Special Training Events

iMAGE-CREATE Special Training Events:

• STCW Basic Safety I: Personal Survival Techniques – (October 18-19, 2021)

On October 18th, five students from the iMAGE-CREATE program participated in a two-day training course titled Proficiency in Personal Survival Techniques (PST). The course is offered by RelyOn Nutec in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, and is the first module of the Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping (STCW) Basic Safety training course. The PST training is required for many of the research cruises that the participating students will be involved with in the coming years. Through lectures and practical exercises, the course participants were presented with emergency situations that can arise while at sea and were taught survival techniques that can be used in a variety of scenarios. The lecture portion of the course discussed common emergencies, safety procedures and the use of safety equipment. Practical exercises were taught in the “Survival Training Simulation Theatre”, a pool equipped to simulate stormy weather at sea. Participants donned immersion suits, in which they practiced survival strategies, including boarding life rafts, swimming in group formations and entering helicopter rescue baskets. The course emphasized the importance of working as a team, and through both the theoretical and practical components, prepared the group to be safe on their upcoming research cruises. All participants successfully completed the course and received a Transport Canada certificate which is valid for five years.

iMAGE-CREATE Keynote presentations:

Whistler 2021, SEG Biennial Conference, “Game Changers – The First Hundred Years”, Society of Economic Geologists, M. Hannington, September 2021

Whistler 2021, SEG Biennial Conference, First Geological Map of the Lau Basin”, Society of Economic Geologists, M. Stewart, September 2021.

Goldschmidt 2021, Lyon, France, Sourcing Metals in Seafloor Hydrothermal Systems, M. Hannington, July 4-9, 2021.

iMAGE-CREATE Special Sessions and Symposia:

Geological Association of Canada Annual Meeting, London, November 2021, Special Session SS-08, Advances in Marine Geology and Geodynamics and Their Application to Understanding Modern and Ancient Seafloor Metallogeny. Convenors: Alan Baxter (University of Ottawa), Margaret Stewart (Mount Royal), Melissa Anderson (University of Toronto), Mark Hannington (University of Ottawa)

The present-day oceans provide a natural laboratory to observe the structural, kinematic and magmatic history of oceanic and arc crust, which comprise a significant proportion of greenstone belts and accreted terranes. Details of the spatial and temporal relationships of crustal growth observable in modern oceans are lost during terrane assemblage and associated deformation and metamorphism. This session will highlight studies of current processes of crustal growth in the oceans using modern marine geophysical datasets, collected during ocean-going expeditions, by regional monitoring and satellite missions, together with sampling of the seafloor, to understand the tectonic evolution of different domains of oceanic and arc crust. This includes research on rates of seafloor volcanism, controls on magmatic productivity, lithological, geochemical and isotopic variations over time and space and the transfer of heat from the mantle through the crust to seafloor hydrothermal systems. We invite contributions that use these datasets to advance our knowledge of marine geological processes and apply what is learned to ancient greenstone belts and accreted terranes. This session is a contribution to ongoing studies in the CFREF Metal Earth and the new NSERC CREATE in Marine Geodynamics and Georesources (iMAGE).