Graduate Students

Jeff Berger

Ph.D Geology/Planetary Science: Dr. Roberta Flemming

Research Interests / Specializations: Geochemical and mineralogical characteristics of altered basaltic material: Unraveling protolith and sediment compositions to constrain Mars crustal processes

Arya Bina

M.Sc Geology/Planetary Science: Dr. Livio Tornabene

Fengke Cao

M.Sc Geology/Planetary Science: Dr. Roberta Flemming

Christy Caudill

Ph.D Geology/Planetary Science: Dr. Gordon Osinski

Research Interests / Specializations: Impact Craters

Anna Chanou

Ph.D. Geology & Planetary Science, Dr. Gordon Osinski & Dr. Richard Grieve

Research Interests / Specializations: Vitric clast-bearing breccia impactites: their intra- and inter- crater textural variability and geologic correlation

Byung-Hun Choe

Ph.D Geology/Planetary Science: Dr. Gordon Osinski and Dr. Livio Tornabene

Research Interests / Specializations: Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) application for geological mapping and resource exploration in the Canadian Arctic

Peter Christoffersen

M.Sc Geology/Planetary Science: Dr. Audrey Bouvier

Research Interests / Specializations: Planetary Geochemistry

Jeffrey Daniels

M. Sc. Geology & Planetary Science, Dr. Catherine Neish

Elise Harrington

M.Sc Geology: Dr. Catherine Neish

Research Interests / Specializations: Remote Sensing

Jordan Hawkswell

M.Sc Geology: Dr. Gordon Osinski

Joshua Hedgepeth

M.Sc Geology and Planetary Science: Dr. Catherine Neish

Shannon Hicks

Ph.D. Astronomy, Planetary Science

Patrick Hill

Ph.D Geology/Planetary Science: Dr. Gordon Osinski and Dr. Neil Banerjee

Research Interests / Specializations: Examination of the triple Si-O isotopes of lunar samples

Ryan Hopkins

Ph.D. Physics, Planetary Science

Liam Innis

M.Sc. Geology & Planetary Science: Dr. Gordon Osinski

Derek King

M.Sc Geology: Dr. Gordon Osinski & Dr. Neil Banerjee

Mary Kerrigan

Ph.D Geology / Planetary Science: Dr. Gordon Osinski

Research Interests / Specializations: Hydrothermal alteration at the Clearwater Lake impact structure.

Jonathan Kissi-Ameyaw

Electrical and Computer Engineering: Dr. Ken McIsaac

Research Interests / Specializations: I am developing a system that reconstructs objects in 3D using pictures and extracts geological measurements from the reconstructions.

Yaozhu Li

M.Sc Geology & Planetary Science: Dr. Roberta Flemming & Dr. Phil McCausland

Matthew Maloney

M.Sc Geology/Planetary Science: Dr. Audrey Bouvier/Dr. Tony Withers

Zachary Morse

Ph.D Geology/Planetary Science: Dr. Gordon Osinski and Dr. Livio Tornabene

Research Interests / Specializations: Mapping of Orientale Basin using high resolution imagery

Jennifer Newman

Ph.D Geology/Planetary Science: Dr. Gordon Osinski/Dr. Livio Tornabene

Research Interests / Specializations: Impact Craters

Ryan Sawyer

Ph.D Geophysics/Planetary Science: Dr. Rick Secco and Dr. Wayne Nesbitt

Research Interests / Specializations: The Effects of Composition, Pressure and Temperature on the Structure of Alkali Silicate Glasses

Lei Shu

Ph.D Electrical and Computer Engineering, Robotics & Planetary Science

Sarah Simpson

Ph.D. Geology & Planetary Science, Dr. Gordon Osinski

Alaura Singleton

Ph.D. Geology & Planetary Science, Dr. Gordon Osinski

Research Interests / Specializations: Characteristics and Formation of Central Uplifts in Crystalline Terrestrial Impact Craters

Jessica Stromberg

Ph.D Geology/Planetary Science: Dr. Neil Banerjee and Dr. Gordon Southam

Research Interests / Specializations: Early gold mineralization in the Porcupine Gold Camp: A geochemical and isotopic study of the gold bearing ankerite veins

Matthew Svennson

M.Sc. Geology & Planetary Science, Dr. Gordon Osinski

Gavin Tolometti

M.Sc Geology: Dr. Catherine Neish & Dr. Gordon Osinski

Diego Uribe Lozano

M.Sc. Geology/Planetary Science: Dr. Phil McCausland, Dr. Matt Izawa and Dr. Roberta Flemming

Research Interests / Specializations: Meteoritics

Denis Vida

M.Sc. Geophysics & Planetary Science, Dr. Peter Brown & Dr. Margaret Campbell-Brown

Alyssa Werynski

M.Sc. Geology: Dr. Catherine Neish

Research Interests / Specializations: Planetary Geology, remote sensing, GIS mapping

Bidong Zhang

Ph.D Geology/Planetary Science: Dr. Audrey Bouvier

Research Interests / Specializations: Planetary Materials

William Zylberman

Ph.D Geophysics/Planetary Science: Dr. Gordon Osinski

Research Interests / Specializations: Impact geophysics