Graduate Students

Saskatchewan's claim to fame

Chelsea Pastula (MSc Student) 2023-present: The Omarolluk Formation, Belcher Group (Nunavut, Canada) as a source of omars in Manitoba glacial till

Eduard Linares (PhD Student) 2023-present: Detrital zircon analysis of siliciclastic rocks of the Pine Lake greenstone belt, Glennie domain, northern Saskatchewan

Brayden McDonald (PhD Student) 2018-present: Stratigraphy, detrital zircon geochronology and provenance analysis of the Paleoproterozoic Belcher Group, Nunavut, Canada

Dallas Dixon (MSc Student) 2022-present: Gold mineralization at Porky Lake, Seabee Gold Operation, northern Saskatchewan

  • Society of Economic Geologists Graduate Student Fellowship

Léo Champagne (MSc Student) 2021-present: Volcanic, metamorphic, and structural history of mafic volcanic rocks of the Point Lake greenstone belt, Northwest Territories

  • 2021-2022 NSERC CGS-M recipient

Emily MacMillan (MSc Student) 2020-present: Depositional and tectonic setting of the metasedimentary rocks of the Archean Winter Lake greenstone belt, Slave craton, Northwest Territories, Canada

  • 2020-2021 NSERC CGS-M recipient

 

Dallan Beaudin (MSc Student) 2020-present: Understanding orogenic gold mineralizing systems associated with the Seabee Gold Operation, Pine Lake greenstone belt, Trans-Hudson orogen

Michael McConnell (MSc Student) January 2016-present: Stratigraphy, age, and provenance by detrital zircon U-Pb, Hf isotope analysis of the Karrat Group (Greenland)

  • 2016-2017 Graduate Teaching Fellowship recipient

Previous graduate students

Dawson Stone (MSc defended) 2024: Volcanic, hydrothermal, and tectonic history of mafic volcanic rocks in the Winter Lake greenstone belt, Slave craton, Northwest Territories, MSc Thesis, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada, 166 pp.

Leela Witvoet (MSc completed) 2023: Petrological and geochemical comparison of the Eisler intrusive suite and Laonil Lake intrusive complex, Glennie Domain, northern Saskatchewan, MSc Thesis, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada, 99 pp.

  • 2019-2020 NSERC CGS-M recipient

 

Shelby Austin-Fafard (MSc completed) 2022: Physical volcanology, petrology, geochemistry and tectonic setting of the Neoarchean volcanic rocks in the Sunset Lake area, Beaulieu River volcanic belt, Sunset Lake, Northwest Territories, Canada, MSc Thesis, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada, 163 pp.

  • Finnigan Award, 2019
  • 2019-2020, 2020-2021 Graduate Teaching Fellowship recipient
Courtney
Courtney Onstad (MSc completed) 2021: Geology, petrography, and geochemistry of Fisher property rocks and their altered equivalents, and relationship to auriferous quartz veins, Glennie Domain, northern Saskatchewan. MSc Thesis, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada, 168 pp.

Zach Morrow-Pollock, (MSc completed) 2021. The Geobiology of the Paleoproterozoic Belcher Group, Nunavut, Canada. MSc Thesis, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada, 361 pp.

 

Brayden McDonald, (MSc completed) 2018. Expansion and contraction of anoxia during OAE-2 as inferred by sedimentary δ238U values in the Portland #1 Core, Western Interior Seaway, MSc Thesis, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada, 82 pp.

BSc project: Determination of mineralogy and carbon isotope composition of carbonate rocks from the Paleoproterozoic Murmac Bay Group. Paper published in Can. J. Earth Sci.

 

Ty Magee, (MSc completed) 2018. A geochemical investigation of regional sedimentary-hosted Pb-Zn mineralization in the Paleoproterozoic Karrat Group, West Greenland. MSc Thesis, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada, 112 pp.

Christine Shiels, (MSc completed) 2017. Provenance of a polydeformed metasedimentary succession on the Canadian Shield: insights from new U-Pb, Hf, and O isotope analysis of detrital zircon from the Paleoproterozoic Murmac Bay Group. MSc Thesis, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada, 89 pp.

Future Students

I'm always on the look-out for keen graduate students to join my research group. Funding is usually project based, so advanced contact (6-12 mo ahead of start date) is best. Contact me for possible opportunities.