VANCOUVER –
Geoscience BC has listed the post-graduate students who will receive its 2016 Geoscience BC Scholarships awards. Each scholarship is valued at $5,000. With this selection, the organization has awarded 87 scholarships worth $435,000 to outstanding earth science graduate students since 2007.
This year’s winners are:
Sina Abadzadesahraei, University of Northern BC – Project: Quantifying the water budget of northeastern boreal watersheds, British Columbia
Kevin Byrne, University of Alberta – Project: Distal to medial expressions of porphyry-Cu(Mo) deposits; Highland Valley porphyry district footprints and Cu occurrences
Michelle Campbell, Oregon State University – Project: Geology and geochemistry of the Kerr-Sulphurets-Mitchell porphyry Cu-Au district, BC
Rachel Chouinard, University of British Columbia – Project: Defining the surficial geochemical footprint of buried Cu-Mo porphyry mineralization at the Highland Valley Copper deposits
Aadish Gupta, University of Alberta – Project: Mechanism of shale expansion and its effects on permeability from interaction with hydraulic fracturing fluid
Duncan McLeish, McGill University – Project: The nature and origin of the Brucejack epithermal gold deposit, British Columbia, Canada.
Samantha Morgan, Simon Fraser University – Project: Investigating the role of buried valley aquifer systems in the regional hydrogeology of the Peace River region in Northeast British Columbia
Noga Vaisblat, University of Alberta – Project: Controls on reservoir properties in the Lower Triassic Montney Formation of the Western Canada sedimentary Basin
Bei Wang, McGill University – Project: Investigation of Induced seismicity and its relation to the injected fluids based on observation data and numerical simulation at Montney Basin of British Columbia
Tessa Wilson, University of British Columbia – Project: Unconventional petroleum systems analysis on the Horn River and adjacent basins.
Visit the Outreach section of the Geoscience BC website (
www.GeoscienceBC.com) to learn more about the 2016 Scholarship Award winners.
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