Autumn 2003 - Geological Association of Canada

Volume 32, Number 3
Autumn 2003
GEOLOG
The Newsmagazine of the Geological Association of Canada
Geological Association
of Canada
c/o Department of
Earth Sciences
Memorial University of
Newfoundland
St. John’s, NL
Canada A1B 3X5
Tel: 709 737-7660
Fax: 709 737-2532
www.gac.ca
GAC Offers Major
Discounts on Membership
GAC membership dues have been creeping up in recent years. But
Council is doing everything that can be done to keep them down.
Costs have been minimized, the profitability of publications and
conferences is being maximized, while GAC Council and Staff are
working hard to make membership as attractive as possible.
And a GAC membership truly is a good deal. GAC is Canada’s
most broadly based geoscience society. Members receive 4 issues
of Geoscience Canada plus 4 issues of Geolog each year. We also
receive generous discounts on books and conference registration.
With savings like this, it’s almost like a free membership!
And to kick start a new focus on ensuring that GAC memberships
are an easy sell, special 50% discounts are being offered until
December 1, 2003. The discount for a new and reinstated regular
membership results in a cost of $60.00 plus tax, while a new retired
and unemployed membership is $45.00 plus tax until December 1.
Existing special rates and discounts for students, corporate
members and spousal members continue to apply.
And for 2003 members, a 25% discount for renewal results in a
cost of $90.00 plus tax for a regular membership, and only $67.50
plus tax for renewal of a retired or unemployed membership.
Council hopes to maintain the discount for early renewal in future
years, because it is based on a sold financial analysis. When
members renew mid-year, HQ provides them with back issues of
Geolog and Geoscience Canada. The costs of this special handling
and non-bulk postage are substantially higher than would have been
the case if the member had renewed prior to year-end. And cashon-hand also realizes interest income. So if members renew for
the coming year prior to December 1, costs are held down, and
GAC wants to pass those savings on to the membership.
The response to the campaign has already been excellent. It is
hoped that increased membership numbers will reduce per-member
costs, helping to keep the dues down. So, please renew by December
1, and encourage your colleagues to join or rejoin by completing
the form at: www.gac.ca/MEMBERSHIP/membership.htm
The GAC Fund
geolog@gov.yk.ca
A GAC Endowment Trust Fund has been established in an effort
to support and promote earth science activities in Canada. In the
Presidential Preamble of the last issue of Geolog (v. 32, no. 2)
GAC Past-President John Clague, made a commitment to match
any contribution between $100 and $1000, that is made to the
GAC Fund by the end of 2003. As he noted, “Not only will you
receive a tax receipt for your contribution, your donation will go
twice as far…”. Let’s take him up on the challenge! Contributions
can be made through GAC headquarters or during membership
...more on page 24
renewal.
GAC Pres Moves
Stateside
Harvey Thorleifson, a Research Scientist with the
Geological Survey of Canada since 1986 was
recently appointed Director of the Minnesota
Geological Survey (MGS) and Professor in the
Department of Geology and Geophysics at the
University of Minnesota. In this role, Dr.
Thorleifson now directs a very active program of
geological, geophysical, and geochemical mapping
program conducted by MGS. He is excited by his
new appointment in a region he knows well, is
pleased to have joined the highly capable MGS
team, and is taking advantage of his roles and
new location to be active in promoting cross-border
cooperation into Canada.
Thorleifson has been one of the GSC’s bright
lights. He has been actively developing exploration
methods and promoting GSC initiatives and the
Canadian exploration industry through presentations
around the world. He has been active in the
development of diamond indicator exploration
mineral methods, on gold grain distribution and
till geochemistry. Harvey has also been active in
the development of protocols for digital geological
mapping databases which lays an important
foundation for the transfer of paper geological map
information to GIS databases. In recent years, his
research has increasingly focused on groundwater,
with most of the work carried out in close
cooperation with the Manitoba Geological Survey.
This new opportunity will present many
opportunities but will also be full of challenges as
at the same time he will be busy tending to his
role as 2003-2004 GAC President. Harvey wishes
to express his appreciation to the support that he
received from the entire GAC team, and he is
pleased to have been given the honour, challenge
and responsibility of serving GAC as President.
Harvey is not the first GAC President to preside
from abroad. E.H. Koster had also been living in
the US during his presidential tenure in 1996-1997.
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INSIDE
Map for the Future
NSERC $$ to Geology
Yin Yan
Cobalt...The Silver Years
Czech This Out
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The MISSION of the Geological Association of Canada is to facilitate the
scientific well-being and professional development of its members, the
learned discussion of geoscience in Canada, and the advancement,
dissemination and wise use of geoscience in public, professional and
academic life.
The VISION of the Geological Association of Canada is a geoscience
community that is knowledgeable, professionally competent and respected,
whose input and advice is relevant, widely sought and utilized, and whose
vital contribution to the economic prosperity and social well-being of the
nation is widely acknowledged.
GAC Executive 2003-2004
President
Harvey Thorleifson, St. Paul, MN
thorleif@umn.edu
Vice-President
Sandra Barr, Wolfville, NS
sandra.barr@acadiau.ca
Secretary/Treasurer
Roger Mason, St. John’s, NL
rmason@esd.mun.ca
Past-President
John Clague, Burnaby, BC
jclague@sfu.ca
Finance Chair
Robert Marquis, Val-d’Or, QC
robert.marquis@gouv.qc.ca
Science Program Chair
Kevin Ansdell, Saskatoon, SK
kevin.ansdell@usask.ca
Publications Chair
Richard Wardle, St. John’s, NL
rjw@zeppo.geosurv.gov.nf.ca
Communications Chair
Graham Young, Winnipeg, MB
gyoung@cc.umanitoba.ca
GAC Councillors
Thomas (Tom) Al, Fredericton, NB
tal@unb.ca
Jennifer Bates, Dartmouth, NS
bates@agc.bio.ns.ca
Catharine Farrow, Sudbury, ON
cfarrow@fnxmining.com
Mark Fenton
mark.fenton@gov.ab.ca
Danielle Giovenazzo, Laval, QC
dgiovenazzo@falconbridge.com
Michael Marchand, Calgary, AB
marchndm@telusplanet.net
Michael Michaud, Toronto, ON
mmichaud@srk.com
Brent Murphy, Yellowknife, NT
bmurphy@eba.ca
Peter Mustard, Burnaby, BC
pmustard@sfu.ca
Jeremy Richards, Edmonton, AB
jeremy.richards@ualberta.ca
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Vol. 32, No. 3
Autumn 2003
FEATURES
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Publisher
GEOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF CANADA
Memorial University of Newfoundland
St. John’s, NL, A1B 3X5
Tel: 709 737-7660
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E-mail: gac@esd.mun.ca, Web: www.gac.ca
Editor
Craig J.R. Hart
Yukon Geological Survey
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Whitehorse, YT, Y1A 2C6
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E-mail: geolog@gov.yk.ca
GAC Fund, Member Discounts &
GAC Prez moves
NSERC Earth Science Grants
Early Cobalt, Elk Lake & Gowganda
DEPARTMENTS
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Presidential Preamble
Mapping the Future
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Oscillations
Letters to Geolog
Going Both Ways
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Association News
Retired Councillors, GAC SecTres Report, GAC Planning, Tribute to
Clague, New Pres Bio, GAC Fund Raising & The GAC Fund!
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Student News
WIUGC - Bigger than ever!
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History of Economic Geology
Checking the Czech Roots
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Mélange
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Calendar
Always diverse
Associate Editors
Sean Fleming
Vancouver, BC
Lucy Wilson
Saint John, NB
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Autumn 2003
You could be having this much fun. See page 25.
This GEOLOG benefits from the contributions and assistance of Alwynne
Beaudoin, Steve Scott, Glen Caldwell, Simon Hamner, Harvey Thorleifson,
Bob Cathro, Bob Dalrymple, John Gittens, John Stix, Steve McCutcheon,
Mike Cherry, Ward Neale, David Piper, Richard Wardle, Sandra Barr,
Roger Mason, Julia Davison and Kevin Andsell. Regrets to anyone that I
missed. Karen Dawe, Karen Johnston, Eleanor Penney and Cecilia Edwards
at GAC HQ continue to help to fill in the blanks. A special thanks to
webmasters and webmistresses that have unknowingly allowed me to use
bits and pieces, logos and text from their websites. Sandy McCracken and
Karen Dawe undertook the thankless job of proofreading and ironing out my
errors, although any faults remain the accepted responsibility of the Editor.
Richard Hartmier’s photos of Mt. Logan adorn the Mastheads. This
GEOLOG was produced with support from the Yukon Geological Survey in
Whitehorse, Yukon. The deadline for winter issue of GEOLOG is December
8th, 2003 — your contributions are welcome! CJRH
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Presidential
Preamble
Geological Map of the Future
Geology plays an increasingly critical role in our society. Whether helping
to ensure our health, to secure our heritage, to enhance our wealth, or to
augment our security, the geosciences affect all aspects of our lives. We do
this work to protect our water, to cope with our climate, to deal with toxic
substances, to manage our waste, to prepare for hazards, to ensure our
supply of energy and materials, to know and protect our land, to survey
and manage our oceans, to understand the history of life, and to comprehend our planet Earth.
We apply a broad and well-coordinated range of approaches. Mapping
accounts for spatial trends, while monitoring assesses temporal trends.
Research obtains answers to conceptual questions. Synthesis reviews
progress, and sets priorities. Education passes on existing knowledge while
facilitating its progresses, outreach better equips our society to be good
stewards and helps ensure our future, while advocacy influences decisionmaking to enhance the standing of our profession for the good of society
as a whole. Some of us have responsibilities in regulation, management,
and ongoing field activities, while our work is facilitated by required consultation and coordination.
In the business world, geoscientists play roles such as identifying economic resources and being involved in planning. Provincial and territorial
geological survey agencies map their regions, while GSC addresses crossborder topics, brings specialized approaches to cooperation with provinces
and territories, and addresses certain topics left to the federal survey. Along
with their mapping and monitoring roles, geological survey agencies carry
out the conceptual research that they require, to ensure that their activity is
linked to conceptual advances, and to ensure that members of survey staff
are equipped as experts in their fields. Educators and researchers, whether
in schools, universities, or museums, ensure our future.
GAC helps to facilitate the progress of our science, while Canadian
Council of Professional Geoscientists addresses regulation of the profession, and business groups such as PDAC address issues such as taxation.
Vibrant specialist groups support the needs of their constituencies, while
the Canadian Geoscience Council provides a forum to bring together perspectives such as science, profession, and business.
But mapping is a key activity for all geoscience, and geological maps lie
at the core of our discipline. In the 1980s, we witnessed the final days of
the paper map era. In the 1990s, we learned how to make a paper map
with a computer. And in the current decade, it is time to shed the constraints that paper maps imposed on us, and implement the digital, interactive, and 3D geological map of the future.
We are now shouldering the huge task of vector digitizing and reconciling legacy geological maps, while multiple generations of legends are being made accessible in a consistent and categorized format. Regional 3D
geological models that integrate soils and geology, surficial and bedrock
geology, as well as onshore and offshore are increasingly in demand as the
information, technology, and protocols to build them progress, and the
needs for such models intensify. Applications such as regional groundwater
modeling require digitizing, reconciliation, and assembly of a digital elevation model, bathymetry, offshore geology, soils, surficial geology, all
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public domain drillhole, geophysical, and geochemical data, bedrock maps,
and existing stratigraphic models typically expressed as structure contours.
In the geological map of the future, outliers will no longer cut a hole in
the underlying stratum, as has been the case in conventional geological
cartography, but will instead be stacked so that the polygons can be lifted
up to depict what lies below according to the predictions and observations
of the mapper. New stratigraphic modelling, particularly required for
unconsolidated deposits in many of our regions, requires benchmark information from cored holes logged by geologists as well as geophysical
surveys, such that these high-quality results may be extrapolated laterally
using drill hole data, commonly large quantities of water well data of
varying resolution and reliability.
Much effort is required to adequately georeference drillhole data in three
dimensions, and to parse large numbers of unique lithological descriptions
into attributes and defined terminology. Stratigraphic modelling methods
ideally use all available data and an approach that permits judgement in the
acceptance or rejection of data, while interpolation and extrapolation must
be guided by insights into the history and processes responsible for the
deposits.
Three-dimensional models can be captured as the extent of each stratum
and a grid of elevations that together make up predicted stratigraphy profiles conveying expert opinion on interpolation and extrapolation from the
data points, including the best available prediction of what lies below areas
from which we have no data.
Reconciliation of mapping with that of neighbouring jurisdictions is a
critical step, as is balancing subjective definition of strata with more objective geostatistical approaches to characterizing the heterogeneous physical
properties of each stratum. Rapid progress in 3D approaches is readily
achievable in undeformed sedimentary strata, while deformed strata as
well as igneous and metamorphic terrane require a separate set of approaches.
Increasingly, databases of observations and measurements are being
retained alongside the interpreted model, and models are being assigned
varying confidence levels such that the result is seen not as an end but a
means for prioritizing new mapping based on confidence and priority.
Geochemical and geophysical mapping will more and more will be quantitatively integrated with depictions of lithology, stratigraphy, and structure. Modeling such as groundwater and thermal modeling based on 3D
geological models is a way to stimulate the organization of input information, and to set priorities for new mapping, monitoring, and research on
methods and processes, rather than being an activity that must await the
perfection of inputs.
Current activity is progressing from paper maps to digital models, from
plan view maps to comprehensive drillhole, geochemical, and geophysical
databases, as well as to 3D models, and from static to dynamic models.
Pressing user requirements demand that our work rapidly advance along
this progression, in order to adequately serve the urgent needs of our
society.
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From the
Geolog
Editor
The Surveys, they are a changin’…
Word has it that the Portuguese Geologic and Mining Institute, their
geological survey, is facing extinction (see page 34).
Not a pleasant thought that a country has questioned, or worse –
overreacted, to an apparent lack of relevance of a national geological
institution. But even here in Canada we’ve had provinces that have
severely curtailed the operations of their geological surveys. This wasn’t
always simply the result of financial cut-backs, but has developed from
major shifts in government attitudes about the perceived useful or
effectiveness of their geological institutes. The OGS had endured such a
restructuring, and the BCGS has, and still is, undergoing contortions in
response to changes in government imposed mandates. Indeed, the GSC
has been doing a forced two-step in response to Treasury Board directives
requiring issues-driven science that is to be closely aligned with current
government’s priorities.
Not only is it not good enough to establish increased knowledge of
whatever part of the Canadian landmass is of interest, or to have products
directed toward resource develoment, but outputs must now be relevant to
increasingly diverse, largely non-technical client groups. In some ways
this is a welcome change as “outreach” has been neglected for far too
long....but to put these new “clients” in front of the products ensures that
countless trees and dollars will be wasted by publishing colourful brochures
and posters lacking substance.
There is no doubt about it…..geological surveys can’t be static but must
be increasingly aware of their perceived relevance and be
proactive … lest they be forced to respond to severe cutbacks
or imposed political mandates.
Surveys are changing, client groups are changing, the
science is changing….this is part of the new reality.
Oscillations
Canadian graduate students did very well in the recent Geological Society of America Student Research Grant Awards. Renee Luce Simard at
Dalhousie University was awarded the Lipman Research Fund, and Sophie Baker, also at Dalhousie,
was awarded the Robert K. Fahnestock Award. As
well, Matthew Clapham, currently at the University of Southern California, Brian Kendall of the
University of Alberta, and Johannes Koch at Simon
Fraser University, were recognized Outstanding
Mention for the high quality of their proposals. •
At Queen’s University, Herb Helmstaedt has
stepped down as Head of the Queen’s University
Department of Geological Sciences and Geological
Engineering. Bob Dalrymple is taking his place.
Tom Pearce retired from Queen’s on June 30th,
after 30 years. Laurent Godin, formerly of Simon
Fraser University, joined Queen’s University this
past summer. • John Stix of McGill University
will become Executive Editor of the Bulletin of
Volcanology effective November 2003. • Lucy
Wilson has accepted a tenure-track position at University of New Brunswick Saint John. • It is with
regret that we announce the passing of two geological giants. Pioneering geochemist, McMaster University emeratis professor, and long-time GAC member and supporter, Denis M. Shaw, passed away
recently. Imperial College Sedimentologist Douglas Shearman died in May.
Oscillate recently? Tell geolog@gov.yk.ca
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New NSERC Earth Science Research Grants
The National Science and Engineering Research
Council has announced the recipients of new
research grants. These are new grants and
are typically awarded for a 3 to 5 year period.
