Congratulations Rémy Poulin, M.Sc. Geology!
Rémy Poulin successfully defended his M.Sc. in Geology today, with the thesis titled "Scheelite geochemistry as an indicator of intrusion-related W-Mo-(Au) mineralization"
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Rémy Poulin successfully defended his M.Sc. in Geology today, with the thesis titled "Scheelite geochemistry as an indicator of intrusion-related W-Mo-(Au) mineralization"
> Read moreOn May 10, 2016, Sandra McCardell, the High Commissioner of Canada to South Africa with accreditation to Lesotho, Madagascar, Marutitius and Namibia met with LU DES graduate students; Michael Langa, Evan Keir-Sage, Thabiso Makohliso and Cédric Mayer in South Africa. All four students are M.Sc. candidates who have had learning and teaching experiences in Earth Sciences at both the University of Limpopo, South Africa, and at Laurentian University, Canada.
> Read moreThis year’s recipient of the Mary-Claire Ward Geoscience Award is Jordan McDivitt of Laurentian University...
> Read moreThe Department of Earth Sciences (DES) and Mineral Exploration Research Centre (MERC) at Laurentian University invite applications for a Tier I Canada Research Chair in Metallogeny that integrates ore system research with broad scale tectonic processes...
> Read moreCongratulations to Philippe Trudel for winning the 2015 Student Industry Field Trip (SIFT) competition in Calgary, AB!
> Read moreJoe Petrus was interviewed about his work at Laurentian University.
> Read moreGraduate students can now use the following equipment in the research lab on the 5th floor...
> Read moreStudents, faculty of DES and members of the broader geological community have been avidly bidding on rocks and minerals in the past months...
> Read moreCIM Sudbury Branch representatives Sue Tessier and Trang Tran-Valade presented a $25,000 donation towards upgrading the Department of Earth Sciences’ petrographic microscope facilities...
> Read moreThe Goodman School of Mines’ generous donation of $ 50,000 allowed the Department of Earth Sciences to buy new Olympus BX41 microscopes and Lumenera cameras to accommodate our students’ learning and research.
> Read moreDr. Michael Schindler was interviewed on CBC radio about the black coating on Sudbury rocks.
> Read moreThe summer field season is upon us and most members of the department are beginning to leave for the field.
> Read moreThe new $12m pan-Canadian NSERC-CMIC-CRD "Multidisciplinary Exploration Fooprints" project will be based at LU. Including 42 researchers from 24 universities across Canada and 28 sponsoring mining companies and mineral exploration companies...
> Read moreThe Third Annual DES End-of-Year Banquet was held on Saturday 06 April 2013 at the Italian Club in Copper Cliff.
> Read moreThe 11th International Platinum Symposium (IPS) held at Laurentian University 21-24 June 2010 was successful on many fronts but none more than the scientific merits that were realized. One tangible piece of evidence for this is a recently published, special thematic issue The Canadian Mineralogist (vol 49, part 6) which drew heavily from some of the presentations made at the IPS, along with submissions received from international researchers conducting fundamental research into the origin, distribution and processing of platinum-group elements.
> Read moreDaniel Layton-Matthews has been awarded the 2012 William Harvey Gross Medal by the Mineral Deposits Division of the Geological Association of Canada, joining Harold Gibson, Steve Piercey (now at Memorial University), Catharine Farrow (Adjunct), and Peter Lightfoot (Adjunct) as members of the Department who have won the award. Dan obtained his MSc from LU in 2003 and is presently Associate Professor of Geochemistry and Ore Deposits at Queen's University. Congratulations Dan!
> Read moreSenior faculty members at Laurentian University’s Department of Earth Sciences and the Mineral Exploration Research Centre have been honoured with prestigious awards in their respective geological fields.
> Read moreThanks to the many of you who dropped by the MERC/DES booth at PDAC and attended the hugely successful Alumi Reception. The reception was filled with alumni and friends, who came to catch up with each other and to hear about recent initiatives in the Department, MERC, and LU by DES Chairman Dan Kontak, MERC Director Michael Lesher, and LU President Dominic Giroux.
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