Current Students
- Peteris Rozenbaks (PhD student): Mineral-melt partitioning in felsic systems
- Michael Powell (PhD student): Behaviour of the high field strength elements in granitic systems
- Kathleen Clark (MSc student): Crystallization history of the Davis Lake Pluton, Nova Scotia
Former Students
B.Sc. Students
M.Sc. Students
Ph.D. Students
- Natalie Caciagli, B.Sc. thesis title:"An experimental study of Fe-Ni exchange between olivine and sulphide melt: Implications for Ni-Cu deposits and oxygen barometry", Completed April, 1998
- David Andrews, B.A.Sc. thesis title: "An experimental study of the solubility of iridium in sulphide liquid: Implications for high temperature alloy phase stability", Completed April, 1999
- Vivian Schatz, B.Sc. thesis title:"Do melt inclusions in olivine preserve primary liquid compositions?", Completed April, 1999
- Andrew Stewart, B.Sc. thesis title:"Hydrothermal growth of quartz single crystals", Completed April, 2000 stewart_2000.pdf
- Lisa Tomory, B.Sc. thesis title:"Diffusion of sulphur in a basaltic melt", Completed April, 2000
- Christine Kwan, B.Sc. thesis title:"Characterisation of PGE mineralisation at East Bull Lake", Completed April, 2001
- Peter Gower, B.A.Sc. thesis title: "An experimental study of the solubility of ruthenium and stability of laurite in a basaltic system", Completed June, 2002
- Mike Wood, B.A.Sc. thesis title: "Arsenic in igneous systems: An experimental investigation" Completed April, 2003 wood_2003.pdf
- Seth Ninaviggi, B.Sc. thesis title: "The geology and origin of the Essonville Carbonatite", Completed April, 2003.
- Ashley Harrett, B.Sc. thesis title: "Zircon-melt partitioning of Ce and Eu as a function of oxygen fugacity", Completed April, 2005
- Veronika Homolova, B.Sc. thesis title: “ Spinel-silicate melt partitioning of platinum group elements (PGEs) as a function of oxygen fugacity”, Completed April, 2008 homalova_2008.pdf
- Victoria Mackenzie, B.Sc. thesis title: “Chromite and PGE precipitation induced by magma mixing”, Completed April, 2009 mckenzie_2008.pdf
- Katherine Kelley, B.Sc. thesis title: “MSS-melt partitioning of PGEs and semi-metals at controlled fO2-fS2 conditions”, began Summer, 2008.
- Kieran Jederman, B.Sc. thesis title: “Behaviour of chalcophile elements and semi-metals during solidification of the Mt. St. Gregoire intrusion, Quebec”, began Fall 2009.
- Caitlin Beland, B.Sc. thesis title “Petrology of Li pegmatites east of James Bay, Quebec”, completed April, 2011. beland_2011.pdf
- Danica Pascua, B.Sc. thesis title: “Stability of copper rich sulfide minerals at high temperature: Implications for Au-PGE fractionation in felsic magmas”, completed, April, 2012. pascua_2012.pdf
- Alex Pernin, B.Sc. thesis title: “Evidence for shallow level degassing at Mt. St. Gregoire, QC”, completed, April, 2013. pernin_2013.pdf
- Mark Lawrence, B.Sc. thesis title: “Investigation of ash layers, Ordovician Table Point Formation, Newfoundland”, completed, April, 2013.
- Dennis Luo, B.Sc. thesis title: “Is there Fe metal in the source regions of lunar magmas?”, completed, April, 2014.
- Andrew Canali, B.Sc. thesis title: “Solubility of the assemblage Pt-PtAs in basalt with implications for Pt complexing and As speciation”, completed, April, 2014. canali_2014.pdf; Accepted_Manuscript_2017
- Kristyna Buchan, B.Sc. thesis title: “Origin of amphibole in the Skinner Cove Formation, Newfoundland, Canada”, completed, April, 2015
- Robin Wolf, B.Sc. thesis title: “Solubility of precious metals in carbonate melt, with implications for mantle metasomatism”, completed, April, 2015 wolf_2015.pdf
- Stephanie Vaughn B.Sc thesis title: redox state of manganese in felsic magmas vaughn_2016.pdf
- Corin Jorgenson B.Sc. thesis title: Solubility of sulfide in carbonate melt with implications for mantle metasomatism, completed April, 2017 Jorgenson_2017.pdf, **Gelinas Bronze Medal Winner**
- Kate Woods B.Sc. thesis title: "An experimental study of the effect of water on chromite solubility in komatiites", completed April, Woods_2018.pdf
- Kathleen Clark B.Sc. thesis title: Trace element geochemistry of biotite from the Scrag Lake and New Ross plutons of the South Mountain Batholith, Nova Scotia, Canada: Implications for magma differentiation”, **Gelinas Bronze Medal Winner**
M.Sc. Students
- Parisa Sattari, M.Sc. thesis title: “Experimental constraints on the role of chromite in PGE fractionation in magmatic systems”, Completed May, 2000.
- Lesley Rose, M.Sc. thesis title: “Wetting properties of Fe-Ni-Co-Cu-O-S melts against olivine: Implications for sulphide melt mobility”, Completed Sept, 2000.
- David Andrews, M.Sc. thesis title: "The effects of intensive parameters on the geochemical behaviour of ruthenium, osmium and iridium in sulfide saturated and undersaturated systems: Implications for IPGE alloy stability in mafic magmas", Completed Sept, 2002.
- Fransesco Turchario, M.Sc. thesis title: “The effect of melt composition on the behaviour of platinum in magmatic systems”, completed August, 2013.
- Damoun Pourbazargan M.Sc. provisional thesis title: “Melt Inclusions in Chromite”, began Fall, 2010 (co-supervised with J. Mungall).
- Caitlin Beland M.A.Sc. thesis title: “Phase Equilibria in Peralkaline melts”, completed January, 2013 (co-supervised with J. Mungall).
- Shawn Vandekerkhove M.Sc. thesis title: “Wetting properties of sulfide liquids in crustal lithologies”, completed August, 2014 (co-supervised with J. Mungall).
- Erin Keltie M.Sc. thesis title: “An experimental study of the role of contamination i the formation of chromitites from the Ring of Fire intrusive suite”, completed December, 2018.
- Natashia Drage M.Sc. thesis title: "An experimental study of the effect of pressure on the formation of chromite deposits", completed May, 2022.
Ph.D. Students
- Craig Finnigan, Ph.D. thesis title: "The role of chromite in PGE fractionation in mafic igneous systems", Completed June, 2006.
- Lesley Rose, Ph.D. thesis title: "Solution behaviour of the siderophile elements during Earth differentiation: An experimental study", Completed April, 2007.
- Natalie Caciagli, Ph.D thesis title: "Experimental constraints on Li isotope fractionation during subduction zone dehydration", Completed December, 2009.
- Duane Smythe, Ph.D. thesis title: “An experimental study of zircon-silicate melt partitioning with geochemical applications”, completed August, 2013. **Gelinas Gold Medal***
- Neil Bennett, Ph.D. thesis title: “The behaviour of siderophile elements in high temperature geochemical systems”, completed August, 2013
- Yanan Liu Ph.D. thesis title: "Behaviour of chalcogens during the solidification of sulfide magmas", completed August, 2015
- Neal Sullivan (co-supervised with Zoltan Zajacz, U of Toronto): "Mobilization of Platinum, Palladium and Gold by Magmatic Brines: An Experimental Study", completed September, 2020
- Bryan Maciag Ph.D. thesis title "Geochemistry of Arsenic in magmatic systems with some results for Antimony", completed August, 2022