Ph.D. Lee Groat – SPEAKERS
Ph.D. University of Manitoba
Lee Groat graduated from Queen’s University with a B.Sc. (Honours, Geology) in 1982 and from the University of Manitoba with a Ph.D. in 1988. From 1988 to 1989 he was a NATO Postdoctoral Fellow at Cambridge University.
Professor Groat has been a faculty member at the University of British Columbia since 1989 and a Full Professor since 2003. His main research interests are the geology of gem deposits, pegmatites, the crystal chemistry of minerals, and economic geology, and many of his projects have entailed fieldwork in remote parts of Canada and other countries. Professor Groat has published approximately 150 papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals.
From 2001 to 2006 Dr. Groat was Editor of American Mineralogist. He is the former Co-Editor (2012) and present Editor (2013-present) of The Canadian Mineralogist.
In 2003 Dr. Groat was elected a Fellow of the Mineralogical Society of America, and in 2009 the new mineral groatite, NaCaMn2+2(PO4)[PO3(OH)]2, was named in his honor.
Professor Groat is an Independent Director of multiple companies in the exploration and technology spheres and a partner in a private consulting company. He is registered as a Professional Geoscientist in the province of British Columbia.
