Past Earth Sciences Theses

2020s

2029

2028

2027

2026

2025

2024

Ingrid Helmke (BSc)
Characterization of Calcite Amygdules in Devonian Basalts, in the McArras Brook Formation, Nova Scotia (Major Project)
Supervisor: Richard Cox

Lauren Kew (BSc Honours)
Reconstructing Changes in the Northwest Atlantic 14C Depth Gradient using Deep Water Gorgonian Corals
Supervisor: Owen Sherwood

Sana Salehi (BSc Honours)
The impact of precipitation phase on changing groundwater recharge in mountain regions of Canada and the US
Supervisor: Lauren Somers

2022

Aliya Anderson (BSc), Using Seismic Noise to Monitor COVID-19 Societal Response in Halifax (Major Project)
Supervisor: Miao Zhang
Richard Chow (MSc)
TRACE ELEMENT PARTITIONING BETWEEN APATITE AND KIMBERLITE-LIKE MELTS – IMPLICATIONS FOR VOLATILE DEGASSING AND FORMATION OF DIFFERENT KIMBERLITE FACIES
Supervisor: Yana Fedortchuk
Kathleen Clark (BSc Honours), Trace element geochemistry of biotite from the Scrag Lake and New Ross plutons of the South Mountain Batholith, Nova Scotia, Canada: Implications for magma differentiation
Supervisor: James Brenan
Natashia Drage (MSc)An Experimental Study of the Effect of Pressure on the Formation of Chromite Deposits
Supervisor: James Brenan
Trevor Kelly (PhD)Sedimentology and Reservoir Characteristics of the Carboniferous Joggins Formation, Nova Scotia, Atlantic Canada
Supervisor: Grant Wach
Bryan Maciag (PhD),
Geochemistry of Arsenic in Magmatic Systems with Some Results for Antimony
Supervisor: James Brenan
Garridan Porter (BSc Honours), Impacts of Forest Loss on the Global Water Cycle of the Permian-Triassic Extinction
Supervisor: Shannon Sterling
Michael Powell (BSc Honours), Petrography and trace element chemistry of vein calcite in the Deep Drill 1972 Core, Bermuda Island
Supervisor: Lexie Arnott
Philip Sedore (MSc)Environmental Controls on the Generation of Submarine Landslides in Arctic Fiords: An Example from Pangnirtung Fiord, Eastern Baffin Island, Nunavut
Supervisor(s): Alexandre Normandeau and Vittorio Maselli
Rosa Toutah (BSc Honours), Dissolution features on diamonds from hypabyssal kimberlite facies and the effect of melt composition on diamond resorption
Supervisor: Yana Fedortchouk
Julie Woods (BSc), Characteristics of Metamorphic Texture of the Loch Eil Group (Major Project)
Supervisor: Richard Cox

2021

Masoud Aali (PhD)
ANALYSIS OF THE CYCLIC CHARACTER OF SILICICLASTIC SEDIMENTS AT THE NEW JERSEY CONTINENTAL SHELF USING ULTRA-HIGH RESOLUTION 3D SEISMIC AND WELL DATA
Supervisor: Mladen Nedimović
Anne Catherine Hargreaves (MSc)
SEISMIC AND LITHOLOGICAL CHARACTERIZATION AND SOURCE ROCK POTENTIAL OF THE APTIAN NASKAPI SHALE MEMBER, LOGAN CANYON FORMATION, OFFSHORE NOVA SCOTIA.
Supervisor: Grant Wach
Michael Kishchuk (BSc Honours)
Geological controls on radon concentration in surficial sediment in Whitehorse, Yukon
Supervisor: John Gosse
Kenneth Martyns-Yellowe (MSc)
Integrated Lithostratigraphic, Formation and Structural Evaluation of the Migrant Structure, Sable Subbasin, Offshore Nova Scotia.
Supervisor: Grant Wach
Benjamin Myrer (BSc Honours)
Thermobarometry of Eclogite from the Nordøyane Ultra-High Pressure Domain, Western Gneiss Region, Norway
Supervisor: Rebecca A. Jamieson
Anna Ryan (BSc Honours)
The effect of a weakening Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation on ocean temperatures in the Gulf of St. Lawrence over the past 150 years
Supervisor: Markus Kienast
Sydney Stashin (MSc)
LATE CENOZOIC BASIN EVOLUTION OF THE WESTERN CANADIAN ARCTIC ARCHIPELAGO: THE BEAUFORT FORMATION AND IPERK SEQUENCE
Supervisor: John Gosse
Dawn Tobey (MSc)
Water and Wind: The Fluvial and Eolian Forces Behind the Pennsylvanian-Permian Halgaito Formation, Utah
Supervisors: Martin Gibling /Isabelle Coutand

Kara Vogler (MSc)
THERMAL HISTORY OF THE LABRADOR RIFTED MARGIN: INSIGHTS FROM APATITE AND ZIRCON (U-TH)/HE AND APATITE FISSION TRACK THERMOCHRONOLOGY
Supervisors: Isabelle Coutand / Deanne van Rooyen

2010s

2018

Taylor Campbell (MSc)
SEISMIC STRATIGRAPHY AND ARCHITECTURE OF THE JURASSIC ABENAKI MARGIN, AT COHASSET-MIGRANT, AND POTENTIAL FOR DISTAL ORGANIC-RICH FACIES
Supervisor: Grant Wach

Ben Ellis (BSc Honours)
GEOCHRONOLOGY OF THE CHICOUTIMI GNEISS BELT, ST. FULGENCE, QUEBEC
Supervisor: Richard Cox

John Evangelatos (PhD)
The genesis and evolution of Makarov Basin, Arctic Ocean
Supervisors: David Mosher / John Gosse

Jen Frail-Gauthier (PhD)ECOLOGICAL INTERACTIONS AND GEOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS OF FORAMINIFERA AND ASSOCIATED MEIOFAUNA IN TEMPERATE SALT MARSHES OF EASTERN CANADA
Supervisors: Daivd Scott / Martin Gibling

Kate Gonzalez-Woods (BSc Honours)
AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF THE EFFECT OF WATER ON CHROMITE SOLUBILITY IN KOMATIITE
Supervisor: James Brenan

Ariel Greenblat (BSc Honours)
A High Resolution Record of Sediment Deposition in the Gulf of Aqaba during the last ~4000 years
Supervisor: Markus Kienast

Graham Kerford (BSc Honours)
STRUCTURE OF THE MOHOROVIČIĆ DISCONTINUITY (MOHO) AT THE EAST PACIFIC RISE FROM 3D MULTICHANNEL SEISMIC REFLECTION DATA
Supervisor: Mladen R. Nedimović

Sarah McLeod (BSc Honours)
SHORTENING OF SOUTHERN TIBET
Supervisor: Djordje Grujic

Rachel Milligan (MSc)
Features of apatite in kimberlite from Ekati Diamond Mine and Snap Lake: modelling kimberlite composition
Supervisor: Yana Fedortchouk

Maya Soukup (BSc Honours)
TESTING A MUOGENIC ISOTOPE METHOD TO MONITOR RELIEF GENERATION OVER MILLIONS OF YEARS
Supervisor:
John Gosse

Dana Thomsen (BSc Honours)
Investigating fluid exchange between granitic hosts, dykes and enclaves in the South Mountain Batholith
Supervisor: Richard Cox

Kara Vogler (BSc Honours)
BEDFORMS IN WAVE–FORCED NEARSHORE ENVIRONMENTS: OBSERVATIONS WITH A PROTOTYPE HUMAN-POWERED SURFACE VEHICLE
Supervisor: Alex Hay

Jacob Van der Wal (BSc Honours)
CALCITE FRACTURE-FILLING: A PROXY FOR GEOTHERMAL ENERGY SYSTEMS, AND IMPLICATIONS FOR THE TECTONIC HISTORY OF THE NORTHEASTERN MIDLAND VALLEY, SCOTLAND
Supervisor: John MacDonald

2017

Erin Anderson (BSc Honours)
Diagenetic effects at erosional boundaries in the Triassic Wolfville Formation at Rainy Cove, Nova Scotia
Supervisor: Grant Wach

Emma Besseau (BSc Honours)
LARGE GRAVEL/COBBLE SUBMARINE DUNES IN GRAND PASSAGE, NOVA SCOTIA: ARE THEY DEAD OR ALIVE?
Supervisor: Alex Hay

Colin Bryden (MSc)
STABLE ISOTOPE CHEMISTRY AND GEOCHRONOLOGY OF SCAPOLITE-BEARING PEGMATITES IN NORDØYANE, WESTERN GNEISS REGION, NORWAY: A MONITOR FOR THE ROLE OF FLUIDS IN (U)HP PARTIAL MELTING
Supervisor: Rebecca Jamieson

Charlie Carlisle (MSc)LATE-STAGE PROPAGATION OF THE GRENVILLE OROGEN: THERMOBAROMETRY AND TIMES OF PEAK METAMORPHISM FROM SUDBURY METADIABASE, GEORGIAN BAY, ONTARIO
Supervisor: Rebecca Jamieson

Carolina Chang (BSc Honours)
LOW TEMPERATURE THERMAL HISTORY OF MAINLAND NOVA SCOTIA USING APATITE AND ZIRCON (U-TH)/HE THERMOCHRONOLOGY
Supervisor: Isabelle Coutand

Glenn Chapman (MSc)
LATE-STAGE PROPAGATION OF THE GRENVILLE OROGEN: THERMOBAROMETRY AND TIMES OF PEAK METAMORPHISM FROM SUDBURY METADIABASE, GEORGIAN BAY, ONTARIO
Supervisor: Rebecca Jamieson

Njillan Frobes (BSc Honours)
EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF POSITIVE TRIGONS ON DIAMONDS; CONDITIONS OF NEAR-SURFACE DIAMOND RESORPTION WITH APPLICATION TO EMPLACEMENT CONDITIONS OF SNAP LAKE KIMBERLITE.
Supervisor: Yana Fedortchouk

Camille Haddad (BSc Honours)
PALYNOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM LEG 210 WELLSITE 1276: TRENDS SURROUNDING THE PALEOCENE–EOCENE THERMAL MAXIMUM
Supervisors: Rob Fensome & Graham Williams

Samantha Hamilton (BSc Honours)
CHEMOSTRATIGRAPHY OF THE UPPER SILURIAN ARISAIG GROUP, NOVA SCOTIA.
Supervisor: Richard Cox

Jane Hawken (MSc)
ORIGIN AND STRATIGRAPHIC SETTING OF THE SACKVILLE SPUR BOTTOM SIMULATING REFLECTOR, OFFSHORE NEWFOUNDLAND
Supervisor: David Mosher and John Gosse

Fiona Henderson (BSc Honours)
PREDICTING POTENTIAL ANTHROPOGENIC INFLUENCES AND EVALUATING METAL CONCENTRATIONS WITHIN URBAN SOILS HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA
Supervisor: Anne Marie Ryan

Corin Jorgenson (BSc Honours)
Sulphur solubility of carbonatites as a mass transfer agent in the mantle
Supervisor: James Brenan

Jason Loxton (PhD)
GRAPTOLITE DIVERSITY AND COMMUNITY CHANGES SURROUNDING THE LATE ORDOVICIAN MASS EXTINCTION: HIGH RESOLUTION DATA FROM THE BLACKSTONE RIVER, YUKON
Supervisor: Michael Melchin

Zhuoyuan Li (MSc)
Micro-morphology and Resorption features of Diamonds from Snap Lake and Ekati Kimberlites (Canada) as an Indicator of Kimberlite Emplacement Conditions
Supervisor: Yana Fedortchouk

Sarah MacLeod (MSc)
Increasing Aluminum Levels in Southwestern Nova Scotia Rivers
Supervisor: Shannon Sterling

Camille Malcolm (BSc Honours)
Identifying clast species to define the upper age-bracket of the Claremont conglomerate, Eastern Cobequid Highlands, Nova Scotia
Supervisor: Anne-Marie Ryan

Patrick Manion (BSc Honours)
Lithospheric flexural controls on landscape evolution during deposition and incision of the Beaufort Formation, western Canadian Arctic
Supervisors: Chris Beaumont / John Gosse

Robert McEwan (BSc Honours)
VISIBLE TO NEAR-INFRARED ANALYSIS OF GRANITES – A METHOD FOR CHARGE COUPLED DEVICE SPECTROSCOPY
Supervisor: Charles Walls

Natasha Morrison (MSc)
FACIES DISTRIBUTION, FLUVIAL ARCHITECTURE, PROVENANCE, DIAGENESIS, AND RESERVOIR QUALITY OF SYNRIFT SUCCESSIONS FROM THE BREAKUP OF PANGEA: EXAMPLES FROM THE FUNDY BASIN AND ORPHEUS GRABEN
Supervisor: Grant Wach

Darragh O’Connor (MSc)
FACIES DISTRIBUTION, FLUVIAL ARCHITECTURE, PROVENANCE, DIAGENESIS, AND RESERVOIR QUALITY OF SYNRIFT SUCCESSIONS FROM THE BREAKUP OF PANGEA: EXAMPLES FROM THE FUNDY BASIN AND ORPHEUS GRABEN
Supervisor: Grant Wach

Eduardo Perez (BSc Honours)
A CASE STUDY OF CHROMITE AND ASSOCIATED MINERALS AS INDICATORS OF DIAMOND PRESERVATION IN THE BOTSWANAN ORAPA KIMBERLITE CLUSTE
Supervisor: Yana Fedortchouk

Philip Sedore (BSc Honours)
PRELIMINARY 1D MODELLING APPROACH TO THE INVESTIGATION OF MESOZOIC SOURCE ROCKS IN SEVERAL OFFSHORE NEWFOUNDLAND BASINS
Supervisor: Grant Wach / Ricardo Silva

Sharane Simon (PhD)
Sedimentology of the Fluvial Systems of the Clear Fork Formation in North-Central Texas: Implications for Early Permian Paleoclimate and Plant Fossil Taphonomy
Supervisor: Martin Gibling

Sydney Stashin (BSc Honours)
Investigating possible hybridization of the Peggys Cove granite section of the Halifax Pluton, South Mountain Batholith, Nova Scotia
Supervisor: Richard Cox

Samantha Van De Kerckhove (MSc)
TECTONIC HISTORY OF THE NEPEWASSI DOMAIN, CENTRAL GNEISS BELT, GRENVILLE PROVINCE, ONTARIO: A LITHOLOGICAL, STRUCTURAL, METAMORPHIC AND GEOCHRONOLOGICAL STUDY
Supervisor: Nick Culshaw

Yuqiu Zhao (BSc Honours)
Tiny Recorder of the Evolution of Major Crustal Faults in the Bhutan Himalaya: An Integrated Mineralogical, Morphological, and Geochemical Study of Clay Minerals from fault gouges
Supervisor: Djordje Grujic

2016

Janice Allen (PhD)
Numerical Modeling of Salt Tectonics at Rifted Continental Margins
Supervisor: Chris Beaumont

Sarah Ambrose (MSc)
GLOBAL SCALE DRIVERS AND FUTURE PROJECTIONS OF THE TERRESTRIAL WATER BUDGET
Supervisor: Shannon Sterling

Sonja Bhatia (PhD)
Fibre optic applications for dissolved carbon dioxide monitoring of marine geologic sequestration sites.
Supervisor: David Risk

Oliver Blume (BSc Honours)
Synthetic leaching of uranium from South Mountain Batholith granites and Horton Group siltstones of south central Nova Scotia, using a suite of ionic complexes
Supervisor: Anne-Marie Ryan

Kai Boggild (BSc Honours)
Morphological examination of the NP-28 submarine channel-fan complex in the Amundsen Basin, Arctic Ocean
Supervisor: David Mosher

Carmen Braun (BSc Honours)
Chemical Stratigraphy of the Windsor Group Marine Sediments, Shubenacadie Basin, Nova Scotia
Supervisor: Richard Cox

Jeremy Brittain (BSc Honours)
A palynological analysis of Late Cretaceous and Paleogene Strata from the Eclipse Trough, South Coast section, Bylot Island, Nunavut.
Supervisor: Rob Fensome and Graham Williams

Andrea Christians (MSc)
Late Cretaceous to Cenozoic Reactivation of Central Scotian Slope Salt Bodies and the Impact on Slope Depositional Systems
Supervisors: Mark Deptuck, Andrew MacRae and Nicholas Culshaw

