In Canada, commodities are key to our economic progress and stability. Economic and energy resource geology contribute to this prosperity today and will continue to be a driving force in the future nationally and globally. [more]
Bill Bell (HBSc ’57) donated $1 million to establish a Chair in Petroleum Geology, stepping up as a leader of the Initiative to Enhance Economic and Energy Resource Geology. [more]
A leader knows the way, goes the way and shows the way. Dr. Keith Barron (PhD ’97) has embodied these traits in his support of the Initiative to Enhance Economic and Energy Resource Geology. [more]
The Department has been fortunate to have had many insightful and generous professors over the years. Each brought a wealth of knowledge and true understanding of the fundamental science. They combined it with the ability to teach in an informed, passionate and relatable manner.
Two such professors are well known to most alumni Dr. Bob Hodder and Dr. Dick Hutchinson. [more]
William S. Fyfe is a legend not only within the Earth Sciences department but around the globe.
Regarded by many as the father of modern geochemistry and global change, Fyfe has served Western as a professor since 1972 and as Dean of the Faculty of Science from 1986-1990. [more]
Dr. Burns Cheadle's appointment as the Bill Bell Chair in Petroleum Geology in the Department of Earth Sciences, brings him back to the school where he was awarded his doctoral degree in 1986. [more]
Earth Sciences' mission to be the program where the next generation of leaders in resource geological studies are taught took another step forward with the announcement of Dr. John Armstrong as the 2009/10 Hutchinson Visiting Industrial Professor. [more]
The Robert W. Hodder Chair in Economic Geology will soon be occupied. A call for candidates was issued earlier in the year. After closing this past September, all applications were reviewed. The selection process has narrowed it down to four outstanding candidates. [more]
