Nichole Moerhuis

Postdoctoral Fellow Geological Sciences

5185B (ESB)
graduate

Currently: Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Mineral Deposit Research Unit

-Resolving timescales of Cu-Au-Mo porphyry deposit formation in British Columbia with zircon U-Pb geochronology (LA-ICP-MS, CA-ID-TIMS), and assessing zircon trace element geochemistry as a fertility vector (MDRU Porphyry Research Group: https://www.mdru.ubc.ca/projects/bc-porphyry-project/)

-Constraining volcanism, basin formation, and tectonism in British Columbia's Golden Triangle district with zircon U-Pb geochronology (LA-ICP-MS) and trace element geochemistry (MDRU Golden Triangle Research Group: https://www.mdru.ubc.ca/projects/gt/)

 

Ph.D. in Geological Sciences at the University of British Columbia

Skaergaard intrusion, zircon U-Pb geochronology (LA-ICP-MS, CA-ID-TIMS) and trace element geochemistry, apatite trace element geochemistry

Sessional Lecturer at the University of British Columbia

Elemental and isotopic geochemistry (EOSC 333)

 

Teaching Assistant at the University of British Columbia

Structural Geology II (EOSC 422), Field Techniques (EOSC 223), Mineral Deposits (EOSC 331), and Advanced Mineral Deposits (EOSC 424) 

 

Teaching Assistant at the University of Otago

Igneous Petrology and Volcanology (GEOL 264/364), 'Dynamic Earth: A New Zealand Perspective' (GEOL 112), Metamorphism and Metamorphic Processes (GEOL 274/374), Field Studies and New Zealand Geology (GEOL 252), and Earth and Ocean Science (EOAS 111).