Vancouver, BC – June 25, 2018 – Today, ten post-graduate geoscience students have been selected to receive Geoscience BC’s prestigious Scholarship Award. The students will each receive a $5,000 scholarship for their British Columbia-focused applied geoscience related to minerals, energy and water resources. “Congratulations to all of this year’s successful scholarship recipients. Geoscience BC’s scholarship […]

June 18, 2018 – Resources for Future Generations (RFG) is a great place to see and hear about Geoscience BC’s public geoscience. More than 25 talks across minerals, energy and water relate to research funded by Geoscience BC. Geoscience BC is also demonstrating some of its research at the GHGMap emissions mapping project at RFG’s […]

Vancouver, BC – June 13, 2018 – A new report published by Geoscience BC today matches machine learning and interpretive techniques for stream sample geochemistry to locate mineral deposits in northwest British Columbia. The Integrated Assessment of Regional Stream Sediment Geochemistry for Metallic Deposits in Northern Stikine Terrane project used techniques including ‘random forest’ and […]

Vancouver, BC – May 22, 2018 – The final report from Geoscience BC’s Peace Project has been released today, providing important data for groundwater management and responsible resource development in northeast BC. Produced by experts from Simon Fraser University, the report summarizes 16 pieces of research conducted since 2014 in a region where continuing oil […]

Vancouver, BC – April 19, 2018 – A new report published by Geoscience BC today delivers a clearer picture of the valuable minerals hidden below the surface in west-central British Columbia using an advanced analysis and modelling technique to reliably locate buried deposits in prospective areas obscured by sediments. The Advanced processing of the TREK […]

Vancouver, BC – April 17, 2018 -Geoscience BC has today launched its Strategic Plan 2018-2022, which sets out the priority areas of work that the non-profit society will focus on over the next five years to continue providing high-quality and unbiased earth science that is useful and publicly accessible. Under the moniker Forging Opportunities Through […]

Vancouver, BC – April 6, 2018 – A new report from Geoscience BC merges information from two different geophysical surveys to provide a clearer picture of where new mineral deposits might be found beneath the Purcell Mountains in southeastern British Columbia. The virtual two-dimensional (2D) slices through the earth created in this project provide new […]

Vancouver, BC – March 26, 2018 -Two new reports published by Geoscience BC today provide valuable new information about groundwater resources in northeastern BC’s Peace region. The reports are part of Geoscience BC’s Peace Project, a three-year multi-disciplinary study providing baseline information about groundwater in the Peace region. This new data and knowledge will enable […]

Vancouver, BC – March 21, 2018 -Geoscience BC has opened its annual scholarship program, with up to ten $5,000 awards available to MSc and PhD students. Since 2007, Geoscience BC has invested $470,000 into the scholarship program to encourage and inspire the next generation of earth scientists. Geoscience BC will award up to ten scholarships […]

Vancouver’s clean technology sector receives a boost. Three clean technology organizations receive more than $3 million in funding from the Government of Canada. March 15, 2018 – Vancouver, BC -Western Economic Diversification Canada – Three local companies will benefit from strategic investments to help grow the Canadian clean tech industry, protect the environment and create […]