MDRU star Shaun Barker wins the 2013 Lindgren award for outstanding contributions to economic geology

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.