Solid Earth Sciences
Amelin, Yuri; Toronto, Geology: Refining
fundamental parameters of radiogenic isotope
geochemistry, $25,000
Arnaud, Emmanuelle; Guelph, Land Resource
Science: The sedimentary record of
Neoproterozoic glaciations in tectonically-active
basins, $20,890
Barnes, Sarah-Jane; Québec à Chicoutimi,
Sciences Appliquées: Formation of ore
deposits associated with mafic and ultramafic
rocks, $48,950
Basinger, James; Saskatchewan, Geological
Sciences: Fossil plants of Western and
Northern Canada, $32,890
Bourque, Pierre-André; Laval, Géologie et
génie géologique: Bioconstruction in the
ancient: nature and controls, $35,650
Brenan, James; Toronto, Geology: EDS and
imaging upgrade for the UofT geology SEM
(with Scott, Steven, Spooner, Edward,
Henderson, Grant, Mungall, James), $46,500
Brown, Robert; Calgary, Geology and
Geophysics: Multicomponent seismology:
Multiple suppression in ocean-bottom seismic
data, PS reflection properties, anisotropy and
earthquake station, $15,000
Calvert, Andrew; Simon Fraser, Earth
Sciences: Seismic studies of ancient and
modern subduction zones, $32,800
Canil, Dante; Victoria, Earth and Ocean
Sciences: From mantle to exosphere in field
and experiment, $44,200
Chi, Guoxiang; Regina, Geology: Hydrodynamics of gold mineralization (reduced granitic
intrusion-related) and hydrocarbon accumulation (Williston Basin), $18,000
Chun, Kin-Yip; Toronto, Physics: 3-D
seismic imaging beneath East Asia, $28,000
Clark, Alan; Queen’s, Geological Sciences and
Geological Engineering: Origin and delimitation of metallogenetic provinces at convergent
plate margins, $57,860
Coniglio, Mario; Waterloo, Earth Sciences:
Diagenesis of paleozoic carbonates, southern
Ontario, $29,450
Crocket, James; McMaster, Geography and
Geology: Studies in noble metal ore genesis
and geochemistry, $14,000
Cruden, Alexander; Toronto, Geology:
Mechanisms and models of deformation and
material transfer in the lithosphere, $33,750
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Desrochers, André; Ottawa, Earth Sciences:
Evolution of lower Silurian storm-dominated
carbonate ramps, Anticosti basin, Quebec,
$12,450
Groat, Lee; British Columbia, Earth and Ocean
Sciences: Emerald and pegmatites in the northern
cordillera of Canada and the crystal chemistry of
the dumortierite-group minerals, $39,450
Dickin, Alan; McMaster, Geography and
Geology: Crustal evolution in the Grenville
Province, with McNutt, Robert, $21,450
Hall, Jeremy; Memorial Univ. of Nfld., Earth
Sciences: 48-channel seismograph for highresolution seismic imaging (with Wright, James,
Hiscott, Richard, Aksu, Ali, Hurich, Charles),
$144,420
Donaldson, Allan; Carleton, Earth Sciences:
Comparative studies of stromatolites and
biofilms, $11,000
Dunlop, David; Toronto, Physics: Rock
magnetism and paleomagnetism of continental
and oceanic rocks and synthetic equivalents,
$117,800
Dunning, Gregory; Memorial Univ. of Nfld.,
Earth Sciences: Integrated mapping and
geochronology to constrain events in orogens,
$41,800
Flemming, Roberta; Western Ontario, Earth
Sciences: NMR, Rietveld refinement, and
microdiffraction of minerals, and geological
applications, $25,000
Forte, Alessandro; Western Ontario, Earth
Sciences: A computational geodynamics
processing facility, $41,158
Multidisciplinary studies of global dynamics of
the solid earth, $47,500
Heaman, Larry; Alberta, Earth and Atmospheric
Sciences: Precambrian earth evolution, $67,950
Hearn, Elizabeth; British Columbia, Earth and
Ocean Sciences: Numerical models of plate
boundary deformation, $28,000
Heimpel, Moritz; Alberta, Physics: Dynamics of
planetary cores and physics of earthquakes and
faulting, $17,000
Helmstaedt, Herwart; Queen’s, Geological
Sciences and Geological Engineering: Tectonic
studies, upper mantle studies, tectonic settings of
mineral deposits, $41,300
Herrmann, Felix; British Columbia, Earth and
Ocean Sciences: Imaging and modelling of
seismic discontinuities, $16,000
Hollings, Peter; Lakehead, Geology:
Geochemistry of volcanic rocks associated with
flat slabs in South America/implications for the
evolution of a convergent plate margin, $12,890
Frederiksen, Andrew; Manitoba, Geological
Sciences: Seismic scattering and the deep crustal
Indares, Aphrodite; Memorial Univ. of Nfld.,
structure of Canada, $24,450
Earth Sciences: Metamorphic and tectonic
Gaboury, Damien; Québec à Chicoutimi,
studies of granulites in the Grenville province,
Sciences appliquées: Signatures en éléments
$42,790
traces des sulfures hydrothermaux et processus
Jin, Jisuo; Western Ontario, Earth Sciences:
métallogéniques, $15,000
Diversification, mass extinction, and recovery of
Gaonac’h, Hélène; Québec à Montréal,
brachiopod faunas during the late Ordovician
GEOTOP-UQAM-McGILL (Centre recherche and early Silurian, $32,890
géochimie et géodynamique): Lois de puissance
et anisotropie des phénomènes volcanologiques, Kerrich, Robert; Saskatchewan, Geological
Sciences: Secular variations in the geochemistry
$26,000
of plumes and atmospheric nitrogen, $62,700
Ghent, Edward; Calgary, Geology and
Kravchinsky, Vadim; Alberta, Physics: Climate
Geophysics: Pressure-temperature-fluid
of the past: paleomagnetic and petromagnetic
composition-time evolution of metamorphic
approach, $21,450
rocks, $39,450
Climate of the past: rock-magnetic tools,
Gingras, Murray; New Brunswick, Geology:
$41,000
Visualization and characterization of recent and
ancient ichnofabrics to enhance facies interpreta- Krouse, Roy; Calgary, Physics and Astronomy:
Stable isotope methodolgy, $24,000
tion, $34,720
Leitch, Alison; Memorial Univ. of Nfld., Earth
Godfrey-Smith, Dorothy; Dalhousie, Earth
Sciences: Melting the mantle and formation and
Sciences: Luminescence geochronology of
isostasy in southern Atlantic Canada during the differentiation of the crust, $27,000
late Pleistocene and Holocene, $22,000
Gordon, Terence; Calgary, Geology and
Geophysics: Algorithms for inverse
geochemical problems, $12,000
Gorton, Michael; Toronto, Geology: Origin of
base and precious metals in Huronian
sediments, east of the Sudbury igneous
complex, $13,000
Lerbekmo, John; Alberta, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences: Magnetochronology,
geochronology and biostratigraphy of the
Campanian, Maastrichtian and paleocene, $9,450
Lescinsky, David; Western Ontario, Earth
Sciences: Lava flow dynamics evaluated using
large- and small-scale surface features, $16,450
Lines, Laurence; Calgary, Geology & GeophysVolume 32 No. 3
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ics: Optimization of seismic depth imaging,
$22,500
Margrave, Gary; Calgary, Geology &
Geophysics: Improving seismic imaging
through advanced mathematics and better
seismic sources, $31,350
Marshall, Daniel; Simon Fraser, Earth
Sciences: Petrology, tectonics,
thermobarometry and thermochronology of the
Nootka sound area, Vancouver island, BC,
$23,450
Melchin, Michael; St. Francis Xavier, Earth
Sciences: Ordovician-Silurian graptolites and
radiolaria and refinement of the lower
Paleozoic time scale, $44,200
Morozov, Igor; Saskatchewan, Geological
Sciences: Controlled- and passive-source
fundamental and applied seismic studies,
$22,000
Murphy, Donald; Carleton, Earth Sciences:
Geological setting, U-Pb geochronology and
petrology of high-pressure metamorphic rocks,
Yukon-Tanana Terrane, SE Yukon, $11,450
Mustard, Peter; Simon Fraser, Earth Sciences:
Sedimentology, stratigraphy and tectonic
significance of selected western Cordilllera
sedimentary basins, $23,890
Owen, Victor; Saint Mary’s, Geology:
Thermal metamorphism in natural and
synthetic systems, $15,350
Pan, Yuanming; Saskatchewan, Geological
Sciences: Characterization of trace species in
minerals and other earth materials, $30,000
Reynolds, Peter; Dalhousie, Earth Sciences: A
helium isotope mass spectrometer and extraction system for U-Th/He dating (with Zentilli,
Marcos, Sylvester, Paul, Gosse, John),
$145,495
Riediger, Cynthia; Calgary, Geology &
Geophysics: Petroleum systems in alberta and
northeastern BC, and the origin of the Alberta
tar sand bitumen deposits; organic
geochemistry at the Permian/Triassic boundary: $30,450
Rink, William; McMaster, Geography and
Geology: Innovative techiniques in Pliocene &
Quaternary sedimentary geochronology,
$29,450
Rivers, Toby; Memorial Univ. of Nfld., Earth
Sciences: Mesoproterozoic tectonics and trace
element distributions in metamorphic rocks,
$43,700
Robinson, Paul; Dalhousie, Earth Sciences:
Podiform chromitites and mantle processes,
$6,000
Rostron, Benjamin; Alberta, Earth and
Atmospheric Sciences: Hydrogeology and
hydrochemistry of the Williston Basin,
$28,000
Russell, James; British Columbia, Earth &
Ocean Sciences: Models for silicate melt
viscosity and applications to volcanology,
$44,200
Schmitt, Douglas; Alberta, Physics: Fundamental and applied studies of the physical
properties of earth materials, $58,450
Peterson, Ronald; Queen’s, Geological
Sciences and Geological Engineering: Mineralogical studies of mine waste, $18,450
Schroder-Adams, Claudia; Carleton, Earth
Sciences: Multidisciplinary analysis of
Canadian Mesozoic foreland and fore-and
backarc basins, $27,450
Plint, Guy; Western Ontario, Earth Sciences:
Sequence stratigraphy of clastic shelf
successions: the search for a eustatic signal,
$46,590
Scoates, James; British Columbia, Earth and
Ocean Sciences: From magmatic to hydrothermal: isotopic and geochemical constraints on
the evolution of ore-forming systems, $26,450
Polat, Ali; Windsor, Earth Science: Investigation of the Precambrian mantle-crust system:
reading the isotopic and trace element messages from greenstone belts, $18,450
Secco, Richard; Western Ontario, Earth
Sciences: Computer-numerically-controlled
micro-machining facility for high pressuretemperature research (with Fleet, Michael,
Flemming, Roberta, Huang, Yining), $18,753
Experimental earth and planetary materials
sciences at extreme conditions of pressure and
temperature, $45,600
Rainbird, Robert; Carleton, Earth Sciences:
Geochronology of the Huronian Supergroup/
calibrating Paleoproterozic atmospheric change,
$21,450
Raudsepp, Mati; British Columbia, Earth and
Ocean Sciences: Application of the Rietveld
method to mineralogy, petrology and environmental geology, $18,000
Reinhardt, Eduard; McMaster, Geography and
Geology: Isotopic tools (Sr, O and C) as an
environment indicator for coastal systems,
$31,450
Renaut, Robin; Saskatchewan, Geological
Sciences: Sedimentation and diagenesis in
lacustrine and hydrothermal environments,
$38,990
Autumn 2003
Lithogeochemical investigations of
metasomatic processes, $31,450
Stevenson, Ross Kelly; Québec à Montréal,
GEOTOP-UQAM-McGILL (Centre recherche géochimie et géodynamique): High
temperature oven for flux fusion for Hf
isotopes (with Gariépy, Clément), $15,000
Origins of the mantle and continental crust:
isotopic studies from an adolescent earth,
$30,890
Stewart, Robert; Calgary, Geology and
Geophysics: Geophysical imaging of the near
surface, $20,000
Sylvester, Paul; Memorial Univ. of Nfld.,
Earth Sciences: Laser ablation microprobe and
field studies on early crustal genesis, $31,450
Tiampo, Kristy; Western Ontario, Earth
Sciences: Pattern analysis techniques for the
study of earthquake seismicity, $23,000
Vanicek, Petr; New Brunswick, Geodesy and
Geomatics Engineering: The earth’s gravity
field and geodetic network robustness,
$15,000
Yang, Jianwen; Windsor, Earth Science:
Integrated numerical investigation of hydrothermal ore-forming fluid flow and its
implications for the sedex-type ore genesis:
example from the Lawn Hill platform,
northern Australia, $20,000
Young, Graham; Manitoba, Geological
Sciences: Paleozoic corals, environments, and
shorelines, $15,450
Environmental Earth Sciences
Allen, Diana; Simon Fraser, Earth Sciences:
Representing heterogeneity in regional
fractured sedimentary aquifer systems: field
data to models; $19,800
Andrews, William; Royal Military College of
Canada, Chemistry & Chemical Eng.:
Modelling aerosol and vapour dispersion from
transient point sources, $14,900
Assani, Ali; Québec à Trois-Rivières,
Sciences Humaines: Analyse d’impacts des
barrages en fonction des régimes
hydrologiques en vue de restaurer les troncons
régularisés au Québec; $14,300
Station totale pour effectuer les levés
topographiques, $14,299
Shaw, Denis; McMaster, Geography and
Geology: Trace element fractionation in
igneous and metamorphic processes, $2,600
Bartello, Peter; McGill, Atmospheric and
Oceanic Sciences: Geophysical fluid turbulence, $18,800
Sherwood Lollar, Barbara; Toronto, Geology:
Hydrocarbon geochemistry in transition zones
in dynamic field settings, $46,550
Beckie, Roger; British Columbia, Earth and
Ocean Sciences: Arsenic dynamics in reducing
groundwater, $20,800
Smylie, Douglas; York, Earth and Atmospheric Science: Earth dynamics, $30,000
Belzile, Nelson; Laurentian, Chemistry and
Biochemistry: Microwave digestion system
(with Alarie, Yves; Gunn, John; Chen, YuWei), $42,222
Spratt, Deborah; Calgary, Geology and
Geophysics: Inheritance and development of
foreland structures, $17,890
Stanley, Clifford; Acadia, Geology:
Bentley, Laurence; Calgary, Geology and
Geophysics: Constraining hydrogeological
models with electrical resistivity imaging,
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$27,600
Blanchet, Jean-Pierre; Québec à Montréal,
Sciences de la terre et de l’atmosphère:
Évaluation de la rétroaction déshydratation
- effet de serre sur le climat des hautes
latitudes, $19,800
Boyd, Matthew; Brandon, Native Studies:
High-resolution analysis of Holocene drought
variability, fire frequency, and vegetation
change in the southern boreal forest of
southeastern Manitoba, Canada, $10,000
Burn, Christopher; Carleton, Geography and
Environmental Studies: Thermal and hydrologic investigations of permafrost, $36,500
Chanasyk, David; Alberta, Renewable
Resources: Soil water dynamics of managed
pastures, $25,700
Chen, DongMei; Queen’s, Geography:
Development and evaluation of multi-resolution
classification framework and error model for
land cover mapping, $14,900
Chow-Fraser, Patricia; McMaster,Biology: An
approach to measure and assess changes in
fish habitat of great lakes coastal wetlands,
$15,800
Cullen, Jay; Victoria, Earth and Ocean
Sciences: Determination of dissolved trace
metal concentration and physicochemical
speciation in seawater using voltammetric
techniques, $66,217
Cullen, Jay; Victoria, Earth and Ocean
Sciences: Investigation of the distribution and
physicochemical speciation of bioactive trace
metals in the marine environment, $25,600
Cumming, Brian; Queen’s, Biology:
Paleolimnology and environmental change,
$32,500
Curtis, Jefferson; Okanagan University
College, Earth and Environmental Science:
Interactions between lake trophic state and the
biogeochemistry of natural dissolved organic
matter, $13,900
Desloges, Joseph; Toronto, Geography:
Paleohydrology and paleogeomorphology from
high-resolution sedimentary deposits, $16,800
Edinger, Evan; Memorial Univ. of Nfld.,
Geography: Geological and biological effects
of multiple stresses on coral reefs, $17,700
Image analysis equipment for quantitative
analysis of coral skeletons, reefs sediments and
underwater video, $19,481
Edwards, Richard; Toronto, Physics: Offshore methane hydrate assessment with novel
geophysical methods, $71,100
Edwards, Thomas; Waterloo, Earth Sciences:
Isotope climatology and paleoclimatology,
$21,800
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England, John; Alberta, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences: Glaciation, sea level change
and holocene environmental variability,
western arctic Canada, $68,000
Hétu, Bernard; Québec à Rimouski, Sciences
humaines: Variabilité climatique et dynamique
des versants en milieux alpins et subalpins,
$19,800
Ferris, Grant; Toronto, Geology: Environmental geochemistry of bacterial-mineral
interactions, $33,500
Howarth, Philip; Waterloo, Geography: Information extraction from remote sensing imagery
for landscape pattern measurement, $20,800
Ford, Derek Clifford; McMaster, Geography
and Geology: Uranium series, U/Pb dating,
stable isotope and luminescence studies of
speleothems, $39,600
Huang, Pan; Saskatchewan, Soil Science:
Solution and surface chemistry and mineralogy
of soils and sediments, $59,400
Fournier, Richard; Sherbrooke, Géographie et
de télédétection: In situ optical measurement of
forest structure and regional mapping of
ecosystems using digital remote sensing,
$14,900
Franklin, Steven; Calgary, Geography: Field
equipment to support remote sensing research,
$87,572
Remote sensing of biophysical properties and
environmental change, $33,700
Jamieson, Heather; Queen’s, Geological
Sciences and Geological Engineering: Mineralwater interaction in mine waste and contaminated
soils, $17,800
Jiskoot, Hester; Lethbridge, Geography:
Dynamic ice flow restrictions on glaciers in
northwestern Canada, $20,600
Johnson, Bruce; Dalhousie, Oceanography:
Accumulation of shallow gas in marine
sediments, $14,900
Fredeen, Arthur; Northern British Columbia
Forestry: Gas-ecchange system (LiCOR 6400)
for measurement of vascular and nonvascular
photosynthesis and below ground respiration
in sub-boreal British Columbia, $51,180
Kellman, Lisa; St. Francis Xavier, Earth
Sciences: Array of automated soil gas sampling
systems (with Beltrami, Hugo), $38,900
Physical and biogeochemical processes controlling soil profile production and emissions of
N20 and CO2, $18,800
Gobeil, Charles; Institut national de recherche
scientifique, Centre Eau, Terre et
Environnement: Analyseur de mercure (avec
Tessier, André, Hare, Landis) $16,107
Géochimie des sédiments de la marge
continentale, $30,500
Klaassen, Gary; York, Earth and Atmospheric
Science: Computer system for simulation of
small-scale atmospheric flows, $20,700
Numerical modelling of atmospheric dynamics,
$15,800
Gratton, Yves; Institut national de recherche
scientifique, Centre Eau, Terre et
Environnement: Mesoscale physical processes
and their impact on biological production,
$23,800
Guo, Xulin; Saskatchewan, Geography: Data
acquisition system for measuring grassland
heterogeneity, $11,288
Measuring grassland heterogeneity: a
multispatial, multi-spectral and multi-temporal
approach, $13,900
Kramer, James; McMaster, Geography and
Geology: Metal sulfides in the environment,
$24,800
Lamothe, Michel; Québec à Montréal, Sciences
de la terre et de l’atmosphère: Methodological
development in optical luminescence dating of
feldspar and application to climatically sensitive
Qyaternary environments, $24,800
Laprise, René; Québec à Montréal, Sciences de
la terre et de l’atmosphère: Modeling the earth‘s
regional climate system, $35,600
Haboudane, Driss; Québec à Chicoutimi,
Sciences humaines: Micro-station de traitment
d‘images de télédétection, $42,222
Modélisation des attributs biophysiques des
couverts végétaux agricoles à partir des
imagges de télédétection hyperspectrale:
estimation et validation en agriculture de
