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Congratulations to Mitchell Wootton, MASc '20, on successfully defending his master's thesis on Tuesday, May 26. The defence was held via Zoom, and marked the first remote thesis to be held by the Department of Geological Sciences and Geological Engineering.
Mitchell's thesis titled, "Autonomous Magnetic...
Two former graduates of the Queen's Geological Sciences and Geological Engineering paleontology program recently achieved public recognition for their research.
Dr. T. Alexander Dececchi, (William E. White Post-doctoral Fellow in paleontology at Queen’s University from 2015-2017; now Assistant Professor at Mt Marty College, ND) was featured in an article in New York Times for his recent paper in PLOS One, on the maximum speeds of T. rex and...
The Department was very sorry to hear of the death, on April 15, of Professor Maarten de Wit, who first visited us in the early 1980s and remained a friend and collaborator. In 1993, during the centennial of the Faculty of Applied Science at Queen’s, Maarten was our Department’s choice to receive an honorary D.Sc. Maarten was one of Africa’s...
Congratulations to Geological Sciences student, Siobhan Keane, on receiving a scholarship award from the Canadian Mineral Industry Education Foundation (CMIEF). Siobhan attended the Foundation's award dinner on Monday, March 10, 2020, pictured above.
The CMIEF has been offering scholarships since 1964 to undergraduate students...
Congratulations to Geological Sciences student, Lauren Norenberg, on receiving first place at the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) poster competition in the BSc Category.
Lauren's project, superviesd by Dr. Laurent Godin and...
Congratulations to MSc student, Selcuk lkay Cevik, co-supervised by Dr. Julian Ortiz (cross-appointed) and Dr. Gema Olivo, on receiving third place...
Date: Tuesday, March 3rd, 2020
Time: 4:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Location: Metro Toronto Convention Centre, North Building - Reception Hall 104A
255 Front St. W
Toronto, ON
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ongratulations to PhD student, Kaj Sullivan, on receiving the Queen's David Edney Research Travel Award!
Kaj is one of only two graduate students in the Faculty of Arts and Science to receive the award this year. This award gives Kaj the opportunity to study and do research in Paris, France, in a fully-equipped apartment owned by Queen's alumnus, Professor David Edney.
With Dr. Moynier at the University of Paris’ Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP), Kaj will complete an intensive two-month research project that will investigate the distribution of...
Dr. Christopher Spencer is featured in a Newsweek article, titled "THE EARTH WAS ONCE A SNOWBALL. AN ASTEROID IMPACT TWO BILLION YEARS AGO MAY HAVE CHANGED THAT".
In the article, Dr. Spencer comments on a recent study that analyses minerals at the site of the Yarrabubba impact crater in Western Australia, and how the asteroid that hit there may have helped bring the "Snowball Earth" period to an end.
Read the full article on the Newsweek website.
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Tuesday, January 21st, 2020
5:00 pm - 7:30 pm
The Head-frame Room at TECK Resources Ltd.
Suite 3300, 550 Burrard Street
Vancouver, BC
