NATIONAL LECTURE TOURS:
Howard Street Robinson Lecture
2009 - 2010 Howard Street Robinson Lecturer
Dan Marshall
The Howard Street Robinson Lecturer is chosen by the Mineral Deposits Division and the Precambrian Division of the GAC® in alternate years. It is funded by the Robinson Fund of the GAC® that was established in 1977, following the bequest to GAC® from the estate of Howard Street Robinson, a founding member of GAC®. The bequest was "for furtherance of scientific study of Precambrian Geology and Metal Mining."
The lecturer for 2009-2010 is Dan Marshall, a professor in the Earth Sciences Department at Simon Fraser University. His research focuses on a variety of ore deposits including gold, silver and gems.
Dan's Robinson lecture will cover the occurrences of emerald within the Canadian Cordillera. The talk includes information on the various types of emerald and gem beryl occurrences, exploration models and background information on the Canadian occurrences in a global framework.
Dan Marshall was born and raised south of Ottawa. He attended Carleton University for his BSc and MSc studies finishing his MSc in 1990. He completed his DSc in Switzerland in 1995 studying the PTt path of the Mont Blanc massif using a variety of thermobarometric techniques, specifically fluid inclusions, on a variety of sub-economic ore occurrences. He did a one year NSERC post-doctoral fellowship on the Sudbury mineralization, followed by a sessional lectureship at Carleton University. In 1998 he moved to the nascent Geology program at Simon Fraser. Currently, his research remains focused on thermobarometry applied to a variety of mineralization types and PTt studies.
For the Precambrian Division of the GAC®: Christian Böhm (christian.bohm@gov.mb.ca)
For the Howard Street Robinson Fund: Benoît Dubé (bdube@nrcan.gc.ca)
If you are interested in having a lecturer come to visit your area, contact:
Garth Kirkham:
GAC® Coordinator
Hutchison and H.S. Robinson Lecture Tours (2009-2010)
gdkirkham@shaw.ca