Leslie Eliuk (PhD)
ABENAKI CARBONATE PLATFORM IN RELATION TO THE JURASSIC-CRETACEOUS SABLE ISLAND DELTA, OFFSHORE NOVA SCOTIA, CANADA
Supervisor: Grant Wach

Arthur Fitzpatrick (BSc Honours)
LAND USE CHANGE IN THE MCINTOSH RUN WATERSHED SPRYFIELD, NOVA SCOTIA
Supervisor: Charles Walls and Lawrence Plug

Nathan Glas (BSc Honours)
USING ANHYDRITE CRYSTALS AND WHOLE ROCK ANALYSIS IN A MISSISSIPPIAN SALT DIAPIR AS A PROXY TO DETERMINE THE PRESERVATION EXTENT OF PRIMARY SEAWATER GEOCHEMICAL FEATURES THROUGH DEFORMATION PROCESSES
Supervisor: Richard Cox

Jillian Haynes (BSc Honours)
WHAT IS THE DOSAGE OF POWDERED LIMESTONE NEEDED TO RAISE WATER QUALITY TO WITHIN TARGET LEVELS IN SOUTHWESTERN NOVA SCOTIA?
Supervisor: Shannon Sterling

Nicholas Hosek (BSc Honours)
Trail Erosion Analysis Using Close-Range Structure-Fro01-Motion PhotograDIInetry
Supervisor: Lawrence Plug

Erin Keltie (BSc Honours)
DIAMOND DISSOLUTION IN Na2CO3, Na2CO3-NaCl, AND Na2CO3-NaF MELTS
Supervisor: Yana Fedortchouk

Elliot McLauchlan (BSc Honours)
The Impact of Climate Change on Streamflow in the Blueberry River, Northern British Columbia, and the Potential Influence on Oil and Gas Development
Supervisor: Lawrence Plug and Allan Chapman

Monique Ruhl (BSc Honours)
GRAIN SIZE ANALYSIS OF SEDIMENTS FROM THE MINAS BASIN, NOVA SCOTIA- CONTROLS OF EROSION ON THE SEABED SEDIMENT TEXTURE
Supervisor: Paul Hill (Oceanography)

Carla Skinner (MSc)
Excess Pressure and Reservoir Compartmentalization in the Sable Subbasin, Offshore Nova Scotia
Supervisor: Grant Wach

Shannon Steele (BSc Honours)
VISIBLE TO NEAR-INFRARED ANALYSIS OF GRANITES – A METHOD FOR CHARGE COUPLED DEVICE SPECTROSCOPY
Supervisors: David Barclay (Oceanography) and Sean Pecknold (DRDC)

Robert Varcoe (BSc Honours)
Does Evapotranspiration Increase When Forests are Converted to Grasslands?
Supervisor: Shannon Sterling

Stefanie Wenker (MSc)
Numerical modeling of a laterally heterogeneous lithosphere under extension: Strength contrasts and rifting of a metasomatized craton
Supervisor: Chris Beaumont

Zhihai Zhang (PhD)
Diamond resorption morphology as a fluid proxy in diamond-bearing environments: Constraints from empirical and experimental studies
Supervisor: Yana Fedortchouk

2015

Emmaline Atherton (BSc Honours)
Seismic strain and the state of stress in the crust of the Himalaya
Supervisor: Djordje Grujic

Tony Barresi (PhD)
TECTONO-MAGMATIC AND METALLOGENIC EVOLUTION OF THE LATE TRIASSIC TO MIDDLE JURASSIC HAZELTON GROUP IN NORTHWEST BRITISH COLUMBIA
Supervisors: Jaroslav Dostal / Rebecca Jamieson

Lea C. Braschi (MSc)
Chronostratigraphy of the Beaufort Formation, western Canadian Arctic Archipelago
Supervisor: John Gosse

Laura-Ann Broom (BSc Honours)
The diversity of life in braided river systems during the Late Triassic at Burntcoat
Supervisors: Martin Gibling / Tim Fedak

C. Gabriel Creason (MSc)
Phanerozoic Exhumation History of Hall Peninsula, Baffin Island: Insights from Apatite and Zircon (U-Th-Sm)/He Thermochronology and 3D Thermokinematic Modeling
Supervisor: John Gosse

Janette Cullen, (MSc)
Geophysical Character of the Mohican Channel Gas Hydrate, Nova Scotia, Eastern Canada
Supervisor: David Mosher, Keith Louden

Sean Des Roches (BSc Honours)
Testing a new grain-­‐size dependent isochron cosmogenic nuclide burial dating method: Eastern Cordillera, Colombian Andes
Supervisor: John Gosse

Victoria Desjardins (BSc Honours)
Exploring the Effect of Chloride from De-icing Salts on Heavy Metal Concentrations in Urban Soils: A Case Study in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Supervisor: Anne Marie Ryan

Jillian Kendrick (BSc Honours)
Multistage Corona Formation in Algonquin Metagabbro, Southwestern Grenville Province, Ontario
Supervisor: Rebecca Jamieson

Winson Li (BSc Honours)
Sediment disturbance due to storm wave action on a steep, mixed sand and gravel beach on the Bay of Fundy
Supervisor: Alex Hay

Bertha N. Louis (MSc)
Late Cenozoic upper-crustal cooling history of the Shuswap Metamorphic Complex, southern Canadian Cordillera, British Columbia: new insights from low-temperature multi-thermochronometry and inverse thermal modeling
Supervisor: Isabelle Coutand

Elizabeth Lymer (BSc Honours)
An examination of planetary fractionation: examples from meteorites
Supervisor: Richard Cox

Annina Margreth (PhD)
CLIMATE SENSITIVITIES OF POLYTHERMAL ICE SHEET, ICE CAP, AND ALPINE ICE DYNAMICS AND RELATED EPISODIC EROSION ON CUMBERLAND PENINSULA, BAFFIN ISLAND, NUNAVUT
Supervisor: John Gosse

Angeliki Papoutsa (PhD)
The petrological evolution of the late Paleozoic A-type granites of the Cobequid Highlands, Canada
Supervisor: Georgia Pe-Piper

2014

Omid Aghaei (PhD)
THE EAST PACIFIC RISE CRUSTAL THICKNESS, MOHO TRANSITION ZONE CHARACTER AND OFF-AXIS MAGMA LENS MELT CONTENT FROM 9°37.5’N TO 9°57’N: RESULTS FROM THREE-DIMENSIONAL MULTICHANNEL SEISMIC DATA ANALYSIS
Supervisor: Mladen R. Nedimović

Ian Borg (BSc Honours)
The Possible Role of the Petroleum System in the Metallogenesis of Gold in Meguma Metaturbidites: Geochemical Investigation in the Touquoy Deposit, Moose River, Nova Scotia
Supervisor: Marcos Zentilli

Taylor Campbell (BSc Honours)
Seismic stratigraphy and attribute analysis of the Mesozoic and Cenozoic of the Penobscot Area, offshore Nova Scotia
Supervisor: Grant Wach

Mitchell Grace (BSc Honours)
Alaska-Aleutian megathrust:
Variation in subducting plate structure and implications for seismicity offshore Alaska

Supervisors: Mladen R. Nedimović, Keith Louden

Tanya Forde (MSc)
COASTAL EVOLUTION OVER THE PAST 3000 YEARS AT CONRADS BEACH, NOVA SCOTIA, CANADA: UNDERSTANDING THE DYNAMICS OF TRANSGRESSIVE COASTS
Supervisors: Martin Gibling Mladen R. Nedimović

Rhea Hurnik (BSc Honours)
Structural remodeling and collagen deposition in the heart of NPR-C knockout mice
Supervisor: Robert Rose

Kylle Landry (MSc)
NEOGENE EXHUMATION OF THE SIKKIM HIMALAYA FROM ZIRCON (U-TH)/HE THERMOCHRONOLOGY AND 3-D THERMO-KINEMATIC MODELLING
Supervisor: Isabelle Coutand

Svieda Ma (BSc Honours)
DID THE ADULA NAPPE (EUROPEAN BASEMENT) ENDURE UHP METAMORPHISM DURING THE ALPINE OROGENY?
INSIGHT FROM A (MICRO)STRUCTURAL AND TEXTURAL STUDY

Supervisor: Djordje Grujic

Dierdre Mallyon (BSc Honours)
Seismic stratigraphy and attribute analysis of the Mesozoic and Cenozoic of the Penobscot Area, offshore Nova Scotia
Supervisor: Djordje Grujic

Siobhan McGoldrick (BSc Honours)
Geochemical characterization of ca. 2680 Ma pillow lavas at Sharrie Lake, southern Slave Province, Northwest Territories
Supervisors: Rebecca A. Jamieson, Luke Ootes (NTGO), and Valerie A. Jackson (NTGO)

Rachel Milligan (BSc Honours)
REACTION OF IRON-TITANIUM OXIDE MINERALS WITH KIMBERLITE MAGMA:
A CASE STUDY FOR ORAPA KIMBERLITE CLUSTER

Supervisor: Yana Fedortchuk

Jeff Minichiello (BSc Honours)
Increasing Concentrations in Aluminum in Southwest Nova Scotia from 1980 to 2011
Supervisor: Shannon Sterling

Natasha Morrison (BSc Honours)
An Investigation into UV Fluorescence in Feldspar Group Minerals
Supervisor: Grant Wach

Nicholas Nickerson (PhD)
Using Physical Principles to Enhance the Measurement, Interpretation and Understanding of Soil Respiration

Supervisor: David Risk

Colin Price (BSc Honours)
FACIES OF THE VERTEBRATE-BEARING SCOTS BAY MEMBER AT WASSON BLUFF, NOVA SCOTIA
Supervisor: Martin Gibling, Tim Fedak

Adi Saric (BSc Honours)
Stress Changes in the Shillong Plateau and the Cause of the Seismic Gap in the Eastern Himalaya
Supervisor: Djordje Grujic

Leigh van Drecht (BSc Honours)
Sedimentology and Paleoenvironment of an Early Jurassic Dinosaur Bone Bed, Wasson Bluff, Parrsboro, Nova Scotia
Supervisors: Martin Gibling, Tim Fedak

Carlos Wong (BSc Honours)
Lidar survey of the Joggins Formation in the Coal Mine Point section, Cumberland Basin (Nova Scotia, Canada)
Supervisor: Grant Wach

2013

Zoe Braden (BSc Honours)
Paleoproterozoic pressure-temperature-deformation path in the Newton Fiord region, eastern Baffin Island, Nunavut
Supervisor: Michael Young

Shannon Broughm (BSc Honours)
PETROGENESIS OF REE-MINERALIZED GRANITE DYKES IN THE NORTHEASTERN COBEQUID HIGHLANDS, NOVA SCOTIA
Supervisor: Richard Cox / Trevor MacHattie

James Burg (BSc Honours)
Microbially Induced Sedimentary Structures in the Carboniferous Horton Bluff Formation Near Hantsport, Nova Scotia
Supervisor: Martin Gibling

Jared Butler (PhD)
Crustal subduction and the exhumation of (ultra)high-pressure terranes: contrasting modes with examples from the Alps and Caledonides
Supervisors: Rebecca A. Jamieson, Chris Beaumont

Carla Dickson (BSc Honours)
Structural Geology of the Bear River Formation (Halifax Group) and White Rock Formation (Rockville Notch Group) Contact in the Cape St. Marys Area, Southwest Nova Scotia
Supervisors: Nicholas Culshaw

Tarra Forstner (BSc Honours)
Bedrock Incision and Relief Generation of the Western Hangay Mountains, Mongolia
Supervisor: John Gosse

Matthew Gaudet (BSc Honours)
Mineralogical Study of Uranium and Niobium Mineralization at the Main Intrusion of the Lofdal Carbonatite Complex, Namibia, Africa
Supervisor: Yana Fedortchuk, Scott Swinden

Joanna Gerlings (PhD)
A DEEP SEISMIC ANALYSIS OF THE FLEMISH CAP CONTINENTAL MARGIN OFF NEWFOUNDLAND, CANADA
Supervisor: Keith Louden

Sofie Gradmann (PhD)
The Evolution of Deep-Water Salt-Tectonic Structures, Numerical Modeling Studies applied to the Northwestern Gulf of Mexico
Supervisor: Chris Beaumont

Alan Hidy (PhD)
Cosmogenic Nuclide Quantification of Paleo-fluvial Sedimentation Rates in Response to Climate Change
Supervisor:John Gosse

John Hirschmiller (BSc Honours)
Pliocene to Recent Shortening of the Siwalik Group in the Himalayan Foreland Belt
Supervisor: Djordje Grujic

Lori Manoukian (BSc Honours)
Flow Unit Characterization of the Early Cretaceous Mississauga Formation Using Cores From The Venture B-13 Well
Supervisor: Grant Wach

Nicole Marshall (BSc Honours)
Late Quaternary Variations of the Labrador Current in Flemish Pass
Supervisor: D.J.W. Piper

Saad Mohamed (PhD)
MONITORING OF THE REMEDIATION OF HALIFAX HARBOUR AFTER 250 YEARS OF CONTAMINATION USING FORAMINIFERAL PROXIES
Supervisor: David Scott

Kelsey O'Brien (MSc)
RADON-222 POTENTIAL IN TILLS OF HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA
Supervisors: David Risk / Daniel Rainham

Daniel Pfeiffer (BSc Honours)
Monazite (U-Th-Pb) Dating of Polyphase Tectonometamorphism in the Government Point and Cunard Formations, SW Nova Scotia
Supervisor: Richard Cox

Evan Slater (BSc Honours)
Geochemical and fluid inclusion study of hydrothermal mineralization in the Busang Southeast Zone, Kalimantan, Indonesia: Unique insight into the Bre-X Scandal
Supervisors: Marcos Zentilli / Jacob Hanley (SMU)

Holly Steenkamp (MSc)
A Metamorphic History of Supracrustal Rocks on Harøya and Finnøya, Nordøyane, Western Gneiss Region, Norway
Supervisor: Rebecca A. Jamieson

Dawn Tobey (BSc Honours)
Sequence Stratigraphy of the Banquereau Formation, Offshore Nova Scotia
Supervisor: Grant Wach

Sam Tyler (BSc Honours)
Structures and Southern Boundary Zone of the Nepewassi Domain, Central Gneiss Belt, Grenville Province, ON
Supervisor: Nicholas Culshaw

Michael Walsh (BSc Honours)
Low-Temperature Cooling History of the Olympus-Ossa Massif: New Insights From Zircon and Apatite (U-Th)/He Thermochronology and Thermal Modelling
Supervisor: Isabelle Coutand

Derek Wongas (BSc Honours)
The Crystallization of K-Feldspar Megacrysts in Granitoids From Southwestern Nova Scotia
Supervisor: Richard Cox

2012

Logan Brown (BSc Honours)
TESTING THE APPLICATION ON COSMOGENIC 10Be AS A TRACER FOR SUBGLACIAL PROCESSES IN TILL AT CONRAD'S HEAD, NOVA SCOTIA
Supervisor: John Gosse



Calvin Campbell (PhD)
The Late Cretaceous and Cenozoic Geological History of the Outer Continental Margin off Nova Scotia, Canada: Insights into Margin Evolution from a Mature Passive Margin
Supervisor: David Mosher

Robert Campbell (BSc Honours)
Platinum Group Element (PGE) Mineralization Associated with Fe-Ti-V Deposit, Rio Jacaré Intrusion, Bahia State, Brazil
Supervisor: Yana Fedortchuk

Beth Cowan (BSc Honours)
CLIMATE PROXIES FROM THE SIWALIK GROUP IN THE EASTERN HIMALAYA: AN OXYGEN AND HYDROGEN ISOTOPE RECORD FROM AUTHIGENIC CLAYS
Supervisors: Djordje Grujic

Chinemerem Dennar (BSc Honours)
VEGETATION INFLUENCE IN STRENGTHENING CHANNEL BANKS IN THE PENNSYLVANIAN JOGGINS FORMATION, NOVA SCOTIA
Supervisor: Martin Gibling

John Foster (MSc)
TECTONOMETAMORPHIC EVOLUTION OF THE KIOSK DOMAIN, CENTRAL GNEISS BELT, GRENVILLE PROVINCE, ONTARIO: CONSTRAINTS FROM GEOCHRONOLOGY AND THERMOBAROMETRY
Supervisor: Nicholas Culshaw, Rebecca A. Jamieson, Christopher Gerbi

