Current members
Dr. Fred Gaidies - Professor of Metamorphic Petrology and Mineralogy (team leader - more info here)
Jessica Tomacic - BScH student (2023 - present)
Zhen Li - PhD student (2022 - present; CSC scholar)
Kimberly Trebus - PhD student (2021 - present)
Maria Thereza Yogi - PhD student (2020 - present; OGS scholar - international)
Future members
We are always looking for new team members - please get in touch!
Past members
Lauren Maclellan - BScH student (2021 - 2022): The origin of sector-zoned garnets. Lauren received the Senate Medal for Outstanding Academic Achievements.
Sabastien Dyer - MSc student (2018 - 2020; NSERC scholar): Conditions of metamorphic processes experienced by the Florence and Boundary Ranges, Yukon-Tanana Terrane, Northern Canadian Cordillera [in collaboration with Dr. Zagorevski (GSC) and Dr. Soucy La Roche (INRS)]. Sabastien was nominated for the University Medal for Outstanding Graduate Work – Master’s Level.
Olivier Heldwein - MSc student (2017 - 2020): Metamorphic evolution of the lower nappes of the Kalak Nappe Complex in Eastern Finnmark (Norway)
Brigid Christison - BScH student (2017 - 2018): Niche partitioning among late Eocene carnivorous mammals of the Cypress Hills (co-supervisor: Dr. Danielle Fraser, Canadian Museum of Nature)
Freya George - PhD student (2014 - 2019; Ontario Trillium scholar, OGS scholar - international): Crystallisation of metamorphic garnet: mechanisms and rates from the inverted Barrovian sequence in the Sikkim Himalaya. Freya received the Senate Medal for Outstanding Graduate Work – Doctoral Level.
Balie Walker - MSc student (2016 - 2017; OGS scholar - international): Timing and conditions of the formation of plagioclase-garnet intergrowth micro-structures in granulites from Dunkelsteiner Wald (Austria)
Yannick Morneau - MSc student (2015 - 2017): Metamorphic evolution of the Snowcap Formation of the Stewart River area, Yukon-Tanana terrane, Yukon, Canada (in collaboration with GSC)
Carolyn Dziawa - MSc student (2014 - 2016): Conditions and timing of metamorphism of the Montresor metasedimentary belt, Rae Province, Nunavut (in collaboration with GSC)
Yannick Morneau - BScH student (2014 - 2015): Analysis of elongated garnets from the Flinton Group of the Grenville Province, Ontario
Lianna Vice - BScH student (2014 -2015): The texture and mineral chemistry of garnet in polymetamorphic micaschists from the Eastern European Alps: Implications for the mechanisms of metamorphic crystallization
Neil Prose - BScH student (2013 - 2014): A petrographic and geochemical analysis of graphite-bearing metapelites from the Myer Cave Formation, in the Grenville Province of SE Ontario
Carolyn Dziawa - BScH student (2013 - 2014): Characterization of the crystal shape, chemistry and distribution of tabular garnet in schists from the Ore Chimney Mine area, Mazinaw Domain, Grenville Province, SE Ontario
Arianne Petley-Ragan - MSc student (2013 - 2015; NSERC scholar): Metamorphic processes and rock texture formation in the vicinity of the Bugaboo batholith, British Columbia
Travis McCarron - MSc student (2011 - 2013; NSERC scholar): On the rates of metamorphic processes associated with the Grenville orogenesis, Mazinaw Domain, Grenville Province, Ontario. Travis was nominated for the University Medal for Outstanding Graduate Work – Master’s Level.
Arianne Petley-Ragan - BScH student (2012 - 2013): New P-T estimates for garnet growth within the inverted metamorphic sequence in Sikkim, Himalaya, by isopleth thermobarometry
Naomi Ceppetelli - BScH student (2012 - 2013): Geospeedometry: A study of Fe-Mg diffusion in metapelites of the Grenville orogen, Fernleigh Belt, Ontario (in collaboration with OGS)
Ellen Leigh - BScH student (2011 - 2012): Petrography and geochemistry of sillimanite-bearing schists from Ardoch-Plevna-Ompah area, Mazinaw Domain, Grenville Province, Ontario (in collaboration with OGS)
Josh Simpson - BScH student (2011 - 2012): New results on the P-T conditions of metamorphism of the Fernleigh Belt, Mazinaw Domain, Grenville Province, Ontario (in collaboration with OGS)
Rebecca Pikor - BScH student (2011 - 2012): Geochemistry and petrogenesis of iron oxides in metapelites of the Flinton Group, Mazinaw Domain, Grenville Province, Ontario (in collaboration with OGS)
Laura Katz - BScH student (2010 - 2011): Petrology of porphyroblastic metapelites from the Fernleigh area, Mazinaw Domain, Grenville Province, Ontario (in collaboration with OGS)
Alana Mackinder - BScH student (2010 - 2011): Petrology of metabasic and metafelsic rocks in the vicinity of the Robertson Lake Mylonite Zone, Grenville orogen, SE Ontario (in collaboration with OGS)
