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Marc Bustin has been awarded the Stanley Slipper Gold Medal. This Medal was established in 1989 as the Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists' most prestigious award. It is named for Mr. Stanley E. Slipper (1890-1982) who was the Alberta Society of Petroleum Geologists first President and a pioneer of early exploration efforts in Alberta. The award recognizes innovations and contributions related to petroleum exploration research as well as the teaching, training and mentoring of explorationists.

There will be technical talks by key Nu Instruments personnel, followed by tours of this new $7.5 million, 2200 sq ft state-of-the-art facility. The afternoon will feature engaging speakers, who are leaders in their fields, addressing how modern mass spectrometry and geochemistry are being used to drive cosmochemical discoveries, unravel Earth formation, reconstruct past rainfall, and as biomarkers of disease. Please see the flyer for talk/tour schedules. Also see the talk abstracts and Biographies.REGISTER at: http://www.eventbrite.ca/e/pcigr-nubc-grand-opening-tickets-9446604047

At a gathering on November 28th, the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of British Columbia will be formally recognizing Professor Hungr's achievements and exemplary dedication to the geoscience profession.

The Society of Economic Geologists has announced that Dr Shaun Barker has been conferred with the Waldemar Lindgren Award for 2013. This international award is bestowed annually to a young geoscientist in recognition of published research that represents an outstanding contribution to economic geology, and who shows tremendous potential for making ongoing contributions.Dr Barker, now on faculty at the University of Waikato, completed his BSc Hons degree at the University of Otago in 2004, and his PhD at the Australian National University in 2007. From October 2007 until November 2012, Dr Barker was a Post-Doctoral Fellow and then Research Associate at the Mineral Deposit Research Unit (MDRU) at the University of British Columbia. The Waldemar Lindgren Award conferred on Dr Barker reflects, to a large degree, the contribution his research made to economic geology over the five years he worked at the University of British Columbia.

Susan Allen has been awarded the 2015 President's Prize by the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society for her meritorious work on the dynamics of advection-driven upwelling over submarine canyons. Her research provides long-needed, useful estimates of the flux of water across the shelf-break at canyons. Congratulations Susan!

Roger Francois has been awarded the Timothy R. Parsons Medal established by Fisheries and Oceans Canada to recognize achievement in ocean sciences. Roger accepted the award at the June, 2016 congress of the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society in Frederickton, NB.