Chair

University of Alberta

Stephen Johnston has a BSc from McGill and MSc and PhD degrees from the University of Alberta. He worked for Shell Canada and the British Columbia and Yukon geological surveys. His academic career includes professorships at the universities of Durban-Westville, South Africa, Victoria, BC, and Alberta where he is Chair of the Department of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences.

P. Geo., FGC

CEO Geoscientists Canada

Andrea Waldie is CEO of Geoscientists Canada, the national organization of the professional geoscientist self-regulatory organizations. She enjoys speaking and collaborating nationally and internationally on matters supporting excellence in geoscience professionalism. A director of the APGO Education Foundation and treasurer of the Global Geoscience Professionalism Group, she is a registered professional geoscientist, a Fellow of Geoscientists Canada, and PGO Award of Merit (2023) recipient.

Consultant

Former ADM (ECCC, NRCan, AAFC)

Former Interim CEO Ducks Unlimited Canada

Brian currently spends part of his time consulting, writing, speaking as an ally for reconciliation, as well as volunteering as an advisor, executive coach, and mentor.

Secretary

University of Calgary - Professor, Faculty of Science, Department of Earth, Energy, and Environment

Professor David Eaton was appointed 2015-2020 as NSERC/Chevron Industrial Research Chair in Microseismic System Dynamics in the Department of Geoscience at the University of Calgary. Together with graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, his work focuses primarily on advancement of research, education and technological innovations in microseismic methods and their practical applications for resource development, with a secondary focus on the deep lithospheric structure of continents. In 2007, he rejoined the University of Calgary as Head of the Department of Geoscience, after an 11-year academic career at the University of Western Ontario. His postdoctoral research experience included work at Arco’s Research and Technical Services (Plano, Texas) and the Geological Survey of Canada (Ottawa). He has recently published a textbook on Passive Seismic Monitoring of Induced Seismicity. His work has been recognized by several major awards including the J. Tuzo Wilson medal from the Canadian Geophysical Union and a 2020 NSERC Synergy Award for Innovation.

Treasurer

Director of Business Development Tourism Calgary

Fraser leads the Champions Program at Tourism Calgary identifying and supporting thought leaders to host major international conferences in Calgary.

CEO and co-founder Saa Dene Group

Ms. Kitto has over 20 years of combined executive management, economic development, regulatory matters, crisis and risk management and governance experience. She is actively involved in her community and currently serves as an advisor, a board of director on several for profit and not for profit, First Nations Group of Companies; and several non-partisan organizations.

Liaison with IGC BDC

Mount Royal University - Associate Professor, Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences

International Director - Canadian Federation of Earth Sciences

Katherine is passionate about the geosciences because she is fascinated by the processes that form the “Earth beneath our feet”. She has been a geology professor at Mount Royal University in Calgary since 2003 and was part of the team that lead the transition from a two-year university transfer to a four-year BSc Geology Major Program. Her PhD was completed at the University of Calgary constraining the offset and timing of displacement along the Purcell Thrust Fault that cuts across the Rocky Mountain Trench in southern BC. Katherine did her MSc at the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi determining the P-T-t trajectories for a granulite dome in the Grenville Province. She completed her BSc (Honurs in Biology-Geology) at Carleton University in Ottawa. While trained as a field based metamorphic petrologist through graduate school, Katherine has found herself promoting EON-ROSE as the next mega-geosciences project in Canada. She is also the Director for the Community Science Liaison program embeds place- and curriculum-based citizen science projects in Canadian K-12 classrooms. Teachers appreciate these projects because they bring the real world into their classrooms, students feel empowered because they feel as though they are contributing towards understanding their backyards and scientists get rejuvenated about their disciplines through these student’s enthusiasm for understanding their “backyard laboratories”.