College of Arts and Science - Geological Sciences
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Department Head


Kevin Ansdell, B.A., M.Sc., Ph.D.
Title: Professor, and Head of the Department of Geological Sciences
Office: Geology 220/114
Phone: 5695
Email: kevin.ansdell@usask.ca

Specializations:

Mineral deposits/Isotope geochemistry/Precambrian geology


Faculty


Jim Basinger, B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D.
Title: Professor
Office: College Building 201
Phone: 966-1615
Email: jim.basinger@usask.ca

Specializations:

Paleobotany


Luis Buatois, Lic. Geology, Lic. Philosophy, Ph.D. Geology
Title: Associate Professor
Office: Geology 346
Phone: 5730
Email: luis.buatois@usask.ca

Specializations:

Ichnology-Sedimentology-Sequence stratigraphy


Samuel Butler, B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D.
Title: Associate
Office: Geology 146
Phone: 5702
Email: sam.butler@usask.ca

Specializations:

Mantle Convection, Earth's Deep Interior, Geological Fluid Flow


Graham George, Bachelor's, Doctorate
Title: Professor, CRC Chair, Environmental Earth Sciences
Office: Geology 328
Phone: 5722
Email: g.george@usask.ca

Specializations: x-ray absorption spectroscopy
M. Jim Hendry, B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D., D.Sc.
Title: Cameco & NSERC Chairs in Environmental and Aqueous Geochemistry
Office: Geology 230
Phone: 5720
Email: jim.hendry@usask.ca

Specializations:

Environmental and Aqueous Geochemistry, Hydrogeology


Chris Holmden, B.Sc., Ph.D.
Title: Professor
Office: Geology 242
Phone: 5697
Email: chris.holmden@usask.ca

Specializations:

Isotope Geochemist


Rob Kerrich, B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D., D.Sc., F.R.S.C.
Title: Professor
Office: Geology 246
Phone: 5719
Email: robert.kerrich@usask.ca

Specializations: George McLeod Chair, Mechanics of Deformation, Geochemical Transport Processes, Geology of Ore Deposits
Kyle Larson, B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D.
Title: Assistant Professor
Office: Geology 216
Phone: 306 966-5764
Email: kyle.larson@usask.ca

Specializations:

 Structural Geology, Tectonics, Geodynamics


Gabriela Mangano, Lic. Geology; PhD, Geology; Lic. Philosophy
Title: Adjunct Professor
Office: Geology 346
Phone: 5730
Email: gabriela.mangano@usask.ca

Specializations:

trace fossils and paleontology


Jim Merriam, B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D.
Title: Professor
Office: Geology 228
Phone: 5716
Email: jim.merriam@usask.ca

Specializations:

Geophysics


Igor Morozov, M.Sc., Ph.D.
Title: Professor
Office: Geology 142
Phone: 2761
Email: igor.morozov@usask.ca

Specializations:

Geophysics


Yuanming Pan, B.Sc.; Ph.D.
Title: Professor
Office: Geology 224
Phone: 966 5699
Email: yuanming.pan@usask.ca

Specializations:

Mineralogy, Economic Geology, Geochemistry, Petrology

 


Bill Patterson, B.Sc., M.Sc. Ph.D.
Title: Professor and Director of the Saskatchewan Isotope Laboratory and Centre for Climate Change
Office: Geology 214
Phone: 5691
Email: bill.patterson@usask.ca

Specializations:

Stable isotope geochemistry, archaeology, climatology, meteorology, hydrology, evolution, extinction, anthropology, oceanography, limnology, fish behavior, plant physiology, history, photography, ecology


Ingrid Pickering, B.A, (honours), Ph.D.
Title: Associate Professor, CRC in Molecular Environmental Science
Office: Geology 330
Phone: 5706
Email: ingrid.pickering@usask.ca

Specializations:

Synchrotron techniques: X-ray absorption spectroscopy and X-ray fluorescence imaging


Brian Pratt, B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D.
Title: Professor
Office: Geology 314
Phone: 5725
Email: brian.pratt@usask.ca

Specializations:

Palaeontology, Stratigraphy, Sedimentology


Robin Renaut, B.Sc. (Hons); Ph.D.
Title: Professor
Office: Geology 320
Phone: 5705
Email: robin.renaut@usask.ca

Specializations:

Sedimentology, geothermal processes and mineralization, geology of Kenya, limnogeology