Award winners
CTG annually awards prizes for excellence within the Canadian tectonics community:
David Elliott Prize for best journal paper
Jack Henderson Prize for best PhD thesis in tectonics awarded at a Canadian institution
Jack Henderson Prize for best MSc thesis in tectonics awarded at a Canadian institution
David Elliott Prize for best journal paper
Jack Henderson Prize for best PhD thesis in tectonics awarded at a Canadian institution
Jack Henderson Prize for best MSc thesis in tectonics awarded at a Canadian institution
David Elliott Prize
This award is presented each year by the Canadian Tectonics Group division to an exceptional publication in the fields of tectonics and/or structural geology by a researcher at a Canadian institution (lead author) or investigating a Canadian field area.
The 2017 David Elliott Prize has been awarded to Mirko van der Baan (University of Alberta), David W. Eaton (University of Calgary) and Giona Preisig (University of British Columbia, now at Université de Neuchâtel) for their paper “Stick-split mechanism for anthropogenic fluid-induced tensile rock failure”, published in Geology, v. 44, 503-506, 2016.
“This collaboration between authors from the Dept. of Physics at U of Alberta, the Dept. of Geoscience at U. Calgary and Geological Engineering at UBC documents episodic rather than continuous fracturing during hydraulic fracturing, analogous to stick-slip faulting in earthquakes. The paper, which documents how fast, and how episodically, joints propagate through rocks, has significant implications for hydraulic fracturing and means that current mathematical models may not accurately reflect nature.”
Past recipients:
2016 - Mark Higgins of McGill University for his paper entitled “New kinematic and geochronologic evidence for the Quaternary evolution of the Central Anatolian fault zone (CAFZ).” Co-authors include Lindsay M. Schoenbohm, Gilles Brocard, Nuretdin Kaymakci, John C. Gosse, and Michael A. Cosca” published in Tectonics, volume 34(10), 2118–2141 (2015).
The 2015 winners were John Waldron, David Schofield, Brendan Murphy, & Chris Thomas, for the paper: “How was the Iapetus Ocean infected with subduction?” published in Geology, volume 42(12), 1095-1098 (2014).
The 2014 winners were Reid Staples, Dan Gibson, Rob Berman, Jim Ryan & Maurice Colpron, for the paper: "A window into the Early to mid-Cretaceous infrastructure of the Yukon-Tanana terrane recorded in multi-stage garnet of west-central Yukon, Canada" which appeared in Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 31(7), 729-753,
The 2013 winner was Dr. Toby Rivers of Memorial University of Newfoundland, for the paper published in 2012: “Upper-crustal orogenic lid and mid-crustal core complexes: signature of a collapsed orogenic plateau in the hinterland of the Grenville Province” which appeared in Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 49, 1-42.
The 2012 winners Elena Konstantinovskaya and Jacques Malavieille for the paper: "Thrust wedges with décollement levels and syntectonic erosion: A view from analog models". Tectonophysics 502 (2011) 336–350.
The 2011 winners were: Kyle P. Larson, William J. Davis and Don W. Davis of University of Saskatchewan; and Laurent Godin of Queen’s University, for the paper: “Out-of-sequence deformation and expansion of the Himalayan orogenic wedge: insight from the Changgo culmination, south central Tibet”, published in Tectonics (2010) doi:10.1029/2008TC002393.
David Elliott Best Paper for 2008 was awarded to Elena A. Konstantinovskaya, Lyal B. Harris, Jimmy Poulin, Gennady M. Ivanov,
"Transfer zones and fault reactivation in inverted rift basins; insights from physical modelling Tectonophysics", vol. 441, pp. 1-26, 15 Aug 2007
The Structural Geology and Tectonics Division awarded the Dave Elliott Best Paper Prize in 2007 to J.K. Madsen, D.J. Thorkelson (Simon Fraser University), R.M. Friedman (University of British Columbia) and D. D. Marshall (Simon Fraser University) for the paper: "Cenozoic to Recent plate configurations in the Pacific Basin: Ridge subduction and slab window magmatism in western North America”, Published in: Geosphere, v. 2, no. 1, p. 11-34
2005 winner: Dr. Paul F. Williams (University of New Brunswick) and Dr. Dazhi Jiang (University of Western Ontario) for the paper: "An investigation of lower crustal deformation: Evidence for channel flow and its implications for tectonics and structural studies", published in Journal of Structural Geology, v. 27, p. 1486-1504.
