Alberta Geological Survey Geology Podcasts

It is with great sadness that we learned of the passing of Andre Lytviak on Tuesday, November 29, after a battle with cancer.

The Mineral Core Research Facility is undergoing a major facelift to create a special collection of core from key stratigraphic units, making it more accessible for clients and more efficient fo Alberta Geological Survey staff to locate, layout, and rack individual core.

The oil sands and surveillance monitoring project is piloting the use of Earth Observation technologies to evaluate their potential application as tools to aid in energy industry regulation in Alberta.

Alberta Environment and Alberta Geological Survey began a cross-ministry plan to inventory Alberta's groundwater resources. The first area of study was the Edmonton-Calgary Corridor.

The American Geological Institute and the Canadian Federation of Earth Sciences launched CanGeoRef on September 15, 2011.

As part of a multi-year initiative, the Alberta Geological survey is continuing its regional surficial geology mapping program in northern Alberta.

This article outlines the main projects at the AGS and the top field projects for the summer of 2011.

Alberta Geological Survey's Mark Fenton has been awarded the Seniors Association of Greater Edmonton Award for Science and Technology.

Natural gas is found in many of the geological formations occurring in the subsurface of Alberta.

Mr. Hsi-Hung from the Central Geological Survey of Taiwan visited the Alberta Geological Survey for a three-day field trip to Turtle Mountain in south-western Alberta to view the monitoring network on the South Peak of Turtle Mountain.

The Alberta Geological Survey has initiated the Induced Seismicity Project to document both natural and induced (or triggered) earthquakes. The goal is to understand the distribution and nature of earthquakes within Alberta.

As part of its ongoing mandate to map and understand the geology of Alberta, Alberta Geological Survey is conducting a multiyear project to create a new, three-dimensional digital geological atlas of Alberta.

On December 13, 2010, Dr. Matthias Grobe was appointed to the position of provincial geologist with the Alberta Geological Survey.

This article outlines the title and role of a provincial geologist since its first use in 1838. It also gives an outline of the Alberta provincial geologist and how that role has changed over time.

Alberta Geological Survey has released two provincial-scale maps depicting the bedrock topography and sediment thickness overlying bedrock in Alberta.