Projects

Dr. Paul Johnston has been working on the Burgess Shale, which runs through Kootenay Provincial Park and into Mount Assiniboine Provincial Park, for more than 20 years. In that time, his research has led him to evidence that defies convention and suggests that the fossils at the Burgess Shale may not, in fact, be characteristic of marine life during the Cambrian.

Provincial parks in Alberta and B.C. may soon be the unlikely beneficiaries of the new media age. A team of researchers from MRU is developing a Web2.0-based booking system for provincial parks, starting with educational groups in Kananaskis Country.

Studying the location and formation of volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS) deposits adds new knowledge and understanding on how VMS deposits form and in turn present new ideas on how to explore for these deposits. This project focuses on studying, in detail, specific VMS deposits in northern Manitoba including continued studies on the main Flin Flon deposits (Flin Flon Main, Callinan and Triple 7 mines) and new research on the Schist and Mandy mines located some 5 km south of the main ore bodies.