By: Christa Pellett, Vice President, Minerals Geoscience BC’s Christa Pellett looks back at a series of minerals research projects that continue to support mineral exploration on Vancouver Island. In January 2020 Geoscience BC released the results of the Vancouver Island North (VIN) Regional Project which comprised a high-resolution airborne magnetic and radiometric survey of northern […]
Vancouver, BC – March 17, 2021 – Applications for Geoscience BC’s 2021 scholarship program are now open. Each year, Geoscience BC awards $5,000 scholarships to up to ten post-graduate students working on British Columbia-focused minerals, energy or water geoscience research projects. The program is part of a commitment to support post-graduate research and the next […]
By: Carlos Salas, Executive Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer Geoscience BC released the Summary of Activities 2020: Energy & Water in January 2021. It contains 16 papers from Geoscience BC-funded projects or scholarship recipients. The papers contribute to meeting four strategic objectives from the Geoscience BC Strategic Plan 2018-2022: facilitating responsible natural resource development; […]
Applications are now closed Vancouver, BC – March 1, 2021 – Geoscience BC is seeking volunteers to join our Geothermal Technical Advisory Committee (TAC), a group of experts that identifies, plans, develops and reviews our independent, relevant and public geothermal related earth science research in British Columbia. Geoscience BC’s Minerals, Oil & Gas and Geothermal […]
Investing now in science and technology will attract investment, create jobs, promote collaborative innovation, reduce emissions and support Indigenous reconciliation throughout the province By: Gavin C. Dirom, President & CEO After a long and difficult 2020, the new year started with a sense of optimism and indicators of better times ahead as COVID-19 vaccinations […]
Vancouver and Fort St. John, BC – February 23, 2021 – A new water research program will gather Western science and Indigenous Knowledge data to increase understanding of water quality and water quantity in the Peace region. The Pilot Collaborative Water Monitoring Program, Northeast BC will install co-located surface water monitoring stations, groundwater wells and […]
By: Christa Pellett, Vice President, Minerals Geoscience BC recently released the Summary of Activities 2020: Minerals which contains 15 papers from Geoscience BC-funded projects or scholarship recipients. The papers contribute to meeting two strategic objectives from the Geoscience BC Strategic Plan 2018-2022: identifying new natural resource opportunities; and advancing science and innovative geoscience technologies. […]
Vancouver, BC – January 28, 2021 – Geoscience BC and the Canadian Society for Unconventional Resources (CSUR) will jointly host a technical webinar to highlight the research of six Geoscience BC research projects featured in Geoscience BC’s Summary of Activities 2020: Energy and Water on February 23. The energy and water research projects cover three […]
Vancouver, BC – January 18, 2021 – Papers summarizing 31 Geoscience BC minerals, energy and water research projects and scholarships in 2020 are now available in Geoscience BC’s Minerals and Energy & Water Summary of Activities 2020 volumes. Summary of Activities 2020: Minerals (Geoscience BC Report 2021-01) contains 15 technical papers that introduce or report […]
Vancouver, BC – January 18, 2021 – A Geoscience BC project has extracted important public geoscience and mineral deposit data from technical reports and made it more readily accessible, searchable, and locatable. Although freely available to the public, the geoscience information recorded by mineral exploration and mining companies in National Instrument 43-101 (NI 43-101) technical […]