The 2017 David Elliott Prize has been awarded to Mirko van der Baan (University of Alberta), David W. Eaton (University of Calgary) and Giona Preisig (University of British Columbia, now at Université de Neuchâtel) for their paper “Stick-split mechanism for anthropogenic fluid-induced tensile rock failure”, published in Geology, v. 44, 503-506, 2016.
“This collaboration between authors from the Dept. of Physics at U of Alberta, the Dept. of Geoscience at U. Calgary and Geological Engineering at UBC documents episodic rather than continuous fracturing during hydraulic fracturing, analogous to stick-slip faulting in earthquakes. The paper, which documents how fast, and how episodically, joints propagate through rocks, has significant implications for hydraulic fracturing and means that current mathematical models may not accurately reflect nature.”
Past recipients:
2016 - Mark Higgins of McGill University for his paper entitled “New kinematic and geochronologic evidence for the Quaternary evolution of the Central Anatolian fault zone (CAFZ).” Co-authors include Lindsay M. Schoenbohm, Gilles Brocard, Nuretdin Kaymakci, John C. Gosse, and Michael A. Cosca” published in Tectonics, volume 34(10), 2118–2141 (2015).
The 2015 winners were John Waldron, David Schofield, Brendan Murphy, & Chris Thomas, for the paper: “How was the Iapetus Ocean infected with subduction?” published in Geology, volume 42(12), 1095-1098 (2014).
The 2014 winners were Reid Staples, Dan Gibson, Rob Berman, Jim Ryan & Maurice Colpron, for the paper: "A window into the Early to mid-Cretaceous infrastructure of the Yukon-Tanana terrane recorded in multi-stage garnet of west-central Yukon, Canada" which appeared in Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 31(7), 729-753,
The 2013 winner was Dr. Toby Rivers of Memorial University of Newfoundland, for the paper published in 2012: “Upper-crustal orogenic lid and mid-crustal core complexes: signature of a collapsed orogenic plateau in the hinterland of the Grenville Province” which appeared in Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 49, 1-42.
The 2012 winners Elena Konstantinovskaya and Jacques Malavieille for the paper: "Thrust wedges with décollement levels and syntectonic erosion: A view from analog models". Tectonophysics 502 (2011) 336–350.
The 2011 winners were: Kyle P. Larson, William J. Davis and Don W. Davis of University of Saskatchewan; and Laurent Godin of Queen’s University, for the paper: “Out-of-sequence deformation and expansion of the Himalayan orogenic wedge: insight from the Changgo culmination, south central Tibet”, published in Tectonics (2010) doi:10.1029/2008TC002393.
David Elliott Best Paper for 2008 was awarded to Elena A. Konstantinovskaya, Lyal B. Harris, Jimmy Poulin, Gennady M. Ivanov,
"Transfer zones and fault reactivation in inverted rift basins; insights from physical modelling Tectonophysics", vol. 441, pp. 1-26, 15 Aug 2007
The Structural Geology and Tectonics Division awarded the Dave Elliott Best Paper Prize in 2007 to J.K. Madsen, D.J. Thorkelson (Simon Fraser University), R.M. Friedman (University of British Columbia) and D. D. Marshall (Simon Fraser University) for the paper: "Cenozoic to Recent plate configurations in the Pacific Basin: Ridge subduction and slab window magmatism in western North America”, Published in: Geosphere, v. 2, no. 1, p. 11-34
2005 winner: Dr. Paul F. Williams (University of New Brunswick) and Dr. Dazhi Jiang (University of Western Ontario) for the paper: "An investigation of lower crustal deformation: Evidence for channel flow and its implications for tectonics and structural studies", published in Journal of Structural Geology, v. 27, p. 1486-1504.
