Education
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Conference Presentations
Work Experience
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Awards & Scholarships
Sep 2020 – May 2025 (Expected)
Waterloo, Ontario
Honours: 4.0/4.0 GPA
Thesis: Regionally extensive H2O-fluxed melting in the lower crust
Sep 2018 – Aug 2020
Ottawa, Ontario
Honours: 11.6/12.0 GPA
Thesis: The Early Jurassic metamorphic history of the Yukon-Tanana terrane of northwestern British Columbia: Insights from a new inverse garnet fractionation modelling technique
Sep 2014 – Apr 2018
Toronto, Ontario
Honours: 3.86/4.0 GPA • NSERC Undergraduate Research Award 2016–2017 • University of Toronto Excellence Award 2015
Thesis: PGEs in melt inclusions of volcanic rocks from the Southwest Pacific
Activities: President of Society of Economic Geologists Student Chapter 2017–2018
Dyer S.C., Edgeworth I., Kendall B., Yakymchuk C., "Late-orogenic retrograde zircon growth", Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, Submitted 2024, Manuscript ID: CTMP-D-24-00202
Scorsolini L.G., van Staal C., Yakymchuk C., Hanchar J., Dyer S.C., "Exhumation mechanisms of high-pressure rocks with high-temperature overprinting: insights from eclogites of the Baie Verte Peninsula, Newfoundland", Journal of Metamorphic Geology, Submitted 2024, Manuscript ID: JMG-24-0034
Soucy La Roche R., Dyer S.C., Zagorevski A., Cottle J.M., Gaidies F., "50 Myr of Episodic Metamorphism Recorded in the Yukon-Tanana Terrane, Northern Canadian Cordillera: Evidence from Monazite and Xenotime Petrochronology", Lithosphere, 2022,
DOI: https://doi-org.proxy.lib.uwaterloo.ca/10.2113/2022/7708357
Brown J. L., Dyer S.C., Mungall J. E., Ellis D. J., Christy A. G., "High Pressure Cu-Fe-S Phase Equilibria: Some experimental and thermodynamic constraints on sulfides in subduction zones and the lithospheric mantle", Journal of Petrology, 2020, DOI: 10.1093/petrology/egaa043
Dyer S.C.*, Yakymchuk C., "Large wet orogen? Widespread H2O-fluxed melting in the middle crust in the Grenville", Goldschmidt, Chicago, IL, USA, Aug 2024
Dyer S.C.*, Yakymchuk C., "Fluid-fluxed melting occurs on a regional scale in the Grenville Province", GSA Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh,PA, USA, Oct 2023
Dyer S.C.*, Yakymchuk C., "How it’s made: An in-situ study of zircon-forming reactions in subsolidus metamorphic systems", Goldschmidt, Lyon, France, Jul 2023
Dyer S.C.*, Yakymchuk C., "Most trace elements in metamorphic zircon are representative of equilibrium conditions", GAC-MAC, Halifax, NS, Canada, May 2022
Soucy La Roche R.*, Dyer S.C., Zagorevski A., Cottle J.M., Gaidies F., "Monazite, xenotime and Al2SiO5 polymorphs, the perfect team to characterize polymetamorphism", Metamorphic Studies Group, Online conference, Mar 2021
Dyer S.C.*, Soucy La Roche R., Gaidies F., Cutts J., Petts D., Zagorevski A., "A new inverse garnet fractionation modelling technique and applications to the Yukon-Tanana terrane of north-western British Columbia", GSA Connects, Online conference, Aug 2020
Soucy La Roche R.*, Dyer S.C., Cottle J.M., Zagorevski A., Gaidies F., "Monazite and xenotime laser ablation split stream petrochronology, a proposed method to decipher the complex metamorphic evolution of the Yukon-Tanana Terrane, Northern Canadian Cordillera", GSA Annual Meeting, Phoenix, AZ, USA, Sep 2019
Brown J.L.*, Dyer S.C., Mungall J.E., Ellis D.J., Christy A.G., "High Pressure Cu-Fe-S Phase Equilibria: Some experimental and thermodynamic constraints on sulfides in subduction zones and the lithospheric mantle", Resources for Future Generations, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Jun 2018
Dyer S.C.*, Mungall J.E., "Experimental constraints on thermosolutal convection in the stratified Sudbury impact melt sheet", GAC-MAC, Kingston, ON, Canada, May 2017 Dyer S.C.*, Mungall J.E., "Experimental constraints on thermosolutal convection in the stratified Sudbury impact melt sheet", Penrose conference on layered mafic intrusions, Red Lodge, Montana, USA, Aug 2016
Teaching Assistant – Field School
Jan 2024 – Apr 2024
Helped professors and other teaching assistants with field logistics
Assisted students in the field with understanding local geology and interpreting structural data
Graded assignments
Instructor – Metamorphic Petrology
Jan 2023 – Apr 2023
Developed new lecture material for third year metamorphic petrology class
Delivered three one-hour lectures weekly
Provided in-class assignments to students for interactive learning
Evaluated learning using bi-weekly quizzes and a final exam
Teaching Assistant – Mineralogy
Sep 2022 – Dec 2022
Assisted students in labs with understanding how to identify rocks and minerals
Helped professor organize and run labs
Helped run a weekend field trip
Graded assignments and exams
