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rofessor Noel James is co-author with Brian Jones (University of Alberta) of a new textbook entitled “Origin of Carbonate Sedimentary Rocks" published by Wiley in August 2015.
The book provides an overview of the origin and preservation of carbonate sedimentary rocks. The focus is on...
Please join us today for a Geocolloquium at 4:30pm given by Mike Gadd.
"REINTERPRETATIONS OF THE AMBIENT PALEOENVIRONMENTAL REDOX CONDITIONS AND TIMING OF MINERALIZATION FOR SEDEX ZN-PB DEPOSITS AT THE HOWARD’S PASS DISTRICT, YUKON"
Friday, November 6th 4:30pm MIL 105
Congratulations to Dr. Mark Diederichs who has been awarded a university Prize for Excellence in Research.
Details about the award are published in the Queen's Gazette.
Congratulations Dr. Diederichs!
Queen's Geological Engineering graduate, Dr. Derek McBride BSc '68, MSc '72, is coauthor of a book published October 2015. The book is titled "The Metallogeny of Lode Gold Deposits: A Syngenetic Perspective".
The book "presents a groundbreaking...
Congratulations to Gustavo Oliveira and Neil Fernandes, who both received individual research grant awards from the Society of Economic Geologists for 2015-2016. These research grants are awarded on a yearly basis subject to a global competition which received 147 applications this year, of which 57 were selected to...
Following discussions among KEGS (www.kegsonline.ca), Queen's, ESG and Lamontagne, it was decided that a KEGS Kingston chapter should be established to create a platform for geophysicists in the greater Kingston area to exchange ideas and knowledge. Please join us for the inaugural KEGS Kingston event, featuring a talk by Bruce McMonnies, P.Geo., MMET, Lamontagne Geophysics Limited.
Mr. McMonnies will be presenting on “Lamontagne UTEM Development”.
When: Thursday, October 29, 2015
Time: 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Where: Miller Hall, Room 105
Congratulations to Bradley Forbes, current PhD student under the supervision of Dr. Nicholas Vlachopoulos and Dr. Mark S. Diederichs, who has been awarded best presentation at the ISRM (International Society for Rock Mechanics) Regional Symposium EUROCK 2015 & 64th Geomechanics Colloquium held in Salzburg, Austria.
The paper/presentation titled “Monitoring the ground in order to optimize support design” was elected from all parallel...
Congratulations to Dr. David Gauthier on receiving the AG Stermac Award from the Canadian Geotechnical Society (CGS). This award is for successfully hosting the Geohazards 6 conference at Queen's last spring, along with co-organizers Dr. Jean Hutchinson and Dr. Andy Take (Civil Engineering).
The AG Stermac award recognizes...
Please join us today, Friday, October 2 at 4:30pm in Miller 105 for the second geocolloquium of the term, given by our very own geocolloquium co-chair, Pedro Garcia.
Your geocolloquium chairs,
Pedro, Neil and Judith
Congratulations to Dr. Mark Diederichs who was awarded the Thomas Roy Award in September at the CGS conference, GéoQuébec 2015. The award is in recognition of Dr. Diederichs' research, teaching and service to the academic community both in Canada and Internationally and for outstanding contribution to engineering geology.
