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SUMMARY:Geology\, resources and sovereignty: the ongoing effort to map Arc
 tic Canada - Professor Marc St-Onge\, Geological Survey of Canada and Univ
 ersity of Oxford
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CONTACT:Natalie Forrest
DESCRIPTION:Canada is a polar country with a vast territory.  Its onshore 
 expanse ranks second in the world with 10 million km²\, its landmass furt
 her augmented by an additional 7 million km2 of offshore-submerged lands. 
  Canada’s geology is complex\, containing the world’s oldest rocks to 
 the youngest sedimentary strata in addition to a rich endowment of mineral
  and petroleum resources.  These unique national geological attributes hav
 e created a fertile ground for geological research and exploration\, in sy
 nergy with Canadian and international academic collaborators including res
 earchers at Cambridge.  Today’s presentation will focus on the Canadian 
 Arctic and its unique geological record\, the origin of key onshore and of
 fshore features\, and how geological research in the eastern Canadian Arct
 ic has helped constrain the emergence of modern plate tectonic processes o
 n planet Earth.  \n\n*Short bio:*\n\nMarc graduated in 1981 from Queen’s
  University in Kingston\, Ontario\, with a PhD in Earth Sciences. For >37 
 years\, he has been a project leader at the Geological Survey of Canada (G
 SC)\, leading field mapping expeditions to study unknown or little-known d
 estinations and phenomena in remote parts of the world\, from the Coppermi
 ne River area in the western Canadian Arctic (where he discovered the olde
 st rocks in the world) to Banks Island\, the Keewatin\, northern Quebec\, 
 southeastern\, southwestern\, central and northern Baffin Island\, western
  Greenland\, and the Himalaya of Pakistan\, India and Nepal and the Tibeta
 n Plateau in China.  His documented contributions to scientific exploratio
 n and geological field research are evidenced by the publication of over 1
 25 scientific papers and technical reports and 119 geological maps. \n \nM
 arc was appointed Senior Research Fellow at Oxford in 2004\, Fellow of the
  Royal Canadian Geographical Society in 2010\, Vice-President (North Ameri
 ca) of the Commission for the Geological Map of the World (CGMW) in 2012\,
  Visiting Senior Scholar at Cambridge and Visiting Professor at Oxford in 
 2019.  His passion and knowledge of Arctic geology served as inspiration f
 or a short story entitled “Stone Mattress” by Margaret Atwood\, and hi
 s innovative work led to the publication of the circumpolar “Geological 
 Map of the Arctic” in 2011\, the “Tectonic Map of Arctic Canada” in 
 2015\, the GSC’s first-ever geological maps in Inuktitut in 2015\, the 
 “Tectonic Map of the Arctic” in 2019\, and the forthcoming Canada-3D A
 pp in 2020.  \n \nThe Royal Canadian Geographical Society recognized Marc 
 as one of Canada’s “top 100 modern-day explorers” in 2015.  He recei
 ved the Geologic Mapping Award in Honour of Florence Bascom from the Geolo
 gical Society of America and the Gold Medal from the Royal Canadian Geogra
 phical Society in 2016.\n 
LOCATION: Harker 1\, Department of Earth Sciences\, Downing Street
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