January 2010 — Vancouver

Katrin Breitsprecher (PhD candidate) was awarded the first-place prize for best student poster at the Mineral Exploration Roundup meeting held in Vancouver from Jan. 18-21, 2010.

Katrin’s poster was entitled “U-Pb (zircon) geochronology of Mesozoic intrusions from the southern Quesnel and Stikine terranes: temporal trends in magmatism of the Nicola Arc.” Co-authors included J.S. Scoates, W.J. Davis, R.M. Friedman, R.G. Anderson and D. Weis.