This annual award is presented jointly by Canadian Science Publishing (CSP) and the Geological Association of Canada (GAC). The award recognizes a paper that uses new methods, or reports novel results, or reflects a monumental assembly of information resulting in research likely to have an immediate or long-term impact on one of the many areas of geoscience covered in the Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences.
2024
Melanie C. Kelman and Alexander M. Wilson are the recipients of the 2024 Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences Best Paper Award for their paper titled Assessing the relative threats from Canadian volcanoes (https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/full/10.1139/cjes-2023-0074).
With this award, Melanie C. Kelman and Alexander M. Wilson are recognized for their work on assessing 28 Canadian volcanoes and determining the relative threats to people, aviation, and infrastructure – drawing attention to the gaps in monitoring of Canadian volcanoes. Using this threat assessment, they aim to spur interest in conducting future volcanic hazard and risk assessments, beginning with Canada’s three High threat volcanoes (Mt. Cayley, Mt. Price, and Mt. Edziza), and to make existing volcanic hazard assessments easily accessible to the public and end-user organizations. The goal of their research is to encourage more comprehensive monitoring, including the use of seismic stations at key Very High and High threat volcanoes, and to expand other volcanic risk reduction activities such as landslide detection and alerting systems, to bring Canada closer to recommended best practices for volcano risk reduction.
Past Winners
2023
John Menzies. 2023. A micromorphological perspective on the Neoproterozoic Smalfjord and Mortensnes Formation diamictites-Varangerfjord, Norway. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. 60(7): 696–712. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjes-2022-0019
2022
Amy P.I. Hagen, David S. Jones, Nicholas J. Tosca, David A. Fike, and Sara B. Pruss. 2022. Sedimentary mercury as a proxy for redox oscillations during the Cambrian SPICE event in western Newfoundland. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. 59(8): 504–520. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjes-2021-0108
2021
Sánchez-Mora, C.R.M. McFarlane, J.A. Walker, and D.R. Lentz. 2021. Geochemistry and U–Pb geochronology of the Williams Brook area, Tobique–Chaleur zone, New Brunswick: stratigraphic and geotectonic setting of gold mineralization. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. 58(10): 1040–1058. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjes-2020-0094
2020
Adrien Boucher, Lucie Mathieu, Michael A. Hamilton, Pierre Bedeaux, and Réal Daigneault. 2020. Petrogenesis and economic potential of the Obatogamau Formation, Chibougamau area, Abitibi greenstone belt. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. 58(6): 519–541. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjes-2020-0032
2019 – NA
2018
Chris E. White, Sandra M. Barr, and Ulf Linnemann. 2018. U–Pb (zircon) ages and provenance of the White Rock Formation of the Rockville Notch Group, Meguma terrane, Nova Scotia, Canada: evidence for the “Sardian gap” and West African origin. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. 55(6): 589–603. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjes-2017-0196
2017
Tiffani A. Fraser and Matt P. Hutchison. 2017. Lithogeochemical characterization of the Middle–Upper Devonian Road River Group and Canol and Imperial formations on Trail River, east Richardson Mountains, Yukon: age constraints and a depositional model for fine-grained strata in the Lower Paleozoic Richardson trough. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. 54(7): 731–765. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjes-2016-0216
2016
R.A. Glen, E. Belousova, and W.L. Griffin. 2016. Different styles of modern and ancient non-collisional orogens and implications for crustal growth: a Gondwanaland perspective. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. 53(11): 1372–1415. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjes-2015-0229
2015
Luke Ootes, William J. Davis, Valerie A. Jackson, and Otto van Breemen. 2015. Chronostratigraphy of the Hottah terrane and Great Bear magmatic zone of Wopmay Orogen, Canada, and exploration of a terrane translation model. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. 52(12): 1062–1092. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjes-2015-0026
2014
Sanborn-Barrie, W.J. Davis, R.G. Berman, N. Rayner, T. Skulski, and H. Sandeman. 2014. Neoarchean continental crust formation and Paleoproterozoic deformation of the central Rae craton, Committee Bay belt, Nunavut. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. 51(6): 635–667. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjes-2014-0010
2013
Roger LeB Hooke, Don I. Cummings, Jerome-Etienne Lesemann, and David R. Sharpe. 2013. Genesis of dispersal plumes in till. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. 50(8): 847–855. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjes-2013-0018
2012
M.E. McMechan. 2012. Deep transverse basement structural control of mineral systems in the southeastern Canadian Cordillera. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. 49(5): 693–708. https://doi.org/10.1139/e2012-013
2011
D.E. Moser, C.L. Cupelli, I.R. Barker, R.M. Flowers, J.R. Bowman, J. Wooden, and J.R. Hart. 2011. New zircon shock phenomena and their use for dating and reconstruction of large impact structures revealed by electron nanobeam (EBSD, CL, EDS) and isotopic U–Pb and (U–Th)/He analysis of the Vredefort dome. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. 48(2): 117–139. https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.1139/E11-011