Schedule & Session Descriptions

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Audience: all ages

Professional geoscientists and their team, along with experts from the Edmonton Geological Society, will inspect your mineral, rock, and fossil collections and share all sorts of fun facts!

Session Times Every 15 minutes from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Location
Earth Sciences Building
University of Alberta
Edmonton AB
Please remember to bring your own rock, fossil, and mineral samples!
Learn more about the Edmonton Geological Society.
Touch a meteorite and see minerals glow in the dark! View more than 2,500 minerals, rocks, and meteorites in this family-friendly space. Complete a scavenger hunt!
Session Times Every 30 minutes from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Location
Earth Sciences Building, Basement Room B-08
University of Alberta
Edmonton AB
Learn more about University of Alberta's Mineralogy and Petrology Museum.
Not in Edmonton? Check out our virtual tours and digital exhibits.
Explore life through time: trilobites, dinosaurs, mammoths, a huge fossil tree stump, and more. Touch real fossils and find out how the University of Alberta acquired more than one million fossils over the past 100 years. Complete a scavenger hunt!
Session Times Runs every 30 minutes from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Location
Earth Sciences Building, Basement Room B-01
North Campus, University of Alberta
Edmonton AB
Learn more about the University of Alberta's Paleontology Museum.
Not in Edmonton? Check out our virtual tours and digital exhibits.
The Royal Alberta Museum will be running a booth during event day. Attendees will not need to sign up for a specific session to enjoy the booth.
Time 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Location
Earth Sciences Building
North Campus, University of Alberta
Edmonton AB
Learn more about the Royal Alberta Museum.

Audience: ages 5+

Many people in Alberta get their water from underground, usually by drilling a well into an aquifer. But what is an aquifer? And how does water move through the soil and rock beneath our feet? In this workshop, you'll make your own aquifer in a cup, pump your own well, and find out why groundwater is an important part of the water cycle.
Session Times
1:00–1:30 p.m.
1:45–2:15 p.m.
2:30–3:00 p.m.
3:15–3:45 p.m.
Location
Earth Sciences Building
University of Alberta
Edmonton AB
Learn more about the Alberta Geological Survey.

Audience: ages 12+

Join us for an in-person tour of the geophysics labs at the University of Alberta, with special access to the paleomagnetism and rock magnetism labs!

You’ll learn more about geophysics surveys and equipment, Earth’s magnetic field, rock and soil samples, and more.

Session Times

10:00–10:40 a.m.

10:50–11:30 a.m.

11:40 a.m.–12:20 p.m.

1:30–2:10 p.m.

2:20–3:00 p.m.

3:10–3:50 p.m.

Location

The Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Science (CCIS)

University of Alberta

Edmonton AB

Learn more about the University of Alberta Department of Physics.