Field Trip Subcommittee

Chairs

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  • Sedimentary Geology Consultant

    Dr Jean Hsieh has worked for over 20 years in the petroleum industry in both the USA and Canada.  She is currently at Cirrus Oil & Gas/Sedimentary Geology Consultants as a geologist.  Her interests lie in carbonate stratigraphy and diagenesis, particularly the ability to predict the spatial distribution of different geobodies by integrating geological, geochemical, and geophysical data and visualizing this through 3-D geocellular models. 

  • Manitoba Geological Survey

    Patricia is the Stratigrapher and Sedimentary Geologist with the Manitoba Geological Survey. Her work integrates sedimentology, stratigraphy, and geochemistry to assess reservoir characteristics and critical mineral potential in the Williston Basin.

    She holds a PhD and BSc from the University of Calgary and an MSc from the University of Ottawa.

  • Student at Mount Royal University

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Other Members

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  • University of Wisconsin–Madison

  • Yukon University

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  • Christopher Collom earned his doctorate in geology from the University of Calgary in 2001.

    Since then, he has taught at Mount Royal University and the University of Calgary, worked in the oil & gas industry, and continued field work projects in Western Canada.

    He and his partner live in Calgary.

  • University of Alberta

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  • Ducks Unlimited Canada

    Cynthia is a geoscientist and conservationist who blends her industry background in the energy sector with a focus on safeguarding Canadian watersheds and ecosystems. With a cross-disciplinary outlook, she facilitates industry engagement in protecting and enhancing biodiversity, sensitive ecosystem preservation, watershed protection, and nature-based carbon sequestration solutions.

  • Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology

    Craig Scott is the Director of Preservation & Research at the Tyrrell Museum. He is a vertebrate palaeontologist that specializes in mammals from the Late Cretaceous and early Palaeogene of western Canada.

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  • Yukon University

  • Mount Royal University / International Director - CFES

    Katherine is fascinated by the processes that form the “Earth beneath our feet”. She is the Director for the Community Science Liaison program that strives to embed place- and curriculum-based citizen science programs in Canadian kindergarten to grade 12 classrooms. Teachers appreciate these projects because they bring the real world into their classrooms, students feel empowered because they contribute towards improved understanding of their scientific-environmental backyards and scientists get rejuvenated passions for their disciplines through these student’s enthusiasm and energetic approaches to these programs.

    Katherine is also a very passionate promoter of the geosciences and has just recently developed a model to change the general public perception of the geosciences through national and international collaborations across these geoscience communities represented by various components of this Canadian bid to host IGC 2028.

    In addition to being the Chair for the CNC – IUGS and the International Director for the Canadian Federation of Earth Sciences; Katherine developed significant management, leadership and communication skills through her 33 years in the Royal Canadian Naval Reserves (RCNR) where she was awarded the Queen’s Jubilee medal for her combined service to the RCNR and the geoscience academic community.

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  • Alberta Geological Survey / Alberta Energy Regulator

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  • University of Calgary / Mount Royal University

    Murdoch McKinnon is completing his PhD in Geography at the University of Waterloo. His research is focused on the restoration of ecosystem function in wetlands disturbed by industrial development. He seeks to improve our understanding of environmental controls on vegetation re-establishment in support of developing novel restoration strategies.

  • Emeritus Professor, Laurentian University

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  • UQAM

  • St Mary’s University

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  • Ambrose University

    Dr. Jeans is our Ambrose University (Calgary) representative from the Council of Chairs of Canadian Earth Science Departments to the International Geological Congress Canadian Bid Development Committee. He is an instructor of Earth and Space Sciences who also teaches for Mount Royal University, develops curriculum, edits textbooks, seasonally works in the oil and gas sectors of downtown Calgary, along with conducting free public outreach and geoscience fieldtrips and education events.

  • Geological Survey of Canada / Geothermal Canada

    Steve is a geochemist whose research focuses of geothermal energy as a source of clean an renewable energy to meet demands in Canada. He also works on extreme environments from the modern through to ancient earth history. His work includes study of drivers of mass extinctions and other hyperthermal events throughout the Phanerozoic.

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  • Geological Survey Canada

  • Alberta Geological Survey / Alberta Energy Regulator

    Alex is the Principal Geoscientist at the Alberta Geological Survey and worked in the petroleum industry for almost 15 years before joining the survey. He is an expert on carbonate depositional systems with a focus on Devonian reef systems of western Canada.

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  • Ore Deposit Geologist

  • UQAM / Chair CNC - IUGG

    Full Professor, Département des sciences de la Terre et de l’atmosphère, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)

    Fiona Darbyshire investigates the structure and tectonic history of the ancient continental lithosphere, using natural-source seismological methods. Her main focus is on the Canadian and Greenland shields, and their surroundings.

    She is currently president of the Solid Earth section of the Canadian Geophysical Union (CGU), an executive committee member of the International Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth’s Interior (IASPEI), and the Canadian national representative to the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG). She was the Chair of the Local Organising Committee for the 2019 IUGG General Assembly, held in Montréal.

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  • University of Calgary

  • University of Calgary

    Glenn is a geologist, turned ninth-grade earth science teacher, turned geoscience education researcher.

    He is currently an associate professor at the University of Calgary in the Department of Earth, Energy, and Environment, where he has been since 2013. His research focuses on teaching geoscience content using the history and philosophy of geology. He also researches how the use of metaphor impacts teaching and learning and how students learn when using virtual outcrop models.

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  • Michigan State University / Endowed Chair for Geology of the Solid Earth

    Dr. Freymueller’s research focuses on the measurement and modeling of solid earth deformation caused by a variety of sources, including active tectonics and earthquakes, volcanism, and hydrological and cryospheric mass variations. Many of these processes also present hazards to society, and the study and characterization of these hazards is a basic step toward hazard and risk mitigation. In parallel, he works on improving the measurements themselves, and the more accurate definition of reference systems for the measurement of these motions.

  • Geological Survey Canada

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  • Exploration Geology Consultant

  • Mount Royal University

To see who was on the IGC Field Trip Subcommittee for the bid, click here. Thank you all for your support and the role you played in helping Canada win the bid to host IGC in 2028.

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