{"id":54,"date":"2017-12-15T08:58:07","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T15:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cms.eas.ualberta.ca\/team-diamond\/?page_id=54"},"modified":"2025-09-26T13:10:28","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T20:10:28","slug":"alumni","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cms.eas.ualberta.ca\/team-diamond\/contact-us\/alumni\/","title":{"rendered":"Awesome Alumni"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>BSc (undergraduate thesis) students:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Jie (Amber) Yu<\/strong>, 2020, Stable isotope and nitrogen characteristics of Cr-pyrope included diamonds from Gahcho Ku\u00e9 Mine<\/li>\n<li><strong>Kelsey Bulbuc<\/strong>, 2018, Growth conditions of sulphide-bearing diamonds from the Victor Mine (Ontario, Canada)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jen Sern Tan<\/strong>, 2016, Diamonds from the Konawaruk River, Guyana<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mitchell Galarneau<\/strong>, 2015, Growth Modes of the Victor Mine Diamonds<\/li>\n<li><strong>Pamela Wescot<\/strong>, 2014, Infrared Spectroscopy and Carbon Isotopic Analyses of Victor Mine Diamond<\/li>\n<li><strong>Katie Nichols<\/strong> (now Hogberg), 2011, A study on websterites from the Diavik diamond Mine, Slave Craton, Canada<\/li>\n<li><strong>Vanessa Marcheggiani-Croden<\/strong>, 2010, Boart from the Diavik Diamond Mine (Slave Province, Canada) &#8211; Unrelated to gem diamond formation<\/li>\n<li><strong>Angela Johnson<\/strong>, 2007, Garnet peridotite xenoliths from kimberlites at Repulse Bay, Nunavut<\/li>\n<li><strong>Kristin Chislett<\/strong>, 2007, Garnet peridotite xenoliths from A154, Diavik Diamond Mine<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tara Gunson<\/strong>, 2005, The petrography and mineral chemistry of the Aviat-4 kimberlite, Melville Peninsula, Nunavut<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hayley McLean<\/strong>, 2005, Garnet xenocrysts from the Diavik Diamond Mine: Colour, composition and paragenesis<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tracey Keith<\/strong>, 2004, Cr-rich amphiboles in till as potential kimberlite indicator minerals, Southern Buffalo Hills, Alberta<\/li>\n<li><strong>Margaret Hanrahan<\/strong>, 2003, Garnet peridotite xenoliths from the Koffiefontein Mine, South Africa<\/li>\n<li><strong>Steven Creighton<\/strong>, 2003, A preliminary study of the mineral chemistry of selected Alberta kimberlites<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>MSc (Master&#8217;s thesis) students:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Kelsey Graversen (n\u00e9e Bulbuc)<\/strong>, 2020, Diamonds and their inclusions from Snap Lake diamond mine (Northwest Territories, Canada)<\/li>\n<li><strong>William Siva-Jothy<\/strong>, 2020, Inclusions and their host diamonds from the Gahcho Ku\u00e9 mine, Canada<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mei Yan Lai<\/strong>, 2018, Spectroscopic Analysis of Yellow Diamonds<\/li>\n<li><strong>Xinchen Xia<\/strong>, 2018, Mineral inclusions in diamonds from Chidliak (Nunavut, Canada): constraining the diamond substrates<\/li>\n<li><strong>Katie Nichols<\/strong> (now Hogberg), 2013, Diamond sources beneath the Hall Peninsula, Baffin Island, Nunavut: A preliminary assessment based on Chidliak diamonds<\/li>\n<li><strong>Catherine Nadine Johnson<\/strong>, 2011, The physical and geochemical characteristics of diamonds from the Artemisia Kimberlite (Northern Slave Craton, Nunavut, Canada) and the micro-\/macro-diamond relationship<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jennifer Peats<\/strong>, 2011, Aviat diamonds: A window into the deep lithospheric mantle beneath the northern Churchill Province<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dana Verigeanu<\/strong>, 2006, A study of peridotitic xenoliths from the Voyageur Kimberlites, Slave Craton, Canada<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cara Donnelly<\/strong>, 2006, The characterization of diamonds and their mineral inclusions from the Diavik Diamond Mine, Lac de Gras, Northwest Territories, Canada<\/li>\n<li><strong>Anetta Banas<\/strong>, 2005, Diamonds and their formation: Characterization of diamonds from the Buffalo Head Hills, Alberta and metasomatism recorded by garnet inclusions from the De Beers Pool, South Africa<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sonja Aulbach<\/strong>, 1999 (in Frankfurt), The chemistry of syngenetic mineral inclusions in diamonds from Venetia and the stable isotope compositions of diamonds from Mwadui and the Kankan district<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>PhD (doctoral thesis) students:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Fiona Clark<\/strong>, 2025, Geochronology, mineral chemistry and geochemistry of the 1.1 Ga Kapuskasing ultramafic