Jack Henderson Award - PhD
Diane Skipton
2017 Winner:
Diane Skipton, University of Ottawa, for her thesis, “Paleoproterozoic Metamorphism, Deformation and Exhumation of Mid-Crustal Rocks of the Trans-Hudson Orogen on Hall Peninsula, Baffin Island,“ supervised by David Schneider and Marc St-Onge
2016 Winner:
Jessica Shaw, Western Washington University, for her thesis: “Oroclines of the Iberian Variscan Belt: Tectonic and Paleogeographic Implications,” supervised by Stephen Johnston
2015 Winner:
Reid Staples, Simon Fraser University, for his thesis: “Diachronous Deformation, Metamorphism and Exhumation in the Northern Canadian Cordillera: Revealed from Pressure-Temperature-Time-Deformation Paths of Former Mid-Crustal Rocks,” co-supervised by Dan Gibson, Maurice Colpron, Jim Ryan and Rob Berman
2014 Winner:
Jared Butler, Dalhousie University for his thesis: “Crustal subduction and the exhumation of (ultra)high pressure terranes: Contrasting modes with examples from the Alps and Caledonides”, co-supervised by R.A. Jamieson and C. Beaumont.
2013 Winner:
David Moynihan, University of Calgary for “Metamorphism and Deformation of the Central Kootenay Arc, Southeastern British Columbia,” supervised by D. Pattison
2012 Winner:
Grégory Dufréchou, Institut national de la recherche scientifique, Centre – Eau Terre Environnement for “Origine et implications tectoniques de structures transverses profondes interprétées à partir de données de champ potentiel, Province de Grenville, Canada.”
2011 Winner:
Dawn A. Kellett, Dalhousie University for “Tectonic evolution of the South Tibetan Detachment System, Bhutan Himalaya.” supervised by Djordje Grujic
2010 Kyle Larson (Queen's U)
2009 Stefan Kruse (UNB)
2008 Michael Ames Cooley (Queen's U)
2007 Paul Wilson (UNB)
2006 Venessa Bennett (MUN)
2005 Joseph English (UVic)
2004 Yvette Kuiper (UNB)
2003 Michelle Haskins (SFU)
Diane Skipton, University of Ottawa, for her thesis, “Paleoproterozoic Metamorphism, Deformation and Exhumation of Mid-Crustal Rocks of the Trans-Hudson Orogen on Hall Peninsula, Baffin Island,“ supervised by David Schneider and Marc St-Onge
2016 Winner:
Jessica Shaw, Western Washington University, for her thesis: “Oroclines of the Iberian Variscan Belt: Tectonic and Paleogeographic Implications,” supervised by Stephen Johnston
2015 Winner:
Reid Staples, Simon Fraser University, for his thesis: “Diachronous Deformation, Metamorphism and Exhumation in the Northern Canadian Cordillera: Revealed from Pressure-Temperature-Time-Deformation Paths of Former Mid-Crustal Rocks,” co-supervised by Dan Gibson, Maurice Colpron, Jim Ryan and Rob Berman
2014 Winner:
Jared Butler, Dalhousie University for his thesis: “Crustal subduction and the exhumation of (ultra)high pressure terranes: Contrasting modes with examples from the Alps and Caledonides”, co-supervised by R.A. Jamieson and C. Beaumont.
2013 Winner:
David Moynihan, University of Calgary for “Metamorphism and Deformation of the Central Kootenay Arc, Southeastern British Columbia,” supervised by D. Pattison
2012 Winner:
Grégory Dufréchou, Institut national de la recherche scientifique, Centre – Eau Terre Environnement for “Origine et implications tectoniques de structures transverses profondes interprétées à partir de données de champ potentiel, Province de Grenville, Canada.”
