Graduate Students

Sujan Raj Adhikari

Ph.D. Geophysics, Dr. Sheri Molnar

Research Interests / Specializations: Seismic Hazards, seismic microzonation, 3D modelling

Chimira Andres

M.Sc. Geology, Dr. Gordon Osinski

Research Interests / Specializations: Planetary and Periglacial Geology, Glacial Sedimentology & Landsystem Analysis of Earth-Mars Analogs

Gabriel Arcuri

Ph.D. Geology, Dr. Des Moser

Research Interests / Specializations: Geochronology

Ian Arturo

M.Sc. Geology, Dr. Patricia Corcoran

Abdullah Aseri

Ph.D. Geology, Dr. Bob Linnen

Research 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 Cheadle

Research Interests / Specializations: The Second White Specks Formation of Colorado Group: Insight into Burial Changes and Thermal History

Tom Baechler

M.Sc Geology, Dr. Gordon Osinski

Research Interests / Specializations: Economic geology - Ni-Cu-PGE exploration

Sara Belontz

Ph.D. Geology, Dr. Patricia Corcoran

Research Interests / Specializations: Microplastics

David Benn

M.Sc. Geology, Dr. Bob Linnen

Research Interests / Specializations: Economic Geology & Geochemistry

Meryem Berrada

Ph.D. Geophysics, Dr. Richard Secco

Research Interests / Specializations: High-pressure and high-temperature geophysics

Ankit Bhandari

Ph.D. Geology, Dr. Dazhi Jiang

Research Interests / Specializations: Structural Geology, Numerical modelling

Lindsay Blythe

M.Sc. Geology, Dr. Liz Webb & Dr. Patricia Corcoran

Chris Boucher

M.Sc. Geophysics, Dr. Sheri Molnar

Research Interests / Specializations: Seismology & Seismic Hazards

Fengke Cao

Ph.D. Geology & Planetary Science, Dr. Roberta Flemming

Research Interests / Specializations: Martian meteorites; XRD; Raman

Juliana Casali

M.Sc. Geology, Dr. Neil Banerjee

Research Interests / Specializations: Economic Geology

Christy Caudill

Ph.D. Geology & Planetary Science, Dr. Gordon Osinski & Dr. Livio Tornabene

Research Interests / Specializations: Impact Craters

Anna Chanou

Ph.D. Geology & Planetary Science, Dr. Gordon Osinski & Dr. Richard Grieve

Research 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 Osinski

Research Interests / Specializations: Computational and Observational Studies of Meteoroid Streams

Abd-Erraouf Djirar

M.Sc. Geophysics, Dr. Sean Shieh

Research Interests / Specializations: Mineral Physics

Emma-Dawn Ferguson

M.Sc. Geology, Dr. Audrey Bouvier & Dr. Fred Longstaffe

Research Interests / Specializations: Planetary Geochemistry

Jessica Flynn

Ph.D. Geology, Dr. Burns Cheadle

Research 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 Molnar

Research Interests / Specializations: Seismic Hazards

Slavena Galic

Ph.D. Geology, Dr. Guy Plint

Research Interests / Specializations: Sedimentology, Stratigraphy

Nicolas Garroni

Ph.D. Geology, Dr. Gordon Osinski

Research Interests / Specializations: Impact crater geology

Zohreh Ghorbani

Ph.D. Geology, Dr. Neil Banerjee

Research Interests / Specializations: Geochemistry

Ana Gonzalez Flores

Ph.D. Geology, Dr. Jisuo Jin & Dr. Gordon Osinski

Research Interests / Specializations: Astrobiology and the origins of life

Karen Grey

Ph.D. Geology, Dr. Burns Cheadle

Research Interests / Specializations: Stratigraphy, Petrophysics, Geomechanics

Pov Grigutis

M.Sc. Geology, Dr. Robert Linnen & Dr. Peter Lightfoot

Research 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 Webb

Research Interests / Specializations: Geochemistry

Zhiguo Guo

M.Sc. Geology, Dr. Audrey Bouvier

Chunyi Hao

M.Sc. Geology, Dr. Neil Banerjee

Research Interests / Specializations: Economic Geology

Joshua Hedgepeth

Ph.D. Geophysics, PlnSci, Dr. Catherine Neish

Jonathan Hey

Ph.D. Geology, Dr. Norm Duke & Dr. Desmond Moser

Research 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 Osinski

Research Interests / Specializations: Periglacial/Glacial Geomorphology, Earth-Mars Analogs, Geochemistry