lamprophyres<\/li>\n<li><strong>Andrea Pezzera<\/strong>, 2025, Diamonds as probes of Earth\u2019s mantle in space and time<\/li>\n<li><strong>Qiwei Zhang<\/strong>, 2024, Insights into deep Earth provided by sublithospheric diamonds and associated minerals from the DO-27 kimberlite, Slave Craton, Canada<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sarah E.M. Milne<\/strong>, 2024, Diamonds with unusual inclusions from unique cratonic settings<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mei Yan Lai<\/strong>, 2022, Geochemistry of diamonds and their mineral inclusions constraining the composition of the lithospheric mantle and recycling of crustal materials<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nicole A. Meyer<\/strong>, 2021, Diamonds and their inclusions from the Koffiefontein Mine<\/li>\n<li><strong>Margo E. Regier<\/strong>, 2020, Subduction and the genesis of mantle roots and diamonds<\/li>\n<li><strong>Matthew F. Hardman<\/strong>, 2020, Improving the use of eclogitic garnet as a diamond indicator mineral and constraining the origin of eclogites in the subcontinental lithospheric mantle<\/li>\n<li><strong>Theetso Motsamai<\/strong>, 2018, The composition of the lithospheric mantle beneath the Karowe Mine and its associated diamond sources in north-eastern Botswana<\/li>\n<li><strong>Janina Czas<\/strong>, 2018, The quandary of the Sask Craton: Origin and evolution of the lithospheric mantle beneath the Sask Craton<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mandy Krebs<\/strong>, 2018, Impurities and defects in, and isotope compositions of, gemstones<\/li>\n<li><strong>Karen V. Smit<\/strong>, 2013, Age, origin and composition of the Attawapiskat lithospheric mantle and its diamonds (western Superior Craton, Canada)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Greg Melton<\/strong>, 2013, Elemental impurities, defects and carbon isotopes in mantle diamond<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lucy Hunt<\/strong>, 2011, Conditions of diamond formation and preservation from on- and off- craton settings<\/li>\n<li><strong>Steven Creighton<\/strong>, 2009, The influence of mantle metasomatism on the oxidation state of the lithospheric mantle<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ralf Tappert<\/strong>, 2005, The nature of diamonds and their mineral inclusions: a study of diamonds from the Panda (Canada) and Jagersfontein (South Africa) kimberlites and from placer deposits in Brazil<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Postdoctoral fellows:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Karen Smit<\/strong>, 2022, Diamond dating projects, B stable isotopes, editing RiMG diamond volume<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nicole Meyer<\/strong>, 2021, Re-Os dating of sulfide inclusions from Koffiefontein<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dan Howell<\/strong>, 2019, Diamond carbon stable isotope composition through time<\/li>\n<li><strong>Duane Petts<\/strong>, 2015, SIMS stable isotope studies of diamonds<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lucy Hunt<\/strong>, 2013, The relationship between gem and non-gem diamonds at Diavik Diamond Mines (Slave Craton, NWT)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ryan Ickert<\/strong>, 2012, Oxygen isotopic analysis of inclusions in diamonds<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sonja Aulbach<\/strong>, 2009, Re-Os isotopic dating of diamond forming events beneath the Kalahari and Slave Cratons<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BSc (undergraduate thesis) students: Jie (Amber) Yu, 2020, Stable isotope and nitrogen characteristics of Cr-pyrope included diamonds from Gahcho Ku\u00e9 Mine Kelsey Bulbuc, 2018, Growth conditions of sulphide-bearing diamonds from the Victor Mine (Ontario, Canada) Jen Sern Tan, 2016, Diamonds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":7,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-54","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.eas.ualberta.ca\/team-diamond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.eas.ualberta.ca\/team-diamond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.eas.ualberta.ca\/team-diamond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.eas.ualberta.ca\/team-diamond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.eas.ualberta.ca\/team-diamond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/cms.eas.ualberta.ca\/team-diamond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/54\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":877,"href":"https:\/\/cms.eas.ualberta.ca\/team-diamond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/54\/revisions\/877"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.eas.ualberta.ca\/team-diamond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.eas.ualberta.ca\/team-diamond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}