Heikki Limion, a renowned geophysicist who lived in Toronto, has died. He was 58.
Limion was born in Estonia in 1942. Shortly thereafter, his family fled to Germany and they eventually arrived in Canada when he was 10.
He grew up in Toronto, where he received his bachelor of science in engineering at the University of Toronto in 1965. He began his career that same year, with Calgary-based Hudson Bay Oil & Gas. By 1967 he had moved back to Ontario, where he directed Inco’s extensive airborne surveying operations (at the time Inco operated five in-house airborne surveying systems).
In 1977, he accepted a two-year advisory position with the Kenyan government under a Canadian International Development Agency aid program. When he returned to Canada, he was appointed chief geophysicist for Toronto-based Newmont Exploration — a position that would take him around the world.
Following Newmont’s exit from Canada in 1989, he launched Limion Geophysics, for which he acted as a consulting geophysicist on projects in countries such as Peru and Indonesia.
Limion was a long-standing member of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists and served a one-year term (1985-86) as president of the Canadian Exploration Geophysical Society (KEGS). While with KEGS, he helped organize Exploration ’87 and ’97. The KEGS foundation has begun a scholarship in Limion’s honour to assist in the education of future geophysicists.
Limion is survived by his wife, Karen, and their three children.
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