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HONORARY MEMBERSHIP

DONALD G. COOK

DAVID G. SMITH

Donald G. Cook

Donald (Don) Cook is a nationally and internationally recognised scientist who has made significant contributions to the Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists, to the general geo-science community, and to our understanding of the geology of Canada, in terms of his personal research, his scientific leadership, and his role as a mentor to young scientists.

Cook hails from Dryden, Ontario where he still spends his summers fishing and swatting mosquitoes. Cook attended Queen’s University and he obtained his BSc (Eng) in 1962, his MSc in 1965 and his PhD in 1967. At Queen’s he was strongly influenced by the legendary Ray Price and Cook did his PhD research on an analysis of structural style controlled by the Cambrian shale-out near Mount Stephen in the southern Rockies. Following graduation, Cook joined the Geological Survey of Canada where he had previously worked in the summers as a mapper on Operation Bow-Athabasca. Cook’s arrival at GSC coincided with the opening of the Institute of Sedimentary and Petroleum Geology (ISPG) in northwest Calgary.

Cook has spent almost his entire career with the Geological Survey of Canada mapping in northwestern Canada, both surface and subsurface, and pioneering concepts in structural geology. He was one of the leaders in the mapping of twelve 1:250,000 and 1:500,000 scale geological maps of the Mackenzie and Franklin mountains, and adjacent Interior Plains (>12000 sq. km.), as well as preparation of regional reports on the Mesozoic of a large part of the Northern Interior Plains. He provided the initial definition of the multi-phase paleotectonic high, the Keele Arch. He recognized similarities and differences between the northern Franklin Mountains . . . [Full Text of this Article]