précision, $19,800
Larocque, Marie; Québec à Montréal, Sciences
de la terre et de l’atmosphère: Recharge et
vulnérabilité des aquifères, $14,900
Système de simulation de recharge et de la
vulnérabilité, $13,250
Hastie, Donald; York, Chemistry: Characterization of atmospheric particulate matter,
$31,700
Lucotte, Marc; Québec à Montréal, Sciences de
l’environment: Speciation of organic compounds
as a key component of the dynamics of complex
environmental issues, $26,700
Hayashi, Masaki; Calgary, Geology and
Geophysics: Eddy covariance system for
water and energy flux measurement (with
Quinton, William, Bentley, Laurence),
$28,200
Lewkowicz, Antoni; Ottawa, Geography:
Mountain permafrost and slope processes,
northwest Canada, $22,600
Martz, Lawrence; Saskatchewan, Geography:
Watershed segmentation and land surface
parameterization for global change modeling,
$17,300
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McBride, Raymond; Guelph, Land Resource
Science: Pedotechnological characterization of
Ontario soils, $15,800
Mehuys, Guy; McGill, Natural Resource
Sciences: Impacts of cropping practices on soil
and water quality, $16,800
Miller, John; York, Physics and Astronomy:
Remote monitoring methods of vegetation
functioning, $31,700
Mucci, Alfonso; McGill, Earth and Planetary
Sciences: Automated potentiometric titration
system, $30,956
Solid-solution interactions and diagenesis,
$54,500
change/variability and freshwater-ice systems,
$27,600
Reardon, Eric; Waterloo, Earth Sciences:
Various projects in groundwater remediation
and water treatment, $42,600
Remenda, Victoria; Queen’s, Geological
Sciences and Geological Engineering: Syn-and
post-depositional processes affecting large
scale permeability in clay-rich aquitards of
glacial origin, $17,800
Robertson, William; Waterloo, Earth Sciences: Use of CFCs and their replacement
compounds for age dating groundwater,
$13,900
Mysak, Lawrence; McGill, Atmospheric and
Oceanic Sciences: Ocean, climate, and
paleoclimate dynamics, $83,200
Robin, Michel; Ottawa, Earth Sciences:
Impacts of climate change on surface and
groundwater resources, $11,900
Nickling, William; Guelph, Geography:
Constant temperature anemometers for wind
tunnel simulation of sediment transport
processes (with McKenna Neuman, Cheryl),
$97,762
Rouse, Wayne; McMaster, Geography and
Geology: Modelling the thermal regimes,
energy balances and water balances in
northern lakes, $23,780
Ollerhead, Jeffrey; Mount Allison, Geography: The role of ice in the geomorphic
evolution of salt marshes in the upper Bay of
Fundy, $10,000
Patterson, William; Saskatchewan, Geological
Sciences: High-resolution holocene climate
variability from western europe: evidence from
stable isotope values of lacustrine carbonate
and micromilled molluscs, $20,600
U-series spikes for dating stable isotope timeseries records of Holocene climate change in
speleothems and marl lakes, Western Ireland
(with Holmden, Christopher), $24,447
Peak, Derek; Saskatchewan, Soil Science:
Automated pH stat and titration package,
$18,099
Reaction rates, bonding mechanisms, and
chemical speciation of metals and oxyanions in
soils, $19,800
Pienitz, Reinhard; Laval, Géographie: Impacts
of climatic change and environmental stress on
aquatic ecosystems, $36,300
Pisaric, Michael; Carleton, Geography and
Environmental Studies: drought, fire and
climate change in the southern interior plateau,
british columbia, $22,600
Piwowar, Joseph; Regina, Geography: Spatialtemporal analyses of prairie ecozones, $14,900
Pollard, Wayne; McGill, Geography: Ground
water and ground ice in cold polar deserts,
$22,600
Price, Jonathan; Waterloo, Geography:
Hydrology of deformable peat deposits,
$32,500
Prowse, Terry; Victoria, Geography: Climate
Autumn 2003
Roy, André; Montréal, Géographie: Fluvial
processes and river dynamics, $47,400
Seaquist, Jonathan; McGill, Geography:
Spatial pattern and uncertainty in continentalscale terrestrial primary production and carbon
storage dynamics, $18,800
Sheng, Jinyu; Dalhousie, Oceanography:
Numerical studies of circulation and dynamics
over the eastern canadian shelf, $16,800
Sjogren, Darren; Calgary, Geography:
Deglacial environments of the southwestern
laurentide ice sheet, $14,900
Smart, Christopher; Western Ontario,
Geography: Environmental monitoring:
surface and karst waters, $29,700
Smith, James; McMaster, Geography and
Geology: Dynamic coupled hydraulic properties and flow instability in contaminated
heterogeneous vadose zone porous media,
$21,800
Sutherland, Bruce; Alberta, Mathematical and
Statistical Sciences: Mixing and transport in
geophysical flows, $24,800
Teller, James; Manitoba, Geological Sciences:
History and global impace of lake Agassiz:
dating and paleoecology of its beaches,
lagoons, embayments, and successors,
$47,400
Toth, Jozsef; Alberta, Earth and Atmospheric
Sciences: The Pannonian basin
hydrogeological research program, Hungary,
$14,900
Treitz, Paul; Queen’s, Geography: Spectral/
spatial/temporal analysis of remote sensing
data for estimating biophysical parameters of
arctic and boreal ecosystems, $22,600
Van Straaten, Peter; Guelph, Land Resource
Science: Agrogeological approach to enhance
phospate solubilization, $14,900
Waddington, James; McMaster, Geography
and Geology: Coupling peatland eco-hydrology and methane dynamics, $29,500
Walker, Ian; Okanagan University College,
Biology: Microscopes for palaeoenvironmental
research, $13,874
Wallschläger, Dirk; Trent, Environmental and
Resource Studies: Arsenic and selenium
hydrogeochemistry in suboxic milieus,
$19,800
Warren, Lesley; McMaster, Geography and
Geology: Microbial geochemistry in extreme
and contaminated environments, $25,600
Weaver, Andrew; Victoria, Earth and Ocean
Sciences: High latitude processes and climate,
$64,400
Wortmann, Ulrich; Toronto, Geology:
Assessment of deep biosphere bacterial
communities by sulfur and oxygen stable
isotope geochemistry, $23,800
Hardware support for reaction-trnsport
modeling of the great australian bight deep
biosphere ecosystem, $18,748
Major Facilities Access
Grants
In addition, Major Facilities Access grants
were supplied to Stephen Calvert and
collaborators at the University of British
Columbia for analytical facility for
environmental geochemistry ($60k), to
Edward Cloutis at the University of Manitoba
for the Churchill Northern Studies Centre
($77k), to Peter Dillon and colleagues at Trent
University for their water quality centre
($67k), to a consortium of Quebec institutes
including GEOTOP, McGill and UQAM led
by Clément Gariépy for an Isotope Probing
Facility ($54k), to Frank Hawthorn at the
University of Manitoba for his crystallography
lab ($30k), to Robert Kerrich and others using
the analytical geochemistry facility at the
University of Saskatchewan (($25k), to Kurt
Kyser and coworkers at Queen’s Isotope
Research Facility ($97k), to Paul Sylvester
and others at Memorial University of
Newfoundland for their mass spectrometry
facility ($35k) and to Kevin Telmer and
colleagues for the University of Victoria
biochemistry facility ($40k). MFA grants are
given on three year terms.
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Letters
to GEOLOG
It goes both ways ...
The flurry of articles, letters and editorial pieces in recent Geologs have
probably left your readers quite perplexed about the role and health of
the Geological Survey of Canada. Allow us to present a personal perspective that we hope will clarify rather than confuse.
We found your emphasis on a few career movements surprising, with
the explicit statement that the top quality scientists are leaving or have
left the GSC. Does this imply that those remaining are second rate? Why
don’t moves out of universities attract similar attention: Canada lost its
Ocean Mapping research lab to the US a couple of years ago without
even a squeak out of GEOLOG? Some of us have chosen to remain
with the GSC despite attractive employment opportunities elsewhere.
Many good scientists move in mid-career: it’s re-invigorating. Commonly, disenchantment with one’s current employer plays a role: it certainly influenced the decision of one of us to move from university to the
GSC. And commonly, the move is out of the fire and into
the frying pan: every organisation has its strengths and
weaknesses. A scientific aversion to form filling is not
unique to GSC employees: we are always amazed at the
paralysis that grips some of our university colleagues every
three to five years when the “NSERC deadline” comes
around. Our experience is that the geological view of
senior Administration in universities or senior management in large companies is very similar to the geological
view of Senior Management in the GSC. University administrations have closed several earth science departments
in the past two decades. Since one of us left the university, the faculty there have been on strike four times.
It is not our intent to defend how the Geological Survey of Canada
has been conducting its activities recently. Indeed, we are completely
baffled by some of the changes that are ongoing. The lack of trust
between the bureaucracy of management and those that actually do the
productive work is a feature of modern society, and is as widespread in
universities, many granting agencies and large companies as in government labs1. Ask any graduate student trying to meet university requirements for REBs or PhD thesis format! Or a hydrocarbon exploration
company employee wanting to enter a collaborative agreement or publish
scientific research.
The Geological Survey of Canada has changed, but the nature of
change in the GSC is poorly understood by many in the Canadian
geoscience community. A decade ago, the Federal government started a
deliberate shift of resources in scientific research out of government labs
and into universities, as a consequence of effective lobbying by universities and the policy need to reduce direct government spending. Agencies like the GSC are not part of the government’s innovation strategy
and are ineligible even for competitive funding in programs such as CFI
and Canada Research Chairs. The Geological Survey is increasingly
tasked with meeting relatively short term government policy needs. There
is legitimate debate on how much the GSC requires fundamental longterm science, such as Lithoprobe and ODP, in order to meet the short
term policy needs, and whether it can rely on the university sector to
deliver such long-term science.
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Government research agencies also differ from universities in lacking a
constant flow of good students questioning the status quo. Stirring up an
aging population of geoscientists is thus a different challenge than in universities, although staff turnover is probably as slow. It is also different
from the situation in industry, where there is a more rapid turnover of
staff. Over the past fifteen years, the GSC has found it difficult to develop
a project system that both meets societal research needs and promotes
innovation. NSERC has had similar difficulties, as evidenced by the lack
of take up of programs such as the Collaborative R&D Program. Far too
many of us, in industry, government and university, find comfort in doing
what we do best, which is often what we have done for a long time. That
status quo is no longer acceptable to a government that has a changed
vision for the role of its research agencies. Likewise, NSERC has concerns about professors producing clones.
Changing emphasis on constitutional details has also
meant that the GSC has had to change. The provinces are
constitutionally responsible for natural resources, just as
they are constitutionally responsible for education, and
jealously guard both rights. Canada’s ability to have a
national strategy for post-secondary education is impacted
by this fact even more than the GSC. Why do we have
too many lawyers and not enough medical doctors?
Just as most geoscientists working in the university
sector have a genuine interest in education, most employees of the GSC have a strong belief in the importance of
societally relevant research. It takes a mix of people to
carry out such research and for many it will only form part of their career.
We and our asteroidal colleagues in the GSC look forward to continuing to
have productive interaction with our counterparts in industry and universities, trying together to carry out research on issues of scientific and societal
importance. We look forward to continuing to hire and mentor geoscience
student assistants, to provide apprenticeship to graduate students on projects
of mutual interest, to collaborate with universities in the effective use of
expensive ship time and laboratory facilities, to collaborate with industry in
the provision of expertise and the interpretation of expensive data, to benefit from the specialist expertise of colleagues outside the GSC, and to
provide leadership in appropriate aspects of Canadian geoscience. We also
believe we have a responsibility to think ahead to identify societal issues
five and ten years down the road and look forward to collaborating with
the entire geoscience community so the nation will be in a position to
address these issues. We hope our colleagues in industry and academia
will respond to our challenge. The government scientist is not an endangered species.
David J.W. Piper and David C. Mosher
(Both authors are employees of the GSC-Atlantic. Dr. Mosher was
one of three professors who have moved from Dalhousie to the
GSC in the past decade.)
See for example Dewey, J.F., 2001, Plate tectonics and geology, 1965 to today.
In: Oreskes, N., Plate tectonics, Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado, p. 239.
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Association
News
Thanks to our retired GAC Councillors!
GAC Councillors contribute their time and energy to helping
ensuring that GAC is efficient and effective in serving our
profession through the organization of conferences, publications,
and communications initiatives. The following Councilors
completed their terms this year, and their service is gratefully
acknowledged.
Steve Morison – After a term as GAC Councillor from 1991 to
1994, Steve returned as GAC Vice-President in 2000. With his
background in government geology and his current work with
Gartner Lee Limited, Steve provided sound leadership and vision
rooted in good business sense and knowledge of GAC tradition
and history. As GAC President in 2001/2002, he helped ensure
the steady improvement of GAC management during a time of
eroding revenue. He was particularly active in supporting the
BC Geological Survey during a time of Provincial retrenchment.
Steve prepared thoughtful Presidential Preambles for GEOLOG
his priorities for the year, the future of government geoscience
in Canada, the case for partnerships between Canadian
geoscience societies, and a review of his Presidency. His
Presidential Address in Saskatoon on the Extraordinary Life of
a Geologist was influential and thoughtful. Having now completed
an active year as GAC Past-President, Steve has completed his
term on Council, but he continues to diligently support GAC
activity.
Steve McCutcheon – Steve served an extended term on Council
from 1998 to 2003. He played a key role in guiding GAC activities
through his role as Finance Chair, while also maintaining his
busy career in Appalachian geology and mineral deposits with
the New Brunswick government in Bathurst. Steve could be
relied upon at every GAC Council meeting to provide clear,
complete, and thorough analyses of the state of GAC Finances.
Steve led an active Committee that broke new ground in topics
such as fundraising. His steady and thoughtful contributions to
Council discussion will be missed.
Phil Hill – Phil also served an extended term from 1998 to
2003. At the same time as he made a career transition from
Université du Québec à Rimouski to Geological Survey of
Canada Pacific, Phil was a very active GAC Councillor. In
particular, Phil was one of the key architects of the new GAC
Publications business unit, and was active in GAC Outreach
activity. Phil demonstrated a high level of commitment to GAC
ideals and a thorough approach to optimizing GAC business.
Sandy McCracken – GSC Calgary paleontologist Sandy
McCracken has this year completed a very busy three-year term
as Publications Committee Chair. Sandy completed this job
during a time of major change in the GAC Publications business.
He could be counted on to bring clear, concise and thorough
Committee reports to Council, and he was able to maintain a
very effective team spirit in the month to month workings of
the Publications Committee team over the years. His leadership
was appreciated by everyone on the GAC Publications team.
Fran Haidl – Fran Haidl, a petroleum geologist with the
Saskatchewan government in Regina, played a key role on GAC
Council by leading development of a new outreach strategy. As
first GAC Outreach Coordinator, and carrying on the tradition
of the GAC Education Committee, Fran was responsible for
the GAC role in helping Canadians to appreciate the natural
world, thereby assisting them in making wise decisions regarding
resource management, response to geological hazards, and
environmental stewardship, and in promoting the importance of
our profession, thereby helping to attract capable persons to
careers in our field. Fran continues her active role in geoscience
outreach, through efficient and effective mechanisms such as
EdGEO workshops.
Carmel Lowe – GSC Pacific geophysicist Carmel Lowe made
steady contributions to the work of the Publications Committee,
and also played a key role on the Communications Committee
in the newly developed role of E-communications Coordinator.
She thus coordinated the Council role in managing the web
site, the Email List, and E-bulletins. Particularly memorable
is Carmel’s role in helping to develop the new look of the GAC
web site.
So a huge thank-you goes to Steve, Steve, Phil, Sandy, Fran,
and Carmel!
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GAC Secretary’s Report May 2002–April 2003
The GAC serves its members and the larger geoscientific community
with a wide range of geoscientific offerings, including the publication
of journals, a newsmagazine, special publications, the Annual
Meeting, short courses, NUNA conferences, lecture tours, and the
programs of the various Sections and Divisions.
The highlight of 2002 was the annual meeting in Saskatoon,
hosted by GAC and MAC. Approximately 700 registrants participated
in four symposia, 20 special sessions, 9 general sessions, one
workshop, one short course, three plenary addresses, 10 field trips
and a variety of social events. Over 500 papers were presented,
covering most aspects of the Earth Sciences. Those sessions related
to the overarching theme of the meeting, “From Plains to Shield:
The Making of a Continent’s Interior”, were particularly well
attended.