Teaching Assistant – Field School
Jan 2022 –Apr 2022
Helped professors and other teaching assistants with field logistics
Assisted students in the field with understanding local geology and interpreting structural data
Graded assignments
Teaching Assistant – Metamorphic Petrology
Jan 2022 – Apr 2022
Assisted students in labs with understanding how to identify and interpret metamorphic minerals in thin section and hand sample
Helped professor organize and run labs
Graded assignments
Teaching Assistant – Petrology
Jan 2021 – Apr 2021
Assisted students virtually in understanding how to identify minerals in thin section
Helped professor organize and run virtual labs
Graded assignments
Teaching Assistant – Metamorphic Petrology & Advanced Metamorphic Petrology
Jan 2020 – Apr 2020
Assisted students in labs with understanding how to identify and interpret metamorphic minerals in thin section and hand sample
Helped professor organize and run labs
Graded assignments
Teaching Assistant – Environmental Science Field Methods
Sep 2019 – Dec 2019
Helped professors and other teaching assistants with field logistics
Assisted students in the field with understanding local geology and interpreting structural data
Graded assignments
Teaching Assistant - Natural Hazards Sep 2019 – Dec 2019
Graded assignments and exams
Teaching Assistant – Ore Deposits
Jan 2019 – Apr 2019
Assisted students in labs with understanding how to identify and interpret ore minerals in thin section and hand sample
Helped professor organize and run labs
Graded assignments
Teaching Assistant – Metamorphic Petrology
Sep 2018 – Dec 2018
Assisted students in labs with understanding how to identify and interpret metamorphic minerals in thin section and hand sample
Helped professor organize and run labs
Helped run a weekend field trip
Graded assignments
Field Assistant
Jul 2018 – Aug 2018
Assisted in sample collection and collection of structural data in remote BC
Provided logistical and operational support in managing remote field camps
I took a GIS minor where I learned how to use a variety of tools in ArcGIS. I've used ArcGIS and QGIS to build maps for papers, posters, and presentations by incorporating a variety of data sources. I have done most of my field work with mobile GIS tools such as QField and ArcGIS Field Maps. I enjoy making and desigining useful and aesthetic geological maps using these tools
My field experience in my MSc and PhD were medium to large-scale regional studies that required targeted sampling. For my PhD, I was responsible for all logistics and planning of the field work. In my MSc, I worked with the GSC in remote northern BC, requiring multi-day fly camps in the mountains. My mapping skills have been developed primarily in field classes I have both taught and taken myself in multiple distinct geological regions in Ontario. I have a particular interest in field work and mapping as part of large regional studies of high grade metamorphic terranes.
Most of my work has been focused on determining metamorphic reactions and pressure-temperature-time paths using a combination of thermodynamic modelling and a variety of analytical techniques including petrography, SEM, EPMA, LA-ICP-MS, and XR-μCT to analyze textures, mineral geochemistry, and dates and determine the tectonic history of a region. I have also worked on migmatites, using these same techniques in addition to bulk rock geochemistry to assess regional melting processes and pathways. I am especially interested in studying petrology of igneous and metamorphic rocks with the aim of developing comprehensive tectonic models.
Throughout my MSc and PhD I have developed programs for modelling, data analysis, and data visualization using Python and Julia. This has required the application of tools like MatPlotLib, Makie.jl, and data frames, as well as statistical methods like K-means clustering, linear and nonlinear regressions, and principal component analysis. I enjoy working with large data sets and developing tools to interpret and visualize that data.
Ontario Graduate Scholarship
Waterloo, Ontario
Issued by Ontario Student Assistance Program Sep 2021 to Aug 2024
$15,000/year award to pursue graduate research
President's Scholarship
Waterloo, Ontario
Issued by University of Waterloo Sep 2021 to Aug 2024
$5000/year award for earning an Ontario Graduate Scholarship
Science Graduate Award
Waterloo, Ontario
Issued by University of Waterloo Sep 2020 to Aug 2024
$4000/year award to pursue graduate research
Ontario Graduate Scholarship
Ottawa, Ontario
Issued by Ontario Student Assistance Program Sep 2019 to Aug 2020
$15,000 award to pursue graduate research
NSERC-CGS-M
Ottawa, Ontario
Issued by Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Sep 2018 to Aug 2019
$17,500 award to pursue graduate research