June 2020

June Cho has received the 2020 Léopold Gélinas Silver Medal for Best MSc Thesis.

Supervised by Drs. James Scoates and Dominique Weis, June’s thesis is entitled “A microanalytical investigation of feldspars in the Skaergaard intrusion, East Greenland: Ternary feldspar compositional relations and lead isotopic geochemistry.”

The Volcanology and Igneous Petrology Division of the Geological Association of Canada annually presents three medals (PhD: gold; MSc: silver; BSc: bronze) for the most outstanding theses, written by Canadians or submitted to Canadian universities, which comprise material at least 50% related to volcanology and igneous petrology.

Congratulations, June!