The Bid Development Committee has compiled the following themes for potential field trips across North America. These sites are accessible by land and air.

A) Climate Change Through Time

B) Energy Future, Present, and Past

Pictured: Yellowstone National Park Thermal Springs; Image credit: National Park Service

Field trips:

• Thermal Springs, Solar and Wind Power

• Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CSS)

C) Critical Minerals

Pictured: the Town of Flin Flon, Manitoba; Image credit: Travel Manitoba

Field trips:

• Flin Flon and Snow Lake (Manitoba)

• NWT Diamonds & Kimberlites

• La Corne Lithium Mine (Quebec)

D) Tectonics

Pictured: Historic District of Old Québec; Image credit: UNESCO

Field trips:

• Quebec City UNESCO World Heritage Site with Logan Line

• Vancouver to Calgary Cordilleran Transect

• Yukon Links to Climate Change

E) Sedimentary Basins

Pictured: Tumbler Ridge UNESCO Geopark, British Columbia; Image credit: HelloBC

Field trips:

• Tumbler Ridge Geopark

• Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin

• Sverdrup Basin Arctic Archipelago

F) Water Resources

Pictured: Lake O’Hara (right), Yoho National Park; Image credit: LonelyPlanet

Field trips:

• Alpine Hydrogeology at Lake Ohara

• Prairie Hydrogeology

G) Natural Hazards

Pictured: Frank Slide in Alberta; Image credit: Frank Slide Interpretive Centre

Field trips:

• Frank Slide

• Washington State to BC Neotectonics

• Early Earthquake Warning (Western North America & Western Quebec seismic zone)

H) Paleontology

Pictured: Crawford lake, Ontario; Image credit: GonewiththeFamily

Field trips:

• Golden Spikes (potential Crawford Lake for Anthropocene)

• Burgess Shale/Rocky Mountain Parks & Dinosaur Provincial Park UNESCO World Heritage Sites

• Newfoundland for Ediacaran/Cambrian and Cambrian/Ordovician

I) Petroleum Resources

Pictured: Turner Valley, Alberta; Image credit: Elevation.maplogs

Field trips:

• Turner Valley National Historic Site

• Oil Sands Deposits Fort McMurray

• Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway