Graduate Students
Sujan Raj Adhikari
Ph.D. Geophysics, Dr. Sheri MolnarResearch Interests / Specializations: Seismic Hazards, seismic microzonation, 3D modelling
Chimira Andres
M.Sc. Geology, Dr. Gordon OsinskiResearch Interests / Specializations: Planetary and Periglacial Geology, Glacial Sedimentology & Landsystem Analysis of Earth-Mars Analogs
Gabriel Arcuri
Ph.D. Geology, Dr. Des MoserResearch Interests / Specializations: Geochronology
Abdullah Aseri
Ph.D. Geology, Dr. Bob LinnenResearch Interests / Specializations: High Field Strength Elements Deposits in Silica-saturated Alkaline Granite, Arabian Shield, Saudi Arabia
Russell Ashton
M.Sc. Geology, Dr. Bob Linnen
Mailyng Aviles
Ph.D. Geology, Dr. Burns CheadleResearch Interests / Specializations: The Second White Specks Formation of Colorado Group: Insight into Burial Changes and Thermal History
Tom Baechler
M.Sc Geology, Dr. Gordon OsinskiResearch Interests / Specializations: Economic geology - Ni-Cu-PGE exploration
Sara Belontz
Ph.D. Geology, Dr. Patricia CorcoranResearch Interests / Specializations: Microplastics
David Benn
M.Sc. Geology, Dr. Bob LinnenResearch Interests / Specializations: Economic Geology & Geochemistry
Meryem Berrada
Ph.D. Geophysics, Dr. Richard SeccoResearch Interests / Specializations: High-pressure and high-temperature geophysics
Ankit Bhandari
Ph.D. Geology, Dr. Dazhi JiangResearch Interests / Specializations: Structural Geology, Numerical modelling
Chris Boucher
M.Sc. Geophysics, Dr. Sheri MolnarResearch Interests / Specializations: Seismology & Seismic Hazards
Fengke Cao
Ph.D. Geology & Planetary Science, Dr. Roberta FlemmingResearch Interests / Specializations: Martian meteorites; XRD; Raman
Juliana Casali
M.Sc. Geology, Dr. Neil BanerjeeResearch Interests / Specializations: Economic Geology
Christy Caudill
Ph.D. Geology & Planetary Science, Dr. Gordon Osinski & Dr. Livio TornabeneResearch Interests / Specializations: Impact Craters
Anna Chanou
Ph.D. Geology & Planetary Science, Dr. Gordon Osinski & Dr. Richard GrieveResearch Interests / Specializations: Vitric clast-bearing breccia impactites: their intra- and inter- crater textural variability and geologic correlation
David Clark
Ph.D. Geophysics, Dr. Paul Wiegert & Dr. Gordon OsinskiResearch Interests / Specializations: Computational and Observational Studies of Meteoroid Streams
Abd-Erraouf Djirar
M.Sc. Geophysics, Dr. Sean ShiehResearch Interests / Specializations: Mineral Physics
Jessica Flynn
Ph.D. Geology, Dr. Burns CheadleResearch Interests / Specializations: Burial and Thermal History Modeling of the Upper Cretaceous Colorado Group, Western Canada Sedimentary Basin Foredeep through Back-Bulge Transect
Meredith Fyfe
M.Sc. Geophysics, Dr. Sheri MolnarResearch Interests / Specializations: Seismic Hazards
Slavena Galic
Ph.D. Geology, Dr. Guy PlintResearch Interests / Specializations: Sedimentology, Stratigraphy
Nicolas Garroni
Ph.D. Geology, Dr. Gordon OsinskiResearch Interests / Specializations: Impact crater geology
Zohreh Ghorbani
Ph.D. Geology, Dr. Neil BanerjeeResearch Interests / Specializations: Geochemistry
Ana Gonzalez Flores
Ph.D. Geology, Dr. Jisuo Jin & Dr. Gordon OsinskiResearch Interests / Specializations: Astrobiology and the origins of life
Karen Grey
Ph.D. Geology, Dr. Burns CheadleResearch Interests / Specializations: Stratigraphy, Petrophysics, Geomechanics
Povilas Grigutis
M.Sc. Geology, Dr. Robert Linnen & Dr. Peter LightfootResearch Interests / Specializations: High-grade sulfide mineralization and the variation of high tenor Ni ore in the D3 ore body of Thompson Mine, Manitoba
