Guest Speakers
Lawrence Winter - Altius Minerals
Kendra Revoy - New Found Gold Corp.
Steve Denyszyn - Memorial University
Judges
Hamish Sandeman
Hamish Sandeman (P.Geo) is a Project Geologist for gold in the Mineral Deposits section of the Geological Survey of NL. He completed his Post-Doctorial Research with Queen's University and Cameco Corporation. Hamish has worked as a Research Scientist with the GSC and the Canada-Nunavut Geoscience Office and has worked with with The Northwest Territories Geoscience Office as a Diamond Geologist.
Deanne van Rooyen
Deanne van Rooyen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Science at Acadia University. Her research interests are geochrnonology, metamorphic geology, structural geology and tectonics in the Northern Appalachian orogen. She also works in the Paleoproterozoic Core Zone, New Quebec orogen, and North Atlantic Craton.
Gabriel Santos
Gabriel Santos is a Project Geologist in the Geological Survey of Newfoundland and Labrador, currently conducting a bedrock-mapping project on south-central Newfoundland. Originally from Brazil, Gabriel completed his MSc at Acadia University in 2018 and his PhD at the University of Waterloo in 2022. His work has focused on the petrology and tectonic setting of high-pressure mafic granulites in Brazil, rapakivi granites in the Appalachians, and ophiolites in China.
Jennifer Cranshaw
Jennifer is a professional geoscientist working at ExxonMobil Canada, with 13 years' experience in production geoscience. Specializing in opportunity generation and drillwell planning/execution. Jennifer is a MUN graduate with an undergraduate degree in Geology (BSc Hons) and a master's degree (MSc) in Geophysics. My master's thesis work describes the "Miocene to recent tectonic and sedimentary evolution of the Anaximander Seamounts; Eastern Mediterranean Sea." She completed 3 summer work terms in Turkey, collecting seismic and core data for her undergrad and master’s thesis. After graduating from university, Jennifer was hired by Imperial Oil and worked in Calgary Alberta for 4 years (From 2010-2014) and has been working for ExxonMobil Canada since moving home. Jennifer worked opportunity generation and drillwell planning/execution for Hibernia and Hebron and also had the opportunity to work the plug and abandonment of the Sable gas fields (offshore Nova Scotia).