Ella Goldberg (BSc Honours)
ANALYSIS OF THE EFFECT OF PRINCIPAL STRESSES IN THE CHARLEVOIX, LOWER ST. LAWRENCE, NORTHERN APPALACHIAN, LAURENTIAN SLOPE AND GRAND BANKS REGIONS ON FAULTS IN NOVA SCOTIA AND NEW BRUNSWICK
Supervisor: Djordje Grujic

Jessica Guselle (BSc Honours)
Using a Portable XRF Spectrometer to Determine Geochemical and Spatial Correlations Between Alteration and Gold Mineralization in the Beaver Dam Deposit, Nova Scotia
Supervisor: Michael Young

Mark Higgins (BSc Honours)
PLACER GOLD PROVENANCE IN THE BLACK HILLS CREEK, WEST-CENTRAL YUKON: INSIGHT FROM GRAIN MORPHOLOGY AND GEOCHEMISTRY
Supervisor: Michael Young

Alex Hurley (BSc Honours)
Assessing Two Methods for Estimating Bulk Density of Particles in Suspension
Supervisor: Paul Hill

Sara Mason (BSc Honours)
Devonian Foraminifera from Miguasha Park - UNESCO World Heritage Site, Gaspè Peninsula, Quèbec
Supervisor: David Scott

Derrick Midwinter (BSc Honours)
The Lower Triassic Bjorne Formation: From Deposition to Diagenesis in the Eastern Sverdrup Basin, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada
Supervisor: Martin Gibling

Peter Regan (BSc Honours)
Photo-Mapping and Structural Geology of Matches Island, Central Gneiss Belt, Grenville Province, SW Ontario
Supervisors: Nicholas Culshaw

Fergus Tweedale (BSc Honours)
OCCURRENCE AND ORIGIN OF RING SCHLIEREN IN THE SOUTH MOUNTAIN BATHOLITH MEGUMA ZONE, NOVA SCOTIA
Supervisor: D. Barrie Clarke

2011

Saif Al Silwadi (BSc Honours)
Log Jam Deposits in the Boss Point Formation, Near Joggin,s Nova Scotia
Supervisor: Martin Gibling

Anne Belanger (BSc Honours)
Origin of Tourmaline in a Potential Sedex-Type Deposit, Penrhyn Group, Melville Peninsula, Nunavut, Canada
Supervisor: Rebecca A. Jamieson, David Corrigan

James Braid (PhD)
The Dynamics of Allochthonous Terranes in the Pangean Suture Zone of Southern Iberia
Supervisors: Brendon Murphy / Cecillio Quesada (IGME)

Glenn Chapman (BSc Honours)
CLIMATE PROXIES FROM THE SIWALIK GROUP IN THE EASTERN HIMALAYA: AN OXYGEN AND HYDROGEN ISOTOPE RECORD FROM AUTHIGENIC CLAYS
Supervisors: Rebecca A. Jamieson

Julie Griffiths (MSc)
Microfossil Evidence for Recent and Past Changes to Hudson Bay Oceanography
Supervisor: David Scott

Luke Hilchie (MSc)
Zonation of Hydrogen in Kimberlitic and Mantle Olivines: A Possible Proxy for the Water Content of Kimberlite Magmas
Supervisor: Yana Fedortchuk

Isaiah Jacques (BSc Honours)
Trail Degradation on the Nine Mile Trail System, Nova Scotia: The Effects of Users on Trail Compaction and Rutting
Supervisor: Lawrence Plug

Dawn Kellett (PhD)
Tectonic Evolution of the South Tibetan Detachment System, Bhutan Himalaya
Supervisor: Djordje Grujic

Kirsten Kennedy (MSc)
THE CAMPBELLTON FORMATION, NEW BRUNSWICK, CANADA: A SEDIMENTOLOGICAL AND PALEOENVIRONMENTAL DESCRIPTION OF AN EARLY DEVONIAN (EMSIAN) VEGETATED LANDSCAPE
Supervisor: Martin Gibling

Bertha Louis (BSc Honours)
Coastal Evolution at Grand Pré
Supervisor: David Scott

Eric Negulic (MSc)
THERMAL STRUCTURE OF THE CENTRAL SCOTIAN SLOPE: SEAFLOOR HEAT FLOW AND THERMAL MATURATION MODELS
Supervisor: Keith Louden

Lucy Newton (BSc Honours)
Devonian Foraminifera from Miguasha Park - UNESCO World Heritage Site, Gaspè Peninsula, Quèbec
Supervisor: L. Ootes, Nicholas Culshaw

Darragh O'Connor (BSc Honours)
The Lower Triassic Bjorne Formation: From Deposition to Diagenesis in the Eastern Sverdrup Basin, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada
Supervisor: Yana Fedortchuk, Scott Swinden

Laura Ratcliffe (BSc Honours)
Structural, Geochronological and Metamorphic Investigation of the North Tea Lake Mylonite Zone: A Late Extensional Feature within the Central Gneiss Belt, Grenville Province, Algonquin Park, Ontario
Supervisor: Nicholas Culshaw

Matthew Vaughan (BSc Honours)
Geochemical and fluid inclusion study of hydrothermal mineralization in the Busang Southeast Zone, Kalimantan, Indonesia: Unique insight into the Bre-X Scandal
Supervisor: Grant Wach

Maria Whitehead (BSc Honours)
Investigation into the Anisotropy of the Ocean Continent Transition Zone of the Nova Scotia Margin
Supervisor: Keith Louden

Gwen Williams (MSc)
Evaluating the Effects of Wastewater Treatment on Marine Sediment Chemistry in Halifax Harbour, Nova Scotia
Supervisor: David Scott

Jessica Wilson (BSc Honours)
Geochemistry of Igneous Rocks Associated with the MMH Porphyry Copper Deposit, Chuquicamata District, Chile
Supervisor: Marcos Zentilli

Pete van Hengstum (PhD)
Quaternary Sea-Level and Climate Signatures in Phreatic Coastal Caves
Supervisor: David Scott

Khalhela Zoeller (BSc Honours)
Low-Temperature Cooling History of the Olympus-Ossa Massif: New Insights From Zircon and Apatite (U-Th)/He Thermochronology and Thermal Modelling
Supervisor: Matt Salisbury, Rebecca A. Jamieson

2010

Matthew Abrams (BSc Honours)
Gas Hydrate Distribution and Volume at Sackville Spur
Supervisor: Keith Louden

Timothy Bachiu (MSc)
Investigating Sources of Stream Chloride near Kejimkujik National Park, Southwestern Nova Scotia: A Chlorine Stable Isotope Approach
Supervisors: Anne-Marie Ryan, Tom Clair

Arden Bashforth(PhD)
The Paleoecology of Vegetation on Pennsylvanian Basin Margins
Supervisor: Howard Falcon-Lang, Martin Gibling

Clarke Campbell (MSc)
Salt Tectonics of the Abenaki Graben and Central Sable Subbasin: Insights from Regional Seismic Interpretation and 4D Scaled Physical Experiments
Supervisors: J. Adam, Mladen R. Nedimović

Jonathan Cribb (MSc)
Analogue Modelling of Salt Tectonic Processes Beneath the Shelf and Deepwater Slope of the Eastern Nova Scotian Margin
Supervisors: J. Adam

Michael Doon (BSc Honours)
Detrital Thermochronology (40AR/39AR) of the Rangit Window, Sikkim Himalaya
Supervisors: Djordje Grujic / Isabelle Coutand

Adam Fraser (BSc Honours)
Trends and Architecture of the Bluestone Formation Turbidites in Point Pleasant Park, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Supervisor: Grant Wach

Fiona Gallacher (BSc Honours)
Microbially Mediated Sedimentary Structures and Stromalites in the Mississippian Strata of the Horton Bluff Formation, Nova Scotia
Supervisors: Martin Gibling

Olivia Gibb (MSc)
Foraminiferal Indicators of Paleoceanographic and Sea-Ice Conditions in the Amundsen Gulf and Viscount Melville Sound, Canadian Arctic
Supervisor: David Scott

Michael Giles (MSc)
Mass transport processes on the southwestern Newfoundland margin, eastern Canada ; mechanisms for deep water sediment transport
Supervisors: David Mosher, Grant Wach

Shawn Goss (MSc)
Cenozoic Seismic Stratigraphic Analysis of the Surname Margin, South America
Supervisors: David Mosher, Grant Wach

Kyle Landry (BSc Honours)
Pliocene Exhumation of the Trumsing La Area (Eastern Himalaya, Kingdom of Bhutan) Using U-Th-Sm/He Thermochronology
Supervisor: Isabelle Coutand

Cody MacDonald (MSc)
Salt tectonics of the western Sable sub-basin : |insights from regional seismic interpretation and 4D scaled physical experiments
Supervisors: J. Adam, Mladen R. Nedimović

Joshua Manning (BSc Honours)
3000 Years of Coastal Evolution in Grand Pré
Supervisor: David Scott

Jordan Nickerson (BSc Honours)
Architecture and Geometry of Braided Channel Complex in the Triassic Wolfville Formation
Supervisor: Grant Wach

Jennifer Noade (BSc Honours)
Stratigraphy of the Cheverie Formation Type Section, Cheverie, Hants County, Nova Scotia
Supervisor: John W.F. Waldron

Kara-Lynn Scallion (MSc)
Contamination of Plutons by Manganiferous Country Rock in the Governor Lake Area, North-Central Meguma Terrane, Nova Scotia
Supervisor: L. Ootes, Rebecca A. Jamieson, S. Barr

Sakalima Sikaneta (PhD)
Novel Lattice Boltzmann Methods for Modeling Fracture and Flow
Supervisor: Lawrence Plug

Nicholas Whynot (BSc Honours)
Apparent Inverted Temperature Gradient Across the Lesser Himalayan Sequence: Raman Spectroscopy of Carbonaceous Material in the Eastern Bhutan Himalaya  
Supervisor: Djordje Grujic

2000s

2009

Jose Luis Antinao Rojas (PhD)
Quaternary Landscape Evolution of the Southern Central Andes of Chile Quantified Using Landslide Inventories, 10Be and 36Cl Cosmogenic Isotopes and (U-Th)/He Thermochronology
Supervisor: John Gosse
Virginia Brake (MSc)
Evolution of an Oligocene Canyon System on the Eastern Scotian Margin
Supervisors: Grant Wach/David Mosher
Robin Buckley (BSc Honours)
Application of (U-Th-Sm)He Analysis in Apatite: Assessing the Effect of Salt Structures on Sverdrup Basin Rocks, Axel Heiberg Island, Nunavut
Supervisor: Marcos Zentilli
Amanda Diochon (PhD)
The Size, Structure, and Mineralization Potential of the Soil Organic Carbon Pool in a Managed Red Spruce (Picea Rubens Sarg.) Forest Chronosequence
Supervisors: L. Kellman/H. Beltrami
Danielle Finlayson (BSc Honours)
Potential for the Presence of Radon in Water from Weathered Outcrops of Uranium-Bearing Strata of Southern Nova Scotia
Supervisor: Anne-Marie Ryan
Luke Hilchie (BSc Honours)
Diamond Oxidation Experiments in Cl-H2O Fluids: Implications for Kimberlitic and Mantle Fluid Compositions, and Diamond Oxidation Mechanisms
Supervisor: Yana Fedortchouk
Elizabeth McIssac (BSc Honours)
Experimental Study of Surface Dissolution Features on Kimberlite Indicator Minerals
Supervisor: Yana Fedortchouk
Nicole Peters (BSc Honours)
Glacial and Climatic History of Lake Banook, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia
Supervisor: Ned King / David Scott
Hayley Pothier (BSc Honours)
Potential of Uranium Mobility in a Sandstone Aquifer in the Bridgetown Area, Nova Scotia
Supervisor: Anne-Marie Ryan
Donald Morgan Quinn (BSc Honours)
Mineralogy and Chemistry of Alteration Styles at the Afton Cu-Au(-Pd) Deposit, Kamloops, British Columbia: Constraints on Fluid Temperature, Composition, and Origin
Supervisors: J. Hanley/Y. Fedortchouk

2008

Heather Archibald (BSc Honours)
Geological Interpretation of Gravity Anomalies in the Northwestern Grenville Province, Ontario
Supervisor: Nicholas Culshaw
Jared Butler (BSc Honours)
Petrogenesis of Nepheline- and Scapolite-Bearing Metacarbonates from Southwestern Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada
Supervisors: Rebecca Jamieson / M. St.-Onge
Adam K. Fage (BSc Honours)
Geology of the Ice Copper-Gold Deposit, Yukon
Supervisor: Marcos Zentilli
Julie Griffiths (BSc Honours)
Paleo-Environment and Paleo-Ice Cover of the Amundsen Gulf, Northwest Territories, Using Foraminifera as Proxies from Box Cores
Supervisor:
David Scott
Daniel S. Haider (BSc Honours)
Lithofacies Assemblages, Depositional Environments and Hydrocarbon Potential of a Potential Reservoir within Banff Formation in Northeastern British Columbia
Supervisor: Martin Gibling
Tammo Huppertz (MSc)
Late Quaternary History of Flemish Pass, Southeast Canadian Continental Margin
Supervisor: David J. W. Piper
Omar Imbarek (MSc)
Evolution of the Eocene Carbonate Ramp Complex, Onshore Cyrenaica Basin, NE Libya: Analogs for Carbonate Reservoirs, NW Offshore Libya
Supervisor:
Grant Wach
Heather Jaggard (BSc Honours)
Establishing Distribution of HG, AS, and Other Elements Withing the Soils at Montague Gold District, Nova Scotia
Supervisors: Anne-Marie Ryan / Terry Goodwin, Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources
Muhammad Ketttanah (BSc Honours)
Reservoir Quality, Diagenetic History and Provenance of the Late Triassic Sandstones of the Wolfville Formation, Cambridge Cove, Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia
Supervisor:
Grant Wach
Cody MacDonald (BSc Honours)
Analogue Modelling of the Salt Tectonics System, Offshore Nova Scotia: Insights into Initial Salt Mobilization and Autochthonous Salt Structures
Supervisor:
Juergen Adam
Lauren E. McLean (BSc Honurs)
Testing the Silica Leakage Hypothesis
Duncan F. McLeish (BSc Honours)
Geology, Petrology, and Metamorphic History of Western Algonquin Park: Implications for the Tectonic Evolution of the Western Grenville Orogen
Supervisor:
Nicholas Culshaw / Rebecca Jamieson
Tara R. Muth (BSc Honours)
Geological Mapping in Northwest Bhutan Using ASTER Remote Sensing Data
Supervisors:
JDjordje Grujic / Charlie Walls
Eric W. Negulic (BSc Honours)
4D Thermal and Petroleum Systems Modelling of the Central Scotian Slope in and Around the Eastern Shelburne Sub-Basin
Supervisors: Mladen Nedimović / Hans Wielens
Amy D. Nelson (BSc Honours)
Holocene Sediment Infill Rates at Seeley's Cove Harbour, N. B.
Supervisors: T. Milligan / G. Bugden
Hasley Vincent (PhD)
Cenozoic Sediment Dispersal Patterns Across Trinidad, West Indies
Supervisor:
Grant Wach
Frederick B. Walsh (BSc Honours)
The Kopanoar Mud Volcano on the Mackenzie Shelf, Beaufort Sea: Implications for Methane Release on Arctic Shelves
Supervisor: David Scott
Yue Wu (PhD)
Crustal Structure of the Central Nova Scotia Margin and the Transition from Volcanic to Non-Volcanic Rifting off Eastern Canada
Supervisor:
Keith Louden
Sean R. Yaehne (BSc Honours)
Apatite (U-Th-Sm)/He Thermochronology of the Eastern Arctic Rim: Evolution of the North-Central Baffin Island Rifted Margin
Supervisor: Rebecca Jamieson
Chris Yakymchuk (BSc Honours)
Petrology, Thermochronology, and Tectonic Significance of Coronitic Mafic Granulites Southampton Island, Nunavut
Supervisor:
Rebecca Jamieson

