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PH.D. THESIS AWARD

ALEX J. MACNEIL

The 2007 recipient of the award for the Ph.D. that made the most outstanding contribution to Canadian sedimentary and petroleum geology is Dr. Alex J. MacNeil. His thesis, entitled Sedimentology of the Late Devonian (Frasnian) Alexandra Reef System, Northwest Territories, Canada: New Insight to the Nature of Devonian Reef Systems, was supervised by Dr. Brian Jones in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Alberta. Financial assistance for Alex’s research was provided by the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Canadian Circumpolar Institute, Northern Science Training Program, American Association of Petroleum Geologists Foundation, Anadarko, and Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. Additional fellowships and scholarships from the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council, Alberta Government, and the University of Alberta were also awarded to Alex.

Alex grew up in Saskatoon and graduated from the University of Saskatchewan in 1998 with a B.Sc. Honours degree in Paleobiology/Geology. Two summers of mapping Paleoproterozoic rift deposits in the Wollaston Domain of northern . . . [Full Text of this Article]