Graduate students

Arin Kitchen
MSc student
Supervisor: Dr. Kathryn Bethune
E-mail: Kitchear@uregina.ca
Research interests
Deformation bands and their relationship to post-Athabasca faulting and unconformity-related uranium deposits: A case study of the C1 fault corridor and WS shear zone (Gryphon and Phoenix deposits) in the Wheeler River area, eastern Athabasca Basin.

Brendan Bishop
PhD student
Supervisor: Dr. Leslie (Jamie) Robbins
E-mail: bab495@uregina.ca
Research interests
Rare earth elements in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin

Daniel Ferguson
MSc student
Supervisors: Dr. Guoxiang Chi and Dr. Charles Normand
E-mail: dpf949@uregina.ca
Research interests
Petrographic, paragenetic, and fluid inclusion study of uranium mineralization along the Midwest Trend, Athabasca Basin, Saskatchewan

Dillon Johnstone
PhD student
Supervisor: Dr. Kathryn Bethune
E-mail: johnstdi@uregina.ca
Research interests
Structural evolution and controls on uranium mineralization in the Patterson Lake corridor, southwestern Athabasca Basin, Saskatchewan, Canada

Hossein Narimani
MSc student
Supervisors: Dr. Janis Dale and Dr. Tsilavo Raharimahefa
E-mail: hnt530@uregina.ca
Research interests
Spatial distribution and structural analysis of vents in the Anivorano Volcanic Field, northern Madagascar

Jamie Schmidt
M.Sc. student
Supervisor: Dr. Leslie (Jamie) Robbins
E-mail: schmjami@uregina.ca
Research interests
Biogeochemistry and hydrogeology related to sulphur cycling and mercury methylation in prairie wetland systems.

Jenya Kistanov
MSc student
Supervisor: Dr. Maria Velez
E-mail: jenyakistanov@uregina.ca
Research interests
Multi-proxy paleoenvironmental reconstruction of climate sensitive lakes in southern Saskatchewan.

Jordan Deane
PhD student
Supervisor: Dr. Kathryn Bethune
E-mail: crashdeane@hotmail.com
Research interests
Tectonic significance of the Waugh Lake Group of the southern Taltson orogen; implications for accretionary tectonics on the western Rae margin

Kaitlyn Crawford
MSc student
Supervisor: Dr. Joyce McBeth
E-mail: kaitlyn.crawford10@gmail.com
Research interests
Geomicrobiology of acid rock tailings

Kelsey McKee
MSc student
Supervisor: Dr. Guoxiang Chi
E-mail: mckee20k@uregina.ca
Research interests
3D geological and fluid flow modeling of the Midwest Trend in the northeastern Athabasca Basin: implications for uranium mineralization and exploration

Luisa Patino
PhD student
Supervisor: Dr. Maria Velez
E-mail: lfp116@uregina.ca
Research interests
Aquatic ecosystem’s responses to past climate variability and human activities in the neotropics

Muhammad Tufail Khan
MSc student
Supervisor: Dr. Osman Salad Hersi
E-mail: mtk335@uregina.ca
Research interests
Carbonate deposition during the terminal closing stage of the eastern Neo-Tethys Ocean: The Chorgali Formation of the Kala Chitta Range, Potwar and Hazara Sub-basins, northern Pakistan.
Shelby Brandt
MSc student
Supervisor: Dr. Kathryn Bethune
Research interests
Structural control of gold mineralization

Yumeng Wang
PhD student
Supervisor: Dr. Guoxiang Chi
E-mail: geomeng@foxmail.com
Research interests
Fluid-rock interactions in the Athabasca Basin and unconformity-related uranium mineralization