/academia/laurent-godin/ en /academia/laurent-godin/node/3 <span>Queen's Tectonics Research Laboratory</span> <span><span lang about="/academia/laurent-godin/users/godinl" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype>godinl</span></span> <span><time datetime="2021-06-10T15:35:45-04:00" title="Thursday, June 10, 2021 - 15:35">Thu, 06/10/2021 - 15:35</time> </span> <div class="field field--name-field-paragraphs-top field--type-entity-reference-revisions field--label-hidden field--items"> <div class="field--item"> <div id="slider_8ipnrct" class="paragraph paragraph--type--slider paragraph--view-mode--default webpublish-slider"> <div class="slide "> <div class="slide-image lazyload" data-bg="/academia/laurent-godin/sites/acadgodiwww/files/styles/slider_image/public/2021-07/himal%20flags.jpg?h=85b89e1b&amp;itok=8thnXe6Y"> <span role="img" aria-label="Prayer flags over the Himalaya"></span> </div> </div> </div> <script> jQuery(document).ready(function(){ jQuery('#slider_8ipnrct').slick({ dots:false, autoplay:true, autoplaySpeed:3000, speed:300 } ); }) </script> </div> </div> <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden container field--item"><p>Welcome to my research group web page. The <strong>Queen's Tectonics Research Laboratory</strong> conducts research aimed at understanding the dynamic processes operating in mountain belts, with a focus on the structural and thermal evolution of the continental crust and the influence of reactivated faults on regional seismicity.</p> <hr> <h2><strong>Recent news</strong></h2> <ul> <li>Taylor's first paper from her PhD research on the I<a href="https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/gsabulletin/article/doi/10.1130/B37621.1/649795/Influence-of-reactivated-basement-structures-on">nfluence of reactivated basement structures on evolving orogens</a> just appeared in <em>GSA Bulletin </em>(March 2025): Congratulations! Also check out Sarah's paper on&nbsp;<a href="https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/gsabulletin/article-abstract/doi/10.1130/B37491.1/649904/Protracted-gt-100-m-y-deep-crustal-orogenesis?redirectedFrom=fulltext">Protracted deep crustal orogenesis in the Shuswap Metamorphic Complex, British Columbia, Canada</a>&nbsp;in the same issue!</li> <li>Check out this <a href="https://podcast.cfrc.ca/podcast/taylor-rae-morrell-geological-sciences-how-the-pre-existing-faults-in-the-tectonic-plate-that-is-thrust-beneath-the-other-plate-can-be-reactivated-or-move-during-collision/">GradChat Podcast</a> of Taylor talking about her PhD research. A great listen!</li> <li>What a year so far for QTRL students! Taylor (PhD candidate) has been successful in obtaining the prestigious NSERC Canadian Graduate Scholarship - Doctoral Award, a GSA Student Research Grant, and a Mineralogical Association of Canada Research Award, while MSc candidate Michelle Pearce received a 2024-2025 Ontario Graduate Scholarship. Congratulations to both! (July 2024).</li> <li>New paper in <em>Geomorphology</em>&nbsp;on <a href="https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1hF6K,3sl3xEwV">Intraplate active&nbsp;basement fault reactivation and fluvial drainage modification in&nbsp;eastern Bundelkhand craton, Madhya Pradesh, India</a> (June 2023)</li> <li>Daniela has just successfully completed the examination of her MSc thesis entitled 'Thermal history of the Frontenac Arch in SE Ontario, Canada constrained from low-temperature thermochronology'. Well done! (January 2023)</li> <li>Congratulations to Taylor for her successful promotion to our PhD program<meta charset="UTF-8">; here’s to new and exciting research in the coming years! (March 2022)</li> <li>New paper on<a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bre.12584"> Indian plate structural inheritance influencing the Himalayan foreland basin in Nepal</a>, published in the October 2021 issue of <em>Basin Research</em>.</li> <li>CONGRATULATIONS to Mike for winning the 2021 D. Elliott Best Paper Award, given by the Canadian Tectonics Group, for the paper '<a href="https://www.pnas.org/content/117/30/17615.short">Active strike-slip faults and a new frontal thrust in the Himalayan foreland basin</a>', published in 2020 in <em>Proceedings of the National Academy of Science</em>; Also check out the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjc-cfgJNY8">YouTube video</a> on this paper!</li> <li>New paper from Mark Ahenda's MSc thesis on <a href="https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geosphere/article/17/2/626/595237/Protolith-affiliation-and-tectonometamorphic">protolith affiliation of the Gurla Mandhata core complex in NW Nepal Himalaya</a>, published in <em>Geosphere</em> (February 2021)</li> <li>Congratulations to Zoe for her latest paper on <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0040195119303610?casa_token=SogDWUom8aAAAAAA:IBuepZlofrasl6VMbpNKZA2tKLkJ6DHQe39OJxYaxtU2EZbAg1YVzzdQl0sJjiQTpi4M2cMczmg">spatio-temporal challanges in dating orogen-scale shear zones</a>, published in <em>Tectonophysics</em> (2020)</li> <li>Well done to Svieda for her career first peer-reviewed publication on <a href="https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/full/10.1139/cjes-2019-0100?casa_token=kW9pUNGjGdcAAAAA%3AABciyS7VbvExACoiWteFxB2h2JcbzqsKM0C0U1g0p99roCscY1fAi2bS6G3NFmKmIvFKk1-pXeCFFg">fault reactivation and tectonic inheritance along the Bathurst fault in western Nunavut, Canada</a>, published in the <em>Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences</em> (2020)</li> </ul> <img alt="&quot;QTRL Logo&quot;" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="b54dcf54-1214-4b22-80e7-e0f68d0740f2" height="249" src="/academia/laurent-godin/sites/acadgodiwww/files/uploaded_files/QTRL_Logo_2021_1.png" width="241" class="align-center" loading="lazy"></div> Thu, 10 Jun 2021 19:35:45 +0000 godinl 3 at /acadgodiwww