Tony Barresi is this year’s winner of the Mary-Claire Ward Geoscience Award.
Barresi is a doctoral student specializing in earth sciences at Dalhousie University in Halifax. The selection committee chose him primarily because of his thesis, titled Tectonic and petrogenetic evolution of Early to Middle Jurassic Hazelton Group volcanic rocks, northwestern British Columbia: Physical and geochemical anatomy of an arc to rift transition.
Barresi will be presented with $3,000 and a certificate at the annual awards banquet during the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada’s (PDAC) convention in Toronto. He will also be recognized by the Geological Association of Canada at its annual meeting in Montreal in May.
The Mary-Claire Ward Geoscience Award is designed to encourage and support a graduate student in Canada whose thesis is likely to increase knowledge of the geological history of Canada through mapping. The award is organized through the collective efforts of the PDAC, the Geological Association of Canada, the National Geological Surveys Committee, and consulting firm Watts, Griffis and McOuat. Each organization has a representative on the selection committee. The cash award is provided by the Canadian Geological Foundation.
The award was created in 2004 to honour the memory of Mary-Claire Ward, a geoscientist who was a strong advocate for maintaining Canada’s geoscience knowledge base. She translated her beliefs into political action, persuading policy makers that mapping is key to understanding and benefiting from this country’s rich natural endowment.
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