Patrick Hill

Ph.D. Geology & Planetary Science, Dr. Gordon Osinski & Dr. Neil Banerjee

Research Interests / Specializations: Impact Cratering

Joanna Holmgren

Ph.D. Geophysics, Dr. Gail Atkinson

Research Interests / Specializations: Induced Seismicity and Signal Processing

Trevor Holness

M.Sc. Geology, Dr. Brian Hart & Dr. Bob Linnen

Research Interests / Specializations: Mineral Processing, Geometallurgy

Beth Hooper

Ph.D. Geology, Dr. Guy Plint

Research Interests / Specializations: High-resolution allostratigraphy of the Muskiki and Marshybank formations (Upper Cretaceous, Coniacian) in the Western Canada Foreland Basin

Tim Howe

Ph.D. Geology, Dr. Patricia Corcoran & Dr. Gordon Osinski

Research Interests / Specializations: Stable isotopes of sulfur in pyrite and trace element geochemistry as they pertain to the Sudbury Igneous Complex and host rock

Luke Howitt

M.Sc. Geology, Dr. Bob Linnen

Brendt Hyde

Ph.D. Geology, Dr. Kim Tait & Dr. Desmond Moser

Research Interests / Specializations: Meteoritics

Alireza Javanbakht

Ph.D. Geophysics, Dr. Sheri Molnar

Research Interests / Specializations: Seismic Hazards / Liquefaction

Laura Jenkins

M.Sc. Geology & Planetary Science, Dr. Roberta Flemming

Research Interests / Specializations: Shock metamorphism in Martian meteorites

Giancarlo Jones

Ph.D. Geology, Dr. Desmond Moser & Dr. Sean Shieh

Research Interests / Specializations: Geochronology

Ryan Kahue

Ph.D. Geophysics, Dr. Robert Shcherbakov

Research Interests / Specializations: Physics of Induced Seismicity Fracture Processes

Nadine Kanik

Ph.D. Geology, Dr. Fred Longstaffe

Research 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 Molnar

Research Interests / Specializations: Seismology

Dylan Langille

M.Sc. Geology, Dr. Roberta Flemming & Dr. Natalie Pietrzak-Renaud

Josh Laughton

Ph.D. Geology, Dr. Gordon Osinski

Research Interests / Specializations: Precambrian geology of Devon Island, Nunavut

Jumin Lee

M.Sc. Geology, Dr. Elizabeth Webb & Dr. Fred Longstaffe

Yaozhu Li

Ph.D. Geology & Planetary Science, Dr. Roberta Flemming & Dr. Phil McCausland

Joshua Littleton

Ph.D. Geophysics, Dr. Richard Secco

Research Interests / Specializations: High-Pressure Mineral Physics

Xi (Lucy) Lu

Ph.D. Geology, Dr. Dazhi Jiang

Research Interests / Specializations: Structural Geology

Stephanie Mabee

Ph.D. Geology, Dr. Elizabeth Webb & Dr. Fred Longstaffe

Research Interests / Specializations: Paleodiet and Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction of Late Pleistocene Muskoxen Bootherium Bombifrons and Ovibos Moschatus using Stable Isotope Analysis

Cassandra Marion

Ph.D. Geology & Planetary Science, Dr. Gordon Osinski & Dr. Bob Linnen

Research Interests / Specializations: Post-Impact Hydrothermal Systems: Characterization of Hydrothermal Mineralization and Fluids in Two Complex Impact Structures

Mike Mazur

Ph.D. Geophysics, Dr. Peter Brown

Fereshteh Najafi

Ph.D. Geology, Dr. Fred Longstaffe

Research Interests / Specializations: Stable Isotope Geochemistry

Negar Nazari

Ph.D. Geology, Dr. Burns Cheadle & Dr. Robert Shcherbakov

Research Interests / Specializations: Induced Seismicity

Jennifer Newman

Ph.D. Geology & Planetary Science, Dr. Gordon Osinski

Research Interests / Specializations: Impact Craters

Jamal Nigim

M.Sc. Geology, Dr. Fred Longstaffe

Research Interests / Specializations: Stable Isotope Geochemistry and Paleolimnology