Minger Guo
M.Sc. Geology, Dr. Liz WebbResearch Interests / Specializations: Geochemistry
Chunyi Hao
M.Sc. Geology, Dr. Neil BanerjeeResearch Interests / Specializations: Economic Geology
Jonathan Hey
Ph.D. Geology, Dr. Norm Duke & Dr. Desmond MoserResearch Interests / Specializations: A metallogenic study of high grade iron ores on North Baffin Island in the Facies domain south of the Central Borden Fault Zone
Shannon Hibbard
Ph.D. Geology - Dr. Gordon OsinskiResearch Interests / Specializations: Periglacial/Glacial Geomorphology, Earth-Mars Analogs, Geochemistry
Joanna Holmgren
Ph.D. Geophysics, Dr. Gail AtkinsonResearch Interests / Specializations: Induced Seismicity and Signal Processing
Trevor Holness
M.Sc. Geology, Dr. Brian Hart & Dr. Bob LinnenResearch Interests / Specializations: Mineral Processing, Geometallurgy
Tim Howe
Ph.D. Geology, Dr. Patricia Corcoran & Dr. Gordon OsinskiResearch Interests / Specializations: Stable isotopes of sulfur in pyrite and trace element geochemistry as they pertain to the Sudbury Igneous Complex and host rock
Brendt Hyde
Ph.D. Geology, Dr. Kim Tait & Dr. Desmond MoserResearch Interests / Specializations: Meteoritics
Alireza Javanbakht
Ph.D. Geophysics, Dr. Sheri MolnarResearch Interests / Specializations: Seismic Hazards / Liquefaction
Laura Jenkins
M.Sc. Geology & Planetary Science, Dr. Roberta FlemmingResearch Interests / Specializations: Shock metamorphism in Martian meteorites
Giancarlo Jones
Ph.D. Geology, Dr. Desmond Moser & Dr. Sean ShiehResearch Interests / Specializations: Geochronology
Ryan Kahue
Ph.D. Geophysics, Dr. Robert ShcherbakovResearch Interests / Specializations: Physics of Induced Seismicity Fracture Processes
Nadine Kanik
Ph.D. Geology, Dr. Fred LongstaffeResearch Interests / Specializations: Reconstructing human paleodiet, paleoclimate, and investigating clay mineral interactions with water for industrial/nuclear application using stable isotopes
Sidhanth Kothari
M.Sc. Geophysics, Dr. Gail Atkinson & Dr. Robert Shcherbakov
Sameer Ladak
M.Sc. Geophysics, Dr. Sheri MolnarResearch Interests / Specializations: Seismology
Josh Laughton
Ph.D. Geology, Dr. Gordon OsinskiResearch Interests / Specializations: Precambrian geology of Devon Island, Nunavut
Yaozhu Li
Ph.D. Geology & Planetary Science, Dr. Roberta Flemming & Dr. Phil McCauslandJoshua Littleton
Ph.D. Geophysics, Dr. Richard SeccoResearch Interests / Specializations: High-Pressure Mineral Physics
Xi (Lucy) Lu
Ph.D. Geology, Dr. Dazhi JiangResearch Interests / Specializations: Structural Geology
Cassandra Marion
Ph.D. Geology & Planetary Science, Dr. Gordon Osinski & Dr. Bob LinnenResearch Interests / Specializations: Post-Impact Hydrothermal Systems: Characterization of Hydrothermal Mineralization and Fluids in Two Complex Impact Structures
Fereshteh Najafi
Ph.D. Geology, Dr. Fred LongstaffeResearch Interests / Specializations: Stable Isotope Geochemistry
Negar Nazari
Ph.D. Geology, Dr. Burns Cheadle & Dr. Robert ShcherbakovResearch Interests / Specializations: Induced Seismicity
Jennifer Newman
Ph.D. Geology & Planetary Science, Dr. Gordon OsinskiResearch Interests / Specializations: Impact Craters
Jamal Nigim
M.Sc. Geology, Dr. Fred LongstaffeResearch Interests / Specializations: Stable Isotope Geochemistry and Paleolimnology
Samantha Palmer
Ph.D. Geophysics, Dr. Gail AtkinsonResearch Interests / Specializations: Seismic Hazards
Alexander Piatek
