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26 Jun

Congratulations Spring Graduates!

The Harquail School of Earth Sciences faculty, staff and students congratulate 9 new MSc, 1 new PhD, and 15 new BSc graduates from our Earth Sciences programs.

Our BSc Earth Sciences graduates are celebrated in this Convocation Video from Laurentian University during the last week of June 2020! The video includes inspiring words from our alumnus Paul Rollinson, CEO of Kinross Gold, who speaks at 31:50 min.

Best of success to all our graduates in your future endeavours as geoscientists:

BSc Earth Sciences (4 years)

Isidro Aguirre Saballos (H)
Jason Dyer (H)
Ben Goldman (H)
Céline Guenette (H)
Adam Guzzo 
Jack Mehltretter (H)
Christian Peterson
Ann Presley (H)
Raymond Scott (MCL)
Brandon Smith (H)
Kayla Soini (CL)
Adam Tomini 
Mia Tullio (MCL)
Trevor Watkins
Jenna Whitney (H)

H=honours, CL=cum laude, MCL= magna cum laude

MSc Geology

Thomas Bagley

"Estimating overburden thickness in resistive areas from on-time airborne EM data"

Michael Burns

"A fluid inclusion study of the Little Nahanni LCT-Type Pegmatite Group, NWT Canada: implications for the nature and origin of fluids in LCT-Type Pegmatites and Pegmatite evolution"

Quinn Dabros

"Compositional and textural analysis of host-rock diamictite matrix at the Kakula copper deposit, Democratic Republic of Congo"

William McNeice

"Can magnetic susceptibilities measured on outcrop be used for modeling (and constraining inversions of) aeromagnetic data?"

Robert Meek

"Sedimentology, Stratigraphy, and U-Pb Detrital Zircon Geochronology of the Mesoproterozoic Husky Creek Formation, Coppermine River Group, Nunavut, Canada

Sharlotte Mkhonto

"Use of Sulphide Mineral Chemistry to Understand PGE Mineralization Processes in the Northern Limb of the Bushveld Igneous Complex"

Danielle Shirriff 

"Mobilization of Komatiite-Associated Ni-Cu-(PEG) Mineralization in the Southern Manneville Fault Zone, Southern Abitibi Subprovince, Quebec

Jonathan Sutton

"Volcanic Stratigraphy and Hydrothermal Alteration of the ca. 2701 Ma Duprat-Montrbray Formation: Implications for Targeting New Volcanogenic Massive Sulphide (VMS) Deposits Formed During the Lower Blake River Episode, Rouyn-Noranda, Québec"

Philippe Trudel 

"Provenance and depositional age of the Cryogenian ‘grand conglomérat’, host of the Kamoa Cu-deposit, Democratic Republic of Congo"

PhD Mineral Deposits and Precambrian Geology

Mitchell Kerr

“Gold upgrading processes, fluid evolution, and chemical precipitation mechanisms in Archean greenstone belts and Paleozoic metasediment-hosted orogenic gold systems”

All of our postgraduates are celebrated in a different Convocation Video!