GAC Council and Executive met twice since the business
meeting in Saskatoon, both times in Vancouver (October & May).
In addition, a number of Councillors visited St. Catharines, the site
of the next AGM, in February 2003. Between these meetings,
Councilors and sub-committee members have been in communication
conducting the business of the Association through a combination of
conference calls and e-mail. Most information concerning GAC
events and business activities is now available on the GAC website
(http: //www.gac.ca), maintained in St. John’s.
It is a pleasure to acknowledge the financial and in-kind support
provided to our Councilors by the following corporations:
• Gartner Lee Limited, Calgary, AB
• Department of Earth Sciences, Simon Fraser University,
Burnaby, BC
• Department of Earth Sciences, Memorial University of
Newfoundland, St. Johns, NL
• Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources, Halifax,
NS
• New Brunswick Geological Survey, Bathurst, NB
• School of Earth & Ocean Sciences, University of Victoria,
Victoria, BC
• Geological Survey of Canada, Calgary, AB
• Department of Geological Sciences, University of
Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB
• Ministry of Northern Development and Mines, Sudbury,
ON
• Inco Technical Services Ltd., Copper Cliff, ON
• Falconbridge Ltd., Laval, QC
• Saskatchewan Energy and Mines, Regina, SK
• Geological Survey of Canada, Sidney, BC
• Wisdo Management, Calgary, AB
• SRK Consulting, Toronto, ON
• Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa, ON
• Department of Mines and Energy, St. Johns, NL
Without this valuable support it would be impossible for Council to
conduct the business of the GAC.
One of the goals of the Association is to produce timely and
economically priced volumes on current issues in the earth sciences.
The publications business unit has continued to develop under the
guidance of the Publications Committee and Publications Director.
A number of new volumes were close to publication at the end of the
period covered by this report, and will be available as you are reading
this (it pays to check our website frequently). One of the topics that
has been discussed extensively in Council this past year is the issue
of publication rights on volumes emerging from GAC/MAC meetings.
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Safety should always be one of our concerns in any activity
and to this end we have a GAC and MAC Safety Protocol (the
relevant document is available from Headquarters). Our insurers
have become somewhat more aggressive this past year in insisting
that the details of all field trips operated under the aegis of the
GAC be maintained at Headquarters. This includes those field
trips run by Sections and Divisions.
Council continues the process of reorganization to better meet
the needs of the membership, A significant discussion on Student
Membership took place a couple of years ago. The outcome has
been the establishment of a number GAC Student Chapters, each
provided with modest funding for student activities. Students and
Faculty are encouraged to contact GAC Headquarters
(gac@esd.mun.ca) to obtain additional information. Council is
looking closely at our membership policies to ensure that we
maintain contact with all aspects of a rapidly changing profession.
CORPORATE SUPPORT
The Association would cease to exist without the support of its
individual members but in addition depends a great deal on its
corporate members. It is with sincere gratitude that the Association
acknowledges the financial support of its 2002 corporate members:
Patron
• Iron Ore Company of Canada
• Memorial University of Newfoundland
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Alberta Energy & Utilities Board
Aur Resources Inc, Toronto
DeBeers Canada Exploration Inc.
DIAND Minerals Resources
Falconbridge Ltd.
Lakefield Research Ltd.
Newfoundland Department of Mines and Energy
PanCanadian Petroleum Ltd.
Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology
Yukon Geology Program, Whitehorse
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Acadia University
BPH World Exploration Inc.
Barrick Gold Corporation
Boston College
Cogema Resources Inc.
Dartmouth College
Freewest Resources
Homestake Canada Inc.
Hudson Bay Exploration & Development Company Ltd.
Inmet Mining Corporation
Juneau Mineral Information Centre
Marshall Macklin Monaghan Limited
Scintrex
Stratcona Mineral Services
Suncor Energy
Teck Cominco Metals Ltd.
University of Calgary
University of New Brunswick
Université du Qubec, Montréal
University of Toronto
Utah State University
Voiseys Bay Nickel Company
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MEMBERSHIP
Since the last business meeting, 19 Fellows have been elected, 3 Associate Members
have transferred to Fellowship, 19 new Associates have been elected and 144 Student
Associates have been admitted. 22 Members resigned.
GAC Council notes, with regret, the passing of the following members: William
Searjent, Gyorgy Ozoray and H.L. Lovell.
The following list identifies the new members and transfers approved in the last year.
Fellow
Chris Holmden
Jennifer Bates
George Coburn
Murray Duke
Dan Georgescu
Phillip Ihinger
Robert Laramee
Shannon McCrae
Suzanne Paradis
Phil Robertshaw
Ginger Rogers
Martine Savard
Ernest Spurgeon
Subhas Tella
Dirk TemplemanKluit
Joseph Whalen
John Wood
Guowei Zhang
John-Paul
Zonneveld
Transfer
Dolores Durant
Ian Foreman
Wulf Mueller
Associate
William Anderson
Dante Canil
Wen Chang Li
Chao Chen
Shouyu Chen
Jianguo Chen
Peng da Zhan
James Dawson
Leeann Fishback
Richard Friedman
Guangdao Hu
David Jordan
Beth McClenaghan
Terrence Neufeldt
Christopher Rudd
Phil Smerchanski
Eric Taylor
Cameron Tsujita
Zhenfei Zhang
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Student
Associate
Benjamin Allou
Michele AsgarDeen
Steven Aspden
Quan Bao
Debi Banerjee
Melissa Battler
Vanessa Bennett
Steven Berg
Jerome Biollo
Jeffrey Boyce
Liane Boyer
Janice Brahney
Bryan Brassington
Kevin Brewer
Michelen Brinston
John Brzustowski
Chris Buchanan
Anne Budin
Abigail Burt
Carlos Cabarcas
Christopher Chalk
Catherine Channing
Kyl Chhatwal
Maxime Claprood
Allison Cocker
Jason Cole
Angi Dearin
Nicole Dhondt
Sean Dickie
Aaron Diefendorf
Julie Doyon
Dana Dredge
Andre Dunford
Francis Dupr
Diane Dupuis
Jodi Eye
Doris Fox
Jason French
Lacy Gielen
Tom Gleeson
Chad Glemser
Jean-Phillippe
Gobeil
Erica Gonzalez
Sarah Gordee
Souad Guernina
Istvan Gyorfi
David Hapgood
Gregory Hartman
Catherine Harty
Partick Hayman
Geoff Heggie
Kimberley
Heineman
Amanda Heydorn
Adrian Hickin
Emily Hopkin
Heather Hunt
Hel Isnard
Linhai Jing
Sandra Johnstone
Patrick Johnstone
David Jowett
Julio Jurado
Gerry Keeping
Moussa Keita
Dawn Kellett
Sarah Kelley
Zishann Khan
Yuri Kinakin
Darren Klassen
Ellie Knight
Connie Ko
Chris Kowalchuk
Jon Kroon
Stefan Kruse
Shawn Kyle
Kyle Larson
Laura Laurenzi
James Lawson
Shawna
Leatherdale
Holly Leland
Jason Letto
Oingmou Li
Zhigin Liu
Joanne Livingston
Stacey Loptson
Trevor MacHattie
John Maclachlan
Marianne Mader
Jeremy Major
Chris McCann
Tim McCullagh
Brant McDowell
Caroline Mealin
Dominique
Meilleur
Lesley Meston
Aleksandar
Miskovic
Frances Mitchell
Kristin
Montgomery
Daniel Mulrooney
Jennifer Murray
Rejeev Nair
Lilian Navarro
Devon Osecki
Jen Parks
Daniel Parks
Katie Patrick
Allie Penner
Jesus Pinto
Eric Potter
Cdric Rapaille
Timothy Raub
Scott Reid
Dominique Richard
Daniel Rivas
Justin Rogers
Laura Roskowski
Ralph Rowe
Jim Salter
Kristin Salzsauler
Melanie Sampson
Hamed Sanei
Andrew Shannon
Steph Simpson
Ashley Smyth
Derek Smyth
Natalie St.Amour
Victoria Stevens
Tanya Tettelaar
Rabindra Thanju
Douglas Tinkham
Sarah Travis
David Tucker
John Tyne
Daniel Utting
Angie Vangool
Woody Wallace
Ken Wallace
Jing Wang
Zhijing Wang
Darin Wasylik
Cole Webster
Kim West
Becky Wroe
Hu Xiangyun
Andrew Yackulic
Xueming Yang
Yinhuan Yuan
Grant Zazula
Zhizhong Zu
Roger Mason, of Memorial Univeristy of
Newfoundland, is GAC Secretary and
Treasurer.
Council continues to direct significant
efforts towards renewing the membership
of the Association. Inasmuch as new
Student memberships form our largest area
of growth, this is closely followed by our
regular members transferring to retired
status. The number of paid-up members in
April 2003 was approximately 2000, which
is expected to increase to just under 2100
by December 2003. This is to be compared
with year-end numbers of 2294 in 2002 and
2295 in 2001 and membership levels of
around 2800 for the period 1982 to 1990.
Council has been discussing the measures
that will be taken to “sell” the Association
to those members of the profession who are
not part of the GAC.
In recent years there has been a push
to have eligible Associates become Fellows
of the Association. Presently, more than
75% of members are Fellows. Most of our
membership is in Ontario, British Columbia,
Alberta, Quebec, and the United States.
In periodic surveys of employment
status used to plan Member Services, we
have been witnessing a significant shift from
the traditional Industry, Government,
Academia categories. Today, nearly half
of our members declare that they are
employed by Industry or are Self-Employed.
Academics comprise the third largest part
of the GAC with members identifying
Government as their place of employment
coming in fourth.
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MEDALS & AWARDS
National
The following list names just a few of the many volunteers
who made St. John’s 2001 such a success:
GAC awards a number of prestigious medals to Canadian and
international geoscientists. The 2001 medals were awarded at the
GAC Luncheon in Saskatoon to the following individuals:
• Logan Medal: James Monger, Geological Survey of
Canada, Vancouver.
• GAC Past Presidents Medal: Brian Pratt, University
of Saskatchewan.
• E.R. Ward Neale Medal: R.J.W. (Bob) Turner,
Geological Survey of Canada, Vancouver.
• J. Willis Ambrose Medal: Roger Macqueen Geological
Survey of Canada, Calgary.
John M. Fleming – Hon. Chair, Toby Rivers – Vice-Chair,
Doreen Peavy – General Secretary, Stephen Coleman-Sadd –
Recording Secretary, Elliott Burden – Accommodations Chair,
Tony Burgess & Loretta Crisby-Whittle – Accompanying Guest
Program, Lawson Dickson – Exhibits Chair & Publications Chair,
Cyril O’Driscoll – Field Trip Chair, Baxter Kean – Finance Chair,
Rex Gibbons – Fund Raising Chair, David Liverman – Publicity
Chair, Richard Wardle – Registration Chair, Jeremy Hall – Short
Course Chair, Iain Sinclair – Social Events Chair, Derek Wilton
– Technical Program Chair, Joe Hodych – Technical Services
Chair.
Larry Pynn of the Vancouver Sun was awarded the Yves O. Fortier
Earth Science Journalism Award for his 5-part series on “Marine
Reserves”.
50-Year Members Gerald E. Merritt, Calgary, Gordon A.
Gross, Ottawa Harold F. Morrow, Victoria Peter J. Savage,
Calgary
Jerme H. Remick Poster Awards Cash awards and certificates
of merit are presented at each annual meeting to the presenters of
outstanding posters. The Jerme H. Remick III Trust Fund supports
these awards. The awards at Saskatoon 2002:
Divisional Awards
GOLD - Constructing bison-eye view-sheds: Using GIS to test an
archaeological hypothesis at the Hokanson Site, Tiger Hills, South
Central Manitoba by R. DeChaine, S. Hamilton, D. Wiseman &
G.L. Running IV
SILVER - Evidence bearing on our understanding of the timing
of uplift of the Bow Island Arch from petroleum geochemistry by
C.L. Riediger, B.K. Manzano-Kareah & M.G. Fowler
BRONZE - Constraints on the provenance and tectonic evolution
of the Piling Group metasedimentary rocks, Baffin Island, Nunavut
by S.M. Johns, K.M. Ansdell, D. Corrigan M.R. St-Onge &
D.J. Scott
Distinguished Service Award The Distinguished Service Award
is awarded to recognize an outstanding contribution to GAC through
volunteer work. The award consists of a plaque with the GAC
logo, the name of the winner and the particular contribution being
recognized.
Frank Blackwood, in recognition of the role he played as general
Chair of the St. John’s 2001 AGM.
Volunteer Award The Volunteer Award of the Geological
Association of Canada is awarded to recognize those members and
non-members who have made a significant contribution through
voluntary service to the Association. The award consists of a
certificate of achievement. This year we have several winners:
Peter Mustard for service to the Cordilleran Section since 1996,
as President from September 1998 to April 2001 and Past-President
for the succeeding year. Peter has organised some outstanding and
popular short courses, workshops and a symposium entitled “The
Cordillera Revisited: Recent Developments in Cordilleran
Geology, Tectonics and Mineral Deposits”. He has arranged for
the section to publish filed trip guides that cover a transect of the
Cordillera in southern Canada and has maintained and improved
the Section website.
Darren Smith (Dept. of Earth Sciences, Memorial University)
for his continuing provision of computer support for GAC
Headquarters and for the Association in general. Darren set up
the GAC website in St. John’s, the on-line payment service for
publications, the GAC Listserver, password protection for data on
the website and more...
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The following Divisional Awards were awarded at Saskatoon 2002:
Duncan R. Derry Medal The Duncan R. Derry Medal is the
highest award bestowed by the Mineral Deposits Division. It is
awarded annually to the outstanding economic geologist who has
made significant contributions to the science of economic geology
in Canada. The recipient is Alan Clarke, Queens’ University.
William Harvey Gross Award The William Harvey Gross
Award is bestowed annually by the Mineral Deposits Division to
the scientist under 40 years of age who has made a significant
contribution to the field of economic geology in a Canadian context.
The recipient is Jan Peter, Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa.
The Julian Boldy Certificate Awards Awards for the most
significant and creative papers presented at the Mineral Deposits
Division session at the annual meeting were presented to:
B.L. Cousens & H. Falck for their paper Geochemistry and origin
of the Banting Group, yellowknife Greenstone belt: A mafic crust
melting event in the Southern Slave Province;
J.J. Hanley & J.E. Mungall for their paper Experimental
constraints on platinum-group slement solubility in hypersaline fluids
at temperatures above 600 C: Preliminary results and application
to fluid-modified deposits;
D. Layton-Matthews, M.O. Burnham & M.C. Lesher for their
paper Trace element geochemistry of ultramafic bodies in the
Thompson Nickel Belt: Relative roles of contamination and
metasomatism
The Leopold Gelinas Medal The Volcanology and Igneous
Petrology Division of the Geological Association of Canada annually
presents three medals for the most outstanding theses, written by
Canadians or submitted to Canada or submitted to Canadian
universities, which comprise material at least 50% related to
volcanology and igneous petrology.
Stephanie Schmidberger, McGill University, was awarded the
Gold Medal for her thesis Hafnium, strontium, neodymium and
lead isotope systematics and major and trace element compositions
of the subcratonic lithosphere beneath Somerset Island, Arctic
Canada.
Trevor McHattie, Memorial University of Newfoundland, was
awarded the Silver Medal for his thesis Petrogenesis of the
Wathaman Batholith and La Ronge Domain plutons in the Reindeer
Lake Area, Trans-Hudson Orogen, Saskatchewan.
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Michelle DeWolff, St. Mary’s University, was awarded the Bronze
Medal for her thesis Petrological evidence for pervasive silicate
liquid immiscibility in the Jurassic North Mountain Batholith, Nova
Scotia.
The Pikaia Award The Pikaia Award is given in recognition of
a recent contribution to research on any aspect of Canadian
paleontology, or by a Canadian to paleontology, that is judged to
constitute an outstanding contribution to the field. The outstanding
accomplishment may be a single monograph or a series of closely
related papers. The award will normally go to an individual who
is no more than 15 years past their last degree. The first recipient
is Jisuo Jin, University of Western Ontario.
HEADQUARTERS
Five dedicated Association employees at Headquarters in St. Johns
skillfully and conscientiously manage the day-to-day business of
the Association. Karen Johnston, Associate Secretary-Treasurer
and Office Manager, has overall responsibility for operations,
bookkeeping, and financial management. Publications Director
Karen Dawe is in her second year heading up GAC Publications on
behalf of the Publications Committee. Arlene Power, Publications
Manager, looks after sales and distribution of books from our
Headquarters Bookshop and warehouse, and from our sales network
in Canada. Cecilia Edwards, Assistant Secretary-Treasurer/
Marketing Co-ordinator, is responsible for membership review and
administration, recording and distribution of Council meeting
minutes, Council meeting planning, and co-ordination of membership
and publications marketing. Eleanor Penney, Headquarters
Secretary, process membership dues, co-ordinates medallist tours
and handles general inquiries. Student interns assist from time to
time with general office duties. Marg Brazil is responsible for
our web page. Jillienne Thorne worked on a part-time basis in the
publication distribution centre. David Press, a computer specialist
with Memorial University, is periodically hired for specific
computer applications.