2011 Winner:
Dawn A. Kellett, Dalhousie University for “Tectonic evolution of the South Tibetan Detachment System, Bhutan Himalaya.” supervised by Djordje Grujic
2010 Kyle Larson (Queen's U)
2009 Stefan Kruse (UNB)
2008 Michael Ames Cooley (Queen's U)
2007 Paul Wilson (UNB)
2006 Venessa Bennett (MUN)
2005 Joseph English (UVic)
2004 Yvette Kuiper (UNB)
2003 Michelle Haskins (SFU)
Jack Henderson Award - MSc
Benoit Charette
2017 Winner: Benoit Charette, University of Waterloo for the thesis "Long-lived Anatexis in the Exhumed Middle Crust from the Torngat Orogen and Eastern Core Zone: Constraints from Geochronology, Petrochronology, and Phase Equilibria Modeling", supervised by Carl Guilmette.
2016 Winner: Noah Phillips, University of New Brunswick for the thesis “The micromechanics of phyllosilicate-rich fault zone: case studies from the Minas Fault Zone, Nova Scotia, Canada and the San Andreas Fault, California” supervised by Joseph White.
2015 Winner: Tyler Ambrose, University of British Columbia (Okanagan) for the thesis “Ductile extrusion, underplating, and out-of-sequence thrusting within the Himalayan Metamorphic core, Kanchenjunga, Nepal,” co-supervised by Kyle Larson and Carl Guilmette.
2014 Winner: Joel Angen, University of Waterloo for the thesis: “Structural and geochronological investigation of the southern Alexander terrane in the vicinity of Porcher Island, northwestern British Columbia,” co-supervised by Shoufa Lin and Cees van Staal.
2013 Winner: Holly Steenkamp, Dalhousie University for the thesis: “A metamorphic history of supracrustal rocks on Harøya and Finnøya, Nordøyane, western gneiss region, Norway,” supervised by R.A. Jamieson.
2012 Winner: Chris Yakymchuk, Queen’s University for the thesis: “Tectonometamorphic evolution of the Greater Himalayan Sequence, Karnali Valley, Western Nepal Supervised,” supervised by Laurent Godin.
2011 Winner: Tasca Noela Santimano, McMaster University for the thesis: “Kinematics and mechanisms of upper-crustal deformation in the Eastern Cordillera, southern Central Andes, NW Argentina.“
2010 Jennifer Anne Macauley (U of T)
2009 (not awarded)
2008 Rebecca Hunter
2007 Dawn A. Kellett (Queen's U)
2006 Fionnuala Devine (Carleton U)
2005 Todd Noble (Queen's U)
2004 Nick Austin (UBC)
2016 Winner: Noah Phillips, University of New Brunswick for the thesis “The micromechanics of phyllosilicate-rich fault zone: case studies from the Minas Fault Zone, Nova Scotia, Canada and the San Andreas Fault, California” supervised by Joseph White.
2015 Winner: Tyler Ambrose, University of British Columbia (Okanagan) for the thesis “Ductile extrusion, underplating, and out-of-sequence thrusting within the Himalayan Metamorphic core, Kanchenjunga, Nepal,” co-supervised by Kyle Larson and Carl Guilmette.
2014 Winner: Joel Angen, University of Waterloo for the thesis: “Structural and geochronological investigation of the southern Alexander terrane in the vicinity of Porcher Island, northwestern British Columbia,” co-supervised by Shoufa Lin and Cees van Staal.
2013 Winner: Holly Steenkamp, Dalhousie University for the thesis: “A metamorphic history of supracrustal rocks on Harøya and Finnøya, Nordøyane, western gneiss region, Norway,” supervised by R.A. Jamieson.
2012 Winner: Chris Yakymchuk, Queen’s University for the thesis: “Tectonometamorphic evolution of the Greater Himalayan Sequence, Karnali Valley, Western Nepal Supervised,” supervised by Laurent Godin.
2011 Winner: Tasca Noela Santimano, McMaster University for the thesis: “Kinematics and mechanisms of upper-crustal deformation in the Eastern Cordillera, southern Central Andes, NW Argentina.“
2010 Jennifer Anne Macauley (U of T)
2009 (not awarded)
2008 Rebecca Hunter
2007 Dawn A. Kellett (Queen's U)
2006 Fionnuala Devine (Carleton U)
2005 Todd Noble (Queen's U)
2004 Nick Austin (UBC)