Congratulations to our newest geoscience graduates
Congratulations to all our geoscience graduates for having received their degrees this week! Keep in touch!
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Students head out to Southwestern USA on a 13-day mine tour!
The Laurentian Society of Economic Geologists (SEG) Student Chapter is heading out today on a 13-day mine tour in Southwestern USA! There are a total of 15 students participating ranging from BSc, MSc and Phd students, and they will be visiting a total of 5 mines.
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Kilohigok Basin Geoscience Project
An update on progress of the Kilohigok Basin Geoscience Project will be delivered tonight by Dr. Alessandro Ielpi (Harquail School of Earth Sciences, Laurentian University) and Holly Steenkamp (Canada-Nunavut Geoscience Office).
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David Harquail New Chair of the World Gold Council
Congratulations to David Harquail for his appointment as new Chair of the World Gold Council (WGC). Faculty, students, researchers and staff at the Harquail School of Earth Sciences and its Mineral Exploration Research Centre (MERC) are thrilled about this news and wish David all the best.
Read moreThe Harquail School: Who we are and what we do
Laurentian University's Department of Earth Sciences was renamed to the Harquail School of Earth Sciences in September 2016, the Harquail Family invested $10M into Laurentian University’s Department of Earth Sciences and the $104M Metal Earth project commenced.
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Successful PhD defense
Dr. Yongxing Li has successfully defended his PhD thesis in Mineral Deposits and Precambrian Geology.
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Spring Convocation: HES congratulates two PhD graduates
Dr. Taus Jørgensen and Dr. Robert Craig Stewart both graduated with their PhD in Mineral Deposits and Precambrian Geology from Laurentian University in Spring 2017.
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Dr. Harold Gibson presented with LU Research Excellence Award
Dr. Harold Gibson, Director of the Mineral Exploration Research Centre (MERC), was presented today the Laurentian University’s Research Excellence Award, in recognition of a career of research excellence in economic geology and volcanology.
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Dr. Alessandro Ielpi et al. published in Nature Communications
It has been previously assumed that large and deep rivers could not have developed in the Precambrian due to lack of stabilizing vegetation. In this article, the authors challenge this assumption...
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Job Posting: Metal Earth BSc field assistants, June 2017
With CAD $104 million in funding provided by the Canada First Research Excellence Fund (CFREF) and through strategic partnerships with 5 Canadian universities, 6 government geological surveys and 3 international research centres, Laurentian University will conduct Metal Earth...
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Dr. Craig Stewart - successful PhD defense
Dr. Craig Stewart has successfully defended his PhD thesis in Mineral Deposits and Precambrian Geology on April 19, 2017.
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