The KEGS Foundation, now in its seventh year of supporting Canadian undergraduates and graduates in geophysics, has awarded nine scholarships totalling $7,500 to five undergraduate and four graduate students in geophysics at seven Canadian universities for the 2006-07 academic year.
The awards are funded by donations from the geophysical and exploration community across Canada.
The five undergraduate students who received scholarships are: Daniel Brake of Memorial University; Madeline Lee of McMaster University; Elissa McColl from the University of Saskatchewan; Stuart Mueller of Queen’s University; and Morunkeji Olaleye of the University of Manitoba.
The four graduate students are: Sergey Samsonov and Xue Yang Yu of the University of Western Ontario; Memorial University’s Julie Smith; and Mohammed Maysami of the University of British Columbia.
The scholarships range from $500 to $1,000.
In particular, the Limion scholarship, established in 2001 in honour of renowned Canadian geophysicist Heikki Limion, was awarded to Brake, who has performed well academically and done some strong work in mining geophysics.
Sergey Samsonov, meanwhile, a PhD candidate at Western, received a renewal of the KEGS Pioneers Scholarship, in recognition of his continued research into applications of satellite radar mapping to accurately determine changes in Earth elevations. The Pioneers scholarship is funded by donations made in honour of pioneering Canadian geophysicists.
In other news, Andrei Swidinsky, a master of science student at the University of Toronto, was selected by the U.S.-based Society of Exploration Geophysicists Foundation to receive the KEGS Hallof scholarship for the 2006-07 academic year, in honour of noted geophysicist Philip Hallof, who died in 1992.
During its first seven years of giving out scholarships, the KEGS Foundation has supported more than 60 students, many of whom are now employed in exploration throughout Canada.
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