decision making process.

Climate change advocates vehemently believe that humans are causing global warming—and that this will lead to catastrophic global consequences.  On the other hand, climate change skeptics state exactly the opposite.  Who are we to believe?  At the very least, it is wise and proper to gather and evaluate the scientific publications on climate change, and to make an unbiased scientific evaluation of the data and information. 

Has the climate changed in the past?  Are global temperatures increasing at a rapid rate?  Are man-made CO2 levels increasing?  Is this causing global warming?  Is there an unprecedented increase in global sea level rise, polar ice cap melting, and glacial recession?   We can answer all these questions in a logical, scientific, unemotional fashion.

Bio:

Gary Smith PhD

Gary recently retired as Vice President Exploration at Crew Energy after a 32 year career in the oil patch.  He has an undergraduate degree in geology from the University of Ottawa, and a PhD from McGill University studying Devonian carbonate stratigraphy and paleontology in the Canadian Arctic.  After graduation, Gary joined Chevron Canada, where he worked on a variety of projects from Southern Alberta to the NWT.  Then after a couple of years at Union Pacific Resources in Calgary and Fort Worth, he landed at Canadian Hunter in 1993, where he explored successfully for gas in Devonian carbonates of Alberta.  Gary then moved to Storm Energy before co-founding Greenbank Energy, a private company, in 2004.  After its sale in 2007, he joined the team at Crew Energy.  He is an APEGA Life Member, and a member of the CSPG since 1978.

Program:

11:30 am    – Registration & Networking

11:45 am    – Lunch 

12:00 noon – Presentation

Price:

CAPPA Members – $63.00 (CAD)
Non-members – $76.00 (CAD) (not a member? Clickhereto apply for membership)

Please note there are no walk-up onsite registrations.

CANCELLATION POLICY
CPD Luncheon attendees must contact the CAPPA office in order to cancel their registration. Cancellations must be received in writing by email (office@cappa.org). The following refund policy is in place:

– Full refunds will be given up to 10 days prior to the event.

– A 50% refund will be given up to 6 days prior to the event.

– Refunds will not be provided thereafter. 

There is an administration fee of $20 to cancel.

Registration, however, may be transferred to another attendee without an administration fee. Please notify CAPPA of the transfer to another attendee. The original registrant would be responsible to sort the payment out offline with the new attendee.