M.Sc. Geology Coursebased, Dr. Rob SchincariolResearch Interests / Specializations: Geothermal Energy
Nikol Posnov
M.Sc. Geology, Dr. Gordon Osinski & Dr. Roberta FlemmingResearch Interests / Specializations: Molecular Geobiology
Cassandra Powell
M.Sc. Geology, Dr. Robert LinnenResearch Interests / Specializations: Economic Geology
Philip Reger
Ph.D. Geology & Planetary Science, Dr. Audrey BouvierResearch Interests / Specializations: Cosmochemistry / Planetary Science
Ricardo Rodriguez
M.Sc. Geophysics, Dr. Sean Shieh
Carolina Rodriguez Sanchez
M.Sc. Geology, Dr. Catherine NeishResearch Interests / Specializations: Planetary Radar Geology / Planetary Surface Processes / Remote Sensing / Planetary Geomorphology
Leah Sacks
M.Sc. Geology, Dr. Livio Tornabene & Dr. Gordon OsinskiResearch Interests / Specializations: Planetary Geology, Impact Craters, Comparative Planetology
Ryan Sawyer
Ph.D. Geophysics & Planetary Science, Dr. Rick Secco & Dr. Wayne NesbittResearch Interests / Specializations: The Effects of Composition, Pressure and Temperature on the Structure of Alkali Silicate Glasses
Jahnavi Shah
M.Sc. Geophysics, Dr. Catherine NeishResearch Interests / Specializations: Planetary Surface Processes, Planetary Analogues
Aamna Sirohey
M.Sc. Geophysics, Dr. Sheri MolnarRenata Smoke
M.Sc. Geology Coursebased, Dr. Bob Linnen
Mary Spencer
M.Sc. Geology - Audrey Bouvier & Tony WithersResearch Interests / Specializations: Ureilites and Planetary Formation
Ting Sun
Ph.D. Geology, Dr. Brian BranfireunResearch Interests / Specializations: Climate change effects on mercury in wetlands
Matthew Svensson
Ph.D. Geology & Planetary Science, Dr. Gordon Osinski & Dr. Fred Longstaffe
James Thayer
Ph.D. Geology, Dr. Fred LongstaffeResearch Interests / Specializations: Landscape response to post-glacial climate change
Ramen Tolo
M.Sc. Geology Coursebased, Dr. Liz Webb & Dr. Patricia Corcoran
Gavin Tolometti
Ph.D. Geology & Planetary Science, Dr. Catherine Neish & Dr. Gordon OsinskiResearch Interests / Specializations: Planetary Volcanism
Mauritz Van Zyl
M.Sc. Geophysics, Dr. Sean Shieh
Denis Vida
Ph.D. Geophysics & Planetary Science, Dr. Peter Brown & Dr. Margaret Campbell-BrownResearch Interests / Specializations: Meteors, meteoroid streams, comets, asteroids
Brian Villamizar
Ph.D. Geophysics, Dr. Gerhard PrattResearch Interests / Specializations: Full Waveform Inversion
Jacob Walker
Ph.D. Geology, Dr. Fred LongstaffeResearch Interests / Specializations: Stable Isotope Geochemistry
Ching Pao Wang
Ph.D. Geophysics, Dr. Sean Shieh & Dr. Tony WithersResearch Interests / Specializations: Mineral Physics
Tianqi Xie
Ph.D. Geophysics, Dr. Sean Shieh & Dr. Gordon OsinskiResearch Interests / Specializations: Exploration of the shock metamorphic features in anorthosite from Mistastin Lake impact structure and Apollo samples using Raman spectroscopy
Yusong Yang
M.Sc. Geophysics Coursebased, Dr. Rick Secco
Bidong Zhang
Ph.D. Geology & Planetary Science, Dr. Audrey Bouvier & Dr. Sean ShiehResearch Interests / Specializations: Planetary Materials
Xiaochen Zhang
M.Sc. Geology, Planetary Science, Dr. Gordon Osinski
Xiaoming Zhang
Ph.D. Geophysics, Dr. Robert ShcherbakovResearch Interests / Specializations: Understanding the mechanisms of earthquakes and aftershocks through numerical modelling
Congxi Zhu
M.Sc. Geology, Dr. Audrey Bouvier & Dr. Tony WithersResearch Interests / Specializations: Ni isotope fractionation processes associated with Cu-Ni-PGE mineralization in the Zambales ophiolite complex, Philippines
