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25 Sep

Welcome International Graduate Students

The Harquail School Welcomes 7 New International Graduate Students

Image above left to right: Marius Etienne (PhD), Chaneil Jermaine Wallace (PhD), Klaus Kuster (PhD), Henning Seibel (PhD), Dustin Peters (PhD), Sandra Baurier Aymat (PhD). Missing from group shot, Christa Ntabana (MSc).

 

1 MSc and 6 PhD international candidates joined the Harquail School of Earth Sciences earlier this summer under supervision of Dr. Michael Lesher,  Dr. Elizabeth Turner,  Dr. Bruno Lafrance and Dr. Graeme Spiers. Candidates travelled from various locations including Germany, Bahamas, France, Rwanda, Spain, and Brazil to advance research in the geosciences, part of which will contribute global research project Metal Earth that is led by the Mineral Exploration Research Centre (MERC).

 

Welcome to Sudbury, Ontario from the Harquail School of Earth Sciences!

Dustin Peters, Germany

PhD candidate Mineral Deposits and Precambrian Geology
Research Project Title: Genesis and Localization of Ni-Cu-PGE Mineralization in the North Range of the Sudbury Structure, Canada
Supported by: NSERC and Vale
Supervisor: Dr. Michael Lesher

 

Chaneil Jermaine Wallace, Bahamas

PhD candidate Mineral Deposits and Precambrian Geology
Research Project Title: Irish-type MVT deposits
Supervisors: Dr. Elizabeth Turner and co-supervisor is Dr. Daniel Kontak

 

Marius Etienne, France

PhD candidate Mineral Deposits and Precambrian Geology, Metal Earth
Research Project Title: Base metal Metallogeny of the Sturgeon Lake Metal Earth Transect, Wabigoon subprovince, northwest Ontario
Supervisors : Dr. Robert Lodge, Dr. Chong Ma, Dr. Bruno Lafrance

 

Christa Ntabana, Rwanda

MSc candidate Geology
Research Project Title: Clay mineralogy and carbon sequestration in Sudbury soils
Supervisor: Dr. Graeme Spiers  

 

Sandra Baurier Aymat, Spain

PhD candidate Mineral Deposits and Precambrian Geology
Research Project Title: Genesis and Localization of Ni-Cu-PGE Mineralization in the South Range of the Sudbury Structure, Canada
Supported by: NSERC and Vale
Supervisor: Dr. Michael Lesher  

 

Henning Seibel, Germany

PhD candidate Mineral Deposits and Precambrian Geology
Research Project Title: Genesis and Localization of Ni-Cu-PGE Mineralization in Offset Dike of the Sudbury Structure, Canada
Supported by: NSERC and Vale
Supervisor: Dr. Michael Lesher

 

Klaus Kuster, Brazil

PhD candidate Mineral Deposits and Precambrian Geology, Metal Earth
Research Project Title: Petrogenesis and Metallogenesis of Polymetallic Cr-Ni-Cu-PGE Systems in the Superior Province, Canada
Supported by: Metal Earth, Geological Survey of Canada, Noront, and Vale.
Supervisor: Dr. Michael Lesher