Faculty Awards
Harold Gibson, 2011, Duncan R. Derry Medal, Mineral Deposits Division, Geological Association of Canada
Dan Kontak, 2011, AGS Gesner Medal
Dan Kontak, 2011, MAC Peacock Medal
Elizabeth Turner, 2009, Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences Best Paper Award for "Mesoproterozoic carbonate systems in the Borden Basin, Nunavut". Download (PDF)
Steve Barnes, C.M. Lesher, and Rebecca Sproule, 2009, Wardell Armstrong Prize, Institution of Materials, Minerals, and Mining for the best paper in IMMM Transactions B: Applied Earth Science.
C.M. Lesher, 2007, Duncan R. Derry Medal, Mineral Deposits Division of the Geological Association of Canada.
Steve Piercey, 2006, Thayer Lindsley Award, Society of Economic Geologists.
Steve Piercey, 2006, Gordon Gross Medal, Mineral Deposits Division of the Geological Association of Canada.
Michelle DeWolfe (M.Sc. Laurentian, Ph.D. Candidate Laurentian), Harold Gibson, Dave Richardson (M.Sc.), and John Ayre (Adjunct), 2003, Julian Boldy Award, Mineral Deposits Division of the Geological Association of Canada.
A.M. McDonald, 2002, Fellow of the International Centre for Diffraction Data.
Dan Kontak, 2002, Hawley Medal, Mineralogical Association of Canada, for the paper “A Petrological, Geochemical, Isotopic and Fluid-Inclusion Study of 370 Ma Peraluminous Pegmatite-Aplite sheets, Peggys Cove, Nova Scotia, Canada”.
Dan Layton-Matthews (MSc 2001), Marcus Burnham (PDF 1995-2001), and Michael Lesher, 2002, Julian Boldy Award, Mineral Deposits Division of the Geological Association of Canada.
Dan Kontak, 2001, Julien Boldy Award, Geological Association of Canada.
P. Copper, 2001, Billings Medal, Paleontology Division, Geological Association of Canada for career contributions to Canadian Paleontology.
Balz Kamber, 2000, Paul Niggli Medal, Mineralogical Society of Switzerland.
C.E.G. Farrow (Adjunct), 2000, W.H. Gross Medal of the Mineral Deposits Division, Geological Association of Canada, for outstanding contributions to Economic Geology by a young scientist.
D.A.B. Pearson, 2000, E.R.W. Neale Medal of the Geological Association of Canada, for outstanding contributions in Geological Education and Public Relations.
Elizabeth Turner, 1999, PhD Thesis Award, Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists.
Michael Lesher, 1998-1999, Thayer Lindsley Lecturer, Society of Economic Geologists.
Michael Lesher, 1998-1999, University Lecturer, Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy.
H.L. Gibson (with D. Rousell and I. Jonasson), 1998, Barlow Medal, Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy.
C.M. Lesher, 1997-2004, NSERC Senior Industrial Research Chair.
Dan Kontak, 1997, Distinguished Lecturer, Atlantic Provinces Council on Sciences.
H.L. Gibson (with J.F, Davies and R.E. Whitehead), 1996, Julian Boldy Award, Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy.
Dan Kontak, 1996 H.S. Robinson Lecturer, Mineral Deposits Division of the Geological Association of Canada.
Dan Kontak, 1996, C.F. Davidson Memorial Lecturer, St. Andrews University in St. Andrews, Scotland.
P. Copper, 1996, Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
Richard James, David Peck (PDF), and Peter Chubb, 1993, Barlow Memorial Medal, Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy.
H.L. Gibson, 1992, William Harvey Gross Medal, Mineral Deposits Division, Geological Association of Canada.
Dan Kontak, 1990, Hawley Medal, Mineralogical Association of Canada, for his paper “The East Kemptville Topaz-Muscovite Leucogranite. I. Geological Setting and Whole-Rock Geochemistry”.
Harold Gibson, 1990, Lang Lecturer, Geological Survey of Canada Mineral Colloquium.
Paul Copper, 1969, Thomas Huxley Gold Medal, Thomas Huxley Society in London, England