Principal investigators
Graduate students
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Undergraduate students
Postdocs and staff
Alumni
Masters graduates
Trevin Ferens
From mine-face to micron-scale investigation of the Cretaceous McMurray Formation at Kearl Mine, northeastern Alberta, Canada. 2021.
Supervisor: Paul Durkin
Virginia Gold
Formation and diagenesis of growth marks in marine reptile teeth. 2023.
Supervisor: Kirstin Brink
Aaron Kilmury
Vertebrate faunal assemblages of the Late Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway of Manitoba. 2022.
Supervisor: Kirstin Brink
Victoria Markstrom
Thermoregulation in Late Cretaceous mosasaurs of Manitoba. 2023.
Supervisor: Kirstin Brink
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Claire Morrow
The sedimentology, geomorphology, and hydrology of extreme floods on the Assiniboine River, southwestern Manitoba. 2022.
Supervisor: Paul Durkin
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Maximillian Scott
Compiling trends in published mosasaur combat pathologies for new insights into the social lives of Cretaceous marine lizards. 2025.
Supervisor: Kirstin Brink
Adam Snyder
Evolution of bite force in Dimetrodon. 2022.
Supervisor: Kirstin Brink
Internships
Iyowuna Amakiri
Research assistant 2023
Adriana Amundsen
University of Oslo GeoInternInternational 2023
Maximus Barten
V.J. Kirkness Scholar 2023
Gina Bilic
Student researcher 2024
Kendal Courchaine
Student researcher 2025
Dev Dave
Student researcher 2024
William Ezeana
Research assistant 2023
Brenna Findlay
NSERC USRA 2023
Matthew Hordosi
Student researcher 2025
Adam Isaak
Student researcher 2025
Logan McCaughan
V.J. Kirkness Scholar 2023
Alexis Monias
V.J. Kirkness Scholar 2024
Tiarra Pitura
Research Assistant
Sierra Schlief
NSERC USRA 2021
Truston Trujilo
Student researcher 2024
Ethan Valley
NSERC USRA 2022
Kat Wai
Student researcher 2024
Oliver Wood
V.J. Kirkness Scholar 2024
Honours thesis and directed study students
Christian Plouffe
Description and paleoecology of a new ​polycotylid plesiosaur from Manitoba. 2022.
Supervisor: Kirstin Brink
Sierra Schlief
Bone histology and skeletochronology in captive leopard geckos (2021-2022) and preparation and examination of fish otoliths for potential contaminants with collaborator Michael Schindler in the Environmental Nano Geoscience Facility (2022-2023).
Supervisor: Kirstin Brink
Ashley Verstrate
Enamel microstructure of heterodont theropod dinosaurs.
Supervisor: Kirstin Brink
Other alumni
Dr. Chengcheng Zhang
Visiting researcher, BETY lab 2024-2025