Geology Alumni, 1994 to Present

Year Name Degree Thesis Title
2024 Minger Guo Ph.D.
2024 Nina Kozikowski M.Sc.
2024 Afroza Parvin Ph.D.
2023 Fengke Cao Ph.D.
2023 Daliah Bibas M.Sc.
2023 Vidhya Ganesh Rangarajan Ph.D.
2023 Neeraja Chinchalkar Ph.D. 
2023 Yaozhu Li Ph.D.
2023 Taylor Duncan M.Sc.
2023 Jessica Flynn Ph.D.
2023 Joshua Laughton Ph.D.
2023 Colton Geil M.Sc.
2023 Juan Jamies Bermudez M.Sc.
2023 Nicolas Garroni Ph.D.
2022 Matthew Svensson Ph.D.
2022 Zohreh Ghorbani Ph.D.
2022 Rhys Paterson M.Sc.
2022 Ana Gonzales-Flores Ph.D.
2022 Emilie Landry M.Sc.
2022 David Benn M.Sc.
2022 Negar Nazari Ph.D.
2021 Xiao Chen Zhang M.Sc.
2021 Stephen Pilar  M.Sc. 
2021 Gabriel Arcuri Ph.D.
2021 Slavena Galic Ph.D.
2021 James Alexander M.Sc. 
2021 Nikol Posnov M.Sc. 
2021 Shannon Hibbard Ph.D.
2021 Ting Sun Ph.D.
2021 Gavin Tolometti Ph.D.
2021 Mailyng Aviles Ph.D.
2021 Sara Belontz Ph.D.
2021 Ian Arturo M.Sc. 
2021 Ankit Bhandari Ph.D. 
2021 Povilas Grigutis M.Sc. 
2020 Juliana Casali M.Sc. 
2020 Chunyi Hao M.Sc. 
2020 Trevor Holness M.Sc. 
2020 Nadine Kanik M.Sc.
2020 Leah Sacks M.Sc. 
2020 Sarah Simpson Ph.D. 
2020 Lindsay Blythe M.Sc. 
2020 Cassandra Powell M.Sc. 
2020 William Yingling M.Sc. 
2020 Jumin Lee M.Sc. 
2020 Cassandra Marion Ph.D.
2020 Jennifer Newman Ph.D.
2020 Christy Caudill Ph.D.
2020 Jamal Nigim M.Sc.
2020 Xi (Lucy) Lu Ph.D.
2020 Abdullah Aseri Ph.D.
2020 Brendt Hyde Ph.D.
2020 Giancarlo Jones Ph.D.
2020 Arwa Zourob M.Sc.
2019 Carolina Rodriguez M.Sc.
2019 Bidong Zhang Ph.D.
2019 Zhiguo Guo M.Sc.
2019 Congxi Zhu M.Sc.
2019 Laura Jenkins M.Sc. 
2019 Kaitlyn Petkau M.Sc. 
2019 Elizabeth Hooper Ph.D.
2019 Stephanie Mabee Ph.D.
2019 Emma-Dawn Ferguson M.Sc.
2019 Katharin Pavan M.Sc. 
2019 Patrick Hill Ph.D.
2019 Alaura Singleton Ph.D.
2019 Carolyn Hill Ph.D.
2019 Derek King M.Sc.
2019 Ronan Drysdale M.Sc. 
2018 Ramjay Botor M.Sc.
2018 Zach Morse Ph.D.
2018 Alana Crump M.Sc.
2018 Annika Van Kessel M.Sc.
2018 Jordan Hawkswell M.Sc.
2018 Mitch Galarneau M.Sc.
2018 Liam Innis M.Sc. 
2018 Lindsay Debono M.Sc.
2018 Arya Bina M.Sc.
2018 Matea Drljepan Ph.D.
2018 Yaozhu Li M.Sc.
2018 Victoria Houde M.Sc.
2018 Mallory Metcalf M.Sc.
2018 Jeffrey Daniels M.Sc.
2018 Omar Al Mufti Ph.D.
2018 Kienan Marion M.Sc.
2018 Joelle Langford M.Sc.
2018 Mengmeng Qu Ph.D.
2018 Sarah CoDyre M.Sc.
2018 Mana Pourdasht M.Sc.
2018 El Mahadia I. Mohammed Ph.D.
2018 Elise Harrington M.Sc.
2018 Alysha McNeil Ph.D.
2018 Matthew Maloney M.Sc.
2018 Shuo Sun Ph.D.
2017 Mo Asmail M.Sc.
2017 Peter Christoffersen M.Sc.
2017 Steve Morrow M.Sc.
2017 Byung-Hun Choe Ph.D.
2017 Michelle MacRae M.Sc.
2017 Jessica Stromberg Ph.D.