FINANCIAL REPORTS
2002 Audit
The 2002 audited financial statements were prepared by the
Associations auditors, Walter P. Miller & Co., and were delivered
on March 6, 2003. The information was made available to Fellows
with their notice of the Annual Business Meeting. In fiscal year
2002 the Association recorded a deficit ($75,823). Publications,
Annual Meetings and Membership subscriptions form the core of
our annual revenue. Failure to meet budget expectations in one or
another of these three areas can affect our bottom line. Council is
working hard to return the Association to an even keel. Our Business
Plan has provisions to explore changes to and improvements in the
delivery of Members Services; discussions have been started on
new protocols for the format of Annual Meetings; and our
Publications are receiving a significant facelift following the hiring
of a Publications Director. Measured against our Annual Revenue,
the net assets for the Association stand at $186,467. Other assets
of the national GAC are held in 4 trust funds which are used for
very specific purposes: the Yves O. Fortier Fund ($19,229), the
Student Internship Fund ($67,317), the Jerme H. Remick III Trust
Account($51,767) and the Howard Street Robinson Trust Account
($309,095).
2003 Budget
Council is very determined that the deficit budgets of the past few
years do not continue. To this end a number of initiatives, mentioned
elsewhere in this report, have been taken that are designed to
improve the flow of revenue into the Association. Nevertheless, it
Autumn 2003
was necessary to approve a deficit of approximately $38,000 for
2003. This is a considerable improvement over 2002 and the evidence
to date suggests that we are “on-track”. A deficit of any size is to
be deplored and you may be assured that Council will make every
effort to return the Association to the “black” in its budget plans
for 2004.
COMMITTEES
The following standing committees were active in 2002-2003:
Awards Committee (John Clague, Stephen Morison, Catherine
Farrow, Harvey Thorleifson, Graham Young and Karen Johnston)
accepted nominations and decided the recipients of the national
medals. The next deadline for these and many other medals and
certificates, offered by the Association is December 30, 2003.
Information on submitting nominations is included in GEOLOG,
Vol. 32, No. 2.
Nominating Committee (Stephen Morison, Scott Swinden and
Jean-Franois Couture), secured qualified and dedicated individuals
to serve on the GAC Executive and Council. A full slate of candidates
was submitted to Council 60 days prior to the Annual Meeting.
Communications Committee (Catherine Farrow, Fran Haidl,
Harvey Thorleifson, Carmel Lowe, Graham Young, Michael
Michaud, Danielle Giovenazzo) was active in promoting earth
science and science education in Canadian schools (K-12), public
awareness of science issues, reviewing university nominations for
student prizes and reviewing application for GAC Logan Student
Chapter grants.
Finance Committee (Steven McCutcheon, Roger Mason, Benot
Dubé, Robert Marquis, Michael Marchand, Danielle Giovenazzo
and Bruce Templeton, (ex-officio), oversaw the investments of the
Association and its financial planning.
Science Program Committee (Kevin Ansdell, Mel Stauffer,
Catherine Hickson, Frank Feuton, Scott Swinden, Normand Goulet,
Jeremy Richards, Richard Wardle, Robert Marquis and Danielle
Giovenazzo) has carefully attended to details for annual meetings
until at least 2008.
Publication Committee (Sandy McCracken, Richard Wardle,
Godfrey Nowlan, Leslie King, Craig Hart, Karen Dawe, Arlene
Power, Cecilia Edwards, Dirk Tempelman-Kluit, Keith Dewing,
Brian Jones, Philip Hill, Carmel Lowe, Danielle Giovenazzo,
Michael Marchand, Roger Mason, (ex-officio) and Steven
McCutcheon (ex-officio). Sub-committees are responsible for the
production of special papers, short-course notes, Geoscience Canada
and the GEOtext series. Leslie King was Managing Editor for
Geoscience Canada for part of the period of this report. The new
Managing Editors are J. Monro Gray and C. Thompson She has
now departed for pastures new. We wish her every success.
Publications. Godfrey Nowlan is editor of Geoscience Canada and
Craig Hart is editor of GEOLOG.
Corporate Membership (Michael Marchand, Steven McCutcheon,
Steve Morison, John Clague, Robert Marquis) develops and presents
strategies to promote the Association in the private sector to
encourage industry to join in the activities of the Association.
DIVISIONS & SECTIONS
Many of the Divisions publish informative newsletters where detailed
reports and topical information can be found. So too, many of the
Sections and Divisions have web sites which can be accessed from
the GAC website at http: //www.gac.ca.
Roger Mason, Secretary St. John’s, Newfoundland September
2003
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GAC Planning - Past, Present, and Future
As part of my initiation to the position of Vice-President of GAC, I
am in the midst of reviewing a variety of historical documents, with
particular focus on the “planning process” in GAC over the past 10
years or so. I feel the need to know how and why GAC has evolved,
and what ideas have worked and which have been unsuccessful, and
why in both cases! Like me, I expect that many members of GAC
are not aware of the extensive planning that has been done on their
behalf by GAC Executive and Council over the years. Hence, I
think that it is appropriate to use our newsletter as a mechanism to
share this information with you, and also to invite any feedback that
you may have (contact addresses below).
The Geological Association of Canada has a long and mainly illustrious history that began with a meeting in Toronto on February
14th, 1947. The goal of that meeting was to establish an association
of geologists which would, among other things, promote, discuss and
disseminate geological knowledge. At a second meeting on March
11th, 1947, By-Laws and a Constitution were adopted, the first Councillors were elected, and the name Geological Association of Canada
was accepted, with 140 charter members. Then, as now, the objectives of the Association included the following:
a) to promote the science of geology, and closely related
fields of study, and to promote the knowledge of the members in connection therewith;
b) to hold conferences, meetings, and exhibitions for the discussion of geological problems and the exchange of views
in matters related to geology;
c) to publish various journals and collections of learned papers dealing with geology.
In the subsequent 56 years, membership in the GAC expanded
from a predominantly mineral-oriented, Toronto-based group to a
truly national body with representatives throughout Canada, as well
as internationally. For the first twenty years, the Association operated with a series of voluntary executives in temporary quarters.
During the period between 1967 and 1983, a degree of stability was
established at the University of Waterloo. In the summer of 1983,
the headquarters of GAC was moved to Memorial University of
Newfoundland, where it remains today. Hence the voluntary contributions from a large number of Canadian geoscientists are now
supported by a team of paid staff members who provide continuity
and essential back-up support in all aspects of the Association’s
operation.
Over the years, the scope of the Association, as demonstrated in
its activities and publications, has been diverse, and reflected the
desire of GAC to serve not only the membership of the Association,
but the geological community as a whole. As the membership gradually expanded, groups expressed a desire to hold meetings either on
a regional scale or along disciplinary lines. The formation of Sections (regional groups within GAC), Associated Societies, and Divisions of GAC (disciplinary groups) was encouraged.
Industrial
support to the Association has been made by a variety of companies
in the form of Corporate Membership. Clearly, the Geological
Association of Canada has contributed significantly to the promotion and development of the geological sciences in Canada.
Membership in GAC peaked and stayed close to 3000 during the
1970s and 1980s, but began to decline in the early 1990s. In response, a detailed and enlightening, but in many ways disturbing,
demographic study was done in the mid-1990s by then-Secretary-
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Treasurer, Elliott Burden. The study showed what GAC members
of about my age might expect - GAC members were getting older!
The average age of a GAC member in 1995 was 48 years! And it
was also clear that retirements were exceeding recruitments. With
this “writing on the wall” very clear for the future of GAC, the
Council and Executive began to contemplate these impending demographic realities, in order to try to change their path, in large
part by taking steps to recruit and retain young geoscientists.
Not surprisingly, given these demographic challenges, the mid1990s were also the time of visionary reviews of Earth Sciences in
Canada (and elsewhere), notably the “Futures Report”. This report, commissioned by the Canadian Geoscience Council and published in Geoscience Canada (Barnes et al. 1995), in the words of
then-CGC president Hugh Morris, “speaks for itself as a visionary
comment on the evolution, the challenges and the opportunities that
lie ahead as Canada’s earth scientists prepare for the next century.”
The first step by GAC was to form (in 1993) an ad hoc Strategy
Committee with the mandate “to develop a 10-year, forward-looking, strategic plan to promote the goals of the Geological Association of Canada”. This committee explored the role of GAC in
Canadian geoscience, with the goal of developing strategies that
would enable GAC to thrive. The final report, entitled “Keys to
GAC’s Future: a 10-Year Strategy” was presented to and discussed
extensively by GAC Executive and Council during 1996. The report recommended that GAC endorse the concept of “Earth System
Science” and foster implementation of the recommendations of the
“Futures Report”. Three levels of involvement by GAC in the
implementation of the recommendations were suggested: (i) a primary implementation role and responsibility, in which GAC could
act directly, (ii) a major role to play in concert with other groups,
and (iii) recommendations in which GAC should play a more modest advisory role.
During succeeding meetings, Council further distilled the recommendations of the “10-Year Strategy” report and focused on 5
recommendations, endorsing for each both general and specific actions that GAC could undertake in both short and long terms. These
items formed the basis of an “action plan” entitled “Toward a
New Era of Earth Science Integration”. This document was published in 1998 as a glossy brochure and widely circulated nationally
and internationally. The view of this document was a new era of
cooperation and integration in Canadian Earth Sciences, to develop
over the next decade (1998-2008). Five strategies were outlined:
1. Foster new ideas and concepts in the Earth Sciences
2. Promote lifelong education
3. Promote effective management and use of electronic
geoscience information
4. Promote public awareness of science
5. Shorten the innovation cycle.
For each strategy, specific GAC actions were listed as “we will”
items, and many of them have been or are being implemented.
Although this document was clearly a major step, it lacked
prioritization and scrutiny of what could be accomplished with the
human and financial resources available to GAC. Hence, Council
during 1999 and 2000 spent a lot of time trying to translate the
“action plan” of 1998 into a “business plan”. A major step in that
process was reaching agreement on the basic or “core” functions
of GAC, listed below in no specific order:
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Tribute to GAC Past-President John Clague
At our highly
successful
GAC-MACSEG
conference
this spring in
his home
town of
Vancouver,
John Clague
completed his
term as GAC
President.
John, one of
Canada’s leading authorities in
Quaternary and environmental earth
sciences, is now continuing in GAC
duties as Past-President, while also
tending to his role as Professor and
Shrum Chair in Science at Simon Fraser
University, President of INQUA
(International Union for Quaternary
Research), and Emeritus Scientist at the
Geological Survey of Canada.
John is widely known, having
published 200 papers, reports, and
monographs on a wide range of earth
science topics of regional and national
importance. He has prepared innovative
geoscience products for educators and
the public. He has had numerous
television and radio interviews and has
been featured in newspaper and
magazine articles. His research was
featured in a 1997 Discovery Channel
documentary on earthquakes and
tsunamis on the west coast of Canada,
and he spoke on Parliament Hill on this
topic. He also is well known as former
Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Journal
of Earth Sciences.
John also is a member of numerous
national and international professional
committees and commissions, and
supervises MSc and PhD students at
Simon Fraser University. He has given
over 200 lectures at North American
universities, professional meetings, and
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1. Life-long learning
(a) Education - K12 and university
(b) Professional Development - field trips, short courses,
workshops
2. Public awareness
3. Dissemination of scientific information - meetings, conferences, publications, website, field trips
4. Advocacy for the geosciences (prime body for Canadian
geosciences, worldwide)
As a result of these discussions, Council in 2000 adopted both
Mission and Vision statements for GAC (http://www.gac.ca/ABOUT/
presenti.html#mission). They also developed a “Business Plan” for
2001, and subsequently, a “Business Plan” for 2002. Both were
built around the Mission and Vision statements, as well as the definition of the core business functions of the association. Both plans
put forth a series of priority actions, for 2001-2002, and 2002-2003,
respectively, that were considered to be appropriate to the level of
human and financial resources available to GAC. In order of priority, both plans listed: (1) Dissemination of scientific information,
(2) Life-long learning, and (3) Public awareness and advocacy of
geoscience. Within each category, specific goals were identified
(12 in total in both plans, which were essentially identical). Major
challenges were identified (not surprisingly very similar in both
years), and in order to meet the challenges, specific priority items
were identified in both plans.
Following acceptance of the first Business Plan in 2000, GAC
Council made significant changes to the way the council was
organized and run. Committees were realigned and renamed so
that it was clear for which part of the Business Plan each was
responsible. Council meetings began to focus more on business
plan priorities. An attempt was made to weave the activities of
Council into the context of the business Plan, so that it was clear
where each activity was headed and what was being accomplished.
This transition from a “10-year strategy” to a concrete set of actions
was a significant and on-going challenge for Council.
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public venues, and reviewed scores of
papers for scientific journals.
As GAC President, John led a thorough
review of the GAC budget, and he worked
hard to help launch new fundraising
initiatives. His Presidential Address in
Vancouver was an inspiring call for us all
to contribute to pressing issues such as
climate change. His Presidential
Preambles in Geolog were equally
thoughtful, dealing with his plans for his
Presidency, the meaning of the words
geology and geoscience, major issues
facing Canadian geoscience – research
funding, deep time, climate change, and
fragmentation – as well as an appeal to
support the new GAC Fund of the
Canadian Geological Foundation.
John’s hard work and diligent
commitment as 2002-2003 GAC
President is no doubt recognized and
acknowledged by the entire Canadian
earth science community.
Implicit in GAC’s planning deliberations over the years has been
the acknowledgement that GAC is part of an evolving Canadian,
North American, and indeed global Earth Science spectrum. GAC
is only one of about 20 Canadian Earth Science groups that are part
of the Canadian Geoscience Council (CGC), an organization that
also has been developing new strategies to deal with the changing
geoscience environment. Options and directions for the CGC were
outlined by John Gartner in the late 1990’s in a series of wideranging “Backgrounder” reports, available on the CGC website
(www.geoscience.ca/papersandreports/background.html), and which
are still the topic of on-going discussions that both involve and
affect GAC. For example, a major change in the Canadian
geoscience community with high impact has been the increasing
regulation of the profession, as embodied in the Canadian Council
of Professional Geoscientists and the growth of professional
associations throughout the country (www.ccpg.ca). What are the
benefits of being a GAC “Fellow” in this new professional order,
and what should the role of organizations like GAC be in the future?
Dealing with these and other issues is part of the planning (and
implementation) process that is on-going for GAC. The current
Council is now developing a Business Plan for 2004. As part of this
work, we again are closely examining the demographics of our
Association - and to meet that challenge, a major membership drive
is now in progress. As in the 1990s, GAC functions as part of the
broader geoscience community in Canada, now facing major issues
such as the repeated failure of Earth Sciences to do well in the
NSERC re-allocation exercise. In the planning process, GAC
Council will focus on specific priorities for 2004, each linked to
realistic budget constraints and financial incentives, for each
Committee: Communications, Publications, Program (Science), and
Finance. GAC Council now has a clear picture of its mandate (the
“why”); planning will ensure that GAC can continue to achieve
that mandate (the “how”).
Sandra M. Barr
Vice-President, GAC
Department of Geology, Acadia University
e-mail: Sandra.barr@acadiau.ca
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Harvey Thorleifson
2003-2004 GAC President
of mapping to topics such as groundwater
modeling.
The Geological Association of Canada
President for 2003/2004 is Harvey
Thorleifson. Harvey joined GAC Council
in 1999. During his term as Councilor, he
was a member of the Communications
Committee as well as the Nuna Coordinator
on
Program
Committee.
On
Communications Committee, he worked
hard under Nancy Chow’s leadership to
develop the role of this new, membershipfocused committee, successor to the
Education Committee. Harvey also worked
with Fran Haidl in her work to build the
new Outreach Strategy and Outreach
Coordinator role.
As GAC representative to the Partnership
Group for Science and Engineering
(PAGSE), Harvey represented GAC on
Parliament Hill on a monthly basis, and was
very active on the committee that organizes
the ‘Bacon and Eggheads’ breakfasts on
Parliament Hill. His PAGSE reports have
appeared in GEOLOG since 1999. As Nuna
coordinator, Harvey was liaison to Council
for the highly successful Nuna meetings on
Mineral Deposits and Geologic Time. In
2002, Harvey was named GAC VicePresident and he continued to be very active
in Communications Committee business,
including Student Chapters, Student Prize,
Fortier Award, and GAC Medals.
In his year as President, Harvey has
committed himself to strongly supporting the
efficient internal workings of GAC,
including the membership, publications, and
conference committees, supported by
effective finance and headquarters support.
And he has emphasized that GAC financial
viability will best be ensured by ensuring
relevance with respect to facilitating the
progress of our science, and through
partnership through the Canadian Geoscience
Council with the groups that tend to matters
related to the profession and business of
geology in Canada.
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Harvey is originally from western
Manitoba. He completed undergraduate
education in geography and biology at
University of Winnipeg, and then completed
a Masters program in geology at University
of Manitoba. His Masters thesis dealt with
the history of Lake Agassiz. He subsequently
attended the University of Colorado in
Boulder, where he completed a doctoral
dissertation on the glacial history of the
Hudson Bay Lowland in northern Ontario.
After joining the Geological Survey of
Canada in 1986, he managed field programs
across southern Canada from Alberta to
northern Ontario. He spent the late 1980s
working on gold exploration, and his early
1990s work emphasized supporting the
fabulously successful Canadian diamond
exploration scene. In recent years, his work
has increasingly emphasized water-related
topics, including regional groundwater
modeling, Red River flooding, offshore
surveys, soil chemistry, Lake Winnipeg
shoreline erosion, and climate change.
Concurrently, he has been active in helping
to coordinate innovations in geologic
mapping methods, to enhance application
Dr. Thorleifson is registered as a
Professional Geoscientist with the
Association of Professional Geoscientists of
Ontario. He is an Associate Editor of the
journals Geoscience Canada and Journal of
Great Lakes Research. He is Past Chair of
the Ottawa Branch of the Canadian Institute
of Mining, Metallurgy, and Petroleum
(CIM), and he toured Canada to speak on
diamond exploration as a CIM
Distinguished Lecturer in 1999/2000. He has
given energetic and enthusiastic
presentations on diamond exploration at
many venues, including investment seminars
in Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, and across
Australia, and has he has represented
Canada at international diamond-related
meetings.
