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Ph.D. THESIS AWARD

MICHAEL C. RYGEL

The 2006 recipient of the award for the Ph.D. that made the most outstanding contribution to Canadian sedimentary and petroleum geology is Dr. Michael C. Rygel. His thesis, entitled "Alluvial sedimentology and basin analysis of Carboniferous strata near Joggins, Nova Scotia, Canada," was supervised by Dr. Martin Gibling at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Michael received financial assistance from the Geological Society of America (GSA), the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, the Coal Geology Division of GSA, and a Nova Scotia Museum Research Grant. Additional financial support was provided to Martin Gibling by Imperial Oil and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). An important part of Michael’s research included working with Dr. John Waldron at the University of Alberta on a project sponsored by Devon Canada.

Michael graduated with a B.S. from the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown in 2000 and completed his Ph.D. in Earth Sciences at Dalhousie University in 2005. While at Dalhousie University, Michael was awarded the President’s Graduate Teaching Assistant Award (2002–2003), was a Killam Pre-Doctoral Scholar (2003–2005), and won the Doctoral Thesis . . . [Full Text of this Article]