Ellie Owens

JD Law / Course-Based M.Sc. Geology, Dr. Bob Linnen

Samantha Palmer

Ph.D. Geophysics, Dr. Gail Atkinson

Research Interests / Specializations: Seismic Hazards

Katharin Pavan

M.Sc. Geology, Dr. Guy Plint & Dr. Burns Cheadle

Research Interests / Specializations: Sedimentology & Stratigraphy

Kaitlyn Petkau

M.Sc. Geology, Dr. Dazhi Jiang and Dr. Des Moser

Research Interests / Specializations: Structural Geology

Alexander Piatek

M.Sc. Geology Coursebased, Dr. Rob Schincariol

Research Interests / Specializations: Geothermal Energy

Nikol Posnov

M.Sc. Geology, Dr. Gordon Osinski & Dr. Roberta Flemming

Research Interests / Specializations: Molecular Geobiology

Cassandra Powell

M.Sc. Geology, Dr. Robert Linnen

Research Interests / Specializations: Economic Geology

Philip Reger

Ph.D. Geology & Planetary Science, Dr. Audrey Bouvier

Research Interests / Specializations: Cosmochemistry / Planetary Science

Ricardo Rodriguez

M.Sc. Geophysics, Dr. Sean Shieh

Carolina Rodriguez Sanchez

M.Sc. Geology, Dr. Catherine Neish

Research Interests / Specializations: Planetary Radar Geology / Planetary Surface Processes / Remote Sensing / Planetary Geomorphology

Leah Sacks

M.Sc. Geology, Dr. Livio Tornabene & Dr. Gordon Osinski

Research Interests / Specializations: Planetary Geology, Impact Craters, Comparative Planetology

Ryan Sawyer

Ph.D. Geophysics & Planetary Science, Dr. Rick Secco & Dr. Wayne Nesbitt

Research Interests / Specializations: The Effects of Composition, Pressure and Temperature on the Structure of Alkali Silicate Glasses

Jahnavi Shah

M.Sc. Geophysics, Dr. Catherine Neish

Research Interests / Specializations: Planetary Surface Processes, Planetary Analogues

Hema Sharma

Ph.D. Geophysics, Dr. Sheri Molnar & Dr. Gerhard Pratt

Jordan Siewnarine

M.Sc. Geology, Dr. Liz Webb & Dr. Jisuo Jin

Sarah Simpson

Ph.D. Geology & Planetary Science, Dr. Gordon Osinski

Alaura Singleton

Ph.D. Geology and Planetary Science, Dr. Gordon Osinski

Aamna Sirohey

M.Sc. Geophysics, Dr. Sheri Molnar

Renata Smoke

M.Sc. Geology Coursebased, Dr. Bob Linnen

Mary Spencer

M.Sc. Geology - Audrey Bouvier & Tony Withers

Research Interests / Specializations: Ureilites and Planetary Formation

Ting Sun

Ph.D. Geology, Dr. Brian Branfireun

Research 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 Longstaffe

Research 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 Osinski

Research 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-Brown

Research Interests / Specializations: Meteors, meteoroid streams, comets, asteroids

Brian Villamizar

Ph.D. Geophysics, Dr. Gerhard Pratt

Research Interests / Specializations: Full Waveform Inversion

Jacob Walker

Ph.D. Geology, Dr. Fred Longstaffe

Research Interests / Specializations: Stable Isotope Geochemistry

Ching Pao Wang

Ph.D. Geophysics, Dr. Sean Shieh & Dr. Tony Withers

Research Interests / Specializations: Mineral Physics

Jason Wozniak

M.Sc. Geology, Dr. Bob Linnen

Tianqi Xie

Ph.D. Geophysics, Dr. Sean Shieh & Dr. Gordon Osinski

Research 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

William Yingling

M.Sc. Geology, Dr. Catherine Neish

Bidong Zhang

Ph.D. Geology & Planetary Science, Dr. Audrey Bouvier & Dr. Sean Shieh

Research Interests / Specializations: Planetary Materials

Xiaochen Zhang

M.Sc. Geology, Planetary Science, Dr. Gordon Osinski

Xiaoming Zhang

Ph.D. Geophysics, Dr. Robert Shcherbakov

Research Interests / Specializations: Understanding the mechanisms of earthquakes and aftershocks through numerical modelling

Congxi Zhu

M.Sc. Geology, Dr. Audrey Bouvier & Dr. Tony Withers

Research Interests / Specializations: Ni isotope fractionation processes associated with Cu-Ni-PGE mineralization in the Zambales ophiolite complex, Philippines

Arwa Zourab

M.Sc. Geology, Dr. Guy Plint