He has also served on expert panels,
including the Expert Technical Advisory
Committee of the Ontario Mineral
Exploration Technologies Program. He has
been active in outreach, and recently
authored two chapters for a book on the
history of the junction of the Red and
Assiniboine Rivers in downtown Winnipeg,
Manitoba. Dr. Thorleifson also has been
active in developing methods for regional
groundwater modeling. He was co-chair of
workshops held on new 3D geologic mapping
methods for groundwater applications held
in Illinois in 2001 and in Denver in 2002,
and he will be co-organizer of similar
sessions in Seattle this November, and at
GAC-MAC in St. Catharines in May 2004.
On July 1, 2003, Dr. Thorleifson was
appointed Director of the Minnesota
Geological Survey (MGS) and Professor in
the Department of Geology and Geophysics
at the University of Minnesota.
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May in Niagara
ROM Chron Gone ... to U of T
St. Catharines, Ontario, will be the site of the next Joint Annual Meeting of the Geological Association of Canada and the
Mineralogical Association of Canada, and will be hosted for
the first time by the Department of Earth Sciences at Brock
University. The meeting will be held between May 12 and 14,
2004, and the Local Organizing Committee has already developed a fabulous technical program built around the meeting
theme, “Lake to Lake”. This theme is obviously related to the
geographic location of St. Catharines between the Great Lakes
of Lake Ontario and Lake Erie, but also emphasizes that the
technical program will address geological, hydrological, and
environmental issues related to the origin, history, and future
development of the Niagara Region. However, the exciting program of symposia, special and general sessions, short courses,
workshops, and field trips will also cover all aspects of the
geosciences, and is detailed in the conference website at
www.stcatharines2004.ca.
The Jack Satterly Geochronology Laboratory at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM), closed on June 30, 2003, will relocate to the University of
Toronto’s Department of Geology. The geochronology laboratory, which
was founded in 1975, is highly regarded internationally for its high-precision rock dating, which details major events of earth’s history – from the
origin of the earth’s crust to the role of volcanic activity in the extinction
of species.
The meeting will be held on Brock University’s scenic campus atop the Niagara Escarpment (a world heritage site), in
new lecture rooms equipped with modern projection facilities.
All sessions, lunches and social events will be within a few
minutes walk of each other to create an atmosphere ideally
suited to the exchange of scientific ideas. The exhibits and poster
sessions will be housed in a space large enough to allow the
posters to remain on display for all three days of the conference. A poster presentation will thus get increased exposure at
the conference, and remember that there will be a chance to
win one of the prestigious Jerome H. Remick III poster awards
worth up to $1000.
The ROM, an agency of the Government of Ontario, first announced
plans to stop operating the lab in November, 2002 because of the need to
accommodate the Renaissance ROM project. The scientific staff and
equipment of the lab are moving to the geology department at U of T as
renovations are undertaken to accomodate the new facility. The lab will
be known as the Jack Satterly Geochronology Laboratory at the University of Toronto. Many of the lab’s staff are already affiliated with U of T
and will continue to be supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering
Research Council, such as the lab’s director, Don Davis.
St. Catharines is ideally situated close to major airports in
Toronto, Hamilton, and Buffalo, and is perfectly located to take
advantage of the sights and sounds in the Niagara region. It is a
short drive from Niagara Falls, and the Niagara Escarpment, a
world heritage site, is responsible for a unique microclimate
which allows the growth of some marvellous varieties of grapes
which produce some of the best wine in the world. A “Geology
and Wine” Special Session, a field trip and an evening of wine
tasting, sponsored by a local winery, should spark an interest in
exploring some of the other many wineries. Other activities for
attendees or guests could include a play at the Shaw Festival in
Niagara on the Lake, a trip to the Casino in Niagara Falls, or
a visit to the Welland Canal which links Lake Ontario and Lake
Erie. In fact, this would be a great conference at which to rent
a car because parking for conference registrants on campus is
free. In addition, affordable accommodations, including breakfast, will be available in the University’s new residences.
Brock University, the Geological Association of Canada, and
the Mineralogical Association of Canada invite you to the major geoscience conference in Canada in 2004. It should be a
great experience! Information on the conference and St.
Catharines region is available at the website,
www.stcatharines2004.ca, and by joining the email list you will
receive reminders of notification of changes to the technical
program and significant deadlines for abstract submission or
registration. We will see you there.
Kevin Ansdell
GAC Science Program Committee Chair
Autumn 2003
The Satterly lab has had a rich legacy of discovery and this is no nostalgic rescue effort on behalf of U of T. Department Chair Steve Scott
indicated that the Geology department is seizing an opportunity to secure
a unique resource for earth science that generates its own research program and can be applied by faculty to resolve important problems in their
own fields. The Satterly Lab has been functioning as an important resource for U of T’s geology department for the past 20 years with several
of the geology department’s faculty and numerous graduate students and
postdoctoral fellows using the facility or output of the lab as an important
part of their research. Indeed, the facility shows no signs of abating and
it is essential to Canada’s leadership in geochronology.
THE EARLY YEARS OF COBALT – ELK LAKE –
GOWGANDA, ONTARIO
Pages 20-21 Figure Captions
Clockwise from top left. 1. Regularly scheduled steamer on Lake
Timiskaming and Montreal River to Elk Lake. 2. Portage. Guess who was
the paying passenger? 3. Freight canoe shooting rapids on Montreal
River. 4. Steamer arriving at Elk Lake. 5. Mur on the trail carrying a pack
his own weight.
“Dear Floss. Expect to be home next week about Fri. or Sat. Joe and I are
here alone now and are living high on lemonade and fresh fruit. Expect
Green now. May not write again as I may not be out to town, the flies are
so bad on the trail. Yours etc. Mur.”
6. King Edward Hotel, Gowganda. 7. Main street of Elk Lake.
“Dear Floss. Mailed a letter today but saw this card and as it shows quite
a lot of the town I will send it. I will number some of the places. No. 1 is the
restaurant where we ate our supper tonight. No. 2 is the post office. No.
3 Hotel Smyth. Mur”
8. Prospectors’ “home” near Gowganda. Right to left – Joe Green
(promoter), Murray Scott, unknown, Joe Dochstadter (Mur’s uncle),
unknown. The young man in the centre is really tough – smoking a pipe
and a cigar.
9. Downtown Elk Lake. 10. My grandfather told me when I was a young
man that there was a white tent in Gowganda (?) where women
entertained men. 11. William Murray Scott, prospector and photographer.
Background: View of Cobalt town site from across Cobalt Lake.
“Hello Floss. Just had dinner at the Prospect Hotel Cobalt. Reached here
about 11. and will stay until tomorrow or Monday when we will hit the trail
for Elk Lake. This is quite a town but it is built all in a heap. Streets run
every way. I think I will send home to have my camera sent up. I can send
it back when I get to Gowganda. It is quite warm here today. You can
address a letter to me at Elk Lake and I will get it alright Yours Mur.”
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THE EARLY YEARS OF COBALT – EL
A Pictorial Essay from the Photograph
Steve
Department of Geology
The discovery in 1903, by railways workers, of native silver at the Long Lake Construction camp
in northeastern Ontario, later named “Cobalt” by Provincial Geologist W.G. Miller, wasn’t met
with much initial enthusiasm in the outside world. Eventually, over the next decade, adventurers
were attracted to the area to seek their fortunes. One of them was William Murray Scott, my
paternal grandfather.
Mur was born in 1883 and raised at St. Thomas, Ontario as one of three sons and two daughters
of a
professional photographer. Two of the sons became bankers but Mur
worked in the family business as a young man. He became an
accomplished photographer in his own right and in 1910 succeeded his
father at Scott Studios that had been a mainstay on Talbot Street in
St. Thomas since 1879. Mur won several international awards for his
photography. He sold the business in 1955 and it continued to operate
as Scott-Sefton Studios until 1989 when it closed its doors forever.
The history with some of the photographic collection of this locally
fabled photography business is described by Ken Verrell (2001) The
Scott-Sefton Collection: Elgin’s History Through a Photographer’s
Lens – Volume 1: Elgin County Library, St. Thomas, Ontario.
Life in St. Thomas was rather dull for an adventurous husky 26
year old, so in 1909 Mur, a young uncle (Joe Dochstadter) and a
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e Scott
y, University of Toronto
friend who had been dismissed from McGill’s medical school, grubstaked by Mur’s uncle Frank
Green, headed north to the silver and, hopefully, gold fields of Timiskaming County to try their
luck as prospectors. The good ground around the discovery site at Cobalt was all taken up so they
moved further west to the newer and thriving settlements of Elk Lake and Gowganda. Mur and his
friends spent two years in the area from 1909 to 1911. Although they didn’t find any silver or gold
showings of significance, Mur had his camera sent to him. He recorded on film and in brief words
on postcards the life of a prospector in an exciting frontier of Ontario and sent them to his fiancée,
Florence Baker, in St. Thomas. She had kept all of these memorabilia and, after
Mur’s
death in 1967, this family legacy was found by their only child and my father,
Donald West (deceased 1992).
What follows on the 100th anniversary of the discovery of silver at Cobalt is
a personalized pictorial essay of the Cobalt – Elk Lake – Gowganda region as
handed down through the generations. I, too, have had a long personal
association with the region having completed my Master’s thesis on the
Siscoe Metals mine at Gowganda in 1964 and continuing geological and
mineralogical research in the region for many years after. Ironically,
although I knew that my grandfather had been a prospector, I didn’t know
where until I was nearly finished my thesis.
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NEW FUND RAISING COMMITTEE & GAC TRUST FUND
Fund Raising Committee
GAC Endowment Trust Fund
At the Vancouver meeting last May, Council approved a Motion
to establish a permanent Fund Raising Committee (FRC) to
be responsible for organizing, coordinating and reporting on
all fund raising activities carried out by, and on behalf of, the
GAC. The FRC will be a standing subcommittee of the Finance
Committee and be chaired by a GAC member who is not on
Council. It will include the Chair of the Finance Committee
(ex-officio), the councillor responsible for Corporate
Membership and the finance chairs of the Local Organizing
Committees (LOCs) for the Annual General Meetings (AGMs).
The chairperson will serve a five-year term and may appoint
other members, as many as needed and not necessarily GAC
members, to the Committee at his/her discretion for two-year
terms, renewable for a maximum of six years. Each member
of the committee shall have at least one specific responsibility/
portfolio.
This fund has been established by the Canadian Geological
Foundation (CGF) to support and promote earth sciences in
Canada on a continuing basis, and in particular, to assist
with the public and professional educational activities that
are normally supported by the GAC. The Trust Fund will
receive and maintain monies in trust and annually distribute
the income therefrom, and such other amounts as required
by law, specifically to provide:
The FRC will:
• Assist the LOCs with getting sponsors, commercial
exhibitors, advertising, etc. for the AGMs.
• Build and maintain a comprehensive database of actual
and potential GAC benefactors.
• Actively recruit new corporate members by promoting the
existing benefits of belonging to the GAC and develop
new benefit packages to attract non-traditional corporate
members.
• Promote the new GAC Endowment Trust Fund (see below)
to current and former members, both corporate and
individual, as a tax-deductible vehicle for Planned Giving,
Bequests and Endowments, in support of the various
educational activities of the GAC.
• Actively solicit advertising for Geolog, Geoscience Canada
and the GAC web site.
• Assist the Publications Committee with getting sponsors
to help defray the publishing costs of new books.
• Organize fund raising campaigns.
The FRC must maintain good communications and working
relationships with Headquarters staff so the Chair of the FRC
will report directly to the Associate Secretary-Treasurer, who
shall be the liaison between the committee and other staff
members vis-à-vis work assignments. The Chair will provide
quarterly summary reports on its activities to the Associate
Secretary-Treasurer and to the Finance Chair, who shall be
the committee’s link to Council. The Finance Chair, will report
on the activities of the FRC, and bring forward any initiatives
that require approval by Council.
1.
Grants for the professional development of Canadian
geoscientists –
· Short Courses, symposia and field trips at the GAC
annual general meeting
· GAC publications
· NUNA conferences
· Lecture tours sponsored by the GAC
2.
Grants to facilitate public awareness of Earth science in
Canada –
· Projects of the Canadian Geoscience Education
Network (CGEN)
· EdGeo workshops for teachers
· Lecture tours sponsored by CGEN and the GAC
3.
Grants to support the education of Canadian geoscience
students –
· GAC Student Chapter field trips
· GAC scholarships
A GAC Endowment Trust Fund has been established in an
effort to support and promote earth science activities in
Canada. In the Presidential Preamble of the last issue of
Geolog (v. 32, no. 2) GAC Past-President John Clague, made
a commitment to match any contribution between $100
and $1000, that is made to the GAC Fund by the end of
2003. As he noted, “Not only will you receive a tax receipt for
your contribution, your donation will go twice as far…”. Let’s
take him up on the challenge! Contributions can be made
through GAC headquarters or on your membership renewal
form. Additional information at http://www.gac.ca/
MEMBERSHIP/GACfund.htm
Council expects to appoint a person as Chair of the FRC
before year end. However, other volunteers are still needed so
please contact GAC headquarters if you have time to devote
to this endeavor.
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Students
News
WIUGC 2004: An Orogeny of Student Geology
A Historical Moment:
WIUGC 2004 will be the 40th annual Western Inter-University Geology Conference!
WIUGC is a non-profit, entirely student
organized conference rotating between the
earth science departments of the western
Canadian universities. The 2004 conference
will be a trip to the beaches of Vancouver
from January 8th through January 11th. Most
recently, WIUGC 2003 was hosted by the
University of Regina with about 50 student
delegates, and WIUGC 2002 at the University
of Alberta with about 340 student delegates.
WIUGC provides the unique opportunity for
BOTH undergraduate and graduate students
in geological sciences to present their
research, to learn about recent advances by
fellow students and geoscientists, to take
mini-courses, and to gain industry
recruitment exposure. Rarely do other major
conferences emphasize undergraduate thesis
research. The WIUGC 2004 itinerary plans
to include the traditional career fair and
optional mini-course, plus an optional field
trip to learn about the local geology. In
addition to education, the WIUGC
networking is explosive! Student delegates
encounter enthusiastic ‘geogeeks’ beyond
their own earth science department; industry
and academic representatives meet and even
recruit future co-workers. The memories,
learnings and friendships remain influential
for a lifetime.
How can industry, government geoscience
groups and academia participate? The conference is primarily funded by industry and
academic sponsorship. Travel, accommodation, some meals and a small registration
fee are paid by the students. The WIUGC
2004 budget proposes approximately $25,000
sponsorship and $19,000 from the student registration fees.
Why sponsor? Sponsoring companies receive much more than tax benefits! For example, Silver-level sponsors (donating more
than $1000) may choose to set-up a display
at the WIUGC career fair, thus exposing
themselves to a captive audience of many of
Canada’s keenest and brightest geology, geophysics and geological engineering students.
Alternatively, sponsors may ‘donate’ speakers or a mini-course to introduce and entice
students to a new field of expertise. Sponsors may also include a color ad in the delegate packages. The sponsoring company
logos displayed at WIUGC definitely stick
in students’ minds after entering the
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the time to contact us so that we may send
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WIUGC FAST FACTS:
WIUGC = Western Inter-University Geology Conference
A conference for students, focused on student research, organized and run by students
Conference dates: Thursday, January 8, 2004Sunday, January 11, 2004.
Conference Location: The Coast Plaza Hotel, downtown Vancouver waterfront, B.C.
E-mail: wiugc2004@hotmail.com
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Why WIUGC is having it’s 40th Anniversary?
WIUGC is the Western Inter-University
Geology Conference. It is an annual conference for students focused on student
research, which is organized and run by
students. Student delegates from geology, earth science, geophysics and geoengineering attend. WIUGC has assisted
many students in accomplishing their
geo-dreams. Many Geolog readers likely
have their own recollections of this conference. Rather than just describe one
individual’s impression of WIUGC, a diverse group of UBC student memories
are described below.
‘Through the student presentations by
WIUGC, I was introduced to the kind of research that other schools were doing, thus
helping me determine which university might
best accommodate my interests for graduate studies.’
- Chris M. geological engineering, WIUGC
2002, 2003.
‘WIUGC was so much more than geology
presentations! It was a cross-cultural expe-
rience! The conference provided the excuse,
or punishment depending on how one sees
it, of experiencing a prairie winter. What
else would draw me from the coast to Regina
in January? The people there were so
friendly, despite living in such a rough climate. The prairies were something else! I
was awestruck that the dog-running-awayfor-two-days-jokes are actually true! To top
things off, it didn’t rain the whole time!’
- Tiffany Geology WIUGC 2002,2003
‘This weekend we were on a volcanology
field trip up to Mount Meager B.C. There
was an honours student with her advisor from
the University of Calgary that met up with
us. She had been at the WIUGC 2002 held
in Edmonton and we had a quick, but great
chat reminiscing about WIUGC. It was
great to meet someone who I hadn’t seen in
a few years. Apparently, a WIUGC presentation from a ‘hard rock university’ student
had helped influence her thesis choice.’
‘The 2002 WIUGC event in Edmonton proved
to be a real eye opener for me. The event
fostered strong ties with other geology (and
geology related) students from across
Canada. Beyond the series of informative
information sessions and poster presentations
given by many of my peers, WIUGC allowed
us to foster ‘team pride’ in our various different Universities through team challenges
and social events. I even found myself striving to compete in an ice hockey game against
the University of Alberta. The amazing thing
is that I hadn’t played ice hockey for years
and yet ended up fully padded in pizza boxes
and pillows (and stuck in front of the goal).