2017 Andrew Thomson M.Sc.
2017 Halima Warsame M.Sc.
2017 Lauren Twible Ph.D.
2017 Rebecca Wilks M.Sc.
2017 Yonghua Cao Ph.D.
2017 Katherine Feick M.Sc.
2017 Mansour Al-Hashim Ph.D.
2017 Imran Meghji M.Sc.
2017 Liana Stammers M.Sc.
2017 Laura Colgrove M.Sc.
2017 Carmela Cupelli Ph.D.
2017 Colin Sproat  Ph.D.
2017 Deana Swartz Ph.D.
2017 Tessa Plint M.Sc.
2017 Kathleen Vannelli M.Sc. f
2017 Tanya Harrison Ph.D.
2017 Taylor Haid M.Sc.
2017 Eric Pilles Ph.D.
2017 Denise Anders Ph.D.
2016 Jon O'Callaghan M.Sc.
2016 Cale Gushukak M.Sc.
2016 Anika Ballent M.Sc.
2016 Zijun Liu M.Sc.
2016 Tara Despault M.Sc.
2016 Marcus Adam M.Sc.
2016 Bethany Dean M.Sc.
2016 Roshni Patel M.Sc.
2016 Rachel Schwartz-Narbonne Ph.D.
2015 Marianne Mader Ph.D.PS
2015 Bianca D'Aoust M.Sc.PS
2015 Michael Craig Ph.D.
2015 Adam Coulter M.Sc.
2015 Rohan Aranha M.Sc.
2015 Nikole Bingham-Koslowski Ph.D.
2015 Sean Fulcher M.Sc.
2015 Tim Howe M.Sc.
2015 Hiba-tul Maheen M.Sc.
2015 Sam Russell Ph.D.ES
2015 Ryan Schwegman M.Sc.PS
2015 Patrick Shepherd M.Sc.
2015 Alexandra Smofsky M.Sc.ES
2015 Farnoush Tahmasebi Ph.D.
2014 Eric Buitenhuis M.Sc.
2014 Laurisha Bynoe M.Sc.
2014 Robert Campbell, Jr. M.Sc.
2014 Weiyin Chen M.Sc.
2014 David Edey M.Sc.
2014 Kegan Farrick Ph.D.
2014 W. James Goacher M.Sc.
2014 Ryan Hladyniuk Ph.D.
2014 Bahareh Kasmai M.Sc.
2014 Meghan Kline M.Sc.
2014 Jordan Laarman Ph.D.
2014 D. Michael Laliberty M.Sc.
2014 Maurice Nguyen M.Sc.
2014 Anna Nuhn M.Sc.PS
2014 Annemarie Pickersgill M.Sc.PS
2014 Andrea Prentice Ph.D.
2014 Jim Renaud Ph.D.
2014 Mitchell Skuce M.Sc.
2014 Sarah Sweeney M.Sc.
2014 Tom Ulanowski M.Sc.
2013 Piotr Angiel Ph.D.
2013 Melissa Battler Ph.D.PS
2013 Nicolle Bellissimo M.Sc.
2013 Saeed Chehreh Chelgani Ph.D
2013 Emad Dehkordi Ph.D
2013 Candace Freckelton M.Sc.
2013 Nikolas Ganderton M.Sc.
2013 Peng Jiang M.Sc.
2013 Jenine McCutcheon M.Sc.
2013 Aaron Mohammed M.Sc.
2013 Alexandra Pontefract Ph.D.PS
2013 Greg Robinson M.Sc.
2013 Bhairavi Shankar Ph.D.PS
2013 Jared Shivak M.Sc.PS
2013 Jeremiah Shuster Ph.D.
2013 Akbar Sohrabi Hashjin Ph.D.
2012 Candace Brintnell M.Sc.
2012 S. Gordon Campbell M.Sc.
2012 David Cooper Ph.D.
2012 Andrea Fernandes M.Sc.
2012 Samson Girma Mengistu Ph.D.EN
2012 Meriem Grifi M.Sc.
2012 Michael Hamilton M.Sc.ES
2012 Monika Haring M.Sc.
2012 Kebbi Hughes Ph.D.EN
2012 Matthew Izawa Ph.D.PS
2012 Changcheng Li Ph.D.
2012 Liane Loiselle M.Sc.PS
2012 Rebecca Macdonald Ph.D.
2012 Meghan Macleod M.Sc.
2012 Niloufar Naderi M.Sc.
2012 Nevenka Nakevska M.Sc. Geothermal Energy from In-situ Bitumen Recovery Operations
2012 Duane Petts Ph.D.
2012 Maija Raudsepp M.Sc.ES
2012 Haley Sapers Ph.D.PS