2007

Paul Auerbach (BSc Honours)
Grain-Size Analysis for Paleocurrent Intensity Reocnstruction during Late Quaternary in the Eastern Equatorial Pacific
Supervisors: Markus Kienast / Paul Hill
Clarke Campbell (BSc Honours)
Physical Modelling of the Salt Tectonics of Allochthonous Canopy and Nappe Systems at Deepwater Continental Margins: Applications to the Abenaki and Sable Sub-Basins, Scotian Margin
Supervisor: Juergen Adam
Joyia Chakungal (PhD)
Geochemistry and Metamorphism of Metabasites and Spatial Variation of P-T Paths across the Bhutan Himalaya: Implications for the Exhumation of the Greater Himalayan Sequence
Supervisor:
Djordje Grujic
Saskia Erdmann (PhD)
Country-rock Contamination and Assimilation in the South Mountain Batholith
Supervisor:
Barrie Clarke
Matt Ferguson (BSc Honours)
The Application of High-resolution Laser Alltimetry to Delegation Dynamics: Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia
Supervisors: Tim Webster / John Gosse
Christopher Galbraith (BSc Honours)
Tourmaline Compositions as Indicators for Emerald Mineralization at Tsa Da Glisza, Yukon Territory
Supervisor: Barrie Clarke
Michael Giles (BSc Honours)
CENOZOIC STRATIGRAPHY AND SLOPE PROCESSES, SOUTHWESTERN SCOTIAN SLOPE
Supervisors:
David Mosher / Grant Wach
Shawn Goss (BSc Honours)
Quaternary Seismic Stratigraphy of the Hamilton Spur: A Sediment Drift on the Labrador Continental Slope
Supervisor:
David Mosher
Kathleen Graham (BSc Honours)
Temporal Development of 2D and 3D Ripples in Oscillatory Flow
Supervisor: Alex Hay
Alana Haysom (BSc Honours)
2D Thaw Lake Modelling During the Holocene and Implications for Current Climate
Supervisor:
Lawrence Plug
Steven Ings (PhD)
Passive Continental Margin Salt Tectonics: Numerical Modelling, Analytical Stability Analysis, and Applications to the Scotian Margin, Offshore Eastern Canada
Supervisor:
Chris Beaumont
Samuel Kelley (BSc Honours)
Pinning the Timing of Deglaciation of the Western Foxe Peninsula, Baffin Island, Nunavut
Supervisor:
John Gosse
Helen Neilson (BSc Honours)
Landform Evolution in the Southern Central Andes: The Major Mechanisms of Formation of the Santa Isabelle Escarpment, 34o to 38o Argentina
Supervisor:
John Gosse
Andrea Parsons (BSc Honours)
Geological Interpretation of Gravity Anomalies in the Northwestern Grenville Potential for Uranium Mobilization from Weathered Outcrops of Uranium-Bearing Sedimentary Strata, Southern Nova Scotia
Supervisor: Anne-Marie Ryan
Drew E. Pelley (BSc Honours)
Magnetic Mineralogy and Susceptibility of Magnetostratigraphic / Stratigraphic Subdivisions of the Golgenville Group, Eastern Shore, Nova Scotia
Supervisor: Rick Horne
Bryan Rae (BSc Honours)
Drill Core Study of Alteration Features Mooseland, Nova Scotia
Supervisor: Rick Horne
Karen Simon (MSc)
Dynamical Modelling of Lithospheric Extension and Small-Scale Convection: Implications for Magmatism during the Formation of Volcanic Rifted Margins
Supervisor:
Chris Beaumont
Krista Sutton (BSc Honours)
Nature and Origin of Oikocrysts in the Meguma Group Gold Districts, Nova Scotia
Supervisor: Rick Horne / Rebecca Jamieson
Jennifer West (MSc)
Dynamics of Thaw Lakes in the Present and in a Warming Climate
Supervisor:
Lawrence Plug

2006

Victoria Arbour (BSc Honours)
An ornithischian dinosaur from the Sustut Basin, British Columbia, Canada
Supervisor: Milton Graves
Sheila Ballantyne (BSc Honours)
Analogue Models of Salt Dynamics and Sedimentary Basin Evolution on Passive Margins: Implications for Offshore Nova Scotia Hydrocarbon Exploration
Supervisors:
Djordje Grujic / Juergen Adam
Virginia Brake (BSc Honours)
Geophysical Correlation of Onshore and Offshore Geology, Southwestern Nova Scotia
Supervisor:
Sonya Dehler
Ryan Cook (BSC Honours)
Authigenic Carbonate Mounds and Hydrocarbon Seeps of Offshore Cape Breton Island
Supervisor: Peter Wallace
Scott Doyle (BSc Honours)
A Petrographic Study Of Permeability, Porosity And Clay Content And Their Effects On Reservoir Quality In The Bluesky Formation, Whitecourt Alberta
Supervisor: Martin Gibling
Liam Fitzgerald (BSc Honours)
Sedimentology, Stratigraphy, and Depositional History of the Coal Measures Near Cottam Settlement, Debert-Kemptown Basin, Nova Scotia
Supervisor:
Rob Naylor / Martin Gibling
David Gardner (BSc Honours)
Magnitude of Catastrophic Thaw Lake Drainage and Influence on Arctic River Channel Morphology, Yukon Coastal Plian, Western Canadian Arctic
Supervisor: Lawerence Plug
Glenn Hart (BSc Honours)
Andalusite in the South Mountain Batholith Contact Aureole, Halifax NS: A Tale of Two Isograds
Supervisor:
Rebecca Jamieson
Samantha Jones (BSc Honours)
Impact of magmatism on petroleum systems in the Sverdrup Basin, Canadian Arctic Islands, Nunavut: a numerical modelling stud
Supervisors:
Marie Claude Williamson / Marcos Zentilli / Hans Wielens
Amanda Keddie (BSc Honours)
Groundwater Quality in Nova Scotia
Supervisor: Heather Cross
Megan Little (BSc Honours)
Distribution of Arsenic and Mercury in Terrestrial and Marine Environments Impacted by Gold Mine Tailings, Wine Harbour, Nova Scotia
Supervisor: Michael Parsons
Jennifer Morris (BSc Honours)
Experimental work with open limestone channels: determining dissolution rates of limestone in open limestone channels
Supervisor: John Hill
Tamara Moss (BSC Honours)
Comparison of Late Holocene Oceanographic and Sedimentologic Records from the Amundsen Gulf, Northwest Territories
Supervisor: David Scott
Simon Newton (MSc)
Importance of Mass Transport Complexes in the Development of the Central and Western Quaternary Nile Fan
Supervisors:
David Mosher / Grant Wach
Anne-Marie O'Bierne-Ryan (PhD)
Weathering History of Granitoids of the South Mountain Batholith, N.S., Canada: Mineralogy, Geochemistry and Environmental
Supervisor: Marcos Zentilli
Rob Pelkey (BSc Honours)
Depositional Environment and Provenance of the Late Aptian to Early Albian Cummings Formation, East Central Alberta, and a Discussion Concerning Secondary Source Rock
Supervisor: Grant Wach
David Risk (PhD)
Matt Robichaud (BSc Honours)
Late Quaternary Evolution of the Northeast Fan, Offshore Nova Scotia
Supervisor: David J. W. Piper
Borden Scott (BSc Honours)
Thermokarst Lake Changes in Continuous Permafrost on the Tuktoyaktuk Peninsula, Western Canadian Arctic
Supervisor:
Lawrence Plug / Charlie Walls
Owen Sherwood (PhD)
Deep-Sea Octocorals: Dating Methods, Stable Isotopic Composition, and Proxy Records of the Slopewaters off Nova Scotia
Supervisor:
David Scott
Neil Tobey (BSc Honours)
A Geological Description of Point Pleasant Park
Supervisor: Rebecca Jamieson
Laurie Tremblay (BSc Honours)
Investigation of the Behavioural Response of the Amphipod Corophium Volutator to the Pesticide Endosulfan
Supervisors:
J. Hellou / David Scott
Tim Webster (PhD)
The Application of High-Resolution Lidar Dem Data to Landscape Evolution: An Example from the Fundy Basin, Nova Scotia, Canada
Supervisor: J. Brendon Murphy
Jane Willenbring-Staiger (PhD)
Grain-Size Analysis for Paleocurrent Intensity Reocnstruction during Late Quaternary in the Eastern Equatorial Pacific
Supervisor: John Gosse
Lori Wyre (BSC Honours)
Suspended Sediment Concentrations and Disaggregated Inorganic Grain Sizes (DIGS) Analysis of Lake Charles and Lake Micmac Dartmouth, Nova Scotia
Supervisor: Paul Hill (Oceanography)

2005

Sophie E. Baker (MSc)
The Quaternary History of the Rio Diamante, Mendoza Province, Argentina
Supervisor:
John Gosse
Denise Brushett (BSc Honours)
The First Exposure Age for Raised Glaciomarine Deltas: Auburn Plains Delta, Southern Maine
Supervisor:
John Gosse
Mike Clough (BSc Honours)
Investigation of trace element geochemistry of moose teeth apatite and possible links with increased incisorform breakage of Cape Breton Highland moose
Supervisor: Marcos Zentilli
Cynthia Estrop (BSc Honours)
Consideration of Long Term Groundwater Monitoring at Wood Treating Sites
Supervisor: Anne-Marie Ryan
Jordana Gardiner (BSc Honours)
Pedogenic Mud Aggregates in Pennsylvanian Strata Near Joggins, Nova Scotia
Supervisor: Martin Gibling
Sharon K. Y. Lee (MSc)
Regional Study of the Meguma Terrane, in Nova Scotia, Using Geological and Geophysical Techniques with Applied Geomatics
Supervisor:
Nicholas Culshaw
Sheri Ann Lyon (BSc Honours)
Geoscience Applications of Geographic Information Systems for the Strand Fiord Area, West Axel Heiberg Island, Nunvaut
Supervisor: Marcos Zentilli
Adam Mawer (BSc Honours)
Permafrost-Controlled Break in Fractal Scaling of River Networks, Yukon Coastal Plain, Western Canadian Arctic
Supervisor:
Lawrence Plug
Andrea Mosher (BSc Honours)
A geochemical study of the Cochrane Hill Gold District, Nova Scotia
Supervisors: Michael Parsons and Marcos Zentilli
Michael Rygel (PhD)
Alluvial Sedimentology and Basin Analysis of Carboniferous Strata Near Joggins, Nova Scotia, Atlantic Canada
Supervisor: Martin Gibling
Hugh Samson (BSc Honours)
Origin of Sulfides in the Contact Granodiorites of the South Mountain Batholith, Nova Scotia
Supervisor: D. Barrie Clarke
Renee-Luce Simard (PhD)
Volcanology, Geochemistry, and Tectonic Setting of Late Paleozoic Volcanic Formations in the Northern Canadian Cordillera: A Key to Understanding the Evolution of Pericratonic Terranes
Supervisor:
Jarda Dostal
Reed Schneider (BSc Honours)
Maureen White (BSc Honours)
Late Cenozoic Seismic Stratigraphy of the Mohican Channel Area, Scotian Slope
Supervisors: D. Mosher (GSC-A) / P.J.C. Ryall / Grant Wach

2004

Tracy Allen (BSc Honours)
Polygonal patterned ground in the Terrestrial Arctic and Mars' northern plains
Supervisor: Lawrence Plug
Jennifer Arnold (BSc Honours)
Geomicrobiological analysis of acid generating rock of the Meguma group pertaining to disposal in the Bedford Basin, Nova Scotia
Supervisor: Stave Armstrong
Rebecca Brunt (BSC Honours)
Testing hypotheses for small-scale beaded depression formation on Mars
Supervisor:
Lawrence Plug
Jonathan Crealock (BSc Honours)
Using bituminous ice rafted debris (IRD) to trace the source of an iceberg in the Kane Basin between Ellesmere Island and Greenland
Supervisor: Marcos Zentilli
Mark Deptuck (PhD)
Post-rift geology of the Jeanne d'Arc Basin, with a focus on early Paleogene submarine fans and insights from modern deep-water system
Supervisor: D. J. W. Piper
Kerri Fletcher (BSc Honours)
Cretaceous Deposits of the Windsor Area, Nova Scotia: Another Glimpse of the Chaswood Formation
Supervisor: Martin Gibling
Simon Gagne (MSc)
Textural, Chemical and Age Variation in Monazites of the Paleoproterozoic Longstaff Bluff Formation, Central Baffin Island, Nunavut
Supervisor: Rebecca Jamieson
Alexander (Sandy) Grist (PhD)
Thermal evolution of the Atlantic Margin of Canada: Evaluation of a post-Albian subsurface heating event, and its implications for energy resources
Supervisor: Marcos Zentilli
Christopher Hamilton (BSc Honours)
Ice-contact volcanism in the Vilfilsfell Region, southwest Iceland
Supervisor: D. Barrie Clarke
Matthew Harrington (BSc Honours)
A study of marine carbonate mounds off Bay St. Lawrence, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia
Supervisor: Peter Wallace
Andrea Hawkes (MSc)
A Study of Attached Benthic Foraminifera Associated with the Deep-Sea Coral Primnoa resedaeformis on the Scotian Margin
Supervisor:
David Scott
Andrew Hilchey (BSc Honours)
Holocene deglacial geologic history of the Ravn River Valley, north Baffin Island, Nunavut
Supervisor:
John Gosse
Thian Hundert (MSc)
Western Scotian Slope Stratigraphy: Insights into Late Quaternary Deglaciation of the Western Scotian Shelf, Eastern Canada
Supervisor: D. J. W. Piper
Adam Layman (BSc Honours)
Fluid inclusions in garnet: migmatitic paragneiss, Algonquin Domain, Grenville Province, Ontario
Supervisor: Rebecca Jamieson
Heidi McDonald (MSc)
Sedimentology, Stratigraphy and Paleoecology of the Late Carboniferous Sydney Mines Formation at Morien Bay, Nova Scotia
Supervisor: Martin Gibling
Jennifer West (nee McIntosh) (BSc Honours)
Analysis of range-scale topographic changes from digital topography in the southern-central Andes
Supervisor: John Gosse
David Moynihan (MSc)
Structural Geology, Metamorphic Petrology and 40Ar/39Ar Geochronology of the Yarmouth Area, Southwest Nova Scotia
Supervisor: Rebecca Jamieson
Laura Ritchie (BSc Honours)
Tectonic history of the sole and roof of the Greater Himalayan Sequence: structural and metamorphic observations of garnet-staurolite schists from the Bhutan Himalaya
Supervisor: Djordje Grujic

2003

Alexandra Arnott (PhD)
Evolution of the Hydrothermal Alteration at the Chuquicamata Porphyry Copper System, Northern Chile
Supervisor: Marcos Zentilli
Mark Barry (BSc Honours)
Deep-Sea Coral: Their Use As Climate Change Indicators
Supervisor: David Scott
Alia Bigio (BSC Honours)
Transient character of the South Tibetan Detachment: microtectonic documentation from the Bhutan Himalayas
Supervisor: Djordje Grujic
Sarah Carruzzo (PhD)
Granite-Hosted Mineral Deposits of the New Ross Area, South Mountain Batholith, Nova Scotia, Canada
Supervisor: D. Barrie Clarke
Patrick Collins (BSc Honours)
Fixation of Sulphur During Framboidal Pyrite Development in a Petroleum Reservoir in Cretaceous Volcanics in the Andes: Implications for CU Metallagenesis
Supervisor: Marcos Zentilli
Adam Csank (BSc Honours)
A Late Cretaceous polar forest, Emma Fjord, Northwest Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada: Paleobotany, Paleoecology and Paleoclimatology
Supervisor: H. Falcon-Lang
Jean-Philippe Gobeil (MSc)
Stratigraphy, sedimentology, and provenance of the Chaswood Formation, West Indian Road pit, Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia
Supervisor: Georgia Pe-Piper
Jane Hawken (BSc Honours)
Seismic Structure of the Ocean Continent Boundary in the Newfoundland Basin from a Multichannel Seismic Line
Supervisor: Keith Louden
Joe Kidston (BSc Honours)
Depositional Environment and Provenance of the Dina Formation, Provost Oil Field, East Central Alberta, and a Hydrocarbon Distribution Within
Supervisor: Grant Wach
Eugene MacDonald (PhD)
Radiolaria from the Lower Silurian of the Cape Phillips Formation, Cornwallis Island, Nunavut, Canada
Supervisor: Michael Melchin
Fiona MacDonald (BSc Honours)
Glacial Geology and Geochronology of Peggy's Cove Region
Supervisor: John Gosse
Camilla Melrose (BSc Honours)
Fossilized Forests of the Lower Carboniferous Horton Bluff Formation, Nova Scotia
Supervisor: Martin Gibling
Simon Newton (BSc Honours)
Quaternary and late Pliocene seismic stratigraphy of the central Scotian Slope
Supervisor: David Mosher
Karla Pelrine (BSc Honours)
Ilmenite-Pyrophanite and Niobian Rutile in the South Mountain Batholith, Nova Scotia
Supervisors: D. B. Clarke and Mike MacDonald (NSDNR)
Mark Raistrick (MSc)
Depleted Mantle Derived Magmas and Laurentian Detritus in the Supracrustal Lighthouse Gneiss Association, Grenville Province, Ontario
Supervisor: Nicholas Culshaw
Trecia Schell (PhD)
Benthic Foraminiferal Assemblages in Effingham Inlet, a Fjord of Western Vancouver Island, British Columbia: Late Holocene: Implications for Paleoproductivity of the Northeastern Pacific
Supervisor: David Scott
Trond Slagstad (PhD)
Muskoka and Shawanaga Domains, Central Gneiss Belt, Grenville Province, Ontario: Geochemical and Geochronological Constraints on Pre-Grenvillian and Grenvillian Geological
Supervisor: Rebecca Jamieson
Richard Tobin (PhD)
Taphonomic and Pollution Responses of Marsh/Estuarine Benthic Foraminifera in Chezzetcook Inlet, Nova Scotia and New Bedford Harbor, Massachusetts
Supervisor: David Scott
Vanessa Walsh (BSc Honours)
Examination and Description of the Macro- and Mircofractures and Possible Geochemical Links Associated with Incisor Breakage in Moose (Alces alces) in the Cape Breton Highlands, Nova Scotia
Supervisor: Marcos Zentilli