UBC managed to win a heart felt victory.
While hockey and the numerous other events
may not have related directly to the study of
geology, they did add to my WIUGC experience and made it one of my fondest memories. WIUGC is an undergrad event that
should not be missed.’
- Adrian, UBC Geophysical Engineering,
WIUGC 2002
- Chris, Geology UBC, WIUGC 2002, 2003
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History
of Economic Geology
This is the third chapter in a series that is attempting to trace the emergence of economic (mining) geology as a separate specialty about a century
ago. The new specialty was stimulated by the rapid growth of mining exploration and development in the Western United States during the second
half of the Nineteenth Century, which created the first opportunity for the examination, and communication of ideas about deposits around the globe.
The focus is on the geologists and mining engineers who made lasting contributions to genetic, as well as descriptive, studies of mineral deposits.
It is hoped that the series will generate discussion and elicit contributions from readers. Bob Cathro (bobcat62@telus.net)
Roots in Erzgebirge, Saxony and Bohemia II
The previous chapter (Geolog, v. 33, No.2) discussed the recognition of
the Central European Mineral Belt (CEMB) during the Middle Ages.
The early history of this belt, a major source of silver, lead, gold, and tin
(and later zinc, copper, tungsten, bismuth and uranium), is worthy of
some discussion because it was to have such a profound impact on European civilization and world history. Moreover, much of our mining law,
mining and metallurgical practices, the study of mineralogy and paragenesis,
and the first genetic theories about ore deposits were developed in this
region.
Placer gold, silver and tin were recovered by the Celts and the first lode
mining may date as far back as Roman times, although the CEMB always
remained outside the northern boundary of the Roman Empire. While the
dates of the earliest lode mining history are unclear, it likely commenced
or resumed during the rein of Charlemagne (Charles the Great; 714-832),
under whose rule the Frankish Kingdom reached its greatest extent from
its base near Paris. He established his capital at Aachen, near Cologne.
The kingdom and its symbiotic relationship with mining have been well
described by Poss (1975). As a result of the Frankish conquest of Central Europe, an ardent religious crusade and the spread of a common
language became important unifying forces that led to a new spirit of
enterprise and helped to lift Europe out of the Dark Ages. The focus of
expansion moved eastward into the area lying east of the Rhine River and
north of the Danube, partly because of its mineral potential. Ag-Au-Pb
deposits at Schemnitz (Hungary) and Kremnitz (Slovak Republic) were
exploited using slaves by 745 or earlier, and a new silver-based denier
coin was introduced that became the main currency in Europe.
Whereas silver and gold were needed for coinage and jewelry, copper
and tin were essential for the manufacture of bronze, which was used to
make cannons and various religious objects such as bells, doors, ornaments, and altars. The demand for metals and building stone became
insatiable; by the middle of the 13th Century, over 500 Gothic cathedrals
and 1500 Romanesque churches had been constructed in France and Germany. The 12th and 13th Centuries, which were the most brilliant cultural
era of the Middle Ages, saw the growth of new classes of entrepreneurs
and serfs. The latter were encouraged, through training schools, to prospect and mine under the first system of claims and concessions. Miners
and prospectors were known as hill-men (montani in Bohemia and bergleute
in Saxony), a name derived from the silver district of Laurium in Greece
(Rickard, 1947). This was probably the first global instance, when mining was performed by men who were not slaves (Poss, op. cit.). Habashi
(1998) offer more on the relationship between mining and the church.
According to the legend, veins rich in silver were discovered at
Rammelsberg in 938 by the horse Ramelus. It soon became the most
important source of copper, lead and silver in Central Europe. Even
richer silver veins were discovered at Freiberg in 1168, while other major
discoveries were made later in the 12th Century at St. Andreasberg (Ag),
Jílové (Au), and Ehrenfriedersdorf (Sn), and the Príbram, Horni Slavkov
and Kutná Hora mines were found during the 13th Century. The latter, an
important silver producer, was the main source of income for the Czech
kings for a long time. Evidence from coinage and the mining code
suggest that it may have been discovered even earlier. The silver mining
town of Iglau (now Jíhlava in the Czech Republic) supplied gold for the
Royal court and received a charter in 1249 that developed into one of the
first practical codes of mining law (Pouba and Ilavský, 1968).
In 1347, an epidemic of bubonic plague, called the Black Death, killed
25 million people, one third of the entire European population, within a
five-year period and plunged the economy, including the mining industry, into a deep depression that lasted for about a century. When mining
gradually resumed, new technology was developed to treat complex sulfide
ores and remove water from deeper mines. Water-lifting machines used
by the Chinese, Moors and Romans were introduced and improved, and
horses were also employed in the mines for the same purpose. Capital
was raised by selling shares and the era of bankers, capitalists and wage
earners emerged. Tin production in the CEMB rivaled that from the
mines in Cornwall, England and mining and metallurgical practices were
unsurpassed anywhere (Poss, op. cit.).
This was the world that Georg Bauer entered when he became town
physician in the new mining town of Joachimsthal in 1527 and began to
use his power of observation, writing skill, and knowledge of the new
printing press to share this expertise with the world. By then, his name
had been Latinized by his teachers to Georgius Agricola, as was the
custom at the time. He was the author of seven important books on
metals and natural science, all written in Latin and printed by the Froben
Press. The most important was De Re Metallica, his treatise on the arts
of mining and smelting, which was published in 1556, the year after his
death. It contains only incidental references to geology and mineralogy
and is most noteworthy to geologists for its wonderful collection of woodcuts that illustrate contemporary prospecting, mining and metallurgical
methods.
Although some of Agricola’s books are considered to be historically
important mineralogy references, the most valuable from an economic
geology standpoint was De Ortu et Causis Subterraneorum (The Origin
and Causes of the Subterranean Earth), published in 1546, because it
contains his ideas on the origin of metals. It has never been translated
into English. He was the first to state two fundamental principles of ore
deposition, namely that ore channels are younger than the enclosing rocks
and that the ore minerals were deposited from solutions. He also divided
mineral deposits into three types, fissure veins, bedded deposits, and
impregnations. His most important contribution was his theory that there
are two types of water within the crust, vapor of subterranean origin and
rainwater, both of which become impregnated with mineral matter and
become ‘lapidifying juice’ (nobilis succus) that deposit metallic minerals
in cracks and fissures as veins. His treatise contained the germ of two
ideas that took more definite form 300 years later, ascending water and
lateral secretion. (Adams, 1938). Agricola’s simple theory was remarkably close to modern understanding. Hoover & Hoover (1912) considcont. next page
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ered it to be “a much greater step from what had gone before than that of
almost any single observer since”, and felt that his main error was in
attributing the creation of ore channels to erosion alone (p. 52).
posed; by Ludwig Baumann for the Erzgebirge, and by Jan Bernard, who
proposed the currently accepted classification of the stages (“formations”)
for Bohemia (G. Beaudoin, personal communication).
As strange as it may seem, the scientists, teachers and mining engineers who followed Agricola tended to ignore his genetic theory. Because of that, over 300 years passed without any significant advance
being made on the origin of mineral deposits, although numerous theories
were advanced by leading scientists in Central Europe and elsewhere to
explain the ever-increasing body of information that was accumulating
from the study of the mines. One scientist mentioned by Adams who did
develop a perceptive theory on the origin of metal during that period but
who has been overlooked, is Johann Joachim Becher (1635-1682), whose
treatise was published in Frankfurt in 1653. He believed that the center
of the earth was intensely hot, that the heat acted on saline water to
produce immense volumes of steam and exhalations, and that these were
forced through pores and fractures to surface. Pure vapors would produce fresh spring water, less pure vapor would produce saline springs,
and other fumes that contained a ‘metallic seed’ would condense in fissures and pores in the form of metallic ores. He also postulated that
mineralization would become more abundant with depth.
The best available synthesis is by Dunning and Evans (1986), who
stated “Anyone who has tried to gather information on the geology of
European ore deposits knows the frustration that such an endeavour entails. No concise, comprehensive description of the ferrous, non-ferrous
and non-metallic mineral deposits of Europe is available in English, or for
that matter in any other language; in fact, most European countries lack
comprehensive descriptions of their own mineral deposits even in their
national languages.” There are several reasons for this. First of all, most
of the mineral belt was under Nazi German or Soviet Russian control for
almost 60 years, starting in the mid-1930s in Germany and extending to
the Czech side of the Erzgebirge, known as Sudetenland, in September
1938. Prior to that, English was not as preeminent and the geology of the
region was mainly published in German or Czech. Second, information
on metal production and potential, particularly for uranium and the alloy
metals, was classified for strategic military reasons during the Cold War.
By the time it ended, most of the old mines in the CEMB had closed.
One contemporary of Agricola’s who made an important contribution
to mining was Lazarus Ercker (1530-1594), the superintendent of mines
for the Austrian Court. He brought order from the bewildering array of
empirical techniques and superstition surrounding the assaying and testing of ores by publishing the first comprehensive assay manual in Prague
in1574. It described not only the ores and techniques for assaying them,
but also the preparation of reagents and the construction of analytical
apparatus. His manual dominated the field for 150 years and was translated into English in 1683 (Faul and Faul, 1983).
Agricola, Georgius, 1556: De Re Metallica: Froben Press, Basel; translated into
English by Hoover, Herbert Clark and Lou. Henry Hoover; Mining Magazine,
London, 1912; (reprinted by Dover Publications, Inc., New York, 1950).
Before continuing the discussion of the proponents of the various genetic theories of metallic deposits, it will be helpful to present, in the next
chapters, a short summary of the metallogeny and mineralogy of the
principal ore deposits in the CEMB, most of which are veins. That will
provide a better understanding of what the pioneer geologists and mining
engineers based their genetic theories on. Although this is one of the
most thoroughly studied and described mineral belts in the world, concise, modern references in English are only available to those with access
to a good library. The mineralogy of the deposits was well established at
the beginning of the 20th century by Breithaupt and other well- known
mineralogists, including the famous Ramdohr, and the structural pattern
had also been established. Different paragenetic schemes had been proAutumn 2003
References
Dunning, F.W. and Evans, A.M., editors, 1986: Preface; in Mineral Deposits of
Europe, Volume 3: Central Europe; The Institution of Mining and Metallurgy and
The Mineralogical Society, London.
Faul, Henry and Faul, Carol, 1983, It Began With a Stone: A History of Geology
From the Stone Age to Plate Tectonics; John Wiley, New York.
Habashi, Fathi, 1998: Mining, Metallurgy and the Church; CIM Bulletin, Volume
91, No. 1025, November/December 1998, p. 97-103.
Hoover, Herbert Clark and Hoover, Lou Henry, 1912: Introduction; in their English translation of De Re Metallica, Mining Magazine, p. vi-xviii.
Poss, John R., 1975: Stones of Destiny: Keystones of Civilization; Michigan
Technical University, Houghton, p. 130-143.
Pouba, Zdenêk and Ilavský, Ján, 1986: Czechoslovakia, in Mineral Deposits of
Europe, Volume 3: Central Europe; F.W.Dunning and A.M.Evans, editors; The
Institution of Mining and Metallurgy and The Mineralogical Society, London, p.
117-118.
Rickard, T.A., 1947: The Romance of Mining; Macmillan Canada, Toronto.
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Mélange
Ray Price Awarded OofC
One of Canada’s foremost geologists,
Ray Price, Professor Emeritus at
Queen’s University, has been
awarded Canada’s highest honour for
lifetime achievement - The Order of
Canada . The Order of Canada was
established in 1967 to recognize
outstanding achievement and service
in various fields of human endeavour.
In his continuing distinguished
career, Dr Price has made significant
contributions to our understanding of
the geology of Canada, with special
reference to the Canadian Cordillera
in Alberta and British Columbia. He
has also held many positions of
leadership serving as Director General
of the Geological Survey of Canada
from 1982-1987, and Assistant
Deputy Minister of the Department of
Energy, Mines and Resources (the
predecessor of today’s Department
of Natural Resources) from 19871988.
The citation read at his induction
states: “For over 40 years, Raymond
Price has been enhancing Canada’s
stature in the international
geoscience community. Professor
emeritus at Queen’s University, he
is a world-renowned geologist and
authority on the structure and
tectonic evolution of Canada’s Rocky
Mountains. As a former Director
General of the Geological Survey of
Canada, he provided visionary
leadership and enhanced the
organization’s reputation, as well as
its involvement in national and
international collaborative ventures.
In addition, he has served with
numerous professional organizations
both at home and abroad.”
True Blue Rare Gem
Found in the Yukon
Bill Wengzynowski, a geologist working in
the south-eastern Yukon, has not only
discovered emeralds, but has also uncovered
something potentially even more valuable:
a transparent deep blue gemstone.
Gemmologists are studying samples to see
if they are an entirely new mineral, or else
a blue variety of beryl called maxixe, which
is so rare that it has only been found once
before, in Brazil. If they are maxixe, they
seem to be unlike the Brazilian version in
one important way: the Brazilian gems fade
from deep blue to nearly colourless when
exposed to strong sunlight, but the Yukon
samples seem to be photo-stable. Lee Groat
of the University of British Columbia is
working with Bill to study the chemistry of
the gemstone and the accessory minerals that
occur with it. “If we can understand why
they’re there,” says Dr. Groat, “then we
can work out where to look for more.” The
gems were found on a property in the
Finlayson Lake area. Now called “True
Blue”, the emeralds and the property belong
to True North Gems. Sample images may
be
viewed
on
their
website:
www.truenorthgems.com/s/Home.asp.
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WALTER OSCAR KUPSCH
(1919-2003)
The academic community and the GAC lost one of
its most respected senior academic figures when
Walter O. Kupsch, Professor and Professor Emeritus of Geology in the University of Saskatchewan
for fifty-three years, died suddenly on July 5, in Royal
University Hospital, Saskatoon. He had been a GAC
member since 1962 and was most recently the
Honourary Chair of the 2002 GAC/MAC meeting in
Saskatoon.
Born and raised in Amsterdam, Walter Kupsch’s
higher education was interrupted by service in the
Netherlands army during the initial year of WW II,
following which he became a member of the Dutch
Resistance while enrolled as an undergraduate and
graduate student of geology in the University of
Amsterdam (BSc equivalent, 1943). At the end of
the war, newly married and holding a NetherlandsAmerica Foundation Scholarship, he sailed for the
United States where he had been accepted to undertake further graduate work in the University of Michigan (MSc
1948; PhD 1950).
Appointment to the faculty of the University of Saskatchewan
followed, launching the academic career that was to span the rest
of his life. It saw him develop into a popular teacher of high repute
- one of the most influential junior-class instructors in the University - and become an internationally known specialist in glacial
geology and the history of geology.
Appointments as Executive Director of the Carrothers Commission on Government of the Northwest Territories and Director of
the University’s Institute for Northern Studies in 1965 did more
than launch Walter Kupsch’s career in public service. They ignited
in him a fascination with the Canadian North, which in turn prompted
numerous books and papers on Arctic and Subarctic exploration.
He initiated The Musk-ox - a Journal of the North as the organ of
his Institute, contributed to it extensively himself, and edited it
from 1981 to 1994. In parallel fashion, discovery of rich uranium
mineralization in the Athabasca Basin of northern Saskatchewan in
1972 generated in him an interest in the history of mineral exploration, which then spawned scholarly works on industrial and precious-metal discoveries.
Calls to undertake sustained public and professional service based
on his scientific interests and knowledge had a profound impact on
Walter Kupsch’s career. His response to these calls was immedi-
ate and unstinting. He directed the Churchill
River Study for the governments of Canada,
Saskatchewan and Manitoba (1973-76) and provided research assistance to the Northwest
Territories Legislative Assembly (1976-79).
He was chair, vice-chair or member of eight
bodies, including the Science Council and key
committees of the Defence Research Board
and the Environmental Assessment Agency,
reporting to the Government of Canada, and
of seven other bodies reporting to the governments of Saskatchewan and the Northwest
Territories (1967-96). He sat on the Board of
Governors of the Arctic Institute of North
America (1969-74) and was vice-chair and
chair of the Board during the last two years of
his appointment. His roles as chair or member of eight international or national geological bodies between 1970 and 2000 included
service twice as General Chair of annual meetings of the Geological Association of Canada, when this society assembled in Saskatoon
in 1973 and 1987.
In addition to being a GAC Fellow, Walter Kupsch was elected to
fellowship in the Royal Canadian Geographical Society (1957) and
the Geological Society of America (1961; History of Geology Divisional Award, 2001); and in non-disciplinary bodies, such as the
Arctic Institute of North America (1973). Among other honours, he
cherished greatly his election to fellowship in the Royal Society of
Canada (1963), his appointment to the Order of Canada (1996), the
honorary degree of Doctor of Laws conferred upon him by the University of Saskatchewan (1997), and his award of the Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Medal (2002).
He is survived by his wife, Emmy, three children, and three grandchildren, all resident in North America, and by a sister-in-law and
niece in The Netherlands. The family, colleagues, professional associates in academia, government, and industry, and a large coterie
of friends and former students are saddened by his loss. They may
reflect admiringly and fondly, however, on the career of a man who
distinguished himself in every sphere of academic life and in service to the common good.
W.G.E. (Glen) Caldwell
London ON
Walter and Glen were colleagues at the University of Saskatchewan
for 31 years.
Portuguese Geological Institute Faces Extinction
The Portuguese Geologic and Mining Institute (IGM)
is at risk of extinction due to an approval of a proposal
by the Council of Ministers of Portugal on 27 of May
of 2003. The statements that define this governmental
proposal are unknown to the workers and directors
of this Institution.
The Geologic and Mining Institute has been a national
reference institution within the geoscience area over
the past 150 years and provides crucial services to
the nation.