2012 Joel Shank Ph.D.
2012 Colin Sproat M.Sc.
2012 Tamara Sredojevic M.Sc.
2012 Maciej Zbyszewski M.Sc. Plastic Degradation in Lacustrine Environments
2012 Zhenyu "Sirius" Zhong M.Sc.
2011 Alexandre Aubin Ph.D.
2011 Simon Auclair M.Sc.PS Impact-Hydrothermal Calcite Isotope Geochemistry
2011 Robin Buckley M.Sc. Stratigraphy and Sedimentology of the Peace River Formation
2011 Rodney Dammeier M.Sc.PS Lunar Meteorite NWA 3163 and a Possible Terrestrial Analogue
2011 Jessica Metcalfe Ph.D.EN
2011 Ranjeet Nagare Ph.D.
2011 Carl Ozyer Ph.D.
2011 Natalie Pietrzak Ph.D.
2011 Jie Ren M.Sc. SRB Heavy Metal Resistance and Hydrogenase Production
2010 Duncan Bain Ph.D. The Shakespeare Ni-Cu-PGE Deposit, Canada
2010 Nathan Bridge M.Sc. Geology and Geochemistry of the Lac Cinquante Uranium Deposit
2010 Michael Craig M.Sc.PS Impact Effects of Carbonate Spectra and Spectral Calibrations
2010 Ayumi Hyodo Ph.D.
2010 Geoffrey Pearce M.Sc.PS Impact Crater Modification in the Northern Plains of Mars
2010 Ian Power Ph.D.EN The Role of Microbes in Carbonation Reactions
2010 Alaura Singleton M.Sc.PS Effects of Impact on Crystalline Rocks
2009 Ivan Barker M.Sc. Zircon U-Pb Geochronology of Three Cretaceous Bentonites-Alberta
2009 Pengfei Chen Ph.D. Wenlock brachiopod fauna from Arctic Canada
2009 Laura Donkervoort M.Sc.EN Bacteria-Kimberlite Interactions: The Microbial Response
2009 Ian Foster M.Sc. Sulfate Salts and Halophiles: An Astrobiological Perspective
2009 Ben Harwood M.Sc. Crystal-Chemical Trends in Garnets and Ilmenites
2009 Brendt Hyde M.Sc. Fe-H-Sulfates: Bulk, Micro-analysis, IR and APXS Analysis
2009 Ruikun Liu M.Sc. Deformation of Clast-Matrix Systems and its Application
2009 Andrea Prentice M.Sc. Stable Isotope Dendroclimatology in Tropical Systems
2009 Aditya Tyagi Ph.D. Stratigraphy of the Upper Cretaceous Blackstone Formation
2009 Rebecca Vanderspiegel Ph.D. Kinetics of Oxidation - Reduction Reactions on Bimessite
2009 Junhui Wang Ph.D. Hamilton Group Brachiopods of Ontario
2008 Celeste Dufresne M.Sc. Mid-IR of Basaltic Glasses
2008 Philip Geusebroek M.Sc. Metallogenic Setting of Gold Mineralization, Lupin
2008 Matthew Izawa M.Sc. Tagish Lake and E Chondrites: Mineralogy and IR Spectroscopy
2008 Scott Parsons M.Sc. Glacial Geology of the Lac D'Argentier Area, Quebec, Canada
2008 Duane Petts M.Sc. Infiltration of Meteoric Water into the Mira Terrane
2008 Deana Schwarz M.Sc. Isotype Geochemistry of Brachiopods from Anticosti Island, Quebec
2008 Gregory Wanger Ph.D.ES Deep Biosphere of the Witwatersrand Basin
2007 Kim Dalby Ph.D. The Structure of Silicate Glass: An FTIR and XPS Study
