Fri

26 Feb

Pictures from the Year End Banquet!

The Department of Earth Sciences celebrated its new graduating class at our Annual Year End Banquet at the Italian Club in Copper Cliff! 

Photos: Fun! Courtesy of Philippe Trudel at the dinner

Photo: Philippe Trudel and Dakota Recollet in action with the "Fun Awards"

Photo (left to right): Meg Engelbert (PhD cand.), Laura Radford (OGS), Keaton Strongman, Christopher Beckett-Brown, Karen Barlow,  Jeff Enright (M.Sc. cand), Derek Drayson, Jacob Bellrose, Logan Behuniak, Philippe Trudel, Dakota Recollet, Julia Davis, Aaron Jantti, Madison Schmidt, Joey Vrzowsky, Seth Montgomery, Christine Legrand (M.Sc. cand)

Schedule: 

- 2:00 pm: Honours Thesis Presentations 
- 4:30 pm: Open bar, fun and games: Bowling, darts and pool table
- 6:30 pm: Dinner, guest speaker Lori Martin
- Later: Awards, "Geo Jeopardy" and "Name the tune"

Honor Thesis Presentations:

2.00 -2.15
Philippe Trudel 
Detrital zircon geochronology of Neoproterozoic diamictites in NWT, Canada

2.15-2.30
Keaton Strongman 
Chemostratigraphy of the South Range Norite, Sudbury Igneous Complex

2.30-2.45
Madison A. Schmidt 
Dendrochronology in Mineral Exploration: Developing Tools to See Through Anthropogenic Impacts

2.45-3.00
Alexander Jibb 
Fluid inclusions document the PTX conditions in an Archean syenite associated gold deposit, Timmins, ON

3.00-3.15
Jacqueline A. Huggins 
A study of the precious-metal mineral distribution in local haloes around Cu-rich stringers, MD3 zone, Morrison deposit, Sudbury, ON

3.30-3.45
Jacob Bellrose 
A nano-mineralogical study of Uranium ore samples: Evidence for the mobilization of U(IV) via nanoparticles and late stage alteration processes

3.45-4.00
Craig Green 
LA-ICP-MS Methodology for Analysis of Native Gold Grains

4.00-4.15
Logan Behuniak 
Fluid inclusions document fluid pressure cycling during formation of the giant Red Lake gold deposit, Ontario

4.15-4.30
Christopher Beckett-Brown 
The crystal-chemistry of Ni-bearing spinel group minerals: chemical, geological and exploration implications

 

2016 B.Sc. Earth Sciences graduates Logan Behuniak, Alexander Jibb, Craig Green, Jacob Bellrose

Dr. Graeme Spiers chooses a view from distance while Philippe Trudel is presenting

Keaton Strongman presenting

Craig Green presenting

Madison Schmidt presenting

Christopher Beckett-Brown presenting

Alexander Jibb presenting

Jacqueline Huggins presenting

Logan Behuniak presenting, emcee Dr. Michael Schindler

Kelly Malcolm (M.Sc. cand)

Jacob Bellrose presenting

Dr. Pedro Jugo, Jacob Bellrose

Dr. Matthew Leybourne, Dr. Graeme Spiers, Dr. Joe Petrus

Dr. Pedro Jugo

Lori Martin (P.Geo.) who graduated from our department in 2000 and embarked on a successful career, was our guest speaker

Dr. Pedro Jugo awards the Best PhD Seminar 2015/2016 to Evan Hastie, PhD cand 

Dr. Bruce Jago awards Keaton Strongman with the Goodman School of Mines' Award for Top graduating 4th year student (B.Sc. Earth Sciences) 

Dr. Bruce Jago, Dr. Bruno Lafrance

Drs. Michael Lesher, Bruno Lafrance, Daniel Kontak and Andrew McDonald

Emcee Dr. Bruno Lafrance

Philippe Trudel and Dakota Recollet presenting the fun awards

2016 B.Sc. graduates Alexis Ausrotas, Sydney Albert and Jacqueline Huggins

B.Sc. graduates Christopher Beckett-Brown and Philippe Trudel