PDAC – SEG Student Minerals Colloquium Award Recipients
2022 PDAC Convention, Toronto, ON (Hybrid Format)
Wednesday, June 15th, 2022
Four iMAGE-CREATE students were awarded prizes for their participation in the research poster competition during the 2022 PDAC – SEG Student Minerals Colloquium (SMC).
The SMC highlights student research concentrating on innovative projects essential for the successful evolution of the modern mining industry. Over the years, this event has featured hundreds of poster presentations from BSc, MSc, and PhD students around the world studying minerals deposits and related disciplines, and provides industry professional with an unparalleled opportunity to support ongoing student research related to the mining industry.
This year, the SMC was adapted to include poster presentations from both the in-person (June 13-15) and online/virtual (June 28-29th) PDAC conference. Six award winners were announced for both the best online and in-person poster presentations at the BSc, MSc, and PhD levels.
The four iMAGE-CREATE award winners include:
1st Place (PhD): Marc Fassbender (Virtual/Online), who presented his ongoing PhD work at the University of Ottawa in a poster titled “Insights into ancient back-arc magmatism from the intraoceanic Lau Basin, a multivariate statistical approach”.
1st Place (BSc): Martina Boddy (In-Person), who presented her previous BSc work at the University of Ottawa in a poster titled “A Study of 2020-2021 Mount. Etna Paroxsyms: Geochemical and Morphological Analysis”.
2nd Place (MSc): Michael Ryan (In-Person), who presented his ongoing MSc work at the University of Ottawa in a poster titled “Analysis of magmatic productivity at the Rochambeau rifts, northern Lau back-arc Basin”.
3rd Place (PhD): Taylor Tracey Kyryliuk (In-Person), who presented her ongoing PhD work at the University of Ottawa in a poster titled “Tectonic fabric along the Haida Gwaii margin from receiver function analysis”.
A congratulations are extended to all the winners from this competition. For more information on the Student Minerals Colloquium, as well as to see previous years award winners and detailed abstracts/program booklets from this years submission, visit this section of the MERC website.