2007 Nicole Jacques M.Sc. Magma-Cryosphere Interaction on Mars
2007 Robert Lodge M.Sc. Non-Polygonal Fracture Patterns at Lava-Ice Contacts
2007 Lachlan MacLean Ph.D.ES The Role of Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria in FeS Formation
2007 James Masters M.Sc. Depositional History of the Kipalu Iron Formation
2007 Lyndsay Moore M.Sc. Physical Volcanology and Componentry of the Kakanui Deposit, NZ
2007 Xavier Roca Argemi Ph.D. Allostatigraphy of the Lower Colorado Group
2006 Sean Bosman M.Sc. Stratigraphy and Geochemistry of Archean Rocks, NW. Ontario
2006 Michael Hay M.Sc. Stratigraphy and Paleogeography of the Upper Dunvegan Formation
2006 Claude Pilote M.Sc. Volcano-Sedimentary Sequence of Koivib Mountains, Namibia
2006 Sam Russell M.Sc. The O and H Isotope Composition of the Tagish Lake Meteorite
2006 Jessica Rylaarsdam M.Sc. Stratigraphy and Sedimentology of the Paddy Member
2006 Ronnie Therriault M.Sc. Geology of the Madrid Gold Deposit, Hope Bay Volcanic Belt
2006 Heng Zhang M.Sc. Allostratigraphy of Shaftesbury Fm of Alberta Foreland Basin
2005 Sharon-Rose Blackmore M.Sc. Electrical Studies of Oxidized Pyrite
2005 Krista Blears M.Sc. The Oxygen- and Hydrogen-Isotope Behaviour of Halloysite
2005 Christopher Coueslan M.Sc. The Eden Lake Carbonatite
2005 Allison Daley M.Sc. Boring Patterns in Paleozoic Brachiopods From Canada
2005 Lyshia Goodhue M.Sc. Geomicrobiology of Surficial Geochemical Anomalies
2005 Hua Jin M.Sc.ES The Stable Isotope Composition of Water Vapour at Pinery Provincial Park
2005 Karl Keizars M.Sc. Carbonate and Spatial Analysis, Rosh Pinah, Namibia
2005 Daniel Lui M.Sc. Water and Basalt-Rhyolite Interaction
2005 Lillian Munro M.Sc. Bioapatite Stable Isotopes and Crystallinity During Burning
2005 Sherrill Senior Ph.D. Silurian Graptolite Cyrtograptus, Cape Phillips Formation, Nunavut
2005 Jingshi Wu M.Sc. Cation Ordering in Diopside Jadeite Solid Solution
2004 Lisa Friedrich M.Sc. Glass Formation in Mantle-Derived Xenoliths
2004 Jennifer Heidenheim M.Sc.ES Stable Isotopes in Snails From Pinery Provincial Park
2004 Scott Jobin-Bevans Ph.D. PGE in Nipissing Gabbro and River Valley Intrusions
2004 John McNeil M.Sc. Macrodispersion of Plumes in Heterogeneous Permeability Fields
2004 Peter Rotheisler M.Sc. Lower Stewart River Quaternary Geology, Yukon
2004 Bogdan Varban Ph.D. Stratigraphy of the Cenomanian-Turonian Kaskapau Formation
2003 Andrea Cade M.Sc. Colouration of Lazurite From Baffin Island, Nunavut
2003 Robert Carpenter Ph.D. Geology of the West Meliadine Area, Runkin Inlet Belt, Nunavut, Canada
2003 Simon Donato M.Sc. Paleoecology of the Hungry Hollow Formation