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With the extinction of IGM, Portugal will become the
only European country without an autonomous national
institute in this technical and scientific area.
In a time which geosciences assume a relevant role in
environmental, public works and territorial planning
areas that extends beyond the traditional methods of
application, it is outlandish this decision that is
prejudicial to the general interest of the country.
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2003 Canadian Geological Foundation Grants
The Canadian Geological Foundation was established
in 1968 as a non-profit, charitable organization dedicated to assist in the development of the geological sciences across Canada. Since then, the Foundation has awarded over $1,000,000 in support
of a wide variety of geoscience projects. The
Foundation disburses between $25,000 and
$50,000 annually from income derived from two
funds - the Foundation Trust Fund and the Jérôme
H. Remick III Endowment Trust Fund.
Thirteen new grants with a total value of $41,500
were approved this year at the Foundation?s 39th annual meeting, held on May 25, 2003 in Vancouver in conjunction with the GACMAC-SEG 2003 meeting.
Foundation Trust Fund
Interactive Palaeontological Program (student educational activity)
Tim Fedak, Fundy Geological Museum
$2,000
Dynamic Earth Visitor Centre (exhibit)
Audrey Dugas, Science North Foundation
$3,000
Geology Tours of Downtown Vancouver (guidebook)
$2,500
Karen Dawe, Publications Committee, Geological Association of Canada
Geology of the Canadian Cordillera (textbook)
$3,000
Karen Dawe, Publications Committee, Geological Association of Canada
Nova Scotia’s GEOhopper Scavenger Hunt (children’s educational activity)
Pat MacKin
$2,000
Jérôme H. Remick III Endowment Trust Fund
New Brunswick EdGEO Workshop (teacher education)
Murray Gingras and David Lentz, Atlantic Geoscience Society
$1,500
History of Geology (book)
$2,000
Karen Dawe, Publications Committee, Geological Association of Canada
Geology of Mount Robson Provincial Park (brochure)
Gerry Ross and Lindsey Ireland
$3,000
Atlas of Migmatites (textbook)
Pierrette Tremblay, Mineralogical Association of Canada
$4,000
Geology of the Kelowna Area (guidebook - reprinting)
John Greenough, Kelowna Geology Committee
(loan) $4,000
(grant)$4,000
Atlantic Universities Geological Conference 2003 (conference)
$1,000
Andree DeLazzer, Hope Simpson Geology Club, St. Mary’s University
Canada Prize for Earth & Environmental Science (bridge funding)(loan) $9,500
Hugh Morris, Canada Prize Awards Foundation
A call for applications for grants to be awarded in May 2004 will be made later
this year. Interested parties should look for this information in the next issue of
Geolog, and on the Foundation’s page on the GAC’s website (http://www.gac.ca).
Additional information about the Foundation is also available from the Secretary
at the following address:
Mike Cherry, Secretary, Canadian Geological Foundation
c/o Mineral Resources Branch, Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources
P.O. Box 698, Halifax, NS, B3J 2T9
E-mail: cherryme@gov.ns.ca, Tel: 902-424-8135
Autumn 2003
Earthshaking!
In “Dancing Elephants and Floating Continents”
author and geologist John Wilson explores the
story of the Earth’s formation and future. Complete
with continents that crash and crush, oceans that
vanish and reappear, and mountain ranges that
rise and crumble, it is an adventure story like no
other.
Drawing on his own fascination with geology and
using data from the internationally renowned,
Canadian-run scientific program called Lithoprobe
- and its giant earth-pounding trucks known as
Dancing Elephants - readers will discover: where
to find the oldest piece of the Earth’s crust, and
how it got there; how part of Africa came to rest in
Nova Scotia; what meteorites have left behind and
why it’s important; and why the residents of British
Columbia should buy earthquake insurance.
Including hands-on activities and experiments to
help readers understand how the Earth’s major
evolutionary changes have occurred, “Dancing
Elephants and Floating Continents” is a fascinating
look at the land that we live on, how it got there
and where it is going. This book is available through
the GAC Online Bookstore at www.gac.ca for
$33.00 CDN/US (price includes shipping/handling
and taxes) or at a bookstore near you.
“Dancing Elephants & Floating Continents”
By John Wilson
Key Porter Books
ISBN: 1-55263-200-8
Hardcover; 48 pages
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PAGSE submission to House of Commons Finance Committee
September 2003
GAC is a member of the Partnership Group
for Science and Engineering (PAGSE; see
http://www.pagse.org/; Geolog 1999, v. 28,
no.4, p. 42), a cooperative association of
more than 20 national organisations, that is
the principal voice representing the Canadian science and engineering community to
the Government of Canada. An annual fee of
$500 is paid for this membership, and Simon
Hanmer is now the formal GAC representative at monthly PAGSE meetings (following
GAC president Harvey Thorleifson’s recent
departure from Ottawa). Former GAC President Denis St. Onge is also a member of
PAGSE and, with regular input from Jim
Franklin, he and Hanmer also sit on the
PAGSE committee responsible for the “Bacon & Eggheads” science and engineering
breakfasts on Parliament Hill. Hanmer will
assume the responsibilities of Chair of
PAGSE as of January 1st, 2004.
the US, UK, Japan and Australia. Such an
office would represent and provide a coordinated and cohesive approach to issues relevant to research and innovation at the highest political level, thereby addressing a major
gap in science governance in Canada.
Each autumn, PAGSE makes a presentation to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance. In this year’s submission
(September 25th, 2003) PAGSE re-enforced
its endorsement of recent federal initiatives,
including the Canada Foundation for Innovation, the Canada Research Chairs, Genome
Canada, the Sustainable Development Technology Fund, the Canada Graduate Scholarships, and significant contributions to the Indirect Costs of scientific research (principally infrastructure), as well as increased
funding provided to granting agencies, including NSERC. Furthermore, this year PAGSE
has recommended new initiatives in five areas: a PMO Office of Science and Innovation, the setting of priorities for research,
the commercialisation of research, the international dimension of research, and research cluster development.
Commercialisation of research: PAGSE
noted that technology transfer and business
enterprise are now important elements of the
outcomes of some university-based research.
Many universities need to build the capacity
for commercialisation of their research, and
the business sector needs new instruments to
ensure success in transferring new research
ideas into the commercial realm, as well as
increased access to venture capital. PAGSE
recommended that the Canadian Government
should allocate new resources to these different aspects of commercialisation of university-based research, such as a Commercialisation Office reporting to Industry
Canada, or a similarly mandated NGO, as
well as minimising barriers to industry-university partnerships. In addition, to accelerating the facilitation of commercialisation,
PAGSE recommended that government ensure that graduate students and Post Doctoral
Fellows working in small and medium enterprises be paid regular salaries as opposed
to lower stipends, and that these researchers
PMO Office of Science and Innovation:
PAGSE recommended the establishment of
an Office of Science and Innovation within
the PMO, in line with similar institutions in
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Setting priorities for research: Reiterating
its approbation of recent federal initiatives
in the realm of science and engineering,
PAGSE opined that the time has come to
evaluate how these new initiatives fit with
existing programs (e.g. granting agencies,
Centres of Excellence, NRC) in addressing
research and innovation in Canada. Accordingly, PAGSE indicated that determining the
priorities for science and engineering research in this country for the next 5-7 years
will be of enormous value, demonstrating a
reinvigorated and coordinated approach across
all sectors of research and innovation
(academia, government and industry).
be supported by NRC’s Industrial Research
Assistance Program. Furthermore, government should extend the scientific research
tax credit programs to companies to include
those that have yet to reach profitability.
International dimension: Recognising that
research is a global enterprise, and that
Canada can profit from international collaboration in terms of alliances and access
to facilities not availabl;e domestically,
PAGSE recommended the creation of an International Innovation Fund ($30M/yr) to
support research partnerships, potentially
involving academia, government and industry.
Granting agencies and cluster development:
PAGSE congratulated the government on the
increased funding attributed to NSERC,
SSHRC and CIHR in recent years. However, it noted that major challenges remain
for these agencies. These include unexpectedly large numbers of new applicants, and
the requirement for higher levels of support for trailblazers and rising stars to support their global competitiveness. PAGSE
believes that the granting agencies, industry and NRC should partner to build new
research and development clusters to serve
as springboards for economic growth, and
recommended the creation of a new industry-driven Triagency Cluster Development
program, and an increase in support to the
three granting agencies.
Those interested are encouraged to contact me regarding PAGSE and matters pertaining to the GAC at the coordinates below.
Simon Hanmer
Geological Survey of Canada
601 Booth Street, Ottawa ON K1A 0E8
Tel: 613-992-4704; Fax 613-943-5318;
shanmer@nrcan.gc.ca
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GEOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF CANADA
ASSOCIATION GÉOLOGIQUE DU CANADA
GAC
AGC
Also available online from the
Geological Association of Canada
Speciality Topic
Brian Grant, 2003, 356 pages
Geoscience Reporting Guidelines is the follow-up to the much-used ‘Art and
Science of Writing Geoscience Reports’. Features guidelines essential to all
earth scientists. Includes a quick-reference Geologic Time Scale.
Palaeontographica Canadiana
B. Hunda et al., 2003, 87 p., 21 pls.
Silicified Late Ordovician trilobites from the Mackenzie Mountains Northwest Territories Canada identifies 33 species of trilobites - including 15
new species.
Cordilleran Section Publication
Various authors, 2003
Geological Field Trips in Southern British Columbia was developed in
conjunction with the joint Conference of GAC-MAC-SEG held in Vancouver
in 2003. This Guidebook explores some of the most discussed geological
regions and topics in Southern British Columbia.
Cordilleran Section Publication
R.A. Price and J.W.H. Monger, 2003, 165 pages
A Transect of the Southern Canadian Cordillera from Calgary to Vancouver
was developed as a three-day field trip across the southern Canadian
Cordillera. This updated text was released at the 2003 joint meeting of GACMAC-SEG.
MDD Publication
J.W. Lydon, T. Höy, J.F. Slack, and M.E. Knapp, 2001, 804 pages
The Geological Environment of the Sullivan Deposit covers the spectrum from
the tectonic history, igneous petrology, geochronology, regional isotopic studies
and geophysical survey of the Belt-Purcell Supergroup, particularly the Aldridge
Formation, to compilations of Cominco’s data and new lithogeochemical, and
fluid inclusion data. Included is a CD containing all the data generated and
compiled during the project.
MDD Publication
R. Sherlock and M.A.V. Logan, 2000, 650 pages
VMS Deposits of Latin America contains 37 papers on volcanogenic massive
sulfide deposits in the Carribean, Mexico, Central and South America. The
papers range from descriptions and research on individual deposits to district
wide compilations and synthesis.
QUALITY GEOSCIENCE FROM CANADA TO THE WORLD
GÉOSCIENCES DE QUALITÉ...DU CANADA POUR LE MONDE
Autumn 2003
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Calendar
2003
* = new entry
November 2 – 5
GSA 115th Annual Meeting, Seattle,
WA
Geological Society of America. Tel: 303
357-1038; Fax: 303 357-1072; E-mail:
bmartinez@geosociety.org
Web: www.geosociety.org/meetings/
index.htm
November 6
SEG Field Trip, Hydrothermal
Alteration in Ancient and Modern
Volcanoes, Mount Rainier Area:
Applications to Ore Genesis and
Volcanic Hazards, WA
E-mail: djohn@usgs.gov
Web: www.segweb.org/SAFieldTrip.htm
and www.segweb.org/SAFieldTripReg.pdf
*November 14 - 18
Yukon Geoscience Forum, Whitehorse,
Yukon
Web: http://www.ycmines.ca/forum.html;
E-mail: info@ycmines.ca
*November 19 - 21
NWT Geoscience Forum, Yellowknife,
NWT
Web: http://www.nwtgeoscience.ca/
newfiles/ykforum.html
November 24
SEG Student Chapter U. Laval-INRSETE Short Course, Diamonds and
Kimberlites, Chateau Frontenac, PQ
E-mail: chbochud@ggl.ulaval.ca;
Web: www.segweb.org/
UofTdiamondcourse.pdf
November 24 – 25
Sustainable Minerals Conference,
London, UK
E-mail: fmcevoy@bgs.ac.uk
November 24 – 27
Québec Exploration 2003, Ministère des
Ressources naturelles du Québec and
the Québec Mineral Exploration
Association, Quebec City, PQ
Tel: 418 627-8609 or 1 800 463-4558; Email: annie.berube@mrn.gouv.qc.ca
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December 1 – 5
NWMA Meeting and SEG Technical
Session, Spokane, WA
E-mail: vaalbara@u.washington.edu
Web: www.nwma.org
December 8 – 12
American Geophysical Union 2003 Fall
Meeting, San Francisco, CA
Web: www.agu.org/meetings
2004
January 26 – 30
AGI 2004 Ocean Sciences Meeting,
Portland, OR
Tel : 202 777-7340; Fax: 202 328-0566; Email: asinger@agu.org
Web: agu.org/meetings/
* February 8 – 13
17th Australian Geological Convention,
Hobart, Australia
Web: http://www.17thagc.gsa.org.au/
February 23 – 25
Society for Mining, Metallurgy and
Exploration, Annual Meeting and
Exhibit, Denver, CO
Tel: 303 973-9550; Fax: 303 979-3461; Email: sme@smenet.org
* March 4 – 5
SEG U of T Student Chapter
workshops on diamond exploration and
magmatic ore deposits, Toronto, ON
E-mail: seg@geology.utoronto.ca
May 12 – 14
GAC/MAC 2004, St.
Catharines, ON
Web: www.gac.ca; e-mail:
GACMAC04@brocku.ca
May 2004
Joint Rocky Mountain - Cordilleran
Section meeting of GSA. Boise, ID
E-mail: vgillerm@boisestate.edu;
Web: http://earth.boisestate.edu/gsa2004/
May 17 – 21
2004 AGU-CGU Joint Assembly,
Montreal, PQ
Web: www.agu.org/meetings/
* May 31 – June 4
Canadian Meteorological and
Oceanographic Society Annual
Congress, Edmonton, AB
Web: www.cmos.ca
* June 16 – 18
Canadian Water Resources Association
Annual Conference, Montreal, PQ
Web: www.cwra.org
June 16 – 19
International Conference on
Groundwater Vulnerability Assessment
and Mapping, Sosnowiec, Poland
E-mail: switkows@us.edu.pl
Web: http://khgi.wnoz.us.edu.pl/
vulnerability.htm
* June 25 – 30
From Forelands to Core Zones:
Deformation and Tectonic Evolution of
Orogenic Belts, in honour of Dr. Philip
Simony, Calgary, AB
E-mail: lfreid@ucalgary.ca
July 12 – 16
BHS International Conference,
Hydrology: Science and Practice for the
21st Century, Imperial College,
London, UK
E-mail: a.butler@ic.ac.uk
Website: www.hydrology.org.uk/
index.html
July 26 - 30
International Glaciological Society,
International Symposium on Ice-WaterIce: Processes across the Phase
Boundary, Portland, OR
Web: http://www.igsoc.org/symposia/
2004/portland/portland1.html
August 16 – 20
2004 Western Pacific Geophysics
Meeting, Honolulu, HI
Web: www.agu.org/meetings
August 23 - 27
International Glaciological Society,
International Symposium on Arctic
Glaciology, Geilo, Norway
Web: http://www.igsoc.org/symposia/
2004/geilo/geilo1.html
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August 20 - 28
International Union of Geological
Sciences 32nd International Geological
Congress, Florence, Italy
Tel: 39 055 238 2146; E-mail:
casaitalia@geo.unifi.it
Web: http://www.32igc.org
* September 23 – 27
14th Canadian Paleontology Conference,
Huntsman Marine Science Centre, NB
E-mail: jcaron@rom.on.ca
September 27 – October 1
SEG 2004 Conference, Perth, Australia
E-mail: susanho@geol.uwa.edu.au
Web: www.cgm.uwa.edu.au/
geoconferences/seg2004/
October 11 – 15
XXXIII Congress of IAH—Conference
on Groundwater Flow Understanding:
From Local to Regional Scale, Joint
Conference IAH/ALHSUD, Mexico
E-mail: aih@igris.igeograf.unam.mx
Web: www.igeograf.unam.mx/aih
November 14 – 19
IAVCEI 2004 General Assembly, Pucón,
Chile
Web: www.sernageomin.cl/iavcei
December 13 – 17
AGU 2004 Fall Meeting, San Francisco,
CA
Web: www.agu.org/meetings
Canadian Geoheritage
www.carleton.ca/~jadonald/
friends.html
And Finally ...
Yukon Diamond Rumour Map
The Yukon isn’t underlain by old, thick, cold crust that
is generally considered fertile places for kimberlites or
lamproites to bring diamonds to the surface. Regardless, rumours and innuendo over the years have suggested that diamonds may be about…certainly they’ve
been confirmed in other unlikely settings such as
Alaska and California.
On that background, the Government of Yukon Department of Energy, Mines and Resources have compiled
and released a Diamond Rumour map that documents
hearsay and half-truths.
For more information: http://
www.economicdevelopment.yk.ca/Mining/YRMDP/
Diamond_Rumour_Map/Diamond_Rumour_Map.htm
Autumn 2003
There seems to be an uncertain future
for alkaline rock and carbonatite
petrologists to judge for comment
arising from President George
Bush’s recent tour of the African
continent. A prominent Austin, Texas
newspaper rattled the foundations of
petrology and structural geology with
the headline BUSH DENIES
EXISTENCE OF AFRICAN RIFT. I
guess we had it wrong all along and
never knew it. And he ain’t even a
geologist!
Eevents on-line at:
www.gac.ca/PUBLICAT/GEOLOG/calendar.htm
hyperlinks and all...
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