Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) / Geotop: U-Pb geochronologist
davies.joshua@uqam.ca
Group
I am always on the lookout for new students interested in isotope geochemistry/geochronology. Please contact me (davies.joshua@uqam.ca) if you would like to be part of the team and we can discuss funding opportunities.
Funding can be obtained from NSERC (for permanent residents) or FRQNT
My Current group consistes of -
PhD students –
Fred Dufour (at UQAM, co-supervised with Ross Stevenson, start 2018) – Formations volcaniques et intrusives meso-neoproterozoiques des bassins de Bylot du NE du Canada et NW de Groenland.
Chen Shen (at McGill, co-supervised with Galen Halverson, start 2018) - Application of Quantitative Stratigraphic Approaches to Calibrating the Neoproterozoic (1000–539 million years ago)
Martin Segner (at the Univeristy of Geneva, co-supervised with Urs Schaltegger, start 2019) – Calibration of the Neoarchean and Paleoproterozoic sediments of the Transvaal basin, SA, and constraining the timing of the GOE
Andrea Boscaini (at the University of Padua, co-supervised with Andrea Marzoli, start 2019) – the origin of the Carnian Pluvial event and its relation to the Wrangellia flood basalt province in Western North America.
Masters students –
Vanessa Sanchez (at UQAM co-supervised with Alain Tremblay, start 2018) – Identifying Ordovician tephra horizons on Montreal island.
Alexandre Gitzhoffer (at UQAM co-supervised with Stèphane De Souza, start 2019) – Géologie et genèse du gisement aurifère rhyacien de Dorlin dans le contexte du Bouclier Guianais, Guyane Française
Migel St Denis (at UQAM co-supervised with Stèphane De Souza, Start 2020) – Detrial record of the opening of the Iapetus ocean, and the causes of heavy mineral concentrations during this time.
Undergraduate students –
Meliane Carrier-Favreau (2020) – summer research internship on new methods to separate minerals from detrial sediments, funded by Geotop
Alicia Coulier (2020) – summer research internship on detrital minerals in Proterozoic sediments from the NWT, funded by Geotop. Alicia has continued to work for me after the internship, helping with sample preparation in the lab.
Wissam Mehanna (2020) - undergraduate research project. Zircon based Ti temperatures in magmatic rocks throughout time.
Former Group Members
Postdocs –
Dr. Morgann Perrot - (2019-2020) Worked on developing new techniques to date fluid flow in sedimentary basins, and also split stream analysis of detrital minerals from sedimentary basins in the Appalachians to understand the evolution of the origin. She is now on maternity leave.