The Canadian Exploration Geophysical Society (KEGS) has awarded 21 scholarships worth a total of $15,000 to undergraduate and graduate students in geophysics.
The KEGS Foundation’s scholarship program, in its ninth year, aims to support students pursuing careers in geophysics through funding provided by key players in Canada’s geophysical and exploration community. Among the most recent donors are Abitibi Geophysics, Barrick Gold, Fugro Airborne Surveys, Scintrex and Xstrata Nickel.
The scholarship amounts range from $500 to $1,000. Among the awards are two new scholarships — the Fugro scholarship, established by Fugro Airborne Surveys Canada and the GSC Pioneers Scholarship, launched at Exploration ’07 to honour geophysical pioneers of the Geophysical Survey of Canada.
The 10 undergraduate recipients for 2008-09 are: Patrick Caul, Bradley Evans, Justin Royce and Tiffany Piercey of Memorial University; Hayley Edwards, Queens University; Conrad Koziol, University of British Columbia; Jane Simmons, University of New Brunswick; and Victoria Tschirhart and Sara Lise Underhay of McMaster University.
The 11 graduate recipients are: Arslan Akhmetov, University of Western Ontario; Emmanuel Bongajum and Junwei Huang of the University of Toronto; Abderrezak Bouchedda, Jinfu Chen, Rachid Intissar and Linda Armelle Nzumotcha of cole Polytechnique; Alexander Duxbury, Carleton University; Farshid Forouhideh, University of Calgary; Gregory Nash, University of British Columbia; and Yong-Jun Su, Universit du Qubec en Abitibi-Tmiscamingue.
Two students also won textbook allowance awards: Eric-Martial Takougang, an M. Sc. student at Simon Fraser University studying seismology and Matthew Izawa, an M. Sc. student at University of Western Ontario studying planetology, remote sensing and physical mineralogy.
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