Best MSc Thesis
2024: Eren Berberoglu, for their thesis "Structural Analysis and Kinematic Restoration along the Nova Scotia Passive Margin, Atlantic Canada" at University of Alberta. Supervisor: Elena Konstantinovskaya.
2023: Kade Damant for their thesis entitled "Prolonged Post-Orogenic Extension in the Southeastern Canadian Cordillera: Miocene Reactivation of the Columbia River Fault”. University of Calgary. Supervisor: Eva Enkelmann.
2022: Gabrielle Jones, with the thesis “Implications of in situ zircon U-Pb, Lu-Hf, oxygen-isotope, and trace element geochemistry on the petrogenetic history of the northern Hogem batholith in the Quesnel terrane, north-central British Columbia, Canadian Cordillera”, supervised by Graham Pearson at University of Alberta.
2021: Ryan McKay, University of Calgary for the thesis "Cenozoic exhumation history of the northern Richardson Mountains: Results from apatite and zircon (U-Th-Sm)/He analysis", supervised by Eva Enkelmann.
2020: Michael Duvall, University of Alberta for the thesis "Subsurface structural variability of the Himalayan foreland basin, Nepal" supervised by John Waldron.
2019: Mark Ahenda, Queen's University for the thesis "Protolith affiliation and tectonometamorphic evolution of the Gurla Mandhata core complex, NW Nepal Himalaya", supervised by Laurent Godin.
2018: Kelian Dascher-Cousineau, McGill University for the thesis "The Evolution of Fault Slip Surfaces with Displacement.”, supervised by Jamie Kirkpatrick.
2017: 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: 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: 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: Joel Angen, University of Waterloo
2013: Holly Steenkamp (Dalhousie University)
2012: Chris Yakymchuk (Queen’s University)
2011: Tasca Noela Santimano (McMaster University)
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)
2023: Kade Damant for their thesis entitled "Prolonged Post-Orogenic Extension in the Southeastern Canadian Cordillera: Miocene Reactivation of the Columbia River Fault”. University of Calgary. Supervisor: Eva Enkelmann.
2022: Gabrielle Jones, with the thesis “Implications of in situ zircon U-Pb, Lu-Hf, oxygen-isotope, and trace element geochemistry on the petrogenetic history of the northern Hogem batholith in the Quesnel terrane, north-central British Columbia, Canadian Cordillera”, supervised by Graham Pearson at University of Alberta.
2021: Ryan McKay, University of Calgary for the thesis "Cenozoic exhumation history of the northern Richardson Mountains: Results from apatite and zircon (U-Th-Sm)/He analysis", supervised by Eva Enkelmann.
2020: Michael Duvall, University of Alberta for the thesis "Subsurface structural variability of the Himalayan foreland basin, Nepal" supervised by John Waldron.
2019: Mark Ahenda, Queen's University for the thesis "Protolith affiliation and tectonometamorphic evolution of the Gurla Mandhata core complex, NW Nepal Himalaya", supervised by Laurent Godin.
2018: Kelian Dascher-Cousineau, McGill University for the thesis "The Evolution of Fault Slip Surfaces with Displacement.”, supervised by Jamie Kirkpatrick.
2017: 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: 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: 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: Joel Angen, University of Waterloo
2013: Holly Steenkamp (Dalhousie University)
2012: Chris Yakymchuk (Queen’s University)
2011: Tasca Noela Santimano (McMaster University)
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)