2002

Stephen Bigg (BSc Honours)
Latest Cretaceous-Tertiary Stratigraphy On The Lahave Platform, Offshore Nova Scotia, Canada
Supervisor: Andrew MacRae
Ricardo Boric (MSc)
Geology, Mineral Zoning, and Lithochemistry of the El Soldado Manto Type Copper Deposit, Chile
Supervisor: Marcos Zentilli
Joyia Chakungal (MSc)
40Ar/39Ar Study of the Northwestern Reindeer Zone, Trans-Hudson Orogen: Reindeer Lake, Saskatchewan
Supervisors: Rebecca Jamieson and Peter Reynolds
Belinda Culgin (BSc Honours)Mercury in Till and Bedrock, Kejimkujik National Park Area, Nova Scotia
Supervisors: Don Fox and Marcos Zentilli
Kathryn Eisnor (BSc Honours)
Palynology of the Lower Cretaceous Chaswood Formation, Elmsvale Basin And Shubenacadie Outlier, Nova Scotia
Supervisor: Rob Fensome
Mark E. Ferguson (MSc)
Sedimentology and Tectonic Setting of the Late Archean Burwash Formation, Southern Slave Province
Supervisor: John Waldron
Trevor Finlayson (BSc Honours)
Distribution, Mineralogy, And Potential Recovery Of Rutile From The Chuquicamata Porphyry Copper Deposit Of Northern Chile
Supervisor: Marcos Zentilli
Emeline Lamond (BSc Honours)
Distribution of Mn in The Environment; An Example from Geology, Surface Water, Lake Sediment and Till in Central Nova Scotia
Supervisor: Don Fox and Marcos Zentilli
Chris LeBlanc (BScHonours)
Central Scotian Slope Stability: the Possible Role of Gas Hydrates
Supervisor: Keith Louden
Elisabeth Levac (PhD)
High Resolution Palynological Records From Atlantic Canada and Newfoundland: Regional Paleoceanographic and Paleoclimatic History
Supervisor: David Scott
Roxanne McMillan (BSc Honours)
Monitoring Bioremediation after Oil Spills, Old
and New, Using Marsh Foraminifera as Indicators
Supervisor: David Scott
Melanie Purves (BSc Honours)
40Ar/39Ar Thermochronology and Metamorphism of Amphibole from the Humboldt Bay High Strain Zone, Wabigoon Subprovince, Lake Nipigon, Ontario
Supervisor: Nicholas Culshaw
Charu Sharma (PhD)
Late Quaternary Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction of the Sunda Rivers Delta System, Sunda Shelf, South China Sea: Timing of Drowning and Sea-Level Changes
Supervisor: David Scott
Beverley Smith (BSc Honours)
Baseflow Contribution of the Unconfined Aquifer Supplying the Lower Reaches of the Clyburn Brook, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia
Supervisor: David Hansen

2001

Ian Barber (BSc Honours)
Patrick A. Bogutyn (Bsc Honours)
White Micas in the Lake Lewis Leucogranite, Nova Scotia
Supervisor: D. Barrie Clarke
Andrew Campbell (BSc Honours)
Bedform Sedimentology and Morphodynamics of Sable Island Bank
Supervisor: Ned King
Mark Coakley (BSc Honours)
Microtectonic Investigation of the Lesser Himalayan Sequence, Greater Himalayan Sequence, And The Chekha Formation From The Vicinity Of Tashigang, Kingdom Of Bhutan
Supervisor: Djordje Grujic
Patricia L. Corcoran (PhD)
Physical Volcanology, Geochemistry, and Tectonic Evolution of Three Selected Areas in the Point Lake and Beaulieu River Volcanic Belts, Slave Province, Northwest Territories, Canada
Supervisor: Jarda Dostal
Aaron T. Dondale (BSc Honours)
Thickness and Facies Variation of the Carboniferous Sydney Mines Formation in the Morien Syncline, Cape Breton Island
Supervisor: Martin Gibling
Warna S. Downey (BSc Honours)
Billie-Jo Gauley (MSc)
Lithostratigraphy and Sediment Failure on the Central Scotian Slope
Supervisor:
D.J.W. Piper
Anne Blais (nee Guimont) (BSc Honours)
Andrea Hawkes (BSc Honours)
Evidence of Precursor Events for Mega-Thrust Earthquakes on the West Coast of North America
Supervisor: David Scott
Johanna Hoehne (BSC Honours)
Seismic Velocities and Reflection Sequences of Wisconsinan Glacial Deposits in Emerald Basin (Scotian Shelf)
Supervisor: Keith Louden
Krista L. McCuish (BSc Honours)
Schlieren in the South Mountain Batholith and Port Mouton Pluton, Meguma Zone, Nova Scotia
Supervisor: D. Barrie Clarke
Krista D. Page (MSc)
An Examination of Mercury (Hg) Contamination in Kejimkujik National Park: The Role of Geological Sources
Supervisor: J. Brendon Murphy
Mark A. Rabin (BSc Honours)
The Zeroing Properties of Quartz with Respect to Different Depositional Environments
Supervisor: D. Godfrey-Smith
Jennifer C. Russel-Houston (PhD)
Taphonomy and Paleosynecology of the Lower Silurian Graptoloid Fauna, Cape Phillips Formation, Nunavut, Canada
Supervisor: Michael Melchin
Jennifer A. Sabean (BSc Honours)
Monitoring Oil Spill Bioremediation Using Marsh Foraminifera as Indicators
Supervisor: David Scott
Emily Suen (BSc Honours)
Megan Surrette (BSc Honours)
Analysis of Aquifer Tests in Two Fractured Rock Wells, Halifax Area, Nova Scotia
Supervisor: Heather Cross
Rene Teniere (BSc Honours)
Stephen N. Warren (BSc Honours)
40AR/39AR Laser-Probe Study of K-Feldspars from the New Ross Area of the South Mountain Batholith, Nova Scotia
Supervisor: Peter Reynolds

2000

Ryan Campbell (BSc Honours)
Metal Impact on Benthic Foraminifera in Baie Des Chaluers, New Brunswick, Canada: A Reconnaissance Review of Marine Geochemistry and Species Distribution
Supervisor: David Scott
Tanya Costain (BSC Honours)
Stratigraphic Analysis and Possible Tidal Influence in the Thorburn Member and Coal Brook Member, Stellarton Formation, Nova Scotia
Supervisor: Martin Gibling
Robert Cuthbert (BSc Honours)
Structure and Strain in the Burwash Formation, Northwest Territories
Supervisor: John Waldron
Duncan Johannessen  (MSc)
Application of Multi-Isotope Geochemistry in a Hydrogeological Study of the Avon River Drainage Basin, Nova Scotia
Supervisor: Dorothy Godfrey-Smith
Shannon MacDonald (BSc Honours)
Long & Short Term Trends & Fluctuations of Groundwater Levels at Three Sites in Nova Scotia
Supervisor: Heather Cross
Catherine Muir (BSc Honours)
An 40Ar/39Ar Study of the Goldenville, Halifax, White Rock and Torbrook Formations of the Digby Area, Southwest Nova Scotia
Supervisors: Peter Reynolds and Chris White
Natalie O'Toole (BSc Honours)
Paleoenvironment of Triassic Dinosaurs and Other Tetrapods at Carrs Brook, Nova Scotia
Supervisor: Martin Gibling
Daniel Parker (BSc Honours)
Hydrogeologic Investigation of the Cumberland Central Landfill
Supervisors: Heather Cross / Dan Hemsworth
Iain Pirie (BSc Honours)
40Ar/39Ar Thermochronology of the Malton Gneiss, Malton Complex, Southeastern British Columbia
Supervisor: Rebecca Jamieson
Sarah Trend (nee Richardson) (BSc Honours)
Balanced Structural Cross-sections of the Meguma Group, Ecum Secum, Halifax, Mahone Bay and LaHave Areas, Nova Scotia
Supervisor: Nicholas Culshaw
Laura Schrumm (BSc Honours)
Use of Foraminifera and Thecamoebians as Reliable Indicators of Marine/Freshwater Transition Zones in Southern Florida
Supervisor: David Scott
Rachel Speller (BSc Honours)
"Pock Marks" in Nearshore Sands: Observations During Sandyduck97
Supervisor: Alex Hay
Michael Young (BSc Honurs)
Minor Folds in Coticule Layers and Their Relationship to Regional Fold Evolution, Central Meguma Terrane, Nova Scotia
Supervisors: Nick Culshaw and Rick Horne

1990s

1999

Craig Atkinson (BSc Honours)
Morphological Changes in Chezzetcook Inlet: A Historical Study Using Air Photography Composites
Supervisor: David Scott
Jose Cembrano  (PhD)
Kinematics and Timing of Intra-Arc Deformation at the Southern Andes Plate Boundary Zone
Supervisor: Marcos Zentilli
Donald L. Fox (PhD)
Prediction of acid rock drainage (ARD) risk from sulphidic slates using GIS analysis of mineralogical, geochemical, magnetic and geological parameters: a test case in southern Nova Scotia
Supervisor: Marcos Zentilli
Leah Hagreen (BSc Honours)
Richard Horne (MSc)
An Evaluation of Flexural-Slip Folding in the Meguma Group, Halifax and Ovens Areas, Southern Nova Scotia
Supervisor: Nicholas Culshaw
Xu-Feng Hu (MSc)
Origin of Diamonds in Chromittes of the Luobusa Ophiolite, Southern Tibet, China
Supervisor: Paul Robinson
Emmanuelle Javaux (PhD)
Recent distribution of benthic forminifera from Bermuda paleo-ecological applications, Holocene sea-level changes
Supervisor: David Scott
Gavin Manson (MSc)
Recent and Historical Coastal Change Under Rising Sea Level, McNab’s Island Area, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Supervisor: D.J.W. Piper
Weston E. Myatt (BSc Honours)
Melanie Oakes (BSc Honours)
Alluvial Fan Deposits of the Carboniferous Grantmire Formation in Drill Hole PE 83-1, Sydney Basin, Nova Scotia
Supervisor: Martin Gibling
Krista Page (BSc Honours)
Uranium, Radium and Radon in Streams, Domestic Well Waters and Soils: A GIS analysis of Geological, Geochemical and Geophysical Relationships
Supervisor: Marcos Zentilli
R. Scott Parker (BSc Honours)
Ancient Submarine Canyons and Fans of the Carson Basin, Grand Banks, Offshore Newfoundland, Canada
Supervisor: John Shimeld / Martin Gibling
Gavin S. Sinclair (MSc)
Geochemistry and Argon Thermochronology of the Upper Aillik Group and Associated Granitoid Rocks in the Makkovik Bay Area, Aillik Domain, Makkovik Province, Labrador
Supervisor: Nicholas Culshaw
Anne-Marie Whittaker (BSc Honours)
Experimental Evaluation of Subaqueous Disposal of Acid Generating Sulphide Minerals in the Meguma Supergroup, Southern Nova Scotia
Supervisor: Marcos Zentilli
Michelle Williamson (BSc Honours)
Reconstruction of Pollution History at Mill Cove, Bedford Basin Using Benthic Foraminifera
Supervisor: David Scott
Yu Chen (MSc)
Geochemical Evolution and Tectonic Significance of Boninites From the Dacha Daban Ophiolite, North Qilian Mountains, China
Supervisor: Paul Robinson

1998

Tammy Lee Allen (MSc)
Sedimentology. Sequence, Stratigraphy and Source-rock Potential of the Upper Carboniferous Colindale Member, Port Hood Formation, Western Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia
Supervisor:
Martin Gibling
Scott D. Anderson (PhD)
Structure, Metamorphism and U-Pb and 40 Ar/39Ar Geochronology of the Ming's Bight Group and the Paleozoic Tectonic Evolution of the Baie Verte Peninsula, Newfoundland
Supervisor:
Rebecca Jamieson
Bonnie Betts-Robertson (BSc Honours) Silicate and Sulphide Mineral Assemblages and Metamorphic Fabrics from Pelites in the Contact Aureole of the South Mountain Batholith, Halifax Area, Nova Scotia
Supervisor:
Rebecca Jamieson
Pradeep Bhatnagar (BSc Honours)
Structural Geology and Deformation of the Meguma Group at the Northeastern Contact of the South Mountain Batholith, Halifax Area
Supervisor: Nicholas Culshaw
Natalie M. Boudreau (BSc Honours)
Geochemistry of waters in the Phalen Coal Mine, Cape Breton
Supervisor: Tom Martel and Martin Gibling
Regan Braund (BSc Honours)
Cambrian Multichambered Foraminifera from the Halifax and Goldenville Groups of the Meguma Supergroup, Nova Scotia
Supervisor: David Scott
John Brown (PhD)
Deformation and Sedimentation Adjacent to Carboniferous Diapiric Salt Structures, Western Cape Breton, Nova Scotia
Supervisor:
Martin Gibling
Lori A. Cook (BSc Honours)
Pre-Feasibility Study for Underground Thermal Energy Storage (UTES) at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Supervisor:
Gunter Muecke
Raymond P. Fallon (MSc)
Age and Thermal Historyof the Port Mouton Pluton, Southwest Nova Scotia: A Combined U-Pb, 40Ar/39Ar Age Spectrum and 40Ar/39Ar Laserprobe Study
Supervisor: D. Barrie Clarke
Jacob F. French (BSc Honours)
Velocity Structure of a Methane Hydrate Stability Zone, Offshore Vancouver Island
Supervisor: Keith Louden
Tracy Gray (BSc Honours)
Migmatites in the Grenville Province near Muskoka, Ontario
Supervisor: Rebecca Jamieson
Angela Kennedy (BSc Honours)
Compartmentalization of formation waters, Prince Colliery, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia
Supervisor: Martin Gibling
Lisa MacDonald (BSc Honours)
Carbonate in the Oldham Gold Deposit, Nova Scotia
Supervisor:
Gunter Muecke and Rick Horne
David MacIsaac (BSc Honours)
Foraminiferal distribution related to hurricanes, South Carolina
Supervisor:
David Scott
Angela M. Muzzatti (BSc Honours)
Seismic Velocities of Crustal Samples from the Torngat Peninsula and Nain: ECSOOT’96
Supervisor: Matt Salisbury
Billy Phu (BSc Honours)
Characterization of Seismic Amplitude Anomalies at Hibernia using 3D Seismic Data
Supervisor:
K. Coffin
Nicole Quickert (MSc)
Optically and Thermally Stimulated Luminescence Dating and Sedimentological Study of Bibimi, A Multi-component Archaeological Site in Gnana, Africa
Supervisor:
Dorothy Godfrey-Smith
Karen M. Sedgwick (BSc Honours)
Environmental Effects of the Dunbrack Mine, Musquodoboit Harbour, Nova Scotia
Supervisor:
D. Barrie Clarke and Marcos Zentilli
Paul J. Teniere (BSc Honours)
Sedimentology, Facies Successions and Cyclicity of a Section of the Joggins Formation, Joggins, Nova Scotia
Supervisor:
Martin Gibling
Hilke Timmerman (PhD)
Geology, metamorphism, and U-Pb geochronology in the Central Gneiss Belt between Huntsville and Haliburton, southwestern Grenville Province, Ontario
Supervisor: Rebecca Jamieson
Jeremy Tonelli (BSc Honours)
The Joggins and Springhill Mines Formation, Interpretation and a Model for the Paleo- environment
Supervisor: Martin Gibling
Nicholas Wilson (PhD)
The Role of Petroleum in the Formation of the El Soldado Copper Deposit, Chile: Hydrothermal Replacement of a Biodegraded Petroleum Reservoir
Supervisor: Marcos Zentilli

