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HES Newsletter Spring 2019

Alumni Stories: Joshua Bailey

COO & Director of Exiro Minerals combines field experience with his passion for economics of mineral exploration

In memory of Jeremy Peter Richards

Congratulations to our graduates!

2018 Hawley Medal Recipients

Oldest reported fossil fungi: Laurentian researcher published in Nature

Laurentian University’s Dr. Elizabeth Turner, professor of geology at the Harquail School of Earth Sciences, co-authored a paper published in the journal Nature this week.

Summary of news coverage on Dr. Elizabeth Turner's fossil fungi publication

Dr. Elizabeth Turner is among a team of scientists that have discovered the world's oldest fungus fossil to date!

GAC-MAC 2019

The Harquail School of Earth Sciences and its Mineral Exploration Research Centre (MERC) prepare for an eventful conference in Quebec

Earth Science Open House May 7th

Students and guardians are invited to join us for an evening discovering practical applications of geology and earth sciences in the industry.

Jeff Enright's successful MSc thesis defence

Dr. Jeremy Richards recipient of prestigious Duncan R. Derry Medal!

Congratulations Danielle Brown, MSc Geology on a New Zealand project

Sedimentary Geology Field School in California

Assistant Professor Alessandro Ielpi hosts field school in Death Valley, California

In Memory of Thomas E. Lane (1947-2019)

MSc & PhD Opportunities with Metal Earth

Canada’s largest mineral exploration research project, Metal Earth, is seeking MSc & PhD students to join the project

Watch: Metal Earth, Mineral Exploration Research Project

Metal Earth is a Canadian $104 million applied R&D program led by Laurentian University. With funding from the Canada First Research Excellence Fund and federal/provincial/industry partners, this initiative will be a strategic consortium of outstanding Canadian researchers from academia and allied Canadian and international research centres, government, and industry.

PDAC Highlights

The Harquail School of Earth Sciences return from an eventful PDAC!

Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship-Doctoral (CGS D)

PhD Candidate, Christopher Beckett-Brown Awarded the Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship-Doctoral (CGS D).

Next Stop, Ireland!

LU SEG Student Chapter International Field Trip February 16-25 2019

New NSERC-CRD Grant

Prof Michael Lesher is leading a new 4-year $1M ($630K cash, $426K cash-equivalent in-kind) NSERC-CRD project on the Genesis and Localization of Ni-Cu-PGE Mineralization in the Sudbury Igneous Complex that will test new hypotheses for the origin of the sulfur and metals in the ores and the mechanisms of localization.

HES Newsletter Winter 2019

Using luminescence to discover ore bodies

HES Researcher Rémy Poulin, is one of the first to investigate the properties of scheelite on a world-wide scale to uncover potential geochemical patterns that could aid in the discovery of new ore deposits.

Watch: Harquail School of Earth Sciences Video