Fred Longstaffe
Frederick John "Fred" Longstaffe (* before 1973) is a Canadian geochemist .
Life
Longstaffe studied geology at the University of Windsor with a bachelor's degree in 1973 and received his PhD from McMaster University in 1978 (The oxygen isotope and elemental geochemistry of Archean rocks from northern Ontario). He was then at the University of Alberta (Associate Professor) and in 1987 he received a professorship at the University of Western Ontario , where he also became Dean of Science in 1999 and Provost and Vice President in 2005. He founded a stable isotope laboratory there and has a Canada Research Chair in the science of stable isotopes.
He used isotope analysis for research on paleoclimatology, reconstruction of paleoecosystems especially in the Pleistocene and Holocene, in zoology, anthropology and botany, investigation of hydrothermal deposits, oil sands, clay minerals, diagenesis of clastic sediments, systematics of rocks and minerals and environmental research.
He has been a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada since 1997 and received the Logan Medal in 2003 . He received the WW Hutchison Medal in 1993, the Past Presidents Medal of the Mineralogical Association of Canada in 1998 and the Willet G. Miller Medal of the Royal Society of Canada in 2007 . He was president of the Geological Association of Canada .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Longstaffe, Fred |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Longstaffe, Frederick John (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian geochemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | before 1973 |