1997

Paul Batson (MSc)
Channel Bodies of the Lower Sydney Mines Formation (Carboniferous), Sydney Coalfield, Atlantic Canada
Supervisor: Martin Gibling
Heather K. Boyd (BSc Honours)
Modeling of a Paleocene submarine canyon, Jeanne d'Arc Basin, offshore Newfoundland, to determine canyon fill lithology
Supervisor: K. Coflin and J. Shimeld
Tyson Brown (BSc Honours)
40Ar/39Ar investigation of the Kanairiktok Shear Zone, Makkovik Province, Labrador
Supervisor:
Nicholas Culshaw
Craig Burns (BSc Honours)
Stratigraphy of the Halifax Group - Goldenville Group Transition (GHT) of the Meguma Supergroup at Caribou Gold District (Drillcore LL81-5A), Nova Scotia
Supervisor:  Marcos Zentilli
Kevin Doyle (BSc Honours)
Determination of bulk permeability within the Morien Group using the forcing of ocean tides in the Sydney Basin in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia
Supervisors: Kate Moran, Thomas Martel and Martin Gibling
Emily Gesner (BSc Honours)
40Ar/39Ar thermochronology of the SE Central Gneiss Belt, Grenville Province, Ontario
Supervisors: Peter Reynolds and Rebecca Jamieson
Craig W. Harvey (MSc)
Shear Wave Velocities of Sulphide-Bearing Assemblages as Determined From High Pressure Laboratory Measurements
Supervisor:
Matt Salisbury
Rachel Jones (BSc Honours)
Relative rates of Sulphide Oxidation by Chemical and Microbial Means: The Role of Mineralogy and Texture in Acid Rock Drainage (ARD) from the Meguma Supergroup, Nova Scotia
Supervisor: Marcos Zentilli
Meghan Lewis (MSc)
Characterisation of Hypogene Covellite Assemblages at the Chuquicamata Porphyry Copper Deposit, Chile, Section 4500N
Supervisor: Marcos Zentilli
Darryl D. Lindsay (PhD)
Structural control and anisotropy of mineralization within the Chuquicamata porphyry copper deposit, northern Chile
Supervisor:
Marcos Zentilli
Juliet C. Luiz (MSc)
Comparative Thermoluminescence Dating of Quaternary North American Obsidians and Crystalline Lavas
Supervisor:
Dorothy Godfrey-Smith
Brent V. Miller (PhD)
Geology, Geochronology and Tectonic Significance of the Blair River Complex, Northern Cape Breton, Nova Scotia
Supervisors:
Rebecca Jamieson and Sandra Barr
Gregory Pemberton (BSc Honours)
Dating of Alteration at the Radiomiro Tomic Porphyry Copper Deposit, Northern Chile by the High Precision 40Ar/39Ar Method
Supervisor: Marcos Zentilli
Jo Price (MSc)
The Geology of the Belle Côte Road Orthogneiss and First Fork Brook Gneiss, Cape Breton Highlands, Nova Scotia
Supervisors:
S. Barr, R. Raeside and P. Reynolds
Jennifer van der Gaag (BSc Honours)
Characterization of outburst channel sandstones in the Phalen colliery, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia
Supervisor: Martin Gibling
Erika Vye (BSc Honours)
Benthic foraminifera under fish farming operations in the Bras d'Or Lakes; Implications for aquaculture feasibility in Nova Scotia
Supervisor: David Scott

1996

Darcy E. Baker (BSc Honours)
Fluid inclusions and microstructure of flexural-slip bedding-concordant veins within the Ovens Anticline, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia
Supervisor: Nicholas Culshaw
Neil R. Banerjee (MSc)
Geochemical Effects of Alteration in a Section of Lower Ocean Crust; ODP Hole 735B, Southwest Indian Ridge
Supervisor: Paul Robinson
Eric S. Collins (PhD)
Marsh-Estuarine Benthic Foraminiferal Distributions and Holocene Sea-Level Reconstructions Along the South Carolina Coastline
Supervisor: David Scott
J. Michael W. Collins (BSc Honours)
Apatite fission track study of tectonics and provenance of sediments in the Sawtooth Range, Sverdrup Basin, Canadian Arctic Archipelago
Supervisor:
Marcos Zentilli
Brian S. Creaser (BSc Honours)
Interpretation and modelling of gravity data within the Meguma Terrane, central Nova Scotia
Supervisor: Patrick Ryall
Vanessa G. Gale (BSc Honours)
Paleotectonic setting of the Takla Group volcano-sedimentary assemblage, Stikine Terrane, McConnell Creek map area, north central British Columbia
Supervisors:
Nicholas Culshaw  and Rebecca Jamieson
Paul D. Gray (BSc Honours)
Deformation and metamorphism in the contact aureole of the S. Mt. Batholith, Bedford area
Supervisor: Nicholas Culshaw and Rebecca Jamieson
Jennifer L. Harding (BSc Honours)
The Highway 101 Landfill - what have we learned?
Supervisor: Gunter Muecke
Verena B. Haury (BSc Honours)
Environmental Degradation in Halifax Harbour: An Historical Perspective Using Benthic Foraminifera
Spervisor:
David Scott
Roberta J. Hicks (MSc)
Low-Grade Metamorphism in the Meguma Group, Southern Nova Scotia
Supervisor: Rebecca Jamieson
Trent A. Rehill (PhD)
Late Carboniferous Nonmarine Sequence Stratigraphy and Petroleum Geology of the Central Maritimes Basin, Eastern Canada
Supervisor: Martin Gibling
I. Clare Robinson (BSc Honours)
Pyrrhotite composition and its relationship to acid drainage potential in the Halifax Formation, Meguma Group, Nova Scotia
Supervisor: Marcos Zentilli
Neil E. Tibert (MSc)
A Paleoecological Interpretation for the Ostracodes and Agglutinated Foraminifera from the Earliest Carboniferous Marginal Marine Horton Bluff Formation (Blue Beach Member), Nova Scotia, Canada
Supervisor: David Scott
Charles C. Walls (MSc)
The Aeromagnetic Field and Hydrothermal Circulation in the Troodos Ophiolite, Cyprus
Supervisor: James Hall
Jennifer L. Waringer (BSc Honours)
Cretaceous marginal marine and freshwater rhizopods from central Nova Scotia, Canada
Supervisor: David Scott
John Zevenhuizen (MSc)
Late Quaternary and Surficial Marine Geology of Southeastern Hudson Bay
Supervisor:
David Scott
Jijun Zhang (PhD)
North Atlantic deep-water circulation during the Messinian Stage (the latest Miocene) - Possible cause and effect: Foraminiferal and stable isotope evidence
Supervisor: David Scott

1995

Tammy L. Allen (BSc Honours)
A Study of Carbonate Rocks From the Late Visean to Namurian Mabou Group, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia
Supervisor: Peter Giles
Jason A. Bateman (MSc)
Mineralogical and Geochemical Traits of the Egret Member Oil Source Rock (Kimmeridgian), Jeanne d'Arc Basin, Offshore Newfoundland, Canada
Supervisor: Mark Williamson
Neil Ross Burns (BSc Honours)
Structural Geology of the Meguma Group Adjacent to the Eastern Contact of the South Mountain Batholith
Supervisor: Nicholas Culshaw
Alison Creech (BSc Honours)
Foraminiferal Assemblages From a Sediment Core From the Inner Scotian Shelf: Implications for Till-Tongue Stratigraphy and Paleoceanography
Supervisor: David Scott
Yi Ding (MSc)
AFM Minerals in the Halifax Pluton
Supervisor:
D.Barrie Clarke
Lesley Dinnett (MSc)
Stable Isotope (O, H, S. And C) and Geochemical Study of the Kempt Snare Lake Mineral Prospect, Southwestern Nova Scotia
Supervisor: D. Barrie Clarke
James Patrick Duggan (BSc Honours)
Structure of Bedrock Offshore From Point Aconi, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia
Supervisor: Robert Courtney
Kerry Knee (BSc Honours)
Magnetic Susceptibility of Halifax Formation Slates at the Halifax International Airport: Correlation with Potential for Acid Drainage
Supervisor: Marcos Zentilli
Barbara E. Medioli (BSc Honours)
Marginal Marine Foraminifera and Thecamoebians in the Upper Cretaceous to Eocene Deposits of the South-Central Pyrenees, Spain
Supervisor: David Scott
Gordon N. Oakey (MSc)
A Spatial Analysis of Geological Structures and Digital Topographic Lineaments: Ellesmere and Heiberg Islands
Supervisor: Ruth Jackson
Sarah E. Palmer (MSc)
Structure of Deformed Paleozoic Continental Margin Units in the Stephenville Area, Western Newfoundland
Ken I. Saunders (MSc)
Sedimentology and Depositional Environments of the Pennsylvanian Hub Cyclothem, Sydney Mines Formation, Cape Breton, Canada
Supervisor: Martin Gibling
Rudolph Raphael Stea (PhD)
Late Quaternary Glaciation and Sea-Level Change Along the Atlantic Coast of Nova Scotia: Correlation of Land and Sea Events
Supervisor: Ron Boyd
Jacquie Stevens (BSc Honours)
Comparison of Dikes and Screen Units Within the Transition Zone From Extrusives to Sheeted Dikes of the Troodes Ophiolite, Cyprus
Supervisor:
James Hall
Marcus C. Tate (PhD)
The Relationship Between Late Devonian Mafic Intrusions and Peraluminous Granitoid Generation in the Meguma Lithotectonic Zone, Nova Scotia, Canada
Supervisor:
D. Barrie Clarke
Christopher E. White (PhD)
Geology, Geochronology, and Tectonic Evolution of the Brookville Terrane, Southern New Brunswick
Supervisors: Rebecca Jamieson and Sandra Barr
Mei-Fu Zhou (PhD)
Petrogenesis of the Podiform Chromitites in the Luobusa Ophiolite, Southern Tibet
Supervisor: Paul Robinson

1994

Oran P. Costello (BSc Honours)
Paleoceanographic Reconstruction of the Inner Scotian Shelf During the Younger Dryas: A Benthic Foramineral Study
Supervisor: David Scott
Vincent C. DeWolfe (BSc Honours)
Contact Relations Between The New Ross Leucomonzogranite and the Falls Lake Mafic Porphyry: Evidence for Magma Interactions in the South Mountain Batholith
Supervisors:
D. Barrie Clarke and Rick Horne
Andrew M. Dunn (BSc Honours)
The Geochemistry and Geochronology of the Shelburne Dyke of Nova Scotia and the Messejana Dyke of Spain
Supervisor: D. Barrie Clarke
Roger B. Edgecombe (BSc Honours)
Paleoenvironmental Analysis of Halifax Harbour: Sedimentology, Paleoclimatology, and Holocene Sea Level
Supervisor: David Scott
William G. D. Gray (BSc Honours)
Sediment Consolidation and Permeability at the Central Oregon Margin, Ocean Drilling Program Sites 891 and 892
Supervisor: Kate Moran
John W.F. Ketchum (PhD)
Extensional Shear Zones and Lithotectonic Domains in the Southwest Grenville Orogen: Structure, Metamorphism, and U-PB Geochronology of the Central Gneiss Belt Near Pointe-Au-Baril, Ontario
Supervisors: Nicholas Culshaw and Rebecca Jamieson
Changxing Long (PhD)
Seismic Nature of Middle Continental Crust: Comparison of Laboratory Velocity and LITHOPROBE Seismic Reflection and Refraction Data from the Britt Domain, Southwestern Grenville Province, Canada
Supervisor: Matt Salisbury
Jeff Lukasik (MSc)
Morphology, Taxonomy and Phylogeny of some Early to Middle Llandovery (Lower Silurian) Monograptids, Cape Phillips Formation, Canadian Arctic Islands
Supervisor: Michael Melchin
Michael B. Parsons (BSc Honours)
Geochemistry and Petrogenesis of Late Cretaceous Bentonites from the Kanguk Formation, Axel Heiberg and Ellesmere Islands, Canadian High Arctic
Supervisor: Gunter Muecke
Eric W. Pearson (BSc Honours)
Physical Volcanology, Petrology, and Petrogenesis of the Cretaceous Isachsen Formation Volcanics, Western Axel Heiberg Island, N.W.T.Formation Volcanics, Western Axel Heiberg Island, N.W.T.
Supervisor: Gunter Muecke
John W. Shimeld (MSc)
Development of an Algorithm to Detect Subsurface Fractures Using Conventional Well Logs and Fuzzy Inference: Practical Application at the Terra Nova Oil Field, Offshore Newfoundland
Supervisor: Mark Williamson
Neil E. Tibert (BSc Honours)
Geometry and Depositional Setting of the Late Carboniferous Mullins Coal in the South Bar Formation, Sydney Basin, Nova Scotia
Supervisor: Martin Gibling
Natasha Wodicka (PhD)
Middle Proterozoic Evolution of the Parry Sound Domain, Southwestern Grenville Orogen, Ontario: Structural, Metamorphic, U/Pb, and 40Ar/39Ar Contraints
Supervisor: Rebecca Jamieson

1993

Brian K. Altheim (BSc Honours)
Comparison of Siliceous Volcanics from the Clarno and John Day Formations, Oregon
Supervisor: Paul Robinson
Kendrick Brown (BSc Honours)
Holocene Relative Sea-Level Change in Nova Scotia
Supervisor: David Scott
Steven L. Grant (BSc Honours)
40Ar/39Ar Thermochronology Across a Transect of the Eastern Grenville Front Tectonic Zone and the Western Britt Domain of the Grenville Province, Georgian Bay
Xiuyin Fu (MSc)
Controls on the Localization of Mineralization in Abitibi Greenstone Belt Crust: Evidence from the Matheson Area of Ontario, Canada
Supervisor: James Hall
Guodong Li (MSc)
Implication of Apatite Fission Track Analysis for the Thermal History of the Scotian Basin, Offshore Nova Scotia
Supervisor: Marcos Zentilli
Laurel McDonald (BSc Honours)
Structure of the Dunamagon Granite, Baie Verte Peninsula, Newfoundland
Supervisor:
Rebecca Jamieson
Robert James Ryan (PhD)
Metallogenetic and Thermal Evolution of the Upper Paleozoic Maritimes Basin: Evidence from the Cumberland Basin of Nova Scotia
Supervisor: Marcos Zentilli
Shelley Ann Thibaudeau (MSc)
Agglutinated Brackish Water and Arcellaceans From the Upper Carboniferous, Coal-Bearing Strata of the Sydney Basin, Nova Scotia: Taxonomic Descriptions, Assemblages, and Environments of Deposition
Supervisors: Franco Medioli and David Scott

