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Under the banner of At The Heart Of The Continent, GAC-MAC-PEG 2024 offered a wide and diverse scientific program, with a strong critical minerals component, and several workshops and fieldtrips, as well as extensive outreach and Indigenous engagement programs.It also featured several social events and formal functions that contributed to bringing geoscientists together.The meeting was strongly supported by industry, academia, and government sponsors and hosted numerous exhibitors.This year's meeting was smaller than some previous GAC-MAC events, with 260 abstracts (190 oral and 70 poster presentations) and 350 attendees, perhaps due to the remoteness and perceived lack of appeal of Brandon.Nevertheless, the meeting attracted many international delegates from 25 coun-tries located on almost every continent -indeed, approximately a fifth of the delegates came from beyond Canada.Our diverse attendees were able to learn about the strong and successful Geology Department at Brandon University and about Brandon, the Wheat City, the largest equestrian centre in Canada, and home to a surprisingly successful hockey team, the Wheat Kings.Readers will be able to appreciate the breadth and diversity of the scientific program at the GAC-MAC-PEG 2024 meeting by perusing this issue of Geoscience Canada, which includes all the abstracts.Please note that some limited additional editing was applied as part of the publishing process, so for some there may be small differences from versions distributed at the meeting or available at the conference website.In most cases, these are just format-related matters, but there were a few cases where minor adjustments to grammar, spelling, and continuity of text were resolved to the best of the Geoscience Canada editors' abilities.A very small number of abstracts originally included references, funding acknowledgments or other material that is normally excluded from abstracts, and these were removed from the final layout.Readers who have specific questions about a given contribution or who are interested in clarification should contact the author(s).Registered users can access all abstracts on the conference website (event.fourwaves.com/gacmac2024/,under Presentations).
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