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Tony Barresi
Wins 2006 Mary-Claire Ward Geoscience Award
 The
Mary-Claire Ward Geoscience Award Selection Committee is pleased to
announce that the winner of this year’s award is Tony Barresi. Mr.
Barresi is a doctoral student at Dalhousie University and is
specializing in earth sciences. The thesis that won him the award is
entitled 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. Mr. Barresi will
be presented with a $3,000 cash award and certificate at the PDAC’s
annual awards evening on Monday, March 6, in Toronto. He will also be
recognized by the Geological Association of Canada at its annual meeting
in Montreal in May.
The primary objective of the award is to encourage
and support a graduate student in Canada whose thesis is likely to
increase our knowledge of the geological history of Canada through
mapping. The award is organized through a coalition of the Prospectors
and Developers Association of Canada, the Geological Association of
Canada, the National Geological Surveys Committee, and Watts, Griffis
and McOuat Ltd. Each organization is represented on the selection
committee. The financial administration 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 as one of this country’s
principal economic advantages. She translated her firm beliefs into
political action, persuading policy makers at every opportunity that
mapping is key to understanding and benefiting from this country’s rich
natural endowment.
In announcing this year’s award, selection
committee chair Bill Mercer commented on the high quality of this year’s
applicants and the work that they are doing. “This is the second year
that we have given this award,” he said, “and once again the committee
was impressed with the excellent standard of the applications. Selecting
a winner is always difficult, and those applicants who didn’t win should
not be deterred from applying again in future. We want to offer as much
encouragement as possible to students working in this important field.”
February 8, 2006
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