1992

Kevin J. DesRoches (BSc Honours)
A Subsidence, Compaction, Pressure, Temperature, and Maturity History of the Hibernia B-08 Well, Grand Banks, Newfoundland
Supervisor: Mark Williamson
Roberta Jean Hicks (BSc Honours)
Metamorphism of Metabasites from Parry Island, Georgian Bay, Ontario
Francine M. G. McCarthy (PhD)
Quaternary Climate Change and the Evolution of the Mid-Latitude Western North Atlantic Ocean: Palynological, Foraminiferal, Sedimentological, and Stable Isotope Evidence from DSDP Sites 604, 607 and 612
Supervisor: David Scott
Thomas A. Tremills (BSc Honours)
Paleosols of the Westphalian D Sydney Mines Formation, Sydney Basin, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada
Supervisor:
Martin Gibling
Judith Christine White (MSc)
Late Carboniferous Cyclothems and Organic Facies in the Phalen-Backpit Seam Interval, Sydney Coalfield, Nova Scotia
Supervisor:
Martin Gibling
Jing-Sui Yang (PhD)
Constructional and Alteration Features and Their Relationships to Sulfide Deposits in the Upper Part of the Troodos Ophiolite, Cyprus
Supervisor:
James Hall

1991

Margaret M.Burke (PhD)
Reflectivity of Highly Deformed Terranes Based on Laboratory and In Situ Velocity Measurements from the Grenville Front Tectonic Zone, Central Ontario, Canada
Supervisor: Matt Salisbury
John Hugh Calder (PhD)
Controls on Westphalian Peat Accumulation: The Springhill Coalfield, Nova Scotia
Supervisor: Martin Gibling
Gordon Cameron (MSc)
Seismostratigraphy of Late Quaternary Sediments and Lake Level History, Eastern Lake Erie
Supervisor:
David Scott
Geoffrey K. Gallant (BSc Honours)
Origin of Foliation in the Barrington Passage Pluton
Supervisor:
D. Barrie Clarke
Melanie J.Haggart (MSc)
Thermal History of the Grenville Front Tectonic Zone, Central Ontario
Supervisor: Rebecca Jamieson and Peter Reynolds
Mark Hendriks (MSc)
Apatite Fission Track Analysis of the Great Northern Peninsula of Newfoundland: Evidence for Late Paleozoic Burial
Supervisor: Rebecca Jamieson
Andrew S. Henry (BSc Honours)
The Petrochemistry and Origin of the Bourne Complex, Northwestern Ellesmere Island, Canada
Supervisor:
Gunter Muecke

Steven J. Hinds (BSc Honours)
Correlation and 40Ar/39Ar Age Dating of the Early Cretaceous Walker Island Member Basalts Axel Heiberg Island - Canadian Arctic
Supervisor:
Gunter Muecke

Zehui Huang (PhD)
Periodicity in Cretaceous Pelagic Sequences
Supervisor: Felix Gradstein
Deborah S. Kelley (PhD)
Fluid Circulation in a Submarine Paleohydrothermal System, Troodos Ophiolite, Cyprus: Fluid Inclusion Evidence for Deep-Seated Circulation of Brines in the Oceanic Crust
Supervisor:
Paul Ribinson
R. Brant Laidler (MSc)
Testate Rhizopods from the Sediments of a Marine/Freshwater Transitional Lake: Their Distribution and Paleonvironmental Significance
Supervisor: David Scott
A.Thomas Martel (PhD)
Stratigraphy, Fluviolacustrine Sedimentology and Cyclicity of the Late Devonian/Early Carboniferous Horton Bluff Formation, Nova Scotia, Canada
Supervisor: Martin Gibling
Kenneth J. McKenzie (BSc Honours)
Muscovite 40Ar/39Ar Geochronology of the Western Parry Sound and Britt Domains, Central Gneiss Belt, Grenville Province
Supervisor:
Nicholas Culshaw
Estella A. Nkwate (PhD)
Gravity and Magnetic Interpretation of the Kapuskasing Structural Zone in the Val Rita and Groundhog River Blocks Northwestern Ontario, Canada
Supervisor: Matt Salisbury
Mark Rudolph (BSc Honours)
Seismic Stratigraphy of the Exmouth Plateau
Supervisor: Ron Boyd
Allen R. Stark (BSc Honours)
Genesis of the Volcan Copiapo Sulphur Deposits, Maricunga District, Chile
Supervisor:
Marcos Zentilli
Timothy R. Stokes (PhD)
Structural, Temporal, and Fluid Constraints on the Formation of Gold Bearing Quartz-Breccia Zones Hosted in Metaturbidites of the Gordon Lake Region, Slave Province Northwest Territories, Canada
Supervisor: Marcos Zentilli

1990

Kenneth J. Billard (BSc Honours)
Geophysical Modelling of the LaHave Clay and Emerald Silt Formations, Lahave Basin
Supervisor: Kate Moran
Kevin C. Brown (MSc)
Extensional Models Applied to the North American Midcontinent Rift Beneath Lake Superior
Supervisor: Chris Beaumont
David Corrigan (MSc)
Geology and U-Pb Geochronology of the Key Harbour Area, Britt Domain, Southwest Grenville Province
Supervisor: Nicholas Culshaw
John R. Dickie (MSc)
Sedimentary Response to Arc-Continent Transpressive Tectonics, Laberge Conglomerates (Jurassic), Whitehorse Trough, Yukon Territory
Supervisor: F. J. Hein
Victor Maksaev (PhD)
Metallogeny, Geological Evolution, and Thermochronology of the Chilean Andes between Latitudes 21o and 26o South, and the Origin of Major Porphyry Copper Deposits
Supervisor: Marcos Zentilli
Steven R. McCutcheon (PhD)
The Late Devonian Mount Pleasant Caldera Complex: Stratigraphy, Mineralogy, Geochemistry and Geologic Setting of a Sn-W Deposit in Southwestern New Brunswick
Supervisor: Paul Robinson
Helen McLaughlin (BSc Honours)
Thermobarometry of Meta-Sedimentary Enclaves in the Ten Mile Lake Intrusion, Liscomb, Nova Scotia
Supervisor: Rebecca Jamieson
Richard D. Trotter (MSc)
Sedimentology and Depositional Setting of the Granite Wash of the Utikuma and Red Earth Areas, North-Central Alberta
Supervisor: F. J. Hein
Winton Gledhill Wightman (PhD)
Micropaleontology of the Kimmeridgian to Barremian Deposits of Portugal and the Grand Banks of Newfoundland
Supervisor: F. Gradstein

1980s

1989

Barry Ian Cameron (MSc)
Petrochemistry and Origin of Altered Permian Basalts in the Sverdrup Basin, Arctic Canada
Supervisor: Gunter Muecke
Gordon Check (BSc Honours)
40Ar/39Ar Thermochronology of the Britt Domain Grenville Province - Georgian Bay, Ontario
Supervisors: Nicholas Culshaw and Peter Reynolds
Alexander M. Grist (MSc)
Provenance and Thermal History of Detrital Sandstones of the Scotian Basin, Offshore Nova Scotia, using the Apatite Fission Track and 40Ar/39Ar Methods
Supervisor: Peter Reynolds
Kimberley Anne Jenner (MSc)
Modern Deltaic Sedimentation in an Arctic Setting: Olivier Islands, MacKenzie Delta, Northwest Territories
Supervisor: Phil Hill
John Jennings (BSc Honours)
A Geophysical Study of the Liscomb Satellite Pluton
R. Andrew MacRae (BSc Honours)
Palynology and Stratigraphy of an Upper Cretaceous Sedimentary-Volcanic Sequence, Emma Fiord, Northwest Ellesmere Island, N.W.T, Canada
Supervisors: Gunter Muecke and Graham Williams
Robert Matheson (BSc Honours)
Sedimentation of the Barrow Group, Exmouth Plateau, Northwestern Australia
Supervisor: Ron Boyd
Shirley Anne McLaren (MSc)
Quaternary Seismic Stratigraphy and Sedimentation of The Sable Island Sand Body, Sable Island Bank, Outer Scotian Shelf
Supervisor: Ron Boyd
Linda P. M. Nicks (MSc)
The Study of the Glacial Stratigraphy and Sedimentation of the Deposit Located at Sheldon Point, Saint John, New Brunswick
Supervisor: David Scott
David H. Ritcey (BSc Honours)
A Geochemical Study of the Carboniferous Audhild Volcanics, Northwestern Ellesmere Island, Arctic Canada: Initial Volcanism in the Sverdrup Basin
Supervisor: Gunter Muecke
Charles C. Walls (BSc Honours)
Magnetic Anomalies Near Ore Bodies and Mineralized Zones in the Troodos Ophiolite of Cyprus
Supervisor: James Hall
Marie-Claude Williamson (PhD)
The Cretaceous Igneous Province of the Sverdrup Basin, Canadian Arctic: Field Relations and Petrochemical Studies
Supervisors: Gunter Muecke and D. Barrie Clarke
Alan Yule (MSc)
The Hope Brook Gold Deposit, Newfoundland, Canada: Surface Geology, Representative Lithochemistry, and Styles of Hydrothermal Alteration
Supervisor: Marcos Zentilli

1988

Mitchell Brogan (BSc Honours)
Gravity Modelling of the Liscomb "Satellite" Pluton
Supervisor: Patrick J. C. Ryall
Linda J. Ham (MSc)
The Mineralogy, Petrology, and Geochemistry of the Halfway Cove-Queensport Pluton, Nova Scotia, Canada
Supervisor: D. Barrie Clarke
Rory Kempster (BSc Honours)
A Comparative Petrological Study of Three Nova Scotian Intrusions: the Jeddore Dyke, the Sober Island Dyke, and the Marshdale Intrusive
Supervisor: D. Barrie Clarke
Danny MacDonald (BSc Honours)
Examination of a Zoned Pegmatite and Host Rocks At Port Joli, Nova Scotia
Supervisor: D. Barrie Clarke
Stephen G. Marsters (BSc Honours)
Latest Pleistocene-Holocene Paleoceanographic Trends on the Inner Scotian Shelf off the South Shore of Nova Scotia: Benthonic Foraminiferal Evidence
Supervisor: David Scott
Jordan Mooers (BSc Honours)
Cooling and Uplift Pattern of the Liberty Hill Pluton, South Carolina, USA
Supervisors: Rebecca A. Jamieson and Peter Reynolds
George A. O’Reilly (MSc)
Geology and Geochemistry of the Sangster Lake and Larrys River Plutons, Guysborough County, Nova Scotia
Supervisor: Gunter Muecke
Linda Richard (MSc)
Geochemical Discrimination of the Peraluminous Devonian-Carboniferous Granitoids of Nova Scotia and Morocco
Supervisor: D. Barrie Clarke
Thomas P. Soehl (BSc Honours)
Geological Investigation of a Mineralized Granitic Cupola, Kempt Snare Lake, Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia
Supervisor: D. Barrie Clarke
Brian J. Todd (PhD)
Offset Margins on the Canadian Eastern Continental Shelf: Crustal Structure and Thermal Evolution
Supervisors: Charlotte Keen, Ian Reid, Patrick Ryall
Stephanie Woodend (Douma) (MSc)
The Mineralogy, Petrology and Geochemistry of the Port Mouton Pluton, Nova Scotia, Canada
Supervisor: D. Barrie Clarke

1987

Peter Adams (MSc)
A Depositional and Diagenetic Model for a Carbonate Ramp: Iroquois Formation (Early Jurassic), Scotian Shelf, Canada
Supervisors: L. Jansa and Paul E. Schenk
Heather A. Avison (BSc Honours)
Ar-40/Ar-39 Age Studies of Mafic Volcanics from the Sverdrup Basin, Arctic Canada
Supervisors: Peter Reynolds / Gunter Muecke
Tien Hai Bang (BSc Honours)
Lacustrine Cyclic Sedimentation in the Lower Carboniferous Horton Bluff Formation at Rainy Cove, Nova Scotia
Supervisor: Martin Gibling
Donna J. Bird (MSc)
The Depositional Environments of the Late Carboniferous, Coal-Bearing Sydney Mines Formation at Point Aconi, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia
Supervisor: Martin Gibling
Dale Conrod (BSc Honours)
Fluvial Sedimentation in the Lower Member of the Cheverie Formation at Blue Beach, Nova Scotia
Supervisor: Martin Gibling
Marten Douma (MSc)
Clay Mineral Distribution In Mesozoic And Cenozoic Strata Of The Labrador Shelf
Supervisor: Martin Gibling
Steven F. Dudka (BSc Honours)
A Study of a Late Devonian-Carboniferous, Porphyritic Microgranite-Hosted, Hydrothermal Breccia Pipe in the Mount Pleasant Caldera Complex, New Brunswick, Canada
Supervisor: Paul Robinson
Peter Elias (PhD)
Thermal History of the Meguma Terrane: A Study Based on 40Ar-39Ar and Fission Track Dating
Supervisors: Peter Reynolds and Gunter Muecke
Colleen Fitzgerald (MSc)
Deposition and Diagenesis of the Hibernia Member, Jeanne d'Arc Basin, Offshore Newfoundland
Supervisor: Paul E. Schenk
Kathryn Gillis (PhD)
Multistage Alteration of the Extrusive Sequence, Troodos Ophiolite, Cyprus
Supervisor: Paul Robinson
Cecily Honig (MSc)
Estuarine Sedimentation on a Glaciated Coast: Lawrencetown, Nova Scotia
Supervisor: Ron Boyd
Jill-Annette Marcotte (BSc Honours)
Regional Mapping and Petrographic Study of a Silurian Gneissic Complex, Belle Cote Road, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia
Supervisor: Rebecca Jamieson
Douglas Merrett (BSc Honours)
The Petrology and Geochemistry of the Port Mouton Migmatites
Supervisor: D. Barrie Clarke
Robert Myers (MSc)
Late Cenozoic Sedimentation in the Northern Labrador Sea: A Seismic-Stratigraphic Analyses
Supervisor: D. J. W. Piper
Victor Hugo Noguera (MSc)
Geology and Diagenetic History of Overpressured Siliciclastic Reservoirs in the Lower Missisauga-Mic Mac Formations of the Venture Gas Field, Scotian Shelf, Nova Scotia
Supervisors: L. Jansa and Martin Gibling
Heather Plint (MSc)
Metamorphism of the Jumping Brook Metamorphic Suite, Western Cape Breton Highlands, Nova Scotia: Microstructure, P-T-t Paths, and Tectonic Implications
Supervisor: Rebecca Jamieson
Michael Powell (BSc Honours)
Identification of the Carrier of Magnetization in a Basalt Core from Bermuda
Supervisor: Patrick Ryall and James Hall
Garth A. Prime (MSc)
The Antigonish Basin of Maritime Canada: a Sedimentary Tectonic History of a Late Paleozoic Fault-Wedge Basin
Supervisor: Paul E. Schenk
Casey Ravenhurst (PhD)
An Isotopically and Thermochronologically Constrained Model for Lead-Zinc and Barium Mineralization Related to Carbonate Basin Evolution in Nova Scotia, Canada
Supervisor: Marcos Zentilli
Nancy C. Reardon (BSc Honours)
The Chemical Composition of Granite-Related and Mineralization-Related Tourmaline in Nova Scotia
Supervisor: D. Barrie Clarke
Peter A. Rose (BSc Honours)
Petrography and Geochemistry of Anhydrite Units from the Canadian Salt Company Mine, Pugwash, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia
Supervisor: Paul E. Schenk