2003 Erika Greiner M.Sc. Gold in Pyritic Quartz-Pebble Conglomerates, Woodburn Group
2003 Robert L'Heureux M.Sc. Iron-formations of the Woodburn Lake Group, Nunavut
2003 Natalie Pietrzak M.Sc. The Walmsley Lake Dyke Swarms of the Slave Province, N.W.T.
2003 Jim Renaud M.Sc. Stratigraphy and Economic Potential of the ALVB, N.W.T.
2002 John Camier M.Sc. The Sue-Dianne Deposit, Northwest Territories, Canada
2002 Paul Glasser M.Sc. Mode of Evolution in the Pentamerus-Pentameroides Lineage
2002 Michael Kreitner M.Sc. The Upper Cretaceous, Lower Kaskapau Formation
2002 Sonja Strynatka M.Sc. Soil Nutrient Potential of Lamproites from Damodar Valley,  India
2001 Krista Adams M.Sc. Experimental Methods for the Study Of Dense Plumes
2001 Saugata Datta Ph.D. Waste Material Utilization in Remineralising Indian Soil
2001 Matthew Devereux M.Sc. Raymond Quarry Fauna-Burgess Shale
2001 Roxane Fagan Ph.D. Isotope Study of Hydroxyl Groups in Smectite and Kaolinite
2001 Shannon Farrell Ph.D. Sulfur K- and L-Edge Xanes Spectroscopy of Monosulfide
2001 Karie Gage M.Sc. The Stable Isotope Geochemistry of Soil Water at Pinery Provincial Park
2001 Shaoneng He Ph.D. Water-Rock Interaction During Steaming of Clearwater Oil Sands
2001 Rachel Jones M.Sc. Inorganically And Bacterially Altered Feass And Feas2
2001 Jennifer Nistico M.Sc. Xps Study of the Near-Surface Region of Ti-S Compounds
2001 Lyne Sabourin M.Sc.ES Geochemistry and Agro-Potential of Sediments From Southwestern Ontario
2001 Julie Sanders M.Sc. Sedimentology & Stratratigraphy Cretaceous Napo Fm In Autocrop
2001 Shawna Simpson M.Sc. Stable Isotope Hydrology At Pinery Provinical Park
2001 Craig Stanley M.Sc. Petrology of Mantle Xenoliths from the Vogelsberg, Germany
2001 Denis Tetreault Ph.D. A Silurian Konservat-Lagerstatte From The Eramosa Dolostone
2000 John Delgaty M.Sc. Ontario Lobe Drumlins, North & South Shores of Lake Ontario
2000 Craig Finnigan M.Sc. Townsite Fmt: Aborted Rift Setting, Yellowknife Belt, N.W.T.
2000 Richard Leveille Ph.D. Biogeochemistry of Carbonate-Silicate Cave Deposits
2000 Menghua Liu Ph.D. Partitioning of Siderophile Elements and Fractionation in Meteorites
2000 Matthew Lumsdon M.Sc. Alluvial Architecture and Palaeoenvironments of the Dunvegan Formation
2000 Alireza Panahi Ph.D. Geochemistry of Precambrian Paleosols And Huronian Rocks
2000 J. Greg Shellnutt M.Sc. The Petrogenesis of the Sudbury Dyke Swarm, Ontario, Canada
2000 Miroslav Sidor M.Sc. The Origin Of Black Rock Alteration Overprinting Iron-Rich Sediments and its Genetic Relationship to Disseminated Polymetallic Sulphide Ores, Lou Lake, Northwest Territories, Canada
