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** Dept and Alumni Newsletter 2010 **

POSITIONS AVAILABLE

Assistant Professor Position (Tenure Track) in:
Applied Geophysics --Closed--
TA positions for 2011-12


Dr. Raymond F. Price, renowned structural geologist, long-time Queen's Geology faculty member, and former Director-General of the Geological Survey of Canada, will be awarded an Honorary Degree from Queen's University on Friday, June 8, 2012.

For his contributions to geology, notably in his work on carbonate sedimentology, Queen's Geology faculty member Dr Noel P. James has been named a Member of the Order of Canada in 2012. Congratulations!


Graduating GeolEng students J. Day, M.Kuuskman, and C.MacCallum won 2nd prize in the nationwide engineering report competition held by the Canadian Geotechnical Society. The report sums up their 4th Year Captone Geol. Eng. Design Project on degradation and remediation of railway ballast.

Dr. Guy Narbonne
was awarded the Queen's ASUS Barnes award for exceptional teaching.

Click Here for details!


The Engineering Geomechanics Graduate Students have returned from a very successful technical tour of Europe. The students saw over 50 sites of engineering and geological ingterest over 18 days.

Click here for more info and a trip video.

Former PhD student
Dr. Kyle Larson, along with
Laurent Godin received the 2011 Dave Elliott prize for best paper, selected by the Geological Association of Canada, for his publication in TECTONICS on the Himalayan orogenic wedge.

See a video of Kyle at work HERE.


The Official 2011
Sutton Geological and Geological Engineering Field School Video
is available for download
HERE

For his groundbreaking research on the tectonic evolution of the Canadian Cordillera, Ray Price has been awarded the 2010 Massey Medal. administered by The Royal Canadian Geographical Society


Dr. Jean Hutchinson
has been inducted as a
Fellow of the
Engineering
Institute of
Canada.

Ph.d. candidate Cody Miller has been awarded the Bathurst Prize for presenting the best student paper at the 14th Bathurst Meeting of Carbonate Sedimentologists in Bristol, United Kingdom. His presentation dealt with lacustrine and palustrine carbonates preserved in microkarst cavities; Nullarbor Plain, southern Australia.


Click HERE
to view a selection of our 2011 Geological Engineering 4th year Design Projects (as well as our project archive).

Dr. Mark Diederichs
has been awarded
the honour of
being the
2011 Cross Canada
Lecture Tour Speaker
for the Canadian Geotechnical Society.
Dr. Diederichs, a Geological Engineer, will present 15 lectures from coast to coast this April.


Michelle Thompson, an Geological Engineering student received the award for best research poster in the physical and earth sciences division at the Rising Stars of Research conference. More here.

Dr. Guy Narbonne
co-stars with
Sir David Attenborough
in a BBC/DC episode of
FIRST LIFE
See a brief sample
HERE (26MB .wmv) or
here (4.5MB lo-res).
Info on new, Miller
Museum Display - HERE

NEW!! First Life wins 3 Emmy's!


Undergraduate student Garrett Quinn has published an article on his summer experiences in the News magazine of the Canadian Society of Petroleum geology
"The Reservoir" (January 2011 issue).

Once again, Dr. John Hanes has won the Applied Science Award for First Year Teaching for Engineering Students (Fall 2010)!



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