1986

Dwayne Beattie (BSc Honours)
Gravity Modeling of a Mafic-Ultramafic Association Darvel Bay, Sabah, Northern Borneo
Supervisor: Patrick Ryall
Yvonne Brown (BSc Honours)
Sedimentology of the Carboniferous Canso Group at Broad Cove, Nova Scotia
Supervisor: Martin Gibling
Joanne Bryan (BSc Honours)
Magnetic Modelling in the Davis Strait and Northern Labrador Sea
Supervisor: Patrick Ryall
Karen Connors (BSc Honours)
Relations Between the Sulphide Minerals, Metamorphism, and Deformation in the Faribault Brook Area of the Cape Breton Highlands, Nova Scotia
Supervisor: Rebecca Jamieson
Alan J. Deal (BSc Honours)
Carboniferous Fluvial Strata of the Inverness Formation at Finlay Point, Southwest Cape Breton Island
Supervisor: Martin Gibling
John R. Dickie (BSc Honours)
Upper Carboniferous Fluvial Sedimentation in the Gulf of St. Lawrence Coal Basin, Mabou Mines, Nova Scotia
Janette M. Freeman (BSc Honours)
Paleoceanographic Trends on the Northern Scotian Shelf
Supervisor: David Scott
Wayne Jollimore (Bsc Honours)
Analyses of Dyke Swarms within the Sverdrup Basin Queen Elizabeth Islands
Supervisor: Gunter Muecke  
Tony LaPierre (BSc Honours)
Modern Sedimentary Environments of the Eastern Shore, Inner Continential Shelf
Supervisor: Ron Boyd
Paul Lloyd (MSc)
Mathematical Modeling of Tilted-Block Basins and Uplifts
Supervisor: Chris Beaumont
Ian Neil MacInnis (BSc Honours)
LithofaciesLithogeochemistry of the Goldenville-Halifax Transition (GHT) of the Meguma Group in the Manganiferous Zinc-Lead Deposit at Eastville, Nova Scotia
Kevin G. MacNeil (Sc Honours)
Late Pleistocene-Holocene Paleoceanography of the Northeast Newfoundland Shelf; Benthonic Foraminiferal Evidence
Supervisor: David Scott
Hadi Mahony (BSc Honours)
Sedimentology and Tectonic Activities in Rawdon Hills, Nova Scotia
Supervisor: Marcos Zentilli
Thomas Mulja (BSc Honours)
Hydrothermal Alteration, Gold Distribution and Geochronology of Epithermal Gold Mineralization in the Copiapo Volcanic Complex, Chile
Supervisor: Marcos Zentilli
Claudia Schroder (PhD)
Deep-water arenaceous foraminifera in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean
Supervisor: F. Gradstein
Margaret Shaw (BSc Honours)
A Pollen-Stratigraphic Study of Late-Quaternary Vegetational Change at Porter's Lake, Nova Scotia, with Reference to Marine Intrusion
D. William Souchen (BSc Honours)
Late Pleistocene - Holocene Benthonic Foraminifera from the Northern Scotian Shelf
Supervisor: David Scott
James J. Waterfield (BSc Honours)
Sedimentology and Stratigraphy of Canso and Riversdale Fluvial Strata at Broad Cove, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia
Supervisor: Martin Gibling

1985

Allison L. Bent (BSc Honours)
A Quantitative Analysis of Deglaciation as a Possible Earthquake Mechanism in Canada
Supervisor: James Hall
Walter E. F. Burke (BSc Honours)
Geophysical Analysis of Field and Laboratory Measurements at the Eastville Lead-Zinc Deposit Colchester County, Nova Scotia
Supervisor: Peter Reynolds
Barry Cameron (BSc Honours)
The Contact Metamorphic Effects of a Granitoid Pluton on Zinc-Lead Mineralization in the Manganiferous Metasediments of the Meguma Group, Eastville, Colchester County, Nova Scotia
Supervisor: Marcos Zentilli
Eric S. Collins (BSc Honours)
Arcellaceans in Nova Scotia: Selected Biostratigraphic Studies
Supervisors: Franco Medioli / David Scott
Robert K. Hall (MSc)
Inner Shelf Acoustic Facies and Surficial Sediment Distribution of the Eastern Shore, Nova Scotia
Supervisor: Ron Boyd
Robert W. Hingston (BSc Honours)
The Manganiferous Slates of the Cambro-Ordovician Meguma Group at Lake Charlotte, Halifax County, Nova Scotia
Supervisor: Ron Boyd
John Logothetis (MSc)
The Mineralogy and Geochemistry of Metasomotized Granitoid Rocks from Occurrences in the South Mountain Batholith: New Ross Area, Southwestern Nova Scotia
Supervisors: D. Barrie Clarke / Gunter Muecke
Douglas R. MacDonald (BSc Honours)
Sedimentology of Fluvial Red Beds at Waddens Cove, Cape Breton County, Nova Scotia
Supervisor: Martin Gibling
Richard McCallum (BSc Honours)
A Seismostratigraphic Analysis of High Resolution Seismic Reflection Data from the Western Grand Banks of Newfoundland
Supervisor: Patrick J.C. Ryall
Gordon N. Oakey (BScHonours)
A Refraction Seismic Survey of Martinique Beach: Geometry and Significance to Barrier Beach Evolution
Colin D. Pilmer (BSc Honours)
The Analysis of High Resolution Shallow Seismic Reflection Data from Sable Island Bank
Supervisor: Ron Boyd
William D. Smith (MSc)
Composition and Depositional Environment of the Albert Formation Oil Shales, New Brunswick
Supervisor: Martin Gibling
Beert Stam (PhD)
Quantitative analysis of Middle and Late Jurassic foraminifera from Portugal and its implications for the Grand Banks of Newfoundland
Supervisor: F. Gradstein
Francis C. Thomas (MSc)
Lower Scotian Slope Benthic Foraminiferal Faunas Past and Present, with Taxonomic Outline
Supervisor: F. Gradstein / Graham Williams

1984

David G. Bailey (MSc)
Stratigraphy and Geochemistry of the Troodos Ophiolite Extrusive Sequence in the Margi Area, Cyprus
Supervisor: Paul Robinson
Deborah M. Conrad (BSc Honours)
The Question of Relationship Between Low and High Grade Metamorphic Rocks in the French Mountain Area, of the Cape Breton Highlands, Nova Scotia
Supervisor: Rebecca Jamieson
Michael Paul Cullen (MSc)
Geology of the Bass River Complex, Cobequid Highlands, Nova Scotia
Supervisor: Rebecca Jamieson
Brian E. Fisher (BSc Honours)
A Regional Investigation of Scheelite Occurrences in the Meguma Group of Nova Scotia
Supervisor: Marcos Zentilli
Colleen Fitzgerald (BSc Honours)
The Lower Cretaceous Ellerslie Formation of Southeast Taber and Chin Coulee Oil Fields, Southeastern Alberta
Supervisor: Martin Gibling
Cecily A. Honig (BSc Honours)
Postglacial Stratigraphy of Southwestern New Brunswick: St. Patrick's Lake and Big Pond
Supervisor: David Scott
Helen A. Kerr (BSc Honours)
Arcellaceans in Eastern Canada: Selected Biostratigraphic and Biological Studies
Supervisor: Franco Medioli / David Scott
Lynne Maillet (BSc Honours)
The Origin and Occurrence of Cordierite in the South Mountain Batholith
Supervisor: D.B. Clarke
Francine M. McCarthy (BSc Honours)
Infraspecific Variation in Arcellacea (Thecamoebians) from Eastern Canada and a Selected Biostratigraphic Study
Supervisors: Franco Medioli / David Scott
Karen A. McNulty (BSc Honours)
The Mineralogy of the Fifteen Mile Stream Gold District
Supervisor: Marcos Zentilli
Mark A. P. Ponsford (BSc Honours)
Geologic, Fluid Inclusion and Stable Isotope Study of a Carbonate-Hosted Lead Deposit at Pembroke (Glenbervie), Colchester County, Nova Scotia
Supervisor: Marcos Zentilli
William Gerard Shaw (MSc)
A Geological Investigation of the Lazy Head Tungsten Prospect, Guysborough County and a Comparison with the Moose River Deposit, Halifax County, N. S.
Supervisor: Marcos Zentilli
David A. Smith (BSc Honours)
Marsh Foraminiferal Distribution in the Minas Basin and their Occurrence in Marsh Cores from the Region
Supervisors: Franco Medioli / David Scott
Gary Sonnichsen (BSc Honours)
The Relationship of Coastal Drumlins to Barrier Beach Formation Along the Eastern Shore of Nova Scotia
Supervisor: Ron Boyd
Apostolos B. Stergiopoulos (MSc)
Geophysical Crustal Studies off the Southwest Greenland Margin
Supervsor: Patrick J. C. Ryall  
Brian Jeremy Todd (MSc)
Iceberg Scouring on Saglek Bank Northern Labrador Shelf
Supervisor: C.F. Michael Lewis
Peter D. Watson (BSc Honours)
The Sedimentology of Glaciofluvial Deposits Near Upper Nine Mile River, Nova Scotia
Supervisor: G. Clint Milligan / Martin Gibling
Jean Wright (BSc Honours)
Upper Paleozoic Alluvial Plain Sedimentation in the Morien Group, Eastern Cape Breton, Nova Scotia
Supervisor: Martin Gibling

1983

Samuel Olusegun Akande (PhD)
Genesis of the Lead-Zinc Mineralization at Gays River, Nova Scotia, Canada: A Geologic, Fluid Inclusion and Stable Isotope Study
Supervisor: Marcos Zentilli
Jennifer L. E. Bates (BSc Honours)
Petrogenesis of the Goose Cove Copper Deposit, Northwestern Newfoundland.
Supervisor: Rebecca Jamieson
Oliver J. H. Bonham (MSC)
Mineralization Controls at the Yava Lead Deposit, Salmon River, Cape Breton County, Nova Scotia
Supervisor: Marcos Zentilli
Mona Botros (BSc Honours)
A Petrologic Study of the Hydrothermal Alteration and Ore Mineral Deposition in Drill Core Samples from Agrokipia, Cyprus
Supervisor: James Hall
John D. Cullen (MSc)
Metamorphic Petrology and Geochemistry of the Goldenville Formation Metasediments, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia
Supervisor: Gunter Muecke
Anita Mary De Iure (MSc)
The Effect of Storms on Sediments in Halifax, Inlet, Nova Scotia
Supervisor: D. J. W. Piper
Angela C. Dobson (BSc Honours)
A Study of the Silica-Undersaturated Alkaline Rocks of the Laacher Sea Area, East Eifel Volcanic Field, West Germany
Supervisor: James Hall
Pierre Doucet (MSc)
The Petrology and Geochemistry of the Middle River Area, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia
Supervisor: Rebecca Jamieson
Douglas M. Farrell (BSc Honours)
A Detailed Study of Pictou Group Rocks at Cape John, Nova Scotia
Supervisor: Martin Gibling
Johann Helgason (PhD)
Structural Relationships and Magnetostratigraphy of the Volcanic Succession and the Breiddalur Dyke Swarm in Reydarfjordur, Eastern Iceland
Supervisor: Marcos Zentilli
Stephen Hoskin (BSc Honours)
Coastal Sedimentation at Lawrencetown Beach Eastern Shore, Nova Scotia
Andrew W. Hubley (BSc Honours)
Provenance and Depositional Environment of Some Lower Mississippian Sediments, Cape George, Nova Scotia
Supervisor: Paul Schenk
Ian J. MacEachern (BSc Honours)
The Distribution, Character and Composition of Gold in Till at the Fifteen Mile Stream Gold District Halifax County, Nova Scotia
Supervisor: Marcos Zentilli
Ann-Alberta Louise Miller (MSc)
Elphidium Excavatum (Terguen): Palebiological and Statistical Investigations of Infraspecific Variation
Supervisor: Franco Medioli
R. Timothy Patterson (BSc Honours)
Arcellaceans of Several Small Lakes in Southwestern New Brunswick; Their Modern Distribution and Stratigraphic Importance
Supervisor: David Scott
Dan Praeg (BSc Honours)
Quaternary Geologic History of Lady Franklin Bank, Southeastern Baffin Shelf, N.W.T.
Supervisors: Ron Boyd / Martin Gibling
Michael D.G. Rogers (BSc Honours)
The Origin and Emplacement of the Rock Units in Mule Creek, Northwestern British Columbia
Supervisor: G. Clint Milligan
William E. Stone (BSc Honours)
Lithofacies of the Lower Paleozoic Carbonate Shelf to Basin Facies Transition, West-Central Ellesmere Island, Canadian Arctic
Supervisor: Martin Gibling
Mark A. Williamson (PhD)
Benthic Foraminiferal Assemblages on the Continental Margin off Nova Scotia: A Multivariable Approach
Supervisor: Franco Medioli
Isobel K. Wolfson (MSc)
A Study of the Tin Mineralization and Lithogeochemistry in the Area of the Wedgeport Pluton, Southwestern Nova Scotia
Supervisor: Marcos Zentilli

1982

Marie-Claude Blanchard (MSc)
Geochemistry and Petrogenesis of the Fisset Brook Formation, Western Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia
Supervisor: Becky Jamieson
John A. Easton (BSc Honours)
Marine and Coastal Geology Between Hartlen Point and Jeddore Cape, Nova Scotia
Supervisor: D. J. W. Piper
Harley E. Hutchinson (BSc Honours)
Geology, Geochemistry, and Genesis of the Brazil Lake Pegmatites, Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia
Supervisor: Gunter Muecke
Kimberley A. Jenner (BSc Honours)
A Study of Sulfide Mineralization in the Meguma Group Sediments Gold Brook, Colchester County, Nova Scotia
Supervisor: Marcos Zentilli
Edward L. King (BSc Honours)
Depositional Environment of the Lower Paleozoic Sediments on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland
Elizabeth B. More (BSc Honours)
A Lower Carboniferous Sedimentary-Volcanic Succession, North Baddeck River, Nova Scotia
Supervisor: Becky Jamieson
Robert A. Myers (BSc Honours)
Development of the Active Layer, Tuktoyaktuk Peninsula and Richard’s Island area, Western Arctic, Canada
Supervisor: D. J. W. Piper
Denise F. Poley (BSc Honours)
A Detailed Study of a Submerged Pingo-Like-Feature in the Canadian Beaufort Sea, Arctic, Canada
Supervisor: Martin Gibling
Kevin F. Slauenwhite (BSc Honours)
Scale Model Experiments with the Horizontal Loop Electromagnetic Technique of Geophysical Prospecting
Supervisor: Peter Reynolds
Rudolph R. Stea (MSc)
The Properties, Correlation and Interpretation of Pleistocene Sediments in Central Nova Scotia
Supervisor: H. B. S. Cooke
Randell Alexander Stephenson (PhD)
Continental Topography and Gravity
Supervisor: Chris Beaumont

1981

Ali Engin Aksu (PhD)
Late Quaternary Stratigraphy, Paleoenvironmentology and Sedimentation History of Baffin Bay and Davis Strait
Supervisor: D.J.W. Piper
A. Murray D'Orsay (BSc Honours)
Depositional Analysis of the Upper Meguma (Halifax Formation) at Ovens Park, Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia
Supervisor: D.J.W. Piper
Bruce J. Hancock (BSc Honours)
Depositional Environment of a Carbonate Section Exposed in the Gays River Decline-- A Carboniferous Buildup in Mainland Nova Scotia
Philip R. Hill (PhD)
Detailed Morphology and Late Quaternary Sedimentation of the Nova Scotia Slope, South of Halifax
Supervisor: D.J.W. Piper
Andrew J.D. Kendall (BSc Honours)
The White Rock Formation Metavolcanics at Cape St. Mary, Nova Scotia: Petrography, Geochemistry, and Geological Affinities
Supervisor: Gunter Muecke
Thomas E. Lane (MSc)
The Stratigraphy and Sedimentology of the White Rock Formation (Silurian), Nova Scotia, Canada
Supervisor: Paul Schenk
John R. J. Letson (MSc)
Sedimentology in Southwestern Mahone Bay
Supervisor: D.J.W. Piper
Robert M. MacKay (BSc Honours)
Whole Rock Analysis using the Electron Microprobe
Supervisor: D. Barrie Clarke
William S. Okoth (MSc)
Evaluation of Hydrocarbon Potential of the Kenyan Margin on the Basis of Structure and Stratigraphy
Supervisor: D.J.W. Piper
John Maurice Peckenham (MSc)
James Hall On the Nature and Origin of Some Paleogene Melilititic Pillowed Lavas, Breccias, and Intrusives from Bermuda
Supervisor: James Hall
Daniel J. Plasse (PhD)
The Nature and Origin of Granulation Textures in Class 1 Titanomagnetites
Supervisor: James Hall
Nancy A. Van Wagoner (PhD)
Segregation Vesicles In Mid-Ocean Ridge Basalts: Implications for Structural and Paleomagnetic Studies of Oceanic Crust
Supervisor: James Hall

1980

1970s

1979

1978

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1974

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1971

1970

1960s

1969

1968

1966

1965

Fabrizio Aumento (PhD)
Thermal Transformations of Selected Zeolites and Related Hydrated Silicates
Supervisor: C.G.I. Friedlaender  

1963

D. M. Leahey (BSc Honours)
Radiocarbon Dating Using A Proportional Counter Filled With Carbon Dioxide

1961

R.A.G. Lines (BSc Honours)
Radiocarbon Dating Using A Proportional Counter Filled With Carbon Dioxide
Supervisor: I. K. MacKenzie

1950s

1957

Carl Gourley (BSc Honours)
A Geological and Petrological Study of Heath Steele Mines, Northumberland County, New Brunswick