2000 Elizabeth Webb Ph.D.ES Stable Isotopes Of Grass Phytoliths: Climate Implications
2000 Victoria Williams M.Sc. Sequence Stratigraphy and Sedimentology of the Cretaceous Napo Formation
1999 Dipanjan Banerjee Ph.D. Surface Chemical Studies of Birnessite Reduction
1999 Ian Colquhoun Ph.D. On the Origin of Calcite-Cemented Sandstones, Clearwater Formation
1999 Jimena Eyzaguirre M.Sc. Veining In The Upper Mantle Beneath The West Eifel, Germany
1999 Philip Holme M.Sc. Quaternary Geology and Stratigraphy of the Beaver Mines Map Area, SW Alberta
1999 Janet Steinbachs M.Sc. Hydrogeology of the Old Ausable River Channel Watershed
1998 Peter Bennett M.Sc. Carbon and Water Cycling in Municipal Solid Waste Landfills
1998 Shanif Habib M.Sc. Diamond-Bearing Lamprophyre Dikes, District Of Keewatin, N.W.T.
1998 Michael Harris Ph.D. Canadian Cordilleran Tectonics from Paleomagnetism
1998 Patrice Huddart Ph.D. Stable Isotope Studies of the Water Continuum
1998 Yue Shao M.Sc. Alkali Iron Germanates: Synthesis, Phases, Crystal Chemistry
1997 Allan Armitage Ph.D. Economic Potential of the Gibson-Macquoid Greenstone Belt
1997 John Armstrong Ph.D. Free-Milling & Refractory Gold Ores, Con Mine, Yellowknife, N.W.T.
1997 William Donaldson Ph.D. Sedimentology, Stratigraphy, Diagenesis of the Bad Heart Formation
1997 Edward Hornibrook Ph.D. Carbon Mineralization in Temperate Zone Freshwater Wetlands
1997 Yuanxian Hu Ph.D. Sequence Stratigraphy of the Puskwaskau Formation of the Alberta Basin
1997 Olav Lian Ph.D. Quaternary Geology of the Fraser Valley Area, Southcentral B.C.
1997 Mark Obermajer Ph.D. Petroleum Potential of the Paleozoic Strata in Southwestern Ontario
1997 Lori Pizzolato M.Sc. Petrogenesis of Mantle Xenoliths from the West Eifel
1997 David Terry Ph.D. Barite-Manganese Occurrences in the Eastern Alaska Range
1996 Keith Barron Ph.D. The Alkaline Igneous Centre at the Springpole Gold Prospect
1996 Robert Carpenter M.Sc. Petrology Of Mantle Xenoliths from the Hessian Depression, Germany
1996 Michael Gunning Ph.D. Paleozoic Volcanic Domains, N.W. Stikinia, British Columbia
1996 Adrienne Jones M.Sc. Lamprophyre Dykes of the Central Churchill Province
1996 Eugene Macdonald M.Sc. Llandovery Radiolaria from the Cape Phillips Formation, Cornwallis Island, Arctic Canada
1996 Rogerio Monteiro Ph.D. Gold Mineralization at Ouro Fino Mine, Brazil
1996 Alireza Panahi M.Sc. Stratigraphy & Geochemistry of the Port Askaig Formation
1996 Francisco Pinho Ph.D. The Origin of the Cabacal Deposit, Brazil
1996 Michael Rinker M.Sc. Mine Waste Investigations: (i) marcasite oxidative dissolution and (ii) reaction path modeling of acid mine drainage reactions
1995 Michael Clegg M.Sc. Mineralogy and Geochemistry of Alkaline Rocks, Kirkland Lake Area
1995 Keith Dewing Ph.D. Ordovician and Silurian Strophomenids from Anticosti Island
1995 Claire Gulliver M.Sc. Alternate Reservoirs for K, Ba, Ti, P And F in the Mantle
1995 Jingtai Han Ph.D. Climate Forcing: Observations from Chinese Loess Plateau
1995 Brian Hart Ph.D. Inorganic Geochemistry of Coal & Flyash from Maemoh, Thailand
1995 Edward Little M.Sc. Maximum-Advance Hypothesis of Continental Glaciation, Southwestern Alberta
1995 Allen Pratt Ph.D. The Low Temperature Surface Geochemistry and Kinetics of Pyrrhotite Weathering
1995 Geoffrey Shore M.Sc. Geology of the Coldwell Peninsula, Coldwell Complex, Ontario
1994 Katharine Albino Ph.D. Weathering & Au Behavior in Soils & Saprolites, South Carolina
1994 Catherine Chague Ph.D. Geochemistry and Organic Petrology of Peat in Canada
1994 Richard Hopson M.Sc. Alteration & Mineralization in the Cochenour-Willans Mine
1994 David Kettlewell M.Sc. Effects of Meteoric Waters on Diagenesis Of Key Lake, Saskatchewan
1994 Ibrahem Qudsi M.Sc. Petrofabric Analysis of Amphibole Schist
1994 Sandra Rutherford Ph.D. Statistical Comparison of Crystal Orientation Fabrics
1994 Cliff Shaw Ph.D. Petrogenesis of the Eastern Gabbro, Coldwell Complex, Ontario

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