2010 Teacher Workshop (August 14th to 19th)

Dr. Jon Fennell

Dr. Fennell is the Director of Water Resources for WorleyParsons Canada, and a Principal Hydro-geologist with over 23 years consulting experience in the oil & gas sector.  He received his B.Sc. degree in Geology from the University of Saskatchewan in 1985 and a M.Sc. degree in Hydrogeology from the University of Calgary in 1994, and recently a Ph.D. degree in Geochemistry from the University of Calgary.

Jon’s areas of specialization include physical hydrology and hydrogeology, environmental forensics, isotope geochemistry, water resource evaluation & management, and the development of large-scale monitoring systems. Much of this experience has been gained in the three major oil sands regions of Alberta. Jon’s skills also extend to assessing the effects of climate change and land cover alterations on basin hydrology, and the development of effective management strategies to ensure water resource sustainability.

In addition to his company duties, Jon is a volunteer for the Bow River Basin Council (a water planning and advisory council) and serves as Vice-chair.  He is also involved with the Integrated Watershed Planning Team and is Chair of the Modeling & Monitoring committee.

Jon Dudley

Jon Dudley received his B.Sc. in Geology from the University of Toronto, and his Ph. D from the University of Calgary. Geology-related work has taken Jon to the Canadian Arctic, Iceland, Kluane National Park, Brazil, north-central B.C., the American Southwest, Italy, the United Kingdom and northern Ontario. He has worked in the Oil industry for over 25 years, with multinational oil companies, as a consultant, and, most recently, with CNRL. During the years, Jon has introduced many non-geologists to the wonders of our planet, as a Junior Forest Warden Leader, a volunteer with the Calgary Science Network, the Science Manager for a Calgary School-industry Partnership, a Calgary Youth Science Fair Judge, and as a Guide Interpreter for The Burgess Shale Geoscience Foundation. Since 1999 Jon has been active with the Foundation as a guide and teacher workshop instructor.

Lisa Holmstrom

Lisa currently works as a geophysicist in the oil & gas industry in Calgary, but she is also a licensed and experienced science teacher.  She was well known with children as the ‘Fossil Lady’ during her years spent living in Golden, BC and working as a guide and Education Coordinator for the BSGF.  Lisa is thrilled to be involved again this year with such a talented and passionate bunch of geoscience-keeners!

Dr. Clinton R. Tippett

Clint is a graduate of Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario and Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. His academic training was primarily on the Precambrian "hard rock" side.  In 1980, he was hired by Shell Canada and has been employed there on the "soft rock" side for the last thirty years. Clint’s experience spans Canada from the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin to the Arctic and from coast to coast. He has worked on a large variety of plays from carbonates to clastics and in a wide range of structural settings from the compressional Foothills, through the transform faulting of the Mackenzie Delta to the extensional regimes on the passive margins. Global tectonics and field geology are key interests that he will enthusiastically pass along to participants.

Clint is a long term volunteer with the Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists and the Burgess Shale Geoscience Foundation.  He is also President of the Petroleum History Society.

Phil Benham

Philip received his B.Sc. from the University of British Columbia in 1987 and his M.Sc. from the Memorial University of Newfoundland in 1992. Philip has been employed by Shell Canada Energy for fourteen years, and during that time has explored for oil and gas in the Canadian Rockies, the Mackenzie Delta and offshore Newfoundland. He is currently chair of the Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists’ Palaeontology Division. Keen to share his love of science, Philip actively volunteers for the Foundation and the Alberta Paleontological Society. He has helped develop and lead a workshop for the Foundation which provides high school science teachers geological fundamentals in the beautiful setting of the Rocky Mountains. Philip enjoys photography and travel to geological and culturally interesting places and is currently in the process of researching more obscure locations for his future journeys.